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THE MGHENRY PLAINDEALER "SERVING THE CHAIN-O-LAKES REGION SINCE 187R" Section 2 , Page 1 Friday/ Sept. 5, 1969 FORTY YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of Aug. 29, 1929) Carl R. Barnickol, teacher of physical education at Lane Technical high school, Chica­ go, who has been spending the summer with his parents at Woodlawn Park, McHenry, is planning a round the world tour during the coming year. He will leave for California from this point he will sail for Hawaii, continuing through the Orient, India, Africa and Europe, re­ turning via Cuba and Panama Canal to Los Angeles* An increase to the dairymen of 10 cents per hundred for milk as of Sept. 1. The new price will be $2.74 per hun­ dred. Herman Steffes received ser­ ious injuries in an automobile accident and is confined to his bed being very weak from loss of blood and other injuries. A red brick foundation for the new house being built on Main street by Clarence Martin was laid last week. Frett Bros, did the mason work. Traffic through McHenry was very heavy over the weekend and that so many cars pass through our city every week without accidents is a remark­ able feature, considering that there are no "stop and go" signs at the busy street in­ tersections. Miss Kathrine Walsh is the winner of a scholarship to the University of Illinois at Cham­ paign as the result of her high average while attending the school of domestic science at the state fair at Springfield. Miss Leone Givens is now employed at the Public Service company office at C rystal Lake where she started work this week. The Shoreland Realty com­ pany from Chicago has pur­ chased the 110 acre farm lo­ cated on the north shores of Mc- C'ullom Lake from Mrs. M. Bohr. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of Aug. 31, 1944) A Jackson, Miss., young lady received the surprise of her life one morning early this week when she received a telegram at the home of her grandpar­ ents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred CooU ey, informing her. that she had won fourth place in a national "Design and Name It' contest for teentimers. The young lady is June Williams, June's en­ try was selected from over 40,000 entries from through­ out the United States and as a result of winning will receive a $50 war bond besides having the distinction of having her prize winning design manufac­ tured into a teentimer's dress and distributed to department stores throughout the country. Captain Eugene Nielsen has arrived back in McHenry after an absence of about two years. He completed seventy-three missions which is quite some feat considering that each one involves so much danger. Technician 5th grade, Glen N. Draper, coast artillery corps, has returned from twen­ ty-six months overseas in the Aleutian theatre of operations. The worse menace to trees ir the vicinity of McHenry this year tfyan any other year is the tent caterpillars. It is suggest­ ed thafmey be burned before the trees are killed. The method consists of placing a rag sat­ urated with kerosene on a long pole and thoroughly burning the large cluster of cob-webs which is characteristic of the pest. Registration of 244 students at the local high school was the largest this year it has ever been. Dr. and Mrs. Millard Lar- rison and family are now re­ siding in the P.J. Cleary home which they recently purchased. Dr. Larrison is employed at the Ringwood Chemical Plant. JflcfJe&A' 1245 N. Green McHenry, III We're partial to sport coals "We don't think anybody else offers a sport coat with so much style and quality in this price range. •» Come in and try one on. Compare fabric, fit and tailoring. See why we're proud to recommend Curlee. From $35.00 S t o r e f o r M E N 385-0047 PERSONALS RESERVE CHAMPION -- Northern Pump Co., McHenry, Illinois, won the reserve champion­ ship in the Register of Merit competition at the Colorado State Fair. The bull was Silver Mischief G105, a senior yearling. Shown with the animal, left to right, are Bill McDonald, Klamath Falls, Oregon, judge; Kenneth Burns, Dellon, Colo; Wilma Allen, Idalia, Colo; and Brad Scott, Northern Pump Co. manager, at the halter. TEN YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of Sept. 3, 1959) Gail Marquart, 15, a daugh­ ter of Mrs. Jean Marquart of Hunterville Park, is suffering from polio. Mrs. Nancy Gardiner is open­ ing a new studio in McHenry known as Nancy's Studio of Dance and Baton. A ground breaking service for the $118,000 Nativity Lutheran church to be built in Wonder Lake was conducted Sunday af­ ternoon on the site in Parker's Highlands purchased by the con­ gregation in 1956. While the figure cannot be fig­ ured accurately until after the first week of school, a total enrollment of about 3,780 is ex­ pected this year in the six-Mc- Henry schools, compared with 3,202 last year. A son was born Aug. 30 at • Memorial hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Adams. 8 One of the longest married couples in McHenry are Mr. and Mrs. Math Rauen who ob­ served their fifty-eighth wed­ ding anniversary Sept. 4. William Heimer, lifelong resident of the McHenry com­ munity, died at the Villa Rest home Aug. 27. Miss Gerri Carey and sister, Mrs. Richard Zieman, have re­ turned from a trip to Bermuda which they made by plane. Service News Seaman Apprentice Warren J. Heir, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs-. Eugene V. Heir of 5407 N. Lucina, McHenry, has ar­ rived in Portsmouth, Va., a- board the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise. The nuclear powered carrier came around Cape Horn in a 28 day voyage from Alameda, Calif. It is scheduled to enter a 10 month shipyard overhaul. Her nuclear cores will be re­ placed and other repairs made. Enterprise has been based in California for the past four years and has made four com­ bat cruises to the Tonkin Gulf, off the coast of Vietnam. DISASTER RELIEF Gov. Richard B. Ogilvie has formally requested $500,000 in federal disaster relief for 15 counties on or near the Missi­ ssippi River hit by summer floods. In a letter signed and addressed to President Nixon, Ogilvie estimated the extent of the damage to public proper­ ty in the affected areas at $2.5 million. Covered under the re­ quest for assistance ar e the following counties: Alexander, Calhoun, Clinton, Henderson, Jackson, Jersey, Jo Daviess, Madison, Monroe, Pike, Pul­ aski, Randolph, St. Clair, Step­ henson and Union. 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AAA AAAMAAAMAXMAMAAA A71T the Mississippi River, causing subsidiary streams flowing into it to back up and overflow their banks. Mrs. George Phalin has re­ turned from a two weeks va­ cation at Bemidji, Minn.', where she accompanied her daughter, Mrs. Jack Zoia, and family of Minneapolis. Mr. and Mrs. \lvin Peter­ son enjoyed a week's visit with their son, Charles, and family in Chicago. Mrs. Ellen Wende Spent the past week in the home of her son in Sparta, Wis. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Segert of Oshkosh, Wis., were over­ night guests in t.he Fred Sny­ der home recently. Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Hays and sons, Gregory and Douglas, returned to their home in Hunts- ville, Ala., Monday, after a ten days visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.' Sibre Whiting. Miss Partsy Elliott of Chicago was a Labor Day guest of her sisters, Mrs. Lillian Olsen and Mrs. Paul Damen. The Clyde Hollowell family of Elgin spent a recent eve­ ning in McHenry where Mrs. Hollowell and sons visited Mrs. George H. Johnson while he called on Mr. Johnson at Mc­ Henry hospital. Mrs. Kenneth Powers and daughter, Mrs. Charles Echart, sons, Stephen and Scott, of Woodstock, were Friday vis­ itors in the home of Mrs. Ma­ bel Powers. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Eisele and children spent the weekend in Michigan where they attended a family reunion at the home of his parents in I'ortage Lake and also visited friends at their old home in Saline. The James Miller family va­ cationed in Wisconsin over the weekend. Miss Julie Whiting, a grad­ uate of the local high school last spring, has entered St. Mary's School of Nursing at Madison, Wis. Julie, daughter of the Sibre Whitings, is the fourth in a family of five daugh­ ters to follow their mother's footsteps and enter the nursing profession. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Damen have returned from a vacation in which they did some sight­ seeing in Springfield, visited an old schoolmate and attended the state fair in Indianapolis, Ind., and called on her niece in Warren, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. Bud Gende spent the Labor Day weekend in Montello, Wis. Mr. and Mrs. John Thennes and Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Then­ nes returned last week from a two weeks vacation in various places in Wisconsin. Azella Tonyan returned to her home in Connecticut following a visit with her mother, Eliz­ abeth Tonyan, at 312 West Bay road,,. McHenry. Miss Tonyan left by plane for New York C ity on Aug. 31 after a week's stay at her birthplace. Offer Fortran College Class Fortran, a computer language used in scientific and engin­ eering studies, will be the sub-- jec.t of a special course of­ fering at McHenry County col­ lege during fall semester, 1969- 70. iTaymond Zwier/yeki, di­ rector of Data Processing and \ssociate Professor of \pplied \rts and Sciences, has announc­ ed the offering of a course in Fortran programming at the interim campus one evening a week beginning Sept. 8. Mr. Zwierzvcki points.out that per­ sons interested in becoming scientists, engineers or tech­ nicians will find this basic course very necessary for success in this field. Students will have the opportunity to use the third-generation com­ puter available for instruction­ al purposes at McHenry County college. Registrations are in progress now for this and other courses offered by McHenry County col­ lege for fall semester. The person wishing to register should contact the Office of Student Services at the interim campus, 6200 Northwest High­ way, Crystal Lake. % CHILDREN POISONED A total of 5,875 Illinois chil­ dren 12 years of age and under were accidentally poisoned in the first six months of 1969. Dr. Franklin D. Yoder, direc­ tor of the Illinois Department of Public Health, said aspirin products were responsible for approximately 38 percent of the accidental poisonings, in­ ternal medicines accounted for an additional 26 percent, with household preparations and pesticides the next largest con­ tributing causes. ! 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