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PANTAGRAPH, MONDAY, AUG. 30, 1982 DEATHS CENTRAL ILLINOIS Clarence Lindgren WENONA (PNS) Clarence W. Lindgren, 84, Wenona, a retired farmer, died at 1:25 a.m. yesterday at St. Mary's Hospital, Streator, where he had been a patient five days.

His funeral will be at 11 a.m Tuesday at Bethany Lutheran Church, the Revs. Jeff Swanson and Francis Johnson officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 tonight at Thierry Funeral Home and an hour before the service at the church. He was born April 14, 1898, near Wenona, a son of August and Emma Crone Lindgren.

Surviving are three sisters, Lettie Johnson, Eva Johnson and Blanche Lindgren, all of Wenona. Four sisters and two brothers preceded him in death. Mr. Lindgren was a 1916 graduate of Wenona High School and a member of Marshall-Putnam Farm Bureau. He was a 50-year member of Bethany Lutheran Church choir and had served as church treasurer.

Memorials may be made to the church building fund. Lydia Ely CORNELL The funeral of Lydia S. Ely, 95, Cornell, who died at 4:45 p.m. Saturday at Beulah Land Christian Home, Flanagan, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Cornell United Methodist Church, with the Rev.

David Hutton officiating. Burial will be in Cornell Cemetery. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the church. Mrs. Ely was born Sept.

10, 1886, near Cornell, a daughter of Charles and Mary Beckman Santelman. She married Ira Cox March 8, 1905. He died in 1936. She married Clarence Ely Feb. 7, 1939.

He died March 20, 1969. Surviving are a son, Elmer Cox, Tavares, a stepson, Donald Ely, rural Cornell; three grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. She was a member of the Cornell Methodist Church. Memorials may be made to the church memorial fund. Ross Pech DELAVAN (PNS) Ross M.

Pech, 37, Marquette Heights, formerly of Delavan, died at 2:45 a.m. yesterday in an accident at his job with Chicago Northwestern Railroad in North Pekin. Details of the incident are elsewhere on this page. His funeral will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Parkway Christian Church, Pekin, the Rev.

Jeff Thompson officiating. Burial wil be in Prairie Rest Cemetery, Delavan. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 tonight at Woolsey Funeral Home, Delavan, and an hour before the service at the church. He was born March 15, 1945, at Train mishap kills former Delavan man NORTH PEKIN A 37-year-old Marquette Heights man was killed at 2:45 a.m. yesterday after he was run over by the boxcar of a train.

Tazewell County Coroner Robert Haller said Ross M. Pech, 37, formerly of Delavan, was an employee of the Chicago Northwestern Railroad and was working in the switchyard in North Pekin at the time of the incident. He said there were no witnesses. An autopsy was performed, but Haller said the results have not been completed. He said an inquest would be scheduled.

Mother, son's conditions improve The conditions of a Normal mother and son, who were victims of suspected food poisoning Saturday, improved from serious to good last night at Brokaw Hospital. Christine Alexander, 27, and her son, Joseph, 7, of 8 Norwood Drive, became ill Saturday while at Hidden Hills campground north of Carlock. Mrs. Alexander's three-year-old daughter, Alise Marie Alexander, died Saturday morning after becoming ill. Woodford County Coroner Robert Mason said he suspected the family became ill on food they had brought from home during the single night they spent at the campground.

Mason said an autopsy had been performed but that a cause of death would not be determined until autopsy reports were received. No foul play is suspected, he said. An inquest into the death has been scheduled. Delavan, a son of Emil and Virginia Tipps Pech. He married Brenda Elwood Sept.

13, 1969, at Creve Coeur. She survives. Also surviving are a daughter, Janna Deanne, at home; and his mother, rural Manito. His father preceded him in death. Mr.

Pech was a member of Parkway Christian Church and United Transportation Union. Memorials may be made to the church building fund. Perry Keast GIBSON CITY Perry H. Keast, 92, Gibson City, died at 7:45 p.m. Saturday at Gibson Manor Nursing Home.

His funeral will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Lamb Funeral Home, with the Rev. James B. Bortell officiating. Burial will be in Drummer Township Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 12:30 to 2 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. He was born Feb. 3, 1890, at Hannibal, a son of William and Janet McMerchy Keast. He married Mary Harm in October 1935 in Michigan.

She died Dec. 21, 1965. He had been a resident of Gibson City more than 50 years. He was store manager of National Tea Grocery Co. and worked at Central Soya from 1944 to 1960, when he retired.

Memorials may be made to the United Methodist Church, Gibson City. John Simpson HOPEDALE John Simpson, Hopedale, died at 8:22 p.m. yesterday at St. Joseph's Hospital Medical Center, Bloomington. He was taken to Davis Mortuary, Hopedale.

William Woolridge WAPELLA William L. Woolridge, 58, of Wapella died at 11:15 a.m. yesterday at his home of an apparent heart attack. He was taken to Herington-Calvert Funeral Home, Clinton. Paul Bolen PONTIAC Paul L.

Bolen, 72, of 828 W. Reynolds Pontiac, died at 3:45 a.m. yesterday at St. James Hospital. He had been ill for three months.

His funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at First United Methodist Church, Pontiac, the Rev. Frank J. Rider officiating. Burial will be in McDowell Cemetery, Dwight.

Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Raleigh J. Harris Home. He was born Jan. 18, 1910, at Odell, a son of John C.

and Algoga Wells Bolen. He married Lois Steichen Feb. 21, 1935, at Odell. She survives. Also surviving is his mother, Pontiac; a son, John Steven, Sturgis, six sisters, Helen Vitzthum, Dallas, Texas; Mary Cleary, Odell; Thelma VanBuskirk, Darien; Betty Meyers, Pontiac; Phyllis Schmidt, Pontiac; Lucille Clevenger, Lansing, Mich; three brothers, Sam, John and Robert, all of Odell; and two grandchildren.

He was administrator of Livingston County Nursing Home for 35 years. He was a a member of the Methodist Church and a past exalted ruler of the Pontiac Elks Club, where he also served as a trustee and lodge secretary. He was also a member of the Loyal Order of the Moose. REPORTED SUNDAY JOHN SIMPKINS, 34, Streator, died Saturday. His funeral will be at 2 p.m.

today at Elias Funeral Home. Burial will be in Allen Cemetery, Ransom. SALLY NICHOL, 65, Streator, died Friday. Her funeral will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Pape Funeral Home, Clinton, Iowa.

Burial will be in St. Irenaeus Cemetery, Clinton, Iowa. MABEL BOHLANDER, 86, formerly of Minonk, died Friday. Her funeral will be at 11 a.m. today at Folkers-Froelich Memorial Home.

Burial will be in Minonk Cemetery. Visitation will be an hour before the service at the memorial home. GEORGE D. DURHAM, 83, Pontiac, died Saturday. His funeral will be at 10 a.m.

Tuesday at Raleigh J. Harris Funeral Home. Burial will be in South Side Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 tonight at the funeral home. PAUL B.

"DUKE" TENDICK, 66, rural Mount Pulaski, died Saturday. His funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Zion Lutheran Church. Burial will be in Mount Pulaski Cemetery. Visitation will be from 6 to 9 tonight at Fricke-CalvertSchrader Funeral Home.

KEITH ASPER, 62, formerly of Pontiac, died Friday. His funeral will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Duffy Funeral Home. Burial will be in South Side Cemetery. Visitation will be an hour before the service at the funeral home.

LOUISE KOCH, 75, Tremont, died Friday. Her funeral will be at 10 a.m. today at Tremont Apostolic Christian Church. Burial wil be in Mount Hope Cemetery. BLOOMINGTON NORMAL Alise Marie Alexander The funeral of Alise Marie Alexander, 3, of 8 Norwood Drive, Normal, who died at a campground near Carlock Saturday, will be at 8 p.m.

today at Wilton Mortuary, Peoria. Cremation rites will be accorded. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the mortuary. She was born May 31, 1979, the daughter of David and Christine Wilson Alexander.

They survive. Also surviving are her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Alexander of Ft. Smith, and Flora Van Etten, Peoria; and a brother, Joseph.

Woodford County Coroner Robert Mason said the death may have been caused by food poisoning. She died at Hidden Hills campground about 10 miles north of Carlock. Summer dog days bring record It's summertime but the living was chilly from the Wisconsin northwoods to the Jersey shore and parts of Dixie, as a weekend cold wave shattered temperature records in more than two dozen cities and blanketed a Vermont ski resort with 3 inches of snow. Furnaces rumbled awake from hibernation as the cold air hit the upper Midwest Saturday and moved east yesterday. The mercury dipped to 22 degrees Sunday in East Haven, and in Thomas, W.Va., it was 28 degrees, a record for the date.

The temperature was 29 at Sault Ste. Marie, 38 in WilkesBarre, 39 in Windsor Locks, 43 in Chicago; 44 in Milwaukee; and 50 in New York City and Richmond, Va. Snow began falling Saturday night at the Killington ski resort in Vermont, and yesterday morning employees were sliding across three inches of new snow. Officials believed it is the earliest anyone had ever skied at Killington, but they could not say if it was their earliest snowfall. "This is August right?" read a message on the National Weather Service forecast wire in Michigan.

The wire normally drones out statistics, temperature tables and the like without editorial comment. But early yesterday these questions appeared: "Is the cycle of seasons advancing a couple of months? Is it time to start waxing the skis? Is winter soon to follow here in the Soo? I MENTONE, Texas (AP) There's no grocery store, no school, no church, little to do and hardly any water to drink in Loving County, so the young leave the nest and keep this the least-populated county in the continental United States. said only about a dozen people actually live there, the rest being absentee land owners who have kept their names on the voting rolls. Loving County Historical Committee. The county was named for trailblazer Oliver Loving.

The worst deficiency is the lack of drinkable water. Sheriff Jones said there are only four decent wells i in the county and, of course, there's' no village water system. The residents drive tanker trucks 20 miles to Kermit and Pecos to get their water. "You have to be a unique kind of person to haul your own water," Jones said. "People out here learn the value of water.

When get too old to haul water, then they have to move or get someone to haul it for them." But the residents take pride in other deficiencies. There is no welfare, no one on food stamps and no acceptance of federal aid. The government keeps sending money, but the county won't spend it. The Loving County map in Mrs. Jones' office here looks as if someone sprayed it with a leaky fountain pen.

Each dot represents an oil or gas well, most on land owned by the Texas and Pacific Railroad. The county had its oil boom in the 1930s, raising the population to 285 by 1940. But the figures have been smaller in each census since. AP There is little going on in Mentone, the county seat of Loving County, Texas. Loving County is the least populated county in the continental United States, and residents say they don't expect that to change.

Smallest U.S. county can't keep them down on the farm MENTONE, Texas (AP) said only about a dozen people actually Loving County Historical Committee. Even the trailblazer the county was named after didn't live here. "We lose our young people, which is sad," says county appraiser Mary Belle Jones, 51. "They won't live here because it's so far from the grocery store and because you have to haul water.

It took me two years to learn to like it." Mrs. Jones and her husband, Sheriff Elgin Jones, 55, moved 1 to Loving County in 1953 and raised five children, only to watch them move away one by one in search of a better life. The departures of the Jones children and others like them have further thinned Loving County's already low population. A revised 1980 census found 91 people in the county, which covers 647 square miles, and only a smattering of those were young people. There is only one town, Mentone, which is unincorporated.

Its population is listed as 44, but Mrs. Jones The county, which borders southeastern New Mexico, has no doctor, no hospital, no grocery or drug store, no restaurants, no hotels, no nightclubs and no laundry. The school and the only church are closed. A building marked "cafe" serves only snacks and often is closed. The land is rich in oil and, with a valuation of more than a $300 million, the county brings in $491,000 a year at the low rate of 16 cents per $100 valuation.

"That's more than enough to keep everything operating," she said. But she said that "women don't like to live out here. That's the main reason we have so few people. Their wives just don't want to come out here." Resident Debbie Decker is expecting a baby this month, and Mrs. Jones said the entire county is excited about the prospect of little feet pattering around in the mesquitecovered yards and fields.

The only civic organizations are the Rondo Mills 4-H Club and the Malaria upsurge stuns doctors lows hope not." The comments were mixed into the weather reports from Sault Ste. Marie and the writer did not identify himself. However, a weather service colleague downstate in Ann Arbor had an explanation: "Cabin fever sets in early up there," meteorologist Chuck Defever said. The big chill came on a wave of cold, dry air from Canada and a high pressure system that formed Saturday over Minnesota and took the temperature down to 30 in International Falls. MIAMI (AP) Stunned health officials are struggling to cope with a worldwide outbreak of malaria the deadly mosquito-borne malady that doctors once talked about eradicating.

It still reigns as the No.1 killer of children and most widespread communicable disease in the tropical lowlands of Central America, South America and Southeast Asia and the equatorial region of Africa, according to the World Health Organization. "It's a major tragedy and a public health problem," said Dr. Kent Campbell, malaria branch chief at the national Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. "'The word 'shock' fairly describes the reaction of the world medical community to malaria's continued presence on the scene." Statistics compiled by the WHO show malaria epidemics in many hot-weather countries now far surpassing some of the record levels reached in the 1960s. In India, where 60,000 cases were reported in 1962, the highpoint of the '60s outbreaks, officials this year have received reports of 4 million Metzler MEMORIAL HOME H.

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In the United States between 1978 and 1980, the number of recorded cases doubled, but officials attributed the increase to cases contracted abroad or acquired by transfusion from a malaria-infected donor or to immigrants. The United States is considered free of homegrown malaria, but one strain of the disease vivax was a fact of life in the South before World War II. The CDC reported 1,864 cases in the United States in 1980, the largest annual number in the past 20 years. Attributed mainly to a surge in the number of Vietnam and Cambodian refugees, the case number is declining this year, the CDC reported this month. But in Tropical Africa, Asia and Latin America, about 1.8 billion people are exposed annually to malaria, according to WHO estimates, and the disease is fatal to 1 million and 2 million infants annually in black Africa alone.

"In my pessimistic moments, I tell myself it's a race between us and the mosquito," mused Dr. Carolyn MacLeod, director of Miami's Tropical Medicine and Traveler's Clinic. "The question is: Can the disease and the carrier evolve faster than the means man uses to fight malaria? Sometimes, I think the mosquito and the disease are bound to win." Such gloomy predictions clash with the forecasts by WHO in 1954, when it declared global war to "eradicate" a disease as old as tropical civilization. WHO now estimates new malaria cases worldwide at 7.5 million per year, more than double the rate a decade ago. Electro-Jet Carpet Cleaning Is Far Better Than Foam, Steam or Home Methods! If you've had your carpet cleaned with conventional CARPET carpet (obsolete) was methods, probably your only CLEANING DISCOUNT half-cleaned.

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