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THE MCHENRY PLAINDEALER "Serving The Ch^ia-O-Lakes Regioa Slice 1875" I Volume 87 -- No. 11 -- & Sections McHENRY, ILLINOIS. THURSDAY, JULY 20. 1961 16 Pages -- 10c Per Copy * * » - j j More than one person has expressed regret over the loss of Main street's beautiful elm trees. For the past three years, more and more of the trees have become diseased in spite «f*he fact that the city has carried out an extensive spraying program each spring. This past week, several of the massive trees have succumbed to the saw in the hope of preventing the »p<ead of Dutch Elm disease. Our hope is that the beautifully shaded street will need to lose no more. H&'fe so easy to become spoiled, and that's exactly what has happened to Plaindealer trilployees since our move into li new office. It is not only bright and cheerful, but so spacious wo can hardly believe that all of thfe room allot red to each of us is a reality. We ^re anxious for open house, tc hliow the many foUts around who have been iiffirerstanding oi our problem of space in reron' months. These new and modern offices actually turn work into fun, and we only hope the feeling lasts. A new inter-com system had us thoroughly confused Friday morning until the various lights and buzzers became familiar. In the meantime, everybody answered eveqrtody else's calls, telephone messages were cut off suddenly without warning, and general confusion existed. We have about decided you Cftn't move upstairs without a little "getting used to". ^vJ>id you ,thijok 5p>u »•fW flk house crossing the highway last Thursday morning? It wasn't the effects of too much HQBta Week celebration, the house was actually making its way across four-lane Elm street. Not long ago we mentioned the great amount of clearing away necessary before the National Tea building could be erected on the Freund property. The house was one of the "clearances" and now it is located on land to the rear of o^ office. Folks who never before had spent time in jail did so last week, except that on these special occasions it was mostly in fyn. Men without beards, and lqdies who felt the need for iQakeup and were without perjiuts, were led (not always quietly) to the improvised jail in front of the Legion home for ^period at the discretion of jtpr jailer. Fines of $1 and $1 in costs were assessed. Officials Act On R<gpoirtted Gamblir During the last few weeks McHenry has been the subject of much publicity in the metropolitan papers. Just recently splendid coverage was given Fiesta Day in the Chicago papers. In the past two days area papers have used headlines exposing gambling in McHenry county and the city of McHenry. Reports were received by city officials in McHenry that various gambling devices were being operated in some business establishments within the city. Tuesday night city officials began taking action with a complete investigation of the entire situation. Mayor Donald Doherty stated Wednesday that he would use every means in his power to correct conditions and see that nothing of this nature will be countenanced in the future. The statement was made that twenty of sixty-one gambling stamps issued in McHenry county were obtained by McHenry business firms. Apparently any business purchasing such stamps and having a McHenry address was considered as being located within the city as a checkup quickly showed. Many of these addresses are located outside the corporate limits of the city of McHenry and are under county jurisdiction. " Knowing that action is being taken to clear up these unsavory conditions . makes us happy to be a part of the McHenry area. iKELAHt ?MtK INEU10N TO [Y DISCUSSED Congratulations are in order fgt.our neighboring city newspaper, the Woodstock Sentinel, which last week started its 106th year. It is interesting to nqte that the paper, started in 1856, remained as a weekly unjtil 1921, when it was converted, to a daily paper, which it has remained for forty years. Started in July of '56, it was g>|edged to be devoted to politics, agriculture and general intelligence". As might be expected, the first editorial concerned the big topic of the day and was entitled, "Freedom vs Slavery". It urged every school district to organize its clubs "to l^|dle the fires of the Republican Liberty of '76". That was a long time ago when the Sentinel's first editor, Josiah Dwight, began his newspaper venture --a long time to record the history of our county seat, which has continued to grow along with its newspaper . The McHenry Pikoeidealer has moved to its . New Location € at 3812 W. Elm St. "Next to W&Monal Tea" License Amusement Devices; Approve '61 Appropriation The first order of business at the City Council meeting on Monday night of this week was a discussion with a delegation of Lakeland Park residents regarding annexation to the City of McHenry. This delegation reported that questionnaires sent out to property owners in their area and also the adjoining property owners now within the city limits showed a strong sentiment in favor of annexation. Many questions arose on problems of annexation such as the financial obligations or existing bonds, new projects sanitary sewer installation, existing water supply and roads. It was also reported that some favor retaining rights to the park site on McCullom Lake. In general, the council members are very receptive to thr annexation, but wish to give thorough study to the many questions. City Attorney Johr E. Looze advised the council that he has requested copies of recent changes in annexation laws and procedure anc' will report further to thr council. After making comparison: with other cities, the counci' decided to include in the new code license fees on coin-op erated amusement devices from $10 to $25 per year. The type of device must, of course, be permissible under the laws of the state. Juke boxes will havr a license fee of $15 and cigarette vending machines $F per year. Annual Appropriation The annual appropriation ordinance was passed in the total amount of $495,300. This is not to be confused with tax levy or budget figures. Through necessity and perhaps custom, appropriation ordinances greatly exceed expected revenue or expenditures. Figures are realistic pertaining some items, but serve to provide the right of expenditure should some proposed or emergency improvements become necessary. It wa= snecified that $500 oer month be transferred from the parking meter fund and set up in a special account to be used for off street parking LOCAL RESIDENT DIES IN WAUKEGAN HOSPITAL JULY 15 It was with sincere sorrow that friends and relatives learned of the death of a well known McHenry resident, John Phannenstill. He passed away on Saturday, July 15, at* St. Therese's hospital, Waukegan, following a five month illness. Mr. Phannenstill was a great outdoors man. He loved to hunt and fish and was generous in sharing his catch with his friends and neighbors. He had the proverbial "green thumb" and had one of the best vegetable gardens in McHenry. The recipients of his golden battam corn,x tomatoes and bib lettuce can vouch for the- quality. Mr. Phannenstill made a host of friends while he was associated with his son, Al. in his business on Main street. Born, Nov. 15, 1887, south of Lilymoor which was known as Lily Lake at that time, Mr. Phannenstill attended the Lily Lake school. He was married in November 1911 to Katherine Freund who preceded him in death Oct. 3, 1960. They farmed for thirty-five years on the land now operated as the Stop and Sock driving range. Had they lived they would have celebrated their golden wedding this fall on Thanksgiving day. He is survived by four children, Rita Haldeman, Woodstock; Al, McHenry; Harold, Kenosha; Robert, Chicago; Thirteen grandchildren, one great grandchild; a brother, Frank; three sisters, Mary Pouliot, McHenry; Kate Stadtfeldt, Waukegan and Elizabeth Amann, Round Lake. The body rested at the George R. Justen & Sons funeral home until ^Tuesday morning when services were held at St. Mary's Catholic church at 10 a.m. with burial in the church cemetery. SEWAGE TREATING OPERATORS INSPE PLANT FACILITIES (Continued on Page 8) The City of McHenry was host on Thursday, July 13, to the Fox Valley Sewage Treatment Plant Operators' association. The meeting was held at 10 a.m. at the McHenry sewage treatment plant with thirty-six operators from the communities along the Fox River in attendance. A seminar was held on sewage treatment, and an inspection was made of the McHenry facilities. The plant operator, Ray West, was commended upon his beautifully landscaped and excellently main t a i n e d plant. The group was welcomed by Mayor Doherty, following which the meeting was held outside on the well-kept lawn of the plant grounds. ARLENE WIMMER RESIGNS AS HIGH SCHOOL SECRETARY Proposed Hospital Addition Above is shown the artist's perspective of the addition of the third floor to Memorial Hospital for McHenry County at Woodstock. Cost of this project is estimated at $210,000. COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL PLANS TO BUILD IN FALL At a recent Iroard meeting at Memorial Hospital for McHenry County, action was taken to give the architects instructions to proceed with the creation of working drawings for the third story to the hospital. Members of the board hope to have the project under construction by the first of October of this year. The new building project will provide bed space whieh is needed badly. The high census this past year has crowded the hospital facilities to over capacity many times. The area involved wifl provide the addition of thirty-five beds, bringing the total number to 100 beds available for the hospital community. When the million dollar addition to the hospital was added only three years ago, the board planned the facilities and utilities so that a third and fourth floor could be added to increase the bed space for patients in heed of hospitalization. When figuring the cost of the building per bed. this new project would cost about $6,000 a bed compared to a cost of $24,000 per bed for the addition which was built in 1958. This is possible because all of the facilities built then are adequate for this next addition. A new pediatric department will be constructed on the third floor, with accommodations in private rooms or semiprivate, whichever the parents desire for their children. The rest of the beds will be used f o r m e d i c a l a n d s u r g i c a l patients. Orville Church of Crystal Lake is the current president of the hospital board of directors. At the last meeting he appointed Thomas Bolger of McHenry, Leo K r u m m e of Crystal Lake and Horace Wagner of Wonder Lake to the building committee to work with administrator Bert Hanson to complete the building program of the hospital so that the needs of the community are fulfilled. These men, as well as the other members of thg^board, volunteer their time to serve as non-paid members of the hospital board of directors. Twin Boys Born Mites Ipart To bcal Mother Twin boys were born Tuesday, July 18, to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Nepstad, Home avenue. Lakeland Park, one in an ambulance* near Skokie and the otKermiles away in St. Francis hospital, Evanston. The Nepstads left their other two sons at home in Lakeland Park and started their trip to the hospital. Nearing Skokie Mrs. Nepstad realized she was not going to make the hospital in time. They stoppeo near SKokie and called for help from the fire department. Firemen Charles Henrici and fxtuis Lang helped deliver the first boy, who weighed 4 lbs., 2 ozs. The mother was driven to the hospital where tr.e other boy, weighing 5 lbs., 1 oi.. was born less than an hour later. A report from the hospital early Tuesday afternoon said the mother was sleeping peacefully and the boys were placed in incubatcu-s. No report was given on the father's condition. SEVERAL INJURED IN AUTO ACCIDENTS DURING LAST WEEK We Extend Our Congratulations The McHenry Plaindealer w i s h e s t o c o n g r a t u l a t e t h e president of the Chamber of Commerce, Frank Low, his committees, members of organizations and all those people who helped in any way to make the observance of the 125th anniversary of the founding of McHenry such a success. Many long hours and hard work went into the planning, organizing and executing the final arrangements for the week long activities culminating in the grand finale on Sunday. It is with the deepest pride in McHenry and its cHizens that we offer our felicitations to our great city as it starts its 126th year of existence. In the regular meeting of the board of education for district 156 held Tuesday night at the high school the resignation of Miss Arlene Wimmer was ac-. cepted. Miss Wimmer Md been employed as secretary in the administrative office. A resolution was passed for applicatic^i for aid from the Title Three National Defense Education Act. • EDITOR ON VACATION Any semblance to good newspaper reporting will be purely accidental this week because our editor, Adele Froehlich, is on vacation. BAND CONCERT The McHenry city band directed by Stanley Vycital will hold a concert on Riverside drive, Friday night starting at 7:30. Following an accident on Lincoln road, Ms mile east of McHenry, July 12, a Prairie View man, Robert W. Hammbach, was cited by State Trtsoft^ ers for failure to decrease speed to avoid an accident. Mr. Hammbach lost control of his car. it skidded 200 feet and rolled over and came to rest on its wheels. The auto was a complete wreck. Hammbach was taken to McHenry hospital with head injuries and a possible broken rib. Two other passengers also suffered injuries in the accident. They were John Zoskir, Lakeland Park, who suffered leg and hip injuries, and John Ryzcek, Chicago, who sustained head injuries. Three Car Crash On July 13 Russell M. Phillips of McHenry and Robert L. Tipp of Crystal Lake were driving south on Highway 31 near Terra Cotta and Faigh T. Schaefer of McHenry was driving north on the same road. The state police reported that Tipps, in trying to avoid hitting Phillips, attempted to go around the car and skidded into the car driven by Mrs. Schaefer and then the Schaefer car was hit by Phillips. Tipp suffered facial lacerations. Cyclist Hurt John D. Reinhard of Mundelein, a member of the Fox Valley riders who was reporting for work helping take care of traffic during the parade, was injured Sunday morning on Elm street when he failed to see the car driven by Helen P. Bacon, Apache Trail, McHenry, stop for traffic in the center lane and crashed his motorcycle into the left rear bumper. He was taken to the McHenry hospital where it was found he had an injured leg. Cudas In Accident A McHenry couple, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cuda, were involved in an accident Saturday on U.S. Highway 14 near the eastern city limits of Woodstock. Mrs. Cuda received a neck injury when their car was hit in the rear by one Thousands Line Streets To Witness Colorful Parade; Fill McCracken Field For Drum Magic A crowd estimated at 25,000 lined the streets, of McHenry on Fiesta Day, July 16, to watch the largest and most colorful parade ever held v"in this city. It was a fitting climax to a week long celebration of the 125th anniversary of the founding of McHenry. It took over an hour for the eighty-two units to pass a given point. Colorful bands, drum corps, beautiful floats with pretty girls, comical floats, prancing horses, even an elephant, made up the marching units. Winners The parade judges were the same men who worked the Drum Magic show at night. They awarded the trophies to J e w e l T e a c o m p a n y , f i r s t prize; Illinois Bell Telephone Company, second; funniest, Gem Cleaners; Kiddies float, Clean Streams; Twirlers, Nancys Eaton; best drill team. Senn High; $£st animal, horse ridden by Darlene Jus t e n dressed in a Spanish costume. Other prizes were awarded for best drum corps non-competing, McHenry Viscounts; best n o n-c o m p e t i n g color guard, Viscounts; best color guard in competition, Skokie Van Guards; best competing corps, Marquette Crusaders; best drum majors, Norwood Park. r~ Boat Parade / Y On Saturday night aVJ6 o'clock there was a boat parade. Don Sonnemann, McHenry, won first prize; second went to Chain-O-Lakes Excavating Company; and third to North Bridge Marine Service. Following the boat parade 250 people gathered at the McHenry Country club for the dinner dance. A delicious smorgasbord dinner was served from a beautifully decorated table centered with a large 125 in styrofoam. Chamber of C o m m e r c e p r e s i d e n t , F r a n k Low, acted as master of ceremonies and Mayor Donald Doherty introduced Mrs. Mercedes Hayes Gustafson and Mrs. Jane Heimer Gitzke, members of the Centennial Queen's court in 1936. The 1961 Fiesta Day queen, Gail Marquart, and her court, Mary Jane Gillis and Gretchen Say- "Uer, were also introduced. Jewel's Ten Commandments i This beautiful float made by the employees of the local Jewel Tea store captured first prize in the Fiesta Day parade. Over 20,000 napkins were used to cover the frame which was 15 ft. high, 14 ft. long aand 8 ft. wide. On the face of the float are the Jewel ten commandments of service. The local store received an invitation from Woodstock to enter this float in the VJ Day parade in August. Bearded Beauties x ' # i- (Continued on Page 8) POPULATION RISE CREATES SEVERAL NEW VOTING PLACES (Continued on Page 8) With the steady rise in population in McHenry county it was necessary to add new precincts in McHenry, Nunda, Algonquin and Grafton townships. The number of precincts has been increased from fifty-eight to seventy-four. In McHenry township the polling places are McHenry 1, Muzzy s Apartment, Ringwood; McHenry 2, City hall; McHenry 3, A. S. Blake Motors; McHenry 4, Johnsburg Rescue Squad building, Chapel Hill road; McHenry 5, Wonder Lake Firehouse; McHenry 6, V. F. W. club house, West Highway 120, McHenry 7, George P. Freund Implements, 4102 W. Crystal Lake road; McHenry 8, Rod and Gun club, Barnard Mill road, Wonder Lake; McHenry 9, Lakemoor fire house, Rand road; McHenry 10, Virgil's Auto Service, E. Wonder Lake road, Wonder Lake; McHenry 11, McHenry Auto Body, West Highway 120; McHenry 12, McCullom Lake Beach house: McHenry 13, Lakeland Park community house; McHenry 14, McHenry Fire House; McHenry 15, Pistakee Yacht club; McHenry 16, Sunnyside village hall; McHenry 17, Pistakee Highlands community house. Other precincts involving McHenry area voters are Nunda 1, Nunda-rural fire department, Wright road Burton's Bridge; Nunda 2, fire department, building, Crystal Lake; Nunda 3, Odd Fellows hall, Crystal Lake; Nunda 5, Con- Ion Collins Ford, highway 176. Crystal Lake; Nunda 9, Midwest Auto Service, highways 176, Crystal Lake; Nunda 8, no location has been named. Photo by Kotalik Smiling behind their famous beards are the winners in the beard judging contest. Pictured at left holding his trophy is Tom Adams who won third prize for the longest beard, center is Walter Low judged the grizzliest and Harold Fischer who won first prize for the best appearing beard. Over 100 beards were judged at 11 ^o'clock Sunday morning in front of the Legion home by Frances Nyden and Eleanor Springman. Smitty's Barber Shop received the trophy for taking care Of the best beard. Pie - In - Face Photo by Kotalik Deputies of the beard patrol are shown holding Frank Scolaro in front of the "Home of the Beardless" while Pat Anderson bestows fine of "Pie-in-Face" for having no beard. McHenry Folks n Hawaii The old saying i's a small world" applied to seveial Mr- Henry residents recently. Mi's. Ethel Hartmann and daughter Cheryl, of Pistakee Bay, left McHenry in June to witness the awarding of a m > >te • degree to both her dau^h'er and son-in-law, Capt. and Mrs. Carl S. Ames, at Jackson college In Honolulu, Hawaii. Liter Mrs. Hartmann was joine-i bv hor husband and two other chil dren, Lynn and Glenn. While Mrs. Hartmann and Lynn were eating lunch in Waikiki in the International Market place they met Mrs. Evelyn V'arese and daughter, Deborah, of McHenry. The Yareses were going on a trip to the island of Maui and persuaded the Hartmanns to accompany them. When boarding a plane to Hilo from the ii-lond the party met Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Schustik and daughter, Susan. of McHenry who were taking the same plane. While on the plane they witnessed the eruption of the volcano Halemaumau. The Hartmanns have re turned to McHenry while the other folks are continuing their stay in our new state. Needless to say it was a joyful reunion of McHenryites in this far off land of sunshine.