The Pantagraph from Bloomington, Illinois • Page 3

THE PANTAGRAPIT. RLOOMINGTOX, SATURDAY. JULY ID, 1011. WANT-ADS 4500 WPA INVENTORY i'HONE Tunnn .1 I Motorcyclists Race 1,668 Miles of Highway Sunday Before 2,000 Constructed in County 50 Riders From 5 States To Compete t.t a-, to t- r' I -v. Much Work Yields Little An energetic and persistent thief Friday must have been certain crime doesn't pay.

Thursday night he broke out the west window of the Spencer Hall gas station at Cooksville but didn't enter the building. Then he went on a padlock breaking spree, smashing two pump locks. One pump yielded nothing. He finally left with a few gallon of white gas from another. Nothing else was missing, according to a report on file with the McLean county sheriff.

THEY'RE IN THE ARMY NOW Six Young Men Enlist In Army Tr.t t.ir 1 I a-y I The Bin 1 fi tn in ih ar-l ritT cr lUffy A 1: a. J. It "i ia wr-'V WW -A 5 I a Jei i i lr rr. fi I -kr i I'- ikt ar f- t.i i i i 1 -n 7tv tk It i- cJk. Mn -n II Vtf i l-rts-ra v.

1 1. T-fc I I i i I X'-'- fr m.mII IIhmm, r1rr. 6M South Seas Allin Twp. Goes Over On USO Fund Turns in 1 66.40, More Than Asked Allin townshi HIT town or Stanford. ecoeiioA Trcr i.vy quota by 50 cents, the USO head- vjuaiicio announcea Friday.

Th township turned in $166.40 and the quota was $165.90. The Bloominztrai Trj. Labor assembly and the ladies' so- weLy ot lne isrotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers also made contributions to the McLean county drive. Three Auto Crashes Do Some Damage No One Gets Hurt In Crackups, However Three accidents Fridnv naA serious Injuries, although one car was reported to police to have been badly damaged in a collision at Seminary street and Ewing ave- This auto, driven by Charles Emery. 1108 North -v.

4 avenue, colhded late Friday afternoon with unven Dy Charles Gaither North EwirvT avenue. Front of the Gaither auto was rerortrt aged. Another collision la the 100 block of South Madison Friday morning between autos driven by Larlson, 713 West ana carl Mockertj 10? gouth Madison street, resulted In fender damage to th T.ori, mr ana damaged bumper on Mockerfs An auto driven fcy Leonard Johnson, of Rodgers Park. and an company truck collided Friday morning at Main and Washington streets damaging the front of the Johnson car. nl I CL 1 jrlSTOl 0(1001 Gcfi Robert Tayfcr Award for S.HI la t2- I.t.'-t a i I M.KUY...

weather rocker l.y Entrepreneur a la Jacobssen Named County Supervisor Council Also Chooses New Inspector of City Garbage Clarence Jacobssen wa annninf. ed to the McLean county board of supervisors and Walter J. Reiner was named oity garbage inspector by the city council Friday night in a short session. Mr. Jacobssen fills the place on the board of supervisors left vacant by the death of A.

L. Arnold. He will serve on the citv relation nnH child welfare committees of the Doara. Mr. Reiner renlaces Leo Hab am city garbage inspector.

Mr. 1Ia offered his resignation at the council meeting last Friday. His "vmiu ui was approved. C1ILOKINATOK IUI. A bid by Wallace Tiernan company.

Incorporated on chlorinator and repairs on two reserve chlorinators was referred 'to the water board, finance commit tee and the superintendent rf watr and light. Sole bidders, Wallace a nernan bid H.514 for the new chlorinator and $285 for repairing the two reserve. They also offered to repair another one free oi charge. PKTITIOXS. Petitioners for action of some kind by the city regarding an alleged smoke nuisance at Olive and East streets bv the He van were advised by the health rom- iiiinee, neauea ty Alderman Jes.se Jones, to enter suit for an Injunction in circuit court against maintenance of the alleeed The report was laid over for one week by the council.

At the suggestion of the water board, headed by Alderman Henry Welch, the council voted to with- nom action on a petition by Rane Peirce for a water connecting 802 South Mercer avenue on a pri- vateiy ownea pipe until all eight property owners on the pipe request in writing that permission be RESOLUTIONS. Alderrran Willis Schueth's re quest was approved that the uper-intendent of water unH lifc a street light, located on the west iue or i-rankltn avenue betwen Emerson and Kelsey streets, 85 feet north. Another resolution a m- Schueth that the superintendent of sweets irim low, dangerous tree limbs on Empire street east of street and Main street north of Seminary to Division streets, was also okayed. ICS Tin Can Isle Mail Is i Tt T- 5 r-f ft .1 well l.urrum. th I.

Racket Concert Goers $230,000 Spent In Bloomington Last 15 Months WPA workers in the last five and a half year have constructed l.GGa'a miles of highways, roads and streets in McLean county, Gordon Sallee, area engineer for WPA, said Friday. Quoting a report issued by Harold Pogue, manager of WPA district Mo. 4, Mr. Kallee pointed out that of the l.WiSVi miles, 1,542 were rural roads with gravel surfaces. This work, Mr.

Sallee eaid, was done chiefly in conjunction with the McLean county highway department. $230,000 Since April, 1940. In the city of Bloomington alone, the engineer continued, approximately $230,000 in federal funds has been spent since April, 1940. Total federal expenditures authorized for Bloomington amount to $731,000. Federal funds totaling approximately $15,000 are being spent on the community athletic center which now employs 28 men and which will be completed in August.

About $65,000 of a total $105,000 authorized expenditure on a Bloom-ington-Normal sanitary district project has been spent since May, 1940. At one time WPA construction projects e-xployed well over 2,000 men in McLean county, drawing salaries in excess of $100,000 monthly or $1,200,000 annually. Lowest Employment. Today the McLean county quota of construction workers is only 455, lowest mark in WPA experience here. During its year Kiatory, WPA has contributed a wide variety of improvements to McLean county.

They Include eight new and 376 reconstructed bridges and viaducts, 1.444 new and 214 reconstructed culverts, 596 miles of new sidewalks, miles of new curbs, 4,022 new traillo for county roads, 361 new manholes and catch basins, 390 retaining walls and revetments, 67 miles of fencing and rerr.oval of 21.5 miles of Bloomington street car tracks. Mrs. Vada Mozingo Dies-Rites Saturday Mrs. Vada W. Mozingo, 23, died early Friday morning at Brokaw hospital after giving birth to a daughter.

She was the wife of John W. Mozingo and resided at 804 Wet Market street. Funeral services will be held at the Beck memorial home at 4 p. m. (daylight) Saturday.

Mrs. Mozingo was born Sept. 6, 1918. in Dalton City. She was the adopted daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. M. A. Strayer of Saybrook. She was a graduate of Saybrook high school, attended Illinois State Xormal university for several years and was a member of the Congregational church.

On May 23, 1938, she was i firried to John W. Mozingo at New London, Mo. Surviving are her husband; her infant daughter; her foster parents; a sister Nona Denison; and a brother Orville Denison. Given to Indiana Charles Butts of Saybrook, held In the county jail since Thursday for Indiana etate police on a forgery charge, was turned over to Indiana police Friday. BULLETIN Board CALLS Phon 290 .......3290 166 4 son 603 IRS 340 S596 M'Tinonite hospital Brckaw hospital Ft.

Joseph'! hospital Police Kheriff County Jail Hloomlnfrton fire department Normal lire department MARRIACK LICENSES. "nioma A. Delaney, Chicago, and Drusil-la Hoyt, Normal. Porier Shannon, Heyworth, and Alta Mac Dryer, Bioomington. Willi Golden.

Heyworth, and Mary Jane Canfieid, McLean. Harry W. Butler and Jean Klrkton, Springfield. Robert Herren and Gladya Etaley, Bloora- BIRTIIS. Mr.

and Mra. Wiaiam Graham, a riri. born Thursday at St. McLean, Joseph' Mr. and Mrs.

Martin Hildehrandt, Lean, a cirl. born Thunsday at St. Mc-Jo- mepn oocpnai. Mr. and Mr.

William Andrews. 802 Eaet Walnut street, a girl, born Wednesday at St. J-jeeph's hospital. Dr. and Mrs.

Fred Frost, 503 Kreltzr avenue, a girl, born Tuesday at St. Joseph's hospital. Mr. and Mns. John Kaufman, Wlllmlng-ton.

a boy, born Thursday, at Mennonite tfjf pital. Mr. and Mrs. W'illiam Ritchie. 901 North Oait street, a boy, born Thursday at Broicaw hospital.

Mr. and Mrs. N. L. Beeson, 1212 North Lrineston street, a boy, born Wednesday afternoon at Mennonite hospital.

Mr. and Mrs. Eueene Wright of Lexlng-ton, a girl, bora Wednesday noon at Mennonite hospital. Funeral Notices, Cards of Thanks, In Memoriam and Special Notice, minimum, S1.50 per Insertion; additional lines 15c each. Copy for full day's run will be accepted op to 8 p.

day before publication and IS o'clock noon for final edition. FUNERAL NOTICE. Funeral services for Mrs. P. J.

Tuily 1401 West Locust street, will be held at the George R. funeral home Monday-morning at 8:30 o'clock and from St Patrick's church at 9 o'clock. Friends invited. Friends may call at the funeral home. FUNERAL NOTICE.

Funeral services for Mr. Herbert B. Hayes of R. R. 2.

will be held from the Beck Memorial home. 209 East Grove 'ri--t. Saturday a-ftprnoon at 5 o'clock (IST). Friend invited. Interment Ht.

Try's cemetery. Friends may call at the arm home. ALBERT NIEPAGEN FLORIST Flowers tor Kverjr Occasion 208 E. Miller St. rhone 386 1 i.

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A-a 6 have r.hitad write V'ers to thern. anI some irnJ r.nt to thrir rirnds Collectors Pay Dime to Write To Themselves Writlnff letter to oneself long been a consolation of has the love lorn. Carl Ithoads. r.loomlncton stamp collector, has found aciothrr virtue in the practice. He Is interrntrd In the romance of far away tla-r and thrilling adventures, and has found that self addrensed letters can io and return by a dark and devious route to mi alrmxv.

deserted Island. Xiuafoou. or Tin Cnn Island, in the Pacific South Seas. Few of us have ever gone to our mail boxes to pet a letter which has been carried In a tin can by a black, unlettered native swimming through shark infested waters. This is the "special delivery" method by which all mail must reach Tin Can Islanj bcaue this little dot on the ciap has such a treacherous shore line that no steamer has ever been able to land there.

More than 100 letters have done the round trip to Niuafoou from r.loominjrton sxice Carl Rhoads found out what fun It Is. Ievclnp Into ltulnr. The only white inhabitant of Tin Can island Li even more 1-lated than our old fii.nj Crusoe tie is an Knghahmaji ieor-e. ,1,1, woiKe.j up a traJe in mail delivery at 10 cents per letter with collectors and lovers of the quaint and picturesque. Its the native who takes his l.fe in his hands and swlnvs through the, shark infested waters to deliver the letters to paining hlp but It's Georse Quinsell who gets the dimes and a dime Is a small fortune on Tin Can Uland.

'ince Carl Uhoods learned ef the practice in the National (Uograph-ic magazine, more than l'V peopi, UlooTington have received letters which have gone the route bringing with them the knowledge that another native escaped the sharks unless they got him on his return swim. i rillrtar.ll ivreu Handkerchief. wrii 10 tnemsrives. others KTo Hear a Talk Tie r.Us?! bar. 4 It4 J-? Uai it t'- v.

1 Jas I -t 5 i A if ate t- i kJZJr 1 a4 dT I 11 CaH if I k. "e- lV4c-c I r.t th. er T- rftrf -a a TOIGII. Eye exams will lake the larse. toll in fsnK ratM (ev, to be given liere today, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday by tl.e tlj inf Cadet examining board which was in Bloomington the first of the nere Bill Dasgitfs eyes are brtne put throuch acrobat by Lt.

Nicholas 3. Bruno. Bill passed the examination. worn a n-uncwi r.a. sent her by l.Unler Q-alnaeU jirarU the make- handkerchief by tr.g ta! teal handkerchief lfl t.r.

r.d ry trl i.y rate trousue ilo ii.e their har.L fr a 1 leaf. r.hondi sayn. "There's r.a in ana leiTers rrOT there that we keep atce and return ti t'k 52 days short a er lo ct there and ark. rr the ar. n-a ran jm: to t.p hv tr.r inl' pav a en its ln-hibiian'J.

Yet. letter hte ar.J fro-n other parts the States await delivery, and a ahip hoves la at N.jafoou ana trie natives r.av.ga'e ctr.oes or aim iat ar.l heir--! r.loorr.lngton or the Mr. K4i.r ser.d him preier.ts at ar.J carJs hji tirthiay an4 ray calU on him in spar time. Miss Grace Griffin Retires From Teaching was ht thit Ms Itretta wo-l H.jJa. Cal.f.

retired tfcer after 31 years of r- I taught sis yeara in New Vta eta' tears In rr.a. t. thern tn i'e I Here fr the tn tr year in grade hl II ear rwtiM jeir a a it.4i VV-! Gro strett 1 I I AARON LARCH SIGNALS TRAINS BUT DOESN'T GET PAID FOR IT at. a. -r D.

MILLER Uira fa Hr 107 W. GROVE PHONE 1003 next summer 11 If 1 I 4 4 1 1, 1 J. 1 -1 Tl i fc.4 1 II 1 i vi I "iit 11 I ttl I v. Vrt-a I ti.aj'er of cfr- Prof Brown Heads League It ua kt, ire.jer C. "if i-nwr at a r.

the hfr.e ef M. II Iliar? I. 1 ton at 4 IJnr th u.e rretf rf i. -e rg I I tl I th r. ief -1 -f cr tear rji.

jf 111 I I '4jwMtf Ajl'LtjUlil'ailLJlllJ Aaron Larch in Bloomington years ago, has who 'a reared and left here 41 become famous In Decatur. Mr. Larch lives by a railroad track, and ever since he became bedfast and had to retire from his cigar making trade, which he learned at the old Ilirhardsn cigar factory on North Main treet, he has had nothing to do. For amusement he began signaling passing trainmen in greeting when the trains went by hit wlndaw. He h.is a tradition to trainmen an the linn and each lime they In the day be waves a white fUg at thei.i and at rights he flashes hi flashlight.

He and the trainmen have be-cotne such good j.als that they fi i 11 (i 11 rKKSSl KK.Serond liichest in eliminating men from fljinc ralt-slnp is a routine Involving blood rressre. heart. Fxaniiiier Male they can tell whether a man will pass by just looking at him. hut exams are necessary for confirmation. Exams are given at the A.WoSKburuSo ZO 3 iU HOUT71 MAIN At.

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