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' ,-.:-.t ..). A" :i: -:7:::::":::::i: The sweeping amendments to the ; : Social Security Act signed into law September 1 by President Elsen hower, wUl affect 'virtually every ; ; family in this area, according to N. Ai' AverjC dlatri ctmanager ot the 3 Social . Security Administration. ."Tba protection of old-age and . survivors insurance is now extend ed to 9 out of 10 families in the : , community," ; Avera said, ;'and the v benefit payments, not only to tu. ture beneficiaries but also to those now on the, rolls, have been sub. stanttally increased.' ' , v,,: Tbe amended ' Social, 'Security Act: " t. Extends coverage, com . I II tpr f WW"-""" MARCH i. BpacUa to Form Program Is Hailed - j How Farmers WHI Read At lk Biggest Victory At Foils Is Questionable "TPTASHINOTOX President Elsenhower mis justifiably;' Jubilant W that he scored, his major Congressional victory of the year by House and Senate adoption xf his farm program. ,A veteran congressional leaders, -; viewed lr mm m ' ' 1 " , Secretory Benson port payments me Dig cities indicated they would support them rather than repudiate the-system which prevailed during the Roose velt and Truman administrations. However, administration leaders worked out a compromise which would establish theflexlble supports on a 82 and a half to 90 per cent basis rather than 75 to 90 per cent proposal initially suggested by Benson. When the showdown came, it was key farm state Republicans who witched to the support of the Eisenhower administration and insured .victory for the President where defeat had seemed certain. ., The major question now is whether the President's victory in the halls of Congress can be transplanted into votes this November. Democrats will exert every effort to make it a pyrrhlc victory politically and try to persuade the farmers it's time for a change. This is precisely what happened in 1948 when the Democrats ham mered away at the farm vote and scored one of the major political victories of all time. Six years ago farmers were primarily antagonized because the OOP-controlled 80th Congress voted' a flexible .price support system ven though it never went into effect. ' Failure to provide funds for emergency storage bins- also con tributed to the' resentment against Republicans in the farm states and Harry S. Truman scored his extraordinary victory. ' At this point, It is difficult to assess farm opinion on the new price support program but the1 general opinion is that It will not curb the present trend toward lower farm prices in the market place. This (act alone may be enough to sour the farmers on the GOP. e) TENSIONS Trained Washington observers feel that the western powers are at last beginning to make some progress in relieving the global tensions created by the Communists. There have been some notable gains In recent weeks. The first In ' Importance was the settlement of the long-standing dispute between Egypt and Great Britain over the Sues. ' Second, and almost equally important, la the Iranian oi: accord which terminated this bitter, and extended, controversy. ' Both of these settlements. In which the U. S. was a vitally interest ed party, more or less pulled the rug from under Communist expan sionists who thrive upon disagreements among the free powers. REVISED THINKING The purchase by Capital Airlines of 40 33ritish-built Vickers Viscount transports has stariiea 'American manufacturers Into a possible revision of their thinking about future American transport planes. The Viscounts, which are the first foreign-built l.rf over hnuirht in ouantitv by an United States airline, are powered by turbo-prop engines. Thiols a jet engine that applies its power to a propeller instead of expending it in thrust. The engine burns kerosene and is expected to be very inexpensive to operate. Because it has no reciprocating parts, the upkeep is ex pected to be negligible. . -- - 1 i . " - - . i. , , i i i- Muggs and Skceter & By Wally Bishop i- - 1 1 ; vV, I I''Ytwew ev) il I U ( well-, wow do voy I I randmas Tha-ha.'...io love to be fmm mwfc Wmm : r IHEM? JIM BRINKS jvER ANDTHEY'tel SHE ASRtED TO PAV 1 I NOW THEY HAW6TW0 A I YES, BUT JIM WAS V , m ' ' ' ! ' OI5 TEACHN5 Hl$ SCRAPPING ABOUT fO ANY DAMAGES J t CRUMPLED FENDERS AND j-3-! DOlNfi THE UCtVINfi ' WIFE TO W?(VEf IT ALBEAPy.'-i'V1 TO THfc CAR.' r ' A SMASHED tfBlU.AND BUT, XL WHEN IT HAPPENEOjL 9 ' Tl l-erM!..' - lZ X-l" -v ' VTT,-.: SHE REFUSES LllPSHBwlT . - 5:ti:l icitriiy Actf mencing January 1, 1959. to about 10 million more gainfully-employed people, -including ; ? self-employed farm operators and most farm work ers. X Increase benefits to all pre sent and future retired workers and to their dependents and survivors. 3. Determines benefits oh a, more advantageous - basis by permitting a worker1 to drop out as many a five years of low or no earnings, in computing his average wage, and by increasing to $4,200 the amount ot annual earnings that can be counted .toward v benefits. .4. Pre serves tor totally disabled workers any benefit rights they may have 1 tJO ! i . I OF EVENTS Central Press 'itut Democrat as well as Republicans, rrfnmnli fhnf .am- - h . --.-J--. B . V ..111. u WIV A IfflUl. V patient backstage work and skillful legislative maneuvering. ' One surprise feature was the fact that adminis tration lieutenants succeeded in splitting: the pre sumably solid farm bloc in Congress, a feat which in the past has .been seldom accomplished. When Agriculture Secretary Esra Taft Benson first demanded that the present 90 per, cent of parity price' support program be Junked- In favor of flexible supports, a tempest of criticism by con gressmen from the farm states broke forth. In the beginning, the farm Hjloc was reported adamant in demanding that 90 per cent price sup- be retained and Democrats from British Planes ' Move in ! -S ilk S t. ."V i, 'fi'5?. IAFFVA z.mXi' , Copt. I9H Kiaf Ftttura Sjrndiott, "Easy on your language, Trumble. This ia Ladies' Day." earned before they became disabled and provides for their referral to State - agencies, for rehabilitation services. S. Permits employed 'and self-employed beneficiaries under age 72 to hate earnings up to $1, 200 In a year without loss of social security payments. (A beneficiary 72 or oyer will be able to receive all his payments regardless of the amount he may .be earning. Avera went on to explain that of the 10 million more persons eligible for the protection of old-age and survivors insurance, approximately 6Vi million will be brough't into the system on January 1, 1955. Another 3 million may elect coverage un der special arrangements. The largest group of gainfully employed people in the nation not heretofore covered by social secur ity has now been brought in the 3.6 million self-employed farm op erators. Commencing January 1, 1955, these farm operators will be covered on the same terms as other self-employed people, except for a provision which simplifices the re porting procedure for farm" opera tors with low annual income. -Abolishing the old requirement that farm workers be regularly em ployed by One employer means that over two million additional farm employees will have social security protection for themselves and their families. The new provision simply requires that the farm hand be paid $100 cash wages in a calendar year by one employer. About 200,000 more domestic em ployees in private households will be covered by the law because of the removal of the former require ment that the domestic employee work 24 days in each calendar quar ter in any one household. Here the requirement now is the payment of only $50 cash wages by one household employer in a calendar quarter. About 3,500,000 employees of State and local governments, excluded up to now because they are under a retirement system, may now be brought under social security sub pect to a referendum. Ministers, whether employed or self-employed, may come under the law as if they were self-employed persons. Included in this provision are Christian Science practitioners. Other self-employed groups to be covered by social security as of January 1, 1955, are professional engineers, accountants, architects, and funeral directors. Immediately effective is the igy,;,r.. Inc, World fijhtt rattved f crease In monthly payments to per sons now getting benefits. These increases will show on the Septem ber checks which will be mailed earrly in October. The present minimum payment of $25 to jh retired worker has been raised to $30; the maximum of $18 has been increased to $98.50. De pendents an dsurvivo'rs now getting monthly benefits will, get propor tionate. Increases, with every fam ily unit assured an increase of at least $5. The mixlmum family pay ment has been raised from $168.75 to $200. Persons no wreceivlng monthly payments do not have to take any action to get these increases, Avera declared. They will be made auto matically, and no not have to be applied for, he said. The amended law also provides increases tor persons who become eligible for benefit payments in the future. Beginning with 1955, the a mount of covered earnings which may count toward social security will be raised from $3,600 to $4,200 in a year. This provision will make it possible to maintan a closer rela tonship between the worker's earn ngs and the benefits he and his family will eventually receive. Another provision in the new law oermlts a worker to drop out up to five years of lowest (or no) earn ings in the figuring of his average monthly wage on which benefit payments will be based. This so called "drop-out" applies to all workers becoming eligible for ben efit payments after August of this year. Some persons now on the benefit rolls may qualify for the drop-out if Jhey acquire at any time lft years of covered work after June 1953, or If they become eligible after 8-54 to have their. ben efits refigured dn account of addi tional earnings. The amended law, moreover, pro vides a new formula for figuring the worker's insurance payment. It increases the percent of his aver age monthly wage which will be payable in benefits. The new law increases the amount of covered earnings a beneficiary is entitled to have and still receive his monthly benefit check. The pro vision in 'the old law which restrict ed such earnings to $75 a month in covered employment and to $900 a year fro mself-employment has been changed. Discrimination a--sinst the wage earner as compared to the self-efhployed has been re moved and all retired persons will have the earnings exemption an an annual basis. All beneficiaries un der 72 years of age may now have earnings up to siOO In a year with out loss of any benefits. This applies to all earnings of any kind, wheth er covered by social security or hot. Only one month benefit will be deducted for each additional $80 earned. Benefits are payable re gardless of anual earnings for any month in which the beneficiary ne ither has wages of over $80 nor en gaged in substantial self-employment. After reaching age 72, the beneficiary may earn any amount and still receive benefits. The amended act also provides for the preservation of the benefit rights of the totally disabled. Under this provision a worker's earnings record can be "frozen" and he' will not suffer a reduction in or loss of his benefit rights because of an extended period of no earnings due to total and prolonged disability. To be eligible for a "disability freeze" a worker must have acquired at last five years of covered work out of the last ten years before the disability began, of which at least 1V4 years must have been in the. 3-year period before his disability forced him to give up gainful work. The disability must be medcally determined by State vocational re habilitation agencies or other ap proproate State agencies. No appli cation for the "disability freeze' may be accepted by the Social Se curity Administration before Jan uary 1, 1955. Avera emphasized that this provision will not pay cash benefits during the disability, before the worker attains age 65. While a period of disability ends for social security purposes at age 65, Avera pointed out that persons already over that age and now get ting benefit payments may have their; benefits refigured to exclude periods of disability in the past, if they meet the requirements given above. Increases in benefits under the disability provision become ef fective after June 1955. In conclusion, Avera called aten tion to a provision in the amended law which affects survivors of workers who died before Septem ber 1, 1950, without having acquired enough covered employment to be come insured under the old law. "If you. are the surviving aged widow, child, widowed mother with minor children, or aged parents of a work er who died berore September l, 1950, and you were not eligible for survivor's benefits before," he said, the new law may make it possible for you to get payments. If the de ceased breadwinner in your fam ily had at least 1V4 years of covered work between January 1939 and September 1950, you should contact the Wilmington Social Security of fice in person or by mail and in quire about your survivor's insur ance benefit rights." 'It is especially significant," Av era said, that these 1954 amend ments to the social security law pre serve the contributory and self- sustaining principles of the old-age and survivors insurance system, as well as principle that benefits are related to the level of the worker's earnings. "All benefit payments and costs of administering the program are paid out of the special Trust Fund into which go the social security taxes paid by employees, employers, BBsH-Se!ffe Ford's first in truck sales gains . . . with sales up 17.7 over the same months of last year! Why? Because buyers know Ford Trucks bring them greater value feature for feature than any other make on today. And only Ford Trucks give you Triple Economy . . . ' Gas-Saving Power, Driver-Saving Ease, Trip-Saving Capacities! I "r'V 'mJJ:ttm dVa-ft. Porel F-IOO Pickup. Choice of V- 'TSl V ' "trmm":. I or Si. Fordomatic Drive, Ov.rdri, Pow CoO if I yev'Bk I ' Brekee available at worth-while extra coat. I'-'P-'"1" ; ' !;'' !i.J' 1 11 'I111111'"1""111"1 "illinium. ' Ford's leadership in sales gains makes it possible for (j0r- ' ftj-S, your Ford Dealer to give you the deal of a life- j5"" V time pn your old truck, if you trade lf - ' 'j " right now for a new Ford. If it's a , Jf I 'l used truck you're after, you can rlu- pick the model and size you -1ms 'mmwm&( need, at the price you want, X"" . from your Ford Dealer's selec- ' Hon of A-l used trucks. 4 V ')'.. " 2Vipfe Savings! i. New Ford1' engines give you the mightiest concentra-, tion of gas-saving power per cubic inch dbplacemont eve? in any truck engine '; line! 2. New cabs and controls help the driver to do his job better. 3. Top psyload cqprities, In erer. 220 models I .,, TBI DUTUN SuipIosOf Pips AtM Due loCuf Down There are more pigs going to mar ket than most people thought there would be; consequently hog prices will be adversely affected for the rest of 1954, according to Dr. J. L. Maxton, USDA economist. Dr. Maxton points out the U. S. Department of Agriculture has re vised its estimates for spring pig crop as now being 13 per cent more than In 1953. So, he says. It becomes necessary to revise the prices es timates. Usually hog prices hit a peak in July and August, and then drop as marketings Increase, to hit a low in December. However, hog proces this year hit their peak in April. This early peak resulted from many producers holding back hogs normally sold from February to April and at the same time feeding these-hogs to heavier weights. Since May, more heavier hogs have been marketed, while demand by con sumers has been slow because of the intense heat throughout the country, relatively high pork prices and heavy supplies of other meats at lower prices. The revised estimates of USDA show enough ot an increase In hog numbers to keep markets fully supplied at present prices and cause further later declines. More sows than usual farrowed from Decem ber 1953 to March 1954, so larger than usual marketing may be ex pected in the next three months. This should result in prices de clining to about 16 to 18 cents by late October for lean hogs of pre ferred weights. Hog prices should not decline much after October, and may show a little strength in January, 1955. Since the fall pig crop of 1954 al so is up 10 to 15 per cent as a re sult of increases in the June to August farrowings, prices may ad vance only one to three cents in January. Marketings in February and March may again be so heavy to cause some slight further price declines. The hog marketing situation pricewise is being further aggra vated by heavy supplies of cattle, broilers, and turkeys. "If there was ever a time for con sumers to eat more meat, that time is here," Dr. Maxton says. Prices from the normal handler margins should be such that per capita con and the self-employed. 'The tax rate is now scheduled to reach a maximum of 4 percent each for employee and employer in 1975. It remains at the present 2 percent each until 1960, with intermediate steps between 1960 and 1975. Self employed persons pay at IVi times the employee rate." . MRS. M. M. THIGPEN Bewtarflle, It. C aepreaentattto For WARSAW FLORAL COMPANY WARSAW N. C the market 1UKS. KZKAN8VIUJC, H. C. TKCKNMiX, t, CM"" sumption of meat will increase with normal price declines at re- tau ana utue cnange in consumer incomes until early 1959. "The meat lover should have a field day," the economist says. REDDY'S HOMEMAKING NEWS By SARAH T. JONES ' Home Be nice ReprvaeaUUre Carolina Power Light Co. Let's Get It Squared Awayt Is a pie by any other shape still a pie? Saturday night I shared apple pie with friends. This delicious pie had been made in a low rectangular pan, frozen and stored for several weeks. While we ate the mustard greens, meat loaf and such, the pie baked. Then we ate hot apple pie with the melted cheese on the top. Frankly, the pie was "yummy." It made us think that Saturday night was the best night in the week. Nobody cared that her piece was a "slice" of rectangular pie and not a "wedge" of a round one. The pie with corners was easier to wrap (drug store style with a good packaging material like is used for meat). After it was frozen with air space around it it was easy to stack tight against other packages and containers. It fitted in better than a round pie. Actually chicken pot pie can still keep its name and the "pot" be a cornered pan. Many other meat pies and fruit pies lend themselves to preparation before freezing, and all can be "squared away." . A cake tastes just as good and entire cake slices prettier when cooked in a square or rectangular TURNER & INSURANCE "We're Known By The Phoae 2M L. C Toner. Jr. A40OOaooooo60oooaoooi MADAM MARIE, Tells voh of love, marriaere. and busi ness pertaining t anyone's life. If any trouble in any way, be sure and con sult me. I will tell you of your enemies and friends; when and who you will marry; if married or single. Will give you reading daily and on Sunday. I guarantee satisfaction Located on Highway 117 Across From Wallace Stockyards in Wal lace, N. C. Ka ooo Hendteme now shown) has one of mm in lam naiai if J. I r fPhAU tJ ivfrH rr?r; pattmakes for easier ant neatest ;.cKaging and then for mot rfnt stacking after freezing. So do square cookies. You can mold a "roll" of ice box cookies into Sane ' "square" easier than you can' into a . long "round" Then the cookie will be square when sliced. Ton anni either way, whether you freeze fbe unbaked : "square" 1 or the baked ' cookies. . " ' !'"',.''. If round cakes, pies and cookter -are here to stay it's all right with me, but if you will "corner" those.' you freeze, you will do neatuv -i 'r iob of packaging; -a morv efficient job of stacking and wilt likely have more room for other things. I i't let your enthusiasm, star freezing pies and cakes get oat of balance. Forty pounds of solid most u:ii pouiias oi 'oakery goods go In just about the same amount osT storage space. The Khapra bettle, an insect un known on this continent until Hb vember, 1953, has been found in festing stored grain in California, Arizona and New Mexico. Smokey Says: A greater act of patriotism Is to withhold the match that might destroy a resource! Sw5twvfiM5MSM5HSMJi TURNER AGENCY Service Wo GW Pink H1IL N. 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