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I Lakeland Park Welcoming new Farm Bureau members at the dinner for new ones signed during 1971 are Richard Arseneau, Richmond, vice-chairman (left) and Lee Kortemeier, insurance agent. Receiving the greeting are Mr. and Mrs. Harlin Dam, McHenry township. %% ;/ DON PEASLEY PHOTO Farm Bureau Sign* 45 New NfMfabers In Drive Stiff Fine, Imprisonment Awaits Phone Pranksters Fjfcrm Bureau's new mem­ bers-- those signed during the present membership year- were guests at a dinner last week to welcome them into the organization and give them background on history and policies. A total of forty-five were signed during the drive, and Henry Edgerton, executive secretary, called attention to the "afterglow" of the drive as he told many of the workers who attended that an additional twenty-nine have joined since the drive's close. Edgerton attributed many of those most recent mem­ berships to (he contacts made during the drive. Memberships represent families and swells to 3,082 McHenry County Farm Bureau total membership in the most recent tabulations. Goal is to reach 3,100 before the end of the membership year which is Aug. 31. At the dinner, new members heard a review of Farm Bureau's early history from Frank Chambers, Illinois Agricultural association,- assistant director of organization. Chambers uses a flannelboard technique to dramatize the start, growth and policies of Farm Bureau. The Land Grant College Act of 1862 in a real way helped la&ri£K the Spread of bringing agricultural information to the states through encouragement of forming land grant colleges. The first Farmer's Bureau, as it was called, occurred in 1911 when a New York com­ munity's Chamber of Com­ merce started it. The term caught on gradually, and the idea caught on faster-De Kalb county farmers were the first in Illinois to form a group to hire a University of Illinois Agricultural specialist to bring the information developed at the land grant college to far­ mers at the "local" level. Tazewell county in Illinois became the first to use the Farm Bureau name, choosing it in 1913. McHenry County Farm Bureau was formed in 1912, and the Illinois Agricultural association--a state-wide group to serve farmers in many counties--was formed in 1916 and re-organized on a stronger basis in 1919. "Policies adapted in the beginning to have the organization member- financed, member-controlled and member-governed still exist," said Chambers. "That is why each summer we have a policy development program for farmer members. From them come the policies which guide the board and staff members." He p<£st fJ<?- mr eAsepAu t i - A M B W A S Pitchcp in 18 76: The joke you play with your telephone may cost you more than you think - up to six months or up to $500. The telephone prankster, who uses a telephone wire as a shield while he annoys other people, may be breaking the law and letting himself in for some severe penalties. A lot tougher than he might think, Illinois Bell says. Federal law provides for a fine up to $500 and up to six months in jail for harassment calling. Under federal regulations, you do not have to complete the call to fall under the law; repeated ringing with the intent to harass is enough. If the called party does pick up the receiver, you still break the law - even if you don't say a word. If you refuse to identify yourself, you fall under still ahother section of the federal anti-annoyance calling laws. Repeated calling with the in­ tent to harass brings the same law into force. Naturally, ob­ scene, lewd or indecent calls fall under the same laws. The state of Illinois also has severe penalties for abusive telephone calling. Callers who use obscene, lewd or indecent , language are subject to a fine ' up to $500 and up to six months in jail. Under state law, anyone who makes an annoyance call may be judged guilty of disorderly conduct and fined up to $500. A person who calls a number at random and asks a trick question could be fined $500 for disorderly conduct, under this state law. Also, callers who make bomb threats or like disturbances to public safety fall under even stiffer penalties. Illinois Bell sources stress the need for parents and school authorities to instruct school- age children in the stiff penalties for abusing the telephone for purposes of harassment or annoyance. "More and more modern equipment is leading to more and more successful tracings of such calls - and more and more successful prosecutions," an Illinois Bell spokesman recently pointed out. Examples of apprehension of annoyance callers have become steadily more frequent: -In Rock Island recently an operator received a called threat to bomb telephone facilities in the city. The call was traced, and police picked up the culprit, an 11-year-old boy, within the hour. - Recently, the FBI arrested a 28-year-old Chicago salesman and charged him with making obscene long distance calls. He had made more than a dozen calls to Directory Assistance operators in Georgia and ap­ parently thought that since no record was kept of his direct- dialed calls, he wouldn't be caught. However, the Georgia operators were able to keep him on the line long enough to determine that calls came from Chicago. Subsequently, Illinois Bell special equipment located the phone used to place the ENERAL CONSTRUCTION • Additions • Roofing • Concrete Work • Remodeling Get a FREE Estimate/ Call 312-497-4104 Anytime AND ASH FOR CHRIS Kay Druml Request Good Attendance At Scout-O-Rama The members of both Cub and Boy Scouts are very busy selling tickets for the areas Scout-O-Rama which will be held at the Crystal Lake high school on May 15. The doors will be open at 1 p.m. and closing time is set for 9 p.m. The fee is a very nominal one and children under 16 are admitted free of charge. Each Pack and Troop will have booths and be putting on exhibitions on the various phases of Scouting and always is most interesting. It's a wonderful way of showing your interest in the Scouting movement so plan on dropping in sometime during the day. Pack 351 of St. Patrick's church has a most interesting booth and demonstrations planned on birds for their contribution to the Scout-O- Rama. They will have a game in conjuction with prizes being given out. Den-Mother, Ruth Roach gave me a very vivid description of the booth and all that is planned for it and it is hoped they come home from the affair with a very high ribbon for their efforts. Troop 459 spent their meeting time last Tuesday evening discussing their summer camping plans, some of the troop will attend camp at Lowden and others will be going to camp at the North Woods. Marty Tyler joined Troop 459 at last Tuesday's meeting. Tom Sindler was awarded his second class pin and Roger Lance was awarded his merit badge for first aid to animals while Ernie Lense was awarded his merit badge for wildlife management. The meeting was closed with game time." Bob Schooley, Scribe. Girl Scout Troop 320 gave the following report for their last week's meeting, "Patrol two opened the meeting with the flag ceremony. Guests at- 385-0854 groups. Bujak second calls. Police were able to make an arrest. -In Champaign, a student was making calls to local residents, representing himself as a staff member of a local hospital, claiming that telephone receivers were interfering with medical instruments and asking local residents to cut their receiver cords. Illinois Bell and the police caught him - but not before he had tem­ porarily deprived a local businessman on 13-hour call of his livelihood andjiarassed an elderly man with a heart condition. -In Danville, a 26-year-old man was apprehended after making obscene calls to women washing their clothes in a laundromat. He was caught, even though he placed the calls from two different pay phones. -A 20-year-old Kankakee man was arrested after making a bomb threat to a local food plant. Illinois Bell determined the source of the call. When the t di th ti f threatening^all he"" was" inreaiening call, ne was attending are the Fly- ups into Girl Scouting. They were watching their first Junior meeting of which they will be members next year. Final plans were made for the Father-Daughter Banquet and it is hoped that there will be a very large turnout of the fathers. Boutonnieres were made to be given to the fathers. The trip to the Museum of Science and Industry is planned for May 8. Final plans and permission slips will be given out at the meeting of May 5. Because of the weather outdoor activity was unable to take place at our meeting. We broke into groups and talked to the Brownies. Treats were served by Dawn La Jon, Patti Schabow and Beth Hansen. The meeting was closed with Taps and Flag Ceremony. Pack 459 will have sand painting as their theme for the Scout-O-Rama and the Webelo Den of the Pack will have ceramics in their booth. Sue Volz, secretary of the Pack reported that their trip to the fish hatchery was a huge success, as was the Pack's last meeting. The theme of the meeting was vaudeville and the Cubbers were served popcorn during the show. There are openings for any interested boys in the Pack. Contact Mrs. caught. The mounting number of annoyance calling arrests indicate that the telephone prankster's time is limited, and Illinois Bell is directing its staff and equipment to cut his margin. CREDIT SHARES INSURED The McHenry County Schools Federal Credit Union of 619 Lawndale avenue, Woodstock, has qualified for federal in­ surance of members' share accounts (up to $20,000 each), Marvin Wenck, manager- treasurer, has announced. The Credit union was chartered in April, 1961. With a membership of 682 among the employees of the public schools of McHenry county, and with assets of $297,317.00, it will pay a premium of $176.76 for its in­ surance this year - one -twelfth of one percent of its share accounts, the same fee paid by all credit unions, state- chartered or federal. By law the insurance is mandatory for the latter, optional for the former. The three kinds of women seem to be the beautiful, the intelligent, and the majority. What happens when you're offered $18,000 for your $24,200 pile of ashes? You take it if you haven't increased your home insurance to keep pace with inflation. This is the kind of problem you could face if you bought and insured your home for $18,000 in 1963. See me to find out if your home is insured for its full value. I ll tell you about a low-cost State Farm Homeowners Policy that will insure your home for all it's worth ... and keep it that way with automatic Inflation Coverage. STATI FARM Granville Sornson Phone 385-1627 3104 W. Route 120 McHenry, 111. STATE FARM FIRE and CASUALTY COMPANY Home Office: Bloomlngton, Illinois Sue Volz at 395-4182 for any further information or any of the following Den mothers, Carol Fandre, Donna Jensen or Kathleen Heber. BEST WISHES This week's "Best Wishes" are extended to the following members of our subdivision, to Annette Arroyo who reached age ten on the twenty-ninth and to Charlene and Dick Wimmer who celebrated their tenth anniversary on the same date. Hope you had a wonderful day. April "30 has Marty Hendle, Butch Morgenson and Fred Anthony, Sr., all sharing bir­ thday cakes. The new month of May starts with Kenny Bottari turning 10 and Donna Kwiatek and Bill Kamp admitting. May 2 has Matthew Bott and Harriet Mikosz. May 4, Dorothy Humphreys will be adding a candle to her birthday cake. May 3,Jennifer Yegge reaches age 5 (hope grandma Marie will convey our best wishes to h e r g r a n d d a u g h t e r ) . Celebrating on May 5 will be Susie Faunt and Jean Hahn- dorf Natal days for the sixth of May are shared by Cheryl Koehl, Gary Braun and James Gray. May 7 Paul Brushaber will be the honored guest. To each and everyone we wish nothing but the very best. NEWS BITS Congratulations are going to Mr. and Mrs. James Arbogast. They became parents of their third child and second daughter on April 9. The young lass was born at Woodstock hospital and has an older sister, Tina, and a brother, James, Jr. Charlene and Ron Mueller had a wonderful visit from Ron's parents the past week. Mr. and Mrs. Mueller make their home in Canada. Many teams have just completed their bowling season for this session and on the first place team for the Tuesday night women's league were Kitty Hendle and Jo Rizzo from here. Tee and Ray Bujak, Sr., were members of the first place Wednesday night mixed league. Sweepstakes for the Wednesday night mixed league had many of our subdivision members doing real well. Ray Bujak, Sr., and Dan Bromke ; took first place in their group while John Zimny and Kevin Druml took seconds ita their For the women Tee and Dot Zimny took prize money in their groups while Wilma Crane and Kay Druml came in with first place money in their groups. Monique Koop and Fran Meyer took a first and second in sweepstakes. Sure did enjoy Monique, Fran, Tee and Ceil Serritella as my teammates for the tournament last Sunday. Ending up in fifth place wasn't bad at all and we certainly had a ball. Dorothy Rehberg was a member of the first place team and they sure did a lot of bowling. Bev and Dick Walinski spent several days of last week fishing in Missouri and from the reports I got fishing was successful. Their good neigh­ bors, Sue and Ken Volz, "Dog sat" for the Walinski pet while they were gone. To those women who obtain the paper on Thursday evenings, remember the lun­ cheon whose proceeds go to the Pioneer Center on Friday, April 30, at our community house. To the many,, many people who have called in regards to sewers, roads and other things of concern out here, all I can tell you all is to go to a council meeting and voice your views. It does no good at all to sit among yourselves and talk, go do it where it might do some good or contact our aldermen. Let them know just how strongly you feel about the things that have been told to me by so very many residents. Please, get your news to me, can't print a column without the help of everyone of you. My deadline for news is Monday mornings as this column must be in by noon of that day. PAGE 9-PLAINDEALER-FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1971 Mark Hospital Week Ceremonies will be held at Memorial Hospital for McHenry County on the eve of Hospital Week with the presentation of a new American flag to the hospital by the Woodstock VFW post. Officially the "week" is May 9-15, and the flag presentation will take place Saturday morning, May 8, with Jim Shoemaker, VFW Americanism chairman, making the presentation to hospital board president, Jack Byers. National Hospital Week has become an annual tradition, an observance launched fifty years ago by**the American Hospital association. It occurs during the week in May which contains the birthday of Florence Nightingale (May 12). The American Hospital : association is the national professional service organization, educational and research agency and public affairs spokesman for 7,157 hospitals and health care agencies in the United States. "One of the main challenges of hospitals today is to reach out into a community with preventive services that keep people out of hospitals. We hope the public will become more aware of the im­ portance of a hospital and the service it renders," said Byers. Citizens of McHenry county are fortunate to have three fine community hospitals in their midst. At Memorial Hospital for McHenry County, staff members are putting into service all sections of the $1.6 million addition just completed. Patients have begun to use the new 30-hed fourth floor. Auxiliary members moved into the new Snack Bar Tuesday, April 20, and the old snack bar area is already transformed Into a meditation room. THERE'S HENRY JONES. HE'S A BORN EXECUTIVE. HIS FATHER OWNS A STEEL MILL. COMMUNITY HOUSE SCHEDULE Bookings for the week are as follows; Friday, April 30, Luncheon sponsored by the McHenry Women's Auxiliary for the Mentally Retarded, at 12:30 p.m. Webelo meeting 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 4, Boy Scout meeting 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, May 5, Girl Scout meeting, 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Lakeland Park Property Owners Association special board meeting at 8 p.m. Thursday, May 6, Lakeland Park Women's Club meeting at 12:30 Friday, May 7, Webelo's meeting 7 to 8:30 p.m. Satur­ day, May 8, Tki-County Five Watters meeting at 7:30 p.m. MI-PLACE (EATING HOUSE & DRINKING PLACE) FOR A PLEASANT DINING SURPRISE VISIT JACK & REG MARTYN AT MI-PLACE ....Lunch from 11:00 ""MODERATE ....Dinner from 5:00 PRICES ....Children's menu always available •Late Nite Sandwiches & Carry outs Everyday •Fish Fry Friday Open :Til 1:00 Weeknites; Til 2:00 Fri.-Sat. Closed Wed. 1237 N. Green St. 'A Red Mitchell Is Ready To Put You In The Driver's Seat Of A New Buick-Olds- Opel or GMC Truck. 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