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SOCIAL SECURITY Questions And Answers By By D. H. BUTLER Field Representative m. ItllllllllllOIIMIMIMI* pi Q. Lately I’ve been cutting down on the hours I work each week. I’m almost 65 hut intend to keep on working. I’m won dering if I can get any month ly benefits. A. That depends on your present earnings and how much you’ve made and expect to make this year. People of retirement age who are earn ing up to $1680 in a year can receive some benefits while earning more, or even much more, than that amount. Tele phone or stop by the Social Security Office for more com plete and specific informa tion. Q. Will you please explain the “assignment method” of claiming payments under Med icare. A. If you and your doctor agree that he will apply for the medical insurance pay ment, it will be made direct to him. This is called “as signment” of the benefit to him. When your doctor accepts assignment he agrees that his total charge will not ex ceed the reasonable charge. (The “reasonable charge” is defined as the charge your doctor usually makes for that type of service and is not more than the prevailing charge by doctors in your area for the same kind of service). If the doctor does not take the assignment, you can file for the medical insurance pay ment to be made direct to you. With your claim (on Form 1490) you send in an itemized bill, paid or unpaid. Q. Will Medicare pay for a wheelchair for my aged moth er? A. Yes. Medcare can now Don’t forget to take along your es sential drugs or vitamins from 'Morris Pharmacy. We will refill your prescriptions so you don’t run out during your vacation trip. Your m. , MAIM Of IXCIUEHCC | Laugh Corner | Two men were having lunch and talking about their home problems. One of them said his wife told him that morning if he ever died, she would vow to remain a widow. The other man said he supposed she would never find another husband as good. The husband replied, "It isn’t that at all, she is just afraid there is another just like me.” Triumphant father to mother, watching teen-age son swiftly mowing the lawn: “I told him I lost the car keys in the grass.” pay the cost of such durable medical equipment Reim bursement will be made in installments as the chair is used and until the cost has been paid by Medicare. However, if the wheelchair is needed only two or three months, the reimbursement from Medicare will be for only a part of the cost.—not the full cost of the chair even though it was bought out right by your mother. Q. I signed up for disability benefits two years ago and was denied because I had not worked 5 years out of the 10 years before I got disabled. Actually I had worked on jobs covered by Social Securit1' on ly 2 yeans before 1 was injur ed in an accident at age 23. Wall be new Social Security laiw help me? A. You may now be eligible for disability benefits because of recent changes in this law. You, or anyone in a similar situation, should con tact our office without de lay. By the way, your experience reminds us of what we have observed and learned in con tacts with many others. Most people — and especially young er workers — tend to think of disability as something that happens to “the other fellow.” But of course this is not always the case, for disability is no “respecter of persons” — and it strikes the young as well as the old. Certainly you know this is true, when you stop to think about it. However, you may not know that younger workers who are disabled may now qualify for benefits with less work credits toon are required for older workers. In some cases as little as a year and a half of-work will meet this require ment. A disabled person should check with the Social Security Office to find out the specific facts and how the law may ap ply in his particular case. Hannah Ford Road Being Completed (Omitted Last Week) By - Mrs. Ken Riley CATHEY’S CREEK — The residents of Hannah Ford road are pleased to learn it is near ing completion over near the river bridge. We were informed that within 2 years they are go ing to build a new brdge rght beside the old one so traffic will be able to continue. There has been quite a bit of visiting in our section late ly: The Rev. Bob Hamilton of Asheville was visiting minister at the 11:00 o’clock hour ser vice at the Cathey’s Creek Bap tist ohurch lari Sunday with every inspiring message, while the pastor vistied a church at Lake Toxaiway and preached. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wilburn of Port Clinton, Ohio, was a recent visitor of Nellie McKin ney. Mirs. Dicie Clark and daugh ter, Mrs. Robinette Tilley, and Donna and Dense, of Statesville, were last weekend visitors of our section. Douglas Barton has return ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Municipal Building Town of Brevard, North Carolina, Owner Sealed bids for the construc tion of a Municipal Building for the Town of Brevard, North Carolina, will be received by Mayor Raymond F. Bennett at the Town Hall, Brevard, North Carolina, until three o’clock p. m. on Sept. 5, 1966 and then at said office publicly opened and read aloud. Separate bids will -be received for: The General Contract The Plumbing Contract The Heating and Ventilating Contract The Electrical Contract The Information for Bidders, Form of Bid, Form of Contract, Plans, Specifications and other contract documents may be ex amined at the following: Henry Clyde McDonald and Associates, Architects, Inc. Professional Building, Bre vard, North Carolina A.G.C. Plan Rooms —Char lotte, North Carolina and Green ville, South Carolina F. W. Dodge Plan Rooms— Charlotte, North Carolina and Greenville, South Carolina Photronix, Inc.—134 Baker Street, N.E., Atlanta, Ga. 30812. Copies may be obtained by qualified bidders at the office of the Architect at the above ad dress, upon deposit of $100.00 per set. The deposit will be re funded to unsuccessful bidders upon returning such set in good condition within ten days after the bid date. Subcontractors, jobbers, material vendors, etc. will be issued sets or individual sheets at the cost of printing and handling. All contractors are hereby no tified that they must have prop er license under the state laws governing their respective trades. Each bidder must deposit with his bid, security in the amount and form subject to the conditions set forth in the In formation for Bidders. No bid der may withdraw his bid with in thirty days after the actual date of opening thereof. The Owner reserves the right to waive any informalities or reject any or all bids. (Signed) Raymond F. Bennett, Mayra* Town of Brevard, North Carolina 8-8-Stc ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE State «f North Carolina County of Transylvania Having qualified as the ad ministratrix of the estate of George W. dark, deceased, late of the county of Transylvania, North Carolina, this is to give notice that all persons having claims against the estate of the deceased to present them to the undersigned Administratrix at 631 Country Club (Road, Bre vard, N. C. on. or before the 8th day of February, 1960 or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons in debted to the said estate will please make immediate settle ment. This the 8th day of August, 1868. Bdna B. dark; Administratrix f&state of George W. Clark deceased. S-8-itc TRY THE TIMES WANT ADS AN AMERICAN FLAG was recently present ed to the Rosman Rescue Squad by the local Balsam Camp 116, Woodmen Of The World. The presen tation was made by the W.O.W.’s District Mana ger E. H. Ponder, pictured above, right, to Ros man’s Captain Bruce Whitmire, left, while J. I. Ayers, center, local Camp Secretary and member of the National Fraternal Service Committee looks on. ed home from Texas after spend ing sometime there with the Job Corps. He said it is hot there. There have been recent visi tors at the V. B. Waldrop home. They were Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Hunt and family. Mrs. Lillie Faulkner and fam ily of Ohio are spending a few days visiting relatives. We deeply regret to learn of the death of Winifred Hamilton. He had many friends in our section and was loved by all. Also we report the passing of the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Edwards. Mrs. Edwards is the former Ada Eubanks and was a resident of this section. We express our very deepest sympathy to the families of both. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Riley, Albert and Nellie McKinney visited Mrs. Alice Oweniby in the Little River section last Sunday. ALMAR FARM (From Front Page Second Sec.) It would only cut down on guns in the hands of honest people who would obey the law. Proponents say just cut ting down on the number af guns available would -cut - down on crime. They cite ■ statistics on New York City and Los Angeles. New York City has one of the harshest, most unreasonable gun laws on record; Los Angeles has laws with some respect for the individual freedoms. The statistic auoters are either woefully ignorant of the most basic of statistical fallac ies or arc del iberaitely seeking to mislead others in a blind rush toward personal or politi cal goals. Statistics, as any ev en partially - trained statistician knows, can be made to prove anything. I can statistically prove that men who w'-ar pol ka-dot shorts are more prone to lung cancer. All I have to do is confine my survey to a sybaritic crowd of gay boys and collect enough figures. This would, of course, be a biased and meaningless sta tistic. Just like the statistic the hard - line gun registra tion advocates cite on crime in New York and Los Angeles. They say there is less gun shot crime in New York City because there are less guns. This is true. By the same line of reasoning there is less frost damage to crops in Key West, Florida, because there is no record of frost there. But, and the advocates nev er mention this, there is not an appreciably lower amount of major crime in New York. The criminals simply find ■; another means. Just as there is probably not appreciably less crop damage in Key West because they have hurricanes, ~ insects, and so on. (To be continued in my next column) ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE State of North Carolina County of Transylvania Having qualified as the ad ministratrix of the estate of Max Nolan Ashworth, deceased, late of the county of Transyl vania, North Carolina, this is ■to give notice that all persons having claims against the es tate of the deceased to present them to the undersigned admin istratrix at 105 Duckforfh Ave nue, Brevard, N. C. on dr before the 15th day of February, 1969 or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted .to the said estate wiill please make im mediate settlement. This .the 15th day of August, 1968. ELIZABETH ASHWORTH Administratrix Estaite of Max Nolan Ashworth de ceased. 8-15-4tp When in need of job printing, call The Transylvania Times. 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