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THE.HERALD Tuesday, August 24, 1971 Section I Lenore Moranos invites customers to 'make an offer 1 One Person's Junk Is Another's Treasure by WANDALYN RICE It's hot, sticky summer day a good time for swimming or just plain relaxing. And it's also a good time for a garage sale to clear out the year's accumulation of nonessentials and meet the neighbors. In Elk Grove Village last weekend there were five garage sales scattered in every part of town. One was in the oldest part of the village, another in a slightly newer, slightly larger house. One was in a new area, recognizable by the two car garage Centex Corp.

added to its design. "Our junk is someone else's necessity," Edward Sermonti of 1033 Cypress Ln. explained as he stood in the center ot' his garage about noon, surrounded by the ramaJns of his sale. "WE HAD A LOT more this morning," he said. "Some people come at 8:30 in the morinmg or the night before to see what you have.

It goes fast." The Sermonti's have had three garage tales in the six years they lived in the village. For Lemore Moranos, of 1088 Warwick Lane, garage sales are an annual affair. "I have one every year and I've always done real good," she said. "I also like to go to them." On the first day of her sale Friday, she cleared $90, but said, "I had some large furniture." On the second day mostly small items were left, children's games and miscellaneous household goods. "The things you are sure won't sell always do," Mrs.

Moranos said, laughing. "One year I had some ugly pictures with huge frames that you could hang on the wall and plug the stereo speakers into. They were horrible, but a woman cane and said 'Oh, those are beautiful. They'll look perfect in my dining It's fascinating sometimes." As if to confirm her words, a family arrived with several children. They looked around, laughing and joking, and passed up the brand new pressure cooker and the glasses and toys.

THE MAN PICKED up a metal bicycle seat painted bright green. He bought it for 35 cents. Mrs. Moranos accepted the money and watched as the group departed. "The first year," she said, "I did so well the first day I started pulling things out of the cabinets and marking them for sale.

It gets in your blood and you feel you have to have new things the second day." At 279 Kingsbridge, a neighborhood garage sale was in progress. Four women, aU under pressure to "get the garage cleaned out," had gotten together and were presiding over the sale. None of their big items were selling, but many small things and the women's and children's clothes were moving well, they said. "Some people offer money for things that aren't even for sale," one said. "A woman wanted to buy my freezer." Several children came rushing in, doused with water from a garden hose.

"We tried to price the kids," Linda Zauhar joked, "but nobody would take them." And, as if in silent testimony to the attraction of garage sales, a small boy several houses away sat at a table surrounded by playthings. His sign, carefully lettered, said "Toy Sale." There is nothing like a Den Mother. TIM work isn't always but it is always rewarding. Mwica manpower btfins with BOYPOWER, and nothini builds BOYPOWtt litotht Scouts. WUI yovbalp? Be a Cub Scout Volunteer.

"Our junk is someone's necessity." 'Jeopardy 9 Means $3,000 by KURT BAER For years, Lorraine Gorman had watched other people win money on NBC's daytime quiz show Then one day last month Mrs. Gorman, who lives at 1504 W. Oakton Arlington Heights, went from viewer to contestant, and came home $3,000 richer. "I'd watch the show and say to myself, 'I know I could do as Mrs. Gorman said.

"Finally one day I decided to give it a try." To qualify to be a contestant, Mrs. Gorman had to pass a preliminary, 36- question test which she took in New York on June 15. "I didn't hear anything for several weeks," she said. "Then Wednesday before the Fourth of July, they called and asked if I could be in New York for a Thursday taping. MRS.

GORMAN and her husband, Frank, a Latin teacher in Dist. 214, were staying in Albany, New York at the time. "I got on a bus that afterndon, and was in New York Wednesday night," she Three Jeopardy shows are taped each Thursday and Friday, approximately a month before they are shown on the air. Mrs. Gorman appeared on five shows before "retiring" as the 84th undefeated champion in "Jeopardy's seven year history.

"I was really terribly nervous," she recalled. "And playing didn't start to be fun until the last couple of games." As an undefeated champion, Mrs. Gorman, a Latin teacher, is eligible to compete against other unvanquished contestants during Jeopardy's Tournament of Champions held each year in October. "During the commercials they keep telling you to smile and not be so ner- vous. And Don Pardo (the show's emcee) tries hard to make you feel at ease.

you first see all the different categories you're sure you won't be able to answer a thing. But facts just come to you once you start playing." More than 200 persons take the qualifying test each week, Mrs. Gorman said. But only 10 are selected to actually compete on the air. "YOU DON'T GET the money until after your last show has been on the air," said Mrs.

Gorman who made her fifth and final appearance Monday. She plans to use part of her $3,000 winnings to buy some new kitchen appliances and says she will save the rest. She also plans to continue to do a lot of reading. And just in case she wants to check any of the questions she missed on the show, she'll have a new set of the Encyclopedia International, courtesy of to use as reference. Mosquito Spray Issue To Court The Northwest Mosquito Abatement District is going to court to try to regain the right to spray mosquitos in Palatine and Schaumburg.

The District announced yesterday it is seeking a declaratory judgment to permit the spraying of Malathion, a mosquito killer, in the two communities. Both villages have adopted ordinances in the past to make it illegal to spray insecticides into the air within the city limits. In seeking the declaratory judgment, the District hopes to get a ruling to permit spraying to be continued. It is not seeking damages. The suit asks both ordinances be nullified, anl the District be allowed to "conduct its spraying operations for the purpose of exterminating mosquitoes, flies and other insects," by the use of Malathion or other insecticide.

THE SUIT also charges the two ordinances have "no relation to the health, safety, welfare or comfort of the public," in that they threaten "health, safety and property" by blocking the spraying. It also criticizes the Schaumburg ordinance, charging it exempts individuals from the $500 fine which can be levied against firms of corporations. Schaumburg trustee Jack Larsen head of the Shaumburg Clean Environment Committee which drew up the ordinance opposing the District's spray- ing in Schaumburg, said the village's attorney will send a letter to the District asking them what they are doing with the fowls saved by the non-spraying. "Protection of health is the responsibility of the local municipality," he said, and added the District's spraying program had killed more "desirable" insects while failing to kill the adult mos- quitos. JACK MOOD1E, Palatine village president, said the matter had been placed in the hands of the village's attorney.

He added that the village's ordinance, adopted on March 10, 1970, and the halt in spraying was followed by fewer insects this year than in the past. A press release from the District quoted the Illinois Bureau of Environmental Health: "Malathion is one of the safest insecticides available for use in the control of adult mosquitoes and has been recommended by this Department for several years." The District also reports that Dr. Franklin D. Yoder, Illinois Director of Public Health told the District's lawyer that one community's refusal to spray can hamper other mosquito control programs. Yoder said, "We would provide testimony, if necessary, to indicate that abatement operations would be hampered unless operations are carried throughout the district." Community Calendar (Persons wishing to submit news hems should contact Mrs.

Harold Ranch, 43T- 4310, Elk Grove Village Junior Woman's Club.) Tuesday --Consumer Fraud Office, p.m., municipal building, 901 Wellington Avc. --Zero Population Growth meeting, 8 p.m., Lauterburg and Oehler Funeral Home, 2000 E. Northwest downstairs room. --Elk Grove Village Board of Trustees, 8 p.m., municipal building. Thursday --Elk Grove Rotary Club, Maitre Restaurant, noon.

-Elk Grove Village Elks B.P.O.E. 2423, social meeting, 8 p.m., 115 Gordon St. --High School Dist. 211 Board, administration center, 8 p.m., 1715 S. Roselte Palatine.

--Harper College Board, administration building, 8 p.m., Roselle and Algonquin roads, Palatine. Tape System Stolen An eight-track tape system valued at $150 was reported stolen last week from a car parked at Schaeffer's Auto 1100 E. Hggins Elk Grove Village. You can Friday --Elk Grove Village Kiwanis Club, 7 p.m., Snacktime Restaurant. --John Birch Society, Film Forum, 8 p.m., 467 Cedar Ln.

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Oakton Ar- er in Dist. 59, won $3,000 in five appearnaces on the lington Heights, watches herself compete on Jeopardy, show before retiring as an undefeated champion. I Announcing The OPENING of CHRISTINE'S BEAUTY SALON of Elk Grove Village in the Devon Tonne Shopping Plaza 2 Expert Beauticians to Serve You. Miss Chris Miss Jo Ann Radomski Now taking appointments at CJ IX Vf.