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Imployers Can V Help Employees Many potential beneticiaries under the Old-Age and Survivors InaJ#hnce program lose benefits becfrase they fail to file for them promptly. This is according to a recent announcement by Mr. Louis H. Clement, manager of the Salisbury, N. C. Social Secur ity Administration Field Office. Mr. Clement stated that pos sibly the reason potential bene ficiaries failed to claim benefits due them was because they did realize their rights. The So cial Security Administration has no way of knowing when a work er setires either temporarily or permanently, he added. ? The employer has a valid in terest in seeing to it that his em ployees and their families receive the benefits for which they have shared in paying. To inform each of his employees of retirement age that they can claim benefits for any months that they earn less than $15.00, would seem to be an Integral part of good in dustrial relations. Retired workers are not the only persons losing benefits. Sur vivors of deceased workers have also lost benefits and are losing benefits. Here" again the employ er may help prevent such loss by letting the survivor of a deceased employee, regardless of the lat ter's age, know that he, or she, should contact the nearest social security field office to file a claim immediately, or within three months at most. Geese Control Strawberry Weeds By CARL E. V&nDEMAN (Assistant County Agent) Twenty years before scientific men had developed 2,4-D as a weed killer, strawberry growers in Kentucky were controlling the dreaded weed, crabgrass, in their newly-set strawberry fields by forcing geese to pasture in the fields and extending the pasture period through August and Sep tember. Just why a goose will eat ten der crabgrass, saw briars, purs ley, pig weeds, and, in fact, most any common weed pest and yet will not eat the foliage of a strawberry plant, remains the 264.00 question. A successful commercial grow er recently stated that he con lidered eight geese on a two-acre patch at berries the equivalent >f one man with a hoe working two-thirds of the time .during the growing season. A portable fence' of two-inch mesh poultry wire, 30 inches ligh, stretched around the straw berry area and supported with stakes of about broomhandle size (or, in farm language, us ing a tobacco stick with one end forced into the ground a foot deep) confines the geese to the field. This fence is usually placed at the time the berries are planted in March, and four or five geese per acre are put in the snclosure. The geese prefer to do their feeding on the tender grass from late afternoon through the eve ning, and often during moon light nights they will be found roving over the field in search pf tender grass, especially crab grass. A simple range shelter about three feet high, consisting of four posts with crossbars for sup porting a covering of straw or tree branches, is required to pro ride shade for the geese. An abundant supply of drinking wat er is necessary. This is usually provided by a 50 gallon oil drum equipped with a spigot that lets the water drip throughout the 24 hours into an open vessel. A subsihtence ration of a small amount of shelled corn is usual ly furnished. The foregoing article was writ ten by Horticulturist W. W. Magill, of Lexington, Ky., and published in the American Fruit Grower, a leading fruit maga zine. Congressmen On Wide Junket* To East Asia Monroe.?Congressman Deane and fire other members of the House start on a Far Bast journ ey. The alleged purpose is to ga ther information. But like other congressional junkets the real purpose is to give, the members a grand trip at the tax payers expense. The tens of thousands tnat these trips and other things that the congressmen do for themselves heln to make up the billions that are spent unneces sarily and are part of the reason that taxes never come down and the government is going into the red at a time when the revenue laws are still on a war time basis. The article sent out from Washington describing the trip for 6 congressmen and what they expect to do is comical. Imagine them going to all these far flung countries in three or four weeks gaining any information that would be worth a nickel on all these multiplied subjects, espec ially talking to natives whose languages they don't know a word of. And imagine six un known congressman putting Gen eral MacArthur on the grill! The article sent out reads ,is follows:. Description of The Trip Congressman Charles B. Deane of the Bighth Congressional Dis trict is one of six members of Congress composing a select com mittee appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn, to investigate oc cupational forces and expendi tures of United States govern ment funds on rehabilitation and war damage in the Far Bast. This Committee is scheduled to leave Tuesday, August 30th, to see how wisely the dollars of American taxpayers are being spent in Alaska, Japan, Korea, the Phillipines, and the U. S. Mandated Islands. Ben Norris, a Watauga Coun ty 4-H Club boy, consigned the top ram in the sixth annual Pure bred Ram Sale held at Boone recently. The animal brought $87.50, according to L. I. Case, in charge of animal husbandry extension at State College. SEWING MACHINE Service ? Sales ? Repairs ? Phone 337 Service and Repairs on any make Sewing Machine by an ex perienced service man. Best parts obtainable used. 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