European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page .1 the stars and stripes monday August 14, 1978 hot line Aims to Cool off extravagant Mph ses san Francisco Impi the environmentalists who have had consider Able Success in teaching us How to take care of our world May have trouble with their next step they want us to voluntarily get poor. It s simple explained Michael Phillips head of a group called mint. If you make Money you or someone else spends it. Spending Means consuming and consuming naturally Means us ing up what s  he said it is an irrefutable Law of the marketplace that the More you earn the More you spend. A burgeoning Economy Means More Trees felled More land strip mined More wildlife destroyed More water consumed and More Oil  order to help people to go into voluntary poverty. Mint has set up a Tele phone hot line service. If you feel like buying a car or a new television or any thing else you foolishly think you need you can Call 415 956-57441 during Busi Ness hours. A mint Volunteer will try to talk you out of it. Buyers Are encouraged to borrow share rent or forget it entirely mint  group concedes thai if you Don l buy things you will find yourself with a lot of Money. The Don t buy it drive is Only lesson one in teaching the neg alive effects of rising income on in planet s ecology the group says saving your income also has a of. Five environmental effect since 2� will be spending Over and Over in the Money you deposited. The ultimate goal is to get peo oui i voluntarily lower their incomes mint is named after the wild Hert that grows abundantly almost where and smells Good. 46% increase since 1970 . Households headed by women on Rise Washington api the number of american family households headed by a single or divorced woman has increased by 16 percent since 1970, the government re ported sunday. But the majority of House holds still consists of married couples. A new census Bureau report showed that in March. 1978, about 8 million or 11 percent of the country s 76 million House holds were headed by a woman with no husband present. That represents an in crease of 2.5 million since 1970. In contrast 47.4 million households in 1978. Or 62 percent were maintained by married couples. That represents an in crease of 2.6 million or Only 6 percent Dur ing this decade the report said. Also figures show that the average size of the country s households declined from 3.1 persons in 1970 to 2.8 persons in 1978. The report said that the number of households has increased by 12.6 million or almost 20 percent since 1970 for several reasons. Many Young persons born during the Post world War ii baby Boom years have postponed marriage and set up housekeeping by themselves. Also the rising separation and divorce rates often have resulted in splitting one larger household into two smaller ones the report  government defines a household As a housing unit occupied by one or More unrelated individuals. A family is defined As a group related by blood marriage or  report showed that 11 percent of households in 1978 Are maintained by a sin Gle person who has never married com pared to 7 percent in 1970."More and More Young adults Are Pur suing alternatives to marriage for longer periods of time the report said. The marked increase in Young adult singles has been partially responsible for the rapid growth of non family  other highlights of the report showed that in 1978 about 83 percent of the country s 57.2 million families were maintained jointly by a husband and wife 3 percent by a Man Julia Barone right embraces her step sister Linda Burleigh at the new or leans Airport at their reunion after 27 serendipity for Sisters years. When Burleigh was put up for adoption Barone was told she had died. Burleigh who lives in Portland Maine recently located her father through a Obj a add Learned that s sle lived in Baton Rouge la. Up rep. Boiling s wife is dead at 50 Washington api mrs. Jim Grant boiling. 60. Wife of rep. Richard boiling do. Died of a heart attack sunday at the Chestertown md., Hospital the Congress Man s office . And mrs. Boiling were visiting her daughter mrs. Ray Clark at Ford s land ing Millington md., when she was stricken. Mrs. Boiling had Long been Active in politics. In the 1948 presidential Campaign she organized Young democrats for Harry Truman and served also in the 1960 presidential Campaign of John f. Kennedy. Later Kennedy named her As the Only woman congressional Liaison officer in his administration. She married boiling in 1964 and since then had served in her husband s Cozeres mrs. Boiling a native of fort Worth Texas was named James by her . Grant and she was known As Jim survivors include her husband her of with no wife present and 14 woman with no husband present. White families accounted for itis Centof All families and 92 percent of tried couple families. Black families consisted of 10 pen Ujj of All families and 7 percent of All rat u couple families. About 10 million or 17 percent country s 60 million children under Ace lived in families which did not include Thor compared with 1.5 percent who i to in families with no Mother. The report said that in 1978, aim percent of All families lived in melt Tan areas with 27 percent living in Ikner cities. Hew reports $146 million was miss per Washington a the mint of health education and boasted saturday that in a six Modi of it made Only $146 million Worth tie in welfare payments to the aged a disabled. The error rate in the supplement Rity income program to the ended in March was $14 million 1 the previous six months and Jim since the social Security adn began administering the Progri Najj the department  counts As errors those ineligible individuals and eligible individuals. The errors made in the Toi porting period Are 4.6 Pereath. Billion in ssi payments h8m drop from the 5.2 percent rate i september 1977 period. Ujj Many of the aged Blind til. Who receive ssi payment a of for social Security benefits. The payment errors in " Aid to families with Dren totalled $441.2 million months of 1977. That was crease Over the previous spending in the Ardc Prog Cember 1977 was $5.3 lers chum i Jim a. My hair it us a Mem to Mart scrup4& Judith Krewitt Ever Grill but a  to 5ku Simon the women-1 room Twilyn in a hol Colt Cov Piunt Rotart Lumen the list convertible Anton Myna the world of cording to Gap w".1" suing Oku Wiiiam f. Burkt nonfiction ii a ill l.  Omta id Erm  my Mother. 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