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aivi^iiuN z - r auk «- PLA1NDEALER - WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26,1980 PLAINDEALER Editorial Opinion Sheriff Report FEBRUARY-1980 PRISONER COUNT FOR THE MONTH Adult Males Received 166 Adult Females Received 17 Juvenile Males Received 5 Juvenile Females Received 0 Total Prisoners Received 188 Total Prisoners Discharged . .204 Average Prisoner Court Per Day 47.6 Prisoner Records Prepared 188 Warrants Served 138 Court Processes Received 628 Court Processes Served -- 480 Bailiffs In Court 131 Persons Taken To Court. 138 Meals Served For The Month 3,293 Persons Conveyed To Other Institutions 5 Mileage Conveying Persons 464 Mileage Serving Court Processes 5,077 Mileage Patrolling and Investigating 86,686 ACCIDENT INVESTIGATIONS HANDLED Total Number of Accidents 206 Personal Property 148 Bodily Injury 57 Fatalities 1 Warning Tickets Issued 178 Tickets Issued 540 Prison Count: Lowest Day Of The Month 37 Highest Day Of The Month 58 Sheriff McHenry County Building Permits The City of McHenry has issued the following building permits for the month of February. Harriet Whitman, Windhill Restaurant and Apparel, 3307 W. Elm street, sign. Jay Koeller, 5101 W. Elm street, remodel office. First National Bank of McHenry, 3814 W. Elm street, remodel bank. Mrs. Florence Both, 1407 N. Court street, siding. Carmen Adams, 4007 W. Oak avenue, sewer hook-up. Residential Development Group, corner of Thornwood drive and Waters Edge, sign. Joseph Kupper, 934 Wiltshire drive, fence, j Community Cablevision, 4910 W. Elm street, interior remodeling. Walley's Bike Haven, 4808 W. Elm street, sign. F o r Y o u r I n f o r m a t i o n ' Dear friends. Attending a visitation can do much. Just by being present, tho relative, friend, or neighbor acknowledges tho doath, at woll a* concorn and support for tho survivor*. Whon your family i* bereaved, you toon realize how much it holpt to havo rolativo* and friond* you can count on to help in your timo of griof. Respectfully, X...., C+ c Ic'd y- PETEPM JLSTLN & SON f l lNtPAl HCMt Propose New Measurement For "Small Business" Small Town William Martin, writing recently from the small town of Marshall, Mich.fnoted the present trend Of city residents to break away from urban craters and settle in small towns. Small towns have many advantages. For one, people know people. It isn't easy to get away with the self-centered or selfish life style some pursue in the city and remain respected very long in a small town. Close observation is a fact of small­ town life. And in many ways this community pressure, the greater pull of traditional folkways and mores, is good. It helps establish desirable standards, obligations and behavioral patterns. Parents have closer control of their children. Crime and the rackets are usually more easily detected in small towns. People tend to be friendlier and more helpful. Life is not as impersonal, not as hectic or fast-paced. It's more like traditional or early America-a good recommendation these days! Olympic Politics Despite denials, the Olympic games are used each four years by the Communist world to exhibit their superior athletes. And they are superior. In the recent winter games at Lake Placid, two communist countries won more than half the gold medals. Russia and East Germany won 19 between them. The United States won six, five of them by one ice skater, which won't happen often. No other nation won more than three, only two accomplishing that, Sweden and Austria. In total medals, Russia and East Germany won 22 and 23 respectively. The U.S. won 12, next highest. The Russia-East German total was a whopping forty percent of all medals awarded to all nations. Just as we did in the thirties and early post-war years, the Communist nations today stress their top showing for public relations purposes. They point to it as proof that the Communist system is better, more productive. The U.S. press stressed, of course, the victories of U.S. athletes and teams. But the world saw the Russian and East German dominance quite clearly. And East Germany, a country with only 16 million citizens, did relatively far better than any other nation. (West Germany, with 62,000,000 people, won no gold medals.) How do the Communist nations manage to outdo us? Sports are a government business. There are special sports schools, and many state-run regional sports meets. The best athletes are sent to the special schools and virtually give their lives to their coaches, not their parents. Parents accept it because it means special attention from the state and special privileges. There's nothing so totally state controlled, and operated in sports, in the West. The question, then, is often asked whether free societies should continue to compete against countries where sports programs are a state-operated, centralized government program. Is it fair competiiton, in the original spirit of the Olympic games? Is it wise to allow Communist dictatorships to exploit the games for public relations and propaganda purposes? These are questions which may be answered in the next few years. A new standard definition of a "small business" has been proposed by the U.S. Small Business ad­ ministration. That standard would be used to determine a firm's eligibility for SBA loans and other programs. The proposed standard is based • on a single measurement of size - to total number of employees per firm. The standard also stresses improved business competition. Under the proposed standard, which was published in the Federal Register and upon which interested parties were invited to comment, com­ panies in some industries and fields would be eligible for SBA assistance if they had 15 or fewer workers. In other cases, a "small company" could have as many as 2,500 employees. At present, eligibility standards vary by types of industry and also , by SBA programs. The present s t andards measure eligibility by annual rece ip t s , employees , assests, and-or net worth- depending on the industry and Agency program under which a company is seeking SBA help. A. Vernon Weaver, SBA Administrator, said, "We believe strongly that this single size standard proposal will clarify and simplify for both the small business community and the SBA the Roll Call Report (Your Congressmen's Vote) Here's how area House members were recorded on major roll call votes March 6-March 12. There were no Senate votes. Federal Spending--The House approved, 199 for and 198 against, a $287,852 budget for the Select Committee on Committees. This will fund the special House panel until it goes out of business about April 30,1980. The committee was formed last year to find ways to thin the House's sprawling committee bureaucracy. Rep. John Brademas, D-Ind., a supporter, said the $287,852 outlay "represents a 40.9 percent decrease from the committee's 1979 adjusted expenses." Rep. James Collins, R-Tex., an opponent, said "this committee would be an excellent place where we could -achieve a 100 percent cut...We can work out adjustments without any type of a select committee. We...really have no need for this Committee on Committees." Members voting "yea" want to fund the Select Committee on Committees. Rep. Robert McClory, R-13, voted "yea." Rep. John Anderson, R-16, did not vote. House Computers--By a vote of 228 for and 174 against, the House approved a $9.9 million 1980 expenditure for the computer system that provides information to members' offices, the committees and other House operations. Rep. Charles Rose, D-N.C., a supporter, said the executive branch spends about $5 billion on computers. The House, he added, needs its less-expensive computer system to "adequately oversee the burgeoning executive branch of government...." Rep. William Dannemeyer, R-Calif., an opponent, said that when the House significantly cuts federal outlays such as this it will have "laid the foundation for the stopping of deficit spending which is the principal cause of inflation in this country." Members voting "yea" wantfull funding of House computer operations. McClory voted "yea." Anderson did not vote. Windfall Revenue--By a vote of 201 for and 215 against, the House refused to endorse spending a larger share of revenue from the new tax on oil company windfall profits for energy development and conservation. The vote came on a non- binding measure (H Res 602) suggesting ways to allocate the $227 billion the windfall tax is expected to raise in the 1980s. It left intact language suggesting that 60 percent of the $227 billion go for income tax reductions. The vote came during debate on the windfall-tax bill, which was headed for final passage. Rep. Joseph Fisher, D-Va., a supporter of using more money for energy, said: "This is hardly the time to tell the American people that the highest priority in an energy bill is an inflationary tax cut." Rep. James Corman, D-Calif., an opponent, said: "If working men and women are going to have to pay a lot more for energy, they ought to have to pay a little bit less toward the cost of government." Members voting "yea" wanted to spend more of the windfall tax yield on energy programs and less to make possible an income tax cut. McClory voted "nay." Anderson did not vote. Asian Development Bank--The House adopted, 210 for and 189 against, an amendment that cut from $445 million to $180 million the U.S. contribution over the next three years to the Asian Development bank. The bank provides capital on extremely favorable terms to developing Asian countries. The amendment was attached to HR 3829, later passed and sent to the Senate. Rep. John Rousselot, R-Calif., a supporter, said that while the U.S. government wants to provide 20 percent of the Asian bank's capital over the next three years, "the OPEC nations, the ones that have all that tremendous cash flow coming their way, are providing zero, absolutely nothing" to the bank. Rep. John Cavanaugh, D-Neb., said that if the U.S. drastically reduces its support of the Asian Development bank and similar world banks, the result will be to "isolate our nation in the world, weaken our political and economic position in the world, and fuel the flames of inflation which will further afflict our nation and every other nation in the world." Members voting "yea" favor the 60 percent cut in the proposed U.S. contribution to the Asian Development bank. McClory voted "yea." Anderson did not vote. ARE YOU NEW IN McHenry Area? S89SSSSSSSS8 Do You Kno* Someone New? WE WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND A ROYAL WELCOME TO EVERY NEWCOMER TO OUR AREA!!!!! CALL JOAN STULL 385-5418 LORRAINE MONAHAN 385-5475 *0, % %A EZZZEM723 implementa t ion of assistance programs to small firms. The current separate size standard eligibility criteria for each program has resulted in confusion for small business needing assistance, com­ plexity for SBA employees admin i s te r ing agency programs and criticism by those who have studied SBA's size standards. "Moying to a single size standard for all programs will eliminate the anomalous situation where a particular business firm is designated as 'small' and eligible for assistance through one SBA program and not 'small' and hence ine l ig ib le fo r assistance through another program", according to Weaver. In determining small business size standards, SBA acts on the premise that what constitutes a "Small firm" is different in different industries and also on the premise that some in­ dustries are more com­ petitive than others. In examining and analyzing different industries, SBA used three broad categories: competitive, mixed and concentrated. In a concentrated in­ dustry, the four largest firms account for more than half of industry sales. In competitive industries, most firms display a much more equal distribution of sales and the average firm is relatively small when measured by annual sales or number of employees. Mixed industries fall somewhere in between. In the study proposing a size standard based on employees, SBA classified 317 industries as com­ petitive, 160 industries as concentrated and 249 in­ dustries as mixed. Weaver said that SBA's size standard "should not be viewed as permanent, but rather as an ongoing process. SBA must be responsive to the dynamic structural changes con­ stantly occurring in the economy, as well as the changing needs of the small business community." Under SBA's proposal, about 95 percent of firms in the country would be eligible for agency assistance. PLAlNDKALl iK 1 During 1979, the Emergency Response unit of the Illinois Environmental Protection agency acted on 788 reported incidents, the greatest number of incidents in the unit's seven-year history, according to an annual report just issued. This amounted to an in­ crease of 80 percent over 1978 when 435 incidents were reported. According to John Renkes, ERU supervisor, the large increase is the result of improved reporting of spills; unusually adverse weather conditions; and the t remendous amount o f haza rdous mate r i a l s produced, transported and disposed of in Illinois. Of the 788 reported in­ cidents, 357 were classified as minor, 336 as significant, 73 as major and 22 as major large scale. Of the total incidents reported, 49 per­ cent were transportation- related spills including 135 truck accidents, 106 railroad accidents and 16 barge accidents. Others included 58 pipeline breaks, 74 in­ volving drums and cylin­ ders, 317 from stationary installations and 82 from unknown sources. As to hydrocarbons spilled in 1979, 59 incidents involved diesel, 50 involved gasoline, 32 involved oil and 31 in­ volved fuel oil. The balance Was made up of crude oil, kerosene,, naptha, toluene and xylene. The Emergency Response unit is under the jurisdiction of the agency's Division of Air Pollution Control, Field Operations section, but functionally serves to coordinate environmental emergencies for the entire agency. The Illinois EPA is a response agency for spills of oil and hazardous materials and works closely with local, state and federal agencies to maximize all available resources in an effort to reduce adverse public health conditions as well as en­ vironmental contamination due to the emergency. KNOW YOUR AREA ROYAL WELCOME DOES IT BEST SERVICE LINE McHENRY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 385-4300 FAMILY SERVICE & MENTAL HEALTH CLINIC 3409 W. Waukegan Road McHenry 385 6400 PARENTAL STRESS LINE OF McHENRY Meeting PloceiMcHenry 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 7:30a.m. to 5:30 p.m. week days (Ever had a problem involving the federal government and not known where to coll? And then been given a runaround or referrals by persons who meant well but didn't know how to help? Ten specialist available at this center.) 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 trams. 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BIRTHRIGHT Pregnant? Need Help? Counseling Service. 385-2999 24 hour Answering Service , YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU FOR McHENRY COUNTY 4719 W. Elm St., McHenry Phone: 344-3240 24 hour Crisis Intervention and Confidential Counseling lor youth and families Are you concerend about your angry feelings toward your children' 24 hour Parental Stress Line 344 3944 ILLINOIS STATE CHAMSlR HOTLINE Pliuno 217 522 5514 Answei to questions on government recjulotions MENTAL HEALTH 1 800-893-8900 (Crisis Center Lin* for McHenry Co. 24-Hour Emergency number ond professional staff will answer your coll. Sponsoring ogency- McHenry County Comprehensive Mental Health Service System. Letters to tholvditor Public Pulse (IV HeiiUkolor invites pwMk to use (tilt tills column es en expression •» dub vitwi on of |»mnt interest in ow community. Ovr naif n^imt - M Hut Mm writers |Im • sifnetore. M eMress end phone nymfcer. Wo etfc too. Hint one ie4i*Meel not write on An mil int|«cl more Mien onto oech mentfc- We roservo the rifM to delete eny metorlel which ore consider Mbetees or In otyectioneMe teste.) Emergency Responses Of EPA Hit New High CONTEMPORARY VALUES "Editor: "A real statement on our value system was delivered last weds when the Dist IS school boagd decided to eliminate classroom music, art, home economics, industrial arts, gifted and guidance from their schools. They salvaged the junior sports and spread an already overworked band director even thinner. They saved all the visable so-called 'frills', because people will still see kids with band instruments and gym bags at the bus stops (at least for one more year). "We could use all the overworked reasons for keeping music and art in the curriculum, such as: "1. Classroom teachers have only minimum training to teach art and music. " "2. What will happen to the music and art in the high schools in years to come? "3. Who will guide our pre- adolescents through some tense Jr. high years? "4. Who will relate all our great American heritage through art and music? "5. When will the stream of parents come to school - those who have to stand for lack of seating at Christmas and spring music concerts? "6. What will happen to those students who find real identity in the music and art programs? "7. How will classroom teachers get that much needed planning period in the day if their class has no music or art <and still less- thsn-minimum PR.)? "8. What is to become of those dedicated 'specialist' teachers? "But no, we won't use all those reasons. Schools are a product of a community. If our community doesn't understand that music and art is man's spiritual communication, and that a society's culture is measured by its art, music, and literature left behind, then we are to be destined to a 'canned' music, plastic, throw-away society. "JohnLeighty "3703 W. 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