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MEDFORD. OREGON. MONDAY. AUGUST 13. 1962
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Income of Senior Citizens Beneath Average of Nation
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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
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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
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Congolese parliament Sunday
drew up the boundaries for
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The present Congo has five
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$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."
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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. True enough, and I don't
envy the lunch program plan
ners their task of trying to
change high school dietary
patterns. I'd sooner try to
motivate a teen-age pig.
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