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Plaindealer Wins Award Saufen Und Spiel Scene II was a day for umbrellas and tain caps, but even the mist failed to daunt the large annual Saufen Und Spiel color guard members and Intermittent rain crowd gathered for festivities. This group can be seen between AYNE GAYLORD THE MCHENRY PLAINDEALER SERVING THE CHAIN-O-IAKES REGION SINCE 1875" 1980 VOLUME IPS NUMBER 14 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1980 2 SECTIONS 28 PAGES 25' Zoning Board Hears New Land Development Concept If there is nothing new under the sun, at least on* proposal we heard recently is an innovative and in­ teresting variation. It all has to do with helping to keep in the foremost part of our mind what a tremendous job we're doing for Government. Sure, Government does us a few favors too, but just knowing how much we contribute should make each one of us feel very special. We are! Although in a few places it has become a symbol of the past, millions of production line workers, supermarket checkers, sales people, secretaries, and others still punch in at the time clock each morning. This is how companies keep track of their hours and calculate their earnings. It's all on the up and up. There's just one hitch.. When it's time for the weekly paycheck, all those hours worked at the agreed-upon salary don't show up on the pay stub. Something is missing -- and that something is Uncle Sam's share -right off the top. Now here's the modest proposal that has been made. It calls for instituting a new national twice-a-day punch-in program. The system works this way. Instead of having one time card, each employee would be assigned two. Instead of there being just one time clock, every place of business would have two. When employees arrive on the job, they would walk to the government time clock with a government time card in hand. For the next two hours and 52 minutes, ac­ cording to figures compiled recently by the Tax foun­ dation, they would officially . be working for Washington and the lesser bureaucrats in their state capitals and city halls. Then they would punch the time clock again and start working for themselves. And there is other in­ formation in the study that provides eye-openers. While the average wage earner works nearly three hours of every eight-hour day to pay his federal, state and local taxes, he worked only one hour and 29 minutes earning the money for food and beverages; 41 minutes for transportation; 29 minutes for medical care; 22 minutes for clothing and 19 minutes for recreation. Most of the nearly three hours that were spent working to pay taxes went to the feds. The federal government got an hour and !£ minutes, while state and. local governments took only 57 minutes. _ r ?• Fifty years ago, according to Tax foundation economists, a worker could earn the money to pay his tax bills in 42 days. Today he has to work more than three times as long -131 days, an awfully long time to wait to punch the personal clock. The problem is that withholding takes much of the pain out of taxes. Maybe the two time clocks system would remind the payer how big government has grown and how expensive it really is. KAF Listening to an entirely new concept in land development in the City of McHenry, the McHenry Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) heard another two hours of testimony con­ cerning the Towne-Orleans ^petition that was presented "lit the Sept. 5 hearing. The petition concerns 12.5 acres of land at the nor­ thwest corner of the Mc- Cullom Lake road and Orleans street intersection in the McHenry Lakes Estates subdivision being developed by Milfred Towne and Howard Orleans. The bulk of the land in question is presently zoned "R-4" multi- family residential and the petitioners are requesting six variations from the zoning ordinance. According to Attorney Daniel Curran and site planner Howard Holtzman, "Hotline" For Poison Control When a toddler swallows a substance which may be harmful, his parents or baby-sitter can now discover within minutes what is the proper treatment by calling a special "hotline" which has been installed at the Poison Control center at McHenry hospital, 385-0200. The 385-0200 phone is dedicated exclusively to giving immediate answers to any questions about whether a substance is poisonous. It is manned by an Emergency department physician or (Continued on page 18) the concept of land development, which the developers are trying to get approved, is closer in nature to single family detached housing than it is to either rental or condominium housing. The developers are striving to build 102** townhouse units, each with 2,500 square feet of property which the purchaser would own. The site plan calls for the 102 units to be built in groups of four or six units to a building. In addition, each unit would have its own garage, driveway, entrances and halls. Curran pointed out that this differs from the con­ dominium concept in that the purchaser of a con­ dominium only owns the airspace and the land is typically owned by a homeowners' association. "We consider this to be closer to single family detached rather than rental or condo," Holtzman said. "This seems to be more palatable to the banks (for financing the development) and the purchasers. We're testing a method we think makes sense." The petition requests variations which, if granted, would allow: 26.5-foot set­ back instead of 30 feet from the road, sideyards of less than 10 feet, 38 percent lot coverage instead of the 35 percent maximum, a 2,500 square foot lot instead of 5,000 square foot minimum lot size and a "zero-lot line." When some confusion arose over wording in the Zoning ordinance, City Attorney Bernard Narusis explained that tfce#unimum lot size allowed in tne "R-4" district was 5,000 square feet. The ordinance also says that there must be 2,500 square feet of space for each living unit, but Narusis noted that this was merely a formula for calculating how many units could be built on a single lot. ZBA member Suzanne Kauss asked why the developers didn't just leave the land in the hands of a homeowners association. Curran started to say, "The reason is the roads...." "Don't lay this off on the roads," Narusis said. "The property could be developed as condominium but you abandoned the concept because of financial con­ siderations." According to the title of­ ficer, Curran said, it would be preferable to have private roads if the land is developed as condominiums. Curran argued that if the roads were private, there would be a single homeowners' association and if the roads were public, there would (Continued on page 18) Redefine Jobs In Public Works Hie emergency department at McHenry hospital has instituted a Poison Control hotline, 385-4200, adjacent to the Poisindex screen which contains information on 124,000 toxic and non-toxic substances. Shown above are emergency department physician K.S. Mohan, M.D., and emergency department nurse Evelyn Walter, R.N., answering an inquiry on the direct-line phone. McHenry Mayor Joseph Stanek reported at Monday night's City Council meeting that a number of jobs in the Public Works department have been redefined, to some extent, preparatory to the resignation of Superin­ tendent of Public Works Fred Meyer on Oct. 1. Stanek said that four men - - William Oeffling, James Miller, Richard Weber and Bud Wilde - have been given more responsibility in "their jobs in the department. According to the mayor, the City Council must decide in the next few months whether to make the office of mayor of McHenry a full- time position. He speculated that in the event the Council decides to go to a full-time mayor, a new administrator for the Public Works department may not be necessary. Stanek said the mayor could oversee a large part of the administrative portion of the Public Works department. As the situation stands now, Oeffling has assumed more responsibility in construction and main­ tenance in the Parks department. Miller is in charge of the City garage The Plaindealer's column, Remembering When, has won third place in the state­ wide competition of the Illinios Press association. The award was presented at the annual awards luncheon Sept. 12 during the 115th annual Fall convention held at Decatur. The column was entered in the Promotion of Newspaper category. There were 2,314 entries in 22 separate categories. The Plaindealer, with a cir­ culation of 7,800, competed against all daily and semi- weeklies with circulations in excess of 5,000. The top award in this category went to the Chicago Heights Star Publications. The contest was judged by members of the Penn­ sylvania Newspaper Publishers association. Representative issues of the column, which started last August, featured Catherine Miller, Donald Givens, Art Boger, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Vycital, Barbara Althoff, Leo Heimer, Harold "Schmaltz" Miller, Alvin and Harold Phannenstill, Kathleen Brown, Lewis Blomgren, Clarence - and Arline Pearson, Lewis Pitzen, Mr. and Mrs. George Krickl and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bienapfl. The Plaindealer would like to continue this popular column and would welcome suggestions of persons who might be included. Arraigned For Murder Terry E. Doll, 25, of 391 Terra Cotta, Crystal Lake, who was arrested by Crystal Lake police for the murder of 81-year-old Lenea Jurs, was arraigned on charges of murder and robbery in 19th Judicial Circuit court Monday. Judge Roland Hermann set the trial date for Oct. 20. Doll is presently being held in the McHenry County jail on $500,000 bond. ' Lenea Jurs was found strangled in her Crystal Lake apartment by friends and police early in August of 1980. A 17-day investigation culminated in the arrest of Doll. A Woodstock Attorney, James Campion, was ap­ pointed to represent Doll. Arrest McHenry Man In Shotgun Incident A McHenry man was ar­ rested early Sunday after he reportedly fired several shots at another man following an argument earlier the previous night. Allen Plucinski, 25, 1106 River terrace, McHenry, was charged with reckless conduct, aggravated assault, aggravated battery, armed violence and possession of a firearm without a firearm ownership identification (FOI) card. The incident started when Ronald Dopke, 24, of 2108 Hollyport had gone to the home of Plucinski, on River terrace, after an earlier dispute. (Continued on page 18) and inventory, Weber has taken a more responsible role as head foreman, overseeing the operation of the crews, and Wilde has taken charge of the large equipment maintenance, evaluation and purchasing. In the event the Council decides not to go to a full- time mayor, Stanek said they would probably start looking for a full-time ad- ministrator-engineer to fill the superintendent position. Stanek noted that, so far, the redefining of the four positions has worked well, adding that both morale and productivity were high. The real test of the system, however, will come after Oct. 1 until the time the Council ipakes a decision. Mayor Sttmek also an­ nounced that Dr. Lee Gladstone has donated to the City a 66-foot lot at the north­ west corner of the First avenue-Green street ex­ tension, behind St. Patrick's. The donation will connect the City of McHenry with the southern part of the Falcon ( R i v e r s i d e t e r r a c e ) development, north of McHenry. In other action, the Council (Continued on page 18) Movie Making Comes To Area Actors in a public television movie being filmed at the John Victor home, 611 Rand road, Lakemoor, are shown at top of picture above. Film and sound rrew members carefully focus on the principal actors In one scene from the movie. STAFF PHOTO-WAYNE GAYLORD Hollywood is nearer than m i g h t b e i n d i c a t e d o n a n y map. H o l l y w o o d - - o r a reasonable facsimile -- came to the McHenry area re­ cently when Daedalus Film Productions of Chicago arrived to make a film The independent film company crew was working on a 30- minute movie for public television The story concerns a young boy who finds out the man he accepted as his father is really not a blood relative. Instead, he has killed his family and taken the child. . After scouting Volo area for a location, the film maker discovered the John Victor home at 611 Rand road, lakemoor, and was delighted at the picturesque settings appropriate for some of the scenes. The company had no plans for music for the film when thev arrived and were skeptical when Victor mentioned he had two sons who played. However, the director said he was elated when he heard Henry and Danny Victor, who had just returned from California. They will supply flute, guitar and keyboard. The company is funded by the Illinois Arts council. Most of the crew are students at Columbia college The majority of these working on the film have fine background experience in commercial work. Because the film allows for more expression of dramatic ability, they were eager to become participants in making the film Teachers' Informational Picket Although negotiations were scheduled for Tuesday night, Sept. 16, in the dispute between the McHenry High School Teachers' association and the District 186 board of education, informational picketing Was in progress outside both East and West campuses Mondayi Last Thursday night's negotiating session broke off with some expression of hope that a settlement might soon be reached. According to a school spokesman, it was agreed between the two sides that no further information regarding negotiations would be released to the media, y The same spokesman said teachers appeared in the classroom and there was no slowdown Monday. The picketing took place Wore and after school hours. Signs indicated dissatisfaction with negotiations. New Legion Post In City The first such charter to be issued in the State of Illinois in 25 years for an American Legion post names a new organization in McHenry. The Polish Legion A m e r i c a n V e t e r a n organization will issue a charter to Polish American veterans. The charter will be presented by national and state commanders to Liberty Post No. 188. „ The P.L.A.V. organization has been in existence for 60 years. Festivities will be held at the McHenry American Legion Post 491 clubhouse, 2505 N. Ringwood road, Sept. 28 at 3 p.m. Food will be served and there will be music following the ceremony. Veterans or spouses of Polish descent are eligible to join at this time. Veterans wishing to become charter members are asked to contact Tony Jaworski at 1406 N. River­ side drive, • McHenry, promptly at 3 p.m. Sept. 21. The charter must be signed and sent to national headquarters.