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m § ews Summary of J6HTS OF PAST TWELVE IIHS IN McHENRY COMMUNITY AllED IN REVIEW OF YEAR GENERAL NEW S -- 1957 . • • • • - J a n u a r y . - One of the first announcements ling trip to the vault in the Mc- | Henry bank after a three-hour ! signing Session of bonds for the ! new. addition to the high school. the-new year was the prospect | Two new combination pump- er activity in the city in con- !anci tanker trucks were purchased affection with the April election of : for the McHenry. Township Fire Office-holders. The terms of the Protection district, bringing the /or, city clerk and treasurer tpired and there were rumors iat several had set their sights at „ early date. ; V *n»e Girl Scouts became part of , Sybaquay council, a larger unit '/^stibracing Scouting; . 'i Newly elected board members pf the Chamber of Commerce >lvere James Latkin, Otto Heinz; jr., Dan Creamer and G. J. Brentan. The March of Dimes got off to • li lively start under the chairman- . .jihip of Paul R. Yanda. Leading Republicans attended the inauguration of Gov. William Stratton in Springfield. Jan. 24 was an important day for Post 491 of the American Legion, when State Commander Harold Cummins visited a county council meeting in McHenry. The first day for filing for city positions brought out a number of new names, with indication of several contests in the spring election. The assessed value <of county positions brought out a number of new names, with indication of severalcontes ts in the spring election. The assessed value of county property increased $13,533,130, McHenry running second again in 1956, with $34,887,060. Kiwanis clubs held a joint installation ceremony. February ' Gilbert Mercure was named to "Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities." " Local stores held Dollar Days Feb. 8 and 9, which attracted huge crowds. - Another anniversary of scouting was observed in McHenry with a father-son banquet at , wHich Eagle Scout James Kirk acted as master of ceremonies. " The Clarence Regners of Pi- -stakee Bay won their long fight for re-zoning when the circuit court decision was reversed by the . state supreme court. ^ Bonds for the erection of a new 3iigh school addition were sold to the Northern Trust company of Chicago at an average interest rate of 3.43. Races were indicated for township posts in the spring election, including supervisors, assessors and town clerks. Cars, service stations, homes and lodges were targets for a series of. burglaries throughout the county. , The Future Fprmers received .congratulations during National JF.F.A. Week, when the activities of the local boys were brought to ;the attention of the public. Heart Sunday was observed Feb. 24 with a house to house canvass of the community. March • David Knox, a senior in the local to^gh school, was named runnerup in the 1957 merit scholarship 'competition. f The Lance Parks family, include ing seven children from 4 to 14, .were left homeless after an oil 'burner explosion resulted in the floss of the West Shore Beach foome on Feb. 25: J McHenry area churches planned for Lenten services beginning with 'Ash Wednesday March 6. Sue Stinespring of McHenry ^represented 25,000 youths from Mel Hudecek, a resident of Lakela^ Park, joined the Plaindealer sJtaff in the capacity of advertising manager, replacing Jack Buckie, who resigned to follow a different line of work. * The Alexander Lumber company held open house April 25. 26 ahd 27, celebrating the opening of its new building material store. \ Flames of unknown origin levelled, the large, 120 ft. barn on the Arthur Hoppe farm, located just south pf Rt. 120 on a blacktop road southwest of McHenry. The loss is- estimated at more than $50,000. Six cows and six calves as well as a registered Holstein bull, Were burned to death. Edwin Reid of McCullom Lake was elected commaander of the American Legion. Lauretta Homo was elected president of the auxiliary. -Mark Zimmerman was named 1957 state winner of the Illinois F.F.A. Foundation award in farm and home electrification. Willis Schreiner, service station ^Operator, suffered a head injury in\n armed robbery June 15. The lone bandit took about forty dollars in cash After striking Mr. Schreiner over thp head with a gun. One of the most tragic days experienced in McHenry in many years occurred June 20 when total equipment to seven pieces The Parratore home in Lakemoor was the scene^pf this area's o . first feast of thanksgiving to St. 1 er at Marticke and Nixon, Inc., at "n tw° seParate auto accidents. JoseDh. DreDared in traditional 1311 Film ctrppt A. P. Freund and Andrew Wor- Burglars took $86 from a draw-1 !hre.e Prominent men were killed | m two separate auto accidents. Joseph, prepared j311 Elm street. , . Italian custom. I A committee of men from the i ^!ck^ere a ki2^ *n a collision^ at The appellate court upheld the Fox river valley was most grati- J 5: 8 j Greenwood-Alden deecciissiioonn ooff aa cciirrccuuiitt jjuuddggee iinn ddeennyy--11 ffiieedd wiitthh tthhee rreessuullttss ooff --tthheeiirr ttrriipp f| blacktop road, and. William aMvjelwek*-- ing the petition of Wauconda j to Springfield to seek assistance er wa^ killed whe^ri his^ car . went school petitioners who sought to j from Gov. William G. Stratton on i• control on Rt. 120, . just have their territory annexed to obtaining locks for dams in the ' ° • *Ye Plst®kee Bay-Johnsthe McHenry high school district, valley. The governor showed a j u_r T g ,ac„°,P' ^ , As the result of the G.O.P. 19th very sincere interest in the project i ,, . c<^"Ple^ judicial convention held March and indicated that an appropria- ! ^ . s cr leader Publ,c 23 in Waukegan. William M. Car-! tion would be made this year. i company. roll of Woodstock and Bernard ; James Pearson, son of Mr. and ! s JS, at ^W^lm' M. Decker and Sidney H. Block ! Mrs. Clarence Pearson of Ring- StU*° &t Elm Street ., of Waukegan were nominated for j wood, a senior in the Ideal high ! T11 afvin Martin of Nashville, the three circuit judge posts, j school, was awarded first place in I "' ^as .na"led the new high Their names will appear on the | the state for his poster on teacher ! , principal, replacing Carl June 3 election ballot in the new , recruitment, submitted at the anr j Buckner, who has been named circuit. j nual convention of the Future j assistant superintendent. The sale of Christmas seals this Teachers association. * Jane, 2 M> -year-old daughter of year netted the McHenry County j ^ May • Mr. and Mrs. John H. Miller of Tuberculosis association $15,608. o • , _ i Church street, was painfully, but McHenry county farmers Sjr n™ 'n* S™' **"1 ^ be hosts to the ctate pvent I j u -,J. * . was struck by a car. "Fai-merama 5T whkh inclmie? b""d'"g- E"'Eisenhower. After a 1<x) of twcnt inc the 1957 ™ate plowing malchS i °Ur FrCS,dent' CUt the | and one-haif years of service in and Soil Conservation day. ij Ti hnee aannnnuuaall KKiiwwaanniiss mm^erriitt 'public ^ealth nursing, Mrs. Jo- anne Rulien has resigned as^chool Taxpayers will have to pay the rarn ninnpr wac hoM at Cf ' largest tax bill in countv history, $6,832,989.76. This is $704,386.69 higher than last year. award dinner was held at St. Patrick's church hall, when thir teen outstanding girls and boys nurse. Art and Lee's tavern and rest-t . , . , ' aaMurAadniict aanimd tuhice aaudjjuoiiinililniug h11oUmII1eC oUf1 . - from seven schools in this district thp nWT,pr<, Mr nnH Mp_ Apt McHenry Savings and Loan as-, were honored for scholastic j Henschel were broken into bv sociation moved to their new and standing and accomplishment. - ' very modern structure at 206 W. Elm street. April Chuck Weingart was named chairman of the 1957 cancer drive in McHenry township again this year. Joan,Tooyan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George B. Tonyan of Tuscon, Ariz., former McHenry residents, became a novice in the Order of St. Joseph in a very impressive ceremony which took place in the chapel at St. Mary's on the Mount, near Los Angeles, Calif. City Council clears way for appropriations leading to new city code, and plan building rule revisions. Eight members of the McHenry post office staff were presented safe driving awards for professional safe driving performance, which gives them a 100 per cent record for safe driving. Friday, April 5, marked the grand opening of the Ben Franklin store- on Green street. Richard R. Marshall became the new justice of the peace for McHenry township and George E. Gutzman the new constable as the result of the annual spring election. Sibre Whiting, Arnold J. Rauen, Charles M. Adams and Gerald Elbersen, all incumbents, were re-elected. For the post of constable, Frank C. Meyer, Elmer R. Murphy, Fred A." Marks and Sigurd Jacobsen were re-elected. Township assessors and deputies in rural townships began iliary Mrs. Edward Buss, Sr., of Mc- Henry's St. Clara's Court No. 659 was elected to the office of president for the next two years at the third annual conference of the Woman's Catholic Order of Foresters of the Rockford diocese. Miss Sara Kay Douglas, 17-yearold daughter of Mrs. Velma Douglas, has been selected to represent the American Legion auxiliary of McHenry as their candidate for the "Girl Good Citizen Award" in the state. Miller Monument company, established Jor almost a century, "moved into its newly constructed building at 105 E. Elm street. It is operated by John H. Miller and Fred Meyer. McHenry's high school orchestra and two choruses, a boys' group and a girls' organization, received second place, "excellent" ratings state competition in De- Kalb. Members of the Chamber of Commerce discuss plans for a park district. Patricia Blake, daughter of the Albert Blakes, was selected by the American Legion auxiliary as a delegate to attend Girl State. A nine-mile link in toll highway was started in county. A site of five acres in the addition to Edgebrook Heights was purchased for a new Episcopal church for St. Paul's parish. A check in the amount of $38,- 455 was presented to the Memorial Hospital for McHenry County by members of the hospital auxtheir twentieth annual enumeration of farm land, crops and livestock in connection with their assessment of personal property. For the first time, the Plaindealer office planned to remain open on election night to give final voting returns to those interested in the results: • The woman's auxiliary to th£ McHenry ^hospital opened a new gift shop at 105 S. Green street. It is to be known as the Pink Lady shop. ithis area, all members of the The Eastern sale tag dUiaiyy wwiilnl Methodist You«.h Fellowship, in j be held'in McHenry on Saturday, attending the UN Washington L April 13. Seminar late in February. j DUe -to limited funds in postal 7 McHenry was placed in a new department, curtailment in servjudicial district which includes , ice will be restricted to eight and •Lake and McHenry counties, sep-j one-half hours during the busiarated by the new division from ness days, with the office closed pjBoone and Winnebago. ] to the public on Saturdays and 1; ; The Easter seal drive opened in I Sundays. All city and rural dey tithe county. j liveries will be discontinued Sat- / Races were disclosed for city j urdays. Effective April 29, sale j/' " posts in Lakemoor and McCullom • of money orders will be discons'/ Lake. j tinued. Mrs. Herbert E. Rose of Sun-J George P. Freund was re-elect- ""nyside Beach was named county l ed mayor for his third term, with assistant H°me adviser. I a total of 788 votes out of 1,237 i School District 15- residents | ballots cast in the three wards, were informed that on April 13 j Others elected with him were they would vote on a prpposal tq j Earl Walsh, city clerk; Thomas . raise the education rate limit of ! F. Bolger, treasurer; Edward t the district from .75 per cent to j Thennes, William Bolger. Theo- .96 per cent The long time transportation problem in the community became more acute when the North Western railway put new stopovers on the early morning commuter schedule. Hundreds were confirmed in three McHenry area churches dore Pitzen and Warren Holly as alderman and Donald Howard, police magistrate. Joseph R. Levesque was elected president of the village of McCullom Lake by a narrow margin Plans were being completed for the second annual firmen's dance to be held at the firehouse. International Order of Job's Daughters were making plans to organize a local chapter in McHenry. The. City Council entered into an agreement with the Duncan Meter company for the installation of approximately sixty-four parking meters on Elm street from Riverside Drive to Richmond road. A total of 123 Seniors graduated from McHenry • Commnity high school, June 7. Voters in fifty-five precincts voted for five candidates seeking office in the nineteenth judicial circuit. Members of the F.F.A. rejoiced over winning the gold emblem award, placing them in the top ten chapters out of more than 350 in Illinois. Billy Joe Smith, 25, Wauconda, became the county's ninth traffic fatality. Jane Kenneth Kames, 29, of Rt. 3, Woodstock, and his wife, Marion, 26, parents of two small children, were drowned in the Fox River June 5, when the boat in which they were riding capped. Alison Kilgore, 9, drowned in Wonder Lake Memorial Day. McHenry high school held .commencement exercises June 7 for more than IgO seniors. In the 97 ' p, „ , „ ' - I ppaarroocchniiaali scnhooils, including SStt. Iwafs re-elected as village presi' Maty* St. Patrick's and St dent of Lakemoor and Paul Weber Twelve committeemen^ •w alked j nwas ret-ele cted pre/"s•> ide_•n t at S__ pr_ ing^ v. . out of the G.O.P. central com ! mittee meeting at which a com- • mittee was named to select delegates ;to the judicial convention. , The walk-out resulted from -a ' protest over procedure. A million and a quarter dollars in bonds made a late, eveh- Grove. Leonard Gugi was named president of Sunnyside. Vale Adams and Francis Wirtz became new members of the high school board of District 156 after 1,134 votes were cast. In District 15, Dr. H. S. Fike and Naomi Meyer were re-elected. John's 119 boys and girls received their eighth grade diplomas on Sunday, June 9. A record 108 pupils received their diplomas from the Junicr high school. The coveted Legion awards were won by Sara Kay Douglas, daughter of Mrs. Velma Douglas, and Mark Zimmerman, son of the .Walter Zimmermans, members of the senior class. i burglars and $730 in money and three cameras were taken. Tommy Wickman, 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Wickman, Wonder Lake, was killed when he fell from a cultivator. The first Girl Scout day camp was held at the Maurice Granger! farm west of McHenry. About 192 girls from the surrounding territory took part. "Operation Alert" was held from July 12 to 14. , Plans were announced for two new churches to be built in thjis community. Ground was broken for the St. Paul's Episcopal, church, to be built in Edgebrook; Height's subdivision. A parish, fund campaign was inaugurated1 July 14 in Christ the King parish of Wonder Lake for the erection of a new church, four school classrooms and a parish administration building. , Johnsburg school district voted approval of- an increase in the tax rate from .504 per cent to .714 per cent of the equalized assessed value of all property in the district. Friends and relatives congratulated Mrs. Minnie Block on her ninety-seventh birthday, July 17. Burns suffered in an explosion at his Lilymoor home resulted in the death, July 21, of Frederick Morris, 23. He leaves his wife and two small children. Two new businesses were preparing for their grand openings. McHenry Gift Enterprises, located on Main street, and Schramm's Toys, 301 W. Elm street extended invitations to the public to inspect their stores. The badly decomposed body of John Distler, 77, was found in his home west of the North Western railroad tracks. Authorities believe he had been dead as long as two weeks. August Miss Jeanette Freund, a pretty, blonde young lady of 17, was selected Miss McHenry at a contest conducted by the Veterans of Foreign. Wars and auxiliary unit. Runner-up was Jeanne Marion of Wonder Lake. The half century old barn on the Vern Thelen property in Pistakee Highlands was completely destroyed by fire on July 25. Almost at the same hour the McHenry Welding Service, located on Rt. 120, was gutted by fire. McHenry was deluged with rain amounting to about two and a half inches. A circuit court returned a verdict of $14,500 as a just settlement in the condemnation suit brought by the county board of school trustees on behalf of the McHenry school board, No. 1156, concerning property owned by Dorr Anderson, et al. Sports Editor Earl R. Walsh was named citizen "of the year by the V.F.W. at their annual carnival. Karen Schmelzer was named 4-H queen for McHenry county. Miss Beth Smith, Wonder Lake girl, was crowned queen of the county fair. The first Coanty Art Fair was held at the New Junior high school building for the benefit of the McHenry hospital A tragic auto accident near Madison, Wis., took the life of a 3-year-old boy from McHenry Monday, Aug. 12. He was Bruce Meyer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Maynard Meyer of McHenry Shores, just south of McHenry. $150,000 locks will be constructed at McHenry 'dam. Contracts will be awarded and construction work started during the 1958 season. Dollar Days were held in McHenry Aug. 16 and 17. A special election will be held in the city of 'McHenry on Oct. 10, tp fill the aldermanic vacancy in the second ward. Electric power in this area was off a little more than an hour Tuesday, Aug. 20, as the result of a crane in use .at Algonquin striking a high tension wire, which burned. , j Stephen . Klein celebrated// his ninetieth birthday, Aug. 24Jr McHenry had its first successful fishing rodeo for the youngsters on Aug. 28, even though rainy skies prevailed, September Hundreds were attracted to Eastwood Manor to see the city's first rodeo, sponsored by the Rotary club. City school enrollment topped 3,000 for the first time. There were 830 recorded in the high school, 340 in . Junior high, 1,100 in Edgebrook and kindergarten, 600 in St. Mary's and 320 in St. Patrick's. Eighty-five boys and girls showed their disregard for a driving rain by attending the first fishing rodeo held in this city. It was sponsored by the local police department. Crystal Lake emerged winner in the annual fireman's water fights held in the city. Arnold Rauen is the new commodore of the Pistakee Yacht club. The annual budget was approved by the county board. The appropriation ordinance totals $1,418,154.65, which is $100,000 more than last year. The tax levy is $35,809 less than the previous year. Forty-nine graduates of 1957 were preparing to enter various colleges and universities in different parts of the country. Rural delivery service from the Wonder Lake post office was established for two routes to serve the Wonder Lake area. The entire community was saddened by the death of Edward P. Walker, 14, of Wonder Lake. The youth suffered an injury in football practice a week previous and a congenital cpndition added to its seriousness. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Walker, Sr., and had just, started his sophomore year at the local high school. City phone service was severely curtailed by a strike of installation employees against the Western Electric company. $^18,000 will be the goal of a campaign beginning in October for the addition to the McHenry hospital. Open house was held at the new junior high school building. Members of Zion Lutheran church witnessed the ground breaking ceremony for their new church to be built west of McHenry on Rt.: 120. Stephen H. Freund observed his ninety-third birthday on Sept. 26. Miss Clara Miller retired after spending a period of thirty-seven years and eleven months with the Illinois Bell Telephone company at the local excange. October In a tragife accident on Rt. 173, Virginia Dawson, 15, Spring Grove, and Clarence Rudolph, 16, Richmond, were killed when the car they were riding in collided with another. In another accident near Harvard, Alonzo Heffelfinger, a former resident of McHenry, was struck by a car while walking on the highway. Gerald Hetterman, a deputy sheriff in Johnsburg, found himself the center of attention las week when he arrested the well kno>Vn and highly publicized Patrolman Jack Muller, Chicago's champion traffic ticket writer, for reckless driving. The McHenry fire department, in observance of Five Prevention week, reported they had answered seventy-eight fire calls during the past nine months. National Newspaper .week was observed. In a special election held in the city of McHenry, Robert C. Newkirk defeated Glenn D. Dixon for alderman of the second ward. The vote was 130 to 30. Damages to boats in races held on the Fox river amounted to several thousand dollars but no Injuries were recorded. The county traffic fatality toll soared to forty-five with the trag- •fc accident- which took the lives of five Chicago youths. The crash, which took place on the Johnsburg road near the Chapel Hill Country club, was described as the worst accident in many years in this community. Ardelle Oeffling, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Oeffling of Johnsburg, and Dennis^ Conway, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Conway of McHenry, were crowned king and queen of 1957 homecoming at the dance which followed the game. Colleen Ward, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Ward of McHenry, was named one of the homecoming sweethearts at Marquette university in Milwaukee. In a report from the Department of Revenue, McHenry collected $34,561.59 in sales tax for the month of August. Daylight saving time ended. November Rev. Fr. Donald L. Schuler, 29, former assistant pastor of St. Mary's Catholic church and Rev. Francis P. McNally, 51, pastor of St. Patrick's parish in Rockford, were killed in a plane crash near Lowell, Lake county, Ind., while returning from the Notre Dame-Pittsburgh football game in South Bend. The Lake county board of school trustees acted favorably on a petition of residents in the Island Lake, Holiday Hills and Griswold Lake area, allowing the territory to be detached from Wauconda's high school district 118 and annexed to McHenry high school district 156. A rocket-shaped object, red in color, of carboardrlike construction and banded with white crashed into the earth on the Ray Koerber farm south of McHenry on Route 31. Information gathered established the object as a target used for practice by the Air force. It is assumed it may have fallen from a plane flying from a nearby training base. Ray Page has been named 1958 chairman for the March of Dimes in McHenry. St. Patrick's parish completed an extensive remodelling program. The result is a beautiful new convent and an attractive, spacious addition to the parish school. Karen Schmelzer and Mark Zimmerman were 1957 winners of national honors for their work ih 4-H over a period of several years at the annual 4-H achievement night. McHenry council of K. of C. completed plans for the golden jubilee" with the presence of His Excellency Bishop Loras T. Lane officiating at a Pontificial High Mass at St. Mary's church. The McHenry State Bank mailed Christmas club checks totalling more than $125,000. Mrs. Elizabeth Ochs, 68, of Pistakee road, died of injuries sustained in an automobile accident near Palatine. Renee Ahrens, 21-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ahrens of Wonder Center, Wonder Lake, choked to death after putting a handful of elbow macaroni in her mouth. Mrs. Joanne Rulien, health nurse for this community for many years, was honored by the McHenry Community P.T.A. at the local high school. Elmer Qganso, McHenry Shores, was elected president of the McHenry County Clean Streams Committee. The tenth annual football banquet sponsored by the Kiwanis clubs featured the well known football coach. Stu Holcomb, as the guest speaker. December The first Sunday morning servive of the newly formed Presbyterian congregation was held ir. the west barn at Eastwood Manor. There are twenty-six families at the present time. One of the 1,500 outstanding 4-H members throughout the nation, Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico attending the 36th National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago this past week was Mark Zimmerman, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Zimmerman of McHenry. In his annual report, the county coroner listed McHenry with the highest number of unexpected deaths in McHenry county during the past year. Gordon Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Ryden of Rt. 4, McHenry, a senior in the McHenry high school, received word that he has been named a semifinalist in the National Merit Scholarship competition. He is listed among the 7,500 high scorers. Ernest Useman, son of the senior Ernest Usemans of Country Club subdivision, has been named first alternate to attend the U. S. Naval academy at Annapolis next summer. A former local resident, Vene Denman Cermak, became the mother of triplets, a boy and two girls, born at St. Therese hospital, Waukegan, Dec. 6. For the first ten days pf December there >was an increase of 40,550 pieces of mail cancelled at the local post office compared to the same period last year. Miss Judy Freund, pretty 20- year-old daughter of the Elmer Freunds, is seeking the title of Miss Photo Flash of 1958. Traffic lights are to be installed at the corner of Riverside Drive and Elm street. Dial telephone service was promised for McHenry within the next two years. The 1957 death toll on highways in McHenry county mounted to fifty-two with the death of Quentin Denny, 62, of Orangeville, who was killed in a two-car headon collision west of Marengo on Rt. 20. The fund drive for the addition to McHenry hospital reached $306,740.41, which is almost threefourths of the total goal of $418.- 000. Numerous Deaths Recorded In Year January January 2--Edward J. Knox, a native of Terra Cotta, died unexpectedly. January 7--William Walsh, 78, a native of this city, was found dead at his'i^ome near Harvard. January 8--Word was received of the death in' Florida of William G. Ackerson of McHenry. January 10--Joseph Michels. 60, died in his Crystal Lake home. January 11--Death claimed Mrs. Marian Engleman, 25,, of Highland Shores, Wonder Lake. January 12--Harry Putnam\T9, of Oakhurst subdivision died at the Villa Rest home. He was a retired telegrapher. January 13--Mrs. , Caroline Owens, formerly of Chicago, died at the Villa Rest home. January 16--Old timers mourned the passing of John Keg, who died while at work as elevator operator at the Conrad Hilton hotel, Chicago. January 17--William Aebischer of Oak Lawn, avformer local resident, died of a heart attack. January 21--Funeral services were held in Wauconda for Andrew Grant, former Plaindealer employee, who died in Texas at the age of 72. January 22--Benjamin T. Olsen, Sr., died in Miami Beach, Fla. A leading Chicago businessman, he had resided here for many years. February February 3--George J. Wegener, 75, a lifelong resident, died at Lakemoor after a long period of poor health. . . February 6--Death took William W. Freund, 68, who died unexpectedly. -• February 7--Dr. Edwin H. Moelmann, Chicago dentist who resided in Country club subdivision for many years, passed away. February 9--Last rites were held for Peter Olsen, 68, former McHenry barber, who died at Hines hospital. February 11--Paul R. Walter, 38, was found dead on a farm near Wauconda on which he worked. February 12--Just six years to the day that Mr. and Mrs. John R. Justen received word that their son, Cpl. Gerald W. Justen, was missing in Korea, his father passed away suddenly of a heart attack. February 13--Death took Frank Weingart, 66, after a lingering illness. ' February 14--Ringwood lost its oldest native resident with the death of Amos W. Smith, 87. February 20--Death took Asahel Stevens, 80, of Waukegan, who made McHenry his home many years ago. February 23--Clement H. Romeiser, 71, died unexpectedly in his Evanston home. He had resided at Pistakee Bay for many years. February 25--William Zacharias,' 72, formerly of Huemann's subdivision, died at the home of a friend in Chicago after a lortg illness. February 26--Charles E. Young, a printer from youth, died of injuries suffered in an auto accident He spent the summers at McCullom Lake. March March 2--Friends mourned the passing of Mrs. Christine Harrison of Pistakee. Bay, who with her husband operated Pink Harrison's Resort. ' March 3--Frank C. Sullivan, 69; formerly of Pistakee Bay, died in Oak Park. March 7--Death claimed Eric G. Peterson, a boat builder in McHenry since the 'twenties. He was 78 years old. March 9--Carol Ann, 9-monthold daughter of the Roy Erbers, died of pneumonia. , March 10--Mrs. James Wright, the former Mrs. Zion Baker of McHenry, died in Sullivan, 111. March 14--Death claimed Walter Schimmel, 74, tavern operator in McHenry for many years; also William A^. Geis, 70, a retired upholsterer who had resided for ten years in Emerald Park. March 18--Mrs. Mary Agnes Wright of Burton's Bridge, a sixty-year resident of that area, passed away. March 20--Mrs. Joseph Mileski, 37, died at Illinois Research hospital, Chicago, after a long illness. March 22--Randolph Ficken, 5 and his brother, Rodney, 3, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Ficken, were drowned in a pond near their home on Hillside road, between Crystal Lake and McHenry. Mrs. Anna Etten, Volo, died two days before her seventy-fourth birthday. March 23--Edward Kewlie, 86, former Marengo resident, died at the Villa rest home. March 24--Mrs. jGeorgie Patterson Owen, 89, widow of Charles S- Owen, a native of McHenry. died in a hospital in Highwood. Noel Montgomery^ 62, manager of Roth Shoe store, died unexpectedly. Sister Mary Celine, B.V.M., the former Agnes M. Conway, died at Mt. Carmel infirmary in Dubuque, la., after a long illness. Guy Hrovatin, 22, Richard Cretan, 21, and Patricia Romeo, 21, all ^ Waukegan, were killed in an automobile accident near ^Ringwood. March 25--Mrs. Grace Simpson McCannon, 85, Ringwood, died at her home. March 27--Mrs. Mollis. Givens, 87, lifetime resident, died at bar home after a»^bort illness. After an illness of four weeks, Mrs. Margaret O'Rourke, 68, of Lak«) moor, died at the Memorial hospital, Woodstock. March 30--Ernie A. O'Neil, 58, Wonder Lake, was killed accidentally from carbon monoxide poisoning while repairing his car. „ April April 2--Andreas- Felix/ chef at the McHenry Country club, was found dead at the Irvin Schmitt home. His death was due to A heart condition. D April 5--Harry Gannon, Lakemoor resident for eighteen years, passed away. He had been a stage electrician for 'forty years. April 7--One of the most beloved residents of Pistakee Bay for many years, Andrew Nilson died at his home, following a period of failing health. April 8--Harry Schmidt, 83, a resident of Riverside Drive, fqf eleven years, died at the Villa Rest home, after a short period of failing health. Mr. Schmidt was a retired barber. The -many friends of Mrs. Mary (Mayme) Bickler; mourned her death at the age of 68. Mrs. Bickler, who was born in McHenry, died at the hospital, after a short illness. Services were held from a Des- Plaines funeral home for Mrs. Margaret Minich Reilly, a John# burg resident. A Chicago man, Joseph Rehor, 69, was found dead in the yard of his summer home in Huemann's subdivision, by a niece, Frances Miller. Death was due to a heart ailment. April 12--Crash injuries proved fatal, to Henry Lange, 51, of Quincy, Mich. He was the husband of the former Hazel Bacon of this city. " April 14--Henry B. Anthoff died unexpectedly in his home at 409 W. Waukegan road. Mrs. Elizabeth Lindsay, 74, of Marengo, died in St. James hospital in Chicago Heights after a lingering illness. She was the mother of Harold Lindsay, a former resident, i A resident of Mineral Springs • for twelve years, Mrs. Neva Puz- 'zuti, 64, d'ed in Memorial hospital in Woodstock. April 16--Mrs. Alice Lar&en; 59, of Johnsburg, died at the McHenry hospital, following a short illness. She had been a summer resident for thirty-seven years. April 17--Mrs. Arthur Berndt of 110 John street died at Belmont hospital, Chicago. Rollo Moses, 72, died at the home of his step-son Francis Orr in Huemann's subdivision. Mrs. Kathryn Davlin, formerly of the Mined® hotel at Fox Lake died in Miami, Fla. ., April 22--Louise Weber, a resident of Lakemoor for twenty-six years, died at the age of 83. April 24--Mary E. Smith, mother of Dr. Milton Smith, died at the age of 94. April 25--Death claimed Mrs. Mary Gruber, a Lakemoor resident; Norma Hendricksen, Lm Angeles, Calif.; and two McCuP lom Lake residents, Mrs. Anna Witthoeft, 80, and A. Walter Johnson, 65. May May 1--After a short illness of acute lukemia, Jerry Jandt, 18, died at the McHenry hospital. May 2--Walter Lester Bell, former McHenry resident, died in Daytona Beach, Fla. May 3--The entire communis was shocked to hear of the untimely death of William T. Doherty, 29, in an automobile crash near Fox Lake. May 8--Benjamin L. Hutson, who, was born in McHenry, died ate his home in Woodstock. May 9--John Joseph King, a resident of Fair Oaks subdivision, died at the McHenry hospital. May 12--Francis Ray Petst 34, became the eighth traffic tality of the year when he was killed in an automobile accident near Spring Grove. May 13--After an illness of about four weeks, Mrs. Mayrpe Jackson, 64, died at the Villa Rest home. May 15--Norbert A- Hollenbach, 49, died at his home at Pistakee Bay. John J. Fuchs, father of several children in the McHer^;' area, died at his home in Humphrey, Nebr. - May 21--Donald G. Nellis, 39, father of four childreh, died in Hines hospital. Mrs. M. J. Henkins, mother of Mrs. Josie Smith, died in Youngstown, Ohio. May 22--Mrs. Emmy Malicki. 68, of Holiday Hills, died at the McHenry hospital. Hilda Cora Brink, mother of Arthur J. Brink of Riverdale subdivisi$., died at the Memorial hospital, Woodstock. May 25--Frank P. Zaleski, 62, prominent attorney from Des- Plaines, died of a heart attack at his summer home in Huemann's subdivision. May 26--Carl G. Mertins, 65, (Continued on Fbge 13)