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'3^''^ HUNTLEY ^f««'f'e THUKSDAY, DEC. 28. 1961 VOLrME 2 — NUMBQl S9 PHOKB; $1X-M»-5621 (aay Mme) (If no anwser) 81»4W4)9e8 ROGER PERLEY p. 0. BOX GROVE ST. HUMTLEY. ILL 6 PAGES MAILED AND DISTRIBrTED WEEKLY Cowgirls y% Farmers Park Board The regular mooting of the Graf¬ ton Park Board was called to order at the Village Hall Thursday evening, December 21, 1961. Com¬ missioners Lawrence, O'connor, Burmeister, Porter, and Secretary Bennett were present Commis¬ sioners Albrecht, Person, and At¬ torney Cowlin wore absent. The main order of business at this meeting was the purchasing of plans from the J. H. Patterson yards for a proposed bath house at Grafton Beach. Nothing defi¬ nite was decided at this meeting. Cliarles Ehle, one of Grafton townships fuel dealers, was ap¬ pointed to handle the oil for the beach house Commissioners Burmeister and Lawrence were appointed to in¬ spect the present beach house to see what work needs to be done to improve conditions at the beach. Being no further business, the meeting was adjourned. Snow Fort Last Friday, December 22, was Huntley's first really big snowfall came. For many, expecially the young and young at heart, the snow created a great deal of fun as can be seen in the picture on tho front page of this edition of tho paper. However, for many of tho adults il created a bit of hard- shi[) as roads became snowpocked and covered with ice Morris Kiefer, Huntley's street man, started at 3 A.M. on Decem¬ ber 23 and worked through the morning and afternoon to clear Huntley's streets. At 6 A.M. he was joined by many local residents who helped in tho snow removal Huntley's streets were cleared by Saturday afternoon. However, the street department still worked on after Christmas clearing out the rcmnance of piles' of snow which had accumulated in various sections of town. Cow Girls Come To Town The Texas Cow Girls, a girl's basketball team, came to Huntley last Thursday night, December 21, and played an exhibition game with a combination of teachers and farmers from Huntloy. Oaturally, the girls won, but there was quite a bit of horsenlay, and everyone enjoyed themselves, especially the players. There were many things which happened in this game which would not have happened in a reg¬ ulation basketball game. At one point four of tho girls on the team joined hands and circled one of the players to shoot one of the baskets. Another time a girl dribbled through Bud Weber's legs to make a basket Coach Polacheck from the high school was lassoed and hog tied by one of the girls from the team. During the half time Mr. Henry Marlowe shot some free throws. The girls turned Mr Marlowe around before he shot the baskets. Following Mr. Marlowe, one of tho girls from the team was to shoot ten free throws blindfolded. Howe\er, Mr. Marlowo got into the act and after she was blind¬ folded, pulled down her shin guard. As a result she only made fixe of the ten bash«ts Max Bundgard from Huntley was dressed in his hill-billy cos¬ tume left over from the slave sale. Max played a while in the game and also participated in some other antics. The players on the team were Coach Anderson, Ed Ream, Glen Delaney, Bud Weber, Barney and Delwin Borhart, Mr. Workowski, Ward Plane, Max Bundgard, Don Barrett, and Don Wilbrandt who played on the Hebron team when it went down state. The H Club, sponsors of this event, took in a gross of $280.00 Approximately $125.00 of this wont to tho Club itself In the future, the H Club is looking for¬ ward to sponsoring another event of this type. Legion Visits Veterans On Monday evening, Legion and \ Auxiliary members went to Elgin to Veterans at the State Hospital and helped to distribute Christ¬ mas gifts. Each veteran was given a jacket with his name printed in or a bath robe. Those going wero Mr. and Mrs. Ewald Tessendorf and Mrs. Lillian WiUis and George Willis, and Mrs. Elsie Jordi, Coun¬ ty Rehabilitation chairman After¬ ward they enjoyed lunch' at the American Legion home in Elgin. Bank & Purdom Hold Parties The State Bank of Huntley and Purdom's Certified Food Market held their annual Christmas-par- ties-for employees and customers last Saturday. The State Bank of Huntley served eggnog and sandwiches and had a record attendance for this event. Purdom's served coffee and donuts to their customers and employees. Many of the taverns in town also served "tom and jerrys" to celebrate the (Christmas holidays Walt Hoffman At FFA Farm Bureau Conf. Walter Hoffman, son of Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Hoffman, is attend¬ ing the 3rd. annualF.F.A. Farm Bureau Conference held at HI State Normal University, Dec 27 to Dec. 29. Walt is a sophomore Vocational Ag. student from Hunt¬ ley High. Walt will represent Huntley along with representat¬ ives from 290 other schools in Ill¬ inois During his time spent at the conference Walt will study world economic systems: Capitalistic, Socialistic, smd Communistic. The greater part of the conference will be spent on our own free enter¬ prise syst«n. Seven keys to the American way of life will bo dis¬ cussed at the general sessions. As an F.F.A member, Walt will visit businesses in Bloomlngton and Normal to see how those key principles apply in business. How Are Assessments Made? How are assessments made and on what basis? This will be the main problem in the discussion at the first adult farmer meeting, Thursday, January 4th, at the Huntley High School Agriculture Department. Stanley Cornue, Supervisor of Assessments in McHenry County, will discusse assessments with the Huntley farmers in this manage¬ ment meeting. Mr. Cornue was a Hebron Voy worker on his fath¬ er's farm as a youth. He graduat¬ ed from Boloit College, majoring in Commerce and economics Ho aperated a farm from 1940 -47 and has been Supervisor of Assess¬ ments in McHenry Co for tho past 6% years. Starting time for this meeting is 8 P.M., the same as the remain¬ ing 9 meetings in the course. Thursday, January 18, Agricult¬ ural CThemicals: Thursday, Jan 25 Dairy cattle breeding: Thursday, Feb. 1, the mild market: Thursday Feb. 8,Strontium 90 and fallout affects in the milk industry: Thurs day, Feb. 22, what's new in crops and fertilizers: March 8, problems of the dairy industry as related to proper milking. fellow Dick Tazewell Meeting Under the direction of Richard L Tazewell, McHenry County Superintendent of Schools, a meet¬ ing was held at the Court House Annex to discuss the schools' role in the event of a nuclear attack. All public and private schools were invited. Several local vidl de¬ fense leaders were present. Mr. Alvin Querhammer, Direc¬ tor of the McHenry Clounty Office of Civil Defense and Mr. Anton Perne, Coordinator of Civil De¬ fense Adult Education in tHfe Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, addressed the group. Mr. Querhammer explained what has been done in the county concerning civil defense and asked for a committee of five or seven school people to work with other agencies in the county to set up a county-wide disaster plan in case of a nuclear attack. Mr Perne discussed the func¬ tion of the school in case of at¬ tack. Ho stated that the school board has an obligation to partici¬ pate in tho disaster program in three ways: 1. By instituting or strengthen¬ ing the Pupil Safety Program This program makes buildings and grounds as safe as possible against disaster and sets up procedures to enable students to survive disas¬ ters. 2. By developing a Disaster Pro¬ tection Education Program. This long-range program looks to work ing with the schools to provide a good understanding of civics, com¬ munication, mathematics, history, and other related fields with the feeling that students well-versed in these fields will become adults possessing not only these skills as such, but also the insight and un¬ derstanding that will be needed in working together for survival. 3 By supporting in other ways the Local Disaster Protection Pro¬ gram. The schools can make their facilities available for adult class¬ es, or for shelter or other uses. Mr. Perne stated his staff was very small, buat that he hoped to have a civil defense class started in the county some time in April. Certified teachers attending these would bo qualified instructors to teach adult civil defense classes. A quesstion period followed Mr. Perne's talk. Then the fi'm "Civil Defense" was shown. The film committee of McHenrv Coiftv de¬ cided to purchanse this fflm fbr the film library to make it availa¬ ble to all schools and other inter¬ ested groups Snow Fort
Object Description
Title | The Huntley Farmside |
Date | 1961-12-28 |
Month | 12 |
Day | 28 |
Year | 1961 |
Volume | 2 |
Issue | 39 |
Decade | 1960-1969 |
Creator | The Huntley Farmside |
Coverage | Huntley, Illinois, United States |
Description | Weekly Newspaper from the Huntley Area Public Library Collection |
Subject | Newspaper Archives |
Rights | This material may be protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S. Code). |
Publisher | This Collection was digitized and loaded into CONTENTdm by OCLC Preservation Service Center (Bethlehem, PA) for the Huntley Area Public Library |
Source | Reproduction of library's print newspaper archives |
Contributing Institution | Huntley Area Public Library |
Language | ENG |
Collection Name | Huntley Area Newspapers |
Description
Title | The Huntley Farmside |
Date | 1961-12-28 |
Month | 12 |
Day | 28 |
Year | 1961 |
Volume | 2 |
Issue | 39 |
Decade | 1960-1969 |
Sequence | 1 |
Page | 1 |
Technical Metadata | Image was scanned by OCLC at the Preservation Service Center in Bethlehem, PA. Archival Image is a 1-bit bitonal tiff that was direct scanned from original material at 300 dpi. The original file size was 166 kilobytes. |
FileName | 19611228_001.tif |
Creator | The Huntley Farmside |
Date Digital | 2007-05-07 |
Coverage | Huntley, Illinois, United States |
Description | Weekly Newspaper from the Huntley Area Public Library Collection |
Subject | Newspaper Archives |
Rights | This material may be protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S. Code). |
Publisher | This Collection was digitized and loaded into CONTENTdm by OCLC Preservation Service Center (Bethlehem, PA) for the Huntley Area Public Library |
Source | Reproduction of library's print newspaper archives |
Contributing Institution | Huntley Area Public Library |
Language | ENG |
FullText | '3^''^ HUNTLEY ^f««'f'e THUKSDAY, DEC. 28. 1961 VOLrME 2 — NUMBQl S9 PHOKB; $1X-M»-5621 (aay Mme) (If no anwser) 81»4W4)9e8 ROGER PERLEY p. 0. BOX GROVE ST. HUMTLEY. ILL 6 PAGES MAILED AND DISTRIBrTED WEEKLY Cowgirls y% Farmers Park Board The regular mooting of the Graf¬ ton Park Board was called to order at the Village Hall Thursday evening, December 21, 1961. Com¬ missioners Lawrence, O'connor, Burmeister, Porter, and Secretary Bennett were present Commis¬ sioners Albrecht, Person, and At¬ torney Cowlin wore absent. The main order of business at this meeting was the purchasing of plans from the J. H. Patterson yards for a proposed bath house at Grafton Beach. Nothing defi¬ nite was decided at this meeting. Cliarles Ehle, one of Grafton townships fuel dealers, was ap¬ pointed to handle the oil for the beach house Commissioners Burmeister and Lawrence were appointed to in¬ spect the present beach house to see what work needs to be done to improve conditions at the beach. Being no further business, the meeting was adjourned. Snow Fort Last Friday, December 22, was Huntley's first really big snowfall came. For many, expecially the young and young at heart, the snow created a great deal of fun as can be seen in the picture on tho front page of this edition of tho paper. However, for many of tho adults il created a bit of hard- shi[) as roads became snowpocked and covered with ice Morris Kiefer, Huntley's street man, started at 3 A.M. on Decem¬ ber 23 and worked through the morning and afternoon to clear Huntley's streets. At 6 A.M. he was joined by many local residents who helped in tho snow removal Huntley's streets were cleared by Saturday afternoon. However, the street department still worked on after Christmas clearing out the rcmnance of piles' of snow which had accumulated in various sections of town. Cow Girls Come To Town The Texas Cow Girls, a girl's basketball team, came to Huntley last Thursday night, December 21, and played an exhibition game with a combination of teachers and farmers from Huntloy. Oaturally, the girls won, but there was quite a bit of horsenlay, and everyone enjoyed themselves, especially the players. There were many things which happened in this game which would not have happened in a reg¬ ulation basketball game. At one point four of tho girls on the team joined hands and circled one of the players to shoot one of the baskets. Another time a girl dribbled through Bud Weber's legs to make a basket Coach Polacheck from the high school was lassoed and hog tied by one of the girls from the team. During the half time Mr. Henry Marlowe shot some free throws. The girls turned Mr Marlowe around before he shot the baskets. Following Mr. Marlowe, one of tho girls from the team was to shoot ten free throws blindfolded. Howe\er, Mr. Marlowo got into the act and after she was blind¬ folded, pulled down her shin guard. As a result she only made fixe of the ten bash«ts Max Bundgard from Huntley was dressed in his hill-billy cos¬ tume left over from the slave sale. Max played a while in the game and also participated in some other antics. The players on the team were Coach Anderson, Ed Ream, Glen Delaney, Bud Weber, Barney and Delwin Borhart, Mr. Workowski, Ward Plane, Max Bundgard, Don Barrett, and Don Wilbrandt who played on the Hebron team when it went down state. The H Club, sponsors of this event, took in a gross of $280.00 Approximately $125.00 of this wont to tho Club itself In the future, the H Club is looking for¬ ward to sponsoring another event of this type. Legion Visits Veterans On Monday evening, Legion and \ Auxiliary members went to Elgin to Veterans at the State Hospital and helped to distribute Christ¬ mas gifts. Each veteran was given a jacket with his name printed in or a bath robe. Those going wero Mr. and Mrs. Ewald Tessendorf and Mrs. Lillian WiUis and George Willis, and Mrs. Elsie Jordi, Coun¬ ty Rehabilitation chairman After¬ ward they enjoyed lunch' at the American Legion home in Elgin. Bank & Purdom Hold Parties The State Bank of Huntley and Purdom's Certified Food Market held their annual Christmas-par- ties-for employees and customers last Saturday. The State Bank of Huntley served eggnog and sandwiches and had a record attendance for this event. Purdom's served coffee and donuts to their customers and employees. Many of the taverns in town also served "tom and jerrys" to celebrate the (Christmas holidays Walt Hoffman At FFA Farm Bureau Conf. Walter Hoffman, son of Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Hoffman, is attend¬ ing the 3rd. annualF.F.A. Farm Bureau Conference held at HI State Normal University, Dec 27 to Dec. 29. Walt is a sophomore Vocational Ag. student from Hunt¬ ley High. Walt will represent Huntley along with representat¬ ives from 290 other schools in Ill¬ inois During his time spent at the conference Walt will study world economic systems: Capitalistic, Socialistic, smd Communistic. The greater part of the conference will be spent on our own free enter¬ prise syst«n. Seven keys to the American way of life will bo dis¬ cussed at the general sessions. As an F.F.A member, Walt will visit businesses in Bloomlngton and Normal to see how those key principles apply in business. How Are Assessments Made? How are assessments made and on what basis? This will be the main problem in the discussion at the first adult farmer meeting, Thursday, January 4th, at the Huntley High School Agriculture Department. Stanley Cornue, Supervisor of Assessments in McHenry County, will discusse assessments with the Huntley farmers in this manage¬ ment meeting. Mr. Cornue was a Hebron Voy worker on his fath¬ er's farm as a youth. He graduat¬ ed from Boloit College, majoring in Commerce and economics Ho aperated a farm from 1940 -47 and has been Supervisor of Assess¬ ments in McHenry Co for tho past 6% years. Starting time for this meeting is 8 P.M., the same as the remain¬ ing 9 meetings in the course. Thursday, January 18, Agricult¬ ural CThemicals: Thursday, Jan 25 Dairy cattle breeding: Thursday, Feb. 1, the mild market: Thursday Feb. 8,Strontium 90 and fallout affects in the milk industry: Thurs day, Feb. 22, what's new in crops and fertilizers: March 8, problems of the dairy industry as related to proper milking. fellow Dick Tazewell Meeting Under the direction of Richard L Tazewell, McHenry County Superintendent of Schools, a meet¬ ing was held at the Court House Annex to discuss the schools' role in the event of a nuclear attack. All public and private schools were invited. Several local vidl de¬ fense leaders were present. Mr. Alvin Querhammer, Direc¬ tor of the McHenry Clounty Office of Civil Defense and Mr. Anton Perne, Coordinator of Civil De¬ fense Adult Education in tHfe Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, addressed the group. Mr. Querhammer explained what has been done in the county concerning civil defense and asked for a committee of five or seven school people to work with other agencies in the county to set up a county-wide disaster plan in case of a nuclear attack. Mr Perne discussed the func¬ tion of the school in case of at¬ tack. Ho stated that the school board has an obligation to partici¬ pate in tho disaster program in three ways: 1. By instituting or strengthen¬ ing the Pupil Safety Program This program makes buildings and grounds as safe as possible against disaster and sets up procedures to enable students to survive disas¬ ters. 2. By developing a Disaster Pro¬ tection Education Program. This long-range program looks to work ing with the schools to provide a good understanding of civics, com¬ munication, mathematics, history, and other related fields with the feeling that students well-versed in these fields will become adults possessing not only these skills as such, but also the insight and un¬ derstanding that will be needed in working together for survival. 3 By supporting in other ways the Local Disaster Protection Pro¬ gram. The schools can make their facilities available for adult class¬ es, or for shelter or other uses. Mr. Perne stated his staff was very small, buat that he hoped to have a civil defense class started in the county some time in April. Certified teachers attending these would bo qualified instructors to teach adult civil defense classes. A quesstion period followed Mr. Perne's talk. Then the fi'm "Civil Defense" was shown. The film committee of McHenrv Coiftv de¬ cided to purchanse this fflm fbr the film library to make it availa¬ ble to all schools and other inter¬ ested groups Snow Fort |
Collection Name | Huntley Area Newspapers |