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SECTION 2 - PAGE 6 - PLAINDEALEH - WEDNESDAY. JUNE 22. 1977 EDITORIALS Offer Good Will Everybody wants things better. Good will toward your fellowmen improves the attitude of men and women and results in a fuller and satisfied life. All householders could make this a summer of goodwill. During the summer and vacation time, things slow down at home and this affects Abilities Center "T*oodwill Industries, the agency giving the handicapped people a chance to lead a fuller life. Goodwill helps the handicapped the disadvantaged to stay i>n the job-- learning and earning- all year long. This service agency can not and does not work alone, but depends upon your donations of materials and public support. So. this summer, do good for your handicapped neighbor...for Goodwill Send all your no longer wanted clothing and household goods to Goodwill. You will appreciate this in the fall and you will be helping Goodwill during a slack period. Call Goodwill (Mrs. Nick Adams), and offer your support today. It'll make your summer... and Goodwill's, a little bit better. Energy Waste Some of the painful remedies proposed to solve America's energy problem might be unnecessary if the enormous amount of wasted energy could be reduced If the federal government is to enact mandatory remedies, it's logical for initial compulsory action to aim at waste. Only after waste is eliminated will the nation know what the essential energy demand of the nation is. Huge amounts of energy are used for promotional and advertising purposes-such as brightly lighted public, utility and commercial buildings. Store windows, used car lots, electric signs, all over the country, consume an enormous amount of energy. A sensible approach would to be limit the hours of unnecessary lighting. In many cases, other forms of promotion or advertising could be utilized to soften the impact. A glance at the federal governments own buildings in Washington reveals an inexcusable waste of energy. Huge buildings are kept brightly lighted for janitorial purposes only at night. Then there's the matter of swimming pools. When some were unable to obtain sufficient fuel for lighting or heating this winter, others were heating outdoor swimming pools! If waste were curbed through a sensible, compulsory program, the sacrifices of the general public might not be so painful. And, hopefully, the energy bureaucrats wouldn't get such a big bureaucracy going either-one which will probably be with us forever June, 1977 A ship at sea--and a bride in June- Ivy and bittersweet in Fall- But the bride is the loveliest of all' •Anne Mary Lawler Although it seems hard to believe, the arrival of June brings us almost to the half-way point of 1977. By the end of the month, a fiscal year will have been completed, and 1977 will be in its second half. June brings with it summer, commencyments, weddings, school vacations and beautiful weatner, and is thus, perhaps, the most welcome of all the months. In this month the days are longer than during any other month of the year; there is more daylight and less darkness. The Allies landed in France on June 6th, 1944, in World War II, which proved to be the beginning of the end of the war. June is not a month of birthday anniversaries for famous Americans, but it contains many patriotic days. The anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, fought on June 17, 1775, is observed in Boston. The United States Government actually began in the month of June, 1788, when New Hampshire ratified the Constitution, the last article of which provided that, upon ratification by nine states, the establishment of the Constitution between the states would be effected. Father's Day also falls in June (the 19th) as does the birthday of the first and only President of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, on the 3rd. Special Tax Credit t A special tax credit for employers who hire disabled workers referred by the Illinois Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR) was announced recently by DVR Director James S. Jeffers. Recent federal legislation allows tax credits for em­ ployers of disabled veterans, the long-term unemployed, and DVR clients. Information about the tax credit is available from the DVR at 623 E. Adams street, Springfield 62706. THE DOUBLE DIPPER mm mm. CSPS For Your Information Dear friends. Who wants to burden friends with sorrow? The most truly helpful' ser­ vice a friend can perform is to listen patiently and sympathetically while the bereaved works thru the various stages of grief. Too often this is the one thing friends cannol do. Too pain­ ful. We all need to be educated to the bereaved's need to talk and to a willingness to listen. Respectfully, PETER MJUSTEN & SON FUNERAL HOME McHenry, Illinois 385-0063 Children's Food Program New Eligibility Standards 100 Years Ago June In Illinois Assistant Secretary Carol Tucker Foreman has issued the new U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA> income poverty guidelines for deter­ mining eligibility for free and reduced price meals and free milk under the child nutrition program. The new guidelines apply to schools and institutions par­ ticipating in the National School Lunch and Breakfast programs, the Child Care Food program, the Special Milk program and schools and in­ stitutions receiving federally donated foods. The income guidelines are effective from July I, 1977, to June 30, 1978. The guidelines increase in­ come eligibility approximately 6.78 percent over last year and reflect the increase in the Consumer Price Index during the twelve-month period, April 1976 to April, 1977. Based on the national income poverty guidelines, each state issues guidelines which schools and institutions use for determining if children are eligibile for free or reduced price meals or free milk. States are required to set the eligibility level for reduced priced meals at 96 percent above the national income poverty guidelines. When establishing eligibility stan­ dards for free meals and milk, States have the option of placing the cut-off level at up to 25 percent above the national poverty guidelines. The income poverty guidelines are higher for Alaska. Havyaii. and Guam because of higher living costs in those areas. Income poverty guidelines take into account both amily size and income oefore deductions for income taxes, insurance premiums, bonds, etc. In using the gu delines, schools and institutions may consider both the family's income during the past twelve months and the family's current rate of income to determine which is the better indicator of the need for free and reduced-price meals and free milk. When judging a family's income level, local ad­ ministrators can also allow for specified hardship situations such as unusually high medical expenses, housing costs which exceed 30 percent of income, special education expenses due to a child's physical or mental condition, and disaster or casualty losses. In addition, children whose parents become unemployed shallk be eligible for free or reduced'price meals or free milk during the period of unemployment, if the loss of income causes the family in­ come to be within the local school or institution's income eligibility criteria. Family Secretary's Guideline levels when Family guidelines increased by: guidelines 25 per 95 per. 1 $ 3,140 $ 3,930 $ 6,120 2 4,130 5,160 8,050 3 5,110 6,390 9,970 4 6,090 7,610 11,880 5 4 6,990 8,740 13,630 6 7,890 9,860 15,380 7 8,710 10,890 16,980 8 9,530 11,910 18,580 9 10,270 12,840 20,030 10 11,010 13,760 21,470 11 11,740 14,680 22,890 12 12,470 15,590 24,310 Each additional family member 730 910 1,420 FNS-142 (77) DOUBLE FEATURE L- I IVELFAREiS ̂ TPIAXpI C COM0UVI £RAZY ANVCSl funnV' LAU6HSI MORE UMJ6HSJ i m || Suburban Legislators Request Reform Of RTA Suburban county legislators are calling on their county board chairmen to get written guarantees from whomever they appoint to replace RTA board member Jerry Boose of Kane county. Signed by thirty-five state legislators representing all parts of the five-collar counties around Cook, the letter calls for: (1) opposition to any RTA budget that give the Chicago Transit authority more than 50 percent of the state and federal operating subsidies; (2) distribution of state and U.S. subsidies in direct proportion to the population to the outlying counties; (3) opposition to any RTA gas tax; and, (4) a pledge not to vote for Milton Pikarsky for RTA Chairman once his term is up. Written and circulated in the House by Rep. Cal Skinner, Jr. (R-Crystal Lake), the letter was signed by sixteen Republicans and nine Democrats. (Six Republican and two Democratic House members refused to sign the letter.) All eleven state senators' signatures were gathered by Senator Jack Schaffer (R- Caryl. "Even though the collar county board chairmen may well re-appoint Jerry Boose to the RTA board, too much is at stake to leave issues like those we raise up in the air," Skinner said. A list of those signing include Skinner and Rep. Thomas Hanahan, McHenry. CSPS New Energy Gov. James Thompson recently applauded the an­ nouncement that the Illinois Coal Classification group had been awarded $22.5 million to design a demonstration coal gasification plant in Perry county. The award by the Federal Energy Research and Development administration (ERDA) will allow the Chicago based group io design a plant in which over 2,000 tons of Illinois coal per day could be converted to "clean" energy sources such as synthetic natural gas and oil. JUNE IN ILLINOIS A HUNDRED YEARS AGO A Month of Damaging Tornadoes and Flowery Commencements (Special from the Illinois State Historical Society, Old State Capitol, Springfield, II. 62706) June, 1977, was a month of damaging tornadoes and flowery commencements for Illinois. A check «f the century-old newspaper files in the Illinois State Historical library at Springfield shows that the papers also followed the travels of former President Ulysses S. Grant who was just beginning a year-long world tour. The month's earliest tornado hit Mt. Carmel, which the Springfield Illinois State Journal described as "one of those bright, cheerful little towns peculiar to Illinois (with) a population of about three thousand orderly, well conducted people, located on the west bank of the Wabash river, on a high bluff." The story of the storm itself read, in part: "The air was filled with a mighty noise, like the rolling of waves high up on the shore. The terrified inhabitants saw a mighty cone. It must have been 1,000 feet in height, and ...first was noticed at a distance of a mile and a quarter west." It passed through the center of town "leaving a path of death and ruin behind it, like unto the marks of the hand of Om­ nipotence when raised in anger." The storm cut a swath 800 feet wide, destroying 14 of the town's 56 blocks- including the main business section. The number of people killed was estimated at 20 to 25 and the number of "wounded" was "probably seventy or eighty." The property loss was put at "not short of $500,000" by the Chicago Inter Ocean. Among the buildings destroyed were the courthouse- its 500-lb. bell was hurled across Main St., "sixty feet in the teeth of the storm "-the Presbyterian church, and "Stein & Wilson's pop factory." "Men, women and children were blown a distance of four hundred feet." A kittle girl was toppled into a well on the school grounds and rescued by the principal; and "Mrs. Paynter was blown into a tree." Cyclones later in the month were more widespread and farther north in the state. Both the Daily Quincy Herald and the Springfield Journal reported that "hail' stones as big as hen's eggs" fell at Moline-golf balls were not available for comparison a hundred years ago. The Fairbury Methodist church was demolished, trains were blown off the tracks, the Dixon fairground buildings were destroyed, but the principal damage was to grain crops and fruit trees. The 1877 high school and college graduating classes followed the pattern of the - times in the forme - girls far out­ numbered the boys but the reverse was true in the colleges and" Tea Tax Started It Americans started to change into a nation of coffee drinkers when tea prices rose as a result of George Ill's notorious tax that helped spark the American Rev­ olution. Tea shortages later were compounded by shortages dur­ ing the War of 1812. LET S GET TOGETHER AND TALK ABOUT LOW-COST AUTO INSURANCE. Tony Fick Are You New In McHenry Area? w GIVE ME A CALL FOR THE FACTS ON LOW-COST HEALTH INSURANCE. Chuck Lewandowski Do You Know Someone New? WE WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND A ROYAL WELCOME TO EVERY NEWCOMER TO OUR AREA!!!!!!! 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The State Industrial univer­ sity at Urbana (now the Univ­ ersity of Illinois) graduated thirty men and eleven women- nine of the women were from Champaign or Urbana. At the University of Chicgo twenty- three men and two women received degrees and at Nor­ thwestern university the numbers were twenty-nine men and two women; there had been eighty-four in their fresh­ man class. Two features of all com­ mencement exercises a cen­ tury ago were speeches by the graduates and gifts of flowers. Unless the class was too large, each member read his or her essay and the bouquets would be "thrown, tossed, or carried on the stage," sometimes practially filling it, General and Mrs. Grant were visiting England that June and Illinois papers followed them closely. When Queen Victoria invited them to her castle the Inter Ocean headed its two-and- a half-column story simply "Windsor Castle" but the State Journal was slightly less for­ mal with a line reading "Ulysses and Vic." Red Cross In Annual Meeting Scheduled June 30 The board of directors, McHenry county chapter, American National Red Cross, announces that the annual meeting of the chapter will be held Thursday, June 30, in the parish hall of St. Ann's Episcopal church, 503 W. Jackson, Woodstock. The meeting will begin at 4:30 p.m. and refreshments will be served. Every resident of McHenry county who has contributed to the 1977 Red Cross mem­ bership-enrollment, to the Crystal Lake United fund or to the Chicago Crusade of Mercy is a chapter member, and is cordially invited to attend this membership meeting. The agenda will include the annual chapter report, adop­ tion of the revised by-laws and the election of new directors. A special recognition is being planned for Mrs. Cathryne Breytspraak, who retired this past February as executive director, having served McHenry coprfty chapter as volunteery^ administrative assjstanr and executive director for nearly forty years. Drive With Care May traffic fatalities in Illinois totaled 172, an increase of 5.5 percent from the same month of 1976, according to statistics released recently by the Illinois Departments of Transportation and Law En­ forcement. The fatality total for the year is up 1.2 percent from that of the first five months of 1976. EARL R. WALSH & JACK WALSH INS. Fire, Auto, Farm, Lift R*pro*ntin9 RELIABLE COMPANIES 4410 W. Rt«. 120. McHenry MS- MOO DENNIS CONWAY AUTO LIFE FIRE State Farm Ins. Co. Ml* W. Elm St. MchUnry, III. MS-7111 DR. LEONARD B0TTARI 103 N. Richmond Rd , McMenry Eye* examined - Contact Lenses Glasses fitted Mon., Tue»> Ttiurs., Fri., 4-4 p.m. Toes., Thurs., Fri., 7-tp.m. Sat . t: 10 to 3:00 Ph. 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