The Pantagraph from Bloomington, Illinois • Page 2

I 3 A2 THE PANTAGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOV. 20, 1982 Jokebook aids GOP comics Sheriff can't collect fees from ISU By BERNIE SCHOENBURG Pantagraph Springfield bureau SPRINGFIELD The McLea County sheriff! nffir chmilrl n. charge Illinois State University when it serves legal documents, ojf people on behalf of ISU, Attorney 1 i i I ueneiai ijr rainier lias ruiea. The opinion apparently will noS mean much in terms of dollars. But! ft ments," Glauberman said.

Robert Orben, editor of the newsletter, said from his Arlington, home that the four-page publication is aimed at providing humorous material for businessmen, politicians and other public speakers. "It's a rare political institution in this country that doesn't get the newsletter," he said. Each issue carries about 70 jokes, many of them tied to politics or national news events. Orben, 55, headed former President Gerald Ford's speech writing office. He said he also has worked for such famous comedians as Red Skelton, Jack Paar and Dick Gregory.

SPRINGFIELD (AP) Illinois House Republicans, who were trounced in this month's elections, should be able to laugh at1 their misfortune. After all, they're getting professional comedy help twice a month. State records show the House GOP press office holds a subscription to Orben's Current Comedy, a humor-oriented newsletter published 24 times a year. The punch line or the bottom line is that taxpayers foot the J60 annual bill for the newsletter. Republican House Speaker George Ryan of Kankakee did a double take yesterday when asked why his office receives a comedy publication.

-Hi Coincidentally, Orben's 45th joke book, entitled "2,100 Laughs For All Occasions," was published yesterday. A recent Orben newsletter contained these offerings of political humor: "I still feel that if President Reagan was serious about saving money, he'd be traveling on Greyhound One." "If you work for the government, not only has your income been fixed it's been neutered." "I worry about my kid because he's been hanging out with a rough crowd Congress." While Orben's newsletter may be popular among politicians. House Democrats reported they do not subscribe to it or any other humor publications. "Reality is just humorous (enough) around here," said one Capitol Democratic staff member. "I don't know anything about it," said Ryan, whose public displays of humor are infrequent.

But Zale Glauberman, Ryan's top aide, unraveled the mystery. Glauberman said Republican staff members refer to the comedy newsletter when writing speeches for Ryan and other GOP lawmakers. He said the material is used mainly by the other representatives, not Ryan. "And oftentimes, they as all speechmakers they want to be able to make an effective presentation and one of the things in doing that is injecting some humor into whatever the topic is," Glauberman said. "It helps put the audience in the right mood, and it can relieve tension," he added.

"It's not much of a secret that most people are not particularly adept at writing humorous com Pelican roundup Bloomington attorney a. McLean Arnold, who represents the univer sity's cashier and collections offici in delinquent student loan cases said the opinion is a practical one. "It's silly for governmental agen cies to charge each other fees, because all it would do is create red tape and cost the taxpayers more," he said. Arnold asked McLean County State's Attorney Ronald Dozier for a ruling on the issue because, he said, McLean County was the only one he had encountered where the university was being charged sheriff's service fees. Dozier agreed fees should not be charged but wrote to Fahner for confirmation.

Dozier said he wanted to make sure the county was not shortchanged of money it had coming. Fahner said in the opinion that though the Board of Regents, which governs ISU, is not by definition a unit of local government, it is an arm of state. He said both ISU and the regents are agencies of the state, and "Consequently, they are exempt from the requirement of paying sheriff's service fees." For each subpoena or other legal document served, the McLean County sheriff's department charges $8, plus $3 for additional paperwork and 40 cents per mile traveled by the process server. Arnold said he had used the service on behalf of ISU about 25 times in the past two years. B-N boy hospitalized after car strikes him A car-pedestrian accident Thursday afternoon in Normal left a 14-year-old Normal boy hospitalized In fair condition.

According to police, Matthew Dawson, 1619 Erin Drive, WaS struck by an eastbound car when he stepped into the car's path from behind a parked van near his residence. The incident occurred about 3:45 p.m. Some of the Bronx Zoo's five pelican's were less than cooperative when zoo officials attempted to round up the birds for transfer to winter quarters. Some officials used row boats and nets while others donned wading boots to capture the birds. Charges added in mutilations Property owners sue to block prefab home sible sexual assault and then murder.

Kokoraleis, 19, and Spreitzer previously were charged with the mutilation murder of Rose Beck Davis, 30, formerly of Bloomington, who was found stabbed and strangled Sept. 8 behind a stairwell of an apartment building on the city's Near North Side. Spreitzer also had been charged with the mutilation killing of Sandra Delaware. 18, whose body was found Aug. 28 under a Chicago River bridge.

Kokoraleis' brother, Tommy, 22, of Villa Park, was charged a week ago with the stabbing death of Lorraine Borowski, 21, of suburban Elmhurst. Miss Borowski was reported missing on May 15 and her skeletal remains were discovered in a cemetery near suburban Westmont last month. tempted murder of Alberto Rosario, 21, on Oct. 6. Tirado was gunned down from a passing car and Rosario was hit by shots from the same car shortly afterward, according to Cook County State's Attorneys Nick Faklis and Joseph Romano.

The two men and a third, Robin Gecht, 28, have been identified by police as suspects in four to six sexual mutilation killings. Police initially said they believed the trio was linked to as many as 17 killings, but they scaled down that estimate last weekend. Gecht has been charged with aggravated battery and aggravated kidnapping in connection with two non-fatal slashing attacks on women. Police said the slayings appeared to fit a distinctive, pattern the abduction of a lone woman, slashing or mutilation of her breasts, pos The car's driver, Kimberly Smith, 18, of 210 Arlington Drive, Normal, told police the boy apparently didn't see her oncoming vehicle. He was struck by the car's left front fender.

The boy was in fair condition at Brokaw Hospital last night. unattractive homes" would drive down the neighbor's property values. It also states that the home represents "a general failure to maintain adequately the 1 high-type quality of improvements" that the owners dictated. In addition to seeking to enjoin the couple permanently from erecting the home, the suit asks for damages in excess of $15,000. The 21 persons who filed the suit are: William E.

and Joyce Peterson, Dale and Mary Leman, Larry Tibby, Bruce Prager, Jeffery Furler, Robert and Bernice Neise, Lynn Simpson, Richard Ramoino, Gene Moore, David and Judy Kaeb, Dwight and Lucille Williamson, Ronald Klein, Paul and Paula Macy and Edward and Cindy Greene. Property owners of a rural subdivision filed suit in McLean County Court yesterday seeking a permanent injunction against a couple who is putting up a prefabricated home on one of the lots. The suit, brought by 21 property owners of Oakhill subdivision west of Bloomington, alleges that the erection of a "Wausau" home violates the terms of protective covenants established when the subdivision was incorporated. Thomas M. and Gwendolyn S.

Husek, R.R. 1, Downs, bought a lot in the subdivision and began putting up the prefabricated home Oct. 18, but the suit alleges it does not meet covenant's requirement that homes have 1,250 square feet of floor area. The suit charges that the "erection of inappropriate and QUOIZEL CHICAGO (AP) Two men identified as suspects in as many as six sexual mutilation killings were indicted yesterday for the slaying of a 30-year-old woman, and one of the men was also indicted for murder and attempted murder in a shooting incident. Edward Spreitzer of Chicago and Andrew Kokoraleis of suburban Villa Park were charged with murder, aggravated battery and aggravated kidnapping in the death of Shui Mak of suburban Lombard.

Ms. Mak was last seen May 29 when she got out of her family's car in the Chicago suburb of Hanover Park during an argument. Her body was found Sept. 30 in a field about eight miles from the spot where she was last seen. Spreitzer, 21, also was indicted for murder in the shooting death of Rafael Tirado, 28, and the at- Four hurt in accident HEYWORTH Four persons were injured, one seriously, in a car-truck crash yesterday afternoon on U.S.

51, about two miles north of Heyworth. In serious condition last night at St. Joseph's Hospital Medical Center, Bloomington, was Pearl O'Neal, 77, R.R. 2, Heyworth, a passenger in the car. The car's driver, Lori O'Neal, 16, R.R.

1, Heyworth, was treated at St. Joseph's and released. A second passenger, Julie O'Neal, 11, R.R. 1, Heyworth, was in fair condition at the hospital late last night. Also injured was the driver of the pick-up truck, John Wright, 23, R.R.

2, Clinton, who was treated at the hospital and released. According to state police at Pon-tiac, the mishap occurred about 12:40 p.m. near the entrance to Carter Lumber Co. on U.S. 51 when Miss O'Neal's southbound vehicle struck the rear of Wright's truck, also southbound.

Police said Wright had stopped to make a left turn. Miss O'Neal was charged with failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident. in Che finest tradition Since 1930 New Vrooman mansion owners near move-in Pi 3L as seen on TV Only At QUOIZEL said. The third floor of the mansion has been sealed off. Although he wouldn't give a completion date on the refurbishing, Polites said, "Most of the major things will be done by this time next year, but we can't put a time limit on these things." The couple submitted a bid to buy the property after reading in The Pantagraph that it was still available.

Polites said his wife, an art teacher at Bloomington Junior High School and a watercolor artist, had painted pictures of the house on occasion and knew of its historical significance. Julia Scott Vrooman died May 30, 1981, at the age of 104, in the house in which she was born. She lived in Bloomington most of her life, spending a few years in Washington, D.C., with her husband, Carl, a U.S. assistant secretary of agriculture during Woodrow Wilson's presidency from 1914-1919. Vrooman died in 1966.

George and Bettie Polites, of R.R. 4, Bloomington, hope to move into the Vrooman mansion in about two weeks, Polites reports. The couple bought the 110-year-old mansion and began refurbishing the structure in October. Polites said Monday that work on the roof and some wiring and plumbing work at the mansion are nearing completion. He said work on the roof should be finished soon.

"We've got a pretty good start on it," Polites said, "We kind of have Nov. 29 targeted as a move-in date." Most of the work the couple is having dene is on the first floor and in the second floor bathrooms of the three-floor structure. When they bought the house, the couple said they planned to restore the mansion "as near as possible to the original." The inside of the 35-room house, especially the floors and woodwork, is in generally good shape, Polites THE LIGHTING CENTER DIVISION OF SPRINGFIELD ELECTRIC Famous Quoizel quality. Don't miss this super value event! ALL NOW ON SALE SAVE 15-50 B-N pair charged in car burglary Setting it right Unit 5 officials are hurrying to complete a life safety bond sale before the end of the year, but a typographical error in Wednesday's paper inadvertantly moved up the sale date. It is 11 a.m.

Dec. 15, followed at 2 p.m. by a special board meeting. The story also incorrectly said bond houses would be adding fees for registering the bonds after Jan. 1.

Those additional fees will be charged by other parties involved in the process. Dr. G. Harlowe Evans, 1609 N. Fell Bloomington, who received a honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree recently from Taylor University, Upland, attended that university from 1920-24.

The wrong years were given in an article in Wednesday's Pantagraph. VISA SPECIAL HOLIDAY HOURS 8-5 Sat. 9-5 902 Four Seasons Road Bloomington 663-5331 nti3 Division ol Springfield Electric Brad Summers, 18, of 702 N. Lee and Denny Schneider, 20, of 2004 Arrowhead Drive, both in Bloomington, were each charged with burglary following their arrest at Dennison Ford 1508 Morrissey Drive, Bloomington, early Thursday. They were in to McLean County jail yesterday and are to appear in court again Dec.

10. Schneider's bond was set at $2,500. Summers' bond was set at $10,000. Bloomington police said the. pair was arrested shortly after midnight Thursday when a police officer on patrol saw them climbing over a fence at the car company.

One of the men was carrying a radiocassette-player. Police later learned the $500 radio was stolen from a van at Den-nison's, police said..