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^PSfeirsday, November 3d 1961 THE McHENRY PLAINDEALEB Pag* Fifteen Twice Told Tales FIFTY YEARS AGO Taken from the Files of Nov. 30, 1911 •Last Saturday was a Red Letter Day for forty farmers of viciitfty who were escorted to ^he Riverside Hotel by Mr. William Stoffel and visiting agents representing the International Harvester com p a n y, where a dinner was served. Later the farmers went to the Stoffel implement house, where their horses were hitched to - manure spreaders they had purchased, and a novel parade of forty spreaders took place though the village. The local council of the Knights of Columbus is busy with rehearsals for a big home talent show "Ths Irish Justice", to be given at the Central opera house On Saturday and Sunday evenings, Dec. 9 and 10. It has come to our notice that hunters and trespassers h&ve taken the liberty of tearinguup the floor of the arbor in^'oodland cemetery in their search lor rabbits, and that cows and horses have been allowed to enter the city of the dead. Only a few years ago a new floor was laid in the arbor ancTj today it is a total wreck. The cows and horses have also done damage and the trustees have come to the conclusion that every effort will be made tcyJiave the guilty ones punished] to the full extent of the law, A very pretty winter >verldiny. took place at St. Mary's Catholic church at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning when Miss Kathryn Mary Fi-cund and Mr. John Pfannenstill were joined in the holy bonds of matrimony by Rev. A. Royer, pastor. A number of married, as well asf)3Cal folks, arc planning an Old Folks' dance to be held at Stoffel's hall Dec. 7, With inu; sic by Schaffer's orchestra. The program will include reels and quadrills as well as popul-ir dances of the day. Tickets, 50 cents. The basket social at the Osteijd school house Saturday evening was a big success. Two bus loads of young people from thfif village were present and the evening passed in an enjoyable manner. Alford Pouse acted in the capacity of auctioneer and did the job in a professional manner. The evening's 'receipts amounted to $41 and much credit is due Miss Lillian Pouse, teacher, for the success of the affair. FORTY YEARS AGO _ Taken from the Files of Nov. 24, tf«l Charles I,. Newman, known to„the fistic fans as "Ding", who has boxed at Camp Grant, is challenging Jimmy Stevens at Elgin in a six-round bout to l)e staged in the Watch city on thQ night of Thursday, Dec. 1. The local battler has had considerable experience in the fistic, game and his many friends he«e are pulling for him to win Tfrffhiday night. Alderman John R. Knox and AI Krause entertained a company. of friends at a smoker at the McHenry Pleasure club last Thursday evening, in honor of their birthday anniversaries. Practical front corsets in pink and white to fit any form. Sizes carried in stock up to 36 ?5.00 and $6.00. M. J. Walsh. Heaths the past week included Mrs. William Cossman, who died at the family home, west of town, on Nov. 16, at the age of 64, and Mrs. Mary Compton. whose death occurred at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. Kirwan, in Volo on the same day at the age of 87 years. From the public school notes comes the item that Mabol COUNTY SALES OF SAVINGS BONDS TOTAL $88,352 McHenry county sales of series E and H United States savings bonds in the month of October were $88,352, according to Harold J. Bacon of Crystal Lake, general county chairman of the Savings Bonds committee. Illinois sales were up 5.0 per cent, with a total of $28,690 - 104, according to Arnold J. Rauen, state director of the U. S. Savings Bonds division. In the first ten months of this year, 84.0 per cent of the state's annual quota of $374,- 800,000, has been attained. Illinois sales for the month represent 7.7 per cent of national sales which were $370,000,000. Conway came to school ? ionday morning with a smile from ear to ear. She is so glad to have another brother. From Ostend comes the news that Marjory May is ihe name of the young miss that came to make her home with Mr. and Mrs. Mark Hutson en Nov. 13. She just finishes up the set of girls and they can now play pussy wants a corner. A new pleasure club has lieen formed on the west side. Officers are Earl Gorman, president; Alfred Richardson, secretary; and John Knox, treasurer. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS A (JO Taken from the Files of Nov. 19, 1986 Elaine Heimer, young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Heimer, proved to be the best guesser in the Plain d e a 1 e r pumpkin contest, which closed Saturday afternoon. After the pumpkin was cut by the committee, consisting of Mayor Peter Doherty and Ben Brefeld, it was found to contain 724 seeds. Elaine's guess was 725 and she thereby won a big turkey for their Thanksgiving dinner. A double fiftieth wedding anniversary Mass for""4 Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Niesen and Mr. and Mrs. Nick Freund will be celebrated at St. Mary's church at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning, Nov. 25. George Stenger of Waukegan, a former McHenry boy, returned to the scenes of his boyhood this week as manager of the. local A & P store on Green street, taking the place of A. G. Matthews, former manager. George has b?en with the A & P company four years and has been manager of one of their Waukegan stores fnr two and a half years. A kidnaping scare, probably augmented by the recent cruel abduction and murder in Chicago, last week, has prevailed in McHenry the past week. Several local children reported being accosted by a man in a green Dodge and asked to go for a ride. The first incident occurred on Armistice morning as Walter Nickels and his little sister. Lucile, were going to school and were stopped by a man who invited them to take a ride with him, which they declined. At 11 o'clock thai day Walter saw the car downtown and notified police. Mrs. I. E. Mason, 75. a former resident of this vicinity and mother of Mrs. Clarence Draper of rural McHenry, died in a hospital in San Jose. Calif.; where she had been confined with a broken i.ip for about a month. CHRISTMAS TREE FARMS REQUIRE TIME AND LABOR A highway safety engineer in Westchester County, N. Y., surveyed the county and found 59 kinds of stop signs. Only one -- "stop" in white letters on a red background -- is legal. HOTTI MflMAtL to eliminate ro , ' units EX tional nej clogged nossojd, ®! For a cleaned hottei for every drop . . . insist upon Blue Jet or Go ill Jet. H ER OIL Producing Christmas trees is a new and growing business on Illinois farms, according to Farm Adviser Ralph Burnett, but growing Christmas trees requires much more than just sitting back and watching them grow. On the basis of several years of experience, some Illinois farmers have devolped their Christmas tree farms into sound business enterprises. But m a n y b e g i n n i n g g r o w e r s a n d others who want to start growing a Christmas tree crop dc not realize the labor anq^ costs involved or the pi-ofit they can expect. Howard Fox, resident forester at Sinnissippi Forest near Oregon, 111., has kept cost records for ten years on a pine Christmas tree rotation area there. The area consists of about thirteen acres of sandy loam soils that were farmed at one time and then abandoned to pasture before the trees were planted. Fox reports results of this work in an article in the fall 1961 issue of "Illinois Res e a r c h " . t h e n o n - t e c h n i c a l magazine of the Illinois Agricultural Experiment station. Since most pine species need about eight years to grow to good Christmas tree size, Fox divided the 13-acre tract into eight blocks. Starting in 1950, he planted one area each year. After the eighth year, all areas had been planted and the first block was ready for final harvest. After final harvest, it was replanted the following sprinu. In this fashion one area is ready for final harvest and replanting each year to sot up a continuous rotation plan. Normally trees can be harvested over the last three of four years of rotation. Four pine species -- white, red, Scotch and jack - were included in the cost study. Average per acre cost of the four species was $422.50. according to the report. Average gross income from sale of Christmas trees was $2,480 24, for a net pro!it of $2,057.74, an average of $257.22 per acre per year when cost of the land is not included. Expense and income items were calculated on the basis of 100 salable trees. An average of 138 trees was planted to produce 100 salable trees. In a continuous operation, the farmer should expect some fire, theft or insect damage. Don't be misled by the net per-acre income figures, Fox cautions. Any farmer planning to get into the Christmas tree business can assure himself of similar profits only if he handles the operation in a businesslike way and works hard to produce a superior product. Many of the north Atlantic icebergs weigh a million tons or more, and last 3 years or longer, before melting. The secrets of life and of death are each closely guarded by nature. UNDER 21 A polumn for teen-agers By Dan Halligan Dan Halligan Box 66 ^ Kalispell, Mont. DEAR DAN: I have a buddy who sticks to me like chewing gum. I don't mind this too much because we never have any arguments or fights and I think we have a perfect friendship. Now, here's the problem. I recently met a nice girl whom I've taken to several movies and social affairs. I would like to see more of her but how can I with my buddy sticking to me all the time? I don't want to hurt his feelings for fear of breaking up our friendship but I would like to be alone with this girl sometime. Can you help? -- Hopeless Case. DEAR HOPELESS: I'll bet the girl doesn't like the buddy being along either. Tell your friend a couple of days In advance of your next date that you have a date with this girl and you won't be able to pal around with him that night. If he needs a clearer explanation, you'll just have to give it to him. Once in a while you could double-date and if he's a little shy around girls, maybe you could help him ask a girl. DEAR READERS: This is the last call for your Christmas contest essays. Remember, in 200 words or less, write on the subject: 'What I Can Do to Make this World a Better Place in Which to Live this Christmas." Your entries should be mailed to me by Dec. 10 so that we'll have enough time to judge them and announce the winners prior to Christmas. Students in the seventh, eighth and ninth grades will compete against each other for the $25 cash prize in the A division and tenth, eleventh and twelfth grade pupils will compete in the B division for their $25 cash award. Write down your personal thoughts and don't worry about the fact that your entry isn't typewritten. Be sure to include your name, age, address and year in school. Okay? DEAR DAN: I keep asking my girl to marry me and she keeps telling me I'm too good for her. I've asked her to marry mt> at least a dozen times in the past year but I always get the same answer. I'm no angel and I've told her so but she still insists I'm too good for her and that I should look for another girl to marry. What am I supposed to do? -- No Angel. DEAR NO ANGEL: If you're out of high school and working, you at least should be able to discuss marriage with a girl you care for but you shouldn't continue getting the same answer of "I'm not good enough for you." I hate to say it but it looks to ine as if your girl enjoys your company but doesn't want to get as serious as you and gives you this marriage proposal answer in order not to hurt your feelings with a blunt "no." If she's not good enough for you as a wife, she should also consider not being good enough for you as your girl. 1 think you're wasting your time. DEAR DAN: My boy friend and I are of different religions and with Christmas coming up soon, we have a problem. He wants me to go to midnight Mass with him and I intend to but he won't go to our morning service with me at my church. He says he's not allowed to but I think if I can go to his church, he should be at least^ polite enough to attend mine. What do you think? -- Upset. DEAR TPSET: This isn't a matter of being polite but of church law -- your boy friend's church law. His religion says he will only worship in his church. Whether you believe that it's fair or unfair isn't as important as the fact he believes he has to follow his church law. Respect his belief and quit bugging him about this. Your problem is Just one «f the manv that can arise when people of different religions go .steady. | MATCH HUMAN ELEMENT VERSUS THE CORN PICKER The corn-picking season is here. Many operators will work with necessary caution and wiil have a successful season. Others will violate safe practice? and suffer a shocking calamity -- the loss of a limb or perhaps even death, says McHenry County Farm Adviser Ralph Burnett. Many operators lose arms and legs in a picker after almost l)eing injured on previous occasions. Apparently they thought they could always stop just short of injury. Last year more than 200 Illinois farmers disproved the theory that "it can't happen to me." They were killed or seriously injured by their own corn pickers. A modern corn picker can whisk a 10-foot stalk through its snapping rolls in one second ,or a hand before its owner can let go of the stalk. Its husking rolls Can snatch an object as thin as cigarette paper -or just as efficiently grab worn glove, a torn coat sleeve, or a ranged pants cuff. Husking rolls, snapping rolls, gathering chains, power takeoff shafts elevators, belts, gears no other farm machine combines so many potentially dangerous moving parts as the corn picker. It is true that the manufacturer, the designer, the safet\ engineer can and will help, but their combined efforts can b<- wiped out by a single careless act of the operator. The answer to this crippling menace is so simple that most of us fail to realize it: STOP THE MACHINE before you try to unclog, grease, or adjust it. Machines don't reach out and grab us we go out to them. on cleaning of RUGS - CARPETS -- FURNITURE in your home For FREE Estimates call . . . (Conrad C^arpet (Cleaners 4810 South Street McHenry, III. Phone: 385-4328 TWsa./v BE WIS£ Use The Classifieds FLOWER WEDDING LINE INVITATIONS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS 0\&Her0 ? v V ' v S*- , X. s a) \ \ l\J CIVIL DEFENSE Auxiliary Police After any natural disaster or during a national emergency, local traffic problems necessarily would be much greater than normal. In order to cope with such extraordinary traffic problems, the McHenry Civil Defense organization is training an auxiliary police force which will augment our McHenry police force • luring periods of national emergency or natural disaster. This auxiliary police force, at present, is composed of the rifle squad of American Legion Post 491. McHenry. This group ('1 twenty-four men volunteered a "body to take the auxiliary police training. Director Shay would welcome volunteers for this program from all subdivisions in the McHenry civil defense area. Training will begin Thursday. Nov. 30, at 7:30 in the Atncrican Legion home. The first course will be a standard first aid course taught by John Beckmann, Jr.. of Harvard, assisted by Ralph Ossler.of McHenry. This course will run for live weeks, each session lasting for two hours. At the completion of the first aid course, members will lie taught policing. The director of police services is Joseph Grobel. chief of police, city of McHenry. At the completion of police training, members j will be issued helmets and | other equipment necessary for j policing and will be officially | appointed to the civil defense j team of the McHenry area. | It is possible that these men will be used for official funclions, such as parades, thus I receiving actual experience in traffic control. This will be left to the discretion of Chief Gro!«.'l with the sanction of Director Shay. If you would like to vol ontnr for this vvorti.". h:!e pui gicint, send your naire ad dress and phone number to: McHcni> Civil Defense. Mr- Hem y, Illinois. Be^'in to serve .v.- self and v„n- eon.munity now!! Mr. Shay, the director, will ! be most happy to discuss this with any interested person. | His number is at the top of j this column. Please call him if I there are any questions. VA ASSISTANCE A Veterans administration representative from the Rockford VA office will be on duty I at Woodstock Tuesday. Dec. ' to inform and assist veterans, ; their dependents, and the gen- ; eral public regarding all benei fit programs of the VA. Their j representative will oe on duty | from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the U. S. post office building, second floor, in Woodstock. Traffic will be a lot safer when and if cops are as interested in catching the young speeders as the gals are. For the TASTE th CAN'T I Beat try MRS. STIWEN'S CAN! •o at THE CAMBY BOX Now that we are combined with the A(»ATHA SHOP we invite everyone to see our complete line of Christmas Cards and Gift Wrappings by . . . 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