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PAGE 16 - PLAINDEALER-FRIDAY, AUGUST 20. 1976 Boat Accident Brings Ticket To One Driver MUSIN' AND MEANDERIN' (Continued from page 1) the old bridge is torn down it can never be restored. Will we really be happy with present plans? K.A.F. the McHenry State bank, as trustee, and Charles F. Froula, Jr., in their request for an amendment of the zoning or- dinace from "F" farming to "B-l" business for a real estate office. The property is located at 2906 W. Rt. 120, consisting of 1 acre. The third approval was to Joseph G. and Marion H. Moffett for a variation of "R" residential property located at 3809 E. Wonder Lake road in Deep Springs, No. 1 sub division, on the west side of Wonder Lake road. The Mof- fetts wish to continue operation of a bait shop. In other business, members acted on a change in per diem pay for newly elected County board members taking office in December. The Legislative and Public Affairs committee recommendation, approved by the board, was $45 per diem effective with the seating of new members and $50 effective December, 1978. Also, an okay was given to newly elected board members in November, 1978, receiving aj per diem of $50 when seated in t December of that year. The board concurred with thei; report of the Public Safety committee which calls for rejection of all bids on towing and storage of junk cars in the county. Because of the finan­ cial consideration, the board agreed to continue the existing service of Hunt's Service station at $15 per car as long as there is no increase. Approval was given for the purchase of a van for the animal control shelter at a price of $4,919.15. The old van is being sold for a price of $2,158. The April sales tax was announced at $62,221.71. Among appointments, Judge Roland Herrmann of McHenry was named to replace Judge Wm. Gleason on the Lake- McHenry Law Enforcement commission. Wilbur Haak of Wonder Lake was named trustee of the Wonder Lake Fire Protection district to serve until May of 1979. MACEK AWAITS SENTENCE He still faces a murder charge in that state for killing Paula Cupit, 24, of Fontana, Wi. She was found murdered Aug. 15,1974, in a room at the Abbey hotel, a resort on Lake Geneva where she worked as a maid. Macek will remain in McHenry county jail until his sentence is handed down by Judge Parker. EXTENSION OF STREET DEBAltu (Continued from pa ere 1) However, he felt the wishes of the people in that entire area should be considered and "not crammed down • anyone's throat." He said he called two of the four home owners on the north side of Sorensen lane to ask their personal opinion on the matter. He found it was their primary desire to get a paved street there, not necessarily a through-street. Alderman Bolger insisted there was not enough room to ! change Sorensen lane to a ' collector street. He also felt the 'Council should abide by the city's ordinance which states that when a right-of-way is changed; curbs, gutters and sidewalks are required "and I think that is too expensive a project." He did agree that Sorensen lane should be improved as residents desire but it should not be extended. Attorney Narusis told Bolger that the city ordinance did not apply to this situation because the city would not be changing an existing street since Sorensen lane is a private road or driveway. Alderman Ray Smith insisted there was not sufficient in­ formation available to alder­ men to take a vote on the issue and asktfd for a delay. He noted there seemed to be some legal questions pending. "There are too many unknowns," he said. "We would be doing the people sitting here an injustice whether we would vote for or against them," Smith argued. Alderman Datz remarked he didn't feel there were any legal difficulties involved in the matter. I FR I.&MON.-THURS, 7_and 9 I SAT. & SUN. 2, 3:45, 5:30, 7:15 & 9 QB I STARTS "FRIDAY! WILLIAM PETER BLATTYS THE EXORCIST D»«ttd byWILUAM FRIEDKIN m From Warner Bros.f FRL&MON.-THURS. 7&9- S&S 2:30.4:45.7.9:15 ' i allowed to exist there with the permission of the city. Ap­ parently it was a mistake, he said, but he couldn't see the logic of dead-ending that street at that point. "Public benefit requires the street to go through to an ex­ tension of Anne street," Harker stated. "Any presumption that this is going to amount in an enormous amount of traffic on Anne street is simply that presumptuous/' Harker em­ phasized. Pat Amici told» Councilmen he came to the city three or four years ago to ask for a private road but was told it was not the time for any private roads. At the request of Sorensen residents, he talked to Alder­ man Datz of the Plan com­ mission and was told the only way to go was with a through- street, "no more private roads". Amici presented the proposal for extending the private road last May. He donated 30 feet to extend Dale avenue to make a 60-foot wide connection with Anne street. Mr. Adrie Bos of 3808 W. Anne street who preseni.?d the original petition by objectors in June, addressed the Council. He said the objectors on Anne had nothing against blacktopping Sorensen lane. "We think they deserve it," he commented. "However", he said, "there are too many kids on Anne street and we are worried about them. We can't take them off the streets because they have lived on it." He also noted there was no recreation area for the IriHc thprp Ralph E. Smith of 3612 W. Anne, remarked he has lived on that street for twenty years. He said the subdivision was laid out so there wouldn't be any through-streets. "I am not against progress," Smith commented, "but why inconvenience us to put a through street in so they can snowplow that private lane and not have to turn around." s Smith disagreed with the presumption there would be no increase in traffic on Anne. He pointed out that football games are held a block away and people would "all come roaring down there." George Colborn of 3702 W. Anne, said he was one of the BURT REYNOLDS itMGATOR" FR1.&MON.-THURS. 7&9:15 SAT.&SUN. 1,3,5.7:15&9:30 it has been taken down, she said. A woman from Dale avenue remarked, "We have an awful lot of traffic which is for Anne street coming off High street. Mos| people take it from Dale, Clover, High and Timothy. I don't think they are going to have as much traffic on Anne as they think they will have," she said. A woman resident from High street noted that if a traffic study was made of High street, people might realize there is a need for another street through to 31. S "Traffic on High street is really getting bad. It can't accommodate all that traffic," she stressed. "We have no sidewalks on High street and why wouldn't putting a little traffic on Anne street help us all?" she asked CB RADIOS POPULAR TARGET (Continued from page 1) sometime last week, his home was entered by breaking a window. Taken from the premises were two lawn chairs, two table lamps, a television set, a coffee maker, seven fishing rods and reels and some liquor. When Nicholas Groh of 1107 W. Lincoln road, McHenry, returned home from work Friday afternoon, he discovered^ entry had been made to his home during that day. Shotguns, a revolver, a new bow and some arrows, an electric wrist watch and several small items were taken from the home. Investigation is continuing by county detec- tives. DAMAGED WINDSHIELDS Deborah Smith of Spring Grove and Donna Mikulski of Fox Lake reported to county authorities that ears of com were thrown at their cars from a cornfield while they were traveling on Route 12 at Winn road, Spring Grove. The in­ cident took place Friday morning about 1:15. Wind­ shields on both cars were crak- ced as a result of the van­ dalism. To a Northerner, boiled peanuts would probably make good chicken feed. For 72-year-old Vera Eu­ bank of Jacksonville, Flori­ da, they make money. Boiled peanuts arc eaten in the South as regularly as the roasted variety are in the North, and Mrs. Eubank has come up with a method for canning them. It all started about three- and-a-half years ago, when Mrs. Eubank was sitting down to shell two 50 pound bags of peanuts that a farm­ er cousin had given her. "That was way more pea­ nuts than I needed," she said in a recent interview with a writer from The Na­ tional Council on the Aging, "and I got to wondering what 1 could do with them." Boiling and canning them seemed like a good idea, so Mrs. Eubank put a potful on the stove. The results were not to her liking. "I knew what I was look­ ing for," she said. "A plump, tasty, boiled peanut and that first batch definite­ ly wasn't right." She dccided that the pea­ nuts would have to be boiled under pressure if they were to live up to her stand­ ards, so she went to the county canning kitchen to experiment. Through trial and error, t A boat accident on Wonder Lake the past week resulted in tickets being issued to Zachery W. Switzer of 4707 E. Lake Shore drive, Wonder Lake. He was charged with improper passing and careless operation of a motor boat. Thomas M. O'Brien of 7707 Cedar road, Wonder Lake, reported he had maneuvered his sailboat across the lake at the southeast end when the Switzer boat rammed the left pontoon. Switzer said he was moving at a slow speed and didn't realize he was so close to the sailboat until impact occurred. Damage to O'Brien's sailboat was estimated at $250, with about $50 damage to the other craft. The George Meyer home at 4211 W. South street, McHenry, was damaged Tuesday af­ ternoon when a car rolled out of a garage across the street and hit the home. A car owned by Victor Bassi of 4214 W. South street, was parked in their garage. It rolled out of the garage, down the driveway, across the street, over the Meyer lawn and into the front of the house. Damage to the home consisted of a cracked cement window sill . and some cracked flagstone. Bassi's 1975 Ford Granada suffered left rear damage. Darlene J. Galler of 3210 N. Walkup, Crystal Lake, was ticketed by city police for failure to yield right of way following a two-car collision at the intersection of Elm street and Richmond road Monday morning. According to the police report, the Galler auto pulled out from between stopped traffic and hit the Anderson car which was west-bound on Elm street. Ms. Galler said east-bound traffic had stopped to allow her to turn and she didn't see the other car until it was too late to avoid impact. A collision occurred Tuesday afternoon between two cars at she hit on the correct amount of water, salt and time needed to producc the perfect boiled peanut. When she was satisfied, Mrs.^Eu- bank tested them in the lab­ oratories of the Florida De­ partment of Agriculture, then obtained permission to market them and even reg­ istered her trademark -- "Mrs. Eubank's Boiled Shelled Peanuts." She set up her own can­ ning plant in Atlantic Beach, Florida, and with the help of Dr. Richard Matthews of the University of Florida, beg^n producing small quan­ tities of peanuts which she canned and marketed her­ self. In 1975, a Florida food company 'bought her busi­ ness and started developing the Southeast as a market for Mrs. Eubank's peanuts. Initially they were sold only in Florida. Now, the pea­ nuts are available in Geor­ gia, North and South Caro­ lina and Alabama, and dis­ tribution is being discussed with concerns in Chicago, Cincinnati and Buffalo. With all the hard work be­ hind her, Mrs. Eubank col­ lects a royalty on every can of boiled peanuts the com­ pany sells. Even though Mrs. Eu­ bank and her late husband owned a small grocery store the intersection of Elm and Front streets. They were driven by Lester A. Hawley of 218 Pecks court, Walworth, Wi., and Gary E. Conradson of 4514 Garden Quarter, McHerny. According to the police report, Hawley was traveling east and had stopped at the traffic light. When it turned green, he proceeded to turn left and didn't see another car approaching until just before impact. Conradson was west-bound on Elm in the inside lane when the Hawley auto turned in front of him and he hit it. A car driven by Grace M. Henschel of 3607 Stubby avenue, McHenry, hit another auto in the 4000 block of West ° Route 120 Tuesday afternoon after it changed into her lane of traffic and cut her off. Royal J. Fields of Route 1, Fontana, Wi., told city police he tried to change lanes without looking and cut off the Henschel auto, causing it to hit his car. No one was injured in a rear- end collision which took place Monday afternoon at 1311 N. Route 31. According to city police, a car driven by Jacqueline S. Raycraft of 2712 Eastwood drive, McHenry, hit the rear of an auto stopped in traffic. That auto was being operated by Arnold J. Justen of 1316 Riverside drive, McHenry. ' Mrs. Raycraft said she was distracted by one of her children in the car and failed to stop in time. A two-car collision at the corner of Richmond road and Pearl street last Friday af­ ternoon resulted in damage to both autos. Mary A. Buss of 5017 N. Spring Grove road, McHenry, told city police she was traveling north on Richmond road when a car driven by Francis L. Pickett of 1110 N. Clover lane, McHenry, pulled from Pearl street and they collided. Pickett said he didn't see any approaching traffic until he pulled out and was hit. for many years, this is the first product she ever devel­ oped and marketed. And if she'd been aware of the complications involved in canning boiled peanuts, she might never have gone ahead with her idea. "I guess I'm just lucky I didn't realize how many people tried to can boiled peanuts and gave up," Mrs. Eubank said. "I didn't know they'd said it couldn't be done." The financial success Mrs. Eubank is beginning to real­ ize would be enough to satisfy other people of any age, but not Mrs. Eubank. She's already "fooling around" with another proj­ ect that she's reluctant to talk about right now. As long as Vera Eubank has a new kind of nut to boil and can, she'll keep right on experimenting, because it's a sure thing she'll never run out of ideas or energy. * * * LAST MAY, Leonard Davidson of Ogden, Utah, achieved a remarkable goal --6,000 hours of service as a volunteer in the pediatrics division of the McKay-Dee Hospital of Ogden. The day after he retired 14 years ago, Mr. Davidson began spending Tuesday and Sat­ urday mornings at the hos­ pital, and has also been a substitute teacher in the Ogden school system. "I have told thousands of children in their classrooms and many of 'my' children at McKay-Dee that I con­ sider them the cleanest, finest, smartest (not always wisest) generation I have ever known. And I have urged many of the Junior Volunteers with whom I have worked to consider a career in nursing or health care technology. "I wouldn't take $100,- 000 for my experience as a Volunteer," Mr. Davidson said. * * * GOING STRONG is go­ ing on television. Station KUAT in Tucson, Arizona, has a scries called "Going Strong," which features old­ er, activc people, such as Oliver "Pop" Saul, 86, who still teaches riding and rop­ ing to youngsters at a local ranch. SUPPORT BRIDGE ACTION The officers and board members of McHenry Area Chamber of Commerce at their monthly meeting last week adopted a resolution to approve^ and support the city of McHenry to erect a two-way bridge over the Fox river located at the present old bridge site on Pearl street. 420 interchanges, particularly the one on Chapel Hill road. He had voiced this same concern in our office when he issued an invitation to attend. In referring to the an ticipated increase in traffic in his home community of Johnsburg, he noted that here was an old community not designed to deal with it. We suggested that was our same feeling about McHenry and the fact that a new bridge at Pearl street would bring a congestion we could not handle well. This prompted a sly smile and a nod from Mr. Huemann. While we would hestiate to put words into that smile and nod, we felt comfortably assured he understood that we, too, had made a point. Understandably, with state and federal agencies involved in projects that penetrate small communities, problems resulting will be more numerous and more serious in the future. We appreciate this fact, as well as the knowledge that there is a genuine concern for solving them among local office holders. Nevertheless, daily we see the mass confusion that exists in dealing with large units of government. It is evident in the Political Honesty fight to get three ethics amendments on the November ballot, involving that organization, the State Board of Elections and the courts. It is evident in the State Board of Education, which changes its assessment of the Governor's action each time a new press release crosses our desk. It is evident in the con­ troversy between the Attorney General and the Illinois Commerce commission over the matter of opening meetings to radio and television. And there are many more. It is not easy to believe that some of the same confusion may not have been involved in our Pearl street bridge plans. The need for a remedy to gristing problems has been seen; money has been made available ; and action there will be--regardless! This pretty well sums up the way we view the situation, and we are not alone. Some things are more easily corrected than others. When McHENRY MAN IS NAMED NEW ZONING OFFICER (Continued from page 1) under the Federal Housing Act of 1954. It gives authorization for the McHenry County Regional Planning commission "for the Lake and McHenry Council of Governments to undertake the comprehensive planning assistance activities and to be the recipient of the grant award document. The total planning grant is in the amount of $15,000, of which $10,000 is the federal portion; $3,000 is to be services in kind provided by the Lake and McHenry Council of Govern­ ments ; and $2,000 is to be local cash contribution. The Illinois Department of Local Government Affairs is to reimburse the McHenry County Regional Planning commission in the amount of $12,000 for planning services rendered to the Lake and McHenry Council of Governments. Among zoning requests, the petition of Illinois Material Service for a conditional use permit to continue gravel pit operations west of Burton's bridge was denied. Harold Freese, a Crystal Lake board member, spoke in favor of allowing the petition. However, Richard Klemm displayed photos showing the condition of some of the land on which use was completed and not improved. In addition, he had letters from persons in the area who objected to the noise and dust resulting from the pit operations. A denial of the extension was the verdict of the board. Three zoning requests of interest locally were granted. One was the petition of Eugene J. and Dorothy A. Hughes for a conditional use permit for about 5 acres fronting on the south side of Johnsburg road. They asked the change for parking facilities for equipment used in his excavating and tree trimming business. Hughes also indicated his desire to use an existing metal pole barn and within five years to build another for cold storage of equipment. Another approval was given by Gerry Johnson sffliS? Boiled Peanuts Bring Big Profits SOON: V'LATENITE" SPECIAL "12 CHAIRS" NOW! 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