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I \ PAGE 12 - PLAINDEALER - WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1974 A / ELECT 7 \ . Ronald H. Mewrer 4th Ward Alderman 'X • . - > • £ • Member Of McHeniy Planning Commission • Chairman Of Fund Raising Committee For Election Of Mayor Stanek • Active In Procurement Of Seweis For Lakeland Paik • Active In Procurement Of Reduction Of Tap-On Fees • Active For Improvement Of Lakeland Park Water System Ron Meurer is 43 years old and has been a resident of Lakeland Park for the last 15 years. He and his wife Barbara have 4 children. Alan attends North Central College in Naperville. Linda graduated form McHenry High School last June. John is a freshman at East Campus and Shirley is a Junior at West Campus. Ron Sis employed at Oak Industries Inc. in Crystal Lake. Ron has been involved, in the past, with the youth in Lakeland Park having been among the first in Little League and continuing when they combined with McHenry. He was active in the Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts and coached a girls softball team. He helped start the Lakeland Park Couples Bowling league which is still going strong. The Meurer's are members of the Community Methodist Church in McHeniy. , ELECTION • FEBRUARY 5, 1974 AT LAKELAND PARK COMMUNITY HOUSE FLOOD INSURANCE NOW AVAILABLE In The Greater McHeniy Area Flood Rates And Maximum Limits • SINGLE FAMILY DWELLINGS Buildings 25' per $100. Value, Max. $35,000 Contents 35* per $100. Value, Max. $10,000 • MULTIPLE FAMILY DWELLINGS Buildings 25' per $100. Value, Max. $100,000 Contents 35' per $100. Value, Max. $10,000 • COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS Buildings 40' per $100. Value, Max. $100,000 Contents 75' per $100. Value, Max. $100,000 THIS INSURANCE MUST BE PURCHASED PRIOR TO FEBRUARY 15, 1974 OR THERE WILL BE A 15 DAY WAITING PERIOD FROM DATE OF APPLICATION TO DATE OF COVERAGE. NOW. WITH THE AVAILABILITY OF FLOOD INSURANCE THE FEDERAL DISASTER LOAN PROGRAM WILL NO LONGER BE AVAILABLE TO THE McHENRY AREA. If You Wish To Have This Insurance Added To Your Present Insurance Program Contact Your insurance Agent This message brought to you as a public service by: KENT CORPORATION INSURANCE 3322 W. Elm St McHenry 385-3800 FRANK LOW INSURANCE 1320 N. Riverside Dr., McHenry 385-6541 drpntJfHt Imuran STOFFEL & REIHANSPERGER INSURANCE 3438 W. Elm St, McHeniy 385-0300 GEORGE L tHOMPSON INSURANCE 3812 W. ELm St, McHeniy 385-1066 EARL A JACK WALSH INSURANCE 4410 W. Rte. 120, McHeniy 385-3300 Discuss Mental Health Vote (First in a series prepared in cooperation with officials at Family Service and Mental Health clinic and Pioneer coiter to provide background information on the March 19 Mental Health referendum). A tax referendum concerning mental health comes before the public Tuesday, March 19?for S simple reason. Competent agencies in this field to assist McHenry county citizens with mental or physical handicaps or with problems relating to emotional disturbances receive increasing demands for help. Citizens obviously are con­ cerned about this request for more funds as approved in a referendum by the McHenry County board. This referendum limits the tax levy (as the legal description on the ballots states) "not to exceed one-tenth of 1 per cent for the purpose of providing community mental health facilities and services." What has happened to cause the requirement for more at the local-McHenry c< level? Increased (.service at the profit agenci care for Demands became so intense and the quality of help so valuable that the Family Service and Mental Health Clinic has established offices with certified personnel in six communities for a more local service: at McHenry, Wood­ stock, Crystal Lake, Marengo, Harvard and Cary. y Services^are varied: Marital counseling>.family therapy, drug abuse counseling, alcohol abuse counseling, suicide prevention including 24-hour emergency services; and group therapy. The services at Pioneer coiter involve rehabilitation for adults who are unable to care for themselves rehabilitation thatvincludes work opportunities, counseling, social adjustment help, and an environment at the Pioneer center in McCullom Lake for the handicapped individual to grow and mature. The request for a "Yes" vote on the tax referendum is prompted by the assistance given county citizens the past several r years and the owledge that an increasingly ;e number of people await McHenry Man Views Trip To Spain, Africa Hugh Kirk of McHenry has just returned from a pleasant, adventurous trip to Spain and Africa, with the Farm Bureau, in which his membership ex­ tends back nearly forty years. High point of interest was Gibraltar, from the streets of La Linea, which is its border on the north, seen three different times from the air. Then, in a rented Spanish car, he drove into the mountainous back country, visiting Casares, winch is an entire city in white that appears glued on the side of a mountain. Ronda has its bull ring set on the edge of a vary high cliff. There are more than 200 kilometers of beautiful palm- covered beach areas guarded by centuries old round towers and forts. At Granada is the age old Alhambra with beautiful gardens and caves just outside die city wall that are the living quarters of over"?,000 gypsies. Madrid, the capital, has the palace with more rooms, more splendor, more large halls of elegance than one would think possible in one place, according to Kirk. He calls the city a marvelous blend of ceftturies old sections and the new and modern. More observations will ap­ pear in the next issue. Service News ^ Marine Captain Bernard F. Kalb, son of Mr. and Mrs. B.N. Kalb of Spring Grove, is par­ ticipating in a cold weather training exercise at the Mlsawa Air base, Japan, fle serves the Marine Attack Squadron 211 at ; the Marine Corps Air station, Iwakuni, Japan. He joined the Marine corps in January, 1969. LEAVESOFFICE Glenn Keith Christensen, Algonquin township clerk, has announced he has submitted his resignatipn as of Feb. 1. His in, he said "was due ; to the ftlocation of my com­ pany to Nashville, Tenn". non- provide mentally- physically retarded or men­ tally ill -- Pioneer center (McHenry County Association for the Retarded) and Mental Health and Family Service Clinic of McHenry County is the reason. Data supplied by these two agencies gives insight into the scope of their programs the past five years. In 1967 Pioneer/Center had a single program that served eleven people. This program was for mentally retarded adults only. Today, it has four major areas of service that involved both children and adults, 'ami notice the number of people counting on Pioneer center for professional care by career people: 70 people in the rehabilitation facility at Mc­ Cullom Lake; 19 people in the Day Care school at Wonder Lake; 4 infants in the Day Care program at Wonder Lake; and 20 people in the 24-hour residence at Woodstock. Meanwhile, the Mental Health center finds burgeoning demands for its psychiatric and psychological services: 748 patients in 1967 to 1,606 last year and in interviews from 3,115 to 13,672 over the same six-year periods. The staff increased only from 13 to 21 in the same time span but ser­ vices offered grew tremen­ dously as the public became aware of the sound assistance available right here in McHenry county. THE THREE STOOGES - Displaying no shyness, three white ducks push ahead of a huge number of mallards to get their share of com given to them by Denise Thomas on a recent zero day. Denise joins her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Thomas, in feeding twice daily on the ice in front of their home at 1719 W. Sunnyside. Mrs. Thomas reports there are six white domestic ducks, of which only three are bold enough to mingle. The family refers to them as the three stooges. THINGS YOU MAY NOT ABOUT CONSERVING ELECTRICITY a Proper insulation can mean a savings for you in winter. And in summer, too. . The better your insulation, the less heat you lose in winter. Your heating systerh doesn't have to run as often, ©r as long, to keep you wapm. You save. Now think about this: the same insulation that helps keep heat inside in winter helps keep it outside in summer. Even if you don't have air conditioning, in­ sulation puts a barrier between^; you and the heat outside. If you have air conditioning, youll find it doesn't have to work nearly as hard to keep you cool. You save again. What is proper insulation? Recommendations vary with the type of construction. The ability of an insulating material to resist the flow of heat is measured in a unit called R-Value. The higher the R-Value the better the therm­ al resistance of the insulation. With electrically heated homes, we recommend the equivalent of R-19 in the ceiling, R-l 1 in the walls, and R-l 1 in the floor. In all cases, the better the insula­ tion, the more efficiently the heating and cooling systems will operate. If you're building a new home, check with your builder to see that you're getting the maximum insulation for your living space. If you feel your present house is under-insulated, an insulating contractor or supplier can show you how to improve it. This hint is included in our booklet "101 Ways to Conserve IjJJ^tricityN^t Home." For your free copyvwrite Commonwealth Edison, Ijfoan- ment AV, P.O. Box 767, (Jucago, Illinois 60690. Commonwealth Edi concern lor your total environment e i i "V-