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WUIKOtm PLAINDEAL 'SERVING THE CHAIN-O-LAKES REGION SINCE 1875* VOL 91 - No. 47, Firemen Humored Friday, February 23, 1968 12 Pages - 10$ Reward Long Service MFT Aids Road Widening "mm* Desi For Food 'cHenry Comnty Stamp Program Three McHeriry firemen, all members "bf Company I of the McHenry Township Fire Protection district, were honored last Saturday night when they were presented with twenty-five year pins for outstanding service to the community. In the picture above, Capt. Gary Gough, second from left, is shown as he played a tape for Chief Ed Justen, center, sent from Vietnam by his son, Girard. The latter, a fireman on leave while serving overseas, made the tape of congratulations to surprise his father and the two others honored, Earl "Marty" Conway, left, and Edward Thennes, right, as James Althoff, president of the board of trustees of the district, looks on. The presentation took place at annual wives' night, held last Saturday evening at the Legion home. PLAINDEALER PHOTO Rdmom' * J$i€twndcrin> Lest we settle back and decide that winter, 1968, has passed us by, take warning that it was on Feb. 23 of last year when Cold Spell Clyde arrived in the wake of a snow storm, sending the mercury diving to 20 degrees below zero. Don't tell anyone you weren't warned if you get caught with your antifreeze in a thinning state. Heartwarming comments on the efforts of local teen-agers in presenting the "Up With People" program last Saturday have reached our newspaper. In addition to the talent exhibited, there was a sincere appreciation on the part of the adult audience for a program where young patriots demonstrated their part in a worldwide movement showing faith in putting freedom on the move in every continent. We're sure this was the first of others to follow. QUEENSMEN TOP CITY'S COLOR GUARD CONTEST The Queensmen from Kenosha were winners of the annual "On Guard" color guard contest held in McHenry* s high school gymnasium last Sunday with a score of 84.95. Other places were awarded as follows: Buccaneers, 79.85; Mariners, 78.3; Cavaliers, 76. 85; Coronets, 76.5; Corsairs, 73.35; Blue Stars, 68,55; Regals of Racine, 64,95; SMMB, 64.75; Regents, 63.8; Pirateers, 61.65; Vaqueras, 54.3; and Vanguards, 47.5. The Blue Stars of LaCrosse, Wis., arrived in the city on Saturday evening and were provided housing by the girls of the Viscounts and Knownames. Most of us welcome an occasional moment away from our fast moving worlds to bring our minds to a quiet reminiscence of happy moments of the past. For this reason, it was an es- • pecially pleasant walk down Me- (Continued on page 4) AREA CHURCHES OBSERVE WORLD DAY OF PRAYER World Day of Prayer will be observed March 1, with services scheduled to take place at Chain O* Lakes Covenant church at 9:30 a.m. Theme of the service will be "Bear One Another's Burdens" prepared by Mrs. Rathie Salvaratnum of Ceylon on behalf of the women of Asia. Further information will be carried in next week's issue, including the many local churches participating. Approve City Planning Grant Secretary Robert C. Weaver of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has announced approval of a grant of $5,802 under the Urban Planning Assistance program to help pay for the comprehensive planning for growth and development of McHenry. The HUD grant, payable to the state, will cover two-thirds of the total cost of planning work. Supplemented by $2,902 in local funds the grant will finance planning activities for one year. Grants under the Urban Planning Assistance program are authorized by Section 701 of the Housing Act of 1954, as amended. These grants may be used in counties and small cities to help pay for planning work such as preparation of base maps, analysis of land use, population and economic conditions, preparation of a comprehensive development plan, and measures to implement this planning, such as zoning and subdivision regulations. MUNICIPAL COUNTY GROUP TO TOUR JAIL An interesting program has .been arrranged for the meeting of the McHenry County Municipal association, to beheldMonday evening, Feb. 26, at 7:38- p.m. in the supervisors' room^ Court House Annex. A tour of the county jail facilities, conducted' by Sheriff John Carroll, will begin the . evening program, after which Sheriff Carroll will answer any questions directed to him. John Quay, executive secretary of the McHenry County Regional Plan Commission, will be present to show and explain the urban development maps and food plan maps which the commission has developed to assist the board in making a more informed decision. Problems concerning special police, created through new laws passed in the last session of the Legislature, will be discussed briefly. If -t^me permits, plans call for discussion of uniformity in the curfew laws of each city. Minister Is Speaker 'K® w*f fof n ~L viiiurcu Features Teen Worship, Conff erence MR. L.A. JUSTICE A full week of youth activities are being held at First Baptist church beginning Sunday, Feb. 25. The worship hours both in the morning and evening will be planned asiuconduct - ed by the young people of the church. Laurence Anson Justice, minister to youth of the Large Plymouth Park Baptist church of Irving, Texas, will be the speaker and guest director for the week. "Ministering to the 525 youth of our church in Irving (a suburb of Dallas) proves to be somewhat more than a fulltime job," observed Mr. Justice. The young Mr". Justice is very popular among young people of both Oklahoma and Texas. He served for four years ir» churches in Oklahoma before beginning his present assignment. Since arriving at Plymouth Park he has assisted in leading his church in 1965 to be chosen "Church of the Year" in Texas and in 1966 to be the outstanding church from among 30,000 churches of the Southern Baptist convention. FEATURE YOUTH GROUP Featured each evening will be several youth groups from McHenry. Sunday evening a dramaiijC- pre-sentation of "WhoCares.: Anyway?" will be made. "Cory (Continued on page 4) Committee Gives Nod To Narusis Bernard Narusis, Crystal Lake attorney and Republican precinct committeeman from Nunda Precinct 9, will join a Lake County slate seeking nomination as delegates to the naiiGnoi nominating convention in the June primary. He received the support of the McHenry County Central committee which met Wednesday evening of this week. Others receiving the backing of the committee are Irl H. Mar shall as delegate, Robert P. Will, Jr., and Mary W. Runnells as alternates, all of Lake county. The McHenry county committee expressed, a wish not to support delegates pledged to a favorite son candidate. Prior to the vote, Mr. Narusis., had expressed himself in favor of Richard Nixon, adding that should a stalemate exist at the convention, he would be guided by Senator Everett Dirksen In ma ting a decision. McHe»». y Precinct 2 Committeman Tom Davis addressed the committee on the importance of McHenry county being represented by a delegate in the convention. He backed up his conviction with the fact that this county ranks eighth out of more than 100 counties in the state in the number of GOP voters in primary elections.' A senior bull calf from Northern Pump Co., McHenry was a class winner, as was a spring yearling heifer,-in the Dixie National Livestock show held in Jackson, Miss., recently. Odillon Long in New Post Odillon Long, who ha« spent several months with the Peace Corps in N'Djole, West Africa, recently was called back to Libreville to assume a new assignment -- that of construction superintendent for the Gabon Projects. It is customary for personnel from AID (Agency for International Development) to perform this work, but when a member of that agency was called back to the States in September, Mr. Long was recommended for the position by his director and approval came from the Washington offices of the Peace Corps and AID. While on the road most of the time, he makes his headquarters in Franceville, which is in the southeast. He has a chauffeur and uses for a vehicle a "land rover" which is an English make, four-wheel drive. Mr. Long reports ' that through outside political pressures, they have lost several approved projects, the Technical Training center, the Fisheries, Health and Nutrition and the "Mighty Mite" portable saw mill. TWO-CAR CRASH Two persons were injured in a two-car accident which occurred at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday on Johnsburg-Wilmot road. Sheriffs police said David Zak of Elk Grove Village failed to yield at the intersection and struck an auto driven by Betty J. Murphy of Main street, Spring Grove. She and her 12-year-old son, Tini. were taken to McHenry hospital for treatment; Other passengers in both cars escaped injury. Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman has designated an additional 172 counties in ten midwest states to receive the Food Stamp program, among them McHenry county. Presently, 286 Midwest areas are taking part in the program, AFS Seeks Host Family For Student McHenry Chapter Makes Plans For Sixth Visitor The McHenry chapter o£,AFS again is looking for a home for a foreign student for the 1968- 69 school year. This family must possess "a heart wide enough to take in a youngster for a year". It is important that the family have children; that the parents be at least 37 years old; that they have resided in the United States since the age of 12; that they honestly want their guest. They receive no remuneration, and all normal expenses for food, laundry, gifts etc., como out of their pockets. To date, McHenry has been host to Carlos Ribas from Argentina, Tony Carmona from Spain, Do Thi Kim Ngan (Mercury) from Vietnam, Paulo Lopes from Brazil and Francisco Martinez from Panama. The host families for these students report priceless memories and untold understanding that they have gained from their " adopt- •fed" children". The community has also shown that Americans are friends. Any family who qualifies and would like to share their home with a foreign student for a year may contact Mrs. Jerome Buch, for a family application. There is another side to the American Field Service, that of sending students abroad to study and be "adopted" by a foreign family. Lynn Krebs has been that lucky student to spend a wonderful year in Switzerland in 1966 with the Heinrich Ruf family. For every student placed in a community, the AFS chapter must raise $750. This provides (Continued on page 4) with over 635,000 persons receiving its benefits. In the past, families receiv-, ing aid picked up surplus food monthly at the township build-*' ing on Rt. 31, north-"of McHenry. The new food stamp program will go into effect in June. Needy families will be given stamps with a designated value to be used throughout the month. These will be turned into the food stores for about twentyfive percent more groceries than the stated stamp value. "Not only doe's the Food Stamp program help low-income families eat better, but their added food-buying power helps the economy of the entire area. And it improved the opportunity for producers to earn the incomes necessary to keep them supplying the ample food this Nation needs," the Secretary emphasized. The Food Stamp program enables eligible low-income families to increase their food purchasing power by investing their own money in food coupons worth more than they pay. The coupons are spent like csfsh at retail food outlets authorized under the program. Exact dates when the areas designated will begin issuing food stamp coupons to low-income persons will be announced locally, after C&MS personnel and state welfare officials have planned a time table for the steps that need to be taken to assure effective and efficient programs. These procedures include familiarizing caseworkers with Food Stamp program objectives and procedures, arranging for coupon issuance, certifying needy families as eligible for the program and meeting with retail grocers and food wholesalers to assure their understanding of the program and their role before being authorized to accept and redeem the federal foo^/coupons. NOTICE Chief Ed Justen andthe board of trustees of the McHenry Township Fire Protection district have ordered that there be no burning, even in approved containers, due to the existing climatic conditions, until further notice. McHENRY MAN AWARDED PH.D. AT NORTHWESTERN RICHARD ANTONSON Richard Antonson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl L. Antonson, has been awarded his Ph. D. in chemical engineering from Northwestern university. His Ph. D. theses was entitled "Adsorption of Ethane in Molecular Sieve Particles." The young man is now employed in the organic chemicals department of a leading chemical company in Wilmington, 111. Mr. Antonson is a graduate of St. Mary's parochial school, McHenry, and McHenry high school. He received his B.S. degree at Notre Dame and his M.S. at Northwestern. Route 120 To Hanley Will Be Improved Approve $60,000 For Widening In Area Of Subdivision At the regular meeting this week, the City Council passed a resolution appropriating $60,- 000.00 motor fuel tax funds for widening and improving Crystal Lake road from Illinois Route 120 to Hanely street. This has been set up for some time in the long range plan for street improvements and is not to be confused with street widening which extends to the new high school. When the frontage road plan was abandoned in flavor of widening the present road, an agreement was reached with the Whispering Oaks subdividers to pay the same amount as the frontage road cost. The council also authorized the Mayor and Clerk to sign an agreement with the Boone Valley Development company pertaining to development of the new park area. An application submitted by the McHenry Viscounts to hold a tag day in McHenry on May It was approved. A map showing all recorded information on ownership and boundary lines between the city hall property and Landmark school was presented by the City Attorney with a suggestion that a committee meet with a committee from School District 15 to work at a solution on areas in question. HOSPITAL CHIEF OF STAFF WILL GIVE LECTURE Dr. E.F. Wilt, chief of staff at McHenry hospital, will present a lecture on "Gastrointestinal Disease" on Monday, Feb. 26, at 7:30 p.m. in the hospital dining room. This lecture is one of a monthly series being presented by McHenry medical staff as part of the hospital in-service plan. All nurses in the area are invited to attend this informative program. Support the AFS SCOUT TROOP TO FLAm II TREES IN SPRING Loren Massey, chairman of the Walnut Tree Planting project for the Blackhawk Area council, Boy Scouts of America, has appointed Ralph Burnett of Woodstock as chairman for the Kishwaukee district. Under the direction of Mr. Burnett, the thirty Scout troops of the district will plant more than 1,000 walnut trees this Spring. These planting sites have been chosen by the Illinois Forestry department for the suitability of their commercial value in future years. Thursday, Feb. 22, there was a meeting of the scoutmasters of McHenry county at 8p.m. at St. John's Lutheran church in Woodstock. DISTRICT 15 DESCRIBES 'IDDLE SCHOOL STRUCTURE l~5® <|illi Above is the artist's conception of the new Middle School, scheduled to be located west,of McHenry in the vicinity*of Ringwood road and Rt. 120. Its construction would be assured by passage of the March bond issue. The new, McHenry Middle school, to be built with the $2,000,000 being asked for in the March 9 bond issue, has been described as a well equipped, yet simple structure. The school is to be designed by Frazier, Raftery, Orr, and Fairbanks, architectural firm from Geneva. The first floor of the struc- --ture will house two main-paits of the building; facilities for grades 7 and 8; and physical education, music , maintainence equipment and school offices, The second floor of the structure, Phase n, which will be constructed when bonding power becomes available, will house fifth and sixth grade classrooms. Large areas for industrial arts, home arts, and ,arts and crafts are provided for, as well as facilities for music. "A"feature ~of fiie Hbiul<flng~Ts~ a large gymnasium suitable not only for physical education programs but also for school assemblies and community gatherings. The cafeteria will also function as an auxiliary gymnasium. The seventh and eighth grades are departmentalized with the students traveling from teacher to teacher, room to room during the school day. This directly contrasts the fifth grade in which students stay in a one-classroom, oneteacher situation. Sixth graders will be under this same basic organizations but will leave the classroom occasionally for specialized areas of instruction. A large library area will serve all grades. School board members and administrators emphasize that the need exists now. More classroom space must be found for the immediate future, as the elementary school district is fast running out of space. To build this new school, District I5 is asking the public authority to bond for $2,000,000 the cost of this structure. t I