Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 13

13' DfiCATUR HER ALO Decatur, IUinoif, Monday, September 23, 1974 -5'-; Air Show Features Stunts and Marvels fil 1 By Dave Petrina Mattoon Smoking, twisting stunt planes with gravity-defying pilots and a nerveless young, wing-riding mother were just part of the Coles County Air Show Sunday at Coles County Airport. A crowd estimated in the thousands lined the airport fence and the side of Illinois 16 to watch the events, which included a stunt-flying performance by national champion Giles Henderson, 3.1, of Charleston, a chemical-physics professor at Eastern Illinois University (EIU). Henderson has won several national aerobatic cham pionships in the sportsman class and was Canadian National champion this year. He flew a 1946 model J-3 Piper Cub equipped with a 90 horsepower Continental engine for the performance. The plane has 10 feet of the wines cut off leaving a wingspan of 25 feet.

Henderson piloted his craft to a speed of about 70 miles an hour, dangling a rope ladder which Wally Parks, 22, of Lowell, riding on a speeding pickup truck below, grasped and used to climb aboard the aircraft. It was the third time Parks had performed the stunt. He is a pharmacy major at Butler University in Indianapolis, Ind. The pickup stunt was aborted IHHMBLHHHH iiiiiitiiiiEHiiipiiiiiiiiini si friends may call 6 to 9 Monday. Burial will be in p.m.

East Lawn Cemetery, Salem. Mr. Vursell was born in Salem, a son of Henry and Nancy Yough Vursell. Sheriff of Marion County from 1910 to 1914, he served one term in the Illinois House of Representatives. In 1917, Mr.

Vursell founded the Salem Republican news paper, which he controlled for 30 years. The paper is now known as the Salem Times Com moner. He was successful in his first bid for U.S. Representative in the 23rd Congressional District in 1942. At that time, he operated Salem's largest hardware store.

Mr. Vursell then served eight consecutive terms in Congress. He was beaten in 1958 in his bid for a ninth term by Democrat George E. Shipley. He married Bessie Brasel.

He leaves his wife; son, Harold of New York. A son, Eugene, preceded him in death. wmmmmmmmmmmm the first time down the runway when wind gusts blew the rope; ladder out of Park's reach, Henderson said. -The husband-wife flying team-of Walt and Sandi Pierce oft Avon Park, pleased the; crowd with their professional-aerobatic act. Sandi was a "passenger strapped standing up on the top-wing of the Stearman biplane piloted by her husband.

The most dangerous part ot the act is taking off with her upright on the wing, she said, although she is exposed to- speeds reaching 160 miles an hour during the loops and rolls. Herbert Cox of Mount Vernon, a superintendent for Illinois Power gave a comedy act which started out with the "theft" of an aircraft and his supposed awkward attempts to keep it airborne including a "flat turn." Earl Adkisson of Atwood demonstrated slow-speed flying techniques in his replica of a 1908 Demoiselle, a true open-air aircraft. His only protection from the rushing wind is a clear-plastic funnel-shaped visor in front of his face. Among the winners in the aircraft building contest were Wallace Holsapple of rural Salem whose Taylorcraft won the best restored distinction anrt-Robert Young of Oakland, who' won second place in the T-13. homebuilts.

Jack Constant Former Congressman Charles Yursell Dies j. 1, lt A mumi 'hr' tit' wn''' Unidentifed Man Found Shot to Death Fairfield The body of man, shot three times in the head and with his hands tied behind his back, remained unidentified Sunday night in Wayne County. The body was spotted by a passing motorist at 1:10 p.m. Sunday, alongside a little-used road, 1 miles northeast of the Sims Crossroads, five or six miles west of Fairfield, according to Wayne County Coroner Bob Johnson. According to Johnson, authorities are fairly sure the man is not from the immediate area.

Johnson described him as five feet, six inches, 130 pounds, red-haired, although balding, with porkchop sideburns. The man had apparently sustained no other injuries and bore no identification. Johnson said he probably died sometime during the night. Chicken Feed Isn't Cheap Any More Centralia (AP) Next time you're about to compare something inexpensive with chicken feed, bite your tongue. Poultry feed prices have come home to roost, and the men who gather eggs for your refrigerator are squawking about it.

A grower with a flock of laying hens pays $9.50 for a hundred-pound sack of feed which cost about half that two years ago. While that may not sound like much, consider that chicken farms with 15,000 to 30,000 hens are common, and one Centralia rancher is feeding 55,000 chickens daily. In a single square mile near Bartelso, more than one million chickens work to produce your. breakfast every day. It takes about 4.5 pounds of feed comprised of corn, soybean, wheat and alfalfa meal fortified with vitamins to produce a dozen eggs.

A hen will produce about 20 dozen eggs over her 15 most productive months. At the same time she will consume nearly 100 pounds of feed. Feed bills hens come close to $135,000 -Iter 15 months and 55,000 chickens will gobble up about $475,000. The $9.00 or so that the farmer spent on feed for a single hen is more than he paid for her in the first place. By late summer a pullet sold for about $2.25.

Eighteen months ago they were about $1.75. Hatcheries blame the increase on the price of feed. Feed producers say the problem is rising grain prices. Ralston Purina, headquartered in St. Louis, sells more feed than any other company in the United States.

Roger Hurst, a spokesman, says, "The big thing this year is the increased price of corn. Corn now costs more than the protein ingredients soybeans and so forth." "The price has just about doubled in two years," Hurst said. "Two years ago a ton of laying rations was $87. This year it's $168 wholesale. That's an industrywide, average figure." If you've got a hen that turns out lots of top grade eggs, you're in trouble.

A dozen large eggs, for example, sold in Southern Illinois markets this September at about 52 cents. That's a $10.40 return on an investment of $11.25 and you haven't paid the help yet or repaired the coops. Medium eggs? Forty-five cents. The larger operators can buy feed a little cheaper in bulk. A ton might cost them $160 compared with the $190 a smaller producer would pay.

And urban markets, such as New York where a dozen large eggs sold for 62 cents the first week of September, are more lucrative. Ralph Richardson of Centralia, who runs that 55,000 chicken ranch with his brother, says, "The poultry business has been very poor." Max Green, owner of a Carlyle hatchery, is hardly more positive: "It's pretty close right now. Feed prices are too high." SCHOOL BOARD TO MEET The Illinois Board of Education will meet at 9:30 a.m. Thursday at the Bismarck Hotel in Chicago. Heads up as pilots try just about everything but flying upright.

Ttfiitr.P'WH. Ill SKY-CLlMBING stunt man Wally Parks of Lowell, waves Sunday after successfully transferring from a speeding truck to a rope ladder dangling under an airplane piloted by Giles Henderson of Charleston. Truck and airplane were both moving down the Coles County Airport runway at about 70 miles an hour. Amateur photographer John Ford of Alma, took this photograph from the back of the pickup truck. Ford is a member of the Salem Aerobatics Team ground crew, Youth Still In Hospital After Wreck Champaign A Montrose youth injured Saturday night in an automobile accident near Charleston remained hospitalized Sunday in Champaign.

Melvin Pitcher, 15, was in the intensive care unit Sunday night at Carle Clinic in Champaign, where officials said a condition report had not yet been made. Pitcher was a passenger in a car that was struck by a pickup truck at the intersection of Illinois 16 and Harrison Street Road, one mile east of Charleston. Guardsmen To Receive Back Pay Springfield Members of the Illinois National Guard will soon receive back pay for duty performed between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31, 1972.

The retroactive pay is the result of a delay to Jan. 1, 1973, of a pay raise scheduled to become effective Oct. 1, 1972. The delay was later found to be in error. Former guardsmen must apply to their previous unit in order to receive the backpay.

Claim forms are available at all National Guard armories. Teachers To End Strike Chicago (AP) Tentative agreement between the Chicago Board of Education and the Chicago Teachers Union was announced Sunday. And teachers in suburban High School District 88 voted to end their three-day strike affecting 6,000 students in five western suburbs. No details of the Chicago settlement were announced. The suburban high school settlement included a 6.4 per cent salary increase for beginning teachers and an 8.4 per cent hike for all other teachers.

Base salary for beginning teachers will be $9,700. Indian Bible Now Part of of I Library Urbana A copy of the first Bible printed in the New World is the 5 millionth volume added to the collections of the University of Illinois Library at Urbana. "The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the Translated into the Indian Language," is one of only 30 copies of the original edition of 1,500 printed in 1663 known to exist today. The Bible was translated into the Algonquin dialect, the language of the Narragansett Indians of eastern Massachusetts. The first verse, first chapter of Genesis "In the beginning, God created heaven and earth" reads "Weike kutchissik a-ayum God kesuk kah Ohke." The translation was made by Rev.

John Eliot, who came to the New World in 1631 and was one of the three compilers of the first book published in the American colonies, the Bay Psalm Book of 1640. Eliot set out to Christianize the Indians and by 1647 had learned to speak their language. He established a church of praying Indians" that became a virtually seit-governing com munity. In order to print the Bible, Eliot had to send back to England for a press, type and other printing materials, as well as a master printer. The printer's apprentice, however, was a native American, an In dian who took the name James Printer.

Man Held In Shooting Clinton An 18-year-old Clinton man remained in the DeWitt County Jail Sunday night in connection with the fatal shooting Friday night of Robert Villado, 17, of Wil'cox, Ariz. No charges had been filed against him Sunday, authorities said. DeWitt County Coroner Charles Hollibaugh said Sunday there was some evidence the shooting may have been accidental. Villado was dead on arrival at 7:05 p.m. Friday at John Warner Hospital in Clinton.

Hollibaugh said the victim had been shot in the chest with a .22 caliber gun. Villado was in Clinton looking for a job and was shot in the apartment where he had been staying. Salem Charles W. Vursell, former U.S. Congressman and state legislator from Salem, died Saturday evening in Doctor's Nursing Home in Salem.

He was 93. Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Tuesday in Bowman Funeral Home, Salem, where Clabaugh Dinner Set Springfield Key Illinois politicians and public servants have formed a bipartisan steering committee to organize a testimonial dinner Nov. 21 to honor state Rep. Charles W.

Clabaugh (R-Cham-paign). Clabaugh is retiring after 36 years in the legislature. W. Robert Blair, Speaker of the Illinois House, and William C. Harris, President of the Senate, are honorary co-chairmen of the event.

Chair men of the committee are Rep. Gene L. Hoffman (R-EImhurst) and Rep. Eugene Schlickman (R-Arlington Heights). Gordon Hansen, executive assistant to the state Comptroller, is treasurer.

The dinner is scheduled for 8 p.m. Nov. 21 in the St. Nicholas Hotel in Springfield. A reception will proceed the dinner at 6:30 p.m.

Tickets are $12.50 each and may be obtained by writing Post Office Box 965, Springfield 62705. Retired Teachers To Meet Lincoln The DeWitt-Logan unit of the Illinois Retired Teachers will host the annual meeting of the association's Area III Division Oct. 8. Retired teachers and educators from 23 East Central counties are invited to the meeting which will be held in the United Methodist Church, Lincoln. Registration will be from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m.

Luncheon tickets and registration fee ($5) must be reserved by Oct. 1 through Daisy Larson, 220 Ninth Lincoln, 62656. On the program are Dr. Michael F. Stramaglia of Springfield, associate superintendent of Illinois Division of Pupil and Professional Services, and James F.

Conover of Indiana's Retired Teachers Association, consultant to the Indiana Commission on Neighbors HELPING PEOPLE Jack Constant, a licensed Fuueral Director and Embalmer since 1946, is starting Ii is seventh year witli Dawson Wikot'f. Jack is a graduate of Blackburn College and the Worsham Mortuary School. He and his wife, Doris, live in Buffalo while Amtrak To Offer Hot Food Springfield A new hot food service, in cluding a blueberry pancake breakfast on morning trains, will be offered on all state- subsidized Amtrak passenger trains in Illinois, The new service is being offered in response to passenger opinion, an Interstate Commerce Commission ruling and an Illinois transportation department request. Amtrak has installed new electric holding ovens or microwave ovens for food preparation on six state subsidized passenger routes from Chicago to Springfield, Quincy, Dubuque, Champaign, Rock Island and Peoria. Student Record Confidentiality Meeting Topic Macomb The confidentiality of student records will be discussed in an Oct.

4 workshop by students, administrators, juvenile officers, social workers, psychologists, counselors, medical personnel and parents. The Western Illinois University departments of psychology and continuing education will conduct the workshop in Macomb from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Oct. 4.

Among the topics to be discussed will be how the line is drawn between the pro fessionals' "need to know" and the child's right to privacy. Leading the discussion will be Leo Athas, general counsel and legal advisor to the Illinois Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. To register for the all-day workshop, contact June Tenckhoff, director of non-credit conferences and workshops, Confidential Workshop, Western Illinois University, Macomb, 61455. his daughter is a medical technician in Tucson, Arizona. They attend the Christian Church in Buffalo and Jack is.

a member of the Masonic Lodge of Dawson, the Ansar Shrine and Consistory of Springfield, and the Shrine Club of Decatur. He lias been a member of the Shrine Band for 25 years. He served 3 years in the Coast Guard in World War 11 and is a member of the American Legion. Jack's dedication to his work as a Funeral Director is reflected in the quiet and assuring manner he serves those in (heir time of need. DAWSON WIKOFF Funeral Directors Decatur Mt.

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