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Salutatorian Rebecca Schaller challenges her young audience with the words: "The world has so many Opportunities open to us, ell of us reachlag for that one opportunity. We are not horn something, we have to get out there and mahe something of ourselves." STAFF PHOTOS-WAYNE GAYLORD Pointing to some of the major problems of the day; Glenn Moehling, valedictorian, tells his classmates, "If we s4t some realistic priorities and follow through on some (values designed to help ourselves and everyone around us, we Mil all 'mahe it' in the world, enjoying a high degree of success and fulfillment." . . " I Principal William Hayes awaits the arrival of the entire class the graduates and the large audience gathered Saturday, May of 1980 at Johnsburg high school before giving the welcome to 31, in the school gymnasium for the commencement program. SStoarD Winning ̂ ttospaptr yfimEsgs/ Illinois Press Association Newspaper Contest SERVING THE CHAIN-O-LAKES REGION SINCE 1875 WEDNESDAY. JUNE 4, 1980 VOLUME 104 NUMBER 87 2 SECTIONS 26-PAGES 25 Is Found Guilty The: trial of .44-year-old Defense Attorney Richard Memorial hospital in John L. Ellis, formerly of Kelly asked for a poll of the Waukegan and later tran- 2439 S. River road, •: jury. Twelve times Judge sferred to Oak Forest McHenry, ended at about--Henry L. Cowlin asked, v hospital, where he died three 8:30p.m. Friday night with a "Was this , then and is this months later, Nov. 11, 1979. /•guilty" verdict from the toQWTODrgerfiM?" • Ellis, took-the witness jury on the chargeof mur- twelve tim^Bteame the stand Friday morning and der. reply, "Yes, sflK'. said he had stopped to pick None of the jurors looked Ellis had be8H charged up a hitchhiker, Miller, one at the defendant as they with three counts of murder, day in early August. walked into the courtroom of one count of voluntary the 19th Judicial Circuit manslaughter and one count A.carpenter by trade, Ellis court. of involuntary manslaughter offered0 Miller, who ap- When the verdict was following the death of Joseph parently had no home, a announced, Ellis laid his W. Miller last November. place to stay and a head in his hands and said, The charges stemmed possibility of employment on "Oh God." A friend, who had from the Aug. 10, 1979, a construction job. attended every day of shooting of Miller following After about three days, testimony cried, "How could an argument at the River with no indication of the job you?" as she left the cour- . road residence. Miller was opening, Ellis first men- troom. first treated at Victory tioned that Miller should start looking for another place to live. According to his testimony, Ellis said the twc/ argued repeatedly during the day ondriigH of Aug:,9 about Millerrs tatting. / When the twoSetj^netf to the apartment in the early morning hours of Aug. 10, room divider, fired a shot and told Miller to leave. "Miller pointed his finger and said, 'Guns don't scare me/ " Ellis stated. Ellis thensaid Miller went for the gun, they struggled, and that he (Ellis) did not even remember the second the argument continued. ffcen. Ellis went down- Ellis said that Miller's •- stairs totadce the neighbors eyeballs were "rolling up to call the police. " into his head" and he "The man scared the became scared. _ living daylights out of me," Ellis said he went to the Ellis said. "I was afraich he bathroom to get the .38 was going to put me away." caliber snub-nosed revolver. State's Attorney Theodore The defendant testified Floro told the jury at the that he let Miller see the beginning of his closing revolver, pointed it at a (Continued on page 16) and Woodman, received oral proposed new plant, for assurances of assistance which McHenry city has set from officials in Springfield aside approximately 27 if the application is re-filed acres, would receive sewage with appropriate letter, of from the south service areas consent from McHenry. The including McHenry residences and business on the south, all of McHenry Shores area, Emerald Park across the river and be available to Eastwood Manor (Continued on page 16) [ > ArV { c. , , - HI McHenry Shores village service areas rather than { " ' ~ x' , / ' . ' and the city of McHenry will individual municipalities, [ v have to work- together in the village would have to planning for a new sewage look to McHenry for < disposal facility it was ment of their sewage. - | ^ flj learned at a village board The problem was that meeting May 27. McHenry's Mayor Stanek and the City [ Mayor Joe Stanek said that Council had indicated in such cooperation would be talks that they no to the McHenry City plan for McHenry Council, but personally he Shores, Heck said. Stanek would agree to a cautious explained the reason for this [ , > acceptance of that policy, stance was that using "" . ; ' , ^ Wk "We should pursue this," federal monies for planning - ; _ g^r| he indicated. "It could be of and financing plant building mutual benefit, but there carried strings. There would | • would have to be some hard be conditions for service > 4 ' n e g o t i a t i n g d o n e . " c h a r g e s , w h o t h e y c o u l d George Heck, represen- serve, and how much they tative of Baxter and could charge, and to keep Woodman Engineering fees equal for old and new which is retained by both municipalities, reported to general MARIAN BACCALAUREATE -̂Graduates of Marian Central Catholic high school the McHenry Shores village McHenry residents presently gather In the front of the restoptod St John the Baptist church, Johnsburg, for the ho*"1 that he was advised being served. However, if Baccalaureate Mass offered Sunday afternoon. Behind the graduates can be sera their that the Step 1 75 percent McHenry Shores is the parents, other relatives and friends. The l p.m. Mass was followed by commencement funding grant for planning grantee and designating ceremonies at Marian high school gymnasium at 3 o'clock. which they had applied for planning agency, McHenry STAFF PHOTO»WAYNE GAYLORD last year would apply onlyto may stay clear of the • . . -- ' . ' •ramramMflMji their village collector sewer restrictions for the time _ - ̂ r --- j system. EPA officials had1 being.' them under existing Heck said and Hal v 1 ' 1 • 'policy to consider entire Sundin, president of Baxter In the fast pace of each day, and diversions that take the mind in a hundred directions, not many of us are aware of the many life saving efforts that are part of life around us. But when we do make the observation it is a heart­ warming one. •- i^pf| IflKft at work after the recent holiday weekend placed a focus on just such oc­ currences. Within the news room alone there emarasd two events, diverse as they . I* A young reporter in our office, a trainee for the McHenry Rescue squad, was putting in his "clinical time" at the local hospital on the holiday. Into the hospital was brought a 5-year-old boy who had been discovered by a lifeguard, floating in Fox Lake. Within only a few hours the youngster was visiting with his parents even though be had been classified by emergency crew members as "clinically dead" - his heart had A particularly amusing answer to "Why My Dad's The Greatest" brings a smile to the face of Publisher Larry Lund. The Plaindealer-sponsored Father's day contest, open to children IS and under, has brought heavy response from youngsters in the McHenry area. The entry deadline is Jane 4. A coupon appears eleswbere in this issue to be filled out and returned. STAFF PHOTO-WAYNE GAYLORD Publisher Reads Contest Entries It was also felt that the wages should be adjusted downward, looking toward the time when the City would have to hire a substantial " ",rr