The Huntley Farmside

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Thursday, March 28,1961
VOLUME 1 —NO. 51
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Amer.   Legion Birtkday     Din.
Close to 150 people attended the Second Annual Birthday Dinner in the Huntley American Legion last Saturday, March 18. The dinner was held to celebrate the 42nd annivei-sary of the American Le¬ gion and to celebrate Huntley's American Legion Post 4lst anni¬ versary. A roast beef dinner was §er%-e(J tg, alJ JQembers, mf ^hMj wives and to several guests who had helped with this birthday din¬ ner.
Following the dinner, Mr. Willis, commander of the American Le¬ gion, started the program. The pro¬ gram consisted of sections of the regular American Legion meeting followed by the introduction of guests and a movie "We Who Serve," was put out by the Amer¬ ican Legion. Following the movie the "DevUettes" from the V.F.W. in McHenry demonstrated their precision drill work. The Thunder¬ birds were scheduled next on the program. They were to have their uniforms by this meeting but be¬ cause of the Kareness of the ma¬ terial it was impossible to attain these uniforms in time for the din¬ ner. The Thunderbirds, however, did present quite a spectacular show of the precision drill work they have been working on since their conception last December. The district,* county and post commanders next gsve a little speech on the work of the Amer¬ ican Legion in this area. The eleventh district conunander is Mr. Russell Bieritz and lives in Geneva, 111. Mrs. Lois Wees is the coui)ty commander and comes from Won¬ der Lake, 111. The NIU Four were scheduled next on the prog;ram. However, only thre of the boys could make it. The boys are fra¬ ternity brothers, and were organ¬ ized by Ron Sampson, choir direc¬ tor of the First Congregational Continued on Page Sis AMERICAN LBXIION BIRTHDAV
Hi^k • Loiv Farm   Income
If you want to learn about the practices which make a difference in higher and lower incomes on farms this past year, come to the Adult F^rm class'Thursday, March 23. Norm Specht, field man for Farm Bureau Farm Management, and Sam Haning, area conserva¬ tionist, willJoe with us to discuss this very important topic.
The class has discussed many new ideas and practices in farm¬ ing. One of the big questions of economics is do these practices ac¬ tually pay? We will have first hand information to base our dis¬ cussion during the meeting.
Grroup   Formed
Two representatives from the six organizations attended a mating last Monday night for the purpose of constituting, advising and pro¬ moting subjects and projects per¬ taining to the public interest of the community. The group was com¬ posed of Glen Delaney and Al Broncosky representing the Village Board, George Willis and Ed Tes¬ sendorf representing tho American L«gion Elsie Jordi and Alice Sciiar- cr, representing the American Le- "ftO« AUJffltaTy,' Glen Delaney and Roger Perley representing the Lions Club, Bill Pall and Margaret Swanson representing the Huntley P.T.A., Mazie Blott and Ruth Fen¬ wick, representing the Grafton Home Bureau Unit.
Project Chairman was Mrs. Lima Tessendorf. The newly formed group will go under the name of the Huntley Community Service (i-oup and will deal with subjects and projects which a number of groups can handle. In this way two groups will not be working separately on the same subject fausing an over-lap of working time.
Mr. Glon Delaney was elected temporary chairman at this meet¬ ing and Mr. Perley was elected temporary secretary. The group discussed the bookmobile, which at the present time the American Le¬ gion Auxiliary is sponsoring. TTie Auxiliary will continue to sponsor this project until July 1 when their funds will be exhausted. At that time some other means will have Continued on Page Three NEW GROUP FORMED . . .
SORRY
Due to the late date of the Bask¬ etball dinner the Huntley Farmside reg;rets that it is unable to print a story. In next weeks Farmside, hwwiever, there will be a story on this dinner.
Terrific   Storm
Cyclone Does Great Damage in
This  Vicinity
Four  Barns   Wrecked,   140   Cows
Killed, Several People Injured
The most destructive storm ever known swept over this section about 6:30 o'clock Thursday eve¬ ning, and vio-ecking four bams within a radius of 3 miles of towTi killed 140 head of cows, smashed rflany windmills and destroyed thousands of dollars worth of property. Several persons were badly injured but fortunately no lives were lost. The barns wrecked are as follows: ORVILLE CUMMINGS
The large new barn built the past fall by Orville Cummings on his farm just west of town was blown down, completely wrecked and of the 52 heads of cows in the building atwut 30 of them were killed. Mr. Cummings had just put his horse in the barn, after driving home from town, and wa.s making Conttnued on Page Sis TERRIFIC STORM .  . .
E^lection   Facts
m nvb-week* the pedfyfe orkttht- loy and Grafton Township will have the opportunity to vote for the candidates running for a num¬ ber of offices. The towTiship su¬ pervisors election, and the Graf¬ ton Park Board election will be held April 4th. The school board election will be held April 8 and the Village election will be held April  18.
It Is interesting to note, that one does not have to be registered for voting in order to cast a ballot in all of these elections. In the town¬ ship, school board, village board and park board elections, a citizen over 21 years of age only has to be a resident of the state for one year, a resident of the county for 90 days and a resident of the pre¬ cinct 30 days.
Only in a judicial, state or na¬ tional election does a citizen have to be registered. For example, for the Justice of tho Peace election and constable election, a citizen does have to be registered. Perhaps in some of these "non-registered" elections, Huntley can have a 100% turnout of its citizens.
Happy   Birtkday Legion
Clyde Clanton, oldest living'past commander of tlie American Leg¬ ion, Post 678, is shown cutting the many tter«d l>irtliday cake at tlie Legion's Blrthdey Dinner last Saturday niglit, March 1^.
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N.F.O. to Meet In   Hnntley
On Friday, March 24, the Na¬ tional Firm Organization will hold a meeting in the high School Agri¬ culture Room at 8 p.m.
The NFO, youngest ot the large farm organizations, was a recent member of the team of farm or¬ ganizations that was called to New York City by President Kennedy to discuss the farm crisis. N, F O is the- larg^t -ttargatiring group ami" the fastest growing farm organ¬ ization today.
This being a new organization to this area, there has been much "street corner" and "Farmel-s' store" talk about it but now we have the opportunity to hear the facts and ask questions of a man qualified to answer.
Mr. Elmer Schlemme, district or¬ ganizer will be in charge of the meeting. He comes from the cen¬ tral office in Corning, la. If you should not b^ able to attend this meeting there will be another in the Agriculture Room of the Marengo High School on the following Mon¬ day, March 27.
AU farmers and their wives, are invited-to attend this meeting in Huntley Friday night.
NOTICE
The Huntley American Legion will hold an "Italian Spaghetti Dinner" March 25 at tho Huntley American Legion Home. Dinner will be served from 5 p.m. till 7 p.m. Tickets may be picked up in advance at Chuck's Barber Shop or at the American Legion Home or they may be bought at the door. The money raised from this event will be used to advance the Thun¬ derbirds, which is the Junior Color Guard sponsored by the American Legion.
Huntley   Lions
March 14th the Huntley Lions Club enjoyed a ham dinner at the American Legion Home, served by the American Legion Auxiliary. Guests from the Elg^in Lions Club were present; they were Lions Frank Menke, Elmer Kahle, and "Spike" Sponholtz. Sixteen of 22 Huntley Lionsw ere present.
The minutes *of the previous meeting were read and approved. The treasurer's report was read an daproved.
The Lions were invited to at¬ tend the Grade School Basketball Banquet March 21 at the American Legk)n Home.
Lions Delahey and Perley were ' volunteers to attend ameeting con¬ cerning   the Huntley Bookmobile Continued on page 2 L.ION8 MEETINO . . .
Huntley   Higk
H
onor
Roll
The honor roll for the fourth six weeks period at Huntley High School is as follows:
"A" HONOR ROLL (All A's) — Sharon Gray, Senior; Joyce Kop¬ sell, Senior; Bruce Weber, Senior: Bonnie Borhart, Junior.
"B" HONOR ROLL (AU B's or better - no C's - (all seniors) Phyllis Bell, Jerj-y Hugrian, Jeaa^e Kafil, ¦'Kay KoT'bef g,' Patncla Kunrie, Lyle Marlowe, Sustin Plane. Carole Rehberg, Carol Re¬ mus, Sharon Stading, Nancy Ur¬ bach, Allen Wells.
JUNIORS — Raymond Cole, Da¬ vid Frohling, Carol Olson, Phyllis Pedersen.
SOPHOMORES — SheUa Hart¬ rick, Susan Maushak, Tom Runge.
FRESHMEN - Denis Acker¬ berg, Juanita Drafall, Patricia Hemmer, Mary Palmer, Diana Swanson, Mary Seemann.
Do You Rememkerp
Since the publication of the first newspaper the Ufe line of the paper has been its advertisers. In the beginning before laws prohib¬ ited it, everyone in a community re¬ ceived a copy of the local news¬ paper. At first these papers were only a page in length, but as time progressed and printing {Mrocesses improved and were elaborated up¬ on, larger and larger newspapers came into existence.
In the early days of printing aU the characters were engraved on blocks. One block would contain an entire page. The first movable type was invented shortly before Guten¬ berg printed his Bible. ITiis elim¬ inated carving each letter individ- uaUy on a block of wood. The same principle of individual characters is still carried on in present day printing. Many of our display ads and the Huntley Farmside head it¬ self is the movable type which Gutenberg used to print his Bible.
Around the time of the CItU War, artists were employed to etch pictures of various generals, indiv¬ iduals, battlesand maps to be used in the newspaper. No contrast was contained in these pictures for a niimber of years until someone in¬ vented the half tone process which is a series of dots varying in den¬ sity with the lightness and dark¬ ness of a picture. The Huntley Ne-\Vs of 1893 throughout its paper used these Une drawing^. Up un¬ til the turn of the century hand¬ set type was used to set up the news in a newspaper. As time pro-
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