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PAGE FOUR THE SUN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1954 - Meetings - LIVINGSTON-WISE VFW The Livingston-Wise Post of the Veteran of Foreign Wars will meet this evening (Thursday) at 7:30 p.m. at the V.F.W. Hut near the city. WHEELAND GRANGE The Wheeland Grange is scheduled to meet tonight (Thurs day) at 7:30 at Wheeland, Little Mountain. KIWANIS CLUB The Kiwanis Club will hold their regular meeting today (Thursday) at 1:00 p.m. at the Community Hall. MACEDONIA HD CLUB The Macedonia Home Demon stration Club will meet this after noon (Thursday) at 3:30 o’clock. THE FLORAL GARDEN CLUB The Floral Garden Club will meet this evening (Thursday) at 8 o’clock at the home of Mrs. Lon nie B. Gilliam, 937 Cornelia street. Mrs. L. L. Haltiwanger will be program leader. Members are ask ed to take note of this being bulb exchange meeting and are asked to please bring their bulbs. v £ HQ. 228TH GROUP Hq. 228th AAA Group of the Na tional Guard will meet tonight (Thursday) at 7 o’clock at the Armory. Colonel Thomas H. Pope is Commander of the Group and Captain Ralph P. Zoble is Head quarters Commander. v meet Tuesday evening, October 26th at 8 o’clock in the conference room of the Health Department on Hunt street with Mrs. Jewel Hentz and Mrs. Margaret Abrams host esses. Dr. Foster Martin will be guest speaker. BOY SCOUT TROOP 69 ’ Boy Scout Troop 69 will meet Tuesday night at 7:30 at Willow- brook Scout Cabin. Scout Master of this troop is Dewey Kinard. BATTERY “C” Battery “C” of 107th AAA AW- Bn will meet Tuesday night at 7 o’clock. Captain James C. Lester is commander of Battery C. HQ. & HQ. BTRY. Headquarters and Headquarters Battery 107th AAA-AW-Bn. will meet Wednesday night at Armory on the Cut-Off at 7 o’clock. Lt. Col. Evander R. Mclver is Battery Commander and Captain Hurbert D. Bedenbaugh is Headquarters Commander. O’NEAL HD CLUB The O'Neal Home Demonstra tion Club is scheduled to meet Friday afternoon, October 22nd at 3 o’clock. 4?' YOUTH CENTER The Youth Center will be open Friday and Saturday nights on Speers street from 8 until 11 p. m. ARMY BAND The 246th Army Band will meet Sunday afternoon from 2 until 4 o’clock at the Armory. Band Di rector is Charles P. Pruitt. BOY SCOUT TROOP 65 Boy Scout Troop 65 will meet Monday night at 7 o’clock at the Troop Cabin. Marvin Rucker is Scout Master of this troop. OAKLAND P. T. A. The Oakland P- T. A. will meet Monday night, October 2th at 7 p.m. The picture of South Carolina will be shown. Hotdogs, hamburgers and cold drinks will be sold, and the pub lic is cordually invited to attend. BOY SCOUT TROOP 66 Boy Scout Troop 66, with Wright Cannon as Scout Master, will meet Monday at 7:30 p.m. at the Troop Headquarters on Pope Terrace. JUNIOR HIGH PTA The Junior High P. T. A. will meet Monday evening* October 25th at 7:30 p.m. in the Junior High School Auditorium. AMERICAN LEGION The American Legion will meet Tuesday evening, October 26th at the Legion Hut near the city. r BUSINESS AND PROF. WOMEN CLUB The Business and Professional Women’s Club will meet at 7:30 Tuesday evening, October 26th at at the Wallace Home on Caldwell street. REGISTERED NURSES CLUB The Registered Nurses Club will Sunshine Sue, •cv of WRVA't “Old Dominion Barn Dance” say* » H. D. AGENT SCHEDULE The County Agents, Mrs. Margie D. Freeman and Mrs. Barbara G. Brown announce the following schedule for the week of October 25th through the 30th. Monday, October 25th. Office; Home visits. Tuesday, October 26th. Bush River Junior & Senior 4-H; New Hope Zion HDC at 2:30 p.m. at the home of Mrs. T. L. Crooks; Silverstreet HDC at 3:00 p.m. with Mrs. B. O. Lohg, Mrs. H. O. Long and Mrs. J. G. Long as hostesses. Wednesday, October 27th. Office; Trinity HDC at 2:30 p. rh. with Mrs. Ralph Waldrop as hostess. Thursday, October 28th. Office; Little Mountain HDC at 3:00 p.m. at the Fellowship Hall with Mrs. J. L. Bowers and Mrs. Charles Crowell as hostess. Friday, October 29th. Office; Mt. Bethel Germany HDC at 7:30 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Raymond Nichols with Mrs. Byron Nichols and Mrs. Lawrence Beam as associate hostess. Saturday, October 30th. Office. PFC ADAMS OF 10TH INFANTRY DIVISION Pfc. Troy R. Adams, 21, son of Mrs. Gladys Adams, Route 1, Pros perity, is serving with the 10th Infantry Division at Fort Riley, Kansas. The 10th, a fully trained and equipped unit, is ready to move into action on short notice. Adams, a member of the 41st Engineer Combat Battalion, ‘ enter- ed\the Army in May 1953. Business failure is particularly high among: enterprises during their first year or two of opera tion. "You know, friends, I fust couldn’t keep house without Karo my the lull rich flavor to every bite <Karp Pour it on biscuits, pancakes... everything! qqO^ 1 <J is 1H-POUNP ANP 3-POUMP tomes ... s- AMO 10-POUND CANS is SociarSecurity By MISS MARTHA F. PRES8LY The person who said “Tomorrow never comes,” has been proved wrong by the social security pro gram. For today there are about six and a half million men, women and children who are living in the “tomorrow” which either they or their retired or deceased bread winner helped to earn. They are the people over 65 and their de pendents and the dependents or survivors of deceased workers who have become entitled to social se curity benefits. The credits which these people or their loved ones earned in work under social security have entitled them to the right of receiving their retirement or survivors benefit check each month. I mentioned these bene ficiaries in yesterday’s article when I said that the new law would enable them to receive in creased old-age and survivors in surance payments. As I explained yesterday, this increase has been written into the amended Social Security Act to help bring benefits in line with current earning levels and living costs. All of the people who are going to receive higher benefits will want to know right away how the increase comes and how much it will be. The first thing which should be pointed out is that this increase is automatic for persons already re ceiving checks. Beneficiaries don’t have to write any letters, forms, or applications for the increase. If you are expecting a September social security check, it will be in the early Octobqr mail as usual. And the amount on that check will be higher than your last check. How much will the increase be? The answer to this question will not be the same for everyone. In the case of a retired worker, the increase will be at least five dol lars. And there will be proportion ate increases for the dependents or survivors who are receiving their monthly social security pay ments now. The minimum monthly benefit amount will be increased from $25 under the old law to $30 for the retired worker and the maximum benefit will be increased from $85 to $98.50. The maximum family benefit which was $168.75 will be $200. No minimum benefit amount will be less than $30 for a retired worker or an only survivor. The social security law says that the total family benefits cannot exceed 80 percent of the insured worker’s average monthly wage. But under the 1954 amendments this provision cannot reduce the family benefits below $50 or one and a half times the worker’s pri- Bible Comment: Jesus Taught Essence of True Humility TJfTHAT did Jesus mean by hu- ” paility? There is no doubt that Jesus did teach humility and that He found it so hard to instill the lesson of it into His disciples that He stooped to me nial tasks such as washing their feet to jnake the lesson plain. It might be said that a person who is truly humble never grov els or makes a parade or profes sion of his humility. He may be none the less humble because he stands erect, has a keen sense of his integrity of life and purpose and puts a proper value upon himself as a person and indi vidual. Jesus stressed this value of the individual as much a? He stressed the need of humility. True humility is not in any sense self-deprecation. It might be said that when people are proud they are usual ly proud of the wrong things. They are proud of their birth or wealth, for example. It is a for tunate thing for them to have been bom into a great or good family, but, after all, it is a for tunate circumstance with which they have nothing to do. And they may have had no part in creating the wealth of which they^ boast. On the other hand, there is surely just and reasonable pride in seeking to live worthily of a great heritage of birth or wealth. The essence of true humility is teachableness. And this finds its manifestations as much in secular life as in religious expe rience. The humility of an open, ex pectant mind underlies all prog ress. even where strong convic tion guides the way. So, in the life of the soul the humble open mind and heart are the gateways to the knowledge of God and the discovery of His will. BOOKMOBILE SCHEDULE The Bookmobile schedule for Newberry County is as follows: Thursday, October 28 Oakland Mill (Mrs. J. I. Ringer) Oakland lyiill fMrs. Reeder Brooks) Box Factory (Cause’s Store) Gary Community (A. P. Ram- age) Bush River Community (Mrs. Willie Singley) Bush River Community (Mrs. Lamar King) Bush River School Tran wood Community (Mrs. Rosa Johnson) Please n9te change of schedule for Friday, October 29. Due to the S. C. Library Association meet ing in Charleston October 29th and 30th, the Bookmobile will make the following stops Wednesday, October 27th instead of Friday, October 29th. West End School x Speers Street School Queens Community (Fowler’s Store) Long Lane Community (Ben Caldwell) Whitmire Library. ' vt v" ■' / >, 'V' VpfsPisl&lj > ' "4 ' *•' /V ; ■:Ar :? m mwi - ''43 Ifepli * < THAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER It was well out in the summer. Our fruit was about over. And the wild fall plenty had not come to our woodlands yet, back when we were kids in the Dutch Fork. Zeke, my colored playmate, had passed an old abandoned place back in the hills a few days be fore. He saw something red like a cluster of apples on an old snag of a tree down in the abandoned orchard. But he was alone, and scared to investigate. He told me about it, as we threw rocks at the last few mulberries that still tempted us from the far points of the limbs that we could not reach. This old gnarled tree grew out beyond our well close- to the lot gate. All that afternoon, rich red, juicy apples were on my mind. The more I thought of ’em, the more overpowering it became. I had an old piece of a bicycle that we both liked to ride. A new tire had just come for it from Sears- Roebuck. We put it on, and lit out for that promised land. We took turns on the pedals, for it was hilly, rocky,-and hard going. As we neared the place, we saw dust rising down the road. So we hid in the bushes until the wagon passed. We left the bi cycle there and worked our way around to the back of the old abandoned houseplace. We didn’t know who owned it and thought investigating those apples would be a cMme that we didn’t want to get caught at. But we had to have ’em. Soon the clearing showed and we entered the tall - broom grass walking behind bushes as much as possible. The old apple snag that Zeke had seen before came into view. Our mouths watered for the brick-red we saw in its top. But we kept an eye down there on the road. Being that near our goal, we didn’t want anything to happen then. We got plumb up under that tree, and saw no encouraging signs on the ground. For surely where there are apples there is usually borne on the ground. Zeke climbed up and made the deva stating and bewildering descovery that what he and we had seen was not red, ripe apples at all. It was the blooms -of an old co witch vine that grew up its trunk! We were never whipped out any worse than that. mary insurance amount, which ever amount is larger. Here is a table for insured workers who are receiving retire ment benefits. If the column of figures on the left is the present amount of your benefit, the col umn on the right yill be the new amount on the September check, which will reach you early in October. Old Amount Increased Amount $25.00 $30.00 30.00 35.00 40.00 45.00 50.00 55.00 60.00 65.10 70.00 78.50 80.10 91.90 85.00 98.50 There are other provisions in the new law which may increase your benefit amount if you 4re re ceiving old-age and survivors pay ments. Space does not permit me to go into detail about any of them. But if you are a retired worker, you will want to follow my later articles. You may learn about some other ways in which the new law will be advantageous to you. Wages and salaries paid to em ployees in the United States in creased by $142 billion in the pe riod 1939 through 1952. '-v- - .:*i ....fllL _ f A,..* Miip 7.. mmm / IlPfl | "V farm, fourth in a series, has been identified by the owner, Wilbur E. Epps, Rt. 1, Newberry. Wyman 712 Green Street, Newberry was the first person to correctly identify the farm. He will receive two free the Wells Theatre. The only other correct guess was Mrs. Ruby Johnson, Rt. 3, Newberry. — fwm Condensed Statement THE SOUTH < 1:.^ m if-?:*. As Of 7th, 1954 RESOURCES Cash and Due from Banks • • • •••••*,» $ 53,249,444.77 U. S. Government Securities 79,165,098.06 ■ State and Municipal Securities 1,191,905.16 Federal Intermediate Credit Bank Debentures • • • 370,000.00 Federal Reserve Bank Stock y 225,000.00 Loans and Discounts '• • • 56,150,805.82 Banking Houses (16) 1,444,020.00 Furniture and Fixtures 427,379.54 Other Assets • 109,193.67 $192,332,847.02 LIABILITIES Capital—Common r $ 2,500,000.00 Surplus ‘ 2 5,000,000.00 Undivided Profits •' 1,819,240.56 Reserve—Under S6c. 166 (Int. Rev. Code) 950,000.00 Reserve—Federal Income Taxes , 1,048,150.18 Reserve!—Other 149,538.54 Deposits 180,865,917.74 $192,332,847.02 OFFICES ANDERSON BELTON CHARLESTON CHERAW COLUMBIA DILLON FLORENCE FORT JACKSON GEORGETOWN GREENVILLE JACKSON LEESVILLE MT. PLEASANT NAVAL BASE NEWBERRY PICKENS ST. MATTHEWS SENECA SHAW AIR FORCE BASE SUMTER Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation