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PAGE 14-PLAINDEALEI^ WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1971 EDITORIALS Flame-Flash-Fatality Flame ... flash ... fatality. This is an accident report in brief -- a report about a child who was the victim of fire because he was left alone or without the supervision of a mature, dependable person. If the first touches of Spring give you a restless urge to get out of the house, go ahead, says Fire Chief Glenn Peterson, but don't leave small children alone in the house while you're out. "Hundreds of children are killed by fire each year because parents gamble that nothing will happen while they are away 'for just a few minutes,' " says the chief. 'The shocking fact is that one child out of every three who die in fires is alone and helpless when fire strikes, according to records compiled by the National Fire Protection association." Take the children with you when you go out, if only for a quick cup of coffee with a neighbor or a short trip to the store, the fire chief reminds all parents. Otherwise, leave the youngsters with a competent older family member or babysitter. Another way to keep children safe from fire, he adds, is to start at a young age to teach them a wholesome respect for fire -- make sure they understand how important it is to stay well out of the range of hames and sparks, and how dangerous it is to play with matches. „ - • „ Grass fires can be dangerous - they are also unnecessary. PLEASE, don't send children to burn papers. Easter Seal Drive * W i U S E A N D R f C O M M I N D RK P R O D U C T S You CAN Tell The Difference. JAHE'S Styling For Men By Appointment 385-7771 The way it seems to some of us. U '-K-' .. ^1>*.>/.' ^ • - Observe Library Week With "The Right To Read" Theme The 1971 EASTER Seal campaign interests all good citizens. Helping crippled children is one of the more rewarding things we can do in our efforts to help our fellow-man. In most states a volunteer organization enthusiastically conducts the Easter Seal sale each year. A number of children walk today because of the existence of this organization and its work in past years. We solicit the attention of our readers to the present Easter Seal drive and recommend they support the effort in behalf of crippled children if financially able to do so. It's always best to make your contribution to someone you know, a local person if possible, to be sure it's used as intended. Clean Water Fight Without action by Congress or a large appropriation of funds, President Richard Nixon recently signed an executive order which may achieve more in the fight for clean water than any other effort in this direction in years. The President found authority for requiring industries to obtain federal permits for dumping waste into the country's rivers and streams in an old law, originally intended to control dredging operations, dating from 1899. The task being undertaken, which will involve all the states and many federal agencies, will not be simple or easy but Russell Train, chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality, might have been right when he said the executive order was the most important step to improve water quality the country has ever taken. Hometown Newspaper It can be asserted with justification that advertising did more to free the American press than the Constitution itself. Before modern retail advertising made newspaper publishing a profitable business, The American Press consisted of a multitude of unreliable political sheets supported by special interests with no concern for objectivity or the welfare of the whole community. As retailing became a science, advertisers learned to con­ centrate their selling in newspapers which were most widely ac­ cepted by the public. Political and personal sheets began to disappear. The remaining newspapers became stronger and more independent. They became more responsive to public opinion, and the editor began to regard his position as a public trust. The elimination of nebulous competing sheets resulted in better newspapers produced by much higher qualified personnel dedicated to publication of unbiased news. In most communities, one good, independent newspaper serves the public and differing viewpoints better than a group of squabbling, irresponsible, subsidized publications. The change has been as helpful to local retailers as it has been to the general public. It has taken the chaos out of the planning of advertising. Emergence of a truly dominant hometown newspaper, has made it possible for the local retailer to concentrate his ad­ vertising in one medium which reaches the whole trade area with no duplication of costs. Economically, it is impossible for the small city to support more than one good local newspaper. The retailer who spreads his advertising dollar to publications of questionable circulation and origin is not likely to serve himself or the public. The last half of April contains anniversaries which should be recalled by all Americans. What might have been the most disastrous fire in the history of the nation began on the 18th in 1906, in San Francisco, following an earth­ quake. On the 19th in 1775, the battles of Lexington and Concord (about which Emerson wrote the shot was heard round the world) were fought. The Battle of San Jacinto, which forced Mexico to recog­ nize the independence of Texas, was fought and won on the 21st in 1836. Arbor Day is celebrated in Nebraska on the 22nd as is the opening of unassigned lands on the 22nd in 1889,in Oklahoma. April 23rd is the birthday anniversary of the fifteenth President of the nation, James Buchanan, bom at Mercers- burg, Pennsylvania, in 1791. As the last President before the outbread of the Civil War he believed the federal govern­ ment had no constitutional right to use military force to keep states seceding from doing so but also was pre­ pared to defend federal property against attacks. On the 24th in 1814,British troops attacked, captured and bumed Washington. The 24th is remembered in Mississippi as Confederate Memorial Day. General U.S. Grant, 18th President of the nation and the commanding general of U.S. forces which WOT the decisive battles of the Civil War, was bom at Point Pleasant, Ohio, on the 27th in 1822. The 28th is the anniversary of the birth of the nation's fifth President, James Monroe, in Westmoreland County, Virginia,in 1758. Monroe negotiated the purchase of the Louisiana territory from France, was so popular as President he received every electoral vote but one in reelection to a second term. Bicycle Tips For The Road "Non teneas aurum totum quod splendet ut aurum!" If you were to say the above is all Greek to you, you'd be wrong. If you claim it is just a jumble of letters stretched across a page with no meaning, you'd be wrong again. Yet to millions of Americans, the last two sentences you have just read would impress them the same way the first one im­ pressed you, unless, of course, you held in your power the kind of magic it takes to turn marks on paper into meaningful thought patterns. In short, the skill of reading. According to Mrs. Stuart, librarian in McHenry, the National Book committee estimates there are three to 50 million Americans (past grade 3) who are either illiterate or functionally illiterate. What's functional illiteracy? Try the following: "But al thyng which that shineth as the gold, Nis nat gold, that I have herd it told!" This sentence comes a bit closer to being understood by a person who can read English. Yet, it has some strange words which might not quite come through unless they are looked ir Equipment There are two kinds of equipment... one is re­ quired by law and the other is called "optional." The following items are required: A brake which is good enough to skid the tire on dry pavement. * A horn or bell which can be heard at a distance of 100 feet. Whistles or sirens are not permitted. If you ride at night, or at any other time when it is hard to see, your bicycle must have: A head lamp with a white light which can be seen 500 feet to the front. A red reflector on the rear, or a red light which can be seen for 500 feet. \ \ U f / A H This column of questions and answers on federal tax matters is provided by the local office of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and is published as a public service to taxpayers. The column answers questions most frequently asked by taxpayers. Q) I am a college student and earned $1,100 front my summer job last year. Do I still have to file a return? A) If you are single and your gross income is under $1700 or you are married with combined gross income of less than $2,300, you generally do not have to file a return. But if you had income tax with­ held from your pay, you must file a return in order to get your refund. Q) Are there any special tax benefits for blind taxpayers? A) Yes. An additional $625 exemption is allowed for a taxpayer's blindness. The ex­ tra $625 exemption is also al­ lowed if the taxpayer's spouse is blind. The exemption may be established by attaching a statement to the return to that effect. Blind taxpayers also may be entitled to certain medical expense deductions, such as a deduction for the maintenance of a "Guide" dog. Q) Can I deduct the sales tax on the car I purchased last year? A) Yes, you can deduct the sales tax on your car in addi­ tion to the amount allowed on the optional state sales tax tables in the back of your in­ come tax return package. Q) I filed my Federal in­ come tax return, but have not received my refund. When will I get it? A) If your return is com­ plete and accurate, you should have your refund within 4-6 weeks from the day you filed. Should your refund be de­ layed beyond this period, wait 10 weeks from the date of filing your return before con­ tacting the IRS about it. This will allow time for any notice to reach you if the IRS has to contact you about errors in your return such as those in arithmetic and missing Social Security numbers, W-2's or schedules. Q) Can I claim my foster child as a dependent? A) Yes. For tax purposes, a foster child is now treated the same as a natural or adopted child. This means that you are entitled to claim a $625 dependency exemption for your foster child if: (1) you furnished over half of his total support, (2) he made less than $625 (this income limitation does not apply if he was under 19 years of age at year end or was a full-time student during five months of the year), (3) he is a U.S. citizen or resident, or a resi­ dent of Canada, Mexico, the Panama Canal Zone or the Republic of Panama for some part of the year, and (4) he has not filed a joint return with his spouse. Q) My employer continued to pay me while I was sick in the hospital for several months last year. Is this money tax­ able? A) You can exclude from income amounts you received under a wage continuation plan for periods you were ab­ sent from work because of sickness or injury subject to certain limitations. Form 2440 explains these limitations and shows you how to compute your sick pay exclusion. The form can be obtained from your local IRS office. separate returns. Can I item­ ize while she takes the stand­ ard deduction? A) No. On separate re­ turns, each must use the same method of handling deduc­ tions. If one of you itemizes, then both must itemize de­ ductions. Q) I can't find the envelope for my tax return. Where do I send my return? A) Your return should be mailed to the Internal Reve­ nue Service Center serving your district. The address of the Internal Revenue Service Center for your area is listed on page three of your tax forms package instructions. Q) Whom should I make my check payable to if I owe taxes? A) Make check payable to the Internal Revenue Service. Put your Social Security num­ ber and what the payment is for on the check ho that it can be identified should it become separated from your return during processing. I " Q) My wife and I are filing V O e v / e L U T i O M A f c Y W A * VM€J2E A ILOWtP 10 SEMP leTTfPS t-- wiTHwr I -- up and translated into other words which are un­ derstandable. Actually, both of these strange sounding sentences, the first in Latin and the second in Chaucerian English, say the same thing: "All is not gold that glitters (or glistens)." This is a very common saying in the English language, but even as it stands in this paragraph, it would still be undecipherable to the millions of people in our nation who have been, because of poverty or circumstance, denied what the McHenry Public library will focus on during National Library Week this year ~ The Right to Read. The "Right to Read" program, which has been announced as the priority goal of the U.S. Office of Education for the 1970s, has as its target the elimination of illiteracy by 1980. As its primary focus, the program is concentrating on teaching children to read - all children. As a point of fact, any family in McHenry which has a pre school age child has an illiterate person in its midst. Whether this remains the case, of course, depends on the schools and the parents. That three-to-50-million figure in­ dicates many in past years have not progressed far. Children, however, are only part of the program's focus. It is also aimed at those millions of illiterate and semi-literate adults already in our nation, and it is to the entire populace that technical skills necessary to read are being made available. The program is broader in its scope, too, than just helping people learn to read; it is also aimed at making materials to read available. This is where the library enters the picture. Libraries have as their goal making readily available materials on a wide range of subject matter and on all levels of reading skill. No library, of course, can do a complete job, but all are working together toward this common goal. Interlibrary cooperation programs make literally millions of books available on request through the 18 public library systems in the state. McHenry Public library is a member of the Northern Illinois Library system. , During National Library Week, April 18-24, Mrs. Stuart urges all citizens to exercise their heritage of literacy. Or, in the words of the National Library Week committee, "You have a Right to Read ~ Don't Blow It!" fESS* igfcC OPTOMETRIST Dr. John F.Kelly At 1224 N. Green Street McHenry (Closed Wednesday) Eyes examined .. Glasses fitted Contact Lenses Hrs: Daily 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday Evenings - 8:30 p.m. Evenings by appointment PHONE 385-0452 Dr. Leonard Bottari Eyes Examined - Contact Lens Glasses Fitted 1303 N. Richmond Road Hours: Mon., Tues., Thurs.and Fri. 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Tues., Thurs., & Fri Eve. .7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Sat.: 9:30 to 3:00 p.m. No Hours on Wednesday PHONE 385-4151 If No Answer...Phone 385-2262 For Your Information Dear friends, In our selection room all of our complete funeral prices are marked in plain figures. This is sound business practice. It means that the price is uniform for all. We believe the public appreciates this policy. No family, completing arrangements, ever leaves our establishment without an accurate estimate of what the total expenses will be. Respectfully, PETER Ai JUSTE N & SON FUNERAL HOME McHenry. Illinois 385-0063 gllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll^ I Are You New I | In Town? | | Do You Know Someone | | New In Town \ S We would like to extend a welcome to 5 every newcomer to our community . . . I CALL OFFICE EQUIPMENT McHenry County Office Machines Sales-Service & Rentals Typewriters - Adders Calculators Mon.-Sat. 9:00-5:30 Friday 'til 9 p.m.1 PHONE 4591226 93 Grant St., Cyrstal Lake, 111. 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