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PAGE 16 - PLAINDE INDEAI Kl! V\hV\ LsD.W . IAMARY 4. 1978 EDITORIALS New Resolutionsv It's true, as the cynics charge, that most New Year's resolutions are broken. So what? A few are kept and produce wonderful results. So make one, or more. It's not enough merely to Wish for some blessing, to make a resolution with ^tbat mental attitude. Resolutions require discipline To improve, a resolution requires effort and consistency. Such resolutions are often highly productive. A stock-taking, at the end of a year, is logical One of the best resolutions^ea^ders can make, one rather easily kept, is to expand understanding with good reading. If kept by enough Americans, i ich a resolution could do much to improve our society, and tolerapi'e. > More Funds For Older Americans Less TV Viewing A recent Christian Science Monitor\poll indicates fewer people are watching television in prime-time hours. A Neilsen survey finds fewer watching, generally. The Monitor survey found that better educated and professional people often avoid commercial television entirely. Network officials arejconcerned. Their approach has been to attract greater and greater numbers of viewers, to deliver as a market to sponsors. The number of viewers they deliver' determines the price they get for commercials. But the level of commercial television has sunk so low it has become self-defeating. The old stereotypes-worn-out situation comedy, the canned laughter of the loud-mouthed brash, New York-style humor, are turning more and more viewers off. Perhaps declining prime-time ratings and new monitoring groups will finally force a lifting of the level of fare offered by the three commercial networks. It's the hope for the future for IIS television. f Sheriff Report NOVEMBER 1977 OFFENSES TOTAL REPORTED Homicide 0 Rape 0 Robbery 1 Theft. 77 Auto Theft 5 Assault 1 Burglary 56 Burglary (From Auto) 0 Forgery-Deception 0 Criminal Damage 129 Weapons 42 Sex Offenses 0 Narcotics 9 Arson 2 DWI , 0 Disorderly Conduct 17 Others 196 Suspicion '..*... 73 Missing-Runaway „ 16 Abandoned Vehicles 42 Non-Support .0 Anonymous Calls 29 Domestic Trouble 36 Emergency Assistance 27 Fatals (Non-Traffic) 2 Found Articles '... 14 Lost Articles 19 Mental' ...4 4 Outside Assistance ». 43 Overdose 0 Suicide 4 Attempted Suicide 1 Traffic 131 Liquor Violations 9 Misc. Investigations , 85 Prisoner Count For The Month Adult Males Received 173 Adult Females Received 12 Juvenile Males Received 10 Juvenile Females Received 1 Total Prisoners Received 196 Total Prisoners Discharged 210 Average Prisoner Count Per Day 42 Prisoner Records Prepared 1% Warrants Served Court Processes Received j. 643" Court Processes Served .... 7 440 Bailiffs in Court \ % Persons Taken to Court J 32 Meals Served for the Month 346 Persons Conveyed toOther Institutions .. ... 6 Mileage Conveying Persons / . ,. . . .540 Mileage Serving Court Processes 5407 Mileage Patrolling and Investigating 68,840 Accident Investigations Handled , Total Number of Accidents 237 Personal Property » .186 Bodily Injury 50 Fatalities .1 Warning Tickets Issued ^.232 Building Permits Building permits recently issued by the Department of Building and Zoning for McHenry County include : N. Gray and Son Builders, 7710 Ravina Drive, Spring Grove, to build a two-bedroom house at 1407 \yoodland Parkway in Burton Township for an approximate value of $30,000. Permit and service fee-$168. William Diedrick, 2119 Woodlawn, McHenry, to build a pre- engineered metal building at 5409 Northwest Highway in ' Algonquin Township for an approximate value of $38,000. Permit and service fee-$219. First National Bank of Woodstock Trust No. 748, P.O. Box 549K, Woodstock, to build a single family residence at 5302 Memory Trail in McHenry Township for an approximate value of $38,000. Permit and service fee-185. Brittany Builders, 1903 S. Route 31, McHenry, to build a single family residence at 6924 Pheasant Run in Nunda Township for an approximate value of $60,000. Permit and service fee-$254.80. McHenry State Bank TYust No. 943 to build a single family Kegion Two Area Agency on Aging has announced that additional lunds. under Title III of the Older Americans Act of ]%.">. will become available lor fiscal year H17H The Illinois Department on Aging has increased Kegion Two's Title III iunding level tor n»7K from $»)">.">.:{oi to ap -p r o x i m a t e 1 y $832.0 00 Therefore. Kegion Two will be receiving approximately an additional $177.0<y» In addition^/Region Two intends to award carry-over tunds from Fiscal Year \ . , /7 The exact amount of carry over funds cannot be determined untii after audit reports are completed, but it is estimated that approximately $:t5.ooo will become available from this source Kegion Two Area Agency on Aging serves as the ad ministrative and planning body tor programs funded under the older Americans Act of>J%f> in DuPage. Grundy. Kane. Kankakee. Kendall. Lake. McHenry. and Will counties Title III of the Older Americans Act of ltM»5 provides for social service programs to serve older persons in local comrfiunities The services funded include homemaker. home health, chore service. triendK vi^itine telephone reassurance, home-delivered meals, transportation, legal services, residential repair and renovation, adult day care, offibudsman. health .screening and evaluation. escort, housing, employment, coun­ seling. outreach, recreation, education, and information and referral Agencies or organizations interested in applying for funds available under Title J11 should contact the Kegion Two area Wgency on" Aging office by calling 'AC 8ir>> »:w-(>727. Additional information and an application packet will be provided upon request Completed applications tor the additional fiscal year 1978 funds must be received at the Kegion Two office no later than -I 5o p.m.. Jan 18. 1978 These additional funds will be awarded for a grant period beginning March l.">, 1978. and ending Sept 50. 1978 Applications lor tunds for fiscal year 1979 will be available in early February and must he returned to the Kegion Two office by mid March Parties interested in applying for these funds should notify the Kegion Two office and an application packet will be sent when it becomes available Game of the Month RONALD REAGAN TAX REVOLT W h o e v e r d e s c r i b e d California as "the cutting edge of change" may have put it a little heavily but there is still truth in it The Golden State continues to spawn many of America's trends. Tax revolt may be the next one In recent years everything from tough air pollution laws to campus riots had their start in California So did faded blue denimgStndings on Mars and the balloy®Btiative. The latter phenome^o|| is the one by which frustrated citizens can bypass a foot-dragging legislature and put an issue on the ballot for public vote In 1978, California's initiative process may give the nation the first solid evidence that the taxpayer revolt is more than angry talk. In California it has already become a reality. Howard Jarvis is a doughty Californian in his 70s who heads an organization called United Taxpayers, a citizen "wat­ chdog"' group He and his colleagues have just collected a record 1.2 million signatures • nearly four times the required minimum) to qualify an initiative on next year's ballot which would limit property taxes to one percent of a home's market value. Good Chance If it passes - and considering the ferment over property taxes, it has a good chance - the Jarvis initiative wilt-leave elected officials and their bureaucrats between a rock and a hard place. With their property tax base sharply reduced and the voters in no mood to see other taxes go up, they will be forced to establish spending priorities, about the last thing most of them want to do. Two factors brought the California tax revolt to a head and similar ones exist in other states. On the one hand, the governor and the legislature could not agree on returning inflation-caused treasury surpluses back to the taxpayers who had paid them in; on the other hand, wildly inflated housing prices triggered reassessments and huge jumps in property taxes Jarvis and his petition brigade hit the streets just when taxpayer anger was doing a rolling boil They collected signatures while Governor Jerry Brown was trying to link property tax relief to family income level (his idea was. the more you make, the less money you get back, no matter how much you paid in) He called this scheme a "circuit- breaker' ' and it 's a truly California-sized idea - full­ blown socialism But, the legislature, when it wiggled its antennae, decided the idea wouldn't sell, so it stalemated Brown How ling Started The news of Jarvis' success was barely out when the special interests who gourmandize at the public trough began howling The sky would surely fall Schools would close, police and fire protection would evaporate, the poor would be thrown out in the streets and all other taxes would skyrocket It had a familiar ring. In 1973, the same coalition made similar charges about an initiative measure which would have United the percentage of the people's total income the state could'spend It contained guarantees to prevent the state from shifting its tax load to counties and cities, but the Greek chorus planted enough doubts to scare the voters and they turned the measure down The coalition that worked so feverishly against that tax reform consisted of groups such as the public employees' union, the teachers' union ^nd their allies in the legislature The League of Women Voters acted as a sort of Big Spenders' Ladies' auxiliary to back them up Similar coalitions have fought reform measures in other states since. This time, the spenders' coalitiqn may meet its match The Jarvis petition success was so great it has given the spending coalition a case of the jitters. With many older Californians having to make the painful decision to sell their homes because they can't af­ ford the taxes and many young people not able to afford homes at all, this ironclad property tax limitation is going to attract plenty of angry voters PUBLIC PULSE (The Plaindealer invites the public to use this column as an expression of their view on subjects of general interest in our community. Our only request is that the writers give signature, full address and phone number. We ask too, that one individual not write on the same subject more than once each month. We reserve the right to delete any material which we consider libelous or in objectionable taste.) WONDKKH I. TEEN At.KltS Dear Editor "Last Wednesday when nature dumped nearly a toot of snow on us. the Whispering Oaks Woman's club held the annual Christmas party. Entertainment included the McHenry high school madrigal chorus and promptly, as promised, at 2 o'clock, in they trudged through the drifted snow Fourteen teens. . who were on their Christmas vacation, took time to sing their lovely carols, ending with a song of blessing "Most of the audience have teen age grandchildren, many far away, and to all of us this was a true Christmas gift We bless each and every one of them and appreciate the music department at the high school for the fine job of training the lovely voices "There are some wonderful teenagers' "They just don't seem to get the publicity "Mrs Harrv Stuart Tice" on <i.oi>s "Dear Editor I just finished reading the article Thoughtlessness' , in your paper If I may. I would like to add something to it ." "I have noticed the signs that were put up in parking lots, mainly at the Jewel Food store in town I 'm referring to the signs that are placed there for the handicapped "Since those signs have gone up I have never seen anyone park there that could not walk or run unassisted Now I don't see why these able bodied persons cannot park elsewhere and walk a few extra feet and LET S GET TOGETHER • AND TALK ABOUT LOW-COST AUTO INSURANCE. Tony Fick residence at 2501 Michael Street in McHenry Township for an approximate value of $40,000. Permit and service fee-$18L Brittany Builders, 1903 S. Route 31, McHenry, to build a single family residence at 10006 Butternut Road in Dorr Township for an approximate value of $70,000. Permit and service fee-$222.80. iflCCCCCCOOOOOCOOOCCCOOOOCOCCOOOOOCCC ARE YOU NEW IN For Your Information Dear friends, \ A properly prepared Will enables you to distribute your estate after death exactly as you wish. 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S3701 OUR NEW LOCATION Corner of Crystal Lgke Blacktop & Rt. 120, McHenry, V - f ,-.v • i'.'; •' f-vZi-M CSPS leave those spaces open for the ones who are not as fortunate as they After all. there are only two of those signs so it 's not as if they were placed all over the parking lot "The inconsiderate clods should be grateful that the Lord gave them a strong body and they can maneuver without the aid of a cane or wheelchair It s thes" same clods that would be screaming all over the place it they were denied this special parking place "Is there nothing this town can do to remedy this problem" "Sincerely yours. "(Ilenda Petersen " HARUMV Everyone gets an energy boost when the boss walks in Sennce [>rof«ss""\, pirec«'rY EARL R. WALSH & JACK WALSH INS. F i r e , Auto. Farm. Lite Representing RELIABLE COMPANIES 4410 W fitte 120. McHenry MS 1)00 DENNIS CONWAY AUTO LIFE FIRE State Farm Ins. Co. 33it w Elm St McHenry, III. US 7111 DR. 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