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United Way tops goal 2.5 percent Senafor indicted Manley gets boo A 'shah' for Iran Details on Page 3. By PETE YOUNG Dispatch Writer Despite what they called "a very tough year" of spiraling inflation and unemployment, officials of United Way of Rock Island and Scott Counties today said Quad-Citians donated $4,448,158 to the combined charity drive. That topped the United Way's $4,340,000 goal by 2.5 percent, officials said, and represents almost $13 contributed for each man, woman and child in the area. The total is 10 percent higher than the $4,035,000 raised last year. Frank McClurg, general campaign chairman of the drive, said United Way officials had been nervous about the outcome of the undraising drive in the face of bad economic times.

"WHAT REALLY HAD us worried this year (was) the number of small firms and middle-size firms that were down in employment anywhere from 10 to 20 percent," he said. "Whenever you've got a downturn in the economy and more people are unemployed, people Just seem to dig a little deeper I don't know why. "We've had more people giving in many areas this year than have ever given before. Maybe it was people feeling they were helping a neighbor or a friend that made them dig down a little deeper." McClurg credited the successful campaign to the many persons "loaned" to United Way by private businesses and the work of coordinators in each workplace around the area. It was "the good communications all the way down and their feel for the real "needs of the community that made the difference," he said.

"We had good, solid people with some interest and background. "It's an outstanding achievement." MCCLURG SAID seven of the nine campaign divisions exceeded their goals, and two remaining divisions also expect to exceed goals when their final reports are in. United Way reported "exceptional increases" in employee giving at: Scott Ford Rock Island $52.71 per capita with first year participation; City of Davenport 74.55 percent increase and 8.09 percent over goal; NCR Corp. Davenport 62 percent increase; Mercy Hospital, Davenport 16 percent increase, $45 per capita, and John Deere Harvester Works, East Moline (UAW Local 865, IAM Local 1191 and United Plant Guard Workers) 15 percent increase, $355,000, with partial report. Also, John Deere Parts Distribution Warehouse, Milan (UAW Local 79) 23 percent increase, with $72,032 or $10,332 over goal; Boeye Realtors, Rock Island 87 percent increase, $27.97 per capita; Illinois Bell Telephone Moline (IBEW Local 399, CWA Local 5014 and TCECU) 44.66 percent increase; AAA Motor Club of Iowa, Bettendorf 40 percent increase; Shearson, Loeb Rhoades Davenport 46 percent increase, $85 per capita; Lincoln School, Davenport 67.1 6 percent increase, 15.56 percent over goal; Younkers-Duck Creek, Bettendorf 76 percent increase, 53 percent over goal.

"EXCEPTIONAL INCREASES" for corporate contributions included: Scott Ford Rock Island matched employee (Turn To Page 2) Tom Bergstrand fakes a look at sports names. Page 3 A HP Seven Sections 103rd YEAR-No. 92 66 PAGES 250 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1980 THIS I SSUE CONTA I UiQ AM ADVERT ISING SUPPLEMENT Of 30 PAGES. of release i-fV United Press International 18 feet high, the pseudo-pumpkin, dubbed "Smilin' Jack," could hold the fixings for 26.8 million pies, company officials estimate. Someone call Linus! The Great Pumpkin has made his annual appearance this time in the guise of an natural-gas storage tank near Wilmington, Calif.

With a 73-foot mouth and eyes Razor blade found in apple Youths threaten death to tricksters United Press International Tehran radio said today that Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's terms for freeing the American hostages are "just," and releasing the hostages would not be a "cowardly" act. The broadcast appeared designed to prepare the Iranian people for an end to the year-long drama. Another hint that freedom may be coming closer for the hostages came when Sweden's foreign ministry said an airline in neutral Sweden has been asked to ready a plane to fly the hostages out of Iran. The foreign ministry said the Swedish charter airline Scanair had "received a request to have a plane standing by." Georg Olsson, chairman of Scanair said he got the request Oct. 24 from a "London broker" whom he declined to identify.

He said the DC-8 Jet, equipped with regular seating and stretchers, was ready at Stockholm's Arlanda International Airport. TEHRAN RADIO SAID today that President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr would hold a news conference on Saturday, but announced hours later that he had canceled it "until further notice, owing to his visit to battlefields." In a commentary in Arabic seemingly designed to prepare Iranian opinion for an end to the Americans' 363-day captivity, Tehran radio said "the release of the spy hostages should not be interpreted as an unjust act or a cowardly act." The Arabic commentary told the Iranian people that release now would not be unjust, since the Americans "have spent a year of punishment under the peoples' control. "Neither is their release as human beings a cowardly act if the aim behind this release is to bring the tyrannical U.S.A. to trial for its misdeeds against Iran over the past 30 years. "Thus, from Iran's viewpoint, their release is the way to expose the long criminal history of the USA," the broadcast said.

"If Iran accomplishes this, it will have dealt a blow to the world's oppressors, who play with the peoples' destinies. This blow would make it impossible for world tyranny to raise its head again." THE LENGTHY, UNUSUAL broadcast said Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the Iranian people "have drafted a just method for the release of the hostages. "This is tangible, and is made clear by the demands imposed on the U.S.A.," it said. This procedure is suitably Islamic, it said, since "Islam emerged victorious from its struggle with the U.S.A. on the spy hostage issue.

"Islam, which rears its sons on steadfastness and perseverance under all circumstances, forced the U.S.A. to make concessions," Tehran said. It praised "the bitter struggle waged by Islam against the greatest tyrannical force in the Seizure of the hostages last Nov. 4 "was a bold human act by the heroic Iranian people, undertaken with confidence and loyalty, in order to rid the world of the vicious hand which had played havoc with the people's dignity, freedom and independence," the broadcast said. "The detention of these spies for a year is an unforgettable lesson for those who let themselves be seduced Into working in this ill-fated "This lesson, one that the tyrants must be aware of from now on, is that such inhuman methods can be of no use to them if used against people who aspire to a secure and prosperous life," the Tehran broadcast said.

(Turn To Page 2) in his shoe after he smashed the apple. VANDALS ALSO painted swastikas on the water tower in Moline's Stephens Park and a pumpkin design in the middle of Browning Field, Moline High School's football field Friday morning. Police said they apprehended one youth at Browning Field as he painted an "81" in the middle of the pumpkin design with black paint. An orange and black pumpkin also was painted on the grass. Moline High School principal Al Stevens said the incident will be handled internally at the high school and no criminal charges will be filed.

Stevens would not say how many youths were involved in the incident. A Moline High School employee was at the field this morning, trying to remove the paint in time for tonight's home football game. Moline trlck-or-treat hours were not designated, but tricksters are expected to be out tonight until 9 p.m., and Rock Island youths can trick-or-treat from 6 to 9 p.m. Moline juvenile officer Mike Stoner warns parents to exercise good judgment in letting their children trick-or-treat. He said the department receives complaints of pins and other disguised items in candy every year.

Parents should check all candy before their children eat it and turn any suspicious items over to the police department, Stoner said. The problems are similar or worse all across the nation. Police are increasing Halloween patrols to make trick-or-treating safer and to prevent vandalism. IN ATLANTA, where 10 black children have been abducted and killed and four others are missing, Mayor Maynard Jackson, the city council and police urged parents to keep their children home and to celebrate with parties Saturday during daylight hours. Community Hospital in St.

Peters, offered to X-ray trick-or-treat bags to make sure no razor blades or other harmful objects had been given out along with the treats. In honor of the holiday, witches surveyed by the New York Center for the Strange predicted Jimmy (Turn To Page 2) Dispatch. Wire Report Three youths, one wielding a knife, threatened to kill four boys trick-or-treating In East Moline Thursday night unless they turned over cs.ndy they had gathered. The incident, in which one of the assailants placed a knife to a boy's throat, was the worst in a night marred by vandalism in Moline and tainted treats found in East Moline. Police said three youths jumped from the bushes as the four boys were trick-or-treating near Colonial House Apartments, 1111 42nd East Moline.

One youth put a knife to the throat of one of the boys while the other two grabbed three bags of candy and ran away. The boys, who ranged in age from 10 to 12, were not injured. Another East Moline youth found a razor blade in an apple after he stepped on it with his shoe Thursday night. Police said the boy's parents told him not to eat any fruit he collected while trick-or-treating, so he played with the apple instead. He found the razor Pollsters call race 'most negative since '48' of the hostages would "not be worth the price" if it means Iran would agency called Data Black concluded 48 percent of all black adults sampled are not registered to vote or do not intend to cast ballots.

The firm, run by former Manhattan borough president Percy Sutton, showed 76 percent of blacks who do intend to vote will go for Carter, 3 percent for Reagan and 2 percent for John Anderson. The poll included 1,240 telephone interviews between Sept. 29 and Oct. 23. A poll of 52,000 California high school students shows 34 percent of them favor Reagan, 29 percent support Carter, 20 percent favor Anderson, and (Turn To Page 3) would fall to Carter if he loses his Southern stronghold, Harris said.

But Gallup said the Northern industrial states were the key to victory, with New York "absolutely vital" to the winner. MITOFSKY PREDICTED independent candidate John Anderson would get only about 8 percent to 7 percent of the vote, down from his high standing in the polls of around 22 percent last spring. He described Anderson as "this year's disappearing third party candidate," a reference to the poor showing of most independent candidates in presidential elections. All three pollsters rejected the notion that Carter would be helped by the release of the U.S. hostages.

Gallup said the voters might object to the terms of the release or to a partial release. Overall, "it's not going to make any difference," he suggested. Mitofsky said release of the hostages before the election would make no difference to 95 percent of the voters. "Right now, the electorate is more likely to disapprove of President Carter's handling of the hostages," he said. Harris said the public, by a 46 percent to 39 percent margin, feels release Harris called it "the most negative election since 1948." GALLUP'S MOST RECENT published poll gives President Carter a 45 to 42 percent edge over Ronald Reagan, but he noted that was within the margin of possible error.

"A definite prediction can only be made by ignoring the laws of probability," Gallup said. Harris agreed with the assessment of Warren Mitofsky of the CBS News-New York Times poll that the election will be "won and lost in the South." The "enormous burden" of winning most of the populous Northern states United Press International (Carter leads in Illinois; see page 3) Voters are approaching Tuesday's presidential election with little enthusiasm, and their verdict is by no means certain, the nation's top pollsters say. George Gallup told a National Press Club luncheon Thursday the race is too close to call. Colleague Lou Harris backed into a prediction by saying "It's Reagan's to lose." Gallup said the election was similar to the 1948 race between Harry Truman and Thomas Dewey, because the voters have little enthusiasm for any of the candidates. receive U.S.

military supplies. AN ABC NEWS-Lou Harris poll of 780 likely voters shows 44 percent of them thought Reagan won the presidential debate Tuesday and 26 percent indicated Carter won. The results of the poll, released Thursday night, showed 21 percent of the sampling rated the two even, 6 percent said they liked neither and 3 percent were undecided. The poll has a margin of error of 3.5 percent. In other polls released Thursday: A survey by a New York-based Gift of Gus DeClerk MHS gets Thorpe items fa i mm ft WmaE a 1 I Moline police say accord very close By ANNE ELY Dispatch Writer Moline police and city negotiators are "real close" to agreeing on a new two-year contract after a six-hour bargaining session Thursday, the police union president said today.

Police union president Steve Etheridge said negotiators "overcame some stumbling blocks" but declined to describe the areas agreed upon Thursday, saying it might jeopardize the delicate status of the eight-month negotiations. City and union officials will meet again next week "to clean a few things up I think we'll be real close (to a settlement) by one more session," Etheridge said. A date for the next session has not been set, he said. (Turn To Pag p2) a lot of money in the early 1920s, DeClerk says. "I gave the signal (to start) because I could whistle and I held the stakes," DeClerk says.

The long-legged Slater beat Thorpe and hit the end zone fence so hard he almost knocked it down. "Later, we found out (Slater) had made a lot of money at Iowa running backwards," DeClerk said, THORPE GOT THE SHORT end of that contest, but later was voted the greatest athlete in the first half -century by a wire service poll. He was a twice All-American football player for Carlisle Institute in Pennsylvania and won gold medals in the decathalon and pentathalon in the 1912 Olympics to earn the title "the world's greatest athlete." Later, he was stripped of his medals for playing semi-professional baseball for money, payments the Olympic committee said violated his amateur standing. THORPE PRACTICED in heavy, metal-soled shoes and wore ankle weights over them to strengthen his legs and Improve his cuts when he ran, DeClerk says. He frequented the DeClerk home when he played (Turn To PaRe 2) By RANDY CYPRET Dispatch Writer Gus DeClerk looked at the dusty football helmet and talked about his friend Jim Thorpe.

"Thorpe ate at our house, and he sure did love corn bread," DeClerk, owner of Moline's Sportsman Inn, said. When the legendary grid star died In 1956, he left some of his equipment to DeClerk, who donated the Items Thursday to Moline High School. MHS Principal Al Stevens says the memorabilia Thorpe's helmet, a practice shoe and a baseball mitt will be displayed at Wharton Field House. DECLERK REMEMBERS when the legendary Olympic decathalon winner lined up with University of Iowa football All-Amerlcan Fred "Duke" Slater for a race In the early 1920s to settle an argument over who was fastest. The pair played for the Rock Islani Independents later disbanded when the dropkick was a mainstay of the sport.

Thorpe would run forward from the one-yard line and Slater would run backwards from the 20-yard line. The first person to the other end zjme won $20 Mostly sunny Fair tonight with low in the i low 30s. Mostly sunny Saturday with a high around 60. Humidity; 48 percent. Sunset at sunrise at 6: 33.

Business 30 Ent'ment 15-17 City 8-7 MetroEast 20 I 31-38 Obituaries 14 Comics 25 Sports 27-29 Editorials 4 Television 24 9-11 Dlspatcn nhoto 6v Fred Mariolpn Al Stevens, left, Moline High School principal, and Gui DeClerk look over the Jim Thorpe memorabilia LVClerk donated to the school Thursday. 1 -S.