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LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE

UNITED STATES SENATE

EIGHTY-SIXTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

43350

PART 3. PITTSBURGH, PA.

OCTOBER 23, 1959

Printed for the use of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare

UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1960

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SUBCOMMITTEE ON PROBLEMS OF THE AGED AND AGING
PAT MCNAMARA, Michigan, Chairman

JOHN F. KENNEDY, Massachusetts
JOSEPH S. CLARK, Pennsylvania
JENNINGS RANDOLPH, West Virginia

EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN, Illinois
BARRY GOLDWATER, Arizona

SIDNEY SPECTOR, Staff Director
HAROLD L. SHEPPARD, Research Director

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de Benneville, Mrs. Alice K., executive director, Visiting Nurse Associa-
tion of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania...

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Prepared statement__

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Fulton, Hon. James G., a Congressman from Pennsylvania, prepared
statement__.

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Marguriet, Daniel, president, district council No. 6, VERMWA, Swissvale,
Pa., prepared statement..

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Miller, Mrs. Gilbert, director, senior citizens program, Irene Kaufman
Settlement and Centers, Pittsburgh, Pa...

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Prepared statement..

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Moorhead, Hon. William S., a Congressman from the State of Pennsylvania__

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Prepared statement..

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Moss, Celia A., director, home care program, Montefiore Hospital, prepared statement.

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Naylon, Mrs. Lilly E., Pennsylvania Nurses Association..

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Prepared statement..

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O'Brien, James C., assistant to the chairman, Committee on Retired
Workers, prepared statement--

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Pine, Mrs. Lora B., assistant executive director, Allegheny County Board of Public Assistance, Pittsburgh_.

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Prepared statement-

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Pollak, Otto, professor of sociology, University of Pennsylvania, prepared

statement.

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Rothman, Mrs. Samuel, president, National Council of Jewish Women, prepared statement.

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Shirk, Elliott M., executive director, Pennsylvania Fair Employment
Practice Commission_..

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Prepared statement_

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Stetin, Sol, vice president, Textile Workers Union of America, AFL-CIO..
Prepared statement____

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Trinkaus, G. B., manager, group department, Aetna Life Insurance Co.,
Pittsburgh, Pa., prepared statement..

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Tronzo, Alfred L., administrator, Housing Authority of City of Pittsburgh_
Prepared statement..

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Waldman, Arthur, executive director, Home for the Jewish Aged, Philadelphia, Pa.

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AGED AND AGING IN THE UNITED STATES

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1959

U.S. SENATE,

SUBCOMMITTEE ON PROBLEMS OF THE AGED AND AGING OF THE COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE, Pittsburgh, Pa. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10 a.m., in city council chamber, City-County Building, Pittsburgh, Pa., Senator Joseph S. Clark presiding.

Present: Senator Clark, presiding.

Subcommittee staff member present: Sidney Spector, staff director. Committee staff member present: Raymond Hurley, minority professional staff member.

Also present: James Sundquist, administrative assistant to Senator Clark, Irma Ehrman, assistant to Senator Clark.

Senator CLARK. The subcommittee will be in session.

This is the second grassroots hearing of the Subcommittee on the Problems of the Aged and Aging. Its chairman is Senator Pat McNamara, of Detroit, Mich. I am a member of the subcommittee, and in somewhat of a share-the-wealth movement we are splitting the duties among the members. It was my good fortune to be called on to preside at this Pennsylvania hearing of the subcommittee.

The first of these grassroots hearings was held in Boston earlier this year. We will continue on our tour in at least five other cities. Early next year we will report our findings and recommendations to the Senate, and I hope that these recommendations will be strong enough and specific enough to bring about some of the legislative action that is so obviously needed.

I think I should interpolate to say that the investigations of the committee to date show a very great need for more effective action at both the local and the State level, and that the problems of the aged and the aging certainly cannot be solved in their entirety without the cooperation not only of all levels of government, but also of private agencies and private charities.

Congress has devoted much time and thought to programs that greatly affect our older citizens-social security, veterans' pensions, old-age assistance, and more recently, housing. But this subcommittee is the first body in the history of the Congress to undertake a study of all of the problems that beset older persons. I hope that these hearings will get us out of the talk stage and into the action stage on many of these problems that have already been thoroughly discussed and analyzed.

In 1900, 4 percent of our population were over 65. Today, the proportion is 8.6 percent. By 1975, there will be 20 million persons over 65, compared with 152 million now.

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