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? J|| gjp ! > i n \* * ; r y*t: .•V;(.,,.-' . *S,~;?p' IS#® • NVtlMO/s . • ij'tV;j >~-"* *' * v?/e.» •&?!>* v »«r - •'/•• • ;>ep ^ c *r' / ^ '« - ' 4 'fl , L«,.!i. ...J: SERVING THE CHAIN-O-LAKES REGION SINCE 1875 VOL. 91 - No. 16-2 Sections Wednesday, September 25, 1968 i'"Z '&? \ MJ Sj$ Honor McHenry Woman As UCP Top Volunteer Mrs. John Boehm of 3803 W. Kane, McHenry, secretary of the United Cerebral Palsy of Illinois and past president of the McHenry County Cerebral Palsy association, was honored last Saturday as "Volunteer of the Year" for United Cerebral Palsy associations, Inc., of Illinois. The award was presented to her by Dr. John H. O'Neill, newly elected president of the association, in a ceremony at the Holiday Inn in Moline during the annual meeting of the organization which serves some thirty-three thousand cerebral palsied children and adults in the State. Dr. O'Neill said, in making the presentation, "We are pleased to honor Mrs. John Boehm of McHenry as the most prominent leader in volunteer activities for our association during 1967-68. We only regret that we were not able to present 'Volunteer of the Year' awards to more than one person in previous years since, for many years in her activities of the association, Mrs. Boehm has been prominent among those qualifying for this award." During the past year Mrs. Boehm has served as treasurer of United Cerebral Palsy of Blackhawk region, a new area organization serving the cerebral palsied throughout these counties, with Don Meyer of McHenry, acting as the president of the association and R. J. Marshall serving as area director, with offices in Rockford. REGISTER FOR ADULT CLASSES THROUGH SEPT. 26 Registration for the fall adult evening program in the local schools will continue Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 25 and 26, from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Junior high school gymnasium. Classes will start the week of Oct, 7 and end the week of Jan. 27. Most of the courses offered will meet once a week for two hours over a period of ten weeks. Credit courses will be\ offered for fifteen weeks. \ According to enrollment figures compiled this week in the seven McHenry public schools and two parochial schools, increases have totalled about 400 and brought the figure to an all time high in the city with 5,273 attending classes. The high school increase from Greenwood Girl Killed, Others Hurl In Accident .iff A young Greenwood girl was killed and several of her friends injured, none seriously, when they were struck by a motorist as they walked along Greenwood road, just north of that village, near Gait Airport, Friday evening. Vote Absentee To October 2 Anyone wishing to vote in the upcoming District 15 school referendum but who will be unable to cast a vote in person Oct. 5, may get absentee ballots at the school board office at 3926 W. , Main street, McHenry. Ballots > maybe obtained either through the mail or in person at the office. Sept. 30 is the last day for applying by mail for absentee ballots, and Oct. 2 is the last day for applying for absentee ballots in person. Artist's JUL Almost everyone likes peanuts, as pretty Loriann Dowell finds out when she offers a choice goober to a receptive member of the animal kingdom. This friendly monkey, owned by the John Boehms of Kane avenue, wants his family to know that he would perform almost any monkeyshine for a whole bag on Kiwanis Peanut Day,. Friday, Sept. -27. Dean Cunat, general chairmanfor^-^ _ the McHenry club, looks on as beauty and the beast get together Mi/eSI0n ™l«15 to talk about the many worthwhile projects that can be undertaken through proceeds of a successful peanut sale in McHenry. PLAINDEALER PHOTO Farm Bureau In Annual Meeting One of the largest crowds in the history of the McHenry County Farm Bureau annual meeting is expected to attend this event Thursday, Sept. 26, wheh William J. Kuhfuss, president of the Illinois Agricultural association, makes his first visit to M:Henry county. Kuhfuss, McLean county Angus breeder and grain farmer, will be the featured speaker at the annual meeting scheduled to start at 7 p.m. with a roast beef dinner at the Woodstock Community high schoo' cafeteria. The business meeting will be held in the high school auditorium starting at 8:15 p.m. Election of nine directors and adoption of policy resolutions to guide the organization for 1969 are also high on the list of priority items to be acted on. Entertainment will be provided by the Busy Beavers 4-H club. Its twenty - eight mem- (Continued on page 12) STUDY PROBLEMS OF DEAF The first meeting of the Deaf Children of Lake and McHenry counties, Association cf Parents and Friends, will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 1, at the Junior high building, Woodland school, Gages lake, at 8 p.m. The program will feature special reports and a social hour. All are urged to attend. Fire Destroys Car MSSs n®:f A design of the 1970 TB Christmas Seal, the work of Agostino G. Unti, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gus Unti, Sr., of 1307 N. Green street, McHenry, will be submitted in national competition in New York City in the near future. The former McHenry man last week was presented with first prize of $300 for his design in the nineteenth annual Christmas Seal design contest sponsored by the Tuberculosis Institute of Chicago and Cook County. Earlier this year, Mr. Unti won the $500 first place award for designing a postage stamp for the U.S. government. In national competition, the entry lost to a design of the American flag. The young man is a graduate of McHenry high school and attended the Art academy in Chicago. OPEN HOUSE IN McHENRYSCHOOLS FOR SCOUT UNITS Chairmen for the Scout Night for elementary school programs to be held in over 211 ^schools in the Blackhawk Area council met last week with cubmasters and scoutmasters to prepare for the evening meetings with boys who will want to become Cub Scouts or Boy Scouts and their parents. Meetings will be held in all McHenry schools. Parents should report- to the school their children at- (Continued on page 12) The dead girl was Jia Harrison, 14, of Greenwood road, who died in Harvard hospital a short time after the accident. A friend, Patricia Wesson, 14, also of Greenwood road, was still hospitalized on Tuesday. The two girls and three other friends, Virginia and Phyllis Mavis, 15 and 13, and Cindy Davis, 14, were walking north from Greenwood toward the Wesson farm when the accident took place. They were single file on the east shoulder of the road as a car approached from the south. Robert K. Stoner of Tryon Grove road, Ringwood, driving a pick-up truck later told authorities he saw the girls and heard something strike the truck, breaking the windshield. Thinking something had been thrown at the vehicle, he said he continued to his home. He did not report the incident. Stoner was released on bond, charged with leaving the scene of a fatal accident and driving while intoxicated. ¥ - C J the same time last year is thirty four, with 735 juniors and , seniors attending the new west campus. Forty faculty members instruct the se young people .^v - in the most modern educational ^ system known as flexible system. ' / ' \ EAST CAMPUS f " The east campus enrollment r-;i' totals 869, including 469freshmen and 400 sophomores. They are instructed by a faculty at ^ fifty. No major changes have been made in the curriculum, but very extensive remodelling has been made to eventually bring the 1926 school and its more recent additions to meet a life safety code. The art room has been expanded and redecorated and the study hall converted into a resource center. Also, there is an attached resource center to the library and teacher offices. The auditorium has had seats removed and is now used as a large group instruction area. A fire escape and exits have been added to the back of the building and new fire doors installed. One boiler has been replaced and improvements and updating of the present heating and hot water system have taken place. Extensive painting has also been done during the summer. "WM JAMES PEARSON TO SHOW EUROPE IN TWO MOVIES James Pearson of Ringwood, art instructor at Woodstock high school, will show movies on Europe and Russia Hiursday evening, Sept. 26, at 8 p.m. in St. Mary's meeting room. The public is invited. Refreshments will be served by St. Clara's Court, No. 659, National Catholic Order of Foresters. JUNIOR HIGH A crowded Junior high school serves the educational needs of 735 students, of which 230 are shared time in a program which includes both parochial schools. The 735 total is an increase of 180 over last year. The faculty members thirtyfive, five of whom are shared with other schools. A few program changes have been noted, among them the use of a multiple text in science and English. Other changes are group guidance for all full time students, ability grouping and developmental reading for seventh graders. EDGEBROOK SCHOOL There is an enrollment of 905 (Continued on page 12) SHOW TWO FILMS AT K OF C OPEN MEETING SEPT. 26 The Knights of Columbus, McHenry Council No. 1288 will hold an open meeting Thursday, Sept. 26, at 8:15 pan. in the council chambers, to which both men and women are invited. Guest speaker will be Mrs. Dorothy Himpelmann, who will show two movies, one on the Vietnam situation and the other entitled "The Hippies". This latter film deals with the drug problems confronting young people and is described as enlightening to all parents in the area. Refreshments will be served. This three-week-old car with only 2,000 miles was completely destroyed by fire as the driver, Irving Bulson of 908 Chippewa Circle, Carpentersville, was travelling north on Rt. 31, a mile'* north of the city, at 2:45 o'clock Sunday afternoon. A short in the wiring was blamed by John Shay, a member of Company I firemen, for flames which completely gutted the interior. Bulson was driving north when he smelled smoke. He hurried to a business place to turn in the alarm and when he returned the car was in flames. Bulson told local firemen he had stopped at the dealer's garage Saturday to report a short in the windshield wiper. There was no time to make the repair and he was told to bring the car in again on Monday. PLAINDEALER PHOTO BO Am CHAIRMAN PANEL MEMBER FOR PLAN CONFERENCE "The Public Official and Regional Planning" is the theme of the eleventh annual planning conference sponsored by the Northeastern Illinois Planning commission on Sept. 25, in Chicago's LaSalle hotel. Some 500 persons are expected to attend the day-long meeting, including citizens, planners and officials of units and agencies of government in the six-county area served by the commission (Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry and Will counties). Walter Dean of McHenry, the chairman of the McHenry county board of supervisors, is on the panel of elected public officials for the first general session. John W. Baird, president of the commission, indicated that (Continued on page 12) $P|iS| 1 Two doctors in general residency under the America-India Dispensary project are now at McHenry hospital. This program provides physicians training in the operation of an American community hospital so they can take this know- Two more doctors have arrived in McHenry to participate in the general residency program sponsored by the America- India Dispensary project in conjunction with McHenry hospital. Antfiony Corcoran, administrator of McHenry hospital, said the program provides physicians already trained and qualified with experience in the operation of an American community hospital, staffed by specialists ledge with them for work in India. With Anthony Corcoran, center, McHenry Hospital administrator, are Dr. Shyam Prasad (at left), and Dr. Atul Garud. DON PEASLEY PHOTO and the general practice of medicine. The new doctors are Dr. Atul Garud and Dr. Shyam Prasad. Dr. Garud received his medical degree at the University of Bombay. He was admitted to the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1967 and has held medical positions in several hospitals in England from 1959 until this year. His most recent position was as a general surgeon at the Maidenhead hospital in Maidenhead, England. Dr. Prasad received his medical degree from the Darbhango Medical college in Biher, India in 1956. He has held medical positions in Scarbrough hospital and Victoria hospital, both in England. At Scarbrough he served as an anesthesiologist and at the latter his position was in thoracic surgery. Before coming to McHenry. he was at Blackburn Royal infirmary , Lancashire, England, in anesthesiology. «r S, v ; r