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Thursday, August 3, 1961
Changes in Social Security
Law Now In Effect Over Nation
Changes in the social secur
ity law, signed by President
Kennedy June 30, took effect
on August 1. More than four
million persons are estimated to
benefit from the revision.
Included in the changes,
which the President called “fi
nancially sound and socially
responsible,” are provisions:
1. Increasing the minimum
benefit to S4O.
2. Increasing widows’ bene
fits by 10 percent.
3. Lowering the amount of
work - credits needed to be
come eligible for benefits.
4. Making old-age benefits
available to men at age 62.
The House Committee on
Ways and Means, reporting on
the amendments to the social
security law, had said, “The
provision of benefits at age 62
for men will help to alleviate
the hardships faced by that
group of men who, because of
of ill health, technological un
employment, or other reasons,
find it impossible to continue
working until they reach 65.”
That Committee estimated
that 560,000 persons would get
benefits under this change dur
ing the next 12 months.
It estimated also that one and
a half million widows would
get the increase in the widow’s
benefit and that more than 2
million persons would be af
fected by the increased mini
mum benefit.
Those persons eligible for the
increases will receive them in
their checks early next month,
Mr. Joseph R. Murphy, man
ager of the Atlanta office of the
Social Security Administration,
said today. The increases will
be made automatically, he said,
and there is no need to apply
for the increases.
About 160,000 persons who
are not now getting benefits
would become eligible during
the next 12 months under the
lower work-credit requirement,
the report continued.
Mr. Murphy said that a num
ber of older persons who had
applied for benefits before, but
who were ineligible because
they or their husbands did not
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Morrow - Elkins
Reunion Sunday
At Salem Camp
The Morrow - Elkins Re
union will be held at Salem
Campground on Sunday, Au
gust 6. Mr. Virgil Norwood is
acting as Chairman of prepara
tions this year. All families are
urged to join in the fellowship
of such an experience. Basket
Dinners will be brought by par
ticipants, and dinner will be
served at twelve - thirty.
This is an annual event to
which everyone looks forward
with keen anticipation.
Newton High
Cheerleaders
To Attend Clinic
Rock Eagle Center, near Ea
tonton, should be the peppiest
place in Georgia the weekend
of August 11-12, w’hen the State
YMCA Cheerleaders’ Clinic gets
underway. Nearly 1,000 high
school yell leaders from 95
Georgia communities are slated
to participate in this year’s
session. They will be taking
their cues from a staff of 40
college cheerleaders, represent
ing schools in Georgia and Ala
bama, who will serve as in
structors.
Local cheerleaders represent
ing Newton County High
School will be: Jackie Smith,
Ann Patrick, Nancy Holifield,
Mary Bledsoe, Brenda Dickson,
Marjorie Robertson, Gail Rob
inson, Suzanne Adams.
The clinic is an important
part of the State YMCA’s pro
gram to promote good sports
manship and fair play among
the schools of Georgia. The
two day training period will
include class instruction, criti
que sessions, and yell demon
strations.
“Good Sportsmanship, in the
game, in the stands, in life,” is
the theme for this year’s meet
ing. David C. Jordan, Athens,
Northeast District YMCA Sec
retary, is Conference Director.
Domestic And
Foreign Cotton
Prices increase
Beginning today, the differ
ential between domestic and
foreign prices for American -
grown upland cotton jumps
from 6 to 8-1/2 cents per
pound, or $42.50 per identical
bale.
The differential is the amount
paid by the United States to
encourage foreign purchases of
Band Members
Return From
Summer Camp
Seven members of Newton
County High School Band re
turned home Saturday even
ing, July 29, after a week at
Middle Tennessee State College,
Murfreesboro, Tennessee, where
they received scholarships for
the summer camp.
Those enjoying the week, as
well as receiving the very
valuable instruction in t h e
various instruments they play
were: Mada Patterson, oboe;
John Jordan, trumpet; Billy
Skinner, French horn: Tommy
Brown, trombone; Mike Budd,
trombone; Charles Wilbanks,
bass and Jerry Huff, clarinet.
Basil Rigney, Band Director,
stated he was indeed pleased
with the excellent showing
made by the students attend
ing from Newton as they were
each in the top third of t h e
section in which they were
playing, and in most cases one
of the top two or three positions
in first horn. Among the in
structors at the camp for re
hearsals and directing the band
at the concert on Friday night
was Rufus Long, first Flute
player with the National Sym
phony.
Besides the four hours spent
each day in rehearsals, sight
reading and various other mu
sical instruction, the students
from Tennessee. Georgia, Ala
bama, Ohio and Indiana, en
joyed numerous recreational ac
tivities. One of the highlights
of the week was the dance on
Thursday evening. John Jor
dan, trumpet, was one of t h e
dance band members. The local
group, with three band mem
bers from Madison, who ac
companied them to Tennessee,
enjoyed a trip one afternoon to
Nashville where they attended
a show and enroute home on
Saturday they visited Lookout
Mountain and Rock City.
Basil Rigney, Band Director,
announces the Newton County
High School Band will start
fall practice next Monday, Au
gust 7, at 7 a. m. The group
will start marching and have
a practice session until 10 a. m.
Rigney stated the band will
have a complete new line of
music for this fall and all stu
dents are urged to attend each
morning.
government - supported Ameri
can cotton, which is higher
priced than foreign growths be
cause of the commodity sup
port programs. The cotton ex
port subsidies have been in ef
fect since August 1, 1956, and
have ranged from a low of six
cents per pound in 1960-1961
to the record high 8-1/2c per
pound for the cotton crop year
which begins today.
At least one of the effects of
the higher differential and in
creased support prices for do
mestic cotton will be “to fur
ther complicate the already -
difficult American position” in
international trade of cotton
and cotton products, according
to L. G. Hardman, Jr., of Com
merce, Ga., president of Har
mony Grove Mills, Inc., and
chairman of the Cotton Com
mittee of the American Cotton
Manufacturers Institute (AC
MI). Mr. Hardman is a former
president of ACMI, central
trade association for the Ameri
can textile industry.
“American plants will find
I themselves at an even greater
I disadvantage in direct competi
i tion with low-wage foreign
l goods because of the $42.50 per
(bale price differential,” Mr.
Hardman said. “The program of
i subsidies has worked well for
(foreign buyers and has helped
to reduce stocks of old cotton.
But, at the same time, the pro
gram has placed American
plants in an unfair competitive
(position.”
Mr. Hardman added, “Since
the export subsidy program has
been in effect, record-setting
totals of textile imports have
been shipped into the United
States. It is obvious that these
(goods replace goods which
! might be produced by the
iAmer ic a n textile industry,
(which is the best customer of
I American cotton farmers.
i American textile plants each
j year consume from two-thirds
I to three - fourths of the Ameri
can cotton crop. Less than a
day’s supply of raw upland
type cotton is imported each
year, under terms of rigid raw
cotton import quotas imposed in
: 1939.
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boards at Jamestown, Virginia,
m 1908. Since then, more than
a trillion board feet of South
ern Pine lumber have been
I produced — enough to build
j 100,000,000 homes.
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■ alyzer can analyze a speck of
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