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VAGE 18 - PLAINDEALER - WEDNESDAY. APRIL25, lt7» i •Tpl\|\nFM.F.R Editorial Opinion Thunderstorm Season The thunderstorm season is here. Summer weather is generally thought to be pleasant and many assume thunderstorms are mostly noise and fury. However, lightning from thunderstorms in late spring and early summer kill more people than |ioes lightning at all other times of the year combined. There are rules one should follow if caught in a thunderstorm, >• according to the Weather Bureau. If indoors, one should stay there ;>.»nd avoid contact with electrical equipment, the telephone and 'plumbing fixtures. If outdoors, one should stop work on metal y -fences, leave tractors, especially those pulling metal implements, w' -itay away from the tallest trees, poles and solitary fixtures and r^eek shelter in low areas away from water, or in buildings. There is a last, grim word of advice. Sometimes one can actually % feel the growing intensity of an electrical charge leading to T; lightning. The hai? stands on end or the skin tingles. If you feel these danger signs, the Weather Bureau says, drop to the ground immediately. This is an omen of a nearby, massive electrical charge. Metric Gas Prices The chairman of the U.S. Metric board in Washington recently seized upon the soaring price of gasoline to recommend speeded up conversion to the metric system. Louis Polk suggests when the price of gas reaches a dollar a gallon, dealers can then begin resetting pumps for gas per liter. This might seem logical because most pumps in use today can function only at prices of less than a dollar per unit The pump mechanism would have to be redesigned if total price were calculated at more than a dollar per unit. But one suspects this will lead to even more widespread price gouging than is being experienced today. Many Americans would find it difficult to compare costs if only liter prices are advertised. There are 3.7 liters to the gallon~an awkward figure to use in quick calculation. If, indeed, pumps do change over to liter prices, the price per gallon should also be prominently posted, so motorists will know what they're being charged per gallon. In today's seller's market, the motorist is finding things difficult enough without new liter pricing, which is in any event a bit premature, since miles per gallon is still the standard measurement of performance. Sheriff Report MFT -- Drinking Age FEBRUARY 197t Forcible Rape Robbery Aggravated Battery Aggravated Assault Burglary Burglary from Vehicle Theft Motor Vehicle Theft Vandalism Deadly Weapons Sex Offenses Cannabis Control Controled Substance Act Liquor Control Act Motor Vehicle Offenses Disorderly Conduct Air Rifles Inter W -Pub Officer Total Other Traffic Offenses Grand Total Serv Other Agency Public Service Public Complaint Other Public Complaints Lost-Found-Missing Departmental Serv Invsig Quasi Crime Suspicious Noise Suspicious Person Domestic Trouble Animal Complaints Mental Case-Except Suicide Suifide Attempt Death-Body Found Administration Traffic Services Other Traffic Services Traffic Violation Other Moving Violations Traffic Acct Inv Public Service Prisoner Count For the Month Adult Males Received Adult Females Received - Juvenile Males Received Juvenile Females Received Total Prisoners Received Total Prisoners Discharged Average Prisoner Count Per Day Prisoner Records Prepared Warrants Served Court Processes Received Court Processes Served Bailiffs in Court Persons Taken to Court Meals Served for the Month Persons Conveyed to Other Institutions Mileage Conveying Persons Mileage Serving Court Processes Mileage Patrolling and Investigating Accident Investigations Handled Total Number of Accidents Personal Property Bodily Injury Fatalities Warning Tickets Issued Tickets Issued For Your Information Deor friends. A religious newspaper writes. 'The funeral director is involved in death, grief, bereavement, the funerol. pre and post-death activities, and the emotional rehabilitation of those who suffer, through death, the loss of one they love." The ortide concludes. 'The funeral service practitioner is in a position to help those who suffer grief in o way thot no other professional con." Respectfully. Total 1 1 12 1 41 18 45 7 62 3 2 5 1 2 39 2 1 1 6 250 14 23 74 37 39 51 68 4 10 26 2 13 3 2 1 4 1 2 1 15 1 181 19 10 5 215 252 37.0 215 201 707 591 115 163 2,789 15 1,176 7,681 92,386 245 182 62 1 315 880 PETER M.JISTEN fL <yP)NJ FUNERAL HOME McHENRY. ILLINOIS - 385 0063 Public Speaks Out In Mini-Poll Residents of McHenry overwhelmingly opposed the idea of raising the state's motor fuel taxes to repair and build state highways. They also strongly favored returning the drinking age to 21. A recent mini-poll conducted by Senator Jack Schaffer and Rep. R. Bruce Waddell in the McHenry area revealed that 89 percent of those responding opposed raising the gasoline tax, only 8 percent were in favor of an increase, while 3 percent had no opinion. District wide, 86 percent opposed in­ creasing the gasoline tax, 10 percent favored, and 4 percent had no opinion. In response to the question: "Should the legal drinking age be raised to twenty-one?" 85 percent of those answering the poll said yes, while only 13 percent said no and 2 percent were undecided. District-wide, 83 percent were for raising the drinking age, 15 percent were against it, and 2 percent was undecided. When Senator Schaffer and Rep. Waddell sent out the questionnaire to selective areas in the 33rd Legislative district, citizens were told the pros and cons of both issues. Despite the fact that the residents of the McHenry area were told that the four-lane link between the Wisconsin line and route 12 around the city of McHenry and other major area projects would be delayed far into the future without a gas tax increase, they still voted heavily in favor of holding the line on gasoline taxes. The 33rd district lawmakers said thpt, to the best of their knowledge, this is the largest percentage response ever obtained from a poll, conducted by any legislators in the state of Illinois. "This mini-poll rceived an -gimssxmt ARE YOU NEW IN McHenry Area? Do You Know Someone Now? WE WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND A ROYAL WELCOME TO EVERY NEWCOMER TO OUR AREA!!!!! CAU JOAN STULL 385-5418 rrmmirrn KNOW YOUR AREA ROYAL WELCOME DOES IT BEST outstanding response," said Senator Schaffer, "and it transcends political parties, philosophies -and geographic labels." The written poll was sent to about 8,000 registered voters in the 33d Legislative district and over 5,000 people their responses. mailed in Virtually all of the people who received the poll had responded to previous public opinion polls conducted by the 33rd district legislators. all Report i t ( Your Congressmen's Vote) Here's how area Members of Congress were recorded on major roll call votes in the days before the current Easter recess. HOUSE Peace Corps--The House voted, 276 for and 116 against, to remove the Peace corps from the agency called Action. The Peace corps probably would be linked to the State department's foreign aid agency, although this amendment did not rule out the remote possibility it could become an independent agency. The vote came during debate on HR 3324, a foreign aid bill later passed and sent to the Senate. Rep. Edward Derwinski, R-IU., a supporter, called the amendment a "compromise" favored by those who feel the Peace corps has become politicized in the Action agency and those who want it to operate more in concert with U.S. foreign aid programs. Rep. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., an opponent, said the amendment would "transform the soul of the Peace corps from a person-to-person, non-political agency into an agency that is wrapped in development programs." Members voting "nay" wanted to keep the Peace corps where it is now. Rep. John Anderson, R-16, voted "yea." Rhodesia--By a vote of 180 for and 190 against, the House rejected a plan to send a team of official U.S. observers to the mid- April elections in Rhodesia. The elections are to determine whether the country adopts the "internal settlement" proposed by Prime Minister Ian Smith to end white domination of Rhodesia. The vote came during consideration of HR 3324 (see vote above). Rep. Robert Bauman, R-Md., said a vote in favor of sending the delegation "simply puts us on the side of a new freely elected black majority government in Africa and against...the terrorists, the bombers, those who shoot down planes, those who make our asinine policy in the State department and those who gather on the floor of the House and support that policy." Rep. Stephen Solarz, D-N.Y., an opponent, said that if the House votes to send observers," by tomorrow morning every key figure in Africa is going to (conclude) that the U.S. House of Representatives has decided to throw its weight behind the internal settlement." He said the U.S. should be neutral at this time. Members voting "yea" generally were sympathetic to the "internal settlement" proposed by Ian Smith. Anderson voted "nay/* McClory did not vote State Dept.--The House refused, 136 for and 236 against, to kill a new agency proposed for the State department. The vote came during debate on HR 3324 (see above votes). It paved the way for establishing the Institute for Scientific and Technological Cooperation at a first-year cost of $25 million. A chief mission of the institute would be to increase the role of U.S. science and technology in hejpwig-under-developed countries. & RepNQojiJ^l^ease, D-Ohio, a supporter, said the institute "is an awfully good investment of our time and effort to build an indigenous capacity within those nations to use science and technolgy for their own development." Rep. Robert Bauman, R-Md., an opponent, questioned the need to create "a brand new bureaucracy" at a time he suspects most of its proposed functions are "already being carried out by other agencies of the government...." Members voting "nay" favored establishing the State department research and development agency. Anderson voted "nay." McClory did not vote. SENATE School Prayer--The Senate voted 53 fqrtan<!"4<Kagainst to shelve an amendment allowing prayers to be said in public schools. The prayer amendment would counter the U.S. Supreme court ruling that school prayers breach the constitutional separation of church and state. This vote stripped the amendment from the bill (S 210) establishing a Department of Education. Final action on the bill is pending. Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., a supporter of shelving the amendment, and thus an opponent of public school prayer, said "our relationship with the Almighty is an individual one, not to be prescribed by some governmental body..." Sen. Roger Jepsen, R-Iowa, said the amendment "only gives our children the freedom to pray in school if they wish; it does not tell them or anyone they must pray. I believe this is their basic constitutionally guaranteed right." Senator^voting "nay" favor allowing prayers to be said in public schools. \. Sens. Adlai Stevenson, D, and Charles Percy, R, voted "yea." Building Permits id Zoninj permits. The McHenry County Building and Zoning Department has issued the following building per; MARCH. 1979 TOWNSHIP ( PERMITS Alden Algonquin Burton Chemung Coral Don- Dunham Grafton Greenwood Hartland Hebron Marengo McHenry Nunda Richmond Riley Seneca TOTAL March, 1978 2 17 6 0 3 7 2 7 12 4 3 1 23 23 3 1 6 120 176 MICE W* grfjeew-'-! I MATfr TO 60 ml HOW Line McHENRY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 385-4300 FAMILY SERVICE & 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 815-344-3944 STATE CHAMBER GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS HOTLINE 217-522-5514 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION 202-755-8660 Hours7:30a.m. to5:30p.m. week days (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: 800-3"2-6004 (For confidential conversation on problems dealing with run-away children) MOVING HOTLINE Phone 800-424-9213 (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 DEPARTMENT OF~ 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 owners looking for a sun-powered hot-water system) CONSUMER PROTECTION DIVISION 312-793-3580 Chicago, III. H I K i l l K I I . I l l I'rffmim.' Nml I1<-I|t? ( <>un««'liii£ S«-r\ire. .'W.ViVW. 2 l-liour \n- «w<-rin|E Srrtirr. 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. ILLINOIS STATE CHAMBER HOTLINE Phone 217-522-5514 Answer to questions on government regulations. QM IBM DO 20 287 60 Va 1066/0 A. G. Edwards & Sons, Inc. WEEKLY MARKET REPORT A.G. EDWARDS & SONS SHORT TERM TRADING COMMENTS APRIL 17 Monday we saw a very ragged market in the basic industry type stocks while a number of healthy issues continued to act okay. The advance-decline ratio was a very negative 3.2 to 1 and the Dow Industrials, Utilities, and Transportations acted poorly enough to upset those looking for D.J. near term. Usually markets do not reverse a trend quickly as institutional appetites for or against stocks are not changed overnight. Also, we see enough decent action in interesting companies to believe it's not straight down from here. Instead, our very short term opinion is that another rally attempt up towards 800-900 could be sparked by today's news that the White House has abandoned its public campaign fix* a tighter monetary policy with Federal Chairman Miller still firmly opposed to further restraint. However, we still see a top being formed which may take another few weeks to complete but which will result in another test of the 800 area. There were several important developments last week which got the recent pullback rolling. On Wednesday of last week, the queen of the glamour stocks IBM (312) disappointed its fans with lower than projected earnings. Although there were lots of explanations, it was still a shock and the market showed just how thin overall confidence is. Also, by Wednesday it was apparent to most that the teamster settlement was some 30 percent over the next three years 'and not 22.5 percent as the administration wants to think which is based on an assumed inflation rate of 6 percent vs. a more probable 9 percent. Then came the real kicker-fear the Federal Reserve will follow apparent administration pleas and tighten credit-raise interest rates and hopefully, offset rising inflationary pressures. This fear now put to rest for the moment. A report that the FRB index of industrial activity rose a robust .8 percent in March magnified rears of increased monetary restraint to slow the economy down. Technically, the monetary indicators have been bearish for months but the other short term technical indicators as well as momentum had been favorable enough the past five weeks to spark a reasonable rally. Last week in our Tuesday morning weekly report, we advised traders to hit the exit with some of our prior trading positions. For long term investors, weakness would be a good buying opportunity. However, any number of serious uncertainties, in our opinion, continue to limit the upside and to hold the ammunition for lower prices and more ideal buying opportunities over the next several months. A1 Goldman Not Interested "How are you, young lady?" the elderly woman asked. "Fine, thank you," was the polite reply, followed by a pause. "Why don't you ask me how I am?" the older lady wondered aloud, "I'm not interested," the child said without raising her voice. Servi^ pr<\feSS & pi ret • t o r v EARL R. WALSH & JACK WALSH INS. Fire. Auto. Farm. 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