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IN TSA1S * ms IK " r ~\ THE MCHENRY PLAINDEALER / ' SERVING TMB CM A IN - O-LAKE S REGION SINCE (8^5 Review PQlice Testing VOLUME 100 NUMBER 44 FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1976 -- 14 PAGES 20* Entire Family Dies Crash Kills Driver Scene Of Evening Occident DR. MICHAEL L. HURT Dr. Michael L Hurt, a psychologist formerly associated with the Family Service and Mental Health Clinic for McHenry county, McHenry, his wife and two children died in the crash of their single engine, private plane Saturday night. The accident that claimed the entire family occurred between Walnut pidge and Batesville, Ark. . Dead/vere Dr. Hurt, 32, his wife,/Jacqueline; and the two son$< Chad, 10, and Todd, 6. Persons on the scene Tuesday said the plane ap­ parently struck a tree, then crashed, with the wreckage scattered over a wide area. There was no early indication of what caused the accident. Because of a cloud cover that continued until early Tuesday morning, rescue efforts over the Weekend were necessarily confined to the ground. A half hour after planes were able to take to the air, the wreckage and bodies were discovered. Word was received by McHenry friends at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. The Hurts left the Crystal Lake airport in thpr Mooney private four-passenger plane Saturday morning, enroute to Acapulco, with stops enroute to visit relatives. At;!?> 15 Saturday night they left & Walnut . Ridge./ for Batesville, in noHheast Arkansas, a trip of forty-five miles, to visit his aunt and uncle. Traveling in rain and flash flood conditions, nothing was ever heard from them after take-off. • , When the Hurts failed to arrive in a reasonable time, relatives contacted the U.S. Air Force. The Civil Air Patrol also was notified, as well as three other rescue units. The cloud cover slowed ef­ forts except on the ground until Tuesday in. this heavily wooded, hilly section of the state. * Dr. Hurt was born in southern Illinois, and received his B.A. and M.A. degrees at Southern Illinois university, where he was president of the student body. He studied for his Ph.D., degree at Held university, Fla. The family had resided in the McHenry area, northeast of the city, for several years and the children attended the Fox Lake schools. After serving with the Family Service and Mental Health Clinic for a few years, Dr. Hurt entered private practice in Crystal Lake in March of 1973. He operated the Counseling Center of Crystal Lake, 457 Coventry Green. / Dr. Hurt started and wrote the entire prograin for Crossover, a drug abuse program that was conducted successfully for a year and a half in Crystal'Lake, funded by the Chamber of Cajjimerce. Funeral services Will be held in the St. Uiuis area, where Dr. Hurt'8, parents reside. Memorial services will be held Monday, Jan. 5, at 7 p.m. at the Bethany} Lutheran church, Crystal Lake. In lieu of flowers a scholarship fund will be established through the Crystal Lake Kiwanis Hub. For many years there has*, been a friendship and rapport"- between Uncle Sam and ourself that was a joy to behold. Ad­ mittedly, it was not always mutual - more often than not we gave and he took - but we kept reminding ourself that few friendships are fifty-fifty. Once in these many years in which we have been sharing benefits have W^ had cause to question this friendship. About three years ago. after paying our tax dutifully by the week, plus a heap more at year's end. we suddenly found it was our turn to be on the receiving end. A long pencil and many hours after we began our calculations, the happy ending ^o the 1973 income tax story was that our dear uncle owed us a sizable chunk of money. Turnabout is fair play, we thought, as we smugly hurried to put the completed form in the jiiail. Then we went to bed each night to happy dreams of how we n^ight spend the money. But the day of reckoning came when U.S. served us with va summons to account for particular expenditures we had claimed. One was a real estate tax. Now how did our dear uncle think we could cheat on something so much a part of nnVtlix riw»nrH' Harry W. Glauner of 314 Main street, Wauconda, was charged with driving in the wrong lane and leaving the scene of a property damage accident following a collision Friday evening on Route 12, about one- half mile east of Wilmot road. Brian R. Kelly of 1113 N. Harvard, Arlington Heights, told deputies he was south­ bound on the highway and as he rounded a curve, the Glauner auto came toward him in his lane of traffic. Kelly drove off the road but was still hit by the other car. When the Glauner Car proceeded on, Kelly pur­ sued the vehicle and obtained the license number and description of the car. JoNele C. Heldt of 5105 Memory trail, McHenry, and her passenger, Daniel J. Heldt, Jr., escaped injury after the car in which they were riding overturned on Ringwood road. north of Johnsburg The ac­ cident occurred Monday about noon. Ms. Heldt told county police she lost control of her vehicle on a curvejn the road Officers noted the roadway was ex­ tremely slippery at the time of the accident due to a new snowfall. A one-car accident on Barreville road, one-half mile' south of State Park road south of McHenry, resulted in a ticket for failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident being issued to Thomas R. Erber of 197 McHenry avenue. Crystal Lake, j According to the report, Erber was south-bound on Barreville road and failed to negotiate a curve in' the roadway. The car went into a ditch and rolled over. Erber was not injured in the accident. Freddie W. Decker of 2601 S. Supper Club Target Of Burglars Monday During a routine inspection of Pat's Supper club at 7812 Route 12, Solon Mills, last Monday morning abbut 2:30, deputies discovered that a window had been briJKffn on the side of the building. The owner was called and an| investigation of the premises revealed that the juke box had been pried open and about $100 in change was taken from it. Also a cigar box con­ taining about $150 was missing along with a case and a half of beer. Monday morning when the National Cap and Set Screw company, at 2306 Hatchery road. Spring Grove, opened after being closed over the holiday, it was discovered the building had been entered. All that was determined to be missing from the premises was % an electronic calculator. Holtz Motors at 222 Rand road, McHenry, reported ' to county authorities that three of the autos^ parked on their lot were damaged over the weekend. The roofs of two autos were damaged by someone walking on them. Hyde Park. McHenry. escaped injury after his car slid off the road and landed in a ditch on 'jChapel Hill road, just north of Lincoln road east of McHenry. The mishap occurred Friday evening bout 11 o'clock. Cindy Landln * To Leave Soon For New Zealand Cindy Landin, local AFS scholarship winner, had a ^surprise Christmas gift. She was advised by AFS headquarters in New York that she will be leaving the states in mid-January for the "town of Blenheim, New Zealand, to spend her year as an American Abroad student. The young MCHS student will reside with the Gordon Gar­ diner family and have a sister and brother to assist her in the ways of a typical New Zealand family She will attend the Marlborough Girls' high school in Blenheim, and as a senior wifl graduate from that school during the year 1976. „ The announcement was a Christmas gift for the Gardiner family also, since they were wishing for a girl student and made that request to their AFS chapter. At Monday night's Council meeting. Mayor Joseph Stanek presented Certificates of Completion of the Phase I workshop awarded by Ihe Bureau of Testing Services to Earl H Murray and Peter Adams, members of the City of McHenry-Rotfrd of Police and Fire Commissioners These men attended a two- day workshop conducted by the Illinois Association of Boards of Fire an<| Police commissioners where they "achieved out standing success" The Resident of the state association stated in a letter to the Council. "You are to be commended for your choice of dedicated people for your board They have donated a great deal of time and energy to increase their capabilities»to more expertly meet the moral and legal challenges nowv in­ volved in the selection of police and fire personnel." After congratulations were extended to Murray and Adams by the Council, Mayor Stanek asked Murray, who is chair­ man of the city Board of Police and Fire Commissioners, to give the Council an explanation of some of the problems en­ countered and the techniques used by that board to carry on its functions Murray prefaced his remarks by stating that what ihvolvtW the board in testing by the. Bureau-was the fact that in a three year period prior to the lasting program, the police department "had a turnover of fifteen officers out of a strength of sixteen" "This is very expensive to the city."' Murray stressed He estimated it cost the city bet ween $500 and $10,000 to train a probationary officer for one year considering the salary, uniforms and schooling First Murray explained the procedure carried out by tfie board in securing an eligibility list for new police officers. Ten days prior to conducting a testing program, an ad­ vertisement is placed in the Plaindealer Indicating ap­ plications will be accepted for the police department/ The applicants must participate in agility tests which they must pass or fail. written tests which must have a grade of 70 or better; polygraph tests which they must pass or fail and oral interviews which must rate a grade of 70 or better In addition, employer and background checks are con­ ducted. record checks for criminal records are made, fingerprint checks are sent to the FBI and IBI and driver's license checks are examined He stated that as an example, for the last eligibility list which the board created, twenty-two replies were received from an advertisement in the paper Of those applicants, two were females who failed to go through with any of the tests, one male was disqualified due to a physical disability, one man reported for the written test only, eleven failed the polygraph, the oral interview andor the written test and seven qualified "We feel we are being a little more selective but also I would like to point out that in the last two years, of the eight men appointed by the commission since , we instituted this program, we have all but one still with this department Murray emphasized "I think this speaks for itself," he said Murray pointed out that it takes the commission between 90 to 100 days to create an eligibility list At the present time there are seven applicants who qualified as a result of the latest testing. There do not appear to be any appointments open in the near future but when they do occur, they will come from that eligibility list taking the highest graded applicants first, Murray ad­ vised Murray brought out the in­ teracting fact that of the eleven wtK| failed the last testing (Continued On Page 4) French Student In Youth For Understanding Program TREE PICK-CP The city of McHenry will pick up Christmas trees left on the curb Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 5 and 6 The Walter Bidlack family of five like people They* demonstrated that when they welcomed into their home a young girl from Brazil last summer At present they are providing a home away-from-home for Cedric Bayle, 15. of Paris. France He came to this country, and to the Bidlack home at 533 N Draper road, has little time to be lonesome for his home country. He has been in this country since last August and is con tinuing to improve the English he studied for three years prior to coming here. Formerly enrolled in private clasaaa. he ids h the Youth g program It CEDRIC RAYLE McHenry. throug For Understandihi is a family type, federal grant program, in which young visitors between the ages of 15 '8M 18 have an opportunity to sjiend eleven months in, this country and actually see the United States "in action". In the company of the three Bidlack children, I^iurie, 14. Doug. 11. and Math. 7. Cedric now attends East campus, which he was surprised to find easier ~ than his educational program in France Favorite hobbies are riding horses, reading French books and watching TV France is well supplied with television sets, he reports, but there is little color With little reluctance. Cedric admits to a preference to living :in the United States His career choices are diverse - he will be either a doctor or a helicopter driver The Miracle Of Christmas.... v(lt came to pass) One month and a re­ scheduled appointment later, at a considerable in­ convenience and no small cost, we convinced him that we are just one of the average, little people who pay our just debts and want to be left alone. Since that time we have been hitting it off pretty well - Uncle Sam and ourself. In fact, when the announcement came in December that postage would remain at 10 cents, we loudly rejoiced and acclaimed this honorable relative who proved himself not only family but friend. Then, even before we had time to send out our January bills, he blared out the news on TV and radio that within forty- eight hours he had turned In­ dian-giver. The previous order was rescinded, and indeed, we « would be paying thirteen cents for first class postage starting Dec 31. Strained relations now exist between Uncle Sam and our family. No longer will we be inclined to overlook his lapses. When w^, begin affixing a thirteen-cent stamp on each envelope, we'll expect ft to go across town in less than the two and half days it took one message to reach its destination prior to the holiday. «/ 4 f? Did you know that here in the small Community of McHenry, usually deemed middle class and economically "comfortable", . there were families wanting for little more than the basics of life this ftst Christmas? One mother, referred by the Salvation Army, asked only for a "tree and one gift. She had nothing for her child. Another, in tears when contacted, admitted to having only $15 in her possession to make a "Merry Christmas for three children. But these two stories, and others,, had a happy ending because of the determination of a community that demonstrated even more than generosity with a few dollars in their pocket. It was a desire to share the great spirit of the Christmas season. Spearheaded by Gretchen Thomas, the project was assisted by tour churches, St. Patrick's, St. Mary's, United Methodist and SI John's, as well as FISH (Friends In Service Here), Girl ScouLs. clubs, businesses and individuals. Mrs. Thomas, the m^her of three, is on the Steering committee for FISH. the impetus had its start prior to Thanksgiving when fifty sevenv baskets ^were distributed, each containing a turkey Names of the needy had been submitted b^ pastors, FISH, Head Start, Public Aid and interested persons who called in The program so1 excited its sponsors that Christmas brought an enthusiasm that had never before attracted such widespread participation. Children in the Duane Lange family devoted days to sorting, pick-up and tagging. While toys for families with older children accompanied baskets the Sunday preceding the holiday, careful attention to keeping the mystery of Santa Claus surrounded gift- giving for smaller youngsters. Twelve drivers made their way to visit thirty-three families Christmas eve after 9 p.m. so that little ones would not be disillusioned in the morning. Each box contained toys, games, pies, cookies and other goodies In all, 181 children were remembered with three or more gifts One young mother was made especially happy with a complete layette for the baby she awaited. And what did these many considerate and generous people receive for their time and effort? Much more than they gave. They saw anxious parents watching from the windows of their homes, not quite believing--but hoping - that after all, there was a Santa Claus They saw the gleam, or sometimes the tears, in their eyes when they realized it would be a happy holiday after all - They experienced a tug at their emotions when they pulled up to a small summer cottage to find the house number scrawled on the snowy window of the family car The humble home had no other identification. And one particular volunteer had the satisfaction of sitting in his office, surrounded by gifts, an entire afternoon He had included a request for toys in the Kiwanis newsletter So tremendous was the response that fellow Kiwanians were recruited to fill their cars and take them to one central location. This may vepy well have been the finest Christmas ven of old timers in McHenry remembrance evt lists its ^ingredients desire and spirit as unselfishness. in the Gretchen Thomas kindness, generosity, Ellen Lange hands large box to Bill Thomas, containing one of many gifts delivered to FISH headquarters to be given to the needy at holiday time. After sorting and tagging, the tiring process of loading cars begins. From left, the volunteers are Mary, EUen and Jennifer Lange, Willy Thomas and his father. Bill Thomas. Math Lange also assisted but was not present for photo. ! All preliminary work completed, drivers prepare for the delivery of gifts to 181 children in the McHenry area.