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Your Police Department by Officer Jim Fitzgerald » Programs, Outdoor Hikes On Audubon 1979 Series ) PAGE 5-PLAINDEALER -WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 7. 197» Public Relations Officer McHenry City Police Phone 385-2131 I want to remind you all of a couple of things first this week that are very important con­ cerning your license plates and your city of McHenry vehicle stickers. Vehicle stickers must be on your vehicles by no later than Feb. 20,1979, and must be put in the lower right hand side of the windshield, on every car that you own. This includes any trucks, buses, or motorcycles, that you have. Motorcycle stickers are placed on the rear license plate. The stickers are available at the City clerk's office, which is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and from 9 a.m. to 12 noon on Saturday. After Feb. 20, 1979, the police department will be issuing tickets for not having the stickers, and there will be a fine, plus the cost of the sticker. The stickers must be placed on the windshield in the proper place.1 Your new five-year license plates must be displayed no later than Feb. 28,1979. You are able to purchase either one year plates, or two year plates this time around. If you have purchased the one year plates, you will receive a small blue sticker, which must be placed in the upper left hand corner of the rear license plate. If you have the two year plates, you will receive a red sticker, which must be placed in the upper right hand corner of the rear plate, covering the "79". If you have already received your plates, and have misplaced the sticker on the wrong place, do not try and remove the sticker, as it will self-destruct. You will have to purchase a new sticker and place it in the proper corner. If you have placed the sticker on the front plate, you must change the plates and put the plate on the rear of the car. Because of the apparent misunderstandings that came about with the new license plates this year, most police officers are not issuing traffic citations for improperly displaying the new plates; so those of you who did it wrong will have some time to correct the mistake. However, very shortly, people with improperly displayed license plates will be stopped and issued citations; so get the mistakes corrected as soon as you can. We wish again to call the public's attention to all the people who came to the police department with their snowmobiles, and those who stood by at their bases with theirs, and helped us out during the last blizzard when there was almost nothing moving on the streets, including our squad cars. These people made several runs throughout the day through the subdivisions and main streets, checking on stalled motorists and other people in trouble, making emergency medical runs for the hospital and people who needed medications at home. It's nice to know that when we, and the people of the city, need help in an emergency, there are people who can be called on very short notice to assist us. Once again, I would like to remind you about our Fire department and Rescue squad, the volunteers who make them up, and the problem that they have in responding to a call. Please remember that when you hear the siren go off at the firehouse, the people of the Fire department and Rescue squad come from all over the city. When they do respond to calls, they use a rotating blue light on the dashboard of their cars to tell you that they are coming. Please watch out for them, and give way to their vehicles so they can make it to the station faster. In situations where they have to go to a call, minutes, even seconds, count dearly. The time they save getting to their stations converts to time saved getting to the scene of an emergency. Things have im­ proved recently but there is still rooom for improvement. Please be careful when you are pulling out of the parking spaces and lots now, since extra caution is required with very high snowbands. It is going to take some extra time to get all of them broken down to improve visibility; so take a little extra care and make sure that it is clear before pulling out onto the road. Think Spring!! Continuing its activities, the McHenry County Audubon will begin a new series of programs and outdoor hikes during 1979. An active committee, Louis Culbert, Crystal Lake, and Sev Molino, Woodstock, were elected president and vice- president at the annual meeting held recently. During the past year, the McHenry Audubon has spon­ sored a number of popular Perspective RETAILER DUES BUREAUCRATS BY KOINAI.I) KEAGAN Sears, Roebuck is a name that crosses my mind fairly often. I find myself wondering how life in the Soviet Union might change if we sent a fleet of planes over and dropped* a few thousand Sears catalogs (or Montgomery Wards, for that matter) for the Russian citizenry to gaze at. All the products represented between those covers say quite a lot about America's success. But Sears is more than the subject of musings these days. It has made page one by filing a law suit that may sharply alter the way American bureaucracy goes about its business. SearS has just sued the U.S. attorney general, the secretaries of Labor, Com­ merce, Housing and Urban Development and Health, Education and Welfare. Its suit also names the chairman of the Equal Employment Op­ portunity commission, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance, Office of Federal Statistical Policy and Stan­ dards, the Census Bureau and the Federal Agency council on the 1980 census. The aim of the suit is to make these federal agencies fish or cut bait when it comes to conflicting government policies over anti-discrimination regulations governing. hiring practices. It is a hopeless muddle, Sears contends. On the one hand, government policies since the end of World War II have favored veterans and this has tended to tilt in favor of white males. On the other hand, Sears has had an "affirmative ac­ tion" program since 1968 and has worked hard to promote minorities and women. Of its work force of 400,000, the percentage of minoirity em­ ployees has risen from 8.7 in 1965 to 19.9 last year. At the official and managerial levels the percentage has gone from 1.4 to 10.5. Yet, Sears says, today's work force "was created by the government action of yester­ day" and compliance with one federal policy often throws Sears into conflict with another. The latest problem arises over the new federal retirement law which has the effect of banning Sears' policy of requiring retirement bet­ ween age 63 and 65. The major purpose of the policy was to make for more upward mobility in the work force. Federal statistics are partly to blame, Sears say. Its suit charges that the use by federal agencies of statistics to prove that companies are not com­ plying with anti-discrimination laws violates its rights and the rights of other retailers to due process of law under the Constitution. . Because Sears is the nation's largest retailer, the suit is a "class action" and its outcome will affect all retailers with 15 employees or more. Edward R. Telling, Sears' chairman, says the purpose of the suit is "to cut through the impossible conflicting regulations, to force a clarification of irreconcilables, to help refocus national goals and achievable means toward those goals." Specifically - a court order requiring the federal government to get its act together - "to coordinate the enforcement of anti­ discrimination statues and, specially, to issue uniform guidelines which instruct employers how to resolve existing conflicts between a f f i r m a t i v e a c t i o n requirements based on race and sex and those based on veterans' status, age and physical or mental handicap." Sounds reasonable enough, though it is hard to imagine even a court order getting those bureaucratic grand duchies in Washington to devote much energy to unsnarling red tape. But, at least it might get them to think twice before launching any more search-and-destroy missions in the business world. WHAT'S NEW Developed for coal miners, flashlight is said to be explosion, shock and waterproof, resistant to acid, oil and gas. Guaranteed against defects for the life of the owner. Hanry W. 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SAT. 9-5 APPOINTMENTS AVAILABLE programs including the . recent wildUife films at the Woodstock Opera House, a canoe trip on the Kishwaukee river and a very successful bus tour of Baraboo, Wis., and the In­ ternational Crane foundation. On Dec. 30 the group par­ ticipated in the nation-wide bird census; this was the eighteenth year of participation and the 30 observers came up with 6.153 individual birds and 46 species • ranging from the common starling to a very uncommon rufous-sided towhee of the western race. 1979 offers a variety of Audubon activities and programs, local nature hikes and a bus trip to the Milwaukee Schlitz Nature preserve. For information, call 338-3632 or write McHenry County Audubon, Box 67, Woodstock, 111., 60098. Hold Seminars For Farmers Don Barrett, coordinator of the agriculture program at McHenry County college, announces seminars which are designed specifically for far­ mers. The new semianrs include two which will be taught by Bob Muirhead on the subject of corn production. "Modern Methods in corn Production" will be taught Feb. 8, 15 and 22. This is a com­ prehensive study of the growth of a corn plant from planting to harvest. The course includes cultural practices, hybrid selection, chemicals, and plant diseases. Muirhead will also teach "Update on Advanced Corn Production on March 1 and 8. This seminar is given for the experienced corn farmer who wants to keep informed of new and updated information on minimum tillage, plant diseases and nematodes. Both corn seminars meet from 7 to 9 p.m. in Room C3 at Crystal Lake South high school. Jack Binghams, a Wauconda dairy farmer, is coordinating and instructing a seminar for the dairy farmer Feb. 21 and 28. It will be at the MCC Main hall building, Room 249, from 7:30 to 10 p.m. Other speakers for this seminar will be Henry Slatka, Lee Hennig and Whitey Thompson. 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