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Bloomington Pantagraph A-S Tazewell jury -rf, of UAW I oca 0 rr it ti rw Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP) Mexican -elect Jose Lopez Portillo was greeted Thursday by U.S. Chief of Protocol Shirley Temple Black Sept. 24, 1976 urges that the Internal Revenue Service investigate the incomes of all officers of Local 974, that the Illinois Department of Labor, the National Labor Relations Board and a federal grand jury investigate the possible misuse of union funds by Local 974 officers. The grand jury also recommended that local bar associations in Tazewell County look into the methods used by union officials in recommending legal services to their members.

State's Atty. C. Brett Bode of Tazewell County said the grand jury saw smoke but did not feel it had enough evidence to indict anyone. He said a federal agency would have more resources to do a major investigation of the union. The grand jury investigation began after a fist fight between executive vice president Jim O'Connor and financial secretary Jim Yarborough in the office of Owen Ewing, the local's president.

4 Bloomington Normal Deaths Dr. William Buckler The funeral for Dr. William M. Buckler, who died Thursday, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Metzler Memorial Home, the Rev.

Clarence C. Young and Dr. F. Landis officiating. Burial will be in East Lawn Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home. Masonic rites for Dr. Buckler, who was a 33rd degree Mason, will be conducted at 7:30 p.m. by the Arts and Crafts Masonic Lodge of which he was a member and past master.

He was born June 6. 1920, in Casey, a son of Dr. William G. and Ruth Mattocks Buckler. He married Donna Gustine Dec.

23, 1942. She survives. Also surviving pre his mother, 302 Garfield Drive; three daughters. Mrs. Susan Carnahan, 1300 N.

School, Normal; Mrs. Thomas Ahlers, 1401 Bird Court, Normal, and Kristi Lynne, at home, and four grandchildren. Dr. Buckler was a member of the Evangelical United Methodist Church and the York and Scottish Rite Bodies. He was also the first Lieutenant Commander of the Bloomington Consistory A.

A. and a member of the Mohammed Shrine Temple of Peoria, the Bloomington Shrine Club, the Bloomington Chapter of the Philalethes Society, the Illinois Council of Deliberation, the Delmar D. Darrah 33rd Club; and the Passion Play Advisory Committee. He was in the cast of the Passion Play. He was a past president of the Bloomington Kiwanis Club, a member of the Chicago College Osteopathic Medicine Alumni Association, Sigma Chi fraternity, the Baby Fold board, the Salvation Army board and the Louis E.

Davis Post of the American Legion. He was a veteran of World War II. Normal, III. Central Illinois probe PEKIN (AP) A Tazewell County grand jury refused Thursday to indict a United Auto Workers union official for battery against a fellow officer, but instead issued a report recommending that the financial dealings of UAW Local 974 be investigated for possible illegal activities. At Odell Death of ruled an ODELL A Livingston County coroner's jury ruled that a 15-year-old Odell youth died accidentally in a truck-motorcycle collision Aug.

19 about 134 miles northwest of Odell on a rural blacktop road. The jury ruled that 15-year old James Finnegan, R.R. 1, "died as a result of traumatic injuries received when the motorcycle he was driving and a pickup truck, driven by David L. Davis, R.R. 1, collided." The inquest was at the Watson Funer- Deaths Elvin Davis PEKIN Elvin C.

Davis, 63, of R.R. 3, Pekin, died at 11:25 a.m. Thursday at Pekin Memorial Hospital. His funeral will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Noel-Henderson Funeral Home.

Burial will be in Oak Grove Cemetery, Manito. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home. He was born April 3, 1913, in Pekin, a son of William H. and Ella Mae Evans Davis.

He married Frances Bellis, Oct. 24, 1935, in Pekin. She died May 3, 1967. Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. OUie Brackett, R.R.

3, Pekin; Mrs. Phyllis Landrith, Pekin; Miss Debra Davis, Pekin, and Miss Juanita Davis, Des Plaines; four sons, Jack, Melvin, Billy and Anthony, all of Pekin; a brother, Alvin, Pekin; a sister, Mrs. Viola Kenny, Pekin, and 13 grandchildren. Two brothers preceded him in death. He was employed by the Pekin Park District.

Mrs. Helene Koerner CULLOM Mrs. Helene N. Koerner, 85, died at home at 10 a.m. Thursday.

Her funeral will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at St. John's Lutheran Church, the Rev. Richard Stern officiating. Burial will be in West Lawn Cemetery.

Visitation will be after 5 p.m. today, at Stewart Funeral Home and one hour before the funeral at the church. She was born near Cullom, Sept. 8, 1915, a daughter of William and Jenny Sterrenberg Niemeyer. She married Louis Koerner Sept.

8, 1915, at Cullom. He died in July, 1955. She is survived by several nieces and nephews. She was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church.

Memorials may be made to the organ fund of the church. 3 when he arrived here for a three-day private visit at the invitation of Presi- dent Gerald R. Ford. See related story on Page A-16. James Rafferty PONTIAC (PNS)-The funeral for James L.

Rafferty, 51, who died Wednesday after a long illness, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Msgr. Joseph J. O'Dea officiating.

Burial will be in St. Paul's Cemetery, Odell. Visitation will be after 4 p.m. today at the Behrendt Funeral Home. The rosary will be recited at 8 p.m.

Mr. Rafferty was born Sept. 24, 1924, in Pontiac, a son of Edward P. and Gertrude G. Dobbs Rafferty.

Surviving are his parents; a brother, Edward, Fargo, N.D. and two sisters, Mrs. Mary Ruddy, Pontiac, and Mrs. Patricia Finnegan, Odell. He was a member of St.

Mary's Catholic Church to which memorial contributions may be made. Hugh Stiles LINCOLN-Hugh F. Stiles, 72, of Springfield, died at 11:30 a.m. Thursday at his home. His funeral will be at 1:30 p.m.

Saturday at the Holland and Barry Funeral Home, with Dennis Bratton officiating. Burial will be in Mount Pulaski Cemetery. Visitation will be from 6 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home. He was born Jan.

3, 1904, at Lake Fork, a son of Hugh M. and Sarah Courtwright Stiles. He married Mary W. Schultz May 10, 1957, in Broadwell. She survives.

Also surviving are two sons, Daniel, Decatur, and Matthew, at home; six daughters, Miss Marilee and Miss Michele Stiles, both at home; Mrs. Pauline Rau, Warrensburg; Mrs. Hazel Dunabent, Decatur; Mrs. Mary Jane Gribbons, Orlando, Fla; Mrs. Patricia Roure, Tampa, two stepdaughters, Mrs.

Patti Upton, California, and Mrs. Janice Bishop, Springfield; two sisters, Mrs. Katherine Moran, Decatur, and Mrs. Minnie Beaver, Springfield; 11 grandchildren, five great-grandchildren. A son preceded him in death.

He was a lineman for the Norfolk and Western Railroad and was formerly employed by the Mount Pulaski telephone company and had lived in Lake Fork. He was a member of the Lakeside Christian Church, Springfield, and memorials may be made to the church. The Daily Pantagraph Reg. Pal. Oil.

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If- (Tin VVclCUlllC 4v Barney White MAHOMET (PNS) Barney White, 74, died at 3 p.m. Wednesday at a doctor's office in Champaign. His funeral will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Blair Funeral Home, with burial in Grandview Memorial Gardens: Visitation will be this afternoon' and evening at the funeral home. He was born July 21, 1902, at Richmond, a son of James and Fannie Coates White.

He married Hazel Burnett, Nov. 12, 1924', and she died Dec. 19, 1975. Surviving are a son, Omar Dale, Urbana; a daughter, Mrs. Shirley Perkins, Mahomet; four grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; a sister, Mrs.

Minerva Davis, Champaign; a half-sister, Mrs. Flossie Broaddus, Kentucky; a stepsister, Mrs. Delia Appl, Urbana. He was a member of the Christian Church in Richmond, and had spent most of his life in the Mahomet area, working as a farmer and later as a painting contractor. Arson blamed fire in Bloomington Fire Inspector Gerald Hendricks has determined that arson was the cause of a fire Wednesday at the Clobertin Court apartment complex, Four Seasons Club Road.

The fire, which occurred at 5:52 p.m., was set in three separate parts of a building under construction. It was extinguished by firemen in about five minutes. A witness told Hendricks. that a suspect was seen riding a motorcycle away from the area. 'Fire reports show that matches and burnt paper were found on the third floor of the building.

Potted plants stolen Mrs. Mary Black, 301 W. Virginia, Normal, reported three potted plants, valued together at $100, stolen from her home Thursday. ttttttttttr The grand jury, after meeting four times and hearing from 15 to 20 witnesses, recommended that the international office in Detroit take over the administration of Local 974. with 20,800 members at the Caterpillar Tractor during a financial investigation.

The grand jury also recommended cyclist accident al Home, Odell, Thursday night. The jury returned the verdict after deliberating 20 minutes. Livingston County Coroner Kieth Von-Qualen said Thursday that the Davis pickup truck was eastbound and the Finnegan motorcycle was westbound when the accident occurred on the two-lane, blacktop road. "We do not know how the accident happened, but we do know that the vehicles sideswiped each other," Von-Qualen said. Vivbn C.

Blakeley THAWVILLE Vivan C. Blakeley. 68. a retired principal, teacher and coach in the Thawville area for 42 years, died Thursday at 11:04 a.m. at the Gilman Nursing Home in Gilman.

Funeral services will be Saturday at 2 p.m. at the United Methodist Church of Thawville, the Rev. Cecil Perm officiating. Burial will be at the Thawville Cemetery. Visitation will be from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.

today at the Danforth Funeral Home, Roberts, and from noon until services at the church on Saturday. Mr. Blakeley was born Feb. 7. 1908, in Kilbourne, a son of Edwin and Emma Mowder Blakeley.

He married Esther Pratt June 16, 1930, in Kilbourne. She survives. Also surviving are two sons. Donald, Onarga, and Richard, Yorkville; one daughter, Miss Loralice, Rochelle; one sister, Mrs. Louise Woodward, Yorkville and four grandchildren.

Memorials may be sent to the United Methodist Church of Thawville or The American Cancer Society. William Hill PEKIN-William Hill, 61, of Hallmark Nursing Home died at 6 p.m. Wednesday. He was taken to the Preston Funeral Home. Stereo, other items stolen from house Susan Benson, 916 W.

Olive, told police a stereo receiver, two speakers, a set of earphones, a wall clock, a calculator, a radio, a hair dryer and Christmas greeting cards, total value $575.50. were stolen from her home Thursday between 8 and 9 a.m. Thursday. A pre-amplifier of undetermined value also was stolen. for Maximum Security.

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Saturday at the Duffy-Pils Memorial Home, Chenoa, the Rev. Randy Van Fossan "officiating. Burial will be in Chenoa cemetery. Visitation will be from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. today at the memorial home.

She was born Nov. 5, 1896, at Chenoa, a daughter of Franklin and Mary Palmer Bower. She married W. Winter on Dec. 7, 1919, at Chenoa.

He survives. Other survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Carolyn Parry, Chenoa; a son, Kenneth, Ventura, a brother, Vernon Bower, El Paso; two grandchildren, and a great-grandchild. She was preceded in death by a daughter and a grandson. She was a member of the Chenoa United Methodist Church, a 56-year-member and past president of the Chenoa American Legion Auxilary; past president of the McLean County American Legion Auxilary; past chapeaux of the McLean County Solon and the 8 and 40.

She and her husband operated a restaurant in Chenoa for several years. Mrs. Clara Thomas MINIER (PNS)-Mrs. Clara W. Thomas, 93, a lifelong resident of Min-ier, died at 7:05 a.m.

Thursday at Mennonite Hospital, Bloomington, where she had been a patient three months. Her funeral will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at St. John's United Church of Christ, the Rev. Donald Bosworth officiating.

Burial will be in Minier Cemetery. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the McReynolds Funeral Home, and from noon until time of the service at the She was born March 1, 1883, at Minier, a daughter of August and Wihelmina Fuehring Wehmeier. She married Franklin D. Thomas Dec.

16, 1909. He died on Oct. 31, 1968. She was a member of St. John's United Church of Christ, and memorials may be made to the church or to the donor's choice.

She taught the church's Cradle Roll class for 28 years. She was a member of the Women's Guild of the church and the Tazewell County Home Extension. rrn STRAWN Mr. and Mrs. Terry Bachtold, a baby boy born Thursday at Fairbury Hospital.

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