Questions & Answers Jack Britt FWdRep resents tive hat Social Security advice "in hutaheU" can you give to one hp it thinking of retiring in ? near future? A. Juat this: Inquire before mi retire! Get the technical ct, from a Social Security pdalist, at least three months ifore you retire; then you can lake an intelligent decision. Us is our "nutshell advice" to Ml. And now may we be a bit more particular and specific, and make our answer more complete and useful? We advise you or anyone age 62 or ovei who plans to retire in the neai future-- or who is approaching age 65, whether retiring or not - to contact the Social Security office three months before you retire, or three months before you're 65. Then we can help you to be fully protected under this law. Have your Social Security card, and a good old record oi two (such as an old family Bible, an old insurance policy, etc.) showing your age. Be sure to have your W-2 (withholding slip) for last year, if possible, or a copy of your last year's income tax return, or at least the earnings figure which can be verified (in accordance with necessary rules for insuring the correctness of the benefit computation and preserving the soundness and integrity of the Social Security program). And if you become disabled -- don't fail to contact us as soon as it appears, from the nature of your condition, that your disability will last 12 months or more. Q. My wife is almost 62 and will be applying soon for benefits on my earnings record. Will this cause my check to be any less -- I mean smaller than it is now? A. No, your benefit check will remain the same. CUZ'S CORNER Everybody said that we had Have you ever heard of anything as she was of old the meanest, fightingest, anybody being ashamed of a Nero, our mean braying mule. Drayingest mule of anybody mule? Mama always said that And she was continually onto who went to our church. They had never, in her whole Papa to get rid of that ornery were right. life, been so ashamed of beast. He finally did but not jefore Nero had made himself juite a reputation and turned learly everybody in the whole :hurch against us. It seemed that every time ve took a notion to go to :hurch that would be the very ,ime that Nero would pick to how out the most. And Mama vould always tell Papa that hat was the very last time she ntended to go to church until le got shed of that awful mule, 'apa would always chuckle, lap Nero lightly with the lines ind tell her, "There's one thing rou can sure say for this mule ind that is he's got spirit." tlama'd say, "It's demons he's |ot if anything." We would skip going to hurch a Sunday or two then rlama would decide that we ust had to go back. She would ay,"HI be doggoned if just ?ne mean mule is gonna keep ne and my family away from he Lord's house." And back /e would go for another /hack at it with Nero. The way he first began to listurb the public worship was rith his braying. He'd bray onger and louder than nybody else's mule in that hurch yard. If he had been orn a human I'm pretty sure te would have been a song sader, and a dam good one, oo. on account of when he ommenced he wouldn't stop ntil he had all the jackasses in he whole churchyard a-singing he blues. He got so bad that finally reacher Snyder and a ommittee came to see Papa nd they asked him if there rasn't something he could do bout that cussed mule. When Papa found out why hey had come he was tickled, le said that he reckoned that ras the first time in history a elegation from any church ver had to go see a brother bout the conduct of a mule, lama said she was mortified, ly sisters said they didn't elieve they could stand it, but Lay was too little to care one ray or the other. Papa and I rere just plain tickled, actually we were kinda proud if old Nero and said as much, t least Papa did. 1 just agreed rith him but Mama said, "It's ist like you two to think it's unny. You've both got a great ig devilish streak in you." We missed church for two r three Sundays after the arson and the deacons met rith Papa about our mule but lien Mama couldn't stand it ny longer; She decided we just ad to get back. Before we raved our ordeal again, hough, she and Papa onduded that it just might be good idea if I stayed outside rith Nero go kindly keep him uiet. 1 was supposed to swarp im with a big switch every ime he gor ready to hee-haw. When I found out about ny 1(w ecclesiastical uties-getting to stay outside nd mind that mule, why, I iggered he was just the finest Mile anywhere on that side of lissouri. My first Sunday on duty rith Nero I did such a fine job hat Mama, Papa, Preacher inyder, and half the ongregation were patting me ,n the hack. I was sure that I had found my life'* calling and had a job that was a lot more exciting than sitting through long sieges of mighty dry preaching. The next Sunday though, I had a little trouble. I had persuaded Jake Scott and Claud Beasley to stay outside and help me look after Nero. They did. So, we got to shooting jaybirds with out slingshots, you know, to have something to do while Nero was behaving. We got kinda busy with this project and before we knew it he commenced. We were too far from him to swarp him so I told my buddies we'd just shoot him with our slingshots and we did. You know how a flat rock will sorts sail when you throw or shoot it? This one did just like that. Now you wouldn't think that anybody could miss as big a target as a mule, but, on account of that flat rock I sure did. But not much. That durn rock sailed right past Nero and busted out a big window pane right beside where Mama and Papa, Ray and the girls were sitting. Preacher Snyder stopped. Papa said, right in the middle of a long prayer and looked right straight at him. Papa just excused himself and came outside and tore me up. Then he went back inside. For the next few Sundays us boys didn't do anything much but just play marbles and mumbledy peg right there close where we could knock the H..uh, where we could knock the stuffin out of that ole mule. Then I was pretty certain 1 had broken him of his bad habit, so my helpers and I decided we could maybe risk slipping off down to the spring while Nero wasn't looking. We must have stayed a little longer than we figured. I heard the low-down rascal beller, sounded like he was a way off. We high tailed it back to the churchyard, but it was already too late. Nero had somehow gotten loose and, Papa told me later, he had come and stuck his old head in the window right behind the pulpit and brayed the darnedest racket he had ever brayed in his life. Papa said Preacher Snyder yelled, "AMEN, and Lord help us!" Then Papa said he hit old Nero up side the head with one of our new Stamps-Baxter song books and the meetin' was over for that Sunday. After Papa hit old Nero he--Nero, not Papa-went biting and kicking through that bunch of mules and horses in the churchyard, several of them broke loose, and we and three other families had to walk home from church. Mama was more than humiliated this time. She was mad at Papa, me, my buddies, as well as pore old Nero. I don't think it was so much what all Mama had to say as it was that three-mile walk home in the hot July sun that convinced Papa he would sure have to trade Nero off. I certainly did hate to see him go. It was sorta like losing a momhor nf ?ho ramlh, introductory]^, I OFFER! El 1 Sale ends Sat. IVight ? Two plies of polyester cord for strength ... two plies of fiberglass belts to stabilize tread. ? Hundreds of deep, tractor type cleats . . . grip . . . dig in ... and pull you through. ? New 78 series winter tire. USE OUR EASY PAY PLAN ? 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