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PAGE 4-PLAINDEALER-FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1973 Defenders - Will Collect For Recycling Saturday, Jan. 20, is the day to rid the garage, basement of utility area of all those ac­ cumulated \ newspapers, magazines, glass bottles, cans and corrugated All these materials wil^^be collected Saturday fob recycling by the McHenry County Defenders and Ex­ plorer Post 127. The Scouts will accept glass and cans at the Crystal Lake Plaza from 9 a.m. to l p.m. The Defenders will collect newspapers, magazines and corrugated board at the Crystal Lake high school faculty parking lot from 9 a.m. until the truck is full. - An extra convenience for paper savers is a drop-off spot at the U-Haul office at 5005 Northwest Highway (Rt. 14). Bundled papers may be left there at any time with Lou Marchi. If Marchi is not present, papers may be placed in any covered trailer. Remember that glass con­ tainers must be clean, separated by color and free of metal rings. At present only all-steel cans such as vegetable or pet food cans are being collected. These must be clean .and flattened. Aso paper labels must be removed. Now that all-aluminum beer cans ar« being marketed in this afre^ the Defenders are planning to recycle these as well. So start saving therta now but please do not bring them this Saturday. Newspapers must be tied securely with heavy string or baling twine. Make sure that no magazines or plastic bags are mixed in. Magazines can be brought if separated from papers and tied securely. The same applies to corrugated boxes. Russia Trip In Review Travel 1) lengthens the conversations, 2) broadens the mind, and 3) reduces the bank account. WATER-WELLS PUMPS THE BEST WATER SYSTEM INSTALLED IS THE CHEAPEST SUBMERSIBLE PUMPS WATER WELL DRILLING SALES AND SERVICE McHENRY COUNTY WELL & PUMP CO. 385-5252-Res. 3854)713 4913 W. McCullom Lk. Kd. McHenry This photo is described as typical of the churches seen in Am­ sterdam. However, the writer calls the city "a European capitol of hippies and the city tolerates it well".» Dr. and Mrs. William Vaughan (the former Barbara Eggert) returned recently from an extensive trip to Russia, where Dr. Vaughan attended a conference on bio-chemistry. Their two children, Laura. 6. and Brian, 5, to whom reference is made, remained at the family home in Berkeley, Calif. Mrs. Vaughan, a graduate of McHenry high school, has sent her thoughts and impressions of their trip to her mother, Mrs. Norman Eggert, of McHenry. Theyproved so interesting that the Plamdealer asked to print them. "On June 23, we went to Berkeley heliport for the helicopter flight to San Francisco. As I recall, the trip was comfortable but very noisy. We were to fly a United 747 to New York at 8:30 a.m. but our trip started out with a bang as the plane had mechanical difficulty and at 8:45 we had no idea what time we would leave. Lady Luck was with us as American had a 9 o'clock 747 to New York so while Bill hunted through four gondolas'for our two suitcases, I ran to American to see if we could get on that flight. We could and did, withjus^ minutes to spare. "The flight was nice. We watched Wyoming pas§ by from the lounge in the huge plane. We sat nine across with Snowmobiles are still pretty much the same. The beautiful difference... Here's The machine that will make all the difference in your snowmobiling this year. Skiroule's low-slope profile not only looks great but means a much lower center of gravity. Greater control. Takes a lot of the acrobatics out of cornering. Smoothly sweeping belly pan provides extra lift through drifts. The only thing that digs in is Skiroule's exclusive deep-tread track. And dependable power by the rugged, reliable Sachs engine. Make this your year to be beautifully different. ON 1973 skroules mm I I M M 20 H.P. RT 300 55 H.P. RT 440 With Cover And Spartan Trailer With Cover $795 railer $995 28 H.P. RT 340 With Cover And - Spartan Trailer $945 40 H.P. RTX 440 WE MUST MAKE ROOM FOR 1973 SUZUKI Financing Available PHIL'S With Tach, speedometer, Cover & Trailer MOTORCYCLES $1075 room to spare. We arrived in New York one hour before our 6 o'clock Pan Am flight was to leave. "Here we had confusion again. We had to practically grab our passports ourselves, our tickets were stapled to our gate passes, which was wrong, but no one seemed to know what was going on and I was fit to be tied. "What a way to start a trip but I am glad to report that that was the end of snares for i|s for the ̂ entire trip. "We had to^ pass through customs officials before en­ tering the plane. Our hand luggage and ourselves were checked for weapons. "We ate dinner and breakfast aboard the six-hour flight to Amsterdam and watched a movie, 'Mary, Queen of Scots'. The most interesting point of the fligh^ though, was when we flew enough north that on the left side of the plane the sun was really never gone-- there was brightness and redness all night long. However, on the right side it was dark with stars and moon all night long. "Amsterdam is five hours ahead of New York time and we arrived <.there at 6 a.m. Saturday, June 24. "Our tour was numbered Nine and we had a guide named Irene from General Tours. There were a total of forty- three of us traveling together although the last two joined us in Kiev. "Irene is Russian born, speaks Russian well and-had a great knack getting us tlft-ough customs and airports with a minimum of problems. "We.were met at the Dutch airportNby Arnold, our local guide. He arranged transfer of luggage as all local guides did, to our hotel. He then escorted us to our hotel, the Pulitzer, formerly the Howard Johnson. The Pulitzer is located on the Prinsen Gracht which is a series of old warehouses which were renovated into a very lovely hotel. Our room had two walls of old brick and old heavy ceiling beams. All added at­ mosphere and all very com­ fortable. "Hundreds of years ago, Princen Gracht was a very good address. Merchants who owned these buildings were quite wealthy. They used the lower floor for a warehouse and the upper floors for living. A gracht is a canal and there was a canal at the front and back of the hotel. The canals are rather polluted but from a distance it is pleasant to look at. o"0n this Saturday morning we fell in bed at 9 a.m. ex­ pecting to sleep only four hours but we did not awaken until 3 p.m. We had lunch at the hotel and then started out, maps in hand, on a walking tour of Amsterdam. "Being just a few blocks from the center of the city, we headed in that direction. The main points of interest are the dam, a bricked plaza which was the original site of the city, and across the plaza, a monument to World War II which is now a gathering place of hippies. "Amsterdam is a European capitol of hippies and the city tolerates it well. They have the influx of summer population well under control. As a matter of fact, we were told by Arnold that American and Canadian hippies are welcomed. They are polite and pleasant. It is the Southern European ones that give the problems. "Just ab&ut eveyone in Amsterdam is bilingual. I was amazed at what ease people slipped from one language to the other. We were stopped four or five times for direction in Amsterdam. One Saturday evening we were stopped by, two Dutch ladies who started talking to us in Dutch and then switched to English for us. Seems ttfey had lost their car on one of the streets and couldn't remember where they had parked it. We also took a boat trip through some of the canals that evening. "We seemed to do a lot of walking in Amsterdam. Sunday morning we walked for about five hours after not being able to sleep past 4 a.m. It took us about two or three nights to get used to our eight-hour time change. On this Sunday walk we visited Vondel park, where the city allows the hippies to sleep in sleeping bags. It is all very orderly, however, quite uncomfortable as the ground appeared quite damp. "Later that day we had a tour of the city. The highlights were a visit to the Rijks Museum to view a particular group of paintings from the very earliest through Rembrandt's works which included the "Night Watch". This was really a daytime scene and not a watch as such but the gathering before an escorting of a dignitary into the city. Rem­ brandt did excellent work as there is such action and feeling between his subjects. "We also visited a diamond polishing works. Amsterdam is a leader in this profession. We saw the process demonstrated and also saw some rings being designed. "I had promised the children a little something from each city we visited so Monday morning found us exploring more of the city. We found a few shops open but most stores do not open until 1 o'clock on Monday afternoon. "Our tour on Monday af­ ternoon took us out of Am­ sterdam into Marken and Volendam. Marken used to be an island but the Dutch have reclaimed the sea and Marken is now mostly land bound. Their industry has changed from fishing to agriculture primarily. However, a bit of fishing is still done. We visited a house there and saw the local dress. "Each town has its own traditional dress. The houses are small but there ""is ab­ solutely no wasted space. Dishes line the walls and boxes are on top of boxes, but always very neat. "Volendam has as its traditional dress the costume we usually associate with the Netherlands. Volendam does a lot of fishing now but soon will change as the Dutch are about to start another major reclamation and all by dikes. Unfortunately we did not see a windmill but we did see an Edam cheese factory. Holland, contrary to general belief, is only one province in the Netherlands and not the whole country. It is a very green, fresh country. Every house has flowers and plants in the windows. The houses are usually tall and narrow which gives rise to two interesting facts. Each house has an arm so to speak, at the top of the house. This arm has a hook and it i«s used as a pulley to lift furniture up so jt can be pulled inside the windows of the upper floors as the stairs arp too narrow. I was assured even pianos get up through this route. And frequently we saw little mirrors attached to the side of the windows. These are used by the older folks who sit at their windows so they can see what's going on behind them without turning around. "The Dutch are industrious what with their elaborate schemes of reclaiming the sea. However they also drain lakes, build canals and then fill in other canals. "At the time of our visit, Amsterdam was having a great face lifting. Many buildings are 400-500 years old and still very sturdy. Somehow, to me the word integrity seems best to describe many of the buildings. "Tuesday we flew on to Budapest with a stopover at Frankfort. PUBLIC PULSE (The Plaindealer invites the public to use this col­ umn as an expression of their views on subjects of general interest in our community. Our only re-' quest is that writers lim­ it themselves to 300 words or less - signature, full address and phone num­ ber. We ask too, that one individual not write on the same subject more than once each month. We re­ serve the .right to delete any material which we consider libelous Or in ob- jectional taste.) NIXON'S "MANDATE" "Dear Editor: "One reads here and there in the press, reports of Nixon's alleged mandate from the citizens of this country. Even a cursory analysis of the votes does not warrant this con­ clusion. Given a choice between what a majority believed rightly to be an avowed Marxist approach to international and national politics, and a much touted 'moderate' course, which was the press agent image created for Nixon, voters felt they had little choice indeed. If there is any con­ clusion to be drawn from the recent elections it is that the American people by and large are patriotic, conservative, and concerned about preserving what is left of this Republic. The fact that their choice of Nixon could not have been more disastrous from that point of view does not alter the message. "It is chilling to observe to what extent the media has been influenced by the 'powers that be' to ignore the candidacy of John Schmitz and the American party. The curtain of silence which surrounded his campaign was completely effective. When mentioning John Schmitz, the most com­ mon retort was, "What's he running for?" In cities where he drew Targe crowds, no mention was even made of his ap­ pearances. Congressman Sch­ mitz, at one time, while still in Washington, called Mr. Nixon a "traitor" before the National Press corps, yet not one word of this startling charge was even mentioned! "Mr. Nixon's betrayal of millions of captive people in both Russia and China who fell for his phony kanti-communist stance, and now the people of South Vietnam, who also, once upon a time, believed in our intentions to protect them from a communist takeover, has bewildered most of our citizens, and angered informed anti- communists everywhere. "It is no use tellirig ourselves that he has the best interests of our country at heart. It can never be in our best interests to enter itito favored nation trade agreements with countries whose policy has and always will be to bury us forever in a 'new world order' of com­ munism! This so-called world order will be one of death and despair as it is for millions of people elsewhere, and the sooner we realize this the quicker we will prevent its occurring here! "Sincerely, "Mrs. J. Fallon "2706 N. Iroquois Trail V "McHenry" FEMALE RECRUITER Peggy Rutter, Navy female recruiter for the Chicago Recruiting district, will be at the Navy office, Armed Forces Recruiting center, 144 Washington street, Woodstock, Saturday, Jan. 20, at 9 a.m. Young ladies interested in the Navy are invited to come in and talk to Peggy about the op­ portunities available to them in the Navy. For further in­ formation call 338-4076. spor,sM*£>» Please Note! Stoea tei* s ei*s 40 % ®« Handbag GloMs 30% After three wonderful years of serving the people of the McHenry area, The Red Door will be moving to a new location soon. There will be a short period of time that we will not be open while our new store is being com­ pleted. Therefore, EVERYTHING in the present location must be sold at this sale. This means tremendous bar gains for you that are not likely to ever be offered again by any store in this area. We thank you for your pafet patronage and look forward to serving you in the near future. Watch for our Grand Re-Opening! Lori Wilhelm Lynn Lund w> ,beS cA O* 1,0*1 & <0 Lay-Away Plans Available ie dDoot> 0 1303 N. Riversidfy^Or.