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PAGE T - PLAINDEALER - FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER M, ltM The Classic Confrontation When Marian and Johmburg got together last Wednesday evening to play a non-conference match in girl's tennis, it meant a head-on struggle between the two number one singles players. Kathy Zsumlas, 3-2 so far for the year, the short, solid, tenacious underdog of the Skyhawks would scramble against Karen Truckenbrod, a long-legged, stylish player with good form and good leverage for the Hurricanes. The first set was very ordinary, no broken serves, lots of lobs by Truckenbrod and complaints about the mosquitoes which had come with the muggy, cloudy day. Truckenbrod took the set, 6-3. Zsumlas took charge in the second set, however, using lobs herself and repeatedly coming to the net while broken serves saw Zsumlas take the set in come-from-behind fashion, 6-2. The small trinkle of rain Joined the pesky bugs in irritating the play of the two opponents and the slippery surface Ignited a chant by the players to discontinue the match. The two combatants were now content to leave the court and choose a winner in their minds. The classic confrontation had no loser. STAFF PHOTOS-JOEL WAKITSCH Kmlniitml ( till l)l'K( >11 < IK >\ K! : HAPPY 25th _ /STOCK\ mr NOW \ ASPEN Men's & Women's „ SKI JACKETS. \ VESTS 4 7& PANTS *3 by MIURA MUNARI DOLOMITE HENKE BINDINGS by HART YAMAHA ELAN, BESSER SOLOMON Men, Ladies b & Youth / arrival WON GREEN STREET McHENRY, ILLINOIS ' ' ' - - 'Wm a calendar of upcoming events HIGH SCHOOL FIELD HOCKEY McHenry (Sept. 27) Belvidere-away-lOam McHenry (Sept. 30) Cr. Lk C.-away-4:30 HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL McHenry (Sept.30) Cr. Lk. S.-away-4:30 Johnsburg(Sept. 30) Hononegah-home-6pm Marian (Sept. 26) St. Ed-away-6:15 Marian (Sept. 29) Cary-Grove-home-4pm HIGH SCHOOL CROSS COUNTRY McHenry(Sept.27) Cr. Lk. Invite-9am Johnsburg (Sept.27) Cr. Lk. Invite-9am Johnsburg(Sept. 30) Grant,N.C.-away-4:30 Marian (Sept. 30) Driscoll-home-4pm HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL McHenry (Sept. 26) Woodstock-away-8pm Johnsburg (Sept 27) Harvard-homecoming-2pm Marian (Sept. 27) Montini-home-2pm HIGH SCHOOL GOLF McHenry (Sept.29) Dundee-away-4:30 McHenry (Sept. 30) Johnsburg-home-4:30 Marian(Sept.29) St. Ed-St. Andrews-4pm Marian (Sept. 30) Cary-away-4pm HIGH SCHOOL TENNIS Race held last Sunday. Entrants came from Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan to compete in the race divided into eleven classes. Tim Triebold and Bruce Barton turned in the fastest time of 69 minutes and 56 seconds for the nine mile course which began from the McHenry City Beach, up to the mouth of the river at Pistakee Lake and back to the beach. The two boys come from Michigan. Two local contestants who took first place in the Jaycee were Darald Krieger and Rick Broker of the McHenry Chapter. They turned in a time of 124:07. May God always be * your co-pllot. "EARL WALSH' So I Hear With cool breezes blowing in from the north and temperatures dropping into the 40's, it gets a fellow thinking that frost may soon be on the pumpkins. Have been reading about the comeback of wood burning stoves. Public utility bills have reached a point where people are thinking of alternatives* Thus, the wood stove. You can't buy a wood stove for a song these days. Nor can you buy good wood with small change. Farmers used to hook up the team, the one that was well shod, to the bobsled and take off to the woods on a crisp winter day. Selected trees were chopped down and worked into logs to be loaded onto the sled and hauled home. Some logs were set aside for fence posts. The rest were piled handily to await the coming of a custom farmer with his gasoline powered saw. better study the situation. For heating stoves they aJways set them on a zinc board as a fire prevention measure. If you had a long stretch of pipe, you had to put screweyes in the ceiling and loop fine wire around the pipes. The collar around the pipe where it entered the chimney was chosen for its color. Stoves and pipes were polished. When you started a fire, it was time to open the windows until the polish burned off. Wood wasn't a problem for a man who could swing an axe. Somebody always had a tree they wanted taken down so men removed them for the wood. Those were days Joe Adams tells about. With a good woodpile and the foundation of the house well banked to keep out the frost, men could turn to other things. Joe tells about building construction halting when cold weather arrived. They had to save some of their summer wages to tide them over the winter. Sometimes they got a few days work putting up ice. Other times they went hunting or fishing to put food in the larder. In the good old wood and coal days, a boy came home from school, had lunch -- a huge slice of Mom's homemade bread covered all over with butter and sprinkled with sugar. Man, that was eatin'! Then it was time to take off your school clothes, don overalls and get at your chores. There was kindling to chop and snow to shake off the Why doesn't the Board make public, the invest­ ments made by District 156????? wood before loading the wood box. The box was built with a high back so you could bang the wood against it and not damage the wall. Coal buckets had to be filled and ashes had to be sifted to save any unburned coal. A l v i n a ' s m o t h e r sometimes used corn cobs to start the cook stove. And it was breath-taking when she dashed on some kerosene and applied a match. Whoof! Sometimes heating stoves or griddles on a cook stove got red with heat if you forgot to turn the damper in time. Canoe Race Results A total of 90 canoes and kayaks took part in the fifth annual Fox River Canoe Bread baked in those old stoves had a flavor you can't duplicate. Those old heating stoves would keep you warm on a cold winter night, especially if you stood near them and kept turning around. So. You readers get all these ramblings just because I read about wood stoves staging a comeback. BIRTHDAY GREETINGS TO ALAN IN KOREA McHenry (Sept.27) McH Invite-9am McHenry (Sept.29) Cary Grove-away-4:30 McHenry (Sept.30) Johnsburg-away-4:30 Johnsburg (Sept. 26) Round Lake-away-4:30 Marian(Sept. 26) Crown-home-4pm Marian(Sept. 30) Driscoll-away-4pm OPEN SWIMMING at the West Campus pool is now taking place on Thursday and weekends. The Saturday-Sunday hours are 2-5pm and the Thursday hours are from 7-9pm. Senior Citizens can swim at a special time of 6-7pm on Thursday. There is an admission charge. > Chunks were piled high and had to be split into sizes suitable for stoves. 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