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ifr^iiyfin - ntiifNtiMfrtl • ADUl'a « «»i i»»» ?UJ, t» m %!**{ Opi ,MtX> f i y v nW Inqx >»C r •Tigte i£«ic (Continued front page I) JOHNSBURG ORIENTATION • * informed about the school they will be attending this fall. Representatives from the various teaching areas will be present to explain the school's various programs and curriculum offerings. Students, as well as parents, will have an opportunity to ask questions concerning procedures and the curriculum at the school. A tour of the building facilities will also take place so students can become somewhat acquainted with the school building before the start ot the school year. * (Continued from page I) AAUSIN' AND MEANDERIN' five countries that have not gone metric, it may be sur­ prising to learn that our country took part" in the development of an in­ ternational metric system 'way back in 1875. becoming one of the original 17 nations signing (he Treaty of the Metre. While the move is on to bring the U.S. in line with the rest of the world. Small Business is aligning itself with the op­ position. In 1973 a poll showed 51 percent favored metrication. This year only 24 percent were in favor and a whopping 69 percent of the members of the National Federation of In­ dependent Business wanted no part of it. The reason is that what was then a concept is now the reality of conversion and Small Business has nothing to gain liecause its business is largely at home rather than a world market. Small Business believes that while it has nothing to gain, it has a lot to lose. Until more people who make up Small Business see it another way. it isn't likely the Metric system will take over. KAF (Continued from page 1) VOTE FALCON ; APPROVAL '.developer's and the City's, I work together to design the best AILABLE: res Examined ashion Frames Masses tilted rescriptions system as described by law, and professional ethics. Hjalmar Sundin, president of Baxter and Woodman, the engineering firm retained by the City, said the final engineering for the develop­ ment normally comes after the Zoning board makes its recommendation and therefore he could not cite any specific recommendations. Sundin said that once they had studied the culvert and channel outlet capacity, some Ranges might have to be made. "The size, or depth, or both might have to be increased," Sundin said, "and this might require that some lots be given up." v • V The petition must now go before the City Council for approval. (Continued from page 1) TEACHERS WALK OUT OF LAST NEGOTIATION ditionr. $50 per teacher at the last meeting. Maximum class size is another problem and Kenyon said that while the ideal size would be impossible, the teachers would like no class to run over 30 students. A third major problem is the lack of planning time for teachers in the elementary school, according to Kenyon. Junior high teachers, he noted, have | one period-about 43 minutes--each day for plan­ ning, but the elementary teachers have only a physical education or recess period. Another meeting between the two negotiation teams and Moore was scheduled for Wednesday evening. The MCTA has indicated that its teachers will start school without a contract in an effort to resolve the items under dispute. Interviewed Monday, Tim Althoff, president of the District 15 board of education, said he felt the board and the association were not so far apart what a settlement could not be reached within a couple of weeks. Fox-Chain Survey Scheduled Early History In Illinois Will carp be stopped in their drive for ascendancy in the Fox-Chain O'Lakes? Will any of the four million baby walleye ever find their way into a fisherman's creel? Illinois Department of Conservation "shocking squads" are determined to wrest the answers to those and other questions from the murky waters of the Fox-Chain, even at the risk of life and wardrobe. Not even the horrifying hip- deep ooze which lines Grass lake will stop them. The, weeklong intelligence gathering effort commenced Monday, Aug. 27, and continues through Aug. 30, according to One Dead In Crash A Woodstock man died early Tuesday mornit.g in an automobile accident on Route 14, about a half-mile north of Route 176. T Robert M. Radosh, 32, Woodstock, was pronounced dead at the scene at about 1 a.m. by the Crystal Lake Rescue squad and! the County coroner. According to the McHenry County Sheriffs police, Radosh's southbound car failed to negotiate a curve, went off the road and struck a tree. The investigation into the accident is continuing, police said. Read Labels Never buy one particular brand over another offered at the same price merely because the box or container appears taller or wider. There may be a difference in "headspace" -- the space between the top of the food and the container lid. The labels will tell you how many ounces each package contains. GRAND OPENING!!! 12 POCKET CALCULATORS TO BE GIVEN AWAY SEPT. 1ST Register Inside Store ^ Children Under 12 Eligible to Win^fto Obligation Necessary Children Must be Accompanied by an Adult to Register for Drawing tiiy CONTACTS ««it *99.00 HARD LENS Now available at *89.00 Bi-Focal Contact Lenses Also Available COMMONS OPTICAL 4305 W Elm St. McHenry ( 815 ) 344 -3900 Also At: 829 E. Rollins Rd., Round Lake Beach, III In The Round Lake Commons Shopping Center 7 Miles S. of tfisc. Border 312-223-0020 FIRST STOP regional fishery supervisor, Gary Erickson. Shocking crews will be pulling fish out of the water at a rate of two per minute, Erickson predicted. AH 12 major lakes in the Chain - some 6,500 acres in total - will be probed for fish life, Erickson said. Both electroshocking ap­ paratus and gill net sets will be used to obtain as many dif­ ferent types of fish as possible, he added. The results of the survey will be compared with the findings of similar surveys taken in 1968 and 1973, Erickson said. Those previous surveys indicated a trend toward growth of the "touch" rather than "sight" feeders, Erickson said. This trend is due to the high silt and sewage loads and resulting turbidity of the water in the Chain, which hinders visibility for sight feeders. "We want people to know we are out there for a purpose and not just wantonly destroying fish," Erickson said. Most of the fish taken during the survey should survive the ordeal, he added, explaining that the fish are returned to the water as soon as they are weighed and measured. A few flesh samples will also be taken for further testing for toxic substances, he said. One Car Demolished, Second Badly Damaged One car was totalled and another sustained more than $1,200 damage in traffic mishaps since last Thursday. Timothy J. Amore, 4206 N. Wilmot road, McHenry, was driving on Riverview drive last Sunday when his car had a flat tire. According to the accident report, the blowout caused Amore's car to go off the road and hit a group of trees. Amore was not hurt, but the car was demolished. Patrick A. Teuber, 2710 Oak lane, McHenry, told police last Thursday he hit the brakes when he saw the stop sign at the intersection of Lincoln and Cuhlman. The car went into a skid, Teuber said, ahtf slid sideways into a guardrail and fence. At the intersection of Hilltop and N. Oak, Isabelle T. McGady, Wonder Lake, was attempting a right turn onto Oak street when her car hit another, which was attempting , a left turn onto Hilltop. The other car was driven by Wendy L. Lance, Ringwood. Ms. McGady said she did not see the other car. Brett W. Engmark, 2807 Manitou trail, McHenry, said a large dog ran in front of his car just before it went off Wilmot road at Fairview and hit a telephone pole. Kathleen Thomas, Wood­ stock, was ticketed for failure to yield the right-of-way at a stop or intersection after her car hit an auto driven by Robert E. Barnett, 1503 W. May, McHenry. Barnett told police that as he approached the intersection of Pistakee and Ringwood roads, Ms. Thomas' car pulled out and struck his auto. Persecution of the Mormons in the 1840's is revealed in letters to the editor of an anti- Mormon Illinois newspaper, according to the lead article in the most recent issue of the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. Other ar­ ticles in the quarterly history magazine concern the begin­ nings of Greenville college (Bond company), the Chicago militia and the 1877 railroad strike, and the formation of school districts in Illinois in the mid-nineteenth century. In the early 1840's, several thousand members of the Mormon church settled in Hancock county, 111. Their political power and legal autonomy generated suspicion and eventually hatred among non-Mormons in the area. A leader of the anti-Mormons was Thomas C. Sharp, an outspoken newspaperman in Warsaw, 111., near the Mormon settlement at Nauvoo. v The Journal article-- "Thomas Sharp and Anti- Mormon Sentiment in Illinois, 1842-1845"--by Annette P. Hampshire of Durham, England, contains eight letters to Sharp that chronicle the events that led to the assassination of Joseph Smith and the trial of his murderers. The letters are complemented by a description of the per­ sonalities and events of the time. An article titled "John Brown White and Eafrly Women's Education-A History of Almira College," the forerunner of Greenville college, Greenville, 111., is presented by Donald Jordahl, a professor of history at Greenville. Almira was founded as a women's college in i855 by six members of the Baptist church. The story centers on one of the founders, President John Brown White, who guided the college through the first twenty-five years. The organizational changes in the Chicago militia from local independent units to full participation in the Illinois National Guard is described in an article titled "Ethnicity, Civic Pride, and Commitment- The Evolution of the Chicago Militia" by Roy Turnbaugh of the Illinois State Archives. The crisis that resulted in a revitalized and stable Chicago militia-the great railroad strike of 1877-is detailed from newspaper accounts. Turn­ baugh also presents the militia history of Illinoi: the in­ dependent units around the state that became the Illinois State Guards and eventually the Illinois National Guard. July marked the one-hundred BY JOSKI'H COOLS staff psychologist . news from the Family Service and Mental Health Clinic of McHenry County. (Editor's note: This is another in a series of especially written articles for McHenry County readers. Joseph Cools is a psychologist on the Family Service and Community Mental Over Million In Textbook Loans More than one million public and non-public school students will participate in the Illinois State Board of Education's Textbook Loan program this fall. The program provides for the loan of textbooks at no cost to students or parents. "The 1979-80 school year is significant", said State Supt. Joseph M. Cronin, "because it marks the date when students in all grade levels, from kin­ dergarten through twelfth grade, will have had a chance to participate in textbook loans. In all, 2.6 million students have taken part in the program since it began in 1976." It's estimated that is would cost the state about $19 million to provide for the loan of one textbook per year for each student in the state and at least $30 million to provide for all the textbooks for each student for a year. Since 1976, the General Assembly has appropriated a total of $17.5 million for text­ book loans. As a result, the program has been phased-in gradually, with books provided to elementary students first on a one-book-per-student basis, then extended to students in the higher grades. This year, students in the seventh through twelfth grades will benefit from the program for the first time. Requests for textbooks this year were received from 938 or 90 percent of the public school districts and 909 or 70 percent of the non-public districts in Illinois. Of the toal $9 million appropriated for the program in fiscal 1979, about $1.5 million went to Cook county schools. Although the average cost per textbook increases in proportion to the grade level funded, the overall average cost per textbook was $7.74. Administrative cost amounted to less than $.09 per book. When fully implemented, the Illinois program will provide each pubic and non-public student with access to all necessary textbooks, excluding supplementary materials. According to Illinois law, the state may use public funds for private school textbooks, but not for supplementary materials, such as workbooks, atlases, dictionaries and other supplies. In order to participate in the program, each local school district selects the books to be ordered. Their requests are forwarded to the regional superintendents who compile them^and send them to the State Board of Education for processing. Textbooks are delivered to the appropriate schools in June so that everything is in readiness when school doors open in the fall. A textbook remains in a school for the life of the book or until the school no longer has need of the text. The State board maintains an inventory of all books so that if one school no longer chooses to use a particular text, it can be transferred to another school. FUNNYSIDE Sre/tfbo 'Of course, she doesn't look like o police dog. She's undercover." and second anniversary of the Illinois National Guard. James E. Herget, University of Houston professor of law, explores the historical development of the public school districts in "Democracy Revisited: The Law and School Districts in Illinois." Herget discusses the effects of migration and legislation on the formation and consolidation of school districts. He concludes that the school district, as the vehicle of public education, has been "the most consistent, effective, and accepted leveller and democratizer in America." The "Journal," fully illustrated and containing original articles on all aspects of Illinois history, is published four times af year by the Illinois State Historical society. Membership in the Society is open to ^anyone. Members receive a bimonthly newsletter, special discounts oh other historical publications, and invitations to attend the two society meetings held each year. Individual copies of the "Journal" may be found in most public libraries or may be purchased from the1 society. More information is available from the Illinois State Historical Society, Old State Capitol, Springfield, 111., 62706. Health staff. This article is "Coping - Social Drinking".) Drinking has become such a part of our social life that one of the first things that is usually said to a guest is, "What can I get you to drink?" In many instances, drinking begins as soon as guests arrive and stops only when they are about to leave. Drinking is enjoyable, relaxing, stimulates con­ versation and is completely socially acceptable. However, alcohol is also a drug and by its very nature an addictive drug. Getting drunk is very simply an overdose of a powerful drug. "Social drinking" is such a part of our society that prac­ tically no one thinks of alcohol as a drug, although people do tend to make a distinction between social drinking and alcoholism, or alcohol ad­ diction. While it is sometimes not too difficult to decide that another person is an alcoholic, it is almost impossible to admit to oneself that there is a drinking problem. There are many symptoms of problem drinking: memory loss while drinking; frequent arguments during drinking; and frequent episodes of get­ ting drunk. None of these symptoms are reliable, however, since alcoholism can exist before any of these signs is present. The key factor in determining whether drinking is a problem is control. If a person has absolute control over his or her drinking, then drinking is not a problem. If, however, a person sets a limit on drinking and consistently exceeds that limit, then alcohol is an indisputable problem. Alcoholism is a disease and rarely, if ever, responds to a self-treatment program, such as exercising "will power". Alcoholism can only be treated by persons familiar with the disease and its treatment. 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