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Pension Payments
On Rise In County
(Special to the News)
An Increasing number of men, women and children in Newton
County are reaping the benefits of money that was deducted from
payrolls during the past 30 years and set aside to provide for their
future needs.
Currently, as a result, no less
than 2,853 local residents are re
ceiving Federal pension checks
each month, as compared with
2,187 recipients four years ago.
Some of them are retired work
ers, some are disabled persons
and some are the dependents—
wives, children and parents—of
former workers.
The rise in the number of be
neficiaries has been due, In the
main, to the periodic expansion
of the social security program.
Each change has made it possi
ble for more and more people
to be covered.
The extent of this expansion
is detailed in the annual reports
of the Social Security Adminis
tration, which contain facts and
figures for every section of the
country.
They show, for Newton County,
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in addition to the Increase in num
ber of beneficiaries, an Increase
in the size of the checks going
to them.
As of the beginning of this
year, total payments in the loc
al area came to $2,019,000 a
year, as against the total four
years ago of $1,381,000.
Just how much any one indi
vidual or his dependents have
been eligible to receive has de
pended upon how much he paid
into the social security trust
funds during his active working
years. And that, In turn, de
pended upon his earnings.
The latest official figures show
that pension payments in the past
year to people in the local area
averaged S7OB, as compared with
the 1962 rate of $631.
The rise, 12.2 percent, com
pares with a rise of 9.9 percent
in the United States and 10.9
percent in the South Atlantic St
ates.
Now, with more people parti
cipating and with pension checks
running larger than before, the
amount of money flowing into
the community has become of
greater importance to the local
economy.
A further Increase in bene
fits Is in prospect. Congress
has before It an Administration
proposal to boost payments by
at least 15 percent. Payroll
taxes would rise also.
Col. Hugh C. Moore
HQ AFCS, SCOTT AFB, ILL
Colonel Hugh C. Moore, Deputy
Chief of Staff for Operations at
Headquarters Air Force Com
munications service, Scott AFB,
HL, has been awarded the Le
gion of .Merit Medal.
TTie award was based on merit
orious service by Colonel Moore
for the period February 2, 1966,
to June 30, 1967, while he ser
ved as commander of AFCS’
Eastern Communications Region,
Westover AFB, Mass. He as
sumed his present duties with
Headquarters AFCS on August 1,
1967.
Major General Robert W. Paul
son, commander of AFCS, pre
sented the medal, Colonel
Moore’s second such award, dur
ing a brief ceremony at Scott.
He received his first Legion of
Merit in 1953 during an assign
ment with the 502nd Tactical Con
trol Group, Fifth Air Force,
Korea.
Colonel Moore has been on
active duty since shortly after
his graduation from the Georgia
Institute of Technology, Atlanta,
Ga., where he received a bache
lor of science degree in elec
trical engineering in 1941. He
served in the Aleutian Islands
in World War II and served tours
of duty in Korea and England.
Most of his assignments have
been in communications elec
tronics. He also served as an
instructor for the Communica
tions School at Gunter AFB, Ala.,
and was a member of the facul
ty of the Air Command and Staff
School at Maxwell AFB, Ala.
He served as professor of air
science and tactics, Air Force
Reserve Officers Training
Corps, at the Georgia Institute
of Technology, his alma mater.
He attended the Air War College,
Maxwell AFB.
Colonel Moore and his wife,
the former Dorothy Edwards of
Greensboro, live at Scott AFB
with two of their children Miss
Marilyn Moore, a senior at the
University of Georgia, Athens,
and Gall Moore, 11. A son
Hugh C. Moore, Jr., lives at
Covington. Colonel Moore’s mo
ther, Mrs. T. C. Moore form
erly of White Plains, lives at
Atlanta, Mrs. Moore’s mother,
Mrs. T. R. Edwards, lives at
Greensboro.
AFCS Is a globally operating
air command which provides
communications, air traffic con
trol and air navigational aid ser
vices and facilities for the Air
Force and other government and
civilian agencies. Its 54,000
people serve in over 600 units
in 45 states and nearly 40 for
eign countries.
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Alcoholism
Seminar Set
For Covington
At a recent meeting of the
Mental Health Association Com
mittee on Alcoholism, it was de
cided to hold a two-day seminar
on Alcoholism on November 16
and 17, at the First Methodist
Church in Covington. The ses
sions will begin at 10:30 each
day and dismiss at 12:30 for a one
hour lunch period, with lunch to
be served at the church. The
seminar will reconvene at 1:30
and continue until 3:30 p. m.
Subjects for discussion at the
seminar will be “The Person
Behind the Bottle”, “How to
Recognize Some of the Early
Stages”, “The Mechanics of Hel
ping”, "Resources for Help”
and "The Community’s Respon
sibility”.
Rev. Edgar Callaway and Rev.
Tom White will be in charge
of contacting and Inviting all
ministers of the county to par
ticipate in the seminar. Others
in charge of special groups are:
John Riley Thompson, Jerry Bray
and Leo S. Mallard, Industry and
business; Donald Stephenson, city
and county officials; Mrs. Robert
Faulkner, doctors and social ag
encies and John Morford, colle
ges, schools and visiting teach
ers.
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people in need.
Government programs can help special groups, at special times, on special projects.
But the necessary, year-round job of meeting human ills falls on the regular voluntary
agencies in this community. Support them. Give your fair share.
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COVINGTON - NEWTON COUNTY
UNITED FUND
Small Loan Employees In Educational Program
An educational program for
small loan company employees
in the Covington area was started
Tuesday.
Mrs. Lula B. Vaughn, regis
trar for the special educational
program, announced that there
are ten students enrolled in a
special eight weeks course on the
Georgia Industrial Loan Act and
the rules and regulations.
The classes are being conduct
ed, in cooperation with the Geor
gia Industrial Loan Association
and the Georgia Department of
Education, at the E. L. Ficquett
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But they who wait for the
Lord shall renew their
strength.— (Isa. 40:31)
We should never let our
selves be limited by the thought
of age—either that we are too
young or too old. We need to
deny this thought of age and
not let it have any power over
us. Some persons think in
terms of age.
School each Tuesday with Mrs.
Vaughn as teacher.
These classes, she explained,
are designed to better acquaint
all the employees of the small
loan companies with the law and
the rules and regulations. This
is one of six courses being de
veloped tn a comprehensive edu
cational program by the state
association.
Mrs. Vaughn pointed out that
the courses in Georgia mark the
first professional training pro-
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"We are pleased,” she declar
ed, "to be a part of this program
and to bring this educational pro
gram to Covington in an effort
to better train our employees
to render even better service
to the borrowing public of this
area.”
Enrolled for the course are:
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Corp., Lawrenceville; Billy Dim
sdale, Liberty Finance, Co., Cov
ington; Henry E. Hogle, Jr., Lee
Finance Co., Monroe; Dianne
Herring, Newton Finance Co.,
Sherry Herring, Liberty Finance
Co., Bobby Herring, Covington
Loan Co., all of Covington; Roy
G. Morris, Lee Finance Co.,
Monroe; Dianne Mathis, Southern
Discount Co., Covington; Jo Anne
Smallwood, Lee Finance Co.,
Monroe; and Thomas D. Turner,
Merit Finance Co., Jackson.