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2nd SECTION MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1958
Pages 1 to 6
Advent of 32-Hour Work Week Will Bring
More Leisure Time for Average Family
Editor'! noter This 1 the second
ef three dispatcher on leisure in
the Inited States. Todav Leisure,
and more leisure, for all aces.
By FRED DANZIG
United Press Correspondent
New York HP Can you
use an extra day off a week?
Maybe there's no rush for
this sort of planning in your
life, but automation isn't wait
ing for an answer. The 32
hour week, many authorities
agree, is no longer a wild
dream.
The average worker now
puts in 40 hours a week on
the job.
In grandfather's day, the
work week lasted 70 hours.
Housewives, too, benefit by
our technology. It takes the
little woman less than two
haxirs a day, on the average,
to prepare meals thanks to
prepared foods and kitchen
gadgets. In grandmother's
day, preparing meals required
an average of 5',2 hours.
Time on Hands
So here we are, with time
on our hands and more al
most in sight. The four-day
week, when it comes, will add
at least 400 more hours to the
total of 3,000 "free" hours we
are now said to have.
; But before you start plan
ning long week-end trips with
the wife and kids, remember
there's no talk of cutting
down the school schedule to
four days a week. You may
find yourself loafing at home
on a Friday or Monday while
the kids are hard at work in
school.
As we get more leisure
time, the problem of what to
do with it becomes 'more
pressing. Better use of our
leisure, we are told, can help
reduce the figures on mental
patients. One out of 18 Am
ericans is in some kind of
mental trouble and one out of
10 needs psychiatric care.
Karl Mannheim has writ
ten that the average man is
unable to invent new uses for
his leisure, .but other authori
ties dispute him and say the
American people have a ca
pacity for making good use
of their leisure.
Helping along this capacity
is private industry. About
25,000 companies now provide
recreation activities, for their
employees and spend a billion
dollars a year on this pro
gram. Swing To Golf
Don L. Neer, executive
secretary of the National In
dustrial Recreation Associa
tion, says management must
become even more active in
recreation as leisure time in
creases. This leads to the pos
sibility of an employee spend
ing his extra day off at the
plant swimming or playing
golf.
More than 100 -companies
have their own golf courses
for employees. Many have
picnic areas, swimming pools,
bowling alleys and athletic
fields, often financed from
vending machine profits.
One leader in the field of
employee recreation is the
Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co., of
West Allis, Wis., which has
about half of its 16,000 em
ployees taking part in a rec
reation program. Employees
and their families can use the
company's 18 - hole golf
course. They can join hobby
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SHOOTING SPREE Jerry
Haynes, 18, of Renton,
Wash., an AWOL airman, is
shown in the San Francisco
Hall of Justice, where he
was booked on 3 counts of
attempted murder. Haynes,
captured after shooting
down three persons in an
hour-long holdup spree,
was quoted by police as say
ing: "1 only wish I had had
a machine gun,-so I really
could have cut loose."
groups, social clubs ana
something that is becoming
more important through the
years a recreation club for
retired employees, which
meets twice a week for movies
and lectures.
Within the next 20 years,
our population is expected to
reach 225 million, with more
than 6Q million of this total
swelling our metropolitan
areas still more. Persons in
their 20s will increase by 14
million nearly two-thirds
more than we had in 1955.
Those between 45 and 64 will
increase by nearly 10 million
and persons 75 and older
number 7Vfc million from a
present 4,700,000. We now
have about 14 million "senior
citizens,' and many authori
ties have called for more or
ganized recreation to meet
their needs.
Steiglilx Writes
Edward J. Steiglitz, in his
book, "The Second 20 Years,"
writes:
"Success or failure in the
second 40 years, measured in
terms of 'happiness, is deter
mined more by how we use
or abuse our leisure time than
by any other factor."
As the custom of retire
ment continues to increase,
a larger share of our new
leisure class will be people
in the upper age brackets and
most of them, it seems, do not
have hobbies to occupy their
interest.
Harold D. Meyer, sociology
professor at the University of
North Carolina, said, "It is a
responsibility of public and
private recreation agencies
to' teach these individuals
hobby activities . . they are
means of relaxation, an en
emy of boredom and a vigorous-release
for motions."
Meyer reports that "golden
age' or "senior citizens clubs"
are sprouting up throughout
the nation to help the old
timer grow old more grace
fully. He advocates communi
ty planning to handle the need
for organized recreation for
adults of all ages in this pressure-packed
age of automation.
Thursdays Leisure, land
and people.
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PRECARIOUS PERCH Harold Snyder escaped injury
and bis car was undamaged when he failed to negotiate
a curve at Charleston, 111., and drove up a utility pole
guy wire. Snyder received a ticket for speeding.
Parade Scheduled
By American Legion
A parade will start activi
ties for an American Legion
Day Jamboree and mass initi
ation March 1, Legion -officials
announced Tuesday.
Gov. Robert Holmes and
other dignitaries of the state
will attend, a Legion spokes
man said.
March 1 events' include the
parade at 4 p.m., a 5 p.m. so
cial get-together in the Pio
neer room of the Jackson
hotel, a buffet dinner from
5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., and initia
tion of new members from
Districts 4, 13, and 14 at the
new - Medford Armory start
ing at 8 p.m.
Following the ceremonies
at the Armory, Legionnaires
and guests may attend a dance
in the Pioneer room of the
Jackson hotel.
Santiam Post ritual team
and color guard and the state
Meeting Held on
Youth Session
A joint meeting of Hi-Y
and Tri Hi-Y clubs was held
this week at the Young Men's
Christian association to an
nounce plans for the coming
youth and government ses
sions in Salem.
Herb Partridge, youth work
secretary, said the youth and
i government program is de
signed to acquaint young
people with the methods by
which public policy is de
termined and help them make
I practical application to the
problems of state legislation.
Bill Warren, general secre
tary of the Ashland YMCA,
discussed activities of a pre
legislative session to be held
Saturday at Southern Oregon
college. The pre-legislative
session will include HI-Y and
Tri Hi-Y clubs from Klamath
Falls, Medford, Ashland and
Grants Pass.
Nominees for government
positions in the youth legisla
tion are governor, Dale Fore
see; senate reading clerk,
Joyce Gilinsky; legislative
committee chairmen, Da
wanda Winchell, Larry Ander
son; reporters, Karen Sloni
ger, Joan Laurila, Frank
Peterson, and alternates,. Mar
ian Elklns and Caron Leffler.
The youngsters will be com
peting for the positions with
the Klamath Fall. Grants
Pass and Ashland representatives.
Surviving Penguins
In Good Condition
Portland JIB Portland's
remaining 16 penguins were
reported in good health today
and officials said they were
all gaining weight. None ap
peared to be suffering from a
lung disease which- killed
many of the Antarctic birds.
College Offers
Family Tuition Rate
Pittsburgh (IP) Duquesne
University has instituted a
"cut rate" tuition plan for
families having two or more
members enrolled in the
school simultaneously. A 20
per cent discount for each
student will be granted only
in cases where . all financial
support for schooling is pro
vided by the parents, accord
ing to registrar Maurice J.
Murphy. , , '
champion drum corps from
Klamath Falls will be featured.
Most Vet Benefits
Exempt From Taxes
Salem--flP) Most veterans'
benefits are exempt from state
and federal taxation, the Ore
gon Department of Veterans'
Affairs reminded Tuesday.
Items excluded from federal
and state tax returns include:
State bonuses; all veterans
administration benefits includ
ing educational subsistence,
compensation and pensions;
GI insurance dividends; insur
ance proceeds paid on death of
the insured; mustering-out pay
and jobless benefits paid
under the Korean GI bill; and
social security benefits, work
men's compensation and sick
ness benefits.
Retirement pay, however, is
taxed- both by the federal and
state governments.
Oregon servicemen on ac
tive duty enjoy a state income
tax exclusion on the first
$3,000 of their annual pay.
CincolnMouse .
SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS
; Iom of ABRAHAM LINCOLN-FA. li 1809-April 13. 166 J .
Abraham Lincoln has come down to us
with a manner devoid of ostentation, a per
sonality characterized by humility. Hi
home reflected this lack of interest in mate
rial goods. Such amenities as it did offer
were effected ty Mrs. Lincoln, tut even so
were simple in nature. A story is told of
Lincoln while he was still practising before
the Illinois baf. An important case neces
sitated his presence in Chicago for some
weeks and during hi absence Mrs. Lincoln
added a second story to their very simple
Springfield home.
On his return, Lincoln said to a neighbor
he met on the street, "Stranger, can you i'
tell me where Lincoln lived? He nsed to
live there."
les, that is his honse, said the neigh
bor, falling into the humor of the situation.
"No," Lincoln answered, "when I left
here, my house was a story and one-half,
but that is a fine two story house."
The neighbor insisted that it was Lin
coln's house and that it had simply grown
while he was away. Lincoln resigned him
self to the fact and continued into tht
honse.
So we see the man in his simplicity. the
"Great Emancipator".
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