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B-178576 1 (1973-10-04)

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S   ; $COMPTULLER GENEIIAL OF TWZ IiNITO STATES
                                WASIIGTOtI, D.C. zoV.4

      1-!78576                                     (
      8                                              October 4. 1973
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      Mr. JuanitA Kdford
      1630 A Sherman Steet
      Alameda, Calforuia 94501

      Dcar Xrs. Hedfordt

           Further referenee is made to your letter dated Karch 29, 1973,
      concerning your.claya for th one-half ahare-ot. the arrears of pay and
      combat payjreoervd for the father of your lato non, Privato Firat
      Class Roert D. ledford, USfl, Serial tio. fl73442, who died Sept -
      bar 15, 1951, the other one-half share, representing $l7.74 arreara
      of pay and $11.25 combat pay having been allowed you by oettlenentu of
      our Transportation and Claims Divioion dated December 28, 1951 and
      July 20, 1953, respectively.

           The record ohows that your elair. for the one-half ahtire racerved
      for Mr. M!edford wam the oubjoct of a letter from our Tranaportation
      and Claims Division dated flarch 22, 1973, in which you weru advised
      that undor the provisions of tie act of October 9, 1940, 541 Stat.
      1061, 31 U.S,.C 71a, which requires that any clam not recived in
      the General Accounting Of w ithin tan fuU yeAr - after 1t-o date
      thq claim firat accrued, your claim for tHat rese-rveis shore nuat be
      dieallowned since no ciaim by a proper claimant woa filed with this
      Office vithin ten full years from the date of accrual.

          You say that if we check cur files on .TLne 22, 1953, we will      I b
      find that you did file a clitit, but that o'ii-haf of the clefrned
      a&ount was being ho..d for your scn'n father. You nay also that you
      had neither aeen nor hoard (ron your late BOia father in fifteen
      years, but now that he is dead you are rofili.ng your cla u for hie
      one-half ahpre nf your non's etate and feel that you should be paid,
      with intoreat.

          The record show that you receivod $168.99, rcpreenting your
     onii-half share of the amount due your late son at his death, and that
     the other half was reserved for the decedent's natural father pending
     receipt of a claLm from him by this Office, but that no such claim
     was aver received. Tho record also shows thet a cartifiod copy of a
     Certificate of Death froni the Department of Inalth of the State of
     Arizona issued on February 17, 1969, shows thc, data of death of &
     Cecil Hedford, father of Robert D. fledford, to be June 23, 1968.




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