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Worker Must Have Social
Securify Credifs for Benefifs
In order to qualify for social
security benefits, a worker,
whether employed or self-em
ployed, must have a certain
number of social security cre
dits. Many people are interest
ed in knowing how they get
social security eredits and how
many they need. Social Secur
ity eredits are counted in units
of calendar quarters cal]ed‘
“quarters of coverage’.
If you work for someone else
you get one quarter of coverage
for each calendar quarter in
which you are paid total wages
of SSO or more. If you receive
S4BOO or more during a year,|
you get credit for all four quar
ters of that year even if _\'nu:
received no wages in some of|
the quarters. If you work in a
private household, you will get|
eredit only for calendar quar
ters in which vou receive cash |
pay of at least SSO from onui
employer. |
If someone hires you to do|
farm work. you will get social |
gecurity credit for your cash
pay if, within the calendar|
year, you receive cash wagesé
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of at least $l5O or vou work
for that employer on 20 or more
days for cash pay on a time
basis —by the hour, day, week,
ete. — regardless of the amount
of pay. You will get credit for
one calendar quarter for each
SIOO credited to you, but no
more than four quarters in one
year, |
If you work for yourself you
get social security credit for
four calendar quarters so r
each taxable year in which you
‘have a net profit of S4OO or
more from self-employment
covered by the law. If vou are
self-employed in more than one
business or trade, you add to
gether your net profits from
all of your businesses that are
covered by social security, If
the total amount is S4OO or
more, it counts for social se
curity.
If you are a self-employed
farmer and your gross farm
income is S6OO or more for a
vear, you may get social secur
ity credit even if you net less
than S4OO. This special rule ap
plies to farmere only. You can
get more information about
this at vour nearest social se
curity office.
You can get social security
credit for work covered by the
social security law no matter
how young i how old you are, ;
Most jobs, husinesses a n d
professions are now under so
cial security. If you are not sure
your work is covered, you
should contact your nearest so
cial security office.
Work done by a child under
21 for his parent, by a husband |
for his wife, or by a wife for
her husband is not covered by
the social security law. Work
done by a parent for his son
or daughter is not covered by
the law unless it is done in
connection with the son’s or
daughter’s business. Domestic
work for a son or daughter, for
example, is not covered.
Just how many credits you
must have to be fully insured
depends upon the year you
reach 65 if you are a man, or
62 if you are a woman, or upon
the date of your death or dis
ability of you die or become
disabled before reaching that
age. No one is fully insured
with credit for less than 1-1/2
years of work and no one needs
more than 10 years of work to
be fully insured. Having a
fully insured status, however,
means only that you are eligi
ble for benefits; it does n o t
govern the amount of your
benefits. The amount will de
pend on your average earnings.
For further information con
cerning the number of credifs
yvou will need to qualify for
benefits, get in touch with your
nearest social security office.
Byron Bohannon
To Graduate at
- Auburn, March 14
Byron Lewis Bohannon of
Covington, is a ecandidate for
the Bachelor of Science in Busi
ness Administration degree at
Auburn University. The winter
quarter commencement will bei
at 2:30 p. m. on March 14.
The commencement speaker
will be Joseph D. Hughes, Pitts
burgh, Pa., an Auburn graduate
of 1931. Mr. Hughes also will
be awarded the honorary doc
tor of laws degree.
At 9:30 a. m. in Langdon Hall
20 members of the Army, Navy
and Air Force groups will re
ceive commissions as second
lieutenants and ensigns.
President and Mrs. Ralph B.
Draughon will host the gra
duates, their friends and re
latives at a coffee from 10:30
a. m, to 12:30 p. m. I
THE COVINGTON NEW
Ralph Penninaton Has 400 Azalea
Variefies on His “City Farm”
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~ burban Gazette in Decatur) ‘
It’s hard to believe as _voui
drive down Superior Avenue
“between Clairmont Avenue and
Scott Boulevard that back of
the house at 156 Superior Ave
nue there stretches a city farmi
of over five acres where near- |
v 40,000 plants are thriving|
and being prepared for thei
market, i
Ralph W, Pennington hus'
around 400 varieties of dzaleusi
growing on his farm. For the|
first time this year he is nur
turing that plant from seed and
attempting to produce a n e w
variety from eross - pollina
tion. The tiny plants have just
sprouted in the boxes of mn;s‘
in his green house and it wx’lli
be five years before he knows |
for sure the outcome of his ex- |
periment. ’
“You can’t hurry a plant,”
Mr. Pennington commented.
“This is the greatest tension
reliever in the world. I'm a
cardiac patient and my doctor
said he wished all of his pa
tients would raise azaleas.”
Mr. Pennington grew up on
a farm outside of Covington.
“l think I inherited my green
thumb from my mother, who |
was a very able gardener. She
grew the plants of that day,
roses, petunias and hollyhocks.”
For 17 years Mr. Pennington
worked for the Department of
Agriculture. He is now person
nel director for a steel works.
“] started out as a collector,”
he said, “interested in getting
unusual plants. Now it has
grown into a business.”
Mr. Pennington is also what
is known as a co-operator with
the United States Department
of Agriculture. One of 500 such
gardeners in the country, he
receives plants from all over
the world to test them for
their adaptability to our ecli
mate and soil. ‘“Many of my
plants come in from Japan, by
air express.” he said. “They
have the same weather zone as
30,000 Bapfist
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Churches is
Goal Dri
The Women's Missionary
Union of Calvary Baptist
Church conducted a Home Mis
sion Study Course, Wed.. Feb
ruary 28th, in the church an
nex. In the class sessions were
23 ladies from the Elizabeth
Smith and Omer Alford Cir
cles. Doctor C. C. Haren's Book |
“Glimpses of Glory” was u.\edi
as the textbook. Dr. Haren zn-i
cludes in his subject matter the |
Southern Baptist movement for
30,000 new Baptist Churches. |
Emphasis is placed on what
current Baptist members can
do to further this movement in
the way of increasing personal
dedication and devotion, finan
ces and field work in estai>!l.<n-‘
ing new mission churches where |
needed. At 'east 2 new church- |
es in the Newton County area |
have been counted towards the
goal: The Oxford Baptist!
Church and the Mid-way Bap- |
tist Church. Both were started |
as mission ('l‘U"'(‘ht‘.\' .‘l”d later |
as self-supporting organiza
tions
i The first half of the book |
was taught by Mrs. William |
Pratt. After a segment of t:xo;
subject wa s covered. Mrs. |
Moody Yarbrough brought .«’
| devotion. After the last seg- |
!mom. the devotion was given |
|by Mrs. L. C. Johnson. T h e|
second half of the book, taught |
by Mrs. James Harris, w a s |
presented in the same format |
with devotions given by M r s. |
Mary Baugh and Mrs. Walter |
| Harris, |
Following the study course, a |
!m\\'ered - dish supper w a s|
served after which the ladies|
| joined with the church m('m-‘
| bers in church sanctuary for |
, the Mid-week Prayer Service.
ours and the Japanese have|
been hybridizing azaleas for
generations now. It is less than
a hundred years than any work
has been done with the plant
in this country, although it is
a native here as well as in Ja+
Ipan.”
Mr. Pennington also receives
plants fr o m England and
France and Portugal. Mis Por
tuguese plants get greenliouse
attention. “I try to select what
I know will live here,” he said,
“but I'm always fooling with
some that I don’t know any
thing about.”
His farm stretches back of
his own home and nine others
facing Superior Avenue and
as many more facing Clair
mont Avenue. He dreams now,
and has made progress toward,
developing an azalea trail. “I
want to make this the show
place of Decatur,” he said. The
trail starts at the formal gar
den behind the home of Dr. H.
H. Bixler, also on Superior Ave
nue. More than 1,000 plants
have already been set for the
trail,
A brother of Mr. Penning
ton’s is the originator of t h e
wellknown grass seed mixture,
“Pennington Green.” Other
brothers have strayed from the
agriculture field and are a
druggist and post office em
ployee.
From the first of April until
July 4, there are azaleas in
bloom on the Pennington farm
of every color and size, Dur
ing the dry season he keeps
three sprinklers going night and
day and runs up a water bill
of S4O a month.
He says that dogs and moles
| are his biggest problems. He
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tries to chase off the dogs and‘
just lives with the moles.
“l don’t pamper my plants,”
he said. “I try to grow them like
they'll be treated when some
one else buys them and putsq
them out and neglects them, so
they’ll still grow. Anyway the
secret of growing azaleas is to
not try to do too much for
them. After all they started as
wild plants. They need a little
shade, not too much fertilizer
and water until they are well
adapted. After two years they
will almost take care of them
selves.
~ “We don’t know yet how
Jong the plants will live in this
country. The famous coastal
plantation plants are now
laround 60 years old. We are
just 30 miles too far north for
' the Mobile variety., I am work
ing with varieties from farther
north that are more hearty —
'the Glendale hybrids, Gable
hybrids, Satsuxis and Kurume.
Most of our azaleas came from
Japan or India. Azaleas offer
great variety as to color and
shape. Some resemble apple
blossoms, some poppies a n d
some are flat as a silver dol
lar. The largest blossom I've
raised measured four and a
half inches across.”
Mr. and Mrs. Pennington
have two married daughters
and a young grandson. For
eight years he has spent every
spare moment that he has with
his plants. He hopes to pro
duce from his seed plants an
azalea that is white-rayed with
red. He used a solid white
plant and one with a small red
stripe. But, as he says, “You
can’t rush a plant,” and it’'ll be
five years before he knows. In
the meantime, the trail will
flourish and hundreds of thou
sands of blooms will beautify
the garden area betiween Su
perior Avenue and Clairmont
Avenue every spring and early
summer.
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| Covington I
. 1 ‘
Witnesses i
Attend Meeting |
| Members of the Covington |
| Congregation of Jehovah's |
,‘ Witnesses were among the 961 |
| present at the conclusion of
| their three-day Christian as
| sembly in Macon.
{ Climaxing the gathering on
| Sunday was the main discourse
| entitled “Who Will Rule the
| World?”, delivered by D. J.
Thomas, District Minister from
i New York. “It takes only a
| casual observation to remind
|| us that never before has the
.| world experienced such inter
| national confusion as it does
' today. Never before has there
.| been such marked confusion
.| affecting, people of this earth,
| such divisions that the most
, | astute leaders of nations are
| preplexed to solve. Never be
. | fore have nations felt called on
-| to move so defensively to pro
| | tect their standing”, Thomas
» | said. He added, “what singular
| issue could possibly be behind
_| all this? It is the issue of world
s | rulership.”
a! Thomas then added that, “the
issue of who will rule the world
y | is of vital concern to each and
s| every person on the earth. Al
r| people will be affected either’
s | for the bad or good, depend
-1 | ing on what power succeeds in!
- | coming off victor as world ru
1| ler. For we are told in tbe'
, | written word of God at Pro
e ! verbs 29:2, that when thei
1| righteous are in authority the
1| people rejcice, but when the |
» | wicked tare rule the people |
) | mourn.” Thomas stated, “how |
1! timely the question, who will*
- | rule the world? The great is
-7 | sue this discloses between God
- | and Satan and the nearness of
t|{its explosive climax, makes
7 | choosing sides now most ime
perative. Do we want Jehovah's
Thursday, March 8. 1962
P hr Jesus?
mointed Ko, roveraed by
the ruler of Jehovah's choice,
who is desunea 10 rule the
orld? If so, we must make
a positive choice.”
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