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Show n 1 EDITED by LLOYD SHEARER Oil? BECAUSE OF VOLUME OF MAIL RECEIVED, PARADE REGRETS IT CANNOT ANSWER QUERIES. DU) VOD million Americans who have never worked are now re- soon biz benefits. the Lennon Sisters, Dan the disaster area of show business. In 1969 the three Dailey and many others. ceiving social security Freeloaders? Malingerers? all suffer from childhood disabilities No They percent ara mentally retarded) which prevent (65 them from working as adults. security district manager Vinson Jenkins, social Debbie Reynolds, Tele- li AH Fess Parker, Yvette Mimieux, Jackie Gleason, Jimmy Durante and vision has become major networks canceled 41 series. Last year they axed 34 hand- series, prime-tim- e ing pink slips to Vince Tom Edwards, closest approach to a hit series on TV last year was The Flip Wilson The Show. All the other new ones bombed. Jones, in Watts, Calif., reports: "Persons disabled since childhood are eligible to if MS? A young man lies dying on the battlefield. His eyes stare sightlessly up at the clean, blue sky. The cries of a little girl grow weaker and weaker in the night. By the time the sun rises she will be dead from starvation. A man with trembling hands raises the barrel of a pistol to his forehead, cold with the sweat of fear. An elderly woman, her skin frail as paper, is brutally beaten and killed for a few pennies in her worn purse. Life is just a bowl of cherries, isnt it? War. Poverty. Hunger. Despair. Murder. Greed. And emptiness. Why? We think we know. We want to share them with you Give us a chance. No one wil call, but you may want to call on us MAIL THIS COUPON TO: Adventist information Service 514 Mineola Avenue Carle Place, N.Y. 11514 obligation to me, send your complimentary booklet mentioned At no above. Name Address City 8 has worked long enough under social security retires, becomes Zip ' disabled, or dies. It's not necessary for a person disabled since childhood to have worked under social security since his benefits are paid on the basis of,his father's or mother's social security record. Social security payments to persons mentally or physically disabled before the age of 18 may start at any ago and continue in- definitely. Other children, eligible for social security through their parents, are cut off at if they leave school, or 22 if they age 18 remain unmarried students. ili'B COSTS We have some of the answers. We have reasons for hope. State receive social security benefits if a parent who "g Bureau of Labor Statistics it costs $10,664 a year for a family of four to reside in a city and maintain an intermediate standard of At a.lowerlevel, $6 960 is needed;' at a relatively higher level it living. requires $15,511. These figures are related to the cost of living in the United States during the spring of 1970. Since then, there has been a steady rise in prices about 6 percent per year owing to the continued inflation. kt IJ rJ- -' AXED BY TV; ABOVE, THE LENNON S.1 ,i SISTERS; BELOW, LEFT, DEBBIE REYNOLDS (PINNING UP FRIEND), AND RIGHT, YVETTE MIMIEUX OF THE MOST DEADLY GAME. A |
