SOCIAL SECURITY uestions An Anstvers By D. H. BUTLER Field Representative Q. Recently, a couple of months before I was 65, I sign ed up for both parts of Medi care. Now I wish you’d tell me how to get Medicare payment on my medical bills. My doctor says he doesn’t usually send in the bills to have the payment made direct to him. A. In the back of your Medicare Handbook you’ll find a copy of the Request for Payment form, or you can ask for a copy at your doctor’s office or, of course, at the Social Security office. You fill out, and sign, the . p part of the form. Be sure to copy your name and num ber exactly as they appear on your Medicare card, and complete the other simple items carefully and accurate ly. Your doctor can either fill out the bottom part of the form or give you an itemized bill showing the date, place, brief description and charge for each service rendered, and the total charge. You will send in the form along with the itemized bills, paid or unpaid. But be sure that your full name and your Medicare number are on each bill attached to the Request for Payment form. Send this Medicare claim to the appropriate medical insurance carrier (the insur ance company that handles the Medicare payments in the area where you received the medical services). See pages 27-29 of your Handbook for the name and address of the Medicare carrier, or your doc tor’s office or the Social Se curity office can give you ....a this information. If the medical services were received in North Caro lina, send it to Medicare “B” Division, Prudential Insur ance Company of America, P. O. Box 1482 High Point, N. C. 27261. If you want more informa tion, or need help in filling out the form, get in touch with our office or one of our traveling representatives. Q. I am 64 and plan to re tire on my 65th birthday. When should I apply for my retire ment benefits, and what rec ords or proofs should I take to the Social Security office? A. You should apply 2 or 3 months before your 65th birthday. Take an old reeord or tw(/ of your age, and your last year’s tax return or W-2 form. Assuming you don’t have an original birth certificate take any old record you have or can readily secure that shows your date of birth or age. Your Social Security office can tell you if you need anything else, and if necessary will help you ob tain certain hard-to-get docu ments. Q. As I am to retire soon at age 65, I wonder what bene fit, if any, my wife can get. She has never worked on a job lovered by Social Security, and aur children are all grown and narried. A. Your wife will be eligi ble for an unreduced benefit at age 65 (one-half of your own full benefit amount), or a reduced benefit as early as age 62. | WEEKLY CKOSSWOMOK a. 10. Desire 18. Commando, 14. ) ■SEl 15. Sun god 17. Prickly or gUnginff plants* 20. Inflores 28. Narrow inlet 25. Affirms 26. Stone* worker 28. Gain 20. Father or mother SO. Allure 83. Guido's lowest not® 84. Consume 35. Little island 89. Monsters 41. Spoke 42. Crowd 48, Washes 44. Headland 45. Duck DOWN 1. Sandarao tree 2. Blower 8. Gatherer 4. Chemical ending 6. Meager j Compiling List Of All Persons 100 Years Old Or Older Here . The local chapter of the American Association of Re* tired Piersons, in coopera tion with Governor Scott’s Coordinating Council on Ag ing, is trying to locate all persons who are 100 years old or older who live in Tran sylvania. According to Rev. Ernest Barnes, the local president, the names with other infor mation can he turned in to him or forms can be filled out at The Transylvania Times office. Information needed eludes the following: Name Address Birth date Race and Sex. In. Mr. Barnes can be reached at his residence on Franklin street or at 883-8483. When yon think of preatrip Hons, think of VARNER’S. ad« Don’t be misled by Chevy price ads! "Based on a comparison of manufacturers' V suggested retail prices for comparably equipped cars... Yet Qataxie hao a kpipar wheal* baae, wider door opening, more paar-aeat ltip ro^ naidfi morei 77T J* r s' hhmmJ • f V r v* vi r BREV^p. «. JL THE "TIMES’' PRIZE-WINNING COLUMN From ALMAR FARM In Tran$ylyaiiia BY CAL CARPENTER (This continues my story about Dr. I. B. Ewing, a col orful mountain physician who practiced in Avery, Mitchell, and Yancy counties in the ear ly 1900’s.) The railroad, even today, is an exceptional example of en gineering; in 1899 it was con sidered a wonder. From Johnson City to Chestoa, it hept to the val leys paralleling the luuy ridges in a northeast direc tion. The elevation rose grad ually and the engine ahead negotiated these foothills with ease, puffing on at a respec table speed despite the four teen cars snaking out behind it. But from Chestoa on, things were different At Chestoa a second engine at tached itself to the rear of the train and joined the one ahead with mighty puffings. A short time later, the train was climbing the mountains in earnest . The railroad became a de mented snake, curving and recurving, constantly searching ' for gentler grades and gaps. , It was soon a narrow cut blast ed put pf the pteep mountain sides; wandering, lpoping back on itself, but ever climbing. The occasional streams were now crossed on Spindly - leg ged trestles, with oftimes a hundred feet between the tracks and. rocky stream beds below. And with every ridge, hogback, shoulder, where the view was unobstructed, the dis tant peaks of the Smokies came closer, dark blue and vaguely out of focus in the characteris tic hate from which the moun tains get their name. Passengers’ ears popped, the air became cooler. J. B. Ewing polled his coat tight er around him. He was now in the . mountains. Where would he go from here? I think it wag at this time he took a last look at the first forty yeass fif hjg life like a picture in a darkled, empty room; then hp fjrmly closed and locked that door forever. For althopgh he would later set down the thing!) about }}is pnce'tory he thought his new fem'lv should know — going all the way back to the times depicted by Sir Walter Scott in “The Lady of the Lake”—he gave no details of his own life those first 40 years. He later mentioned. a few things casual piy, almost in passing; but as faf as details of his past life are concerned, he might have been born on that train. For tiff sake of complete ness. f shfH mention what we.khonr of . Ms past here. Wot thpt it {s important, for ft Is dot; unless we concede thaf ft was a part of the pro peks {hit molded the man. Be that as it may, it is not the process that ' made Mm in widph we are most interest ed. There is more than eiboogh to hold our interest li| tjie mgn himself as he was known those last SC years of hi$ )ife — as a country doc tor ip the hills of North He was born in Buchanan County, West Virginia. He was taken to Chester County. Pen nsylvania by his mother when hi Was three days old, where he was reared by his grand father. Of his father, we know nothing. public schools m M0 Vent ff* dapsiaari^*? aeacn, ne movea 16 iwi> ■ ■ ■» i uni i -■ -m ii i■ ■» loosa, Alabama. Why there, we don’t know. Bat we do know he lived there, operat ed a farm and taught school for about seven years. It was there he contracted the chronic malaria which was to go with him the rest of his life. To try at this late date, with no more facts than we have, to recreate those years and un derstand the motives that prompted him, would be speci ous at best and probably com pletely wrong. We can per haps imagine though in a general way, how he must have felt. To a man who had grown up without close 'family ties and probably married late, this bride of six months must have meant everything to him. Her loss must have been a blow only a strong - willed man could have borne. 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