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•AGE 4 -PLAINDEALER - FRIDAY. JUNE 1.1979 Hare Rnd There In Bu Before Buying-investigafe Builder Perfect Safety Record Fat Bonus Before you buy a new home, investigate the builder, suggests the Home Builders Assocation of Greater Chicago (HBAGC), trade association of the area's leading builders. "Most builders are highly reliable and will deliver everything they promise: it's a handful of unethical operators who cause problems in the home building industry, just as they do in other businesses," said HBAGC president, C. Cass Collins. To make sure of the builder you're considering buying from, Collins suggests you check the following sources: 1 - The village hall in the community where you're thinking of buying. Find out if the building inspector has been having any problems with the builder. 2. - Home Builders Association of Greater Chicago, telephone 887-7575. This organization consists of reputable builders, large and small, who are governed by an Ethics committee that settles complaints and polices stan­ dards. 3. - Home Owners Warranty (HOW) program, telephone 887-7578. This is a program set up by the National Association of Home Builders that now insures over $19 billion worth of housing in the U.S., including 25,000 homes in the Chicago area. HOW provides insurance to back up the builder's own warranty and also to cover the house for an additional period. If the builder is unable or un­ willing to correct specified defects, HOW takes over. HOW coverage extends over 10 years. 4. - People who have already bought and are living in homes built by the builder you're considering. These owners are probably the most accurate barometer of builder quality. Other possible sources in­ clude the Better Business Bureau, although at time the BBB may have complaints registered which later turn out Safety In Spring Projects to be unjustified, and your own bank, for a Dun & Bradstreet credit report on the builder. However, some builders do not issue figures to Dun & Brad- street, and so lack of this in­ formation does not indicate anything about the builder. "Among these sources, the prospective buyer can get an excellent picture of a builder," Collins said. "However, the buyer should know that, just as with anything else that is man- made, a house may have defects in it that can be corrected and other defects that are chargeable to wear- and-tear as the house ages. These are to be expected." Plant Manager These Illinois Bell outside line technicians are all smiles because thty are among eight who had over five years of accident free drfving. From left, they are Manager Rick Hayes, Ron White, Dfenny Hogan, Arnie Bengtson, Tom Schoefernacker, and Foreman Bob Afeld. White and Afeld are from McHenry. Jim Miller, president of Intermatic, Inc., is handed bags depicting weight lost during program in which company paid workers $4 a pound for shedding weight. Clockwise around Miller, the top losers: Denise Aubert, Ron Cates, Pat Novatka and Juanita Karls. Now is the time those projects planned last winter are becoming realities. Commonwealth Edison has some advice that can insure the satisfaction of a job well done without risk if that do-it- yourself project is the in­ stallation or work on an an­ tenna. digging fence post holes, or the planting of trees. Edison urges that a safe distance be maintained from power lines when installing or working on an antenna. Con­ tract with electric facilities - by a person, antenna or metal stepladder - can result in serious injury. If your home is served by underground electric cables, it is wise to have Edison mark service lines before you start digging to plant that tree or make fence post holes. When it comes to power lines, whether overhead or buried, it always makes sense to practice safety. In addition to the serious personal injury that can result from contact with an electrical power line, a mishap can cause thousands of dollars in damages, too. It could also interrupt the power supply to the immediate neighborhood or across a widespread area, which may include hospitals and other vital locations. Adults, of course, are not the only ones who head outdoors in warmer weather. To children, one of the things that goes hand-in-hand with springtime is kite flying. Two precautions need to be remembered. First, never use any metal on the kite or string, and second, find an open space away from overhead power lines to get that kite up in the air, then watch it soar and dip with the wind currents. Honor Retiring Teacher ATDEALERS MEETING when you buy this LAWN-BOY Supreme! MaMSS70 2lH lawn-boy hlosh 815 385-0434 103 RTE. 120 McHENRY Employees at the Intermatic automatic timer, heater, and lighting plant here received a cash bonus this week: more than $3,500 for losing about 1,330 pounds of fat. A hidden bonus was a sharp drop in their blood pressure readings. The company paid 15-pound- overweight workers $4 a pound if they realized a pre-targeted weight loss over a 13-month period and an additional dollar for each pound lost above the goal. If they lost as much as 15 pounds, they were paid $1 a pound. Of the 173 employees in the program. 100 lost the total of 1,330 pounds. This weight- losing group was comprised of 26 who accomplished goals, 15 who lost at least 15 pounds but did not make their targets, and another contingent of 59 who lost amounts ranging from one to 14 pounds. Forty-two gained weight and 31 did not show up for the weigh-in. Promoted To Supervisor I Kevin E. Barber was recently promoted to corporate communications supervisor in the communications and public affairs department of the Kemper Insurance companies in Long Grove. Barber joined Kemper in 1976 as youth program coordinator. He was promoted to assistant community relations coor­ dinator in January of 1977 and to editor later that year. His new responsibilities include supervision of Kemper's financial publications, public affairs materials and com­ munity relations activities. He is a 1973 graduate of North Park college in Chicago and received a B.A. degree in English. He lives with his wife. Lyn, and their son, Jesse, in McHenry. John and Jenny Scott of Adams Lawn & Leisure in McHenry attended a Scorpion dealer meeting held in Orlando, Fla. The Scotts attended the four-day event and were among the more than 600 dealers who saw the unveiling of the 1980 line of snowmobiles, clothing and advertising programs. DONALD R. JOHNSON Donald R. Johnson, formerly production manager at Modine Manufacturing Co.'s McHenry plant, has been promoted to plant manager. He replaced Arnold W. Leafe, who has transferred to the company's Knoxville, Tenn. plant. Johnson joined Modine in 1978 from Viking Boat, Middleburg Ind., where he had served as plant manager and vice-president of operations. County Underwriter Takes State Office This young, unidentified "fan" of Mrs. Rosemary claps his hands enthusiastically as the retiring teacher opens gift presented to her by the children of Cooper Kiddie college. Mrs. Rosemary is retiring after seventeen years of teaching. Transportation Losses Heavy expenditures to clear tracks and yards of record amounts of snow plus lower- than-anticipated revenues because of operational dif­ ficulties caused by the extreme winter weather, combined to produce a first quarter loss of $30,571,000, or $6.89 per share for the Chicago and North Western Transportation company. In the first quarter a year earlier the North Western reported a loss of $10,789,000 or $2.43 a share, again, occasioned Tuesday, May 29, was the picnic and "graduation day" for 40 nursery school students by what were, at the time, record-shattering snows and cold temperatures. Operating revenues were $154,120,000 in the first quarter of 1979, compared with operating revenues of $144,691,000 in the 1978 first quarter. at Cooper Kiddie college. However, a surprise honor was bestowed upon their teacher, Mrs. Rosemary Pretaznik. Mrs. Pretaznik, or Rosemary, as the children call her, is retiring after 17 years of teaching nursery school. Rosemary was honored with a gift especially designed for her. Since she has been loved by McHenry area children throughout 17 years of John P. McKenna, president of the Illinois Life Underwriters association, has announced that William E. "Bill" Sun- derlage of the McHenry County Life Underwriters association was elected regional vice- president of Region One at the state convention held at St. Louis, Mo. He will serve during the period July 1, 1979-June 30, 1981. Sunderlage is the first member of the McHenry County association elected to a state office. McKenna went on to explain that the state is divided into ten regions, each headed by a v regional vice-president, who is responsible for assisting local associations in conducting their affairs, ethics and practice hearings, public service projects and meeting programs. He also represents the state at all local association meetings. teaching, this gift was presented on their behalf, as well as this 1978-79 class. On this gift was inscribed, "To Mrs. Rosemary - From all of her children" - May 29 -'79. After her two sons, Tom and Mitchell, Jr., started school, Rosemary began assisting Mrs. Sylvia Cooper, director of Cooper Kiddie college. Five years ago, as the school expanded, Rosemary started teaching the 3-year-old class. She has made learning a joyful and exciting experience for these small children. ZAAR PRODUCTIONS, INC. 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