The Pantagraph from Bloomington, Illinois • Page 2

ool leaders planning study to form district college regarding non-junior college district areas at Bloomington High School. Under 1972 state law, all non-junior college areas will be assigned to existing districts by Feb. 1, 1974. Three alternatives faced the McLean County school boards. They could: 1.

Let the state junior college board assign the county's 12 school districts to either Parkland Junior College in Champaign or Illinois Central College in East Peoria. 2. Form a new junior college district by referendum consisting of McLean County or including portions of Livingston, De Witt and Logan counties with McLean County. 3. Voluntarily annex contiguous school districts or areas of the county to either IMIIIIIWIII IIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIillHII'llillWIIIIIII lyilllilllllllliPIIIIIIIIIIIIII lllllllll'IHIII'lllllll I IIIIIIIIH Pantagraph A-2 Bloomingtotv Normal, III.

Pec. 1, 1972 Sign lease for ACI building The Association of Commerce and Industry of McLean County (ACI) plans to break ground for its new office building next week, Executive Director C. Ben Pitcher said Friday. Pitcher said ACI and county officers Friday morning signed the lease which will allow the association to construct its $180,000 building on a vacant lot behind the McBarnes Memorial Building. The lease is for a 55-year period at a cost of $1 a year.

Pitcher said the ACI officers were meeting later in the day with contractors to determine whether bids accepted in September remain in effect. Bid terms gave the ACI 60 days to start the project. A suit seeking an injunction against the construction delayed the start beyond the 60-day period. That suit, brought by the Louis E. Davis American Legion Post, a memorial building tenant, was dismissed earlier this week by Judge John T.

McCullough. Thief gets cash from YMCA locker Joseph G. Trempel, 706 IAA Drive, Thursday told police more than $400 in cash and traveler's checks were stolen between 3:30 and 4:30 p.m. Wednesday from his locker at the YMCA, 102 E. MacArthur.

Trempel said his locker showed no signs of forcible entry. In addition to the money, $157 in cash and $260 in traveler's checks an insurance check for $9 also was taken, Tremnel said. seeks volunteers vBjr Dave Hake of 12 McLean County school districts Thursday night supported a citizen study to determine the feasibility forming a new junior college district Crto encompass McLean County and parts xtif De Witt, Livingston and Logan coun-vties. Raymond C. Caton, superintendent of Ihe McLean County Educational Services vfitegion, was delegated the task of setting viip a broad-based steering committee to launch the study.

V1'" Caton said he would attempt to call an Organizational meeting of a citizens Stommittee in mid-January. If organized Kthen, the proposed 150 to 250-member group could have its study ready for final decisions sometime next June. The school districts indicated a preference for Caton to handle the com-" mittee selection and organization. -Gerald Smith, former executive se- cretary of the state junior college board and an Illinois State University visiting professor, estimated that the study would cost about $2,500 to $5,000. Financing of the study was not resolv-f.

ed Thursday night, but Caton told the nine boards that he'd count on them for a portion of the study funding. Industries and commercial firms will be solicited to help finance the study, he said. Suggests help Donn Pierce, member of Blooming-, ton's District 87 board, urged Caton to Contact the school boards for suggestions 7 bh possible area representatives to serve on the committee. He also urged that Caton contact the Association of Commerce and Industry of McLean County and the McLean County Farm Bureau to get broad based com-V'munity representation on the citizens' 'group. Bloomington District 87, Unit District 5 with headquarters in Normal and the declined to join in the county-wide study of a junior college district.

The citizens' group will pull together existing data from a recent junior college district study and material used in a 1967 study to set forth the feasibility of Underwood re-elected to chief justice post junior study roll call with recommendations to form a citizens group. Le Roy, Tri Valley (Downs-Ellsworth), Lexington, Octavia, Chenoa and Gridley school districts joined the county's largest school districts in calling for the feasibility study. Boards from Hey worth and Saybrook-Arrowsmith and the Bellflower High School District said they would prefer to have the state's Junior College Board assign their areas to existing junior college districts. Law explained Each board expressed its views on what steps to take after a 15-minute caucus. The caucuses followed an explanatory session on a new state law Help ivcleomc Caton Any person or organization interested in participating on a citizens' committee to study the possibility of organizing a new junior college district was urged Thursday night to contact the McLean County Educational Services Region office in Bloomington.

Raymond Caton, head of the services region, said he'd welcome volunteers and suggestions from anyone or any organization in the county Caton was delegated to set up the citizens group at a Thursday night meeting of McLean County school superintendents and school boards. Caton said he would contact educational services region offices in Livingston, De Witt and Logan counties to solicit their help and suggestions in forming such a committee. He extended a similar offer to the Hey worth and Saybrook-Arrowsmith school districts and Bellflower High School District board. All three groups He farmed in both McLean and Piatt counties and operated farm machinery and hardware businesses in Saybrook. He also operated an automobile agency here.

Mr. Hawthorne was a flying enthusiast and flew his own plane throughout the Midwest. In 1951 he flew on his own to Cuba. He was a charter member and a past president of the Saybrook Lions Club. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge at Saybrook, the Bloomington Consistory and the Peoria Shrine.

He also belonged to the Flying Farmers. Among survivors are his stepmother, Mrs. Lottie Hawthorne, 728 Hilltop Court; a son, Lester, 608 Bradley Drive and a sister, Mrs. Velma Heidewald, R.R, 1. Richard Folks Spec.

4 Richard Folks on holiday leave Spec. 4 Richard W. Folks and his wife, Eva, and two sons, Richard, 4, and Alexander, 2, will spend the holidays visiting family in the Bloomington area. Specialist Folks has been stationed in Germany for two years. He is a son of Mrs.

Edith Smith, 405 N. Fifer. Mrs. Folks is a daughterof Mr. and Mrs.

Al Gerzsemey, Carlock. A radio repairman, Specialist Folks ml leave Jan. 11 for Ft. Sill, Okla. He" went into the service Dec.

10, 1968. Burglar gets camera A camera and accessories valued at $200 were stolen during the past two weeks from the home of Barbara Foreman, 1002 N. Oak, police reported. Mrs. Foreman said she had last seen the stolen items two weeks ago.

Entry to her house may have been made through a rear entrance, police reported. ii-DocTors Helper W5Your Registered Pharmacist. WE SA VE YO MONE ON DOCTOR'S PRESCRIPTIONS GOOD HEALTH J17 N. Main (Next to Olympia School District kicked off the Parkland or. Illinois Central College districts.

The effect of the law is to have all areas of the state assigned to an existing or new junior college district by Aug. 1, 1974, Smith explained. McLean County and Wapella School District voters turned down a m6ve to form a junior college district in 1967 with a 5 to 2 vote. A citizens' committee made up by county school and school board officialsdid a feasibility study prior to that referendum. Officials Thursday night in calling for Caton to take charge of the study indicated that the work of the 1967 committee had not been accepted by the voters.

setting up a new junior college district with a separate board. Formation of a junior college would require a majority vote of residents living in the proposed district at a referendum on the final proposal. Underwood, 57, Normal, was first elected to the court in 1962 and was retained for a 10-year term in 1970, Also Thursday, Underwood announced appointment of 10 circuit judges to fill vacancies in the state's judicial system. The 10 will serve until their posts can be filled in the next judicial or general election and they cannot run on a retention ballot, Underwood said. Those appointed and their circuits were: Associate Judge John P.

Shonkwiler, 39, Monticello, 6th Circuit; attorney Simon L. Friedman, 51, Springfield, 7th Circuit; attorney Jack A. Alfeld, 51, Carrollton, 7th Circuit; Associate Judge Guy R. Williams, 61, Havana, 8th Circuit. Attorney U.S.

Collins, 55, Bushnell, 9th Circuit; Associate Judge Patrick M. Burns, 41, Kankakee, 12th Circuit; attorney Thomas W. Vinson, 57, Joliet, 12th Circuit; attorney Wilbur S. Johnson, 44, Geneseo, 14th Circuit; attorney Thomas E. Hornsby, 36, Dixon, 15th Circuit; and Jo Daviess County State's Attorney Eric S.

Demar, 47, Galena, 15th Circuit. Except Demar, whose appointment is effective Jan. 1, 1973, all appointments take effect Dec. 4, 1972. OPEN 24 HOURS Every Day 'Til Dec.

24th ON DISPLAY NOW! SHOP NOW! Lester Hawthorne, Demo leader, ies SPRINGFIELD, 111. (UPI) Chief Justice Robert C. Underwood Thursday was elected to a second three-year term as head of the Illinois Supreme Court in a unanimous vote of the court justices. Miiiitlrive Operation Recycle will conduct a "minidrive" from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Simpson Paperstock 501 E.

Stewart, according to Robert Walsh, publicity chairman. Materials to be recylced include newspapers, magazines, separated and bundled or boxed), throw-away glass bottles and jars (with metal tabs removed) and tin or aluminum cans. Various collection centers, manned during the major drives, will not be in use. Car aerial broken Edward Williams, of 510 W. Grove, reported to police that an aerial on his auto was broken off Thursday night or early Friday morning while it was parked in front of his home.

Damage was estimated at $10. "PROMPT DELIVERY SERVICE FREE CUSTOMER PARKING We Give Green Stamps SENIOR CITIZENS-OVER 60 10 DISCOUNT PRESCRIPTION PLAN REGISTER AT OUR STORE QMS TO ALL FROM REXALL National Bonk) Bloomington SAYBROOK (PNS) Lester A. Hawthorne, 60, a retired Saybrook area farmer and businessman, died at 2:38 p.m. Thursday at Kirby Hospital in cello, just 10 minutes after he had beea Mr. Hawthorne, who was active in Democratic politics in McLean County, was stricken while testifying at a trial at Piatt County Courthouse in IIe was brought to the Stensel Funeral Home.

In 1966 Mr. Hawthorne ran unsuccess-tully for McLean County clerk, losing to Paul Morris, the present clerk. In 1968 and again In 1970 he ran for U.S. representative from the old 17th Congressional District, losing out both times to U.S. Rep.

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