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McHenry Plaindealer (McHenry, IL), 19 May 1960, p. 21

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Page Twenty-Two THEMcOQfttY ihWijif, tiay il i3* place. There was a meeting all right, but it was the Girl Scout's v\>eekly get-together! Holiday Hills BEACH COMMITTEE C&TS SWIMMING Woman's Club Meets SEASON UNDERWAY i About thirty Women were Rita Oleyar • EV. 5-476S j ^resent for a most informative The beach committee got the I960 swimming season underlay with a bang when it met Monday night. May 9. at the Sunset Drive home of the chairman Chadie Ary. Plans were made for a general weedpulling and cleanup at. the beaches for Saturday and Sunday, May 21 and 22. Volunteers are urgently needed as the job would be too much for the few people on the committee. Anytime during these two days your help will be much appreciated. Remember, if we want clean, attractive beaches to swim from this summer, it's up to us to make them that way. ' entertaining; program when the Woman's club held its regular monthly meeting Wednesday evening. May 11, at St. John's Lutheran church. The girls watched a demonstration of bow tying for gift packages. Hostesses for the evening's refreshments were Pat Arendt. Abby Emerson, Kay McWilliams and Phyllis Harper. Next month's program will feature that annual favorite "robber bingo" so dig out your white elephants, girls! INSTALLATION OF PTA BRINGS SEASON TO END Will Fni-chase Beach Equipment " "Hie committee also drew up a list of essentails needed to flequip the beaches for safety: These include life-saving equipment, ropes and floats which will be strung across the water to keep boats out and youngsters within a safe distance. The Woman's Club has turned over to the committee a fund of money left over from the swimming lesson registrations last summer. In addition, the club has donated a sum of thirty-five dollars to help with expenses. Three beaches will be equipped -- the lake beach at Personal Notes Bob and Dolly Schmuefil have moved out of their house on Sunset drive to live on a| farm on Dowell road. It's al- ; ways been a dream of theirs to open a riding stable. Dolly has been riding instructor at a local stable. When last heard from, there were four horses on the farm. Ellen Erickson is mighty proud of her eleven-year-old granddaughter who took top honors for french horn in a state-wide competition. The E r i c k s o n g r a n d c h i l d r e n a r e frequent summertime visitors to Holiday Hills. Hal and Gerry Breede, Loretta and Ted Oszkandy and Elm and Earline Mettelks enjoyed a night of dining and Hickory street, the River Bend dancing when their husbands' geach at the foot of Holiday bcwling league held an end-ofdrive, and the South River the-season banquet. Beach on Riverview drive. „ 1 Don't Forget the Dance! Here's hoping you all plan to attend the association dance Saturday, June 11, at the Wauconda American Legion hall. You may buy your ticket from anyone on the committee or at the hall that, evening. 1 Swimming Instructor Needed The Woman's club will again sponsor swimming lessons for all ages sometime during the summer months. Registrations were taken at the meeting on May 11 on a tentative basis. However, the club is unable to 'obtain the services of last year's instructor and is looking for another. If you know 'of anyone who is qualified to "teach swimming, please contact Mrs. Ary at Evergr§e» 5- 4098. ENEMY OF CORN Indications are that Stewart's disease probably will destroy more corn and occur much farther north in Illinois this summer than during the two . , , previous summers. The predic- TTie ,le s,s ,o ns were extr,e mely I i tion comes from nu . uH . Boewe, : successful last year, and were well worth the small fee -charged. It is hoped that even "more children will participate this summer, thus keeping the :fee within the range of every- :one. With the Cob Scouts ^ Loretta Oszkandy, Doris : Filip, Earline Mettelka, Josefphine Janik, Arlene Hill find •Helen Larie attended a moth- " ec-son dinner April 27 at the Country club sponsored by pack 362. \ Tuesday night-May 10. Arlcfte H^'S^hqstess to the entire deft* «omftiittee, including n^tt)er$',fraia a}1 the dens jn the' 'Iff'-^aSuition to . tlje packmaster and his assistant. Sterns that two of the visiting dfin mothers became a little oonfused on our night time roads, and burst into a house with an "H" on the door, where a meeting seemed to be taking associate botanist of the Illinois Natural History Survey, a E^§earch agency of the state Department of Registration and Education. "The two principal types of damage produced by Stewart's disease are an early-season will and death of the young corn plants, especially of sweet corn, and a lateseason leaf blight which may cause premature death of plants," Boewe said.' George Dasons New Co-Presidents Of Organization Highlighting a year of a c h i e v e m e n t , - t h e M c H e n r y Community Parent Teacher association held its annual officers' installation banquet at the McHenry Country7 club Wednesday evening, May 11. Mr. and Mrs. George Dason, McCullom Lake, were installed as the new co-presidents. Mr. Dason is a Chicago executive and formerly taught in the local grade school. Mrs. Dason is a Chicago businesswoman. They have three children and have resided in the McHenry community for six years. The new co-presidents were installed by Mrs. Charles Peterson. Pistakee Bay, a local grade school board member and a former P.T.A. co-president. Mrs. Peterson twelve years apo sparked the founding of the local P.T.A. Also installed were Mr. and Mrs. Edward Mars, co-first vice-presidents; Mr. and Mrs. Al Schurer, co-second vicepresidents; Mrs. Jane Weiss, secretary and Mrs. Dorothy Weichmann, treasurer. In his remarks reviewing the year's accomplishments, August Uttich, Lakeland Park, retiring P.T.A. co-president and newly elected member of the local grade school, board, expressed the organization's thanks to the^,,officers, board members and committee heads for the 1959-60 term. Give Reports During the business meeting, E d w a r d W i t t r o c k , O r c h a r d Heights, a local grade school board member, reported on the new McHenry Swimming pool project. Mrs. Al Schurer reported for, the delegation att e n d i n g t h e I l l i n o i s s t a t e P.T.A. convention in Peoria. Other delegates from this community were Mr. Schurer and Mr. and Mrs. Ken- Leibach. Several selections from the recent successful Choral club concert were presented by Dee Amici, Ruth Maim, Celia Ann Page, Karen Kent, Dorothy Hollander and Mary Ann Wegener. Verna Schlofner played the piano accompaniment. Under the direction of vid Boger, local seventh grade teacher, students of his class presented a skit, "Private Eye." Appearing in this student production ywre \ Linda Iaieberson, Barry Leibsohn, Sherry Hughes. Sue Nardi, Jim Anderson, Dickie Bitterman, Mike Cooper, Paul Wilkinson, Roy Moss, Lynn Reihansperger, Jim Meeker and Linnea Larson. Board Members Announced by Mr. and Mis. Dason as new board members for 1960-61 were: Mr. and Mrs. Edward MarS, program; Mrs. Vale Adams, yearbook; , Mrs. Muriel Schurer, parent education; W. ,B. Andrews, information and public education; Mrs. John Kelsey, bulletin; Carl Buckner, M. L. Schoenholtz, Marvin Martin, Reno- Bertellotti, Mrs. Albert Foley, Robert Putnam and Mrs. R. G. Ullrich, as school representatives; John Weichmann, safety; Mrs. Levyis Blomgren, music;- Mrs. Louis Schustik, health; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Walter, library a n d r e a d i n g ; M r s . F r a n k Kempfer and Mrs. Vernon Ficken, room mothers; Mr. and Mrs. Ken Leibach, ways and means; Mrs. Richard Barrows, ninth grade cotillion; Mrs. Jack Fultz, hospitality; Mrs. Warren Kuhlman, social; Dr. and Mrs. Louis Marchi, legislation; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Poterson. high school service; Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Thompson, recreation; Mrs. Ivan Greene, magazine; Mr. and Mrs. John R. Thomas, scholarship, and as council delegates, Mr. and Mrs. August Uttich. PROMOTE TRAVEL The first "Travel-Promote" seminar held in central Illinois was attended by hotel and motel operators, newspaper editors, advertising agency representatives and travel agency managers. Meeting at the Illinois Building at the State fairgrounds, Springfield, they discussed ways and means to improve travel promotion in Illinois. The seminar was sponsored by the Illinois Departmental Information Service, the state's travel promotion agency, headed by Carl <S(l Hodges. t ED'S RENTAL RENTS Floor Sanders to Rotary Tillers EVergreen 5-4123 WE RENT Almost Everything from TILLERS and MOWERS a 6 TO SANDERS and PIPE DIES CALL EV $-2916 JOE WILKINSON, MANAGER Next to the Northwestern Depot v McHenry, III. Open Dally 8 to 6 Wednesday & Sunday 8 to 12 **Some Like It Hot •. •!" SPECIMEN BALLOT JUDICIAL HKTION For Judge of the Supreme Court, Sixth Supreme Court Judicial District. To be voted on Monday, The 6th of June, A.D. 1960, in the County of McHenry and the State of Illinois COUNTY CLERK o REPUBLICAN PARTY o DEMOCRATIC PARTY For Judge of the Supreme Court Sixth Supreme Court Judicial District For Judge of the Supreme Court Sixth Supreme Court Judicial District (Vote for One) • ROY J. SOLFISBURG. JR. • (Vote, for One) B^JAY KNIGHT •t F. Fourteen Scholarships Await 4-H Safety, Health Winners If your family loves potato salads here is a two-way recipe for an unusual hot one. Made up as given, it serves as the potato High for any meat-and-potato meal. With meat or seafood added to the basic recipe it becomes the main dish itself. In addition to being thus adaptable the recipe has another virtue. If you are short of time it can be an on-the-double production, if you skip the peeling and slicing chores and use the new packaged sliced potatoes. So hear this, all you potato salad fans: This hot potato salad, with its own creamy-smooth real mayonnaise sauce, is delicious. And . .. it is also good cold. Hol-tfnd-Saucey Potato Salad 3 to 3% cups sliced or diced IV2 teaspoons sugar peeled potatoes V2 teaspoon celery seed % cup vinegar 1 cup real mayonnaise % cup water Va cup chopped parsley % clove gnrl«* or 1 V* cup pickle relish or 12 onion, chopped crisp cucumber slices Vi teaspoon dry mustard Cook potatoes In boiling salted water until just tender. While potatoes are cooking, combine- in a saucepan vinegar, water, garlic or onion, mustard, sugar and celery seed. Bring to boil. Reduce heat, cover and simmer 10 minutes. Remove garlic, if used' Blend vinegar mixture into real mayonnaise. Heat sauce 1 minute. Dtfain potatoes thoroughly. Sprinkle with parsley and pour hot tauce over. Toss gently until potatoes are coated. Garnish with pickle relish or crisp cucumber pickles. Serve warm or hot. Yield; 4 servings. A total of fourteen college scholarships will be awarded to 4-H ciub members tills year for best achievement in the 4- H health and safety programs, according to Norman C. Mindrum, director of the National Committee on Floys and Girls Club Work. The S400 scholarships will be presented to six national health winners and eight safety winners to be announced at the National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago next December. The state and national champions will receive all- expense trips to the congress. Club members over 14 years old who have completed three years of project wovk are e!igi ible for both state and national awards, Mr. Mmdrum declares. For the younger member there is a medal award given for | best achievement at the county ! level. I In addition to developing de- : sirable health and safety praV 11ices in'day-to-day living, the | programs teach the. responsibility of good citizenship and i effective leadership, he points j out. The work is under super- , vision of the Cooperative Extension Service and local vol- ; unteer club leaders. ? Last yoar nearly l'.a million ! 4-H'ersj-across the nation were i enrolled in these programs. 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