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3D QUAD-CITY TIMES Friday, July 19, 1985 "07 sOcOdei CoBfe gidpgiwos By Tom Davidson QUAD-CITY TIMES KLJB, the Quad-Cities' first independent television station, will go on the air July 28, station officials announced Thursday. The sip-on announcement and the station's programming schedule were released at a reception hosted by the station for community leaders and advertising executives. The reception is the kick-off of what station vice president Cary Brandt said will be an extensive advertising and promotional campaign leading up to the sign-on. Channel 18 is the first Quad-City commercial televison station not affiliated with a national network. And like most independent stations, KLJB will rely heavily on a mix of movies, sports and re-runs like Hogan's Heroes, Perry Mason and The Rockford Files, Brandt said.

"There's a tremendous amount of programming that isn't seen in the Quad-Cities area," said Brandt. KLJB will follow a strategy called counter-programming to com pete against the area's three network affiliates and their first-run progams. Counter-programming, Brandt said, involves offering alternate choices to viewers who dont like the offerings of the network affiliates entertainment shows opposite the 10 p.m. news, for example. Instead of half-hour news broadcasts, KUB will have 90-second to two-minute newsbreaks at the top of the hour, said station President Lee Hanna.

Channel 18 will join public station WQPT-TV, Channel 24, on the frequency band. But KUB's signal will be much stronger than that of WQPT, avoiding some of the reception problems the public station has, Hanna said. Many televisions require an inexpensive UHF antenna to pick up the signals over the air. But cable TV customers won't need the antennas, Brandt said. Cox Cable Quint-Cities will carry KLJB on cable channel 7, and Group Cable, Rock Island, will carry the station on channel 4.

KLJB is owned by Davenport Communications Ltd. Principal stockholders include Hanna, a former NBC News executive who now operates a New York-based consulting firm with his brother, Ed; former Rock Island mayor James R. Davis; Simon 0. Roberts, director of adult basic education at Black Hawk College, Moline; Robert C. Smith, a former Davenport alderman and president of Riverbend Manufacturing Rock Island; and Brandt.

Station officials made their announcements before a reception at the Col. George Davenport home on Arsenal Island. The station donated $1,800 to the home's sesquicentennial refurbishing. Gary Brandt, vice president and general manager of KUB-TV, Channel 18, receives a painting of the Col. George Davenport home from John Norton, president of the Col.

Davenport Foundation. The new television station donated $1,800 to the foundation. (Times photo by Larry Fisher) II Tractors, track draw to i wzazam about 10 years ago. He likes the power of the tractors. She comes "because he enjoys it so much." The Whittington's also like the livestock exhibits, especially since Whittington used to raise hogs.

While the tractor pull and livestock exhibits are a tradition at the fair, Taurus is something new. "We keep trying something new to bring out more looks like Taurus is going to do it," said Dave Kraklow, a fair board member. One reason for the lower attendance earlier in the week may have been a switch from the tradition of By Barb Arland-Fye QUAD-CITY TIMES Taurus, a monster pickup-truck with two U.S. flags attached to its hood, roared into the grandstand area at the Rock Island County Fair Thursday night, crushing six junked cars to the delight of about 6,000 fair-goers. It was the highlight of a noLsy evening of souped-up tractor pulls and Taurus and the tractors drew the biggest crowd since the 116th annual fair started Tuesday.

Estimated attendance Tuesday ear drum-shattering than the loudest rock concert, A sea of arms quickly reach up to plug ears at the start of each race. But the noise is half the fun. "I think a lot of people come for the noise," said Connie Hickenbottom, of Moline, a tractor pull fan for 10 years. Daughter Christy, 10, admits she likes the noise and seeing how far a tractor can pull a weighted sled. Paul Whittington of Hampton has been going to tractor pulls for 20 years and his wife Nancy joined him reached 3,000 people, down by nearly half from last year, fair business manager Sheryl Lewsader said.

Wednesday's estimated attendance of about 5,000 people was average, Ms. Lewsader said. But the attraction of the tractor pull and Taurus drew 6,000 people to the fairgrounds Thursday night Most of the tractors in the tractor pull dont resemble any kind of tractor you'd see on a farm. The streamlined, souped-up tractors look more like hot rods on tractor wheels. And the noise they make is more lliit El i.i III mil i i.l Ml I I L.1 i i -Hi.

IJ RI fair having the rodeo on Friday and Saturday nights. This year the rodeo was held Tuesday and Wednesday night to draw top-notch competitors. That switch meant a drop in attendance this year, but Dave Copel-and, fair board secretary, thinks the rodeo crowd will pick up again next year, when people are used to the change. Copeland also suspects plenty of people will show up tonight and Saturday expecting to see the rodeo but there will be car races and the band "Atlanta" instead. Bix safe mm Police beat Child falls out off car An East Moline woman was cited for failure to secure a child passenger after her six-year-old daughter fell out of their car Thursday night Melissa York was treated for lacerations at Illini Hospital after the 6 p.m.

accident at 7th Street and 38th Avenue. Christine M. York, 26, of 915 35th was making a left turn onto 38th Avenue when her daughter fell out of the passenger side of the car, police said. Stepbrothers arrested Two teen-age stepbrothers were arrested Thursday after a burglar alarm was set off at the Venture Phar service station, 2000 36th Moline. When police arrived, they arrested a 13-year-old and a 15-year-old at the scene, police said.

The Moline boys have been released to the custody of their parents pending a hearing in juvenile court One of the boys broke a window and took some cigarettes from the service station about 2 a.m., police said. The other boy apparently did not want to participate in the burglary, but police found him with stolen cig-. arettes when they arrived, police said. Setting the record straight THE Davenport city bus ter-: minal at 3rd and Perry streets be moved to 2nd Street in front of the new Ground Transportation Center; during the Bix Fest July 25-27. Because of inaccurate informa- tion supplied by the city, the dates of the move were incorrectly reportedj in Wednesday's editions.

The terminal will move back to! 3rd and Perry after the festival until: the Ground Transportation Center is: completed in a couple of months. were a fire, some people might not have left the building because the system had cried "wolf" so often. That in fact already was happening. The lack of cooperation had even prompted Assistant County Attorney Theodore Priester to write an opinion for the county attorney's office that anyone refusing to leave during an alarm could be forcibly removed. Officials said that tactic had not been used, however.

In case you're wondering, it's fire department policy to send three trucks to the courthouse because of its importance and because of the number of people that are inside. A ladder truck is called to all downtown high-rise structure calls. I 1 and construction workers are also busily fixing this section of Kirkwood Boulevard in time for the Bix 7 Run. (Times photos) It's tough going for pedestrians at 2nd and Main streets Messes will be fixed for 10 arrested after Clinton street brawls By Carle Dann QUAD-CITY TIMES CLINTON, Iowa A series of brawls involving up to 150 people in a two-block area led to 10 arrests early Thursday in Clinton. When an officer arrived at Park-side Disco about 2 a.m., about 60 people, most of them patrons of the disco, were outside, and at least two fights were in progress, Clinton lt Police Chief Russel Bentley said.

Eventually, seven officers and Major, Clinton's police dog, were needed to control the crowd that had formed in the parking lot of Iowa State Savings Bank, Bentley said. NO ONE was seriously injured, The fight took place between the 200 block and Garfield Street on Main Avenue. A 23-year-old Clinton man was arrested when he threatened to "punch Major in the face," police said. And as James Allen Stone, 447 10th Ave. was being handcuffed, he grabbed an antenna on the squad car and cracked the windshield by banging his head against it several times, Bentley said.

Stone was charged with public intoxication, third-degree criminal mischief and interference with offi-cial acts. His girlfriend, Jamie Michele Reed, 19, of 308 18th Place, Clinton, was charged with interfer- ence with official acts when she tried to keep officers from arresting Stone. Gary Lamont Jones, 20, of Ster-ling, 111., was charged with assault, disorderly conduct and interference with official acts after an officer was struck in the facer Police arrested a man who was waving a baseball bat and yelling. Michael Dale Cooper, 19, of 91 Main Clinton, was charged with conduct OTHER arrests include: Interference with official acts Monte Dwayne Grooms, 20, of Rock Falls, 111., and Mario Faye Ful-sang. 21, of 408 3rd Ave.

Clinton. Public intoxication Michael Leon Young, 20, of Milwaukee, and Anthony Alan Sales, 24, of 607 7th Ave. Clinton. Disorderly conduct Michael D. Rivera, 22, of 1215 7th Ca-manche, and Tracy Aaron Russell, Stone, Jones, Young and Russell were released Thursday from Clinton County Jail after posting bond.

Reed, Cooper, Fulsang, Sales and Rivera were releasetTon their own recognizance, while Grooms was being held on bond. McGralh said. The work, which is being done by McCarthy Improvement Davenport, began June 5, McGrath said. The project is complete except for the brick replacement, he said. Construction workers are also fixing a section of Kirkwood Boulevard.

The street was torn up for some temporary sewer pairs, but will be ready for the race. If you've been wondering about the torn-up sidewalks on the corners of 2nd and Main streets in downtown Davenport, wonder no more. A city spokesman says the piles of bricks and missing sidewalk sections will be gone by the time the Bix 7 runners zip through downtown next week. The bricks which were between the sidewalks and the streets were torn up early last month as part of the street work to correct drainage problems. Temporary sidewalks will be installed by Wednesday, Pat McGralh of the city's engineering office said.

After the Bix run, the temporary sidewalks will be removed and the bricks will be replaced. Some of the old bricks will be used, and new bricks will be ordered, too, alarms erid; Those annoying false and presto the alarm goes off. The third floor detectors are especially sensitive because the hallway has a low ceiling and there's no air movement because of closed fire doors at each end. Today the system was shut off so that workers could begin installing an alternative system of heat detectors that wont be tripped anytime several people start smoking. The new system should be working in about two weeks.

That wont be too soon for some people, such as Sheriff Forrest Ash-craft "The phones ring and there is no one to answer them," Ashcraft said of the frequent evacuations. He also has been worried that if there really ladder truck from the Locust Street station on top of the hill roll back to their stations. That scene has been played out with annoying regularity lately seven times during the first two weeks of July. But that could be coming to a halt soon. The cause of most of the false alarms has been traced to the third floor, where courtrooms empty out into one main hallway.

Smoking is prohibited in the courtrooms, of course, so when there's a recess, all the smokers come out and light up en masse. The collective smoke rises up to the new smoke detectors that were installed as part of the courthouse renovation blaring, roar out of the Davenport central fire station in response to a fire calL The trucks, motors revving in first gear, scream across 4th Street which is blocked to traffic by red flashing lights, then just as suddenly screech to a halt a mere 30 feet away at the Scott County Courthouse. Waiting outside the courthouse is a strange mix of people everyone from lawyers and judges to guys charged with drunken driving and speeding. They hustled outside the building when the fire alarm went off. Again.

Moments later, the all-clear sip comes. Again. Another false alarm. The people shuffle back inside and the three fire engines and one By Rod Thomson QUAD-CITY TIMES The station doors burst open and three red and yellow engines, sirens Illinois lottery SPRINGFIELD (AP) The winning number drawn Thursday in the Illinois Lottery. Daily Game is 927.

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