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Retiree Fills Needs of Other Seniors When 67-year-old Harry Henry of Oakland, Califor­ nia retired, he made a long list of all the things he thought he'd like to do. "For about 10 months I just went to the beach or park," Henry told a writer from The National Council on the Aging, "There was no real structure to my days." When the idleness started to bore him, Henry started looking for projects to fill his days. He wrote a booklet on how to play piano by ear and tried painting for a spell. After trying numerous other avocations, none of them terribly satisfying, Henry discovered a need for a directory of services for senior citizens. " "I was off and running then," he recalled. "At first I listed the routine categor­ ies--legal and health serv­ ices and so on --but 1 soon realized there was a need for other services as well as a merchant's discount program." After corresponding with Boston and New York, Henry mailed a copy of Boston's merchant discount program to 70 Bay Area mayors. With Henry volun­ teering his services, the mayors were enthusiastic about the program. Through Henry's efforts, the discount program has been adopted by many Bay Area communities. Men and women 60 and over can buy a wide variety of goods and services from merchants offering dis­ counts of from 10 to 40 percent. Not content to rest on his laurels, Henry is now getting involved in the area of healrh services. "There are public and private organizations that offer help," Henry said. "The problem is that the public doesn't know this help is available or think fit applies only to 4ow- »income people. They don't realize there is another category based on an in­ dividual's ability to pay." by Gerry lohnsoa Henry also lists retire­ ment housing, where the elderly are preferred, and handymen, drivers, house­ keepers and other service people. All of his listing and or­ ganizing come naturally to Harry Henry, who considers his activities an extension of his job as a liaison officer with the Federal Bureau of Public Roads, where he made surveys and devel­ oped manuals that served as guides to state agencies. "What my new activities made me realize is that I enjoyed my job," Henry said. "Otherwise, 1 would have stuck with the list of activities I made when I retired. I got rid of that quite a while ago." THE WORLD birth rate is at an all-time low while the average life expectancy has reached a new high, ac­ cording to the Population Reference Bureau, a private educational organization. The birth rate declined to 29 per 1,000 persons from 30 per 1,000 a year ago. Average life expectancy at birth was put at 60 years, up from 59 last year. HIGH SALT intake ap­ pears to be related to high blood pressure. Population groups such as Greenland Eskimos who live on low- salt diets tend to have low blood pressure. In addition to a high salt intake, factors such as heredity, stress, high fat intake, high sugar intake, lack of exercise and over­ indulgence in tobacco and alcohol may also contribute to high blood pressure. Phenomenonf Men are funny- -pat them on the back and their heads will swell. -Call, San Diego, Calif. Home Truth Some folks want to check Government spend­ ing and others want to spend Government checks. -Skywriter, Alsugi, Japan. WITH THIS COUPON YOU SAVE MORE AT 'eo/iqetown Furniture And Bedding McHENRY McHENR Y STORE ONL Y! P!ll VALUABLE COUPON PP THIS COUPON ENTITLES YOU TO A FREE BED FRAME With purchase of any mattress l box spring set! N/C LIBSIL -- it IBM M IHJ IJIJITTWII VALUABLE COUPON W'MP THIS COUPON ENTITLES YOU TO A FREE TABLE LAMP $39.95 VALUE ith any living room s«t or sl««p*r sof UM 0m C»»MI r« >--«) till N/Cm*** Oat* wuroiijwoo L SPECIAL COUPON BUY! 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Kelly, Car- pentersville, disobeyed a traffic control signal. Susan M. Rother, 2307 Or­ chard Beach, failure to yield. Robert J. Wenck, Crystal Lake, driving while license suspended. James M. Crosbie, 7400 Mason Hill road, no valid registration and failure to apply for a lost or damaged card or registration. Ruth I. Mazur, 2906 Debra lane, unsafe tires. James E. Chrisman, 3400 Wright road, improper lane usage. Patricia J. Williams, 1912 W. Oakleaf drive, driving while license expired. John S. Penny, 1016 River road, no valid registration and no valid driver's license. Jill R. Grabowski, 301 N. Hill road, disobeyed a stop sign. Marilyn L. Ehlen, 512 N. Country Club road, speeding, 38 mph in a 25 zone. Mary N. Grannock, 1020 Chesterfield court, disobeyed a traffic control device. Edward L. Fowler, Jr., 4516 Garden Quarter, disobeyed a traffic control signal. Joseph C. Parisi, 5214 W. Shore drive, disobeyed a traffic control signal. Henry M. Ziolkowski, Park. Ridge, disobeyed a traffic control signal. Leroy G. Koester, 2108 Sterling, disobeyed a traffic control signal. Guy H. Filip, 1704 N. Riverside drive, disobeyed a traffic control signal. Kathleen M. Fleming, 4121 N. Wilmot road, disobeyed a traffic control signal. Roger W. Zawicki, Crystal Lake, speeding, 45 mph in a 30 zone. Carol A. Borchardt. 4903 Barnard Mill road, Ringwood, speeding, 46 mph in a 30 zone. William L. Salazar, 3709 Hamlin road, speeding, 42 mph in a 25 zone. Herman Jacobson.i 4212 Green, speeding, 37 mph in a 25 zone. Steven D. Grabo, 5218 Hunter drive, unsafe tires. SECTION 2 - PAGE 1PLAINDEALER - FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3,1S78 Concern For Good Farm Land R.H. Lounsberry, secretary of Agriculture for the state of Iowa, expressed great concern with the way good farm land is disappearing during his talk at the FS Services annual meeting. Called "Shrinking Acres," he documented the rapid disap­ pearance of farm land in the United States~a million acres a year of prime farm land. "Something must be done to prevent the needless waste of prime farm land," he asserted. "We lost it 40 acres, or 100 acres, or 400 acres at a time. A subdivision may take 20 acres, a highway interchange, 160, and a new strip mine, 640 acres. Individually, each loss seems too insignificant to worry about. But together they add up to a million acres a year and 2»/fe counties over the past 25 years in Iowa "We are concerned not only with the losses of farm land due to urban growth but the losses which seem unnecessary: Developments on farm land which could just as well have occurred on less productive soils, and with leap frog development which adds to the difficulties of arming in­ tervening land and results in its idling even though it may not be built up for decades,Jf ever. "Small towns in Iowa frequently have adequate space within current city limits to expand but the incentives are to move outward". | Lounsberry addressed the talk by persons not concerned about saving farmland because they say we have plenty But he cited USDA figures to show the shrinkage in our farmland in th& U.S. We have about 385 million acres of prime farm land in the U.S. about 65 per­ cent of this land is in crop land, or 250 million acres. Thus prime farm land accounts for 62 percent of the 400 million acres currently being cropped in this country. The reserve acreage is estimated by the USDA at 111 million acres, and of this amount, only 24 million acres could be immediately onverted to tillage The rest would need to be cleared, drained or otherwise modified. Sounds Like A famous university deemphasizing football somehow sounds like Washington deemphasiz­ ing politics. -C- Science Monitor. orcn OMIT DAILY 9:30 TO 6:00 Fill. 9:30 TO 9 SUNDAY 11 TO 3 WE ALREADY HAVE ONE OF THE BEST SHERIFFS IN THE COUNTRY. SO WHY CHANGE? Sheriff Art Tyrrell--interested in every McHenry County citizen. SHERIFF TYRRELL HASR^R ...Established a CRIME PREVENTION UNIT to educate and protect Senior Citizens, Homeowners, and other County Residents. ..Established Safety Education programs in all of the McHenry County Schools. ...Established a County-wide First Aid Program. Another first in the state. ...Worked with schools in McHenry County to establish education programs dealing with law enforcement.' ...Been commended by the American Red Cross and many industries for safety programs in the County. The Safety Education Program has been sighted as one of the finest In the County. ...Been commended for having one of the finest Nar­ cotics Units In the State, resulting in the arrests of hun­ dreds of pushers and dealers in Narcotics. ...Established the Vial for Life Program, another first in the stat*of Illinois; and Sheriff Tyrrell has brought it to you, the people. IN McHENRY COUNTY VOTE FOR CONTINUED PROFESSIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT VOTE FOR ART TYRRELL CANDIDATE FOR SHERIFF OF McHENRY COUNTY TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7,1978 Paid political advertisement. M.J. Graff, secretary/treasurer. Citizens for Tyrrell Committee, 100 Benton Street, Woodstock, Illinois 60098