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DIAL, R-326 AT ^ DEPTS. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7th, 1946 SECTION B—PAGE 1
I In Old-Age-Survivors Insurance
Improvements Are Recommended
Eleven specific recommendations
for the expansion and improve
ment of the old-age and survivors
insurance program have been
made to Congress in the Tenth
Annual Report of the Social Se
curity Board, Mrs. Ruth Duffy
nmnager of the Rocky Mount off
i* of the Board, said yesterday.
Heading the list is a recom
f. mendation made repeatedly by the
Board, that coverage of the pro
gram be expanded to include "ail
gainful workers, such as agri
f cultural and domestic employees,
public employees and employees
| of nonprofit organizations; and
self - employed persons, including
farmers.”
^Irs. Duffy said that the social
economic welfare of the area
served by the Rocky Mopunt off
ice will be strengthened whenever
action is taken to extend the ben
efits of the system to workers who
are not covered now.
"Aside from the fact that the
Social Securitly Board has had
appeals from many persons and
from groups, now in noncovered
employment, for inclusion in the
astern we have seen how per
eTlectiods in noncovered employ
, ment can effect qualifications for
benefits. And, I am glad to say,
the Board has recommended —
for the fifth consecutive year —
that credit be given to service
men for their period of service
in the armed forces.”
It is pointed out ,in the An
nual Report of the Social Security
i Board that in an average week
m 1944 only about three fifths
all gainfully employed civi
lians were in jobs covered by old
age and survivors insurance. More
than 21,000,000 civilians and be
tween 11,000,000 and 12,000,000 ser
vicement were excluded.
One recommendation of import
j ance to persons already covered
by the Social Security Act is for
an increase in benefit amounts
particularly for low paid work
Iers. Another proposed change is
increase from $3,300 to $3,
600 a year in the amount of
earnings subject to contributions
and counted in computation of
benefits:
Three other recommendations by
the Social Security Board con
cern provisions of the Act which
experience has shown cause hard
| ship to those who claim bene
I fits:
f (1) Reduction of the qualifying
-tfe for all women beneficiaries to
f 60 years, from the present 65; (2)
deletion of the requirement of
school attendance as a condition
of receipt of benefits by boys and
girls aged 16 and 17; (3) increase
in the amount of earnings permit
ted a beneficiary without suspen
sion of benefits.
In addition, the Board has rec
ommended:
Greater uniformity in definding
T*!J>r purposes of the insurance sys
tem, family relations qualifying
members of a worker’s family for
benefits.
Provisions for assuring uniform
ity in coverage decisions relating
to liability for contributions and
eligibility for benefits, which are
based on identical language but
are made by two seperate Federal
agencies—the Bureau of Internal
Revenue and the Board.
(^Adoption of a long-range plan
for financing old-age and survi
vors insurance, which looks to
ward on eventual three -way di
vision of costs among employers,
employees and the Government.
Benefits during periods of ex
tended or permanent disability like
those for old-age retirement.
Two additional insurance provis
ions have been urged by the Board
Mrs. Duffy said, to improve the
0pklth °f the Nation, and to com
pensate the worker for wages lost
during periods of sickness or other
dUnbility.
Those provisions are:
Cash benefits to insured workers
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and their dependents during tem
porary disability (less -than <
months) and extended disability (f
months and over.)
Insurance against costs of med
ical care, including payments tc
physicians and hospitals, with pro
vision for decentralization of ad
ministration and possible utiliza
tion of State administration.
“These recommendations anc
others concerning the unemploy
ment insurance and public assist
ance systems show the course that
the Board has said it believes tc
be ‘feasible and necessary as the
United States faces forward tc
peace,’ Mrs. Duffy said.
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“In a summary recommendatior
the Social Security Board is urg
ing the establishment of a ‘com
prehensive basic national systeir
of social insurance, covering al!
major risks to economic indepen
dence and all workers and their
dependents to whom such risks ap
ply.”
“It is urging the establishment
of a ‘comprehensive program of
public assistance, on a State-Fed
eral basis, under which payment;
financed from State irrespective
of the reason for need or the place
of residence.’
“The Board would extend the
Social Security program to the
millions of families that now are
partly or wholly unprotected, it
would cover risks against which
little or no provision has yet been
made, and it would strengthen
present provsions of the program.
It has made recommendations for
improving and simplifying admin
istration and financing.’’
Chinese Houseboy Returns
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(U. S. Marine Corps Photo)
Wang Yu, left, a houseboy with more than a score of years service
to Marine Corps officers stationed at Peiping, China, was rehired
when Leathernecks returned to the Chinese city. When he applied
to Brigadier General Louis R. Jones of Indian Head, Md., for his
old job, he presented a recommendation signed by Colonel A. A.
Vandegrift, now Commandant of the U. S. Marine Corps.
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Advice Is Given
Peanyfr Farmers
D. S. Matheson, State Agricul
ture Department marketing spec
ialist, advises producers who are
still marketing peanuts to leave
the damaged nuts in the field.
He says that bad weather dur
ing the past three months has
“materially affected” the quality
of the peanuts in the top few
inches of the stack and at the
bottom of the stack. Matheson
expressed the opinion that farm
ers will receive a better overall
price for their peanuts if the dam
aged varities are not included in
the sale.
From five to 10 per cent of
*his State’s peanut crop is still in
che field, Matheson reports.
That scornful snort of derision
is the noise made by ignorance in
■.he presence of a new fact.
Killed In Action
Mrs. Dorothy Shearin of this
City has received a message from
the War Department, stating her
husband, Pfc. Batt Harris Shear
in, Jr., better known as "Har
very Shearin,” was killed in action
In France on December 17, 1944.
Shearin was a member of General
P’atton’s 3rd Army.
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He entered service in March,
1944, was sent overseas in Oct
ober and was reported missing on
December 17, the same year.
Harvey was born on August 3,
1915, in the Hawkins Chapel Com
munity. He was the son of Mrs.
Grady Jenkins of this City, and
the late Latt Harris Shearin, Sr.,
tf Halifax County. In 1929 his
family came to Roanoke Rapids.
He made his home here until en
tering service.
Young Shearin was a boy of
good standing, highly esteemed by
all Who knew him. He had hosts
of friends in and around Roanoke
Rapids, who 'shares his loss.
On August 4, 1936 he was mar
ried to Miss Dorothy Askew, who
resides here, and now holds a
position in the City Clerk’s Office.
Before entering the Armed Forc
es, Harvey held a position with
the Rosemary Meat Company, later
being employed in the Ship Yard
in Newport News, Va.
He is survived by his wife, hia
mother and step-father, Mr. and
Mrs. Grady Jenkins who reside at
912 Jackson Street; one sister.
Mrsh. Robert E. Walsh of New
port News, Va, three brothers, J.
Wallace and L. Irwin Shearin,
both of this City and Pfc. David
Boy Shearin, serving somewhere
in France, one nephew and five
nieces.
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