Chicago Tribune. Monday, June 21, 1993 Section 2 3. Chicagoland Browsers and buyers mince words at Printers Row fair Transfer of air base opposed by Glenview li -Hit By Paul Sloan Everyone from the very young to the very old crammed a few blocks of the south Loop over the weekend to pay homage to the word. From the out-of-print and pricey word, to the newly written word, to even words that make people laugh. this year's Printers Row Book Fair, an event that began nine years ago with just a few booksellers, was a bibliophile's dream.
Yet some vendors said sales were slumpish, especially Saturday. Bradley Jonas, co-owner of Powell's Bookstore and who has helped put the fair together since its inception, said, "Three booksellers came up to mc Saturday night and said, 'Everybody's looking but they seem kind of sad. Do you think it could be because of the Bulls don't know," Jonas said he lamented. "It could have made an attitude. But I think it's also the economy." Regardless of sales, said Jonas, pointing at the dense crowds along Dearborn Street, between Congress Parkway and Polk Street, "The fair has been a success.
There are a lot of bodies here. I think the fair livens up what books arc all about." This year's fair was host to about 150 vendors and boasted reading from an array of big-name talent, such as Garry Wills, winner of the 1993 Harold Washington Literary Award and author of "Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America." And fitting for the 1990s, in this age of books on tape, a number of audio personalities, such as cartoonistmonologist Lynda Barry, also captured the audience from the main stage. This year, in fact, the fledgling Gang of Seven record label, dedicated entirely to artists such as Barry and Spaulding Gray, who mix comedy with storytelling, had a booth at the book fair. And business was booming. Throughout the fair, live music filled the air.
Paper makers taught curious onlookers their craft. A Poet's Corner tent had open microphone sessions for the courageous. Michael Feldman, host of the nationally syndicated radio game show, "Whad'ya know," read from his two books. "I'm not an author," the radio personality joked. "Only in America can you not be an author and have two books, ladies and gentlemen.
So don't be discouraged if you don't have a book yet." HI Iff i 11 A Til. I military decision. If they decide to put the Air Force unit there, we're obviously going to live with them," she acknowledged. "We've gotten along really well with the Navy over the years," she added. Glenview's 1968 annexation agreement for the base prohibits village interference in flight operations or prevent the base from carrying out its assigned mission.
Firfer said she "polled village board members about the air force question but added that the board took no official action. If the 928th operated out of Glenview, it would increase field operations by 5 percent. A Navy spokesman said Glenview had 43,000 takeoffs and landings in 1992, and an Air Force officer said the O'Hare unit had 2,000 last year. Squadron officers at both bases reported on the safety record of C-130 operations, and Firfer agreed that the C-130 has a good safety record. "We've had 45 years of accident-free flying totaling over 160,000 hours," stated Maj.
Gary Strasburg of the 928th Air Force Reserve. The squadron has been operating with C-130s since their introduction as short-range cargo planes in the mid 1950s. In view of the Department of Defense recommendation for closure of Glenview's base, arguments about transferring units' there seem moot. Nevertheless, hopeful boosters of this largest among the country's reserve training facilities continue to plan for the future. i A coalition of civilian employees and military reservists at the base recently developed data that advances the base to the top of the military-value matrix.
Their efforts have gained the strong support of Simon and Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun. The Glenview air station hosts 1,642 active-duty and 3,154 reserve military personnel plus 369 civilian employees. Its 1,288 acres currently serve all branches of military reserve forces except the Air Force, and is home to the U.S. Coast Guard air rescue service for southern Lake Michigan.
David Sawyier catches up on his reading as his daughter Anne, 3, checks out the aerial view Sunday at the Printers Row Book Fair, held on Dearborn Street in the south Loop. New training center helps police pooches say By Cheryl W. Thompson The Matteson Police Department's 3-year-old canine, Bar, is a pro when it comes to tracking down suspected criminals, searching a building or sniffing out illegal drugs. But when it comes to jumping out of open windows or dog-paddling across a creek, the black-and-tan German shepherd is a tad bashful. Matteson police officials hope that can be changed in the new training center where Bar will work out with dogs from four other south suburban departments.
The facility, on two acres of former farmland, seems almost like an outdoor health club for dogs. There is an obstacle course, fences of varying heights, a stair By Don Andries In a letter to federal lawmakers, Glcnview's mayor wrote that it would be "unconscionable" to close down the military prcsense at O'Harc and move its Air Force Reserve transport squadron to her city. Mayor Nancy Firfer's letter last week was prompted by the testimony of U.S. Sen. Paul Simon and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley before the Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
Both have suggested that closing down the military presence at O'Harc should be followed by transferring at least one Air Force Reserve unit to Glenview. The logical choice would be the 928th Airlift Group that flics C-130 transport planes identical to aircraft already operating out of Glenview. Firfer's letter cautioned that if this Air Force unit joined the other four services already at Glenview, the number of C-130s would "almost double." The Marine Corps Reserve at Glenview has 1 1 of the large transports, while O'Harc's 928th has eight. The Glenview mayor said in her letter, "The village has been, and remains, consistently opposed to any additional aviation-related uses or military units being added to this naval air station." In commenting about her letter, Firfer explained that the C-130s "rev" their engines before taking off from the south end of Glcnview's longest runway. "It's noisy" for residents just south of Lake Avenue, she said.
The four-lane road is about 1,200 feet from the south end of the main runway. The air station is to "run-up" engines "at mid-field about a mile from the road," said Navy Lt. Ted Tcdmon, public affairs officer at the base. This lasts from 60 to 90 seconds to check the aircraft's powered systems. According to a Glenview Squadron operations officer, takeoff runs are from south to north.
If the plane must wait at the end of the runway, the practice is to idle engines down. Firfer emphasized that "it's a II west SCHAUMBURG LISLE I TriDunG DflOIO DV Eauardo Cnntraras Tes, I canine' wrecking ball at a nearby park. The officers, many of whom have carpentry and other trade skills, then worked on their time off to construct the facility. It took two weeks. Because of the donations of supplies, equipment and labor, the actual cost of the facility was about $300 instead of the "several thousand dollars" the departments might have had to fork over, Hal-pin said.
Departments' dogs will train and exercise about four hours a week as a group and six to eight hours a week individually, Halpin said. It's important the dogs work together to get accustomed to one another and to the handlers, in case they're ever sent out on assignment together. irgrsTcylir v.zzih CHICAGO LOOP SK0KIE ff ri BULLS 1993 WORLD CHAMP i COTTOH TWILL ihpinMl EMBROIDERED SBiHX Veterans fight to rest in peace Weekend gathering to press Army for cemetery land case, a slide, a sewer pipe, a telephone pole and a brick wall with a window for dogs like Bar, who need some practice jumping out of them. All that equipment will be used to exercise the animals, teach obedience, and get them used to working with obstacles they may encounter while working the streets with their police-officer handlers. The center was the brainchild of Matteson canine officer Mike Hal-pin, who had been forced to exercise Bar wherever he could find space.
Canine units from Tinley Park, University Park, Riverdale and Park Forest, which has two dogs, also had no suitable space to work out. It wasn't uncommon for officers to pile the pooches in the back of police cars and haul them over to a who gathered at Ft. Sheridan recently to pay homage to their fellow servicemen and women do not know where they will be buried. Where a Veterans Administration crusade has failed, the four hope to succeed with an appeal to Chicago-area veterans to gather at the fort this weekend. A 200-acre swath of green field across the northern end of the base appeared, at one time, to be set aside for a national cemetery for veterans of the Midwest.
The Veterans Administration estimates 1 million live in the Chicago area alone. This spring, however, the Veterans Administration announced that it could not meet the Army's asking price of nearly $37 million for the property. Both sides said the deal is probably off, and the administration is looking instead for a site Downstate. The fate of the cemetery land at Ft. Sheridan, an Army landmark, now appears to hinge on a real estate deal with a would-be North Shore neighborhood developer.
The irony, combined with the uncertainty of their own fates, inspired Cutrano, a Gurnee resident, and buddies from several Chicago and suburban chapters of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion to begin their Boy, 13, dies after pool mishap A 13-year-old boy died Saturday afternoon, after suffering cramps and losing consciousness in a pool Wednesday in Carver Park. Ralph Robinson, who lived in the 13000 block of South Evans Avenue, never regained consciousness. Surgeon missing since Tuesday Bethany Hospital's chief surgeon has been missing for five days after he told family members he was on the way to the hospital on the West Side, about three miles from his home, to perform surgery, according to police and the hospital. Donald Hoard, 49, of the 1500 block of West Polk Street, has not vacant store at Lincoln Mall in Matteson or an abandoned school in University Park for a session. "They improvised," said Matteson Police Cmdr.
Ken O'Keefe. "But they realized they needed something more." Matteson police approached village officials two months ago about the village-owned property, nestled near trees and a pump station just east of Cicero Avenue and south of Vollmer Road. They asked if they could use it as a dog-training facility-After getting the nod from village administrators, Halpin and the canine officers from the four other police departments began soliciting donations from local businesses. They rounded up items they'd need, including a telephone pole and a kid's slide saved from the own grass-roots campaign. Mostly by word of mouth, letters and telephone calls, they are inviting veterans to visit Ft.
Sheridan during daylight hours this Saturday and Sunday, and to bring with them handmade crosses to plant in the ground around the cemetery. If they can cover the grassy field with hand-made replicas of gravestones, they hope, perhaps they will be able to persuade the Army to reconsider its asking price. The fact that money is the problem angers the group. As he wandered among the stark white headstones at the cemetery on Friday, Dick Kutz, a 68-year-old Navy World War II veteran from McHenry, said he thinks it's a sad commentary on the way people regard those who served the country during wartime. "We are turning men away from hospitals and taking away their burial benefits," Kutz said, shaking his head.
"This is wrong." But the veterans will not try to change the Army's mind with finger-pointing and complaining, they said. Like the fort itself, solemnly shut down in ceremonies at the end of last month, the gathering this weekend will be silent. "It'll just be people with crosses, saying, 'This is our Cutrano said. 'We want been heard from since last Tuesday, police said. Anyone with information should call police at 746-9259.
Illinois Court rules on DUI breath tests, arrests A police officer isn't required to write a ticket charging a person with drunken driving before asking the driver to take a breath test, the Illinois Appellate Court said Thursday. The ruling involved three cases in which individuals charged with drunken driving won their driving privileges back after the judges ruled that Illinois law required police to issue the citation before administering a Breathalyzer test. The ticket, the appeals court said, is only a record of an arrest, which still has to occur before the breath test can be given. va oy LARGCST SELECTION "Jjfc OF BULLS 1993 I nba yjskX TSSSXi KvHM WOi fS Tvl T-SHIRTS By Christi Parsons As Chuck Cutrano walks through the cemetery at Ft. Sheridan on the shores of Lake Michigan, he speaks of "hallowed ground" and of honoring the spirits of dead war veterans who may hover nearby.
But Cutrano and his veteran friends have more personal reasons for their crusade to turn the tiny patch of burial ground on the deactivated Army base into a national veterans' cemetery, one that would rival those in Arlington, and on the grounds of the Presidio near San Francisco. Cutrano wants his seven grandchildren to stand one day at the foot of his grave in such a cemetery at the fort which ushered hundreds of thousands of people into service. "I want them to look around as far as the eye can see and know they are surrounded by brave men," Cutrano, 59, an Army veteran of the Korean conflict, said one recent day. As he spoke, he gazed at the cemetery as it exists now, a small burial ground with only room for about 1,500 more grave-sites. "I want them to say, 'If it weren't for him, if it weren't for everybody here, we might not be Cutrano said.
As it is, the four war veterans Metropolitan report Chicago Stabbing death called self-defense A 17-year-old girl slain Thursday night on the Northwest Side was stabbed in self-defense during a fight over a boyfriend, authorities said Zoraida Vclcz of the 2200 block of West Logan Boulevard was stabbed in the chest and stomach around 10:15 p.m. and died a half-hour later at Illinois Masonic Medical Center, officials said. The stabbing occurred in the 2000 block of West Divcrscy Avenue, where Vclcz went with a group of friends to talk to a 24-year-old woman who lived there. A fight broke out over a man, police said, and the woman pulled out a knife and stabbed Vclcz. Belmont Area detectives released the woman after the Cook County state's attorney's office ruled the incident self-defense.
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