Charles W. Mullins v. Wilbur J. Cohen, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare

JOHN W. PECK, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from the judgment of the District Court which affirmed the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare’s denial of social security disability benefits to the appellant.

Appellant is a 40 year old (present age) former steel mill laborer who now lives in Pike County, Kentucky. Appellant testified that he attended school only to the fourth grade and that he could not read or write except to write his name. He also testified that he received a back injury on the job in 1959, and has not worked since 1963.

In his application for disability insurance…