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(jalesburg Ifegister-Majl A Better ISetespnper GALESBURG, ILLINOIS 61401 MONDAY, AUQUST 22 ,1577" Clear to partly cloudy tonight Low in low 60s Partly cloudy Tuesday High in low to mid 80s Details on Page 8 VOLUME 196 PRICE TWENTY-FIVE CENTS, Overturned boats Boats on Lake Mattoon near Neoga, were overturned tornado Sunday passed through the area. Five persons were and homes tossed into the lake when an early afternoon killed and 57 persons were injured In the tornado. UNIFAX Million persons demonstrate Vance, Huang Hua meet By JIM ANDERSON PEKING (UPI) Secretary of State Cyrus Vance conferred today with Foreign Minister Huang Hua in the Carter administration's first high-level Contact with China's new leadership. Vance took 11 aides into the talks while Hua went in with only seven, for what U.S. officials said was expected to be a round of talks on general world topics such as the Middle East and Africa.

Later meetings over the next three days will move to specific bilateral issues such as SinoU.S. relations and U.S. support for the Nationalist Chinese in Taiwan, the officials said. Vance and his retinue were greeted by Huang and a small but cheerful welcoming party at the airport following a 2Vi hour flight from Tokyo aboard a U.S. Air Force jetliner.

There were no speeches or ceremonies at the airport and both groups filed into an automobile caravan that swept down deserted roads and avenues until it reached the center of the capital. There, Vance's party saw the imposing sight of an esti mated 1 million men, women and children in a miles-long procession celebrating the end of the 11th Communist party congress, which gave a stamp of approval to Premier and party chief Hua Kuo-feng. The demonstrators looked on silently in subdued and orderly formations as the procession of official cars sped down wide boulevards. In the central Tien An-men square, thousands of soldiers paraded in bright green uniforms. Strings of firecrackers were heard popping in the hot, humid sunshine and several trucks were seen parrying large kettle drums and cymbal bands.

Vance's arrival came only hours after Hua was quoted by the Chinese media as saying diplomatic relations cannot be established until the United States ends its support of Taiwan and abrogates the countries' mutual defense treaty. U.S. officials believe full diplomatic relations are possible and desirable, but it will require some compromise by the Chinese on the Taiwan issue. It was not known if Vance will meet with Hua and the rest of his newly confirmed government. The formal toasts at a banquet for Vance at the Great Hall of Vance shows chopstick prowess the People at 7 p.m.

today were expected to give the first real indication of Chinese attitude about normalization. 'Total devastation 5 7 hurt, 5 dead in Illinois tornado MATTOON, III. (UPI) Cleanup crews and rescue workers today sifted through the rubble and debris left by a tornado that tore through the Lake Mattoon area, killing at least five persons and injuring about 57 others. Dozens of mobile homes were torn into "small bits" by the twister the worst of the severe weather that struck central and southern Illinois Sunday. State police confirmed five persons were killed and said four homes and 45 mobile homes were destroyed in an area one-half mile wide and one-quarter mile in length.

"Total devastation," Coles County Coroner Richard Lynch said of the area. "It hit in an area where people have weekend homes along the lake. It struck a trailer court." "Most of the mobile homes were totally destroyed," said Civil Defense worker Jim Shadwick. "There's quite a bit of tree damage. Crops were completely flattened destroyed." He said the mobile homes were "completely blown away.

They were torn into small bits and distributed two to three quarters of a mile away. "This came as a complete surprise to most of us," he said. "We were under only a severe thunderstorm watch." Most of the severe weather in Southern Illinois appeared to have been centered in the Herrin and Cnrterville area. Officials said there was the possibility that "a small twister" muy have passed through the area. "It sounded like a freight train coming over," said Charles Stoker, manager of the Williamson County Airport.

Stoker, who lives north of the community of Culp, west of Herrin, said the turbulence lasted about 15 seconds. The Central Illinois Public Service Co. said there were re- portsof trees four feet in diameter being uprooted. Trees falling on power lines knocked out electrical service to residents of the Zeigler-Royalton area for about two hours. Some people on the western side of the Herrin-Cartervillc area were still without power today and utility officials said it would be several hours before it was restored.

Some windows were broken in the Herrin business district, and the wings were ripped off a two-seat Civil Air Patrol plane at the airport. Pnt Jenkins, supervisor at Sarahbush Lincoln Health Center in Mattoon, identified the dead as Joseph T. Fitzgerald, 19, Chicago; Dewey A. Mananion, 59, Chicago; Mrs. (Caroline) Stanley McCulloh, 36, Fairbury; Mrs.

(Rosemary) Wayno Cor- bnn, 50, Pontiac, and Leta Waymack, 40, Charleston. Mrs. Jenkins said 57 persons were injured, several critically and several seriously. Twenty-five persons were hospitalized in Mattoon. Seven persons in critical condition were transferred to trauma unit in Champaign, she said.

The state police said the twister also caused extensive crop damage in area one-mile wide reaching from Windsor to the Lake Mattoon area, with partial damage to some outbuildings. Mattoon police officer Charles Applegate said the tornado touched down in the Coles County area at about 1:30 p.m. and hit the Prahl Trailer Court and the New Hope Camp for retarded children. The children had left the camp Saturday, Shadwick said. Police officers from at least five counties plus District 12 state police responded.

The homeless were being temporarily housed in the American Legion hall in Neoga. The Luke Mattoon area is located about seven miles south of Mattoon, a community of nearly 20,000. The system which produced the tornado stretched throughout the lower Ohio River valley. The National Weather Service reported some damage to trees, power lines and roofs atCarterville, 111., and Marion, 111. Other thunderstorms extended into Kentucky and some areas of Indiana had several inches of hail Sunday afternoon.

El Paso County, had nearly three-quarters of on inch of rain in an hour Sunday, prompting the NWS to post flash flood warnings. Other flash flood advisories were hoisted in the southeast plains and mountains of New Mexico. Other thunderstorms were reported along the upper Great Lukes, in the Gulf Const and in the northern Rockies and upper Great Plains. Cool weather continued in the northern tier of states, with curly-morning temperatures in the 40s from northeastern Minnesota across Michigan's Upper Peninsula and east to Maine. Assessment com in county high hits survey By CHARLES ABBOTT (Staff Writer) Knox County landowners are filing an unusually high number of complaints about assessments, a Register-Mail survey shows, while other western Illinois counties are having a quiet year.

About 108 complaints have been filed here, Fred Apsey, chairman of the Knox County Board of Review, said this morning. Complaint period still is open for about half of the county. The Board of Review which decides complaints will meet Friday to decide how it'll handle the complaints, Apsey said. "As of this morning, we've had 108 complaints," Apsey said. "We'll probably just look at them (on Friday) and see if there's any trend and try to schedule hearings.

"We won't listen to complaints then," he said. Only nine townships have published their lists of increases in assessments, Apsey said, so the number of complaints is "unusually high for this time." Of the complaints, 69 are from those townships. GALESBURG CITY township and other townships have yet to publish their lists. Owners have 20 days after publication to file complaints with the supervisor of assessments. Complaints haven't been checked yet, Apsey said, to see if one type of property farms, homes, businesses appear most frequently.

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