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. |
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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.
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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
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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. And
after his own recovery from
the fever, we can imgaine
the long, lonesome days, his
empty house, the rudderless
position in which he found
himself.
(To be continued next week.) •
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