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PAGE 18 - PLAINDEALER - FRIDAY. NOVEMBER II, 1*77 Twice Told Tales { of FIFTY YEARS AGO (Taken from the files November 10, 1927) At the regular meeting of the City Council held at the city hpll on Monday evening several matters were brought up for discussion. One of these sub­ jects discussed was the new fire truck and the best way in which to care for and protect this valuable piece of property It is estimated that it costs from $45 to $50 every time the truck is taken out and used or run any distance. While the firemen and city officials are always ready and willing to answer any fire calls at any time or at any location, they , feel that the truck should not be called out for trivial alarms but should be used for those calls of sufficient importance to merit its use. In all fairness to the taxpayers of the city it was decided to make a charge for the use of the truck every time that it is called outside of the city limits, the charge to be made according to the distance. Walter J. Walsh was ap­ pointed postmaster of the McHenry post office to succeed N.F. Steilen, who has served in that capacity for the past few years. Work was begun last week on the construction of a new bridge over the Nippersink on Route 61. The bridge located between Ringwood and Rich­ mond will be erected at a cost of $25,000. of FORTY YEARS AGO (Taken from the files November 1L, 1937) Several members of the Woodstock Lions club attended Join Your Friends For Lunch or Dinner THE TODAY AT. HERITAGE BOUSE Harvard LIVE ENTERTAINMENT NITELY Featuring MICKI KLESPER From Europe In Our New Organ Lounged Hors D'oeuvre Everynite Except Saturdays Noon Luncheon Specials Complete Dinners •Finest of Cocktails Private Dining Room For Parties Phone 943-6153 For Reservations HOURS: LUNCH - Tuet- Fri. 11:30 -2:00 DINNER -Tues.- Sat -5:00- 11:00 PM SUNDAYS 1:00- 10:00 PM CLOSED MONDAY the dinner meeting of the local club Tuesday evening which was held at the Riverside hotel. Judge Hen^y L Cowlin, county judge, was the main speaker of the evening. The program committee had planned to make the meeting an Armistice day affair. Chilly winds and shortening days have aided in bringing an aid to the golf season, which closed officially several weeks ago, although the several recent Indian summer days have found many players en­ joying their game at the McHenry Country club golf course, loath to give up this intriguing pastime. The past season has been a most suc­ cessful one at the local dub with approximately *7,000 guest players entertained during the 'summer, in addition to the many members who have enjoyed their games at the popular course as well as en­ tering in the various events and tournaments planned for the summer. The school bus and four cars were used to transport seven teachers and forty-five pupils of the seventh and eighth grades to Chicago last Satur­ day where they spent a very interesting and instructive day. Their first visit was to Lincoln Park, where they visited the zoo, the conservatory and the historical building. Later they visited the Shedd aquarium and the composing rooms, stereotyping and press rooms of the Herald 4 Examiner. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of November 20, 1952) Tragedy befell the Ringwood community last Monday morning when William Mc- Cannon, 81, lost his life aslhe result of an accidental blast from a shotgun as he was about to hunt. The accident occurred shortly before 9 o'clock near the Kinley Engvalsen home at Wonder Lake. Mr. McCannon, who had been employed as caretaker at the estate for the past nine years, was not working on the day of the ac­ cident but had gone to the farm to hunt. It is believed that the elderly man was trying to get his. .12 gauge shotgun from the back seat and that he took hold of the barrel, which was aimed WE WILL BE CLOSED FRIDAY-NOV. 11TH VETERAN'S DAY McHENRY STATE BANK 3510 W. ELM ST. McHENRY, ILL. .<« "I* • t " ^WindliiCt xel PRESENTS THEIR FIRST ANNUAL OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY, NOV. 13th • Refreshments * Prizes • Holiday Cheer OPEN SUNDAYS 10 TO 5 LOCATED: RIVERSIDE DRIVE DEAD-END STREET McHENRY, ILLINOIS 3S5-1171 DAILYt-TO5 FRI.9T09 s at his head. It evidently struck a part of the car and discharged. Betty Lou Keenan, 16-year- old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Keenan, was crowned queen of the eighteenth annual Halloween festival at Pompano Beach, Fla., at the Farmers State Market last month. The festival marked the Opening of the market season. Miss Keenan earned her crown by being selected popularity winner in a contest sponsored by the junior and senior classes of her school. Betty is the granddaughter of Mrs. Helen Hettermann of Johnsburg and is, well known in this com­ munity, where she resided when she was very young. TEN YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of November 15, 1967) At the Monday evening meeting of the board of School District 15, members set the amount of the Dec. 16 bond issue at $2.0 million, pending approval of the bonding at­ torney. The money is intended for a new middle school to meet the need for a growing enrollment and because of an increase in the shared time program. The amount of the referendum may prove to be less if the attorney decides that it should be so because of district bonding power. Even at this early date, detailed plans for the business areas' observance of the holiday season have been formulated." Letters of solicitation to Chamber of Commerce members are being prepared, seeking funds to make the project successful from the standpoint of' mer­ chants, shoppers and the general public. Special lighting, including the new conical-shaped designs which will appear on utUity poles in the business districts, will herald the season when they brighten the city for the first night on Nov. 30. During the week that the Census Bureau's population clock ticks off the arrival of the 200 millionth American, census workers will be taking an employment survey here, Director Theodore F. Olson of the Bureau's regional office in Chicago has announced. In­ terviewers will visit local residents Nov. 20 to 25 to ask about kinds of jobs, hours worked, time off and job- hunting activities, the regional director said. The Great Aces In World War n the nearest thing to individual combat in the knightly tradition was the fighter pilots' war. There was still some chivalry and honor lingering from the romance and newness of flying in World War War I. Generally speaking, helpless men in parachutes were not fired on. Men who fell into the sea were rescued by both sides-in Europe. Bombers with seriously wounded crewmen aboard could drop their wheels and be escorted down to safety--over Germany. Etc. The fighter-pilots of both sides looked upon their adversaries with less hate and emotion than those in other fields of combat--rightly or wrongly, romantic nonsense or not. And so it was that a Japanese fighter pilot recently sent a tribute to Major Thomas B. McGuire, the nation's second ranking ace of the greatest war in history-at a ceremony in McGuire's honor at McGuire Air Force Base, N. J. Ironically, McGuire, with 38 victories, lost his life just a month before the war ended. He was already a legend in the Army Air Force, in the same manner as was the legendary George Preddy (of Greensboro, N.C.), shot down by his own men on Christmas Day, 1944, just five months before the war in Europe was to end. Whatever historians think about that war today, in 1941-45 the nation called on its youth to fight for honor, .country and democracy. And the best often went first, and were often lost. McGuire and Preddy were two of the best, and worth remembering. Gilead House _ WILMOT. WISCONSIN Make Holiday Party Reservation* Now FISH FRY *295 [thanksgiving Join Ug For Luncheon, Dinner & CoJitef?^ \ A BRAND NEW DAY - In this scene from "Oklahoma", Laurey'fcenter, Terry Huck, McHenry) sings "Many a New Day" to a riant chorus. The Woodstock Theatre company production of "Oklahoma" will run weekends through Nov. 19 at the Woodstock Opera House. Curtain times for the Friday and Saturday evening performances is 8:30; curtain time for the Sunday, Nov 13 matinee performance is 3. Information and tickets can be obtained by calling the Woodstock Opera Marlin Perkins New TV Season . . . Takes You To Unalaska And Rwanda Marlin Perkins starts his 16th year on "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" this fall, with more new film from all over the world. "How do you do it?" He says this is the most frequent question people ask and his answer is simple: "I just go." Simple or not, probably no other television personality racks up more "globe girdl­ ing" mileage than the star of the nation's most popular wild animal and adventure television series. With only three episodes remaining to be filmed for the new 1977/78 series, Dr. Per­ kins displayed his travel schedule, leaving that week­ end for the remote island of Unalaska, 900 miles southwest of Anchorage in the Aleutian Islands. His schedule included a re­ turn home, then Vienna, Aus­ tria, London, Chicago, Tahiti, Honolulu, Enlwetok Atoll (in the Marshall Islands of the South Pacific), back to Hono­ lulu, then home to St. Louis. "Just a nine-week sched­ ule", be says. It totals 32,580 muss. That's almost one and one-third trips' around this planet Earth, at the equator. Cheetah's Survival Among the new "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" pro­ grams scheduled to air on over 220 television stations from coast-to-coast is "The Cheetah Shall Survive." Dr. Perkins Journeyed to the grasslands of Africa in this episode to observe what meas­ ures are being taken to save the beautiful spotted cat, the cheetah, from being killed il­ legally for its highly-prized coat. 7 m two later episodes, Mar­ lin Perkins joins with two Women prominent in their re­ spective zoological fields. "Gorillas of the Mountains" examines work being done by the world's foremost author­ ity on gorillas, Dr. Dian Fos- sey. Working in the African jungle of Rwanda, Dr. Fossey has become so familiar with the gorillas living there that she calls them all by name, recognizes them on sight and has been fully accepted by them. 5tlj Anmtirrsarg (Christmas (ippn House I Come Spend An Old Fashioned Christinas With Us SUN. NOV. 13 10 AM • 5 PM % /. <*v * & stems f I.OWER SHOP A GREENHOUSE 3301 W. ELM STREET McHENRY 385-4747 Marlin Perkins, host of "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" gives a helping hand to a young fox, Just one of his animal friends from the 'wild kingdom.' A later episode of "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" will document the work of Cynthia Moss, who has been studying the behavior of Afri­ can elephants living in the area below majestic Mt. Kili­ manjaro, in an episode en­ titled "The Elephants of Am- boseli". Also explored this season is the question of why a shark attacks. In "Shark Behavior", filmed at a re­ search station on Eniwetok Atoll, in the northwest Mar­ shall Islands of the South Pacific, sharks are provoked into attacking. More Undersea Adventures "Sea Snakes of the Swains", the most venemous vertebrate, the sea snake, is examined underwater in its natural habitat on the Great Barrier Reef of Australia. . Another deep sea adven­ ture, "Where the Winds are Born", takes Marlin Perkins to the undersea land bridges of the Bering -Sea to search for archaeological evidence of an Asian migration to North America during pre-historic times. Other episodes this season will take you to northern Iran as Marlin pursues the elusive ibex, to Nebraska to view the attempt to save the sandhill crane from possible extinc­ tion, to the coastal rivers of northern Australia to observe 14-foot saltwater crocodiles, and to South Dakota to wit- spectacle of a prairie. conservation and broadcast­ ing awards, including being a four time recipient of the coveted "Emmy" award. Check your local television listings for the time, day and channel of "Mutual of Oma­ ha's Wild Kingdom",. .... There is always a right and wrong way, and the wrong way always seems the more rea­ sonable. -George Moore. ^American Viewpoints nessthe spring. "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom", in its 16-year his­ tory, has won many civic, Precedents deliberately estab­ lished by wise men are entitled to great weight. They are evidence of truth, but only evidence...4, solitary precedent... which hif never been re examined, can not be conclusive - Henry Clay e e It's time. . TO ORDER | YOUR Christmas Cards! CHOOSE FROM THE AREA'S Largest & Finest Selection AT REASONABLE PRICES Fast Service ON ALL ORDERS ORDER NOW! AT YOUR SERVICE PRINTERS:». I PRINTING £ 3909 W. MAIN ST. / 385-7600