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Livingston Sponsors Art In-Service Program
By Louise Reeves
Curriculum Director
On a recent Thursday after
noon the Livingston School ca
feteria was converted into a co
lorful workshop by Mrs. Mar
garet Whatley, who directed a
two- hour ART IN - SERVICE
PROGRAM for the Livingston
faculty and a representative
group of teachers from the other
Newton County Schools.
The theme of the workshop,
“Art Activities with Inexpen
sive Materials,” was highlighted
by a variety of art objects, draw
ings, paintings, and samples of
simple sculpture placed on dis
play for teachers to examine be
fore and after the program. Many
helpful suggestions for convert
ing “discarded” materials into
attractive art objects were made
by Mrs. Whatley as she demon
strated techniques of teaching
art to students at various grade
levels.
At present Mrs. Whatley is
serving as chairman of Fulton
High School’s Art Department.
She has had extensive experience
in teaching art at the elemen
tary and high school levels. Ar
rangements for securing the ser
vices of Mrs. Whatley for this
professional training were made
by Mr. Vaughn McGhee, princi
pal of the Livingston School.
Participants in the art pro
gram were Mrs. Mary Ellen
Alexander, Mrs. Charlie Mae
Bailey, J. H. Brewster, Mrs.
Juanita Clay, W. A. Foster, Miss
Jane Franklin, Dwight Hodges,
Mrs. Ina F. Hardeman, Mrs. Et
ta Miller, Mrs. Julius Johnson,
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Mrs. Lee parker, Mrs. Margaret
H. Rlsener, H. L. Ross, Mrs.
Catherine B. Slappey, Miss Diana
SmaH, Mrs. Dinah Spillers, Miss
Jeanette Thompson, and Mrs.
Dixie Turner from the Livingston
School; Miss Nevada Stevenson
and Mrs. Thelma L. Taylor,
Cousins Elementary; Mrs. Nancy
K. Jefferson, E. Newton; Mrs. J.
L. Pound and Mrs. M. A. Dial,
Flcquett School; Mrs. E. A. Hol
mes and Mrs. C. N. Hurst, Heard-
Mixon; Mrs. Katherine S. Find
lay, Mansfield; Mrs. C. S. Mit
cham, Palmer-Stone; Mrs. Oli
via Howard, Washington Street;
Mrs. Maxine Lucas, Cousins High
School; Mrs. Cassie M. Robinson,
Jeanes Curriculum Director; and
Miss Louise Reeves, Curriculum
Director.
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V. H. McGHEE, Livingston Principal, presents Mrs. Margaret
Whatley, Art Consultant, to teachers attending the te-serri.ro pro
gram.
Three Budgets For A Retired Couple
WASHINGTON—In spring 1967,
it cost a retired couple almost
$2,700 to maintain the level of
living specified in the lower
budget, roughly $3,900 to live
at the Intermediate level, and
about $6,000 to meet the
requirements of the higher
budget.”
These findings are from
“Measuring Retired Couples’
Living Costs In Urban Areas,”
an article that will appear In
the November issue of the Monthly
Labor Review. A reasearch bul
letin — Three Budgets for a
Retired Couple in Urban Areas
of the United States — will be
published later in 1969 by the
U. S. Department of Labor
Statistics.
Rising prices between spring
1967 and spring 1969 have added
about 9 percent to the cost of goods
and services required to sustain
the retired couples.
Lower and higher budgets for
a retired couple are now available
for the first time. The
intermediate budget (formerly the
moderate budget) is a sequel to
the retired couple’s budget,
autumn 1966, which was published
in June 1968.
The budgets have been
developed to meet the needs
of public assistance agencies,
voluntary social and welfare
agencies, businesses, labor
unions, and individuals concerned
with retirement planning.
The retired couple is defined
as a husband, age 65 or over,
and his wife, self-supporting,
living independently in a separate
dwelling, and enjoying reasonable
good health.
The budgets are based on the
manner of living and consumer
choices of thel96o’s. They permit
the couple to maintain its health
and well-being, and to participate
In community activities. The
goods and services were selected
as followe: nutritional and health
standards, as determined by
experts, were used for the food
at-home and housing components.
However, the selection among the
various kinds of foods and housing
arrangements were based on
actual choices made by families
as revealed by surveys of
consumer expenditures. In the
absence of standards, the choices
reported in the BLS Survey of
Consumer Expenditures were
used for housefurnishings, house
hold operation, clothing, personal
care, reading, recreation, meals
away from home, and alcoholic
beverages.
The style of living provided
by the lower budget differs from
the intermediate and higher levels
in this manner: A smaller
proportion of couples own their
homes, dwelling units lack air
conditioning, couples rely more
on public transportation, they
perform more services for
themselves, and they make
greater use of free recTMteoe
facilities.
By contrast, the higter boipM
assumes the largest proportion of
homeowners, provides new cars
for some couples, allows more
household appliances and
equipment, and more paid
services than at the intermediate
level.
Also, a majority of the items
common to the three budgets
are in greater quantity and of
better quality at each higher level
of living.
Total budget costs in urban
United States in spring 1967
averaged $2,671 at the lower level,
$3,857 at the intermediate, and
$6,039 at the higher.
Comsumption items — food,
housing, transportation, clothing,
personal care, medical care, and
other family consumption in the
lower budget cost $2,556. In
addition, an allowance for gifts
and contributions amounted to
slls.
The Intermediate budget
required $3,626 for consumption
items plus $231 for gifts and con
tributions, while the higher budget
needed $5,335 for goods and
services and $398 for gifts and
contributions. Additional al
lowances are made in the high
budget of s7l for life Insurance
premiums and $235 for personal
taxes.
FOOD
Total food costs at spring 1967
prices averaged $789 fprtje lower
budget, $1,048 for the inter
mediate, and $1,285 for the higher.
Os total food costs in the lower
budget, $735 was for food at
home. Compared with the two
higher budgets, the lower food
allowance calls for larger
quantities of potatoes, dry beans
and peas, flour and cereal, and
smaller quantities of meat, and
poultry and fish.
The family also has an
allowance of $54 which permits
them to enjoy a restaurant meal
about once a month.
In the intermediate budget, food
for home consumption cost $937
and restaurant meals and
snacks —$111. At the top level
the couples required $1,115
for food consumed at home, and
$l7O for meals outside the home.
HOUSING
Urban U. S. housing costs
ranged from $939 In the lower
budget to $2,066 in the higher
level. The middle group housing
costs amounted to $1,330.
Shelter —the major expense in
the housing total-required an
average annual outlay of $704 for
the lower budget, $849 for the
intermediate, and $l,lBB for the
higher level. These amounts are
based on the average costs for
rented and owned dwellings.
Rental housing which had 2 or
3 rooms were specified for 40
percent of the couples at the lower
level, 35 percent of the middle
level, and 30 percentof the higher
level couples. The renters’ cost
Included rent plus estimated costs
of fuel and utilities, where these
were not part of the rent, and
Insurance on household effects.
The majority of the families
at all budget levels lived in 5-
or 6-room mortgage-free homes.
Typical homeowner costs for
these couples include taxes,
Insurance, fuel and utilities, and
routine repair and maintenance
charges. The higher budget
provides for greater utility usage
and a larger repair and
maintenance allowance than the
intermediate and lower budgets.
TRANSPORTATION
Transportation costs stepped
up from sl9l at the lower budget
level to $382 for the intermediate,
and $682 for the higher. These
allowances provide for ownership
and operation of an automobile
for some of the couples at each
budget level—except for lower
budget families in Boston,
Chicago, New York, and
Philadelphia who rely on public
transit.
The budget level and city size
determined whether couples
owned an automobile and
how much they patronized public
transit. In the lower budget it
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MRS. WHATLEY compliments group of teachers who served as her
class in printing during the workshop.
was assumed that car owners
bragtt 6-year-old cars,
it re: ~ eiist e group owners bought
cars as did4spercent
■ ' badMt couples, the
parciase of a new car was
CLOTHING
AND PERSONAL CARE
Clothing costs —replacement of
the clothing, and materials and
services—averaged $134 for the
lower budget couple. The
intermediate budget couple
needed $234 and the higher $371,
at spring 1967 prices.
The clothing allowances for
husband and wife were about the
same in the lower and
intermediate gudgets. At the
higher level, however, the wife’s
allowance averaged about S2O
more than the husband’s.
Personal care costs moved
from SB3 for the lower budget
to $123 for the intermediate, and
to $l7B for the higher budget.
These costs constituted about 3
percent of the total family
consumption for the three
budgets.
The lower budget couple
required $294 to cover its total
medical costs for a year. This
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was only $2 less than the
intermediate budget couple’s
$296, and $5 less than the top
level cost of $299. Although
there Is only a $5 difference
between the lower and the higher
allowances, in the lower budget
medical costs accounted for 12
percent of total family con
sumption, compared with only 6
percent of family consumption for
the higher budget.
The medical care costs include
hospital and medical insurance
provided by the Federal Medicare
program. Also Included in the
costs are eye examinations and
eye glasses, drugs, and a physical
checkup for Medicare enrollees
not using Medicar services within
a year.
OTHER COMSUMPTION
In the lower budget, “other
consumption”—reading, recrea
tion, tobacco, alcohol, and
miscellaneous expenses—cost
$126. For these same items,
the intermediate budget required
$213 while the higher budget
totaled $454.
At the lower level, the largest
single cost in “other con
sumption” was reading ($46),
while at the intermediate
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EFFECTIVE USE of “discarded” cardboard for art activities de
monstrated by Mrs. Whatley.
and higher levels, costs for rec
reatlon--$Bl and $256, re
spectively—accounted for the
largest portions of the item.
Tobacco—cigars or pipes—and
alcohol allowances are part of
“other consumption” costs. No
allowance was made for
cigarettes in view of the findings
of the U. S. Public Health Service
concerning the effects of cigarette
smoking on health.
LIVING COST DIFFERENCES
AMONG CITIES
The new budgets provide a wide
variety of total budget costs and
comparative living cost indeses
(tables 1-6) for major categories
of consumer goods and services.
All indexes relate to costs for
families established in the areas.
They do not measure differences
in costs incurred by recent ar
rivals in the community.
Within each budget, the
intercity indexes reflect dif
ferences among areas in price
levels, climatic or regional dif
ferences in the quantities
and types of items required to
provide the specified level of
living, and differences in State
and local taxes.
The annual cost of the lower
budget in spring 1967 amounted
to $3,110 in Honolulu and $2,334
in small Southern cities. In
relative terms, with U. S. urban
average costs equal to 100, this
constitutes a range of 87 to 116,
or 33 percent. For the other two’
budgets, Honolulu families spent
$4,429 for the intermediate and
$7,219 for the higher. In small
Southern cities, families
Thursday, November 27, 1969
averaged $3,222 for the middle
budget and $4,827 for the higher.
Os the mainland cities,
the lower and intermediate
budgets total costs were highest
in Hartford—s3,o22 and $4,343,
respectively. The highest cost
mainland city for the higher
budget was Boston—s7,l9B.
For all three budgets, food,
rental shelter, and transportation
were most expensive in Honolulu,
medical care in Los Angeles, and
clothing in Portland, Maine. The
cost of homeownership was higher
in New York for the lower and
middle budgets and in Boston
for the higher budget.
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Che Bible
And be renewed in the
spirit of your minds. —(Eph.
4:23).
Everything we do is done
with a certain attitude and a
certain set of ideas governing
our actions and reactions. By
becoming conscious of the
ideas and attitudes we hold,
we become aware of what has
limited us as well as of what
has been a blessing to us. To
day, let us concentrate on ap
plying fresh, new and inter
esting ideas to each situation
and discover rich blessings.