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"Serving The Cbaia-O-Lakes im'tf Since 1875" Volume 90 -- No. 49 -- 3 Sections McHENRY. ILLINOIS. THURSDAY, APRIL 1. 1965 20 PAGES -- 10c PER COPY VOTE IN TOWNSHIP ELECTION APRIL 6 .Spring is an exceptionally busy time of year for almost everyone, which may account for the fact that prospective voters sometimes feel they haven't the time to go to the. polls and express themselves on local issues,, ' McHenry area residents will be called upon to vote at least three times during April, and each is important for the future of the community. The first election occurs next Tuesday, April 6, when voters in the eighteen township precincts decide on the men and women who will represent them for the offices of clerk, assistant supervisor, assessor and board of auditors. Two of the posts are contested and merit the, thoughtful consideration of every voter. The Red Cross drive is continuing in McHenry and througout the county. However, with the many pressing needs which seem to become greater each year, it is sometimes impossible for volunteer solicitors to call at each home. Anyone who is not visited is asked to send a contribution to Mrs. George (Gertrude) Barbian in McHenry. "Gertie" for many years was the spark behind the local drive. While her activities have been curtailed, her interest in this worthwhile undertaking remains, and she promises a smile and a big thank-you for each one who remembers her favorite project. Just to know that 10,000 United States servicemen and their dependents received emergency assistance from the Red Cross in Viet Nam during 1964 should be enough to prompt each of us to pledge a donation. More old Plaindealer copies are turning up. Carol Justen, daughter of Mrs. Helen Justen, has told of looking through some papers in the family safe and coming upon issues dated 1903 and 1905. In carefully perusing them, she concluded that they had been »saved by her father, George R. Justen, late McHenry businessman, because they contained advertising of his father's furniture store. Carol described the ads as very peculiar appearing, which might well describe the entire paper in the early days. LYNN KREBS CHOSEN FOR GIRLS JTATE MCHS Student To Join 500 Forming Governing Units Lynn Krebs, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Warren C_ Krebs, 2105 Country, McHenry, has beep selected to represent the McHenry American Legion Auxiliary Unit 491 at Girl State. This year's session will be held at MacMurray College, Jacksonville. June 15 to the 22, with an enrollment of approximately 500. The project is for the purpose of providing citizenship training for Illinois girls who are members of the Junior high school class. Selection of the applicant is made by asking faculty members of McHenry high school to prepare a list of eligible girls having leadership qualities and who, through attributes of in- LYNN KREBS terest in civics and government, good character, self-reliance, honesty and cooperativeness, have contributed to the high morale of the school and community. Scholastic rating and physical fitness are other requirements. The final selection of the girl stater is in the Four Seek Contested Posts EVA BACON SPARKS Assessor JUNE SCHMUNK Assessor WILLIAM SILK Assistant Supervisor TEACHER SALARIES ARE INCREASED IN DISTRICT 15 A special meeting of the board of School District 15 was held Monday evening of this week for the purpose of discussing teachers' salaries. It was voted to increase salaries $200 at every step on the schedule. A new feature was the awarding of $200 more for a bachelor's degree plus fifteen hours and the same amount for a master's degree plus fifteen hours. The starting salary for a BA degree is $5,300 and for a master's degree, $5,700. (Continued on Page 8) MINOR DAMAGE RESULTS FROM FIRE AT MODINE A fire at the Modine Manufacturing Co., in Ringwood was quickly extinguished at 2:40 Tuesday afternoon before the arrival of Company I of the McHenry Township Fire Protection District. Workmen employed on a new addition at the plant were welding on the new part of the building, and in some way a spark is believed to have started a fire in a false siding wall made of plywood. As another year is well under way, most folks take at least a few moments to look ahead to the future and pledge a better year in 1965. It has been suggested that this might be an especially appropriate time for teachers and students to re-dedicate themselves to make the most of their educational opportunities. With success of a referendum which will result in the construction of adequate facilities for public school pupils in McHenry, this suggestion seems to take on.special meaning locally. ^ Having received public support. it would be too bad if students failed to strive to ensure, through their education, a better future for themselves and the nation! As future adult citizens, they will surely reap the benefits of America's greatness. This should be made especially clear to young folks who are considering becoming dropouts, for they are not only a burden to themselves but costly to taxpayers of the state. The Cook County Department of Public Aid, in a recent study, revealed that 88 per cent of the employable persons on Public aid in that county failed to finish high school. A similar situation exists throughout Illinois. At present, one out of every four students in this state entering high school will be a drop-out. This is 29 per cent compared with a national average of 36 per cent. It is estimated that about 45,000 students quit school last year in Illinois. The problem is deemed the No. 1 challenge to schools and communities during the remainder of the '60's. Both are encouraged to keep in mind constantly changing goals and needs. (Continued on Page 8) Success Of Blood Bank Indicated By Initial Visit Of Mobile Unit Mrs. Virgil Pollock is shown at the mobile Blood Bank unit Tuesday afternoon as she underwent a preliminary examination prior to donating to the Kiwanis club-sponsored program in McHenry this week. Also pictured is Noly Martinez, pathologist at Mercy hospital and also a volunteer in the Chicago Blood Bank program. The McHenry Kiwanis Club expressed satisfaction this week over the number of citizens of the community who generously donated their blood to help make the McHenry Community Blood Donor Bank a success. Many residents of the McHenry Community high school district turned out for the first drawing of the blood bank. Their help made this worthwhile endeavor a success. In order for the blood bank to succeed on a community basis as originally proposed, it will be necessary for many more citizens to come forward and offer their support. For the moment, those pople who have donated, or who had someone donate for them, have covered their families. In order to cover the entire community it is necessary that many more volunteer. The Kiwanis Club announces that it is extending the drive to secure donor applications, The next drawing will be made in about four weks. They will need approximately 400 donor applications in the next four weeks to make the next drawing a success. If the response is good, then it is hoped that the club can announce the entire community will be covered. Elsewhere «in the' paper you will find an application for the blood donor bank. It is urged that you sit down immediately and complete the application. It was found that people delay to complete the application and inadvertently forget to do so at a later date. For this reason you are asked not to put this worthwhile cause aside until you have completed the npi illo.'it ifin. Voters in eighteen McHenry township precincts will go to the polls next Tuesday, April 6, and express themselves on preferences for the offices of assistant supervisor, town clerk, assessor and three members of the board of auditors. - Only two offices are contested. Charles Weingart will seek his second term as assistant supervisor, running on the Independent party ticket, and will be opposed by William Silk of Wonder'Xake, who is making his first bicNoj/this office. The latter appears on the Caucus party ticket. The other contest is for the office of assessor, with two McHenry women seeking the post. One is Eva Bacon Sparks, who at present is completing the term of her late husband, Lester R. Bacon. She is a member of the Independent party ticket. Mrs. Sparks will be opposed by June Schmunk of Country Club Estates, making a bid for the office for the first time. Like Mr. Silk, she is on the Caucus party ticket. No Contests Uncontested offices are those of clerk, where H. Walter Anderson seeks to be re-elected to a post he has held for more than twenty years; and Arnold J. Rauen, Harold (Harry) Freund and Charles M. Adams for the board of auditors. All appear on the Independent party label. Voting will take place between the hours of 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. in eighteen polling places as follows: 1 -- Barnard Mill Community Center, Ringwood; 2 --- C o m m u n i t y M e t h o d i s t Church, 3717 W. Main Street, McHenry; 3 -- Europa Motor Sales, 3318 W. Pearl Street, McHenry; 4--Johnsburg Rescue building, Chapel Hill Road, Johnsburg; 5 -- Wonder Lake firehouse; 6--V.F.W. Clubhouse, W. Rt. 120, McHenry; 7 -- George P. Freund Implement, 4102 W. Crystal Lake Road, McHenry; 8--Rod & Gun Club, Barnard Mill Road, Wonder Lake; 9--Lakemoor Fire House, Rand Road, Lakemoor. Also 10 -- Oak Wood Shores Model Home, 7317 E. Northwood Drive, Wonder Lake; 11, Seibel Motor Sales, W. Rt. 120, McHenry; 12--McCullom Lake Beach House, Lake Shore Drive. McCullom Lake; 13--Lakeland Park Community House, Sunset A v e n u e , L a k e l a n d P a r k ; 1 4 - McHenry fire house, 3610 W. Elm Street, McHenry; 15-- Hartmann farm, 1215 W1. Bay Road, McHenury; 16--Sunnyside village hall, Sunnyside; 17 --Community House, 306 Hilltop Drive, Pistakee Highlands; 18---Whispering Hills Community hall, McHenry. CHARLES WEINGART Assistant Supervisor Recommendations Made By Supervisor Prior To Town Meeting Next Week At the McHenry Township meeting sheld Tuesday evening, a number of electors were present to discuss the budget and appropriation for the year ahead. Supervisor Walter Dean gave an explanation of expenditures of all funds and his recommendations. With a surplus in the General Assistance fund, a resolution will be presented to the electors at the annual town meeting on Tuesday, April 6, to permanently transfer the sum of $13,000 from the General Assistance fund to the Spe- 6dal Building and Equipment fund and thereby complete the indebtedness on the McHenry Township road district highway garage. Suggest Transfer A resolution will also be presented to the electors to permanently transfer the sum of $20,- 000 from the General Assistance fund to the town fund, thereby cutting the levy for the Town fund by about 40 per cent. There is to be no levy for the General Assistance fund this year. The town meeting will be held at 8 p.m. next Tuesday at the Legion home. BENEFIT DINNER The postponed spaghetti dinner of the McHenry Kiwanis club will be held Wednesday evening, April 7. between the hours of 6 and 8 p.m. at the Legion home. Proceeds will benefit the McHenry expansion fund. Burglars Busy Within Area Burglars were busy in McHenry Monday evening, but money was taken at only one place. Intruders entered Seibel Motor Sales at 4611 W. Rt. 120, Lakeland Park, by forcing open a side door to a parts room where the cash register is keptr About $106 was taken in cash, none in small change. Nothing else was taken. The same night, the window in a small door to the service entrance of Fury Motors at 2508 W, Rt. 120, McHenry, was broken. The break'in was discovered Tuesday morning by Clifford Walters, an employee. There was evidence that drawers had been ransacked, but nothing was found taken. Burglars entered McHenry Equipment at 1801 W. Rt. 120 on Tuesday night. The office was ransacked and a few small articles were taken. No money is kept there over-night, and it is believed this is what the intruders were looking for. High School Board Makes Decision For Local Youth Admits Thefts DIES OF INJURIES Dale Keith Rice, 35, of Harvard became the county's sixth highway fatality of the year. He died Thursday afternoon in Memorial hospital, Woodstock, where he was taken following an auto accident the previous hospital i day north of Woodstock on Rt. 14. FUN FAIR DAY PLANNED AT JOHNSBURG SATURDAY. APRIL 3 COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDER GAST DIES AT AGE 86 Last rites were conducted at 2:30 Monday afternoon from an Evanston chapel for Adolph W. Gast, who died Thursday, March 25, in Barrington. Mr. Gast was one of five founders of the Chapel Hill Country Club, serving as treasurer from 1916 to 1961. Mr! Gast, 86. was founder of the Chicago Miniature Lamp Co., 4433 Ravenswood Avenue. Chicago. ' Survivors are two daughters. Joan G. Yale of Northbrook an<\ Virginia G. Freeman of Northfield; four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Service Station Burglary The J&L service station on Rt. 120. Lilymoor, was reported burglarized sometime late Sunday night or early Monday. The amount of money taken was undetermined. Saturday, April 3, is Fun Fair day at Johnsburg public school, sponsored by the P.T.A. Regardless of age or pocketbook. the organization promises fun for the entire family from 4 to 9 p.m. Food at the Gourmet's Delight, under the chairmanship of Mrs. Florence McCormick. will feature moderately priced barbecue, hot dogs and a variety of other treats. The soft drink and popcorn stand will open with Mrs. Barb Zamastil as chairman. Artist's Studio The artist's studio, under the chairmanship of Mrs. Betty Tuft, will provide beautiful silhouettes. A polaroid camera will be used in the photographer's shop under the direction of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Dube while-you-wait. The nickelodion will provide additional diversion with a program of comedies and cartoons. Mrs. Mel Pederson is chairman. While waiting to eat, or for a relaxing moment with the younger ones, there will be games and prizes. Chairmen of- the various committees are: darts \and balloons, Mrs. Lois Perrewee; gold fish bowl, Mrs. Jan Janquart; bean bag toss, Mrs. Marie Diederich; weight guessing, Ray Jensen; ride-a-roller. La Marr Williams; squirt-aflame. Mrs. Shirley .Iversen; horseshoes, Mis. Pat Olson; bowling, Mrs. Marilyn Kinder; (Continued on 1i• o J COUNTY ECONOMY IS REFLECTED IN SALES TAX REPORT The Department of Finance of the state this week issued a detailed report on sales tax collection in McHenry county. For the period October, November and December, with taxes collected through January, 1965, the county collection for . the three-months amounted to $1,276,419.85. Of this amount, $178,617.33 was credited to McHenry, which ranked behind Crystal Lake with $266,224.06 and Woodslock with $233,265.07. The local municipality ranked second in drinking and eating places and also in the category of lumber, building and hardware. Other local collections for the period included Island Lake. $1,132.13; Lakemoor, $4.- 2 8 2 . 7 5 ; M c C u l l o m L a k e $540.99; Ringwood. $3,523.77; Spring (irove, $10,047.26; Sunnyside. SI,813.07; and Wonder Lake. $3,798. Reflecting the impact of the Christmas season was the notable increase in the half cent tax on retail sales returned to the "various municipalities for December sales. The county total outside cities was $i3.953.64 for the most recent month of Deeem- I,< r, collected in January. After two hours of discussion on the best location for the proposed new high school in District 156, members of that school board voted 4 to 3 on the Boone Valley development site. In favor of that location were President Vale Adams, Secretary Donald Howard, Donald Weingart and George Freund. Taking a stand in favor of land west of Riverside Drive, north of the city, (formerly the Stephen H. Freund farm) were Arthur Stilling, Carl Neiss and Robert Beckenbaugh. The board will meet again Thursday evening to decide on a date for a public referendum and the money deemed necessary to ereet"+fie*s?nool. Following Tuesday evening's vote, the board wholeheartedly gave support to the bond issue for the new school in spite of the difference in viewpoint on site. William Cristy of Wonder Lake, president of the citizens' advisory council, appeared before the board to open the meeting and presented the recommendation of that group, which voted 15 to 8 on , the north site at a special meeting last Thursday evening. The majority of the board said Tuesday that after long consideration they believed the original site to be best for the new school. The difference of approximately $38,000 estimated by the architect was one of the jfactors which weighed heaViiS^ in the final decision on the south site. Long Controversy The controversy over a site developed several weeks ago within the council when several members decided to look into available land north of the city. Previously that group, with one dissenting vote, had given its recommendation to the board on the Boone Valley site. Upon learning of the dissatisfaction on the part of these members, the school board employed an architect to study the north site and present comparative cost figures. This was done at a meeting ten days ago between the council, school board and administrators, and the council was asked to reconsider its original recommendation. From a legal standpoint, the question of a school site was taken away from voters several years ago through state law. It was found that on numerous occasions bond issues passed but the site was turned down, leav? ing a governing body with money to spend for new facilities and no place for the building. It was for this reason that the Legislature took steps to place the responsibility of a site in the hands of the schqpl board. An 18-year-old Lakeland Park youth, Walter J. Milke, of 5010 Shore Drive, McHenry, has admitted ^to police after lengthy questioriingJ:hat he was responsible for rnin^erous thefts in county churches^ Milke was apprehended by Officer Donald Boswell of the Woodstock Police last Thursday afternoon as he was coming out of the Congregational church in that city. The officer had seen a car outside which fit the description of one noted near the Assembly of God church the previous Sunday, where $18.50 was taken. Milke at first denied any connection with the thefts, but later admitted not only those two t>,ut also the burglary of churches in McHenry, Wonder Lake, Crystal Lake, Richmond and another in Woodstock. Police from at least two of the city departments, as well as sheriff's authorities, later questioned the youth. Milke told how he accomplished the thefts, He would enter the church, call to see if anyone was there, and if someone answered he posed a prepared question. Money was taken from several places, including altar boxes, offices, etc. The young man was still held in county jail Monday on $2,000 bond. A hearing date to be set by Judge Cooney was pending at that time. McHENRY MAN SELECTED SPEAKER AT BUSINESS SHOW LeRov E. Olsen, president of Scan-Am Corporation, will be one of the principal speakers at the seminar in connection with the Chicago Business Show, which will be held April 5 to 8 at the Conrad Hilton Hotel. At 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, April 6, Mr. Olsen will discuss LeROY E. OLSEN "Words Not Paper-' the magic of good expression is immeasurable. Mr. Olsen lives at "313 North Front Street, McHenry. with his wife and two children. A graduate of Northwestern University, he served in the Navy during World War II and also in the Korean Conflict. Mr. Olsen has served as chairman of the McHenry City Plan Commission since its inception in 1959. He was also vice-president of the Eastern McHenry County Plan Commission, the first such group formed and supported by private initiative. Scan - Am Company was founded in 1959 by Mr. Olsen and is dedicated to searching out and marketing new concepts in the field of international communications. YOUNG DRIVER HURT ASfAUTO STRIKES HOUSE Maryann Krupinski of 1619 N. Beach Road, Lakeland Park, sustained two fractured ribs but two sisters who were passengers in her car escaped injury Tuesday morning when their car struck a porch on the home at 3812 Waukegan* Road, owned by Mrs. Pearl Patzke. Maryann and her sisters, Edna, 10, and Rosemary, 15, were driving east, enroute to school, when the car struck a patch of ice near the side of the road. In order to avoid striking another car, Maryann swerved and the car skidded over the curb, took down a 10 foot evergreen tree and then smashed into a post which held a small porch over the entrance to the residence. Maryann told Officers Hummel and Franz, who investigated, that she was driving about 20 miles an hour when the accident occurred. They estimated that the house is about 20 feet from the curb. The Patzke home is occupied by Mrs. Martha Feltz and Mrs. Elsie Voeltz. Four persons were injured in an auto accident which occurred about 4 o'clock last week Wednesday afternoon on the Crystal Lake-McHenry blacktop, at the intersection of Hillside Road. Terry Schultz of Crystal Lake told authorities" he was driving (Continued on Page 8)