The Huntley Farmside

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V0LI;ME ,5 — NUMBER   17 THURSDAY,   AfWWST   30,   1964
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Jaycees Hold Charter Night
Fire At Factory In Powder Parh
Appioximalclj 200 people atlend¬ cd the Huntley .Junior Chamber of Commcico GThartor Night Din¬ ner last Saturday, July 25. The e\cnt was held in the basement of Bowl-Hi Lanes.
FoUowinK the roast beed din¬ ner Howard Ruth, acting as Mas¬ ter'of ('oremonies presented Wm. Carlton, president of the Crystal Lake .lunior Chamber of Com¬ merce. The Crystal Lake Jaycees along with thoir sister club in Carj' have bc<'n spon.soring the Huntley chapter and helping to get il started.
After the speech of Mr. Carlton, former state Jaycee president. James York of Elmhurst was introduced and presented the charier lo "Dode" Ream, in the absence of her husband, Ed. Mr. Ream vvas unavoidably delayed at work and did not arrive at the meeting until later in the evening.
Mr. York then presented officer pins to the External Vice presi¬ dent, Edward Hayes, Internal vice president, Frank Parisek, secre¬ tary. Jim Weirch, treasurer, Wayne Peterson. Director pins were presented to James Tegt¬ meier and Dick Lovens, director was absent.
All the officers present weie sworn in at this time.
Following the dinner and in¬ stallation a dance was hold fea luring the Mel Elliott trio.
School Board
The school board of Huntley Consolidated school decided at their July 22 meeting to hold kin¬ dergarten this fall. This project previously had been cancelled by the Board due to a lack of funds to finance it. It was explained at fhe meeting that the school sys¬ tem would be operating "in the red" by having kindergarten this fall and there will only be kinder¬ garten for one semester if the forthcoming bond issue fails.
It was further explained that both parts of the bond issue must pass if kindergarten and certain (!ther subjects are to be taught and if the entire program is not tc be curtailed. It was explained that if tho tax rate increase por¬ tion of the issue passes and the bond portion fails to pass, there v\ould be no money for the cours¬ es [teachers, equipment, etc.], but no money for classroms and space. If the bond portion of the issue were to pass and the educational tax increase fail to pass, then CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE
The Huntley fire siren .sounded al approximately 11 a.m. Friday morning. July 24, summoning the firemen to Powder Park to ex¬ tinguish a small fire outside one of the buildings occupied by the Carpentersville     Fireworks     Dis¬
play Co.
Tho compony uses many of the •bunker.s and building.s at Powder Park to store fireworks for dis play at public functions such as Fourth of July and other holi¬ days.
.According to Mr. Moretti, own¬ er of the company, "only a few small explosives" were stored In Ull- biuldings at this time. The Huntlej' firemen extinguished the liiazo in a few minutes.
Coming Events Huntley Little League Teams
THI;KSI^^ .luly 20
Boy ScHrFund Raising Bowl¬ ing at Bowl-Hi Lanes.
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PlaMing Cotntnission
A public hearing was held by the Huntloy Planning Comniission Inst Tuesday evening, July 28, at tho Huntley Village Hall.
President Miller, Commissioners: Rudy, Garlieb and Kries presient. Commi.s.sioner Cole absent. The Planning Commission had as con¬ sultants Wm. Boyd and Paul Kra- man. Chief Planner in charge, from the concoi-n of Euert Kin- raid & Assoc, pie.soni at tho m<>oling.
President Miller appointed Com¬ missioner Rudy as secretary of the hearing. President Miller then explained to the people present that the Planning Commission was set up by the Village Board in 1960 to control the us eof land within the village and within a one and one half mile radius of the village. He said this was done because of a population increase expected in the area within the next 20 years.
President Miller went on to say that the committee was fianced by State, Federal and Village funds. Miller then proceded to read from the prepared ordinance for future sub-divisions. The ordinance is dir¬ ected toward contractors and sub- dividers, who in the future will be building in the Huntley area. It slated the fiscal characteristicc which sub-divisions must have, such as width of streets and mat- erals to be used. He stipulated that the contractors in the future will have to present a plan to the Planning Commission and Village Board to get approval on the pro¬ posed sub-divisions.
At the end of the reading. Pres¬ ident Miller ask for questions and suggestions from the floor. One of the sub-dividers stated that the portion of the ordinance which limited a contractor to two years to complete a sub-division after submitting a final plan to the Vll-
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