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SECTION 2 - PAGE 6 - PLAINDEALER-WEDNESDAY. JUNE 16,l»7f EDITORIALS Drowning Time Already drownings are occurring in most sections of the nation- in the ocean and in lakes and streams. The water of Pistakee Bay in our own community has claimed a victim. One precaution swimmers should observe is to try to swim in groups, especially in the oceans. This offers any swimmer in distress immediate help. It is always shocking to read of persons who are unable to swim going out in boats without life preservers-and many drown in this way every year. Others underestimate currents or their ability or distance. And such mistakes are often paid for with life itself. Language Barrier The Attorney General recently decided the Voting Rights act requires 513 cities and counties in more than half the states to publicize and print ballots in more than one language. He is therefore requiring all these cities and counties to print election notices, instructions, ballots, etc., in Spanish, Korean, Japanese, Filipino, Chinese, Alaskan or Indian, as well as in English. intention is no doubt good. But no one did this for the Germans, Scandinavians, Italians, blacks, etc., who came to this country earlier. They integrated into the American main stream, helped make America a strong nation of one language. The effect of this edict will unfortunately be, in some areas, to postpone the learning of English. Citizens will not be required to learn English, so that they can read the Constitution, the laws of the land, the country's history. This, in effect, encourages ethnic groups to stay separate from the American mainstream, not to learn the national tongue. It seems to be a self-defeating proposition, though well meant. Father's Day It was in 1910 that Mrs. John Bruce Dodd was the driving force in starting Americans to celebrating Father's day. Since then the third Sunday in June has been observed as Father's day. The sympathetic guidance of "Dad" is important in the proper development of a child. Too often fathers, weighed down with the responsibility of making a living, fail to devote enough of those precious moments to the youngsters. In the words of Frank H. Chaley, "Character is largely caught, and the father and the home should be the great sources of character infection." A. G. Edwards & Sons, Inc. Weekly Market Review Stock market action this past week was just plain bad. The higher price-earnings multiple growth stocks remained under steady pressure while secondary growth stocks were sold down despite individual merit and multiples which in many cases seemed to discount their imminent demise. What few pockets of strength did occur seemed due to institutional buying out of a need to put a little money somewhere rather than the start of serious buying programs. The decline broadened and new downside breakouts increased. Unfortunately, selling pressure seemed very business-like and did not show the volume nor panic characteristics which are often needed to turn things around. The environment in which this worsening market action occurred was also disturbing. Technically, stocks had declined enough the prior three weeks to be short term oversold and thus ready to at least attempt some sort of a rally given almost any excuse. Two pleasant surprises provided more than enough fuel to scare the Bears and enthuse the Bulls but they were unable to get anything going. Investors received unexpected good news as the wholesale price index rose only 0.3 percent in May as compared to a 0.8 percent jump in April. Also, the bond market was firm. The markets inability to stage any kind of a rally but to instead show deteriorating action was a clear indication of a correction that has further to go in either price, time, or both. One positive aspect of the market's increasingly poor performance is that it does bring us closer to a real flush-out which is often needed to end a correction. It is likely that bearishness will have to increase further, stocks go lower, and cash reserves increase before we Bulls can hope for an up market. However, the market still acts like it is correcting our January party rather than the start of a new Bear. Selling pressure is now credited to some of the following: Anticipation of a Democratic victory in November; Concern about inflation and interest rates; Renewed fears that New York City and-or state will not make it; A general feeling of nervousness. If the fundamental outlook proves to be as positive as we believe, bearish conclusions about unknowns and uncertainties will become Bullish and stocks will be bought. The market has become very oversold and a technical bounce sometime this week is probable but we still see little evidence that the Bull has come back to life. Stocks Appear Larger Crop Year Change May Cause Misinterpretation Community Evaluation Of School Recall June 100 Years Ago "Far mors using the Department of Agricultures June supply and demand reports should make special note of a change in the crop year for wheat, oats, barley, ryetfnd flaxseed." according to Jim Lucas, county executive director, McHenry county ASCS office. "Because data for these crops are reported on the basis of a new marketing year, ef­ fective June 1. a month earlier than in the past, it may be difficult to make comparisons with prior years," Lucas said "Stocks. or beginning carryover of old crop to the new marketing year, will bo larger than would have normally been reported at the beginning of the former July 1 crop year since usage for June will not be ac­ counted for at the end of the new reporting, period. On the surface, this makes the beginning stocks appear larger than would be expected, and could he misinterpreted. Farmers should be alert to the change when the new marketing year reports are released on June 22 and 23, Lucas said. The former marketing year was July 1-June 30. Congress changed the wheat marketing year to account for an in­ creasing amount of new crop wheat harvested and used prior to July 1 Marketing years for oats, barley, rye and flaxseed were adjusted to make the reporting period for these commodities the same as for wheat Lucas said upcoming USDA statistical reports for these commodities will carry com­ parisons showing what stocks would have been at the end of each of the past ten marketing years under both the old and new reporting systems. Biologists have discovered that the social status of a wolf can be determined by the way it carries its tail The pack leader carries his tail high in the air, while a subordinate wolf will carry its tail low or even bet­ ween its legs. The Gift Dad Will Remember! Give Dad a Gift Certificate And He Can Choose His Own Book. HARDCOVER & PAPERBACK *jfie 3ookmazk ̂ rr' 3438 W. ELM ST. McHENRY, ILL. 815-385-8444 During the 1975-76 school year, McHenry high school has asked students, parents and staff to respond to a questionnaire which will help to evaluate the high school program. The questionnaire was created and administered under the direction of the District 156 Long Range Planning committee. This committee is made up of community volunteers who serve in an advisory role to aid the district in planning. The committee at this time is attempting to complete its evaluation by seeking responses from the community- at-large. The questionnaire below has previously been administered to parents in both the high school and grade schools, high school students and high school staff. Citizens are asked to complete the questionnaire and return it to Tom Joynt, McHenry District 156, 3926 W. Main, McHenry, II., 60050. Responses may be returned by mail or feel free to leave completed evaluation at the receptionist's desk at the above address. A reminder, anyone who has completed a questionnaire either as a parent, student or staff member should not complete another form. Responses should be returned by July 1. Unless other directions are provided, check the response for each item which best represents your feelings. QUESTIONNAIRE 1. What curriculum areas do you feel contribute most to a student's development? Check -Agriculture -Art Business Education -Foreign Language -History -Home Economics -Industrial Arts -Math -Music -Physical Education - --Reading --Science Social Studies ( e . g . S o c i o l o g y Psychology) -Speech -Writing -don't know 2. Do you feel McHenry high school helps students to become responsible individuals? Yes No Don't know 3. Do you feel that McHenry High school's discipline is: too strict adequate not adequate 4. Do you feel McHenry high school's programs prepare students for the future? yes no Don't know 5. Should District 156 offer more vocational courses? yes no don't know 6. Should the regular high school program be offered to all students in Use evening? yes no ------don't know 7. During the time a student is in school, but not in class, he-she should have: required study halls. free study time, a combination of required -- don't know study halls and free study time, 8. Smoking is presently allowed in specified areas outside of the school building (with parents' written consent in the case of freshmen and sophomores). Should students be allowed to smoke: on school grounds outside of the building, -in an identified smoking area outside of the school bulling, -not pt all, 1. don't know 9. Is the school bus transportation meeting the needs of the community? yes no don't know 10. Do you feel that the present grading system used in District 156 (A, B, C, D,F) provides parents and students witn an understanding of how a particular student is doing? yes no don't know 11. Should students receive school credit for supervised community service (e.g. tutoring, hospital volunteer work...)? yes no don't know Comments: l E (Special from the Illinois State Historical Society, Old State Capitol, Springfield. U. 62706) High school and college commencements were the most notable state-wide events in Illinois during June, 1876. But there were also active preparations for celebrating the July 4 Centennial, and a Chicago hotel was the scene of the one of the most bizarre suicdies ever committed in the state. The newspapers also devoted considerable space to that year's national political con­ ventions, according to a check of the century-old files in the Illinois State Historical library in Springfield. Rutherford B. Hays and William A. Wheeler were nominated for President and Vice-President on June 16 at the Republican convention in Cincinnati. The Democrats met later in the month at St. Louis and named Samuel J. Tilden and Thomas A. Hendricks. Incidentally, the Hayes- Wheeler ticket won in a con­ troversial election which was settled by a special electoral commission. All the papers of 1876 referred to both high school and college graduates as "young ladies" and "gentlemen" and their numbers followed a pattern: there were very few boys in the high school graduating classes but they far out-numbered the girls finishing college. At the State Industrial university (as the University of Illinois was then called) the graduating class of thirty in­ cluded one young lady; at the University of Chicago there was one woman (Mrs. Lily Gray) in a class of fourteen; Illinois Wesleyan graduated nine gentlemen and three ladies; while only at Blackburn university, Carlinville, did the ladies outnumber the men (five to four). Illinois college had an all-male graduating class of nine, while Illinois Female college, also at Jacksonville, graduated twenty-three. The Chicago Inter-Ocean failed to list the thirty members of the Northwestern university class by sex but it did publish a list of statistics, among which were: the oldest member was 33 and the youngest 19 and "they have four men 6 feet in height, and a lady 5 feet 2V2 inbhes." Career plans included "ten ministers, four lawyers, four teacher, three journalists, four engineers." In reporting the "graduating exercises of the thirteenth grade of our city schools" the Rock Island Daily Union said there were seven­ teen girls and three boys in the class. According to the Illinois State Register, Springfield's high school graduates were fifteen girls and eight boys. And A m e r i c a n V i e w p o i n t s NOTHING UKE A FATHER S LOVING HANDS EDUCATIONAL) MMMI j Eisenhower college at Seneca j Falls, New York, with a j Bachelor's degree in j Economics. j Melinda is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Sells of 7104 Huron drive. Wonder Lake. Her mother, the former Sharon Sells. attended Harrison school at Wonder jCo/'ege Honors, Granddaughter /"NX | rilrc* fVki in/o Lake and was graduated from McHenry high school. While a Earns Degree Bachelor's degree only last year. She will receive her Master's degree from the State University of New York at .Albany this August. Mrs. Wilkins is currently teaching history in an Albany junior high school. / know of no safe re­ pository for the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we think them not en­ lightened enough to exer­ cise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to increase their discretion by edu­ cation. Thomas Jefferson in Bloomington the class was "fifteen ladies and two young men." The Union promised that Rock Island's "Fourth of July, 1876, will be the most brilliant and attractive ever witnessed in the West." In Springfield the Register said that in addition to the parade, a reading of the Declaration of Independence, and "vocal and instrumental music, etc.. Prof. Headley... will make one of his daring balloon ascensions." The 1876 state fair was scheduled for Ottawa but there were also to be nearly ninety district and county fairs. Suicides were not so unusual in Illinois a hundred years ago that they would receive more than a newspaper paragraph. But one that occurred in a Chicago hotel'on June 14, 1876, was given more than a column of space in both the State Register and the Inter-Ocean. It was not the suicide but, as the Inter-Ocean expressed it, "the , ^ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ V ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ The granddaughter of a Wonder Lake couple. Melinda Wilkins of Ballston Spa. New York, has been graduated from student at the University of Illinois, she was married to Dr. Donald Wilkins. now a research scientist at Schenectady, New York. Sharon Wilkins resumed her own education a few years ago and received her For Your Information Dear friends, During a visit to the bereaved, it is not necessary to offer deep philosophical and theological thoughts to the mourners. Profound words tend to be meaningless at the moment of critical loss of a loved one. Rather, the mourners need to talk about their loss and all that it means to them. Respectfully, tt PETER MJUSTEN & SON FUNfMl HOME McHenry, Illinois 385-0063 -K •X Are You New In McHenry Area ? ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ Do You Know Someone New? WE WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND A ROYAL WELCOME TO EVERY NEWCOMER TO OUR AREA ! ! ! ! ! CALL JOAN STULL 385-5418 % :!VS ' [ KNOW YOUR AREA-ROYAL WELCOME DOES IT BEST tn/imntiiil appliances which had been used to produce death were most wonderful, and will stand in the history of suicides without a parallel." The "appliances" made up a guillotine and the result was that a hotel maid found "a man with his head completely severed from his body-cut as clean as one would a chicken's with an ax." The homemade guilloUne consisted of an ax with a 12- inch blade bolted to heavy iron bars and timbers weighing "altogether...a hundred or more pounds." This con­ traption was suspended some six feet above the floor by a cord tied to a candle bracket on the wall-so arranged that when the candle burned down it would sever the cord. On the floor? at the edge of the path of the ax was a wooden box filled with cotton batting saturated with chloroform into which the man put his head and "calmly slept until the ax descended." EARL R. WALSH & JACK WALSH INS. 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