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ne GATIWAYXA TO THE 7 'Tis a Privilege to Live in Central Florida Vol. 69 No. 61 Orlando, Florida, Tuesday, October 28, 1938 0S 10 Cts. 30 Page Orlando Sentinel mtxt Scene Of 37 Deaths Last Gas Explosion Year Kills inerss 166 Safe fict The Most Out Off Social Security 3 Would Women Benefit By Retiring At 62? Anything For An Issue These Duys OKT-Colonial Link Due Soon By HARVEY GARDNER, C.P.A. Beginning with February, 1959, pension checks for women workers who elect to receive benefits at 62 are increased.

But they still will amount to only 80 pet. of what you would get if you had waited until 65. This is due to the fact that benefits for women who wait until 65 are also increased. If you choose to take the payments before you reach 65, the amount of your monthly payments will be permanently reduced. For each month's delay in asking for benefits, your benefit will be increased proportionately until it reaches 100 pet.

at 65. IF YOU CHOOSE the reduced ben-efit before 65, generally you will be ahead financially for the first, 15 years. Unless a woman worker lives past 77, she would be better off by demanding payments as soon as she can. Even if you choose to take your benefits at a reduced rate, the payments to your dependents your children, dependent husband or, in case COMPARISON OF OLD AND NEW BENEFITS EFFECTIVE WITH FEBRUARY, 1959, CHECKS Average Monthly Woman Hetirinj Woman (or man) Earning! at age 62 Retiring at 65 OLD NEW OLO NEW 50 $24.00 26.00 30.00 33.00 100 44.00 47.20 55.00 59.00 150 54.80 58.40 68.50 73.00 200 62.80 67.20 78.50 84.00 250 70.80 76.00 88.50 95.00 300 78.80 84.00 98.50 105.00 350 86.80 92.80 108.50 116.00 400 101.60 127.00 Bodies Brought Out As 5,000 Await Rescue BISHOP, VA. UP) Twenty-two coal miners died yesterday in an explosion in the Pocohontas Fuel Bishop mine where 37 men met a similar fate early in 1957.

First word that all 22 men trapped by the 8:20 a.m. Orlando time blast were dead came by telephone from Crawford Wilson, chief of the West Virginia Bureau of Mines who descended into the mine with rescue workers. Wilson said the bodies had been found. Death, he added, was caused by a gas explosion, but he did not say whether the men had survived the explosion and died later of fumes. ALL 22 BODIES had been brought out of the mine on the shaft elevators by 6:15 p.m.

They were wrapped tightly in white bed sheets with small white tags bearing the names of each. The litter bearers, their faces grimy with dust, carried the victims outside the mine entrance where a fleet of ambulances waited in the cold drizzle. Meanwhile, the news had been announced to hundreds of relatives and others who had waited anxiously for hours for some word of the miners' fate. ONE OFFICIAL estimated 5,000 persons were milling in the area as the rescue operations proceeded. Company officials announced the mine would be shut down indefinitely.

They said an immediate investigation would be undertaken to learn the cause of the disaster. The first indication of the fate of the men came when rescue teams reported bodies of eight victims had been found. SEVEN OF THE bodies were found piled -at the loading point where the men were working when the explosion came shortly after the new shift went to work. Another body was found nearer the mine's entrance. Company officials said 188 men were in the mine at the time of the explosion.

Twenty-two were trapped and the other 166 made their way safely from the mine. Among the trapped men were eight miners who had worked the previous shift and had not left the mine. The others had come into the mine minutes earlier. Four rescue teams worked in relays of two each in their slow and tedious job. They had to combat smoke and gas.

Disruption of the mine's ventilating system slowed their progress, too. Cracker Jim Sez: A heap of folks are sartin-shore worried abouten one of them quick freezes, but I done tole em not to fret till after Christmas time. That Ole Farmer's Almanak has got some real bad cold signs tween Christmas an New Year's, but tween now and then, thev jest look sorta chillish like. Them Yankee snow-dodgers what's down here early are gonna have a lot of sunshine for the next week or two an they can git out an roll them bowlin balls, an chunk them horse shoes. I'm lookin for a heap of that sunshine again today, an not too many of them harmless white clouds.

BANK CLEARINGS Yerdiy Same Date 19S7 $8,362,421.37 Sunday, Banks closed Appeals Court Given Decision On Channel 9 The Supreme Court yesterday ordered more lower court proceedings in a license controversy over WLOF-TV Channel 9 in Orlando because of testimony given to House influence investigators. The court sent the case back to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia by a 7 to 2 vote. Dissenters were Justices Tom C. Clark and John M.

Harlan. Donn Colee, vice president and manager of WLOF-TV, said of the court's ruling that the decision, as made clear by the dissent of Justices Clark and Harlan, should not be interpreted as meaning that the award of the channel to WLOF involved any improper conduct on the part of any person connected with WLOF-TV. COLEE WENT on to say that yesterday's decision follows a pattern of the court requiring investigation of any case which was mentioned during the hearing conducted by the House committee on legislative oversight, regardless of the nature of the circumstances involved. The bearings resulted in the resignation of FCC Commr. Richard Mack.

"As a matter of face, when the Orlando case was considered by the House, there was no evidence of any improper conduct on the part of anyone at WLOF-TV," the television executive said. Mid-Florida Television operator of WLOF-TV, won permit to build the station on June 7, 1957. The losing applicant was WORZ operator of WKIS radio, which had been preferred two years earlier by a hearing examiner. Nuclear Test Off ATOMIC TEST SITE, Nev. UP A nuclear pop atop a 50-foot steel tower on Yucca Flat was postponed indefinitely late yesterday.

It was to have started the curtain closing on an era of atomic weapons testing here. Hilton To Wed NEW YORK UP Pert Patricia Trish McClintock, the 18-year-old daughter of a Tulsa oil millionaire, and high-living Nicky Hilton, 31, son of hotel tycoon Conrad Hilton, said last night they ill wed Nov. 26. Speeded; Let Today ANFORD I EXPRESS WAV 1 AMERICA ST. 0 1A 0 1 EXPRESSWAY 91 IS 2 Of High Court To Rule On Loyalty Standard WASHINGTON (LTD The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to decide whether the federal Govt has the right to impose loyalty and security standards on some three million civilian workers in defense plants.

In a brief order, the court announced that it will hear the appeal of William L. Green, who lost his job as an vice president of a Maryland engineering research firm in 1953 when the Defense Dept. withdrew his security clearance. I I i't Expressway First Section By HENRY BALCH Associate Editor Pace of constructing the federal interstate expressway through Orlando has speeded up rapidly and persons with homes or property along it from Colonial Dr. 60uth to the Orange Blossom Tr.

were warned yesterday to think about moving within the next nine months. J. Rolfe Davis, State Road Board member from Orlando, said, "Before this administration is over Jan. 1, J9611 we will have let to contract the limited access expressway or use four-laned highways all the way from Daytona Beach to Tampa." First Orlando section, from 27th St. to America a job estimated at about million, will be let to contract today.

NEXT TWO SECTIONS will be from 27th St. to the Orange Blossom Tr. and from America St. to Colonial. "These are the properties about which owners will have to start figuring on moving shortly," Davis said.

Work is under way on a bridge across Lake Monroe and a stretch of the limited access highway 15 miles north toward Daytona Beach in Volusia County, PROPERTY OWNERS have a right to protest to the circuit court if they are not satisfied with the appraisals made on their property. "Thus far the great majority of property owners we have dealt with have been satisfied with our offers and with the settlements made," Davis said. "Of 315 pieces of property appraised thus far, we have settlements signed with 259 and closed with 234 for $2,236,000." UNLESS STATE ROAD Dept. offers are accepted by property owners, the department lawyers draw condemnation suits on all the land they want in a section of the expressway and file suit in circuit court to take the land. A jury hears the case and each piece of property is argued before the jury separately.

Davis said it was planned to build four lane facility leading from- the south side of Lake Monroe to French Ave. in Sanford and use the four-laned Hwy. 17-92 as a portion of the expressway until the Seminole County portion of the federal road could be built. HE SAID HWY. 17-92 would be let to contract from the Seminole County line to Lee Rd.

by Jan. 1. This includes the railroad underpass. He also said the road department plans to have the four laning of Hwy. 441 from Ocala to the expressway in Orlando completed by the end of 1960.

And he revealed that State Rd. 50 Colonial would go under the railroad at Gertrude St. in Orlando. efits at 62? You could qualify for only 80 pet. or $80 monthly.

Will the claim of your dependent child be cut? The answer is "no." The child would still receive a monthly payment of $50. THE AMOUNT of work required to make payments possible on your Social Security account depends on trie date you reach 62 or the date of your death. At least lxb years six quarters of work are required, but never more than 10 years 40 quarters. Two examples will give you an idea of the requirements: A working woman who died or reached 62 before July 1, 1954, needs no more than six quarters IV2 years of work to be fully insured; the woman who dies or reaches 62 in the first six months of 1958 needs no more than 14 quarters Zxk years. CHANGING THE retirement age from 65 to 62 makes payments possible for some women now over 65 who did not have enough work to qualify under the old law, and for the survivors of some women who died after June 30, 1954, and who were between 62 and 65 years of age at death.

For example, under the old law, a working woman who reached 65 in July, 1956, needed 11 quarters of coverage under the regular rule, in order to claim payments. Under the new rule she needs only six quarters since she was 62 in July, 1953. These individuals should contact their Social Security office for possible benefits due them. QUICK SMILE "Good night, Mr. Thornton.

I enjoyed every dollar." of your death, to your dependent parents will not be reduced. These dependents will receive their benefits at a rate based on the full amount of your old-age insurance benefit. For example: If you are entitled to benefits of $100 monthly at 65, your dependent child would be eligible for an allotment of $50 monthly. But suppose you elect to receive ben- Reds Observe Odd Cease-Fire TAIPEI UO The Chinese Reds scattered light shellfire around. the Que-moy Islands yesterday, then moved into another no-shooting phase of their halfway cease-fire in Formosa Strait.

The Nationalists announced, meanwhile, that in the six-day period before the start of the new Red ceasefire Sunday, Communist shells killed 19 offshore island civilians, wounded 11 others and destroyed 233 homes. UNDER THE RULES of their cease-fire, the Reds shoot anywhere on odd-numbered days. But on even-numbered days they do not fire at, Quemoy areas where supplies are landed. Sunday was the first even-numbered day and none of the light Communist barrages hit supply landing areas. Monday, an odd-numbered day of the month, was open season, but the firing was light anyway.

Inside Today Aitention Residents Maury Road between Edgewater Dr. Rio Grande ond vicinity of Robert E. Lee School Starting 9 A.M. today, weather permitting, we plan to make several necessary changes in our transmission lines for better service. Please plan for an outage of 45 minutes to 1 hour Tuesday a.m.

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