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PAGE TWO THE FRANKLIN PRESS AND THE HIGHLANDS MACONIAN THURSDAY, AUGUST 12. 1937 Some Pertinent Facts About Public Assistance Division By NATHAN H. YELTON Director Division or Public . Assistance . The division of public assistance was created by the 1937 legislature within the state .board of charities and public, welfare for the purpose of administering those phases of the social security program that deal with "Old Age Assistance and Aid to Dependent Children." How I,t Function The division headquarters are at present located on the second and 'third '-floors of the Edwards and Broughton building on Hargett street. Policies for the administra tion of the act are determined by the state -board of charities and public welfare. The state board of allotments and appeal is composed of the chairman of the state board, the commissioner of public welfare and the director of public assis tance who is secretary to the board. " The board of allotments and ap peal works directly through the regular welfare departments in the various counties as each county how has a full time superintendent of public welfare. The county board of public welfare makes the allotment of the grants to the re cipients both of Old Age- Assis tance and Aid to Dependent Chil dren on the basis of the investiga tion made by the welfare depart ment. The state average for the grants for old age assistance is $12.20. The grants vary in amounts from A.clue! The tare clue to good shave ia a Star Single-edge Blade. Made ince 1880 by the inventors of the original safety razor. Keen, long lasting, uniform. I stfS-rVL I I HELEN'S BARN HIGHLANDS, N. C. AMATEUR NIGHT Friday, August 13 SQUARE DANCING AND SPECIAL ENTERTAINMENT Whistling Cope and His Electric Hawaiian Guitar Ed Carpenter, Trick Fiddling, Black Face Friday, Wiggling Dances Real Old Time Buck and Wing Dancing Tap Dancing Flatfoot and Wiggling Dancing by Two Colored Boys $15.00 IN CASH PRIZES FIRST PRICE $5.00 Open Contest Contestants Free 9:00-12:30 LADIES, 35 - $5.00 to $30.00 according to the need of the applicant. It is esti mated that approximately 25,000 will actually receive assistance by the end of the year. For depen dent children the state average is $5.65. The average in the larger urban centers will be higher than in the rural sections of the state. The state average for old age as sistance in urban centers is $15.00 and $7.00 for aid to dependent children. Approximately 2,500 ap plications have been received for July grants. Due to the fact that a great deal of detailed informa tion is called for on the applica tion, especially in regard to veri fication of age and citizenship, it has been necessary to return ap pications to practically nearly every county for correction. Appeals After an award has been granted the applicant, if . dissatisfied, has a right to appeal to the state board of allotments and appeal whose decision is final. Property Qualifications The state board of, allotments and appeal has not as yet set up any standards for property limita tions. The welfare departments have been instructed to base the program oh need and at the same time make the welfare boards in each of the 100 counties respon sible for saying who is eligible and the size of the grant. The boards of commissioners have a right to review the grants in the event they desire to do so. It is conceiv able, however, that a person who is of age, say 65, and owns property valued at four or five hundred dollars is eligible to participate in the assistance program. It has been stated before that the purpose of the program is not to take over the responsibility of people who are caring for their relatives in comfortable homes but for those people whose income is not sufficient to maintain a decent standard of living. It is not anti cipated that the program will be abused. Eligibility Requirements There are in the law specific eligibility requirements and the ap plicant for old age assistance and aid to dependent children must not only state those items clearly and accurately' but must give the case worker verification of those items. In verifying statements of appli cant case worker must give source of verification either authentic documentary evidence or sworn affidavits. It is necessary to defi nitely verify for old age assistance the age, citizenship, (including birthplace), residence, domicile, and need, and for aid to dependent Floor Show 11:00 GENTS, 60i children , age, residence, kinship, domicile, and need. ' ' It is essential that the applica tions be properly prepared and-give clear cut and complete evidence of eligibility since it is only through that evidence that the state and federal governments can participate in the payment of awards. Administrative Cost It" is the intention of the state board of allotments and appeal to administer the program just as ef ficiently and economically as it is possible to do. It has been neces sary to increase the personnel in the various county welfare depart ments in order to handle the pro gram efficiently" and without delay to the applicants. The 100 counties spent for their welfare departments last year $358,151.57 plus $70,000.00 from federal funds spent by the state in helping the counties mak ing a grand total of $428,151.57 for welfare administration for the year ending June 30, 1937. . The administration of old age as sistance and aid to dependent chil dren will add to this approximately $436,438.88 of which $150,714.76 will be paid by the counties and $285, 724.12 will be paid by the state and federal government for the coming year. It is difficult to de termine the exact cost until after the program has been under way for there will be several adjust ments in the various counties to be made regarding the personnel and other items in the budgets. Hutson Discusses New Farm Plan The. ideal farm program under the AAA would be one confined to educational work and soil conser vation -but in actual experience such a program is inadequate. This is the opinion of J. B. Huston, assistant administrator of the agricultural adjustment admin istration, who spoke twice last week before delegates attending the '34th annual farm and home week exercises at State college. Air. Huston said it was almost a necessity to place some-restriction? on the production of price-depressing surpluses of cash crops. Even with acreage control, there a-c oftentimes good growing seasons when production will go higher than was anticipated. Air. Hutson declared that the present tobacco crop indicated a production of 750 million pounds and if the amount did not go materially beyond this figure, prices should be. as good or better than last year. The cotton situation does not look so good, he said. Indications are that a 14 mil lion bale crop' will be produced in the South with consumption at 13 million bales for this year. Looking forward to 1938, Mr. Hutson said a simplified and more equitable farm program is being constructed by the AAA. The idea is not to make farm commodities scarce but to keep cash crop pro? duction in line with market needs. A special effort will -be made to help growers of truck crops and the whole program will be develop ed so as to fit to every kind of farm in this and other states. It is likely that the old "base acreage" plan will be discarded but that each farmer will be given his share of the soil depleting crops that he can grow without penalty and will be paid on that allottment. The allotments will be made by counties and divided within the counties by committees of farmers. Call For Livestock Made by Morrison Fill North Carolina with pure bred cattle, swine and nnnltrv nA check the shipments of meats, poultry and eggs into the state. North Carolinians are raising noth ing but cash crops and then snarl ing all the money they make for food which comes from' nthor places, and for commercial fertilizer Franklin Lodge, No. 452 Loyal Order of Moose Meets Second and Fourth Friday Nights 8:00 P.M. Under American Legion Hafll ANNUAL PICNIC AUGUST 21 Chicken Dinner at 6:00 P. M. Van Hook Glade S. J. Murray Scc'y , to put under cotton and tobacco. Thus did Cameron Morrison, for mer Governor and Senator, and now private farmer and cattle breeder, sum up the great need of North Carolina agriculture in an address before the annual summer meeting of the Jersey Cattle Club held last week at State college. Mr. Morrison urged the cattle men present to band together to advertise ' their good animals so that the state might establish a reputation for its herds. Partial to Jerseys, the speaker said they would turn feed into more dollars than any other dairy breed. 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