many Inquiries asking
figure the amount a per
receive -when he is sixty
shall explain briefly how
done. There are four quar
i ters in each year, ending March
31, June SO, September 30 and
wpcember 31. At the end of each
quarter your employer sends to
the Bureau of Internal Revenue
■ a tax return showing the name."
Social Security Number and the
amount Of wages paid each em
ployee during that quarter. These
returns are sent to the Social
Security Administration, and the
amount of wages is credited to
each employee'8 account. So you
see we have available a record of
wages reported since January 1,
1937, the date this program went
into effect. At ^ge sixty-five when
a worker writes or comes into our
office to file his fclaim for bene
fits, we request a copy of his
wage record and his benefits are
figured from the ,wag$s posted to
his credit. ■
Let's figure a benefit and see
exactly how it's done. For ex
ample, you will be sixty-five on
July 10, I960 and. plan to retire
at that time. You should notify us
that you have stopped working.
We would request a copy of your
wage record and find out the
amount of your total wages. Sup
pose your wage record shows a
total amount of 122,050.00 from
January 1, 1937 through June 30,
1950. To get your average monthly
wage we divide this amount by
the number of months form Jan
uary 1, 1937 through June 30,
1950. The amount we get is ap
proximately $150.00, your average
monthly wage. We take 40 per
cent of the first $ 50.00 which is
120.00 and 10 percent of the re
maining $100.00 Of your average -
monthly wage, which is $10.00.
We add the two ($20.00 and
$10.00) and this is your ba&ic
benefit. Since you have been paid
$200.00 or more in each of four
teen years (1937-19150), 14 per
cent of $30.00, or $4.20, is added
to the 30.00 and your monthly
benefit will be $34.20. If your
wife will also be sixty-five or
over in July 1950, she will upon
filing an application receive one
hatf this amount or $17.10, giv
ing the two of you $51.30 a
month. If there is one child un
der eighteen years of age unmar
ried and not working in covered
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MARYLAND HIGH SCHOOL PICNIC ENDS IN TRAGEDY
..
CAREENING OVER AN EMBANKMENT in Cumberland, MA, truck (right), carrying 40 high school students,
lies overturned alter brakes failed to check its speed at highway turn. Two of the students were killed and
23 others injured in the mishap, two critically. One of the victims (center) i* being helped up the steep
embankment. All students at the Lonoconing, Md., Central High School, the group had hired the truck
for an outing. Not* the picnic baskets scattered about the accident scan*. (International Soundphoto)
employment, that child will re
ceive the same amount as your
wife.
I will be in the Town Hall in >
North Wilkesboro again on Thurs
day morning at 9:45 a. m. |
Missing Youth I
Is Found Safe
Elkin, June 23 — A Yakin ^
county boy reported drowned
turned up unharmed this week
after a rescue squad had searched
for his body for hours. j
Herbert Willard, 18, was miss- j
Ing after being seen taking a |
swim in Dobbins' Lake Monday af- 1
ternoon and the Flkin Rescue
Squad was called out that even
ing.
J He left a borrowed automobile
rked by the lake with the keys
11 In the switch.
The squad dragged the lake for
his body and worked futilely for
approximately three hours before
the boy was found at the home
of his sister, Mrs. Buford Benton,
near Jonesville.
Willard said that he lost con
sciousness after driving into the
lake and came to his senses lying,
in a field near Jonesville. He de
clared he had no idea what had
happened to him during the in
tervening time. <
Although he was garbed.' in
bathing trunks when he went
swimming, he was fully-clothed
when he came to near Jonesville,
Willard continued.
The boy was examined by a
Yadkinville doctor then admitted
to the Hugh Chatham Memorial
Hospital in Elkin for examination.
He was discharged from the hos
pital Tuesday.
Williard said he also lost con
sciousness a second time Monday
night and a third time on the way
to the hospital.
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Poultrymen can increase their
profits by eliminating poor venti
lation, over-crowding, dampness
parasite infections, and sudden
Changes in temperature, all ol
which are predisposing causes to
costly summer colds in chickens.
Wife Gets Life In
Poison Murder Triol
I
! Albert Lea, Minn., June 14—
A thirty-three-year-old Minesota
farm wife today was sentenced to
life imprisonment in the death
of a man who accidentally drank
poiponed whiskey intended for
her husband.
Mrs. Viola Gavle was* found
guilty by a jury in the Freeborn
county district court at Albert Lea
ic the death of
eon, a friend of Mrs.
band, Truman, died on _,
a result of drinking whisli
talning strychnine.
The prosecution .f argued that
Mrs. Gavle slipped the ■whiskey
bottle behind the cushions on the
front seat of her husband's car.
Several days later, the State as
serted, her husband discovered the
bottle and offered" a drink to Ras
musson who was in the car with
hun.