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Show MqAj Cuave Since most elderly people are retired, most do have lower aver- age incomes. In 1986, median income for families beaded by someone 65 and older was $19,932, about 62 percent of that for families beaded by someone 25 to 64. The Senate Special Committee on Aging in 1985 reported a median income of $20,354 for families with a 65- - to head, $16,412 for those headed by 75-- to and $15,111 for 85 and over. With less cash, the elderly tend to spend a bigger percentage of their budget on food, housing and health care than do younger peo LA Elderly Income! Married ca of elder households owned their home while 25 percent rented. Males were more likely to own their homes than were females. And those over age 75 were more likely to rent The elderly tended to occupy older homes, 36 percent living in houses built before 1940, compared to 21 percent of younger people. The 1983 Annual Housing Survey found 10 percent of the homes occupied by the elderly with some serious flaw in such Percent of Elderly Below Poverty Level im 12.4 people 65 years and over All 15.2 1 in Women. 65 1 7.6 All 1 7.9 Nonmetropolitan, people. 85 Women $5,253 Ju) $8,122 21 .6 $6,993 Central city poverty areas, 65 Hispanics, 65 Jj47j Men $8,867 Less than eight years ot school, 65 28.9 Black, 65 Social Security is only income, 65 31 .0 Black, no work in '85, illdisabled. 65 j Source. Aging America $7,826 APH. Yarrinjton Source: Aging America lived cates for the elderly have to squeeze more money out of the State for the benefit of senior citizens. Norma Giles Thomas, Provo, a member of the legislative committee of the American Association of Retired Persons, is the other panelist. Mrs. Thomas will also discuss ways of approaching the Legislature, with emphasis on getting larger appropriations for services to the elderly. Homer C. Chandler, executive director of the Mountainland Association of Governments (MAG), will moderate the panel. The symposium is jointly sponsored by MAG and the City of Orem Senior Citizens Friendship Center. It will be held at that facility located at 400 E. 100 N. Funding for the training is provided under contract with the Utah Department of Social Services, the aging and adult services division. Staff and volunteers from various social service and nutrition agencies are expected to attend from Summit, Utah and Wasatch Counties. While the symposium is intended for professional staff, the public is welcome, according to Ted Livingston, director of the MAG department of aging and adult services. Livingston concluded that the session would be a good opportunity for elderly residents to meet Senator McAllister, and tell them of their needs and concerns. There is no charge for attending the symposium. ky r Clayton-Clarkesvill- different 62 and Over 'jlVlilJMl n said. 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Fayetteville, Ark. I "Rand McNally's Retirement 6. Saint George-ZioPlaces Rated." Utah ' 7. Brownsville-Harlinge- n, Selections were based on money Texas S. Bloomington-Brow- n matters, climate, personal safety, County, ... services, housing and leisure living. Ind. 9. San Antonio, Texas 1. Murray-KentucLake, Ky. 10. Port Angeles-Stra- it 2. Ga. of Juan de 3. Hot Springs-Lak- e . r Ouachita, Fuca, Wash. hands. Before eating anything, the raccoon first washes the food in the nearest available water. Lake-Lak- 1967 Utah State Senator LeRay McAllister of Orem will join a member of a prominent lobbying group on Wednesday, Sept. 13 as a panelist in a training symposium. The senator will describe the appropriation process followed by the Utah Legislature, and is expected to assess the chances that advo- APiH. Yarringlon am I doing in the midst of this wilderness of New Mexico? But listen, you can hear the ghosts of the people who were living here." Scheeler has edited weekly newspapers, served in the Peace Corps in Honduras in 1985 and in the Christian Appalachian Project in Kentucky in 1987. Now she's in Alaska cooking at a camp for handicapped children. Historian Eugene P. Link, 81, and his wife, Beulah, 77, of Pittsburgh, N.Y., stay here eveiy winter. Link, author of dozens of articles, pamphlets and books on social history, worked on galley revisions of his fourth book while at Gran Quivira the last two winters. "If you go up almost any time of the day to see the pueblo, it's an extraordinary privilege," Mrs. Link said in a telephone interview. "The vistas are just incredible. You're by yourself, and you can think. You can identify with all the people who have Ark By Tbe Associated Press 4. Grand Here are the nation's top 10 places to retire, according to the Okla. 2,598,960 63.7 Page ES State Senator Rand McNally picks St. Goortjp ono of top-1- 0 placos to rotiro to addroGS oldorly status From a normal deck of cards, it's possible to deal 45.8" Black women living alone, 72 Abandoned pueblo lures retirees to its vast vista By RICHARD BENKE Associated Press Writer GRAN QUIVIRA, N.M. (AP) -Hilltop ruins here may not be the fabled city of gold sought by conmost of quistadors, but voyagers lured by nuggets them retirees of history and mystery still occupy Gran Quivira. Gran Quivira, part of Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument, holds a spiritual treasure for them. The pueblo originally called Cueloze was given its present name in 1780 a century after it was abandoned after Indians near El Paso, Texas, told a Spanish chronicler it was Coronado's lost city of gold. Archaeologists believe up to 10,-0people lived in the area. Scholars aren't sure why they left but National Park Service pamphlets suggest drought, starvation, Spanish cruelty, disease and Apache raids all played a role. Centuries of wind have eroded the adobe, leaving walls of stacked rocks on the brushy hilltop 60 miles south of Albuquerque. "The silence up here: It's not a leaden silence. It's a silence that speaks to me," says Anne Scheeler, a widow from Lakeland, Minn., who completed her first stint as a volunteer this spring. "What 65 Living Alone, 26.8 $12,265 65 Widowed women, 65 22.5 $7,000 hs ft V no work in 1985 65, 13.8 three-fourt- areas as plumbing, electrical, structure and heating. POVERTY AND AGE Widowed Divorced E223 ES3 Single homes. In 1985, ple. Even so, business now views the elderly as a market segment of growing importance, and has begun targeting products and advertising. Another place where the elderly have attracted attention is the voting booth. More than one in five voters in the 19S6 congressional elections was 65 and over. While 46 percent of all eligible voters went to the polls, 65.1 percent of those 65 to 74 voted, the most of any population segment. The Senate committee found that most older people are adequately housed, although some have problems finding affordable Median income of persons . : 65 years and older by sex and marital status In 1986 CD top DEneoinne THE HERALD, Provo. Utah, 10, 1989 Sunday, September Guiier's i. 11, OW People .aaa M aa Are bqym Y SEE THEY RE NOT MAKING about THE 0 A SECRET EYE INSTITUTE OF UTAH. We've found that will s.isfu-i- patient tells at least one friend who tells another. That's how we've loine to care for more than I 1.(10(1 people w ho needed iat.ir.ut l surgery. 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