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Pg« Sec. 2 - Plaindealer - Wed ..Mar., 20, 1?68 - A Distasteful Tax It is the duty of the county collector under the Illinois Constitution and the statutes to collect personal property taxes p and the recent action of the collector in Sangamon county, Dean S. Sweet, to collect such delinquent taxes was commendable. Collector Sweet doss not relish seizing personal property of a delinquent taxpayer and selling it to satisfy a tax bill, plus interest and penalty, but this is an explicit duty of his office, and he is trying his best to fulfill it. Approximately 85 percent of the taxpayers in Sangamon county pay such bills; why should the other 15 percent go free? They, too, enjoy the services of government. Personal property tax delinquency is a chronic problem that requires both preventive and curative treatment. No panacea has been found, but the method that Mr. Sweet, as well as other collectors, is using is one method in the statutes to help provide a cure. The average taxpayer has no philanthropic feelings toward his properly tax bill, but he will act favorably if he learns that a forceful and fair collection policy is pursued. Tax rate increases are often brought about because of delinquent and uncollected taxes. The county clerk attaches a warrant to the county collector's book commanding the collector to collect the sums listed in the bode. This warrant also provides that in case any person in the book neglects or refuses to pay his personal tax, the collector is required to levy against the taxpayer's personal property by distress and sale. The performance of this duty by the collector is mandatory and a resolution of the county board requesting the county collector to collect delinquent taxes is not necessary. Collectors probably don't like the tax any more than does the taxpayer who has ignored the notice and bill. But distasteful as the tax may be to administer, it is a part of the Constitution and statutes of Illinois and should be enforced. The fellow who Economy To Be Tested Many signs indicate that the American economy may be severLy tested during 1968. The expansive progress of the past seven years seems to be threatened by fear and lack of faith. It may seem improbably that the mighty American business complex could be disrupted by intangible factors such as fear. However, the threat of a recession cannot be traced to any material shortages. In America, every type of product associated with consumer well-being is plentiful. Nowhere is productive capacity being fully used. There is yet no evidence that the Vietnam War should draw from consumer trade. If a real block to progress develops, it will be a block in distribution. In a free economy, every business activity is affected by the behavior of the consumer. The local buyer of an automobile controls the production schedule of distant factories. When distribution breaks down at one point, a general halt in production and distribution results. The buying of the Texas rancher directly affects the employment of garment worker sin New York. Employment and consumption of goods in Michigan affects the Florida hotel operator. Several times since World War n, an atmosphere similar to the present has developed. But no depression, nor prolonged recession, occurred. In each case American business met the threat with a display of optimism and renewed faith. And, as in 195$, the direct attack against consumer apathy included a vigorous step-up in advertising. 9 Today a new display of faith seems to be overdue. A move has alreacty been made by some major manufacturers. But the major stimulant to consumer action will be the responsibility of local retail advertising. t P1MMJELAM TIME . . . Battery members at Rach EOen, §®u£ gather around . an artillery emplacement oufln Vietnam, as Red Cross Clubmoblle workers Robin Brown, right, Gulfport, Miss., and Eileen Conoboy of Arlington, Va., conduct a recreation program. When selecting a gift for him.... let us help] STORE for MEN 1245 N. Green St. McHenry, Illinois ^ Phone 385-0047 Open Daily 8 a.m.* to 6 p.m. -Tn. 'til 9 p.m. CLOSED ON SUNDAYS .USE THE FREE GREEN STREET PARKING AREA. I , FORTY YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of March 15, 1928) Little Joe Powers, 4 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. vid Powers, had the misfortune to break his leg while out coasting near his home. The break is a bad one between the knee and the hip. Cloice Wagner of Toledo, Ohio, arrived in McHenry totake up his new duties as operator at the Empire theatre again. Cloice was employed there a few years ago before he left for Toledo. Dick Batten, the former operator at the Empire is ieaving for the coast. Better and stronger lights are assured for residences on Main street, another wire was strung along the poles on that street. A transformer was installed at the end of the street so that more "juice" is now supplied for lights. Mrs. Mat Lay, age 67, died at her home in Spring Grove 1 ' The remains of Mrs. Scully of Fox Lake were brought here for burial at St. Patrick's cemetery, March 8. Mrs. Scully was formerly Miss Kate O*- Boyle. Mrs. Theodore Bickler, 73, years old died March 11 at the home of her son, J.C. Bickler, while seated at the dinner table. Due to the warm weather and rain the roads in this locality are getting bad and many cars are getting stuck in soft mud. The roads to Terra Cotta were nearly impassable and on Tuesday the busses did not attempt to make the trip. The men who are employed at the factory went on the train. XLLZNOE© 1APBOOK BY DON RU8SKLL AND JER^IY WARSHAW : fixp tN -fH£ Illinois coal mines had many" sm> DISASTERS-AFTER A fIRE NOVEMBER. 13 1909 THAT KILLEP ILLINOIS BECAME THE F/fZST STATE, MARCH X \9\Ot 10 PASS LEGISLATION PROVIDING FOR f/R£~F£&HTiNG ANt> STMioNS IM COAL MINING REGIONS-- EVEN SO,AS LATE AS MA£CH 25,19*7, AN EXPLOSION IN A COAL MINE AT CSUTf^AUA killed ill miners. W4 m ^,R8T ,n ®uiNCY ^ jr-- March 21, id&o '4^ LIEUTENANT governor JOHN WOOD-THE Fff&r SBfYlBSZ of QV/rtCY, BECAME 12™ 0OV- </ EKNOR OF ILLINOIS UPON THE* DEATH OP WILLIAM H. BISSELL-HE SERVEP UNTIL JANUAfcV, 1861-HE WAS LATER. COLONEL OF THE 137Tb fLUNOISIN THE C7VIL WAR. * BISSELL-THE ///2ST" ILLINOIS GOVERNOR. TO O/E IN OFFICE HAt>1 COMMANDED THE ZILLINOIS VOLUNTEERS AT &UEHA V/S7A *5 IN THE WAR WfTH MEXICO -/<3?7 Tod/rf |N I3I<9> Maple suoar WAS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT EXPORTS FROM THE ILLINOIS RIVER REGION. Iq PRODUCED BY THE ILLINOIS 8E8QUICENTENNIAL COMMISSION rg t txrm nrn'5Ty»To,no oi, Are You New In T®wn? Do You Know Someone New In Town? We would like to extend a welcome to Z every newcomer to our community. z CALL ROYAL WELCOME Ann Zeller 385-0599 Leona £siis- 385-3646 t f l a g Q n f l Q B t t f l B f l g Q g g f l g P Q P O O P B f l P O Q O e O O D O O O O O * been wonderin. by larry e. lund • • • • • Mrs. Leslie Olson was completely surprised Monday evening when the five hundred club members walked into her home to help remind her that her birthday anniversary was near (March 13). TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGO <-V»a filoa nf Mftfok 18, 1943) Dr. and Mrs. William A. Nye and little daughter arrived in McHenry Saturday from Detroit Mich., where he is stationed with the Navy as a lieutenant. Dr. Nye returned to Detroit the first of the week but Mrs. Nye and baby remained for a visit with friends and relatives here. Charles Unti and two friends from Chicago returned from a three week trip to Daytona Beach, Fla. Mr. Unti reports an average winter in Florida with highest temperature reaching about 78 degrees. Harold Taxman has been graduated from the DeKalb Normal school and is waiting a call to the midshipman's school of the Navy. He has been in the naval reserve until finishing school. Local men interested in the civilian defense set up gathered with others from throughout tihe county at the court house in Woodstock Monday evening to prepare for alert to be held March 29. Those who attended the meeting were Mayor Overton, Ben J. Dietz, in charge of the local defense unit, Chief Observer Harold Owen, Chief of Police Howard Cairns, Alderman George Freund, all of McHenry, and Fred J. Smith of Johnsburg. For twenty-eight years the Nels Pearson family have lived on a farm south of McHenry and for twenty years preceding that, the late Charles Knaack worked the soil in the same place. When two tenants occupy one farm for forty-eight years, it is certainly something out of the ordinary, as any farm owner who tries to get tenants will verify. TEN YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of March 6, 1958) Of eighteen local seniors included among 13,552 who have now completed the competitive examination for Illinois scholarships held on seventy college and university campuses throughout the state, five received wor4 this week that they are among the semi-finalists. They are Vincent Cina, Roger Benson, Andre Larson, Gordon Johnson and Girard Toussaint. Frank Sweeney of Lakeland Park entertained at the Downey Veterans hospital Feb. 20. He was taken there by the American Legion members and entertained a ward of thirty veterans. He played every old tune on his accordion that they asked to hear and they all joined in singing every tune Frank played. A Wonder Lake man, Albin 0. Voldness, was killed in an Spring has to be one of the most beautiful times of the entire year. Buds are beginning to appear on the trees, tulips (if you planted them last fall), are beginning to break through, and the grass is beginning to stare ominously at you as if to say, "It won't be long now fella, and Pll have you out here." Kites are an always popular item in the spring and especially this year. The week-ends bring hundreds of them into the air (and into the trees and phone lines) and the new models fly high and look more like gulls than kites. But Spring is not all tulips and kites. Anyone who has been married for a period of time knows of the pains of spring also. When we get married, we acquire that wonder of all creations. ... .a wife. A wife is that cute, witty, beautiful helpless thing that is supposed to bring us our slippers and paper when we get home at ni^ht. But in Spring they are no longer helpless. . . .they become cunning! It always seems to happen on one of those "spring fever" days'on which working seems to be particularly weary. We keep watching the clock looking forward to a nice quiet evening at home with the paper and a little television. Then all of a sudden it hits. You get a phone call from your wife saying she has a marvelous idea. She has started painting the trim in the living room and wants you to finish up the walls tonight!!! And your arms begin to ache immediately. Now, don't get us wrong - this has happened before. . . .many times before. But you just wish it were not again this year. WE know it won't do any good, but we remind her we just painted that room last spring. "But the color doesn't match the carjpet" (it matched last year), "The kids have gotten the walls all dirty with fingerprints" (washing them can do wonders), or "I think they need it" (you can't fight that one). So you pick up a couple more cans of paint, some brushes, rollers, etc., on the way home and you are hooked. By midnight, if you haven't taken too many smoke breaks, coffee breaks, pit stops, etc., you should be about one-fourth done with the room. Now in the meantime, while you were painting all evening she was "making dinner, doing dishes, bathing children, putting them to bed, doing some ironing, and finally going lo tovj benass 'The smo'l of that paint made me sick'." But we shouldn't despair - when that room is done, there are two or three others to do and it is all part of Spring. It all goes along with moving furniture, washing windows, fixing leaky roofs and fertilizing the lawn. Been wondering why you dr*ad Spring? Maybe these thoughts will help revive your memory. PUBLIC PULSE (The Plaindealer invites the public to use this column as an expression of their views on subjects of general interest in our community. our only request is that writers limit themselves to 300 words or less signature, full address and phone number. We ask. too, that one individual not write on the same subject more than once each month. We reserve j^ie right to delete any material which we consider libelous or in objectionable taste.) LITTERBUGS "Dear Editor: "Barreville road, and I expect other roads, too, are in somewhat of a mess -- cans, broken bottles and other debris lining both sides from Rt. 176 into the town of McHenry. "The situation as one person answered when asked how their garbage was disposed of, said, 'We kick it around 'till it disappears'. TMs cannot be the solution. My reason for this letter is to know whether there is anyone in our township or county political set-up responsible for keeping these roads cleaned up. "G.A. Clark "2506 W. Riverside Drive "McHenry" For Your Information =3 Dear friends, The Lenten Season is at hand. We are admonished again to realize that all physical things return to dust. Only the spiritual structure we build - the acts of Irlnrinpwn, of charity, of wholesome instruction of new generation - our spiritual acts alone will survive to bless us in the eons of time. In this earth lifetime, as well as the next, only true happiness comes from deeds of kindness to our fellowmen. Sincerely, McHenry, Illinois e>--JL+fldL & SON FUNERAIL HOME 385-0063 Dr.SIMS says... SAFEGUARD YOUR HEALTH A PUBLIC SERVICE OF THE ILLINOIS STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY THE BOND DEFEAT "The McHenry Plaindealer published on Wednesday, March 13 that the bond issue for school district was overwhelmingly defeated. The results of this referendum are not the least surprizing. The time is long past due for an agonizing reappraisal of the current situation because the taxpayer is simply sick and tired of being clobbered with increasing taxes. "Our elected officials and members of boards of education must stop and do some deep thinking towards reducing taxes, or at least hold the line instead of taking the easy way out by imposing additional taxes on the already overburden taxpayer. "Serious consideration must be given to the fact that the number of retired families, who survive on fixed incomes, movauto accident March 1 on a curve on route 12 south of Richmond. John C.Anderson of Ringwood received his regular army commission during mid year commissioning ceremonies at the University of Wisconsin campus recently. He was enrolled in the advance R.O.T.C. program during his college career. Because of his outstanding record he was commissioned a second lieutenant. "Three Blind Mice" is the name of the play to be presented by the senior students at the local high school. Directing the play is Miss Francis Render. THROW OUT OLD MEDICINE Make medicine cabinet cleanup an important part of household chores; it could save a life! That's because old medicine is frequently bad medicine, chemically decomposed with age and a potential poison. These outdated drugs are especially dangerous in homes where there are youngsters in the climbing state. So protect your family and yourself by cleaning out that cluttered cabinet NOW. Start by disposing of the following: 1. Old prescriptions you are not currently using. 2. Any medicine that has changed color or formed a residue at the bottom of the bottle. 3. Any tablets that crumble or show signs of disintegration. 4. All drop containers left over from treating an infection. The dropper may have touched the infection and thus become contaminated. 5. Ointments or salves that have separated, developed spots or become discolored. 6. Mild antiseptics that have become cloudy or developed a solid residue at the bottom of the bottle. 7. Aspirin tablets that give off a vinegary odor. 8. Nose drops that have become cloudy or developed a residue. 9. Eye drops or washes used for treating an illness. Some of these eye medications could develop a dangerous fungus. 10. Hydrogen peroxide that no longer bubbles vigorously. 11. Milk of magnesia that has become caked. Remember, time and medicine don't always mix! Over a long period of time, the chemiing into the area is steadily increasing. Common sense will tell us that these families will not vote themselves a tax increase. The principle in this connection can also be applied to families who have their children enrolled in schools other than public. Perhaps if the remaining families were held responsible for the cost of providing their children with an education as they are responsible for providing food, shelter, clothing and medical care, there wouldn't be a population explosion which scientists say is threatening our economy. "Yours truly, "L. Sbertoli "1020 Somerset Mall "McHenry, Illinois" cals combined in a solution -- whether it be a mild ointment or a strong antiseptic -- may go through a "breaking down" process. Once this "breaking down" process takes place, the solution usually becomes weaker. But in some cases, it can become much more powerful, and therefore, extremely harmful. So be sure those old medicines of all types have just one place to go -- DOWN THE DRAIN! DRIVER DIVISION TAKES ACTION ON LOCAL LICENSES The office of Secretary of State Paul Powell has announced the revocation of the driver license of Sigmund A. Bielawsld of Rt. 3, Harvard, Joseph R. Bjerkos of Rt. 1, Capron and Harry G. Knippen of Harvard for driving while intoxicated. Suspended were the licenses of Barbara A. Hoffman of Algonquin and Harry J. Lumsden of Marengo for three violations and Stanley M. Sopata of Cary for conviction while holding a restricted driving permit. Probationary1 permits were issued to JoAnn Bolton of 3803 W. Main street and John Van Duyn of 2406 S. Park Terrace, both McHenry, Ronald C. Etherton of Lake-in-the-Hills, George Greco of Fox River Grove and Max J. Zager of Wonder Lake. Secretary of State Paul Powell today announced the Drivers License Division of his office has rescinded the revocation of one and the suspension of one McHenry county residents. The revocation of the license of Raymond A. Hynes, 1515 North Harrison, Algonquin, was rescinded following receipt of information from the Circuit court of Woodstock that a report of guilty finding on a charge of driving while intoxicated was in error and was reduced to reckless driving. The suspension of the license of Barry A. Scahill, 307 Pyott road, Algonquin, was rescinded based upon information received which disclosed that he was not operating a motor vehicle at the time of arrest for violation of the Curfew Act. It costs the Gillette Razor company about three million dollars each year to broadcast the World Series games. firry sficmtus SI0U.1N3 13<3 -*|c Spring Opening Mar. 20,1968 Fri., Sal., Sun. Spring Dinner Dance Sat. March, 23rd tj»9*rs Sirvtdia ftCHENK? J2&. m miYftn POR MlUVAriONa 'oMMUMRD' N63M SHORE OP L0N9 IAKB "RTff? BANQU