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312/697-2380. Today 4. obby appeals to light travelers {By JlmTroyer ; Daily Sentinel managing editor Should an overweight man tempt (.fate in an ultralight airplane? , Of all the reasons for going on a "diet, this one had not occurred to £me. But as rows of corn shot past •the little airplane on our way down !ithe grass strip, it was all I could fthirik about, „ ' -- ; I glanced at the corn again. The Stalks were eye level. I looked at the und. It was receding. We were rborne. The little engine roared. t,r was it groaning. For a while 1 3*ad the feeling of being on a roller Toaster, but no network of two-by* Jours supported this craft. The tire Just below me hung in mid air and so <DdI. <1 had gone out to Gait Airport just liorth of Greenwood to check out this business of ultralight airplanes for myself. I'd heard they were danger­ ous. Steve and Carla Nusbaum of the C&S Ultralight Air-Park must ve talked me out of that because re I was. At 500 feet, Wonder Lake mmered in the afternoon sunlight 0\f our left wingtip. decided the lake would provide a rfect reference point for the pilot find his way back to the airstrip &nd stopped worrying about that. The wingtip was another matter. Ihere just wasn't much to it. K Ultralight aircraft have a weight kmit of only 254 pounds so they don't . feem too substantial. ^'Ultralight flying today is vefy feiuch like flying the airplanes of the 1830s," Steve Nusbaum had ex- ained. "The airplanes weighed a tie more but flew just as fast." ' The material for covering wings jind fuselage today is stronger and ifcuch lighter, he explained. Builders know the strength of structural com­ ponents much better, too. But the Wggest difference is in the engine, today's ultralight airplane power- $ant is a two-cycle engine with a milch better power-to-weight ratio tfian the aircraft of the '30s and '40s. That's especially important if you lied to people about your weight JlmTroyer photo Steve Nusbaum fills the cockpit of one of the Grover ultralight airplanes at the C & S Ultra­ light Airpark at the Gait Airport north of Green­ wood. Nusbaum has built three similar aircraft from kits, projects that take him about 120 hours to complete. before going up. It wasn't such a big lie, but then this wasn't a Boeing 707. The Nusbaums know exactly why they got into the ultralight business. "Flying is fun," ttfey agree. Ultra­ light flying may be more fun than any other kind of flying. I couldn't help thinking that this is the way Rickenbacker flew. Those corn­ fields, meadows and farm buildings down there might be the French countryside of World War I. And down there, a squadron of enemy planes. No, those are crows flying just over the treetops in the opposite direction. I had never looked at crows from this angle before. Low cost is one the ultralight's greatest appeals. A kit for one of the popular Grover models, complete Local report • 'Lou Grant' comes to area center ** ELGIN -- Actor Ed Asner, most widely known as TV's Lou Grant, |*wW beth?guest speaker at the Elgin Community Crisis Center's 10th vAnniversary Celebration on Sept. 26 at the Elgin Holidome, 345 W. £ River Road. J- Besides his acting credits, Asner also is a noted director and v producer and the recent host of "Battered Wives - Shattered Lives." The celebration will being with cocktails at 6 p.m and dinner at 7 p.m. Tickets are $17.50 each, with tables of eight available. For more information, contact the Community Crisis Center at First aid course to start Sept. 16 McHENRY -- A standard and advanced first aid course will be offered, beginning Sept. 16. The courses will be held at the McHenry Rescue Squad building, 1208 N. Court St., and classes will be from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Monday and Thursday. ' The standard course will last for about three-and-a-half weeks. The advanced course will run for about seven weeks. The course will be taught by Carmon Hodges. For more informa­ tion or to register, call 815/385-3336. Grant application to be discussed SUNNYSIDE -- The Village of Sunnyside intends to submit an application to the Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Development for a Community Development Assistance Program grant under the term of an Economic Development submission. A resolution supporting the application will be discussed at a public meeting on Monday, Sept. 9, at the Village Hall, 1515 Channel Beach Ave., at 7:30 p.m. Pom-pon girls to host car wash CRYSTAL LAKE - The Crystal Lake Central Pom-Pon Squad will hold their annual fall car wash on Saturday, Sept.?,- from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Ormsby Motors. For further Informa­ tion, contact 455-4556. Voter registration drive underway • - Sj * CRYSTAL LAKE -- The League of Women Voters of the ! Crystal Lake-Cary Area will be conducting a voter registration ; drive during the month of September. Two items of identification must be presented at the time of * registration. Those persons^who will be 18 years of age or older * by Nov. 5, or who have changed their names or addresses, may register at the following places: • Sept. 7, FirstSecurity Bank, Cary, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. • Sept. 7-8, Resurrection Catholic Church, Country Club Road, Woodstock, after all masses. • Sept. 12, Oak Knoll School, Cary; 7:30 to 8:45 p.m. • Sept. 14, Marengo Federal S&L, Fox River Grove, 10 to 12:30 p.m. and at the Algonquin State Bank, 9 a.m. to noon. • Sept. 15, Cary United Methodist Church, after both ser- * vices, and at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Cary, after both ser- * vices. Also at St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church, Algonquin, after all masses.'"* J , | Perfect event for active children * . CARY-GRQVE - The Cary-Grove Jaycees are organizing a Run, K Pass, Kick event on Sunday, Sept. 22 at the Cary-Grove High School's main football stadium. * i All children ages eight to thirteen are invited to join. Parents will | need to sign a permission slip for their children to participate. ' Cr Registration the day of the meet will be from noon to 1 p.m. There Z is no registration fee. r, The actual events will be from 1 to 5 p.m. Each event will be judged S on time and distance. The participants will run through tires, pass and kick a football. £ Candy bars and pop will be available for 50 cents each. Fliers will be £ distributed to the schools in September. •t For more information, call Sharron at 815/639-6788. * with instruments, costs just over $6,000. The top-of-the-line ultralight, ready for takeoff, is well under $10,000. Ground school and flight training comes to $550. And the training is thorough, the Nusbaums insist, geared to the individual student. "If we don't feel you are ready to solo, - we don't solo you," Steve says. Students completing the course are certified by the U.S. Ultralight Foundation, an organization that has helped the industry progress from the shaky motorized hang glid­ er stage to the light but responsive little airplanes of today. As we soar over the Illinois green­ ery at 50 mph, I am convinced that this model is both safe and respon­ sive. It's also a lot of fun. Yes, 50 mfchiis not very fast for an airplane. Stair speed is a scant 24 mph. That means you can land in less than the length of the average cabbage patch. That's especially reassuring to the nervous and heavyset novice. You won't be traveling as far in an ultralight either. The fuel limit for the classification has been set at five gallons, which gives you a range of less than two hours. As my grip on the wing strut be­ gan to relax, it occurred to me that I, too, could fly. You don't have to be rich anymore. A school teacher, a clerk, even a reporter can afford to fly today. There's no wind screen on this particular model and the wind blast caused my eyes to water. The first thing I'm going to buy is a pair of flying goggles, and, of course, a long white scarf. UPI photo Born in the U.S.A. Tags bearing "Made in U.S.A." are examined by Edwin Ramirez at Artray Label Co. Beginning this month, law requires tags in all American-made clothing, apparel and home fashions, allowing consumers to choose between buying domestic versus imported goods. Several independent studies cited by Crafted With Pride in U.S.A. Council reveal Americans prefer to "buy American." Back as a 'snack' Jim Troyer photo*. Not unlike the wing of a model airplane in structure, an ultralight aircraft can be built from a kit. Epoxy glue, modern fabrics and two-cycle engines give today's ultralight strength and power in a much lighter package than was available to the grass strip pilots of an earlier era. * African schools shut down ariiid violence By David Cowell United Press International JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- South Africa's white-minority government Friday shut down indef­ initely 454 schools for 360,000 chil­ dren of mixed race in Cape Town, declaring them to be hotbeds of ra­ cial unrest. The order to close more than half of the 904 schools for children of mixed race, known as "coloreds," in the area came shortly after police clashed with rampaging youths around the city and wounded eight of them. At least 65 were arrested. At least 3f4 people, most of them of mixed race, have been killed in the past 10 days of violence in Cape Town, where for the first time col­ or^! youths have joined blacks in a yearlong uprising against the gov­ ernment's policy of apartheid, or racial segregation. The violence has left almost 700 people dead and prompted the gov­ ernment to declare a state of emer­ gency in parts of the country. In another development, South Af­ rican prison officials said jailed black nationalist leader Nelson Man­ dela had been admitted to a hospital in Cape Town Thursday for a one- day treatment of a possible kidney infection. Mandela, 67, leader of the banned African National Congress, was re­ turned Thursday night to PoUsmoor prison, where he is serving a life sentence for sabotage and treason. There were no details of his condition. "The Cape Town schools will re­ main closed until we have ridden the wave of unrest," said Alan Hen* drickse, leader of the Colored Labor Party and one of only two non-white Cabinet ministers in South Africa's racially segregated parliament. "The'sort of cliche on which the kids are being fed is 'liberation be­ fore education,"' Hendrickse said. "I believe it should be 'education for liberation.' "The schools have become the meeting place for organizing protest and more than protest -- arson and promoting violence," Hendrickse said. Most of South Africa's 2.8 mixed- race people live in western Cape province. School teachers in the city have accused police of using brutality to curb rioting that erupted Aug. 28, when police broke up a protest march on Pollsmoor prison where Mandela is being held. The rioting Thursday spilled into white neighborhoods for the first time as black and colored youths attacked the homes of whites in Cape Town. The homeowners fought back by firing pistols and shotguns. In a continuing crackdown on po­ litical dissent across the country, the police announced they had ar­ rested 260 people last week under emergency rules invoked July 21 to curb racial violence. On the economic front, the embat­ tled South African rand slid further on money markets that are worried about the country's political future, trading around 38 U.S. cents from Thursday's close of 39.25 In the black township of Lamont- ville, south of Durban, police firing rubber bullets, tear gas and birdshot d i s p e r s e d r i o t i n g b l a c k schoolchildren. In Cape Town, the wife of jailed anti-apartheid campaigner Rev. Al­ lan Boesak said her husband had called on students to end the vio­ lence that has scarred most of the city's colored and black areas. "He would not want to see the loss of any more lives and urges the students to restrain themselves in order not to be exposed to further violence," Dorothy Boesak said. Boesak was jailed Aug. 27. under South Africa's draconian security legislation, on the eve of last week's planned march to the prison holding Mandela. Under the emergency rules, Boesak may be held indefi­ nitely without trial. In Washington, President Reagan told reporters he has had no second thoughts about his policy of "con­ structive engagement" toward South Africa -- a policy in which the United States maintains good rela­ tions and applies diplomatic pres­ sure for change. "1 think it's the only thing that's shown any signs of Improvement In that whole situation as yet," Reagan told White House reporters. But Reagan apologized for a "careless" statement he made two weeks ago In which he said most racial segregation had been elimi­ nated in South Africa. In an Aug. 24 radio interview, Reagan said of South Africa: "They have eliminated the segregation that we once had in our own country -- the type of thing where hotels and restaurants and places of entertaln- ement and so forth were segregated - that has all been eliminated." Blacks in South Africa still must carry passcards whereever they go and are not permitted in many white areas and establishments.-- "•/ After tribulations, Dundee's fest is ready Herald staff writer ' , WEST DUNDEE - By now, the final arrangements have been for the Snack of Dundee and the two- day festival is ready to open this weekend. But the road to this point was one filled With hurdles and detours which took persistence on the part of its coordinator, the Dundee Cham­ ber of Commerce, to ensure the two- day event will be held this year. Plannning began in January when chamber representatives met with West Dundee officials to plan the site, explained James Bolz, cham­ ber president. "We were looking at a property on Route 31 near the Old World Village that was bigger," Bolz said. "We have outgrown the site we used last (in East, Dundee's) Firemen's Park." After a series of meetings. Bolz had assumed that it would be agree­ able to the village board. All the chamber officials had to do is apply for a special liquor permit. _ The West Dundee Liquor Control Commission denied their request for a permit because no temporary per­ mits were issued in the village and even if they were, the allowable number of permits were already issued. "That blew it out of the water," Bolz said. "We thought they (vTHage board members) would go for the idea." When interviewed earlier this year, some village board members said parking and safety could have been a problem at the Route 31 site and they would not support the festi­ val if it came before them. Chamber officials then went be­ fore the East Dundee village board with an idea to have a scaled-down version Taste held along the north end of River Street. Even before a formal proposal could be made though, board mem­ bers aired concerns of having a large number of festival goers, who h a d b e e n d r i n k i n g , w a n d e r i n g throughout the business district. They also agreed not to support the idea. "That surprised me. Some (East Dundee board) members had infor­ mally offered their support even be­ fore we spoke to the entire board," Bolz said. With all the set backs, coordina­ tors were still determined to hold the festival for a fourth years- * "Dundee needs a festival of it's own," said Jane Clery, past cham­ ber executive director. "This is something in which everyone, the merchants and the residents, can get involved " Chambers officials then turned to the Dundee Township Park Djstrict for a site in Tower Park in West Dundee The park district agreed to house the festival and the chamber found a site But when they took' the Tower Park site, chamber officials agreed to adhere to the regulation of not to serving alcohol. "Once we knew where we were going to have the festival things fell into place," Bolz said. Coordinators also held on to the idea of having a smaller version this, year and expanding it next year. With the abbreviated version, a day was eliminated, the number of restaurants asked to participate was shortened, and the named was changed from the "Taste of Dun­ dee" to the "Snack of Dundee." Six restaurants, ten less than last year, will participate and there will be entertainment, bingo games and an auction The daily hours of the of the festival will be from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m on Saturday and noon until 9 p m on Sunday. "People want something like this. After to the groundbreaking for the depot, they were talking about hav­ ing something on a Sunday evening in October," Clery said. NORTHWEST HERALD Section A Saturday. September 7,1W5 Peg* 3