THE MCHENRY PLAINDEALER "SERVING THE CHAIN-O-LAKES REGION SINCE 1875" VOL. 91 - No 5-2 Sections Thursday, August 31, 1967 - McHenry, Illinois 20 Pages ICC Citizenship Plaque Is Awarded Camp Director PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO OPEN SEPT. 6 '\ BURGLARS TAKE LARGE SUM AT SUNNYSIDE DODGE Burglars broke a large, show window on the west side of Sunnysid§ Dodge, 4810 W. Rt. 120, McHenry, sometime in the early hours of Wednesday morning » and took a substantial amount of cash and several thousands"of dollars in checks. In addition to breaking the window, they also broke into the office desk and stole a cash box. The cash was undetermined, but it was disclosed that the amount might reach as high as $400 or $500. The firm's owner is Patrick DeMichele and the manager is Maurice Harteau. McHenry police are investigating. Musm* and %ieanderin* Dr. Robert Ort, president of the McHenry Kiwanis club, is shown presenting a citizenship award for distinquished service to Mary S. Longo, for many years director of the Chicago Crippled Children's camp at Riverdale subdivision. She was also given a bouquet of roses by the McHenry club for the outstanding service rendered locally for twenty-one years. Mrs. Longo recently suffered a stroke and is recovering at the Rachel M. & Charles H. Schwab Rehabilitation hospital, 1409 S. California, Chicago. To recognize Mrs. Mary Longo's many years as executive director of the Chicago Club for Crippled Children's camp, Dr. Robert Ort, Kiwanis president, travelled to Chicago to present this outstanding resident with a citizenship award. Through Mrs. Longo's efforts and her pleasing personality, the camp has attained an enviable success and assisted many children toward a brighter future. Mrs. Longo has also taught for many years in the public school system of Park Ridge. She has an MA degree in education from DePaul university and has done post graduate work at Chicago Teachers college, Roosevelt university, the University of Chicago and DePaul university in the education of educable mentally retarded children and in the ^education of the perceptually handicapped. She has taught the educable mentally and the perceptually handicapped children in the intermediate grades and junior high school. After three months of mostly fall weather, we find folks looking ahead to September with mixed feelings. Swimmers describe the past vacation period y as a time of disaster, while many of us who don't indulge _ in such recreation happily look forward to continued pleasant living. To some aspects of summer we say farewell with regret. Among these are our two camps which serve hundreds of young people in their particular needs. With the approach of Labor Day, both the CCCC camp for cerebral palsy and polio victims and the Villa Maria camp which accommodates orphans, will close their doors until next June. If anyone has spent time at either camp during the busy season and returned following its close, he would find the calendar is not necessary to remind him that the silence of September is a farewell to summer. In gathering information regarding possible uses for Landmark school, we checkedneigh- (Continued on page 10) VETERANS MEET The McHenry Barracks ofthe Veterans of World War I will meet at the Legion home Thursday, Sept. 7, at 7 p.m. Dinner will be served, family style, to members, guests and widows of deceased members. Gift To Therapy Center A gift from the Easter Seal auxiliary, Robert Steffi, executive director of the Therapy center on Washington street in Woodstock, looks over this short wave diathermy machine. Discussing the gift with Steffi is Mrs. Jack Williams, president of the auxiliary. The gift is one in series of contributions to help patient comfort and improve patient care at the county-wide health organization. DON PEASLEY PHOTO A short wave diathermy machine has been given to the Therapy Center for McHenry County by the Easter Seal woman's auxiliary. Mrs. Jack Williamr., president of the organization that marks its fourth birthday in October, said the money required to buy the machine was Joint School Meet Features Dr. M. Powell Professor Will Address Teachers Tuesday, Sept 5 SET INQUEST IN BOATING MISHAP DEATH LAST WEEK An inquest was scheduled to be conducted Wednesday evening at the George R. Justen & Son funeral home into the death of Laureen Weintraub, 9, of Glenview, who was fatally injured in a boating accident last Wednesday, Aug. 23, about 6:30 p.m. Hy Weintraub of Glenview was driving Ms boat about. 20 miles per hour on the Fox river, at the entrance to Pistakee Bay, and Laureen was reported to have been sitting on top of the cabin in front of the boat on the port side. A brother, Lyle, was on the starboard side. As the boat struck an object in the water, Laureen was thrown into the water and was next seen at the rear ofthe boat. Her father jumped into the water immediately and pulled her out, after w'lich the Johnsburg Rescue Squad took her to McHenry hospital, where she was pronounced dead on arrival. Sheriff's deputies said it seemed apparent the child was hit by the propeller on the right side. Her body was removed from the Justen chapel to the Original Wehnstein & So>i funeral home in Chicago for services. raised through auxiliary fundraising projects. The auxiliary raised much of the money through a re- (Continued on page 10) DR. MARVIN POWELL Dr. Marvin Powell, professor of education at Northern Illinois university, DeKalb, will be featured speaker when the joint fall meeting of the McHenry public schools, Districts 15 and 156, is held Tuesday* Sept. 5, in the Junior high school on Kane avenue. . ' The subject of Dr. Powell's address at 1:30 in the afternoon will be "Applications of Learning Theory to Education." Before joining NIU in February of 1961, he was assistant professor of education and psychology at West&rn Reserve university, Cleveland, Ohio, from 1952. During those same years, he served as acting director of the Vocational Counsel center for the same university and as director of psy- (Continued on page 10) I Property Taxes Due On Sept. 1 Sept. 1 falls on a Friday this year and that is the date on which the second installment of the McHenry county real estate tax is due. No notice will be mailed to individual taxpayers as a reminder. Both the personal property tax and the first installment of the reed estate tax was due cm June 1. By now, an additional 3 percent penalty interest has accrued. Most of tho3e delinquent in payment of their personal property taxes as of Aug. 11 also have to pay $1 for advertising costs. Payments may be made in person or by mail at the Treasurer's office, Woodstock, and at most McHenry county banks. After Sept. 1, no payments will be accepted by area banks. Penalty interest on the personal property tax and the first half of the Real Estate Tax will rise to 4 percent on Sept. 2; interest on the second installment will be 1 percent. This is. also a good time to inform the Treasurer's office of changes of address. Brian Falconer, 2 years old, of Gary, died and his 13-yearold sister, Bonnie, was taken to Sherman hospital, Elgin, with severe burns of the legs and arms as the result of a fire which swept through the Cary home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Falconer and ten of their twelve children early Tuesday. Landmark Perspective (An Editorial) Last week's announcement of a $35 million budget for McHenry public schools over a fifteen-year period has placed the entire Landmark problem in a new perspective. For the moment, let us forget sentiment entirely. When the huge taxpaying public is reaching deep into its pocket for the second installment of the most recent tax bill and looking ahead to a staggering increase in the years ahead -- it is time to take a realistic view. Through a public letter in this newspaper last week, a board member stated that many of the petition signers to retain the old school were unaware of the costs involved. We might go further and state that probably none of them knew. In fact, we do not know ourselves what these costs will be because a vacillation of facts over a period of weeks has brought figures from an opening estimate of $20,000 upwards to $50,000, $80,000, $100,000 and lastly, $120,000 for restoration. We think it is time for some real facts before further, very costly alienation between the public and school board on this matter occurs. A highly respected member of one of McHenry's largest building trade firms has termed "ridiculous" the suggestion that the interior of Landmark must be entirely gutted before it can be restored to useable condition. To our qaestion as to whether land could be purchased and a new grade school be constructed for less money, his answer was "absolutely not". The board has expressed recognition of the fact that land costs will probably rise in the years to come, making it wise to purchase sites now fpr new buildings in the years ahead. Are we to assume that the property on which Landmark stands will not also be more valuable if its sale should be made at some later date? Certainly the need for this money will exist long into the future. The problem associated with that future is largely in the hands of the board of Consolidated District 15. However, responsibility also falls on the men who direct the affairs of High School District 156 for they must help assume the cost of any separate administration building used jointly by the group. It may very well be a fact that only two weeks remain before the District 15 Board announces its final decision on whether to sell or retain Landmark .Therefore,in view of strong public opinion we suggest that the board make the following information available to the public in our next issue: 1 A statement from the state fire marshal as to the needs att Landmark school which will bring it to present safety regulations for (a) school purposes and (b) for use as an administration building. 2 A statement from two or three reliable McHenry construction firms as to the estimated cost of meeting these regulations. If the opinion given the Plaindealer on Landmark's possibilities turns out to be incorrect, objectors must base their only hope of saving the building on sentiment. On the other hand, if Landmark can be restored for use as a school at less cost than a new building, or if several rooms can be remodelied for administration purposes, then we would take a dim view of its sale. We sincerely hope that cooperation of the board of District 15 gives us, as a newspaper, an opportunity to extend the same support to its long-range educational program that we have consistently given in the past. 1,565 In High School YOUTH BOUND TO GRAND JURY 'ON TWO CHARGES Larry William Anderson, 18, of DesPlaines, who in mid- July admitted his part in the theft from Shay's Music World on Green street last April 9, has been bound over to the McHenry county grand jury. The charge was burglary and theft of a quantity of musical instruments. .Martin John Spak, 18, of Elk Grove, who was implicated also by Anderson, is due for a preliminary hearing in October. The disposition of the case of a juvenile, accused of in- (Continued on page 10) MCHS Registers Hundreds The call of the school bell rings on another fall term which opens next Wednesday at McHenry high school. This scene of long lines forming to register for classes was a familiar one last Monday as faculty members assigned approximately 1,565 to their rooms. Another few are expected by the opening day of school. Classes for elementary schools will be held Wednesday, Sept. 6, with busses pi eking up children to get them to their schools by 1 o'clock. Sessions will last until 3 p.m. Busses for junior high and high school students wilKpick them up so they arrive in time for classes at 12:30. Junior high will be dismissed at 3:20 and high school at 3:30. There will be full sessions of school Thursday, Sept. 7. Former Bank President Dies Carl W. Stenger, who spent a lifetime in the banking business and for many years resided in McHenry died Sunday, Aug. 27, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., at the age of 84. He came to McHenry in 1908 and was affiliated until 1926 with the McHenry State Bank, serving as its president. The family moved to Waukegan where they remained until 1935, when they took up residence in Indianapolis, Ind. In 1960 he retired and moved to Florida. (Continued on page 10) Observe Early Paper Deadlines Early deadlines will be observed by the Plaindealer (Mi the holiday week. Display advertising and news will be accepted until Friday at 5 o'clock, classified display advertising until Tuesday noon and regular classified, 4 p.m. Tuesday. Correspondents' copy must be turned in as on all holiday weeks. CHAMPIONSHIPS WON BY LOCAL FARM ANIMALS Northern Pump farms of McHenry won several class championships as 147 well grooihed Herefords met in competition for top awards in the Illinois State Fair breeding cattle exhibition. Class winners included a twoyear- old bull, a summer yearling heifer, a senior heifer calf, a pair of yearlings and a pair of calves. About 1,100 x-rays were taken when the TB mobile unit visited McHenry last Friday. McHenry Hospital Offers Training For Nurse Aides i. 4 ^ V " Mary Ann Robinson acts as a patient to assist the program; in a lesson forthe McHenry hospital nurses' aide Karen Knigge, training program completedthis past week. From Sue Schneider, left: Nancy Smith, student nurse and instructor in Crystal Lake. Miss Robinson, Crystal Lake; student nurse and instructor; McHenry; and Nanci Houston, DON PEASLEY PHOTO This first in a series of classes to instruct new nurses' s aides was completed last week at McHenry hospital. Mrs. Josephine Peterson,- R.N., director of nursing services, said additional classes are planned. Instruction is given in the classes by hospital staff members! and student nurses at the hospital. , The course takes eight days and student nurses instructing at the August session were Linda Harms, Andrea Pray, Karen Knigge, Joan Regner and Terry Koleno. The fifteen members of this nurse's aide class were Jill Tucker, Kathleen Tranter, Sue Schneider, Mary Ann Roberts, Judith Rink, Nancy Houston, Irene Johnson, Gertrude Hoelken, Mary Hiller, Ginny Grek, Barbara Beden, Linda Davis, Deborah Samen and Marie Martin. Mrs. Peterson said all have been offered a job on a fulltime or part-time basis. „