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Collection: Newspapers > Nevada County Nugget

December 27, 1961 (8 pages)

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more clearly what can be done in their cities and counties to meet the challenges and opportunities of the future. The institute will offer a grand occasion,” Yuba College Players Stage Shaw MARYSVILLE --==="Major Barbara", by English playwright George Bernard Shaw, has been chosen as the principal dramatic production for the Yuba College-Players this year, according to an announcement by director Donald Butler. The play will be given on the nights of Mar. 8, 9 and 1% A pet hap PAID ON SAVINGS Accounts insured to $10, 000 by an agency of the U. S. Govt. Savings & Loan Association 152 S, Auburn St, GRASS VALLEY Midvalley. Vehicle 10 in the Yuba College auditorium. The play has been described by critics as one of the "brightest, slyest, most pro~ vocatively outrageous and timeless comedies ever written.” Its plot describes the munitions maker who makes a shambles of the moralities of liberalism. Scott continues, "for taking stock of present conditions, setting higher goals, and determining to work out programs for achieving them," Among those who will participate in the day-long round of discussions are Elton Andrews, State planning officer; members of the policy -making State Local Planning Advisory Committee; Lawrence Livingston of Livingston and Blayney, planning consultants; Elmer Nelson, assistant to the president of Aeorjet General Corporation; State recreation director Charles.de Turk; Samuel Leask, Jr., State health and welfare administrator; and Emil M. Mrak, Davis Chancellor. DanielG,. Aldrich, Jr., UC Dean of Agriculture, will act SACRAMENTO---Jan. 1, a new social security tax rate goesinto effect for nine out of ten working people. For employed people the 1962 rate is 3,125 percent for employe and employer, a total increase of one-fourthofone percent. For selfemployed people, the new rate is 4.7 percent, an increase of three-sixtecnth of one percent. The maximum taxable earnings remain $4, 800 during the tax year in earnings, net income from self-employment, or a combination of both, In dollars and cents the increase means that an employed personearning $4, 800 or more during 1962 will pay $150 in social security tax instead ofthe $144 he -paid on these earnings in 1961, With 52 weekly checks totaling $4,800, about 12 cents will be withheld from eachcheck, His employer's tax will also be about 12 cents more a week for each such employe. A self-employed person netting as much as $4, 800 will pay $225.50 instead of $216 for the year. Spread over 12 months, this is about 79 cents more a month, or by the quarter, $2.38 more. In line with its policy of, setting a schedule of social as chairman of the institute. Increased Tax Rates For Social Security Effective January Ist security tax rates sufficient to meet the cost of all present and future insurance benefits, the Congress provided for the increase to finance four significant program changes effective with the 1961 amendments signed by President Kennedy in June. These changes: 1, Enable mento apply for reduced old-age insurance benefits at age 62. 2. Increase by about ten percent monthly benefits due 62-year-old or older widows getting benefits on the accounts of their husbands, dependent widowers and dependent parents. 3, Raised the minimum old-age benefit payable to a 65-year-old or older retired worker or to a sole survivor of a deceased worker from $33 to $40 a month, with corresponding increases for dependents and other survivors of workers due less than $40 a month in unreduced benefits under the old law. 4, Reduce the amount of w ork needed to qualify for benefits, allowing many workers, dependents, and survivors whowere not eligible under previous work requirement provisions to get benefits. the nifty nine-fifty John L. Beitz JEWELER Longine-Wittnauer READ THE SIERRA FREIGHT LINES North San Juan 519 Alta Street Phone 273-2478 Dial 273-7392 ‘Auikcttvas tela Downieville “con ape tinagg NEVADA COUNTY ts a ° jerraville Del Oro Building NUGGET FRontier 1-9125 EVERYTHING GRASS VALLEY Demar Dundas PLENT Y OF PARKING DRY CLEANERS COOLING SERVICE FOOTE Repairs Parts Controls ELECTRICAL CO. 000 Furnace, Stove, Cooler 321 BOULDER STREET Phone 265-2562 Want A Step up to the landlord class and make your dreams come true. Now you can build for a happy, secure retirement by regularly adding cash to your savings account all from steady month-in month-out rent checks from tenant to you, The new 2-720 or 2-1704 duplex, featuring maximum rentability of two bedrooms or one bedroom and den, can add up to $1,000.00 per unit per year to your income, 100% Financing on your lot Rental Our MODEL HOME on Glenbrook Hts, Rd. opposite the Gold Center Club, .has been tastefully furnished by.. za