The Daily Herald from Chicago, Illinois • Page 48

The Rolling Meadows Sunny TODAY: Mostly sunny, warm; highs in mid Ws. WEDNESDAY: Continued warm. A I A I 15th Year--114 Rolling Meadows, Illinois 60008 Tuesday, July 7, 1970 2 sections, 16 pages Home Delivery 35c a week--lOe a copy THISI ARE NOT SARDINES packed in a can. Tempera- lures are due to soar into the middle 90's again this week so the Rolling Meadows Park District pool may be packed again, as it was last week. Friendly Town Gives Kids Green Summer Green lawns and playgrounds for kids to play on are taken for granted by Palatine and Rolling Meadows families while their counterparts in the inner city often struggle to keep the kids from playing in the street.

To give inner city children a summer vacation in the suburbs, churches and residents in the area are promoting the idea of having an inner-city child visit a suburban home for two weeks. The project is called Friendly Town. It began on the southwest side of Chicago INSIDE TODAY SWT The. ilrc Brill KC Coml Fdltnrllil' Horoicopc Movlci Sporta Want 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 ,2 .2 2 2 8 7 7 6 7 2 1 2 a in 1961. Last year church groups from Palatine and Rolling Meadows began working directly with the Kenwood Mothers' Club on the south side to give south side children a vacation hi the suburbs.

About 40 inner city children visited in 35 new host families last year. This year the Kenwood Mothers Club is hoping to place 35 or 40 more children in suburban homes in Palatine and Rolling Meadows for a vacation during one of two sessions. The first session will begin July 18, the second Aug. 1. HOST FAMILIES may cHbose the age between 5 and 12 yean old and the sex of the child or children they would like to have, as well as the session they want them to come out for.

Friendly Town children are given medical examinations before then: visits and are covered by a $2,500 sickness and accident insurance policy provided by the Community Renewal Society, the group which organized the Friendly Town program in 1961. Host families will be responsible for picking up and returning their inner city guests and will be informed about four days before the session of who their child is. High School Work Going 'Smoothly' "Our own children look forward to something different, something special during the summer," Mrs. Betty Ginger, organizer of the host families in the area, said. "The children in the Kenwood neighborhood have the same dream.

They are hoping for a visit to-suburbia where there is grass to play on and the streets are safe for bike riding." Mrs. Ginger will meet this weekend with a representative of the Kenwood Mothers' Club to match children with homes for the first session. Any interested families should contact her as soon as possible at 259-1188. Park Plans 'Splash' The Rolling Meadows Park District will sponsor a Teen Splash Party from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m.

this Sunday hi the Rolling Meadows Swimming Pool. All college students, high school students and those going into high school this fall may attend. There is no admission fee and prior registration is not necessary. Refreshments will be available. Construction work on the seventh high school in Dist.

214 in Rolling Meadows is going smoothly and on schedule, according to Dr. Robert Weber, assistant superintendent for business services in the district, who has been working closely with contractors on the site since construction began in May. Weber reported that construction has not been seriously affected by the recent strikes in the area. However, he is concerned that suppliers of structural steel for the project may have difficulty in getting the raw steel to be supplied to the contractor. The cement finishers strike has even had a beneficial effect.

Weber reports that the strike freed carpenters from building frames for concrete, thus allowing them to work on other parts of the project. "I'm optimistic but uneasy also," Weber said. He commented that he expects the main portion of the building to be completed by the planned September, 1971, opening date. Weber and the school board, however, are having problems trimming the project's budget. He said that between $35,000 and $50,000 still remains to be cut from the project budget.

NOW, HE is studying several ways of feeding students in the new high school, including an in-school cafeteria, vending machine service, catering or an in-district cooking facility to prepare food. He hopes to have a report for the school board by next Monday. To speed construction and to help insure completion of the building on schedule, the project is using the critical path method, a system of computer scheduling to aid orderly completion. Weber is satisfied with the way it is working out. If contractors follow the schedule and don't allow themselves to get too far behind, the project will meet its completion date.

The critical path method includes a printed list of starting and completion times for all projects. As the work on the foundations in the main classroom section is completed, and as other foundation work nears completion, Weber said he is especially satisfied with the cooperation he bas received from contractors on the critical path schedule. He said the project has also been blessed with a site which has drained well during the rainy spring months. Little mud has formed on the site, and there is plenty of soil on the site to use as backfill for the building. School Disannex Hearing Oct.

6 Rolling Meadows residents petitioning the Cook County Board of School Trustees to let them dis-annex from High School Dist. 211 to Dist. 214 will be heard by the board at a special hearing Oct. 6. Fred Jacobson, who filed the petition in behalf of the group, said he was optimistic about what happened yesterday when the trustees met and set the date.

Besides the petitioners, the board of school trustees will invite both Dist. 214 and Dist. 211 to attend the hearing. Jacobson has asked the Dist. 211 board to endorse disannexing the western section of Rolling Meadows, but the board opposed disannexation.

Berry Pickers: Dedicated Folk by TOM JACHIMIEC One of the best strawberry-pickin' patches in northeastern Illinois can be -found right here in the Northwest suburbs. Nevarr's Strawberry Patch at 1207 E. Oakton Street in Elk Grove Township is one of the only such places around that allows people to pick as they please as long as there' is some daylight in the sky. "I'm the only one in Cook County -far as I know," said the owner, Art, a construction worker who took up cultivating strawberries nearly 30 years ago as a hobby. Art wishes his least name not be used.

"Just call me Art of Nevarr's," he said. But, for those curious enough to know, the name posted on his rural mailbox is A. Niewardowski. "I'M A CITY slicker, not a farmer, who started out with a small hobby that grew and grew," he said. Art says he's had his ups and downs through the years, recalling the year 1948 when "every plant died on me, but I started over." For about the last six years he has opened his 7-acre patch to the public every summer.

"They come in business suits, white shirts and ties, and bikinis," he said. "Don't laugh. We had some women out here who just came from the beauty shop. They had high heels and umbrellas when it rained." It is not a rare day when several hundred residents stop to pick berries. Cook Band Plays On, Despite Chills Braving the chill of the Fourth of July Eve, 30 members of the Rolling Meadows band performed just before the fireworks display.

"It's difficult to play in cold weather, and we were happy 30 people came out to play," Larry Barnett, public relations director said. The group is attempting to increase its membership to 60. Anyone interested should contact Barnett at 2554526. Weekly rehearsals are held at Trinity Luthern Church hi Rolling Meadows Tuesdays from 7:30 to 9 p.m. County sheriff's police have been out on several occasions and threatened to ticket cars parked illegally.

Pickers are an unusual kind of people. Once they start pickin' they can't stop. ART'S WIFE, LaVerne, said that two weeks ago some women didn't want to leave the patch even though police were calling them back to their cars with the aid of a portable loudspeaker. "They didn't want to leave. You should have seen 'em," she said.

Explaining the appeal of picking your own strawberries, Art said: "It's like ice cream or pizza. It's a delicacy. People like the sweet ripe flavor." A lady picking in the field one Saturday morning said strawberries simply tasted better when you picked them yourself. "THEY'RE BETTER than in the store," she said. Art and LaVerne agreed.

You pick them when they are ripe and they taste better, they explained. Store-bought strawberries are picked green about a week before they are sold and sprayed to keep from ripening while transported. The effects of the spray wear off and they ripen, but the taste is not the same. Art, who said he takes care of his berries as if they were babies, said he has an experimental variety this year. "They're sweeter and larger," he said.

"It takes quite a bit of work, from March until the first frost," his wife said. The job includes cultivation, fertilization, irrigation, and weeding every so often. ART CHARGES 40 cents a quart. Store prices are higher. "I've seen 89 cents a pint for strawberries from Michigan," LaVerne said.

Art refrained from giving details about the quantity of business he does, even though he is now closed for the season. "I don't want my competitors to know," he mused. "I don't want anybody to know what goes out of here. even Uncle Sam." The discussion drifted back to the people who are attracted to the strawberry patch. "We get all different kinds.

Judges, lawyers, from every walk of life," he said. "We had people out here from Tinley Park, Joliet, Wheaton, and even two teachers from Hinsdale." "One fella was out in the field so long he had supper out there," said LaVerne. "He ate strawberries!" The area being considered for dis- annexation is bounded by Euclid Avenue, Rohlwing Road, Central Road and the eastern boundary of Dist. 211 running near Owl Drive. DIST.

211's action in officially opposing the disannexation has not been recorded with the State Superintendent of Public Schools' office, Jacobson said. The residents petitioning have been trying since March to annex to Dist. 214 hi time for their children to begin school a year from this fall in the Dist. 214 high school being built on Central Road. The group, representing 80 per cent of the homeowners in the affected area, has not asked the Dist.

214 board to commit themselves on annexation since Dist. 211 board has gone on record opposing the boundary line change. The board gave precedent-setting as its main objection to the disannexation. It fears the district's assessed valuation will be affected if other disannexations are requested after the homeowners' one is accepted. DIST.

211 also opposed an earlier proposal to change the boundary line between the two high school districts six years ago. At that time, the Dist. 214 high school site had been selected, but construction had not begun. Now, with the school scheduled to open next fall, residents in the western section of the city want the boundary line changed so their students, can attend the new high school located nearer their homes than William Fremd High School in Palatine. Jacobson, who attended the school trustees meeting yesterday, said he invited them to come out to Rolling Meadows to look at the area and talk to residents.

Charged With Theft A 25-year-old Stone Park, Illinois, man was stopped by Rolling Meadows police Thursday after he allegedly stole a motorcycle that was parked in the Palatine Plaza. Harold D. Mittelstaedt of 1725 N. 43rd Ave was charged with grand theft by Palatine police. He was freed on $2,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in the Arlington Heights branch of the Circuit Court Aug.

7. PALATINE POLICE said that Mr. and Mrs. Truman E. Bishop of Austin, Minnesota had stopped to shop at the plaza on Route 14 near Hicks Road about 3 p.m.

When they came out of one of the stores, police said, they noticed someone driving their motorcycle south on Rt. 14. They called police who then alerted neighboring police departments. Mittelstaedt was taken into custody on Rt. 53 south of Kirchoff Road by Rolling Meadows police.

Democrats Plan Summer Picnic Palatine Township Democrats win hold their annual summer picnic Saturday afternoon at Deer Grove Forest Preserve. The festivities will begin at 2 p.m. near the shelter in the preserve. Admission to the picnic is free Refreshments will be provided, but Edward J. Sullivan, picnic chairman, recommends families bring a picnic lunch.

Democratic Committeeman Richard Mugalian said Democratic candidates for various offices are expected to attend..