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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