Marion Goad v. Robert Finch, Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare

O’SULLIVAN, Senior Circuit Judge.

We consider the appeal of Marion Goad from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Northern Division, which affirmed a decision of the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, denying social security benefits to appellant.

Appellant first applied for disability benefits on October 18, 1962, asserting that he had theretofore, due to an “asthma and kidney ailment,” become unable to engage in any gainful employment. Appellant was then 53 years old, with only a second or third grade education, and had worked most of…