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SECTION 2 - PAGE fi - PLAINDEALER - WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 13. It78 'PLAINDEALER, Editorial Opinion Christmas Paper The trend toward misleading packaging is certainly exemplified by Christmas paper makers Attractive sixroll packages of holiday wrapping paper are on sale almost everywhere-usually for a dollar, or more The disappointment for purchasers comes when they open them at home, finding only about a yard of paper per roll, often not enough to wrap one large package The moral of this Christmas story-go to the store where genuine rolls of paper can still be had, at reasonable prices The Role Of TV It's a late hour but the American people must still decide what television is to be used for in this country If they don't, commercial and film interests will continue to dominate the shaping and molding of the young and impressionable, and do much to establish the behavior pattern of the majority At this point of evolution, the miracle of television is being better utilized in some foreign countries than in the U.S. We are fond of telling foreigners how many hours of TV, and how many stations, we have But this results from no stroke of genius on our part It stems from the fact that we have a huge population (market) and have exercised little control over the industry, having very largely turned it over to private, commercial purposes The results are already frightening We see in the behavior of young people (first noted in the sixties) the results of commercial television in theliving room of American families for a generation. Television isn't being used in this coutnry largely to help uplift the standards of the American people, to teach cultural and moral values-though inevitably some benefits derive even from commercial television In this country, with the exception of PBS, it's largely being used to sell products for large corporations Commercial TV has all the best channels That would not be so undesirable if there were some real regulation of content But there is not, and the film industry is free to use moral degeneration, crime, abnormality, shock, materialism, etc , to attract the largest possible audience In fact, the easiest way to attract a maximum number of potential buyers is through shock, sex and crime in films. Eventually, the American people must once and for all decide whether film producers seeking to attract large audiences for sales purposes or those seeking to utilize the miracle of television to help the people are to prevail Building Permits j (City of McHenry) for November Theodore Anderson -913 Hampton court--siding Howard Lindstrom--1211 Pin Oak court--single family dwelling Thomas D Cullotta--$615 W Illiamna trail--single family dwelling Ted and Karen Pryka--5516 Shore drive--fence McHenry Office Supply--803 Front street--sign Lee J Coonev--803 Front street--sign Tom Kner--1518 Lakeland avenue--siding and reroof Jerome Reinhard--4714 Bonner--fence William W Nelson--601 South route 31--storage building Donald Musielak-^410 N Timothy lane--addition Brittany Builders--5420 W' Shore drive--single family dwelling Brittany Builders--5405 W Shore drive--single family dwelling Bnan and John Cunat--5120 W. Shorehill drive--single family dwelling Richard Grant -1905 Flower--single family dwelling Everett and Ethel Hunter--1402 N Riverside drive--fence Harry R Dean- 804 N. John street sewer hook up Residential Development--5213 Greenbrier drive- single family dwelling Residential Development--200 Canterbury drive--single family dwelling Gerd Kielisch--5210 West Shore drive--garage A&P--3750 W Elm steet--signs l^ancer Corp --5205 W Spnngdale lane--single family dwelling First United Methodist church--1005 N. Center street- foundation only Raymond H Gner--909 Hampton court--siding Residential Development--4306 W Crystal Lake road--office John and Sharon Panek--4908 W Pyndale drive--fireplace Pi \IM)I \ 1 I R" Lellcrs In tin* Ldilnr Public Pulse Tfc# Ptomdoolo' mwilO* pwbl" 'O u»« *hi\ (Olumn ov Or\ ••p<< ho>' on iub|0<*« o* q0"0 '0l mtO'Ott m oui < orr>m\jn.1 y Ou' onij t tho' <n> r it#r % q>«# »<gno*w'« •v>H odd»o%\ ond phone "urnbe Ae ho* on# ndiwduol no» on fh« torn* ; jbiti ' mo»» ihonr on< # • c ft* f gh* to de'e'e ony mrh.c h * f <on%d» SEPTIC HKC.l I.ATIONS Editor There are t imes when str ingent regulat ions and laws cause more problems than they solve The McHenry County Defenders bel ieve this to be the case in regard to the regulat ions regarding sept ic pumping disposal s i tes While we recognize and condone the intent ions of these regulat ions we deem them over zealous We feel the ex pense <>f the required monitor ing wel ls is not warrented in most cases of sept ic disposal in McHenry county This is evidenced by the tact that there are no l icensed sept ic dumping s i tes in McHenry county, yet dumping is going on Here is a def ini te problem perpetuated by the expense of these extensive controls The resul t is the at t i tude that 'no control is bet ter than too much control ' We urge a logical solut ion to sept ic pum pings disposal through adequate controls that are not unduly s t r ingent and self defeat ing The Defenders urge this issue be rect i f ied as soon as possible , foster ing a heal thier environment for the ci t izens of McHenry county Lawrence K Fergen Legis la t ive Chairman McHenry County Defenders F o r Y o u r i n f o r m a t i o n D*or friends. A n«w book Lite AHer Lif« it written by dot tor ptychiotrlit Raymond A Moody, Jr., who ho* Interviewed 50 or mor» people who wor* pronounced clinically dead for several minute* before being revived. They toll of thoir con- tcioutneti separating from thoir physical body and floating noarby. whilo thoy observed the desperate attempts to rovivo tho oarthly body. Sometime* deceased relative* or friend* ap­ pear to greet them It i* an interesting booh, well worth reading, whatever one's inter­ pretation of the evidence Respectfully „'y.x - d Q--*- o ̂ PETER M.JISTEN Sc SON FUNERAL HOME McMENRY, ILLINOIS 385W63 McHenry County Study Lower Income Dental Care McHenry County Com-, prehensive Health Planning Agency (CHPA) has begun a study of free or reduced cost dental care for McHenry county families who cannot afford to pay for aii of their own dental treatment The CHPA has determined that such a problem exists for faany residents of the county and wants to see what can be done about it, in three possible ways: free or reduced cost dental care for those who cannot afford it; flouride treatments in the schools; and improved access to dental care by persons eligible for Medicaid assistance. In the first place, the CHPA wants to establish a way of providing free or reduced cost dental care to families who Workers Who Quit Jobs Ineligible For Food Stamps Under a proposal made by the US Department of Agriculture, primary wage- earners who quit their job without good cause would find their families ineligible for food stamps for two months Monroe Woods, the Midwest Regional administrator of the depart­ ment's Food and Nutrition Service <FNS), which ad­ ministers the program, ex­ plains that "the proposed regulations will ensure that an able-bodied head of household cannot quit a job in order to start receiving food stamps. The proposal implements a provision of the Food Stamp Act of 1977." Woods said the new rule is consistent with the desire of President Carter's ad­ ministration and of Congress to assure that families not in need of food stamps not receive the benefits while doing mor^to get food stamp assistance to those who truly are in need, such as the elderly and the working poor. The proposed rule is published in a late November federal register Comments should be sent to Nancy Snyder, Food and Nutrition Service, U.S. Department of agriculture, Washington. D C, 20250. The deadline for receiving comments is Dec. 21. Perspective EUROPEANS INTRIGUTEjD BY RON ALD REAGAN PARIS-Flu viruses a rent the only thing that can spread from country to country by means of international airplane flights Proposition 13 has done it. too' I began this trip intending mostly to ask the views of leaders in Britain, France, and West. Germany about issues of major interest to them and us <and I did manage to ask quite a few), but before I knew it. I was being questioned in detail about Proposition 13. How is it working in California"' Is it true the police and fire stations are closing0 Is the tax revolt spreading" What's next" And so on In London, media reports filtering back from the United States somehow have given the impression that vital services were being cut right and left, and, in fact, that the big Southern California fires earlier this fall could have been contained if Proposition 13 hadn't forced drastic reduc­ tions in fire departments None of this is true, hut one can only wonder how such a distorted image found its way across the Atlantic Unless, of course, the carriers of the message feared change just as the Public Employees union in California feared change and invented scare stories about Proposition 13 The British are far down the road to socialism, so the voices crying out for tax relief and the competition of market forces instead of centralized govern ment planning seem all the more normal, but they have sparked a lively debate in the halls of government and in the press There is widespread belief that the British bureaucracy (as we've seen in the U.S.) has gotten, out of control One senior civil servant, lA»slie Chapman, who quit in order to fight the problem, told a London program the other day that one-third of the money spent by the British govern­ ment is "totally wasted" and at lea§t half the civil servants are wasting both their own time and the taxpayer's money. There are signs that Britons are losing patience with the frequent irritating wildcat strikes by militant union members. A month ago 22,000 bakers went on strike, but now 2,000 of them have defied the strike, are back to work and producing 80 percent of the normal bread supply This is a graphic illustration of "overmanning" as the British call it All this inefficiency is the result of many years' adherence to a philosophy that holds the purpose of govern­ ment and industry is to provide jobs, not to render services and produce goods Perhaps even the Labor party government may he awakening at least a bit to the idea of a tax revolt brewing As we concluded wide ranging discussions of international affairs, foreign secretary David Owen smiled and said. "Your Proposition 13 has given all our politicians something to think about In France, market-oriented forces are moving ahead strongly President Oiscard d'Estaing and Prime Minister Ravmond Barre. who is an from HISTORY'S SCRAPBOOK DATES AND EVENTS FROM YESTERYEARS * December 15, 1H90 -- Sitting Bull, chief of the Sioux Indians, is shot and killed in South Dakota aiter a skirmish with federal tfoops. December 16, 1905 -- "Variety," a weekly periodical devoted to show business, is published for the first time December 17, 1903 -- Orvilie and Wilbur Wright make the first successful airplane flights in history by soaring over the sand dunes ol North Carolina December 18, 1936 -- The first giant panda to be imported into the I nited States arrives at San Francisco from China December 19, 1777 -- Cieorge Washington and his Continental Army troops begin their now-famous winter encampment at V alley Forge, Pennsylvania December 20, 1820 -- Missouri levies a tax of one dollar against unmarried men between the ages of 21 and 50 December 21, 1944 -- Horse racing is banned in the United States lor the duration of World War II S8e8eŜ WSe6SSS86SSSS8686» 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 10AN STULL 385-5418 *0 ft, % mrmmn KNOW Y0U» MCA-R0TM. WELCOME DOES IT BEST admirer of Milton Friedman's free market economics, has begun decontrolling prices - bread (after nearly 200 years) being the most notable example - without serious dislocation or repercussion. And, contrary to long tradition, the French government will no longer bail out ailing private busin^ses as it once did. Recently, when one of the nation's largest textile firms was in trouble, the government let it go into bankruptcy. On another note, French cusiosity to hear the views of former President Richard Nixon brought some amazing results French television reported that one out of every two Frenchmen -- about 30 million persons -- watched the three-hour program and that 80 percent of the messages that came into the network swit­ chboard were favorable cannot now afford it. This could be accomplished by: (1 )a new denta l c l in i c s ta f f ed by dentists on a rotating basis; (2 ) a method o f subs id i z ing private dental care for these families, or (3) commitments by private dentists to take additional families on a free or reduced fee basis. During the next few weeks, a Dental Action committee will be exploring these options, and will seek to identify possible funding sources for them. Members of the CHPA Dental Action committee recently held the first of a series of meetings with the McHenry County Dental society. Among those present were Doctors Leonard Pawlikowski and William Kohl, Jr., of McHenry and Doctor Roger Bonus of Richmond. In addition to dental care for indigent families, the two groups discussed continuing dental education in the schools and community flouridation programs. Under a second possible appraoch to the problem, children could receive flouride treatments periodically in school. This approach could benefit all children, not only those whose families cannot afford to pay for dental care. Such a school flouridation program would be attempted particularly in those school districts where a significant number of children come from homes whose water is not flouridated Finally, it may be that some persons who are eligible for free dental care under the Medicaid program are not able to take advantage of that care. The Dental Action committee wants to further explore this to find out whether such a problem exists. -- If there are persons within the county who are interested in working with the CHPA on this dental project, they may contact Dental Action com­ mittee member Eileen Hanson, 338 3966 The Comprehensive Health Planning Agency for McHenry County is one of three advisory groups to the Health Systems Agency for Kane, Lake and McHenry Counties (HSA-KLM) - the health planning and ac­ tion agency serving the three county area. Line MCHENRY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 38S-4S00 FAMILY SERVICE It MENTAL HEALTH CLINIC 3409 W. Waukegan Road McHenry 385-6400 PARENTAL STRESS LINE OF McHENRY COUNTY Meeting Place: McHenry County 24 hours a day, 7 days a week Call 312-463-0390 STATE CHAMBER GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS HOTLINE 217-522-5514 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION 202-755-6660 Hours7 30a m to5:30p.m. weekdays (Ever had a problem involving the federal government and not know where to call? And then been given a runaround or referrals by persons who meant well but didn't know how to help? Ten specialists available at this center.) NATIONAL RUN-AWAY SWITCHBOARD Illinois Phone: 800-372-6004 (For confidential conversation on problems dealing with run-away children) MOVING HOTLINE Phone 800424-9213 (Complaints about interestate moving by companies, buses or trains Sponsored by Interstate Commerce commission) CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION Phone 800-638-2666 (For questions or complaints on products ranging from toys to ovens) NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION Phone 800-424-9393 (Answers questions about automobile safety defects or whether a particular model has ever been recalled. Valuable for those interested in buying a used car) ILLINOIS DEPARTMENTOF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES Child Abuse Center McHenry County (312) 546-2150 CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION 800-638-2666 (Operates five national lines Answers inquiries about, or reporting on, the safety of products from kitchen appliances to children's toys) NATIONAL SOLAR HEATING AND COOLING INFORMATION CENTER 800-523-2929 P O Box 1607, Rockville, Md 20850 (Dispenses information on solar systems for heating and cooling to anyone from architects to home owftetfrlooking for a sun-powered hot-water system) CONSUMER PROTECTION DIVISION 1603 N North Avenue McHenry, 111 John T Licastro (Calls from 9 30 am to 5 p m - 385 1703; interviews Saturday 9 30 a m to 12:30 pm ) HIRTHNH.HT Prrgnanl? \red llrlp? < .oun»rliiig Srrtirr. 385-2W9, 24-hour An- «wrriii|E Serwrr. YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU FOR McHENRY COUNTY 840 N. Seminary Avenue, Woodstock Phone: 338-7360 24-hour Crisis Intervention and Confidential Counseling for youth and families. Are you concerend about your angry feelings toward your children? 24 hour Parental Stress Line, 344-3944 & MBEiVl ILLINOIS STATE CHAMBER-HOTLINE Phone 217-522-5514 Answer to questions on government regulations. . A. G. Edwards & Sons, Inc. WEEKUT MARKET REPORT December 5 Don't fed lonely If you find recent market action confusing. Last vteek with its down 14 points one day, up 12 another and puny daily volume of some 22 million shares was enough to cause both bulls And bears to scratch their heads. In a nutshell, it was a week of yrhipsaw behavior which causes sleepless nights for all participants and a ticket to the funny farm if one doesn't look past the daily gyrations. It is a time to stick to an intermediate term conviction and to have a short term opinion that doesn't bend with the daily swings. In other words, fight the tape even if it hurts. Fight it until volume, breadth, quality of leadership, and cumulative and serious buying prove we are bucking a change in institutional sentiment. So far no sign of that. Yes, we continue to look for a lower market and want to maintain a very defensive posture. And, yes, our opening comments were an attempt to justify our stance despite Friday's good action. We have been looking for a possible move-more like a creep-up to 830 level but for reasons that cause bounces not new bulls. The market was destroyed in October. What has kept this market together since then is that the extreme pessimism created in October isn't worked off yet and the sellers are still worn out. Markets do not go straight down even if they are headed for zero. Monday did pot follow-through on Friday's strength which even surprised a bear like us. Our guess is that the bulls will try it again and maybe the 830 area will be reached, but the primary trend still appears down and the best approach is to be ready for a lot more selling pressure. We are often asked where the bottom is and our candid answer is we have no confidence in anyone's projection of tops or bottoms including ours. However, as a guideline or a directional signal our current opinion is that the Dow Industrials will see the 700 level but a more severe risk exists among secondaries which have leaped up so much the past four years are only modestly off their highs, and are so heavily supported by risky margin accounts. Our major fears remain rising interest rates and rising inflation and an economy that remains too strong to cool them off. We would not play this current rally but would use it to sell mistakes, sell poorly situated issues, and generate cash for use later. 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