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Show losf money creates problem An item of interest came to the attention of Springville Bank officials this week in the matter of the huge amount of money lost each year. A national survey shows that occur to fewer than nine in 16 but in the 21 to 29 age group, the losses occur to one in eight! Temptations The woman who puts her handbag down in a department store while examining merchandise merchan-dise is creating the hazard of an accidental loss as well as an incentive to any thieves who may be "working" that area. A man who keeps currency at home in his bureau drawer risks its loss through misplacement or fire as well as through pilferage pil-ferage or burglary. Women who carry their handbags in a negligent manner, man-ner, or who use handbags that are both fashionable and easy for a professional to rifle, create cre-ate incentives to criminals. Men can be equally negligent in safeguarding their wallets. Some stuff them with cards and papers so they bulge and can be seen through the clothing; cloth-ing; others carry them in the hip pocket, or insinctively pat the place where their cash is kept to see that it is safe. These procedures are among the common com-mon signals that pickpockets are able to read. Travelers who are not familiar fam-iliar with foreign languages or currencies when they go abroad sometimes risk being short- a a single year mrougnout tne country, lost money amounts to $700,000,000. The survey disclosed dis-closed that more than 92 million mil-lion adults experienced losses of cash in a single year which amounted to approximately $75 fa individual. The role of carelessness on the part of individuals and the activity of certain types of petty pet-ty criminals, are factors which merit more attention than they lave received in the past, it is pointed out. Often losses of cash are treated as trivial matters mat-ters or the individual is silent because of embarrassing circumstances. cir-cumstances. The recent survey makes available for the first time, the huge amount lost and the large dimension of the problem. prob-lem. About equal On the whole, men and women wo-men are found to be about equal in the frequency of cash loss experience, but there are interesting variations based on differences of age, occupation and education. Oddly enough, those who are most favored oc-mpationally oc-mpationally and educationally, lave the least favorable loss record with their cash. College educated men and women seem most loss-prone. More than one out of every six bad a loss during the year. Proportionately, Pro-portionately, losses are experienced exper-ienced among them more than Wee as frequently as among Srammar school educated people, peo-ple, and a little less than twice as frequently compared with liose having only high school education. As to occupational variations, toe largest loss frequency is to be found in professional and tasiness segments of the populations. popu-lations. The aged seem the least Prone to lose their cash, while "e youthful seem to have the Peatest loss frequency. In the W-and-over age bracket, losses 11 hospital Waldo Jackson underwent jor surgery last week and Recuperating at Utah Valley MSDital |