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SECTION •» IWI.H 2 - I'lAINDEALERWEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, paraded along the sidewalks." The weather of course did not interfere with the many balls and banquets that were held that evening. Springfield had what was probably the state's most memorable St. Patrick's day. That morning's edition of the Illinois State Journal carried a bulletin reading: "About 2:30 this morning fire was discovered issuing from the Opera House. At this writing the building is doomed... As we go to press the Journal buildings are threatened ... the files of the Journal for forty years back have been removed to a place of safety. We hope for the best The EDITORIALS March In Illinois, 1876 MARCH IN ILLINOIS A HUNDRED YEARS AGO The Lion that Spoiled St. Patrlck's^day and then Roared Out o( the Month (Special from the Illinois State Historical Society, Old State Capitol, Springfield) March arrived in Illinois a hundred yearemgo as a muddy little lamb but roared out as a lion after spoiling the St. Patrick's day celebrations in the middle of the month. While the weather occupied more newspaper space than any other subject during the month, there were several other noteworthy events according to a check of the papers of a hundred years ago in the Illinois State Historical library in Springfield. Among these were a disastrous fire in Springfield and a court case involving the subject of abortion. That the present-day anti-abortion controversy is not new as shown by this paragraph that appeared in Springfield's Illinois State Journal of March 1,1876, under a "Federal Courts" heading: "John C. Aulbach, of Belleville, plead guilty to the offense of sending obscene publications through the mails - the same being circulars encoifraging abortion. He was fined $100 and costs." The winter of 1875-76 had been so mild that the principal complaint had been "Mud, mud, mud" There was so much of it that business in towns all over the state had been practically paralyzed because the roads were such that the farmers could not travel. St. Patrick's day was preceded by rain changing to snow and falling temperatures. The Chicago Inter Ocean carried telegraph reports of the storm from Blooming ton, Lincoln, El Paso, Amboy, Chenoa, Peoria, and Mendota-all saying that the storm had been raging for at least the past 36 hours (Lincoln claimed 40 hours) and El Paso reported a temperature of 10 above zero. Despite the severe weather the traditional St. Patrick's day parades were carried out in many cities, including Chicago, Springfield, LaSalle, and Amboy. The Rock Island Daily Union reported that that city's organizations were joined by Irish societies from Davenport, IA., and paraded in both places. In Bloomington, however, the parading was "postponed" and in Peoria "the streets were knee deep with mud (and) the military part of the programme was left out and the civic societies . . . ,.cv° r pvt«C EARL R. WALSH & JACK WALSH INS. F i r r Auto Farm Li te Rrpresenl inq R E L I A B L E C O M P A N I E S 4 4 1 0 W R t r 1 ? 0 . V U H e n r y 3 8 S 3 3 0 0 DENNIS CONWAY A U T O L I F E F I K E State Farm Ins. Co. 3319 W Elm SI M c H e n r y . I I I M DR. LEONARD B0TTARI 3 0 3 N R i c h m o n d Rd , M c H e n r y y e s e x a m i n e d C o n t a c t L e n s e s G l a s s e s f i t t e d M o n . T u e s . T h u r s . F r i 4 f t p T u e s , T h u r s , F r i 7 9 p m S a t 9 3 0 t o 3 0 0 P h 3 8 $ 4 1 5 1 o r 3 8 5 2 2 6 2 McHENRY COUNTY OFFICE MACHINES S A L E k S E R V I C E 8 . 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M %_w at our new q quick-action copy can tar inventory Sheets Order & Bid Fo.rns Cata log Sheets & Bul le t ins Promot ional Let ters & F lyers Important Correspondence Accounting Records Invoices & Statements P'Oiect Product Speci' ica'iois Trv This Convenient New Service Soon' McHENRY PRINTING SERVICES 3&U9 VV. NLA IN 385-7600 aasy-to-u*9 XEROX* •quipmintl damage must necessarily be great.' fhe Journal was saved but, in addition to the Opera House, the loss included a wholesale liquor dealer's building, a plumbing shop, saloon, drug store, music store, piano tuner's shop, bill posters office, and several apartments and businesses unidentified except by the name of the owner. The lion that caused the St. Patrick's day havoc grew up fast and by the end of the month was a roaring monster. The worst snow storm of the season began on Monday, March 27, and continued for the next two days in most parts of the state. Watseka reported snow "two feet deep on the level," and at Carlinville it was "16 to 18 inches." In Springfield the blizzard was called the worst since the "memorable storm of 1854". There were drifts up to 10 feet deep. The horse drawn street cars in Chicago, Joliet, LaSalle, and other cities quit operating, freight trains were abandoned all over the state, and passenger trains pulled by two or three engines were as much as 12 hours late. Most telegraph lines were down and business came to a standstill. Farmers were burning corncobs because they could not get coal and could not go out to the fields to feed their livestock. And that was how Illinois was at the end of March a hundred years ago. Building Permits The following building permits were issued by the city of McHenry during February: Fred C. Kupstis, 5218 Willow lane, addition. St. Regis Pub. 1237 N. Green, advertising sign. Jim Peterson, 4515 Spruce, single family dwelling. William B. Hitzman, 511 Stratford court, single family dwelling. Richard Chaffee, 501 Silbury court, single family dwelling. State Bank of Woodstock, 1109 Fourth street, alteration. Wilbert Schuhknecht, 5017 W. Home avenue, addition. Alfred Dietsch, 500 Silbury court, single family dwelling. James Geske, 408 Kensington drive, single family dwelling. Patrick Helley, 5010 W. Bonner drive, single family dwelling, A. G. Edwards & Sons, Inc. Weekly Market Review y Like the blind men touching an elephant for the first time, each from a different angle, stock market analysts looking at the same market action will have widely varying conclusions about what is going on. There are myriad factors which impact each analyst in different ways. Obviously, there are many varieties of economic models one can adopt and opinions about crucial market influences such as interest rates, inflation, corporate earnings and the elections can have an overriding impact on how one interprets what stocks are doing. Each market analyst is also greatly affected by his own emotional makeup, by the condition of his own stock portfolio, and most importantly by his current market opinion. We have gone through the above exercise, even though it is somewhat humbling, because the market's month long correction has caused many to raise the big question - "Where do we go from here?" It thus seems timely to review a few of the major reasons why we remain quite Bullish and believe that is the important point to keep in mind and not the daily swings in news and emotions. As we are Bullish, we look at the past month's action as a very normal correction-consolidation period which keeps the Bull healthy and provides an opportunity to buy stocks in a less inflamed period. It is a period for adjusting one's portfolio to current market conditions but it is not a time to get out of stocks. Fundamentally, we are impressed with the pickup in industrial activity and the 2.2 percent increase in leading economic indicators in January. At the same time, the outlook for inflation remains favorable with flat wholesale prices and a 5 percent annualized consumer price index. The Federal Reserve board tightened up its monetary policy a notch and the bond market weakened, but we do not anticipate a spiraling of interest rates creating a negative environment for stocks. And perhaps most important, the level of stock prices generally remains very reasonable. There are certainly many potential negatives, but at this time the Bullish arguments seem much more assured and not substantially discounted by stocks. These are the basic reasons we believe current news and market action should be interpretated in a Bullish state of mind. You can vesmKfc a pouar-to Pf&SiCeMAL rtJNP ON YOUR-TAX PPIURN. Are You New In McHenry Area ? Do You Know Someone New? WE WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND A ROYAL WELCOME TO EVERY NEWCOMER TO OUR AREA ! ! ! ! ! CALL JOAN STULL 385-5418 % <te % KNOW YOUR AREA-ROYAL WELCOME DOES IT BEST writ 86 tirrvNO ©*e *HY SECOND /VOW i ' #. M'M&fi/Ry c°u*iTy PAOP«, 6*0 WT# !«••••••• ••••••••••••••••••••I YOU CAN'T HAVE ONE WITHOUT THE OTHER Smoking: Stop While You Can The long-term cigarette smoker often thinks..."the damage is done. How can quitting help me now?" The McHenry County Heart association says that smokers who give up the habit can in­ crease their chances of living longer, healthier life even if they quit many years of smoking. Studies have shown that persons who stopped smoking cigarettes have a lower mor­ tality risk than those who continue to smoke. The association lists the foilwoing statistics: The risk of heart attack and stroke increases in proportion to the number of cigarettes smoked. A man who smokes at least a pack a day has nearly twice the risk of heart attack and nearly five times the risk of stroke as a non-smoker. < Recent surveys show that the percentage of men who smoke cigarettes has declined in the past few years, while the percentage of women smokers has remained stable. Anti-smoking groups have been established throughout the nation. Federal bans on smoking in certain sections of planes, trains and buses have helped the cause. And legislative action in various states which restrict smoking in public places for health, rather than fire reasons, may eventually convince smokers to give up the habit. Local physicians, dentists and other professionals with offices are urged by the association to remove all ash trays from waiting rooms and to install "No Smoking" signs. Health experts still have a long way to go before con­ vincing the millions of adult and teen-age smokers to quit for their own heart's sake. Smokers have an even greater risk of heart attack and stroke if they also have high blood pressure and high blood cholesterol. This fact, the association believes, should convince people to stop smoking or at least cut down. Anyone can quit, regardless of how long they've had the habit. It's not always easy though, since cigarette smoking is more of a psychological addiction. The McHenry County Heart association can give free educational materials on smoking. And they can direct smokers to local smoking with­ drawal programs in the area if they are interested. Contact the Heart association, JoAnne Abbamonto, publicity chair­ man, 21 Northwest Highway, P.O. Box 237, Cary, IL., 60013, for more information. Rivers and Waterfalls The Nile River, stretching 4,157 miles is the world's longest river. Angel Waterfall, located in Ven­ ezuela, is the world's highest waterfall, dropping water 3,281 feet. RECOVERY? m!*** ALLEY fMBOSYI PROBLEMS Keepin' Healthy By Mary Richards How would you like to be able to pay for nearly all the health and medical care your family needs...including vaccinations, visits to the doctor's office, physicians' services, inpatient hospital care, laboratory tests, x-rays, emergency care and all preventive medical ser­ vices..with set monthly payments that would be about the same as many families now pay for high level hospitalization insurance? Under such a plan, all your medical costs would be paid, even if they exceed the amount you pay in. You would also have available the services of the many physicians who par­ ticipate in the plan...general practitioners, internists" pediatricians, obstetricians, gynecologists, etc. The plan, of course, would not pay for any services you receive from a physician who is not a par­ ticipating member. Although the time is still in the future when every American citizen will be given the opportunity to choose this system of health care, about 90,000 Illinoisans are currently enrolled in plans of this type. These plans are called Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO's), and you will probably be hearing more and more about them during the next couple of years. How can you enroll in an HMO? Unfortunately, as things are right now, the only way you can get into one is if you...or a member of your immediate family...works for a company which offers an HMO plan as an alternative to the traditional health insurance plan. Some day in the future, however, it is hoped that every employer will be able to offer his or her employees an HMO plan, as well as the traditional health insurance, so that each person will have an opportunity to choose the health care system that best fulfillls the needs of his family. Some HMO's also will offer their programs to individual members who choose to join their plans. Obviously, this cannot occur until many more communities have the services of an HMO to offer their citizens. Although there are about ten HMO's operating in Illinois at the present time, under new state regulations each of them will have to obtain a Certificate of Authority in order to con­ tinue operating. To obtain this Certificate, an HMO must meet certain requirements and conform with regulations promulgated by the Illinois Department of Public Health and the Illinois Department of Insurance. These regulations deal with the type of services offered by the HMO, the organizational structure, and th$ quality of the health services provided to HMO members. If you want more information about HMO's, or want to know how to start one in your area, contact your local health department, or write to Illinois Deaprtment of Public Health, HMO Section, 525 West Jef­ ferson Street, Springfield, II., 62761. & 4-H NEWS America's oldest veterans include 800 of the original 392,000 participants in the Spanish-American War, the Veterans administration reported. MODERN MISSES CLUB The February monthly meeting was called to order at Parkland school. An an­ nouncement was made that a foreign-exchange student will be coming to visit in March or April. Some of the members of Modern Misses are considering taking a course in Public Speaking. The club will be presenting its skit for "Share-the-Fun" Saturday, March 6. During the meeting, Jeanette May gave a talk on cat care and Sue Godina demonstrated how to sew a hem. Both talks were very interesting. The meeting was then adjourned. The next meeting will be held at Parkland school March 23 at 7 p.m. Lisa Opfer, Reporter For Your Inform otion K0ENEMANN Country Made Sausages, Hams and Bacon GERMAN IMPORTS AND CHEESES A Full Line Of Delicatessen Just east of Rt 12 815-385-6260 VOLO B Dear friends, After the passing of a loved one, phone calls and letters for the deceased will continue for some time. The surviving family should not let this be upsetting, remembering that these people are making an unintentional mistake. Patience and tolerance is advised. Respectfully, PETER MJUSTEN & SON FUNERAL HOME McHenry, Illinois 385-0063