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Volume 89 -- No. 49.-- 3 Sections "SERVING THE CHAIN-0-LAkES REGION SINCE 1875" ? T5f • McHENRY, ILLINOIS. THURSDAY. APRIL 16, 1964 22 Pages -- 10c P«r Cop) Fire Threatens Homes At Lakeland Shores Tuesday i' W There is little time for reflection in compiling votes in seventeen McHenry township precincts and throughout the county. Nevertheless, we have taken a few moments to check past primaries and compare. In 1962 --a non-presidential year--the total was some over 16,OCX). In view of the tremendous increase in population in the last decade, this vote was low compared with the 15,451 votes which set a record in 1936. Of interest in view of the growing number of Democratic votes is a note found in an early issue of a county newspaper in the 'fifties which read: "Any hope that the Democrats, might pile up a large vote this year seems lost in that there is only one contest on the ticket and only two for county office." Attendance at an annual town meeting can be an interesting and educational experience, yet few people take the time to be present unless there is something more than the usual business to be decided. One inquiry often asked of township officials is, "Who makes the levy for township road and bridge purposes, the electors at the annual meeting or the township highway commissioner?" The answer is that the statute still gives this duty to the commissioner, but along the way he must get approval of the electors. With this approval of all or any part of such estimated amounts as electors deem necessary, the commissioner certifies on or before the first Tuesday in September the amount to the county board as the necessary amount to be raised by taxation for road purposes in the township. In most instances, approval by the board is a formality, but there have been a few cases where that group has reduced the amount. Tho electors ut the town meeting this year had their usual duties, but the highway procedure was new, effective last Jan. 1 with the passage of a bill by the Illinois General Assembly. Now in mid-April, we find ourselves in the midst of National Library week, a voluntary citizens' movement dedicated to tho long range goal of encouraging lifetime reading habits, increasing people's use of libraries, and expanding and improving the total reading and library resources of the nation. There could be no more opportune time for such a week than in McHenry, where the library board and the City Council seek $10,000 necessary so that ground can be broken for a new addition. One cannot say that interest doesn't exist, for many people and organizations have spent both time, effort and money for the realization of their aim. Others have preferred to wait until the project was actually started. For these we can only urge generosity now, since it is impossible to enter into a contract for construction without a sufficient amount in this special fund. To say that a dream of a bigger and better library exists (Continued on Page 8) A raging grass fire which swept out of control west of McHenry Tuesday morning was finally brought under control by members of Company I of the McHenry Township Fire Protection district after four hours of work. Fire Chief Ed Justen said the origin of the conflagration was unknown. The blaze had its start on the old Grasser farm on Draper road and had gained considerable headway before being detected. The fire spread through a cornfield and into a slough on the south side of Rt. 120, eventually reaching within 20 feet of homes in Lakeland Shores. Firemen worked from about 10 o'clock until 2 p.m. to bring the blaze under control. Mr. Justen said the various companies were called out on about fifteen grass fires during the week but the one Tuesday morning was the most serious, abetted by a strong wind. Last weekend, members of Company 2 at Johnsburg were called to the Bald Knob resort, where an outboard motor boat valued at about $1,500 was destroyed by flames. A grass fire in the area spread until the tarpaulin covering the boat, which was docked, caught fire and eventually reached the boat itself. The craft was owned by an Oak Park resident. Percy, Cross Big Winne In Tuesday's Primary MUCH DAMAGE BY VANDALS AT WONDERLAKi Harrison School Busses Damaged Susiday Evening No financial estimate has been placed on the extensive damage at Harrison school in Wonder Lake, which occurred last weekend. The report was made to the county sheriff's office by Supt. Merl F. Thomas. A window in the school building was forced open, the first effort preceding the damaging of property in rooms in the new portion of the school, as well as in two school busses parked outside. It is believed that the vandalism, the second in recent weeks, occurred early Sunday evening. Inside the building, teachers' and pupils' desks were ransacked many of the contents thrown on the floor, fire extinguishers were discharged and obscene writings left on the blackboards. Other damage included sugar in the cafeteria poured through the building and furniture and rugs damaged. In the busses, seats were slashed and instruments damaged. The loss is expected to amount to several hundreds of dollars. One good footprint was said to have been obtained by Deputy Robert Madsen of the Sheriff's office. Entry was made to the Yarn Barn on Riverside Drive, McHenry, also investigated by the sheriff's office Monday morning. Support the Cancer Crusade during April when volunteers come to your home or business firm for a contribution. CHILD NARROWLY ESCAPES DROWNING IN LAKE FRIDAY A two-year old youngster narrowly escaped drowning late Friday afternoon when he apparently wandered too near the sea wall in front of the family home and fell Into Pistakee lake. He was Daniel Reinhold, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Reinhold of 712 Regner road. The child and his older brother, David, 4, had been told to play in the yard for a few minutes before the supper hour. They had many times been warned to stay away from the water, but the appearance of some wild ducks on the lake evidently drew their interest. When David ran to tell his parents that his brother was in the water, Mr. Reinhold hurried to the shore and waded out into water 2 feet deep to rescue the child, who was floating, face down. Bringing Daniel to land, he called for help and was joined by a neighbor, Ralph Hanna, who was doing some remodelling outside his home. The latter took over the work of administering ° artificial respiration for a period of ten to fifteen minutes, when the child regained consciousness. He was taken to McHenry hospital and kept over night, but was reported in good condition over the weekend. MINOR ACCIDENT thorities he was forced to drive onto the shoulder to avoid another car. The petit juror's list has been released by Circuit Clerk Margaret O'Neil, from which juries will be called to hear cases in Circuit Court late in April. Included are Jacob E. Stoffel of McHenry and Mae Pretzman of Island Lake. Jr. All-Ame " an Champs * •> 1ECTI0N WINNERS wm». PoDs CHARLES H. PERCY RICHARD R. CROSS Over 2,000 Go To Polls F®r School Eledions Saturday In C@mmunity Eugene Spitz of Chicago was uninjured when his auto travelled into a ditch near the Intersection of McCullom Lake and Ringwood roads last Monday , , „ afternoon. The driver told ati4w- Krieger, Jr., polled an im- School elections in the area brought: forth over 2,000 voters last Saturday in five area districts. In High School District 156, there was a total of 1,785 votes cast in the seven precincts and resulted in the re-election for three-year terms of Donald Howard, Carl J. Neiss and George M. Freund. Their total votes were 981, 919 and 1,160, respectively. Dr. Leslie Girl Scouts To Hold Fair The Viscounts color guard again brought honors to their organization on Sunday, when they topped twenty-two other guards in a contest sponsored by the Junior All American association in Mount Prospect. Last Sunday, in competition with twenty-two other guards, the color guard of the Viscounts pl#ced first in competition in Mount Prospect. The young ladies earned a rating of 92.25 to bring home the first place trophy, as well as winning the highest "general effect" trophy. The two sergeants, Marrilou Smith and Patty Gray, also won the commanding officers' trophy. Second place was won by the Buccaneers from Wisconsin with a score of 90.7 and the Des Plaines Corsairs placed third with 90.55. The local guard will post Fiesta Day Set July 19 annual annual (Continued on Page 8) McHenry's seventh Fiesta Day and sixth drum corps magic show plans were announced at a meeting this past week. The event will take .place on Sunday, July 19. The McHenry Chamber of Commerce will again act as sponsor. The C. of C. earlier appointed Frank Low as its chairman for the event, and Mayor Doherty has appointed Alderman William Bolger to represent the city, and Ed Cooke, president of the Viscounts parents association, represents that organization. Jack Cooper has been appointed secretary- treasurer of the Fiesta Day fund. This year, as in those palst, the local business firms will be asked in the coming weeks to help make the day a successful one financially. Without their past assistance and that of the many organizations in the community, McHenry's Fiesta Days would not be a reality. In addition to ttye various chairman, Ed Reid will again be parade chairman, with the assistance of John and Ernie Zimny, Jay Osman, Don Brockrogge and Bill Lingenfclter. pressive 851 and Dr. R. H. Watkins 701. District 15 In Consolidated Grade School District 15, Dr. Peter H. Griesbach was high vote-getter with 798. Returned to office with him were Thomas L. Lawson with 620 and Henry Nell, Jr., with 739. In his first bid for office on the board, Thomas R. Davis received 320 votes. Voting in District 15 took place in four precincts with a total of 915,bjillots cast. Two Reelected In the absence of any contests, the election in Johnsburg's District 12 was more quiet than the others. Robert Hurckes and Edward Thoren, both of Pistakee Highlands, were re-elected to three-year terms with 215 votes each. Ringwood Election Paul Walkington was . reelected to a three-year term on the Ringwood school board as the result of last Saturday's election. With a total of thirty- eight votes cast, he received thirty-one. Other board members are Clayton Bruce and E. G. Winters. Harrison Winners Henry C. Setzler, incumbent, and James L. Gianola were elected to the Harrison District 36 school board at Wonder Lake. There were 529 ballots cast in the Harrison election, for a total of 918 votes among five candidates. Of these, twenty- eight ballots were spoiled. Setzler, running for a third term, led the Harrison race with 247 or 26.9 percent of the vote, followed by Gianola with 188 or 20.5 percent. Votes and the percentage of total for other candidates were: George Street 173 or 18.8 percent, James A. Blume 166 or 18.1 percent, and Robert N! Kiddell 136 or 14.8 percent. Eight write-in votes were cast. The 529 ballots exceeded 512 cast in 1963 at Harrison when a referendum issue was involved, and 459 ballots of 1962. A record 690 ballots were cast last August in connection with referendum. The Harrison board election proved to be unusually close, each candidate holding his relative position virtually unchanged as the count came in, with none receiving a so-called "mandate" from the public in terms of a landslide majority. Gianola, a relative newcomer in the community, made a particularly strong showing, running only fifty-nine votes behind veteran board member On Sunday afternoon, April 19, from 1 to 4 p.m., Girl Scouts of Valley View Neighborhood will held a fair at the Junior high school auditorium, to which the public is cordially invited to attend. A portion of the gym will be alloted to each troop of the neighborhood where they will exhibit much of the work they have done in the past year. The fair is an attempt to portray to the parents of Girl Scouts, and to the public in general, much of what Girl Scouting means to local young ladies. The troops will also portray, individually, many different areas covered by scouting--fun in the out-of-doors, handicraft, first aid, citizenship, group activities,, etc. There are nineteen troops in the neighborhood, including Brownies in second and third grades Juniors in fourth, fifth and sixth; and Cadettes in seventh, eighth and ninth grades. Girls are from troops in Lakeland Park; McHenry, Eastwood Manor, Sunnyside Estates, Johnsburg, Pistakee Highlands and Holiday Hills. Voters Go To In Seventeen Precincts Although 4,601 voters went to the polls the seventeen McHenry precincts and an estimated 18,000 to 19,000 voted throughout the county in last Tuesday's primary, the final county totalis expected to fall short of the 20,850 predicted last week by County Clerk Vernon Kays. His prediction of not quite half of the 46,859 registered voters was based upon important races for county and state offices, as well as the fact that a presidential year usually results in a higher vote than off-year elections. Committeemen Race Results SAND BOX PROJECT The McHenry Jaycees sand box project held Sunday, April 12, was highly successful, according to club members who participated. This was shown by the fact that the trucks had disposed of all sand prior to completely covering the entire area. So that all interested persons may avail themselves of this service, the Jaycee will make deliveries on Sunday, April 19. To be certain of delivery, call Alan Freund or Jake Marino. Much of the interest in Tuesday's primary focused attention on the precinct committeemen elections in McHenry township precincts. ^On the Republican ticket, races occurred in several precincts, resulting in the election of Vernon Ehredt in Precent 9, polling 130 votes against 89 for Fred Fradinard; Joseph R. Levesque in Precinct 12, the winner over Wilbert K. Hecht by a vote of 121 to 118; Albert A. Adams in Precinct 15, who won over Anton F. Weber by a vote of 181 to 91. Other voting on the GOP ticket included the following results in uncontested races: 1, James H. Wegener, 101; 2, Charles J. Miller, 211; 3, Albert B. Stilling, 141; 4, Joseph Frett, 174; 5, Anthony Grosso, 193; 6, Anthony Varese, 144; 7, Phil Doherty, 163; 8, Charles G. Miller, 136; 10, Theodore Wickman, 152; 11, John T. Licastro, 49; 13, Foster E. Glorch 125; 14, George G. Gilpin, Sr., 102; 16, Albert M. Jourdan, Jr., 81; 17 Milton L. Croasdale, 147. Several contests were sdso settled on the Democratic ballot where Sigurd Jacobson defeated Roy Homo 34 to 9 in Precinct 1; Walter Rocheford won over Clarence Hummel, 63 to 56, in Precinct 5; Jess J. Seaman was the winner over Harold L. Evans in Precinct S, 22 to 14; Frank Hromec topped Richard Burmann, 147 to 42, in Precinct 13; and Daniel Johnson was the winner over Jeanne Hillstrom in Precinct 17 by a vote of 221 to 115. Other winners in precincts where no contests existed were the following: Precinct 2, William J. .Bolger, 88; 3, Lawrence J. Huck, Jr., 93; 4, Robert Pechous Sr., 15; 6, Lynn Stuart. 37; 7, William E. Pictor 38; 9, Harry Brady, 47; 10, John Mc- Cafferty, 45; 11, Henry C. Wohlert, 29; 12, Theresa Olsen Schultz, 55; 14, Charles M. Adams, 50; 15, John J. Colomer, 43; 16, Thomas J. Hanahan, Jr., 220. Wind Daitia (Continued on I'uge 8) mmm. This large tree at the intersection of Idyll Dell road and Rt. 31, in back of the Farmhquse tavern, was uprooted during Monday's heavy wind. Another huge tree suffered the same fate at the corner of Main and Third streets, and a display window was blown in at Holiday Liquors, west of the city. Shingles were blown from hundreds of homes, a,nd in the case of one firm they caused damage to cars parked^ outside the building The state-wide race for Governor, which drew wide attention in McHenry county, saw Charles H. Percy the choice of his party to oppose Governor Otto Kerner in next fall's general election. In McHenry coun-, ty, Percy polled 7,910 votes against 6,491 for his closest rival, William J. Scott. The statewide vote^ was even more decisive, wTtli unofficial returns* giving the contest to Percy with 582,000 to 360,000 for his. opponent. Emerging as the-outstanding, winner in the McHenry county^ contest for State's Attorney was Richard K. Cross. H& polled 6,547 votes throughout the seventy-five precincts tq defeat Bernard V. Narusis with 3,992 and Robert J. Leali with 3,106. One of the closest contests was for the new position of- County Auditor, which waft won by Harley H. Mackeben, who will represent his Rep--- lican party in the fall election. He defeated Calvin L. Skinner by a vote of 6,690 to 6,316. Another contest on the Republican ticket saw Harry C. Herendeen emerge as winner with 7,613 votes over Richard C. Anderson with 4,034 and Orville W. Gullang with 1,786 for Recorder of Deeds. Unopposed, Margaret O'Neill for clerk of the Circuit Court polled 11,064 and Theron J. Ehorn received the support of 12,205 for County Coroner. Other county totals on the; GOP ticket included the following: For President, Goldwater, 7,563 and Smith, 3,554; for Governor, Neidle, 65, Percy, 7,910, Scott, 6,491, Skallish, and Daly,77; for Lieutenant Governor, Doyle, 2,066, Graham 2,921, Pree, 1.371, Walter, 560, Wood, 2,265, Altorfer, 3,129 find Dee, 509; for Secretary of State, Jones, 1,260, Meyer, 2- 706, Pacanowski, 555, Clarke, 1,202, Haas, 677 and Hoffman, 6,965. . . For Auditor of Public Accounts, Hennessy, 1,633, Kerr, 1,907, Kirby, 3,351, McCamm, 1,759, Willens, 522, Chapman, 1,978, Coburn, 938 and Haenle, 236; for Attorney General, £«a- Velle, 1,208, Sandquist, 3,491, Sperling, 3,779, Stiehl, 794 ahd Canfield, 3,195; for Clerk of Appellate Court, Kellett, 8,361 and Kolvitz, 2,313;. for Representative in Congress, Mc- Clory, 12,876; for delegates, to national convention, Rentschler, 10,017 and Wildman, 10,- J92; for alternate delegates, Wickman, 10,370 and Green, 9,781. For State Senator, Coulson, 9,025 and MacGillis, 3,328; for delegates to state nominating Convention, 'McConnell, 9,471, Jones, 3,969, Cunningham, 4,- 914 and Anderson, 3,703. Democratic Victories As the Plaindealer *went .to press, it was conceded that WU liam J. Bolger of McHenry would run high for delegate to the national nominating ( convention in the 12th district. Ho polled 3,308 votes in slxty-flvf of McHenry county's precincts* Results in other ten were still unknown late Wednesday morn* ing. His opponents and result#, in county voting were 956 fof Gearty, 1,188 for Green, 4i$ for Turner, 490 for Daniels or 358 for Slater. Bolger's total in the district with seventeen precincts mlsi (Continued on S?o|p gj isfefe. • , ,-^ij ( 4 f tijfl "S3? .Jws