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'/* r is" * 116 TllftS -* MGHENRY PLAINDEALER •*V |A.^ "SERVING THE CHAIN-O-LAKES REGION SINCE 1875" VOLUME 102 NUMBER 15 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1977 1 SECTION 22 PAGES 20* Four persons were injured Sunday evening in this two-car cotttaim on Elm street, just west of the Front street intersection. James R. Jeschke of Crystal Lake was ticketed for improper lane usage in connection with the accident, which also injured the driver of the other car, James Spencer of Chicago, and two members of the Spencer family, Shirley and Penelope. All four persons were transported to McHenry hospital by the McHenry Area Rescue squad for treatment of their injuries. Jeschke stated he was westbound on KV. Waukegan road and made a left turn, hitting the Spencer auto head-on. An estimated 100 persons surveyed the accident scene. The crash apparently occurred when Jeschke attempted to turn left (west) onto Elm street from Front street, bnt made his maneuver through the right turn only lane which is utilised by eastbouad traffic on Elm. STAFF PHOTO-WAYNE GAYLORD State Police Program Traffic Enforcement The Illinois state police will begin a Concentrated Traffic Enforcement program starting this month. A six-month special effort will be directed at reducing vehicular accidents, and their resultant injuries and deaths, through increased police patrol and enforcement of all traffic laws at forty-five high accident locations throughout the state. According to the Elgin district commander, Captain* James M. Murphy, the con­ centrated enforcement effort in the five-county area served by District 2 will be centered on Illinois 176, Illinois 83, U.S. 45 from McHenry county line to Cook county line; Lake county U.S. 41 to Illinois 132 to Illinois 131 to Illinois 173 and back to U.S. 41; from five miles east of Woodstock to Lake county line on Illinois 120, then Illinois 31 from McHenry to Kane county line, then U.S. 14 from Illinois 31 to Lake county line. As a result of a grant request, federal highway safety funds have been authorized to assist the state police in deploying the troopers to conduct patrols in those locations considered to have higher than normal ac­ cident rates. According to Supt. Lynn E. Baird, the program will operate from September through December of 1977, and .9 „ *" 5 • i, May and June of next year. The project will utilize twenty- eight five-member teams committed to a total of just over 49,000 man hours. The teams will be made up of off- duty troopers re-hired at their regular rate of pay. The troopers will place emphasis upon enforcing moving hazardous violations occurring in the identified areas. and 6 p.m. Saturday to 6 a.m. Sunday. The Illinois state police recognized the problem but found they were un­ derstaffed to such a degree they could not adequately cope without help. "The demands for Illinois state police services have in- Counfy Citizens Urge... "Control Urban Sprawl When you go to a press convention, you're expected to learn something. The intention is to come away with ideas to improve your own newspaper. But we always leave with extraneous information that isn't always very closely related to bringing the public news and advertising. Maybe it's ironic that the second Will Rogers should have proved the hit of the con­ vention. Even stranger, that he's a politician. They aren't usually very funny these days. Lt. Governor George Nigh of Oklahoma didn't hold true to the picture most of us have of office holders. His out-of-the- ordinary wit was greeted by pejds of laughter that n^ade everyone forget the difficulties of Bert Lance until they returned to the TV in their motel rooms. In contrast, a special session for editors and publishers brought what impressed us as an honest and somewhat op­ timistic picture of "The State Financial Picture Today and Tomorrow". The speaker was Robert Mandeville, director of the Illinois Bureau of the Budget. Assuring his audience that he owns no bank stock and has no outstanding loans, the director proceeded to tell, in layman's language, the simple facts about balancing the budget and the necessity to live within it. He spoke with some satisfaction of the state having been able to get together a budget that proposed a surplus. But more important, the General Assembly believed them and went along with a "year of sacrifice". The director added, "They had no choice. The alternative was a tax increase". And will there be a tax in­ crease in the next fiscal year? "I don't feel it will be necessary", Mandeville said, adding with a smile, "Also it's an election year". He thinks full funding of education will occur next year under the present formula, but insists too much emphasis is on full funding rather than on distribution. From the Mandeville talk (Continued on page 12) "It's time to reevaluate our position regarding growth in McHenry county," said Alice Howenstine, Defenders spokesman. "We are making every effort to contact city officials, county board mem­ bers, builders, realtors, and the citizens of McHenry county, to urge them to attend a meeting at the Woodstock Opera House Monday, Sept. 26, to learn what can be done to control urban sprawl and save our valuable farm lands." Steve Aradas, director of the McHenry County Regional Planning commission, has assembled aerial photos of the county, particularly the southeast quadrant (Crystal Lake, Cary^ Algonquin and Lake in the Hills) showing growth patterns in the past twenty-three years. These will be displayed in the lobby of the Opera House prior to the meeting. "It's clear that valuable farm land has given way to asphalt parking lots, cement curbs and streets, industrial and residential buildings-and you can't grow crops in asphalt parking lots," noted Aradas. 'Continued on page 12) When winners in the 112th annual Illinois Press association competition were announced in Decatur's Holiday Inn Friday noon, Sept. 16, the McHenry Plaindealer came in for three of the top six places in three separate categories. In the Best Original Column contest, the Plaindealer placed third. Sports coverage received second honorable mention and in the Best Circulation Promotion Idea category, third honorable mention. There were 1,642 entries from throughout Illinois, the largest contest among the forty-eight states. Judging was by forty- two top journalists from the state of Kansas. About one-tenth of the newspapers in Illinois are usually included among the winners in seventeen categories of competition. McHenry, With a circulation of 7,000, is in Gass B, which includes all dailies and weeklies with. circulation ex­ ceeding 5,000. These extend to newspapers with circulation County Government Open House From noon until 4 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 25, has been set aside as a day to tour public properties. This is another way of saying that county govern-* ment will be holding an open house that day at its public buildings. Included in the tours will be the county courthouse and administration building, the probation building, the high- /PA Awards To Plaindealer over 56,000 in all areas outside metropolitan Chicago. The original column that won a top award was entitled, "A Goal Of Harmony". The judge's critique stated; "This column, "A Goal Of Harmony", was outstanding, Obviously this town is having lots of dif­ ficulties. One gets the im­ pression the writer loves the city and is sad to know of all the disputes. KAF does a good job of calling for a truce in the long and bitter fight." The judge wrote generally of sports coverage in the six winning newspapers: "Local coverage, variety, good coverage of all sports; full (Continued on page 12) Stolen Bikes Recovered In Shores Channel Acting on a tip from a local resident that a bicycle was in the Fox river channel off Riverside drive, Chief Earl Buck of the McHenry Shores Police department removed three bikes from the water. The girls' bikes, two ten speeds, and one 3-speed, had not been reported stolen. With the help of the McHenry Police department bike registration number,' Shores police were able to identify one bicycle. On contacting the owner, officers were able to determine that the three bikes had been stolen late Friday night or early Saturday mor­ ning from the driveway at 806 S. Riverside drive, the Ronald Baggio residence. The three juvenile owners were contacted and their bicycles returned to them later the same day. creased to the point that our An Illinois Departmentexisting resources are not Transportation analysis Of^^luffioient to handle calls for state-wide accidents showed • service and at the same time significant increases from 6 cover high-accident location." p.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Saturday Baird noted. , A former McHenry resident and a Bull Valley area teenager were killed over the weekend in^ separate accidents. Dead are Mark Andrew Smith of Bradenton, Fla., and 15-year-old Susan Horan of 8413 Crystal Springs road, Wood­ stock. Although details of the ac­ cident that took the life of Mark Andrew Smith are not known, it is believed the 26-year-old former McHenry resident died in an attempt to save a friend. Mark, son of Paul C. Smith of Stubby avenue, Johnsburg, Was deep sea diving in 200 feet of water in Largo Bay, Fla. They were taking their last test before receiving their licenses. Four other men surfaced and thought they saw Smith emerge from the dark water also. Thai he disappeared, apparently in an attempt to seek the sixth man. Oxygen in the tanks was exhausted and they failed to reach the surface of the water. Smith, a graduate of McHenry high school, attended McHenry County college for two years and also a college in Florida, where he moved about five years ago. He had been employed in the construction of boats. Funeral services will be held Friday in McHenry. v Miss Horan was killed when a car she was a passenger in, spun out of control near her home Friday night. The automobile accident occurred at about 12:06 a.m. Friday, while James P. Apostal of Crystal Lake was driving Miss Horan and two com­ panions home. Apostal told police that he was driving down a hill when the girls in the car said, "There is the house". "I hit the brakes", he said, "and they locked up. The car pulled to the right and into a ditch. This was all I remem­ ber." He further said that he believed he was driving at about 50 mph at the time of the accident. Apostal was injured in the crash, and was transported by the Woodstock Rescue squad to Memorial hospital for treat­ ment of his injuries. Besides the Horan girl, two additional passengers in the auto were injured. They were Sue Ann Harvel and Richard W. Honquest, both of Crystal Lake, who were taken to Memorial hospital for examinations. Miss Horan was also taken to Memorial hospital, where she was pronounced dead on arrival. MARK SMITH Besides the two tragedies, there were numerous injuries sustained in many weekend accidents, a great number of which involved area residents. Certainly the weekend was an unfortunate one for the Bockhorst family of 715 Center street in McHenry. Janet M. Bockhorst remained in the Intensive Care unit of McHent-y hbipital Monday afternoon, suffering from injuries sustained when she apparently r#fi into a car Friday evening on Elm street. The driver of the car, Ruth Muller, 4407 W. Prairie avenue, McHenry, was not ticketed by local police, who investigated the accident. Ms. Muller told police she was westbound on Elm street in the outside lane at about 2f mph, proceeding with thd normal flow of traffic.* She added that she observed Ms.' Bockhorst crossing Elm streei' to her left, and began to brake: The next thing she knew con*: tact was made between the! pedestrian and the front, right, portion of the car. Z' While Ms. Bockhorst was ii)< the hospital, her daughter): Kathleen Bockhorst, same; address, was injured in i" separate accident. \ Early Sunday morning when: a car she was riding in, spud; out of control on Elm street; crashing into the Standard Service station at the corner of; Front and Elm. The driver of the car, Paid Ink of 3820 Waukegan roadv McHenry, was taken - to McHenry hospital by the McHenry Area Rescue squad, as was Miss Bockhorst and two other passengers, KennetB Kohl of 2312 Country lane; McHenry, and Donna McNish of 2326 Lincoln road, McHenry.* Police ticketed Ink fpr driving, too fast for conditions and for disobeying a traffic1 control device after the driver had struck two parked cars.- The vehicles are owned by Timothy Hooker rif Crystal* Lake and James Koepkfe of 1924 Woodlawn Park, McHenry. Ink told police he was east- bound on Rt. 120 at an unknown speed and was preparing to turn south onto Rt. 31. He said he remembered nothing after that point. Two witnesses to the accident stated that Ink's auto was eastbound on Rt. 120 when the vehicle started sliding sideways, leaving the road and slipping into the parking lot, hitting the two vehicles. Elsewhere, Dale F. Konecny of 4718 Winnebago drive in Wonder Lake was ticketed for leaving the scene of a vehicle- damage accident, and also for (Continued on page 12) -v-A* -r - Recall Memories Of South America Grimmonpre, Sandy Fuller and Sherri McCana admire rug one of the girls brought back from South America, where they spent ten weeks this past summer under the American Yeuth Exchange program for Spanish students. Sandy spent the time In Peru and the other girls la Bolivia. STAFF PHOTO-WAYNE GAYLORD way garage, Valley Hi Nursing home and the Animal Control shelter. From noon to 4 that day, employees of county govern­ ment will be on hand at each building and department to show its facilities and to ex­ plain the general type of work conducted. An invitation is extended to (Continued on page 12) Teenagers in at least one other part of the world are not too unlike those in McHenry, but life abroad isn't like home. That was the concensus of three young students who returned to classes at East and West campuses this fall after ten weeks spent in Spanish* South America. The girts are Sandy Fuller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Fuller of 5213 Circle drive; Sherri McCann, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald R. Legner of 1906 Church street; and Lisa Grimmonpre, daughter of Mr. ' Mrs. Gerald Grimmonpre 1707 W. Sunnyside Beach ft. Sandy is a junior, the other girls are sophomores. . Sandy described the young people in Peru as "very friendly", the girls usually exchanging greetings with a kiss on the cheek. She attended a private school which attracts only upper class students. In fact, Sandy was not made aware of any public (Continued on page 12) >