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i Sec. 2, P&. 2 - Plaindealer - Wed. Aug. 6, 1969 The Age Of Taxes Taxpayers felt the effect of the new State Income Tax for the first time when they received their first pay checks after July 31. Effective Aug.* 1, every employer maintaining.an office or transacting business in Illinois and required to withhold Federal in­ come tax on compensation paid in Illinois to an individual, also deducted and withheld an amount equal to 2'2per cent of the com­ pensation for State Income Tax purposes, after subtracting the proper withholding exemption. .w, 1 Withholding exemptions are allowed employees under the new Act (S.B. 1150) equal to $1,000 multiplied by the number of withholding exemptions the employee is entitled to under the Federal Act. The employee is not allowed an amount for deductions (itemized or otherwise) under the Illinois law as he is allowed under the Federal Act. Employers are required to set up additional payroll rec­ ords because they have certain additional duties. In addition to withholding from the employee, they must pay such withheld taxes to the Illinois Department of Revenue, or a designated depository, on or before the fifteenth day of the second and third months of each calendar quarter, and on or before the last day of the month following the last month of each calendar quarter, whenever the amound exceeds $100. If the total amount of taxes withheld by an employer is less than $100, the Department of Revenue may permit annual payment of the withheld taxes. Taxpayers should be acquainted with the provision pertain­ ing to declarations. Every taxpayer other than atjj Estate or trust must file a declaration of estimated tax for jth^axable year if the amount payable as estimated tax cafFrcasonably be expected to be more than $50. Estimated tax means the ex­ cess of the amount of tax estimated to be due under the Illinois law over the amount estimated to be withheld or credited against the tax due. Under the Illinois Act, individual taxpayers are allowed neither a standard deduction nor itemized deductions as they are entitled under the Federal law. While an individual may deduct the State Income Tax in computing the Federal tax, he must add back such amount in determining his Illinois base income. With more complications entering our daily lives, the com­ puter age has not come into the picture too soon. But who is furnishing the cash? Government/Projections If you are still around 25 or 30 years from now, you are likely to be paying four times less for electricity than you pay in 1969. However, at the turn of the Century, your con­ sumption of electricity probably will be six times greater. These projections, based on past and anticipated trends, are the estimates of government experts at Oak Ridge. The story of the use of electricity and its costs is a clas­ sic example of how good things are made better and cheaper through advertising and mass production. Practically every electrical gadget from the light bulb to color television, most of which are now considered necessi­ ties, gained consumer acceptance only after extensive adver­ tising. -- However, when the appliances were accepted and improved, unit prices became lower. As more electricity has been de­ manded, it has been produced, distributed and sold at lower and lower costs per kilowatt hour. For, even electricity-- whatever it is--is mass produced and mass distributed. It *Is interesting to note that electrical distributors have been among the largest advertisers of such facilities as air- conditioning, automatic \home laundries, and better city and home lighting. The local consular has benefitted from better and less expensive appliances and the retailer has been provided strong preliminary support for his final local advertising program. "Driving or walking, Merten always has to be the first one away from a stop light." Rte.120 DINING BOOM 10 Weekday* 11 Fri. - Sat. Business Men's Luncheon's Every Day 12 - 2:30 LUNCHEON - DINNER Specials Every Day Roast Long Island Duckling Served Every Evening Food Prepared To Your Taste By * Chef Sig Johnson Fri. R i i • 1 2 35 "Maybe we'll get a good estimate. m • .. . .. Mm . . Mm _ vw •••* MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS Stanley F. Yolles, M.D., Director National Institute of Mental Health DRIVING FOR TRAFFIC SAFETY Social * Security The Driver's Seat ore of Scenic Putanee PHONE 38S-Q176 Question: I recently filed a disability claim. If my claim is denied is there any way to appeal? Answer: Yes. You can ask your Social Security office for reconsideration. After your case has been given a careful review and you are still not satisfied, you may ask for a hearing before an examiner of the Bureau of Hearings and Ap­ peals. Question: I'm under Medicare and I bought a wheelchair - it now needs repair. Is this covered under Medicare? Answer: Yes. Medicare helps pay for repairs to durable med­ ical equipment that you own or are buying. Question: I'm over 65, but don't plan to retire until I am 70. Will I be eligible for Med­ icare benefits? Answer: Yes, the only age qualification is that you be 65 or over. However, if you be­ came age 65 after 1968 you will need some work under Social Security. You should go to your nearest Social Security office and file an application. Question: My brother just found out he has a disabling illness and may not be able to work again. How soon should he apply for disability benefits? Answer: It is advisable that he contact his Social Security of­ fice as soon as possible after the onset of the disabling con­ dition. f Question: My husband and I have been married five years. He is now over 40 and we have a two year old son. If something should happen to him could our son receive social security? Answer: If your husband has worked in employment covered by Social Security you and your son may be eligible to receive social security monthly checks. This is in the event that your husband dies or becomes dis­ abled. Question: What is the min­ imum and maximum benefit now payable under Social Security? Answer: The minimum un­ reduced benefit is $55per month and the maximum unreduced benefit is $218. The $218 gen­ erally will not be payable for a few years to come as it is based on average annual earn­ ings of $7800 under Social Se­ curity. Question: If I lose my Social Security or Medicare card what should I do? Answer: You should get in touch with your Social Secur­ ity office and apply for a new card. NEW SYSTEM GIVES EMERGENCY VEHICLES 'GREEN LIGHT . ALL THE WAY* Hardly a week goes by when we don't read of a tragic ac­ cident involving an automobile and an emergency vehicle at a signalized street intersection. Many times death is involved, or at the very least, serious injury. The refrain is usually the same: The driver "didn't hear the siren." Fact of the matter is that sirens are no longer an entirely adequate warning device. This, because of the generally high levels of street noise and because of the in­ creasing number of cars with built-in air conditioning which requires windows to be kept shut. Now, one U.S. manufactur­ er has come up with an elec- trpqic system which promises to g6 a long way towards solv­ ing, the problem. It's called the "Opticom" emergency cor­ ridor control system and it controls traffic lights at inter­ sections by emitting rapid pul­ ses of high-intensity optical energy. It enables an emer­ gency vehicle - a fire truck or police car - to turn traf­ fic lights green up to a third of a mile away, thus insuring swift passage through signaliz­ ed intersections. What's more, the system does its job with a minimum of in­ convenience to the motoring public. Change from red to green is always made through a normal amber cycle and the traffic light returns to its nor­ mal green/amber/red cycle within five seconds after an emergency vehicle passes through. Because it controls only one or two traffic lights at a time it does not "freeze" traffic over a wide area for lengthy periods of time as some sim­ ilar-type systems do. And be­ cause it permits parallel traf­ fic to move ahead and to one side, emergency vehicles are not "blocked out" at in­ tersections by vehicles stopped ahead two or three abreast. This is especially important where center mediums or boul­ evards prevent emergency ve­ hicles from swinging into on­ coming lanes to get around stopped traffic. The system's hardware con­ sists of an optical energy trans­ mitter mounted on the emer­ gency vehicle, an energy de­ tector attached adjacent to or near a traffic signal, and a Your Information Dear friends, Man is basically a social creature who lives his life in fellowship with others. At no time does he need an expression of this supporting fellowship more than at the time of mourning. Jesus said, "Blessed are they who mourn for they shall be comforted". He certainly was referring to the comfort afforded by our rel­ atives and friends as He was of God's support­ ing presence. Respectfully, MtHanry. tlltnon PETER M.JUSTEN & SON .FUNERAL HOME 385-0063 "phase selector" mechanism located in or adjacent to the traffic signal's control box. The system cannot be accidentally activated by strobe flash or radio or radar beams. Its op­ eration does not affect radio or TV reception. The "Opticom" emergency corridor control system has been thoroughly tested by sev­ eral cities, ail of which are now using it on a permanent basis. Among them: Gardena, Bu*na Park, San Bernardino, and Vallejo, Calif., Tucson, Ariz., Saratoga Springs, N.Y., St. Paul, Minn., and Sumter, S. Carolina. Fire department personnel are among the system's most enthusiastic boosters, espec­ ially in cities where fire trucks must brake to a full stop at red lights. An increasing num­ ber of cities are requiring their fire trucks to do this in order to prevent intersection ac­ cidents. It may take a " heap of livin' to make a home", but it also takes a heap of borrowing now - days. CRIME AND DELINQUENCY GET RESEARCH ATTENTION The twin problems of crime and delinquency are the sub­ ject of a great deal of attention from many kinds of organiza­ tions of both public and pirivate character. The National Institute of Mental Health, for example, has always had strong interest in attacking these problems; and is devoting several million dollars each year to research and demonstration projects seeking new knowledge and use­ ful ways to combat crime and delinquency. These amounts, large though they are, pale beside the enor­ mous economic costs of these problems. Recent figures show that tne annual cost of crime and de : linquency exceeds $20 billion --with more than $4 billion be­ ing consumed yearly by police, legal, and correctional activities. This is to say nothing of the psychological and social toll they take all over the country.- The nature and size of these problems indicate why we are, in cooperation with other gov­ ernment and private agencies and the Nation's colleges, uni­ versities, and other educational and research agencies, devoting so much effort to understanding causes and finding solutions. Through from basic activities ranging studies of aggres­ sion to the development of com­ munity treatment programs, we are working toward the con­ tainment and reduction of anti­ social behavior. Demonstration projects show that community treatment pro­ grams for adolescent delin­ quents are proving not only more effective than institution­ alization -- merely jailing or putting the juvenile into an in­ stitution--but also more eco­ nomical. But the roots to social prob­ lems such as delinquency and crime often lie in early life, we know; and so scientists are con­ tinuing, with some real suc­ cesses, to pin down and define factors in the child's early en­ vironment that so markedly in­ fluence his maturing and later behavior. Good early treatment has demonstrated success in pre­ venting intellectual and emo­ tional problems and has led to beginning development of effec­ tive programs in behalf of the child's mental health. Such programs, and still newer ones, must now be tested in a variety of settings and more universally applied. Only in such ways, through painstaking research and care­ ful development of programs to aid normal mental and emo­ tional growth, can we get at the deep and troublesome causes of crime and delinquency. by Paul Powell Secretary of State It won't l>e loiifi until school skirts, but now the weather is :it i ts best for outdoor play, and the k ids wi l l be on the ro from morn till night. This means that more often than usual they will be faced with t rattle problems. Many times a day during the rest of the summer they will be crossing streets, heeding traf­ fic signals and the flow of traf­ fic. It is the duty of the parents of all youngsters to, remind them of the safety lessons they learned in school. It is just as important for a child to know and obey the Rules of the Road, as it is for the driver. Children must be taught to respect the rights of the automobile. They must also be taught the dangers that arise on the highway, and the problems they can cause when they unthinkingly run onto the highway. For a copy of "Rules of the Road", send to Secretary of State Paul Powell. Springfield. Illinois. 62706. Study your copy with your children so that they know what is right and what is wrong as well as what their rights are on the highway. MORE HOUSING Illinois must increase its a- vailable housing and reduce sub-standard units, according to a hausing conference re­ port released by the Govern­ or's Office of Human Re­ sources. A. Donald Bourgeois, executive director, said there- port calls for state government to help provide technical as­ sistance for non-profit groins attempting to develop low and moderate income housing. Funding a not-for-profit corp­ oration, known as Technical Assistance Corporation for Housing (TACH), to provide technical assistance to devel­ opers has -been proposed. Tips from a Pro cfcSSl ig£c Frederick J. Marsh NATIONAL TRUCK DRIVER OF THE YEAR j REMEMBER... TAKE A BREAK OPTOMETRIST Dr. John F. Kelly At 1224 N. Green Street McHenry (Closed Wednesday) Eyes Examined Glasses Fitted Contact I-enses Hrs. Daily 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday Evenings 8:30 p.m. Evenings by appointment PHONE 385-0452 Dr. Leonard Boitari Eyes Examined - Contact Lens Glasses Fitted 1303 N. Richmond Road Hours: Mon., Tues., Thurs., Fri. 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Tues., Thurs., & Fri 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 mi in iiinii m iTiririTii mrrn 1111 ITT Are You New IR TOWR? Do You Know Someone New In Town? Wo would liko to oxtond • wolcomo to •••ry newcomer io our community. Cris Fail CALL 5 385-4084 Fran Olsan: 385-5740 ROYAL WELCOME Joan Stull 385-5418 Ann Zeller - 385-0559 McHenry County Office Machine* Sales-Service & Rentals Typewriters -Adders Calculators Mon. - Sat. 9:00 - 5:30 Friday 'till 9:00 p.m. PHONE 459-1226 93 Grant St., Crystal Lake, 111. METAL WORK Schroeder Metalcraft For Home and Garden Wrought Iron Railings y Fireplace Screens Antiques 1705 S. ROUTE 31 PHONE 385-0950 INSURANCE Earl R. Walsh Fire, Auto, Farm & 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. v Thompson General Insurance •LIFE *AUTO •HEALTH •FIRE •CASUALTY •BOAT Phone 815-385-1066 3812 W. Elm St., McHenry In McHenry Plaindealer Bldg. Vm n 11111 m i i t in 11: n I.I.I ii.iittaii.ir Dennti Conway AUTO, LIFE, FIRE STATE FARM INSURANCE COMPANY 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 Mon. Through Fri. 8-5 p.m. Closed Saturday ACCOUNTANTS Paul A. Schwegel 4410 West Route 120 McHenry, III; no is PHONE 385-4410