Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 9 January 1960 — Page 7

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Social Security Quiz Answers Many Queries

(Editor*. Note) Do you have *ny questions about Social Security. We all do. don’t we? Send any question you might have to Social Security Qute, c/o Dally Der " oc f* t You’ll find Your answer in this column, which is published regularly.) 1 Q—l have done housework for a family for the past three years. They do not deduct social security tag from my wages. Is there any way that I can determine if these wages have been reported? A—Yes. your social security office will be glad to furnish you a wage statement request card. Simply complete the card and mail it to the address shown on the card. You will receive a statement showing your total earnings under social security and a yearly breakdown for the current and three proceding years. If this statement discloses that your wages have not been reported your social security office will be glad to assist you in establishing these wages. 2. Q—l live in a community property state and am receiving'monthly 1 w<g£ der if one-half of my wife’s wages should be added to my wages in figuring the SI2OO I am permitted to earn in a year and still get my social security checks. She is not getting social security. I, worked for wages of SIOSO in 1959 and my wife will make S3OOO. One-half of my wife’s makes added to mine would make me lose all my social security checks. A—lt is your employment earnings only that are counted in the SI2OO that you are permitted to earn in a year without losing one or more social security checks. Your earnings of SIOSO for 1959 are less than SI2OO, therefore you do not lose any benefits for that year. 3. Q— I know that many self-

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.employed people were brought under social security between 1951 and 1955. Would you please tell me which self-employed people were brought under social security starting with 1956? A—The new group to which you refer includes all self-employ-ed lawyers, dentists, osteopaths, veterinarians, chiropractors, nauropaths and optometrists whose net earnings were at least S4OO for taxable years ending after 1955. 4. Q—When my husband became disabled about 15 years ago. I went to work and have supported him ever since. Now I'm 62 and is 66. How much social security would I receive now on average monthly earnings of $275? .- A—You would receive a reduced monthly benefit of $79.20. 180% of $99.00). If he meets the requirments of a dependent husband, your husband would receive $49.50 a month. Together you would recive $128.70 per month. 5. q— One of my employes past 65 earned SI2OO the first half of th* yea?. July 1. 1959, she is earning S2O a week. Will she be eligible to receive social security benefits starting July 1959 or will total income disqualify her for the year? I A—ln general, one month’s benefit is cancelled for each SBO or fraction of SBO earnings over SI2OO. Your employee will have total earnings of $1720. This is enough to cancel 7 checks leaving; her eligible for 5 monthly benefits. However, a second rule is that any month she earns SIOO or less she gets a check regardless of total earnings. This will apply in her case so that she will receive her monthly payments from July through December.

■ ■ STAMP COLLECTOR— Charles A. Willis, 56. is being held on charges of stealing $500,000 in stamps over a 10year period from the New York brokerage bouse where he worked as a mall clerk. Willis’ legitimate take-home pay was $62 a week. w 6. Q—l was 65 years old in January this year and have been working on an egg ranch for a number of years for SIOO monthly cash wages and my board and room. Do I have to quit my job in order to start drawing my social security or can I continue this employment? — ' -V * A—You do not have to quit your job to draw std-age retirement benefit checks. The law permits you to earn.sl2oo in a taxable year and still receive all 12 checks for the year. The value of board and room for farm labor is not considered wages and does not make your total wages for a year more than the SI2OO allowed by the law.

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Favorite Sons Likely Haunt For Kennedy By LYLK C. WfIBON Hutted Press lateroattaml WASHINGTON < UPD-Favorite sons sod. especially, Missouri's Sen Stuart Symington, are likely U> haunt and to harass Sen John F. Kennedy's campaign tor the Democratic presidential nomination Kennedy’s weekend announcement of his candicacy wiU tertfarate the cooaiderable activity within the Democratic Party to kill him off His announcement tormalised hia position a* a front Miner among a half dozen more or less togitUmatc seekers of the nomination. A front-runner has the advantage. of -courte, of being in front. The disadvantage to that nil other aspirants, plus those who for one reason or another also oppose the candidacy of the man in front, tend to gang up on the leader to pull him down. Pull Kennedy down, the others must, or their own hopes are hollow. Kennedy is well aware of this. As long ago as last summer, he was complaining in public that favorite son candicacies in various states and abandonment of presidential primaries in others were stifling the people's voice in the choice of a Democratic nominee. Proa May Be Wrong Gov. Edmund G. (Pat) Brown of California and Gov. Michael V. DiSalle of Ohio are favorite sons who have put up against Kennedy no trespassing signs. He is finding something less than a welcome into Maryland's presidential primary. The governors of Michigan and New Jersey prefer to control their state's delegations themselves when the time comes at the Democratic national convvention tor the wheeling and dealing involved In making a nomination. There are others. All of this is harmful to Kennedy 1? candidacy. Specifically, all of this cuts into Kennedy's potential first and early ballot convention strength. And the political pros are saying with much confidence that if Kennedy is unable to make it on an early ballot next July in Los Angeles, he will not make it-at all, and that the Democratic nomination will go either to Adlai E. Stevenson or to Symington. The pros could be wrong and perhaps they are. But it is not only ip Washington that predictions and bets are being made that th’e Democrats, finally, will choose between Stevenson and Symington next summer. The Svmington boom, as of now. probably is the stronger of the two, largely because Stevenson insists he wants to sit this one out. Must Unstifle People's Voice Symington's strength generally is rated like this: He is solid with the left wing of the Democratic Party, well liked by labor, and as a border state man, the mere mention of his name does not infuriate the South. Also said of Symington is that he has not offended anybody or any bloc of voters. Kennedy is on pretty good terms with organized labor and his name

Hold Meetings On Education By IV LAFAYETTE. lad (UFD - Three meeting* which will arttie many unanawwrvd questions about • Ux-atate airborne aducattooal television protort will ba hrM thia week in Chicago and Lafayette Prrtidenl* of the approximately W 5 college* and uni varsities located to Indiana, lllnoi*. Ohio. Michigan. Wisconsin and Kentucky wrrr invited to attend a meeting Thursday In Chicago, called by the Midwest Council on Airborne Television Instruction Present plans of the major experiment in education call tor about » per cent of the course* to be college level. 40 per cent elementary, and 40 per cent high school The council already has held meetings with state superintendent* and super Intandents of schools within the six stale* to acquaint them with What l* planned that would be of value to elementary and high school*. The meeting I* to acquaint the upper educational level with the airborne school. The plan, set in motion by a four-million -dollar grant from the Ford Foundation, calls tor educational TV courses to be beamed from a DC-7 Pia ne over a six-state area in which five million students live. The second meeting Friday at Chicago is expected to produce recommendations on subjects to be taught during the first year s operation, starting lib September. Attending this session will be the state curriculum directors, including four each from Indiana and Illinois, three erfch from Onio. Michigan and Wisconsin and two from Kentucky. The recommendations of tn i s group will be presented Saturday at Purdue University for consideration by the council. The council also is expected to make further decisions on the project. Members of the council are Dr. Samuel Brownell. «upenntendent of schools. Detroit, Mich., Dr Novice G. Fawcett, president of Ohio State University. Dr John Guy Fawlkes. Unlvers ity of Wisconsin: Dr. Lyman v -pmgerUniversity of Kentucky; Dr EE. holt, superintendent of P^ bllc ‘ n ’ struction, Columbus. Ohio; Dr. Frederick L. Hovde, president of Purdue; Dr. John W. Taylor, executive director of the Chicago Ed ucational Televison Association; President Herman B. Wells. Indiana University, and Dr. Benjamin C. Willis, general superintendent of schools. Chicago. certainly does not infuriate the South. On the contrary. Kennedy has some southern support ana may get more, notably in Louisiana. The left wing. Americans for Democratic Actions however, appear to be cool toward Kennedy. And Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt occasionally has challenged his fitness for the presidency. She has not done so recently, but neither has she retracted public statements obviously, intended to cut down Kennedy even before he could announce his candidacy, bhe would not comment on his announcement that he would run. Now that he formally has announced his intentions. Kenedy s job is, somehow, to unstifle what he regards as the people’s voice.

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NOTES FROM AFTER THIRTY By JACS UKLLKB ami a avranoN GET AN ANRWRR The Hrv WUD«m Feller. one ot our kmg-time fitende erxted up hU annual congregational meeting on 8 humorous note last Sunday. Or at least. one of his congrrgetlM did. Tha business part of the morning meeting was just about over The new officer! had been elected, and reports had been given. Rev. Feller then asked if there were any suggestions from the congregation a* to bow any of the function! or services of the church could be improved. About that time the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church suffered a black out. as the power went off Someone sitting in the back of the church made a suggestion for improving the church's services. In a loud clear voice, some one said. "Sell ttf JO HAPPY NEW YEAR? Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Gehrig had an interesting and unusual New Years Eve party. Besides several games, one of the events was a basement of horrors, featuring a ten-foot tunnel. Greased pigtails, a black cat and two freshly skinned cows heads adorned the tunnel. Also along the way was a witch stirring a cauldron, a man hanging by the neck, and his wife laid out in a casket. To make things more comfortable, the carpet over which the guests crawled was covered with hickory nuts. The whole basement was lit with one dim blue light. Several groups made the trip during the evening, and all had a great time. The next day, Jerry and Lois had the problem of cleanup. Bpsides several pounds of partly shelled hickory nuts, they had to dispose of some of the decorations. Did you ever try to decide horn to get rid of two skinned cows skulls’ making a fortune We are enjoying this winter. Partly because the weather has been quite enjoyable, and partly because it will probably be one of the last winters we spend in the cold north. We have devised ' a scheme to make a fortune by • working two weeks a year. That is, if most families are like ours when it comes to the day after Christmas. We hope to secure the dump-picking rights from several . nearby cities for the two weeks following Christmas. Then it will be a small matter to go through the old wrappings and ribbons and pick out: that envelope from Aunt Grace that had the new five-dol-lar bill in it; the whatch-a-ma-call-it from Junior’s new game, without which a $14.95 investment isn’t worth a nickel; two priceless pictures from the new Land camera. one of Grandpa with his teeth out, and one of the baby opening her first Christmas present; the directions for erection of the new electric train accessories Dad got for himself by disguising them in packages for the kids; Mom’s earrings that she just took off for a minute when the gifts were to be

HIS SON, HIS BROTHER—-S*’! riRM, Barry, gat ready to board an airliner at Idlewild Airport, NY. Fried's son. Robert, 33. Barry’s twin was one of Mlwho died when a National Airliner crashed in Bolivia, N.C. The Frieda, who live In Manhattan, were among the 14 men and women, relatives and friends of the victims, who made the trip at the exoense of the airline .

opened; and various neck ties, wrist handkerchiefs and aprons The neck ties might be slipped into the trash on purpose along with the picture of cousin Matilde's family. At any rate, what couldn’t be sold for its cash value, could always be used for blackmail because It was purposely thrown away. See you next winter in Florida. Or maybe Hawaii. FORGOT TO READ THE SCRIPT Deputy sheriff Bob Meyer had g TV rehearsal pulled on him in the line of duty. Bob got a call that a bull was loose on a farm, and decided to be a good guv and go out and help the farmer corral the critter. Arriving at the farm, he armed himself with a rep? ana started into the field. The bull had other ideas. It took after Bob. and Bob cleared a fence. The bull went through the fence The final refuge was in tije car, and in the deputy went. The bull even tried nudging the car, but that was going too far. Bob came out of the car, shotgun in hand. No shots were fired, though. The animal must have realized he had one foot in the hamburger grinder, and returned to his rightful place. Meanwhile, back at the ranch .... Wanderer Is Killed When Struck By Car RICHMOND, Ind. (UPI>—A wanderer whose last known address was a church mission In Indianapolis where he slept only one night was killed by a car early today near Richmond. State Police said Martin A. Krauss, 64, apparently was walking in the center lane of busy U.S. 40 a mile west of Richmond.

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