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«;•> * • * Celebrate Christmas 1478 Style State Traffic Plans For Front-Elm Not Finalized m the hear ing would hold up the promised service for possible subscribers in the area The only dissenting vote on the resolut ion was by Raymond Smith, who suggested the matter was the cable com­ pany's problem In other business. Stanek asked the advice of the Counci l about pol icy on l iquor l icenses- He est imated that he had turned down appl icat ions for a l icense f rom about 10 in div iduals in the last year, the most recent one by a gourmet food operat ions being started He wondered i f their pol icy was over ly restr ict ive and noted that i f he granted one new l icense, he would have to grant them al l He had been holding the l ine, but he didn' t know i f he was r ight One alderman pointed out the exposure of l iquor sales at convenience food stores, temptat ion to k ids would be terr i f ic i hut service at eat ing places could be control led by the management and would be no problem The Counci l took no act ion on a pol icy change (Continued on page 18) THE MCHENRY PLAINDEALER S E R V I N G T H E C H A I N O L A K E S R E G I O N S I N C E 1 8 7 5 VOLUME 103 NUMBER 39 WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 13, 19«78 2 SEC I IONS 32 PAGES 20' Grand Jury Indicts Two The McHenry County Crand jury returned two indictments when i ts session concluded Dec. H according to informat ion f rom the c i rcui t c lerk 's of f ice Michael A Pacek. address not g iven ) was bound over on three counts, cr iminal damage to property over $150. burglary and theft under $150. The charges resul ted f rom in vest igat ions into an of fense commit ted .Jul> _'(» a t UO. ' l W L incoln road. McHenry. where a door was broken and a place of business was burglar ized. and al legedly a number " I "smal l i tems were removed A Crystal Lake businessman Arnold ( iumprecht. formerly hear! of ( lumprecht Trucking which went out of business one year ago. was indicated on counts al leging mishandl ing " i funds Counts 1 and 2 charged ( iumprecht with theft over sr>" alleging that he had gained unauthorized control "I p r o p e r t y < m o n e y i b e l o n g i n g t o y number of employees ot h i l irm Counts and A charged that ( lumprecht had obtained property ot the employees by decept ion whi le l ie was trustee o f t h e ( i u m p r e c h t T r u c k i n g (V Kinployees Prof i t -Muring trust He al legedly gained control ot th is property by inducing the employees to turn i t over to Ins tu in know mg that the f i rm did not ha\e the capaci ty to repay the money Other counts al leged unauthor ized control ot [ tension funds and theft by decept ion over $150 ot compensat ion tor labor that had been paid into certain t rust tunds McHenry Teenager Crit ical After Truck Strikes Auto A 16 year-old McHenry girl, listed m critical condition in McHenry hospital Tuesday, was one of three persons in jured in a car-truck crash Monday afternoon Miss Valerie A Krnest. 4K21 Home avenue, who is in in tensive care at the hospital, was a passetiger in a car driven by Cindy Reisner, 18. 810 S Riverside drive, which was reportedly struck broadside by a semi-tractor and trailer on Route 17K at Valley View road near Crystal Lake. She was the most seriously injured of the three According to Sheriff s police, the accident occurred at about :t 15 p in Investigation revealed that the Reisner vehicle, which had l>een southbound on Val ley View road, entered and a' tempted to cross the Route IT i intersection The car passed directly in front of an east bound semi-tractor The truck and trailer, dr iver by Percy Clankie of Rockford struck the Reisner \ehic le broadside Clankie was not injured in the crash, but Miss Reisner. Miss Krnest and Debbie McKee. i« of Deerfield. were all taken to McHenry hospital Miss Reisner was listed in satisfactory condition Miss McKee'scondition was listed as fair and Miss Krnest remained critical Investigation into the ac cident is being indicted by thv accident invest igat ion uni t ot the Sher i f f 's department Two persons were reported hurt in vehic le accidents in the McHi Miry area dur ing the weekend according to the McHenry County sher i f f 's department No ser ious in jur ies were indicated Howard N Bender 15 411 Kastview. McHenry was bruised and shaken up when hi t by a car at (115 W Rand road at 9:50 a m Thursday Lloyd B Howard. ii:{o ( iarnett avenue. Waukegan. said he was westbound when a pedestr ian ran across the road from behind an east bound vehic le and he was unable to avoid hitting him Howard added that (Continued on page 18) resolut ion addressed to Representat ive Tom Hanahan. request ing funds to deepen the channel of Boone creek wi th in the ci ty l imi ts I t is hoped to get money.from the legis lature tor the necessary dredging. Stanek said In other news f rom the state. Stanek said that as a resul t of an overr ide of a governor 's veto there w i l l be no consol idated elect ions in the ci ty before Dec i . 1980 Consequent ly, the schedules for a ldermanic elect ions wi l l be unchanged and l ie said that Dec 19 is the f i rst day for f i l ing tor posi t ions of aldermaV The Counci l approved a request to the McHenry County Zoning Board of Appeals to hold an ear l ier hear ing than the Apr i l I ! date given the Cable v is ion company This company, yvhich was granted a f ranchise tor cable te levis ion in stal lat ions in McHenry and several other c i t ies in the county, needs a special use permit to erect , a tower on selected land along Route 12U west ot Val ley. View school The firm complained that the delay AACHS Makes Plans For Educational Future were div ided m then opinion Al ter more discussion, Judy / id moved to accept the hid and the subsequent yote reyealed only \ I t I .of f and I >an McNulty opposed Dave Bcnrud was absent I t was noted that Dr. Kngl ish. an MCHS graduate, had had •considerable exper ience in conduct ing s imi lar surveys elsewhere in the northern. I l l inois area He said the studv should he completed in ninety day s I lur ing debate on t-ho w isdoin o) conduct ing such a survey Kngl ish explained that | | |e resul ts arc good tor about l ive years, af ter which tacts are added to keep i t updated \s the review of a tour year lagh school curr iculum began. Kdyvard Neumann fold the iMiard" he had talked wi th numerous parents 'wi th in , i : : . : . r . ap| . i ren' iy suppl ied hy their chi ldren > who fel t that the 'wo McHenry (ugh schools would t ie ent i re ly separate in their operat ion in a tew years The hoard and ad ministrat ion w ere i n agreement that th is is not p lanned The new curr iculum, i t was explained, is tor one school s t met l i re. wi th t he same classes ot tered m each laci l i t y Dear Santa. Kven our youngest friends said we shouldn't write this year -- that there is no Santa Claus But we remember the old story of Virginia Maybe it was 50 years ago the little girl wrote to a big New York City newspaper because her father told her if she read it in the Sun it was so. And the editor told her it was so, that Santa would always live Now here we are. an editor ourself, and we don't know what to tell our little friends We live in a little town where things are happening, but not as fast or as cruel as in the big cities or the state We aren't completely naive We know the pangs of inflation and we know it might make a difference in what we can expect to find under the t ree But to be told there will be no Santa Claus this year" Say it isn't so1 Some of these youngsters heard their Moms and Dads say that you had dipped into your bag of gifts early and gave everything to the men and women who hold office They w ere talking about those people in Springfield w ho passed a self pay raise and then insulted the injury when they overrode the governor's veto. Is that right, that it swept $8 4 million right out of your 1978-79 bag -$8 4 million you had set aside to remember the rest of us0 And are the kids right, that Chicago office holders are finagling to keep right up with the folks down Capitol way0 We read the big city newspapers too, even here in the boondocks, and we remember We remember that some poor citizen voters last November put back into office federal House members who had taken money from Mr Tongsun Park and lied about it And other p<x>r citizens returned to his easy chair in the Capitol a fellow under indictment for a whole lot of misdeeds. When we were young, a policeman told us crime doesn't pay. Did they change the rules9 Or are you going to leave coal in their stockings9 Santa, We havefaith Wewant tftthink you're still real If you are. please just stop and pay us a visit this vear We don't really expect anything in our stocking The milk-and-cooky lunch we leave may be the only thing that will take you through your long ride in the sky this Dec 24 Take it with our best wishes. With what the politicians have done, you deserve it' K A F The annual Madrigal (tinners sponsored by the West campus Music department will be served Saturday, Dec. ll>. at 6:20 and Sunday, Dec. IT. at 1:30 in the West campus cafeteria. During Ihe traditional "old Knglish" dinner of roast beef, Yorkshire pudding, flaming cherries, hoar's head, etc., musicians >mII sing and perform the authentic music of the da\ For reservations, call the West campus school office, 3KA-7077. Pictured are: Lori Wilson, sitting: and from left, standing. Derek (iilhert, Russ Crittenden, Kileen \hern and Tammi (iunder STAFF PHOTOS-V\ AN NKOAYI ORI) Serious educat ional p lanning tor the future was undertaken by the board of High School Distr ict 150 last week at the I iccem her instruct ional 1; eet fng held in the Last l ibrary Those plans included ap pi oval a l though not hy unanimous vote. of a demographic survey and the review and acceptance of tour year high school curr iculum I >r I 'obei t Kngl ish and Shane Conway, who had sub nutted the tow bid tor the survey, were present to re late Jo the board the proposal tor work to be done (>1 necessi ty the survey wi l l include the projected growth in both the grade and I igh school d istr icts and local ions w here t he greatest increase in students can be expected ( >>st of the sury ey is not '<> exceed *4.oon Board President . lames \ l thof f suggested tur ther study be given to the mattet local ly. , before making a decis ion to def in i te ly proceed ' w i l i i the survey ( Hher Intai d members Pr incipals Creg Johnson of West campus and Wil l iam Dodds of Kast campus discussed wi th the board provis ions of the curr iculum proposal Some revis ions were made The two men pointed to Ihe proposal as a four year distr ict curr iculum Dodds said provis ion was made for an appropr iate sequence of studies to promote a good vocat ional program, but not to the detr iment of academic or arts programs Musin f ? .. IP The state has st i l l not f inal ized plans for"changing the unwieldy t raf f ic intersect ion at Front street and Route 120. Mayor Joseph Stanek learned at the Counci l meet ing last week As he started to explain the diagram which the f l l i r ro is Department of Transportat ion • IDOT' had submit ted. Super intendent of Publ ic Works Fred Meyer advised that these plans had not been f ixed and there had beerv^Jur t her changes Stanek said the pr incipal feature of the Front street port ion was the el iminat ion of lef t turns by <r-center barr ier str ip and a modif icat ion of the sharp r ight curve from 120 to go north The Counci l a lso learned that s ignal izat ion of the mtersec t ion of .Route i ! and Pear l street, near the new bank bui ld ing, was also being < § s idered The ci ty was working out a di f ference with the state over the width of the road at th is point I t is hoped to include an extra lane for r ight turns and for leaving the bank area The Counci l approved a Christmas Com es To McHenry Christmas came to McHenry officially last Thursday night when Santa let his merry "Ho, Ho, Ho" be heard as he rode through the citvon.his sleigh, accompanied by the reigning winter prince and princess. Kim Zujewski, 8. and Danny C.ough, 6, shown in lower picture. Top photo shows their arrival at the city tree in the triangle on (ireen street, which Santa lighted as members of the McHenry Choral club were joined by others in singing carols. STAFF PHOTOS-WAYNE OAYLORI) \ f ter more discussion, board approved curr iculum the t he