Journal Gazette from Mattoon, Illinois • Page 3

Monday, Augusta, Mattoon (IL) Journal Gazette-I mi lis mjp A rin)(g OH pileups in the 21-year history of the United States Auto Club's stock car circuit. cpRiNririFT in nrpn ThPinh nS SUte Fair' manager EM tSSbS2Sa gX-Hnterim Stone, (ormer fiscal officer for the fair under fair Manager Paul King, became manager when: King left, last delayed, wreck-marred stock car race. The final touch to the 11-day fair Sunday night was a a concert SeptemberThompson appointed Stone. manager March 3. His term expires In King's tenure was marked by hot con- oversy over fair finances At one point, the State Fair Agency spent nearly twice its budget, including thousands of dollars on questionable manure-hauling con- tracts, Other fair managers have come to grief over patronage and financial problems.

1 The fair, begun in a rain-soaked parade, closed out its 118th edition with a "Labor Day' celebration featuring a bill signing by Gov. James R. Thompson and a rain- dem EnceDhal likely, says health by the Naval Academy Band. Thompson, appearing at a fairgrounds' abor luncheon, signed two minor pieces of legislation. One of the bills "(H53), sponsored by state Rep.

William Walsh, R-LaGrange Park, repeals the law which makes it illegal for women to work more than eight hours in a day. The law applied only to employers who had less than 15 workers. The second bill (H1407), sponsored by Rep. Thomas Hanahan, D-McHenry, adds labor unions as a required topic for consumer education courses in grades eight through 12. The stock car race had one of the biggest itis epi and 1976 was the first year of our early-warning surveillance system." Those three factors also exist this year.

Mosquitos pick up the virus as they feed on birds during the spring and early summer, he said. In late summer, the mosquitos start feeding on humans and, in doing so, transmit the virus. Clark's small department usually totaling five or six scientists tests birds in the spring and early summer looking for antibodies which are produced as a result of a viral infection. "We found evidence that viral transmission was going on in the southern part of the state in May and in Cook County in June," he said. "However, a low percentage of birds.has been infected by the virus." Clark also makes weekly contact with hospitals around the state to get blood samples of patients with fevers of unknown origin.

The two encephalitis cases reported so far are unusual in that both are children. A path of total destruction was carved by killer tornadoes that swept the Lake Mattoon area Sunday. In the top photo sheets of metal are wrapped like paper around tree limbs. The bottom photo shows the twisted wreckage of the foundation of one of many mobile homes that were destroyed. (JG photos) Voyager launch rough, but okay 1 Viv (urn 'm) Ramo Stdtt of Keokuk, Iowa, picked his -way through the debris of the 10-car wreck and later drove to victory.

Stott also won last year's fairgrounds race. The" pileup occurred during the 44th lap of the race when Bob Dotter spun out on turn three. Dotter was the only driver involved in the wreck who got back into the race. Three other drivers were treated and released from a Springfield hospital. The race was delayed for 90 minutes by rain and several laps were run under the yellow flag when more rain hit during the afternoon.

Only 10 of the 27 starters finished the $22,500 race and only four finished on the same lap as Stott. ic not official The disease usually strikes people 45 and older, he said. The disorder is called St. Louis encephalitis because of a 1933 outbreak of about 1,300 cases which was primarily centered in the St. Louis area.

There also were cases in" central and Southern Illinois. He said the St. Louis strain actually might have appeared first a year earlier in Paris, 111., where some persons fell ill with a similar disease. The hot and dry weather this summer helped keep the mosquito population dqwn, according to Dr. Khian Liefn of the South Cook County Mosquito Abatement District.

"We have had a lot of rain recently," said Liem, a medical entomologist, "and that caused some breeding. But all in all, things are in very good shape." Liem joined Clark in urging Illinois residents to be on guard against pools of standing water. "The faulty computer memory is being checked," Wood said. "The science instruments that are on are all working normally. But there is practically no data" because the channels are being 'used fdri engineering to analyse the problems." Test photographs of the earth and moon were delayed and may not be performed at all because by the time it could be done, the craft would be too far away.

Voyager 2 and its sister vehicles are aimed at the outer planets of Saturn and Jupiter, largest in the solar system, seeking information of outer space. But Voyager 2 also has some information to. give, if an alien finds it. Inside the craft is a gold-plated; phonograph record designed to last billion years featuring 110 minutes of; the sounds of hundreds of animals, the; cries of a newborn baby and greetings in 55 earth languages. It also contains data that could be used; to reproduce 315 photographs of earth; people and messages from Present Carter; and United Nations Secretary Kurt; Waldheim.

Voyager 2 was actually the first to be' sent up. Voyager 1 is to be launched Sept. 1 on a faster trajectory and should encounter Jupiter early in 1979, four months ahead of Voyager 2. vm. This puppy may well owe his life to a i microwave oven.

He was found in the closed oven shortly after tornadoes struck 2 the Lake Mattoon area Sunday. Holding i him Is Kathl Sewell, who found him, JG '5 photo) writ's flneers over the vears. mav be un in the air again. Manaser Nick Stone -a veteran of the fair staff who Just finished his first fa mm 1 LI. top man said Sunday he is consid taking a job with the state Department Conservation as the head of a federally funded youth corp conservation program.

Stone, who was at first reluctant to talk about the position, said later, "I have been offered a job with the Department of Conservation to be statewide coordinator of the Youth Conservation Corps program." Stone said he had discussions with the Department of Conservation in June but talk of a possible switch in jobs had been put "in the deep freeze" until after this year's fair, which ended Sunday. Stone said he expects to decide whether to take the DOC job by January. Stone, who is paid $23,000 a year as fair manager, said the salray of the DOC position is "negotiable" but said it would pay over $30,000 annually. He said the position would involve running about ISO camps across the state for youths IS and older. The 24-hour-a-day camps, he said, would restore conservation areas.

He would not elaborate. Stone also said he was interested in the challenge of a new job involving administration, but added, "There is still a challenge as head of the state fair." Stone originally said he planned to stay in the fair manager's post as long as the governor wanted him there. But Gov. James R. Thompson then confirmed that Stone had been offered the job by the Deartment of Conservation.

Thompson said be planned to try to talk the legislature into hiking Stone's salary to a figure over $30,000 in the spring session. Thompson has set up a committee to study possible pay hikes for agency heads in the executive branch. Thompson said he asked Stone to "hold off" on a job decision until he and the governor rdiscussed' it. Thompson said he was "not going to stand in the way" of Stone's possible move. He said Stone had done a fine job in his 11 months as fair manager.

In a weekend interview, Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan re-stated that policy when he said he did not believe "the government will stop the establishment of settlements" on Arab lands. "The question is where and how" they will be established, he told the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper. Dayan also said the United States sees some positive aspects in his proposal that Israel relinquish Civilian but not military control of the West Bank, but a Begin spokesman later said Israeli may consider some military withdrawals. "We don't want to give up any of the territory and we hope we won't find it necessary to do so," said Shmuet Katz, Begin's information adviser. He said he 'Mrs.

Carrie Schlobohm of Sheibyville, Mrs. Grace Turner of Bethany and Mrs. W.T. (Elsie) Davis of Burlington, N.C. Dr.

Lumpp was a member of the First United Methodist -Church of Mattoon; Mattoon Masonic Lodge- 260; Mattoon Rotary Club, of which he was past president and a Paul Harris sustaining member of Rotary International; the American Dental Association for more than 50 years; the Illinois Dental Association; and the Eastern Illinois Denta) Association, of which he was past president. He graduated from Indiana Dental School, Indianapolis, in 1922, and the Kansas City School of Orthodontia, Kansas City, Mo. He was a captain in the Army Reserve Dental Corpr Dr. Lumpp had been a practicing dentist In Mattoon since 1924 following one year of practice In Pana. i PASADENA, Calif.

(UPI) The Voyager 2 spacecraft appeared to be functioning well today after a shaky launch and two of the three problems that nearly ruined the flight towards Jupiter have diminished, scientists said Sunday. "Two of the three problems which came dp during the launch have diminished somewhat," said Alan-Wood of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The space probe was launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida Saturday morning, but its control was taken over by JPL here after it separated from the launch rocket. "There may have been a rough launch, but it's a very accurate one," Wood sa.id. "It's on an excellent trajectory and ve have to do only a minimum maneuver ne week or so to bring it close i point of Jupiter.

One of the major problems was the apparent failure of a boom to deploy fully. The boom holds the television cameras and science instruments. But JPL said it apparently did deploy, at least partially. "Engineers now believe it is within a very few degrees of full deployment, if not fully deployed," Wood said. A faulty computer- memory and the malfunction of one of three gyroscopes also caused some worry.

i "in' Devastation 1 J. Israel TEL AVIV, Israel (UPI) Israel, in-officially rejecting U.S. criticism of its plans for new Jewish settlements on captured Arab lands, says the settlements "will not be an obstacle to negotiations toward "Israel does not accept and cannot accept the argument that Jewish settlement in the land of Israel is illegal," a cabinet statement drafted by Prime Minister Menahem Begin said Sunday. "The government expresses its sorrow at the unjustified (U.S.) statements," it said, but added: "The government restates that settlement is not and will not be an obstacle to negotiations toward peace." The United States, several Arab leaders, ii tTMStAisar "-v js CHICAGO (UPI) Gary Qark recently spent 10 days poking around storm culvers, stagnant, polluted streams, standing water under bridges and all types of still water pools In central and Southern -Illinois. His prey mosquitos.

Clark is the coordinator of a mosquito surveillance project established by the the Illinois Department of Public health following the 1975 outbreak of St. Louis encephalitis, a central nervous system disorder that afflicted 578 persons, causing 47 deaths. The news this year is generally good. "We don't expect to see a real large number of cases this year," he said. "In general, we're not finding large numbers of Culex pipiens mosquitos, the type that carry the encephalitis virus," Clartt said.

"But there are a few isolated areas in the southern part of the state were we are finding a lot." So far, only two cases of encephalitis have been reported, one in Jackson County and the other in LaSaUe County. However, there is evidence of the virus in Illinois, so Clark and other public health officials are urging everyone to take two kinds of preventative measures: See that no pools of water are left standing to serve as breeding areas for mosquitos and use an insect repellent in an areas where there are likely to be mosquitos. "Our posture has been to continue to encourage preventive, precautionary measures without overly alarming the general public," he said. The number of encephalitis cases fell to 19 in 1976, a drop of 97. per cent from the reason for.

the drop is not fully understood," said Clark, an expert in arbovirology, the study of viruses carried primarily by insects (the project he heads is called the Arbovirus Surveillance Program). "I think the primary reason was that virus was not present in the bird and mosquito population," he said. "Also the mosquito population was relatively low News of tornado traveled fast, far MATTOON News of the killer tornado that struck Lake Mattoon shortly afternoon Sunday traveled far and fast. At 4 a.m. today Mr.

and Mrs. Harold Gill got a telephone call from their son-in-law and daughter, Jim and Sally Stewart, from Mannheim, Germany, checking to see If the Gills were okay. The Stewarts had beard a radio broadcast that the Mattoon area was struck by tornadoes. was expressing Begin's own thinking. But he added that if Israel "should find that in formulating a peace treaty that it is desirable to give up any territory, we shall naturally consider doing so." In a related development, a group of relatively unknown Arab figures from the West Bank said it will try to oust Yasser Arafat as head of the Palestine Liberation Organization because the PLO's use of violence has damaged their cause.

But the mayors of West Bank towns have repeatedly endorsed the PLO as the sole legitimate representative of Palestinians. In Lebanon, Arab peace-keeping troops have occupied a central hill town and made house-to-house searches to stop one of the worst sectarian clashes since the end of Lebanon's 19-month civil war. Christian rightists and leftist Druze Moslem followers of the late Kamal Jumblatt fought Sunday in Brieh, 30 miles from Beirut. The Arab force said the clash left at least 15 persons dead or wounded "on both sides." A spokesman for the predominantly Syrian peace-keeping troops said they "intervened" to stop the fighting and will "strike hard at all those who try to hinder the march" toward peace inLebanon. The Arab soldiers launched a house-to-house weapons search in a bid to root out unidentified "Instigators" of the third most serious outbreak of fighting since the civil war.

Each side blamed the other for the fighting. The rightists said Jumblatt's followers triggered the fighting when they opened fire on a group of Christians "mostly women and old people" who emerged from a Requiem Mass to Investigate a sudden power cut. Jumblatt's party said extreme rightist "infiltrators" had sparked the incident by using the traditional shooting into the air. inn il1 defends settlements "7-VV lk Long-time local dentist dies Palestinian guerrillas, the European Common Market and even some Israelis have warned that the new settlements on Jordan's West Bank and Egypt's Gaza strip will disrupt Arab-Israeli peace talks. The cabinet also came under fire for voting last week to extend government services to Arabs in those territories, captured in the 1967 War, in a move opponents said was aimed at the full annexation of the lands.

Begin, whose hawkish Likud bloc government has been In office only three months, has steadfastly claimed the two territories are historical parts of Israel. Israel has 79 settlements with a total population of some 5,000 on the West Bank, Syria's Golan Heights and the Gaza Strip. MATTOON Dr. Herman Christian Lumpp, a practicing Mattoon dentist since 1924, died at 5 a.m. Sunday (Aug.

21, 1977) in Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center. Funeral services for Dr. Lumpp will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the First United Methodist Church, with burial In Dodge Grove Cemetery. Dr.

Floy Ekin will officiate. Friends may call at Mitchell-Jerdan Funeral Home from 7 to 8:30 p.m. today. The family suggests that memorials be made to the First United Methodist Church. Dr.

Lumffp of 3709 Western was born In Shelbyvilte, the son of Andrew and Viola Lumpp. He married Dorothy Mae Morgan 'in Nashua, Iowa, In 1930. She survives. He is also survived by two sons, Robert M. of Monticello and Dr.

James A. of Des Moines, Iowa: three brothers, Mark of Sheibyville, George of Flndlay and Henry of St. Petersburg, Fla.j and three sisters, Saved by oven Dr. Herman Lumpp.