The Huntley Farmside

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VOLUME  S — NUMBEK 39 THU8RDAY, DEC. 27, 1962
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Summary For 1962
Every year as the old year passes the Huntley Farmside publishes an annual article p u b 1 i s hing the events which happened over the past 12 months as recorded in our morgue file. This is quite an enormous task and last year we had to run the feature in two editions of the newspaper as their was so many events which hap¬ pened which should have not been edited from this type of article, A year ago this week Texts cow girls, A girls basketball team came to Huntley and played a game against a team of town men. The Coach Harold Anderson head of the High school, Ed Reams, Glen Delany, Bud Weber, Berney and Del win Borhart and Mr. Workow- ski. Ward Plane, Max Bungard, Dan Barrett, Don Wilbrandt all played on the town team and from the looks of the pictures of a year ago had a real brawlike time. A year ago at this time also we had quite a considerable snowfoll and children built a fort, we really had a white Christmas. On December 23 many of the 1^^ merchants joined Morris ^'^flR the street man for Huntley a^^a.m. to help with the snow removal. On Jan. 2nd Mr. George Devea owner of the DX station announced he was going to lease Dick Enstrom, the station, the same week an adult farmer course start^at the high school a nd the ^P'^tley credit union had their ai^nual dinner meeting. The week following the Board of Directors of the State Bank of Huntley raised the inter¬ est to 4% on deposits of 12 months On January 6 the Boy Scouts took their winter outing to Lake in the Hills.
A fire starting at the Schultz farm 1 mile west of Huntley on Union road the barn started at 1 a.m. and by morning had burned to the ground leaving only a fovm- dation and silo standing, since that time, the barn has been completely rebuilt. On Jan. 18th the Congre¬ gational church at that time 110 yeai-s old changed its name to the United Church of Christ. Cong^re- gational because of a virtue l)e- tween the Congregational and the Evangelical and reform churches. That week also Jan. 18-21 Schultz drug store held two for one sale. There was a head on collision at Huntley and Carpentersvill black¬ top between Mr. Paul Pulacz and Mr. Larry Potts, Mr. Potts was taken to the hospital by the James O'Connor ambulance service. The Shamrock basketball team a group of men again from the Huntley area and sponsored by the Huntley Community Credit Union. Featun ed quite a bit of this time in the paper with both pictures and scores. January 25 was the first week we displayed our HI. Press Association emblem in the edition of the papef, we also wrote an editoial explaining what the press association was and that it was an honor to be a member of this or¬ ganization. We had been trying for over a year to become a member as press membership is not grant¬ ed till the officers of the associa¬ tion feel that the newspaper is established and doing a service to .the community which newspaper are supposed to do. Our classified section by this time had grown to 3 col. previous 2 col. Classified ads from that time. The classified ads section intending to grow until now at the present time we have
at least a page every week of clas¬ sified advertising. Monday Jan. 29 The State Bank of Huntley held a senior citizens day to help the older citizens of the town to get acquainted with the benefits of the Govermnment social security sys¬ tem. It was announced February 1
paper that the Book Mobile would continued its opperation by June, 1962. The Huntley Community service group made commence plans of unificational library. A letter from Mr. Ed Tessendorf which was published the people of the Fox Valley Regional Library
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stated that over 5,000 l)ooks had been circuHted in Huntley.
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School Board
Notes
The School Board of Huntley Consolidated School mot Wednes¬ day, December 12, 1962 at 7 P.M.
The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.
The State Fire Marshall visited the school on November 7, 1962 and required futher correction of hazards, namely, a safety pilot and two plugs for the irons in the Home Economics Dept. and a safe closing door for the boiler room. These will be taken cafe of immed¬ iately. A report was made on the new fire door to be installed be¬ tween the Coach's room and the stage. A cement slab has already been laid in preparation for the erection of a new incinerator.
It was decited not to have a School Board and Faculty party this year owing to the late date.
Applications have been coming in for the position of kindergarten teacher, but as yet, none h^s been selected. Mrs. Heifer has resigned
as of the mid-term.
Mr. _R. \V. S^lajof^/ of Carpenter. Bus Bodies, Mr. Bailey of Bluebird Bus Co. and Mr. James Moody of Wayne Co., makers of Plaid Bus, attended the ^Hf^ meeting and were presenta^^'i opening of bids for a new bus body. Mr. Skelly of Northland Bus came latter. No de- finato decision will be made until the next meeting. The bid of Ben Hansford Chcxiolet was accepted for the new bus chassis. The chass¬ is for a new 66 passenger bus will be delivered to the Bus Body Co. chosen.
Special thanks arc offered to Police Chief Burton \\ho was so prompt to the scene and very help¬ ful when one of the busses broke down recently.
There was discussino a.^ to what children arc to be picked up by the school bus. The Board policy has been to pick up children outside of the City limits only.
Bond and interest payments were approved and funds transfers were made. All bills were approved paid. The meeting was adjourned.
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On Satuj|iy, Dec. 15, four Huntley VMshs received the spe¬ cial "Joe Rftter sentence" which is designed by Judge Ritter to as¬ sist the youlifc who came before him to merSBRheir ways and be¬ come good junior citizens before they are placed in jail.
The youths were charged with letting the pigs out of the pens at the Huntley High School agricul¬ ture d^artment. The complaint ^^ <4li|l^l>y the superintendent of IJH^Huittey High School, .Thomas HHI^/charging criminal damage. The incident happened on December 2, the same night that CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE
Winners At Drug Store
Craig Johnson was the winner of the short-wave raido receiver given away by Collins Pharmacy in their Christmas Contest. The winning ticket was picked by Bob Rubasch. '
The winners of the Kids Contest
for   children   ages  3   through   13
were for the ten girls prizes.
$10 Gift Certificate Rosemary Piske
$ 5 Gift Certificate Sherry Montanye
$ 2 Gift Certificate Melanie  Eckman Connie Ball Jean Eggebrecht Sharon Lange Michele Bilsborough Fran Dona¬ hue Terry Poulton Judy Ard The lucky boys were:
$10 Gift Certificate Steve Bloedom
? 5 Gift Certificate Michael Schiesher
$ 2 Gift Certificate Dennis  Pfaff Ken Kopsell Rick Urbach Joe Barry Wm Linnenkohl Mike Smith Bob Scudder Garry Downen
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entered into the previous year. Some of the adults are made hon¬ orary members of the chapter. They were Mr. Norman Zimmer¬ man, Mr. Max Burgard, Mr. Alvin Rudzin.ski. Two awards were made to the chapter, and a special re¬ ward was given to the chapter from the Elmhurst Lions club. For projects which the FFA chapter had entered. A. W. Garlieb J. I. Case Dealer in Huntley, held a case showcase on February 4th. Mr. Garlieb gave a $90 door prize away at the meeting held in the Huntley Community High school Gym and after the meeting there
was dancing. Mr. George Wassa- Straus w'ho had been a member of the Huntley Shamrock basketball team and a resident of Huntley all of his life had a farewell party, on the 16th before leaving for California. The week of March 1 we reported that Mr. William Mc- Crcdio of Huntley, had been a- warded the progressive breeders award, the highest recognition c*- ta'nable by a breeder of registered Holstein cattle. This award was given by the Holstein-Friesiam association of America and at that t me had onhfcheen awarded to 497 Holstein blj^^Vs.
On March"Sth Huntley bought a new police car, the Huntley Village Board purchased a new police car from Eggbrecht ford, and pffil'ures appeared on the front page of the newspaper with his honor Mayor Brill and ChJeL Kenny Fay receiv¬ ing the ^^y^Bn* '•^^ owner of the Ford Agenc^rtr. Eggbrecht. This week also was national 4-H week. March 3-10 and the 3 4-H clubs had displays around town. The Mayor also published a letter in the newspaper reminding citibens that their taxes ere due on Mar. 1. That week also, the State Bank of Huntley union -xjcial machine "-mpany ard the i ntley Com¬ munity credit union sponsored a r.'dio program on WRMN FM. This program was the Huntley Basketball game against north Boone High school at St. Edwards gym in Elgin. Since t\iat time many merchants have sponsored The Dave Oldham Huntley hour which also appears on WRMN-FM radio. On March 15th the Huntley Keglers won the tournaunent. The March 15th paper looked like a bowling paper, we had three sep¬ arate bowling pictures on the front page, the first one was the team of Al Williams, Al Fitiz. M. Wei- taker, R. Swanson and W. Welt- zien who participated in the 1961- 62 annual Elgin bowling associta- tion tournament and receivevd an award of 500 dollars. Each person on the team received a hundred dollars, and the team as a hole and as well as each of the members received a trophy. The Trophy now sist at the Bowl-Hi lanes in Hunt¬ ley. The team average for the 3 j;ames was 1024-1062-1035 making a total of 3123 pins for the series. The Huntley firemen held a tour¬ nament that week at Bowl Hi lanes for firemen through the area, we also had an article in that pa¬ per commending Ruth Weber a freshmen at Bradley University for finishing out freshmen english after finishing out a semesters work. Dave Forlong a high school senior also received a $500.00 four year scholarship at Illinois Wesic College for his acaremic achieve¬ ments. March 22, this was the week that theHimtley Farmside came out with a 28 page paper, We would like to IntCTpect an edi¬ tors note here about this paper, GOIfTimJED ON PAOK TWO