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bers of the agency ; indicated a desire
to become charter members of the
chapter.
Meetings will be held monthly. The
members are glad to be able to get
busy with the work for which the
chapter was formed, now that the red
tape of organization has been com
pleted.
— Alice Miles
Press Correspondent
CAREFUL DRIVERS
PAY LESS!
WOMEN AS HEADS OF FAMILIES
Women heads of families in February
1946 numbered 6.6 millions, of whom
| million were single, 4 1 million wi
dowed or divorced» and 1 million mar
ried with husband absent from the
household, according to a Census Bur
eau release. , Of this total, 2,560,000«
women constituted 1-person families.
The proportion of families with a wo
man head declined from ¿1*7 percent
in May 1947 %V"E Day). to 17-4 Per~
cent in -February 1946; the percentage
was/.15.3 in 1940.
The number of women heads under
35 years of age was 1,220,000¿In Febr
ruary 1746, 600,000 above 1940. In
1945, when numbers in the armed
forces- reached a maximum, women
heads under 35 were 1,600^0)00 above
1940. The proportion of women heads1
in this age group was 18.4 percent in
1946, compared with 27.3 percent in
1945, and 11.6 percent in 1940.—
Facts on Women Workers, Women’s
Bureau, U. S. Department of Labor.
Many a man who pays rent all his
life owns his own home; and many a
family has successfully saved for a
home only t© find itself at last with
nothing but* a house.— Bruce Barton.
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410 State
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