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Show Field Office To Be Opened Monday at Richfield For Social Security Program To promote more economical and efficient administration of the Social Security program, a field office will be opened in Richfield, Utah, it was announced announc-ed here by Heber R. Harper, director di-rector of this Rocky Mountain region re-gion of the Federal Social Security Se-curity Board. Appointment of Sherman H. Ruesch as manager of the Richfield Rich-field office also was announced by Mr. Harper. Mr. Ruesch, a Utah man, whose appointment was made from United States civil-service lists, is now in Richfield Rich-field to take charge of the office, which will be opened to the public Monday, December 11, in the Petersen Bank Building, Main and Center Streets. Mr. Ruesch, who was born in Manti, received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Utah. Since November 1936, he has been assistant as-sistant manager of the Board's Salt Lake City Field Office; and prior to that he taught in the schools of the South Sanpete district dis-trict and in Park City. The Richfield Field Office will serve the counties of Emery, Wayne, Garfield, Kane, Piute, Sevier, Sanpete, Millard, Beaver, Iron and Washington. This will be one of eight new offices to be established in the Rocky Mountain area, following passage by Congress at the last session of amendments to the Federal Old-Age Insurance provisions pro-visions of the Social Security Act, which extend benefits to aged wives, widows, dependent children, child-ren, and dependent parents of old-age annuitants. All personnel to staff the new office will be or already has been selected under Federal civil-service laws and regulations, from Utah registers already in existence, exist-ence, and hence no applications i for employment can be considered :Mr. Harper pointed out. j " "These new offices are being ! established in order to bring the administration of the program closer to the people affected," Mr. Harper declared. "Opening of the Richfield office will be in preparation prep-aration for the new benefit program pro-gram which begins in January of 1940, two years earlier than was j provided in the original act. "Functions of the office will be ; to issue Social Security account I numbers, advise potential beneficiaries bene-ficiaries and the public on provisions pro-visions of the law, and receive claims for the payment of benefits bene-fits from persons covered by the .aw when they reach 65 years of age and retire, or from their immediate im-mediate relatives in case of their deaths." It is expected that claims will be received by local offices in increasing in-creasing numbers as January, ij40, aproaclies, Mr. Harper in-Jicatcd. in-Jicatcd. However, workers covered cover-ed by the law who are now 65 and have retired or wish to do so, will lose nothing by waiting until January to file their claims. The other two field offices of the Federal Social Security Board in Utah are located in the Union Pacific Building, Salt Lake City, and the Post Office Building, Ogden. |