Journal Gazette from Mattoon, Illinois • Page 1

SUNNY Saturday mostly tunny and middle or upper 60s. Sunday hot High In tha lower or middle 90s. Southerly wlnda 8 to 15 mph. Saturday night partly cloudy and warmer. Low In the Area prep teams off to fast start ma 8- WrtVAW.

5 t'eCtwryf f'i It was a thrilling beginning for area high school football teams Friday night. Two of the better small-school football teams In central Illinois opened the season In dramatic fashion Friday night with Oakland upending Villa Grove 21-19 In the final 20 seconds of the game. Both schools were IHSA playoff entries last year and are ranked In a preseason poll this year. They lived up to the rankings. Dude Barker, a cool sophomore quarterback; threw a third-down, seven-yard touchdown pass to Max Edwards with 11 seconds remaining for the game-winning ecore.

The Arthur Knights won their season opener by downing the Martinsville Bluestreaks 13-6. With less than six minutes to go in the game, Arthur forced a fumble deep In Martinsville ter-rlrtoty. Sophomore Paul Measmore chased the ball Into the endzone where he dropped on It for the winning touchdown. MINI ll Ill I IIHI llllll inn II inn I 110th Year, Hp. 191, 25 CentS.

MATT00N. ILLINOIS CopyrlghtC 19M MIHlllnol Nwtwr, Inc. Female cops Zen, Partly sunny and and very warm with chance of thunderstorms. High in the upper 80s or lower 90s. Areola also got off on a winning note, dropping Fisher 54-6 as Jon Monahan ran the opening klckoff back for a touchdown and the Purple Riders were on their way.

For more Information, see the eight-page Saturday Sports section. hundreds of people across the state jammed lottery outlets to buy tickets, lottery officials siad. The $40 million prize is believed to be the biggest grand prize ever offered in a lottery game. The six winning numbers will be annpunced Saturday night. Lottery officials will announce if there are any winners on Monday.

With the drawing a few hours away and people purchasing their tickets by the fistful, number selection is becoming a major issue In lottery-players' circles. Combinations are running out. And, perhaps it's time for some people to find help choosing the winning numbers. Lottery players who want luck spelled out for them can use one of a variety of books or magazines which guarantee methods of choosing the winning numbers. A variety of publications, listing "lucky numbers" are rumored to exist.

Although several area merchants said they've heard of the publications and report customers have asked for them recently, the only local store to stock one of the publications a book titled "Lucky Number Lottery-Guide" (Continued on Page A3) Mat Toon says "Some tree trimming In the 1800 block of Charleston Avenue would be a great safety Improvement. Westbound motorists can't see the traffic signal until they're close to the Intersection." 7 About People A2 Classified C8-11 Comics C6 Entertainment C4-5 Markets A5 Obituaries A6 Showcase C1 Sports B1-8 Lotto Fever' strike Photo by Jeff Mm V' '-'vS Sue Ftnley (top) works in the Coles County Sheriffs Department At right are Kathy Cartwright of EIU Security and Brenda Arnold of Charleston Police. Brenda Smith is the lone female officer in Mattoon. chief told me he would support me 100 percent and if I ever had trouble with any of the fellows he would be behind me. The captain said I could ask him any questions.

It was a very positive working atmosphere." Finley, however, said it wasn't at all easy being Coles County's first female road deputy. "I felt I had to work a little harder In order to be accepted and show that women can do it," she said. Finley had alwayi wanted to go Into police but had waited until her two children were old enough to be out from under their mother's watchful eyes. In November 1981 less than a year and a half after she went out on the road Finley was suspended from her job on charges of "gross inefficiency." Newspaper stoties quoted her making allegations of jealousy within the department and resentment of her being a woman "taking a man's job." But Finley went back to work on six month's probation and said the Incident seems like "along time ago." "A combination of several things was Involved there," Ftnley said. "I just got a suspension over some charges I think was cleared of most of those charges.

at in area entrance exam. Two took applications and A -it a 4 a. otuy one snowea up ra mm we test, we naa 45 to 50 male applicants." Senteny said Smith is "treated the same as the other officers. She performs the same duties the other officers do. She's not classified as a female police officer she's classified as a police officer." At Eastern Illinois Police Chief Tom Larson said two male officers have been hired since be took over his post In December.

Sharon Hills, a personnel officer at EIU, said applicants are given wrtfto nrl and phsyical dexterity tests. seek ByMARYCmPMAN Staff Writer or the past seven years, Kathy Cartwright has been the only 1 1" female police officer at Eastern nilmis University. ii9 fiimili, ft iuHuMT uU4uui UuiuoiM wfio wsi the flrst woman worWng the rpPO -as a Culei County sheriffs deputy, wonden how she survived her first couple years with the department. Brenda Arnold changed careers from medical assistant to Charleston police officer at age 34 -and has since handled cases ranging from talking a woman out of suicide to helping a man whose wife had shot him and his stepson. The three are oioneers of sorts, blazing trails for other women wanting to pursue careers In police work.

And although their obt differ greatly, they share the experience of being females in a predomlnatly male field. Cartwright, 31, graduated from EIU In 1975 with a teaching certificate and a degree in social sciences. She was working at EIU's Booth library in 1977 when she heard about an opening at the University Police department. "I iust went and applied for It," she said, "and I wasn't too interested at the time." Flnley, 34, hadn't worked outside the home since high school until she' was employed by the Coles County Sheriffs Department In 1978 as a "matron." Prior to her promotion to the road in 1979, she made cell checks of female prisoners at the county Jail, answered the worked as a radio dispatcher and did filing. And Arnold, 37, decided In 1980 it was time to stop working in a doctor's office and chase her dream of being a police officer.

She read in the newspaper testing was being conducted for officers, filled out an application, took written and physical dexterity testa and underwent Interviews before being hired. "Oh, 1 was excited," she recalled. "I was 34 years old and had the family established of course, I was apprehensive about starting a new career." The women soon learned that becoming a police officer a profession they said Is Inaccurately portrayed as glamorous on television was not without its adjustments, Cartwright said her biggest surprise was the verbal, abuse she and other officers received on EIU's campus. In 1977, the "pig" stereotype of police officers was still fresh In the minds of college students. "I think toe major thing was.

the negative attitude from the public. That kind of shocked me. I wasn't aware you'd get called so many names," Cartwright recalled. However, she said she was warmly received by officials and co-workers In her, department. Being EIU's first female' of- fleer, Cartwright said, "was real easy.

The Few women IIATTOON If there are tew female police officers in the area, it may be because few women are interested in police work. Local police chiefs say women seldom apply when there are openings for officers. Raymond Senteny, Mattoon police chief, aid the Mattoon police department currently has only one female officer, Brenda Smith. While Smith declined to be interviewed, Senteny said she is one of very few women who's ever applied for an officer's job at the department. "We don't have too many applicants," he said.

"We had one applicant on our last By AMY RAGSDALE StaffWriter MATTOON As the lottery drawing rapidly approaches, area residents are making their final dashes to ticket counters. June Fryman of the IGA on Lake Land described Friday's ticket sales as "wild." "That machine hasn't stopped since 7 o'clock this morning," she said, explaining that lines have been long and some customers have purchased as many as $400 of tickets at once. "Very busy," Tom Craig, manager of Charleston's White Hen, says, describing the store's Friday ticket sales. However, Craig reports one of the store's largest sales was Thursday when one customer purchased $1,600 worth of tickets. Sheila Reed says she's surprised that "the lines haven't been that big" at Osco.

Although Reed says she expects the lines to grow as the drawing time approaches, she thinks most people heeded the lottery commission's advice and purchased their tickets early in the week. The grand prize in the Illinois Lottery's Lotto game hit $40 million Friday as New fish tale KANKAKEE (UPI)-Robin Anderson may have let the big one get away, but at least he'll have something to tell his fishing buddies. Anderson, 69, caught the prize fish Friday in the weeklong Kankakee River Fishing Derby, but he won't be allowed to collect the $10,000 prize because he didn't, register for the contest. "I thought theodds were so bad It wasn't worth It," said Anderson, a retired Kankakee resident The prize fish, a 1-pound smallmouth bass, was secretly releaaed In the river last Saturday Its special worth was denoted by a round, red tag pinned to the dorsal fin. "They were very tough days, to be honest with you," she said.

"I look back today and wonder how I survived. I think it an adjustment not only for me, but for the people I worked with and the public. It was a three-way deal." Today Finley said the tension In the department has eased and she's glad she went back to her job. Unlike Finley, Arnold reported no problems being a female police officer for the City of Charleston. But Arnold wasn't Charleston's first female officer.

Police Chief Maurice Johnson estimated approximately five women have been hired by the department since 1977. However, Arnold currently is Charleston's only female officer. And like Cartwright, she said she had to get used to negative feedback from the public not because she Is a woman, but because she is a police officer. "There' very little discrimination as far as that goes," she said. "If they're going to call you a name they just use a different one." Arnold works the 11 p.m.

to 7 a.m. shift and gets barrassed regularly. "I think we've (Continued on Page A3) ice The top three scorers are referred to Larson. "The last time we tested we didn't end up With any women applicants," Hills said. "We just don't have many women apply is what it amounts to." Charleston Police Chief Maurice Johnson also said there are rarely applications from women when jobs open up for of fleers.

'i don't suppose we've had 10 altogether sign up to be officers," he said. "I think there's a lot of reasons. They don't want to go into what's considered to be a man's work, or 1t might be they don't like the places we go and the things we do." pol work.