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ALASKA

Residents receive dividend checks

JUNEAU -- Permanent Fund dividend checks were scheduled to be deposited yesterday in the bank accounts of Alaskans who selected the direct-deposit option, state officials said.

The money comes from state oil royalties and is delivered each year to Alaska residents. This year's dividend amounts to $845.76 per person. Checks will be mailed beginning Oct. 26 for all other residents.

CALIFORNIA

Former Bush home to be museum

LOS ANGELES -- A dilapidated two-bedroom house in California that once was occupied by two future U.S. presidents -- George W. Bush and his father, George Bush -- is to be made into a museum, its owner said Tuesday.

The Bush family briefly rented the house, in a working-class neighborhood of the central California town of Bakersfield, in the summer of 1949 when the 26-year-old George Bush was a salesman for an oil field equipment firm.

Republican Party consultant Mark Abernathy bought the house five years ago and plans to open a museum and reading room for children in honor of the Bushes, especially family matriarch and former first lady Barbara Bush, a long-standing champion of literacy.