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if i; 926 FRONT RT. 31 815-385-9303 HOURS: Mm TImi 9 a.a.4 p *. Fri.-Sat. 9a.m.-5p.m. SIM. 11 a*. 4 p.m. 1977 LINCOLN TOWN COIPE loaded, mint condition, 6,000 miles. SAVE 1976 CADILLAC COIPE DeVlLE Cabriolet model, 60/40 front seats, full power, tilt cruise. 23,000 miles, like new. fAVl 1977 PONTIAC FIREBIRD FORMULA $5675 1976 PONTIAC BONNEVILLE $4675 Coup*, air contfitiomM. full power. 9,000 mtl«v tilt wheel. 60/40 1976 PONT,ACGRANDPRIX .. $4675 1976 awmmi ^$AVE 1976 MERCURY XR7 COUGAR $AVE ' m,lei m r,,,, 19M AMC HORNETSPORTABOUT $1975 1974 OLDS MOBILE CUTLASS VISTA CRUISER . „ . . . . . . . . $ 2 6 7 5 1974 CHEVROLET VEGA SPIRIT OF AMERICA . . $1275 1971 TOYOTA ..$195 2 door. 4 speed. 1976 CHEVROLET * CAMPER SPECIAL... $4175 war brakes. 22.000 mites. 2 torn 1976 CHEVY LUV PICKUP $2975 4aa 1976 PLYMOUTH * TON WINDOW VAN $4275 totooatic tram., power steer*! mar brakes, 28,000 mitos, Mt up to pull trailer, vary claan. 1975 FORD 1-TON CAMPER SPECIAL. $3975 \m CHEVROLET CREW CAB CUSTOM DLX. ..$AVE 1968 FORD 4-WHEEL DRIVE $1275 Beef Imports Farm Bureau Issues Protest McHenry County Farm I!ureau has strongly protested Carter administration efforts to increase the imports of beef in ;i letter to President Carter. Don Luerssen asserted "I am very disturbed and upset with Congress and with you as our President that you even entertain the idea of importing beef when you as a farmer should understand that the marketing cycle through the years has gone up and down. "I feel increasing the amount of beef imported will have serious implications not only in the immediate future but for many years to come." Luerssen, Alden farmer who is president of the McHenry County Farm Bureau, said in his letter: "It seems as though any time an agricultural commodity goes up„ Congress rical Museum Honl&cJGirl Scouts The* McHenry * County Historical museum in Union is extending a special welcome this Sunday, June 25, to all past and present Girl Scouts and their leaders. To spotlight this worthy organization, society board members, Ann Kademaker of Cary and Nancy Petzelt of Algonquin, have arranged to have Senior Scouts and Cadet Scouts from the Crystal Lake area act as docents 'guides) at the museum. They will be dressed in Scout uniforms dating back to the late 1920 s The Scouts will also present a special flag ceremony. A display of • Sybaquay council memorabilia is being set up in the mail) exhibit room of the museum and will include old scrapbooks, handbooks, badges, and even the neigh- Ixirhood notes from the time Woodstock had its own council in the 1940s. Visitors to the museum who have any old scouting artifacts are invited to bring them along to share with others Here is ani opportunity for those now involved or once involved in scouting to share some memories and good times with old friends as well as tour through McHenry county's Historical museum. This Sunday. Girl Scouts in uniform will be admitted free. Museum hours are from 1:30 to 4:30. Drinking Water Study Some randomly selected residents of this area are participating in a national study of rural drinking water for the Environmental Protection agency. & The study currently under way involves a 45-minute in­ terview with rural residents all over the U.S. on the charac­ teristics of their household water as well as an analysis of water samples taken-from their taps and wells. This project, the first thorough national assessment of rural water system, was required of the EPA by Congress in the Safe Drinking act of ,4974 because complete information on rural water conditions was not available. THe study, being conducted for EPA £y Trans Century cor­ poration of Washington, D.C., should provide a basis for an assessment of the kinds of rural water problems and the areas where they prevail. A total of 400 counties will lie is so quick to jump on the band wagon and criticize this price. At the present price of food, the American worker spends just 16 per cent of his disposable income for food-and yet Congress thinks that is too high! Letters were also sent Congressmen Robert McClory and John Anderson, men who represent McHenry county in the U.S. House of Represen­ tatives. Luerssen asked both men to try to influence the President to abandon the beef import increase. Meanwhile, Farm Bureau has been active on several fronts. The AFBF and IAA joined in the protests. Warned Farm Bureau and the National Cattlemen's association: • "Action to increase imports of beef will hurt consumers in the long run. It will damage our cattle industry. "Cattle feeders will take a long look before expanding the beef industry in the face of government policies that are damaging." Fewer cattle mean higher price of beef. The law of supply and demand is trying to func­ tion, but the Carter-Strauss decision to import more beef in late May caused a serious reaction: Cattlemen are pausing to see what might happen. If con­ sumers resist enough to cause a backoff in retail prices, far­ mers will sell off their heifers and cows. That will reduce the PAGE 23 - PLAINDEALER • FRIDAY. JUNE 23, 1978 future supply of meat. The' result, they say, will be chaos and even higher consumer price in the long run, but no profit for farmers either. Farm Bureau protested the proposal to raise beef imports. Harold Steele, IAA president, in a statement to the news media asserted: "The best solution is to allow producers the time and economic in­ centive to expand their roduction. Beef producers k to the market place for guidance in making management decisions. Higher beef prices now will bring forth ample supplies of beef in the future at reasonable consumer prices." The national Cattleman's association says producers lost about $30 billion between 1973 and 1977. In that time con­ sumers benefited. The price of beef went up 14 percent bet­ ween 1973 and 1978 while the overall consumer price index rose 46 percent and average disposable income of Americans increased 50 per­ cent. U.S. News and World Report says the basic shortage in meat will continue because it takes almost three years from a calf's conception until a grass- fed animal can be marketed. The magazine says it doubts if efforts to increase beef imports "will greatly allevaite the squeeze on consumer pocketbooks." mmm* We wish all products were as good as the adver­ tisements suggests they are. Perspective Proposition 13- The Talk Of The Nation By RONALD REAGAN Proposition 13, your magic spell is everywhere. In Washington last week they were talking of little else. President Carter chided the Congress for its miserly ap­ proach to tax cuts. No matter that the piddling $20 billion he has proposed would amount to next-to-nothing for most tax­ payers, it is still larger than the $14 billion Congress has been discussing. At the same time, Mr. Carter, a bom-again tax cutter, sternly warned that he would smite Big Spending with his veto. "Someone has to keep down spending, and I am determined to do so." How he can do this and preside over his proposed $60 billion budget deficit without a combination of major tax cuts and healthy trimming of Washington's sacred cow programs he did not say. At the other end of Penn­ sylvania avenue, the members of Congress were alert to the hurricane force winds blowing from out of the west. Two days after Proposition 13 passed overwhelmingly in California, the House of Representatives voted 290-87 to order the Department of Health, Education 6 Welfare, the holiest of the sacred cows to the liberals, to slash its budget by $1 billion. Meanwhile, in Albany, New York, Gov. Hugh Carey's chief trial balloon floater, his state commerce commissioner, offered up what might be called Son of Proposition 13. It con­ sists of two constitutional amendments. The first would limit the number of state employees to 1 percent of the population and local govern­ ment employees to 2 percent. The net effect would be to lop some 70,000 employees off the public payroll. The second amendment would require a1 two-thirds vote of the Empire State's electorate in order to raise new taxes. And, in Colorado, on the night of the California election, many people told me they thought that a constitutional amend­ ment putting a lid on state spending now had a good chance of qualifying for the November ballot. In California itself, there were the predictable begin­ nings of what Will be a clawing and scratching match between conflicting priorities of state, county, city and school district budgets. Jerry Brown's vaunted ability to attach himself to whatever issue is in popular demand will be tested to the limit on this one. Though he is acting as if he invented Howard Jarvis' Proposition 13, the fact ~ that unknown challengers in the Democratic gubernatorial primary got nearly 25 percent of the vote suggests that he may be in for rough times. Brown is caught between the tax revolt tidal wave on the one hand, and California's two most politically potent unions on the Other, the state teachers' "tAlMlHllon* and the state employees' association. Both were major contributors to Brown's last campaign and expect his loyalty now. The pressure from local govern­ ments for Brown and the legislature to partially plug their Proposition 13 revenue drop with the state's huge treasury surplus will be hard to resist, but beyond that Brown understands the voters' message and it is, "cut government spending." How he reconciles this with the public employee groups' demands for a brim-full public trough remains to be seen. No doubt Mr. Carter is amused at his potential rival's discomfort. Liberal pundits and com­ mentators began weighing in by last weekend and the con­ sensus seemed to be that California's middle-class tax revolt* was mean-spirited, aimed at "the poor." They seemed to be saying that government cannot be made more economical or efficient and that only it can solve problems - the evidence to the contrary notwithstanding. None of the pundits I heard or saw following the Proposition 13 victory seemed to take into consideration the fact that tax cuts on the order of Proposition 13's would cause economic growth, yet they certainly will. The myth that money recouped by taxpayers somehow evaporates into thin air is a myth that will die hard. i V.A. NEWS i < Editor's note: Following are# representative questions ar^ swered daily by VA counselors ' Full information is available at any VA office.) Q-Is there a time limit for- appiying for the VA burial allowance? / A-The $250 burial allowance*' must be applied for within two years after the veteran's burial or cremation. Q--I have r$£ently been honorably discharged after, four years of active military service. What is my " educational entitlement? A-After four years of active^ military service a veteran ir eligible to receive the basic entitlement of 45 months of educational assistance. This entitlement must be used within ten years following separation from active duty. Q-I have a national Service" life insurance policy. The policy number begins with th£. letter "V". It has been ex*, tended as term insurance. Ca£* I obtain a loan on this extended insurance? A-No. Extended term in­ surance has no loan value, but does have a cash value if premiums were paid or waived for 12 or more months before ~ the policy lapsed. _ Army sees drag use in5. ranks as serious. 1