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Lakemoor-Lilymoor Margaret Karas 385-4934 Resolutions: Ridiculous To The Sublime The New Year's resolutions and plans are coming in for our contest. Here are some of the responses: no-name: I am so perfect it is difficult to make a resolution to improve. Morrison family: Pat will try to accept things as they come without expecting too much of herself; Norm will not be so hard on Sundae. M.G.: change her image. Alma Hueckstaedt: will not go to the middle of Cambodia or Asia in 1978. Diane Kawell: will go to visit her brother in Seattle with George and Cari. Maribeth K: wants to get closer to the ones (<me?) she loves. Recent giver-up-of- cigarettes: start smoking. LLCCI: start work on returning Lily Lake to a water- filled naturally beautiful lake. FAMILY ARRIVAL Cristie Lynn Brindise arrived one-half hour before the doctor Thursday, Dec. 22, at her home in Lakemoor. Her delivery was aided by father, Ralph, her aunt, and the dear Lord. Susan LaCroixe, the thankful mother, was up and doing beautifully a few hours afterward. Vickie is thrilled to have a baby sister. Susan is the president of the board of trustees of the McHenry Nunda District library. We are happily looking forward to having a brand new user of books and records. BIRTHDAY BOOK One of the birthdays missed was little Donna Petersen Dec. 11. Sister Jennifer and mom, Pam, had a family party for her. Christmas time birthdays included Linda Garbacz Dec. 23; Denise Brizzi and Teddy Dawdy Dec. 24; and Arthur Lund Christmas day. Dec. 27 is the day for Charles Thornton and Ralph Freeman. Morris Ingram and Steve Mumma celebrate New Year's eve and their birthdays Dec. 31. The one anniversary noted for this last week in December is Charles and Nancy Hueckstaedt on the twenty- eighth. Happiness is wished for everyone. GOOD HEALTH WISHES Ruthie Pierce is happy to be home from the hospital so she could celebrate Christmas with all her family. There were twenty at the Christmas table. Isabelle and Willard were truly blessed to have all their children home with them at the same time. Cari Kawell is feeling better after a flu bout, also. About every family around has been affected with some type of virus illness lately. CHRISTMAS VACATION Maribeth Karas is home for the holidays from Wheaton college. She is catching up on sleep, homework, caroling, and just being home. It's great. 1977 Another year is gone. Hope it gave you all many happy memories with a few tears and frustrations to allow for deeper appreciation of the joys. May you enter into 1978 with a dream that will find fulfillment. Never let yesterday use up today. GOD BLESS Christmas Seal Drive At Two-Thirds Of Goal tunate our s The Lung association's an­ nual Christmas Seal drive has reached two-thirds of its,, $1,150,000 campaign goal. "Wifc, have been very for- ve a good start in -first Ch|te#iias ign," sWrBrian immediate past '"St the Future Far- Ltnecica and general Christmas Seal campaign chairman for Illinois. "Con­ tinued strong support is needed to enable us to reach our goal by the'time the fund drive ends." Funds raised in the Christ­ mas Seal drive are used to support the Lung association's programs of education to prevent and control lung diseases such as asthma, chronic bronchitis and em­ physema^lis well as action against, smoking and the protection of the non-smokers rights. I "The use of Christmas Seals for raising money for victims of lung disease was first begun in 1907," said Elsasser, "by a woman named Emily Bissell, who wanted to raise $300 to keep a small sanitarium with eight patients from closing. Lee What lust One Person Can Do Elaine And Alex Reddin, Concerned Neighbors A Connecticut resident who is 102 can depend on a ride to her hairdresser because a couple in town care how the elderly get around. Elaine and Alex Reddin recognized a< problem in Greenwich. Older people, whose numbers are steadily increasing, often find it hard to get to the doctor, the market, the bank, and the hairdresser. The Reddins believe that for the aging, any trip is important and so are dignity and in­ dependence. , Mrs. Reddin researched pxigring possibilities. Then in 1975, she devised her own solution - Call-A-Ride. Anyone over 60 who, for financial or physical reasons, is without the use of a car can call a dispat­ cher who arranges a ride. When Elaine Reddin got the idea, she asked her church for help. They gave her $7,500 and some gloomy predictions of. abuse. In the next two years Call-A Ride provided 13,000 rides and noted only four abuses. The service, with the Reddins as co-chairmen, is supported by five churches and by individual and corporate donations. It now has two vehicles, a two-way radio dispatch system, a volunteer staff of over a hundred and some 240 weekly riders. George Keugel, 68, afflicted with cerebral palsy and ar­ thritis, is able to attend a town- sponsored social group for the elderly each week day. "Without them," he says of A-l HEARING AID REPAIR SERVICE fr--Loon*r»-Compl«t« Jf i-vjc* on oil Mok*» Custom EarmoWt-30 Day JWolonNj^Ajd^ , HOMISSRVICS r tFotsHuyw™ TRY BEFORE YOU BUY! T«llw-Sono Too*. Custom Mao* All in ttw Ear Models ssRvtci GMTST" WEDS 1:00 TO 4:00 OTHER HOURS BY APPT, IkAfc^OAID LORY--EVE* •" Y-O-VAC • 675 *2.50 312-12.50 76-$3.00 401 $1.60 41$2.50 13-S2.50 Wider Ml CHRYSLER HEARING AID PROGRAM MM.STEfVSLAilA i ASSOCIATES 3937 W. HAW ST. McHENRY, ILL Outline Land Use Agreements Call-A-Ride volunteers, "I wouldn't be able to go." Edith Kocak, 70, a cardiac patient, can get to her weekly blood test. "Call-A-Ride>...is the most wonderful thing that could have happened to-us." "All we are helping them to do," says Mrs. Reddin, "is to live more norm'al lives." That's making a difference. High In Sugar Water ice treats are about 75 per cent water, 20 per cent fruit juice and high in sugar content. Besides being Christmas time, this is also the time of year farm leases and share agreements come up for renegotiation, explained Dave Plocher, Extension adviser in McHenry county. A.G. Mueller, University of Illinois farm management specialist, has outlined several of the common agreements. Standing rent is used by landlords who want a semi­ fixed income and are willing to share price risk with the tenant. This method bases cash rental payments on the current value of a specific number of bushels of grain. The actual bushels is based on historical crop yields. However, Mueller cautions that in using a stan­ ding rent management, the tenant needs the protection of a three to five-year lease. This gives him the opportunity to average out crop yields over several years. Using standing rent, grain prices are usually specified in the lease as determined at two or three dates during the year. This method provides a cash rent adjustment for rising or falling prices. The average of these three prices times the predetermined amount of grain determines the cash rent. Contract cash rent is most oft»n used when a minimum of landlord involvement in management decisions is desired. Cash rental rates are usually about one-third of crop values on better soils. In figuring a cash rent the tenant should start with a crop share arrangement, deduct the landlord's direct production costs and discount the adjusted share rent to allow for the additional risk he assumes. The contract cash rent removes all price and yield risk from the landowner and puts it on the tenant. Reasonable risk ad­ justments are 5 to 10 percent of crop value for yield risk and an additional 5 to 10 percent for prices risk. However, if discounts are too great, Mueller warns, tenants run the risk of renting no land. Because of stiff competition in the land rental market, the tenant historically has given up part of his risk protection. If landlord and tenant want to share the good and bad times equally, a crop share lease is better than cash rent. A crop share lease gives the landlord the opportunity to share management decisions. The landlord shares the risk of lower income if yields or prices are low, says Mueller, but also benefits when yields and prices are better than average. The crop share tenant trades his opportunity for large profits in good years- as insurance against losses from low yields and prices. But there are several disadvantages for the tenant. Paperwork is one. A tenant who rents from several landlords must keep separate accounts for each landlord on fertilizer, seed, chemicals and other expenses shared by the lan­ dlord. He must raise a par­ ticular crop in a certain location because the landlord wants it there; he has to weigh and divide each landlord's share at harvest as well as negotiate each year's management decision-which can create extra problems for some tenants. If the crop-share leasing problems outweigh the ad­ vantages, Mueller suggests considering a variable cash rent arrangement. He reviews three methods of cash renting: percent of actual crop produced, standing rent and contract cash rent. Using the percentage of actual crop, the landlord takes a slight reduction in his share of the crop. In exchange, the tenant assumes full respon­ sibility for management and pays all direct production costs, says Mueller. Both parties share yield and price risks. A simple cash rental method is to give the landlord a percent of the actual crop produced. Using this method, the lan­ dlord takes a reduction from the typical 50-50 share of the crop. The tenant assumes full management responsibility and pays all direct production costs. Depending on the productivity of the land, the landlord's share using a fixed percentage of total crop usually varies from 35 to 39 percent. Actual yields must be measured to determine the bushels of grain delivered to the landlord. In operation, the tenant delivers the landlord's share of the crop, leaving the landlord responsible for his own storage and marketing decisions. An alternative to his method is to price the crop on an "after harvest pricing period" and to make a cash payment to the landlord rather than give him a share of the crop. This may be a good alternative if the lan­ downer has no storage. Figuring cash rent on the percentage of actual crop works best where land is rented by a father to a father-son partnership, where the lan­ downer rents to other family members or where an owner- operator rents to an operating corporation, concludes Mueller. PAGE » - PLAINDEALF-W . WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 28. 1B77 There's An Answer (by Norman Vincent Peale and Ruth Stafford Peale) Fifty-Three And No Tears Q. As a teenager I cried too easily. I'm 53 now and haven't cried in 35 years. Is there something wrong with me? I have bee4 married to a wonderful man 30 years, have six neat children, fivf grandchildren, but I never have any tears 'a comin." My eyes are mildly uncomfortably dry all the time. Wish I knew why I nevet Mitchell Hodges, a newspaper man with the Philadelphia Enquirer, helped publicize the effort so well that the President and scores of civic and religious leaders endorsed the campaign and ten times ̂ the have been adopted for use nationwide and have become synonymous with lung health and the holiday season, ac­ cording to Elsasser. "When you see the bright and colorful little seals on greeting cards, letters and gifts, you know the holiday season is here again," said Elsasser. "Though the appeal is made only once a year," said Elsasser, "money raised through this means works hard the year-round/to protect the lung health of everyone. Every gift large or small is vital to the increased efforts in Lung Association programming." Free information on all aspects of lung disease may be obtained by contacting your Lung association or by writing to the Illinois Lung association, 725 So. 26th, J\0. BOX 2576, Springfield, 111. 62708. With population and com­ mercial investment declining in, some older communities at the same time that some suburbs are booming, nor­ theastern Illinois must take a new look at public policies for the management of urban growth. That is the message the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission (NIPC) is em­ phasizing in first drafts of two new plans concerning housing and land use in the region. When adopted in final form next year, the Regional Land Use and Regional Residential Policy plans will be used by local governments and developers as guides for future development of the region. The proposals express concern over situations like that in Will county where Joliet experienced a 6 perceqfcdeeline in population front 197®tol975 while, at the same time, the county's overall population increased 19 percent. U.S. census estimates prepared for 1975 indicate that as many as 60 or 70 of the 260 communities in the region are losing population while a few newer suburban and rural areas continue to grow rapidly. NIPC research suggests that some newer suburbs are growing at the expense of older cities and suburbs; that people and businesses are abandoning the older areas for the newer areas. The NIPC draft plans suggest that -a new urban growth strategy should be adopted by the region. The strategy probably would lie somewhere between two extremes: -allow existing trends toward dispersal to continue with declining population in older communities and further growth and expansion in newer suburban areas; or -adjust the present course of development by giving top priority to the conservation.Qf _ older communities. This latter strategy would involve steps to limit suburban growtajphile channeling more state aqd federal dollars to existi|)0tareas in order to en courlgeprivate investment, be effective, it would build on1 the common self-interest of cities, suburbs and rural areas of the region. Both NIPC draft plans point out the cost of continuing with the present growth strategy of suburban expansion: "All of our communities, both new and old, are confronted with service and facility needs in excess of their financial resources." "Mature communities are confronted with continuing high costs for maintaining existing municipal facilities and ser­ vices, but fewer taxpayers to meet these costs. At the same time, some of the suburban growth communities are in serious need for new roads, sewers and water supply systems to accommodate new developments of all types. The draft housing and land use plans suggest that there may be other by-products of this old-to-new population shift as well: growing pockets of urban blight and loss of irreplaceable open space. The plans also suggest that a new growth strategy should be adopted by governments in the ion if businesses with low- me Jobs ,are moving to s where an inadequate number of low-income housing units are available and as a result, are widening the geographic gap between lower- income families and jobs. Specifically, the housing plan suggests - that additional low- income housing be made available in the suburbs. It also suggests that federal, state and local governments : -provide incentives for at­ tracting jobs into areas which have experienced employment losses; -improve the quality of life in older areas by, for example, providing high quality educational opportunities; and -improve transportation linkages between low-income housing an$l jobs. Ruth Kretschmer, chairman of NIPC's Planning and Policy Development committee and a Dupage County board member, said, "It is vitally important that the public and local elected officials tell us at this time what they like and don't like about these draft plans. After they are adopted, NIPC will use them as guides when advising federal agencies on requests from local governments for federal funds." The adopted plans will also be used to assist local govern­ ments in planning. Copies of the summaries of the draft land use and housing plans can be ob­ tained by calling 454-0400, extension 238. NIPC will in­ corporate useful comments and suggestions it receives into final draft plans after the first of the year. New "Lifeliner" Cancer Program A new program announced by the American Cancer society, Illinois Division, Inc., promises that those who smoke will feel new' personal pressures xo-qCut from their non-smoking friends and associates seeking to qualify as "Lifeliners." "Most Americana don't smoke," explained Eustice Klein, board president of the McHenry county unit. "If just half of those who don't smoke could get a family member or friend to quit, our leading public health problem would be virtually eliminated." Smoking causes the premature death of about fifty Illinois residents each day, sooner or later killing at least one smoker'in every six. "The basis for the program is a 'lifeliner' affidavit which former smokers, those who have been off the habit for at least a year, can use to acknowledge the 'lifeliner' who was the primary influence in the former smoker's decision to give up the habit," Klein noted. "These affidavit forms will be made available through local units of the society in Illinois. Completed affidavits will be entered in a Lifeliner Registry maintained at 'division ^ headquarters at 37 South Wabash avenue, Chicago. * Every six affidavits received will signify the statistical probability that a premature death due to smoking has been avoided." Any individual 'lifeliner' who is named in the affidavits of six or mor4 forma- smokers will be eligible to receive a Lifesaver Award pin. While anyone can qualify for the pin, it is an­ ticipated that workers in the health field, educators, and others in positions of special influence will have an ad­ vantage. "However," Klein noted, "We hope to register many thousands of Lifeliners through this program, and in the process, provide an incentive for a great deal of person-to- person persuasion. Many lives can be saved in this way." Auto Serv ice T ips ffinT6f driving is DOO enoujn -- don't be hondkopped by faulty windshield wipers or frozen water in vour windshield reservoir. 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I< _»t consider its and feelings to around you. Marriage and child-raising are tasks which call ui whole range of human emotions, andit is unhealthy to keep i bottled up. Thank God for your happy life. Cultivate the ability to talk others about both your joys and sorrows. Then some day when are moved deeply enough by sorrow or some overwhelming ' the tear ducts will tar i Q. I am dating a young man. We love each other and are bot believers in God. He wants me to have sex with him, but I don' believe in premarital sex and he understands my view. This is mi problem. We pet, and it has been heavily at times. Sometimes I fed guilty about it. Is there anything wrong with petting-heavy or notl You see, I want to do what's right. A. As a believer in God and the Bible, you must exer decency, honor and selfcontrol. A display of affection, within I guidelines, between people who are honestly in love is no and can be a beautiful Dart of romance. A violation of standards will, of course, lead to guilt and sour the relationshij; Heartbroken And Confused open themselves. Feels Guilty Aboat Petting a young m levers in God. He wants me to have sex with him, but I don'j husband's polio, which left him in a wheelchair for two oldest nave become fine, responsible adults. But 17-year-old girl, has completely broken her father's and my he She has broken every bit of faith and trust and has slowly killed Q. My faith has seen me through raising three children after mj lio, which left him in a wheelchair Jor 24 years. T1 the last one, andm\ love bit by bit I know I should keep a She has treated us like dirt. We are tired an' heart, but it Is I confused. I wc NIPC Views Urban Growth Policies what feeling I should have for her. Please help A. Your little girl is terribly mixed up and will continue to until and unless she finds herself. Your feelings toward her are understandable. While she m have to work out her own reconstruction of help her by continuing to love her and, evei mind a positive image of thfc girl as a person. See her, or image her this way and in due course your feelings will be rewarded. Forces will be set in motion which can bring about wonderful changes in your daughter's life. We have a booklet, what to do When, which has helped others with questions such as yours and a copy of it is on its way to you. Anyone wishing a copy should write to us in care of Box 500, Pawling, NY 12564. ana one will be sent at no charge. If there is something you would like to ask Dr. and Mrs. Peale to discuss in this column, write to them in care of Boot 500, Pawling, NY 12564. If you would like to talk directly with a prayer partner, call Prayer Line (212) 481-1060. Reduced long-distanced rates are in effect nights and weekends. Winter Horse Care Is Important For Health Horse management is just as necessary during the winter as during the warmer, more active seasons, says Mark Russell, University of Illinois Extension horse specialist. If the horse h^apome off of a < good pasture, heirill now neptj good qualtty hagjftand grain to provide the same nutrients. A high-quality hay is green, leafy, and tender with small stems. Avoid feeding dusty or moldy hay, adds Russell. Horses are susceptible to respiratory problems. When supplementing hay with concentrates, keep in mind that the horse is probably getting less exercise in the winter and requires less energy feed. Exercise the horse whenever possible. The winter season often coincides with the last three months of pregnancy of bred mares. During this period, their protein, mineral, and vitamin A requirements in­ crease and the ration should be adjusted accordingly. Until this time-while the mare is being maintained-no ration changes are needed. Winter is also an excellent time to worm horses. To efj fectively kill bots and other internal parasites, use Parves R, a Piperazine complex wormer, suggests Russell. With the horses spending more time in the barn, it is necessary to spend more time cleaning their stalls and facilities. And be sure the bam is well ventilated to control humidity. Coughs and othet lung problems may develop in a humid environment, saydt Russell. 1 If at all possible, allow horsed outdoor access. They will get more exercise and it will help keep the barn clean. But provide some shelter for the horses to get out of the wind and snow. And provide an adequate water supply. Charity is of greater value to the giver than to ... the receiver. Save on developing and printing on Kodacolor film Borderless silk-textured prints are big and bright ...resists fingerprints. 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