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THE "Strviai Th« Chaia-O-Lakes RegUa Slice 1875" Volume 85 -- No. 47 -- 4 Sections McHENRY, ILLINOIS. THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1960 22 Pages -- 10c Per Copy YOUNG FATHER DIES AFTER CRASH idL' t» It may not be spring for you and roe, but for youngsters, the date March 20 his a real meaning, whether or not weather indicates that it has arrived Tuesday found two kite flying enthusiasts, and their pet dog trudging through the snow in a vacant lot in the city, trusting on a strong wind to carry the kite aloft. The greatest threat to our country in the minds of every voters' league member and other civic-minded organisations is apathy on the part of the citizen old enough to cast his vote. It is this very apathy which t h e McHenry K i w a n i s c l u b hopes to counteract by a vigor, ous program which they will be starting this year and continuing long into the future. Last Friday we attended a very interesting meeting of chairmen of the committee named to carry out the 1960 theme, "Freedom is up to You" and found that it is more than a name locally -- it is an enthusiastic undertaking by which Kiwanis hopes to create a desire on the part of the public to learn more about government at all levels, and to get out on election day and support the men and issues felt to be in th« ljest interest of the greatest number of people. An ideal situation where 100 per cent of eligible voters go to the polls has long been sought by farsighted individuals who treasure the privileges which am ours as Americans. Our local club hopes eventually to stimulate sufficient interest among all people and ill organizations so that some of this idealism may become a reality. In view of the small pereentage of votero who go to the polls and the lack of interest on the part of many who do, this is a big task in its initial stages. Only the enthusiastic dreams of a handful of people who have faith in their fellowmen to follow a program wh'.ch is for everyone's good ean make it successful. In a comparatively short history, the dreams of others, through the yean, have proven this fa^th Is not unfound- Rotary Boosts Swimming Pool It will be interesting to almost everyone to see the population ehange in Illinois which will be measured by the eighteenth decennial census starting in April. Questionnaires are being mailed out this week. Our own state, with 8,712,176 inhabitants in 1950, ranked fourth among the states in population. Its total when the first population count was made in 1800 was 2,458. What many may not know is that when Illinois was organized as a territory in 1809, it comprised all of the present state of Illinois, almost all of Wisconsin and parts of Michigan and Minnesota. In 1808 that portion lying within the present boundaries of Illinois (Continued on page 8) ECONOMIST TO ADDRESS THREE ORGANIZATIONS Kotalik Studio Photo The above pioture was taken at the McHenry Rotary club meeting last week when President "Doc" Fike presented Earl Walsh, treasurer of the McHenry Swimming Pool Fund, a substantial check as notary's boost to the swimming pool project. Several organizations have made donations to the fund while others are planning events to benefit the project. PERSONAL PROPERTY SCHEDULES TO BE HAILED BY ASSESSOR IN APRIL; OFFER HUNG ASSISTANCE COUPLE FOUND "NQT GUILTY" IN SUIT OVER QUARREL A verdict of "not guilty" was returned by a jury In session last week hearing the suit of Carl Perrino, Sr., of Eastwood Manor subdivision^ §gainstMr4 and Mrs. Elmer Borcovan also of that subdivision. Judgement was asked of $2,000. The case resulted from a quatrel between the children of the two families, Carl Perrino, Jr., 10, and David Borcovan, which occurred last Sept. 8. As the lads quarrelled, Mrs. Borcovan sought to intervene, and Perrino claimed that in so doing his son was struck and beat, resulting in a substantial medical bill. INTRODUCE GOP CANDIDATES AT MEETING TONIGHT A get-acquainted meeting* with Republican candidates for federal, state, county and local offices will be held on Thursday, March 24, at 7:30 p.m. at the Woodstock V.F.W. post home, 240 N. Throop street, Rt. 14, Woodstock. Charles "Chuck" Miller, chairman of the county Republican Central committee, will be in charge and will give eaqh candidate a limited time to state his qualifications and the reason he feels he should be nominated for the office he seeks. The Central Republican committee's women's club, headed by Irma Wells of Harvard, will have charge of refreshments. * All are invited to attend this open meeting. DISCUSS ELECTION Pictured above are Governor and Mrs. William G. Stratton and Frank Homola of Fox Raver Grove, vicechairman of the G.O.P. Central committee, who are shown informally discussing the governor's bid for re-election at a get-acquainted meeting held at the V.F.W. post home in Woodstock last Friday. About 200 county residents were present to greet the governor. Starting April .1, as in past years, Lester Bacon, McHenry township assessor, will start mailing personal property schedules to each business and each Individual in the township. A letter will accompany the schedule, explaining what days and dates and also jtfre location to report for aid in filing these sehedules.^-^^- - Many taxpayers may know that the assessment date on real estate has been changed from April 1 to Jan. 1, beginning this year. Mr. Bacon has been busy assessing new homes and new additions, garages and other improvements in the township since the first of the year. After April 1, Mr. Bacon will call on each farmer in the township to fill out the agricultural statistical report for the state of Illinois and at the same time aid farmers in filing personal property schedules. Offers Assistance The assessor's office, located at 203 W. John street, McHenry, will be open eattfi day, Monday to Friday, inclusive, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. during the months of April and May for the purpose of assisting township taxpayers. He, or an assistant, will be at the Wonder Lake firehouse from 1 to 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 4, to Friday, April 8, inclusive, and at the Johnsburg public school from 1 to 4:30 p.m. from April 11 through April 15. Schedules may be returned by mail, and husband or wife may file a schedule jointly or separately, as preferred. Mr. Bacon points out that the most important items on individual personal property schedules are No. 1, automobiles; No 2, trucks, trailers, buses; No. 7, household furniture and furnishings; No. 15. boats and airplanes, and other personal property. Dog licenses outside of cities or villages are purchased from the assessor. McHENRY TO BE VISITED TODAY BY DEM CANDIDATES The McHenry County Democratic Central committee announced that today, March 24, the Democratic state candidate for governor, Judge Otto Kerner, and for lieuterient governor, State Representative Samuel Shapiro, will be in McHenry county. They will arrive at the court house in Woodstock between 10 and 10:30, and will enjoy a coffee hour at the Legion home in McHenry from 10:50 to 11:20, after which they will proceed to other parts of the county. The public is invited to meet these candidates when they visit MlHenry. : A very important meeting of. the McHenry Chamber of Commerce, the McHenry Rotary club and the. McHenry Kiwanis club is being planned " for Thursday, March 31, at the Legion home at noon. Guest speaker for the luncheon meeting will be Dr. Frederic C. Jelen, an engineerturned- economist, who will address the audience on the basic cause and effect factors which create inflation. A lively question-and-answer period is scheduled to follow Dr. Jelen's talk in which there is expected to be deep interest and lively curiosity as to what can be done about inflation. With anecdotes and illustrative techniques, he will present the need for understanding the threat that inflation represents to all citizens. Holder of a Ph.D. from the Harvard graduate school of arts and sciences. Dr. Jelen's background and training fully qualify him as an authoritative speaker. This three-organization meeting is the first of its kind to be held locally, giving a large number of citizens an opportunity to hear a fine speaker. SIX FILE Snowdrifts Fail To Stop Stork Although snow drifts were piled high, the impatient stork couldn't wait and he signalled the impending arrival of a seven pound, six ounce boy for a local mother-to-be, March 16. Mrs. Richard Madock, 114 Meadow, Pistakee Highlands, was rushed by automobile to, McHenry hospital. Although} there is no maternity depa rty ment at this hospital as yet, it was the closest facility--and minutes were important. Following delivery of the Madocks' fourth boy, mother and baby were transferred to Memorial hospital, Woodstock. This was the seventh emergency birth at McHenry hospital in the past twenty months. Because of the increasing need for a maternity department, the hospital's board of directors included a complete unit in the plans for the eighteenbed building. This will include a delivery room, labor rooms, a nursery with fourteen bassinets, and a maternity ward. The current fund raising drive for $200,000 is being held to help pay for the cost of this expansion. Early returns reported by a few of the campaigners last week have started the pledge total upward and it is approaching the $20,000 mark. Vacancies In Two Districts Create Interest Some excitement is expected at the polls when school board members are elected in the two McHenry districts on Saturday. 'April 9. The last day for filing petitions was Saturday, and the names of two new candidates, one in each district, were made known at that time, Peter M. "Bud" Lieser of Johnsburg was the last to file for High School Board. No. 156. Previously. Donald Weingart had filed to seek the vacancy created by the decision of Francis Wirtz not to run for re-election. Vale Adams, the other member whose term expires, has filed for re-election, which makes a three-way race for the two seats on the board. For the first time this year, there will be seven polling places. In District 15 (grade school), Vernon Ehredt of Lilymoor filed his petition last week. Also in the race for positions on this board are August Uttieli. who is running for the first time, and Naomi Meyer, who has been a member for several years. Dr. H. S. Fike will not seek re-election, leaving three in the contest for two places on the board. Voting will take place in four precincts the locations to bt named in a future issue. Rotary Sports Banquet April 5 Saturday, March .26,, is the last day for sports enthusiasts to purchase tickets for the fifth annual sports banquet sponsored by the McHenry Rotary club, to be held Tuesday, April 5, at 7 p.m. in the high school cafeteria. The banquet Will honor members of the basketball team and wrestling squad, as well as their coaches and the enthusiastic cheerleaders who have keep the spirif of players and the crowd high throughout the past season. Guest speaker will be Ray Eliot, assistant director of athletics at the University of Illinois. He retired from acti\-e coaching Jan. 1 after twentyeight years of service, twentythree of which were at his alma mater, Illinois. A crowd of between 250 and 300 is expected to enjoy dinner and an interesting program. , All varsity players will receive individual awards in recognition of their efforts on behalf of their teams. Special awards include one to the basketball player who has the best percentage of free throws attempted and completed and to the boy voted outstanding wrestler of the year. Tickets may be purchased at the Plaindealer office, at the high school or at the offices of Earl R. Walsh. Stoffel & Reihansperger Insurance, Mark's Sporting Goods or Vycital's Hardware. VACANT HOUSE BURNS TO GROUND ON SHERMAN HILL A vacant house near the McHenry Sand & Gravel company headquarters on Sherman hill, west of the city, burned to the ground about 6 o'clock Monday morning. The cause of the flames could not be determined, but it is believed possible that a discarded cigarette might have been responsible since young people had been using the house as a shelter while skiing on the nearby hill. When the fire was discovered by a passerby, it had gained such headway that the structure could not be saved. Firemen were called and worked to protect sheds nearby. SEVERAL HURT IN ACCIDENTS DURING WEEK Several people suffered injuries, but none too serious, in accidents which occurred this past week. James W. Thomas, 17, of Spring was driving south on Rt. 31 and was making a left turn when his car swerved into the path of an auto driven west-bound on Rt. 12 by Mary Markus of Chicago, whose husband, Franklin, was a passenger. The Markus auto was slow- .(Cootiaucd on Pag« 8X COUNCIL TO ROLE QH ZONING CHANGE FG8„ PARKING LOT The City Council has not yet received a recommend a t i o n from the McHenry -zoning board of appeals concerning action to be taken regarding a request of "Mark" Markeson for a variation in zoning of two lots in the rear of Mark's Marine Center at 205 W. Elm street. Mr. Markeson had asked for the variation to provide parking space near his business, and contends that the action would alleviate a parking problem in that area. A number of objectors, mostly residents of' that neighborhood. appeared at the hearing last Friday to object for the reason that any variation would only increase congestion in that area. The public will await with interest the ruling by the Council. SOLFISBURG WINNER ON FIRST BALLOT Justice Davis Turns Support To Scheineman More than 500 delegates attended the G.O.P. convention held in Freeport Monday of this week, resulting in the election of Circuit Judge Roy J. Solfisburg, Jr., 43. of Aurora as Republican candidate for the Illinois Supreme court seat from the sixth district. He was elected on the first ballot, getting 216 and 121-500ths votes to 174 and 165-500ths for August Scheineman of Sterling. Only 195 and 144-500ths votes, a simple majority of the convention voting strength, were required to win. Solfisburg had the support of Kane, Kendall, DeKalb and McHenry counties, as well as western Whiteside county and half of the eastern Ogle county vote. Justice Charles H. Davis of Rock ford was the first incumbent in the district ever to be defeated in a bid for a second nomination. He had served since 1954, when he won on the fifty-third ballot. Many of Davis' supporters turned to Scheineman when the former took his name out of consideration. . 33. POLICE SEEK MAN FOR ASSAULT ON WIFE AND FATHER McHenry police have been seeking the Whereabouts of a Lilymoor man who assaulted his wife and her father in the latter's home on Crescent avenue. Country Club subdivision, last Weekend. The older man signed a complaint with police officers after telling them that his sonin- law entered his house, where the wife had been staying, and struck them. They suffered only minor injuries. STEAL COIN BOX A coin box was taken from the phone booth at the intersection of Rt. 120 and the Johnsburg road sometime Monday night. The sheriff's office has been investigating. One of the most tragic highway accidents of the winter in this area took the life of Murray Alford, young father of three, last weekend. He died in McHenry hospital Saturday morning, March 19. less than a day after the collision of his car with a dump truck near Lakemoor. He suffered a skull fracture and other injuries in the crash, which left his car a twisted mass of wreckage. The 33-year-old man, who had lived at Eastwood Manor with his family for the past two and one-half years, was enroute home from work as an IBM operator for the Brunning company in Mount Prospect, where he was employed nights. According to state police, he lost control of his car on Rt. 120, about 500 feet from the Lakemoor village line. The west-bound auto left the road and on returning travelled into the path of a truck driven by Milutin D. Miloshevich of N. Green Bay road, Waukegan, who was east-bound. The latter escaped unhurt. Alford was taken to McHenry hospital, where his condition was described' as critical. Death occurred about 3 o'clock Saturday morning in spite of all efforts to save him. Survivors include his widow, Marion; two daughters, Kathy, 6, and Karen, 4, and a son, Murray, jr., 2. Alford was a member of St. Patrick's Catholic church, where services were held Monday morning. Before that time, the body was at rest at the George Justen & Son funeral home. Kotalik Studio Photo Edward Justen, at left, and William Buchert, right, examine the twisted mass of wreckage which was once the auto of Murray Jay Alford, 33 of Eastwood Manor. The young father died about 3 o'clock Saturday morning. in McHenry hospital of Injuries suffered near Lakemoor about 12:30 Friday afternoon when he lost control of the car and it plunged into the side of a truck. PUBLIC INVITED TO NON-PARTISAN CANDIDATES' MEETING PLANNED BY VOTERS' LEAGUE FOR MARCH 28 .(Continued on Page SJk, The League of Women Voters of Woodstock-McHenry. will hold a non-partisan candidates' meeting Monday, March 28. from 7:30 to 10 p.m. at the Clarence Olsen school, Woodstock. All candidates on the Republican and Democratic ballots for the offices of congressional representative for the 14th district, state senator for the 52nd district, state representative for the 32nd district, McHenry county state's attorney, coroner, circuit clerk, and convention delegates from the "i4th district and their alternate delegates have been invited to attend. A good response from the candidates has been received." Opportunity For Voters A candidates' meeting gives voters the opportunity to hear from the same platform the men and women who are seeking the same office. It also gives candidates the chance to reach people outside their own political parties. The League, as a recognized non-partisan organization wfiich never endorses or opposes candidates, is peculiarly well qualified to render this service. Each political candidate has been invited to speak for a specified time. A question period will provide further speaking time. Convention delegates and alternates will be introduced from the floor. A coffee hour at the conclusion of the meeting will permit further contact berween voters and aanriiriattfa. Junior Citizens Are Naturalized Board Briefs At a meeting of High School Board, No. 156, held TXiesday of this week, a letter 'was read from the Illinois Association of School Boards, in which that organization recommended to the board that it postpone further action in regard to fire safety until the office of the superintendent of public instruction issues a booklet on the subject. At the meeting, board members voted a 5 per cent increase for non-certified employees. Three small children, two of them members of a McCullom Lake family, were declared U n i t e d S t a t e s c i t i z e n s l a s t week in an impressive ceremony before District Judge Julius H. Miner 'in Chicago. The two little Okinawan girls, A new precinct was established at Island Lake, bringing the total number of polling places in the April 9 election to four. • In the athletic department, the board rejected a request to increase the amount given coaches in each sport. The board did O.K. a request from the McHenry Model Airplane club to use the football field this summer. Supt. Carl Buckner told the board that he had asked Athletic Director Leonard Mc- Cracken to get necessary information for building tennis courts. Remember to fill out census forms which were sent out this week. ALBERTA AND ROBERTA Alberta Susan, 6, and Roberta Judith, 5, are the daughters of John C. and Ethel Fox. The couple adopted the youngsters while Colonel Fox was stationed on the island in 1956. The other boy was adopted by an army major and his wife while stationed in Germany. The children were among 200 persons who were naturalized. but they were the first Okinawan children to be so processed. At the end of his tour, Colonel Fox retired from active duty and established permanent residence at 72S .^Continued on Paga 8J>