Eisenhower Proposes Bringing
10 Million More Under Social
Security And Increased Benefits
WASHINGTON, (/PI — President
Eisenhower proposed bringing 10
million more Americans under
social security, increasing benefits
all along the line, and raising to
$4,200 the amount of income sub
ject to social security taxes.
In a special message to Con
gress, the President said the aver
age benefit payment to retired
workers is now $50 a month, with
a minimum of $25 and a maxi
mum of $85.
For social security to “fulfill its
purpose of helping to combat des
titution, these benefits are too
low,” Eisenhower said.
Both the maximum and mini
mum should be increased, he said,
but proposed no figures. A formu
la on that will be presented later
by Secretary of Welfare Hobby, he
told the legislators.
Boosting to $4,200 the amount
of income subject to social secur
ity taxes, as Eisenhower proposed,
would mean an immediate $12 a
year tax increase for workers
earning that much or more.
Employers’ payrolls would also
be increased that amount for each
worker in the $4,200 a year brack
et or above.
At present, the first $3,600 of
income is taxes. The rate this year
we it up to 2 percent It had been
1 percent on worker and em
ployer.
The President set forth a six
point program for “improvement”
of the social security system. It
included:
1. Expansion of insurance pro
tection to about ten million more
people not presently covered—in
cluding self employed farmers;
many more farm workers and do
mestic workers; doctors, dentists,
lawyers, architects, accountants,
and clergymen (on a voluntary
basis); and several smaller groups.
2. Computation of benefits “on
a fairer basis.” The President said
the level of old age benefits now
is related to an average of a
Ketchikan Court’s Term
Starts With Banker’s Trial
JUNEAU, (/Pi — A Ketchikan
banker’s trial opened the January
jury term in U.S. district court
here- Thursday.
The defendant is Richard Jay
nes, who is accused of embezzling
S10.000 from the First National
Bank of Ketchikan by making
false entry. He was the bank’s
cashier.
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worker’s past earnings, and that
under the present law periods of
abnormally low earnings or none
at all, are averaged in with per
iods of normal earnings, “thereby
reducing the benefits received by
the retired worker.”
3. Protection of the benefit rates
of the disabled. Eisenhower rec
ommended that the benefits of a
worker who has a substantial
work record in employment cov
ered by social security insurance,
and who becomes totally disabled
for an extended time, be main
tained at the amount he would
have received had he become 65
and retired on the date his dis
ability began.
After setting out his six point
program, Eisenhower also dealt
at some length with the bublic as
sistance phases of the social se
curity setup.
He told the legislators that “an
important by product of the ex
tension of the protection of the
[old age insurance] system and
the increase in its benefit scale
is the impact on public assistance
programs.”
Under such programs, states
and localities provide assistance
to the needy aged, dependent chil
dren, blind persons, and the per
manently and totally disabled,
with the federal government shar
ing in the cost.
He said that while some meas
ure of public assistance will con
tinue, t the expanded coverage pro
gram would progressively reduce
the need for public assistance pay
ments.
Army Needs
Major Changes,
Says Committee
WASHINGTON, UP)—1The Army
was told it needs two new major
commands and a thorough over
haul of its supply and training
systems to meet the long-pull tests
of peace, half - war or another
world conflict.
A committee composed of four
businessmen and one general also
called for strengthening the au
thority of the secretary of the
Army and protecting it against
absorption by the secretary of
defense and his staff.
Reporting to Secretary of the
Army Robert T. Stevens, the com
mittee aimed its strongest criti
cisms and its major recommenda
tions at the Army’s supply system
and technical services. It charac
terized their direction as some
times “confusing” and their au
thority as often “diluted” to such
a point that these services would
be inadequate in the event of
another full-scale mobilization.
The report specifically called
for creation of a third assistant
secretary of the Army, for finan
cial management, a second vice
chief of staff, for supply, and es
tablishment of a continental Army
command and a supply command.
The committee also sought to
restore and clarify some of the
Army Secretary’s authority under
the unified Defense Department.
The report advocated defining
the Army chief of staff’s role as
“operating manager” for the
Army, “fully accountable to the
Army Secretary.”
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