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HERE AND THERE IN BUSINESS RobinO'Ladd Acquired By Residential Development sfiS&i PAGE 9 - PLAINDEALER-FRIDAY. DECEMBER 24, i»7« by Gerry Johnson The Illinois and Wisconsin assets of the Robino-Ludd company have been acquired by Residential Development Group. Inc., which is headed by Donald Gerstad, president. Other officers are James Berg, vice-president; James Weaver, treasurer and secretary, Donald Meyer. Included in the purchase are all Chicagoland developments: Four Colony, Fox Ridge, Set­ tler's Woods. Brookside, Somerset. Waters Edge and Coventry, and all Wisconsin projects including Windings of Waukesha. According to Don Gerstad, "The staff of Residential Development Group will continue to conduct business as we have in the past, with only a change of name. All the projects, including the future programs now on the drawing board, will be developed with the same staff and the same management philosophy and financial stability that has always been the trademark of these projects in the Chicagoland area." The <nain office of the Residential Development Group will be at 451 Coventry lane. Crystal Lake, the former Robino-Ladd location The World's Greatest Pecan Grower Phil Pawl Servesi County Realtor Board PIIIL PAWL Beverly Ebert, president of the McHenry County Board of ICC Permits Rate Increase For General Telephone Th* Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) has handed down an prder permitting General Telephone company of Illinois to increase local service rates $4.6 million annually. The company indicates it will receive only about $2.3 million, since approximately half of the increase granted will go toward state and federal taxes. The new rates will be ef­ fective Jan. J, 1977. This is the second general rate increase in local service in seventeen years for General Telephone with the first request approved by the ICC in 1974. At that time, the company received 76 percent of what it had requested. The ICC order granted the company only 40 percent of the $11.4 million General Telephone filed for in January of this year Realtors, has announced the reappointment of Phil Pawl as Legislative chairman of the McHenry County board. Pawl, who is affiliated with Northern Illinois Realty office in McHenry, has served the Board of Realtors in the past^ several years ai chairman of the legislative division of the board. He maintains contact with the Legislative chairman of the Illinois Assoc­ iation of Realtors to keep the local board up to date on current legislation affecting local realtors and the populace of the county in general. Legal Notice IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 19th JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, McHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS PROBATE DIVISION ESTATE OF JOHN G. KREUSER Deceased, FILE NO. 76-P-315 Notice is hereby given pursuant to Section 194 of the Probate Act, of the death of the above named decedent and that letters Testamentary were issued on Dec. 6, 1976, to Willard J. Salter, 1202 W. Sunset Dr., McHenry, Illinois, whose attorney of record is Leroy J. Welter, 1303 N. Rich- Legal Notice NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on December 15, A D. 1976, a certificate was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of McHenry County, Illinois^' setting forth the names' and post-office addresses of all of the persons awning, conducting and transacting the business known as CENTENIAL BUILDERS, located at 530 Rockland Rd., Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014. Dated this 15th .day of December, A.D. 1976. Vernon W. Kays County Clerk • Pub. Dec. 17, 24, & 31, 1976) Nervous Upon entering the bathroom in a hotel, a lady recognized the scheduled guest speaker pacing up and down and asked him what he was doing there. "I'm going to deliver a speech," he re­ plied. '.'Do you usually get this nervous before making a speech?" "Nervous?" "No, not me." "Then what are you doing in the Ladies' Room?" American Viewpoints oy mond Rd., McHenry, Illinois. Claims may be filed within 6 months from the date of issuance of Letters and that any claim not filed within that period is barred as to the estate which is inventoried within that period Claims against said estate should be filed in the Probate office of the Clerk of said Court, County Court House, Wood­ stock, Illinois, and copies thereof mailed or delivered to said legal representative and to said attorney. MARGARET O'NEIL Clerk of the Court (Pub. Dec. 10, 17,24,1976) Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire,*, -- conscience. > "1' George Washington Twenty-five miles east of Austin, Texas lives a man they say knows more about pccans than anyone in the United States and maybe the entire world. The fact that Johnny Bar­ ton is now 74 and is still growing pecans on the land that has been in his family since 1852 probably has something to do with his knowledge. Or it could be the master's degree from an Ivy League school that peo­ ple who know him well insist he earned may years ago. In his scruffy work clothes and a week's worth of gray stubble dotting his face, a stranger would never take Barton for an Ivy League graduate. And it's a sure bet he won't tell you what his educational background is. On the other hand, Barton will talk about the familv land and pecans for hours. "When my grandfather got this land he built a cabin and planted a little corn and a few other things," Barton told a writer from The Na­ tional Council on the Aging. During the Civil War when gunpowder was<scarce, his grandfather manufac­ tured his own by burning wood, extracting lye from the ashes and mixing it with bat gudno which he got from bat caves north of Austin. In the process of collect­ ing the huge amounts of wood needed for the gun­ powder manufacturing, Bar­ ton's grandfather started culling th£ pecan trees that grew on(ih!s land. "Around 1904 my father started planting grafted trees," Barton said. "We've been fooling around with them ever since." Pecans used to enjoy a limited popularity as novelty items, but advanced harvest­ ing methods and increased consumption of all types of nuts has made them big business. "The last big crop of hand-harvested pecans was back in the Depression," Barton said. "1 sold 80,000 pounds for almost five cents a pound. They cost me over two cents a pound to har­ vest. "Nowadays, we use ma­ chinery to shake the pecans from the trees, gather them from the ground, separate them from the trash and sort them according to size." Barton raises about 100 varieties of pecans and har­ vests anywhere from a "hat­ ful" to 100,000 pounds, de­ pending on the season. Although there are few "hatful" seasons, Barton also raises cattle and maize as a form of insurance. "As long as two of my crops turn out all right, I'll have enough to live on," Barton said. And if all three crops ever failed, Barton could earn a comfortable living as a con­ sultant to fellow pecan grow­ ers. Folks who know him well say that Ivy League master's degree he earned years ago and the knowledge he's gained in a lifetime of growing pecans would put him in great demand. "I guess I know more than the average fellow about pecans," Barton said reluc­ tantly. "But there's always something more to learn, isn't there? J think that's what keeps me going." IF YOU KNOW someone you'd like to see featured in Going Strong, Gerry John­ son would like to hear from you. He writes about older persons leading active, pro­ ductive lives of interest to readers of all ages. If you know someone who is still "going strong," send his or her name, address, telephone number and a brief biographical sketch to: Gerry Johnson NCOA 1828 L Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036 DID YOU*KNOW that two "wonder drugs" were discovered by a botany pro­ fessor who refused to retire? - In 1943, Dr. Ben Duggar had to comply with the Uni­ versity of Wisconsin's man­ datory retirement age of 70, despite his protests. He then went to work for a pharma­ ceutical company as a con­ sultant and independent re­ searcher. After several years of ex­ perimenting, he developed an antibiotic which he named "aureomycin." He was 73 at the time. Dr. Dug­ gar continued his experi­ ments and later developed tetracycline, now the most widely prescibed antibiotic in the world. Dr. Duggar's insistence on continuing to work despite mandatory retirement has helped many thousands of people have longer lives. ill M 11IHI BANANA GENT&NNtAL C5te BANANA'S U.S. DEBUT OCCURRED M 1076 AT "THE 6KEAT CENTENNIAL EXNlBmflN M PHILADELWIA. INDIVIDUALLY WRAPPED IN TIN FOIL, EACH BANANA S6U? FAR 10$. emAfias Mow 100 YEAR* WUNG AND CELEBRATING IT4 CENTENNIAL miHE ^CENTENNIAL YEARTHE BANANA RANKS AS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR OF FRESH FRUITS • AMD RELATIVELV LESS EXPEN­ SIVE THAN IN 1076 ' AMERICAN CONSUMES AN AVERAGE OF 18.6 ROUNDS C* BANANAS IN A'YEAR. MAST OF THE GOLDEN YELLOW FRUiTARE SIMPLY PEELED AND EATEN OUT OF HAND. H>1FFERENT DE6REES OF RIPE­ NESS ARE IDEAL Ft5R DIFFERENT USES". GREEN-TINGED.USEASA VEGETABLE SUBSTITUTE-BAKED, FRIED OR IN b6UPS OR STEWS; BROWN-FLECKED IS BEST FOR BAKING BREADS ANDCA*ES. 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