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Stepping from childhood to the world of an adult marked the theme of two speakers as they addressed the class of 1980 at a McHenry Com­ munity high school com­ m e n c e m e n t p r o g r a m Wednesday evening which was forced inside due to rain. The speakers were Jill H u t c h i n s o n , c l a s s valedictorian, and Teresa Deveikis, class president. Jill cautioned her classmates on the seriousness of the years ahead as she said, "Well leave here tonight having to greet life head-on in a way we've never had to before. And it's not a trial run, if we blow it the first time we don't get to try again. So don't let any opportunity pass you by because you thought you'd get a second chance, or you thought that someone else would tell you what to do. The fact that four years have gone by so fast should tell us that things go much too quickly for second chances". Miss deveikis likened the completion of the high school years to a kind of freedom in this way: "Now that we are set free, JILL HUTCHINSON "She shared my dreams...she shared every single shattered dream I ever had...and she want** more than anything to be here tonight, but I know, that even though she isn't here, she hears this". Jill Hutchinson, MCHS class valedictorian, pays tribute to her mother in a talk to her classmates at Wednesday evening's commencement held in the school gym. Miss Hutchinson's mother died Just a few weeks before her graduation. PLAINDEALER fltoarfc Winning ihtoapaper Illinois Press Association Newspaper Contest SERVING THE CHAIN-O-LAKES REGION SINCE 1875 VOLUME 104 NUMBER 86 FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1980 2 SECTIONS 30 PAGES 25 Open Murder Trial The first day of the trial brought testimony from neighbors, police and a Cook county assistant medical examiner regarding the day in August when Joseph W. Miller was shot and the day in November when he died. A McHenry man, John L. Ellis, of 2439 S. Rivgr road. McHenry, is standing trial for three counts of murder, one count of involuntary manslaughter and one count of voluntary manslaughter in 191 h Judicial Circuit court before Judge Henry L. Cowlin. According to the testimony presented Wednesday, on an early August day Miller was hitchhiking near the in­ tersection of Routes 12 and 22 when Ellis stopped to give him a ride. --Miller had no place to go and stayed with Ellis in the second story apartment of i he River road residence and worked on a construction project with Ellis. According to testimony from Lt. George Hendle and Sgt. Lawrence Macheroux, of the McHenry County Sheriff's police, Ellis and Miller spent most of Aug. 9, 1979, drinking. Later that night an argument developed. When the two returned to the opartmen! at about 2 a.m. Aug 10, the argument continued and Ellis told Miller to leave. Miller refused. Ellis said he did not know how he gpt the .38 caliber snub-nosed revolver, but fired a warning shot into a wall in the apartment. According to Hendle's testimony, Ellis stated that Miller was not scared of the gun and charged Ellis, who then shot Miller in the head. Defense Attorney Richard Kelly asked Hendle if EZllis had said that Miller "charged him (Ellis) like a crazy man with his eyes rolled back so that all he could see were the whites of Miller's eyes." Hendle replied that Ellis had. Ellis then went to the downstairs apartment and asked the residents to call for help. One of the downstairs residents, Joy Lynn Current, told police she heard arguing that night, but could not understand what was being said Then she heard a loud noise, which she thought might have been a hideaway bed being dropped. Ms. Current said she heard someone in the apartment above say, "I mean it." Another loud noise followed shortly thereafter. The doorbell rang. When the doorbell rang, Raymond Current got out of bed to see who it was. John Ellis was at the front door and told Current that there was a man shot up­ stairs and help was needed, Current said. Current called the police. The first officer at the scene was Island Lake police officer Gary Mlekush, who responded to an "unknown emergency" call from the Sheriff's police dispatcher Mlekush testified that (Continued on page 22) Proceed With Bacteria Spray Police Chief George Pasenelli is shown with Chris Wirti and Tom Williams, chairmen of the Chamber of Commerce Retail committee, as they prepare to enter into a 90-day parking meter moratorium. To increase the desirability of shopping in all of the busimHMireas, there will be two hours of free parking offered for then^Ruree months, with a $5 fine for overtime parking. The plan is beiiflflut into action June 1 as the result of approval by the City Couacflra a request by the C. of C. During the 90-day period, customer reaction to the new system will he obtained and a survey compiled and presented to the Council. A three-page promotion of the parking meter moratorium is part of this issue of the Plaindealer. Each participating business will give away a functional parking meter, valued at $102, to the winner of individual drawings, for which there is no charge. There will also be three grand prises. STAFF PHOTO-WAYNE GAYLORD Kenneth Cruse, of the U S. Department of Agriculture, said he was hoping the spray program would lower the population so that adult traps would not be flooded when they are set out. "If the traps are to eradicate, the population must be low," Cruse said. Cruse also pointed out that the 80 percent effectiveness of the bacteria was a maximum figure. Richard Love joy. also of the USDA, told the assem­ blage that the number of adult traps to be put out had been reduced from about 4,000 to 2,660. "There's a lot of area without any trees." Love joy explained. He added that the USDA was "going on the basis of where the moths were last year." The helicopter heard early Thursday morning over parls of Whispering Oaks and a small portion of Lakeland Park was spraying a bacteria, Bacillus Thuringiensis, (BT), in an effort to combat the gypsy moth population. An informational meeting was held Tuesday night with officials from state and f e d e r a l A g r i c u l t u r e departments and about 20 i n t e r e s t e d p e o p l e i n a t ­ tendance. The meeting was designed to find out if there was any objection to spraying an estimated 40-acres of land -- the "core" area - with the bacteria. There was none. A mix of one pound per acre, mixed with 5-gallons of water was used in the spray program. Norman Seaborg, of the Illinois Department of Agriculture, (IDOA), said, "BT is experimental. It has never been used with a trapping program and it has never been used in an outlying area." The leading edge of the general infestation is in Pennsylvania. "The results? Who knows," Seaborg added. Mayor Joseph Stanek, appearing as an interested resident, asked Seaborg if I he department still felt BT was a control, and not an eradication measure. "Yes. We have to," Seaborg said. "BT m about 80 percent effective^nd that is not an eradicator. It'll diminish, but it won't eradicate." The Agriculture depart­ ment had 125 traps in McHenry last year. Love joy reported Moratorium On "This year we'll have more than 2,600," he noted. In a response to a "Public Pulse" letter from Diane Kappen, of McHenry, in the May 16 Plaindealer, Cruse said,"There is no advantage, either to me or to the Department of Agriculture to fail." Parking Meters Governor Gives Address In her letter. Ms. Kappen said, "If we fail in our voluntary program, we are going to look ridiculous and w i l l b e b l a m e d f o r t h e spread. Could the 'powers that be' be waiting for us to fail?" Cruse reiterated that indeed they were not Dedicate New McHenry Pioneer Facility Dedication ceremonies for members of the association the 20,000 sqUare-foot are invited to this program, vocational rehabilitation to be held at the facility training center and ad- completed last fall at 4001 ministrative headquarters of Dayton street, McHenry. the McHenry County Music will be provided by Association for the Retar- the .Crystal Lake South high ded, located off Rt. 31 south, school brass ensemble, will be held at 7 p.m. Mon- directed by Dale Lonis. Dr. day, June 2. James Qidle, minister of the Mrs. Dixie Meyer, First Congregational church president, said Governor in Crystal Lake, will give the James Thompson will give invocation. Father Marx A. the dedicatory address.. Clients, their parents and (Continued on page 22) of three - all women. Teaching has long been an honored profession and in the early days, at least locally, the ladies ruled the classroom. On the other hand, the board of education in those days gathered membership from the men of the com­ munity - beautifully bearded men we learned from the picture, Proms are proms, but teens today would probably (Continued on page 22) At a recent gathering, someone asked the year of McHenry high school's first graduation. Coming as it did, on the eve of the 1980 com­ mencement, it seemed only natural that people with a genuine interest nn our schools might wonder about its early history. The question sent us to our book file, where we found one of the very early year books of MCHS, passed down through family members. The year was 1920 and the book was appropriately called The Foxe. It was dedicated by the students to a man whose photo graced one of the opening pages. A. Edgar Nye served the local school system as superintendent for several years and later entered the business com­ munity. The faculty was made up MCHS Top Ten Graduates Tax, Roads Bring 70 4 To Meeting At Shores Carrie Mortell Barry Anderson JoAnne Blume Donna Grandt Facing a vocal crowd of up to 70 residents jammed into the small Civic center, thf village board of McHenry Shores approved a 5 percent municipal tax on private utilities and argued the merits of four alternative programs to rebuild or upgrade the poor roads in the residential areas at their regular meeting Tuesday, MSI IF ' .... Possibilities considered for road repairs ranged down from the estimated $1.4 million complete rebuilding program to a $20,000 scarifying and cosmetic seal eoating operation to be done once a year, with some road base work for Hillside. Audience members evidenced some hostility to the utility tax when the board indicated that the proceeds were eirifiif-fctd Car employees' salaries instead of road improvement. Before the board passed the utility tax ordinance by a vote of 5 to 1 (trustee Marilyn Zelvis voting no), a number of residents criticized their priorities in budgeting $50,000 for the police department of a i.100- population village and $30,000 spent for police cars and other vehicle equipment hi the past year when the reads wore so badly fen need Mark Weiler. president FATHER'S DAY CONTEST Only a week remains for youngsters 10 and u n d e r t o e n t e r t h e Plaindealer's Father's day contest in which they teB, "Why .My Dad's The Greatest". A coupon to Timothv Sabatka fvnthia Van Cleave Caroline Freund