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PAGE 12 - PLA1NDEALER - WEDNESDAY, MARCH S, 1960 PLA1NDEALER --> Editorial Opinion The Litmus Test The litmus test of this year's elections will be how ILS. voters change the composition of congress. The presidential race is also such a test, but may hinge more on personality or traditional vote patterns. How the seven free-spending liberal senators up for reelection this year fare will be one test. Whether more" responsible spenders, Democrats and Republicans, are elected to the House and Senate will also be a key. Whether Republicans gain seats in the Senate (they are now outnumbered 41 to 58) is another. Whether the 120-seat Democratic majority in the House can be maintained is still another. In the immediate future, results of this year's congressional races may well be even more important than the outcome of the presidential race-for we have seen in recent years that even a president with a majority in Congress exerts only a limited influence with this era's independent-minded legislative branch. Census Nonsense The Census Bureau has announced it intends to count illegal aliens in this year's census. Already the illegal problem is vexing enough, with the loss of jobs resulting from the flood of illegals, etc. This decision will make matters worse. It's estimated that there might be as many as 10 or 12 million illegals in this country today. They are, naturally enough, clustered around metropolitan centers, in heavily populated areas where they are more easily swallowed up, or less noticeable. To count them in the 1980 census would mean giving these areas greater representation in Congress. For the 435 House seats are apportioned on the basis of population, as determined in the census. Thus areas where smuggling is winked at or where authorities fail to apprehend or deport illegals are to be rewarded. Hopefully, a suit is being brought by FAIR (Federation for American Immigration Reform) and seeks to force the Census Bureau to conduct a separate counting of illegal aliens, a counting which would not influence the apportionment of congressional seats. This seems very much in the national and public interest. Already the federal bureaucracy uses illegals to artificially hike unemployment figures. Illegals who have flooded in, mostly from Mexico, when added to normal unemployment, push the unemployment figure up to 6 percent. Otherwise, it's now about 4 percent, which many consider a natural minimum. The co6t to the taxpayer of unemployment pay, welfare, food stamps, etc., is thus also forced sharply upward by illegals. Just as pussyfooting politicians and officials now refer to illegal aliens as "undocumented" aliens, this Census Bureau counting of illegals also seeks to legitimize them. Unless the courts halt the present Census Bureau effort, states which are lax in discouraging the flood of illegal aliens are going to be given new congressional seats. Sheriff Report The following is the McHenry county Sheriffs police report for the year 1979. PRISONER COUNT FOR THE MONTH Adult males receWSff". 2,050 Adult females received 142 Juvenile males received 102 Juvenile females received 24 Total prisoners received 2,318 Total prisoners discharged 3,050 Average prisoner count per day .... .37.2 Prisoner records prepared 2,318 Warrants served .1,862 Court processes received .. .7,304 Court processes served 5,558 Bailiffs in court 1,141 Persons taken to court 1,219 Meals served for the month 32,372 Persons conveyed to other institutions 97 Mileage conveying persons 8,080 Mileage serving court processes 69,564 Mileage patrolling and investigating -- 1,112,740 ACCIDENT INVESTIGATIONS HANDLED Total number of accidents .... 2,465 Personal property 1,846 Bodily injury 595 Fatalities 24 Warning tickets issued 2,499 Tickets issued 6,995 Legislators State Senators Jack Schaffer (R) - 33rd 56 N. Williams St. Crystal Lake. 111.. 60014 Phone 455-0309 Springfield Phone 217-782-6525 <- Karl Berning <R) - 32nd. 625 Deerfield Road Deerfield, 111., 60015 Phone 312-945-3200 State Representatives T h o m a s J . H a n a h a n t D > 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 Springfield Phone 217-782-8000 Donald K. Deuster (R > - 32nd 510 N. I^ake St. Mundelein, 111., 60060 Phone 312-56K-1972 F o r V o u r I n f o r m a t i o n Dear friends. Betty Lou Reed <R) - 32nd. 927 Holly Court Deerfield, 111 . R0015 U.S. Senators Charles H. Percy < R i 230 S. Dearborn Room 3859 Chicago, III . 60604 Phone 312-353-4952 Adlai E. Stevenson (D» 230 S. Dearborn Room 3960 Chicago, III . 60604 Phone 312-353-5420 l .S. Congressmen John B Anderson <R> 301 W Slate St. Rockford. Ill . 61101 Phone 815-962-8807 Robert McClory (R> 3 2 6 N . ( i e n e s o e S t . Waukegan. Ill . 60085 Phone 312-336-4554 WIDOW'S WALK, a book by Jan. Shoemaker, is an expression of hor newly altered lifo. WIDOWS CAN COPE, by Edna Dube. gives practical approaches, from financial invest­ ments to problems with the automobile. Either or both books can be of benefit to the newly bereaved widow. Respectfully, 2s. -M PETEPM JlSTfcN & SON FUNERAL HOME Roll Call Report (Your Congressmen's Vote) WASHINGTON - Here's how area Members of Congress were recorded on major roll call votes immediately following the President's Day recess. HOUSE Selling Eggs--The House passed, 288 for and 82 against, a bill changing the law by which the U.S. Department of Agriculture helps the U.S. egg industry sell eggs. In part, the bill increases the assessment to egg producers, which is the Employer-Discrimination Seminar major source of funding for the government-industry American Egg board. The bill (HR 6285) was sent to the Senate. Rep. James Jeffords, R-Vt., a supporter, responded to charges that the government should not encourage people to eat cholesterol. "We must rely on the intelligence of the American public to know that they cannot overindulge. If they have a problem and their doctor tells them not to eat eggs, . then they should not eat eggs." Rep. Fred Richmond, D-N.Y., an opponent, said he was against government promoting a particular industry, and called it "ridiculous" for the USDA to promote egg sales at the same time it publishes a booklet telling consumers to "moderate your use of eggs." Members voting "nay" dislike the government promoting egg sales. Reps. Robert McClory, R-13 and John Anderson, R-16, did not vote. Conservation Credits--By a vote of 195 for and 207 against, the House defeated a motion dealing with energy. The House refused to tell its members of a House-Senate conference committee to accept all of the energy conservation tax credits proposed in the Senate version at the bill (HR 3919) taxing windfall oil company profits. The motion would have put the House on record in favor of $26 billion in tax credits for energy-saving devices and increased use of non-petroleum energy sources. Thus far, the conference committee has agreed to (9 billion in such credits. The House will vote later on the final version of the windfall tax bill. Rep. Silvio Conte, R-Mass., a supporter of the motion, said: "A windfall tax bill without these ($26 billion in) tax credits reflects to the' rest of the world that our addiction to crude oil will never be overcome." Rep. Henson Moore, R-La., an opponent, said the credits would only "encourage people to do things they are doing anyway" because of rising fuel prices. ... McClory and Anderson did not vote. SENATE Bigger Trucks--The Senate passed, 69 for and 16 against, a bill requiring many states to allow bigger trucks on their roads. The bill (S1390) also provides federal money and legal clout to help all states better enforce truck safety programs* It was sent to the House. The bill makes minimum truck weight, length and width standards a part of federal law; states now below those minimums must raise their truck size standards or lose federal highway money. The American Trucking association says this means Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania and Maryland will be required to allow heavier trucks - of at least 80,000 pounds - on their highways. Also, according to the association, it means Iowa, Missouri, Mississippi, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina,' North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island must permit trucks of at least 60 feet in length on their roads. Sen. John Melcher, D-Mont., a supporter, noted that many big trucks now must hopscotch around these "barrier states" that "reduce the productivity and overall capacity erf the trucking industry" and cause the waste of fuel. Sen. Robert Stafford, R-Vt., an opponent, noted that bigger trucks quicken highway deteriorationv>aod pose safety problems, and said he is "not convinced that (tfie legislation^ w i l l p r o v i d e m o r e b e n e f i t s t h a n c o s t s . " . V Senators voting "yea" favor the bill upgrading truck safety ' enforcement and requiring many states to permit larger trucks on their roads. Sens. Adlai Stevenson, D, and Charles Percy, R, voted "yea." A one-day seminar on "The <• Employer and Discrimination in Illinois" will be presented by the Illinois State Chamber of Commerce and the Illinois Fair Employment Practices commission Thursday, March 13, at Chicago's Marriott O'Hare. It will be repeated Wednesday, March 19, at the Holiday Inn East in Springfield. Designed to help em­ ployers keep pace with the rapidly-changing sphere of fair employment practices, the seminar will review current state and federal laws, rules, regulations, guidelines and court decisions, and their impact on employer policies and practices. . Discussion topics include: Overview of federal equal employment opportunity and Illinois fair employment practices; rapid charge processing; pregnancy, handicapped and other concerns; compliance reviews; equal pay; initiated charges, state contractors; sexual harrassment; most common employer errors, oversights and shortcomings ; and how you can and should run a business with FEP-EEO. Explaining these topics and answering questions will be these speakers: Carol Frederick; chairperson, Illinois FEPC; Patricia Motto, attorney, formerly with the FEPC; Stuart Garbutt, general counsel, FEPC; Marlene 'T-asch, supervisor, investigations, FEPC; Adlue Zussman, director, compliance division, FEPC; Patti Witkowski, compliance division, FEPC; Madalyn Brown, compliance division, FEPC; and Judy Wienman, Local 73, SEIU, and for­ merly with the FEPC. State Chamber Labor Relations Manager Leonard Day will be moderator. Both seminars start at 9 a.m. and conclude at 4 p.m. A different registration fee for ISCC members and for non-members includes luncheon and all materials. For additional in­ formation, contact Patti Cummings, Center for Business Management, an ISCC affiliate, 20 N. Wacker Drive, Chicago 60606 ( 312- 372-7373). Saving On Home Energy A typical Illinois household can save up to $180 on its annual home heating bills by lowering the thermostat when residents are asleep or out of the house. These savingsr-from lowering thermostats from 70 to 60 degrees for two eight- hour periods during sleeping hours and times when no one is home - will range from $67 to $180 a year, according to a study by a leading energy management information center. The report is the first to apply winter 1980 Illinois fuel consumption and price data to the figures used by the U.S. Department of Energy to estimate how much money families can save by setting back thermostats. The findings are based on data from the U.S. Depart­ ment of Energy, the Federal Power commission, the National Bureau of Stan­ dards, the Bureau of the Census, the Illinois Department of Business and Economic Development (the state energy office) and Illinois utilities and fuel oil dealers. How much a particular household can save depends on how far thermostats are lowered, insulation, the efficiency of heating systems, utility rates, climate and similar factors, the study said. The. center is conducting these studies to focus at­ tention on practical ways to save money by reducing energy use in homes, businesses and industrial facilities; <• : •vv.a The potential savings are based on annual cost estimates for heating a typical-size house in Chicago, East St. Louis, Peoria and Springfield. These cities were studied because they provide a reasonable range of costs, allowing for differences in geography, temperature, utility rates and con­ sumption patterns, the study said. The costs are estimated for No. 2 heating oil and natural gas, the two prin­ cipal fuels used for heating in Illinois. The.study found that: ... A 10-degree dual reduction of temperature, for both sleeping hours and periods when no one is home, produces savings ranging from $67 for a gas-heated house in Peoria or Springfield to $180 for an oil- heated house in Chicago. These figures provide for weekend adjustments. ... A 5-degree dual setback, from 70 to 65, produces savings of $45 for a gas- heated house in Peoria to $123 for an oil-heated house in East St. Louis. ... A 10-degree night-only setback produces savings of $37 for a gas-heated house in Peoria to $110 for an oil- heated house in Chicago. ... A 5-degree night-only setback produces savings from $25 for a gas-heated house in Springfield to $74 for an oil-heated house in East St. Louis. The study cautioned that the savings would best be assured if automatic- setback thermostats are used to make daily tem­ perature adjustments. It pointed ouFthat households with manual thermostats can achieve these setback savings, but often forfeit I M A I N D l A l l H ' L e U I M S f o t l i e * I d i l o i Public Pulse The Ploindeoler invite* the public to th.% thi% column os on expression o» their views on tub|ert% of gencol interest in ou> community Our only request IS tbQt the writers give signotu<e full nddress ond phone number We ask too that one individual not writ** on the some subiect more thon once eoch month We reserve the right to delete onv motenol which wo ronstder libelous or <n objectionable tosfe I Daniel M. Pierce <D) - 32nd 580 Roger Willaims Ave. Highland Park, 111.. 60035 Phone 312-433-2551 HAPPY REUNION "Editor: "On Saturday evening, Feb. 23, two large dogs decided to sleep on my front porch, a black Labrador Retriever and a Qerman Shepherd. After a sleepless night for me I tried to feed them at 6 in the morning but they left. "1 told my sister-in-law, Olga Badach, also of Pistakee Highlands, about the dogs on Sunday morning. After church she called and said the dogs were at her neighbor's home. She put on gloves and went over and fed them. She noticed they had dog tags and jotted down the numbers. "Since it was Sunday, there was no response from Helping Paws or the Rabies department. On calling the McHenry police they got in touch with Animal Control. "The owners of the dogs, a couple from McHenry Shores, were notified. The dogs had been missing five days. A joyous reunion for the dogs, the owners and both myself and my dedicated sister-in-law was the result. Anne Prince ARE YOU NEW IN McHenry Area? SS8SSSSSSSSS Do You Know Someone New? WE WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND A ROYAL WELCOME TO EVERY NEWCOMER TO OUR AREA!!!!! 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Sponsoring ogency- McHenry County Comprehensive Mental Health Service System. them by neglecting to turn down the temperature for periods when high heating levels are unnecessary. The study also noted that the U.S. Department of Energy recommends the use of automatic-setback thermostats to make this fuel conservation certain. The department has reported that an investment in an automatic thermostat involves "some initial in­ vestment, but this outlay is more than repaid in dependability and energy savings over a period of time." The typical cost of an automatic thermostat can be recovered in as little as one year, the study said. In addition, the Internal Revenue Service extends an "energy credit" of 15 per­ cent of the purchase and installation cost for an automatic setback ther­ mostat. Further price rises in heating fuels would shorten the payback period for the cost of an automatic ther­ mostat, the study noted. PERMANENCY PLANNING The Edna McConnell Clark foundation has awarded a $294,000 grant to the Illinois Department of Children and Family Ser­ vices (DCFS), according to department director Gregory L. Coler. The grant will finance agency-wide reforms assuring that "permanency plans" are established as soon as abused and neglected children Come under care of the department. "This will strengthen our adoption services and other programs to ensure that children don't get lost in the state foster care system," said Coler. Plans will be monitored on a regular basis to determine when a child can be returned to his family or freed for adoption. The department currently serves about 8,600 children in foster family homes, and about 2,800 in institutions and group homes. Not all veterans are ex- servicemen. Some 679,000 or over two percent of the veteran population are women. EARL R. WALSH ft JACK WALSH MS. Fir*. Auto. 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