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United States Boasts World's
Youngest-Minded Grandparents
By HAL BOYLE
NEW YORK (& The poor man's philosopher presents his an
nual soapbox lecture on old age:
One of the things that makes the United States great is that
it has the youngest-minded grandmas and grandpas in the world.
In other countries a man Is as
old as his neighbors luiiik he
should be. But here he can really
act as young as he feels. And peo
ple are getting so they feel young-
i er every generation.
I This refusal to grow old ranks
as a far more important Ameri
can contribution to global culture
than the invention of cornflakes
or the all-nylon sock.
It is even more important fi
nancially. People are willing to
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Portland Notes Slump
In Novembtr Business
PORTLAND OP) Business
at least as measured by con
struction work and banking
transactions continued to slide
downhill during November.
BanK clearings tnrougn now.
30 totalled $026,000,000, about
$13,000,000 below the previous
month.
Buildln? nermits also contino-
ed the steady decline of the last
few montns to z,dou,uuu. rney
were still above November of a
year ago, however.
spend mora hard cash to keep
looking young and handsome
than to make themselves com
fortable. And this is true of the
aging bucks as well as the does.
There is a pension psychology
rampant In the land, but the old
rocking chair philosophy is gone
forever. NODouy is looKing lor
ward to getting government let
tuce at 65 just to rent himself a
chimney corner. Nope, the old
folks at home aren't so anxious
to stay heme. They want to buy
a sports roadster and tour Flori
da or California. Ask Dr. Tows
send. Signs of th Timss
People are marrying younger
today and living longer. They get
through the chillun-raising pe
riod sooner, but that doesn't mean
they want to call life quits. More
and more they spend their de
clining years declining to admit
that their only remaining func
tion is to baby-sit their grand
children. Look around you and see who's
doing the knitting and quilting.
Not gramps. All that's too old
fashioned for her. She's taken up
painting like Grandma Moses.
And grandpa's gone fishing.
Who wants to grow old grace
fully? Not them. Granny isn't
letting those silver threads flow
er among the gold, 'cause grand
pappy don't like 'em. They make
him feel too old. So off she hikes
to the beauty shop and buys her
self a henna tint.
There are more people in their
forties and fifties taking rumba
lessons than youngsters in their
twenties and thirties. And who
keeps the night clubs going?
Well, it isn't the young men with
apples In their hands. They
haven't the time or money to af
ford It.
It's the oldtlmers, too, who buy
the most lotions and war paint
and keep the barbers and den
tists in clover. They're going to
look their best if it busts an ar
tery. All these antics of the elderly
stir a major grudge in the hearts
of the minors.
"Why don't those old fools act
their age," they grumble. But
this can be put down as plain
juvenile resentment. Let 'em
wait. They'll have their turn.
It is the glory of our civiliza
tion that the old folks won't be
crowded off the scene until they
are ready to go.
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Oregon Slaying
In 1944 Revealed
DENVER, Colo., Dec.
A story of the death of a sales
man in Oregon on Christmas day
1944 resulted yesterday in a
young man being held In jail
here.
Detective Chief James J. Pitt
fled himself as Robert Thomp
son, 21, New York City, related
some of the circumstances. Pitt
said Oregon police has been ask
ed to Investigate.
(At Portland, city and state
police reported they were check
ing their files of missing per
sons and 1944 crimes, but had
yet to come across possible re
lated clues.)
Pitt said Thompson told of be
ing picked up on the highway
between Seattle and Portland
while hitchhiking with a com
panion Dec. 25, 1944. Near Port
land, the three men stopped for
a drink of "pop." Thompson
said his companion told him he
planned to slug the salesman,
age about 28 or 30, and steal
the car. Thompson was quoted
as saying he agreed. After the
salesman was slugged they drove
Into eastern Oregon and the body
was hidden In a wooded tract
somewhere between Canyon City
and John Day.
Pitt said Thompson was arrest
ed in connection with a local
slugging case. The story involv
ing Oregon came out during a
GIRLS WILL BE RUSHED
WASHINGTON UP) Ses
sions of the National Interfra
ternity Conference lasted right
up to the last minute before the
rand ball, leaving no time for
elegates to call for blind dates
the arrangements committee had
arranged."
So the arrangements commit
tee made another arrangement
The girls would be called for in
nmim, hi- i.v...- fnn-Mlh wit
sOh,' no," said thegirls. '"We
don't want to be herded."
So the arrangements commit
tee arranged another arrange
ment. The girls were asked to
get themselves to fraternity
houses, where they would dress
and be met by their dates. That
went over better. "But taking the
date home is an individual prob
lem," said the committee.
routine questioning of Thompson,
the detective said.
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Multiple-Spur Tree Climbers Dedicated To Public
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United States," the Pacific Nor
thwest forest and range experi
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formerly with the U. S. Forest
service. Working models were
developed In cooperation with the
Portland equipment laboratory of
the forest service under the dir
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instead of the one long apur of
the conventional tree and pole
climbers and thus can be used
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puncturing and damaging the
wood. In order to prune trees of
their lower limbs to produce
clear lumber, foresters must
climb iu a height ol w or 41)
feet, These multiple-spur tree
climbers have been used experi
mentally for several years by the
forest service in pruning 40 -to
60-year-old Douglas-firs on the
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