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• *" j.V : A •CTHWWf *w jV-. fXcj PLAINDEALER - PAGE 18 - WEDNE8DAY. JULY each year •** ii AIM'S help i AIM» special retirement planning seminar is being used by mijcnKCorpontions, government agencies, col- leges and universities, and professinaal groups fdr4heir employees or members. \ In to their many programs, the associations offer a number of services to individual members, includ­ ing bi-monthly • magazines and monthly News Bulle­ tins, the nation's largest pri­ vate non-profit pharmacy service (which nils more than 4,000,000 prescriptions annually by ••mail") and a nationwide discount program. But perhaps the most im­ portant ana valuable task performed by NRTA and AARP is the creation of a new, more positive, attitude by the society toward aging. Hundreds of thousands of NRTA and AARP mem­ bers also serve as individuals in numerous community service projects such as Meah-on-Wheels and in govwnmeikt «»** such as the Foster Orandparent «mi Retired -Sfifrr Volun­ teer Program. ' The associations also sup­ ported research designed to improve the quality of life for older Americans--now and in the future. Members contributed bSd the* AMhSnOmnŜ ogy Center at the University ot Southern California as a memorial to the founder. After the center was dedi­ cated in 1973, the NRTA- AARP Andrus Foundation was established to promote research in social gerontol­ ogy. By the end of last year, the foundation had provided 33 research grants totaling $807347 to 16 colleges and universities. A division of AARP, Ac­ tion for Independent Matur­ ity (AIM), has pioneered in the field of pre-retirement planning. With more titan 300,000 members between st Association are i a new activist iden- :or older persons persons living on meafl retirement incomes. She launched a mttth nationwide campaign to j grade the shamefully sat pfnfVtnf being paid to teachers in return 1 yean of service. And in 1956, she a ceeded in a nine-year stfi gk to obtain die first git insurance policy si written for older persons the U.S. Prior to that til an older person could i purchase adequate hei care protection anyhere the countty. The 10-million-member AARP--the nation's largest 'ifftftiri-- organization -- con­ tinues 4o grow at a rate of men than lOipO new front of efforts to bring htfflfh insur­ ance for aO Americans, re­ form of Social Security and Medfcire, a Consumer Pro- - tection Agency, and im- j. proved housing and trans- f portationprograms througb- t; out the nation. With a legislative staff in Washington. D.C., and vol­ unteer legislative commit­ tees in all 50 steles and the District of Columbia, the associations provide older Americans with a vigorous voice on issues affecting their welfare. X Another priority of the two associations is commu- I nity service. The more than I 2,500 AARP chapters and I 2,000 NRTA units through- I out the country undertake a I wide range of worthwhile community service projects Its sister organisation, NRTA, has more than 500,000 members -- about out of every three re­ tired educators in the U.S. belong to NRTA. . Both groups were found­ ed -- NRTA in 1947 and AARP U years later -- by a dynamic California edu­ cator, Dr. Ethel Percy Andrus, who devoted more than a quarter century of her "retirement" years to Hailed bfH.E.W. Her success in obtaining health insurance was hailed by the U.S. Department of Health, Education and WW- *Old a|e a victory* As Dr. Andrus wrote prior to her death in 1967: "We have demonstrated that old age is not a defeat but a victory, not a punishment but a privilege. We have be­ come social innovators. We have proved that the leisure of the elderly can become a many-splendored thing." CONSOLES ILNUT HAMPERS mm VELVET COLORED TOPS REG *3.49 RE6 *27.95 |LTJ Featuring 1̂1̂ ZENITH POWER SENTRY SYSTEM 10 QT PLASTIC PAIL WITH SPONGES, SPONGE MITT i POLISH CI0IN REG *2.98 $1 79 GALLON STYROFOAM POUR SPOUT PICNIC JUG REG *2.98 $179 72" x 27" AIR MATTRESS • H252SE The LINCOLNSHIRE ELECTRONIC GUARD TUNING •f SYSTEM One-Knob VHF and UHF Channel Selection. Featuring ^̂ ^MLOR SBHTRV " ANY • the automatic picturG control system. ependable Zenith quality • - • -K **. • -7K ,• "K .Tr '.I * through and through! ELECTRIC CHARCOAL LIGHTER RABBIT GUARD FENCE Z8 inchcs high by 50 feet REG'3.49 REG *11.99 u J rv