The Huntley Farmside

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VOLUME 4 — NUMBER 4 THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1963
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Rummage and Bake Sale
The rummage and bake sale held Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon and Tuesday evening, at the Ck)ngregationaI Church was well patronized.
Nearly all of the bake sale items had been said by 4:30 P.M. on Tues¬ day. The Ladies J^^mho sponsored this sale, secured the product through solicitations; oacH^||||^ber responsible for a certin.amount of the work. Mrs. Al. Bon cosky^B president of the Aid, acted as chairman.
The Celas in charge of the rummage sale items were: Gladys Adame, Vera Swanson, Fern Enstrom and Esther Barton.
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Awards
Walter D. Bowman and Thomas C. Runge, both of Huntley, were among tho more than 18,5(X) Illi¬ nois High School sesniors who re¬ cieved scholarships after placing in the American College Testing Pro- Kram examination given in Nov. 1962.
A total ot 5530 awards were granted in the 1963-64 program of which 1859 were monetaiy and .'5674 were honorary. State schol¬ arship winners who demonstrate financial need receive monetary awards for full or partial payment of tuition and feess up to $600.00 a year. Honorary awards provide recognition for outstanding ac¬ hievements as well ass opportunity to apply for monetary assistance in subsequent imdergraduate yrs.
A State Scholarship winner mu.st be a citizen of the United States, be an Illinois resident of good moral character, rank in the upper half of his class, achieve a superior score in the qualifying examination, and enroll at an ap¬ proved public or private college of his choice in Illinois. All an¬ nounced winners have until Sept. 1, 1963, to inform the Commission of their final college choice. Stu¬ dents who initially indicated an out-of-state or unapproved college have been included in the winner announcement, pending their final decision by Septeml>er 1.
Since 1958 over 8000 high school students have received flnaw«tBl aid from tliis state program.
Grrade ScKool
Concert
by Roger A, Perley
The Annual Grade School Cadet Band and Junior Chorus Spring Music Concert will be held Friday evening, April 26, at 8:15 P.M. at the Huntley Consolidated Sch¬ ool Gym. There is no admissioon charge to the concert.
The 40 voice Jr. Chorus will open the program with "Keep It Gay", followed    by:    "Rock-§-Ma-Soul",
."De  Animals  a-Comin Sweet
Betsy From Pike", "Green Cath¬ edral", "Little David, Play On Your Harp", and in conclusion, "The Happy Wanderer".
The 42 piece Cadit Band wall present the second half of the pro¬ gram following the .intermission The order of selections are: the overture "Eroica", "Carnival for Clarinets", Toy Symphony", "A Little Handel Suite", and in con- cludsion, "Kiing Arthur.
Supervisors Met
On Tuesday, April 23, Mr. Har¬ ley Mackeben, Grafton Township Supervisior, was defeated in his bid for re-election to CHiairman of the McHenry Board of Supervisiors. Mr. George R. Janak, Algonquin township supervisior, was elected by a vote of 17-10. Mr. Mackeben Held the position as chainnan of the board for the past eight years
(Editors Note: Yonr paper is a day late this week and s word of ex¬ planation is in order as to why it was. On Monday, we were told by an offical tliat he was planning to resigfn. At the same time we learned that Mr. Burmeister was resigning at the park board meet¬ ing Wednesday. We could not see holding these articales for a week and could not aford to come out witli an extra edition. As a result, we held the paper.
As it turned out, the offical de¬ cided not to resign — at least not this Thursday. Thus we could not use the artical. Ordinarly we wou¬ ld not hold the paper, but as we had seen the regination, we did not think he wonld cbange his mind.
You wiil not that the paper is smaller this week. We also had to hold some news and smne small ads. These wail be printed next week. We will not explain why at this point — we have done this in the past in our editorials.)
Park Board Meeti^
The regular monthly meeting of Grafton Park Board was called to order by President Burmeister at 8:25 P.M. Wednesday, April 24. Commissioner: Porter, O'Connor, Lorence, Albreht, Attorney Cow¬ lin, Secretary jftnnett, and Treas¬ urer Person ^^^11 present.
In addition to the commission¬ ers, there were 8 resident present from Crystal Lake.
The minutes and treasurers re¬ ports were read and aproved
It was decited to instruct Bax¬ ter and Woodman to contact Lake- wood £md,if approved by to Lake- wood Village lioard, to conduct a prelinary Survey to conect Grafton Park with the Lakewood Village sewer system. If the sewer goes through the estimated cost well be $18,535.
A motion was made by Lorence and secohded by Albrecht to pay $150. to the manager and $100. to the assistant mgr. per week — All ayes.
A motion was made by Albrecht and seconded by O'Connor to rein¬ state Neil Bennett as Manager. All ayes.
It was decited to employ Harry Burns of Crystal Lake as Auditor.
Swimming lessons will Ik held during the month of July. A fee of $1 for residents and $3 for non¬ residents wiU be charged. The mot¬ ion was made by O'Connor ahd sec¬ onded by Albrecht
At the close of the meeting Mr. Burmeister took the floor and read the following letter:
April 18, 1963
It is my regret that I annotmce my resignation from the Grafton Park Boa^d of Commissioners. However, personal reasons have caused me to reach this descision.
With the approval of the mem¬ bers of the Ixjard, I would like to continue to serve as President of the Board until after our annual meeting which will be held on Wednesday, April 24, at the Hunt- leyVillage Hall.
I have appreciated your co<^)er- ation during the past few years and sincerely wish you mnch success in the future.
Respectfully yours, W. G. Burmeister, President GRAFTON PARK DISTRICTT
Mr. Biumeister's resignation was accepted and Mr. Porter was app¬ ointed to talu his place.
Being no further business the meeting wac adjomed.
Fire at Snalley Farm
Huntley firemen were called out to assist the Dundee Fire Department with a fire at the Herman Snalley farm east of Huntley on the Dundee Blacktop. The fire started at approximately 8:30 P.M. Monday, April 15. The cause of the fire was an exploding light bulb which ignited the dust. An unofficial estimate of 20 to $25,000.00 damage was done. Mr. Snelley and the firemen got the cattle out of the barn. OidtS^j^, however was tost as it was tied. The cattle have been housed eithA^B^mpory shalters or ot the neighbor's. A diesel tractor and a truck were also lost in the fire. Pictured above is a seen of the bam the day after the fire.
Operation Clean - Up
Most of the twigs, branches and debris left over from the tree project last February, was cleaned up last Saturday, april 20, by volunteers from the Huntley area.
In the morning and early afternoon, a father and son Cub Scout pro¬ ject worked racking and cleaning up the debris. The fathers were Vernon Downen, Martin Schmietendorf and Bob Eckman and their sons.
Ernst Fitzi, of the Cemetery board, and his son-in-law, Richard Stall¬ baum, cut stumps dowm to approximately two inches of the ground. Later, in the afternoon, Henry Brockman, his son, and Mrs. Sciunietendorf ctmie to help. According to Mr. Fitzi there is still much work to be done. It h hoped that people will again come out next Saturday and finish the job.
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