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'S'lZSWt Don't be fooled by “bargain prices” on “humming bird’s wings”, “snail’s feel”, and “uranium polish”! The only low prices that mean anything are low pri ces on the foods and supplies used daily in your home—the items you buy most frequency. And these important items are low-priced every day at TILLMAN’S SUPER MARKET! That means savings where savings count the most . . • where savings add up fastest. You’ll see the proof of this in the lower cost of your complete food order. TILLMAN'S SUPERMARKETS ALL FLAVORS JELLO 4 pkg. 25c DUKE'S MAYONNAISE Pt. Jar 29c MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE POUND 99c CAROLINA GOLD PEACHES (Heavy Syrup) NO. 2 Vs CAN 19c (Limit 6 Cans) tsM alitv meats LEAN GROUND BEEF 29c lb. KINGHAM SAUSAGE I lb. roll 29c CENTER CUT LEAN PORK CHOPS lb. 69c iiiiminiim 5 LBS. NO. I WHITE POTATOES 5 lbs. 19c CRISP CALIFORNIA LETTUCE 2 heads 23c CRISP FIRM BELL PEPPERS lb. 10c NESCAFE INSTANT COFFEE LARGE 16 OZ. BOTTLE $1.69 TILLMAN’S DAILY FRESH BREAD lb. loaves 2 <« 27c GREEN GIANT PEAS 303 CAN 19c FAB—U- Box TIDE—Lg. Box CHEER—Lg. Box DUZ—Lg. Box RINSO—Lg. Box SURF—Lg. Box 30c FACIAL TISSUE KLEENEX 200 SIZES 2 for 29c 300 SIZES 21c wr» o f AN innniv i v/w PIE MIX . .35c BLEACH QT- Ve GAL. GAL. CLOROX ... 17c 29c 49c Amended Social Security Act ! The sweeping new amendments to the Social Security Act, signed into law September 1, 1964 by President Eisenhower, will affect virtually every family in Gaston County, according to MV. Joseph P. Walsh, district manager of the Social Security Administration. | “The protection of old-age and survivors insurance is now ex tended to 9 out of 10 families in the community,’’ Mr. Walsh said, i “and the benefit payments, not only to future beneficiaries but also to those now on the rolls, have been substantially increas The amended Social Security Act 1. Extends coverage, commenc ing January 1, 1955, to about 10 million more gainfully-emlployed people, including self-employed, farm operators and most farm workers. i 2. Increases benefits to all pres ent and future retired workers and to their dependents and sur vivors. 3. Determines benefits on a more advantageous basis by permitting a worker to drop out as many as five years of low or no earnings in computing his average wage, and by increasing to $4,200 the amount of annual earnings that can be counted toward benefits. 4. Preserves for totally disabled workers any benefit rights they . may have earned before they be j came disabled and provides for their referral to State agencies, for rehabilitation services. 5. Permits employed and self j employed beneficiaries under age .72 to have earnings up to $1,200 j in a year without loss of social 'security payments. (A beneficiary j 72 or over will be able to receive | all his payments regardless of the amount he may be earning.) I Mr. Walsh went on to explain | that of the 10 million more per ; sons eligible for the protection of ! old-age and survivors insurance, [approximately 6 14 million will be brought into the system on January 1, 1955. Another 3 3!4 I million’may elect coverage under (special arrangements. ; The largest group of gainfully employed people in the nation not heretofore covered by social security has now been brought in —the ‘3.6 million self-employed farm operators. Commencing Jan-] uary 1, 1955, these farm operators will be covered on the same terms as other self-employed people, ' except for a provision which sim I plifies the reporting procedure for farm operators with low annual income. Abolishing the old requirement that farm workers be regularly employed b yone employer means that over two million additional farm employees will have social security protection for themselves and their families. The new pro vision simply requires that the farm hand be paid $100 cash wages in a calendar year by one employer. About 200.000 more domestic emplovees in private households will be covered by the law because of the removal of the former re quirement that the domestic em ployee work 24 days in each cal endar quarter in any one house hold. 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, ex cluded up to now because they are under a retirement system, may now be brought under social security subject to a referendum. Ministers, whether employed or I self-employed, may come under ■ the law as if they were self j employed persons. 'Included in this provision are Christian Science k practitioners. Other self-employed groups to he covered hv social securiay as I of January 1, 1955, are profes sional engineers, accountants, architects, and funeral directors. Immediately effective is the in crease in monthly payments to persons now getting benefits. These increases will show on the September checks which will be ■ mailed early in October, j The present minimum payment I of $25 to a retired worker has been raised to $30: the maximum of $85 has been increased to $98.i}0. Dependents and survivors now getting monthly benefits will ! get proportionate increases, with | every family unit assured an m | crease of at least $5. The rnaxi mum family payment has been I raised from $1(18.75. to $200. Persons now receiving monthly payments do not have to take any , action to get these increases, ] Walsh declared. They will be made j automatically, and do not have to | i be applied for, he said. j i The amended law also provides I increases for persons who become I eligible for benefit payments in ] the future. Beginning with 1955, Itch amount of covered earnings which may count toward social security will be raised from $.1,600 to $4,200 in a year. This provision will make it oossible to maintain a closer relationship between the worker’s earnings and the benefits he and his family will eventually receive. Another provision in hte new law permits a worker to drop out up ot five years of lowest (or no) earnings in the figuring of his average monthly wage on which benefit payments will be based. This so-cailed “drop-out” applies to all workers becoming eligible for benefit payments after August j of this year. Some persons now on the benefit rolls may qualify for the drop-out if they acquire at any time, 1 1-2 years of covered work after Jupe 1953, or if they become eligible after August 1954 to have their benefits refigured on account of additional earnings. The amended law. moreover, provides a new formula for figur ing the worker’s nisurance pay ment It increases the percent of his average monthly wage which will be payable in benefits. (Typ ical retirement and survivors pay ments for persnos qualifying after August 1954 are shown on the accompanying table.) The new law increases the amount of covered earnings a beneficiary is entitled to have and still receive his monthly benefit law which restricted such earnings to |T6 a month in covered em ployment end to $900 a year from self-employment has been chang ed. Discrimination against the wage earner as compared to the self-employed has been removed »nd all retired persons will lhave the earnings exemption on an an. riual basis. All beneficiaeris under 72 years of age may now have earnings up to $1,200 in a year without loss of any benefits. This applies to all earning's of any kind, whether covered by social security or not. Only one month’s benefit will be deducted for each additional $80 earned. Benefits are payable regardless of annual earnings for any month in which the beneficiary neither has wages jf over $80 nor engaged in sub stantial self-employment. After reaching age 72, the beneficiary may earn any amount and still receive benefits. The omendeahct also provides for the preservation of the bene fit rights of the totally disabled. Under this provision a worker’s earnings r»cord can be “frozen” and he will not suffer a reduction in or loss of his benefit rights be cause of an extended period of no earnings due to total and prolong ed disability. To be eligible for a “disability freeze” a worker must have acquired at least five years of covered work out of the last ten years before the disability began, of which at least 1 1-2 years must have been in the 3 year period before his disability occurred. The disability must be medically determined by the State vocational rehabilitation agencies or another appropriate State agency by agreement with the Secretary of the U. S. Department of Health. Education and Wel fare. No application for the “dis ability freeze” may be accepted by the Social Security Adminis tration before January 1, 1955. Mr. Walsh emphasized that this provision will not pay cash bene fits during disability, before the worker attains age fi5, but may serve to increase the benefits pay able after 85. The disability must have lastel at least 6 months be fore action can be taken to es tablish the period or disability. While a period of disability ends for social security purposes at age 65, Walsh pointed out that disabled persons already over that age and now getting benefit pay ments may have their benefits re figured to exclude that portion of their periods of disability which occurred before age 65, if they meet the requirements given above. Increases in benefits under the disability provision become effective after Juno 1955. In conclusion, Mr. Walsh call ed attention to a provision in the amended law which affects sur vivors of workers who died before September 1, 1950, without hav ing acquired enough covered em ployment to become insured under the old law. “If you are the sur viving aged widow, child, widowed mother with minor children, or aged parent o fa worker who died between 1939 and September 1, 1950, and you were not eligible for survivor’s benefits before,” Walsh said, "the new law may make it possible for you to get payments. If the deceased bread winnerr in your family had at least 1 112 years of covered work between January 1939 and Sep tember 1950, you should come to the Gastonia social security office and inquire about your survivors insurance benefit rights.” “It is especially significant,” Walsh said, “that these 1954 amendments to the social security law preserve the contributory and self-sustaining principles of tne old-age and survivods insurance system, as well as the principle that beenfits 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, employ ers, and the self-employed. ‘ The tax rate is now scheduled to : each a maximum of 4 percent each for employee and employer :n 1975. It remains at the present 3 percent each until 1900, with intermediate steps between 1900 a..cl 1975. Self-employed persons pay at l 1[2 times the employee BENEFITS PAYABLE TO THOSE QUALIFYING AFTER AUG. ’54 Worker Survivor* Widow Widow and Widow and 1 Child 2 Children Average Worker’* Monthly Monthly Wage" Benefit 5 45 S 30.00 100 55.00 150 68.50 200 78.50 250 88.50 300 98.50 350 108.5© and Wife Child^ etc. $ 45.00 $30.00 82.50 41.30 102.80 51.40 117.80 58.90 132.80 66.40 147.80 <73.90 162.80 81.40 $ 45.00 $ 50.20 82.60 82.60 102.80 120.00 117.80 157.10 132.80 177.20 147.80 197.10 162.80 200.00 "After drop-out of up to 5 years of lowest (or no) earnings. News In The World Of Religion BY W. W. REID “Christ — the Hope of the World-’ was the theme of the second assembly of the World Council of Churches (the first was in 1048.) which met in Evanston, 111., August 15 to 31, with dele gates from 161 member-churches of the Protestant, evangelical, orthodox and reformed traditions. There were five presiding officers —one an American, Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam of Washington. r> C. There were some 1500 dele gates from 48 nations—some of t'lem from within the “iron cur tain. ’’ And an estimated 100,000 persons—most of them from the I’.S.A. and Canada—were visitors or participants in various pro grams. The unity or oneness of the people called Christians, des pite their division by denomina tional and national boundaries, and the mission that the church has to evangelize the people of all the earth, were the main topics of discussion—some sixteen commis sions presenting various phases of these topics by way of reports and findings for assembly considera While the Council has no legal control over the denominations of Protestantism, and can neither veld the churches into organiza tional unity nor formally promote the extension of their “mission’’, the final reports of the assembly will be received and studied throughout Christendom for years to come; they will help shape the thinking of individual Christians and of groups of churchmen; and they will help shape many denom inational decisions and actions . . The assembly showed again (as did the 1948 gathering) that there is a wide range of differences of t nought and outlook between American theologians and those of Europe; with Asiatic theologi ans leaning toward both groups— according to the backgrounds of missionaries serving those lands. Perhaps there is no wider differ ence than that relating to “the Kingdom of God”; the European theologican (generally) “awaits Christ’s second coming to realize the Kingdom”; the American the ologian believes man can work here and now for a hetter world, “helping God achieve his, King dom upon earth.” The assembly did not resolve this and other differences. The second session of the World' Council of Churches has elected the following as the presidents of the Council for the period until the third session, probably in 10(10: Bishop Sante Uberto Bar bievi of the Methodist Church of Brazil: Metropolitan Juhanon. of the aM rThoma Syrian Church of Malabar, India; Bishop K- F. Otto Dibelius, Evangelical Church of Germany; Archbishop Michael of the Greek Orthodox Church; the Very Reverend John Baillie of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland: Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill of the Episcopal Church of the U.S.A. Dr. John R. Mott, of New York and Florida, a Council founder, was continued as an honorary president. From the, Christian point of view, “a good citizen is one who acts responsibly on the basis of a Christian concept r<jf society,” in cluding the fields of politics, church, and mission service, a Committee on the Christian Lay man and His Vocation,” chaired bv Francis P. Miller, of the C.S.A., told the meeting of the World Council of Churches. “The stark fact is that the survival of responsible freedom in the world depends upon Christians taking seriously their duties and obliga tions as citizens.” To this the re port adds: “Every honorable job, no matter how mechanical or tri vial, can become a vocation. It We now have our FALL SEEDS ready for Delivery. Atlantic Alfalfa Oklahoma Alfalfa Ladino Clover White Dutch Clover Red Clover Red Top Blue Gras; Ky., 31 Fescue Chewings Fescue Orchard Grass ^ Rye Grass Perennial Rye Grass Crimson Clover Bermuda Grass Dallis Grass Vetch Austrian Winter Peas Lawn Mixtures We have the following Seed Certified or Non-Certified: Colonial Barley Davie Barley Victorgrain Oats, 48-93 Abruzzi Rye Balboa Rye Anderson Wheat Atlas 50 Wheat Taylor Wheat 1 WE TAKE A. S. C. ORDERS CHERRYVILLE FEED & SEED Max E. Beam Highway 274 Phone 67/9 Cherryville, N. C. may never have been a vocation before, at it becomes a vocation the moment the man who holds the job understands the full meaning of being a Christian. Suppose a man has a job in a mass-production factory. Regard less of the amount of mechaniza tion, human integrity will always remain one of the most important factors in manufacturing the fin ished product. Further, regardless of the amount of mechanization there will always be a few other human beings around. And a Christian worker’s vocation con cerns his relations with these other human beings even more than it concerns his relation to the mechanical means of produc tion. It is in relation to these other human beings that he strives to make hsi life a signpost point ing to the love and grace of God. If he is a genuine man of faith, his fellows will come to know him as a true person—a grateful per son—a considerate person, sensi tive to the needs and troubles of others and always more intereset ed in the general welfare than in his own. He will be ready to fight for justice, if necessary, but far more eager to create such an atmosphere that justice will be es tablished by mutual consent rath er than as a result of a fight. In the course of time other workers will become Christians because of this man’s presence and when they do a church fellowship will exist in that factory.” NORTH CAROLINA TRAVEL NOTES Fishing Club Fishing fame of North Caro lina's southeastern roast, fanned anew this summer by catches of nearly 600 sailfish in August, is bringing anglers flocking to salt water Ashing centers in this area, where there are over 100 charter boats and uncounted private cruisers and smaller Ashing craft available. A campaign conducted by W. B. Keziah of Southport is paying off, too, in the salt water Ashing business. Twenty members of the Government Printing Of fice Club in Washington have made reservations for days of fishing out of Southport begin ning September 10. and Keziah predicts it's .iust a matter of time before the whole membership of 600 will be coming to Southeast ern North Carolina, and bringing other fishing organizations with them. Development of beaches ad jacent to Southport is providing the needed accommodations and the charter sports fishing fleet is increasing by leaps and bounds. Nearly 11,000 Guests Fontana Village, in North Caro lina’s Great Smokies, is having one of its hep’ years—so good in fact that it has just gotten around highway 1955 season. t ^ , N. C. Camp* PrtpwiH P*r lMS Operators of summer camps in the mountains of North Caroga, where some 50 hoys’ and g***" camps have just close* a successful season, report numerous enrollment appnoauoos for 1955 were being received even before the current camp eeaaon ended in August. Camp cleemgs brought thouaands of August vib itora. into North Carolina as aaaa ilies from many states arryved »• take their sons and danghutm home from the various eampo and • spend a late summer vaceruon m the Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains. In addition, campers made the trip homo ty rail. The Southern Railroad re ported that in August 30 “dra Pullmans and 16 e 'tra coaehos were required to take Wailjawi North Carolina campers to Mm»r homes in New Orleans, Jackson ville, Miami, St. Loui*, Cincinnati and other 'tits. [ Wild Goo to Refuge Ro,Openj»8 To Visitor* I Wild gees'.1 will soon be return | ing to the uni.juc private yefuife established by *he late Leeknart Gaddy at Ansomille, North tjaro !ma. ’ which is open to v intern I from October t to April 1. The I ref upre, managed by Mrs. Gaday ! since tier husband’s death, «s the winter of some 10,000 wild Canada geese and about 1,000 ducks. The wildfowl become so , tame that they accept food from ithe hands of sightseers. More than 28,00 people observed^ the ge<ese and ducks at Gaddy’s Goose Refuge during the past winter CHFLBV soldier serving WITH ORDNANCE IN KOREA I Korea—Army Pvt. Johnaie_ L i Davis. 20, son of Mt. and t®rn j Samue M. Davis, Route 4, »elr I -iv. N. C . is now serving with the 22bth Ordnance Base Depot in Korea. , Davis, an ammunition specialist i- :V <*30th Ordnance Company of the depot’s 335th Ordnaatec Battalion, arrived in the Far Bast last June. Before entering the Army m January 1&54 he attended Tv» kegee (Ala.) Institute. American mills increased con sumption of apparel wool early this year. The North Carolina Board o* Agriculture has approved the ut*e of bulk milk dispensers in pt»M»« eating places. gm s&son on Hunting Licenses Available Here FERGUSON HARDWARE East Main St. Phone 9/22 Cherryville, N. C.
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