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Local deaths Man shoots NIU campus Mattoon Journal Gazette 5 January 20, 1973 -NOTICES- Knowles cafeteria Saturday and Sunday night special U.S.D.A. choice round of beef, baked potato, salad bowl, roll, butter, coffee and tea $1.55. policeman For the record Weather Yesterday'! precipitation To date to date 24-yr. This yr. this yr.

last yr. avg. 0 -72 ,38 1.17 Tomorrow's skies Sunrise 7.07 a.m. Sunset 4:58 p.m. Moonrise 8.34 p.m Moonset 8:34 Extended Outlook Chance of rain or snow north and chance of rain! south Monday, then mostly cloudy Tuesday and Wednesday.

Temperatures will average a little above seasonal normal for the period with daily highs in the 30s north and 40s south and daily lows mostly in the 20s to lower 30s. i- a.4 MM? mm? AIR POLLUTED This large fire at Mattoon Auto Salvage, East Route 316, 'Snowball Express' all family enjoyment Samuel W. Biggerstaff Funeral services for Samuel W. Biggerstaff, 90, of 2221 Marshall will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday at Schilling's Funeral Home with Rev.

Hiram B. Kegerreis officiating. Burial will be in Dodge Grove Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday.

Masonic rites will be conducted at 7:30 n.m. Sunday at the funeral home by Mattoon Masonic Lodge No. 260. Mr. Biggerstaff, a retired railroader, died at 6:25 p.m.

Friday in Douglas Nursing Center. He was a member of the Mattoon Masonic Lodge and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen for over 50 years. Mr. Biggerstaff was born in Hamilton County on March 4, 1883, the son of Thomas and Miranda Crawford Biggerstaff. He married 'Ada Saltzman in 1909.

She preceded him in death. He married Bertha Higgins on Oct. 23, 1929. She died in 1967. Mr.

Biggerstaff is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Joseph (Gladys) B. Howard of Mattoon and Mrs. Frank (Joyce) West, of Ocala, a brother, John Biggerstaff, of Evansville, and a granddaughter, Judy West of Ocala. A daughter and son also preceded him in death.

Mrs. Dorothy McCain Mrs. Dorothy Hannah McCain, 56, of 1309 S. 2nd died at 6:25 a.m. today in Memorial Hospital.

Funeral arrangements rre Incomplete at Mitchell-Jerdan Funeral Home. Mrs. McCain was born in Decatur on June 17, 1916, a daughter of Hiram and Effie p0De Grav. She married John J. McCain in Troy, on April 21, 1935.

He survives. She was a member of the Millersville Methodist Church, Millersville, and past president of the American Legion Auxiliary, Granite City, Besides her husband, Mrs. McCain is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Judy Gracey of Mattoon, and Mrs. Sandra Cohan and Mrs.

Pat Taylor, both of Bethany; a son, John J. Jr. of Waukegan; a sister, Mrs. Lonnie (Helen) Quails of Granite City; and 19. Ik I to drift across farmlands to the north.

(JG photo) Agricultural products class set An evening course' on the marketing of agricultural products will be offered in Effingham and Casey during Lake Land College's winter extended quarter, which begins next week. Classes will be held from 6:30 to 10 p.m. on Wednesday nights through May 9 in room 115 of Effingham High School and from 7 to 10 p.m. on Tuesday nights through May 8 in room 5 of Casey High School. rersons may register during the first class period, L.

K. Voris, dean of evening college at Lake Land, said the instructor will be Wilmer Chamberlain, manager of Stotler Grain Co. in Effingham. The course is designed for grain farmers and those in the livestock business and involves the nature of production and the marketing system. The course includes selected and general problems in pricing major commodities, in choosing outlets and in finding better markets.

Candidates file papers CHARLESTON, HI. Marty candidate for the Charleston City Council, was the only candidate for city office who had not filed an economic interest statement as of Friday afternoon, according to Harry Grafton, Coles County clerk. According to law all candidates for public offices must file the disclosure statement. The deadline tor filing, the document is debated. One candidate for mayor and six city, council candidate filed the statements Friday, Grafton said.

I a across the road. The smoke polluted a swath of air about 100 feet wide as it continued The pilot of the' runaway engine is Harry Morgan, and are further words necessary? Then the guests all leave too much air conditioning in the ''ning room, see? And the greedy banker gets ready to foreclose the mortgage. But Dad has five days, and he hatches a plot. All he has to do is win first prize in the ai.uial snowmobile race to pay off the banker: Never piTid that he has never iven snowmobile in his life, and that the only one available is madj up of miscellaneous parts of thiee wrecks by his unhandy-man ski instructor. The race is wild by the way Mom, long suffering though ns; this threatens to wo out if he enters the race ant man competition is tin banker with his co-pilot, good old Goober." Our copilot is Harry Morgan, natch, an! the winner of this race is the funnybone.

Then wnen if looks like the day is losu, l'ttle smart aleck, with an awist from Mary Wickes, saves the and the marriage. It is corn, but such nice corn; And I was excited happily by a wonderful featurette short subjnet with the film a trr. el talk lype film on the new "Walt Disney World" in Orlando, Fla. I go ape over this sort of thing and this is one of the best. You'll want to go home and pack your grips and head for Florida right now.

It is really something to see, this new Disney attraction. Hopefully I shall get there this summer. This bill is highly recommended for everyone in this tired old world who longs for two hours of old-fashioned clean and happy laughter. "Snowball Express" is in a week's run at the Mattoon Theatre, and maybe you can hear the happy jingle of the cash register where you are. I guessed that there would be 150 kids there and 15" adults.

I was wrong and I admit it When I got there there were 500 kids and 150 adults. And happy laughter filled the house. Everyone had a glad time. This isn't the greatest 1 picture in the world, but it is just an old-fashioned rib-tickling slapstick comedy. And the delight of the audience proved their hunger for just such a family film.

It is modeled on the TV situation comedy pattern, but it is well done and fast moving. Dad (Dean Jones) is a bumbler who hasn't done a thing right since the day he was born except marry Mom (Nancy Olson). He has been with the same company for II years and has only moved up three desks. Mom smiles sweetly through all his bumbling and awards each failurewith a sweet kiss. There is a stringy haired teenage daughter, prone to pouting, and a smart aleck 10-year-old son (Jody of "Family who is ready to rule the world.

Dad inherits an unseen "Grand Imperial Hotel" from an almost equally unseen distant relative and in a fit of elation runs amock in his office pushing all the computer buttons as he sings out, "I quit." The family drives from New York to Colorado to take over the property, with their St. Bernard who is afraid of anything that moves or wiggles. They discover their inheritance is the original "Ramshackle Inn." Father DEKALB, III. (AP) Robert H. Pfifer, a campus policeman at Northern Illinois University, was shot and seriously wounded early today following a struggle with a 22-year-old man in a campus residence hall.

Authorities said Pfifer's assailant was not a student at the university. Police said Pfifer, 30, was shot when he attempted to restrain the suspect from climbing through a skylight onto the roof of the Stevenson South dormitory, a 12-story residence complex. Pfifer and another officer were responding to a call at the residence hall at the time of incident, "police said. As Pfifer struggled with the suspect, the man managed -to pull a revolver from one of the officer's holsters and fired several shots, police said. The suspect was wounded in the leg and was subdued by the second officer.

Pfifer was reported in serious condition in a Rockford hospital with a gunshot wound in the head. Police declined- to say if charges had been filed. Area deaths Jack Doss SULLIVAN, 111. Jack Doss, 74, of Sullivan died at 10 p.m. Thursday at Decatur Memorial Hospital.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday in McMullin Funeral Home, Sullivan, with Rev. Sam Eaton officiating. Burial will be in Keller Cemetery, near Lovington. Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 to 9 p.m.

today. Mr. Doss was born Dec. 11, 1898, in Lafayette, a son of Berry M. and Maud Gumni Doss.

He married Vertie Alma Stinson in 1916. She survives. A retired farmer, Mr. Doss is survived by his widow; five sons, B. C.

of Sullivan, Kenneth and Theron, both of Windsor, Wallace of Mattoon and Gerald of Indianapolis, four daughters, Mrs. Betty Bryant, Mrs. Louise Dixon and Mrs. JoAnn Turner, all of Mattoon, and Mrs. June Miller of Sullivan; a brother, Hartford Doss of Akersville, 41 grandchildren, 27 great-grandchildren and one great-great grandchild.

Lana Deann Sporleder STRASBURG," 111. -Graveside services for Lana Deann Sporleder, infant daughter of Darrell and Gloria Craig Sporleder of Strasburg, were scheduled at 2 p.m. today in St. Paul Lutheran Cemetery, Strasburg, with Howe and Funeral Home, Strasburg, in charge. Lana Deann died at 11 a.m.

Friday in St. Anthony Hospital Effingham. Besides her parents, she is survived by. a sister Dana Leann, at home; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.

Arlie Craig Jr. of Sullivan and Mr. and Mrs. Gerold Sporleder. of Strasburg, and great-grandparents, Mrs.

Effie Sporleder of Findlay, and Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Schlecte of Strasburg. Ozark to cut flights Ozark Airlines has announced it will discontinue flights betr ween Springfield and Chicago's lakefront Meigs Field. Last flights will be on Sunday.

District manager of marketing for Ozark, Daryl Paddock, said the company was discontinuing the flights because of an Illinois Commerce Commission decision Thursday allowing Air Illinois, an independent commuter service, to continue its flights to Meigs. Ozark said it would drop its Springfield to Chicago commuter service unless it were granted exclusive rights to the route. Air Illinois has been providing commuter service to Meigs under a temporary order granted by the ICC in December, 1971. The route previously had been awarded to the now-defunct Chicago and Southern Airlines. Ex-Congressman dies GALENA, I1L (AP) Leo E.

Allen, who served 14 terms as 16th District congressman, died Friday at Galena Hospital, where he had been hospitalized since he suffered a stroke in December. He was 1 Announcement St." Paul's Men's Club (Dorans), spaghetti sapper, including relish tray, pie, cake, and drink. Saturday, Jan. 20, serving 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Donation adults $1.75,.

children under 12, $1.00. Stanton Dotson Attorney at Law located at 1617 Wabash, Mattoon, HI. Phone 234-8891. Ticket issued City police issued ticket to Deborah E. Morgan, 18, of Route 1 for failing to reduce speed to avoid an accident Friday after the auto she was driving struck the side of a car driven by Carol Livesay, 23, of 421 Piatt.

According to the police report, the Morgan auto was pulling out of a parking space in the 100 block of S. 15th street at 5 p.m. when the mishap occurred. No Injuries were reported. Bobby Webb, of 1020 N.

33rd complained to city police Friday that a vehicle struck his auto at about 10:50 p.m. Friday in the IGA Foodliner parking, lot on south U.S. 45, damaging the right rear fender. He said he discovered the damages after returning to his auto. A parked auto owned by Deborah Hollinger of 1220 South Lawn was reportedly struck by an auto backing out of a drivewav across the street.

The mishap occurred at 6:05 p.m. Friday when a car driven by Edan A. Judd, 35, of 1 reportedly backed out of a driveway at 801 Lincoln. No ticket was Issued and no injuries were reported. jj of Mattoon Charleston County" IT'S AIL SO EASY To purchase your 1973 Liecnse Plates at the Wide Awake Bank.

Central National Bank Hospital note Admitted today Andrea Wilson, daughter Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Wilson, 717 Marshall. Admitted Friday James Ferguson of Charleston. Thomas Freeman of Toledo.

Cleave Ingram of Toledo. Mrs. Robert Lear, 2605 Marshall. Mrs. Gary Stewart, 716 N.

4th. Released Friday Walter Baggott, 2920 Washington. Mrs. Charles Brooks, 2917 Walnut Stacey Bynum, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Roy Bynum of Windsor. Mrs. Lloyd Durbin, 2620 Champaign. Kenneth Kingery, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Terry Kingery of Gays. Mrs. Ethel Koonce, 3913 Western. Archie Leggitt, 2709 Champaign. Joseph Matthews, 613 Lafayette.

Kimberly Mayer, "daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Mayer, 409 Crestview. Frank Moutray, Mattoon Manor Nursing Home. Jay Neuenschwander, son of Mr.

and Mrs. James Neuenschwander of Charleston. Henry Northcutt of Neoga. Mrs. Cecil Osbonv 1230 Moultrie.

Mrs'. Henry Sprank of Toledo. Mrs. Harold Titus of Toledo. Mrs.

Samuel Wallace, Spencer Trailer Court Funeral services Funeral services for Daniel Purvis Johnson were held at 3:30 p.m. Friday at Mitchell-Jerdan Funeral Home with Dr. A. Mont Massey officiating. Burial was in Dodge Grove Cemetery.

Miss Carol Groves and Miss Kay Groves sang "What Day That Will Be." Carol Groves was also the organist Active pallbearers were Winnie Jones, Olen Farris, James Jack, Lowell Patterson, Harvey Horath, George Sen-trock, Bill Farrell and Hobart Clark. Honorary pallbearers were Carroll Montague, Lyle and Lynn Strouse, Paul Batson, Don and Clarel Myers. Mr. Johnson, 61, of 613 S. 7th was pronounced dead on arrival at Memorial Hospital at 6:50 p.m.

Tuesday. Funeral services for Mrs. Opal vHazel Hall were held at 1:30 p.m. Friday at Mitchell-Jerdan Funeral Home with Dr. A.

Mont Massey officiating. Burial was in Dodge Grove Cemetery. Mrs. Robert Ballard sang "Nearer My God to Thee." She was accompanied at the organ by Mrs. Cecil Barrow.

Pallbearers were Donald Shook, Kenneth Watts, Francis "Bud" Elder, Gene Russell, Duane Beals and Glen Cornell. Mrs. Hall, 73, of 3308 Prairie died at 4 a.m. Tuesday at Memorial Hospital. FUNERALS WOLTER, Mrs.

Dora A. Graveside rites will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at Moravian Cemetery, West Salem. Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday.

SCHILLING'S BIGGERSTAFF, Samuel Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.ra. Monday at the funeral home with Rev. Hiram B. Kegerreis officiating. Interment Dodge Grove Cemetery.

Visitation 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday. Masonic rites will be conducted 7:30 p.m. Sunday by Mattoon Masonic Lodge 260. SCHILLING'S FUNERAL McCAIN, Mrs.

Dorothy Arrangements Incomplete. Notice later. MITCHELLJERDAN Member F.D.I.C. caused hazardous driving conditions Thursday as billows of smoke drifted north By Emery lichtenwalter exudes happy smiles, rolls up his sleeves, Mother sighs, rolls up her sleeves and the kids pout. They contact the local banker, who really covets the old hotel for devious reasons, who gives them a small loan to place the hotel in shape.

Keenan Wynn is the banker, and gives another of his delightful comic villain roles. They inherit an 85-year-old bellboy with the hotel, and need I tell you more than that he is played by Harry Morgan of all those TV comics. Then you'll see George "Goober" Linsey as the town mechanic, so much in debt to the banker he hasn't had an original thought in 10 years. Mary Wickes, she of the persimmon face, is the banker's secretary, and she wouldn't trust him any further than she could throw the safe. Dad gets the idea of turning the place into a ski lodge, and people stay away in droves.

Then a friendly avalance stops the ski train a half mile from the house, and they assume captive guests, arid things have a rosier glow. The film allows Dad, who has never had on a pair of skis, to make a mad slapstick run down "Suicide Slope" on skis. It is funny. I howled. Then the old steam engine used to work the ski lift breaks loose from its moorings, and it skedaddles down the hill and makes two new (and unplanned) exits in the dining room of the hotel.

ment's star witness in the case. He was indicted with Kerner and Isaacs, but his case was severed and he received a government promise of Immunity in exchange for his cooperation. Paul R. Connolly, Kerner's Washington attorney, attempted to show under cross-examination Friday that the complicated stock transactions were part of a scheme whereby Miller would gain control of the Balmoral Jockey Club and the Chicago Harness Racing Association. The basis for Connolly's contention is that 50 shares of stock in Chicago Thoroughbred Enterprises which Kerner and Isaacs bought for $50,000, was traded for 10,000 shares of Balmoral.

The latter block of stock eventually was controlled by Miller which gave him the majority interest In Balmoral during the summer of 1967, after he had resigned from the racing board months earlier. The government contends that the 10,000 shares of Balmoral stock bought from Kerner and Issaacs for $300,000 constituted a bribe. At several points during his s-examlnation, Connolly 1 told Judge Robert L. Taylor he was extorted by Miller in the ler's testimony. At -one point, Miller accused Marjorie Lindheimer Everett, who controlled CTE in the 1960s, of lying- in her- earliew testimony.

KAA1 Witness, Iter's attorney continue verbal sparring in SPECIAL Everyday HONEY ROLL and ALL THE COFFEE YOU CAN DRINK SPECIAL SUNDAY ONLY Chocolate, Vanilla, Lemon or Twist YOUR CHOICE 2 89c Phone 234-8122 25c 234-8601 Phone 1 300 Charleston MATTOON 1508 CHICAGO (AP) William S. Miller has kept up his verbal sparring with counsel for Otto Kerner as the defense attempts to show that Miller was the vil-lian in race-track stock deals during Kerner's administration as governor. Kerner, on leave from the 7th U.S.Circuit Court of Appeals, his longtime friend, Theodore J. Isaacs, are on trial in U.S. District Court, charged with trading favors to certain racing interests in exchange for bargain deals on stock.

Miller, now 72, appointed chairman of the Illinois Racing Board by Kerner, is the govern- Local deaths Mrs. Dora Wolter Mrs. Dora A. (Dode) Wolter, 1 81 1 of 405 Oklahoma died at 6:45 a.m. today at "Memorial Graveside rites will be held at 2 p.m.

Monday at Moravian Cemetary, West Salem. Friends may call at Schilling's Funeral Home from 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday. Mrs. Wolter was born March 29, 1891, in Illinois, a daughter of James and Frances Killough.

She is Survived by a daughter, Mrs. Mary Ferris of Mattoon: four sisters, Mrs. Mary Massey and Mrs. Jessie Whiteley, both of Mattoon, Mrs. Ollie Higgins of Springfield and Mrs.

Burdie Dukes of Dayton, Ohio; three grandchildren and one Planning to build this Spring? If so, this is an ideal time to discuss a construction loan with a Mattoon Federal home loan "specialist." He'll be most happy to fully explain our lending rates, terms, pay-out arrangement, etc. No appointmenfis necessary come in ANYTIMEI SI MATTOON FEDERAL? SAVINGS LOAN A SO I AT I ON i CHARLESTON AVE. AT 16Trf STREET 1 "The largest Association in Colts "An Equal Hou sing Render'..