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4. EDITORIflLS Courts And Reform At this particular time in our nation's history, many of our courts--both federal and state--are sorely in need of reform. ( aseloads are double and triple the number of twenty-five years ago. ' People Mr ait months, even years, for their cases to come to trial. There are inadequate courtroom facilities. Not enough judges Undersized, overworked, underpaid staffs. The legal[profession, through the American Bar association and hundreds of local bar associations, has been working to modernize the machinery and improve the efficiency of our judicial system. 1 he legislatures are recognizing the importance of immediate remedial action and meaningful programs for the future. Now. all Americans must participate by taking part in community efforts to improve our judicial system and by supporting legislative proposals to modernize our courts. These are our thoughts as we approach Law day May 1. End To Tooth Decay? Gradually, science is closing in on tooth decay. Not so many years ago fluoride was introduced into toothpastes and water to retard the formation of cavities. It has eased the cavity problem considerably, though cavities still occur. Now a natural companion for fluoride has been found. Used together, these two preventatives are thought likely to prevent all but a few tooth cavities. The latest discovery is a natural substance in saliva which halts tooth decay; if this substance, Sialin, can be supplemented to assure its presence, cavities might become preventable, at last. Sialin could be added to chewing gum, foods, even candies. Though it's too early to be certain the new finding means an end to cavities, the new knowledge unearthed by researchers at State university of New York is sensational and Sialin is expected to be utilized in the near future. Building Permits Building Permits recently issued by the McHenry County Department of Building and Zoning include:* Louis and Joann Pogany, 11409 Keystone Rd., Richmond, to build a house at 8911 N. Solon Rd., Richmond for an approximate value of $32,000. The permit and service fee of $249.60 was paid by the applicant. * Boyd R. Lindberg, 4006 Blitsch Place, McHenry, to build an addition of 2,300 square feet to an existing industrial building at 4418 Hi-Point Rd., McHenry for an approximate value of $23,000. Permit and service fee-$191. Roland Lichter, Route 5, Box 310, Antioch, to build a house at 1313 Paddock Lake Rd. in Paddock Estates, Burton Township, for an approximate value of $28,500. Permit and service fee-$211.04. Unity Construction Corporation, 109 Dowell Rd., McHenry, to build a single family residence at 5921 Hamilton Rd., in Nunda Township, for an approximate value of $50,000. Permit and service fee-$225.92. PUBLIC PULSE (The Plaindealer invite* the public to uae thin column hn an expmwion of their vie* on NubjeetH of general interest in our community. Our only request i* that the writers f»i>e-*ifinnture. full ad- dre** and phone num­ ber. ^e nftk 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. | ZONING PROCEDURES "Dear Editor: "In reading accounts of the City Council meeting and our illustrious Zoning board, it reminded me of the comments I read in last week's paper...and comparing them with an eighth grade civics class is giving them too much credit. "My 2-year-old acts like more of an adult than the people I've been reading about. I really feel they should stop playing who is who's friend' and get down to a few fair decisions. It would also be nice if people who live in an area that is under con­ sideration for re-zoning could be notified when it is scheduled to come before the Council. "Quoting Friday's Plain- ders: "With the letter of resignation being read, it was a bit ironic that the City Council Monday night acted favorably oh a zoning board recom­ mendation that will allow William C. Richards and his wife, Vivian, to build a duplex at 807 N. Lillian street in McHenry." "The Zoning board, minus Adams, voted unanimously April 1 to approve the change." "Presently, the land is zoned R-2, and the Council Monday granted a variation of R-2 allowing the construction of the duplex." "There were no objectors CHEF TO FAMOUS... Jesus Santos, shown in his Palm Springs, Calif., res­ taurant, has for 25 years catered meals for celebri­ ties, nobility and other noted persons, including several presidents of the United States. For Your Informotion Dear Friends, Dr. E Kuebler-Ross studied the reaction of several hundred patients who had been declared medically dead, but who were later revived. Such patients can describe in detail what they experience - how they float out of their body. They have a feeling of peace and wholeness, a tremendous feeling of stop all this attempt to revive me - I'm all right - a per­ fectly good feeling", so reports Dr. Ross. Respectfully, • .j,-- y -- PrTERMJl)STEN & SON FUNERAL HOME McHenry, Illinois 385-0063 Killer Tornado Season At Hand appearing at either the Zoning board hearing or at Monday's City Council meeting con­ cerning the zoning change." "There were no objectors because no one knew when or where to object or ask questions. "Just because we elected a City Council doesn't mean we lose interest in what is going on, as our City Council seems to do with us immediately after each election! "Where were you Mr. Datz? "Sincerely, "Mrs. Kitty Zriny "614 Lillian street" Editor's note: The law states that a legal notice must be published at least fifteen days before a zoning hearing; also that owners of abutting property be notified of the hearing. A check with the city clerk indicates that both requirements were complied with and receipts from certified mail sent to these property owners were brought to the hearings 13th Amendment Slavery was abolished through­ out the Union in 1865 as a result of the 13th Amendment to the U S Constitution *• mmm April showers bring May flowers And. in Illinois, killer tornadoes. Based on a new study of every confirmed tornado in Illinois from 1950 through 1975. a Northern Illinois university s;udent has found April tor­ nadoes are by far the state's most deadly. During the twenty-six year period studied, seventy-nine persons have lost their lives as a result of violent April whirlwinds sweeping across the prairie state. Tornado-related deaths throughout this period totaled 123 in Illinois. Surprisingly, December ranks next with seventeen' deaths, followed by May. with eight. February, six, June, four, and one or two in all other months except August, which brought no Illinois tornado deaths in the years studied Frequency is a much dif­ ferent matter, however, as June is the month when tor­ nadoes seem to occur most frequently in Illinois, according to Jeffrey Hedges, who was hired to make the study for the National Severe Storm Forecast center in Kansas City. June tornadoes generally are shorter lived and much weaker, he notes. A twenty-one year old junior meteorology student from Rockford, Hedges also found the most likely area for tornado deaths to occur is the suburban ring of towns and cities around Chicago During the quarter century studied. Cook county was the "most .battered" with thirty tornadoes confirmed, he found. Other counties leading the state in tornadoes confirmed during this, period include: McLean (Bloomington- Normal), with twenty-nine; Champaign I Urbana- Champaign) and Macon (Decatur), tied with twenty- three; and. Madison (Ed- wardsville), with twenty. Vermilion county (Danville) was next, with nineteen, followed by: St. Clair (Belleville), eighteen; Henry (Kewanee >, with seventeen; Will (Joliet) and Randolph (Sparta), with sixteen each: Peoria county with fifteen: and D u P a g e , M c D o n o u g h (Macomb) and Logan (Lin­ coln), with fourteen each. In each case. Hedges stresses, the population factor is important because in many rural, sparsely populated counties, sdjme tornadoes may be unnoticed or unreported. Hedges began his project last summer, when the center, which is run by the National Weather service, hired him to pore over computer print-outs listing the times, dates and locations of all tornadoes reported in the state between 1950 and 1975. The center hired one or two persons in other tornado-prone states for similar studies, but Hedges was the only one hired for the Illinois survey. Starting with the computer data. Hedges looked up damage reports in appropriate newspapers kept on microfilm in the State Historical library in Springfield. From such ac­ counts, he estimated the probable intensity of each tornado For the twenty-six year period. Hedges found a total of 676 tornadoes in federal weather logs for Illinois, plus four more that hadn't been recorded. The years covered are the only ones for which complete data were available. He speculates that another several hundred may have occurred in the state during the same period but were either just not spotted or not reported. By far, most of the tornadoes ranked in the categories of those causing "moderate damage" (73 to 112 mile per hour winds) or "considerable damage" (113-157 mph), or Fl ILLINOIS TORNADOES (by county) 1950-1975 Tornado Occurrences CD 1-5 D 6-10 S3 11-15 • 16-20 S 21-25 • 26+ Source SELS tog Compiled by J R Hedges NIU Weather Service _N^U^Cadoaraphic^bLLW and F2 on the scale of damage intensity from high speed winds. •'The F-scale, generally ac­ cepted by meteorologists for ranking both tornado and hurricane intensities/is named for its creator. Dr. T. Theodore Fujita of the University of Chicago.) For comparison purposes. Hedges notes, memorably severe tonadoes striking northern Illinois on April 21. 1967 ranked F3.7 or F3.8 at the Belvidere touchdown and F4 at Oak Lwn. The most intense tornado found in the study was an F5 (261-318 mph. "incredible damage") that struck un­ seasonably on Dec. 18. 1957 at 4:35 p.m. CST near Sunfield, north of DuQuoin in Perry county in southern Illinois. "It hit a restaurant and gas station complex at an in­ tersection of two highways. And it literally blew those two buildings right off the face of the earth." Hedges said "There was one death and surprisingly enough, the person's name was Jimmy Carter." Though the scale goes up through F12 (319 mph to sonic s p e e d , " i n c o n c e i v a b l e damage"), Hedges notes F5 seems to be about the maximum recorded and would include such devastating storms as the April 3, 1974 twisters in Xenia, Ohio. The much publicized tornado that struck the Des Plaines area March 12, 1976 when former President Gerald R. Ford was nearby to give a speech was a realtively weak F2. he estimates. Though tornadoes most often follow a southwest to northeast path. Hedges found examples of some moving in almost all other directions, particularly in the summer. The records also confirm an apparent tornado belt in Illinois, running from the St. Louis area to the southern suburbs of Chicago, then out of the state. That belt he estimates is 150 miles wide. Another belt seems to run through the western, nor­ thwestern and northern suburbs of Chicago, roughly ooooooeooooecoooooccooecoecosce^ re You New In McHenry Area? coocoooeocco 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 YOUR AREA--**OYAL DOES IT BEST WELCOME trom Aurora to Evanston and Waukegan. he found Lake Michigan apparently has an important role and perhaps is largely responsible for Chicago's loop escaping tornadoes this century. Hedges says, possible because cool air drawn off the lake during thunderstorms will diminish conditions nearby that could spawn tornadoes The frictional effects from surrounding areas of steel and concrete also seem to help disrupt wind flow before it can form into a funnel shape, he notes, though discounting claims by some torando ex­ perts that the loop is virtually a "tornado free" area. "I still believe that if a good strong tornado touches down southwest of Chicago and is barreling northeast, it 's going to cut right through the inner suburbs and right through the downtown area and exist over the Lake." he asserts. For many years. Hedges notes, Illinois was not con­ sidered one of the top tornado states. In 1974, however. Illinois ranked second in the nation, with 107 twisters reported, only two behind the number reported that year in Texas On the average. Illinois only records twenty-eight per year, though his logs show the numbers growing, possibly due to better detection methods The nation overall averages 642 tornadoes a year. Only four were logged in Illinois in both 1952 and 1953. The highest concentration overall, however, remains in central Oklahoma and central Kansas, with east Texas and parts of Iowa and Missouri close behind, he said The tornado season starts along the gulf coast in January or February, shifts northwest into Texas. Oklahoma and Arkansas around March, then shifts and grows, reaching southern Illinois in March and spreading over the rest of the state and most of the traditional tornado belt in April, he said They can occur at any time, however, as evidenced by the Dec, 18. 1957^F5 storm, which was part of the biggest tornado outbreak ever recorded in Illinois Such storms can occur even during cold weather, he notes, as evidenced, by a weak tornado near Joliet on April 6, 1972. when the temperature was 42. and another the same day near' Polo in Ogle County when readings were in the upper 30's April tornadoes, however., tend to be very strong and stay on the ground much longer "We have a second tornado season almost nobody knows about," he adds "That's in the fall-September and October it goes on the increase again It 's not as big as the springtime maximum, but it 's there " Some of these fall storms have proved very powerful and deadly, he adds. Tornadoes form, explains Hedges, when there's a clash between cold, dry air usually from the northwest and warm, humid air from the south In spring. temperature dif­ ferences between the two may run 30 to 40 degrees. By following the paths of a low pressure area, warm and cold fronts, the sector between those fronts, the temperature and moisture contrasts bet­ ween the fronts, and jet stream movements above, weather scientists often can spot the most likely locations for severe storms, he says. "One of two thunderstorms in the line of thunderstorms will develop into an enormous-size thunderstorm and produce a tornado Usually in a big tor nado outbreak, we've got fif­ teen to twenty tornadoes, but it 's usually only maybe one or two thunderstorms that are responsible . . . All the others stay moderate. ". . If you look at the path of the tornadoes, they all line up into a line. You get one, then you get another one. then another one. and they all follow in the same path, more or less. And that would indicate it 's caused by one thunderstorm " The worst single tornado in the state's recorded history was the so-called tri-state tornado on March 18, 1925. which killed 600 people in Illinois alone, he notes The twister also stayed on the ground longer than any ever tracked anywhere, starting in Missouri, sweeping across southern Illinois near Car bondale and on into Indiana in an almost straight line The full toll: 695 dead. More tornadoes occur in the midwest than anywhere else in the world, with Australia SECTION 2-PAGE 9-PIAINDEALER-WEDNESDAY. APRIL 27. 1977 needed for the final conquest of this ancient enemy of mankind The scientific effort has to be broadened and stepped up. This means more money is needed for brain power and manpower, more equipment and research facilities. When an ACS volunteer comes to your home, remember the goal: "We want to wipe out cancer in your liffime." LET'S GET TOGETHER AND TALK ABOUT LOW-COST AUTO INSURANCE. 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Advances in the treatment of cancer have come from research and improvement of surgical and radiation therapy. In a slow but steady growing number of cancers, drugs have been effective But there can be little dif­ ference of opinion about what is ranking second, he notes They nearly always rotate in a counter-clockwise direction in this hemisphere; clockwise in the Southern hemisphere. Hedges has been interested in meteorology and particulars- tornadoes since he was a sophomore at Rockford's Buiiford high school, though he has never seen one of the funnel-shaped howlers himself Eventually, he hopes to become a severe storm forecaster or researcher He is the son of Mrs James Hedges. 4130 Laramie Lane, Rockford. 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