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SECTION 2-PAGE 6-PLAINPEALER--WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20. 1977 EDITORIALS Awards At An End The season's biggest show-biz farce is, mercifully, over-until next year. The paint and powder dandies of the film world now have their 1976 awards, and have done with their overly-drama tic, imperial-splendor Oscar awards television program. It is difficult to sit through a few minutes of this spectacle, but hours of it seem impossible. How can millions sit glued to seats eating it all? This year's coronations (with appropriate music) included the added hokum of show biz types moralizing on Washington, Congress and, thus, politics. Probably no group knows less about politics than overpaid, make-believe-world actors and actresses. One would hope wiser heads would prevail and in the future, film types would be kind enough to refrain from brainwashing or self- vindicating political remarks. There is a real danger that films, and the film makers, using both television docudramas and movies, are now in position to control ITS. public opinion. Lenin wrote that, with films, he could control the people. There is a group in America doing just about that-and many Americans are unaware of what's happening, with a screen in almost every living room in America today. Thus government and politics, and films and film people should, generally speaking, go their separate ways, for the sake of a free industry and a non-brainwashed electorate. Wonder Of The World April, 1917 dn THE BIG RACE #sr C SPS One of the wonders of the world is the eternal independence, optimism and hope of youth. Battered fathers and mothers, after decades of struggle and work, who have experienced some of life's many obstacles, inequities and heartaches, look on with tender love (mixed with sadness?) at the happy, undaunted free spirit of tiny sons and daughters. Of course, that's what life is-and today it's better than it was a generation earlier, we say. Today's courageous youngsters, with high hopes and dreams, must learn for themselves in a modern world full of technological wonders and dangers. Realistically, the best fathers and mothers can do for children is to give them a good start in life-morally, educationally and nutritionally. And counsel them, when later in life one is asked. Before that time, looking into those faithful, trusting eyes, with all their hopes, obedience and inherent goodness, a tear must be hidden and the heart is suddenly heavy. Ideally it should be a life of pink clouds, blue skies, knights and princesses! But many have stumbled or lost the faith in the past, and not necessarily through their own fault And so. it cannot be. Crime Resistance An accumulation of mail or newspapers advertises that the house is unoccupied. Ask a neighbor to pick them up. A driveway covered with snow with no tiretracks advertises the house is vacant. Make arrangements with somebody to shovel your driveway after a snowstorm. Don't advertise on the society pages prior to departure. When you are going on vacation, notify the local police department and request that they make periodic checks of your residence. A good neighbor who will keep an eye on your home and report any suspicious activity to the police department may prevent a K.irgiary. Don't hide a door key under a placemat or in a flower pot. A burglar may find it. Building Permits Building Permits recently issued by the Department of Building and Zoning in McHenry County include: Gordon R. Rudd, 405 S. Washington Boulevard, Mundelein, to erect a new house at 1303 Hillside Lane, McHenry, for an approximate cost of $38,000. The permit and service fee of (191.80 was paid by the applicant. Charles O. Baehne, 921 Draper Rd., McHenry, to erect a new residence at 5501 Lucina, McHenry for an approximate value of $30,000. Permit and service fee-$152. Chicago Club for Crippled Children, 4512 N. Riverside Drive, Johnsburg, to construct a dormitory addition to the*existing Chicago Club for Crippled Children Camp at the same address for an approximate value of $22,000. Permit and service fee-$163.68. Douglas Howard Eschaer, 5021 E. Lake Shore Drive, Wonder Lake, to build a house at 5412 Wonder Lake Rd. for an approximate value of $23,300. Permit and service fee-$181.72. M. G. Hocker, 1114 W. Bay Rd., McHenry, to build a single family residence at 1210 Quincy Avenue in McHenry Township for an approximate value of $30,000. Permit and service fee-$213. 'M. G. Hocker, 1114 W. Bay Rd., McHenry, to build a single family residence at 1214 Quincy Avenue in McHenry Township for an approximate value of $31,000. Permit and service fee-$194. Francis and Theresa Sweeney, 5005 W. Home Street, McHenry, to build a single family residence at 2308 Aloha Drive, McHenry for an approximate value of $57,970. Permit and service fee-$249.92 A1 Graff, 8304 Howe Road, Ringwood, to build a three bedroom house with attached garage at 8306 Howe Rd., Ringwood for an approximate value of $35,000. Permit and service fee-$262.16. Richard J. Blaschak, 1931 Clover Court, Northbrook, to build a new home at 8507 Memory Trail, Wonder Lake for an approximate value of $35,000. Permit and service fee-$147. Donald B. Dixon, 3411 N. Cove Court, McHenry, to build a new residence at 3511 Oakdale, McHenry for an approximate value of $40,000. Permit and service fee-$193.24. James R. Moore, 2613 Michael, Wonder Lake, to build a single family residence at 17405 Hebron Rd, in Alden Township for an approximate value of $42,000. Permit and service fee-$219.80. Richard Adams, 3001 W. Maryville, McHenry, to install a foundation to move a house onto at 2905 Plymouth Lane, McHenry for an approximate value of $3,000. Permit and service fee-$56. Education The Illinois Office of Education (IOE) will soon begin a series of public hearings on a proposed state plan governing education of handicapped children. Hearings will be held in Springfield on April 26 and in Mt. Vernon, Urbana, Moline, DeKalb, and Crestwood on May 4, 5, 9, 10, and 13 respectively. Contact Jim Stowell, Illinois Office of Education, 100 N. First street, Springfield. 62777 For Your Information Dear friends. We have heard of a young man who gives his parents a gift on his birthday. Sort of a thank you' for the gift of life and for their loving care in raising him to adulthood. No doubt this is an appreciated gesture. Respectfully. PETEmjllSTEN & SON , FUNERAL HOME McHenry, Illinois 905-0063 In 1917, as some remember, President Wood row Wilson asked Congress-on the 2nd--to declare that war existed between this nation and Germany. On the 6th Congress met in special session and declared war to exist; this sealed the fate of the German monarchy. Wilson acted because the German Imperial Govern­ ment had served notice on all nations earlier that it would enforce a total blockade of England and all ports in western Europe controlled by the Allies. Had that blockade succeeded the Central Powers would have won the carnage that was the First World War. Russia had surrendered to them in 1917. It was Germany's last chance to win, and she took it. But unrestricted submarine warfare so repulsed the U.S. public a wave of sentiment against Germany swept the country; America's young men enthusiastically went off to war to make the world safe for democracy. & NUCLEAR Recycling Plant Works By Freezing Plastics Cyro Custom Grinding, Inc., has started operation of the nation's first commercial cryogenic comminution plant at 319 Lamb road, Woodstock. Specializing in the pulverizing of rubber and plastics, CCG uses liquid nitrogen to freeze materials to super-cold temperatures (-300 degrees F) which embrittles them so they can be ground to fine particle sizes. Most of the product is heat sensitive and cannot be ground without cooling because the grinding action generates heat that changes the characteristics of the material. The service is utilized'^ by manufacturers of elastomeric products who generate scrap that often can be recycled if changed to powder form. Are You New In McHenry Area? ooooooocoeoo Do You Know Someone New? WE WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND A ROYAL WELCOME TO EVERY NEWCOMER TO OUR AREA!!!!!!! CALL JOAN STULL 385-5418 McHenry m 4ir wimmu % % KNOW YOUR AREA-ROYAL WELCOME |[ DOES IT BEST j| fcoOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGOOOOOOOOOOCWi CCG offers a significant economy to the rubber and plastic industries through recycling and also contributes a badly needed service in the conservation of expensive petrochemical substances, according to A1 Boeck, Jr., vice president of marketing. Burt France, Crystal Lake, has been added to the staff and is currently undergoing training as a cryogenics technician. The Roll-Backer The Consumer Protection division of Attorney General William J. Scott's office has obtained $1,500 restitution for each of ten Paris, Illinois area residents who bought cars on which the odometers had been "rolled back" while in possession of a used car dealer. PUBLIC PULSE (The Plaindealer invite# the publie to use this column att an expression of their view on subjects of general interest in our community. Our only request is that the writers give-signature, full ad­ dress and phone num­ ber. We ask too, that one individual 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.} ON TRAPPING "Editor: "I would like to respond to the recent letter of Carl Rietesel, who favors leghold trapping. "If Mr. Rietesel believes the leghold trap to be so painless, what is his reply to the remarks of Frank Conibear, the world's most famous trapper? From his Testimony of a Trapper: " It is sometimes said, in defense of the use of the steel trap, that wildlife is cruel, and that the animals to whom the trap causes suffering die a painful death anyway. But, great as the sufferings are of the animals that die a natural death, the sufferings oc­ casioned by the common steel trap are incomparably greater. It is impossible for me to estimate the aggregate number of animals tortured by the common steel trap. When one considers this, and the millions of other animals and birds as well, that endure the agonizing tortures of being trapped, the yearly sufferings in North America alone, must be in excess of those that any war in Europe has caused the human race...' "Mr.Conibear wrote further of individual animals who found themselves on his traplines. Here he described one animal which he knew from experience, lived three or four days, dying of pain or star­ vation : "The foot is lacerated, swollen and covered with blood. The stump of the leg above the trap is swollen four times its natural size and frozen. The shoulder, too. is all swollen. When we skin it, we will find that all that area will be a mass of blood-covered sickly gelatin-like substance, indicating the terrible suffering it has gone through before death released it." "Even being used un­ derwater, in a "drowning set', (used mainly for beaver, otter, and muskrat), the leghold trap's grip on its victims is far from humane. Beavers and other animals which spend some of their lives underwater, have lungs enabling them to remain submerged for prolonged periods of time. Thus a beaver in a drowning set, can agonize underwater for up to twenty minutes. "Since the United States traps more different animals than any nation in the world, it also traps more animals as a whole. About ten million of these are actually wanted for their fur. Since traps are not selective, that is. a bird or a raccoon can step into a bear trap, two out of every three animals trapped are not wanted for any purpose. Birds, chipmunks, porcupines, the trapper's "trash", comprize fifteen million of the some twenty-five million animals trapped in this country each year. "There is no law in Illinois stating how often a trapper must check his traps. The law only states that it is against the law to remove an animal from another's trap, and that traps must be marked with name and address, thus subjecting an animal to perhaps days or weeks of suffering. "When Mr Rietesel refers to slashing muskrats with razor blades, he would be wise to note than ANY animal, even your faithful dog, would react viciously to this treatment- "What about the over­ population argument? Some of the reasons for the over­ population' of animals in the area are as follows: Many of the natural predators were killed off-either by hunting or trapping. or wildlife management' has 'managed' them to the point of while producing more to kill, the actual product is disease or starvation. Which brings us to another important point. If, in reality, the outdoors and its wildlife are to be enjoyed by trappers and non-trappers, hunters and non-hunters alike, why are all conservation departments and associations controlled by consumptive users, when figures show the non-consumptive users to be in the majority? Since state law requires dogs and cats to have preventive rabies in- noculations, his charge of a rabies epidemic is erroneous. "W.J. Hamilton, professor of Zoology at Cornell says. Prices do not dictate the routine of the trapper. The lad or farmer in small towns of New York or elsewhere traps for sport'. "It is also interesting to note that the children who slaughtered animals in a zoo in Harrison, New York in 1971, afterward admitted they were trappers. "Slavery was also a very Chuck Lewandowski Tony Fick LET'S GET TOGETHER AND TALK ABOUT LOW-COST AUTO INSURANCE. GIVE ME A CALL FOR THE FACTS ON LOW-COST HEALTH INSURANCE. I 'D LIKE TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS ON LOW-COST HOME­ OWNERS INSURANCE. Chuck Lewandowski mm* Tony Fick Call us for Details I 'D LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU THE FACTS ON LOW-COST LIFE INSURANCE. AMERICAN FAMILY N S U R A N C E AUTO HOME HEALTH tWW AMERICAN FAMILY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY • MADISON, WIS. 53701 Chuck Lewandowski Phone: 385-2304 Tony Fick Phone 344-2438 we could employ the estimated 1,500 net, additional workers needed under this system. Fifth and growing more important every day, we would save energy,'* an estimated 115,000 barrels of oij each day, and that's just oil alone. Here our savings would be felt in future years at a lower fuel rate. Sixth we would save natural resources. Does it make sense to keep throwing them away Their supply is not infinite. "Aside from all these monetary aspects, wouldn't Illinois be a nicer place to live? "Why should we pay taxes for other people's ignorance? When will our legislators vote to keep money in our pockets? Why can't we enjoy the same success people in Oregon and Vermont enjoy with their 'Bottle Bills'? "We have a problem and we have an answer and it will save the people of Illinois millions of dollars. We have a problem and we have an answer, when is the legislature going to put the two together and make the bottles more returnable than the Bill? "Lucille M. Fergen "McHenry" profitable business, providing jobs for thousands, but it was outlawed for the crime it was. Let's do the same for leghold trapping! "Erika Frey "McHenry" BEVERAGE BILL "To the Editor: "This Friday morning, April 22, at 9:30 a bill goes before the Illinois House Environment, Energy and Natural Resources committee that could save the taxpayers of Illinois millions of dollars in only a short while. "This bill, HB 730 the Illinois Beverage Container act, places a minimum 5 cent deposit on all beverage containers and puts a ban on removable flip-tops. "How would this bill save our money, us the consumers and taxpayers? First we would save 20-40 percent on original purchase price. Second, we would not pay tax on the deposit." i.e., no tax on the ' container portion of the price. Third, we would save tax dollars the Highway depart­ ment spends in removing roadside litter, an estimated 1.2 million in Illinois alone. Fourth, we would save tax dollars in welfare and unemployment if YOUTH ON THE MOVE 4-H Federation Meeting The McHenry County 4-H federation met April 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the Farm Bureau auditorium. Sergeant Boswell, Woodstock police officer, presented the program on "Rights and Responsibilities of Teenagers." His talk centered around driving laws and the Juvenile Court act. Jim Wagner, representing the Heart fund also presented plaques to those clubs that participated in the Heart Fund Balloon sale. Communications Team Formed The Communications team had its first meeting April 18 at 7 p.m. The role of team members was defined and participants were given their first assignment. 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