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RETIRING TO OZARKS? A REPORT ON COSTS
I_TERE is information on what
* 1 it would cost you to retire
to the Ozarks.
This information was obtained
from a questionnaire sent to re
tired people in the area by the
Oz.arks Playgrounds Association
of Joplin, Mo.
The area with which the As
sociation is concerned covers
Northern Arkansas, Southwest
Missouri and Northeast Oklahoma.
The following data was obtained
from a town which seems typical
of this area—Berryville. Ark.
Q What is the usual retirement
income?
A $2,500 a year.
Q Do the people find living
costs cheaper here than where
they lived before retiring?
A. Some canned items are
higher, but many are the same
Professional services are cheaper
however, and in many cases
vastly cheaper. Taxes and labor
are generally lower.
Q What is the cost of a lake
lot. a rural lot and a city lot?
A A lake lot averages around
$750 Rural lots on or near county
roads run SSO to $l5O an acre
higher on U.S. highways. City
lots cost from SSOO to $1,500
Q What are the building costs
per square foot?
A. Seven dollars to ten dollars
complete with utilities, heating
system and kitchen appliances.
Q. Are rental houses available?
A. A few nre available at an
average rent of SSO a month.
(Other towns in the area reported
rents of $75 a month for a three
bedroom cottage >
The retired people in Berry
ville buy local produce like fruit
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t and vegetables in season, and
: milk, butter, and eggs all year
round. Many have deep freeze
I units for vegetables they buy or
■ raise and for meats, fish and
• game. Quite a few have pressure
i cookers and do considerable
canning.
According to this survey, there
is a minimum charge for elec
tricity of $1.50 a month in town
with the average bill being about
$5. Rural users pay an average
of $7 a month.
Drilling costs for well run $2
per foot in the area. In some
places 100 feet would be adequate
and in others several hundred
feet might be necessary. A sep
tic tank averages slls complete.
The tax rate is complicated, as
it usually is, but a banker esti
mated that the overall tax on a
$15,000 house (a modern three
bedroom job) would be about $l5O
to S2OO a year. A SIO,OOO home
with furniture and appliances,
and an automobile, would be
taxed about $75 to $125 a year.
Some jobs are available in the
Ozarks but the survey indicates
that you have a better chance if
you can build a house or dig a
vzell than if you are a SIO,OOO-a
--year consultant.
Medical costs are generally
lower than in the big towns, also.
These figures seem to reflect
living costs in the Ozarks, as I
know them. You must realize, of
course, that just around the cor
ner from anywhere the figures
might be higher or lower.
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By C. A. Dean, .M. D.
MFIIITORIAL: Care of the aged
is a point of great dispute, in and
out of government circles. As you
might suspect, my recent article
on the subject provoked much
debate among my readers, if I
can judge from my mail. But I
think there is some misunder
standing of my position, which I
hope to clear up.
Mr. J. K., aged 90. is represen
tative of the dissenters. He wrote.
“You say the family should care
for us oldsters. What if you have
none? I receive a small pension,
for my wife and myself, and it
isn’t enough. All I want is medical
and housing help and you, for
one, are against it. Why not sug
gest a firing squad? Or let them
commit suicide. It’s too bad we
old people have to read something
like this in the newspaper.”
If Mr. .1. K. would reread my
column he would find, contrary
to what he thinks, my endorse
ment of medical care for the aged.
Alsu, I didn’t say the family alone
should do the job, hut that it
was an “Individual, family prob
lem.” And a problem it is!
The one thing I disagree with is
the government’s assumption of
this role. I still think this should
be done on a private basis, both
by the individual’s preparation
for old age (through savings, in
surance, pensions) and by the
family.
Further, if outside help is to be
given it should come at the local
level, from hospital clinics, local
public health facilities and the
like and through private health
insurance.
I certainly don’t mean to imply
that I have all the answers to this
problem because I don’t. Many
others, wiser than I. are wrestling
with it and they have no definite
solution. I hope it won’t be too
long, however, before they do.
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'T'HE indefatigable Joe E.
* Brown, clown prince of three
decades, was in town recently,
playing stock theatre in "Father
of the Bride” and appearing as
guest of honor for the Kiwanis
Club’s “Zoo Day,” we had an
opportunity to talk to him and
specifically get his ideas on tele
vision ... He had just finished a
pilot film on a situation comedy
show but startled us by an
nouncing emphatically that he
hoped it would fall through . . .
He was, he said, not too happy
about doing a series such as had
been proposed . . . Between
signing autographs for a few
hundred children, he indicated
that he had his own idea for tele
vision and it did not include a
family series.
CAPlTOL:—Remember the De-
Castros? The three, once cute
little girls, are now three young ,
ladies, which just goes to prove
time does fly . . . The trio has a
great hi-fi album out that's lovely,
lively and very Latin . . . With
background by Billy May they
cut out with “The Trolley Song," '
“Love Letters,” “Flores Negras,”
“Manana,” “Careless," "Tiger
Rag.” "At Last,” "Always” and
other favorites of yesteryear and
yesterday.
Pretty Susan Barrett, new to
Capitol, makes an auspicious de
but with "A Little Travelin’ Mus
ic” which, as it denotes, has to
do with songs containing state
names—such as "Georgia On My 1
Mind,” “Moonlight in Vermont,”
"Pennsylvania Polka.” "Beauti
ful Ohio.” “Mississippi Mud,”
“Carolina In the Morning” and
"California. Here I Come” . . .
This girl is a jazz comer.
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Sallie Spencer at Silver Springs,
Fla., holds on to that rope as
though a sudden wind might
blow her away. Many would
hope that it would be in their
direction.
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WORLD OUTDOORS
.X .By MIKE BENNETT,\ \
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* hot weather with top water
lures.”
Bait casters who chase the elu
sive bass in every section of the
country have heard this remark
from one time to another. The ex
perts who make this remark are
operating under the pretty fair
theory that fish go deep during
hot weather and that, to catch
them, the angler has to get his
lures down deep, too.
There’s always room for argu
ment where fishing is concerned,
so this writer takes it upon him
self to differ with the above state
ment. Maybe you can’t catch bass
on top water lures in July and
August with the frequency that
you can take them on toppers
during May or September—but it
can be done.
Witness to this the writer has
returned from a trip to Grenada
Lake, Mississippi, which ranks
as the top bass spot in the nation.
It was hot and dry, even for Mis
sissippi and water was being
gradually released from this flood
control impoundment—two factors
which should have worked to the
detriment of top water fishing.
Maybe somebody forgot to tell
the fish. Six men, using only top
water lures—the popping type—
in three days of fishing brought
in a string of three to six pound
largemouths.
Os course, the big ones didn’t
come easy. Fish were not raised
with the frequency that casting of
the same waters would probably
produce during cooler weather
and better water conditions. Per
haps more fish would have been
taken if the anglers had used
underwater lures. But, such is
speculation. The truth of the mat
ter is probably that the top water
lures, with their surface com
motion, brought the fish to the
lure, whereas it would have been
necessary for the caster to put
the underwater, and more silent,
lure directly to the fish.
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been dating a certain girl. She is
a very nice girl and I like her a
lot. When I told my mother that
I was going to ask this girl to go
steady with me, my mother said
that I was too young to go steady
and that she didn’t want to be a
grandmother before her time. I
know right from wrong and all I
want is to go steady with a nice
girl. My question: Am I too young
to go steady?”
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a direct answer such as, ‘‘Yes,
at 17, going on 18, you are old
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enough to go steady.” There are
too many other questions that
would have to be considered.
There is no “right” time to start
going steady, chronologically
speaking, just as there is no cer
tain age when one should get
married. People sometimes say
to a girl, “You’re 21—it’s time
you started thinking about getting
married.” Or, they say the same
thing to a man after he turns
away from 21. It is interesting to
note, however, that there is no
“right time” . . . insofar as many
parents are concerned. To them,
their darling child is too young to
get married—until one day the
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darling child, still a child, is too
‘ old and set in his (or her) ways”
to get married.
But, going steady is something
else again. Parents as a rule don’t
like to see their children go steady
because they believe that this will
lead to an early marriage. They do
everything possible to keep their
children from going steady for this
reason. There are no statistics to
provide the basis for argument,
but it is certain that the majority
of teenagers go steady several
times before they get married.
Some of course, never do. They
play the field and suddenly, to the
surprise of all, they suddenly
marry.
There is nothing wrong with
going steady and the wise parent
should prefer to see her son going
steady with a nice girl rather
than spending a lot of time with
girls about whom she knows
■ nothing. The time for a parent to
: become concerned is when a teen
■ ager too young to undertake such
; a deep responsibility begins to
i talk of marriage rather than
। going steady.
If you have a teenage problem you
want to discuss, or an observation to
make, address your letter to FOR
> AND ABOUT TEENAGERS. NATION
AL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER SERV
; ICE, FRANKFORT, KY.