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\ * * PAGE 4 - PLAINDFAI.FR.FRIDAY. JANUARY 21. 1S77 -M" Ringwood News 653-9008 653-9262 . 728-0295 Farm Land Assessment "Rescjue 50" Rider's Seek Sponsorship Jan 23 is the date set for the "Rescue 50" snowmobile ride sponsored by the Harmony Snowmobile club benefiting the McHenry and Johnsburg Rescue, squads. If anyone wants to pledge so much per mile^for Walt Low or anoth£rv riderjto complete the 50/ miles\ call Walt or Doris Low for further information The Sheriff's department and both Rescue squads will be on the job helping the riders cross main roads, etc PROGRESSIVE DINNER The Christians in Action group of Ringwood United Methodist church will meet for their progressive dinner Saturday night. Jan 22. fcveryone who has reservations , is to meet in front of the church at 6:45 for instructions and route to follow The dinner will start in Ringwood CONFIRMATION CLASSES A reminder that confirmation classes will meet tomorrow morning. Jan. 22, 9:30 at the Greenwood church. U.M.W HEARS SPEAKERS Despite the bad weather last week Thursday. United Methodist Women met at the church in Ringwood to hear Corrinne Gow and Karen Hansen speak on the C U P program here in McHenry county. Their message was 4 very interesting and enlightening Phyllis Zell and Katy Christopher were hostesses. HERE AND THERE Clarence and Arline Pearson with son. Jim. flew to Wichita for Christmas with their son. Jack and his family. When asked about the family. Arline admitted she could no longer call her granddaughters "little girls - they are now young teen­ agers". The folk§ had a won­ derful \isit and were happy they could all be together for the holiday. To celebrate Kenneth Brennan's birthday last Sun­ day. his parents. Mr. and Mrs Charles Brennan. toqk the family out for dinner Grand­ mother Nellie Hepburn joined the group and everyone en­ joyed the happy occasion. BIRTHDAYS / Happy Birthday to Leslie Mough and Mary Price, Jan 22 and to Eleanor Bacon Howe, Jan 23. Jan. 24, we find Christal Ackerman and Shawn McGowan celebrating their special day. Jan. 25 is that special dav for Colleen Tonvan and Tom Kane, with Anzo Visconti. Wesley Bruce, and Otto Mergle celebrating their special day. On Jan. 27. we find Donna Barker adding another year as does Bobby Malsch and Rose Visconti. Jan. 28. Happy Birthday to all of you wonderful people ANNIVERSARIES Happy Anniversary to John and Ann Hogan on the twenty- fifth of January and to Mary and Earl Sonnemaker, Jan. 26 and to Bill and Shirley Cristy. Jan. 28. Happy Anniversary to Because of statutory and constitutional requirements for assessment uniformity, farm land in Illinois must be assessed at the same per­ centage of market value as other property, according to Frank A Kirk. Director of the Department of Local Govern- „ ment Affairs. Since 197& the law has required that all property be assessed at one-third of its potential selling price on today's real estate market. Farmers, as well as other taxpayers, are being affected by increased assessments and increased spending by local taxing districts which cause higher tax bills. The Illinois legislature has provided protection for far­ mers in areas where land values are being driven up by non-farm influences. The "dual assessment" law allows far­ mers in such areas to apply to the county to have their land assessed and taxed on its value in use as farmland rather than on its value for alternative uses. all of you wonderful people and we hope you have many, many more of them THINGS TO REMEMBER Every Sunday -- church Ringwood church -- When the land use is changed, however, the law has a "rollback"^ provisions requiring that the owner musff pay back taxes for three years based on the land's higher value in non-farm use. j The "dual assessment" law is not a cure-all for the farmer's woes, warned Kirk. First, the law only applies in cases wher? conversion of farmland to non- agricultural use is driving up land values. » Secondly, even farm land under dual assessment is required to "be valued on the basis of thirty-three and one- third percent of its fair cash value, based upon the price it would bring at a fair, voluntary sale for use by the buyer for farming or agricultural pur­ poses." Although assessing officials must obey the laws concerning assessment uniformity and assessment levels, taxpayers must remember that their local taxing districts determine whether higher assessments are translated into higher tax bills. If the taxing districts hold the line on spending, tax rates will fall and tax bills will not go up Sunday - church Ringwood church -- services 9:15 a.m. Every school -- 9:45 a.m. Sunday, Jan 23 - "RESCUE 50" Wednesday, Jan. 26 - Pastorial Relations eommittee meeting -- Ringwood church - 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 27 -- Sewing Circle -- Althea Walkington home - 10:30 a.m. til0 HISTORIC SITES COUNCIL The , Illinois Historic Preservation act. aimed at preservation of historic sites within the state, went into ef­ fect last week. The act creates an Illinois register of Historic places and establishes strict regulations for preservation of sites listed on the register. Petitions for consideration for nomination to the register are now being accepted by the Illinois Department of Con­ servation, Historic Sites division. State Office building, Springfield, II. 62706. Seek Substitute Family Care For Disabled Children Developmental^ Disabled Children and Substitute Family Care will be the subject of a public meeting Tuesday, Jan. 25. at 7:30 p.m., in the Juvenile court room of the Court Services building on the corner of Ware road and Route 47 in Woodstock. Central Baptist Children's home, in cooperation with the Illinois Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities, has undertaken the first substitute family care program to service develop- mentally disabled children of McHenry and Lake counties. Good homes are needed in this area. The evening session will include a description of this new program, a personal ac­ count by a substitute parent, and a film that counters misconceptions of these special children. Central Baptist Children's home is a non-sectarian multi­ function social service agency and invites all interested McHenry county citizens to attend the Tuesday evening meeting. Questions about the meeting or this program may be ad­ dressed to Susan Weinger at (312) 356-3143. Opinions are necessary in life, but it's not nec­ essary that anyone else agrees with yours. • * * * This is the time of the year when the busiest men find time to attend afoot- ball game. Borrow „ UPtO $3,000 just by writing a check! and complete the cash reserve credit application. Upon approval, you'll be given a line- of-credit between $500 and $3,000. Use your credit anytime either by writing a special check or by writing a regular check for more than your Twin Checking Account balance. A great new feature has been added to the Personal Checking Twin Account service at First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Crystal Lake. You can now write yourself a cash reserve loan up to $3,000 through our correspondent bank, the Madison Bank and Trust Company. To qualify, simply maintain a regular First Federal Savings passbook savings account with a $200 minimum balance You can repay your loan monthly with special coupons or have the payment automatically deducted from your Twin Checking Account. First Federal Savings' Twin * Aobount with the new line of credit feature gives you the flexibility of instant credit when you need it. Once approved, you don't have to complete loan applications each time you need money for a vacation, emergencies, seasonal expenses or special purchases. First Federal Savings & Loan of Crystal Lake is your one stop financial center for all your checking, savings or loarUransactions. Our Twin Acq^unt/Cash Reserve Ijpe-of-credit service is just another reason why we're catfed the "people pleasers." Stop in or call any FFS office for more details or application. The People Pleasers ... FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION OF CRYSTAL LAKE Serving you in: Crystal Lake 1 East Crystal Lake Ave. Crystal Lake, 111. 60014 • (815) 459-1400 Algonquin 1309 Dundee Road (Rt. 31) Algonquin,III. 60102 • (312) 658-8622 <Wauconda 475 West Liberty (Rt. 176) Wauconda III. 60084 • (312) 526-8622 McHenry 4400 West Route 120 McHenry Market Place McHenry. Ill 60050 • (815) 385-9000 FIFTY YEARS AGO - (Taken from the files of January 20, 1927) Fire completely destroyed the Lincoln school house, District No. 14, located three and one-half miles northeast of McHenry, Wednesday night about 10 o'clock. Just hJSfe the blaze started is not definitely known although it is surmised that it was caused by an ex­ plosion of the stove, the school heater type. Mis? Ruth Powers of McHenry is the teacher of this school. Nineteen scholars have been in attendance this year. It is planned to hold school in one or more of the homes in the district the balance of the school year and to erect a new building this season. * Carl N. Weber, proprietor of the Northwestern Radio Shop in West McHenry, has a Dodge touring car that he is real proud of now, following a stunt it performed a few nights ago when he was returning from the basketball game at Crystal Lake. The weather was ex­ tremely cold and the snow heavy. Carl had seven oc­ cupants in his car and about six miles from McHenry he overtook another car with eight people in it. The snow had gotten into the ignition system and the car was stalled. Always ready to assist, Mr. Weber piled the whole fifteen into his Dodge, hitched the other car on behind and plowed through the deep snow for two miles before being unable to go farther. After unhitching the tow rope he was still able to bring the fifteen occupants safely into McHenry. While loading gravel from a bank near Lily Lake, three miles east of McHenry, Patrick McCabe, 55 years old, of McHenry, was instantly killed when a ledge of the bank gave way, striking the victim with such force that death followed immediately. FORTY YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of January 21. 1937) A gigantic still and rectifying plant, said to be the largest ever to be located in Northern Illinois either in prohibition time or since prohibition was repealed, was confiscated when Sheriff Henry A. Nulle, Chief Deputy Clyde C. Miner and a squad of federal agents from the Internal Revenue depart­ ment office in Chicago, raided the old Borden-Wieland Milk A-l HEARING AID SERVICE Free Loaners - Complete Service on all Makes Custom Earmolds - 30 Day Trial on New Aids _ Try Before You Buy. Maico-Oticon-Radio Ear Qualitone Custom Made ^11 in the Ear Models R0BT. STENSLAND & ASSOCIATES 3937 W. Main SU 385-7661 Behind-the-ear AID .. nn Reg. $239 188 piant at Spring Grove. Two men were arrested and taken into custody being placed in the county jail here where they will be held until a preliminary arraignment is given them before Edwin K. Walker, United States commissioner. They are Lincoln Rankin, 23, of Zenda, Wis., and Ralph Boguch, 19, of Chicago. - Many members of the P.M.A. will be moving this Spring and arrangements are being made to avoid the inevitable con­ fusion of these changes. Forifts A. have been prepared in the' P.M. A. office to be filled out by the members who are moving and returned to the P.M.A. office. When this information is received the office can proceed to secure a new market if necessary, secure cooperation of board of health, straighten out base records and get correct new addresses. Students with arms full of books and their faces serious are seen wending their way home from school this week. The reason is the fact that third quarter exams at the liigh school are scheduled for Thursday and Friday of this week. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of January 24, 1952) •*" Following the deadline for filing petitions last Monday at 5 p.m. it was disclosed that there will be several contests for precinct committeeman posts in the April 8 primaries but no contests for the offices of cir­ cuit clerk, county coroner and state's attorney. On the Democratic ticket, Joseph McAndrews and Robert Frisby, Sr., have both filed in McHenry's Precinct 3*. Sibre Whiting is retiring in McHenry Precinct 4. Local G O.P. filings for committeemen posts are as follows: Earl Whiting, McHenry I; Charles J. Miller, 2; Melvin Walsh, 3; Joseph Frett, 4; and Steve Duttko, 5. Other Democratic filings in­ clude Stanley Hunt, I; Lester Bacon, 2; and Robert Knox, Nunda I. The Boy Scouts of the McHenry community will hold a scrap paper drive, with proceeds to be used lo send troop explorers to a canoe base in Wisconsin next summer. In keeping with their policy to assist other organizations in such projects, the Business Men's association will donate trucks and drivers to the Scouts on both days. All proceeds obtained from the sale of paper collected Jan. 26 and 31 will go to the Scouts. * Beginning today, Thursday, Jan. 24, McHenry's Veterans of Foreign Wars Post, No. 4600 is joining with other posts throughout the country in observing V.F.W. week. This is the seventh year for the local organization the post having been mustered in on Oct. 15, 1943, at the city hall in McHenry. Jack Keenan was elected first commander, supported by Leo Rothermel as senior vice-commander. V TEN YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of January 26, 1967) Only the charred walls remained of the two-story home on the John Hogan farm on Barnard Mill road, which was destroyed by fire last Friday afternoon. Damage was estimated^at more than $30,000 including, a large remodelled portion of the residence. The Hogans have lived on the farm for twenty-three years. The Community Methodist church of McHenry has received notice that it will receive the income from a permanent trust fund of $10,000 established with the Methodist foundation of Rbck River conference. The income from the trust, called the Lon H.J. and Laura F. Smith scholarship fund for its donors, will be used by the local church to make grants and loans to persons preparing for full time church- related vocations. In answer to questions from residents of the newly annexed area around Lakeland Park, city vehicle stickers and dog tags will be required for 1967 as for all other McHenry residents. President William Nye of the McHenry Chamber of Com­ merce called a special meeting of the new bo^rd chiefly for the purpose of discussing the organization's activities for 1967. The dates of the Marine Festival were set July 13 through 16, for which com­ mittees will be selected in the near future. Frank Low will serve as general chairman of the event. The Warriors succumbed to the Blue Streaks from Wood­ stock. The orange and black 66 to 57 loss to a previously winless Woodstock team tumbled the Warriors into the cellar of the North Suburban conference all by themselves. Department Announces No Teenage Deaths For the first time in three years, no young Illinois teenager was killed while working on a job, according to the year-end records of the Illinois Department of Labor Donald A. Johnson, Director of Labor, said that the absence of any fatality and a decrease in injuries to the state's 14 and 15-year-olds who work is the result of better screening of work permit applications at virtually every one of the state's local schools. He also pointed out .that the Depart­ ment's Labor Law En­ forcement division rejects an average of 100 work permit requests each month. "It is not a foolproof system," Johnson said, "but it is highly significant that in the two cases where deaths did occur in 1974 and 1975, the youths were employed illegally, without work permits. Decorated Chopsticks Chopsticks supplied to diners at Chinese restaurants often are decorated with five ideographs representing happiness, luck, prosperity, peace and long life. OK ARCHMS MARCH? ? Q: WHAT IS A MONARCH A • The car of tomorrow, that's what a Monarch is. The precision size Mercury Monarch is the car of tomorrow, HERE TODAY!! ' - ^ The styling is trim - the car is roomy, with ride _ comfort for up to five passengers, and it's "Ride- Engineered" by Lincoln-Mercury. Enviable interior comfort, quietness and con­ venience, precise handling and control on the road & in parking. 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