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PAGE 4 - PLAINDEALER - FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 8. It80 Past 65 WATCH OUT FOR THE HOT PITCH FROM NEW INSURANCE FIRMS by Carl Riblet Jr. Insurance companies that offer health coverage to the elderly have become a problem. » Q-44I saw a big ad that offered supplemental health and accident to older people. I sent in $1 as requested for a policy that would later, after the first month, cost me and my wife, a total of $15 a month. We received all sorts of papers from them, in­ cluding the policy. Three of the packets had a seal with green ribbon attached. Those papers looked like a guarantee from Heaven itself. I didn't understand something in their letter so I called their toll-free number. Nobody was able to explain and as I talked to three more of the phone answerers, they got snippier. You could tell they thought I was dumb. I got mad and told them to have their president phone me. A man who said he was their assistant general counsel phoned. I refused to talk to him. I wanted the president whose assistant then called. Between us we figured somebody in his office had made a mistake. ! let the policy lapse after one month. Those young squirts that answered the phone LONGHORN RE-OPENING SPECIAL! FRI. NITE-FISH FRY 980 Includes: Baked potato, salad bar, SAT. ft SUNi-PRIME RIB OF BEEF AU JUS. ... .T.. 7.95 ROAST DUCK A LA ORANGE.... 6.75 SUNDAY-FAMOUS RIBS ft CHICKEN COMBO.. 5.50 ROAST TURKEY W/DRESSINC... . „ 4.75 Luncheon 11:30-2:30 Dinner 5-11:30 Sunday 5-9:30 LONGHOHN STEAK HOUSE m Route 120 - 2'/» Miles East of McHenry - 385-986^^^ ̂ treated me like a dumb cluck, as I said. I got the idea the company was in business to make money, not friend- s."-Siler L. A-Siler probably did right when he followed his in­ stincts and canceled by lapsing. Seals with green ribbons yet! A way, perhaps, to impress the aging who are eligible to be suckers, I have been intrigued, and worried, about the health insurance policies offered the aging. The companies seem to be mostly new. None are the old line companies we have come to respect through the decades. They offer noncancellable policies-if the insured will only pay the relatively high premium. They make the offers in big-page ads with pitches that would diminish a carnival barker. I have checked out four of the ULTRATAN Suntan Salon ULTRATAN is the quick, new and safe way to get a tan. WATCH FOR OUR OPENING ON MAIN STREET IN McHENRY companies. I wouldn't buy a policy from any. I asked a noted Milwaukee insurance lawyer about those health and accident policies. He. replied, "Somewhere in such a policy the insured will find some outlandish clause such as this-that he can't get paid for an injury unless he has all his own teeth, is injured on a night on which there is a crescent moon and the in­ jury occurs from improper use of a power lawn mower manufactured in some outlandish place like Tim­ buktu# Obviously, an im­ possible setup." So, beware of new com­ panies that offer gift-from- Heaven health land accident policies, especially if they use seals with long green ribbons attached. Q-"A person reads so much about pollution from gasoline fumes that he may. forget how it was when he was a kid 80 years ago. I am 90. I lived in Chicago as a boy. There was local pollution in the boulevards. The street cleaners-we called them white wings- brushed and shoveled and piled and on a day with heavy carriage traffic they couldn't keep up. The flies swarmed and the horses' feet had to be washed when they got home to the stable. And, boy, when it rained, the horses splashed ,in the damndest mess you ever saw. Talk about pollution! I'll take the auto."-Seth M. A.-I'm just old enough to remember how it was 60 years ago-lots of horses, a few cars. However, horse droppings on a boulevard did not produce the carbon forms that now pollute the air all over the world. I think I'll take the horse. Oats and hay must be cheaper than gas. 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Henry's mother automatically should have received from the U.S. Department of Labor for 22 months after his death, the amount paid monthly to the miner for his black lung compensation; no con­ nection with his pension. Q-"I am retired at 65 and rented out a house to the same people for 710 years. When they moved in the rent was $180 a month and they were required to pay me first and last month's rent, which they did. Over the years the rent was raised to $325 a month with no com­ plaints from the tenant other than the usual moans, then they left owing back rent. They say they will pay but they want credit of $325 for the last month's rent, in­ stead of what they paid as a deposit-$l80. Please write me a letter so 1 can show these people how an authoritative source says they are entitled to only $180."-Paul F. A-The tenant's argument sounds like a version of the now-you-see-it-now-you- don't shell game. Paul can write a letter and tell - him something awful will happen if he doesn't accept what was first agreed. The. tenant is bound to wonder just^how awful, and who knows, he might take the $180 and run. The idea has worked in other cases. $ 1300 Check For Palsy ALL SEATS HELD OVER McHenry County college students traveled to Chicago Wednesday to present a check for more than $1,300 to the United Cerebral Palsy Telethon committee. The students, Heidi Tyrell and Dave Snyder, ac­ companied MCC student activities coordinator, Deb Welch, to turn in the check for $1,358.58 raised at special nights held last weekend art the college. MCC students also worked on the telethon which raised more than $1.1 million throughout the Chicago area to help combat cerebral palsy. More than 60 MCC students worked on the special nights. Mystery Of Mass At City Church The Mystery of the Holy Mass, a spiritual play by an international group from Germany now on tour in the United States, will be presented at St. Patrick's Catholic church Monday, Feb. 18. The time is 8 p.m. The author is1 Father Calderon de las Baca, whose play is the most famous of the mystery writings of 17th century Spanish priests. It is written from the viewpoint of the Bible. Because seating is limited in the church, anyone planning to attend is asked to secure tickets in advance by calling 344-1820 days or 385- 4514 evenings. 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