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t Twice Told Tales J" FORTY YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of Jan 19 1933) The regular monthly meeting of the McHenry County Post­ masters association was held with Postmistress Mrs. Rose Goddard at Ridgefield, Jan. 18. A dinner was served at the Presbyterian church and the men's quartet of Woodstock entertained with several selections. Those from here in attendance were Mr. and Mrs. E.E. Bassett and son, Lisle, ££Ubert Krause and Leo Winkel. j£* Simon Michels, aged 52, passed away at his home on Riverside drive, Jan. 12. Mr. and Mrs Frank Im- '^jnekus have moved fr6m the «^William Bonslett place onyRich- mond road to the upper flat in the building formerly known as ,the Kent building on Main street recently vacated by Weir Keck. Mrs. Albert Justen, Mrs. , Joseph Freund, Mrs. Russel Gibbs, Mrs. John Kilday and Mrs. Vogel, all\of McHenry, enjoyed chicken dinner at the home of Mrs. Joseph Lensen at Volo and spent the afternoon playing bridge. Miss Rita Freund was sur- , prised by a number of her friends at her home on Riverside drive Saturday evening in honor of her bir­ thday. The party attended the show at the El Tovar at Crystal Lake after which they returned to the Freund home where the •" rest of the evening was spent in games, dancing and refresh- % ments. Mrs. Joanne Rulien, school nurse and the home hygiene class, spent Thursday at Rock- ford where they visited the health commissioner's office and heard a talk by Dr. Gun- derson, health commissioner, TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of Jan. 22, 1948) Death last week claimed the • life of Mrs. Henry Kinsala, 73 years old, at her home on Waukegan street following an eight week's illness. Moving of the Illinois Bell Telephone company's business ' office to new quarters at 136 ' North Riverside drive will take -place next weekend. G.L. ' Wilburn, telephone manager, announced. At a recent meeting of the ' McHenry County Red Cross " executive committee, Rev. Fr. ' Eugene Baumhofer was ap­ pointed general chairman of the Red Cross drive which will ' begin March 1. Mike Daly who operates a barber shop in West McHenry is vacationing in California!^ Mrs. Floyd Covalt leff^y plane for Panama where she will spend a few weeks with her daughter and husband, Capt. and Mrs. Norman Blomgren\ There she will make the' ' acquaintance of her new granddaughter, Barbara Ann. Mr. a lid Mrs. James Powers, Mr. and Mr£. Norbert Yegge of McHenry and John ^Sullivan of Woodstock attended the Sonja Henie Ice Revue at the Chicago Stadium on Sunday. . Jan. 6, a bridal shower was given at the Vogue Cocktail lounge for the charming owner, Estelle Boro. TEN YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of Jan. 24, 1963) A head on collision in Fox Lake, Jan. 18, resulted in the death of two young McHenry people and serious injuries to three others. Ronald A. Freund, 18, was killed by the impact and a friend, Penny Jane Pennington, 17, died that evening in McHenry hospital. A fire at the home in West Shore Beach occupied by the Kenneth Maxson family resulted in about $3,000 in damage last week Wednesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Blake who reside on Richmond road' north of McHenry will observe their golden wedding an­ niversary Jan. 26 with a dinner for the family at Hettermann's, Johnsburg. Robert Stueben and Ted Graham left Jan. 17 for 10 days in Mexico City as guests of the Department of Labor of Mexico. Chester Helwig, McCullom Lake, was seriously injured early Saturday morning when his car collided with a snow removal vehicle on Elm street. t For the first time, a large variety of evening courses for adults are being offered at the local high school beginning Feb. 13. In conjunction with Jaycee week the Junior Chamber of Commerce presented twelve hour work awards to Ed Cepulis and Bill McCarroll and the Jaycee Spoke award was presented to Jacob Marino for outstanding work during his first year of membership. Certificates of appreciation were also presented to two non members, Jerome Buch and Sylvester Tonyan, who throughout the year have contributed to the success which the organization has enjoyed. Traveller Tells Of New System Of Water Parks IRS OFFICE HOURS Roger C. Beck, district director of Internal Revenue Service for the twenty-six northern counties of Illinois, announced January 4 that all Internal Revenue Service of­ fices in the Chicago district will be open every Thursday night and a half day on Saturdays throughout the entire filing period. The Woodstock office at 1072 Lake Ave., is open 8 a.m. to 4:30 daily, 4:30 to 9 p.m. Thursday and 9 a.rr. to 1 p.m. \ Saturday. ( The following is the most recent in a series of articles written by the Rev. William Hanner of McHenry, retired Episcopal pastor, concerning his travels through the South). With the increasing amount of leisure people have, come problems. How shall we use this new time to best ad­ vantage? Outdoor life and recreation is healthy both to body and ipind and most people enjoy hj Mississippi is developing a system of Water parks. Their former senator, Pat Harrison, was instrumental in getting this project started. Today in the fifteen southeast counties of this state there has been set up a Pat Harrison Waterway district. Work is now going on in six localities within the district to provide a large park with water facilities for swimming, boating, water skiing, fishing and marina. Hiking trails, camping sites and picnicking areias are also provided. We visited Flint Creek Water park last week and saw the project flt close range. It lies a mile or two from Dizzy Dean's home town of Wiggins. This community has a population of nearly 3,000 and is a kind of headquarters for the park. Flint Creek Water park was started in 1964 and was com­ pleted in time for the summer of 1969. Flint Creek was dammed up and a great lake made. The park covers about 1,900 acres with all the facilities mentioned above. The camp sites particularly intrigued me. They have to be reasonably close together for economy but each has distinct privacy. Some have beautiful views. Your camper or trailer is backed into place and held there by stout wooden bum­ pers. There is a sturdy per­ manent table, sewer con- nections-though not 100 per cent, water and electricity and natural cover of woods. There are 130 of these ^ites in the park. One ranger told me that on summer weekends they are always full and that on occasion as many have been turned away as were served. A site may be reserved for a week. A camp site costs $1.00 entrance fee plus $3.50 for each day of use-they are a bargain. There are also some pioneer sites for those who wish to rough it more. Toilets, bath houses, phones, laundromat and a store are available. The parts are in a rolling wooded section of the state. They are rural. They are at­ tractive and they are clean. Much thought and planning has gone into them. Southern Mississippi is building up and filling up just as McHenry county is doing. Ocean Springs, once a pleasant little village, has expanded to Tired Of Sliding All Over The Road? ' J ' 6 0 Get Fruit Wheel Drive - Get RENAIIITIB THE SAFEST DRIVE ON SNOW & ICE SPECIAL DISCOUNT-1972 Renault R12 Sedans & Wagons -- All Automatic Transmissions SAVE UP TO *500 OFF LIST PRICE GOETTEL MOTOR SALES, Inc. "The Best Machanics-To Service The Finest Cars" Route 120 - 3 Miles East of McHenry, Illinois Phone (815) 385-3330 9,000 souls today with many fine homes. We went to church there,. The pastor had the children's Christmas pageant after Holy Communion. You could just see the work. It was very well done and the children were bright eyed and smart looking. I always like to work with children. At Gulfport there is a good sized port that takes ocean vessels--they were unloading bananas once when I was there-- a fine public library and well disigned, too. There stands the old court house. When an addition was needed they built that in Biloxi, so in a sense, Harrison county has two court houses... Over at Pascagoula, there are great ship yards. They are drawing labor from many parts of the country. Gautier, which was a cross roads, is now a town with banks and stores and many shopping centers have sprung up. I havn't had much luck finding old back roads to drive over. There is K>o much traffic on them. There are several great national forests , in Mississippi. Driving from Lucedale to Wiggins we passed eight or ten huge .trucks of Mississippi pine logs. The forests are farmed and some cuttings made each year. The State university maintains a forestry lab and there is an experimental lumber center in the forest. Mississippi is moving along. Age, alone, seldom brings wisdom. The young fool will die an old fool, unless he dies young. Lots ot people with excellent ideas on how to run the Ship of State can't even paddle their own canoe. PAGE 11-PLAINDtALER-FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1973 Assistance Programs Of Government Ended Funding of cost-sharing activities under the Rural Environmental Assistance program (REAP) and for further contracting under the Water Bank program (WBP) is being terminated, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced. These two programs are among those selected after a review of federal programs to identify those of low priority that can be reduced or eliminated without serious economic consequences. This review was initiated as part of the effort to hold 1973 federal budget outlays to $250 billion. The income supplements for farmers that have been provided by the REAP and WBP are no longer necessary, the department said. Realized net farm income in 1972' will reach an all-time high of nearly $19 billion. In view of this, and because of the general ac­ ceptance and profitability of certain practices, it is believed farmers will continue to im­ plement a significant number of them without supplemental income from the federal government. The REAP concept was initiated in the 1930's to provide cost-sharing incentives to farmers to install soil and water conserving practices on their lands. The program was successful in demonstrating the value of conservation as good farming practice. The Water Bank! program was initiated by recent legislation. Its aim* of preserving wetlands for the preservation of waterfowl is desirable, department officials said, but the program is con­ sidered unnecessary since the Department of the Interior administers similar programs to enhance and conserve migratory waterfowl habitat. A LOT OF HOT AIR ... A flight crew from the 2ZZd Avia­ tion Battalion, Ft. Wainwright, Alaska, defrost a Chinook hell- copter by attaching heater hoses to the engine and intake valve areas. This chilling rou­ tine must be performed daily to keep this Alaska Army sup­ port helicopter unit airborne. and still GROWING! MARENGO FED^alion Savings ye, (mpr°vern College Loans Accou„ts Loans on Sav 9 Q0ntract Bea> Estate SoM or in judgement Real Esta*°dand in Banks Cash on Ha SeCUrit»es U.S. Govep^eral Home Loan Bank St0.°k BumHng and Equipment prepaid B®o° ar^ Total Sees December 31.1911 «32 971,012.45 $ 551.148.45 61,249.07 199.381.39 339,887.92 36:692.19 980,123.29 2W2.551.30 259,300.00 486.62694 239,876.94 ciB.226.60 -$38^976^4 December 31.19'?. $41,347,276.63 - 63,163.44 293,503.80 309,13639 5933.12 554,190.22 2 792.527-31 '307,700.00 473,516.46 238,832.64 c^l609.2_5. $47,098,a^»jU U*B \LlfitS AND lESE<W!l 'uoan Bank advances fro and („suranc LoanS payment <or_1 Reserves *dva°^ Income and Spec. Other Liable* Surptus 0 r*\ Reserves an ^es tHEVEAB. . torest Paid to Sav*L>uOts interest r Savings Acco ^ ,ncrea« ,n f irst Moans'Made Tnw Mortgage Loans Total Assets Increase Reserves Accounts .^ Reserves to Savings Dec. 31.1971 144210.55 ,13 080.70 jyfele Oec.31.1972 IS •583$?; 1o'«72962- *ar86 *<69% V:- r - rag \ v A Make Marengo Federal your Savings Headquarters Earn at Top Yields of 5% and 5%% on Passbook Savings 5%%, 5%5, 6% on Certificate Accounts Interest compounded daily on all accounts A $47,000,000 mutual savings association serving northern Illinois since 1925 1VI ARFlVf O federal savings and loan association 1 Vr 200 E. GRANT HIGHWAY MARENGO, ILL. WHERE MORE PEOPLE SAVE MORE MO^IEY THAN ANY WHERE ELSE IN McHENRY COUNTY /