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4 Dear friends*. operation, a ® een
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Old-Age Applicants
Required To File'
For S. S. Benefits
I A representative from the dis
| trict social security office said to
iday: '“An application for old age
and survivors benefits must be
| filed before payments car begin."
i He added that one of the basic
lequirements that must be met be
fore benefits can be paid to a re
tired worker is that he must con
tact the nearest social security of
fice and file an application, he
added. The same requirement
must be met before survivors bene
fits can be paid to a deceased
worker’s family after his death.
“It is very important for the
worker and his family to under
stand this requirement so that
checks can be started promptly
and so that no loss of payments
will result,” the representative
said. “The three statements which
follow are important to every
worker and to every member of his
family
1. The worker who is between
Sixty-five and seventy-two years
old should file his application at
the nearest social security office
at the earliest opportunity after
he retires from work.
2. A worker at the age of seven
ty-two need not retire to be eligi
ble for payments. Payments may
he made to an insured worker at
ihe age of seventy-two regardless
of his earnings. The worker still
employed at the age of seventy
two should file his application at
the earliest opportunity after he
attains that age.
3. After the death of a person
whose work was covered by social
security, some member of his fam
ily shoud inquire promptly at the
nearest social security office to
learn what survivors insurance
benefits may be paid.
Vaccinate Swine,
Farmers Advised
Dr. H. J. Rollins, state veterin
arian. says that recent outbreaks
of hog cholera in eastern North
Carolina are due largely to the
failure of many farmers to fol
low three important practices in!
swine production: Sanitation,)
isolation and vaccination.
Other factors have contributed
to the situation, he said, such as
floods and mosquitoes. Flood
waters have spread infection from
one farm to another in some sec
tions; and mosquitoes, occurring
this year in unusually large and
vigorous swarms, have irritated
swine and lowered their resistance
to disease.
“Generally, however,” Dr. Rol
lins explained, “the outbreaks can
be traced to more fundamental
causes. The low incidence of chol
era during the past two years
lulled farmers into a sense of false
security. Some have grown lax in
keeping their hog lots and shelters
clean, or have failed to move their
pigs to new ground from time to
time.
“Many farmers also have fallen
into the error of moving newly
acquired animals into their swine
herd without first isolating them.
All herd additions should be kept
apart from the regular herd for
two or three weeks to make cer
tain that they are not diseased.
This is especially important w'hen
herd additions have been bought
at livestock markets or from un
familiar sources.”
The state veterinarian advised
that all pigs should be immunized
against cholera, preferably a week
before weaning; but he said older
animals can be successfully im
munized, provided they are heal
thy. He reported that excellent
protection against hog cholera had
been provided for large state
owned swine herds at Caledonia
Prison Farm and at mental insti
tutions at Goldsboro and Kinston.
Farm Operators
To Pay Social
Security Taxes
• Farm operators who figure their
farm income on a calendar year
basis will be paying social security
■ j taxes on their self-employment in
-1 come for the first time between
January 1 and April 16, 1956. The
payment of social security taxes
on net earnings from operating a
farm is compulsory, provided the
net earnings amount to S4OO or
i more during the year.
The farm operator who had net
earnings from farming of S4OO or
more in 1955 should first make
sure that he has adequate records
cf his farm income and expenses
for the year. Next, he should get a
social security account number
from his nearest social security of
fice if he does not alreday have
one. If he has had a number but
; lost it. he should apply for a dup
. licate number. This should be done
: soon to avoid the last minute rush,
j since the number will have to be
| shown on his income tax return.
, | Even though the farm operator
I may not make enough to have to
pay income taxes, he will still need
to file an income tax return in
order to pay his social security
taxes. Social security taxes are
paid on net earnings of S4OO or
more before taking off for per
sonal exemptions. For example, a
married farm operator whose net
earnings were SI,OOO in 1955 would
not owe any income taxes, since
he is allowed SI2OO personal ex
emptions, S6OO for himself and
S6OO for his wife. In this case,
| however he would pay the social
security tax on SI,OOO.
A recently issued free booklet,
“How Social Security Covers
Farmers,” outlinging the details
of this new law as it applies to
farm operators, can be secured by
getting in touch with your social
security office, located at 212 W.
2nd Ave. in Gastonia. The phone
number is UN 5-4611.
The practice in these herds, he ex
plained. is to vaccinate pigs w’ith
serum and virus a week before
weaning.
Dr. Rollins explained that serum,
given alone, provides immunity
for only two or three weeks; but, |
when administered together with
virus, it establishes long-range im
munity, usually for the useful life
of the animal. The veterinarian
added a warning, however, that as
live virus is used in serum-virus
immunization, it is highly import- j
ant that this treatment should be
given only to animals known to be ;
healthy, except in certain
instances of emergency. It is also!
important, he added, that swine
| treated with live virus be quar
-1 antined for 30 days.
11
>—THE LINCOLN TIMES, Lincolnton, N.C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29,1955
■MHH9VM!
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By JOSEPH P. WALSH
District Manager of the Gastonia
Social Security Office
The months immediately ahead
are of special significance to self
employed farmers and all others
w’ho work for themselves in some
kind of agricultural enterprise. It
is possible for them to become !
insured under the social security j
law after they had credit for j
net earnings of at least S4OO in j
both calendar years 1955 and 1956.
This could be as early as April j
1956.
Older farmers those now 65 or j
over, and those who will have j
reached 65 at that time can re
tire after March and start getting
monthly old-age insurance pay
ments if they meet the earnings
requirement stated above. Other
farmers, regardless of age, will ac
quire family protection under so
cial security on the first of April
provided they meet the same earn
ings requirement. If they should
die at that time their dependents
w'ould become entitled to monthly
survivors insurance benefit checks.
It is well to bear in mind that
becoming insured does not mean
that a person wall remain insured.
Those under age 65 and alive after
March 1956 will need additional
work to retain an insured status.
I want to point out also that being
insured has nothing to do with the
amount of benefit payments. Pay
ments to a self-employed farmer
and his family or to his surviving
dependents will be based on his
average earnings. His own monthly
benefit in retirement could be as
little as S3O or as much at $108.50;
total monthly payments to his
family w'ould range from $45 to
S2OO. The amount of the benefit j
j depends upon the farmer's aver
age net earnings in years after
1954.
Today. I have discussed the pro- j
tection und#r the old-age and sur- J
vivors insurance program which so [
many farm people will have ac- }
quired by mid-1956. In my next j
| article I shall explain the obliga- j
j tions that go along w ith this pro
| tection—the responsibilities which
j must be met by self-employed
I farmers after the turn of the year.
Self-employed farmers should
report their 1955 net income for
social security credit and pay the
self-employment tax not later
than April 15, 1956. Watch for a J
full explanation of these reporting i
requirements in a later installment j
of this series.
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Lincoln Expected To
Have Representatives
At Gas Co. Meeting
Lincolnton will have representa
tives at a special meeting of stock- I
holders of the Carolina Natural
Gas Corporation at 3 o'clock Fri
day afternon, Dec. 30, in the Di
rectors room of the First National
Bank in Hickory.
The meetins is being called by
R. Walker Geitner, secretary of
the corporation, and it is reported
that a tentative proposal made by
an out-of-area concern to effect
the bringing of natural gas to
this area of the state, will be the
main item of business.
Details of the plan will be
brought before the shareholders at
the meeting. It is understood that
the proposal contemplates the dis
tribution of natural gas in the
area included in legislative act,
passed by the last General As
sembly, creating the Catawba Val
ley Natural Gas Authority, or the
communities of Lincolnton, Maid
en, Newton, Conover, Hickory,
Granite Falls, Lenoir. Valdese and
Morganton.
The Carolina Natural Gas Cor
poration acquired ownership of the
Piedmont Gas Company in Hickory
a few years ago.
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Hog Killing Time Still
Is Governed By The Moon
By BEATRICE COBB i
(In Morganton News-Herald)
I am aware of the fact that;
modern butchers, meat packers'
and dealers will argue that “ any- !
time" is good hog-killing time” :
that the old notion that the moon ;
has anything at all to do about i
governing the butchering of hogs
is just an oid myth. Os course. I
haven’t made a survey of Burke
County farm homes to find how
many still stick to the old rule of
consulting the almanac for picking
a “good” slaughtering time, but I
am convinced from conversations I
have had with local farm people
that perhaps the majority of them
still follow' the tradition of “killing j
when the moon is right.” Scores:
of them will testify that they have j
learned from experience that the !
old custom of “killing by the
moon” really effects their meat
and lard.
John Parris, one of the best
news and feature writers in the
State, w'hose “mountain" articles
in the Asheville Citizen-Times, are ;
a real service in the preservation \
of the folk lore of Western North
Carolina, recently wrote one of his
most interesting articles on the
subject of the debate on the best
time of the moon to kill hogs. Ap
parently his assumption is that
practically all mountain farmers
“believe in the moon,” but have
different ideas about the time to
kill. “The argument has been
going on,” he believes, “since man
first looked to the moon for signs
to guide him through seed-time
and harvest-time ...
“Some folks argue a man must
do his hog killing on the shrink
ing of the moon,” he reports.
“Others are just as insistent the
butchering should be done on a
'growing moon.’ •
“The ‘shrinking moon’ faction
contend a hog killed when the
moon is wasting will prevent the
bacon and lard from shrinking.
“My grandfather, who is 96 and j
wTio has butchered many a hog,!
holds to this theory with a per- j
sistency that rules out all argu- !
ment.
“ 'The proof,' he says, ‘is in the |
meat. So there ain't no room to
argue. When a hog is butchered in
the dark of the moon, the meat
will shrink in the pot and yield its j
juicy goodness.
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“ 'Now, if a fellow kills his hog
in the full light of the moon, the
meat, won’t give up its fat. It'll
just grow bigger and tougher the
longer i.'s cooked in a pot.
“ ‘Show 1 me a piece of bacon
and I’ll tell you right off when
the butchering was done. It’s the
easiest in the world to tell. All
you’ve got to do is put a piece of
it in a pan and start frying it.
“ ‘lf the bacon curls up, you
know for a certainty that it was
butchered in the light of the
moon. Meat butchered on the dark
of he moon, flats out and you
get a heap of grease.”
“There are others, however, who
argue that unless you do your hog
killing on the full light of the
moon there won’t be as much
grease and fat,” and he cites his
grandfather’s brother-in-law’ as a
con ender on that side, and says
that “he is known in these parts
as a superprime killer and butch
er.”
I am not sure but I rather think
the majority of Burke farmers
W’ould side with the grandfather.
I think his theory is what I’ve
heard.
To quote further (and I have
quoted from so many of John's
articles, which are “right down
my alley.” that I should write him
for permission for even excerpts),
he has this observation to indi
cate that among mountain people,
on w’hatever side they argue about
he effects, the moon still governs
their time for hog-killing.
“ Hog killing usually begins when
the first heavy frost hits the
valleys. That is, it begins if the
moon is right. Os course, the
weather must be cold and crisp
and clear.
“In many sections of the moun
tains. neighbors gather and make
hog killing a sort of community
affair.
“It is about the only thing left
of the old time customs where
' neighbors gather to help each
| other.”
I have understood that Mr.
Parris will include many of his
| newspaper articles, and perhaps
1 other interesting mountain lore he
has been collecting for years, in a
book to be published soon. I for
one. shall be looking forward to
j ow ning and reading such a worth
l w’hile volume.