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WED, MARCH 26, 1969 - PLAI KIDFAI PP . PG. 5 School Transportation With school transportation costs up because of increased enrollments, inflation and the raising of state specification standards for buses, the School Problems commission is proposing a new transportation formula. At the present time the School Code provides for a transportation fund which consists of moneys received from a property tax levy (not to exceed 8 cents per $100 of valuation without referendum ~ from 8 cents to 15 cents with referendum), state reimbursement and unds received from other districts and individuals for transporting pupils. Data before the School Problem^ commission shows that many districts, during the past few years, had to transfer Educational fund moneys to the Transportation fund to maintain its solvency. In most districts, these moneys are needed to finance the educational programs. A breakdown of the 1967 Transportation Fund tax rates shows that 513 districts had a . tax rate extended of less than 8 cents per $100 of property valuation, 748 districts had a rate of 8 cents extended, and 55 districts had a rate greater than 8 cents. Under the proposed formula the state will pay the cost of transporting eligible pupils less the assessed valuation of a school district times a qualifying rate (the qualifying rate in elementary districts is 5 cents; in high school districts, 3 cents; and in unit districts, 7 cents). However, the maximum amount any district may be reimbursed for transportation of eligible pupils is 4/5 of the cost, and the minimum amount to be received by aMistrict is $16 times the number of eligible pupils transported. Information presented to the School Problems commission revealed that a great majority of the districts would levy less property taxes than they presently do under the new formula, but a few would have to levy more than they currently levy and these latter districts could levy up to 12 cents per $100 of valuation. Students transported must live 1 1/2 miles or more from school to receive state reimbursement. Other features of the proposal are: (1) Reduces the deficit transfer from the Educational Fund to the Transportation fund; (2) Removes a barrier to district reorganization; (3) Bases reimbursement on an equalization concept; (4) Places maximum regular transportation reimbursement on the same level of support as special and vocational education; (5) Increases state support for transportation to a higher level; and (6) Replaces an outmoded formula. If approved by the 76th Illinois General Assembly, the new formula will cost the state approximately $7 million more a year and will raise the state's contribution from 30 percent to 50 percent of the total cost for transportation of students. The Newspaper Serves "Hie press is an extension of the people ..." This is how an attorney recently defended the right of newspaper reporters to describe proceedings of a public hearing. It is only through the press that thousands of people in any community are able to participate intelligently in public affairs. The reporter at a court hearing or at a city council meeting is the eyes and ears of every reader of the newspaper. Special privileges which were accorded the press under the First Amendment to the American Constitution were not intended to favor any private group of printers. They were privileges guaranteed to the representatives of the whole public. They were intended to remove any cloak of secrecy from the conduct of the people's business. As an extension of the public, the reporter istnterested in reporting the abuse of power whether it favor the individual or the state. He is interested in helping the absent citizen to run his government with knowledge and insight. When the press enters the retail stores of a community, it performs a similar servce for the public. It becomes the eyes and ears of thousands of shoppers through its advertising columns. From millions of available items, newspaper advertising selects the latest styles, the best prices, the most convenient offerings. In doing so it becomes an extension of the consumer, saving him money and untold hour s of walking, talking and looking. The Gift Of Sight "Whereas, the gift of sight is one of mankind's greatest treasures", is$|the opening statement made by Gov. Richard B. Ogilvie's proclamation designating March as Eye Bank month in Illinois. The Governor, "calls upon our citizens to join with the Illinois Eye Bank in the observance and to support their efforts to unlock the mysteries of the diseases and conditions which cause needless blindness; and that our, citizens examine their hearts to find the desire to pledge their eyes, after death, to this noble cause of giving sight to the blind". The Illinois Eye Bank, financed and administered by the Illinois Society for the Prevention of Blindness, was founded in 1947. Its purpose is to provide donor eye tissue to eye surgeons for transplant surgery which can restore sight to those whose blindness is caused by injury or defective cornea; and to promote eye research and to advance the eye-bank movement. This month of March is set aside as a time to especially emphasize the need for a very large number of eye donors. All interested persons who would like to have a part in this great humanitarian project are urged to become donors: or financially support the program. mii b a b ba 5 5 Are You New In Town? Do You Know Someone New In Town? We would like to extend a welcome to every newcomer to our community. Ann Zeller CALL ROYAL WELCOME 385-0559 : O Fran Olsen: 385-5740 I Joan Stull | 385-5418 : t a o 0B 0 oo f l0 p o p w YOUR TOWN PAP^R L SURTAX COLLEGE STUDENTS NATIONAL. SUPPORT FOR ESTA& L1SH E P institution DAY x xasting' peac B\ COMES TO VIETNAM] isnnnni II RACIAL. |4ARMOt4V achieved AT COST OP LIVING PROPS i-rttTn**"" PRASTlCftlLY YOUGUiSSED IT- APRIL FOOL! Social Security QUESTION BOX BY JIM JANZ FIELD REPRESENTATIVE Today's questions are ones frequently being asked of our representatives by the people of Mc Henry county. The Social Security office at 2500 Grand avenue, Waukegan, reminds McHenry county residents that it has representatives meeting people at two locations in McHenry county on a regular basis. The representatives are at the Woodstock Public library, 414 W. Judd, Woodstock every Wednesday from 9 a.m. to noon and at the Harvard city hall from 9:30 a.m. to noon on the first and third Tuesday every month. If you have a question you would like answered on Social Security in this column, please forward it to Social Security Administration Question and Answer Column, 2500 Grand avenue, Waukegan, Illinois, 60085. Give your full name, address, and Social Security number. If you do not I want your name to appear, I please indicate this and we will 1 use only initials. Question: My mother has just died at 75. Neither she nor my father ever worked under social security, but my mother was receiving $40 a month from social security because she was over 72. Will social security help pay her burial expenses? Answer: No. Social security makes a lump-sum death payment only when the deceased person has worked long enough under the program. Question: I am 15 years old and starting my first job. It is only part-time work after school. Do I have to get a social security number? Answer: Yes, Your employer is required to report your wages for social security purposes. You must have a social security number and show it to him so that you get credit for your earnings. Almost all types of employment are now covered by social security, whether the work is permanent, short-term, or part-time. If you don't have a social security number, you can apply for one at your social security office. The address is in the phone book. Question: Two years ago I began receiving benefits as a disabled worker. The law said I had to be disabled for 6 months before they began. The benefits recently stopped because my condition improved and I was able to return to work. If my condition worsens and I become eligible for disability benefits again, will I have to wait another 6 months before I get benefits? Answer: No. Ordinarily you MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS Stanley F. Yolles National Institute , M.D., Director of Mental Health Preventing Mental Explosions Mental illness is America's No. 1 health problem. Alcoholism, drug addiction, marital strife and divorce, racial tension, economic instabilities, inadequate education, urban crowding, violence in the streets --all of these and other mental health problems like schizo- \ phrenia and depression touch every one of us. What is being done to solve these problems? More research is being encouraged and supported by can star! getting benefits immediately if you should again become disabled within 5 years -- even if your impairment is different from the previous one. Question: How will Medicare help my mother pay for a wheelchair? Answer: The medical insurance part of Medicare can help pay for either the purchase or rental of a wheelchair for use in your mother's home if her doctor prescribes it. Whether she buys or rents, Medicare ordinarily will make monthly payments equal to 80 percent of the reasonable rental charges -- after she has met the $50 annual deductible. She is the one who decides whether to buy or rent. But before she decides, she should ask her doctor how long she will need the wheelchair. Remember, Medicare payments stop when the medical need for the equipment stops. If she decides to buy the chair and agrees to pay for it over a period of time, she may still be paying for it after the Medicare payments stop. On the other hand, if she rents and her need for the equipment is permanent, she could end up paying her share of the monthly rental for life, plus each year's $50 deductible. This could total much more than the purchase price of the wheelchair. Question: Do I have to consider the value of room and board I furnish to my maid when I report her wages for social security purposes? Answer: No. Only casli wages paid to a domestic employee count for social security credit. A domestic employee must earn $50 or more cash from one employer in a calendar quarter in order to have her wages count for social security. If a maid commutes to the home in which she works, and her employer reimburses her for the carfare, those cash carfare payments count toward wages under social security. For Your information McHenry, Illinois Dear friends, Because of increasing travel, death frequently occurs away from home. In such event, we can arrange for the prompt return of the deceased through our professional contact with funeral directors throughout the world. If burial is desired at a distant point, we can likewise complete the necessary arrangements. Respectfully, PETER AVJISTEN & SON FUNERAL HOME 385-0063 federal, state, and local governments and by private institutions. Programs to train more people to tackle mental health problems are underway. Most importantly for the sick, services are being improved. In fact, a bold new approach, called Community Mental Health Centers, is becoming the nucleus of the national mental health program. More than 50 million people live in areas to be served by some 330 Centers all over the U.S. when they become fully operational, probably within the next year. The person who needs help is the object of all this. Who is he? Let's look at a specific case. Our man is 50 years old. Let's call him Henry. He could very well be your next door neighbor, except that he has killed a man for no apparent reason. Was he a vicious beast all along? Henry's history shows differently. He had been a good provider, a well-liked neighbor, and had worked 30 years for the same company. Henry had been married 32 years earlier, when he was 18. One day his wife left him, never to return. Henry tried to keep his family of three children together. But they eventually also left him. On the surface, Henry has been bearing all this calmly. But then he loses his house, one of his most prized remaining possessions. Too, he is Replaced in his job by a younger man. This is the thing that finally pushes him over the edge. That night, in a tavern, he kills a man who makes a harmless joke. Henry's tragic story is true. There are too many Henrys, as we all know, in every community and neighborhood of this country today. We are just coming to realize the root causes of their distress. We are just beginning to see that Henry's troubles--and indeed all our deep social problems-- must be attacked prior to the time that they explode in crises. Henry's crisis didn't just happen. It was the end result of a long chain of unfortunate circumstances. The mental health center can help break this -chain of stress that encircles individual members of a community like Henry. Not only will the centers and hospital services they are tied in with provide help for exireme cases--centers will also provide a complete program of essential services such as inpatient and outpatient care, partial hospitalization, consultation and education, and emergency services. NIMH-11269 ITEM: There are a few basic niles the well-dressed man or boy should follow. Socks should match shoes or trousers in color. The necktie should harmonize or complement the the suit in coLpr. If the jacket or suit is patterned, the' tie should be plain. PUBLIC PULSE (The Plaindealer invites the public to use this column as an expression of their views on subjects of general interest in our community. Our only request is that writers limit themselves to 300 words or less signature, full address and phone number. We ask. too, that one individual not write on the same subject more than once each month. We reserve the right to delete any material which we consider libelous or in objectionable taste.) THE CREATIVE MIND "Dear Editor: "Your creative mind is the most precious gift from God and do you know why? All. the education in the world will never beat the creative mind. Colleges have slighted the creative mind. Intelligent people sneer at would-be creators as 'nutty, wacky or crackpot' as guys with wheels in their heads. Scholars have scoffed at ideas as being worth a dime a dozen. The thinking mind is man's exclusive gift. "All animals are endowed with memory, instincts and emotions, but lack man's thinking power. Our thinking minds consist of two things, first a judicial mind which analyzes, compares and chooses. The second is a creative mind which visualizes, foresees and generates ideas. These two minds work best together. "If the people in the Stone age did not possess this quality we would never have heard about the first wheel which they had many uses for. The main use for the wheti up until 1,000 AD was for war chariots. Then some creative mind "In England they built over 5,000 miles which were water driven. It was the creative imagination that brought all these things about. "And we might continue into radio, television, beautiful paintings, cars, etc., and more recently into space. "There are many children right here in McHenry who have created many beautiful things that they have thought of out of their creative minds. The trouble is, no one will ever get a chance to see what they can do except their family and friends. If these children who are creative can be recognized for their achievements by all the people of McHenry, then I'm sure it will give them a better outlook on life. "Ninety per cent of the time children are often told about the things they can't do, but very few people compliment them for what they can do. Since my son, who is a teenager very creative in art and music, I did not bring out this creativeness in him nor did I try to persuade him to be a drummer. These came from his own creative ability. I only gave him the encouragement he needed. "You cannot plan a child's life at birth because as you and I are individuals, so is every child. "I have had the pleasure of meeting many of my son's friends, girls and boys, all of them basically good kids. There is no such thing as a child being born bad, but there is such a thing as a neglected child who eventually will cross over to the wrong side of the tracks. Why? Because we are living in a fast moving world. The children mature before their time so therefore they want to be treated as an adult. They want to be recognized for the good things they can do, not only for the things they can't do. "We have to try to pursue the things they are suited for with praise, compliments and most of all with sincere interest. Above all, we must never try to push them into the image of something we want them to be. Often as not we find we are fighting a losing battle. "So why don't you as a parent find out what your child is • best in and bring out the creativeness in him and praise him for a job well done. I would like to find interested parents who would like to join me in starting a teen talent club in which we wouldpublish a picture of something a child has Served in the Roman Style -"""i * Open Fri.-SatJ? Sunday Open 5 p.m. un. 12 Noon RESERVATIONS On the North Shore _ of Long Lake MNQIIET ROOMS ^ JU 7-0 741 Jul ( __ , -- -- : • -- i -- i -- i -- • -- i -- . ^ | ROLLINS ROAD | P O. Ihgleside. Illinois done, along with liis 'product*. "Let us do something now for the children before it's too late. The future of our ccountry depends on them. "They are men and women of the future. "Mrs. Grace Layton" IT PAYS TO SHOP IN McHENRY LI STENlj ". . . That may be iti It's a long fly ball deep into center field ..." "Well, folks--that wraps up the ball game." oNA^ pEO^SSI ro*v OPTOMETRIST Dr. John F. Kelly At 1224 N. Green Street, McHenry (Closed Wednesday) Eyes Examined Glasses Fitted Contact Lenses Hrs. Dally 0:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday Evenings 8:30 p-m. Evenings by Appointment PHONE 385-0452 Dr. Leonard L. Bottari Eyes Examined-Glasses Fitted Contact Lenses 1303 N. Richmond Road Hours: Mon., Toes., Thurs., Fri. 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Tues., Thurs., ft- Frl. Eve 7 p-m. to 9 p.m. Sat. 9:30 to 3:00 p.m< No Hours on Wednesday PHONE 385*4151 If No Answer Phone 385*2262 OFFICE EQUIPMENT McHenry County Office Machines Soles - Service ft Rentals Typewriters, Adders, Calculators Mon - Sat. 9:00 - 5:30 Friday till 9:00 p.m. Phojie 459-1226 93 Grant St., Crystal Lake, 111. METAL WORK Schroeder Metalcraft for Home and Garden Wrought Iron Railings Fireplace Screens Antiques 1705 S. Rt. 31 PHONE 385-0950 INSURANCE Earl R. Walth Fire, Auto, Farm ft Life Representing RELIABLE COMPANIES When You Need Insurance of Any Kind PHONE 385-3300 or 385-0953 3429 W Elm St., McHenry, 111 George L. Thompson General Insurance • LIFE • AUTO • HEALTH • FIRE • CASUALTY • BOAT Phone 815-385-1066 3812 W. Elm St., McHenry In McHenry Plaindealer Blgd. Dennis Conway Auto, Life, Fire / State Farm Ins. Cos. 3315- W. Elm St McHenry, Illinois 385-5285 or 385-7111 LETTER SERVICE Mimeographing • Typing Addressing - Mailing Lists McHenry County Letter Service 1212-A N. Green St PHONE 385-5064 M o n . t h r u F r l . 8 - 5 Closed Saturdays ACCOUNTANTS Paul A. Schwegel 4410 West Route 120 McHenry, Illinois 385-4410