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vV^tWCtA THE MCHENRY PLAINDEALER "SERVING THE CHAIN-O-LAKES REGION SINCE 1875 VOLUME 96 NUMBER 93 V/EDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1972 2 SECTIONS-22 PAGES TEN CENTS 16th Annual Event McHenry Art Fair This Weekend Ask County Health Tax Levy $39,199 To College For Financial Aid Program Children's art will be one of the features at the Country Art Fair, an area of art which is a standout each year but overlooked by many because of the many outstanding areas of interest that feature adult creations. Jule Gemell, 6, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Nicholas Gemell, helps remind of the many features in the children's section at the Country Art Fair, presented at McHenry junior high school by the auxiliary to McHenry hospital, starting at 5 p.m. this Friday. (PON PEASLEY PHOTO) A wide range of outstanding art by McHenry county artists - including sculptures and paintings - goes on view at the sixteenth annual Country Art F«ir presented FViday through Sunday, June 23-25, at the McHenry Junior high school. attraction at Art Fair is a Hanging the show began last weekend, a tastefully arranged presentation of the works of art of more than sixty county ar­ tists. In mid-week patrons (persons willing to make purchases from the vast array of works of art for sale) will view the showing and make selections. The Thursday evening highlight will be a dinner for the artists and a sendoff for the public viewing of the artistic attractions which begins at 5 p.m. Friday afternoon. Dr. Leonard Pawlikowski will be master of ceremonies for the dinner, and among highlights will be the an­ nouncement of award winners. Top award is $100. A major the Country "One Man Show". This year's effort is a "One Woman Show" because the star is Elizabeth Liebman, rural McHenry. Miss Liebman is con­ centrating her effort in oil and acrylic, paint, pencil and ink on canvas and paper. She won the "Best of Show" last year with her pen and ink drawing, en­ titled "Drawing". Liz lives with her parents on Ridge road and has been concentrating recently to create special works for this 1972 Art Fair feature. Funds from patrons provide an important source of income for the auxiliary to McHenry hospital, sponsors of this an­ nual attraction. Another major source is ticket sales! • Entertainment is an "extra" at the Art Fair. Doris Cham­ bers and Hickory Wood present their program at 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday in the gymnasium. At 4 p.m. Sunday Kevin Chambers will be featured at the piano. A combo is planned in the evenings. For the purposes of the judged show, each exhibitor enters three pieces original in design and method. Two of the three must be for sale. The auxiliary receives a small percentage of the sale price toward its benefit goal. A major part of the Art Fair is in the gymnasium, where each artist is assigned a space to display his own original works. Artists can exhibit what they can appropriately fit into the space. Hours for the Country Art Fair are Friday, 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.; and Sunday, 1 to 10 p.m. Mrs. Roland Herrmann is this year's chairman. Mrs. Richard Matt, last year's chairman, is serving as adviser. Mrs. Carol Cooney is in charge of receiving the entries, and Dick and Lori Wilhelm and Walter and Louise Wanger have the big job of hanging and producing the gym showing. McHenry County college has received from the Office of Health, Education and Welfare, the allocation of student financial aid for the coming year. The Educational Opportunity grant will have a total funding of $6,320. The initial year grant will have a funding of $3,232 and the renewal grant program will be funded by $3,088. An Educational Opportunity grant is available to any student who can demonstrate financial need and whose parental con­ tribution to his education is less than $625 per year with a parental income of less than $9,000. The College Work Study program will be funded with a federal grant of $12,879 and a McHenry County college contribution of $3,219.75. The total program will have assets for the year 1972-73 of $16,098.75, and will be open to any student who can demon­ strate financial need. In the 1971-72 College year, forty-eight students were employed in the College Work Study program. The National Defense Student Loan program will be ftinded to a total level of lending Of $20,000. The requirements for financial aid for the next school yfear are as follows: (1) The Student must file a confidential financial statement. This form must be in the MCC Financial Aid office before any awards can be given. (2) The student must be admitted to McHenry County collge by the ad­ missions office. (3) The award given will be dependent upon available money within the student aid program. • It is anticipated that the Financial Aid program at MCC will benefit approximately 150- 200 students during the school year 1972-73. Students who have financial need and who will be attending McHenry County college this fall are encouraged to fill out the application and discuss their need with Andrew DeCraene, assistant dean of business and financial aids. Native Son Returns As Band Guest Guest vocalist on this Thursday night (June 22) concert of the McHenry stage band will be Elmer "Biff" Meyer of Chicago, a native of this community A singer through high school days at MCHS, he is known throughout the area for his fine voice. He was a member, and leader of a recent national championship barbershop quartet. Meyer is an uncle of Band Leader Bob Freund. The band will include among its selections, "My Cherie Amour", "I Wish You Love", "Trajectory", "MacArthur Park", "Wait Until Dark", "When I Take My Suear To (Continued on page 13) &rag River For Body Sighted Friday Night Dragging operations conducted by the McHenry County Sheriff's department Saturday morning in the Kishwaukee river, near Marengo, failed to turn up any sign of a body reportedly sighted Friday evening. Their efforts were Hampered by swift currents and accumulated debris making a thorough search impossible until the river levels recede. ' Richard Collins of 400 N. Sheridan road, Chicago, (Continued on page 13) Because of a financial squeeze in the county and by the state, the McHenry County Health department is seeking a November referendum to in­ sure a specify tax levy for itself, separate from the county's General fund. The Board of Health, along with a citizens' committee, held a public meeting Wednesday evening, June 14, at Marian Central high school, Wood­ stock, to explain the situation facing public health in the county. Dr. Edward F. Wilt, Jr., of McHenry, president of the Board of Health, said the department may not be eligible for state and federal funds after 1974 if a referendum is not passed in the county, establishing a specific and separate health department tax levy. At the same time, less county money will be available, due to the new state con­ stitution's provision doing away with a 3 per cent tax collection fee from local taxing bodies. In McHenry county this amounted to $800,000. In ad­ dition, new court house con­ struction has put a drain on available county funds. Dr. Wilt explained that the Health department was established by resolution of the county board in 1966, primarily to administer medicare home -nursing service. Mrs. Eileen Hanson, R.N., heads this division of the department. In addition to he^th supervision visits and therapy to medicare patients and others referred by their physicians, the nursing service maintains an im­ munization clinic once a month at the Health department office and conducts hearing tests in schools which lack school nurses. The visiting nurses consult with families of retarded children, unwed mothers, abused children and rheumatic fever patients. They plan to conduct diabetic screening testing at the County Fair this August. In 1968, after a state health department survey revealed 80 percent of the county's restaurants to be sub-standard in food handling practice, the County Health department began regular restaurant in­ spection. Public concern over the river and lakes, as well as private water supplies and septic systems, has placed more demands on the depart­ ment's environmental division. On Dec. 1, 1971, the county veterinarian's office, headed by Dr. J.V. Johnson, D.V.M., became a division of the health department. It's respon­ sibilities are the health of 100,000 animals in the county, rabies control, control of diseases transmissible from animals to man, and assisting in epidemiological in­ vestigations of human com­ municable diseases. Richard Wissell, ad­ ministrator of the Health department, asked, "Where are we going as a Department of Health?" In his opinion the two immediate needs of the department are to improve food sanitation program and clean up the river, lakes and streams. Wissell said, "We are now problem-solving oriented. With successful referendum assuring our income, we could expand our staff and begin a constructive program to clean up the river and streams, and meet other needs." Wissell explained that the referendum is sought now so the department can continue to operate and grow in the future. The maximum tax rate available to a board of health is .1 per cent, or $1 per $1,000 assessed valuation. However, not more than .05 per cent of fifty cents per thousand would be sought in the near future. Administrator WisseU has filed grant applications totaling $59,000 from the state for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1972. A total of $144,000 is budgeted from the county General fund for the same time, and $77,000 anticipated from license fees and fees for services rendered. Forrest Nelson, a local health (Continued on page 13) Confirm Senator Percy As Festival Parade Marshal The Greater McHenry Area Marine Day committee has confirmed the attendance of Senator Charles Percy as parade marshal at the gala Marine Day festivities to be held in McHenry beginning Sunday, July 16, and con­ cluding Sunday, July 23. The parade itself will be held the twenty-third. The drum corps competition, which will be held at Mc- Cracken field to conclude the week long event, will have six competing drum corps. In addition, there is a strong possibility of a Marine corps fly over just prior to the drum corps show. Once again it will be followed by a gigantic fireworks display. Other festivities during the week will include the water fights at the city beach between the competing volunteer firemen in the county; a dance at the city park on Wednesday evening, July 19; a concert by the city band Thursday evening, July 20; and a square dance Friday evening, July 21. Pilot Dies As Experimental Plane Nosedives Into Swamp Do you despair of young boys' hair which seems to get longer with each passing day? And the lack of respect most young people seem to have for you as an adult? Well, don't! This little story has all the heartwarming qualities to make the biggest pessimist melt. It "made" our weekend, for we suddenly realized that we, too, are often among those who lament the lack of manners of the very young. The story had its start in the McHenry State bank about ten days ago when a man walking into the building came upon nine dollar bills on the floor. He took them to a teller, who put them in safe keeping until the owner could be found. Not long afterward the bank received a telephone call from a Wonder Lake mother who asked if the money might have been turned in. Soon afterward a boy and his nine dollars were reunited. This might have been the end of the story, except that this was a very special young boy - one Steve Schau by name. He learned the name of the person who found the money, and a few days later the recently retired F*ox Lake business man opened his mail to* find this note from Steve: "Dear Mr "Thank you for turning in the money to the bank. It was (Continual on page 13) The body of a United Airlines pilot, Loren Brightman, 30, of 1025 Lowell avenue, Schaumburg, was removed from the wreckage of his ex­ perimental single engined aircraft Friday after many hours of work by Sheriff Arthur Tyrrell, McHenry County Sheriffs deputies, Lakewood Police Chief Earl Stoddard, the Crystal Lake Fire Department and a helicopter and four fire rescue unit members of the Chicago Police department. The airplane had plunged nose down into a swampy marsh area about 34 mile south of Miller road, \l/2 miles west of Crystal Lake road in the Turnberry property near Crystal Lake sometime Thursday morning. The search began after Brightman's wife called the Crystal Lake airport and inquired if her husband had left the airport for home. She was told that his plane had not yet returned to the airport. Later that afternoon, Terry Tubb, a pilot flying out of the Crystal Lake airport, reported that he observed what ap­ peared to be the wreckage of a light plane. The Sheriffs department was notified and a search and rescue operation was organized. When Sheriff Tyrrell and his deputies, along with Lakewood Police Chief Stoddard, arrived at the scene, they discovered the plane was sunk nose down into swampland covered by water. All that was visible of the aircraft was the tail and parts of wing sections. Attempts to move the plane from the mud proved futiie. Rescuers were forced to remove sections of it piece by piece. Finally, enough sections were removed to determine the location of the cockpit which was submerged in about 6 feet of mud. The body of the pilot was located but was pinned in the debris in such a manner as (Continued on page 13) Driver Killed, Others Are Ticketed Following Crashes .. McHenry County recorded its sixteenth highway traffic fatality Friday morning at 4:10 a.m. when Roberta A. Lutz, 24, of 524 Elmridge, Car- pentersville, was killed in a one-car accident on the Cary- Algonquin road near its in­ tersection with Klasen road. The Freeman family, who live at 2192 Cary road, Cary, told deputies they were awakened by a loud bang. When they went to investigate, they found the Lutz auto upside down about 250 feet south of Klasen road with its headlights and ignition still on. The body of the driver was located 6 feet north of the car. Evidence at the scene in­ dicated the vehicle started to roll on its side and came to rest 68 feet from where it struck a ground culvert. Coroner Theron Ehorn arrived at the scene and pronounced the driver dead at 5:15 a.m. The body was then removed to McHenry hospital. A citation for reckless driving was issued to Gregory B. Stone of 824 Salem street, Carpentersville, after his auto struck another driven by George M. Freund of 7707 Hickory road, Wonder Lake. The accident occured Saturday morning about 1:05 on Route 120, one-half mile west of Martin road, west of McHenry. Stone told deputies he was west-bound on the highway anti reached for a cigarette lighter. The next thing he knew, he had struck a car. Freund stated he was east- bound on the highway and observed a west-bound vehicle (Continued on page 13) Killing Frost Farmer's Dilemma Harry Hogan is shown last Friday as he started the long job of disking 25 acres of corn hard hit by the killing frost of June 11. The acreage is near the John Hogan family home, 6606 Barnard Mill road. Another 80 acres touched by frost are believed to be in good condition and the family will take a chance on the survival of an additional 50 acres. Since this photo was taken, a re­ planting took place on the land shown. STAFF PHOTO-WAYNE GAYLORD The killing frost experienced June 11 in McHenry county is all but forgotten by most people as summer sets in. Not so with the farmers, many of whom must worry out the long waiting period until fall to see if re-plantings of corn will mature before a fall frost sets in. It will be a long four months. A good example of the problem hundreds of farmers faced is that of John Hogan and sons, Mike and Harry, who reside at 6606 Barnard Mill road. They have about 350 acres in corn at various locations. About 150 of these acres were damaged in varying degrees by the frost. Of the damaged sections, 80 acres are believed to be in good condition and may be saved. The Hogans will take a chance on another 50 acres. Twenty- five more near the home farm were replanted last Friday and Saturday. Mr. Hogan has spent the past sixty-one years in this area. His only recollection of another killing summer frost was in 1965, and this ruined only a small amount in very low spots. The Hogans and many more farmers who depend on the corn crop so heavily have only to sit back now and hope that a cooperative weatherman will bring forth a new crop, planted at least a month late.