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PAGE 22 - PL.A1NDEAI.FR - WEDNESDAY JVIARCH 14.197S A •• "BT>I AINDI AI.F.R Editorial Opinion Living Standards With the steadily declining value of the dollar comes not unexpected news that the U.S. standard of living is no longer the highest in the world. Depending on which statistics are accepted, the U.S. is now fifth or sixth The highest standard of living is found in the Scandinavian countries. A recent German government press release shows that among European Common Market countries, Denmark has the highest standard and Germany the second highest. Measured in buying power units, the ECM per capita buying power unit rank is as follows: Denmark-8,446; Germany-8,139; Belgium-7,506; Luxembourg-7,400; Holland-7,288; France-6,942; Great Britain- 4,280; Italy-3,316; Ireland-2,955. A sobering realization from these statistics is the extent of the fall of Great Britain, in per capita buying power. The reasons have been described as excessive trade union and labor union power, laziness and feather-bedding. Whatever the causes, they have almost wrecked the economy, and the standard of living. On Unemployment The great farce about the unemployed continues. The politicians moan and groan each time the National Commission on Em|doyment in Washington releases its figures, based on a Census Bureau survey of 56,000 families. The commission is headed by one Sar Levi tan, who recently rejected the idea of greatly expanding the survey to make it more accurate. A doubling of the current sampling is, however, proposed. But all this really misses the main points, which are these: in today's society, the fact that someone is unemployed may mean little. The bureaucrats have managed to include all those 16 and above into the imaginary work force. Thus, if a school youngster 16 or 17 says he's unemployed, this now goes into the unemployed statistics. If in a family of four, three work, the father, mother and oldest child, and one is unemployed, that too goes into the statistics, though there's no family hardship. Also, the commission has rejected suggestions that older workers, drawing various forms of income and social security, need not always be lsited, since they are often not hardship cases. They're listed, too. The net result is, of course, that masses of people listed as unemployed are not suffering hardship. When one reads in the newspaper that unemployment is a big problem and in that same paper finds twenty-five pages of help-wanted ads, the answer is clear. The truth is, again, that many who say they can't find work can indeed find work but not the job they want. Some are too lazy to work, or too undependable. What this adds up to is that the current method of totaling the unemployed is misleading, the total itself unreliable. The bureaucrats want the total to be high (more bureaucracy and job6) and the gimmies with their hands out want more freebies. Those being cheated are the genuine hardship cases, sometimes cheated out of their needed help by the phonies and deadbeats, and the taxpayer, who is footing an awful Mil in taxes and inflation as the government continues to overspend. To blame are some politicians, who say they are concerned with the downtrodden, when in truth they are buying themselves votes with money the government doesn't have, and which will have to be paid back, or paid on forever, by young Americans. wi Plaindealew bm bf h f Letters to the fall tor Public Pulse (Th* Ploindaolvr invito! Hw public to KM this Hiii column n on •ipimion ot their «I«WI on lubjKti of gonorol intwnl in our community Our only roquott it thot tho wrilort give - tignotur* lull oddrm and phono number Wo atk too that on* individual not writ* on th* iam« tubjoct mor* than onco *ach month W* r*»*rv* th* right to d*l*t* any material which «• con»id*r lib*lout or in ob|*ctionablo tatt* ) SUPER JOHNSBURG "E iitor: ' To Coach Kies and the Jo nsburg varsity basketball te* m, how grateful we are to yo for a super season. This tei m has done more to put Jo insburg on the map than an rone. You have made a co nbined unit of the staff, sti dents and communtiy. When basketball season sti rted, no one knew that a high scl ool named Johnsburg even ex sted, not even the press. Tt s has all been changed and we now not only have our name, but our fame as well. Good sportsmanship was always displayed and you team members proved that a school can be a winner and still be known as the "nice guys". To accomplish all this, you should be very proud. "We are very proud of you. A school only opened seven months and full of spirit because you made us that way. You are truly Number 1, Johnsburg, and in our hearts, you always will be. "Marilou Kling" Sheriff Report 1978 ANNUALREPORT Adult males received 1,900 Adult females received 128 Juvenile males received 109 Juvenile females received 27 Total prisoners received 2,164 Total prisoners discharged 2,997 Average prisoner count per day 41 Prisoner records prepared 2,164 Warrants served 1,725 Court processes received 6,801 Court processes served 5,490 Bailiffs in court 1,374 Persons taken to court 1,967 Meals served for the year 36,899 Persons conveyed to other institutions 115 Mileage conveying persons 14,702 Mileage serving court processes 63,905 Mileage patrolling and investigating .. 1,107,583 Total number of accidents 2,553 Personal property 1,800 Bomly injury 725 Fatalities 25 Warning tickets issued 1,460 For Your Information t D*or friend*, How to holp tho dying? Holp.to alloy thoir '•art: foor of pain, of lonolinoca, foar of moaninglosanoss. Assure thorn ropoatodly that thoy will bo kopt comfortablo with modication - that tho hoalth team has not givon up on thorn. Assuro tho family that tho final dying itsolf is usually painloss. Naturo kindly provides an anosthotic for tho body whon tho spirit loavos Respectfully, PETER M.JIJSTEN FUNERAL HOME McHENRY. I l l lNOlS - 385-0063 Survey Results RTA - No; Tax Ceiling ~ Yes and school GOP bill Residents of McHenry, Fox Lake, Wonder Lake, Island Lake, Johnsburg and Ringwood strongly oppose the RTA, believe judges should continue to be elected rather than appointed, and favor a ceiling on taxes, according to a public opinion survey conducted by two Republican legislators, Sen. Jack Schaffer of Cary and Rep. R. Bruce Waddell of Dundee. The written poll was conducted late last year in the 33rd Legislative district, which includes McHenry county and portions of Kane, DeKalb, Boone and Winnebago counties. With over 3,000 responses, the Schaffer-Waddell poll is believed to be one of the largest legislative surveys conducted in Illinois. Results were broken down by locality. Nearly sixty-nine percent respondents told their legislators to continue actively fighting the Regional Transportation Authority (district wide the percentage was 71 percent); 72 percent said judges should be elected (district wide it was 76 percent); and 87 percent indicated support for legislation curbing taxes and spending by the state, units of local government districts (district wide the percentage was 86 pe: legislators have introduced a comprehensive tax package in the General Assembly to do just that. Area residents also were asked, "The RTA has been providing new bus service in Kane and McHenry counties since May. Have you had a chance to use it?" Eleven percent said they hadn't used it, another 18 percent said they hadn't but may some day; and 71 percent indicated they had not used it and didn't think they ever | Roil Call Report | HOUSE $2 BILLION CONGRESS?--The House approved, 249 for and 121 against, a $2.44 million budget for the Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs committee. This will fund committee operations during 1979, including salaries for the 100-plus staff members. The aggregate 1979 budget for all House committees will total more than $75 million. Rep. Frank Thompson, D-N.J., a supporter of the full $2.44 million banking committee outlay, said: "We are dealing with a $3 trillion economy, and members up here (are) asking such absurd things, or making such absurd statements, as to say that we are in a never-ending upward spiral, that we have a billion dollar congress. Maybe it ought to be a $2 billion Congress, to operate a little bit more efficiently." Rep. Ron Paul, R-Tex., an opponent, said: "If this Congress is serious about reducing bureaucracy, cutting waste, balancing the budget and reforming regulations, then let it begin at home by slashing funds" from committee budgets. Paul favored cutting every committee budget by 25 percent. Members voting "yea" favored the higher budget for the banking committee include Robert McClory, R-13 and John Anderson, R-16. BALANCED BUDGET--The House quashed, 222 for and 197 against, a budget-cutting gesture put forth by fiscal conservatives. With this vote, it refused to call up for debate an amendment which, if adopted, would have required the House to spell out "a method through which a balanced federal budget shall be required". Fiscal conservatives acknowledged that their balanced-budget language was mostly symbolic. The vote came during debate on HR 18964, a bill to increase the national debt ceiling above its soon-to-be-reached $798 billion level. HR 18964 was later defeated. Members who voted to quash the balanced-budget amendment wanted the fewest possible amendments to be offered to the debt- ceiling bill, which they favored. One of them, Rep. Richard Boiling, D-Mo., called the conservatives' amendment not germane to the debt ceiling bill and said "in the end it will be a futility." Rep. John Rousselot, R-Calif., who voted "nay," said it is essential for the House "(HI the first important vote of the 96th Congress to demonstrate a real...commitment to the balanced budget concept so widely supported by the American people." Members voting "yea" opposed the balanced-budget language. Anderson did not vote. SENATE FILIBUSTER--The Senate voted, 78 for and 16 against, to make it more difficult for a minority of senators to tie up flow business with extended debate. This rules change put an end to the so-called "post-cloture filibuster." Under that now-prohibited strategy, senators could keep a filibuster going even after its cloture had been voted, by means of introducing hundreds of amendments. The rule imposed by this vote in essence sets a limit of 100 hours debate after cloture had been voted. *-- Sen. John Stennis, D-Miss., a supporter, said: "I beleive that this is the area of self-discipline, and we all have to discipline ourselves....We have got to do that lest we destroy the nature of this body." Sen. James McClure, R-Idaho, an opponent, said "our real problem is how do you accommodate the guarantee of rights for each individual member of the Senate and, at the same time, preserve the inviolability of the 100-hour cap?" Senators voting "y«a" favored tightening filibuster rules. Senators Adlai Stevenson, D, and Charles Percy, R, voted "yea." AVIATION FUEL--The Senate failed, 34 for and 53 against, to postpone and possibly prevent the removal of federal price and allocation controls from airplane fuel. This vote was on a motion to pry the Administration decontol measure from the Energy committee and send it to the floor, where it stood the possibility of being vetoed by the full Senate. Either the Senate or House may veto an Administration energy proposal such as this deregulation of both general and commercial aviation fuel. As a result of this vote and inaction by the House, the deregulation took effect Feb. 24. Sen. Howard M. Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, a supporter of killing the decontrol plan, said decontrol would raise prices of other types of oil, and asked: "How can we possibly justify decontrolling an oil product at the same time we are giving serious thought to rationing?" Sen. Bennett Johnston, D-La., said: "There is no reason to continue controlling a product when its users want it decontrolled, and when the ultimate beneficiaries, the airplane passengers, are certainly better off than the average American." ' Senators voting "nay" favored removing federal controls from aviation fuel. Stevenson and Percy voted "nay." v i689e8&i«888888888SSSS888888 ARE YOU NEW IN McHeniy Area? «968SSSS8SS Do You Know Somoono Now? WE WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND A ROYAL WELCOME TO EVERY NEWCOMER TO OUR AREA!!!!! CALL JOAN STULL 385-5418 r' 5>V & *0 °*L EZ2ZZEBZZ73 KNOW TOUR MIA-R0YM. WELCOME DOES IT BEST would (district wide the percentages were 12, 13 and 75 percent). Some 52 percent of McHenry area respondents agreed with the governor's reduction of a bill bringing the annual income eligibility limit for a senior citizen property tax releif program from $15,000 to $12,0d0 (district wide the percentage was 51 percent). The legislature originally raised the limit from $10,000 to $15,000, the governor reduced that amount, and the legislature then concurred with the reduction. Raising the limit would have cost the state approximately $15 million. Both Senator Schaffer and Representative Waddell expressed hope that the extra amount needed for this proposal could be found by cutting lower priority areas in the next state budget. Seventy-eight percent of the people from the McHenry area expressed opposition to the use of state funds to finance abortions for state employees (district wide the percentage was 78 percent of the people opposed taxpayersr funds for state employees abortions). In addition, fifty-four percent of area residents said the Equal Rights amendment to the U.S. Constitution shouldn't be ratified; 39 percent said it should; and seven percent were undecided (district wide the percentage were 51, 42 and 7 percent). About another constitutional amendment - this one to allow Washington, D.C., two U.S. Senators and one or two U.S. Congressmen with full voting powers in Congress - sixty percent of those queried said state legislators shouldn't ratify it (district wide, 62 percent of the people opposed ratification of this constitutional amendment). The survey also revealed 40 percent of McHenry area residents, disapprove of legislation to legalize and tax off-track betting; 52 percent approve it (district wide, 45 percent of the people are in favor of off-track betting and 48 percent opposed). During this spring's session of the General Assembly, spending priorities for the state will be set. The Schaffer-Waddell poll listed 11 areas of spending and asked whether appropriations in the various areas should be raised, lowered or left at the current level. The listed areas were primary education, higher education, special education, environment, flood control and river and lake improvements, prisons, law enforcement, mental health, conservation, energy and public aid to the poor, blind and disabled. McHenry area citizens indicated that their highest priority for state spending were law enforcement and flood control and revitalization of rivers and lakes and that their lowest area of state spending were higher education and parks and conservation. McHenry area citizens indicated funding should remain at current levels for all but law enforcement, which should be more adequately funded. Anyone wishing a copy of the complete results of this poll should call or write either Senator Jack Schaffer or Rep. R. Bruce Waddell at 56 North Williams Street, Crystal Lake, 111., 60014. Also, anyone interested in being added to the VIP mailing list for future mini polls during the legislative session should also forward name and address to that address. GM IBM 20 57 3/4 2575/e DD 60Va 1065/8 A. G. Edwards & Sons, Inc. WEEKLY MARKET REPORT Everyone has an opinion on what the stock market will do but we can remember few periods where the opinions were so polarized and yet confidence in them so thin. This showed up clearly as we went from a Mr. Hyde Market last Tuesday to a Dr. Jekyll one on Monday. On Tuesday, market action was very ugly as volume expanded. The advance-decline ratio was wildly negative 8 to 1 with over 1400 issues down. The decline in important growth stocks were eye popping, and the Dow Industrials dropped over 14 points. This week started with a beautiful bang upward and although fading somewhat on the close, still managed to show a positive tape action. The most recent reading of leading investment service sentiments as reported by investors intelligence is yet another illustration of the well balanced tug of war with 47 percent bearish, 40 percent bullish and with the bullish camp running up to 50 percent recently. -> One common thread running through both the bull and bear camps, and if cranked into this indicator would turn it decidedly bearish, is that most are impressed that stocks have acted better than the news. This creates a complacency and reduction of selling programs which we find dangerous. The history of the market is replete with several weeks to month long periods when institutions seemed immune to bad news. Sometimes it is due to the fact that stocks are totally sold out-a very bullish condition which we do not see at this time. Other times it is due to the fact that institutions previously met and decided to do some buying and continued their buying as scheduled despite fundamental Changes until the next meeting or a call from the boss-a bearish condition. Yesterday's tape action was positive despite the late fade but one day's action in our opinion, should create no more than avery, very short term conviction unless lots of other things are in place. Being short term bearish, our blood pressure did go up. However, with a big improvement in the News (Egypt-Israel, China-Vietnam, Iranian Oil) coming into a moderately oversold market, a rally should have been no surprise. Market action the past few weeks, ' almost all technical indicators bearish, the very debatable fundamentals combine to keep the bulls on the defensive. We believe there has been a kickup in the severity level of the problems facing investors which will require either lower prices, below 780, or a period of base building-wearing everyone out in the 790-830 range. If cumulative and stubborn buying does not develop after yesterday's party. Disappointment could bring a fairly quick list of 780. Those looking out a month or two should stay defensive long term investors can continue to do some buying buy also maintain some cash. a A1 Goldman Bill Asks Expansion Of Senior Tax Benefits Senator Jack Schaffer, R-33rd district, has co-sponsored a bill to expand tax benefits for senior citizens and the disabled. SB 140 would raise the maximum income eligibility limit, through the Circuit Breaker tax releif program, to $15,000. The current annual household limit is $10,000. "Property taxes and rents continue to rise alarmingly," said Schaffer, "and those hurt the most are on fixed incomes. The Circuit Breaker program, begun in 1972, helps bridge the financial gap between income and rising taxes." Senator Schaffer said the bill would provide tax relief for an estimated 92,000 new families who are disabled or 65 years of age or older. SB 140 would raise the maximum amount of the basic grant from $650 to $700, less 5 percent of the household in­ come. "In other words," said Schaffer, "benefits to each household would vary, ac­ cording to property taxes or rent, and income." "In othef words," said Schaffer, "benefits to each household would vary, ac­ cording to property taxes or rent, and income." Senator Schaffer said he was confident the General Assembly will approve his bill and that Governor Thompson will sign it into law. McHENRY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 385-4300 FAMILY SERVICE St MENTAL HEALTH CLINIC 3409 W. 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