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,£v ;pj'/ Drought Relief For County SECTION 2 - PAGE 5 - PLA1NDEALER - WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 14, 1177 Highland Shores ,ooo. Permit in Praise For Mothers Probably the most time-consuming and all-inclusive ioh in the e^,ders areLmade or unmade in the •22. the early family care they receive. Therefore, it seems time for someone in America to speak up for the mother who takes her job seriously and conscientiously We read much every day about women's lib, career women women 2?10 h?Xitu™u over their to nurses. Well and good for those who wish to pursue this end. But the wife and mother who ,ove and potomi In this country, where women have moved farther away from the home insearch of business laurels and fame faster than in any other counter, the traditional Christian role of mother and wife should not be downgraded: tne mother who refuses to turn her children over to someone else, leaving the home for the dollar rat race, should be admired and complimented. : Worst TV Shows? The Church of God recently listed its selection of the ten worst shows on American television. They were selected as the most offensive to church members, some 5,000 in fifty states having been polled. Those questioned were asked to rate programs on their treatment of violence, sex, alcohol and drug use. The ten programs, which the Church of God hopes to convince sponsors to Soap, All In The Family, Three's Company^ Baretta, Mash, Redd Foxx, Charlie's Angels, The Jeffersons and Kojak-in that order. Church spokesmen praised Little House On The Prairie, The Waltons, The Wonderful World of Disney, Grizzly Adams, Happy Days, Young Daniel Boone, The Fitamatricks, Oregon Trail, Eight is Enough and Family. Both Daniel Boone and Oregon Trail have recently been canceled. Building Permits Building permits recently issued by the Department of Building and Zoning for McHenry County include: " - t . Jack James, 618 Antonio, Lake Villa, to build a single family residence at 5109 Westwood Drive in Pistakee Hills m McHenry Township for an approximate value of $47,000. The permit and service fee of $181.20 was paid by the applicant. John C. Cunat, 3200 W. Jus ten Road, McHenry, to build a single family residence at 8420 Shady Lane, Highland Greenwood Township for an approximate value of $40,1 and service fee-$161.48. Barbara Buben and Helen Mohlman, to build a si residence at 5415 W. Hillside Drive in McHenry Tow approximate value of $40,000. Permit and service fee<$}80.28. Brittany Builders, 1903 South Route 31, McHenry* to build a single family residence at 9008 Robin Hill Drive in Meadows of Willow Lake ih Dorr Township for an approximate value of $90,000. Permit and service fee-$225.48. . HP*- Brittany Builders, 1903 South Route 31, McHenry, to build a single family residence at 4009 Woods End Road in Country Woods in Nunda Township for an approximate value of $60,000. Pevmit and service fee-$227.20. Diamond-Venture Builders Corp., 1120 Algonquin Road in Schaumburg, to build a raised ranch at 7408 East Wooded Shores, Oakwood Shores in McHenry Township for an approximate value of $26,000. Permit and service fee-$224.08. Diamond-Venture Builders Corp., 1120 Algonquin Road in Schaumburg, to build a ranch house at 7413 E. Parkwood Drive, Oakwood Shores in McHenry Township for an approximate value of $24,000. Permit and service fee-$170.56. Kevin Summers, 4420W. Shore Drive, McHenry, toAuild a single family residence atJMi Lincoln Road in McHenry Township for an approximate value of $40,000. Permit and service fae-f243.72. Violet Rich, North River Road, McHenry, to build a two- bedroom residence at 7605 Gene Road in McHenry Township. There was no approximate value given. Permit and service fee- $158.32. A. G. Edwards & Sons, Inc. Weekly Market " ' * Almost nothing in the world of stocks remains guideline very long but one event is perennial - December I talk of a year end rally. Thanks to figures compiled in the Traders Amanac by Yale Hirsh, we can dissect this phenol and see if there is any substance to this year end clicllte JS the twenty-two years up to 1963, the Dow Jones Industrial Storage at the end of December was higher than the previous motifk 20 times. That was quite a record and good reason to look forward to a joyous start of the New Year. Unfortunately, since 1964 December nas been a losing month half the time. Okay, there goes December as a predictable month but it gets worse than that Year end tax loss selling also works against December being a strong month for the whole market, particularly in Bear market years. Obviously, the year's losers - in this case cyclicals, which dominate the Dow Industrials, and a lot of big name growth stocks- -attract increased selling. At the same time, winners attract new buyers who want to be able to have them on their portfolio list which doesn't require a date of purchase. Well, Virginia, we still must admit that there is a year end rally but it starts Just after Christmas and lasts through the first two trading days in January. In the last 24 year*, only 1955, 1966. and 1968 didn't experience a Dow Industrial rally in that period. Most stocks this past week offered little Christmas cheer. Takeover situations and a few secondaries held together or went up a bit but the bulk of the market and most big stocks were down. November was a favorable month for both money supply and short term interest rates but that is ancient history now and most observers are uncomfortable about what December will hold in those important areas. The continued weakness of the dollar, large trade deficits, and increased concern over real corporate profitability counter-balanced decent economic news. President Carter's less reform-more tax cut for 1978 helped spark our early November rally. Now investors are realizing that it also means no change in the double taxation of dividends any time soon. The market remains extremely mixed with very few exploitable trends. We continue to advise investors to stay patient traders to liquid. John L. Smith, Illinois district director of the Small Business administration, has warned that disaster victims in fifty Illinois counties have only until Dec. 30 to seek relief under an Economic Injury Disaster declaration. McHenry county is included for the drought of May 1-Aug. 31, 1976. The fifty are covered by a declaration which reopened Nov. 4 by A. V< Weaver, SBA administrat The counties initially included in a declaration i Nov. 15, 1976, but which closed last July 29. "The deadline for the reopened declaration is Dec. 30," Smith said. "This must be considered firm at this time; I would urge all who feel that they qualify for aid to make application as soon as possible." Smith said the declaratioh authorize:* SBA "to make or guarantee long-term loans to businesses and farmers af­ fected by the disasters. Smith stressed that only businesses and farmers are eligible for this SBA aid. "Funds from loans made by or obtained through- SBA may be used to provide working capital and pay financial obligations which the borrower would have been able to meet had it not been for the disaster," Smith said. Smith stressed that, <to qualify for such a loan, a business or farm must show not only loss of revenue, but must have been placed in a position of some jeopardy as a result of the loss. According to Smith, new legislation provides that the interest rate on any SBA share of a loan made in this con­ nection is 3 percent on the first $25,000 and 6*» percent on additional amounts. For further information, Smith urged affected persons to contact a local banker, the SBA district office at" 219 S. Dear­ born street in Chicago, or the SBA branch office at the Illinois National bank building at One North Old State Capital plaza in Springfield. The [SBA phone number in Chicago is 312-353- 4528, that in Springfield 217-525- 4416. r iKX " fi cHuecT ' £•****- £ The Bureaucrats And The Kids Outlaws. That's the way the bureaucrats view the Cessnas. Enterprising, helpful kids. That's the way the neighbors see them. Either way, the four Cessna youngsters have been running circles around the government regulators. It all started a few months ago when Dickie Cessna, 13, and his sisters June, 14, Betty, 11, and Jeannine, 9, made a deal with their dad to clean out the stables he operates in a small town east of San Diego. They decided to sell the manure to the neighbors for fertilizer. They lived in a new home development and the developer also hired them to keep cans and bottles picked up to make sure the streets would be clean and inviting. The children each put up $5 and began Kidco, a company that was registered in the Cayman Islands, on the advice of father Richar^ Cessna's attorney. Most of the money the kids make is going into savings for their future and this registration had some deferred-income advantages. The Bureaucrats Everything was going fine. Kidco landed a contract to sell manure to the local golf courpe. Then the bureaucrats heard of Kidco. The California State Board of Equalization swept in with what it must hav^ thought , was ttie-majesty of thehkw and demanded back sales flaxes, penalties and interest on the manure that had been sold. The Idds thought this wasn't right, since Mr, Cessna had paid tax on the hay and the horses had only reprocessed it. Dickie, the president, and his sisters, the other officers, took their story (o a local newspaper. It got wide coverage (I recall doing one oi my daily radio com­ mentaries on it at the time). - On one side were lined up the Cessnas, their neighbors and just about everyone else who heard the kids' story. On the other you had the bureaucrats in Sacramento. The bureaucrats, realizing they were beginning to look silly, backed off. It was agreed that no back taxes were due ; that taxes wouldn't be charged homeowners; that only future commercial sales would be subject to tax. Kidco n pushed ahead, diversifying into the gopher killing business. The youngsters mixed up a "secret'" formula from their mother's kitchen staples and began depleting the local gopher population from lawns and gardens'- for a modest fee. This time the bureaucrats got more menacing. The state's Department of Food and Agriculture said the kids couldn't kill gophers without a state pest ' extermination , license. They would have to take the state examination (Catch-22: even if they took it and passed, the rules say you can't hold a pest extermination license in California till you are 18). • ' .. • Reveal The Secret The bureaucrats told Dickie he would have to reveal the secret formula. Kidco's chief executive declined. He wrote, "We read all the stuff you sent us about a pest control license.) We even read some of the study books and us little kids don't understand all this stuff. But we do know we are not doing anything that's dangerous tp people or birds or other animals. Ail we do is kill gophers and this is good. "We. are not trying to be smart aleck or disrespectful, but we wott hard, pay taxes and don't break windows, steal and stuff like that and the state is always giving us problems making it tough to stay in business. Please think about not making uti have a licen­ se..." / Now, you might think that would be enough to warm even a bureaucrat's heart, but don't underestimate the regulator's obsession with his own rules. Determined to get the secret formula and force Kidco to play by its rules, the Food & Agriculture people went into two classic bureaucratic maneuvers: 1) they kept the issue alive by announcing they wouldn't budge; and 2) they Yes Virginia, there is a "local" Santa Claus\J ft vl passed the buck. They sent the matter on to Governor "Jerry" Brown for disposition. The governor's views are not yet known, since the matter went to his desk while he was in England campaigning for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination. His politician's instinct for sensing the popular side of an issue is well known, however, and it is hard to believe that he would side with the bureaucrats and gang up on - four kids who are doing what most any American parent would be proud of. Area Musicians Take Part In School Concert Don't Forget Stamps • t Hie Week I Before I M E H u H P R E P AND FOtT/CABte-AHQTDarr THlMK TflEVU-fiETTlBJE ON TWC -AMP JVE eVLLOOTTB iMfeP All those PRESENTS--ANPW© OF SHOPPING VET-- I CANX THINK OFATWN& 10 SET MOM ANP t»C>-ANP TDOlfTkNCM] WHAT WEAR 10 THE P*VRTV-- A seasonal reminder not to forget the postage stamps when mailing holiday greeting cards was issued by Joseph W. Thome, officer in charge, McHenry. No stamps means no delivery, he cautioned. "And if your cards have no return address, chances are you won't even know that they never got where you intended them to go. If there is a return address, they'll come back to you marked 'returned for postage' It's been more than three years since the postal service discontinued its previous practice of delivering unpaid mail "postage due" and collecting from the addressee. Yet, a surprising amount of mail still gets in the system without postage, Thome said. Every day, for example, the Chicago post office receives an average of 1,600 letters that have neither postage nor return siddress. "We are able to return more than 90 percent of these to the sender," says Howard Tomlin, who is in charge of the "dead letter" section of the Chicago post office, "Because much of this mail is for payment of bills, and usually the sender's ad­ dress appears somewhere on the Mil." But that's not the case for Christmas cards, which seldom have the sender's address inside. "So, says Mr. Tomlin, "The sad fact is that a lot of Christmas messages and New Year wishes will be wasted unless you remember to apply proper postage". Tomlin's office handles undeliverable mail for all of Illinois and lower Michigan. Similar .dead letter offices serve other sections of the country. Mail without postage goes to a dead letter office, rather than back to the sender, only if it has no return address. Officer-in-charge Thome also cautioned that careless ad­ dressing is even a greater came for mail to wind up in a dead letter office. Last year, the nation's post offices had to handle more than three billion pieces of mail that couldn't be delivered as ad­ dressed. The cost of this han­ dling was estimated at $344 million. Also most important is using the zip code which is required on all mail, even local. Park Facilities Close The Illinois Department of Conservation announced last week that thirty-four Illinois state parks will be closed for all or part of the winter to prevent damage to roads, equipment or natural resources. Con­ servation Department director David Kenney said, however, that some facilities will stay open at each site and camping fees will be reduced. For in­ formation on which parks are affected and anticipated re­ opening dates contact the Department of Conservation, Room 603 Stratton Office Building, Springfield 62706. The annual Christmas concert at Harrison school in Wonder Lake, at which the bands and choruses perform, will be presented Monday evening, Dec. 19, at 7:30 p.m. in the Harrison school gym­ nasium. ' Tom Rome, band director, invites all area musicians to be part of the mass band which will perform at the concert. The mass band will consist of members of the bands at Harrison and all area musicians who would like to come and play. There will be only one more rehearsal for the large mass band Sunday, Dec. 18, from 3 to 4:30. All are invited to be a part of the band and also to come to the performance. Those with questions regarding the mass band, please call the school office at 653-2311. Pity The Boss The boss is the guy who has to get up early to see who comes in la te . I f there were more se l f - starters, the boss wouldn't have to be such a crank. 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