Mt. Vernon Optic-Herald (Mount Vernon, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, December 24, 1948 Page: 7 of 12
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ROGER W. BABSON
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See This Florence and Sec The Many Other Features.
the simplest and sweetest message
"Merry Christmas."
of them all;
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Protection including Workmen’s Compensation,
Public Liability, Automobile Liability and Prop- '
erty Damage, Automobile Fire, Theft and Colli-
sion. Fire Tornado, Inland Marine, Plate Glass,
Physicians, Surgeons and -Hospital Professional
Liability.
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epdlng June 30, 1948. Individuals
tieated numbered 1,628,169.
■ The private physicians treated
761,160 veterans, cooperating with |
at a cost per treatment of $3.28.
During the same period, VA’s staff
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Above cooking top, cast iron non-clog bur-
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Cover Serves as Wall Protection while cook-
ing. This is our Best Buy in a Good Medium
Price Range.
WE HAVE THESE FLORENCE RANGES FOR RUTANE AND NATURAL GAS.
A new “intensive treatment” pro-
gram, aimed at rehabilitating the
more serious types of mental pa-
i tients, is beginning to pay off for
| the Veterans Administration.
i Progress made thus far indicates
a potential discharge rate of i
40 per cent for a class of mental
Carotene^—also called pro-vitamin
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the diet of cattle. However, it's just
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adviser. An outstanding feature of af
Central Christian
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Mr. Babson is best known by his
familiar weekly stories on business
which appear in more than 38o pa-
pers throughout North America. Of
unbounded energy, Roger W. Bab-
son has probably done more than
any other man to bring statistics
to life, to Instill a broader vision in
businessmen, and to publicize the
ups-and-downs of the business cy-
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tions. Here young men and women
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j business.
More recently he has completed
the arrangements for another Col-
lege named “Utopia” which is lo-
cated in Eureka, Kansas, the cen-
I ter of Mr. Babson’s "Magic Circle.”
I Here people o' all ages may check
1 'hejr financial well-being much as
at the MtNo Clinic they would
i check their physical well-being. He
| is also reviving an interest in Sir
Thomas More who—409 years ago—
outlined in his “Utopia" the only
'y solution to our problems.
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THIS RANGE IN YOUR
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ed Lined No Seam Oven. Big Ne Hi Swing Broilers.
Telechron Electric Clock and Minute Minder. Oven
Has Enterior Light and Plate Glass Door; Robert
Shaw Oven Heat Control. This Range Weighs 303 lbs.
If You Buy the Best Florence Yo Get >the~ Best
Range Buy.
VA staff
handled 863,004 individual veterans
I and a total of 1,680,183 treatments.
I Since these were taken care of in
I v^9Pt'Pat'ient clinics, located in the
! atWffy’s hospitals and other field in-
| stallations, no per-patient or per- I
---------- treatment costs were compiled for
private physicians during the year I this group.
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steal examination in order to rein-I
surance Policy?
A—Is is necessary to take a phy-
sical examination in order to rein-
state National Service Life Insur-
ance in every case where the in-
surance has lapsed for more tl^m
three months.
Q—I intend to enter school un-’
der the Servlcetmen’s Readjustment
Act in January of this Coming yeapA-
j When should I apply for my Cerja-
i ficate of Eligibility?
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nearly A—If you wish to enter training
___»_j1 under Public Law 346, you should
cases previously considered proba- ; aPP'y ^or y°u^ Certificate of Eligi-
bly life-long hospital patients. I bility at least 30 days before the
_______ | enrollment date.
Q—May I transfer my National1
VA’s Dallas Branch Area Office,
which includes Texas, Louisiana and
Mississippi, reported 131,324 treat-
ments by private physicians, repre-
the VA in a program designed to 8entlng 33’02® ^‘vidual veterans,
provide “home town” care for dis-
abilities attributed to wartime ser- I
vice. They were paid $11,437,739' doctors in the Dallas Branch Area
treatments, establishing an average 8ave 123,547 treatments in out-pa-
charge-per-treatment of $4.18 and I tient clinics to 76,407 veterans.
I a cost-per-veteran of 115.03.
year 1948 under ’the’ “tome'’ to7n“ 1 VA staff *ctors durlng the yeRr
medical program, Veterans Adminis-
itratlon announced this week.
Treatments averaged three per I
veteran, according to VA report I
showing a total of 4,416,612 treat- |
ments by both VA staff doctors and
his philosophy has been his life- <>»
long insistence on the importance of
religion in business. w
Born in 1975, reared in an old-
fashioned atmosphere of li»ud work
and hustle on a farm in Glouces-
ter. Mr. Babson went to the Mass- SJ
achusetts Institute of Technology.
Ufon graduating in 1998, he turned S'
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i iness activities.
His exertions, however, undermin-
ed his health; he contracted tuber-
culosis and he was sent West "as
good as dead”! It was while he was
convalescing from this dread malady h
that he worked out some of the pos-
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That was more than forty-five X
years ago. Today his weekly statis-
tical and financial reports are read
by thousands of businessmen and
his research work is carried on by
a large staff of workers.
Mr. Babson founded Babson In-
stitute for men; and, in cooperation i m
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FARM ANIMALS
Dead or Useless Horses
Mules and Cattle Removed
FREE—CaU 827 Collect
Howard (Speck)
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It necessary for me to take a phy- of the private companies?
j A—No. Your NSLI is convertible
state my National Service Life In- only to one or more of the six per-
manent plans issued by Veterans
Administration. These are Ordinary
Life, 30-Payment Life. 20-Payment
Life, 20 Year Endowment, Endow-
ment at age 60, and Endowment at
age 65.
Q—I served in the U. S. Army
during World War I. Am I eligible
for Government Life Insurance?
A—As a veteran of World War I, I
"y^u are eligible to apply for up to I
$10,000 of U. S. Government Life
Insurance. It does not matter whe-
I ther you took out such insurance
while you were . in the service or |
i have let it lapse.
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS , —iviay i uransier my national
Q—Under what circumstances Is Service Life Insurance policy to any
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SIGNS
Save your signs for me.
Will be home December
17-30.— Richard Daugh-
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Devall, Charles K. Mt. Vernon Optic-Herald (Mount Vernon, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, December 24, 1948, newspaper, December 24, 1948; Mount Vernon, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1267581/m1/7/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Franklin County Library.