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SECTION 1 - PAGE «- PLA1NDEALER • WEDNESDAY. MAY »11 • PLAINDEALER --"N, Editorial Opinion Electric Cars A newsapaper story recently told of an electric car club in Ohio, which meets once a month in Strongville, a Cleveland suburb, and contains some seventy members. Some of the electric cars are antiques but some are new; one member built his for $600, by scrounging parts and doing some careful bargain-hunting. Most of the cars run about SO miles on a battery charge, and are quiet, dependable and inexpensive to operate. Generally speaking, they can attain a speed of about SO m.p.h. This is not the only such club in America. There are others in California and here in Illinois, and perhaps in other states. But the Electric Vehicle association of Ohio is a pioneer and showing the way, and its members are not waiting on further breakthroughs and scientific advances. They are driving, electrically, in the traditional American innovative spirit . To contact the Ohio group, write the association at 445 Bassett Road, Bay Village, Ohio 44140. Privacy Rights In recent decades much has been made of unjustified invasions of individual privacy. Champions of the right of privacy have sprung up everywhere. 'The reaction to admittedly unwarranted invasions into citizens' privacy has become so strong, in fact, it threatens to go too far. Police have already been handicapped in trying to protect the public welfare and uphold law and order, in some cases. The latest kick of rights of privacy concerns, rightly so, computer data and the use of monitoring of employees by big corporations, often by telephone wiretapping-as they perform their jobs. And over-reaction is surfacing in this field. Employers have a right to listen in on conversations of their employees while they are performing their assigned jobs. Employees have always been watched. Today, however, telephone-computer systems are used rather than the boss or foreman walking about the shop The shop today is often too Employees have legitimate grievances in cases where their private lives and time are monitored, or where too much private information is distributed without restraint by their employers to almost anyone. ." But their current gripe- and that of organizations pushing this cause-about being monitored while on the job may be misguided. Sheriff's Report APRIL-11M PRISONER COUNT FOR THE MONTH Adult Males Received 166 Adult Females Received 10 Juvenile Males Received 1 Juvenile Females Received 0 Total Prisoners Received 177 Total Prisoners Discharged .190 Average Prisoner Count Per Day 44.1 Prisoner Records Prepared .177 Warrants Served 164 Court Processes Received 678 Court Processes Served .543 Bailiffs In Court 153 Persons Taken To Court.. * 179 Meals Served For The Month 2,930 Persons Conveyed To Other Institutions 8 Mileage Conveying Persons 674 Mileage Serving Court Processes 5,584 Mileage Patrolling and Investigating 102,801 ACCIDENT INVESTIGATIONS HANDLED Total Number of Accidents 136 Personal Property 81 Bodily Injury 54 Fatalities 1 Warning Tickets Issued ..536 Tickets Issued 178 SHERRIFF McHENRY COUNTY ARMS STRUGGLE mmwamBBKS SPENDING Roll Call Report (Your Congressmen's Vote) Washington - Here's how area members of Congress vfrere recorded on major roll call votes May 8 through May 14. HOUSE -- - MX Missile - By a vote of 42 for and 319 against, the House refused to cut $1,8 bullion from next year's Pentagon budget for reseraching and developing the proposed MX intercontinental missile. The amendment was offered to HR 6674, a defense spending bill later passed and sent to the Senate. Hie BIX system is to be the nation's next generation of nuclear missiles, for defense or attack. The missiles may be housed in underground launch sites in western states. R«i>. Ronald Dellums, D-Calif., who favored deleting money for the missile, predicted the MX will prove too expensive and win "die of its own weight." Rep. John Seiberling, D-Ohio, an opponent of cutting the s funds, said that by developing the MX while negotiating with the Soviet Union, the U.S. would retain the "option of having an adequate counter to their new generation of missiles." Members voting "yea" oppose the MX. Hep. Robert McClory, R-13, voted "nay". Rep. John Anderson, R-16, did not vote. Food Stamps - The House approved, 345 for and 56 against, an emergency appropriation of $2.5 billion to keep the food stamp program alive through fiscal i960, which ends Sept. 30. The Department of Agriculture provides the stamps to the poor to increase purchasing power at food stores. About 21.4 million persons benefit from the stamps. The average recipient gets about $35 monthly in purchasing power at grocery stores. . 0 Rep. Richard Boiling, D-Mo., a supporter, said that without the emergency funding "the secretary of agriculture will be forced to order states to suspend all food stamp benefits, effective June 1, to millions of poor and near poor Americans who cannot afford an adequate diet." Rep. Robert Michel, R-Ill., an opponent, said: "We all know about the amount of waste, fraud and abuse in the fdocTstamp programs." Members voting "yea" want to keep the food stamp program operational through Sept. 30 or later. McClory voted "yea". Anderson did not vote. Free Food Stamp*?-By a vote of 112 for and 289 against, the House refused to resume government charges for food stamps. Since 1979, individuals and families fitting the government's definition of poverty have been able to get them for free. The vote came during debate on S1309, a food stamps funding bill later signed into law. Rep. Steven Symms, R-Idaho, a supporter, said that before the purchase requirement was abolished the food stamp • program cost $5.5 billion annually. "Now, without the purchase requirement, it is nearly $11 billions." Rep. Fred Richmond, D-N.Y., an opponent, said that Reinstituting the purchase requirement would "actually reverse our entire food stamp program, increase fraud, increase error rate, and take the poorest of the poor people Off the food stamp rolls."". Members voting "yea" want the government to resume charging for food stamps. McClory and Anderson did not vote. SENATE Food Stamps - The Senate approved, 70 for and 18 against, an appropriation of $3 billion to continue the food stamp program through Sept 30. The House approved a similar measure (see preceding votes), and the emergency money was headed for final congressional approval. Sea George McGovern, D -S.D., a supporter, called food stamps "a humanitarian program" that meets "the needs of die hungry and the poor...the most vulnerable citizens in our society." Sen. James McClure, R-Idaho, an opponent, said "one out of every ten Americans is now drawing food stamps...That has to be a sign of something basically and fundamentally wrong in our society and with this kind of a program." Senators voting "yea" want to fund the food stamp program at least through Sept. 30. Sens. Adlai Stevenson, D, and Charles Percy, R. voted "yea". Federal Pensions - The Senate killed, 50 for and 43 against, a proposal to preserve the current semi-annual cost-of-lving pension increases for retired federal workers, including congressmen. The proposal, which would have cost taxpayers $400 million in 1981, was offered to the fiscal 1981 congressional budget blueprint (H Con. Res. 307). This vote means the cost-of-living hike is to be awarded only once annually. Sea Ernest Hollings, D -S.C., who favored killing the amendment, said that to balance the budget Congress "must do away with expensive luxuries like the semi-annual increases...." Sea Charles Marthias, R.-Md., who opposed killing the semi-annual increases, said "The Senate cannot condone holding the federal retirees hostage in its push to balance the budget" Members voting "yea"' favor only one cost-of-living increase per year for federal pensioners. Stevenson and Percy voted "yea". Building Permits The McHenry County department of Building and Zoning has issued the following building permits in the month of April, 1980. Township Permits Alden 5 Algonquin 23 Burton 6 Chemung 2 Coral 3 Dorr 13 Dunham „ 5 Grafton 5 SUNFLOWER POWER Chairman LeRoy Day of the University of Missouri's agricultural engineering department says sunflower oil may be the best alternate to diesel fuel. "We're op- For Your Information Deer friends. Too often. well-meaning pooplo say. "Bo bravo. Don't cry. Don't toko It so hard." But why not. Toars aro a natural tribute that can bo paid to thf ona who is go no. How ho wishos the loved one were still alive I Emotions of grief aro normal reactions, necessary for health. Respectfully, 2i* • tjQi PETER M.J LISTEN & SON funeral home Greenwood 4 Hartland 5 Hebron Marengo 1 McHenry 47 Nunda 23 Richmond 5 Riley 4 Seneca 10 Total 161 April, 1978 179 timistic about sunflower oil because making the oil is a relatively simple process and engines can run on it without modification," he said. ARE YOU NEW IN McHenry Area? Do You Knout Someone New? WE WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND A ROYAL WELCOME TO EVERY NEWCOMER TO OUR AREA!!!!! CALL JOAN STULL 385-5418 LORRAINE MONANAN 385-5475 V *o. °»u • wntmnn KM* YOUR MEA-flOYM. WELCOME DOES IT BEST H0-HUM • '• \ V ' \ Mr §' • ffliiif f,Urn M w IT jffflll Hmfrtl -fp$| •ML rfirfii wt 1r YmSmk p i (Fit# State Code to Chart: Y-Yes, N-No, A-Absent, P-Present HOUSE DISTRICT 32 H-1340 H-3017 H-3005 H-3092 H-3314 Donald Deuster, N P P Y N R-Mundelein Daniel Pierce, Y Y Y Y N D-Highland Park N Betty Lou Reed, Y P P Y v R-Deerfield DISTRICT 33 Thomas Hanahan, Y A A Y N( D-McHenry Cal Skinner, N Y Y Y Y R-Woodstock • . Richard Burnidge, N A A Y • -- A R-Elgin ---- • , , The following is a roll call of area legislators: 1--H-1340, Rep. J.T. Meyer, R-Chicago. Bill creates a 16-member Compensation Review board to set salaries for state legislators, judges and the elected constitutional of­ ficers of the state. The board would be members of the public appointed by' legislative leaders. Factors to consider in setting salaries are the skill required, time required, opportunity for other earned income, the value of such services if performed in the private sector based on the responsibility and discretion required in the office and the economy of the State. The board would hold four hearings around Illinois. Salaries would be set by a simple majority. Passed 89- 59, goes to Senate. 2--H-3017, Rep. Penny Pullen, R-Park Ridge. Bill would revoke the right of a political party to conduct "blind primaries" in which a candidate for delegate to a national nominating con­ vention does not have to declare his preference for a presidential candidate. Passed 115-4), goes to Senate. 3--H-3005, Rep. Josephine Oblinger, R-Sherman. Measure to create Adult Abuse Study commission consisting of six legislative and nine public members- four of them at least 60 years old--to study abuse and neglect *of senior citizens, report to the General Assembly, and make recommendations for ap­ propriate legislation. Passed 115-0, goes to Senate. 4--H-3092, Reps. Donald Totten, R-Hoffman Estates and Thaddeus Lechowicz, D- Chicago. Measure provides for automatic adjustment of the Illinois income tax standard exemption to reflect inflation. The stan­ dard deduction of $1,000 would be multiplied by the ratio of the Consumer Price Index -of the taxable year divided by the CPI for the twelve-month period aiding June 30,1979. The CPI is the average price of goods and services commonly bought by working-class families in urban areas. Passed 131-22, goes to Senate. 5--H-3314, Rep. Lee Daniels, R-Elmhurst. Bill would make anyone who causes the death of an un­ born baby which is capable of existence independent of the mother, with or without life-support systems, subject to Illinois murder statutes, except for doctors who p e r f o r m a b o r t i o n s . Currently, under Illinois law, a person who causes the death of an unborn baby, cannot be tried for murder. Both "pro-life" and "pro- abortion" forces were displeased by the bill and 53 representative!/, voted Safety Hints BBBBBOBBBBBBr BY ALAN J. DIXON Secretary of State In preparation for the hot summer ahead, your car should be checked thoroughly to ensure good performance.Winter driving is hard on vehicles, and there are a number of things that you or your service attendant should inspect, if you haven't done so already. 1.) Battery: Look for corrosion on cables and terminals, a common cause of starting trouble. If your ' battery uses water, check the level and add distilled water as heeded. When working near a battery, be sure there is no open flame, and do not smoke. Batteries emit explosive hydrogen gds. 2.) Fluids: Check engine oil, transmission oil, power steering fluid and coolant. Add as needed. It is recommended that you keep your radiator full of a mixture of 50 percent an­ tifreeze and 50 percent water for warm weather driving to p r e v e n t o v e r h e a t i n g . Caution: Never remove the radiator pressure cap when the engine is hot. 3.) Drive belts and hoses: Frayed or worn belts should be replaced. Inspect all hoses for leaks, softness, cracks or blisters. Replace if necessary. Tighten hose clamps. A bad hose easily can leave you stranded. (A copy of the Rules of the Road will be sent to you upon request. Write to Alan J. Dixon, Secretary of State, Springfield, 111., 62756.) SPEAKING OF AGRICULTURE Quite a few young farmers in Illinois are gearing up their minds and voices while they're busy putting in this year's crop. They-re getting ready for Farm Bureau's annual Young Farmers Discussion meet. The event provides young Farm Bureau leaders an op­ portunity to develop speaking skills. This benefits them in particular, but it also benefits agriculture in general. "Present." The biU faUed 56- 40, but a majority of the House called for a recon­ sideration of the vote, so the bill might be voted on again later. EARL R. WALSH t JACK WALSH INS. Fir*, Auto. farm. Lit* fafuwitiin KIIASIE COMPANIES 441* W. It*. IN.McHmit MS-MOO DONS CONWAY AUTOLMFHK State f am las. Co. MlfW. ilmSIr** McHMff. 111. *5-7111 DLlfMUINlTM M3 N. lknmo»4 M.. McHanry 't« Maminad C*irtt« lama* Man.. Taat.. Ttnwa .rrl. 4-4pat Taat.. than.. M. f-fpm tat. 9:10 taMt HtiM»4l»lai M-mt McflEJftY COUNTY OFFICE MAMNES SALES SERVICE IKCNTAIS Mon.-Sat. M:N Friday fU 9:00 ft Grant St.. Crystal laka Fhaa* «St-1M4 Form Equipment George P. Freund, Ine. 1 Cos* • Now Holland 4102.W. Crystal LakeRd.. McHenry Bus. 385-0420 Res. 385-0227 l l R E U I RADIAL TJRES FOR ALL CARS Europa Motors, Inc 2318 Rte. 120 815-385-0700 wu! • # W St our auici quick-action copy center. FINEST QUALITY COPIES MADE ON XEROX EQUIPMENT Saa us, also, for ovary kind al Printing Naadl 3909 W. MAIN TRAILERS HORSf S CATTLE TRAILERS » DUMP FUTBEDSIM HAULERS TRAILER HITCHES (CXFflftT INSTALLATION) RUNNING BOARDS • SRAOCN WINCHES ADAMS ENTERPRISES Kim Rte Iff McMeWf It ItS-SBS ftttt McHENRY. JUINOIS - 3*5-0063 SERVICE LINE McHENRY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 395-4300 FAMILY SERVICE B MENTAL HEALTH CLINIC 3409 W. Waukegan Road McHenry 385 6400 PARENTAL STRESS LINE OF McHENRY Meeting Place:McHenry County 24 hours a day. 7 days a week Call 815-344-3944 Parents Anonymous meetings on Wednesday. STATE CHAMBER GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS HOTLINE 217-522-5514 * FEDERAL GOVERNMENT GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION 202-755-8660 Hours 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. week days (Ever had a problem involving the tederal government and not known where to call? And then been given a runaround or referrals by persons who meant well but didn't know how to help? Ten specialist available at this center.) NATIONAL RUN AWAY SWITCHBOARD * Illinois Phone: 800-972-6004 (For confidential conversations on problems dealing with run­ away children ) MOVING HOTLINE Phone 800-424 9213 (Complaints about interstate moving by companies, buses or trains. Sponsored by Interstate Commerce commission) CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION PHONE 800-638-2666 (For questions or complaints on products ranging Irom toys to ovens) NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION Phone 800-424 9393 (Answers questions about automobile salety delects or wheather a particular model has ever been recalled. Valuable for those interested in buying a used car) ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES Child Abuse Center McHenry County (312)546-2150 CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION 800-638 2666 (Operates five national lines. Answers inquires about, or repor­ ting on. the safety of products from kitchen appliances to children's toys.) NATIONAL SOLAR HEATING ANO COOLING INFORMATION CENTER 800-523-2929 1 P.O. Box 1607. Rockville Md 20850 (Dispenses information on solar systems lor heating and cooling to anyone from architects to home owners looking for a sun powered hcA-water system) CONSUMER PROTECTION DIVISION 312-793 3580 Chicago, ill. BIRTHRIGHT Pregnant? Need Help? Counseling Service. 385 2999 24 hour Answering Service. YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU FOR McHENRY COUNTY 471* W. Elm St.. McHenry Phone: 344-3240 24 hour Crisis Intervention and Confidential Counseling lor youth and families. Are you c oncer end about your angry leelinqs toward your children9 24-hour Parentol Stress Line 344 3944 ILLINOIS STATE CHAMBER HOTLINE Plionc 217 522 5514 Amwei to questions an governmmr,> lequtationt • t MENTAL HEALTH 1-B00-Bt2-B*00 (Crisis Cantor Lino for McHenry Co. 24-Hour Emergency number and professional staff will newer your coil. ipon»oiiin ofancy McHanry County Comprahentlv Man to! Health Service Sytom