Community Calendar OCTOBER 17 St. Margaret Chapter of NAIM - Regular Meeting - Oak Room - St. Mary's - 7:30 p.m. OCTOBER 17 and 18 Rummage Sale - Ringwood United Methodist Church - Hours, Friday 9a.m. to 5 p.m. - Saturday, 9 a.m. to 12 noon. OCTOBER 18 Lakeland Park Women's Club Monthly Collection For "Fish" - 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. - Lakeland Park Community House. OCTOBER 19 National Catholic Daughters Sunday - Mass at 11 o'clock - St. Mary's Chapel. VFW Post 4600 and Auxiliary Membership Kick-Off Dinner - Cocktails - 6 p.m. - Dinner, 7 p.m. OCTOBER 21 Johnsburg P.T.O. - General Meeting - Junior High School. Marian Parents Association - 8 p.m. - Marian High School Cafeteria. OCTOBER 23 Senior Citizens "Rules of the Road" - Refresher Course Class - 10 a.m. to 12 noon -- McHenry City Hall. St. Clara Court No. 659, National Catholic Society of Foresters - Annual Halloween Pot-Luck Dinner - 6 p.m. - Regular Monthly Meeting Follows - St. Mary's Hall. OCTOBER 24 McHenry Pigtail League Meeting - Election of 1975-76 Officers - 7:30 p.m. - McHenry Fire House - Open to Public. OCTOBER 25 St. Margaret Chapter of NAIM - Meet For Cards - Oak Room - St. Mary's - 7:30 p.m. OCTOBER 26 American Legion Auxiliary No. 491 - Semi-Annual Chicken Dinner -- Legion Home -- Serving Time - 12 Noon to 4 p.m. OCTOBER 27 McHenry Senior Citizens Club Meeting - 7:30 p.m. - East Campus Cafeteria. OCTOBER 28 Day of Recollection - St. Patrick's Church - 10 a.m. O.E.S. Chapter 547 - Stated Meeting - 8 p.m. Sharp. OCTOBER 29 Autumn Luncheon - Fashion Show - Whispering Oaks Woman's Club - Community Center - Happy Hour, 11:30 a.m. - Luncheon - 12 p.m. Christian Mothers Soc.-Annual Halloween Card Party and Luncheon - 12 o'clock Noon - St. Peter's Hall - Spring Grove. OCTOBER 30 Senior Citizens "Rules of the Road" -- Refresher Course Class - 10 a.m. to 12 noon -- McHenry City Hall. NOVEMBER 3 McHenry Senior Citizens Club Executive Committee Meeting - 3 p.m. - Landmark School. NOVEMBER 4 Marcia Mary Ball Circle Meeting - 12:30 p.m. - First United Methodist Church. NOVEMBER 6 Lakeland Park Women's Club Meeting ~ 12:30 p.m. - Lakeland Park Community House. NOVEMBER 8 The Friendship Club Pot- Luck Dinner and Meeting - 6 p.m. - First United Methodist Church Dining Room - Program - Bertha and Elmer Stange. E h m a n n s P e n g u i n Snowmobile Club - Dance - Benefit Olympics For Han- • dicapped Kids of McHenry and Lake County - Fox Lake Lions Club ~ 8:30 p.m. NOVEMBER 8-9 St. John's Second Annual Christmas Bazaar - St. John's School, Johnsburg - Saturday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. - Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. NOVEMBER 11 O.E.S. Chaper 547 - Election Of Officers - Stated Meeting - 8 p.m. Sharp. NOVEMBER 12 Annual Fall Bazaar - Zion Lutheran Church - Sponsored By Zion Ladies Aid - 1 to 7 p.m. NOVEMBER 16 Mass for Deceased Members Of Catholic Daughters Of America - St. Mary's Church. 8 a.m. Outstanding Speakers Appear For Principals Robert Swartzloff, principal, and D. William Dodds, associate principal of McHenry high school West campus, and Gary Fields, principal, and Donald Seaton, associate principal of McHenry high school East campus, recently returned from an outstanding annual conference of the Illinois Principals association. The conference was held at the O'Hare Inn in Chicago, with approximately 1,200 principals from throughout the state in attendance. Three outstanding speakers were featured during the conference. Well known author, Dr. Lawrence Peter, was the banquet speaker one evening. His best known book is "Peter Principle". Ara Parseghian, former Notre Dame football coach, addressed the group in its general session Wednesday morning. An increasingly popular political figure, In- was "Action Leadership '75", well carried out by those whc planned the conference. Members in attendance benefited greatly, as did the schools they represented. Bicentennial Essay Of Youth Will Be Aired Jerry Eisenhower, a student at Shady Lane grade school in Spring Grove, will be highlighted during a special Bicentennial program broadcast on WBBM Newsradio 78 in Chicago Sunday, Oct. 19, at 4:24 p.m., and re-broadcast Monday at 3:23 a.m. The program is one in a series which is featuring some of the entries in Secretary of State Michael J. Howlett's Bicentennial Essay contest. Jerry's essay will be aired ky Gory Jokmon dianapolis' Mayor Richard ,with ti0 othe/s 0n the contest Lugar, was the guest speaker at Tuesday luncheon. Dr. Joseph Cronin, Illinois superintendent of education, addressed the group at the first general session. Dr.Gordon Cawelti, executive director of the association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, addressed a Wednesday lun cheon meeting of secondary principals who represented North Central association member schools. Small group discussions were conducted Sunday evening and several other times. A total of twenty-two different discussion topics were offered for the benefit of those in attendance. The theme of the conference f" I I. VRsIH \I t k STHE MCHENRY PLAINDEALER & 8 fi 9 Established 1875 K 5 3812 West Elm Street Phone 386-0170 8 McHenry, Illinois 60050 ^ Published Every Wednesday & Friday at McHeniy, Illinois Second Class Postage Paid at McHenry, Illinois By McHENRY PUBLISHING COMPANY Larry E. Lund -- Publisher i Adele Froehlich - Editor NATIONAL NEWSPAPER FWN 1W amiBB fmMnEI AKry Mi NNA SUSTAINING MEMBER--'1975 SUBSCRIPTION RATES 1 Year $9.00 l Year $12.50 In McHenry and Lake Outside McHenry and County 'Lake County ^ County Lane uounty ^ SAVE 20% of your fuel bill ...starting right now! accord ing to the A t re r i can Gas Assoc ia t ion , "S to rm w indows and doors . Smar t buy . I f your home doesn ' t have s to rm w indows and doors , you may be l os ing as much as 20 o f your hea t ! So you can read i l y see how they can pay fo r t hemse lves i n ve ry l i t t l e t ime . " Save 30% of your fuel bill ...every summer! Accwtfiac to Raider's Digest, "If yea Nave air conditioning, leave storm windows on in summer. You'll keep 30 porcont more of the cool air yea are paying so dearly to get." The Price of Storm Windows Will NEVER be Lower! Materials and liber costs will keep on going up. Factories and installers are looking for work.. .right now! Now is the time to get your host price deal on high quality STORM They quickly pay for themselves in fuel savings alone, and according to "Reader's Digest", after that, it's like getting a 13 percent dividend on your investment every year. And the President has asked Cenpess to help even father with a tax credit retroactive to January l, 1975. f L 1 ALEXANDER LUMBER ALEXANDER LUMBER 909 A/. Front McHenry, III. I am a home owner and interested in a FREE no obligation whatsoever ESTIMATE • Storm Windows Name. Address. Phone 909 N. FRONT ST. theme, "What is the Spirit of '76?" Sub-committees in each of the twenty-four congressional districts from the news media have selected the best essay in each of three divisions from their respective districts. The final seventy-two essays are being judged by Secretary Howlett's Bicentennial com mittee that selected the win ners in the Bicentennial License Plate contest held last year. The committee, consisting of business, professional and civic leaders, will narrow the essays to the best in each division. A grand champion named this fall will be awarded at $1,000 educational savings bond. The two runners-up will receive $500 bonds r A Fresh Start at 56 In July, 1970, Esther Seib- er, then 56 years old, was out of a job and at loose ends. She saw an advertisement in a newspaper in Huntington, West Virginia, where she has lived most of her life. An innovative program was looking for staff assistance. Mrs. Seiber answered the ad. During the years since, she has helped the growth of a program that does a tre mendous amount of good for elderly shut-ins living in a three-county-- hopefully, soon to be a four-county -- area in southwestern West Virginia, near the Ohio state line. The purpose of the pro gram, now funded by the West Virginia Commission on Aging, simply, is to pro vide basic services --trips to the doctor, check cash ing, shopping trips --for elderly shut-ins who function well inside their homes, but not outside them. The serv ice is provided by part-time aides, also older persons who are paid with public funds and supervised by Mrs. Seiber. Her background and train ing are in nursing, but she has developed the determina tion and know-how to pick a way through the maze of problems that her elderly charges have. She matches problems that need solving with the public programs available to help solve them. She got into her effort "be cause it seemed like some thing challenging and differ ent. I have no hesitancy about going to any program that can help my people. I don't know why you should be ambitious at, 60, but I am. One of her aides is 76 and drives many miles each week in her own car visiting her shut-ins. Another who is 75 works in Huntington, which is West Virginia's largest city, and makes her rounds on foot. Aides are allowed to work only four hours a day and have a caseload of be tween 80 and 100 people. Some may be visited once a month. Others are visited more often, depending on their individual situation. There are obvious personal rewards from this kind of service work. Sometimes, in these days of runaway price increases, Mrs. Seiber's elderly clients show how an achievement can triumph over hard reality. "We had one lady not long ago." she says, "who we took to a grocery store for the first time in. four years, and she was thrilled to death." THE UNITED nations recently did a study of "nor mal" retirement ages of women and men around the world. Normal retire ment age was defined as the stated age of retirement ^ac cording to public policy. In Norway and Ireland, both men and women retire at 70. Retirement ages then ranged downward to 55 for women and 60 for men in countries such as Russia, Japan, Italy and Yugoslavia. In some countries those engaged in heavy work, such as mining, could retire earlier than oth ers. In Australia, if a man is unemployed for more than^ one year, he may retire at* age 60. • • » • »\ WHILE MOST intern^ who work in congressional offices in Washington ai^| college students, 88 Coip necticut men and women, all over 60, spent a weekf this spring as participants in the state's third annual senior interns program. ' They served in congres sional offices, watched both the House and Senate and some committees in action, and were briefed by officials of the executive branch. Sen ator Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. of Connecticut was a prime mover in the five-day pro gram. Editor's Quote Book L e a d e r s h i p i s t h e initiation and direction of endeavor in the pursuit of consequence. 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Full year guarantee | PHONE 4594200 I owerwoed Routt* 14 8i 176 - Crystal Lake Open Daily 8-5:30 Saturday 8-5 Sunday 8-5 McHENRY, ILL. *80,000,000.00 The McHenry State Bank proudly announces that the Statement of Condition published at the close of business September 30, 1975 shows total resources in excess of EIGHTY MILLION DOLLARS. This enables the McHenry State Bank to maintain its leadership as McHenry County's Largest Financial Institute. McHenry State Bank's total resources reached $50,000,000.00 in the Spring of 1971 if This weeks published statement reflects a 60% inc Approximately 4 years. tcrease in «,i \i i B A \ K This spectacular growth is due to many things, but primarily due to the confidence the entire commun ity has placed in their bank. We at the McHenry State Bank thank our customers for making this spectacular growth possible. You are the bank's most important asset and we know it, and we pledge to continue to merit your trust through sound manage ment and courteous service. To those in the area who may not be current depositors with the McHenry State Bank, we invite you to open an account at the bank with more than $80,000,000.00 in total resources. You will enjoy banking in the conven ient, attractive Colonial building. You can refer to us as "my bank" and can rely on the bank's 69 years experience in community needs. You are assured of safety, sound management, and customer convenience at the McHenry State Bank in the heart of McHenry. Here savings not only draws the maximum rate of interest but also the maximum return with maximum safety. Interest is compounded daily from the date of deposit to the date of withdrawal. "THERE'S NO SUBSTITUTE FOR MONEY IN THE BANK" McHenry State Bank "WHERE PEOPLE COUNT MORE THAN MONEY" 3510 W. Elm Street Phone 385-1040 A FULL SERVICE BANK