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QELEBRATINC I 132» ANNIVERSARY^ f IRST RELIGIOUS S™ IN HENRY COUNTY RELIGIOUS COMMEMORATION -- A parade through McHenry and nearby subdivisions last Saturday, highlighted by a float and several old cars, marked the observance of Religious Em­ phasis Week in McHenry. It was just 132 years ago on August 19 that the first religious service in the city was recorded. To commemorate the event, the entire week was devoted, by pro­ clamation of the Mayor, to emphasize the significance of reli­ gion in the life of McHenry residents. PLAINDEALER PHOTO „ Everyone has been anxiously awaiting the arrival of McHen­ ry* s new American Field Ser­ vice student. Mrs. William Lin- genfelter, in whose home she will reside, told us that Ena Meza's trip from Lima, Peru, has been delayed, but she is expected here early next month. Betty Lingenfelter sounded enthusiastic over prospects of hosting the petite South Ameri­ can girl for the next year and introducing her to McHenry folks. The months ahead should provide an interesting experi­ ence for Ena and her new fam­ ily alike, as it has for other local host parents and their "adopted' children. Set Deadlines Ahead For Labor Day Issue Since Labor Day falls on Sept. 1 this year, deadlines for the first (Wednesday) September issue of the Plain- dealer will need to i>e set ahead. Correspondents who usually have columns in the office by Friday will have a Thursday deadline. General news will be accepted until Friday, August 29, at 4 p.m. Display classified will be accepted until Friday at 4 p.m. and regular classifieds until 9:30 Tuesday morning. Reg­ ular display ads must be in our office by noon Frj^ay. A pleasant association ex­ tending over several years end­ ed last week when Shirley Schu- err left her pen and copy paper behind as she set forth for Scottsdale, Ariz., and her new home. Shirley had been setting her thoughts in print via the Lilymoor - Lakemoor column for a number of years and paid frequent visits to our office. -- We'll miss this faithful cor­ respondent, and hope the com­ munity will cooperate with the new columnist, an enthusiastic young lady named Pat Zabrow- ski. Two of our favorite people, Mr. and Mrs. Carl N. Weber, are observing their thirty- (Continued on page 4) MOBILE TB UNIT VISITS McHENRY FRIDAY, AUG, 29 The mobile TB chest x-ray unit will be in both McHenry and Woodstock this week. The sponsors of the x-ray program the McHenry County Tubercu­ losis association, announced that the unit will be in Wood­ stock on Aug. 28 and McHenry, Aug. 29. It will operate during the same hours at both locations, 12:30 to 5 and 6 to 8:30 p.m. In McHenry the unit will be parked at the fire department building, Elm street and in Woodstock, the south side of the court house. Anyone over 18 years of age may have a free chest x-ray. Pregnant women desiring an x- ray should bring a written re­ quest from their physician. COLLEGE BOARD MEETS The regular meeting of the McHenry County college board will be held at the interim of­ fices of the college at Crystal Lake on Thursday, Aug. 28, 7:30 p.m. Final Real Estate Taxes Due Sept. 2 Tuesday, Sept. 2,the second installment of the McHenry county real estate taxes are due. This second half of the real estate tax may be paid at any McHenry county bank, by mail or in person to the Treasurer's office, Courthouse, Woodstock. Because legal action is being taken to collect some delin­ quent personal property taxes, such payments must be made directly to the Treasurer's of­ fice. VACANT LOT AND EMPTY BUILDING BURN THIS WEEK Fires burned a vacant lot and an empty building earlier this week in the McHenry area. All three fire companies fought one or more of the blazes, which caused no injuries and little damage. (Continued on page 4) Man Escapes Drowning By Child's Help Slipping into a 15-foot deep hole in McCullom Lake, Conrad Flint, 19304 Harned street, De­ troit, Mich., narrowly escaped drowning last Saturday. Flint was placed in McHenry hospital for observation following the accident. The Detroit man and the family of his brother, Rudolph Krzeminski, 8637 Studebaker street, Warren, Mich., were at­ tempting to wade to a raft off McCullom Lake beach when he stepped in the hole. Neither Flint nor Krzeminski could swim. However, Krzeminski's nine - year- old son, Michael could swim and tried to pull his uncle from the hole. The thrashing in the water attracted three other men to the spot where Hint went down. They helped Michael to find the drowning man. Between two and four minutes elasped before Flint was rescued. As his brother was taken to shore, Krzeminski gave him mouth -to -mouth respiration. The rescue squad arrived and placed Flint under an artificial respirator. The wife of one of the re scuer s Chester Noga, reported the in­ cident to the McHenry county sheriffs department. By the time deputies arrived, Flint was breathing on his own, even though the rescue squad kept the inhalator in operation. Flint was taken to the hospi­ tal by ambulance. The board of education of School District 36 met in spe­ cial session at Harrison ele­ mentary school last week, when the important order of busi­ ness was consideration of bids and the awarding of contracts for the construction of an ad­ dition to the school. Prior to the meeting Supt. Bright submitted his written recommendations to the board. In this report, Bright said that according to an estimate of the school's population in 1975, a minimum of twenty-six class­ rooms would be needed. Bright's report went on to out­ line a plan for achieving this minimum. Included in the original plans and specifications is a list^of twelve 'deductive alternates', or items that could be elimin­ ated from the contract if fund­ ing ran short. Bright recom­ mended that the board eliminate six of these alternates, thus lowering the cost by $20,207. The architect also submit­ ted a list of recommendations to the board. This list varied from Bright's in only one de­ tail. The architect recommend­ ed that item No. 10 on the al­ ternate list, air conditioning in the music room, be included in the contract. Board Members Henry Setz- ler and Jay Cristy questioned Bright's recommendation on re-roofing the 1954 addition. Sptzler said that the $5,300 price tag on the job did not in­ clude the roof over the multi­ purpose room, which was built at the same time. Cristy said that since there was no present problem with the roof, he thought the money should be spent elsewhere in the contract. The board also disagreed with the superintendent's recom­ mendation that the interior fin­ ish on two classrooms be elim­ inated from the contract. Jay Cristy said he considered the classrooms more important than the roof and he proposed that the board exchange one item for the other. The board agreed with Cristy and voted to completely finish all the new classrooms and to shelve the re-roofing project until a later date. This trade in items also netted $2,140 for the contin­ gency fund because of the low­ er price tag on the classroom interiors. The board accepted the re­ maining items on the superin­ tendent's list as stated and went on to the awarding of contracts. Polonia Construction Co., 5341 Irving Park road, Chicago, was designated as general contrac­ tor. Polonia's bid, less the de­ ductions, amounted to $224,600. The plumbing contract in the a- mount of $58,900 went to George V. Andrew & Son of Harvard. (Continued on page 4) CALL OF THE BELL -- The Plaindealerphoto­ grapher wasn't sitting in a tree to capture the mood of registration at East campus on Monday morning, but he did manage to obtain a bird's eye view of freshmen and sophomores as they arrived at the school. The line was long, but the looks of resignation on the faces of these young people reflect an attitude of patience. They may very well be recalling the famous words, "Everything comes to him who waits" and in this case the reward is nine months of study. PLAINDEALER PHOTO Motorists Killed, One Charged In Accidents THEFTS FROM TWO CARS ARE INVESTIGATED Sometime between 5 and 5:30 p.m. on Aug. 20, a tape player was stolen from a car belong­ ing to Robert White, 1701 N, Richmond road, McHenry. White had parked his car be­ hind the McHenry Recreation bowling alley. When he return­ ed to the vehicle after a half hour, he found the tape player, which had been resting on the rear seat, gone. Apparently, the thieves ent­ ered the car by prying open a window and reaching through for the player. Nothing else was stolen from the auto. While his car was parked by the McHenry American Legion Post, Wallace O. Laurence, of 4404 W. Lakewood, McHenry, had a camera stolen. An insta- matic, electric eye model in a black leather case, the camera was stored in the car. Thieves apparently used a sharp instrument to pry the left vent window open. Sheriff's de­ puties found the weather strip­ ping around the window cut. Two men were killed in a vio­ lent three-car collision on Rt. 47, two miles south of Hebron, on Saturday. Leon Szatkiewicz, 4045 N. LaPorte street, Chi­ cago, and Peter V. Hoefert, 1418 South Street, Woodstock, were crushed when Szatkiewi­ cz* s car skidded into Hoefert's path. The road was under constru­ ction at the scene of the acci­ dent. When the auto driven by Szatkiewicz dropped four inch­ es from the blacktop surface to the unfinished pavement, it began to skid. Sliding 189 feet Szatkiewicz's car crossed to the north-bound lane and into the path of Hoefert's car. Unable to stop in time, Hoe­ fert skidded 168 feet to his death. A third car, driven by Arnold F. Hay, 1621 N. Semi­ nary, Woodstock, was following behind Hoefert. When the first two vehicles collided, Hay could not stop before he struck the rear end of Hoefert's car. Within the McHenry area, motorists escaped injury in a one car accident. But, the col­ lision resulted in charges being lodged against one of the dri­ vers. Captain Davey Jones, 620 Brandenburg road, Ingleside, was charged with failure to yield at a stop intersection by Mc­ Henry county sheriffs depu­ ties after his vehicle struck a car driven by Elizabeth Cul- lotta, 1906 Woodlawn Park in McHenry. The accident occur­ red at the intersection of Cha­ pel Hill and Lincoln roads on August 23. According to Mrs. Cullotta, she had stopped at thefour-way stop intersection and saw Jon­ es' vehicle approaching. Assu­ ming Jones would stop, Mrs. Cullotta began to turn left onto Lincoln road. Jones claims he did stop before he proceeded east along Lincoln road. Howe* ver, the sheriff's deputies bla­ med him for causing the acci­ dent. Sunlight blinded Robert K. Preston, 3125 Melrose court, Wilmette, until he could not see to stop his car to avoid an accident at the intersection of Route 120 and Eastview road on August 23. Turning left off Rte. 120, Wayne B. Conforti, 5818 Rosemarie, LaGrange, had stopped to allow oncoming traf­ fic to go by. I nseeing, Preston (Continued on page 4) AFS Student Head Studies Abroad T)wenty, Sn J^laxcoticd J^aid Twenty young people, four­ teen males, three females, and three male juveniles, have been apprehended in a narcotics raid on a cottage at 1003 River road, rural McHenry. The arrests came on the night of Aug. 22, as the climax to a stake-out by the McHenry county sheriffs department. For three months, the de­ partment had been receiving complaints about loud parties at the small white, brick home on the water front. Deputies placed the house under surveil­ lance and found that known nar­ cotic users frequented the par­ ties. Josee Reed, 21 years old, rented the cottage. Her last party, according to a report given to the sheriff's office, was attended by between twen­ ty and twenty-five young people. At approximately 9 p.m., a neighbor of Miss Reeds report­ ed the party to sheriffs Lt.. Robert Crabtree and Assistant District Attorney Tom Baker. Crabtree, Baker and Sheriff John C. Carroll watched the house and at an opportune mo­ ment decided to break up the party. Carroll and Baker left Crab­ tree at the scene while they went to get a search warrant and men for the raid. The lieu­ tenant watched from the shad­ ows while groups of people left and entered the house. Judge John Kaufman, of Mc­ Henry awarded a warrant to Carroll and Baker. They re- turned to the house with a sheriffs detective, an assis­ tant state's attomev , and a (Continued on page 4) THE MCHENRY PLAINDEALER "SERVING THE CHAIN-O-LAKES REGION SINCE 1875 I I ' i--.-- --<" m • •' " ' . . ^ •'-- r------r " -- 1 ---- • •' ' --:-- --f --:--»••-'<. ' '--' . •'---- \jOLUME 91 - NO. 109 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1969 18 PAGES - TEN CENTS arrison Contracts Awarded Letters home indicate plea­ sant and interesting experien­ ces for Kurt Easton, McHenry senior who is spending his summer in Lebach-Saar, Ger­ many, as aq Americans Abroad student under the American Field Service program. Since school is in session in his . adopted home city, he has not been away from books as have many of his MCHS classmates. a In Germany, Kurt is residing Mth the Bock family, where habits were strange to him un­ til he began to familiarise him­ self with customs of another a very old castle dwelling with many rooms and many floors where it is possible literally to get lost just in going to bed or finding the dining area. The McHenry youth writes of beds which practically swal­ low one up with their marsh- mallow feather ticked mattress about a foot thick; and break­ fast^ of biscuits and jam which await family members whenev­ er they choose to arise, some­ times alone, all set out on the table from early morning until lunch time. One of the facts of which Kurt has become aware in his rela- tivpiv chort stav in Germanv is the slower pace in social pressures compared to this country. The young man believes he may inadvertently slip into his conversation a German expres­ sion upon his return, for he has had only a few opportunities to speak English this summer. The German he learned in school is being put to a test, and Kurt seems to be enjoying the challenge. *=» The Moon landing watched with such interest in this coun­ try, was followed with equal zeal thousands of miles away. Easton said every exciting mo­ ment was shared with those I near him and a holiday was de­ clared to observe the events, followed by parades and other festivities. Before returning home, Kurt hopes to take a few side trips to see and learn about that part of the world. McHenry* s AFS chapter has a program planned which will enable him to share the experiences which have so enriched his life this past sum­ mer. Easton will return as incom­ ing president of the McHenry student AFS chapter, a position he should be able to handle with a degree of acumen and enthus­ iasm increased through the ex­ perience of his summer abroad. SERVICEMAN RECOGNIZED -- A Certificate of Recognition has been awarded PO-1 Thomas R.,Dowe, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dowe of 412 N. Front street, McHenry, and husband of Lily S. Dowe of Oxnard, Calif. His award, given on order of Col. Do-Kien-Nhieu, mayor of Saigon, read as follows: "An expert metal worker and welder who helped train Vietnamese welders and participated energetically in the clean-up campaign in the city of Saigon, aiding greatly the population in the Capi­ tol of Vietnam."