ONE phone call can answer any quest ions Heather SKIRT SALE •\GE 22 - PLAINDEALER. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY I. MM GROCERY ITEMS ZO' ^Continued from page 1) In January, the two-pound TWO-CAR CRASH « container and closing at $.64, for an increase of 16.3 per cent increase over 1979. The Kraft macaroni and cheese dinner had risen 15 percent over January's average price of $.53. Marking the least gain in the bread category, a box,, of Cheerios increased 8.0 percent over the year. In the miscellaneous category, which contains everything from canned peas to detergent, the 37.2 percent price increase of a two-pound can of coffee was the most dramatic of the calendar vear. can of coffee would have cost the shopper an average price of" $4.78~JSwhile u December that price rose to an average of. Other notable increases in Ihe miscellaneous group were/ a five-pound bag! of Gravy Train, up 24.0 per cent; Campbell's vegetable >, up 12.5 percent; and the \ four-roll package of Charnpin, up 10.7 percent. While \most of the in creases in the miscellaneous group hovered^t around Overall averagetrrcrease of 7.0 percent, the only item that decreased in price, did by almost 20 percent. A can- of Dei Monte peaches began 1979 at an average price of $.77. By the time December arrived, that price had dropped to $.62 a can - a^decrease of 19.4 percent. In September, the can of peaches had dropped in price to $.59, for net decrease of 23.3 percent. Probably 'the most depressing statistic is that of the 50 items surveyed, 42 rose^in price, far out strippingMhe eight that decreased inMJie year that was - 1979. The following chart is the entire list of the 50 items surveyed through 1979. The prices range from January to December with stops At the quarter, half and three quarter points: March, June and September, respectively. The 50 items are further grouped according to net price increases or decreases at the end of the year. PRODUCTS (INCREASED) Bread-Butternut Large Sandwich Quaker Oats (18 ox.) Cheerios (15 ox.) Macaroni and Cheese (Kraft) Heinz Ketchup (20 ox.) Baggies (150 bags) Reynolds Wrap Paper Towels (roll) Charmin (4-rolls) Jays Potato Chips (9 ox.) Tide (5 lb. 4 ox.) Era<2qt.) Ivory dish soap (22 ox.) Alpo dog food Gravy Train (51b.) Coffee (Hills Bros 2 lb.) Cigarettes (carton) Crisco oil (24 ox.) Flour (Pilsbury 5 lb.) Sugar (Domino5 lb.) Ragu sauce (with meat) Soup (Campbell's tomato) Soup (Campbell's vegetable) Canned corn (Libby) Canned peas (Del Monte) Lettuce (head) Apples (red delicious) Carrots (lb.) Bananas (lb.) Baking potatoes (5 lb.) Hot dogs (lib.) Hard salami (ftlb.) Sirloin steak (lb.) Ground beef (lb.) Pork loin sirloin roast (lb.) Bottom round roast (lb.) Pot roast chuck arm (lb.) Ocean perch (lb.) Kraft Amer. cheese slices (Vk lb) Milk (gallon) Butter (lb) Margarine (Parkay) PRODUCTS (DECREASED) Eggs (doxen) Chicken (lb.) Smoked ham cento* slice (lb.) Pork loin rib chops (lb.) Bacon (lb.) Tomatoes (lb.) Cabbage (lb.) Canned peaches (Del Monte) Jan. Mar. June Sept. Dec. .77 .79 M .82 .87 .55 .51 .11 .52 .64 1.05 1.09 1.96 .31 .38 INJURES DRIVERS (Continued from pagejtf^ immediately because of another autp,- Robert J. Beyer, Jr., of 8421 Shady lan% Wonder" Lake, was stopped in traffic on Rout# 120 last week when his auto was struck in the rear. The driver of the other car was Edward Kazimour of Crystal Lake, who told police he tried to stop his car Which sli<£ on some loose gravel. In a similar accident, a car driven by Monica L. Zmich, of 722 Route 120, McHenry, slid into the rear of another auto that was stopped in traffic on Route 120, near Chapel Hill road, last Friday morning. David W. Beck, of Woodstock, was the driver of the other vehicle. Icy or snowy road con ditions contributed to at least five accidents in the McHenry area and a deer contributed to a sixth in the last week. Diane L. Setzler, of 8620 W. Sunset, Wonder Lake, was trying to stop for the in tersection of W. Wonder Lake and Thompson roads last Saturday when her car started sliding. The car slid through the three-way intersection and hit a Commonwealth Edison pole. Robert V, Snyder, of 4805 W. Crystal Lake road, McHenry, was driving west on BuJl Valley road when his car began skidding out of control and hit a tree and a fence. Joanne L. Wenkel, of 4121 E. Lake Shore drive, Wonder Lake, was driving west on Bull Valley road last Sunday and hit a slick spot in the road* The car slid off the road and into a tree. On Route 12 near Fox Lake road last Sunday, Joseph A. Sandall, of 3501 Sherwood Forest drive, Spring Grove was rounding a curve when the car slid out of control and into some small trees. Katherin M. Blumm, of 2212 W. Riverside, McHenry, was trying to avoid a dog which had run out in front of her car, when she lost control of the vehicle. The car ran off the road and into a driveway culvert, doing damage to the underside of the vehicle. Charles N. Keith, of 3216 Eastwood, Wonder Lake,- was driving on ®TWonSSsH Lake road 'when a deer jumped out in front of his car. JEWEL CATALOG OUTLET STORE • JEWEL CATALOG OUTLET STORE JEWEL CATALOG OUTLET ST0R MERCHANDISE CLEARANCE CENTER Be A A DIVISION OF JEWEL DIRECT MARKETING 301 W. Virginia St. CRYSTAL LAKE •15-455-0333 Mon.Jum. 9 a.m. • 5 p.m. W*d., Thura., Fri. 9 o.m. * • p.m. ' Sat. 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Sun.'10 a.m. • 3 p.m. With easy-on elastic waist. 100% polyester knit. Rose colored. MCC Reg. '5.44 SALE Shortie Pink NYLON GOWN With beige lace at V-neck , cuf f s . Machine wash. MCC Reg. '5.99 SALE at JEWEL MCC. Sale Days Wed., Jan. 9 Thru Toes., Jan. 15 --While Quantities Last-- Striped HAT and ipe MUFFLER SET In 100% acrylic. 6 foot muffler with 6" fringe. MCC Reg. '5.99 ALL OTHER LADIES WEAR % OFF Our Discount Price Lloyd's Ultra-Slim LCD CALCULATOR Fits in your pocket. Has SALE memory. MCC Reg.'17.99 APF HAND CALCULATOR With AC Adapter/Charger Needs no batteries. Just charge it up! MCC Reg. '17.99 SALE ALL OTHER ELECTRONIC ITEMS % OFF Our Discount Price andjftchen Gadgets West Bend GENERATION COOKWARE 5 Pc. Aluminum/Stainless Set Solid aluminum bottoms are fused to gleaming stainless steel. Set in cludes 1 Qt. Highboy Saucepan with cover, 2 Qt. Dutch Oven with cover, and 8" Open SkUlet. MCC Reg.'41.97 SALE ALL OTHER HOUSEWARE ITEMS % OFF ' Our Discount Price Housewares include Cookware, Ap- flfawm, filMSWgre*. Dufef* Flatware Deaths HENRY<BUB) SCHAEFER Henry (Bub) Schaefer, formerly of 1504 N. Court street, McHenry, died Tuesday morning, Jan. 8, at St. John's hospital in Springfield, where he had been living with his son, Donald, and family. Arrangements are in complete at the Peter M. Justen & Son funeral home. Visitation is tentatively set for Thursday, with funeral services Friday. PHILIP JOHN HASTINGS Philip John Hastings, of 4911 W. Bonner drive, McHenry, passed away Friday, Jan. 4, at McHenry hospital. He was 62 years old, born in Balham, England, Jan. 15, 1917, to John and Anna (Fischbach) Hastings. He is survived by his wife,.- Lake (Wagner) and one son, Philip Greg Hastings, of New York. There was no visitation, and funeral services were private Burial arrange ments were made by the Petir M. Justen & Son funeral tfiome. CHARfcES E. PFISTER Charles E. Pfister, age 72, of 933 Wiltshire drive, McHenry, died in McHenry, hospital Saturday, Jan, 5. He was born April 25, 1907, in Chicago, to Nathaniel and Lucille Whisler. .. He is survived by his wife, Harriet (Bedel) whom he married June 26, 1958, in Norwood Park; a daughter, Mrs. Mar v. Terese (Otto) Tader, Chicago; sons, Michael (Brother Kenneth) F.S.C., Jefferson City, Mo.; Lt. Commander Steven Pfister, U.S.N., Honolulu and Lawrence of Cicero. Also surviving are step daughters, Mrs. Monica ( M i l t o n ) M c D a n i e l , Mulvane, Kan.; Mrs. Mary K. Brown, Atlanta, Ga.; Mrs. Joan (Theodore) Foss, Middletown, Ohio; Eileen Bourke, San Francisco; Mrs. Patricia (Kenfteth) Lindenau,York, Pa. and step-sons, Edward, Cary, 111. and John, Des Plaines, 111. Twenty-eight grand children survive; a brother; Norman, of Northbrook and a sister, Mrs. Antoinette Bergen, of Chicago. He was preceded in death by a sister, Mrs. Germaine Kimmeth and two brothers, Otto and Nat Pfister. Mr. Pfister was a resident of the McHenry area thie past four years, formerly of Norwood Park, and was a retired employeje of the U. S. Customs. He was a member of St. Mary's Catholic church; honorable lifetime member of the Knights of Columbus Council 1288, McHenry ; treasurer of the Whispering Oaks Con d o m i n i u m , O w n e r s association and trustee of the Whispering Oaks Community center. Lazier, McHenry 4nd Mrs. Lila Knox, Flint, Mich.; two sons, Roy Bradley, McHenry and Marshall Bradley, Madison, Wis.. Also- sur viving are fourteen grand children; nineteen great grandchildren and a sister, Ms. Minnie Golding, of Chicago. Mrs. Block was preceded in death by her husband, George, in 1956 and a daughter, Muriel Bradley, in 1975. She was born and raised in the western Lake county area until seven years ago when she moved to McHenry. She had been a teacher in a one room school in the early nineteen hun dreds. • Funeral services will be performed by Reverend Ralph Smith, of the First United Methodist church at the George R. Justen & Son funeral home Wednesday, Jan. 9 with internment at Norwood Park Home cemetery. Visitation was scheduled for Tuesday, from 3:30 until 9 p.m. Memorials are requested to the Children's Memorial hospital in Chicago. Russian New Year Celebration Observed A memorial Mass will be offered Saturday, Jan. 12, at 10 a.ml at St. Mary's Catholic church. Memorials will be appreciated to St. Mary's church or the McHenry hospital. Arrangements were handled by the George R. Justen & Son funeral home. LILAH M. BLOCK Lilah M. Block, 95, of 4817 S. Pine street, McHenry * died Sunday, Jan. 6., in McHenry hospital. She was born Feb. 24, 1884, in Wauconda, the daughter of Edward and Anna (Pratt) Golding. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Pearl Since there are celebrations at this time of year, a word is in order for the Russian New Year, which the Serbs call Serbian New Year, the Greeks, Gr<eek New Year, and so it goes with the peoples of the Eastern rite or Byzantine rite or Orthodox Catholics as opposed to the Roman ones. The whole when the Roman Emperor Constantine moved the capitol of the Roman Empire to the city on the Bosporus and renamed it Con stantinople in 330 A.D. Constantine was a religous man and as emperor also the titular head of the church. It was only natural that the presiding bishops of the new capitol assume the post of head of, the church. The bishop of Rome, just as naturally, resented this and, claiming precedent insisted that he and Rome were and would remain at the head of the church." As the Empire fell apart and the two factions grew Ask 9.5 Percent School B u d g e t I n c r e a s e M ' 8 1 The Illinois State board of education's Budget com mittee will request at the Jan. 10 board meeting in Chicago, that the Fiscal Year 1981 budget for Illinois schools be increased by 9.5 percent over FY-80 state appropriations. v The Budget committee recommended the 9.5 per-' cent increase - or $194 million - in state spending for elementary, secondary and vocational education after hearing public com ments on State Superin tendent of Education Joseph M. Cronin's budget recommendations for FY-81. The hearing was held Thursday, Jan. 3, in Springfield. The total recommended budget for Illinois schools is about $2.7 billion, including** $449 million in federal funds. The committee's budget recommendation to the board also includes changes in the state aid formula, which would raise the The McHenry Plaindealer Newspaper Available At The Following Locations: •LAKEVIEW ' •SUNNYSIDE FOOD • JOHNSBURG FOOD MART • ADAMS GROCERY •LITTLE STORE •FRED ft IRENE'S TAP •McHENRY QUICK MART •MAYS DRUG •BELL LIQUORS •McHENRY WALGREEN • BOLGER'S DRUG STORE •BEN FRANKLIN •OSCO DRUGS •JEWEL HORNSBY'S •HERMES ft CO. •LIQUOR MART •VILLAGE MART X. • J ft R STORE • SUNRISE GROCERY • STEINY TAP •McCULLOM LAKE GROC. •FOOD MART •NORTHWEST TRAIN •McHENRY HOSPITAL present per-pupil guarantee of $1,363 to $1,498. The proposed budget also includes a 7 percent ($99.2 million dollars) increase in general state aid for schools to be distributed on an equalize^ basis to local schools, with special era- fhasis to those with below average property wealth pef student and high con centrations of cfrttdmi^rom poverty-level families. State Support fop categorical grant programs would t,6tal $416 million, with increases for: Special Education, $26.2 million; T r a n s p o r t a t i o n , $ 1 9 . 6 m i l l i o n ; V o c a t i o n a l Education, $8.9 million; Bilingual Education, $5.7 million; Textbooks, $2.0 million; Adult Education. $2.2 million; and Gifted Education, $2.8 million. Also, $8.5 millon would be a p p r o p r i a t e d f o r desegregation assistance, of which $1 million would be for voluntary a inter-district exchanges. The board will decide at its Jan. 10 meeting on a final dollar figure that will be requested from the Illinois General Assembly and the governor. further apart, the rift became complete and although the religion is the same in most aspects, each church resisted the variants in the other with might and vigor. It wasn't until after World War I that the "Or thodox" world accepted the "new" calendar for prac^ tical purposes. But, when it to traditional celebrations such as Christmas, New Year and Easter, the old calendar prevails, if not always uniquely then doubly. t Ask Zoning Variation For New Building A petition has been filed for hearing before the McHenry County Zoning Board of Appeals by Frank and B. Jean Geister for a variation of the 'JR-l" Residential district. to permit an accessary building from 16 feet \in height to 20 feet in height, and from 600 square feet to 1,500 square feet of floor area. The property is located in McHenry township at 3202 North Bay View land and consists of less than 2 acres. The hearing on this petition will be held Jan. 17 at lua.m., in Room 112 of the McHenry county courthouse, 2^00| North Seminary 'avenue, Woodstock. Those who may be interested may appear and be heard. Marengo Youth Arrested For Dec. 25 Murder A 17-year-old youth from Marengo was arrested Saturday morning by Sheriff's police in connection with a murder committed in Chicago on Dec. 25. Acting on information received from the Chicago Police department, police arrested Juan Munguia, 17, who had been using the alias of Emilio Roldan. Munguia was wanted by Chicago police for the Dec. 25 murder of Roman Mentado of Chicago and is now in their custody. " N u m e r o u s o t h e r Mexicans" were detained as illegal aliens and later were turned over to immigration authorities. SEAMLESS GUTTERS offered by R a 1EUTERPIHSES Aluminum Facia, Saffiting A Siding FOR FREE ESTIMATE CALL: 815-385-7784 ROAD ALLOTMENT McHenry county has been alloted $33,750 as its share of allotments to Illinois townships and road districts from motor fuel taxes paid into the state treasury during November. These funds are allocated monthly for highway needs, the money computed on the basis of mileage in the in dividual townships and road districts. 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