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Twice Told Tales FIFTY YEAKS AGO (Taken f rom the f i les of Dee . 18, 1924) Target shoots a re again to be held here dur ing the winter months , the f i r s t of which i s to take p lace next Sunday af ­ te rnoon. The grounds a re located on the Adam Ibsch proper ty west of the ra i l road t racks and the Borden mi lk p lant . ' A la rge crowd a t tended the dedica t ion of the McHenry h igh school las t Sa turday night . The I l l inois Commerce commiss ion recent ly granted author i ty to the Nor th Shore l ine to opera te motor busses b e t w e e n W a u k e g a n , Grays lake , McHenry , Wood­ s tock and in termedia te poin ts . Dur ing the f i re dr i l l a t the McHenry grade school on Monday morning the ent i re bui ld ing was empt ied in exact ly for ty- f ive seconds . By v i r tue of a decree entered in the Circui t Cour t of McHenry county , the proper ty known as the Pear l F isher ies on Fox r iver near McHenry wi l l be so ld a t publ ic auct ion Dec. 31 , a t the Cour t house a t Woodstock. In­ c luded in th is proper ty n ine beaut i fu l lo ts on Fox r iver , one of which i s improved wi th a bungalow About s ix ty- f ive da i rymen and members of the McHenry uni t of the Milk Producers associa t ion a t tended a meet ing held in the M.W.A. ha l l . John F . Sul l ivan of Marengo expla ined the unfor tunate af fa i r which occurred a t Garden Pra i r ie Dec 9 when Richard Saunders was shot and died dur ing a mi lk s t r ike r io t . John Kar ls ' recent ly remodeled bui ld ing wi l l be open Dec. 27 . FORTY YEARS AGO (Taken f rom the f i les of Dec . 20 , 1934) Vincent and Clemens Adams, popular enter ta iners , sang on the Chr is tmas program for the ex-service men a t Elg in Sta te hospi ta l Tuesday night . For the las t three Wednesday n ights , they have enter ta ined a t Woodstock in Uncle O 'Bie ' s f ree Chr is tmas program and parade . The Gir l Scout program given Monday afternoon for the mothers of the Scouts was qui te a success . A s ty le parade was g iven by the h igh school sewing c lass . The p layers in the program were , P iccola , Ber- nadel te Meyers ; Mother , Mary Dur land; fa ther , Janis Klontz ; Beat r ice Wil l iams i s the Scout Scr ibe Rol lo Chamber l in enacted the par t of "Arky" a t the WLS barn dance show at Richmond las t week McHenry pa t ients a t S t . Anthony 's hospi ta l , Chicago, a re cheered dur ing the i r s tay a t the hospi ta l by see ing two nurses f rom th is v ic in i ty , Rose Tonyan and Chr is t ine Wegener The g i r l s , who graduated f rom the nurses t ra in ing school a t the hospi ta l on June 10 have each been supervisor of a f loor a ! the hospi ta l . Frank Hughes escaped ser ious in jury Tuesday when he fe l l f rom a te lephone pole whi le working a t Walwor th , Wis . The la l l of about 15 fee t caused bruises but no broken bones . The te lephone g i r l s he ld the i r annual Chr is tmas par ty and farewel l for Mrs . Laura Kie l a t the Br idge . Mrs . Kie l who has res igned her pos i t ion wi th the te lephone company was presented wi th a g i f t . TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Taken f rom the f i les of Dec . 29, 1949) Mrs . Wil l iam Spencer has moved f rom Crys ta l Lake road to her new home on S . Park avenue. Severa l loca l people were in jured in an automobi le ac­ c ident on Chr is tmas night near Johnsburg . Most ser ious ly hur t were Mr. and Mrs . Pe ter Smith of Johnsburg who have been in the Woodstock hospi ta l s ince the acc ident having suffered shock and bruises . According to Ed Fie ld , commodi ty chai rman of the crop commit tee , the p ickup of the corn which has been p ledged in Crop dr ive in McHenry county wi l l be he ld on Fr iday of th is week. Trucks wi l l be manned by the 4-H c lubs of the county and they wi l l ca l l a t each farm where p ledges have been made. Less than two months remain for many World War I I Veterans to rece ive the i r muster ing out pay , the I l l inois Veterans commiss ion has pointed out . -F ina l da te for applying i s Feb. 3 , 1950. Those ve terans who served honorably in the mi l i ta ry serv ice be tween Dec. 7 . 1941 and July 1 . 1947 who were not rece iv ing base pay h igher than the th i rd pay grade are e l ig ib le . A fami ly reunion was held a t the Joseph J . Mil ler home on Chr is tmas day. Present were Dr . and Mrs J .C Purvey and chi ldren , Pa t t i , John, J r . , Michael , Mary Lynn and Peggy of Crys ta l Lake; Mr. and Mrs . Wil l iam Morgan and daughter , Jeanne of Elkhorn , Wis . ; Mr . and Mrs Gera ld J Mil ler and chi ldren , Carol Ann, and Gera ld , J r . , Terry Mil ler and Bob Becker of McHenry . TEN YEARS AGO (Taken f rom the f i les of Dec . 23, 19f>4) McHenry Township was a l lo ted $14,9(>H as i t s share of Motor Fuel Tax paid in to the s ta te t reasury dur ing November . On Sunday Dec. 20 , the Viscounts Drum and Bugle corps he ld i t s th i rd annual awards Chr is tmas d inner Present were 250 Viscount members , parents and gues ts In a beaut i fu l Chr is tmas season wedding performed Dec. 19, Miss Karen Al ice Kra lowetz became the br ide of Mr . John Wesley Blackwel l of Wilmet te . Rev. Ernes t Carder of f ic ia ted a t the double r ing ceremony. Theodore W. Winkel , 87 years o ld d ied a t h is home on James s t ree t Dec . 18 a f te r a shor t i l lness . Howard V. Phal in , former McHenry man, who is now pres ident of F ie ld Enterpr ise Educat ional corpora t ion , rece ived h is not i f ica t ion of h is e lec t ion to the Board of Lay Trus tees of the Univers i ty of Notre Dame on the same European bus iness t r ip whose h ighl ight was a personal audience wi th His Hol iness Pope Paul VI . George Tussey has re t i red f rom his pol ice dut ies a t the McHenry Sta te Bank. A n o t h e r o u t s t a n d i n g McHenry Athle te Paul Morenz has been chosen as a member of the Wisconsin basketbal l team which wi l l p lay in Hawai i dur ing the hol iday season. Many a gal goes to col lege to ge t a Mrs . degree . A Farm Wife Asks. . "Why"? SECTION 2-PAGE 7-PLAINDEALER-WED., DEC. 18, 1974 GIFT FOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY - Dorothy Mceachren of the McHenry County Historical society and Elmer Graham of the McHenry County Board of Realtors are holding the check for $1,000 just presented to the museum's restoration. The total amount of the grant, $5,000, is being given the museum by the realtors in segments, as the realtors proceed with their fund-raising project. UARfSE'S The fo l lowing thoughts , poin t ing up the pl ight of the farmer , was wri t ten by a Harvard farm wife , Kathy Ainger , who is a daughter - in- law of Mrs . Gladys (Shepard) Ainger , former ly of Ringwood. Her thoughts a re shared by many other farm famil ies who are eager to share the rea l s tory wi th the urban popula t ion . "Why did my husband throw down loday 's Tr ibune and walk out to work in d isgus t? Why did he go to work a t a l l a f te r reading the edi tor ia l "Laws tha t push pr ices up" 9 "Why can ' t he ever dress up for work ins tead of wear ing work shoes and knee-high boots covered wi th cow manure? Why can ' t l ie s i t behind a desk and answer a phone ins tead of gr inding cow feed in ra in and cold 0 Why must he r ide a t rac tor dawn to a f te r -dark dur ing the summer? Why can ' t we ever have a summer vacat ion l ike o ther people? "Why can ' t he ever s leep in one morning ins tead of t rudging s leepi ly outs ide a t 5 a in . every day 0 Why can ' t he ea t supper a t a decent hour ins tead of wai t ing t i i i 7 a f te r work each n ight 9 Why does he have to work Chr is tmas , Eas ter , Thanksgiving and every Sunday 9 "Why can ' t he ever take h is fami ly to ear ly church? Why must he spend Chr is tmas Eve m the barn mi lk ing cows 9 Why must our k ids wai t t i l l Daddy comes in f rom work before they can go see what Santa le f t? Why can ' t I ever wake up in h is a rms? "Why must he he lp a sow del iver p igs? Why must he spend months of hard work and ever-more money? Why can ' t he ever have a say in how much he i s pa id 9 Why must he accept a cut in the mi lk check when expenses went up 9 Why isn ' t he even making the minimum hour ly wage for h is long hours? "Why must he watch help less ly whi le h is income f luc tua tes day to day 9 Why can ' t he s t r ike for a cos t of l iv ing-ra ise , h igher overhead, pa id vacat ions and hol idays , and a wage cont rac t 9 Why must he see h is income go down, s tore pr ices go up, and s t i l l be b lamed by the Tr ibune for inf la t ion 9 "Why is he not respected for h is work 9 Why do people sneer a t h is profess ion , go home, and ea t the f ru i t of h is labor 9 Why do they not apprec ia te h is hard work lo see tha t they a re the bes t fed people in the wor ld 9 Why must he take the b lame when power happy mi lk of­ f ic ia ls use h is money i l legal ly and nat ional headl ines procla im dai ry farmers crooks? Why do not these na t ional headl ines procla im fac tory workers crooks when union of f ic ia ls make pol i t ica l campaign cont r ibut ions in exchange for favors? "Why when people see a new luxury car say , "Man, those payments must rea l ly se t you back, ' ' and when they see a new t rac tor say , 'Al l these d-- farmers a re r ich ' 9 Why when schools need more money must he beat the brunt of the i r suppor t in ra ised rea l es ta te taxes 9 Why did he have to worry about gas to run the t rac tors when thousands of one- car commuters were on the road 9 "Why indeed ' . ' Why doesn ' t he say the h - wi th i t and qui t fa rming? Why don ' t people .not ice how many sows pregnant wi th next season s pork a re being shipped for s laughter r ight now 9 Why don ' t people not ice the da i ry herds be ing sold for hamburger 9 "Why don ' t people not ice the good farm land being sold for hous ing developments 9 Why don ' t people not ice the te r r ib le weather tha t ru ined mi l l ions of acres of c rops th is year? Why don ' t people not ice how many fewer farmers there a re each year 9 Why don ' t people not ice how very much depends on the few farmers tha t a re s t icking i t ou t 9 "When the farmers a re dr iven out of bus iness by ingra t i tude , d is respect , poor income, inf la t ion , shor tages , bad weather , and publ ic in­ d i f ference , when food in abundance is a memory, when grocery s tores have empty shelves , when a l l the good farm land is covered wi th concre te , when no one wants to work a 90- hour week to produce food, when people in the Uni ted Sta tes , Chicago, next door , in your house a re ac tua l ly hungry . . " then maybe someone e lse wi i l quie t ly ask , Why ' The Law Serves You TURN ONS • jy i iM. GIVE AN EXAMPLE „ OF ARRESTED MOTION." A WOMAN WHO IS THIRTY YEARS OLD! Someone owes you a l i t t le money and has refused to pay up 9 Or you would l ike to col lec t for some damage done to your proper ty but the person responsib le hasn ' t come through ' ' Then you wi l l be in teres ted in knowing about the Smal l Cla ims cour t , the law's way of handl ing re la t ive ly smal l c la ims a t a minimum of t ime and expense lo the par t ies involved S m a l l C l a i m s c o u r t i s opera ted by the Circui t cour t under ru les of the I l l inois Supreme cour t . I t hears su i t s for goods or serv ices , personal in jury or proper ty damage and for var ious o ther c la ims based on tor t or cont rac t provided the amount a t s take is mot more than $1,000, ex lus ive of cos ts and in teres t . Also , county of­ f ic ia ls use the Cour t for su i t s to col lec t unpaid personal proper ty taxes wi th in th is l imi t . Unt i l Ju ly , 1969, the cour t could handle only cases in­ volv ing $500 or less . According to the I l l inois S ta te Bar associa t ion , a person may f i le a c la im wi th the cour t for a smal l fee , he won ' t need an a t torney unless he wants one , and his case wi l l be decided by a judge a t an informal hear ing- unless e i ther the p la in t i f f o r the defendant asks for a jury . I f reques ted , a jury of s ix i s provided a t a cos t of $12.50 or , i f spec i f ied , a jury of 12 a t a cos t of $25. Genera l ly , the ISBA says , procedures fo l lowed in the Small Claims court are as follows: ^ A shor t and s imple complaint is filed with the court. The complaint stajes the nature and extent of the "c la im, the name, address and te lephone number of the p la in t i f f and the defen­ dant's name and residence or business address. The cost to f i le the compla in t may be as l i t t le as $10 or less ($11 in Circui t Cour t . Cook County , in cases of f rom $500 to $1,000. ) A summons may be served by cer t i f ied mai l to an address of the defendant wi th in the county for a fee of $1 .50 or i t may be served by a sher i f f The da te and t ime of the hear ing i s s ta ted in the sum­ mons . The defendant i s not requi red to f i le a formal answer to the compla in t wi th the cour t unless ordered to do so by the Cour t Also , depos i t ions and other d iscovery methods for the col lec t ion of ev idence , of ten employed in o ther cases , a re not permi t ted except as author ized by the cour t . Dur ing the hear ing , s t r ic t ru les for the admiss ion of ev idence may be d ispensed wi th and; af te r a s ta tement of the c la im, the defendant proceeds to prove any defense he may have . Unless a jury has been reques ted , the judge wi l l render h is verdic t . 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