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J PAGE 3 - PLAINDEALER - WEDNESDAY, MAY 1«, 1OT4 Cliff Ward Drivers license renewal day a great adventure I have resigned from the ranks of the scofflaws. After living in the fair state of Illinois for a mere 17 months, I finally became a licensed Land of Lincoln driver. I was, until recently, a licensed driver in Indiana, even though I knew full well that new fflinoisans must receive a license within 30 days of estabHshingresidency. But I had been busy this last year-and-a-balf and never got around to stopping by the secretary of state's office until the day after my birthday, when I realized I didn't have a valid license anywhere anymore. Anyway, I have always been somewhat intimidated by the driver's license procedure. I remember the long Saturday mornings my 15-year-old self spent in driver's education class staring at a cute blond freshman and listening to the high school football coach tell us about aiming high when steering and the '64 Dodge Charger he had in high school. I recalled cramming for the driver's test, probably studying harder for that one test than any other I have taken before or since, and the anxiety of having to parallel park for a humorless examiner who called me "Clifford" throughout the proceedings. Tliis time around I stopped by the license bureau and grabbed "The Rules of the Road," the booklet designed to help you pass the Illinois test, and went back to the office and looked it over while some of the reporters quizzed me on driving. "What does an unbroken white line mean?" one asked. "If you see a yellow pennant-shaped sign, what should that tell you?" another posed. "Danger, Cub fans ahead," I mumbled. Despite missing a few, I studied for 30 minutes and decided to wing it. I walked into the office and proceeded with the standard battery of questions, which were ad­ ministered by a good-natured, middle-aged gentleman named George, who gently ribbed me throughout the entire episode after finding out I was a Hoosier. "Well you dummy," he told me as he looked at my old, expired license, "you're going to have to take the driving test." Oh boy, I thought. He produced the standard Illinois bureaucratic-looking form. "Are you prone to the shakes, fainting or memory loss?" he asked. "Never outside a tavern," I answered proudly. After a few more questions, he filled out the form and signed it at the bottom. "Look at this and make sure all the information is correct," George said. I glanced at the sheet. "Are you sure this is the right way you spell your name?" I said. Satisfied that George had indeed spelled his name correctly, I passed the vision test and sat down to take the written exam, which consisted of identifying road signs, some multiple guess and true-false questions and several ominous inquiries about drinking and driving. Ten minutes later I handed George my exam, which, it turned out, contained only one incorrect response. "You took some pretty good guesses," he said. We wandered outside to my means of locomotion, an extremely battered Chevy, one of the last of the great Detroit gas-guzzlers. A true dinosaur. However, for the purposes of the test, only signals and lights need to be working. "Where's your front license plate?" George asked. "It's in the trunk," I said. "Hiere's no place to put it on the front end of the car." George said something under his breath about Indiana that I didn't quite catch and we hit the road, where I was expected to make stops, turns, execute uphill and downhill parking maneuvers, make a three-point turnaround and tackle Woodstock's vehicular monument to Murphy's Law-the dreaded six-way stop intersection at Illinois 47 and 120. "You'll notice I didn't take my eyes off the road when we passed that nice looking blond," I said, hoping to curry favor as we motored past an attractive woman waiting her dog. "What blond?" George said. He wasn't buying any of it. Back at the office, George said I had made some mistakes, such as not signalling before the second point of the three-point turnaround. I vowed to remember those points in the future as we walked inside. I sat down to have my mug shot taken as George wished me luck on his way out the door, his day concluded. A few minutes later the license was done. Outside, the dinosaur stubbornly roared into life and I legally wheeled home. BODY TALK from NAUTILUS Real estate tax bills being mailed this week By Angel* Burden Plaindealer news service Real estate tax bills were mailed Friday from the treasurer's office at the McHenry County Courthouse. The first installment on property taxes will be due June 12, with the final installment payable by Sept. 7, according to the treasurer's office. Tax bills should be received by taxpayers within the next few days. Failure of the taxpayer to receive a bill does not affect the liability for payment. ^ ^ McHenry County Treasurer Gary Verdung announced the total amount charged for 1983 taxes is $80,909,650, compared to 180,055,042 lor 1982. Tax bills mailed Friday are for the 1983 tax year. "Tax levels for our county have moderated a great deal for this year. Very few tax districts experienced increases," Ver­ dung said. He explained that because of necessary changes, tax bills now include a self- addressed return envelope. Verdung said that mail payment procedures remain the same. The entire tax bill must be mailed with the payment to insure proper return of receipt, he said. According to Verdung, people who age 65 on or before Jan. 1, 1983, are entitled to the elderly exemption if they lived in their residence on that date. If persons believe they qualify for this exemption of $1,500, they should contact the McHenry County Supervisor of Assessments at (815)-338-2040 as soon as possible before tax paymejit. Verdung said the treasurer's office has a tax bill information telephone service. County arrests driver for DUI arrests Sheriff's police reported observing a southbound vehicle cross to the opposite lane on Chapel Hill Road, McHenry, and turn to Lincoln Road, continuing in the wrong lane early Sunday morning. After stopping the vehicle, its driver, Gregory Sallaz, 27, 4708 Oakwood Drive, McHenry, was arrested on charges of driving under the influence and improper lane usage. Bond is set at $3,050 for a June 19 court hearing. Early deadlines The McHenry Plaindealer will resume a holiday schedule for delivery of news stories this coming week. Because Memorial Day will be officially observed on Monday, May 28, deadlines will need to be set ahead for the first issue of that week. 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