The Mail-Journal, Volume 16, Number 46, Milford, Kosciusko County, 5 December 1979 — Page 10

THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., December 5,1979

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BEER AWARDED CRB STATUS — Phil Beer of Beer Realtors in Syracuse and Goshen was recently awarded the full designated status as a certified real estate broker by the Realtors Marketing Institute and is now authorized to use the designation initials CRB after his name. A graduate of Indiana University Real Estate Institute. Beer received his full disignated status following a five year course of study. Beer is the third CRB in Kosciusko County, joining Larry Nellans and Joe Todd. Beer is president of the Kosciusko Board of Realtors, presidentelect of the Syracuse Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Syracuse Economic Development Council. A life-long resident of the county, he is a member of the Milford Apostolic Christian Church.

Motorists with suspended licenses keep on driving

The majority of motorists whose licenses have been suspended or revoked continue to drive. And they’re involved in more crashes, particularly fatal crashes, than the general driving population, according to a study. The study also found that: • Nearly 40 per cent of motorists involved in the fatal crashes — while driving on suspended or on revoked licenses — had been drinking. • A much larger percentage of

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Rural poor and elderly benefit under new food program

WASHINGTON, D C., October 18 — According to a study soon to be issued by the Department of Agriculture, the rural poor and the e.derly are the chief beneficiaries of changes in the food stamp program which took effect last January. Testifying before the House Commmittee on Agriculture, Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland reported that dropping the requirement that people must come up with a lump sum of cash to buy their food stamps added 2.9 million people to the program. Nearly half that number, he said, are the rural poor. At the same time, the number of elderly households in the program increased by 32 per cent while all others increased by only 14 per cent. Citing the study which evaluates the effect of 1977 food stamp reform legislation, Secretary Bergland stated that “the gap between the poor and the rest of the country appears to be widening.” While overall incomes have increased by 31 per cent between February, 1976 and April, 1979, he reported, preliminary department data suggest that incomes of people using food stamps increased at less than one-third that rate. This same data indicate that the majority of food stamp households have gross incomes of less than S3OO a month or $3,600 a year. In addition, the study showed that between 500,000 and 700,000 people were dropped from the program when income eligibility limits were lowered this year. In addition, several million people received cuts in benefits. Bergland also reported that each one per cent increase in umemployment adds 750,000 people to food stamp rolls. Because of rising unemployment and continued inflation, he said, the cost of the food stamp program could increase from $6.9 billion in fiscal 1979 to $8.3 billion in fiscal 1980. Bergland added that increases WHO KNOWS? 1. Define confluence. 2. When was the first atomic power plant completed? 3. When are Dog Days? 4. Where does the Mississippi rise? 5. What is a hostage? 6. In what opera does Figaro appear? 7. Who was the 23rd U.S. President? 8. What are Navy clergymen called? 9. Who became the second U.S. spaceman? 10. Name the North Star State. Answers To Who Knows 1. Convergence; a coming together of two or more streams or ideas. 2. July 18, 1955. > 3. The North claims Jul/ 3 to August 11; the South, July 28 to September 5. 4. Lake Itasca, Minn. 5. A person held as a pledge. 6. The Barber of Seville. 7. Harry Truman. 8. Chaplains. 9. Virgil Grisson, July 21, 1961. 10. X The ILS. Treasury Dept £: £ made a profit of over § * $400,000 in 1977 on the S difference between the £: £ monetary value of ;£ 5; coins and their cost. S

in participation as a result of the 1977 reform legislation leveled off in March and are not a factor in the expected increase in the cost of the Food Stamp Program in 1980. Citing problems in precisely predicting unemployment levels and inflation rates. Secretary Bergland urged Congress to eliminate spending ceilings imposed on the food stamp program with the 1977 reform legislation. “The experience of the past two years has £hown that the specific dollar authorization ceilings are not workable,” he said. Predicting that benefits would have to be reduced if insufficient amounts are appropriated, he added that “I do not think it is healthy to place the food stamp program in an annual crisis due to the uncertainty of economic forecasts.” The department was forced to request a supplemental appropriation from Congress this summer to keep the program running. Increases in food costs, Bergland reported, accounted for SBOO million of the additional appropriation. “If food prices had held at the levels originally

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predicted,” Bergland said, “we would not have exceeded the cap last year.” In his testimony. Secretary Bergland stressed that the Department is continuing to focus on driving down fraud and error in the food stamp program. Starting in January, the . Department will begin requiring people to pay back the value of food stamps received fraudulently before they can again be eligible for the program. As an incentive to states to pursue fraud cases, a portion of this recovered money is now returned to the state. In addition, Bergland said, the department is proposing that states pick up part of the cost of food stamps which they issue erroneously. “This would make a major change in the program,” he said, “as it would make states liable for losses due to high error rates.” To help states lower their error rates and verify the incomes of people applying for food stamps, the department is also proposing that states be given access to social security and unemployment compensation records.

/NTS FOR HOMEOWNER A Word To The Wise Is "Efficient"

The next time you turn up the heat or turn to paying your heating bills, you might like to consider the efficiency of your boiler or furnace. Asking your oil dealer to check it for steady-state efficiency may save you a lot of money. Steady-state efficiency is the percentage of oil put through the combustion process that actually serves to heat the home. If the unit is burning at less than 75 percent, then it may be time to consider replacing your heating system. Fortunately, furnaces and boilers have been greatly improved in recent years. A boiler was even designed with the help of the Dept, of Energy. TTiis fuel-saving, oil-burning unit, called Blueray, can reduce heating oil bills an average of 38 percent over the course of a heating season when replacing existing furnaces or boilers found in many homes. This new type of furnace recirculates unburned gases, so the oil burns with a

clean, blue flame previously associated only with gas heat. The yellow flame of a conventional system emits smoke and soot, which forms a layer of tion inside the boiler or burner, trapping the heat and keeping it from getting out to warm your home. By the end of the heating season, the amount of heat trapped—and, therefore, wastedcan represent a significant percent of your fuel bill. If you pay 75 cents a gallon for oil, use an average

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