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iv* "* \Twice Told Talesl WED. SEPT. 3, 1969 - PLAINDEALER- PG. 5 KEEPS CITY CLEAN •- Rtlph Wipiiy n employee of the city of McHenry, is shown operating the 200-gaUon capacity street sweeper which is largely responsible for the city's fine appear­ ance in the Age of Litterbugs. PLAINDEALER PHOTO IAKEMOOR - LILYMOOR PAT ZABROSKI 385-4726 LARGE CROWD ENJOYS CORN ROAST SATURDAY The village of Lakemoorheld a corn roast on Saturday, Aug. 23. A large crowd attended and everyone had an enjoyable time. Prizes were awarded. The vil­ lagers are happy so many came to help make the corn roast such a big success. BACK TO COLLEGE Vacation has ended for Terry Morrison, Bonnie Bonder, Dar- rel Whynot, and Richard Heck- man, as they have left for col- leg|ionce again. SURPRISE BIRTHDAY Mr. and Mrs. Robert Natchke held a surprise birthday for his mother, Helen Natchke, who celebrated her sixtieth birth­ day. There were fifty people in attendance from Windpoint, Lombard and Chicago. Mrs. Natchke's party was a big suc­ cess. GUESTS Visiting from Florida, Mr< and Mrs. Bert Willson and Mrs. Sadie Engelbrecht, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Tobey. Mrs. Grace Will- son is the Godmother of David Tobey. Pat Zabroski and Dave Flet­ cher traveled to Racine, Wis., where they were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ned Hanrahan. tening of the Hyatt s' sixth great­ grandchild, Donna Marie, the daughter of Hannalore and Ke­ nneth Hyatt of Chicago. The baby's grandmother is in Chi­ cago visiting from Germany. Other guests attending were from Aurora and Elgin. ANNIVERSARIES Mr. and Mrs. Willard Mix celebrated their forty-fifth we­ dding anniversary on Aug. 30. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Bolda celebrated their first wedding anniversary on Aug. 31. SERVICEMEN Jim Cassell is on a cruise with the Navy, and they have vi­ sited in Columbia, passed the Equator, Equador and is now anchored in Salinos. Jim is the sports editor on board ship, and keeps up to date on all the sports in the U.S.A., especially the Cubs. RECEIVES HONOR TASSEL Mrs. Eunice Tobey received a Red Tassel from the Moose, which is the College of Regional and is the highest tassel she can receive. Mrs. Tobey is also the ptMlat #or fee Mooee. Service News Navy Ensign Caryl A. Lima, Nurse corps, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. August Lima of 4319 Riverdale drive, McHenry, gra­ duated from Nurse/Medical Se­ rvice corps class at Naval Schools command, Newport, R.I. The school provides students with an outline of the duties and responsibilities of a medical officer. It provides nurses with the military background need­ ed to serve in the Naval Med­ ical Corps. FORTY YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of Aug. 29, 1929) ' With Labor Day only a few days off many of the residents at Pistakee Bay and along the Fox river are already packing to go back to the city for the opening of school. McHenry, which has been such a busy place all summer, will soon resume its winter's quiet. The members of the staffs of the Woodstock Daily Senti­ nel and the Plaindealer, their families and invited guests en­ joyed a picnic at Broderman's woods, near Woodstock. There were thirty-five in attendance this year. - Peeved because his father sent him to bed in the middle of the day for punishment, a 13 year old youngster ran away from his home in Chicago arid was apprehended by officer Jack Walsh in this city. A candy salesman from Chi­ cago, Frank Bliss Edgerly, 28 years old, was killed instantly while driving north on Green street hitting the curb on Was­ hington street at St. Patrick's church. The first addition to the Sha- limar subdivision, North of Mc­ Henry, has been opened. With this added piece of ground Sha- limar will have about 100 extra lots which have been priced at $250 and up. Mrs. Frank Ward passed a- way at the home of her daugh­ ter, Mrs. Margaret Rasmussen, in Chicago after an illness of about two weeks. Mrs. Ward made her home in McHenry for many years and was well and favorable known to residents of this community. Dr. D.G. Wells left on Mon­ day for Los Angeles, Calif., where he will attend the marri­ age of his son, Glen, to Max- ine Beltner. TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of Aug. 31, 1944) There will be four new tea­ chers at the community high school this year, Miss Kathryn Reuland of Chicago will teach mathematics and social sci­ ence, the second new teacher is Mrs. Jennie Mae Richard­ son, who has been an able tea­ cher in the public grade school for the past nine years, ano­ ther new teacher at the school this year will be Mrs. John Bolger. The fourth new instruc­ tor will be Miss Froehlich who will take over the vocal depart­ ment replacing Miss Rausch. The local first department was summoned to the John Pha- lin home on Richmond road ea­ rly Saturday afternoon to ex­ tinguish flames which very nearly caused serious damage. A blaze which enveloped the bed the rug and draperies threat­ ened to spread to other parts of the house. The many friends of Harding E. Thiele of Oak Park, a for­ mer McHenry resident, will be saddened to hear of his death Aug. 27. He was 32 years old and graduated from the Mc­ Henry high school with the class of 1929. For leading his formation on a successful bomb run despite the crippled condition of his ship, First Lieut, Norman E. Blomgren of Pistakee Bay was recently awarded the Distin- quished Flying Cross. He is a pilot of a B-24 Liberator hea­ vy bomber of the 15th AAR in Italy. Plans are being made for a tennis tournament to be held on the local courts on Labor Day afternoon. This will be a dou­ bles tournament and anyone in­ terested is asked to contact Leonard McCracken. If you have 1jo partner, Mac will help secure one for you. Most recent blood donors at the blood bank in Chicago were Olive E. May, Evelyn Soellner and Helen Heuser. Dr. Charles H. Albrecht, 80, a dentist in Waukegan for 52 years, died Wednesday in Vic­ tory hospital. He was graduat­ ed from the Northwestern den­ tal college and practiced in McHenry and Woodstock before moving to Waukegan. TEN YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of Sept. 3, 1959) Mrs. Wilhelmina Block, at 99 McHenry's oldest resident and also believed to be the old­ est country resident, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Martha Feltz, Aug. 26. Of her almost 100 years, eighty-six were spent in this area. Dick Thennes won first prizp in the fishing rodeo sponsored by the McHenry police depart­ ment. His was the first fish caught. About 150 youngsters participated and accounted for fifty fine fish being caught. Twenty-five prizes were awar­ ded. At noon the large group enjoyed hot dogs and p6p which had been furnished by local bus­ inessmen. Elaine, thirteen year old dau­ ghter of Mr. -and Mrs. Frank Godina of McCullom Lake, suf­ fered a brain concussion and a fractured left leg when she fell from a horse while riding on the bridle path of the Rand L stab­ les south of McHenry on the Crystal Lake blacktop. McHenry*s Mayor George P. Freund helped inaugurate Mc­ Henry's new dial telephone sys­ tem which went into operation at 2 a.m. Sunday. He dialed the first call from the new telephone building on Court street to try out the new nation wide direct distance dialing service by calling his brother- in-law, Elmer "Biff" Meyer, in Chicago. He commented on the speed and ease with which the calls went through. Dr. George A lvary of McHen­ ry was best man at the wedding of his brother, Lorenz Alvary, Metropolitan opera basso, when he was married Sunday to Mrs. Norma Fox in her home in La- Porte, Ind. Miss Joann May of McHenry and Mr. Robert Kelley of Mc­ Cullom Lake exchanged nuptial vows at St. Patrick's Catholic church Aug. 22. AREA TEENAGERS MARCH TO PROTEST LEUKEMIA DEATHS An "Army of Teenagers" is planning a protest for the whole metropolitan area of Chicago. They plan to hit the pavement for a whole week - from Sun­ day to Sunday, Sept. 14 to the 21. They are protesting the premature deaths of many of their fellow teenagers from ^leukemia and cancer. Entertainer Danny Thomas is the instigator of this unique protest. He has asked the teens of America to help him support St. Jude Children's Research hospital in Memphis, Tenn., which has declared war on childhood diseases. This hospital is the result of a promise made by Danny Thomas in 1937. Thomas was an aspiring, but unemployed entertainer in Chicago. He pro­ mised the patron saint of diffi­ cult cases, St. Jude, that he would build a shrine in the saint's honor, if he hit the big time. NEITHER RAIN NOR SNOW KEEPS THE McHENRY PLAINDEALER FROM REACHING YOU GET YOUR SUBSCRIPTION TODAY !!!! CHRISTENING jr. and Mrs. C.O. Hyatt and son, Richard Hyatt, Mrs. Vern Freund and daughters, Diane and Karen, attended the chris- V to fight CHILDREN'S LUNG DISEASES K I Support your local Cystic Fibrosis Chapter ENSIGN CARYL LIMA , RUTH CARLSON GRADUATE OF SI UNIVERSITY A class of 1,600 candidates was awarded degrees at South­ ern Illinois university's annual late - summer commencement ceremony last Saturday on the Carbondale campus. Among the graduates was Ruth Diane Carlson, 1111 Man­ chester Mall, McHenry. The event, second graduation exercise of the year, was at 7:30 p.m. in the air-condition­ ed SIU arena. Included in the ceremonies were traditional remarks to the graduates by President Delyte W. Morris, and the award of an honorary Doctor of Science Degree to Thomas Kirk Cure- ton, retiring specialist in phy­ sical fitness research studies at the University of Illinois. 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