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Playoff prospects page 5 Wildlife Calendar DAILY SENTINEL Tuesday, October 12, 1982 Woodstock, iilihois 60098 (W'v Eight Pages Newsstand 25" Home Delivery 1 7" ll Helping IV-P8! The Back Page 1982 Woodstock Publishing All Rights Reserved Est 1 8e Your Nn fi'l plans bypass opposition Village By Kurt Begalka Sentinel staff writer WOODSTOCK A recent vote by the McHenry County Board transportation committee kept alive the possibility that the county would condone a U.S. 12 bypass around Richmond. In response, Al Collins, District 3 county board member, met with a small group of Richmond merchants Monday afternoon for what he termed a- "mini-political seminar." The transportation committee approved a resolution requesting the Illinois Department of Transportation review traffic projections, reassess the economic impact of a bypass on Richmond and determine improvements necessary to the existing Route 12 in order to satisfactorily carry future traffic through the village. Committemen John Murphy, Robert Stoxen and Ervin Walters voted in favor, Edward Buss and George Lowe were opposed. "The county plan is OK as far as tit 1 1 TTL2P chants and citizens mount united opposition.

"Large amounts of money have been spent to acquiring right of way," he said. "That is one of the reasons I base my conclusion that this project "will go." But even if the county's transportation plan receives renewed approval by the county board, the bypass is still from certain. Toney Of-nacz, route studies engineer with IDOT, said the state would do its own study to "supplement and verify data" compiled by Barton-Aschman Associates Inc. for the county. Ofnacz said that traffic analysis is "on hold" due to lack of funds from the Federal Highway Administration.

He added that a rejection of a Route 12 bypass of Richmond by the board would have an impact on its decision to build, but would not guarantee its death. Ofnacz disagrees with Collins that the statute applies to Recommended Long-Range Transportation Plan. The county's study is sub-regional, he said, rather than for the entire six- county Chicago area. In his opinion, the statute refers to a plan updated annually by the Chicago Area-Transportation Study and the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission. State's Attorney Ted Floro is not sure either way, without further study.

"Can they (board members) do it if it's in violation of the law? Sure, if no one complains," Floro said. But there are plenty of complaints, particularly from Richmond merchants. "I can't believe this is being considered," said Ernie Andre of Andre's Steak House. "It's a total boon-doggie." "They (IDOT officials) are going to spend $17 million for 3.7 miles," said Connie Blanchette of the bypass. She and her husband, Richard, own the Old Bank, Little Bit and Hiram's Barn antique stores in Richmond.

"Before you play Russian roulette with somebody's economic future, you have to say 'should we pass "Collins said. Richmond and other nearby communities, and review undedicated roads and land usage throughout the county. He firmly believes Richmond is placed in the wrong district. The village has more in common with McHenry than Chemung, Collins argues. Collins also told the half-dozen merchants that money to update the plan would be minimal.

The board is spending $400,000 to plan an Illinois 31 bypass around McHenry, he said, and has no qualms about digging into motor fuel tax funds to finance road planning. During the last six months of fiscal 1982, the board expects to spend about $200,000 of that money, with another $335,000 targeted for next year. Collins believes such use of motor fuel tax funds has caused the board to reinstitute the matching fund tax after seven years. The board expects to get $345,000 next year from the tax, he said. Collins views the bypass as an inevitable fact unless Richmond mer I 5 Fist fight becomes a murder By Angela Burden and Anthony Oliver Shaw Media News Service JOHNSBURG A McHenry area man died of injuries Monday night following a fist fight and a Crystal Lake man is in custody today charged with murder.

The victim, Jeff R. Novotny, 28, of 5515 Wilmot Road, was taken to McHenry Hospital by the Johnsburg Rescue Squad and later was transferred to St. Anthony Hospital, Rockford, where he was pronounced dead. Terry Orton, 26, of 856 Coventry Lane, Crystal Lake, is charged with murder in connection with the death and is being held in McHenry County Jail, Woodstock, on $250,000 bond for an Oct. 19 court hearing.

McHenry County sheriff's police responded to the rescue squad call about 6:30 p.m. at Raymond's Johnsburg Bowling Alley, 3312 Chapel Hill Road, where a fight had taken place in the parking lot. Novotny, pronounced dead about 10:15 p.m., and Orton were brothers-in-law. Both men were sons-in-law of the bowling alley owner, Raymond Kuna. They were married to Kuna's daughters.

Chief Deputy Sheriff George Hendle of the sheriff's office said this morning no weapons were used in the fight between the two men. "Novotny had just pulled into the parking lot in his truck and Orton grabbed him at that time," Hendle said. "They had not been in the bar and were not drinking all day or anything like that." Hendle said the fight apparently occurred because of a family dispute. Novotny was struck on the head several times, he said. The chief deputy also put to rest rumors that Orton was a semi-professional boxer.

"He had a couple of fights in the Navy," Hendle said. "And that's going back about six years." 9 Mh "w- I'm concerned," Lowe said today. "Whoever thinks Richmond does not have a (traffic) problem is in dreamland." Collins' chief worry is the threat of a parliamentary move at the next board meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 19. Bypass proponents could alter the resolution approved by the transportation committee and move ahead without updating the plan approved a year ago.

Collins added that to do so would violate state statute on planning and programming. It calls for the Recommended Long-Range Transportation Plan passed in June 1981 to be updated on.an annual basis and include an estimate of revenues which will become available during that period. Collins is angry that the resolutions call on IDOT rather than the county to begin studies. The action "does nothing to determine the relevance of this issue," he said. "The credibility of the original plan has been tainted." Collins called on the board to explore financial resources, get a feel for the sentiment on the bypass in it it 'and find was a digs history -7- "We knew the age of the Dean Street site to be about from 1863 to 1913, and were looking specifically for outhouse holes," Puzzo says.

"People used to throw a lot of stuff down those holes, particularly medicine bottles. "We got permission to dig from the equipment operators. We found two outhouse holes, a trash pit and what looked like the base of a silo. The 'Cat' took about 2 feet off the top and we had to dig down another 4 to 5 feet. "After we were done, we had 'Mason's' sand brought in to fill in the holes, that way the pavement won't sag as the ground settles.

Every time we go on a dig, we always clean up the area. "On a dig on Judd Street, you would never have known that we were there. We cut the sod and laid a tarp for the dirt, then replaced it all when we had finished." At the Dean Street site, Puzzo and his fellow collectors found about 60 arsenic-poisoning murders of his 69-year-old father, Michael Joseph Albanese, and his wife's grandmother, Mary Lambert, 89, and the attempted murder of his 34-year-old brother, Michael Jay Albanese. The death sentence was entered for Sept 30. But since that penalty carries an automatic appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court Judge Henry Cowlin, who conducted the trial, stayed the execution date until the higher court rules on the case.

a ii s. John Puzzo dug up about 60 old bottles. A real Murphy and Hoy bottle, of which there is believ ed to be only one other in existence. Druggists Murphy and Hoy were in business together for just one year in 1879. HISTORY IN A BOTTLE.

Helping themselves to some history uncovered with the excavation work going on for the Dean Street parking lot in Mike Davis Woodstock man New parking lot turns into bottled treasure A In his collection is a bowl with the name H. Pratt, a butcher at one time in Woodstock. He owns an ash tray from the Oliver Typewriter Co. which was located in the Woodstock Wire Works building, and a brass plate from the Tappen Steam Pump which originally built the building and began business in Woodstock in 1894. Puzzo plans to do research on the business of old bottles and take photos of them.

He wants to make available all his information to the library. He also plans on making presentations to interested groups. As far as selling his collection, Puzzo has no desire to make money on it. He wants to continue collecting, and at his death, donate it to some organization, possibly the McHenry County Historical Society. "I'm just glad to have had the opportunity to dig at the Dean Street site," he says.

"I wonder how many other sites like it are covered up and now gone forever? trial Albanese, who told him he needed it to kill pests disturbing the garbage at his Spring Grove home. Jorge PirL an Illinois Department of Public Health toxicologist testified an analysis of fingernails showed the senior Albanese died after poisoning over a period of four months. He explained that arsenic in the body in relationship to time can be measured in fingernails because of their growth. By Dave olden Special to the Sentinel WOODSTOCK People dig in the ground for many reasons, but for John Puzzo the reason is a treasure-trove of old bottles. The 30-year-old Woodstock resident was introduced to collecting old bottles by his brother more than seven years ago.

"I used to think people who collected things were nuts," Puzzo says. "My brother was into it and was always going on digs. I made fun of him for it until one day he talked me into going with him. From that day on, I was hooked." Puzzo's friends, Mike Davis, 24, John Wilson, 23, and Mike Henrich, 24, all of Woodstock, also collect old bottles and were with Puzzo when they went searching for bottles at the Dean Street parking lot site next to City HalL Directory Ag Advisory pg. 2 Almanac pg.

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The items Were gone the following morning. "It is hard to say what the oldest bottle we found is, possibly an 18-inch high pottery wine bottle from the Bahamas," Puzzo explains. "It has the name 'Nassau' embossed on it. There was one bottle, Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, which has a floor safe embossed on the front Others were Dr. D.

Jaynes Healing Balsam and four Ayers Cherry Pectoral bottles, which probably were cough syrup. There was a green pickle Jar probably worth about $25. They also found clay pipes and fruit jars and a lot of Civil War bottles, but most of those were broken. Albanese was charged last November by McHenry County authorities with the arsenic poisoning of his father and Mrs. Lambert Lake County police charge Albanese with the murder of Mrs.

Mueller, who was Mrs. Lambert's daughter. All the victims were residents of Leisure Village in Fox Lake. At the time of his arrest Albanese was president of Allied Die Casting McHenry, of which his father was the founder and his brother an of "The real treasure for me," Puzzo says, "was finding a Murphy and Hoy bottle. I don't know what its market value is, but I know of only one other like it and it's in the museum of the McHenry County Historical Society in Union.

That made my day." According to Puzzo, Murphy and Hoy were druggists and went into business together in 1879 at what is now Landmark Pharmacy. They were together for only one year. From 1880 until 1900, I-umen T. Hoy was the druggist on that corner, and there are lots of Hoy bottles around. Puzzo estimates his collection of more than 100 bottles is worth some $400.

Most bottles would sell for $2 to $5 each to other collectors in Woodstock, but he doubts if they would bring half that value outside the community. Puzzo also collects other Woodstock memorabilia, such as post cards, advertisements, plates, dishes, bowls and steel coin banks. ficer of the firm. The defendant had been held in McHenry County Jail, Woodstock, on $3.5 million bond until his sentencing and then was transferred to the state correction facility at Menard. The first Albanese trial was held in the McLrn County Courthouse, Bloomington, because of extensive pre-trial publicity in northern Illinois.

Testimony in that trial showed a Wisconsin business acquaintance supplied 2H pounds of arsenic to Jury selection starting in Albanese By Angela Burden Shaw Media News Service The trial for Charles M. Albanese, accused of murdering his 69-year-old mother-in-law Marian Mueller, begins with selection of jurors today in the Lake County Courthouse. A death penalty was entered June 24 on the recommendation of a jury for the 44-year-old Albanese of Spring Grove after he was convicted on the.