Published by E.P. MASS MEDIA ADVERTISING INC. VOL.IV No. 29 JANUARY 2011 MY MATURE TIMES JANUARY 2011 PAGE 2 Social Security’s Online Retirement Estimator Available in Spanish at www.segurosocial.gov Legendary TV Host Don Francisco Says Using the Estimator is “So Easy!” Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, announced that the agency’s most popular online service – the Retirement Estimator – is now available in Spanish at www.segurosocial.gov/calculador. The Retirement Estimator uses a person’s own Social Security earn - ings record to provide immediate and personalized benefit esti - mates. To publicize the website and the new Spanish-language service, Social Security has enlisted the help of the widely popular and well-respected host of Sabado Gigante , Don Francisco. “The Spanish-language Retirement Estimator and the other informa - tion available on www.segurosocial.gov will help us provide a broader audience with important information they need to plan for a secure retirement,” Commissioner Astrue said. “I thank Don Fran - cisco for volunteering his services to help us get the word out to the Spanish-speaking community.” You can see Don Francisco’s Public Service Announcement by visiting www.segurosocial.gov/calculador. “I ask my many friends to go to www.segurosocial.gov, not only for themselves but also to help their loved ones,” said Don Francisco. “There is a lot of great information there. Estimating your benefits and learning about Social Security online in Spanish is so easy.” The Retirement Estimator is interactive and allows the user to com - pare different retirement options by changing retirement dates or expected future earnings. It protects the user’s personal information by providing only retirement benefit estimates -- it does not show the earnings information used to calculate the benefit estimate, nor does it reveal other identifying information. Almost four million people have used Social Security’s English-language Retirement Es - timator this year. “The Retirement Estimator is the first of our online services avail - able in Spanish,” said Commissioner Astrue. “But we are not stop - ping there. We are working to make our online retirement application and Medicare Extra Help application available in Span - ish next year. Until then, visit www.segurosocial.gov to estimate your benefits and learn more about Social Security.” MY MATURE TIMES JANUARY 2011 PAGE 3 101 Year Old Dr. John Johnstone was once General Eisenhower’s physician By Joe Olvera ©, 2010 Insisting that he’s not im - the war he decided to settle down 1953, serving two terms until here. “I liked the people, they were 1961. Before he became President, portant, Dr. John Johnstone of El very friendly and nice, plus I liked however, he successfully invaded Paso once served as a physician to the climate, so me and my wife, France and Germany in 1944- General of the Army (five-star Lady Ruth decided to move here 1945. And, despite Dr. Johnstone’s General) Dwight David Eisen - and open our clinic.” modesty, he was part of the med - hower from 1941 to 1946. “I’m Eisenhower, who was ical crew that was responsible for not important,” Dr. Johnstone said. Supreme Allied Commander of all removing a blackish nodule from “Other people are more important Allied Forces in Europe, became the trunk of Eisenhower’s body. than me.” Johnstone also worked President of the United States in Continues on page 7 as a physician in El Paso from 1947 to 1983, where he owned Johnstone Clinic on Snelson Drive. At age 101, Dr. Johnstone said he’s still in good health, but, is a little hard of hearing. “I’m still here, ain’t I?” Dr. Johnstone said. “When I was one of General Eisenhower’s physicians, he was in very good health, so I just did small stuff for him. I just went through the war with him. My job was to see that nothing happened Southern Illinois, said he served to him.” two years at William Beaumont Army Hospital before he was part Dr. Johnstone, originally from of Eisenhower’s Advanced Com - mand Post as a Lt. Colonel. He liked El Paso so much, that after Dr. John Johnstone and his wife Lady Ruth Johnstone MY MATURE TIMES JANUARY 2011 PAGE 4 Department Offers the Gift of Social Security Column Good Health This Season YOUR RESOLUTIONS El Paso, Texas – The City of El FOR 2011 Paso Department of Public Health is offering free zoster/shingles By Ray Vigil paid Social Security taxes during vaccines to those 60 years and Social Security Public Affairs your working years and a sum - older, as well as a limited amount Specialist in El Paso, Texas mary of the estimated benefits you of TDAP vaccine for adults 64 and your family may receive in re - years and younger. The vaccines It’s that time of year: out with the tirement, survivors or disability will be provided at all of the city’s old and in with the new. You may benefits as a result of those earn - five Health Department clinics. be thinking about your list of New ings. There is a limited amount of vac - Year’s resolutions for 2011. There cines that will be offered free of velop shingles because VZV re - are many important things to con - 3.Visit the ballpark. Not that one; charge, so residents are urged to mains in the nerve cells of the sider. May we suggest a few? the Ballpark Estimator. It will call to make an appointment or body after the chickenpox infec - Each of these will take only a mat - help you do a better job of saving visit as a walk-in as soon as possi - tion clears and VZV can reappear ter of minutes. for your future. It’s true that times ble. years later causing shingles. Shin - have been tough lately. But no gles most commonly occurs in 1.Get an estimate of your future matter how much you earn, it’s a Shingles is a painful, localized people 50 years old or older, peo - Social Security benefit. In just a good idea to try to save. Check skin rash that often includes blis - ple who have medical conditions few minutes, you can have an in - out the Ballpark Estimator for a ters that is caused by the varicella that keep the immune system from stant, personalized estimate of projection of how much you zoster virus (VZV), the same virus working properly, or people who your future Social Security bene - should save for a comfortable re - that causes chickenpox. Anyone receive immunosuppressive drugs. fit. Our online Retirement Estima - tirement. Go to the ballpark at who has had chickenpox can de - Continues on page 8 tor gives estimates based on your www.choosetosave.org/ballpark. actual Social Security earnings record. This is valuable to know Deciding to diet, exercise, read when you’re making plans for more books, or watch less televi - your future. Check it out at sion are all good resolutions. But www.socialsecurity.gov/estimator. the ones we suggest don’t require nearly as much work and won’t 2. Read your mail. Be especially nag you all year long. Take a few careful about looking at mail that minutes now, and you could have arrives from Social Security. this list of resolutions knocked out About two to three months before in less time than it takes to put to - your birthday, you should receive gether a list of resolutions. your annual Social Security State - ment. Your Statement is a concise, Happy New Year from Social Se - easy-to-read personal record of curity. Feel free to visit us anytime the earnings on which you have at www.socialsecurity.gov. MY MATURE TIMES JANUARY 2011 PAGE 5 MY MATURE TIMES JANUARY 2011 PAGE 6 69th Charter Anniversary Ysleta Lions Club Don & Irene Peppard Henry & Rachel Gonzalez Orlando & Gabriela Rodriguez Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Lucas Cecil Roark, Jim, Charlie Black Mr. & Mrs. Frank Leroux Dr. John Johnstone & Esther Lujan Joe Rodriguez Willie & Tobie Tobie & Dr. Johnstone Governor Orlando Rodriguez & Dr. John Johnstone Gilbert Blancas & Patsy Achim Esther & Armando Lujan Francis & Aubrey Cherry MY MATURE TIMES JANUARY 2011 PAGE 7 Continued from page 3 The belief was that he had a ma - lignant melanoma. Following his tour of duty, Eisenhower was re - cruited to run for President as a Republican. He died of a heart problem in 1969. Being part of the medical crew for the General was part of Dr. Johnstone’s job, and he’s not particularly proud of having served the President-to-be. “I knew what I was doing, and I knew what my job was,” Dr. Johnstone said. “I was just lucky to be at the right place at the right time.” Dr. John Johnstone and his wife Lady Ruth Johnstone RapidArc ® radiotherapy technology , a revolutionary breakthrough in cancer treatment that delivers powerful tumor-destroying radiation with remarkable precision, is now available at Cancer Radiation and Specialty Clinics of El Paso. Varian RapidArc radiotherapy technology is an effective cancer treatment representing an advanced new form of image-guided IMRT (intensity modulated radiation therapy). This technology enables the radiation oncologist to program a linear accelerator to deliver precise forms of IMRT up to eight times faster than other IMRT systems. It does this by delivering the complete IMRT treatment to the patient in fewer rotations than traditional IMRT. As a result, the tumor will receive the full radiation dose within less than two minutes compared with 10 minutes or longer for conventional IMRT. Treatment speed is important because it reduces the time that the patient must lie still and avoid any movement.