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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 22, 1955)
Siletz has yielded more than twice as much as the current favorite, available from certified giowefs. A extension agents or from Waldo. Marshall, on some OSC test plots at Corvallis and Willamette Valley test fields. On trials where Marshall has yielded 5 tons, Siletz has yielded Many Social Security beneficiaries 11 tons per acre. in the Mill City area are inquiring Three-year averages at Corvgllis about the amount of wages they can show Siletz the favorite, yielding 7 j earn and still be entitled to their tons per acre compared to 4 tons Social Security benefit checks, ac for Marshall. Red stele disease was cording to Arthur T. Lobingier, the main cause of the low Marshall Field Representative of the Salem yields. District office of the social secur- I While it yields higher, processing ity administration. tests with commercial freezers and Lobingier explained that the law packers and at OSC food technology was changed, effective January of department indicate Siletz processes this year, and there is no longer any well, but that its quality is not as monthly limitation on earnings. The high as the Marshall. new provision permits beneficiaries Berry cores occasionally pull out to earn 91200 a year and still be en when picked, leaving a small hole titled to all their benefits. This in the top of the berry that some amount can be earned at any time times fills with dirt. Some proces during the year, without regard to sors have objected to this, while the amount earned in any others indicate it offers no serious month. processing problem. Some jam When a beneficiary earns over processors have said berries were $1200 in a year, he will forfeit one undesirably darker than Marshall. monthly benefit check for each unit I End-of-season berries are also of $80 or fraction of $80 which he much smaller than Marshall. earns in excess of the $1200. How Siletz has been tested since 1949 ; ever, regardless of total annual as 2172, the result of crossing two earnings, the beneficiary will always hybreds in 1947. It was named be entitled to a benefit check for "Siletz” because the plant resembles any month he does not work, or for one of its early parents, a hardy any month in which he does work native beach strawberry that was but earns no more than $80. Similar obtained from the Coast area. ly, a self-employed person will be entitled to a benefit check for any month in which he renders no sub stantial service in connection with his business. , Social Security old-age benefits | áre retirement payments. A person Í'is considered retired and eligible for payments if he earns no more than $1200 in a year. If he earns over $1200 he is not completely retired | and therefore will not be entitled to all benefits, although he may be en titled to some benefits, depending on the total amount of his earnings. Regardless of total earnings, how ever, the beneficiary is considered i retired during any month he does not work or earns only $80 or less, For this reason he will be entitled 'to his benefit check for such months, i Lobingier stated that the retire- merit test actually breaks down into three parts: 1. The first $1200 of annual earn ings is "exempt.” 2. For every $80 or fraction of $80 earned in excess of $1,200, one bene fit check must be forfeited. 3. Regardless of total earnings in Check us as a friend the year, benefits are payable for wishing yau a vary any month the beneficiary earns $80 MERRY CHRISTMAS or less. ., The law has also been changed to lower the age at which a beneficiary may have any amount of earnings and still be entitled to all benefit checks. Beginning in 1955, a bene ficiary may earn any amount of in come after he is 72 and still be en LYONS, OREGON titled to benefit payments. If he works during the year in which he attains 72, all earnings for the year must be counted to determine for which months before the month of hi« "2nd birthday he will be en titled to benefit payments. ' No Lmitation on Wages Earned by Those Receiving S. S. Checks SPILLWAY TAVERN Velma and Marion IDANHA, OREGON JOSEPH M. DEVERS REAL ESTATE W. R. Hutcheson, Salesman GATES, OREGON 8—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE TH I RSDAY, DECEMBER 22. 1955 NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS Beginning January 1, 1956, the subscription rate of the Mill City Enterprise will be $3.00 in Marion and Linn counties and for all other points will be $3.50 per year, payable in advance. Increase in the cost of newsprint and other factors connected with the business make this move necessary at this time. Subscribers are asked to check the address labels on their Enterprise this week. The first number tells the month which the subscription expires and the second number the year. Thus if your address label reads 11-55, it would mean that your subscrip tion expired November 1, 1955. Please check your label, and if in arrears, mail your check in before January 1 to get under the old rate. Christmas Joy GATES, OREGON New Berry Named Siletz by Oregon State MILL CITY, OREGON Season’s 1 H Greetings to our 1 Friends A high yielding red stele-resis- | tant strawberry has been released by I the Oregon State college agricul- I tural experiment station and the U. I S. department of agriculture. Named “Siletz,” the berry was I developed by George Waldo, a US DA horticulturist at OSC. The new variety is eottremely vigorous and highly resistant to red-stele the dis ease that has knocked Marshall yields in many strawberry produc ing areas. Waldo recommends Siletz 1 | only for those areas that can’t grow j I Marshall. Plants of the new variety are ! list of such growers is available from EVERLASTING PEACE Merry Cristinas I mcctings Santiam F arméis Co-op Seeds Feeds Machinery LYONS, OREGON Fran'» and Resse MEHAMA. OREGON Fertilizer Custom Cleaning ng and Mixing Petroleum Products Hardware Household Appliances SEED MARKETING TELEPHONE 5024 STAYTON, OREGON
