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r I Twice Told Tales 1 TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of Feb. 1, 1951) A revival of the music festivals which were popular many years ago in this area is scheduled for McHenry county next week when between 700 and 800 students will gather at the Woodstock high school to participate in a fine program which will be climaxed by the appearance of several musical groups in public performance Thursday evening, Feb. 8. McHenry area residents who thought that the old-fashioned winter which we have been experiencing was ready to bow out, realized this week that what went before was only a preview of the real thing. Temperatures varied from 24 degrees below zero in various places within the city op Tuesday morning to as low as 30 degrees below in nearby subdivisions. A very beautiful wedding was solemnized in St. John's church, Johnsburg, last Saturday morning at 9 o'clock when Miss Norma Hiller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leo M. Hiller, Johnsburg, became the bride of Mr. Robert W. Knox, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Knox of McHenry. Clarence Martin returned on Tuesday from a four-weeks' vacation spent with his son, Robert, in Los Angeles, Calif. He also visited in the William Dewey home in Maywood. The Rampaging Richmond five made it 9 in a row with a 93 to 86 victory over Johnsburg last Sunday in town team basketball competition. In McHenry, Elgin, Wood­ stock and in Marengo, the name Warren Jones has become synonymous with music. In Chicago, too, this name is fast becoming a familiar one in music circles, especially in those circles that encompass (he concert-goers and oratorio devotees. His beautiful voice has given many hours of pleasure to a countless number of people. Believed to be McHenry county's longest practicing physician, Dr. William Hep­ burn of Ringwood celebrated his seventy-seventh birthday anniversary this week. TEN YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of Jan. 27, 1966) A 69-year-old grandmother, one of the oldest patients on record to successfully undergo open heart surgery, went home from Mount Sinai hospital Medical center of Chicago last week to greet a grateful 73- yearold husband. It was just four weeks ago Dec. 21 that Mrs. Constance Barany of 1611 N. Woodlawn Park, McHenry, underwent the five-hour operation to replace the mitral va'lve in her heart, badly damaged as a result of rheumatic fever, with an ar­ tificial one. Community leaders from all McHenry county met last week at Marian Central high school for the third time since*- November to continue laying plans for a junior college for the county. Damage estimated at bet­ ween $4,000 and $5,000 was reported to Rae Motors Corp., 5801 W. Route 120 when fire destroyed an oven in the plant located west of the city. McHenry's City Council held a special meeting and adopted an amendment to the zoning ordinance with no changes from the recommendations of the Zoning Board of Appeals, following a hearing last Friday. Following review by the Plan commission and Zoning board, the City Industrial board presented a chart at a recent Council meeting showing comparisons of regulations with some fifteen cities in the area. The various groups changed their thinking on the 40-60 formula that permitted industry to build on only 40 per cent of their land. This was reversed to permit 60 per cent usage for buildings. Announcement has been made this week by the Illinois State Scholarship commission of the 10,348 students who have qualified as semi-finalists in the 1966-67 state scholarship program on the basis of high school academic record and performance on the com­ petitive examination. They represent 784 high schools and were selected from the 32,895 who sought scholarships consideration by taking the ACT examination.Eighteen were named from McHenry high school. On Friday, Jan. 21, Miss Carol Jean Anderson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs^ H. Walter Anderson of 511 N. Green street, McHenry completed the last of her undergraduate study leading to a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Education from - Northern Illinois university. Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Freund of 802 N. River road, McHenry, will be guests of honor at an open house to be held Saturday, Feb. 5, at the V.F.W. ' clubhouse in ob­ servance of their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Older Americans In Our Society Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit Of Happiness By William Peirce Randel Professor Emeritus, University of Maine All men are endowed by their Creator with certain rights that are unalienable, meaning that they cannot be denied or taken away. So said the authors of the Declaration of Independence, and so Americans have come to accept this as true. Our emotional commitment to the examples given in that document - - Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness - is so great, indeed, that we may even suppose they are guaranteed by the titution. What the Constitution does say, in the Fifth amendment, is that no person shall be "deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." Significant as this safeguard is, it waters down the "unalienable" character of those rights. They can be taken away, by legal process. Note also that property has replaced happiness, which no constitution could ever guarantee. However, one of the commonest sources of happiness is ownership of property, and the property most sought and cherished is real estate in the form of one's own residence. If proof were needed, it would be the fact that more than two- thirds of all older Americans, however extensive or limited their other assets, own their own homes. Just now, however, the happiness provided by this ownership is being threatened by escalating property taxes. (Now added to the tax burden is the soaring cost of home repairs and utilities.) After many years of working, saving, and self-denial, in many communities older citizens face the very real danger of being deprived of their property. Taxation is due process, presumably, and communities need more money each year to support education and public services. But this is no solace to the thousands of retirees on fixed incomes who each year are forced to sell their homes because the taxes are beyond their ability to pay. Solutions Sought Several states have legislated relief. One arrangement, sometimes called the "circuit breaker," refunds property taxes that exceed a fixed percentage of income. But most legislatures, even while acknowledging the regressive effect of property taxes, have failed to act. It may prove necessary few the federal government to provide the desired relief. One bill, introduced by Senator Edmund Muskie, would if passed reimburse states up to half the tax refunded on the basis of income. Elderly renters would also benefit, by provisions for tax refunds to owners of rental property. If relief from soaring property taxes is not provided for older Americans, if the retired home owner with fixed income is becoming an endangered species, the nation will somehow have to expand its current provisions for alternate forms of housing. Such stop-gap measures as the use of run-down city hotels to house the elderly poor are clear evidence of providing "too little, too late." There have been changes in the approach to the problem in recent federal legislation. The Housing and Community Development Act provides for direct federal loans to groups sponsoring housing for the elderly and the handicapped. It provides that units be rented at a maximum rent of 25 percent of the income of the eligible tenants. Ilie National Housing act provides help with financing housing for the elderly. The chief deterrent to the private sector doing more than it has done is commonly the uncertainty of a profit-margin large enough to justify the investment. The most successful non­ public ventures are those of churches, unions, and business firms for their own members or former employees. Here, the sponsoring groups subsidize the tenants to varying degrees. One promising example is the brand-new Estero Woods Village in Florida. Organized and wholly owned by the Michigan Baptist foundation, it will be financed chiefly by first mortgage bonds, but the Michigan Baptists have pledged financial support as needed. Renting apartments in such communities cannot provide all the pride of home ownership, but it removes the worry of not being comfortably housed. Adequate housing stands first among the needs of the elderly, and is basic to whatever each older person may choose to do in the pursuit of happiness. Housing is a problem not exclusive to U. • sol Thousands of miniature corporations will open their doors to the general public next week Th« open house activities are to be hosted by Junior Achievement in J A business centers across the nation Visitors to the twenty-four ) M' rtinf* Political Pictured are Pastor Arthur Knudsea and his wife, Edith, who recently Joined the staff of Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran church. THE MCHENRY PLAINDEALER Established 1875 3812 West Elm StrMt Phone 385-0170 McHenry, Illinois 60060 Published Every Wednesday & Friday at McHenry, Illinois Second Class Postage Paid at McHenry, Illinois By McHENRY PUBLISHING COMPANY Larry E. Lund -• Publisher Adeie Froehlich - Editor P3Z NATIONAL NEWSPAPER kkUtUHkM wm i* NMPMQ UNA SUSTAINING IUT • MEMBER-1175 SUBSCRIPTION RATES , 1 Year $10.50 1 Year.... $15.00 old age, of course, but for most old people it is particularly serious because they cannot increase their income to keep up with inflation. Problems Not Limited By Age The old share other problems with the young. Advancing age brings to many increasing susceptibility to illness and accident. Medicare, though a very welcome aid, meets less than half the actual costs, on average. Without a so-called "Medicare Supplement," the charges for services and hospitalization, in a serious illness, can use up the last dollar in assets - a frightful deprivation of rights supposedly unalienable. Fear of crime is almost as great, among our aging, as fear of shattered health. Street crime threatens at every age, but statistics show that the old are most often the victims. Nor is crime a strictly urban phenomenon. Crime - burglary, vandalism, arson, assault - in rural areas is steadily increasing. There must be ways to reverse the current steady increase in all forms of crime. This generally gloomy picture may be somewhat exaggerated. Millions of older people keep well, are not victims of crime, and enjoy their ex is twice more than they expected to earlier. They find new ways to continue their pursuit of happiness through satisfying activities - hobbies, new careers, volunteer work, and recreation. Life, someone has said, is a continuum of problems but also a continuum of opportunities. At present there is a thriving proliferation of educational opportunities. Senior centers, more than 5,000 of them scattered across the nation, are only the most conspicuous of numerous facilities designed to help older people find their most satisfying center of interest - and to reduce the common complaint of "no one to talk to." A bright source for the pursuit of happiness is continuing education. It could be particularly welcome among the many Americans 65 and older who never completed high school. A high school diploma earned at 71 can provide satisfaction far beyond the realization of the average teen-age graduate. Most course offerings for older people, however, whether in extension programs at regular educational institutions or in the increasing number of other facilities, public and private, are not for degrees but relate to the new activities of retirement. How-to- do-it courses are particular favorites. Most of the instructors, moreover, are themselves older people, gaining a deep personal satisfaction from being useful in this way. (Neglect of the vast talent pool the aging constitute is close to being a national scandal, as Senator Walter Mondale pointed out recently in an address at Hunter college.) Some how-to-do-it courses have direct practical value for the basic needs of food, shelter, and clothing: elementary household wiring, for example, or gardening, or dressmaking. Others help develop hobbies - astronomy, photography, navigation. Almost every study can prove a form of adventure - the armchair variety but no less exciting for that reason. A different level of adventure, familiar to all young readers, is provided in more "academic" subjects - history, biography, and imaginative literature. > There are many approaches. Texas A&I university, for example, provodes dormitory space for older people, meals in a student dining room - allowing the older student to be a member of the student body. Student activities are included in the reasonable costs. The effect of adult education no doubt varies from individual to individual. At its most effective it contributes to individualism, to the dream of self-fulfillment, and to the sheer joy of living - the major attainable forms of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. No words, however glowing, could be expected to make people in their 20s eager to grow old and share the opportunities of retirement. Grow old they will, in time. Meanwhile they should understand the problems of aging and, as a kind of insurance, do what they can to reduce them before they too pass 65. But they should realize also that aging has its advantages, and that it need not be feared as it so commonly is today. Life can still have meaning, vibrant meaning, after 65. Liberty may differ then from what it means earlier in life, but it is no less genuine. And though its form alters with time, Happiness remains, at whatever age, a goal forever justifying its Pursuit. Name Pastor To Assist At McHenry Church Pastor Arthur M. Knudsen " has been added to the staff of Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran church. 404 North Green street, McHenry. He will assist Pastor Roger Schneider on a part-time basis with home visitations and the worship services on Saturday evenings and Sunday mornings. The pastor was born Sept. 1, 1906, in Brooklyn, New York. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree at Wagner college in 1933 and a Bachelor of Divinitv degree from Luther seminary. St. Paul. Minnesota in 1936. He served on the National Church Council of the American Lutheran church from 1964-70 and the Commission on Public Communication from 1966-70. Pastor Knudsen served as the pastor of the following parishes: Trinity Lutheran, St., Albans, New York. 1936-44; Our Saviour Lutheran, Muskegan, Mich., 1944-53; Moreland Lutheran, Chicago. 1953-61; and Atonement Lutheran, Barrington, 1961-75. He and his wife Edith are the parents of five grown children. The Knudsens will reside at 4812 Chesterfield drive, McHenry. Dee Hodgson At Seminar DEE HODGSON Ms. Dee W. Hodgson of McHenry, the Emergency Services assistant coordinator of McHenry county, attended an Initial Coordinators seminar in Springfield, Jan. 16 through 18. The Initial Coordinators seminar is designed ta^give instruction to the Coordinator in the areas of Hazard Analysis, Standards, Federal Disaster Assistance ad­ ministration programs, and Federal Defense Civil Preparedness agency programs to help local Civil Defense organizations. The Initial seminar is a state- sponsored program where many phases of civil preparedness affecting the local Emergency Services coordinator are covered. In­ structors at this seminar are members of the Illinois Emergency Services and Disaster Agency in Springfield, an instructor from Illinois State university, and a member of the federal Defense Civil Preparedness agency's Region Four office in Battle Creek, Mich. The results of the seminar should lead to more effective coordination" of all involved governmental and non-governmental agencies in times of disaster, for the benefit of the people in the local community. E. Erie Jones, the Emergency Services Director for the State of Illinois, stated that. "Civil Preparedness is not In McHenry and Lake County Outside McHenry and Lake County PRESENTING THE "AFFORDABLE HOME' *29,900 complete including lot. FIVE STYLES TO CHOOSE FROM: *1000 Square Feet Burnes BROTHERS. INC. THREE OFFICES SERVING McHENRY COUNTY McHENRY I CRYSTAL LAKE | WOOOSTOCK 815/385-6900 4307 W. Rt. 120 815/468-6400 6315 Rt. 14 815/338-3961 209 N.Benton *3 Bedrooms * Fully Carpeted * Fully Decorated * Attached garage #AII City Utilities FINANCING AVAILABLE a separate function set apart from the normal respon­ sibilities of government. On the contrary, civil preparedness operations occur whenever a local government responds to / any extraordinary emergency-/ such as a tornado, forest fire, hurricane, earthquake, flood or other natural disaster; a major explosion or accident, or the release of radioactive materials or toxic chemicals; or an unusual peacetime emergency GOOD WORD PAGE 3 • PLA IN DE A LEft-Fft ID A Y, JANUARY Z3. 1978 Open House Activities For Junior Achievement* local JA center* will tee area high - school student*^ manufacturing, exhibiting! aitif ; selling their company pro<h»ctt • The public is invited to m: spect company books records and to attend a formal board of directors meetir comprised entirely of teens Company tours will conducted at each center from 7 to9 p m. Jan 27 and 28 The Crystal Lake center is at 88 Williams street > Open house is a highlight of National Junior Achievement/ week Jan. 2S-31. REAGAN COORDINATOR I^iwrence L Lee of Cary has been named to coordinate the Illinois Citizens for Reagan campaign in the McHenry county portion of the !3th Congressional district This appointment was made by McHenry County board member. Phyllis K. Walters. who is the 13th Congressional district coordinator for Governor Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign CAMPAIGN LEADER Alderman William Bolger, McHenry. has been named a campaign co-chairperson for the Sargent Shriver for President committee-Illinois. A Democratic committeeman for twenty years and a five-time delegate to the Democratic national convention, Bolger joins eleven other prominent citizens who are heading Shriver's state-wide effort. A fund raising dinner is scheduled for Feb. 5 at the Drake hotel. Stylists are working on sp^rt clothes and trying to give Individuality to dif­ ferent gannents. Clothes for different climates arc a must for rhe Wearer who travels. 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