The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 199, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 4, 1955 Page: 3 of 16
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AMERICA'S SENIOR CITIZENS
Start Planning Retirement
--Money, Recreation-Now
3 A THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
• A Abilene, Texas, Tuesday Morning, January 4, 1535
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By ROGER D. GREENE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 0 - Ex-
perts differ on many facets of re-
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go to bed. Countless thousands
who do this have discovered they
fall asleep faster—feel much fresher
mornings. Always keep Turns
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gas, heartburn—day or night. Get
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IMS FOR THE TUMMY
on which they all agree:
If you want to retire from your
job in your later years, no matter
bow young you are now, start plan-
ning immediately. You can't start
too soon. Both your pocketbook
and your happiness are deeply in-
volved.
By contrast with this advice, a
survey of hundreds of companies
in the East and Midwest shows
that less than 10 per cent of their
workers start planning their retire-
ment as much as a year ahead of
"R-Day.”
"Even the man who is financially
prepared often finds the break
away from a life-long work routine
is painful," says Clark Tibbitts,
chairman of the U. S. Department
of Health. Education A Welfare's
committee on aging.
"Some just can’t take it. For
them, retirement is the beginning
of the end. They feel as if they
had been pushed off a cliff.”
To cushion the shock, Tibbitts
advocates a "tapering off’ pro-
gram before retirement—working
10, then v 8, 7 and ( months in
the last five years.
In that way, he said in an inter-
view. the man who is about to re-
tire learns gradually bow to utilize
the extra time on his hands—in-
stead of having endless days Of
freedom thrust suddenly upon him.
Some oldsters, he said, literally
“pine away" for the daily contact
with office associates, the excite-
ment of swinging a big deal. The
sudden letdown overwhelms them.
Some wind np in mental institu-
tions.
“But with more and more people
living to old age, many firms
now have compulsory retirement
rules." Tibbitts said, "Better medi-
cal care, better food, easier living
have tacked a 20-year increase on
the average life span since 1900.’
Insurance figures show that if a
person reaches 65 today he’s likely
to live to 77 or longer.
One company charts it this way:
A man now 45 can expect to live
26 more years (a woman 30.6). At
55, a man's expectancy is 18.3
years (a woman's 11.*1, and at 65
* man can still look ahead to 11.1
years (a woman 14.2). <
Emphasizing the necessity of
planning, Tibbitts advises: .
“By the time you're 45 or 50,
or even earlier, you should deter-
mine how much money you'll have
coming in social security, job pen-
sion, insurance and other benefits
when you retire. If the total isn't
enough to live on comfortably,
start looking around now for ways
to boost your retirement income.
"Money lost on an investment
at 45 or 50 won't cripple you.
There's always the weekly pay-
check to fall back on. But if you
wait until you retire at 65 or 70
to try a new business, a failure
could be catastrophic."
Many illnesses of old age, ac-
cording to psychiatrists, spring di-
rectly from a feeling of being
pushed aside. One day an active
man is 64 years and 364 days old
A day later, he's too old to bold
his job. And often the community
regards him with an indulgent
smile as an "oldtimer.”
Well, you say, that will never
happen to me. I've got a thousand
things to do—the garden, golf, fish-
ing, motor trips, that hobby I’ve
been waiting to catch up on. Be-
sides, I may retire to some warm
climate and start a whole new life.
But experts warn that hobbies
can be overrated. You can't make
a 5-day, 40-hour week job of stamp-
collecting or writing letters to the
editor. Or can you?
TREES OF FORTUNE
-TL DI AniA A TRULY BEAUTIFUL
hey D LOOM .SIGHT IN EARLY SPRING.
They FRUIT
They SHADE
DELICIOUS, NUTRICIOUS FOOD
TO HELP CUT DOWN THAT
GROCERY BILL.
GOOD WINDBREAKS, COOL THAT
PATIO, KEEP OUT THAT WEST SUN,
GOOD CLIMBING FOR THE KIDS.
We have just received a shipment of the
finest fruit trees we've ever had the privi-
lege to offer.
PLANT TREES THAT PRODUCE
PEACH
6-8-FT. HEIGHT
MAYFLOWER—Ripens
last of May.
REDBIRD—Best Cling
June 1st.
KIMELBERTA—(Early)
July 1st.
HALE HAVEN—July 10th.
ELBERTA—July 2001.
APRICOT
Newcastle—Early.
Royal—Beet producer.
ONE OF THE BEST SHADE TREES—6 - 8-Ft.
PLUM
6-8-FT.
ALMOND
6.8-FT.
Beauty—Big red early.
Santa Rosa—Huge A
purple.
Texas—Good, Fast
Growing shade.
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FIG
4-to-5-Ft. KADOKA-Huge „ WE
Brown Turkey Everbearing....... 1.7 5
Beautiful Foliage - Good Screening Plant
FLOWERING ^H'Y DOUBLEMED CORE
122 PEPPERMINT 202
DEAAUCO DOUBLE PINK A
T EMUILO DOUBLE WHITE
Plant Now for Blooms This Spring. :
UNUSUAL PLANTS
DWARF PEACH-"2 Year Old"
$4.50
A true DWARF PEACH - with edible, white Freestone fruit and double
red blossoms. Grows to G-Ft at maturity so that 3 or 4 trees can be
planted in the space one standard peach requires.....:.............
DAILY NEWS 3 STAR PEACH
This patented plant has beautiful
double dark pink blossoms
and delicious fruit.....:............................
ROYAL RED LEAF PEACH
The beautiful dark red follage together
with edible fruit makea this an
, outstanding variety .................................
$4.25
*2.75
ABILENE'S MODERN NURSERY “
ELMWOOD GARDENS
3909 South 7th Street N
‘Near Leggett
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TOWN NEWS
'54 Postal Receipts Gain;
Postal Savings Show Drop
. Starvation Used
By Brain Washers
' WASHINGTON un-A .course in
starvation was cited Monday by a
congressional committee as an ex-
ample of how Communists are
seeking to destroy the seeds of
religion in children.
The committoe, a special House
group studying Communist aggres-
sion, said all pupils in a primary
school were locked up three days
and nights because they insisted on
quoting from the Lord’s Prayer
"Give us this day our- daily
bread." 1
At the end of the 72 hours of
enforced fasting, the committee
said, their teacher told them their
bread came not from God, “but
now, if you will write a petition to
Father Stalin, you will get bread.”
Now Many Wear
FALSE TEETH
With More Comfort
FASTEETH, a pleasant alkaline
(non-acid) powder, holds false teeth
more firmly. To est and talk in more
comfort, just sprinkle a little FAS-
TEETH on your plates. No gummy,
gooey, pasty taste or feeling. Checks
“plate odor” (denture breath). Get
FASTEETH at any drug counter.
(adv.
Bakery Explodes
At Corpus Christi
CORPUS CHRISTI un - Gas
which accumulated in the top of
an oven at a bakery in southwest
Corpus Christ exploded early Mon-
day, injuring one employe and
causing damage estimated at $40,-
000. Jesus Rodriguez, 33. a baker,
received second degree burns on
his face, neck and arms. The blast
occurred at the Lee Holsum Baking
Richard Wagner wrote “Lohen-
grin" in reverse, starting the opera
with the third act, then writing
the second and finishing with the
first act in 1848.
USE ME!
I am PREACHERS for your Hair
GRAY, dry FALLING hair. ITCHY
scalp and DANDRUFF.
Use Me—Be Convinced
STAR MUG STORE
3% CURRENT DIVIDEND
(SAI
It’s Like Finding Money .. .?
Yes sir! Bigger dividends make saving a real plea-
sure, here And, you know your money is safe — all
accounts insured to $10,000.
YOUR ACCOUNT INSURED TO $10,000.
I YOU HAD A NECK
A AS LONG AS
Se W1 EllOW
SORE THROAT
DUE TO COLDS
Postal receipts increased while
postal savings were declining dur-
ing 1954 in Abilene.
The *1954 postals savings here
as of Dec. 31 were $1,115,420. That
is $112,020 less than as of Dec.
31, 1953.
Postal receipts increased $57,-
943.7V during 1954. The 1954 re-
ceipts were $805,809.42. The year
before the receipts were $747,865.-
72.
Surprisingly, postal receipts dur- !
ing December, 1954 were down
from the preceding December. Dec- |
ember postal receipts were $104,- -
550.18. In December of 1963 they
were, $104,645.47.
TB Meeting Set
Taylor County Tuberculosis As-
sociation executive board members
will meet at 1 p.m. Tuesday in
the association offices in the base-
ment of the courthouse. President
Charles Passel announced Monday. |
Tipster Wins $5
Walter Wood, 1033 Danville Dr., |
will receive 35 from the Reporter-
News for tipping the paper about
a drowning at Fort Phantom Hill
Lake Dec. 27.
Honorable mention for news tips
goes to Mrs. Cleo Parker, 2901
South 11th St.; T. & Winn, 781,
Maple St.; and Scott W. Hickey. |
1743 South Seventh St.
Policeman Quits
Mylon E Gifford, member of
the Abilene Police Dept, since Sept.
25, 1952, resigned Saturday.
Gifford did not reveal his future
plans
To Name Officers
Officers and directors will bell
elected at the annual meeting of |
stockholders of the Southwest Sav-j
ings and Loan Assn., set for Jan.
U at 1026 North Fourth St |
Current officers are Arch C. Bat-
jer, chairman of the board: Noble
Loving, president: Jack Wheeler
and Morgan Jones Jr., vice presi-
dents: Maurice Brooks, acting see-
retary-treasurer and general coun- |
sel. Gussie C. McDermett, assist- |
ant secretary-treasurer.
Directors are Minor Alexander,
Robert J. Brown and Ed Grissom.
Joins Parents
Jo Ann Elliott will take an ex-
i amination Jan. 19 to obtain a state
embalmer’s license from the State
Board of Embalming.
She has graduated from the Dal-
las Institute-Gupton Jones College
of Mortuary Science in Dallas and
is associated with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Pete Elliott at El-
liott's Funeral Home.
She will be required to serve
a two-year's apprenticeship before
receiving her permanent embalm-
er's license.
In June she plane to go to Evans-
Coke Stevenson’s
Wife Quits Post
JUNCTION un—Mrs. Coke Ste-
venson, wife of the former gover-
nor. retired Monday as county dis-
trict clerk She and Stevenson were
married Jan. 14. 1954 Mrs. Ste-
venson did not seek re-election.
She swore in her successor. Miss
Thelma Schier, and other county
officers.
Stevenson was at the ceremony
and heard County Judge Walter
Leamons tell Mrs. Stevenson:
“Sometimes I thought you were
the best lawyer la Kimble County.”
She isn't- an attorney.
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of Management.
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1026 N. 4th
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Dial 3-2151
Fabulous Clea rance Savings
Group of Womens
BLOUSES
now 331s% off
GIRLS COATS
REGULARLY 5.95 TO 39.50
now 331% off
One Group
BRAS and GIRDLES
331% & 50% off.
GROUP of SKIRTS
Choice of wools, rayons, or velveteens
REGULARLY 7.95 to 29.50
now 331% off
RAYON GOWNS
. REGULARLY 3.95 AND 4.95
now 33% % off
WOMENS ROBES
• REGULARLY 7.95 to 49.50
now 33% off
LOUNGING PAJAMAS
REGULARLY 17.95
now 33%% off
Group of Womens
WOOL SWEATERS
REGULARLY 5.95 to 39.50
now 331% off .
GROUP of GIFTS
CHINA • LAMPS • DINNERWANE
now 50% off
INFANT SETS
Corduroy topper sets in S-M-L
REGULARLY 4.95 SET
now 2.45 set
GIRLS SWEATERS
REGULARLY 3.95 TO T2.95
now 331% off
GIRLS ROBES
REGULARLY 5.95 TO 17.95
now 33%% off
GIRLS DRESSES
REGULARLY 3.95 TO 19.50
now 33%% off
GIRLS HATS
now 50% off
BOYS VESTS
Choose from our Entire Stock of boys vests . . . in
either rerduroys or fancies so
Were NOW
1.65
1.85
2.95 . ...
3.95
was
SPORT SHIRTS
Choose from • great selection of boys long sleeve
sport shirts . . . all sizes, colors
Were
2.95 ___
3.95..,
4.95
NOW
.....2.15
. 2.99
.... 3.45
TEN -WAY SUITS
The set consists of coat, vest, and two pains of
trousers ... sizes 14 thru 20
REGULARLY 38.95
now 26.
Entire Stock
BOYS JACKETS
Were
4.95—5.95.-.......
7.95 - 8.95 - 9.95 . .
16.95 ....
22.95
Terrific
Storewid
Savings
NOW
........4.45
- 6.45
- •.• 11.45
• 17.45
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