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Sodal Security ^Activities In Past Year Reported The Regional Office of the Fed eral Security Agency in Wash ington, D. C. has rdeased a A^ry comprehensive report of its ac tivities for the last fiscal year. According to Vernon D. Herbert, manager of the Fayetteville office of the Social Security Administra tion with offices in the Huske Building, the report is of parti cular interest because it deals with how people of North Caro lina have benefited by the opera tions o fthe various programs of tibe Federal Security Agency. The people of NorUi Carolina have benefited to the extent of $26,719,436, which represents the National Government’s stiiare in their State and Local investmrat in health, education and social welfare^' “Even this 'sitiistantial investment”. Regional Director Dr. E. R. Coffey points out, “does not tell the whole story in terms either of people or of money, since it does not take account of certain nation-wide FSA services which benefit every citizen of plans for public assistance. Fed eral grants to North Carolina for assistance to dependent children, the needy aged and the blind were as follows for the fiscal year end ing June 30. 1949: Aid to dependent children, 34,- 314 in 12,178 families, $3,699,000. Old Age Assistance, 54,278 re cipients for $8,946,000. Aid to Needy Blind, 3,661 re cipients for $868,000. By June 1949, 42,370 residents of North Carolina were receiving monthly payments under the Fed eral system of Old Age and Sur- North Carolina. These services are i vivors insurance at a monthly rate COME TO Hodgin’s Mill Antioch Pond FOR Old fashioned Water ground Corn Meal WE BUY CORN food and drug regulations, ser vices to the State’s educational ! systems, supervision of Federal credit unions and public health of $652,762. This program is Fed erally administered and provides a monthly income for workers in private industry and commerce operated directly by PubUc Health and their families when the work- Service.” A total of 150.360 men, women and children in North Carolina benefited directly from Federal funds added to North Carolina’s er retires at age 65 or later and for his family when he dies. Mon thly benefits certified for pay ment to retired workers, their wives and their dependent chil- investment in health, education, I dren in North Carolina during the i welfare, vocational rehabilitation ; and Social Security. “These direct I beneficiaries”. Dr. Coffey ex- ! plains, “inplude; children who get ! health care, or who are dependent or in danger of becoming delin quent; the needy blind; disabled men and women being rehabili- 1 tated into jobs; old people re- , ceiving assistance; and those re- : ceiving Federal Social Security I benefits, including both retired ! workers and families of insured workers who have died.” Under the Social Security Act, Federal funds are made available to help States finance approved fiscal year amounted to approxi mately $3,968,000. Monthly bene fits to survnlors of insured work ers totalled approximately $3,- 666,000. These payments went to children, widowed mothers, aged widows and aged parents of de ceased workers In addition, lump sum payments totaling $454,000 were made to survivors who were not immediately eligible for mon thly benefits. In the field of Public Health Service according to the report. North Carolina received a gen eral health grant of $352,000 to help build up and maintain its local health departments, control communicatSe diseases, improve sanitation and other general pub lic health services. In addition grants in the amoimt of $82,000 were made for cancer control and $93,000 for mental health activi- ties. North Carolina received $2'46,- 000 to carry out effective meas ures for the prevention treatment and control of tuberculosis. Grants in and for control of venerial disease in North Caro lina amounted to $638,000, also under the Hospital Survey and Construction Act of 1946, North Carolina was granted $593,000 during the year for surveying need for hospitals and health cen ters and for the construction of hospitals. In the field of Education ac cording to the report. North Car- olint received $917,574 to assist in the financihg State and local pro grams of vocational education and $110,762 for its land-grant college program. The Federal Security Agency helps in many ways to promote the cause of education throughout the United States, Finding of various research aim ed at the solution of problems facing teachers and school admin istrators at all levels of education are available. Interpretations of their research findings are made available through publications, correspondence, personal consul tations and conferences. ■0 Arabia News By Mrs. D. B. Traywick Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Covington and daughter, Ann. Mr. and Mrs. Dock Covington of Wade, Mr. and Mrs Walt Maddox, Mr. and Mrs. Jake Beasley and Mr. and MTs. Marvin Beasley *of Laurinburg, Mr. and Mrs. Veasey of Raeford were visitors of Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Trawick Sunday. counties are: Cherokee. 225 lar» Mr. and Mrs. James McKenzie of Maxtbn, Route 2, spent last Thursday with Mrs. Carrie Mc Kenzie. Farmers Producing Many Hatching Eggs mers with 75,000 birds; Macon, 200 farmers with 65.000 birds; Jackson, 34 farmers with 28.000 birds; Haywood, 25 farmers with 5,000 birds; Graham, 15 farmers with 3,000 birds; Swain, fice far mers with 1,300 birds. ■0 Mr. and Mrs. Albert Quick and Mr. and Mrs. Graham McKenzie of Buie. Rev. and Mrs. I. J. Straw- bridge and daughter, Mary Ellen, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Bostic and family. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar McGoogan received many nice gifts from re latives and friends Tuesday night at the housewarming given them by Misses Vera and Elva McGoo gan. China’s 1949 rice crop was a- bout 1,^ per cent below th^ pre war average. Mr. and Mrs. Luther Jackson, Jr. and family have moved into the apartment at Mrs. D. B. Tray- wick’s, recently vacated by Mrs Mary B. Webb. Mrs. Lida Hendrix Jackson of Atlanta is visiting home folks. Production of hatching eggs in seven western mountain counties of North Carolina has increased more than 700 per cent in the past four yea^, according to T. K. Jones, farm management ana lyst at State College. Estimates by county agents show that a total of 889 farms in Clay, Cherokee, Macon, Jackson, Graham, Swain and Hasrwood counties now are engaged in the hatching egg business, Jones said. The total in 1946 was pnly 122 farms. Farmers in these coimties sold 209,989 dozen, hatching eggs in 1946, 390,863 dozen In 1948, and 528,892 dozen during the first six months of 1949. , ^ Most rapid growth of the in dustry has occurred in Clay Coun ty, where 385 farmers with 150,- 000 birds are now producing hatching eggs. Totals for other The 1949 pig crop totaled 96.3 million head, an increase of 13 per cent over the previous year. ■0- It Pays To Advertise Are You Trading Cars? REGARDLESS OF WHERE OR WHEN — LET US FINANCE IT FOR YOU. Lumber River Discount Co. 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