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V Muain' and Meanderin' McHenry pastors look on as Mayor Donald P Doherty signs a proclamation designating the week from Aug. 18 to 24 as Religious Emphasis Week in McHenry. Pastors shown are Rev. Jack Mclntyre, Faith Presbyterian church; Rev. David Scott, associate pastor of the First United Mettodist church; Rev. Elgin Stage Band Presents Local Concert A musical treat awaits Mc­ Henry residents this Thursday night when the Elgin stage band will play a concert in' the city park band shell at 8 p.m. The musicians will feature such fav­ orites as "Cabaret", "Edel­ weiss" and 'Pink Panther'. Featured vocalist, Nancy Milli- kan, will sing' On a Clear Day' , along with many other selec­ tions. The band, under the direc­ tion of Charles Brinckley, will present a toe tapping group of popular show tunes and mel­ odies to please the entire fam­ ily. Charles Brinckley has ap­ peared with his band from coast to *oast, playing theatres, clubs, fairs, presidential balls, college and high school proms. Nancy Millikan, vocalist with the band, is from Indianapolis and has appeared on her own TV show, radio,theatres, clubs, ballrooms and also sang with the Jan Garber band. As a beautiful, large Elm tree in our yard threatens to yield to the tragedy of Dutch Elm disease (the second to do so in the past year), we are issuing an SOS for those wasps which promised to provide an answer. / The hatchet fell on another tree last January. The pros­ pect of waiting to see it leaf out and then die was more than we could bear, prompting a call to the tree doctors to do the job in mid-winter. By Spring, we had become accustomed to the barren look where the mighty tree had provided shade for lo those many years. We would compensate gener­ ously to the person who could assure us that progress of the Dutch Elm offender could be stemmed before the loss of an­ other good shade tree. To date, our pleas have fallen on deaf ears. That perenially young veteran of the entertainment world, Ed­ die Peabody, continues to rate mention in the country's metro­ politan papers. Special interest in the artist of the banjo lin­ gers in McHenry, where he made his home for several years while serving in the Navy at Great Lakes during World War H. Gerald Robertson of Alliance Bible church; Rev. Roger Schneider of Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran church, Pastor Virgle Chap- pell of the First Baptist church; and Vicar Arthur McKay of St. Paul's Episcopal church. Just 132 years ago on Tues­ day, Aug. 19, the first relig­ ious service in McHenry was recorded. To commemorate this memorable event, local churches are cooperating in the observance of Religious Emphasis Week. Mayor Donald P. Doherty signed a proclamation designa­ ting the week from Aug. 18 to 24 as a period placing em­ phasis on greater recognition of McHenry churches. Participating churches will carry out the pioneer theme in observing the special week. There will be a parade through the business districts of Mc- BALDING HOME BURGLARIZED LAST FRIDAY V struc Burglars sthick the home of William Balding, 906 W. Porten road, McHenry, on the night of Aug. 15. Balding reported the theft to the McHenry Coun­ ty sheriffs department. Missing from the home are $25 in small change and 43 one dollar bills. A case of whiskey was also taken. TALK ON DRUGS Bert Boerner, county proba­ tion officer, will be guest speak­ er at a meeting to be held Wed­ nesday evening, Aug. 20, at 7:30 p.m. in the West campus au­ ditorium. The talk will call attention to the drug problem. Everyone of legal age is in­ vited. FUNDS TO SCHOOL Ray Page, Superintendent of Public Instruction, has an­ nounced that thirty-one ad­ ditional Title I projects have been approved for Illinois schools, amounting to$716,216. Among these was $18,864 for Big Hollow Elementary District 38. PLAINDEALER PHOTO Henry and through subdivisions on Saturday, Aug. 23, starting at 1 o'clock. One decorated float will represent all of the churches, and the individual churches are urged to have their own cars (preferably old) decorated for use in the line- of-march which starts at the East campus high school. Residents of the community will be urged to attend the church of their choice on Sun­ day, Aug. 24. Pastors making arrange­ ments for the week are en­ thusiastic over plans to make this an annual occurrence. The religious observance re­ calls a proud history which started with the arrival of Rev. Joel Wheeler as first recorded minister of the gospel to ar­ rive in the village of McHen­ ry in 1837, coming here from New Hampshire. Just two days after his arrival, he delivered the first public religious ser­ vices ever held in the county. His field of labor extended from Milwaukee on the north to Joliet on the south; east to Lake Michigan and west to Du­ buque, Iowa, a territory which even today would seem an im­ possible assignment for one man. Elder Wheeler blazed the way for a wagon road from Lily Lake to Wauconda, which af­ terward became an established highway. The fiftieth anniversary of his ordination, and the forty- seventh of his ministerial la­ bor in McHenry county was cel­ ebrated in McHenry Aug. 17, (Continued on page 16) Sheriff John C. Carroll said last Thursday that on his no­ tification, the State Division of Narcotics Control, spray de­ tail, came to McHenry coun­ ty recently and sprayed an ar­ ea of approximately 400 acres spotted with patches of wild marihuana growing at random. This was the second year the county has been visited by this department after being con­ tacted- There is no charge to the county for the service. Sheriff Carroll says he feels that in such a long-range pro­ gram, this is an important step in attempting to control and destroy marihuana. He asks special cooperation from res- idents in the rural areas. He suggests that people obtain li­ cense numbers of autos stopped \along the road, where occupants *%dinto the field and return with weeds^ The Sheriff suggests that where possible, weed plants be brought into hi^$j|ge, where positive identification, can be obtained. The local department has some of the chemical avail­ able to spray small patches that may not have come to the Sheriffs attention when spray detail members visited the county. FIRES CAUSE MINOR DAMAGE WITHIN COMMUNITY Fires, none of a serious na­ ture, required the attention of- members of the McHenry Town­ ship Fire Protection district this past week. At noon Saturday, consider­ able damage was reported to truck motor wiring, seats and windshield. The vehicle is be­ lieved to have shorted while it was parked on Rt. 120, west. Firemen also answered a call to Elm street shortly before midnight Saturday when a pas­ serby saw smoke rising from the radiator of a park­ ed car. The auto apparently be­ came overheated and the driv­ er left the vehicle. Last Thursday, Company I fire fighters were called to the McHenry dam state park to ex­ tinguish a fire in a lawn trac­ tor which is believed to have shorted. Damage was estimat­ ed at about $100. There was no damage at Mc­ Henry Electric and Supply Co., on Main street the previous evening when firemen were called to that business es­ tablishment. An employee who saw smoke when he entered the building thought there was a fire and placed the call. Actually, the smoke was caused by materials burning in an oven. NO LEFT TURN -- This large sign which, hopefully, will better regulate traffic in the heart of the Green street business area is viewed by Officer John Davis and Police Chief Ken­ neth Espey. The portable sign will be put to use for the first time on Friday, Aug. 22, between the hours of approximately 11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. and 3:30 and 5 p.m. at the corner of Green and Elm streets. By refusing left turns during peak hours, Chief Espey hopes to relieve the back-up of traffic. After the start of the school term this fall, the signs will be used during noon hours and at dismissal time in the afternoon. Also, no busses will be allowed to travel north on Green street from Waukegan road at 3:30. The new regulations are designed to make travel at this busy point both quicker and more pleasant. ^ PLAINDEALER PHOTO Drivers Charged After Nine Weekend Accidents Nine automobile accidents were reported to the McHenry county sheriffs office from the McHenry area over the week­ end. Five of the drivers in these accidents had charges lodged against them by sher­ iffs deputies. Catherine R. Tomaszewski, 1824 S. Brophy avenue, Park Ridge received cuts and bruises when her car flipped off Howe road one half mile east of Wondgr Lake on the night of Aug. 15. The auto skid­ ded- off a curve on the road and travelled 230 feet through a ditch. Crashing over the ditch, the car flipped end over end and came to rest on its roof. When deputies questioned her, Miss Tomaszewski said that she was going 50 mphwhen (Continued on page 16) Crown Rhonda Scarbrough McCullom Lake Royalty Journalist Abroad On Fellowship Wild Marihuana THE MCHENRY PLAINDEALER "SERVING THE CHAIN-O-LAKES REGION SINCE 1875 r----- -- -- : -- • ---*•--? ; : --' : -----: •~. 1 .------ VOL. 91 - NO. 107 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1969 20 PAGES - 10< Hold Religious Emphasis Week 400 Acres Sprayed For S\eveal According to County Treas­ urer Cal Skinner Jr., McHenry county has reduced the taxes of many persons whose bills were processed through July. Abatements gave 1,460 Mc­ Henry county residents all or part of their money back. Real estate abatements returned $52,000 to the county's taxpay­ ers. Meanwhile, an income tax rebate will probably give $234,- 347 to the area. Of the personal property abatements, 277, or 3.5 per cent, were returned to McHenry His newest venture is some­ thing called "America Sings," featuring Peabody and a group of sixteen young singers and dancers known as the Spirit of US. There is no charge for the performances. Purpose of "America Sings" is to provide a reminder that Americans today have the right of dissent as part of their A- merican tradition but that the right of dissent is a liberty to enjoy, not a license to destroy. The show is billed as an (Continued on page 16) Mr. and Mrs. Mark Hopkins and their four children left McHenry last Sunday for Eur­ ope, where they will live for a year while Hopkins does re­ search on mass communica­ tions. The family flew to New York and from there sailed on the Queen Anna Maria to Athens. They were sceduled to arrive on Aug. 29 and from there trav­ el to Belgrade, Yugoslavia where they will spend most of the next 12 months. Hopkins will be studying un­ der a fellowship of the Alicia Patterson fund, which annually awards grants to several Amer­ ican jounalists for travel and research abroad. The son of Mrs. Mary Hopkins and "the late Walter Hopkins of McHenry, has worked as a Soviet affairs specialist for the Milwaukee Journal since 1964. His wife, Slarijean, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Doherty, and the sister of Mayor Donald Doherty of Mc­ Henry. Their four children are Jon, 11, Elizabeth, 10, Paul, 8, and Amy, S. In Yugoslavia, Hopkins will study the country's press sys­ tem and audience research. He also plans to travel with his family elsewhere in eastern Europe to gather material for his study of state-owned mass media systems. Hopkins' earlier research on the Soviet press will be pub­ lished this October bjL^egasus, a New York publisher finder the title ' Mass Media in the So­ viet Union." Part of this study was done in the Soviet Union in 1963-64 under a Ford Foun­ dation fellowship. A graduate of McHenry high school, Hopkins has de­ grees from Middlebury college and the University of Wiscon­ sin, in addition to his study at the University of Leningrad. He was editor of the Grant Coun- - ty Independent, a Wisconsin weekly newspaper, for two years before he joined the Jour­ nal staff in 1960. He special­ ized in writing on the Soviet Union after his return from that country in 1964. Mrs. Hopkins, also a graduate of McHenry high school, has a degree from Rosary college. She worked as manager of the Moser Secretarial school in Chicago before the couple was married in 1955. Pretty Rhonda Scarbrough, second from right, is shown receiving the new crown as Miss Mc­ Cullom Lake from last year's title-holder, Susan Godina. At left are Maureen Caron, second runner-up, and Jamie White, first runner-up. Pretty Rhonda Scarbrough, 1-- 8-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Scarbrough, was crowned queen of McCullom The crowning took place in a ceremony post­ poned from Saturday to Sunday because of in­ clement weather conditions. PLAINDEALER PHOTO Lake in a Sunday ceremony postponed from the previous evening because of rain. The contest was one of the high­ lights of the annual carnival (Continued on page 16) Uax cAbate me nt J 3n township. In the entire county 777 of the abatements were giv­ en because the state could not locate the taxpayers or because they had moved out of the county. Errors caused 235 abatements for property, 199 for vehicles and eighty-eight for households. Seventy-nine were due to per­ sons being assessed in the wrong tax code. Money was re­ turned because forty-one peo­ ple died after being assessed. Persons on public aid received fourteen reductions. Ten mem­ bers of the clergy were given abatements. Nine people apparently were erroneously assessed for own­ ing boats and were refunded their money. Abatements were made to four taxpayers in rest homes. Two people had their cattle assessed wrongly. In the county, abatements re­ duced $51,654.55 from the per­ sonal property taxes, an av­ erage of $31.50 taken off each tax bill. Real estate abatements took off another $52,000 for the county through July. Full real estate abatements were awarded to nine schools, twenty churches, two fire pro­ tection districts and one insti­ tution. Fifty-four private cit­ izens received partial reduc­ tions, in most cases because of errors in assessment. Income tax rebates will give McHenry county $5.75 for every resident in an unincorporated area. According to the 1960 census, this should give the county $234,347. Some money should reach the local govern­ ment in October. Payments of the rebate will depend upon County, the number of tax collections. Another source of county in­ come will be the sales tax in­ crease. Approximately $375,- 000 will come into the treasury because of the increased charge on gasoline, cigarettes, liquor, etc. In the tax program, letters sent by the State's Attorney seek to collect on 8,815 delin­ quent bills. Letters have been sent to all people who have yet to pay their taxes. Last year, 7,463 delinquents were re­ corded.