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Thnndar. May its? PLA1NDEALER i Spring Grave W. By Mrs. Charles and Mrs. Kattner cfelebrAttheir silver wedding a few weeks previous to the actual date so that their son, Bill, who was home on furlough, could be present. A gathering of relatives and friends was held at St. Peter's parish hall on Wednesday night. Approximately 200 guests were present to enjoy a supper served at 6 o'clock, which was followed by an evening of dancing. Mrs. K)ptner wore a royal blue dress and had a beautiful orchid corsage. Bridesmaids who were present also wore* corsages. Many lovely gifts were presented to Mr. and Mrs. Kattner. We extend our congratulations and wish them many more happy anniversaries. Members of her club met at the home of Mrs. Math Nimsgern on Thursday afternoon. Games of five-hundred were played and T^lees went to Mrs. William Britz, Mrs. John Smith, Mrs. Peter May, Mrs. Math Nimsgern and Mrs. George Huff. A lovely lunch was served following cards. Pupils of English Prairie school and the eighth grade of the public school enjoyed a trip to Chicago on Wednesday of last week. They traveled by bus and visited such places of interest as the 4£uarium, Museum of Science and Industry and Historical building. Students of the Senior class of Burton-Richmond high school all piled in the bus on Thursday 'morning and headed for the Ozafks. While enroute they intend to stop at Springfield and other cities of interest. Members of the Christian Mothers sodality and Children of \90giry and some of the mothers of children ' attending St. Peter's , school enjoyed a pot-luck supper L at St. Peter's Parish Hall on I Thursday night. Plans were discussed and arrangements made for "the school picnic which will be held on June 10 at Fox Biver Park, Wilmot, Wis. There were also services in church at which time new members were installed in the Christian Mothers sodality. They were Prances Kochs, Frances McNally, Jean Lay, Josephine Hines, Elaine Etten and Margaret McDevitt. Mr. and Mrs. George Sanders < and family spent the weekend i with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. > Bolts, in Alleghan, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Kattner y-drove their son, Bill, to Midway Airport in Chicago on Sunday rg^rning where he boarded a \>i*ne for North Carolina. Bill is now stationed at Camp Lejeune. Mrs. Nell Hawkins of Casa Orande, Ariz., is visiting her sister, Mrs. Belle Isakaon, in the home of Mrs. Alice Wagner. This community was grieved to hear of the death of Fred Shotliff, who passed away at Woodstock Hospital on Friday following a lingering illness. Funeral: services were held at Ehorn funeral home on Monday afternoon. Burial was at Coles Cemetery. Jack Sanborn, who is now at Fort Sheridan, spent the weekend with his parents. He expects to leave for Virginia this week. Funeral services for Nick Klein were held at St. Peter's church Saturday morning. It was fortunate that his son, Edward, was able to be present as he was already on the gang plank boarding a ship for Alaska when he received word of the death of his father. Quite a few relatives from Iowa and Minnesota were also present at the funeral. Interment was in St. Peter's cemetery. Our heartfelt sympathy is expended his bereaved family. . ^ RE-EXAMINE 611 ILLINOIS MEN; DURING JUNE Re-examination of CL1 Illinois Selective Service registrants now in Class IV-F for mental reasons ortly will take place during June, it was announced by Colonel Paul G. Armstrong, state director of Selective Service, So far this year, 1,269 mental IV-F 'a have been ordered re-examined and about one-third have been found acceptable by the armed forces. Colonel Armstrong said those to be re-examiAed will be men previously found unacceptable for service solely because of failure to meet minimum intelligence standards. Any found acceptable under the lower standards set by Congress in the 1951 amendments to the Selective Service law will be reclassified out of IV-F, he m Classified Ads WiU Do Aimer Anything Too Ask Them To Do! Jby W. H. Tammeoft New York is easier and quicker to get into than Chicago and is easier to get around in. Believe it or not, I drove from 57th and 5th avenue on Manhatten to the army base, 58th and 2nd avenue Brooklyn, a distance of at least ten miles in fifteen minutes. I drove Capt. Richard Vycital's car (of McHenry) to New York to the N. Y. port of embarkation to ship to him in France, where he is stationed as £$ army surgeon with the U. S. Air Force. The car was delivered safely Monday to the Army in Brooklyn. We had a very interesting trip, leaving Woodstock Friday, May 16, at 7 a.m, and arrived in Pittsburg at 8 p.m., a distance of 540 miles. After visiting with relatives in Pittsburg on Saturday we came from Pittsburg to New York Sunday from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m distance of 337 miles in Sunday traffic. We spent an hour at Valley Forge, Pa., where Washington and his troops almost starved to death one winter, froze their feet and hands and in general had a rough time. The D. A. R. built ft memorial chapel here and a carillon of forty-eight bells, one donated by each state. Illinois has the largest bell, which doesn't get hit very often because not very many pieces the old lady plays' has that low a note. We traveled through wonderful farming country in Indiana, Ohio, and New Jersey but we certainly didn't see any of the good farm land in Pennsylvania. The turnpike doesn't go through any of it that I saw. While inspecting Conemaugh Dam north of Pittsburgh with my brother-in-law, who has the supervision of flood control work in the Pittsburg area, we stopped to see an alfalfa patoh. Every «tl*r stem was tttwwd With spittle taf froth, tt fpfeeani it will be a complete lo4S. Speaking of dams, we went through this huge structure which is 160 feet through at the base and about 150 feet high. ,It has three tunnels clear through its length of about 500 feet across the river and an elevator to get to the different levels. The lowest level is about 20 feet below the river bed. Concrete goes down . 70 feet below the river bed to bid rock. In the lowest tunnel there are holes three inches in diameter every 6 feet running clear to the bottom, which will later be filled with grout. They are left to let off the pressure otherwise the whole dam may be lifted. He showed us the site of a whole town that was moved out. Just the streets are left. There will eventually be 30 feet of water over this area. It's better to have 30 feet of water here than in the streets of Pittsburg like there was in 1936. Here, 30 per cent of the world's steel is made on the banks of the Monongahela and Allegany rivers and the Ohio, which they form right in the midst of town. There are thirty locks and dams in the Pittsburg area. Since 1758, when the earliest Ohio river traffic was started, and whiskey the chief thing' transported, most of the river traffic that developed the west came through this gap in the Allegan)* mountains. Whiskey was needed, history says, to keep the men going who braved the hardships of fighting Indians and sleeping at night on wet ground. men they Were warmed on the inside only. Now with modem conveniences including heating of homes and building he is warmed on the outside as well as inside. Over 9 per cent of the total water borne commerce of the U. S. moves in the Pittsburg area including coast and great lakes traffic. More tonnage, consisting chiefly of coal and coke, moves through Lock 3 on the Monongahela than on any navigable waterway in the world with the probable exception of the Panama Canal. A major flood 4here would and has stopped steel production, with millions of dollars of damage to the steel industry both in stopped production and damage to production facilities. The flood of 1936 was at a record stage of 46 feet, 30 feet above normal and 21 feet above flood stage. Business and industry was at a standstill for two weeks, with an estimated loss of $200,- 000,000. Other floods occurred in 1907, IMS and 1M7. With the present tacilities, including the Conemaugh reservoir, the 1936 flood would have been reduced by approximately twothirds with an estimated $12,000,- 000 in damage instead of that experienced. This entire area is not subject 'to farming hazards because there is no farming to speak of in this area. Most of the land is heavily wooded. Well, so much for Pittsburg flood control. Mr. Bell and the men he has trained to give us phone service certainly have developed one of the miracles of the world. As we neared Pittsburg, my wife stepped to a phone in a suburb oil station and with* a dime and fifteen seconds this simple little instrument on the wall ferreted out her sister among several million people and were able to tell her we had arrived. When you get to thinking how smart you are, just think of the fellows who designed and developed our present phone system and be humble. DR, HENRY FREUND OPTOMETRIST \ V At 136 S. Green Street, McHenry (Closed Thursday Afternoons) o- -- ITES EXAMINED -- GLASSES FITTED YiSrAL TRAINING -- VISUAL REHABILITATES COMPLETE VISUAL ANALYSIS HOURS DAILY : 9 to 12 A. X. aad 1 to S P. M. FRIDAY EVENINGS: 6:00 to 8sS0 P. M. EVENINGS BY APPOINTMENT PHONE McHENRY* 452 flaytex Baby Prodtctt Wattles Drag MeHenry IIL Oil OM Lows If you took a lion to (he in Baltimore last week or backwards in Devon, Conn., you violated a law that neiflier m nor the communities intdfed «vtr: knew existed. e* i' I* '. . +WASHES UKEEHAMEC Brighten up with Marlon! Colors are styled to meet the interior decorating trend. YouH like the soft velvet finish that--"Washes Lil^e Entmel"! Easily, applied •.. dries ijt one hour% V Y C I T A L ' S HARDWARE GREEN STREET PHONE SHEET METAL 8 8 McHENRY, GIGANTIC WATER HEATER SALE openJnuse •ff m !?<: [Wafer Heater, Welcome Home, Sergeant ! \ Sergeant Donald Mclntyre, former telephone in- ~^italler, recently returned from Korea where he served" with thp 1st Marine Division. Ue was twice awarde4 ^the Purple Heart. He i9 coming back to his job at Illinois Bell. In a her tain sense, he has never been away. For more than yist his "old job" is waiting for him. He will also Receive the regular wage increases that would have 'Iteen reflected in his pay check had he continued as Jnstaller and not been called into the service. There are some 700 other Illinois Bell men now > service who will receive a similar welcome home from us! Whmn you want HiH Mclntyros are a telephone family a Coleman assures you heaps of hot water through Jet Recovery action. Come In and see the glamorous, low-cost Master lfodsls in 30 and 30 gallon size* 20 CW. - 1 Tr. W: For Natural Gm * Only $74.95 VYCITAL'S HDWE. SHEET METAL SHOP IS* 8. \Green St. ftcHemy PHONE tt The Sergeant's late father was an Illinois Bell man lor 35 years. His mother is a former telephone Operator. And his brother Angus and sister Mary |H)W work for the company in Chicago. | - Do many other Illinois Bell employees, like the ,&ergeant, have "kinfolk" in the company? They do -- 5,478 of them! , When so many people recommend a business to ,flieir relatives, they must be convinced it offers fair Jreatment, good wagea and real opportunity. HLIIIIf IELI TELOMIE COMMIT HARNISCHFEOER CORPORATION invites you TO SEB THE NEW PLANT OF THE DIESEL ENGINE DIVISION 500 South Main Street/ Crystal Lako, Illinois " Saturday/ Juno 7, from 2 o'clock in the afternoon Come ... be our guest . . . join us on this happy occasion as we officially open our modem, new Crystal Lake plant. * There's a full afternoon planned for you and your family with many Interesting things to see and do. There will be plant tours ... movies Of power shovels and other P&H machines in operation, important projects... exhibits... demonstrations. There will be refreshments, too. For the mechanically inclined, we will show how P&H Diesel Engines are built and how they operate. There will be guides to show you around -- experts to answer your questions and help in every way to make your afternoon enjoyable and educational. As part of the large nationwide family of Harnischfeger Corporation ^workers, we extend a hearty welcome to you and your family. We hope you can come. Remember the date... Saturday, June 7, starting at 2 p.m., rain or shine. , ? . *«"' vLvr 1 * -: ?• 1 • ' * : j * v;: p&H 1 DIESEL DIVISION \ CRYSTAL LAKE, ILLINOIS HARNISCHFEGER Corporation h