OCR Text |
Show STATISTICS ON OLD AGE PENSION BOISE (Idaho News Bureau) Maybe women are the ste,rner sex after all at least they fall behind men in applications for old age pensions, although statistics show women usually live longer than men. During the month of July, ac. cording to a statistical report of the state dvision of public assistance, assis-tance, 1474 person were accepted to be placed on the rolls. Of this total 946 we,re men, 52S were women. wom-en. There were 131 single men to 19 single women; 73 divorced men and only 24 divorced women; 50 "separated" men and 19 separated women; 440 married men and only 80 married women. In one category only we,re there more women than menin the class of widowed, where there were l 252 men and 3S6 women. |