I don't know if Ray or publishers do it (some of the other posters can answer that), but I find it to be one of the most annoying things I've encountered.
A lot of the Greentown stories and Martian stories were originally written as short stories and only later put together to form a novel, so some of it could be due to that.
Are you referring to chapter 32, Goodbye, Grandma? That was originally published in May 1957 in The Saturday Evening Post. Thanks Phil!
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Doug is correct - there's a list of Dandelion Wine chapters and the short stories they came from on my website here.
I'm not entirely sure that Dandelion Wine originally had any chapter headings. The editions I have owned have been headingless.
Sometimes parts of DW (and other Bradbury books) have been separated out again and published as stand-alone stories. Sometimes they have been given new titles, sometimes chosen by the editor/publisher. This is particularly true of books designed for use in the classroom.