S$5,003 Monthly b Paid Ir Wilkes In Old Age Benefits In the area serviced by the Salisbury office of the Social Se curity Administration there are now 2,071 persons receiving monthly benefit checks totaling $23,300.00, under Old-Age and Survivors Insurance provisions of the Social Security Act. Beneficiaries in the 7 counties of this service area include: 805 ALEXANDER Construction Co. P. O. Box 771 NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C All Kinds Of GRADING DONE With Shovel or Bulldozer FREE ESTIMATES retired workers and their wivei whQ have reached age 65; 111 widows 65 years old or oyer; 18: widows with children in the! care; 948 children; 16 aged par ents who were dependent upon i deceased son or daughter at th< time of the wage-earner's death Mr. Louis H. Clement, man ager of the Salisbury, N. C. of fice of the Social Security Admin istration explained that when t fully insured wage-earner, wh< is 65 years old or more, filet claim for his monthly old-age in surance benefits, his wife ma] claim monthly benefits, if she ii 65 years old or when she reachei that age. In addition, each of hit children under age 18 will re ceive monthly benefits—except that the benefits for the entire family may not be more thai twice the amount of the retiree wage-earner's own monthly pay ment. When an insured worker dies leaving a widow with his childrer in her care, monthly payments of survivors insurance are made to his widow and to his childrer under age 18. This will be paid [regardless of the age of the wi dow. An insured worker's widow who had reached age 65 is eligi ble for benefits whether or not she has a child in her care. Where the insured wage-earn er dies and leaves no survivor entitled to monthly benefits, a" lump-sum death payment is made to the widow who was Hving with the deceased wage-earner, or to the person who paid the burial expenses. Given below are the figures for Wilkes county, which show the number of beneficiaries in each group and the amount c