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<3 "PLAINDEALER i Editorial Opinion Puffers At Bay From many directions hard-sucking cigarette regulars are being hemmed in. Growing pressure is about to produce a long-awaited ban on smoking in public transportation conveyances. Proposals are being heard in Congress to ban all cigarette advertising. It's already banned on television and several newspapers refuse all cigarette advertising. There's a tax proposal in Congress for making a package of cigarettes sell for a dollar or two. Many in Congress want subsidies to tobacco farmers stopped. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare now bluntly tells addicts (60,000,000 of them) they are committing suicide in slow motion. Heart and Cancer societies warn of the danger of death. Women were recently warned that if they take the pill their chances of heart attack go up ten times, if they also smoke cigarettes. Of course, everyone should have the right to live his life, so long as it doesn't harm others. The question is: where can tobacco addicts do their thing where it doesn't harm others? Flying Statistics Last year 1,395 people died in private aircraft accidents and more than fifty percent of the accidents involved pleasure flying. While the death total doesn't approach that resulting from automobile accidents, it's too high, and is up considerably from 1976. There are only 180,000 private aircraft in the U.S., compared to tens of millions of automobiles, so the death rate from pleasure flying is reportedly not as low as is sometimes believed. Most fatalities caused by private aircraft accidents result from bad weather flying. (This is also true in airline operations.) The lesson seems a hard one for many to learn. An instrument flying license is an asset to any pilot. But it's not as worthwhile as the will to avoid bad weather flying. Perspective WELFARE REFORM Bv RONALD RKACiAN "Reform*-as in "welfare re­ form "-means, "To change into a new and improved form." But, as scholar Martin Anderson points out in his new book "Welfare," the reformers have succeeded instead in building a sort of Berlin Wall of dependency over which it is almost impossible for as much as one-tenth of all Americans to climb to economic freedom. Anderson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford university, has the distinction of being the only member of Hie Nixon White r of Ae^Ji HtM»gro* the Family Assistance recommend against submitting It to Congress. Guaranteed annual incomes don't work, he concludes, and he cites persuasive evidence. He notes a Congressional Budget office report that by 1976. fewer than 14 million Americans (6.4 percent) lived in poverty. (Alice Rivfin, the director of the Budget office, has said that "the nation has come a lot closer to eliminating poverty than most people realize.") New 'Caste of People' In place of poverty, though, Anderson says, we have created a new "caste of people free from basic wants but - almost totally dependent on the state, with little hope or prospect of breaking free." He says that people with incomes between $4,000 and $8,000 yearly are the most likely to be trapped behind the "poverty wail," Though the nation's welfare bill went from $77 billion to $286 billion between 1965 and 1975, "one of the most costly side effects of the proliferation of welfare programs is the almost com­ plete destruction of work in­ centives for the poor on welfare," Anderson says. The reason for this is that the effective marginal tax rates for the working poor are extremely high. And, as incomes inch upward, benefits decline. "Why should someone work 40 hours a week 50 weeks a year for, say, $8,000, when it would be possible not to work at all for, say, $6,000?" Anderson asks. "People on welfare may be poor, but they are not fools," he adds. Based on guaranteed annual income pilot projects in Seattle and Denver, Anderson estimates that if a guarantee of $3,750 per year were set, hours worked by low-income workers For Your Information D«ar frl*nda. Survivor* of on honorably discharged U.S. war votoran, or of a pooco-timo votoran discharged for aorvko-connactod disability, may bo ontltlad to ana or mora bonofits from tho Votorans Administration. Thoso bonofits In no way conflict with any paymonts that might bo duo undor Social Socurity and many famllios qualify for rocom- pan so undor both govornmont agondos. Rospoctfully, / (t y* . >_ PETER AV J 1ST EN & SON FUNERAL NOME McHenry, Illinois 385-0063 Conservationists Rate President President Carter has received a less-than-good mark from a big majority of con­ servationists who were asked to rate his Administration on its environmental record during his first year in office. Seventy-three percent rated his record "fair" or "poor" among 35,182 members of the National Wildlife federation who responded with postcard ballots, mailed at their own expense, according to the NWF. Only 27 percent rated his administration "excellent" or "good," the NWF said. The postcard ballots went out to members of the federation, the nation's largest con­ servation organization, in the February-March issue of National Wildlife magazine. Nearly ten thousand more NWF members returned ballots this year than in 1977, when 26,624 voted on priorities for environmental issues and ranked water pollution as the country's No. 1 problem. were scored on a basis that an eighth-place vote. Thus the gave one point for a first-place issue or project with the least vote, two points for a second- number of points showed the place vote, up to eight points for broadest support. The results: HOW CONSERVATIONISTS RATE CARTER'S ENVIRONMENTAL RECORD QUESTION: NWF members were asked to "Give ui your MKMment of the Cuter Ad­ ministration'* environmental record during it* first yetr in office. (A) Excellent (B)Good (C) Fair (D)Poor RESPONSE: A total of 35,182 responded as follows: (A) Excellent, 742, 2%; (B) Good, 8,933, 2S«; (C) Fair, 17,895, 51%; (D) Poor, 7,612. 22%. EXCELLENT (A) or FAIR (C) POOR (D) GOOD(B) 27% 51% 22% HOW CONSERVATIONISTS RANK ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES Litmd In onitr of rto# nctMnf nctt ovtftll tupport First Place Second PUce Total Rank Issue , Votes Vows Score . 1 Fight Pollution 6,472 878 125,617 2 Develop Energy Program 8,546 2,105 127,829 3 Protect Farm Lands 2,810 3,029 164,376 4 Teach Conservation 4,121 4,170 166,756 5 Conserve Wildlife * 3,105 2,684 168,368 6 Population Control * S,982 8,217 172,031 7 Expand Parks/Refuges 2,428 4,783 180,357 8 Simpler Life-Style 3,592 9,169 , 181,548 The NWF canvass is con­ sidered significant because it reached more than twelve times the number of citizens covered in year-end studies by the Gallup poll and the Lou Harris survey. It differs from those polls in that it was aimed, not at the general public but at persons who have demon­ strated an interest in en­ vironmental issues by joining a conservation group. President Carter cam­ paigned in 1976 as an en­ vironmentalist, and thus the poll would appear to reflect a disappointment in his record on the part of many fellow en­ vironmentalists. Asked by the NWF to "help the federation decide on its priorities for the coming year" among eight environmental problems, the same voters assigned their highest priority .to the "fight (on) en­ vironmental pollution," with second place going to "develop an energy program." Asked "what energy sources should receive the highest priority now to help meet future demands," they voted over­ whelmingly for a top priority on solar power, followed by wind and nuclear. The two priority questions ENERGY SOURCES FAVORED BY CONSERVATIONISTS Question: NWF members wt *e asked "What energy sources should receive highest priority now to help meet future demands?" priority First Place Last Place Total - Rank Source Votes Votes Score 1 Solar 19,659 34 71,272 2 Wind 761 177 132,303 3 Nuclear 3,968 2,252 134,550 4 Coal 4,553 492 134,629 5 Hydroelectric 1,099 375 138,868 6 Geothermal 607 202 142,147 7 Natural Gas 1,726 326 145,578 8 Oil 2,928 809 155,752 In addition to rating President Carter and assigning priorities to environmental issues and energy sources, the NWF members also responded to two "yes or no" questions. Asked whether they believed "that pollution can be cleaned up while preserving jobs and maintaining at least the present standard of living for all Americans? they answered: Yes, 28,959; No, 5,286; Don't Know, 2,136. PLAINDEALER. would decline "to a minimum of 30 percent and perhaps (by as much as) 50 percent." The incentives just aren't there. The proposed Carter welfare reform scheme goes about it the wrong way, according to Anderson. It contains con­ flicting objectives which he says are impossible to achieve. It would increase welfare costs by $20 billion a year or more and would add 22 million more Americans to the 44 million who are now getting some form of welfare. Ironically, President Carter's proposals "focus on i^egefcpa* M aiding people ntf now refeiving rict plan to Ziy welfare," Anderson says. The Carter plan would give welfare benefits, including earned-income tax credits, to nearly 12 million families earning between $10-15,000 a year and to four million families with incomes between $15-25,000! Meanwhile, the below-$10,000 worker will have less and less incentive to break out of his dependency. Why The Push? Why the push for such "reform"? Anderson says that regardless of which party holds the White House, "the clamor...comes essentially from a small group of com­ mitted ideologues who want to institute a guaranteed income under the guise of welfare reform." In other words, those wonderful folks who believe in equality of results, not op­ portunity. What should really be done about, welfare? Anderson outlines six ideas: reaffirm the philosophy that welfare should be for the truly needy; establish and enforce a fair, clear work requirement; remove inappropriate beneficiaries from welfare rolls (e.g. workers on strike); en­ force support of dependents by those who can provide it; improve efficiency of welfare administration; shift more responsibility for welfare away from Washington to state and local levels. I think he's on the right track. After we got the California welfare mess under control in the mid-'70s by using several of these principles, we were able to reduce the rolls by more than 350,000 and still increase grants to the truly needy by an average of 43 percent. In Washington, though, the Carter "reformers" seem determined to prove that one man's reform is another man's tax bite. Letters to the Editor Public Pulse Invttss flia title r«a«n>« right to Wats any material which wa canal aa an aipraaalaa af thalr Our only raqwaat la that number. Wa ask toa. that lan anca each month. Wa CITIZENS' OBJECTIVES "Dear Editor: "It has been suggested that the McHenry County Citizens' committee should explain our objectives and ac­ complishments to date. "This group started out as the Transportation committee of (he McHenry County Senior Citizen council, but it soon became evident that the committee represented the interests of every person in the county who needs public transportation, not only the elderly. Adults of all ages and many occupational and social interests began to attend our meetings and assist in our efforts, hence the change of name. "We are not, certainly, against mass transportation. Our county obviously needs it; but after four years of un- f u l f i l l e d p r o m i s e s , mismanagement, and 'taxation without representation' from a non-elected body - the Regional Transit Authority - we feel that something must be done to bring it into line or to eliminate its control over us. "The whole 'regional' con­ cept in this and other matters is an example of 'creeping federal bureaucracy' which is ad­ mitted by both its advocates and its foes to be an effort to wrest control from local and even state governments. "To maintain control over the RTA, the federal govern­ ment contributes 40 percent of its operating funds. The remainder of its financing comes from state coffers and the gasoline tax on the six counties of the RTA area. "It is these state and county- generated monies that are the target of our committee. "The enabling act of the RTA states that no one and no agency except the RTA board can control the way it spends our money. "However, our committee is working on cutting off the 60 percent of its operating funds that it is milking from Illinois citizens. This would require the votes of two-thirds of each oa the Illinois legislative bodiOte "Our legislators from the RTA area tell us that at present about a third of the state House of Representatives and nearly half of the Senate would sup­ port our effort if it could be brought to the floor of those houses for a vote. "Our committee is sending letters to influential groups throughout the state (over 2,000 so far) who are already, ac­ cording to the replies we have received, telling their legislators to support ours. They object, when they find out about it from our letters, to supporting an RTA which funnels over 70 percent of its money into the CTA (Chicago Transit Authority). "Since the RTA, by its own admission, is going broke, it must ask the Illinois legislature for even greater appropriations in the next two years. In this time we expect to have raised the necessary two-thirds of the legislators to oppose its further mismanaged actions in one way or another. "Mailings and lobbying cost money - so far raised almost entirely by donations from senior citizen organizations - so the committee has scheduled a fund raising dinner for Saturday, April 22, to provide a war chest for our future efforts. "Sincerely, "C.W. Coons, Chairman "County Citizens' Committee (Representing many McHenry area residents)". CHILD EDUCATION "Editor: "Both the Plaindealer and the Citizen newspapers ran an article that contained the following: 'Child clumsiness likened to learning disabilities.' "I am a state licensed learning disability teacher and I object to clumsy being applied to these chidlren. I see these children as lacking in physical coordination education. "Second, Dr. Vittensen, the author, emphasizes in the article that current remedial techniques for the children often fail. "Perhaps Dr. Vittensen is not aware of the services available to them. And this failure, of course, is not hers alone. The child learns by developmental stages kinesthetic, audile, visual and tacticle. It is the total sensory process that is required in reading. It isn't that remedial techniques fail, it is the communication between special education districts, and Dr. Vittensen and others who are not made aware of the services provided in the area, that fails. "And one last comment: Perhaps now that Bill 94-142 McHenry Area? ooooooooooooooc< Do You Know Someone New? WE WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND A ROYAL WELCOME TO EVERY NEWCOMER TO OUR AREA!!!!! 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Sponsored by Interstate Commerce commission) CONSUMER PRODUCT 8AFETY COMMISSION Phone 800-638-2666 (For questions or complaints on products ranging from toys to ovens) NAHONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION Phone 800-424-9393 (Answers questions about automobile safety defects or whether a particular model has ever been recalled. Valuable for those interested in buying a used car) ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES Child Abuse Center McHenry County (312) 546-2150 CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION 800-638-2666 (Operates five national lines. Answers inquiries about, or reporting on, the safety of products from kitchen appliances to children's toys) NATIONAL SOLAR HEATING AND COOLING INFORMATION CENTER 800-523-2929 P.O. Box 1607, Rockville, Md. 20850 (Dispenses information on solar systems for heating and cooling to anyone from architects to home owners looking for a sun-powered hot-water system) CONSUMER PROTECTION DIVISION 1603 N. North Avenue McHenry, 111. John T. Licastro (Calls from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. - 385-1703; interviews Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.) PAGE 19 - PLAINDEALER - WEDNESDAY. APRIL 5, 1978 Home Replacement Value Asked whether they believed "the energy shortage will reach crisis proportions in the next five years?" they responded: Yes, 20,732; No, 9,637; Don't Know, 5,646. Variations in the vote totals are explained, NWF officials said, by the fact that some respondents voted on all questions while others skipped parts of the survey. The best method of finding the true replacement cost of a home is having it professionally appraised, suggests the Insurance Information institute. For home owners who can't afford an appraisal, replacement cost formulas are available from a local library or agent. However, I.I.I, warns these formulas only estimate an average cost replacement value. The home owner can find the approximate replacement cost if the number of square feet in his home is multiplied by the approximate factor in the table below. The table is published annually in the International Conference of Building Officials publication, "Building Standards". The figure obtained from using the formula is only an approximation. It should not be substituted for a professional appraisal of your home. Only the professional appraiser cad determine the " rear replacement cost based on *' home's structure, facade and design. rt. The valuation data for,, residential dwellings in Illinois, is for April, 1977, based on average cost per square footed A v e r a g e m a s o n a r y construction, $24.57; Average wood frame construction-^ $22.46. Good masonry construction,' $32.35; Good wood frame, construction, $29.66 Contact your insurance company for their own prepared pamphlets that contain more detailed; formulations for helping & home owner figure out the' replacement cost of his home. has been passed by Congress and ratified by the states we will see changes in the schools to accommodate the visually uneducated child. And finally admit that reading is NOT done with the eyes alone but with all the senses. And we will make room in the classroom for the child who learns by other means as audile, tactile, kinesthetic as well as visual. And we will understand the vital importance to give the child a developmental physical education program to aid him to learn to read. "Jane A. Sweet "McHenry" Women's Job Training Gov. James R. Thompson reported the state will begin operation by mid-April of two training centers for women who need to re-enter the job market after careers as homemakers. The centers, the governor said, will be geared to help middle- aged women who must find jobs after their families have grown or after divorce or death of their spouses. Precise locations for the centers will be an­ nounced in the next two weeks, according to Gov. Thompson. Petition For Zoning Change Near Greenwood A petition has been filed for hearing before the McHenry County Zoning Board of Appeals by Wheeling Trust and Savings bank, for a trust, and its beneficiary, William Melahn; and C.F. Langille, for an amendment to the McHenry county zoning ordinance from "F" Farming district to "E-2" Estate district. The property contains* approximately 50 acres and is, located in Greenwood township* about one mile north of Route . 120 and one mile south of the* village of Sunrise Ridge oh' Thompson road. The hearing will be held April" 13, at 2 p.m. in the McHenry, county courthouse, Room 112,1 2200 North Seminary avenue, . 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