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16 Tho Statesman, Sfflom, Ore.. Sunday, February 22, 1SS3 Pay ao YooaiOo 'Baqlo i ' For Social Security"- .7 -Goal off Litre. Wolbltoy Big Contract for Lucy Br 8IGRID ARNE . AP Newsfeatures Writer 4 WASHINGTON (A . Probably . - you have an aged relative or neigh bor who is .getting. a check from the Social Security System and wonder sometimes bow the system will help you and yours when the time comes. " - ,'-.:-;. ' The Social Security System now ' takes taxes from 46 million work ers. : f 1 ' ' WA-I: r This is really -big business and the American public gives signs it knows it. , A flood of letters to Washington asks for this or that change in the system. Some writers Want bigger checks. Some want , tighter handling of the funds and so on. Many social . security rei- won bulf are coming up in Coo- - fireSS. r - - - - Pert Mrs. Oveta ' Culp -Hobby, President Eisenhower s social. curity administrator, has , directed that studies be made immediately of the demands for changes. . Pay-As-You-Go . . ' v - - . ; In principle-she believes that any governmental program . runs . best on a pay - as - you - go basis. - She thinks too that many social problems are best handled at home, by state and local officials. Mrs. Hobby succeeds Oscar Swing, a Truman appointee who coped that the security - program 'would also include health insur ance. That idea seems stopped Jor the time being. 'Work Test. - Four proposed changes seem to be getting the most attention. They Involve: ' ; - 1. The. "work test" for pension ers. - 2. Larger checks received by some retired couples. 3. Loss of contributions when un married persons die. , ' ' : 4. The $3,600 pay ceiling for pen sion purposes. .The "work test" means this: The law now says that a retired work er under 75 must forfeit his month ly pension check any time he earns more than $75 a' month on a job of a type covered by social security. (If he goes into business-for him self he loses portions of his pension alter, earning $900 a year.) ' ' Many, older people do find work to do, partly - because they need the money, partly because they want to keep busy. But this $75 a month limit-'makes it difficult. Some would like the limit raised to $200 a month. Some would like to see it taken off. Right now a worker over 75 years old can earn any amount and still gt his pen sion check.' -... The greatest number of amend ments now- before Congress con cern this issue. Qniting Age Past C9 Actually, records show that the average Quitting 1 age is past 69. One reason probably is that today's high prices make it difficult for an elderly man and his wife love on a - federal pension - check. , . When the man ' auits at 65 he usually gets just the worker's pen sion check, which now averages $49.29 a month. He gets an addi tional amount (half his check) when his wife turns 65. But most wives are younger than their hus bands, so there - is , a . period . in which they have to live on a very small monthly sum. Here's what 1 behind the larger checks . some retired couples are getting: s The fancy formula on which the checks are figured takes into ac count both the-pay the worker has earned , and the length of time he nas worked. it works- out that the average man who retired with most of his working record back In the 30s, an era of low wages, gets a check for himself and his wife of $70.10. Men retiring - later, having worked at whicn the system taxes) and A IC. ll "V, "f"'T i iff -im ' 1 iwrfrimn Lucille Ball and" Deal Arnas aisra a new eight million dollar contract for their television show 1 Love Lucy.? The new agreement covers the balance1 of this year and the two following seasons. The pair will pay production costs out of the elgnt million. At left rear Is Harry Ackerman. a CBS-TV vice president, and at right is Harry W. Chea- ley Jr., vice president of Philip Morris Co. The officials said It was the largest contract ever signed In television. (AP Wtrephote to The Statesman.) for themselves providing both years of age. Bachelors, Spinsters and their wives. have passed 65 man who earns $10,000. Providing they have . worked tha s: me length of time, each draws the same pen- Some bachelors and single worn-... . 1 feel the system is stacked I VbJ!?' . . . , by business men through the U. S. en feel the I system against them. During the years he works such a person pays in just SI ""f"1" kTJT - J1JZZJ7: Chamber of Commerce If he dies before 65 his estate 1 " -vrr. " " 1. The C of C. would like to see gets only a small contribution to funeral expenses. eral pension checks. There- are more than 13 million people over 65, but only 2,600.000 If he lives to retire he gets mere- X'tZ not get the additional sum which and widows get social security pen sions. Some of the rest get pensions married worker - gets for his h' w Si hm f lif. miSZS from other programs civil serv belp foot the bills for the married I . n j ntan ones. - y . '.. ' . Some critics also feel that the system is stacked against the high er paid workers. Take a man, who earns $3,600" (the maximum pay on C0RREG" VISION makes work a lot EASIER You. can do more-do It easier do it faster, when your vision is RIGHT. As your first step to greater efficiency, hav your eyes checked. - , Pi:.niiliiiidiiMiim.ii.i,w Dr. E. E. Boring : -USE .YOUR CREDIT AND OUR EASY PAYMENT PLAN Optometrists AT BORING OPTICAL! CVow In Oar New Modern Office and Laboratory Corner 12th 1st Center Dial S-C508" ' - Free Parking Space Dr. Sam Hughes INDUSTRIAL HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION f ANWUNCE th& opening of cor SALEM DISTRICT OFFICE To better serve ou represent clients In this community and more fully acquaint the public with our Hospital and Medical Service for CROUPS - FAMILIES INDIVIDUALS . Mr. Omar Bittner, manager of the Individual Department will bo in the Salem Office Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 23 and 24 for the; purpose of. answering any inquiries on the - Individual and Family Program 1722 Center St. . Office Honrs: 9 to land 2 to 5:30 Closed Saturdays Phone 4-5442 John R. CaugheM, Dlst. Mgr. ice. the railroad retirement plan. private annuities and pension plans. 2. Some workers nave, not-been able to make a work record under the Social Security Law, partly be cause they worked on jobs that were not insured under the federal law. .-. . Old Age Assistanco Such workers get no federal pen sion check. But if they are needy they get help from another part of the program old age assistance. Under this the federal govern ment makes grants to states to pay $20 of the first $25 and half of the next - $30 a month of assistance. These programs vary greatly in the -different states. It works out in , some states . that aged people on the. assistance, program (to which they contributed no taxes) get bigger monthly checks than re tired workers living on regular pen sion checks to which they contri buted through the payroll tax. The C. of C would like to see the federal government get out of the aid program. It feels, the, pro gram is open to pontics since tne size of the aid checks is not! con trolled by any formula. It suggests, all aged come under the single federal pension system. It say this would save administration costs.. S. The C. of C Would like to see the federal pension system put on, a pay-as-you-go basis, with pension checks paid out each year covered by the payroll taxes taken in each year, Right now the money taken in Is so far in excess of what is needed that a 17-billion-dollar reserve fund has accumulated. The C of C thinks this could be drawn on in years when the pay roll tax doesn't quite cover the checks ' that go out. The fund is in government bonds and draw interest. New Water MeterSaRates At Willamina Statcsaaaa News Strrica WILLAMINA Installing of water meters where city, water is used will be completed by April 1, City Recorder Sam Smith, has announced. " Smith said new water rates will go into effect with Installation of the meters and will be as follows: Inside city limits, $2.25 for the first 700 cubic feet and 10 cents a hundred for the remainder; out side the city, $3 for the same min imum amount and 10 cents a hun dred for the remainder. The present, fiat rates are $2.25 inside the city and $2.75 outside. Smith said the city serves ap proximately 500 users. Police Arrest Pen Parolee Cornelius William Sherman, Oregon State Prison parolee, has been apprehended in Sao. Rafael, Calif., for parole violation, accord ing to Marion County Sheriffs of fice Saturday. Sherman was sentenced to serve three years in prison Feb. 7, 1949, on a larency charge and was re leased' on probation. Sheriff Den ver Young said Sherman probably will be returned to Marion County. life to Publish Memoirs of HanyT By CLARENCE A. JOHNSON KANSAS CTTY WI Former President Harry S. Truman Is well into tne writing of Ms memoirs and has sold the rights to Life magazine for an undisclosed sum. He , announced his decision Sat urday, ending wide j speculation over how he would market his verson of the history - making years he spent in the White House. . But -they will not . be published for two years. .. vi; v . At a press conference, his first formal one since he returned home from Washington a month ago, Mr, Truman explained that by 1954 he will be able to speak more fully on subjects pertaining to the -role his adnunistration played : in world af- xairs. - - - -i He declined to say how much he would receive for his works, which he said will be published in one or two volumes. " ' - Asked it he was going to do the writing himself, the former Presi dent answered quickly: "Of course. They are more than half finished now." Truman, in a jovial, wise-crack ing mood, before his desk in. his federal reserve bank building of fice, ' also answered several other Questions on which there had -been rumors and reports, i He said Mrs. Truman, their daughter, Margaret, and himself will go on a cruise to Hawaii next month. -He and Mrs. Truman will leave San Francisco aboard the liner President Cleveland March 22. and Margaret will board the ship at Los. Angeles. - as ior reports ne wouia Decome ramn tlaviKlnn commentator next fall, lie answered: "I've never heard of it." Newsmen were told he had re jected a $10,000 offer; to appear on a television program playing the piano for his daughter. "I don't expect to do anything like that," he said. "I do not intend to exploit the great office I have held. FOW FOUND DEAD PUSAN. Korea m The U. N. Prisoner of War Command said Sunday a North Korean Commu nist POW was found banging by the neck in a Koje Island com pound Saturday and that prelimi nary investigation indicated suicide. FWNa CABINETS DESKS CHAIRS FOLDERS GUIDES TRANSFER CASES: Iloen Typwrir. ExcL 456 Court a Hon To Dccomo A Christian $ 1 K COGNIZE that yon are not a Christian because yen are good, for God's Word declares, . "There Is none that doetb. good, no not one (Komans 1:12). - . ... A RECOGNIZE that yon are not a Christian because yoa are doing the best yea can, for God's Word declares that' "All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God" (Romans 3.23). w RECOGNIZE that yon are not necessarily s' Christian because yon are a member of some church, for again the Word of God declares that many have a form af godliness, bat deny the power thereof; from such tarn away" (II Tim othy 3:5). r "'"'' ' v,.'1" -'Vr;. ":. -'.'.-.t 4 CONFESS that yon are a guilty sinner' tn -God's sight, for yon have broken His command--ments, and all the world has become guiltybe fore Him (Romans 3:ll). . -. - j 5i ' - " : .-- ". CONFESS that yon cannot save yourself, for "by grace arer-ye aaved through faith; and that not of yourselves; it is -the gift of God (Ephesians 2:8). CONFESS that yon are hooelessly lost and nnder condemnation without Jeans Christ as yoor personal Saviour for He said: "The Son of Maa Is come to seek and to save that which was lost" (Luke 19:1S). M i BELIEVE the good news that Christ died for the ungodly (Romans 5:8). He therefore died for you and settled your sin debt on the Croaa. - O BELIEVE the glorious news that Christ was raised from the dead, and by the power of God Is now able to save all who come ante God by Ilim (Hebrews 7:25). ' ' CALL on the Name of the Lord Jesns la prayer, on bended knees, with a sincere desire ' to be saved from your sins, for God has promised that "Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved" (Romans 10:13). 10 RELY en God's sore promise, not anon tout feelings, and by faith declare yoa are saved by the blood of Jesus Christ, shed for the forgive ness of your sfBsr and openly confess Him with your month as your Savior and Lord (Romans lv;9,lf). . P. O. Box 227 Salem i Our dependable prescription service will always remain ftrsf tft importance. Now, ne in the be ginning, you can bring those'prescriptiona to us with full assurance that they'll receive our com plete attention, be compounded with the same, high quality drugs. So keep our name at the top of your list, first in your memory ... as the finest of nil for dependable prescription service. . Cufpfisi . . : -1 405 Stale Street (Corner ( of Liberty) WE GIVE S&H GREEN STAMPS j? 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