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Rep. Hanahan Will Be Guest Of Voters League REP. THOMAS HANAHAN The several hundred people expected at the third annual Woodstock-McHenry League of Women Voters Legislative reception will have the op­ portunity to meet and talk with State Representative Thomas J. Hanahan (D-33rd). The reception is scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 19, 2-6 p.m. at the McHenry Country Club. The public is invited to attend and meet Rep. Hanahan as well as other state and local elected officials. Rep. Hanahan is currently serving his sixth term in the Illinois General Assembly. He is also serving on committees of Appropriations I and Agriculture. A native Chicagoan, Hanahan has been active in McHenry Democratic ac­ tivities as well as various labor organizations. He is past chairman. McHenry County Young Democrats: County Chairman. McHenry County Central Democratic Com­ mittee; President Democratic County Chairmen's Association of Illinois: Delegate to Illinois State Federation of Labor; state building trades council: various national and local, union conventions and con ferenees: official of both carpenters union and Chicago Janitors Union Invitations to the third an­ nual League of Women Voters Legislative Reception have been sent to all federal and state representatives. County Hoard members, school of­ ficials and faculties, local mayors and their boards. A cash bar and hor d' oeuvres will "be available at the McHenry Country Club. The League guarantees an afternoon of lively discussion. For additional information, please contact Mrs. June Girard, or Mrs. Judy £id. HERE AND THERE IN BUSINESS ARKA REPRESENTATIVE James R. Payton, Payton Chevrolet, Inc., McHenry, has been elected to a key office for his area in a nationwide organization of Chevrolet dealers. Chosen as represen­ tative from his district to the Chevrolet Dealer Council, he will serve as spokesman for twelve Chevrolet dealers in the district at an October meeting of the organization to be held at the zone headquarters in Chicago. Older Americans In Our Society CERTAIN UNALIENABLE RIGHTS By William Peirce Randel Professor Emeritus, University of Maine If certain human rights are unalienable, as the Declaration of Independence affirms, they must, by simple logic, have existed as far back in time as the earliest social structure. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, the examples offered by the Declaration, are general enough to meet this logical condition. But most of the rights that individuals and groups have fought for are much more specific, rising out of changing circumstance. Until they surface into awareness, they could just as well never have existed. Any given group, however, may hope that its rights will in time be recognized as unalienable. What of America's older citizens, a group just beginning its campaign for rights? For three centuries it occurred to nobody that they were being deprived of their rights, or even that they had any special rights to be deprived of. Few in number and low in visibility, they accepted life as it was for them, and were not considered a distinctive group with distinctive problems. Only since 1900, as a result of their phenomenal increase in numbers and changes produced by the great social revolution still in progress, has that been possible. In 1900, only 3 million Americans, or about 4 percent of the population, were 65 or older. By 1975 they numbered a solid 22 million, 10.3 percent of the total. The forecast is for this percentage to increase. Statistically, they have become a major category in the population and are certain to remain. A category, however, is not necessarily a group. It becomes one only when its members are conscious of common interests and, more particularly, of disadvantages general enough and pressing enough to need corrective joint action. One handicap to the consolidation of a genuine old-age group is that every American who passes his or her 65th birthday, the generally accepted threshold to old age, is already a member of several other groups and is unlikely to lose interest in them suddenly just by becoming a year older. On the other hand, news reports of flagrant discrimination against the elderly, and improving distribution of information about aging encourage active participation. There is firm evidence that the category of older Americans is well on its way to becoming a better organized major group and each year increasingly capable of campaigning for its rights. A Bill Of Rights Sooner or later, virtually every older person, strong or weak, rich or poor, is a victim of discrimination. If and when the 65-and- older group should decide to draw up a Bill of Rights, relief from discrimination and from those mortifying stereotypes will be conspicuous among its articles. Unalienable rights, as suggested earlier, have practical meaning only as they can be stated in words. If given the form of a Bill of Rights, each section should clearly, and as concisely as possible, express the right demanded. For maximum impact, moreover, the rights should be exclusively the concern of the elderly. To include rights sought also by other groups would invite the question of whether older citizens are a genuine group with special needs all its own. Our hypothetical Bill of Rights, again for maximum effect, should concentrate on major demands. Scattered through the ranks of our elderly are pathetic clusters with particular handicaps. However, listing the needs of every identifiable sub­ group. in co-equal articles, would distract attention from what concerns all the older people. The 1971 White House Conference on Aging, as summarized, revealed this fragmenting tendency: separate pleas were made for Rural Older People, Asian- American Elderly, Spanish-Speaking Elderly, the Aged in the Marianna Islands, and several others in demonstrable need of help. The inevitable result was that the audience couldn't see the forest for the trees. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and for a Bill of Rights intended to sway a Congress, fifty state legislatures, and the majority of voters, piling fraction on fraction can only invite defeat. «• With due regard to the danger of diluting emphasis, and by firmly limiting demands to those matters exclusively the concern of older citizens, we might begin our hypothetical Bill of Rights by echoing the Declaration in a plea for 1. The right to relief from forms of discrimination based on age that diminish the enjoyment of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Simple as this may sound, once it is accepted and supported by implementing legislation this article would be a solid base for seeking judicial relief. Discriminatory practices abound, all of them susceptible of correction. Denial of credit, for example, on the sole grounds of advanced age. Refusal to employ older workers even if fully qualified. Cynical abuses in nursing homes, and indifference to contract promises in old-age retirement communities. Less than adequate official concern for the sub­ groups cited at the White House Conference. Discrimination, especially in its more subtle forms, can never perhaps be wholly suppressed, but this one article, properly implemented, could open up a bright new world for all the elderly, whatever their circumstances. Until discrimination can be brought under control, that bright new world of the elderly can exist only in imagination, as a wistful vision of potential beauty. The present reality is closer to an unkempt garden where foul weeds flourish in a smothering compost of stereotypes. These wholly ungrounded but widely held attitudes seriously damage the image of all older people, and, in their pernicious way, encourage discrimination in all its ugly forms. They are an evil not to be ignored; their very existence must be challenged in our Bill of Rights for the Elderly. Prejudging People A few samples will be enough to illustrate the prejudice toward the elderly that results from these stereotypes. According to the SECTION 2 PAGE 3 - PLAIN'DEALEK WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER i5, »j75 NCOA-Harris'Poll. only 29 percent of the public consider most Americans 65 or older very bright and alert. Only 21 percent think they are very open-minded and adaptable, and only 35 percent believe they are very good at getting things done. Evidence of just the opposite, on all three counts, is ample; but myths take form and persist in disregard of facts. Older people vary in alertness, open-mindedness, and ability to get things done just as younger people do, and blanket prejudgment in disregard of individual qualities causes deep and general resentment. Our second article, accordingly, should claim 2. The right to be judged on individual merit and ability, and to relief from prejudgment based solely on age. Whether a Bill of Rights for the Elderly should include other articles may safely be left to the elderly themselves to decide in future deliberations. The two suggested here could no doubt profit from refinement ip-%cpiing, but both meet the conditions proposed for any Bill of Rights: appreciation to all members of the group concerned, and limitation of the subject to the exclusive needs of that group. The 1961 White House Conference on Aging included several more specific articles such as "The right to obtain decent housing suited to needs of later years," "The right to a fair share of the community's recreational, educational and medical resources," "The right to live independently, as one chooses," and "The right to live and die with dignity." These are certainly rights that society ought not to deny the aged. Assuming that our older citizens do have certain unalienable rights exclusively their own, it stands to reason that they are susceptible to being formulated into a Bill of Rights. At no point will it be easy; Later problems will include what to do with the finished document and how to gain for it the legal status it needs for effective implementation. Opposition, certain to grow as the process nears completion, may be formidable from entrenched interests that might lose ground, or from opponents of all extensions of "the common welfare." We might hope that common decency would serve to reduce the disadvantages of aging, once these are clearly known, put some believe jarring the general public out of its indifference may call for militant action. Thomas Paine, in the first issue of The Crisis late in 1776, was writing about colonies and an empire, but poetic license may justify applying his words to this situation: "Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.' For "tyranny" read discrimination and gross abuses. Fo "conflict" consider the entrenched hostility of mindless stereotypes, and the need for unflagging determination. As for the eventual glorious triumph, it can be nothing less, for America's aged, than the attainment of their unalienable rights. osco Sbkua Stop at Your Nearby Osco First 3720 W. Elm St. McHenry, III. 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REPORT OF CONDITION, CONSOLIDATING DOMESTIC SUBSIDIARIES, OF First National Bank Of McHenry IN THE STATE OF ILLINOIS AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS ON Sept. 30, 1975 PUBLISHED IN RESPONSE TO CALL MADE BY COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY. UNDER TITLE 12, UNITED STATES CODE, SECTION 161. ASSETS Cash and due from banks (including $ NONE unposted debits) 911,472.55 U.S. Treasury securities 1,202,268.43 Obligations of other U.S. Government agencies and corporations 3,586,182.63 Obligations of States and political subdivisions 1,102,541.87 Other securities (including $18,000.00 corporate stock) . 168,095.98 Federal funds sold and securities purchased under agreements to resell 400,000.00 Loans 6,457,601.06 Bank premises, furniture and fixtures and other assets representing bank premises 310,401.86 Real estate owned other than bank premises f 19,554.57 Other assets (including $ NONE direct lease financing) 146,725.86 TOTAL ASSETS 14,304,844.81 LIABILITIES Demand deposits of individuals, partnerships, and corporations 2,616,384.91 Time and savings deposits of individuals, partnerships, and corporations 9,988,813.34 Deposits of United States Government 179,140.80 Deposits of States and political subdivisions 250,000.00 Deposits of commercial banks 12,524.39 Certified and officers' checks, etc 55,591.45 TOTAL DEPOSITS $ 13,102,454.89 (a) Total demand deposits $ 2,863,641.55 (b) Total time and savings deposits. .$ 10,238,813.34 Federal funds purchased and securities sold under agreements to repurchase 90,000.00 Other liabilities 317,079.35 TOTAL LIABILITIES 13,509,534.24 RESERVES ON LOANS AND SECURITIES Reserve for bad debt losses on loans (set up pursuant to IRS rulings) 8,130.22 TOTAL RESERVES ON LOANS AND SECURITIES 8,130.22 CAPITAL ACCOUNTS Equity capital-total 787,180.35 Common Stock-total par value 300,000.00 No. shares authorized 15,000 No. shares outstanding 15,000 Surplus 300,000.00 Undivided profits 187,180.35 TOTAL CAPITAL ACCOUNTS 787,180.35 TOTAL LIABILITIES, RESERVES, AND CAPITAL ACCOUNTS 14,304,844.81 MEMORANDA Average of total deposits for the 15 calendar days ending with call date Average of total loans for the 15 calendar days ending with call date 12,944,955.00 . 6,874,362.00 I, Edward D. Egleston, Cashier, of the above-named bank do hereby declare that this report of condition is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief. Edward D. Egelston We, the undersigned directors attest the correctness of this report of condition and declare that it has been examined by us and to the best of our knowledge and belief is true and correct. Donald C. Daley Robert VV. Jessup Paul S. Jessup Directors •*»