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Page C2 Decatur, Illinois, Saturday, September 17, 1988 Religion State State (UPDATE nTen Dwe MB5 rr msf MIDLOTHIAN, 111. (AP) A psychologist has been called in to assist police trying to determine the killer of a 7-year-old girl whose body was found five days after she disappeared from the bedroom of her home. The investigation has been hampered by the mother and stepfather of slain 7-year-old Jaclyn Dowaliby, who have stopped cooperating in the police investigation, Midlothian police Capt. John Bittin said Friday. "Here we are trying to find the murderer of a 7-year-old girl, and the family refuses to cooperate," Bittin said.

But Chicago attorney Ralph Meczyk, who represents Cindy and David Dowaliby, said the family wants everything possible done to locate the person responsible for Jaclyn's death. "All we know is the family is in mourning," Meczyk said. "And they want the killer caught." The girl's badly decomposed body was found Wednesday a heavily wooded section of Blue Island, a few yards from an apartment complex and about five miles from her home in this south Chicago suburb, police said. The captain said investigators had narrowed the list of suspects, but declined to say whether any family members still are suspected. He said a psy chologist may provide the final clue needed for an arrest.

"The psychologist will come up with a profile based on the evidence he gets," Bittin said. "We don't know yet who he plans to talk to." Capt. Daniel McDevitt of the Illinois State Police said Friday that a child psychologist may seek an interview with David Dowaliby, the girl's 5-year-old half brother, to determine conditions of family life in the home. "We're still continuing the investigation and hope to make an arrest soon," Bittin said. Jaclyn had been the focus of an intensive five-day search after her parents told police she vanished in the middle of the night from the bedroom of her home.

The parents took lie-detector tests after reporting the girl missing, but investigators said the results were inconclusive. An autopsy conducted on the body Thursday by the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office revealed that the girl had been dead for several days and had been strangled by a clothesline. Because the body was so badly decomposed, investigators were unable to determine through the preliminary autopsy the exact time of death or whether the girl had been sexually assaulted. AP Laser Photo Activist Dorothy Eber may be jailed for entering missile sites. Grandmother faces (DDofhiDinip dispute seals citty fundis By The Associated Press Fire cause sought ELGIN Fire officials on Friday combed through the rubble of a fire that swept through a 16-unit apartment building, killing three children whose cries could be heard by neighbors unable to help.

"They are trying to determine what caused the fire," Captain Ken Henryson said, adding officials also were investigating reports that the frame building was not equipped with fire detectors. Cesar Ayala, Monti Ayala, and Amber Thorpe, 13 months, died in the blaze Thursday night Their mother, Melissa Thorpe, 21, and grandfather, Robert Thorpe, 61, were reported in serious but stable condition Friday. Life term imposed CHICAGO A retarded 18-year-old West Side youth has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for a fatal 1986 firebombing that killed four people. But Circuit Judge Richard Neville criticized the law that mandated the harsh penalty for Gerald Rice. "I hope the defense will appeal," Neville said.

He said the law did not allow him to impose "a more appropriate sentence," taking into consideration Rice's retardation. Rice was one of two suspects charged in July 1986 with firebombing a West Side home. The blaze killed Heddie Johnson, 32, her son, Dante, 11, and two other children. 1990 bid denied SPRINGFIELD A letter from State Treasurer Jerry Cosentino to Democratic Party county chairmen saying Attorney General Neil Harti-gan has entered the 1990 governor's race prematurely is silly, a spokeswoman for Har-tigan said Friday. The letter does not name Hartigan, but states "this same state official was handed the (party's) slating for governor on a silver platter," for the 1986 governor's race, and "became weak in the knees when at the 11th hour he backed out and handed the opportunity to Adlai Stevenson." Hartigan announced his withdrawal from that campaign in November 1985 and endorsed Stevenson.

prison for protests cover, Eber said she sat down and waited nearly two hours for the police to show up. For her trouble, she was given a "ban and bar letter," which forbade her to enter mis-" sile sites again. But she and some others went back three times during the next two weeks. Now, unless the charges are reduced, she faces a mandatory minimum sentence of six months in jail if she is convict- ed as she expects to be. The -maximum sentence is Zt years in prison.

Eber, whose husband died two years ago, said she began her activism in the wake of the civil rights movement, when -her youngest son started high school in 1967. She began tutor-. -ing inner-city children, and then. -started a program in which" high school students from the. suburbs came into the city to.

tutor. But she felt her efforts were not enough to change the system itself. Instructor held trainee under water PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) A Navy rescue-swimmer instructor denied during his court-martial Friday that he pushed a recruit into a swimming pool minutes before he drowned, but admitted holding the trainee's head under water. Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Combe, 28, of Tempe, took the witness stand in his own defense against charges of involuntary manslaughter, battery and conspiracy to commit battery in the March 2 death of Airman Recruit Lee Mirecki.

Classmates of the 19-year-old recruit from Appleton, testified earlier in the 2-week-old trial that Mirecki had climbed out of the pool in a panic and demanded to quit the voluntary training during a lifesaving drill at Pensacola Naval Air Station. Instructors then pried Mirecki away from an equipment rack he had grabbed and threw him back in the pool, the students have said. "I would never use that particular technique," Combe testified. He said he was in the water nearby while four other instructors pushed Mirecki into the pool. be 5:30 to 11:30 p.m.

Friday, noon to 11:30 p.m. Sept. 24 and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church. Activities will include an adult dance at 7:30 p.m.

Friday featuring the Greater Decatur Rhythm and Blues Band, a teen dance at 8 p.m. Friday with The GeiL Steak Night from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Saturday, a pancake and sausage breakfast from 8 to 11:45 ajn. Sunday and a performance by the Millikin University Faculty Brass Quintet from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Harvest Christian Harvest Christian Center will St. Clair County Circuit Court ruled in favor of the union on Aug. 14, 1986. The city appealed, but in July, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the ruling and ordered the city to pay. "Since then, efforts have been made to get compensated, but without success," Carey said.

Even before the accounts were frozen, this city of 55,000 was having financial problems. On Thursday, the city missed its $265,000 payroll for the third time this year, and Mayor Carl Officer said Wednesday he didn't know when employees would be paid. He said more of the city's 230 employees may lose their jobs. Earlier this year, about 75 employees were laid off. As a cost-cutting measure, the city's Aldermanic Council agreed Wednesday to take away three of Officer's four police bodyguards and replace them with volunteer members of the auxiliary police.

The city also owes $33,782 in payroll withholding taxes to the Internal Revenue Service. And a private contractor hired to pick up garbage at 12,000 residences in East St. Louis is threatening to stop because the city owes him $42,000. minster Presbyterian Church. The program consists of games and handicrafts.

Van Buren Church of God Revival services will be 7 p.m. Wednesday through Friday in Van Buren Church of God. Bill and Jeannie Milligan will speak. Hillcrest Church of God Revival services will begin at 7 p.m. Wednesday through Sept 24 and at 10:30 a.m.

Sept. 25 in Hill-crest Church of God. Our Lady of Lourdes The fall festival, featuring games, concessions and rides, will CHICAGO (AP) Dorothy Eber says she will miss her family if she has to go to prison for her protests at a nuclear missile site, but the 63-year-old Villa Park grandmother has no regrets about her activism. "For me it's going to be very lonely, to be separated from my family," said Eber, who has four children and 11 grandchildren. "But I feel I'm doing it for them." Eber is scheduled to go on trial Oct.

24 in Kansas City, Mo. on four counts each of criminal trespass and damage of less than $100 to property. The charges stem from her participation in the Missouri Peace Planting, in which she and 13 others entered 10 missile sites and planted flowers or trees. Eber attended her first protest at a missile site Aug. 15.

"It was the first time I saw a missile silo and it was devastating," she said Thursday. "To me it looked like a monster." After writing peace slogans with her own blood on the silo sponsor Hawaiian family night from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday in the former Bethel Education Academy gym in Harristown. Activities include games, volleyball, clowning, music and food. Cost: $1.

Come dressed in a Hawaiian outfit A prize will be given for best costume. Mound Road Christian Prayer revival services will be 7 p.m. Friday and Sept. 24 and 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.

Sept. 25 in Mound Road Christian Church. The Rev. Les White, senior minister at Northwest Christian Church, will speak. A nursery will be provided.

EAST ST. LOUIS, HI. (AP) For the second time in six months, the city's bank accounts have been frozen, this time by firefighters seeking money for a clothing allowance they haven't been paid in five years. A judge ordered the city's accounts in six banks frozen Thursday until firefighters are paid $82,397 for the overdue clothing allowance and interest. "We want the cash," said Jack Carey, attorney for International Association of Firefighters Local 23.

"I'm certain the city has the money to satisfy this judgment." The judge's action meant that no city checks can be cashed until East St. Louis settles its bill with the union. "It's a mess," said city Treasurer Charlotte Moore. She and other officials said they had no idea when city bills could be paid. When the dispute with the firefighters began, the city said it was not required to pay for the uniforms, and then later said it did not have enough money to pay for them.

Carey filed a suit on March 18, 1985 to force the city to pay clothing allowances budgeted two years earlier. Judge Robert L. Craig of Tree of Life Christian The third film in James Dob-son's series "Turn Your Heart Toward Home" will be shown at 6 p.m. Sunday in Tree of Life Christian Church. Benji Clark Mallory Author Benji Clark Mallory of Oxford, will speak about her abused childhood and faith in God at 7 p.m.

Sunday in Central United Methodist Church. She will also talk about self-image and family life at 7 p.m. Friday in Calvary Assembly of God. Temple 2 Church of the Living God PGT 2 will celebrate pastor Thomas Copper's 19th anniversary at 7:30 p.m. Sunday through Friday and at 3:30 p.m.

Sept. 25. Reach Prison Ministry Reach Prison Ministry, 1127 E. Cantrell will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday to welcome new members and anyone interested in working in the ministry.

B'nai Abraham The celebration of high holy days continues in Temple B'nai Abraham with Kol Nidre services at 8 p.m. Tuesday, followed by a day of Yom Kippur services Wednesday. Services will be at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., with a 4:30 p.m. Nei-lah (concluding) service.

Fasting will be broken after that service. There will also be a 2 p.m. children's service. Westminster Presbyterian A youth club for fourth-through sixth-graders will meet at 4:30 p.m. every Wednesday in West On Oct.

3, the Central Illinois Conference of United Methodist Women will meet from 9:30 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. at the Scottish Rite Temple in Bloomington. The keynote speaker will be Carolyn Johnson, director of the women's division of United Methodist Women. Registration and lunch is $6.

Tickets must be ordered by Sept. 26 by sending a check and a self-addressed, stamped envelope to Marjorie Butler, Pontiac District Treasurer, 1184 E. Eagle Kankakee, HI. 60901. COME WOESHHP WETIHI US Bradshaw Brothers Don The Bradshaw Brothers Don, a gospel quartet will sing at 7 p.m.

Sept. 24 in Long Creek Baptist Church. They will also perform on Sept. 25 at 10:30 a.m. in Emmanuel Southern Baptist Church, 2 p.m.

in Temple Baptist Church and 7 p.m. in First General Baptist Church. Send information to Church News, Herald Review, Box 311, Decatur, Bl. 62525. The deadline for items to be submitted is noon Wednesday before publication.

No phone calls, please. I MT. CALVARY LUTHERAN 2055 S. Franklin St. Rd.

428-0641 Sunday Worship 9 a.m. Sunday School 10:30 a.m. ST. John's Lutheran church Services 8:00 and 10:45 a.m. Sunday School 9:30 a.m.

2727 N. Union 875-3656 OUR LADY OF LOURDES Mass Sat. 4:30 p.m. Sun. 7:30.

10:00. 12:00 3850 Lourdes Drive HOLY FAMILY CHURCH Mass Sat. 5:30 p.m. Sun. 8 and 10 a.m.

2400 S. Franklin Wesley Methodist A yard sale will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 pan. today at Wesley United Methodist Church. Refreshments will be served.

St. John's Baptist St. John's Missionary Baptist Church will have a fish fry today beginning at 11 a.m. Cost: $3.50. At 3:30 p.m.

Sunday, men's and women's day will be observed. The Rev. Oliver Johnson and the congregation of the Greater Mount Olive Baptist Church will be guests. Bible Way Pentecostal Bible Way Pentecostal Church is completing a crusade at 7:30 p.m. today and 11:45 a.m.

Sunday. Elder James Farr of Danville will speak. Mount Zion Baptist Mrs. Marshall (Vern) Hughes of Greater Northside Baptist Church will speak at women's day at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church.

Fall revival services will be at 7 p.m. Monday through Friday. The Rev. L.L. Streater of Greater Faith Baptist Church, Louisville, will speak.

Mount Calvary Baptist Mount Calvary Baptist Church will celebrate the Rev. J.C. Rice's third anniversary at 3:30 p.m. Sunday. The Walls (Miss.) Chapel CME Church will be guest.

Revival services will be 7:30 p.m. Monday through Friday with the Rev. E.J. Jones of Chicago. EAST SIDE PENTECOST CHURCH Temporarily holding services at 2896 E.

Locust. Serv. Sun. 10 am. and 6 p.m.; Thurs.

7:30 p.m. 425-6200 OREANA BAPTIST CHURCH Cor. Bower St East Ave. S.S. 9:30 a.m..

Worship 10:45 a.m. Eve. 6:30 p.m.; Wed. 7:00 p.m. RIVERSIDE BAPTIST 1250 W.

Mound 875-7272 Sun. Schl 9:30 a.m.; Serv. 10:45 a.m. Eve. Weds.

Family Serv. 6:30 CHRISTMAS TREE ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH 3434 Christmas Tree Rd. 875-3970 Sunday School 9 a.m.. 10 a.m. TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH 2000 N.

Main 877-5653 Sun. Schl. Worship 10:45 a.m. Ch. Training 5:45, Worship 7 p.m.

CRESTVIEW CHRISTIAN Church School 9:30 a.m. Worship 10:30 am. 4415 N. Water FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST Sun. Serv 10:30 a.m.-Sun.

ScM 10:30 a.m. Wed Evening Meeting, 7:30 p.m. 510 W. WWiam 422-4503 DECATUR FOURSQUARE CHURCH "SPIRIT FILLED FELLOWSHIP" 321 East LeaHand Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship 10:45 a.m.

Evening Praise 6:00 p.m. CHURCH OF CHRIST SUNNYSIDE Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m., 6 p.m. Wednesday Service 7:00 p.m. 821 N.

Sunnyside (off Rt. 36) Decatur 423-6218 Methodist Women to meet UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP Comer of Mound and MacArthur Sunday Services 10:15 a.m. rag FIRST CHURCH 530 W. Mound, Decatur Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Morning Service 10:40 a.m.

Evening Service 6:00 p.m. Wed. Family Service 7:00 p.m. OAK GROVE NAZARENE 1890 W. Garfield Ave.

Services: Sun. 9:30 a.m., 7:00 p.m.; Wed. Bible Study 7:00 p.m. TRINITY NAZARENE 1645 S. 44th St.

Sun. Schl. 9:30: Sun. Worship Eve. Worship 6 p.m.; Wed.

Service 7:00 p.m. MOUNDFORO FREE METHODIST 1803 E. Mound Rd. Ph. 877-1577 Sun.

Worship 8:30, 10:30, 6 p.m. Sun. School 9:40 a.m. Midweek Service Wed. 7 p.m.

FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH 250 W. Decatur St 423-7783 Worship: 8:00, 9: VS. 10:30 a.m. Sun. School, all ages: 9:15 a.m.

Holy Communion at 9:15 am. The Decatur District of United Methodist Women will have its fall meeting Friday in Grace United Methodist Church, 901 N. Main St Activities will begin with registration at 9 a.m. with a business meeting starting at 9:30 a.m. Participants will include District Superintendent Clyde Snyder and Singapore missionary Judy Williamson.

Child care will be provided. Lunch tickets are $3.50 and may be ordered by sending a check payable to Grace United Methodist Church or calling 429-5374 by Wednesday. SHARON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Wycktes Rd. W. Center Worship, Sun.

10:45 SOUTH SHORES UMC 125 So. Shores Dr. 9:30 a m. Worship: 10:40 a.m. S.S.

To list your church 429-4353 call TEMPLE BAPTIST CHURCH 1818 E. Mound Rd. 877-7030 Sun. School 9:30, Worship 10:30 Sun. Eve.

7:00: Wed. Eve. 70 I.