Věstník (West, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 38, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 17, 1969 Page: 1 of 32
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Official Organ Of the Slavonic Benevoíent Order Ol The State Of Texas, Founded 1897.
BENEVOLENCE HUMANITY
BROTHERHOOD
Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 with Undeliverable Copies
VOLUME 57 — NO. 38 to; SUPREME LODGE SPJST, POB 100, TEMPLE, TEX 76501
SEPTEMBER 17, 1969
FROM THE EDIT0R S DESK
Life insurance is something we rare-
ly give much thought to, yet it can be
something that can be the gre atest
help to our loved ones in čase of our
sudden departure from their midst.
Give this a sincere thought. There are
occasions, people, and circumstances
which may rob us of our self-com-
posure, and even our health, however,
there is nothing that can také away
from us the satisfaction that we háve
provided for our loved ones.
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Life Insurance beneficiary payments
during 1968 clearly underscore man’s
role in providing for his family’s se-
eurity.
Widows and children together re-
ceived 70 per cent of all ordinary 1968
death payments, aecording to the Ins-
titute of Life Insurance.
Another 20 per cent went to par-
ents, husbands and other relatives,
while the remainder went mainly ta
estates and trusts.
In about 8 out of every 10 ordinary
policies on which death payments
were made in the nation last year, the
policyholder was a man. Women were
the direct beneficiary seven out of
ten times.
' Under ordinary policies, life com-
pahíes paid a total of $3.2 billion to
all beneficiaries during the year (ex-
cludihg payments for individual credit
life insurance policies).
Widows received $1-8 billion írom
THINGS THAT NEVER DIE
By Charles Dickens
The pure, the bright, the beautiful
That stirred our hearts in youth,
The impulses to wordless prayer,
The streams of love and truth,
The longing for something lost,
The spiriťs yearning cry,
The striving aftcr bettcr hopcs —
These things can never dte.
The tiinid hand stretched íorth to aid
A brother in his nced;
A bindly word in g.ricfs dark hour
That proves a friend indeed;
The plea for mercy softly breathed,
When justice threatens high,
The sorrows of a contrite heart —
These things shall never die.
ordinary policies on their husbands, or
about 58 cents out of every dollar of
ordinary death payments, the Institu-
te estimates.
The proportion of death payments
to widows under these policies has
shown little change in recent decades.
But with the sizable increase in life
insurance protection, the amounts
paid to them háve doubled over the
past decade.
Children of ordinary policyholders
received about $301 rnillion directly, or
about 10 per cent of death payments
under ordinary policies. Parents and
other relatives received about $297 mil-
lion, or 9 per cent.
Husbands received $101 million
from ordinary death payments.
About $307 million of death pay-
ments went to estates and trusts in
1968 under ordinary policies. This
amounted to 10 per cent of death pay-
ments for ordinary life insurance. The
proportion has risen more than one-
half since the latě 1940s, probably due
to families moving up to higher fi-
nancial levcls wherc thcy makc use of
cstate management.
Nearly $44 million was paid to íns-
titutional beneficiaries under ordi-
nary policies. About 1 Vz per cent of
death payments from these policies
went to institutions — much of it as
eharitable bequests to churches,
schools and other philanthropic organ-
izations.
Such institutions also benefit from
insurance, proceeds bequeathed through
policyholders’ estates.
About $114 million in ordinary
death bcnefits last year went to bon-
eficiaries not directly rclated to policy-
holders.
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CZECH COURSES AT
TEMPLE JUNIOR COLLEGE
Temple Junior College, at Temple, is
again offering instruction in the Czeeh
language. The courses being offered are
at three levels, ranging from a be-
,ginner’s course to a reading and com-
position course; Vor those who al-
ready havc a knowledge of the lan-
guage.
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Sefcik, R. J. Věstník (West, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 38, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 17, 1969, newspaper, September 17, 1969; West, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth625712/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Slovanska Podporujici Jednota Statu Texas.