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THE MCHENRY PLAINDEALER "Serving The Chain-O-Lakes Region Since 1875" Volume 84 -- No. 33 -- 3 Sections McHENRY. ILLINOIS. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 18. 1958 22 Pages -- 10c Per Copy Three Killed In Highway Accident Mm sin' and ;*' Meander in Few parties are more enjoyand more filled with the spirit of the occasion than the traditional Christmas get-togethers. The fact that most of them follow the same pattern fails to detract from the enthusiasm which seems to be present in everyone at this time of year. Even so, it was a pleasant surprise to be guest at an all- CJgiiese party last Thursday e^iing. Only such ingenious hosts as the Harry Stinesprings could have planned both a hearty repast and entertainment completely in keeping with the oriental theme. It is a wonderful way to become acquainted with the customs of other people, especially when one is partaking of a delicious variety of Chinese foods, m#&y of which haven't even a familiar rjng to their name. We didn't manage well with chopsticks, but a knife and fork failed to detract from the flavor. Maybe C-onfucious didn't say it, but we do. This Chinese living leaves little to be desired, especially when it ' comes to delicacies desired t^ please the palate. At this time of year, particularly, if there is time to do any day - dreaming, don't you feel a bit of nostalgia for the little things of yesterday that have disappeared with the years? Do you remember when the little ones rarely saw a lighted Christmas tree or Santa himself until the big night, ami at that time all the wonders of a hundred years couldn't have made their eyes open wider? Do you remember when movies were mostly sweet stories which would never in their wildest moments have even suggested the existence of space ships and moon men? TTiose were the days when a h^isome hero jumping from a slow moving steam engine train provided the greatest thrill, and a piano player in the orchestra pit provided the furious strains of an appropriate musical selection as a fitting accompaniment!. Skipping afcread to another season, do you remember when every kid in the block dropped a May basket at your door on th£ first of the month, each one amply supplied with violets and daffodils? Here's a custom we can't remember losing. Like old soldies, it seejned just to have faded slowly away! POSTAGE METER MACHINE GIVES USTERSERVICE Early Mailing Is Reported At Office, Station Open March Of Dimes Fund Drive Our local postal installations report a very early mailing in parcels and greetings cards which will be of tremendous help in assuring mailers that delivery will be accomplished by Dec. 24. It is the hope of these postal workers that the public will continue to cooperate by mailing early and separating greeting cards into "Local" and "Out of Town" bundles, which enables them to make the proper dispatches on schedule. By "Local" is meant all mail delivered by the local postal installations in post office boxes, rural and city delivery, "Out of town" mail means all mail that does not have a McHenry address. Meter Machine A postage meter machine has been placed in operation at the parcel post window of the main office which enables the clerks to serve the customers much faster and saves considerable I The McHenry Rotary club time both for the customers ; has again installed a ski lift at and postal workers. ; the McHenry Country club and The postmaster and ' i> wor'i- ! members urge both children ers comp^ment patro.'.s ~f j 'hd grownups to enjoy the fun their office for the spiend.d . of a toboggan ride. manner in which they have .ins- ' With winter weather startwered the appeal of both rural ; mg early this year, all indicaand city carriers by keeping j tions point toward plenty of the sidewalks clecr of ice and j snow for a gay old time on the snow and the approaches to : big hill during the holiday vathe rural* mail boxes clear so j cation period. Albert Dewey of Crystal Lake; has been elected county March of Dimes chairman to replace the late J. Leonard Townsend. whose death earlier this month ended twenty years of service in that, capacity. Ray McGee, for many years local chairman, was elected vice-chairmart for the county. J < ' Louis E. Marchi is local chairrrian for the McHenry area drive in early 1959, assisted by Paul R. Yanda and Ray Page on the advisory committee. Mrs. Charles Liebman will a^t as publicity chairman anr* Tt»mes Larkin will be treasur ^ of the fund drive. Fran* "•regory is in charge of thf "oin containers and expects tr '•«ave them in local stores thL' week. The March of Dimes, oncf designed for the sole purpos< of aiding the fight against polio, is now carried on for the control of polio and two other diseases. ROTARY CLUB PROVIDES SKI LIFT IN QITY i A story came to our attention this week which should be a warning to the harried card writer in every home. ^ A busy housewife bought a lasS^minute box of 100 identical greetings cards, and not even pausing to read the message inscribed thereon, hurriedly dispatched them to a large number of relatives and acquaintances whose own greetings already were displayed on her piano top and mantel. Some days later she accidentally picked up otie of the cqjds she had not mailed and SB what it said in a state of shock: "This little card is just to say. 'A gift you'll love is on its way'.'" A very welcome ^note accompanying a subscription renewal from Mrs. Carl Schmitt (Florence Kamholz). a former resident for many years, carries this message: "I wouldn't b^without the paper and I look forward to receiving it every* week." Mrs. Schmitt is the daughter of the late Fred Kamholz, West Side barber for about a half century and one of the folks who remains fondly in our memory as we recall local businessmen of a few years baqk-J K. A. FT $ M>TICE The McHenry State bank will be open on Wednesday, Dec. 24. and will close Thursday. Dec. 25. in observance ' of Christmas. Edward Bwyer of Chicago was a weekend guest of his sister, Mrs. Walter Walsh. that delivery can be made without the carriers leaving their automobile, which is one of the mandatory regulations in the postal manual. To keep the mail situation current locally, both the station and main office will be open every day from now until Christmas including Sunday, the twenty-first, and a delivery of mail' on the city and rural routes is also planned Sunday. McHENRY AGAIN THIRD IN SALES TAX COLLECTION McHenry received $5,353.53. representing the .one-half cent city sales tax on business transactions during September. This was part of $28,110 received by the county as a whole from the retailer's occupation tax, collected in October. McHenry's figure was only slightly behind Crystal Lake $5,827.39 and under first place\Woodstock, which received $^522. Other municipalities received the following amounts: Algonquin, $934.14; Cary, $1,801.54; Fdx River Grove, $562.85; Harvard, $2,915.92; Hebron, $387.04 Huntley, $656.19; Island Lake, $175.23;, Marengo, $2,320.87; Lakemoor, $65.76; Richmond $549.80; Spring Grove, $216^09; and Sunnyside, $14.49. Everything is in readiness for operation of the lift, but help is needed. The motor does the work, but it is necessary for a man to be present at all times to guard the operation. You are uryently requested to phone Jerome Buch and offer your assistance. Rotary members are also treating the grade school children (through fifth grade), who attend schools in McHenry, to a show at the local theater on Saturday of this week. There will be two shows, one at 10:30 a.m.j and one at 2 p.m. and tickets are being distributed at the local schools. While the primary purpose of this party is to give the children a Christmas treat, it will also give the mothers a chance to do some shopping without their little helpers. NAMED TO JURY N^med as grand jurors for the January term of court by the county board of supervisors are Alex Adams and C. Irene Guffev of McHenry. OPEN WEDNESDAY On the holiday week, the McHenry Savings and Loan association will be open Wednesday, Dec. 24, until 2 p.m. And will close on Thursday, which is Christmas. 38535835^58^ 5535555 585X^5555 5855^55505 ja^ & § | Plaindealer Deadlines S & | | Moved Ahead For Two Weeks 8 - H Because the Plaindealer will be printed two days «• early on both holiday weeks, there will be different dead- « lines for both news and advertising;. K a i g General news for both issues will be accepted until E « 3 "30 o'clock Saturday afternoon. Correspondents who « a usually turn columns in to our office on Friday will do $ so on Thursday. Those whose columns usually reach us SS on Monday must have them in on Friday. g H Display advertising will be accepted until Saturday $ 8 noon both weeks, and classified advertising until Monday g at 10 a.m. | jjj| The Christmas holiday issue will be printed on Tues- tjS H day, Dec. 23, and the New Year's psue on Tuesday. Dec. 30. iMROffi km iCCIDErj RESULT FROM ICY ROADS IN AREA; MANY REPORTS) HURT Packed snow and icy roads were responsible for a number of accidents during the past week. Four members of the Harry Hans family were injured ih an accident which ^occurred Sunday evening about 5:45 o'clock on Rt. 31, just south of the Highway 176 intersection . . . Mr. Hans was driving north when the eastbound car of Charles Gordon of Cary crossed the highway, enroute from Crystal Lake, directly in front of the Hans auto. The crash which resulted caused injuries to Gordon, to Mr. Hans' wife, Evelyn, two of their children, Harry, 7, and Judy, 16, and Mrs. Hans' mother, Minnie Huson. Jimmy Hans, 13, and Minnie Gordon, a passenger in the other car, were uninjured. Virginia Nault told authorities that her car was run off the road by another auto and it struck a tree on Roberts road, near Rt. 176, just before 8 o'clock Sunday evening. She was not injured. A car driven by James Conway of Shalimar went out of control about 6 o'clock Sunday TRUDER LEAVES TfJRKEYS. TAKES C&SH AT V.F.W. WANTED: A BIT OF HOME TOWN AT XMAS TIME GERALD MAYFIELD. 41. AND LEO W. HOEXTER, to. DIE OF INJURIES SUFFERED IN CRASH There is nothing so heartwarming as a letter from home, especially during the holidays, but in our busy holiday whirl it has taken two young ladies in Moscow, Idaho, to impress| McHenry men were on those of us "at home" just! '&st Thursday evening, how important such messages Pec- H. about 10:30 o'clock in can be. |a tragic pre-holiday crash Last summer the Lyle An- which took the lives of three derson family left our com- j ^^P^nts of ^ cfJsmunity after a long residence L1f **ere Gerald Mayfield, here,, This week, two of the 41' *°f Mam street' McHenry An intruder apparently left his appetite at home early Monday morning as he made away with a quantity of money but left several beautifully brbwned turkeys untouched at the V.F.W. clubhouse. About one nundred dollars in cash, found in a cash register, was taken from the Veterans of foreign Wars building on Rt. *r*\ir/>\ T r\r* X T mrcwr 120, east of McHenry. before : TW° LOCAL MEN 7 o'clock in the morning. En- ' PREACH FIRST trance to the building was gained by breaking a window in the back. Andersons' children. Carmen, a young 'teen-ager, and Kathy, college age. wrote this appeali n g l e t t e r t o S a n t a , w h i c h might well be echoed by other folks whose thoughts and hearts turn to the old home town at Christmas time. "Dear Santa: "We've tried real hard all year to be good. And now it's Christmas time. "We moved away from McHenry last July and now during the Christmas season we really miss the old town. What we'd really like is a couple of T'ane tickets East. (A couple of seats in your sleigh would do line.) But we realize with all the strikes tickets might bo rather hard to get. "Next best thing would be l e t t e r s f r o m o u r M c H e n r y friends. All the local gossip would make a fine Christmas present. "Thank you, Santa, "Carmen and Kathy Anderson" father of five children, his <6rother-in-law, Leo W. Hoexter, 60, of Maple "avenue, and Grocery, Lake Forest and belonged to the Moose lodge in McHenry. Besides his widow, Madeleine, he is survived by five children ranging in age from 17 to 9, Mary Ann, Frances, Michael, Robert and Gerald; tive sisters, Sister Therese Marie of Holy Angels convent, Aurora, Mrs. Mae Hoexter <jf The burglary was discovered SERMONS XMAS Gerald Mayfield, left, and Leo Hoexter, right, are pictured at work in the Lake Forest store where they were employed. Russell L. Call, .29, of the Fox : McHenry, Mrs. Vivian Smith Lake area. The drivers, Hoexter and Call, wpre killed instantly and Mayfield, a passenger in the Hoexter car, died about an hour later in Condell Memorial hospital, Libertyville. State police who investigated said the Hoexter car was westbound on Rt. 59A when it) neighbor reported seeing a man leave the grounds a short time before, but failed to report it as she believed him to be a hunter. Candlelight Service At Pistakee Highlands evening and the vehicle struck | . There will be a candlelight a tree. Conway was uninjured. 1 Christmas Eve service in the Joseph Stafford of Great , home of Ralph Mueller in Pi- Lakes training station was in-! stakee Highlands, 112 High jured Sunday when his car ^street, planned by the steering went out of control and it ' committee for the purpose of knocked down a utility pole on • forming a Methodist church in Rt. 120. east, of McHenry. He the Highlands. The service on was treated by a local physic- , Dec. 24 will begin at 7 p.m. ian and later taken by ambu- Anyone interested in the for- Bob Repke and Jay Walkington will be giving their first custodian as he report- | pU^lic sermon on pec 24 and ' collided head-on with the Call r work a. 7 o clock. Later ^ of ^ Grfmmoi an(J Ri„g. ; car. The accident occurred wood churches. Both of these ""f of road- several miles east of Volo. vong men are entering the . , , Methodist ministry and arc the i, ^ tw° l0CaI mfn *** first in the history of their > <unTg f™m Lake churches to do so. The church-1 F,ores'- w„herc,„bo,h w"e cmes are both 100 years old. two ^yed' Whcn the CTash occur" of the oldest in the county. ; Mr. Repke and Mr. Walking- | Roads were reported slippery ton are featured in several ' was no* established that national and state publications was cause of the tragfor their work in the local , ecfrchurches. They are also leaders | Gerald Mayfield in their respective fields of | Mr. Mayfield, a resident of conservation and school activ- i this area for more than five mation of this church from that I area is invited to attend and [ bring the children. IN CHURCH PRESENTATION lance to Great Lakes. Four Injured Cars driven by Donald E Schacht of rural Woodstock j and Wilbert Hecht, Sr., of Mc- • Only six more shopping days Cullom Lake collided head-on i remain before Christmas, on Rt. 120 lefst Friday evening. Hecht was taken to McHenry hospital and later released. Schacht. his wife, Frances. and a daughter, Connie. 13, were more seriously injured and were taken to Memorial An oil heater which either hospital, Woodstock, for treat- exploded or overheated is bement. Iieved responsible for t h e Two men escaped injuries deaths of two Chicago couples as fire destroyed their cottage on Bangs Lake, Wauconda, early last Sunday morning. The victims were Michael J ities. RECEIVES ASSIGNMENT Rev. Fr. James C. Novak, who has been assisting at St. Patrick's church in McHenry since last spring, left McHenry this week to act as assistant director at the Newman'club in DeKalb. I years, was born Jan. 15, 1917. I He was a clerk in the Hahn of California, Mrs. Monica Perko of Springfield and Mrs. Rita Stauffer of Springfield; three b r o t h e r s , G e o r g e o f S p r i n g - field, Eymard of Chicago and Robert of California. The body rested at the George Justen & Son funeral home until Monday morning, when services were held at St. Mary's Catholic church, with burial in the church cemetery. Leo Hoexter Leo Hoexter, 60, a threeyear resident of McHenry, was born A p r i l 6. 1898, in New York. He was manager of tn*i Hahn Grocery, Lake Forest. He belonged to the local Legion post. Surviving is his widow, Mae. Services were held Monday afternoon at the George Justen funeral home, with Rev. Fr. John Reuland officiating. Burial was in St. Mary's cemetery. Two Couples Die As Cottage At Bangs Lake Burns To Ground (Continued on page 8) EMBEDDED LOGS BURN IN FIREPLACE AT LOCAL HOME BIG PROGRAM R HOME Children To Benefit From Dec. 27 Event Firemen from Station 3 were called /to the William Kunz home in Lilymoor one evening Leonardi, 50, a salesman, and j ]ast week when the family rehis wife, Camille, 48, owners ported a smoldering fire in the of the cottage, and Frank Tor- j fireplace. toriello, 56, a Chicago city employee, and his wife, Julia, 46. Two young Wauconda men, Investigation revealed that logs which had been embedded between the stone and cement Robert Quackenbush and Don; vvhen the fireplace was made, \ assau, drove to the cottage J began to burn. It was necesafter seeing flames. They found the east side of the one and one-half story frame building ablaze and tried in vain to n rouse someone by rapping on the windows and door. Many of the houses in the area am unoccupied during the winter and they were unable to get help within the block. Recover Bodies Wauconda firemen received the call at 3'50, but when they reached the scene the entire cottage was in flanaes. They were unable to enter the ruins u n t i l a l m o s t 6 o ' c l o c k , w h e n sarv for the firemen to tear away the fireplace to extinguish the fire. There was no other damage except a small amount caused by smoke. AREA PARISHES LIST CONFIRMANDS IN ROCKFORD RITE k In costumes appropriate to the parts they will be playing in next Sunday's Christmas presentation at the Junior high school are members „of the Community Methodist church who are in the large cast. The time of presentation is 4 o'clock in the afternoon. First row, left to right, Vickie, Ann and Lee Varese. Patti McCracRen, Noel Hinspater, Dale pSnell.Mim Mars, Stev>e Thomas and Randy Kreimier. Back row: Oscar Iber, Clinton Claypool, Earle Befford, Jack Yount, Clyde Bailey. Paw) LaDue, Roy Homo, John Boss, Vernon Petersen, Eddie Mars and Gary Ricker. The Sacrament of Confirmation was conferred on 1,200 converts at the Rockford Armory by five bishops last Sunday, Dec. 14, the ceremony they found the body of one of I Ktai'tinj; at 4 o'clock in the the women. The last body was i afternoon. The Most Rev. Lorrecovered at 8:15 a.m. j as T Lane, bishop of Rockford, The two couples arrived at; delivered the sermon during the cottage Friday night. Ac- ^e hour long ceremonies cording to Rev. John Sullivan j x\-hich .were televised throughof Transfiguration church. whojout the Rockford area, had known the Leonardis for( ^ number from the McHenry two years*, the pair had been j community were confirmed in coming to Wauconda almost [ gn PV^n( which climaxes the every weekend to work on the I djocesan jubilee year. cottage, which they were con-1 Twelve were confirmed from verting into a vear 'round resi-1 l. dcnce (Continued on page 8) Assign Pastors New Parishes Earl Eisenhower, Mahalia Jackson. Norman Ross, Phil Maxwell, Gene Baker and the Clara Ward singers are a part of a star-talented group of entertainers who will give a program in Woodstock on Saturday night, Dec. 27. It will be presented in the Woodstock Community high school as a benefit performance for the Woodstock Children's home. Chairman of the program is Earl Eisenhower, the' youngest brother of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who is the director of public relations for West Suburban Newspapers, with offices at LaGrange, 111. He will be assisted by alternate masters of ceremony, Philip Maxwell, promotional director of the Chicago Tribune, and Norman Ross of Chicago radio and TV fame. The featured entertainer is Mahalia Jackson. Miss Jackson is a well known recording and television star. Within the last two weeks she has been the featured guest on the Dinah Shore and the Bing Crosby shows. She is an adrrrirer of world famous evangelist, Bi^ly Graham, and appeared on the program. "This is Your Life'* when that program featured Rev. Mr. Graham. Supplementing the artistry of Mahalia Jackson will be other top talent. Gene Baker, former Chicago. ,s. liad. beon done, he slipped Cub baseball player, and nort'.^ t,10 and {0n. injuring his with the Pittsburgh Pirates.,^ He has been confined to will be present. \icllenry hospital, where , l„> uiMii-nwnt surgery. Two former local pastoiTs received new assignments in the Rockford diocese. They are Rev. C. J. Thennes, a native of this community who has been serving at Warren, and Rev. Fr. William H. Regnier, who has been at the Pro-Catnedrrl at Rockford. The official appointment by the Chancery office names Fr. Thennes as pastor of Holy Cross parish, Stockton. He has been pastor of St. Anne's in Warren since 1948. He attended the parochial school at St. Mary's McHenry, and was the first native son from St. Mary's parish to be ordained to the priesthood. His first ten years after being ordained were spent as assistant in the parish of St. Joseph's, Aurora, St. Patrick's Dixon, St. Patrick's of St. Charles and St. Mary's Oregon. Fr. Regnier has been named to succeed Fr. Thennes at Warren. He has many friends in McHenry, acquired during the time he was assistant pastor in St. Patrick's parish. His assignment to the Fro-Cathedral took effect in 1949. BREAKS HIP IN FALL AFTER ESCAPE IN AUTO ACCIDENT William Rarth, Sr.. of Hue- I mann's subdivision suffered a ' fractured hip as the result of a i fall the ice last-Thursday I afternoon. -P; i,if to ?he atvident.-his car r"' and one driven by Mr$. E. W. Nardi of Shalimar had collided on the narrow road in the subdivision When Mr. Barth got out of his car to see what dam- (Continued on page S)