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THE TAMPA TRIBUNE Friday, August 30, 1974 Section Astrology Page 12 Bridge Page 7 Crossword Page 2 Billy Graham Page 7 Ann Landers Page 4 Seek And Find Page 6 Television Page 10 Theaters Page 9 VanDellen Page 8 Wishing Well Page 4 Revolution7 Helps Aged. But Many Face Poverty jiV I By PATRICIA McCORMACK UPI Family Editor NEW YORK (UPI) A revolution is occurring in public and private programs to deal with the economic problems of old age. but a lot remains to be done. Consider: Social Security benefits have gone up 75 per cent in the last decade. But that, as anyone trying to live off the monthly check knows, is not enough, even though it is part of "a revolution." Developments feeding the revolution that started 10 years ago were cited at the American Medical Association (AMA) National Congress on Aging.

See Related Story, 2-D to pay for these benefits are mainly shouldered by the children and grandchildren of the beneficiaries. For more than half the taxpayers, the Social Security "take" is bigger than the income tax bite. What angers some workers even more, the "take" goes on even when the salary isn't large enough (in view of the number of exemptions) to call for withholding for income tax purposes. THE FACT IS, according to Prof. Schulz.

that despite all the improvements, large numbers face years of poverty once they reach 65. In 1972. 4.5 million older Americans had poverty level incomes. Economists have estimated that an income of 65 to 75 per cent of average preretirement earnings would permit most older Americans except trie very poorest to live in retirement at a standard equal to the preretirement one. While some expenses increase with age, many others (Social Security taxes, work expenses, tuition bills for the children, mortgage costs) usually stop altogether.

In addition, with a reduced income, a fact for most older Americans, the federal tax bill is far less. The older Americans in the economically elite set today are those who have good private pensions plus Social Security. While increasing numbers of Americans are scheduled to receive combined public and private-pensions equal to 60. 70 or 80 per cent ot preretirement income, they are not safe from the erosion bv inflation. Tribune photo by Bill Lamneck Hitchmaster Walt Bradley with one of his Clydesdale friends.

Hitchmaster Has Own Kind Of Horse Sense James II. Schulz. the authority on the economics of aging, is associate professor of welfare economics at Brandeis University. The elements of the revolution, he said, include: A growth of private pension programs in industry, marking dramatic increases in benefits. Small property tax relief laws legislated in over 80 per cent of the states.

THE PUBLIC Universal Health Insurance Program (Medicare) created within that period, currently provides more than $10 billion a year in benefits. Old-Age Assistance (a welfare program) has been abolished and a new Supplemental Security Income Program has taken its place. This "negative income'' type program roughly doubles the number of low-income elderly eligible for income supplementation. Federal regulation of private pensions is becoming a reality together with an exemption from federal taxation of. savings for retirement by self-employed professionals and employes not covered by private pension plans.

Schultz said the new programs have resulted in a huge shift of income from the working population to the retired A study published by the Brookings Institution, commenting on the shift, noted "Although it is not possible to say exactly how shifts in fedreal activity have affected particular groups, clearly the aged and the disabled have received an increasing proportion of federal benefits. "THE RELATIVE shift from defense spending, which in theory benefits the nation as a whole, to cash transfers, which benefit mainly the aged and disabled, implies a decision to accord higher priority to the needs of these people." This policy is causing a new conflict between the generations. Social Security taxes being levied One characteristic of Clydesdales in general. Bradley says, is their showiness. "They love to get out there in front of people and trot around.

They can go into an arena and hear all that applause and they really prance. If we run t'-'em out onto a track where there's nobody looking they don't respond the same. They're real hams." Bradley began with Busch 34 years ago. He had come from a small town where a farmer raised Belgian horses, another breed of draft horses. "I used to work with those horses, and that's where I really got into the business." IN 1939, while driving delivery wagons for a dairy.

Bradley's application to Busch for a job was accepted and he went to work as a groom. His career, and that of many of his colleagues, was interrupted by World War II. He went into the 55th Field Artillery. He was a fer-rier making horseshoes for the Army, working with the horses that pulled casons and provisions. He remembers that early in the war.

not only were horses still in use. but mules. "They can go places a motor vehicle can't go: the mule packs were especially important up in some of those Italian mountains." Bradley never saw Europe, but rather the Pacific theater where he was taken away from Please See Page 2, Column 1 By BRUCE JONES Tribune Staff Writer After 34 years of working with horses, a man like Walter Bradley gets to know them almost as well as people. Bradley is hitchmaster for the Budweiser Clydesdales, those great, burley draft horses that pull the fancy red and gold Budweiser show wagon. In the old days.

Bradley says there were only a few Clydesdales and he knew them all. Nowadays August Busch Jr. owns some hundred Clydesdales at his Grant's Farm estate, a showplace near St. Louis. That city is Anheiser Busch's national headquarters.

The horses on duty with the wagon team' are rotated now. so that Bradley- might be working with different horses all the time. "But you still get to know them pretty well." he says. "When we have a horse back for the second time, you can remember him. They have different personalities." SOME HORSES, says Bradley, are sensitive just like people.

"You wouidn't want to whip he says, "or they'd go to pieces. Other horses are emotionally stronger and it doesn't matter so much. All the horses have tieir own way of reacting to you: they're very individual." AT THE CURRENT rate of inflation. Prof. Schulz estimates that such pensioners might expect their pension income to be slashed to half during the retirement years.

Lack of inflation protection is a serious deficiency of private pension plans. On the plus side are the federal programs to help millions of older Americans to pay for medical care. But Prof. Schulz says these programs have three major They are extremely uneven in coverage and benefits. They provide little protection against catastrophic medical bills.

The tax subsidy program offers large benefits to the rich and little to the poor. Most workers do not plan, economically or socially, for retirement. Schulz said they rely on the employer and the government to plan for them. We have more to do for older Americans. Next: Dramatic changes overdue in retirement vears ahead.

Film Technicians Seek More Florida Movies I isS i '1 f-f 1 i A 8 i i I -A fm, Weekender Labor Day weekend promises a variety of activities throughout the state to satisfy nearly any taste. FOLK FESTIVAL The 22nd Annual Florida Folk Festival will take place at the Stephen Foster Memorial at White Springs today through Sunday. Activity goes on all day with stage performances at 10 a.m., 1:30 and 7:30 p.m. today and tomorrow and at 10 a.m. Sunday.

Participants will recall old-time arts, crafts and customs. Admission to the festival is included in admission to the memorial. $1.50 for adults and 25 cents for children. Tickets are good for a full day. DAYTONA FESTIVAL Labor Day Festival at Daytona Beach continues through Monday.

Scheduled events include dances, a golf tournament, entertainment, fireworks display and Miss Southland and Miss Volusia County beauty pageants. SAILBOAT RACING Labor Day Regatta on Sarasota Bay. Saturday and Sunday at Sarasota. First Annual Bahia Beach Marina Sailboat Regatta will take place at 11 a.m. Saturday with a 40-boat fleet participating.

ART SHOW Crystal River Art Show Saturday and Sunday at Crystal River's Little Springs Park. All media represented. CONCERT Kenny Rogers and The First Edition will perform at Sea World Saturday and Sunday with shows at 7 and 9 p.m. Tickets are S2 and S3 at 7 p.m. and S4 and $6 at 9.

Prices are in addition to regular admission to the park. GOLF Tampa's new Babe Zaharias Golf Course is open to the public today for the first time. Greens fees are $4.50 on weekdays and $6 on weekends. Carts are available at $7. AUTO RACING In addition to regular racing Friday and Saturday night.

Golden Gate Speedway, East Fowler Avenue, will offer Labor Day Championship races Monday starting at 8 p.m. A 100-lap late model championship, Bomber classes and Thunder classes are featured. By BRUCE JONES Tribune Staff Writer BROOKSVILLE It was love here between townspeople and movie staffers from Florida and some movie from Canada, and the affair may lead to marriage. The filming of "Dead of Night" was a discovery by Toronto's Quadrant Films that Florida is home to some 4.000 screen actors and technical people, and that a film can be well made here using all-Florida people. Everybody in and on "Dead of Night" lives in the state except stars and executives.

"DEAD OF NIGHT" also introduced some of these 4.000 screen people to one another, and they plan to organize. The- like working near home, so they'd like to encourage more producers to come to Florida. Peter James, vice president of Quadrant in charge of production, says that's fine with him because he's anxious to come back. Not only are there good technical people here, "but we found the friendliest reception in Brooksville I've ever encountered anywhere." "We made a lot of good friends in the state and we definitely will come back for more films, probably even to Brooksville." James says the idea is already in the works to film a caper in Brooksville. THE FRIENDLY RECEPTION was not only from the townspeople, but from official people as well.

"We got awtully good cooperation from police." James says. They worked with us on street scenes. We even destroyed three of their police cars in production." In fact, relations got very close among some of the filmmakers and local people. Photography director Jack McGowan met Betty Eason, owner of the Highway 41 Drive In, and they were married several weeks ago. As it happens, the Highway 41 Drive In will see the Brooksville premiere of the film "Dead of Night" this evening.

The world premiere showing was last night in Tampa. THE PROXIMITY to Tampa and its airport facilities is one of the things which made Brooksville a suitable site for filming. The producers said, the appearance and mood of the town were also important. They describe Brooksville as a "typical. mid-American town." Brooksville was better off because of the filming.

It is estimated that from the film's S440.000 budget went into the local economy. Some 50 technicians and actors were on the scene for more than eight weeks, eating, boarding and spending money for recreation. The discovery of vast technical and dramatic resources in Florida was strictly secondary in the choice of Brooksville' as a site for the film. "We were awfully pleased to find these people here." James says. "We were awfully happy to find that we Please See Page 2, Column 1 cians live in Florida, like the film 's photography director Jack Mc-Goican, right.

Tribune photo by Dan Yager The movie "Dead of ISight," filmed in Brooksrille, brought to the attention of Producer John Trent, left, the fact that some 4,000 cinema actors and technic.