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THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1946 Set Up Office In Atlanta To Serve Vets Insurance A. M. McWhirter, Contact Repre sentative, Veterans Administration Contact Unit, 1113 Boyce Street, Newberry, S. C., announced today that six billion dollars in life in surance business is moving to At lanta to serve one and a third mil lion World War II veterans in five southeastern states. Vans from New York were ar riving yesterday at Branch 5, Vet erans Admnistration, in the Bell Bombor Plartt offices, with files on the huge busness of National Service Life Insurance. These are part of the 20 million insurance files that are sifted to 13 VA branches in the decentralization program. Other branches of the VA throughout America are getting the files for veterans in their states. Even as the records were being caned yesterday into the branch office, the enormous task of the VA staff in setting them up in numeri cal order in filing cabinets got un der way. The one and a third million files NIXON FOR STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION Since 1916, except for service In World War* I uild II. \V. I). Nixon has serv<*d South Carolina as teacher, principal, school superin tendent, comity superintendent, anil stale high school siijM-rvisor In the State Iteparlment of Educa tion. are broken down in Atlanta into cells of 100,000 each. This means that the insured vet eran in Georgia, Alabama, Tennes see, Florida, or South Carolina will have any inquiries about his file standing in a line of only 100,000 while before decentralization it stood in a line of approximately 20 million. “Under this plan of splitting the files into relatively small groups we hope to handle individual in surance matters for veterans with speed and accuracy,” said J. M. Slaton, Jr., dlepuny administrator for the five states. Slaton empha sized that whenever a veteran sends his insurance check, money order or draft through the mail, it must be addressed, “Insurance Ser vice, NSLI, Veterans Administra tion, Branch 5, Atlanta 3, Georgia,” and not mailed to a local VA office. Under the decentralization pro cedure, a World War II veteran in any one of the five states may make payments on NSLI policies ei.her personally at his local VA office or, if the local office is not set up for the collection of prem iums, he may mail payments to the branch office in Atlanta. In any case, it was pointed out, t is of utmost importance that the vet eran always state his full name, his policy number (N-Number) an his Army serial number. All matters concerning NSLI for veterans in the five-state area will be handled in Atlanta beginning August 7, when the branch office assumes final jurisdiction over in surance policies for veterans in these states. Loans! ON REAL ESTATE AUTOMOBILES AND PERSONAL PROPERTY NEWBERRY INSURANCE AND REALTY 00. NED PURCELL, Manager TELEPHONE 197 Exchange Bank Building WANTED—Scrap iron, brass, cop per, lead, zinc, aluminum, pewter, old batteries, radiators, all kinds of rags, old waste cotton, mattress cot ton. Also old feather beds and pil lows filled with goose or duck fea thers. We also have a nice line of groceries. W. H. Sterling, Vincent street. VFW ENDORSES NATIONAL SERVICE LIFE INSURANCE (Adopted by the Livingston-Wise Post No. 5968, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Newberry, S. C., at their reg ular meeting on Thursday, 25 July 1946.) WHEREAS, Over $140,000,000,000 of National Service Life Insurance was issued to members of our Arm ed Forces during World War II virtually doubling the collective se curity of the American family, and provding veterans with an irre placeable bargain in life insurance as added compensation for their military service; and WHEREAS, A large proportion of this vast new reservoir of protec tion for families of veterans is be ing discontinued through a wide spread lack of understanding of its unique benefits and advantages; and WHEREAS, It is apparent that any substantial reduction in the amount of National Service Life In surance in force will inevitably re sult in additional burdens upon the community, the state, and the na tion, through demands for in creased Government pensions, un employment compensation, and oth er forms of public and private re lief; and WHEREAS, Commercial Life In surance companies and organiza tions ;n America have continuously endorsed and supported the conser vation of National Service Life in surance: NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RE SOLVED, That in order to further the economic stability of the United States, and in order to fos ter among veterans the growth of individual initiative and responsi bility in order to attain financial in dependence for themselves and their dependents, the Livingston- Wise Post 5968, Veterans of For eign Wars, Newberry, S. C., in meeting assembled: 1. Hereby endorses the Govern ment’s program for the conserva tion of National Service Life In surance, and urges all veterans to maintain their insurance to the fullest extent possible. 2. Urges all veterans who have allowed their National Service Life Insurance to lapse, to take advan tage of the liberal features of rein statement now in effect, such fea tures expiring in part on January 1, 1947. George E. Ward, Post Commander. Bottles of Fire Are Dangers Dire Clemson, Aug. 3.—Beware of the bottle, says W. J. Barker, Clemson extension forester, who means bot tles of fire, not fire-water. To drive home his point, Barker cites the following article from the July 1946 issue of “Horticulture” as a warning against the danger of fire caused by concentration of the sun’s days on . discarded glass bottles: It has been stated for some years that one of the most common causes of woodland fires is the dis carded bottle. The argument has been that with the lens-like struc ture of the glass container to play upon, the sun can be one of the worst “fire bugs” of all. Confirmation of this belief is con tained in a recent letter by Sarah A. Richardson of the Boston Her ald. Miss Richardson stated: “At five o’clock one day as 1 was entering my west door, a whiff of wood smoke assailed me. I turned to look for the source and found it coming from the shingles ( behind a gallon glass jar of water. ! A two-inch arc had burned out of the bottom of a shingle. “The sun had set fire to my house. If I had not been at home, then an other building would have gone up in smoke, cause unknown. A few mornings later, I opened the east door of a brooder house and again found the same hazard, a jar of water focusing the sun’s rays sharp ly on some shavings. “I need no further warning but I am wondering if it might not be timely to bring this danger to the attention of picnickers and others who dispose of bottles and rubbish in the woods.” WANT TO BUY— Geese, Ducks, Rabbits, Pigeons, Bantams. R. DERRILL SMITH, Wholesale Gro cer, Newberry, S. C. 3-8tn RADIO AND TELEVISION SALES - SERVICE We Specialize in— PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS AND SOUND EQUIPMENT Sale of for Rental INTER-OFFICE COMMUNI CATION SYSTEMS Geo. N. Martin 1303 Friend St. Phone 74-J Directly Opposite Post Office New Yorkers Would Lynch Negro Human nature apparently is lit tle different in the North from what it is in the South under sim ilar provocation. This is illustrat ed by the near lynching of a Negro in New York City a few days ago after the Negro had grabbed a young housewife as she was walk ing toward her home and smashed her over the head with an 11-pound rock. Her screams attracted per sons passing nearby who rescued her. The assailant was surrounded in a clump of bushes until officers arrived and arrested him. Then the police battled the mob who tried to seize him, one of the po licemen being beaten up in the af fair. “Let us take him, we’ll take care of him,” the mob was quoted as shouting. “We know what to do with people like him.” The Negro was taken to jail and held under $10,000 bail. He was quoted as telling the magistrate be fore whom he was docketed, for trial, “I am guilty, judge.” New York Mirror: More than 100 Jackson Heights residents—many of them in their nightclothes—tried vainly to wrest a Negro from two policemen early yesterday after he attacked a young housewife on a darkened street with an 11-pound rock. One of the patrolmen was so bad ly mauled that he required medi cal treatment. But the two managed to hold on to their prisoner and get him to the Newton Station in their ra dio car. There, Mrs. Helen Komlosy, 25, of 3458 80th St., identified Henry McNair, 43, of 18 W. 117th St., as her assailant. McNair was brought before her after a doctor put three stitches behind her right ear and treated her bruised right shoulder. McNair was held in $10,000 bail for the grand jury on a felonious- assault charge when arraigned later in Ridgewood Felony Court. When the charge, signed by Mrs. Komlosy, was read to him, McNair blurted: “I’m guilty, judge.” Magistrate McKean directed how ever, that the records show McNair THURNOND for GOVERNOR He Has Served As TEACHER SENATOR JUDGE SOLDIER Help Thurmond Restore Good Government To South Carolina 23 Years of Public Service Qualify Thurmond For Governor had waived examination. McNair is said* to have been ar rested several times in Manhattan. He told police he served five years in Florida State Prison on an as sault charge. Mrs. Komlosy told police she got off the Flushing subway line at the 90th street station and was walk ing along 90th street to her home when she heard footsteps behind her. She stopped, turned and saw McNair approaching. (Mrs. Komlosy said she screamed and as she did, she was felled by a rock. Her screams attracted res idents and they swarmed out of their houses. McNair fled, leaving her on the walk. The crowd chased McNair, but lost him in a lot about two blocks away. They kept guard and when a radio car arrived, difected the two policemen to the place. Patrolmen Edward Albrecht and Alfred Brumbach searched the lot with flashlights and finally Al brecht stumbled over McNair hug ging the ground near a small real- estate shack. As they hauled him out, the Jack- son Heights people moved in men acingly and there were shouts of: “Let’s us take him, we’ll take care of him. We know what to do with people like him.” FOR GAME WARDEN I hereby announce myself a can didate for reelection to the office of Game Warden, and pledge myself to abide the results of the Democratic primary. O. HERMAN WISE. VETERANS You Can Learn To Fly Under the G. I. Bill RIGHT HERE IN NEWBERRY Contact E. O. Shealy, manager and instructor of the local air port for any information along this line. He will be glad to help you make out your applica tion, and rush it through, so you can begin your flying lessons jj right away. Shealy’s Flying Ser. j NEWBERRY AIRPORT E O. SHEALY, MGR. J. B. COWARD Candidate for Magistrate District No. 2 PROMISES YOU Courteous, Friendly, Common Sense, Efficient Service Attention Veterans! Look To Your Future Don’t Lose Your “GI” INSURANCE If You have Allowed It To Lapse Reinstatement Is Now Easy Payment of two monthly installments with a statement that your health is as good now as at the time your policy lapsed is all that is necessary. SEE YOUR VA CONTACT REPRESENTATIVE TODAY FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION The VA office in Newberry is located at 1113 Boyce Street Telephone 507'M Don’t take chances with your future NATIONAL SERVICE LIFE INSURANCE is a gilt-edged investment for you and for your family.... REINSTATE NOW SPONSORED BY C. D. Coleman Co. #, D spendable Service" PHONE 400 HE WILL BE THE MAGISTRATE OF HIGH and LOW ALIKE He will Devote His Full Time to the Office & Discharge His Duty Fearlessly, But with JUSTICE to All * He Will Feel Honored to Fill the Important Office and will be Grateful for Your Support Coward Knew You Before the Election — He Will Know You After It