The Panola Watchman (Carthage, Tex.), Vol. 108, No. 58, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 18, 1981 Page: 4 of 41
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A 4-PANOLA WATCHMAN, Carthage, Texas, January 18, 1981
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inflation, high unemployment, huge
federal deficits, and an industrial
system that is in disarray. Chrysler
may go under at any time, with
grave consequences for the in-
dustrial heartland.
The auto crisis was brought on, in
part, because the Carter admini-
stration wouldn’t oppose excessive
wages for auto workers and also
because it refused to stand up to the
Japanese who have waged virtual
economic warfare against the
United States while America picked
up the tab for Japan's defense.
Getting interest rates down, in the
face of inflation and huge deficits, is
a priority task facing the admini-
stration and the congress No easy
answers are available. Without
lower interest rates, however, only
the rich will be able to buy houses
and automobiles. Sales of residential
real estate are down by 40 percent.
And unless interest rates are more
reasonable, companies won’t be able
to buy the new tools they need to
modernize their operations and
become more competitive.
Many of the expenditures of the
federal government are locked into
Q. I have worked for a school
district for 27 years. But I never paid
into Social Security. Now I am 64
years old and am getting a month-
ly retirement check. My question is.
am I entitled to draw one-half of my
wife’s Social Security? Also, when I
get to be 85 years old how can I
qualify for Medicare?—W. G.
A. You would hot be eligible to
receive benefits from your wife's
Social Security account unless you
were dependent on her for more than
half of your support
At age 65 if you are not eligible for
a Social Security benefit you may
purchase Hospital and Medical
Insurance under Medicare. The
present premiums are 878 per month
for hospital coverage and 89 60 per
month for medical coverage.
You may purchase the medical
insurance only but if you want
hospital coverage you are required
to enroll and pay for the medical
coverage also.
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we are moving to a larger house in the neighborhood where
I direct music at a church.
Again we rented a van. This time, however, it took two
trips with the big truck and then there were still the
scrapping trips with the pickup.
Things had come a long way since first we set out from
Louisiana to Georgia as a couple of newlyweds.
Only the Good Lord knows what this move will be like.
Certainly the junk has continued to grow. The family hasn’t,
however, so I suppose that’s one good point.
For the past couple of weeks the wife has been busy
packing things into boxes getting ready for the big day, and
if it doesn’t come soon, we’ll have to start unpacking.
A few days ago when I went looking for some single-edged
razor blades to clean up some paint, it was quite fortunate
Kathy happened to remember the box they were in.
When my tooth brush gets stashed in the third box down,
now that's when it will have gone too far.
Anyone who passes by and sees the empty boxes may
think that we have moved a poultry farm in, but really we
haven’t.
Those poultry boxes are really great - and sturdy. And
after a bit of airing out, they really don't smell that bad,
either
The only boxes that even compare are those from the
liquor store, and being a Southern Baptist music director,
well,. maybe you can understand. We’ll stick with the
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to pack our clothes and wedding gifts into the trunk of our
brand new Ford and head from Louisiana to Georgia where
we were to spend the next couple of years with Uncle Sam.
The next move still wasn’t too bad either, for the entire
time we were in the Army we lived in a furnished cottage
and did not begin to buy our furniture
The good uncle took care of getting us back in this
direction and so that move was still rather easy When
Uncle got everything back to Louisiana, he stacked it up at
my parents’ home in Monroe.
When we landed a job in Shreveport, we simply rounded
up a couple of pickup trucks and with them and my car
loaded, we hooked it westward
The next move got a little more difficult. Fortunately it
was an in-town move and all we had to do was shuffle a bit
at a time until we finally got everything in the house.
After three years, a house full of furniture, a child and a
couple of pets, the next move was not so easy The best part
of it, however, was that we were finally moving into our own
house. After several years of renting, we had a chance to
buy.
That time the pickup bit was out and we had to rent one of
those big vans. Just one trip did the trick, however. Oh, we
had to go back with a pickup and scrap up a few little details
but by and large the one load took care of it.
Move the clock ahead another three years and the family
has grown by one and the junk has grown by multitudes
I he Lord has been good to us during these three years and
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As the new year arrives, the
country has great expectations.
Indeed, the American people have
good reason to expect that the
quality of governmental leadership
will improve. Prudent men and
women will replace liberal ideo-
logues in the most senior govern-
ment posts. On the foreign affairs
front, there won’t be any Andrew
Youngs at the U.S. Mission to the
United Nations to describe Cuban
communists as a stabilizing force in
Africa.
The American people would be
well advised not to expect too much,
however. The Carter administration
inherited a much healthier country
from the Ford administration than
the Reagan administration will
inherit from the Carter regime.
The Carter people are leaving a
terrible mess for the Reagan
administration to clean up. For
example, President Carter is
leaving the hostage situation for his
successor to solve.
The country’s economic problems
are myriad. It is suffering from high
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J. A. SMITH
Assistant Publisher
MARSHALL DOUGLAS
Editor
Q. I keep reading recurring stories
in our local press regarding the
impending collapse of the Social
Security Trust Funds. Is anything
being done about this?—A.R.
A. The problem revolved around
one of the Trust Funds — the Old
Age and Survivors Trust Fund —
which faced a depletion of revenues
by the end of 1981.
Congress was advised of the
problem in June 1980 and it was
recognized that swift action was
necessary.
On Oct. 9, 1980, the president
signed legislation passed by Con-
gress that provided a two-year
reallocation of tax rates between Old
Age nd Survivors Tst Fund and
the Disability Insurance Trust Fund.
This will guarantee payment of
benefits into 1982 and give Congress
an opportunity for a more thorough
study of the problem this year.
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On Tuesday the United States will inaugurate a new
president. Ronald Reagan will become the 40th man in the
history of the nation to rise to the office.
This should be a time of renewed patriotism in the
nation. It should be a time when Democrats as well as
Republicans put aside party prejudice and join in
supporting the man who will be the spokesman for our
nation over the coming months and years.
Regardless of whether one likes the man personally or
sees eye to eye with him politically, each owes him the
respect of the office that he has been elected to.
Of course we should retain the right to disagree and to
make our feelings known on the issues that the nation
faces. But, we should also remember that if we are to be
the power and force on the international scene that we
must be united.
And for the coming months, that calls for being united
behind the leadership of Ronald Reagan.
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place through the entitlement
system. Automatic increases are
provided for millions of government
employees. It will take a lot of hard
work and maneuvering to end these
special privileges embodied in the
law.
The size of the problems facing the
Reagan administration should make
the American people realistic about
the prospects for improvement in
the short run. It will take Mr.
Reagan most of his term to get the
country on a sound footing. It would
be foolish for the American people to
expect that two decades of
giveaways and liberal misconcep-
tions can be set right in a year.
There isn’t a department of
government that isn’t riddled with
bad practices or mistaken ideas-
and with waste.
Thousands of top bureaucrats,
who are responsible for the waste
and unsound policies, are protected
by the Civil Service system. They
can’t be demoted. In biref, the
American people need a much
clearer understanding of the stag-
gering tasks that will confront
President Reagan.
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Q. My father was receiving Social
Security disability benefits for
himself and one son. He has another
son who was over 18 and receiving
payment directly as a full-time
student. This older boy continued to
receive monthly checks after he left
school. He has left the state and we
cannot locate him but the Social
Security office has started to
recover the overpayment by
deducting 881 per month from my
father’s check. He can’t afford it.
What can we do? Is it legal for them
to do this?—M.A.P.
Liability for an overpayment may
shift from the overpaid individual to
certain others in particular
situations. The Social Security
Administration may with-hold
benefits payable to others entitled to
payments on the same earnings
record.
Your father should discuss the
matter with his local Social Security
office to see if a lesser amount may
be withheld each month.
Should U.S. presidents be elected to one six-year term
instead of campaigning for re-election almost from the
day of their inauguration?
The idea which presumably would transform first-term
politician presidents into unsullied statesmen has a
certain appeal and some powerful supporters. Would-be
reformers of the presidency are active again now, as they
usually are after nearly every presidential election. For
example, John B. Connally, the former governor of Texas
and once-candidate for the GOP presidential nomination,
thinks the single six-year term is a good idea as does
former Attorney General Griffin Bell.
And a year ago President Carter said if he could
change the Constitution "justby the stroke of a pen” he
would limit the presidency to one six-year term. He
lamented that many of his non-political actions were
"colored through the news media” as possible re-election
ploys.
These advocates have confined their support to talk. But
now comes solid action from an odd congressional couple.
Sen. Strom Thurmond, the conservative South Carolina
Republican, and Rep. John Conyers of. Michigan, a
Democrat and a militant leader of the congressional black
caucus, have announced they will sponsor a constitutional
amendment to limit the presidency to a single six-year
term.
The public apathy which greeted the Thurmond-Conyers
announcement suggests the single six-year term is not an
idea whose time has come, if indeed it ever does. An
electorate which just signified in no uncertain way that the
country needs a change in leadership is not ready to buy
the idea that giving Mr. Carter two more years in the
White House would be preferable. Indeed, a Gallup poll
last year showed almost 70 percent of Americans oppose
limiting the presidency to one six-year term.
Obviously a vast majority of Americans believe there
is nothing wrong with a president feeling political
pressures and being accountable at the polls. The founding
fathers, who considered the single six-year term,
apparently felt the same way. Moreover, U.S. history has
proved them to have been correct. Almost invariably, poor
presidents have been turned out of office after serving
only one four-year term and good presidents, who stayed
in touch with the people, have been re-elected. Thus, our
national experience suggests the single six-year term
would lengthen a poor president’s term by two years and
shorten a good president’s term by two. We see no
advantage whatever in that.
Moreover, the exercise of presidential authority could
be diminished by a single six-year term, which by fixing
the date of exit from the beginning would tend to
transform the president into a permanent lame duck.
To be sure, the U.S. presidency has been troubled of late,
with a series of White House incumbents being rejected
after failing to meet public expectations. But, as real as
the problem is, the answer is not likely to be found in
removing the president from politics. To the contrary,
better times will come in the White House when the
president is more in touch, more accountable, and less
isolated from reality and public thinking.
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ff tlwire is one thing in thte world that may be less fun than
house hunting; it could be moving
Now that the house hunting is basically a thing of the past,
it’s time to load up the old truck and shuffle a few goodies
the wife and I have collected over the past almost 15 years
from Shreveport to Panola County.
Chances are, by the time you are reading this Rewspaper,
pmwingnot sobad-atleast the
physical part of it You see, I lived in the same place for the
first 11 years of my life, The doctor even came out to the
house when I was born. We didn't even have to go into town
it, for that.
The one move from the country to town was the only move
ley or matfoimtil Isprmdmy wings and flew from the nest
Now, that move was one of the simplest ever. It came the
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