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SECTION B MEDFORD. OREGON. MONDAY. AUGUST 13. 1962 PAGES 1 to 8 Medford&Wtribune lit-- ' M TFihtA. I Tin . $ bar ft Income of Senior Citizens Beneath Average of Nation ... ? V'iW I, w ' -.-aw r" " 4T " w MOP-UP OPERATION - Miss Hospitality contestants cool oif in the shade after posing for pictures in near-100-degree heat in Lit tle Rock, Ark. Mayola Satlerficld, right, uses a borrowed handkerchief to wipe per spiration off the chin of Paula Tousineau, left. (UP1) ff llHiilmimiiinl Washington - UPH - Amer ica's senior citizens' income is well below the national average and it shows up in the quality of their housing, according to the government. A report on "Senior Citi zens and How They Live" finds that more than 19 per cent of the 18 million dwell ing units housing persons 60 and older "may be charac terized as substandard." These houses and apartments "lack ed private bath, toilet or hot running water or were struc turally deficient. Sub-titled "The National Scene," the report is the first of six statistical studies be ing prepared by the Housing and Home Finance Agency from data compiled in the 1960 census of housing. The census was conducted by hav ing every fourth household throughout the nation an swer a 'etailed questionnaire on living conditions, size of family, age of family mem bers, income and other mat ters. Reflected Low Income The agency said the "high Motivating Teen-Agers Speaker on Food Motivation Knows What He's Talking About proportion of deficient units occupied by households with one or more elderly persons plainly reflected senior citi zens' "relatively low income." The 19 per cent ratio of "deficient'' units compared with 17 per cent for the en tire population, reported in the overall results of the housing census. Following are the key sta tistics on elderly persons' in comes given by the housing agency; half the elderly per son? heading households had a 1959 income of SI. 900 a year or more - and half less. It "was only about two-thirds ot the median income receiv ed by all , ersons 14 years of age and over." .. Because not all elderly per sons choose to maintain their own household, combined in come of all household mem bers gives a better indication of what older persons could afford to pay for shelter, the agency said. The median el derly household income of S;t,300 fell well short of the $5,000 median for all house holds. Not Surprising This was not surprising, the agency said, considering that at least some household mem bers exceeded the usual age for fulltime employment. It is unlikely, the agency speculated, that elderly per sons who rent need higher incomes than those who own their own home. Yet, renter households had a median in come of $2,400 as against DRAWS BOUNDARIES Leopoldville - Him - The Congolese parliament Sunday drew up the boundaries for 17 states that will make up a proposed federal Congo, in eluding secessionist Katanga. The present Congo has five provinces plus Katanga, which has declared itself an independent state. $3,800 for owner households. The report focused special attention on the income of the 3 8 million single, elderly persons who live alone. Their median income was $1,200 for renters and $1,100 for own ers. 1 he-e figures snow mat "many of them cannot afford decent housing." the agency asserted. It suggested that many per sons living alone in a house they own might prefer to rent smaller quarters bin lack the income to pay for "suitable rental housing." Fewer Unit Crowded The 22.2 million older per sons living outside of room ing houses1 and institutions fared better than the rest of the population in one respect, the agency said. "Only 4 per j cem of the units they occupy are crowded with 1.01 or more persons per room, whereas 12 per cent of all units in the country are that I crowded." An exception, the report noted, occurred for older per sons who lived in a household headed by someone under 60. Thirteen per cent of these households were "overcrowd ed" (the 1.01 standard). In many of these instances "over crowding has resulted as one or more elderly parents have moved in with children in homes ill-equipped to accom modate extra persons." mi Extra Work Made Easy! RENT Adding Machine Typewriter Calculator VOIGHT'S 8th I Gup. 772-4100 T0I WERE THERE? You can be! Money for all or any part of yout vaca tion. Example: $100 cost only $6.05 In 3 monthly payment of $35.35 each. Or up to $1500 for an purpose. IDEAL DAM S3S E. JACKSON BLVD. Mxttoiri Shopping Ctntlt Hum: 173-7456 Dick Webb, Mgr. Omi Friday Evlftinft 'Til t By DICK WEST Washington-iUPll - There is presently in progress here a national food d i s t ribution c o n f e rence, which seems to have some c o n n e c tion with the na tional distri bution of food. traded me to the confer- ence was a notice that one of the sessions would include a panel discussion on "motivat ing tecnangers." It so happens that I have been in a position to observe the behavior of teen-agers at close range in recent years. But nothing in my experience indicated that they ever need ed any motivation where food was concerned. In fact, quite the opposite. Around my house, the teen agers pick up where the ter mites leave off. Being curious to see just who might be trying to mo tivate them. I slopped by the conference and listen ed to a couple of the panel members. It turned out they were talking about the school lunch program, Apparently, the program hasn't been going over loo big in high schools: anyway, not as well as in the lower grades. Teen-agers have been reluctant to participate and so a little motivation seemed in order. One of the panel members was Dr. Francis Ianni of the U.S. Office of Education, who undertook to explain what food motivation was all about. Teen-agers, said Ianni, tend to eat what they have been taught to eat at home. Right away I figured he didn't know what he was talking about. It may be that someone taught the teen-agers in my household to eat the stuff they do, but it certainly wasn't dear old daddykins. Or good old mommykins either, for that matter. Ianni added, however, that the greatest influence on the diet of a teen-ager is the diet of other teen-agers. That proved he did know what he was talking about after all. A small child allowed to se lect his own food would pick a balanced diet, he continued. But free choice in a high school lunch program would boil down to pizzas and coca cola, he said. . "Man shares with the pig the distinction of being able to eat anything,' Ianni ob served. 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