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Postal Service Gives Holiday Mail Deadlines PAGE 9 - PLAINDEALER-WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, HOSPITAL NOTES 197:5 MONSTER IN THE SKY? - If your child came running home, excited over seeing a large balloon passing over McHenry, he wasn't telling a tale. Saturday morning, the Plaindealer photographer spotted this passenger balloon just above treetop level as it travelled over his home. There were at least two persons aboard, drif­ ting in a northerly direction. Photo at right: shows a burst of flame used to keep the craft in the air. No one is even guessing th«; balloon's destination. STAFF PHOTOS-WAYNE GAYLORD Urging all customers to mail as early as possible, the U.S. Postal Service has announced the following series of recommended mailing deadlines for the convenience of mailers: OCT. 15: International surface parcels to the Far East. OCT. 25: International surface greeting cards to the Far East. OCT. 27: Surface mail to Armed Forces in Antarctica, Australia. Burma. Indonesia, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Okinawa, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. NOV. 1: Surface and space available mail (SAM) to Armed Forces in Ethiopia, Iran, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. International surface parcels to Africa and the Near East. NOV. 4: International sur­ face greeting cards to Africa and the Near East. NOV. 10: Surface and Space available mail (SAM) to Armed Forces in South and Central America, the Congo and Liberia. Surface mail to Armed Forces in Belgium, Denmark, England, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. International surface parcels to South and Central America, and Europe. \OV. 17: Parcel Air Lift ! PAL) mail to Armed Forces in South and Central America, the Congo, Liberia, Iran, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. International surface greeting cards to South and Central America, and Europe. NOV. 20: Space Available Mail (SAM) to Armed Forces in Antarctica, Australia, Burma, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Okinawa, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, Belgium, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. Nov. 24: Surface mail and Space Available Mail (SAM) to Armed Forces in Canada, Greenland, Labrador, Newfoundland and the Azores. NOV. 27: Parcel Airlift (PAL) to Armed Forces in Belgium, Denmark, England. Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. Parcel Air Lift (PAL) mail to Armed Forces in An­ tarctica, Australia, Burma, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Okinawa, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and Viet­ nam. NOV. :fo: Parcel Air Lift (PAL) mail to Armed Forces in Canada, Greenland, Labrador, Newfoundland and the Azores. McHENRY HOSPITAL Patients admitted to McHenry hospital included Rory Major, Stella Kilroy, Walter Gordon. Herman Jones, Fred Greseke, Michael J. Weinlein, Fran C. Freund, Eugene Raven, David Zabielski, Richard Abel, George Paschke, Eddie T Gray, Lester C. Dobbins, Michael L Motch, Douglas Shafer, Marie Heinricks, McHenry; Anthony Palminteri, Island Lake; Paulette James, Patricia Gumm, David Wohlert, Richmond; and Jeffrey Allen Severs, Spring Grove. BIRTHS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL WOODSTOCK Mr. and Mrs Buddy Rogers announce the birth of a daughter, Honey Rose, on Oct. 2 at Memorial hospital . Woodstock. The young lady weighed 7 lbs. , 4 oz.. and has a brother. Will , 6. and Ruthie, 5. Maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Ted Beahler, the paternal grandfather is Louis Rogers, all of McHenry. Great- grandparents are Mr and Mrs. A. Hatch of Wisconsin; Mrs. Louis Rogers and Chet Gulicsion. both of McHenry McHENRY HOSPITAL Mr. and Mrs. Kasper Vann are parents of a son Oct. 5. It takes perseverance to stick to things you aren't stuck on. i Two Liberian men of the Belleh tribe, Francis Howard and Fork- pah Cooper, are shown with Missionary Richard Thompson who will be at a dinner rally at Zion Lutheran church, 4206 Waukegan road, Nov. 14. An American pastor who decided to follow the call to the last and least of the forgotten peoples of the earth, the Rev. Richard Thompson, now stationed in the Belleh tribe in Liberia, West Africa, will be touring the Midwest in October, November, December with two of his African helpers ~ tribesmen Forkpah and Francis. McHenry will be in­ cluded in the forty-day tour. A native of San Francisco, Pastor Thompson became a Christian as a teen-ager and enrolled at California Con­ cordia college in Oakland, after which he finished his training at Concordia seminary in Springfield, 111. Parish ex­ perience came in Eureka, Montana, near the Canadian border. In 1969, he heard about the Challenge of Lutheran Bible translators, then seeking recruits to open a new field in Liberia, West Africa. He en­ tered the Summer Institute of Linguistics, the famed Wycliffe training program, at the University of North Dakota, and was assigned, along with his wife, to the Belleh people of Liberia, a tribe of 7,000 people where only 100 had any prior experience with Christianity. The couple were welcomed into the tribe by Senator Willie Belleh, area statesman active in the political life of the country of Liberia with its capitol city, Monrovia. The Senator offered the Thompsons his personal dwelling as their first home. After about a year they located in the village of Kon- jade, the cultural and linguistic center of the tribe. Here, ac­ cording to Thompson, their survey indicated, the purest form of Belleh was spken. Customs found nowhere else in the scattered tribe are still maintained. The two Belleh men who are accompanying the Bible translator to this country are Forkpah and Francis. Both received exposure to Christian teachings at a mission school in a neighboring tribe while they were boys. Through the combined efforts of Forkpah and Francis, Pastor Thompson has now developed the first Belleh primer. Belleh people, including the very aged, are eager to learn to read and write. The outdoor slide showings of Bible stories has whetted their appetite for the Story of Jesus and New Testament translation is getting under way. Recently, after long sessions with the tape recorder and efforts to mimic Belleh sounds, Pastor Thompson discovered a breakthrough in his own per­ sonal use of the Belleh. The Belleh men will demonstrate some of the music of West Africa and the special garb worn in Belleh land. Audiences will hear samples of their native speech as well as translations on the spot by the Bible translator. 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