Veterans Administration
News
For nearly two million totally
disabled veterans and veterans'
dependents on the Veterans Ad
ministration's pension rolls. the
end-of-the-year annual income
questionnaire from VA will
come a month early this year.
Instead of being enclosed
with the pension checks which
will go out around December 1,
the check-sized income report
cards will be sent with the pen
sion payment to be mailed by
VA about November 1.
The deadline for returning
the questionnaire to VA has
also been moved up from Jan.
31 to Jan. 15.
VA is mailing the income
questionnaire a month early to
insure that the pension checks
it will send out at the end of
January reflect the new pen
sion rates and income limits
that go into effect the first of
the year.
The amount of each pension
er's check under the new pen
sion system that starts on Jan.
1 will be based upon the esti
mated income in 1969 reported
by the pensioner on the VA
income questionnaire. Without
the returned questionnaire con
taining the estimate of income
for next year, VA by law,
cannot pay a beneficiary a pen
sion.
Beginning Jan. 1, 1969, the
annual income limitations gov
erning the entitlement to VA
pensions and dependency bene
fits will be raised $200. Fur
ther, the present income levels,
with three graduations, used In
determining the amount of
benefits a recipient may be
paid, will be restructured to
provide a range of 13 to 28 in
come levels graduated In $100
increments.
As a result of these change*,
more than 1.1 million pension
ers will receive approximately
$120 million in increased pen
sions next year.
In addition to changing pen
sion rates and income limits,
Public Law 90-275, signed by
the President last March, also
provided that no beneficiaries
on the VA pension rolls would
have their pensions reduced in
1969 as the result of increased
Social Security payments.
VA pensions are payable to
war veterans with limited in
comes and total nonservice
connected disabilities and tc
widows and other dependents of
war veterans who meet estab
lished income limitations.
Approximately 575,000 pen
sioners continue to receive VA
benefits under an "old law" In
effect prior to July 1, 1960,
when the "new law" covering
nearly 1.4 million beneficiaries
was enacted. However, because
it may now be to their advan
tage to come under the new
law, these old law pensioners
will be given another opportu
nity between Feb. 1 and May 1
next year to change over.
If they elect to change before
May 1, any additional benefits
due them under the new law
will be paid retroactively to
Jan. 1, 1969.
Information explaining the
benefits of the new law together
with a sign up card will be
mailed to them at the end of
January. Meantime, VA will
send a notice with the pension
check and income questionnaire
to be mailed about Nov. 1 ad
vising them in advance of the
upcoming conversion opportu
nity.
POLICEMEN NEEDED
The Central Office of the
Civil Service Commi salon,
Washington, D. C., has advised
that there is a critical need for
police candidates for the District
of Columbia. The entrance sal
ary Is $8,000 per year, with peri
odic increases until annual sal
ary of $10,300 is reached. Ap
pointees receive reimbursement
'or transportation and moving
expenses for relocating to Wash
ington.
Any U. S. citizen between the
ages of 21 through 29 years
who possesses a high school di
ploma, a certificate of high
school equivalency or police ex
perience, as defined under Re
quirements in Announcement
No. WA-7-02, and can meet the
mental, physical and character
standards can become a mem
ber of the Metropolitan Police
Department of the Nation's
Capital.
Young men between 17% and
21 years of age are eligible to
become Police Cadets, if they
meet Cadet requirements. If
qualifications are met, Cadets
are appointed to oolicemen up
on reaching age 21.
The examination is given In
Greensboro from time to time
aa persons aoply. You need not
apply in advance If you wish to
take the test in Washington, D.
C. You may report for the ex
amination at the U. S. Civil
Service Commission at 19th and
E Streets, N.W, on the 2nd and
4th Saturdays of each month' at
8:80 a. m.
Complete Information may be
obtained from the Civil Service
Board, Rom 231, Post Office,
Greensboro, N. C., and may be
obtained by mail by calling 279
9111, extension 411.
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Sunday School Lesson
'Continued from Pag* SI
meeting in Aldersgate Street
was this unbelievable sense of
being personally chosen. John
wrote in his Journal: "I felt my
heart strangely warmed. I felt
1 did tnist in Christ, Christ
alone for salvation; and an as
surance was given me that He
had taken away my sins, even
mine, and saved me from the
law of sin and death."
God's love for men is univer
sal, yet particularly for me.
God's Love Through Us
God's love must go through
me to my neighbor. The love I
receive from God and the love
I offer my neighbor are one
love. Some persons seek God
selfishly. They seek God only
that they may be healed or
strengthened or comforted.
Others love their neighbors
selfishly. They want only what
their neighbors can give them
in return.
But the love I receive from
God and the love I offer my
neighbor are one love. God's
love for me and through me
will continue to be merit-crea
ting rather than merit-seeking.
God's love through me will con
tinue to be self-giving rather
than self-protecting. God's love
through me will include all
mankind but also specific per -I
sons. I cannot hate niy neighbor
and say I love God.
A certain shop superintendent
was greatly in debt to his em
ployer. When the debt was long
past due, the employer called in
his superintendent and told him
he would have to pay up. But
the man said his family had
had a lot of sickness and he
was broke; if he sold every
thing he had, he still could not
pay even the interest on his
loan, let alone the principal.
Therefore, his employer had
mercy upon him and canceled
his debt.
Later the superintendent saw
one of the laborers in the shop
who owed him a small sum,
and he demanded that the
money be paid him immedi
ately. This man also had his
troubles and could not pay, so
the superintendent garnisheed
his wages. When the employer
heard about the superinten
dent's action, he called him in
and told him that because he
had shown no pity on the man
who was indebted to him, he
would be discharged immedi
ately and his own debt would
have to be paid in full.
The point of Jesus' parable
(Matthew 18:23-35) and this
modern paraphrase of it is
clear. We must not short-circuit
the love of God that flows
through us to others as did the
unmerciful foreman. To live in
peace with our neighbors, our
love for them must be true to
the reality of God's love.
WHAT WILL WE DO
ABOUT IT?
Make a study of Gnosticism,
especially as it applies to First
John. Notice the discussion in
the section "Before You Read
the Scripture." Also check Bible
dictionaries and commentaries
on this subject. Then read First
John again. Do you see the con
trasts between light and dark
ness, truth and falsehood, and
life and death?
Formulate a definition of
these three words: morality,
religion, and humanism. Check
the lesson writer's discussion in
"What Is Our Concern?" and
also a dictionary to help you in
this assignment. Record these
definitions on a chalkboard or
a large piece of paper for the
whole class to see. Do you agree
with the lesson writer's distinc
tion between simply doing good
and performing acts of Chris
tian charity?
On the basis of the writer's
discussion in "What the Scrip
ture Says to Us," formulate
your own version of the parable
in Matthew 18:23-35. How does
this story speak to the writer's
declaration, "The love I receive
from God and the love I offer
my neighbor are one love"?
O Love divine, what hast
thou done!
Th'incarnate God hath
died for me!
The Father's coeternal Son
Bore all my sins upon the
tree!
The Son of God for me hath
died;
My Lord, my leva. Is
crucified. Amen.
? Charles Wesley
Veterans Administration phy
sicians have performed about
350 of about 1,000 kidney trans
plants made in the United
States since the first such op
eration was performed in 1991.
NORTH CAROLINA
GUILFORD COUNTY
NOTICE
The undersigned, having qual
ified as Administrator of the
estate of Rachel M. Taylor, de
ceased, late of Guilford County,
this Is to notify all persons hav
ing claims against the said estate
to present them to the under
signed on or before the 8th day
of May, 1989, or this notice will
be pleaded in bar of their recov
ery. All persons indebted to
said estate will please make im
mediate payment to the under
signed.
This list day of October, 1968.
John J. Taylor
810 Oxford St.
Greensboro, N. C<
Lee, High, Tavlor & Dansby
P.O. Box 20027
Greensboro, N. C. 2402
Dates of Publication:
Nov. 8, IS, 22 & 29, 1988
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