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Plaindealer To Offer "Prairie Sings To Me i I I RESERVE CHAMPION - Reserve champion female of the Indiana Junior Hereford association preview show and field day hosted by Fields Brothers Herefords, West Lafayette, was NP Line One Ms 5171 exhibited by Julie Grieves, thirteen-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Grieves, Otterbein, In. The female was sired by CU Domino 270 and bred by Northern Pump farms, McHenry. Pictured, left to right, are judge, Dr. Roger Hunsley, Purdue university, Indiana Hereford queen, Robin Zink, Oxford, and Julie. (PHOTOGRAPH BY AMERICAN HEREFORD ASSOCIATION) POET'S CORNER DAYDREAMS What I'd give just to live very close to the sea Spend my days with the rays of the sun over me Squint an eye to the sky and the birds flying near Hear the sound from a round little shell at my ear With the sand of the land 'neath my feet and my hand Not a care would be there in the scheme of my plan No more haste, such a waste to be one of a throng Who spend years at careers in which they don't belong As a tease of a breeze feather-tickles my skin I'd unwind, close my mind and let slumber set in In my youth so uncouth I would chomp at the bait Now I'm old, not so bold as to tamper with fate Much too late, sad to state, all we have is the past And we're left quite bereft with the dreams we've amassed So take heed, for with speed Father Time soon appears To devour every hour of your remaining years Don't lose sight of your right no matter what you do Have no fear, persevere, so your dreams can come true. Florence B. Spenelly WISCONSIN FAIR The 121st Wisconsin State Fair, Milwaukee, will look her prettiest ever beginning Thursday, Aug. 12, and con­ tinuing for eleven fun-packed days, through Sunday, Aug. 22. The state fair's "beauty treatment", begun four years ago, has wrought many noticeable changes and im­ provements in every area of the fair. From one end of the grounds to the other, everything and everybody has been geared to help the fairgoer have the time of his life. Richmond Hosts County Legion The last meeting of the American Legion McHenry County council was hosted by the Paul Hoffman Post, No. 253, in Richmond. It was the last meeting for the 1975-76 Legion year for outgoing county commander, Orlo Lou Rossberg, and his officers. Gifts to the Yanks Who Gave chairman, Clarence Ham­ mond, repprted total donations this past year reached the $1,200 mark. Legion Baseball chairman, Don Enstrom, announced he will present trophies to the teams that finished in first and second place in the McHenry County Legion Baseball league at the August meeting. The following dates were announced: Aug. 14, joint in­ stallation of officers of the McHenry County council of the American Legion and auxiliary at Harvard; Sept. 18, 11th American Legion district in­ stallation at St. Charles; Oct. 10, 11th American Legion district fall meeting at Downers Grove at 2 p.m. The next council meeting for McHenry county Legionnaires will be held in Wonder Lake Aug. 26 at 8:30 p.m. 2 smooth riding body plies of POLYESTER FIBERGLASS doubl*-baits for long miltigo IF YOUR CAR SPUTTERS. STALLS JERKS, PINGS, PUTTS. MONKS OUT, PUJGS ALONG. 4005 W. RTE. 120, McHENRY, ILL PHONE 385-2323 HOURS: DAILY I A.M. to 5 P.M. SAT. I A M to 3 P.M. DEAL WITH THE PRO S" McHenry Firestone, Inc. WALTER WALLACE Starting within a week, the Plaindealer will begin a weekly series devoted to the people and forces that contribute to our northern Illinois heritage. Entitled "The Prairie Sings To Me," the series is co- authored by two young historians who both are com­ pleting advanced degrees at Northern Illinois university. Virginia Differding and Walter Wallace have been researching northern Illinois' history for several months and soon will begin writing the series as a Bicentennial con­ tribution to the region from NIU. They have been employed especially for the project by the university's Office of In­ formation, NIU's campus liaison with the news media. "We want to look back and discover those things that make our area unique aqd in­ teresting," notes Ms. Dif­ ferding, a candidate for a master's degree in American history. "We hope touring our region's past alive for the people who live here today." "We plan to look at those traditional values, practices and ideals that held meaning in our past and survive in the present," agrees Wallace, a doctoral candidate, also in American hisotry. "There is much to learn from a reading of our past." Both originally from Chicago, the co-authors note that each of their weekly columns will treat a different aspect of northern Illinois' past, relating the information to the present whenever possible. The series will begin with two columns devoted to the face of the land, tracing the region's physical features back millions of years and explaining the VIRGINIA DIFFERDING geological forces that created the places so familiar to us today. Next, we'll learn something about earlier inhabitants, those prehistoric tribes and more recent Indian civilizations here before the first Western ex­ plorers. Following columns will concern the first explorations by those European newcomers, relate travelers' accounts of the northern Illinois coun­ tryside several centuries ago and describe the settlements established when Illinois was still a part of Virginia. Transportation systems, economic factors, migratory patterns and other trends and forces that influenced and changed the region will be surveyed and we'll also find out about the roles of people from this area in the American Revolution and the Civil War. Folk tales unique to our ara, the type of climate we live in and its changes over the years, the roles of agriculture and labor and education also will be discussed by Differding and Wallace. Later, we'll also learn of the contributions to the world by some of those who have lived and worked in our region- inventors, architects, in­ dustrialist, entertainers, en- terpreneurs, artists, writers and poets. One such poet. Carl Sand­ burg, in fact is author of the words used as the title for this series, a phrase taken from his poem, 'Prairie," published first in 1918 in Cornhuskers, and now available in The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg. The book is published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. of New York, which has granted permission to use the phrase for the series. "We want to see how the area's first inhabitants and later settlers made sense of their world and how they defined themselves in relation to it," says Differding. "We want to tell about all the people who have chosen this area as their home: pre­ historic tribes, Indians, fur traders, emigrants from Europe and all over the world," Wallace adds. Wallace holds a B.A. degree in history from Roosevelt university and an M.A. in history from Northern. His master's thesis was devoted to New England soldiers during the American Revolution. An exchange student at Oxford University in England during the summer of 1972, he has been the recipient of several scholarships and grants and at Roosevelt won an award for excellence in history. He also was a member of Roosevelt's intercollegiate soccer team and judo club and has held teaching or research assistantships at both Roosevelt and Northern. Ms. Differding holds a B.A. in history from NIU and now is completing work on a master 's, her thesis concerning playwright Bertolt Brecht in America. PAGE r> - PLA1NDEALEK- \\ KU.NKMJ V n , .\nu Mn, I»IO What One Person Con Do Donna Wolfe.- Concerned Citizen Today Kansas City, Kansjj has an ordinance governing ambulance services and the city supplies emergency arri bulances staffed by well trained paramedics. Behind these achievements for the past eighteen years has been Donna Wolfe. In 1958, Mrs. Wolfe, a wife and mother of four children, was shocked when a friend died in an ambulance while two drivers were squabbling over who would get the job of taking her to a hospital. She decided to do something She spent eight years working alone on her self chosen project, collecting news items of similar occurrences, documenting the need for regulations and training requirements, calling persons involved in providing am­ bulance service and compiling a file for future reference. She walked miles circulating petitions, and enlisted the support of hospitals, churches and PTA groups. Finally, in 1967, then-Mayor Joseph Mc Dowell asked Mrs. Wolfe to She has held several scholarships and staff assistantships and has a special interest in oral history projects involving the tape recording of personal recollections of senior citizens and their experiences during the Depression. Ms. Differding has led a varied non-academic life, working in a variety of jobs, traveled widely Europe and the chair a committee to study the city's needs. The result'.' "Changes we recommended have become a reality and improvements have ' occurred that we did not be l i eve poss ib l e 10 yea r s a f :o . " she says "Once cit\ officials became aware ot how bad the s i tuat ion was . t hey took an act ive par t i n improv ing ' he . service " Kansas Ci ty now has RARE, a rescue squad run by the Fi re department and staffed b\ paramedics There is als« a c i ty ord inance lay ing down t ra in ing r equ i r emen t s a id ' - other regu la t ions fo r p r iva t e companies uh ich a re a l lowed to s erve non-c r i t i ca l med ica l needs "Without t he he lp o t many other peop le in U ie ' convmuni ty none of t h i s cou ld have been poss ib l e . " s ays Donna Wol fe with cha rac t e r i s t i c modes ty . 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