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A-1 "SI 1995 Decatur, Illinois Friday, August 4, 1995 50 cents Home delivery: 38 cents cite i pi Co I mat i Reich says many teens may go astray without program Fair suspect forgery in permit case Harristown couple sue village, claiiriing their reputations harmed. By DAVE MOORE Staff Writer HARRISTOWN Did someone in Harristown village government forge Everett Mitchell's signature on a building permit in an attack against Everett and his wife, Janet? Reich Labor secretary condemns House vote. 'If we don't give them work during the summer then what can we expect in a few years' help provide jobs this summer. However, he said a new study of the jobs program in 20 urban areas found that his appeal had only limited success. The study by Westat Inc.

of suburban Rockville, also predicted that private sector hiring and state and local government programs next year "will not come close to taking up the slack" from the elimination of the federal program. ficulty finding private sector jobs and who make up nearly half of the youth served by the public sector program. "Many of these kids are facing life choices about whether to stay in school and play by the rules, or possibly go down a different route," he maintained. "If we don't give them work during the summer then what can we expect in a few years' time?" Reich had urged private business to plied for each of the 615,000 jobs created under the program this year. "That doesn't bode well for next summer, when Congress threatens to cut off all funding," he said in an interview.

"It's likely that at least 1 million disadvantaged young people will be on the streets, unable to find jobs." Reich said the jobs shortage will be especially acute for 14- and 15-year-olds who have the greatest dif WASHINGTON (AP) More than 1 million disadvantaged youths likely will spend their school vacation on city streets next year unless Congress revives a summer jobs program, Labor Secretary Robert Reich predicts. The House voted Wednesday to eliminate the summer jobs program in 1996 by cutting its entire $871,000 budget. Reich noted Thursday that more than two disadvantaged youths had ap Murder Victim Remembered Quick Take -If It 4 4 5 ittllll 0, DECATUR, Celebration rue Mwc "-i-, 4 I 1 -I els 1 4 LUe talk to Decatur Celebration entertainers Mary Wilson of the Supremes and the Electric Liqht Orchestra Part II. Lifestyle D1 1 11 11.11. 1,1.

Herald ReviewHerb Slodounik MEET THE PRESS: Members of murder victim Sherry Lewis' family hold a press conference at Central Park Thursday to remind people of the first anniversary of her death and ask them to take Sherry's memory with them by wearing a green ribbon. At left, Sherry's sister, Debbie Lewis, and Macon County Sheriff Lee Holsapple talk to reporters as another sister, Terry Lewis-Foor, holds a picture of the victim. GAO: Disability rolls have healthy number of unqualified recipients NationWorld A2 a (0 By KRISTI RUGGLES Staff Writer That's what the retired couple are claiming in a suit they've filed against the village. They're seeking more than $265,000 in damages. The 2-year-old dispute centers around an addition to a horse barn that was built in 1993 on the Mitchells' property at 353 S.

Gravel Pit Road. The Mitchells claim they received a building permit from the village on March 17, 1993, that approved their plans for construction. The roof of their addition peaked at about 19 feet when completed, Janet Mitchell said. When the barn addition was built, a village representative showed up with a different building permit, which the Mitchells claim they'd never seen. The second building permit was signed "Everett L.

Mitchell" but, the Mitchells claim, by someone else's hand. The second permit included the words, "maximum building height 15 feet," according to a document provided by Mitchells' attorney, Maurice Barry. The second permit includes the phrase "to be used by Mitchells to ride their horses." Both permits were dated March 17, 1993, and both referred to a 50- by 90-foot addition to an auxiliary building. "I never ever seen that (second) piece of paper until the building was done," Everett Mitchell said Thursday. "We were totally unaware when we built that building that we were doing anything incorrect," Janet Mitchell said.

The village took the Mitchells to court in 1993 on charges that they violated a village ordinance with the addition's height, based on the second building permit. In that suit, village attorney Jim Johnson filed an affidavit that said the first permit didn't refer to the "accessory buildings such as that of the defendants." Johnson wrote that the second permit was the "final building permit." This spring, the village agreed to dismiss the case when a village zoning board approved a variance for the barn addition. But the Mitchells still feel personally attacked. That's why they filed the lawsuit on July 21. "Personally, I feel the village of PERMIT Continued on A4 Shelby County murder, suicide investigated NEOGA Shelby County authorities are investigating an apparent murder-suicide that was discovered Thursday afternoon at a residence near Lake Mattoon.

The identity of those who died is being withheld, pending the notification of relatives. Shelby County sheriff's deputies went to the residence after neighbors and the employer of an occupant of the house became concerned about that person's whereabouts. A daughter of the occupant of the house was summoned and entry was made to the house, where the apparent murder-suicide was discovered. Shelby County Coroner Brian Green and the sheriff's office declined to provide further details Thursday night, saying more information would be released today. Lake Mattoon is located halfway between Mattoon and Effingham and straddles Shelby, Cumberland and Coles counties.

"I'm always thinking about it or dreaming about it," Terry said. "I thought it would be solved in a couple of months," she said. "But I know this is a tough case. I know Sherry better than anyone, and I can't imagine why anyone would have done something like this." Terry held an 8-by-10 color photograph of her twin during a press conference by the fountain in Central Park on Thursday as sister-in-law Janette Foor asked the public to wear green ribbons to Decatur Celebration this weekend. The family has made more than 4,600 ribbons to be worn Saturday in memory of Sherry.

They are are available at Harold's House of Donuts, Sun Control, Hair Styles for Men Only, Gregory's Popcorn, Mr. Rush, Carla-N-Co in Clinton and most area real estate offices. Unsolved, but unfcrgotten The mother of murder victim Dorianne Warnsley also knows the pain. Story A3 ing, but Macon County Sheriff Lee Holsapple said there is a suspect. The suspect is in custody on another charge somewhere in Central Illinois, so Holsapple said he cannot flee or harm anyone while investigators firm up the Lewis case.

"I feel confident that we are still moving in the right direction," he said. "But we still have some pieces of the puzzle to put together." Holsapple said there may be other suspects. For the Lewis family, the uncertainty is tough. DECATUR In a dream recently, Terry Lewis-Foor relived the last evening she spent with her twin sister, murder victim Sherry Lewis. "I asked her, 'Sherry, who killed Lewis-Foor said Thursday, "And she said, 'I really didn't know the What Sherry said to Terry in her dream is what the surviving sister has thought all along: Sherry was an easy target for a stranger.

Terry last saw her sister alive on Aug. 3, 1994. Two days later, someone strangled the real estate agent in a home she was scheduled to show on Finch Drive. Saturday marks the first anniversary of her death. No one has been arrested for the slay- .1 V- Straza stages comeback Traffic Tips Congressman's remark hits more than Koresh E.

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High 85. TONIGHT: Scattered showers. Low 69. Details B6 Tenn. and Tennessee are a lot mmmmm like David Koresh when it comes to having sex with minors.

He later apologized. In an interview last month with the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette of Indiana, Republican Rep. Mark Souder said: "The only law that (the FBI) clearly established (Koresh) broke that I can see so far is he had sex with consenting minors." "Do you send tanks and government troops into the large sections of Kentucky and Tennessee and other places where such things occur?" he added. On Wednesday, Rep. Mike Ward, responded: "I can't decide if I'm more outraged by his thinking that there is such a thing as consensual sex with a minor, or that he says that it goes on commonly in Kentucky." Souder's spokeswoman, Angela Flood, later said Souder has acknowledged that the phrase "consenting minors" was a "wrong choice of words" and that "he shouldn't have narrowed it down to Kentucky and Tennessee." The congressman said that when he made his comments, Republicans only had evidence that Koresh had sex with 14-year-olds.

He noted that a teen-ager tearfully told lawmakers later that Koresh had sex with her when she was 10. In the interview, Souder pointed out that neither the children nor their parents objected to the Waco, Texas, cult leader having sex with the girls. "The question is to what level do you try to enforce" laws against sex with minors, Souder said. un -i I I I immmmk immmmi E. Wood St.

W. Wood St. Index Ann Landers D4 Movies D4 Business C1 Obituaries A7 Comics D5 Puzzles Lifestyle. D1-4 Television D6 Our 123rd year Issue 152 Four sections CO Courthouse Parade Route A Roads Blocked rl 1 Ml UJ MapJean Zerfowski Decatur Celebration will change downtown driving patterns today through Sunday. Use this map and the detailed listing on A4 for help.

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