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. t > p^r.^ ft - PIAiWPKAMI^ • FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, ltT7 PUBUC PULSE (The PhMcilcr the pablic to ate this column u an expresshm of their view on aabjecte el general interest ia ear community. Oar oaly request it that the writers give signature, Ml Miim and pheae number. We aah too. that one iadividaal aot write da the same sabject more thaa once each month. We reserve the right to delete aay material which we consider Hbeloai or in objectionable taste.) HAPPY HALLOWEEN "Dear Editor: "It was a pleasure to hear the greeting of children in Cooney Heights Monday night as they called out, Trick or Treat*. "But more important, their 'thank you' and 'goodbye' made the evening an enjoyable one. "Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Reeae "4306 W. Crestwood" RTA CLARIFICATION "Dear Editor: "As chairman of the Tran­ sportation committee of the Mc Henry County Senior Citizens council, I have been requested to clarify our position on the RTA.v "Our purpose has been misconstrued to be an effort to withdraw from the RTA - and thereby to withdraw from all efforts to improve rural and interurban transportation in the county. "This impression is false. "Our committee was created by the council as an ex­ ploratory group to inveatigate alternatives, or at least con­ trols of some kind, for the proposals of the RTA planners, which we feel are inadequate for the actual travel needs of at least 96 percent of the citizens of our county - not just the senior citizens. "To quote from the latest council Newsletter: The RTA referendum was passed three years ago last March and, to date, McHenry county has seen virtually no service from the RTA*. (Some are under the impression that the RTA passes are through the kindness of the RTA, but the truth of the matter is that half-fares for seniors are federally man­ dated.) "The RTA plan indicates that several years dawn the line, seniors may benefit from the plan with a dial-a-ride service, we fed that we have waited long enough. "The position of the council is that either the RTA should provide the service they need now, not later, and, if they cannot or will not do that, then we should be taken out of the RTA area and receive the funds that are the portion of McHenry county and institute service ourselves. By 'ourselves' we do not mean our council, in­ cidentally, but some entity in McHenry county. "We feel that we (the total citizenry, not just the elderly) need intra^county tran­ sportation, not merely inter- county facilities (principally to Cook County). "The major thrust of the RTA planning for McHenry county seems to be to arrange con­ nections with the C&NW, although its own ridership figures show that less than 2 percent of our citizens use it. "Between towns away from the Harvard-Woodstock- Crystal Lake axis, daily travel within the county to and from employment, family shopping, or social and medical functions in the southwestern and nor­ thern parts of the county are ignored. "So far, in its first three and a half years of operation, nearly three-fourths of the RTA funds, (73 percent to be more exact) haveSgone to the Chicago Transit Authority. "The only evidence we have of RTA interest in the citizens of our county is a proposed reduction of CANW services.. "If we were out of the RTA and could have that money put into a transportation system designed specifically with our own benefits in mind - instead of Chicago's - we could give our citizens, senior and otherwise, truly effective travel services. "Sincerely, "C.W. Coons" Legal Notice IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 19th JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, McHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS PROBATE DIVISION ESTATE OF FUHRER, NEVA Y. Deceased, FILE NO. 77-P- 368 Notice is hereby given pursuant to Section 194 of the Probate Act, of the death of the above named decedent and that letters Testamentary were issued on October 24th, 1977, to LAWRENCE C. FUHRER, 7415 Center Drive, Wonder Lake Illinois, ;y.̂ , 135 S. LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois Claims may belled withinH months from the date of issuance of Letters and that any claim not filed within that period is barred as to the estate which is inventoried within that period. Claims against said estate should be filed in the Probate office of the Clerk of said Court, County Court House, Wood­ stock, Illinois, and copies thereof mailed or delivered to said legal representative and to said attorney. MARGARET O'NEIL Clerk of the Court by Gerry Johnson Woman Stresses Communication To Succeed whose attorney ?TEtehm^d0^dWMcHe^ ,Pub ^ Nov'4 4 »•19771 Illinois. "Claims may be filed within 6 months from the date of issuance of Letters and that any claim not filed within that period is barred as to the estate which is inventoried within that period. Claims against said estate should be fued in the Probate office of the Clerk of said Court, County Court House, Wood­ stock, Illinois, and copies thereof mailed or delivered to said legal representative and to BEST OF PRESS Think It Over If you want to get even with someone, try those who have helped you. -Tribune, Chicago. Reformers are always willing to do good at someone else's expense. said attorney. MARGARET O'NEIL Clerk of the Court (Pub. Oct. 28, Nov. 4 & 11,1977) Legal Notice NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on October 17. A.D. 1977, a certificate was tiled in the Office of the County Clerk of McHenrv County, Illinois, setting forth the names ana post-office addresses of all of the persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as Silvenis Packaging, located at 3514 N. Chapel Hill Road, McHenry. IL 60050. Dated this 17th day of Oc­ tober, A.D. 1977. Vernon W. Kays County Clerk (Pub. Oct. 21,28, Nov. 4,1977) . > Legal Notice IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 19th JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, McHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS PROBATE DIVISION ESTATE OF CHARLES H. FRITZSCHE Deceased, FILE NO. 77-P-355 Notice is hereby given pursuant to Section 194 of the Probate Act, of the death of the above named decedent and that letters Testamentary were issued on October 20, 1977, to HERBERT FRITZSCHE, 4601 Downers Grove, Illinois, whose attorneys of record are Thomas H. Alcock & Bruce E. Brown, pel College Honors} I DANCE PRODUCTION When the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign presents its dance theatre's production of works Nov. 3 through 5, in the studio theatre, Gary Wendland of 2909 S. Holiday drive, McHenry, will be among cast members. COLLEGE CONCERT Barbara Romme of McHenry, a freshmen student at Carthage college, Kenosha, Wis., will be among musicians when a concert of brass selections, ranging from late Renaissance triple brass choir music to contemporary brass music, is presented Sunday, Nov. 6. The performance is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. in the college chapel. Miss Romme, a McHenry high school ? graduate, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Martin I. Romme of 4722 Hilltop, Wonder Lake. havt a nice weekend. avoid an argument rfpii *22 When her husband died in 1975, seventy-three-year- old Isabelle Evans moved from Union City, New Jer­ sey to Palm Springs, the California desert oasis. She and her husband had spent many of the previous 20 winters there and from a > part-time resident's point of view, it seemed like a good idea. "Before I moved there, Palm Springs had been the place we went to escape the cold New Jersey winters," Mrs. Evans told a writer from The National Council on the Aging. "Let me tell you, my perspective changed once I was living there per­ manently." A large part of the change was due to getting involved with other older, permanent residents of Palm Springs. To forget the loss of her husband, Mrs. Evans started going to a local senior cen­ ter, a facility she found "disgraceful" for a commu­ nity as wealthy as Palm Springs. "I'm not kidding when I say it was a disgrace," Mrs. Evans emphasized. "I don't know what else you'd call half of an old school house." The apparent neglect of the 25,000 older persons living in the Palm Springs area not only angered Mrs. Evans but made her take action. "In the past, I'd always been on the outside looking in," she said. "But after I was on "the inside looking in, it was a different story. I was just another senior citi­ zen getting ripped off like all the rest of them. To sim­ ply say it made me mad isn't the half of it." Mrs. Evans decided there had to be a lot of other an­ gry senior citizens living in Palm Springs, but they were keeping their feelings to ^themselves. "Communication "has&e&i"** the greatest stumbling block .jt- tor older people/' she said. J'l figured that if we started start lobbyingfor our lights." To bridge the communi­ cation gap, Mrs. Evans de­ cided to start a senior news­ paper. Fortunately, before she had a chance to get her thankless enterprise started, Springs Press convinced her she could do more good by writing a column aimed at older persons for his news­ paper. "Now that I know a little about newspapers, I'm glad he rescued me," she said. "If I'd actually started my own paper, I would've been so busy running it I'd never have had the time to write a word." Writing for a well-estab­ lished paper, Mrs. Evans' hard-hitting columns have generated controversy as well as action. "At first, I thought I'd be run out of town on a rail," she said. "I really gave them hell.'* Exactly the opposite has happened since Isabelle Evans started voicing her complaints. In a little over three years, attendance at the senior center has risen from 12 to 200, and the members have been press­ ing for such things as ade­ quate transportation for older persons. "There's still so much to do," she said, "but the pro­ grams we've gotten started make me feel like there's real hope. I think as long as we keep communicating we'll make out all right. That's the key to success for older people. Communica­ tion." THE CITY OF Palo Alto, California, has si| an agreement with the ior Coordinating Council of the Palo Alto Area, to pro­ vide minor home repairs at moderate prices. The program is designed for older persons with vary­ ing incomes--some pay part of the service, some the entire cost, and those with very limited income pay nothing. Those sent to do repair work are also senior citi­ zens, possibly retired from the trade in which they are engaged. The program is available to any person over 60 living witnin the Palo Alto city limits»____ ^American Viewpoints I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execu­ tion. Ulysses S. Grant Congress and the Golden Rule - STOCK No. 77-131 77 CONTINENTAL MARK VI •FROM 77 VERSAILLES > 3 6 5 0 a ?2700° °i DISCOUNTED DISCOUNTED PRICE! PRICE! LARGE SELECTION! 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I'm not prepared to accept the assertion that the world has become unmanageable. But if you think about it, and then observe this incredibly complex nation operating within a System that is often almost crippled by surrepti­ tious pressures and arrangements, it's bound , •>o to send a chill up your spine. And the chill up your spine will not diminish as you observe the manner in which the nation has dealt with two great and imminent dangers that it faces today: the energy crisis and the economy. If you're a historian you may be led to recall the letter which the elder Henry Cabot Lodge sent to Teddy Roosevelt during the coal strike of 1902, in which he said, "Isn't there something we could appear to be doing." But finally we have to face the fact that the paralysis of leadership is due in part to the ! unseen grip of the special Interests. When you think of a top policy maker trying to solve one or another of these problems, you might think ' of a man trying to win a game of checkers. '. Someone leans over his shoulder and puts a thumb on one checker, saying "Go right ahead and play. Just don't move this checker." Some­ one else leans over the other shoulder and does the same with another checker. A third person walks up and immobilizes another checker. And so on. Pretty soon it's all thumbs, no moves. . \ Think of the thumbs as the special interests that come to play in almost every major govern­ ment decision. The only unrealistic thing about the comparison is that in real life the thumbs are invisible. The owners of the thumbs don't rsalqr want to paralyze the whole process. Each just wants to immobilize one checker. But collectively they prevent a solution. Is this really a sensible way to run a complex nation in a dangerous world? You know it isn't, and I know it isn't. When the political process becomes the play­ thing of the special interests operating invis­ ibly, the consequences fall upon virtually all citizens, consumers, taxpayers. Great problems go unsolved and no one can say why. Money leaks out of the pockets of the taxpayers, and we don't know where it goes. We elect people on promises and can't hold them to account. And w^^are the - ones--citizens, Corruption, backroom fixes, secret deals-- quite aside from their moral repulsiveness-- finally create government that just doesn't work. Finally the "insiders" can't even save themselves. The intricately rigged system fails to serve even those who rigged it. The new Congress, which is generally thought to have a mandate to clean up our poli­ tical system, has floated into office on a flood of special interest money. So there's still a grain of truth in the old saying that Congress operates by the Golden Rule: "He who has the gold makes the rules." Congress is going to have to do some tough things. Considering the source of campaign , funds, one can see the difficulty Congress faces in doing any tough thing that offends the ' special interests. We're almost ready to serve McHenry County ... • * Racquetball/handbell courts • Exercise room & supervised weight classes • Figure salon • Club Lounge with cocktail service • Pro shop • Attended children's nursery • Lessons & exercise classes • The Pilgrims celebrated the first Thanksgiving without tur­ key. And, they didn't have cranberry sauce or pumpkin pie either. The first banquet consisted of deer, venison, duck, goose, seafood, eela, white bread, leeks, watercress, and a variety of greens. Dessert was wild plums and dried berries. Eels for Thanksgiving dinner? Gobble, gobble! • Preserve autumn's array of color by bringing fallen leaves indoors. Capture the dried leaves' beauty by dipping than in salad oil and arranging with pumpkins, gourds, or dried flowers. Your table will be dressed with the lasting colors of FaU. • If you thought your coffee percolator only made great coffee, wait until you taste hot spiced punch in fhe same pot. Just put whole spices in the percolator basket and fruit juices or wine in the bot­ tom glass container. Let perk a few minutes until spiced toyOur taste. SOLAR HEAT FOR PRESENT or FUTURE HOMES I NO REMODELING ) SALES A SERVICf J 2525 MONTEDEJtA Oft. ] ROCKFOftO, IL 61107 J I1M774114 « HM4HUB