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EDITORIALS Exit Smokers Tvf^T rft t rr public facilities ̂In Washington a court case has been filed to limit smoking in federal buildings to designated areas. Eastern Airlines recently granted non-smokers their greatest victory thus far -agreeing to set aside 65 per cent of its seatiiw for non-smUkers. (The prevailing practice in recent years has been to designate a few rows for non-smokers, and this hasn't been strictly enforced.) About erne in every four Americans smokes cjamft The latest reliable medical evidence is unquestionably badto puffenS goodly number are contracting cancer and other serious health problems fay smoking. Tlie majority, organizing, wants to avoid the health hazard of being forced to inhale untiltered tobacco smoke and it seems only a question of time until the non-smokers win the battle. _Station Service Americans who have lived abroad recall the unhappy surprise when they learned road maps were not free at filling stations, nor the kind of old-time service they had become accustomed to in the United States. Some U.S. oil companies in recent years have begun to cut back on free maps but others say they'll continue to offer such maps gratis. Road maps, free windshield cleaning, etc., are good public relations for oil companies and individual stations. It used to be that at almost every station one was met with a smile, windshield cleaning, oil checks and even vacuum rimariag While those days may be gone forever for the majority of stations (attendants now often sit and watch the action from a glassed-in enclosure), if s good to know traditional free courtesies survive at some One firm solved the free map problem, in part, by advertising spots on its seventy-two maps. And some station owners have found traditional free services still hold customers, even if gu is a penny or two higher. i YOUTH ON THE MOVE State Judging Results Here are the results for outstanding 4-H'ers who represented McHenry county at the state 4-H judging contest. On the horse judging team were: Robin Moore, B; Julie Glosson, C; Debbie Dinley, A, and Mandy Aird, A. The dairy judging team was: Bob Larsen, B; Barry Nichols, A; Cindy Utech, A; and Brian Olbrich, C. Larry Walter, B; Karen Kuhlman, B; Steve Ransdell, C, and Diane Kuhlman, C, made up the livestock judging team. Debbie Kuhlman won a C in the 4-H meat's judging contest and in the horticulture judging contest, Shelly Von Bruen- chenhein was awarded a B; Bonnie McMillan, A; Kathy McMillan, B and Dea Fleming, B. It is a high honor to go to the state contest and to represent McHenry county. David Shanks of Garden Prairie coached the dairy judging team. Shanks was a member of the dairy judging team at the University of Illinois. Next year it is hoped that coaches will be found for the other teams. If interested in being a coach, please call the Extension office, 338-3737 or 4747. Day Camp What happened at day camp? Here are some of the in­ vigorating activities that those attending enjoyed: relay races such as the tea cup .race, three- legged race and drunken sailor race; balloon relays, Softball and volleyball. It sure was fun. The day camp committee did an excellent job in making this THE PITCH For Your Information ' Daarfrlands, \ t final medical bills if tha deceased was 45 ar over. If madlcal insurance coverage was In affect, tha survivors can claim reimbursement for a par- tion of certain madlcal Mils. Your funeral dlractor or noarost Social Socurity office can give further Infor­ mation on Hdadlcara benefits. Respectfully, . *--W A PETER MJUSTEN & SON FUNERAL HOME McHenry. niiiwla 38*-00«S « PUBLIC PULSE (The MaMeehr Mtes the public te ase tMs community. Oar request Is that the give signature. Ml day possible. The following members were on the com­ mittee: Judy Vyduna, Shelly VonBruenchenhein, Dawn Vogts, Diane Kuhlman, Jan Olson, Sherry Payne, Cindy Mistretta and Dawn Rader. Watertight Those who didn't make it to the watertight at Woodstock city park between the 4-H'ers and Boy Scouts missed a super time. Hie watertight consisted of taking the tire hose and pushing a barrel hung on a wire across a marker with the fast- flowing water. Teams com­ peted against one another and losers were eliminated until the winning team prevailed. Ac­ tually , no one lost because everyone had so much fun laughing, splashing in the water and cooling off. In the older division, the Boy Scouts won first {dace. The following boys on the 4-H team won second palce: Mike Fritz, Jeff Riley, Rick Madsen, Mark and Clyde Slater and Russ Seegers. The girls on the 4-H team that won third place are Faye Stroh, Diane and Karen Kuhlman, Jean Slater and Marge Ahrens. In the younger division die Boy Scouts took first ami second place and the Lucky- Ettes 4-H club took third place. The girls on this club are: Dawn, Kelley, Vicki and Anita Mansfield, Gayle Repp, Amy LaSalle, Jo and Stacy Moore, Cindy Lang and Lisa Kolls. The Woodstock Rural Fire department provided the trophies. They were also very helpful in assisting this fun- tilled event and are willing to have it again next year SECTION 2-PAGE S-PLA1NDEALER-JVKPKBSDAY. JULY XV. WH Who Decides What Children Learn? (The following is fee first of a two-part story, "Who Decides What Chikhen Lean?" written by Sanfard Patterson. A free lance writer and columnist, he is a retired utility company supervisor Mr. Patterson lives in Lincoln. 111.) The most important part ef ear educational system is at the elementary level Here, die acquire their basic educational skills. Our schools are in troaMe. Tax im1 mn" la nupport diem have been voted down all over the State of lliniii The seeds of this revolt owe planted a long time ago. They lay dormant until rising costs, bweaucratlc hangbng. and a maze of regulations hastened their germination. Now, they have burst into full blown flowers of taxpayer resistance. BIBLE QUOTATIONS "Dear Editor: "For a long time now we have seen, enjoyed and been helped by your 'Bible Quotations', Bible drawings, etc. in your Plaindeeler. We've meant to commend you on this many times, but have never taken time to do so. "It is important to print news on what man says and thinks, but much more important to print what God says in His Word. It's not always popular to print what God has to say on divorce, abortion, honesty, etc., but you are doing a reel service to your subscribers by reminding diem - or possibly telling them for the first time what God expects of us. "Keep it up, "your labor is not in vain*. "George Brabanec" THE NEW BRIDGE "Editor: "I cant wait until the bridge replacing the Old Bridge is finished. It looks like it's being built by an old roller coaster maker. "Anyone who hasn't been down to the foot of Peerl street or over by Haneen Marina recently is in for a real sur­ prise. Firstoff, they are building it high enough for die Sixth fleet to pass under. Not only does the bridge go up m the air like an arch on die city side, but as it comes down on the other side it curves to die left. "I never heard of a bridge that curves before, so maybe this will put McHenry in the Guinness Book of World Records. "Anyway, I think the bridge is going to be more fun than a toboggan run. I just hope they put up strong guard rails. Otherwise, I can in vision a lot of cars soaring off into the Fox River "To top all this off, I un­ derstand that after this bridge is completed, the one on UO will be torn down and replaced. I cai just imagine gravel trucks and semi-trailers snaking their way over a winding bridge into marl street. "When that happens, taking Hill, Johnsburg road and Route 31 to get into town from the east side of the river won't be a detour. ItH be a shortcut. "Den McNulty "2004 N Woodlawn Park "M^Hfurv" _ I vX news! EDITOR'S NOTE: Following are representative questions answered daily by VA coun­ selors. Full information is tfvaflable at any VA office. Q - I completed six months training on active duty with the National Guard. Am I eligible for VA hospital benefits? A - National Guardsmen who complete active duty for training are not eligible for VA hospital benefits unless during such service, they are disabled from disease or injury incurred or aggravated in line of duty. Q - Both my neighbor and I are 100 per cent service- connected disabled. He and his wife receive 9785 from the VA each month. Why do my wife ThesmaH schools have disappeared from the countryside and in the towns. Unit o^dnel school (Kstricts were formed to fund and control die new set up. Reeding, writing, and arithmetic were augmented by physical education, science, social stmftee, music, and all die ether state regulations for educational standards. All tins at the elementary leveL AddH&QBfltl funding was nu^td as most districts had mortgaged their future to bo&d hew achools. State aid in massive doses was doled out to the new districts. The state took die tax money trsm the counties and gave some of it back . They set a bureaucracy to administer tins money and the regulations required i R was the dawn of a new educational system for our chikfe-en. They would be the best educated ones in the world. We literally placed their future in the hands of this state bureaucracy. We could now sit back sod relax after providing shiny new IsiiklhSa to house these future world leaders. We mistakenly believed if we laeeided the factories, die educational assembly line would be efficiently operated. More Expansion Nearly all of these schools had to be expanded after W W.II. The post war crop of babies filled the half-empty classrooms when they reached school age. This forced another expansion in the school system. The last holdouts against consolidation were forced to concede. Higher educational standards and rising costs drove them into the tax hungry arms of the school distircts. . The State Office of Education was now firmly entrenched Their attitude was. damn the torpedoes of taxpayer resistance, full speed ahead. They continued to set standards without providing die funds, (hie method they used was to adequately fond everj uew program until it was firmly established in the school system. Then they would withdraw the state aid and the local area had to provide the funds The i an ever-increasing tax levy at the local level. recruited their lobbyists and salesmen from die ranks of school administrators and ex-members of the State Office of Education. This policy ef recruitment * bound to pay big dividends for the textbook industry, not the taxpayer. The Leek Say Method The best way to increase your business is to create a new the textbook indistry did. They introduced a new method of was called, "Look Say.*' as opposed to the old phonetic pronunciation ofi into words. The theory of the new teaching method was, it wasn't necessary to; each word slowly, syllable by syllable. la Look Say, the students would i word, pronounce it properly be repeating it and from then on they would be able to recognize it and pronounce it. This didn't make sense to the old-time reading teachers. They knew better. Oar English Language is derived from other tongues basically phonetic in their pronunciation. The German word wasser becomes water in English. We softened die hard sounds but it still left our language as a phonetic one. The older teochers resisted this new system by supplementing die old phonics along with (he new textbooks. In time, they were replaced by taachcrt trained in the Look Say method. Then disaster struck. The new method had little effect on the average or above average students. They wiH {earn in spite of may teaching system. The marginal students were deprived of a basic educational skill. The most important one of att. The inability to read easily affects the ability to spell, comprehension, and the study of other subjects. There will always be a certain number of students with reading difficuMsa. Innate ability, motivation, exposure to literary material, and television taking their time away from reading at home are some of the main causes. Parental influence is a big factor in the development of reading habits and skills. The number of students with reading difficulties increased considerably during the life span of die Look Say method. Reading success in this teaching plan depends a lot on a good memory. Students with above-average intelligence but The old proverb, "As you sow so shall you reap," became a true axiom. We had entrusted the educational standards of our schools to a state organization. Our edfegss were turning out better educated teechers. The administrators were coDefe trained. We were lulled into the complacent thinking, it was ten o-dock and all was well. • | AH was weD with the textbook companies. They were now big business. Thev had ; as the reading teaching can measure the cest in dollars of the textbooks but we can't even estimate the cost of the loss in reading skills. v * Remedial reading classes for adults is one way society is trying to repair tha damage. How do you teach reading to an adult with a low I.Q. ana a high school dropout? Phonics is the method used with considerable success. We should have listened to the old-time teachers. They were not as organized then as now. Their voice was a small one compared to that of the educators and a profit motivated textbook industry. Illinois is not the only state that adopted the Look Say method. This lack of reading skills extends across the United States. (Next week: The New Math) 4-H Dog Show Slated As Fair Attraction They come in all sizes, shapes, colors and style- grumpy, aggressive, pleasant, calm aid unpredictable. They will provide one of the better attractions at the 1977 McHenry County Fair at 6 p.in. Aug. 6, the fifty-seven or more dogs that will be in the 4-H Dog Mrs. Diane Haze is the en­ thusiastic trainer of these unpredictable, lovable pets, holding weekly classes for the children to help than with the showing of, and the caring for these animals. Mrs. Haze is holding classes at 7 p.m. on Thursdays at the fairgrounds. For purposes of the 4-H judging, she plans a show at 2 p.m. July 24 at Massey hall. The Aug. 6 presentation will be in the Highway department building to enable fair visitors a chance to enjoy and appreciate what the youngsters have learned in handling and caring for their pets. Degrees of difficulty are demonstrated in the programs the youngsters follow in their projects work. Beginners may teach a dog to bed and follow. Later they learn off-leash skills and how to recall the dog. The more advanced youngsters can have their dog retrieve a dumbbell on command and include a jump up and across in their repertoire. Guarmnteed A solar-powered com­ puter wristwatch, which is programmed to tell the time and date for 125 years, has a guarantee-- fbr two years. * Daily Mirror, London. LOSING THE SCENT? O CSPS A - Your neighbor receives an additional $35 because his wife is in need of aid and at­ tendance. Q - I am a veteran who has been awarded disability compensation rated at 40 per cent. What is the advantage of receiving benefits under the VA vocational rehabilitation program? A - While in training and for two months after rehabilitation, eligible disabled veterans may receive sub­ sistence allowances in addition to their disabiliiy pensation, plus tuition, and fees. 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