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About The Oregon state employee. (Salem, Oregon.) 1944-195? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1950)
10 The planning and anticipation be come reality when a date is set for departure and the car packed with By LARRY QUINLIN camp equipment, bedding, clothing and Dept. of Veterans’ Affairs food. There are a few personal posses sions each member of the family thinks VETS RECEIVING necessary for his or her happiness. GI DIVIDENDS Mother has her knitting, the novel she The long-awaited payment of GI has been intending to read, the newest copy of her favorite magazine and the insurance dividends is in full swing, canasta set. Dad has his fishing gear. and many reading this will already Sister is taking her camera; brother have received their dividend checks. his stamp collection for a rainy day. There are others who haven’t even Little Brother guards the pamphlets, applied, but they should because the maps and a few books he has chosen Veterans Administration* is anxious to from the “Read About Oregon” book get w f f l payments out of the list published by the Oregon State Li According to news reports from Wash in g to n , D.C., the VA intends to get brary. After a summer vacation in the for hWffilon a second dividend as soon as ests .of Oregon the family will be eager the bulk of p aym eiS is completed on to take part in skiing and other winter the current one, although the VA re sports a's well as the hiking and camp gional offiH g|i Portland had no offi- ing activities of one of the out door H t t word to this effect 2 s yet. If the reports*’ are true, the* next dividend clubs of the west. I yull be paid in 1951, to cover the 24- month period from the anniversary ADDITIONAL MYRTLE TREES date of the policy in 1948, to the corre SET ASIDE AS PUBLIC PARK A narrow strip I of myrtle forest sponding date in 1950. Payment^would be on the same basis fronting the state highway for half a mile between Myrtle Point and Powers as the ^current dividend; 55 c|nts per along the South Coquille river, has month per $1000 of insurance in force, been acquired for the public by Save ^ h ic h ^ y g W amount to $132 for the the Myrtle Woods, Inc., according to vetran who carried $10,000 of insur Thornton T. Munger, president of the ance during the 24 months, provided he was less than ,40 years old when he organization. It is the fourth’ such tract acquired took out his msurance. for park purposes to preserve some ex The promise of future dividerids amples of the rapidly disappearing should be an inducement to veterans wood, Munger said. There are seven to reinstate their lapsed policies, acres in the tract. Others are Maria which they can still do by passing a C. Jackson grove on Brummet creek physical examination arid paying two near Sitkum, donated by Mrs. C, S. back premiums if they had never con Jackson, Portland, Oregon; Oregon verted their insurance,uor by paying Federation of Garden Clubs grove oh ah hack premiums if their insurance the Millicoma river near Allegheny, had been converted to a permanent and Alfred A. Loeb State Forest park plan. on the Chetco river near Brookings Getting back to the current dividend now administered by the state board pay-out: If I you think your dividend of forestry. check is less than you should have re Money to acquire the tract has been ceived, it is advised that you- write the contributed by individuals and more VA district office handling your in than 100 garden clubs under the lead surance accountSj and give the facts ership of Mrs. Walter Wilhelm. The as you see them. List your army or bureau of land management of the in navy serial number, your mr^surance terior department also has reserved for policy number, and the number on scenic and recreational purposes sev your insurance dividend acknowledge eral tracts of Oregon & California land ment card. It is not, necessary to send grant lands.— Forest Log. your dividend check. Cash and use it Veterans’ Activities
