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SECTION 2 - PAGE 8 - PLAINDEALER-WEDMESDAY, OCTOBER 27,1976 that you will make every effort Village of McHenry Shores Jude La Francis 385-5067 to see her next month "Subject To Change." in Shoreliners To Hold House Decorating Contest The Shoreliners decided to include an added incentive for those who are planning outdoor displays for Christmas. There will be a House Decorating contest sponsored by the Shoreliners. Monetary prizes will be awarded in three categories: best religious theme, most humorous display, and most creative decoration. Further details on entering your home in the contest will be forthcoming. It was voted upon by the members in attendance that the Shoreliners sponsor the McHenry Shores Brownie Troop No. 415. Mrs. Lorraine Bixler, Brownie leader, ex­ pressed appreciation for the Shoreliners' concern, kindness and generosity in their willingness to help her troop. At this same meeting the Bazaar work-schedule was not finalized. If you are willing and able to work any hours of the Bazaar, please notify Danni Sanford. Portable clothes drying racks are needed for the Bazaar (to be used to display quilts, etc.); if you havp one to lend, call 344-2539. OUR OWN STAR Ann Marie Cina, a resident of McHenry Shores for one year, will co-star in the comedy, "Subject To Change", to be presented at the McHenry Country club Nov. 5-6, 12-13, and 19-20. She has been cast in the delightful role of Gertrude Basset. Mrs. Cina is a most versatile and talented lady and we are all proud of her success. If you have missed her per­ formances in the past, we hope V I $&•«? "EC„ ihov} Ji$0»00 EXTERIOR iao®a ffiWTL LATEX HOUSE MINT VINYL 1 ACHYLIC LATEX INTERIOR FLAT FOR WALLS & • WASHABLE CEILINGS ftmrc 1U • M/atfp " * 0R,ES ,N • WATER i HOUR CLEAN UP MATCHING COLORS AVAILABLE IN V A LATEX SEMI GLOSS ENAMEL now only 1.91 GAL REG. 7.99 BIRTHDAYS Best wishes for many more birthdays go to Julie Tibbs who will be 15 years old oct. 27 and Morris Crouch who has a birth­ day Oct. 30. Nancy Tibbs is our Halloween birthday girl. She will be 13 years old Oct. 31. On Nov. 1 Jimmie Colberg will be 10 years old and James Blue will celebrate his big day on November 1 also. COMMUNITY VITAL STATISTICS As of September, 1976, there were 280 families living within the Village of McHenry Shores. There are ten homes under construction; our small village is expanding at a tremendous rate. NEW GRANDPARENTS Mr. and Mrs. Leon Zelvis are the proud grandparents of a baby girl, Cecile, born last week to their daughter Cheryl and her husband Raymond Bolek. Cecile was the first grandchild for Leon and Aldona. Congratulations are sent to the new parents as well as the new grandparents. VILLAGE BOARD NEWS At the regular meeting of the village board, the purchase of a new dump truck was finalized with the approval of funds to pay for the much needed piece of equipment. It was noted that the village attorney, Tom Baker, is in the process of rewriting an official ordinance to cover the post office num­ bering system. This ordinance will be voted upon for passage at the next board meeting. Also, Mr. Baker is writing a bonding ordinance to cover builders in the community. President Lillegard informed the board that four of the police officers and the chief will at­ tend a Mandatory Firearm Training course sponsored by the State of Illinois. Also, a new maintenance person has been hired by the village; his salary will be paid for under the CETA program. It was determined that a decision has to be made concerning a possible revision of Ordinance 2 which requires a permit be obtained before any structure over $100 in value be constructed on one's property. The problem was created because the ordinance centers upon the amount of the structure as opposed to the actual structure itself. The ordinance committee will look into the matter. The meeting adjourned at 8:50. Immediately following the meeting was the Tonyan Pre- annexation agreement meeting. The negotiations for this pre-annexation are slowly coming to a close. PIED PIPER OF SKUNKS? The skunk problem has become acute. However, don't, take the problem upon yourself. Authorities have been notified, but there doesn't seem to be a ready answer to the removal of these odoriferous fellows. One remedy for their nightly foraging would be to keep lids on all garbage containers. Don't let your yard become your garbage can. WATER RATE INCREASE At the board meeting, President Lillegard read a letter from the water company proposing a rate increase. In the letter it was stated that one of the proposed increases be in the minimum 12,000 gallons cost. The rate asked for was a change from $1.18 per 1000 gallons to $1.50 per 1000 gallons. Also proposed was an increase in the connecting and discon­ necting fee. The previous charge was $1 and the increase asked was for a charge of $5. The proposals amounted to a 27 percent increase. What is your reaction to this? Let your trustees know your feelings on this very crucial matter. COMMUNITY AFFAIRS UPDATE The Christmas Bazaar and Bake sale is Nov. 5, 6 and 7. If money is a problem, remember that you will be able to "lay away" items purchased at the bazaar. Ask for details at the time of your selection. The Halloween costume contest will take place Sunday, Oct. 31, at the beach. The next meeting of the /board of trustees will be Wednesday, Nov. 3. Don't forget to vote Nov. 2 at the Alliance church on Bull Valley road. He who overcomes others has force; he who overcomes himself is strong. ^American Viewpoints God blesses still thi generous thought, And still the fitting word He speeds, And truth, at His requiring taught, He quickens into deeds. John Greenleaf Whittier V Y C I T A L S H A R D W A R E 1228 l\l. GREEN ST., McHEIMRY Do you home heating energy out of thin air? X about the m that pulls Introducing the heat pump. Scientists have known for centuries that the air around us is a storehouse of heat energy. But it's only been in recent years that they were able to de­ velop an efficient way to tap that abun­ dant resource--the heat pump. Today, it is the only commercially available heating system that provides an answer to shrinking supplies of other fuels. How the heat pump works: Basically, the heat pump moves heat from one place to another. It uses elec­ tricity to extract heat from a limitless source--the heat in outdoor air. During winter, enough heat remains in the air-- even on the coldest and cloudiest days-- to be extracted by the pump and trans­ ferred indoors as clean, flameless heat. i And during warm weather, the process automatically reverses, removing excess indoor heat and humidity like an air conditioner. Better efficiency. In short, the heat pump does the job of both a furnace and an air conditioner. But there's an important difference. In northern Illinois the heat pump can produce more than 1V2 units of heat energy for every unit it consumes. That's better efficiency than any other current heating system. That could mean signif­ icant long-term savings on heating costs. To get the full advantages of the heat pump, it's important to get a quality product, properly installed and reliably serviced. For the name of qualified installers in your area, call G. W. Berk- heimer Co. (Westinghouse Distributors), 312-374-4411; General Electric Co., 312-496-6356; Lennox Industries, Inc., 312-593-2820; or Temperature Equip­ ment Corp. (Carrier Distributors), 312-681-6220. If you want additional heat pump information, call your local Commonwealth Edison office and talk to one of our marketing engineers. Commonwealth Edison Working for you. v* ww r n ppni v.rrr:-/--r-.':/ -- ' a --m-- I - - THE BIRTHPLACE OF WILD BILI. AT TROY GROVE, 11 1 1MGS TOME- Northern Illinois' Folk Hero "Wild Bill" Hickok And Other Legends (Tenth in a regional history series by Virginia Differding and Walter Wallace, prepared as a Bicentennial contribution from Northern Illinois University. - Ed.) Folk heroes and villains immortalized through tall tales and ballads often play an im­ portant part in a region's identity. Northern Illinois has many, ranging from Bathhouse Johnny in Chicago to Big Mama Betty from, the Mississippi River country. But probably the most famous of all is James Butler ("Wild Bill") Hickok. Popularly known now from movies and a 1950's television series, Wild Bill is generally associated with the rough-and- tumble West. Actually, this trapper, scout, Union Army spy, lawman and gunslinger was from northern Illinois. Born in 1837, the year following the death of another famous American fron­ tiersman, Davy Crockett, Wild Bill Hickok grew up on a farm in LaSalle county. While still in his mid-teens, he earned a local reputation for helping defen­ seless animals and people in trouble. Young Will Cody, later to become famous as the showman "Buffalo Bill," once was saved by Wild Bill from a group of rowdies on a wagon train. As a towpath attendant on the Illinois-Michigan canal, another story goes, Hickok got into a fist fight with a boatman over treatment of mules. The fight lasted over an hour, as tradition has it, starting on the mule path along the canal and ending in the water. Bill, naturally, was the victor. Before he was 20, Wild Bill ran away from home. Heading westward, he worked on wagon trains and as a cowpoke, ending up in the Rocky Mountains. He remained there for many years, living with trappers and learning to live off the land. When he first arrived in the Rockies, legend says, he got so hungry, that he bit "the nase of'en a livin' grizzly bar" for his dinner. During the Civil War, Bill worked for the Union Army, gaining renown as the keenest scout of them all. "Without him, the North never would have won the war in the West" a chronicler, George Ward Nichols, wrote in 1867. Hickok also was an undercover agent, a kind of early C.I.A. operative who masterminded schemes to undercut the Confederates' will to fight. Standing 6 feet 1 in moc­ casins, with broad shoulders, and long, fine, jet-black hair trailing down his back, he dressed in deerskin and wore a ' H- * '%'J • i' 'V * ' h--ntrJhm*! JAM»« Minn (*ll* MLU IpCKoK big, floppy leather, hat. A Colt navy pistol rode each of his lean hips, and a razor-sharp knife invariably was tied around his right leg. Nichols, a journalist and biographer of Wild Bill, shuddered in his boots when he first met Hickok in 1865. Hickok's reputation of having killed hundreds - some said thousands! - of men by the time he was 30, and his physical bearing left even strong men weak at their knees. Wild Bill was a killer, but he killed only to prevent himself, or others, from being killed. "As ter killing men, I never thought much about it," Wild Bill once was quoted as saying. "The most of the men I have killed it was one or t'other of us, and at sich times, you don't stop to think." Wild Bill was only violent when the ethics of a situation dictated. "His eyes," Nichols wrote, "are as a woman's. In truth, the woman nature seems prominent throughout, and you would not believe that you were looking into eyes that have pointed the way to death of hundreds of men." His expertise with a pistol was legendary in his own time. Once, he reportedly shot two assailants with one bullet; another time, two attackers on opposite sides of a barroom, using a mirror over the bar as he aimed his pistol over his left shoulder. Wild Bill's death was as violent as much of his life, ending just a century ago in Deadwood City, Dakota Territory, on Aug. 2,1876, when Jack McCall gunned him down during an argument over a poker game. Legend says the 39-year-old Hickok was shot in the back. A marker placed near Troy Grove, north of the city of LaSalle in LaSalle County, salutes Hickok as an "upholder of law and order" Who "con­ tributed largely in making the West a safe place for women and children." Of course there are many others who give our region a rich heritage of folklore, in­ cluding those mentioned earlier in this column. Bathhouse Johnny, for instance, rose from poverty to become one of Chicago's fastest talking gamblers, drinkers and proprietors of sauna houses for the rich. On the other side of the state, Big Mama Betty became known along the Mississippi river for being able to whomp the hide off a dozen men and drink the heaviest of drinkers under the table. Miners' stories from Bureau county are known in coal fields throughout the nation and one northern Illinois-originated custom, May Day as a workers' holiday, has become known throughout the world, and is celebrated in socialist and some Third World countries. In Chicago in the 1880s, a movement developed among German immigrant workers who were pushing for an eight hour day. As a rallying point for their union activities, thd Germans chos6 the traditional May 1st opening of spring holidays. In May, 1886, a protracted strike by Chicago brewery and packing house workers seeking an eight-hour work day spreecj quickly to Milwaukee and othe* Midwestern cities, and late^ even to New York state and into Iowa. The symbolic and violent nature of May Day becamt indelibly marked among union members on May 3, when a rally at Chicago's Haymarket Square ended in bloodshed. At the end of a speech, 180 police moved into the square and ordered the 1,200 workers at tbe rally to disperse. Someone threw a bomb into the crowd, iij the direction of the police.'*' f The bomb blast killed one and injured 70 and police responded by firing into the crowd, killing another and wounding scores more. Some say anarchists threw the bomb, but others contend that police agents provoked what turned into a bloody period of street fighting. Stories abound, but we probably will never know exactly what happened. Customs and songs brougty to America by waves of imr migrants from Europe, Africa, the Middle and Far East, and those originating with native Americans and early settler* all blend into a colorful mosaic of religious celebrations and feast days, bawdy songs and backroom ballads. Our folk traditions represent our living, oral history, which often escapes the academic historian but not the sense of history in each of us. NEXT: What's In A Name? Tracing The Names of Our Towns and Cities BOLGER'S DRUGS 1259 N. SHEEN ST. - McHENRY BOLGER'S DRUGS presents Hudsorf'76 Sale. The sale that brings you a very healthy spending cut. Hudson's policy is to bring you the you even greater savings on these » highest quality vitamins and pharma- and many other great sale products, ceuticals money can buy. For less. So make Hudson your choice in'76. And now Hudson's annual sale gives For greater quality and value. 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