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Where or how this mess will! wind up remains to be seen, however both Virginia Beef Cattle Association and the American National Cattlemens Association are leaving no stone unturned toward getting it corrected. Carl La Orange, President of V. B. C. A. would up his talk at Natural Bridge as follows: “We are not whining when in the first 6 months of last year compared to the same period in 1962 the increase in imports oi meat to U. S. was 21% on beef and veal, 18% on mutton and 95% on lamb. We are not whining when the U. S. is importing 25% of the total quantity of meat moving in world trade and the cattle industry is not whining when the Government recognizes the danger of large imports to other industries but studiously avoids making the recognition of the cattleman's problem, for example last December our Government raised the tariff on trucks valued at a $1,000.00 or more from 8 1/2 to 25%. The cattleman understands that action and does not condemn it. But he uses more trucks than any other group and he has great difficulty understanding why he cannot exist under the same ground rules. He cannot under stand it and neither can I.*
_W. H. Lyne
Soc. Security Notes
Prompt and accurate reporting of net earnings was described today as the only way to assure self-employed people of social security protection in future years. In a Joint notice to self-employed people, Mr. A. M. Stoepler, District Director of Internal Revenue, and Mrs. Hazel F.Daly, social security District Manager, advised that the 1963 Federal income tax returns (Form 1040) must be filed on or before April 15, 1964. Mr. Stoepler stated that a self-employed person must file a tax return and pay the self employment tax if net earnings for the year were at least $400, even if no income tax is payabff?. Mrs. Daly reminded selfemployed persons that any oldage, survivors, and disability insurance benefits pay able to them and their families will be based on credits reflecting reported earnings. If earnings are not reported or if they are incorrectly report ed, benefit amounts may be reduced--in some cases lost entirely--when the worker retires, becomes disabled, or dies. To illustrate the importance of reporting self-employment earnings, Mrs, Daly cited the case of a young farmer with a large family. When selfemployed farmers were first brought under social securit; in 1955, Jim was too busy to
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