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Facts turned op at health meet:.. . . * State has fewer aged persons; 80 pet. will die from disease By MARTHA ADAMS An Institute on Nutrition for the Chronically 111 and the Aged at the UNC School of Public j Health has turned up some little j known facts about the elderly. The young people of the Unit ed States are bearing an increas-1 ing load of oldsters every year, j however, the southern states have a lighter load than most.! reported Dr. Bernard Greenberg. UNC professor of Biostatistics. In North Carolina only about five per cent of the population is over 65. In the country as a whole it is nine per cent, and in some New England states it rises as high as 10 or 11 per cent. The southern states are experiencing an explosion in the younger pop ulation which compensates foi the increasing ranks of the aged The number of old people re quiring long hospitalization for chronic diseases before death has increased startlingly in the last half century. Four out of five can now expect their lives to terminate in a lingering disease, according to Dr. George M% War ner, director of the Bureau of Adult Health and Geriatics, New York State Health Department. In 1900 only two out of five faced this kind of death. Modern science has done little toward increasing the life expect ancy of persons already over 50, UNC’s Dr. Greenberg also said Only one year for men and three years for women have been add ed since the 1930’s whereas great gains have been made for the younger age group during the same period. Your chances of reaching 60 are better than they have ever been, but after that you are nol much better off than your grand parents were. Any change in this situation will depend on medical developments in the degenera tive diseases of heart disease and cancer which together carry off about 80 per cent of the olde/ population. UNC student welcome is set next Wednesday by local businessmen % Chapel Hill merchants ^will ex tend their traditional wlcome to new University students next Wednesday, Sept. 13. Students will be showered with gifts ranging from ball point pens to merchandise certificates. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Mer chants Association will present each student with a shopping bag to hold all his “loot.” Several special contests will be held during the day. Each, stu dent who stops at the Merchants Association booth will receive a numbered card. If he finds his number on another card in a store window he will receive a $10 gift certificate redeemable in merchandise at any member store. Ten certificates will be awarded. Radio Station WCHL also plans to broadcast several mystery voices, taped in downtown stores Students who identify their voic es on the radio station will re ceive $10 gift certificates. Photographer Bill Sparrow of Town and Country Studio will take candid photographs of stu dents between 10 a m. and 5 p.m. They will be published in the Daily Tar Heel for special recog nition. Bob Cox and Howard Yandle are co-chairmen of the Student Welcome Committee. Other mem bers are Jim Heavner, Billy But ler, and Bill Sparrow, and Gas ton Caperton of the University. FRIDAY NIGHT-SEPT. 8 BACK THE WILDCATS! HILLSBORO vs NORTHERN 8 P.M. - ORANGE SPEEDWAY STADIUM MAIL YOUR CLASSIFIED AD--CUP AND USE HANDY FORM BELOW BUSINESS REPLY ENVELOPE & «» 55 T3 3 a AV"- * Chapel Hill, N. Name _ Address CLASSIFIED MAIL ORDER BLANK -Advertise before 25,000 readers for iust four cents a word ------Telephone No._ Print your complete classified ad below, using one word for each space. Minimum charge is $1.00 for 25 words or less. Saving of 20 per cent is offered for five consecu tive insertions. Charges may be calculated in the table at the right. STOP YOUR AD AS SOON AS YOU GET RESULTS. YOU WILL BE BILLED ONLY FOR THE NUMBER OF TIMES THE AD RUNS. Simply fold over the classified ad blank on the dotted lines, seal it at the top of the address form with a staple or cellophane tape, and put in the mail—it's postpaid. Single Insertion Rate 1.00 1.20 1.40 UO 1.80 2.00 2.20 2.40 Five Consecutive Insertions 4.00 4.80 5.60 6.40 7.20 8.00 8.80
The News of Orange County (Hillsborough, N.C.)
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