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SECTION I - PAGE 1 - PL AINDEALER - WEDNESDAY. JULY It, ltM One' Will Be Named McHenry's Cutest Baby These babies-the first twenty-four^&jpntered in the Town and Country Alewcomers club "Cutest Baby" contest-will have their pictures dis­ played on a rotfcttrrg dlspiay board each httplfiQ i'Svftff vdffcs and t>ecwne ^vinnef irr the Fiesta Week competition. Exact locations of the display board, which give an opportunity to cast a vote by coin donation, appear in the classified advertising section of this issue of the Plaindealer. The babies' names are withheld so that voting will be on the&bppeal of the child rather than name. CABINET CHANGES Gov.' James R. Thompson announced several cabinet changes. James B. Zagel, director of the Illinois Department of Revenue, will replace Dan K. Webb as director of the Illinois Department of Law En­ forcement effective Aug. 15. Webb resigned to return to private law practice. J. Thomas Johnson, assistant director of the Department of Revenue, was named director of Revenue. Dr. Ivan Pavkovic, Glenview, was named acting director of the Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities. Because of its many educational institutions, Nashville, Tenn., hfs been nicknamed "the Athens of the South." If today were a real Peak Alert, we'd everybody turns the air-conditioning on be on the radio asking you to conserve as full blast. much electricity as you could between ' When you add that to the normal daily 9 a.m. and 10 p.m., when the use of air- demand for electricity, it's easy to run conditioning is greatest. short. Unless we start every backup To keep your home at 78 degrees, no power plant that's available, regardless of lower. (The colder you make it, the more how small or how old. electricity your air conditioner has to use.) Worse yet, some of them use awfully . To postpone washing, drying or expensive fuels, like oil. Which means the ironing clothes during the day. cost of producing each extra kilowatthour To cook outdoors if you possibly can. of electricity goes up to almost 12 cents, To vacuum early or not at all. 16 times more-than our nuclear generators To read a book instead of watching can do it for. And extra fuel costs get a lot of TV. passed along to you in the fuel adjustment To run your dishwasher after you go charge on your electric bill. to bed. Besides, if everybody can just cut To take a shower instead of a bath. down a little on Peak Alert days, we won't (A bath uses more hot water and makes have to build as many plants in the years your electric water heater work overtime.) ahead. - Anything you can add to the list So in peak demand periods, we'll go would be greatly appreciated. on the radio to warn everybody that we're Now, the world isn't going to come to having a Peak Alert and it's time to ah end if you don't conserve. Your electric conserve every way they can. bill is just going to go up. It pays. If we all conserve, we all save. For instance. Say we have three In case you need practice, make or four scorchers back to back and wPR a dry run today. Commonwealth Edison /