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Village Board Invests Bonds
The regular meeting of the Hunt¬ ley Village Board was hold on Thursday. Al\ members of the Board were present. This was probably one of the shortest meetings in the history of the Village Board. /
Following the reading of the min-    / utos, paying of bills and other rout¬ ing business the Board voted to in¬ vest the $181 .ooe  lor  Ihc improve¬ ments to the water  and sewer sy¬ stems,   including   a   new   well,   in treasury bonds. The bonds will  ac-    : cumulate an interest of $20 p<-r day until they arc needed by the village. ;i spokesman for the Board stated The purchasing of the bonds is be¬ ing  handUa  l)y   the  S'.ate   B;;nk  of    : Hunlley.
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PTA To Show Film Jan 20
The Huntley PTA will be meet¬ ing, for this month only, on a MON- I')AV, instead of our usual Wednes¬ day. Our meeting will be held on Monday, Jan. 20. at 8 p.m.
We have a movi(> on the subject ot Sex Kducation and our guest ."speaker will be Dr. Kitch. W'e vot¬ ed at one of our previous ineetings to pay the cost of seeing this film
as it is highly recommended. We would like to sec a good turn out for this film as this was decided by thp majority to be worth our time and money to view.
Wc are now organizing our April Fools show. Our chairman is Alice Scherer.
Annual Soil & Water Meeting
The State of Illinois has slaicd Ihc animal meetinjr of the McHenry County Soil and Wator Conservation D;s:rict for .January 25. This 22nd annual inecting will be held this year in ihe Ami-rioan Legion Hall in McHenry. The haiujuet will be¬ gin al 7::i0 and the business inect¬ ing at 8:15.
The purposes of the  meeting  are
to prcseni reports of ihe accomplisli-
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Huntley 3rd In Holiday Tourney
In the first sranic of tlie Marentro Holiday lournanicnt. Huntley de¬ feated the Rockets of Richmond by the score of 68 to 5f>. The first per¬ iod was about even as Huntley man ajred to outscore Richmond H! to 14 to take a lead of two at tbe quarter. The second quarter was the one which gave the game to Huntley. The Redskins outscored Richmond by ten points. 20 to 10. to take a lead of twelve points, IW to 24 into the showeroom with them at the half.
The second half was even. Hunt¬ ley added a point to its lead in the third   quarter   as   they   outscored Richmond  15  to 14 to lead by 13,. 51 to 38 al the close of the period." Richmond regrained that single point" in the fourth quarter, but that was, all.  ita.  they outscored  Huntley   18 Continued on  FuKt^ .Seven
FIRE RAGED THRHGH BDCf PUUMACY MONDAY
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Mr. William Buck announced that he lias made arranRements with the Algonquin Pharmacy lo fill perscriptions of his Huntley custom¬ ers until the Huntley druir store is re.opened. The telephone number of the AlRonquin Pharmacy is OI.S.4r)4.S. The perment perscrlteion file was not distroyed In the fire. Only a few new perscriptions hilled within a day or two of the fire were distroyed. The persoription file has been moved to .\l)r<>nquin. Pcr- scripeiens lill through the Algon¬ quin pharmacy may be picked up the .same day at the Huntley Post OlHter  durinij   business  hours.
HeKular daily newspapers, usu¬ ally picked up at the dnij; store, may be called for in the loby of the l)ank. The Huntley Farmside may be purchased at the Village Inn or at 31   (irove Street.
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Huntley 1968 Weather Facts
Huntley Strcei Supe iniendeiil Percy Swanson reports the foUow- inpr weather statistics for tbe sear 1968, These tempeiature readings were taken at 8 a.m. every morn¬ ing, by Mr. Swanson. The tot.il rain for the year was AS'> inches. the lotal snow was 14 1/4 inches, most of which was in this just past month of December. The rain during one day was 4'2 inches and the largest snow storm was 3 inch¬ es as compared to 1967 when we had 15 inches in a day, these were very slight storms. The average temperature was 54.8 which tells us that this was a mild year. The high¬ est temperature was 98 degrees the lowest 12 bolow.
Mr.   Swanson   has   kept   records
for Ihe past six years. During that
• time, the  bjghest  temperature was
ICO degrees and the lowest wa.s ,30
below, both in  1966.
Pictured above is the newly com¬ pleted bus-garage at the Himtley school. The building, a pole type, built by Bryant Builders, Inc., holds seven school bu.ses in an unhealed portion of the building. At the ex¬ treme north end of the building is one stall which is heated and has a cement floor. This building is heated by one overhead 128,000 BTU heater. It has a drain which is connected to the city sewer .system and enables Mr. Ed Seiler, bus .superintendent, to make   epairs on
Huntley firemen were summoned to Buck's Pharmacy at ten min- u'<-s to nine Monday escning by n telephone call from Jack Offenheis¬ er. The fire in the phannaey was discovered almost simu'taneously by Offenheiser and Alan BaU. 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Ball of South Woodstock St'-eet, Huntley, Mrs. Ball stated that .she ati-mpi- '¦d to call the fi' e dcparim nt but in her e- citcment must have dialed the wrcnq: number as whoever answc; ed on the oihr^r end hung up immediately. She said she ran out and heard the fire siren.
The Huntley firemen were hold¬ ing their regular monthly mer-ting tn the fire station and had tested the firv siren approximately an hour p-e\iously making many Huntley residents skeptical of the authentcniicity of the second alarm. The meeting had adjcurned by the time of the fir.- and only a few firemen remained in the station at the lime of the fire.
Ed Piske, a lieutenant in ihe de¬ partment, took the call and sent firemen Robert Schachtner to in- vestisaie. Schachtner reported back that either smoke or steam was coming out of the back of fhe build¬ ing. The alarm was sounded and upon arriving on the scejie Huntlet;^ firemeii found the back of the store in flames. Schachtner stated that he could see the fire raging through the cracks of the closed rear door of the building. The prescription area of the pharmacy, store room, and ceiling were ravaged by flames. Smoke and intense heat engulfed the entire interior of the building. The extreme heat melted every¬ thing plastic four feet off the ground. This included, the telephones, type¬ writer, plastic letier decorating the wall, tape recorders, radios, dis¬ play cases, packaging, the clock above the front door and facings for electrical fixtures. .Aerosol cans popped. Even the plate glas win¬ dows in the front of the store were cracked wilh the heat. Mirat^:lous- ly the piescriplion rccoros fioused in the back of the store were not dcshoytxl. howc-.cr, the cabinet in which they were housed was badly scorched. Bottles containing chemi¬ cals for prescri )fions were cither b oken or sco.ched badly wilh smoke. Mr, Buck, who had closc>d the store a; 8 p.m. was on his way homeo and did not arrive back in Huntley after IC o'clock when the fire had been extingiusihed. He slated thai he will not dispen.se any of the pills or prescription drugs in  the fire.
On Tuesday morning smoke was still present in the interior of the building from smoldering papers and merchandise stored in the back of the store. Huntley firemen work; ed to connect the radiant htar in the floor of the building so the pipes ( ONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE
the buses regardless of the weather. At the S(;uth end of the garage two smaller overhead fiberglass doors give access to a fifteen foot stor¬ age area for other vehicles owned by the school, .such as the drivers training car. the school pick-up trucks and the tractor used for cutting grass.
Work was commenced on the con.structioB in the middle of No¬ vember, a though ground breaking t<K)k place in October. The exterior
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Fresh-Soph Take 4th at Moosehart
Huntley placed fourth out of eight schools in the Mooseheart Frosh- Soph tournament held December 25th through the 30th. Starting line¬ up for the team was Dave Schmit¬ tendorf, Glen Borhart, Darwin Campbell, Len Borhart Mike Hans¬ ler and Pat Donahue.
On December 26 Huntley beat Mooseheart, but lost to Geneva on December 27th. Geneva had been predicted to win Ihe tournament. In the play-«|ff Gftieva dumped Contiiined  oa Page Five