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A2 THE PANTAGRAPH, FRIDAY, NOV. 25, 1983 Holiday sharing carries out spirit of Thanksgiving i- 1 I iul Ah 1 jP ifj I I 4r4 i 1 I iiiiiniii in iii -fc JM- I By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS with Pantograph staff A giant turkey flapped down the streets of Manhattan, businessmen opened their doors to the needy and Army cooks set out a holiday dinner for servicemen in Grenada as families across the nation gathered to feast and count their blessings on Thanksgiving Day. More than 350 years after Pilgrims and Indians shared a meal in the wilds of the New World, churches, soup kitchens, food banks and charitable organizations dug into their pockets to feed the old and poor. In Bloomington, nearly 200 turkey dinners were delivered from the Home Sweet Home Mission to disabled and elderly residents in the community. In addition, 90 meals were served at the mission to volunteers and those who had no one with whom to share the holiday.

"We really open up our doors to whomever wants to come and join us," said Cindy Shomo, family life director. Many Twin Cities families make a tradition of delivering the mission dinners, Ms. Shomo said. "They enjoy brightening someone else's day," she said. Twin City firemen enjoyed turkey and the trimmings at the various fire stations in the community.

"We had the works," said Bloomington firefighter Mike Walsh, who prepared turkey and dressing at his home to share with the Thanksgiving crew at the headquarters station. In Pontiac, Baby Bull's Restaurant had served nearly 200 free Thanksgiving meals by noon. "We are delighted," owner Jim Letsos said. He added he was especially happy he saw people come in alone. "No one should have to stay home and eat a cheese sandwich by themselves." By the end of serving at 4 p.m., 800 dinners had been served; double the amount served last year when Letsos started the event as a show of appreciation for the community.

Guests were also treated to a surprise visit by Kevin Quivelle, who was maitre d' for the day. Quivelle was the special effects man in the movie "Grandview, U.S.A.," which was recently filmed in Pontiac. Some of the country's more recent arrivals, like the British so long before them, found special ways to give thanks in their new home. Bill Mihalopoulos, a native of Greece who set up a restaurant in Iowa City, Iowa, prepared 400 dinners to give away, while Ramazan Yuksek, once a poor Turkish immigrant, offered a free turkey feast for the elderly at his New York City eatery. Mani Roy, owner of an Indian restaurant in Atlanta, donated 200 meals of rice and curry to the Union Mission.

In several cities high school bands stepped smartly in parades punctuated by clowns and brightly colored floats. In New York the giant Mickey Mouse balloon was sidelined with a bad arm and skies were over- Pantagraph pholO'LORI ANN COOK Ninety people were served Thanksgiving dinners yesterday at Home Sweet Home Mission, 300 Mission Drive, Bloomington. Traditionally, the mission provides turkey with the trimmings in its dining room and delivers dinners to elderly and disabled people in the community. holiday at his California ranch, while an X-rated movie palace a few blocks from the White House laid out a turkey buffet for its patrons. In Washington state, Sen.

Slade Gordon and Lt. Gov. John Cerberg on Wednesday helped serve turkey to 2,500 of Seattle's hungry at the Strand Hotel. The Strand offered its holiday dinner a day early "so the guys can take advantage of the other free-meal programs on Thanksgiving," said organizer Robert Willmott. "We figure they're just as hungry the day before as on Thanksgiving." ners for more than 30 elderly people who otherwise would have spent the holiday alone.

Residents of Miami Beach donated food, clothing and cash to the 90 residents of an old hotel that went bankrupt and had two mortgage payments due yesterday. The Boston Indian Council distributed baskets of food to indigent Native Americans in eastern Massachusetts. In Baltimore, the poor dined on fare provided by students of L'Ecole cooking school. President Reagan marked the out were treated to dinner by Minnie Bolds, a 40-year-old unemployed social worker who estimates she spends $4,000 annually on her 12-year-old tradition. "You can't teach compassion, you have to do it by action," she said.

Raul Jimenez shut down production at his San Antonio, Texas, tamale and tortilla factory so that his employees could fix meals for 17,500 elderly people. Post office employees in Brain-tree, dished up turkey din cast, but thousands of people lined the streets to watch the bands and floats of the 57th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. A half-million people braved brisk winds and temperatures in the low 30s for Detroit's festivities. Sports fans loosened their belts and put up their feet to watch professional football games on television. Some Cleveland youngsters tuned out the grownup chatter and tuned in to a 12-hour marathon of popular "Star Trek" episodes.

In Philadelphia, the down-and- Arson suspected in Des Plaines blaze Children pry door, find parents dead out of the windows and roof As I watched, the fire almost tripled in size." Geodroic said he suspects arson because there were several "points of origin" of the fires. The building hours before it was brought under control. The blaze, which gutted the building, was still smoldering hours later. Brad Carter, 30, a resident in a nearby section, said his dog "started acting up when she smelled smoke I saw the building was on fire, flames were coming at Holy Family Hospital and released. More than 150 people were evacuated from 39 apartments in a three-story, cinderblock section, one of six such units in the northwest-suburban complex.

Firefighters from nine suburbs battled the roaring fire for seven was a total loss, he said, and damage to the building alone could be from $2 million to $3 million. it JUST IN TIME FOR 1 CHICAGO (AP) Four children who could not find their parents Thanksgiving morning pried open the couple's bedroom door and found them shot to death in what police called a murder-suicide caused by chronic marital problems. "The way it appears is that he shot her and then shot himself," said Detective Richard Cauble. He identified the victims as Carlos Vargas, 35, a machine shop laborer, and his wife, Adamine Jiminez, 31. They suffered wounds to the head from a gun and were dead on arrival at Illinois Masonic Hospital.

"As far as I can find out, there's been a continuing argu SAVE $61 to M16 Tentative pact OK'd for Woodland teachers CM ment about their marriage status," Cauble said. "They were soon to be divorced." Neighbors in the Chicago Housing Authority project reported hearing gunshots about 12:15 a.m., police said. The children, three boys ages 13, 7 and 5, and a daughter 14, apparently became worried about their parents and pried open the bedroom door with a screwdriver about 11 a.m, Cauble said. The children found the couple dead on the floor. Cauble said the Illinois Department of Human Services made arrangements for the children to live with an uncle and a grandfather.

month for family premiums. That insurance payment is retroactive to July 1. Woodland teachers had voted to begin a series of job actions after meetings broke off in the early morning hours of Tuesday. At that point in negotiations, teachers had said they would come down to a $13,800 base salary. Although the agreement is tentative, head teacher negotiator Armin Groom predicted ratification.

Negotiations, which began in April broke off Oct. 17. At that time both parties requested a mediator. The pilot of Air Florida flight 3 kept the runway in sight and landed under the from the one remaining engine, Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Loretta Bridgeworth said. DES PLAINES (AP) Arson is suspected in a predawn fire that caused $2 million to $3 million in damage in an apartment complex yesterday, Fire Chief Charles Geodroic said.

Five police officers, a volunteer firefighter and a resident suffered minor injuries. They were treated Pair of chutists jump 54 stories; 1 flops, other flees LOS ANGELES (AP) Two parachutists jumped from the top of the 54-story Crocker Center in downtown Los Angeles, and while one escaped safely, the other was arrested when a wind gust blew him through a window on the 36th floor. Police said Mark Strayhorn, 28, of San Gabriel sailed into an empty office of the skyscraper on South Grand Avenue at. 4 p.m. Wednesday and was arrested while trying to hide his parafoil, a wing-like, military-style chute.

He complained of hip and knee injuries and was taken to the jail ward at County-USC Medical Center, where he was booked for investigation of felony vandalism after treatment. "That was several thousand dollars worth of window he broke," said an officer who declined to be identified. The other jumper escaped. "I saw this guy with a parafoil," said lawyer James Beebe, who was in the building. "He spiraled down and he landed in the grass area just south of the Music Center.

Then he just gathered his stuff up. He had a car waiting and he just got in the car and drove off." Police Sgt. Frank Spangler said shards of glass which rained onto the street could have hurt someone. Two years ago, a judge issued a temporary restraining order banning a parachuting group from jumping off the Crocker Center, then under construction. Members tf the organization, called BASE, liked to parachute from buildings, bridges, towers and mountains.

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