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\H-T- 'v v V THE MCHENRY PLAINDEALER ,fSERVING THE CNAlN-O-LAKES REGION SINCE 1SWS" Volume 81 -- No. 39 McHENRY, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 2. 1956 10c Per Copy Musin' and Meandirin' The pool? at the Woodstock high school is being made available for the teaching of junior and senior life saving by the American Red Cross. Classes are uEen to all boys in the county ^ n 12 to 16 for juniors and 16 ana over for seniors and men. Classes will be held one night .a week, starting Wednesday, Feb. 8, from 7 to 9 p.ni. There is no charge for instruction by the Red Cross but a small fee will be made for the use of pool and towels. Following the class, covering seventeen hours, plans are made similar class for girls and women. The instructor is Richard Lappin, co-chairman of the water safety committee of the county Red Cross. Interesting stories concerning the recent visit of Russian farmer delegates to the United States, part of the text of John Strohn (before the Illinois Press associa- Tbn, were related to members of the local Kiwanis club by Dan Andrews of Woodstock. Mr. Andrews was guest speaker at the weekly luncheon meeting of the group Monday, attended by about thirty members. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Carlson of Pistakee Bay were noticed in the audience by local television «\|iewers as they watched the Saturday night TV bowling last week. When you watch McHenry's young patrol boys and girls on duty during the noon hour and after school, haven't you felt a little pride in their efficiency and serious attitude toward the safety of those in their charge? All of the exuberance of youth 'seems to be forgotten for the moment and the quality of their leadership is Reflected in the cooperation of the children they help. It might be well for adults .to emulate their safety-conscious attitude both as pedestrians and driver* Boy Scout Week will be ob- 'Ifirved in McHenry and throughout the nation from Feb. 6 to 12. A big father-son banquet will highlight the local observance. Many folks have wondered at the change in recent months to red, white and blue mail boxes. The post office department informs us that this is a regulation change, along with the change in color of the new mail 'rorrier uniforms. Don't wait to see what happens - take hold and make it happen. HOLD IMMUNIZATION CLINIC IN McHENRY SCHOOLS FEB. 8-9 The annual immunization program will be held Feb. 8 and 9, with clinics at Edgebrook and St. Mary's schools. The following services will be available: Triple combination of diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough (3 doses 1 month apart); booster triple combination (1 dose ev°ry 4 years); smallpox vaccination or re-vaccination (1 dose which should be repeated every 7 Jears). The clinic at Edgebrook will b? held Wednesday, Feb. 8. at 9:30 o'clock and the one at St. Mary's at the same time on Thursday. Pre-school age children not now under doctor's care may be brought to the clinic. c OF C FORMED tT WONDER LAKE; LECT DIRECTORS A meeting of business men of Wonder Lake was held Tuesday evening, Jan. 31, at which time a Chamber of Commerce was formed. Of the fifty-three places of Dusiness, about two-thirds were represented at the meeting. An election was held to select a board of directors, resulting in JSie following being named: Walter Dean, Helen Reuter and Frank Schroeder, three-yearterms; Dr. Ruggero, Allen Schimke and John VanKanegan, twoyear terms; Dr. Sturm, Thomas Mathews and Norma Sills, oneyear terms. Another meeting will be held in the near future for the purpose of electing officers for the j'ear. It is hoped there will be a •00 per cent attendance at this time. KICK-OFF MEETING OF HEART SUNDAY VOLUNTEERS LAUNCHES FEBRUARY CAMPAIGN IN McHENRY The McHenry committee has launched its 1956 Heart Fund drive, Feb. 1 through 26, to support the fight against diseases of the heart and circulatory system with an educational kick-off meeting of Heart Sunday volunteers and the lighting of the Torch of Hope by McHenry Scout Explorers in the heart- of the city. Dr. Jerome Handler of McHenry gave an informative talk on the three principal phases of work being done by the Illinois Heart association in its effort to combat heart diseases. Dr. Handler shared with the volunteers some of the knowledge he gained in many of his findings while he was engaged in research and by his professional experience. Kick-off Meeting The kick-off meeting was planned by co-chairman, Mrs. Lester Bacon assisted by Mrs. J. J. Neuharth, who volunteered to lend a social side to the Heart Fund drive. Aftfer partaking of coffee and dessert, Heart Sunday volunteers were equipped with their kits and are able to accept contributions in their assigned areas through the month of February until Heart Sunday, Feb. 26. They are provided with special envelopes which may be sealed by donors and will be turned over to Mrs. Bernard Matchen, treasurer. Contributions to swell the McHenry Heart fund may be mailed directly to Heart Fund, 522 Mailt street, McHenry, 111., with checks to be made to Illinois Heart Association. In McHenry, the city with the big heart (of which the Explorers can be very proud), the drive is sponsored by the local Heart committee, which is an affiliate of the Illinois Heart association, with Gov. W. G. Stratton as honorary . chairman, and the American Heart association. Chairman's Appeal In an appeal to the residents and business people to support the 1956 Heart Fund generously, Mrs. Joseph X. Waynne, chairman, pointed out the major portion of all proceeds from the drive will be used in this state to combat heart diseases through research, education and community heart programs. The balance will go to advance the national program of the American Heart association, with at least onehalf being automatically earmarked for its extensive research program. It is estimated, Mrs. Waynne declared, that one out of sixteen persons in the country -- a total Of 10,000,000 persons -- suffer from one or another form of heart disease, and 500,000 of them are children of school age. Today the public has an increasingly positive attitude toward the heart diseases, being aware of the significant advances which have come about as a result of research, people now know that some forms of heart disease can COMMITTEEMAN CANDIDATES FOR TOWNSHIP LISTED A long list of. persons seeking committeemen posts in the county have been made known since the deadline for filing for the April primaries. There are sixtytwo Republicans and forty-three Democrats who filed petitions. Eleven contests are slated for Democratic posts and seven for the Republicans. However, while there are candidates in all of the fifty-five precincts on the G.O.P. ticket, there are a number which have no Democratic office seekers. For local precincts on the Republican tickets, the following have filed: McHenry 1, Max Kolin; 2, Charles J. Miller; 3, Peter Thelen; 4, Joseph Frett; 5, Charles Bergdahl; 6, Anthony Varese. These are the Democratic filings: McHenry 1, William W. Hecht; 2, Lester Bacon and Eleanor Renard; 3, Larry Huck and H. Ralph Bennett; 4, John Colomer and Fred Huffmaster; 5, Elmer Murphy and Patrick Letizia; 6, Raymond Smith and Frank Kellner; 7, James Raycraft and Joseph Grobel; 9, Harry J. Brady and Hugh Saynor. In nearby Nunda, Robert Knox, A1 Pearson and Walter Bolger seek office in the first precinct. Four Republican and two Democratic candidates have filed for Congress in the 14th district comprising the counties of Will, DuPage and McHenry. Republicans include Russell W. Keeney, Wheaton, Frank A. McCarthy, Elgin, William J. Smith, Jr., Aurora, and Elizbaeth W. Key, Wheaton. Democratic candidates include Harold Spelman, Chicago, and Howard Newhouse, Wood Dale. Robert McClory of Lake Bluff is unopposed for nomination on the Republican ticket in the 52nd district, comprising the counties of Lake, McHenry and Boone* Richard F. Babcock of Rt. 3, Woodstock, is unopposed for senator in the 52nd district on the Democratic ticket. McHenry's Contribution To Sales Tax Is $26*124 Continued on Plage 8 According to the Illinois Department of Revenue, sales tax collections ins McHenry amounted to $107,548.20" for September, 1955. September sales tax revenues are based on business transactions in August, second month of the two and one-half cent state sales lien. McHenry was listed as paying $26,124.48; Ringwood, $961.50; Wonder Lake, $1,438.13; Johnsburg, $468.18; Lakemoor, $412.86; Spring Grove, $892,22. V Other county cities hact these totals: Woodstock, $33,202.03; Crystal Lakev $35,883.04; Harvard, $14,989.15; and Richmond, $4,098.32. STUDY BIDS ON SEWAGE DISPOSAL PLANT ADDITION Bids for the proposed addition to the McHenry sewage disposal plant were received by the Council the past week and are being checked carefully in hopes of the City Council taking action in awarding a contract next Monday night, Feb. 6, at the regular meeting. There were five bids presented, ranging from $266,000 by Great Lakes Plumbing and Heating to a bid of $293,500 submitted by George Scheflow. PuPdns Construction company of Kenosha bid $269,000, Mechanical Constructors, Inc., of Moline, $269,50U and Tonyan Construction company $277,990. Alternate proposals on some units were also submitted and turned over to the office of the City Engineer W. A. Rakow and the consulting engineer, Robert Anderson, for their inspection and report to the Council. Since the general obligation bond issue in the amount of $160,000 was previously approved by the voters for partial payment, it remains for the Council to complete the financing of the project through revenue bonds. This has been the plan since the project was started and the Council finds that engineers' estimates were' very much in line with actual low bids. With the press of business before the Council, a special meeting was held at 2 p.m. last Saturday, mainly for the purpose of inspecting a site for a new city water well. Following engineers' findings, the Council has decided on having a test made in Cooney Heights to determine the advisability of establishing a well in that sector of the city. Word was received this week from the Bureau of the Census that a representative will be in McHenry next Monday to organize a special census as requested by the city several months ago. The federal census is taken every ten years, but it is felt TfHat the growth in McHehry has been so great since 1950 that a special census is in order. Benefits to be derived are expected to more than compensate for ths expenditure necessary. A special notice in this week's issue explains that persons wishing to work on the census are to report at the city hall next Monday at 10 a.m. A representative from the census bureau will interview applicants and make the final decision as to qualifications and selection of workers. Thomas Summer Home Object Of Vandalism The George Thomas summer home at Wonder Lake was reported by county authorities to have been the object of extreme vandalism in recent weeks. Mr. Thomas, who had last visited the house in December, made the discovery when he went to Wonder Lake one day last weeK. Doors were said to have been shattered, windows broken, knives thrown into the. walls and ceilings and canned goods opened and thrown about the rooms. KIWANIS CHARTER NIGHT This picture was taken at the Charter Night dinner of the newly formed McHenry Kiwanis tclub last Saturday evening. Left to right, are Glen B. Knutson, president of the Crystal Lake Kiwanis club; W. Harold Edwards, lieutenant governor of District 5; Carl Sommer, governor of District 5; Dr. Urban Comes, president of the lcfeal club; Mike Rachwalski, statistical secretary of District 5; Emmet J. . Cleary, district secretary; and Edward Alderson, president of the McHenry Township Kiwanis club. The Crystal Lake and McHenry Township clubs are co-sponsors of the new organization. SKULL FRACTURE BLAMED FOR DEATH OF HENRY J. WEBER A verdict* of accidental death due to a skull fracture was returned by a coroner's jury in the passing of Henry J. Weber, 48, Of Johnsburg, who died Thursday, Jah. 26, after his car ran into a qulvert at the intersection of Rt. 31 and the Johnsburg road. He was travelling west on the Johnsburg road when the car crashed into a culvert at the intersection. The accident ocurred Shortly before 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the auto crossing the ,sfiighway befbre hitting the culvert. Surviving are the widow, Agnes Smith Weber; four children, Nancy, Peter, Kenneth and Harold; a brother, Martin, and a sister, Mrs. Amelia Smith. The body rested at the George Justen & Son funeral home until 9:30 o'clock Monday, when services were , held at St. John's church, with burial in the church cemetery. BAND PORTION OF ANNUAL FESTIVAL PLANNED KB. GROWING NUMBER POSTAL EMPLOYEES DO RECORD JOB POST OFFICE EMPLOYEES mm iH*• immWk Seventy-Six In Local School Take Part In '56 Event Instrumentalists in eight McHenry county high schools are concentrating efforts on their part of the annual music festival, which will be held in the Woodstock Community high school Monday evening, Feb. 13, at 8 p.m. The program, featuring several hundred young people, is expected to draw a capacity crowd. For the first time this year, the festival is being divided into two parts, the instrumental to be kept separate from the vocal. The band event, Feb. 13, will be followed three weeks later, on March 5, by an equally promising program by high school singers. Participating in the festival will be music students from Marengo, Huntley, Crystal Lake, McHenry, Harvard, Richmond, Hebron and Woodstock who are being trained by the directors in those schools. Guest conductors for the band program will be Russell H. Platz, director of band and head of the music education program at Wheaton college, and Lt. Col. S. E. Mear, U.S.A., retired, and presently director of bands at Whitewater, Wis. The two men will direct both the select and massed bands and will also conduct a clinic, which is being held for the first time this year in connection with the festival. , Season tickets, or tickets for the individual band and vocal events, may be obtained from local participating students. Paul R. Yanda, director of instrumental music in the McHenry high school, says 76 band students from here will be taking part. SIX LOCAL YOUTHS APPREHENDED ON THEFT CHARGES Kolin Photo These men are employees of the McHenry post office, and along with city carriers, established a record in the amount of mail handled during the recent holiday season. - * From left to right, they are Assistant Postmaster Leo J. Winkel, Dan Weber, Rural «toute 6; Richard J. Weber, Rural Route 1; Paul Karls, Rural Route 5; Paul Patzke, Rural Route 4; George A. Stock, in charge of parcel post; Charles Brda, Rural Route 3; and Henry Reese, Rural Route 2. Among McHenry's hardest working men during the holiday season just past were employees of the local post office, who, with the city and mounted route carriers, handled a record volume of mail. During the rush period, an increase of over 50,000 greeting cards and first class mail was handled, while parcel post figures showed a 21 per cfent increase in packages dispatched. Leo J. Winkel entered post office service in 1929 and was appointed assistant postmaster in 1951. George A. Stock, who handles all parcel post, was first appointed as a substitute carrier in 1945. Others are Richard J. Weber, Henry A. Reese, Charles J. Brda, Paul L. Patzke, Paul P. Karls and Dan A. Weber. Richard Weber received his first appointment .as a substitute city carrier and clerk in 1946 and was named rural carrier three years later. His postal service followed more than three years with the Marine corps. Mr. Reese, Five boys of junior high school a rural letter carrier since 1952, age were apprehended last week joined the postal service in 1952 an(j Charged with taking merafter almost four years in the chancjise from local stores. A Army. sixth boy, 14 years old, was Mr. Brda was selected as a caUght as he took an item from substitute clerk in 1938 and ap-: a Qreen street store on Thursday. pointed, ^a s regular clerk seveni ! The arres.t of. .t.h e first f„iv e was year•s later. He became a rura„l due at least par. tial„l y to help carrier m 1946. His postal service 1 £ r was interrupt. edj by a period of, from prosp•e ctive members of the new organizatti.o n of* „C ri• me Sc*to ppers, who were, instrumental in apprehending the boys. Each of the five was fined ten dollars and the money turned over to the merchants from whom merchandise was taken. The articles were then returned to the stores. Along with the fine, they were warned to stay out of the stores from which items were taken unless accompanied by their parents. Those who wonder at the causes of juvenile delinquency have at least a partial answer in the attitude of the parent of one of the boys, who commented that his boy was evidently not very smart for he (the father) was able to do the same things years before without being caught. •w MANY VISITING KIWANIANS AT CHARTER NIGHT The Charter Night dinner of the newly formed McHenry Kiwanis club was held last Saturday. Kiwanians from several outof- town clubs joined in welcoming the "baby" club of the district, among them the co-sponsoring McHenry Township and Crystal Lake clubs. Others represented were Woodstock, Harvard, Rockford, Mt. Morris, Sycamore and Chicago. W. Harold Edwards, lieutenant- governor of Division 5 of the Illinois-Eastern . .Iowa district, presided at the ceremonies. Governor Carl Sommer then presented the club's charter to Dr. Urban V. Comes, president. Official flags of Kiwanis were giVgn by District Secretary Emmet J. Cleary. Guests for the evening included Mayor George P. Ffeund, City Clerk Earl R. Walsh, Virgil Pollock, commander of the American Legion; Joseph Gausden, representing the Rotary club, in the absence of its president, Dr. William Nye; and Harry Dean of the Chamber of Commerce. AT FARM-HOME WEEK -Three women from the Ringwood- Wonder Lake area were among twenty-eight homemakers from the county who attended Farm and Home Week at Urbana last week. The .four-day event was the fifty-fifth sponsored by the University of Illinois College of Agriculture. Mrs. Charles Kopp, Mrs. Helen Muchow and Mi's. Gertrude White were the local representatives. BARBARA HANSON IS HOMEMAKER CONTEST WINNER 17-Year-Old High School Senior Wins Golden Award Pin Announcement was received during this past week, stating that the winner of the homemaker of tomorrow contest, conducted for the second year in the local high school, is Miss Barbara Hanson, a senior, daughter of Mrs. Agnes Fox Hanson. The young lady received the highest score in a written examination which tested the homemaking knowledge and attitudes of senior girls. She will be entered in competition to name this state's candidate for the title of all-American homemaker of tomorrow and will also be considered for the runner-up award in Illinois. Barbara receives a golden award pin designed by Trifari and the school will receive a cook book. The 17-year-old miss, wnose mother is a graduate of the local high school, will receive her diploma next June after attending here for the past two years. In 4-H Work Prior to coming to McHenry with her family, she had engaged in 4-H club work for five years in Jasper county, 111., seventy miles south of Urbana. Barbara attended Newton Com* munity high school- in Newton* 111., the only high school in the small, agricultural county of Jasper. In 1953 she was chosen as alternate to attend the state fair in Springfield. The young lady has definite plans to continue her education but has not decided on a school. She hopes to study occupationaltherapy. The national winner in the search conducted among 256,534 young women in 10,222 of the nation's public, private and parochial high schools will be named April 12 at a banquet in Philadelphia. Each state winner will receive a $1,500 scholarship and an educational trip ,with her school advisor to Washington, D.C., colonial Williamsburg, Va., and Philadelphia. A (500 scholarship will be awarded the runner-up girl in each state. The fifty-minute" written examination, designed and judged by Science Research Associates of Chicago and McHenry, consisted of questions which tested the student's attitude and knowledge in the major areas of homemaking. McHenry merchants are planning for the biggest Dollar Days ever held here Feb. 17-18. MINOR ACCIDENT A Wonder Lake youth, Leo Bergdall, 17, was reported to have received minor injuries last Sunday morning in an auto accident whichi occurred near Rt. 120, south of the McCullom Lake blacktop. Sharon Ramey, also of Wonder Lake, a passenger in the car, was taken to Memorial hospital for x-rays. Bergdall is believed to have lost control when the car struck some loose gravel and the car overturned. NEW POSTAL UNIFOIMS interrupted Army service in 1945. Paul ^P^tzke became a substitute clerk in 1945 and a rural carrier in 1949. The same year, Paul Karls entered the postal service as a substitute clerk, became a city carrier in 1948 and a rural carrier in 1952. This followed military service in the Army in 1942 and '43. Dan Weber, newest of the employees, received his appointment as substitute rural carrier in 1955, two years after completing Army service. ELEVEN SPEEDERS Eleven, were apprehended for speeding in the city this past week. There were also two stop sign violations, according to local police. Photo by Kolin Have you noticed those attractive new regulation uniforms in a blOte-grey cadet shade worn by McHenry's city mail carriers?" They are a lighter color than the old uniforms and feature • maroon stripe and tie. X They are worn by the three city carriers, Alex Justen, Edwanl A. Doyle and Boyd Dowell. Mr. Justen, a veteran of more than two years service with the Army, was appointed to his position in 1948 and carries mail in City Route 1. Mr. Doyle. Route 2 carrier, served with the navy for almost three years and^rbecame a local postal employee in' 1952. The third member, m/ Dowell. went into Uncle Sam's Army in 1945, served a year ancf a half, and was appointed a postal employee in 1951. Left to right, the men are Alex Justen, Boyd Dowell and Edward Doyle.