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
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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
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