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THE YANCEY RECORD PAGE 12 jTteTiMPHas COME For j | Jump Suits 'Vacation j Style Craft prj> Fashions ! | ffoA Sk° oter <0 | 4 T °<*e°s es swl : KiL M 1 i outlet mr j Job Printing Done 'Right’ At Yancey Record ********************************* I Jeep’ \ i* 4-wheel driveJL. ** : The 2-Car Cars, t ¥ rm-i l riir--i.».iiiii.i.. l i i.i ~ .„ , -k 9fgSs^jjSßraK^tliH * WEmfiSKmWEmm ¥ ( - ■■ * i if* ¥ “ter .n—nagfi^lß-!il * * i MBSI IT rl ¥ t- ..': Wifi RfH-U 1 -*' -l!«r#l\S| ¥ mt , gunning * gmvin-'IIIHM v ¥ ikf4^np|^sßgggp * Bg^M»^3BMaMß|Baa -k MRfiffiiaiafcC&siKaßßKiKßE^ljffl ■k £ It’s a beast. -k * I ROBERTS -BUICK-JEEP * Burnsville, N.C. ■¥ * * * AMMMMMMMHMMME-JMMM JUNE 18, 1970 * HKfiaa»HßH * ■ j IT r* * ;* * »-Bw U X M f i .HSr'w^ |L \ * - JV, xM^ptr | jj(E * j * I ■ llllllLF :XU Mimr eMM -k -k r ■:. IHH MBi It’s a beaut. * ¥ This ‘Jeepster Commando® Station ) Wagon changes from backwoods car to family car. Cruise the highways like any sweet-riding model. wwTl%r\/\| Or flip into ‘Jeep’ 4-wheel drive to m Ww llvvl. unleash the beast. Charge into k- the woods. Attack the swamp. Worried CUrIVC* about getting stuck? Not when‘Jeep’ _ 4-wheel drive is standard equipment! All the options: V-6, automatic trans mission, air conditioning, you name it. p* jest drive the 2-Car Cars at your ‘Jeep’ dealer. And ask about resale value.. .‘Jeep’ ruggedness goes out of style. ‘Jeep’ 4-wheel drive. You've got to drive it to believe it! Kto*m* >V corporation •ovtoo OM>o •mo* Guestions-Answers Social Security By D. C. Nichols Field Representative Q. Will you sketch briefly the history and development of Social Security from its begin ning and down to the present time? A. Whew! We’ll give it a try, as briefly as possible. The original Social Securi ty Act of 1935 provided just for retirement benefits, and covered only workers (emjbyes in business, industry, and com merce. It provided a basic "floor" of financial security for them against the hazard of old age. The first benefits to retired workers were paid in 1940; by which time amendments to the law had been passed providing benefits also for the dependents and survivors of insured worlera (The benefit money rightfully belonged to the "entitled bene ficiaries" because the workers had earned the right to it, for themselves and their eligible dependents or survivors, by working and making the re quired tax contributions o n their earnings.) In 1950 the coverage was extended to millions of other people—including farm work ers, domestic workers, many state and local government on ployes, self- employed farmers as well as self-employed busi ness and professional people, and even members of the armed forces. The law has provided full, or unreduced, benefits at age 65 and over for those who are entitled, under the prog ram and who (if under age 72) are retired—as "retirement" is defined in Social Security law. Reduced benefits are provided for those who choose to take their monthly payments start - ing at ages 62-64. However full or unreduced benefits are provided for widows at age 62, a. d proportionately re d u c e d widow’s benefits at ages 60-61. All these, and others who may be entitled to social se curity benefits—such as depen dent parents of deceased work ers, and dependent husbands or widowers—must, if under agp 72, meet the "refinement re quirement" in the law. Os course, the amounts cf mo nthV social security benefits pay able depend on the average earnings of the workers (in cluding self-employed indivi duals). ' You know of course that the dependents and survivors of workers include children under 18 or adult "children" who were disabled before age 18 —or full-time students 18-22 years old and unmarried. Since 1956 workers in gene ral under age 65 who have so cial security credit for half of the last ten years before gettig severely disabled from illness or injury (physical or mental) may receive monthly benefits from Social Security. And so may the workers’ wives and children. (Actually,the dis ability work requirement has been liberalized for those who get disabled before age 31.) Since 1967 disabled widows ( widows "disabled" within the meaning of the law) may be J eligible for benefits based on their deceased husbands’work, as early as age 50. And finally, in 1965 Con - gress created the Medicare po grom, which helps people 65 and over pay their hospital and doctor bills and certain other medical expenses. So you can see that in it first one-third of a century of operation Social Security has grown into a great Four \ Way Protection Program of retire - ment, survivors, and disabili ty insurance—and health in surance for the aged, popuhrly called Medicare.
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