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Soc. Security Notes

Elizabeth M. Page, Social Security Field Representative

A farmer near here died the other day. He left a young widow and one teenage daughter. This man had sufficient insurance to bury him, but little else. They had farmed rented land and lived in a rented house.The survivors will have to be assisted by other relatives for a while. But there will be some assured income to the family in the form of Social Security payments. The farmer had filed tax returns starting with 1956 when sharecroppers we re first covered by the Social Security law. He worked several hundred acres and sold his crops for good money. But, after expense, sometimes he had a loss, or nearly so. In

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