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CONSUMER GUIDELINES Your refrigerator is.a good place to cut down on energy waste. Keep it defrosted so it'll have an easier job which requires less electricity. Don't set the freezer thermostat lower than necessary to keep a true zero temperature. An easy way to check is to set a thermometer in the freezer. When the Supt of Service Region Edward W. Hall, left, admires Bicentennial salute cover pages of new Illinois Bell telephone directory shown to him by McHfenry Manager Stan Jozwiak. Delivery of books locally started Monday of this week. HERE AND THERE IN BUSINESS Salute Nation's 200th Birthday In Bell Directory McHenry residents will be getting more information than usual from their new Illinois Bell telephone directories this year -- a "guess who?" lesson in American history. In a salute to twenty decades of independence as a nation, Illinois Bell's directory covers for 1975-76 will feature thirty- two figures from America's history, its myths, its present and future. The cover will be on most Bell System directories across the country. It's designed to be a birthday card from the Bell System to the nation, but it also marks the centennial celebration of the invention of the phone by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876. The directory with the an­ niversary cover is being delivered door-to-door to over 16,300 McHenry customers, starting Sept. 15. On the cover, George Washington, the Statue of Liberty, Shirley Temple, and Jackie Robinson, among others, seem to be calling each other to pass along a birthday message to the nation and comparing notes on "how times have changed from 1776 to today. "The cover is our birthday card to ourselves," said Stanley Metlzoff, the New Jersey artist who created the bicentennial cover. Meltzoff, a well known artist and illustrator, has contributed to most of the country's major magazines during the past three decades, most notably the Saturday Evening Post, Life, Scientific A m e r i c a n , N a t i o n a l Geographic and Sports Illustrated. McHenry Manager Stan Jozwiak said he hopes the new directory keeps the attention of its owners even after everyone has figured out who is pictured on the Bicentennial cover. "As interesting as the folks pictured on the front and back of the directory may be, there are more interesting in­ dividuals listed inside: friends, neighbors, local business poeple, and you rown family, of course." Jozwiak said there's more in the directory than just names and telephone numbers. There is also much valuable in­ formation to help telephone users save time and to give them more service for their telephone dollar. A "Helpful Information" page tells, for example, how to handle annoyance calls, where to obtain information about special equipment and services for disabled customers, and how to order directories - at no charge - for other often-called communities. To make it easier to estimate charges on long distance calls and to help customers keep those costs in line, the directory also provides a chart with maximum rates for calls from McHenry to other points inside Illinois and across the country. Any telephone customer in McHenry who hasn't received a new directory by Oct. 1 should call the Illinois Bell business office at 385-9981. Prompt delivery will be arranged. Additional directories can be obtained from the business office upon request. proper level is reached, set or adjust your freezer thermometer accordingly. Replace the gaskets on refrigerator and freezer doors if they're worn out or don't fit properly. They allow air leaks, which cause excessive wear and tear o n r e f r i g e r a t o r moto r-co m pressors. The Price Of Conflict PAGE 5 - PLAINPEALER-WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1975 Thirty Years After World War II ON SCHOOL COMMITTEE Dan McNulty of 2004 North Woodlawn Park has been named to serve on the McHenry high school District 156 Long Range Planning committee. The committee acts as a citizen's advisory group for the District 156 school board. Going to church is a good habit to have along with your bad ones. Auto Service Tips SLOW LEAKS If A TIRE HA5 A LEAK, Th\E flRGT PLACE TO CHECK /£> tUb valve stem, remove the ca? MOISTEN yoUR FINGER ANP TRANSFER THIZ To 7HE VALVE• \f A &U&&LE APPEAL, biAVE EOUNP THE LEAR. TiGhiTZhJ JfiE VALVE STEM. IE Thi!S> OOE^'T WORK, REMOVE 51m ANP REPLACE. AT BEN FRANKLIN THURS--FRI--SAT--SUN. SUPER SAVINGS SPE SALE OF YARNS! Wintuk Knitting Worsted Barrel Of Yarn Reg. I49 Bic Disposable Lighter Plus Free Bic Pen. This Week •1 Limit 2 Reg I28 Reg I" Reg. 73* Jar Dry Roasted Peanuts 99* $167 2 *1 Reg. 1 Value Boxed Cards Buthday and All Occasion Limit 2 2 1 FOR 1 8 OZ. Jar Reg. 203 320Z. Bottle Listerine Limit 1 Limit 2 Reg. 20 Count Limit 2 Boys-Mens Hooded Sweat Shirts Boys ^99 Mens £9} 92% Cotton-8% Acrylic Limited Qty. 1 Lot Of Our Regular Stock Sheets And Cases Asst colors & patterns Reduced y3 HSFN STREET MALI TT7 BEN 1 FRAN KUN 1250 N. Green St McHenry Your Friendly Fashion Store Big enough to be complete Small enough to give you service WEEKDAYS 9:00-5:30 FRIDAY 9:00-8:30 SUNDAY 10:00-12:30 Thirty years after the end of World War II -- and despite two wars since that time-men and women of that granddaddy of all armed conflicts still comprise 46 per cent- of America's veteran population of 29.5 million. World War II came to an end Sept. 2,1945, when the formal surrender was signed aboard the USS Missouri, 2lh weeks after hostilities lad ceased. Veterans administration records show 13,586,000 veterans are still alive out of the 16,535,000 who saw service at some time between Sept. 16, 1940, and July 25, 1947, the period on which eligibility for most World War II benefits is based. More than 406,000 died while still in uniform. More than 3,230,000 World War II veterans receive help from VA for disabilities, 58 per cent of all veterans to whom VA makes disability payments. Of this number, 1,306,000 have disabilities resulting from military service. The massive manpower needs of World War II resulted in more than twice as many men being in uniform at one time than had served during the previous 170 years of American history. Even after the huge call-ups for the conflicts in Korea and Vietnam, those who served during World War II still constitute well over a third of the 44.5 million Americans who have borne arms at any time since the first action by the Minutemen. Living World War II veterans are 30 per cent of that total. The way World War II has overshadowed all other wars can be shown in the magnitude of the tragedy it brought to America, as well as in the number of participants. Major battles were fought on three continents and in oceans around the world, and American battle deaths were nearly 2Vfe times the combined totals of those in World War I, Korea and Vietnam, which were narrowly restricted geographically by comparison. World War II veterans were the first to benefit from training and housing programs to make readjustment to civilian life easier and to help veterans establish careers and start family life. These programs have since been made available to Korean Conflict and Vietnam war veterans. Slightly more than fifty per cent of the 15,440,000 eligible World War II veterans used the right to GI Bill training, with 2,300,000 enrolling in college. All GI Bill training for World War II service ended in 1956. GI home loans worth more than $45.4 billion have helped 5.7 million World War II veterans solve their housing needs. This benefit is still available to those who served in World War II, as well as later conflicts. Some 3.6 million men and women of World War II and the period immediately following still carry life insurance policies issued while they were in service. Face value of the policies is more than $34 billion. VA estimates that services and payments to World War II veterans have cost more than $113 billion. This is twice the cost of help for veterans of World War I, a conflict that has been over for fifty-seven years and is the second costliest war in terms of veterans' benefits. The World War II figure is 47 per cent of the total that has been spent by VA and predecessor agencies for veterans programs since the Nation was founded. That figure is now approximately $240 billion. VA expenditures this year vol! push the total well past the quarter of a trillion dollar mark before the Bicentennial is reached next summer. Administrator of Veterans Affairs Richard L. Roudebush has cited tnis fact several times in recent speeches to national veterans' conventions and has noted that VA will probably be called on to spend as much during the next 12 to 15 years as was spent during the first 200. He points out that VA's budget is now at the $18 billion a year level and that the number of living veterans is the largest in history. The large number of World War II veterans will be needing more and more medical and financial help as they grow older,he says, as will the nearly five million Korean Conflict veterans who are only a few years younger. Readjustment help for the 7.5 million Vietnam era veterans will continue for a few more years and service will continue for the nearly one million World War II veterans still surviving. Roudebush says that those who call veterans' benefits a part of the cost of war are seeing only part of the picture. "The cost of helping veterans is also part of the cost of having a free, fair and decent society, one that recognizes the contributions of its citizens and assists them when they have sacrificed for the common good," according to Roudebush. VA projects that there will still be 4,362,000 World War II veterans living at the beginning of the 21st century. Assistance for those who served in World War II and their dependents will go on past the middle of the next century, however, if the history of other wars is a good indicator. The last veteran of the War of 1812 died in 1905 and the last dependent of a veteran of that war died after the end of World War II, in 1946. The last Mexican War veteran died in 1929 and the last dependent died as men moved into Vietnam in 1962. The last Union veteran died after the end of the Korean Conflict, in 1956, and the last Confederate veteran died in 1959. And today, 110 years after the end of the Civil War, there are still some 380 widows and children of veterans from that war on VA's pension rolls. Did you know that George Philadelphia, Pa., in 1787? Did Washington was the presiding y°u know that James Madison officer of the Constitutional was known as the "Father of convention, meeting in the Constitution"? Did you know that Sept. 17-23 is known as Constitution week? The National society, Daughters of the American Revolution, urges all citizens to study thp Constitution, to know it and above all to respect it Celebrate Constitution week! Semi-Annual DISCOUNT OF ON CUSTOM DRAPERIES SEPT. 15th THRU SEPT. 27th ffi Your choice of any fabric in our store. Our personal attention, from measuring to installation. also50% off LOOSE-WEAVE,READY MADE DRAPERIES TO 144" WIDE McHENRY DRAPERY & CARPET 1253 N. GREEN ST. 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