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vvvj %r THE MCHENRY PLAINDEALER 7 "SERVING THE CHAIN-O-LAKE S REC'ON SlNCE^ 1875 VOL. 91 - No. 69 Wednesday, May 15, 1968 36 Pages - 10$ PLAN NEW HIGHLIGHTS FOR MARINE FESTIVAL Seek Queen Title Lineup Of Beauty v 'M ' :t mmsi f P k.<i- Here is your 1968 Miss McHenry lineup, the candidates for the crown worn now by Miss Sandy P ry, reigning beauty. New winner queen will be chosen Wednesday night, June 12. From left, front: Kathy Freund, Linda Derocher, Del Wisniewski, Karen Matt, Sue Schneider, Pam Martell, Laura Raasch, arid Corine Wilcox. 3ack: April Young, Marianne Mazur, Debby Moore,Kari Ehlen, Andrea York, Ardelle Voeltz, Roxanne Kenton and Mary Jo Smith. DON PEASLEY PHOTO With the sixteen Miss McHenry queen candidates busily engaged in the charm course and the contest on June 12, other workers on the McHenry Marine Festival program concentrate on other aspects of the big affair. Last year's colorful attraction will be exceeded in several categories, Frank Low, general chairman said this week. The Marine Festival is scheduled for Sunday, July 21 with a parade, drum and bugle corps competition and other in-between highlights. One event that promises to out-headline last year's show is an International Day Sidewalk sale. Another is the Drum Corps Magic, with several bigger- name units signed. The sidewalk sale, which drew huge crowds last year, will top previous attractions, predicts Low. Chairman Allan Leibsohn is obtaining signs and data for an international flavor. Stores will assume a nationality of their own, with decorations and costumes in keeping with the spirit of this Chamber of Commerce-sponsored event. A water fight among fire departments; programs for the young people of the community including dance bands; and a water show after the parade are among other attractions. The Miss McHenry contest is sponsored by the McHenry VFW Fast 6400. The charm course has several participants including Mrs. Carol Jepsen. The girls attend instruction classes given by Mrs. Jepsen with others assisting. Changes in the crowningprogram and selection on June 12 at the McHenry VFW are in the . plans. The McHenry auxiliary will sponsor the new Miss McHenry in the Miss McHenry County pageant on July 10. She will also reign over Marine Festival fun on July 21. Among drum and bugle corps lined up for the Drum Corps Magic are the famed Cavaliers, Royal Aires, Skokie Vanguards, Norwood Park Imperials, Madison Boy Scouts and Kenosha Queensman. Workshop 'At Public Uhmry Librarians and board members of the Northern Illinois University Library System will be attending one of a series of area workshops planned by staff members of the headquarters flockford Public Library. Anthony Baldarotta, assistant director of the system, and Robert Arnimtor, audio-visual consultant, will conduct , the workshop, which will be devoted to a briefing on children's summer reading program and to a preview of films available for loan. Friends of the library are invited to attend the session at the McHenry library on Tuesday, May 21, 9 a.m. to 12 noon. AWARD TO CADET Awards to outstanding cadets in the United States Army Reserve Officers Training corps at St. Norbert college have been announced by Lt. Col. John D. Reeve, ROTC Professor of Military Science. Michael L„ Conway of McHenry won a lancer drill platoon award. MCHENRY MAN HURT Stanley A. Schmitt of 5917 N. Spring Grove road, McHenry was reported in satisfactory condition in McHenry hospital •Tuesday afternoon after suffering injuries in a farm accident early Monday evening. Mr. Schmitt sustained a fractured jaw, lacerations and other injuries when he was caught between a tractor and a truck. For I COMPLETE BAY CAMP PROGRAM FOR YMCA YOUTH The Lake Region YMCS has made plans to provide the young residents of the Y's service area with an exciting, well organized summer of activities by establishing a complete day camp program for boys and girls in second through eighth grades. Four two-week periods will begin on June 24, July 8, July 22, and Aug. 5. The day camp site is the Woodstock city park and all participants will be bused from locations near their homes for each day's activities. In addition to camp site activities, participants will receive daily swim instruction by "Y" staff at the Thunderbird Farm pool in Cary. They will be included in the Monday bus trips. A sampling of day camp activities which are included: instruction, arts and nature study, weekly outs, group games, archery, hiking, singing, weekly special event days, fishing, tennis, and story telling. A special parent program is planned for every camp period. Phil Sprinkle, Lake Region YMCA Community Youth program director, who is in charge of the day camp period, has announced the selection of four counselors for the season. They are Mrs. Sue McElya, Miss Linda Parrish and Bill Simons of Crystal Lake and George Bures, Jr., of Fox River Grove. Enroll now by telephoning, or writing the Lake Region YMCA, 65 N. Williams, Crystal Lake. swim crafts, cook - sports, Dr. Freund Dies At 81 Dr. Henry Freund, 81, a practicing optometrist in McHenry for many years, died Saturday May 11 in the Villa Nursing home at Pistakee Bay, where he had been confined for the past three months. His home was at 3601 Idyll Dell road. Dr. Freund and his family moved to McHenry for the first time in the'twenties, later transferred residence, and returned when he established an office on Green street in 1947. He retired in 1964. The deceased was a member of McHenry Lodge, No. 158, AF & AM; the McHenry Rotary club and the Illinois Optometric association. Survivors are three daughters, Mrs. A.J. (Alida) Wirtz of McHenry, Mrs. Bert (Earnestine) Christian of Chicago and Mrs. E.G. (Nornja) Burhs of California; al^a six grandchildren and nine/great-grandchilSren. y JThe McHenry Lodge was in ^drarge of a service held at 8 o'clock Monday evening in the • George R. Justen & Son funeral home. Rev. Raymond White of the Community Methodist church officiated at last rites held at 1 o'clock Tuesday, with interment in Woodland cemetery. Area Zoning Hearings Set A petition has been filed before the McHenry county zoning board of appeals for Charles E. Coles, asking reclassification from "F" farming ^o "B-l" business on the property located in Ringwood, bounded on the northwest by Rt. 31. The hearing will be held June 5 at 3 p.m. in the city hall of McHenry. Another hearing is scheduled for May 22 at the Richmond village hall at 3 o'clock when the appeal board will hear a petition for a conditional use permit for the addition to a cemetery desired by Grace Evangelical Lutheran church. Mrs. Robert Bradshaw, county chairman for the Mental Health tag days in the county, is shown selling first tag to Dr. Salvador Martinez, medical director of the Mental Health center., All funds from the McHenry tag day on Saturday, Miy 18. will be used for the Mental Health Center for McHenry County, located in McHenry. ' PLAINDEALER PHOTO GRADE SCHOOL MUSICIANS TO PRESENT PROGRAM The McHenry grade school junior band, Cadet Band, Concert band, Junior high school chorus, Edgebrook fifth and sixth grade choruses and the fourthgrade chorus from Valley View will present a music program -Tuesday, May 21 at 8 p.m. in the gym of the McHenry Junior high schooL There is no charge for admission. Phillip Helwig, Mrs. Jack Hollander and Carl Kohrt are in charge of the program. Following is the tentative program: Valley View Chorus: "Grandfathers Clock", "The Cuckoo" "Blow Away the Morning Deu", and "The Gaucho". Junior Band: "Aura Lee", "Entry of The Lancers", "Beautiful Spring", "Happy Bugler" and "Krazy Klock". Fifth grade chorus: "TheGlendy Bufke", "Eternal Father Strong to Save", "Upward Trail" and "Song of the West". Sixth grade chorus: "Cape Cod Chantey", "Aloha Oe", "Cockles and Mussels", and "Roger Young". Cadet Band: " American Patrol", "Rip Van Winkle Overture", " Rocky Mountain Rock", and "Junior Jump". Junior high school chorus: "I Whistle a Happy Tune", "Yellow Bird", "Kentucky Babe" and "I Bought Me a Cat". Concert Band: !_« La Nuit (The Night)", "Symbol of Honor March", "Selections fromBrigadoon", "Sun Prairie Overture" and "Mambo Bandv. VOTING MACHINE * DEMONSTRATION There will be a representative from the office of County Clerk Vernon W. Kays to demonstrate • the use of a voting machine at St. Peter's parish hall, Spring Grove, Thursday evening, May 16, at 8 p.m. The public is invited to attend. SUNDAY -- DAY OF PITFALL FOR PURSE AND PERSON Last Sunday was such an unfortunate day for Marcia Ridout of 805 Larkdale, Wauconda, that she might well have followed the time-worn advice to "have stayed in bed". At least she should have stayed away from McHenry, as the following series of incidents indicate. Miss Ridout was driving east on Pearl street about 10:30 in the evening when Officer Norman Williams of Wonder Lake ' stopped her and made out a ticket for driving 50 miles an hour in a 25-mile zone. Sgt. Kranz, who was accompanying Williams, left the squad car at this point to assist another officer in an investigation. Williams proceeded up Riverside drive and stopped at the intersection with Elm, only to look in the rear view mirror and find he was being followed closely by a driver who just happened to be the same Miss Ridout to whom he had made out a ticket minutes earlier. Realizing that she was travelling at too great a speed to stop at the corner, he attempted to avoid being struck, but the collision was inevitable. Williams sustained a whiplash injury and was still in traction in McHenry hospital Tuesday morning. Miss Ridout was more fortunate from a physical standpoint, but suffered a blow to the billfold when state police handed her the second ticket of the evening for driving too fast and being unable to avoid an accidents- Mental Health Educator Joins County Center SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE IN NURSING FIELD Applications for scholarships in nursing and related fields such as therapy or technical training are now being accepted by the Woman's auxiliary to the McHenry hospital. Scholarship chairman, Mrs. William Landin, announced that all McHenry county high schools as well as Grant Community high school in Lake County, now have the pertinent information for applying in their offices. Mrs. Landin may also be contacted directly at 1501 Grant street, Ingleside, 111., 60041. Any young woman or man who has the necessary qualifications for entrance to the course of training he or she seeks to follow is eligible to apply for a scholarship. Scholarships will be awarclki before the close of the current school year so applicants should not delay in submitting the needed information, Mrs. Landin advised. Crash North Of Spring Grove Kills Driver A Mundelein man, Milton J. Hardacre, III, 25 years old, lost his life in a one-car accident which occurred at 9:04 o'clock Monday evening, May 13, on the Johnsburg -Spring Grove road, 2 miles south of Spring Grove. Hardacre was travelling alone, heading north on the blacktop, when his auto apparently went out of control on the crest of a hill. He was pronounced dead at the scene by Coroner Theron Ehorn and the body removed to the Ehorn chapel in Richmond. Deputies who investigated said the auto left the road, seemed to continue 55 feet in the air and then another 157 feet across both lanes. The vehicle then left the road on the east side, took down six trees and travelled another 193 feet before coming to rest on the east side, facing south. Hardacre's body was found 140 feet south of the auto, in the path of his vehicle, and deputies speculated that the car may have rolled over him. GERALD W. PETTERA Gerald W. Pettera of Gilberts, 111., joined the staff of the Mental Health Center for McHenry county on May 1 and will serve in the capacity of mental health educator. He was associated with the Boy Scouts of America in the DuPage Area council, Wheaton, and the Fox River Valley council, Elgin as a district executive. He served as a Region 7 instructor for National camp school. Mr. Pettera received his edu- DRIVERS ESCAPE INJURY IN AREA AUTO ACCIDENTS An auto driven by Raymond j. Reidy of Crystal Lake was demolished last Sunday evening as he drove on Ames road, at the intersection with Barreville road, three miles south of McHenry. Reidy, who escaped injury, told county authorities he was travelling east on Ames and when he attempted to stop at the intersection, struck a tree and then went down an embankment into a field. Virgil and Martha Burch of Beaver road, Wonder Lake, also were unhurt Sunday evening in an accident which occurred on Rt. 47, north of Huntley. Burch told deputies the auto struck a bump in the road, at which time the trailer began to sway and he then lost control of the vehicle, with the trailer rolling over. James J. Janota of Spring Grove and George Colburn of Anne street, McHenry, were uninjured Sunday morning in an accident on Bay road, four miles north of McHenry. Janota was driving east when he approached a narrow bridge at the same time another car approached from the opposite direction. The auto went out of control and skidded across the road and into a body of water. cation at Wisconsin State university at Platteville, where he was a charter member of Alpha Psi Omega honor fraternity. He will receive his B.S. degree in liberal arts in August. He is married and has one child. Pettera will work with George Mally, administrative director of the Mental Health center, and Robert Lamboum, director of Pioneer Center for the Exceptional. His first task will be to study the needs of the county for mental' health and mental retardation services. The County Mental health board approved the position of mental health educator ir> the budget of the Mental Health center in order that such a study could be undertaken. A consultant in community organization will be engaged to assist Mr. Pettera with this program. Upon completing the study, a report to the County Mental Health board will be used to establish priorities for future proposals for continuing and new programs in mental health and retardation. Mr. Pettera will also develop a program for mental health education encompassing such activities as a speaker's bureau, seminars and establishing a program of communication about mental health. Assessors In Tax Discussion Lake and McHenry county assessors will hold a luncheon meeting at noon Thursday, May 16, at the Village Green Country club, Midlothian and Winchester roads, Mundelein, in Fremont township. Members of the Lake-Mc- Henry Assessor's association will be discussing new approaches and procedures of the personal property taxes. Deerfield township assessor Harry Eichler, president of the group, invites all assessors and deputy assessors to attend the meeting. HOLY NAME TO SPONSOR TALK ON MODERN CHURCHES St. Patrick's Holy Name society will sponsor a talk and discussion by Rev. William Knott, director of Post Conciliar center, Rockford, in the church hall on Sunday evening, May 19 at 7:30 p.m. Subject of his talk will be, "Are the churches in our area keeping up with the modern documents of Vatican Council n?" The public is invited to hear this informative talk and take part in the discussion period following. Refreshments will be served. Prepare Benefit Program PSYCHIATRIST NAMED BY COURT FOR LILY OLSON A psychiatrist was ordered by Judge William M. Carroll in Circuit court last Friday to examine Mrs. Lily Olson, 54, of Woodstock, to determine her competency to stand trial. Mrs. Olson was indicted by the grand jury on May 7 on a charge of-killing her daughter, Linda, 14, by strangulation in the family home late in April. A coroner's jury earlier had listed homicide, with a recommendation that Mrs. Olson be bound over to the grand jury. MOVE ASSESSOR OFFICE The office of the township assessor has been moved to the old bank building, 3922 W. Main street. Anyone who has not yet filed a personal property tax .return is urged to do so at once. Angela Amici, McHenry musical artist, prepares for her role in "The Medium" at the Woodstqck Opera House this Saturday night. With her is Angelo Karas, director for both operas to be Members of the newly form- • ed Town Square Players, county- wide adult amateur theatrical troupe, spent last Sunday scrubbing the Opera House in given as a benefit to raise funds for the summertime young people's program st the Opera House. Sponsor is the Woodstock Fine Arts association. DON PEASLEY PHOTO preparation for the grandiose benefit performance Saturday evening, May 18 at8:30o'clock. Those who have attended "The Night of Opera" and "The Evening of Ballet" the two previous benefit performances, know that on this once a year even- (Continued on page 12)