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City Council Looks At High Road Cost lOpen Miss McHenry Contest by Anthony Oliver Mayor Joseph Stanek reported at Monday night's City Council meeting that the Federal Aid Urban (FAU) road resurfacing project on Meadow lane could cost an estimated $150,000 more than was anticipated due to poor soil conditions. The net cost increase to the City of McHenry, which cost shares the project with the federal government, was estimated at $35,000. In this project, the federal government is funding 75 percent of the cost while the city makes up the remainder. The mayor noted a couple of alter­ natives: "coring out about 20 feet of soil," or digging about four inches and placing a mat which would effectively keep the gravel base from sinking into the soft soil, while allowing water to drain There exists another alternative, according to Stanek, which is to con­ struct the road base of seven or eight inches of meshed concrete. The engineers and council will be looking into the comparable costs and effectiveness of each alternative. A motion to authorize "Phase II" t Election Enthusiasm? mm. j f 8̂; Pre-election publicity failed to produce voting fervor, if this picture taken at the city hall polling precinct is any indication. Glen Anderson of Fairway drive found no crowd as he voted for favorite candidates at 7:20 a.m. Tuesday morning. But the judges were quick to say that activity was at a higher pace during the first hour, between 6 and 7 a.m. STAFF PHOTO-WAYNE GAYLORD engineering for the FAU project was approved unanimously. In an effort to relieve the back-up of traffic at the intersection of Green street and Route 120 during peak hours, the council has decided to prohibit left turns onto Route 120 for northbound traffic during hours to be determined by the chief of police. The matter was taken care of without an ordinance which means no tickets can be issued for ^violation The council also decided to look into the location of the permit parking area in the recently improved Green street parking lot. The move came as a reaction to a number of complaints from patrons of the St. Regis tavern and shoppers on Green street. The matter was referred to committee. A resolution recognizing the con­ tributions and expressing gratitude on behalf of the city to Betty Smith, of 311 N. Green street, McHenry. was passed unanimously. Mrs. Smith has served the last four years as the assistant director of the Emergency Services and Disaster Agency of McHenry. In other business, the council voted to adopt the 1981-82 control budget. Alderman Wieser voted against the motion, as he had in the past, objecting to the $45,000 revenue sharing allocation for the Boone creek dredging project The council also voted to enter into a security agreement with the firm that sold the city the new street sweeper According to City Attorney Bernard Narusis, the action served to change the status of the record, as far as the city was concerned, from lessee to owner of the machine. Park Director Peter Merkel an (Continued on page 22) MSA GRIMMONPRE Miss McHenry 1980 Preparations are now under way for this year's Miss McHenry contest Sharon Nye, who has served as general chairman of the past pageants, will this year pass on her responsibilities to Marisa Pace Merkel, Miss McHenry 1975 Ehtry blanks are currently being accepted at the McHenry Chamber of Commerce office located at 1257 N Green street All applicants must be between the ages of 17-21, residing in the McHenry-Johnsburg high school districts and never married In the past she has had to make several radio appearances, oversee many city functions and act as the official hostess for Fiesta days. This is just to name a few of her tasks, the most important of which is to represent the city in the McHenry county pageant Sponsoring this year's contest will be the McHenry Chamber of Commerce and American I>egion Post No 491 The Women s auxiliary opens the doors and makes the legion the official headquarters for the nine-week charm course and contest All applicants will be per sonally contacted by Mrs Marisa Merkel. who will confirm the starting date of April 28 for the charm course Due to the over whelming response to the past pageants, this year's event will be limited to the first 15 ap plicants Applications are now available at the Chamber of Commerce office and should b^ submitted with two photos Police Call Sun Electric Harassment "Mob Action" THE MCHENRY PLAINDEALER S E R V I N G T H E C H A I N - O - L A K E S H E ( , I ( I \ S I N C E 1 8 7 5 " V _ VOLUME 105 NUMBER 72 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1981 1 SECTION 24 PAGES 25' Offer Alternative To Shores $1.5 Million Road Program SHAW MKMA NfWS SERVICE The Board of Local Improvements for McHenry Shores offered the protesting residents a cheaper alter­ native to the $1.5 million road im­ provement program for which hearings had gone into a third session April 2 David Grimes indicated that another h e a r i n g w o u l d b e h e l d A p r i l 2 3 , 7 p m so that affected property owners could testify on the downgraded proposal (now $680,000) After listening to predominantly opposing testimony against the original road program and examining two petitions against the special assessment proposal presented by attorney for the objectors. William Cowlin, the Board of Local Im provements suddenly presented an amended program that narrowed street surfaces to 20 - feet and excluded all streets north of the creek except Hilltop. George Heck, vice-president of Baxter and Woodman engineering firm, quoted costs from revised •i' in " Musin' and Meanderin' As we await election returns, it seems timely to enlarge upon some of the problems that have beset our com­ munity in recent days, some of which we continue to face. Certainly the men and women we put in office don't solve all of our problems. But the large field of candidates in the various municipalities in our reading area indicates an awareness that big problems do, indeed, exist Some problems will be untouched by the outcome, one of them tran­ sportation and the sad financial con­ dition of the RTA But that's an ongoing problem that our community chose not to be a part of and has little opportunity to solve on its own Last Friday's story airing friction at McHenry hospital was not the kind of news any newspaper enjoys printing But it is news made by people, and that's what the written media is all about. Likewise, the Marian shake-up story was not something to make us feel good. But the facts that made the story again came about because of the ac­ tions of people and therefore made their way into print. Here ate two important institutions in our midst, leaders in serving health and educational needs, and it is to the bttttfit of everyone that their operation runs as smoothly as possible. Neither of these problems will be (Continued on page 22) estimates with which he was prepared and indicated that instead of $37.50 per front foot the new cost would be $25 28 and assessable footage reduced to 26.980 All five members of the Board of I^cal Improvements who were present voted "yes" on a motion made by Trustee Wayne Warren to amend the special assessment road improvement program to the most cost effective way or to abandon the project. President Grimes then questioned engineer Heck about the least cost effective streets listed in the program, which in some cases were bounded on only one side by village property owners. It was determined that eliminating these roads would strongly reduce the total costs ' In addition, as Grimes explained, many of the residents north of the creek claimed they already had satisfactory roads and those were eliminated. Grimes said the other factor which residents were objecting to was the high cost, and with their downgrading of the proposal the cost would be reduced. Grimes also advised the group assembled for the hearing that after April 28 (following the election) the present board people may or may not be here, but it is the responsibility of the new board to say aye or nay. And it is the duty of the Board of Local Im­ provements to present the proposal, he continued. The amended proposal was greeted by some skepticism by several audience members A lady who did not identify herself said it seemed like a "bargaining point". Robert Gorniak. who had tqptified earlier that if he wanted roads and a sewer he could have bought a house in McHenry for $4,000 more, accused the board, "You're leading us through the same thing (about the continued assessment hearing). Three people wanted it and all the others said no < in the testimony)". Another resident who was still in­ cluded in the reduced proposal was angry that others were eliminated "Everybody pays or nobody pays", he insisted. At the conclusion of the hearing on the original proposal which he said was fairly handled, Cowlin summarized calmly the testimony of his clients who opposed the special assessment proposal It indicated that many residents opposed it because: it was not necessary; costs were greater than the benefits; real estate tax bills would increase from 30 to 75 percent; the excessive 20 percent bond sale cushion because economic conditions were such that it was not in the best interest to sell bonds He continued to cite the proposed public benefit as small in comparison with the size of the proposal and was of doubtful propriety; residents would pick up costs on village owned lots; (Continued on page 22) SHAW MEDIA NCWS SERVICE Violence in what the Sheriff's police called "mob action" erupted at the Sun Electric corporation plant on Route 176 Monday morning as about 12 Sheriff's police and nine state police squads responded to the scene Members of the I'nited Auto Workers union are on strike at the plant According to Lt Matt Schalz, of the Sheriff's police, between 75 and 90 people were "harassing" employees as they went to work Schalz com­ mented. "It appears the picketers brought in outside help." The lieutenant said the group was walking around in a "mob formation" and would not let cars enter the plant parking area Rocks and can openers were used to damage a number of vehicles Ten people were arrested for charges ranging from disorderly conduct to battery and criminal damage to property The reported offenders were Kenneth I) Klug. 34. of 405 N'orthlake road. McHenry. charged with criminal damage to property mob action, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct Jerry L Wilcox. 39. of nil Silbur\ court. McHenry. charged with batter> resisting arrest, mob aetion and disorderly conduct John Rice. 47. of 6539 Minerva. Chicago, charged with criminal damage to property mob action, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct Gregory F Meusling. 30. of 612 Oak street. Woodstock, charged with bat tery. resisting arrest, mob action and disorderly conduct Mario Acosta. 24. of HKW Glen road Waukegan. charged with criminal damage to property mob action and disorderly conduct Disorderly conduct and mob action charges face Leonard A irtel 38, of 2417 20th avenue Broadview David O Bunting 29. of 728 Bernice drive. Lake Villa. Gail E Schmeer 29 of K.39 Washington street. Woodstock Melba C Stacy. 31. of 1002 N Austin dak Park, and Catherine I. Goodwin. <3. of 4007 Riverside drive, Crvstal Lake Family Rights-HSA-KLM In Hassle SHAW MKMA NCWS SMVICI A charge of obstruction leveled at the board of Health Systems Agency for Kane. Lake and McHenry counties ( HSA-KLM) has been denied by agency director. Richard Janishewski The charge was made by Family Rights Coalition (FRO director. Donna Whitfield, who said the HSA KLM board deliberately blocked the election of members sympathetic to the FRC The FRC has also filed suit in the 19th Judicial Circuit court challenging action taken at an HSA KLM annual meeting to elect new members The suit is pending before Judge Roland Herrmann The FRC, Ms Whitfield said, is a group that opposes an agency plan to introduce information on con­ traception. abortion and sterilization to teenagers in the three-county area The op agency director said the matters mentioned by Ms Whitfield were considered and later abandoned b> the HSA-KLM due to community position Janishewski said there are only three references to those matters in the of ficial HSA-KLM plan The plan notes the high incidence of unplanned pregnancies and sets the goal of (Continued on page 22/ Heavy Damage In Storm SHAW MfOtA NEWS SERVICE High winds last weekend were responsible for at least five damaged automobiles and the inconvenience of no cable television, no electricity and no telephone service for residents throughout the county. Five cars parked on the lot of Mit­ chell Buick, at 903 Front street. McHenry. were damaged when a small metal building at Althoff Industries came apart and blew over a fence in the high winds recorded last Friday. The damage to the automobiles was estimated at $15,000. The incident was reported a few minutes before midnight last Friday night. According to Barry Valentine, ad­ ministrative aide at McHenry County Emergency Services and Disaster agency, the highest recorded wind was 83 mph and occurred at 11:57 pm Friday night The winds averaged about 50 mph. Valentine said. Cable television service for ap­ proximately 8.000 customers of Lakes Cablevision was interrupted due to downed Commonwealth Edison lines, according to Michael Fugatt, vice- president of the cable television company. Fugatt said service to all customers, between Round Lake and Woodstock, was interrupted for about 11 hours The company vice-president also noted that falling trees damaged some distribution lines and high winds did minor damage to a dish antenna at the McHenry headquarters Ron Russell, district manager of Commonwealth Edison, said electrical service to about 9,000 customers was halted for about 21 hours because of downed wires. The hardest hit areas throughout the county included McCullom Lake, Sunnyside. Algonquin. South Barrington and Barrington Hills. Russell said The manager said crews worked from about 11 p.m Friday to 8 p.m. Saturday to restore service. At Illinois Bell. District Manager Stan Jozwiak said 85 telephone lines were reported down in the county during the weekend storm. Crews were out on Saturday and Sunday to restore telephone service One Accident Victim Dies Member* of the McHenry Area Rescue squad work to remove two people who were injured in a one-car accident laat Thursday evening on Route 120. James J. Carrano, 57, of Wonder Lake, died Sunday morning as a result of injuries sustained in the accident. Company I of the Fire department, McHenry and Sheriffs police, and TEK ambulance all responded to the scene. STAFF PHOTO-WAYNE GAYLORD A Wonder Lake man died Sunday in McHenry hospital as a result of injuries received in a one-car traffic accident atop Sherman hill on Route 120 last Thursday evening James J. Carrano, 57. of 2615 E Chestnut. Wonder Lake, was taken to the hospital bv the McHenrv Area Rescue squad after the car he was drivihg went off Route 120, striking a culvert and tree According to the police report, Carrano reportedly said he swerved to avoid an oncoming car which crossed the center line. A passenger in the vehicle, Norbert Wonder Lake, was released from the hospital Sunday The accident occurred at 6:59 pm April 2 Anthony R Baldwin, of 7616 Asbury. Spring Grove, was ticketed for driving while intoxicated and failure to reduce Medic Alert Week Tag For Easter Seal Flight To Entertainment Annual Member Drive McHenry Rotary Project Marian Fund Raiser Page 24 Page 5 Page 10