Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 139, Decatur, Adams County, 13 June 1962 — Page 2

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Shocking Reports By Campbell Ignored

By LYLE C. WILSON lateraatfonal WASHINGTON (WD-Tbe slap happy waste of the taxpayers' money by the administrative sprawl commonly known as the Department of National Defense is a scandal about which -no one seems ever to become excited. Ums mmmm}*}chm situation is rcvan led to the reports issuing here from time to time from the office Cswiptwll, comptrolior general of the United mates. Camphors job is to audit government expenditures for Congress. He does a good job. Neither the President nor responsible members eg Congress do anything, however, about Campbell's shock-

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ing -reports. ’ Here is a recap of what Campbell turned up and reported to ' Congress in the last fortnight of May of this year involving National Defense Department operations: Item, May K: The Air Force and Navy were planning to spend *l4 million in 1963 for separately developed crash fire trucks although the Army possessed about 19.4 million worth of these vehicles, class 1500, in excess of its needs. The Army bought these class 1500 vehicles without pretests which would have disclosed their unsuitability for the intended use. Late discovery of this situation caused the Army to spend

$500,000 for design changes during volume production and further R9GQ OOQ vie— atßb v *** toVßwaaa® Item May 1C: The Army, Navy and Air Foree spent unnecessarily about $4.1 million through purchase or conversion of aircraft engines by one service when similar excess engines were on hand in another service. Item May M: The Air Force developed and procured the H 438 helicopter when an Army helicopter, the HUIA, then in an advanced stage of development, could fulfill Air Force requirements. The Air Force estimated that the H 438 program would cost $45 million and as of Sept. 30, 1961, had obligated 961 million to the project. The Defense Department was aware of all the facts and requested the Air Force to withdraw the contract. Nothing happened. Item May 31: The Army is having constructed a two-mile pipeline at Ft. Belvoir, Va., on the installment basis whereby the Army is paying interest at the

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rate of about 11 per cent per year for private financing of the «onstructinn project.-.— Item May M: A spot check turned up the widespread practice by temporary duty members of the Navy's Shore Patrol of submitting frhudufeat clafms for lodging allowances and the payment of subsistence allowances without proper authorization. There were seven reports from Comptroller General Campbell in this last fortnight of May, five of them tagging the Defense Department. Chicago Livestock CHICAGO (UPD—Livestock: Hogs 6,000: strong to mostly 25 higher, instances 50 higher on 260-290 lb; No 1-2 190-225 lb 17.0017.25; around 70 head 17.50; mixed No 1-3 1805240 lb 16.5017.00; 240-270 lb 16.00-16.50; No 2-3 260-290 lb 15.50-16.00; double deck No 3 around 360 lb 14.25. Cattle 11,000, calves 25; slaughter steers mostly 25-50 higher; heifers strong to 25 higher and instances 50 higher; veal er s steady to weak; two load shipment prime 1275 lb steers 28.25; three loads prime 1175-1225 lb 28.00; load mostly prime 1250 lb 27.75; high choice and prime 11501300 lb 26.25-27.50; load mixed choice and prime 1347 lb 26.25; bulk choice 950-1300 lb 24.75-26.00; good 22.75-24.50; load high choice and prime 1089 lb heifers 25.75; choice 24.50-25.50; good and mixed good and choice 22.00-24.25; good and choice vealers 24.00-28.00; standard 19.00-23.00. Sheep 600; spring slaughter lambs fully steady; old crop shorn lambs rather scarce and steady; choice and prime 81-102 lb spring lambs 24.50 - 25.00; around 100 head 25.00; mostly choice 23.50-24.00; good and choice 21.50-23.50; few small lots good and choice shorn slaughter lambs 17.00-20.00.

Urge Regular Check Os Social Security

By Ruth H. Lane District Manager Social Security Do you want to be sure you can collect social security benefits when you reach retirement age or become disabled? Do you want to know that if you should die prematurely your wife and minor children wpuld receive survivors benefits from the social security program? ?? Almost everyone will answer these two questions in the affirmative, yet many people don’t really seem to care about these things. It sounds unbelievable, doesn’t it? But it’s true, and here is why. Many thousands of people have never checked their social security record to see if their earnings are being properly credited to their account. Even though they may have been paying the tax since 1937 they have never evidenced any interest in whether they have gotten credit for it or not. These same people undoubtedly check up on their bank account every once in a while just to make sure the record is straight. They also make periodic reviews of theninsurance programs to see that they are up to date and provide the protection they need. Why don’t they have the same interest in anything that is as important a part of their lives as social security. Probably the biggest reason is faith. Faith that the United States government will not let any person lose out on anything that is rightfully theirs. Since the social security administration in a part of the federal government there is faith that everything is being taken care of. This faith is very gratifying to the employees of the social security administration and they do everything possiblfe to earn and keep it. Records are being kept for more than 135 million workers on the most accurate machines that our modern age has ever devised. Yet these machines are operated by people and the truth is that people are not infallible. Mistakes are made each quarter of the year

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COURT News —_ Divorce qrmAjl . > In the divorce action of Betty L. Bullinger vs. Martin E. Bullinger, the plaintiff, Betty L. Bullinger, ajas granted an absolute decree of divorce from the defendant, and was awarded custody of two children. The defendant was given visitation rights on Sundays each week, and ordered to pay S2O per week for support of the children. The costs of the court action Were assessed against the defendant. Cause Removed In the two separate cases of the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad Co. vs. the estates of Wilmer J. Grote and Alfred Grote, the court ordered that the cause be removed from the Adams circuit court docket and records corrected to show what now is a claim of the railroad company for property damage to be shown merely a notice pending litigation in the United States district court for the northern district of Indiana. Continued in Vacation In the divorce case of Ramona Bart vs Clifton Bart, the parties involved agreed that the cause shall be continued into vacation, and continued to June 15 at 9:30 a. m.. for submission of further evidence. Vacation Date Set In the case of Decatur-Kocher Lumber Co. vs Lawrence W. and Esther L. Ehrsam, the parties agreed that the cause shall be continued into vacation to June 19 at 9 a. m. for submission of further evidence. Application Filed An appearance was entered for the defendant and an application for suit money in the case of Barold R. Barnes vs Rosie Barnes. A notice was ordered issued to the sheriff for the plaintiff, returnable June 22 at 10 a. m., for a hearing on the defendant’s application.

when thousands of employers throughout the country send in the reports on their employee’s earnings. Names come in without any social security account number. Many come in with a number but the accounting machines discover that the number was issued to a person with a name different than shown on the tax return. Sometimes the number shown is one that has never been issued to anyone. Now these are all understandable errors. In the first one mentioned the person posibly only worked a few days or weeks at a particular job and never got around to giving his employer his number and then left for parts unknown. In the second, the typist may have looked at the next number on the list below the name she typed. In the third, possibly the typist hit the wrong key. Os course, many of these errors occurred because the worker didn”t show his social security card to his employer, but recited the number from “memory,” or maybe took it from a slip of paper the worker had copied the number on incorrectly. These are all obvious certainly, and many of them are detected and corrected without too much trouble. A substantial number cannot be corrected because there are far too many people having the same name and the people in social security cannot take the chance of crediting earnings to a name alone for fear of crediting the earnings to the wrong person. To help detect errors that may have occurred the social security administration strongly recommends that all workers should inquire at least every three or four years. To do this the social security administration has provided postcards to be used for this purpose. The Only cost to the worker is the postage stamp required to mal the card to the central accounting office in Baltimore, Maryland. These cards may be secured at the Fort Wayne social security office at 343 West Wayne street. The form number is OAR-7004.

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ally get somewhat more expensive presents, but in terms of numbers of gifts, Father’s Day ranks next to Christmas and birthdays as the biggest gift oc-casion-of the year. f, , '