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Volume 92 --"No. 1 -- 3 Sections "8ERVIN* THE CHAIM0-LAKE9 REGION SINCE 1875' THURSDAY. APRIL 28.1966 -- McHENRY. ILLINOIS 20 Pages -- 10c Copy NEW TAX BILL RISES TO *16,372,490 We. knew Spring had arrived last Sunday when the first really, warm day of the season brought out several enterprising youngsters with signs advertising lemonade. With complaints numerous and constant regarding rising taxes, it is encouraging to note that McHenry township has the lowest town and general assistance bill of the seventeen townships in the county. It is almost "*half of the previous bill and is lower than at any time since 1949. In a period when highway accidents account for far more deaths than the battle field, it would be a totally indifferent individual who had no interest in any approach to reducing the fatality record. Nevertheless, the fanfare that has greeted the federal investigation into auto safety seems somewhat exaggerated to us. Car manufacturers are not e a s i l y c o n v i n c e d t h a t people will buy crash-proof autos, and they have some basis for their skepticism. One manufacturer tried to sell safety features on a new model a few years ago and very nearly had to close down because the public wasn't interested. Proposed legislation to make safety features mandatory is one solution, but puts the problem in the same category with the mother who forces medicine down the child's throat. The only difference is that highway fatalities have two separate aspects. Unlike the child who reluctantly swallows the medicine and waits for it to take effect, the fellow who is forced into buying a safe car still sits behind the wheel with the same attitude about driving ho had previously. In fact, the problem could worsen since the foolhardy arc easily convinced that here, at last, is a vehicle that can protect tlieni against anything. It seems probable that many of the same type accidents that occur now will also take place in any so-called "safe car". The fellow or gal who passes on curves or hills, or decides there is no limit to speed on the open highway, will find that soft cushions and "Stretchable" glass can go only so far in, offering protection. Drivers will be protected from certain types of accidents now prevalent, but we just suspect the same tragedies will continue among fearless -drivers for whom safe cars.and legislation still have no answer. (Continued on Page 5) LINDA MEYER Three more entries have been received for the Marine Festival queen contest to be held in conjunction with Mc- Henry's important sum mer event next July. The deadline has been extended to 5 o'clock next Monday evening, May 2, at the Plaindealer office in order to accommodate those who would find it difficult to register on Saturday. One of the late entries is Linda Meyer, 16, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Meyer of 1210 S. Blackhawk, McHenry. Linda is active in school activities, including Tenth Legion, GAA, Pep club and Future Teachers club. She is also on the "B" plus honor roll. Two other entries who are sure to confuse the judges are look-alikes, Jean and Lynne Dixon, twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Dixon of 1322 W. Bay road. They are 16 years old and sophomores in McHenry high school. METHODISTS TO SELECT FAMILY OF YEAR MAY 1 In observance of National Family Week at the Community Methodist church members will meet for a light supper consisting of salad and dessert at 5:30 p.m., May V. Highlighting the evening will be the selection of the "Family of the Year". This family is judged, in the estimation of the members, to have most exemplified Christian virtues and made an outstanding contribution to the church during the past year. John Leighty, director of music for the church, will lead an informal time following the dinner. A film will be shown entitled "A Better World Begins With Me". Mr. and Mrs. Gene Negley and family will conduct family devotions to close the evening at 8 p.m. All of the famil'es of the church are invited to participate. LYNNE DIXON JEAN DIXON MONEY ORDER MACHINE STOLEN AT POST OFFICE Authorities have been investigating a burglary at the Spring Grove post office sometime Friday night or early Saturday, when a money order machine valued at more than $50 was taken. Mrs. Eva Freund notified the sheriff's office and the post office department, which sent Inspector Black of Rockford to check the theft. Discovery of the burglary was made by Postal Clerk Marilyn Erickson when she arrived for work about 7 o'clock. Entry was made by breaking a skle^wihdow in the building, btftJriere was also evidence that an attempt had been trrade to enter through a rear door, lock which was broken. SPECIAL TOWN MEETING A special town meeting has been called for Thursday, April 28, at 8 o'clock at the Legion home for the purpose of hearing interested persons on the subject of a petition to Improve the roads in Wonder View Unit No. I and Wonder View Unit No. 2 up to township specifications. It will also deal with spreading a special assessment over the properties owned by various lot owners adjacent to the roads in these areas and to make all neces- PLAN CLEAN-UP WEEK Clean-up Week in McHenry starts Monday morning, May 2 and will conclude Saturday, May 7. During the week, city trucks will make pick-ups daily. Refuse, but no garbage, should be placed on the tree bank, for collection. Escapes Strangulation Probably the most narrow escape from death he will ever experience will be recalled for many years by young Anthony Raymond McAndrews, who came near strangulation in the yard of his home at 7212 W. Bull Valley road last Sunday about 7 p.m. The child, almost 4, had been watching his older brothers playing ball in front of the house and (asked his mother if he could go out. To protect him from the wind, she tied a long scarf around his head and he proceeded into the back yard with his tricycle. Apparently imitating some of his favorite television characters, he stood on the tricycle and tied one end of the scarf to a trapeze and the other around his neck. As the tricycle moved, he fell from it and was noticed hanging from the play equipment just a few minutes later by his brother, Patrick, 15. His father, James McAndrews, ran to the scene and untied the knot, after which his mother applied mouth to mouth resuscitation until the child started to breathe again. James Althoff of the fire department was the. first to arrive on the scene, only minutes after the near tragedy. He summoned a doctor and the child was taken to McHenry hospital, where a tracheotomy was performed. The boy remained unconscious until 7 o'clock the following morning but was reported improving nicely in midweek. Anthony has three brothers, Patrick, 15, Thomas, 13, and John, 9, and a sister, Colleen, 0 Bingo Bugs Relent As Many Share Prii© In Third Wee! After two weeks in which Bingo Bugs escaped contest players, fifteen persons called during the past week with cards completely filled. At deadline time Wednesday at 5 p.m. that many winners were counted. All of the winners were playing the third week on orange cards, with the prize having built up to $150. This included $50 from each of the first two weeks added to the same amount this week. Pictures of the fifteen winners will be printed in next week's issue of the Plaindealer. New, yellow cards are now available and will be good until Wednesday, May 4. P@oi®Mn»e Ntat Weel Aid Viet Na-Mom Proi@tt A benefit performance to raise money to send performers to Viet Nam as part of the Viet Nam Airlift show, will be held in McHenry Junior high school audilorium at 8 o'clock on Friday, May 6. Originally scheduled to take place the first week in May, the tour was postponed and is now tentatively scheduled for mid-summer. Within about one month, the performing gr'jup will make trips around the country, giving shows at hospitals and military bases. The Viet Nam Airlift project is a program designed to entertain and support fighting men at home and abroad. The Airlift is made up of a representative mother (Mrs. Leo Blocks of Prairie View, 111.) and a troupe of professional homo town entertainers. Spearheading the show at Junior high will be McHenry's own Shirley Smith, Nancy Gardiner. Wally Kuhns, the Gardiner dancers and a squad of World War I and World War II veterans. Giving full support to the project are the various service groups and business organizations, as well as Mayor fopn- (Continued on Fngo 5) SPRING GROVE VILLAGE BOARD HEAD DIES AT 62 Paul Weber of J.813 Main street, Spring Grove1; died Monday, April 25, about 12:30 a.m. in McHenry hospital, where he PAUL WEBER had been a patient for ten days. His death followed three years of poor health. (Continued or) Page 5) NAME HARRY MAY OUTSTANDING MAN IN FRATERNITIES Harry May, son of Mr. William IVJay, 2207 W. Johnsburg Road has been named o u t standing man in the social fraternities at Culver-Stockton College, Canton, Mo. May, a senior, was elected Greek Man by a vote of the women's sorority members. He is a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, honor court and the college's faculty-student athletic committee. He is an outstanding baseball player and active in the intramural program. To qualify for the award, the student must be an upperclassman with superior grade averages.. The award recognizes the student who has done^the most for his fraternity, the entire fraternity system and the college. He must be active in other college activities as well. LAMP SHORTS A flood light in .the Kotalik Photo S t u d i o on R i v e r s i d e drive shorted about 5 o'clock Inst Thursday afternoon, causing damage only to the lamp. SHERRY GEHRKE WINS COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP Winners of General County Scholarships in McHenry county have been reported by the County Scholarship Committee of Illinois to Richard L. Tazewell, County Superintendent of Schools, who accepted applications for these scholarships last January. Another county schol- CITY BRING YEAR TO CL Two Vacancies Are Filled On Plan Commission SHERRY GEHRKE arship went to a McHenry girl. Sherry Gehrke. Two scholarships are available in McHenry county, awarded on the basis of scores made on the ACT examinations given on Nov. 13, 1965. They exempt the winners from tuition and fees at any of the seven state-supported universities in Illinois for a period of four years. For McHenry county, the winners this year were: Jonathan A. Nagel, 503 Highview Drive, Fox River Grove, and Paul Alan Schwebke, 115 Pauline Street, Crystal Lake. Winners of University of Illinois Scholarships in McHenry county have also been reported. Three scholarships are available in McHenry county, awariricd on the basis of scores made on the ACT examination given Nov. 13. They exempt the winners from tuition fees for a period of four ye ars. For McHenry county the winners this year wore: 'Agrif ull u r e , Robert Gerald l l a l l s l n i i n , The City Council convened Monday to wind up the business of the old fiscal year in the annual meeting, then started off the new year in a special meeting. Reports of officers were read and approved, the treasurer's annual report to be published in the nea rfuture. In the special meeting, the mayor reappointed all persons now employed by the city in various departments. Warren Kuhlman and Harry Dean were appointed to fill vacancies in the McHenry Planning commission. George P. Freund, who has given many years of service to the city, requested that he not be reappointed. Larry Lund had resigned in the past year. Standing committees were named, with each alderman being named to a chairmanship. Renew Licenses All holders of alcoholic beverage licenses applied for renewal and were approved. There are seventeen Class "A" tavern licenses. The American Legion post holds a club license and Millstream Drugs and Nye Drugs hold package liquor licenses limited to sale by licensed pharmacists: Wm. R. North and Associates were hired to make the annual audit of city books. The McHenry State bank was named as depository of funds for the city treasurer. CANCEL RETAIL MEETING There will be no meeting of the retail merchants' committee of the Chamber of Commerce on May 3, as originally scheduled, but a meeting will be held in June. Cary; Child of- Veteran of World War II, Sherry Lynn Gehrke, McHenry; Child of Veteran of Korean Conflict, Patrick Henry Kilroy, Woodstork. COUNTY TOTAL $1,123,243 OVER PREVIOUS YEAR McHenry Township Charged $2,909,079 For Current Year Unhappy news came to McHenry county taxpayers this past week as nearly 100,000 tax bills, both real estate and personal property, were placed in the mails. The postage alone for sending them cost the county $3,510.66* The total amount to be collected reaches $16,372,490.67 compared to S15.249.247.39 for last year. McHenry township's total reached $2,909,079.33, second highest among the county's seventeen townships. Of this amount, $2,440,843.78 was for real estate, $463,262.17 for personal property, $4,763.- 18 for railroad and $210.20 for leaseholds. McHenry township was topped only by Algonquin with a total of $4,570,309.04. Other township totals were Nunda, $2,001,951.76; Dorr, $1,595,084; Grafton, $835,574.66; Marengo, $758,663.13; Chemung, $744,120.- 99; Greenwood, $583,009.05; Dunahm, $ 4 0 6 , 9 2 1 . 4 5 ; R i c h mond, $391,774.57; Coral, $305, 947.58; Hebron, $261,163.43; Seneca, $252,759.22; H a r t land, 5246,802.15; Riley, $214,535.04; Alden, $174,594.91; and Burton, $120,200.31. Make Comparisons Total county real estate taxes to be collected this year amount to $13,252,269.08 compared to last year's $12,422,799. 86. Personal property to be collected in 1966 amounts to $3,- 018,536.55 compared to last years .$2,726,124.63. The total increase for 1965 taxes is $1,123,254.28. - Last year the total amount distributed to the ninety-six taxing units in the county was $14,916,156.71. Of this amount, $2,697,681.99 was personal property tax, or 18.08 per cent of the total distributed. Given to the various taxing bodies were the following amounts in 1965: McHenry township tax, $61,842.79; road and bridge tax for McHenry, $200,- 055.96; Island Lake, $7,257.01; Lakemoor, $7,888.63; McCullom Lake, $8,065.57; McHenry, $87,709.04; Spring Grove, $2,- 540.73; McHenry fire protection district, $41,229.40; Wonder Lake fire protection district, $20,614.04; School District 156, $866,671.46; District 12. $207,- 589.60; District 15, $855,098.41; District 34, $40,646.23; District 36, $144,386.94. Nunda-McHenry library,. $2,810.78. CITY COLLECTION OF SALES TAXES REACHES NEW HIGH City sales taxes collected in November. December and January on tax liability for the three previous months have been reported by the Illinois Department of Revenue. Under the Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax, McHenry's liability totalled $9,189.52 for November, S7.329.77 for Decipher and $13,287.82. The city ranked third among county cities. Highest was Crystal Lake with three-month figures of 511.146.80, $10,892.20 and 518.- 0 6 2 . 8 3 a n d W o o d s t o c k w i t h 59,461.45, $8,416.06 and $14,088.- 96. OBSERVE LAW DAY WITH MOCK CRIMINAL TEIAL Law Day, U.S.A. will be observed in a novel manner this year in McHenry County, according to Richard Zukowski. Crystal Lake, co-chairman of the McHenry County Bar association's Law Day committee. This year a "Law Day Student's Conference" will be held at Marian Central high school in Woodstock on April 29. and will involve high SCIKKJI seniors from Woodstock. Marian Central. Hebron. Huntley. Richmond and McHenry. They will witness a mock criminal jury The purpose of Law Day. U.S.A. is to remind Americans, in the words of President Johnson, "of the fundamental 1 ruth that our liberty, our light to pursue our individual destinies, (Continued on l\i;;r ii) 'Attack' Roadside Litter f-' '• - ' --••W'st.i-ijsS.-.X Members of Millstream campers are shown last Sunday as they collected 480 pounds of litter thrown along local roads. They covered a 1.7 mile stretch along both sides of the highway. Boaters Saved From Drowning At least one person narrowly escaped drowning in the Fox river last Sunday in the first boating accident of the season. Martin Marker and his father-in-law, John Noren, both of Chicago, were thrown into the water when their craft was caught in the wake of high waves caused by another craft passing very close. They were rescued by a third boater, James Kellen, of Melrose Park, who brought both men to a pier at Johnsburg, where they were given aid by the Johnsburg rescue squad and removed to McHenry hospital. One of the men reportedly was unable to swim. The accident occurred near Casey's Resort RECEIVES MEDAL Military honors for academic and general excellence will be presented to sixty-seven Cadets and midshipmen of University of Illinois Reserve Officers Training corps in ceremonies April 29, among them Robert J. Might of 1121 Goodview street, McHenry, Air Force ROTC cadet, who receives the Chicago Tribune Gold Medal. A successful attack on roadside litter was completed last Sunday, April 24, by the Millstream Campers of McHenry and about 800 other chapters of the National Campers and Hikers association across the nation. More than thirty adults conducted the pick-up along 1.7 miles of the Johnsburg road and gathered up some 480 pounds of trash. The Millstream Campers hope that the public, old and young alike, will realize the damage done and the cost to clean up after thoughtless and careless individuals. The local pick-up area was only 1.7-mile stretch on both sides of the highway. If this is multiplied by the number of miles of roads in McHenry county there would be approximately 157 tons of trash remaining for road crews to pick up. It is the opinion of many that the area , covered on SIUH day had less littering than the average in the county. The litter survey, conducted in cooperation with Keep America Beautiful, Inc., has at* tracted the attention of the First Lady. In a letter to the National Campers and Hikers a s s o c i a t i o n , Mrs. John son wrote: (Continued on Page 5) ANNIVERSARY PROGRAM Of CHORAL CLUI9LL BENEFIT WOMAN'S (IMS / r Suzie Ulick. right, performs a gypsy dance as she watches Patti Brooke and Mary Idstein tell their fortune in cards while standing over a flaming gypsy kettle. All three will perform in a scene from "Vagabonds of the Outdoors", a portion of next weekend's anniversary program of the McHenry Choral club. Programs will "be presented Saturday evening, April 30, and Sunday evening, May 1, at 8:15 o'clock in the McHenry high school auditorium. It will spring organ- A program which will benefit the McHenry Woman's club in their philanthropic efforts will be presented by the McHenry Choral club on Saturday, April ;;0. and Sunday, May 1. at 8:15 o'clock in the high school auditorium. mark the twenty-fifth program of the musical ization. Appropriate because of their varied programs through the years is the- theme of this offering. "Vagabonds of Song", which will be divided into four sections. The first two. "Vagabonds of Nature" and "Vagabonds of the Show World", will feature selections by the entire chorus. One will deal with nature's heritage ' in such numbers as "Blow Prairie Wind" . and Liszt's "Romany Life", while the other will concentrate on favorites of musical shows, featuring "The V a g a bond King" and "Carousel". Circus Theme In a lighter vein, the stage will be transformed into an amphitheatre effect for "Vagabonds of the Circus World" which runs the gamut of song from "Love Makes the World Go Round" sung by children on a carousel, to "Laugh Clown Laugh" and the beautiful strains of "Belle of the Ball" sung by the prima donna, Irene Keim. Philip Helwig, music director in two McHenry (Continued on Page 5)