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PAGE 4 - PLAINDEALER • FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31.19M Past 65 By Carl Riblet. Jr. Question -- "I want to ask a company here for a job, but I am afraid they might turn me down. It is a small lumber yard that has had a number of people working, one after the other, as bookkeeper. But they don't make out. The owner is strict, but fair. The people he has had in the job are not meticulous in their work. The owner gets irritated and they talk back to him and so then he fires them. "I am retired, but I have all my apples, as they say, and in eight more months I can earn all I can get without my Social Security being penalized. Even though I am 71 I could do the work and satisfy the owner. But he always hires younger people and because he himself is just over 50 or thereabouts, I feel he will laugh inside himself if I ask for that job, which I could use in good measure with my small retirement benefit. My employment record over the years is good. Can you tell me whether I should write him a letter, explaining how competent I am, or just forget it? I lose my nerve every time I get set to go to his office in person to ask for the job." -- Myron J. Answer -- If Myron think* he can do the work better than anyone else then he ought to go in and ask for the job. Perhaps he can work up the courage by thinking about a story that goes back to my newspaper days in Chicago during Prohibition. We reporters called it the " A s k - M r s . M u r p h y " strategy. Big Tim Murphy was a Chicago beer runner, sometimes called a beer baron, who was shot to death by A1 Capone gangsters on his front lawn on Chicago's south side one night. Beer runners in those days were not thought of as being vicious gangsters. They weren't into gambling and prostitution like the Capone mob that was muscling in on them. No newspaper had a photo of him in its files because Big Tim had always backed away out of the range of any news photographer. The morning papers rushed their police reporters to the Murphy house. A few of the reporters tried to pass The McHenry Plaindealer f Ml] WHI DIM tlrM< (IMPS SM-Mt) (•MMtaM IOT McHvnry HHml» l««f *«<•«»<•> ft Friday •» MtHwwy. Wllwll S*c»«4 Cku >»Hi|l PmH at McMaary Wlwli ly McHIMTV PUtttSMIMC COMPANY POSTMAtTIM: tend «M>MI CH»wf« «• McWawr; PUnMw Ml] W llm It.. MtHnry llllrtoia MOM S«fc«rib*r> mr» r^tilW •• pravM* n*ttc« •« dlw|l ««nn «• Tl»« MiHwrr Mil * llm H MctWy M MM*. A MikMh •> an* tram th» W a rtpMaa «M ka marfa w4«i« a cfcaaya a» •44 f• i« pr**t4»4 rttrawfk Mia Pa«< OMtca <«par»m«m Lorry i. Lund Publithar AdaU Fro*iich-Editor 2®^ JSSJz tiwinnn ) NATIONAL NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES la McNaflrf Cawtf OwttMa McHaary Ciwil| lit) |M Many Voters have asked us "How do we vote for you four candidates?1 Below is a Sample Ballot. Be sure to mark Nos. 147-148-149-150 and your vote will count. SAMPLE BALLOT PAGE 8-2 FOR SHERIFF: (TO FILL VACANCY FOR UNEXPIRED TERM) (VOTE FOR ONE) knhicm HENRY A. (HANK) NULLE.. . 136 _ mmcmto JOHN i. TYRRELL 137 -- FOR COUNTY BOARD MEMBERS: COUNTY BOARD DISTRICT 2 (VOTE FOR FOUR) muni'MES 0. CURRAN . .141- mmWILLIAN J. FITZGERALD... .142- BnaucjuiOHN P. O'HAGAN .143- VMICMPAUI E. (IDLER 144- KMaun ROBERT 8RISKENAS 145 -- •mm HARRY i. ROSTKOWSKI... .146- cnuas DONALD P. DOHERTY. 147 * CITUHS CHARLES (CHUCK) WEINSARI.. 148- CUI2ENS HARRY R. DEAN. . . . .149-* circus PETER C. REILAND. . .150 * VOTE NOVEMBER 4 FROM « AM-7 M Vote for Four (Punch No'«. 147-148-149-150 AVotofor 6ood Government! themselves off as policemen or deputy coroners when Mrs. Murphy came to the door. They lied to her, saying they needed a photo of Big Tim for identification purposes. She slammed the door in the face of every one of them. They returned to their city editors with their tails between their legs, as they deserved. On the Herald-Examiner, a cub reporter named Peterson was called to the city desk by an assistant city editor who more than once had dreamed up cruel practical jokes to play on the cub. "Hey, Peterson", he said in his loud voice, ' [go out and get a picture of Big Tim Murphy. You'll have to think of a good angle to talk Mrs. Murphy into giving you a picture because you're too young to pass yourself off as anything but a cub reporter. Now hurry it up because we need it for the Home Edition in two hours." He winked and guffawed, "Maybe you'll get a bonus if you come back with a picture." Anyone could see that he was certain Peterson would fail the assignment. He was in for a surprise. An hour later by the clock, Peterson, the cub reporter, carefully placed a portrait of the slain beer runner on the city desk. The assistant city editor was startled, but he quickly recovered himself. "Hey kid! How did you get it? What did you tell Mrs. Murphy?" I Y Peterson replied: "I rang the doorbell and when she came to the door, I said, 'Mrs. Murphy, I'm from the Herald-Examiner. Could you help us out by lending us a nice picture of Mr. Murphy so we can (Mint it? She gave me the picture but made me promise to send it right back." Myron can take the idea and use it for himself. All he has to do is ask. He may find out that he has a job if he just asks"Mrs. Murphy". Question -- "My son is in his early forties and he is going to prison here in New York State because he stole more,, than $100,000 from the diocese where he was comptroller for 10 years. He was convicted in a fair trial after he confessed his guilt. He has to serve a year and reports for transport to the prison in 30 days. They have given him time to help straighten out the mess he made of the diocese ac­ counting. He has a wife and three children. "What I want to know is this: I have read of the terrible things that happen to gently reared people who have to go to prison. I have read of the brutality suffered at the hands of experienced convicts. Is there anybody we can contact who could give my son a few hours so he could tell him how not to act, or how to act, when he gets to prison so that he will come out a whole man and be able to start life over again without being brutalized?" -- Benjamin A. Answer -- Benjamin is a smart man and a father with great insight. He can best have his son learn from an ex-convict what to do and what not to do in his contacts with other prisoners, and guards, if such a man can be found who may understand and be willing to help. If, as is probable, Ben­ jamin does not himself know how to contact an ex-pris­ oner who would be inclined and able to advise, he could contact a lawyer who is known to specialize in defending criminals. Such lawyers are wise in the ways of felons and one of them might set up a meeting with Benjamin's son that will help him to stand up successfully to life in prison. Queston -- "A collection agency is after me to pay $156. They say I owe to a garage for repairs to my car. The garage cheated me. But whether I owe it or not I haven't got the money to pay it. All I have is $372 a month Social Security. I got rid of my car for next to nothing when I found out it couldn't be fixed to run right. The collection people say they are going to garnishee my S.S. check. That will be bad for me. It's all I.have." -- Elbert C. Answer -- There are only three ways a lien can be slapped on a S.S. check. The first, as anybody can imagine, is for back taxes because the government always gets what is coming to it. The second is for child support and the third is for alimony. Elbert can tell the collation agency to "shove iflNrnd- that if it again threatens him he will report the threat to the state's attorney general who then may handle the matter none too gently for the agency. Those many readers who write to request a pamphlet titled "A Guide To Home Health Care" can obtain it by sending to Home Health Care, 3651 Van Rick Drive, Kalamazoo, Mich., 49002. This column does not keep a supply of booklets or pamphlets of any kind. Question -- I don't un­ derstand the income tax as ALEXANDER LUMBER CO. "BEST OF EVERYTHING FOR THE BUILDER" FEATURING COMPLETE LINES OF: •OLYMPIC STAIN •BRAMMER CABINETS •ANDERSEN WINDOWS •PRE HUNG DOORS •NORD SPINDLES •JIM MARTIN PAINTS •LINCOLN WINDOWS •GAF SHINGLES •BUILDERS HARDWARE •PREFINISHED PANELING •CHAMBERLAIN GARAGE DOOR OPERATORS Phone 385-1424 909 N. FRONT ST., McHENRY explained by the Internal Revenue Service. Why can't I take deductions on all sorts of things like rich people do? I have to live but the tax people make me pay tax on the interest from my savings account. I need that money to live. It just isn't fair." -- Clotilde L. . . Answer -- The federal income tax can be loopholed so that it does not apply fairly to all. A taxpayer can take a bigger Seduction for a wife than for a mistress, more for a plow horse that for a race horse, and more for a sore toe than for a sore spirit: which is to say -- while the facts on tax may not seem fair, they are at least practical. Question -- "Can you put me in touch with Marietta H., whose husband is ter­ minally ill? We have to fight for our loved ones. I want to help her." -- Ralph V. Answer -- I never reveal identities or addresses. Thanks to Ralph, however, for his desire to help. Question -- "That fellow who draws $912 a month from Social Security and a pension and still gripes for more is a hog. I am a retired farmer 8 2 years old and my S.S. check is $273 a month. And I am not complaining. Did that guy go through the Depression?" -- Lorenz S. Answer -- If "that guy" is past 65, he went through the Great Depression. Maybe he was a teenager then whose father had a steady job. Lorenz, at age 82, must know from experience on the farm that all hogs don't have four legs and a snout, and that squeals from hogs come in different degrees -- squeals of complaint, squeals of content, and squeals of greed. , / Question -- "You said that one job perhpas available to seniors would be as a house sitter for real estate com­ panies. A saleswoman at a real estate firm in my town says such a job is illegal and unethical and that any real estate company that hired a house sitter is in danger of losing its license. Can such a silly thing be really true?" -- Wendell B.T. Answer -- I can't see in all common sense how it could be true If so, it is indeed silly. I think Wendell's real estate person is grinding an ax for the real estate business, which already has enough axes to grind. Quite obviously, if a house is vacant, the owner can hire a sitter to open the door to callers and be there to protect the property, real estate salesmen not­ withstanding. The sitter may not, of course, try to sell the house Heaven forbid! That would be harmful to any poor real estate outfit that might lose a commission. But illegal or unethical? Hogwash! If Wendell will telephone the state real estate licensing board, they can tell him whether he can hire out as a sitter in vacant houses. Not as a salesman, of course. Goodness sakes, no! Question -- "I lost my job when the factory moved out of state. I could not get another job. I retired on S.S, at 62. I am now 63. I am being doctored for hyper­ tension and angina. I am limited in the work I can do. Can I get S.S. disability?" - Marjorie E C. Answer -- Marjorie should go to the nearest S.S. office and inquire. She should take along her medical records. Her doctor will know which records. Write to Carl Riblet Jr. at Box 40757, Tucson, Ariz., 85717, for information and advice on questions you may have as an elder citizen, with self-addressed, stamped envelope. All questions will be answered, if possible. No identities will be revealed to anyone. AT MEMBERSHIP DINNER-Eva SneU, president of the Ladies auxiliary to Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4M0, Is shown with Mildred Cameron, 5th district president of the Ladies auxiliary to Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Ila Hogan, membership chairman of the local auxiliary. The occasion was the membership kick-off dinner held recently by the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 44N and the Ladies auxiliary. FUNNYS r "Yes, I can double your allowance if you don't mind collecting it every other week!1 n -- - T ii ii " ii ii Our Triple Feature • jq • STRENGTH • SECURITY • SERVICE • now at a Marengo Federal office nearest you! We're proud to say that we have the best triple bill in the McHenry county area. Strenth, security and service are more then words . . . it's the way we've been doing business with our customers for the past 55 years. First off we're McHenry County's oldest savings and loan established in 1925. We've been an ac­ tive part in the growth of McHenry County. We have over $125,000,000 invested in prime first mortgage loans within this area. Most of our money is put right back into McHenry County, thats because we believe in promoting a strong economic flow of capital within our own area . . . which benefits everyone. Our assets now total more than $160,000,000. Our cash reserves are in excess of $8,500,000. We have a team of highly trained financial ex­ perts who are more then capable of handling most financial arrangements. The interest paid on both savings and cer­ tificate accounts are the highest allowed by law. And all accounts are fully protected by our membership in the FSLIC. 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