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A6 THE DAILY DISPATCH, Moline, Illinois Monday, January 9, 1989 IllinoisIowa Area hit by tornado to get disaster status 0 if- Lj- nesses were destroyed," Gov. James R. Thompson said after a tour of the city Sunday. "The really tough part of this one is the whole police department, fire department, city hall and school were leveled." Also hit was Mill Shoals, in White County, where the twister first touched down at 5 p.m., and Albion in Edwards County. The storm damaged cars and semi-trailers along Interstate 64 near Mill Shoals, state police said.

Three mobile homes were damaged at Albion but no injuries were reported. Allendale, a town of 450 people located near the Wabash River, saw its post office, City Hall and fire-house destroyed as the tornado struck at 5:33 p.m., witnesses and police said. Another 150 people live in the surrounding area. "The houses in the southern part of town were just completely demolished," said Stuart Hawkins, of Mercy Ambulance in nearby Lawrence County. The off-season twister, spawned by a volatile mix of arctic cold air that surged into the unseasonably mild, 50-degree-plus conditions that United Press International Three towns ripped by a tornado Saturday were to be declared disaster areas today by Gov.

James Thompson. Thompson, who toured the devastation Sunday, also said he would ask the legislature for more funds from the Emergency Services and Disaster Agency. Damages were estimated at $3 million by local officials. Wabash County authorities, joined by 125 Illinois National Guard troops and the state police, began salvage operations at the crack of dawn Sunday in the ravaged streets of Allendale, hardest hit of the three towns. "Our big problem now is just going through and cleaning up the mess that's been made," said State Trooper Larry Garbo.

At least 50 people were injured and rescue workers marveled that none were killed. "No one killed; it's unbelievable, really. I was up there last night," said State Trooper Gary Nichels. "We lost one-third of the homes 53 destroyed, 28 severely damaged and 30 more affected. Nine busi Jukebox is a swinging at age 1 00 United Prut International The jukebox, which turns 100 this year, is still entertaining diners for a quarter in at least one U.S A eatery.

Three American manufacturers, Seeburg and Rock-Ola, both of Addison, 111., and Rowe International of Whippany, N.J., make jukeboxes. The first one was invented by Louis Glass in San Francisco's Palais Royal Hotel Today's models are just as likely to play compact discs as 45 rpm singles, industry officials said. Teenagers to middle-aged couples out on cheap dates, families trying to keep the check low, and young adults out for a social evening still enjoy the tabletop jukeboxes at diners, restaurant managers said Sunday. At eateries like Ritters Diner in Pittsburgh, each booth has a window jukebox stocked with Top 40 tunes by Cyndi Lauper, George Michael and Bruce Springsteen and other tunes by such perennials as Elvis Presley. Customers love jukeboxes, said Rater's Diner owner Art Velisaris.

"It's the fact that it's in an individual booth," he said. "You select your song and you hear it yourself. There's something about that. It's 25 cents for two songs," Velisaris said. Velisaris said he's not sure why the jukebox is so popular.

"It's not just young kids," he said. "Young kids prefer them, but some adults play them as well" The Hitter's Diner jukeboxes are about 50 years old, Velisaris said And they get temperamental at times, switching to other tunes or forgetting to play a selection. Putting in a quarter is never like selecting a tune, it's like spinning a roulette wheel. Allendale residents and volunteers sift through the remains of homes destroyed by a tornado Saturday evening. The twister destoyed a third of the homes in the town and most Main Street businesses, including the police department and post office.

(UPI) dominated the state Saturday after- snow across icy highways in north- at least one life Saturday, officiali noon. ern and western Iowa Saturday and said. Temperatures had 'plunged to the artic cold continued Sunday teens throughout much of Illinois by creating the coldest and most-bitter Strong winds gusting to 50 mph Sunday morning. wind chills of the 1989 winter, mak- sent wind chill factors to 50 degrees Stiff northwest winds fanned ing travel treacherous and claiming below zero in northwest Iowa. U.S.

vets return to Vietnam mine fields on mission of mercy mission." Spanos said he and fellow vets have reconstructed maps of the mine fields and have a full description of where they can find some of the original maps. Spanos said he started thinking about going back to Vietnam in 1986 during the "Welcome Parade," a Chicago event oring veterans. "I couldn't find any of my friends, so I did not march," Spanos said. "I stood on the side. I went home upset.

I wanted to put together a reunion and the next year I did it. We got 85 people together. "At that party I saw a document that ROSEMONT, 111. (UPI) Gene Spanos and six fellow Vietnam veterans prepared Sunday to head for Hanoi to help the government locate mine fields laid by U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War.

Spanos, police lieutenant; Wayne Davis, Charleston, S.C.; Robert Dalton, David-sonville, Mike Wallace, farmer, Lang-don, Frank Noe, fireman, Stoughton, Nate Genna, maintenance manager, Roxbury, and Bill Johnson, manager for an electric sign company, Manchester, plan to head first to Seattle, then Bangkok, and finally to Hanoi on what Spanos is calling a "humanitarian said that 3,000 people had been killed since the war because of one mine field. I'm a cop so I did a little checking around." Spanos said he checked with the Vietnam Veterans of America and learned that 56,000 Vietnamese had been killed since the end of the war by land mines and unexploded bombs. "It's a staggering figure," he said. "We want to show good will of the American Vietnam veterans. We want to show when we' heard innocent people were being hurt, we responded." Spanos said he did not have any trouble convincing fellow veterans to return.

"I just asked, 'How would you like to go and not one questioned why," he said. "Not one turned me down. We have a waiting list of 300 who want to go back There are a lot of guilt trips out there." Spanos, who was a sergeant with the 11th Engineers, 3rd Marine Division, said he and Dalton have met with Vietnamese officials. "We established an excellent rapport," Spanos said. "We presented them with a written proposal.

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Gov. Terry Branstad, who can add votes as well as anyone, sounded a cooperation theme as he prepared his own legislative agenda stressing rural development, the environment and education. The school funding issue transcends partisan lines and is likely to pit urban lawmakers against rural district legislators who are fighting to preserve their small schools. Stirring the legislative caldron are emotional issues such as a proposal to legalize riverboat gambling casinos, which barely failed last session, and a House Democratic push to limit tuition increases at the state's universities. DES MOINES, Iowa (UPD A pair of formulas for distributing state funds for public schools and highways looms over the start of the 1989 Iowa General Assembly today.

This year the Legislature must rewrite the school aid funding formula that divides nearly a billion dollars in taxpayer money among 433 school districts, an issue that personally involves each one of the 150 legislators. Lawmakers also face the touchy job of reallocating $444 million in road funding among the state's primary highways, county roads and city streets. "Those two issues mix like nitro and glycerin," said House Majority Explraa 11489 I 0 Each I SKIRTS OR SWEATERS Plain Skirts. Extra TROUSERS OR SLACKS COUPONS MUST BE PRESENTED WHEN GARMENTS ARE LEFT FOR CLEANING Cleaning and Pressing Until Noon Daily Hours: Weekdays We do our own Alterations Repairs Hours: Saturdays 7-5 Drapes and Bedspreads 20 off 418 16th St. Moline Report: Working uninsured need help CONTINENTAL DES MOINES, Iowa (UPI) A new report by a task force of the Health Policy Corporation of Iowa shows there are an estimated 231,000 Iowans who have jobs but no health insurance, or are the spouse or child of an uninsured employed person.

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The test would also allow physicians to evaluate the effectiveness of anti-arthritic drugs more simply. Currently, a drug's effectiveness can be tested only by examining the extent of joint swelling, using X-rays or magnetic resonance imaging. Rheumatoid arthritis is the most severe form of the disease and it affects more than 6.5 million Americans. In addition to stiff, painful and inflamed joints, symptoms can include severe fatigue, weakness, fever, muscular stiffness, anemia and weight loss. The disease also may damage organs and connective tissues, including the heart, lungs, nerves and eyes.

Counselor accused of fondling students DUBUQUE, Iowa (UPD A former guidance counselor at Dubuque Wahlert High School has been charged with improper contact with students, police said. Charles Ekeler, 45, who resigned Dec. 14, has been charged with nine counts of simple assault and one count of false imprisonment related to incidents involving eight male students during the past year, according to the Dubuque County attorney's office. The false imprisonment charge stems from an incident in which Ekeler allegedly invited a 17-year-old boy to his home, locked him in his son's bedroom while wife and son were away and demanded he strip to his underwear as a self-confidence building exercise. Court affidavits also state that Ekeler grabbed or rubbed the genital areas of five punched two of them in the stomach and rubbed two on their chests.

State court asked to rule on Edison hike CHICAGO (UPI) Consumer groups and politicians who have fought for a suspension of Commonwealth Edison new 6 percent rate hike turned to the Illinois Supreme Court Friday. Opponents to the rate increase asked the court for an emergency one-week suspension of the hike, until the court can consider a more permanent roll-back. The motion was sent by overnight mail to the court's Springfield office. The motion asks the Supreme Court to suspend the rate hike while its approval by the Illinois Commerce Commission is challenged in the Illinois Appellate Court. The increase, which took effect last Sunday, boosts Edison's rates by $235 million in 1989, with an additional increase of up to $245 million set to kick in Jan.

1, 1990. The company contends that a suspension would cost them $644,000 a day. Grandson of slain couple held CHICAGO (UPI) An 18-year-old Harvey man accused of the shooting and stabbing deaths of his grandparents was denied bond Sunday, a spokesman at the Cook County Jail Records office said. Curtis Bass III was arrested Saturday, one day after another grandson found the bodies of Curtis Bass, 73, and his wife Rosie, 68, at their home in south suburban Harvey. Both had been shot once and stabbed several times, said D.

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