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24 - MANCHESTER HERALD. Wed., Feb. 23, 1983 ■ I K Aging not fixed for all tim e Armory nixed Oil producers In frenzy Toto takes top honors process, but tne In which the social By Al Rosslter Jr. thickness, and their pumping capability diminishes. The lungs lose elasticity and environment also is involved. at 25th Grammy event UPI Science Editor Such factors as lifestyles, educational as a shelter over unified price cuts breathing capacity diminishes. levels, nutrition, self-care, economic sta • The excretion capacity of the kidneys ... page 12 WASHINGTON — Just as infants are not tus, family relationships all play a role. ... page 7 tend to diminish with aging, and there is page 3 young adults, the elderly are not older And the report said is aging Is not fixed for middle-aged people. Geriatric specialists decreased bladder capacity. say the medical problems of the elderly are • The liver and pancreas become less all time. different and more doctors must recognize effective. “ People do not grow old today in the saine '•fW * that. • Bone mass decreases, and muscle way as people did 100 years ago, and pMpIe Age affects every body organ. The strength is lost. There is less ability to who will be old by the year 2000 will^stlll be changes are dramatic in infancy and repair damaged cartilage, leading to different from the elderly of today. progress more slowly in later years. Some arthritis. symptoms of aging are obvious. Others are • Visual acuity diminishes, visual fields In addition, the report said some of the more subtle. narrow and the eye’s ability to adapt to processes of aging are subject to postpone- Manchester, Conn. The Association of American Medical different levels of light is slowed. Thpre is ment or reversal with modifications in Beco'mlng cloudy; Colleges, noting America is graying ra decreased hearing for high freQuencies, attitudes, behaviors, social relationships Thursday, Feb. 24, 1983 especially in men. chance of snow pidly, recently urged the nation’s medical and environments. Single copy: 25c schools to increase their emphasis on care • The ability of taste, smell and touch — See page 2 for people over 65. senses diminish. Right BOW, the report said the estimate of As part of a series of recommendations to - The skin becomes thinner and less life expectancy is about 85. when disease improve the training of physicians — and effective in protecting people against their and accidents are eliminated as causes of cautioning there always are individual environment. death. exceptions — the association issued a The association says evidence is accumu report outlining many of the changes lating that there is no single cause for aging. “ However,” it said, "recent unpredIcted 1 I associated with old age: And it said it is becoming increasing clear declines in mortality at older ages may lead 2 • Heart muscles increase in size and that human aging is not simply a biological to a longer life expectancy.” Dow breaks 2 Antique quilts to tour U.S. i LOUISVILLE, Ky. (UPI) — OneQuiltina Duck’s Foot in the Mud. safekeeping. DPI photo special exhibit at Louisville’s Museum of Kentucky Quilt Project members say the Thd enormous growth of interest in quilts all-time high History and Science had been hidden in a bed coverings are not only singular works of over the past decade has driven open Cleaning the world haystack near Paducah, Ky., to save it from art, but also keyholes to the history and market prices sky high. Experts now value Union troops during the Civil War. culture of 19th century Kentucky. the Graveyard Quilt and other one-of-a-kind By Gall Collins Good news from Washington, The owner who lent it for the show said the early designs at thousands of dollars. 4 3 Maintenance man Dick Dion uses a iong-handied sheepskin The driving force behind the project was where the Commerce Department UPI Business Writer brush for his daily cieanup of the worid in the iobby of the family later lost everything except the Bruce Mann, a University of Louisville At least one is beyond price to its owner, reported a promising Increase in an elderly woman in western Kentucky. Stanhope inc. buiiding in Westfield, Mass. quilt, a gold piece and the family Bible. graduate and antique furniture dealer. He NEW YORK - The Dow Jones orders for “ big ticket" durable The organizers said she showed them a Another in the exhibit is a Graveyard became fascinated by Quilts when he industrial average broke through goods, help^ the market over Quilt begun by her great-grandmother when Quilt, made in Lewis Coqnty in 1839 in bought nearly 100 at ridiculously cheap its all-time high today in heavy come its earVief oU-prtce jitters. the present owner was 7 years old. When the shades of brown and ochre. Coffin-shaped prices at a southern Indiana auction in the trading fueled by new signs of Quilt pieces were placed in the fenced-off early 1970s. girl married at 15, the Quilt went with her to News of a possible UPEC price economic recovery. war caused the market to drop Fenneman backs Fleming center graveyard section of the Quilt as After Mann died in 1980 in a traffic her new home. The closely-watched average, an She agreed to lend it, the organizers said, sharply on Tuesday as nervous family members died. accident while returning from a sales trip to index of 30 blue-chip stocks, was at After the show closes March 31, the 44 California, some of his friends formed the but when the time came to ship it to investors worried about further 1,100.45, up 11.22 after 45 minutes of strains on the fragile international quilts will go on a two-year tour of smaller Kentucky Quilt Project. Louisville, the woman, with tears in her trading. The previous all-time high in trial on Marx assets museums in many states through the They held 12 quilt days throughout the eyes, said, “ No, I justcan’tgiveitupforthe financial situation and troubled of 1,107.61 was set Feb. IS. loans from U.S. banks to oil Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibit state and asked area residents to bring in show." Advances led declines 963-276 SANTA MONICA, Calif. (UPI) - time but these lunches stopped. exporters. Service, before being returned to their 19th century examples for viewing. "It meant too much to her," said Shelly among the 1,628 Issues crossing the George Fenneman, for 14 years Grou- "H e did not want to see anyone and he owners. A $100 prize was given at each event for Zegart, one of the organizers. “ She Just New York Stock Exchange tape. cho Marx’s straight man on "You Bet didn’t think anyone wanted to see him. But the market resumed its The cities include Clayton, Mo.; Young the oldest and best-preserved quilt. couldn't part with it. She wanted it where The index hit its second-highest Your Life," characterized Erin Flem When Erin came into his life, the climb, calmed by OPEC efforts to stown, Ohio; Huntington, W.Va.; Owens The organizers looked at, photographed she could see it and touch it." close in history Wednesday, soar ing as a loving and caring companion lunches started again. There was a stabilize the price slide and news boro and Lexington, Ky.; Chattanooga and and catalogued some 1,200 quilts before "It had a great number of fabrics and was ing 16.54 points to 1096.94. who watched out for Marx as a mother definite change in his life.” . from the Commerce Department Oak Ridge, Tenn.; Logan, Kan.; McAllen making their final choice. absolutely charming," added exhibit con Early turnover amounted to would her son. ■■ The bank, executors of Marx’s that "b ig ticket” durable goods and Wichita F^lls, Texas, and Mobile, Ala. The project organizers urged every quilt sultant Katy Christopherson of Louisville. about 20 million shares. "H e was' not well." Fenneman estate, charge Miss Fleming cheated topped the $80 billion mark in The show has been called one of the most owner they met to keep the coverlets in "U was set in the herringbone pattern. It The Dow has been see-sawing testified Tuesday when asked whether the comedian out of $400,000 during her January for the first time in 10 impressive exhibits of 19th Century quilts, their families. Only in cases where families spoke to the value of the culture and time, just below the 1,100 level for most Marx was abused and humiliated six-yearlive-in relationship with Marx. months. Herald photo by Torquinlo with such colorful, traditional names as Log were dying out did the women suggest when girls were set to sewing early and of the last six weeks. The market during a reported episode where Miss Fenneman said the comedian en Cabin. Jacob’s Ladder, Bear's Paw or leaving the Quilts to museums for married early.” has crossed the 1,100 Dow average The Labor Department added Fleming forced him to eat his string joyed the parties Miss Flemihg held at three times, but never closed more cheer Thursday, reporting beans. his house and was m eritally^«rt in his An early spring cleaning beyond that level, which analysts new claims for state unemploy “ He was old, but she forced him to eat old age, Marx died in 1977 aThge 86. ment benefits showed a decline for his string beans — not with anger but as say has formed a "psychological balmy weather to get the lump on her spring cleaning. "He would get up very often at these the sixth time in the first seven Yes, Mrs.