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fSERVING THE CHAIN-O-LAKES REGION SINCE 1875" Volume 90 -- No. 36 -- 3 Sections McHENRY, ILLINOIS* THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31. 1964 24 PAGES -- 10c PER HSPPf YeaR. With a brand New Year on its way, we at the Plaindealer take this opportunity to serid-cor^iaT^eetings and good wishes to our many readers. BABY FINE AFTER TAKING QUANTITY OF TURPENTINE Nineteen-month-old Tommy Strauser is playing happily in his Pistakee Highlands home again after a narrow escape last Tuesday afternoon when he swallowed an estimated 2 ounces of turpentine. Mrs. Strauser had been painting a chest of drawers for the baby's room. She turned for a few moments to clean the brush, and as she resumed work noticed a quantity of turpentine missing. Since none was on the floor, she assumed the baby, who was nearby, had swallowed it. The child was rushed by the Johnsburg Rescue Squad to McHenry hospital, where his stomach was pumped. Tommy was then released, none the worse for his experience. CRYSTAL LAKE BOY '65 POSTER CHILD IN COUNTY A six-year-old, pixie-faced Crystal Lake boy, has this week been named 1965 Poster Child by United Cerebral Palsy of McHenry County. Mrs. John Boehm of McHenry, campaign director, announced that young Kevin Cooley of 365 Herald street, Crystal Lake--a student in the physically hand icapped classroom which is supported by the organization --has been chosen to represent them in this year's 53-Minute Mothers March. Kevin is in his first year of school, and until now has been confined to a wheel chair due TWELFTH NIGHT TREE BURNING PROGRAM SET City Will Pick Up Trees Placed Near Road Jan. 4, 5, 6 fContinued on Page 8) For the third consecutive year a tree burning ceremony will be conducted in McHenry on Twelfth Night, Wednesday, Jan. 6, at 7 o'clock in the evening. City employees will pick up trees on Jan. 4, 5 and 6 if they are placed near the road. Residents of subdivisions are invited to join in the program and may bring their trees to the Legion lot, where all will be placed on a large pile prior to the burning. Mayor Donald P. Doherty will address the assembled crowd, and members of the McHenry Choral club will sing a few carols. Joint Sponsorship The program is sponsored jointly by firemen of Company I, in cooperation with the city and Legion Post 491. The Twelfth Night burning, which was started partly to prevent fire hazards, also serves as an accommodation to residents of the city who would otherwise find it difficult to disof their. trees. 3"K!s year's program has as its co-chairmen Harry Mueller and Harry Conway, both firemen and the latter a lieutenant of the district. Adult Classes Open At School The adult education classes held annually at McHenry high school will begin shortly after the first of the year. Registration is scheduled for Monday, Jan. 11, at 7 p.m. at the school. Prospective students will decide on the night which the course will be given when they register. There will be ten ressions, one each week, with a fee of ten dollars to cover expenses of conducting classes. Among the courses to be offered are introduction to welding, arc and acetylene, which will meet Thursdays at 7 p.m. Others, for which a night has not yet been selected, include beginning typing, advanced typing, bookkeeping, office machines, beginning clothing construction, beginning F rench, beginning Spanish and beginning English. McHENRY GIRL SPEAKS TO CLUB ABOUT COLOMBIA Drive with care over the holiday weekend. Rudi J. Photo Sitting: Marie Yegge, assistant editor and proof reader; Larry Lund, publisher; Grace Meyer, circulation department; "and Earl R. Walsh, sports editor. Standing: Don Roths, linotypist; John Pepin, pressman; Walt Deterding, composing room foreman; Marcella Larsen, circulation department; Adele Froehlich, editor; Patti Brooke, classified advertising; Jackie Guffey, linotypist; Bill Moore, advertising manager; Jim DeVOs, circulation department; and Lee Hachmeister, classified advertising. Mary Miller, bookkeeper, was not present when the picture was taken. Along about this time of year folks just naturally think that those of us who write a column should be making public our wrongs of the past twelve months and our resolutions for the year ahead. Now we figure differently. Those who glance this way each week are quite aware of the error of our ways. We thought it might be more rewarding (from our point of view) to pinpoint some of the Ihings for which we have been grateful over the past year, and others which we would like to see changed. In-order to close on a pleasant note, we shall begin with the latter. First of all. if we had our choice, we would gladly return to first hand contact with telephone operators rather than the dial system. We fully realize this is ail in the line ol progress generally, but find our o'.vn personal7 progress slowed considerably by its use. F-jr instance, last week we tried placing calls to nearby Ringwood and Fox Lake. By the time we reached information twice ami obtained the two number:-, wt had flipped the dial twenty times. (Continued on Page 8) Hoone Valley Pi Will Featare Cluster Development Of Are Members of the City Council, Plan Commission and Zoning Board of Appeals met Monday evening for an interesting and enlightening discussion of the new development on Crystal Lake road, to be known as Boone Valley. Meeting with them was Gordon Wagner of the planning consultant firm of Barton & Aschman Associates. Land involved covers 606.2 acres known as the Cooney- Heckmann property, located west of the Crystal Lake blacktop and purchased recently by Ladd Enterprises, developers. It will be annexed to the city before work progresses. The large area will be known as a cluster development, something relatively new and designed to provide a community within itself. No shopping center will be established, but residents of Boone Valley will have access to a limited commercial section, churches, schools, parks and recreational areas. One of the feature': of the community will be greenways, which are installed for the combined advantages of beauty, drainage and safety. Through over-passes and under-passes, it will be possible to walk from homes in anj^fiart of the area to stores, school!or park without crossjjlfg major roads. Plans call for 852 single family housing units and 415 multiple family units (in the form of apartments, etc.). The former will cover 220.40 acres and represent 36.3 per cent of the land usage. Park Area Fifty acres will be set aside foifc-a public or semi-public park, 23 acres will be open space, 38.5 acres are expected to be used for a high school and 2.4 acres are being earmarked for two . churches. A golf course is among the less definite plans for the new community. About 20 per cent of the single family lots would be less than 7,500 square feet minimuln, many of which would (Continued on Page 8) McHenry On The March As a new year begins, it is just as appropriate that a community looks back over the past twelve months as an individual, taking note of successes and failures and resolving to make progressive plans for the future. Our review found "McHenry on the Mtarch." The year ended on an optimistic note with overwhelming public approval of a $675,000 bond issue which will see the construction of additions to three schools in Consolidated District 15. Dec. 31 also brings us near the dedication of a new city library, which is close to the hearts of everyone in the community since its accomplishment came about through the small and large generosities of many. The beautiful, colonial style building at the corner of Main and Green streets stands as a testimonial to the untiling, initial efforts of a few. brought to fruition by the support of an entire community. Also in progress is construction of a $1,500,000 addition to McHenry hospital resulting from a $300,000 fund drive which just ended. When completed, the new building program will result in a $2,160,000 hospital facility in the city. A new band shell, one of the most attractive in this part of the state, was another accomplishment of the past year. A project of the city, the shell stands proudly in the middle of the park, attracting large crowds to weekly summer concerts. The past twelve months have also seen annexation of more property to the city, 25 acres south on Green street formerly belonging to the H. M. Engdahls. Good news also came with announcement of the location of two new churches in the community -- Evangelical Covenant and the American Lutheran. New industries also chose McHenry, among larger ones, Illinois Coil Spring and Gearmaster, Inc.. the latter still in construction. Admiral Corp. also returned to the city for one phase of .operation which boosted the local employment rolls. A number of other businesses and industries were in the news for expansion or remodelling. Evidence that McHenry was eager to display its "wares" to the public was publication of 10,000 brochures by the Chamber of Commerce. And as the year ended, the city, Plan commission and Zoning Board of Appeals were meeting to hear latest plans for an extensive development program covering 600 acres. If plans develop as expected, this project, allowing space for park and recreational facilities, may well be the most important undertaking in many years. As in our own lives, the city came to the close of 1964 with some plans still unfulfilled. There had been a hope that a water conservancy district might eventually help solve the increasing woes of pollution of our rivers and lakes, but a negative vote at the polls last May in McHenry and Lake counties dashed the dreams of many. Whether or not the newly formed Tri-County Committee on Common Problems will !>e effective will only be known in the future. Another disappointment to many was failure of the Forest Preserve district to pass at the fall election. Also lifted among "unfinished business" affecting our community as well as the entire county, is a definite plan for a new court house. Ground work was laid by the county board soon after the first of the year, but the matter has progressed little since th.V, point. For 4he most part, the major unfinished business affects a wide area. A look at the past year in our im- . mediate community shows McHENRY ON THE MARCH the the It was an interesting meeting of the McHenry Kiwanis club on Monday of this week, when Miss Val Sellinger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Valentine Sellinger of 2610 N. Sequoia Drive, McHenry, and Ivan Jose Nicholls of Bogota, Colombia, a visitor in the Sellinger home, were guests. Following luncheon, Miss Sellinger spoke on the political and social background of Colombia, observed through study and actual experiences while she was an exchange student there for ten weeks last summer. Mr. Nicholls, who speaks only a limited amount of English, talked briefly about his country. Val is now a student at Marquette university. Mr. Nicholls, who spent the holidays in McHenry, will return to Javeriana university in Bogota, where he is a civil engineering student. Former Local Police Officer Wins For Capturing John Behrendt of Lilymoor, second from right, l|f§ shown receiving citation plaque from Larry Sabatino, vicefe| president of the National Police Officers association ari(|§, police chief of Sleepy Hollow. Others, left to right, • arp"-' Richard Nelson, police chief of Huntley; Donald McGoweiv ' police chief of Streamwood; and Dennis Pruelsen, secretary -] of the Tri-County Chapter 2 of National Police OfficeifP'- association. File Petition For Land Fill Program Af-petltion has been filed before the County Zoning Board of Appeals for the Central National Bank of Chicago, as trustee, and William DeVries, McHenry. Tfie petitioners are requesting a conditional use classification which would allow a sanitary land fill program of garbage disposal. The property is located North of English Prairie Road and east of Winn road in Richmond township. The hearing on this petition will be held on Jan. 6 in the village hall in Richmond, 111. ). SEVERAL One person was killed and several others were injured in Christmas week accidents affecting residents of the McHenry area. Mrs. Anna Jacobi, 73, of 3714 Ottawa avenue, Chicago, a sister of Mrs. Carl Behnke and Mrs. Emma Wolter of McHenry, died in a three-car crash which occurred about 9 o'clock Christmas night during a snow storm. Mrs. Jacobi had spent the day with her nephew and family, the Kurt W. Wolters, in Wauconda. Mr. Wolters was taking her back to Chicago when the accident occurred on Rand road, near Palatine. The Wolter auto struck some ice on the road and swerved into the path of an oncoming vehicle driven by Oralee Lloyd of Arlington Heights, then hit another car driven by Richard J. Himpelmann of 3611 N. Middle avenue, McHenry. Mrs. Jacobi was thrown from one door of the car and her nephew, who escaped with minor injuries, from the other door. Wolter's daughter, Erna, 9, was admitted to Northwest Community hospital. Arlington Heights, for treatment of injuries and observation. Himpelmann, 21, his mother, Dorothy, and sisters, Barbara, 12, Betty, 14, and Mary, 17, escaped with minor injuries. Services for Mrs. Jacobi were held at 8 o'clock Monday evening .from the Hollerbach chapel, followed by private interment on Tuesday. Drivers Hurt Atty. LeRoy J. Welter of 2611 Lauderdale Court, McHenry. suffered a fractured shoulder, collarbone and upper left arm and Robert Born of 2507 S. Lilac, McHenry, sustained a hack injury in the collision of (Continued on P:»ge 8) PLAN PROGRAM, OPEN HOUSE FOR McHENRY LIBRARY The new year in McHenry is sure to have an auspicious start with dedication of the new library on Sunday, Jan. 10. The program probably will be held at the high school, after which open house will be held across the street, at the library. After it opens to the public on Monday, Jan. 11, new hours will be from 2 to 8 p.m. daily and from 1 to 5 o'clock Saturdays. Much of the progress, which has been notable in recent years', is due to the tireless efforts of the library board, of which William J. Bolger is president, Mrs. C. F. Anglese, secretary, and Mrs. A. J. Wirtz, treasurer. Other members are Mrs. C. W. Goodell, Earl R. Walsh, George P. Freund, Mrs. R L. Weber, Fred Bienapfl and Frank Johnson. Humble Start Long time residents of McHenry will recall, as they look at the attractive, modern structure, the very humble start of the library in 1936. A small room in the local high school was offered at that time to house books collected, and a limited lending library was opened to the public. When a growing high school enrollment made it necessary for the use of all rooms, the library moved temporarily te». the city hall. It was in 1943 that the City Council adopted an ordinance proclaiming the establishment of a public library and the levy of a small tax for its support. Nine years later the William Tesch residence at the corner of Main and Green streets At a meeting and dinner of the National Police Officers association, held this month at Club Lilymoor, John Behrendt of Lilymoor was -awarded a dotation for bravery. The local resident was honored for his part in the capture of a bandit at the Prospect Plaza bank in Mount Prospect last March 16. Behrendt courageously recovered an estimated $3,500 from a bank thief. , He was a guard at the bank when the robber attempted to make his get-away and Behrendt fired three shots at the thief, Richard A. Moss of ROselle, who was a sales executive for an oil company. Behrendt arrived for work early that morning and found the cashier with a man who appeared to be deliverying a package. Instead, the intruder ordered both men into the vaul| and started away with two mo« ney boxes. ^ Risks Life {{> Although told not to moyef Behrendt opened the door anc) was threatened by the thief* then returned to watch proceedings through a crack in the* door. When the robber ran^i Behrendt noticed he had not taken his .38 revolver which was on a chair. The McHenry man grabbed the weapon and followed, firing into the air until Moss stopped. The hero of the attempted* robbery was formerly a mem-;, ber of the McHenry police forced and belongs to the Fox Valley Police Reserve. The citation he received, signed by Donald H. Snyder, president of the National Police Officers association, reads as follows: For having directly aided in the capture and arrest of a criminal who was en* dangering the lives and propyl erty of the people of his community. This officer while in the performance of his duties as a law enforcement officer reflected only the highest traditions in the police service and the profession he represents." STEAL TOOLS City police report a number of tools stolen from the trunk of a car belonging to Richard Smith, Jr., 3703 Maple avenue,j last week Wednesday. The car was in the garage when tt^e theft occurred. •», , "J» The nation's traffic toll over* the weekend reach 578. This was the second highest In his*,' tory for a three-day Christmas-, holiday weekend. * brary opened its doors at the, present location on Sept. 37, 1953. " y Last year, plans werp drawn and estimates giv^en for this new library addition, and C0IJ* oldest home in the community struction begun in July of