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Ger responsible for job finding
and job placement in the De-
partment of Labor. the Public
Health Service, and the Social
Security Administration, among
lothers.
The Department of Agri-
culture, the Department of Labor,
the Children's Bureau have
served with the interest Of the
groups they were established to
help. Our older citizens surely
deserve similar attention to their
needs.
Revision Of Retirement Plans
Another step toward increas-
ing the incomes and therefore
the standard Of living Of our
older people will be the revision
of our retirement programs and
policies to take account Of the
increasing work life Of many in
dividuals.
Both in public and in private
experimentation is
now going on with more flexible
retirement policies. A highly in
Iteresting semiretirement plan
established in at least one in
stance by collective bargaining,
enables an older employee to work
part time and thus to raise his
income above old age and survi-
vors insurance levels BY the max
|imum amount.
Democrats have introduced in
the Congress legislation to per-
init retired persons to earn up
TO $4,000 a year without loss of
IOASI benefits, instead Of $1,000
Jas at present. Upward revision
Iof this limitation appears desir-
able as way to encourage older
persons to seek work and to OBJ
tain decent living standards
Through self-heip and individual
Initiative.
However, if this were done
without taking other actions,
particularly measures to MAIN
tain wage standards, it might
fail to accomplish its social OBJ
Ijectiye. For example, as we have
already discovered, some en-
Iployers try to exploit the present
law by hiring retired people at
lsub-standard wages. Action to
protect the wage structure
against such competition would
therefore be necessary and fur
|ther study will be needed to de-
Itermine whether this and other
iDrOblemS can he met
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Review Of Benefits

I think it is time for a COM
prehensive review and redeterm-
nation of the adequacy of exist
ing OAIS and old age assistance
benefits. 1t would be irrespons-
ible politics to assert categorical
ly that these benefits should be
increased to a certain figure.
However, We all know that the
cost of living is steadily rising
and that benefits have failed to
keep pace with these increased
costs. Moreover, we are not
thinking just of mere subsistence;
We must think in terms of MAIN
tanning the improved standards
of living that come with our con-
stantly increasing productivity
and rising wages.
It is therefore high time that
we take a good look at the social
security benefit levels and work
out whatever adjustments are
found, on careful study. to be
justified in the light of the needs
of retired people-taking also in
to account, of course. the needs
lof other groups in our society,
Such an examination, / would
urge upon the Congress.
l want, however. to note in
connection with some OF the
Recommendations / make here
the necessity Of keeping in mind
two important and related fac
tors. One is the fact that pro-
posals for increasing the supply
of work for older people must
be considered in terms Of the
amount Of work available for the
entire work force. We gain moth
ing If the result Of putting an
older man to work is that a
younger man becomes unem-
Iployed.
So when we talk Of enlargine
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Climate Of Respect

3: Our third objective must be
to give purpose and significance
in broad terms. to life's later
years.
Let us think Of this as the
framework of our broader pur-
pose within which the action OF
Government is taken. For
expect that a great many older
people, asked what they want
most. would answer to the effect
that life seem worthwhile, that
lit continue to offer a chance
to grow in one way or another
and to be part of things
Or. as an older lady said to me
this spring: I'VE just want to be
wanted"
It does seem to me that part
of the idea of the new America
lis a climate in which these in
tangible, even indefinable, needs
and wants of individuals will be
recognized, respected. even an
ticipated.
] suspect. for example, that
so years from now--and peahaps
much sooner-we will look st
the problem of old age less as
one of preserving earnings OPP
portunities than as one of using
leisure purposely and satisfy
ingly. This will probably affect
not only our employment and re-
tirement policies, nor even just
our housing and health pro-
grams. but our educational
policies as well.
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The Gift Of Years

1t will not do, as we think
about the problems of growing
old, to shrug our shoulders and
say to ourselves that they have
always been part of LIES in
scrutable pattern.
The fact is that within our
own generation science and
medical skill have presented us
with a tremendous enlargement
OF life's experience. We are chal-
lenged today to use a new oppor-
tunity-or to let it waste.
Today there are in America
Is million men and women SIS
years old or older. This is five
times as many as SO years ago.
Put it another way: when
those of us who are my age
started to school. so years ago
this month, only one person in
rs in the communities we lived
In was 65 years old or older
Today the proportion is more
than double this, or one in IL.
IL to is Added Years
Today. a man of SIS years MAY
expect, taking the average, /;
more years of life; a woman
nearly is more years.
We have truly received a gift
Of years--a gift richer in what
1t can mean to us than any other
gift there is
But are these in fact years Of
reward? Or are they years Of
burden and anxiety?
Many older people have seri.
Gus personal and economic prob.
lens, as l. shall indicate in the
pages to follow. Because of this
some people have been inclined
to look upon the older people ir
our society as themselves con.
stituting a problem. OF course
in one sense this is true, just a:
children constitute a problem
when we think of the needs Of
education, training and guild.
ance. But we are in error If W.
think Of the older people in oul
society only as q problem.
Older people as a group mus
be looked upon as one Of oul
great human resources. Theil
presence among US in greater
number is an opportunity.
Incomes Inadequate
There are some more figure!
which say all too plainly tina
by our scientific knowledge WI
have learned how to Iengther
our lives before we have learned
how to meet either the needs q
the opportunities this gift o
years creates.
With few exceptions. the in
comes of older people are des-
perately inadequate. OF every
three people In America TO-DAY
who are IS or older: one has nc
personal income Of his own from
any source; one has an income
Of less than $1,000 q year; onl,
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million workers, including II
million union members receiving
the highest wages in history"
The Senator. running for re-
election. did not name the labor
leaders he referred to but has
been critical of Go President
Walter Reuther and the CO.
IPAC. The Go has Endorsed
Senator Capehart's Democratic
lopponent. Claude r. Wickard.
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Conclusion

The new America is not made
up of small decisions. None of
the specific recommendations or
suggestions ! have made here
would, taken alone. open its
gates even in this one area Of a
program for our older age.
/ think of the path to our in
definitely greater future as one
we must pursue by setting our
sights above the small decisions,
by accepting our ideals as attain
able goals, and by making the
small decisions then In terms Of
moving toward these goals.
If the issues are narrowly con-
Iceived-as being, for example,
whether we want to spend more
on public housing for older peo-
pie. or whether to add q few dol
lars to the monthly assistance
|check--then we can argue end
AcSoASS dAAu VIC Will.
Answers Are Plain
But If the specific issues are
all approached in terms of
whether we think a persons
standard of living should or
should not drop of abruptly
when he reaches the age of SIS,
or whether an older person
should or should not have an
opportunity to contribute to So
ciety if he wants to, then the
answers to such questions as
these become plain.
The two key facts are, for me,
that we want to do these things
and that we can do them.
I am mindful of the price tags
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Text Of Stevenson Plan
For Our Older Citizens

DENVER, Sept. "a 01--FoHoDing is AdLdi SteDeHsons
statement Of policy titled "The New America ProGm for
Our Older Citizens"
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DEMOCRATIC HUDDLE-Denver- Eleanor
Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson, Democratic nominee
for President, have few serious words yesterday
after Mrs Roosevelt flew in to attend church with
Mr.. Stevenson. Mrs. Roosevelt's son, Elliott (cen-
ter), ploted his mother from his ranch at Meeker
in Northwestern Colorado.-AP Wirephoto
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Services for Needs
OF Older PeoDIe

| 2. Our second objective mus
Rbe to make available the facil.
titles and services which are re.
quired to meet the special Needs
of older people.
There is a very great unmet
need today for more housing de-
signed and reserved for oldei
people. We are past the point
where Giving with the children
lis always a satisfactory way Of
later life from the standpoint o.
either the young folks or the old
1t may be for some in some cir.
cumstances. But it is clearly moi
the best solution for all families
What we want is a chance fol
each family to make "a free
choice, so that where the mother
and father do live with the chill.
ldren, it is a decision that is moi
forced on them and where they
themselves. are not forced or
each other. And the plain fact
well and poignantly known tc
tens of thousands Of American
families, is that there is a crue.
shortage today of places where
an older couple, or more par
Iticularly an older man or woman
can go when keeping house" /.
mo longer practicable.
Careful studies show the neec
for Federal financing of specia
housing for older people. Some
Iof this must be public housing
II think we should explore. too
THE possibilities of Federal un.
derwriting of housing projects o.
this kind financed primarily. o.
lat least sponsored, by fraterna
organizations. private charitable
groups and labor unions.
Health Action Urged
| The other great need is fol
action. drastic action, on thu
health front.
Under the Hill Burton Survey
land Construction Act the Fed.
leral Government has begun tt
provide hospitals for the chron.
ically i'll. nonprofit NURSING
homes, geriatric clinics, and re.
Mobilization services. This pro.
gram is moving far more slowly
however. than it should. The
Republican administration ha.
used only a small part of the
funds voted by the Congress fol
these purposes. This situation
must be remedied at once.
A further grave need is fol
insurance to meet the costs Of
medical and hospital care. Oldel
people most need such protection
and they are the least able tt
afford it. Only IL per cent Of
those over SIS years Of age have
hospital insurance, as compared
with so per cent in other age
groups.
Hospital Insurance
! shall urge a thorough in.
vestigation by Congress Of tn,
possibility Of adding a program
of hospital insurance for the OLE
ito the present old age and sur
vivor's insurance system. / thinl
I'VE must consider gratefully, too
the various suggestions which
have been made for the encour
agement, possibly the under
writing in one way or another
lof private programs of compre'
hensive health insurance which
lpreserve the private patient,
doctor relationship
1t is particularly important. 81
far as older people are con
cerned. to take action in thi,
larea because most private PLAN
ARE now closed to older people
We do not want compulsory
linsurance-but neither do WI
want older people to be inyolun,
Itarily excluded from voluntar.
plans.
Finally. in this area, ! urge
THE immediate and substantial
Expansion of our programs fol
research into the causes anC
cures Of the diseases which arr
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-11-01

and Mrs Emerson Frazce visited
relatives in Baltimore over the
weekend,
Mr.. and Mrs. William Burdette
and Sally and Linda Frazec visited
Mrs. Parker Dewitt, Saturday and
Sunday
Mrs Doris Rodeheaver is visiting
Mr. and Mrs Commodore Fike at
UniontoWn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Carr spent
the weekend with Mr. and Mrs
Clarence Savage, Emporium, Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Dewitt and
Sandra Skipper visited MIR. and
Mrs Earl Bishop, Buffalo Run, Sat
urday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Junior Carr and
sons visited Mrs Vernie Helms on
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Commodore Fike
visited Mrs Mary Hinebaugh on
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FRIENDSVH.LE

Weekend and Sunday visitors of
Mrs. Arch c. Friend and family in
cluded Mr.. and Mrs Benedict
KoWalczyk MIR. and Mrs John
Cheney and family, John Lewis
James Friend, Mr. and Mrs Harry
Pysell and son Walter. Gerald
Friend, freshman student at the
University of Maryland, also was
home for the weekend.
Tuesday visitors of Mrs Mary
Jane Schroycr were Mrs. Martha
Friend and Mrs. Estella Friend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Friend had
as dinner guests on Sunday, Mr..
and Mrs Clark johnson and daugh-
ter Carole, and son Freeman, of
Rivesville. w Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Douglass SchrOyer
Cleveland O., were weekend
guests of their parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Alvin Lyle and Mr. and Mrs.
James Schroyer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Amos Friend and
family and Mrs. Helen DeVlne
were Sunday afternoon guests of
Miss Mae and Russell SchrOyer at
Oak Hill.
Mrs. Charley Rush visited her
brother, Hubert Friend at the hos
pital at Oakland on Tuesday
Mrs. Maude A. Livengood re-
turned home Saturday after a
weeks visit with her daughter Mrs.
Frank Rodahaver, Hazelton, w. Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Frazee, of
Selbysport; Mr.. and Mrs. Allen
Fike and daughters, of Mill Run;
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Fike and son
Byron were Sunday dinner guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Merle Griffith and
son at Confluence, Pa.
Mr.. ana Mrs. John Gies, West
Leisenring, Pa. Mr. and Mrs Har-
old Giles, Ohiopyle, Pa, were Sun
day guests of Mrs. Henrietta Lin
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Keyser Tornado
Tops Southern
P. V. c. Leaders Score Three
Touchdowns In First Half
To Clinch Victory

Keyser High schools Golden Tor
nado rOared briefly three times in
the first half of the football game
Saturday against Southern, then
subsidized into a gentle breeze dur
ing the remainder of the contest
but it was enough to create an IS
to victory
Three sudden scoring thrusts
produced Keyser's IS points and
their 18th straight victory over a
scrappy Highlander team which re-
fused to be over-awed by the only
undefeated school in the area.
Southern held the Tornado on
even terms until late in the first
quarter when Keyser took over on
the 22-yard line. Five plays later,
aided by runs of 80 and az yards
by Burgess and Dennis, they scored
the first siX-pointer Dennis went
eight yards through center to
climax the drive.
Keyser got break midway in
the second quarter when a short
Southern punt went out of bounds
near the center of the field. Again
Keyser made the most of its oppor-
tunity, driving over the goal line
in four plays. The drive was fea-
turcd by runs of 8 and "a yards by
Burgess and Dennis, climaXed by
2O-yard touchdown run by Bur-
CESS.
Late in the half Dennis gave
Keyser its last scoring opportunity
by intercepting Southern aerial
on the Highlander 80. On the third
play Maine hit Spots in the end
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keyser

keYser Southern
First Downs Rushing. ..... 8
2-First Down Passing .. 2
0-FirSt Downs Penalties. 49,. l
9-Total First Downs. ...... II
2-Lost on Downs. ........... 2
170-Yards Rushing .......... 100
5-Yards Lost Rushing ..... 20
165-Net Yards Rushing. ...... 80
55-Yards Passing ........... 81
220-Total Yards Gained. ...... Jap
19-Passes Attempted ........ %
PASSES Completed ......... 5
4-PaSseS Intercepted ....... 0
3S-Punts, Yards ............. 81
0-FumbleS /
Gown Fumbles Recovered. l
Playing for Southern were De
Witt, McRobie, Kelly, D. Evans,
Roth, Murphy, G. Bittinger, L. Bit
finger, Calls, Mason and Deckman
Substituting were Butler. Terry CO.
law, d. Friend, Don Stemple, Hen
line, Michaels, and Fry.
To Honor Fathers
Tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock
Southern High will play Terra Alta
in her final game of the season on
the home field. This game has been
designated as an occasion to honor
the fathers of the boys of the
Southern squad. The father or a
representative of each boy Will sit
on the bench along side the foot
ball squad during the game Fathers
will report to the Southern High
cafeteria by 2:45 Each father will
wear the same number his son
wears.
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clock in the Church of God at
Indian Head, Pa.
The double ring ceremony was
performed by the brides pastor,
Rev. w. A. Smith.
The bride had for her brides
maid her sister, Miss Laura Bell
Geary, of Cleveland, O.
The groom's best man was his
brother, Harold Griffith, of Mill
Run After the wedding recep-
ton was held in the social room of
the church. Both young people
have been employed in Cleveland,
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Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. GraysOn BarthlOW
and Mr.. and Mrs. William Clark
and sons, Frederick, visited Mr. and
Mrs. Stephen Dewitt, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arnold Friend and
children, Smithton, Pa, visited
relatives here over the weekend.
Rev. and Mrs. Ralph Jacgs, Rev.
and Mrs. II. c. Weaver visited Mr.
and Mrs Parker Dewitt Tuesday
evening.
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niger.
Mrs David Fike was Sunday
evening caller at the Friend-Devine
home.
George VanSickle, Trap Run, re-
turned to his home Sunday after
having a major operation in the
Garrett County Memorial hospital
in Oakland. He is recovering nice
ly.
Hubert Friend returned to his
home near Hoyes on Friday after
undergoing a major operation on
Monday.
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SANG RUN

The Ladies of the Sang Run
Pentecostal church are serving
sandwiches, soup, pie and coffee
in the building of Ralph Hoyes
for the benefit of the new church.
Parker Dewitt, Mrs. Sue Frazee
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where they will reside after
honeymoon trip in Virginia
Those from Garrett County at
tending the wedding we're MIR and
Mrs. Ernest Griffith, Mr. and Mrs
Harold Griffith Sharon and James,
William Griffith, Jr, Mrs Ethel
Lowdermi.k Mrs Ruth Selby Mr..
and Mrs. Bert Griffith and MyrOn,
Mr. and Mrs Richard Thomas. John
Guard Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Wass,
John Wass and Miss Evelyn Wass.
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MARRIED

Griffith-Geary-Miss Helen June
Geary, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs
Samuel Geary, of Champion, Pa,
became the bride of Homer A.
Griffith, son of Mr.. and Mrs Err
est Griffith, Mill Run, on Satur-
day evening, October 20, at 7 o.
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One of worlds rarest animals,
the musk-oX, is reported to be in
danger of extinction in its chief
home, northeast Greenland.
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zone with a pass for the final six
points.
Most of the final half was played
between the thirty-yard lines with
neither team being able to get
sustained drive rolling Late in the
third quarter Southern drove into
Keyser territory only to have the
drive stall when Keyser intercepted
"a pass. On the last play of the
quarter Keyser again intercepted
on the Southern 80 but lost the ball
on downs when Southern held on
its 12-yard line.
Late in the final quarter South
ern marched into Keyser territory
but failed to make a first down by
inches.
The Yard Stick
Milford chronicle., 1956-02-17

This session Of Congress viii
pass highway legislation that viii
set the course Of Americas develop
ment for the next 100 years. II
may de-emphasize the rural areas
in favor Of the big metropolitan
centers. It may doom more thou
sands Of us to die on outmoded
roads.
And yet. all the clamor seems to
be for superhighways to connect
orr big cities.
Unless q fair Proportion Of the
funds for roads goes igt0 fmprov-
ing orr existing ,<dehways-the
farm-fo-market. t0w6>So-city. home
f0-work roads-ftfv win become
move and more inadequate. These
roads we depend On so much
roads that were built before 1895
when few cars even ventured onto
them at night-are in use BY
everyone So weeks Of the year,
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camel put his head into tie tent
then his neck, then his back and
finally the whole camel was inside
Then there was no room for the
kindly Arab so he crawled outside
into the cold.
julius Mayer, president Of the
Chicago Board of Trade, must have
been thinking about the camel re-
Gently when he told Department
Of Agriculture officials in Wash
ington that increasing Iarge-scaIe
government competition in farm
marketing IS =oWGing out pri-
vate businessmen and threatening
to destroy our efficient free mar
kets.
Everyone connected with our
industry-from the farmer who
grows grain to the professor who
places it in the consumer hands
lis slowly but surely becoming an
agent of the government, Mr.
Mayer charged.
For those who might think he
was crying wolf', he licked off
some welI-substantiated facts:
I. The farmers. acreage is. con-
trolled and he depends more and
more. on government storage rather
than she market place as an out
let for his products.
2. The country grain elevator
operator is losing merchandising
contacts and know-how as he oper-
ates as a government storage agent
instead of as an essential partici-
pant in marketing operations.
8. The professor cannont hedge
his inventory in starved free
market and must turn to the
government for supplies.
4. Grain traders no longer can
determine fair values for buyer
and seller on grain exchanges when
distorts values with
huge SURPRISES and 1arge-scaIe
marketing operations.
Milford chronicle., 1956-02-17
IMMIGRATION OVERHAUL

President ElSenhoWer'S message on inn
migration makes it dOubly clear that the law
needs Overhauling. Inequities in the present
law keep many deserving persons from this
land Of opportunity Moreover, it works
both ways. The President told Congress /:
Throughout our history immigration to this
land has contributed greatly to the strength
and character of our republic"
The present immigration quota system
is based on the way various nationality
groups were divided up in 1920. Mr.. Eisen-
hover would base the quota, instead, on the
1850 census. That would improve the pres
ent odd system under which some countries
have large quotas that they don't use up,
while others have quotas far smaller than
their need.
The President also asked Congress to
boost the annual quota about $4,000, up to
approximately 100000 He also would set
aside 5000 numbers to be available for ad-
mission Of aliens without regard to ma
tionality or national origin" This would
enable some distinguished aliens to enter
the country even though their home quotas
were over-subscribed.
The President urged thorough study of
the McCarran-Walter act Of 1862. He also
asked Congress to eliminate unnecessary
restrictions"
The chief executives recommendations
give Congress sensible guidance on much
needed revision of our immigration law
Now prompt action is called for.