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\VUNQ. ipnV&flMeln MCHENRY 'EALER "SERVING THE CHAIN-O-LAKE S REGION SINCE 1875 VOL 91 - No. 52-2 Sections Wednesday, March 13, 1968 18 Pages - 10$ District 15 Bond Jssue Defeated By 2-1 Vote McHS Students Honored $10,000 Bond Proposals Lose In Four State Scholarship Winners Set For Youth Raymond Rode of 1716 North avenue, Lakeland Park, is out on $10,000 bond on two charges made by McHenry police, according to Chief Richard Clark. Rode is charged with the Nov. 24, 1967, burglary of Zion Lutheran church and also for theft over $150. Two juveniles were previously apprehended on the sam? charges and have been declared delinquents by the county family court. . , Precincts With Total Vole Of 1,045 To 533 The above students from McHenry high school were namrd Illinois State Scholarship winners this past week. First row: Leota Stinesprin.?, Barbara Kidd, Kathy Eternick, Janice Fisher, Barbara Redetzky, Kim Davis, Virginia Leinhard and Carol Sctiuh. Second BOW: Kathleen Bolger, Susan Robertson, Tim Morck, Frank Vanek, Gary Parks, Mark Domoto, David Dowell and Jq>hn Anderson, .Jr. man of the Illinols^State Scho- Third row: Mjlody Skalla, Cheryl Zelvis, Leonard Blake,'Paul Schwegel, Scott \olan, Michael Wahls, Frank Cuda and Diane Dimon. Fourth row: Jennifer Kuhlman, Rodney Cole, James Chobot, Phillip Krebs, Steven Kutnick, Bill LaFontaine, Stephen Dana and Ann Alexeyuk. Marjie Ruth was absent when the photo was taken, PLAINDCALER PHOTO Forty McHenry high school students and a number of other local young people who reside in the McHenry community but attend either Marian Central or Wauconda high schools, are among 15,590 students in Illinois named winners in the 1968- 69 State Scholarship program. Dr. Lloyd S. Michael, chairlarship commission, announced that 6,894 students have been offered monetary^awards totalling $4,342,617 and 7,156 students have been granted honorary awards. The remaining 1,540 students rejected award consideration by choosing out-of-state or unapproved institutions. Regardless of college choice, each winner will receive a Certificate of Merit in recognition of achievement in the program and potential for higher education, based on high school record and performance on the qualifying examination. Of the 121 II- (Continued on page 10) Wonder Lake Programs Approved By Directors Farm Lists Winners Show Champion 4 Directors of the Master Property Owners association approved a program to rid Wonder Lake of rough fish and restock with a variety of game fish, install warning lights and safety cable at the dam, and post the lake for boating hazards by May 26. The fish project, under direction of the Illinois Department of Conservation, will cost approximately $25,000. Funds will come from private sources on a voluntary solicitation basis. If this falls short of the goal, the balance will be raised by a modest assessment District 34 Consolidation of the 6,000 lot owners who have lake rights. The directors also voted unanimously to censure some individuals who, without authorization of the Wonder Lake Advisory board, used Advisory Board letterhead to ask Congressman Robert McClory to investigate whether the state of Illinois is interested in ownership of Wonder Lake. These and other actions of the directors, at their regular quarterly meeting, were announced by Raymond McCann, president of the Master association, the owner-administrative organization of .Wonder Lake. (Continued on page 10) Citizen Group Meets Thursday On School Goal Committees Serve As Advisory Units To Local Boards On Thursday, March 14, at 8 p.m. in the high school auditorium, an open meeting for all interested citizens will beheld. At this meeting the Citizen's Advisory committee will discuss its purpose and goals. This meeting hopefully, will provide interested members of the McHenry community means of becoming more involved with the workings of the school system. The Citizen's Advisory committee has a steering committee of seven members who will serve as a coordinating body to the principal committees. The latter groups are concerned with various school issues, and will serve as advising bodies to the school boards and the school administration. Principal committees, their chairmen and their resource people are as follows: The ^Curriculum committee is chaired by Mrs. Louise Worzala, with assistant chairman, Mrs. Lois Peterson. Serving in resource is Miss Helen Curran, assistant superintendent. The Vocational Education subcommittee will have George Haasl, Special Projects Director for the McHenry schools, as resource expert. OTHER COMMITTEES The Personnel committee has Mrs. Doris Andreas as its chairman, with Miss Curran serving on resource. School buildings committee, concerned with present and future school structures is chaired by A1 Benoy. Mr. (Continued on page 10) By a vote of 1,045 opposed and 533 in favor, the $2,000,- 000 bond issue which would have permitted acquisition of a school site and constructed and equipped a new school building in District 15went down to defeat last Saturday. With only seven spoiled ballots in the four votingprecincts, the 1,585 votes cast marked one of the largest elections of its kind in the history of the district. The vote compared with 1,- 249 total ballots cast in the December referendum, which was identical to that of Saturday. Robert Fowler Is Wounded At that time, 604 voters favored the proposal and oniy 645 were opposed. Precinct I, which includedthe McHenry area, had the largect number of voters. There, 432 expressed an affirmative vote and 819 were against the issue. The defeat was made certain in this precinct, where three months before a total of 488 had voted in favor of the bond issue and only 475 were opposed. Other voting last Saturday was as follows: Precinct II (Lilymoor-Lakemoor area) - 18 in favor and 103 opposed; Precinct III (McCullom Lake) 51 in favor and 86 against; and Precinct IV (Island Lake area) 32 in favor and 37 opposed. Whereas none of the four precincts carriedthe issue this time, the vote was split in December, when both Precinct I and Precinct III cast a majority of "yes" votes. Voting at that time in the three precincts not mentioned above was as follows: Precinct II, 15 "yes" and 48 "no"; Precinct III, 58 "yes" and 57 "no' ' and Precinct IV, 43 "yes" and 65 "no". ROBERT A. FOWLER Mrs. Lulu Fowler of 4517 W. Clearview, McHenry, has received a telegram from the government informing her that her son, Specialist Robert A. Fowler, was slightly wounded in Vietnam on Feb. 28 as a result of hostile action. He received a gunshot wound to the left knee "while on combat operation when his unit engaged a hostile force in fire fight." The telegram went on to explain that a delay in notification was due to the tactical situation existing in Vietnam for several days. Sp. Fowler was treated and hospitalized in Vietnam for wounds which the government emphasized were only minor. Tent Afire, Three Youth Are Burned Jeffrey Petersen, 14-year- Y old son of the Lawrence Faveros of 8911 Memory Trail,- Wonder Lake, was recovering in McHenry hospital Tuesday from facial and hand burns suffered in a fire last Saturday night. * Jeffrey and two other youths Phil Harmon and Dave Copley, were camping on the Northern Illini Bowmen range, west of the city, and had retired early. About 10:30 p.m. the camp lantern set the tent afire and Jeffrey awakened to find his hair on fire. Dave's "ear was also burned and Phil suffered minor injuries. They managed to extinquish the flames by placing mud on the affected parts of their body. The boys ran to a nearby home for help and were taken to the hospital. f1 m a a% W I VCII A •»« t***. & i I J -- 1 I W T U I Provide In-Service Training Northern Pump Co. Farms, McHenry, exhibited the first-place summer yearling female and this heifer went on to become the champion female of the show, in addition to their winning in four bull classes at the Register of Merit Hereford show at Houston. NP Miss Dom 6210 was bred and exhibited by Northern Pump and is owned with Chicago Blackhawks hockey star, Bobby Hull, who ranches near Picton, Ontario. In the picture, left to right are Prof. Herman Purdy, University Park, Pennsylvania, judge; Dick Weekley, Houston Livestock Show manager; Lee Campbell, Dublin, President of the Texas Hereford association; Brad Scott, Northern Pump manager; and at the halter is Spence Byrum, Northern Pump herdsman. More than fifty Hereford breeders from eight states were on hand to compete for $20,000 in prize money in Register of Merit Hereford competition at the thirty-sixth annual Houston Livestock show. Members of the Houston Hereford club were tof>-notch hosts to the large crowd attending the many saciaJ and_judging--ac=_. tivities. The 192-head of Whitefaces were judged in the gaily decorated arena in the Astrodome annex. Making the plac~ ings was Professor Herman Purdy, Pennsylvania State university. The champion female of the show was NP Miss Dom 6210, bred and exhibited by Northern Pump Co. Farms, McHenry, Illinois. This summer yearling champion is owned with Chicago Biacknawk star Bobby "Hu it; wrro ranctre^ riear Ptuton; Ontario. Northern Pump Farms ^lso captiired the reserve bul} award on their spring yearling entry, NP Regulator 6153. In the group class judging, Northern Pump won all the blue ribbons except for the pair-ofcalves first place, which was won by Indian Mound Farms, New Harmony, Indiana. The Northern Pump blues came on their three bulls, two bulls, pair-of-yearlTngs7best l(T-head and get-of-sire entries. Their winning Get was sired by NP Regulator 3176. Ringwood Pupiis Attend Johnsburg School In Fall By unanimous vole of the county board of school trustees meeting Monday night, Ringwood school district 34 was consolidated with Johnsburgschool district 12. The consolidation wiii become effective at th2 close of this school year. Action was taken following petitions presented by a required num'osr of residents of the Ringwood district. At present, and for several years, the approximately fifteen seventh and eighth graders from the Ringwood district attended McHenry Junior high as tuition pupils. Board members said they w^re provided a better education at less cost than would have been possible in their own school. BUS CHILDREN Since the first of the year, after losing two teachers, third and fourth grade pupils from Ringwood were bussed to Johnsburg public school for classes. They will be joined next fall by the twenty-one pupils in first, second, fifth and sixth grades who still attend Ririgwood school and by the seventh and' eighth graders who will transfer from McHenry. There are about seventy students in the Ringwood'distriet. Although -.Mxzot -use-JDf- thft Ringwood school has not been determined, it is believed it will house kindergarten and the first two grades. 5 ffflSlSfe s . > mm ami 1 '-"J1- mmx Winston McKean, standing at right, assistant director of ing. His the Freeport Developmental center, Freeport, 111., is shown Testing." speaking to a District 15 teachers in-service education meetsiibject was "Identifying the Gifted Child Through PLAINDEALER PHOTO Teacher in-seivice classes cure held each week for Junior high and elementary school teachers, designed to help them discover ways to develop the ' school curriculum so that uicr liiui Viuuai iild, more than a large group of children, is The teacher's primary concern. .Ipdividual differences in children make it necessary for teachers to tailor their instractional proceduri vesa each child is challenged to learn as, much as possible about a subject at his own individual "pace. Slow students, average students, and gifted students deration by the teacher. The teacher in-service training has two main objectives. First, reliable indicators must (Continued on page 10)