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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1968
Page
7
The act raises retirement survivor and disability payments by at least 13 percent. Minimum retirement at 65 rises from 44 to 55, with top current benefit at 160.50, rising to 218. Increases start with February 1968 payments, via automatic adjustment. Taxes stay same for those under 6600, but wage tax base rises to 7800. A 64-year-old on own record will receive a raise if eligible.
Eagle Scout Bobby Hoyer received the Bronze Palm at a Court of Honor held in Moulton. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Hoyer, a Moulton Public School sophomore, and grandson of Mr. and Mrs. C J Waldrop of Shiner. Nearby visits note Millard Sonntag and David with the Sonntag family in Victoria, and travelers Stech and Pesek visiting friends in San Antonio.
The Victoria Social Security Office is conducting a nationwide recall to enroll about five hundred thousand seniors lacking Medicare protection. District Manager M. E. Owens said letters reached over a million hospital insured individuals not enrolled in the doctor bill protection, with a signup deadline of April 1 for coverage starting July 1. Automatic hospital coverage applies to those 65 before January 1 unless they opt for doctor bill insurance by monthly premium. Further details are available at the Victoria Social Security Office.
Continental Trailways lists departures from Shiner to Houston at 9 15 a.m. and 6 39 p.m. to San Antonio at 12 49 p.m. and 7 49 p.m. Kerrville Bus Lines schedules Shiner to Victoria at 2 20 p.m. and to Austin at 9 05 a.m. and 7 20 p.m.
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