The Pantagraph from Bloomington, Illinois • Page 3

Bloomington-Norrnal, HI. March 21, 1976 throuah state ornaaoes, Pantagraph A-3 winds Tornadoes and high winds ripped elevator, a freight company, the fire house, a coin laundry and several homes. Five injured Five persons from Odgen were injured. Power and phone lines to Odgen were reported down by the storm. Power lines were also down in Sadorus.

Damage was also reported in Vorhees, Bement, Ivesdale, Philo and several rural communities. Robin Kautz, 22, Sidney, was driving a van along Illinois 131 west of Odgen when winds swept the van up, letting it down in a cornfield about half a mile away. She was listed in "satisfactory" condition with multiple injuries at Burnham City Hospital, Champaign. Cleo Garrison, Sadorus, suffered face and leg lacerations and Wylie Dalton, 23, Odgen, suffered injuries to his right leg and shoulder. Both were listed in "satisfactory" condition at Burnham City Hospital.

About 10 other persons were treated for minor injuries and released, a hospital spokesman said. The hospital sent physicians to the Sadorus emergency shelter. The tornadoes continued on into Indi ana, injuring at least five people. At least five people were injured when tornadoes struck a mobile home park in northwest Indiana and a rural area north of Lafayette, state police said. Police said most of the 25 homes at the Inwood Mobile Home Park, about 30 miles south of South Bend, were destoryed, and at least three persons injured.

Lafayette hit Farther south, state police said a tornado struck an area about seven miles north of Lafayette, where at least two persons were injured and five homes destroyed. In Sadorus the tornado struck unex-pectly. "It was a nice sun-shiney day," Mr. Woods said. "It was clear and then suddenly there it was." Thirteen years ago another twister destroyed Mr.

Woods's church. This time his church was untouched, although several home directly across the street from the church were damaged. "The tornado in 1963 ripped the roof off the Sadorus Elementary school," he said. Saturday's tornado damaged the same school, which houses the kindergarden through third grades. Dan Williams, regional co-ordinator of the Emergency Service and Disaster Agency, said the "scene is now secured" as of late night.

Emergency generators have been shipped to towns without electricity, he said. The McLean County ESDA sent a generator to Atwood, southwest of Champaign, Saturday night for operating the local water supply, Williams said. "The probelm in Illinois now is just really the clean-up," he said. Sightings Two funnel clouds were sighted by ESDA spotters hoovering over the Assembly Hall of the University of Illinois, where thousands of fans were viewing the state basketball contest. No tornadoes were reported touching down in Champaign-Urbana.

Two to four horses were injured when a twister lit into a barn near St. Joseph, about eight miles east of Urbana, according to Champaign County Chief Deputy Sheriff John Clark. The Pulaski County sheriff's department reported that a pickup truck with a camper trailer overturned. Alexander County Deputy Sheriff Hersche Hoppe said "I've got a front porch that blew off my trailer" in Urbandale. An Urbandale woman had a tree limb blown through her house and two inches of water inside, Hoppe said.

Tornadoes also touched down throughout southern Illinois, mainly from Marion west into Missouri. No major injuries or damage was reported. Considerable cloudiness is predicted for today by the National Weather Service. Highs in the upper 30s or lower 40s are expected, with a chance of snow flurries. Tonight's low is expected to be in the mid or low 20s.

Monday's high is expected to be in the lower 40s with a chance of some snow or rain. Vandalism reported Bruce A. Woodring, 2622 Hall Court, told police the windshield in his car was smashed out about 10:30 p.m. by a thrown beer bottle. Iff1' '01 I i lil.iu i jmi v-' 'iiiCli A'lil 4 I j.

w''J- I X- i I I I hrough Illinois, Indiana and Michigan Saturday, killing one person and injuring at least 32. One girl was killed in Michigan, and at least nine injured, as a tornado churned through a Northern Detroit suburb of West Bloomfield. Police did not identify the victim, but officers said she was caught in a car overturned by the twister. Several funnels from the violent storm system on the first day of spring ripped through small towns and rural areas of IlHnois, near Champaign. At least 18 persons were injured in eastern Illinois, and damage was reported at over $1 million, authorities Isaid.

A twister touched down on the town of iSadorus, destroying 19 homes and damaging the local school. Sadorus, about 20 miles southwest of Champaign, set up an emergency Ishelter for the homeless at St. Paul's Lutheran Church. The Rev. Jack Woods of the United Methodist Church of Sadorus said about 50 people were being housed in the Lutheran church Saturday night.

Another tornado ripped through the center of town at Odgen destroying the Hunter Lumber the State Bank of Ddgen, the water tower, a grain Wrecker, wreckage One of several tornadoes that ripped through Illinois, Indiana and Michigan during Saturday morning touched down south of Champaign-Urbana, below. At least one person was killed and (several injured in the three-state area. iDomage was estimated at more than $1 (million in Illinois. Two small trucks, right, were crushed together in front of a damaged house in ISadorus, east of Urbana, after a tornado struck the area. Other Illinois communities reporting damage were Odgen, Philo, St.

Joseph and Vehoos. The storms continued into Indiana damaging trailer parks and injuring at least five persons. (AP photos) -5 ha, McLean County Emergency Service and High debate teams win University High School debate teams of Mike Beer and Wade Jacobs, and Kim Balls and David Slan won first- and second-place honors Saturday in the Illinois High School Association Sectional Speech Tournament at Blooming-ton High School. The team of Beer and Jacobs compiled an 11-1 record in winning first place. Balls and Slan finished with a mark of 10-2.

Forrest home gutted This 'Police Special' shoots steam only Ass ISlQnCQ Both High teams will advance to the IHSA finals Friday and Saturday at Bradley University, Peoria. Also qualifying for the state tournament in competition here were the Mattoon High School pair of Scott Hawkins and John Grant, and Anjali Mittra and Alice Dallenbach of Champaign Central High School. Meanwhile, casts from BUS and High were among the top four finishers One of Folwell's children was at home at the time. He escaped uninjured. Mrs.

Folwell told firemen she smelled smoke when she returned to her home after she visited a daughter, Toni Hem-bree, next door. A damage estimate was unavailable Saturday night. Folwell, his wife and two children were to have spent the night at Mrs. Hembree's home. nickname from the color of his mane, not from his affection for the "Alton Limited." When Bradshaw left the Army Air Corps in 1946, he decided to forego a career in railroading because of the economic uncertainties in the field at the time.

In the beginning He did, however, buy an electric train set that year, under the pretense it was a gift for his 5-year-old daughter, Tamara. Costly On a wall above his model rails, Lt. "Red" Bradshaw hung a sign that reads, "The only difference between men and boys is the price of their toys." The words of wisdom have double meaning in model railroading. The cost of a beginner's set, consisting of track for a simple oval, an engine, cars, caboose, and transformer, should be less than $20. If a beginner developes a liking for the hobby he will begin adding more track, more cars, buildings and eventually mountains, towns, bridges, tunnels, highways and trees.

The cost of a large-scale operation could easily be more than $1,000, and according to one hobbyist, "A true hobbiest is alway expanding." And in the hobby of model rail-raoding, expansion is money. Disaster Agency workers prepared a 30,000 watt generator, which was shipped Saturday night to storm-ripped Atwood. (Pantagraph photo) in drama competition. The BHS rendition of "The Lady's Not for Burning" received a third-place rating from three judges. The High production of "The Killer" won fourth place.

Julie Swan, Kathy Dunn and Rick Wochholz from BHS were selected to the All-Sectional Play Cast. Raymond Roderick of High received similar honors. Urbana High School's production of "Antigone" was named best team performance. Reset A kite-flying contest sponsored by the Bloomington Parks and Recreation Department and rained out Saturday has been rescheduled for next Saturday. The event will begin with registration at 12:30 p.m.

at Stevenson School Park. Flying is to begin at 1 p.m. "I really bought it so I could play with it myself," he readily admitted. Bradshaw built a second layout in 1954 after uprooting the first when moving in 1949. The track was secured to a piece of plywood "which we laid across the bed" because of the lack of room, he said.

Bradshaw said his wife never really complained about the setup, which was hinged to a wall, even when it fell on the bed a couple of times, and despite "the oil and solder that sometimes fell on the spread," he said. Bradshaw's current layout, though modest in comparison to some model railroaders' spreads, is the focal point for most parties at his home. "When vistors come over we inevitability end up in the train room," he said. The children in the his neighborhood also "come and watch by the hour," he slid. While Bradshaw "always had a love for trains," steam engines are his favorite.

He has about 20 engines, and several of them are detailed steam engines. He plans to puff those steam engines through the series of mountains he will build in his remodeling project. Mrs. Bradshaw also has a hand in the layout, setting up scenery and painting some of the toy buildings. It is for his wife that Bradshaw runs one special model line.

When he was stationed in Virginia in the Army, Betty would ride the Virginian Railroad to visit her husband. Bradshaw has managed to obtain 18 model cars of the Virginian line. J-S' ft.A&ca' ing them to passersby much as if they were photos of his grandchildren. "Any police job is very frustrating," said Bradshaw, a 12-year veteran of the force. "When I get home from work, in place of watching Johnny Carson, I come down and play so I can forget about everybody else's problems." Since Christmas of 1974, when Bradshaw not-toosubtly told his wife, Betty, Bloomington police station and starts to work on his model train set.

(Pan- tagraph photo) W4 formed into a gentle conductor of a model train set he has built in his basement. Reporters have called Bradshaw "gruff." Bradshaw calls himself "firm but fair." But when it comes to model trains, Bradshaw seems never to have left his childhood. He carries pictures of his various locomotives in his wallet, show Notso-mild-mannered Lt. "Red" Brad- shaw turns into an old-time conductor when he comes home from work at the FORREST (PNS) A fire that may have been caused by defective wiring gutted a two-story home Saturday on Forrest's east side. It took firemen from the Forrest-Strawn-Wing Fire Protection District nearly three hours to extinguish the blaze, which was reported about 5 p.m.

Authorities said the home was occupied by the James Folwell family and owned by Gary Dohman, Chatsworth. that he wanted an electric train for a present, he has been adding on to his layout in his basement. And he's in the process of expanding his spread to cover about a third of his train room. Planned trainhood When the house was built in 1972, "we planned on using the basement for a train room," he said. Although Bradshaw uses the trains to relax after dealing with the everyday odd assortment of public crime and problems, trains real and model are deeply ingrained in his past.

Bradshaw's father, Beverly, was a conductor on the old Chicago and Alton Railroad. When Bradshaw was a youngster, his father took him on trains chance he got." "Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City I often rode in the baggage car," Bradshaw said. One of the favorite mementos in Bradshaw's train room is a jar of paint used on the old "lied Train," which was "hand-built and one of the finest in the nation," he said. The classy train, called the Alton Limited, ran from Chicago to St.

Louis and was a favorite of Bradshaw. He obtained the unusual memento through his brother-in-law, Donald Upton, who worked as a bridge painter on the line. Although the "Red Train" is from "Red" Bradshaw's past, Bradshaw his By Stephan W. Gleason With due deference to Robert Louis Stevenson, Bloomington has its own version of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr.

Hyde." From 3 to 11 p.m., Lt. "Red" Brad-shaw calmly goes about his business of barking orders from the command desk at the Bloomington police station. But after 11 p.m., Bradshaw is trans I lolfVll.