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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1974
ROBERT HALSELL
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DALLAS(AP)—Candy Postleth-
waite has never seen a day of milit
ary service, but she’s discovering
the meaning of red tape. She has a
government check that she can’t
cash, can’t destroy and can’t seem to
give hack to the government.
Four weeks ago Mrs. Postleth-
waite received a Veterans Ad
ministration check made out to a
Ronald Lee Vest. She put it back on
the mailbox for the postman to pick
up on his next roimd.
“I got it back four or five days
later, in a different envelope,’’ she
said Monday. When she telephoned
the VA office, Mrs. Postlethwaite
was told to send the stray check
there.
But that didn’t work. She re
ceived it back again, in the same
envelope.
Next she tried sending the check
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War on smallpox
nears final victory
NEW DELHI, India (AP) —
Doctors directing a massive war on
smallpox say they are nearing a final
victory that would wipe the disease
from the earth.
was reported in the Western
Hemisphere. The last case in the
United States was in 1949.
An international campaign to
track down the scourge and halt its
spread has drastically reduced the
number of cases in India and the
three other countries—Ethiopia,
Pakistan and Bangladesh—still af
flicted by the ancient and deadly
disease.
“I would put it at 80-85 per cent
certain that we will he at zero by the
end of December,’’ said Dr. Donald
A. Henderson, head of the World
Health Organization’s smallpox
eradiction program.
Henderson, interviewed during
an Indian inspection trip from his
Geneva headquarters, pointed to
these statistics to buttress his claim:
The drop has been so dramatic
over the last three months and the
remaining pockets of infection so
reduced that specialists predict they
can eliminate the disease altogether
by early next year.
-Smallpox fighters recorded
55,127 cases worldwide in May,
48,800 in India alone. Only 5,300
cases were recorded in September,
4,823 in India.
Once gone, smallpox would be
unlikely to return, since it can be
communicated only hy human be
ings. Health authorities say such a
victory would mark the first time a
wide-spread disease has been eradi
cated from the world.
North and South America were
declared free of smallpox in August
1973, 28 months after the last case
-The medical teams knew of 8,300
outbreaks of'one or more cases in
India last June. They now know of
only 1,150.
-Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, the two
Indian states considered the world’s
most infected area, had 959 new
outbreaks a week last May. Now
health officials are finding fewer
than 100 a week.
Auto insurance for
safe drivers age 18-25
(married or single)
at competitive rates
without checking with your parents.
If you are like most college-age drivers, you buy auto
insurance through the company that writes your parent’s
policy.
Most companies insist on the “supporting” business
from your parents to offset the theoretically greater risk of
insuring you.
If you want to handle your own insurance business —
without checking with your parents — the usual practice
is to “rate you up” — to charge extra for the coverage.
Now that’s all changed. We are exclusive representa
tives for a company specializing in insurance for driver
age 18-25. Male or female. Single or married. Occa
sional operator or owner of a vehicle.
Cost for this special 18-25 coverage is based on stan
dard rates (the same cost to you as going through your
parent’s company) — provided you have no more than
three minor traffic violations in the past three years.
Get the details — without cost or obligation — from
Charles McDaniel or Lee Hensley. You’ll like doing busi
ness with these guys before you write them a check. And
you’ll like doing business with them even better — if they
ever need to write you one.
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to its originator, the Treasury De
partment office in Kansas City,
along with a certified letter saying
she “did not know this person and
this person did not live here.
The check was again returned, in
a dilferent envelope.
“Then I took it down to the White
Rock postal station and gave it to the
postmaster,’’ she said.
It came back again.
“Then I took it down personally to
the Veterans Administration,
again—and I got it back again.
“This was last week, and they told
me to mail it to state VA headquar
ters in Waco. And this morning 1
received it back again.”
After the seventh delivery, Mrs.
Postlethwaite phoned the Dallas VA
office one more time. “They just
said, ‘Well, I don’t know what else
we can do,’ ” she said.
“If nobody wants this hack, I II he
glad to use it, because our medical
bills are phenomenal.”
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• But she’s hesitant to try that.
At one point she says she called
the Secret Service and told an agent
she intended to destroy the check.
She says she was told, "You can’t
destroy it; that’s government prop
erty. ”
All right, she’d keep it, she told
the agent. He replied, “You can’t
keep it, it’s not yours. ”
Mrs. Postlethwaite is awaiting
further instructions.
Bentsen
campaigns
in N.H.
NASHUA, N.H. (AP)—Democ
ratic U. S. Sen. Lloyd M. Bentsen of
Texas was to sample his presidential
potential Wednesday in New
Hampshire, the state with the
nation’s leadoff presidential prim
ary.
Bentsen, on his second visit to
New Hampshire since March, was
to spend 11 hours campaigning for
the state’s Democratic candidates
for governor, the U.S. Senate, and
House.
Bentsen, 53, a relative newcomer
to national politics, was elected to
the Senate in 1970. He served six
years in the House from 1948 to
1954.
His schedule Wednesday in
cluded a news conference, speeches
at colleges in Nashua and Durham,
tours of a faetoiy and a veteran’s
club in Manchester, and dedication
of a hospital in Nashua.
The candidates in whose behalf
Bentsen was to campaign were
Richard Leonard, the gubernatorial
candidate; John Durkin, the U.S.
Senate nominee; and Helen Bliss
and Norman D’Amours, candidates
for the House.
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