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The Arlington Heights Sunny TODAY: Sunny and pleasant; high in middle 70s. THURSDAY: Sunny and warm; high near 80. A I A I Year--245 Arlington Heights, Illinois 60006 Wednesday, July 5, 1972 2 sections, 28 pages Home Delivery 55c a week-- lOc a copy Percy Extols Elderly, Social Security Raise Individual people can do what government can't do in easing the problems of the elderly. Sen. Chnrles H.

Percy, told the Palatine Fourth of July crowd yesterday. "The longer I'm in government, the more I realize that we can't depend on legislation to solve all problems," Percy said. "We must work together to solve the problem of the elderly, one-fourth of whom live in abject poverty. Ninety per cent of all single women over 65 have no income but social 1 he said. Last week, the government was able to help the elderly by increasing social security benefits, to "make sure the cost of living raises for the elderly are the same as the ones at the GM plant.

What's good for GM Is good for the elderly" Percy said. (See photo on page 3) EQUALIZING PAY for women and revamping certain welfare programs were other problems areas that government could influence, he added. "What we (the government) can't do is visit the elderly, the abandoned, the lonely, in rest homes," Percy said. He told the young people to "just moke arange- ments to go visit a nursing home" before copping out on society. "Just drop in, read them a book, help write a letter.

They'll never stop thinking and talking about your visit." Government can't do that, Percy said. "It can supplement income, but sometimes you just can't do anything from CREPE PAPER-COVERED spokes and Verde Park to Greenbrier School was handle bars turned everyday trans- sponsored by the Sreenbrier Civic portation equipment into colorful pa- Association. Steve Price, left, and fade vehicles for youngsters in yes- John McDonnell were two of the lerdey's Greenbrier bike and wagon many children who participated in decorating contest. The parade, from the event. Sen: Charles H.

Percy the heart" at the government level, he said. Percy made'frequent references to a prize-winning essay written by Lance Ankcorn, a Carl Sandburg Junior High School student, on "What I Can Do ti Make America a Better Country." Both forma! education and a practical "awareness of problems" is important, Lance wrote, and Percy re-emphasized the point. "We should relate the education of what our job is to our free society. Education should be put to work to solve problems and identify them," Percy said. ON THE PROBLEMS of drugs and patriotism, Percy said, "We cannot just say 'our country, right or "Today is a day of soul-searching.

None of us would want to be complacent," Percy said. He told the audience he was pleased by President Nixon's announcement of Project Horizon, celebrating the upcoming 200th anniversary of the United States. "We're not going to just look back, but ahead at what kind of a nation and a people we want to become," he said. The people who founded this country were not complacent, not "raised on pablum," he said. Waste Disposal Deadline Eyed Edward Kokkelenberg, chairman of Arlington Heights Environmental Control Commission (ECO, says his commission is working toward an end of summer deadline for completion of its report on solid waste disposal.

The ECC meeting tomorrow night will be largely a matter of "clearing the decks," Kokkelenberg said, so the commission can finish its solid waste report. That report is expected to contain a recommendation on whether or not Arlington Heights should build a 600-ton incinerator. Tomorrow night's meeting agenda calls for reports from three incinerator- related subcommittees, the air pollution, incinerator and solid waste subcommittees. Also on the agenda is further discussion of a proposed new lighting ordinance. Kokkelenberg said he hopes the ECC would be able to concentrate exclusively on the solid waste report after the middle of this month.

He said he expected completion of the report would take about six weeks. GETTING THE TANGLES out of a pond mill is no easy task, as Paul Kastens and Chuck Purcell found out- last Meek. The boys, along with several of their friends, are Fighting a continuing battle to keep the Hasbrook Re- tention Basin in Arlington Heights fit for wildlife. The pond mill, a new addition to the basin, was clogged during the recent flooding. Feeding Station Next For Hasbrook Park A bird feeding station will be the finishing touch that will make Hasbrook Retention Basin in Arlington Heights a wildlife haven.

The retention basin, which was almost drained by the village a year ago, has been under the protective eye of several residents near the pond at 333 W. Maude. The most verbal residents, and those with the most follow through on the project, are Chuck Purcell, Greg Zlop and Paul Kastens, all 15 years old. The boys are now drawing up plans for a feeding station. "We've been involved with" that pond most of our lives," said Paul.

"And we'll probably stick with it unless we move away." SO FAR, the boys have planted wild corn in the brain, and earlier this spring they spread 15 pounds of cracked corn in the area. "Where else around here can you find ducks, turtles, muskrats, racoons and op- posum?" asked Chuck Purcell, the leader of the Save Hasbrook Pond Committee. He also said the boys have found tracks of mink around the pond. To keep the pond from stagnating, a pond mill was set in the middle of the basin by the village. According to Erwin- Page, village forester, the equipment" cost about $200.

"We do only what's necessary over there," said Page, "It's the boys' project, and we stay out of it as much as possible." Page added that there have been no complaints about the pond from neighboring residents. Previously, residents had complained about the pond's looks and smell, and called it a mosquito breeding ground. The pond had also been a dumping ground for tires and other garbage. Since the boys got involved with the project; however, pond litter has been quickly removed. Besides building a feeding station, which will probably be a hollowed out log, the boys want to stock the pond with bass, bluegill and other fish.

"There are a lot of chub and flathead minnows in the pond, and we need some fish to eat some of them," Chuck said. Though the boys have always been interested in keeping a balance of nature in the pond, their enthusiasm peaked last June when the village started plans to drain the pond, at a cost of over $50,000. Political action was called for, and the boys met the need by forming the Save Hasbrook Pond Committeee. Ten boys and a turtle helped convince the board of trustees that draining the basin wasn't in the best interest of the community. This Morning In Brief The Nation The Yippies in Miami Beach pledged to try to keep the peace at next week's Democratic National Convention but warned that if the city does not establish a campsite for demonstrators, they will have to take one.

Convened in a rare Independence Day session, a three-judge federal court heard appeals by the forces of George McGovern, and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley both seeking to regain delegates to the Democratic National Convention. Former Sen. Eugene McCarthy criticized the proposed Democratic platform for not advocating the legalization of marijuana and immediate amnesty for draft evaders. Three persons died when the light plane they were flying over a Fourth of July crowd in a Milwaukee suburb crashed as they began showering the people below with poppies. President Nixon's strong antibusing stand could bring blacks a lot of allies and rejuvenate the civil rights movement 'of the 1960s, a top NAACP official said.

President Nixon offered to open the nation's borders and urged Americans to open their own homes to foreign visitors in 1976 when the United States celebrates its 200th birthday. Six traffic deaths in Indiana put the toll for the year at 729, compared with 762 a year ago, and tied the number projected for the July 4th holiday by safety experts. The World Cuban Premier Fidel Castro has concluded talks with Kremlin leadership on "deepening of the ties between the Soviet and Cuban par ties." France secretly exploded a second nuclear device last Friday and is planning the third blast later this month, unofficial reports claim. North and South Korea, divided for 27 years, have agreed to work for peaceful reunification of the country. The agreement was so secret even Korean diplomats expressed surprise.

The two nations have technically been at war since 1950. About 2,000 leftist Filipino youths protested the "hypocrisy" of Philippines -American Friendship Day by hurling fire and shrapnel bombs against police guarding the approaches to the U.S. Embassy; 27 were injured. i a chess champion Boris Spassky, charging insult by Bobby Fischer, stalked out of a meeting, forcing another postponement of the world championship match. The State Democratic party delegate fights will be settled by the delegates at Miami, Sen.

Birch Bayh, said. He spoke at O'Hare Airport on his way from Washington to Indiana. The Weather Temperatures trom around the nation: Atlanta Boston 85 Denver 54 Houston 93 Los Angeles si Miami Beiteh Paul High Low .90 es 63 48 New York Phoenix St. Louis Sun Francisco Washington 91 86 ..110 78 63 79 64 77 43 63 64 55 68 The War Small South Vietnamese troop units moved almost unopposed into strategic" positions in Quang Tri City and suburbs Tuesday, but "a hell of a fight" from 48,000 Communists was expected. Baseball American League Boston 2, Minnesota 0 Cleveland 2, Texas 0 National League Atlanta 5 CUBS 1 San Francisco 2, Philadelphia 1 Cincinnati 6, St.

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