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6 - I-Hnton News Tues. Feb. 18, 2003 # In the Library By David M. Kinchen Historian Details U.S.A.'s Creation of'Consumers' Republic Reviewed By David M. Kinchen From 1945 to 1975, the United States was transformed into a "Consumers' Republic," marked by the development of consumer credit, the construction of shopping centers, the creation of massive housing developments on the rural fringes of the big cities and a heightened sense of deprivation on the part of many minorities. That's the picture drawn by historian Lizabeth Cohen in "A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America" (Knopf, 480 pages, $35.00). It's difficult for anyone under 50 to imagine, but once upon a time there was an America without credit cards and shopping centers, where the majority of the nation' s urban families rented an apartment in a central city rather than owned--with the bank--a ranch house or Cape CoO in the "ourbs. Cohen is a prize-winning historian at Harvard Univerpity--and judging by the 1956 photo of her and her sister in front of their family home in Paramus, N.J., a member of the early wave of baby-boomers. She tells the story of how much of America--the white majority, at least--formoo the vanguard of today's mass consumption society. Except for a number of politically correct phrases, Cohen doesn't look down her professorial nose at consumers: She tells their story, warts and all, as Oliver Cromwell instructed his portrait painter 350 years ago. The "warts"---including the unintentional or intentional exclusion of minority consumers from the "Consumers' Republic," often dominate her narrative. One of the PC phrases that Cohen uses throughout is "racial rebellion" to describe what we newspaper reporters called "urban riots" in the mid- 1960s, It was the time when I was starting out as a metropolitan newspaper reporter and the riots that hit New York, Los Angeles, Newark, Milwaukee, Detroit, Chicago and other cities weren't called "rebellions" in the Milwaukee Sentinel where 1 started working just after Milwaukee' s summer riots of 1967. Much of Cohen's focus is on the heavily urbanized--and suburbanized counties of northern New Jersey, across the Hudson River from New York City• She describes the white flight from Newark, Jersey City, Paterson and other once tl'vi slik hometown ofPramus y where two large PI___ s oir4.  ..... i The Garden State dt " Mre deliberatelydesigned to draw customers from the surrounding suburbs, customers who had cars and could reach the centers at or near the junction of the New Jersey and the Garden State Turnpikes. If you lived in rapidly declining Newark or Paterson or Hackensack, you were largely out of the picture unless you had a car. This, she points out, was de facto racial segregation of the harshest kind. Cohen shows how the foundation--including a powerful consumer movement driven by both women and African Americans--for the postwar "Consumers' Republic" was laid block by block in the 1930s, as the Great Depression and FDR's New Deal transformed the political structure of the nation. With unemployment at 25% or more during the 1930s, she illustrates how difficult if not impossible it was to put into place the ideas of the "Consumers' Republic" that began in 1945 and lasted for a hectic three decades. Still, revolutionary changes in the nation' s mortgage system instituted by the New Deal in the 1930s, along with the Veterans Administration's so-called GI Bill of Rights passed the year before the war ended, were major factors in creating the mass housing market that resulted in housing starts as high as 2 million a year in the postwar years. This aspect of Cohen's well illustrated and carefully documented book was particularly interesting to me, since from about 1970 on, my reportorial duties at both the Milwaukee Sentinel and the Los Angeles Times encompassed the housing and development industries. By quoting and referring to people who were present at and during the creation of the "Consumers' Republic," Cohen makes the story of America' s amazing transformation relevant to readers who've never known anything else, as well as to those of us who lived through it and reported about it. Council on Aging This is a weekly publication of the Summers County Council on Aging, Inc., 120 Second Avenue, Hinton. Funded in part by the WV Bureau of Senior Services, Appalachian Area Agency on Aging, other grant and local resources and donations, any older persons is encouraged to participate in the program regardless of race, creed, handicap, or national origin. The Summers County Council onAging is an equal opportunity employer. Wednesday, February 19th. Menu: Chili with meat and beans, festive waldorf fruit salad, peach- yogurt dessert, whole wheat bread, margarine/milk;Activities: Activity Room Exercise 17:05 AM. Thursday, February 20th. Menu: Chicken stew, long grain brown rice, broccoli, pear halves, whole wheat bread, margarine/milk. Activities: Richard Flanigan, Field Representative, Office of Gov. Bob Wise, Topic: Update on Senior Services i1:00A.M. Bingo for prizes after lunch Friday, February 21st. Menu: Seasoned pinto beans, onions, turnip greens, unsweetened apple sauce, cornbread, margarine/milk. Activities: Gosepl singing 11:00 A.M. Monday, February 24th. Menu: Lean"N" Light lasagna, raw vegetable salad with oil and vinegar dressing, purple plums, whole what garlic bread/milk. Activities: Gospel Singing 11:00 A.M. Tuesday, February 18th.Menu: Baked pork chops, creamier mashed potatoes, golden pork gravy, mustard greens, banana, whole wheat bread, margarine/milk. Activities: Board of Directors Meeting 10:00 A.M. Bible Study 11:00 AIM. Bingo For Prizes After Lunch. January Blood Donor Awareness Month The Big Picture: Blood and Who Needs It *Approximately 12.6 million units of whole blood are donated in the United States each year by approximately 8 million volunteer blood donors.* *Whole blood is broken down into its components; red blood cells, platelets D.nd plasma. *The 12.6 million units of donated blood each year are broken down into more than 23 milion units of blood components transfused to about 4 million patients per year.* *A single shock-trauma victim can use 100 units of blood componentsin just a few hours. *On any given day, approximately 32,000 units of Red Blood Cells are needed.* *25 percent of blood prooucts are used to treat cancer patients.* *A large portion of the plasma that is recovered from donated blood is broken down or processed into specific =derivatives" to meet the needs of people with genetic diseases such as hemophilia, primary immune deficiency and other conditions. *Each year, plasma derivatives are used to treat thousands of individuals who are missing a factor in their blood that prevents excessive bleeding, do not have the ability to fight infections or who have experienced significant fluid loss as a result of a burn or other injury. The Source: Volunteer Donors and Blood Drive Sponsors *This year, the Red Cross will collect approximately 6.3 million units of blood, a 3 percent increase over the previous year, and a 12 percent increase Over the last three years. *Who donates blood to the Red Cross: Median Age 38 years old Male donars 53 percent Female donors 47 percent Repeat donors 79.3 percent First-time donors 20.7 percent *The approximate distribution of blood types in the US population is: Type Percentage of population 0- 7 percent A+ 34 percent A- 6 percent B+ 9 percent B-  percent ° :: ,  _ :. AB+ 3 percenf ........ AB, I percent Note: Distribution may be different for specific racial and ethnic groups. Last year, 21.4 percent of the blood collected by the Red Cross was donated at a regular or irfixedld donation site, while 76.4 percent was collected at mobile blood drives. *Who holds/sponsors red Cross Blood drives: Community groups 61 percent Companies 23.2 percent High Schools 5.8 percent Colleges 5.5 percent Military 2.5 percent ACEP COACHING CLINIC The West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission and RESA-I will be sponsoring a class for any non-teaching personnel wanting to be certified to coach in any public school in West Virginia. Thc class will be held on February 26-27th. and will be taught at the Pineville Middle School in Pineville, WV. The class will be conducted from 5-11 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday nights. The course fee is $150.00 and the instructors will be Robert Gunter and John O'Neal. Larry Hatfield will be the First Aid instructor. The class will certify the participants to coach in public schools and also be certified in First- Aid. Anyone wishing to enroll must enroll on or before February 25th. calling RESA-I at 1-800-766-7372 or 256-4712, or Bob Gunter at 732- 6690 in the evenings. We'd Like To Hear-From, You about your club, church group and civic organizations, births, engagements, weddings, academic honors, men and women in the armed services and all communityactivities. To be considered for publication, items should be timely, either typed (NOT in all caps) or printed legibly. Mail To: The Hinton News P 0 Box 1000 Hinton, WV 25951-1000 E-mail HintonlOOO@aol.com " TEMPTATIONS/FOUR TOPS The Temptations and Four Tops will be in concert on Friday, February 21st., at 8 p.m. at the Municipal Auditorium 'of the Charleston Civic Center. Ticket prices are: $46.25* / $39.75"1530.75" All Seats Reserved• *Includes Facility Surcharge Fee. For ticket purchase - call Ticket Master Charleston Area (304) 342- 5757, HuntingtonArea (304) 523-. 5757. www.ticketmaster.com *** The time to stop arevolution is at the beginning, not the end. Adlai Stevenson BASIC EMT CLASSES The following classes have been scheduled: 120 Hour basic EMT class will begin March 3rd., at 6:00 p.m. in Raleigh Cmmtv t the Mine Safety & Health Academy in Beckley, WV,' For additional information please call RESA-I at (304) 256-4712 or 1- 800:766-7372 ext. 330/319. ATTENTION Effective February 3rd. DMV will be in Hinton on the lst., 3rd. and 5th. Thursday of each month. They will NOT be here on Friday. Operating hours will remain 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM. (You must be in the office no later tha 4:00 P.M.) BIG BEND PSD .... Big Bend Public Service District will hold their monthly meetings on the second Tuesday of each month .at the water plant at 3:45 pro. Big Bend PSD serves the areas of Talcott, Hilldale, Pence Springs, and - Willowwood Road. 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