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Description: Here's an editorial by Dillon Smith, Editorial Director of WMAQ Channel 5, soaking in the sun at poolside outdoors during a company outing, and summarizing some good news of the summer season:

- Regional Transportation Authority promising no fare increases in the near future

- 1,200 people take advantage of Mayor Bilandic's mortgage plan offered at 8 percent interest

- Crime in Chicago down 8.8 percent, according to Police Superintendent Jim O'Grady

- More people engaging in various summer activities

- Local Neo-Nazis not looming on the horizon in the city

- The upcoming ChicagoFest summer music festival (the first in such a series held through 1983), to be held over 10 days for 12 hours per day in the Navy Pier section

Ending title card:

Editorial 5
Dillon Smith - Editorial Director
Robert S. Walsh - General Manager

This editorial was preceded by a WMAQ-TV station ID slide.

" . . . getting a full day's pay without putting in a full day's work . . . "

This aired on local Chicago TV during the Summer of 1978.