[BILLY D.]

ich

tree docs cost analysis. when i was your age a loaf of bread was less than 20 cents, gas at 25 cents a gallon was high, a pound of hamburger a quarter. a six pack of beer. 89 cents. a movie, depending on which theater, 5-25 cents. doctor visit, $5.00, and almost every neighborhood had a doctor and a dentist. you didn't have to travel very far to see one, and you didn't need a referal. health insurance, there wasn't any. if there was i never heard of it.

digressing a little further, there was no penecillen? ball point pens were not invented yet, most pencils were wooden untill scripto hit the big time, every little boy carried a pocket knife to sharpen pencils, jet aircraft, huh, tubless tires, ha ha, if ya got a flat ya fixed your own. or took it to a service station, try and find on of those these days. all this happened in dayton ohio, which wasn't called small town america at the time.

so we all know prices will continue to rise and understad money will lose value over time. when i was a kid each dollar was backed by gold in the treasury, making each dollar worth a dollar, not the 20 some cents it is today. what ever happened to that concept?

so control your own future, like my grandmother always said "nobody is going to give you anything", take care of yourself.

oh something else, did i tell you i used to take my 22 rifle to school so i could do some squirrel hunting before it got dark. i used to give it to the principal, sister mary albert, and she'd store it for me. yes i'm a mackerel snapper. anyway, take care of yourself.

who knows where prices and values will be in the future, but, i'll bet ya one thing for certain, the prices won't go down.