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The Pantagraph from Bloomington, Illinois • Page 10

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The Pantagraphi
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Bloomington, Illinois
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LADDERS Pantagraph, Rlooraington, Ved Dec. Lack of Phones Delays Alarm it pi i I By ROBERT CRAM across the street and banged on CHICAGO (UPD A passer- the door of the nearest residence, by who first summoned firemen to ieaid The woman, whom he could not the fire in Our Lady of the Angels identify told she hed no tele-School told police Tuesday three! phone. precious minutes ticked by before! "The smoke began to billow he could find a telephone to turn more fiercely by this time," he in the alarm, said. NO rilOXE He ran next The house "And when the fire department came they brought ladders that were five to six feet too short," Elmer Barkhaus, 61 year old salesman, Said in a statement to wife who answered his frantic; ring said there was no phone in, the house. Flames were shooting out of: TURNED AWAY Barkhaus said two women in said.

The woman saw them. homes across the street from the Roman Catholic elementary school turned him away, telling him they had no telephones, when he sought "Oh, my God," he quoted her. When he sprinted out of the store after turning in the alarm, flames were spearing 15 feet above the door. "Kids started jumping out of the windows by the time the fire de- to call an alarm. But the second woman frantically directed him to a nearby gro cery store where there was a tele-' partment came," Barkhaus said It's No Deer.

Fellows Oneonta, N. Y. () George Marquart wields whitewash brush to protect his pony from deer hunters. Marquart says his farm animals had close calls in previous seasons. phone when he pointed to flames; been standing on the lod-billowing out of the rear door of es for quite a while that." the two story school.

I He said firemen got some of He turned in the alarm from the the child: en down safely with the store. ladders, but to rush back for Barkhaus, salesman for a plas-. extensions to save others. Pope Greets Sfudenf Vatican City Pope John XXIII clasps hand of African missionary student during papal visit to the "College Urbane" outside the Vatican. In background are Pictro Cardinal Fumasoni Bondi, left, and Gregoire Pierre XV Cardinal Agagianian.

tic glue company, sid he glanced' Barkhaus estimated about three at the diab old school building as minutes elapsed from the time he he drove south on Avers Ave. first noticed the smoke until about 2:40 p. m. Monday. children started leaping to escape He saw the smoke coming from a fiery death.

Harvester Cuts Pact Proposals lowan Named Docior of Year MINNEAPOLIS The Tu the rear door. He said fire eauinmrnt arrived He curbed his car, dashed! about three minutes after that. RUSSIA SAYS CHICAGO DISASTER NO ACCIDENT LONDON (LTD Moscow radio said Tuesday the Chicago school fire was "no" accident" because many American schools were fire-traps. "According to official data of the American ition's new outstanding family doc- gI Ui Urges Reds tor of the year wishes all physi- 'cians wvuld practice medicine from the humane side, caring for any patient needing their services. And that's the life story of Dr.

Lonnie A. Coffin, 68, a kindly man- i nered onetime horse and buggy doctor from Firmington, Iowa. He was named general practitioner of the year Tuesday by the American Medical Association's making body, the House of Delegates. To End Jamming Of Broadcasts In Negotiations CHICAGO CD International Harvester Co. dropped or modified many of its contract proposals Tuesday in negotiations with representatives of 37,000 striking United Auto Workers.

Changes in the company negotiating package does not mean acceptance of union proposals, a Harvester spokesman said. Only in the field of hospitaliza 1 I Mayor Robert McGraw and City Manager Eugene Moody have been named to positions on committees of the Illinois Municipal League, it was reported Wednesday. Mr. McGraw was re-elected a vice president and named to the police committee. Mr.

Moody was named to the legal committee. education authorities, over five million American children attend school in buildings which are regarded as not safe from the point of view of tires," the broadcast said. The broadcast said it was significant that the U.S. government "tabled in Congress a bill providing for a sum equal to only half of one per cent of the allocations for military ends to be spent on new school buildings." The fire was the major foreign story in European newspapers Tuesday. Morning and afternoon editions in London.

Paris, Rome, Berlin, Lisbon, Madrid, Vienna, Stockholm, and Copenhagen put the story on front pages many with banner headlines. UNITED NATION'S, N. Y. The United States Tuesday appealed to the Soviet Union to end jamming of foreign radio broadcasts as one way of removing barriers to friendly co-operation with the West. U.S.

Delegate George M. Harrison estimated the Soviet Union spends 100 million dollars a year to maintain 2,500 jamming tion benefits did the company modify its stand to conform with I union demands, he added. Company and union negotiators. Big Harvard Church Burns In One Hour OPEN FRIDAY MIGHTS TO 8:30 P. M.

ROGERS WALLPAPER and PAIHT 622 North Main Harrison told the U.N. special HARVARD L7i The First Meth odist Church, this by. Kennedy also said he had taken a can of white gasoline into is city's largest Political committee the Kremlin Mn4.Upr n-C 3 to the eround out Wlth a dozen in IViOTner OT church, burned i the kitchen. Mrs. Kennedy suffered third vwivu me ouwei inun Dean jam- n- ming broadcasts of the U.S.

State 55 OT DUlIlS Department's Voice of America. met face to face Tuesday. Monday, offers and counter offers were carried to each side by Commissioners William G. Murray and Donald D. Brown of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.

Harvester said it had dropped demands or modified its position in the fields of union representation (payment of shop stewards), arbitration, vacations, apprentice training, and hours of work. The strike, now almost three weeks old, affects 18 Harvester plants. i degree burns over two-thirds of (UPD Mrs. lot is her body, hospital officials said. Firemen torn eight battled to keep the wind-tossed blaze from spreading to an "MEANINGLESS NOISE" OLNEY He said this "army of jammers Kennedy, 23.

mother of three adjacent gymnasium building and other structures in the heart of ono OI tne largest radio sys-smaii cnuaren, aiea luescay in Burned Pupil Comforted Chicago Lawrence Walter, 13, eighth grade pupil who was burned in a fire at Our Lady of the Angels parochial school here, is comforted in Garfield Park Hospital by nun. THE KEY TO MODERN LIVING the city. I the world representing Richland Memorial Hospital of A The fire alarm was sounded just a f' investmenl OI mU" burns suffered in an explosion 30 minutes-after a group of 30 toj T. 1 anrf (ire at her home Mondav Let as check tout home wiring to se if joa are getting the maximum of efficiency from all jour electrical uses. 35 youngsters playing in the gym nidit.

had gone home for the day. The ing of the Voice of America, in-i husband. Orbie. told author- SERVES AND school was empty when the fire IanguaRPSt t0 a of'the itics he was repainng his auto started EMMETT-SCHARF ILtCUtlC CO. world.

"Yet it broadcasts nothing neater in the kitchrn oi their but meaningless noise," Harrison home with a soldering iron when Composers Musi Wait To Hear Works Played said. rhone 2-4140 317 N. Center an explosion occurred near a water heater as his wif2 sat near- VIEWS RESOLUTION No one was reported injured. The church, with a membership of more than 1,300, was made of brick and stone. Constructed in 1898, it was one of the landmarks of the city of 3,450.

"Its purpose, which it partly i accomplishes, is to shut off the' peoples of the Soviet Union and Cause of the fire was not deter- the Soviet Communist bloc from play," Bolet said. "When I first John LaMontalne hurrrinS around to study, and heard it, I said, 'All those octaves pernaps cnange. some note mat mined, but fire department offi- outside broadcasts in all their cials said it apparently started in 'native languages. This includes a furnace room and roared broadcasts not only by the United straight up. i States but by other countries too troubled him are going to take a lot of carrots'." So Bolet kept stoking in the car LOUD SOCKS The big man at the piano, Jorge Estimates of damages by fire-! even me umica iNauons Hears Mis Music During Rehearsal WASHINGTON, D.

C. rots, Mitchell kept studying the 1 4.L- I 3 3- 11 4 score, and La Montaine kept re Jamming is the deliberate thousands of dJlars. drowning out of a radio broad- i i. fining the work played here Tues cast with noise from another Bolet, was in shirt sleeves and slacks. He id on the loudest pair of socks ever spotted on a concert pianist.

On the podium Howard Mitchell, in a mussed-up sports shirt, was rnndnrtinp' with fremient nauses A serious composer's lot is not a transmitter using the same fre quency. day night and to be played in New York's Carnegie Hall Friday! flieVeS OTaD night. I And how did he feel, now that OWimminq rOOlS hp Had hpard his concerto? I 2 happy one. He works like a dog to put his The 81 nation committee is con- I sidering a resolution-sponsored by-Argentina and right other nations rotes on paper, just so, and comments like this: "Basses, Wen- MINEOLA, N. Y.

he may wait years before he can basses! All I ask for here is that nrillmrr 1 1 rvr NT mrm Vr i-o in -1 1 CCll Jli li- VlfcH VU'. I "I think it's going to turn out all right," he said. "I had it all in my mind, but sometimes I did hear how it sounds when piayed 1 you keep time, plain simple time equippea ui.eves. aware pernaps, practical steps toward by a symphony orchestra. Let's try it once more." VI v1k' 7k friendly co-operation in the fields not quite get it down.

It's like a La rprinp. Mavhp nut in too much of Finally the practicing The writer or painter at least can at what he has done, Montaine's "Concerto for Piano JUNE and FRED MACMURRAY say: give her today's wonderful id culture, science, tech a warehouse of the Lancer Pools nQ, and communications. Corp. Monday night and stole two $2,400 one piece Fiberglas swim-1 ming pools. They weighed 900 ACCldent Victim pounds apiece.

Cx'll I The temperature at the timeOtlll OTltlCa! salt." "A great work," Bolet said reassuringly. "I can play it with conviction. When you play, you must play with conviction." At least the world premiere and the critics were kind. Such words as "deep feeling," "melody even if he may have to look alone. The composer and to a degree this is true of the playwright, too must have the help of a vast number of people before he knows for sure how well, or how horribly, he has done.

So here was John La Montaine, and Orchestra" came to a crashing end. The handful of spectators applauded. And La Montaine fell to talking about something most of us never think about: The perils of composing. GAVE UP CAREER He told how he decided to give was in the low 30s. Mrs.

Adella Bobo, 22, of Chicago remained in critical condition at St. Joseph's Hospital Wednes nen automatic Miss Dixon Died Of Shock, Jury Rules is clear ana direct, virile work," and "well-written" were sprinkled through the reviews. getting his first chance to hear his music, in a rehearsal by the day. She was injured in an auto mobile accident at Sugar Creek A McLean County Coroner's on Route 66 at Funks Grove Sun up his career -as a concert pianist and stick to composing. How, at 38, he still is hanging on.

"But I never would have made it if I had a wife and family to support." How he had written "Songs of BHS Has Two Stories in In National Symphony Orchestra. You could tell he was the composer because he kept scampering down the aisle, sailing the big wall that supported the stage, and jury ruled Wednesday that the 1 day death of Miss Cora Dixon, 87. Her husband and three year old A Tuesday Pantagraph story, IU cousin were killed in the crash. which dealt with the relative the Rose of Sharon" for soprani and orchestra. How he had tried was caused from shock resulting from a fall Nov.

7. Miss Dixon, who resided at 517 S. Clinton died Nov. 25 at Men-nonite Hospital. This CHRISTMAS Give for 10 years to get it performed.

Nine printed languages designating the value appear on a ten-rupee Indian banknote. safeness of local schools from a fire-caused tragedy such as the one experienced in Chicago Monday, erroneously listed Blooming-ton High School among one story buildings. It has two stories. How he had almost despaired be fore Leontyne Price and Mitchell SAMSONITE LUGGAGE From STERN'S decided to give it a try. How it To Cook at School was well received both here and in New York.

How, when the Ford Foundation was putting out money to commis sion new works, Mitchell thought of La Montaine. How Mitchell and Bolet visited his New York apartment and were pleased with the rough draft he played on the HARTSBURG (PNS) Miss Mary Lou Aper has been employed by the Hartsburg-Emden Unit School Board as an assistant cook at the high school. She replaces Mrs. Mildred B. Lolling who recently resigned after serving as a cook since Septemoer, 1956.

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