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"o| I WPhfc '* POPPY DAY PROCLAMATION - Mayor Joseph Stanelt, left, signs proclamation designating Saturday, May IS, as Poppy day in McHenry. Looking on are Ed Held, representing VFW Commander Bob Roberts, and Lloyd Wehrheim, commander of the McHenry American Legion post. n.< bright r«l Wpt« will be told throughout tt* city tram 9 ••£«^jJj0TO.WAYNE CA ylQBD insight DIVORCE By Larry Swaim If there are three of you sitting there together and listen­ ing to this program, the statistics say that one of you is divorced . . . one is unhappily married . . . and only one is a partner in a happy marriage. I hope the statistics don't apply in your particular case but ... sad to say .. . they do apply across this divorce-weary society of ours. And in spite of the claims of a few liberationist writers, divorce is not doing us any good. It's making people sick. And lonely. And, as we so often say, "It is always the children who suffer most." There's a common attitude floating around these days which says that a marriage is not worth fighting for anyway. And, if your marriage takes work to survive, then it probably was never a very good match to start with. That's pretty poor reasoning and we wouldn't ap­ proach any other aspect of life and expect to succeed without work. But marriage is worth work. As one very perceptive divorcee recently said Even a bad marriage is better, from the standpoint of having a horns and a family, than no marriage at all and being alone." Of course, I would consider it rather negative motivation to say that divorce is bad because it will make you miserable. The real reason divorce is such a waste is that it is such a complete opposite from the greatest accomplishment that two human beings can make: a home where love is genuine . .. communication is honest . . . and understanding is a way of life. If you ask me why there are more divorces, I'd say it's because we are getting lazy .. . and selfish . .. and afraid to try. Anything worth doing is going to take work. God ordained marriage at the beginning of time and established the family as the natural way for human beings to find security. If your marriage is in danger, get competent help. Be willing to work to make it last. Kor a confidential and Bib­ lical answer to your questions, write Larry Swaim, 985 Ponce de Leon Avenue, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30306. Watch Corn Planter Plates *• J > -v . Improper planter plate selection is one of the major causes of over or underplanting rates, according to seed corn experts at DeKalb AgResearch, Inc. Select the suggested planter plate from the directions on the seed bag, but be sure to check seed- size to cell-size match. spurgeons Selected Spring and Summer Fabrics Workwise Questions and Answers Q. I was laid off my job in January. Now the company is closing. I was paid for all the hours I worked but I had ac­ cumulated a month vacation time which I haven't been paid for. Is there a way I can collect this? A. It depends on the cir­ cumstances under which your company closed. For example, if your company went bankrupt, you must take your claim to Bankruptcy court. Under any other cir­ cumstances, you should file a claim with the Wage Claim division of the Illinois Department of Labor and let them determine if a hearing can be called. The Wage Claim division is located at 910 S. Michigan, Room 1808, Chicago, II., 60605. Q. 1 live in Carlisle, II.J would like to try to find a job through the Illinois State Employment service but my town doesn't have one. I called the operator to see if a neighboring com­ munity has an Employment Service but she couldn't find a listing. How can I find the nearest one? A. Your local Employment Service is located in Centralia at 224 N. Elm St. - (618 ) 532- 4741. You could have obtained this information from a new toll free number - (800 ) 252-8093 - which is designed to help people find the Employment Service or Unemployment Insurance office to which they should report. Questions may be submitted to Workwise, Room 1830, 910 S. Michigan, Chicago, II., 60605. BANKING IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS PAGE 1 • PLAIM>fcAU.n-i»fcu.*i«w(% i. MII u, i»«» A f Instant! i Cheek Frail's Up-Sat Yee CM H«Jp By Willia W. Alexander Executive Vice Preeident A meriean Bankera Amociation That innocent looking per­ son next to you in the teller line yesterday may have been robbing your bank of hun­ dreds of dollars with no gun, no violence and no notice. With more than 28 billion checks being written a year, bank check fraud is a growing problem. As a matter of fact, annual bank losses from fraud­ ulent checks are now twice at high as losses from bank bur­ glaries and holdups. Banks do everything they can to prevent fraud through check cashing procedures. Eor example, many banks will cash only checks drawn on them. This precaution en­ sures that they will be able to verify the signature of the person who wrote the check with the signature card On file. Together with solid identification and your en­ dorsement, the teller has a pretty good idea that the transaction will be legitimate. But, con artists are smart, and have ways of getting around even the most strin­ gent procedures. And, al­ though it's ultimately the bank's problem, temporary embarrassment can arise for the bank customer whose account has been tapped by a con artist and who unwittingly overdraws the account before tiie deceit is picked up Once fraud is detected, of course, the bank or merchant who accepted the check is responsible, and must return the cash to the rightful owner. You can help fight Urn nationwide problem if you will reconcile your statement as soon as it arrives, think of blank checks as money snd institute a few precautionary measures Because forgers rob homes, mail boxes and purses to get signature samples, ac count numbers and balance information, you should • Keep your blank checks, cancelled checks and persons! deposit slips hidden in s safe place at home and buried in your purse. o Destroy any old blank checks you may have. • Notify your banker of lost or stolen checkbooks immediately. Tellers then can atop any unauthorised checks from being cashed on your account. o Let the bank know if you don't receive ordered checks, cancelled checks or statementa as scheduled. Make certain that the infor­ mation on your newly printed Hpby I] V i VETERAN...Henry Durham III. left, appears with a blase beagle in the arms of Ben Armstrong, one of the per­ formers in Paul Green's outdoor musical drama, "The Stephen Foster Story ," presented each summer at Bard- stown. Ky. Henry has made l.Mt appearances \m the show, presented annually on the grounds of My Old Kentucky Home State Park. TURN ONS checks is accurate, and that all new numbered checks are accounted for. o Always write your checks in ink, start as far left as possible in each space and make sure you leave no spaces where figures or words can be inserted. Fishing solves a sur- prising number of prob­ lems. • e * * W h a t e v e r y o u r j o b . there's always someone who can do it better. OV4 APPLTS FCU AWV I'M mttrr 17 MCX' BROUHAHA INVITES YOU 10 THEIR 4 f Until They re Gone! All kinds! Cottons, cotton blends, polyester knits and T-shirt knits. 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