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' VMM ef lataraat taken frop llf I ' jam «f the McHanrj Platadaalar £ ' T4 y em ago. 1 1 .V Ttvtjr TMTI Ago p Most unexpected death occnr- ^p'i':ired at North Crystal Lake last * jSunday afternoon when John il L-;- ler, one of the most prominent nd beat known' residents of ^ - Johnsbnrg. passed away. * Lr" I The marriage of Miss Hoi en 'Raymond of VcHo to Charles Ed- ;win Kapple of GrayslaKe took . -place at-Lake Bluff. ; , Jay Doherty, P. J. Claary, J". E. 5%'^.' "Covalt and R. I. Overton are owners of new aotos. Mr. Doherty t$ ,: drives a five-passenger Ford. Mr. |jc-, Cleary a five-passenger Overland. fij 4" Mr. Covalt an Overland roadster jJfi * and Mr. Overton a seven-passen- $$£**••9* Overland touring car, which "t\~* "he will use in his llverjr." • •pd :*'> Art Alexander of Hebron has ^"accepted the position of bookkeeper at the Borden milk plant ' here. "Princess Chrysanthemum," a Japanese operetta in three acts, will be presented by the girls of the McHenry public school at the Central Opera House on Saturday evening, June 3. The cast of char- •' acters include Mary Burke, Laura Stoffel, Theresa Knox, Laura Barbian, Corabel McOmber, Marguerite Granger, Ella Mollohan, Esther Stoffel, Bdyth Petesch, El- - sie Wolff and Katie Buch in addition to spritM, fairies and chorus girls. Twenty-Five Tears Afro The old time fiddlers from the surrounding towns are sending in their names for the contest to take place at (he Empire theatre, starting June IS. Alderman Peter W. Frett of the second ward succeeded on Tuesday of this week in getting the ~-- Toad running over the Spencer Mil on the Crystal Lake road scraped and put in first class condition. Rev. Fr. William A. O'Rourke a-1-' -gave the most impressive of Baccalaureate addresses to the 1926 graduating class of the McHenry Community high school May 30. Mlta Adele Heimer, daughter of vMr. and Mrs. Henry Heimer, will be united in marriage to Mr. An-I drew J. Butler on June 1. One of the most modern sales rooms a*d garages in this section oi tl»e country will be opened by James Morrow & Son of Waukegan, who will handle Dodge Brothers cans and the Graham Brothers trucks. Ah6£her tihangfe Of ownership among McHenry's badness houses takes place on June 1 when the W. E. Howell St Co. battery station on Pearl street is taken over by a new organization, although the name will remain the same. Harvey E. Nye is preaidwt of the new firm. . The street Oarnlval, which was advertised to take place in Oentervflle last Saturday night, was postponed «me -week, one trouble being with the lighting system and the other i M? rainfall during the earl} hours of th« night MANY BENEFICIARY CHANGES NEGLECTED. SAYS WILLIAM GREEN William Green, service officer for the Illinois Veterans Commission. informs ns that many veterans of 'World War II have reflected to ehanjre the beneficiaries of their government insurance since their discharge from service. The marital status of most veterans has changed since that date and in many instances there are wivef and children that will receive no benefits from the insurance unless the veteran changes his beneficiaries while he is living. * The selection of a. mode of payment is another privilege that has been neglected by many veterans. Where no selection of optional settlement has been made by the veteran the insurance will be paid on a monthly basis of 240 months to the designated beneficiary. v '1 On Angnst 1. 1946, the insurance regulations were changed to permit veterans to name beneficiaries other than those prescribed by the World War II insurance act and also to elect *feny one of foor modes of payment including lump sum settlement. Mr. Green states he. has the necessary forms to assist the veteran in making the change of ttneficiaries and optional settlement and will be glad to assist any veteran desiring this service. Veterans may also call at the Illinois Veterans Commission office, located at 109% Benton street, Woodstock, any. week day between the hours of^5:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.,--Saturday from 8:30 p.m. to noon or Phone 1406. CROP REPORT Illinois oats have germinated well and are getting off to a good start, according to the weekly crop report of the state and federal departments of agriculture. Winter wheat and pastures are showing satisfactory growth. Corn planting is making rapid progress and a start has been made on soybean sowing. EXHIBIT DISCONTINUED Discontinuance of the educational exhibit program which has been a feature of Illinois county fai^S since 1948 has been announced by the state Division op Department Reports. The three mobile units and the exhibits they carried have required extensive , repairs each season. Cancellation (of the program will mean a saving of more than $60,000 during 4 the next two years, the . division estimated. ^ rjiRM * __ By W. H. Tammv '"V Wi OIL SUPPLY Increased activity during April in .Illinois oil field drilling operations resulted in the discovery of two pools, an extension to one of the new pools, and three pays in pools, according to the monthly report of the State Geological survey. Of the 137 wells completed, 43 were wildcats. Daily average production was 159,000 barrels, with estimated total production for April 4,766,000 barrels. Two protestors were seeing a third off at the railroad station. During the wait for the train they became completely engrossed in the topic of inflation. One of them said that when he started working he hoped some day to receive the salary he is now starving on. . The train came in--people got off--othefs got on, unnoticed by the three learned'-gentlemen. As the last car passed the station all three came to and dashed after it.. Two got on but not the third. As he sat on the edge of the platform, the local mail cart man said, "Too bad you di&n't. make it. I'm sorry td see you separated from your friends " "Yes." he said, "And they came down to see me off." So it is in life. Often the wrong man mafkes the train. Perhaps this happened on a train headed for Washington, D. C., a couple of years ago. " Last week I spent one evening and all the next day in Chicago as a guest of the Union Stock Yards co., The Chicago Producers Commission company and Swift and company tb learn something about how the new meat ceilings work. Tours of the Stock Yards were conducted by Roland Penney of Marengo, public relations man for the Stock Yards company. The Lord's name waB mentioned so often I noticed. To many of the questions we asked, .their answers were "The Lord only knows." The way the thing works, I think, is clear to me now but .whether I can put It on paper that way you will only know. First there are, no ceilings on live cattle. Jt will still be possible for a packer to pay 50te 60 or more cents per, pound for cattle. That is because he can average out his purchases over his accounting peciod, and if he paid well under "compliance" for some he could pay over for others. Accounting periods are old established custonfs with packers it seems and consists of a four-week period, a four-week period then a fiveweek period and two more fourweek periods, etc., to make fiftytwo weeks in a year. To take prime beef, for instance, he can sell it at a ceiling price of 57 cents per pound dressed at an average dressing percentage of 62 per cent. By multiplying 62 pounds times 57 cents you get $35.34, which would be the price for 100 pounds, live weight. Of course, he has to get his cost of buying, killing, processing, etc., out of it so he would lose money by paying $35.34. He can up to $35;34 and be in compliance, however. If the cattle dressed 65 percent he could pay $37.05 less his costs. He could pay $40 if he wanted to for live cattle, which would be over "compliance" so long as he bought some under "compliance" at other times in his accounting period. Lower grades, of course, have lower wholesale dressed meat ceilings and lower allowed dressing percentages. Buyers, they tell me, will not miss the average dressing percentage on their purchases for a week by over one-half of 1 percent. Grading is going to be the big place for bad business. At best, grading is subject to human error or difference in opion. The government is hiring many inexperienced men tb grade meat. Herein will be the place where the consumer will get hurt. It is expected much upgrading will be done on a bribe or other basis. This looks' to me like a legal black market will develop. The bad part is that a steer that is prime grade cant be upgraded so the owner of sucH an animal will be hurt. Packers can buy and process 110 percent, of the amount they did in the like period a year'ago. It was pointed out that fhe next roll-back step will be in Angnst. This will be a double whack to the farmer because the price ordinarily goes up at that time seasonally. , Cattle and hogs both coining in very much unfinished now. This thing doesn't apply to hogs yet. Beef tb be sold ungraded must sell as commercial grade. Graders cost packer or slaughterer $3.60 per hour from time he leaves headquarters until he gets bacli plus 7 cents per mile. According to the report of Ihe crop reporting serviee of the state of Illinois, McHenry county had 44,000 acres of alfalfa hay in 1950 far more than any other county. The next high county has 36,t>00 *eres. In fact, there is more alfalfa on one farm in McHenry cou&ty chan "there is in some entire counties in southern Illinois. ' We often have one crop of hay in the barn from our alfalfa before those fellows get their hay beans planted . We have been hammering away here at S,FA, AND E pastures, A few people have been curious enough to ask what we mean by that. Are you? ^ They are in their prime right now but when will they Mart to go down hill? Peretold Air t'ower As far back as 1908, Alexander Graham Bell noted that the airplane would revolutionize warfare. "The nation that secures control of the air will untimately control the yorld," he observed fe «ne of his writings. The McHenry Legion Auxiliary, No. '4S1, met with members of the Post on May 21, at the Legion home, to honor the memory of Elizabeth Rogers and Eleanor Kinsala. Early in the evening, Gold Star mothers were received at a pot-luck supper. , School children of McHenry contributed to Poppy Day; they have been making posters and from among them Bob McKay's effort was selected for entry in the $500 state scholarship contest. Mary Ann Wiedrlch sang "Faith of Our Fathers" beside a blossomclad symbol for a memory of the dead. Mary Ann BQlger played the piano accompaniment. In the course of the business meeting, it was announced that a rifle squad Auxiliary has been organized and will participate in parades, carrying flags. Minnie Green was endorsed for district chaplain. Henrietta Vycital, Jeannette Vance, Christine Krlnn, Minnie Green and Pearl Pietsch will represent the local unit at the district convention. Delia Freund, Julia Hecht, Dorothy Miller, Lee Bassi and Stephanie Waynne will be alternates. Henrietta Vycital, Jeannette Vance, Pearl Nersted and Christine Krinn will attend the department convention and Lillian Miller, Minnie Green, Julia Hecht and Clara Seeber will be alternates. A nominating committee was chosen and will meet at the home of Stephanie Waynne on May 29. The committee is composed of Agnes Buch, Delia Freund, Ercell Lock, Marylin Lively and Stephanie Waynne. The next meeting of the Auxiliary will be held on June 18. Thermal Kxpaaaiaa ABvys Alloys containing 42% nickel and having the same thermal expansion as glass serve for lead-in wires, in sealed beam headlights, television tubes and similar applications. Is .a machine which photographs the Bow erf blood through the human circulatory system. Called a "seriagraph", It is actually an X-ray machine, which takes pictures as rapidly as every half-second although it can be set for lower speeds. The seriagraph is m6st valuable to the brain surgeon. It can be used for other parts of the blood system, but is especially valuable for locating brain tumors, cerebral hemorraghes, atrophies, and other kinds of pathological deteriorations. Principal parts of the apparatus are the rotating anode tube, which projects the x-ray, and a Fairfield aerial camera, which records the pictures on a roll of film. A patient brought in for observa* tlon of a suspected brain tumor Is placed on a table, under anesthetic, with his head immobilized between the tube and the camera. A radioopaque substance, either a thorium or an iodine dye, is injected into the artery in the neck with a syringe. During the six seconds it takes fbr the dye to travel through the arteries, capillaries and veins of the brain, and out again, the camera makes its pictures. If there is a tumor, the pictures will show where the flow of dye was blocked. Adlai E. Stevenson, in his Memorial Day proclamation, declared that the observance of the day is. a privilege full of significance. "Memorial Day (May 30) has a secure place in the hearts of patriotic Americans," the governor's proclamation said. "This occasion, honoring all the dead who served in our nation's armed forces,> is hallowed by Wyoming in February rspealed its. laws prohibiting the sad* of yellow margarine. This leaves onf 13 states still banning the yellow spread. Ceasplete line of Beebe livestock remedies at Wattles Dray 8t#tt» * ( Henry. «f '• Cieealag Teye' Choosing the most worthwhile toys and play materials for children is as much of a practical art as planning a balanced diet for them - CANVAS GOODS SELECTION OF MATERIALS orTder earl# .Specialising in Store efcd Residence Awnings McHMtY AWNM6 CO. 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