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SECTION t • PAGE I • PLA1NDE ALER - WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 10, 19M ll\ .MM I'll « (Nl|> sfoH psychologist .nt*s tiom the f jmil» Service <nd MenUI Health Clime of McHeni| Count). Law For Today. . . New Certified Firefighters Recently, eight members of McHenry Company One were awarded certification as State of Illinois certified firefighters. This certification reqnlres many hours of study and passing of a three-hour examination given by the state lire marshal's office. Shown presenting the certificates are Chief Glenn Peterson, far left, and District Trustee Harry Ferwerda, far right. Recipients of the certificates are. from left, BUI Sheehan, Tod Althoff, Ray Simon, Bob Zujewski, Tim WlrfS, Denny Smith, Tim Althoff and Tom Ruggero. STAFF PHOTO-WAYNE GAYLORD f Light One Candle 1 There's Plenty of Life In This Old World When speaking and listening to young people, I hear some familiar themes coming up over and again - negative themes: "There's going to be a nuclear war, it's inevitable," "I doubt if I'll live to be 40," "The world is all used up, we're running out of energy and everything else," "America is rich and it deliberately ignores the problem of world hunger." Group hysteria is a cop- out. Peer pressure opinions are a poor substitute for thinking. A nuclear war is not inevitable, not at all. The Russian and Chinese socialist republics, for all their claims of greatness, cannot produce enough food to feed their own people; they have to import food. Where do they get it? From the West. Food is only one issue. The interdependence of nations 4sfamoore advanced and complex than we imagine. Detente isn't a dream, it has become a necessity. Russia won't seriously risk war with us because we are the goose that lays the golden eggs, namely the food that keeps their inadequate supplies from depleting. Unrest behind the Iron Curtain is proven fact: wit­ ness the boat people, the Cuban refugees, the escapees into West Berlin. They don't need hunger. As for energy, planet earth has more energy than it needs for hundreds of years. Distributing it economically is the problem, but progress is steadily being made. The automobile's combustion engine will probably become obsolete. Patented in­ ventions already on the books are sufficient to turn it all around. As for hunger, there are hungry people in the world because Russia, China, and India import food instead of exporting it. India has about as much arable land per capita as France, but ever since its government adopted the doctrinaire policy of socialistic price fixing, it has sunk deeper into food production problems. It has been scientifically estimated that our planet has the resources and potential to feed as many as nine billion people. We are now at 4.5 billion and the latest report fromt the UN is that the population growth has been exaggerated. Maybe lots of young people won't live to be 40, but in most cases it will be because of their own self-destructive patterns of living. Young people who turn to drugs because of "the big bad world" aren't fooling anyone but themselves. God's precious gift of life is not to be wasted. Traffic Fatalities In Downward Trend Illinois highway traffic fatalities in October totalling 158 continued the downward trend, decreasing 16.4 percent from the 189 provieien&l statistics are released by the Department of Transportation and the 'Illinois state police. 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(Editor's" note: This is another in a series of especially written articles for McHenry county readers. Joseph Cools is a psychologist on the Family Service and Community Mental Health Center staff. This article is "The Joy of Giving".) My wife's family has a tradition of giving an orange in the children's stockings at Christmas time. It started in her grandparent's time when there was a shortage of both money and oranges and the giving of the oranges became a symbol of family love and togetherness. The joy obviously was in the giving, not in the gift itself, .and our family continues this gift of oranges as a symbol of love. Giving at Christmas time can be a joy or a chore, depending on the way you approach it. Giving as a sense of duty, or to appease, or because you would feel guilty if you didn't, is a sure way to make gift giving both a chore ana a source of frustration, giving as an expression of love and af­ fection makes the event a joy. There are several things you can do to enhance the joy Of giving at Christmas. First, you can do your own shopping-having someone else do the shopping takes away the personal touch that is one of the really gratifying aspects of giving. Another idea that can make giving even more special is to make a gift with you own hands, ingenuity and time (it also saves money 1) Everyone, including men and children are capable of making a really nice gift that will mean more to both the giver and the receiver. Recently I talked about the ability to take a risk. If you are able to risk buying or making a gift for a loved one not based on the price tag but on your own creativity and on your affection for the person receiving the gift, you may even recapture the indescribable feeling of a child at Christmas. If, however, Christmas gift giving is allowed to degenerate to a contest of who can buy the most ex­ pensive gift with the least amount of bother, it will be just another Christmas. ftext: Holiday Depression. Q. Laat year my father gave my brother a large sum of money and told him: "This is an advance on your inheritance." My father just died without a will, leaving my brother and me as the oiuy surviving relatives. My brother now claims one-half of estate. I say his share sh^jld bo reduced by the amount of the advance. Who's right? A. Your brother. The money he received last year is treated as a gift that does not affect his intestate share. If your father's intention was for the gift to reduce the inheritance, his intention should have been expressed in writing or so acknowledged in writing by your brother. Q. Is it legal for banks to post-date deposits? A. Yes. A bank is allowed by law to fix a cut-off hour of 2 p.m. or later for the han­ dling of money and for making entries on its books. The same law allows banks to treat deposits made after the cut-off hour as having been received at the opening of the next banking day. Inquire at your bank to see if they have a special window open all day for handling same-day transactions. --Illinois State Bar Association Submit questions to: Illinois State Bar Assocation, Illinois Bar Center, Springfield, III., 62701. (Answers may appear in columns. Personal an­ swers not possible). Cold Romance Being buried under a heavy snowfall without a square meal for eight months is enough to chill any romance. Not so with Belding's ground squirrels, small gray-brown rodents measuring about 8 to 10 inches long. After their long hi­ bernation, they dig through as much as 10 feet of snow to make their spring assignations in California's frigid Sierra Nevada mountains. Editor's Quote Book We are not here to get all we can out of life for our­ selves, but to try to make the lives of others happier. William Osier BUDDY'S WORKSHOP Frozen Water Pipes Last year our water pipes froze and we had to call a plumb­ er. Can you recommend steps to lake and the action required in preventing the same problem this year? Once a pipe has frozen or broken the very first step taken must be to shut off the water flow into the house, says Charlotte Womble, extension specialists in housing and home furnishings at North Carolina State University. This can usually be done at either the meter or at a cut-off valve near the outlet to the outside. If washers in this valve have worn out they have to be replaced before the valve can cut the water flow. Pipes wh^ch have frozen must be thawed before they break. The safest way for the homeowner to do this is by covering the pipes with rags and then pouring hot water over them. A warm heating pad might also be wrapped around the pipes. When using this method, first open a faucet and begin thawing at that point. The open faucet will permit steam to escape, thus reducing the chances of a build-up of dangerous pressure. Do not allow steam to condense and refreeze before it reaches the faucet. Thawing pipes with a blowtorch is dangerous and not recommended for the inexperienced. The water may get hot enough at the point where the torch is applied to generate sufficient steam under pressure to rupture the pipe. Steam from the break could cause severe scalding. If the pipe has broken, the best action is to call a plumber. 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