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Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 to: SPJST Home Office, P. O. Box 100, Temple, Texas 76503
VOLUME 89 NUMBER 23
June 6, 2001
ISSN-07458800
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Important SPJST Dates June 13 June 14 June 16 June 22 June 23 June 27 July . 1; July 15 July 17-19 August 4 August 18 Sept. 14-15 October 27 October 28
Just as America is no ordinary nation, her flag is no ordinary piece of cloth. The United States observes Rag Day on Thursday, June 14. SPJST invites you to participate in its annual Flag Raising Ceremony,Thursday, June 14 at 9 a.m. at the SPJST Home Office in Temple. See page 9 for related Flag Day feature.
SPJST Home Office to host Flag Day tribute In a one-room schoolhouse near Fredonia,Wisconsin, a miniature American Flag standing in a bottle had a place of honor on teacher Bernard Cigrand's desk. It might have been the sight of that flag — always before him — that convinced Cigrand a day should be set aside to observe the American Flag. It might have been the still-fresh wounds of the Civil War, which 20 years earlier left the nation badly divided and in need of something under which the United States could unite once more. Or it might have been that Cigrand's parents, who had emigrated from Luxembourg, taught their son that the American Flag symbolized opportunity and a freedom unlike any the world had ever seen. Whatever it was that inspired him to lead his class in observing "Flag Birthday" on June 14, 1885 — the 108th anniversary of the official adoption of the Stars and Stripes — Cigrand managed to put something incredible in motion that day. He began a quest to give the American flag a day of its own — a quest that ended for Cigrand when President Woodrow Wilson established Flag Day by proclamation May 16, 1930. In 1949, President Harry S. Truman who took the final step in inscribing
Flag Day, on the nation's collective conscience, when he signed an act of Congress making June 14th the one day every year when the American Flag would receive her due. You're Invited The SPJST invites all members and friends to join in paying tribute to the flag at the Flag Raising Ceremony -- rain or shine --- on Thursday, June 14 at 9 a.m. in front of the SPJST Home Office at 520 North Main Street in Temple. Activities will include a presentation of colors by Temple Police Honor Guard, a presentation by County Attorney Rick Miller, patriotic songs led by KCENTV news anchor Lisa Heitman, and the reading of the winning SPJST Youth Flag Day Essay. Kolaches and coffee will follow the ceremony in the SPJST Home Office. —SPJST-
Lodge 32, Victoria Member Social Flag Day Ceremony at SPJST Home Office Join Hands Day Member Appreciation Dinner hosted by Lodge 97, Placedo Lodge 1. Fayetteville/Fayette County CHS Picnic No Vestnik Published Lodge 9, Snook Family Day. Lodge 51, Ellinger Annual Picnic Supreme Lodge Meeting at SPJST Home Office, Temple State Youth Achievement Day/Royalty at Mayborn Center in Temple Lodge 84, Dallas Princess Ball District Six Barbecue Cook-Off Make a Difference Day District Six Fall Meeting at Lodge 40, El Campo-Hillje
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SPJST Mortgage Interest Rates Rates subject to change without notice
• Universal Life 7.25% for Annualized*
Roth IRA
Home or Farm Mortgages:
6.50% for Annualized*
6.75% for 1 to 7 years 6.75% for 8 to 15 years 7.00% for 16 to 20 years 7.25% for 21 to 30 years
Annuity II
Qualified Business Real Estate Mortgages 8.00% for 10 years 8.25°/0 fOr 11 to 15 years
6.50% for Annualized* Certificates issued 4-1-93 and after
Annuity I 5.50% for Annualized* Certificates issued prior to 4-1-93 *Rates effective 5-1-2001 through 7-31-2001