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U Th. News-Review, Rocburg, 0,. Thur., July 28, IWlf QQ J Qf Dollars Next Year To PoUP Into Pockets Of 16 Million War Yet$!Dral" Mason, Fomiliei Win Plenie At Elkton WASHINGTON A tremendous outpouring of dollars will sweet en the pockets of 6,000000 World War II veterans early next year. The dollars will come from a $2,800,000,000 dividend kitty, built up in the National Service Life Insurance (NSLI) fund over the past nine years. The "special dividend" checks will roll out from Washington to the four corners of the globe wherever veterans are starting In January. They will reach a rate of 200,000 a day, five days a week. The average check will be $173. Veterans will get more or less Drain Masons, Eastern Stars and Rainbow girls are reminded of the annual picnic tc be held Aug. 7 jointly with Elkton at Hank Beckley't ranch in Elk ton. Members and their families are urged to attend and bring pic nic dinners. Games and other sports are being planned for all ages. The Rainbow Girls will have a booth for sale of soft drinks. Ice cream and candy. Coffee will be furnished by Elk ton. For further information con tact either William Griswold or . IIIIII .oajVK f Ul viaill, I .-ran to the veteran ct the address he supplies on the form. He then waita for payment. VA estimates It will take six months to complete payment of dividends.- It might be done quicker. This special dividend is the re sult of two factors: 1. A lower-than-expected mor tality rate among veterans after deaths are paid by special ap propriations and do not affect the dividend kitty.) 2. An out-dated mortality ta ble which doei not allow for the constantly Increasing life span but which the law compels VA to use. It Is called a special dividend because; 1. It Is computed from the date the insurance was purchas ed to the policy's 1948 anniver sary date. 2. It cannot be left on deposit with VA at Interest (although a veteran can endorse his chi.ck to VA as adance payment of NSLI premiums and this will draw 3 percent interest I. 3. It is payable to former, as well' at present. NSLI policy hold ers. 4. It must te applied for. (In the future dividends can be ex pected to be paid automatically on an annual basis and may be left with VA at Interest also auto matically.) 5. Beneficiaries or heirs of de ceased veterans are eligible to collect the deceased's dividend, regardless of whether the policy was In force at the time the vet eran died. But they need net ap ply for it. It it to be paid to them automatically. : vYTini oi loncaua or iiins IBeckley, ElKton. REVIVALS DATED The Sheets evangelistic irty win Degin revival services I sun day night at the Sutherlin) As sembly of God church. The iserv ices will continue nightly,' ex cept Monday, at 7:45 p.m. '; The evangelistics are talented fing ers. The 13-year-old daughter, Roma Jean, also preaches. Libia Is the ancient GreVk name for Africa. . ( depending on: 1. Age of the veteran at the time he first bought NSLL 2. Number of months he kept his Insurance In force. 3. Amount of insurance he has I 1) nLA k ... .... -...-jsgj (or had). (NEA Ttlrohola) FORTUNE HUNTER REST" Jowph Qulnn (resting on sidewalk) of Seattle, Wash, nd a pal had fortune In their hands but couldn't keep It Displaying a gun, the two entered a swank Fifth Avenue Jewelry shop In New York, rounded up $368,000 in genu and fled. They hadn't gone far when an alerk clerk put a flying tackle on Qulnn and a policeman'! shot stopped his pal Thus ended the easy fortune hunt for the two. Quinn's accomplice is not shown. Congress Sidelights By Harris Ellsworth Congressman, 4th District of Oreeon Letters I have received recent ly from city officials In the Fourth Congressional district In dicate pretty clearly that the propaganda drive which was car ried on for the recently enacted fiublic housing bill was mislead ng. Apparently the general Im pression Is that cities large and small In any part of the United States may have government money aid for the construction of houses if such aid is requested. I expect it might be claimed that auch an Impression is technically correct. But lot's take a look at the technicalities. Here la the way the new law operates: City officials must first make a care ful study for the purpose of find ing out if a federal housing proj ect li needed. Then a local hous ing authority must be organized under atate laws. Next, a survey of housing needs must be con ducted. In order to qualify for a federal project the facta develop ed In the survey must show the number of low income families needing housing. It must also be ahown that the Incomes of these families are such as to make it impossible for them to pay the prevailing rents for privately owned housing. ( Families who can pay 80 per cent or more of the prevailing rental rates can not qualify.) There are other pro visions but these are the most important. After the required Information has been obtained the local hous ing agency may file a formal ap plication with the Seattle office of the Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency. Section 301 (8) (a) of Title III of the law should be carefully noted also. The first proviso of this paragraph reads. (a).Tlie public housing agency shall fix maximum income lim ita for the admission and for the continued occupancy of families in such housing." What this all means Is that un der certain circumstances a com munity can qualify for the con struction of some of these public housing unit buildings. When completed they may he occupied only by people who do not earn enough Income to pay more than 80 per cent of the normal rent. If the head of any such family has the good luck or the extra energv to Increase his income he will have to move his family elsewhere. . This new law represents the first Instance that I know of wherein the government singles out the very poor people of a community, places them In one minding or a series of similar buildings and by their verv presence as occupants of such buildings brands them as "poor people." If you feel I have over stated the case In voicing my opposition to this Administration housing bill, write me and I will gladly aend a copy of the law and you can read the wording of It for yourself. The House rejected what was called a sample or "trial run" of the widely publicized Brannan plan for supporting farm prices or for subsidizing food prices to consumers. (It may be stated ei ther way because the proiosal would do both with money from the federal treasury.) The'dcfcat of the bill was by a wide margin. The politics of bringing the plan up for a vote at this time was to force the Republicans Into voting against legislation sup posedly designed to put money In the pockets of farmers. Had most of the farmers favored the legislation, this political trick might have worked. But farmers can tell the difference between a good deal and a bad one they rated this Brannan plan as no bargain. The large farmer organ I'zallons actively opposed it. They figure it no bargain because in order to obtain an unknown amount of cash they would be forced to surrender their own In dependence and be regimented from Washington. P. C. Very few farmers would willingly submit to that Every veteran who held some NSLI for at least three months will get some dividend If he ap plies for It. It is highly probable some vet erans never w!li apply, either be cause they den't want to or be cause they won t hear about It. However, tne veterans Adminis tration (VA) will do its best to see that dividend Information is sifted into every nook and cran ny of the U.S. and abroad (in co operation with the State Depart men'.) through the press, radio veterans' organizations, post of fires. Red Cross and countless other media. Within six weeks application blanks will be sent to every U. S. post office and other convenient distribution points. Veterans will fill out their forms and mail di rect to VA's central office in Washington In self-addressed en velopes. A receipt will ne mailed nack VITAL STATISTICS Marriage License ENGLKS SMITH Ray La favette Engles and Beverley Ann Smith, both of Glide. Divorce Suit Filed BRAATEN Thora vs. Fred Braaten, married in Vancouver. Wash., March 26, 1!)38. Plaintiff charges cruel and inhuman treat ment, asks custody of one minor ihild and $30 monthly support. CHAPTER MEET CALLED Cliff Klnch, president of the Roseburg chapter of SPEBSQSA, urges all members to attend the next regular chapter meeting at 8 p. m. The meeting will ho held In the offices of James PauKherty In the V. S. National Bank building. There will be an election of permanent officers and discus- Four Senators Win Seats Over Foes' Contests WASHINGTON, July 28 (,P The senate rules committee Wed nesday upheld the election of four senators, from West Virginia, Texas, Oklahoma and Michigan, whose seating had been contest ed. Committee Counsel Turner Smith told a reporter that the committee action Is final in the Texas contest between senator Johnson and his defeated op ponent, former governor Coke Stevenson, and in the Oklahoma primary contest involving sena tor Kerr and Gomer Smith, Dem ocrat e. The committee recommended senate adoption of Its findings in the contest Involving senator Kilgore ID-WVA) and Tom Swee ney. Republican, dating from the 19-16 general election, and in the Michigan contest involving Sena tor Ferguson (R) and former Rep. Frank Hook. Johnson defeated Stevenson by the close margin of 87 votes in the 1918 Texas primary. In the West Virginia contest growing nut of the 1946 general election Sweeney charged vote buying and other irregularities, Many of the most Important English abbeys and cathedrals of the 13th and 14th centuries had clay tile floors. night. All persons Interested In becoming members are urged to sion oi ine cnapier preseniaxion auenu. 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