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ESC Cracking Down On False Slaiemenl Claims For Unemployment Benefits Fifty'five cases in which fiaud was indicated were investigated by Wm. Hey ward, Claims Deputy fur the Employment Security Commis sion, for the WesteriK District, dur ing the fiscal year ending June 30. 1953. Sufficient evidence was found to justify prosecution in for ty two of these cases, Heyward stated, in which twenty seven de fendants were convicted of making false statements, knowing such statements to be false, to obtain unemployment benefits, while fif teen defendants were acquitted. The area of which Mr. Heyward has charge consists of Buncombe, Haywood, Jackson, Swain, Graham, Cherokee, Clay and Macon and Madison counties. Cases have been field in each of these counties dur ing the year, before various Jus tices of the Peace, but most of these cases have been filed in Bun combe County, which is quite na tural as most of the claims for un employment benefits in the area are filed in Buncombe County. Statewide Program Chairman Henry E. Kendall of the Employment Security Commis sion of North Carolina states that progress has been made during the past two years in the prevention and detecton of fraud by those who abuse the unemployment insurance program. This abuse consists of those individuals who make a will ful misrepresentation or fail to dis close a material fact in an effort to obtain unemployment insurance or to increase the amount. Some of these chiselers are detected before any money is paid, while others are detected after they have been paid. Although the administrative funds allocated by the federal gov ernment are not sufficient for a full-scale program, all available manpower and time for which funds are available from other sources are used in this program. At present the only preventive is the publicity of cases prosecuted, which serves as a deterrent. The detection is carried on by a cross checking of payment records against wage reports and the per sonal investigation of suspected or reported cases of fraud by the Claims Deputies. The Fraud Pre vention and Detection Unit in the cntral office in Raleigh, composed of from 5 to 12 employees, depend ing upon '.ailable personnel that can be spared from other opera tions, cross check records and clear by correspondence with employers those cases in which there is a possibility of claimants working while receiving unemployment in surance. The 17 Claims Deputies, located in strategic areas in the state, whose primary responsibility is the holding of hearings and de termining eligibility on question able claims, spend approximately 20% of their time investigating and presenting for prosecution sus oected and reported eases of fraud Chairman Kendall reports that North Carolina as well as other states has repeatedly requested more funds for the prevention and detection of fraud, but reductions federal budgets made by the U. S Department of Labor, the Budget Bureau, and Congress have result ed in the lack of needed funds. A comparison of the fraud pre vention and detection activity of the Commission for the two fiscal years ended June 30. 1952, and 1953, reveals the following: June.'52 June,'53 Claims Filed 176,884 120.707 Claimants' Acc'ts Examined 92,057 138,016 Cases Investigat ed by Mail ? 7,287 7.291 Cases Investigate by Claims Deps. 2,947 2.412 Claimants Disqual ified (no fraud) 504 614 Claim'ts Acquit'd or Case Dismiss'd 55 74 Claim'ts Convict ed of Fraud 418 439 A first glance at these figures un doubtedly raises several questions. First is why, during a period of prosperity and so-called "full em ployment," were there so many claims filed for unemployment in surance and why were more work ers unemployed in 1952 than in 1953? The majority of the indus try in North Carolina is made up of manufacturers of soft goods (textiles, hosiery, etc.) and during 1952 and the early part of 1953 they were operating on a part-time basis or had to close ddwn periodic ally for a week at the time be cause of lack of orders. A major ity of the claims filed during these two periods consisted of group layoffs for short periods, and there were relatively fewer workers who were separated from their employ ment permanently or for an in definite duration. The fact that t?% more claims were filed in the twelve-months period ended June 30, 1952, than were filed for the oeriod ended June 30, 1953, can be attributed to a period of uneer ainty. Second, why were 50% more ac counts examined in 1953 than in 1952? As a result of the reduced; claim load in 1953 the personnel normally used In the processing of I claims were used cross checking! rayment records and wage reports. Thus, all of the 1953 accounts were cross checked and a portion of 1952 accounts that were not originally cross checked. Third, was there less fraud com mitted in 1953 than in 1952? Yes, but these figures must be examin ed closely and related to the num ber of accounts examined in each year. There were 22% more claim ants disqualified in 1953 than in 1952, but based upon the accounts examined, the percentage" in 1952 was five tenths of 1%, and in 1953 it was four tenths of 1%, or 20% less were disqualified. Those dis qualified were found to have re ceived benefits to which they were , not entitled, but there was no Evidence of fraud, or insufficient evidence. As to convictions for fraud, there was an increase of 21 in 1953 over 1952, but again con sidering the. accounts examined, the percentage ir 1952 was four tenths of 1%, and in 1953 it was three tenths of 1%, or a reduction of 25% in the number convicted. Chairman Kendall also stated that it should be realized that fraud in unemployment insurance can not be eliminated altogether any more than can other criminal acts and that although he is pleased with the progress which has been made, he is not relaxing the efforts of the Commission in the policing of the program. He further stated that much of the progress, partic ularly future progress, still de pends upon the cooperation and as sistance of the citizens of the state in reporting facts to the Commis sion or its local offices when they know of someone who is abusing the program, or when contacted, furnish the facts requested and be ready and willing to testify in court if needed. The crackdown will coiv tinue, and future progress is ex pected in reducing fraud to a mini mum. SCHOOL DAYS AHEAD ...and plenty if getting ready to do ! Certainly no time for puny appetite to deprive your children of the proper nourish ment they need to keep them Sard at school ?vork, hard at ilay, and regu ? .11 I ar in anenaanct. rveaa now ti?. Haleyville, Ala., mother thank; ^calf's Indian River Medicine for elping her son get through a /onderful school year . . . Mrs. Will Burns writes, "My son, Neil, was very poorly. His appe tite was weak, he looked pale, "was nervous and had lost weight. After starting on Scalf's Indian River Medicine, his appetite perk ed right up, his color improved, he gained weight, and seemed like a new boy. He has* lost only two days' school since starting bcalf's over a yaar ago." ' Summer is the time Nature in tended for "building up", and good appetite is the way nature :ntended for furnishing little bodies with energy-giving vita mins. Get your children ready for a vigorous school year by giving them a course of Scalf's Indian River Medicine, favorite family appetizer for almost a half a cen tury. 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Several hours later the holdup police captured a suspect identified as Quitman Strickland, shown on the right below. <AP Photo), Library Notes Margaret Johnston County Librarian Just arrived foe, your reading pleasure: The Fair Bride by Bruce Mar-1 shal. "Don Arturo was a young Spanish priest whose horror at the cruelty of men drove him from faith in God to faith in communism during the . Spanish civil war. Through agony of mind and body, Don Arturo finds that a new faith in God brings him compassion for all his fellowmen' and peace for himself." White Hunter, Black Heart by Peter Viertel. "Out of his exper ience as a member of a recent expedition to film a picture in Africa, the author has written the . . . stoyr of a man of great talent who became consumed by a passion for big-game hunting that almost doomed the project." Schirmer Inheritance by Eric Ambler. "Young George Carey's search for the missing heir to a soft-drink fortigie taltes jfejtefc to Europe and a strange maze of in trigue." Train in the Meadow by Robert Nathan. "A train stops in a mea dow in sight of the mountains that mark the border. Everyone aboard has been worrying about the jour ney, about what lies behind him and what ahead. The story reveals what happens then, and particu larly when another train, coming from the direction of the' moun tains pulls up and stops alongside." Time and Time Again by James Hilton. "Charles Anderson, a minor British diplomat, is the central figure and his story is told in counterpoint to that of his seven teen-year-old son. It culminates in a variation of a pattern which the father had thought would repeat his own ill-starred romance at the same age. and goes through, for its plot, Charles' own idyllic but nip ped in the bud youth, a subsequent happy marriage, recollections of now repeated history." Westward the Sun by Geoffrey Cotterell. A "novel, related by the young lower-middle-class London girl, who .after several dating ad ventures including American sol diers in the >ater days of the war, takes the quietest of them in pre ference to her stolid British Syd. ' Wife Preservers jl If you have difficulty in ctretchinc the end of a length of plastic hoee over the fitting. try placing the end in boiling water for a few minutes It can then mora easily be molded to the diameter re quired. LAFF-A-DAY "HOW come you know ao many <>people named Batx'?^1 J Bird Business WICHiyA FALLS, Tex. (AP) ? Tiny birds are bringing financial independence to a wheelchair oc cupant. Bill Stalcup, 29, confined to a wheelchair nine years, raises bud gerigars, a breed of small para keets. He started last fall. The state vo cational rehabilitation office de signed an aviary in which Stalcup could maneuver his wheelchair. The agency gave him seven pairs of birds to get started. Staleup already has sold about 100 birds. He hopes to sell 1,000 birds a year. At about $10 a bird, he figures on a tidy income. 3 Haywood Men With Navy In Pacific Fleet * PACIFIC FLEET. Aug. 26 ? Three Haywood County men were among the 12,000 men who parti cipated In the largest and most ex tensive training exercise since World War II by the U. S. Navy. They were Candler P. Justice. Chancy C. Janes, Jr., and Harry E. Noland. Justice, seaman, USN, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse R. Justice of Route 1, Clyde, and husband of Mrs Mible L. Justice, also of Route 1, Clyde, and is aboard the destroyer USS Kidd. Jones, seaman, USN, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Jones of Clyde, and aboard the heavy cruis er USS Helena. Noland, torpedoman's mate sec ond class, USN, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Arnold of Route 1, Clyde, and la aboard the subma rine USS Catfish. Liner Brothers Join Navy Exercises PACIFIC FLEET (FHTNC) Aug 29?Among the 12,000 men who participated in the largest and most extensive training exercise since World War II were David G.| Liner .ship's serviceman third class, UStf, and George R. Liner, seaman, USN, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Sam R. Liner, of Waynesville. They are aboard the heavy cruiser USS Helena. "Let 'Em Off" Light CHICAGO (AP) ? A'caution light signal installed in automatic elevators has been patented by a Chicago business man. Charles W. Lerch, elevator consulting engin eer, says the green light for up and red for down still will be used, but an orange caution light will serve to prevent passenger col lisions. Lerch says elevator operators are on the way out in most cities from coast to coast, and his cau tion light signal will eliminatae the necessity of the operator saying, '.'Let' em off, please." PVT. CECIL D. LEE has been sent to Germany where he will serve for about 14 months. He has Just completed nine months of basic training at Camp Gor don. Ga. Lee is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Lee and husband of Mrs. Claudia Hooper Lee, all of Clyde. Route 2. Benjamin Franklin loins Marines ASHEVILLE ? Benjamin K. Franklin, 17, son of Dewey Frank lin, of Rt. 4, Waynesville, has been enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps and assigned to the Marine Corps Recruit Depot at Parris Island, S. C? T Sgt. Joseph H. Lathrop, local Marine recruiter, announced today. Franklin will be assigned to a ground, sea or air unit of the Ma rine Corps upon completion of a 10-week basic training period at Parris Island. He will then be come eligible to attend one of more than 140 specialist schools offering Marines training in 470 job skills. Where's The Fire? McALESTER, Okla. (AP) ? Lit tle red boxes are plaguing city of ficials. The city recently instituted a painless method for paying over time parking tickets. Motorists were allowed to place the tickets and 25 cents in red boxes install ed in each downtown block. This allowed them to avoid the $1 pol ice fine. Firemen, however, got an alarm from the industrial section soon after. When they arrived, they found a farmer trying to stuff his overtime ticket and a quarter on a red fire alarm box. Wanl^Ads brinr quick results fames Edwards Trains With Arm Medics In Korec *with the 23th Wai div. in korea Aug Sergeant First Class Jam?i wards, son of Mr and Mrs Edwards. Waynesville, l5 undergoing post-truce traini* the 25th Infantry liivision ' rea Edwards, a mess stewu Medical Company of the 27th ?lent, has been i* Korea',,,* September. His wife, janni( es on Route 9, Box 530 Navii S. C. The 25th "Tropic Light Division is constantly workj maintain and improve the level of combat-readiness ?h displayed throughout the K conflict. Veteran of more months of bat than any other America vision in Korea, the 25th land the peninsula in July 1950, si after the Communists crosse 38th parallel. "Little Mo" Also Horsewoman NEW YORK (AP) - (Little Mo) Connolly, who po es practically all the women les in the world of tennis, a there is one thing that give more joy than tennis in the of sports. It is horseback r This stems purely from a mental reason. On a newj sports page she saw a picta a Tennessee horse named Mary Boy, thought he look* a glamor boy and bought hi Mistaken Identity PUEBLO, Colo. (API?The icipal employes' union aske city council to arrange for sort of uniform for prisoners "chain gang". Union officials said the thinks these prisoners are cil ployes. The "chain gang." has no chains, is made up ol oners assigned to outdoor jo failure to pay fines for min fenses. family sentence LITTLE ROCK (AP) - W 95-year-old Negro was sentea a night in jail for contrnj court in a property disput 70-year-old wife told the jud "God may take him away me but nobody else is going 1 And she proved it by sp< the night in Pulaski Count with him. \ ? . Greetings From Hazelwood's Oldest Industry I i ' Wear Leather For Healtl . I "Junaluska Leather Soles Hake Walking Easf i .I " ?? * * ? 1 ? ? ? > < ?. * ?'' J ' ' , A.C. Lawrence Leather Co " > ' ? A ? r Junaluska Tannery Hazelwood ' . \ ; ' \v ?- 1 ? ? - V V" .? ^^P|
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