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Sun Life lips
A higher dividuid scale which for the fifth consecutive year will again reduce the cost of life insurance for the holders of two million Sun mo of (Jan- ada policies. is announced by George W. Bourke. President. in his Annual Review of the Company's business for 1053. Dividends to policyholders dur- in; IBM will amount to :24 U1 lnillion. HG. more than in IBM and an increase of more than 505 over the last five yesrs. Most policyholders carrying participating plans with the Company will benefit by this inrreeee. with the largest pay- ments being distributed in re- upset of policies longest In force. New life insurance is- sued during the year amount- ed to I.'i'ld.B4tI,O00. an increase
the largest. amount for the year of any (lnnadian life company. New Group insiiranre inrludetl in the shove figure amounts to 8170 million. an increase of more than 55 million over the previous year. This rising vol- ume of husinn-: uas spread i rivrr uorld-uitlr territoiy in the neai'l)' Till rountiies rovercti by Sun Life servir-e.
In his stirrer of the figures for the year. Mr. ments on the manner in which life insiiraricc me.-rt: the re- sponsibilities of its piirposc The Sun Life of Cniiada. he said. has paid S'2.T29.(lO0.(l00 ill benefits since the first policy was issued in H171. and durinz 1953 no less than half a million dollars was iiald out by the
Fomnanv car-li wnrklns dn.l'. Totel amount paid during the i two-lic month pcrinri was M25 057.000. I F-Ri)l'P RIHEINICSS I'l' l7'; New anniiity i-oiilrrwis dur- ing the year iiicluuled lnrllriduai annuities and group pensions truaranfeeiiir nxtymcnts of more than 54 million per nnnum. Total annuity payments to he made lw the Foninany Ivnmedlaielv or In the future. throlwh Izrnnp pension plaiia and invlivliliiiil contracts. in- creased to Sl".G million per an- nu.m. Total Sun Life insurance
in force at the anal nt 1953 amounted to .t.'s.a7a.ooo.0oo. Group Insurance Incliuierl in
9 this figure is .st.1.iI.noo.ooo. an i increase of IT';. The growth i of Group insuri-iii-e and pension nil-as reflects the business anti industrial expaiinlon of recent years during which time tho Fomnnny. a pioneer in this form of Insurance. has retnliio-II a leading nnsiiinn. protecting many IIIlIIfIl't'Iil of thousnnvls of cmnlovees of business and imiiistrliil nrsaiiizationu thrnuthollt North America. The loial amniiiii nf life in- surance and aiinuiiies in force
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er at the home or his father-im law when two supporting wires -rapped.
of MI million over IBM. and?
Rourke com-.
either .
Policyholder
Dividends to S24v2-Million 5
Continues to sell more life insurance than any other Canadian company - 3516 million new business written in '53.
in the various countries in which the Sun Life operates is now: Canads. or 45d of the total: United States. l s2.o2&5a1.oona El: G r e at Britain an other Common- wealth Countries. 81.169.339.000 (1695); elsewhere throughout 'the world. s215.0l5.000 (Mm. Total assets of the Company ism-nod si.s2e,1eo.ooo at the lyear and. being an increase of iii? million during the twelve- month period. These assets. carefully invested and well di- versified. are made up of: i Bonds - Government. Provincial and Municipal. !8.'l'IFa: Bonds- Publlc Utiliizy. Industrial, ete.. 4l.6'k-: Preferred and Common , Stocks il.0',6; Mortgages l4.l'H 1 ifash and Miscellaneous. 9.31.. The interest rate earned on the p Company's funds during 1953 was 3.9034. as compared with 3.84',Iz in the previous year, an increase for the fifth consecu- tive year.
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LIFE INSI'RAN('l'2 AIDS HOMZE BUILDING
During 1953, the Sun Life hnnd invcstnienl was increased by more than 552 million, main- ly in the industrial and public utility fields. The amount of .mortgage loans r-xpantled by al- most, 530 million iiinking a iOii'li mortgage investment of S262.960.000. Of this amount S176 million is imested in -ii.- TOI) home iiinrlgages. During this last. eirlit yniirs, the Sun Life has loaned 5115 millinn on niortg:-igcs. l
Discussing the function of life insurance as reflected in the continued progress of the Sun Life. Sir. Bourke mention- ed that life insurance ownership imltiy is more widespread, and im a larger scale. than over l heiore. iianutllnns now own iiinre than 320 billions of life. insurance. more than double. the amount at the end of World War II. However. the amount per caplta is not yet sufficient to give fully adequate and I iiccs-uiiry protection. and there. is still grent need for the av- rrnge family in own a larger amount of life insurance. "Time. has proven that it. is only through life insurance that the majority of individuals can meet the problems which (loath mid old age create. in loss of income." summed up Nlr. Bourke. "There is no substi- tute for life lnsurancc."
A copy of Sun Life”: com- plr-tr 195.? Annual Report to Priliigiliolds-rs. int-hiding the ' President's review of the year. is being sent to each policy- il0idI'l'. or iiniy hc obtained i from H. Flnnnell (iarr. .l. .-l. l Vioorr. .l. A. Risrlniiis or Mrs. l)rll'0iil)' Rogers. l.rii-al Repre- scnlaiiies. Charlottetown; R. C. Shea.
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AI'SSIl'I E.lIPI.OI'MF.NT
CA.N'Rl'IRRA. tCPi Harold Holt. Ailiil"rlilill'l labor minister, reported the number being paid iineinplrii- l7lPrli benefits dropped from 42.- 000 in l.'l.0(l0 at line I-nd of last )0-at". At the same time 37.000 job
varaiicieii were listed. Develop- ment proiecls siiggesi a bigger demand for labor this year, he -said.
Dark Lightning
Helen Topping Miller
Synopsis
Gary Tlllllln, young petro- leum engineer from Alabama. misses his bus in Texas and Mona Mason. wife of a cattle rancher. gives him a lift. Gary is injured when her car crashes in a ditch and the Masons nurse him back to health. He falls in love with twenty- one-year-old Adelaide but. un- willing to propose until he has a Joli. Gary plans to leave for Mexico. Meanwhile oil is indicated on the Mason land. Mr. Mason's older daughter Grace, and her husband. Oli- ver Kimball try to discourage Harvey Mason. but he decides to drill and asks Gary to re- main and help him.
OI-IAPIER. XII tcontinued) Gary got up quickly. "Of course.
Is someone sick?”
Mona Lee hesitated. looking worried and unhappy. "No I guess it's just. one of Oliver's sprees. Grace was crying. and she said she had to talk to me and Oliver had left. the car in town, so I told ilPI' I'd come."
They locked all the doors and left the key in the asparagus- terii box for Adelaide. and Gary held the flashlight while Mona Lee backed the car out of the garage.
The Kimball house was a new. smart white bungalow on the edge of the little town and. as they drove in, every window was lighted.
"Oliver's not home," Mona Lee said. "Grace is scared when shes alone and she turns on every light. You wait here. Gary, till I find out what she wants to talk about. You can turn on the radio -- I guess it works."
A lighted door opened and she filS2i.DD92ll'9d inside, so Gary lean- ctl bark and siiappod buttons and tried to interest himself in 9. dance band and ilien in a news blond- cast, but he listened with only a fraction of his mind. The rest of it was off, following Adelaide - wondering what that fellow who owned the red roadster was saying to her, uondcring if they were daiiciiig - and Adelaide's gold eye-lashes lifted as she laughed up into the other man's face?
And then that door opened a- gain and Mona Lee came out and came. around to her seat, getting in beside him without a word. Gary did not ask questions. and iii: silence lasted till they were almost back at the ranch. Then Mons Lcc slowed the car and drew a decp. weary breath and sighed patiently.
"When they're little,” she said. "you keep thinking that your troubles illil be over when they grow up and stop eating all kinds 01 things and falling out of brats and having diseases and teeth straightened and tonsils and all that. And then they grow up and you think now maybe you can re- lax a little - and then it's the same thing. except that now you're old-fashioned and they don't. want to listen. And the things that happen to them are worse.
"Harvey says I talk to every- body too much about my family, but. Grace and Oliver have had some sort of at tight. -- and she says it's about her father's oil well. but she doesn't dare tell me what it is. And Oliver's gone off
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to corpus Christi and left. the car in town - and never was said good-byto her or left her an! Emmy. or anything."
Gsry aid. "Too bad to warn you like this. and then not Mil you what it's all about. so you can help."
"I tried to make Grace come home with me. But. she said her father would worm it out of her - and then bed be mad at Oliver. and of course she'd have to take up for Oliver. 1 uked her what sivs called ms down here for. any- way. and she said she just had to cry on somebody. Maybe it's something that will keep Harvey from drilling that well. It's all s gunible anyway - and Just talking about it hasn't. been good for any of us. Harvey Junior psyo lng two thousand dollars for a osr-- and his father letting him do it, and Adelaide making all kinds of crazy plans as if her father were A millionaire already."
"They'll settle down." Gary tried to be comforting. "I wouldn't. worry too much."
CI-IAPTQ. XIII
Harvey Mason. went off to Aus- tin. looking strange and dressed up in his Sunday clothes. his sadidle-colored face very dark s- bove ii shining white collar. He had fumed because Mons. Lee forbade him to wear his boots or his big cowmarrs hat.
"If you're going to be an oil man you'd better look like one." stated Mona Lee firmly, "and not like some old cow wadcly. I lup- pose you'd like to wear a couple of six-gunagon your belt?"
"wouldnt be such a bad idea. when I get turned loose. among all those polit.lcliuis," grinned Har- vcy. ”Send a man down there all helpless and afoot and it's like sending ll. yearling calf into a lionsl den. But I'm gonna get me a drilling permit if I got to knock that brass dome plumb off the capital building. You keep Gary on the job. He's got a lot of good hard sense for a young man. I wish-"
"You wish I had a lot of good hard sense? Was that what you're too -polite to say?”
"No, it wasn't. I wasn't think- ing about you at all. I was think- ing about Adelaide-and Junior," she added after a fractional pause. "I was hoping we wouldn't ever be sorry about any of this."
"Well. if I leave my kids well fixed, I've done my part."
”You haven't done your part un- less you raise them to have sense enough to take care of money after you make it.” said Mona Lee tersely. ,
"Well, tihatls partly your job. Mother. You could get busy on Addie, for a start. Buying three hate e- when she can't. wear but one at a time!"
"How many hats have you got.
pray tell? A big one hanging on every hook in the house - and every last one of them costing thirty dollars or more!" ,"I'm out in the weather. I need em. Addie buys a whole herd of haul and then goes tearing around bareheaded. Thatis another thing - the way she bats that car a- round-"
"Oh, for goodnese' sake, Harvey, go on to Austin! And I'll bet you drive seventy-five miles an hour every inch of the way."
"You see - I told you- I dont get any co-operation. Every time I try to make these kids do right, you've got some kind of a come- back about me."
(Continued)
HISTORIC ANCHORAGE
Plimouth sound, an arm of the
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of 4.500 acres.
Scientists Hope To Unlock Gate "W! "MII"WI""t
To New Era In Medical History
by Alton L llalissles
NEW YORK. (AP) -L science is at the gateway to s new era of medicine-giving you new spare parts for old. much like you now fix your automobile.
It would mean you could get a now. living kidney. lung. heart. or teeth. skin and glands to replace your own sick. damaged or last
ones. Or perhaps even I new arm or leg. or brain. The door to this era in still
tightly locked by a secret law of nature This law says you will destroy any living tlspus trans- planted into your body from an- other human. or an animal.
But, to an observer, there are iltns that the law may be re- and the key found to open
One sign is the fact that some transplants already exist. You can get new blood, new pieces of bone and artery. new corneas or windows for the eye. There are banks for all of these. and new improvements in banking these spare parts to repalriotlier hu- mans.
Just beyond in the old dream of skin banks. skin to save the badly burned. Or a new kidney or lung or gland to save life and restore health.
Nature's Barrier
But it is here that nature has put up the barrier.
For there is a peculiar differ- ence between your tissues and the tissues of anyone else. except perhaps an identical twin.
This unknown factor leads to a reaction between your body and the borrowed tissue. Your body begins to destroy and absorb the foreign material.
Actually the borrowed parts which can be given to you now do not stay alive in your body. you replace the borrowed blood cells. Your body grows new bone or artery or rornea tissue to re- place much of the borrowed tis- sue. Borrowed hones or arteries act as a scaffold for regrowth of your own tissue. The sanie thing happens when small lengths of nerves are transplanted from one body to another.
A piece of artery or bone or skin can be taken from one part of your own body, and substitut-
ed elsewhere in your body. and live. Skin from someone else will act as a temporary protective
cover. but then it slough: away. destroyed by the unknown reac- tion. Skin from one identical twin can be given to the other twin, because they are so alike.
”X" Factor
Does this mean that transplant- lng living spare. organs is a hope- less dream? Some scientists and doctors may say yes. But others say it may not always be impos-
sible. and that is another hope- ful sign. Their view is that the real
difficulty is simply iilllorance--not enough is yet known about this "X" factor and how to overcome
Blood transfusions failed over hundreds of years. until scien- tists discovered there are blood types, and that blood types must
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Are your iointa and muscles stiff and painful? Do you seem to ”ache allover." because of Rheumatic. Anhritic or Neuridc In? Get quick relief with T-R-C's. 'sed and endorsed by thou-
sands for relief of these pains; also Luiabago and Neurslgia. Ask for T-R-C-'s. 65c. tl..l5 at drug couaters.l-us
In St. John's, Nfld.
here says more workers are idle
:i:”niatched to make transfusions "W mm M. um” n-mm 1”
Can the "X" factor be solved. About ll.Mi people are e I
and controlled? Here and abroad. th0 I!!! RN00 M W0 3 -70535
brilliant scientist: and pn,nlclsn: office. 'l1'ii.v does not include any
". loom" go, .w..-.. of the wset oosat towns. The figure
is 8,100 more than s n-ionli 880.
The conger eel varies in length The st. John's office has an in-
from three feet. to as much as 10 sui-able population of about 50.- 000. .
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