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0 "SERVING THE CHAIN-O-LAKES REGION SINCE 1«7«" rolume 91 -- No. 48 -- 3 Sections THURSDAY. MARCH 24,1966# McHENRY, ILLINOIS 22 Pages -- 10c Copy INDICATE POLITICAL Host Color Guard Contest The familiar caution that "children should be seen and not hurt" will take on added meaning in the days ahead, with the warm breezes of spring prompting more carefree ways among the very young. ,! | The experienced driver will do well to be a defensive driver and expect the unexpected from children. One of the most frequent accidents, and one most difficult to prevent, is the child dashing from behind parked cars in front of moving vehicles. The careful driver will be cautious to glance for tiny feet behind parked vehicles as he approaches, and if he sees them will approach the spot slowly. This may seem a very time consuming practice, but such a small loss in comparison to taking the life of a happy-golucky child whose thoughts are everywhere but on the danger of cars. Many of today's auto accidents have been traced to months or » years • ago, when drivers sat for the first time behind the wheel. Supplanting this haphazard training, today's school program goes far beyond the mere mechanics of the driving operation to teach the necessity for being safety conscious. Its primary purpose is to instill a sense of responsibility for the lives of other motorists and pedestrians. There are few drivers who have not been irked by the irresponsible antics of a youngster on a bike who is old enough to have learned safety habits. The show-off, particularly, is the bane of drivers' existence for he is old enough and smart enough to know that he will not be struck deliberately. " This is a different situation than the little pedestrian or the very young bike rider whose mind wanders in the midst of a trouble-free world. It would do well if drivers took the trouble occasionally to obtain the name of the young show-off and register a com- (Continued on Page 8) Present Sixth Annual "On Guard" Contest McHenry Sunday Marrilou Smith, left, and Jeannie DeVries, sergeants with the color guard of the Viscounts, are shown with two of the trophies to be awarded at next Sunday evening's "On Guard" color guard contest. The event will be held at the McHenry high school gymnasium March 27. The public is invited to attend. The sixth annual "On Guard" Color Guard contest will be held on Sunday, March 27, 1:30 p.m. at the McHenry high school gym. Last year's winner, the Buccaneers of Sheyboygan, Wis., will defend their title against such organizations as the Racine Scouts, Chicago Cavaliers, Militaires, Fremont, Ohio; Des Plaines Corsairs, Queensmen, Kenosha, SMMB (South Milwaukee Municipal Bank Color Guard); Algonquin Indians, Keydets, Chicago; St. Alexis Vikings, Bensenville; Chicago Mounties, Purple Knights, Rockford; Neisi Ambasedettes, Chicago; and the Guardsmen, Mt. Prospect. The first place trophy will be presented by the American Legion Post No. 491. Second place is awarded by the American (Continued on Page 8) Two Tafent Worn i To tN IIE Mm l VANITY I»l»' w" Nancy Gardiner and Shirley Smith talked with Enthusiasm this week about their planned trip to Viet Nam early in May, where they will entertain American troops as part of the Viet Na-Mom Air Lift originating in Lake county. Two talented McHenry wives and mothers hav.e been selected to fly to Viet Nam with a troupe of between twenty and twenty-five persons to entertain American service m e n. They are Nancy Gardiner, wife of Merle H. Gardiner of 1811 N. Riverside drive, and Shirley Smith, wife of Dr. Carleton Smith of 3616 W. Main street. P>oth were chosen from about filly who competed in auditions held in Waukegan recently for the opportunity to take the trip with Viet Na-Mom Air Lift, the name given to the program.. The idea originated several months ago following the draft card burnings and demonstrations. It was decided to counteract these practices by forming a USO type troupe to entertain at home and in Viet (Continued on Page 8) EDUCATION NEEDS ABE STUDIED BY CITIZEN COUNCIL *fhe" Citizens' Informational council of Johnsburg and St. Jchn's schools met on Moriday, March 21, to discuss educational needs of the district. Mrs. Fritz Von Bruenchenhein and Mrs. William. Haag, co-chairmen of the group, introduced Supt. James Bush, who pointed out that the enrollments are continuing to rise and that finances are not keeping up with the rising enrollments. The school is short classrooms at the present time. The introduction of a shared time program allowing students from St. John's to participate in science, mathematics and foreign language will mean additional classrooms. The council will continue to meet to investigate the facts in more detail. As further information becomes available, the group intends to make every effort to insure that residents of the district have all the facts. Refrigerator Burns In Fur Store Sunday Company I firemen were called to the Otto Heinz fur store on Riverside drive at 12:10 Sunday afternoon, where they found the top of a refrigerator ablaze in the rear of the establishment. Employees at the nearby Jepsen Tire Mart smelled smoke and called Mr. Heinz. When firemen arrived they found the store filled with smoke and the refrigerator burning, apparently from a defective motor. SUE EKHOLM IN CARNEGIE HALL SALUTE A distinof honor was bestowed on (pretty Sue Ekholm of Elgin tnis past week when she was chosen to play in the concert, "American Youth Salutes the President" at Carnegie Hall, New York, April 13. The young lady is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. Roger (Gladys Justen) Ekholm of 852 Brook street, Elgin. Sue is well known in this community for frequent visits with her maternal grandmother, Mrs. John R. Justen, 3620 W. John street, and her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. John J. Justen, 704 N. Center street. The annual concert in which she will appear next month will feature a ninety-piece symphony and 120-voice chorus. (Continued on Page 8) CONTESTS IN SCHOOtJ>OSTS Filing Deadline Reveals Three Seek Office, District 156 Several contests were apparent for several" positions to be filled on school boards in the McHenry area following the deadline for filing last Saturday. In High School District 156, Donald Weingart and Vale Adams seek re-election. The former has been a member of the board since 1960 and seeks his third term. Mr. Adams has been -a board member, serving recently as president, since 1957. He is running for his fourth term. New among candidates for this position is Elizabeth M. Nolan of 3320 W. Fairway drive. Others File In District 15, three men have filed for election and are unopposed. August "Bud" Uttich seeks another full three-year term. Dr. W. E. Kohl, who is completing one year on the board, filling a vacancy, will run for his first three-year term. Rev. J o h n M c l n t y r e , w h o w a s named in February to replace William Tonyan, Sr., until the next election, will seek a twoyear term to fill Mr. Tonyan's unexpired term. Harrison Two contests are evident in Harrison's District 36 at Wonder Lake. New candidates, Dr. Donald Sturm and Louis Belshaw, seek one opening for a one-year term. This vacancy was created because of a resignation which has been filled for the past year by George Sjtreet. Mr. Street now seeks a threeyear term, one of two openings for that length of time. Other candidates • are Maxine Bixby and Joseph Sullivan. The latter is the incumbent. District 12 In Johnsburg's District 12, three incumbents seek re-election to three-year terms. They are Richard R. Marshall, Joseph G. Huemann and James E. Long. Ringwood School The three-year term of Clayton Bruce expires on Ringwood's three-man board of directors. According to the custom for the smaller boards, a caucus is held previous to the election, at which time nominations are made for office. All school elections will be held Saturday, April 9. SONS OF LEGION CHARTER WONDER Otto Hartung, commander of the Wonder Lake American Legion Robert Vanderstraeten Post No. 1169, announced that this post has started a Sons of The American Legion squadron with twelve charter members. They are Nicholas Paulin, Lawrence Paulin, Dennis Bennett, Richard Bell, Daniel Bell, Donald Bennett, Edward Braddock, Edward Eberle, Robert Eberle, Robert Habich, Edward Wakeham and John Or- OSZ. fi The squadron will meet the first Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. At the last meeting, under the supervision of Squadron Advisor O. L. Rossberg and co-chairmen John Eberle and Wilbur Habich, the following officers were appointed: S q u a d r o n c o m m a n d e r , G u y Ullman; senior-vice commander, Daniel Bell; Junior vicecommander, Nicholas Paulin; adjutant, Robert Habich, chap- Iain, Edward Eberle; Sgt.-at- Arms, Jeff Johnson; historian, Dennis Bennett. At the present the squadron has twenty-five members. Persons with sons eligible are urged to sign them up now. CANCER CRUSADE Residents are urged to support forthcoming Cancer Crusade when volunteer workers seek contributions. THOMAS KOLENO INJURES ABM IN FEED GRINDER Sixteen-year-old Thomas Koleno, son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Koleno,,, Sr., of 3501 W. Beach road, is recovering in McHenry hospital from a severely injured right arm sustained Friday evening when it was caught in a feed grinder. The youth was working at the machine on the Walter Bolger farm, Barreville road, when the accident occurred. He managed to pull the lever to stop it, but was unable to extricate the arm. Tom was found about ten minutes later by his father, who had come to the farm to pick up the family truck. Another hour and twenty minutes were required to free the boy from the machine. Suffering three compound fractures between the elbow and wrist, Thomas underwent surgery last weekend. He is making satisfactory progress but has been in considerable pain. Vandals At Work In Area Damage expected to run several hundreds of dollars occurred at Schroeder Metal Craft, Inc., 1519 S. Rt. 31, in the early hours of last Friday morning. Vandals, believed to have been disappointed at not finding money, took only a polaroid camera. The rest of their time inside the new and modern "building was spent in breaking many of the glass pieces, such as table tops and mirrors. Time clocks in the buflding indicated that entrance was made sometime after midnight Thursday. The same night, intruders entered Fox Valley Brake & Clutch, Inc., at 2604 N. Chapel Hill, road, through a rear window. A small amount of money was taken, and. there was considerable vandalism which is expected to total a sizeable sum when the final estimate is made. Both vandalism and theft occurred at the Ringwood school, which is described in detail in the Ringwood column. Hub caps, tires and wheels were reported taken from the cars of local residents last weekend. s Ops Mai 25 In City's 1966 Marine Festival Queen Contest On Sunday, July 17, McHenry will hold its annual Marine Festival. Additions to - this year's line-up of events promises ..to make the program the biggest and most interesting of all. Each year the auxiliary of Fox River VFW Post 4600 spon- PATTI GRAY sors the queen contest in conjunction with the weekend sponsored by the McHenry Chamber of Commerce. The competition is one of the highlights of the festival. The closing date for entries in this year's contest, which opens Friday, will be April 30. Plans are being made at this time by the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce for a trip for the 1966 queen and her mother. Preliminary plans call for it to be the most spectacular one a McHenry queen has ever taken. Last year she traveled to Washington, D.C., and there Miss Patti Gray was royally entertained. The previous year, Miss Beth Glysing and her mother traveled to the World's Fair in New York. Announcement of this year's trip will bo made at a later date, but members of the committee are ccrtain that this year's trip will surpass all others. Rules of the contest are as follows: Applicants must be year 'round residents of the McHenry high school district, be 16 years of age at the date of application and not over 21 by the date of judging, not be a professional model, must have parents' consent and must participate in the training meetings. Entrants in this year's McHenry Marine Festival queen contest should bring to the Plaindealer office their picture and a personal resume. The entries may also be given to Lou Consago at the local theatre. Mr. Consago is chairman of the 1966 queen contest. Contestants will start to participate in the weekly meetings of instruction the first week of May ' at the VFW clubrooms. POWER FAILURE A power failure left residents of the Pistakee Hills area in darkness for about five hours, starting at 8 o'clock Monday evening, caused by a utility pole which stretched across Ringwood road and Pistakee drive. The pole fell during the storm, when the soil washed away. An unidentified te&n-age boy was the first to stop and remained on the scene for about an hour and a half to direct traffic around the pole until workmen arrived. ident F hree Offices; Mi ek Committee Posts Bond Speakers Father Eugene Baumhofer, pastor of St. Mary's church, McHenry, gave the invocation at the silver anniversary kick- Part of the '66 C. of C. promotion will include two life size "Easter bunnies" walking through the business sections of the city on April 7, 8 and 9, distributing chocolate covered candy eggs to children. REV. EUGENE BAUMHOFER off luncheon of the United States Treasury Savings Bonds division for Illinois, held last week in the Red Lacquer room of the Palmer House, Chicago. In addition to Father Baumhofer, McHenry was represented at the speakers' table by Howard V. Phalin, president, Field Enterprises Educational corporation and Arnold J. Rauen, state director, United States Treasury Savings Bonds division for Illinois and chairman of the Chicago Federal Executive board. GRASS FIRES The warm breezes of last Thursday prompted many residents to start cleaning up yards resulting in four grass fires requiring the attention of firemen. Two occurred in the McHenry area and two at Johnsburg. Firemen ask that permission be sought before burning on windy days. With the opening day for filing petitions of candidacy with County Clerk Vernon Kays Monday of this week, there was considerable activity for several posts. The last day for filing will be March 28. By mid-Tuesday afternoon, there were contests evident in three of the four county offices for which filings had been made. Even this early, three had indicated their desire to seek the office of sheriff. They were John Carroll of Woodstock, Ray Chirempes of Barrington and Melvin Griebel of Marengo. The present office holder, Edward Dowd, is not allowed by law to succeed himself. Two filed for county superintendent of schools, the incumbent, Richard L. Tazewell of Harvard and O.C. O'Hara of WToodstock. Another post for which the present office holder, Audrey Walgenbach, cannot succeed herself is that of county treasurer. Two filed early this week for that post, Raymond A. Murphy of Woodstock and Cal Skinner, Jr., of Crystal Lake. Only Candidate The incumbent county clerk, Vernon Kays, was the only candidate to have filed for that post by Tuesday afternoon. All of the above candidates filed petitions as Republicans. For the board of school trustees in the county, Norbert B. Mauch of McHenry was the only one to file by mid-week. There were numerous filings f o r p r e c i n c t c o m m i t t e e m e n posts in McHenry township. On the GOP side they were as f o l l o w s : P r e c i n c t 2 , S a m Schmunk, Roland Herrmann and Tom Davis; 3, Edward W. Bojko; 4, Joseph Frett; 5, Anthony J. Grosso; 7, Joseph B. Stanek; 9, Vernon F. Ehredt and Connie M. Johnson; 10, Theodore Wickman; 11, John T. Licastro; 12, Joseph R. (Jake) Levesque; 13, Foster E. Glorch; 14, Clem J. Wirfs; 15, Albert A. Adams; 16, Edmund J. Matuszak; and 18, Clayton Holmes. (Continued on Page 8) Proble Creek Bronihi Before Council Mrs. H. Joseph Gitlin, chairman of th; voters' guide project for the McHenry- Woodstock League of Women Voters, second from left, and Mrs. James Mfyashiro, league president, are shown distributing copies of their pamphlet, "A Voter's Guide," at last Monday nights City Council meeting. Shown with them are Alderman Gerald Weg-1 ener. left, Major Donald P. Doherty and Alderman William Bolger. Copies also have been distributed to school students in McHenry and Woodstock, and are available at the office of City Clerk Earl R. Walsh for new registrants. (Continued on rage 8) The problem of navigatinp boats in Boone Creek was pre sented to the City Council Mon day night by Tom Hart anc Frank Anderson, owners of Mark's Marine. The request for cleaning Boone Creek asks that ihe city assume that portion under the Green street and Elm. street bridges. Cooperation of other p r o p e r t y o w n e r s i s b e i n g sought. The petitioners expressing a willingness lo pay a urge portion of the cost. A proposal to furnish television and FM radio service, known as Community Antenna Television, was presented to he Council by Richard F. Shively, president of Telesis coi juration. v\ho was introduced by Allan Leibsohn. The plan calls for installation of a high tower outside the city limits which would bring in all stations and provide a better piciure to those; who wish to subscribe to the service. The firm left proposals with the city city for consideration in grantr ing a franchise. David Ladd requested petmission to erect a large directional sign to direct persons to the new Boone Valley development. The request was referred to the Superintendent of Public Works and the advisory committee consisting of Aldermen Etten, Jackson and Con* way. fc