Staats Will Become
Director Of Economic
Research For Company
James L. Palmer, president of Mar
shall Field & Company, has announced
that Elmer B. Staats, who shortly will
leave his post as assistant director of the
United States Bureau of The Budget in
Washington, will join Marshall Field &
Company in April as director of eco
nomic research for the corporation.
Mr. Palmer said that Staats will con
cern himself with economic and gov
ernmental trends as well as internal
company research and analysis. Staats
will work directly with Palmer.
Mr. Staats has been assistant director
of the budget since 1950, and prior to
that time held various assignments with
the budget authority since 1939. For sev
eral years he has been a lecturer in pub
lic administration at George Washington
University, and a member of the advis
ory council in the department of politics
at Princeton University.
The new Field research head spent
a year in 1938-39 as research fellow
with the Brookings Institute. He also
served for a year on special assignment
for the Public Administration Service
in Chicago, a consulting agency to var
ious government bodies.
Mr. Staats was born at Richfield, Kan
sas, and was graduated from McPherson
College in 1935. Later he took his mas
ter’s degree at the University of Kansas,
and his doctorate at the University of
Minnesota. He is a member of Phi Beta
Kappa.
He is the author of a number of mag
azine articles in the field of economics
and politics, and is active in the Ameri
can Economics Association, the Ameri
can Political Science Association, and
the American Society for Public Admin
istration. He is married, has three chil
dren, and plans to move his residence
from Washington to the Chicago area.
★—
Home Economics Expert
Pays Visit To Girls Club
Dr. Maude Williamson, consultant for
the school of home economics, Woman’s
College, visited the Girls’ Club February
23 to discuss with Miss Isabelle Buckley,
Girls club director, the community’s
Adult Home-making program. Dr. Wil
liamson, a native of Colorado, is the
author of college textbooks on home ec
onomics and recently returned from
Japan where she was consultant for
setting up home economics programs in
schools of occupied Japan.
★ —
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Your Social Security Payments
Based On Earnings After 1950
(As increased by 1952 Amendments to the Social Security Law effective
September 1, 1952)
From these tables you can estimate your family’s monthly
benefit payment when you retire or after your death (if you have
had at least a year and a half of work after 1950).
RETIREMENT TABLE
Average
Monthly
Earnings
After
1D50
Retired
Worker
Only
Retired
Worker and
Wife or
Dependent
Hnsband
At 65
Retired
Worker
Wife and 1
Child
$300.00
$85.00
$127.50
$168.80
280.00
82.00
123.00
164.00
260.00
79.00
118.50
158.00
240.00
76.00
114.00
152.00
220.00
73.00
109.50
146.00
200.00
70.00
105.00
140.00
190.00
68.50
102.80
137.10
180.00
67.00
100.50
134.00
170.00
65.50
98.30
131.10
160.00
64.00
96.00
128.00
150.00
62.50
93.80
120.10
140.00
61.00
91.50
112.00
130.00
59.50
89.30
104.10
120.00
58.00
87.00
96.00
110.00
56.50
84.80
88.10
100.00
55.00
80.00
80.00
90.00
49.50
72.00
72.10
80.00
44.00
64.00
64.00
70.00
38.50
56.00
56.10
60.00
33.00
48.00
48.00
50.00
27.50
41.30
45.10
Under 35.00
-
25.00
37.50
45.00
SURVIVORS TABLE
Widow I
or
Average
Dependent
Monthly
Widower
or
Lump-Sun»
Earnings
Dependent Widow and
Widow and Widow and
Death
After
Parent at
65, 1 Child
2 Children 3
Children
Payment
1950
or 1 Child
Alone
—
$300
$63.80
$127.60
$168.90
$168.90
$255.00
280
61.50
123.00
164.10
168.90
246.00
260
59.30
118.60
158.10
168.90
237.00
240
57.00
114.00
152.00
168.90
228.00
220
54.80
109.60
146.20
168.90
219.00
200
52.50
105.00
140.10
160.20
210.00
190
51.40
102.80
137.20
152.10
205.50
180
50.30
100.60
134.10
144.00
201.00
170
49.20
98.40
131.20
136.20
196.50
160
48.00
96.00
128.00
128.10
192.00
150
46.90
93.80
120.00
120.00
187.50
140
45.80
91.60
112.00
112.20
183.00
130
44.70
89.40
104.00
104.10
178.50
120
43.50
87.00
96.00
96.00
174.00
110
42.40
84.80
88.00
88.20
169.50
100
41.30
80.00
80.00
80.10
165.00
90
37.20
72.00
72.00
72.00
148.50
80
33.00
64.00
64.00
64.20
132.00
70
28.90
56.00
56.00
56.10
115.50
60
24.80
48.00
48.00
48.00
99.00
50
20.70
41.40
45.10
45.00
82.50
Under 35
18.80
37.60
45.10
45.00
75.00
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