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<^Qa(cel and 3>arQ ^AROLE HUMANN 385-1605 [I LITTLE LEAGUE PLAYERS HONORED DURING BANQUET rd first like to mention the outstanding job the officers of the Little League and the women of the community did on the banquet. A finer banquet was not had anywhere. The speaker of the night was Stu Hoi comb, the public relations director of the Chicago White Sox. He was a very good speaker and the boys enjoyed it very much. Trophies were given to the boys graduating from Little League. The boys are; Harold Brunow, Kent Butler, Dave Wickenkamp, Ernie Lense, Larry Wood, Brian Nuss and Greg Worm from the Pirates team. From the Tigers, Mich­ ael Nielsen, Michael Granath, John Hendle, Doug Mayer, Daryl Li castro, Steve Whitehead and Mark Sullivan. From the Orioles, Larry Timm, Robert Moore, Mike Johnson, Jeff Bierman, Joe Koerper and Scott Waller. From the Twins, DavidBom- ke and from the Dodgers, Bill Mueller. Tliese boys were very outstanding gentlemen and it was a pleasure working with them. A special mention should be made of two men who contri­ buted an awful lot of time in Little league and did not have any boys in the organization. They are Joe Leopold and Les Eckhart. Thank you very much. That's it for this week and fcgain thank you mothers for the Wonderful meal. Ken Crook, Public Relations. j Note; Ken submitted this ar­ ticle in time for last week's column and also mentioned the dance that the Little League sponsored which was held at the McHenry Moose hall. I sure hope that the affair was a big success to help subsidize the boys baseball league. f GIRL SCOUT TROOP 320 • Oct. 1, Girl Scout Troop 320 had flag ceremony given by Patrol 3. Troop patrol leaders pre; Patrol 1, Judy Johnson and Assistant, Tammy Hafer. Pa­ trol 1 is called Snoopy and the bang. Patrol 2's leader is Beth fcoch and Renee Stilling is as­ sistant, and the name of the patrol is the Red1 Baron. Pa­ trol 3*s leader Is Ann Sulli­ van and Cindy Bruce is assis­ tant. The name of the patrol is £he Fantastic Freaks. Patrol 4 is the Mod Squad and Shar­ on Schooley is patrol leader and Meg Humann is assistant. I Oct. 8. Troop 320 had flag Jeeremony given by patrol 2. investiture is going to be held On Oct. 29. Parents are invited, fro remind the new girls (and $he old girls too) they have to fcrear full dress uniform with J*hite gloves. Patrol 3 served greats and then we continued discussing Investiture. We gave *ach girl something to do for £he ceremony. Troop Scribe, ^inda Vick. * 0 * I' BROWNIE TROOP 464 ! Oct. 7. The meeting began With an outdoor flag ceremony and friendship circle. The Brownies are making masks for Halloween. Registration money was due if it hadn't been paid previously. Treats were served pnd the meeting ended with a magic tunnel. Each of the Brownies is to bring a paint­ ing shirt as fftiey sometimes get carried away with enthus­ iasm while doing some of their projects! COMMUNITY HOUSE SCHEDULE All bookings and cancella- r tions for the community house are to be made in advance by calling Jo Rizzo at 385-2728. Tuesday, Oct. 21 - Boy Scout meeting - 7 to 9 p.m. Wed­ nesday, Oct 22 - Girl Scout meeting - 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Little League Open Meeting - 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23 - Cub Scout meeting -7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27 - Lakeland Merry-Makers 4-H Club meet­ ing - 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 28 - Boy Scout meeting - 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29 - Girl Scout meeting and Inves­ titure - 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. BIRTHDAY GREETINGS A very happy tenth birth­ day to Sue Wickenkamp on Oct. 9 and to Debbie McCarthy and David Wilkens who also was ten that day. John Johnson, Jim Miskovic and Michael Jensen celebrate on the tenth. Doug Belohlavy celebrate on the twelfth and Carrie Pierce and Patricia Johnson each had two canldes on their cakes that day. Tom Mueller will be eleven on the thirteenth and Tracy Wil­ kens will be twelve on the fif­ teenth. Steve Mai will be elev­ en that day also. Pat Rogers celebrates her sixteenth birth­ day on the sixteenth. John Flan- nigan and Betty Bockman share the seventeenth for their big day. Eva Bott leads the list for the eighteenth and shares the day with Jim Franklin, Judy Ir­ win and Dawn Dolenski. Bud Druml shares Oct. 20 with niece Doneen Druml who will be a terrific three years old. Judy Bierman will also cut her cake that day. Joe Prazak and Ken Grothman share the twenty- second for their birthday. ANNIVERSARY WALTZ Belated wishes to Rose and Gunther Dolenski who added an­ other year to the credit side of the marriage ledger on Oct. 11. Bette and Bill Kamp cel­ ebrated twenty-one years of marital bliss on Oct. 16 and Ann and Wally Kuehns chalk off their sixteenth year of togeth­ erness on the seventeenth. Kay and Ed Druml begin a weekend of celebrations . with their twenty-eighth wedding anniver­ sary on Oct. 18. Murph and Norb Kwiatek celebrate twen­ ty-three years of marriage on Oct. 23. BOWLING NEWS The league standings which are up to date show the Chex leading with 8-0. The R-B's and the Dum-Dums are tied for second with 7-1. The Swingers and the Gutter Cleaners are tied for fourth with 5-3. The Schmoos and the Fol-Doms are tied for sixth with 4-4 and the Playmates and the Gamblers are tied for eighth position with 3-5 apiece. The Four-Sixes and the Alley Cats are tied for tenth place with 1-7 and The Apples are holding up the whole league with 0-8. During the first week of bowl­ ing Roy Apel bowled a 571 series and Agnes Prazak had a 434 series for individual high .series. John Johnson was 103 pins up from the first week to the second. Ken Crook bowl­ ed a 438 the first week and came back with 534 for the sec­ ond week. Judy Bierman had a 54 pin increase and Joyce Leo­ pold was up 72 pins. John Li- Breath Easier, Feel Fresher All Winter Long WITH THE • NEW DELUXE WEST BEND VAPOR ALL AUTOMATIC HUMIDIFIER s "WATER WHEEL" Moisturizing Action Automatically provides spring- fresh humidified comfort for your whole home! $49.95 1 LEE & RAY ELECTRIC 1005 N. Front St. DIAL \j*IcHenry, 111. 385-0882 . 1 : * v: .<* .< '• Mmm v£'rf FRI. OCT. 17, 1969- PLAINDEALER - PG. 9 EVERYTHING COMES-- Even these very young children seem to have been assured of the wisdom in the old adage, "Everything comes to him who waits", as they stand patiently waiting for the West campus band, leading a long, colorful homecoming parade. The many floats withstood intermittent showers to provide en­ joyment for crowds that lined the streets last Friday. PLAINDEALER PHOTO Senator Makes Report On Trip To Thailand Thailand And The Treaty (During the August Congres­ sional recess, Senator Charles H.' Percy of Illinois and his fam­ ily spent three weeks travelling in Asia. This is the second of four articles by Senator Percy recalling the highlights of the tour.) ( Somerset Maugham once said of the typical Asian city: castro was up 65 pins and Frank Bartos was up 67 pins. Bill Schabow, Sr., was 53 pins over the previous week and Dick Wal- inski lost 99 pins. Wha' hoppen? Most all the same faces show­ ed up this year with Terri and Lou Arroyo taking Clare and Eleanor Haerle's place and Tony and Jana Kalva filling in the other two vacancies. Will keep up .to date from now on with standings and the lineup. STROLLING THROUGH THE PARK Lots of new people moving in and old ones leaving lately and a big welcome to all. Please feel free to call and say hi. The Moose sponsored another great golf outing with a steak dinner and dancing on Saturday evening. Lots of Lakeland Park people as usual and all had a great time. Norb Kwiatek took top honors again in the golf­ ing. George Manning is back home after spending too many years overseas with the Navy. Many celebrations took place and now they've all settled down to be­ ing a family together again. I apologize for the lack of a column last week, but due to a dead battery the column did not arrive at the Plaindealer of­ fice in time to be printed in last Friday's paper. All fixed up now and raring to go. See you next week with lots more news, hopefully. "They are all alike, with their straight streets, their arcades, their tramways, their dust, their blinding sun...their dense traffic, their speechless din... They give you nothing. But when you leave them it is with a feel­ ing that you have missed some­ thing and you cannot help think­ ing that they have some secrets they have kept from you. My stay in Bangkok corrob­ orates Maugham's observa­ tions. Despite the common de­ nominators, Bangkok has a flamboyant, langorous, splen­ did quality that sets it apart from all other cities in Asia. A few years ago, I had lunch with Jimmy Thompson at his Bangkok residence, Klong Loos, a fabulous house that contains some of the finest Chinese art objects in the Or­ ient. Shortly after seeing him in Bangkok, he had gone to Malaysia with two friends and while there he disappeared into the jungle and has not been heard from since. There was some talk about his being kid­ napped because it was felt if he had been attacked by an an­ imal his remains would have been located. Following his disappearance, his home has been set up un­ der a foundation as a museum of sorts. The embassy open­ ed Jimmy Thompson's home for us so that we could see it. It is really better than a mu­ seum because all of the art pieces are in a more natural setting. I could not help but recall, however, with sadness the pleasant luncheon four years ago when I talked to Jimmy Thompson about his favorite love, Thailand. The ancestors of Thailand* s thirty-five million people mi­ grated a thousand years ago from Southern China. U.S.-born Bhumibol Adulyadej (King ON TARGET Under New York's infamous Sullivan Law, the model of perfection for the anti-gun forces a resident of the City of New York first goes to his local police precinct for a blank application. After filling it out, giving a full personal description, references, and his reasons to the local precinct captain for deserving a permit, he swears to the statements before a notary and procures two small photo­ graphs of himself. He then returns to the station house, pays a substantial fee and submits to fingerprinting as though he were a felon. If he persists, and is fortunate, he may, though hardly likely, in the course of two to six weeks receive a notice that his application has been granted. He must then for the third time journey to the police and obtain his permit bearing his picture, signature, description, and finger­ prints. In connection with the granting of a permit, the citizen is told that upon its expiration he must surrender his gun to the police. This polite method of confiscation without "due" or any other "process" or warrant of law is "standard practice." Advocates of registration and licensing always say that registering or licensing a gun is just like getting a drivers license or a dog license. In view of the above no further comment is needed on that absurd analogy. It's "just a little inconvenience" alright -- rather, a lot of personal harassment, a denial of your individual rights and the greatest single threat to your persoanl security. Let's all "inconvenience" ourselves, voluntarily and get active in politics -- before it is too late. Sponsored by McHENRY GUN CENTER Rama IX), 42, heads a con­ stitutional monarchy. He has been on the throne for 23 years. His daughter. Julie, a sensi­ tive , attractive and brilliant girl has been my daughter Gail's classmate at Concord academy in Massachusetts for the past year and will be going to MIT. Before our arrival, there had been considerable speculation in Congress regarding the danger of the United States be­ coming involved in another land war in Asia -- this time to de­ fend Thailand. It was thought that the 50,000 American troops in Thailand were somehow committed to its defense through a secret 1965 accord. Responding angrily, Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman had seemingly requested a with­ drawal of U.S. forces from Thailand. The matter was further com­ plicated when Defense Secre­ tary Laird stated that he dis­ approved of the 1965 U.S.-Thai 'document as a statement of 'policy while the State depart­ ment maintained that it was a contingency military plan which could not be implemented with­ out the approval of both govern­ ments. Senator William Ful- bright refused to visit the Pent­ agon and see the plan while the Pentagon refused to send the document across the Po­ tomac so that it could be re­ viewed by members of the Arm­ ed Services and Foreign Re­ lations committees. It was in this atmosphere that I sent a message to Am­ bassador Leonard Unger in Thailand that I would like to meet with Foreign Minister Thanat. The Foreign Minister promptly invited the Ambas­ sador and me to a private lunch. We discussed the mutual misunderstandings that had arisen over the secret 1965 contingency plan and reports of planned troop withdrawals from Thailand. With some impati­ ence, he noted that most ref­ erences to U.S. forces in Thai­ land implied that these forces were there for the defense of Thailand when, in reality, Thai­ land was merely permitting the United States to base its for­ ces there in order to support the war effort in Vietnam." We do not want U.S. Military forces defending Thailand directly," he said. "We do not need them. Any country that is worth its salt, that has had a govern­ ment serving its people as long as ours has, deserves to fall if it cannot defend itself." He made it clear that he could not envision North Vietnam in­ vading Thailand through Laos with sufficient strength to suc­ ceed. The only means that the Communists could employ would be insurrection and in­ filtration and Thai forces should be competent to handle this with material and techni­ cal assistance. I expressed concern at the situation and offered to do what I could to help. Specifically, I offered to issue a statement expressing the Foreign Minis­ ter's view. My statement said in part: "•'With respect to the 1965 Contingency Military Plan, the Foreign Minister made it quite clear to me that he did not con­ sider this document a treaty, nor even an agreement as that term is generally used. It bound neither government to any com­ mitment of any kind without the expressed and subsequent concurrence of each govern­ ment. What it does represent is the best planning that could be done at the time." In a small way, I suppose, the statement helped defuse a po­ tential strain between allies. So a senatorial lunch in Bang­ kok turned out to be more than just a visit. DIAL-A-DEVOTION PHONE Hear God's Word Wherever You Are Sponsored by: Guettler Memorials 385-9831 DOES YOUR HOME QUALIFY? Vinyl Siding By B. F. GOODRICH for |5 Lucky Homes You can be among the 15 who will be chosen for participation in a program of publicity for H. A. Karns, Co. The size of your house is not important. H. A. Karns, Co. has been appointed distributors for Vinyl-Tex for McHenry County. To introduce Vinyl-Tex Sidings, H. A. 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Box 6, McHenry Here And There In BUSINESS CONFIDENCE IN FARM POTENTIAL SHOWN AT MEETING Farmers show a willingness to assume more debt and to expand despite the tight mon­ ey situation and high interest rates, guests at the fifty-first annual meeting of the Federal Land Bank association of Wood­ stock learned Saturday night. The audience of 300 included farmers and their wives who live in the three-county area served by the farmer-owned co­ operative -- Lake, Boone and McHenry counties. - From Ian. 1 through Sept, 30, 1969, borrowers added 1,800,000 in new loans. "This reflects confidence in the long range potential in farming and in farmers ability to meet pres­ sures created by higher costs that confront agriculture to­ day," summarized Charles Weingart, McHenry, president. A check of the 508 new loans the past year shows money is being used to add to present farms, build homes, pay off other debts and add to present buildings. In recent months, land purchase has declined though the longer-range out­ look indicates larger farming operations to counter-balance the cost-price squeeze. Robert Coots, manager of the FLBA of Woodstock, told mem­ bers that the 508 loans out­ standing on June 30, 1969 to­ taled $13,282,059. A year ago on June 30, 1968, 497 mort­ gage loans were outstanding totaling $12,726,121. A total of 49 new loans were closed during the fiscal year ending last June 30. , Two new directors weree- lected to the board. Frank Meyers, Belvidere, and Ed K i r c h h o f f , H a r v a r d j o i n Charles Weingart, McHenry; Kenneth W. Denman. Lake Villa; and Donald L. Stoxen, Harvard, on the five-man board. Meyers operates a 520-acre grain farm. Kirchhoff operates a 260-acre dairy farm where he has 40 cows in his milkingherd and has about 95 head of dairy animals on his farm. In the board meeting after the annual meeting Weingart was reelected president and Denman was elected vice president. Coots serves as manager and Mrs. Faye Todd is the assis­ tant ma lajer. In the featured talk, Charles Alexander, secretary of organ­ ization for the Illinois Agricul­ tural Association, told his lis­ teners that in today's crisis- swept society," all of us need a sense of direction." "I think adults are at fault in encouraging so much per­ missive education," he assert­ ed. "We are reaping that fail­ ure now as young people de­ clare 'it all depends on the circumstances' when asked to fulfill certain established prin­ ciples. • , • "It is not enough for us to work, struggle and save. We need to become involved--to become aware with what the younger generation is doing and thinking." Alexander said adult irres­ ponsibility is typified in the vo­ ter turnout at the recent Con­ stitutional Convention nominat­ ing election for delegates. "This indifference is a serious indictment of our free enter­ prise system in the United States," he asserted. 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