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SUPPLEMENT TO McHENRY'PLAINDEALER - PAGE 2 • WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 1. 1978 Resume Of News Events In J 977 REGULAR REGULAR unien REGULAR Highlights Of Past Year >• In Community Reviewed city employees were unanimously approved at r Monday night's CitjTTouncil meeting to the satisfaction of everyone involved. The new wage scales calls for a minimum 7 percent pay in­ crease for all city employees beginning May 1, with even greater increases slated for the city clerk's department. The City Council Monday night voted unanimously to give $4,500 of revenue-sharing funds to the senior citizens of McHenry to be used for a walk- in center located at the Moose hall on Rt. 120 east of the Fox river The McHenry Zoning Board of Appeals has recommended to the City Council that a petition for rezoning twelve acres of property along Rt. 31, across tyom the Indian Manor restauraht, be denied ----Awm. McHenry residents were surprised with the an­ nouncement early this week that Gary Fields, popular principal at East campus, will be leaving District 156 at the end of the school year. He has been hired as principal of Woodstock high school. In an unprecedented and controversial maneuver. Aldermen Edward Datz, Walther Schaedel, Raymond Smith and James Wegener outpolled the remainder of the City Council and voted to defer any decision of the rezoning of land along Rt 31 until after the April 19 city elections. Gary Campbell, 19, of Cary, was found guilty Friday of murder, involuntary man­ slaughter. criminal damage to property and reckless conduct, in connection with the rock- throwing death of a Harvard man last October. Dianne Smith, a McHenry high school student, was a first place winner in state com­ petition for. Who's Who in Future Business Leaders of America, a contest naming those who have done the most for the school's FBLA. Gregg O. Clark, 17, was killed and Michael W. Zeller severely injured following a tragic one- car accident ^SaLdrday af­ ternoon on McCwlom Lake road. Pert and pretty Jennifer Grutzmacher is only 4 years old, but she topped a field of twelve to become queen of McCullom Lake at the Easter Penny carnival. Winners of McHenry school board elections included James Tonyan and Paul Nitz of District 156 and Dorothy Vick and Timothy Althoff of District 15. Frank StetSon, 62. a McHenry resident for about twenty-five years, was killed in the crash of an antique plane in Florida last weekend. McHenry s electorate placed strong confidence in Joseph Stanek by returning him to office for his second four-year term McHenry's new Senior Citizen Walk-in center at the Moose Lodge will have its of ficial opening Monday, May 2. The center will be open from 10 a m to 4 p.m. Mondays. Wednesdays and Thursdays. At Monday night's City Council meeting, four alder men along with Mayor Joseph Stanek. Treasurer William Brda and City Clerk Barbara Gilpin, took the oath of office MAY The McHenry City Council voted Monday. May 2, to permit Edward Buss to build a car dealership on Rt. 31 across the highway from the Indian Manor restaurant. George W. Brown, 56, of 5005 JANUARY The first of the year has brought a real "first" to the McHenry Police department- its first patrolwoman! Annetta < Gayle) Gustafson of Fox River Grove was sworn in Monday and after completing training, will soon become the first woman in McHenry county to ride alone on patrol in a squad car. Following a marathon public hearing. Liquor commissioner, Mayor Joseph Stanek, denied a request for a liquor license renewal for Jake's Dead end loungey3311 W. Elm street. McHenry At the City Council meeting Monday night, aldermen ap­ proved by a 4-3 vote a class "A" liquor license for Dr. Joseph, Josh, owner of the property on; which the defunct Holiday discount store now stands. Josh plans on remodeling the l^jniilding and opening a family style restaurant by the beginning of May. Grade schools and high schools throughout McHenry county joined forces at a seminar Thursday, Jan. 6 to exchange ideas on the best methods of coping with the truancy and attendance problems afflicting county schools. Johnsburg School District 12 is $2,808,589 richer this week. Ih a brief telephone conversation, Governor James Thompson told Dr. Duane Andreas, superintendent, that he had signed the release of funds under the Capitol Development i board grant for the con-| struction of a new high school. Dr. George Walter, professor emeritus of Lawrence university, spoke to an en­ thusiastic audience of seventy- five persons at Parkland school Thursday. Jan 13 on (he subject of school-community relations Walter's presen­ tation. titled "No Man Is An Island" focused on the need-for educators to give more to their students than just what is written in textbooks The City of McHenry is ex­ panding again. At Monday night's Jan. 17 Council meeting, aldermen by a 6-1 margin, approved a basic plan for annexation of 126 acres of property owned by Phil and Tim Wheelock, just off of Draper road. At the last board meeting of the McHenry Area Chamber of Commerce, approval was given to two proposed 1977 budgets. These were the Chamber budget of $18,400 presented by President Tom Low and the Retail committee budget of $3,560 submitted by Bonnie Gaza. Monday, Jan. 24, the City Council Finance committee consisting of Jack Pepping and Aldermen Bill Bolger and George Harker, met and listened to wage and benefit recommendations from various department heads within the city structure. FEBRUARY Anyone planning to construct a new home within the city limits will now have to comply with a new minimum ordinance on size, following action taken at Monday's City Council meeting. The aldermen voted to adopt an ordinance within the building code stating that a .home must have 1,000 square feet of living space in order to be constructed in the corporate city limits. One by one, the aldermen spoke, near unanimous in the view that former City Clerks Terry Wilde and Earl Walsh had done nothing wrong by personally keeping certain fees which belonged rightfully to the city. And. when it came to a vote, by a 7-1 margin, the Council chose to dismiss the matter from the books At McHenry hospital s an­ nual meeting Feb. 5, an Award of Honor was bestowed on pathologist. Robert J. Stein, M.D. who was saluted for eighteen years of service as chairman of the department of laboratory medicine. Tests taken earlier in February by Illinois Depart­ ment of Conservation biologists indicate there is no oxygen in thfe>-Pistakee Bay and Mc­ Cullom Lake. A combination of low water, thick ice and heavy snow cover is believed to be the cause of heavy fish kills. Police officers of the McHenry Police department have asked the City Council Finance committee for a 7 percent across the board in­ crease in pay for the next fiscal year, beginning May 1. The knotty problem of a reduction in force concerning teachers in High School District 156 provided board members with an opportunity for an exchange of opinions when they met in regular session this past week In an austerity move prompted by the prospect of an increasing deficit the board of Consolidated Grade Sch District 15 voted Tuesday nig on curtailments adesigned to reduce the 1977-78 budget by about $119,000. Action was taken following discussion in executive session MARCH With a goal of $500,000 sliced from the budget of McHenry high school for the 1978-79 school year, the Task Force, a group of thirty-three in­ dividuals, met with School District 156 administrators in a foundation-laying meeting for the job ahead. The overall budgetary pic­ ture, along with fringe benefits and non-wage items, were the subjects of Finance committee scrutiny Monday night, with planned recommendations appearing to coincide with city ~ employee requests, In fact, the projected outlook for the remainder of this fiscal year (ending April 30) and a preliminary view of next year's possible budget, indicate a substantial surplus of revenues over expenditures. McHenry county's 1975 tax collections, distributed in 1976, totaled $38,581,5^6, the largest dollar amount in the county's history, McHenry county Treasurer Audrey R. Walgenbach announced this week. In meeting Tuesday night, the board of Consolidated Grade School District 15 took a look at the revised budget of $4,355,561 to be adopted at the Judging from these pictures, the price of gasodne in McHenry is 5S.9, plus tax. Of course, this isn't the case. Price of gasoline in McHenry ranges from a low of 51.9 cents a gallon for regular, to 75.9 cents a gallon for premium. title of the April 12 meeting. It showed deficits in all funds, but in three of the smaller funds, a large enough balance on hand July l of last year will keep the Figures in the black. In an unprecedented move the City Council Finance committee will recommend to the full Council at its .next meeting, not just salary structures for the next fiscal year (beginning May 1), but also wage scales for the 1978-79 fiscal year. Thursday night at a McHenry Township Board meeting, the senior citizens' request for a portion of the township's revenue sharing funds was put off by the board until a special meeting can be held, hopefully this week. Neither the tavern itself, nor the "book" on the Jake's Dead End lounge, is closed. The tavern reopened this week after receiving a temporary court injunction from the Circuit court of Cook county. Richard Jager, owner of the tavern, has also filed a suit which names Mayor Joseph Stanek as a co- defendant. The 1977 Fiesta day queen contest is open for applicants, sponsored by the McHenry Area Chamber of Commerce. All young ladies who are single; between the ages of 17 and 21, and residents of the McHenry high school district, are urged to enter. McHenry high school's spring musical, "Camelot" was held March 24-27 in the West campus auditorium. Wage scales and benefits for