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SECTION 2 - PAGE 8 - PLAINDEALEK - FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, Mi Steady growth seen in student enrollment Various swim classes set for kids FIFTY YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of Aug. 30, 1934) Sixty freshmen registered this week at McHenry Community High School. It is interesting to note how many students have chosen to take advantage of the advanced educational facilities offered by our community. wice Told Tales The high school has seen a steady growth during the past several years enlarging from 85 pupils when it was first organized to approximately 200 students at the present time. Comments in "Bacon's Strip" by Zeke Bacon: "Talk about a sick bunch of baseball men. Last Friday night when the scheduled circus failed to show up and the ball park was packed almost to capacity, Nick Miller and Joe Regner were about the most downhearted pair in these parts, but it wasn't anything these men could help and they came through in real fashion with their rebates on the tickets so the crowd certainly should not feel down on them." Barely escaping a frost, people in this vicinity were shivering with the cold the last of the we£k with the perspiration from the record heat hardly dry on their brows. Records fell as the mercury dropped as much as 60 degrees in some regions and snow flurries raged so furiously in Montana that a plane was grounded at Big Timber. FORTY YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of Aug. 31, 1944) For leading his formation on a successful bomb run despite the crippled condition of his ship, First Lieut. Norman E. Blomgren, 26, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis A. Blomgren of Pistakee Bay, was recently awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. He is a pilot of a B-24 Liberator heavy bomber of the 15th AAF in Italy. Sgt. Arlyn Russell Turner, 23, was reported killed in action July 22 while on active duty in Italy. Just a few days previous to this announcement the Turner family received word that Pfc. Harold Turner, 21, reported missing in Feb., 1944, is now a prisoner of the German government. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of Aug. Trooper completes training Trooper Richard A. Kinter is one of 46 recently appointed Department of Law En­ forcement Officers to graduate from the Department of Law Enforcement Academy , in Springfield: Kinter's class was the 71st since 1922. Class 71 received 16 weeks of classroom and field instructions prior to their assignment to the field. 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RIOLE SPRINGS ORCHARDS OPEN DAILY 9 to 6 36116 128th St.«Twin Lakes,Wis* 414-877-2436 ^Tak* Hwy. 173 East out o( Richmond, turn l*ft on 1st road going NorthA (Lakavlaw Road) right at 1st road going last (129th St.) sP FoliowenTM. the annual water fights in McHenry County are making plans to attend the 1969 contest which is scheduled for 1 p.m. in Carpentersville. The local team includes Ed Justen, Henry Buch, Ted Miller, Larry Brusso, Glenn Peterson and Harry Conway. Senator Everett Dirksen, Republican minority leader in the U.S. Senate, will be principal speaker at the annual steer roast at Fox River Grove frcnic Grove Sept. 20, according to "Chuck" Miller of McHenry, county Central Republican committee chairman. Announcement was made this week that the McHenry Publishing Co. which has operated and published the McHenry Plaindealer for the past 10 years, has assumed full ownership from Mrs. Gracie Mosher, who together with her husband, the late A.H. Mosher, became owners of the paper in January, 1948. Mr. Mosher had served as its editor for 23 years before becoming publisher. "The First Lifetime Aluminum Home" Open House will take place at Eastwood Manor on Aug. 29 and 30. It was advertised by Countrjrlane Home Builders. "Look for the twin white barns one mile east of McHenry on Route 120." TEN YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of Aug. 30. 1974) Mayor Joseph Stanek learned this week that the city has been approved for a grant in the amount of 75 percent of the total cost of land acquisition for Petersen Park. The property, located off McCullom Lake Road, will be annexed to the city and used as a recreational area. Mayor Stanek credits Alderman Jack Pepping for much of the preparatory work which resulted in grant approval. Many others also assisted the city in its proof of need and other requirements. City officials were especially pleased with the cooperation of Mr. Kenneth Petersen in arranging for the sale of the property. Mayor Stanek referred to him as a "good neighbor" whose chief interest in the transaction was to assure tliat his property would be used for the public benefit of future generations. A large crowd in attendance at the public information meeting held Tuesday night at the McHenry VFW hall told state officials they wanted action, not more studies, concerning problems on the Fox River and the Chain of Lakes waterways. Breaking a record or setting a record? Four McHenry youths, Brian Kennebeck, Dave Dalton, Fred Ludwig and Larry Deja played 123 games of pool in a 19 hour span. It all started at midnight Monday and ended at 7 p.m. Tuesday evening. The lads survived on pizzas and mun- ohlM A new eight-week grade school swim instruction program will start on Tuesday, Sept. 4 at the Lake Region YMCA. The class offers grade school swim in­ struction every day, Monday through Saturday. 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