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Show SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH VOLUME 17, NUMBER 199 Sociologist Says Senior Citizens their age, this subculture , to a University California sociologist. Dr. Arlie Hochschild Studied a senior citizens public housing project in San Francisco she refers to as Merrill Court. Her object in studying the residence was to a of "theory which she disengagement says "held sway in the 1960s. The theory of disengagement said that as a result of biological and sociological factors the elderly choose to limit friendships and acquaintances and are satisfied with this isolation. Dr. Hochschild said the theory "seems to legitimate a disconcem for the problems of old age. From her study she found that isolation, lonelinesss and reelings of disprove DETROIT Detroit punitive damages on charges of discriminating against black employes, has called the federal judge's ruling wrong on the facts, company. Under the Reserve Board's order, which ratifies a preliminary decision made last July, the Du Pont trust must sell all its holdings in Florida National, no later than Dec. 31, 1974. wrong on the law and worng on the extreme remedies it has ordered. Edison, Michigans largest electricity company, said it would vigorously appeal U.S. District Judge Damon J. Keith's judgment. Keith found Edison guilty of prolonged and systematic racial discrimination. He ' ordered new hiring rules and indicated that full damages still had not been determined for all potential claimants. We believe that the courts self-sufficie- nt , - WASHINGTON (UPI)-T- he Federal Reserve Board has ordered the Alfred I. Du Pont trust to end its controlling Interests in 30 Florida banks and nonbanking interests. The control was exercised through Florida National Bank; a Jacksonville based bank holding in projects, Bible study classes, friends, saw their friends more and were more satisfied with their social lives than those living in housing projects with all ages. Communities such as Merrill Court also give the elderly sibling relationships, said the sociologist, meaning similarity and equality and independence in contrast to the parent-chil- d type of bond most often found in institutional care. She said a second kind of adolescence is also provided by a community like Merrill Court because older people have more freedom when they are in a group of their peers. Florida Banks Edison Co., slapped with $4 million before they die citizens community had more (UPI) . decision is wrong on the fact, wrong on the law and wrong on the extreme remedies it has ordered, Leon,S. Cohan, vice president for legal affairs for Edison, said. The Detroit Edison Co. has been, is, and will be committed to equality of opportunity for those ployed here, No-Fau- it Credit Program No-Fau- Hinges on Bill - The (UPI) will be Agriculture Department million new to a launch $200 ready WASHINGTON ' rural industry credit program within six weeks of the date a new 1973-7- 4 Senators Hear Expert Warn Of Climate Change agricultural appropriation bill becomes law. The loans will be made with private, not federal funds. But officials explain they have had to wait for Congressional approval of the lending level before proceeding em- govemment-guaranteed-and-insur- Cohan said. In these circumstances we cannot and will not let stand unchallenged a finding that this company has been guilty of malice and of discrimination that has been deliberate and by design. to formally program. Thq company, which sells electricity to 1.6 million persons in and around Detroit and Ann Arbor, employes 11,084. Less than 900 are black, the court said, and only 12 held high level posts when the case qpened in April. Cohan said he was confident that the court order will not stand. ed launch the new Preliminary proposals submitted from potential borrowers so far total $167 million, Frank Elliott,, administrator of the Farmers . Home Administration said. Elliott said the proposals ranged from a few thousand dollars to rehabilitate a country store, up to $15 million to finance a new metal plant in a rural area. - The (UPI) world is moving into a new climatic era which could lead to mass starvation in areas of Africa and Asia, a scientist has told Congress. mans There is nothing technology can do about the fact that the Northern Hemisphere is cooling and rainfall patterns are shifting, Reid Pryson said in an analysis presented to a Senate subcommittee, October 18. The worlds statesmen must now concentrate on allocating food supplies and trying to keep population growth in check, he said. This testimony frQm the director of the Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin visibly stirred Sen. Hubert Humphrey, of a Senate agriculture subcommittee which has begun a series of hearings on world food WASHINGTON The $200 million lending ceiling for the 1973-7- 4 fiscal year was included in an appropriation bill recently approved by Congress. Officiate said they did not yet know whether President Nixon would sign the measure, because some of its provisions exceed his budget' proposals. Agriculture Department Officials told newsmen there has already been active interest in the new loans, authorized in a 1972 rural development act, for financing new rural businesses and industries. Declares Dividend The board of directors of Mountain Fuel Supply Company Tuesday declared a dividend of 48 cents a share on the Companys common stock and $2 a share on the preferred stock. The common stock dividend is pay- -' able December 3, 1973, to shareholders of record November 9, 1973, and the preferred stock dividend is payable January 7, 1974, to shareholders of ' record December 7, 1973. Utah automobile owners are cau- - instructions or forget to fill in the tioned to put their insurance com- additional questions about pany's name and the number of their Insurance, we will be in a real mess, policy on their automobile registrahe added. tion forms. The card, he said, is to be issued by If they dont, the forms will have the insurance companies and must be to be sent back again and that carried or kept in the car to drivers by means not only a delay, but a waste of with the law. prove compliance money, said James L. Schwab, adshown a policeofficer, be to must It ministrative secretary of the Utah if is a driver stopped, just as a driver's Tax Commission. license must be shown, Ottosen said. Our office hopes auto owners will lt realize the new Insurance identification cards are Automobile Insurance Law starts January 1, 1974, not required for trailers or for motor and comply with it. vehicles that are subject to therequire That means making.sure they have ments of the public service law of the the new insurance and answering Interstate Commerce Act. Also, motorcycles and snowmobile questions about it correctly on their owners are exempt from the insurance registration forms, said Schwab. If auto owners fail to read their law, for those vehicles," said Ottosen. Rural Business seeking employment with the company and those already Pont Trust Must Divest Appeal Job Bias Ruling biologically, she said. She described Merrill Court as a beehive of activity," with meetings of service club, bowling, morning workshops for charitable ' Du To uselessness largely disappeared monthly birthday parties and visits to four nearby nursing homes. Hie residence, funded with local, state and federal funds housed 43 persons, mostly widows, averaging 68 years of age, who were mobile and and who earned less than $3,000. Each resident lived in a single apartment with a kitchen. Dr. Hochschild said, "having a community of peers or friends your own age actually strengthens your relationship with your family." She said she found that Merrill Court dwellers frequently visited or were visited by their families. If they didnt live in such a socially active community, she said, they would be much more dependent on their families and that dependency would dislocate or change the equal and beneficial relationship they had. Dr. Hochschild also noted a study by San Francisco sociologist Irving Rossow which disagreed with the Stay Young Live with Young People theory. She said Rossows study showed that old people living in an all senior (See details page 4) Detroit Edison when old persons lived in a community of their peers. "Old people who rely on chance encounters with bank clerks or nurses for emotional sustenance die sociologically en- courages the old to dance, to sing, to flirt and joke. Whats more, they can talk frankly about death in a way less common between the old and young, she said. Dr. Hochschild said these old age communities are rare and she is concerned about old people who do not have access to a community of their peers. They are the ones who suffer the quietly devastating isolation of old age, she said. of Law Jan. 1 Auto Registration Requires Insurance Data In a society that raises an eyebrow at those who do not act before they die biologically and could lead happier more fulfilling old age communes," lives at according No-Fau- lt Supreme Court Decisions Could Flourish in Own 'Communes By Diane Curtis BERKELEY (UPI)-Isol- ated senior citizens "die sociologically TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1973 an . problems. Bryson said research indicates the bad weather which slashed food production in many areas in 1972 and brought drought to Africa and other regions is not just a passing chance combination of cir cumstances. The evidence is now abundantly clear that the climate of the earth is changing, he said. Bryson said the changes are not likely to cut U.S. farm production, but severe cutbacks are possible in Africa, South Asia, and China where changing rainfall patterns may move deserts southsub-Sahar- an ward and suppress normal soon rains. August Losses Told For Exchange Firms NEW YORK (UPI) - Member firms of the New York Stock Exchange had an aggregate loss of $28.1 million in August, the Exchange has reported. A year earlier, Exchange member firms had a combined profit of $72 million. For the first eight months of the year, member firms lost $220.2 million compared with a profit of $694 million before taxes in 1972. k s mon- |