Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WcCOBMTCK BfESSENGER, McTOHMTCK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, June 23, 1938 UcCORMICK MESSENGER Fvbttshed Every Thursday i Established June 5, 1902 EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and Owner at the Post Office at Me Cormick, S. C., as mail matter of ■be second class. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year — $1.00 flte Months .75 Months .50 Boll Weevil Control Given In New Leaflet Clemson, June 18.—With *reater determination apparent on the part of South Carolina ■cotton growers to fight the boll weevil, farmers welcome a recent- issued publication on controll- hog the weevil. This publication is No. E-431, Ball Weevil Control in the South Atlantic States, by Floyd F. Bandy, Division of Cotton Insect Investigations, Bureau of Ento mology and Plant Quarantine, U. S. D. A., in cooperation with We South Carolina Experiment Station at its Pee Dee branch in Florence. The circular, a brief but com prehensive statement regarding indirect and direct control of the hail weevil, may be had free upon request from the Publications De portment at Clemson. Three brief statements below aommarlze the essential facts and Endures of the leaflet regarding natural, indirect, and direct con trol of the weevil. 1. Low winter temperatures and hot' dry summer weather are Important factors in the natural control of the boll weevil. 2L Early fall destruction of the «ot£on stalks, removal of Weevil- hibernation places, selection of s, proper preparation of soil, of early varieties, close spac- and proper fertilization are the important cultural pmetices that help greatly in the praduction of profitable crops in ifrg presence of the boll weevil. X. For several years, in experi ments conducted at Florence, 4L C., the most profitable method of direct boll weevil control con- .stated of tWo or three moppings with a mixture of one pound of ■calcium arsenate, one gallon of r, and one gallon of molasses acre, applied at 5- to 7-day intervals with a mixture of equal of calcium arsenate and at the rate of about 6 to 8 pounds per acre for each appli cation, beginning when approxi mately one-tenth of the squares punctured. TXT -T- Account Numbers Held Essential Columbia, June 20.—Each South Carolina wage-earner who expects to file a claim for unemployment benefits in South Carolina next should procure a Social Security account riumber % unless he already has one, R. Brice administrator for the Carolina unemployment compensation commission, said Already approximately 396,762 Security account numbers been issued to South Caro- and others are being is- daily. Any person, whether loyed or unemployed, may a number .without cost by applying to the nearest field of fice of the Social Security board, cf which there are seven in South Carolina. They are located in Spartanburg, Green- Florence, Charleston^ Green- and Rock Hill. worker who does not have a should apply for one ira tely. An account number is abaolutely essential if the unem- ptoyment compensation commis- ekm is to have adequate records wages on which the worker’s benefits will be based. Every needs a number but only number. Much bonfusion has been caused by workers who have obtained two more numbers. One account is all a worker needs in a It will serve all purposes the several provisions erf Social Security act. A person with more than one jumiber should take his extra mnabers to the Social Security board office for cancellation, ever, he should report the McGRATH MOTOR COMPANY, INC. McCORMICK, S. C number he selects for permanent use at the same time he turns in the extra numbers. This will en able the board tc- get his records straight. Each person who applies for un employment benefits will be asked to show his social security account number. iXi Old-Age Insurance Queries Answered (By Miss Martha Pressly, Man ager, Bureau of Old-Age In surance, Social Security Board, Hodges Building, Green wood, South Carolina.) (Whenever the term “wages” is used, it refers to wages for serv ices performed after 1936, and be fore the age of 65 in included mployment.) Q. Is it necessary to employ a lawyer, or pay fees to a claim ex pert to help me apply for a lump sum Federal Old-Age Insurance benefit? A. No. Every assistance will be given you, without any charge, by my office. Write, telephone, or call in person. Q. What is the average amount of lump-sum.benefits at present? A. During March, 1937, the national average of claims certi fied was $38.29. N Q. My husband died last year. He had a Social Security card. Am I entitled to anything? Is it too late to file a claim? A. If your husband received wages since 1936 in an employ ment covered by the Act, a lump sum payment is due his estate. If there is a will probated, the ex ecutor of his estate should file the claim. If not, you should file the claim. While there is no tim$ limit on the filing of claims, action should be taken promptly. Write, telephone or call in person at my office. Q. What is the smallest amounf for which a claim for a lump-sum benefit can be filed? A. There is no minimum or maximum amount of lump-sum payments. Each payment a- mounts to 3 1-2 percent of the to tal wages paid to a worker as specified by the Act. Q. What is the smallest and largest lump-sum payment paid so far under the Social Security Act? A. The smallest claim paid that has come to my attention is that of 10 cents which was divided be tween the parents of a girl who had worked only 1 day in 1937— New Year’s Day—rwhen she be came 111 and died. Her father, inquiring at Field Office as to a claim, was told that while, of course, it would be very small, the Government would nevertheless see to it that it was paid. The fa ther requested payment. The same care is exercised in the adjudica tion of small claims as in the cases of claims for large amounts. The largest claim that has come to my attention was for $1,001.67. Payment of a claim for this size is possible, since the Act permits the accumulation of wage credits from more than one job, although only the first $3,000 from any one employer in a single year is credited to an individual’s account. The claim for more than $1,000 came from a man who had reach- 3d age 65 and who is employed by seven companies. The amounts of lump-sum claims, of course, are increasing daily. TXT Answer Given To Charge Of Low Wages In ’South Clinton. June 17.—An emphatic \nd convincing answer to recent 'barges that the South is an area if low wages, a section whose in dustrial population exists in vir tual economic slavery, is contain- 3d in a survey of U. S. Department if Commerce figures made by thf Cotton Manufacturers’ Associa tion of South Carolina and jus J released. S •mmary figures of the stud: showed that for each dollar adder to the value of cotton manufac tures during the manufacturing process by the Southern employ ee, 63.7 cents were returned tc him in wages. In Northern cotton manufacturing, only 51.6 cents of each dollar added by manufacture was returned in wages. In compiling the figures the association selected all cotton manufacturing states, both North and South, in which total wages paid for the year, as listed by the Department of Commerce, came to one million dollars or more. Nine Southern states and nine Northern states met this qualification. Ranking the states according to the portion of the value added by the worker returned to him in wages, the survey showed that of the first eight states only one Northern state was included. Of the major cotton manufac turing states—states in which to tal wages paid for the year were shown to be more than $10,000,000 —South Carolina led the nation, returning in wages 68.2 cents of each dollar its workers added during the manufacturing process. The South Carolina figure was 10.6 cents above the average for the 18 states, 4.5 cents above the Southern average, and 16.6 cents higher than the average for the Northern states. Virginia led all states listed, with 73.7 cents returned, but her total annual wages for the year were $36,000,000 below those of South Carolina cotton manufac tures. , Complete figures, by states in- TH£ PAUSE THAT REFRESHES • ••AND COOLS Raise a frosty bottle of Coca-Cola to your lips and get the feel of refreshment. 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