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VOLUME 4 — NUMBER 34 THURSDAY, NOV. 21, 196S
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Gas Celehrates SO Yrs in Huntley      School Concert     Gas Celehrates BO Yrs in Huntley
E. D. Sheehan, executive vice president of Northern Illinois Gas Company, cuts cake at dinner commemorating 50 years of gas service to the Villages of Huntley and Hampshire. Among the guests were numerous civic officiate, Including [ I. to r.] Howard Runge, Hampdiire village president, M^ Runge, Mrs. Brill and Wilpault Brill, Huntley village president.
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School Bffi^rd F.F.A. News
The Huntley FTA C3tapter is go¬ ing to have its annual FFA Slave Sale on Nov. 29, 1963 at 8:00 p.m. This sale is an annual event at which the FFA members are sold to the highest bidder. There are 35 members which will be auctioned off. The boys will be auctioned off by Howard Ruth. One-half of the money which will be received from the auction will be put into our scholarship fund. This scholarship ftmd was establi^ed for a chapter member who plans to go on for further education in agriculture, and the other half goes into the Chapter's treasury.
The chapter members will b«v sold to work on Nov. 30, 1963. The days work starts at 8:00 in the morning and ends at 5 p.m., being an 8 hour day.
There willb e entertainment at the Slave Sale which is being plan¬ ned by ttie Huntley FFA Chapter. There will ako be refreshments served after the sale, and there will be cakes sold, which are homemade after refreshments are served. Reporter, David H«raner
The School Boai^Z^R Huntley Consolidated School met Thuirsday, November 14, 1963 for its regular monthly meeting with all members present. After the minutes were read and approved, fund transfers were made according to law.
Bus reports wero checked. There have been inquiries from several individuals concerning the disposi¬ tion of the old bus being replaced this month. The bus will be offered for sale on closed bids, it is a Su¬ perior body with a 1948 Clievrolet body. Anyone interested may con¬ tact Mr. Tom Kelly at the School. It was decided to repair the driveway and turn around at the South end of the school.
The work on the painting of the gwm has been completed and along with the new accoustical ceiling makes a  marked  improvement.
Darryl Reeves has replaced La¬ Verne Jordi who has resigned as janitor's assistant.
The Slave Sale has been an¬ nounced for the 29th of November at 8 p.m. with Howard Ruth acting as auctioneer. A report on the Committee for Agricultiu-e Educa¬ tion was piiesented by CJeorge Adains, Board Member. Officers for the Committee for the coming year are as follows: Chairman-Al¬ vin Hoffman; Vice Chairman, W. Sherwin, Secretary. Herb Heim¬ soth; Treasure, Emil Workowski. The resignation of Board Mem¬ ber, Adeline Kunde wa-s accepted since she has moved out of our district. Ernie Stading Jr. was ap¬ pointed to fill out the remainder of her term until the next election. CXirrent bills were read and ap¬ proved paid.
There was discussion and plan¬ ning regarding hoper for additions to our school. The Public will re¬ ceive more information about this in the very near future.
The next Board Meeting vidll be on Wednesday, December  11,   at 7:30  p.m.   The meeting was   ad¬ journed. Audrey Korwin Board scribe
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Alden - Herbon and Richmond High Schools were accepted as members of the Little "8" Con¬ ference, effective as of the 1964-65 school year.
With the addition of Hebron and Richmond to the conference, therp will now be nine teams participa¬ ting in football, and eight in basket ball.
For the 196465 school year, due to scheduling conflicts and confer¬ ence realignments, every attempt will be made to adjust schedules to include the new members. How¬ ever, due to existing contract com¬ mitments it is very doubtful whether a full schedule of confer¬ ence football games can be ar¬ ranged with Hebron and Ridhmond and other Little "8" Cwiference schools for 1964. These conflicts probably will not effect either bas¬ ketball or the Spring sports for tiie 1964-65 sdiool year.
The Huntley Cons. Schools Ca¬ det Band, grades 6, 7, and 8, and the Junior Oiorus, grades 7 and 8, vrill present their Annual Winter Concert, Friday evening, Nov. 22, 1963 at 8:15 p.m. at the Huntley Cons. Schools Gym. There is no charge for admission.
The Junior Chorus will open the program with " Carol of the Bells, Lcontovich arr. Wilhousky; then a Negro spiritual, "Good Ne\|.", arr. Smith.. "I Heard the Bells on ChristmasD ay", arr, by Kjelson and Vance, with v ords by H. W. Longfellow, and music by J. Marks a nonsense song will follow, "The Elephant and the Flea" arr. by Barthelson; then "Carol of the Sheep Bells", arr. by R. Kountz; and   closing   with   "The   Drunken
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[Editors note The following let¬ ter is being sent home with the school chUdren.It^-^^^!)ianes tJie pos¬ ition taken by tM||^|mtley School Board on the entrant Jr. CoUege iwue,]
Your School B^|d has gone on record as being •Wed to the re¬ cent McHenry cSnlty Junior Col¬ lege movement. This does not mean we are not ,in favor of fur¬ ther education, however, we feel we have a local building problem which must be solved first. TTie ref¬ erendum for the proposed college wfill be held on December 14, 1963. Our school district was included in the college district as it is set up on a county wide basis and it is necessary that we vote on this issue. We made our position known to the college committee, neverthe¬ less, unknown to us, our district Was madp a part of the McHenry (bounty Junior Cbllege district and therefore this forces us to hold a referendum on this issue.
This year our Kindergarten en¬ rollment is 78 to date. This means our first grades next year will be very overcrowded and this proBIem will continue to grow. Only about half of our students desiring com¬ mercial courses can be accommo¬ dated now. Our cafeteria space is Hmited making it necessary to ar¬ range our academic schedule to permit m hours of lunch time to handle the students. The boys and girls locker rooms are so small half of the students in the bym classes must wait outside while the other half dresses. Our gui¬ dance director has a small comer of the scihool clinic as an office and could use more space. Addi¬ tional space is also needed for chemistry, physics and science classes.
There are many subjects we •would like to add to our curricu¬ lum In order to round out our high school schedule. We should be able to offer an Industrial Arts course, speech class and our social studies should be expanded.
We feel that the tax money re¬ quired to establish a Junior Col¬ lege, if paid into our own school district, would make it possible for us to bring our school up to the standards your school board knows you desire. We cannot expect our taxpayers
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WUpanIt Brill. Hnntley vUlnge president, lights gaslights donated to the vUJage by Northern Illinois Gas Company in connnemoratlon of 50 years of gas service to the ViUage. Included in' ^^ are [•• to r.] Howard EtclOson, NI-Gas district superintendent, eM^ Sheehan, execu¬ tive vice president of NI-Gas, Irwfat WasserstrMs, Vw«ge tm^ee, Rich¬ ard Enstrom, vUlage clerk, and Donald Enstrom village trustee.
Special
Thanksgiving
Services
Lutheran Church note	
An "Unusual Service of Song, Praise, and Pagant", will be ob¬ served in Trinity Lutheran ChiuT*, on Sun. evening at 8:00 p.m. The congregation will be host to the Lutheran (3ioir-Fox Valley. TTie public is cordially invited.
The Lutheran C^hoir-Fox Valley has drawn its members from the choirs of St John's, Good Shepherd, and our Saviour, of Elgin, Bethle¬ hem and Immanuel of Dundee, Faith Meadowdale, St Peter's of Pingree Grove, and Trinity, Himt¬ ley.
The purpose of this dedicated group is to assist and inspire con¬ gregational hymn singing. Hearing will be an enriching e?cperience, and the perfect way to begin the Thanksgiving season.
Thanksgiving Day Services	
The traditional morning Thanks^ giving Day service at the United Church of Christ will be at 9:00 a.m. The Senior Pilgrim Fellowship will conduct the service of worship. A United Church missionary, the Reverend Miss Anna Dederer, on leave from the church's mission at Uliga, Majuro, Marshall Islands in Micronesia, will be the guest preacher on this occassion.
Miss Dederer was borin in Ger many, trained at the Liebenzelle Mission Seminary, and, after three years as an assistant ministed to Congregational churches in Ger¬ many, entered a nurses school for training as a missionary nurse. As¬ signed to Micronesia by the Lie¬ benzelle Mission Society In 1934, she served as nurse and churdi worker on the Mortlock Islands. In 1939 she was transfered to Truk, to teach in the Girl's Chris¬ tian Tranlng School. She stayed In
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Police Report
George Zobjick, 220 W. 1st St Woodstock was arrested last Satui> day Nov. 16 and charged with reckless driving and having no drivers license. Zobjick was warned not to drive his car by C^hief Nel¬ son in oneo f Huntley's local Tav¬ erns. Thirty five minutes later when he was picked up at the cor¬ ner of Mill and Grove he stated that he did not think the Chief would be around. Chief Nelson took Zobjick to Woodstock where $200 bond was set and made. The Chief stated that the Huntley police can not hold prisoners in the jail im- less a iTian is on duty at all times in the building, therefore all pris¬ oners must be taken to the courily jail in Woodstock.
Coming Event
Royal Neighbor s of America Christmas Party will be held Dec. 11, at 8:00 p.m. in tihe Village Hall Each member is asked to bring a $1 gift exchange. This will be an important meeting so please try to attend.
Wliat Are We, Voting For
What are people voting for on December 14? They are voting for or against a Community College district in McHenry County. They are voting for or against a Maxi¬ mum educational tax rate of 9 cents, WHICH MAY NOT BE EX¬ CEEDED. They are voting for or against a MAXIMUM building tax rate of 5 cents WHICH MAY NOT BE EXCE^EDED. If the voters an¬ swer is yes may the college board of education start building ? THEY CAN NOT. Why not? They can¬ not because the 5 cent levy would not yield the capital necessary, and the board cannot take on debts ex¬ ceeding their maximum levy. How then would the buildings be built? The board would be able to obtain
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