The Huntley Farmside

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VOLUME   11  — NUMBER  9
THURSDAY,   JUNE  4,   1970
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"BE SURE YOU AKE RIGHT, THEN GO AHEAD" — David Crockett
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Fireworks PJant Ixpkides
The CarpentereTUle Firework Company located In Powder Park, HunUey is no more. Above Is shown what remains ot part of this Fireworks display plant. Owner Loula Marettl. 30 Western Ave., Carpenterville says ttiat there wfll be fireworks for Uie 4tti however. He estimated the damage at about $30,000 accordine to reports. Three men were hospitaUzed as a result of bums suffered In the explosion and Hre which is said to have sWrted In the mlili* room for Chemicals.
School report
The 2nd regular meeting of the Board of Education of School Dist. No. 158 was held at the High School Building on May 25. 1970 at 7:45.
Upon roll call the following ans¬ wered present Mr. Jirik, Mr. Bas¬ tian, Mr. Michelsen, Mr. Bein, Mr. Brandwein, Miss Mackeben and Mr. Stading.
None absent
1— A motion made by Mr. Bein and 2nd by Mr. Stading to approve of a payment to Wilson Electric Co. the sum of $8910.00 for work al¬ ready completed.
Motion carried 7 yeas & 0 nays
2— A motion made by MLss Mac¬ keben and 2nd by Mr. Brandwein to approve of tho following applica¬ tions for Jr. College to attend under the Jr. College Act, Patricia Zim¬ merman, Daniel Dammyer and Rog¬ er Burmeister.
Motion carried 7 yeas & 0 nays
3— A motion made by Miss Mac¬ keben and 2nd by Mr. Michelsen to approve of the following contracts of Glenard Delaney and Jack Mc¬ Donald for the school year of 1970
Continued on page 2 SCHOOL REPORT
Park Board
Meeting
A special meeting was held by the Huntley Park Board on May 25, 1970 at 8:00 P.M. Upon roll call, those present were: Commissioners Piske, Ream and Tessendorf; ab- ent, Deicke and Parisek. Also in attendance were Attorney Cowlin, Financial Consultant Froelich and Mrs. Janet Hulke.
This meeting was held for the purpose of setting up an Appro¬ priation Ordinance for the year 1970-1971.
The President turned the meet¬ ing over to Mr. Froehlich who gave the audit report along with the tentative Ordinance for a better over-all picture of the budget.
After the board reviewed and discussed the above, a motion was ni;a;de by Commissioner Piske, sec¬ onded by Commisioner Tessendorf to adjourn, and the meeting was so adjourned at 10:26 P.M.
Two firemen, Vernon Brtmsdjon and David Oldham, Huntley and an employee Kurt Johnson of Palatine. All are in fair condition at the Woodstock Hospital with first and second and 3rd degree burtis.
The exptosior could be heard throughout HunUey and several windows were dhattered.
The injury to the two firemen oc¬ curred when a barrel containing powder, which had been moved out of the burning structure exploded. The firemen had been working around the container for some time, Brunschon said. He picked up the barrell to move it and noUced that it was on fire. He dropped the con¬ tainer, turned attempting to get be¬ hind one of the Huntley fire trucks. He did not make it.
The blast threw him 45 feet through the air tearing the clothing off his body. Bruncheon landed on bis feet and rolled in the grass to extinguish the fire. Other firemen came to his aid.
Oldham was burned severly on his face. His sight was spared, however, as be was wearing glasses at the time of the explosion. He was also injured by flying debris which land¬ ed as far away as Mixner farm a distance of 2 miles.
JIOTICE
The following appears on a poster in Weber Hardware Store in an at¬ tempt to raise funds for the two Huntley firemen who were injured in the explosion of the fireworks plant:
Vernon Brunschon and Dave Old¬ ham victims cf volunteer firefight- ing — Burned bad off work for months — They volunteered in time of need now will you show your interest in them? — Donat¬ ions will be accepted by mail or in person by Weber Hardware Store, Jack Anderson the Fire Chief, Hard ing Secretary of the Department, or any member of the department. Closing out time date is June 20th. We are asking you as indivuals, organizations, business places, and factories and persons living within our fire district. The amount col¬ lected will be published after June 20th.
Thank You
J.  Anderson
Memorial Day 1970
Memorial Day services were held in Huntley on Saturday morning, May 30th, 1970. The day started with the dedication of an Eternal Flame in front of the Legion Home. Com¬ mander Jack Goehl stated that the flame was for every deceased vet¬ eran, not only of this community but all the communities of the United States of America who gave their lives that we might have this service today. Commander Goehl stated he hoped that when people came t hrough Huntley, they would stop and say a prayer for the souls of the deceased veterans who gave their lives that this nation might live.
Robert Schultz gave the prayer at the dedication. Mrs. Robert Schultz, President of the American Legion Auxiliary, dedicated the memorial In behalf of the unit, stating it was dedicated to the memory of those who fell in the service of our coun¬ try. She continued, it is dedicated to those who offered their lives in the name of justice, freedom, and de¬ mocracy.
Following the dedication at the •Legion Home, the veterans and Continued on Page Two MEMORIAL DAY 1970
High School Graduation
Commencement exercises were held at the Huntley High School on Friday evening. May 29th, at 8:00 P.M.
Graduation began with the pro¬ cessional to "Pomp and Circum¬ stance" by Elgar, accompanied by Ann Michelsen at the organ.
The Reverend F. Dudley Day then gave the invocation. The Am¬ erican Legion Awards were then presented by Mr. Donald Enstrom, McHenry County Commander. These awards were presented to Gregory Bundgard and Joan Fin¬ zel. Runners up for the Legion A- wards were Richard Strissel and Mary Jane Kreutzer.
Following the presentation of the Legion Awards, Judy Drendel gave a speech entitled, "Puppets of Soc lety." Miss Drendel explained that because society approves or (Jis- approves of the way we think, feel, and act, everyone seems to be a "Puppet of Society.'' She went on to say that school is a very difinite part of society. After twelve years of school, a person is more or less let out into the world to make their Continued on Page Two GRADUATION
Sight & Hearing Testing
Parents of pre-school children who have not been screened for vision and he{U°ing by Mrs. Korwin, school nurse, will want to take ad¬ vantage of this sei-vice.
Registration will be at the High School office, June Sth from 9:00 A.M. to 3.00 P.M.
"Do you know actually whether your child is seeirg and hearing normally'?'' is the question asked by the L.ake-McHenry Regional Program for Hearing and Visually Impaired Children. The staff of the Lake-McHenry Program and the Illinois State Departmen of Public Health, the Illinois Society for the Prevention of Blindness in cooperation with the Huntley Con¬ solidated  School  District  1B8.
Parents are frequently not aware that a child could have "lazy eye" blindness or amblyopia in one eye, or low vision in both eyes. They are also apt to be unaware of hearing problems in one or both ears. The purpose of the screening is to locate the preschool age child¬ ren with possible vision and hearing- problems and to identify those need- Continued on page 2 SIGHT ft HEARING TESTING