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Tuesday. March 23. IMS
Life Expectancy of Americans
Figured To Be About 63 Years
Br PAUL r. ELLIS
United Prtta Science Editor
New York (UJJ If your
health is reasonably good you
should live to be about 68 years
old. ,
That's the life expectancy of
Americans today.
But how many of us will
reach that 68-year-old milestone?
The answer may be found 'in
the statistics of the Metropolitan
Insurance Company.
The statistics show that' a
man's chances of reaching the
age of 52 are about 83 out of a
100. In 1900, his chances were
only 55 out of a 100.
Chance to Reach 75 Batter .
A man's chances to reach the
age of 65 are now 63 in 100.
More significantly, those men
who reach the age of 65 now
have better than a 50-50 chance
of going on for at least 10 years
longer.
For women, the odds of living
10 years beyond 65 are even
greater. , Their overall life ex
pectancy is 71.5 years. The men's
65.9, with the average pf both
sexes about 67.6 years.
But there is a grim side. It is
this: what will cause your death
if you don't reach that 68 year
old milestone?
The Metropolitan statistics
recognized as accurate as can
be show:
Cancer Odds 1 to 7
The odds are 3 to 2 that your
death will be caused by a dis
ease of the heart, arteries or
kidneys. For cancer ,the odds
are 1 to 7. The odds that you
will be killed in an accident are
1 to 50; in a fire, drowning or
fall, 1 to 33.
The chances that you will die
of tuberculosis are 1 to 40.
For influenza or pneumonia,
1 to 33.
The above odds are, for males
In the 40-age group, . and the I
older you get the shorter the
odds become.
About 90,000 Americans are
killed each year in accidents, of
which 40 per cent are motor ve
hicle. A statistical bulletin of
Metropolitan says:
"It is a sad commentary on
present-day conditions that the
chances of eventual death from
accidents exceeds the combined
chances of death from pneu
monia, influenza, and tubercul
osis." For the women who don't
Evangelist Says Korea
Hot Armageddon
Evangelist Harold E. Metcalf,
who has been conducting serv
ices here in the newly-constructed
Bible auditorium on South
Central avenue, was heard by
a 750-person, full-house audience
last night.
Disclaiming the Korean strug
gle as the last conflict, the
evangelist said it is "one of God's
great signboards to men in this
generation that Armageddon is
just ahead."
. "No victor in the last war of
earth is named," he said, "but
the Bible points out the defeated
as 'those which destroy the
earth. Syria, Iran, Iraq, Arabia
and Turkey are in the storm cen
ter of the great military drive
involving all nations which will
center around Jerusalem, ac
cording to five great prophecies,"
he added. ,
Armageddon will be both a
spiritual and physical conflict,.
Metcalf said. "The only way to
be on God's side, and to find our
day to be a time when 'to be
living is sublime' is to know
the Bible for ourselves, espe
cially the book of Revelation,"
he concluded.
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make the life expectancy, the
odds are similar to those for
men. For. cancer, 1 to 6; influ
enza and pneumonia, 1 to 33.
Tuberculosis 1 to 100. The wom
en have a much better chance
of escaping death by accident.
The death rate for cancer and
heart disease in men has been
increasing. For the women, the
rates have been coming "down.
The statistics show that many of
the old foes typhoid fever,
childhood diseases, diarrhea, tu
berculosis and deaths resulting
from childbirth complications,
are being rapidly conquered.
The statistics disclose that
deaths from typhoid fever have
been eliminated by 99 per cent
since 1911; childhood diseases
98 per cent; tuberculosis by 85
per cent; and 95 per cent for
diphtheria.
It has been such progress in
health that has increased the
life expectancy to 68 years, and
medical scientists are predicting
that the life expectancy may in
crease to 100 before the turn
of the 21st century. By that time,
the answer to heart disease and
cancer will have been found, the
scientists hope. -
Washington GOP
Committee Moves
To Oust Williams
Spokane U.PJ A move to
oust Chairman Walter Williams
of the national citizens' commit
tee for Eisenhower from the
chairmanship of the state Repub
lican central committee was re
ported under way Tuesday.
A majority of the state group'
executive committee- was pre
paring to call a special meeting
of the central committee to con
sider a proposal to replace him
Mrs. Marion Schulte, state party
vice chairman, said.
Follows Job Acceptance .
Demands for Williams resig
nation followed his acceptance
of the Eisenhower job Friday.
William Howe of Spokane, one
of the first party leaders to
move against Williams, resigned
as chairman of the party's state
finance committee. Howe is lead
er of the eastern Washington
Taft-for-President movement.
He said he telephoned Wil
liams Sunday and told him he
should call a meeting of the cen
tral committee to name a sue
cessor, but that Williams took
no action after saying he would
think it over.
Alcatraz Too Costly;
May Transfer Inmates
Washington (U.R) Alcatraz,
the big, federal prison on a rock
in San Francisco bay, may be
abandoned because of its cost.
Attorney General J Howard
McGrath said the cost of keeping
bank robbers, murderers, kid
napers and other hardened crimi
nals at Alcatraz has been "tre
mendous." He said it is neces
sary to transport to the island
all the food, water, and other
supplies to keep it running.
"That is an expensive ferrying
operation," McGrath said in a
recent closed session of a House
appropriations s u b c o m mittee.
The testimony was released
Monday night.
McGrath said the cost figures
for 1949 showed that it required
$8 a day to house a prisoner on
Alcatraz, compared with less
than $3 a day at other prisons
The 125 guards required to
watch the '228 prisoners on the
island made up a large part of
the 1949 cost.
McGrath said fear of incarcfr
ration on the "Rock" is no deter
rent to the hardened criminal
He said the "fellow who eventu
allv lands in Alcatraz . . . has
committed crime after crime and
is so confirmed . . . that he is
not apt to think about anything
except what he can get away
with."
"I do not think Alcatraz, or
any other prison, is such a deter
rent in his mind when he is go
ing to commit a crime," McGrath
said.
In event the "Rock" is aban
doned, the prisoners would be
transferred to other federal
penitentiaries,
Alaska Resembles Western
Pioneer Days, Solons Told
Washington (U.R) Prostitu
tion, gun violence and liquor are
big problems to law enforcement
authorities in Alaska, which the
Justice Department says is now
pretty much like the old Wild
West.
Resembles Pioneer Days
S. A. Andretta, administrative
assistant to Attorney General J.
Howard McGrath, told a House
appropriations subcommittee re
cently that Alaska resembles "the
old pioneer days in this country
where the only law west of the
Pecos was the United States
Marshal."
Both Andretta and McGrath
asked the subcommittee to ap
prove a bill for $55,350 to recruit
and equip 50 more deputy U. S.
marshalls for Alaska. Their testi
mony was released Monday
night.
McGrath said, "I always live
in fear of what is going to hap
pen up there we might have
an outbreak of lawlessness."
Aluminum Company
Planning Expansion
Vancouver, Wash. U.R) Alu
minum Company of America
plans to spend $1,217,500 in ex
panding its Pacific Northwest
facilities, C. S. Thayer, north
west operations manager, said
here Tuesday.
Thayer said ingot casting facil
ities at the Vancouver Alcoa
plant will be modernized and re
vamped to up production of alu
minum for sale to customers as
well as the company's own opera
tions. Initial phase of the expansion
program will create 50 new job
opportunities, ALCOA officials
said.
Andretta was more specific.
He said Anchorage and Fair
banks are the main trouble spots.
Prostitutes are doing business
on the outskirts of both towns, he
said, just outside the jurisdic
tion of local police. That puts po
lice action up to U. S. marshals,
and there aren't enough to do a
good job, he said.
Declared Out of Bounds
U. S. military authorities have
declared the fringe area "red
light" sections out-of-bounds and
arrest servicemen caught in the
area, but Andretta said the mili
tary "cannot go in and close up
a house of prostitution."
The deputy marshals are paid
$5,250 a year. Andretta said the
cost of living in Alaska is so high
that it might be hard to recruit
50 new ones.
He said a haircut costs $2 and
a piece of pie sells for $1.50.
Yoncalla Accident
Fatal folnfanl Boy
Yoncalla, Ore. (U.R) A nine-month-old
boy was killed and
his mother seriously injured in a
headon crash betweri a south-!
bound auto and a logging truck
on highway 99 near here Mon
day. Dead is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Boyd Walcott of Butte,
Mont. State police did not ident
ify the youngster by name.
Mrs. Walcott was reported in
serious condition in a Cottage
Grove, Ore., hospital.
State police said the accident
occurred when a sedan in which
the Walcotts were riding sarted
to pass another southbound car
and hit a truck driven by Ernest
L. Stewart of Springfield, Ore.
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