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Amboy Calendar AMBOY Calendar of meetings and events scheduled at Amboy for the week of July 9 through July 15. Sunday Union worship service for the United Methodist and First Congregational Churches at in the Congregational Church. The adult study class meets at 10:30 a.m. The Junior Legion baseball team will participate in the double elimination tourney at flock Falls. First game is at 10 and the final game at 2 Youth groups meet at 6:15 fjnd 6 30 p.m.

in the First Baptist Church followed by evening worship at 7:30 p.m. Monday Story hour for children at 1:30 p.m. in St. Hall. Evangelism and worship committee meets at 7:30 p.m.

in Immanuel Lutheran and the parish education committee at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday Mt. Morris Junior Legion team will play here at Field at 6:15 p.m. Monthly business session of trustees of the Amhnv Fire Protection District is at 7 p.m. in the office at the fire station.

Meeting for the Sunday School teachers is at 7:30 p.m. in Immanuel Lutheran Church. Arbutus Chapter, Order of Eastern Star, meets at 8 p.m. in the Masonic Hall. Wednesday Midweek prayer service and Bible study is at 7:30 p.m.

in the First Baptist Church. Thursday Ladies Aid Society of Immanuel Lutheran Church meets at 2 p.m. Mrs. Alonzo Knights will be the hostess. Lee County Pork Producers annual pork chop barbecue from 5 to 7 p.m., followed by the pork queen contest at 8 p.m.

in the Lee County 4-H Center. Green River Lodge IOOF meets at 8 p.m. in the lodge hall. Friday No meetings scheduled. Saturday The American Legion Baseball District Tourney opens at Freeport and will continue through Sunday.

Game times are: 9:30 a.m., 12:30, 4:30 and 7:30 p.m. GM seeks GOP win will be price hike tough, says Ogilvie Cuban exiles to demonstrate at Dem meeting MIAMI, Fla. (AP) Despite opposition from within own ranks, top leaders of Cuban exile colony of have called for massive Tuesday at the Democratic National Convention. Carlos Prio Socarras, former Cuban president and the chief organizer, said Friday that he expects up to 3,000 refugees to march and with good outside the Miami Beach Convention Hall. are not protesting Prio said, against the idea that Cubans in this country have no right to do anything to overthrow Fidel Prio heads a coalition group which includes Bay of Pigs veterans, his own Cuban Revolutionary Party, students and others.

Opposed to the idea of demonstrations, but planning to stage their own minicampaign of and is another coalition refugee group calling itself the Committee for Liberation. Tomaz Cruz, a Bay of Pigs veteran and a leader of the Liberation Committee, said members will pass out handbills to convention delegates about the moral and written the United States has made with respect to Cuba. Among these, Cruz said, are by Democratic Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson to rid Cuba of its Communist Cruz said the demonstration planned by the Prio organization may damage the nonviolent image of Cuban refugees. Prio said he doubts that this will happen but says, a chance we have to take to make our case known to American public Blue-jeaned, and sandaled Dem delegate SPRINGFIELD, 111.

(AP) Alternate delegate Kathy Wood, 21, got ready for the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach by stocking up on extra blue jeans and sandals. always wear the same she said. not going to change for the Chess tales NEW YORK (AP) The insulted egos and white-knuckled tensions before the Fischer- Spassky chess match may seem to be a blazing battle, but pale beside the tales of bloodthirsty games in Medieval Iceland. Chess boards in the 12th and 13th centuries were often the center of treachery, intrigue and murder, according to sagas of the time. When a certain King Louis lost a chess game to Rognvald, he stood up in a fury, shoved his chessmen into a bag and smashed his opponent in the face with it, leaving him a bloody mess.

exclaimed the king. Rognvald rode off in a panic. But his brother stayed to split the skull open. These stories are sagas from Willard in Iceland and in Icelandic published in 1905. It is said that American champion Bobby Fischer has gotten the highest stakes in history of chess for his series beginning Tuesday in Reykjavik with Boris Spassky, the world champion.

Even though thousands of dollars of prize money are on the line, championship prize is chicken feed. Rognvald played King Louis for his A woman was the prize in knightly saga. A king put Sip his horse, falcon and sword lor a maiden and engaged in a game, winner take all. The Sing lost. He left the game on unarmed and unloved.

consolation do you derive from the game of chess for now I own your costly said his competitor. HAPPY BIRTHDAY To Charles Beard, today; Francis Fenwick, July 9. Money for the trip much of a problem, either. Her mother furnished most of it. have to pay a fourth of the gas going down there in a she says, have food.

But lucidly I have to pay board and room. Maybe $100 a Kathy and a handful of other delegates committed to Sen. George S. McGovern plan to economize by taking air mattresses and sleeping bags to Miami. They hope they can find some floor space in the Diplomat Hotel, where most of the Illinois delegation is staying.

must be a good she says with a touch of irony. Daley picked But taste in accomodations may be her only point of agreement with mayor. She describes her political philosophy as Pot bust in Grand Detour Robert J. Fox, 20, Grand Detour, was arrested at his home early Saturday by Ogle County Police. A search warrant had been issued and Fox was charged with possession of marijuana.

He is free after paying $1,000 bond. Rochelle fires Rochelle fireman were called to a car fire at State Bank Friday at 11:35 p.m. The fire was confined to the rear trunk area and there was only minor damage. Skyjacker gives up His arms raised, a young skyjacker surrenders to FBI agents at Oakland International Airport after holding five persons hostage aboard a Pacific Southwest Airlines jet for nine hours. Coming down behind him is one of the hostages, with his hands in handcuffs.

The hijacker, FBI agents said, demanded and received $450,000 ransom. (AP Wirephoto) At 5 a.m. Saturday, Rochelle firemen answered a call at the Donald Salsbury home, on Wendell Drive in the Askvig Addition north of Rochelle. The cause of the fire is unknown, but the fire apparently started in the area of the furnace. Damage was estimated in excess of $5,500, and the Rochelle Fire Department is still investigating.

Rights groups oppose non-busing; not Nixon DETROIT (AP) NAACP Executive Director Roy Wilkins says the civil rights group, which for the past week has been assailing the White House for opposing school busing, does not oppose President re-election. But as the 63rd annual convention of the National Associ- Ogle marriage licenses OREGON Ogle County Clerk Helvie Wooding has issued the following marriage licenses: June 30, Richard M. Wright, Kings, and Amaryllis Newville, Creston. July 5, Charles Daniel Weller and Pauline A. Weller, both of Mt.

Morris. ation for the Advancement of Colored People drew to a close Friday night, Wilkins stood by a resolution which blasted the administration for its ing views. and civil rights Wilkins said in explaining the silence on the election. The resolution adopted Tuesday by the 2,500 delegates to the convention assailed Nixon, who has told Congress to delay implementing any new busing plans designed to bring about school integration. lot of issues Mr.

Nixon has under his control have been fogged up Only one blurred Wilkins said. It had been expected, since the convention began Monday, that a resolution condemning Nixon and opjiosing his re-election would be submitted. Hanmhan codefendants waive rights CHICAGO (AP) Two of Atty. Edward V. 13 codefendants have waived their right to a jury trial on charges stemming from a 1969 raid on a Black Panther headquarters.

The waivers were filed Friday in Circuit Court by an attorney for John Mulchrone and John P. Meade, both policemen. The two men, Hanrahan and 11 others are charged with conspiring to obstruct justice in the investigation of the raid. Two Panther leaders were killed in the raid conducted by a racially mixed police squad. The trial is scheduled to begin Monday before Judge Philip J.

Romiti. It had been set to start July 5 but a continuance was granted. Should any of the other defendants choose a trial by jury, separate trials would not be necessary. The jury would rule on the guilt or innocence of those who did not waive their rights and Judge Romiti would rule on those who did. Mulchrone was in charge of the police investi- Tractor pull: horrendous noise gation into the conduct of the policemen who participated in the raid.

He was demoted in May 1970 after a federal grand jury criticized the police investigation and is now deputy chief of the traffic division. Meade, a sergeant, was a clerk in office. UNION CITY, Tenn. (AP) The noise was horrendous Friday night, but it will be even louder tonight as the Volunteer State Tractor Pulling Contest concludes in Union City. On tap this evening will be competition for large modified tractors, some powered by aircraft engines and others using racing motors.

Friday events included tractor pulling contests in three classes the 7,000 lbs modified or tractors, the and pound stock classes. The contestants were judged on how far they could pull an 18.000-pound lead-weighted sled down the course. Only one contestant, David Sisson, of Wingo, was able to travel the full 250-foot course. Sisson, who is a member of the Tennessee Tractor Pulling Association, took the state championship title in both the 9.000-and 12 000 -pound classes. First-place winner in the class was Van Botkins, of Mexico, while Gary Quick, of Odin, 111., was the first-place winner in the class.

In order to win the state championship, a person has to be a member of the state tractor pulling organization, contest officials said. First-place winner in the modified class was Lloyd McVey, of Oakwood, 111., while Kenneth Grady, of Troy, won the state title for that class. About 5,500 persons attended the Friday night event at the Obion County fairgrounds where more than 200 persons are staying, mostly in camping trailers and sleeping bags. The contest is sanctioned by the National Tractor Pullers Association and is sponsored by the Obion County Fair Association and the Obion County Automatic Sled Association. In foreign affairs, the delegates called for end to United States complicity with in South Africa, the closing of National Aeronautics and Space Administration tracking stations in Johannesburg and termination of sugar quotas to South Africa with their redistribution to black Africa.

(About Town KSB Hospital Admitted: Mrs. Mary Minnihan, Mrs. Violet Landt, Master Tom Ernst, Stanwood Trein, Dixon; Miss Tosha Witmore, Mrs. Francelia Lupton, Amboy; Mrs. Alice Leitritz, John McGurk, Larry Lawrence, Oregon; Mrs.

Sadie Houck, Woosung; Warren Hoepner, Harmon; Mrs. Carrie Whisman, Polo. Discharged: Glenn Dysart, Mrs. Sadie Prater, Mrs. Clara Etnyre, Clifford Kime, Emilio Cecchetti, Master Timothy Eccles, Mrs.

Anna Toms, Charles McGrail, Donald Sheets, Dixon; Master Keith Saltow, Master James Boom, Mrs. Phyllis Irvin, Lee Hunt, Polo; Miss Sandra McAndrews, Rock Falls. Births: Mr. and Mrs. Stanley J.

Sofolo, Polo, a daughter, July 7. Weather DIXON TEMPERATURES High Friday, 80; low Saturday 51; 10:30 a.m., 75. Sunset today, 8:36 p.m.; sunrise Sunday, 5:27 a.m. 5-Day Forecast Partly cloudy with chance of showers and thunderstorms Monday through Wednesday. Little change in temperatures.

Highs in the middle to upper 80s north and around 90 south. Lows mostly in the 60s. Local Forecast Partly sunny and warm today. Chance of afternoon or evening thunderstorms. High in upper 70s or lower 80s.

Partly cloudy tonight, chance of thunderstorms. Low in upper 50s or lower 60s. Sunday variable cloudiness and warm. Showers and thunderstorms likely. High in low or mid 80s.

Rochelle Hospital Admitted: Mrs. Roger Ahlensdorf, Rochelle; Master Larry Nass, Ashton. Discharged: Mrs. Raymond Mancillas, Mrs. Elsie Voogd, Rochelle; Mrs.

Greayer Johnson, Mt. Morris. Births: Mr. and Mrs. Roger Ahlensdorf, Rochelle, a son, July 7.

Peorian not injured in U.S. 51 wreck ROCHELLE Walter C. Miller, 59, Peoria, was uninjured in a one-car accident which occurred at 1 a.m. Saturday near Rochelle, on U.S. 51 four miles north of U.S.

30. The accident, which is still under investigation by State Police, occurred when car, southbound on U.S. 51, left the roadway and struck an unknown object, causing $800 damage to the car. DETROIT (AP) General Motors Corp. is the third of the major auto companies to ask the Price Commission for authority to increase prices on its 1973 models.

The fourth Ford Motor Co. was expected to follow suit. GM announced Friday it is seeking to boost prices an average of $90 2.4 per cent on its cars and trucks. Noting that current Price Commisision guidelines would permit a hike of $200 per vehicle, GM indicated that it also would ask for another increase Jan. 1.

action followed similar requests by American Motors, which asked for a $78 per car jump for safety and emission control hardware, plus another 2.5 per cent general increase; and Chrysler which earlier this week sought $182 per vehicle, a 5 per cent jump divided among government-mandated equipment, labor and material increases and current optional equipment to be made standard. have nothing before the Price Commission at this a Ford spokesman said. But sources indicated Ford may have been waiting for GM to make its move. Its general increase, GM said, is being asked to cover regulations relating to bumpers, safety and exhaust emissions, certain other design improvements as well as costs incurred for plant safety and environmental Motorists ticketed for wrecks Three Dixon area motorists were ticketed following auto accidents Friday. Investigating Dixon Police reported no injuries resulted from the collisions.

At Galena and Second autos driven by William Madding, 23, 1340 Long Ave. and Sadie Houck, 63, Woosung, collided. Police said auto was northbound on Galena approaching the intersection when the Houck car turned in front of him. The Houck woman was charged with traffic control violation. Jean Pate, 63, Rt.2, was charged with disobeying a stop sign after her car struck another auto driven by Jon Detrick, 27, 107 E.

Fifth St. Police said the Pate car, driving south on Crawford did not stop for a traffic sign and proceeded into the intersection striking auto. Nachusa House resident Brian Wilcox, 28, was charged with leaving the scene of a property damage accident and driving while intoxicated after he struck a parked car owned by LaVern Hicks of Amboy. auto was parked on Lincoln Statue Drive. Wilcox reportedly left his car at the scene of the accident.

He was found several minutes later in the Coachlight Lounge. Hay bale crushes girl CHICAGO (AP) Illinois Republicans say they afford to be complacent about carrying the state in general election. The delegation to the RepublicanNational Convention caucused in Chicago on Friday. will be a tough election in Illinois and warned Gov. Richard B.

Ogilvie, chairman of the delegation. He added that the effects of the dissension among Illinois Democrats is unpredictable as yet. the Democrats have a talent for getting he said. In a news conference held after the caucus by Ogilvie and Sen. Charles H.

Percy, vice chairman of the delegation, Percy said he would not underestimate the chances of Sen. George McGovern, the Democratic front runner. He added that he thinks Illinois Democrats will patch up their differences. never like to see dissension that can weaken the two-party Percy said. Ogilvie noted that all 48 of the elected delegates and the 10 at-large delegates have committed themselves to President Nixon.

Two of the elected delegates had been uncommitted. The governor added that the Republicans are opening the party to women and minority groups. He noted that this delegation includes 10 women, seven of them elected and three chosen at large. also, for the first time, have a Latin American as an alternate and a black woman as a Ogilvie said. Dems' Telethon is go' for funds FORRESTON A trailer loaded with bales of hay crushed 7 year-old Tamara Jo Fager, rural Forreston, to death about 5:30 p.m.

Friday after she slipped off the trailer and fell beneath the wheels. The girl was riding on top of the hay on the trailer, which was being pulled by a tractor operated by her grandmother, Mrs. Oma Fager on Columbine Road 1 miles east of Forreston. Ogle County Deputy Coroner, Clark Williams, pronounced the girl dead at the scene. Her death was ruled accidental at a inquest held Friday night at the Dougherty-De Graff Funeral Home, Forreston.

Funeral arrangements are being completed at the Dougherty De Graff Funeral Home, Forreston, for her. She was the daughter of Robert Fager, Lincoln Township, Forreston, and Mrs. Donna Jean Jennusa, Freeport. 4-H news STEWARD The Willow Creek 4-H Club for girls will hold a public meeting at 1:30 p.m. Monday in the Steward United Methodist Church.

Club members will display their 4-H projects, and a will follow the pro- gtam. CHICAGO (AP) Democrats made final preparations today for a 23-hour fund-raising telethon after it first appeared that the Chicago portion of the effort might be canceled. Illinois Bell received the go- ahead Friday night and the installation of 175 telephones was scheduled to begin at the Sherman House this morning, Bell officials said. Dan Logan, special events director for the McGovern campaign in Chicago, said enough volunteers had been enlisted to man the telephones and handle the clerical work involved in the telethon. Logan said the volunteers include persons from his office in coalition with other Democratic and The telethon, which will originate in Los Angeles, is scheduled to begin at 9 p.m.

today 1 Deaths, iFuneralsl John McGuric OREGON John (Jack) McGurk, 75, 801 Adams, died Saturday morning in Dixon Public Hospital following a long illness. He was born May 7, 1897, in Parnell, Iowa, son of Terrence and Hannah Toomey McGurk. He was married to Ada Mackay, Dec. 25, 1931, in Oregon. McGurk had operated his own barber shop in Oregon and had been retired for any years.

He is survived by his wife, a son, John Dennis, San Francisco, a sister, Mrs. Robert Kay, Sterling, and several nieces and nephews. Arrangements are being completed at the Farrell Funeral Home, Oregon. Mary Huggans ASHTON Mrs. Mary Huggans, 81, of Thurd died Friday morning in Rochelle Community Hospital.

She was bom Sept. 14,1890, in Serena, the daughter of Evan and Julia Thompson Olson. She married William Huggans, who died in 1967. Mrs. Huggans was a member of Ashton United Methodist Church and the Ashton Club.

Survivors include a sister, Miss Cora Olson, Sterling, and a brother, William Olson, Aurora. Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Monday in the Cluts Funeral Home, Ashton, with the Rev. Gene Henrikson, pastor of Ashton United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Ashton cemetery.

Visitation will be held from 24 Sunday at the Cluts Funeral Home. Lida Bloom A Dixon woman, Mrs. Lida Bloom, 78, 507 Van Buren died Friday in Curwensville, where she was visiting friends. She was born Feb. 2,1894, the daughter of Clark B.

and Sarah E. Norris. She married Willard Bloom, Sept. 30, 1949, in Curwensville, Pa. Her husband preceeded her in death.

Mrs. Bloom was a member of the Susquehanna Grange and the First United Methodist Church, Dixon. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Ruth Morgan Rapp, 507 Van Buren two grandsons, and two great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held in the Chidboy Funeral Curwensville, Tuesday at 10 a.m., with visitation after 1 p.m.

on Monday. and run until 8 p.m. Sunday. The party hopes to raise money to pay off previous debts and pay for the November campaign. Installation of the telephones had been scheduled for Thursday, but at the last minute the order was canceled by James J.

McDonough, Chicago commissioner of streets and sanitation and one of the Democratic National 33 regional chairmen. McDonough said he ordered the installations held up when he realized Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley had not given him permission to proceed. He discounted as speculation any suggestion that the mayor was holding back the participation of his Cook County Democratic organization because of the credentials committee ruling which ousted Daley and 58 other uncommitted delegates from the national convention. Nelson party arrests Ten persons were taken into police custody Friday night after Lee County Deputies were tipped on a reported drinking party taking place in Nelson.

Being held in Lee County jail on related drinking charges were Jack Williamson, 21 and Charlie McNinch, 18, both of Nelson and Michael McCoy, 20, Rock Falls. Four youths were charged with curfew violation, two others with drinking as a minor. One youth was released. Further details were not available. Thefts reported A tool box, containing wrenches, an electric drill and miscellaneous tools was reported taken from a pick-up truck parked in a driveway at 2201 W.

Fourth St. Alvin Sheely, reporting the theft to Lee County deputies, said the items, valued at $45, were believed taken sometime Thursday night. Engine parts, including an intake manifold and carburetor were reported stolen from a combine locked in a shed at the Amboy reidence of John Schultz. Entry was apparently gained through a rear window. Schultz valued the items at $500.

Girl arrested for break-in Winnebago County Police arrested a 19-year-old Mt. Morris girl, Deborah J. Miller, at Friday, and turned her over to Ogle County authorities. She was arrested in Ogle County on a warrant after she allegedly broke into a house in Mt. Morris and took some money.

She is being held in Ogle County Jail in lieu of $5,000 bond. mMmmMmmmmmmiim Card of Thanks We would like to thank all our friends, relatives and neighbors who sent food, flowers and cards and other acts of kindness during the loss of our wife and mother. Harold Mershon and Family I wish to express my heartfelt thanks to the nurses, Drs. Murphy and McFetridge, and entire staff of KSB for the wonderful care I received while a patient there. Your thoughtfulness will long be remembered.

Alice Osborn Family.