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Friday, April 18, 197S Page 14 THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS Tower Burning For Noblesville Primary May Attract Many JIOT '-rr I Training Aske Flanders Rhoades Sptcial to Thl Newt NOBLESVILLE, Ind. Political observers expect a good turnout in the May 6 primary as Noblesville voters decide five contests on the Republican side and three on the Democrat ballot. I By HUGH RUTLEDGE A revision in the city's air pollution code is being considered to permit construction of a "towering inferno" fire-fighting training tower in Wayne Township, it was announced today. HAMILTON BOONE II Suburban 1 I PolitigjU 1 HENDRICKS I MARION HANCOCK The Republican party is expected to slate a candidate for the 3rd Ward in the November election, since there were no GOP filers. Incumbent 3rd Ward Coun-' cilman Michael L.

Casey is unopposed for the Democrat nomination. The Democrats have no candidate for the 4th Ward (council nomination. The Republicans, however, have a three-way contest involving Paul D. Baier, Steven C. Dil-linger and Clarence G.

McKinney Charles R. Ely is the only Democrat candidate for the at-large council seat nomination. On the GOP side, C. Murphy White, William C. Pierce and Jere Roudebush are locked in a three-way struggle for the nomination.

SUBURBAN IN i SHELBY JOHNSON Junoc.iu I the Indianapolis Air Pollution Control Board will conduct a public hearing at 7 p.m. Thursday in the City-County Building on the proposed regulation that would allow smoke produced by such a facility. The Wayne Township Volunteer Fire Department has petitioned for the code amendment so it can build a fire-fighting training academy, including the six-story training tower, on a 13-acre site in the 6100 block of West Ohio Street. According to Wayne Town- NEWS Beech Grove Schools Promote 2 Administrators Two administrative changes in the. Beech Grove City Schools were announced today by the board of education.

Keith Rhoades, principal of the junior high school since 1968, has been a p.o i director of instruction. James Flanders, vice principal of the junior high school since 1968, has been promoted to principal. The board eliminate the position of vice principal. Rhoades was graduated from Speedway High School. He holds degrees from Wittenberg College and Indiana University.

He joined the Beech Grove schools in 1964 after teaching and coaching four years at Morgantown High School and 10 years at Bloom-ington High School. Flanders began teaching at Beech Grove Junior High School in 1963 after teaching three years at LaRue County High School in Hodgenville, Ky. He has bachelor's and master's degrees from Western Kentucky State University at Bowling Green. and Patrick W. Reed.

Cora Sue Castor and Low-ena T. Layton seek the GOP nomination from the 2nd Ward. Second Ward nomination candidates on the Democrat side are Glenn Beaver and Paul Doan. ship fire officials, the 95-foot structure would be the first in a series of training buildings and pits to be constructed behind an abandoned fire station near the Rockville Road inter- Mr. and Mrs.

Spurlock Franklin Set For Spurlock Center Rite Special to Tin News FRANKLIN, Ind. Franklin College will dedicate its new i 1 1 i a Spurlock Physical Education Center April 25. Dedication ceremonies will begin at 8 p.m. There will be an open house and tours of the new fieldhouse at 6:30 p.m. and after the program.

Included in the vprogram will be the inauguration of the Franklin College Hall of Fame. Fifteen persons will be honored by being named to the Hall of Fame, including Franklin's legendary "Wonder Five" basketball team of the 1920s. Special recognition will be paid to William and Clarice Spurlock, and the late Truman Hoover and his widow, Mildred Hoover, and other donors who made the facility possible. Spurlock is a retired executive vice president of Eli Lilly Co. Hoover also was a retired vice president of Lilly and a member of the board of trustees of the college from 1950 until his death in 1971.

Dr. Wesley Haines, college president, said, "The dedication program of Spurlock Center provides an occasion for a Hoosier send-off for Robert P. 'Fuzzy' a i i of the Franklin Class of 1927, who on April 23 will be inducted into the National Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass." change of 1-465. The fire station would be remodeled to become the department's administration headquarters, according to the plans. David F.

Rees, chairman of the pollution control board, today said the proposed revision of the air pollution code would only be enabling legislation that would permit the eventual establishment of strict rules and permit procedures for the controlled open burning for training purposes. Rees explained that a regulation approved by the board two years ago is still in effect. It allows limited burning of vacant structures for fire training purposes. He said he anticipates that the burning of these vacant buildings would be banned if the proposed academy is built and made availal2 to other fire departments a the county. According to Wayne Township fire oficials, the training tower would be equipped to simulate fires on all floors with different smoke densities.

Firemen would be trained in the proper use of breathing equipment and different types of rescue operations. Also being considered is the construction of a helicopter landing pad on top of the tower for training in rescue operations. Construction of the training tower and the remodeling of the station house is expected to be financed with $350,000 in Federal revenue sharing funds available through the Wayne Township trustee office. Long-range plans call for installation of a rescue training and demonstration area, a fire pit, an electrical fire building and a structure for forcible entry training, according to Wayne officials. Pilgrimage Set Up By Pioneers Society On the GOP ballot, Mayor Max E.

Robinson, a Noblesville real estate agent, is opposed in his bid for a second-term nomination by Gregory L. Caldwell, a 33-year-old Noblesville attorney. The winner will go against the victor in a three-way Democrat race for that party's nomination for mayor. Harold L. Box, one of the first two Democrats elected to the Noblesville City Council in seven years and an unsuccessful Democrat candidate for mayor in the November 1967 election, is running against political newcomers William L.

Bentley, a maintenance man with TRW Casting Inc. Noblesville, and Robert Wical, former owner of a Noblesville shoe storev May Cook, incumbent Republican clerk-treasurer, i unopposed in her bid for a second-term nomination. Her opponent in the fall will be Betty Donoff a 1 -t i Democrat party worker, who is her party's sole aspirant to the clerk-treasurer's office. Incumbent Noblesville City Judge Luke Kenley, who also is a partner in a grocery with his father, has chosen not to seek election to the judgeship and neither party has a candidate for the office in the Judge Kenley was appointed to the post March 16, 1974, by Mayor Robinson after Judge Jerry Barr resigned. Democrats David Baker and Robert E.

Gagle are vying for their party's council nomination in the 1st Ward. The victor will face the winner of the GOP race between Russell P. 45-Man Force mm am mmm I "4 For Time Trials? A combined 45-man, three-department police force to pa- -trol inside the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on the first day of time trials and on race day was proposed yesterday. Robert Copeland, chief of the Speedway City Police De-p a heads a special Speedway traffic committee. He said the plan calls for 15-man details each from the Indianapolis Police Department, Marion County Sheriff's Department and State Police.

The sheriff's office and The "spring pilgrims" will stop for lunch at noon at the Key West Shrimp House in Frankfort. At 2:45 p.m., they will visit the Goodwin Funeral Home in Frankfort to view owner J. William Goodwin's antique auto collection. Ralph Stark of Lebanon will conduct a tour of Lebanon at 4 p.m. The bus will return to the Greyhound station in Indianapolis at 6 p.m.

Reservations for the tour may be made with Miss Vivian Kirkpatrick, Riley Center, Apt. 1102, 600 N. Alabama, Indianapolis, 46204. The cost of the trip is $10 per 'person, including lunch and a gratuity for the driver. The Society of Indiana Pioneers will conduct its annual spring pilgrimage May 10, taking members and their friends on a bus tour from Indianapolis through Zions-ville, Frankfort and Lebanon and back.

The bus will leave the Greyhound Bus Station at 8 a.m., taking U.S. 421 and Ind. 334 to arrive at the Patrick Henry Sullivan Museum in Zionsville at 8:45 a.m. Coffee and rolls will be served by the museum's curator, Mrs. Gailerd Ford, before the group tours the town and stops at the rural Zionsville home of Mr.

and Mrs. Ford for a visit to a restored livery stable and pioneer cabin. Scout-A-Rama Set At Martinsville Special to Till Nws MARTINSVILLE, Ind: -More than 500 Boy Scouts are expected tomorrow for a Scout-O-Rama at the Morgan County fairgrounds. Milt Luka, Scout executive for the Morgan County area, said 35 units will be entered. Some troops will camp out on the fairgrounds.

State Police already have agreed to the plan. Participation of the Indian-a 1 i Police Department hinges on approval of Mayor Richard Lugar. At the same time, the special traffic committee strongly suggested the track's own "safety patrol" do more than just direct traffic. Copeland, said, "If there are fans on a fence, don't call a policeman. "Use a little authority and get them off.

This is not our (police) job. It's not a criminal act." Need for some kind of beefed-up authority inside the track is due to rowdyism in the first turn, commonly referred as the "snake pit," where a serious situation was averted on the first day cf time trials last year by quick and firm police action. Speedway officials, in an effort to cut the size of the crowd in the snake pit, have arranged to park more cars in the area. Maj. Paul Vogel of the State Police said his agency will 15 men to inside track activity, dawn from about 45 last year.

Participation by sheriff's department personnel inside the track would mark the first time in several years for deputies to work inside. at wtdmiMone 293.5580 KM Ambassadeur 5000D: Referendum Proposed On Annexation The Eastern Lawrence Township Planning Council last night voted to suport a community referendum to resolve the annexation of the area into the city of Lawrence or Indianapolis. The council announced it will conduct a series of public hearings. The group plans to have a referendum ready for the November election. The city of Lau rence annexed the area in question in 1969.

The annexation involved 5,871 acres and took in Oak-landon and Indian Lake. after the annexation a suit, initiated by members of the Oaklandon Volunteer Fire Department, was filed. The suit blocked the annexation and has not been resolved. At last night's meeting the council voted to take a neutral position while sponsoring the public hearings. In April 1974 the council on record favoring the "annexation of the area to reel that bass fishermen asked for.

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A spokesman for the Indianapolis Fire Department arson division said arson was suspected. Firemen were at the scene until 3-16 a.m. 11 AAA -7TX ng I GARCIA FISI Hi BODS Danville Awaits Bowen SpKill ft TIN Ntwt DANVILLE, Ind. Gov. Otis Bowen will speak at the 'Republican Lincoln Day dinner at 7 p.m.

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