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$ *' M THE MCHENRY PLAINDEALER "Serving The Chaia-O-Lakes Regioa Siace 1875" Volume 86 -- No. 39 -- 2 Sections McHENRY, ILLINOIS. THURSDAY. JANUARY 26. 1961 16 Pages -- 10c Per Copy SEARCH FOR CITY BURGLARS CONTINUES this spring's numerous elections fail to evoke interest among voters, then apathy can certainly be considered a problem. Seldom have there been so many elections of local interest. In addition to the city election of major officials, nearby villages will also go to th» polls to select presidents aift? trustees. The township election is of special interest this year tPr several reasons. One is the fact that in McHenry township, regardless of whether or not proposed amendment is passed regulating the number of new assistant supervisors, the local area is sure to have some increase due to increased population. Also, new legislation changing the election of justices of the peace and constables has prompted a new interest in this election. The months ahead will find the answer to many questions which at this time can only be a guess. Certainly a greater percentage voters should go to th<* ills than at. any other time In recent years. YOUNG ISLAND LAKE FATHER KILLED IN CRASH OF TRUCK. CAR; OTHER ACCIDENTS REPORTED Evciry now and then we read about, the fantastic things we can expect in the world we Will be living in a few years Jtence. We like the prediction |hat looking ahead about fifteen years, some of the ideas which seem far fetched now Mfc not nearly so remote ae some of today's products were at the close of the second World War. t Then we look at some of the products unknown in 1945 anc realize that some of us haven'\ yet acquired a few of these -- like dishwashers. Just touching on the highlights of tomorrow's kitchen s($ew are sure to bring a gleam of pleasure to the eyes of homemakers. We were especially intrigued with the promise of automatic plastic dish makers In the kitchen, which would give Junior the pleasure of breaking dishes to his heart's content. Another innovation was a stove that could be turned off and on by dialing instructions from a phone broth. This mean's that moni could stay with the bridge players another hour and stir serve pop a nourishing and delicious supper. Water heaters^ that never run out of hot Water should be a boon for big families, especially the unfortunate laggers who now must consistent- (Continued on Page 8) A 20-year-old father of a six-month-old son was killed in a collision of his car. and a gas truck near Springfi£fd, 111., on Jan. 18, just a short time before he ano his wife were to leave for California to make their home. He was Harold C. Nolte, who had resided at Island Lake for several months. The accident occurred on Highway 66 when Nolte's car, driven by Manuel Barguero of San Diego, Calif., collided with a gas truck. The car is reported to have crashed over an embankment and Nolte was killed oy the impact. Barguero was injured. The body was returned to Barrington, Nolte's home community, for services and burial early this week. His parents came from California for last rites. Nolte was married to the former Carol Diedrich of Fox Lake a year and a half ago. He also leaves a son, Ronnie Joe. The deceased was employed by a plastics firm. Mrs. Nolte is a sister of Mrs. Raymond Bieschke of Sunnyside Estates. Young Folks Hurt A young McHenry girl was among five 'teen-agers shaken up or injured in a two-car accident at the intersection of Try on and Jackson street in Woodstock Monday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. SftF is Jtttfe Nye, If, of TO* takee Bay. The driver of one car was Dan Moricoli, 18, of Woodstock who suffered a broken leg. Miss Nye and other high school students were passengers in his auto. One of them, Sharon Riley, 16, Of Crystal Lake, sustained a broken arm. According to police, the second auto, driven by Vincent Nolan of Harvard, entered the intersection in front of the other car and was struck. A McHenry man faces three charges as the result of an accident- in which he was involved last Saturday night. The accident occurred about 0:50 o'clock at 410 Main street when Carl Carlson of Country Club Drive struck two parked cars and then failed to stop when pursued by city police. Carlson, driving east, struck the r^ar of a truck belonging lo the Guettler Service station, which was pushed ovei the curb and into a parking meter. Leaving the scene, the auto then hit the rear of another truck belonging to E. R. THOMAS MORAN GOP CHOICE TO OPPOSE TEAGER Coming as no surprise to many people, Republican delegates in the 19th district, comprising McHenry and Lake counties, unanimously endorsed the candidacy of Thomas J. Moran for third circuit judge in the district at last Saturday's judicial convention, held in the McHenry high school auditorium. The Lake county probate judge and former state's attorney hopes to fill thie vacancy caused by the death last December of Judge Sidney Block. He will face the choice of the Democrats, Phillip Yeager, at' an election called for April 4. The name of Moran was placed in nomination by the Lake county GOP chairman, Robert Milton, and was seconded by the McHenry county chairman, Charles Miller. At a meeting of McHenry county OOP Central committee members, held early in January, that group agreed on support of Moran. Although Lake county took no action to endorse him, they were known to favor his candidacy. County Judge James H. Cooney of Woodstock was selected chairman of the conventi^ s.wWch . was attended oy about 300 delegates, Bwiwwate , the lath district nqpiinated Yeager, a Lake Bluff attorney, aft their Candidate for circuit judge at a cau cus held Monday evening in Waukegan. (Continued on Page 8) PtAN REPORT HIGHLIGHTS Qomquinity Facilities (The following facts are taken from information contained, i&jthe recently released Plan Report for the city of McHenry. ) Panning consul t a n t s who studied the various problems of the future in McHenry feei that a major determining factor in the potential growth of this area, or any other, is the existence of a healthy system of utilities, or the ability to qmvjde for them. Certain types erindustry, they point out, are dependent upon adequate sup plies of water or other utilities. The development of new activities, such as the plastics industries, change the situation. They add that even the advent of the recent industrial park type of development, prompted by enlightened zonwill require the extension 'utility systems beyond present capacities. All of these instances point to the need for careful planning. and programming of public utilities systems. With the purpose in mind to examine the present utility systems and to make a program of recommendations which will insure an orderly future growth in keeping with other recommendations, Stanton & Rockwell engineers prepared a long range plan for water, storm drainage and sanitary sewage systems. The suggested systems are intended as guides for the future and planners remind that detailed engineering studies will be required whenever the time for specific improvement occurs. Of the present approximately thirteen miles of water main, almost forty-one per cent are 4 inches in diameter. These mains serve a considerable area of the city, particularly when it is noted that an a r e a s u c h a s E d g e b r o o k Heights, consisting of a network of 4-inch and 6-inch mains, is'served by only 4-inch feeder mains. Planners say that accepted modern practice requires a minimum 6-inch main to service lire hydrants, which indicates 6 inches as the desirable-minimum pipe size in the system. Planning consultants' engineers examined the existing system with an eye toward integration into the over-all regional plan, the water system (Continued on Page 8) Jury To Hear Murder Charges The grand jury has been summoned for duty by Judge William M. Carroll on Feb. 20, when they, will hear evidence presented by State's Attorney Richard Cross in two alleged murder cases in the county. Herman Oker, 26, of Ciystal Lake, who is being held in county jail without bond, is charged with murdering his wife, Janice Reinboldt Oker of McHenry, in front of the Oaks Manufacturing plant in Crystal Lake Jan. 13. Winfred Rogers, 33, of Crystal Gardens, is charged with the murder of David Gilliland, 35, of Lake in the Hills, which occurred Jan. 10. He, too, is. being held without bond. Among panel members are Daniel M. Johnson and EJeanoi Mangold of McHenry. Name Hospital Officers PAROLE VIOLATOR SCHEDULED TO BE RETURNED TO JAIL HOLD MOTHERS MARCH TONIGHT IN COMMUNITY Volunteers In Various Areas Are Designated Under direction of Mrs. Gertrude Uarbian, volunteer workers for the March of Dimes will .brave the wintry winds tonight, Jan. 26, to conduct the annual house to house drive for funds. A number of local women have been named by Mrs. Barbian as chairmen of the individual communities as follows: Edgebrook Heights, Bernice LaFontaine; Cooney Heights, Marilyn Phalin; Country Club Estates, June Schmunk and Lois Lennon; Country Club subdivision, Nell Cina; Fox street, Mineral Springs, Emerald Park, Gussie Diedrich; Wilna Aylwftrd, and Gertrude Barbian. Other Chairmen Indian Ridge, Jean Weyland; Oakhurst, Mrs. James Cook, Griswold Lake, Ethel Groth; Maryvil'e Heights, Janice Tonyan; Huntervilie Park, Jean Marquart; Millstream subdivision, Mary L6u Thennes; Orchard Beach, Marion Ritter; Canada to Moose lodge, Elsie Wegener. Headquarters for the drive will be the Legion home, where volunteers,, including several former polio victims, will bj present to make an accounting of collections. The March of Dimes aids not only polio patients but is also designated in recent years for use in the prevention of other crippling diseases, particularly certain birth defects and rheumatoid arthritis. Richard M. Wesolik, 35, who was convicted in 1941 of the slaying of Mrs. Margaret Jung in the milk house of the Jung farm home at Woodstock, is scheduled to be returned to prison as a parole violator. Wesolik surrended to Belleville police last Saturday and is reported to have admitted he financed a cross country trip by cashing stolen payroll checks. He was paroled from state prison last October after serving nineteen years of a life s e n t e n c e . W e s o l i k a d m i t t e d stealing about twenty checks Jan. 6 from a Belleville firm, where he worked as a bookkeeper. His conviction in 1941 w;?s of special interest in the McHenry community, where Mrs. Jung had many relatives and friends. «•. New officers of the board of directors of McHenry hospital are shown from left to right: Mayor George P. Freund, first vice-president; Joseph A. Conerty, Jr., secretary; Ralph Benpett, treasurer; James M. Lennon, president; Lee Gladstone, M.D., member: George Alvary, M.D., member; Ben Underwood, administrator. Mr. Lennon presided in front of the area designated for a snackbar to be sponsored by the Woman's,Auxiliary. AREAS NORTH OF McHBRY M FEAR AFTER THREE ARMED MB) ABANDON CAU ESCAPE IM WOODS Excitement and fear reminiscent of a fictional story unfolded in McHenry in the early hours of Monday morning this week, when three bandits broke into McHenry business houses, then eluded authorities following a barrage of bullets' fired from speeding cars. When they are apprehended, the recent Wahl Jewelry store burglary may be solved as well as the entrance to business houses last weekend. WONDER LAKE MAN IS SENTENCED ON BAD CHECK CHARGE HOME GUTTED BY FRt ON WEDNESDAY SET CAUCUS DATE A caucus of the Republican party in McHenry township has been called for Tuesday evening, Feb. 7, at 8 p.m. in the high school auditorium for the purpose of nominating candidates for offices of town clerk, tax assessor, assistant supervisors and auditors. Remember the Mothers March tonight. Consider Amendments To Zoning Ordinance The McHenry county zoning board oif appeals will. hold a yubli{K hearing to consider amendments to the zoning ordinance in the supervisors' room in the court house annex, Woodstock, on Feb. 13, at 7 p.m. A copy of the proposed amendments is on file in the office of the building and zoning department, court house annex. All interested parties should attend this hearing. QUEEN CANDIDATE JUDY HANS Miss Judy Hans, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hans of McHenry, spent last weekend in Springfield, where she was one of fifty-four 1960 county queen candidates vyine for the title of county fail queen. The winner, selected Monday night at this fifty-firsi annual convention of the Illinois Association of Agricultural Fairs, was Miss Kay De- Vault, Massac county, who was crowned before a crowd of about 2,000 at the state armory. She will reign as Miss Illinois County Fair at the Illinois state fair in August. Judy was 1960 McHenry county queen. Orville Church of Crystal Lake was re-elected president of the Memorial Hospital for McHenry County board at the annual meeting held Tuesday. Estimate $6,000 tn Damages At Unoccupied House The interior of an unoccupied home in Oakland subdivision, near Johnsburg, was completely destroyed by fire about 2:45 o'clock Wednesday morni n g , r e s u l t i n g i n d a m a g e amounting to about $6,000. Sirs. Irving Lishamer, a neighbor, turned in the alarm, which was answered immediately by members of Company AWAIT VOTE ON LAW TO REGULATE COUNTY BOARD SIZE 2, McHenry Township Fire Protection district, at Johns- two aiready in office, burg. Later, McHenry's Com pany I was summoned to assist in fighting the fire in temperatures well below the zero mark. . The home, which was located on the river, was vacated about three weeks- ago. The cause of the blaze was unknown. Other Fires Members of Joh n s b u r g \s Company .2, were called to the John Seynowa home in Pistakee Highlands at 12:15 p.m. on Tuesday when wallboards caught fire from a blow torch being used to thaw out water pipes in the garage. A grass fire about 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at Pistakee Hills also required the services of members of Company 2. Tuesday morning about 10 o'clock, Company I was called to extinguish what a passerby thought was a fire in a car parked in front of Kleinhans Lumber company, east of the river. Actually, the smoke which caused concern was caused by a radiator which boiled over. About $400 damage was reported to the car of Mrs. Flo Nellis as the result of a fire last Thursday. Mr. Nellis noticed the car, which was parked in back of Community Interior Service, and notified members of Company I, who answered the call. Firemen said the blaze, which started under the hood, was of unknown origin. File Objection To Petitions The county electoral board is expected to give an opinion today on a petition filed by Charles M. Adams of McHenry in the county clerk's office last Friday afternoon, objecting on two counts to the petitions of R. J. Heilgeist of Pistakee Highlands and Eugene Piotrowski of McCullom Lake for justice of the peace and constable, respectively. Eoth Heilgeist and Piotrowski filed petitions last week on the Independent Democratic party ticket. Adams charges in his petition that they did not file with their petitions affidavits that they are members McHenry township is waiting with interest the outcome of legislation now in Springfield to regulate the number of assistant county supervisors in DuPage, Lake and McHenry counties. A final House vote is not expected before the end of the month, after which it must go back to the Senate. The bill passed originally included DuPage county, but House members agreed to amendments including L a k and McHenry also. Without the legislation, county boards arc scheduled' to be increased considerably in 9ize. At present, McHenry township has plans to elect four new assistant supervisors to serve Decisions affecting local residents were returned by Judge James H. Cooney in county court last Thursday. Richard Bueche of Wonder Lake was sentenced to 120 days in the county jail, but had a $100 fine suspended on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. Bueche, who is reported to have previously served a term in Vandalia on a similar ehargc, was brought into court on a charge of cashing checks in McHenry without having sufficient funds. James Newson of McCullcm Lake was given seven days in county jail and the sentence suspended on a charge of driving while his license was revoked. However, he was fined $50 and costs. Walter Dean and Albert Adams, and Supervisor LeRoy Smith. The amendment would put McHenry county m a bracket with counties entitled to one assistant for each additional 5,000 population, holding the size of the board to twentyeight members. Under the amendment McHenry township would add one new assistant and Algonquin two. Dorr would lose one. Th? present board has twenty-six members, including seventeen supervisors and nine assistants. A vote of the McHenry county board of supervisors at the last meeting favored a resolution be sent to the state asking for a change in the population requirements. Elktf Lodge Presents Resuscitaior To City Robert Kramer, exalted ruler of the Woodstock Elks lodge, presented the McHenry police department with a resuscitator at a meeting held Tuesday evening of this week in Woodstock. The gift was accepted by Mayor George P. Freund ami Chief of Police Joseph Gr^6el. Seven members of the local police department attended, as well as the mayor, City Clerk Earl R. Walsh, President Frank Low of the Chamber or Commerce, Donald Doherty and Donald Howard. PET OWNER FINED A pet owner was fined SI 5 by a McHenry justice of the peace last week for letting his dog run loose. All dog owners ;\re warned by police officers that such dogs will L>e picked up and fines will be imposed. 900 District Dairy Farmers Plan Annual Meeting Saturday A. L. McWilliams. general manager of Pure Milk association, and W. Harold Cope, his assistant, will address the annual meeting of PMA District 6 at Westwood school, one mile west of Woodstock, Saturday, Jan. 28. Approximately 900 dairy farmers from Cook, Kane, Lake and McHenry counties belong to District 6. Avery.A. Vose, PMA president, Rt. 2, Antioch, is district director. Delegates and officers will meet at 10:30 a.m. for the selection of all district officers except district director. A beef dinner will be served promptly at 12:15 noon. Present Officers Present district pfficers include district director, Avery A. Vose (elected last year to a two-year- term), president Ralph L. Nichols, Rt. 2, Hebron; vice-president, Charles P. Weingart, Rt. 6, McHenry; secretary-treasurer, Kenneth Denman, Lake Villa: re-districting committeeman, Arthur Kruckcnberg, Harvard. An attendance , prize and other prizes include a case of butter. Continued on Page 8 SEEKS DISMISSAL "Robert Phillips, 32, of Rockford, sentenced to 199 years for the 1955 murder of a Harvard grocer, seeks dismissal of charges of armed jobbery and larceny pending in Winnebago county. GROWTH OF HOSPITAL TOLD AT ANNUAL MEET Need For Funds Made Known With Building Progress McHenry Hospital^ corporation, incorporated not for profit, held its fourth annual meeting last Thursday in the new building being conat 105 E. Waukegan hospital structcd road. In his report for the year, Ben Underwood, administrator, stated that the patient load had increased almost 20 per cent in the past fiscal year. Ralph Bennett, chairman of building construction, said the building will be ready for occupancy < after May 1. Mayor George P. Freund, chairman of the building fund, reported bank balances of the building fund as of Sept. 30, 1960, and also stated that the bank accounts are being rapidly depleted as construction progresses and that it is necessary to raise additional funds. Increases Work Load Philip Rosenstrock, auditor for the hospital, commented on the ability of the hospital to (Continued on Page 8) Only $42 in cash was taken Irom the store of Otto Heinz Furs, 105 N. Riverside Drive, although two other nearby business places were also broken into. Nothing was taken at Marticke & Nixon on Elm street, and only a lock was broken on the Huck service » station on the corner of Riverside Drive and Elm street. Entrance to the Heinz store was .,'t.ined by breaking / through the roof. As early as last week Tuesday, McHenry police had been alerted to be on the look-out. for a white Buick car which carried a walkie-talkie. It had . been seen in the city several . times and suspicion was drawn, to the auto in which two young ' men were riding. The Sheriff's office checked' with Liake county and learned"- the name of the owner and his" companions and also obtained the license number. Officers Patrol As Officers Kenneth Espey and Richard Clark of the city police patrolled shortly befoi# ^ 1 a.m. Monday morning, they spotted the car parked at Buck's Town club and immedi* ately notified the county sheriff's office. City authorities were told to keep the auto under surveillance until the ar- / rival of the county police. Chief Deputy Ed Dowd and other officers arrived abo..i 1:15. OfSTv^r set up watch on Riverside Drive and another west of Park street on Pearl. . In the meantime, city police drove their squad car to Elm street, just west of Wahl Jewelers. Shortly afterward, three men were spotted emerging from an alley on the west side o f R i \ e r s i d e D r i v e . T h e y jumped in the car, turned down Park to Elm ond then uittceeded east over the bridge on Rt. 120, dodging road blocks set up on Rt. 31. A third sheriff's car parked just to the east of the bridge gave chase to the blacktop Johnsburg road, a mile and a half east of the city, on into Johnsburg and west to the top .of the hill near Rt. 31. At that point shots were fired from the burglars' car, answered by a barrage from the squad car. The bandits car struck a ditcn and in the darkness the three managed to flee into the nearl> y woods, with police in purrsuit. Continue Search State police joined city and county authorities to continue the search into the early hours of Monday morning. Almost every farm home in the Rlnswood and Johnsburg area was approached by officers, and residents were warned to keep doors locked and not tc go outside unless it was necessary. Authorities are at a loss io(__ saXwhere the three may be,^- but ofre-e£(icer was of the opinion they may have separated and were hiding out. A check with the abandoned car disclosed bullet holes in the sun visor which must have missed the driver only by inches. Encouragement over the fact that finding the burglars may also solve the Wahl theft came with announcement that Mrs. Fred Wahl, wife of the store owner, had identified a picture of the man police say is recorded as owner of the c a r i n v o l v e d i n Mon d a y s break-ins. Both Mrs. Wahl and Otto Heinz told authorities they had seen the same man in their business establishments earlier in the month. The auto was checked to a W. Welter of Melrose Park.