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* '10 PAGE 20 - PLAINDEALER - WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9.1 Wft PLAINDEALER -- Editorial Opinion Urging Traditidn One of the tragedies of the modern kick among many American females to be exactly, like males, and act. exactly like them, is reflected in the latest accident and health statistics. 1 / An insurance handbook for the press yras recently distributed by a leading insurance company. It notes that girls traditionally have been much safer drivers than boys. The worst ages are 18 and 10; and girls, in die past, have had an accident rate as much as 50 percent lower (better)! r\ But, alas, that's changing: The gap is closing.|he handbook reports, because girls are trying to act like boys. They are drinking more, driving at night more and speeding more. Progress? The latest health statistics show the same disappointing pattern applies to lung cancer and other diseases caused by cigarette smoking. Girls formerly had a much lower rate of lung cancer and other tobacco-related diseases. The gap here is also steadily closing-as our girls, imitating boys, ruin their health. There are other similar trends. All of them cry out for American females to wake Up and cherish and retain their femininity, their traditional emphasis on restraint, health, safety, and other similar qualities. « Small Cities Lose A recent major reform has been to drastically curtail government regulations of the airlines. Many of the results of this change have been beneficial. Airline presidents who initially opposed the action now laud it as wise. The airlines have enjoyed the freedom to rearrange routes in an effort to offset the rising cost of fuel; and in this way, many have avoided heavy losses in the past two years. The public has benefitted most, because many fares have come downand there are today many special rates. - But in thiS-proceSs some of the medium-sized cities of the county have lost air service. Where routes were wily marginally profitable, for example, many airlines have terminated service. Cities of 100,000 or less have, in some instances, seen the number of flights and airlines serving their area drastically reduced as a result. Prospective travelers now often find airlines filling each flight and refusing to add additional equipment where there are long waiting lists-in these smaller metropolitan areas. And so, in this way, the good part of tighter CAB control over the scheduled .airlines is now being retrospectively appreciated. Maybe there is some new way to encourage the airlines to offer smaller metropolitan airports better service. Illinois Traveline I rOiind-the-clock, seven days a week. Two toll-free "TraveLine" numbers are available: 800-252-8987 - For travelers dialing within Illinois. 800-637-8560 - For travelers placing calls from Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan. "TraveLine" callers will hear events updates and other timely information compiled for the coming week each Monday. For more information on Illinois travel events, write Illinois Travel Information Center, 160 N. LaSalle St., Chicago, 111., 60601, or call 312-793-2094. Need to know winter road conditions before heading for your favorite cross­ country or downhill Illinois ski slope? Or where to find gas during a business or vacation trip. Or just how to enjoy a snowy weekend? The Illinois Office' of tourism toll-free "TraveLine" an­ swers these questions and more. The two-mii^te recorded message, updated weekly or as emergencies arise, in­ forms travelers of fuel availability, road and ski conditions, upcoming winter festivals, and where to write for detailed information about travel attractions in Illinois. Introduced during the past summer gas crunch, the "TraveLine" operates P I AINDtALt K ' Letters to the I ditor Public Pulse (Th« Ploindeoler invites the public to use this this column as on oiprosftion of their views on subjects of generol interest in our community Our only request is t^ot the writers give signature full address and phone number We ask too that one individual not write on the same subject more than once each month. We reserve the right to delete ony material which we consider libelous or in objectionable taste.) HELP SAVING LIVES "Dear Editor: "We would like to take this opportunity to recognize the McHenry Police department for its support and energy in assisting the McHenrv Area Rescue squad. The people of McHenry are fortunate to have these fine public ser­ vants to aid them in times of trouble. The dispatchers, patrol officers and Chief Pasenelli M \40 VENDER X'M P^t/ a The average American, the U.S. Dept of Agriculture re­ ports, consumes some 95 pounds of refined sugar a year. For Your In fo rma t ion V Dear friends, To the person entrusted to handlo the bereavement details, a suggested approach: 1. Attend to the immediate needs of the bereaved. 2. Call* the funeral director and clergyman preferred by the next of kin. 3. Notify members of the immediate family not not yet awar£ of the death. 4. Secure personal data, plus special instruc­ tions pertaining to the ftineral service. Respectfully, 'd, PETER M.JISTEN & SON FUNERAL HOME M-HFNRr minor Roll Call Report (Your Congressmen's Vote) WASHINGTON - Here's how area Members of Congress were recorded on major roll call votes in the days before the adjournment of the First Session of the 96th Congress. HOUSE Airbags--The House adopted, 320 for and 73 against, an amendment to ease the requirement that U.S. autos be equipped with airbags beginning with the 1962 model year. The amendment enables car buyers to choose passive- restraint seat belts instead of airbags as mandatory safety equipment. Passive-restraint seatbelts are designed to automatically protect the wearer during crashes. This vote was largely symbolic because it came during debate on an authorization tall covering only fiscal 1960; the airbag rule does not take effect until two years later. Still, the vote was a significant statement of House opposition to airbags as standard equipment oh autos. Rep. Dave Stockman, R-Mich., the sponsor, said his amendment "preserves the right of the consumer to choose" the safety system he or she prefers. No opponent spoke against the amendment during floor debate. Members voting "yea" favored easing the airbag requirement. $ Rep. Robert McClory, R-13, and John Anderson, R-16, did not vote. Airport Noise--By a vote of 195 for and 192 against, the House approved a parliamentary shortcut that cleared the way for a final vote on legislation relaxing certain federal noise standards at airports. However, the closeness of this tally prompted supporters of the bill to delay the final vote until the second session of the 96th Contress, at which time they hope to have a guaranteed majority. TCie language in question would delay the application of noise limits to certain two-and three-engine planes. Rep. Gene Snyder, R-Ky., a supporter, said that upder the legislation "there would be a little more noise for awhile but less noise in the final analysis." Rep. Millicent Fenwick, R-N.J., an opponent, said: "We cannot relax noise control provisions, Noise is another form of pollution, and we ought to recognize it as such." Members voting "nay" opposed a relaxation of federal noise standards. McClory and Anderson did not vote. National Visitor Center--'The House rejected, 139 for and 247 against, a bill to spend $39 million to complete the conversion of Washington's Union Station into a combination tourist center and train station. The project was launched by Congress in 1967. Costing more than HI million in public money, it has been clouded by massive cost overruns and allegations of illegal contracting procedures. Critics point to an uncompleted parking garage and a pit dug into)he train station flow as scars left by the ill- fated project. This bill (HR 3927) sought to salvage the venture by completingjthe parking garage and reclaiming much of Union Station for train purposes, among other projects. Rep. Elliott Levitas, D-Ga., a supporter, said congressmen havea choice. "We can let a very beautiful facility, the Union Station building, collapse and deteriorate.. .or we can pass this legislation..." Rep. Delbert Latta, R-Ohio, an opponent, said it is time for the House to "stand up and say 'enough' and stop this endless drain on the Treasury." Members voting "yea" favored the bill to salvage the National Visitor center project that all sides agree has been a boondoggle. * Mcclory and Anderson did not vote. SENATE Judge Senter--The Senate confirmed, 43 for and 25 against, the nomination of L.T. Senter, JR., as federal judge for the northern district of Mississippi. The 45-year-old Senter i* now a Mississippi state judge. * Sen. John Stennis, D-Miss., who had picked Senter for the nomination, called him "well-seasoned as a trial judge" and said "I am satisfied that I found the man who is suitable based on character, temperament and experience." Sen. Jacob Javits, R-N.Y., an opponent, quoted the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law as concluding: "Judge Senter's record demonstrates that he is not free of bias toward black people and that he has not demonstrated a commitment to equal justice under law." Senators voting "nay" opposed the Senter nomination. Sen. Charles Percy, R, voted "nay." Sen. Adlai Stevenson, D, did not vote. Washington Subway--The Senate passed, 66 for and 23 against, a bill that commits Congress to completing Metro, the subway serving metropolitan Washington. Critics say Metro is the most expensive public works project in the history of mankind, but Metro officials say that it ranks second, behind the pyramids. The bill authorizes $1.7 billion through fiscal 1967 to build the last 40 miles of the 101-mile network. Total federal-state (80-20) costs of Metro are projected at $7.2 billion. The bill was sent to the White House. Sea Carl Levin, D-Mich., a supporter, said "it is in the national interest that this system be finished...It serves the nation's capital and the nation's capital has a special place in the heart and mind of every American." Sen. Thomas Eagleton, "D-Mo., an opponent, said Missourians consider the Metro-funding legel "a bit too generous" because St. Louis and Kansas City together have received only $124 million in mass transit funding in the last five years. deserve this recognition for a job well done. More times than not the police are the first on the scene of an e m e r g e n c y . T h e i r professional actions have undoubtedly led to the saving of lives in the city of McHenry. "The Members of the McHenry Area Rescue Squad "Carmon Hodges, President^ Senators voting "yea' Washington area subway. Percy voted "yea," Stevenson did not vote. COTTON GETS A BOOST Application of a new process to give cotton the same durable-press finish previously available only in ARE YOU NEW IN >SS9SSSSSSSSSl Do You Know Someone New? WE WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND A ROYAL WELCOME TO EVERY NEWCOMER TO 0URAREA!!!!! * CALL JOAN STULL 385-5418 LORRAINE M0NAHANm5475 * eP ' 'r&/' *0 °»t, rrmrmrni KNOW YOUR AREA ROYAL WELCOME DOES IT BEST 100 Years Ago Traditional New Year Day (Special from Illinois State Historical Society, Old S^ate Capitol, Springfield) 1 Hlinoisans welcomed the decade of the 1880s in traditional New Year's fashion-the ladies holding open house for gentlemen caliers-but there were several twists in the order of the proceedings. _ Either on Jan. 1 (Thur­ sday) or earlier in the week many of the daily papers published lists of the names and addresses of the laches who would be "receiving." The Chicago Daily Inter Ocean's lists, headed "The Tourist's Guide," ran eight and one-half columns of small type for the city, plus another column for the suburbs of Evanston, Hyde Park, Englewoood, Oak Park, Hinsdale, Raven- swood, Blue Island, and Highland Park. With more than a hundred addresses to a column (and the paper admitting that the list was not complete) there were more than a thousand open houses in the Chicago' area that New Year's. One of the changes in the traditional ritual was caused by the weather: usually the gentlemen made their rounds in sleighs but this time there was no snow and carriages and buggies had to be substituted. And the Inter Ocean asked: 14When does the horse-car conductor and driver celebrate his New Year's?" Another change noted by Springfield's Illinois State Journal was "that the ladies congregated together more than usual, thus reducing the number of places to be visited." Some addresses on the|Chicago list named two or tpree hostesses "assisted by" four or five more ladies. In both chicago and Springfield "liquid refresh- Legislators State Senators Jack Schaffer (R) - 33rd. 56 N. Williams St. Crystal Lake, 111., 60014 Phone 455-0309 Springfield Phone 217-782^525 Karl Berning (Rf - 32nd 625 Deerfield Road Deerfield, 111., 60015 Phone 312-945-3200 State Representatives ~ Thomas J. Hanahan (D)- 33rd. 4801 W. Route 120 , McHenry, 111., 60050 Phone 385-3427 Springfield Phone 217-782-6476 Calvin L. Skinner, Jr., (R) - 33rd. P.O. Box 308 Crystal Lake, 111., 60014 Phone 459-6050 r Springfield Phone / 217-782-8000 / Donald E. Deuster (R(K32nd. 510 N. Lake St. Mundelein, 111., 60060 Phone 312-566-1972 Daniel M. Pierce (D) - 32nd. 580 Roger Willaims Ave. Highland Park, 111., 60035 Phone 312-433-2551 Betty Lou Reed OR) - 32nd. 927 Holly Court . Deerfield, 111., 60015 U.S. Senators Charles H. Percy (R) 230 S. Dearborn Room 3859 Chicago, 111., 60604 Phone 312-353-4952 Adlai E. Stevenson (D)5- 230 S. Dearborn Room 3960 IChicago, 111., 60604 ; ^Phone 312-353-542^ U.S. Congressmen John B. Anderson (R) 301 W. State St Rockford, 111., 61101 Phone 815-962-8807 Robert McClory (R) 326 N. Genesee St. Waukegan, 111., 60085 Phone 312-336-4554. THE GAS PUMP It pays to practice good driving habits. Don't pump the accelerator or race the engine when the car is not in motion. You're wasting cost ly gasoline. Use the brake pedal, not the accelerator, to hold car in place on a steep incline. favored completion of the synthetic and blended fabrics will materially affect share of market division. Now all-cotton materials can compete in the fast-growing no-iron shirt and sheet trade. ments were served less frequently than in former years." The young ladies of Springfield's Qui Vive club took advantage of the fact that 1880 was a leap year and held their own party at the Leland hotel, "inviting the gentlemen, escorting them to a hotel in carriages, and selecting their own partners for dancing." At the close of business on New Year's eve at the Chicago Board of Trade came the "annual jamboree of the bulls and the bears" with "the dignified speculators indulging in a pitched battle with flour samples." When the air had cleared the damage Was estimated at $2,000 for the samples, plus broken win­ dows and furniture. Chicago'sMayor Carter H. Harrison was probably the state's most prominent New Year's gift recipient. He was presented a "gold-headed ebony cane" by a group of city hall employees and a resolution of thanks by the city's firemen for paying them before Christmas and in cash instead of scrip which could not be spent ^'except at a heavy discount." * The exuberant New Year's celebrations evidently did notextend to the southern tip of the state. The Cairo Daily Bulletin gave the midnight^ one briefs paragraph about the blowing of railroad engine and mill whistles, and the ringing of fire company. bells, "and boys and men added their share of noise with pistols and guns." In Janattfy, 1880, there were numerous other sub­ jects of note found in a random check of the files of century-old newspapers in the Illinois State Historical library. The mild weather was responsible for a number of mud stories.The streets and roads at Champaign were so muddy business had been brought to The mud was so deep in Carlinville that pedestrians were reported as carrying "little flags so that they can be found when the mud engulfs them." A steam derrrick and eleven men were kept busy at rescue work. "The usual price for extricating people is twenty- five cents for a single time or three extracts for sixty cents." The mild weather was not all bad: the Inter Ocean reported, on Jan. 16, that all the Great Lakes were being navigated. A Cairo dealer had foresightedly "'pur­ chased sixty car loads of ice in Pekin and is determined that our people shall not suffer for the want of that luxurious article." The Journal published a directory of Springfield's 107 telephones on Jan. 31, a gain of three for the month. The Inter Ocean said police,' "acting on a 'pointer' " (now it's a "tip"), ,nabbed a chicken thief. SERVICE LINE McHENRY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 385-4300 FAMILY SERVICE t MENTAL HEALTH CLINIC 3409 W. Waukegan Road McHenry 385 6400 PARENTAL STRESS LINE OF McHENRY Meeting Place:McHenry County 24 hours a day. 7 days a week Call 815-344-3944 Parents Anonymous meetings on Wednesday. STATE CHAMBER GOVERNMENT * REGULATIONS HOTLINE 217-522-5514 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION 202-755-8660 Hours 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. week days (Ever had a problem involving the federal government and not known where to call? And then been given a runarpund or referrals by persons who meant well but didn't know how to help? Ten specialist available at this center.) f NATIONAL RUN-AWAY SWITCHBOARD Illinois Phone: 800-972-6004 (For confidential conversations on problems dealing with run­ away children ) MOVING HOTLINE Phone 800-424-9213 (Complaints about interstate moving by companies, buses or trains. 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