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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1947
Page
2
Washington analyst Backhage argues postwar census shows a record 1946 birth surge but aging will rise. Projections show 16 million Americans over 65 by 1970 amid shrinking families. He urges facing aging with positive steps and cites a pamphlet on growing older.
The article argues avocations keep retirees engaged and even become paying vocations. It cites varied skill needs and notes farmers using experience into later life while youth handle speed tasks. aging can still perform power work where skill matters. It references When You Grow Older and its themes on old age security.
The piece compares Cicero's Senectute with modern views by George Lawton and Maxwell Stewart on aging Nate? It argues old age brings shocks if unprepared and stresses finding meaning through work or duty rather than mere status. It cites the Public Affairs Committee pamphlet and notes science confirms ancient verities about aging.
An agriculture department report shows U S farm cash receipts in the first eight months of 1947 at 17.4 billion dollars, up 21 percent from 1946 with a 24 percent rise in prices. Net income for farm operators in 1946 averaged 2541 dollars, while rising costs in 1946 and 1947 accompany the boom. European distress, Britain's fragility, and poor harvests threaten stability, prompting talk of a special congress session to consider an economic transfusion for the old world.
Millions of veterans nationwide rush to banks to cash terminal leave pay bonds. Many use the funds for necessities or to clear debts while others save or spend, with a notable shift toward reducing financial burdens for some families. Radioactive isotopes from American atomic research are offered to foreign nations to aid global medical science, described as a pivotal medical tool for tracing bodily processes and advancing cancer research.
In a wartime memoir quoted from his prison cell, SS Colonel Otto Skorzeny recounts Hitler ordering the rescue of Mussolini from Gran Sasso. He describes planning with five aides, crashes of early gliders, and a daring ascent to free Il Duce before flying to Vienna and then Hitler's HQ.
Manufacturers and dealers warn a flourishing black market for tractors hay balers and combines grows as underfunded rural labor and aging prewar machines raise demand. Prices soar with tractors seen at 1000 selling for 3000 to 3500 and combines moving at 4000 amid surging farm income and mechanization drives.
In Pittsburgh Louis Weaver, a one year old, cried aloud prompting Robert Boteman to check the Weaver home. He found Martha Weaver, 36, unconscious on the floor and she died while being taken to a hospital.
Seaside Oregon witnesses a stunt parachutist named Jim Bonner being blown a mile offshore during an air show. A Duck amphibious craft rescued him after 30 minutes afloat as he blamed miscalculated wind velocity for the drift.
Self instruction in public speaking booklet No 83 offers tips to overcome jitters and awkward phrasing. It covers poised delivery parliamentary procedure and provides sample speeches for readers seeking confidence and clarity before groups.
Fielding record holder Buddy Kerr of the New York Giants played 68 games from July 26, 1946, to May 25, 1947 and handled 384 chances without an error, preserving a notable fielding streak.
Collier's notes the widely believed tale of the Mayflower landing on a rock in Plymouth on December 21 1620 is unsubstantiated. Historical records indicate the first ashore date was November 11 at Cape Cod and the rock story began 121 years later.
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