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[ Social Security Update
By Lee E. Wallio
Field Representative
Some of the least known
Social Security benefits are
those payable to divorced per
sons, to adults disabled in
childhood, and to the depen
dent parents of a worker.
These are among the
benefits often payable to cer
tain dependents of a retired or
disabled worker or survivors
of a deceased worker.
Benefits may be paid to
divorced persons at age 62 if
the marriage to the worker
lasted 10 years or more.
The surviving divorced wife
or husband may qualify for
widow or widower’s benefits
at age 60, or for disability
benefits at age 50 under cer
tain circumstances.
Adults disabled in childhood
can receive benefits on the
record of a parent who
receives retirement or
disability benefits or who died
after working long enough in
jobs covered by Social
Security.
Adults disabled before age
22 can apply for benefits at
any age, so long as it can be
proven that the disability
began before age 22 and there
is little chance of
improvement.
A worker’s dependent
parents can get benefits if he
or she worked long enough
under Social Security and the
worker provided at least one
half of the parent’s support.
Proof of support must be fil
ed with Social Security within
2 years of the worker’s death.
These benefits, like all
benefits paid to the
dependents and survivors of
retired, disabled, or deceased
workers, are designed to par
tially replace the earnings
upon which the person was
dependent.
In many instances, people
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who would ordinarily qualify
cannot get benefits because
they are earning over the
limit set for people who
receive Social Security
benefits (in 1962, $4,440 for
people under age 65 and 16,000
for people age 65 and over).
For more information on
these Social Security benefits
and others available to
dependents and survivors,
call the Social Security office
in Elizabeth City at 338-2161.
Skiing Events
Are Planned
WINSTON-SALEM
Camel cigarettes and 28 ski
resorts have joined forces to
launch an extensive promo
tional program that will bring
challenging and entertaining
ski activities to a mass au
dience each weekend this
winter.
Called Camel Ski Adven
ture, the nationwide program
begins Dec. 17 and runs
through April 20.
Designed to appeal to both
active skiers and spectators,
the weekend events include
single and dual slalom races,
demonstrations by profes
sional paraski teams, ski
clinics by Olympic downhill
racer Andy Mill, and a varie
ty of resort, dub and lounge
entertainment in each loca
tion. Substantial sampling
and premium distribution will
be conducted during the
activities.
The program will be sup
ported with local newspaper
advertising and promotional
materials.
Suppliers for the promotion
are Hill & Knowlton Sports
Division and Metacorp Inc.,
both of New York.
Washington, D.G.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
When you’re new in town, a
city map can help navigative.
When you’re new in town and
blind, most dty maps don’t do
much for you.
That situation has changed
in Washington, D.C. A relief
map complete with miniature
replicas of famous land
marks, government
buildings, major streets and
parks, each labelled in the
braille alphabet, is available
to visually impaired visitors
to the nation’s capital.
The map was constructed
by Patricia McKinney, a
teacher at the South Carolina
School for the Blind, for the
use of high school students at
tending educational pro
grams at Washington’s Close
Up Foundation.
Close Up is a nonprofit
organization created in 1971 to
educate high school students
and teachers in the workings
of the federal government.
More than 100,000 young peo
ple have attended the inten
sive one-week training ses
sions, including 124 visually
impaired and 1,158 hearing
impaired students.
Operated under a grant
from R.J. Reynolds In
dustries, the government
training sessions for blind and
deaf students have been
tremendously successful,
says Steve Janger, president
of the Close Up Foundation.
With the help of specially
printed braille texts, inter
preters for deaf students and
other educational tools, han
dicapped students get as
much or more information out
of their week in Washington
as the typial student partici
pant, Janger says.
“The braille map is an
especially welcome addition
to the Close Up program,’’
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Janger says. “It will enable
i visually impaired students to
. learn more about Washington
I than a verbal description can
i give. The students will be able
to get an idea of the layout of
1 the city and a mental picture
of where the famous land
! marks are located.”
During their week in
Washington, Close Up par
ticipants meet with elected
and appointed officials,
representatives of govern
ment agencies, lobbyists and
reporters for question and
answer sessions. The students
also attend seminars on topics
currently before Congress,
workshops on the way the
government functions and
tours of famous landmarks
and historical sites.
A major sponsor of the
Close Up Foundation, R.J.
Reynolds Industries and its
subsidiaries also co-sponsor
the organization’s public af
fairs programming on cable
television and provide
East Assigned
To Committee
WASHINGTON-Sen. John
East, R-N.C., has announced
he has been assigned to the
Senate Committee on Armed
Services for the 96th Congress
when it convenes in January,
1983.
“This assignment is
especially significant for
North Carolina because of the
many military installations in
the state, and because no
other member of Congress
from North Carolina current
ly serves on the armed ser
vices committee of either
house,” East said.
East will give up his current
seats on the Labor and
Human Resources Commit
tee and the Energy and
Natural Resources Commit
tee in return for the armed
service asssignment. East is
also a member of the
Judiciary Committee and is
chairman of its Separation of
Powers Subcommittee where
he will continue to serve in the
new Congress.
“The Armed Services Com
mittee has been one of my
major interests for a#4dnjfl>
time now. I am very concern
ed about America’s defense
posture, given the massive
Soviet military build-up of the
last decade, and I’m looking
forward to working to im
prove our position,” said
East.
The Armed Services Com
mittee Chairman is Sen. John
Tower, R-Tex. The committee
has not yet made subcommit
tee assignments for the new
Congress.
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substantial operating funds
for the weekly student train
ing sessions.
R.J. Reynolds Industries,
Inc., with headquarters in
Winston-Salem, N.C., is the
Universities Sign Up For Cross-Enrollment Program
GREENVILLE East
Carolina University and
N.C. State University have
approved a cross
enrollment agreement for
the establishment of a U.S.
Army Reserve Officers
Training Corps (ROTC)
extension center to be
located at ECU.
In the agreement, signed
by the chancellors of the two
schools Friday, ECU will
provide classrooms and
other facilities for the Army
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Fatigue can be an enemy of movements, close your eyes
good vision. It may be and rest for ten seconds, blink
beneficial to rest and relax a few times, then rest for
your eyes if you feel fatigue another ten seconds. Three,
setting in. There are also repeat the movements, but
some simple routines which going in the opposite direc
can eliminate mild eye tion. Then dose your eyes
TatigueT'KeSp' in mind, ‘ again.
however, that these exercises if this provides no reu^f, or
■yt if eye fatigue seems toi>e a
Save no visual problem wmch chronic problem, you should
needs correction. They are consult your eye doctor,
not exercises to strengthen
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beverages and fresh fruit);
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program will be ad
ministered by the Depart
ment of Military Science at
NCSU.
“ECU will be an extension
center of this program until
such time that the size of the
particpating student
enrollment should warrant
the transfer of ECU to an
independent host institution
status,” Co. F.W. Wanner, a
professor and chairman of
Military Science at NCSU,
explained.
N.C. State’s ROTC
national, Inc.; Heublein Inc.
(spirits and wines, food ser
vice and franchising, special
ty grocery productss);
Aminoil USA, Inc. (energy ex
ploration and development);
program began in 1965. ECU
currently administers an
Air Force ROTC program
through its Department of
Aerospace Studies.
Under the new program
which begins with the fall
semester of 1963, ECU will
offer freshmen through
junior level classes in ROTC
military science related
topics. The program will be
expanded in 1984-85 to cover
the full four years.
All military texts and
equipment ar provided
without cost to the student.
Advanced cadets receive a
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tax-free monthly stipend of
SIOO. Students enrolled in
the ROTC are also eligible
for three and two-year
scholarships that provide a
monthlystipend and pays
the cost of tuition, fees and
textbooks.
At ECU the Department of
Military Science will be
under /the ECU School of
Technology. The initial
office will be located in
Room 324 of Erwin Hall and
beginning Feb. 2, 1983, the
office will be staffed each
Wednesday to answer
questions