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SECTION 2 • PAGE • - PLAINDEALER - WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12,1968 PLA1NDEALER --S v]Of >19 f, - J.']- 14f. . r:y Editorial Opinion •\v The Red Cross During1 March, the American Red Cress mehes its susus! appeal to the American people for funds to serve the nation and its citizens in time of emergency. Everyone is familiar with the work of the Red Cross during war with the armed services. Everyone is familiar with the assistance it renders whenever disaster strikes. Emergency medical and nursing care is provided to victims and, in many iistances, financial assistance is a vital part of the relief extended to unfortunate people. In connection with the annaul appeal for funds, we should not overlook the important contribution made by volunteer workers, serving in communities from coast to coast. These individuals give hours of work without compensation and help to make possible the extensive assistance the Red Cross provides. Health Damage The latest evidence shows that pregnant women who smoke and drink often damage their unborn's health - and future health. Doctors who met recently at the 146th gathering of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Francisco agreed heavy smoking was causing many stillbirths, spontaneous abortion, and about one third of today's premature births. Further, babies of smoking mothers who don't suffer a worse fate are usually smaller, grow slower and more susceptible to disease than babies born from non-smokers, or women who stop smoking when pregnant. The score sheet on alcohol and pregnant mothers is equally dismal. About one-third of all babies bom in the U.S. with mental retardation problems are caused by heavy-drinking mothers. There's now a medical term for this threat, so common has it become-fetal alcohol syndrome. In addition to mental retardation, heavy use of alcohol is producing babies who are seriously malformed-with shortened features, a pugnacious-looking face and eyes too close together. Doctor after doctor and study after study, in recent years, have sounded warnings. More and more are now convinced that babies of smoking and drinking mothers often never catch up in health and mental ability with offsprings of non­ smoking and non-drinking mothers. Some are fatally affected, before birth. This vital information should become common knowledge for the benefit of many. Facing The Primary (an editorial) Another election day approaches - a time set aside not to perform a duty but to serve as an opportunity to improve the government under which we live. A large vote at the polls, in itself, would be an inspiration to the men and women who ask our support. If we are informed voters, there is even more encouragement. It gives them the assurance that there are many of us not only with an interest but a firm resolve to get to the root of today's serious problems. Looking back, more than a few elections have passed during which time the man on the street has expressed fear ova: the loss/of personal freedoms and the moral spirit of some who lead. Election day gives us a hope that we can turn things around - but only if enough of us show the courage to commit ourselves to voting, and to casting those votes for those who offer the best promise of conducting a government that is morally strong. Because of his success in past government leadership, and his record of courage in promoting those programs he believes are in the best interests of those he serves we recommend a vote for Ronald Reagan and for those delegates committed to his support for President. These delegates are W. Timothy Simms, Harry W. Darland, Eugene Brassfield and Thomas D. Shaw. The Reagan alternates are David F. Johnson, Mary Lou Cook, Frank Manzullo and T. William Cook. Their names will not appear on the ballot as committed to anyone. For congressman from the 16th district, we urge a vote for Don Lyon. Four years ago Lyon, until his candidacy virtually an unknown in the McHenry area, carried this community over a veteran office holder for the same post he now seeks. Although he failed to win the district, voters who saw in Lyon the kind of leadership they had been looking for, havea second opportunity to give him their support. Lyon is disturbed to see this country's freedoms being eroded by growing bureaucracies which affect every facet of living - from business to education, from health care to farming. He believes government at home costs less than in Washington and wants the opportunity to move government back to the people. Our country, great as it is, is afflicted with persistent and growing problems. One of the few opportunities we, as individuals, have to do something about them occurs next week. Vote March 18! BIBLE VERSE "Therefore speak I to thee in parables; because they seeing see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they under­ stand. 1. Who spoke these words? 2. What is a parable? 3. Where may these words be found? 4. Who was the author of this book in the New Testament? Atsvers To Bible Verse 1. Jesus. 2. A discourse or saying conveying meaning by comparison. v3; Matthew, 13:13. 4. Matthew, the apostle, generally identified as Levi, the son of Alphaeus. For Your In format ion ' Doar friend*, Planning for what you wish to happen to you and your family after your death is a respon­ sible stop and is not, in any way, morbid. It is indoad a wis* and necessary step that requires a limited amount of time, but can avoid much anxiety and confusion following the death of a family member. Respectfully, PETEPM JISTEN & SON FUNERAL HOME Roll Call Report (Your Congressmen's Vote) WASHINGTON - Here's how area House members were recorded on major roll call votes Feb. 21 through Feb. 27. There were no Senate votes. Gasobol--The House voted, 294 for and 118 against, to keep gasohol exempt from the federal gasoline tax. Ga8ohol's exemption from the four-cents-per-gallon tax thus would be extended through 1992 under the windfall profits tax bill (HR 3919) now awaiting final approval in both bourne Rep. Ai Uiiman inn* , a supporter, said that without a tax advantage to make gasohol prices competitive with gasoline, "there is no way we could proceed with gasohol." - Rep. Harold Johnson, D-Calif., an opponent, said continuing the gasohol exemption would have a "devastating impact on the major revenue source for our nation's highway program." Members voting "yea" favor no federal tax on gasohol. Rep. Robert McClory, R-13, voted "yea." Rep. John Anderson, R-16, did not vote. Nicaragua--By a vote of 191 for and 212 agaisnt, the House refused to require the revolutionary, post-Somozoa Nicaraguan government to hold free national elections as a condition of getting U.S. economic aid. The vote came during debate on a foreign aid bill (HR 6881) later passed and sent to the Senate. Rep. Robert Bauman, R-Md., a supporter, said: "The hard line Marxists (in the Nicaraguan government) have made it. very clear that they do not want an election now. They will not permit an election now." Rep. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, said the U.S. did not have national elections untQ eight years after the American Revolution, and added that today the U.S. requires none of the 70 coimtries receiving its foreign aid to hold elections. Members voting "yea" favor a "no elections, no aid" policy toward Nicaragua. McClory voted "yea." Anderson did not vote. Secret Session--The House voted, 290 for and 74 against, to go into secret session to hear classified intelligence reports of communist influence in the Nicaraguan government (see preceding vote). A secret session lasting 96 minutes was then held, marking the second time in ISO years the House had locked out the public and press. Rep. Samuel Stratton, D-N.Y., a supporter, noted that the Senate has had innumerable closed sessions. And he said it was wrong to suggest "that if we want to protect our secrets we are somehow aping the Soviet Union (Politburo)," as one critic had suggested, Rep. Peter Peyser, D-N.Y., who drew the Politburo parallel, suggested "the greatest blow we strike at democracy in this country today and the clearest indication to the rest of the world that the democratic process does not work" is for the House to meet secretly. Members voting "yea" favored the secret session. McClory voted "yea." Anderson did not vote. Sheriff Report JANUARY PRISONER COUNT FOR THE MONTH Adult mates received 176 Adult females received 8 Juvenile males received .0 Juvenile females received o Total prisoners received 184 Total prisoners discharged 216 Average prisoner count per day 42.0 Prisoner records prepared 184 Warrants served 107 Court processes received 805 Court processes served 597 Bailiffs in court ... 107 Persons taken to court 144 Meals served for the month 3,089 Persons conveyed to other institutions 7 Mileage conveying persons .778 Mileage serving court processes .6,278 Mileage patrolling and investigating 97,668 ACCIDENT INVESTIGATIONS HANDLED Total number of accidents 218 Personal property 146 Bodily injury 70 Fatalities 2 Warning tickets issued 155 Tickets issued 478 ST. Patrick's Day St. Patrick, patron saint of Ireland, died March 17, 493. The anniversary of his death has been celebrated regularly in recent times by not only Irishmen but those of other races, and not only Catholics but those of other faiths. The New York organization in memory of St. Patrick, the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, was organized by both Irish Catholics and Presbyterians, and its first president was a Presbyterian. The most famous tale about St. Patrick is the one which tells of his banishment of snakes from Ireland. Yet Cardinal Moran, who some years ago wrote an article on St. Patrick for the Catholic Encyclopedia, fails to mention it. He does mention the ordeal of St. Patrick when he was surrounded by demons in the shape of vultures, and tells of the drowning of the demons in answer to his prayers! Whatever the tale, and there are those who believe several different versions, a great number of people enjoy celebrating the anniversary of the death of St. Patrick, in the middle of this month. Irishmen take pride in the occasion, and on some occasions have even brought pieces of the "ould sod" from Ireland to observe the occasion. ARE YOU NEW IN McHenry Area? Do Vou Know Someone Mevf? WE WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND A ROYAL WELCOME TO EVERY NEWCOMER TO OUR AREA!!!!! CALL JOAN STULL 385-5418 LORRAINE MONAHAN 385-5475 v\VV ̂ . _ r ' >>//' * -- '/I % EZ2ZZE22£Z723 KNOW YOUR AREA-ROYAL WELCOME DOES IT BEST PI.AINDKALI'.K1 Letters to the I'ditor Public Pulse (Ik* Ptalndoolof Invite, Mi* pvMk to in* tl»l» Mill column a* an uyfMilM •hob vifwi on tubjMfi ol gonorol iiriotttt in our community. Our only roquott II that tfco wrlttri f iv« - tifnoturo. full oMrou and phono nymbor. Wo ath too. •hot ono individual not writ* on ttio torn* tubjoct mora than onco ooch month. Wo rotor** M right to dolol* any motorlol which wo contldor likotowi or hi. ohjoctlonohlo tatta.) CANNON FODDER AND FREEDOM "Editor: "Munich is a town in Germany. It was the site of the negotiations that at that particular moment in recent history could have prevented • not only the "holocaust", but the sacrificing of millions of young lives in World War II. "A duplicate situation now appears to exist - a dic­ tatorship that will move inexorably (as they have in the past) to dominate enough of the planet 'earth' that the remaining portion will be powerless to resist. "Don't disregard China as an ally of Russia, if the rest of the world is a 'plum' for the picking. Their ideology is the same. "We are now faced with registration for conscription. We all know what that is. We are divided according to our ability to donate young lives. "The people who have lived for a long enough time to see the repeat of history and temember Munich know that the best way to prevent our young from being 'cannon fodder' is to prepare. It is a fact of human and national behavior, that the strong take from the weak. It is also evident that human nature is such that the have-nots believe it to be their right to take from those who are better off--just because they are better off. "Our country is better off than two-thirds of the rest of the world. Anyone who doesn't believe the rest of the world will take it from us - doesn't read • or understand. "If we think we will save lives by not drafting, remember the 'holocaust' and World WAR II, and today, look at Afghanistan, Cambodia, and even Iran. We can, and will, be the victims of like situations if we don't prepare. "People and nations do not pick on someone who can beat them up. "We have spent the 35 years and most of our money and borrowing power since World War II developing a standard of living, and a society so dependent for our existence upon our strong central government, that we are not independent enough to control pur destiny, and at the expense of our inability to protect ourselves. "The cost in money-- $850,000,008,880 debt, plus a government that takes 40 percent of what the people earn. "The cost in industrial potential--an industrial empire that is decimated by a lack of capital - since they and we can't save to produce this capital. "The cost in industrial potential also decimated by controls (paid for by our taxes) that result in our buying Japanese and Ger­ man cars at the expense of our auto industry, TV sets that are not made here, and a steel industry that can't compete because our government keeps them from competing. "The cost of inflation - (only another tax). The spenders spend a lot of our money figuring how to tax us so that we will blame it on someone else. The 'value added' tax is the latest deal. Nice thing about that is no one will be able tp figure how much of the cost of a product is taxes - so that tax probably won't be deduc­ tible. Neat. Our government will call it inflation and blame it on the Arab Kings. "At this stage of the game - Registration and Con­ scription or Draft, might help save the next reaping of 'Cannon,. Fodder'. And, consider the fact that unlike Vietnam, there may not be a Canada or Sweden to send them to. "Freedom never was cheap! "Dan Fry "McHenry" ASKS PUBLIC INPUT "Editor: "The McHenry Area Rescue squad recognizes the Plaindealer for helping us to educate the public as to what SERVICE LINE McHENRY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 385-4300 FAMILY SERVICE S MENTAL HEALTH CLINIC 3409 W. Waukegan Road McHenry . 385 6400 PARENTAL STRESS LINE OF McHENRY Meeting PlaceiMcHenry County 24 hours a day. 7 days a week Call 815-344-3944 Parents Anonymous meetings on Wednesday. STATE CHAMBER GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS HOTLINE 217-522-5514 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION 202-755 8660 Hours 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. week days (Ever had a problem involving the federal government and not known where to call? And then been given a runaround or referrals by persons who meant well but didn't know how to help? Ten specialist available at this center.) NATIONAL RUN-AWAY SWITCHBOARD Illinois Phone: 800-972-6004 (For confidential conversations on problems dealing with run­ away children ) MOVING HOTLINE Phone 800-424 9213 (Complaints about interstate 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 wheather a particular model has ever been recalled. Valuable for lhose 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 inquires about, or repor­ ting on. the safety of products from kitchen appliances to children's toys.) NATIONAL SOLAR HEATING AND COOLING INFORMATION CENTER 800 523 2929 P.O. Bo* 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 ill. BIRTHRIGHT Pregnant? Need Help? Counseling Service 385 2999 2A hour Answering Service. YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU FOR McHENRY COUNTY 4719 W. Elm St.. McHenry Phone: 344-3240 24 hour Crisis Intervention and Confidential Counseling for youth and families Are you concerend about your angry feehnqs toward your children'24 hour Porental Stress line 344 3944 ILLINOIS STATE CHAMBER HOTLINE Phone 217 522 5514 Answef to questions on government regulations MENTAL HEALTH • • - - 1-800-892 8900 (Crisis Center Lin* for McHenry Co. 24-Hour Emergency number and professional staff will answer your coll. Sponsoring ogency- McHanry County Comprehensive Mental Health Service System. Emergency Medical Ser­ vices in the McHenry area means. "In the past, almost everytime the public saw something in print about the rescue squad we were asking for money. We're appealing now for something a little different this time. We would like the residents to show their interest by responding to the following questions regarding our past per­ formance and future needs concerning financial sup­ port. "As everyone knows from recent newspaper articles concerning our fund drive the 'crunch"of the economy has affected us the same as it has the individual. The knowledge we gain from this questionnaire will hopefully indicate how the public feels about bur service and also what avenues we should take to increase our financial support. "Do you think the rescue squad provides a needed service? "Did you know before you read these articles we were all volunteers? "How would you feel if we had to charge for our ser­ vices? "Did you think in the past some of your tax money was used to provide this service? "Do you think the com­ munity as a whole benefits from our service? "Have you ever utilized our organization and been unhappy with the service? "If it ever came to providing tax money for the existence of the rescue squad would you support a referendum of this nature? "It will take very little effort to respond to these questions. Those who would like to add any suggestions on improving our service feel free to do so. The in­ formation we receive from this research will help determine the best possible way to provide our service. "The time it takes to sit down and respond to this article won't be much longer than the time it takes us to respond to a house in a time of need. , "We have never refused a call for help. "Here is a chance for the public to help us with very little effort. Please send responses "McHenry Area Rescue Squad Phil Gust, President P.O.~BOA 484 "McHenry to: March's Message There's somethings about March days which moves even cynical news­ men. Whether it's the new . life and green of another year, the first southern winds, the longer days, the different shading of sun's light or baseball, or even the first lightweight dresses on cute things- March stirs nostalgia of other springs. March ushers in springtime flowers and showers; it's a forerunner i of summer, school holi­ days and vacations-and now is a good time to plan 1980's holiday. DELEGATE CHOICE Republicans/ in the primary election may learn who delegates support by calling a toll free number - 800-942- 2821. There is no in­ dication on the Republican ballot as to the commitment of any delegate. The Democrats will either have the choice stated cr will be marked "uncommitted". Jessl° EARL R. WALSH & JACK WALSH INS. Fir*, Auto. Farm. Ill* Roprotanting RELIABLE COMPANIES 4410 W. »•. 120. McHanry 30S-3300 DENIS CONWAY AUTO LIFE FMtE State Far* lis. Co. ntfW.BmStrMM McHanry. Ml. sss-rtn DR. LEONARD BOnARt 303 N. Richmond Rd., McHonry Eyo« oxamlnod Contact Lantat Giotto fittod Mon..Tu»i.. Thurt.. Frl. 4-«pm Too*.. Thura.. Frl. 7-f pm %m». 9:90 to 3:00 Pttono 304-4151 or 30S-22S3 Farm Equipment ie?orge P. Freund, Inc. Case - New Holland 4102 W. 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