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and Chronicle Local Weather Obituaries 2B 4B ROCHESTER, N. MONDAY, JULY 31, 1972 SECTION Readers Ask HELP! Parents Attending Classes, Too By KATHY O'TOOLE Bracelet Address Q. Where can I buy prisoner of war bracelets? I did have the address and price but can't find it now. -CINDY KEISER, ROCHESTER A. Prisoner of war bracelets in nickel ($2.50) or copper ($3) may be purchased locally by writing to Bracelets, P.O.

Box 9350, Midtown Plaza Station, Rochester, 14604. Checks should be made payable to V.I.V.A. (Voices in Vital America). Deposit Returned Q. I'd appreciate your Help in getting $100 returned to me.

I rented a Pinto from Greyhound Rent-A-Car, St. Petersburg, Fla. In lieu $10 a week for collision insurance, I left a check for $100 as a required insurance deposit. I was told it would be returned when I returned the car if there was no damage done by me. Six days later, I returned the car.

Ths woman 1 I had dealt with earlier wasn't there but a young boy signed a statement that there was no damage. The next day I returned to the office and the woman told me she'd sent the check to the company's Tampa office. But she assured me she'd send the check to my aunt in St. Petersburg as requested. After 10 days, my aunt called Greyhound and was told the check would be sent directly to me.

It's been a month, and now I've received a bank statement showing that Greyhound cashed my check before I'd even returned the car. It wasn't held as I'd been told. -SHIRLEY M. GRAY, ROCHESTER A. Help contacted Greyhound's offices in St.

Petersburg and Miami, and you say you wrote the manager in Miami. Although neither you nor Help received a reply, you did receive a check for $100 within two weeks of Help's contacting the company. Difference Received fore you moved. You only gave him three weeks notice, so he charged you $30 for one week's rent and a small late charge because you once didn't pay him on time. You have received a check for $28.75, which is the difference.

Not That Patient Q. I'm having trouble getting a book I ordered from Helvardsen-Kohn Opticals, Inc. in New York City. In April, they sent me a letter asking me to be patient. I've never waited this long to receive an order, especially one book! I'm not a rich man, and $7.95 looks good to me.

Please Help. -TOMMIE THURMAN, HENRIETTA A. A couple weeks after Help contacted Helvardsen-Kohn, you say you received the book. Q. I moved out of my apartment May 15.

I used half my deposit as rent, and my former landlord told me he would refund the remainder of the deposit. He said he would mail it to me by June 1. I'm a student working my way through school and I need the $60. Can you Help? -NORMA OTERO, ROCHESTER A. You signed an agreement with your landlord to give him 30 days notice be- How It Turned Out Do you remember J.G.

of Rochester who bought a savings bond in 1958 with a list of names for a chain letter scheme? He bought the $25 bond from an individual. The bond was made out to the first person on the list. He was to send the bond to her, cross her name off the list and add his on the bottom. Then he was to buy two more bonds, make two new lists, and sell them to two persons for $37.50. When his name reached the top of the list he supposedly would get up to $51,000 in 10 years.

Soon after buying the list and bond he found out the practice was illegal. He wanted to know how to cash the bond. Help found that he couldn't cash it because it was a registered security, and his name wasn't listed on the bond as the owner. Also, he had bought it from an individual, and the Treasury Department wouldn't recognze the transaction. The bond was worthless to J.G., but he sent the bond to the person named on it.

She wrote J.G.: "I have no desire to deprive you of the money which is rightfully yours. You can arrange to give the bond to any charity you select or keep it for yourself." She cashed the bond and sent the proceeds J.G., who in turn, has sent the $32.39 to the Gannett Rochester Newspapers Lend-a-Hand Fund. To Call the DEC. Start or discuss delivery: Subscriber Service, 232-5550. Place a Want Ad: Rochester, 454-4200; Brockport Albion: 637-3145; Office in Batavia, Canandaigua Dansville, Geneseo, Geneva, Newark.

News tips: City Editor 232-7100. Discuss bill, other purposes 232-7100. About 50 mothers were trying to play such games as baseball, football, skunk and witch at Rochester's School 2. They learned not only how to play, but also how to make the games from such simple materials as colored paper, magazines and telephone directories. The games they made are ones that city teachers have found will help children learn reading skills.

Teachers and their aides passed on their skills to parents in hopes that such activities at home will reinforce classroom activities. "Parents don't always teach their child the same way the school is teaching him," said Mrs. Polly Bradbury, a reading teacher who was instructing the mothers last week. "For example, a mother or father might try to help a child with his alphabet, but he will be making the letters differently." In the Classroom Most parents learned to read primarily from textbooks, while their children use many varieties of books, word games and audio-visual equipment, especially in inner-city schools that get special federal aid. But the more parents become involved in teaching reading at home, the better their child's chances of learning to read well, said Mrs.

Photo by Paul De Pascale Catherine McOmber, a teacher aide, helps Victor Smith. Produce Prices Going Up Olga Vaughn, director of the Elementary Reading Improvement Summer School at School 2, at 190 Reynolds St. The summer school, which also is a workshop for teachers, has operated three years with federal aid. But this is the first year that parents have also been included in one session. Only about 50 parents of the 680 pupils in the summer school were at the parents' workshop, but several teachPlease turn to 3B TOMATOES.

48. Photo by Paul De Pascale Mrs. Robert McMullen of Webster at Wambach Farm Market in Irondequoit. Love Being Added To Retardeds' Care By DALE EISMAN When Carol was her parents decided it was time to get rid of her. They'd tried--for a year and a half-to teach her to walk and talk.

Both college graduates, they realized that mongoloid children are special and need special attention. But their patience was worn thin. Carol's father, a young man with a medical school background, discussed his daughter's problems reluctantly. Her mother, a placid, easygoing woman before the child was born, had become a bundle of nerves. So they wanted out.

They tried to have Carol committed at Newark State School, going so far as to appeal to a state representative for help. They convinced themselves that an institution was the only answer, spurning expert suggestions that Carol be hospitalized temporarily or taken to a day-care center for special attention. Carol went to Newark, an overcrowded hospital--school is the technical name--and lost the home life experts believe is important in helping the retarded become active useful members of society. Carol, is not the girl's real name. And her story has been altered so those who know her and her parents won't recognize it.

But there are hundreds and maybe thousands of persons -no one really knows how many--like Carol in Monroe County. They are retarded, but they are not vegetables. By JUDI HASSON Fruit and vegetable prices here are rising significantly as a result of June flooding. Potatoes, onions, kidney beans and cucumbers are the crops hardest hit and show the sharpest rise in cost, some fruit and vegetable markets say. Mary Ellen Burris, director of consumer affairs for Wegmans Food Markets, said the company's produce hasn't reflected a price rise but will shortly, when the affected crops reach stores.

Wallace E. Fearnley, president of Star Supermarkets Inc. said consumers will see a sharp increase in the price of potatoes in the next few weeks. "We're certainly not going to have last year's prices," he said. "But they'll eventually level off." Fearnley did say that 1 he didn't expect other produce to rise significantly in price and he said tomatoes will drop in price because of a large supply of hothouse tomatoes coming from Cleveland and a large homegrown crop.

"One of our local farmers dropped off his cucumber crop and it was only one-third the normal said Alphonse Camp, president of A. J. Camp a wholesale produce supplier in the Rochster Public Market on North Union Street. "The only thing that makes the prices jump is the demand. Crops were destroyed during the flood.

The scarcity brings a greater demand. The price goes up." Jerry Tirabassi, manager of Tirabassi's Farm Market at 557 W. Henrietta Road, Henrietta, said he lost about 300 acres of red kidney beans of during June. "During the recent warm weather I've planted more crops," he said. "But that's not going to change the prices consumers are going to be experiencing in the next few weeks." Prices remained fairly stable for a month after the flood.

Retailers explained that was a result of crops harvested before the flood or grown on high ground. "Come fall, we're going to see a lot of things going up sharply," said Robert Gentle, owner of Gentle's Farm Market, 1092 Penfield Road, Penfield. Because local crops have been destroyed or reduced, wholesalers and retailers are bringing in produce from other areas. Charles Amico, owner of Amico Brothers, wholesalers in the Public Market, said he has been bringing in onions from Texas and California and potatoes from California for the past month. "These things are almost double the price we're used to," he said.

"There are few escarole, endive or radishes. People are starting to do Consumer Report Amico said he now sells a case of onions to retailers for $7.50. The price was $4 in early June. At Wambach Farm Market at 2590 Culver Road Irondequoit, the scarcity of crops has been reflected in the prices. Peter Wambach, owner of the market, said most of the fruit he now stocks comes from out of state.

Peaches are selling for 39 cents a dozen, 10 cents higher than pre-flood prices. A three-pound bag of onions is 59 cents, 10 cents more than the price of a one week ago. Two heads of homegrown lettuce cost 49 cents, although the quality is poor, Wambach said. Most local merchants see little let-up in prices of produce. "I can see a much higher price bracket coming," Camp said.

"What seems high this year is going to seem cheap next year. The floods affected crops far worse than most people realize." Black Medical Pioneer Dies Other obituaries, 4B By TOM The first black medical versity of Rochester, who medical staff of Highland Highland Hospital after a long Dr. Edwin A. Robinson, Road, Henrietta, obtained his in 1945. He served two terms pital's medical staff, the first ing year.

A specialist in surgery, Dr. Robinson began local practice in 1950, when he opened an fice at 655 Main St. W. He renewed his practice 1958 in his home at 75 S. Fitzhugh St.

after serving two years with the Army Medical Corps at Fort Knox, Ky. Dr. Robinson was assistant chief surgery at the camp. His office later was at 91 Alexander St. Born in Lake Charles, in 1917, Dr.

Robinson came to Rochester when he was one year old and graduated from Benjamin Franklin High School in 1935. He obtained his bachelor's degree from Cornell University in 1939 before enrolling in University of Rochester's School of Medicine. He interned at Strong Memorial Hospital, Beth Israel Harlem Hospitals in New York, and Massachusetts GenHospital in Boston. Dr. Robinson was a memof the American Medical Association, the Monroe County Medical Association, New York State Medical Association, and the Henrietta Rotary Club.

He was a member of the Henrietta United Church. Dr. Robinson was active in recruiting black students for University of Rochester medical school, was a fellow the American College of Surgery and was on the staffs Highland Hospital, Strong Memorial Hospital and RochGeneral Hospital. He also was a member of German Day Isn't Quite the Same By MIKE WINES From a distance, yesterday's annual German Day at the Monroe County fair grounds was just like the hundred or so before it: the beer flowed, the German consul made his annual speech and strains of accordion music wafted over the crowd 'till dusk. But a closer view brought out wrinkles of age in this century-old "gemutlichkeit," or fun time, for Rochester's German population.

Young girls in blue jeans and skinny-rib tops outnumbered the men in their lederhosen. The concession booths pushed cheeseburgers in- DeMOND student to graduate from the Unilater became president of the Hospital, died Saturday night in illness. 55, who lived at 3329 E. Henrietta M.D. degree from the university as president of Highland Hosin 1967 and the second the follow- EDWIN A.

ROBINSON headed Highland's staff With help, and a bit of love, they can become happy and productive members of SOciety. Many agencies are in business to provide help to the retarded. There are mental hospitals, schools, day-care centers and private physicians who specialize in treating the retarded. Now the Monroe Developmental Center, a state agency operating under the auspices of the Department of Mental Hygiene, is trying to establish a program that will give the retarded a little love. The center is trying to place retarded persons, children and adults, in foster homes.

Allen Yasgur, a social worker and the center's director of community living facilities, says most retarded per sons need a "home" environment. Yasgur, who insists that most retarded persons should never be institutionalized, says the aim of therapy should be a "normal" life for the patient. An institution, he says takes the person away from a normal environment and the love and understanding it should provide. Most services that can be provided at a hospital or school like Newark can be supplied just as well at outpatient clinics or doctors' offices where foster parents can take their "children," Yasgur says. He says unlimited funding for a foster-care program is available and that he has plenty of patients.

All that's needed now are willing parents. Please Turn to Page 3B. stead of sauerbraten. And somehow, German Day didn't seem so German anymore. "We used to have it at Schuetzen Park, and we'd have 20,000 people there," said Leo Saeum, of 5147 St.

Paul Irondequoit, who was running an apple streusel booth at the festival. "But that's a shopping center now. And we can't have it in a public park, because you can't serve beer there. And what would a German Day be without beer?" The greatest celebrations, say old-timers, were in Schuezen Park, which was converted in the 1950s to Ridge Seneca the and eral ber the the of of ester Plaza on Ridge Road East. Saeum remembers those German Days after World 'War II, where concession profits helped war-torn Germany.

Yesterday's picnic drew perhaps 5,000 persons, and proceeds will go to a scholarship fund. The latest estimates available, from a 1960 article by Rochester historian McKelvey, put the city's native German population at 5,012 in 1950. For anyone over 40, the accent was on the fun of past German Days. Middle-aged celebrants recalled the good weather that seems to have graced the boards of directors of the Salvation Army and Otetiana Council, Boy Scouts of America. He was the oldest son of the late Rev.

and Mrs. C. Harvey Robinson. The Rev. Mr.

Robinson, who died in 1963, devoted 34 years to raising several million dollars for Tuskegee Institute at the request of the late Booker T. Washington. The Rev. Mr. Robinson persuaded the late George Eastman, founder of the Eastman Kodak to donate $1 million to the institute.

Dr. Robinson is survived by his wife, Thelma, one daughter, Nancy Rose; two sons, Michael and John; three brothers, Dr. Alfred of Rush; Dr. Russell of Wayside, N.J. and Dr.

C. Harvey Jr. of Asbury Park, N.J. every festival in recent memory. Some of the younger folk weren't quite as nostalgic.

"My parents come all the time. I've been a couple of times," said Mary Gudonis, 16, as she emerged from a crowded beer hall. "I just come to see what it's like. "There are a lot of old people and I guess they have more fun than the young ones. But is it dying out? I don't know.

I guess so." Most of the traditions of past German Please turn to 3B.