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0 July 4 Our 'Town Photog Snaps Up Money, but Where's Picture? Saturday a parade will begin at 1:50 p. m. from Earl field on Thacker street to commemorate the 100th birthday of the Elks. The Shriners' Black Horse troop, floats, and nine drum and bugle corps will be featured. Saturday evening at 8 p.

m. in Maine West High school, the Des Plaines Vanguards drum and bugle corp will host a drum and bugle competition. Abandon Fireworks Niles is having a different July 4 this year. Fireworks have been given up in favor of a special program beginning at 2 p. m.

at the Mill Run playhouse, 600 Golf Mill center. The program will be a "rededication to the that made America great," accoidiiic. to chamber of commerce sponsors. Viet Nam veterans and families, family a Niles resident on the U. S.

S. Pueblo. Illinois Junior Miss Carol Intrieri. iles Junior Miss Mary Simek, and officials of the village will be present. The program will feature choral groups and other youth performances.

Portage park, 4100 N. Long will be the site of a band concert from 2 to 4 p. m. on July 4. On July 6 and 7 the ninth annual Portage park invitational swimming championships will take place.

Plans are being finalized for Fourth of July celebrations in the northwest metropolitan area. Palatine will have more than 8" organizations taking part in activities beginning at 11:30 a.m. with a parade from Paddock school to Palatine park. The parade theme is the "Illinois Sesquicentennial." The Palatine Village band will begin a concert at 6 p. m.

in the park followed by a Miss Palatine pageant and fireworks. Expect 60 Groups Nearby Arlington Heights will have over 60 groups entering floats, decorated cars, and marching units in its second annual parade. Children who want to be in the parade but who don't belong to a participating group may decorate bikes and ride in the bicycle brigade. The parade will begin at 2 p. m.

at State and Park avenues and wind up at the Arlington High school football field. Trophies for winning entries will be awarded. Coronation of the parade queen, followed by a fireworks display, will be at 8 p. m. in the Forest View High school football field.

Mount Prospect's Years of Illinois Progress," parade, sponsored by the chamber of commerce, will begin at 2:30 p. m. at Gregory and Emerson streets and continue Emerson to Lions park where the Lions club fun fair will be in progress. An "Old Fashioned Fourth'' is planned by the Wheeling Jaycees, to be conducted onthe Wheeling High school grounds. A parade will begin at 1:30 p.

m. in the school parking lot. Teen-age dancing will be at 7 p. m. in the Wheeling Hich school parking lot.

The evening will culminate with a fireworks display. Plan 3-Day Affair Des Plaines is planning a three-day affair centered on youth. A sailboat race and a concert by the Main West high school band will be held at Lake Opeka near Touhy avenue and Howard street on Thursday. At dusk a fireworks display and dedication of a war memorial will take place at the lake. Chicago QTribune SECTION TV RADIO HOME GARDEN NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS SUNDAY, JUNE 30, 1968 I had a candid photo taken in the Loop by one of those men who snap your picture outside and the like.

When you send in your dollar you are to get the snaps. They cashed my check but didn't send the pictures. I've complained to the Better Business bureau, but feel this should come to the attention of the public. Mrs. Grace Molinari, Chicago Because you failed to include the date of your complaint, the Better Business bureau was unable to locate your file.

However, the company you mention usually responds to bureau complaints. For good measure, we are forwarding your letter to the company. I' it did Ynvatiun How can I collect a week's vacation pay my former employer owes me? He promised it. but so far won't send the money. Do I have any recourse? H.

Chicago There is no law entitling a person to a vacation, according to the Illinois labor department. Unless there is a union contract requiring paid vacations, you are probably out of luck. Pill Shortmji 1 purchased some pills, and later found the bottle three-quarters full. Where can I complain about this? Short-changed, Chicago S. A auconaa village i -ox'- A y-' a.Ax -1 4.

oard Will Decide Wmsm a ft, A lllli A A. A. WaAWM mixyA on Lake Ownership TRIBUNE Staff Photos by Arthur Walker DOUBLE BUBBLE Nancy Grzelak, 13, of 5250 S. Winchester demonstrates her 5221 S. Winchester av.

She is practicing for ight at the Chicago Free fair, 47th street and ubble blowers say it is possible to create a bubble blowing skill to 5-year-old Joey Hoi the bubble blowing contest to be held Friday Damen avenue, a contest she won last year. bubble measuring 14 inches across. at yy I vA SI v- 'a BY HARRIET MECHLING The village board of Wauconda will vote in two weeks on ownership of Bangs lake, which the village attorney has recommended be considered as public domain. Gerald Beyer, village president, said that the council probably will ask for a hearing with the state division of waterways on who has ownership of the lake: the persons who own land under the water or the public. Bangs lake has been a public waterway for many years, Beyer said, and he feels the lake is public domain.

Recently, persons living in Kimball subdivision were asked by a Round lake woman who owns property lying under water along the subdivision lake front, to remove piers, anchored boats, and swimming buoys from the beach along the subdivision. Purchased Land 2 Years Ago She purchased the land from the original owner two years ago for $3,000 and has demanded $400 a year rent from the Kimball Subdivision Property Owners association. Paul Zagoras, village attorney, contacted William Clark, Illinois attorney general, who referred the issue to the state division of waterways. The 300-acre lake is football-shaped. More than 50 acres are claimed by the persons owning underwater property.

Zagoras said the lake was formerly a meandering body which changed direction and shape. If a meandering body is navigable, it is considered in the public domain and cannot be privately owned, he said. In the last 100 years it has been used for fishing, boating, and swimming. The land around the lake was subdivided many years ago. Subdividers Sold Underwater Land Some of the original subdividers sold underwater land, he said, at a time before land fill, pilings, and caissons made shoreline development feasible.

Now that this is possible, Zagoras said, the property owners are talking about excluding the public from the water over their land. Zagoras said the controversy arose recently when the division of waterways said the jr The Chicago district office of the food and drug administration. 433 Van Buren phone: 535-5C63, investigates such complaints. Hun PB'essurv Are BB guns against the law? My son is pressing me to get him one for his birthday. Chicago reader In Chicago, it is against the law to sell such a gun or to shoot it.

In 1965, a state law was enacted that controled the sale of BB guns. Dealers are prohibited from selling or lending the guns persons 13 years old and under, among other provisions. I'veling the Pinch My husband recently was discharged from service, and we find ourselves in a financial pinch during this period of readjustment. He is working at his former place of employment, but we simply don't have the funds to pay doctor and hospital b.Us for delivery of our second child expected soon. They want half the bill paid in advance and the rest paid in a very short On my husband's modest salary, we are having trouble making ends meet.

What shall we do? Arlington Heights reader Write or call Family Financial Counseling Service of Greater Chicago, 213 S. Wabash phone: 922-3633. They can advise YOU. BUBBLE RUBBLE Even champions goof, and Miss Grzelak is no exception. With the sweet remnants of her effort stuck to her face, she is living proof that even the most harmless of hobbies has its hazards.

Demonstrating her "never say die" attitude, Nancy got rid of this damaged wad and went back to her hoard for a fresh piece. Broken Water Main Familiar Ring in Suburb lake was not navigable and that, therefore, the state has no claim. To be navigable in the legal sense, the waterways must be able to be used to get to a distant point thru connecting waterways, Zagoras said. Attorney Blames Misinterpretation Property owners of underwater land misinterpreted this to mean that the public has no claim, he said. The Kimball subdivision installed buoys to keep boats out of the swimming area.

A property owner demanded that the buoys, which were anchored to the bottom, be removed, claiming that even if the public could swim over his land, it couldn't interfere with the lake bottom. This has eliminated a safety precaution, because boaters can now come close to the swimming areas, said Zagoras. July 4th No Tolk' in Suburb Hoffman Estates expects more than 20,000 persons to participate in its all-day Fourth of July celebrations so many, in fact, that they are cutting the hard boiled eggs out of the beer concession. "We sold 150 dozen last year and the thought of boiling 200 dozen this year was too much." said Thomas Gallagher, 297 Maywood Hoffman Estates, chief egg boiler last year and member of the community's Independece day committee. Eggs and beer, however, are only part cf the traditional festivities.

"We will see the biggest parade yet assembled in the village," Gallagher said. More than 70 units are expected. Parade marshal, John Smith, 105 Geronimo Hoffman Estates, has approved float designs that he says will provide parade watchers a "good history lesson." The parade will begin at 10 a.m. Many Hoffman Estates residents will dress up in clothes befitting the parade theme "Illinois 150 Years." An all-day series of games, socializing, eats, and fireworks is scheduled after the parade. "Our old fashioned Fourth is devoted to national patriotism and flag waving each year," Gallagher said.

Jaycees Eye Carnival Cash As Schaumburg's sesquicentennial carnival winds up its fourth day with a big chicken barbecue today, the Jaycees who sponsored the event are beginning to plan the youth park they will develop with the profits. The Jaycees hope to make the carnival an annual event. This year's money will go toward play equipment and several baseball diamonds for the 102-acre Jaycee site bounded by Cornell and Syracuse lanes and Hartman drive. "We are going to fully develop this youth park over the next five years and then turn it over to the park board," said Dennis Samuel of the Jaycees. "We hope to clear around $5,000 for the new youth park," Samuel said.

"Around 6,000 persons were anticipated." The carnival began Thursday night with a nickel beer sale at the Weathersfieli Common, Springsguth and Schaumburg roads. Regular carnival rides, booths, and contests, were held Friday and yesterday. A bake contest was held Friday, with the winning entries being auctioned last night. A pet parade trouped to the carnival from Campanelli school in Schaumburg yesterday morning. Ci reus Cent et cry Tax Vote Seen in Fall What is Showmen's Rest? I've been told circus people killed in a train accident were buried there.

Circus fan This is a site in Woodlawn cemetery, Forest Park, purchased by the Showmen's League of America for the mass burial of many of the victims of the 1918 train wreck in which 85 persons died when a troop train hit the Hagenbeck-Wallace circus train near Gary. Showmen's Rest continues as a burial place for show people. Cryptic inscriptions or nicknames are on many of the gravestones. Itiblv Still Tops Is it true that the novel "Peyton Place'' is the world's best dler? R. Chicago No indeed.

The Bible is the world's best seller, according to Guinness Book of World Records. "Peyton Place" is listed as the novel with the highest sales. BY DAVID SIBBET The latest in a series of incidents straining relationships between Citizen's Utility sewer and water company and its Mount Prospect customers occurred recently when a broken water main left several hundred families without water for nearly a day. Since the company merged 14 smaller companies in the Mount Prospect area in 1963, it has been involved in a series of rate, sewer backup, and water pressure problems with its nearly 5,000 customers. Earlier this month, attempts to hook up a new pump house substantially decreased water pressure, and, according to one resident, "sent oily substances thru our pipes for several days." Daniel Congreve, Mount Prospect village president, said the village has been trying for several years to buy the 312-home part of the company's system which is in the village.

"They won't sell but we keep hoping," he said. "Citizen's Utility just doesn't have the supervision to run a water company." Congreve said the Illinois Commerce Commission is the only body allowed to regulate private utilities and their standards are not comparable to the village's. Congreve said he is worried that Citizen's has inadequate storage to handle emergencies. "They have no one working full time, no alarm system for breaks, and their valve system is insufficient to isolate small areas when breaks do occur," he said. Congreve's worries have been bolstered by fact.

Two years ago 4,200 persons were without water pressure and sometimes without water for four days after a pump broke. The Illinois Commerce Commission required Citizen's to dig a new well. In 1964 the company was involved in a long rate dispute during which the ICC charged the company with overstating expenses used in computing their rate base. Wates rates are still a thorn in clients' side, for they run $1.15 per thousand gallons for the first 4,000 gallons, 90 cents per thousand for the next 4,000, and 75 cents for the next 4.000 gallons. Mount Prospect charges its customers a flat rate of 55 cents per thousand gallons.

Citizen's officials said most customers fall in the bracket. Sewer problems have added to the irritation of company customers. Thirty-one citizens are being sued by Citizen's for illegal hookups of storm water outlets to sanitary sewers. The clients are filing countersuits against the builders of their houses and the utility for not inspecting the sewer hookups originally. "Sewer back ups have been a continual headache with this company," said Pat Link, 1722 Woodview drive, Prospect Heights.

Link an attorney and Citizen's customer, said most residents think the backups are caused by insufficient pipe sizes. "Citizens Utility is making money," he said wearily. "They are oblivious to being sued." Square Dances Slated for July 4 More than 20 square dance callers will appear during a July 4th family picnic from 10 a. m. to 11 p.

m. in Sayre park, 6851 Belden av. Five bands will compete in the "battle of the bands," with music, ranging from the boogaloo to the waltz. The winning combo will receive a trophy. Prizes will be given to winners of such contests as the baby girls bathing beauty pageant at 11 a.

the longest pigtails contest, and the most freckles competition. Picnickers should bring their own food, tables and barbecue Sponsored by the Chicago park district recreational department and the Northwest Side Community council, the picnic will honor the Illinois sesquicentennial. The Grand Harlem Chamber of Commerce is providing the prizes and trophies. OUR TOWN is your forum for questions, complaints, and suggestions for improving Chicago. Anonymous letters will not be considered.

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Michigan Chicago. 111. 60611. Another referendum for a 21-cent increase in the education fund tax rate probably will be held in the fall by Maine township high school district 207. The defeat of the June 8 referendum for a 21-cent hike has created a deficit in the educational fund which will approximate $1,806,000 by next June, said John Wllkins, board member and chairman of the finance committee.

The proposed tax levy was primarily for teachers' salaries, but Frank Newton, public information officer, said the district still will raise salaries if the September referendum is approved by the voters. School officials estimate that the education fund deficit will grow to about $2,500,000 by June 30, 1970, if the September referendum ails. "If the September referendum is approved, the total educational fund deficit could be cut nearly $500,000 to $1,300,000 by June 30, 1970," said Wilkins. Wilkins said the board plans to sell tax anticipation to meet warrants educational obligations until September. The district will pay approximately 3 per cent interest on the warrants.

W'ilkins said the anticipated opening of the new Maine North High school in the fall of 1970 will force the district to spend another S400.000 to $500,000 for teacher salaries and supplies and materials. These figures are based on the opening of Maine West in 1959 and Main South in 1964, he said. The district serves the communities of Des Plaines, Park Ridge, Harwood Heights, and part of Glenview, Morton Grove, aid Niles. Neighborhood Neivs Numbers Send PTA, club, church, and other news two weeks before the event or meeting is scheduled to Northwest Neighborhood News, Room 4S0, Chicago Tribune, 435 N. Michigan or call 2 2 2-3 33 or 3434.

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