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Show Social Security District Manager Stresses Importance of Accuracy in Card Numbers Gems of Thought Liberty Whatever enslaves man is opposed op-posed to the divine government. Truth makes man free. Mary Baker Eddy ' Man is endowed by his maker mak-er with certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Constitution and Bill of Rights. Give me liberty to know, to think, to believe, and to utter freely according to conscience, above all other liberties. Milton "Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof." Inscription on Liberty I Bell at Philadelphia. The God who gave us life gave t us liberty at the same time. Jefferson Three claimants walked into a social security district office one day only minutes apart. Their surnames were Piano, Tango and Waltz. "Now Harry Piano, John Tango and Sarah Waltz may think their last names are a bit unusual and that the Social Security Administration Ad-ministration should have no difficulty dif-ficulty in locating their records," said Kesler T. Powell, manager of the Provo office. "But oddly enough, their names are duplicated dupli-cated many times over in the more than 112 million accounts set up in the Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance central record keeping office in Baltimore," Balti-more," he declared. "It is for this reason that we always stress the importance attached at-tached to the social security number issued to each of these 112 million men, women and chil- dren. Each has a different number. num-ber. The number and name together to-gether assure accurate reporting by employers," Mr. Powell said. "Workers who change jobs and show their social security card to each new employer need not fear about the accuracy or completeness complete-ness of their accounts. But workers work-ers who rely on memory, or fail to report their numbers at all, cause hardship for the'employer, who then sends in an incomplete report and gets blamed for doing so. Fortunately, the follow-up system used by the Social Security Se-curity Administration accomplishes accomp-lishes identification of many items. The considerable correspondence corres-pondence and personal contact between employers and workers involved in this identification process add needlessly to the administrative costs of the program," pro-gram," Mr. Powell said. He urges workers to guard their cards and . always show them to a new employer. em-ployer. He asks the self-employed to be sure to show their numbers num-bers on their annual social security se-curity tax reports. A representative of the Provo 1 district office of the Social Se-: Se-: curity Administration will be at i the Utah State Employment Service Ser-vice in Cedar City on Tuesday. July 20, between 9 a. m. and 3 p. m. to answer inquiries on Social So-cial Security and assist appli-: appli-: cants to file claims. |