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THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1964 THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA, OREGON Poieniial of Senior Citizens Noted By Family Life Specialist at OSU May is National Senior Citizens month. It’s also a good time to point out that life can begin again at 65, according to Roberta Frasier, Oregon State university extension family life specialist. Retirement can either mark an end to useful living, or it can mean the beginning of a rewarding period of education, creative activity or worth while public service, says Mrs. Financial and other requirements Frasier. will vary from stage to stage. The extension educator says Successful retirement planning that many older people make involves a careful assessment of the mistake of thinking they don’t your own interests. During the have enough time left to do any working years, work provides for thing worthwhile. This idea is most people a feeling of satisfac usually based on average life ex tion and accomplishment. Some pectancy, which for men in the form of substitute activity should United States is about 67 years, be developed after retirement to provide this type of satisfaction, while for women it is 74. Mrs. Frasier said. This may be a "Bonus" Years Ahead for Aged part-time job, some type of crea However, retirement planning tive activity or community or should not be based on average public service. life expectancy, which represents Public Service Projects Open life expectancy from birth. Most The experience and mature people who have lived to retire ment age actually have some “bo judgment of the older person can nus” years ahead. The man who make him a valuable source of has reached 65 usually has 12 counsel as well as guidance for more years to plan for, while the public service or political pro 65-year-old woman has an aver jects, she added. Mrs. Frasier points out that age life expectancy of 16 more much of the Cooperative Exten years. sion Service home demonstration Most people do not retire to a and educational unit program is rocking chair or sick bed at age aimed at helping people adjust 65, according to national statis to changing circumstances as they tics quoted by Mrs. Frasier. move through the entire life Only about one percent of per cycle. sons over 65 are bedridden, while The extension service also has only two percent of the people completed a pilot program, “Plan between 65 and 74 experience any ning for Retirement.” This pilot kind of paralysis. Nearly a mil program will serve as the model lion Americans age 65 and older for a series of study and discus are enrolled in formal education sion groups throughout Oregon, programs, while many more are which will help people approach engaged in some type of informal ing retirement age develop a more education. realistic knowledge of health and One-Fourth of Senators Over 65 life expectancy in the later years ¡Some 35 percent of the men and assist them to assess their over 65 and 12 percent of the own attitudes toward aging and women are still employed. About retirement. one-fourth of the members of our United States Senate are over 65, it was noted. Planning for retirement should take into consideration four By Connie Price stages, says Mrs. Frasier. First, the retired person will continue to be active. As he becomes older, Recent weekend guests in the he will probably slow down until home of Mr. and Mrs. Howard he is only moderately active, then Day of Lake Owyhee were Mr. less active and finally inactive. and Mrs. Earl Wilson and Marcela Kay of Eugene. Mr. and Mrs. Fort Sumpter and David visited May 9 in Payette with Mr. and Mrs. Ray Sumpter and family, Mr. and Mrs. Delmer QUALITY REPAIR Shuster and family, Mrs. Dollie Evans and family. Mrs. Mabel DENTAL LAB Houston was a dinner guest on 24 N. 8th—Payette Mother’s Day in the Fort Sump ter home. Same Location Six Years Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hill of Across From Idaho Power Lake Owyhee visited May 9 with PHONE Mr. and Mrs. Robert Taylor of Nyssa. Visitors From Salem 36 Years Experience as Dental Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Davis of Technician Assures You of Salem are visiting in the home Top Quality Work of Mr. and Mrs. C. Share. Mr. and Mrs. Share visited May 6-8 with Mr. and Mrs. Dude Parker at Walla Walla. May 8 afternoon callers in the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Price were Mrs. Esther Stephen and Mrs. Roxy Ritchie. Dinner guests r May 10 in the Price home were Jerry and Jay Winkle of Nampa and Dale Poe of Ontario. Evening guests in the Price home were Full Sets Serviced Mr. and Mrs. Mert Winkle, Jerry Broken Plates Repaired and Jay of Nampa. Loose Teeth Relined Missing Teeth Replaced VISITORS FROM BOISE WHILE YOU WAIT! Mr. and Mrs. Elwyn Haroldsen and Kristen of Boise were week Open Evenir ■» end guests of his parents, Mr. and By Appointment Mrs. Reuben Haroldsen, and Kris EASY CREDIT TERMS ten remained for a week’s visit Satisfaction Guaranteed! with her grandparents. 95-Year-Old Mother Of Nyssan Succumbs MEMORIAL MEETING SET TONIGHT BY OT GRANGE Memorial services will be con ducted this evening during the regular meeting of Oregon Trail Grange. The altar will be decor ated with flowers in memory of Lewis Debord, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Jamison, A. P. Goodell, Mr. and Mrs. George Cleaver, Mrs. Nettie Bennett, W. J. Gardiner, Grover Cooper, George Adams, Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Holmes and Mrs. Lorena Gressley. All grange members are urged to attend this meeting. Funeral rites for the Rev. Mrs. Mary Taylor, 95, were conducted Wednesday, May 6, 1964, at Hill crest Church of the Nazarene in Vancouver, Wash. She was the mother of Mrs. E. J. (Sarah) Hobson of route 1, Nyssa. Mrs. Taylor, an ordained elder in the Nazarene church, succumb ed May 2 in a convalescent home at Vancouver after suffering two recent strokes. In addition to Mrs. Hobson, the Rev. Mrs. Taylor is survived by SUNDAY DINNER GUESTS two sons, Fletcher Owen of Beav Mr. and Mrs Tom Eldredge erton, Ore., and J. L. Owen of were Sunday dinner guests of Miami, Fla.; two other daughters, Mrs. Oliver Bingaman at Fruit Mrs. Jane Wilde of Portland and ; land. Mrs. Alice Bonnarens of V a n! Buren, Mo. ing the services were Mr. and Other survivors include 27 Mrs. E. J. Hobson, Mrs. James grandchildren, 88 great-grandchil Langley, Mrs. Homer Brewer and dren and four great-great-grand-, Joe Hobson. Rex Langley, who children. attends dental college in Portland, Among Nyssa relatives attend-1 was also present for the rites. PAGE THREE Adrian FFA Chapter Wins Skills Trophy Adrian high school FFA chap ter was first place trophy winner in the district skills contest held April 30 in Ontario. Eddie Low- trip of the Adrian group placed third as master mechanic. Members receiving lower divi sion ratings were Bill Martin, Rex Smith, Jack Steiner and Norm Nelson. Those placing in advanced skills included Dennis Martin, Terry Tallman. Ron Cartwright, Vernon Search, Kai Farr, Kats Hori, Boyd Newgen and Robert Callahan. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Pounds at tended parents’ weekend activi ties held recently on the campus at Eastern Oregon college. Their daughter, Edith, is a student at the college and is also serving as part-time student teacher in La Grande. 1. 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