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Program announced ed for Coles County Fair Con-Con vote Appointing judges favored SPRINGFIELD. Ill. (AP) In a first round test, advocates of appointment of supreme and appellate court judges won a 62 to 43 victory in the Illinois Constitutional Convention over advocates of electing judges. After weeklong parliamentary duelling and preparation of reports representing the appointment vs. election points of view.

the convention reached the end of a first test after the dinner hour Friday. Advocates of appointment won out by similar votes on two succeeding debates on related questions before the convention adjourned until Saturday. Although the votes were onesided, there were hints by delegates on both sides in conversations off the floor that the apment vs. election controversy in the judicial arena still was subject to negotiation. Sunday, Aug.

2 Daily programs for the 116th Coles County Fair were revealedu-today. They include the International Daredevil and Auto Thrill- Show, horse racing, Leroy VanDyke and the Auctioneers, comedian Wally Blake, dune buggy soccer derby and the Miss Coles County Fair Queen pageant. Day by day schedules are: bon cutting ceremony opening Sunday, Aug. 2 noon, ribthe fair; 8 p.m., International Daredevil and Auto Thrill Show. Monday, Aug.

3 9 a.m., judging starts 1 in 4-H swine and sheep; 2 p.m., harness racing, quarter horse. racing and thoroughbred racing; 8 p.m., pony show. Tuesday, Aug. 4 9 a.m., judging continues in Junior Livestock Show; Noon, Kids' Day starts with special carnival rates; 2 p.m., Illinois Topline Harness racing: 8 p.m., Leroy VanDyke and the Auctioneers and comedian Wally Blake. Wednesday, Aug.

5 9 a.m., Junior Livestock Show judging; 2 p.m., Illinois Topline Harness racing; 8.p.m., 1970 Miss Coles Fair Queen Pageant with the 1969 County Fair Queen and current Miss Illinois County Fair, Miss Vickie Pygott. Thursday, Aug. 6 9 a.m., Junior Livestock Show and 4-H Dairy entires judging; 2. p.m.. harness racing: 6:30 p.m., 4-H Livestock auction; 8 p.m., dune During debate leading to the first vote, Chicago Democrats took the lead in espousing election of the higher echelon judges and said they could not recommend passage in their districts The Chicago delegates, including black members, argued pointive system would not represent minorities.

Delegate John Knuppel of Petersburg said the convention was on "a mission of destruction" if it did not work a compromise he thought voters might accept. He said six counties in his downstate district rejected the 1964 judicial changes. Vice President Thomas Lyons of Chicago, leader of the Cook County Democratic cintingent, called the vote "an expression of a lack of confidence in the electorate of this state." "If supporters of the majority appointment proposal think Citizens group condemns Nazi leader's appearance CAIRO, Ill. (AP) Directors for United Citizens for Community Action, a white citizens group, Friday condemned the scheduled appearance of Amer-: ican Nazi party leader Frank Collin. Collin and members of the American National Socialists White Peoples party, plan to be in Cairo July 19 for a speaking engagement and other activities.

In a statement issued Friday, the UCCA directors urged the membership to "lend no encouragement to and avoid any appearance of support of his rally by total lack of attendance." The statement, signed by Bob Cunningham, pointed out that to police last July when and his followers were in Cairo distributing anti-Negro literature. The Nazi party members were picked up by police and questioned. "There is entirely too much outside influence by the Black Panthers and other anarchist black revolutionary groups in the Cairo black community. We reject out of hand any attempt by radical white groups to fan the fires of hate and racial polarization. "If the leaders of the Cairo United Front would do likewise the problems of Cairo could be solved in Cairo by honest citizens working for a better community," the statement said.

The United Front has invited several national black leaders to participate in a parade and rally Saturday. It is an effort to bolster a 15-month-old economic boycott of white-owned businesses aimed at winning black demands. Oldtime fiddler's contest to be held at Shelbyville SHELBYVILLE. Ill. The Sixth State of Illinois Oldtime Fiddler's Contest will be held at the Chautauqua Auditorium in Forest Park, Shelbyville, on Sat.

urday, July 25 at 7 p.m. Contestants should be back stage to register and draw for place by 5:45 p.m. The contest is being sponsored by the Illinois Oldtime Fiddlers Association with five trophies in each of three contests. Those over 70, women and state. There will be a plaque for the eldest, youngest and contestant from the greatest distance and $175 in prize money.

Any danceable folk tunes played in oldtime fiddle fashion are acceptable. Contestants will first play a hoedown, then a waltz. Any oldtime: fiddler in the state is welcome to enter. An entry fee of $2 should be sent to the secretary and treasurer of the Fiddlers Association. Doloris Ringo, 211 W.

S. 4th, Shelbyville, Illinois 62565, by July 15. Please send name and age if over seventy or if in teens or less, and which contest you wish to enter. The monthly meetings of "The Illinois Oldtime Fiddlers Asso- Board to meet The Community Unit 2 Board of Education is scheduled to act on several personnel matters, including resignations and ap-' pointments, when it meets at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in its offices at Mattoon High School.

buggy soccer derby. Friday, Aug. 7 9 a.m., 4-H tractor driving contest; 2 p.m., harness racing; 7:30 p.m., county owned tractor pull. Saturday, Aug. 8 9 a.m., 4-H horse show; 2 p.m., halter class judging in Western Horse Show; 2 p.m., Open to the world tractor pull; 7:30 p.m., Western Horse Show.

The fair will also provide exhibits in culinary, textiles arts, horticulture, livestock, Lincoln-Douglas Debate Museum, education and natural history, floriculture, agricultural products and farm machinery. The annual Cumberland County Fair in Greenup will begin at 8 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 23, with voters are too ignorant to govern themselves, I wish they would have the grace to say: so. Judges will be picked by the well born, the well fixed, the well connected," Lyons The governor would make apappointments from nominees chosen by lawyers elected by lawyers and by laymen selected by of any system for appointing any judges.

the governor and other public officers. Proponents of the appointive system have contended the present system of political convention nomination of justices is a closed system which does not give opportunities to the most meritorious potential judges. Delegate James Parker of Effingham later said in voting for the appointment system, "I'm not saying I don't have faith in people. I vote no (on election) at this stage primarily because I know defects in the present system of electing Supreme and appellate court judges. I'm in favor of electing circuit judges.

I believe we will make corrections at second reading." James Thompson of Galesburg, who voted with Parker, said he believed the convention eventually would allow people to choose on separate ballots between election and appointment i in each of the three levels of supreme, appellate and circuit judges. Area deaths ALS. B. Hill CHARLESTON, Ill. S.

B. "Bert" Hill, 89, of Hamilton, Ohio, formerly of Coles County, died Thursday morning in Mercy Hospital in Hamilton. Graveside services will be held at 1 p.m. Monday in lawn Cemetery, Charleston, with Rev. Boyd Phillips officiating.

Mr. Hill born July 26, 1880, near Lerna, the son of N. B. and Delia Hill. He married Susan Hackley.

She preceded him in death. Several cousins in the Charleston area survive. Mr. Hill moved to Ohio where he established business colleges in Hamilton and Middletown. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church and the Masonic Lodge.

Harry Greeson GREENUP, Ill. Funeral services for Harry Greeson were scheduled for 2 p.m. today in the Bishop chapel of the Bishop-Hiles Funeral Home, Greenup. Burial will be in Greenup Cemetery. Mr.

Greeson, 80, of Los Angeles. formerly of Toledo, died Tuesday in Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles. Sarah Edith Rennels CHARLESTON, Ill. Sarah Edith Rennels, 71, of rural Charleston died at 8:50 p.m. Thursday in her home.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday in the HarperSwickard Funeral Home with Rev. Bill. Rennels officiating. Burial will be in Roselawn Cemetery, Charleston.

Friends may call after 4 p.m. today at the funeral home. Mrs. Rennels was born June 21, 1899, in Cumberland County, the daughter of James and Iva Green Jenkins. She married Arlin Rennels.

He died' in 1965. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Robert (Maxine) Frame of Oak Park, and six grandchidren. She was preceded in death by a son. Arlin and a grandson.

Mrs. Rennels was a member of the Whetstone Baptist Church and was the painist for the church for several years. union church services. Its schedule is: Monday, Aug. 24 Jewett Day 9 a.m., sheep and swine judging: 2 p.m., Illinois Thorobred running races and quarter horse race; 8 p.m., Illiana Demolition Derby.

Tuesday, Aug. 25 Casey Day 9 a.m., Dairy cattle 4-H judging: 2 P.m., Harness and running races for 2-year-olds from Illinois, trotting and pacing colt stakes, 4-H show: 8 p.m Cumberland County Queen Pagent plus special entertainment on stage by "The Claytons." Wednesday, 26 Neoga Day 9 a.m., livestock judging, Junior Livestock Show; 2 p.m., harness and running races (3-year-old, Illinois), trotting and pacing colt stakes (Top Line), quarter horse race; 8 p.m., Rotroff All Girl Auto Thrill Show. Thursday, Aug. 27 Toledo Day -2 p.m., harness and running races: 6 p.m., 4-H calf sale on track in front of grand-. stand: 8 p.m.; Lester Family Variety Show.

Friday, Aug. 28 Greenup Day 2 p.m., harness and running races; 8 p.m., King Brothers Rodeo. Saturday, Aug. 29 Rural Day 2 p.m., harness and running races; 4 p.m., Cumberland County Derby: 7 p.m., Tractor Pulling Contest. The Alfred Wall Amusement MATTOON ILLINOIS SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1970 Co.

will be featured on the midway the entire week. Sunday, July 26, will be the beginning of the Edgar County Fair in Paris. It will run through Friday, July 31. Daily schedules are: Sunday 10 a.m., Western halter' division: 1:30 p.m., Western horse show. 3 p.m., Pooch Show in dance area; 8 p.m., Demoliton Derby: 8 to 11 p.m, Teenage dancing.

Monday Kids' Day, all under 12 free at gate all day and evening 1:30 p.m., tractor pull; 7:30 p.m., tractor pull; 8 to 10:45 p.m., teenage dancing. Tuesday Democrat Day WAY BACK WHEN These were the, stu- Carlyle, Francis Green, Burton Henley and Viola Lemons, dents of Dry Grove School, located five miles Marie Hertrieter Ferree. In the second row Houske, Alma south of Mattoon near U.S. Route 45, in are Mark Highland, Henry Lemons, Clarence Gertrude 1908. The picture was furnished by Fred Lockhart, Thornton Akers, Marion Tracy, Paul Henley.

Ferree of Route 3. In the front row are Flora Ross Brant, Vernon Green and Alfred Hertrie- land, Chester Lemons, Mary Henley Owings, Henry. Lock- ter. In the third row are Edith Lacy (teacher), Highland and hart, Floris Lockhart, Raymond Carlyle, Earl U.S. bishop For the Record Released prisoners of war celebrates Hospital Admitted notes Yesterday's Weather precipitation arrive in North Vietnam today Mrs.

William Curry, Charleston. Miss Edith Scott, 1309 Edgar. Admitted Friday Mrs. Mayme Bell, Gays. Karl Davee, Charleston.

Mrs. Zelma Elder, 500 Woodlawn. Ronald Hull, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hull, Neoga.

Noel Hunt, Toledo. Mrs. Effie Mendenhall. Jewett. Mrs.

Luella Shafer, Toledo. Lester Walker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Walker, 1413 DeWitt. Lawrence White, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Lawrence White. Champaign. William Wieland, Chrisman. Released Friday Jeffrey Bailey, son of Mr.

and Mrs. James Bailey, 3008 Shelby. Mrs. Edmond Route 2. Mrs.

Evelen Byland, 'Ashmore. (Transferred to St. Mary's Hospital, Decatur.) Mrs. Roscoe Coffey and son, 3000 Pine. Mrs.

Della Croy, Toledo. Mrs. Ed Dulgar, Toledo. (Transferred to Douglas Nursing Center.) Delbert Elliott, 1100 S. 16th.

Mrs. 'William Highland, 3317 Marshall. Michael Janes, son of Mr. and Mrs. D.

Ervin Janes, 1112 N. 19th. Ralph Lundy, Arcola. Mrs. Delphia Petty, Cunningham Nursing Home.

Mrs. Peter Slusinski and son, 2509 Pine. Mrs. Earl Snearley, Strasburg. James Talley, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Hulin Talley, Toledo. Stanley Toberman, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Seeley, Lerna.

Mrs. Bonnie Walden, Greenup. 2 p.m., King 8 to ing. 2 p.m., Queen age): ty 10:45 2 p.m., p.m.. Friday pony inch horse teenage SAIGON (AP) Two junks carrying 62 prisoners of war and 24 fishermen reached North Vietnam today, completing the biggest repatriation of captives of the Vietnam war.

All of the prisoners threw off their clothing, duffle bags and gifts given them by the Saigon government as they boarded the boats. cast off from a South Vietnamese landing ship and departed at full speed for the sixmile run to shore. A South Vietnamese spokesman reported that the two motorized junks "were observed reaching; the shore" at Cua Tung village.just north of the Ben Hai River and the 17th parallel that divides North and South Vietnam. Associated Press Correspondent Jay Sharbutt. aboard the South Vietnamese landing ship Plea changed on charge of theft CHARLESTON.

Ill. Kevin Eric Clements, 18. of 1416 Charleston, Mattoon, pleaded guilty to a charge of theft in Coles County Circuit Court Friday. Clements withdrew a previous plea of innocent. He was fined $10 and costs and released.

Clements is alleged to have taken five record albums from the F. W. Woolworth Store in Mattoon on June 12. John Waters, 20. of.

Charleston, was placed on two years probation in court Friday on a charge of criminal fresspass to a vehicle. Waters pleaded guilty on June 15 to the charge. Juanita Nash, 40, of 2713 Commercial, Mattoon, pleaded innocent in court to a charge of battery and demanded a jury trial. On July 6, she is alleged to have thrown another woman to the floor of John's Bar at 1818 Western in Mattoon. harness racing; 8 p.m., Kovaz Auto Daredevils; 10:45 p.m., teenage danc- Wednesday Merchants Day p.m., harness racing: 6:30 Little Miss Edgar County Contest (4 to 6 years of 7 p.m., Miss Edgar CounQueen Contest; 8 to p.m., teenage dancing.

Thursday Republican Day p.m., harness racing: 8 Tons of Fun: 8 to 10:45 teenage dancing. Tri-state pulling contest, 46 and 50- classes: 7:30 p.m.. society show; 8:30 to 11 p.m., dancing. Third Page Akers Jones, Elsie Hart Hart, Leona Lockhart, Ferree, Dewey Akers and back row are Frank HighLockhart, Lesley Ingram, Bert Henley. new freedom HONG KONG (AP) Roman Catholic Bishop James Edward Walsh awoke to his first full day of freedom today, received Holy Communion for the first time in a dozen years and talked of people he knew before' the Red Chinese imprisoned him as a spy.

For the frail, 79-year-old prelate, the nightmare that began behind the Bamboo Curtain in 1958 had ended. He was free reunited with his church and eager to celebrate Mass. The bishop planned to telephone his sister, Mary Walsh of Cumberland, and possibly his younger borther, Judge liam A. Walsh, a former attorney general of Maryland. Doctors said he was surprised that he could make the calls.

The last he heard in connection with trans-Pacific phone calls was that there was a lot of static and reception was poor, doctors said. Bishop Walsh was released by the Red Chinese Friday after being jailed in Shanghai in 1958 and convieted two years later of running an "imperialist" spy ring in China, where he has spent half his life. Political views aside, safety hats required RICHMOND, Va. (AP) A sign on a building construction project at Richmond Memorial Hospital says: "All men on the job must wear safety hats." Under this a painstaking graffiti artist has carefully added: "Regardless of their political opinion." FUNERALS MITCHELL, Thomas Dale Arrangements incomplete. Notice later.

SCHILLING'S To date to date 21-yr. This yr. this yr last yr. avg. 0 16.26 22.34 20.22 Tomorrow's skies Sunrise 5:35 a.m.

Sunset 8:21 p.m. Moonrise 2:19 p.m. Moonset 12:33 a.m. Charleston hospital notes Admitted Thursday Ross Drake, Charleston. Admitted Friday Bonnie Hawkins, Mattoon.

Mrs. Lucille Adams, Westfield. Released Friday Addison Cutright, Charleston. Grange voices support of Nixon WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon got a petition from the National Grange Friday voicing, 105,000 the support members of for more "our American system of government." The master of the Grange, John Scott. presented the petition, which he.

said is still incomplete since only 1,500 of some 7,000 local granges have filed their individual petitions. 'The petition said its members represent different religions, ethnic backgrounds and political parties but that "we can unite together in support of those who have been chosen by the will of the people as our leaders." Smog alert rejected RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP). Twenty citizens have asked the county health director to sound a siren when smog reaches the alert level. Dr.

Harold Erickson turned them down, saying sirens might cause people to have heart attacks and also would "make believe irritants are worse than they already Vung. Tau, reported that no incidents occurred and no North Vietamese patrolcraft were in signt as the prisoners headed homeward. The 86 returnees included POWs who were sick and disable, most of them paraplegics. In Phnom Penh, the Camboian military high command the plush mountain-top resort of Kiri Rom, which besides govrnment troop installations includes villas and hotels frequented by Cambodia's wealthy class The strike began shortly after midnight and appeared to have more propaganda than military significance. ciation" are held the third Sunday afternoon and evening of every month at the 4-H Building at the north edge of Shelbyville, on Route 128.

Music is from 2 p.m. until 9 p.m. with a potluck supper at 5:30 p.m. There are 150 active and associate members and anyone interested in instrumental string music is welcome to attend. Negro files as Humphrey foe ST.

PAUL, Minn. (AP) Earl D. Craig a Negro teacher at the University of Minnesota, is running. against former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey for the Democratic nomination for the U.S.

Senate. Craig, a critic of the Vietnam war, filed his nominating papers Thursday. The party primary will be held Sept. 10. Humphrey received endorsement of the armer-Labor convention last month.

Craig polled 20 per cent of the vote. The Republican nominee for the seat being vacated by the retirement of Democrat Eugene J. McCarthy, is Rep. Clark McGregor. ElU Calendar Saturday, July 11 5 p.m.

school musical will be performed in the Laboratory School auditorium. $100 awaits veterans of Viet war The Illinois Veterans' Commission at 1000 Broadway advises that it is important for all returning veterans to call at the office soon after separation from the service to file for $100 Illinois state compensation. Eligibility requires service in the Vietnam area. At the same time, the veteran may establish his permanent state file, receive counsel about veterans' benefits. and be assisted in proper application.

Jack Blair, service officer in charge, said that veterans who receive a pension and who become so helpless as to need regular aid and attendance of another person may be eligible for an additional allowance of $100 monthly. A similar benefit is available to qualified widows. Application may be made through the office. Blair spends every Thursday at the Charleston Court house from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The office in Mattoon is open from 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. weekdays except Saturday..