Journal Gazette from Mattoon, Illinois • Page 1

LIFESTYLES: 30 make up spirit team at Mattoon Middle School. CI Mattoon Monday November 12, 2001 Urazette II 125th Year, No. 252 50 Cents 2001 Mid-Illinois Newspapers Inc. MATTOON HONORS ITS VETERANS Oil II qfl T7 77 7 c-'U Inside today's newspaper About 250 people gather or parade BY DAWN SCHABBING Staff Writer MATTOON People scattered along the parade route in honor of soldiers of the past, present and future during the annual Veterans Day celebration held Sunday. Veterans from all branches of the military and several different wars and battles marched from the American Legion Post 88 at 17th Street and Wabash Avenue to Peterson Park at Sixth Street i Women from the Mattoon VFW Auxiliary Post 4325 stand held Sunday.

with flags during the Veterans and Broadway Avenue where an estimated 250 people gathered at the Vietnam Conflict Memorial. DAWN SCI lABBlNGSTAI I Bill Highland, past commander of Mattoon Veterans of Foreign War Post 4325, said everyday should be Veterans Day. He said he was pleased to have the large crowd, but that it was sad that it takes such events like the attacks on America on Sept. 11 to draw out patriotism in some. "To me every year is special.

It is sad to say the American people need a tragedy to bring out the best in them," said Highland. Crowded around the monument were veterans and their families, scouts, auxiliary members and people of all ages. A brief history lesson was a part of the ceremony at Peterson Park, as was prayer, the sound of Taps, a gun salute, reading of a poem, "Happy Valley" and singing of the national anthem. Highland told the large Members of Mattoon High School JROTC stand during the Veterans Day ceremony in Peterson Park oh Sunday. Day ceremony at Peterson Park peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war." Highland is one of four blood brothers that served during the Vietnam era.

Brothers, Butch and Mick served in Europe and he along with brother Jim, served in Vietnam. They follow their father, Robert, who was a WWII veteran. He died in 1987. Mother Marian Highland, who is affectionately called "Mom" by many Vietnam veterans, said she is thankful each of her own children returned home from battle alive and whole bodied. "We had a beautiful turnout.

I'm so pleased this many people came out. It is so touching," said Marian Highland. i s. corps honored Swern, the doctor's daughter, was a surprise guest at the program. She said her father volunteered because he wanted to serve his country, work alongside his fellow doctors and see the world.

Swern said she, her siblings and her mother rode with him by train from Mattoon to Indianapolis before saying farewell on a sad and rainy day. She said her father shipped out to Franee from Halifax, Canada. During the program, volunteer Randy Jackson read three letters Dudley sent to his family from France. Dudley addressed each letter to "Dear Sweetheart and Kiddos," and talked about day-to-day life with the American soldiers. "I am seeing things and having experiences that I did St Ml I) CORPS.

OUTSIDE 6035 Mostly sunny. Highs 55 to 60. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Full report on A10 SPORTS Lady Lakers top McHenry County Two ladies combine to score 38 points, eight rebounds and dish out 13 assists in Lake Land's 85 69 win over McHenry County Community College. DetailsBl TOP THIS New cinema holds the popcorn, offers scotch and cheese CLAYTON, Mo.

(AP) -The concessions at a ritzy new cinema won't include hot dogs that have been warming for hours on rotating metal rollers. The patrons are more likely to be found sampling a glass of Scotch or cheese and crackers. "I'm 'going to be able to choose quality, that will be the difference," Harman Moseley, owner of the new Screening Room at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in this St. Louis suburb, said of his upscale theater. He hopes oil paintings, reserved seating and alcohol will draw an affluent adult audience.

"It will probably not be a theater for everybody, he said, "but hopefully it will appeal to the moviegoer who stopped going to movies because they didn't like the giant multiplexes." The theater, which will serve as the hotel's auditorium during the day, has more than 200 seats and a screen that's 13 feet by 20 feet. A Ritz-Cartton spokeswoman said no other hotel in the chain has a movie theater. The Screening Room was to debut with a showing of "Life As a House," a drama starring St. Louis native Kevin Kline. Tickets cost $8, with $6 for matinees about $1 more than the typical movie theater in the area.

INSIDE CLASSIFIEDS. LIFESTYLES LOCAL LOTTERIES A10 BUSINESS A6 OPINION A4 i LISTINGS C4 ON art to be displayed Cookin' restaurant INSIDE Residents from the town of Charleston pay their respects to veterans. DetailsA3 crowd of people that it was on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, the guns of World War I were finally silenced; and Nov. 11 was established as Armistice Day. This day became a day of world peace renewal and the end of what was to be the war to end all wars.

Later, in 1954, Armistice Day was revised and renamed to stand as an annual moment of tribute to all war veterans, alive or dead past, present and future, he said. Quoting Gen. Douglas MacArthur in a speech made in 1962, Highland said, "The soldier, above all, prays for Medical veterans BY ROB STROUD Staff Writer CHARLESTON Medical corps veterans from Coles County have endured enemy fire, tropical diseases and extreme climates during wartime in order to save lives. Audience members on Sunday at the Dudley House learned about the experiences of local medical corps veterans as part of a Veterans Day program hosted by the Coles County Historical Society. Society Director Renee Henry said the idea for the program came from the fact that Dr.

Gerry Dudley, the house's namesake, served in the medical corps during World War I. She said Dudley was too old to be drafted, but quickly volunteered after his country entered the war in 1917. Esther Elizabeth Dudley New Deal at What's Staff Report During the Great Depression of the 1930s, mil-Irons of people were unemployed. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Congress instituted the New Deal, which included programs to put people back to work. Many people have heard of the Works Project Administration (WPA) that put people to work on a variety of jobs such as building roads and buildings and the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) that worked on conservation issues and built trails and shelters including those at Fox Ridge.

Few people know about the federal art projects. One of those projects was the Treasury Department Section of Painting and Sculpture (later Fine Arts) that commissioned artists to decorate new federal buildings, mostly post offices. extended her interests to include murals and sculptures done through the three other federal art projects. She has also done extensive research at local sites, The Art Institute of Chicago and National Archives II in College Park, Maryland. Dr.

Thompson presents slide lectures, has published A Guide to Depression Era Art in Illinois Post Offices and with WEIU-TV has produced a pilot video, Depression Era Art in Illinois Post Offices, featuring the art in the Decatur post office. For more information about the art, contact her at 967-5362. The exhibit is sponsored by the Coles County Arts Council, which is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency. Anyone interested in showing their work may contact Dorothy Bennett, CCAC Visual Arts chair at 345-2821. limited use when businesses are focusing on desktop computers.

"There are times when I get very discouraged and depressed and frustrated," says Jenkins, a slender, soft-spoken 46-year-old. "It's like starting over from the beginning." Many others are starting over, too. Illinois' unemployment rate hit 5.5 percent in ECONOMY, A7 During November and December What's Codkin' is featuring photographs of New Deal Art in Post Offices by Mary Emma Thompson of Westfield. Thompson is a retired teacher and administrator, a member of The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International and the National New Deal Preservation Association. While attending the Delta Kappa Gamma Leadership Management Seminar in Austin, Texas, she was introduced to Depression art in post offices.

Since then she has taken photographs of the art in all the post offices in Illinois and some of the art in several other states. Most of the post office art was done through the Treasury Department Section of Painting and Sculpture (later Fine Arts). Because many of the artists worked for more than one project she has the last one, he said. The company is going out of business today. You've got 15 minutes to clear out.

Sorry and goodbye. Suddenly Jenkins had joined the ranks of the unemployed, a steadily growing group in Illinois. His health insurance is gone, which may leave him stuck with a $6,000 bill for his wife's recent surgery. His stock options are worthless, leaving him without a retirement fund. His training en the company's mainframe is of 1.

Economy brings uncertainty to many By The Associated Press PEORIA Things were finally clicking for David Jenkins. He had switched to days after 10 years on the graveyard shift. He was operating computers for a national mail-order company, a job with decent pay, health benefits and an employee stock-option plan. Then one day Jenkins' supervisor at Foster Gallagher Inc. called the employees into a conference room.

Here's your paycheck THE INTERNET READ ASSOC 3ATKD PRESS PI K)TO Jenkin's, 46, was left with a worthless retirement stock options fund, $6,000 in medical bills for his wife's surgery, and the realization that his training In main-frame computers didn't meet the needs of today's business environment. LOCAL NEWS, SPORTS AND LIFESTYLES STORIES ONLINE AT www.ig-tc.com.