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SECTION 2 * PAGE • - PL AINDEALEE - WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER IT. 1979 ;,Y:' m mm 'Plaindealer. Editorial Opinion Legal Services High mi- me W Airships A gain? N . « o In at least four countries airships aM being built again. The last commercial use of these aerial carried was in the thirties; and when the Hindenburg burned at Lakehurst, N.J., in 1937, that was the death-knell of their pre-war use. But the Hindenburg was filled with hydrogen, not helium, which doesn't burn (the U.S. refused to sell Germany helium to fill the Hindenburg). And because of the higher price of fuel today, and oetter weather reporting, dirigibles appear to be an economical mode of transportation. A british firm has just completed the first of 21165-foot airships for a Venezuela financier. In Germany a 400-foot airship is being constructed. These airships have titanium skins, said to be as hard as steel. They use little fuel (since their gas does the lifting) and they cruise at just under 100 miles an hour. They are quiet, smooth and now considered quite safe. They may be part of the answer to the fuel crunch-letting the winds and air transport goods of the world, with minimum assist from gasoline engines (the new British airship is powered by only two 3-liter engines). Lagging Productivity From 1950 to 1968 average productivity of the U.S. worker rose 3 percent annually. Prices rose slowly-less than 2 percent a year. Wages rose faster. Thus most Americans could enjoy a steadily improving economic future. But since the massive spending of the Vietnam war, which wrecked the dollar and touched off inflation and one huge deficit budget after another, productivity has increased only about 1.4 percent a year. And, even more ominous, in the first five months of this year, productivity actually declined. When that happened in England, the nation lapsed into economic doldrums, and the nation, and the pound, suffered near- bankruptcy and raging inflation for a decade. Obviously American workers must increase their productivity. Only by doing so can increased wages be paid without fueling in­ creased inflation. A study of history, moreover, shows that U S. productivity is the main ingredient which carried the United States, and the dollar, to the peak of economic and material wealth-for so many years. Perhaps the surest way to achieve progress in this direction is through worker participation. New machines and labor-saving devices can do much but workers, and unions, must keep the key goal of increased productivity in mind year-round. It will take informed attitudes among workers, progressive corporate leadership, and government encouragement to return the nation to a healthy annual productivity gain. Until that's accomplished, the good old days, when the economic picture improved each year for most Americans, will not return- and the dollar won't gain strength, as inflation eats away savings and earnings faster than they can be accumulated, by most of us. Data from the 1977 Census of Service Industries show that Illinois' 96,942 establishments in the "selected" service in­ dustries had receipts reported in 1972, according to the Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce. This initial report is confined to those "selected" service industries included in the 1972 census. A later report will cover ad­ ditional service industries included for the first time in 1977. Among the kinds of business for which data are presented for the state, the percentage change in receipts ranged from an increase of 155.3 percent for equipment rental and leasing services to 0.9 percent for barber shops. Measured in dollar volume of receipts, legal services was the largest of the selected service industries in the state with 1977 receipts of $1.3 billion, followed by engineering, architectural, and surveying services, with $910.0 million, and hotels, motor hotels, and motels with $761.3 million. These three industries accounted for 27.8 percent of total receipts of the covered industries. The 1977 payroll of covered establishment^ in the state amounted to $3.4 billion, up 57.3 percent from 1972. Computer and data processing services showed the largest increase in payroll, with an increase of 164.5 percent. There were 347,037 paid employees (full and part-time) engaged in the covered in­ dustries in the state as of mid- March 1977. Hotels, motor hotels, and motels were the largest employers with 41,851 employees, followed by legal services with 23,045 employees, and engineering, architectural, and surveying services with 22,535'employees. * iRoll Call Report I (Your Congressmen's Vote) • . b : WASHINGTON - Here's how are Members of Congress were recorded on major roll call votes Sept. 27 through Oct. 3. HOUSE Education Dept. The House passed, 215 for and 201 against, and sent to the President the conference reoort on the bill (S 210) creating a cabinet-level DeparUnentof Education. With some 18,000 employees and an annual budget of $14 billion, the department will manage the 150 education programs now handled by the U.S. Office of Education and a host of other agencies. Rep. Frank Horton^ R-N.Y., a supporter, said the department will bring about "less red tape and better-service to localities, educational institutions and students" and will provide a "highly visible" Secretary of Education who can be held responsible for the federal education effort. ' Rep. William Morehead, D-Pa., an opponent, said Congress should not trade the nation's "rich variety of education policies" for "the bland pablum or the danger of mind control that could come with a single national education policy." Members voting "yea" wanted a U.S. Department of Education. Rep. John Anderson, R-16, voted "yea". Rep. Robert McClory, R-13, voted "nay". Army Hospitals - By a vote of 217 for and 147 against, the House adopted an amendment restoring $10 million that had been cut from the fiscal 1980 budget for Army hospitals. The money was added to the defense appropriations bill (HR 5359) later passed and sent to conference with the Senate. The Appropriations committee recommended the cut to prompt the Army to close some marginal hospitals and move more doctors to hospitals on active-duty bases. Those wanting to restore the funds said the cut would ruin the Army's doctor training program and worsen the military's shortage of physicians. Rep. Richard White, D-Tex., sponsor of the amendment, said the budget cut would diminish "the standard of medical care of the Army and the ability of the Army to respond to emergency action or war." Rep. Joseph Addabbo, D-N.Y., an opponent, argued: "It is very hard to justify Army hospitals where you are only serving 18 percent active-duty troops and everybody else is retired, or dependents...' Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, a supporter, said: "By improving the efficiency of motors only five percent, savings of 150,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (nationwide) can be generated." Sen. Rudy Boschwitz, R-Minn., an opponent, said it made no sense "to burden the...manufacturers with new regulations and new acts when these manufacturers are moving...very rapidly in the direction of energy conservation." Senators voting "yea" favored the bill. Sen. Adlai Stevenson, D, voted "yea". Sen. Charles Percy, R, voted "nay". 'Livable Cities' - The Senate voted, 35 yea and 30 nay, to appropriate $3 million for a new Department of Housing and Urban Developmen (HUD) venture called the Livable Cities program. The vote came during debate on a HUD money bill (HR 4394) for fiscal 1980. The House is opposed to the $3 million expenditure. The idea of Livable Cities is to use the arts and historical preservation as catalysts , in reviving neighborhoods. Federal grants would go directly to non-profit community organizations for artistic, cultural and historic projects. Sen. Lowell Weicker, R-Conn., a supporter, said the program "gets local residents to pull together and work toward making their neighborhoods a healthy place to live and work." Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis., an opponent, said: "This is not the kind of activity we should support in a year of fiscal austerity, at a time when inflation is at 13.4 percent and rising." Senators voting "yea" wanted to fund the Livable Cities program. Percy voted "yea". ^ Stevenson fid not vote. Energy Fast Track - By a vote of 58 for and 39 against, the Senate killed an amendment reducing the powers of an Energy Mobilization Board proposed by president Carter to speed up governmental approval of important energy projects. The amendment, offered to a bill (S 1308) headed for final passage and consideration in the House, would have removed the Board's authority to override federal, state or local agencies on certain energy decisions. It also would have denied the Board authority to waive certain state and local regulations. Sen. Henry Jackson. D-Wash., a supporter of killing the amendment, said it would have made the energy board a "paper tiger". Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., who favored the amendment, said it would balance the right of state and local governments with the need for action on energy projects. Senators voting "yea" favored killing the amendment. Stevenson voted "yea". Percy voted "nay" ' frr --7~' -^AUTUMN LEAVES Members voting "yea" favored restoring the $10 million. What's the Use? Mc Clory and Anderson voted "yea". % Taxes no longer favor mar- Defense Contracts - The House defeated, 174 for and 187 ried couples, according to a against, a proposal to channel more Defense Department supply recent survey. In other words, contracts to areas with high unemployment. The amendment, couples - as far as taxes are offered to a defense appropriations bill (see previous vote), would concerned -- might be better have restricted bidding on $15 billion to $20 billion worth of non- Qff ;ust living together rather weapons contracts annually to firms in areas with jobless rates of^ thart Kettine married For ex- 7.9 percent of higher. t-\ Rep. James Oberstar, D-Minn., a supporter, said: "We ought to aim this big economic gun of military into those areas of this country where it is going to do the most good and provide jobs." Rep. Kenneth Robinson, R-Va., an opponent, said the amendment would "assure we are going to get less defense for the dollars because we are going to eliminate competition from the contract awarding process." Members voting "yea" favored using defense contracting to help high unemployment areas. McClory and Anderson did not vote. * Pumps & Motors - The Senate passed, 43 for and 39 against, a bill (S 1398) giving the Secretary of Energy authority to require manufacturers of industrial pumps and motors to make their products less wastefull of energy. The authority would be on a standby basis, to be invoked only if the manufacturers did not make sufficient progress on their own toward energy efficiency. The bill was sent to the House. ample, in 1979 an unmarried couple filing separate returns would get a combined stand­ ard deduction of $4,600 ($2,300 each) but a married couple gets a standard deduction of only $3,4001 Service Line McHENRY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 385-4300 FAMILY SERVICE It MENTAL HEALTH CLINIC 3409 W. Waukegan Road McHenry 385-6400 PARENTAL STRESS LINE OF McHENRY COUNTY Meeting Place: McHenry County 24 hours a day, 7 days a week Call 815-3j44-3944 Parents Anonymous meetings on Wednesday. STATE CHAMBER GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS HOTLINE 217-522-5514 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT Food Programs Doing A Job ( 'hqw- to. i "Our first and overwhelming impression is that there are fewer grossly malnourished people in this country today than there were 10 years ago....where visitors 10 years ago could quickly see large numbers of stunted, apathetic children with swollen stomachs, and the dull eyes and poorly healing wounds characteristic of malnutrition - such children are not to be seen (now) in such numbers." This was the conclusion of Field Foundation medical teams, who recently revisited poverty stricken areas of the country to learn whether there were fewer hungry Americans than 10 years before. In their initial survey in 1967, the Foundation's doctors found evidence of serious malnutrition. They sub­ sequently shocked the nation with their report of widespread hunger in America. In their 1967 report to Congress they stated, "Wherever we_ went--and wherever we looked we saw children in significant numbers who were hungry and sick, children for whom hunger is a daily fact of life...The children we saw were more than just malnourished. They were ... weak, apathetic. Their lives are being shortened... They are suffering from hunger and disease, and ... they are dying from them ... which is exactly what 'starvation' means." Congress responded to their concerns by enacting more than a dozen food aid laws in the ensuing 10 years, expanding and improving federal food programs. It is these programs that have alleviated hunger, the doctors said, and not a general improvement in living stan­ dards or a decrease in unem­ ployment. Actually, they noted, "the facts of life for Americans living in poverty remain as dark or darker than they were 10 years ago. But in the area of food there is a difference." The . doctors praised the food stamp program, Head Start, school lunch and breakfast programs and the women, infants and children (WIC) feeding programs as being in­ strumental in alleviating hunger. The doctors' accounts "by no means represent an unqualified optimistic endorsement of present food aid programs or of the current nutritional health of the American people," Kotz says, commenting on the teams' findings. "But," he adds, "the doctors fastened onto food aid as one concrete area in which they believe there has been significant progress and opportunity for more." Wood ladders should never be painted. The coating could con­ ceal rot or contribute to its devel­ opment by sealing in moisture. Instead, apply a coat of boiled linseed oil at least once a year. For Your In format ion Dear friends, "What do you consider the most useful part of tha funeral process?" Dr. Erich Llndemann of Harvard answered, "Tha moment of truth when living parsons confront tha fact of death by looking at tha body. Poopla tand to deny pain­ ful raality. Whan thay stand bofora tha daad body, thair danials collapse . . the first impor­ tant stap in managing thair griaf." Respectfully, PETEPM.JISTEN &SCN FUNERAL HOME McHENRY. ILLINOIS 395 0063 ARE YOU NEW IN Do You Know Someone New? WE WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND A ROYAL WELCOME TO EVERY NEWCOMER TO OUR AREA!!!!! CALL JOAN STULL 385 5418 tli/i I i<7(11723 KNOW YOUR AREA-ROYAL WELCOME DOES IT BEST GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION 202-755-8660 Hours7:30a.m. to5:30p.m. weekdays (Ever had a problem involving the federal government and not know where to call? And then been given a runaround or referrals by persons who meant well but didn't know how to help? Ten specialists available at this center.) 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Hanahan (D) • 33rd 4801 W. Route 120 McHenry, 111., 80C50 Phone 385-3427 Springfield Phone 217-782-6476 / • Calvin L. Skinner, Jr., (R) - 33rd' P.O. Box 308 Crystal Lake, HI., 60014 Phone 459-6050 Springfield Phone 217-782-8000. Donald E. Deu&ter (R) - 32nd 510 N. Lake St. Munaelein, 111., 60060 Phone 312-566-1972 Daniel M. Pierce (D) - 32nd 580 Roger Williams Ave. Highland Park, 111., 60035 Phone 312-433-2551 Betty Lou Reed (R) - 32nd 927 Holly Court Deerfield, 111., 60015 Phone 312-945-9260 U.S. Senators Charles H. Percy (R) 230 S. Dearborn Room 3859 Chicago, Illinois., 60604 Phone 312-353-4952 Adlai E. Stevenson (D) 230 S. Dearborn Room 3960 Chicago, Illinois 60604 Phone 312-353-5420 *x % • ' ' " •/ U.S. Congressmen John B. Anderson (R) 301 W. State St. Rockford, 111., 61101 Phone 815-962-8807 Robert McClory (R) 326 N. Genesee St. Waukegan, 111., 60085 Phone 312-336-4554. 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