Laurel outlook., 1945-08-01
Pair Pool Loans
To Build Home
First Ex-Service Couple to
Take Advantage of CT.
Bill of Rights

RICHMOND, VA.-The first ex'
service couple to buy a home with
their combined government loans
under the "G.I. Bill of Rights" are
settling down in this city to stay
with rosy dreams Of the future,
says the Chicago Tribune.
They are Herbert and Florence
Pugh, both former United States
marines, who were married last No
vember.
Now honorably discharged, they
are moving into a home of their
own, a white two-story house with
green shutters.
Taking a step which soon may be
emulated by thousands of marines,
soldiers and sailors the Pughs con-
template a regime of sensible budg-
citing so that the house, in a section
of promising land values, will be
theirs outright in time.
1--WE didn't really plan to buy a
house at first" Mrs. Pugh explains.
1--WE thought we would live in a nice
apartment and when the war was
over build somewhere.
"Then we started looking for an
apartment. There just wasn't any
thing to be found"
In desperation they took advan-
tage of their prerogatives under the
CT. Bill of Rights. Now they're glad
they did,
Two Loans Pooled.
They found that the government
would guarantee loans to each of
them up to $4,000 and that they could
obtain money under the CT. terms
with lower rates of interest. They
pooled $4,000 guaranteed by the vet
Grams administration to secure half
of an $4,000 loan from a savings and
loan association with which to buy
their house.
(The veterans administration
guarantees but does not grant the
loans, which may be obtained from
banks, private firms or individuals,
or a federal lending agency. The
veterans administration does pay
the interest on the loan for the first
year. The loans, at 4 or Az per
cent interest, are amortized over
20 years.)
Now the Pughs joyfully are ad-
dressing themselves to such consid-
erations of home ownership as
whether tuberous rooted begonias
will grow in the hot Virginia eli
mate; what kind of fertilizer to use
on the lawns, and what they ought
to hang over the mantelpiece.
Both like to read and will have
ample shelves for books on their
understanding, dogs, hunting,
decoration, art, homemaking and,
for Mrs. Pugh, works on vocational
guidance and psychology. Besides,
there's a book which Mrs. Pugh's
mother sent her-the first thing I'M
packed in the new home-on "The
Joy of Cooking"
Wife Is an Artist.
An artist who has exhibited back
home in Milwaukee, Wis, Mrs.
Pugh is devoting much study to de-
tails of walls and furnishings. With
their modest savings, which might
otherwise have had to go toward
the house, they have bought
enough furniture to start with. u
There are a living room, dining
room, and kitchen downstairs, and
2R bedrooms upstairs. The half
room is just the right size for a nurs-
cry. It will be furnished with a
crib and chest of drawers and
''readied up" for an occupant next
fall.
Adjusting back to civilian life has
been no great problem to Florence
in the marines a year, or to
her husband, a salesman, who
served a year and a half.
"When you're in the marine corps
there r just two states-dead and
reasons the ex-lady marine.
IF you're alive, well. what do you
nave tn cOmnlain aborIt2p