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JOURNAL SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 2003 'Animal House' celebrated The movie's fans honor Bluto, Boon, Otter and the rest of Delta House 25 years later. BY JOSEPH B. FRAZIER The Associated Press COTTAGE GROVE "Animal House" star John Belushi died of a drug overdose in 1982, five years after the cult comedy was made here and in Eugene. They put a wrecking ball through the building that was Delta House on the University of Oregon campus. Gentility has claimed the Dexter Lake Club, a roadhouse in the film and in real life.

It is now an espresso and sandwich shop. So what is left? Toga! Toga! Toga! Fond fans of the film broke out the robes at a town-sponsored toga party, intended to be the world's largest, to mark the film's 25th anniversary. Saturday, an "Animal House" parade crawled up Main Street, a small town thoroughfare that still looks the same as it did in the movie. Thousands lined the street in this town of about 8,000, Toga!" At night, about 1,500 fans filed into a park to hear The Kingsmen and Otis Day and the Knights, whose songs highlighted the film. Dozens of residents who had bit parts in the film compared fading photographs and memories.

The party animal award went to a John Belushi-look alike, Greg Hamilton, a health technician at a Portland hospital. He said he became fascinated by "Animal House" while a student at the University of Oregon in the early 1990s, when he saw a hole, lovingly preserved, that Belushi had knocked in a fraternity house wall with his guitar. "That was the beginning of it all," he said. Elsewhere, Universal Studios marked the event with the release last week of the updated DVD "Animal House, Double Secret Probation Edition." The National Lampoon-issued film ended up as No. 36 on the Escaped prisoner dies after being shot The Aberdeen Police Department is looking into the incident.

The Associated Press SEATTLE A convicted kidnapper and rapist who was shot after escaping from a prison near Aberdeen died on Saturday. Thomas D. Guinn, 33, was pronounced dead around 1:30 p.m. at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, said Veltry Johnson, spokesman for the state Department of Corrections. Guinn escaped from Stafford Creek prison on Friday after assaulting a prison gardener, commandeering a maintenance truck, crashing it through a fence, then climbing over the prison's outer perimeter fence, Johnson said.

State corrections officers and Grays Harbor County sheriff's deputies found Guinn in a wooded area about a mile away from the prison, roughly three hours after his escape, Johnson said. Guinn, serving a 175-year sentence for rape, kidnapping, robbery and burglary in Pierce County, was shot after refusing to surrender to authorities, Johnson said. The Aberdeen Police Department is leading the investigation into the escape and shooting, Johnson said. Other agencies investigating include the sheriff's office, Washington State Patrol, the U.S. Coast Guard and the state Department of Fish and Wildlife.

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"Isn't that ironic?" he said. McCartin and his wife founded the Eastside Faith Center, which now has about 700 members, in Eugene nine years ago. "I do remember the set as a fun place to be," he said. "There wasn't a ton of pressure. It didn't seem like anybody expected much." He recalled John Belushi's wife taking him shopping but said Belushi was about the only cast member he didn't meet.

"They totally cut my hair off," McCartin said. "I lost my girlfriend over that." MEMORIAL SERVICE with CREMATION $1,19500 Keizer Funeral Chapel 4365 River Rd. N. 393-7037 908090 Planning consultations are free. TOGA! Toga-clad revelers Cottage Grove on Saturday during 25th anniversary of the release American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest film comedies.

It earned more than $141 million. Many of the actors were unknown, and some, such as Karen Allen (Raiders of the Lost Ark,) Tim Matheson (The West Wing,) Kevin Bacon (Apollo 13) and director John Landis (Blues Brothers, Trading Places, An American Werewolf in London) have gone on to otherwise-distinguished movie and television careers. Event organizers in Cottage Grove, sought out actors who had bit parts in the film. Requests for tickets came from as far as the northeastern U.S. Tony Lyman, a soldier who recently returned home from Iraq, was excited to find the celebration.

Lyman said he watched "Animal House" and another Cottage Grove-area film "Stand By Me" while he was away because they reminded him of home. "I couldn't believe it; I didn't know. It can't get any better," he said of the party. The film is about the drunken, unruly lechers of Delta House, who made life at the uptight, button-down and fictitious Faber Restlawn Funeral Home Restlawn Memory Gardens Mausoleum 503-585-1373 201 Oak Grove Road, NW Memorial BD0323 Salem, Oregon 97304 Reverse Mortgage Pay off a Senior Citizens Only Hire in-home health care Occupy the home Update home Home free clear or nearly so T30455 Buy a car your No monthly payment LANDMARK MORTGAGE CALL INFORMATION FOR A FREE PACKET EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY 503-585-1105 FHA REVERSE 1100 Liberty St. S.E., Salem 97302 MORTGAGES "WE CARE ABOUT YOUR FUTURE" Bill Tucker City View Funeral Home Cemetery Crematorium Family owned operated since 1893 One location for all needs Richard Hilts Michael Garcia 503-363-8652 Se habla Above Historic Pioneer Cemetery "They handled everything we wanted, in the way we wanted and in a truly professional, loving and caring way." Virgil T.

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"The dead girl who they tried to ask out for a date, that was real," he said. He said he thinks the movie will endure: "Every time I that deathmobile drive into the bleachers, I get chills." Miller, who spent Friday night partying with the remnants of late author Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters, gave this advice to today's college students: "You're only going to go through this once. Have all the fun you can possibly have." He said he is not surprised that the movie has lasted. "The movie at its deepest recesses is about freedom," Miller said, "the same way the Marx Brothers movies are, and they have lasted. "It's about getting out from under the (authoritarian Dean) Wormers and the (bullying ROTC horseman) Neidermeyers.

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29, 2003 SALEM Services are pending with Virgil T. Golden Funeral Service. Sybil Baley-Smith Aug. 22, 1904 Aug. 29, 2003 FALLS CITY Services are currently pending under the direction of Bollman Funeral Home.

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Sept. 2 at Weddle Funeral Home in Stayton. Interment following services at Claggett Cemetery in Keizer. John R. 'Bob' Bekebrede Aug.

9, 1937 Sept. 30, 2003 WOODBURN Services: 2 p.m. Sept. 2 at Willamette National Cemetery in Portland. Arrangements by Cornwell Colonial Chapel.

StatesmanJournal.com m5C Murder suspect was turned in by parents The campground Umpqua National Forest, killed a man she police and said. her Sherl husband Hilde were said the shooting and wounded his wife. only people in Briggs Camp. She later told medics that the The Associated Press attacker "wanted the ROSEBURG The 28-year- Noris Hilde was killed. Sherl old man accused of shooting a Hilde was shot at least once in couple camping near Lemolo the chest, relatives said.

She Lake was turned in to police by told investigators that the couhis adoptive parents, according ple had set up tents at Briggs to court documents. Camp earlier that week. When Samuel Adam Moen Law- the Hildes returned with their son, who also faces a robbery trailer, they found Lawson charge, was arrested Aug. 23 inside, she said. TI They asked and lodged at the Douglas Lawson to leave, and he did, County Jail, authorities said.

she said. The shooting ocCarl and Beverly Lawson of curred about 10 p.m. that night, LaPine contacted authorities she said. the day after the Aug. 21 shoot- Lawson's adoptive parents ing to report their concern that said their son had been staying their adopted son Samuel Law- at their house for the seven son might have been involved weeks prior to the shooting, but somehow or might have hurt had not been seen since Aug.

himself, according to the 15. The adoptive parents had search warrant. They said he been gone several weeks on a had been depressed recently trucking assignment and over a breakup with a girl, had returned to find their doors lost his job and allegedly had unlocked and several fans been arrested for driving 1 under turned don, suggesting their son the influence of intoxicants. had just stepped out. He did not Noris Lee Hilde, 52, and his return, and they said they soon wife, Sherl Ann Hilde, 45, were discovered that a rifle and some shot while camping in the ammunition were missing.

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Arrangements by Fisher Funeral Home, Albany. John Henry Stacy Jr. Nov. 4, 1925 Aug. 22, 2003 SALEM John was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

He enlisted into the U.S. Army, serving from 1943 to 1947. John married Arleen Nelsen in Omaha, Neb. on Dec. 18, 1945.

They moved to Oregon in 1947 where they had two children, Carol Jean and Robert Henry. He worked for Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone for 37 years before retirement. His years were spent loving the Lord, his family, and others. John is survived by his son, Robert H. Stacy of Forest Grove grandson, Marvin Stacy of Portland; granddaughters, Amber Stewart of Salem and Jamie Stacy of Salem; and two great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Arleen on Jan. 27, 2001 and daughter, Carol MacPherson. Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m. Sept. 2 at Willamette National Cemetery in Portland.

Arrangements are by Restlawn Funeral Home. Dignity John Denzil 'JD' McNutt December 27, 1981 August 26, 2003 JD attended public schools in Coos Bay and was a 2000 graduate of Marshfield High School. He was a student at Southern Oregon University in Ashland. JD loved music, flying the family's single-engine airplane, remote conairplanes, meteorology, water and snow skiing, cars, Rogue River raftling, "Techno gadgets," cookies and milk, being in the mountains and the Lord, Jesus Christ. He was a starting player on the 1999 Marshfield High School football team that was a state of Oregon semi-finalist.

He also was a member of the Marshfield track and field team. JD was a student teacher at Marshfield and a volunteer football coach at Millicoma Junior High School. JD is the beloved son of his parents, Scott and Rebecca McNutt of Coos Bay. He is survived by his brother and sister-in-law, Scott and Katie McNutt niece, Isabella Lynn McNutt, all of Tigard, grandparents, Richard and Mary Grumbling of Salem; numerous uncles and aunts, Steve McNutt of Bremerton, Kathe and Kevin Stufflebean of Coos Bay, Bill and Karma McNutt of Salem, Tom and Jane Trimmer of Richmond, Va, Russ and Bonnie Turman of Coos Bay, Mike and Judy Alsworth of Salem, John Wendy Goins of Seattle, Wash. and Joe Bourell; and lifelong friend and cousin, Jeremy Bourell.

He was preceded in death by his grandparents, Lynn McNutt and Kathleen McNutt; and cousins, Sharon Shibles, Jennifer Turman and Grady Bourell. The family suggests memorial contributions to the Jennifer Turman Memorial, South Coast Running Fund at the Umpqua Bank, 170 S. Second Coos Bay, OR 97420. Arrangements are by Litwiller Simonsen Funeral Home in Ashland. ASHLAND A celebration of life for friends of John Denzil 'JD' McNutt, 21, of held at 3 p.m.

Sept. 1, 2003 at the Brands Ranch at 97948 South Coos River Bay. Private services will be held in Coos members. JD was born Dec. 27, 1981, to Scott Bay.

He died Aug. 26, 2003 in Ashland. Alda Dorothy Corsey July 29, 1917 Aug. 29, 2003 ALBANY Services will be held at a later date. Interment at Willamette Memorial Park, Albany.

Contributions to American Legion Building Fund Fisher Funeral Home. Clayton 'Tiny' Jacobs March 4, 1928 Aug. 25, 2003 KEIZER Clayton Jacobs, 'Tiny' to friends and family, was born in Bovey, Minnesota in 1928 the 3rd of 4 children to Arlene and Allie Jacobs. His family moved to Keizer, Oregon at the end of World War II. He and his family were Charter members of Faith Lutheran Church in Keizer where he met his future wife, Ruth Holmquist.

After a tour of duty in the Army during the Korean Conflict he married his wife Ruth and also started his 30 year career at the Oregon State Penitentiary working up the ranks to Captain. He earned the respect of coworkers and is still talked about today 20 years after his retirement. Before being incapacitated by M.S., Tiny enjoyed square dancing, ballroom dancing and traveling with his wife and friends. A great joy of his life were his two beautiful daughters and 5 wonderful grandchildren. Survivors include his wife, Ruth; daughters, Jody Beck and Amy Dannis; sonsin-law, Daren Beck and Mark Dannis; granddaughters, Ashley, Chantel and Isabella Dannis; grandsons, Cody and Dalton Beck; brother, Courtney Jacobs; sister, Kennie McRae and many friends.

Memorial services will be at 4 p.m., Sept. 6 at Faith Lutheran Church. Donations may be made to Faith Lutheran Church Memorial Fund. Arrangements by Keizer Funeral Chapel. all family and Ashland, will be John and Anna Lane, in Coos Bay for family and Rebecca McNutt, in Coos OBITUARY POLICY Obituaries are published seven days a week in the Statesman Journal.

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