The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1951-02-01
Mrs. D. Barnes Tells
BPW Club About New
Social Security

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and Professional Women's Club
meeting for many months greeted
speaker Representative Doris
Barnes at luncheon Monday on the
Baranof Terrace.
Following her introduction by
Mrs. Kate Smith, president, Mrs
Barnes, a former mayor of Wran-
CELL, chairman of the welfare COM
mittee in the House of Representa-
tives, told the club members about
new Social Security regulations that
became effective January l and now
include employed people. The
new regulations will have the effect
Of reducing the Territorys welfare
/ load and releasing territorial money
for payment of benefits to needy
!; persons who do not come under
! Social Security, Mrs. Barnes said.
] Explaining the interest the Social
Security law has for us old folks. .
Mrs. Barnes suggested that mem
bers of the BPW might provide as
sistance to old people in town who
are not familiar with benefits they
might receive under the Social Sc
curity Act or as Territorial pen
sioners-if they were familiar with
! the laws.
There are cards available at the
Social Security office in the Seward
building which can be sent TO the
agency headquarters in Baltimore
Md, for information regarding
Social Security credits that have
accumulated to the individual in
the Social Security fund.
1.-THE benefits of Social Security
are very wonderful, and with a little
additional assistance, insurance. 9
trust fund or any small income
with Social Security received at the
age of 65 none of us should be il
want.
I'VE should start planning nov
for old age. We are living to al
older age now, due to the science
of CHRONOLOGY, and we should plar
now for living longer; plan nov
for retirement at IS, plan our hob.
bies SO that we can continue TO leaC
interesting lives" the lady fron
Wrangell said.
, Under the new law, the minimum
amount payable to a retired worker
entitled to monthly payments vii
be $40 a month, and benefits to 6
family may be as high as S15t
a month in some cases, Mrs. Barne'
explained. The $40 payment double
the $40 minimum under the ole
law may be increased by territorial
check up to the amount the Ter
ritorial Welfare agency considers
necessary in welfare cases.
Amounts received under Fedora
Social Security depend upon The
amount of money that has accumu-
lated to the credit Of the covered
person since 1885, when Social Sc
curity became effective
Introduced at the meeting Monday
was Mrs. Pauline Washington, frs
woman member of the city council
and Miss Anita Garnick, member Of
the Territorial Senate, both mem
hers of Juneau BPW; Mrs. Amelia
Gundersen, BPW member from
; Ketchikan and a member of thu
Territorial House of Representa-
tives.
Called upon to speak by presiden
Kate Smith, Mrs. Gundersen tolt
the BPW that the Ketchikan clut
was actively studying legislation
coming before the current legisla.
ture. She mentioned a bill for Ii.
censing children's boarding homes
that has been defeated in severa
! previous legislative sessions a n
which she has fought in the past
This session, I would hike to author
that bill. Maybe if it is introduced
by someone who has fought 1t II
the past, it will pass" Mrs. Gunder-
sen said
The representative from Ketchi-
kan promised support of the womer
members of the legislature to any
Guests Of the club today included
Guest of the club today included
the speakers, Miss Ruth Landry
Mrs. Phyllis McCutcheon, whose
husband, Senator Steve McCutcheon
is a member of the Senate from
Anchorage; Mrs. j. M. Morgan
Miss Irma Wainner, Miss Edity
Monroe and Mrs. Ernest Gruening.
Mrs. Smith announced that there
will be a meeting of the BPW
Board Wednesday night at the
home of Mrs. Virginia Post in
Douglas.