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I ill C Tommy's sudden "graduation" was a shock to all concerned. But we can awid many fatal accidents by thinking ahead and considering all the possible contingencies. When such a tragedy occurs, by all means focus on that beautiful Classroom Up Yonder. To do so more readily, send for .the booklet below. 0r By - George W. Crane, Ph. D... M.D. CASE F-586: Tommy T., aged 4, was played in the alley. He and a neighboring chum found a large cardboard box, about 3 feet sqpare. So they used it as a playhouse and were having a lot of fun. But they left it in the middle of £he alley! Soon a trucker came along. Thinking it was merely an empty box, he plowed through it, killing Tommy. - And0 the boy's parents were crushed by this shock, for Tommy was their only child. MAJOR McHENRY SMILING FROM HISTORICAL NICHE The following is a part of the McHenry County History now being compiled: MAJOR WILLIAM McHENRY The namesake of this county, Major William McHenry, can smile down from his historical niche. Voters of Illinois this November, 1968, are to decide on the question of holding a Constitutional convention to modernize the state constitution . Major William McHenry was a member of the convention of 1818 which framed the first constitution for the state of Illinois. (History of White County, 1883, page 222). Via special research by the Newberry Library, Chicago, in a letter dated, May 9, 1968, to the new History of McHenry County, we learn that Major McHenry was born in Henderson County,, Kentucky, (parents still unknown), that he had a brother, Daniel, a fiery Methodist preacher; that Illinois census returns of 1810 show William McHenry as having four sons and daughters, all under 16 years of age. Daniel is listed as having eight individuals in his household. A White county census of 1818 shows eleven white inhabitants in the William McHenry household. A,, second reference to Major McHenry* s participation in Illinois' first Constitutional convention is made in "Lincoln's Vandalia", a Pioneer Portrait by William E. Baringer, a 1949 publication of the Abraham Lincoln association, in Springfield, by Rutgers University Press, in this paragraph: "Gazing about at his colleagues, Lincoln saw old William McHenry, patriarch of the legislature, a living personification of the state's history, complaining to listeners that Illinois was not what it used to be. An Indian fighter in two wars, pioneer who in territorial days had killed a bear with a knife in the wilds of White county, itinerant preacher and mill owner. Major McHenry, was the only surviving member of the 1818 constitutional convention and the First General Assembly still in politics, and the only former senator in the House. Elected as representative from White county for the fourth time, he was to die before the end of the session." One of Major McHenry* s children is believed to be M.G. McHenry who had a son, Dr. Geo- ' rge M., who, on Oct. 15, 1873, married Miss lone Gile. They had two children, Pearl and Mataline. Another child of M. G. McHenry was L.M. McHenry, married May 1, 1872 to Laura Cook, daughter of Dr. Charles Cook of Carmi. They had four children, Lucy and Rosa, twins born May 19, 1873; Lorraine, Feb. 9, 1875 and Martin, July 15, 1879. L.M. McHenry, grandson of William, was living in 1883, owned 200 acres of good land in Hawthorne township, White county. Thsre were no McHenrys in the White county ~ telephone directories of 1968. The trucker, too, collapsed when he found out what he had done. Would you guess the age of the trucker to be 27 or 47? "Dr. Crane, what difference would that make?". you may wonder. Maybe none, but it is my experience with human beings that younger drivers, both of trucks and passenger vehicles, dont think ahead as much as do older, more experienced men and women. Actually, this trucker was only 27, unmarried and not accustomed to having kiddies resort to packing boxes as their "playhouse". Good drivers, however, must always look ahead and consider all sorts of possible contingencies. They should allow for the unexpected, as well as the expected, behavior of others, even if they themselves are superb drivers. When parked cars line the street, a good driver even tries to look under the parked vehicles to see if there are any feet visible. For children often are standing in front of such parked cars, waiting to dash across the street. And if you pass a playground or school yard or see a cluster of youngsters romping, slow down. For their preoccupation with chasing a fly ball may make them momentarily oblivious of their danger when they rush into the street. And never hug the parked lane of cars too closely for you generally have an extra 3 feet between you and the center line. Stay a bit closer to the center line so you will permit the child (or adult) who steps out from a parked car to have an extra step as leeway. Our 50,000 annual street and highway auto deaths are a shocking waste of human life, so we must all try to lean over backwards to prevent accidents. But when death does intervene, you parents can obtain solaceby knowing that your loved one has simply graduated a little early from this class room In God's Cosmic School system. It is quite a severe emotional blow to lose a child. Mrs. Crane and I went through it when our son, George, was struck from behind at the Navy Air show while leading his jet formation of Marine fliers.' And don't fall for the atheistic malarky about "omitting flowers" or merely having a FOR TRAP! SAFETY s&yPaiil Powell Secretin; of State perfunctory later "Memorial Service". A funeral is a unique type of. graduation ceremony. The friends and well wishers, In person or by flowers and "cards, create an uplifting feeling of the Everlasting ArmsB buoying up the bereaved during this time of crisis, y For many days thereafter, however,, you can't believe what has happened! But time and correct thinking will shift your thoughts to the next classroom. So send for my booklet "So Long George TV" (Solace for the Bereaved) enclosing a long stamped, return envelope and 20 cents- It buoyed up Mrs. Crane and me and contains some remarkable word pictures of that Next Classroom, plus Edgar Guest's tremendous poem, "To All Parents". Pass it along especially to bereaved parents! (Always write to Dr. Crane in care of this newspaper, enclosing a long stamped addressed envelope and 20 cents to cover typing and printing costs when you send for one of his booklets.) 35 million Americans weigh 567 million pounds too much, and produce a $150 million business annually for dieticians. RESULTS WecL, May 29, 1968- Plaindealer - Sec. 2, Pg. 3"* INSPECTION TIME . . . Travelers arriving at New Y o r k ' s John F. Kennedy A i r p o r t from o v e r s e a s b r i n g baggage to high-speed checkout counters for customs and agricultural quarantine inspection. During a busy month nearly 15,000 persons and 44,000 pieces of baggage arrive from overseas each day at this major gateway to the United States. . - - - We've heard BO many things about cigarettes, but one of the things few people stop to consider is that smoking that cigarette steals attention from the road. 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