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Duker wasn't on hand to welcome back former teachers and help new ones get acquainted in their work Somehow, we thought the picture would never change. t*Sfc just seemed the natural ffling to see him waiting wit broad smile, jingling his keys and waiting to start the general faculty meeting at 8:30. And the minute hand never passed the half hour before the meeting started, for punctuality was something he always observed. This yeftr Mr. Duker went back to school again, bntnot tMcHenry. It was someicg of a new experience for him as he left Sunday for Xavier university in New Orleans La,, where he will teach mathematics. It was One of numerous offers he . had received from various* colleges and universities. We feel sorry that more of our own young people will not teive the opportunity to study mathematics under him. It was our good fortune to have Mr. Duker as a math teacher, and in spite of very little talent in that line, we knew his instruction was tops. . On second thought, we have always regarded the gentleman himself in that category and regret, with so many others, his leaving our communetfen though it is. only temrary. Supt. Carl Buckner very ably conducted the owning faculty meeting Tuesday morning and gave every evidence of opening a most successful year. His remarks were timely and inspiring for both new teachers and returning faculty members. ^Kny business is happy to keep good employees for long periods of service. One of the Plaindealer's newest, and most popular, is Creed Riffe Cahill, in charge of our printing department, and if he follows in the footsteps of his father, we , may be fbrtunate td have him in our midst for a long, long time. JUr. Cahill's father died , re- Ahtly at the age of 91, but not until he had experienced a. lifetime of activity which few men ever know. At the age of 62, he retired from the Chicago American after twenty years in the composing room. Later he became bored and decided to see if he might again be accepted for work. He was, and at 88 v^s again working two days ^week for the same newspaper, a trade he had known, for seventy-two years. "Kay" isn't our youngest employee, but he's the kind of fellow who will never grow old and refuses to let those around him do so. We hope he decides to try tq emulate his father's --recordr : ^those youngsters just won't lei us forget that the holiday season is Just around the corner. Our second Sarita Claus letter arrived in last Saturday's mail, containing a variety of •catalog clippings so numerous as to certainly relegate the reremainder of the issue to the waste basket. JThe youngster's name was U&L included but he, or she, has expensive tastes, including a $26 inflated swimming pool, a $22 gym set and a $10 sand box. Some mom and dad had better keep the pay checks coming in for awhile. Have you noticed those maple trees turning a reddish color. In last Sunday's very <ttjd winds, they gave a particmarly fall-like appearance. A great rrtan shows his greatness by the way he treats little men. K.A.F. HOME DESTROYED IN ONE OF THREE FIRES DURING WEEK Firemen from the three, local stations were kept busy this past week fighting three fires. Most serious was the one which destroyed the home of Roy Grooms at Lilymoor about 3:15 last Thursday morning. A passerby saw flames rising from the roqf and notified members of the LakemOor station, who were aided in extinguishing them by the McHenry firemen. The house, formerly rented, as unoccupied in recent weeks and authorities \could give no reason for the start of the fire The flames had gained« such headway in the one-story' structure, located two blocks south of the highway, when firemen arrived that it was impossible to save any of it. Firemen remained at the scene for about three hours to be sure nearby homes were not threatened. Members of Station 2 at Johnsburg were called to Miller's subdivision in that area Tuesday morning to extinguish a fire in the Spielmann residence. Only a limited amount of damage was reported to the walls and chimney in a fire which was blamed on an overheated incinerator and a defective chimney. The third fire was a grass conflagration in a plough , at Fritzsche's Estates on Saturday afternoon. No damage was reported. , ' 1 • > Money Taken ^n Two Break-ins During Week Between $75 and $80 was taken from a petty cash hox by burglars who broke into the office at the pit of the McHenry Sand & Gravel company, west of the city, last Thursday evening. Entrance was gained by breaking a window in the office door and another window to Another section of the building. Nothing elje was taken from the offrom cash registers in the Johnsburg bowling lanes was reported to have occurred sometime after the place closed Friday night, according to the sheriff's office. Investigation is being made. BAKE SALE The woman's auxiliary of the McHenry hospital is sponsoring a bake sale at the Pink Lady Shoppe on Saturday, Sept. 6. LOOMED ABOARD ^ AN* « W Navy Lt. James R. NewtOn of 145 Manor Lane, Eastwood Manor, is welcomed aboard the NSVal Air station, Glenview, 111., by Navy Commander Harley McCormack, commanding officer of Patrol Squadron 724, which was commissioned July 19 as part of the new Naval Reserve Anti-Submarine Warfare program. The squadron's primary mission is to train pilots and crew members in all phases of anti-submariile tactics using the latest advanced weapons developed. Retirement Ends 100.000-Mile Walk Of Mineral Springs Man A devoted postal career begun long ago by George W. Christen^en of Mineral Snrings Park, ended in retirement on Aug. 31;' according to a recent announcement made by Chicago's postmaster, Carl A. Schroeder. Christensen began his career as a Chicago mail carrier on Oct. 8, 19219, and since that time has delivered mail to Chiragtf residents located hi the Cragin, Lakeview and Elmwood Park postal areas. After delivering mail to the many homes and businesses for so many years, it is estimated that at the time of his retirement C h r i 61 e n s e n has walked the astonishing total of 100,000 miles. Canine tTriend During hi| rounds Christen' sen made many friends. One, FOUR IN FAMILY KILLED IN FIRE - AT ROUND LAKE fiCThe theft of more than $160 il" Particular, was a dog who became so attached to him that for ten years it accompanied hjm every day for the entire length of his route. So obvious wjtf this friendship that all of Chic&goland learned of it through articles which appeared in several of Chicago's largest newspapers. Christensen. a native of Rock, Mich., was a summer resident of this area for four- (Continued on page 8) SEVERAL ACCIDENTS IK McHEffeY AREA CAUSE INJURES; TWO HE IN CRASHES ELSEWHERE IN COUNTY With highway travel keeping .pace with all advance predictions ovfr the holiday weekend, the death toll failed to reach~the estimated figure of 420 by only a few. McHenry county contributed one of these and another death occurred just before start of the period designated by the Safety Council as "holiday weekend." A 17-year-old motorcyclist, Peter Kozke. 17, of Elmwood Park was killed Monday afternoon, Sept. 1, in a head-on collision with a car on the Algonquin road, southeast of Fox River Grove. Juri Sikkut, 12, of Chicago, a passenger on the motorcycle, was taken to Swedish Covenant hospital in Chicago for treatment of injuries. Kozke's death brought the total for the county td seventeen this year. {xical Accidents One serious accident of the holiday weekend occurred at Johnsburg last Sunday morning about 12:15 a.m. when two cars collided this side of the bridge, in front of the Johnsburg Bowling Resort. ' State police reported that Clifford Jacobson of Chicago pulled onto the Johnsburg road from the resort parking lot and into an auto driven by George Diedrich, 17v of Rt. 5, McHen- Ty, who was travelling northwest. Jacobson suffered a fractured skull and a brain concussion as a result of the crash. Diedrich „was unhurt but a passenger, Dave Miller, 16, of Rt. 5, McHenry, sustained bruises about the head. In another accident involving a motorcycle, Edwin Miller 21. of Wonder Lake suffered a broken leg. Miller was driving in the hills on the Barreville road, three miles southeast of McHenry, when he lost control of his vehicle on wet ground and it overturned. The young man suffered a broken leg and, was taken to the McHenry hospital for treatment. . James A. Thelen, 19, of Rt. 1, McHenry, was reported to have missed a curve on the Pistakee Bay road, oi)e mile east of the Johnsburg road, and hit three trees and a telephone pole about 6 p.m. Friday. Hfe was (Continued on page 8) A tragedy of the holiday weekend occurred in neighboring Round Lake Saturday, Aug. 30, when a father and three sons died as fire trapped them in their five-room home. The mother and another boy. were burned but escaped* through the flaming wreckage of the one-story building. llie dead were James Olsen, 56. and sons, James, Jr., 16, Michael, 6, and Joseph, 4. Mrs. Ruth Olsen, 40, and Robert, 13, were taken to St. Therese hospital in Waukegan for treatment. WONDER LAKE VISITOR DIES UNEXPECTEDLY Edward Freeman Pease, 55, of 822 S. Chester, Park Ridge, died unexpectedly of a heart attack at Wonder Lake Labor Day afternoon while visiting there. A native of Grand Rapids, Mich., he was born Dec. 17, 1902. Mr-. Pease is survived by his widow, Pearl. Following an inquiry cond u c t e d by C o r o n e r T h e r o n Ehorn at the George* Justen & Son funeral home, the body was removed to the Daniel J. Murray chapel in Park Rjdge for last rites. MADONNA CASEY WINS FIREMEN'S POST SCHOLARSHIP The distinction of attaining the highest average and being the youngest member of her graduating class belonged to KIDS' DAT DRIVE SEPT. 26-27 TO BENEFIT YOUTH The annual Kid's Day drive la? now being planned, accord^ ijrig to the joint chairmen, Dr. Le o n a r d Pawlikowski and Q$ne Adams. This year, pear nuts will be raid instead of buttons. • -- The drive i3 scheduled for Sept. 26 and 27. All money raised is s£ent locally for the benefit of the youth of the community. OPEN BIDS ON SEPT. 6 FOR NEW PAROCHIAL SCHOOL . Construction is expected to start next month on the new Central Catholic high school in McHenry county, for which final plans and specifications were approved last week. Bids Will be opened at 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 6, in the chancery office. The proposed school will contain fifteen regular classrooms," typing and business administration rooms, home economics and .sewing areas, as well as three science laboratories, a shop for wood working and another for metal working. Other main rooms include a chapel, library, gymnasium, band room, nursing room, book store and separate faculty rooms for priests, sisters and lay teachers. The seating capacity in the nbw gymnasium will be 1,250, while the cafeteria, equipped with a modern kitchen will accommodate 330. . The new school to be built vatiWoodst.ock, should be ready for ocfeojpanfcy by September of 1959. Appointments For Legionnaires 13-year-old Madonna Casey of Country Club drive, McHenry, when she graduated from St. Mary's school, ^Mundelein. Eligible to receive a scolarship to Holy Child high school, Waukegan, because of her scholastic ability, Madonna was not content without entering the competitive scholastic exam (Continued on page 8) Commander Keith Rankins, newly installed commander of the*.county council of the American Legion, lest week announced chairmen of the various council committees and also members of district committees. Among eight county Legionnaires selected to head district groups were William Green of McHenry, service; and Edwin Reid, McHenry, marksmanship. County members on district committees include George Weeks of Wonder Lake, security. Lois Weeks of Wonder Lake is the newly installed junior vice-commander of the county group. Republicans. Sponsor Steer Roast Sunday A steer roast sponsored by the McHenry County Republican central committee, including a real old fashioned family picnic, will be held Sunday, Sept. 14, on the spacious Fox River Gi-ove picnic grounds. There will be games, rides and fun for the entire family, "Chuck" ' Miller,"G.U.F. chairman, assures those who plan to attend. Prime steers will be barbecued on a spit, with serving to bp held from 2 to 5 p.m. SECTIONAL MEETS OF CLEAN STREAMS GROUP SUGGESTED Discuss Taxes. County Finances At a .meeting of the McHenry Courtty Township Officials association, held last week, Louis. Schachtner, Grafton township highway commissioner, was elected president and LeRoy Smith assistant supervisor of McHenry was named secretary. Harley Mackeben, chairman of the board of supervisors on the board of review, spoke on taxes and finances of the county. In breaking down the tax dollar in_regard to its distribution; he listed the following information: county, 5:31 per cent; toWnships, 11.58; cities and villages, 6.12; fires districts, 1:57; hospitals, 1.14; and remainder of 74.28 to schools. The tax bill being collected this year amounts to $7,713,- 222.67 and Mackeben added that the county was badly, in need of money at the present time. FARM MANAGEMENT TOUR. OUTLOOK MEETING SEPT. 11 The public is invited to attend the Farm Bureau farm management tour and livestock outlook meeting which is planned for Thursday, Sept. 11. At 10:30 o'clock in the morning, the Dale Noe farm in Dunham township will be visited, where Delmar Wilken of the University of Illinois college of agriculture will discuss some basic principles in farm maht agement The 280-acre dairy farm has had outstanding crop yields, and also has a very efficient forty-cow dairy herd^ Following noon lUnch, the group will tour the William Cosman farm at 1 p.m., located one half mile east of the Boone- McHenry "county line. After the tour, farmers will get a close-up view of prospects for livestock during the coming year. YOUNG MOTHER'S UNTIMELY DEATH MOURNED HERE Another Long Time Resident Is Also Dead The holiday weekend brought its unfortunate news as the c o m m u n i t y m o u r n e d two deaths. Marilyn Bradford Friends joined the family of Marilyn Owen Bradford, 27, in their sorrow over her untimely death Saturday afternoon, Aug. 30, shortly after the birth of her second child, a son who also died. She passed away at Memorial Hospital for McHenry county. Marilyn Owen was born in Chicago May 20, 1931, and mov- •d to McHenry soon afterward. She graduated from the local high school in 1949 and ice-that time had spent sev- RECORD HIGH ANNOUNCI ALL REGISTRATION FIGURES AT LOCAL SCHOOLS; TOTAL MAY RISE :>"r FIRST SERVICE SUNDAY IN NEW ALLIANCE CHURCH The new Alliance Bible church congregation will hold its first service in the new ch\irch headquarters, recently purchased, on John street. The new home of the Alliances-Bible church was/formerly the Zion Evangelical Lutheran church. Mr. Charles Hallock. who has been supply minister for the last month, will speak at the Sept. 7 service. Dedication of the church will take place later this fall. The Alliance Bible congregation is made up largely of members of the former McHenry Bible, which is no longer active. j_; OUTSTANDING PROGRAM OPENS CLUB SEASON Woman's Group To Present Fine Artists Sept. 11 The McHenry Woman's club will open the club year with a luncheon and program at the McHenry Country . club on Thursday, Sept. 11. The program Willrbe presented by Roy Kane and Connee, with Muriel Rayson as accompanist, in a group of songs arranged in a "Musical Comedy Scrapbook". These artists, who are no strangers to McHenry, have been so well liked here that Mrs. Vaughn Jones, vice-president and program chairman, felt that everyone would enjoy The meeting of the McHenry County Clean Streams Committee was very well attended Tuesday, Sept. 2, at the V.F.W. clubhouse. The group is becoming so active that sectional meetings have been suggested to be held on the third Tuesday of the month, where' reports on field trips within the various districts would be 'given. A number of topics came up for discussion this week. A letter was read concerning a sewage problem on the west side of McCuIlom Lake, which will be investigated. (Continued on page 8) eral years living in California. She is survived by her husband, Paul; one son, Ronald; her father, Harold P. Owen, of McHenry; her mother, Mrs. H. S. Coomer, of Los Angeles, Calif.; a sister, Mrs. Phillip Ahlberg, of McHenry. Services were held at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon from the George Justen & Son funeral home, with Rev. George Martin of the Community Methodist church officiating. Burial was in Woodland cemetery. Edd Peet F.dd Peet. 79. a long time resident of the Ringwood and McIIenry communities, died at his home on north Park street Sunday, Aug. 31, following an illness of several weeks. He had been in declining health for the last couple of years. Mr. Peet was born Aug. 23, 1879, in Mapleton, Minn. He retired eight years ago after farming for many years in the Ringwood area, and moved to Advance registration of students in the McHenry schools alone, a figure which is expected to be less than the actual number when a final count is taken, has reached 3,464, almost 500 more than a year ago. ' • At the high school, enroll- - ment was expected at about 945, about 100 more than the previous term. However, actual r e g i s t r a t i o n on Monday and Tuesday,of last week was 954, and this did not include a number who had registered in the spring and had failed to reregister this fall. It is believed that at least a good percentage of these will be attending. Should the figure reach the 1,000 mark in the first weeks, which the administration believes, it may, McHenry would be placed for the first time in Class A A in various types of competition. The school nas been in Class A (enrollment:?^ between 550 >and 1,000) onlyv|* since the fall of 1955, which' £ shows the tremendous growth, ^ which has taken place. ' * | Another comparison of inter- ' est is the figure'of 220 stud-i^| ents in 1933, twenty-five years:^ • ago, which at that time sejfc a new record. ' r • Highest Enrollment ^ The highest enrollment in f any one school is the combined .V figure for Edgebrook and kin-f dergarten, where 1,100 pupils " have been counted. : Junior high school has approximately 440 students this fall. ^ • The total of 3,404 students .x includes only McHeitry, and , does not take in the Lily Lake f school, which is p&rt of Dis« trict 15. About sixty are enrolled there. The parochial school-enrollment adds greatly to the above ; : figure, with 630 at St. Mary's: and 340 at St. Patrick's. At the latter, it was necessary to place some children on t h e waiting list, for although there ( is space available in the netyr addition, there are not enough^ teachers to care for the needs of more than the'340 pupils., . m m them once more. They are popular and sought after by women's clubs, supper clubf and conventions. Connee's musical background includes two years with opera companies in New York, Kansas City and Cleveland. Later, she was on the Children's Hour for NBC and has appeared on the Kraft theatre. Mr. Kane was a Morris B. Sachs contest winner at the age of 15 and has gradually climbed the ladder of success and popularity to the top rung of his present position of topnotch singer in great demand. He, like Connee, has had op- (Continued on page 8) (Continued on page 8) CHORAL CLUB TO OPEN FALL SEASON MONDAY. SEPT, 8 The McHenry Chonil dub $ opening the fid! • season on Monday evening, Sept. 8, with a meeting in the high school music room at 8 pjiiif Music for the holiday program has arrived and rehearsal will begin at the first practice session next we^k. Featured among selections/to be performed are txy^^^^vmore important workS^f -RpwaVar- .7/; CHURCH A rummage sale Will be held Thursday, Sept. 18, at St. Paul's mission, one mile south of McHenry on the west side of Green street. There will be good used men's suits, ladies' hats, dresses, shoes, purses* etc., many of them new. Jeanne Olson Evelyn Martin Dorothy Arvidson Kay Smith Carol Engh Frances Ducey TWO DIE IN