The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

Wednesday Edition MCHENRY PLAINDEALE SERVING THE CHAIN-O - LAKES REGION SINCE 1875" Now Twice Weekly VOL. 91 - No 16 Wednesday r November 1, 1967 14. Pages - 10$ NO POKER FA CE! CITY'S RETAIL TAX GROWS McHenry Ranks Second * In County With Total Collection Of $847,166 The chips are up--no they're down. The Dean Cunat in the center doesn't care much which way they're facing as long as he has the large pile directly in front of him. Displaying various emotions, Cunat, at left, eyes his two lonely chips, while Mr. Cunat, right, also looks glumly at his The many needs of unfortunate children in the McHenry area will be assisted substantially by proceeds of the Kiwanis club card party to be held Nov. 4 at Legion homo starting at 8 o'clock. Dean Cunat, John Flint, Don Heldt and Roland Herrmann are in charge of tickets; Jim Spencer and Jim Moe, tables; Gene Adams and Bill Dumalski, prizes; Bob Roalsen, refreshments; Alan Meyer, cards; Tony Pintozzi, score cards; Ksn Wise, publicity; Dr. Leonard Pawlikowski, M.C.; and Cy Young, collector. Bridge, canasta and pinochle will be played. Card clubs, especially, are urged to bring their members to this party. There will be a prize for winning tables, as well as prizes for all who attend. Tickets may be obtained from any Kiwanis members. small winnings. The same Mr. Cunat is practicing up for the McHenry Kiwanis club benefit card party the club is sponsoring this Saturday, Nov. 4, at 8 p.m. in the Legion home. 1 (PLAINDEALER PHOTO) Schools Set December 16 • Buildi ere Town Fire Inspection Set Nov. 7 Ask Cooperation Of Merchants In Important Program Part of the requirement to lower, the state fire classification for McHenry from Town Class 7 to Town Class 6 is a town inspection. When this and the other requirements are met, the fire insurance rates in McHenry may be lowered. The Independent Insurance A - gents association of McHenry is cooperating with the McHenry Township Fire Protection district and the city of McHenry in this inspection. The agents have asked their insurance companies to provide specialists to make the inspection. Approximately eighteen company field representatives will be in McHenry on Nov. 7 to visit the stores and businesses and complete the required inspection forms. Mayor Donald Doherty, Fire Marshal Glenn Peterson and Fire Chief Ed Justen request the cooperation cf the merchants when the inspectors visit each place of business. Ml4Sm' and M eanderin' Smugly, and with care, we set our clocks back one hour last Saturday night, realizing that many would not be so fortunate in possessing our fine memory. The act was also done in pleasant anticipation of gaining an hour of sleep The last of our four clocks was the alarm at bedside, and it was at this point we had figured on using the utmost caution lest something go wrong. Come the dawn -- or so we thought--and for some unknown reason it was very dark. We reasoned that maybe it was just another dark and dismal day until the sad truth brought the realization that for some strange reason the sound of the alarm had broken the early morning silence at 5:50 instead of the planned hour of 6:50. As we sat sleepily in church at an early hour, it occurred to us that everyone else looked as though he meant to be there at that particular time. They say this is Magic Week, and we arc convinced that this very special week had somethink to do with a dilemma in which we find ourselves so often at the season of changing time. K.A.F. At a joint meeting of the McHenry boards of education for School Districts 15 and 156, held last week, members approved. the date of Saturday, Dec. 16, to hold a referendum, for several purposes. District 15 will ask an amount, not yet specified, for the purpose of building an addition to the Junior High school, erecting a new elementary building and to purchase sites for future construction. The location for the new grade school has not yet been selected. District 156 set an amount of $550,000 for the bond issue vote for the purpose of completing the new high school. Because of rising costs since the referendum was approved late last year, the board realizes that many important items cannot now be included without additional money. These include, as examples, bleachers for the gymnasium, wood flooring for the gym, curtain tracks and curtains for the auditorium, desks and landscaping. McHenry Man To Tour With Famous Choir M. Donald McCrary, Jr., McHenry, has been named a member of the Augustana choir for the 1967-68 seasbn. He was selected from among 180 Augustana college students who auditioned for places in the" eighty-member choir. Early next spring the choir, directed by Donald Morrison, will make a two-week tour through Illinois, Missouri, Ken- ( Continued orvpage 8 ) Crash Kills County Man The county recorded its thirty-first traffic fatality of the year early last Friday evening with the death of Theodore S. Ayanoglou, 56, of Crystal Lake. He died in the emergency room of McHenry hospital an hour after an accident on Virginia street, southeast of Crystal Lake. Gerald T. Boetsch of Crystal Lake, who was drivingaplatform truck and trailer, was ticketed by sheriffs deputies for unsafe equipment. He told authorities that as he drove along he felt the rear dual was going flat or coming off. He said the vehicle jacknifed and he was unable to control it. He believes the trailer struck the Ayanoglou car. A second car involved was driven by Evangeline Roesslein of Cary. A Barrington man, Robert Farman, was blamed for wrong lane usage after an accident early Saturday, south of McHenry on River road, on the curve at Mineral Springs. Theodore Katte of 415 Mineral Springs road, told deputies he was driving north on River road and saw a vehicle which appeared to be on his side of the road. Katte said he pulled off the road and had almost stopped on the shoulder when the cars collided. Farman told police he fell asleep at the wheel. An auto driven by Eugene Smola of Ottawa drive, Wonder Xake, struck a utility pole and rolled over early Sunday morning east of Wonder Lake road, at Rose street. Smola told de- ( Continued on page 8 ) Vandals Steal Sight From Girl Couple Return To Chicago In Darkness Sunday A pretty, 21-year-old young lady, completely blind without the benefit of special glasses, and her sightless husband returned to their Chicago home in complete darkness, Sunday evening because of the theft and vandalism of unknown persons in the McHenry area. The couple had been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mullen, at McCullom Lake and the four stopped for a brief visit with relatives in Lakeland Park before the commuter train was due in McHenry. When they went to their car to leave, they found the young lady's purse, containing her work glasses and snow glasses missing. Monday morning her parents recovered the purse and snow glasses at the police station, where they had been turned in by Rudy Bryant of 5006 West Shore drive, who found them on his property. The McCullom Lake couple made a foot-by-foot search through the block near the Bryant home and eventually picked up all of the missing items. The special glasses which permitted the young lady only slight vision in one eye, were damaged beyond repair. Her heartbroken parents sadly related the long fight which their daughter had waged to retain even that small amount of sight. A New York eye specialist became informed of her case, which had been deemed hopeless by others, in 1965, at which time he performed an operation and set about the task of providing her with special glasses. Through their use the young lady has been able to work as a dictaphone operator and typist in a Chicago hospital, where" her blind husband also works. The parents said that soaped car windows indicated the theft was performed by young persons. FIRE IN HOME Firemen were called to Lakemoor last weekend when neighbors noticed a fire in an abandoned home. Chief Ed Justen said he believed children started a davenport afire as they played in the building. The Plaindealer will publish the names and addresses of those servicemen in the Vietnam area which are sent to our office within the next ten days. Pictures are also welcomed. By publishing the addresses, we hope their friends will write to them during the approaching holiday season. OUTSTANDING NCO TITLE TO McHENRY MAN T/Sgt, Leroy P. Andersen of the 439th USAF hospital, son of Mrs. Selma Andersen of 3308 W. Eim street, McHenry, was selected recently as Misawa's Outstanding Non-Commissioned Officer for one quarter of the year. In a letter nominating Sgt. Andersen for the award, First Lt. Rodney K. Anzai, hospital squadron commander, lauded, the young sergeant for his duties as -NCOIC of Military and Public Health and Occupational Medicine. The sergeant teaches English conversation at a Japanese high school in his off-duty time. He is also chairman of the Hospital NCO association and a member of the NCO Advisory Sgt. Andersen conducts preventive medicine assistance visits to Wakkanai AS and is active in all squadron activities. The letter commending him read, in part: "Performs exceptional leadership ability and has demonstrated competency and creativity. He has per formed in a superior manner for the past seven months since his arrival at this station. He was personally referred to in a recent IG report as being extremely competent and skillful in his field." Sgt. Andersen was also cited for his many accomplishments within his duty section. Some of these include a food handler physical examination program for all base food handlers, an audiometric examination program for those exposed to hazardous noise levels am} others. A report from the State Department of Revenue disclosed total Retailers Occupation tax receipts of $847,166.85 in Mc- Henry for the fiscal year July, OFFICIALS OF TOWNSHIPS IN ANNUAL MEETING The annual dinner meeting of the Township Officials of McHenry County will be held at Martinetti's, Rt. 14, Crystal Lake, on Wednesday, Nov. 8, at 6:30 p.m. The topic to be discussed will be "Legislation Affecting Township and County Government this Session." There will be entertainment following the meeting. Lake Homeowners Elect Secretary At a recent meeting of the Griswold Lake Homeowners, Mrs. Joseph Schumer was elected secretary to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Jack Marinich. Much of the meeting time was spent in discussing plans for the fall dance. Other business was postponed until the regular meeting on Nov. 6. 1966 through June, 1967, collected in August of '66 through July, '67. The break-down by kinds of business revealed 187 returns which included the following collections: General merchandise, $57,378.58; food, $248,- 829.55; drinking and eating places, $35,589.50; apparel, $23,059.84; furniture, home furnishings, radio and equipment, $32,545.13; lumber, building and hardward, $76,- 569.54; automotive and filling stations, $233,650.17; miscellaneous retail and wholesale stores, $78,020.21; miscellaneous, $15,452.67; and manufacturers, $46,071.66. The M.-Henry total was second highest in the county, topping Woodstock, which collected a total of $830,977.97 but behind Crystal Lake with $1,265, 136.32. Other totals were as follows: Algonquin, $170,734.08; Cary, $174,187.21; Fox River Grove, $89,386.39; Harvard, $432,- 068,35; Hebron, $42,267„10; Huntley, $133,968.36; Island Lake, $5,643,28; Lake-in-the- Hills, $6,164.94; Lakemoor, $10,820.57; Marengo, $313,- 923.37; Richmond, $89,160,- 69; Spring Grove, $32,772. 80; Sunnyside, $7,188084; Union, $14, 973,83; Wonder Lake, $26,- 442.83. State Scholarship Semi-Finalists . ! QQDBCJ McHenry Community high school boasts a large number of semi-finalists among the Illinois students honored by the Illinois State Scholarship commission in an announcement of their ranking early this week. Front row: Janice R. Fisher, Barbara Ann Kidd, Kathleen Eternick, Diane Dimon, Carol J. Schuh, Kim Davis, Marjorie Ruth and Libby Stinespring. Second Row: Ann Alexeyuk, Laura Anderson, Cheryl Zelvis, Jennifer Kuhlman, Melody Skalla, Virginia Leinhard, Kathleen Bolger and Barbara Redetzky. Third Row: Frank Vanek, Mark Domoto, Michael Wahls, Bill LaFontaine, Leonard J. Blake, Scott Nolan, Gary Parks and David Dowell. Fourth Row: Timothy Morck, David L. Backhaus, Steven J. Kutnick, Phillip Krebs, James E. Chobot, Stephen E. Dana, Rodney Cole, Paul A. Schwegel and Francis Cuda. Susan Robertson and Valerie Hutchinson were not present when the picture was taken. (PLAINDEALER PHOTO) ASSESSOR CERTIFIED Mrs. Eva Sparks, township assessor, attended the fiftyeighth annual Township Officials convention held in Peoria Oct. 23rd, and 24, where she was presented with her certified Assessing Officers certificate. There are 1,400 assessors in the state of Illinois and of this number 100 are now certified. The Illinois State Scholarship commission announces that 16,- 958 students have qualified as semi-finalists in the 1968-69 program on the basis of performance on the competitive examination and high school academic record. The semi-finalists represent 776 high schools and were selected from the 34,- 832 students who sought State Scholarship consideration by taking either the May 13 or Aug. 5, 1967 examination administered by the ACT program. All semi-finalists are being notified directly and will receive application materials to be completed and returned to the commission for final consideration. The winners, who must be United States citizens and Illinois residents, will be announced in February, 1968. Monetary awards to a maximum of $1100, or honorary awards, offering no financial assistance, will be granted on the basis of financial need as evidence by data submitted by the applicants and their parents. Awards are applicable, toward tuition and mandatory fees incurred in undergraduate programs at approved colleges or universities in Illinois are renewable annually. In recognition of outstanding scholastic achievement, all State Scholarship winners receive Certificates of Merit including those students who select unapproved or out-of-state institutions. Students residing in McHenry area, attending either McHenry high school, Marian Centred or Wauconda, are the following: Ann Alexeyuk of 1013 Wood street, John Anderson of 311 Mineral Springs, David L. Backhaus of 309 Crystal Lake road, Keith R. Baker of Rt. 1, Leonard J. Blake of 3716 W. Maple street, Kathleen Bolger of 906 Allen avenue, Thomas H. Bolger of 3513 Broad street, Vicki Brda of 3714 W. Maple avenue, James Chobot of Rt. 9, Rodney Cole of 209 N. Kent road and Francis C. Cuda of 3911 Clearbrook. Also Stephen E. Dana of 3811 W. Grove avenue, Christopher Das of Rt. 9, Kim Davis of 3202 Golf View, Diane Dimon of 7204 W. Rt. 120, Mark Domoto of 311 N. River road, David M. Dowell of 2640 Sutton court, Kathleen Eternick of 21- 06 W. Holly Ct., GaryGuzzardo of 3302 Third avenue, Valerie Hutchinson of 2514 Lincoln road, Barbara Ann Kidd of 3103 Riverstream, Phillip W. Krebs of 2105 W. Country, Jennifer Kuhlman of 3817 Waukegan street, and Steven J. Kutnick of 916 W. Plum. Also Bill LaFontaine of 20- 15 W. Johnsburg, Barbara Lindstrom of 806 Peter street, Timothy L. Morckof4215W.Ponca street, Scott Nolan of 3320 Fairway drive, Gary M. Parks, of 5416 W. Euclid, Barbara Redetzky of 2618 N. Regner road, Susan Robertson of 3715 W. Lee street, Marjorj^ J. Ruth of 1121 W. River Terrace, Joseph Schlesser of 211 E. Rt. 120, Carol J. Schuh of 910 S. Lily Lake, Frankie Schwan of 505 S. Fisher road, Paul A. Schwegel of 4301 Clearview, Deborah L. Smith of 1406 N. Freund, Steve R. Spencer of Rt. 1, Leota Stinespring of 3320 N. Bayview, Judith Strorigl of 4504 N. Hilltop, Frank Vanek of 4815 Prairie avenue, Michael A. Wahls of 914 S. River road and Cheryl Zelvis of 721 S. McHenry, all of McHenry. Others from the area include Laura L. Anderson of 6714 Barnard Mill, Ringwood, Jane E. Gardner of 4219 W. Solon road, Solon Mills, Jacqueline Crilly of 204 Kohl avenue, Spring Grove; Janice R. Fisher of 7601 Cedar Road, Wonder Lake, Leonard F. Villa of Rt. 1, Spring Grove, Virginia Leinhard of 3210 Park drive and Melody A. Skalla of 7103 Delaware road, Wonder Lake. This year approximately 9,- 500 students are receiving financial assistance through the State Scholarship program while attending 110 approved colleges or universities. For the current biennium, the 75th General Assembly has appropriated $14,900,000 for State Scholarships. An additional $14,900,000 has been appropriated for his biennium for a new Grant Program which offers $1,100 maximum monetary assistance to citizens' and residents of Illinois on a non-competitive bases. Students are named in the State Scholarship program who will be attending an approved college in Illinois in September, 1968, may obtain grant application details in mid-November from the college, an Illinois high school, or tyy writing directly to the Illinois State commission Box A, Deerfield, Illinois.