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FOR MEN A WOMEN Prepare For City Census Steven Karlovics, la charge of Held operation assistance employment for the Barean of the Centos, administer* a test to an unidentified man In the City Council room. The test consisted of 54 questions designed to measure the skills. abilities and knowledge required to perform a variety of census lobs. The Census started April 1. STAFF PHOTO-WAYNE GAYLORD Susan's First Year... October 1979 marked the opening of Christopher's Men's Wear. In June 1980 Susan's Shoes opened its doors for business. Together they serve the fashion minded men and women of McHenry and invite you to stop in and see their new Spring lines. Christopher's Second. We thank you for your patronage and support and look forward to ser­ ving you in the future. 3902 W. Main McHenry (£;hrifitapljpr a vacancies in Elementary District 15, only 851 voters went to the polls in three areas of the district. Because no incumbents were on the ballot, three new members were assured seats. The winners were Arthur T. Newbrough, who topped the voting with 514, and Gerald K. Bunting with 452, both of whom will serve three-year terms, also Eileen B. Zurblis, elected for a two-year term. Mrs. Zurblis was supported by 361 voters. On not quite so massive a scale as the oceanic oil spills, a 6,000 gallon tank at McHenry Sand k Gravel tipped releasing an estimated 2,500 to 3,000 gallons of fuel oil in Boone creek. The consecration service of the Fint United Methodist church'aV new building brought parishioners and friends to the beautiful structure on April 13. Local clergymen who shared in the service were Fr. Edmund Petit, pastor, St. Patrick's church; Gerald Robertson, pastor, Alliance Bible church; Jerry Tobin, deacon St. John's church; Fr. James Gaynor, pastor, St. Mary's church; and Fr. V.P. Fish, chaplain, McHenry hospital. Formal , negotiations concerning' the proposed annexation of approximately 209 acres of land at the southeast corner of the Bull Valley road and Crystal Lake blacktop began at a public meeting. The sketch plan illustrates the proposed extension of Curran road which would swing through the property from Bull Valley road in the northwest and exit onto the Crystal Lake blacktop in the southeast. The construction of the four lane blacktop is designed to be part of a "McHenry bypass." By a vote of 17-4, the McHenry County board voted favorably on the petition to allow a residential facility for 11 develop- mentally disabled people to be built at the corner of Officers and committee chairmen were named to head business activities of the board of High School District 156. The election named Edward J. Neumann to serve his second year as. president. A public opening of bids for a new church for the Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran congregation was held. The new sanctuary will be in a semi-round design and will provide seating for 350 worshipers at each service, with an overflow seating area for an ad­ ditional 100 people. The sanctuary will be separated from a large narthex by glass doors which will enable the narthex to be used also as a cry room for mothers with younger children. A leaking propane gas tanker prompted the tem­ porary evacuation of McHenry residents from the Main street area near the Northern Propane Gas company and the train station. The 6:40 p.m. Chicago and Northwestern train was stopped before it reached McHenry so that passengers would not disembark into a potentially dangerous situation. The McHenry City Council was split 4 and 4 in the vote to authorize the spraying of the insecticide when Mayor Joseph Stanek cast the deciding vote to authorize the program. The mayor and four aldermen, Datz, Schooley, Nolan and Harker, felt the arguments against the use of the chemical had been sufficiently disproved at the last meeting. The four aldermen against the spraying, Wieser, Adams, Meurer and Pepping, felt time was not of the essence and other alternatives should be tried first. The board of elementary . School District II of Spring Grove took no action regarding Supt. Jeff Storm following a 45-minute executive session. Newly elected board president, Judy Toler, announced to the 70 persons gathered for the meeting that they had made the decision in the executive session to fully support the superintendent and that he would return next year. With split votes on two occasions, the City of McHenry Zoning Board of Appeals cast negative recommendations on a petition for a variation from the "R-4" multi-family classification as presented at a meeting. The site for this proposed construction is a 5.48 acre wedge of land at the intersection of McCullom Lake road and Orelans street. Jill Hutchinson was in­ cluded among only 1,125 winners of National Merit $1,000 scholarships in the second of three major an­ nouncements made April 24, of Merit Scholars this Spring by the National Merit Scholarship corporation of Evanston. She is a senior at West campus. After a short discussion the McHenry City Council voted 5 to 4 to authorize the spraying of 270 acres to eradicate a gypsy moth population in McHenry. The mortgage interest rates for home loans at the McHenry State bank dropped to 13.5 percent early this week, according to bank official Ormel Prust. Charging that the McHenry City Council was spraying of 270 acres in the Whitpering Oaks apd Lakeland Park subdivisions for gypsy moths, Attorney John E. Passarelli said the Council was gambling by going ahead. Passarelli said he was representing a number of people within and without the target area. MAY At the City Council meeting, Mayor Stanek reappointed the firm of Narusis and Narusis as city attorney, Barbara Gilpin as city collector, Fred Meyer as superintendent of public works, Kay Halverson and Donald Wedekind to the Plan commission, John D. Madl to the Police Pension board, Peter A. Adams to the Board of Police Commissioners, Drs. August Rossetti and James McMahon to the Board of Health and John Shay to the McHenry Emergency Services and Disaster agency. The City of McHenry Zoning Board of Appeals voted at its last meeting to deny a petition for variation from the "R-4" famUy zoning classification. The petitioner, Leo Krabbenhoft, a McHenry contractor, requested a variation to permit a 900 squarefoot area in the basement of a 12- unit apartment building at 704 Logan street, McHenry, to be used as an apartment for a live-in maintenance man and his wife. In an atmosphere clouded by inflation, high interest costs, end uncertainty over the best way to proceed in order to provide needed space for certain county governmental units, the McHenry County board last week decided to "try again". First step in the reappraisal will be to find out the cost of the adjacent three-story office building at 666 Russel court, to figure out the cost to adapt it for county government use (including insulation expenses), and at the same time to figure out costs of companion new construction on the south and on the north ends of the present courthouse on Route 47. Hailed by some as a vic­ tory of the people and by others as a victory of the Philistines, the Illinois Department of Agriculture announced its withdrawal from the Sevin spray program. The formal an­ nouncement was read into the record at the City Council meeting. The letter from Seaborg, who was unable to attend, referred to the possible psychosomatic harm people could ex­ perience from the spray program and a "lack of commitment from the Environmental Protection agency in backing up and providing information about the products the agency registers." Before making the* announcement, the mayor expressed outrage at the "panic peddlers" who riled and scared the people. The Computer Advisory committee for High School District 15 gave a qualified endorsement to a proposal to acquire six or 12 new "mini­ computers" during a discussion at a recent meet ing. Commit tee members from the business community advised against teaching any more than the first year course in com­ puter science because unless such teaching was com­ prehensive and carried on for a.number of. years, firm* would-hAve .to .He-train sticfc