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TOMORROW: Cloudy, warm. 8567. DetailsA2 Our 122nd Yar Issue 219 Eight sections $1 .50 Home delivery: $1 .05 Sunday, August 7, 1 994 1994 Decatur, Illinois it -r Police search for leads in slaying Real estate agent lured to house, strangled tm lite 3r Boosters trail camels' tails By JUDY TATHAM Staff Writer ON A ROLL: Dallas Chief Eagle performs a traditional Indian hoop dance Saturday on the Civic Center stage. Ten dancers from as far away as Alberta, Canada, are scheduled to perform again'today at 11 a.m., 12:45, 3 and 5 p.m. Audience participation is welcomed.

By DAVE MOORE Staff Writer DECATUR Sheriff's deputies are looking for the man who lured Decatur real estate agent Sherry Lewis into a house and strangled her on Friday. The body of the 30-year-old woman was discovered about seven hours after she went to Finch Drive, on Decatur's northeast side, to show the vacant house to someone at 1 p.m. The slaying has sent shock waves through the mm realty community DECATUR Linda Clary would walk a mile for a camel and the Eisenhower Elite Energy Show Choir. She proved that at Saturday's heavily attended Razzle Dazzle Goodtimes Parade at the Decatur Celebration. "When you've got an organization that is only funded through fund-raisers, you'll do just about anything to make money," said Clary, the mother of Alan Clary, a sophomore who is in the choir.

Clary and fellow choir mom Rose Hauskins trailed camels named Coco and Ashley in the parade, amidst the yells of and was prompting companies on Saturday to remove lock boxes from sales properties because Lewis' keys are missing. She had worked for Jim Masey In shock Sherry Lewis was a go-getter, a real estate agent who worked hard, say the people who worked alongside her. Story A3 pooper scooper. The duo hoped they wouldn't have to use the steel shovel and a light-blue wheeled garbage can they had in tow. wkmk' jr: if- Cake Bill Eichenauer is a high-profile kind of guy.

So it isn't surprising that his 65th birthday Saturday included a high-profile kind of cake. Story A4 Fake? Hypnotist Tom DeLuca's prediction of a headline in the Herald Review left several hundred people amazed Saturday. Story A4 Animal handler Don Etherington tried reassuring them that any droppings would look like Tootsie Rolls. And the two camels are good, harmless animals to be around, Etherington said. "They'll slobber every once in a while, but that's it," he said.

Realtors Inc. for one year and formerly was an agent with Bag-ley Realtors. Lewis fought with her killer and was apparently strangled with bare hands, Sheriff Lee Holsapple said Saturday. Her head was bloodied and she was battered during the struggle, which ended with her dead in the kitchen. The motive is unknown, but Holsapple said preliminary information indicates Lewis was not sexually assaulted.

Her purse and personal belongings, minus the keys, were left in the house. Her late-model dark green Toyota Camry sat in the driveway. A local man whose name was in Lewis' appointment book was questioned but is not considered a suspect, Holsapple said. The person who made the appointment is believed to have given a phony name. "We don't believe she was accompanied by anyone when she went to the house," Holsapple said.

Her slayer either drove to meet her there or walked into the neighborhood. No other Decatur area real estate agents have been assaulted, Holsapple said, but deputies have learned of a woman attacked in Marshall County. "She was bound with duct tape but she fought off the attacker," he said. "There are similarities to ours here, but we are not focusing on it at this time." Anyone who saw suspicious activity or strangers on Finch Drive on Friday afternoon is asked to call the sheriff's office at 424-1311. The Decatur Association of Realtors is expected to announce Monday a reward fund in connection with the case.

-4 -A- Then Etherington said that on Tom Smith's camel ranch in Ko-komo, they remove unwanted camel debris with "Bobcat earth-moving equipment." CAMEL Continued on A4 11 ffT a. kw i.i-i-sfc. 1 Herald Review phofosDarrell Goemaa4 PATRIOTIC ENTRY: Twenty members of the Elks Lodge 401, Decatur, march along a crowd-lined Franklin Street Saturday past the Transfer House during the Decatur Celebration 1994 Cardwell CompaniesMcDonald's Razzle Dazzle Goodtimes Parade. Planner's farming raises anger By REID MAGNEY Staff Writer ment will agree with us that there is no violation in the way we practice business," spokesman Keith Butterfield said. The civil lawsuits include allegations of blacklisting businesses from buying Caterpillar parts, allegations of Caterpillar dealers being forced not to buy competitive parts from other suppliers and allegations of setting up a supplier alliance to restrict sales of competitive parts into the "aftermarket" parts needed by Caterpillar equipment users when a machine breaks down.

Kenneth Kudon, attorney for Paul E. Volpp Tractor Co. of Buena Park, and Mark Buechele, attorney for three Miami-area businessmen, said the Justice Department contacted them for information on the lawsuits. Kudon said his client alleges Caterpillar entered agreements with its dealers to stop them from buying parts from other companies. He said Volpp was shut out by Caterpillar because it refused to agree not to sell parts it makes in the aftermarket.

Buechele said his clients were blacklisted from being able to buy parts from Caterpillar or its dealers. If a dealer is caught doing business with someone on the blacklist, it could be fined and Caterpillar could take away the dealer's franchise, Kudon said. "(Dealers) know what side their bread is buttered, so when CAT talks they listen," he said. Buechele's clients Universal Services, Godix Corp. and Allied Machinery Service export parts to clients overseas and now are unable to provide parts for Caterpillar equipment because they no longer can buy parts either from the manufacturers who supply Caterpillar or from dealers.

Some companies claim CAT uses illegal tactics in the spare parts market. PEORIA (AP) The Justice Department is investigating Caterpillar looking into allegations that the manufacturer of earth-moving equipment uses illegal tactics to control the spare parts market. The government's interest was prompted by civil lawsuits filed against Caterpillar in the last several years. The Justice Department is requesting documents in these lawsuits, attorneys involved in the cases said. Caterpillar acknowledged it is being investigated.

"We are in the process of responding to the U.S. Department of Justice. We are confident the U.S. Justice Depart K' VH Vv" 1 5 DECATUR When he's not reviewing real estate development plans as a Decatur city planner, Robert McQueen can often be found tending his crops. In his spare time this year, McQueen tilled more than 275 acres of corn and beans on more than a dozen scattered sites in Decatur and Forsyth.

Two things separate McQueen from most full-time farmers: He generally farms small chunks of land scattered among residential and commercial developments at the outskirts of Decatur and Forsyth. And some of the land he farms is owned by developers whose real estate plans he reviews as a city planner. "You see stuff like For press, darkness before dawn ..4 By RE1D MAGNEY Staff Writer high-tech equipment. Losing two-thirds of printing capacity means that temporarily, the Herald Review won't look quite the same. "We're going to be gray for a while, but then we'll PRESS Continued on A5 followed by brilliant colors in November.

Beginning Monday, the newspaper enters the final phase of a $5 million project to modernize its presses. During those three months, workers will dismantle two-thirds of the printing press to make way for nearly 100 tons of new, Herald ReviewDarrell Goemaat KICKED OFF THE LAND: Farmer Pete Williams stands in his former 47-acre bean field, now farmed by Decatur city planner Robert McQueen. The field, located just north of Interstate 72 and west of Oakland Avenue, was farmed by Williams for more than a decade until developer Jim Romano bought it and rented the land to McQueen. DECATUR Late summer and fall are usually colorful times in Central Illinois that give way to the dullness of winter. But for Herald Review readers, the next three months will be rather drab, McQueen A press for the future Continued on A6 I I.