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C PAGE 5-PLAINDFAI ER-WEDNESDAY; JULY 14, 1971 Twice Told Tales FORUY YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of July 2, 1931) An interesting contest starts this week in the advertising „ columns put on by eight of the merchants of West McHenry. Eight ads, containing special offerings, appear on the page. Among these ads apptear four misspelled words. The reader is to pick out these words and use them in a sentence which must not be over ten words in length. The one producing the best sentence will receive $5 worth of merchandise free. The sight seeing excursion boat "Alice" leaves Justen's hotel pier on west side of new bridge at 9 a.m. and 1:45 p.m. All day excursions to Wilmot, Wis., the lotus beds, jjhannel Lake and through the l&goons. The river road to Oakhurst was closed to traffic this week causing a detour to Lily Lake while work on the improvement of the\oad was under way. Although the weather is too hot for comfort the harried men are playing baseball at the city park Tuesday and Thursday nights. The Huck Specials are still leading the league having played seven games and won six. „ Herb Freund at present is leading the McHenry Rifle club entrants in this annual event. Some of the members haven't fired as yet and this makes the final results rather indefinite, but Herb, the only Freund representative in the club, stands a wonderful chance of finishing on top. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of July 4, 1946) Louis A. Weigel of Chicago, -who has a summer cottage at the Harrison resort, dropped a wrist watch into the water at .the end of the pier. It was a hand made time piece insured for $2,200. Mr. Weigel notified his insurance company and they had a professional diver at the bay prepared to keep diving until the watch was found. On his second plunge into the twelve foot deep water, the diver found the watch. The McHenry Realty com­ pany, Bernard J. Peschke and associates, owners, have an­ nounced their entry into the field of real estate brokerage located on Route 120. Mrs. Martin H. Freund, 86, of Johnsburg passed away July 1 at her home after a week's illness. Lutheran families who are members of the local Zion Evangelical Lutheran church and their pastor, Rev. Frederick C. Pudsell, enjoyed a picnic at Fish Lake on June 30. • Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Murphy celebrated their silver wedding anniversary at their home on Main street. Mrs. Peter M. Justen and father, Math Niesen, and Mrs. Clarence Niesen and children left last week for Colorado where they will spend a five weeks vacation. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer H. .Vinkleman and son, James, have moved from Oak Park to the Knox homestead at 809 Center street. TEN YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of July 6, 1961) The first band concert of the season will be held on the Legion lawn this Friday night, July 7. About forty members make up the 1961 band directed for the second year by Stanley Vycital. - The John Hogan family of Ringwood has seen their third and last daughter accepted into royalty. Pretty 17-year-old Patricia Hogan was crowned McHenry County Dairy prin­ cess at a banquet in Huntley. An inboard motor boat owned by Frank Krajic of Chicago capsized in the wake of another boat at Pistakee Bay on the holiday afternoon. All of the passengers were thrown into the water. ^Opening evening festivities in connection with Fiesta Week and the 125th anniversary of the city of McHenry will be held on McCracken field, July 9. Jeffrey William is the name chosen for the first child born June 30 to Mr. and Mrs. Bill Weber at Memorial hospital, Woodstock. AI-C Dennis Conway, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Conway, who is serving at the Elmen- dorf Air Force Base near Anchorage, Alaska, was made happy by a surprise visit from four McHenryites, Howard Cairns, Henry Weber, Walter Anderson and Ed Kennebeck who are ̂ vacationing in Alaska. uhe %Votxu Cli true The Law Serves You State Law Offers Many Aids To Blind Persons Attention to the rights of people in need are the often- forgotten concerns of our state government. According to the Illinois State Bar Association, it is the express policy of |he State of Illinois "to encourage, and enable the blind, the visually Handicapped, the otherwise physically disabled to participate fully in the social and economic life of the State and to engage in remunerative employment." The state's "White Cane Law" makes certain that a blind person has the same rights as an able-bodied person to the use of our streets and highways, recreational facilities, our public tran­ sportation and buildings. And a separate law guarantees that he can take his guide dog with him. Its state policy that the blind, as well as other disabled persons, are entitled tov em­ ployment in state service on the same terms and conditions^ the able-bodied, unless, of course, the particular disability prevents performance of the work involved. A blind person is entitled to special help in voting during elections, and he can legally be assisted in marking his ballot. Under Illinois law, a blind fisherman is entitled to a specially-reduced license fee for hook and line fishing. In­ stead of $2.00, he pays only 40 cents far the license, plus a 10 cent issuing fee. Additionally, under Illinois law motorists must give the right of way to any blind person carrying a white cane or with a guide dog. Leonard's gripe is something ^11 honest taxpayers need to know. And be grateful to your local newspaper, for it is the greatest insurance the average taxpayer ever has for keeping politicians on their toes! Thomas Jefferson thus said if we could have either public schools or newspapers, he'd prefer newspapers. By - George W. Crane, Ph. D., M.D. CASE K-543: Leonard G., aged 42, is a chemical engineer. "But, Dr. Crane," he added, "I have purchased several large apartment buildings in my city. *3"'And I soon discovered that they were assessed at a much ' higher figure than similar buildings in the area. "So I petitioned for a reduction of my taxes. "But I was ignored. "The next year I again prepared an elaborate report to show why I was being unjustly taxed. "When I submitted it, I was again given the brush-off ^ treatment. "Irate, I visited the assessor's office a third time but he was out. However, one of his aids informed me that I didn't go about it the right way. "Then he calmly stated that if I would bring the assessor 30 percent of the amount I was over-assessed and slip it to him in unmarked billsfof $10 and $20 denomination, then I would get my tax reduced. "Well, this shocked and in­ furiated me! "But from the so-called 'grapevine' I have since found out that there are several new apartment buildings in my city that have been completed and fully rented for the past 2 years, yet they aren't even on the tax books as yet! "For this assessor engages in 'under the table' deals with the owners. "If the latter should be paying $10,000 per year,, the assessor tells him he will take $5,000 annually to &eep the building off the tax list)as long as possible. "The owner thus saves himself that extra $5,000 every year, so he is ahead of the game and refuses to report this illegal action. "And the assessor obviously makes $5,000, so he will not squeal on himself. "The condition has become so notorious that one of our leading newspaper men has reported this assessor to the Internal Revenue Service. "But nobody seems able to get the assessor indicted, for it is difficult to prove anything, when unmarked money is slipped to the assessor in the manner I have indicated. "One acquaintance of mine, when a little intoxicated, boasted of making such a deal, but later denied it. "So the honest taxpayers are reallv the ones who suffer. an MENTAL HEAlLTH MATTERS er, Dr. Hair is actually made up of dead tissue! What happens when you're offered $18,000 for gour $24,200 pile of ashefi? You take it if you haven't increased your home insurance to keep pace with inflation. This is the kind of problem you could face , if you bought and insured your home for $18 000 in 1963. See me to find out if your home is insured for its full value. I'll tell you about a low-cost State Farm Homeowners Policy that will insure your home for all it's worth ... and keep it that way with automatic Inflation Coverage. S T A T I M i * M Joe Podpora 1212 N GREEN ST Ph. 385-4080 What's the Crane?" PAGING , SHERLOCK HOLMES Unless some involved tax­ payer is honorable enough to cooperate, it is very difficult to stop this sort of dishonesty in politics. When one of our former Chicago mayors died, his lock box contained over $2,000,000 in small bilis! Lobbyists also can get around the law by hiring a politician's legal firm and then paying huge bribes under the guise of professional counsel! Last winter, the newspapers told about a prominent Washington official who bought a house for $50,000 and sold it for about $170,000 to a man whom he had endorsed for a $200 million dollar grant. Was this an indirect payoff or just a happenstance? Some things that you feel positively are illegal, are often almost impossib|e to prove in a court of law. So taxpayers need to thank our newspapers for exposing graft in high places. Newspapers are the best protectors of our Republic! (Always write to Dr. Crane in care of this newspaper, en­ closing a long stamped, ad­ dressed envelope and 20 cents to cover typing and printing costs when you send for one of his booklets.) If you think you'd like to learn while you earn, think about the Army Reserve. Through the courtesy of Family Health Service and Mental Health Clime Federal Agencies Attack Alcoholism With drunken driving a chief cause of automobile fatalities and accidents, the mounting problem of alcoholism is one against which we must combine all of our resources. A hearten­ ing move in this direction has been made in Washington by the two principal Federal agen-, cies concerned*; I'hus, an interagency agree­ ment to combine resources in combatting alcoholism has been announced by t;Miot, L. Rich­ ardson, Secretary """of the De­ partment of Health, Education, and Welfare, and John A. ,Volpe, Secretary of the De­ partment of Transportation. They pledged full support to a program to develop local re­ sources against alcohol abuse and to a campaign to inform the American public of the dangers of irresponsible drink­ ing, includirfg-the role of alco­ hol in the Natioh's traffic death toll. "Our mosJ recent estimates," Secretary Richardson said, "dis­ close that some 10,000,000 Americans are dependent on alcohol--a shocking figure that yet does not begin to reveal the damage to the Nation in terms of alcohol-related disease, broken families, economic ruin, and death. Clearly a concerted Federal response to this chal­ lenge is overdue," The formal agreement be­ tween HEW's National Institute of Mental Health and DOT's National Highway Safety Bu- 70/£M BENEFIT TURN - Captain Jim Lacey, an aifline pilot, is shown above in an inverted flying demonstration with his "Pitts Special" acrobatic airplane. He and a group of fellow members of the International Acrobatic Pilots club will perform for the public at an airshow for the benefit of the Countryside Center for the Handicapped at Crystal Lake airport July 17..The airshow and exhibition of antique and experimental aircraft is being provided by the pilots to assist the school in improving and adding facilities for the severly handicapped children and adults enrolled there. Many other individuals and organizations are helping to make it an exciting day. Tickets are available at most financial institutions in-the northwest suburbs at advance sale price. r Chip Story Potato chips came into being in 1853. The chef at a New York gathering place became exasper­ ated by a guest who kept return ing orders of French-fried pota­ toes, insisting they were too thick. The chef tried slicing the potatoes paper-thin. The result: potato chips. S We feature No.1 with the wet set They're the only products your pool ever needs. Come in and " ask us about them. reau, sets up a mechanism for technical assistance, policy co­ ordination, and funding of en­ deavors. Two areas of concen­ tration will involve DOT plans for community action programs all over the country and HFW efforts to support community treatment and rehabilitation programs for problem drinkers. The first visible result of the two agencies' collaboration, however, will be a series of newspaper, magaine, radio, and television ads and materials, produced this year for a cooper­ ative nationwide information and education campaign on al­ cohol abuse. This, of course, is only a small part of the total effort PURSUE MCTPROGRAM Greater emphasis will be placed on the Market Cattle Testing Program in Illinois' that needs to be mounted and carried out as a continuing pro­ gram by all kinds of groups and agencies in every community and State, with Federal agen­ cies such as HFW and DO* aiding locally planned and rected ttnti-alcoholism activities. But, aside from what Orga­ nizations do. each individual, every single one of us. should remember a^id take to heart and mind himself the slogan: "Stopping alcoholism starts with me." Brucellosis Eradication Program, according to Agriculture Director Gordon L. Ropp, who has requested study and correction of problems that restrict the present "backtagging". In the MCT program, backtags are applied to animals culled from the herd at the first stop enroute to slaughter and a blood sample is collected from each animal at the time of slaughter. Packers, sellers and market dealers recently opposed a proposal to collect blood samples from all animals two years of age and over consigned to livestock auction markets and stockyards in Illinois. I N S U R A N C E ^ STATE FARM FIRE and CASUALTY COMPANY Home Off ice: Bloomlngton, I l l inois ARVIDSON POOLS and complete SWIM CENTER ^Equipment •Chemicals Accessories • Games •Toys (Ze+t AloidUcut & So+tl, 9nc. Quality Builders 3209 N. Rte. 31 • Crystal Lake, III. Phone 815-459-0660 McHenry State Bank Founded in 1906 - McHenry County's Largest Financial Institution Statement of Conditions Report of conditions of McHenry State Bank ^ of McHenry, Illinois 60050 CONSOLIDATED REPORT OF CONDITION of McHenry State Bank of McHenry, IL 60050 and Foreign and Domestic Subsidi­ aries at the close of business June 30, 1971, a state banking institution organized and operating under the banking laws of this State and a member of the Federal Reserve System. Pub­ lished in accordance with a call made by the State Banking Authorities and by the Federal Bank of this District. A S S E T S L Cash and due from banks 7,190,262.36 2. U.S. Treasury securities ^ 9,656,178.09 3. Securities of other U.S. Government agencies and corporations • • 3,100,000.00 4. Obligations of States and political subdivisions 1,949,669.09 5. Other securities (including $54000 corporate stocks) 54,000.00 7. Federal funds sold and securities purchased under agreement to resell . 1,250.000.00 8. Other loans 26,693,202.52 9. Bank premises, furniture and fixtures, and other assets rep­ resenting bank premises 500,623.52 13. Other assets 312,851.55 14. TOTAL ASSETS 50,706,787.13 L I A B I L I T I E S 15. Demand deposits of individuals, partnerships, and corporations 11,538,951.54 16. Time and savings deposits of -individuals, partnerships, and corporations • • • • • • • 30,424,207.41 17. Deposits of United States Government ...r*.... 220,759.33 18. Deposits of States and political subdivisions 1,992,830.31 21. Certified and officers' checks, etc 449,138.28 22. TOTAL DEPOSITS • 44,625,886.87 (a) Total demand deposits 13,431,679.46 (b) Total time and savings deposits 31,194,207.41 27. Other liabilities 1,890,777.16 28. TOTAL, LIABILITIES 46,516,664.03 RESERVES ON LOANS AND SECURITIES 30. Reserve for bad debt losses on loans (set up pursuant to IRS rulings) .(, • 552,014.77 32. Reserves on securities 200,000.00 33. TOTAL RESERVES ON LOANS AND SECURITIES 752,014.77 CAPITAL ACCOUNTS 35. Equity capital, total (sum of Items 36 to 40 below) 3,438,108.33 37. Common stock-total par value 800,000.00 (No. shares authorized 80,000) (No. shares outstanding 80,000) (38. Surplus 1,000,000.00 39. Undivided profits 1,638,108.33 41. TOTAL CAPITAL ACCOUNTS (sum of Items 34 and 35 above) 3,438,108.33 42. TOTAL LIABILITIES, RESERVES, AND CAPITAL ACCOUNTS t (sum of Items 28, 29, 33 & 41 above) 50,706,787.13 MEMORANDA 1. Average of total deposits for the 15 calendar days ending with call date .l 44,089,706.24 2. Average of total loans for the 15 calendar days ending with call date 30,824,309.37 I, Thos. F. Bolger, Vice Pres. & Cashier, of the above-named bank do hereby de­ clare that this report of condition is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. \ ' • • THOMAS F. BOLGER We, the undersigned directors, attest the correctness of this report of condition and declare that It has been examined by us and to the best of our knowledge and belief is true and correct. & ROBERT L. WEBER RICHARD J. ZTEMAN GERALD J. CAREY Directors State of Illinois County of McHenry ss: Sworn to and subscribed before me this 12th day of July, 1971. - My commission expires 9 27,1974. MARTHA J. HOJNACKI. Notary Public Official Publication DIRECTORS Gerald J. Carey William A. Nye, M.D. Robert L. Weber Thomas F. Bolger Richard J. Zieman William J. Cowlin OFFICERS WILLIAM A. NYE, M.D. Chairman of the Board GERALD J. CAREY President ROBERT L, WEBER Executive Vice President and Trust Officer THOMAS F. BOLGER Vice President & Cashier JAMES E. LARKIN Vice President RICHARD J. ZIEMAN Vice President and Trust Officer LENORA E. FRISBY Trust Officer RONALD J. VACULA Ass|^tant Vice President RICHARD A. LANE Assistant Vice President OR MEL J. PRUST Assistant Vice President* EDWIN J. BECKER, JR. Assistant Vice President and Auditor DONALD WATTLES Assistant Cashier LILLIAN CAIRNS Assistant C ashier ALBERT G. VALES Assistant Cashier DONALD H. MEYER Assistant Cashier -r: /