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THURSDAY. AUGUST 2. 1962 MLDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON J-f 'yew ' iVeterans of War I Pressure Congress For Higher Pensions . i tt.i - ! - . T,t f. .a f' " ' '"" r-pi " w"v,' , n''n ?J 1L pf 1 P KMOM ':( 0 ) V l iit'T uvipm norm ".. ' PLAN MO 3930 Pifi? I 166 SQUfi FEET Jj. jXJpl jlrj-. ' ... , rbJi $ Cj W 1 This Week's Ranch and Modern Home This home has a remark able sense o indoor-outdoor openness through the exten sive use of glass sliding doors in those areas of the home thai are shielded from the street and afford the maxi mum privacy. The unusual design offers two separate patios! The larger is at the rear of the home with access from both the master bedroom and the living room. The other is at the side of the home where Jt is shielded from the street by the garage projection and is accessible from the family room-kitchen area. A covered porch protects the front entrance and the large corner windows In the family room. A door opens to this porch from the garage. Littla Hall Space Very little hall space has been used to provide . good traffic circulation and a re sultant sense of freedom throughout the house. Partial walls separate the living room from the entry. Such walls allow sunlight from the rear sliding doors to light the entry and to gether with the corner fire place facilitate the arranging of furniture. Both the family room and kitchen can be entered di rectly from the hall. The fam ily room is also accessible from the garage. A half-wall plus cabinets and an eating bar separate the kitchen from the informal family room. All Easily Reached The dining room, family room and family room patio -where outdoor meals can be served-are all easily reached from the kitchen. There are no cramped quarters in this spacious kitchen. It was plan ned as the heart of the house. Driver Dies as Car Plunges Into Ditch Vancouver, Wash.- IIIPII - Gene D. Sowards, 4B, Van couver, Wash., was killed when his car left a highway and plunged into a water filled ditch four miles cast of here Wednesday night, Donald Nye, 10, Vancou ver, the victim's nephew and a passenger in the car, was taken to a Vancouver hos pital. He suffered facial lacer ations and shock. Multnomah County Fair Under Way at Gresham Greshnm-lUPU-The 5fllh an nual Multnomah County Fair got under way here today. The 10-day fair will run through Aug. 11. It features horse racing. In addition to the generous amount of cabinets and work space, there is a four foot wide pantry closet which will decrease the number of trips to your favorite market. Several closets open to the short hall and entry. By lo cating the water heater and forced air furnace in the ga rage, an additional closet would be gained in the house. All bedrooms are of ex ceptional size, especially the master bedroom. There is 35 feet of wardrobe in these rooms plus a built-in storage cabinet in the master bed room. A five foot high wall separates the dressing room with Its pullman lavatory from the bedroom. This could be a full wall, if preferred. Except for the wide bay, the front bedroom wing is covered Willi used brick veneer. Used brick has also been used to form a planter beneath the garage window and in the fireplace chimney. Complete worklnR drawings for thin pltm can he purchased al a cast of $7. Ml for the first set and S. tot each additional act when ordered at the. same time. This plan will he avallahle al these prices until Nov. Tl. Please allnw two to three week for delivery. If the ahove home does not en tirely meet with your approval, a new home plan hook. Ranch and Modern Homes, can he purchased for $2 Send ail orders for either plans or hooks to: Hiawatha F.stes, post orrtce box 404-T, Northrldge. Callt. Washington- CQ -A neatly timed election year offensive by the Veterans of World War I of the U.S.A., Inc., popularly called the "Wonnies," may force the House to pass a bill granting pensions to an in creased number of 1917-18 war vets. A discharge petition to take HR 3745. the Wonnies non- service connected pension bill, out of the House Veterans Committee and bring it onto the House floor had 206 of the required 219 signatures for such action as of July 19. The bill has been bogged down in the Veterans Com mittee since July 1961, pri marily because of opposition from Chairman unn t. Teague (D-Texas). It is also opposed by the major veter ans organizations. The Wonnies, an organiza tion with over 200,000 mem bers scattered throughout the country, are calling for a pen sion of $102.37 a month for all WW I veterans with al least 90 days service and an honorable discharge. The bill sets an income limitation of $2,400 for single men, $3,600 for married men. Money received irom social security, retirement funds and other such pensions would not be counted as income. Under present law, the married vet eran over 65 with an income of less than $1,800 a year can recieve non-service connected pensions. The top monthly payment is about $90. Teague s Opposition Chairman Teague opposes HR 3745 as having the "least merit" of the 168 non-service connected pension bills now before his committee. He argues that 78 per cent of the $1,783,681,000 pension pro gram for fiscal 1963 is sched uled to go to WW I veterans, their widows and children. He says that HR 3745 would add nearly $1 billion additional, all for WW I vets, to the tax payers' 1963 bill. Teague points out that the Kennedy Administration and the major veterans organizations, includ ing the American Legion, op pose the legislation. Teague says the bill is "highly discriminatory" since it favors WW I vets over vet erans of WW II and Korea. He says the Wonnies argu ment that they are "forgotten men," deprived of benefits be ing "ladled out to World War II veterans by the carload" is "completely false." WW I vets, comprising 15 per cent of all participants of the nation's wars, have received 28 per cent of all the money the na tion has spent to dale on its veterans, according to Teague. Teague also argues that the bill places non-service con nected veterans In a preferen tial position compared to the seriously disabled service-con nected veteran. "I certainly do not believe that pensions for the well-to-do deserve pri ority over the service-connect ed veteran, the hospital pro gram and the needy non-serv ice connected veteran. "I certainly do not believe that pensions for the well-to-do deserve priority over the service-connected veteran, the hospital program and the needy non-service connected veteran." Wonnies' Answer The Wonnies argue that the matter of old age itself should silence the controversy. They point out that as of July 5, 1962, there were 2,465,000 WW I vets alive, of whom 2,323,500 were over 65 years of age. The Wonnies say that with the 120,000 annual death rate of 1917-18 veterans "ac' celerating each year ... by 1975 the cost of HR 3745 would be practically nil." In the meanwhile, letters keep coming in to Congress men from Wonnies veterans throughout the country, and the Wonnies' two-man Wash ington staff continues to push for Congressional signatures on the discharge petition and for ultimate House floor ac tion on HR 3745. Copyright 1962. Congressional Quarterly Inc. Oregon Legionnaire . Editor To Gef Award The editor of the Oregon Legionnaire will receive an award at the annual conven tion of the American Legion in Las Vegas Oct, 7. R. Harlow Schillios, editor, received the same award last vcar. His Daner was iudced best among 575 Legion news papers. Ralph Ettel, member of the local American Legion, is southern Oregon advertising representative for the Legion- YOU Can Help the Work SliRINERS HOSPITAL for CRIPPLED CHILDREN at PORTLAND! Join the- CANNED FOOD CARAVAN Wednesday August 8 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. The caravan starts at lakeview and will pass through most Oregon communities before reaching the big Portland Shrine Hospital. Shriners here will be assisted by Boy Scouts on a door-to-door campaign lasting three important hours. Please help this line cause, either financially or with commercially canned foods. Those who may not be home may leave their con tributions in containers at most local grocery stores. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE of the r Win lsrM. - i . l!l!iliLETNM ir s 'iCAmODIA 1H pacific ' M MWW PHILIPPINES IIIauu iJ) MftLftYSiA LA fM ' K)WptoW mum ! Ife Mutii vii ! Sarawak! PROPOSED FEDERATION - The Malayan and British will have a population of 10 million in a 1,600-mile are governments have announced the proposed Malaysia Fed- around the South China Sea. It will be made up of Malayt. eration should be brought into being by Aug. 31, 1963, Singapore, Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo. The news subject to necessary legislation being passed. Malaysia, map spots the federation countries in black. (UPI) now a new anti-Communist stronghold in the Far East, A message from tlie Treasury of a free people 17 K A J Winr Ml -nil I ir ii-irti n m-K an .mil im . n,i i ,, , )lt.ll jajmJ' How to stand guard for freedom in 1962 Somei men of Con cord in old Massa chusetts once got themselves called "Minute Men" be cause it took them just sixty seconds to come to the defense of freedom, day or night. In the years since, the Minute Man has become a sym bol of our deter mination to stay strong and to stay free. Other symbols of that determina tion are U.S. Sav ings Bonds. When you buy a Bond today you do more than invest money for your own future. You also show your own per sonal determina tion to keep Amer ica strong and free right now because the same dollars you save for tomor row help the gov ernment defend freedom today. That's why buying U.S. Savings Bonds is a way to be a "Minute Man" in 1962. And Bonds work for you and your country around the clock. Why not join the ranks of America's modern Minute Men? All it takes is $18.75 and a visit to the Bond window at the bank. .w ASs&St Keep freedom In your future with U.S. SAVINGS BONDS - Tr U.$.G'W'tt not pavfrthi$ jA a-iiftiuig. 7"w Treasury Drrartment fjf tftank 7 Adirrunt elicit aid thi$ .,.. neufpaptr or Utetr patriotic tupport. n
