Wof ODD? "wx PiN ui i 1 1 i ij i -i i iiiif i 1 1 I 1 II 1" I ZJ9. Ill vwi 1 wif lit. i 1 i ft Ma I Maaa 1 4 mm ia before it began its July 4th recess: Ct KaVs WASHINGTON (UPI) Social Security benefits for almost 30 million Americans will increase by more than 5 per cent beginning in June, 1974. President Nixon signed the compromise legislation authorizing the benefits increase Wednesday. The measure would also increase to $12,600 the maximum wage base on which Social Security taxes are imposed (6n wige-earners.
"The critical feature of this is an increase in Social Security benefits of more than 5 pr cent next year in order to meet the rising costs of living," Nixon said in a written statement issued by the White House. White House officials estimated that the benefits increase would range between 5.6 and 5.8 per cent, with the first checks to be paid in July of next year. The legislation also provides: The amount of money an individual may earn without a reduction in Social Security benefits would increase from $2,100 to $2,400 effective next Jan. 1. Increased welfare benefits for more than six million aged, blind and disabled recipients.
The increases, also intended to compensate for advances in the cost of living, lift the monthly payments from $130 to $140 for an individual and from $195 to $210 for a couple, starting next July. States must supplement federal welfare benefits to make sure no recipient receives a benefit cut when welfare programs shift from state to federal operation at the end of this year The Social Security increase was attached to an amendment on a minor bill passed by Congress the closing hours Rolled three times This car driven by Raymond L. Phillips traveled 242 feet and rolled over three times before it came to rest in a field. The accident occurred on the Centerville Road one mile west of Capron. See blotter for details.
BDR photo Meinheit The measure was a compromise which the ad ministration agreed to accept after threatening to veto a more generous version. Nixon objected to one section of the new bill postponing until Nov. the effective date of regulations- adopted by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), to limit the social services which states may provide under programs requiring a federal reimbursement. 1973 Fifteen Cents that chances for a $20,000 grant from the Department of Children and Family Services appear "quite encouraging." Thomas W. Wallace, 20, Rockford WAS rharwprf with a Cf Mr stop-sign violation this morning ford, with a muffler violation by sheriff's deputies.
today. County board also Ten Pages ThursdayJuly 12, Project Intercept made available because 1 hired a bilingual "advocate" to help youngsters in trouble, She also told board members One youth is listed in fair condition and another was treated and released following a one-car accident on Wednesday. Sheriff's deputies reported that Raymond L. Phillips, 19, Loves Park, and his passenger, Thomas Anderson, 17, Loves Park, were injured after the car they were driving went out control and rolled over three times. The accident occurred at 8:15 p.m.
Wednesday on the Centerville road one mile west of Capron. The car was traveling west on Centerville Road and was unable to slow down to make a curve. The car traveled 242 feet, rolled over three times and came to rest on it's top, the sheriff's report said. Phillips is listed in fair condition. No tickets were issued pending further investigation.
She noted that she is trying to get an $11,000 grant from a governor's office program. She indicated that the funds may be The Boone County Board today passed the proposed zoning ordinance without a dissenting vote. The new regulations will take effect immediately. The board also voted to accept a $16,500 grant from the Illinois Law Enforcement Commission (ILEC) for funding for Project Intercept (PI). The acceptance commits the County Board to funding of the project through July 31, 1974.
The board had previously voted to fund PI through November of this year. The board accepted the recommendation of its planning, zoning, and building committee to base minimum residential lot size regulations on soil types and their limitations for septic fields. Under the new ordinance, the county's soil types are now classified under a five-category system. Soils in group one are considered suitable for a minimum lot size of 20,000 square feet. Soils in group two are suitable for a minimum lot of 40,000 square feet.
Soils in groups three through five are not considered suitable for development because of high water tables, low bearing capacity, or bedrock or impermeable layers. Soil types that are acceptable from the full story of the "horrors" involving his subordinates. "Is it your impression that the President was being misled by that White House group just as you were misleading the President?" asked Samuel Police arrest three yesterday Three persons were arrested Wednesday for failure to pay parking tickets, police reported today. Arrested were Mark Huggins, 21, Rockford, for eight unpaid parking tickets totaling $16; Donald Stark, no age listed, Rockford, for $14 worth of unpaid tickets; and Tyson Medaris, 226 W. Harrison, no age listed for unpaid parking violations totaling $12.
$12.80 was charged for the warrant accompanying the arrest. Chief of Police, Ted Richardson, signed the warrants and told the BDR today, "We check out all unpaid parking tickets every few months." Richardson indicated that the police department will continue to make arrests for any unpaid parking tickets. If? I Man charged Leo L. Woolever, 34, Rockford, was charged with failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident at 7:05 a.m. Wednesday after the truck he was driving allegedly struck the back of a farm tractor driven by Jerry T.
Temple, 33, Cherry Valley, sheriff's deputies reported. The accident occurred on Bypass 20 three miles west of the Chrysler plant. Woolever said he was blinded by the sun when he noticed a farm tractor just in front of him. He swerved to miss it, but struck the tractor in the right rear wheel, the sheriff's report said. Other inaidents -Ann Crall, 51, 298 Highline Apt.
A-4, was charged with disorderly conduct shortly after midnight this morning, police reported. Ms. Crall was allegedly drunk and lying in the middle of the road and refused to move when police found her. criminal acts. The former attorney general, a third day of questioning by the Senate Watergate Committee, said he believed that both campaign and White House officials helped shield President Nixon "We received the call on Tuesday afternoon at 2:45.
"I believe it was made by a woman," Rollins said. Davidson was found at his home and taken by Mercy Ambulance to St. Anthony. The causes of Davidson's in Chrysler protest and $133,410. The Arte of depends on of county "Lastyear we CD.
But 8.1 per cent bad the bank Gunderson The difference cent of the.money could be in Citing the difference 100 per cent terest rate for Sheriff's deputies chargfd Inhnsnn 22 Rock- with a public sewer system are delineated. The ordinance provides that developers can bypass the minimum size requirement or the ban on development if they can submit engineering plans to overcome the soil limitations. The burden of prooof is to be on the developer, and the county reserves the right to hire an engineer to examine the proposals. State's Attorney John Maville suggested that the county charge developers an appropriate fee in order to pay for the necessary engineering study. The board did not take formal action on that point, however.
The board accepted Maville's suggestion that the minimum size and width requirements ol the new ordinance be ignored in the case of existing lots or plats that have received preliminary approval There are six or seven preliminary plats that have been approved at the present time, County Planner Don Hann indicated. The board did not change its subdivision ordinance, which says that preliminary plat approvals expire after six months. Hann noted that in the past developers have been able to receive several extensions. Board member William. Wolf Dash, the counsel.
chief committee "I believe that would be, would certainly be, the impression I would have," Mitchell replied. Mitchell, Nixon's campaign manager tmtil twd weeks after the June 17, 1972 bugging arrests at Democratic headquarters at the Watergate, said he had discussed the situation fully with Haldeman and Ehrlichman sometime last year, although he said he could not give a date. Both men Nixon's closest confidantes until their resignations from the White House staff pril 30 have denied any knowledge of the affair until this past spring. "You did speak to Haldeman and Ehrlichman in 1972?" Dash aSked Mitchell. "That is correct," he replied.
"And those discussions concerned how to keep the lid "There is no question we did discuss problems that would arise if those parties in the White House who were involved in some of these activities would come forward with all the information they had," Mitchell replied. "And there is no doubt in your mind that Haldeman and Ehrlichman were taking an active role themselves in, attempting to keep the lid 6n?" Dash asked. "They had a very active concern just as I did," Mitchell replied, contending that he Vol. 80 No. 163 extends suggested that the developer should come in for approval of a final plat within the six month period or else present a valid reason for the delay.
Board member Herb Walberg expressed dissatisfaction with the five acre minimum lot requirement for agricultural areas and expressed the hope that the regulation can be changed in the future. The ordinance also includes a section on recreational vehicles which had been discussed heatedly at public hearings on the proposal. Project Intercept -i'4n other' business, the County Board heard a report from Char Plotsky, director of Project Intercept, on funding of the program. She noted that the board previously extended PI until December, 1973 in order to make the project's fiscal year coincide with that of the county board. The board at that time appropriated $29,000 for the project.
She indicated surprise and pleasure that ILEC had offered the $16,500 grant, and said that the county would have to pay a maximum of $41,500 to extend the program from December through next August. didn't know in "what ways they participated in implementing it." Committee met earlier The committee, in its sixth week of hearings, met privately this morning to discuss whether to subpoena Watergate-related documents from the White House documents that Nixon has said he will not provide. Further discussion on the subpoena question was postponed until the hearings recessed for lunch. Contrary to the sworn testimony earlier of ousted White House Counsel John W. Dean III, Mitchell said he believed Dean did conduct a Watergate investigation for the President.
In developments away from the hearing, Charles Colson, a future witness, said Nixon probably did seriously raise the question of resigning with his family as Julie Nixon Eisenhower insists and the White House denies. "Knowing the President, he would use his family and he would use me often as a sounding board," the former White House lawyer told the Detroit News. Julie, questioned by reporters when she greeted 200 members of the National Association of Farm Broadcasters and their families, stuck to her guns and added that her father is "trying to run everything himself now." "We can all learn from Watergate," she said. "I can't really condemn the fact that my father didn't know." By CLAY RICHARDS WASHINGTON (UPI) John N. Mitchell testified today that former presidential advisers H.
R. Haldeman and' Jonn u. Ehrlichman were among those who had an "active concern" last year in hiding the truth about Watergate and other Old-fashioned social draws Barge crowd Bill on governor's desk Skinner informs BDR Corporation has paid $177,880 under 75 per cent of that amount is interest received by the county what the bank will pay for a Certificate Deposit (CD) account, Betty Gun-derson, treasurer, told the BDR today. received 5 per cent interest for a sometimes we will get as much as 6 to interest. I guess it depends on how wants to use the money," Mrs.
said. between interest paid on 75 per in escrow and 100 per cent the thousands. Chrysler amount as an example, the between 75 per cent of $177,880 and being invested at a 5 per cent hit one year would be $2,223. A state bill allowing counties to invest 100 per cent of tax monies paid in protest has been passed by both houses and now awaits signature by Governor Walker, State Rep. Cal Skinner, R-33rd told the BDR today in a letter.
Skinner's letter came in response to the Tuesday, July 10, issue of the BDR which made reference to that bill in its story on4he portion of the Chrysler Corporation tax bill paid under protest. "Ever since I was McHenry County Treasurer and had millions in protested taxes to invest, it lias seemed stupid to be able to invest only 75 per cent of the funds that otherwise would lie idle in a checking account," Skinner's letter said. Skinner, author of the bill, concluded his letter bysaying, "What we need now is Governor Walker's signature on House Bill 888. By IDA L. BURLEIGH BDR Staff Writer What is there about an old fashionedjce cream social served under the trees near a rural church that attracts people from miles around? Is it the delicious food, the friendly atmosphere, or the joy of getting out into the country? Perhaps one might say it is a combination of all three.
Last Sunday evening several hundred guests attended the social served on the spacious lawn which adjoins the Blaine United Methodist Church. The North Boone area barbecues, hot dogs, pies, cakes, ice cream, sundaes, beverages, and candy had been so skillfully prepared that they pleased the most fastidious. Under the direction of the food committee, Betty Johnson, Willa Randall, and Pam Har-nish, everything ran smoothly. Although the Blaine church is small, the members are energetic and take pride in keeping their building and grounds in "apple pie" condition. It was the first church erected in LeRoy township and was built by the Methodist Episcopal Society" in 1860.
The construction during the Civil War period cost only Later both the church and parsonage were extensively remodelled. Stained glass downs were installed to beautify the structure. Other improvements continued to be made up to. the present time. yf The Centennial Celebration of the church was helcf on June 26, 1960, with" about 300 people attending.
Ten years later the members voted to participate in forming a North Boone Parish. This now consists of the Poplar Grove United Methodist Churth, the Capron United Methodist Church, the Hunter United Methodist Church, and the Blaine United Methodist Church. Each organization has three members on the parish council which meets every mohth for planning and discussion. Musical entertainment at the social was provided by Jan Noble, Leslie Wondrow and Harold Koltz. All proceeds will go into the building fund.
Several residents of Belvidere and Poplar Grove enjoyed the event Sunday. Helen Keatbr, well known for her work in the First Presbyterian Church, Belvidere, remarked: I've never been here before. I think it is just beautiful. I peeked in the windown to see the lovely sanctuary and the stained glass windows." Another visitor was fascinated by the cemetery across the road. "This is a remarkable country cemetery," she remarked.
"It is so well cared for! I can tell from the data on the stones that this area was settled long before the Civil War." If (he stones in the cemetery had been able to speak they would have stated that the first settlers cams to the Blaine area (then called Round Prairie) about 1835. The first preaching services were held by Methodist circuit riders in 1839 in a log school house. It's been a long time since those pioneers held their services under primitive conditions, but the present generation still carries on- the traditions of reverence handed down to them by their forefathers. They love their country church and perhaps that's the reason hundreds of guests are served at their old fashioned country socials. juries are still unknown, Rollins said.
A Volkswagen Camper, belonging to Davidson was stolen, and has not been found, Rollins said. The Sheriff's department is investigating the incident. William E. Davidson, Hunter Road, is in intensive care and listed in critical condition today at St. Anthony Hospital.
Davidson was allegedly beaten by an unknown assailant on Tuesday, sheriff's dejjuty Joe Rollins told the BDR today..
