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McHenry Plaindealer (McHenry, IL), 10 Oct 1980, p. 8

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. V V* I'l.AI.MM-. i I i . KKIDAV.OCTOBER 10.1980 ior Hot Line By Lt Gov Dave O'Neal While our society spends much cf tor t deal ing with suspet '< c r iminals , vict ims of cnrru are t ragical ly ignored mid ton f(\ ' u suffer i he ' larnagi inf l ic ted on ihem by ot i>Hrs To in ig . - ; ' i t -se hard­ ships 'he •- a te of I l l inois several years ago enacted the Crime Vi ' i ims Com­ pensat ion Act This program hecam'e effeci I 've Oct 1 1973 and appl ies only to injur ies sustained or v after that •date Q Who I i le a c la im? A Th< i /B ol the fol lowing can f i le : k idnapj : • • .* ,gr ; ivated kidnappi!- , rape • deviate sexual a 'an! ' arson, in­ decent hlv:MH vi th <. chi ld , assaul t , aggi o a ied assaul t , bat tery, a} 1 ; > a ted bat tery, reckless coin murder and voiu a i y man­ slaughter If the v dies as a resul t of th< a e , his or his dependen ' t i le a c la im. I te la t ive. who paid reasonal , 1 : i i • ' I leal and funeral expeo may also f i le . Q. V»'! io r , i i f f i le? A You no! e l igible for eompens. i ' on unless you have promt y reported the cr ime to p"«ic<- authori t ies ; have ful ly cooperated with pol ice , have f i i i i i ic ia l loss over $200; if the victim and criminal were not related and sharing the same household; and unless the victim in no way provoked the crime. Q What kind of com­ pensation can I receive? A. Compensation is limited to the applicant's expenses above $200. It can cover the victim's medical and hospital expenses, nursing care, loss of earnings up to $500 per month, funeral and burial e^Jenses and loss of support Total compensation may not exceed $10,000. The victim cannot recover compensation for property damage Q Mow will my claim be investigated? A You may be requested to appear for a personal interview. Certified copies of • income tax returns for the year of the injury and the previous year may be requested. You may be required to undergo a medical exam. After the Attorney General investigates your claim, the findings will go to the court, which will make a decision. Q How do I file a claim? A You will need to submit to the Attorney General a Notice of Intent to File a Claim within six months of. the injury To obtain a notice, residents of northern Illinois should contact The Attorney General, Crime Victims Program, 188 W. Randolph, Room 2200, Chicago, 111., 60601. After you complete, the notice, the Attorney General's office will advise you how to proceed. Write Senior Action Centers, 160 N. LaSalle, Chicago, 60601, or, 3 West Old Town Mall, Springfield, 62701 with questions or concerns about * any government agency or program, or, call statewide, lollfree, 800-252-6565. Rescue Of A Scientist IMRY 85-0144 ALL SEATS FRI K MON THRU 1HU«S n SAT. 1 SAT & S 2:3,1 ' / !? GASPUMP EPA tests show it is more economical to turn the en­ gine off if the idle time exceeds 60 seconds. 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Because the photo is old and faded, it is dif­ ficult to make positive identifications, but a good guess is that the eldest daughter, Mary Anna, is standing behind Henry and his wife, Harriet, is at the far right. Any man who has ever longed for fame might wish to have a daughter in the mold of Mary Anna Henry, who spent her spinsterhood as a champion of her father's place in history. Her father was no less a figure than Joseph Henry, the first great American scientists after Benjamin Franklin, the first secretary of the Smithsonian in­ stitution and a preeminent member of the American scientific community during FRI. SAT. SUN. fStal. (815)459-3149 ADULTS $450 FRENCH WOME r,«. they work all night FILMED LIVE On stage and backsfage COMPLETELY UNCENSORED ONTEST JR PLUS SECRETARY. most of the 19th century. Working in the 1880s and 1890s, she gathered together many of Henry's personal papers, scientific diaries and correspondence and set out to write his biography. This, she hoped, would establish once and for all that it was her father, not the British scientist Michael Faraday, who discovered the im­ portant principle of elec­ trical induction-the process of converting magnetism into electricity. Mary Henry zealously recopied many of her father's documents: in the process, she corrected his spelling and grammar and sometimes destroyed the originals. She also was fond of cutting snippets of text from original documents and drawings from his notebooks, which she laboriously pasted onto a master manuscript. Mary Henry never com­ pleted her labor of love, but 90 years later a small group of researchers at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., are trying to rescue Joseph Henry from relative obscurity. The rescue is in the form of a comprehensive 15-volume project, The Papers of Joseph Henry, and in this effort, the historians are not relying on acts of filial devotion to tell Joseph Henry's story. 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Unlike these men,, Henry has not been the subject of many books or research, although he could well be considered "an American success story", Reingold says. Henry was born into a poor family in 1797 in Albany, N.Y. His early education was sparse, although records show that he studied at the Albany academy between 1819 and 1822, taking some time off to earn money. Because of his lack of formal schooling, Henry always considered himself "principally self-educated." By the time he was 30, he had been an apprentice to a silversmith and a wat­ chmaker, a school teacher, a chemical assistant, a sur­ veyor on a state road project and a professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Albany academy. In 1832 he became a professor at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton university) where he was an outstanding teacher of physical sciences and a pioneer in the field of electrical physics. In 1846, at the age of 49, Henry was selected as the first "Secretary", or chief executive, of the newly founded Smithsonian In­ stitution. Henry, his wife, son and three daughters moved to Washington, then a provincial village of mar­ shland and mosquitoes, where they lived in an apartment in the first Smithsonian building until his death in 1878. "Henry was above all an astute observer of his times, and his mail makes in­ teresting reading," Reingold says. "The Joseph Henry papers re-create not only the great events and ideas of the times but also the subtle texture of the past." To re-create the past so vividly requires diligent sleuthing and patience. When Reingold and his colleagues began to collect Henry's papers in 1967, they had Mary Henry's legacy and the papers in the Smithsonian archives. "Mary Henry's collection was not really very naeful, although in some ways we are grateful to her," Reingold says. "I would have preferred that the documents be left unaltered, but she kept many papers that might otherwise have been lost, and she gathered together a lot of scattered documents." An individual who ap­ peared several times in Henry's early correspon­ dence, one Jacob Trump- bour, was finally tracked down, literally to his grave, through a local book, Old Tombstones of Ulster County, New York. Also in. the papers are Henry's original scientific notebooks and the diary of 'his trip to Europe in 18S7, where he met rival Michael Faraday - Henry admired him greatly - and many other famous scientists of the time. These enable historians and scientists to follow first hand the train of discoveries that firmly established Henry as a leading electrical physicist of his generation. As an historical footnote, although Faraday was given credit for discovering electrical induction because he was the first to publish his results, Henry's documents reveal that he had observed the phenomenon virtually simultaneously. Finally, what emerges from all the Henry papers is the portrait of a very human character--a man who adored his wife and wrote her long affectionate letters, a concerned father who was preoccupied with the ac­ tivities of his four children and daily domestic life in Jacksonian America, a devoted friend., Perhaps Henry's own words will ultimately establish his proper role in history. Certainly some of his philosophical ob­ servations on the value of science show him as a man far ahead of his time, thoughts which guided him in establishing the Smithsonian as a place where basic research could be pursued for the "increase and diffusion of knowledge..." As Henry once told his colleagues after citing the many cases where seemingly pure science had benefited mankind. "These instances should teach us to despise no pursuit in science because its utility cannot be i m m e d i a t e l y p e r - ceived...Most discoveries are unproductive until thf progress of science in after years directs their ap­ plication to purposes of practical utility." Joe Carvalho with some of the stars of his show in the Wilder­ ness Theater at Marriott's Great America. While Angel a scarlet macaw gives him a kiss, King Tut a Catalina macaw raids his seed pocket. Also pictured, left to right, are Tessie, Ashley, and Michael. Own a 4-WhMl Drive Thick? Own a 2-Wheel Drive Thick? Whether you're running a 4x4 or 2WD truck, Western offers a dependable snowplow that's designed to handle the worst winters. For homeowner or light commercial use, count on £e NEW SnowKing* by Western. The SnowKing is the first lightweight snowplow designed specifically for 2WD trucks. 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