Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 87, No. 94, Ed. 2 Wednesday, June 9, 1976 Page: 8 of 17
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Wednesday, June 9, 1976
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to have a choice in determining their
futures. They say 65 is an unfair and
unrealistic age since life expectancy
has increased since the 1930s. Also,
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The Census Bureau study says
that the over 65 age group is grow-
ing more rapidly than the general
population. When today's baby boom
children are ready for retirement in
the second decade of the next centu-
ry, the elderly will make up 15 per
cent of the population versus about
10.5 per cent today. The study said
this will put a tremendous strain on
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the Social Security system, a strain
that could be tempered by allowing
people to work past 65.
Three proposals are pending in
Congress to bring age into the pro-
tective categories of the Civil Rights
Act, along with sex and race; to pro-
hibit employers and others from ask-
ing an applicant's age; and to elimi-
nate 65 as the cutoff age in the Age
Discrimination in Employment Act.
An impending decision from the
U.S. Supreme Court could strike
down many state laws mandating a
fixed retirement age for certain em-
ployees. The case initially was
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Associated Press
The sun is just be(lnnlng to set in
Griffin, Ga. Thelma F. Davis has
pfiniahed tutoring her last student for
*tha day. She is 69 and has taught
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* If she had her way, she'd still be in
~the classroom.
* "Who says everyone is senile at
^65?" she said. "And if children don't
wdgvelop at the same age, then why
S,' do we asstdne all older people to be
* the same? Why do we retire people
just because they're 65?"
harry Lapow, a 67-year-old pho-
tographer and retired package de-
signer, of New York's Greenwich
Village, agrees.
"That's the end of it," he said. "All
*»thc background you have, ail the ex-
t'perieoee you have — it's Of no value.
I used to be a pretty happy guy. Now
my spirit is down, and I'm growing
bitter."
Miss Davis and Laj»w are among
the 22.4 million men and women in
the nation a recent U.S. Census Bu-
reau study says are over 65. They
are also part of the growing contro-
versy surrounding mandatory retire-
ment, and old age itself. These men
and women say they must put up
with a sea of misconceptions about
old people—misconceptions that they
are all depressed, inactive and un-
productive.
"Compulsory retirement seems to
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be superficially ahd grossly unfair,"
said Dr. Robert L. Kahn, an asso-
ciate professor of psychiatry and be-
havioral science at the University of
Chicago. "All people should cpgtinue
to contribute as long as they'aeLablc.
"But for the great majority of old-
er people, It (retirement) is * posi-
tive thing, not a negative thing. They
see it as a kind of reward because
they've worked all these years. As
long as they have enough money, a
place to live and good medical care,
then retirement can be very good."
Politicians and social scientists, as
well as gerontologists and members
of the business community continue
to argue over the fairness of a sys-
tem that ignores one's ability and
competency to get a job done well,
and instead terminates an employee
because of age. For most of working
America, the fixed age is 65, which
was established in the 1930s during
formation of Social Security.
Supporters Tnatntntn that manda-
tory retirement helps curtail the
high unemployment rate of young
people and permits the employer to
easily weed out its personnel without
having to judge work performance,
which can be difficult as well as
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workers who could not be fired, can
be eliminated from the payroll with-
out contest.
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year-old former Massachusetts state
police officer. Murgia, who then had
the rank of colonel, was retired
three years ago at 50, the compulso-
ry age for retiring state police in
Massachusetts.
A lower court ruled the state law
unconstitutional. The state appealed
the decision to the Supreme Court.
Thelma Davis, the Griffin, Ga.,
schoolteacher, also is involved in a
court proceeding.
"I love what I do, and I'm damn
good at it," she said. "If they
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In a 1974 Harris poll on the elderly
sponsored by the National Council on
the Aging. 86 per cent of the -re-
spondents to a question on mandato-
ry retirement, said people should'Mot
be forced to retire because of age.iif
they want to continue working and
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Bennett, Charles L. Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 87, No. 94, Ed. 2 Wednesday, June 9, 1976, newspaper, June 9, 1976; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1797301/m1/8/: accessed July 16, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.