The News from Frederick, Maryland • Page 15

EIGHT the News, Frederick, Thursday, January 18, 19SZ i i $200 Millions In Dividends WASHINGTON. Jan. 9--MV-A dividend of 200 million dollars i be paid this year--starting in March--to about five million holders of National Service Life Insurance, the Veterans Administration announced today. This will be the first regular dividend on such insurance held by veterans and servicemen, VA said. Previously the VA has paid two special dividends on NSLI.

one on 194S and the second last year. The 1948 dividend totaled $2,800,000.000 and went to nearly 16 million persons. The dividend last year was estimated at 685 million and was paid to about six million policy holders, The payment to the vast majority of policy holders will be S60. VA officials said. With the payments starting in March, the VA plans to follow through as soon after the anniversary dates of the individual policies as possible.

It said the-wait for the dividend will not be as long as it was for the previous dividends. Generally speaking, the VA said, the dividend to individuals will be the same as the 1951 payment. This amounted, in most instances, to 50 cents for each $1.000 of insurance for each month the insurance was in Issuing Special Forms To be eligible, the policy holder must have paid premiums on the policy for any three or more months between the 1951 and 1852 anniversary dates of the policy. The VA is sending out special forms to policy holders which may be used to request the dividend in cash. The VA will accept any type of written request for cash, but emphasized the requests should include full name and address and the insurance numbers.

It also pointed out that veterans who have converted their insurance to permanent plans--such as ordinary life or endowment policies--may ask the VA in i i to put the dividend on deposit. The deposit will bear three per cent interest and will be added to the cash value of the policy should it. later Ippse, The policy holder may also ask the VA in writing to apply the dividend advance payment on premiums falling due after the 1952 anniversary date of. the policy. In requesting these options the policy holder should write to the VA office to which they are paying premiums.

4-H CLUB MEETS With 20 members present and President Dave Burtner presiding. Ballenger 4-H Club boys held their January meeting Wednesday at the Ballenger Community Hall Square dances will be conducted by the club, starting in the near future, a committee composed of Allen Moore, George Whipp, Wenduc Moore and Calvin. Me Elfresh. announced. 4-H will put on an achievement prORram later in the year.

Officers of the organization are arranging a point-system for members who will bestow the title of "Member of the on the clubber with the highest total gained when the achievement program is culminated, A trophy case has been completed and placed in the Community Hall. On it, the 4-H boys will place a small placque. commemorating Robert Slaley. Members of the Ballenger 4-H basketball team were given the Southern Division County 4-H games schedule. After a short discussion on keeping farm production records, the meeting was adjourned and refreshments served by Robert Kemp.

TO DELIVER LECTURE HAGERSTOWN. a The Women's Club will provide one of, the most interesting features of year for its members next Tuesday. January 15, in the form of a lecture by Mrs. Elizabeth Eckhardt May. dean of the faculty at Hood College in Frederick.

Crew Abandons Ship In Pacific SEATTLE. Jan. 9, 43- man crew of freighter ppnnsylvama abandoned ship tonight as it wallowed bow down in heavy sens oft" the British Columbia coast. The men aboard the veKse! radioed their decision to leave the stricken ship at 4:28 p. Pacific Standard Time (7:28 p.

EST. Three hours later the SS Cygnet III. a vessel in the vicinity, said the crew had left the ship at 4:30. Overside the men face another grave peril'--giant waves and winds. Seven vessels are rushing to the scene RS fast, as storm conditions will permit but Coast Guard officials in Seattle said it probably will be daylight before any can reach the distressed men.

They said the decision to leave the would Indicate it was in imminent danger of i i and the men had little or no choice. Hold Flooded The ship's Number hold was flooded with water and a 14-foot crack had opened on her port side. She was heading for Japan today when the noontime (Pacific Standard Time') '3 p. m. EST) SOS came, six hours after she flnst reported the In her side.

By noon, thi ship was taking water in the engine room and Number 1 Mold and its steering gear was crippled. The deck load was being torn Joo.se. The position of the Pennsylvania was about 405 northwest of the northern tip of Vancouver Inland, in one of the Pacific Ocean's turgid areas. It was about 600 miles south of central Alaska's southern coastline. Winds up to 47 miles an hour were whipping the sea tonight and Coast Guardsmen said there was little indication of a letup.

Canadian coastal were suffering from one of the stiffesl blows in three years. TO ENTER Jan. 9. Senator Taft fR-Ohio) said today he will enter his name' in the April 8 Illinois Presidential primary. Taft.

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She was in serious condition at Suburban Hospital, Bethesda. Montgomery County police said Mrs. Wright started for her husband's gun closet at about 11 a. Ker 13-year-old son, Francis W. Wright, headed her off, police said, locked the closet door and the key in his sock.

He then sent his younger brother Dale, 4, to get help. Mrs. Wright grabbed a can of cleaning fluid and poured some of it on clothes. son was able to wrest the can from her, but Mrs. Wright then picked up some matches and set fire to her clothes, police said.

Francis, a Boy Scout, starteJ fighting the flames with a rug, but Wright ran outside. Two neighbors, Mrs. Gladys Thompson and Mrs. Richard H. Stresau.

tore away the flaming clothes and smothered the flames with a coat. The victim's husband, Francis W. Wright, a flooring contractor, said his wife suffered a nervous breakdown a year ago and about MR. RESTAURANT OWNER KEEP YOUR RATING Call DALEY'S PESTS CONTROL FREDERICK 366-J six (wallowed quantity sleeping CHEAP TRICK NEW YORK, Jan. 9 W--The cupidity of some people! Francis Meeks, 36, an idle longshoreman, was arraigned in court today, accused of having way to make a buck.

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