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News
More than five million veterans
Who hold participating GI life in
surance will share in regular an
nual policy dividends totaling
$256,000,000 during 1959, Sumner
G. Whittier, Administrator of Vet
erans Affairs, announced.
Mr. Whittier said the dividends
are primarily a refund to policy
holders a part of their premium
payments, and are made possible
because the death rate among GI
policyholders continues to be low
er than the tables upon which the
premiums were established by law.
The dividend declarations were
listed as;
1. National Service Life Insur
ance (NSLJ), which originated in
World War II; $235,000,000 payable
to approximately 4,950,000 policy
holders.
2. U. S. Government Life Insur
ance (USGLI), which originated in
World War I; $21,000,000 payable
to approximately 285,000 policy
holders.
The 1959 NSU and tJSGLI regu
lar dividends are, respectively, $5,-
000,000 and $1,000,000 less than
were declared for 1958, Mr. Whit
tier said.
However, he explained, individu
al policyholders will generally re
ceive about the same amount as
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during 1958, since the number of
GI policies in force declines be
tween one and-two percent each
year.
Dividends will be paid as soon
as possible after the anniversary
date of each policy during 1959.
For example, if a policy was issued
any September 1, the anniversary
date will be September 1,1969, Mr.
Whittier pointed out.
He added that dividends will be
paid to holders of both term and
permanent plan participating NSU
and USGU policies.
Policyholders should not make
dividend inquiries in advance, since
this would delay processing time,
Mr. Whittier stressed.
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Page Seven
_ Q—^Are “peacetime” veterans en
titled to VA hospital care?
_A—Yes, but only if ttiey were
discharged for a disability incur
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or if they are receiving compensa
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COWARD'S WAY OUT
Richmond — A man was eating
beans and hot dogs in a restaurant.
His fork cut into a Tiot dog, and
the end circled off his plate an‘d
went into the open handbag of a
woman at the next table too en
grossed in conversation to notice.
What to do? Apparently the so
cial-arbiters had never anticipated
an orbiting hot dog. After hesitat
ing, the man left without telling
the woman.
The man who turns his back on
one problem comes face to face
with a dozen others.
Nicky Simpson wouldn’t dare
give anyone the impression that
having your grandchUdren around
for Christmas isn’t a grand and
glorious experience.
Nevertheless, it does bring on
complications. The fly in Nicky’s
Yul^ide ointment was occasioned
by a very young and very lively
grandson, Danny Skinner.
Danny, like a lot of other folks,
is all steamed up about the mourn
ful recording of Tom Dooley that
has swept the country for lo these
many weeks. That, in itself, isn’t
what wore Nicky to a frazzle.
What got Grandpa Simpson down
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was the torture he was subjected
to when Danny insisted on playing
this one record continuously for
three solid hours. Listening to the
plight of Tom Dooley for hours
on end is almost as bad as sharing
his cell on death row.
With all the patience and tender
ness that grandparents display,
Nicky tried to talk Danny out of
prolonging the ordeal. He even told
the entranced young man that the
record player was overheated, and
needed to cool off.
The brat didn’t buy that, how
ever. He didn’t see flames or smell
smoke, so Tom Dooley reigned
supreme in the Simpson household
until the holly and mistletoe
shriveled in sheer dejection.
Worse than listening to Tom
Dooley was the experience of those
adufts who had no children in the
house. Particularly conscious of
their absence were parents whose
children are now beyond the stage
of Santa Claus.
Something wonderful and preci
ous dies within a home when St.
Nick no longer comes calling. A lot
of us make a stab at keeping the
myth alive, but without kids it’s
a futile gesture.
Yet, three hours really is a long
time to listen to Tom Dooley.
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