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McHenry Since 1875. 2 Sections 30 Pages 25* Vote $2.6 IRBs for Chroma Sewer line improvement Work has begun on the improvements to the Green Street sewer line. The improvements include enlarging the sewer lines and installing a lift station in the line \Miich will run to the sewage treatment facility on Waukegan Road. The project is being funded by a DCCA grant obtained in conjunction with the Pioneer Center. June 1 is the estimated com­ pletion date. by Anthony Oliver Chroma Corporation appears to be on the road to recovery as the McHenry City Council voted to issue $2.6 million in industrial revenue bonds (IRBs) Monday night. Robert Swain, president of Chroma Corp., said the com­ pany was shooting for oc­ cupancy of the new building in mid-August or early September of this year. The factory was destroyed by fire Jan. 12. The company had originally approached the council for IRBs totalling $1 million to fund ex­ pansion of the McHenry facility. The fire changed their plans and the request was amended to $2.6 million. Acting on the advice of a representative of the cor­ poration's bond counsel, the city issued the bonds in spite of a pending bill which would limit the authority of the city. The bill, sponsored by U.S. Rep. Daniel Rostenkowski (D., IL), would put a cap on the amount of bonds that could be issued, based on population. For McHenry, it means a limit of about $800,000. The attorney said Chroma Corporation had made arrangements to refinance the excess IRB ..amount, if the bill becomes law. The council is also considering a request to relocate the annual McHenry Lions Club carnival from Crystal Lake Road to the Green Street parking lot. Aldermen Edward Datz (2nd) and Gary Snell (4th) expressed concern about the parking and traffic situation. William Thomas, represen­ ting the Ltdfisl, dommented that N the group was looking only for approval of the concept and would not undertake anything without consulting local mer­ chants and studying the matter further. Aid. William Bolger (1st) and Mayor Joseph Stanek said there had been many successful carnivals there. Representing the McHenry Area Soccer Federation, Robert Seek state okay for mental health planning _Tfce McHenry County Mental Health Board approval a ten­ tative federal block grant budget this week that reallocated about $200,000 from fiscal 1984 to primarily fund two new programs. The $1.35 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health for mental health programs in the county remained unchanged in the budget for fiscal 1985. The plan must be submitted to the Illinois Department of Mental Health for final approval. To fund new partial-day hospitalization and community case management programs and to pay for increased psychiatric costs for two group homes, the board shifted money out of several other agency program budgets. Under the spending plan, $104,180 would go to the Pioneer Center's new community case management program, currently funded by another grant. This total includes $34,985 that was transferred out of the scattered apartments program. Also, funding by the 708 board ended for the case management program operated by Family Service and Community Mental Health Center and was tran­ sferred to the Pioneer Center plan. Family Service's proposal for a partial day hospitalization program for acute psychiatric patients was allocated $80,075. Bob Martens, executive director of Family Service, said about $37,000 of that budget will be used to pay a psychiatrist who would be at the facility three hours a day, seven days a week - --- -- ~r"* • ~--- He said services at the center would include monitoring of patient medication and diagnostic services. Partial hospitalization would seek to prevent acutely mentally ill patients from being admitted to state hospital facilities and to aid their being released from such hospitals faster. The county mental health board began considering the partial hospital plan as an alternative to state hospital admissions as it became ap­ parent that board agencies had increased their admissions to the Elgin Mental Health Center. County projections had foreseen a total of 50 admissions to Elgin for the entire 1984 fiscal year. That total was reached in December last year. In addition, about 70 percent of those ad­ missions were patients who had gone there for the first time. Martens said that a major reason for the increase at Elgin was that the opening of the proposed psychiatric unit for acute, or involuntary patients at Memorial Hospital for McHenry County had been delayed from September 1983 to March 1984. "We hope there will be dramatic decrease in patients going to Elgin after Memorial begins seeing involuntary patients," Martens said. Other programs seeing budgetary increases will be the transitional living and extended transitional living facilities, which are group homes operated by Pioneer Center. Together, these two programs will receive $13,494 more in fiscal 1985. These monies were shifted from Pioneer's sheltered workshop. Other programs seeing decreases under the tentative budget include mental health board administrative costs, down 17 percent from the year before to $124,300; and two community outpatient programs operated by Family Services, both down 30 percent from 1984. Funds from the outpatient programs were reallocated to the partial hospitalization program. Black reported that the group had 525 children registered to play soccer in the upcoming season. The tentative locations of the practices and games would be Freund field, Knox Park, and both high schools. Aid. Ray Smith (3rd) questioned how many days these fields would be in use by the federation teams. He was concerned about local residents being deprived of playing on the fields. Black estimated that teams would be using the fields each day for about one hour. The federation was started by concerned parents after the city Park and Recreation Depart­ ment announced plans to limit enrollment in its program. Director Peter Merkel noted that the program had become too large for the city to handle. McHenry firm president to state business conference State Rep. Dick Klemm (R- Crystal Lake) has appointed McHenry businessman William Rohm to serve as the 63rd House District representative to the special Illinois Conference on Small Business in May. The conference is being sponsored by the Governor's Small Business Advisory Commission, which is chaired by Lieutenant Governor George Ryan, the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs and the U.S. Small Business Administration. "William Rohm will be an outstanding representative for this district", Klemm said. "He is the president of the Rae Corporation, which manufac­ tures electr ic motors and controls. In that position he knows first hand the problems and the needs of small manufacturers. "I'm looking forward to the results of the conference, because we'll have the best suggestions of business people from throughout the state," Klemm added. "We'll have an excellent idea of what we can do to encourage small business growth in Illinois, and we'll have a systematic method of doing it." During the next few months, meetings will be held throughout the state to gather information about the biggest concerns of small business owners. Two regional meetings have been scheduled in the 63rd District area. On March 10 the conference will meet at Triton College in Chicago. For details, interested persons should call Jim Watt, (312) 786-0111, ex­ tension 23. A second meeting will be held in Rockford March 15 at the Rockford Metro Center. The coordinator for that meeting is John Holub, (815) 987- 8108. The final conference meeting is scheduled for May 15-16 in Springfield, when formal r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s f o r strengthening small business' economic base and improving the overall economic climate will be made. Acquittal in manslaughter by Angela Burden Shaw-Free News Service Seventeen-year-old Kenneth Roza of Crystal Lake was acquitted Wednesday afternoon on a charge of voluntary manslaughter in connection with the death of a 14-year-old girl. Following arguments from the state and defense at the close of a preliminary hearing in 19th Judicial Circuit Court, Wood­ stock, Judge Conrad Floeter found no probable cause on the charge and released Roza from bond. The court decided that the rapid series of events, which preceded the Jan. 28 stabbing death of Karen Geske, gave the defendant reason to believe danger was imminent. "We never felt there was any probable cause on the charge from the beginning," Defense lawyer Michael Poper said after Roza was released. "I'm sony it happened. But I'm glad it is over," Roza said, adding "I can't get it (the stabbing) off my mind. I t always will be there." According to testimony in the preliminary hearing, Geske was playing a prank on Roza and his girlfiend, who were babysitting in a neighboring home. Testimony showed there were four "heavy-breathing" telephone calls to the house where the couple were babysitting, followed by "banging" on the back door and then "knocking" on the front door. When Roza opened the front door of the home late that night, a disguised "crouching" figure jumped forward and he stabbed Geske, who was disguised with a mustache, a beard, darkened eyes, with a nylon stocking over her face and a wearing a stocking cap. Poper told the court that under the circumstances, the use of force was justified because Roza "reasonably believed" danger lurked at the door. He said "the defendant's state of mind at the time of the in­ cident should be judged by the court." Poper emphasized that Roza thought "the slightest delay Continued on pog* 4 Friday March 9, 1984 Number 62 Volume 106 A look inside. . . MCHS in Regional Finals Page 16 New 4-H Adviser Section 2, Page 7 Regular features So l Hear Look for this popular column in each Wednesday edition Obituaries Page 6 Classified Reader Ads 344-4800 Display and Classified Display 385-0170 Tornado drill A first grade student keeps his head to the floor, as instructed, in the hallway of Ringwood School during tornado drill Tuesday morning. At left, center, teachers check results of the drill.