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PAGE 4 - PLA1NDEALER - WEDNESD kY, JANUARY 9,1980 X <1 r Oi X) Pas# .65 A&colding for not tel)ing all the story by Carl Riblet Jr Q. -- A la^y^-sent me a scolding letter, and I deserve it. I neglected to tell^ the outcome of me story .'The letter says, "You gave a poor reply to the gentleman who had to drive off on to the shoulder of 'the freeway because of the erratic you drivers. Our police here bear down on such drivers. Those who drive a car like they're nuts haven't been disciplined You sound like you haven't either, if you say we older people have to watch out for the crazy youngsters. The .police should have helped the man get to a safe exit with only a warning. The most serious accidents are caused by voung rascals in cars." -- Mrs. F.F.R.- A. -- The freeway episode ended as Mrs. F.F.R. would wish. I owe her an apology for not telling it all. The police officer did help the scared driver to a safe exit when the driver, as he wrote, realized he was in a traffic war and drove off the freeway in "surrender." The rules on that freeway are not to park on the shoulder even if the driver is frightened. A •fa harsh ruh^perhaps, but the driver /who surrendered should not have entered the freeway in the first place. He thinks he was lucky to stay alive and uninjured, and get only a ticket, not a,,clob­ bering. Q. -- "I heard that a dead bolt lock on my door will keep out burglars. How can I get one installed so. I can afford it? The locksmiths here want $37.50 to do it and my only income is from Social Security.".-- Michael J. - A . W a t c h o u t H f b r p r i c e - fixing by locksmiths. They all seem to charge identical, high prices in any one community. Michael can phone the^ local Human Resources bureau, or^iJie local or nearby Couprcil on Aging for advice- If I had the problem I would call the carpenter's union and ask for an older carpenter who could do it for me. The tjsk Takes only 30 minutes/and, with the $11 price of a lock, the whole job might cost no more than $18 or $20 for expert work. Q. -- An alcoholic/writes: "I am 62 and' oa Social Security, disability because s* i „ of alcoholism. <^n y?€t any increase in SS bltfffits at 62 or 65?" -- Donald R. A. ?- ^Donald is now receiving! from Social "^Security at 62 the amount he would receive at 65 if Jte were not disabled. He cannm get more now and he cannot get more at 65. Sorry! Q. - "My mother was in a nursing home for six years until two days ago. Then they sent her to the hospital without telling me, with what may be a gangrenous foot. The foot looks awful and the nurse said the home flffould have noticed it three weeks ago. What can I do to make the nursing home pay the hospital bill?? The foot will have' to come off." - Jane J. A. - The nurse may not be right in her diagnosis. She is no doctor. Jane shouldtalk to the doctor. Medicarffpray take care of the bill. Ill she wants to sue the home, Jane should see -her lawyer or local legal aid office. The nursing home may have been negligent, and maybe not. However, L have received many letters that tend to show that nursing homes in general could be operated with more medical efficiency and with more compassion. First, Jane J. should get her mother on the road to better health and then tackle the nursing home if she still, feels, after the mother recovers, that she has been poorly served. Write to Carl Riblet. Jr. at Urban Open Spaces Can You Spare A Rooftop? Tfie universe is architect- >fisionary Buckminster Fuller's favorite open spaett^ tjhe sea, author John Ker­ sey's. Humorist Ar| Buch- wald perversely picks the South Bronx. 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The creation of short-term open space is another s alternative considered by urban planners: tran­ sforming vacant lots into interim playgrounds or gardens^ for example, and creating temporary bike path£? and walkways on 'clog^d streets. "Enjoyable open spaces need not be green or permanent," Taylor says. In chicago, during the winter, snow banks are piled high around baseball diamonds, which are then flooded for skating. In Atlanta, Dallas, Kansas City, Los Angeles, New York and Washington, miles of streets ha^p been blocked in recent years for jogging marathons, and the roller skating fever that swept the country last summer has turned other urban avenue into short-term, weekend rinks. Public spaces long have been part of the American landscape. Early Spanish settlements were organised around community plazas and colonnaded streets, such as still exist in Sante Fe., N.M. Ih the East, open space was provided initially by bucolic village greens or residential squares first laid out in Philadelphia and Savannah. But the onset of the In­ dustrial Revolution at the beginning of the 1800s marked a change in at­ titudes. "For a while, urban open space was^ +^eated as a frivolity tfcjat people could do without, "Jrccordmg to urban history professor Dora Polk Crouch. By the 1830s, the pendulum had swung back as a strong reform movement emerged, culminating late in the century in the development of the great urban parks of Boston, Kansas City, New York, Chicago and San Francisco. Urban open space con­ tinues^ be important today, and towns-streets" and sidewalks created mainly for access, vacant land not yet developed but used in­ formally by the public, and parks and playgrounds built and maintained with tax dollars. Today, sophisticated urban regulation and zoning are generating a variety of new open spaces: arcades, pedestrian malls, covered plazas, esplanades, decks, loggias and enclosed spaces. But public reaction to some has been ambivalent. In 1961, for ̂ example, New York City approved zoning regulations allowing a developer 20 percent more floor space if a plaza were designed around a proposi building project^ however, have speed footpaths where pedestrians are not exactly encouraged to linger. --"Walkingacross those expanses of hot, glaring concrete is one of the most a l i e n a t i n g t h i n g s imaginable," one urban resident, the editor of Ar- chtectural Digest, com­ plained. "We ate pleased they have been builugWd they are with us," preservation architect Robert Jensen adds, "but from the criticism by planners and writers and from the simpler judgments of pedestrians and those who use them, recent plazas do not meet our expectations." On the other hand, some new urban spaces, syich as small parks created from minisize parcels of land wedged between high-rise buildings, havp^foi/nd favor with the pubHC^^nd critics alike. So, too, tiave new paths laid out in urban areas for jogging, riding, skating and cycling. Wh$t other spaces might be successfully converted for recreation? Rooftops are one possibility. For years they have be§n~^un- der utilized, sometimes reserved Ttrr^gardens or athletic facilitiesThvire often abandoned to mecntftical equipment. Design critic itay Smith sees/ ne\i potential: for urbaf residents, they could becomt an "instant trip into wide' open spaces" giving the "freshness and liberated feeling of getting away to the country for the weekend". Industrial and military sites as welfe as abandoned rail and power rights-of-way already are being adapted for use as recreation areas. And as shipping in New York, Baltimore,' San Francisco and other harbors diminishes, w^ktefronts are becoming available for new uses. Should •• these projects seem meager compared with vast new urban con­ struction projects, editor E.B. White's observfrffoiT about the city experience might be kept in iiUmi: "The" Prepare For Fishing Derby Everyone ready for the big weekend? Jan. 12 and 13 are the dates for the fishing Derby sponsored by the MpCullom Lake Con­ servation club. Many prizes are available for the largest catch, smallest catch, and the most caught. There will be booths from the Conservation depart­ ment and the State Biologist. And of course, the derby would not be a derby without the beautiful taxidermy exhibit. * - There isjnuch to see and do, and Refreshments are available in the McCullom le community house. To fish, a person needs a state fishing license and, of course, a dual entry ticket. This will be a fun weekend, and if the weather remains as it has, this should be a wonderful weekend for thfc fishermen. No large amounts of snow, hopefully calm winds, and many fish. There are many Nor­ therns, large percji and blue gills out there waiting to be caught! WELCOME We would like to welcome a new Sagittarian to the c o m m u n i t y , R a n d a 1 Alexander Arnold. He?!frade his entrance at McHenry hospital Nov. 29, 1979. Randal tipped the scales at 9 lbs.,, V/i oz., and stretched that ruler to a full 22 inches. Proud parents are Stephen and Barbara, and, of course, three and a half year old Brian, was all excited about his new baby brother. Grandparents are Joseph and Margret Homig, of Houghton, Mich., and Vincent and Helen Arnold of Cleveland, Ohio, who can't TWait to come and visit their new grandson. Congratulations to the Arnolds. SERVICE NEWS Capt. Hillenbrand In Korea Overseas Stop Navy Capt." Ronald E. Hillenbrand, son of Mary A. .Hillenbrand of 5014 Oakwood drive, McHenry, recently visited Pusan, Korea. He is dental officer of the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea, homeported in Alameda, Calif., and operating as a unit of the U.S. 7th fleet. The port call was the ship's first overseas stop after departing for a Western Pacific deployment Nov. 26. During the remainder of the cruise, the Coral Sea' will be pi^rtlcipa^ng in several training exercises with other 7th Fleet units and ships of* allied nations. Port visits will be made in various Far Eastern countries. The Coral Sea is 979 feet long with a crew of 2,710 officers and enlisted men. She can accommodate 1,800 personnel and 75 aircraft assigned to an attack air­ craft wing. A 1952 graduate of Loyola Academy, Wilmette, and a 1958 graduate of university, Chicago, wit| Doctor of Dental Surgery, Capt. Hillenbramj'jbihed the Navy in July,^58. rman Is Graduate & mian Leonard P. Pecu«u, son of Mr. and Mrs. William L. Pecucci of 1612 W. 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