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PAGE 2t - PLAINDEALER - FitlDAY. AUGUST*, If77 EDITORIALS Too Much HEW time after time in recent years events have shown that the Department of Health Education and Welfare is oversized and out of control. HEW is the huge, heavily-funded agency which runs the nation's schools to a large degree, its health programs and its welfare programs. Just recently it issued regulations requiring schools to handle alcoholics and drug addicts as if that problem didn't exist. Schools are to be required to report to HEW bureaucrats in Washington that they haven't refused jobs to, or barred courses to, alcoholics and drug addicts! HEW was the source of that absurd ruling some time back that school classes couldn't hold special sons' and daughters' nights because that allegedly discriminated against the other parent! One U.S. Senator remarked recently that he could come close to balancing the federal budget in one or two years if allowed to redline the HEW budget. It's known, of course, that billions are wasted on welfare cheats and ineligibles-which HEW bureaucrats are annually unable to property investigate and identify. Politicians who continue to buy votes, in effect, by spending more money than the nation can afford and bureaucrats building their HEW empire are winning the war with the taxpayers. HEW regulations requiring Americans to conform to the idealism of Washington bureaucrats continue to flout the spirit of a free people in a free country. Tobacco Support Anti-smoking groups are currently organizing a drive to aid government price supports and loans for tobacco farmers. They aim at tobacco only because of the danger to health in cigarette smoking-which is, of course, quite real. While the motive is good-that the government should not support growth of something which takes lives-an end to government supports for U.S. tobacco farmers would not accomplish the desired goal. The needed tobacco would be grown elsewnere-and die nation would lose considerable foreign revenue earned by overseas sales; in addition, many farmers and their families would suddenly be left at the mercy of an unprotected market, after a lifetime of tobacco farming. The solution to excessive cigarette smoking lies in educating the public, and in reducing the harmful ingredients in cigarettes. Non- smokers also deserve protection from smokers, which segregation laws can provide. There's no way, however, that the masses can be forced to stop smoking by law or coercion. McHenry Questionnaire (The following is a questionnaire of the League of Women Voters in conjunction with that organization's Cities-Urban Crisis study, for which co-chairmen are Judy Comerio of McHenry and Gerri Braun of Harvard. The questionnaires will be distributed in the McHenry, Woodstock and Harvard areas. Results will be published and given to local officials and to the McHenry County board. They will also appear in this newspaper. After being filled out, questionnaires should be turned in no later than Sept. 1 to receptacles in die city hall and McHenry Public library.) Do you reside within city limits? Yes -j-- --No • Do you own your own home? Yes No How would you rate the overall performance of your local officials? Outstanding Good Fair Poor Do you have children in the public school system of your community? Yes No In what areas could your school be improved? Academic Standards Administration --Athletics Curriculum -Extra Curricular Activities -Teaching staff «• -Others -None Over the next twenty years how rapidly would you like your community to grow? Double its present size Increase % its present size ----Stay this size Do you want your city officials to encourage new businesses to come into your town? Yes No What kind of businesses do you favor? Small Mfg. Lrg. Mfg. Retail Does your community provide enough cultural activities (plays, concerts, art, etc.)? Yes No Does your town provide enough recreational facilities (tennis courts, swimming pool, playgrounds, paries, etc.)? Yes No What recreational facilities would you like to see increased or improved? Does your community provide enough housing for all its citizens? Yes No In what areas of housing is your community defficient? Low income housing Single family homes Apartments What percentage of housing in your community should be low-income housing? o to 10 percent --10 to 20 percent 20 to 30 percent 30 to 40 percent Do you favor regional planning (planning outside your own community)? Yes No What one thing do you like most about your community? If you would like to know more about the League of Women Voters, please fill in: Name Address- -City- • Veterans administration benefits counselors at regional offices answered 18.3 million inquiries over toll-free telephone lines in fiscal year 1976. For Your Information Dear friends, Impressive medical advances involve the transplanting of tissue and organs from one person to another, such as eye cornea, heart, and kidney. Some people feel that offering parts of their bodies to help those still living is a special way of sharing. Such plans should be made in advance by the donor. Respectfully, PETER MJUSTEN & SON FUKE»A1 HOME McHenry, Illinois 385-0063 Sheriff's Report JUNE ACTUAL OFFENSES REPORTED Robbery -• Theft Autotheft Assault Burglary Burglary from auto Forgery-deception Criminal damage Weapons Sex offenses Narcotics Driving while intoxicated Disorderly conduct * Others Suspicion Missing-runaways Abandoned vehicles Anonymous calls Domestic trouble < Emergency assistance Fa tals-non traffic Found articles Lost articles Mental Outside assistance Attempted suicide Traffic Miscellaneous investigations OFFENSES CLEARED BY ARRESTS Homicide Robbery Theft Assault Burglary Forgery-deception Criminal damage Weapons Narcotics Driving while intoxicated Disorderly conduct Others Missing-runaways Traffic Liquor violations ACCIDENT INVESTIGATIONS HANDLED total number of accidents Personal property Bodily injury Fatalities Warning tickets issued PRISONER COUNT FOR THE MONTH Adult males received Adult famales received Juvenile males received Juvenile females received Total prisoners received Total prisoners discharged Average prisoner count per day Prisoner records prepared Warrants served Court processes received Court processes served Bailiffs in court Persons taken to court Meals served for the month Persons conveyed to other institutions Mileage conveying persons . Mileage serving court processes Mileage patrolling and investigating J*JLY ACTUAL OFFENSES REPORTED : Rape Robbery Theft Auto theft Assault Burglary Burglary from auto Forgery-Deception Criminal damage Weapons Sex offenses Narcotics Arson Driving while intoxicated Disorderly conduct Others Suspicion Missing-Runaway Abandoned vehicles Anonymous calls Domestic trouble Emergency Assistance Fatals (non-traffic) Found articles Lost articles Mental Outside assistance Suicide Attempted suicide Traffic Liquor violations Miscellaneous investigations OFFENSES CLE Theft Burglary Burglary from auto Criminal damage Weapons Narcotics AR^ BY ARREST 1977 1976 2 1 98 86 9 2 9 4 45 50 0 . 14 2 0 108 103 2 11 5 3 7 5 1 7 2 92 33 27 22 18 23 16 6 7 14 48 40 16 8 1 6 16 21 21 28 3 1 17 39 1 0 75 97 63 82 0 5 0 4 5 3 1 16 2 2 0 3 1 16 0 2 1 10 0 11 1 23 1 21 3 4 3 249 174 121 50 3 30 153 9 18 5 185 8 6 185 27 803 432 124 80 2,315 4 283 3,983 98,938 171 119 5 1 22 159 13 9 4 172 139 33 139 108 888 524 135 80 2,719 8 520 8,492 85,793 1977 . 1976 1 :Jo 1 i 96 128 9 12 5 14 47 52 0 16 1 0 111 118 3 8 5 0 5 3 1 0 0 3 12 12 107 17 34 25 15 38 17 10 11 9 35 55 19 26 3 7 19 11 19 27 3 3 16 55 1 1 . 3 2 55 55 6 5 58 96 Veterans with service- connected disabilities of 10 per cent or more may qualify for the Veterans administration's vocational rehabilitation program. VCOOOOCOOOOCOOOOOOOOOOOOOC' I Are You New In McHenry Area? qoooooopocoo Do You Know Someone New? WE WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND A ROYAL WELCOME TO EVERY NEWCOMER TO OUR AREA!!!!!!! 4 CALL JOAN STULL 385-5418 McHeniy A * • __ j> lunMiuu'u T KNOW YOUR AREA-ROYAL WELCOME DOES IT BEST iboOOOOPOOOOOPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO'OOCOOOOOO^OOOti Ronald Reagan Bad News F or Compulsory Basing Advocates? Public opinion, a recent Supreme court decision and the determination of a two-term Democratic congressman from Cleveland may combine to upset an old House of Representatives tradition. If so, the result will spell more bad news for advocates of compulsory school busing. Despite reforms in recent years, the House still likes its committee system and members don't like to buck its tradition of letting chairmen , decide if and when hearings will be held on a bill. Many a bill has been bottled up by a balky chairman. When that happens, the procedural remedy is a discharge petition. If the author of the bill gets a majority of the members of the House - 218 - to sign it, the bill bypasses the committee and goes to the floor for a vote. In practice, this rarely happens because many members back off from signing for fear that a rash of discharge petitions would wreck the committee system. This didn't stop Represen­ tative Ron Mqttl (D-Ohio) from trying. Soon after he got to Capitol Hill in 1975 as a fresh­ man, he introduced a con­ stitutional amendment bill to abolish forced school busing as °a means of achieving racial integration. Don Edwards (D- Calif.), chairman of the sub­ committee on Civil and Con­ stitutional Rights, refused to hold hearings on the bill. Mottl tried a discharge petition and got only seventeen names. Early this year, he in­ troduced the bill again. It would have two key provisions. Section One says: "No student shall be compelled to attend public school other than the one nearest his residence." Section Two adds: "The Congress shall have the power to enforce by appropriate legislation the provisions of this article ; and to insure equal educational op­ portunities for all students wherever located." Again, Edwards refused to hold hearings. And, again, Mottl circulated a discharge petition. This time, he.got 185 signatures (by early May), about evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans (names are not made public while a petition is being cir­ culated). Two things had changed: Mottl was wiser about the ways of the House; and public opinion was running strongly against compulsory busing, as reflected in polls and a number of school board elections where busing foes repalced advocates. Busing advocates in the House began to take Mottl seriously. Edwards and judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino (D-NJ) but­ tonholed colleagues, asking them to remove their names from the petition. Ten did. but the counter-campaign appears to have been launched too late. As of last week, Mottl and a bipartisan group of coleagues had managed to push the total number of signatures to 1$7 - just twenty-one short of their goal. Mottl credits some of the hardest work on the petition to Representatives Joe Moakley (D-Mass.), Marjorie Holt (R- Md.), Steve Symms (R-Idaho), Carroll Hubbard (D-Ky.), Skip Bafalis (R-Fla.) and Mario Biaggi (D-NY). He feels the tide is running strongly now. "there is growing sentiment in Congress that compulsory busing just hasn't worked; that it is a case of many minuses and no pluses," Mottl says. He adds that many of his colleagues report heavy mail on the busing issue, most of it asking for an end to the scheme. Mottl also credits the recent Supreme court decision about Dayton, Ohio's busing plan as causing members of Congress to have second thoughts about court-ordered busing. In that case, the high court told the Federal district judge that his remedy - comprehensive forced busing - was way out of proportion to the ailment (some pockets of segregation in the school system). The Supreme Court decision gives the judge a Driving while intoxicated Disorderly conduct Liquor violations PRISONER COUNT FOR THE MONTH Adult males received Adult females received Juvenile males received Juvenile famales received. Total prisoners received Total prisoners discharged Average prisoner count per day Prisoner records prepared Warrants served Court processes received Court processes served Bailiffs in court Persons taken to court Meals served for the month Persons conveyed to other institutions Mileage conveying persons Mileage serving court processes Mileage patrolling and investigating ACCIDENT INVESTIGATIONS HANDLED Total number of accidents Personal property Bodily injury Fatalities Warning tickets issued 0 3 2 2 3 2 173 191 13 6 19 11 4 5 2J3 iSP 190 27 35 207 213 45 57 627 564 502 432 115 119 69 91 1,969 3,241 4 17 273 1,130 4,053 5,630 65,968 65,968 186 191 106 130 73 60 5 1 34 41 MS •n|!VJVIIVV!V"VVn • • I 1 PV y Tony Fick ' TonvFick GIVE ME A CALL FOR THE FACTS ON LOW-COST H E A L T H I N S U R A N C E . I 'D L IKE TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS ON L O W - C O S T H O M E ­ O W N E R S I N S U R A N C E I 'D L IKE TO SHARE WITH YOU THE FACTS ON LOW-COST L I F E I N S U R A N C E . . / wr. 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Second Case A four-year-old LaSalle county boy became the state's second victim of St. Louis encephalitis recently, ac­ cording to the state Public Health department. Depart­ ment officials say there has been a sharp decline in en­ cephalitis virus activity here since the end of June, probably due to good local mosquito abatement measures and favorable weather. They continue to advise citizens to protect themselves against mosquito bites and to keep up the vigorous mosquito abatement programs. EARL R. WALSH & JACK WALSH INS. Fir*. Auto. Farin, Life RELIABLE COMPANIES 4410 W. Rt#. 120, McHenry MS-M00 DENNIS CONWAY AUTO-LIFE-FIRE State Farm Ins. Co. 131V W. Elm St. McHenry, III. 3M-7111 DR. LEONARD B0TTARI 303 N. 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