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MATTOON rf-' Newsmakers Thomas isn 't bitter Third Page FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1969 Unions agreeJillIl out of his apartment; some teen-age boys threatened to beat him up and 'Municipal Judge Benjamin Segal glowered down at Thomas" and told him" that there should be "a whipping post for people like you." The Torresdale man was put in jail on $10,000 bail on charges of intent to maim and cruelty to children. He was released Wednesday. But Uncle Jack had an unknown friend, Matthew Gle-locki, a guard at the housing project where he lived. Glelocki, PHILADELPHIA (AP) Jack Thomas is out of jail and he isn't bitter against the young girls who sent him there for three days. Jack Thomas' Stay in jail began Saturday after six girls claimed he gave one of them an apple with a razor in it on Halloween.

Some neighbors couldn't believe that the man children call Uncle Jack and badger, for cookies could have done such a thing. But others threatened to burn the unemployed foundry worker Navy KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) A Navy rescue operation has yielded 202 pints of blood for the three Park boys, and there's more where that came from. The children are hemophiliacs, whose blood does not clot. A slight cut is enough to put them in the hospital.

Between them Clifford Park, 16, and his brothers David, 8 and John, 4, have had more than 1,000 pints of blood transfusions this year. Si'. DIRECTORY COMPLETED comes to the rescue left are committee members Richard Neyens, Miss Risk Committee has completed work on a social service directory for the county. The booklet lists all social service agencies and organizations in the county. From The cost of the blood at $35 a pint plus the mounting hospital bills was becoming a burden to their parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Park, could no longer bear. Word of their plight reached Navy men in the big Key West military complex and on Thursday the sailors showed up in droves at a blood clinic run by thei Hemophilia Foundation. Little John was there to watch. poll, which was in the queen's favor by 84 per cent to 16 per cent.

Among reasons cited why Britain needs the queen is that she is a source of tradition, pomp and pageantry, an aid to Illinois briefs Queen gets vote of confidence Seale faces court today much study dangerous LONDON (AP) Queen Elizabeth II has received a one-sided vote of confidence from subjects who took part in a national opinion poll asking whether Britain needs her. The Daily Mail published the STANFORD, Calif. -The marine life in California's coastal tide pools is in danger of being studied to death, a Stanford University pharmacologist said. Dr. Robert H.

Dreisbach reported that on one day 59 buses Too CHICAGO (AP) Bobby G. Seale goes back to court today on a hearing over a four-year prison "sentence and a mistrial ruling issued by Judge Julius J. Hoffman of U.S. District Court. Seale, 33, national chairman of the Black Panther Party, was held in contempt by Judge Hoffman Wednesday and sentenced to 16 consecutive terms after he brought the trial to an impasse with a series of courtroom outbursts.

Judge Hoffman severed the case of Seale from that of seven other men charged with conspiracy to provoke riots the week of the 1968 Democratic National Convention. A motion for a hearing before Judge Hoffman will be filed by Francis J. McTernan of San Francisco, a law partner of Charles R. Garry, a long-time attorney for Black Panthers who has said he could not be present for the trial because he was re 1111 The Coles County High cuperating from a gall bladder operation. McTernan has been directed to sign a formal document stating that "he is" an attorney for Seale.

Throughout the trial Seale has been held in the Cook County Jail on a fugitive warrant from New Haven, where he is charged with murder. Judge Hoffman said Thursday he would hold the hearing today. The seven other defendants lost their plea' Thursday for a ruling of mistrial. Judge Hoffman held that the jury was not affected by the behavior, gagging and subsequent mistrial in the case of Seale. The defense had argued the mistrial of Seale had prejudiced the trial of the remaining seven.

Leonard J. Weinglass said in Thursday's session that Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago would be called as a defense About $8.5 million was spent on the process, which included removal of a first floor that was inserted early this century. Restoration included replacement of the dome, acquistion of period furnishings, provision of facilities for the state historical library and construction of an underground public parking facility. Marvin Mitchelson, a Beverly Hills, lawyer who accompanied the two women from their home in Seattle, did not see Raphael, a 20-year-old U.S.

Marine against vhom authorities have placed seven charges. The Minichiellos drove to the Queen of Heaven jail after a 40-minute talk with an assistant prosecutor, Massimo Carli, who granted permission for the visit. 44, couldn't believe Thomas could do such a thing and started his own investigation. Under Glelock's questioning Grace Wisotzkey, 12, who made the claims, admitted her story was a hoax. Grace allegedly told her mother that Thomas had given her the booby-trapped apple and a girl friend Debbie Connors, 13, backed her up.

The girls admitted to concoct ing the tale because Thomas had given one of them an apple with a bruise on it. "He's fascinated watching the people draw out the blood," his mother said. "He's so used to seeing it go in." When John Park was hospitalized three days in September it cost $1,876. His brothers also have made trips to the hospital. Mrs.

Park estimated the bills at $30,000. Their father makes $8,500 a year as an employe of the Office of Housing and Urban Development. foreign relations and tourism and a bulwark of peace. Those who thought the country could get along without her said she was powerless, obsolete and cost Britain too much mon ey. are swarming over beaches by the thousands, collecting anything and everything in sight," he said.

"The result of such activity is that starfish, gastropod, limpets and chitons are becoming scarce," he added. Li period ending next Tuesday. The mercury reached a balmy 66 at the Journal Gazette building Thursday afternoon and was in the 50s this morning. The last precipitation recorded here was .09 of an inch received Tuesday. munity at no expense to the individual.

Hospitals for crippled children and burn centers are the organization's principal philanthropy to which every iShriner contributes. fo low-cost home project WASHINGTON (AP) Three labor unions have agreed to build low-cost, prefabricated homes on an assembly line Oa sis under a contract the govern ment says provides a major start in overcoming the nation's housing shortage. A three-bedroom house with one bath and all utilities would cost well under $10,000 according to a top official of the company that signed a contract with three building-trades unions Thursday to mass produce the structures. George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, hailed the contract as a significant start in reaching former President Lyndon B. Johnson's goal of 26 million new housing units jn the next decade.

Romney's department Thursday also said another program aimed at both creating new housing and aiding the nation's poor was working. HUD announced its venture of providing mortgage subsidies to help low-income families afford home ownership has passed the one-year mark with all theear- marks of success. Some 16,500 families with av erage annual incomes of own homes thanks to the pro gram and the number is expected to triple by next June 30, HUD officials reported. Inquest date awaits ruling EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) -The date for the inquest inio the death of Mary Jo Kopechne will be set after a -Pennsylvania court decides whether to allow exhumation of the girl's body for autopsy.

Judge James A. Boyle, who will preside at the inquest in District Court in Edgartown, consulted Thursday with law yers for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and others expected to be witnesses. Boyle later announced he would not set an inquest date until the Pennsylvania court ruling has been made.

A petition for exhumation of the body was filed in the court in Wilkes Barre, by Dist. Atty. Edmund Dinis, who ordered the inquest. Judge Bernard C. Brominski has the petition under advisement with no indication when ne will make a decision.

Club to hear Rev. Morris Rev. George Morris of Nash ville, will be the guest sDeaker at the weekly meeting of the Mattoon Rotary Club at noon Monday in the U. S. Grant Motor Inn.

Rev. Morris is the guest minister for the "New Life Mission" starting Sunday at the First United Methodist Church in Mat-toon. He has conducted more than 200 missions throughout the United States. He is associate director of the department of New Life Ministries with the general board of Evangelism of the United Methodist Church and received his bachelor of arts degree from Asbury College and the bachelor of divinity degree from Vander-bilt University School of Theology. He Is studying- at Vander-bilt for the doctor of divinity degree.

IVLi, George Morris SI Old Capitol to open to SPRINGFIELD, III. (AP) -The historic old Illinois State Capitol will be open to the public starting Nov. 15. Former Govs. Samuel Shapiro and Otto Kerner dedicated the building when restoration was completed in December last year.

In the meantime, refurnishing and landscaping has been completed. World news Helen Nutrall, Charles C. and Arthur Wiseman. witness. Weinglass said Daley would be called after the court was shown film clips of interviews with defendants David T.

Del-linger and Thomas Hayden (luring the convention. Hayden commented in one of the clips on remarks attributed to Mayor Daley that Hayden was an "enemy of the state" and a "communist." In another development, 35 criminal lawyers filed a petition in U.S. District Court which seeks measures to fight what they called "noxious atmosphere" in the U.S. Courthouse resulting from the Chicago con spiracy trial. The petition said jurors on other cases in the building found it impossible to conduct "detached, dispassionate deliberation." Chief Judge William J.

Campbell referred the petition to the three-judge administrative com- public The old Capitol was the site of Abraham Lincoln's "House Divided" speech. He used an office in the Capitol between his election as president and his accession to office. His body lay in state there before burial in Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield. The old Capitol is about a third of a mile from Lincoln's home. The parents said they spoke to him about their son's personality.

Carli said he expected to turn the case over to an investigating magistrate today or Saturday. The magistrate will decide whether to send the case to trial or drop the charges, which include kidnaping and introducing military weapons into Italy. He also will decide whether Minichiello should undergo psychiatric tests. carry on in unity and grow in strength. He said the general election Oct.

25, in which the opposition Labor party gained 17 seats and cut the coalition's majority to seven votes, showed some dissatisfaction with the government that would have" to be "identified and rectified." hospital would make too much noise. i- Prime Minister Eisaku Sato assured residents of the neighborhood that there would be no danger of disease and that helicopters would avoid flying over residential areas. Later he agreed under public pressure that it would be desirable to have the hospital moved. hijacker Rumold, Dr. Freida Sture (JG photo) Members of Beatles plan, solo records LONDON (AP) Ringo Starr, the Beatles' drummer, is turning singer on a solo record of his favorite standards, including such old hits as "Night and Day." John Lennon.

Paul McCartney and George Harrison also plan individual albums, or are thinking about it. But Mavis Smith of Apple, the Beatles' company, gave this assurance to any anxious fans: "It doesn't mean the Beatles are breaking up or anything like that. It's just that they like to do some things on their own." Ringo said the songs he's recording "are songs that I associate with nice things, and that is why I chose them." Among his selections are "Autumn Leaves." "I'll Be Seeing You," and "Love is the Sweetest Thing." An album by George Harrison is still in the early idea stage. "I thought of doing an album of my own mainly just to get rid of all the songs I've got stacked up," he said. "I've got such a backlog, and at the rate of doing two or three on a Beatles album (where Lennon-McCartney songs are much more numerous), I'm not even going to get the ones I've done out for three or four years." Lennon and McCartney have also stockpiled songs in recent months.

These will be featured on one of two ail-Beatles albums planned for 1970 release. GUEST SPEAKER Rev. Ralph Bringewatt, missionary to Taiwan since the field opened in 1954, will deliver the sermon at St. John's Lutheran Church at 200 Charleston at the 8 and 10 a.m. worship services Sunday.

He will also address the Sunday school at 9 a.m. The Bringewatts and their six children are on a three month furlough from the mission field. Eisenhower's estate listed GETTYSBURG. Pa. (AP) -A partial inventory of Dwight D.

Eisenhower's estate has listed assets valued at $278,363, consisting mainly of stock investments and 243 head of cattle. The inventory filed in Adams County Court did not include an appraisal of royalties from the late president's per cent interest in six Louisiana gas wells and a one-eighteenth interest in a tract of land in Jefferson County, Colo. Jirr7 1 bringing students and. collectors were counted in an aerial survey of 100 miles of shoreline. Other large groups also were seen, he said.

"Increasing numbers of tourists and students, laden with buckets, jars and plastic bags, peratures that have provided pleasant weather the past few days are expected to continue. The Weather Bureau's five-day forecast calls for temperatures a few degrees above normal and no precipitation for the Family visits -a. DOING THEIR THING Lake Land Wednesday. Here Pam Scott of Ottawa, College students were observed through- Bruce Gebhart of Decatur and Cindy out the city Thursday raking leaves Sanner of Bethany pitch in to do their which fell in abundance Tuesday and part between classes. (JG photo) minister re-elected City scene Weather to stay good ROME (AP) Raphael Mini-chiello was reunited with his family today in the Rome jail where he has been held since he hijacked a jetliner from California to Rome last weekend.

Minichiello was visited by his 76-year-old father Luigi, who lives in a village near Naples, and by his mother Maria and sister Annamaria, who flew to Italy Thursday from the United States. Prime CANBERRA, Australia (AP) Prime. Minister John Gorton overcame two challengers today to win re-election as leader of the Liberal party and assurance that he will remain head of the government. Voting by secret ballot, the 65 Liberal members of the Senate and House of Representatives chose Gorton over Treasurer Army to TOKYO (AP) The U.S. Army -is closing, a.

hospital for Vietnam war casualties that triggered demonstrations and violence when it opened in a Tokyo suburb 20 months ago. An Armyspokesman said the $3 million Camp Oji hospital will be deactivated by Dec' 31 William McMahon and Minister for National Development David E. Fairbairn. The vote was not announced, but reliable sources said Gorton got 34 votes to a total of 31 for his opponents. Gorton told a news conference that he believed the new coalition Cabinet he will form with the Country party will be able to close Tokyo because of the Defense Department's program to cut back mii itary spending overseas.

Residents of the neighborhood where the hospital is located protested when it opened in March 1968, saying it was a health hazard and that helicopters bringing in wounded GIs Families hoping for at least one more weekend suited to outdoor activities before winter sets in should make plans to take advantage of the one which starts 'this evening. The blue skies and mild tem Shrine The Mattobn Corn Belt Shrine Club will hold its annual Corn-bread, Ham and Bean Dinner Thursday in the Masonic Temple at 15th and Charleston. Serving will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 5 to 7 p.m.

Donation for dinner set Thursday the meal is $1. The local club uses the proceeds to support its project of lending wheel chairs, walkers, beds and other supplies to convalescing people in the com.