Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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6 Former Bailey Scholar Honored By Air Force U. S. Air Force Captain Cecil O. Davenport, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe C. Davenport, has been decorated with the Distinguished Flying Cross for aerial achievement in Vietnam. Captain Davenport, a Clinton High graduate, and a Bailey Scholar, received nc r?i i ? : 2 (i aii viicmiwai einyuievruig from Clemson University. His mother is employed in Lydia Weaving. A sister. Mrs. Pat Owens, is employed in the Clinton Mills Office. Captain Davenport distinguished himself as an F-100 Super Sabre fighter bomber pilot while supporting friendly forces that were surrounded by hostiles near Dak Seang, Vietnam. John Edmonds, Lydia Spinner, reii He is shown relaxing in an easy chaii his fellow employees. John joined C1L 6. 1948. Captain Davenport is stationed at Lakenheath RAF Station, England, where he serves with a unit of the US Air Forces in Europe. red April 17. 1971. Mrs. Eva West i r presented him by She was employed i iuw.1 Mills January Clinton Mills Octob Social Security B( Robert M. Ball, Commissioner of c Social Security, said today that the f regular June 3 checks covering bene- 1 fits for the month of May will reflect v the new higher monthly amount. Sep- f arate checks, scheduled to reach beneficiaries later in June will cover the i amount of the increase for the months 1 oi January tnrougn April. Mr. tsaii c emphasized that social security bene- c ficiaries do not need to get in touch s with a Social Security Office to get t the checks. The payments will be c mailed to beneficiaries automatically. 1 It will take a little over one month, i Ball said, to refigure the benefit r amounts for all beneficiaries, including i the adjustment to take account of ( events that have affected their indi- i vidual benefit payments for a particular c month in the retroactive period. Over < 2.5 million such adjustments are re- < CLOTHMAKER ? vn 1 =F*T> 3 - o > *0 ?e ~3 O 2 .. - C/> 50 P?0H> cn O ^ o :" tin M C3 retired April 10 from Clinton Mills, in the Cotton Laboratory. She joined er 30, 1947. mefits Increased luired in a typical month, he said, ^ or such reasons as the death of a >eneficiary, the remarriage of a widow, i cnua s attainment 01 age ik, a beneiciary's earnings, etc. The refiguring of benefit amounts s being scheduled so as to avoid deay in the regular delivery of the April 1 and May 3 checks, he said. Those hecks will be for the amounts payible to beneficiaries before enactment )f the 10 percent increase. By the first >f May, the new records will have )een produced hy the computers on nagnetic tapes showing the new nonthly amount for each beneficiary ?nd the amount of his retroactive increase. The Treasury Department will teed the month of May to print the hecks and turn them over to the Post Office Department for delivery to So nal Security beneficiaries on June 3. ^