The Huntley Farmside

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VOLUME  5 —  NUMBER   50
THURSDAY,   MARCH   18,  1965
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Hobo Dinner March 13
The second annu^ "Hobo Hoe Downn", sponsorecf (A the Senior Choir of the United ^urch of Chr ist Congregational, was held on Saturday, March 13. A capacity crowd attended the two servings of the supper and the program which followed.
Table decorations were concoct¬ ed from various original items sauch as one might find in "hobo-land". Comic strip newspapers were the source of place mats, paper towels served as napkins, aluminum foil "T-V dinner" type trays were used for plates. The members of the choir, in appropriate "customes" served the food and then put on an original "floor show" under the dir¬ ection of Mrs. Bernard Johnson, choir directer, Mrs. Henry Mar¬ lowe was the accompanist for the group.
The menu served consisted of "Poor Man's Steak" served over "Billowy White Cups", "Rabbit Food with Fermented Cider", Mar¬ lowe's Pickled Corn, "French Sour Dough with Spun Gold'' and home¬ made "Deluxe Fruit Spread", "Hobo Danish Pastries" and "Integrated Ice Cream", "Hobo Java" and "Moo Juice" for the kids. Dinner music was proveded by Ed. Brandwein at the   console   organ.
The  program featured  "Alexan¬ der's Rag Time Band" by  the hobo
band with improvised Instruments, songs, spectalty numbers. "Too Fat Polka" done with "musical bottles" and simulated fire-flies, a soft-shoe numer and others. One of the spec¬ ialities was the "crowning of the "Hobo King and Queen" who were selected from the audience by mem. bers of the choir, attired with their "kingly andqueenly robes" and pre¬ sented with gifts. Door prizes of "washing machine," "Prime steak," a banjhole" and "travel lite luggage a 1 mo. supply of "northern tissue, scented" and a final "grand door prize" added to the fun and enter¬ tainment of the evening.
Mrs. Lucille Throw, aided by ladies of the church and high sch¬ ool students, prepared the food. The members of the choir are: Ed. Brandwien, Mary Britton, Marilyn Hardesty, Kathy Heiney, Nanay Jensen, Nancy Lee Johnson, David Johnson, Mary Kerrick, Faye Mar¬ lowe, Belle Ostrander, Judy Per¬ kins, Charles Ruth and Peggy Ur¬ bach. Miss. Sus Doody assisted with the choreography for the dance numbers. Mr. Howard Ruth acted as Master of Ceremonies for both programs.
The members of the choir express their thanks and appreciation to everyone who helped in any way to make the dinner and show pos¬ sible.
Adult P^mer
Class
The last meeting of the Adult Far¬ mer's Class will be held tonight, Thursday, March 18 at the Huntley High School. The topic of the even¬ ing will be agriculture chemicals and will be discussed by a repre¬ sentative of the Agriculture Chem¬ ical   Division   Of   Standard   Oil   Co.
Reapportioned Districts Set
The Illinots Senate approved Sen¬ ate Bill-251 with amendments re¬ apportioning the Senate and House on   a  population  basis.
The 33rd Senatorial District would include Lee, O eKalb, and Boone Counties, plus about 17,000 in the western part of McHenry County and about 35,000 in the western part of Kane County, in¬ cluding the area north of Elgin, making a total population of Ap¬ proximately  166,000.
The 33rd House District would comprise DeKalb, Kendall and Boone Counties, plus the western part of Kant and area north of Elgin and most of McHenry County, including the western part and the northern half, totaling a populat¬ ion of approximately 170,000. The bill now goes to the House for consideration.
Grafton, McHenry and Algonquin Townships in McHenry County will be in a district conecting with Lake County.
Cotning Event
WED.  &  THURS.,   March   17   &.   18 "Bye   Bye   Birdie"   —  Orystal Lake Theatre
MONDAY    March   22   —   McHenry County  Com  Club —  Bowl-Hi Kindergarten    Registration    9:00 — 11:30 & 1:00 to 3:00 Rutland   town   meeting   2   P.M.
WEDNESDAY. March 24 — Qraf¬ ton   Township   Park   Board   meet
THURSDAY, March 25 — Candid¬ ates night at Huntley Village Hall 8   P.M.  — Township   Cand'i<l'ates.
TUESDAY, April 6 — Grafton   TowneHip   election Grafton Town Meeting 8 P.M.
Notes on School Board Meeting
The regular meeting of the Board of Education was held Mach 10 at 7:30 P.M., with all members pre¬ sent except  Robert Schultz.
The minutes of the previous meet¬ ing  were  read   and   approved.
A motion made and approved to transfer $322.11 from the Educat¬ ional   Fund to the  Revolving  Fund.
At 8 P.M. the sealed bids on the sale of $250,000.00 Sohool building bonds were opened and studied. After careful study of the bids, with the assistance of our Finan¬ cial Consultant, Mr. Marvin Birch- field, a motion made adn approved that the School Building Bonds be sold to the Chander Neuman Secur¬ ity Co. & Municipal Bond Corp.Ms per contract dated March 10. 1965, and that the President and Secre¬ tary be authorized to sign teh said contract.
Mr. Kelly read a. letter to the Board just recently received from the Sute Department in regard to schools using school buses to attend out of town schoo sponsored act¬ ivities, whereas a charge must be made to persons attending activit¬ ies as spectators. A motion was made fo'charge'125 cents'per peribn to ride the school bus to all school sponsored activities as per letter f Ray Page of Springfleld, dated February 5,  1965.
Bids were opened on a 16 x 40 building to be built on school pro¬ perty, to be used as a tocket office and concession stand for football games and also for storage purposes as the Kunde building must be vac¬ ated as of June 1, 1965. A motion made and approved to award the B & E construction Co. a contract a gabel type building as per bid and plans, with the completion date set for   May  15,   1965.
After some discussion is was de¬ cided to approved that the school building would not be rented out for   political   purposes.
A motion made and approved to have the educational fund reim- bures the Transportation fund $2000.00 for the use of buses to school sponsored activities for the 1964 & 65 school year.
A motion was made and approved to transfer $3973.51 from the Bond and Interest Fund to the Building fund to repay a loan made last year.
Mr. Edgar Ream and Mr. Ross Phifer representing the teachers were present to discuss salaries for the school year of 1965 & 66 and ara helping with the possibility of a new salary schedule for next year.
The school Board discussed the second grade situation for the next year. The three first grades wilf move into the second grades. Since there are no rooms available some possibilities were talked over. The cafeteria lunch program could be eliminated and this room could be used for a Srd second grade. The salaries paid out to the cafeteria help could be used to employ the extra 2nd grade teacher. Another possibility would be to go to two shifts in the overcrowed grades, as a third possibility would be to rent another outside room, but this would add too much to the cost of a third  second grade.
A motion made and approved to pay the  regular monthly  bills.
With the hour of one A.M. ap¬ proaching a motion was made and approved to adjourn this regular meeting until March 17, 1965 at 7:30 P.M.
By
Ernest Stading  Jr.
Secy.  Of  the   Brd. of   Ed.
Candidates Night March 25
There will be a Candidates Night at the Huntley Village Thursday, March 25 a', the Huntley Village Hall. All Grafton Township Candid¬ ates will have a chance to speak and questions may be ask by the public.   The  event   starts at 8   P.M.
Scholarship Exam Given
The National Merit Scholarship qualifying examinations were given to 24 juniors at Huntley High Soh¬ ool. This is the largest test of its kind in the country. In addition the school gave National Education de¬ velopment test to all freshmen. This test Judges a student's poten¬ tial based on his past achievements. Both tests are part of the regular guidance department program at the  school.
Hun^^y PTA. Meetittg ¦T^""-^-]t-
The Mafl^eeting of the Par entTeachers^'^'Bociation was  held Wednesday, March 10, 1965. Pres ident Grau  called  the meeting to order and   all  reports  were given and approved.
A motion was made and ap¬ proved to issue two "Music Grants of $25.00 each.
The Program Chairman announ ced   that   the   April   meeting   wil! have  as   its  guest   Judge  Cooney and   the   topic    will   be   "Juvenile Delinqunce."
President Grau introduced Mr. Shelton, Representative of Scott Foresman, who gave the group in attendance an insight of the "New Math" which is being heard of so much. He worked several pro blems and explained the new meth ods of deriving answers.
Mr. Carlson, Representative of Illinois Congress for our P.T.A. district was introduced and gave a short resume' of the workings of tho   Association.
The meeting was adjourned and refreshments were served in the cafeteria.
Grafton To-wn Board Meeting
'1 rie regular monthl.v meeting nl' the Grafton Township Board of Auditors was held last Thursday, March 11, at the township garage. Supei-visor Curtis, Clerk Enstrom, Auditors Eggei^a, Nelson, Road Commissioner Schachtner were present. Auditor Zukowski were absent.
'i"ho minutes from I lio piovious meetiriK worn read and improved. \ sheet of paper was circulated a- mong those present to register ilieir attendance. Tie liuancial re¬ port as of February 28, was read and approved. It is as follows:  '
Town FMnc\ - Hal. February 1, UW.i, $3,896.81. l{(-(:ei;)(s during I'tiiiuary, $138.20; Tola!. .'K4.03.5.O1. Disbursements Februa!.\-, $854.30; Oular.cc Februaiv 28. 196.5, S3,- 180.71.
Geneial Assistance Fund Bal¬ ance February 1, 1965, |3,189.10; CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE