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i PAGE 10 - PLAINDEALER - WEDNESDAY, MAY 3.1978 Twice Told Tales FIFTY YEARS AGO * (Taken from the files of May 3, 1928) The annual meeting of the city council was held at the city hall Monday, April 30, with thirty or more spectators present to listen to the proceedings. Several important questions and much discussion drew the meeting out until^ nearly midnight. Mat M ' Niesen was recommended by Mayor Frett and on a full vote of the aldermen present was appointed to read and repair water meters, inspect and make water taps, inspect sewer taps and to have entire charge of this end of the waterworks department at a salary of $50 a month. Attorney H.L. Cowlin of Crystal Lake was appointed city attorney for the ensuing year with a salary of $200 a year. William Bickler was appointed fire chief for the year and Jack Walsh was appointed city marshal. John Malch is to be retained as street cleaner at a salary of $80 a month. The mushroom lights at the intersections of the principal streets of McHenry have been taken out and the holes nicely filled with cement, much to the satisfaction of motorists in our busy city. The mushrooms never did work out to good advantage the way they were installed in the streets and proved to be a greater in­ convenience than a benefit to traffic. FORTY YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of April 28, 1938) McHenry has the lowest total tax rate of any of the five cities in the county, according to the figures released by County Treasurer Lester Edinger as the 1937 tax bills are being distributed throughout the county. McHenry's rate is $4.14, a drop of 10 cents from last year. Harvard has the highest rate of any of the five cities, with a total rate of $4.98 for 1937, or an increase of three cents over last year. Striking students of the Crystal Lake high school who walked out of classrooms Thursday, April 14, in protest against dismissal of Glen Winteringer, science in­ structor, returned to their classes Wednesday, April 20. Although the strike had ended and the matter called closed there was a meeting of the school board Thursday, April 21, at which time further con­ sideration of the strikers' complaints were heard. At one time in the strike some 200 pupils refused to attend classes. There has been plenty of publicity given the matter in Chicago and nearby newspapers. The striking students seem to enjoy the publicity and a chance to get their pictures on the front pages of the papers. However, the feeling in general throughout the city of Crystal Lake was not so good over the whole matter. Many believe the matter could have been avoided had there been just a little more diplomacy used. TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of May 7. 1953) One McHenry vocal soloist and an instrumental ensemble took top honors among 125 schools in state competition last weekend at Clinton, 111. The soloist is Jennifer Houda, who was declared state winner for the second consecutive year. As a senior she has entered competition for M.C.H.S. for the last time. The ensemble winner was the woodwind trio," composed of Patsy Goranson, Adele Schmitt and Dorothy Hiller. They were the only blue ribbon winners among five trios entered. As in the past several years the City Council will again sponsor Clean-Up Week, starting May 10, in the interest of both public health and making the city as attractive as possible. For those who do not have a means of disposing of rubbish, the city truck will pick up such items next Thursday and Friday. The McHenry Post No. 491 of the American Legion will again sponsor a Junior Legion Baseball team. The local post has sponsored a team for many years in this nation-wide program. A large percentage of the present major league players played Junior Legion baseball during their high school days. Enthusiasm is running high this week as a new 16 inch softball league is being organized in the McHenry area. There will be a limit of eight teams in the league. TEN YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of May 8, 1968) M L. Schoenholtz, educator in the McHenry school system for thirty-seven years before his retirement, has been named to the first 1967-68 volume of "Who's Who In American Educators" general education edition. The book is made up of persons recommended for inclusion after a study of their background and experience. The office of County Clerk Vernon Kays has released the 1937 tax rates, based on $100 assessed valuation, listed for cities and villages, including school districts in the various townships. In McHenry, the rate in McHenry township was 4.316 in 1967 compared to 4.516 the previous year. Youth apprehended in con­ nection with local thefts were placed on probation by Judge William Carroll in Circuit court this past week. Martin Spak of Elk Grove Village who pleaded guilty to theft over $150 in December of 1967 received a three year probation period with the usual terms. He was charged with taking musical instruments from Shay's Music World, Green street, on April 9 of 1967. Donald Stefan of Cicero was also placed on probation for the same length of time. He had pleaded guilty to theft of $19 from an attendant at Clark's Service station, Elm street, June 30 of last year. Coordinator Attends Instruction Seminar Raymond Hirsch, the Emergency Services Coor­ dinator of Sunny side, attended an Advanced Coordinators Seminar in Urbana, 111., on April 21 through April 23. The Advanced Coordinators seminar is designed to give instruction to the coordinator, or his designee, in the following areas: Hazardous Materials, Emergency Public In­ formation, Role of 111., Nat'l Guard in Time of Natural Disaster, Damage Assessment of a Disaster, Weather, Fiscal, Civil Air Patrol, State Planning for All-Risk Crises (SPARC). The Advanced Seminar is a state-sponsored program where many phases of civil preparedness affecting the local Emergency Services Coordinator are covered. In­ structors at this seminar are members of the Illinois Emergency Services and Disaster Agency, plus the Champaign Fire Chief, a representative from DCPA's Region Four Office, a Colonel from the 111., National Guard, a National Weather Service spokesman. The results of the seminar should lead to more effective coordination of all involved governmental and non­ governmental agencies in times of disaster, for the benefit of the people in the local community. Editor's Quote Book No man was ever so deceived by another, as by himself. Lord Greville No Charge To Our Savers... V [HENRY • i SAVINGS l | iiu iiMflanai McHenry Savings AND LOAN ASSOCIATION ' 1209 N. GrnnSt. McHenry 385-3000 10520 Main St. Richmond 678-2061 Cloverleaf's Second Alternate To '78 Fair xsxxxxxxxxxxxx%xxxxx "For Better for Worse?" is the skit that will represent McHenry county at the State fair Share-The-Fun festival. The Community Builders 4-H club, with the direction of Marge Ahrens, Woodstock, a junior leader in the club, made up and directed their own act, which was a take-off on marriage. First alternate to the State fair is the Hebron Helping Hands entry "Dis-Co- Nnection" and second alternate is "Daybreak Boggie Band­ stand on Tour" by the Lincoln Cloverleafs, McHenry. An honorable mention was given to the Greenwood Handi- Helpers entry entitled "Playmate". . , Cindy Nichols, Heborn, was selected as mistress of ceremonies to attend the State fair. First and second alter­ nates in the mistress of ceremonies division are Shelly Von Bruenchenhein and Judy Vyduna, both of McHenry. This Week's Migrant >!;Y^ WOOD THRUSH By Vernon Kleen Drawing by Aura Duke (This Week's Migrant" Series prepared and sponsored by The Illinois Audubon society) If you are fortunate enough to live near a woods, especially one that has been kept in its natural condition, most spring mornings you will awaken to the beautiful dawn chorus of singing birds. Suddenly, one April morning, a new songster will have chimed in with its clear, flute-like melody producing one of the most beautiful songs ever heard. That song belongs to the Wood Thrush. On searching out the singing bird, you may not locate it readily because of the ven- triloquial quality of its voice. However, when the bird is found, it will probably be sitting conspicuously in the open mid­ way up a tree. Wood Thrushes prefer moist bottomland woods near streams where un­ derbrush is abundant; however, they also frequent parks and well-vegetated suburban yards. The Wood Thrush is one of seven thrushes that regularly occur in Illinois; it is nearly the same size as the best known and most common thrush, the American Robin. The Wood Thrush is the largest of the five spot-breasted thrushes and is the only one that nests com­ monly in appropriate habitat throughout the state. Males and females look exactly alike and can be distinguished from the four other species by their larger size, brownish back and tail with contrasting rusty head and neck, and by the numerous, large, blackish spots scattered over their whitish breasts. The spots of the other species are either much smaller or in­ distinct. As with many song birds, the Wood Thrush is rather shy and migrates during the cover of darkness. Individual birds often return to the same breeding locality occupied in past years and the males establish territories which they defend from all other male Wood Thrushes. These thrushes normally return to Illinois in mid or late April - males arriving a few days ahead of the females. Once pair-bonds are established and the courtships completed, nest-building and egg-laying follows. A typical nest is constructed of mud and dry leaves and is placed in a crotch about 10 feet above ground. Some nests have been found strattling branches and others built as high as 50 feet above ground. Eggs, usually three or four, are bluish green and are quite similar to those of the robin. After nearly two weeks of incubation-by just the female-the young thrushes hatch; both adults take turns feeding the young for the 12-13 days they remain in the nest. Wood Thrushes occasionally have a second brood after the first has successfully fledged. Food consists primarily of insects but includes some fruit and berries, especially pokeberries. Economically, the Wood Thrush has proven to be a highly desirable bird by-its devouring of many injurious insects and only a few beneficial ones. Cats and humans seem to be its only real enemies. As long as large tracts of undisturbed bottomland woods remain, Wood Thrushes will continue to add music and beauty to the Illinois landscape every spring. (Special announcement, contact the Illinois Audubon society concerning details about the statewide spring bird count scheduled for Saturday, May 6.) Next Week: Rose-breasted Grosbeak. HOMEOWNERS NEED CONCRETE? Mr. Businessman... SAVE MONEY ON YOUR NEW BUILDING! CHECK WITH ... 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Hight doesn't advocate let­ ting every garden go to the bugs. But he is concerned about over-use of pesticides by home gardeners and by commercial farmers. "We try to teach a pest management program. We try to encourage the use of methods other than pesticides to control insect populations and put them at a level which is not economically harmful,"' Hight explains. The course is very different from those taught several years ago when students first learned to identify the pest and then learned the best way to kill it. Now the students learn to use pesiticides judiciously, both for the environmental benefits and because the over-use of chemicals in recent years has made the pests almost im­ possible to deal with, Hight said. "When DDT was first used to kill flies in cities it took two years before a strain of flies involved which was immune to the spray. When that happened another insecticide was used, and then another; each time the weakest insects were eliminated. Now there are strains of 'super flies' that can withstand strengths of DDT that are hazardous even to humans. There are flies that are immune to 60 different types of insecticides. Each time a new way to kill them was introduced a stronger bug developed," said Hight. "All we can do now is try to limit the use of chemicals and maybe get the bugs back down to where nature can handle them. No matter what we do, Mother Nature still has the best plan," Hight says. Students who sign up for Hight's class, which is part of the college Agriculture program, are everything from home gardeners to agriculture management students. The course also covers information which is applicable to students involved in greenhouse work, in nurseries, or in pre-forest studies. "Also, a farmer can sometimes lose a small per­ centage of his crop to pests more economically than he can eliminate the insects. But nurseries and greenhouses can't afford to lose even one plant to pests," Hight said Students in the MCC class learn to identify the insects and their life cycles. They learn about physical controls like removing bugs by hand or DIAL A/~^ PfiAYEI rotating crops. The students also learn about beneficial insects like praying maintises and ladybugs which can be brought in to eliminate pests. Hight also covers the use of bacterial sprays which are selective in which bugs they eliminate instead of pesticides which often kill the beneficial insects as well as the bad ones. And there is information available on the current pesticides to use when necessary. "All we really want is for people to step back and take a look at the problem. We're not advocating the non- .use of pesticides, we are ad­ vocating that they be used only when necessary and with care. Moreover, we want our students to know more than one way to deal with a pest because a single type of control may not work," he said. Hight said home gardeners often cause themselves more problems than they solve when they strive to have a bugless garden. By eliminating all the insects they end up driving away the predators that would otherwise control the insects. "For example, there is one caterpillar variety that traditionally 80 percent of the larvae are parasitized by wasps. If you kill the larvae, the wasps also die and when the caterpillars return there will be no natural control to keep them in check "The idea is you have got to leave a pest residue in a field or garden To eliminate all pests is to destroy the ecosystem of the area. And it's a known fact that the pest always comes back before the predators. Now you have the problem that you can't afford to wait a year for the predators to return and the amounts of chemicals needed to cope with the exploding populations of pests are enough to affect the crops used for food," Hight said. Area residents who want to know more about pests and their control can register now for Hight's Introduction to Entomology course which begins June 6 and lasts for eight weeks. The course is for three credits and meets from 6:15 to 10:15 p.m Tuesdays and Thursdays in the Applied Science building at the college. For telephone registration or information on the course one may telephone the college at 455-3700. Government Reorganization Two bills to complete Gov. Thompson's reorganization of four state agencies and their functions has been introduced in the Illinois Senate. One of the proposals, sponsored by Sen. Bradly Glass of Northfield, would merge the Illinois Educational Facilities Authority with the Illinois Health Facilities Authority. The merger is aimed at streamlining two agencies which do th£ same thing-sell revenue bonds. Also introduced was legislation to merge the Department of Business and Economic Development's Energy Division with the In­ stitute for Environmental Quality. Sponsoring that merger was Sen. John Nimrod of Glenview. 385-1234 THE Furniture Hospital CRYSTAL LAKE UPHOLSTERY SHOP 3 REPAIRING A REGLUING Lorry 6 Jim Seymour 815/459-OAM No long delay. Saturday Service Available. Any amount from 1 yard up. Call Accu-Cr«t«, Inc. 338-4718 District Nurses Will Hear Dr. Joan Cummings Dr. Joan Cummings, of the V.A. hospital, Hines, has been rescheduled to speak at the monthly dinner meeting of the 16th district Illinois Nurses' association Monday, May 8. Her topic is "Drug Interaction in the Elderly". The dinner will begin at 6:30 p.m., and is being held at the Green Brier restaurant, 630 S. Green Bay road, Waukegan. Elgtfftolrof officers for 1978- 1979 will take place im­ mediately after dinner, followed by the program at 8 p.m. and the business meeting. All members must present a current membership card to vote. Non-members may attend this dinner meeting and-or program for a fee. All dinner reservations must be received by May 5 with Mrs. Virginia Nedelka, 2926 21st Street, North Chicago, 111. 60064. Extend Signup Period For Grain-Wheat Program McHenry county farmers wishing to participate in the Feed Grain and-or Wheat programs will have an ad­ ditional two weeks to sign up, Jim Lucas, an official of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation service, an­ nounced. Lucas said that Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland was extending the signup period for the programs from May 1 through May 15 because of changes announced March 29 in the programs. On that date, Secretary Bergland authorized additional diversion of cropland under the Feed Grain program and permitted Wheat program participants to graze out their wheat or harvest hay on a percentage of their planted acreage The U.S. Department of Agriculture will issue weekly reports each Tuesday until the signup is completed. Slow Moving Vehicles Hazard For Motorists The advent of spring brings a different hazard to the motoring public, the slow moving vehicle. Farmers moving machinery from field to field and highway crews operating road building and maintenance equipment travel at speeds far less than cars and trucks. To help reduce this hazard, motorists should be alert for the SMV (Slow Moving Vehicle) emblem The SMV is required on all farm tractors and implements of husbandry, special mobile equipment and, yes. even animal drawn vehicles when used on any public road in Illinois. According to Captain Mur phy, District 2 commander, the emblem, composed of a fluorescent yellow-orange triangle, with a dark red reflective border, is to be mounted with the point up, and must be from 4 to 12 feet above the road surface "Our troopers have found the Emblem on mailbox posts, fence gates and as driveway markers " Murphy said. Because such use tends to defeat the purpose of the SMV emblem, the Illinois General Assembly passed legislation in 1969 prohibiting its display upon fixed objects The district commander also warns operators not to place any fai»h in the SMV emblem for protection from careless drivers. /'Operators should be alert to traffic and be ready to pull onto the shoulder to avoid conflict with fast-moving traffic." Murphy said SUBSCRIBE To The McHenry Plaindealer And Save $8.80 Over Newstand Price f -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- j FILL OUT AND MAIL OR BRING TO: McHENRY PLAINDEALER j 3812 W. Elm St.. 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