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yv^ tt by EARL R. WALSH hat M Old Mgkt #nd eariy the next traffic at Green Mid decorated early nowadays. In oardsy we UMd to be shooed off to bad early on Christmas ere. Then 8aata woold come to our house, set up the tree decorate it and place the gifts around. The old boy had * lot more work in thoae day a. Fanny how a fellow could wake up so early on Christmas nomine. Wonder if all kids go trouble w« did in hanging stocking*. to «P the oar It was considered a smart trick to hang up on« of your mother's stocking*. TTiey held more. Mother's nylons of wtmldnt stand the nuts and stidq; havoc with thoae' nylons. tho he gaff. cttnAr present day Oranges, would play Our high school basketball team has lost some doee giunaa of lata and hope that Christinas vacation Will bring better hick. m throats .(bey witnessed a only tbaw«0|«t >a and apafat Hie fans are seeing some rousing unes, bat hope the tide will turn Weiss is showing the opposipretty fancy and accurate loot to to 44 aaont Fttfey niglrt. Carl |Ms* was the ' of the gga>. measurli in the ftnaL minutes and to bringing victory to bia team. Cart sank nine baskets and two free throws for the neat total of 20 points. , EUchorn's sons defense proved hard to penetrate and their rebounding was strong throughout. ' The Warriors must be credited with putting on a great effort in the dosing minutes Tin which they were able to tie the %ame bat not forge ahead. Tfeis was done with two regulars, Murphy and Lockwood, out on Souls. Murphy put too much j enthusiasm in his defensive vorltl and the officials had him out or action with five personal fouls in the third period before Mac could get him on the bench for the usual cooling off procedure. MeSenryV Junior Varsity boys farad better, winning 39 to 80 after trailing 28 to 22 at tha end of three quarters. "Hesaie" Milled and Don Peterson each scored 10 points. To Dick Peterson must go the credit for holding the team together and coming through both on defense and offense. BOX SCORE McHENRY , FG Neias 9 Lockwood « 4 W. Miller (Capt) _ 1 Murphy 1 G. Miller * Buss Hi 0 Eotkman 9 Carl tion s?'- It looked lik« Homecoming At BalgerV Drag Store Saturday night. Mary DougUs was home from school --and smtKng. Bob Adams (Tbe PiaepleV Cfcoiee) Mew in. "Baas" TOTALS Tmyan was on the job. \ And, who shoakl cams in bat that hkmry little rascal, Mercedes Stilling. ; Hoard tkit Donald Doherty was in town, but ha most have been 'in other I GOtOPS WW PAZE OF TOTALS .... -W Hanny Jones ...» Cusack H. Reed 4 ~ t 1 Score by quartern: Elkhorn 11 23 McHenry 9 21 FT ENDS $ 1 S 9 6 S 0 T> 1 9 9 0 9 10 16 FT IWb 4 4 ft 4 „ 0 I s 0 4 to li parts. Let's "Uncle hope that Santa brings Ed Smith a 900 bowling Dear "Mose" or Santa Clans: After all tha barpbur we have done about rain-soaked nata and expense items, something has really hap- Last Sanday nigbt we took in the Co-ops game at the local high school and lost* hat--a new hat! The guy who iiiiwl II up didn't wm loafe an old one in axehanga--so/we went home Mcohegiata.A There ought to be a law. . If they are going to lift bats, skip bald-headed man. ' i< . - ¥•*», GAMES FROM HARVARD FIVES HERE SUHDAT , . The Co-ops got off to a miserable start here Sunday night in their game with Harvard, bttttxranced up to win 87 to 27. Harvard led 12 to 1 at tbe first quarter when Glenn Peterson and Bill Bolger were inserted in the home lineup. The complexion of the game changed from this point and victory in the making. been an odd and ungiwabk season in college foot- Dad, outside of Army and Notre Dame, bat its greatest mystery movea in the direction ot the Rose Bowl, the Pacific Coast conference and the Big Nine. Here we have something that passes all understanding. It was perhaps a trifle foolish in the first place to think that the Big Nine would pass up the $100,000 or more it could collect from the coming Rose Bowl game and give Army its proper chance to meet the wishes of both U.C.L.A., Southern California, the entire west coast and practicallyJOO per cent of this country's football Graat toad Rice The Big In 9199,990 lovers. '• ariy laterest was This eaa be in a grant fame that Is be _ ne'iug N!m HTJ* eenunereial angle, attbaagb It Is ana a# tha Men. Bat what we aant b •mil Er« Vlr asaay years ***** in the tog to gat tha Big Nine In A Sudden Change Pacific Coast conference the dead eye and Ilia frozen hand. It has completely tha Par West Apparent* Tn ai this Christmas rush, we just- want to wish you readers and your dear ones tha best of everything. first, wo wish vou good health. From there on, if yoa are imbued with the true spirtf of Christmas, we know that your'happiwffl be assayed. COUNTY TOURNAMENT WILL BE PLATED At WOODSTOCK, DEO. 30-31 After all is said and dene McHenry County high school basketball teams are going to have a tournament. The meet is scheduled for December 80 and 81 at the Woodstock high school gymnaaiam. It was previously decided and announced that counter tournament would he discontinued this year. That didn't salt fans in the 'county and, after reconsidering, the powers that be announced thai Oa aaetwas en again. Unfortunately, Crystal Lake, the daAmdlag dasnims. entered another tournament and will not be able to play in this one. The McHenry Warriors play Harvard at 8:46 pan., Monday, Dec. SO. If they win their first game, they will play the winner of tho Woodstock- Hebron game at 8:80 Tuesday afternoon. Of course, winning that one would put the boys into the finals. The coaches have agreed that the two teams playing in the finals will bring their Frosh-Soph team to play the preliminary game on Tuesday night. , was ^ Joe Jackson collected his 12 points in the last half as the Co-ops hit stride. Peterson was a tower . of strength both on offense and defense. Bolger worked smoothly in the thin) quarter spurt. LeRoy Smith was his usual dependable self. George Jackson gave the team the old hustle and Harvard was Unable to hold the pace. Thus, what started oat to be a floperoo of a game turned out aa another notch in the Co-ops victory string. The McHenry "B" boys ran up a 16 to 2 first quarter lead and continued on to a 40 to 82 win. Miller had 14 points, Knox 10 and Art Jackson 9. Both Co-op teams won games at Harvard last Wednesday night. Joe Jackson's 8 baskets and Peterson's 18 points led the "A" squad. Art Jackson was the scoring ace in the HB" game with 19 ppooiinntts! . BOX SCORE CO-OPS -A- FG Meyers .. 2 Howard ... 0 Joe Jackson S ith 0 I George Jackson 0 Peterson S FT Foals joe jaenon LeRoy Smit Bill Bolger Jacl TOTALS HARVARD Clark .. Johnson Moede ........ Sutherland ...... Rushboldt Kennedy Conn . TOTALS FG • -. 1 6 ... * ..-1 .... t ...10 2 • S 0 .1 0 t FT 1 0 0 i 1 8 2 a l t 2 2 U Foals 4 I 5 9 S 8 8 is ty the Big Nine, awaktag auddenty to $199,900 revenue which had been ting to fouthern teams, moat of alao commercialized, had a startling change of heart. Tha Big Nine has decided to shut off this revenue from southern teams in the honest belief that such teams were using this important cash to "take care" of players, many of them ibom the'Midwest. But the mystery is this--why the Pacific Coast conference ly decide to turn ever the running af the Baaa Bawl te tha Big Nine, after so many years of backhanded action? Why sheald the strong Pacific Coast tarn yellow? Every sne whe ffsfiews faetball knows that Army shonld have been the amy passiwe sewcuan a great team, playing Its final game, keen te go--the team bath U.CJJL and Southern Califernia waated. With this chance to regain its bowl leadership, why should the Pacifc Coast conference suddenly decide to make this just another intersections 1 game, secondary once more to the Sugar Bowl as far as cla?* .and general interest go? The Major Mystery But this isn't the meat baffling point of the five-year arrangement. In the future the Pacific Coast conference will enter its Far West champion. The Bfg Nine will play its champion the first year but, if this champion repeat#* another team will be bamed. Thlsmay be the second of third Big Hint entry. It won't be a champion who: ntpeats. And later on the Big Nine wiD select the opponent to face the Pacific Coast conference champion from the Midwest or from the Eaat-or from apywhere elae. This gives the Big Nine control of the Roae Bowl game, a game tha Pacific Coast conference started and developed and placed «li top. Tha Big Nine, hostile to the Sbnth'e aystem of paying or recruiting football playera, hostile to the South'* financial benefit from bowl becomes the South's From now on the Sugar Bowl, the Cotton Bowl and the Orange Bowl will benefit coiisidirthir from thi HUM (•••••I • •• . mm II ••• . Bowl action. • , with tlia Cristy, 14f4tZ; Julia Kral- Doherty, Kinsala, 227-682; fcolbtatse^aK 210.149-668; R. Bennett, 20&-20*- 199-688: Bthel-nraand, 606; Harold "Butch" Freond, 619: ftisert, 180- 208-208-699; Leo SmiO, 241; Hester, 211-211-174-696. Find Better-Lit Roads Cut Accident Toll A pedestrian croeslng the street at night in the middle of the block has 12 times as much chance of being killed aa when he crosses at an intersection, a Connecticut traffic survey showed. In reviewing circumstances surrounding 1,874 traffic /atalities on the streets of the 10 principal Connecticut citiea the survey shewed that 79 per cent of the fatalities occurred on 13 per cent of the total street mileage of the cities. Seventy-one per cent of the fatalitiee occwrad at night ' During part of the li-year period covered by the study* atreet lighting was improved on 99 miles -of the more dangeroua stoaata. the survey indicates that traffic fatalitiee on theee re-lighted streets dropped 97 per cent. In Cleveland, a similar study was of accident figuraa on a portion of rand wham Street lighting had been lmpte%ad. A compariaon of accident ihMto for the year before and tha yeafr alter the lighted a 47 par In the rate of night same period • IS per cant incraaaa in day acclon thia eame stretch of road taKtiaaed Onigeg mf P burgh, Pa. afflicted by potton ivy il l astiah It doee not affect ev- S^en Bioae in a dtfmatttis are not . it the teat or perhaps the second time they come in contact with it. After the epidermal cells have become sensitized to this poison by several contacts, it creates in many individuals a sensitivity that results in Misters, swelling and inflammation of the skin." Usually the symptoms appear 4 to 10 days after exposure, the author states. However, the more frequently the patient had previously suffered from poison ivy poisoning the quicker the symptoms appear. "Not only will the skin react sooner in such patients, but the irritation will also be more intense, dynamic, lengthy and uncomfortable." The duration of the skin inflammation varies with the severity of the poisoning, sensitivity of the pa- ' tient, quality of treatment and the reconstructive ability of the affectad skin, according to the author. **Even a 'moderate attack may be prolonged for weeks and leave tha patient exhausted from sleepless nights, restless dqys and nervousness." Dr. Hollander saya that "some experienced medical practitknera maintain that dermatitia venenata skin inflammation cauaad bar poiaon ivy is preventable by immunisation. Extracts of the poison plant are administered either by mouth or by hypodermic Infections. At • Ji' T Starts What h UghIT - Light. la a* enstjy caused by a dlstm haiwnof THURSDAY, DECEMBER ^ ™ The Co-ops' Town teams travel to!A "y? P®1 . . Cary for a twin MO. Tbe "B" team!******** actackof takes the floor at 7:16 pan. ! lets, called photone. Theae SUNDAY, JANUARY The Crystal Lake Town teams come to McHenry to play the Co-ops at the local high school. Ball gatne will start at 7:15 p.m. WEDNESDAY.-JANUARY 1-- T^e Co-ops Journey to Woodstock to play'the Woodstock Knights of Columbus. First /game starts at 7:16 p. m. ' so srriall as to be almost beyaad |»- lief, can move in spact sHhuui laa>' ing energy. When they strike an** object and are not reflected; thisy^ are converted into heat. Thepho-r tons in blue and violet raya?: have more energy than those mak- • - ing up the red rays? s Subscribe for The PlaindeaMr -;;; f ' attributed te uae of Papers figure average losses In buying thair cattle and hogs and make allowances for such damage in their purchaae prices. Read the Waat Ads present the injection method the greataat number af adherents. m ' ^ . OaaiA Wsaasf" comb disease makaa an appearance in the poultry flode, increase the water intake of the affected birds by the uae of milk, molasses, wet mashes, or epaom saMs. Ceattervatiea Pays Actual oompariaons on 199 acre farms showed that thoae with conservation practices returned $790 a year above the non-conservation system of farming. AT BARRINGTON; 77-23 "A" CO-OPS WIN EIGHTH 1st game: St. Mary's vs. Marengo--2 pan. Monday, Disc. 80. 2nd game: Huntley vs. Richmond--8:30 pjn. Monday, Dec. 80. 3rd game: Woodstock vs. Hebron--7:16 p.m. Monday, Dec. 80. 4th gauae: Harvard vs. MeBau!)>-4s4i >m. Monday, Dec. 89. wlmows of 1 apd 2--2 pjn. Tuesday, Dae. 81. 9th game: Winners af 8 and 4- 9JO pan. INiesday, Dec. 81. Finals: Winners ef I and 9 t:16 Friday night, December 20, the j Co-ops' Town team journeyed to Harrington for the feature game on | a twin bill at the Barrington high school against the Jewel Tea Co. I Only five men from McHenry could i make the trip,' but they proved to be more than enough as they took i the lead from the starting jump and held it all through the game. Don Meyers led the attack with 29 points, ringing up 18 baakats and three fine tosses. Glenn Peterson totaled 20 points during the evening, with Don Howard close behind with IB points. George Jacksen and LeRoy Smith helped the causa along with 10 am points win by a aesee ef 77 te 28. Fish Is prepared mw* fa» the manner ef meats. It is especial^ important to chill Mb quickly after catching, treesihg it the same day aa cautfrt If and entrails, and amah araP. Trim fins and *11 If «sh ia smaB and ie to be froaan whale. Cot large Ash Into pieces ready tor cooking. Soo*etimea lean Mh are dipped in a salt solution for one minute. Uae * cup s^tto 1 gallon of water. Do not uae aalt on fat or oQy fish. Ibis treatment ia not necessary if flab have been kept cold and are cleaned and frozen aoon after catch-. Ing. T\ package, wrap tightly in cellophane paper, aeal in ceDpphnae bags, or put in heavily waxed cartons. If fish are not properly packed, they may give off flavors |e ether foods. / , to Fewer Railroad Werkera Employees of Clasa I railroads et fa Wtad Btatea, as of the middle of May, 1949, totaled 1,897,281, a decreaae of 9J9 per cant compared with the nnri sspnndlng month in 1946 and 2.99 par cent under April, 1949, according to a report just issued by tha Bureau ef Transport and Statistics of the terstate Commerce crmmiasion. A decline imder May, 1949, ia shown in tha number ef employeea for every reporting group with the exception of executives, officiala and staff assistants and transportation (ether than train, engine and yard), which show increases of 9.87 and 1.47 per cent, respectively. The percentagee of decrease are: Prafeasionsl, clerical and general, U4; maintenance of way and structures, 14.90, maintenance of equipment and stores, 8.62; transportation (yardmasters, switchtenders and hostlers), 9J7, and transportation (train and engine service) 11.99. The Biggest Thrills Thia, baa been a sporting season, now moving swiftly into ancient history, that has known more than its share of ups and downs, of dull spots and of thrills, of brilliancy and second rate effort. But, it still has given us sport thrills that will hang on in memory. A few of these in the order of their appearance ware: Aasault'a great stretch run in the Kentucky Derby, the opening shot for the Triple Crown. Two others came in the eolitary, but solid, punch that Tami Mauriello threw at Joe Louis, in the first few seconds of their meeting, end the i melodramatic melee between de- ! fending champion, Tony Zale, and I challenger. Rocky Graziano, in their I middleweight brawl, a super produc- I tion in its fashion 1 Then there eras the final game of the last world seriee where, in the clsataK two innings of the seventh contest, the Cardinals and the Red Sax, with sttm Harry Brecheen called en for the third stand, put cn a ahow that came near tearing (he human pulse out by the roots. The two Baal thrills belonged to the laat two football games I ssw: The Pennsylvania Cornell contest and tha Army-Navy fine In each cone the underdog, given ftroan 86 to 89 points the worst ef It, battered mm! beaten, ban far back to steal the bird te fty Unless ha h ha kept far /protection of eggs, no rooater should live the frying stage. Roostera have m egg production. .^ceer TesttaffH' • The firat co# tasting aaaodatlan in New York (now called dairy U! SCHENLEY •mm 88.99 6th HOLIDAY WINES , NATIONALLY ADVERTISE?) 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