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PAGE 18 • PLAINDEALER-WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11,1974 Wonder Lake Mary Jean Huff . B 728-0267 Vocal, Band Annual Christmas Program, Dec. 15 Mrs. Mona Brown, vocal music director and John Stepanek, band director, are pleased to announce that plans for the annual Christmas program are now set and the program will be at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 15, at the Harrison school gymnasium. The program will feature the concert band, junior varsity band, cadet band, junior varsity chorus, concert choir and the double quintet. An extra added attraction will be a large mass chorus made up of ex-Harrison students, friends, parents and students of Harrison school. They will be singing the Hallelujah Chorus from the Messiah and White Christmas. Among the numbers by the concert choir will be "The Little Drummer Boy" and the junior varsity chorus, made up of fourth and fifth grade boys and girls, will be singing, among others, "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" and "Christmas Bell Canon". The junior varsity band will be playing three numbers, one of which will be "Children's Christmas March". The cadet band, which is composed of beginner students will be playing four numbers, among them will be "Good King Wenceslas". The concert band will be playing "Burnished Brass", "March of the Toys" and "Home for the Holidays", with several other numbers. The double quintet, a group of ten boys and girls will be singing five numbers on the program. The entire instrumental and vocal music department at Harrison will be involved in the choruses and bands and it should prove to be an enjoyable music filled afternoon. Mrs. Brown and Mr. Stepanek would like to extend a personal invitation to all music lovers to come and give their support to some fine young musicians. AUXILIARY SALE Ladies, as you make out your Christmas shopping list, how about putting on it to stop by theWonder Lake Hardward Store to see some of the items that are being made by the Fireman's Auxiliary of Company No. 1. We are taking orders for some of the items. They are in a display case near the front of the store. FIRE RESCUE CALLS The Wonder Lake Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Squad answered these calls in NoVember: Rescue Calls, 13. No. 1, 6:50 a.m. Rescue call, D.O.A., no transport. Nov. 1, 5:25 p.m. Rescue call, Mc- Cullom Lake Road and Ringwood Road, car vs. bicycle, transported one child to McHenry hospital. Nov. 2,8:15 a.m. Rescue call, transported one to McHenry hospital. Nov. 4, 3:55 p.m. Rescue call, East Wonder Lake Road and Wooded Shores Drive, two car accident, no transport. Nov. 5, 2:10 p.m. Rescue call, transported one female with facial lacerations McHenry hospital. Nov. 10, 10:50 a.m. tran­ sported one female to McHenry Hospital. Nov. 14, 7:45 p.m. tran­ sported one female to McHenry Hospital. Nov. 15,12:40 m. transported one female from East Lake Shore Drive to McHenry Hospital. Nov. 16, 12:20 p.m. tran- n sported one female to McHenry Hospital. Nov. 17, 2:55 p.m. tran­ sported one child hit by car, Deep Springs Road, to McHenry hospital. Nov. 17, 3:55 p.m. transported one female to Woodstock Hospital. Nov. 18, 3:20 p.m. Rescue call, transported one injured child to McHenry hospital. Nov. 23, 12:45 p.m. Rescue call, transported one injured 15 year old to Woodstock hospital. Fire Calls, 6. Nov. 2, 1:30 p.m. responded to accident on Thompson road, wash down. Nov. 7, 9:40 a.m. responded to grass fire. Nov. 12,11:20a.m. responded to grass fire. Nov. 13, 7:30 a.m. responded to grass fire. Nov. 18, 4:35 p.m. responded to house fire odor of smoke in house. Nov. 26,11:15a.m. responded to fire in electric dryer at Oak- wood Shores Subdivision. BIRTHDAYS , Happy birthday to Todd Parquette, son of Nancy and Ron Parquette. Todd will be four years old on Dec. 11. Happy birthday to Mary Jane Mogdans on Dec. 12. Happy birthday to Andy Stilling, son of Pat and Roger Stilling. Andy will be one year old on Dec. 13 Happy birthday to Jimmy Wagner, son of Dr. and Mrs. M.W. Wagner. Jimmy will be 7 years old on Dec. 13'. Happy birthday to Jean Decker on Dec. 16. Happy birthday to Patty Freund Hutchinson on Dec. 17. Happy birthday to Jim Golden on Dec. 17. NEW DAUGHTER A daughter, Jennifer Lynn, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Bruce A- Scheppa, 7707 West Howe Itoad, Wonder Lake, on Nov. 24, in Memorial Hospital for McHenry County, Woodstock. She weighed 6 lbs. 7 ozs. Maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Lewan- dowski, Stevens Point, Wis., and paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Alva Scheppa, and great grandmother, Mrs. Alvina Scheppa, reside in Wisconsin Rapids, Wis.. Great grandmother, Mrs. Cecilia Qrzech, lives in Chicago. COMMUNITY CALENDAR Sponsored by Woman's Club of Wonder Lake, Ann Sowers, Chairman, 653-9M9. DECEMBER 15 Christmas Concert, Harrison School, 2 p.m. DECEMBER 17 F i r e m a n ' s A u x i l i a r y Meeting, 8 p.m. east side fi rehouse. Twice Told Tales WISHING YOU A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM THE A LARGEST FORD DEALER IN NORTHERN ILLINOIS MONDAY THRU FRIDAY 9 to 9 SATURDAY9to5-SUNDAY 10to5 S X g 1 Remaining 1974 Ford Demonstrators Will Be Sold Far Below Cost At Savings Of Up To 2000.00 Left Over 74 Fords Will Be Sold At Our Cost Check Our Sales Invoice CAR CITY A;.,, 24 HOUR TOWING SERVICE CALL 815-459-8200 SOUT THE DOOR YOU GO, SANTA! ^COMPLETE BOO* SHOP FACILITIES All Mikes and Models Reputed • CUSTOM PAINTING • FREE ESTIMATE CALL RICK AT 815 459 8200 T i m C o n i c I r a n k D e n n y HI I I (ONION OWN I K S A N I A NORM ( Ol I INS OWNI R 1971 MAVKKU K. 6 cvl .. auto . PS, 2 dr. $:il»5 1971 PINTO Hl'NABOl'T. auto. 12 695 1974 FORD LTD BROUGHAM -2dr. 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I t * 48 MONTH FINANCING FOR THOSE WHO QUALIFY 2 door hdtp 4 door pil lard hdtp 4 door station wgn GRAN TORINO 2 door pii lafd htdp 4 door pil lard hdtp 4 door station *gn FIFTY YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of Dec. 11, 1924) Joe G. Buch, owner and operator of the local amateur radio transmitting station 9CEB was given a very nice newspaper comment for ser­ vices rendered on the night of Dec. 2. Mr. Buch was the first McHenry young man to install such a station and receive a government license for the operation of same. Four spring lambs were killed by dogs on the W.E. Whiting farm south of this city. The animals were in a field about forty rods from the farm home. The lambs at present market prices were worth from $14 to $16 each. The next dance at Smith's hall, Ringwood, will take place Friday evening, Dec. 12. Frank Gans Polly Prim orchestra will again furnish the music. Last Thursday all the girls of the high school met in the auditorium and were urged to come out for basketball. McHenry county has seven students enrolled in college at the University of Illinois. Alice E. Miller of McHenry is one of the seven. Illinois faces the greatest shortage of clover seed in its history and the farmers' salvation is to grow alfalfa according to a statement by the Blue Valley Creamery in­ stitute. A social meeting of the Altar and Rosary society of St. Patrick's church took place at the home of Mrs. C.W. Stenger on Main street and as a result of the meeting $35 was cleared which is to be placed into the chimes fund. Mrs. T.J. Walsh saw "Ap­ plesauce" at the LaSalle theatre in Chicago. FORTY YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of Dec. 13, 1934) Mail from the local post of­ fices is now dispatched to Chicago at 2:55 p.m. and 6 p.m., with no mail leaving on the morning train. Lyle Bassett, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eber Bassett, West McHenry, was united in marriage on Wednesday evening to Miss Vivian Sweitzer of Houston, Tex., at the home of the bride's parents. A reproduction by local talent of the W.L.S. barn dance show as given in Chicago each Saturday night will be given in Memorial hall, Richmond, this weekend. The show will be coached and directed by a talented director from the W.L.S. staff. The show is sponsored by the Ringwood, Hebron and Solon Mills Home Bureau. Local talent includes Charles, Stanley, Richard and Harold Vycital, George Vales, Chester Howard, Stanley Schaffer and Henry Schaffer, who compose the little German band, Arthur Whiting, Gerald Hamil, Peter Hamil, Rollo Chamberlin, Andrew Eddy and Bob Peterson of McHenry. Mrs. Christine Buss, who broke her hip several months ago, is still confined to her bed at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Phil Hoffman, at Terra Cotta. Andrew Jepson of Stanford, Vt.,. is spending the winter in the home of his brother, C.J. Jepson of Ringwood. Sidney Wanzer announces the marriage of his sister, Phyllis Kathryn, to Richard Hamilton Carr in Chicago Nov. 20. Mr. Wanzer and his sister have been summer residents at Chapel Hill for several years. At a recent meeting of the directors of the McHenry Township Emergency Relief Association plans were made for the work of filling Christ­ mas baskets for the needy of this vicinity. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of Dec. 22, 1949) Firemen were called to the Walter Hintze residence at Griswold Lake Tuesday evening to extinguish flames which destroyed a water pump motor in the basement of the home. Ruth Johnson of McHenry, sophomore student at Beloit college, is a member of the college's senior vesper choir which recently presented itM annual Christmas candlelight service. Illinois was well represented in the air tactical school class which graduated at Tyndall Air force base at Panama City, Fla., on Dec. 18. In the lint of graduates was Capt. Norman E. Bloomgren, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis A. Bloomgren, Hr , of Pistakee Bay. Jury members from McHenry on the new petit Jury to serve in the January term are Roland Ensign, Ben J. Schaefer, Grace Murphy and William Meyers. Warren Jones spent several v days the first of the week in Buda, 111., where he was soloist at a vocal concert. Sunday evening he appeared in a performance of the "Messiah" presented at the First Baptist church of Elgin. The Christmas party that was held at the Admiral plant this year on Dec. 15 was one that will be long remembered. The Admiral company served its employees a luscious dinner. After dinner the general manager Stephen Zriny and his staff received gifts and at the close of the afternoon the Admiral company once again distributed the Christmas bonus checks. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Mercure of Lily Lake announce the engagement of their daughter, Carol Jean, fo Morris Ketchum. Miss Mercure is employed at the local cleaners while the bridegroom-to-be an employee of the Clark Chevrolet Sales. ^ TEN YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of Dec. 17, 1964) Rodney Mauch of McHenry participated in "A weekend aft Bradley" for high school seniors on Dec. 12 and 13. The event is sponsored by the student board of activities at Bradley University, Peoria. Dan Justen of McHenry is one of six men to serve on the advisory committee to the Mortuary Science curriculum at Southern Illinois university and spent last Friday in Car- bondale in that connection. Six week old Richard Michael Powers died Tuesday morning Dec. 15 of virus pneumonia. The baby was the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Powers. The Ringwood Methodist church this past week welcomed a new minister in the person of Rev. Ronald An­ derson. The Ringwood church is his first full time pastoral assignment in a local church. The Chicago and North Western Railway company has announced that because of g r o w i n g c o m m u t e r requirements it has placed an order for the immediate con­ struction of ten new bi-level coaches to augment the railways completely modern commuter train fleet. Members of the McHenry county board of realtors who attended the first annual Real Estate institute sponsored by the Illinois Association of Real Estate boards were Mrs. Claude McDermott of McHenry and Horace Wagner of Wonder Lake. Gregg Burg surprised his parents by arriving at O'Hare Airport Friday on a permanent basis. He was honorably discharged from the Navy in San Diego on Dec. 10 as a fireman. f VA NEWS ] EDITOR'S NOTE: Veterans and their families are asking thousands of questions con­ cerning the benefits their Government provides for them through the Veterans Ad­ ministration. Below are some representative queries. Ad­ ditional information may be obtained at any VA office. Q -1 am the widow of a World War II veteran who died as a result of a service-connected injury before using his GI home loan entitlement. I have not remarried. Am I eligible for this Veterans Administration benefit? A - Yes. If they are not currently married, widows of veterans of World War II and later periods who died of ser-. vice^-onnected causes, as well as wives of servicemen missing in action or prisoners of war for more than 90 days are eligible for this benefit Q How can I get a Job with the Veterans Administration similar to the one 1 had in a medical laboratory before discharge from service? A - Suggest you contact the personnel office of nearest VA iiospllnl for information on employment opportunities at the Agency's hospitals and clinics You mav qualify for a Veterans Hcnrijustment Act Appointment If you do, it would eliminate much of the paper work connected with Civil Service appointment*. I i