Report IV On White House
Conference On Aging
More than 3,400 delegates and
program participants grappled
with such issues as income,
fusing, transportation, health
nutrition and many other
. Afied needs of the Aging at
White House Conference
w;W ; in Washington D.C,
November 28 December 2,
1971? Both Conference, Chair
man, Dr. Arthur S. Flemming
and Conference Director, Dr.
John B. Martin emphasized that
the goal of the meeting was
"Action." The year 1972 has
been designated as the year of
.' Implementation during which
recommendations will be acted
Upon. '!V:'-v
Income was pointed out as a
need in all of the areas recom
mendations to improve the
situation of the aging at the
conferenceThere is no sub
stitute for income if people are
'; to be free to exercise choices in
i their style of living. The income
of the elderly people in the past
', left the greater number of them
with insufficient means of
decent, dignified living.
y there were 16 most important
needs that you mentioned in the
community forums and also!
were considered at the 'White
House Conference. Those needs
were as follows:
1. Lower prices (reduced drug
rates, telephone rates, medical
costs, transportation, food,
rents, air travel, insurance,
utilities, funeral services,
ambulance services, and home
repairs)
2. Lower taxes (exemption of
income tax for those under
poverty level, property tax,
income tax for those over 70
who are employed and
unemployed, reduced property
and income tax for those 65 and
over. Lower income tax base,
intangible tax on investments,
$5,000 Homestead Exemption,
local sales tax exemption,
exemption of tax on pensions.
Permit widow to be counted as
head of household)
3. Increased Social Security
(Income for clothes, fuel,
nutritional food, relief for those
!JVCud Of Thanks
We want to take this op
portunity to say Thanks to all
lour friends and neighbors in
sharing our grief with your
visits, prayers, flowers, cards,
Teire'rsTcontributioris and food
during the illness and death of
our dear Mother (Annie P.
Leary.).
These acts of kindness have
'helped so much to ease our
sadness and will always be
remembered by her children.
May God richly bless each of
you for all of this.
The Children of Annie
P. Leary
is: Card. Of Thanks
.
I wish to express my sincere
thanks to friends and relatives
for the many visits, flowers,
; cards, many useful gifts and
phone call.
My thanks to my minister for
his visits and prayers also to
other ministers and many
church groups that were
praying for my recovery while I
.was a patient in the Albemarle
Hospital and since my return
iome.
My prayer is: That all of us
Jfill live closer to God in this
New Year 1972.
Mrs. Earl Hollowell
Whiteston News
Mrs. Irma White returned to
her home on Sunday from
Albemarle Hospital having
been a patient there for several
- days. !
Mr. and Mrs. William Win
slow, Pam, Mrs. Arba Winslow
Mr. and Mrs. Arba C. Winslow
and Jason were dinner guests
on Sunday, of Mrs. Worjh
" Winslow at Norfolk, Va.
Mr. Jasper Winslow ' and
" -sister, Sybil Winslow, recently
' visited their sister Lillian and
'., husband at Benton, Maryland.
M ; Mrs.SallieRountreeand Mrs.
-It Arba Winslow spent last
1 Monday with their neice Mrs.
; Emory Eountree at Sunbury.
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recipients of 10 years ago)
4. Abolish earned income
level for Social Security
Benefits of the poor elderly.
5. Prompt receipt of
payments from Social Security
and Public Assistance (reim
bursements for underpayments
due to error)
6. Increase In pensions
(Railroad, Veterans should
received pension regardless of
income, state and federal
employees) y
. 7. Increase in Widow's
Pensions (continue to receive
full pension and Social Security
benefits of husband)
8. Lower age for Social
Security Benefits
9. Increase Old Age
Assistance (Maintain own
home, stay in boarding home,
meet rising cost of living)
10. Lower Medicare Costs
(Lower premium for those not
receiving extended care facility
benefits or home health
assistance.)
11. Eliminate payment of G.I.
insurance after 70.
12. Eliminate relocation of
those unable to pay back taxes.
13. Abolish Lien Law,
14. Establish central office
for disbursement of all Aging
benefits.
15. Reappraisal of economic
values and principles.
16. Adherence to policy of
fiscal responsibility by all levels
of government.
During the sixties the elderly
as a whole enjoyed im
provements through greater
employment opportunities and
a better old age security and
other public and private
benefits. Ths last two years
may have witnessed the
reversal of these trends toward
improvement as inflation
continued to erode the pur
chasing power of fixed incomes,
and rising unemployment
reduced job opportunities for
older workers. The economic
situation of the elderly, if past
experience is repeated, will
improve more slowly than that
Social Security
People are sometimes puz
zled about the social security
lump-sum death benefit
because it isn't clear to them
who getsit and why the amount
can vary." ';.
"The death payment is
usually made to the widow or
widower of, a deceased worker
who was insured under social
security. But if there is no
widow or widower who was
living in the same household
with the worker at the time of
death, the payment may be
made, under certain conditions,
directly to the funeral home or
to the person who paid the
funeral expenses."
The amount of the social
security death benefit, is three
times what the deceased worker
would have received as a
monthly retirement benefit at
65 - with a maximum of $255.
The amount can vary from
$211.20 to $255. The average is
about $242. .
"The death payment is paid
only when a worker who was
insured under social security
dies. It isn't payable if a
dependent of an insured worker
dies-unless the dependent
himself had worked long enough
under social security to be in
v to be a
Following are a few hints, which, if adhered to du
ring the coming year, are bound to win added plea
sure and happiness for you and the people with
whom you communicate daily ...
When using your telephone equipment:
1. Call by number
2. Place calls carefully Answer promptly
'" i 3. Speak distinctly and directly into the
' i . mouthpiece
..... - '
4. On party lines be considerate of the
, other fellow
5. Be brief when you call
6. Develop a voice with a "smile"
Ths Hcrfclk 6 fcrolina
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Tc!:r!::n3 & TclrTtph Ccmp:ny
of younger groups even with an
upturn in the national economy.
Direct action to increase the
income of the elderly is urgent
and imperative.
Recommendations made at
the White House in the area of
income were as follows: Income
Adequacey. The immediate
goal for older people is that
they shuld have total cash in
come inaccordance with the
"American Standard of
Living." We, therefore,
recommend the adoption now,
as the minimum standard of
income adequancy, of the in
termediate budget for and
elderly couple prepared by the
Bureau 'of Labor Statistlce
(nationally averaging about
$4,500 a year in Spring 1970).
This level must be adjusted
annually for changes in both
the cost of living and rising
National Standards of living.
For single Individuals the
minimum annual total income
should be sufficent to maintain
the same standard of living as
for couples, not less than 75
percent of the couple's budget.
For the elderly handicapped
with higher living expenses, the
budget should be appropriately
adjusted.
The recommendations for
income will continued in next
week's paper, stated today by
Mrs. M.B. Taylor, Home
Economics Extension Agent. If
you need further Information
please contact Mrs. Taylor at
426-7697, Hertford, N.C.
BUGGY CAPITOL
Washington George Hays,
an official in the architect
of the Capitol's office, says
the U.S. capitol building is
infested with cockroaches.
Hays said there were s-
many nooks and crannies in
the Capitol, so many miles
of conduits, so many false
walls and ceilings that just
getting at the roaches was a
tremendous problem.
Administration
sured on his own record."
A retired couple receive
monthly social security benefits
on the husband's earnings
record. The wife never worked
under social security. If the
husband died, a lump-sum
death payment would be made
to his wife because he was in
sured under social security.
If the wife died, a payment
would not be made. She had
received retirement benefits on
her husband's record, but she
was not herself insured under
social security.
Last year, the Social Security
Administration paid $293.6
million in death benefits on the
records of $1,220,248 deceased
workers. '
"If someone in your family
dies, be sure to check with the
local social security office for
information about the death
payment as well as for in
formation on survivors
benefits." The social security
office is located at 401 S. Dyer
St., Elizabeth City, N.C.
Vatican restates ban
against married priests.
Synthetic fuels viewed as
threat to oil.
Winner in 72
Washington Report
By Congressman Walter Jones
WASHINGTON - President
Nixon's new economic policy
which imposes wage-price
controls in mid-August and the
devaluation of the dollar in late
December constituted the most
far-reaching change in our
domestic affairs in 1971.
Congress, called upon late in
the session to enact new tax
legislation and to extend the
Economic Stabilization Act of
1970. cleared measures . to
implement this policy a few days
before adjournment. New
Legislation dealing with the
dollar devaluation is expected
to be offered later this month.
Although the Administration
won both a new tax law and the
requested one-year extension of
the President's authority to cont
rol wages and prices, it also
got bills on these subjects with
unwanted provisions. Among
these were the tax checkoff to
finance Presidential campaign
.expenditures beginning in 1976
nd a Federal pay raise ef
fective January 1, 1972, instead
of July 1, 1972.
Whjle I did not favor the
Economic Stabilization Act of
1970 when Congress initially
passed it, because I felt that the
Administration and the
Congress ought to have exer
cised fiscal responsibility
without resorting to wage and
price controls, I did support the
President's request to extend
this Act after it became evident
that we were either going to
have economic controls or face
economic disaster. I think it
would have been preferable had
the Administration and a
majority of the Congress faced
up to the need for fiscal
responsiblity many months ago.
Because of my deep concern
about the precarious state of the
Federal budget with its
estimated deficit of $32 billion
for the current fiscal year and
also because I do not think the
Federal Government has any
business financing political
campaigns, I voted against the
Revenue Act of 1971 which I
considered objectionable on
both grounds.
I did favor the Federal
elections campaign bill. This
measure won Senate and House
approval in differing versions.
At the end of the session, House
Senate, conferees reajCfaoA
agreement on this bill anttcth&f'
. it.,,.
approval on December 14
Further House action has been,
postponed on that bill runtJ(
Congress reconvenes.
Cancer Clinic i
Set For FrtX
The Northeastern Cancer
Clinic weill be held on Friday?
afternoon January 7, 1972, wink
registration beginning at 12:00"
p.m. A chest X-Ray will be
given to anyone wishing itatong
with the "examination of the '.
five areas of the body where -cancer
is most easily found and
cured. Only 30 people can be''
seen at the Center each month
due to limited facilities, so it is
suggested mat anyone who
wishes to be assured of an
appointment should write or
call the Cancer Center, Health
Department, Elizabeth City,
N.C. for a priority. Examinees
are asked to bring a robe or
housecoat with them.
TAYC0R
theatre;
Edenton, N.C'
Wednesday ft Thursday -Jan.
5-6-Rattag (GP)
JASON ROBARDS IN
"MURDERS IN THE
RUE MORGUE"
Friday k Saturday Jan. 7-8
Rating (G)
BIG TRIPLE FEATURE
TRACK OF THUNDER"
"SPEED LOVERS"
"PIT STOP"
Sunday, Monday 6 Tuesday
Jan.940-ll-Rating(G)
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Sunday 8:00-5:00-7:00 9:00
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9:00 pan. Adults $1.75
QtMn7S COMING JAN. 12-13-14-15 .
RICHARD HARRIS IN
r::u:EF:ES$" ,
conference report won SwiM'oijito'& tilt at $17,729.
Anti-busing amendments . to
the omnibus education bill
became a focal point in the
Congressional battle over
Federal pressures to achieve
racial balance in the public
schools. The House late in the
session adopted amendments
which would block the use of
Federal funds for . busing to
achieve racial balance and
would prohibit Federal agen
cies from requiring local school
units from spending monies for
this purpose. However, the
Senate leadership deferred
action on this bill until the next
session at which time I expect to
continue my efforts to secure
the enactment of an anti-busing
amendment.
The battle over day care
centers became a major con
cern in the consideration of S.
2007, a bill to extend the anti
poverty program for another
two years. I voted against this
bill when the Senate initially
considered it on September 9
and voted to uphold the
President's veto of this bill
when that question was
presented to the Senate on
December 10.
The end finally came to the
lengthy battle over the funding
of the supersonic transport
plane. Congress rejected fur
ther efforts to expend Federal
monies to finance this project. I
voted against the continuting
authorization for the SST
because I think that the
financing of this project should
be borne by private enterprise
and it should not " be the
obligation of the taxpayers to
provide transportation for a
limited number of passengers
by means of an aircraft which
raises serious environmental
questions.
Next week, I shall continue the
review of legislation pending
before the 92nd Congress.
OSWALD'S POSSESSIONS
Dallas, Tex. -A federal
judge has ruled that the gov
ernment should pay $3,000 .
for personal effects ft seized
from the estate of Lee Har
vey Oswald, named as the
"assassin of President John
F. Kennedy. Oswald's wid
ow had sued to obtain more
for the possessions-apprais-
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Hog Killing
Hog killings, Uke farm
numbers and the mule pop
ulation, keep decreasing In
North Carolina, but Tar
Heels still practice this
winter ritual probably more
than any other farm folks In
the country.
The number of hogs
slaughtered on the farm
dipped to 130,000 in 1970,
less than half the number of
1962. But the value of the
meat killed for home use
remains fairly steady at
around $11 million.
The ham remains the
most valued portion of the
pig, just as it remains an
important source of pride
for the farmer who has
developed the skill required
to properly cure and care
for a genuine "country
ham."
But not all hams are
cured properly. In fact,
the loss attributed to im
properly cured hams is
estimated in the thousands
of dollars.
The losses come pri
marily from three sources:
spoilage, off-flavors and
Insect damage, according to
food scientists at North
Carolina State University.
W-O-T-l-C-E
Take notice that the planning board of the
town of Hertford will hold a public hearing,
January 19, at 7:30 o'clock at the Municipal
Building in the town of Hertford, North
Carolina on the question of rezoning property
located on U.S. 17 south of Hertford and
owned by Hatred's, Inc This property now
zoned B-N Business Neighborhood District. A v
This the 4th day of January, 1972. Planning
Board, Town of Hertford By A, Marvin Hunter,
on these
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betting a uniform cure
is important in avoiding
spoilage and off-flavor. The
NCSU meat experts rec
ommend applying the curing
mix whether straight salt
or salt with sugar and salt
peter as soon as the ham
is cut following chilling.
They use about one and a
quarter ounces of mix per
pound of ham or eight pounds
for each 100 pounds.
The curing mix should
be rubbed on the ham at
three different times. The
first time is when the meat
Is cut and ready, the second
on the third day and the third
on the 10th day. Contrary
to some popular beliefs, a
lot of rubbing isn't required
just enough to cover the
surface.
Caution: Be sure to pack
some curing mix into the
shank end at each application.
Ideal temperatures for
shelf-curing hams are from
36 to 40 degrees. When
temperatures go above 50
degrees for any length of
time, there is some chance
of spoilage.
Don't let the hams cure
too long. One of the main
objections to country hams
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Cure Ri&ht
is that1 many of thenv sre
too salty. Avoid this by
curing -on the following;
schedule: two days per
pound for a 15-pound ham;
one and three-fourths days
per pound for a 20-pound
ham; one and a half days
per pound for a 25poundJ
ham. -
For each day the tem
perature averages : below
freezing during curing, add
an extra day to the schedule.
Bagging hams In clean,
cloth bags with crumpled
newspaper stuffed around,
the ham is a good way to
store the meat for aging.
The paper should not be
packed tightly. Tie the bag
closed and hang it with a
string attached to the ham
rather than to the bag.
Aging is required to give
the ham good flavor. About
six months is a good aging
period.
Other Information on
curing country hams is
available in printed form at
county agricultural exten
sion offices. Ask for
Extension Circular No. 405,
"Curing Hams Country
Style."
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