KNOW Yffllß SOCIAL SECURITY
P. E. Bettendorf, representative of the Social Security Ad
| ministration, is in Edenton every Thursday at the North Caro,
line Employment Security Commission in Cilixens Bank
Question: Do I have to sell my
farm in order to get social securi
ty benefits at age 65?
Answer: No, a farmer may
have net earnings from his busi
ness up to $1,200.00 in a year and
still receive social security bene
fit payments for each month of
the year. If the net earnings ex
ceed $1,200.00 he may lose one or
more checks. If he works every
month in the year and has net
earnings of over $2,808.00, no
checks would be payable.
Question: I am no longer able
to operate my farm but I don’t
want to move off the farm. Could
I rent my farm and still draw
social security benefits?
( Answer: The~sl,2oo.oo limita
tion on earnings after retirement
does ndt include income received
from rent or investment income
such as interest and stock divi
dends. However, tie extent to
which a landlord participates in
the production on the farm might
affect his benefit payments. For
further information contact your
local social security office.
Question: If I never retire
from operating my farm, how will
I ever receive any social securi
ty benefits?
Answer: The law provides for
payment of benefits at age 72,
whether you retire or not and re
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Washington—A major question
being asked in Washington as the
new session of Congress nears is:
“Will Congress enact remedial la
. bor legislation, or will it,.be in
timidated by the labor bosses?’’
A clue to the answer may be
found in a statement by Rep. Les
lie - C. Arends (R.-Ill.), minority
whip of the House. In a recent
speech he said:
“Nothing will be done unless
public opinion continues to mount
as a result of the McClellan Com
mittee hearings, for. corrective
legislation to deal .effectively with
the shocking evils disclosed at the
expense of the working man him
self. u
“At the present time, neither
the courts nor the executive
branch have effective weapons to
deal with concentrated union mo
nopoly power.”
Mr. Arends says the McClellan
Committee has focused public at
tention pn the need for remedial
labor-management legislation. He
implies that Congress may consid
er much more seriously the rec
ommendations of the McClellan j
Committee—as a result of its dis
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gardless of the amount of your
earnings. This provision was
placed in the law so that per
sons who delayed retirement
could receive some benefit from
their social security tax contribu
tions.
Question: Each year I make a
profit of about $1,500.00 from my
farm. I don’t expect to retire.
Should I file for social security
benefits?
Answer: If you have reached
age 65, you should contact your
social security office. Even
though you do not retire you may
be able to receive benefits for
some months of the year. Some
payments may be made if your
earnings for a year are between
$1,200.00 and $2,080.00.
Question: Both my wife and I
are over 65. If I continue to op
erate my farm, i s it possible for
my wife to draw benefits?
Answer: Probably not, since
benefits are not payable to a wife
or dependent children for any
month for which the insured per
son is not eligible for benefit pay
ments. If your earnings permit
you to receive some monthly
benefits, your wife could also col
lect for those months. She can
not be paid wife’s benefits for any
months you are not eligible for
benefits.
closures of hoodlumism, graft and
monopoly in the trade union
movement—than the recommen
dations of Secretary of Labor
Mitchell.
With regard to the McClellan
Committee, he adds: “It will,
however, amount to nothing more
than a recommendation unless
there is sufficient public opinion
NOTICE!
, This is to notify the shareholders
of the Edenton Building and Loan
Association that the annual Share
holders’ meeting will be held on
Monday evening, February 3rd, 1958
at 8:00 o’clock in the Court House in,
Edenton, N. C.
R. E. Leary, Secretary
THE CHOWAN HERALD. EDENTON, NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. JANUARY 23, 1958.
pressure brought to bear for leg
islative action.”
Thus, it appears that the busi
nessmen of the country—and rank
and file citizens generally—must
make emphatic demands upon
Congress in order to be assured
of proper remedial labor legisla
tion. Unless this is done—much
as the rank-and-file voters last
winter demanded government
economy—it is probable that the
work of the McClellan Committee
will be largely lost.
Secretary of Labor Mitchell un
folded to the AFL-CIO what he
said is the Eisenhower program.
It is not at all certain that Con
gress will be deeply impressed.
The program (generally refer
red to as the Mitchell program in
stead of the Eisenhower program)
was developed with the apparent
idea of obtaining legislation to
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meet some of the evils disclosed
by the McClellan Committee.
it does not go far
enough to really meet, the issue
of labor monopoly.
In this situation, it is quite
probable that Congress will neith
er be guided by the Eisenhower
recomrpendations nor by any pro
posals, on a partisan basis, ~ of
either the Republican or Demo
cratic leadership. Instead, it is
quite possible that a northern Re
publican-southern Democratic co
alition may be forged to attempt
to cure some of the glaring evils
of union monopoly.
It is true that some proposals
in the Mitchell program would be
approved by industry and by oth
ers as an attempt to ameliorate
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some of the hoodlumism rampant
in big labor unions. But on the
other hand, the program shies,
away from proposals to make la
bor unions subject to the antitrust
laws and to give individual em
ployees freedom by prohibiting
compulsory union membership. In
any event, it is expected that the
fight over labor legislation will
continue for several months in
the new session of Congress.
The Administration program, as
announced by Secretary Mitchell,
is much less comprehensive than
some Congressional leaders think
is necessary. Efforts will be made
to obtain modifications in the pro
gram.
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strong stand against compulsory
unionism. He cited the late AFL
President Samuel Gompers, who
advocated .voluntary unionism
and opposed compulsory union
ism.
Some McClellan Committee
members, notably Senators Gold
water, Mundt and Curtis, have de
manded—and have been promised
—an investigation of Walter Reu
ther’s United Automobile Work
ers.
In particular these Senators
have urged inquiry into the hood
lumism and boycotting activities
of the Reuther union in the long
Kohler strike.
Investigators recently began
making some inquiries into the
UAW. Immediately they were at
tacked by union officials—after a ]
committee investigator said he
was astounded by some things un-!
covered in the auto workers un-j
ion.
Ernest Lane Dies
Suddenly Sunday
William Ernest Lane, 42, died
suddenly from a heart attack at
his home on Oakum Street Sun
day afternoon. A native of Cho
wan County, he was employed at
M. G. Brown Company.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Pauline Lane; his mother, Mrs.
Ethel Lane; two sons, William Er
nest Lane, Jr., and Robert L.
Lane, both at home; a daughter,
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! Marion Ethel Lane, at home; two
[ George R. Lane and
j Paulett Lane, both of Edenton; a
I sister, Mrs. Louis Craddock of
| Edenton.
He was a t member of the Eden
ton Baptist Church. Services
were held at the Williford Fun
eral Home Tuesday afternoon at 2
o’clock. The Rev. James McKen
zie, pastor of the Presbyterian
Church, officiated and burial was
! in Beaver Hill Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Percy Dail, J.
I P. Partin, Henry Quinn, Ralph
Parrish, Leroy Haskett and Lloyd
Burton. Jr.
If one hears bad music it is
one’s duty to drown it by one’s
, conservation. —Oscar Wilde.