NOT TOO OLD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 June 1942, Page 4

NOT TOO OLD

AT SIXTY AND & WELL BEYOND, SOME AMERICAN EXAMPLES. It is not so very long ago that we made up our minds that people of 60 should stop working, and that at 65 they should be pensioned. But that was before the war began. A 61-year-old grandmother from New York City has flown her seaplane on to a naval reservation and has asked for service —for her and the plane —in the Civil Air Patrol; a 71-year-old man from Utica, N.Y., has taken a leaf from the lady’s book and is receiving flying lessons; in Cordele, Ga., a hold-up man pulled a pistol on a 72-year-old housewife, but she took it from him, whacked him over the head with it and knocked him out. In Jericho, Ark., a 75-year-old man is taking high school over again as a refresher; in Denver, a man of 78 fell twenty-five feet out of a tree, got up, brushed himself off and walked away, grinning. A lady of 80 and a gentleman of the same age have secured a license to wed in Los Angeles; in Teaneck, N.J., an 85-year-old man walked fifty-five miles without a stop; in Rockford, 111., a man celebrated his ninety-third birthday by doing his usual eight-hour hitch in a metal fabricating plant. ■Wasn’t it Mr Hitler who called us “softies”?—Chicago Sun.