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THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1956
THE NEWBERRY SUN
PAGE FIVE
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War Two Vets
May Still Get
GI Home Loans
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The World War II GI Loan
Prografi ending date has been
extended for one more year to
July 25, 1958, under an omni
bus GI loan law signed by the
President August 1, 1956.
In the 12 years that the GI
Loan Program has been in opera
tion, 4,466,000 World War II
veterans have borrowed $33.2 bil
lion in GI loans to purchase
homes, farms and businesses. Of
> that amount, VA has guaranteed
or insured $17.9 billion.
The GI loan program previous
ly was scheduled to end July 25 ;
1957, and, under the reading of
the original law, all GI loans
would have had to be closed by
that date.
Under this new law, any GI
loan for which VA receives an
application- by July 25, 1958, may
be guaranteed or insured by VA
if it is completed by July 25, 1959.
VA emphasizes that the new
low affects only World War II
veterans. Korean conflict period
veterans have until January 31,
1965, to obtain GI loans for
homes, farms and businesses. To
date, more than 345,000 Korean
conflict period veterans have
borrowed $3.6 billion in GI loans
for homes, farms and businesses.
Of that amount VA has guaran
teed or insured $2 billion.
In addition, this new law will
permit any veteran who sells
residential property purchased
with a GI loan to be relieved
from liability to the Government
under certain circumstances.
Previously, the veteran who
sold his property and allowed the
purchaser to assume his GI loan
still remained liable to the Gov
ernment in the event of subse
quent foreclosure and the pay
ment of a guaranty claim by the
VA.
Now the veteran may be reliev
ed of liability if the purchaser
assumes full liability on the loan,
the VA approves him from a cred
it standpoint, and the loan is cur
rent.
The new law also permits
World War II veterans to have
their GI loan entitlement restor
ed up to January 31, 1956, if
their property: (1) was taken by
a Governmental agency for public
use; (2) was destroyed by a nat
ural hazard, or (3) was otherwise
disposed of for compelling rea
sons without fault on the part of
the veteran.
The new law also amends the
GI Bill to permit the restoration
of GI home loan entitlement to a
veteran in military service who
disposes of his home because of
a transfer under military orders.
A veteran, under the new law,
will have to certify that he in
tends to live in the home he is
buying with the assistance of a
GI loan at the time of application
and at the time of closing the
loan.
The new law also clarifies and
confirms VA’s authority to make
the final determination of reas
onable value of property irrespec
tive of the estimate of value
made by an individual appraiser.
Colonel Eskridge
(continued from page 1)
Air Force and with the comman
der of shore-based aircraft for
the forward area. For his service,
he was awarded the Distinguished
Flying Cross, Bronze Star and Air
Medal with cluster.
After the War, the South Caro
linian became deputy chief of
staff for the Fourth Air Force at
Hamilton Field, Calif., and then
the Caribbean Air Command. Af
ter a year as commander of Al-
brook Air F'orce Base, Canal
Zone, he went to the Air Whr
College at Maxwell Air Force
Base in Alabama. He became de
puty for administration of the Air
Command and staff school there,
and later chief of staff of the Air
University at the same base. It
was from the latter assignment
that he came to the National War
College last August. He recently
returned from a three-week tour
of Europe which was a part of
his 10-month war college course
in national policies and interna
tional affairs.
Eskridge is married to the for
mer Agnes Pruett of Anniston,
Ala. They have one daughter,
Nancy, 17, and have been living
this year in Falls Church, Va. and
Alabama.
Prior to leaving for his new
post, Col. Eskridge and his fam
ily spent a month in Newberry
with his mother.
—-IDoes the Veterans Administration conduct medical / research?
A—Yes. The VA has engaged In medical research for several years,
and this year is enlarging its research operations with a $10 mil
lion appropriation which is $4.3 million more than appropriated
last year. This research will be concentrated in four areas; mental,
nervous and brain diseases; heart and artery diseases; cancer
and leukemia, and problems of aging (geriatrics.)
<1 -Does the Department of Health, Education and Welfare concern it
self with other than elementary and High school education?
A -Yes. As a matter of fact, a committee was named by the Presi
dent last April, chairmaned by Devereux C. Josephs to make a
study of the needs and problems of education beyond the high
school. This Committee is scheduled to meet in October 1956 to
hear reports from four sub-committees which were given specific
assignments for study.
4* —Will there be a new cabinet if President Eisenhower is reelected?
A -It is the practice for all members of a cabinet to submit their
resignations at the end of a presidential term. How many of the
present cabinet members will be reappointed, of course no one
knows but the President. There is considerable evidence, how
ever that there will be cabinet changes if the President is re
elected.
4)—1 am a Korean veteran, just getting out of service. I have a $5,000
insurance policy with a private firm. How much GI insurance
can I get?
A—You can get the maximum of $10,000 of Korean GI term insurance,
nine* your private insurance does not affect your GI insurance.
4)—Who is the Secretary of the U. S. House of Representatives?
A—There is ho Secretary. The chief administrative officer of the
House is The Clerk of the House. He is Ralph R. Roberts, of
Rockport, Indiana.
The Music Department of
.NEWBERRY COLLEGE
announces enrollment of preparatory
piano students.
Students in age group 7 through 12 will
enroll with Miss Mary Margaret Pope.
Students 13 years and older will enroll
with Prof. Darr Wise.
Reservations should be made prior to
September first.
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TELEPHONE 2048.
Jump Rope is another pastime for the Brownies at their Day Camp this week at Lynch’s woods.
Two Girl Scouts handle the rope while the Brownies from Newberry and Whitmire take turns at
jumping. (Sunphoto by Doris A. Sanders.)
Hospital Patients
Mr r Leroy Anderson, 917 Glenn.
Mrs. Eunice Bedenbaugh, R. 2
Prosperity.
Mrs. Jessie Mae Bedenbaugh,
Route 3, Newberry.
Mr. Joseph Earl Crooks, Rte. 2
Pomaria.
Mr. Joe ,W. Cromer, Route 2,
Chapin.
Mr. Fred Cook, Route 1.
Mr. E. W. Derrick, Route 4.
Mrs. Etisca Ennis, 147 White
Pine Drive, Asheville, N. C.
Mrs. Lucy Elmore, 1325 Pelham.
Mrs. Ruby Lee Floyd, Rte. 3.
Mr. Walton B. Half acre, 1903
Johnstone street.
Mr. Ford Kurtz, 1908 Main St.
Mrs. Nellie C. Koon, 114 North
Church street, Whitmire.
Mrs. Ernest Layton, 508 O’Neal.
Miss Corrine Moon, 2121 Char
les street.
Mrs. Esther Mills, Route 3,
Prosperity.
Mrs. Sam Marlow, 1519 Har
rington street.
Mrs. Euna Mize, Route 1.
Colored Patients
Baby Jeanette Sims, Route 1.
Will Thomas, Route 2.
Bessie Mae Speaks and Baby
Girl, Route 1. _ _
Rites Saturday
For Miss Boozer
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Funeral services for Miss Mary
Boozer, 87, were conducted Sat
urday afternoon at 4 o’clock at
St. Luke’s Lutheran Church by
the Rev. Ray P. Hook. Burial was
in the church cemetery.
Miss Boozer died Friday after
noon at a Columbia hospital af
ter an illness of several years.
She was bom and reared in
the St. Luke’s section of New
berry County, a daughter of the
late Fred and Elizabeth Smith
Boozer. She spent a number of
years in Prosperity where she
made her home with Mrs. Cora
Stockman.
She was a former member of
St. Luke’s Lutheran Church and
at the time of her death she was
a member of Wightman Metho
dist Church at Prosperity.
Surviving are a number of
cousins.
Active pallbearers were B. T.
Gibson, Billy Pugh, W. S. Werts,
Clift Boozer, Frank Harmon, and
P. K. Harmon.
Neel Arrives At
Alaskan Base
Ladd Air Force Base, Alaska.—
Army 1st Lt. George W. Neel,
whose wife, Margaret, and par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Neel,
live on route 3, Newberry, recently
arrived in Alaska and is now a
member of the 7th Antiaircraft
Artillery Group at Ladd Air Force
Base.
Lt. Neel, assigned to the Group
headquarters, entered the army
in July of this year. Before en
tering on active duty, he was a
member of Headquarters 'Battery
of the 228th Group, S. C. National
Guard.
The lieutenant attended New
berry College.
Bond Sales Total
Nearly $50,000
Series E and H bond sales for
the month of July in Newberry
County totaled $49,587.50, report
ed Joe M. Roberts, County Sav
ings Bonds Chairman.
E and H sales for the state for
the same period totalled $2,453,-
768.75, according to Brunell Sloan,
State Chairman of the U. S. Sav
ings Bonds Division for South
Carolina. Sales for the period
January through July totalled
$17,950,988.08, a 9.5 per cent in
crease over the same period last
year.
Receive Degrees
From Newberry
Newberry College Summer
School informal graduation exer
cises were held in Holland Hall,
August 3, at 3 p. m. Dr. C. A.
Kaufmann, president, presided.
The invocation was offered by
Prof. F. Scott' Elliott, associate
professor of English.
President Kaufmann, assisted
by Prof. Thomas E. Epting, Sec
retary of the Faculty, conferred
the degree of Bachelor of Science
upon the following Newberry
County candidates: Mrs. Eunice
Williams Barbee, magna cum
laude, Whitmire, and Luther Roy
Wise, Prosperity.
Certificates were also awarded*
in absentia: Stenographic, Miss
Thelma Joyce Graham, Newberry.
Following the awarding of the
degrees, Dr. Kaufmann made a
talk to the graduates. The pro
gram closed with a prayer of
blessing and benediction by the
Rev. Doctor R. A .Goodman,
professor of Bible.
H. D..AGENT
CALENDAR
The County Hon^e Agents Mrs.
Margie D. Freeman and Mrs.
Margaret R. Coleman announce
the following schedule for the
week of August 13 through Aug
ust 18:
The home agents will attend
Farm and Home Week at Clem-
son College Monday, August 13
through Friday, August 17. Sev
eral Newberry County girls and
boys will participate in events
there. Peggy Berley of Pomaria
will serve as mistress of cere
monies for the annual 4-H Tal
ent Show Tuesday night at 8:10
o’clock. Wilma Boozer of Stoney
Hill will pantomine Rock and
Roll Waltz.
Hunter Teague of Silverstreet
will enter the Tractor Operators
contest which will be held at 2:00
p. m. in the open area in front of
the College Field House.
During the Thursday evening
program one of the features will
be the “Made in South Carolina
Style Show” featuring Betty Lane
Cherry, Orangeburg, 1956 South
Carolina Maid of Cotton, older 4-
H club girls modeling their own
costumes and 4-H club boys. Peg
gy Berley of Pomaria will model
a grey indian head organdy and
lace dress which she made. Her
escort will be James L. Dominick
Jr. of Prosperity.
Macedonia Home Demonstration
club will hold their picnic Thurs
day, August 16.
New Hope Zion Home Demon
stration club picnic will be held
Saturday, August 28th at the
pond of Mr. and Mrs. T. L.
Crooks at 4:00 p. m.
Mercury Hits
Sizzling 102
The high of 100 degrees set in
June was topped Monday, Aug
ust sixth in Newberry when the
mercury rose to a hot, humid 102.
There was a breeze stirring, but
the air was just as hot and no
rainfall was in sight to relieve
the oppressiveness of the day.
Things were a little better on
Tuesday, August seventh when
the high temperature recorded
was only 99. During the month,
there was merely a “trace” of
rain on the 2nd, and .85 of an
inch on Friday, the third. The
weatherman as of Wednesday
morning promised no more than
the usual widely scattered thutt*
dershowers and predicted warm
er weather on the way.
Miss Hamm Wed
To Mr. Fugmann
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In New Jersey
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(The following account of the
wedding of Miss Hamm and Mr.
Fugmann is from the Cape May
County Gazette, Cape May Court
House, N. J- Mrs. Fugmann i s
the granddaughter of the late D.
L. and Nancy S. Long Hamm of
the Silverstreet area and has
visited in their home many times)
Miss Barbara Louise Hamm,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
B. Hamm, of Court House, was
married on Saturday, July 7 to
Mr. Carl Louis Fugmann, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Fug
mann of Baltimore, Md. The cer
emony was performed in the com
munity Lutheran church, Stone
Harbor, with Rev. Morris C. Wal
ker officiating.
Mr. Hamm gave his daughter
in marriage. She was attired in
a gown of white Italian Peau de
soie, cut along princess lines. The
fitted bodice arid bouffant skirt
terminating in a chapel train was
appliqued with Alencon lace and
sequins. Her veil of imported tulle
was held by a cap embroidered in
pearls and sequins and she car
ried a bouquet of white carna
tions and stephanotis.
Miss Ruth Fugmann of New
York city, sister of the bride
groom, was maid of honor. The
bridesmaids were Miss Joanne
Kashner, Bloomsburg, Pa.; Miss
Martha Stewart, Atlantic City;
Mrs. James Burnley, .Stone Har
bor; and Mrs. Herbert Highfield,
Trenton. Sandra Lee Hamm, a
niece of the bride, was flower girl.
The attendants were all ottired
in Ceil blue crystellette, princess-
style dresses and carried pink car
nations. The flower girl was
dressed in white nylon marquis
ette dress over pink with a large
pink sash and carried a basket of
pink and white flowers.
Music was furnished by Lament
E. Hill, Leighton, Pa., soloist and
Mrs. John C. Young, pianist.
The bride and the bridegroom
are both graduates of Drexel In
stitute of Technology.
Following the ceremony, a re
ception was held at the Wildwood
Golf and Country club.
After the wedding trip, the cou
ple will reside at Bayside, Long
Island, N. Y.
Chappell-White
The engagement of Elizabeth
Clare Chappell and Joseph W.
White, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Wylie White of Chester has been
announced by the bride-elect’s
parents. She is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Adolpho Raymond
Chappell of Prosperity. The wed
ding will take place October 6tr
in the Grace Lutheran Church of
Prosperity.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
AND OF
FINAL SETTLEMENT
I will make a final settlement
of the estate of Fred J. Rice in.
the Probate Court for Newberry
County, S. C., on Friday, the 7th
day of September, 1956 at 10
o’clock in the forenoon, and will
immediately thereafter ask for
my discharge as Administratrix
of said estate.
All persons having claims
against the estate of Fred J.
Rice, deceased, are hereby no
tified to file the same, duly veri
fied with the undersigned, and
those indebted to said estate will
please make payment likewise.
MRS. GIRTHA RICE,
Administratrix.
Aug. 4, 1956. 15-4tp
Some GI Insurance
May Be Reinstated
Thousands of World War II and
Post Korea veterans who lost
their 5-year term GI insurance
since July 23, 1953, because they
failed to pay either or both of
the last two monthly premiums
will be given an opportunity to
reinstate their policies under a
neNv law just signed by the Presi
dent.
Veterans Administration said
it is searching its records for
these cases so it soon may send
former policy holders a reinstate
ment application with instructions
on how to proceed.
The VA “strongly” requested
the affected veterans not to write
or otherwise make inquiries about
their cases for at least a month
so as not to delay the checking
process to the detriment of all
veterans involved.
The law which permits these
veterans to reinstate such term
policies is the Survivor Benefits
Act signed by the President on
August 1, 1956. The GI insur
ance affected by the law are the
5-year term policies of National
Service Life Insurance, whether
of the convertible World War II
type or of the nonconvertible
Post Korea type.
Under the old law which be
came effective July 23, 1953
these term policies could not be
in a state of lapse at the end of
the 5-year term period to qualify
them for automatic renewal.
Under the new law, this re
quirement is relaxed to the extent
that the 5-year term of any policy
which has lapsed because of the
failure to pay either or both of
the last two monthly premiums
is automatically renewed for an
other 5-year term and the policy
then may be reinstated by meet
ing certain requirements.
VA said the provision of the
new law was made retroactive to
July 23, 1953 and thereby affects
any 5-year term NSLI policy
which has lapsed at the expira
tion of the term since that date
because either or both of the last
two monthly premiums were un
paid.
VA estimates the number of
veterans affected to be in the
thousands, but stressed it will not
know the exact number of poli
cies involved until it has complet
ed a thorough check of the rec
ords.
Because of the magnitude of
the checking job and the import
ance of getting it'done as quick
ly as possible for the protection
of the affected veterans, VA said
any delays caused by veterans’ in
quiries will affect not only those
cases of the inquiring veterans,
but those of all others who are
equally entitled to the fastest
service possible.
McCrackin Child
Born In Balboa
Lt. Col. and Mrs. Edward Mc
Crackin are receiving congratula
tions on the birth of a daughter,
on April 7, 1956, at Balboa, Ca
nal Zone. Col. McCrackin is sta
tioned at Amador, C. Z. with the
U. S. Army Corps of Engineers.
He and his wife, the former Miss
Belrty Horton of Union, and their
daughter, Gwyn, age 9, left
Newberry for Amador in April.
The baby’s paternal grandpar
ents are Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Mc
Crackin of Newberry. .
MISS HAMM WITH
COLUMBIA FIRM
Miss Pearle Hamm, formerly a
secretary in a local insurance
agency, is now employed with the
Claude E. Ceason Insurance and
Real Estate company in Colum
bia. She has been with the firm
since March of this year.
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UNSEEN TRAGEDY!
MIDDEN IN THE GRASS out of sight
from the casual eye ate tie future woods
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oj America, Tioy trees—just seedlings
hardly hand-high, but the timber of
tomorrow.
That’s why apparently harmless, slow-
burning grass or brush fires are in reality
as deadly as though they were burning
the big trees. These "harmless” fires are
forest fires, too. They destroy those tiny
seedlings.
So for America, for your children,
pledge yourself to be extra careful with
matches, smokes, campfires—fire.
Make sure every spark is oat—dead oat!
Remember those tiny trees hidden away
in the grass, growing for tomorrow.
CAREFUL!
you can
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