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Show An Omaha psychiartrist, speaking during a symposium on the aging at the American Medical Association's 108th annual an-nual meeting, said that a man spends his first 65 years preparing pre-paring for the last 15. He suggested sug-gested a positive health program pro-gram for older persons. Some of its items: A balanced diet including more protein, vitamins vit-amins and fluids; and less fats and calories; adequate rest of mind and body; pursuit of interesting in-teresting and specific recreational recre-ational activities; a sense of humor; participation in community com-munity affairs; continued expansion ex-pansion of knowledge, wisdom and experience. Forty-three per cent of the assets of public pension funds in California are invested in public utility bonds and de-benures. de-benures. With 600,000 active and retired members, says a publication of the Pacific Gas & Electric Company, these funds have combined assets totaling almost $2.4 billion, a sum greater than the assets ol all but 10 of the nation's largest larg-est banking institutions. A man should whistle th same tune all the time. Sen Richard Neuberger. t)3revitie5 . . . Many parents and adolescents adoles-cents visiting doctors about physical ailments may really be seeking help in understanding understand-ing the adolescents' behavior, according to two Eastern doctors, doc-tors, writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Ass-ociation. They say the adolescent adoles-cent dilinquent is characterized characteri-zed by angry feelings, impuls-ivity, impuls-ivity, self-centeredness, and many other physical and psychological psy-chological symptoms. The family fam-ily physician may sometimes help an adolescent delinquent overcome his difficulties by the 'loan' of strength and moral code. Viewed as a market for goods and services, the import- ance of agriculture in the U. S. economy is relatively as great '. today as it was 20 years ago, 1 despite the considerable decline ' in the number of farms and the farm population, according to ' the National Industrial Con-; Con-; ference Board. Farmers' pur-l pur-l chases of goods and services - have quadrupled from the 1937-! 1937-! 41 level, a gain approximately i equal to the growth in gross I national production. Board Chairman George W. Stark of the American Meat Institute predicts that closer cooperation between veterinarians veterinar-ians and producers of meat animals ani-mals could probably wipe out livestock losses which now exceed ex-ceed more than $2 billion annually. an-nually. He adds: "We read and hear much about the huge government gov-ernment budget for agriculture. But did you ever stop to think that it's not nearly as large as the preventable livestock losses from diseases and poor handling? handl-ing? Most livestock losses are man-made and could be prevented." |