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Thursday, Sepiember 26, 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE v: ' Disability Insurance Law Discussed by SS Officer CARRYING FULL CANVASS The four masled German bark Pamir is shown before it was lost in an Atlantic gale recently 500 miles oil the Azores. It was being used as a training ship for German merchant marine cadets. Hans Jepsen, 74, of 534 Hamilton st., Medford, still remembers her as the ship he helped build in Hamburg, Germany, and on which he later sailed. She became one ui ne famous '"P-liners"' with her sister ship, the Parma. (So nemed because their names began with '"P.") The pair set records in the famous '"Cape Horn Grain-Ship race"' in 1932. Medford Man One of Builders of German Windjammer Pamir By JOE COWLEY Mail Tribune Slaff Writer As the world anxiously await ed word of the stricken German windjammer Pamir one of the more worried over was Hans Jepsen, 74, of 534 Hamilton st., Medford. To Jepsen if was "a great shock" to hear the ship he had helped build in Germany and had sailed on many years ago was struck by a hurricane Satur day. "I was really fond of that old baby," he remarked in his gut tural Danish accent. "I know every grease cup, every spar and every timber on her." Jepsen helped build the four masted bark at the Blohm and Voss shipyards in Hamburg in 1905. He had just returned from a trip abroad another sailing ship in 1906, when the captain who knew him personally asked him to sign aboard his ship. He sailed as shipsmith and donkey man. His main job on the Pamir was operation and care of the large diesel powered winches, and any metal work which was needed. Trip to Chile The voyage Jepsen made aboard her took the Pamir from Germany to Chile for a cargo of nitrate. There was no Panama canal in those days, Jepsen said. The trip was made in approxi mately 86 days. Top speed was 16 knots. The Pamir was one of the fa mous "P Liners" which, with other sailing ships in the early 1900's, was used to haul nitrate and grain since it was consid ered a cheaper way to transport it. Often the sail-powered ves sels would beat the steamers, Japsen said. Asked about life aboard the bark, Jepsen replied, "It wasn't so easy in those days. Just like they say, their blood was tar and their hair rope yarn the men who worked the old ships. "The old man (captain) said he'd either make a seaman out of a man or break him. By the time a man left the Pamir he was a seaman, that I can assure you:" Stand Watches "Every man had to stand his trick at the wheel and take his turn as focsle watch. Men also went aloft in all kinds of weath er. Mainmast of the ship rises 175 feet above decks. The crew kept their balance on the foot ropes, laying on the yardarms with their stomachs and keep ing their hands free. They laughed at you if you used the hand-ropes." ; After working with the stiff j canvass and lines often the j novice sailor's hands would be j raw and bloody. Then one of 1 the older men would take him j to the galley where his hands ! would be plunged into a bucket of salt brine to both cure and harden them Jepsen said. "Plenty of times we had noth ing more to eat than salt-horse and hardtack biscuits," the old mariner said. "Instead of the comfortable quarters for erews aboard the modern steamers, the quarters in the forecastles of the old sailing ships would often be ankle deep in water. The stink of body sweat and drying cloth ing always filled the cramped space." Teaching a Seaman "You can't teach a maruto be a seaman aboard a steamer," Jepsen said. "Only aboard the ships like the Pamir can a man be taught how to handle and i splice cables and lines. The Ger man Navy still trains its men aboard windjammers." This is probably why the Pamir was being used by the German merchant marine in which to train cadets. Cadets RESEARCH CHEMIST DIES New York OP) Dr. David Spence, 75, a research chemist who developed important pro cesses in the rubber field, died j were aboard her when the storm struck. Seized in War As one of the famous "P lin ers" the masts of the Pamir ap peared off most of the world's coasts. Her registered tonnage was 2,300, her steel hull was 316 fect long. Following her seizure in World War II. New Zealand crs sailed her with a crew of 45 men. The Finns sailed her with fewer than 30 when she was part of the Finnish sailing fleet earlier. In 1932 Pamir raced 19 other square-rigged ships from South Australia to the English channel. All carried grain. Pamir and her sister ship, Parma docked in 103 days, leading all rivals. This was called "The Cape Horn Grain-Ship Race." The Pamir placed third in the last Australia - England grain race in 1939. Disability insurance benefits at the age 50 under the Social Security program are for the in sured worker and no one else, W. V. Nusbaum, manager of the Medford office of the Social Se curity administration, explained today. Nusbaum said inquirers at the Medford office show a tendency to believe that benefit payments also are made for members of the family. However, this is not the case. In this respect these payments differ from those made to a retired worker at age 65. In the case of retirement benefits, payments may be made to a wife or dependent husband, children under 18, or disabled children more than 18, he said. When a person drawing dis ability insurance benefits reach es age 65, those payments will stop and will normally be re placed, without interruption, by old-age insurance benefits. At that point, the family members wives, husbands, and children; j Suspect Sought in " Truck Driver's Death Elko. Nev. (IP! Nevada and Utah law enforcement officers today sought a young man, iden tified only as Earl L. Steward, for questioning in the apparent murder-robbery of an Iowa mov ing van driver. District Attorney Grant Saw- i yer said it had been learned j Steward, aged 25 to 35 years, had helped the victim, Thomas R. Jessen, 55, Jamaica, Iowa, unload some furniture in the Ely shortly after he left Salt Lake City for Oakland, Calif., Sept. 4. may qualify for monthly checks along with the worker, Nausbaum noted. The monthly payments for disabled children are for such children of a work er who has qualified for pay ments himsL by reason of age, or who has died. Those children do noat gain the right to pay ments by 'reason of the parent's disability. The amount of a disability in surance Denent is the same as the benefit at 65 for that same worker, he pointed out. The same computation is used for both. Occasionally, Nusbaum report ed. the Medford Social Security office comes across the case of an old-age insurance beneficiary more than 65 who is under a disability which came on before age 65. In those instances, an ap plication may bring a "disability freeze" of the credits on the worker's social security account, effective at the time the ailment first prevented the person from working. This, in turn, will mean an increase in his old-age benefit rate. This increase is only a change in the old-age in surance payment rate and is not a disability insurance benefit, he said. Salem Man Killed In Mill Operation Willamina, Ore. IIP) Everet Yount, 54, Salem, head loader at the Associated Plywood Mill here, was killed Wednesday when a cable broke, dropping an unloading boom on him. Yount was unloading logs from a railroad car into a mill pond when the accident oc curred. 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