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\ SCHOOL DEDICATION The Friday issue of the Plaindealer will be devoted to a three-page section concerning the open house and dedication of Parkland school, located at Rt. 120 and Ringwood road. Open house will be held from 1 to 5 p.m., with Congressman John Anderson of Rock- ford as featured speaker. Hundreds of parents and other interested citizens are expected to tour the new Parkland school for junior high age students during an open house and dedication program next Sunday, Oct. 17. The school is located at 1802 N. Ringwood road. The time of the program is 2:15, but open house will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. Featured speaker will be Congressman John B. An­ derson of Rockford, third ranking Republican in the House of Representatives, who has represented Illinois' 16th congressional district since 1960. Elected chairman of the House Republican conference in January of 1969, he is one of several GOP congressional leaders who meet weekly at the White House for Policy discussions with President Nixon. ( Principal Donald Toole will act as master of ceremonies for the 2:15 p.m; program. The actual dedication talk will be given by Dr. Robert Boos, superintendent. Others ap­ pearing on the program will be Rev. J O. Mclntyre, a former board member, who will give the invocation and benediction, Robert Putnam, principal of Parkland, and Henry Nell, president of the District 15 board. The school is designed to provide a learning environment that will implement a par­ ticular philosophy of teaching, based on individual pupil growth and development. The educational program is planned to meet the needs of the late pre-adolescent and the early adolescent in the tran­ sition from the elementary to the high school program. The dedication committee includes John Armstrong, Carl Wagner, Larry Thomas and (Continued on page 20) THE MCHENRY PLAINDEALER SERVING THE CHAIN-O-LAKES REGION SINCE 1875 VOLUME 96 NUMBER 21 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1971 .. • 20 PAGES TEN CENTS Hold County Field Day Problem Demonstration Parkland School Dedication Harrison Board Checks Incomplete Construction Honor Hospital Volunteers For New Patient Service A new service added to the responsibilities undertaken by members of the auxiliary to McHenry hospital perhaps exemplifies in the finest tradition their dedication to patients. Called "patient service," this ability to help the people who come to McHenry hospital for health care is one reason why these volunteer auxiliary members are being honored at a special luncheon next week. McHenry hospital is honoring seventy-five volunteer auxiliary members Wednesday at the Crystal Lake Country club. Leading officials of the hospital, including George P. Freund, president, will attend this luncheon to express their personal appreciation of this devotion to patients. Auxiliary members assist the hospital staff in helping patients unable to help themselves and do such in­ dividual things as assisting patients who cannot feed themselves or who need other types of personal attention. They assign one volunteer daily to handle this specific phase of their daily in-hospital work. Awards will be presented to the auxiliary members who have given the most hours to this volunteer program, and the number to be recognized in a special way is many. Among hospital personalities planning to attend this luncheon are Anthony Corcoran, ad­ ministrator; Miss Victoria Behan, R.N , administrative (Continued on page 20 Youth Faces Liquor Charge James R Taylor of 3401 W. Pearl street, McHenry, was charged by sheriff's deputies with purchase and acceptance and having open liquor in a motor vehicle following an accident Friday night in which his car was demolished. Taylor, who was taken by ambulance to McHenry hospital, made no statement to officers. Evidence indicated that as he approached 814 River road at 11:55 p.m., traveling (Continued on page 20) Six MCHS Students Rate National Commendation Letters of commendation honoring them for their high f performance on the 1971 National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (NMSQT> have been awarded to six students at McHenry Community high school, Principal Robert O. Swartzloff has announced Those named Commended students are Vivian Y. Bayne, Kevin P Carroll, Belinda A (Tardy, Patrick J Higgins, Corey S. Nellis and Marian E. Nicolai. They are among 35,000 students in the United States who scored in the upper 2 percent of those who are ex­ pected to graduate from high school in 1972. The Commended students rank just below the 15.(>00 Semifinalists announced in September by the National Merit- Scholarship corporation (NMSC). (Continued on page 20) the general contractor and the architect, the work remains incomplete. The board made a motion to ask both the architect and the general contractor to put in writing why the con­ struction cannot be finished. The board recommended that a letter of appreciation be sent to Bill Cristy for his assistance with the back athletic field. Representatives of the McHenry county press joined about forty law enforcing officers from Cook county and two state police instructors at a Field Day Problem demonstration held last Thursday in a 15-acre area of the Maf°rial Service corporation gravel pit, i irth of Algonquin. It was part of a state-wide Riot Control program being conducted throughout the state. Each week for the next six, between forty and fifty-five policemen will be using these facilities to learn the proper procedures regarding riot and crowd contrsl. The program is sponsored through a $355,000 grant received from the Illinois Law Enforcement commission (ILEC). Representatives from the Illinois Chiefs of Police, Illinois Sheriff s association, Illinois Human Relations, Illinois State Police and the Illinois National Guard have helped to set up the project which is being operated on a state-wide basis. To date, 22,000 men have signed up for participation. All state law enforcement agencies are working on the (Continued on page 18) OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY - Carole Cordrey and Jay Quinlan, both 11 and sixth graders at Parkland school, are among the fortunate young people whose home-away-from-home is this new and modern building for the approximately five and a half hours spent in study each day. Parkland opened its doors to 640 students of junior high age with the beginning of the fall term. An open house and dedication program is scheduled this Sunday, Oct. 17. PLAINDEALER PHOTO At the regular meeting of Wonder Lake's Harrison school board last week, Robert Bright, school superintendent, reported that although the addition to the school has been in use for a year, some of the work has not been finished. Although Mr. Bright has been in continuous contact with both CONGRESSMAN ANDERSON Congressman Robert Mc- Clory, author of legislation designating Columbus Day as a national legal holiday, has been a guest of the city of Genoa, Italy, in recognition of his legislative service to U.S.­ Italian relations. As we sit at our desk this Monday with no mail and a deadline fast approaching, it occurs to us that Columbus Day is the first of two of the month's holidays included among four during the year to be celebrated henceforth on Monday, regardless of past observances. Veterans Day, formerly in November, will be celebrated Oct. 25. Now we have long known and have had admiration for our 12th district Congressman. However, we feel he has not spent considerable time inside a newspaper office or he would realize that Monday is the worst possible day to celebrate anything except work. In Italy, accompanied by Congressmen of Italian descent, Mr. McClory was a guest at the Royal Palace in Genoa, where the city's mayor presented citations to the American Lawmakers. There were also brief tours of the Italian Riviera, and a visit to the building regarded as Columbus' birth place. In return, he presented a scroll signed by all the lawmakers who co-sponsored the McClory "Monday holiday" bill. We can't promise Mr. Mc­ Clory a tour of the Riviera or anything as historically prominent as Columbus' birth place, but we surely could present him with the confusion of an editor's desk and the madhouse of a composing room following a Monday holiday. This is a storm of significant stature to rate at least a few lines in the history of the McHenry Plaindealer. And to be part of this history we don't even expect a scroll, Mr. McClory -- just a return to the good old holidays. We seldom have time to celebrate them (Continued on page 20) Sheriff Arthur Tyrrell is shown above demonstrating use of a stun gun daring Field Day Problem demonstration held last Thursday in a 15-acre plot north of Algonquin. Below, he holds lead shot- filled cloth bag marked with dye which is used in the gun. The demonstration was part of a state­ wide Riot Control program being conducted throughout Illinois. PLAINDEALER PHOTO Discuss School Insurance, Driver Training Programs Robert Mortell, representing the Stoffel & Reihansperger insurance firm, presented a report on the school insurance program at the informative meeting of the board of High School District 156, held last week. School insurance is un­ desirable to companies because of the growing amount of property damage. This was the message he conveyed as he explained that at the present time there is an effort under way to obtain a state law which would provide for such in­ surance to be written by the state. All companies, Mortell ad­ ded, are eager to secure the fire insurance on schools because of their conformance to fire regulations. However, other phases of the insurance program, including liability, extended coverage, automotive and workmen's compensation, are not sought. The spokesman for the local insurance firm, which carries all of the school insurance, said the West campus rate is the lowest in the state on fire in­ surance. Stoffel & Reihansperger has been the only bidder on District 156 insurance in recent years. For this reason, Mortell suggested that a negotiation type bid might be most ad­ vantageous for the school. The present contract expires in December of 1971. In another information program. David Mihevec in­ troduced Instructors Collins and Hutchinson, who explained the Driver Education course offered students. Board members and guests visited the simulated drivel-trainer unit which is located in the rear of East campus. In this phase of the program, the student driver obtains an illusion of actually driving through use of a movie projected on a screen. The program is conducted in four parts. One of these is a group lecture for about 140 students and class sessions for between twenty and thirty. Part 2 includes the simulated driving with 12 to 15 in the class as Phase I, and seven hours of actual driving, with three students and a teacher in the car as Phase 2. Class studies include such subjects as alcohol, vision, drugs and emergencies in their relation to driving. This semester there are 400 enrolled in the classroom program, of which about eighty-five are being prepared for driving permits. Next summer others will reach this stage of training, leaving about forty who, for any of several reasons, must review some of their training period. The state contributes $3 from each renewal of a driver license to the driver education program. The cost per pupil in McHenry is $65, low compared to manv other communities, of (Continued on page 20) The board agreed to send two teachers. Miss P. Waelchli and Mrs. M. Newcome, to a government-sponsored Title III project. Entitled "Program in Individualized Instruction", the course will be held in Crystal Lake from Nov. 15 to Nov. 30. Eight teachers were reim­ bursed for college tuition in­ cluding B. Gustafson, J. Higgins, J. Mclnnis, R. Mikus, M. Newcome, R. Strain and P. Waelchli. (Continued on page 20) Pioneer Center Benefits From Choral Program The Pioneer Center at Mc- Cullom Lake has been selected by a vote of the McHenry Choral club to benefit from the sale of tickets to the club's December program. In a sharing project similar to those conducted in recent years, the center will retain money from tickets sold, and the club will meet expenses with money obtained through its members' sales. Jerry Buch has been elected to the presidency of the Choral club. He succeeds Mrs. Jacqueline Schau, who led the singing organization suc­ cessfully through its thirtieth anniversary year. Other newly elected officers are Edwin Wittrock, vice- president; Donald Johnson, treasurer, and Betty Hughes, Carol Jean Smith and Patty Bengston, secretaries. With new members from Richmond and Carpentersville, the club membership is at sixty. They are in rehearsal for an appearance in November and for the annual holiday program Dec. 4 and 5 in West campus auditorium. Reference Book On McHenry Is PLAN HAM DINNER - Members of the McHenry Rotary club are shown hard at work on a "trial run" in preparation for their annual ham dinner to be served Sunday, Oct. 17, from noon until 3 p.m in the V.F.W. clubhouse. Sunday' Oct. 17 is the date of the annual Rotary ham dinner, when the famous chefs of the McHenry club prepare the delicious food to make hun­ dreds of hungry people wish it happened more often. This outstanding meal will be served from noon until 3 p.m., at the V.F.W. clubhouse, just east of McHenry on Route 120. Each year since its start in 1962, this once-a-year fund raising event has grown in size. Last year over 1,000 dinners were served, family style. Everyone eats until satisfied, with no charge for seconds. This means preparing over 400 lbs., of ham, 300 lbs., of potatoes, plus gallons of coffee and milk. The miracle of this event is that it is prepared and served by the men of Rotary, who give fast, courteous ser­ vice, all being endowed with the Rotary spirit and pledge of "Service Above Self" and "He Profits Most Who Serves Best". One of the highlights of this event takes place Saturday afternoon when the members of the losing team on ticket sales meet and hand-peel all the potatoes (all 400 lbs.). This is where they see "eye" to "eye", and tfihere a few cuts and blisters spice up the action. The funds raised by the dinner are all used by the Rotary club for worthwhile community projects, among which are the sound system and rest rooms at McCracken field, the library fund, city park benches, and many more throughout the year. President Don Weingart reports that ticket sales are exceptionally good and advises everyone to get them early from any Rotarian or in some local stores. Tickets car also be obtained at the doer. This year's event is headed by Bob IJlake, Don Virgens, Don Gerstad and Fred Meyer. League Project Finance is a very serious subject, however, the League of Women Voters makes it fun. Each year the League solicits the support of the community for financial support in addition to donations from its mem­ bership. With this support, the League is able to perform many non-partisan voter services and community projects. This year, the League is publishing a reference book on both the city of McHenry and the city of Woodstock govern­ ment, schools, recreation, etc. A "fun and games" coffee with surprise entertainment will be held Oct. 15 at the home of June Girard, Finance chairman, to start the League finance drive.