Board Forms Advisory Council; to Meet Feb. SINGLE C O P Y 2 5 * the Qiatsworth School Board Decided Ticipates No Charge in Lunch Prices at This Time
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Hoag & Sons Book Bindery Ino. Sprlngport, M ichigan 4 9 2 8 4 Board forms Advisory Council; to meet Feb. SINGLE C O P Y 2 5 * The Qiatsworth school board decided ticipates no charge in lunch prices at this time. Thursday night to begin meetings with a -saved about $500 in insurance premiums 14-member advisory council. by changing workmen’s compensation in Council members are in the process of be surance coverage to the Illinois Association of ing invited by the board to become part of the School Boards insurance plan, which operates organization, whose purpose is to discuss the as a cooperative. CHATSWORTH, ILLINOIS (60921), THURSDAY, JAN 2 8 , 1 9 8 2 district's financial future. -appointed Ahlfield to be the district's ONE HUNDRED EIGHTH YEAR NUMBER 18 James Ahlfield, superintendent of schools, board member to the Special Services Ad emphasized in an interview after the meeting ministrative Board. 1981, Combelt Press, Inc. that the board did a great deal of thinking oh -learned from Carrico that the Senior Trip member selection. A list of prospective will be from April 18 through April 23. citizens was drawn up, from which individual board members contacted people. J Ahlfield said that the board wanted perso# who were interested and who could attHM meetings. The council will meet for the first time an Wednesday, Feb. 10. Ahlfield will give out statistical information and ask for questions. MANY OF THE PAST frigid days have been too cold for salt to work, but the At the November board meeting, the board village board bought some for the warmer days to come. had decided to initiate such a committee after Plaindealer Photo reviewing district finances. Ahlfield said that the district may have to issue tax anticipation warrants in March. Last year, warrants began in April, and Ahlfield said that the board has maintained the budget timeline for this year. “We knew we had a budget deficit for this year as soon ar Board sets holiday policy we approved the budget," Ahlfield said. Knowing that the financial picture-pro The Chatsworth village board decided the town’s salt quota. The letter went to the bably would not improve, the board has ... — . i i » i Tuesday night to set a specific policy on those township by mistake, and salt could not be discussed possible alternatives for future ac holidays which town employees may have off purchased from the usual company. tion. Options include an increase in the educa from work. Another outlet has been found for salt, with tion fund tax rate, issuing working cash bonds, _________ Seven holidays were named, including New the cost to be $23.80 per ton plus freight. This is and consolidation with one or more neighbor - Year's, Good Friday, Memorial Day, July 4, $5 a ton higher than anticipated, but with salt ing districts. Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. in short supply, the board was relieved to find Among other items of business, the board Other days may not be substituted for the some. rehired Ahlfield and high school principal specific days mentioned, and the days must be In other business, the board: Leeon Carrico. used in the year in which the holidays occur. -approved the purchase of three fire Salaries for administrators will be set If emergencies require an employee to hydrants, three cutoff valves, and five curb later. In discussing salaries, the board decided work on a holiday, he may take the next work stops at a total cost of $3090. to begin a plan in which administrators' ___________________ day off. -asked that the Santa Claus house be salaries would be set in February, with : In addition, vacation time that an employee removed. Town employees will remove pole teachers' wages reviewed in March and all ______ has accumulated must be taken within the decorations when weather permits. salary considerations finished in April. : year that the vacation time is allowed for -discussed the legality of trucks parking The Board salary committee will consist of Vacation days may not be saved up from one for extended lenghts of time next to the Roger Wilson and Tom Gerth, with board year to another highway or near intersections. president Fancis Haberkom also attending In another matter, the heavy ice on streets -agreed that the town should do whatever when the group meets with the teachers. HOMELIKE ATMOSPHERE graces the new office, seated at desk, and Mary Nimbler, at right, _________ has been a special problem for the town this favors are possible for the village industry, in Because of scheduling conflicts in admittance office at Fairbury hospital as the result of assistant comptroller simulate an admissions scenario, year because the usual salt vendor did not send cluding snow removal and salting parking February, the regular board meeting will be changes this week. The new quarters give a relaxing and while hospital administrator Glenn Miller, left, who a letter to the village last summer asking for lots held on Wednesday, Feb. 17 instead of the private location for completing the admissions form, in initiated the new office, tells W altons manager W.W. regular third Thursday. contrast to the previous location by an open Dutch door in “Dude" Wessel their donation will be marked with the In other business, the board: the general office bronze plaque he is ho'ding -learned that the lunch fund shows a loss of The new office is the f• rst physical move in the $4400 for the first half of the school year. All furniture for the new room was donated to the hospital's newly approved theme Your Home For Ahlfield said that part of the loss is due to less hospital by Walton’s Department store of Fairbury state reimbursement for meals. Ahlfield an Tuesday afternoon, Marcia Meints. from the general Health glade Photo January over; w hat comes next? The weather in east central Illinois has in a dnft of snow, abandoned it and finally resembled a roller coaster this winter. It was arrived at a farmhouse. No one was home so exemplified last week by a rise in she forced her way in, found a phone, called temperatures Wednesday evening to almost 40 relatives and collapsed. She apparently spent degrees at midnight and then a plunge toward a great deal of time recovering from the zero within 12 hours. ravages of exposure. Unfortunately for residents the 40 degree It might be well to remember that following temperatures also brought precipitation in the the record cold of January 1936, followed the form of snow, rain, and snow again, which record heat of July 1936. when added to the snow on the ground and the But can we say that we really are having a falling temperatures brought road conditions severe winter? that resembled a skating rink. The Illinois Department of Energy and A light snow fell during the 24 hour period Natural Resources defines a severe winter Thursday. storm as six or more inches of snow in 48 hours Any chance of the ice melting was or less somewhere in the state, or damaging forestalled by temperatures over the weekend ice over at least 5,000 square miles. Usually an which ranged from the middle teens to average of five storms occur during a winter readings on the negative side of the zero mark. There is a 70 percent chance of one or more More snow Sunday night and Monday severe storms during the month of January. morning with little wind reduced the Does it seem to you that we’ve had the whole slipperyness of some roads, but winds picking winter quota already? up Monday afternoon reduced visibility on the The ENR has also figured the “high open areas of the country again reducing incidence" dates and the “low incidence" visibility. dates. There are two chances in 10 that a According to national weather reports severe winter storm will occur on Dec 24 , 25, these days January of 1936 holds the record or 26 and on March 2 and 3. lows for some of the days in the month. Now for the good news. The low incidence In that year, Helen Kirkham who taught in days are: Dec. 3-4 and 15-16; Jan. 3-5 and a rural school north of Piper City found her car 23-28; Feb. 20-24 and March 15-17 and 21-24. Usually heavy snows (four inches or more i average 215 miles long and 70 miles wide on a THE BLACKTOP north of Chatsworth has been almost impossible to SW to NE orientation. negotiate anyway, but W ednesday's strong south winds had one lane closed by Freezing rain tends to fall 30 miles south of 8 a m. the heavy snow area. The average band of Plaindealer Photo freezing rain measures 180 miles long by 45 miles wide. That might be nice to know when LARRY KM LANDS you’re traveling. The average storm duration at any one location is about 14 hours. The average initiation time of a storm in Illinois is 11 a m Longtime area news reporter Speedon guilty plea brings CST. Here are some Illinois records; Earliest severe winter storm-Oct. 28-30, 1925. becomes Plaindealer editor prison term on drug charge Latest severe winter storm-May 1-2,1929. Most storms in a winter-18 in 1977-78. Ijirry Knilands, 40, has been named editoY b> doing articles for the Melvin paper. Active Fairburian George Speedon has been Speedon was given credit for 47 days served in Least storms In a winter-2 in 1921-1922 and of the Chatsworth Plaindealer.