Plan "Rally Day" Weekend Y IVrK|M'rlivc COALITION POLITICS RONALD RKAC.AN Kristin Stuhr, Martha Finkbeiner, Beth Johnson, Linda Staveteig, Lori Kohi and Erv Staveteig discuss a church school "Rally Day" planned at Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran church, 404 North Green street, McHenry, this weekend. The church school at Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran church. McHenry, has planned a "Rally Day" weekend for Sept. 9 and 10. On this weekend all students in the church school will be advanced to their new classes. The ne'v perfect attendance period for the students in the school will also begin this weekend Church school is provided for the students at 5:35 p.m Saturday and 9:15 mii. Sunday Each week the students will participate in a group opening worship setting prior to the students going to their classrooms. The students will have individualized materials from The Good News series produced by the American Lutheran church. Ap proximately 250 students will participate in the school. Teachers and assistants in the school include the following: Julie Smith, Ann O'Donnell, George Kammerer, Pat Kollenkark, Berdie Bergdahl, Beth Johnson, Linda Panning, Alice Ort, Helen Kot, Donna Haack, Carol Nelson, Kristin Stuhr, Pastor Roger Schneider, Ron Kot, Aleta Gemmell, Barb Slater, Sandy Nank, Kathy Zank, Eileen Hautzinger, Karen Knudsen, Pat Buhrman, Judy Zid, Eve Hamann. Audrey Whitney, Linda Staveteig, Yvonne Alton and Sue Rogalski. 'MKAINWHILK BACK AT THKCOIIRTHOIISK" BRANCH I COURT In hearings before Judge Michael Sullivan on Sept 5, Benigno Mirelez, Marengo, was found guilty of unlicensed driving and fined$50 and costs DeWitt D. Gile, Harvard, guilty of no valid driver's license, fined $50 and costs and guilty of no valid registration, fined $10 and costs Charles Cardella, Cary, guilty of creating and main taining a nuisance, fined $250 and costs Pamela S Linville, Chemung, guilty of deceptive practice, fined $25 and costs. Timothy D. Perkins. Har vard, guilty of curfew violation, fined $15 and costs Daniel P Conway, Wood stock, guilty of possession of alcoholic liquor by a person of non-age, fined $25 and costs Ronald L. Readel, Wood stock, guilt/ of purchase or acceptance of alcoholic liquor by a person of non-age, fined $25 and costs Rudy G Luna, Marengo, guilty of no valid driver's license, fined $50 and costs. Helen E Hamilton. Lake Geneva. Wis., guilty of retail theft, fined $50 and costs Dave A Marsh, Richmond, guilty of curfew violation, fined $15 and costs Cary H Perry, Elkhorn, Wis . guilty of no valid driver's license, fined $50 and costs A charge of no valid registration was not prosecuted Donald H Hohenstein, Crystal Lake, guilty of failure to yield, fined $25 and costs Arden G Miller, Huntley, entered a negotiated plea of guilty to an amended charge of reckless driving and was fined $50 and costs, placed on 90 day probation, sentenced to seven days in jail and ordered to attend the DW1 project A charge of failure to yield was not prosecuted James S Cesar, Chicago, guilty of an amended charge of reckless driving, fined $50 and costs, placed on 90 day probation, sentenced to seven days in jail and ordered to attend the DWI project. Jay T Aldrich, 2509 Schzid, guilty of driving while license suspended, sentenced to ten days in jail and guilty of speeding and fined $17 and costs. Randall D. Glosson, 5402 W. Route 120, was found not guilty of making an improper turn. Thomas R. Molina, Wood stock, entered a negotiated plea of guilty to a charge of no valid driver's license, fined $250 and costs and pi aced on six months supervision Daniel L Quittschreiber, Island Lake, guilty of theft under $150. fined $75 and costs Public Invited To Library Meetings „ The public is invited to attend future meetings of the McHenry Public Library board. Meetings are scheduled for the first Monday of each month at 7:30 p.m. and are held in the McHenry Public library Because of the Labor Day holiday, however, September's meeting has been moved to Monday, Sept 11. By Ronald Reagan Coalition politics, that staple of American life for decades, has been undergoing so many sea changes in recent times that it was inevitable that someone would publish a guidebook to these roiling waters. "Emerging Coalitions in American Policitcs," by twenty-three political scien tists, historians and of ficeholders assembled by the Institute for Contemporary Studies, is such a book. Though it won't satisfy anyone who wants a moneyback guarantee of what the American political future holds, "Emerging Coalitions" has many useful clues as to what's been happening and what might happen to the ship of state. Davids Broder, the Washington Post columnist, traces the basic reason for coalition politics: "In a society whose bedrock ideals include both the dignity of the indivudal and the rule of the majority, it was close to inevitable that the politics would rest on the ability to build coalitions," But, he says, "...old techniques of coalition-building are no longer adequate or effective. If one is pressed to say why those techniques no longer work, one would have to guess, in the broadest terms, that it is because the individualistic instincts in this society have now become much more powerful in our politics than the majoritarian impluse." Possibly linked to this tip in the balance between in- d i v i d u a l i s m a n d majoritarianism is the shift in the upper status levels of American society. Scholar- writer Michael Novak notes that "During the past 10 years, the Democratic party has come to win the larger share of the votes of the wealthy and the better educated." He notes that when the "upper class" was Republican, "wealth was then protected from government intrusion; it is now dependent on it." The point by Novak leads to ah opportunity for the Republicans to swing the pendulum To the extent that the highly educated, affluent levels of society are com fortable with government in trusion they tend to affect Democratic party policy. This leads to splits in the traditional Democratic coalitions. Novak writes, "A serious class division treatens... to split the Democratic party. The so- called 'turn to the right', worried about by certain writers on the left, seems ac tually to be composed of voters who believe in the old creed of the labor left: jobs, growth, discipline, production. Among such voters there is a tax payers' revolt on the one hand, and a revolt against suburban morality on the other." The country club image for the Republicans should be as extinct as the dodo bird, but it isn't - yet. California Sen. S.I. Hayakawa says, "Some of this image is perpetuated when conferences are held at the most expensive hotels, and when fund-raising dinners cost $500 a plate. Why don't we instead have little dinners with ethnic groups at, say, the Slovenian hail in San Francisco for $8.95 a plate?" Ben Wattenberg, active in Democratic politics for many years (now a senior fellow at the American Enterprise in stitute) and author of "The Real America," argues spiritedly for two new coalitions (presumably to be SEE > • • • • B E F O R E Y O U B U Y . THE NEW, MODERN Apaneful We foot the bill for broken windows, and most any other acci dental loss, when you take advantage of our Special Homeowners Package Policy. It's the most comprehensive homeowners protection American Family has ever offered. Call today for all the details! 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He'll need a lot of luck to put his ideas over in the New Politics climate of isolationism and anti-growth which has a disproportionate hold on the Democratic party. In fact, I think he'd find a congenial welcome for his ideas in the Republican party today. Seymour Martin Lipset, the Hoover Institution-Stanford university political scientist, who served as editor for "Emerging Coalitons", seems to think the Republicans have an opportunity. He says they should look at 1896, the last time they "were able to recruit to the GOP ethnic, religious and working-class elements who previously had been voting Democratic. But they were only able to do so because the Democrats had been captured by an ideological populist tendency led by William PAGE 19 • PL AINDE ALER Jennings Bryan, whose positions and values alienated traditional Democrats." 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