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PAGE 5 - PLA!M)F \LER-WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1978 This Weeks Migrant Support Small Business L/aiSOP EASTERN PEWEE By Vernon Kleen Drawing by Aura Duke (This Week's Migrant series prepared and sponsored by the Illinois Audubon society) One of the most common s u m m e r f l y c a t c h e r s throughout Illinois is the Eastern Pewee (formerly known as the Eastern Wood Pewee). Individuals are regularly encountered in any mature, open, deciduous or mixed woods where they perch conspicuously on dead tree branches or twigs in the middle or upper levels of a tree canopy. They sit motionless except for the constant turning of their heads while looking for passing insects. Once insects are spotted, the pewees chase after them, often in erratic flight, until they have caught them. A perceptible snapping of the bill is often heard at the time of capture. On completion of their mission, they return to the same perch and start their search once again. During the interim, the male often sings his drawn-out, whistle-like "pee-a-wee" song. Males and females are alike in plumage- grayish brown back; darker head, wings and tail; grayish-white breast; no eye-ring and conspicuous wing bars. The dull colors are characteristic of most small flycatchers and make them, hard to distinguish; however, the voice is a dead give-away for positive identification. The presence or absence of an eye- ring and-or wing bars helps to separate the similar plumaged flycatchers. Pewees arrive in Illinois duirng May and on selecting a woods to their liking, establish territories and initiate nest building. The actual nest is constructed of grasses, plant fibers and similar materials held together with spider webs and covered on the outside with lichens. It is saddled to a fork on a horizontal branch-often dead~of a tree, about 20 to 60 feet above ground. A clutch usually consists of three cream-colored eggs that have a ring of brownish spots or blotches near the larger end. The female handles all of the incubation duties for the twelve to thirteen days required. Both adults feed the young for their sixteen days of nest life. It is not too uncommon for two broods to be raised each year. Young birds resemble the adults very closely. The pewee is strictly an in- sect-eater; the majority of insects are caught in mid-air and include large numbers of flies, bees, wasps, beetles, bugs, small moths and some grasshoppers. The Eastern Pewee is found throughout most of the eastern United States and southern Canada; it is replaced by the very similar Western Pewee in the western United States and Canada. Both species winter in Central and south America. EASY DOES IT! Just what you want for your summertime Easy Care Hair Do! Make your appointment today FRANS HIDDEN CURL 1212 N. Green St. Ofc. 8 McHenry, Illinois 344-1019 HOURS: M--W--T--F 8:30-5:00 SAT. 8-3:00 CLOSED TUESDAY Because small businessmen are finding it increasingly difficult to deal with the im­ positions of state government. Sen. Jack Schaffer, R-McHenry Co., announced his support for legislation to create a "Small Businessmen's Liaison" post within the governor's office. The liaison would work out of the Governor's Office of Manpower and Human Development (GOMHD). "Nearly every special in­ terest has an advocate in Springfield, fighting to futher its cause. Although small businesses are crucial to the economy of Illinois, their problems are often overlooked or ignored," Schaffer said. "A liaison for these business people would not only look out for their interests, but would be able to answer questions and help them cope with the growing problems government has created for them," he continued. The proposal to create the post is contained in an amend­ ment to the budget of the GOMHD. The gmendement has been approved by Senate committee and is soon to be considered by the full Senate. In addition to administering various social service and job opportunity programs, the GOMHD provides government assistance to a wide range of groups including women, youth and minorities. The Small Businessmen's Liaison would be appointed by the Governor and report directly to him. "The time has come to provide incentive and en­ couragement to the vanishing little guy in business. Creation of this post will offer owners of small businesses a voice in government, an opportunity to express their concerns about government actions and to seek assistance in solving their problems," JSchaffer added. * , ,, r ( Draft Clean Water Plan Clean Water Is A Staple That Has A Luxury Hem Price (Third in a four-part series) The latest item in the discriminating taxpayer's spring catalog reads like this; "For Sale: Clean Lakes, Rivers, and Streams. Price: $6- 7 billion." In the next few months we will learn whether the tax­ payers and their local, state, and federal representatives from northeastern Illinois think it is a good buy. It is not by chance that this item made the taxpayer's catalog. In 1972 Congress passed a law requiring states to develop and implement water pollution control plans. In the spring of 1975, the state delegated the planning task for the six-county Chicago metropolitan area to the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission (NIPC). After three years, the agency not only came up with a plan, but also a price tag. To state the cost in more human terms, taxpayers must figure on paying about 80 percent more for wastewater service during the next twenty years (the current average annual cost is $77.70) in order to "restore and maintain the chemical, physical and biological in­ tegrity of the (region's) waterways." The percentage increase for persons living outside the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago (MSD) would be considerably less, however. A few qualifiers are in order at this point. First, the estimated costs in this article are given in 1977 dollars. In other words future inflation has not been factored into the estimates. Second, although the total price is $6-7 billion, tax­ payers have already signed on the dotted line for about 75 percent of that. The money will be spend on previously ap­ proved wastewater treatment plant improvements, for which millions of dollars have already been expended. Even spread over two decades, $6-7 billion is a lot of money. More than 90 percent of it would be spent on point source control. Wastewater treatment plant and industrial plant discharges are examples of point, or single, sources of pollution. The rest would be spent on nonpoint pollution, principally stormwater runoff from streets, parking lots, construction sites, and farms. To be more specific, point source capital costs, or the costs of purchasing the hard­ ware to run the treatment facilities, would be about $4.4 billion. All but $643 million of that would be spent within the MSD. The 22-year cost of operating and maintaining this new equipment would be about $1.4 billion, with all but $853 million being spent within the MSD. If every wastewater treat­ ment plant and every industrial plant stopped discharging pollutants into our rivers tomorrow, the rivers still would not be clean. NIPC has discovered that nonpoint sources contribute a significant amount of pollution. Pollution washed by stormwater from paved surfaces, Construction sites, and farmland poison the streams and rob fish of the oxygen they need to breathe. Costs of reducing runoff pollution from paved surfaces will be in the neighborhood of $200 million over 22 years; from farms, about $78 million. Even though the federal government would pick up most of the tab for cleaning up the region's water bodies, and r Power Complex Brazil and Paraguay are currently building the world's most powerful hydroelectric complex -- Itaipu. When com­ pleted, it will generate 70 billion kilowatt-hours of energy an­ nually. America's Grand Coulee, for example, produces 20 billion. 'g}S5t® The McHenry Plaindealer t Established 1t75 31 12 W»*t Elm Str*«t Phono 3S5-0170 JVicHonry, Illinois 60050 Published btry Wednesday I Friday at McHenry, Illinois Second Class Postage Paid at McHenry, Illinois By McHENRY PUBLISHING COMPANY S»kic(lk*fi or# to provide immediate notice of chong* of aMroii to Tho McHonry Welndiolor. Mil W. Clm St.. McHonry. III. M0S0. A Mvcllon of on* month from tho oipirotlon of e subscription will bo mode whoro e chongo of tMrou li provided through th* Pott Offic* 0*pertm*nt. Larry E.'Lund-Publisher Adele Froehlich-Editor 7 WEWSPAPER / NATIONAL NEWSPAPER Ft--dti IW Frc* Prats CI NNA SUSTAINING M MEMBER-1978 SUBSRIPTION RATES I Yrxr SI2.00 I V«-ur S17.00 In McHenry and Lake Outside McHenry and County Lake County USTIC SERVING: •Breakfast, Lunch and Dlnnar •Daily Lunchaon and Dinnar Specials •Friday Fish Fry_ Sunday Brunch ARBOR Restaurant and Lounge 217 N. FRONT ST. (RTE. 31) HARBOR LOUNGE FEATURING ITS FAMOUS DOUBLE BUBBLE HOUR 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Monday - Friday 12 oz. Cocktails . . . . $1" LIVE ENIERfAINMENf THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHTS THE MUSIC MATES' >11 TUESDAY IS LAMES NI0HTI All ladies receive free wine or mixed drinks at half price from 8:00 p.m. -11:00 p.m. '[pGOOOOGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCOOOOOOCOOOOOOOOOCOOOOOOOCOOOOOOOOCfl McHENRY, ILLINOIS (815)385-8600 even though most of the money would be spent regardless of this clean water plan, the ad­ ditional costs are still sub­ stantial and serious questions need to be asked. Most im­ portant, is the cost worth the benefit? Will the federal government commit itself to continue picking up the lion's share of the expenditures for the next 20 years? How much is the federal government willing to kick in to help control pollutant runoff from paved surfaces, an area in which it currently contributes no money? These cost issues and other concerns are sure to be ex­ plored at NIPC public hearings on the draft clean water plan. The hearings will be held June 24,26,27, and 28. One purpose of these hearings is to give tax­ payers a choice to be heard now, before the proposal is reviewed and implemented by state and federal authorities, and before costs of a clean water program show up on tax bills. All public comments and suggestions recorded at the hearings will accompany the clean water proposal when it is sent to state and federal of­ ficials for review. For more information con­ cerning the upcoming hearings, contact Larry Aggens, Mike Chapin, or Marty Moser at NIPC 312-454-0400. CANCER CRUSADE GIFT--Ormel Prust, McHenry Commercial chairman for the American Cancer Society Crusade, recently delivered a check in the amount of $2,032 to Herb Reihansperger, McHenry county chairman. This amount represents the contributions made by McHenry area business firms during the annual Cancer Crusade, which is just being completed. The Cancer society has acknowledged the important contribution of all those who gave to this year's successful campaign. STAFF PHOTO-WAYNE GAYLORD 'y and V ' " J OPEN EVENINGS Til 9 ft- IttcKEItRY Home of American Drew Home iPHenishinas SOFA SLEEPERS ALL STYLES • Early American • Contemporary • Traditional FROM Sale Priced AND UP TRESTLE TABLE Inlcudes 4 side chairs, and 2 arm chairs. 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