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Wonder Lake Maiy Jean Huff 728-0267 Scouts Win Many Awards At Banquet The Blue and Gold Banquet of Wonder Lake Pack 145 began £ on Sunday, February 24, at V Christ the King hall with the K flag ceremony conducted by the Webeloes. A delicious *, dinner of tomato juice, salad, roast beef, parsley potatoes, l- corn, hot rolls and cake was ;v served to the Scouts, their parents, brothers and sisters J and special guests. Delightful t entertainment for the afternoon was provided by Mr. Twister. > Guest speakers were Clyde J* Kangas, commissioner of the f, Kishwaukee District of Scouts '• and Dr. Lloyd Shaw, of the Woodstock Veterinary Clinic, who talked to the group about the selection of pets and care of them, demonstrating with a live puppy and rabbit. He then answered questions from the audience. The traveling totem pole attendance award was won by Den 6, whose Den Mothers are Sue Vanek and Betty Draf­ fkorn, assistant. Den 3, with Donna Maris, Den Mother, took the honors for uniform in­ spection. Table decorations awards were given to Den 5,^ first place; Webeloes, second place, and Den 3, third place. The following awards were presented to the boys by their parents: Dale Bluemel, Wolf Badge and gold arrow; John Vanek, gold arrow; Jerry Draffkorn, Denner; Vincent Cook, assistant Denner; Scott Westerholm, Citizen; Joey Liggett, Craftsman, Artist, Traveler; Definer and Ar­ row of Light; Steve Wenkel, Citizen and assistant Denner and Denner; Tom Burrows, citizen and assistant Denner. Joey Liggett was advanced from the Webeloes to the Boy Scouts. Bill Kerns, Scout­ master, conducted .the ceremony and gave Joey his neckerchief, bearskin and certificate. if you rent- an apartment or house, an economical State Farm Tenant Homeowners Policy can protect your furniture, clothes and other personal belongings against many perils. It can protect you against liability lawsuits, too. Let me give you all the details. STATE FARM DENNIS CONWAY 3319 W. ELM ST. McHENRY, ILL 385-7111 INSURANCE Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there. State Farm Fire and Casualty Company Home Office: Bloommgton, Illinois Joe Geisinger, who has contributed many years of dedicated service as Cub- master in Wonder Lake, was given a plaque as a token of appreciation by acting Cub- master Joe Liggett. At the March 20, Pack meeting, the annual father and son cake bake will be held. Prizes and ribbons will be given for the best tasting, best decorated and most unusual. COLLECT NEWSPAPERS Girl Scout Cadette Troop 420 will be hauling newspapers to Waukegan on Saturday, March For information about ving your recyclable papers collected by the Scouts, please call Troop Leader Lucy Coleman, 653-9676, NOW. NEW SON Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Michael Paleo, 5410 Wain- wright Drive, Wonder Lake, announce the birth of a son, Matthew Joseph, on Feb. 14, in Memorial Hospital for McHenry County, Woodstock. Matthew weighed 7 lbs., at birth and has a brother, Christopher Michael, 2Vfe. Paternal grandmother is Mrs. Virginia Puleo, Erie, Pa. Maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Hutchinson, and great grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. R.L. Hepler, live in Oil City, pa.\ GIRL SCOUT SUNDAY On Sunday, March 10, Girl Scout Sunday will be observed in two Wonder Lake churches. Scouts in uniform will attend the 10 o'clock Mass at Christ the King church and also the 10:30 service at Nativity Lutheran church. Felt banners have been made by the Wonder Lake troops and will be hung in the churches on Girl Scout Sunday. BIRTHDAY GREETINGS Happy birthday on March 6 to Betty Draffkorn...on March 7, to Verona (Grandma) Huff...on March 9, to Anna Nagel, 93 years young and to Dana Scheib, son of Joan and Ken Scheib, who will be 11 years old and to the "Miller Twins", now known as Mary Lou Cope and Sue Weber...on March 10, to Lee Ann Cristy and to Erin Kelsey, daughter of Bill and Karen Kelsey, who will be 3' years old...Best wishes to you all! LENTEN ACTIVITIES A variety of activities' for Lent are offered at Christ the King church. The Wednesday evening Mass at 8 p.m. is followed with a discussion group. Special liturgies for the Wednesday evening Masses are prepared with the help of parishioners. Interested per­ sons may call the religion center for more information. On Friday evenings at 8 p.m. in the school hall, "We, The Church As Forgiving, Loving, and Understanding Com-, munity": a series of seven interrelated talks by outside speakers with active listening and participation by those attending. Home discussion groups ate being encouraged during the Lenten season. Anyone wishing to attend a discussion group or host a discussion group may contact Sister Delphine at the religion center. Some stimulating topics suggested for discussion are: "What's Vatican II All About; What Ever Became of Sin?; Does My Life Have Any Meaning?; and Effective Communication v Between Parents and Children; or any other topic of interest to the discussion group. GIRL SCOUT WEEK International Friendship Day of Girl Scout Week (March 10- 16) will be observed by the Kachina Neighborhood, in­ cluding Scout Troops from Wonder Lake and Richmond, with a Girl Scout Mother- Daughter International Friendship pot-luck dinner on Thursday, March 14. Special guest speaker will be Miss Sonja (Sunny) Corbin, an American Field student from Barbados. Each mom is asked to bring her favorite foreign dish (salad, main dish or dessert) to grace the in­ ternational buffet table. Wonder Lake Cadette Troop 420 will act as hostesses for the evening which will begin at 6 o'clock and end at 8 p.m. at Christ the King hall, Wonder Lake. COMMUNITY CALENDAR Sponsored by Woman's Club of Wonder Lake, Ann Sowers, Chairman, 653-9549 MARCH 6 Young at Hearts, Christ the King Hall MARCH 9 Solo and Ensemble Contest, at Harrison School MARCH 10 Girl Scout Sunday, observed at the church of their choice MARCH 11 No School, Harrison, Teacher's Institute MARCH 14 7th Grade Plays, Harrison School Girl Scout Mother-Daughter International Friendship Pot- Luck Dinner, 6 to 8 p.m. Christ the King Hall, Kachina Neigh­ borhood MARCH 16 Harrison School Choral Contest MARCH 17 Parish Council Meeting, Christ the King Church MARCH 19 Firemen's Auxiliary Meeting, 8 p.m., east side firehouse spurgeons One Week Only Sale! Fiberglas* Draperies -- 2 Luxurious Styles! 547 pr. thermostat wastes energy, an occasional adjustment will conserve energy. 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Once your home is warmed to 68 degrees, the system is automatically turned off. Insulation holds the heat inside your.home as long as it can. Then when your home cools below 68 degrees, your thermostat starts the system reheating. Frequently adjusting your thermostat makes your heating system work harder than it has to. And that costs you money-- in repairs and higher bills. You'll save energy and money by setting your thermostat at 68 degrees and leaving it there. Another thing to remember: Every degree over 68 adds about three percent to your heating bill. If you keep your thermostat at 68 degrees instead of 72, you can save over 10% at the lower setting. While frequently adjusting your THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT CONSERVING ELECTRICITY Adjusting your thermostat- how it can waste or conserve energy. MARCH 22, 23, 24 Ladies Retreat, Christ the King, at Bishop Lane Retreat House, Rockford MARCH 25 Half day, Harrison School, Teacher's workshop 1 PUBLIC PULSE (The Plaindealer invites the public to use this column as an expression of their views on subjects of general interest in our community. Our only request is that the writers give - signature, full ad­ dress and phone number. We ask too, that one in­ dividual not write on the same subject more than once each month. We reserve the right to delete any material which we consider libelous or in objectional taste ; THE RTA "Editor: "I would like to express my opinion on RTA's whatever else they are called by various cities. "Transit systems, as they were conceived and developed in the mid-19th century, reached their evolutionary peak in the second decade of the 20th century and were merely extended and improved with the advancement of technology. It thus is not dif­ ficult to realize that they brought the masses of workers to the emerging megalopolitan centers, before and just after the development of the automobile assembly line. They served until the cost of the auto could be borne by the working class. "One can drive in a periphery of 50 miles of most major cities and old timers can point out roadbeds of former trunk lines and paved-over trolley tracks that served intra-city and adjoining communities. These went out of business with the ice house and advent of the auto. It was inevitable. Now an attempt is being made to reactivate a mode of transport that was obsoletized decades ago and disguise it with a quasi- sophisticated title. "Transit systems in no way can be adapted to suburban style living. We can only serve a human cluster. The fact it cannot survive financially is tied in inexorably with the times. Municipal transit sytems cannot function profitably because for the most part they .traverse through blighted urban areas and the chronicles have recorded countless tales of horror of public conveyances being in­ vaded by hordes of toughs, with individuals being robbed, mugged, assaulted, raped and even murdered. With that in mind, there are fewer passengers, deterioration of equipment, lower revenue and then the ultimate, bankruptcy. "No major city, indeed no state in this nation, can make the claim it is financially in the black. A disgraceful politico -- fiscal commentary. By what legal quo-warranto does a political hierarchy of a major city have to assess people completely out of their jurisdiction in order to bail out a failing operation? If another function of a major city should not prove self-sustaining, would this set a precedent and thus allow that same political hierarchy to assess adjoining communities, to say, bail out debts in the police and fire departments, educational system, health program, urban renewal, etc., if government funding is cut off? What will be the ultimate reach of th?t municipal government? It could result in an -overreach and transfer of power from the state capitol to the city. What's to stop that city government from encompassing the ad­ joining eight counties, or ten or twelve? "If the people acquiesce to the installation of an RTA, they will be Self-abrogating their right to travel with reasonable freedom and they will be handing over more power to a governmental body in the form of a gigantic taxing bureau which will be inimical to their interests. This defies reasonable credulity when all the facts are given due con­ sideration. "Singular rights was one of the reasons this country was founded. The right for an in­ dividual to do his 'own thing', within certain legal prescriptions, of course. "As I understand the RTA, there will be a hodge-podge of shuttle services between communities on a presently non-defined scheduling basis. But individuals have to be in different places at different times. We all cannot bend our lives and adjust our ap­ pointments to an arbitrary and capricious RTA schedule as it presently stands. "If we must go backward, instead of trying to exhume a system long since defunct in principle, let us preserve the right for an individual to travel as he sees fit. Let us resurrect a plan, propounded twenty-five years ago, when the spectre of this dilemma exhibited itself in the twice daily crush of rush hour experiences for the driving workman during the post-war years. Way back, it was suggested everyone have a commuter size, reasonably priced, 40 or more miles per gallon car. Individuals could still have their full size car if they chose, for highway travel, vacations, etc. The public must assume a large proportion of the blame for succumbing to Detroit's blandishments on style, luxury, performance, r?tc. But that is when good leadership should have taken over. Education and ad­ vertising with some govern­ mental endorsement and urging, if necessary, should have stressed conservation of all natural resources at that time. "As long ago as '63, govern­ ment was collecting $240,000 per second in petroleum revenue alone. That figure eleven years later is, of course, much higher and since Congress is even unable to extract precise figures from the petroleum industry, estimates can only be made and that figure is at least $400,000 per second and probably higher. "My contention is that as long as government is the recipient of this boggling amount of revenue, we will not be able to rely on government for leadership in solving the transport needs of the public. It can only be resolved with participation by the concerned STORE HOURS: Mon.-Fri. 8:30 - 8:30 . Saturday 8:30 - 6:00 Sunday 10:00- 5:00 citizen and cooperation with maverick political leaders who are willing to vie against their peers, colleagues, etc., who are on the petroleum payroll. "We have electricity, modern inventions, appliances and now we are being told we are living too affluently, we must drop our scale of living back and regress. Twenty years ago when a 115-lb., mother of two children revved up a 5,500 lb. behemoth to drive two miles to the supermarket, that's when leadership should have taken over, before, not after, shor­ tages and reliance on other countries occurred. "To bring this back on course, just a point on BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit). When initially proposed for the San Francisco-Oakland area, it was to cost 200 million. It has now reached 1.2 billion and is 2 years plus overdue. Ad­ ditionally, one more year is necessary for feasibility studies to work out a system whereby trains traveling in the opposite direction do not collide under the bay during the peak rush hours. May I ask where the traffic engineers and computers have been during the entire construction period? We are now talking about 500 million per year in cost overruns. Granted Chicago has no tunnel or 'body of water problem, but I have not seen any range of projections in regard to implementation of the RTA. To permit a multimillion dollar political complex to develop with its inherent, in­ ternal political power struggles would just be another stifling problem for the public to en­ dure. If they should so vote it in, they will deserve all the future resultant ramifications that will most certainly accrue. "Dr. Arthur J. Howard" 4400 WEST RTE. 120 MARKET PLACE SHOPPING CENTER Joy to your home--joy to your hands! Solid or damask effect hand washable Fiberglas* draperies never need ironing! 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