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HERE AND THERE IN BUSINESS LAWRENCE EKEROTH Lawrence E. Ekeroth, 210 W. Hellen, Palatine, has been promoted by Illinois Bell Telephone company to sales manager in the company's Evan ston office. A native of Chicago, Ekeroth graduated from McHenry Community high school and attended Knox college. He started his career with Bell as an installer-repairman in Arlington Heights, where he subsequently held the posts of salesman and account salesman. Ekeroth and his wife, Agnes, have 2 children: Lawrence, Jr., 8, and Alan, 5. He is a member of Masonic Lodge 158 in McHenry. Richmond Pair Chosen To Reign Over 4-H Events Vicki Has well, 18, and George Kane, 17, were crowned McHenry county's 4-H queen and king for 1967 to climax 4-H Day at the McHenry County Fair last Friday night. The happy duo have an outstanding 4-H record behind them, and they have a bright, busy future ahead. Both have been in 4-H club work eight years and both are McHenry County 4-H Federation officers - Vicki is "recreation chairman and George is the president. Vicki, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Haswell, Jr., Richmond, plans to become a nurse. She will follow a dream which-began to form when she was in the second grade, she recalled last week. She will enroll at the Evangelical School of Nursing, Oak Lawn, this fall. George, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Mitchell Kane of Richmond, formerly of Ringwood, plans to attend Carleton college at Northfleld, Minn. He wants to major in government work and has his eye on a career in foreign service. Kane's main 4-H activities have centered in beef projects although he has carried others as electricity, forestry and home grounds beautifi cation. Vicki's 4-H experience has been concentrated in clothing. She made the formal she wore at the 4-H Night festivities. Judy Johnson and Bill Berahorn, retiring royalty, handled the crowning ceremonies for their successors. The six finalists for the respective honors were chosen by the extension service advisory committees composed of adults. Then the 4-H members in the county voted foe their favorite candidate during the first two days of the fair. This year, members of the 4-H clubs have been taking I more active part in the operation of the fair. They have helped with the information booth, They decorated the grounds witl some plants and a wishing well. They helped the press with coverage by obtaining other 4-1 members for interviews on radio and by newspapers and foi news photos for newspaper photographers. The 4-H Federation established an attractive display an an exhibition in Massey hall praising the help given then through 4-H and offering information about 4-H program! to prospective members. Stresi} Thurs., Aug. 10th 7 p.m. CHUCK WAGON MEMORIAL. BAND -- at -- "The Vagabond's House" on Roberts Road 1 Block South of Hwy 176 Island Lake, 111. A dm. $1.00 , MCHENRY &OSPITAL Daring the past weekpatients admitted to McHenry hospital included Joseph J. Savage, Elizabeth J. Teresi, Margaret Goza, Fox Lake; Norman P. Wilbrandt, William J. Stupar, Eleanor Strache, Mabel Schroeder, Robert P. Blaes, Myrtle M. Bishop, Steven N. Pinnon, Crystal Lake; Also, Keith D. Olson, William M. Cole, Esther Becker, Cary; Lorraine L Courtemash, Richmond; James C. Kostner, Barrington; Cornelia T. Bafetti, and Marilyn L. Weiglenin, Chicago; Linda I. Radosh, Ingleside; Genevieve A. Knigge and Doris J. Runions, Wauconda; Robert Man son, Lake Zurich; LoVoto Miller, Grayslake; Lawrence A. Dodd, Jr., Elgin; William M. Pucin, Waukegan; Paul W. Zahray, Ronald Raysby, Woodstock; Harriet S. Terry, Ri6hfield; Arthur J. Canon and Kathy L. Wilcox, Round Lake; Jane G. Griffith, Ringwood; Florence C. Mallison, Wonder Lake; And, Mark P. McEvoy, Loretta A. Goetschel, Maureen Adams, Edna A. Krupinski, Ruth Anderson, Brenda J. Sienks, Deborah L. Herdrich, Marion Regelin, Susan Ann Hushka, Bertha E. Johnson, Deborah Sue Adams, John J. Rogers, Minnie E. Potter, Dennis A. Dowell, Mary T. Fahey, and Bob D. Pitts, all of McHenry. TAX PAYMENTS Illinois property taxes totalling $1,861,319.79 were paid by the Chicago and North Western Railway company for the year 1966, the road reported. The payment - approximately 63 percent of which, or $1,- 168,473.84, goes for support of local school systems - represents taxes covering railroad operating property in 29 Illinois counties. In the so-called five "commuter" counties - Cook, Lake, McHenry, DuPage and Kane - where North Western's suburban service is concentrated, the railroad's property tax payment for 1966 was $1,327,503.- 0^. North Western is the largest railroad taxpayer in Cook, Lake and McHenry counties. Taxes on North Western's operating property in Eflinois for 1966 in McHeryy county is McHenry, $84,752.32. COMPANY SALES Norman A. Stepelton, president, National Tea "Co., announced that sales for the twenty-four weeks ended June 17 were $512,835,341. Adjusting prior year sales to reflect the disposition of sixty-two Detroit area stores sold in 1966, this represented a decrease of 4.3 per cent. For the first several weeks of the third quarter, saled have shown a definite improvement over the prior year. PRODUCE FILM The Ozark Mountains area of southern Missouri and northern Arkansas will be featured in the fifth of the "Happy Holidays" travel film series. The new color picture will be entitled "Happy Holidays...In the Ozarks." Release is, scheduled for the fall of 1967. The film is being produced by Mattco Associates Inc. of McHenry, and will be released in a 16mm. version for showing to clubs, civic groups and other audiences and on television. AUGUST 10, 1967 - PLAIN DEALER - SEC. I, PG. 7 Witnesses Of Area Conclude District Assembly "Local delegates to the fourday "Disciple-making" district assembly of Jehovah's Witnesses held at the Memorial coliseum in Madison, July 27 through 30, have returned home," DominickFontana, presiding minister of the Woodstock Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, said. Mr. Fontana stated, "The assembly highlighted two live Bible dramatizations which really made the pages of the Scriptures come to life. Applications of the examples related in these dramas demontrated two important points, first, that we must be honest and forthright in dealing with God and his organization; and second, that we must stay close to his organization." This assembly was one of a series of sixty-seven arranged for Jehovah's Witnesses in the United States and Canada this summer by the Watchtower "society. The climax of the meet was on Sunday, at 3 p.m., as a director of the Watchtower society, John 0. Groh, addressed 14,378 people on the subject, "Rescuing a Great Crowd of Mankind Out of Armageddon.'* Groh served the convention as the principal speaker. The local congregation will resume its normal s< of meetings this week. The lower half of the 65-foot wide doors of the locks at the Panama Canal are waterproof, therefore buoyant, and thus, they move more easily. The two things most parents runout of at kid parties, are patience and food. , A part-time job is what gals hold down while looking for a hubby. SHOP IN MCHENRY 5.61$ N:W. Highway CRYSTAL LAKE, ILL. CRV£TAL LAZE PVRB 011. TO CAR&P YOU GET ALL For# PB ICE 'W- - > "* M ^ V ' " ' ' wi , • .V i iJlli ) 0' H18'/"High Authentic Early American replica with swinging pendulum Lovely hand finished woodtone case with any purchase of $69.95 111 ? • ., ' : I' f " % • i M] y WW:*:-. •••'««« V. v X V DU PONT 501