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15 Q THE MCHENRY PLAINDEALER Sff SERVING THE CHAIN-O-LAKES REGION SINCE 1875 \V \ , V tsnssi 15 VOLUME 98 NUMBER 97 TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1974 16 PAGES FlfTEEN CENTS Select Miss Peanut SANDRA MU8IELAK STAFF PHOTO WAYNE GAYLORD A petite young lady who kept her "cool" while admitting to being afraid is McHenry's 1974 Little Miss Peanut. She is 8- year-old Sandra Musielak, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Musielak of 410 N. Timothy lane, Edgebrook Heights. Sandra, who has brown hair and brown eyes, wore a pink, long-sleeVed dress as she approached Larry Leafblad of Radio Station WKRS, who acted as master of ceremonies. The competitfon was held at Legion clubhouse An extrovert by "nature, Sandra responded with a friendliness that won the hearts of the judges. Although she said she was very nervous, her appearance was one of poise as the 1973 Miss Peanut, Nancy Lee Smith, placed the crown on her head. Only several hours later, when she wuited with her mother, her 15-year-old sister, Cathy, and 12-year-old brother, Jeffrey, to break the news to her father, did Sandra fully realize that she had won. Mr. Musielak was otit of town on business Thursday and unable to see his daughter crowned. He was greeted by a happy Sandra, complete with crown and banner upon his arrival home early Friday, morning. The new Miss Peanut will be a third grader at Montini Primary center next September. After a week's vacation in Wisconsin, Sandra will begin making plans to enter division competition in Dundee in July. The winner of that contest will compete in Chicago in August. As new title-holder, the winner received a tape recorder from the sponsoring McHenry Kiwanis club. All contestants received gifts. Judges were Midge Scharf, president of the American Legion auxiliary, Phyllis Bauer and Ormel Prust of the business community. First runner-up was Michele Wolf, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wolf of 4914 W Fountain lane, McCullom Lake. This little lady, who will not be 6 years old until July 2, has light brown hair and green eyes. So quickly did events unfold Thursday night, Michele failed to realize for a time that she was actually a winner as she looked with some diappointment at the tiara on someone else's head. But with commendable sportsmanship, she acknowledged that she "was happy for Sandy". Second runner-up was pretty, seven-year-old Mandy Missman of 3208 W. Fairway drive, daughter of Steven Missman. (Continued on page 10), usin' and Meanderin' The number of farms in operation, particularly dairy farms, arc on the decline. But no one would have guessed if they had witnessed the number of farmers and their enthusiasm at last week's annual county dairy banquet. It was a night for fond memories as dairy princesses through the years gathered with Dairy Promotion council members, family and friends at Woodstock's Moose lodge. Each one was paying tribute to dairy products in general, and to milk in particular. WesaWnext to the first county dairy princess, Marilyn Lindvall Stork, and found it difficult to believe that this pretty young lady had reigned as long ago as twenty years. She came from Rockford to join many others in honor of the twentieth anniversary of the council Proud moments were recalled as Don Peasley, co- founder, named princesses who had represented the McHenry community. Present among them were Kathy Curran Spencer, Bev Dimon Williams, Sherry Vogt and the reigning Lynn Tomlinson. Others unable to be present were Mary Linn Hogan Sonnemaker, Maryann Granger Huemann and Patricia Hogan Parsley. A highlight for many was the appearance of a special guest, George Menard, who for many years hosted the Farm Town U.S.A. television show that gave the McHenry Dairy > council its boost in the early days. It%as our privilege to sit near Mr. and Mrs. Menard and to share some of these treasured memories. But for us, the two highlights of the evening were the talk by Miss Tomlinson to conclude her year's reign, and the crowning of the new princess, Ellen Gardner, of Solon Mills. It has been our pleasure to have been in close association with the new princess for more than a year. She is intelligent, friendly and enthusiastic. We have found in her all those qualities which made Lynn such an outstanding representative of the dairy industry We feel particularly pleased that very competent judges selected a young lady who can so ablv fill her new role. Carnival time is almost with us The annual Legion carnival opens July 3 and continues through the seventh, with Kiddie night the first evening. K A F Anticpats Tax Referendum Strike Continues To Slow Construction Of College All progress on the main structure and side buildings of McHenry County college's new campus has been halted by the concrete truck drivers' strike. This was the information given to the MCC board of trustees by college Vice-President John Garrett at Thursday night's meeting. Work is continuing on development of the site but it is only a matter of time until all the work is done that can be done without concrete, Garrett said. Concrete truck drivers have been on strike since May 15 and no progress has been reported on negotiations. "The northwest parking lot is completed to design grade and fill lifts are Wing carried to within 30 feet of the north main building," Garrett reported. "Also, 34,000 yards of site fill has been relocated and compacted to date." Garrett noted that since the last board meeting, operations have been closed down only six days due to rain. An important meeting was scheduled at the campus site on July 1. All prime contractors were requested to be present to meet with Mr. Klink of HEW. The tentative budget for 1974- 75 was presented by Dr. James R. Davis, president of MCC. The budget called for expenditures of $1,747,875 and anticipated an income of $1,529,000. This results in a deficit of $218,875. Davis recommended that the board accept the recommended budget with its anticipated $218,875 deficit which could be made up by holding a special election in August to ask voter approval of a tax rate increase of 5 cents per $100 assessed valuation in the Education fund. This would raise the Education fund maximum to 12 cents, of which approximately 10.6 cents would be needed for the recommended budget. "At the same time, we might want to ask to raise the Building and Maintenance fund budget from 3 to 4 cents," Davis said. At the present time the college received approximately 2 percent of the real estate taxes paid by district residents. "The m i n i m a l i n c r e a s e recommended would seem appropriate in light of the scope of the mission of the college throughout the district," Davis noted. "Regarding expenditures of $1,747,875, this is $52.49 per credit hour, up from $52 in the 1972-73 budget I presented to the board. This represents an increase of 0.1 percent in the cost of instruction in two budget years," Davis reported. 'The anticipated income of $1,529,000 represents $45.92 per credit hour, down from $51.75 in the 1972-73 budget or a decrease of 12 percent. This results primarily from the fact that enrollment has grown so much faster than increases in our tax base," Davis said. "Davis pointed out that in 1968-69 the tax income was $306,200 while enrollment was 16,494 ($18.56 per credit hour); in 1972-73 the tax income was $359,000 while enrollment was 24,016 ($14.95 per credit hour); next year the tax tflbse is projected as $424,300 i : while enrollment will / be approximately 33,300 ($12.74 per credit hour). "To recommend a balanced budget within current income would mean a ^reduction of service that would be contrary to the original justifications for the existence of the college itself and the design concept of the new campus," Davis painted oui. "Such reductions if adopted, would make it virtually impossible for the college to be successful in any future North Central evaluations and in fact might result in another instance of backsliding. This is postulated because the cuts would further limit the student life opportunities singled out as weak in our recent North Central association review and Two McHenry Youths Face Five Charges Two McHenry youths were arrested by Sheriff's deputies for numerous charges after their vehicle was stopped in Lakemoor Friday morning about 1:45 for faulty mufflers. Juveniles in the auto were released to the custody of their parents. They are to appear in family court July 15. Lawrence J. Palmer and Albert Stockwell, both of 1308 Lily Lake road, McHenry, were arrested and are to appear in court July 15. Palmer was (Continued on page 10) 'Cyclist Dies After Striking Rear Of Trailer The county's fourteenth traffic fatality was recorded Saturday afternoon at 5:05 wher William L Molt hen, 29, of 217 Summit t street, Poplar drove, was killed when the motorcycle he was driving hit the rear of a trailer hauling an ammonia fertilizer tank. The accident occurred on Route 173 and Oak Grove road, near Chemung. Earle L. Torrens of 702 Deerpath road, Harvard, was & (Continued on page 10) Dr. Griesbach Selected Festival Parade Marshal Sunday, July 14, at 2 p.m. Dr. Peter Griesbach will be acting parade marshal. His selection was announced this week by a committee of the Chamber of Commerce. This will probably be the last of many honors accorded the popular pediatrician before he moves to New York state to undertake a new career in the health care field. Recently, he has been recognized by the McHenry hospital board of directors, by local school districts, which he served as a board member, and by the general public at a "Lollipops and Roses" theme gathering last Sunday Last May 1 he received the 1974 Liberty Bell award at Law day ceremonies held in WoodstocK. Each year this award honors an outstanding lay person in a ceremony sponsored by the McHenry County Bar association. DR. PETER GRIESBACH When McHenry holds its Marine Festival parade they would create further weaknesses in the comprehensiveness and viablility of occupational training and certain transfer courses." Davis added that enrollment in all areas would need to be cut back to a level permitted by the tax income. Some occupational programs would have to continue to operate without any full-time faculty members and most would operate marginally within the letter, if not the spirit of the law, to avoid a proliferation of chargeback liabilities. A nearly balanced budget within current taxing ability would call for a tuition increase from $12.50 per credit hour to $17 in the transfer and vocational areas, "a figure which would put us uncomfortably close to the legal limit," Davis said.i "This would, according to nation­ wide studies, curtail our enrollment somewhat and could cause us to fall short on anticipated income from other sources." Davis reported that McHenry County college is twenty-fifth in the state in the percentage of dollars in operating budget raised from local sources. However, it is thirty-seventh out of 37 in terms of tax rate for operations. Student tuition is eighth highest in the state. "A tax rate increase of 5 cents would put us at twenty- fourth in the state in terms of tax rate and seventeenth in the state in terms of the percentage of the operation of budget raised from local sources. This would be true only if the entire 5 cents is levied and if last year's figures for other colleges are still applicable. In fact, we would not levy the full 5 cents this year," Davis noted. He suggested that final discussions on the budget be held after the August vote and then the budget could be adopted at the regular meeting Aug. 23. Trustee Dr. William Ryan emphasized the board should exhaust all other sources of revenue before going to public. When the board ha$ all the necessary facts &nd information at hand, go to the public and tell them the only alternatives are to cut codrses, raise student tuition to $17 per credit hour or increase the tax rate. Chairman Pautz called a special board meeting July 18 for the purpose of distrusting the tax rate increase and wl.at avenues might be open to aid in balancing the budget In order to obtain all the information possible, she appointed Dr. Ryan to contact School Districts 47 and 155 to see how they made out on the tax assessment appeals they filed recently. Dean of Instruction Robert Bartlett reported that summer enrollment had exceeded administration goals. There was a jump of 50 percent in head count and an increase of 32 percent in credit hours over last year. The average class size in transfer and occupational (Continued on page 10) County Begins Evaluation Of All Swimming Beaches Again this year, the McHonrv County Department of Health is conducting an evaluation program of the various swimming beaches in McHenry county. Because the samples are Ix'itig evaluated in the new laboratory located in the county court house, the department will t>e able to sample-almost every beach in the entity. In the past, it has been restricted to between twelve and eighteen a week for which samples have been sent to .fthe state laboratories, Chicago. Sanitarians from the Department of Health will collect samples from the various beaches Tuesday and Wednesday of each week so that an analysis can he completed by Thursday afternoon and the public made aware of the findings prior to the weekend The criteria to determine whether or not a beach is satisfactory is set up by the Illinois Department of Public Health in its regulations for recreational waters. Those standards are 1,000 tota' coliform organisms per 100 milliliters of water and-or 1(K) fecal coliform organisms in 1(H) milliliters of water. Any time a sample has more than 1,000 coliform or 100 fecal coliform per 100 milliliters of water, that swimming area is considered unsatisfactory. Because the variability in natural swimming areas is recognized, before a beach is posted, these standards must be exceeded by two Consecutive samples. Anytime the standards specify that two Ring Bells July Fourth Mayor Joseph B. Standi mad Naacy Langdon, regent of the Kishwaakee Trail chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, stand in front of the old bell tower at Landmark school as they view a signed proclamation designating July Fourth as Bells oa Independence Day. In commemoration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence 198 years ago, bells will be rung in McHenry at 1 p.m. on the holiday this week. Among them is the school bell pictured above. STAFF PHOTO-WAYNE GAYLORD consecutive samples exceed 5,000 total coliform per 100 milliliters and-or 500 fecal coliform per 100 milliliters, the beach will be physically closed to restrict persons from having access to those waters Found unsatisfactory on the most recent readings were Wonder Center No. 2, Deep Spring Woods No 2 and Wooded Shores, all at Wonder Lake, Burton's Bridge, McHenry dam, McCullom Lake's main beach and West Shore beach, city of McHenry, Sunnyside, and Porten's subdivision At the same time, all other Wonder I,ake beaches where samples were taken, as well as Camp Villa Maria, Pistakee Bay, l^akemoor Beaches 1 and 2 and Lakeland Park beaches No 1 and 2 were ruled satisfactory' Area Girl Reigns Crown Dairy Princess beautiful University of Illinois college freshman was chosen McHenry County Dairy Princess at the close of the twentieth annual Dairy banquet last week at Woodstock. She was the only entry from the McHenry area. Ellen's coronation was one of several highlights at a McHenry County Dairy Promotion council activity which included sentiment, rededicetion and joy among tits more than 300 who attended IB they saw many friends of feB past two decades. Among stars at this rejuvenation Dairy banqutft were most o? the format* McHenry County Dairy Princesses. Many came miles to be a part of the close spirit which has united many segments of the dairy industry in boosting what they believe is a significantly healthful food - milk and milk products. Present also were Virgil Smith and Don Peasley, CO- founders along with Walter Schuett, Woodstock dairy farmer who was chosen the "National Dairy Farmer of tfp Year" in 1954 competitkm sponsored by the AFBF. Mrs. Rose Schuett, his widow, was in attendance to share in ths reminiscing. Another star attraction was George Menard, the television- radio personality who became a special friend of McHsnry county as he presented "Farmtown, USA." in the 1950 s and counted many area people to serve as guests. The Dairy Promotion council insignia, including its first Dairy Princess, Marilyn Lindvall Stork, were first unveiled on that television show Miss Gardner will meet WMI members of the press July llnl an annual luncheon for the Dairv Princess to (Continued on page 10) Lynn Tomlinson of McHenry, at top, j 1073 McHenry County Dairy Princess, placed new crown upon the head of pretty Ellen Gardner just moments before this picture was taken. Kllen is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Gardner of Solon Mills and was the only McHenry area representative in the 1974 competition. (DON PEASLEY PHOTO) Ellen Gardner. 17 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs Robert Gardner, Solon Mills dairy family, has begun her reign as the McHenry County Dairy Princess. The tall,