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• • 0 PAGE 4-PLAINDEALER-FRIDAY, JANUARY S. It7t 1978 Newsy Year For Ringwood News 1978 was a newsy year for the human race. It had its share of «f wars, floods, earthquakes, inflation, and other untoward events. It was also a big news year for Vildlife, according to a survey by the National Wildlife federation. It was the year in which a tiny fish, the snail darter, stopped construction of a $120 million dam in Tennessee and a diamond-back rat­ tlesnake. concealed in a mailbox as a murder weapon, bit and nearly killed a Los Angeles attorney. It was a year in which hundreds of other animals made headlines. A few of them made the news tickers by getting kidnapped -a 75-pound Galapagos turtle named Little Rock that was whisked from a Brooklyn motel room; a large octopus that was eventually abandonded on the floor of a San Francisco ladies' room; a batch of snakes valued at $5,000 abducted from a Glen Burnie, Md., reptile house; and nine pigs. Well, it was originally one pig. stolen from a farm in Washington County, Mo., but by the time she reached St. Louis she had produced eight piglets. There were also a lot of animals who were harshly reminded that it's a man's world: Willie the Whale, who strayed into port at Cher- bourge, France, and paralyzed harbor traffic* for five days before dying of starvation; thousands of fish that were poisoned in Dijon, France, when a disgruntled employee poured $600,000 worth of his boss's fine burgundy into village sewers; a deer that crashed through a Beltsville, Md., woman's bathroom widoW and landed in her bathtub; and a colony of eager beavers that were trapped and relocated when their dams flooded pastures, fields and gardens around Moscow. Idaho. Some critters made news by making unusual adjustments to man's presence. A city-wise fox set up housekeeping under the bleachers * in Yankee Stadium. And in Baltimore. Md., a peregrine falcon, nor- , mally a bird of the wilderness, settled on the 32nd floor of a downtown building. Her new neighbors named her Scarlet. The animal who behaved most like a human in 1978?*Jt would have to be Koko, a 130- pound California gorilla y^ho's learned 375 "words" in the sign language used by the deaf. Koko learned to lie, insult, and swear jn sign language-all human failings. • This year people came up with some new ways to make a living with the assistance of animals. A Virginia man hit the road with Victor, a wrestling bear. Victor never loses, and celebrates his wins by licking the faces of his prostrate human challengers. In England, a petshop began selling cockroaches. The shop owner said they make ideal pets because they don't eat much and you can go on vacation and leave them on their own. In an attempt to keep coyotes from preying on ranchers' sheep, biologists in western Canada reported that they arf, trying to convince coyotes that sheep just don't taste good. They're injecting dead sheep with lithium chloride and then leaving them for the dog-like wild animals. The lithium chloride doesn't kill the coyotes., just gives them an upset stomach. In Washington. DC., government scientists an­ nounced that they're trying a different tactic. They're at­ tempting to train a sbaggy- haried Hungarian, dog. the Komondor. to protect sheep from coyotes. In preliminary „ tests, they said, the hulking 120- poung watchdogs-which can cost up to $500-intimidated caged coyotes simply by walking past them 385 8037 '653 9262 728 0343 Snowmobilers Ride For Local Rescue Squads "Rescue 50" sponsored by Harmony Snowmobile club, will again be a big event for snowmobilers. They will be riding for the benefit of McHenry and Johnsburg Rescue Squads on Sunday. Jan. 14 - snow date will be Jan. 21. If you wish to contribute to "Rescue 50". let your favorite snowmobiler know that you wish to sponsor them for this If the tests succeed, the use of Komondors may turn out to be the shaggy dog story of 1979. JANUARY CARPE and VINYL REMNA CLEARANCE AT TID Save on America's most famous carpets... 50% off. Save on a close-out once-a-year-sale during this dramatic 50% off event. These reductions are not from th<? suggested retail price...these are savings from our already low remnan,t prices. 3 days only. Selection is limited. JANUARY 5, 6, 7 (FRIDAY; SATURDAY, SUNDAY) • 50% OFF -• iSW. ^ '-'$y skct* m Vm- 50% OFF ASK FOR 90 DAY SAME-AS-CASH PLAN No 36385 -12' x 14'3" Customweave Soft Yarn Saxony Plush No 34851 - 7'3" x 12' Cabin Craft Saxony Fortrel. 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Walt Low of the Ringwood area will be riding. HOLIDAY ACTIVITIES Mr. and Mrs. Byron Sowers spent Christmas with their daughter and son-in-law. Betty and Gene Garrison, in their new home on the edge of Hebron. Christmas eve they were joined by other members of the Sowers family for supper and a gift exchange. Those attending the festivities were the Sherman Spencer family, the Leonard Spencer and Allan Spencer families, the Charles Sowers family, the Keith Winchester and Dan Buch- berger families of Hebron and the Jerry Ellison family of Harvard. Mr. and Mrs. Sowers stayed over with the Garrisons to spend Christmas day, while the other family members returned home to enjoy Christmas Eve gatherings in their own homes. New Years week-end found the Alby Adams fanrtily and the Ray Moores of McHenry joining Walt and Doris Low of our town for a week-end of snomobiling in the Montello. Wis. area. With all the stormy weather tj^is last week-end. everyone must have stayed close to home, for your reporters received no calls with news. We do wish each of our readers a very happy, healthy and safe new year in 1979. BIRTHDAYS Happy birthdays to Editft J. Harrison. Elizabeth Pearson and Mae Wiedrich on/jan.5, and to Monte Hosier on Jan. 6. Jan. 7 is that special day for Robert Howe. Sr.. and Jan. 8 is that special day for Alice Peet, Susie Strom and Gene Eppers. Jan. 10 is a special day at the Gorski household because the twins, Margaret and Phillips Gorski, will be 3 years old on that day. Jan. 11 is natal day for Barbara Faber. Happy bir­ thday to all of you wonderful people. EVALUATION Folks, remember that the monies for the Ringwood column in the Plaindealer and the Richmond Gazette goes into the church coffeers. This past year we did better than last year, but we could all help to do better again next year. IF YOU ALL would call your reporters with your news items and family happenings. Remember your friends want to hear about YOU TOO. not always the same people all the time. DO CALL. THINGS TO REMEMBER Jan. 7 - Ringwood church - 9:15 a.m. -- church services. Jan. 7 -- Ringwood church -- 9:45 a.m. - church school. Jan. 9 --'The New Frontiers meet at noon -- Ringwood church. Jan. 10 -- Ringwood ad­ ministrative board Com­ mittees - 6:30 a.m.- Board -- 7:30 p.m. - Ringwood church. Jan. 11 - choir practice - 7 p.m. -- Ringwood church. NO U.M.W. on Jan 11 » We'll meet at sewing circle at Gara Cristy's. Jan. 25. DIAL A PRAYER l-:$85-!2:t4 Deaths Rise-Safety Waits More than 51,000 Americans will have died in traffic ac­ cidents in 1978 -1.500 more than 1977, according to recent projections by the Highway Users federation. An im­ mediate response might be, "Why isn't anybody doing anything about it?" After more than a decade of efforts by concerned cor­ porations. citizens' groups and individuals, something is being done!>. Starting in 1982. a safety requirement for passive Restraints, designed to protect occupants without any action on their part, will start to ap­ pear on cars. There are basically two types of passive restraints-passive seat belts and the air bag. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that air bags could save 12,000 lives and hundreds of thousands of in­ juries a yeairif all cars were equipped wijfh them. The operation of an air bag is simple. When a car hits a fixed object at 12 mph or more, the abrupt stop causes the sensors to activate the air bags. As they inflate, the bags open up from the steering wheel hub and instrument panel to form soft C pillows between the occupants and the dashboard of the car. The cushions are fully inflated, and actually begin deflating, in about one-twenty-fifth of a second. That means the process occurs so rapidly that it you were to blink your eyes, you would miss the air bag inflation completely. To minimize the force of the rebound from the bag, there are vents which allow the gas to escape even as the bag is in­ flating. The process is com­ parable to striking and further deflating a leaking beach ball. BY JOSEPH < OOI> staff psychologist . news from the Family Service and Mental Health Clinic of McHenry County. U r nn (Editor's note: This is another in a series of especially written articles for McHenry County readers. Joseph Cools is a psychologist on the Family Service and Community Mental galth Center staff. This ar­ ticle is • "Coping - An­ niversaries".) People have been celebrating anniversaries long before florists began selling flowers'to honor the events. Official an­ niversaries. such as ChFistmas. Memorial Day or the first day of spring have the same func­ tion as private anniversaries, such as birthday, wedding or the anniversary of the death of a loved one. Anniversaries serve the purpose of fixing in one's mind some important event. The celebration of an an­ niversary can take place without a person realizing that he or she is celebrating the anniversary. For instance, many people experience an uplifting of mood and increase in energy level during the first part of June. Most people do not realize that they may be "celebrating" or unconsciously recalling a feeling they got as a child when school let out for summer vacation. Similarly, many people may feel down and vaguely depressed around the an­ niversary of the death of a loved one that had occurred many years previous. If asked why they are feeling depressed, they may be unable to make the connection between the death anniversary and the depression. As a matter of fact, if asked when so-and-so died, they may be unable to remember even the month that it happened. But the un­ conscious mind "remembers" very clearly and is dutifully observing the day with a re- enactment of the feelings that occurred at that time. ~ Unconscious "celebration" of anniversaries is a universal pheonomena. The mind marks the importance of an event; it does not differentiate between happy events and sad events. If the anniversary reaction is one of depression, remember that the depression is always short lived. When the anniversary passes, so does the depression. Next: Feeling Trapped. PUNCH LINE Granville Sornson 1303 N. Richmond Rd. McHenry 385-1627 "See me for car, home, life, health and business insurance!' Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there. STATI f AM I N S U R A N C I State farm Injuram.e Companies Home Offices Bloommgton. Illinois HOW D I GET HERE ? 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