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Serving DuPage County $incethe Turn of the Century Wednesday Edition "Featuring the Finest in Food 8th Year -9 Itasca, Illinois 60143 WEDNESDAY, NOV. 1, 1967 5 Sections, 40 Pages LOO a Year 15c a Copy COMMUNITY CHESI IS FORMED He Tried Making The Better Game by MOLLY WISEMAN Staff Writer It took him IS years of testing, and it's only a game. Everett L. Dreyer, 1939 Weston, Roselle, has invented what he calls "a completely new and different skill game," which could be for contest use. "Maneuver" is the result of testing a game idea since 1952, with predecessor games before it, among them, "Red Bar." Dreyer is a machine designer by trade, and he said he got the idea for inventing a game from his friends, "One time several years ago, 1 was playing a game and someone made the remark that since I was a designer, I could design a better game." "Game-developing requires a lot of testing," Dreyer said, and added, "People don't realize that they get a bargain when they go to the store and buy a game," "I HAVE NO idea how many people I tried the game out on when It was in the planning stage, probably hundreds.

I used' everybody that I could talk Into playing the game," he said. "Really, the biggest problem In inventing a game is getting people to the models on," Dreyer continued. "Many games go on the market before they are thoroughly tested. Every change in the game when it's in the planning stage needs to be proven out. The designing and theory is not enough to perfect a game." EVEN CHOOSING the name of the game is difficult, Dreyer said, "I must have suggested at least 80 names or so to the company to which I submited the a e.

They didn't use the name I liked best at the time, but did use another name that I suggested." Dreyer explained that in developing a a 20 to 30 models might be drawn and developed over the years and each one might require SO hours on the drawing board alone for just he construction of the game board. He added when he first had the idea to design a new game, he decided that he couldn't tackle a game unless he could make an Improvement. "YOU NEED A concept in designing," he said. "Mine was being able to move more than one game piece at a time." The inventer said he worked to find many ways of scoring in the game and devised a way in which a player can move up to four "men" in one move. Dreyer said he also wanted to use a scoring idea where no paper or pencil was used and the spectators could see who was ahead in the game by just glancing at the So he designed a score piece for each player to advance around the board.

THROUGH MUCH testing, he devised a new deck of playing cards, which has no card higher than a seven and which includes 21 hearts, seven diamonds, 13 spades and 13 clubs, Dreyer also said his new game can be played by using "talking partners" and' added, "This is a howling success." Dreyer says he has already developed the mathematics and mechanics for a contest involving the game, although he "has received no green light on this yet from the company selling the game." "WE MIGHT start a small contest when our mailing list gets big enough," he said, and added, "It would probably get started by invitation and there would be no entry fee." Maneuver was first shown at a toy fata 1 in New York City in March, where it was a available to jobbers and distributors. "Promoting a game is difficult. And the competition is enormous. Buyers may not order the game until they have a call for it. It has to create a demand," he said.

Dreyer has done machine designing, and during World War II he was instrumental in design changes that affect weight and complexity of the aircraft components then in production. He also designed the machine guns and a shooting gallery for Riverview Amusement Park, which has just recently closed. Dreyer said it was the only shooting gallery in the world with automatic guns. Attorney To Sewer Assessments The assessment roll for the South Walnut Street storm sewer project in Itasca has been completed and is now in the hands of Village Atty. Lawrence C.

Traeger reported Trustee Roy Petherbridge this week. An extremely detailed task, the preparation of the roll assessments required a great deal of time and work, explained Coats, Skirts Reported Taken Three coats and two skirts were reported stolen from a car in the Jewel-Osco parking lot in Roselle recently. Mally Klemma, 424 Pleasant Drive, Pleasant Hills, said one coat was tan, full length with a mink collar. Another one was a blue three-quarter length coat with a parka hood and the third was a black jacket with a manmade fur collar. Petherbridge.

Henry L. Uteg of Dundee prepared the roll. The attorney now has the job of examining this extensive tabulation for typing errors and validity of legal descriptions. When it is approved, the document will be duplicated. A copy will be filed by the attorney in DuPage Circuit Court and a hearing date will be set.

The court hearing will afford residents'listed for assessments to appear before the judge. HOWEVER, it will be at least one month before the attorney can file the approved roll. The project includes installation of storm sewers on Walnut Street south of Irving Park Road to George Street, the village boundary line. The lines would be extended throughout the southeastern area to existing storm sewers. The purpose of the project is to alleviate flooding which occurs with heavy rainfall.

New Senior College: Molding Its Shape by KATHY GOSNELl, Staff Writer First In a series on the proposed Chicago-area senior college. Determining the type of student the proposed Chicago-area college will serve Is the first job now before the specif 1 committee of the Illinois Board of Higher Education (1B11E). With two hearings behind it and a Nov. 7 decision deadline less than a week away, the committee must sift through the many function recommendations presented to it in the last three weeks. Function will determine both general location and the governing structure under which the new college will be developed.

i i committees from northwest and south Cook County and Lake and McHenry counties have spoken In favor of a general education college that would offer classes starting the junior year. A DuPage County group, citing opportunities generated by the Atomic Energy Commission project in Wes ton, Is proposing a full-scale university with a science specialty. CHICAGO-area groups, most of them connected with existing public and private schools, want a specialized institution which would serve primarily the disadvantaged youth of the city. The three-year institution, offering junior and senior undergraduate courses and the first year of graduate work, appears to be the most likely choice. The issue is not completely cut and dried, or the IBHE would not have specifically requested suggestions of innovative function from the groups it heard at the two hearings earlier this month.

But the recommendations in "A Master Plan for Higher Education in Illinois Phase II," drafted nearly a year ago by the IBHE, call for three-year schools in both the Chicago and Springfield areas. Its reasoning is two-fold: Three-year institutions would complement existing junior colleges and would harm nonpublic colleges in the area less than four-'or five-year schools would. It is both politically and educationally important that junior and private colleges be protected. SUPPORT for this type of institution has come from the Illinois Junior College Board, a state board which all public junior colleges. The Illinois Assn.

of Community and Junior Colleges, representing local governing boards of junior colleges, also supports this function. Spokesmen for Loyola and DePoul universities in Chicago, the only private schools to appear at the IBHE hearings, made no formal comment on this point. They asked instead (Continued on Page 4) Wood Pale, Itasca join An area community chest has finally been realized for the villages of Itasca and Wood Dale. The recently named board of directors of the organization plans to hold the first drive in the fall of 1968 along with the Metropolitan Crusade of Mercy. Prior to that, the group has a number of details to iron out, said Fred Ringley, president.

EVERETT L. DREYER, Roselle, inventor of "Maneuver," demonstrates the skill game in which more than one game piece may be moved at once. Dreyer devised a special deck of playing cards and tested the game for 15 years before it came out on the market. He is a machine designer by trade and also invented a machine gun game at Riverview Amusement Park. (Staff Photo) Ringley undertook establishing a community chest last spring with hopes of having three communities join forces in the endeavor.

After several meetings with representatives from Itasca, Wood Dale and Roselle, it became apparent only two villages would be included. Dorothy Sanborn, who was then a Roselle trustee, said Roselle would stay out of the plan because of lack of interest in the village. Ringley and other interested citizens applied for incorporation of the charitable organization to include only Itasca and Wood Dale. More delay was encountered, however, after approval of the incorporation. THE PROBLEM was getting volunteers from Wood Date to serve on the board, important because both communities have to be represented, according to incorporation.

Now with all problems solved, the list of officers has been announced. Serving from Itasca are Pres. Ringley; Muriel Gray, treasurer; and Jack Discher, vice president. Harland Thomas and John Reynertson are board members. Officers from Wood Dale are Wei Broekman, financial vice president, and Jerry Risting, secretary.

A those representing Itasca on the honorary board are trustee William Everham, who first introduced the idea in the summer learned that of 1966 when he $460 collected by the community chest in Chicago was earmarked for Itasca. IT WAS learned that a local united drive would greater funds for the agencies serving the community. As a result interested citizens, mostly from Itasca, started working towards this goal. Other honorary board members are Don L. Averill, operations manager of Shulton Inc.

in Itasca; C. Lloyd Chandler, manager of Columbia Ribbon and Carbon Manufacturing Co. in Itasca; William Lyons, president of the Itasca Country Club; Glenn Mensching, president of the Itasca State Bank; Gerard E. Morgan, president of Riddell Plaines; of Itasca Glenn D. and Des Peacock, president of Peacock Engineering Co.

of Itasca; F. Ed Peacock, president of Peacock Publishing in Itasca and president of the District 10 school board; and Will Nottke, village president. An honorary board representing Wood Dale will be announced later. It is evident that Itasca anil Wood, residents are not paying their 'fair share for local charitable organizations to correspond with services received, reported Ringley. HE-CITED various requests for funds made from groups which have performed services to residents.

Girl Scouts of DuPage County asked for $3,000, Elmhurst YMCA for $300 and Community Nursing suggested $2,086. Family Service and Boy Scouts of DuPage County were grouped with other organizations in a total request for $10,243. These figures represent time, effort and services which Itasca and Wood Dale residents receive, said Ringiey. Police Attend Institute Air Juvenile Drug Problem Suburban juveniles are more apt to get their kicks from exempt narcotics than from LSD or other hallucinatory drugs, a Rolling Meadows juvenile officer said last week. Sgt.

William Golden told nearly 70 juvenile officers attending the fifth annal Delinquency Control Institute that LSD is a Plan Dinner For Helping Band Group A sausage and sauerkraut dinner will be served by the Lake Park Band Auxiliary on Nov. 9 from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. in the Lake Park High School cafeteria. The menu wilL include fresh cooked sausage, sauerkraut, boiled potatoes, assorted hard rolls and butter, apple slices, and coffee, tea or milk.

Hot dogs will be available for children. Tickets may be purchased from any band member or at the. door for $1.50 for adults and $1 for grade, school children. Pre-schoolers will be admitted free. Parents of students in the Lake Park band compose the band auxiliary.

All profits from the supper will be used to buy new uniforms for the band members. "problem for the colleges let them worry about it." He said drug use among suburban juveniles can be curbed much more effectively by periodic checking of the exempt narcotics record book in local drug stores. Exempt narcotics those drugs which are sold without prescriptions are not to be sold to persons under 21. They are bottled in the legal daily dose, and a person must sign the- record book, when buying them. Despite these precautions, Golden said he has found persons who have bought the same drug in several drug stores on the same day and did the same thing the next day, "Get to know your druggists and check the books every so often," he told the juvenile officers.

"When you see a name keep popping up in the book, check in other stores too." Golden.said he has traced some purchasers from Rolling Meadows east to Park Ridge, stopping at each drug store along and as far west as Cary, doing the same thing. ALTHOUGH the exempt narcotics are not addictive, they are habit forming, Golden said. "And they lead to hard narcotics." "It takes guts for those kids to drink that stuff," he said. "Most of it tastes pretty vile and it's not cheap. "But the adolescent will try anything and everything to- get his kicks even if it kills him." Golden said inexperienced police officers are frequently confused when they confront someone who has been taking one of the medicinal drugs.

"These kids are drunker than a billy goat, yet they have the sweetest breath in the world," he said. "They're giddy and think everything is funny. They won't put up a'fight and they don't get a hangover." Lt. Ronald Hemmingson, of the Harrington Police Department, told the juvenile officers to utilize the research laboratories in local industries if something is believed to be a narcotic. "THE INDUSTRIES are usually happy to help out," he said, "and it's a lot quicker than trying to go through a crime lab." In addition to the discussions on drugs and'drug use among juveniles, the juvenile officers heard lectures on their role in the community, sociological aspects' of juvenile delinquency and how they can best eliminate the causes.

Dr. Clyde Vedder, professor of sociology at Northern Illinois University and a noted author on delinquency and criminology, told the officers that a' potential delinquent and potential criminal can, in many cases, be spotted before he goes bad. "If a kid is mean to animals or sets fires for fun, keep your eye on him," Vedder said. He explained that many de- linquents who frequently go on to worse crimes are the victims of insecure childhoods. "Almost every murderer has been mistreated by his parents," Vedder said.

"In most cases, it was a case of violent mistreatment which led the person to the life he is leading." Cops Probe Second Try At Burglary Itasca police are investigating a second burglary attempt in two weeks at the Sears Roebuck Store 'in the Itasca Shopping Center early Saturday morning, Oct. 28. As in the previous break-in on Oct. 19, the subjects were apparently unsuccessful. Four portable television sets taken from the store were recovered by police, who are still awaiting an official statement from the Sears manager as to missing items.

WHILE ON A routine check of the area that morning, the police were summoned at 12:35 a.m. by a delivery truck driver to check a broken window at the store. According to the police report, the large refuse can which was left outside as a litter container was thrown at the plate glass window. HE SAID insecurity and too harsh a childhood may cause a youngster to join a gang, although the problem of gangs is not as widespread in the suburbs as in the city. The institute, held in Northlake, was attended by 11 patrolmen from this area.

They were Jose Gonzales, Elk Grove; William Mulcahy, Hoffman Estates; Charles Barr, Joseph Bopp and Richard Pascoe, Mount Prospect; Gordon Mosby, Palatine; Dennis Harper, Rolling Meadows; Stuart Remus, Roselle; Richard Ronne, Schaumburg, and Theodore Homeyer and Jack i Wheeling. The institute was sponsored by the Illinois Youth Commission, the Illinois Juvenile Officers Information File a Northern Illinois University. The Mob: 'Subtle Ruin 9 See Story On Page 4.