Quad-City Times from Davenport, Iowa • 3

TIMES-DEMOCRAT Tuesday, Sept. 26, 1967 Davenport-Bettcndorf, Iowa Davenport Building Gutted Razed Be Bv Blaze Will PKsc "in iiiS teaiSMis1 mlm1 pair mhmm Photos By Gus Kondos Way Cleared For Lee FM Station WASHINGTON, Lee Enterprises and Mid-America Broadcasting, have filed with the Federal Communications Commission, (FCC) a joint petition requesting dismissal of Mid-America Broadcasting, Ind. application for FM Channel 285 at Moline, 111. The FCC was requested to grant the application of Lee Enterprises for the construction of a new FM station at Moline on the same channel. Lee Enterprises, of which Lee Broadcasting is a division, originally applied for a construction permit for a new FM station in Moline on June 28.

On Sept. 16, Mid-America Broadcasting, operators of WQUA in Moline, also applied for Channel 285 for an FM station. Both applications were set for. hearing before the FCC on Oct. 17, By negotiation an agreement was reached, the Mid-America Broadcasting, withdrawing.

The FCC will probably act within three or four weeks on the joint petition, and 30 days must elapse before a construction permit can be issued. Should Lee Enterprises receive the construction permit for a new FM station at Moline, it plans to install the latest type, high-fidelity stereo equipment to offer the Quad-City area a fulltime schedule of high-fidelity stereo programs of music and lift I fj lili ii HlXT Eric Eagelston, right, a deputy state fire marshal, is shown Monday with Moline Fire Capt. Dave Lambert, center, and W.E. McCormick, Davenport, inspecting the ruins of a sewer pumping station in Moline. An explosion destroyed the station, built at a cost of $180,000.

McCormick represents an insurance adjusting company. Stat Blast ion Tinown Not! Officials of Davenport city government and fire department peer through a doorway at the charred ruins of a downtown building before ordering demolition of the remaining walls Monday. From left are Fred Fiedler, assistant fire chief; Mayor John Jebens; Aid. R.W. Slack, chairman of the City Council fire department committee, and Darrell Doss, fire training officer.

Owner of the building was ordered to begin demolition by Friday or the city will do the work and assess costs against the property. 2 Iowa Escapees Are By JIM EBERLE The walls of a downtwon Davenport building gutted by fire early Sunday will be torn down by the city beginning Friday unless the owner boffins work sooner. That decision came from the City Council fire department committee Monday after city officials viewed the ruins in the 300 block of West Second Street. The burned-out building housed the Melrose Apartments, 1 's Sporting Goods Store and a 's Army Store. The property is owned by Joe Siroto, 214 Fern-wood Davenport.

Not Condemned The building was not con-d a process which would take 30 to 60 days. Instead, the fire department designated it a health and safety hazard, and the City Council, through the fire department committee, ordered the structure torn down. The building owner was given a "reasonable length of time" to begin leveling the remaining walls, in this case three days. If no work is done by Friday, the city will begin the razing and will assess the property owner for the cost of the work. Aid.

R. W. Slack, chairman of the fire committee, after viewing the remains, said the walls had buckled under the intense heat of the fire and might topple into Second Street. Tour Rubble Touring the rubble with Slack were Mayor John Je-bens, Aid. John W.

Stange and Aid. William Fennelly, both members of the fire committee; Robert McGrath, assistant-city attorney; Karl F. Ces-ler, assistant director of public works; Fred Fiedler, assistant fire chief, and other members of the fire department. The police department is expected to post a guard at the building until the demolition work begins. In the meantime, records and merchandise are being salvaged by the persons who operated businesses in the building.

Loss Estimated Insurance adjusters, some of whom have already inspected the rubble, are continuing their evaluations of the loss. Preliminary estimates placed loss of merchandise at upwards of $200,000. Siroto said loss of the building would amount to about $500,000. Two Davenporters arrested during the fire early Sunday for disobeying police orders appeared in Municipal Court Monday, Herbert Tobin, 330 W. 4th was fined $10 and costs.

Hearing for Melvin Frederick Behrend, 216 E. 6th was continued until Oct. 4. 3-Car Accident Hurls 3-Y ear-Old A three-ear chain reaction accident about 300 feet east of the Interstate 74 overpass on Coaltown Road, Moline, injured one person Monday. Treated at Moline Public Hospital was 'fracey Ash, 3, a passenger in a car driven by Donald Ash, 30, of 4703 50th Ave.

Moline. The other drivers were James A. Weber, 24, of 2525 31st St. Court, Moline, and Ernest Emerick, 41. of 1628 35th St.

Rock Island. Emerick was booked on a charge of driving too fast. From City stop the truck to determine if any prisoners were missing, Haugh said several Cascade residents turned out to aid officers in the search. I laugh said only men approaching parole are sent to the "minimum custody camp as a test to see if they can handle responsibility. Violated Trust "When it was discovered they had violated our trust, they had to be returned to the reformatory, warden said.

Haugh said liquor may have been given to the men by a visitor or any one of thou-sands of tourists who go through the heavily forested work camp. Edgington arrived at the reformatory March 16, 1966. after being taken to the Scott County jail three days earlier for parole violation in connection with his conviction on the breaking and entering charge Dec. 22, 1964. Edgington, who has brown eyes and dark brown hair, is described as being 5 feet 5 inches tall, and weighing 145 pounds.

McFarland is 5 feet 7 inches tall, weighs 150 pounds, w-ears glasses and has hazel eyes and brown hair. 'I By pnu Huicnuon etersen DOWNTOWN DAVENPORT "On the Move "Watch for big openings around October 1 or we might have to stretch it 'til Oct. 15. But you'll know somethin's happening, cause we'll let you know. But boy oh boy will you love to shop that NEW department specially the ladies! We're pultin' up the marquee right now across the building where this opening is gonna be.

Know what I like about this remodelin Everything gets so bright lookin! Cause I'm helping pick out the colors and I really like 'em bright bet you do to! Makes everything look bigger and better and that's how everything is you buy at Petersen's anyway. The kids really like our new Children's Shoe Department on Second. They like to sit in the big bright striped benches and some of the teensy ones like to watch the lights under the striped awnings. Something new all the time at this big store why dontcha come down and look around Petie in the goes on. fHjJJi HEARING AIDS urtip Cause By GUS KONDOS The cause of an explosion which destroyed a new $180,000 sewer pumping station in Moline -was still undetermined Monday night and an electrical engineer from Chicago was summoned by insurance adjusters to conduct an investigation.

The engineer and represent- lounge, mechanics and machine shops, welding laboratories, electrical centers, and data processing facilities. Iowa Girl Queen Of Stock Show OMAHA, Neb. (AP) Ka-thy Ahrendscn, 17, of Audubon, Iowa, has been named 1967 Iowa 4-II queen at the anil a 1 Ak-Sar-Ben Livestock Show. A veteran oi seven years of successful 4-H Club work, she is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Ed Ahrendsen. In 1965, she showed the champion purebred heifer and in 1963 her animals took purple ribbons in steer, market heifer and purebred heifer competition. She also exhibited the reserve champion purebred heifer at the Iowa State Fair for three consecutive years beginning in 1963. The proposed $30 million Scott County campus of Eastern Iowa Community College has been designed on a circular pattern, with a man-made lake at the center. Classroom buildings, student centers, administrative offices, and faculty rooms would face into a natural valley with wooded lawns.

Access roads and parking would encircle the buildings on the outside, with trees to screen the campus from surrounding residential areas. The site is located north of U.S. 67, south of Belmont Road, west of Devil's Glen Road, in Pleasant Valley. uty is expected in Moline today. "He is more familiar with explosions and their causes," Eagelston said.

Pumps Obtained Meanwhile, iReuben Peterson, director of the city's water pollution control department, said two submersible electrical pumps have been obtained and will be put into service to assure continued operation of the pumping station. Peterson emphasized that pumping was interrupted only briefly after the explosion. A gasoline-powered pump was put into service after the explosion, but Peterson said he preferred to use the electrically operated pumps. Battle Ground The pumping station area resembled a battle ground Monday. Chunks of the building's walls and roof and equipment were strewn over a wide area.

Peterson said the rubble will not be moved until the inspection is concluded and insurance adjusters approve removal of debris. A puzzle to Peterson and others on the scene was how a gasoline pump, with a 500-gal-lon underground tank, remained standing. Equally fortunate was the fact that the emergency pump, stored in a small structure to the east, was untouched by the force of the explosion. The pumping station, located in the 3800 block on River Drive, went into service about six months ago. Peterson said, however, that the city had not officially accepted the building.

Power Line Down The force of the explosion ripped down a 13,000 -volt power line which services industries in the area and in East Moline utility company crews made repairs quickly. Richard Deopere, superintendent of the East Moline waterworks located at Seventh Street, said the plants electrical system was knocked out by the toppling of the Moline power line. "We were on emergency power for about 40 minutes," Deopere said. Members of the Marine Corps Training Center, located just to the north of the pump station, were on duty through st of the day, clearing up bricks and chunks of concrete which fell on the center. Several cars at the center were damaged.

Emergency Parley Mayor James F. Arndt who was in Springfield, attending an Illinois Municipal League meeting, was in contact Monday with Peterson by telephone. Peterson said he intends to confer with Arndt today to determine what further action the city may take. "We'll have to erect some type of an 'emergency permanent' winter type of building to house the standby pumps until the building is replaced," Peterson said. SHAMPOO RUGS OR A FOOT! RENT SHAMP00ER FOR SI Petersen Harned Von Maur rk easy! atives of the Illinois state fire marshal's office will sift through wreckage today in an attempt to establish the cause of the Sunday night explosion.

A preliminary investigation was conducted Monday by Capt. David Lambert, Moline fire marshal, and Eric Eagelston, Wyoming, 111., state deputy fire marshal. Eagleston said another dep- Parking for 500 cars would be included in phase 1. Asked what would be the target date for completion of the entire campus, one school official shrugged his shoulders. He explained that enrollments, prospective state and federal funds, among other things, would govern this.

Architects, board members and school administrators used the world "flexible" to describe the master plan. They stressed that future growth in the vocational-technical college area, which is emphasized at the Scott County campus, is subject to innovations in science and technology. The campus site, donated by Alcoa last spring, is in a natural bowl The proposed buildings would be erected in a circular pattern along the north and south sides of the bowl with interconnecting links between. The architects said this arrangement offers the greatest flexibility. The contents, floor plans and design the various buildings could be altered to fit changing requirements as the building program Sought 1 Law enforcement authorities in three states continued a search Monday night for two men, one from Davenport; who escaped from a truck in Cascade about 1:30 a.m.

Monday while being returned to the Iowa Men's Reformatory, Anamosa. Missing are Larry Edging-ton, 23, Davenport, who was serving a 10-year term for breaking and entering in Scott County, and Richard McFarland, 25, who was committed to the reformatory from Jasper County for a 10-year term on a charge of larceny of a motor vehicle. Seven correctional officers from the reformatory, Iowa highway patrolmen and other area peace officers were concentrating their search in the Cascade area, C. H. Haugh, reformatory warden, said.

Police Alerted "So far we have not received any reports of a car being stolen from that area, so we are working under the assumption the escapees may still be in the vicinity," the warden said. I addition, authorities throughout Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin were alerted to the escape and provided with descriptions of the missing men, Uaugh said. The warden said the two men, along with three other prisoners, were being returned to the reformatory from the Yellow River Work Camp near McGregor after liquor was smelled on their breaths Sunday. Open Lock The prisoners contrived in some way to open the locked truck, Haugh said, and dropped from the vehicle while it was stopped for a traffic light in Cascade. A policeman in Cascade spotted two men running from near the truck and radioed ahead for Monticello police to BEN'S IEflTb 30 Million Vo-Tech Zenith believes a hearing aid should give you all the help Plan In PV Shown vou need smallest possible size.

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