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ibg The Chain-O-Lakes Region Since 1875" r Volume 86 -- No. 46 -- 3 Sections McHENRY. ILLINOIS. THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1961 26 Pages -- 10c Per Copy The Easter Seal tag day in McHenry next Saturday is one of the many Worthwhile requests for contributions which vHe in McHenry are asked to teittember each year. It is especiaJjy noteworthy that as much 8s»e0 per cent of every dollar given remains In the county Ibr use here. J . feill Dial, a McHenry man,E Is speech therapist at the center maintained in Woodstock 'year 'round. This particular .part of the therapy program has grown rapidly in popularity, with between 80 and 90 persons receiving aid at the •» weeks' speech clinic. Othefrs 'benefit from therapy there throughout the year. Of interest is the fact that an occupational therapy division is being studied for future establishment. More details will no doubt be forthcoming in the months ahead- Other work of Easter Seal Includes free therapy to pupils 'il^the physically handicapped cnfts, who this year attend school in McHenry. One of the most interested persons in the progress of the organization in McHenry is jfttty. Harry Kinne, who is past president of the county chapter and is now a member of the board. ! Spring officially arrived last Sunday, and as a bright sun began to fade behind foreboding clouds, it brought to mind the similar fate of most of our ideas about the season itself. Theoretically, spring is a time . for day dreaming about Warm breezes, the world about us coming to life, and best of all, a lazy vacation season ahead. In it makes sense, b£ practically "it just ain't so". In reality, spring means many things, and not all of tjfeqi are good. It means roads in which ^o\es have suddenly become evident after the winter. It also means additional drivers, aiyinng them particular favorites who invariably turn in fsant of you when the light cffinges, or even better, the one who proceeds at a snail's paoe until the amber light turns, whereupon he shoots .across the intersection, leaving a number of hapless followers behind. With the spring season, there will be more of them cm the road. Of course spring means new Blaster attire for mi-lady, and i^the pocketbook stretches, for the gents too. What we sometimes forget is how easy it Is for a chilly and unexpected blast from the north to result In the sniffles, with the resulting red, and shiny nose to set off the finery. , Spring means elections too, Scholarship Winners Jaycee Project' Chairman Ed. Falck is shown above presenting awards to McHenry high school seniors who were announced as winners in the junior citizenship scholarship contest. From left to*right they are Sherry Evans, second place; Cathy Curran, first place; and Doro-, thy Adams, third place. The awards were presented at the Jaycee dinner meeting pn Tuesday evening of this week. , I State Official Speaks For Democratic Harmony H@?e (Continued on Page 8) A meeting designed to pro-, mote harmony in the ranks of the Democratic party in the McHenry area was held last week THfirsday evening at the court house in Woodstock. James'P. Ronan, chairman of the state central " committee, brought up the subject of the recent request of. a committeeman asking for the resignation of two others who held tht same office within the party. Mr. Ronan assured the capacity assemblage that the Democratic party has absolutely no objection to members backing tickets bearing, special names familiar to township elections. Onlyj when members back Rer ptfWfcSft tickets oh a county, state or national level is there cause for concern, he abided. The e x p l a n a t i o n r e s u l t e d from the recent request |or the resignation of Lawrence Huck, Jr., and Lynn Stuart McHenry township committeemen, by another local committeeman. The action occurred at a County Central committee meeting, at which time both refused to resign on the grounds that they were elected by a vote of Democrats in their precincts. Mr. Ronan explained that he came to the county because of the unpleasant inter-party situation which developed In recent weeks in this community. He said he and Gov. Kerner, and other state officials, had received innumerable phone calls and letters from interested citizens regarding the situation which reached its peak in disharmony at a central committee meet i n g a month ago. The state official added that he had stopped all patronage until such time as these problems are ironed out. REPOIff MUGHTS BEWmvr SOURCES OF FINANCING FOR CITY IMPROVEMENT 4||The following facts are taken from information contained in the recently released Plan Report for the city of McHenry). The summary of Stanton & Rockwell indicates their feeling that the city as faced with a varying balance which does not seem to be approaching a Stable condition. The year 1958. idaich showed an over-all defi- Cn of some- $26,300, resulted from increased expenditures on streets and alleys and professional services. . As the report was completed, planners said the city was cur- Wsrftly in a very favorable potfftioti in having a low outstanding bonded indebtedness. Two general obligation bond issues --water and sewer and street titoitihg --had a total outstanding balance of $180,000. Within the state imposed 5 cent limitation, over $635, ^ .tJflO of bonded debt is available t& the city. However, in addi- Hoh to the general debt, there <wais an outstanding revenue 'UbriS issue of $175,000 for waianvorks and sewers. Although there are no state imposed Plan Implementation nmriiniiiirifiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiin limitations on revenue bond financing, there are more practical limiting factors. These are the requirements of investors to impose limitations upon existing issues which have to be met before additional issues may be sold, and the estimated revenues to pay the revenue bonds should be one and onehalf times the annual debt requirement. The state statutes provide many sources for funds for financing municipal improvements. Financing from the property tax is available in three general areas: 1 - providing general operating funds; 2 - repayment of general obligation bonds; 3 - payment of the city's portion of special assessments. Monies received from the property tax for general fund purposes are rarely sufficient to provide all of the general municipal services desired. For example, in the fiscal year 1959, general property taxes covered only about 18 per cent of the general fund expenditures. The remainder was made up of various licenses and permit fees, fines and sales tax. For this reason, no general fund monies, except for minor street JAYCEES ELECT HAROLD CYGAM NEW PRESIDENT Presentation Of Scholarship Is Mealing Highlight Harold Cygan was elected president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce for the year ahead at the monthly dinner meeting held Tuesday of this weekt^ Others named to serve with him were Henry R. Heise, vice-president of "external affairs; David Ladd, vice-president of internal affairs; Le- Roy Hiller, secretary; and Anthony Pintozzi, treasurer. Officers will assume their official duties following an installation ceremony planned for early June of this year. Special guests present at the meeting were the three candidates for mayor, Donald Doherty, Edward Thennes«<and Joseph Gausden. Present Awards Scholarship Winners The McHenry Junior Chamber of Commerce this week announced the final winners of their junior citizen scholarship awards, presented by this group to three outstanding senior students of the local high school. Contestants were judged on the merits of citizenship and scholastic ability. Award winners include, the following: first place, Kathryn Curran, who received a $75 scholarship plus a handsome pen, and pencil set; second place, Sherry Evans, a $50 scholarship and desk lamp; and third place, Dorothy Adams, a $25 scholarship and collegiate dictionary. Personal awards were engraved to provide a lasting remembrance of the occasion. Presentations were made at the Jaycees monthly dinner meeting, which both the award winners and their parents attended. First place winner, Miss Curran, will now. be entered by C OF C WILL HEAR MAYOR CANDIMIIS Contest For New City Flag To Be Reviewed A highlight of the general membership meeting of the McHenry Chamber of Commerce next week will be the i n t r o d u c t i o n o f t h e t h r e e mayoral candidates, each of whom will be heard in a fiveminute review of the aims they hope to accomplish if elected to the city's highest office on April 18. The meeting of the C of C will include luncheon at the Legion home at noon. Mrs. Walter Carlson, secretary, may be contacted through March 24 for reservations. Of special interest will be discussion of a flag contest which will result in the city of McHenry eventually having a specially designed flag of its own. The contest will be handled by the art. department of the high school. Students will be asked to design appropriate flags, after which the Chamber will make a selection/The winning design \vill be presented to the mayor on Fiesta Day, and the designer will be awarded a bond. Guest speaker at next weeks meeting will be George Davison, manager of the Waukegan Chamber of Commerce. Arrange Dance Entertainment Plans were completed at the special board meeting Tuesday of this week for the dinner dance in mid-April, for which Gib Hamblet has been secured'* to provide entertainment. Mr. Hamblet will be remembered by long time C- of C members for his fine talent as a comedian when he appeared before the organization a few years ago. Tickets for the dance may be purchased at the end of this week from C of C members. Only 200 will be available, so members are urged to purchase them early. Approve New... Parking Meters , A recent survey of parking meter needs in McHenry resulted in the City Council's decision to install twenty-three new meters on Green street, extending from the present metered area to Waukegan stteet. Ample room will be allowed for the ambulance entrance to the McHenry hospital and also for emergency parking. Other areas are to be given further study. ^Residents of Golf View road met with a committee from the Council and worked out the street name change to the satisfaction of all. Golf View road will remain and a portion will be known as Golf View Terrace. A plan for street lights in the area is also under way. The time has come to spray trees to prevent Dutch Elm disease and the Council decided to continue the program. Results in the past indicated to the Council members that the plan should continue: The police department will have a riot gun in their car from now on and will be better prepared to meet emergencies such as road blocks and burglary investigations. Tjjhe residents of the westerly part of .Maple Avenue want the proposed sanitary sewer construction to the industrial area to include their street and had a delegation on hand to present their ideas. Stanley Vycital, leader of the McHenry Band, presented his plans for the coming season and was assured support of the city. SELECT STATE DAIRY PRINCESS IN COUNTY AUG. 23 Last Deadline Saturday Reveals Contests In All Major For April McHENRY HIGH IN TAX COLLECTION ON RETAIL SALES In line with McHenry's rise to second place in receipts from retailers' occupational tax and use tax for December sales, the city was also second high for the same period in the amount received on collections representing a tax of one-half per cent on retail sales. McHenry received $7,644.18, which was topped only by Woodstock with $8,115.70. Crystal Lake ranked third with $7,201.74. Other local ^receipts included Island Lake, $521.75; Lakemoor, $82.46; Spring Grove, $325.16; Richmond, $720.67; Sunnyside, $42.03. The county received $6,952.- 45. The large sum received in McHenry is of tremendous importance to the city in meeting the increasing needs of operation. It also clearly shows the value of the various business firms to the city. The McHenry Township Republican Women's club invites the public to a candidates' night, to be held at the Legion home on Thursday, March 23, the McHenry organization in j at 8 p.m. All GOP candidates a state-wide contest. , I will be presented at this time. Tops In Nursing Class BLAZE DAMAGED HOME OF SEVEN AT WONDER LAKE The Charles Marley family, including five children, experienced a narrow escape when fire badly damaged their home in Deep Spring Woods, Wonder Lake, early Monday morning. Awakened by the smoke shortly after 2 a.m., Mr. and Mrs. Marley managed to get the children out of the house onto a porch and late'r to the ground, while a floor furnace continued to blaze and send flames up between the walls. When firemen arrived, the entire basement ceiling was on fire and it was necessary to cut holes in the floor in two rooms to extinguish it. About 4:30, volunteers went home, but a short time later found it necessary to return when the flames started up again, gutting the bedroom upstairs. McHenry county, and Woodstock in particular, officially bec&qne the site of the 1961 state dairy princess contest last week, when rules governing the selection of candidates were released by the president of the Illinois American Dairy association, Henry Tanton. The contest is scheduled for Aug. 23, sponsored by the ADA, with the McHenry County Dairy Promotion council in charge of arrangements. Candidates may- be entered by civic or farm groups, and must be girls who have been winners of local contests.. They must be 17 years of age by Sept. 1 and not over 25. SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS The names of five McHenry high school seniors were released Wednesday of this week as winners of college scholarship awards from the State Scholarship Commission. They are Kathryn Curran, Eileen Noonan, Judith Nowak, Karen Parkhurst and William Winkcl. They were among 2,870 selected from semi-finalists who qualified on the results of the American college testing p r o g r a m e x a m i n a t i o n g i v e n last Nov. 5. Of these, 1,352 will receive monetary awards and 1,518 honorary awards. DAUGHTER OF CITY INDUSTRIALIST IN EARLY DAYS DIES Mrs. Katherine M. Worts, 82, a daughter of pioneer McHenry residents, Gottlieb and Josephine Boley, died in McHenry hospital, Sunday, March 19, where she had been a patient for only a day._,.Mrsv Worts had resided at, the same address at 105 N. Green street for the past fifty-two years. It was back *tn the CHvil fur period that Gottlieb Boley became one of the community's first industrialists when he established the McHenry brewery on Pearl street. In the early days the family owned the entire north half of the block in which the Plaindealer is located, and young Katherine Boley became acquainted with business life as it existed in McHenry at that time. The business remained in the family until the mid-twentie?, when the brewery building in the middle of the block was sold. It was about 1940 that they disposed of property on the northwest corner. The deceased was born Oct. 17, 1878, in McHenry. She was a member of the Women's Catholic Order of Foresters and Riverview Camp, R.N.A. Survivors include two daughters, Josephine Ohlrich of Woodstock and Rose Bell of McHenry; and a sister, Mrs. Josephine Olson, of Oregon. Her husband, Michael, died In 1932. The body rested at the (Continued on Page 8) Boai Salary Increase; Name f riiciuiB At New (Continued on Page 8) Mrs. O. C. Banker, director of nursing service, congratulates Mrs. Fred G. O'Halleran of McCullom Lake for having attained the highest grade in the recent nursing aid course sponsored by McHenry hospitaL J A salary. schedule increase of 5 per cent was approved by Consolidated Grade School Board. No. 15, when members met Monday evening of this week. The starting salary of a teacher with a bachelor's degree will be $4,909, reaching $6,504 in fourteen years. Starting salaries for those with master's degrees will be $5,154, rising to $6,994 in sixteen years. Miss Barbara Hirt was named by the board as principal of the new Valley View school, which is now under construction on Rt. 120, west of the city, and will open next fall. A number of faculty resignations were announced, and one in particular was reviewed with great regret because of the many years she has so ably served the community. Miss Mary Kinney announced that she was retiring at the end of this school year- after forty-nine years of service. Others who will be leaving at the end of the term are Jeanne Olson, Norma Jones, Donna Maris, Kathleen Downs and Mrs. Walter Reeves. A contract was approved for Miss Marjorie Miller to teach first grade next year. During the evening, the first semester speech report was presented to the board by the teacher, William "Dial. The board accepted the bid of Metal Equipment Co., of Chicago for kitchen equipment at the Valley View, school. The board, after discussion, decided to maintain the policy of not employing non-degree teachers if teachers with degrees are available. M e m b e r s p r e s e n t w e r e Messrs. Vaupell, Wittrock and Uttich and Mesdames Meyer, Haug and/ Peterson. ' Anticipate Deficit H i g h / S c h o o l B o a r d 1 5 6 , meeting Tuesday night, adopted a resolution anticipating an Hold Tag Day For Easier Seal Fund (Continued" tin Page 8) On Saturday, March 25, a tag day will be conducted in McHenry for the benefit of the annual Easter Seal campaign. Proceeds will be added to the receipts resulting from 30,000 letters sent throughout the county, containing seals. , The tag day will be conducted by the McHenry Rotary club, with Chuck Peterson in charge of arrangements. Contributors will be interested to learn that 80 per cent of the charity dollar remains in the county to help in the important work of the Easter Seal chapter here. One of the ,biggest projects of the chapter is maintenance of the therapy center in Woodstock, where over 4,000 treatments are given each year. TOWNSHIP RACE FIRST OF FOUR DURING MONTH Mail Personal Property Forms April 1 is the assessment date on personal property, which means that the assessor of McHenry township will soon be mailing out schedules. The office of Township Assessor Lester R. Bacon at 3706 W. (now 203) - John street will be open each day. Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. from April 10 until May 31," and Saturdays until noon during April for the purpose of assisting taxpayers from the township in filing personal property schedules. In addition to the above, the assessor or an assistant will be at the Wonder Lake fire house from 1 to 4:30 p.m. from Monday, April 10, to Friday, April 14, inclusive. He will be at the Johnsburg public school from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. April 17 through April 21 to assist people in this area. If the time or places are inconvenient, or if there are any questions, taxpayers may call Mr. Bacon. Schedules may be completed and returned by mail. Husbands or wives may file jointly or separately, as preferred. The most important items to remember are the following: 1, automobile; 2, trucks, trailers or buses; 7, household furniture and furnishings; 15, boats, airplanes and other personal property. All cars or trucks listed from a taxpayer's address must be- filed. A sheet listing car values will be mailed with the schedules. Mr. Bacon reminds taxpayersthat the law demands that schedules be filed. He adds that the assessor's office sells county dog licenses for dogs outside of the city or villages in McHenry township. JUNIOR POLICE MEET The Junior Police will meet at the Community Methodist church at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, March 28. The last day for filing for the third of the spring elections of interest to McHenry residents came and departed very quietly last Saturday. March 18 was the last date on which residents of the grade and high school districts could file petitions for places on the boards of education. With the deadline havirig passed on both city and town- Ship elections also, it is interesting to review the many contests which await the voter op the three election days next month. Most of the interest in the school elections seems to^ent> er in Consolidated Grade Disr trict No. 15, where five seek three positions. Two of the three present members chose not to seek re-election, which means that regardless of the outcome, there will be some new faces. ' y Mrs. Charles Peterson is thf only incumbent who seeks rc^ election. Others who have filed are Dr. Peter Griesbach, Thomas Lawson. Roy Kissling and Hemy Nell, Jr. Retiring from the board are Harold Vaupell and Hubert Smith. There is no contest in the high school district, where Donald Howard and Ralph Bennett seek re-election and Carl Neiss has filed to replace Geotge Hffltr, who will not Yfe a candidate. The school elections will take place Saturday, April & Township Election Of more immediate Interest will be the township election, which will find contests between a Republican ticket named at a recent caucus, and the Citizens party ticket. It will be remembered that the slate approved at a caucus of some Democrats In the township was ruled out at a hearing held recently because not all precinct committeemen had been notified of the intention to caucus. Contests will be between Gus Freund (R) and Lester R. Bacon (C) for assessor; Fred Rogers (R) and H. Walter Anderson (C) for town clerk; Albert S. Blake (R), 'and Charles "Chuck" Miller (C) for ass i s t a n t s u p e r v i s o r ; G e r a l d "Bud" Elbersen, Foster Glorcn and Fred Haubold (R) against Arnold J. Rauen, Harold "Harry" Freund and Joe Sullivan (C) for members of the board of auditors. In the district races for the posts of justices of the peace and constable, elected in a different manner this year, candidates also represent the above named tickets. Candidates are R. R. Marshall (R) and Charles M. Adams (C) for justice and Sigurd Jacobsen (R) and Larry Murray (C) for constable. Voters for township offices will go to the poiis on Tuesday, April 4. It will be remem- (Continued on Page 8) Plan For Variety Show Rev. Fr. Harold Nilges, Gene Frost, Louis Brefeld arid Bob Afeld are shown making final preparations on the scenery for the musical variety show, "Melodic Journey," to be presented April 16. April 23 and 25 by St. Mary's parish of McHenry. This year's show will feature a sixty-voice adult chorus, a seventy-voice children's chorus, several dance groups and feature acts.