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The Mount Prospect Cool 45th Year--149 TODAY: Partly sunny and cool; high in low 70s. WEDNESDAY: Sunny and pleasant; high in mid 70s A I A I Mount Prospect, Illinois. 60056 Tuesday, July 4, 1972 2 Sections, 20 Pages Home Delivery 55c a week-- lOc a copy 70 To Participate In Big Fourth Of July Parade About 70 groups will participate today in what is billed as the largest Fourth of July parade Mount Prospict has ever bad. "We think it'll be the biggest ever," said George Lindholm, chairman of the parade sponsored by the Mount Prospect Chamber of Commerce. Theme of the event is "Spirit of Mount Prospect It's The Real Thing." The parade will leave the corner of Gregory and Emerson streets at 2 p.m.

Marchers will then proceed south on Emerson to Sha-Bonee Trail and in to Lions Park. There prizes will be given for the best civic, youth and overall float. The float with the best theme will also receive an award. The Rev. Edwin Stevens, pastor of South Church-Community Baptist, will lead the parade as grand marshal.

U. S. Rep. Phillip Crane. R-Mth.

Mayor Rober Teichert and State Representatives David Regner. R-Mount Prospect, Eugenia Chapman, D-Arlinyton Heights, and Eugene Schlickman, R-Arlington Heights, will also participate. Susan Lubeck, the new Miss Mount Prospect, will also ride in the parade as the Forest View High School marching band plays favorite patriotic music. Miss Lubeck, chosen last month, will participate in the Miss Illinois contest in Aurora later this month. New to this year's parade, 12 of the leading Midwest drum -ind bugle corps will march.

Following the parade, the top six groups will compete at Lions Park. Groups in the parade include the Guardsmen Cadettes from Mount Prospect, the Ambassadors from Racine, the Flint Guardsmen from Flint, the Crusader Gladiators, from Milwaukee, the Nee-Hi's from Clinton, Iowa, the Bellettes from Belleville and the Colt .45 Cadettes from Dubuque, Iowa. Flags will again be sold this year by the Mount Prospect Junior Woman's (Continued on page 3) 2 More Parades, Block Parties Set For Today Two smaller parades and three block parties have been scheduled today in the Mount Prospect area, to complement the village's chamber of commerce Fourth of July parade. About 50 youngsters are expected to take part in the 25th annual Wa-Pella Avenue parade from the corner of Wa- Pella and Lincoln avenues on Wa-Pella north to central Road. The parade begins at 10 a.m.

The event gives children a chance to dress in costumes and decorate their bicycles, according to Mrs. Roger Meier, one of a group of residents sponsoring the celebration. Prizes will be awarded in various categories. PETS ON PARADE, decorated bicycles and a variety of floats will mark the Fourth of July celebration in the Forest River subdivision, southeast of Mount Prospect at Kensington and River roads. The parade, sponsored by the Forest River Civic Association, will begin at 2 p.m.

in the unincorporated area. "Forest River, We Are Proud of You" is the theme of the event. Linda Scott of 134 Hill St. has been chosen teen queen of the parade by children in the subdivision. Runners-up are Stacey Bednar, of 201 Lee and Kathy McGwinness, of 120 Brookfield Ln.

The girls will ride in the parade. Kellie Kozee, 3, of 232 Graylynn will also be in the parade. She was chosen preschool queen. In addition, Mount Prospect Village representatives said requests for three block parties have been approved for the July 4 weekend, on the 1-300 block of Wa- Pella Avenue, the 100 block of South William Street and the 100 block of George Street. Lions Parade Steps Off At 9 Today The annual Fourth of July parade in Prospect Heights this morning will include several hundred participants.

The 12th annual parade sponsored by the Prospect Heights Lions in conjunction with the Prospect Heights Little League program will begin at 111. Rte. 83 and Camp McDonald Road at 9 a.m. and end at Lions Park on Camp McDonald Road for a day of baseball, swimming and park activities. The Prospect Heights Volunteer Fire Department will lead the motorcade along the parade route.

Community residents have been invited to enter cars or floats and trophies will be awarded for the best decorated entry. Joe Lesniak, chairman of the parade committee said there will be no fireworks display again this year "due to the cost of insurance. The fireworks were discontinued three years ago. The parade committee also includes Lions members Bob Hanetho, Fred Wubs, Wendell Sampson and Pete Losurdo. The Prospect Heights Improvement Association (PHIA), Woman's Club, and Park District along with the E-Hart Girls and Boy and Girl Scouts will participate.

NEW CITIZENS Walter and Sophie Kociszewski prepare for a trip back to their native Poland. Walter Kociszewski labored for 16 years here and before that was a victim of World War II and the German occupation, He finally acquired American citizenship and now returns to Europe as a citizen of His adopted country. Ex-POW Celebrating 4th In Poland by JEAN CAFARELLA On this Independence Day, Walter Kociszewski, who spent five years as a prisoner of war in Germany, ten years working in Belgian coal mines, and sixteen years as a construction worker in Palatine, is going to visit the Poland he left 31 years ago. But this time he will see his native Poland as a visiting American citizen, becoming part of the saga a hundred thousand immigrants who left turbulence in Europe for promise in the United States. Kociszewski planned the trip so he could visit his 90-year-old mother, Maria, whom he hasn't seen since World War II.

Before going on the trip, however, Kociszewski wanted to become an American citizen, which provides him with the protection of the American government while abroad. His citizenship did not come without trial; he and his wife Sophie passed all their tests for naturalization, and his wife was scheduled to swear-in back in January. Kociszewski received a notice of faulty fingerprints, and immediately sent a new set. HE RECEIVED no further notice, so he called the naturalization office and wrote them two letters. He went to the office twice, and one of the times he was given a runaround because his papers had been misplaced.

Kociszewski finally was sworn in as a citizen June 13. Ironically, Kociszewski waited 16 years to become a citizen because he had heard the naturalization test is very hard. The test turned out to be "not so bad," and not nearly as bad as waiting "for the swearing in. His oldest son, Thaddeus, applied for citizenship last November and is still waiting. The waiting is over now and Kocis- his wife, and his youngest child, Irene, will go back to Poland for 30 days starting this week, spending the first nine days on tour seeing all the places they haven't seen before.

Besides visiting his mother, Kociszewski will also look up three brothers and a sister. His mother is living in a- retirement home in Tyrawawoloska, an east-central town where she was born. When the Kociszewskis visit Poland, the things they remember will probably be far different from what they were in 1941. Poland was about 90 per cent farms in 1941, as remembers it. Now it is adopting many more Western industrial ideas, opening more stores and more industries.

When Kociszewski was young, his father owned an average-size farm of about 40 acres, where they grew just about every kind of crop and owned some cows and pigs, WHEN HE was 17, he was captured by Germans. "I worked in a German factory 12 hours a day no food, no clothes. I was hungry. I never forgot Koziszewski said. His mother sent packages of food to him about once a month.

During his time in Germany he met his wife; they married in 1946 and had a son, Thaddeus, who is now 24. After the war the Kociszewskis decided not to go back to Russian-occupied Poland, and went instead to Belgium. He worked in a coal mine for ten years, and decided he wanted a better future for his family. The Kociszewskis had two more children while in Belgium, Kristine, 22 (now Mrs. Kristine Larson), and Eugene, 18.

"In Belgium, Thaddeus would have been working nine years how in the coal mine. I made $5 or $6 for eight hours of work. It cost $2 for a chicken and $10 for a turkey I never tasted turkey there, and here you could have it every week!" he said. THE FAMILY left for America in 1956, and Irene, 10, was born here. Their first home in Palatine was 70 or 80 years old, with the washrooms and water pump outside.

Now they can easily laugh about what it was like to go to the washroom on a winter morning. Presently they have a lovely home at 190 S. Cedar. STARTING A new life in America was rough, since they didn't know any English. But Kociszewski told' prospective employers that he was willing to work hard.

Once he told a possible employer that he was hungry. "He laughed at me and said, 'You want bread? We got lots of He didn't know what it's like to be hungry," Kociszewski said. His desires for a better life for his children have materialized. Thaddeus is a graduate of the University of Chicago with a major in economics. The elder Kociszewski was only able to go through the fifth grade because his father became sick and he had to work on the farm.

He's very glad to be going back to Poland because his mother has written that things are much better than they used to be. "I never saw much of Poland other than the farm it's supposed to be beautiful. I love Poland, and I love America, too. Palatine is a nice place." he said. His wife agrees that "This is the best country." Paddock Offices Are Closed Paddock Publications is closed all day today, July 4, in observance of Indepefi- dence Day.

All Herald offices and switchboards are closed. Editorial functions of the newspaper will continue and there will be no lapse in publication. This Morning In Brief The Nation A federal judge upheld a decision by the Democratic Credentials Committee that stripped Sen. George McGovern of 1M convention votes in the California delegation. He also sustained the committee's order unseating Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and 58 of his followers from the Illinois convention delegation.

Arthur Bremer, accused of shooting Alabama Gov. George Wallace, was moved from the Baltimore County Jail to a state hospital for a mental examination. Harry Truman. 88, tired but still managing to joke with his nurses, underwent a series of tests at a Kansas City, Mo. hospital to team more about his latest digestive ailment.

Democratic convention manager Richard Murphy said he has notified the Nixon administration he will bar all politically-appointed observers from the Justice and Treasury departments from the Miami Beach Convention Hall. A wealthy British investment banker offered to double the prize money in an attempt to lure American challenger Bobby Fischer to his world championship chess match with Russian Boris Spassky. The World The bodies of three more men were discovered in Belfast, raising to eight the number found in the past three days in what a British Army spokesman described as a possible series of vengeance executions by both Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland. The State A suit to test the constitutionality of Illinois' new $30 million parochiaid law has been filed with the state supreme court. The suit was filed'by the head of the Catholic Archdiocese school board of Chicago.

Thousands of young persons, Weter- 'mined to gather lor a scheduled July 4 rock festival despite the discouragement of court action, overflowed a wooded area near Stfeator. Harry Daniels, a 41-year-old South Side Chicago.man, was charged with the shooting deaths of two reputed leaders of the Black Stone Nation and a young woman Sunday. Another man was being sought. Eighteen-year-old males can marry in Illinois without parental consent, Atty. Gen.

William Scott ruled. Present laws allow women to marry at 18 without their parents' approval but require such approval for males between 18 and 21. The War Communist gunners fired 675 rocket, mortar and artillery rounds into Hue and its outer defenses and two large, equally matched units slugged it out with tanks and artillery north of the old imperial capital in a South Vietnamese attempt to recapture Quang Tri province. The Weather Temperatures from around the nation: High Low Atlanta 88 68 Boston 31 69 Denver 67 47 Houston i 92 80 Los Angeles 79 62 Miami Beach SS 83 Paul 63 63 New York 91 75 Phoenix 110 75 Richmond 92 71 St. Louis 79 65 San Francisco 64 57 Washington 89 71 The Market Stocks drifted aimlessly on the New York Stock Exchange in the slowest trading session in eight months.

The Dow Jones industrial average eased 0.37 to 928.66. Average price of a NYSE common share gained 14 cents, while advances topped declines, 807 to 522. Turnover of 8,140,000 shares was the smallest volume since Oct. 25, 1971. The volume Friday was 12,860,000 shares.

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