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?Bd SOCHI SECURITY By LtPla M. ?r#rly, Yield B?p. Qarioola Soda! Security Officii (A iiummiHUii ?C (to bcW bni ?T Mwi^llMIIW U la Kings Mora A 23-year-old California widow this month became the 5-mllllonth social security beneficiary on the nation's old-age and survivors in surance rolls. She Is the 225,000th mother with children who Is now getting monthly survivors bene fit payments; her two small chil dren have Joined 865,000 other youngsters on the social security benefit rolls. Mrs. Dolores fclaa of San Ra fael, California will be mailed a check for $423.90, representing a lump-sum death payment of $255 and the first of the $168.90 mon ? thly payments which Mrs. Plaa and her children will receive for many years under provisions of the social security program, ad ministered by the Federal Securi ty Agency. Sixteen years after the pro gram went into effect In Janu ary 1937, the five million persons on the rolls are receiving more than $200 million a month In in surance payments. The benefits to the Plaa family are the maxi mum now payable under the pro gram. Because the father had re latively high income as a fore man, the payments are subsU. ? tlally higher than the average now being awarded to widows with two children. The average amount in these cases Is about $130 monthly. Tragic circumstances led to Mrs. Plaa and her children becom ing survivors insurance benefici aries at this time. On November 17 her husband, James P. Plaa, 30, was accidentally killed by carbon monoxide fumes from a defective gas furnace in the Plaa nome in San Rafael, California. Mrs. Plaa and this children were also overcome but were saved from possible death by fellow workers of Plaa who became con cerned when he failed to pick them up on their way to work and went to his home to deter mine the reason for his absence. Mr. Piaa was one of the young est foremen employed by the Pa cific ? Telephone and Telegraph Company. He started with the firm lik 1940 when he was 18 years of age. He paid into social securi ty ( from that date until he enlist ed' In the Navy on August 27, 1942. He was a Radioman First Class (T) and was honorably dis charged on December 25, 1945. While in the Navy he, like other servicemen, did not pay social security taxes, but received cre dit for every month in the ser vice as Is provided in the law for men and women who were in the armed forces during World War H and thereafter. After Plaa's discharge from the Navy in 1945, he returned to his Job In the tele phone company. The social security payments which Mrs. Plaa will receive mon thly are her major source of sup port for herself and her young sters, Although group insurance carried through Mr. Plaa's em ployers and a private life insur ance policy bolster the family resources. According to Mrs. Plaa these combined assets will enable her to remain at home and take care of her youngsters. The contributions which her husband and his employer made to social' security enabled, them to build up this insurance protection for his family although he did not keep up his National Service Life In surance after discharge from the Navy. Mrs. Plaa will not have to be separated from her children and can, as she puts it, devote full time to being, both mother and father to her babies. The first social security payments will be delivered within the first month after her husband's death. The family will receive survi vors benefits of $168.90 each month from social security ? a widow's payment of $63.30 and $52.80 for each child. These bene fits will continue, if she does not remarry or take employment covered by social security, until the children reach age 18. At that time, the widow's benefit ceases, but it will be resumed when she reaches age 65. Altogether4, benefits paid the children alone are scheduled to total $20,038. Depending on life expectancy, Mrs. Plaa herself may receive payments of from $12,000 to more than $20,000. Mrs. Plaa consented to publica tion of these facts about her bene fits because of the unique nature of. this five-millionth milestone, and because it was believed the information would help other families understand their rights under the program, Gift Suggestions For 111 Veterans Are Listed Persons who wish to send Christmas gifts to patients in VA hospitals are reminded by Veterans Administration that certain presents are inappropri ate for medical reasons, and that certain others are not needed. VA said candles, cookies and other sweets are not permitted in the diet of diabetics, and that certain other foods are restricted according to the individual medi cal requirements of other pa tlents. . ?*?> ? However, bulk gifts of Yule tide goodies and seasonal pack age foods are acceptable for dis tribution to patients oy the man agers, the announcement said. Since VA hospitals normally buy sufficient quantities of maga zines, playing cards, puzzles and games, gifts of this kind are not in demand. VA is not permitted to make public the names of veteran-pa tients, so gift donors are request ed by the agency not to ask for the names of patients for use in sending gifts and correspondence. VA said such persons may send their gifts to the hospital man agers for presentation to patients. Because, of numerous requests for a listing of. Christmas pre Operating Statement For November City of Kings Mountain V ; RECEIPTS ^ Collection*: ?? ' >V ? ? ~ .? 1950 Tax * . 26.55 1851 Tax 38.53 1952 Tax . 2,967.65 V ? Tax Penalty 3.72 Tax Discount .59 Sales: Services- 26.75 Water & Lights 54 >,? Utility Billing RccelpU^ Water 4,171.00 Lights 14.9S0.81 Court Fees 1,003.55 Water Tops ' 125.00 Deposits 235.00 Privilege License ' 15;00 Hospital Savings 41.00 PermlU . o 43.0? Digging Graves 50. 0Q Sale of Cemetery Lotf :*).00 Miscellaneous 36.45 '. .. . Short ? ' 7.23 Meter Collections 600.57 Meter Violations ? 85.00 Fishing Permits ' 16.00 . Stadium Lamps 102.50 Jail Costs Cleveland Co. 76.00 Outside Fires 200.00 Supplies 10.62 2,762.46 TOTAL RECEIPTS FOR NOVEMBER $24,999.80 $ 3.033 86 81, St '? % 19,121.81 DISBURSEMENTS Administrative Dept. 1,610.68 Cemetery Dept. 607.12 Street Dept. 7,792.64 Sanitary Dept. 1,316,06 Police Dept. , 2.663.M Fire Dept. ? 1.456.71 General Dept. 1.7ai.H3 Water Plant 1.868.16 Malnt. of Water System * 2,295.76 Main), of Sewage System 61.03 1-lKht & Power Dept. 9,203.76 Court 400.50 Current Accounts : Withholding Tax 911.10 Social Security 182.09 Discount Earned 66.40 Dond Payments: Interest 2.M3.00 Bank Commission 5.00 Others: Deposit* 187.50 , Jail Repairs 83.74 Water Plant Equipment 2,024.25 Dump Truck 2,87T.jO Parking Meter Repairs 18.90 . Garage Equipment 84. 00 Withholding Tax 871.80 Fines & Bond Forfeitures 300.00 ' ' ? ? .Hospital Savings 41.00 ' ? ' ?. . 16.483.49 TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS FOR NOVEMBER S39.Z84.76 EXCESS OF DISBURSEMENTS OVER RECEIPTS SI4.284.96 31,010.86 1.159.59 2.950 00 sent 3 that are considered most appropriate lor veteran - patients VA- suggested the following Items: Books of canteen tickets (in denominations of $1 and $5), which veterans can use in shop ping at VA canteens. These books can be bought from the canteen or Special Service office at any VA hospital, domiciliary or ot her sizablo VA installation. The purchaser should request the sell ing office to deliver the books to the recipient. Cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco and smoking utilities, such as lighters. Sundry toilet articles, such as shaving lotion and hairdressing. Stationery, fountain pons, auto matic pencils, etc. Handkerchiefs, socks and ot her suitable haberdashery. New or selected phonograph records, to suit the- patient's musical taMes. ' Because of rapid picking and girinlng, cotton is turning out. much better than expccted. 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