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SECTION 2 - PAGE 7 - PLAINDEALER - WEDNESDAY, JULY S3 1IM Legislators Asked To Drop Signature Challenge \ V.AJiEWsf NO TIME FOR GOLF - Governor Jim Thompson holds a golf wedge in his hand after taking a few practice shots with it The big man couldn't wedge in enough time to play in the annual GOP playday at McHenry though. He arrived for dinner, a short speech and headed back to his seclusion spot in Wisconsin to finish hb vacation. From left are Dixie O'Hara, county superintendent of schools and < chairman of golf outing; Art Tyrrell, former sheriff. Hank Nulle of the Sheriff's department; Gov. Thompson, and Ted Floro, state's attorney. STAFF PHOTO-WAYNE GAYLORD Twice Told Tales FIFTY YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of August 7, 1930) Grass Lake's famous lotus beds are in bloom again. After having been frozen out for four years, the famous flowers are again growing in profusion and are attracting widespread tourist and motorist attention. Six years ago, after a prolonged freezing spell, sudden high waters washed out the ice in Grass lake, in which the tops of the plants were imbedded, and the entire great beds covering many acres, were dragged out by the roots. It was feared that they had b e e n p e r m a n e n t l y destroyed, but for the past few years a few of them have been appearing again and this year the beds cover between four and five acres and there are at least three times as many lotus in the lake as there were last year. At the City Council meeting an ordinance was read and passed making it possible for the issue of a twenty-year, 5*6 percent $20,000 bond issue payable in twenty $1,000 payments with semi-annual interest due Sept. 15 and March 15. The ordinance was read and passed, making it possible for the public to vote on the issue, the election to be held Sept. 16. FORTY YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of August 1, 1940) Among the approximate 100 persons who were bruised and shaken up when a three-car North Western train collided with a switch engine at the Hough street crossing at Barrington were a number of folks from McHenry and vicinity, who are either daily commuters or else who were returning home after a visit in Chicago. The train was northbound for Lake Geneva when the accident occurred. The injured were treated at Crystal Lake. Ray Page, commander of the McHenry American Legion post for the past two years" and senior vice- commander of the county council, was elevated to the commandership of the county council at Cary. He will succeed Hale Denny of Union. Robert Conway has been appointed by the town board to fill out the term of the late Michael J. Walsh as town clerk in McHenry township. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of August 4, 1955) Just a year ago this week the community watched with regret as fire destroyed the 99-year old Ringwood Methodist church. A new church is nearing com­ pletion and members are this month planning a double celebration. In addition to observing a century since the founding of their old church, there will also be the consecration of the new edifice. Property owners of the Lakemoor-Lilymoor vicinity and the area covered by the Lily Lake drain are happy over the success of House Bill 1134 which appropriates $25,000 to the Department of Public Works and Buildings for the purpose of cleaning and dredging of the Lily Lake drain from Lakemoor to Pistakee Bay. It is ex­ pected that work on the project will start soon, resulting in the alleviation of flood conditions which have existed in the vicinity for many years. TEN YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of ""•August 5, 1970) Interested members of the press gathered at the McHenry County college in Crystal Lake to hear Dr. Forest Etheredge present plans for the forthcoming bond issue. The referendum is scheduled for Oct. 3, when college district voters will express themselves on a $4,000,000 building bond issue. Items valued at close to $13,000 were stolen from a boat house on the property of Joseph Fletcher, 3106 Riverstream, McHenry. Among the items missing were a 10-foot, 1967 inboard motor and boat valued at $9,000. As part of a recom­ mendation by teachers and parents in a year long curriculum study at John- sburg school, some pupils in Grades 2, 3, 4 and 5 at Johnsburg school next year will be involved in a non- graded elementary school organization. Pupils in­ volved in the program were chosen at random, and parents of the pupils in­ volved were sent letters indicating that their child had been chosen for the program. • * • • The first fruit of a reli­ gious personality is an honest life. McHenry Plaindealer Newspaper Available At The Following Locations: •WHITE HEN PANTRY •MAYS DRUG •BELL LIQUORS •McHENRY WALGREEN •BOLGER'S DRUG STORE •BEN FRANKLIN •OSCO DRUGS •JEWEL •HORNSBY'S •HERMES A CO. •LIQUOR MART •VILLAGE MART •J BR STORE •McHENRY HOSPITAL •J B L GAS •LAKEVIEW •SUNNYSIDE FOOD •JOHNSBURG FOOD MART •ADAMS GROCERY •LITTLE STORE . \ •FRED B IRENE'S TAP •McHENRY QUICK MART •SUNRISE GROCERY •STEINY TAP •McCULLOM LAKE GROC. •HILLTOP GROCERY •FOOD MART •BITS B PIECES •NORTHWEST TRAIN Arrowheads Topic For Gem Meet The Hiawatha Gem and Mineral society will meet Tuesday, Aug. 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the Lake Villa township hall, corner of Grand avenue and Fairfield road, when an interesting program on "Arrowheads and Ar­ chaeology" will be presented by Robert Wagner of Marengo. An invitation to attend the meeting is extended to anyone interested. Refresh­ ments will be served. * • * * Isn't it funny how little value other people put on your time? The Coalition for Political Honesty has challenged a group of lobbyists and 91 state legislators who oppose reduction of the size of the Illinois legislature to drop its effort to knock the Coalition's Legislative Cutback amendment off the November election ballot. The lobbyists and legislators, who call themselves the Committee f o r R e p r e s e n t a t i v e Government (CRG), are reported by the Coalition to be spending at least $59,000 to object to thousands of signatures on Cutback petitions despite the results of random sample signature verification by the State Board of Elections which showed the Coalition said, that Cutback petitions contained enough signatures to qualify the ballot. "This is nothing more than a phony challenge by a bunch of sorehead politicians who won't admit that Illinois citizens have gathered enough signatures to qualify the Cutback amendment for the November ballot," said Coalition spokesman Patrick Quinn. On May 2, the Coalition filed petitions with the Secretary of State con­ taining 477,112 signatures in support of the Cutback Amendment, a binding referendum to reduce the size of the Illinois House from 177 to 118 members. The State Board of Elections subsequently sent a statewide random sam­ pling of petition signatures lo county clerks' offices for verification that Cutback petitions contained enough valid signatures to qualify the amendment for the ballot. On June 27, the board received the official report of the results of the random sample which found that Cutback petitions contained sufficient valid signatures to certify the amendment for the November ballot, but the CRG filed objections lo this report, necessitating a second line-by-line check of over 120,000 signatures by the county clerks. In order to complete this massive verification effort, before its final hearings on ballot certification begin on July 29, the board has been forced to dispatch all available employees and summer help from its Springfield and Chicago offices to 'county clerks' offices around the state. Interim results for this second verification effort show that over two-thirds of the signatures claimed by the CRG to be invalid are those of validly registered voters, according to the Coalition. "These politicians and their lobbyist friends should explain to Illinois taxpayers why they must pay thousands of dollars for such a shameful fishing ex­ pedition," Quinn said. Calling the politicians' objection to thousands of signatures "a blatant in­ fringement of citizens' rights to petition and to vote," Quinn urged that the new election law be reformed to include a requirement that objectors pay the cost of signature verification when their challenge to random sample results is un­ successful. 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