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Established 1878
CLARE.   MICHIGAN,   FRIDAY   MORNING,   AUGUST 22, 1947
New Series Vol. 55, No. 0
VFW SOFTBALL
TEAM EDGED OUT
IN DSST. FINALS
Regional Quarter Finals To Be
Played Here This Friday
Evening
The sub-district tournament of the
Michigan   Softball   Association   was
played at the Clare High School ath- and~~Mrs.        „ —
letic field last week, Monday through their semi final match Thursday with
Women Golfers
Champ Tourney
at Country Club
The Championship tournament for
the ladies is now in progress at the
Country Club golf course. Twenty
four women qualified Monday. Lucile Haley is low medalist with 85.
The championship flight has progressed as far as the semi finals
with Mrs. Mary Moyle defeating Mrs.
Mabel Mulder two up. Mrs. Haley
Annabel   Hampton   played
errors,
errors.
Saturday, with following results:
Monday, August 11—
Mt. Pleasant Police 0
V.F.W, Clare 7
• Mt.  Pleasant  Co-Ops  5
Schaeffers, Clare 3
Union Body, Mt. Pleasant 10,
Brown, Clare 0
Tuesday, August 12—
K of C, Clare 14
Brainard. Mt. Pleasant 5
Eagle,  Clare 4
Marathon,   Mt.   Pleasant   1
Remus   7 '
Bauers, Clare 6
Wednesday, August 13—
North Bradley 6,
V.F.W. 7
Mt.   Pleasant   Co-Ops   27
Union Body 16
Thursday,  August  14—
Nu-Way, Mt. Pleasant 2, Eagle 3
K of C 8, Remus 14
Friday, August 15, Semi Finals—
Eagle 6, Remus 1
Co-Ops 0, V.F.W. 11
Saturday, August 16, Finals—
Eagle     0  runs,    1  hit,    3
V.F.W.    5  runs,  11 hits, 2
V.F.W. Defeated For District Title
The V.F.W. softball team, winner
of the sub-district championship, was
turned back Tuesday night in their
try for the 10th district championship, when they were beaten at St.
Louis by Raleigh and Church, 8 to 7
in seven innings.
Winning their way through a tough
post season playoff schedule, the
Vets beat a Police team from Mt.
Pleasant and strong teams from
North Bradley and Eagle last week,
but bad luck caught them under-the
dim lights of the St. Louis ball park.
Team manager Ralph Ackerman
registered an immediate protest on
account of the inadequate lighting,
but the protest is not expected to ,be
allowed.
Outstanding pitching has featured
V.F.W. winning streaks this season
with "Bud" Hendershot drawing most
of the assignments. His last game
of the local league playoffs against
Eagle here Saturday night was a one
hit performance, and it climaxed a
brilliant season for the star. Homer
O'Dell has turned in some good pitch
ing for the Vets too, and good catching has been seen with Leon Stanley
and Charlie Jackson working behind
the plate
The State Regional quarter finals
will be played on the Clare High
School athletic field at 8:00 o'clock
this Friday evening, with Eagle
playing the winner of the Evart and
Reed City game of Thursday evening.
The semi finals will be played at
Evart Saturday night and the finals
there on Sunday.
the winner to meet Mrs. Moyle either
Friday or Saturday.
The handicap tournament will follow as soon as new handicaps are
established and all results will be
published next week.
SUPER MARKET TO
E OPENED HERE
IN NEAR FUTURE
Mt.
Pleasant  Firm   To  Locate
Their Eighth Store On
West Fourth St.
Tourists who are treated courteously will stop in Clare again.
FARWELL SCHOOL
OPENS WEDNESDAY
SEPTEMBER 3rd
Supt.  G.  R.  Bogan Announces
Number  of  Changes
In Faculty
The Farwell Rural Agricultural
School will begin the new school
year Wednesday, September 3rd.
The day will be used for enrollment
and distribution of books. In High
School, if time permits, classes will
meet briefly and assignments will be
made.
Tuesday, ^September 2nd, will be
used by the teachers for a teachers
meeting and in planning class schedules.
There will be several new members
on the school faculty.
Mrs. Violet Hill, of Evart, has been
engaged to teach the kindergarten.
Mrs. Hill taught at Marion last year.
Miss Ella Carpenter will teach the
first grade and part of the second.
Miss Carpenter taught in Flint last
year. Miss Carpenter needs no further  introduction   to   Farwell  folks.
Mrs. Marian Doyle will teach" the
third grade and part of the second.
Mrs. Doyle, whose home is in Mt.
Pleasant, is a "graduate of Central
Michigan Gpllege of Education and
has taught at L'Anse and Mayville. v
Mrs. Berniee Cook will be the new
fifth grade teacher. Mrs. Cook has
taught for a number of years in the
schools of Isabella county. For the
past few years Mrs. Cook has been
teaching in the Weidman school.
Miss Jean Borske, of Manistee, has
been engaged to take charge of both
the instrumental and vocal music.
Miss Borske is a graduate of Central
Michigan College of Education and
has taught at Houghton Lake and
Big Rapids. Miss Borske plans to
be married before assuming her duties
here this fall.
The new English teacher will be
Mrs. Jean Blazo, of Mt. Pleasant.
Mrs. Blaz,o graduated from Central
Michigaa College of Education with
the class of 1945. She has had considerable experience, in the field of
journalism. During her senior year
at Central she was editor of the college paper
i Continued  on Page  Twelve)
C. E. Schultz and K. W. Schultz
announced this week that they have
leased their building and adjacent
land on West Fourth St., Clare, to
Giant Super Markets, Inc., of Mt.
Pleasant, for a super market with
free parking for customers.
Giant Super Markets have had a
rapid rise in the retail food business,
opening their first store in Mt. Please
ant in August, 1941, They have
grown in^ six years to a chain of
seven stores now located in Mt. Pleasant, Alma, Midland, Big Rapids, St.
Louis, and Breckenridge. The Clare
store will make their eighth market.
Mr. L. A. Walton, president and
general manager, attributes their
success and rapid growth to the generous use of newspaper advertising
to publicize their everyday low
prices, quality merchandise and service policies offered to the public.
The  Clare store will be the most
modern in equipment and display of!
the present day and will feature free]
parking for customers. I
Giant Super Markets believe Clare
is  an aggressivo  town with  a very
bright future and they are showing,
their   confidence   in   this   future   by
placing this modern food mai-ket here, j
acording to Walton. j
The  local  store  manager has  notj
yet   been   selected. ]
The store will be opened as soon!
as   equipment   can   be   secured   and!
stock  arranged.    Further   announcements will appear ih the Sentinel.
George O. Parent
Graduates From
Notre Dame Tues.
George Omer Parent, the son of
Mr. and Mrs. .Omer Parent, of this
city, was graduated with ,a Bachelor
of Science degree in electrical engineering at the summer session
Commencement exercises held in
Washington Hall at the University of
Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, at
8:00 o'clock Tuesday evening, August 12.
George is a graduate of Clare High
School with the class of 1941 and attended Albion College two years before serving for three years in the
United States Marine Corps.
George, his v/ife and little son, who
have been making their home at
nearby Plymouth, Indiana, while he
has been studying at Notre Dame,
and spending a week's vacation with
his family here, following which they
will go to Fort Wayne, Indiana, where
he has accepted a position with General  Electric.
CHEST X-RAY UNIT
COMING TO COUNTY
FAIRJHIS YEAR
State and County Pay Expense \
of Sanatorium Treatment
When Needed
YOUNG MAN FINED
$25.00 AND COSTS FOR
DISORDERLY CONDUCT
Police    Department     Prepares
To Protect Children
, From Traffic
Rosebush Concerned By Serious
Accidents at Weidman Corner
Residents of this vicinity are con-1 drove head on into a gasoline truck
cerned about the increasingly
astounding number of highway accidents occurring in and near the
village. To date the Weidman road
corner, one mile south of Rosebush,
holds the doubtful distinction of
having the most and the worst, with
two of serious nature occurring over
the  week  end.
Some sort of conclusions may be
drawn from the fact that Mr. and
Mrs. Hugh Watson, arriving Friday
evening with their daughter and' son-
in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Archey Nichols,
from a trip of several thousand miles
across country, encountered the only
accident of their entire trip right in
their front yard as they drove in
home.
The Watson party had driven many
miles over tortuous mountain roads
where accidents might be expected to
be met with, and yet it is on a perfectly straight stretch of highway
that carelessness is able to claim its
victims.
Residents of the Weidman corner
recall many accidents of nightmarish
proportions from way back some seventeen years ago when two men lost
their lives in an accident there. One
man was fatally injured in the automobile crash and the second was run
down by the excited driver of one
of the cars involved. Later an accident claimed the life of a bride of a
few days when a honeymoon car
crashed with a county truck at the
fatal corner.
One fall two Serious accidents took
place within a few weeks of each
other, the first when a private car
during a terrific thunder storm, presenting a horrifying picture with
burning gasoline covering the roadway, the truck with its unconscious
driver trapped in the cab which was
on fire, while nearby lay the twisted
remains of the passenger car with
its driver critically hurt, bleeding and
unconscious.
A short time later the quiet of
early morning was pierced by the
frightful rending of metal, splintering
of glass and screams of the injured
as a car drove east from the Weidman road directly into a carload of
deer-hunters returning home from up
north. Car damage and personal suffering were great.
During the past year a number of
car's and trucks have run off the highway and overturned in the short
stretch between the dangerous intersection and the bridge a few rods
south.
This past week end saw the spot
living up to its reputation with the
Friday night collision followed by a'
crash on Saturday evening. The latter took on some of the color of a
movie-thriller with the driver of the
car responsible for the crash allegedly attempting a get-away west on
the Weidman road and being boldly
pursued by a passing car, apprehended
at the South school and forced to return to the scene of the crash.
The reasons for the many accidents
at this particular spot might make
interesting material for some psychologist, since the reason must be
in the driver's reactions and not due
to any highway hazard. . *
Clifford R.» Gross, of Rogers City,
who is employed in Clare, was arrested by city police at 11:30 o'clock Sunday evening and arraigned before
Justice of Peace Wm. B. Dunlop on
Monday, when he plead guilty to a
disorderly conduct charge and was
fined $25.00 and $3.35 costs.
A truck loaded with cement stalled
just south of the city limits on US-27
at 4:20 o'clock Saturday afternoon,
as it was approaching the city; Frank
Gaggero, of Columbus, Ohio, who
was driving a 1941 Chevrolet in the
same direction stopped behind the
truck;' and Webb McCall, of Mt.
Pleasant, who was also driving north
in, a Buick, crashed his car into the
rear of the Gaggero car, knocking it
across the pavement at an angle and
damaging it  to  the  extent of  $150.
Elmer J. Weinbera, of Washtenaw
county, who was driving a 1942 Olds
sedan south on McEwan St. at 11:50
o'clock Saturday morning, pulled in
to park, noticed a no parking sign,
pulled back into traffic and struck a
car being driven in the same direction by Oliver Humorickhouse, of
Omer. No one was injured and the
property damage was not great.
Gerald R. Hamilton, of Mt. Pleasant, R-l, carried a woman with an
injured foot'to his 1941 Ford, coach
which was parked near the bank on
the north side of East Fourth St. at
3:15 o'clock Monday morning and in
his haste to get the woman t6 the
hospital, backed all the way across
the street and crashed into a 1941
Chevrolet belonging to Glenn Hammond, of Midway Cafe, which was
parked on the south side.
Hamilton was issued a summons
by city police to appear before Justice
Dunlop.
A number of tickets have been issued during the past week for parking meter ordinance violations. The
meter collection on Monday totaled
$278.50.
The Police Department is painting pedestrian safety lanes . across
the intersections of McEwan Street
from State Street to First Street and
on Fifth Street. This, together Avith
the provision of new safety signs for
the protection of school children
crossing the trunklines, should be
beneficial to the school safety patrol
in protecting school children and other-pedestrians.        .
v Chest x-ray service of the Bureau
of Tuberculosis Control of the Michigan Department of health, a free tax
supported service, is being brought
into this community through the cooperation of the Michigan Department
of Health, Clare County Health Department, Clare County Fair Board
and Consumers Power Company, with
a mobile unit conducting clinics at
the Clare County Fair Grounds at
Harrison throughout this year's County Fair, September" 10th through 13th.
It is a very simple porcedure—just
like having one's picture taken. There
is no disrobing, and the whole procedure of registering and x-raying
takes about two minutes.
The service is available to all individuals over -twelve years of age
and to children below that age who
have been contacts of tuberculosis,
or bring a referral slip from their
family physician.
Number one purpose of the State
Health Department's chest x-ray program is to find early tuberculosis;
when the disease can be cured in a
sanitbrium in the shortest possible
time with the least inconvenience to
the patient and to the state, and before the individual has had a chance
to spread the disease to others.
The x-ray unit jn Clare county is
one of five operated by the Michigan
Department of Health. Four of these
use small films; small because they
are inexpensive, demand a minimum
of filing space and lend themselves
to mass productive techniques. The
unft in Clare county uses 70 mm films
(about 2% inches square.)
When abnormalty is found by the
small film x7ray, the person who has
the- abnormalty is notified by the
State Health Department. His physician and his local health department are also notified.
If the films show active tuberculosis; if they indicate the necessity
for treatment in a sanatorium, the
private physician and the local health
department make all arrangements
for the patient's entrance into the
sanatorium.
In Michigan, money is no object
in the care of the sanatorium patient. The state and the county pay
all the bills.   This is a state law.
RECOVERS FROM
ACCIDENT, DIES OF
HEART_ ATTACK
Wife of Ohio Fire Department
Lieutenant Injured In
Auto   Wreck
Lizzie Strait, 59, of Crystal, who
suffered a badly fractured wrist in
an automobile accident near the Clare
Country Club golf course August 9,
had sufficiently recovered to be scheduled for discharge Monday afternpon
of this week, but suffered a heart
attaclf at 12:30 Monday afternoon
and passed away.
Her husband, John Strait, 54, Vera
Strait, 9, and George Strait, 10, all of
Crystal, were less seriously hurt in
the accident and had been discharged
previously.
When Wm. E. Kelly, 38, of Cleveland, Ohio, a lieutenant of the Shaker
Heights Fire Department, was driving
north on US-27 seven miles north of
Harrison at 5:45 o'clock Sunday afternoon, August 10, Stella Griffith, of
Midland, who was driving south, is
reported to. have attempted to turn
into a gas station across the highway and struck the Kelly car, overturning it.
The Murphy ambulance was called
from Harrison and brought Mrs. Wm.
Kelly, 31, who was riding with her
husband, to the Clare Hospital, where
examination revealed that she was
suffering back injuries. She had
sufficiently recovered to be discharged
from the hospital last Saturday.
The Kellys were enroute to a cottage at Cheboygan when the accident
ocem'red.
Mrs. Alyce Burns, 38, of Detroit,
was brought to the Clare Hospital
Sunday, suffering sprained neck muscles sustained in an automobile accident, and was discharged Tuesday.
State Police of the Mt. Pleasant
Post were notified at 6:30 o'clock
Sunday evening that a car had overturned into the ditch four miles west
of Clare on US-10, but upon reaching
the scene of the accident found the
car deserted, ft was learned later
that the driver was apparently uninjured and had walked to Farwell.
Young People
Elect Officers
For Coming Year
The .following officers were elected
for the coming year for the Young
People's Christian Endeavor Rally
Group:
President—Bryan D. Miller, Eagle.
Vice President—Walter Kemp, Elm
Grove.
Secretary - Treasurer — Janet Bradley, Elm Grove.
Substitute Secretary - Treasurer —
Arvilla Newman, Arthur Center.
Chorister—Lawrence Rank, Eagle.
Pianist—Alma Rank, Dover.
FARM BARN AND
ICE HOUSE BURN
LASTJATURDAY
Tooley Elevator Threatened By
Rubbish Fire Sunday
Afternoon
MUCC BEAR HUNT '.
WILL BE STAGED
SEPTEMBER 15-20
Applications Must Be OK'd By
Local Club and Sent to
Secretary Gaines
The big game committee of the
Michigan United Conservation Clubs
has made some changes in its plans
for the forthcoming bear hunt, in
compliance with the new law that
prohibits possession of guns in game
area for the two weeks preceding the
opening  of  the  small  game  season,
The Clare Fire .Department wa#
kept busy the past week end, with
two rural calls on Saturday and &
city alarm on  Sunday.
At 11:30 o'clock Saturday morning
a silent alarm called the rural truck
to the Ezra Cobleigh farm one mile
south and a quarter mile west of Clare
where the firemen found the fana
barn practically burned down.
The firemen saved a doodle bug?
(tractor) that stood near the bara>
but the building itself and contents}
including eighteen ton of baled hay,
200 bushels of oats, 100 bushels ojf
corn, a bean puller, wagon- and rack*
and other barn equipment,, were completely destroyed by the fire of un»
known origin.
Firemen and neighbors attempted/
to plow a fire-break, but found the*
soil too hard, and encountered some
difficutly in saving the sun-baked
field crops on the farm by preventing
the fire from running out into the
fields.
The loss, estimated at about $3,000
is partially covered by a small amount
of insurance.
Arthur Dull  Ice House Burns-
The   Arthur'  Dulls,    whose    large*
HOME OF PRESIDENT
ULYSSES S. GRANT
OPEN. AT STATE FAIR
To   Show  Relics  of  Civil War
General and President Who
Lived in Detroit
PHINISEY SCHOOL TO
OPEN SEPTEMBER 2ND
Contrary to past custom, the Phin-
isey School, District No. 1, Vernon
township, will not open before Labor
Day this year. The opening date is
Tuesday, September 2nd.
Mrs. Ethef'<iMarshall -will return for
her fourth year as teacher of the
school.
Bathers Urged
To Close Gate
at Loon Lake
The late James McKay presented
this community with a beautiful park
site on Arnold Lake a few years ago
and this has been developed for fishing and picknicking, but the beach
is not suitable for bathing.
Many are enjoying the privilege extended by Mrs. McKay to bathe and
swim at Loon Lake and Mrs. McKay
welcomes any who desire to use the
bathing beach there, but this lake
is in the McKay pasture and cattle
are pastured there. Obviously the
gate must be kept closed for this reason and it is urgently requested that
all who bathe here cooperate by being sure the gate is closed after entering the property and also when
leaving.
Mrs. McKay does not wish to have
the gate locked and bar hathers from
the lake, but it they are not willing
to cooperate by keeping the gate
closed, she will have no other recourse, ,
Clare Bod and Gun Club
Grant House, the dwelling of Ulysses S. Grant when the Civil War General livedi in Detroit in 1849 and 1850,
will house one of the most interesting exhibits at the Michigan • State
Fair to be held August 29 through
September 7. Thruogh the cooperation of the Detroit Historical Society,
the house is being furnished in the
period of Grant's time and will be
open to inspection from 10:00 a. m. to
10:00 p. m. daily during the Fair.
Miss Marion Hrebek, museum assistant, who is in charge of selecting
and installing the furnishings as well
as a number of authentic Grant relics,
plans to follow the 1849 period' in the
bedroom and the later Grant Presidential period in the furnishing of the
living room. A bed that Grant slept
in will be on display as well as an
old chest, a chest of drawers, Grant's
razor and his cuspidor.
Members of Detroit's women's clubs
will be hostesses and supply information to visitors. There is no admittance fee.
Grant House, formerly situated at
1369 B. Fort street, was purchased by
the Michigan Mutual Liability Co,, in
1936 and presented to the State of
Michigan as a museum. It was moved
to the Fairgrounds to become a permanent museum.
and to fit in with the plans of "Hack"
Smithdeal, of Tennessee, to bring his j barn was destroyed by fire last year;.
bear hounds here.
The bear hunt will be held on September'15th to 20th, the six days to
be arranged for three periods of two
days each, 15 and 16, 17 and 18, 19
and 20. Only members of clubs affiliated with MUCC, with 1947 dues paid,
will be eligible to send in applications
to hunt.
Applications may include two persons on each application, thus permitting two hunting partners to participate and travel together, or one
member may hunt alone if he prefers
to.
Applications should be sent to Harry R. Gaines, Secretary, Michigan
United Conservation Clubs, 34 Dickinson St., S.W., Grand Rapids 7, Mich.,
and must bear the OK and signature
of the president or 'secretary of the
local clubs to certify that the applicant is a member of the local club.
Applications must reach this office by
midnight of Tuesday, September 2,
to participate in the drawing of
names at 8:00 o'clock Wednesday
evening, September 3, at the office of
Secretary Gaines in Grand Rapids.
The drawing will be supervised by
disinterested persons and officers and
members of MUCC-afflliated clubs are
invited to be present.
Fifty names, including doubles or
singles, will be drawn for each of
the two day hunt periods, with ten
extra alternate names drawn for each
period, as a maximum of fifty hunters
for each hunt has been determined
by the committee.
Each applicant agrees to accept
any one of the two day periods he is
drawn on and to send a $10.00 fee
within forty-eight hours of the time
he is notified that he has been drawn
however the fee is not to be sent
with the application.
Interested local members may secure additional information concerning the hunt from Henry Doll or at
the Sentinel office.
Fractures Arm
at Swimming Pool
Monday Afternoon
The Tobacco River swimming pool,
a very popular place during this
week of extreme temperature and
high humidity when a thermometer
at the G. O. Fullerton & Son Garage
registered i06 in the shade on Monday, reports its first accident of the
season this week.,
Landis Ruark, ten year old son of
Mr. and Mrs. David J. Ruark, of 104%
East State St., slipped on the diving
board Monday afternoon, striking on
his left arm and fracturing it.
He was taken to the offices of Dr.
K. Hammerberg, where the fracture
was reduced, and then taken to the
Clare Hospital for x-ray, before returning to his home, where he is recovering nicely and as patiently as
can be expected 6f an active boy.
suffered their second fire loss whefl
the ice house was burned to the
ground and pumphouse was damaged
by fire at their farm two miles east
of the Elm Grove store Saturday,
The rural fire truck was called tCf
the Dull farm at 12:45 Saturday afternoon, where the ice house fire was
beyond control and the pump house inflames when they arrived.
The fire of unknown orfgfnv w$icli?
caught in the dry sawdust of the ice
house, was throwing wind-blow**
sparks toward the house, but the fire--
men were able to keep the latter
building from catching afire.  ■
The loss, estimated at $150, vra>g->
covered by insurance.
Fir.e Threatens Elevator
It is thought that cinders froTflf £?
passing, train' ignited grass, rubbisB
and railroad ties lying between the-'
Consumers Power Company sub-sta--
tion and the Tooley Bean & Graiw
Company elevator here at 1:25 o'cloclf
Sunday  afternoon.
Although there was n6 property
damage by the fire, flames were5
running within six feet of the tinder1'
dry elevator "buildings when th*1
blaze was brought under control.
This was an unusually dangerous*
fire to fight because of the fact that1
if the firemen had permitted a stream■*
of water to touch the high voltagp.*
electric power lines to and from the"
sub-station, their lives would hav*-'*
been   endangered.
The new fire truck, with its high/'
pressure pumper, proved invaluable
in fighting this fire and when used'
in combination with the other two'
pumper trucks, provides the city with*
fire fighting equipment that has bee»>
favorably commented upon. .
PUBLIC DANCE-    ■"""
Dance   every   Saturday  night   «t«
Brinton town hall.   Wallings orchestra. Earl  Blodgett,   Mgr.        37tS
Business Loans Available to
Veterans of World War II
Veterans Administration today answers the 10 questions most frequently
asked by World War II veterans about
G. I. Business loans.
The questions were asked in a survey that VA conducted recently to
learn how much the veterans know
about their Federal benefits. The
questions and answers follow:
Q. How does a veteran go about
getting a loan for business purposes?
A. As in the case of home loans, he
first must find a bank or other private
lender willing to advance him the money.
Q. How much of a business loan
made by a lender will VA guaranty?
A. VA will guaranty* 50 percent of
the loan up to a maximum of $4,000
if the loan is for the purchase of business real property, and up to $2,000
for non-real estate business loans,
such as for working capital.    -
Q. Can the veteran get a guaranteed loan for any type of business.
A. If the lender is willing, the loan
may be used for any legitimate business purpose. !
Q. Is there any limit to the duration
of a business, loan?
A. Non-real estate business loans
are repayable in 10 years or less; real
estate loans may run up to 25 years.
Q. Can a veteran enter into business with non-veterans and obtain a
guaranteed loan?
A. Yes, provided the interest of the
veteran is properly protected,, but the
guarantee must be limited to the veteran's portion of the business.
Q. Doesn't the veteran also get it-
gratuity payment of some kind?
A. Yes. VA pays the lender, fiar
credit to the veteran's loan, an amotmlt'
equal to 4 percent of the guaranteed
portion of the loan. For example, SS"
the guaranteed, portion is $3,000, ibtP
lender will receive $120 from VA tar*
credit to the debt of the veteran.
Q.   What interest, rates are lendere"
permitted to charge on business loans?'
A.   In most cases, 4 percent Is tb«F*
maximum.   However, the interest-i»S@
may  be  slightly  higher  for  certain *
types of insured business loans.
Q.   Must the veteran be experienced^
in the line of business he proposes if*
enter?
A.   Experience is an important &&-'
ment in the success of the average)  '
business.   The veteran should be uMtf'
to show & reasonable expectation oS "
success in his venture.
Q. Can a veteran get a- G. I. business loan to buy a pleasure car «r
furniture for his home?
A.   No.   The loan must be BSwdLlyr *
the veteran for business purposes OtiSy*
Q.    Does a veteran   have t* ©per-' "
ate the business himself?
A.    Yes, the veteran must derote
his personal labir or supervision 4*» 1
th* enterprise, or to the practice off**-'
profession,   On   a   full   or   parfetigM£*-*
basis.