Věstník (West, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 30, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 26, 1961 Page: 12 of 32
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Strana 12
IĚBTNÍK - WEST, TEXAS
Wednesday, July 26, 19dl
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF SLAVONIC
BENEVOLENT ORBEB
OF THE: STATE OF TEXAS
FGBNDED 1897
VÉSTNlK
*-HERAIID*-*
Reports from our Lodges, or any
other Reading Materiál to be pub-
3Mied should reach the Editor,
Saturday before the dáte of issue.
Address all matters to the Editor:
P. O. Box 85, West, Texas.
Postmaster: Piease Send Form 3 mWith SlnflcUvcrable Copfci to SCPEEMEUtDGESPJST, P.O. Box 400, TEMPLE, TEX.
FROM THE EDITOR’3 DESK
Life Insurance >
Haif-'Vear Páce Is
Unparalleleá
Life insurance companies in the U.S.
at the 1961 half-way mark were ins.uřing
a record number of families tor higher
amounts oí protection and paying out
more benefits tlian ever before, the In-
stitute! of Life Insurance reports.,
Ownership of liře insurance by Ameri-
can families passed the $6000,000;'000,000
figuře during the first half of 1961, and
as of June 30th was estimated to; háve
reached $610,000,000,000. This was an in-
erease of $24,000,000,000 since the start of
the year, and is the largest six-month
igain in life insurance history.
“American families are raising their
Insurance si-ghts,” said Holgar J. John-
son, president, Institute of Life Insur-
ance. “Currently, insured families ac-
couht for a large share of new insur-
ance purchases as they more aciequately
meet increased responsibilities a n d
changíng con(ditions by adding to their
life insurance programs. In view oř this,
planning and coordinating additions to
family life insurance háve become ma-
jor undertakings of the life insurance
ágents.”
The individua! insured family on the
avcrage owns about $13,000 of life Insur-
ance.
In the first half oř the year, American
families purchased a record $38,800,000,-
000 of ordinary. group and industrial life
Insurance, about 10 per cent over the
amount purchased in tne sarne period,
1960, and a higher amount th.a,n the
'totai purchases for the year 1953.
About two-thirds of ťhe new purchases
were ordinary insurance, estimated at
$26,200,000.000, sttee 2 per cent more than
the ordinary amount purchased during
the first six months of 1960. Group life
insurance, with an estimated $9,000,000,-
000 of purchases for the first half of 1961
was about 40 per cent ahead of the first
half oí 1960, a year in wlhich a new rec-
ord of group purchases was set,
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
“I piedge Allegiance to the Flag of the
United States of America and to the
íleputolie for which it stands. One Nation
imder God, indivislble, with Liberty and
Justice for all.”
Correction
Payments to policyholders and their
beneficiaries from their liře insurance
policies and annuities are estimated to
háve reached a new high of $4,255,000,000 1
up $200,000,000 over the Same period last
year. Nearly 60 per cent of the totai rep-
resented “living” benefit payments to!
policyholders and annuitants.
Totai new funds made available by the
life companies for investments during
the first half of 1961 were estimated at
$3,200,000,000 Reinvestments during the;
first six months of 1961 are estimated at
$7,000,000,000, bringing totai investment
acquisitions for the first half of the year
to. $10,200,000,000. This increase in assets
brought the 1961 six month aggregate to
an estimated $122,950,000,000, about $6,-
600,000,000 more than the nňd-year 1960
totai.
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State Talent Contest
GF ALL SEVEN DISTRICTS
WILL BE ÍIEiLD AT LODGE PRAHA
NO. 29, TAYLOR, TEXAS
SEPTEMBER 24, 1961
More cleíails íorthcoming from our
Supreme Lodge, soon!
When we received tihe letter from sis-
ter Wallace Bartek of Temple with en-
closed picture, we found that in writing
up the picture, in our issue of the Věst-
ník, we made an error in identifying
those shown.
Had the .description been sent along
with the pictures, your Editor would
háve not had to grope in the dark to
write up the gala Queeiťs Coronation in
District Two.
Again, reading from left to right, Kýle
Kacir, escort to Princess Don,na Kacir;
Bister Clara Hejl; Brother Donald
Groneck escort to Sister Dorothy Mae
Zurovetz, the new District Queen.
The correction was sent in by Sister
Wallace Bartek, Youth Director of Lodge
87 of Temple, Texas.
Thanks for calling this error to our
attention.
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Fratemal Congress
The Texas Fraternal Congress will
be held this fall on Oetober 26-28 at the
Texas Hotel in Fort Worth, Texas.
All of our Lodges that wish to attend
are invited and will be welcomed.
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Princess Balí At
Elm Mott
The Princess Balí held last Sunday at
Lodge 66 Waco was a deciseive success.
411 the princesses and their escorts were
admirable and they presented a beauti-
ful sight to behold. — T'he queen of
Lodge 66 selected for 1961-62 is Miss
Engelke and in our next issue we will
bring you a more detailed report of this
event and, probably háve sorae pictures
to present to our readers. If you missed
this eelebration you missed a lot.
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He who. practices economy in timeg v-
prosperity has no íears of adversity.
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An excellent way to classify people is
to observe what they laugh at.
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