Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-06-22
$12O,OOOOF BONUS
BONDS PASSED HERE
312 Veterans Ask for Cash
on Payments; Little
Money Received Yet

While very few checks have been
returned 10 veterans, total Of $780,
coo Of bonus bonds had been certifide
and sent in to the district paying of
flee at Raleigh for 312 veterans in
this county at the end of last week,
which marked completion of five days
of certifying the baby bonds for pay
ment at the Henderson post office
Tuesday, the first day the certifi-
Gates were identified and passed, saw
by far the largest busoiness transac-
tons of any single day of the five
More than 1000 bonds for an aggre-
gate of around SCI, 100 for 152 veter-
ans were identified, receipted for and
certified for payment and forwarded
to the Raleigh paying office.
On Wednesday bonds were handled
for 76 veterans, or exactly half the
number on the first day, and on
Thursday the figure dropped to 81,
then to 26 on Friday and Fl on Sat-
urday.
At the post office, Postmaster J. r.
league said today few returning
checks had been observed in the
mails, although large consignmcnts Of
them are looked for daily. Announce
ment came from Raleigh over the
weekend that checks had been mail
ed to 5000 veterans for approximate
ly $2,625,000 in the 50 Eastern North
Carolina counties served by that Of
flee. 1t was stated, too, that every
thing human ingenuity can think Of
to get these checks out" as fast as
possible was being done. Forty extra
workers are engaged in the task.
How the bonds are put through the
paying mill at the Raleigh office
was told by H. M. Rhodes, Raleigh,
assistant postmaster, who is in
charge of the work there. Here his
his statement:
after certification, the bonds are
sent to another room on the second
floor, where they are checked against
the duplicate receipt. We have five
or six temporary employees in this
section in charge of a regular en-
ployee Bonds coming in from other
offices are also sent to this section,
where they are checked against the
transmittal letter (sent by the post
master receiving the bonds), and any
errors or omissions noted on the
transmittal letter in red pencil.
"They are then sent to the receiv-
ing unit, where the receipts are is
sued and incorrectly certified bonds
returned to the renting postmasters.
We also find it necessary to write a
good many letters to postmasters
about minor irregularities in listing
the bonds on the proper transmittal
forms, etc. This unit is in charge of
two regular employees.
"The tonds are then sent to what
we call the lookup unit-that is, a
section where the bonds are gone
through and checked against the list
sent out from Washington and GER
tain numbers.
From here, they are sent to the
numbering section, where the num-
Der of the check to be issued is
stamped on the transmittal letter, or
the duplicate copy of the interim re-
celpt, as the case may be, and also
on the back of the bonds.
They then go to the check-writing
unit, where the check is issued, and
attached to the bonds of the indivi-
dual veteran to whom the check is
payable.
From this point on, they are given
to another crew, who checks the a.
mount of the check against the total
number of the bonds of the indivi-
dual veteran, and also completes the
payment record on the reverse side
of the bond.
1.-The checks are then held until the
end of the day when an adding ma
chine total is made, and this is check
ed against an actual count of the
bonds, after which the bonds are list
ed for transmittal to the Treasury
Department"