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This Week's Migrant L. • • Truckers Promote 55 Mph Limit PAGE 5 - PLAINDEALER -FRIDAY, MAY 1», 1978 During National Tran­ sportation week, May 14-20, A m e r i c a n T r u c k i n g associations and its affiliated state associations are con­ tinuing to work to promote compliance with the federally mandated 55 mile-per-hour speed limit. ATA fully supports the national speed limit along withi better and more uniform en­ forcement of the limit. ATA and the. trucking industry know that when trucks are properly geared, they save fuel at 55. A recent National Highway Traffic Safety administration study reported trucks observe the 55 mph limit more than any other vehicle on the highway. One current approach ATA is using to promote compliance with the law involves the use of the industry's cooperative road patrol program, in operation since 1951, which uses safety patrolmen to monitor truck operations. The California Trucking association, for example, has been operating a "Safety Monitor" program since April, 1977. This program's objective is to enlist the aid of motor carrier executives and CTA members to help the industry become an example of safe driving practices. Participants in this program display placards reading "Safety Monitor-California L Trucking Association" in the rear windows of their cars. While on the road, the monitors observe the driving habits of all heavy trucks-especially those registered in California. When a monitor sees a driver speeding or violating safe driving practices, he records it on a report form which is then sent to CTA headquarters. The association then notifies the owner of the vehicle about the report. Along the same lines, the Oregon Trucking association Council of Safety Supervisors and the Oregon chapter of the National Association of Fleet Supervisors have sponsored a three-day "Safety Blitz." God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. -Shakespeare. She was a lady of incisivc features bound in a stale parchment. -George Meredith. The blitz program, which was manned by road observation teanfe of safety personnel and i n s u r a n c e c o m p a n y representatives, used radar units, video tape equipment, and cameras to monitor truck traffic and clock speeds. Following this campaign, additional police patrol cars were placed in the area studied to enforce speed limits. In addition, the joint effort road patrols were continued with violators notified with courtesy observation reports. In the Midwest, the Missouri Bus and Truck association has developed a comprehensive new program to stop speeding. INDIGO BUNTING By Vernon Kleen Drawing by Aura Duke "This Week's Migrant" (Series prepared and sponsored by the Illinois Audubon Society). The Indigo Bunting is one of the most common roadside and edge species in all 6f Illinois during the breeding season. The male, entirely blue in appearance, and often referred to as "the bluebird", is quite attractive and easy to see. The true bluebird often occurs in the same habitat, but is somewhat larger, has a rusty- colored breast and is a member of the thrush family; the Indigo Bunting, on-the-other-hand, is sparrow-sized, has a com­ pletely blue breast (male) and belongs to the finch family. Males are extremely fond of telephonewires and other conspicuous perches near scrubby areas where they can survey their territories and sing "to their hearts desire." The female bunting is en­ tirely brown and quite plain; she can be best described by her lack of spots, stripes or other obvious characteristics which are regularly used as field marks for the iden­ tification of other sparrow- sized birds in our area. Although the first individuals may arrive by mid-April, the majority of Indigo Buntings do not appear in Illinois until early and mid-May; the males usually arrive a few days ahead of the females and establish breeding territories-much like that discussed for other species. It is not too unusual to find the same birds back at the same locations as in past years. They nest and feed in the brushy rover of woodland edges, old clearings, second growth, streamsides, lake edges, black­ berry thickets and fence lines that occur throughout most of the eastern United States and the southern portions of Canada. Nest building begins by the third week of May. The nest itself is a cup-shaped structure of twigs, weeds, grass, small pieces of bark, and a few leaves lined with fine grasses or hairs and placed in a shrub, bush or thicket close to the ground.The three to five eggs are light blue without spots or splotches and need at least twelve days of incubation; another two weeks are required for the young to fledge. The female does practically all the work. After the nesting season, the adult males molt their bright bluish plumage, go through a transitional stage where the plumage is a mottled blue and brown and finally assume the GET PROFESSIONAL carpet cleaning results! 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Few birds could be so continuously abused--its habitat (roadsides, fencerows and edges) sprayed, cut or removed and its food (wild seeds, berries and injurious i n s e c t s : c a n k e r w o r m s , grasshoppers, weevils, beetles and bugs) highly poisoned by chemicals- and still persist abundantly. If the Indio Buntin was a typical example of surviving wildlife under stress conditions, there would be few e n v i r o n m e n t a l c o n c e r n s ; unfortunately, the Indio Bunting is a typical, but desirable, example of surviving wildlife. Next Week: Ruby-throated Hummingbird. *« • • ! educational j I J College Honors j r i Two McHenry Students Degree Recipients May 13 Two McHenry students were degree recipients at the Saturday, May 13, com­ mencement exercises of the Milwaukee School of Engineering. Scott B. Lasko, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roger Lasko of 1708- W. North avenue, received an associate degree in Electronic Communications Engineering Technology. He is a graduate of McHenry Community high school. Michael J. Tonyan, a graduate of Marian Central Catholic high school, was awarded an associate degree in Fluid Power Engineering Technology. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Tonyan of 1406 Palomino drive. EARNSDEGREE John D. Becker, a senior in the Missions department at St. Paul Bible college, St. Bonifacius, Minn., was graduated Sunday, May 14, with a Bachelor of Arts degree. John D. Becker, whose father, John Becker, lives at 5211 W. Hunter drive, McHenry attends Christian & Missionary Alliance Bible church while in McHenry. >'ww»vwaaQaoa ![ American Legion Post 491 j! - RINGWOOD ROAD, McHENRY - FISH FRY EVERY FRIDAY (5:00-9:00 P. M.) PERCH-ALL YOU CAN EAT OTHER MENU AVAILABLE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC BOB & THE BLUETONES SAT. 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