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Book & Lyrics by Stewart Parker » Music by. • Jimmy Kennedy Federal & loan association WOODSTOCK OPERA HOUSE 121 VanBurcn Street Woodstock. Illinois 60098 Thara.Frl.at 8:15 p.m.., •*£. at 6:13 p.m.: *7.00:'" Sat. at 8:15 p.m.: *8.00: Wad.. Frl. at 1:30 p.m.: *6 Previews: *4.00. *3.50. Coll (815) 338-5300 Pensions are paid B r i l l i a n t h u m o r ! W i l d l y c o m i c ! " -- A s s o c i a t e d P r e s s " S p o k e s o n g i s M a r v e l o u s ! " T i m e s S p o k e s o n g i s i n f i n i t e l y w o r t h v o u r a 1 1 e n t i n n I t w i l l h a p p i l y e n t e r t a i n y o u . " \ . Y . J J o s f " A p l a y o f t i p s y i r o n y ; t n d f a n t a s t i c a l h u m o r " -- T i m e M a g a z i n e I i Woodstock Music Theatre Festival A Celebration of Music and Bicycles rr'7*cwa: Ju'Jr *• •• •' Opens July 9, at 8:30 p.m.: Senior and Student biacounta Cloaea Aagast 9. available except Saturdays. folks have come to expect from us. And each is equipped to handle all of your savings and or loan transactions. Thats one of the reasons we're McHenry County's largest savings and loan, because we've made doing-business with us a lot easier. So if you've been looking for a savings institution that offers you Strength, Ser­ vice and Convenience come to McHenry County's first name in savings , . . Marengo Federal. When you think of saving and conve­ nience . . . think Marengo Federal. Serving McHenry County For Over 55 Years Opens July 9th SECTION 2 - PAGE 2 - PLAIN DEALER - FRIDAY, JUNE 27.1980 Twice Told Tales FIFTY YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of July 3, 1930) Motorists in this locality are rejoicing over the fact that Route 61 is now com­ pleted and open its entire distance for traffic between this city and Elgin. A beautiful concrete bridge has been constructed over the Chicago & Northwestern tracks and the road com­ pleted from the bridge to Routes 19 and 22, which eliminates the detour which has been in use ever since the highway was put into use and it also does away with another dangerous railroad crossing. A piano and voice recital given by the pupils ,of Kathryne Diehl at the Woodstock Opera House was attended by many people from M'cHenry. Many of the. young people taking part were 4 from McHenry , in­ cluding Juanita Keg, Louise Stilling, Angela Tonyan, Marie Miller, Rita Freund, Lucille and Florence Steffes, Marguerite Kinsala, Ethel Granger, Beatrice Weber, Genevieve Freund and Bob Peterson. Marshall's Bakery, which was recently destroyed by fire, has been rebuilt -and the proprietor, J.J. Marshall, is holding open house. FORTY YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of June 27, 1940) The Suburban Oil com­ pany of Oak Park, who laid the Pistakee Ray blacktop road a few weeks ago, was awarded the contracts for the construction of ap­ proximately four miles of asphalt road in McHenry county by the road and bridge committee of the County board. The roads in question are a stretch 2.47 miles south of McHenry oh the east side of the river near WALLPAPER SALE! SAVE 20% ON ALL WALLCOVERINGS OVER 4800 PATTERNS To Choose from NOW TIL SATURDAY, JUNE 28th Our Usual Friendly Decorating Service is Available --THE WALLPAPER SHOP AT-- McHENRY PAINT • GLASS & WALLPAPER 3411 W. ELM 385-7353 PICTURE FRAMIN6-ARTIST SUPPLIES-MIRRORS MoorcA", PAINTS Oakhurst subdivision and a mile and a third west of Union. The McHenry job will cost $14,280.58 and the Union project, $8,352.25. McHenry will have five days and nights of gaiety when the local American Legion post will sponsor its annual carnival. A big fireworks- display will be offered on the Fourth of July. Depsite a heavy rain, McHenry's baseball home team look the field to win another game from the Marenfeo boys, 4 to 2. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of June 30, 1955) Miss Verena Justen, daughter of Mrs. Gertrude Justen of McHenry, was installed as president of the Chicago branch of Sorop- tomists International at a dinner meeting held in the Illinois room of the Palmer House. With beautiful weather prevailing, a large group of young people reported to the McHenry beach to register for the Red Cfoss water safety program. Instruction on the local beach will be given Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. Herman Steffes and A.M. "Mike" Budler announce the grand opening of the Boone Creek laundry. McHenry welcomes this newest business which specializes in quick service laundry. TEN YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of July 3, 1970) The Chamber of Commerce and the McHenry City» Council have jointly named Earl R. Walsh as the parade marshal for the McHenry Marine Festival p&rade. In making the appointment in their respective meetings the Council and Chamber cited Mr. Walsh for hi£ tremendous contribution to the growth, development and direction of this city of McHenry for many years. Following the request of President Richard Nixon to make this July 4 weekend a time of prayer and thanksgiving for our country, several churches of '•the McHenry community are sponsoring a patriotic rally Sunday afternoon, July 5, at the city park. The ever present problem of speeders brought Mrs. •Richard W. Wimmer of Front street to the City Council meeting to present a petition from residents, especially in the area of High street and Front (111. Rt. 31) asking for a change in speed limit signs. Since the State of Illinois, Division of High­ ways controls the posting of signs on the highway, it was agreed to have Chief Espey refer the petition to the state for consideration to the problem. Your Police Department by Officer Jim Fitzgerald Public Relations Officer McHenry City Police Phone 385-2131 RAIN, RAIN GO AWAY Many central Illinois farmers have been waiting for their fields to dry so they could begin assessing crop damage caused by recent torrential rains, high winds and hail. Noting that some crops in their early stages have a considerable ability to bounce back, University of Illinois agronomist W.O. Scott said farmers should "go fishing for a week and not look at the crops." We are still having quite a problem with people who park in the marked han­ dicapped parking spaces that the City of McHenry has posted in certain areas of the business district. Some of these places are on Green street, both near the corner of Green street and Elm street, and near the medical group building; on Riverside drive near the corner of Riverside drive and Pearl street, and in the middle of the block on Riverside drive; on Elm street, both near the in­ tersection of Green street and Elm street, and near Elm street and Front street; and a few others. Some local businesses have also put up signs, such as in the Market place and a couple of the food stores. These signs were erected for a specific purpose, for those of our neighbors who are handicapped and have a tougher time getting around as easily as the rest of us who are not so hampered. Those handicapped people have gone to the trouble of either buying special han­ dicapped license plates or taken the time and effort to get one of those small stick- on type international signs for their vehicles. The stickers mark their vehicles as belonging to a han­ McHenry County's first has gotten bigger, to serve you better! dicapped person, with the only right to park in places that are marked for han­ dicapped parking. I'm afraid I can think of no reason tor someone who is not handicapped to take the parking space of someone who is.-Therefore, I cannot feel sorry for someone who received a $10 parking ticket for doing it. Granted, this is a new ordinance, that the City of McHenry has enacted, to enforce the handicapped parking. But I cannot think of many who do not know what handicapped parking signs look like, and, or­ dinance or not, there should be no excuse I can think of for using the marked places, law against it, or not. Handicapped people are our friends and neighbors, just as those who are not handicapped. Let's try and treat them as friends and neighbors. Since we are on the topic of restricted parking places, let's also talk about fire lanes. The two largest ones in town are at West campus, and the Market place. The West campus fire lanes are the driveway that runs south to north in front of the school building, parallel to Crystal Lake road. There is no parking there, except to let someone off to go into the school building. . The fire lane in the Market place runs the entire parking lot in front of each store. Again, parking is allowed there to let someone out to enter one of the stores, or to help in loading a large item into the vehicle you are driving, but that is it. You cannot let someone out, and then have someone else sit there and wait for the person who went in the store to come out, just as you cannot simply park your vehicle there and go in the store yourself. , The parking lot is large enough for you to find a parking place somewhere. If you can't find one at first, do like the rest and either circle the lot until someone else pulls out, or, if you see someone getting ready to leave, pull up next to the spot and wait till he leaves. - I'm sure you would feel bad if one of the stores did have a fire, and it burned more than necessary because you were blocking the fire lane. Or, worse yet, someope was hurt because the ambulance had to park farther down the lane and it took longer for the rescue personnel to get to the victim. Again, I cannot feel sorry for someone who gets a ticket for parking in a fire lane, because there are no excuses for this practice. As much ^s I hate to write these downbeat articles (I usually like to keep them informative and helpful) if the ones that I do write jar one of two guilty parties, I think they are justified. A little common sense and courtesy and neighborliness are all that we all need to make all of our lives a little better. Remember the Golden Rule? That's all it takes. ' Have a nice week. Pension Checks Go Up chose to stay under the pension rules in effect before 1979 will not receive the July 1 increase. They will, however, avoid the reduction in pension that the Social ̂ Security increase would" have triggered before the legislation went into effect. For these pensioners, the 14.3 percent Social Security increase triggered a similar increase in the maximum amount of income they could deceive from other sources and still remain eligible for VA pension. Pensions for veterans and survivors under the "old plan" remain fixed and payable at the rates in effect in 1978. But those rates 'iare protected against reduction!/ that would otherwise re$qlt^ from cost of living increases^ in their income from oti&rt sources. | £ f Ramsey said "old plan" recipients may request £ transfer to the "improved" , plan at any time. The agency will carefully review each application to choose the plan which works to their personal advantage. With the June increase (payable in July 1 checks), a veteran with one dependent and no other income will receive $5,844. For es^ch additional dependent, the added amount is $755 per < year. 1*; For Veterans Almost 10,000 Illinois veterans and their survivors will be getting larger Veterans administration pension checks July 1 - the result of a 14.3 percent in­ crease in the government's cost of living index. Donald Ramsey, director of the VA's regional office in Chicago, said that about 100,000 Illinois VA pen­ sioners are affected in some way by the cost of living to veterans totally and per­ manently disabled from circumstances unrelated to their military service, Ramsey said. They are paid also to survivors of veterans who are in need.. Unlike compensation paid to those disabled because of military service, pensions are af­ fected by income from other sources. The 9,817 who will get increases this month (payable July 1) are those who have switched to the "improved" VA pension plan inaugurated by Congress in 1979. The plan links VA pension rates to adjustments in social security payments. Before the change, an individual's pension was subject to reduction each time Social Security increased. Those pensioners who MARENGO: 200 E. Grant Highway • 815/568-7258 • McHENRY: 4400 W. Route 120 • 815/344-1900 • WOODSTOCK: 118 Cass Street • 815/338-2900 WOODSTOCK DRIVE-UP: Route 47 and Calhoun Street • 815/338-7440 • CRYSTAL LAKE: 550 Barley Rd. on Rt. #14 • 815/4554300 A ' Member Federal Savings and I/>an Insurance Corporation Convenience is a mighty important word these days. It means being able to do the most with the least amount of effort. At Marengo Federal we understand the importance of convenience, thats why we've been expanding. We trv not-only to InaKe it easier for us to reach our customers, but also for our customers to reach us. At present we have five convenient loca­ tions to serve our customers in the McHenry County area. All offer the same friendly and personalized service that • - - -•«"