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H .•V>. !KW£ffij&2g8M&^ y.\: PLAINDEALER SERVING THE CHAIN.O-LAKES REGION SINCE 1875" Vol. 90 - No. 38 - 2 Sections 'Thursday, April 20,1.967- McHenry, Illinois Bolger Named To Girls' Slate At MCHS kAhi ny, Wm M>. < CANDY FOSSUM MttSttt' and Faith in the honesty of our fellow man will certainly be restored through a story told to us Wednesday morning by Postmaster LeRoy Smith. A mail carrier found a serviceman's billfold containing in excess of $100 in cash in the city collection box at the corner of Washington and Green streets. It has been returned to the young Marine by the Post Office depaiytment. This is Library Week, April l§-22, a time set aside to make till public aware of the treasury of knowledge and entertainment available to everyone through books. With televisions in every hotne and the world of travel expanding, some folks overlook the world of pleasure and educaftion that awaits each of us St our public library. Those who visit it regularly will remind us of the many inspirational stories, great biographies and tales of adventure, courage and discovery that await the person who finds time to become acquainted with the wonderful world of books. In the vicinity of thirty-five million dollars was expended on the anti-poverty program in the Chicago area in 1966, of which about one-third was earmarked ' m advance for Head Start. This is the program that prepares less privileged youngsters for (Continued on page 13) CATHY BOLGER Cathy Bolger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Bolger of 906 N. Allen avenue, McHenry, has been selected to represent McHenry's American Legion Auxiliary Unit 491 at Illini Girls' State in Jacksonville, 111., this summer. Miss Bolger was selected by feculty members for such qualities as leadership, honor, scholarship and courage. Runner-up for t^e honor was Candy Fossum, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Fossum of Ringwood. The girls will spend a week at Girls' State, studying local, and state government. City, county, township and state officials will be elected in this mythical state in the same manner the political process is carried out in actual government. From the General Assembly, two girls are chosen to represent Illinois at Girls Nation in Washington, D.C., during the month of July. Cathy, 16, is active inthephysical education program, Student Council, band, chorus and Girls Athletic association, which she serves as second vice-president. She is also secretary of the Modern Music Masters association and secretary of French club. The oldest of six children, Cathy manges to find time to work at the public library on a regular basis. She will enter the field of physical education at Northern Illinois university following graduation. Candy, also 16, is the fourth oldest of ten children. She, too, is active in many organizations. She serves on the Girls Athletic association board and is a member of Student Council, chorus and band. COACH PROBLEMS "IRONED" OUT AT SCHOOL MEETING * McHenry welcomed a new varsity football coach at M.C.HJS. tills week in the person of Bill Day, but not before a lengthy, excitement-packed meeting of the school board Tuesday night, highlighted by • a vocal protest of other coaching decisions. About twenty students and ten adults were pre sent to question why three present assistant football coaches, Charles Cuda, Robert Hendricks and Richard Rabbitt, were not allowed to hold their same positions under the new coach. Word had spread through the school the previous week that newly contracted Day had selected "Bud" Murray, Bill Perry and Varsity Basketball Coach Glenn Anderson to assist him next fall. Following a discussion, the board went ipto executive session with Athletic Director Leonard J. McCracken. Upon returning to meet with the visitors, it was explained that one of the assistants this past year had been openly critical of Coach Dean Hargis on numerous occasions, as well as other problems. When Hargis resigned, the general feeling was that a new coach would be placed in a difficult position unless he was sure to meet the approval of the assistants. The final decision was made to allow Coach Day to visit the school, talk with the various coaches and make his own decision on assistants. This he did last -week, with a choice of new coaches being made. Day comes to McHenry from Batavia, where he has served as coach for five years. He also has had five years previous experience in that field. He conferred with the board and explained his coaching system. BOARD REORGANIZES At the reorganizational meeting which preceded the discussion, Vale Adams was reelected president and Donald Howard, secretary. It was also decided to retain the same meeting night, the third Tuesday of the month at 7:30. Hie driver education system came up for discussion and the seriousness of the situation locally was made known. Jack Vick explained that at the present time the school is 190 students behind in the training program, and fifty young people from Marian high school are expected to sign up for the summer program, along with local students. He estimated that the school will be 108 behind schedule by next fall, and 300 by the following September. (continued on page 13) CITy APPROVES*® ANNEXATION OF SMALL AREAS Monday's Council Action Will Cl^ar Maintenance Problem A property owners' petition for annexation to the city of McHenry was approved ait the regular Council meeting Monday night. The petition covers small areas of Lillian street, Crestwood drive and Crystal Lake road. The annexation will clear the long standing problem of main-1 tenance of Lillian street, just off Crystal Lake road. No governing body claimed the road and the deep holes grew worse each year. The city will now extend a water main along the street and across Crystal Lake road. The subdividers of the area will then make farther extensions, particularly to the site of the new high school. Property annexed will have city water and sewer lines available for hookups. ROAD IMPROVEMENTS In the long range plan for road improvements under Motor Fuel Tax, Green street north from Elm comes up on the schedule this year. Pearl street west from Green is also listed. This has been referred to W. A, Rakow and Associates for an engineering report which will include the possibility of widen- , ing Green street. David Ladd presented a pre-, limihary plat of Unit No. 3 of the Whispering Oaks residential area and received approval. After several months of consideration, the Council voted to amend thesanitary sewer hookup fees which will make all hookup charges approximately $100 higher. The new fees will be effective June 1. A mutual aid police program has been referred to the police committee for review. Adjoin^ ing cities and counties are looking ahead to times when local forces will have to call on other departments for assistance in handling crowds or disturbances. Cof C Presents Plaques President William Nye of McHenry* s Chamber of Commerce, at left, smiles proudly as he welcomes owners of businesses and industries new to McHenry in the past year. Each received a plaque from the C. of C. They are Ann Varese of Ann's Gift Shop, Dean Paul of Gearmaster, Frank Caruk of Automotive Controls, Bob Steiner of Hornsby's, Ed Choate of May Drugs and Jerry White of Piggly Wiggly. About 175 persons attended the annual C. of C. dinner-dance held at the McHenry Country club last Saturday evening. Presentation of the plaques was a highlight pi the evening. Blood Bank To Visit McHenry When the Michael , Reese 'Blood Bank visits McHenry on Sunday, April 23, it will be the Uitest activity in an expanded program started here under sponsorship of the local Kiwanis club. The McHenry Legion post has now joined in the cooperative Blood Bank program locally, and other organizations have been invited to do so also. The purpose of expanding sponsorship is a goal which would make all residents of the McHenry high school district eligible for membership in the bank, whether or not they have donated or someone has donated for them. At present, this is not the case. Even at the present time, however, sponsors hope they will be able to serve nonmembers in extreme cases of need. However, individual cases would need to be reviewed. Only those members who have been scheduled to report next Sunday will donate blood. However, dhother call will be made for the near future, probably in June. * The Kiwanis and Legion organizations say that 1,200 Blood Bank members, volunteering to donate blood once a year, would provide a sufficient quantity to make blood available for all permanent residents of the high school district. At present, there are between 400 and 500 members. BABY RECOVERS FROM SISTER'S MORNING "TREAT" Ten-month-old Bridget Gardner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Gardner of 2403 E. Manor lane, McHenry, returned home from McHenry hospital Sunday, fully recovered after swallowing anundetermined quantity of furniture polish. Bridget's two-year-old sister, Tracy, climbed within reach of a cupboard over the ihen stove and reached the flish, then proceeded to feed it the baby. Another siister, 8 yeArs old, saw the procedure and notified Mrs. Gardner, who rushed Bridget to McHenry hospital. STEAL FENCE A rustic fence, about 95 feet in length, on property owned by Andrew Kuby, Ridge road, McHenry, was reported by the sheriff's office to have been stolen from his property. OiitsftaiMsig ram Proposed By Hospital Group To Be Discussed At the quarterly meeting of the McHenry hospital woman's auxiliary on April 27, Anthony Corcoran, hospital administrator, and Dr. Edward Wilt, chief of the medical staff, will present their ideas on two programs to be sponsored by the woman's auxiliary. The first of these programs has been brought to focus by the impact of the geriatric patient load in all hospitals under the medicare program. It provides for the establishment of a recreation and rehabilitation unit in the hospital. Such programs in other institutions have proven to be extremely valuable in improving the physical Hromec, Rogers And Jackson Are Winners In City Council Contest FRANK S. HROMEC JEROME D. ROGERS CENTRAL FIGURE IN HEART SURGERY DIES SATURDAY An inquest is scheduled for Saturday morning at 10 o'clock at the Peter M. Justen & Son funeral home for Mrs. Constance Mae Bar any, 71, who died at her home at 1611 N. Woodlawn Park avenue Saturday, April 15. Mrs. Bar any died little more than a year after she was the central figure in making heart surgery history at Mount Sinai hospital, Chicago. She was one of the oldest patients on record to successfully undergo open heart surgery. Mrs. Barany was born in Perry, Ga., March 28, 1896, and had resided in this community for about fifteen years. Local arrangements were made at the Peter M. Justen & Son funeral home and the body then was removed to the Corcoran chapel at 6150 N. Cicero avenue, Chicago, where services were conducted at 10:30 Tuesday morning. Survivors are her husband, Edmund; a son, Donald, of Chicago and six grandchildren. SCOTS "W mm dims CAMP VISIT Three To Appear In Lake County Court April 28 Three young men, two from this area, were released on bond after being apprehended last Sunday near Fox Lake, with the assistance of young Bqy Scouts from that community. George K. Rohde, 17, and Leonard F. Lilla, 17, both of Rt. 1, Spring Grove, were charged with criminal damage to prop" erty and reckless con^.iot while Donald H. De Servi, 19, of Evanston was charged with the same offenses and also contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The three will appear in the Fox. Lake branch of Lake county Circuit court on April 28. A fourth youth, 15, of Spring Grove was held in Lake county youth detention home. Their arrest came after the four had vandalized a Boy Scout camp in Lake county. The thirty- five young men and three scoutmasters were in their tents for the night at Chain ©•Lakes state park when vandals entered camp, threatened them and slashed expensive tar- ' paulin covering the dining area. They were chased away, but one of the scoutmasters, John C. Daniel son, an attorney, said that past experience with such incidents prompted him to believe they would return. PLAN STRATEGY With the campsite on a hill, the scoutmasters parked their cars at the top so the headlights could sweep the road leading to the camp. Scouts hid in the shrubbery on either side of the road and after a long, two-hour wait their patience was rewarded with the appearance of the four teenagers. The headlights were switched on and at the same time the Scouts came forward to jump on the surprised visitors. Although they ran, the four became mired in a nearby slough and were easily caught. Fox Lake police aided Lake county deputies in the arrest. BURGLARY CHARGE BROUGHT AGAINST THREE YOUNG MEN Leonard D. Wright, 20, of McHenry, and Thomas Morgan, 18, of Wonder Lake, were held in county jail early this weds on charges of burglary. A ruling by Judge James H. Cooney also puts on trial with them a juvenile who will. be 17 this month. It was only a few hours after Reichert Chevrolet on Main street in Crystal Lake was burglarized, sheriff's deputies arrested the three in McHenry. In making a routine check of the car, they found a .22 caliber pistol under the front seat, along, with, coins allegedly taken from a cigarette machine at Reichert's. Hie machine had been smashed, money taken from it, and a transistor radio was stolen. The radio and a quantity of cigarettes were reported found in the trunk of the car. The three will appear April 25 in Circuit court to answer charges. Clean-up weeks in McHenry have been designated between May 1 and 7 for the area south of Rt. 120 and May 8 to 14 for the community north of Rt. 120. ARTHUR V. JACKSON McHenry experienced an exciting city election on Tuesday in two wards in which contests existed. Throughout the expanded confines, 987 voters went to the polls to express a preference for aldermanic candidates. In Ward 2, incumbent Arthur V. Jackson polled 213 votes to be returned to office. He was opposed by John Oakford, who received 45. Frank S. Hromec and Jerome D. Rogers were the winners in new Ward 4, which includes the Lakeland Park area recently annexed to the city. In a large vote, Hromec polled 326 votes and Rogers was supported by 2^8 to take office at the next regular Council meeting. One will be named to serve four years and the other, two years. John T. Licastro, in third place, received 195 votes, Leonard L. Bottari, 133, and Richard F. Walinski, 64. Many expressed satisfaction that such a large vote resulted in this newpart of McHenry, giving evidence of their interest in city government. McCULLOM LAKE At McCullom Lake, the entire Citizen's party was voted into office, including the first woman (continued on page 13) . and mental well-being of all patients but particularly those who have chronic debilitating illnesses, Corcoran said. $ LECTURE SERIES The second program to be discussed at this meeting is the start of a series of lectures to be presented by the members of the medical and dental staff on problems of community health. The emphasis in these lectures will be on informality, with ,the talks aimed .. at health topics of every-day interest and a period of roundtable discussion of questions (continued on page 13) MCHS MUSICIANS HIGH IN STATE SWEEPSTAKES M.C.H.S. musicians narrowly missed winning the runnerup sweepstakes plaque captured last year when scores were totalled following the second of two state contest events held in Rock Falls on Saturday. Eureka topped twenty-four Class A schools entered and McHenry, with 121 sweepstakes points, was three points behind neighboring Crystal Lake. In Saturday's contest, the boys' chorus won a "superior" rating, and only slightly behind was the mixed choir. "Excellent" ratings were also won by the band and girls' chorus. Their scores were added to previous first and second place ratings won in March Mayor Donald P. Doherty is shown above signing a proclamation designating May 1 as Loyalty Day in McHenry. Pictured with him are Marge Moreth, left, and Viola Schuble, Loyalty Day chairman for the Fox River Ladies auxiliary to Post 4600. Roy Bradley is chairman for the V.F.W. Post 4600. This special day has been observed since 1958 as part of a nation-wide prpgram of the V.F.W. and its auxiliary unit. A Lqyalty Day program is in the planning stages by the McHenTy V.F.W. post and auxiliary unit, to be held at the clubhouse on April 29 at 3 p.m. The actual date is May 1, when these organizations urge everyone to show patriotism by displaying the flag. Three slogans have been adopted by them, "Let's Destroy Communism", "Make Democracy Ring" and "Hold High the Torch of Freedom". The viewpoints of the organizations have suDDort of the Congress and President as evidenced by adoption of Loyalty Day as an official patriotic occasion accenting the positive and overwhelming the negative. The day was launched as a direct, positive wet^lbn against Communism, aimed especially against the Communist party. With party members using May Day for demonstrations against this country, war veterans and other loyal citizens became" aroused and Loyalty Day re* suited.