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^ * Legislature Gives MCC $24,000 Extra Funds Padded Mailing Bags Offered At Post Office McHenry County college will receive an additional 89-cents for each credit hour as a result of legislative action in the recent veto session of the General Assembly, according to State Rep. Cal Skinner, Jr. (R-Crystal Lake). McHenry County college will receive an extra $24,030 as a result of this, the Republican staff of the House Ap­ propriations committee estimates. Legislative action on the matter was three staged. During the spring session, a bill was passed to raise the flat grant from the state to $18.50 per credit hour. It passed overwhelmingly. The Governor exercised his power to reduce the mohey^ appropriated to meet that legislative pledge, bringing state funding down to $17.61 per credit hour. The first attempt to override the Governor's reduction veto was unsuccessful. Skinner pointed out in debate that the people speaking against the override were those without junior college districts or those representing southern Illinois districts who benefit inor­ dinately from special state subsidies in addition to their flat grant assistance. In one district the special aid is $400,000-more than MCC gets in total. The second attempt was touch and go until independent Democrat Joe Lundy of Evanston provided the necessary vote to put it over the top. £ "After that, all sorts of Democrats piled on the roll- call," Skinner observed. "All representatives from the 33rd district voted for the override prior to that," he stressed. Other colleges in or near Skinner's district will receive the indicated amounts: Uege, Elgin, Extra State ibsidy, $53,400; Rock Valley, $2,770; Harper, 144.180; iswaukee, 30,705; Lake coulrty, 77,430. The McHenry post office has placed padded mailing bags on sale as an added convenience to customers, Postmaster LeRoy M. Smith said. The mailing bags are being sold in three convenient sizes by window clerks. The bag sizes are 6x10, 10ViX16, and 14x20 inches. These padded bags are an ideal container for mailing gifts, books, candy, clothing and other similar size items. Smith said, "The postal service has successfully ex­ perimented in the sale of these mailing bags during the past year at selected post offices. As a result of increasing demands for this container, all first class post offices in the central region will now have this convenience item available to customers". The primary objective of the bag is to provide postal customers with a convenient method of mailing and to assist the U.S. postal service in its continuing efforts to reduce parcel damage and insure delivery of parcels in good condition, Smith said. Set Special Religious Education Meet Dec. 6 The McHenry County Board of Catholic Education will sponsor a meeting Thursday, Dec. 6, to explore the special religious education needs of Catholic families in the county. The meeting, which will begin at 8 p.m., will be held at St. Thomas school, Beddoes hall, 265 King street, Crystal Lake. Present for the session will be members of the Special Religious Education division (SPRED) of the Catholic Ar­ chdiocese of Chicago. In ad­ dition to explaining their program, the Chicago educators will outline how the SPRED program might be started in McHenry county. The formal part of the evening will conclude with a discussion by parish directors of religious education, parents of han­ dicapped and retarded children, and other interested adults, on their specific needs. Hopefully, a nucleus of the meeting will serve as a plan­ ning committee for the 1974- 1975 school year. The meeting is open to the public. For further in­ formation, contact Mrs. Roberta Allison, Crystal Lake, at 459-4008. Additional details may be obtained from Father Karl Ganss, director of Religious Education for McHenry County, 10 West Terra Cotta, Crystal Lake. 4-H DELEGATE Steve Schultz, Cary, is one of thirty-nine Illinois 4-H'ers selected to attend the fifty- second National 4-H Congress in Chicago, Nov. 25-29. Schultz, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ehrhardt (Charlie) Schultz, Algonquin, was named Illinois winner in Beef and is competing with Beef winners from other states for national honors to be awarded during the Congress. 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