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•«*. '• ' I • .mo mas * THE MCHENRY PLAINDEALER "SERVING THE CHAIN-O-LAKES REGION SINCE 1875' VOLUME 101 NUMBER 61 FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1977 1 SECTION 20 PAGES 20* KJ§ Debate City Lounge Case y Monday night s City Council meeting found some of the aldermen ready and anxious to determine exactly what the city is going to do concerning the liquor license renewal-denial of Jake's Dead End lounge, located at the corner of Rt. 120 and Riverside drive in McHenry. After City Clerk Barbara Gilpin read the minutes, which included a report from Mayor Joseph Stanek on the present status of the tavern, which remains open despite having no liquor license, Alderman Raymond Smith opened the subject up for discussion. Smith's concern was that Richard Jager, the owner of the tavern in question, could apply for a liqour license for the 1977- 78 year, even though he was denied one for the 1976-77 year. He wanted to know how the city is going to handle that request. "As long as it was brought up in the minutes of the last meeting, at that time I had asked...how we would handle this request. I believe it will be coming up at the next meeting," Smith said. Liquor license renewals for the year beginning May 1 will be acted upon by the local Liquor commissioner, Mayor Stanek. Although Council approval is not required before the liquor commissioner can take action, some members of the City Council are concerned about the costs involved in working through the court system to attempt to close the tavern. "Next week, I would imagine, Jake's Dead End lounge would again request a license," Smith said. "I think this is important enough, and I think the Council members have a right to know, that I think maybe tonight we will have to go into executive (Continued on page 8) i Everyone -- well, almost everyone-- plays the Illinois lottery, but how many know what it nets the state in revenue and just how it's spent. For the year ending June 30, 1976, the cost of lottery operations totalled $7,364,917, or 4.5 percent of operating revenues. The balance of the lottery gross operation revenue --- $72,854,601 or 44.4 percent -- was transferred to the General Revenue fund. By dollar amounts, elementary, secondary and higher education received $2M70,386 for the biggest ctrtfnk of the total. Public aid was next with $22,584,926, and operations of state agencies reached out for $11,656,736. Smaller amounts went to tax relief of the elderly, grants to the Department of Children and Family Services, local revenue sharing and debt service. Regardless of differences in the prize structures of various games, all games are designed so that 45 percent of all revenue will be allocated as prizes. During the year ending June 30, 1976, more than 4.1 million winning tickets shared in $73,760,087 in cash prizes. KAF Pyblic Meeting View Teenage Drinking "Teenage Drinking: A Growing Problem or a Problem of Growing", is the topic to be presented by Ted R. Graves Monday, April 18, at 8 p.m. in St. Patrick's church hall. The lecture is sponsored by the St. Patrick's CCD. Parents' association and is open to all interested persons in the community^ This timely topic will be discussed following the brief business meeting of1 the Queen Candidate KELLY A. STALKY The newest candidate in the Fiesta day queen contest is Kelly A. Staley. Her entry brings the total to five. Kelly, daughter of Mrs. David Walsh and Jack Staley, is a school pom pom girl, bat girl and a member of the Pep club. Her hobbies are swimming, skiing and dancing. School Program Reorganization Proposal Studied Edward Hall, superintendent of the Educational Services region in McHenry county, appeared before the board of School District 156 Tuesday night. He led a discussion of a proposal for the improvement of the^Rlinois Delivery system for elementary, secondary and adult education. The system, in fact, is a reorganization of the state Office of Education for providing services to the various schools. It is based on the Stephens report, whose author is from the University of Maryland. The report includes recommendations that include three steps in the area of consolidation. The first would consist of regional jurisdiction over 100,000 students. Locally, this might be the consolidation of two counties such as Lake and McHenry. The next division would be on a District basis of 10,000 students. The third designation would be the in­ dividual school. Hall pointed out that originally there were 102 superintendents for the same number of counties in the state There has been some con­ solidation even without legislation . There are now fifty- two county superintendents throughout the state. If the new plan is im­ plemented, this number would (Continued on page 8) McHenry Township Vote Light; Sherwood Wins One charmer greets another as Cheri Simon becomes part of an Easterland display. She especially admires ftfe wee elf, just her she, wbo Is coaxing music from a giant stand of bluebells. Four-year-old Cheri is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Simon of 3909 -jptearbrook, McHenry. Police Seek Offenders In Numerous Thefts, Vandalism association, which all parents of children in the program are urged to attend at 7:30 p.m. Graves is a certified social worker currently in private practice in McHenry. He has had four years' experience with the Family Service and Community Mental Health Center for McHenry county as an alcoholism counselor. The topic of teenage drinking is believed to be of great in­ terest to the public because of • recent statistics which show that up to 70 percent of today's teenagers are drinking at least once a month. Because alcohol can become addictive, this statistic is considered par­ ticularly alarming. Graves will cover the nature of the drinking problem, the causes which belie it, what parents can do both to prevent their children from abusing alcohol and to help young people who may already have a problem. This program is the first in a series of informative meetings on topics of public interest planned by the C C D. Parents' association. Questionnaires will be available at this meeting for those who wish to help in the program, and to indicate areas of interest for further lecture-meetings. For further information please contact John Comerio, president of the association. Band Concert Brings Former Residents To City The University of Illinois Symphonic band, Harry Begian, conductor, will tour (Continued on page 8) Numerous thefts and acts of vandalism were recorded during the week, with police still seeking the offenders for all the crimes. Sunday afternoon, police investigated a theft at the summer home of Harry Reuse at 7819 Island lane, Wonder Lake. Some time since March 30, someone stole a blue two-man kayak from the rear of the home. Also Sunday, police responded to a report of a theft at Holtz motors, 222 Rand road, McHenry. During the night, somone stole a white camper top from a pickup truck in the lot. and also damaged two vehicles on display in the parking area. Saturday morning, Sandra Troha, 5118 Willow, Wonder Lake, reported to police that during the night someone stole a ten-speed bicycle from her backyard. Anthony Stanevich, 2411 Riverview drive, McHenry, reported that sometime recently someone entered his garage and stole a red metal tool box containing two sets of socket wrenches and assorted hand tools. Friday, Alfredo Mena, Crystal Lake, reported that while he was at work at the Chroma Corporation, Herbert road, Lakemoor, someone entered his truck and stole his gray tool box containing assorted tools and * test equipment. Also taken from the Mena truck were five lawn rakes and a tarp. Kenneth Gallo, 4807 Paulson, McHenry, reported to police that sometime Wednesday night, someone stole two black wheels which were on his driveway. Police also investigated a burglary at the home of Albert Mikkelsen, 2607 Riverview^ drive, McHenry. Taken from an unlocked garage were a drill press, a (Continued on page 19) McHenry Man Arrested On Drug Charge A McHenry man was charged with illegal possession of cannabis following his arrest Wednesday night in front of the McHenry police station. Dominick A. Grande Jr., 3705 (Continued on page 19) With no offices contested in Tuesday's township election, voting was light. The total of 468 cast averaged less than 100 per precinct, indicating the wisdom of officials in reducing the usual twenty-seven precincts to five for this election only. Clarence Regner was high vote getter for highway com­ missioner, receiving 395 votes. He was followed by Walter Dean, 384 votes to be returned to office as supervisor; Albert Adams, 383 for town clerk and Sibre Whiting, 360 for assessor Four trustees were placed in office. They were Howard Snyder, who polled 353 votes, Thomas Birmingham, 368, Bruce Novak, 350, and Eugene Jakubowski, 341. In nearby Nunda township, a keenly contested race for supervisor resulted in Anita Sherwood being proclaimed winner over Frank Rezabek, Jr. The vote was 1,005 for Ms. Sherwood and 637 for Rezabek.Helen Milone was named clerk with 1,159 votes, Marilyn Janke, assessor,with 1,174, and Leroy Geske, high­ way commissioner with 1,201. Winners for trustee positions were Frank Stampler with 1,125 votes, James Napier with 1,176, Janice Notz with 1,106 and Edward Hughes with 1,120. These were unofficial results of Wednesday noon., McHenry Area Motorists Face Driving Offenses Several area residents were arrested and charged with various driving offenses following their apprehension during the week. Gary Bique, 203 Ingleside Shore road, Ingleside, was arrested for driving while his license was revoked, fleeing and eluding, disobeying a stop light, and two counts of disobeying a stop sign, following his arrest over the weekend. According to the police report, while an officer was traveling east on Rt. 120 near Park street, McHenry, the Bique auto suddenly swerved into his lane of traffic, causing the officer to move to the op­ posite lane of traffic to avoid contact. The officer followed the auto, and after crossing the Fox River bridge, Bique turned left on River road, disregarding the red light. The officer pursued as the auto disregarded signs, before finally stopping the car on Lincoln road near Chapel Hill road. While checking out Bique's California driver's license, Bique suddenly pulled away, and the car was eventually found abandoned in the (Continued on page 8) Steal 11,700 In Equipment At Hustler's More than $1,700 worth of boat equipment was taken sometime late Tuesday night from the Hustler's Sports center, 4016 Crystal Lake road. McHenry. (Continued on page 8) Prod Mayor On Clerk Fees At Monday night's City Council meeting, Alderman William Bolger brought up a new concern surrounding the city clerk fee hassle, which threatened to malign former City Clerks Earl Walsh and Terry Wilde. Bolger discovered that the auditor who handled McHenry's auditing, William Froehlich, (the auditor who also revealed that Mrs. Wilde was collecting the hunting and fishing licenses and death certificates, and keeping a portion of the money herself) wast also the auditor for the city of Crystal Lake. Bolger then wondered why, since it is the same auditor, he didn't call attention to Crystal Lake's city clerk as improperly keeping the fees, the same way he did in McHenry. Bill Froehlich didn't point any fingers," Mayor Joe Stanek said. "He just brought it to my attention." Still Bolger's question remained. Why did Froehlich single out McHenry 's city clerk as improperly collecting fees, when he didn't do so in Crystal Lake. Bolger and Alderman Jack Pepping also entered into debate on whether the $1,500 raise accorded present City Clerk Barbara Gilpin was to supplement income lost because she cannot keep the fees, or because all other city (Continued on page 8) Top Honors M. in State FBLA Recently, twelve students from McHenry high school competed in state competition at the state Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) conference. This was held at the Holiday Inn East at A happy Dianne Smith displays her first place award earned in state competition for Who's Who in Future Business Leaders of America, a contest naming those who have done the most for their school's FBLA. Dianne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Smith of McHenry, is now eligible for national competition in Denver, Colo., July 1-4. With her is the FBLA advisor, Ron Schmitt. STAFF PHOTO-WAYNE GAYLORD Springfield, in which ap­ proximately sixty-five schools and 800-plus students attended competing in business-related tests. The following Students from McHenry ranked among the top ten in the state in the following contests: Ralph Rounds Economics, ninth; Mary Hayes, Business Law, eighth; Hans Heidler, Mr. FBLA, (Continued on paj?e 8)