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\ . . W>'f? ' >•w ?• g**!0' ; >*- *•#' •,• " ,*- !i$'"i-v TOE McHENBY M4UNDEALEH • m--* i# '*"" ..V: ^ 19& iromc PULSE •(All M*aiil«atiMa fer tkU 4e- Variant nit ke ilgid by (He writer, tthtrffiit they will not he even questioning what they are RADAR EQUIPMENT^,' to be used for. The same way TTOrrn npn * /y<tfp we donate to all the tag sales, drives, etc., without knowing-, if any of our own friends could benefit by it, or if even a small part of it would be used to help a needy family in your own com- >l|kUlkci The PUladealer Im ftes. munity jn my experience I have IN r«4«r> «pre»s their oplii- ieained. otherwise, I would \ be .JPM nl IMM CMDiM.) I just as {unaware of it as others. _ . . , , , i I have begun to question if our I have been wondering howL^ ftre actuallyVing usedfor many readers and citizens rea-|the werp ^ieant for Uee_ that the donations made by OJ. does ,t mean more m for residents of McHenry eounty the racket8?? and who . work in the larger cities gan (Chicago, Elgin, Wauks>- etc) and who donate, USED TO LOCATE DAMAGE IR LINES Radar equipment is now being used by the Public Service Company of Northern Illinois to locate points of damage in high voltage transmission lines. Developed by engineers of. Public Service and the Commonwealth Edison companies, the new equippment, known as a radar fault locator, can ° fielp I also learned that an old age pensioner, living in the home of a relative, is allowed $26 a thrcugto their place of enipioy- j month ^ 0Q of which is allowed ment, to ty^mmunity Chest > foQd he othe,. $g f(n. cloth. that our own c^Onty does not1 benefit from these contributions, that it does Hot ffelp your f li ends and neighbors in need? •Recently-, I have had reason to ask for' aid for my father, Who fractured his hip • Jul'v 5, 1952. »He has been a self-support- Ing citizen all of his 84 yjs., and receives a small railroad pens- Jon since his retirement in 1938. He was hospitalized five weeks ing and incidentals. With theSte high prices, it doesn't seem to me that $5 a week would feed cne person. In my case, as well as many others, (people who ar6 caring for their parents) we do not have incorties sufficient to more than-care for. our own. family, struggling through the high rent, prices, taxes and what not, not considering the medical ex- With *th».,.s • hu-i p - .i nj• ury - I , • . .to ^pe n•s eis that"• oc:c ur from time t:» *iit my job. to care for >mi on have no incomp now. Since IDs from hos-Jj am carjng for nfy father, we are dependent on a friend of lit my job to care for iimi on is return home from' the hosfital. He is still bedfast arid fO- (jfuires constant caie. » I wrote the i ailroad company j|t>r which he worked twenty-two years in hopes that they might have some insurance to help Cover these expenses. I received mine to keep up -our expenses. Yet, I was refused State help for the medical care and expenses for my dad. He, who never asked, nor received any public aid in al) his life, and only asked pinpoint a damaged spot in an overhead transmission line or an areas where mosf of the heavy Veloped the present model after three years of experimenting with pilot models. Recently the latest model was turned over to a parts manufacturer and six duplicates were made. The manufacturer was given the privilege of producing additional sets for use by other utilities In' the country. While radar has been used for several years on overhead transmission lines the application to underground cable is relatively new. It is particularly valuable in some of the more congested underground cable in of minutes. The two Utilities, which furnish electricity in Chicago and more than 500 other communities in the northern part of the a matter1 transmission lines are underground. The models now in use here were developed to fit the Even Turkeys Changed Since First Thanksgiving Feast 331. Years Ago Getting ready for Thanksgiving is a lot easier today than it was when the first Thanksgiving Day was celebrated 331 years ago in a bleak, New England wilderness. Preparing the Thanksgiving meal in the old days was a lot of hard work for those pioneer1 housewives. They had to gather pumpkins from the fields, berries from wilderness patches, wild fruits from the Woods, grind their corn for coriibread stuffing and probably aig their own needs of the overhead and under-1 potatoes. ground lines of the local system. But the toughest job was the The C o m m o n w e a l t h E d i s o n - state, now have seven sets of.Fublic Service system has ap the radhr fault locators. A set weighs less than 100 pounds and can be transported in a , light truck or even a passenger car. The rada^- equipment dperates like that used by the Army and Navy for detecting airplanes or other objects, except that its impulses trftvel over transmission wires instead of over air waves. When a fault develops in a transmission line and the location of the trouble is not known, the fault locator is attached to one of the terminals of the line in a substation or generating station and the impulse travels to the point, of damage then returns to the point of sending. a reply, stating, they not j for aid for his medical and hos-lThe intricate device translates Miy such benefits for the retired pital care. The result is, it had pensioner but I should appeal * . referred to to the Community Chest or the rererred to 0)d age pension in this locality lor assistance. I found that the Community the county supervisor to take care of. My dad was forced :to retira (by our laws) when he was still Chest does not extend in Mc-! perf*ctIy f we" and ,ca*able °! working for several years. I don't think it is fair, and I think the state of Illinois should Vlir m fctock fetanc Henry county nor have they any office or funds. Despite the fact that folks who live in these surrounding towns contribute to these funds, there is no such funds for people living in Mc- 'enry county. We are not recogized. I believe we should organize a charitable fund, so our 9*vn people will be assisted in time of tragedy and need and let the larger cities look out for themselves. The receptionist at the Red Cross office in- Woodock advised me of the non-exce of the Community Cheat because they could never com* to $n understanding- as to who would be president, etc., of an organization for the Community Chest. Next I called at the office of the old age assistance in Woodstock. There, I was advised that if this medical care had already been given, they could not assist in any past medical bills. What are people supposed to do? Make arrangements or plan an injury or an illness or wait until they get on the rolls of the old age pulsion before obtaining the services of a professional man in an emergency such as this and make a new law and be a little more considerate of our old folks and needy people. Yesterday I heard Gov. Stevenson say in his campaign speech to the effect that the old people were cared for in their old age and after they were no longer able to work. Is this what he calls giving them comfort and security in their declining years? I suppose he thinks they aren't supposed to be sick and suffer for a long period of time. Are they supposed to just die suddenly to oblige the State and relieve them of the possibility of hospital and doctor fees? TTiat's how it looks to me. iurthermore, from here on out en I have any donation to the time taken for the impulse to go out and return into distance anti enables the operator to .measure the approximate location of the fault. Workmen are then dispatched to repair the damage. Heretofore it has been necessary to locate a fault in an overhead line by patrolling the line and finding the spot b$ visual observation. Locating damage in an underground line has been more difficult. Electro-mechanical devices have been used but they were time-consuming. In cases of complete breaks in the cable, they were of no valiie. In such cases it has been necessary up to this time to cut the middle of the cable at a manhole and test it in both directions and continue these cuts until the fau^t is located. Under this time-consuming and costly method, as many as seven cuts might be required to isolate the damaged section. The two utilities have the radar equipment stationed at logive it will go to the Salvation cations where it is handy to Army. They are extending theiir most of the transmission lines, services to, people in our local1 Two are located in Chicago, and 'the others at Joliet, Maywood, Dixon, Kewanee, and Pekin. Those at Pekin and Kewanee are chiefly for use on the intricate network of 138,000-volt overcommunities. I am not selfish but I will not contribute to the Red Cross, Community Chest Fund or any other disaster fund unless I can see some of my friends and relatives and neigh-' head lines supplying the area bors in our community benefit southwest of Chicago and, if many others similar to this wi^out fiShtjng to get n^ded could be u*>d also on case ?. I think we need a new law made where some sort of program is worked out to cope with emergencies such as these. help When they actually need it I have always given my share to any and all organizations with a- tag, feather, bucket or I am going to write to our,hox' ®'c Hereafter, I will be i congressman, and state my ase to him. I am quite sure my case isn't the only one in existance and I would liike to hear from others. Furthermore. I would like to know what the 2 percent sales tax is being used for. It started several years ago but if I remember correctly, this sales tax was attached to be used for needy people. I'm sure with prices as they are today-and the amount of food that is being bought, there must be plenty of sales tax \ flowing somewhere. With prosperity, maybe we have forgotten what it's to be used for. We go on spending money and paying the taxes without little hesitant where my contribution goes. I wonder how many other people share my feelings. I believe that the suburban workers who contribute to organizations would like to know that some little part of it would be used in their own county. I wculd like to hear other people's opinion on this subject. ELVA DUNN P. O. Box 324 McHenry, TH. HARDEST BUSIEST A CHEAPEST WORKERS IN TOWN! PLAWDEALER WANT ADS the 147-mile long, 230,000-volt line connfcting Powerton generating station at Pekin with Crawford station in Chicago. The utilities' engineers' deproximately 4,000 miles of heavy transmission line ranging from 34,500 volts to 230,000 VQlta. • Out" of The Paft *, It was out of the frying pan and into the fire for a hapless woman dTiver in Jacksonville, Fla., who, caught, in a line of traffic on a railroad track with a passenger train roaring toward her, escaped by stepping on the gas, hitting the car in front of her, which hit another, which, in turn, hit another. She was promptly arrested and charged with reckless driving. Employees' Rights A new kind of precedent may have been set when 150 employees of a talc company in Gouverneur, N.Y., got a contract granting them not only a wage increase and two additional paid holidays a year, but also exclusive hunting and fishing rights on the company's 3,000- acre game preserve in the Adirondacks. turkey, even though wild turkeys abounded in the nearby forests. ' The wild tufkey was a bony, long-legged creature witn gamy flavor that wouldn't suit I present-day palates. It had so little meat and was so light it was capable of flying long distances. Picking and cleaning one was a big job in itself. The housewife today has it all over her Pilgrim ancestors. She can buy the makings of the en-, tire holiday feast at her favorite market, including a turkey that has been scientifically bred and developed to fit modern tastes and pocketbooks. Turkeys now being grown have little , resemblance to their wilderness counterparts. They are . compact, tender, broad-breasted birds designed to fit ovens as well as appetites. While turkey has been the traditional Thanksgiving and C h r i s t m a s h i r d t h r o u g h t h e years, it was only in the last quarter-century that year-round demand has grown continuously. This year's crop, estimated at fifty-nine million birds, has exceeded all previous records. The a v e r a g e A m e r i c a n now e a t s twico as much turkey as he did a dozen years ago. In the years between 1935-39, per capita consumption of turkey was 2.6 pounds as compared to 5.6 pounds estimated for 1952. Development of smaller .turkeys is responsible for a growing share of the year-round volume. , J People like their turkey fin different ways in different sections of the country. There is a growing trend toward ready-tocook turkeys; ^both fresh and fresh frozen, especially during the holiday seasons./The armed forces (a£e sending ready-to-cook turkeys* overseas thi# year. Some people, particularly In New York City apd the northeastern states, continue to prefer regular dreaded birds. In many markets the housewife can buy a turkey already prepared for roasting and in some stores she may buy separate parts such as breats, second joints, drumsticks, giblets, necks and backs, and smoked turkey. The industry also is cutting up large birds into different forms and offering then%. as boned-androlled, steaks, sandwich spreads, and white meat or dark, or both. Cooked pieces also come with a bag of gravy ready to be heated and poured over the meat. And also available' in some places is poultry's .challenge tc the hamburger--the turkeyburger. I Complete Mne of Lee'e Poultry Remedies at Wattles Drug Store, McHenry. S-tf Here and there stump* of Western red cedar slill stand abovs > Pacific Northwest wsterway*. keeping marks made by the primitive axes of Indian canoe makers and house builders. Yet younger surviving stumps bear the signs 6f the white man's broadax, which held its own in the 1650s, when sh|re timber was being felled around Puget Sound and along the Columbia to provide lumber, piling and, poles tor California's gold-seeking ^Egqoauts. ^ . * t - • v . \Mere Bllndae^fi. * Since Iff^g there has been a rsharp Increase in blindness from prenatal and hereditary causes. 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