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PAGE 4 - PLAINDfcALKR - FRIDAY. JULY 14. It78 Kll OUR ENTIRE STOCK reduced including bedroom,| dining room, and living room furniture. All Special Orders Reduced Including Bennington Pine Many Floor Samples Reduced up to 40% Many Items in Stock for Immediate Delivery SALE Now In Progress mrungton Fine S Prnod Fwarmf FREE DELIVERY REGULAR STORE HOURS Tuadav thru Saturday 9 to b frKlay 9 to 9 C>ovd SU'KUT and Moodav £ KCluSiVft Eftrly American Pinm Shofip- Salute To Hospitalized Veterans A national salute to hospitalized veterans, started in 1974 by repatriated veterans of the Vietnam war, will become an official Veterans administration program after four successful years The "salute" is in the form of an­ nual' recognition days which bring sports and entertainment stars and top government of­ ficials in contact with patients in VA hospitals Max Cleland. administrator of Veterans Affairs, made the announcement in coordination e, non profit organization developed the program with No Greater Love, private which for a group of returned prisoners of war seeking to salute the wounded of the Vietnam war The first salute, on Feb. 14, 1974, caused prominent Americans in a wide variety of fields to visit veterans in fifty of VA's 172 hospitals The program 's popularity with both patients and visitors caused it to be repeated annually. Hospital participation grew from fiftv in 1974 to ninety in a 1975, to 105 in 1976, and 136 in 1977. The^ mor^, recent programs have become all day affairs involving local and regional government officials, sports figures, beauty queens, veterans organization leaders, media personalities and en­ tertainers. Cleland said the program will be administered, starting in 1979, by the Veterans ad ministration Voluntary Ser­ vice's staff which now coor­ dinates the services of over 100,000 volunteers who con­ tribute more than 10 million hours to VA hospital patients each year Cleland added, "The key ingredient in this annual salute has been the involvement of various communities with veterans. It is an unique case of a very special program of people caring about people. "We owe a special debt of gratitude to people like Hank- Aaron, president emeritus of No Greater Love^,' Cleland added, "and to Carmella LaSpada. its founder." Respective * The Bakke Decision By RONALD REAGAN New Homes Sales Drop During May Chicago metropolitan area new home sales during May were 905 units, a drop of 32 8 percent from the 1,347 units reported for April, according to the Home Builders Association of Greater Chicago (HBAGO. trade association of the area s leading builders The figures are based on a survey of 180 builder locations made by marketing and Editor'8 Quote Book [ No man is quite ' sane Each has a vein of folly in his com­ position -- a slight d e t e r m i n a t i o n o f blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which he has taken to his heart Ralph Waldo Emerson research consultants These locations are estimated to represent 60 percent of building activity in the metropolitan area On an annualized basis, the May figure represents a rate of 26,940 homes a year The drop was attributed to consumer concern about rising mortgage interest rates and continued fears of a mini- recession in 1979 Despite a slowdown in sales, home prices continued to rise, fueled by continuously rising costs of land, labor, materials, and financing During May, the average price of a new single- family home in the Chicago area hit S75.367, a 0 89 percent increase over the $74,695 reported for April During the month, 649 single-family homes were sold, compared with 1,019 in April, a drop of 36 3 percent Traffic at single-family home sites was 19.883 visitors, riown 43 percent from April's 34,906 persons The average price of a townhouse in May was $64,362, up 0 99 percent over April's $63,725. Unit sales were 115, down 23.3 percent from April's 150 units Traffic at townhouse sites was 2,620 persons, down 31 3 percent compared with 3.816 persons in April Average price of mid-rise condominiums was $46,628 in May, a change of 0.85 percent from the $46,235 in April. Unit sales were 79, up 6.75 percent from the 74 units in April Traffic was 870 persons, down 10 l percent from the 790 persons in April Multi-family and multiplex average prices were up 1.1 percent, going to $45,650 from $45,151 reported in April. Unit sales were 62, down 40.3 per­ cent from the 104 in April Traffic was 796 visitors, a 37.9 percent change from the 1,283 visitors in April At the beginning of the year builders were expecting an 8 to 15 percent drop in 1978 housing starts in the Chicago area based on rising costs. Share Gift Of Life . « . v ' V W W % . " W * " W - v < The McHenry Plaindealer Established 1S7S 3«l2 W»*t Elm Str»»t Phon* 385 0) 70 McHvnry Illinois 60050 Published Every Wednesday A Friday at McHenry Illinois Second Class Postage Paid at McHenry Illinois By McHENRY PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscribers O't r tqu9|i9(j to provid* imm^iots not.ee o* chong* 04 oddrttt t o Th« M<H#nry Ploi"d*ol»f W'2 W tl^ H MtHsnry III iOOSO A deduction of on« month from tho •Bpirotion of o subscription will b« mod* wrhoro o (hong* of oddrott is provided through th« Post OHtcm Doportmont Lorry E. Lund-Publisher 1978 Adele Froehlich-Editor MEMBER NEWSPAPER NATIONAL NEWSPAPER *H0CI*TI0« fwritl jjg NNA SUSTAINING MEMBER-1978 fret Prill k I., m SUBSRIPTION RATES or f I 2 (Ml In McHenry and Loke County I >, Outside McHenry and Lake County \5 IMI ^ A new method is being used during July and August to in­ form McHenry county rural residents about kidney disease. America's fourth leading health problem Known as the Gift of Life ' Pass Kit" campaign of the Kidney Foundation of Illinois, this effort seeks to educate residents about organ donation and the warning signs of kidney disease In addition, con­ tributions are requested to support Kidney foundation programs in patient and community services, education and research "To reach a maximum number of people at minimum expense, the Kidney foundation is using the neighborhood pass kit method for the first time in the Chicago area," explained Barbara Hendricks.Gift of Life chairperson for McHenry county "The kit is mailed to the first person the block He is asked to make a contribution, consider signing a uniform donor card, and then pass the kit on to his next door neighbor The last home is asked to forward the kit in a postage paid envelope to the Old Second National bank of Aurora CONTRACTORS Job Hold Up Bocausa of Concroto Dolivory Dolay? Call Accu-Croto, Inc, Saturday Deliverys Available Phone 338-4718 Hendricks, a dialysis patient from Marengo, is one of thirty p a t i e n t v o l u n t e e r s spearheading the pass kit campaign in thirty-three Illinois counties. The Kidney foundation hopes to raise $50,000 and sign up 200.000 potential organ donors through this pass kit method. A major objective of the foun­ dation is to alleviate the critical shortage of donor kidneys for the 12,000 Americans and 900 Illinois kidney patients awaiting transplants Ac­ cording to the Foundation, only one in six Illinois kidney patients in need of transplants will receive one this year The others must continue to be hooked up to an artificial kidney machine 12-18 hours a week in order to stay alive "Kidney transplantation has given more thai} 32.000 people a second chancty at life," said Hendricks "I hope McHenry county residents will make a pledge of life by signing the donor card." Additional donor cards are available from the Kidney Foundation of Illinois, 127 North Dearborn. Chicago. Ill , 60602 At first glance it may look as if the Supreme court ran for cover when it ruled, on the one hand, that Allan Bakke must be admitted to the University of California at Davis' Medical school and, on the other, that minority racial status could continue to be used as a criterion in considering future admissions. But, was the court just dodging a political hot potato or was it giving a balanced judgement of the need for the nation to reconcile two seemingly mutually exclusive goals: the merit system and increased opportunities for those who had not had them in the past? I think it was the latter. Justice Lewis Powell, in the court's controlling opinion, said, "The guarantee of equal protection cannot mean one thing when applied to one in­ dividual and something else when applied to a person of another color. If both are not accorded the same protection, then it is not equal." Thus, Allan Bakke must be admitted to medical school this Sep­ tember Bakke, qualified in every other respect, had been denied admission because the school was committed to a rigid racial quota and his skin was the wrong color - white. Despite such quota systems, medical school students from non-white minorities in the U.S. continue to be disproportionately small in number in relation to population and the situation is worse in law schools. Many blacks make the point that until they achieve at least a proportional share of these admissions they will be at an unfair disadvantage On the other hand, Americans of Jewish or Chinese backgrounds rely heavily on the merit syst. u and do exceedingly well in proportion to their numbers, so are understandably frightened of rigid quotas. Quota systems, furthermore, are alien to the American ideal of allowing each person to rise to the limits of his or her ability. In the Bakke decision, the Supreme court may have found a way out of this apparently irreconcilable dilemma. By not throwing out the concept of so- called affirmative action programs it said, in effect, "use your judgment" to decide the qualifications of each potential college or job applicant. We all live by rules, but if we submerge judgment - thinking- - to rigid rules, the rules tend to swamp the thinking process; blot it out. We have had government's relentless pursuit of rigid quotas that require so many blacks, so many eskimos, and so forth. The concept was carried to its most bizarre ends with the quota system the McGovernites imposed on the Democratic party's delegate-selection process after they gained control of the party 's apparatus in 1972 The Supreme court 's decision requires that personnel managers and admissions deans use that precious human commodity, thoughtful judgment, instead of fixed rules dispensed from on high by, say, the federal Department of Health. Education and Welfare. In a stroke of the pen. the justices gave us a chance to do away with what Cicero called, some 2,000 years ago. "The arrogance of officialdom " At least one observer saw the elimination of rigid racial quotas as a new form of liberation for minorities Ronald Zumbrun, president of the public-interest law firm ®ihe Pacific Legal foundation tone of the few non-ethnic associations to file a brief in Bakke's favor), said: "if equality is to have any meaning, discrimination must be eliminated. Discrimination by race breeds hatred, prejudice and social ills which arose in this country before the supreme court struck down the 'separate but equal' doctrine ending school segregation (in Brown v. Board of Education). The Bakke decision, by eliminating the condescending and inherently insulting racial quota approach, opens the way to unified public support for constructive solutions to providing equal opportunities for minorities." t And, Thomas Sowell, an economics professor at IJ.C.L.A (himself black), writing in Commentary magazine said: "However futile the various numerical approaches have been in their avowed goal of advancing minorities, their impact has been strongly felt in other areas The message that comes through loud and clear is that minorities are losers who will never have anything unless someone else gives it to them The destructiveness of this message -- on society in general and minority youth in par ticular - outweighs any trivial gains that may occur here and there The falseness of the message is shown by the great economic achievements of minorities during the period of equal-rights legislation before numerical goals and timetables muddied the waters By and large, the numerical approach has achieved nothing, and has achieved it at great cost " Now. instead, the Supreme court, with the Bakke ruling, is asking us to think things out; to a b a n d o n ' ' r e v e r s e discrimination" and to use in its place long-held criteria of merit in school and job ad­ missions, but to use them with a measure of sensitivity for the need to be fair and to apply the concept of equal opportunity The rest is up to us Summer Invasion Of Insects Have you swatted your first mosquito9 Doused an ant with a household spray? The summer invasion of insects is under way and the National Pest Control association offers some helpful hints to combat it. For example, make sure all screens /it tightly and are free of bofes Open doors only long enough to enter or leave. Check family pets for ticks or fleas Most pests thrive on food. ONE-STOP travel service V l l k ^ 1 V I A l t L I N E J AMTtAK TICKETS Ym «aM A trie *• .Me«ke Chain-0-Lukes TRAVEL SERVICE 1405 W. Elm St. McHenry, Illinois 40050 mi It5-7500 Area Code 815 Now running on a street near you. RTA's New Route 806. Your Crystal Lake/Fox Lake bus. Now you can fravei between Crystal Lake McHenry and Fox Lake better than ever Just take the new 806 bus It s the first bus linking these three communities in McHenry County, and you can easily transfer from it to points in Lake County Commuters can catch the 806 to catch their RTA trains at Fox Lake s Milwau kee Road Station as well §s McHenry s and Crystal Lake s North Western Stations The 806 serves Crystal Point Mall, the McHenry Market Place and McHenry Hospital In Fox Lake you can transfer for points in Lake County, including Waukegan and Hawthorn Shopping Center You can ca*ch the 806 along Route 31, Chapel Hull and Ring wood as well as other street m the area You can rioe on your new Route 806 fcr the usual iow RTA fare For a small addi tionai charge /ou can buy aii RTA Universal Transfer that s good on all RTA buses m the area deluding the CTA For a free schedule, write RTA PO Box 2938, Chicago, IL 60690 Or call RTA Travel Information toll- free 800/972 7000 For best service, call in the evenmgs Regional Transportation Authority warmth and water-all elements that make a home livable. Since you can't eliminate these basic appeals, NPCA suggests preventive measures to keep uninvited guests from making your home their home ... Good housekeeping is a must, inside and out Keep the inside as clean and dry as possible, the outside well- painted and free of rubbish Some pests love dirt; most love dampness, and all of them need a place to hide and breed Pay special attention to the kitchen Sweep up crumbs, wash dishes, glassware and utensils promptly, and store leftover foods in tightly covered containers Given an open invitation to dine, pests will continue to live with you Clean frequently around base boards, air vents and cracks and crevices in floors, and under stairwells They are favorite breeding places for all kinds of pests Also keep bathrooms clean and dry. as well as areas around basement sinks, water heaters and humidifiers Pests need water as well as food • Keep trash and garbage buildup to a minimum If it must pile up between pickups, store it away from the house You'll want to keep thos^ in­ vaders at a distance Don't be fooled into believing your new trash compactor will solve the problem No matter how often you squeeze them or hit them with disinfectant, pests are hardy creatures and can turn your compactor into their own motel ... Check grocery bags and soft drink containers carefully when unpacking food Roaches or ants in pairs may be hit chhiking a ride to start up another family in your home Also carefully check screens in windows and doors, including attic windows There may be holes that insects can pass through, or larger ones where mice, squirrels or other animals may enter Look for holes or cracks along the foundation or around water pipes - Plug those you find with steel wool Stuffing them with newspaper will not help because rats and mice simply eat it as food Try to keep dirty clothing from piling up, and never store garments that have not been cleaned It's an open invitation to moths, silverfish and othej pests to gorge themselves Vacuum drapes and cornices and the underside of furniture frequently Empty the bag promptly - outdoors Purchase only small quantities of food and store it in containers that insects or rodents can't penetrate Any food contaminated by insects should be thrown away For a free folder on "How to Select and Use Pest Control Services," write National Pest Control Association, Suite 1100, 8150 Leesburg Pike, Vienna, Va 22180 I get around. 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