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i » V > . K A I X D E A I WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12,1980 PLAINDEALER -- Editorial Opinion Little Fellow Wins Congress recently passed, and the President signed, the Regulatory Flexibility act. After three years of hearings on this reform legislation, the effort has resulted in a law which should help small businesses. The new law allows regulatory agencies and departments to make exceptions and waive certain rigid, burdensome and uniform procedures which have lately so overwhelmed many small businesses, unable to cope with the required red tape, reports, requirements and paperwork. Hacked by the Small Business Administration, this relaxation of rigid bureaucratic standards and rules should make normal operation, and necessary cooperation with federal authorities, much easier for many small businesses, small towas, neighborhoods, family farms andothers. In fact," Milton Stewart, of the Small Business Administration, says the new law might well do more to help these entities than any legislation enacted in the past 30 years. It 's good to know that the average citizen occasionally wins one from the federal government's bureaucracy. Electric, Trucks Fifty electric mail trucks ordered by the Postal Service are soon to be delivered to three west coast Florida cities for use as mail carriers. The 50 are the first part of an order for 375. The service is considering enlarging that order by another 350. That's because the electric vehicles passed all tests with flying colors last month. They're designed to deliver mail on routes of 25 miles, making 350 stops, and then return to the post office--for a recharge. Electric cars and trucks are widely used in France, and liave passed their probationary period there impressively. And golfers have been successfully using electric cars for years, with good results. The experimental mail delivery program, then, in Tampa, St. Petersburg and Sarasota, is a national significance, even if a foregone conclusion as a success. The test begins in December; and surely within six months, the Postal Service will know how the new mail trucks are working out. If the test is indeed a success, utility companies all over the country are likely to be among the first to follow the Postal Service example Electric companies, gas companies, dairies, newspaper deliverers and others will be able to avoid the use of petroleum fuels in their house-to-house operations. Plan Vietnam Memorial On this Veteran's day, the public looks to the nation's most recent veterans and to a project which seeks to honor them. Today, only five years since the last Americans left Vietnam, too few of us remember that 2.7 million of our young people served there over a 10-year span, sustaining casualties of r>tt,iKMi dead, 300,000 wounded and 75,000 disabled. Last year, to honor the dedication and sacrifice of the Americans who served in Vietnam, a handful of Vietnam veterans formed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial fund. The sole purpose of the fund is to establish a National Memorial in honor and recognition of the Americans who served and died. When the project is completed, the gam/at ion will go out of i xistence In 'ip unbelievably short period til time the fund has received congressional and presidential approval of a resolution dedicating two acres oi national parkland in Washington, D C. as a site ;•'! 'h< memorial. { i ot no government money ill go into the design and onstruction of the memorial that's the way the veterans want it Private citizens, individual Americans, are contributing the funds The memorial will make no political statement about the war. Rather it is in­ tended to be a symbol of national unity, of recon­ ciliation. It will be located near the Lincoln Memorial, also a symbol of recon­ ciliation after a devisive era. Recently, the WMF announced an open, nationwide competition to design the memorial. A pretigious jury of ex­ perts in the arts and design professions will choose the winning design. The fund's basic design principles call for a memorial of reflective and contemplative nature that will include the in­ scription of the names of all 57,661 Americans who died in the war. So far, the fund has raised about $500,000 of the estimated $3 million needed for the design and con­ struction of the project. On this Veterans' day the public may have a special place in their heart for this very special memorial. Interested persons may contact the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Inc., P.O. Box 37240, Washington, D C., 20013. The deposit and accounting of all gifts is conducted by an independent financial in­ stitution. from HISTORY'S SCRAPBOOK O A T E S A N D EVENTS FROM YESTERYEARS November 13, 1921 -- Hollywood releases movie The Sheik, siari iiu- matinee idol Rudolph Valentino. November 14, l<>43 l irst nuclear reactor put into operation, at < )ak Ridge, Tennessee. November 15, 1806 -- Zebulon Pike gets his 1st glimpse of a mountain "like small blue cloud", that is later named Pike's I'eak in Colorado. November 16, 1973 -- President RichardM. Nixon signs Alas­ kan pipeline bill to bring oil from the North Slope. November 17, 1969 -- First session of Strategic Arms Limita­ tion talks between United States and Soviet Union opens at Helsinki. November 18, 1865 -- Mark Twain gains national fame by pub­ lishing his Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. November 19, 1969 -- After separating from Apollo-Saturn 12. C harles Conrad, Jr., and Alan L. Bean make the 2nd moon landing. F o r Y o u r Informat ion V V y w V Dear friends. Because death usually occurs in a family only once each dozen yoars, it naturally craatas an emotional crisis. A funeral diractor must be called-one in whom you havo complato con­ fidence. Well-meaning friends, neighbors, clergymen, doctors, should not prosumo to call a funeral director without consulting mambars of the family. To the next of kin belongs the vole right of selection of the funeral director. Respectfully, PETER M.JUSTEN & SON FUNERAL HOME McHENRY, ILLINOIS - 385-0063 Building Permits Dan Pertile, 5107 Home avenue, single family dwelling. Thomas J. Koleno, 1512 N. Richmond road, siding. Michael Shanahan, 4213 W. South street, addition. Alexander Lumber Company, 909 N. Front street, fence. Robert Doessel, 1005 Center street, siding. Residential Development Group, 420, 422, 424, 426 Thomwood Drive, 4-unit, town houses. Donald Gerstad, 305 N. Dale avenue, single family dwelling. Lee and Lois Brondy, 4832 Pyndale, fence. H & R Block, 5101W. Elm street, sign. William J. O'Brien, 907 N. Wood lane, shed. Ronald and Patricia Wagner, 4316 Sioux lane, two-car garage. Residential Development Group, 111 Heritage drive, single family dwelling. Residential Development Group, 5113 Winding Creek drive, single family dwelling. Residential Development Group, 5211 Abbey land, single family dwelling. Residential Development Group, 5112 Winding Creek drive, single family dwelling. Residential Development Group, 5307 Abbey lane, single family dwelling. Carl R. Johnson, 4019 Lillian, three-car garage. Russel and Doris McKay, 3603 Anne street, canopy. Doris Jacobsen and Eugene D. Ray, 6306 W. Ojibwa lane, single family dwelling. Frederick J. Schlack, 6220 W. Ojibwa lane, single family dwelling. Walter Hansen, 4305 South street, sewer hookup. Residential Development Group, 5306 Winding Creek drive, single family dwelling. David Kerr, 3803 Anne street, siding. Ed's Rental and Sales, Inc. 904 N. Front street, addition. Deborah J. Berg (The Clippers), 5101 W. Elm street, sign. Emil Lazar, 3315 Golf View avenue, hew entry and siding. Residential Development Group, 5404 Winding Creek drive, single family dwelling. Brent Thomas, 4103 W. Elm street, temporary sign. Charles W. Martin, III, 1905 N. Oak drive, fence. Northern Propane Gas Co., 4003 W. Main street, dock area. PLAINDEALER ̂ Letter to the Editor Public Pulse r (The Ploindeoler Invites tit* public to use thlt column at an eapressiol of their views en «ubf*<tl ot general Interest In our community. Our only requAt it that the writer* give •Igneture. lull addrett and phone number. We atk too Sthot one individual not write on the tame tub|ect mora than once o month. We reterve the right to delete any material which we contider libelout or in objectionable taste.) REFERENDUM SUPPORT "Dear Editor, "I am a taxpayer and businessman in the city of McHenry. I fully support the referendum that will be placed before us on Satur­ day, Nov. 15. "I believe the young people of our community deserve the best education that is possible. Last year District 15 made some severe cuts in their program. Art, music, In­ dustrial Arts, Home Economics and the guidance program were all cut back to no programs. "Is there in the future more possible cutting of more programs? I believe that the board of education doesn't wish that to happen. If the issue doesn't pass on Saturday, what is going to be the alternative? "I, like many in the community, do not want to see any more cuts in the educational programs of our schools. To keep and maintain education in our community, money is needed. We have a good school system, and I hope we can keep it that way. 'So I urge you to vote yes on Saturday. "Sincerely, "John Bolton" "Editor: "I'm what is referred to as a 'senior citizen'. Just want everyone to know that I am voting for the children in our local school district. "I recently received an increase in my Social Security payment. I know the voters of District 15 did not have a chance to vote on it. However, I do want a decent education for the children of this school district. "I ask everyone to supprt our schools. "Very truly yours, "Lillian Glosson" "Editor: "As a new resident to McHenry, I am concerned as to what is happening to our children's education. I'm voting for the tax rate in­ crease on Saturday. "Yours truly, "Beverly Martin" JHARKETW/BASM Improve Open Meeting Act Ask Access To Public Business (ARE YOU NEW IN McHenry Area? ssssssssssss Do You Know Someone New? WE WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND A ROYAL WELCOME TO EVERY NEWCOMER TO OUR AREA!!!!! CALL LORRAINE MONANAN 385-5475 JUNE VOISHT 385-2S50 &>• *0 °B( 'G<rn KNOW YOUR AREA IL WELCOME DOES IT BEST Illinois Attorney General Tyrone C. Fahner has ad­ vised some 400 newspaper people that he is preparing legislation to improve the Illinois Open Meetings act, by assuring greater public access to public business transacted in meetings. Attorney General Fahner told the members of the Illinois Press association in remarks at a recent lun­ cheon that his proposed legislation would call for public notice to be given of all meetings by public bodies, including those to be properly closed for discussion of exempt sub­ jects. Fahner said, in addition, that he felt new legislation should also call for minutes to be kept of all public meetings. He said this would provide a record for resolving court challenges to closed meetings, as well as provide a record for "open" meetings held, that sub­ sequently prove to have involved controversial ac­ tions. Fahner said the new legislation would also deal with another problem area, enforcement of the act. The attorney general said the present enforcement provisions are inadequate because they require a state's attorney to take criminal action, when in many cases the state's at­ torney would feel that type of action was not warranted, or private citizens must bear the costs of undertaking a "mandamus" action. Fahner said enforcement actions would be improved if the state's attorneys were authorized to file mandamus actions, and citizens were reimbursed for the costs of a lawsuit in which they prevail. Attorney General Fahner also said that improved enforcement would result if judges were empowered to invalidate portions of an illegally held meeting. He said that this "voidable" power would mean that the courts could use discretion in policing the act, without being put in the position of b r i n g i n g a p p r o p r i a t e government activity to a halt. The attorney general invited the members of the press association and the interested public to send him comments and further suggestions on improving the act. Fahner said he would reveal further details of his proposed open meetings improvements in the near future as specific proposals become firm. Heightened interest in the Open meetings act has evidenced itself in recent weeks, since Attorney General Fahner reached a finding of law in a legal opinion that the language of the present act does not call for public notice to be given of properly "closed" meetings. Revise Replacement Tax Estimate Upward Estimates of corporate p e r s o n a l p r o p e r t y replacement tax money to be distributed to local govern­ ments during 1980 have been revised upward from the $520 million originally predicted to $550 million, according to J. Thomas Johnson, director of the Illinois Department of Revenue. "The original estimates had assumed a recession during the first year of collections, with a recovery in the second," he said "However, the effects of a recession were not reflected in the first year collections, but now are expected to show up in the second year instead." Johnson said current estimates for calendar year 1981 distributions to local governments are $510 m i l l i o n . H e n o t e d t h a t although the 1981 collections will be a decrease from 1980, the total will still be above that which local govern­ ments would have collected under the old corporate personal property tax. In addition, due to the distribution schedule of the replacement taxes, most units of local government will receive more revenue in their second fiscal year than in their first year. Projections based on the historic gi*9wth rate of the former tax "show that the corporate personal property tax would have brought in $468 million for local governments in 1980, compared to the $550 million now expected in replacement tax money. In 1981, the projections show $491 million would have been collected under the old tax, or $19 million less than the projected $510 million to be collected in 1981 under the replacement taxes. The replacement taxes substitute for money lost to units of local government when the corporate personal property tax was abolished under the new state Con­ stitution. In August, 1979, the Illinois General Assembly passed and the governor s i g n e d l e g i s l a t i o n authorizing the replacement taxes. Under the new system, the taxes are collected by the state revenue department and money is distributed to local governments. "Local governments not only are relieved of the responsibilities for assessing Beans can be a big help in stretching the food dollar as the prices for red meats, fish and other main dish protein foods continue to rise. Buy beans, peas or lentils in cellophane bags or other "see through" types of packages so you can consider the following impor­ tant factors. Brightness of color: Beans, peas and lentils should have a bright uniform color. Uniformity of size: Look for beans of uniform size. Mixed sizes will result in uneven cook­ ing, since smaller beans cook faster. Visible defects: Cracked seed coats, foreign material and pinholes caused by insect damage are signs of a low qual­ ity product. Dry beans, peas and lentils should be kept In tightly covered containers and stored in a cool dry place. Un­ der these conditions they will keep their quality for several months. Mixing packages will result in uneven cooking since older beans take longer to cook than fresher ones. SERVICE LINE McHENRY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 385-4300 FANILY SERVICE t MENTAL HEALTH CLINIC 3409 W. Waukegan Road McHenry 385-6400 PARENTAL STRESS LINE OF McHonry 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 the runaround or referrals by persons who meant well but didn't know how to help? Ten specialists available ot 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 trains. Sponsored by Interstate Commerce commission) CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION Phone 800-638-2666 (For Questions or Complaints on products ranging from toys to ovens) NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION Phone 800-424-9393 (Answers questions about automobile safety defects or whether a particular model has ever been recalled. Valuable for those interested in buying a used car.) ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES Child Abuse Center McHenry County (312) 546-2150 CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION 800-638 2666 (Operates five national lines. Answers inquires about or repor­ ting on the safety of products from kitchen appliances to children's toys.) NATIONAL SOLAR HEATING AND COOLING INFORMATIONCENTER 800-523-2929 P.O.Box 1607 Rockville. Md. 20850 (Dispenses information on solar systems for heating and cooling to anyone from architects to home owners looking for a sun- powered hot-water system) CONSUMER PROTECTION DIVISION 312-793-3580 Chicago III. 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 for youth and families % Are you concerned about your angry feelings toward your children' 24 hour Parental Stress Line 344-3944 ILLINOIS STATE CHAMBER HOTLINE Phone 217-522-5514 Answer to questions on government regulations MENTAL HEALTH 1 -800-892-8900 Crisis Center Line for McHenry Co. 24-Hour Emergency number and professional staff will answer your call. Sponsoring agency McHenry County Comprehensive Mental Health Service System. and collecting these taxes, but they also have use of the money up to six months earlier than they normally did under the old system," Johnson said. "And," he added "beginning in 1981, the distributions will be made eight times a year, rather than the quarterly schedule followed during the first year." The replacement taxes are (l)a 2.85 percent income tax on corporations (which is reduced to 2.5 percent on Jan. 1, 1981); (2) a 1.5 per­ cent income tax on part­ nerships, trusts, and sob- chapter S corporations; and (3) a 0.8 percent tax on the invested capital of utilities. IMlHE. DROUGHT GISNT... LOOKING WATER? EAIH R WALSH t JACK WALSH INS. flu Auto Form lit* Representing RFIIASU COMPANIES 4410 W li. 110 McHenry MS ISM DENNIS CONWAY AUTO LIFE Fill State Fan Ins. Co. 33HW dm McHenry HI M S ; I H JAMES M. MclNTEE. LAWYER AVAILABLE TO PRACTICE IN: Personal ln|wry/Trials Business Corporation* Will* 'Probata DIvorcaRoalEstate Workman's Compensation 14M W. Elm Street McHaary. Illinois For appointment phono: MS 2440 OR LEONARD BOnARt 1303 Richmond Rd.-McHenry Eyas examined-Contact Lansas Classas fitted AAon., Toas.. Thurs. Fri. 4-4pm Twos.. 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