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McHenry Plaindealer (McHenry, IL), 20 Mar 1968, p. 10

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.Sw; ATTENDS CONVENTION Edward Thennes has.recently returned from the twelfth annual convention and Rental Equipment show held in St. Louis, Mo., March 4 through 7. A member of the American Rental association, he joined with more than 1,500 rental equipment store owners and operators to attend seminars, workshops, business sessions and equipment exhibits. The fast paced, four-day event was held at the Chase-Park Plaza hotel, in the Gateway City, and is the largest event of its kind in the rental industry. More than one million dollars worth of rental equipment was on display in the exhibition area. Featured subjects included merchandising, packaging, deliveries, advertising, equipment maintenance, Medicare, store layout and financing. Prominent industry leaders as well as professional people conducted the various seminars. The sponsor of the convention the American Rental association, is a trade organization formed to promote the growth, development and welfare of the equipment rental industry. Association headquarters are in Moline, 111. The association has a membership of 1,056 stores nation-wide, in Canada and over-seas. Their members rent equipment for use in construction work, for homeowners, commercial establishments, and many types of business. Equipment for rent includes carpenter's, plumber's, mechanic's, and electrician's tools party and banquet needs, sickroom equipment, health and sports equipment. Reader's Digest magazine has reported the equipment rental industry to be the fastest growing service business in the country. The competition was hela at Crystal Lake. Named as co-winners on the senior level of the program were Vicki Kaye Mertes, 17, of Lake Zurich high school,' and Cecilia Rose Smith, 17, of Sycamore Community high school. In addition, Nancy Lynn Watson, 14, of South Junior high school was named the junior level winner. The three girls now will compete with other home economics students from all over northern Illinois in the final competition on March 30 in the utility's general office near Aurora. MILK PRICE PENNY FLAME WINNERS Three area high school students were selected winners Saturday, March 16 in the regional contest of the Penny Flame Home Economics awards program, sponsored by Northern Illinois Gas company. Equaling the level of a year ago, a blend price of not less than $4.70 per hundredweight will be paid dairy farmers in Central Milk Sales agency's Chicago market pool for February deliveries of Grade A milk to plants in the marketing area. The $4.70 price is for milk of 3.5 percent butterfat content sold in Chicago and closeby areas which form the marketing area, according to Pure Milk association, which serves as the agency's marketing agent. MCHS JUNIORS IN mw SELECT STUDIES PROGRAM The American Studies Program combines American Literature and American History into a single, two-hour-a-day course for a select groi^j of high school juniors. In this course, the students study in parallel the development of American History and American Literature during two hours of each school day. Recently the, students firom this^lass wrote, produced and actea out five short, one-act plays. These plays were presented Wednesday and Thursday March 13 and 14 in the high school auditorium, complete with props and costumes. Total time in production for the five skits was two and a half weeks. "WORLD WAR n THROUGH THE EYES OF A G.I." was wnrrCit(tHeni. i.b"yg --JeJfWf WWWheBel--oc--k. i--Th--e i play switches from two factory workers making dog tags to the husband of one of the factory workers and a Feminine French card shark, then to a Nazi and his girlfriend in a tank about ready to attack the bunker that the G.I. is in. Characters in the play Were Mike Krickl, Sue Lichty, Caroline Polack, Carole Beck, Kathy Dowell and Jeff Wheelock. The second play was "MISTAKE OF A LIFETIME" a tragedy portraying the courtroom trial of an all-American boy who goes to a party, gets drunk, steals a car and hits a woman with it. Acting in the play were Mike Janikp Cliff Morris, Denice Bsthlefson, Ruth Nicolai, Ivonne Diaz and Nancy Draymer. The next play was a comedy "A DAY ON THE RANCH", fhis play is a force on the lives and the personalities of the most talked about group of people in the U.S., th6 Johnsons and the Humphreys. Acting in this play were Jim Vyduna, Diane Kraymer, Steve Brodirik, Caryn Pater son and Bonnie MacGregor. The fourth play, "A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A RINGWOOD GAS STATION ATTENDANT' is about eight people who meet in front of the Ringwood gas station during&gmHTtaneous demonstratforfT After-the lighter doesn't work, the entire day is a failure and the people wander off. The characters in this play were Tom Bertom, Bob Brennan, Joanne Schabow, Sylvia Helm, Donna Johnson and Phil Owen. The last play was a psychological drama, called "SHELTER INCIDENT'. It was set in a Bomb Shelter during World War n. Playing in this playet was Don Sturm, Sue Dusthimer, Beth Okal, Ken Wahl and Bob McCormick. PG. 10, - PLAINDEALER - WED., MAR. 20, 1968 USE THE CLASSIFIED GETTING READY . . . Don Piccard, famed balloonist, fets a hand as he unfurls his balloon to participate iri a alloon race at the Minnesota White Bear Lake Carnival. It was the first hot-air balloon race held in this country since the 1930's. II MHMffiY'S F8MM0ST I HOLIDAY LIQUuRd STORE HOURS FRIDAY, SAT 11 PM >UNUAT jp I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Draft Brewed 12-12 oz. bottles sHENRY THURS. 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