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SECTION 2 • PAGE 6 - PLAINDEALEE -WEDNESDAY. MAY 31,1978 PLAINDEALER , Editorial Opinion The Tbx Procedure Real Estate r Complaints To The Graduate Since today's graduates enter adult life at a time when there is much printed and spoken abuse of their country and its government, a word on the U.S. record is in order. Our country's constitutional republican form of government has survived in its present form longer than any other in the world. The founding fathers of the nation, when they established the system, were ahead of their time, and they built a system flexible enough to change with changing times. There are imperfections in the system and injustices in government and governing, but taken as a whole, the average citizen in the United States has something closer to an equal chance, economically and socially, than in any other maior country. That is saying much for America, because we are a melting-pot nation of many races and religions. We are an experimental nation in this sense. At our beginning two hundred years ago many sophisiticated European scholars and philosophers predicted the idealistic principles and laws on which the new republic had been founded and would operate could not possibly survive; they felt a country composed of so many divergent nationalities and beliefs could not coalesce into a united nation. Looking back on history, what has been the record? It is not perfect. But the people of this country have built the richest nation in the world, a nation of individual freedom for all, a nation which constantly seeks to improve itself, to uplift the disadvantaged. We have a long way to go, yet, but that is not a bad start. Every newly-graduated citizen should accept these blessings with an humble sense of thanksgiving and appreciation of the efforts and accomplishment of those who have gone before-who have done so much for all those starting out in 1978. The Pollen Season Eight or nine'million Americans suffer each spring, summer and fall because of pollen in the air. Hay fever is the common offender, but some suffer asthma or respiratory troubles; at the peak pollen season many become seriously ill. What might prove helpful to many is a pollen count chart, showing the average pollen level at various cities throughout the country. Such a chart is available free at the offices of many allergy doctors. It may be advisable for some to change the location of their home when possible. One moving from a city with a pollen count of 50 to one with a count of four or five often finds instant relief. Of course, there are inoculations with serums made individually for each patient after allergy tests, and also antihistamines. If these do not work, the chart will indicate where one should live, to be comfortable. Sheriff Report MARCH 1978 OFFENSE SUMMARY Robbery 2 . . . Aggravated Battery 12 ' T1 Aggravated Assault 2 Burglary 48 Burglary from auto 16 Theft -- 28 Auto Theft 5 Vandalism 80 Offense Involving Child 2 Property taxes may be paid under protest for many reasons. For example, if illegal rates were extended or if property should have been exempt from taxation but was taxed, the taxpayer has a claim of improper taxation. The most common taxpayer objection, however, is a claim that property valuation is ex­ cessive. The process by which this can be protested begins with an appeal to the county board of review in downstate counties or to the board of appeals in Cook county. If a decision at this level is not satisfactory then taxpayers in downstate counties may appeal to the State Property Tax Appeal board or to the courts or both. Cook county taxpayers may seek further relief only in the courts. In any case, the remedies available through the board of review or the board of appeals must be exhausted before appealing to the next level. This requirement has been strictly enforced by the courts. However, it is not necessary for taxpayers in downstate counties to appeal to the State Property Tax Appeal board before seeking relief in the courts. The Board of Review or Board of Appeals Application to the board of review or board of appeals for a hearing must be made within the time limits prescribed by statute. Complaints must be filed with the board of review by Aug. 1 in counties having less than 150,000 population, by Sept. 1 in counties having more than 150,000 but less than 500,000. Provision is made for later filing where the assessment books are not delivered to the board within th£ time provided by statute. To establish excessive valuation, strong evidence must be presented at the hearing which shows the valuation to be out of line. Recent* sales value of the property or similar adjacent property would provide an indication of the assessment's validity. Perhaps the best evidence would be a professional appraisal stating that the valuation of the property, reduced to the thirty- three and one-third percent excessive. The State Property Tax Appeal Board If the decision of the board of review is not acceptable then taxpayers in all counties other than Cook .may appeal to the State Property Tax Appeal V.I1MU i. Such an J mugt Cannabis Control^._.. 6 made wlUlin 0, a* lnloncatingCompcwnd I ^ wriUen n'otic'e o( ^ Controlled Substance Act 2 board 0f review's decision. Any Uqwr Control Act .1 U](j ^ having an interest Motor Vehicle Offenses 24 , Ju K~t Disorderly Conduct 2 Interfering with Police Officers 2 Awol and Desertion 1 All Other Traffic -- 4 A hearing is held if any party io the appeal requests one. in a decision of the board of review may also avail itself of this appeals process. The taxpayer or the taxing body, as the case may be, must eirnvirc summadv a petition with the clerk of Serving Other Aflencies SUMMARY the Appeal board stating tSe w 10 ,»««i »f EImErw^ioi^t '• II review's decision, why it is felt t^,TZ^twrongandwhal Departmental Service 24 A Investigating Quasi Crime 67 ^ollStare's' S3SSSST1 I however' <he b»"d Trafficvio!auons:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::2 re<i,,ire s"ch erid?,c.e » is Traffic Accident Investigations \ necessary to make its decision. Parking ViolaUons I ne board raust kee<> a record larking violations.... 6 of itg proceedings and SUcB PRISONER COUNT FOR THE MONTH ^C0I"ds are °Pen ^ Public. Adult Males Received 146 T*1®1™ squires the .board to Adult Females Received 13 render its decisions based upon Juvenile Males Received 10 and the weight of Je Juvenile Females Received 6 evidence. Final decisions of the Total Prisoners Received 175 board may be challenged in the Total Prisoners Discharged 187 courts- Average Prisoner Count Per Day 33.5 Prisoner Records Prepared 175 Warrants Served 106 Court Processes Received 488 Court Processes Served 405 Bailiffs In Court 114 Persons Taken To Court 140 Meals Served For The Month 1863 Persons Conveyed To Other Institutions 13 Mileage Conveying Persons 1,030 Mileage Serving Court Processes 10,173 Mileage Patrolling and Investigating 63,083 the taxpayer must pay all of the tax installments due. Such payment must be accompanied by a writing of payment under protest. (If a taxpayer pays his taxes without protest he is deemed to hfl|W voluntarily paid them (Peoplrv. Fleming, 355, 111. 91) 1 The person protesting presents to the collector two copies of the written protest signed by himself. The collector writes or stamps the date of receiving the same upon the copies, one of which he retains and the other he delivers to the person making the payment under protest. After Sept. 1, the collector publishes an advertisement, giving notice of the intended application for judgment for sale of such delinquent properties, and for judgment fixing the correct amount of any tax paid under protest. The application for such judgment or judgments must be made by the collector during the month of October, unless the collector is prevented from doing so in October for just cause, then he may obtain judgment at anv time thereafter. The taxpayer must appear at the time of this application for judgment and file his objections in writings If he fails to do so his protest is waived. While the basis for objections stated in the protest at the time of paying the tax may be in general terms, the written objections filed at the time of the court hearing must be specific. Within thirty days from the last day of filing of objections, the county clerk must notify the custodian of funds for each such levying unit that such objection or objections have been filed. This gives such taxing units notice and the opportunity to be present and Perspective TAXES AND CHINA The Courts Another avenue of appeal open to the taxpayer, once he has exhausted the board of review or board of appeal route is the court. Illinois statutes permit recovery of illegal real Two items you may not have seen in the news but which affect your pocketbook and U.S. foreign relations, respectively, just landed on my desk. One is about Tax Freedom day; the other about the systematic downgrading of our relationship with the Republic of China on Taiwan. As to Tax Freedom day, it happened earlier this month, on Saturday, May 6, to be exact. On that day, according to the Tax foundation, the average American had earned enough money to pay his share of the cost of government. According to Tax foundation analysis, the total taxes collected by the federal, state and local governments amounted to nearly $600 billion in 1977. That's 38 percent of U.S. personal income! Back before World War II it ran close to 10 percent. Senator Jesse Helms, R-N.C., took to the floor of the Senate the day before Tax Freedom day to urge his fellow members to commemorate the day. "I will shortly move that the Senate stand in recess for one minute to honor the struggling, downtrodden, exploited and neglected American taxpayer. During the rush, to pass legislation and spend his money, it is fitting and proper that the Senate of the United States honor its sole supporter and generous benefactor, the American taxpayer." Seems a reasonable enough proposition, doesn't it-and hardly a partisan one. But what happened? Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd and Sen. Gaylord Nelson, D-Wis., who was presiding at the time, flummoxed around with parliamentary maneuvers to prevent such a motion from passing. After much verbal footwork Senator Byrd said, "I ask unanimous consent that the Senate stand in recess for one minute to prove nothing." It did. And that, dear taxpayer, seems to be what the leadership in Washington thinks of you. Meanwhile, nearly halfway around the world, on Taiwan, more evidence came to light of the administration's apparent plan to systematically downgrade our relationship with the free Chinese, as a prelude to "normalizing" relations with the Communists on the mainland. The evidence this time-was the news that the U.S. In­ ternational Communication Agency (the U.S.I.A. under a new name) would close down libraries in Taichung and Tainan on July 15. The local deputy director of Jhe I.C.A. cited budgetary reasons, but in reply to a newspaper inquiry, did not rule out the possibility that "politics might be behind the mov^." Charles Lee Keaton) an associate professor at,National Cheng Kung university in Taiwan, was sure it was. In a letter to a local newspaper, he property taxes by paying under protest. To assert this remedy, coooooooooooooooooooccoooooocooooooocoooooc ACCIDENT INVESTIGATIONS HANDLED Total Number Of Accidents 175 Personal Property 117 Bodily Injury i .57 Fatalities Warning Tickets Issued 104 For Your Information Dear friends. Most of us have difficulty finding the proper words to express our sharing of the grief of the bereaved family. If we fully understand the need of the family for the support of sym­ pathetic friends in their grievous loss, it will lessen our discomfort. Simply speak from your heart, to another sorrowing heart. Respectfully, * 4S PETE#MJISTEN & SON FUNERAL HOME McHenry, Illinois 385-0063 ARE YOU NEW IN r McHenry Area? 000000000000000-: Do You Know Someone New? WE WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND A ROYAL WELCOME TO EVERY NEWCOMER TO OUR AREA!!!!! CALL JOAN STULL 385-5418 pd&SOU Q&S- w *0 °6L '0* KNOW YOUR AREA-ROYAL WELCOME DOES IT BEST* 4 OOOOOOeOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPOOOOOOOOOPOODOOO(> BY RONALD REAGAN wrote, "The fact is the library has been here for at least twenty-six years, but that is apparently not normal enough for somebody. The population trend...is to the south (where Tainan is located) and east and with a new university to be in Kaohsiung, just where are all these students supposed to get information if the already small number of libraries, is reduced still further? "I don't know the situation in Taichung, but surely they can afford to keep a reading room open. Once again, this is nor­ malization politics and not bugetary." The library closing is one more symptom of what is becoming a Carter policy of( normalization - by - inches.' Zbigniew Brzezinski's visit to Peking on the very day Chiang Ching-kuo was being inaugurated president in Taipei is a more glaring example. Perhaps more ominous for the future students of Asia is the recurring story out of Washington that the ad­ ministration is quietly en­ couraging U.S. allies, especially the British, to sell Peking arms. At a time when U.S. reliability in the western Pacific is in serious question, shabby treatment of an ally isn't helping matters. Tax-Saving Exemption By overlooking a little-known rule on tax withholding many companies and their employees are paying significant amounts to Uncle Sam unnecessarily, according to Robert C. Sassetti, president, Illinois CPA society. The rule exempts from Social Security withholding wages or salaries paid for employees who are out sick, provided the employer has an established uniform sick-pay policy. A similar rule also exempts from Social Security withholding any salary or wages paid under workmen's compensation or disability insurance Many employers apparently do not recognize the withholding exemption, either because they are unaware of it or because they feel the extra bookkeeping would offset the benefits. With Social Security taxes rising at an accelerating rate, it is becoming increasingly un­ profitable to ignore this tax- saving exemption, Sassetti said. For example, assume that a salaried employee earning $10,400 a year, or $200 a week, is out sick a total of twelve days in 1978. His employer has a policy of allowing ten paid sick days a vear. Applying this year's Social Security tax rate of 6.05 per­ cent, which employer and employee each pays, the em­ ployer can save $24.20 (6.05 percent of ten days' pay) by not withholding. For a firm with several hundred employees, this type of saving could mount up to thousands of dollars in the course of the year. The employee in this example also will take home an extra $24.20. This could result in a slight, probably negligible, effect on the size of retirement benefits to which he will ultimately be entitled. Corn Batter Small amounts of leftover corn can be added to pancake batter for variety. » Service Line McHENRY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 385-4300 FAMILY SERVICE ft MENTAL HEALTH CLINIC 3409 W. Waukegan Road McHenry 385-6400 PARENTAL STRESS LINE OF McHENRY COUNTY Meeting Place: McHenry County 24 hours a day, 7 days a week Call 312-463-0390 STATE CHAMBER GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS HOTLINE 217-522-5514 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION 202-755-8660 Hours7:30a.m. to5:30p.m. week days (Ever had a problem involving the federal government and not know where to call? And then been given a runaround or referrals by persons who meant well but didn't know how to help? Ten specialists available at this center.) NATIONAL RUN-AWAY SWITCHBOARD Illinois Phone: 800-972-6004 (For confidential conversation on problems dealing with run-away children) \ * MOVING HOTLINE Phone 800-424-9213 (Complaint* about interestate moving by companies, buses or trains. Sponsored by Interstate Commerce commission) CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION Phone 800-638-2666 (For questions or complaints on products ranging from toys to ovens) NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION Phone 800-424-9393 (Answers questions about automobile safety defects or yhether 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.) BIHTHRIGHT I'rt'jtnaiH? >ml H<*l|>? (.oiiiiMt-linp Service. 385-2999. 21-liour An- KMrriiiy Nrrvirr. heard at the hearing on the objection or protest. If personal property taxes are illegal because of an invalid tax rate, the taxpayer may elect under the statute to pay the entire amount under protest and then sue in court to recover the illegal portion. The action to recover must be brought within one year after payment or the taxpayer will be deemed to have waived his right of recovery. Generally, if a personal property tax were illegal for a reason other than the invalidity of the tax rate, payment under protest, as described above for real • property taxes, would be the route to follow. (For more detailed in­ formation about the board of review, contact the county supervisor of assessments. For information about the State Property Tax Appeal board, write to 303 E. Monroe street, Springfield, 111., 62706. A. G. Edwards & Sons, Inc. Weekly Market Report 1 certainly enjoy looking at fine art and girl watching, a tradition with deep arid commendable roots, is also most enjoyable. But folks, there is nothing that compares with watching a ticker tape like yesterday. When it is the right time to own stocks, no investment vehicle can come close in basic appeal and that's been the case for two months now. The ticker tape was indeed a thing of beauty yesterday. Early selling got nowhere and volume dried up. Then in a very businesslike fashion, the market came on led by glamours, breadth improved, and volume picked up but did not overheat. The Bears will still argue at least until we break through D. J. 860-that this is simply a Bear market rally and doomed to die. Many Bulls want to call it an early summer rally. In our opinion, the only important thing is to recognize that stocks still act stronger than ten cent gin and that mo6t participants have not jumped in with both feet either financially or psychologically. And remember, all of this beautiful tape action has occurred in the face of a steady flow of poor inflation and interest rate news. We admit that the current market environment has more clouds than are normally seen but cloudless days usually mean market tops are near. The rally in the broad market, as measured by the indicator digest average of 1500 NUSE issues, started in late 1974. Thus, one should obviously anticipate group rotation and periods of profit taking but we see little to indicate that the end of that bull market is near. The sharp advance of the Dow Industrials and previously bad acting giant glamours which started in March helped draw attention to the fact that many smaller companies had been attracting money for quite sometime. We favor selected leading glamours and secondary growth stocks for traders. However, for . the long term investor we still would focus on the broad group of secondary growth stocks selling at very reasonable multiples and yet able to substantially out-grow the overall economy. Al Goldman SertHcC , profes""11" pirec t o r v EARL R. WALSH & JACK WALSH INS. Fire, Auto. Farm. Life Representing RELIABLE COMPANIES 4410 W Rte. Ii0. McHenry IIS 3)00 DENNIS CONWAY AUTO LIFE FIRE State Farm Ins. Co. 331* W Elm St McHenry, III 385 7111 DR. 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