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Show 1967 Dugway Proving Ground, Friday, Jan. 13, 11 Your Gvil Service Retirement System WWW This is the tenth of a series of Question and Answer articles on the Federal Civil Service Retirement System. Questions answered are those most frequently asked about the System. Any .I. other questions you may have will be answered by the Civilian :'f Personnel Division, Employee Services Branch. WHEN IS AN employee eligible for social security so as to disqualify him from receiving credit toward retirement for JJ , ut military service performed on or after January 1, 1957? covered employAn employee would, if he had enough ment, be eligible for social security when he readied age 62. At this age an employee is considered eligible for social security c even though he does not apply for it, or having applied, is not receiving a benefit. However, social security benefits paid on account of disability are not disqualifying until converted to old-ag- e fit. benefits generally at age 65. iVi social IF AN EMPLOYEE retires before he is eligible for security, may he 'receive credit toward retirement for military service performed on or after January 1, 1957? Yes. Credit for the military service will be allowed during, the time the employee is not eligible for social security. If hie becomes eligible for social security after he retires, his annuity if . will at that time be recomputed to exclude credit for the military I'J D, BLADE CUT IMPS in DQDD(3!J Here's a real value . . . Royal Gamet quality, concentrated Juice cans 6-ou- service. WHAT CHOICE does an employee's widow (or widower or dependent child) have between crediting military service' toward retirement or toward social security? She has no choice with regard to military service performed on or after January 1, 1957; if she is eligible for social security then die military service cannot be credited under the Civil Service Retirement Act. With regard to military service before January 1, 1957, she does have a choice; die can choose to have die military service used under die Civil Service Retirement Act or credited toward the social security benefit. WHAT IS THE effect of an election by a widow (or widower or dependent child) to credit military service performed before January 1, 1957, toward social security rather than using it for retirement, and vice versa? If the. widow elects to credit such military service toward social security, die cannot receive ANY survivor annuity under the retirement system. If she elects to use the military service for retirement, she may still be eligible to receive social security if there is sufficient other covered employment but no credit for the military service will be allowed in computing the amount of the social security benefit. WHEN WOULD IT be the advantage of a widow (or widower or dependent, child) to use military service before January 1, 1957, for retirement and receive a survivor annuity? This depends on the circumstances in the individual case. Knee a choice to use military service for retirement cannot be changed, the widow should get statements from her nearest social security office and from the Civil Service Commission as to exactly what benefits would be payable under each system. She can then compare the benefits and choose the one which is to her advantage. ; s IU i .jrl ?; 4t . u i , :T 1 . V. H COLONEL JOSEPH J. FRASER, JR., and Mrs. Hading pin on Major John Hailing s insignia following recent promotion ceremonies. Things You Never Know About Secretaries GPRAV STTARGCJ V Cottonmaid Spray Can SHSCOtWr &AUE. 3 . Whether youre a boss or a bosss right-han- d gal, chances are youll be surprised to learn that the secretarial occupation is 5,000 years oldl THE EARLIEST secretaries were Babylonian scribes who took dictation on clay tablets. Considering the muscle that must have been required for filing away important business documents in those days, its not too surprising that being a secretary was considered no job for a lady. Filing was made easier by the Associaancient Egyptians, who invented Young Womens Christian tion announced that it would start the paper by hammering papyrus course to train girls a plant into long strips. The Egyptians wrote on this material as to be typewriters. Eight young ladies graduated without any ill early as the third millennium B. effects, thus opening a new field Creco-Romaand n C., papyrus was used in world for a thousand years. in which respectable girls could Shorthand is one secretarial earn a living. If you think typing errors are skill almost a old as the profession itself. Historians have discova problem in your office, pity the ered traces of shorthand used by such people as the ancient Egyppom typewriter of the early tians, Hebrews and Persians. But 1890s. She typed on a machine there was probably no true short- - that had only capital letters and hand system before the one de- that is, the keys typed "blind" veloped by Tiro, a Creek slave, struck the underside of the roll-wtook down all the speeches er, making it impossible for her to of his boss, the Roman matin, see what she'd written until she Cicero, in shorthand, as early as turned the roller around. The 63 B.C. Tiros system gained wideimprovements of the shift spread popularity in ancient key and type bar with both capiRome, where the people who used tals and lower-cas- e letters appearit were known as notaril. Tiros ed a few years later, and an eyeshorthand system, was used by opening typewriter of 1897 banishthe early Christian church, and ed blind writing forever. remained in use until the 9th cenToday, typing can be more tury. mistake-proo- f than ever, thanks to The first patent for a typean electric typewriter which feawriting machine was granted in tures a new horizontal g 1714 to Henry Mill, an English automatic margin indenkey, engineer, but the first practical tation. automatic titlencentering typewriter wasn't patented until and a built-i- n sensor system which 1868. This early machine was detects and prevents typical typmounted on a sewing machine errors before they can occur. stand with a foot pedal. 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