PH F'; SECTION THREE KNOW YOUR 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 Citizens Bank Building. Some important changes have been made in the old-age and sur vivors insurance program as a re sult of the Social Security Amendments of 1958 which Pres ident Eisenhower signed into law on August 28, 1958. All of the changes, directly or indirectly, affect the American public as a whole. Working per sons—employed and self-employ ed—need to know about them; their families need to know about them. In the articles to follow I shall describe the changes singly and in detail. Most important, because it af fects practically all working peo ple and their families, is the in- j crease in benefit amounts. This J applies to those now getting i benefit payments and to those who will become beneficiaries in the future. Most monthly benefit FOR SALE! TWO-STORY HOME • IDEALLY LOCATED • EXCELLENT CONDITION • SIX ROOMS • TWO BATHS • LOT 80 ft. x 105 ft. REASONABLY PRICED FOR QUICK SALE! contact R. ELTON FOREHAND Phone 3314 100 W. King St. PROGRAM * ' Annual Meeting Albemarle Electric Membership Corporation ANNUAL MEMBERS MEETING ► HERTFORD, N. C. September 27,1958 2:00 P. M. Meeting called to order A. T. Lane President, Board of Directors Reading of Notice of Meeting and Proof of Mailing 1 Reading of Minutes of Last Meeting Floyd Mathews Secretary, Board of Directors Report of Nominating Committee *' , Nominations from the floor * c v 1 • / Balloting .. All Co-op Members Reports: President . ; A. T. Lane Manager John D. Coston New or unfinished business r y, ’ ENTERTAINMENT... “Cousin Tibbie” and Others l Report of Election Committee Adjournment 1 ' • ... - •’* vv’*»,-iy Cl. .<• . , C. • -4 ♦ , Throughout the entertainment there will be drawings for prizes THE CHOWAN HERALD checks will be about 7 per cent higher, with a minimum increase of at least $3.00 in the amount payable to a worker who retired at age 65 or later. (Women work ers who began to receive benefits at any time between aj.2 62 and age 65 will receive slightly small er increases). The maximum monthly payment a family may receive is increased from S2OO to $254 a month. Families now re ceiving maximum monthly bene fits under the law will receive in creases from $7.50 to $54 depend ing upon the deceased worker’s average monthly wages. Right here I want to point out, that people now on the benefici ary rolls do not have to get in .touch with the social security of fice to obtain these benefit in creases. The larger amounts are effective with January and will show up on benefit checks for that month which will go in the mails early in February. | As you know, benefit amounts are figured from a working per son’s average earnings. Right now, only earnings up to a total of $4,200 in a year can be credit ed to a worker’s social security account. Beginning with 1959, however, earnings up to $4,800, will be creditable and taxable for J social security purposes. Social security taxes will be in creased beginning with 1959. An employed person will have 2 1 /2 per cent taken out of his pay in stead of the present 2*4 per cent; his employer will contribute 2% per cent also. The self-employ ment soc’al security tax wil be increased 3/8 of 1 per cent and. will become 3% per cent of net earnings up to $4,800 in the year j Self-employed people will pay at j this increased rate for the year ’59 j ' with the tax return they make. | early in 1960. I j Weekly Devotional! Column j Bv JAMES MacKCNZIE I i "God is our refuge and strength, a very present helD in trouble." / —(Psalm 46:1) “God is . . . ” In these two ' words we find the most majestic, yet simple, affirmation of faith it jit possible to make. “God is . . . ” ! Here we find the answer to all j our questions about where we I came from, why we are here, j where we are going, and how to: 1 get there. This is the answer tql all our worry, care, and distress. God is! “The fool hath said in his heart There is no God” (Psalm 14:1); but “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” (Psalm 111; 10). They only are wise whose wisdom is built on faith in God. God is! When we accept this basic premise, all else falls m or der. Believe that God is, and you have the key to understand ing the universe. Believe that God is, and you can pray, for there is One to hear your pray er::. Say God is, and you have a moral law that provides a ra tional basis for human conduct. Say God is, and the future ceases to be dark, and exchanges its ter i ror for triumph. Say God is, and Tin time of need you'ran also say I with the Psalmist, “God is our aefuge and strength, a very pres-! ent help in trouole.” Faith in the existence of God, however, is but the beginning of mature Christian faith. For there are many who believe that God is, but who hold immature con cepts of Him. From faith in God’s existence we must pass to faith in His wisdom and power, faith in His plan for our lives, faith that He will work out that plan in us and through us as we yield obedience to His Son, Jesus. Too often, I fear, we look upon God as a gimmick, a puppet we may dang’e on a string and ma nipulate for our own ends. We make our little plans, then seek to twist Him to conform. God ! to many, is a luxury rather than | a necessity; a cloak of respecta bility ana nothing else. Too many! | pay Pp serv ce to God, but ig-l I nore Him in their everyday lives. 1 I feel so sorry for such peo-i | pie. How little they know of the j joy and peace that comes only I from complete yieldedness to Christ; of the strength in Holy Spirit prayer; of the assurance of the day by day companionship of Christ. Theirs is an objective la ther than a subjective view of Christianity; they stand on the outside looking in rather than on j the inside look ng out. They vis-; it Christ, but they do not abide in Him. Religion to them is a! Sunday morn : ng affa'r; they sim-i ply do not take it seriously. Perhaps some of you who read j this column fall in this category.’; To you, Christianity is merely a form, a ritual you go through on 1 | Sundays. The Bible is a deac’ i book to you, it has never spoker j to your heart. Prayer is a mere | form, you have never lost your self in it, and felt so close to God vou feared to stretch out your hand lest you touch the throne tear friend, you miss so much! 3 ut God f rst in your life, make Jesus Christ your Lord as well as /our Saviour, live to serve Him ind only Him, and life to you will begin to have meaning and pur pose: it will become richer, full er, and sweeter. For, “God is our refuge and strength, a very pres ent help in trouble” (Psalm 46:1). TRY A HERALD CLASSIFIED i Straight Kentucky Bourbon ! years 75 • • V.' £<•- ... 1111 1 ™ r(~ witA 4peinitl \ Cf 3 STBAIOHT EEHTOCEY BOTMOM Q^j j (tUeflJfyf cLbUMedaccototvnff Xo thegine&t to. three months before planting time prov d ng the proper amount of the chemical is applied and the seed are stored in a cool, dry place. The cost of seed treatment pet acre of small grain planted varies with the kind and quantity of treating material purchased and! the rate at which the seed are sown. The cost of materials for! treating one bushel of seed rang- 1 es from 3 to 5 cents, or about 10 I cents per acre, which is a very j cheap insurance. Annual Meeting Os Electric Corp.j Members of the Albemarle Rural Electric Membership Cor poration will gather in Hertford i Saturday, September 27. for their annual meet ng and election of j directors for the corporation dur ing the coming year, it is an nounced by A. T. Lane, president |of the organization. The meet-! ing will begin at 2 P. M. * Ail members of the corporation! are urged to attend the meeting land participate in the selection Os ! directors and other activity sched-. [ tiled on the program. Members will select nine direc ! tors for the eorpo at on and nomi-j i nited for the posts are Henry Ab | bott. Joe Hastings, C. C. Merger i J. A. Whitehurst of Camden j County: B. F. Bateman, John N.C Bunch, J. A. Wiggins of Chowan | County; A. T. Lane, Floyd Mat-jj thews, Chas. E. White of Perq'uini- 1 ans County: J. C. Harris Jr.. Se! J vie James. W. R. Lowry and Tom- n 1 mie Temple of Pasquotank Coun . tv. A. T. Lane, president of th ; corporation, in announcing th: j antiuaf meeting date of .the' grov; I expressed his belief that the eer | potation is (omplet’ng one of tin j most successful years the Coop-1 erative has experienced. Mr. Lane was well pleased with i the sound- financial condition of| the corporation and that it had | remaine ! sound without refushv j electric to a single appli-1 cation regavdiess of the cost in volved to extend the set-ice' to! the location. He reiterated the poiiev es.ab lished on the inception of the eo- to bring central electric service to all the rural. area re questing tire -service, CALF RAISING IMPORTANT IN N. C. DAIRY PROGRAM Rais ng dairy calves is a big] business in North Carolina. Just, to maintain the dairy cattle pop ulation it’s necessary to raise about--’75,000 calves each year. The kind of job that’s done in the I SEARS CATALOG SALES OFFICE sgfi ■ 325 S. 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EDENTON ( Sinclair Service Station of calves they need for herd re placements each year and then give them ail the feed and atten tion necessary to raise the kind of heifers that wil] eventually take their place in the milk line and be profitable producers. I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me. —Terence. FARMERS See Lis For Garden Seeds Abruzzi Rye Ladino Clover Ivy. 31 Fescue Annual Ryegrass V. i; lIAMII.I, .W CKRTII'IEDS E. L. Pearce Seedsman Edart n, N. C. PH 3839 'WL&m mggmm