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<y \ Slate Johnsburg Staff Orientation PAGE 17 - PLAINDEALER - FRIDAY. JUNE IS. 1»7*- As the Johnsburg school board approved arrangements for staff orientation meetings for the new highschool at their regular meeting^uesday, June 13, they also received reports from Dr. Kenneth Falkinham indicating that construction would probably meet the proposed completion dates. The board additionally ap­ proved proposed changes in award nights and banquets for the junior high school that would fit in with proposals for the high school. William Hayes, principal of the new high school, advised the board that staff meetings were to be scheduled for June 19 through June 23. These would include leadership sessions, organization, and orientation work, and would be capped by a get-acquainted picnic at the Woodstock city park during the afternoon and evening of June 23. The school board and the families of all involved were to be included in the picnic, Hayes noted. The staff session and picnic would be covered by appropriations for the high school "kick off program", he indicated. Hayes also presented figures for the proposed student fee schedules for the high school which the board accepted after setting a $15 annual book rental rate (believed to be in the medium range) and a $5 annual towel fee. Falkinham said that the fee structure for the coming year was largely experimental, but that cost factors would be available next year. Hayes noted that from his research he found there are as, many fee schedules as there are schools. The board also approved Hayes' request to enroll five more students at the Lake County Area Vocational center in the Environmental Control program. Originally, eleven students were enrolled, and this brings the number up to 16. When the program was proposed, it was thought that up to thirty would be interested. Hayes said there was enough slack in the budget that they would not have to increase the figure to accommodate the additional students. Falkinham reported that the building contractor said he was behind but was now catching up on the Middle school con­ struction. He had advised the contractor that the school dUjtrict needed the rooms by 1, and the contractor I him that they would be by Aug., 15. Falkinham also noted that many rooms are done in the high school and that he hoped to install some heavy items of equipment in the vocational areas after July 1. These items, he said, were too cumbersome to be subject to theft and would be covered within their in­ surance limitations. Falkinham also noted that the 2 feet of dirt they were short in the crown of the football field had been added and this would be seeded by the end of the week. Dr. Duane Andreas, superintendent, said there were some problems (paper work processing) with the Capital Development board in getting a pump approved for their permanent well for the new school and there could be a water situation in the fall. He urged board correspondence with the state through Governor James Thompson to insure action by the CDB, who was having problems with new staff. In other construction mat­ ters, Falkinham advised of an offer by a citizen to donate a garage building to store school athletic supplies at the junior high. He estimated the cost to the district as no more than $2,000 for concrete work, garage door and some lighting. Iti was believed that with volunteer labor, the building could be erected with little or no cost to the district. The board approved, based on the facts in the letter which made the offer and on the recom­ mendations of the Building and Grounds committee. Ill other business Hayes explained to the board future policy for award programs for the high school with award nights to be held in the fall for certain athletic recognition and in the spring for fine arts and academics. Instead of a journalism banquet, recognition was to be for the entire fine arts field including drama and music. Academics would be recognized through the Honor Society program. Hayes said that setting the recognition events at two different times would meet the need or importance of im­ mediate recognition. Principal James VanBosch of the junior high school said that he agreed with the proposals and would adjust his award events to concide. The board was advised that preparations were being made by the administration to apply for affiliation with the North Central Association of Secopdary Schools and Colleges. Dr. Andreas said the matter was to be made until the following year it was believed. Dr. Andreas reported that he had -received a negative i response on his application for funding for his Title IV Career Education Focus program, However, he added, he intends to meet with some state people in the Illinois Office of Education to see if partial * funding would be available for some elements of the program. He understood that some money was still there. Andreas said that the time is now to get the baseline data (for the career education program). Board member Barbara Stanell reported on the SEDOM problem of trying to fit its program into the varying schedules of the twenty-one member school districts which SEDOM* Superintendent James Albert claimed had cost the Special Education district $60,000 during the past year. The Johnsburg school district's share of this cost was estimated at $2,000. Dr. Andreas suggested that for this year . anyway, it was worth it for Johnsburg to get the use of its own facilities when needed. Van Bosch added that part of the problem is a conflict bet­ ween districts in service days in addition to different starting and ending times for school terms. Board President Charles D. Boak, Jr., said the district has to retain its felxibility in scheduling and he didn't like to be dictated to by SEDOM. Mrs. Stanell pointed out that they were only one of twenty- one cooperative districts and they should try to work with them. She said that taxpayers didn't realize what the lack of agreement was costing them. Dr. Andreas noted that it is difficult to get a common calendar for all schools in the county and that the setting of schedules by the local school boards was one of the rights remaining to them. Besides in some school districts, the setting of school schedules is a matter for negotiation between the teachers' union and the board. Mrs. Stanell said she got the message from the board and would carry it back to the executive board of SEDOM. Dr. Andreas also reported on the results of the Special Education Lake McHenry County diagnostic program meeting which he had attended June 6. More federal dollars were made available which were intended to meet the needs of children who couldn't be served by SEDOM or SEDOL (Special Education Districts of McHenry or Lake County). After a needs assessment in the county, Dr. Andreas said, it was deter­ mined that much of the money should be used to help ad­ ministering paper work and in the identification of children with problems. He noted that the federal program which furnished the money mandated that more of the children's needs be met. Principal Hayes reported that the attendance at orien­ tation night for the high school was not great, with over a 100 parents present, but he believed it was good con­ sidering the tornado warning in effect at the time. Board Member Thomas Cahill said he believed it was not so good, and showed an apparent lack of interest by parents. Senior Citizen Hobby Fair The fourth annual Senior Citizen Hobby fair will be held in the Woodstock City Square Park Saturday, June 17. The event is sponsored by the Woodstock Kiwanis club for all hobbyists over 50 in McHenry county. No fees are charged for participation. Pre-registered exhibitors may set up their displays between 8:30 and 9 a.m. Other entrants will be accepted after 9 o'clock at the headquarters table. A1 Klemme will again be at the organ in the band stand. He will also officiate as master of ceremonies throughout the day for entertainment by the mid­ west champion Sweet Adelines, the Huntley Senior Citizen Koncert band, the Sunshine Rhythm band of McHenry county, and other local talent. Do-lt-Yourself Pest Control Do-it-yourself pest control can work in many cases if the homeowners knows what he is doing, and follows a few safety rules by heeding the in­ structions on the pesticide label. That's the word form the National Pest Control association, a non-profit organization of experts that provides consumers with in­ formation about pest problems and their solution. The first thing a do-it- yourselfer should do, it says, is to make certain the kind of pest to be dealt with. What a homeowner thinks is a flying ant could be a termite from a colony tRotIs undermining the home. Check it out with a county extension agent or a professional pest control operator to identify the enemy and the pesticide to be used. One pesticide may be effective in eliminating flies but not roaches, while another may work on roaches but not those brown ticks that rode home on Rover. Once the pesticide is pur­ chased at a hardware or grocery store, read the label and "follow the directions exactly. The association notes that "the manufacturer probably spent upwards to $6 million researching the best way to use it and his chances of being right are better than yours." Here are some tips from the association on safety: ...Don't use more pesticide than the instructions call for. Twice as much is not twice as good! You can't kill a tick or fle# deatier'tMbn dead but yotf* might harm thfe family pooch in the process. ...Don't apply any pesticides near food or on surfaces that will come into contact with food. That includes foods for pets as well as food for use by humans. ...Be sure you know the an­ tidote or appropriate first aid treatment of the pesticide being used. Also know where your local poison control center is Icoated. ...If anaccident should occur, get in touch with the control center, your doctor, or a hospital emergency room immediately. Take the pesticide container with you in seeking medical help. The association says the overuse of pesticides is not only dangerous but can also be ineffective and a waste of time and effort. For example, it says, one could miss killing a pest completely by using a pile of,, powder instead of just a trace because the pest is more likely to go around it than through it. For a free folder on "How to Select and Use Pest Control Services," write National Pest Control Association, Suite 1100, 8150 Leesburg Pike, Vienna, Va. 22180. State Eligible For Funds For Nutrition Program Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Carol Tucker Foreman has announced that Illinois is eligible to receive $1,345,133 to conduct the new nutrition education and training program. The money is part of $26 million the Department is making available to states nationwide to conduct the program. Assistant Secretary Foreman said, "State education agencies are now eligible to receive grants for this program based on a rate of fifty cents for each child enrolled in a school or institution. The minimum amount a state can receive is $75,000." "State education agencies that want to participate in the program should contact the appropriate USDA Food and Nutrition Service regional office," Ms. Foreman said. "Hie funds announced today are being made available to states for the 1978 fiscal year, ending Sept. 30, 1978." The nutrition education and training program was enacted into law in Nov. 1977 and in­ terim regulations were issued in March. Through this program, states will provide children, teachers, and school food service personnel with training oit the important relationship between nutrition, good food, and health. This training will help them become informed, knowledgeable consumers. The apportionment notice announcing the availability of the funds is scheduled to ap­ pear in the Federal Register of June 7. If state law prohibits a state from administering the nutrition education and training program in nonprofit private schools and in­ stitutions, USDA will ad­ minister the program in that state. The department will withhold a proportionate amount from a state's grant to administer ttie program in nonprofit private schools and institutions. HOSPITAL NOTES McllENRY HOSPITAL Recent admissions to McHenry hospital who requested that their names be published included from McHenry: Raymond T. Smith, Martin Spoto, Brian Reinke, Charles Schwebke; from Wonder Lake: Keith P. Thomas. MEMORIAL HOSPITAL WOODSTOCK Recent admissions to Memorial hospital, Woodstock, included from McHenry: Donald Blume, Master James Mullen and baby Allison Eckland; from Wonder Lake: Connie Hudson. V. RECOVERING Todd J. Murphy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Murphy, was seriously injured in a motor­ cycle accident last week. Friends may write to the for­ mer McHenry youth in Room N343, Valley General hospital, Kent, Wash. 98031. Perspective WHY EXTEND LIMITS FOR E.R.A.? By RONALD REAGAN "N Statewide Moth Survey Right in the middle of an election year Congress finds itself wrestling with a con­ stitutional question it probably wishes would go away. The question is, will there be a time limit put on the passage of E.R.A., the so-called Equal Rights amendment? On March 22, 1972, when it voted to send the E.R.A. on to the states for ratification, Congress gave it the customary seven-year time limit. Having fallen short of the needed three- fourths of all states, the amendment is rapidly ap­ proaching self-destruct day, March 22, 1979. At first the E.R.A. sailed through state legislature^ with little discussion or debate. Hawaii even voted to ratify it unanimously the same day it passed Congress. But the momentum slowed the next year and since 1974 there have been only two ratifications. Of the thirty-five states which have ratified, thirty did so in the first year. And, during the six years and nearly three months it has been kicking around, the E.R.A. actually has been rescinded by three states, Idaho, Nebraska and Ten­ nessee. This leaves a knotty constitutional question yet to be answered: does the E.R.A. need only three more states or does it need six? As anxiety among E.R.A. advocates mounted, they sought an unprecedented ex­ tension of the ratification time limit, from seven to fourteen years. Rep. Elizabeth Holtz- man, D-NY, and Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., introduced resolutions to that effect in both houses. The House Judiciary Committee is expected to take up debate soon. Though much of what the E.R.A. was intended to do has been accomplished already through normal legislative channels, the question now is not the merits or demerits of the amendment, but, rather, is seven years enough time in which to consider ratification? Predictably, proponents, led by the National Organization for Women (NOW), say "no," they need more time. Yet the Sig>reme court (in Dillion V. Gloss, 1921) suggests that the Founding Fathers had prompt ratification in mind. According to the court, the Constitution strongly implies that "proposal and ratification were but succeeding steps in a single endeavor"; that "ratification must be within some reasonable time after the proposal"; and that "nothing was found in Article V (of the Constitution) which suggested that an amendment once proposed was to be open to ratification for all time, or that ratification in some states might be separated from that in others by many years and yet be effective." Is seven years a "reasonable" length of time? The history of successful constitutional amendments says it is. Of the 6,000 amend­ ments proposed following ratification of the Bill of Rights in 1791, only twenty-two have passed Congress and been sent to the states. Only sixteen of these have been ratified. Of them, six were ratified in less than a year; seven in less than two years. Only three took more than three years, but none required four years or more. The E.R.A., by sharp contrast, has been limping along for more than six years already. Nervous congressmen, tempted to vote for an ex­ tension lest they appear "anti- equal rights" on the eve of reelection campaigns, will find a swarm of troubling questions awaiting them if they lift the lid of this particular Pandora's box. Tom Ascik, policy analyst of the! Heritage foundation, suggests several: - Having once acted and passed the matter on to the Temporary Help Has Arrived in McHenry County Manpower has opened a full service temporary help office in town to bring you the best workers when you're short-handed. Now that we're here, you can get skilled nurses, secretaries, typists, clerks, bookkeepers, keypunch operators, industrial workers, every type of help you need. Vacations, absenteeism, peak seasons . ,. any time you've got too much work and too little help, give us a call. We're proud to be here and anxious to help. % • MANPCWI TEMPORARY SERVICES (815) 385-6600 810 C North Front St. , McHenry states, is Congress not tam­ pering with the rights of the states by interfering with their jurisdiction at this point? - Should the time period be extended at all? If so, by how much? - Could a ratification in 1986 be considered con­ temporaneous wiht one in 1972 to satisfy the test of that Supreme court ruling? - What about rescission? Professor Charles Black of the Yale Law school has testified before a congressional com­ mittee that "...it would be entirely impermissible to extend the time for ratification without also extending the time for rescission." - Since both sides knew at the time that the amendment would have seven years for ratification, is it fair or necessary to extend the time period now? -- Since Congress original passage required a two-thirds vote, will two-thirds be required to pass the time limit extension? If Congress votes to extend the time limit, opponents will take it to court faster than you can say "woman's lib." •••••••••••••••• Auxiliary Notes From V.F.W. *••••••••••••••• Vi Abbink, president; Mary Kuemmel, president-elect; Ila Hogan, Sue Wallace and Gerry Kuck will represent the Ladies auxiliary to Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4600 at the Department of Illinois Ladies auxiliary to Veterans of Foreign Wars convention at Rosemont, 111. Convention dates are June 22, 23,24 and 25. Eileen Tanner, president of the state of Illinois will conduct a council of administration meeting Thursday morning. The Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Ladies auxiliary joint awards presentation will take place Thursday afternoon, to be followed by a memorial service in the evening. The opening session of the Ladies auxiliary convention will take place Friday af­ ternoon at the Ramada O'Hare inn. During the afternoon session, state chairmen will present reports and awards. The city of DesPlaines will be the scene for the annual parade, featuring color guard units, drum and bugle corps and drill teams. Saturday's activities will begin with a breakfast honoring state chairmen. The remaining auxiliary business will take place following the breakfast. A banquet honoring the department commander and department president will take place Saturday evening at the Ramada O'Hare inn. Sunday business session will consist of election of officers for the 1978-1979 auxiliary year, which will be followed by the installation and introduction of chairmen for the following year. FROM THE PAST...Like a scene from yesteryear is this operating gristmill and oak-timbered dam, focal points of interest at restored Philipsburg Manor, North Tarrytown, New York A statewide survey io determine whether the gypsy moth has spread to Illinois will be conducted by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Illinois Department of Agriculture from now through Aug. 15. Landowners throughout Illinois will be contacted by survey workers to gain per­ mission to place the traps on their property, according to Richard Love joy of USDA Is Animal and Plant Health In­ spection service (APHIS) of­ fice in Princeton. The gypsy moth is an European insect that was accidentally released in the United States from the laboratory of a Massachusetts naturalist in 1869. Although harmless as a moth, the caterpillar stage feeds on the leaves of shrubs and trees, often defoliating entire forests. Lovejoy said over 9,000 gypsy moth traps will be placed throughout Illinois during the survey period by USDA, state agriculture workers, state foresters and concerned con­ servation groups. The triangular traps are 7Vfe inches long and either brown or orange colored. A non-toxic sex attractant that draws male gypsy moths, is placed in the traps. Once inside, the moth is held by a glue-like substance spread on the trap walls. Lovejoy said there is a strong possibility of a gypsy moth infestation in the River Forest area. Surveys in 1976 and 1977 • turned up evidence of a gypsy,, moth presence. Because of the suspected infestation, over 500 traps will be placed in the river. Forest area. If the infestation is ; confirmed, treatment could ; begin as early as the spring of - 1979. * / - : "Early detection and; treatment of this pest is critical," Lovejoy said, "a small infestation in Palos Park was treated successfully in 1975 and subsequent survey's of the area have shown no further sign of the moth. " Lovejoy said infestations containing millions of cater­ pillars can strip entire forests; in a few days, but only a few of* the millions of trees stripped each year die. "Most of the stripped trees put out new leaves. However, even a single defoliation can seriously weaken a tree, making it susceptible to other insects and plant diseases," he said. According to Lovejoy, repeated years of destructive feeding can result in massive tree death. An infestation in New Jersey in 1968 killed over one million trees by 1971. "It takes between seven and nine years for a gypsy moth in­ festation to reach the point of severe ecological and economic damage," he said. KEEPING HEALTHY MANY STATES ARE ENACTING NEW GENERIC EQUIVALENT PRESCRIBING LAWS. NOW, IN NEW >ORK, IF A DOCTOR SIGNS HIS PRESCRIP­ TION FORM ON THE LEFT SIDE THE PHARMACIST PROVIDES THE SPECIFIED BRAND... IF HE SIGNS ON THE RIGHT HE FILLS IT WITH THE LEAST EXPENSIVE GENERIC EQUIVALENT DRUG. TO FIND OUT WHAT AN EQUIVALENT DRUG IS, NEW YDRK DRUGGISTS WILL CONSULT A LIST 00MPILED BV THE N.Y. STATE HEALTH DEPART­ MENT AND VALIDATED By THE FDA FREE LUFKIN CAP! <-* ilT -- I Art CAT MO. vn u When you bay a 16 or 25' MezuriokTape With 16' Tape With 25' Tape $949 $H»5 I CO!*ST TO CIJkST STMIt I . . , t o t a l h a r d w a r e 4400 W. RTE. 120, McHENRY, ILL. 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