Journal Gazette from Mattoon, Illinois • Page 3

Thursday, May (ii.) Journal Gmtta-A-I City Scene Opera singer, actress return to EIU to sing at benefit concert Road rally lunch planned By PAUL BLACK Staff Writer MATTOON The Mattoon Llong Club will be serving barbecue sandwiches, potato chips and soft drinks to the public at Peterson Park between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Saturday. The lunch has been planned In conjunction with the Sullivan road rally and car show. Antique cars will be touring a 72-mile stretch of road In area towns and will stop off at the checkpoint at Peterson Park.

Drivers entering Mattoon from Areola will be on U.S. 45 to DeWltt Avenue and continue to Sixth Street and Broadway Avenue to the park. After checking in, they will advance to the end of Broadway at Mister Donut, turn left to Illinois 16 and go on to the next checkpoint in Windsor, prlvers coming from Windsor will be on a reverse course and continue on to Sullivan. In Sullivan, a car show wilfbe held at Wyman Park. Seven classes of vehicles will be on display with three awards given In each class and three trophies-for best dress of the era Area Focus Lerna home survey sought A Village Clerk Charlotte Ratliff said the board will be getting around the community and looking for potential benefactors.

She guesses there may be six or seven homes eligible. In other business, the new board was seated. The new village president is 25-year-old Sandra Ratliff. Sandra's mother, Charlotte, is the new village clerk, and 22-year-old brother, Rob, is serving as trustee. Other board members are Anne Lawyer, Ivan Thompson, Charles Hills, Lawrence Morlts, Dale Lock' and Treasurer Pa Rhodes.

LERNA Several homeowners may be getting an early Christmas present through the regional planning commission. Ed Basch of the Coles County Regional Planning and Development Commission, attended Tuesday night's Lerna Village Board meeting and asked the board to survey the community to see If anyone Is interested in federal home Improvement grants. The grants, based on the, homeowner's income, can be used for new roofs, siding, windows, guttering, furnaces and a host of other things. CHARLESTON During their professional careers, sisters Eva Pearl Yeadon and Maiith Anne. -Willis were at opposite ends of the globe.

Yeadon, known for her operatic singing, and Willis, an actress of Broadway musicals, have crisscrossed the world performing. Now, the two are together for a benefit concert sponsored jointly by the Charleston Women's Club and the music department of Eastern Illinois University. The daughters of the late Ralph and Helen Betty McGinness will perform "From Bach to Beethoven," a showcase of favorites from opera, oratorio and Broadway musicals. The concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Dvorak Concert Hall.

Tickets are $5 each and available by calling 581-3010. The proceeds of the concert will be used to fund music scholarships at the college. "That was one of the reasons we became involved with the benefit concert idea," Willis explained. "When we were going to college, we both received voice scholarships which provided us the boost we needed to pursue a musical career seriously." Although the sisters have taken different musical routes, both cite their parents as providing the Inspiration for their careers. "Dad sang in a quartet in college and was Mr.

Interruption in the yearly production of the Rat-tlesnakers Minstrel Show while serving as chairman of the speech communications department at the University of Montana," Yeadon said. "Mom was a soloist with the university dance band and a high descant singer for the university chorus. We grew up with music all around us." Part of the sentimental reason for the Charleston benefit concert was in the hopes of singing for their parents. "Dad and Mom ft Yeadon, left, and her sister, Willis, are shown during recent performances. Woman hurt in auto crash Separate Tables; Juliet in, Romonoff and Juliet and Irene Malloy in The Matchmaker During her world travels, she has been a featured performer with the Yakota Players in Japan as Maria in The Sound ot Music, Lisa in My Fair Lady and Dolly in Hello, Dolly.

Assisting the sisters In the concert will be EIU music faculty members Jerry -Daniels, Marilyn Coles, Tom Timothy Lane and Alan Aulabaugh. Daniels will join Yeadon in the dramatic opera presentation of the evening. He has sung in over 50 operas and oratorio roles and has over 30 operas and musicals to his directing credit. Coles, a mezzo-soprano, will join Yeadon in a special Purcell duet and in the dramatic opera with Daniels. She is assistant professor never saw us perform on the big stage and we haven't sang together since we were 3 and 5," Willis said.

Ralph McGinness died earlier this year and their mother has been in ill health for an extended period of time. But the two are still hopeful of their mother being able to make the concert. Yeadon began her professional career in 1970, Including the last 10 years in Europe. In 1981, Giancarlo del Monaco brought Yeadon to Kassel Statetheater as a dramatic soprano where her have included Tosca, Trovatore, Onegin, Fidelio and others. She has also appeared in several operettas such as Fledermaus, Manon Lescaut, Ariadne Aut Naxos and Andrea Chenier.

Willis has portrayed such roles as Maria in Paint Your Wagon Cordelia in King Lear, Sybil in teaches English, Italian, French and German diction and vocal literature. Brawner, a trumpet specialist, will accompany Yeadon and Coles in the Purcell duet and will contribute a little color and life to one of the Broadway selections. His musical experience, is diverse, having played for the Lexington, Ky. philharmonic to Ringling Brothers Circus to performing as a studio musician for; jingles and television commercials Aulabaugh, who retired from the EIU Music Department in 1986 after 30 years of service, has appeared frequently as soloist, accompanist and ensemble performer' Scott Cheffer, a teaching assistant at the University of Illinois, will be also perform with Willis in selections from the South Pacific and My'air Lady. in fair condition Wednesday evening.

The police spokesman said Musson was northbound on Illinois 32 about two miles south of Strasburg when she fell asleep. Her car left the road and struck a culvert, rolling over several times. Musson was thrown from the vehicle, he STRASBURG A ShelbyvUle woman was injured In a one-car accident Wednesday morning, A spokesman for Illinois State Police, District 10 In Pesotum, said Tracy L. Musson, 23, was taken to Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center following the accident at 6:55 a.m. Wednesday.

A hospital spokesman said Musson was admitted and listed Con test dea dline is, Eridayv jlso of voice atEastp-n, TThe deadline to enter the Development "Past Through the Lens" photo of missing Body baby discovered, authorities say co-hosts of the award program. Awards also will be presented by the Coles County Regional Planning and Development Commission to those who have made a significant contribution to preservation in 1989. Sites which have, been placed on the Coles" County Register of Significant Places will be recognized at this time also. The program will feature slide presentation by Karen Kummer, executive director of the Preservation and Conservation entitled "Small Commercial Restoration, In ChampalgnUrbana." contest Is rrluay. Historic photo entries of nonresidential, buildings should be brought to the Times-Courier office in Charleston or the Journal Gazette office in Mattoon by 4 pjn.

Friday. The winners will be. announced at the- annual Historic Preservation Award Program, which will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the grand courtroom of the Coles County Courthouse. The Association for the Preservation of Historic Coles County and the Coles County Regional Planning and Arthur streets to be paved to Alton Sgt.

Billy Lawrence. "He asked when someone (from the police department) was going 'to come and talk to him," Lawrence said. Earlier in the day, Sgt. Rick McCain, Alton's chief of detectives, said there were new and encouraging leads in the case, but he declined to discuss them. A search Tuesday of "property the baby's parents, Robert and Paula, had owned in rural Brighton proved fruitless.

The girl's parents told police a masked man approached Mrs. Sims while she was taking out the trash Saturday. The man forced her back into the home, knocked her unconscious and took the baby, the couple told police. The reported circumstances of Heather's disappearance are strikingly similar to the June 1986 disappearance of Loralei Sims, the couple's first child. The couple reported an.

armed intruder entered their former Brighton home and took the 13-day-old I ALTON (AP) The body of a baby was found Wednesday night in a garbage can in said authorities investigating the second reported abduction of a girl from the same Southern Illinois family. The body was in a plastic garbage bag in a metal trash bin near an old lock and dam on the Mississippi River, said St. Charles, County Sheriff Ed Uebinger A fisherman had noticed someone "acting a little bit strange," and saw the person place something into the garbage can, Uebinger said. The sheriff said he did not know whether the baby was 6-week-old Heather Sims of Alton, who was reported abducted last Saturday by her mother in a case that mirrors one from 1986. An autopsy, he said, was planned for Thursday morning.

Across the river in Alton, Heather's father, Robert Sims, called police saying he learned about the fisherman's discovery from a TV news report, according Golf pro signs on MATTOON Coles County 'Board member Bob Saunders shakes hands with Mattoon native and professional golfer Kelly Spaulding, who has been hired as the coordinator and golf pro for the planned Buck Grove Indian Trails public golf course. Construction on the 18-hole course and driving range should begin as early as June, Saunders said, and play on nine holes may be available before November. A St. Charles architect will have a course design finished in the next few weeks, he said. The planned course will be located in the Buck Grove Subdivision near the Trilla and Lincoln Trail roads, just east of Lake Land College.

Spaulding, 32, has worked as a pro at country clubs in several states during the past eight years and is. currently teaching the sport at camps in Florida and Virginia. Spaulding's father served as the Mattoon Country Club professional for 33 years. ARTHUR A small street resurfacing project being started by village officials should alleviate a minor problem. At Monday night's Arthur Village Board meeting, Jan Ray, supervisor of all city employees, presented a Progress Street resurfacing project at a cost of $25,000.

Ray noted the project calls for the 2-inch surface to be put on about five blocks. The street will also be widened by about 2 feet, he add ed. Village Clerk Lou Fabert noted that the resurfacing "should eliminate standing water'- on Progress" Street. Motor fuel tax funds will be used for the project, along with an additional $13,000 for seal coating on Arthur's streets. The meeting saw Fabert and Trustee Dick Goodrich sworn in as new village officials.

Keith Phillips stepped down as village president. Former trustee R.D. Beals assumed the post. Consolidated Directories Inc. to build Notices Starting with six directories in 1985, CDI today produces more than 80 directories for communities In 14 states from Idaho to Georgia.

Sales representatives throughout the country and an in-house telemarketing group work with each community to provide accurate listings and promote business advertising. About 2.7 million people use CDI directories. Network Centre is located at the intersection of Interstates 57 and 70 and U.S. 45. The plans for the total development.

Include 11 building sites ranging from 2.9 to 6.3 acres, although sites could be divided or combined to accomodate Industries. i relocation. The architect model, conceived by Russell A. Dankort Associates of Champaign, shows a modern white structure split by long ribbons of dark glass. It is topped by arched glass domes that run across the entire length and width of the building.

Outdoor courtyards and extensive landscaping will complete the exterior look. CDI was started In 1985 in Kansas City, as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Consolidated Communications of Mattoon. The company acquired Eastern Sun Directories of Effingham in 1986 and subsequently moved the Kansas City operation to Effingham In 1987. EFFINGHAM Consolidated Directories Inc. announced plans Wednesday to construct a two-story, 35,000 square-foot office building in Network Centre, a new business and technology park on the north edge of Effingham.

Ground will be broken in June with completion by February 1990. The new building will allow the company to consolidate its operations and add 40 new jobs over the next 18 months to the present 135-member work force. Presently, the company operates from two. locations in Effingham. The City of Effingham received a $300,000 Community Development Assistance Program grant to aid CDI in its SILK FLOWERS Mem.

Day Flowers are in I Fade saddles, bunch, $1.95 up. Greyhound Bus Station TEST DRIVE A Kubota 4 Wheel Steer Lawn Tractor at Niemeyer Kubota Sales or Ph. 856-3571. "THE CONNECTION WINDSOR Spring Shipments Galore! 5PTTRACTlON 235-1347, Ask for Mary Thursday Special All plants 45cbox FUNERAL KENNARb, Services are 1 0 1 etc Brintlingers Funeral Home in Decatur, IL. SCHILLING'S "COLUMBIAN SCHOOL OPEN HOUSE Fri.

May 5, 7 p.m. Public Invited KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Steak Stag, Thur 4 6 p.m. p.m. $6. Public Invited.

LOUNGE-' "HOT SET UP" 9-1 Beer Bash, $6, KNOWLES CAFETERIA Pan Fried Steak Potato, $2.95 Thursday Night MATTOON ELKS Bingo tonlte 7 pm. $500 jackpot. Open to public. AY SALE Save.30 on ail Auto Focus Cameras at MATTOON PHOTO FHIPPS' JR. STORE" SPRING SALE Bargains Galore This.

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B. Branson, 234-3456. BABE RUTH Bambino League Additional signup See ad in Sports Section "CARPETS CLEANED" 2 Rooms Rail Rainbow carpet Dyeing Cleaning, 258-8822 CLUB 55 PLUS NEW TRIP Englebert Humperdinck, May 27. $52 Incl. Deluxe Coach, Concert, Fried Chicken Box Lunch.

Phone 258-0427. Deadline 515. First National Bank Member FOX JACK5UN' PERKunS ROSEBUSHES Potted ready to bloom, Mattoon Flower Shop, '505 S. 23rd, 235)331. Officials to respond to spillway proposal negotiations take place.

Arnold said Wednesday that he expats the -city council to respond to his proposal by May 15. In a closed meeting Tuesday, the city council met.with a supervisor from the Indianapolis engineering firm Beam, Longest Neff to discuss negotiated CHARLESTON City officials are preparing to respond to the contractor of the Lake Charleston spillway regarding construction expenses which the contractor claims are the city's responsibility. Tom Arnold president of Mautz and Oren of Effingham, submitted a (proposal to the city engineer and mayor a few months ago requesting that the city pay addi tional expenses that have arisen during construction of the $1.59 million project. The contractor Indicated that if the city did not respond to his proposal by March 15, he would file a lawsuit against the city. However, the contractor honored a request from City Attorney John Dively that the contractor wait until the new city council takes office before spillway.