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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1947
Page
2
Census figures show a record 1946 birth crop but a growing elderly population. By 1970 an estimated 16 million will be over 65 as life expectancy rises and families shrink. The piece argues aging can be satisfying by taking up avocations or work after retirement, turning hobbies into vocations and life savers.
The piece discusses how aging affects work ability, noting self support by many farmers at 70 or 75 and the shift from speed to power work. It cites Cicero and the essay When You Grow Older, praising psychological needs of old age and urging practical testing of ideas by modern science.
A U S agriculture department report shows farm cash receipts in the first eight months of 1947 at 17.4 billion dollars, up 21 percent from 1946, with net income to farmers rising despite rising costs. Europe faces severe economic strain, Britain struggles with weather and exports, and a congressional session may be called to address the looming financial crisis.
Millions of ex-GIs nationwide rushed to cash their terminal leave pay bonds as banks ignited an unprecedented uptake. Veterans used the money to pay debts or buy necessities while many saved or spent it, with a notable surge toward debt relief among family men. Radioactive isotopes from U S atomic research were offered to foreign nations to aid cancer research, seen as a key medical tool for tracing disease and advancing cures.
Farmers pay huge premiums for tractors hay balers and corn pickers amid rising income and push for mechanization. Dealers report waiting lists and buyers paying double or triple list prices with combines fetching up to 3500 dollars after a crop harvest.
A curio filled column notes President Franklin D Roosevelt criticizing senators Byrd McKellar George O Daniel and Rankin as troublesome to the White House. It mentions FDR’s death attribution and politics around Harriman and MacArthur with various names and a stream of social and theater gossip from the era.
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