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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
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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.
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WANTED—Scrap iron, brass, cop
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old batteries, radiators, all kinds of
rags, old waste cotton, mattress cot
ton. Also old feather beds and pil
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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.”
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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
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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
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Contact E. O. Shealy, manager
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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
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