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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1976
Page
6
Real estate expert Gerald P. Young notes a shift as more lone retired women own homes yet struggle to manage them. Many seek nearby apartments or condominiums to reduce upkeep and risk, while others move in with relatives or into retirement homes.
The Senior Nutrition Program for people over 60 at Murchison Chapel 611 S. Main St. offers free noon meals with donations encouraged and accepts food stamps. Contact Butler County Council on Aging at 423-0729 for details. This week menu includes Monday vegetable beef soup and pineapple cottage cheese salad. Tuesday cube steak. Wednesday beef franks. Thursday baked chicken. Friday tuna rice casserole.
The program is described as social insurance not a guaranteed return on contributions. It funds protections against retirement, disability, or death, similar to car or health insurance where premiums pay for risk coverage rather than a fixed payout.
The reader learns that November and December medical expenses can be carried forward to meet the $60 deductible for 1976 under Medicare rules. Open enrollment for Parts A and B runs in January, with coverage starting July if signed up then. Premiums are $40 for hospital insurance and $6.70 for medical insurance with late filing penalties.
The National Forest Service uses domestic goats to maintain firebreaks in southern California forests. Goats eat brush not eaten by other livestock and trim vegetation close to the ground to reduce fuel. They are penned at night and herded during the day to keep them on designated areas.
In 1918, eleven hundred soldiers died from the influenza outbreak at Camp Sherman near Chillicothe Ohio, marking a severe wartime health crisis and mass casualties at a single training camp.
The Butler Warren County Branch of the Arthritis Foundation offers a free booklet on osteoarthritis, which affects 97 percent of people over 60 and is described as wear and tear. Dr. Raymond E. Muzzarelli notes joint degeneration from years of use and cartilage wear. Request via self addressed stamped envelope to Arthritis Foundation Box 306 Middletown.
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