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; ~ r • / • / # # 1 : , # Stanek's back in politics -- this time township government ISm JOSEPH STANEK By Robert Gordon Plalndealer Herald atalf writer Twelve-year McHenry Township Trustee Howard Snyder resigned from his position ana Ex-Mayor of McHenry, Joseph Stanek, took his place by appointment of the township board last Thursday evening. Snyder stepped down from his township seat due to poor health, and recommended to Township Supervisor Albert Adams and the board that Stanek fill his position. • "Albe approached me Wed­ nesday and asked me if I Was interested in serving," Stanek said Friday. "And I said, 'Well, I'll get back to you.'" D Stanek said he discussed the idea with his family and at 9:45 Thursday morning agreed to fill the trustee vacancy. At that night's regular board meeting, he was sworn in with the other newly-elected township officers and trustees. - Township Highway Com­ missioner John Regner, who later said he was unaware of the situation, voiced concern about the procedure used to fill the position. "Don't you want to give the Republican Committeemen a chance to pose nominations?" Regner asked the board. The board said it did not need to go through the the com­ mitteemen. After the meeting. Adams explained, "The board of trustees makes the ap­ pointment, period. For any reason there is a vacancy, the law says the board will ap­ point." However, after the meeting, Regner continued Xo elaborate on nis protests. w "I don't think ITS very democratic that the board just simply appoints someone they want without advertising for a vacancy," Regner said. "And let it coast for a month. Then they could receive nominations at the next meeting." "In effect, Mr. Stanek was the only one nominated because nobody knew about it," Regner added. # Stanek, who was the city's mayor from April, 1973 to April,1985, said he is ready for the challenge of becoming familiar with a new level of government. "I'm new-at it," Stanek said. "I'll do the best I can. I'll at­ tempt to learn the rules and regulations as they apply to township government. "I feel my past interaction and interrelationships with other g governmental agencies will be of benefit." Snyder, a resident of Whispering Oaks in McHenry since 1970, has a wife, one son and three grandchildren. Heis a retired sergeant of police with the Chicago Park District and Chicago Police Department. He is also a former employee of the First National Bank of Chicago and DeMet Candy Company, Chicago. HOWARD SNYDER PLAINDEALER ~HERALD S H A W I H t I P N F S S ( H A I N C . Wednesday, May 15, 1985 i r > ( I N I S Landmark in apparent violation of safety code By Robert Gordon Plalndealer Herald ataff writer Because of a peculiar dilemma concerning Landmark School, tonight's McHenry District 15 School Board meeting will be held at Parkland School instead of its usual meeting place, the district office. ) Approximately three weeksjago, the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) informed the district that the Landmark school building is in violation of state health-life-safety codes A156 and A157, and must soon comply with them. These codes state that kindergarteners and first graders cannot be located "above or below the level of exit discharge." Since Landmark is a two- story building and currently only houses kin- dergartners and first graders, some on the second floor, it now must decide what plan of action it wants to take to comply with the regulation. But this is note new rule. These grades have not been allowed above the first floor in Illinois' public schools since 1965. What is new is toe ISBE caught the violatiott and £nlightened *hg$district, which arrested tor beating McHenry man knew nothing about it. "The (Landmark) building was remodeled in 1968 or 69," said District 15 Superintendent Richard Farmer. "And before we are allowed to do that kind of remodeling, the architect has to submit the plans to the State Board of Education before construction can begin. And they did not bring it(the violation) to our attention." "Why it was not tripped up in some way at that time, I have no idea," Farmer added. Glenn Rubenking, head architect for the ISBA, said he also does not know why the violation was previously missed by state inspectors. Dr. James Ennis, a field consultant for the school organization and facility section of the ISBE, said that he and an architect spotted the safety violation while doing a demographic and facility utilization study for Landmark. Ironically, the two state inspectors were making the study to help solve the school's space problems. Asked how the previous ISBE architects could miss the violation for nearly 17 years, Ennis LANDMARK-Page 13A . Two men are being held in McHenry County Jail on $170,000 bond each following charges of armed robbery, armed violence, aggravated battery and home invasion. Thomas K. Johnson, 19, and William J. Schramer, 22, both of 1605 Berwick, Waukegan, were brought to the Woodstock jail Monday following their arrest by Waukegan Police on the McHenry County charges. According to McHenry County Sheriff Henry Nulle, the detective division has been investigating a Feb. 20 incident in McHenry, where Kelvin B. Johnson, 58, of 1012 Jasper, McHenry, was allegedly beaten V and robbed at gunpoint. The investigation led to the two men, Nulle said. A court hearing on the case is set for May 20. Bonds set for each of the suspects include $50,000 for the charged of armed robbery, $50,000 for armed violence, $50,000 for home invasion and $20,000 for aggravated battery. Lakemoor police dept. to get new quarters By Marion Olsen Plalndealer Herald News Service Volunteer labor and a $1,000 allocation from the Lakemoor the Lakemoor Village Hall. _ The volunteerism shown by local craftsmen so impressed Sgt. Christ Felde that, in a voluntary gesture of his own, he presented engraved plaques to each of the five laborers "for outstanding contributions to the police office construction project." The recipients were Norman Morrison, Tom Sch­ midt, Scott Schmidt, Charles Martin and Kent Pahlke. The two room department is located at the rear of the first floor, with the main entrance leading from the parking lot. The department was moved from the second floor village office and boardroom area to alleviate dangers in bringing offenders up the steep staircase and to provide privacy for both the police department and of­ ficials and organizations using the second floor facilities, ac­ cording to village president, Pat Iorrison. Costs of materials sre minimized by donations, alsq, she added. volunteers were not the only onfes receiving plaudits at last week's board meeting. A letter from the United Pen­ tecostal Church commended Sgt. FeWe and ^-Officer Soderquist Tor expeditious police work in returning a stolen piece of construction equipment to the church. Developer Richard Schaff also noted the turn-around in security at the Ports of Sullivan Lake RV park construction site since Lakemoor police have, been on duty. Vandalism had been a problem previously. In further commendation, President Morrison noted Felde had completed a series of educational law enforcement seminars leading to certification in three areas: Breath- Alcoholic Testing, Truck Weight Enforcement and Criminal, Traffic and Misdemeanor Review. Craig Krumweide hasn't allowed his illiteracy to keep him out of work. Hie McHenry man runs his own car detailing business out of his home, after 20 years of working for area auto dealers. Resident explains obstacles, prejudices against illiterates By Chris Juzwik Plalndealer Herald ataff writer - » Ziqwa yaw qtgeio tms fotp ulnig treiaqpa. Nonsense? You bet. How'd you like to see non­ sense every time you pick up a newspaper, or a letter, or a book, or a magazine? Meet Craig Krumweide. He's 39 years old, married with three children, and running an automobile detailing business out of his home. Like many people, he's held a variety of jobs in his lifetime, and, also like some, has been turned away in V quest for other work. Hf drives a car, owns his own home, goes to church, dines out, watches television and does other things one %ould consider to be 'nor­ mal.' "So what's so special about Craig Krumweide?" you might be asking. Unlike you, he can't read this story. Krumweide is illiterate. Don't read "stupid" or " i g n o r a n t . ' ' J u s t "illiterate." ' "I've probably been turned down 20 or 25 times for jobs," said Krumweide, "because they think I'm retarded or stupid. I've held jobs at places, and they didn't know I couldn't read. It's something I've had to hide from all my life." Many people take* for granted basic tenets of life that Krumweide finds impossible to tackle. For ILLITERATE--Page 6A Originator of Dick Tracy dies in McHenry County home By Cliff Ward and wire aervlcee Funeral services were held Tuesday for Woodstock's Chester Gould, who created the legendary Dick Tracy comic strip series in 1931 after being inspired by the gangster-filled Goul some ti Depression-era io had been ill for ie, died at his Bull Valley home Saturday at 1:30 a.m.,|said his daughter, Jean O'Connell. . The 84-year-old vc^rtoonist had * * CHESTER GOULD previously suffered a heart attack in October. Gould had once said that he decided "if the police couldn't catch the gangsters, I'd create a fellow who would." "He was very fascinated with crime and the idea of the strip came from that," said Mrs. O'Connell in a telephone in­ terview. After he retired in 1977, the comic strip was taken over by cartoonists Dick Locher and Max Collins. "He pioneered our field. We all owe him a debt of thanks," Locher said. "You could walk into his pictures and be part of his story and his strip." Locher, who said the strip appeared in almost 1,000 newspapers at its peak and is carried by more than 500 newspapers now, started working with Gould in 1959 as an illustration assistant. Born in Pawnee, Okla., on Nov. 20,1900, Gould had worked for five Chicago newspapers and had tried to sell a variety of comic-strip ideas when he created "Dick Tracy." "He wanted to come to Chicago to make a success of himself, and his goal was the Chicago Tribune," Mrs. O'Connell recalled.' In May 1931, he sent drawings of Dick Tracy to a New York publisher, but the strip wasn't published until March 22, 1932. Dick Tracy was the first strip to depart from the "funnies" approach, delighting in graphic details such as bullets passing through heads and pools of blood, much to the dismay of a Connecticut newspaper which cancelled the strip in 1956 because of its graphic portrayal of violence. Violent though it was, Dick Tracy retained his readers through the engaging stream of villians and characters that Gould created over the years, including B.O. Plenty, Pruneface, Mumbles, Flattop and Doc Hump. Gould had marked each of his villians with a tombstone on his 130-acre farm. Since 1936, Goiild had lived in Woodstock. He worked on the strip from his home for many years. ' Although dra#Hfg "Dick Tracy" kept Gould busy, he was never too busy to lend his famous character to community and charitable causes. GouhP was active for many years at Memorial Hospital for McHenry County, lending his name and art to the hospital's building drive. Dick Tracy, through Gould, also spearheaded the fight against birth defects for McHenry County's Easter Seal Society. Gould also contributed a major cartoon to Woodstock's All-America City campaign in 1964. The drawing featured Dick Tracy saying "I live here and I like it." The drawing served as the Chamber of Commerce logo for many years. "Chet's enthusiasm and creative genius was a delight to be around," said Don Peasley, a local public relations man who worked with Gould on many projects since 1947. "It was contagious and those involved in a project with him benefitted from his verve." In a 1981 interview with Peasley, Gould said drawing Dick Tracy required deter­ mination and a philosophy that "I could always do better." "How could I create those odd characters? Because I was paid «. to do a job. I wanted them to stand out in the public mind," Gould said. "I never ran out of ideas. I never had a writer." He explained that drawing the cartoon required an emotional involvement. "You have to live it," he explained. The Crime Stoppers Textbook., a staple of Gould's Sunday strip* which featured crime preven­ tion tips, was the name adopted by the national Crime Stoppers organization. Gould was to be honorary chairman of the Mid- America Crime Stoppers con­ vention to be h£fii later this month at McHenry County. College. . "He was very moved and touched by our request for his participation - in the con­ ference," Crystal Lake Police Detective Roger Sether, one of the conference's organizers, said. Gould also created Dick Tracy "originals" for many local residents and businesses. 0