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. - WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 20, ItM MCC Granted Recognition At its July meeting in Springfield, the Illinois Community College Board (ICCB) voted to grant "full recognition" to McHenry County college for the 1961 fiscal year. "Full recognition" entitles MCC to receive state ap­ portionment funds through the ICCB. Last year the college received a total of $1,021,425.96 in such funds. The ICCB is required by statute to evaluate each of the 52 public community colleges for purposes of determining its recognition status. Evaluation for recognition purposes in­ volves the determination of whether a college is in compliance with ICCB policies and with the requirements of state law. Compliance is determined through visitation by a team consisting of ICCB staff members and, in some in­ stances, officials from other community colleges. While colleges are evaluated an­ nually, a visit by an ICCB recognition team is con­ ducted about once every 10 years. McHenry County college was last visited by a recognition team in 1972. The next scheduled visit is April, 1961. The ̂ valuation of a college for recognition purposes is one of the most important of the responsibilities of the ICCB in its coordination role with local community colleges. I Study Insect Outbreaks Aging Agency Seeks Volunteers For Board 28th ANNIVERSARY JOHNSDURG RESCUE SQUAD ] BENEFIT DRNCE At Johnsburg Community Club Hall Saturday, August 23, 1980 DRNCINC 9 T01 Your Generous Co-operation is Our Success Door Prizes Donation: $2.50, Music by " Trilogy" Region Two Area Agency on Aging is now accepting recommendations for ap­ pointments to its board of directors to fill a term that will expire in November, 1961, in McHenry county. Region Two Area Agency on Aging has responsibility for development and coordination of a network of services for older persons throughout the counties of DuPage, Grundy, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, Lake, McHenry and Will. The Area agency will inform and advise appropriate public and private agencies and the public of the needs of older persons living in the eight- county area and act as ad­ vocate on their behalf. Duties of board members range from interviewing prospective employees, to tracing pertinent pieces of legislation, to giving recommendations in which applicants should receive funding. Board members must have a commitment to service for older adults. Region Two also has three vacancies to fill on its Ad­ visory council. Its respon­ sibilities are to advise the agency on planning and program development decisions. The Advisory council is asked to review and comment on the area plan and express concern about,this plan to the board of directors. Names should be sub­ mitted with a resume or biographical sketch no later than Sept. 2 to Charles D. Johnson, executive directed Region Two Area Agency on Aging, Post Office Box 809, Kankakee, 111., 60901. merican Viewpoints The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong Winston Churchill For the second con­ secutive summer, farmers and ranchers throughout the country are gearing up for an onslaught of grasshop­ pers. Billions of these creatures are expected to .attack as many as 30 million acres of prime crop and range lands. Even without this latest assault, U.S. farmers would still have their hands full battling brigades of borers, beetles and weevils. For, despite the arsenal of pesticides and^ . newer biological control methods at the disposal of farmers, insects are winning the war. Worldwide, at least 10,000 species of insect pests yearly ravage pasture, grain and forage, devouring nearly 14 percent of the market value of crops. Plagues of insects have been recorded since biblical limes, but the underlying" reasons for these sudden surges in population are unknown, according to agricultural scientists and biologists who are studying insect populations and their control. "Population explosions of grasshoppers, for example, are definitely promoted by warm, dry weather during their hatching season," Dr. John E. Henry, research scientist with the USDA Rangeland Insect laboratory in Bozeman, Mont., says, "but we still don't have a good handle on exactly why (hese large outbreaks of insects occur. If we are to develop good strategies for controlling them, we need to Exclusively ours! The Mark V by Arrow in a luxurious new Dacron®/cotton blend & MARKV by Arrow 1* Contoured shape follows the contours ol your for incomparable comfort and good looks. 2» Exclusive "V" action gives a full half inch of comfort so the collar can move. 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In temperate en­ vironments such as the United States, agricultural scientists have made sub­ stantial progress toward understanding insect ecology and control. Scientists at the Rangeland laboratory, for instance, have nurtured a naturally occurring parasite of grasshoppers and are now testing its effectiveness in reducing infestations. Insect ecology in the tropics, however, has been sorely neglected. This is both unfortunate and ironic, according to Dr. Henk Wolda, a biologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research institute in Panama, because there are so many more insect species in the tropics than in tem­ perate climates. Moreover, he says,- the tropics have the highest rate of human population growth in the world, and insect infestations seriously aggravate existing food shortages, adding to the spread of chronic malnutrition and hunger. In both tropical and temperate climates, insects also are important carriers of debilitating and sometimes deadly diseases. Wolda came to Panama from the Netherlands in 1971 to learn more about insect populations in the tropics. "I quickly found out that I couldn't even ask the question 'why' populations fluctuated," he recalls, "unfil I had answered 'how' they fluctuated." "At that time, a popular theory among biologists proposed that tropical ecosystems were very stable, that insect populations there fluctuated little relative to their tem­ perate counterparts. Many of the scientific arguments were persuasive, but there was no data to back them up. I thought, 'Nature may not feel itself limited by the biologist's lack of imagination.' " As Wolda was to show later, the theory was wrong; insects in the tropics do indeed fluctuate in abun­ dance from yea*r to year, much as they do in tem­ perate zones. Wolda came to this con­ clusion slowly, after years of c o l l e c t i n g l i t e r a l l y thousands of insects, most belonging to the order Homoptera. The 32,000 species in this order feed on p l a n t s - - a n d f r e q u e n t l y csococoocosoocoeoco^ [POLICE TICKETS! Charles R. Dicker, 7615 South, no valid safety test. Richard H. Dierker, 3807 Fillmore, speeding, 47 mph in a 30 zone. * Patricia M. Gates, 8016 Ashwood, Wonder Lake, speeding, 53 mph in a 40 zone. Harry A. Hans, 1503 Lincoln, improper display of registration. Julie L. Huml, 1006 Bay road, no valid registration. Robert J. Tague, 4908 E. Lake Shore drive, Wonder Lake, speeding, 54 mph in a 40 zone. Karen M. Schiavone, 4512 Garden Quarter, speeding, 45 mph in a 30 zone. Ronald A. Burke, 2902 Regner road, speeding, 60 mph in a 40 zone. Richard A. Wirtz, 3205 Stillhill, speeding, 73 mph in a 30 zone, fleeing and at­ tempting to elude police, and no valid registration. Donald M. Alheit, 709 Logan, improper display of plates, no valid registration, improper lane usage and driving with a suspended license. Keith A. Belzer, 1716 Meadow lane," improper lane usage. Dabra L. Hagberg, 2808 Myang, no valid safety test. Mark W. Meyers, 1521 Lakeland, no valid registration, no valid driver's license and disobeyed a red light. Robert Hoskins, Jr., 1715 Pleasant, speeding, 51 mph in a 35 zone. Stephen H. Noskowicz, 4019 Lake Shore drive, Wonder Lake, speeding, 43 mph in a 30 zone. Anthony J. Panzica, 7430 Maple, Wonder Lake, spelling, 56 mph in a 40 zone. Gilbert G. Ruiz, 2614 Sterling, speeding, 45 mph in a 30 zone. David L. Walter, 905 Plymouth, speeding, 35 mph in a 20 zone. Henry J. Pulowski, 5218 P u l a s k i , e x p i r e d registration. Leonor M. Matheny, 2803 Shorewood, disobeyed a stop sign. Thomas L. Nowacki, 7212 /.l^nquin, Wonder Lake, damage them in the process- by sucking sap; they in­ clude such common insects as aphids, whiteflies, cicadas and leafhoppers. A rich source of insects was Barro Colorado island, the Smithsonian's 4,000-acre biological preserve in Gatun Lake, the fresh water lake that contains the Panama Canal. The forested island is home to many thousand^ of insect species in addition to numerous species of other animals and plants. Wolda captured the insects in "light traps"~one situated only 10 feet above the forest floor, another suspended from the treetops at 100 feet. Essentially, a light trap is nothing more than a light atop a long funnel with a. jar at the bottom filled with preservative. The traps operated every night, all night, all year long. At the same time, other scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research institute were collecting information on the overall environment as part of the Smithsonian's environmental Sciences project. The resulting collection, accumulated since 1973, is impressive, filling dozens of drawers with insects of every imaginable shape, size and color, all neatly mounted and labeled. "These studies show c o n c l u s i v e l y t h a t populations of insects in the tropics are not any more stable than insect populations in temperate zones," Wolda says em­ phatically. "As in the temperate regions, species of tropical insects may reach outbreak proportions one year and be at very low levels of abundance the next year." "We're still not sure exactly why this happens," he says, "but we have found that very small changes in rainfall strongly affect both the availability of foliage- the insect's food-and the size of the insect population. So it appears that population size is related to how much of the insect's food source is available at certain critical times in the insect's development. By combining information from temperate and tropical environments, scientists; hope to gain a global un^ derstanding of insect population explosions, an understanding that may someday give farmers the edge in their ane><»nt battle against insect speeding, 46 mph in a 35 zone. Burton M. Parsons, 2105 Delaware, speeding, 53 mph in a 30 zone. Deborah L. Turner, 911 Hilltop, improper lane usage. John M. Zisik, 2921 Virginia, improper vehicle suspension. . John W. Frett, 7125 Loras,. Wonder Lake, no valid registration. Donald L. Lasco, 4902 Maple Hill, disobeyed a stop sign. Daniel Schramm, 3407 Skyway, unsafe equipment and driving with an expired license. Cynthia L. Marcum, 9020 Oriole, Wonder Lake, speeding, 44 mph in a 30 zone. Charles Michael Miller, 600 Devonshire, speeding, 45 mph in a 25 zone. William R. Pinkonsly, 3111 W. Kinley, squeeling tires and transportation of open liquor in a motor vehicle. Donna K. Bowers, 2519 River View, speeding, 36 mph in a 25 zone and im­ proper display of registration. Roger B. Nelson, 1604 Meadow, improper backing. Christianne M. Clark, 3205 Kinley, speeding, 45 mph in a 30 zone. Dolores D. Steiner, 506 Mineral Springs, speeding, 43 mph in a 30 zone. * Anna E. Griesch, 8618 Coral road, Wonder Lake, speeding, 48 mph in a 30 zone. Sonia V. Minsky, 8503 Garrison, Wonder Lake, speeding, 43 mph in a 30 zone. John F. Smith, 3601 W. Clover, disobeyed a stop sign. Carol Westman, 603-A Devonshire, disobeyed a. stop sign. Debra L. Qtto, 4222 Crestwood, disobeyed a stop sign. Cheri L. Schmitt, 2101 Sunset, Spring Grove, failure to yield the right-of- way. Arnold R. Krysiak, Jr., 1101 Bonita, speeding, " 53 mph in a 40 zone. Chris L. Rogers, 4316 Shore, passing in a no passing zone. Janet M. Szamlewski, 1106 River terrace, no valid safetv test.