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IV I t - I ' L A I N D K A I . K H H K H A I . I ) . F R I D A Y . SIM 10. 1'Ei Dance profits to send Scout to Jamboree FIFTY YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of May 9, 1935) Plans are being completed for the dance and card party sponsored by the Boy Scout committee, which will be held at the Bridge next Tuesday. Bridge, five hundred, pincochle and bunco will be played and three prizes will be awarded in each game. The funds raised will be used to send a Boy Scout to the National Jamboree in Washington, D C. in August. Admission is 25 cents wice basic duty and thus enriching the community, R.I. Overton, Mayor of McHenry, proclaimed May 12, 1945 to be School Safety Patrol Week. Newspapermen from the Chicago milkshed visited the headquarters of the Pure Milk Association recently. The busy central office of the largest dairy farmer cooperative in the middle west is located in Chicago where it occupies 7,125 square feet of space. Five departments with 79 trained employees handle the huge volume of business that is transacted. The marketing department of five men deals with 220 distributors in the milk died, who buy association milk. They place the member's milk, collect money due members and administer the disposal of the market adjustment fund to members temporarily without a market. The 28 baceteriologists operate in the Chicago milkshed area of 2,300 square miles testing milk and advising members of quality milk problems. Personal calls were made at 5,489 farms. Promotional exercises for McHenry rural schools will take place May 16 at the McHenry high school. The schools include Prairie, Cherry Valley, Lincoln, Clemens, Ringwood, Harrison, Ostend, Griswold Lake and Johnsburg. Among the graduates are Roland Mc- Cannon, Ringwood; Gladys Freund and Floyd Freund, Clemens; Alice Clark, Ostend; Evelyn Bohl, Griswold^ Lake; Eugene Freund, Lorraine Freund, Virginia Freund, Norman Hansen, Ethel Nell, Theodore Pitzen, Leona Smith, Mae Smith, Norbert Smith, Rita Stilling and Clarence Tonyan, Johnsburg, FORTY YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of May 10, 1945) JAPS FACE ALLIED POWER. We have won a war, but there is still another one to win. Before we can win the war against Japan, -there is the gigantic problem of supply and moving the troops from the European theater to the Pacifc. The army estimates that 5 million foot soldiers will be needed to defeat Japan. Our entire navy and air forces will be required. Some divisions will be routed through the United States and given leave. Others will sail through the Panama canal direct to the Pacific port. Recognizing that protection of life, limb and property is the most fundamental responsibility of government and that the school safety patrols in this wartime year are rendering invaluable civic service in protecting school children from the. hazards of heavy war in­ duced traffic, thereby helping our government greatly in this TWENTY FIVE' YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of May 5, 1960) : The 1960-^season had a most successful start for McHenry's Viscounts drum and bugle corps, which emerged tops in St. Michael Chi-Angel's first annual stand-still competition Saturday evening in Chicago. Five corps competed in the contest and the outstanding young musicians from McHenry won a beautiful first place trophy with a score of 65.6. , Two teen-agers reported missing from their homes were returned this past week to the relief of their worried families. One, age 12, was found with relatives in Iowa and the other, age 16, was located in the McHenry area with a friend. Fifty seniors of McHenry high school will conduct a survey of McHenry and surrounding areas as a project in their study of sociology. The objective of the survey is to determine the population structure of this community as well as the public concensus on various social questions. The project is under the direction of their teacher, John R. Thomas. the nomination of Paul E. Eberle as postmaster of Wonder Lake has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Nomination was made by President Eisenhower. The idea of placing all city departments under one Supervisor has been tossed around for several years. At present the City Council is very serious about the plan. TEN YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of May 9, 1975) Steps were taken by the City Council Monday night to begin site preparation work in Peterson Park. Approval was given to hire Lakeland Con­ struction company of McHenry to grade the entire site east of the tracks, install a gravel access road and excavate a parking lot to the depth of the sub-surface at a xjpst of $43,730. Cost of the project will be paid out of a $69,000 revenue sharing funds which had previously been allocated for parks. A public hearing on a petition for the organization of a com­ munity unit school district in the Johnsburg area was continued for two weeks by the superin­ tendent of the Educational Service Region of McHenry Count v. The hearing was con­ tinued in order to allow the petitioners for the unit district to review and check over four exhibits presented into evidence by McHenry Community High School District 156. The Wonder Lake Kiwanis Club honored six students at its 26th annual Merit Award dinner Monday, May 5. Recipients of the award from Harrison School' were Midge Cristy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jay Cristy, and Peter Bender, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bender. Students from the Johnsburg Junior high school receiving the award were Lisa Jackson, daughter of Mr. and jyirs. James Jackson, and Richard Beck, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Beck. Students honored from St. John's Catholic School were Joyce Spengel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Spengel and Erik Olsen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Olsen. * ' J " I'm 4the other guy' twice in two weeks Dick Peterson This is one of those things that always happens to the other guy. Winning the lottery, catching a foul ball at a baseball game, being dealt a full house, getting hit by a bus - they all happen to the other guy. Once in a long while we become the other guy. Last week I became the other guy, for the second time in two weeks. Being the other guy twice in two weeks? I still can't get over it. i | , - * No, I didn't win the lottery the time I played 1fH haven't caught a foul fly, although some have landed on me. I haven't been dealt a full house, even though I try to play with a full deck. And I haven't been hit by bus, the rationalization I use for smoking cigarettes, much to my wife's aggravation. "Why quit smoking when I could get hit by a bus tomorrow?" I ask her when she asks me to quit. Soritetimes she doesn't un­ derstand fate. ' No, I found some balloons. Not just one but four. Can you 1 believe it? Balloons. These weren't ordinary balloons. They were part of an experiment being conducted by a class of young scientists across the state line. I'll be Pavlov's dog if four of them didn't land in my back yard. The other "other-guy" experience also dealt with a science. The week before I found the balloons I was sur­ veyed as part of a national opinion poll being conducted by the Los Angeles Times. I answered 106 question on the news media, their biases and the trust they inspire. After I was polled, I thought I had lived a complete life. Then the balloons landed in my yard. (To be quite honest, I'll trust the results of the balloon launch by the first-graders more than the opinion poll by the Times. Every time I answered a question, I wondered how my response could be misinterpreted.) According to the cards Attached to the balloons, the first- graders at Gifford Elementary School in Racine, Wis., were conducting a science experiment. Probably something to do with helium, the wind and free flight. Having never been able to understand the scientific mind, I'm not sure what they were trying to find out. Actually, there were two sets of balloons: one from Patrick Booth and the other from Shirley Hopkins, students . of the same school, but different classes. They landed, entangled, in my yard the same day they were released. To complete my part of the experiment, I simply had to answer some questions -- like who I was and Where I found it - on the back of a stamped postcard and drop it in the mail. I've seen a lot of experiments in my time, and most of them go right over my head, like the Blatz Taste Test and the Pepsi Challenge. I'm still mystified by an experiment I observed in second grade, and from time to time I still think about it and still wonder whit it was trying to prove. The experiment dealt with one-gallon milk bottles, hard-boiled eggs, burning napkins and either Bruce Aller or Allan Bauch, the guinea pigs. , A hard-boiled egg was dropped inside the nujk bottle, a napkin was lit anddropped in, then the bottle was capped, extinguishing the napkin and filling the bottle with smoke. Then Bruce Aller or Allan Bauch would suck on the bottle and, viola! the egg would go in their mouth. To this day I have been unable to grasp the point of that experiment. I would have better understood a balloon release. more follows To this day I have been unable to grasp the point of that experiment. I would have better understood a balloon release. Finding a balloon in your backyard is rare treat. As the balloon flies, Racine is 50 miles away from my back yard on a sharp southwesterly course. Needless to say, there are a lot of back yards between here and Racine. The odds against a balloon finding your yard like that must be astronomical. ^ , You often hear about other people finding similar balloons in their backyards - and you turn green with envy - but you never think it will happen to you. It has to be fate. Being of the non-scientific persuasion, maybe it's a lucky sign. I probably should play the lottery, go to a baseball game, play cards and stay away from streets. What sense is lttoberichandluck^^oug^^ ----_ not resin tie INBETWEEN IS THE.™ 10 p.m. news, and when pet shows bring out the cream of the entoys, the family dog or eat cropsocially as weU as the dog world, you can be sure the pooch kids. is man's best friend. In fact, the popularity of the - m | ' m ^ , A«r to * y ® point wberethe word "pet" includes just about any animal Dad, made Mom and the kids want around them. The snobbish feline, Morris, probably tops the number of viewers tuned into the continuing saga of his culinary idiosyn- cracies. Some of the most intelligenthumans are captivated by A third of the pets brought to the shelter the orange countenance that repels all who are inferior. The most poptdar names given to " » & m * fV, . K> km*% I I n media attention. After Even your best another friend the secret vou have i But not Rover r' I Mm I wellkr» asB^u^tbe y°vlmperfect4ons are M The average cat ol w]^°is "clfered^even table scraps-puts up with your friends as well as your faults, and."-.-, most o often sleeps either outside the house or on the floor, J j DO THEY COMPLAIN? They do not. The curl up on your lap, or at your feet, and in your absence keep a stray prowler away by sending forth a menacing bark or a shrieking meow that clearly says, 'TOont-tread here.,r % The more elite pet owners, of course, indulge their pets much TO#S as some parents spoil their offspring. Beauty parlors and pet w ™ cemeteries are no longer considered worthy pf a snicker~a sPgje- smile, p perhaps, but never a snicker. 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