The Pantagraph from Bloomington, Illinois • Page 19

I of of I a Contractors' Bids Heard For Interstate Road Work Bloomington Bridges Would Cost $479,139 Construction contract bids for $8.6 million worth of Interstate Route 74 work including three projects at Bloomington were announced Friday in Springfield by the Illinois Division of Highways. Contractors' bids on major state highway projects, including Business 66 at Normal, were also included in the $27,903,571 batch INTERSTATE 80 LINK TO OPEN SPRINGFIELD -(UPI)- A 14-mile section of Interstate 80 will be opened to traffic Monday north of Princeton to Illinois 89 south of Ladd. The opening of this section of I-80 will make a total of 70 miles of continuous pavement completed on the route from Princeton to Joliet. opened by the highway department. There will still be one more letting of contracts in 1963; this was the seventh for this year.

To Cross Route 51 Valley Builders Inc. of Spring Valley had the low bid of $479.139 on Interstate 74 work miles south of Bloomington. There, a railroad grade separation will be built to carry the Illinois Central Railroad tracks over Route 74, and two parallel four span bridges will be built to carry Route 74 over U.S. 51. The other Interstate 74 jobs were at Peoria, where McDougalHartman Co.

bid $4,887,205 for three miles of paving, two interchanges and three grade separations; and at Tilton, where S. J. Groves Sons of Springfield and McCalman Construction Co. of Danville bid $3,307,437 to build four miles of concrete paving and two interchanges. Completion of Morton Fire Damage Set At $5,000 MORTON -(PNS)- Fire of undetermined origin caused an estimated $5,000 damage to the Paul Brady residence one mile west of Morton at 4:25 p.m.

Saturday. Fire Chief Eugene Mathis said his investigation has not yet uncovered the cause of the blaze, but indications were that it started in the kitchen. Mr. Brady was working on a stove in the kitchen of the two-story frame home at the time the fire broke out. It quickly spread inside the walls and to other rooms.

There was also extensive smoke and water damage. HOSPITAL NOTES Fairbury FAIRBURY (PNS Admitted: Dwight Heaney; Mrs. Ida Behler, Marjorie Walters, Fairbury; Lynda Sexton, Candance Welch, Chenoa; Mrs. Marie Fent, Lloyd Kemnetz Roberts; Mabel DeHart, Chatsworth; James RamPontiac; Ingerbord Stolseyer, ler, Champaign. Dismissed: Iva Clark, Piper Edith Fosdick.

Henry Whatley, Ke Junkis, Fairbury; Karen Hornickel, Strawn; Lillie Stebbens, Chatsworth; Marguerite Wince, Pontiac. St. James PONTIAC -(PNS Admitted: Gregory Melvin, Pontiac; Kenneth Price, Flanagan. Dismissed: Cuono Arcivolo, Fred Ginther, Mrs. Fred Ginther, Miss Ernestine Cowan, Chicago; Mrs.

John Grigsby and baby girl, Kankakee: Mrs. Lloyd Enger, Miss Tamara Shay, Pontiac; Mrs. Joseph Giacometti, Buckingham; Mrs. Edith Weber, Dwight. Hudson Man Faces Charges Russell E.

Northeutt, 28, of Hudson faces a Monday hearing in Normal police court on charges of driving while intoxicated and speeding. Free on a $230 bond, he was originally scheduled to appear Thursday after being arrested last Saturday via a radar unit, but won a continuance on the case. Truck Box at Pontiac Damaged in Blaze PONTIAC -(PNS)- Considerable damage was done to a truck box used as a parts room at the Chief City Implement Company in Pontiac Saturday Fire of undetermined origit was discovered in the facility at 4:10 p.m. Pontiac firemen pu lout the blaze. Pantagraph, Bloomington, Sunday, Sept.

29, 1963. 20 Village Hall For Towanda Approved, 3-2 TOWANDA (PNS) Towanda voters Saturday approved by a 3 to 2 margin the issuance of $35,000 in bonds for a new village hall. With 113 persons turning out to vote, the final tally was 64 to 46, with three spoiled ballots. Approval of the referendum gives the village board authority to proceed with plans for the structure. The building will include a meeting room for the board, a village office, and storage space for village maintenance equipment.

Lincoln -(PNS) The homecoming queen's court at Lincoln Community High School will consist of these five girls. From left to right are Ruth Ann Feldman, Pam Jario, Linda Henson, Connie Tomlinson and Judy Stoll. PHOTO PANTAGRAPM Two Seniors Candidates For Queen of Homecoming LINCOLN -(PNS)- Selection of Judy Stoll and Linda Henson, seniors, as candidates for queen of the Lincoln Community High School homecoming, and of underclass girls as attendants in the queen's court was announced Friday afternoon. The queen and her court will be presented at halftime of the homecoming game with Limestone High of Bartonville on Handlin Field at 8 p.m. Friday.

Members of the court are junior Ruth Ann Feldman, freshman Pam Jario, senior Linda Henson, sophomore Connie Tomlinson and Judy Stoll. Homecoming events will begin with a whitewash party, painting the Tilton job will open Route 74 from the Indiana line to Champaign. The largest state highway project was the five-mile stretch of highway in Tazewell County which carries three routes 150, Illinois 87 and 116. Jansen and Schaefer Inc. of Pekin and R.

A. Cullinan and Son of Tremont submitted a joint bid of $2,960,436 to build 1.6 miles of concrete pavement and 3.6 miles of pregrading. Blacktopping At Normal Resurfacing Business 66 for 3.2 miles at Normal was bid at 034 by Dean Berenz Asphalt Co. Another McLean County job3.2 miles of resurfacing on County Highway 11 from Illinois 9 south to Saybrook-drew a 489 low bid from Eaton Asphalt Co. R.

A. Cullinan and Son had the low bid of $21,021 on construction of a mile of surface course on a rural road miles southeast of Eureka. Eric Bolander Construction Co. of Libertyville had a low bid of $475,395 for a mile of concrete paving on Mazon Avenue in Dwight. There was one non-construction bid submitted Friday, and it foretold of the state's plans for the winter ahead.

Chillicothe Cartage Co. submitted a bid of $15,177 for hauling cinders from Pekin to various storage areas in highway district 4. The cinders will be stockpiled, to be spread by maintenance trucks on icy pavements. the streets, at 10 p.m. Wednesday.

The pep rally will be held Thursday night, with a snake dance downtown at 7 p.m. followed by the traditional bonfire at Central School playground, where the homecoming queen will be introduced. Norman Kay, director of athletics at Lincoln College will be the speaker at the homecoming day assembly at 1:30 p.m. Friday in the school auditorium. The parade through the business district will start at 2:30 p.m.

The homecoming dance will be held from 9 p.m. to midnight Saturday, with coronation of the queen by football captain Rick Dearborn. FUN ALL AROUND Sweet Adelines Pull Out Stoppers By DAVE HAAKE Quartets from Champaign-Urbana and La Salle and a chorus from Decatur put the oomph in "Barbershop on Parade" Saturday night at the Scottish Rite Temple. The Sweet Adelines show was a stopper! But the best part came during the second half with the Decatur chorus, 1963 Region 4 Sweet Adelines champs, and the Tune Tippers, second place men's quartet in last weekend's state Barbershopping contest, taking the lead. The Decatur chorus, 26 gals strong, harmonized and harmonized.

The near capacity crowd loved 'em and let 'em know it. The crowd did the same for the Nationalities, a classy quartet from Champaign Urbana. The four gals from the "big university" town were full of bounce and fun. Their singing made you wonder why they didn't wind up better than second place in last spring's Region 4 Sweet Adelines competition. Crowd Pleased Lead Hilma Jean Ivey's rendition of "Just In Case You Change Your Mind" brought down the house.

But it was the Tune Tippers, with their crowd fancying funny-man Roy Ferrari, who really put the show over and gave the crowd what it really sought. Maybe that's unfair to a bunch of Sweet Adelines, but barbershopping is barbershopping and the real barbershopping is best when guys like the Tune Tippers are in there pitching and harmonizing. That's not taking anything a way from the Bloomington Sweet Adelines they did real well and are going places. Director Jay Seibert and his 22 gals have got a lot to be proud of and can congratulate themselves on producing a first rate show. But the audience spoke for itself at last night's barbershop Dog Bites Girl, 9, in Normal Douglas Poe of 410 Normal Normal, told Normal police Saturday that his nine-yearold daughter, Patty, was bitten by a dog Friday evening at 304 N.

School. Normal police reported that the dog was owned by Arlan Hegeson of 714. N. School. The dog was taken to veterinarian for observation.

Washington Tax Increase Voted Down Deer Creek Claude and Russell Pepper watch traffic roll toward Interstate 74, in background, from the front porch of their home south of Deer Creek. They're spectators at frequent accidents caused by cars missing the unfinished BLOOMINGTONNORMAL DEATHS Michael Steven Long, 21- month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Long Jr.

of 1604 S. Center, died at 11:52 a.m. Saturday at Mennonite Hospital. He entered the hospital after having been stricken Friday night. His funeral will be at 10 a.m.

Monday at the Flinspach-Kurth Memorial Home, with the Rev. Elwood Wylie officiating. Burial will be in Park Hill Cemetery. Friends may call at the memorial home from 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday.

He was born Dec. 16, 1961, in Bloomington, a son of Charles H. and Rose Gang Long. Surviving besides his parents are a brother, Charles and his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.

Charles H. Long 1507 N. Franklin; Mrs. Mabel Breedlove, Shady Knoll Trailer Court. Michael Steven Long Mrs.

Elsie Stoddard Mrs. Elsie Virginia Stoddard, 56, once a resident of 1102 N. Livingston, died at 8:15 a.m. Saturday at a Peoria hospital. She had been gone from Bloomington about 25 years.

She was brought to the East Lawn Memorial Chapel. Sylvester Sharkey The funeral of Sylvester J. Sharkey, 65, of 208 Sunnyside Court will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Beck Memorial Home. Capt.

Harold E. Shoult of the Salvation Army will officiate, and burial will be in Evergreen Memorial Cemetery. Friends may call at the memorial home, beginning at 4 p.m. Monday. Mr.

Sharkey, a janitor, died at St. Joseph's Hospital Friday afternoon. Robert Shatto A former Bloomington resident, Robert Shatto, 52, of 116 Arlington Danville, died at 3 p.m. Saturday in the Danville Veterans Administration Hospital. He had been in ill health for a year.

Funeral services are incomplete. He was born in Chillicothe, and employed as an iron worker out of the Peoria union local. Survivors include his wife, the former Hilda Baugh of Bloomington; five children, Bobby Jean, Judy, Robert Debra, and Billy, and his mother. George Fowlie Mrs. Margaret Munro of 706 Apple, Normal, was notified of the death Saturday afternoon of her brother, George Fowlie, 68, in Chicago.

Mr. Fowlie was a former Bloomington resident. He had been associated with the old Chicago and Alton Railroad here. His funeral will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Klaners Funeral Home in Chicago, followed by cremation.

He was born in Bloomington July 17, 1895, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Fowlie Sr. He is survived by his wife, the former Georgia Kilmer; two sons, two daughters; three sisters, Mrs. Munro: Mrs.

Leslie McFarland. Williams Lake, and Mrs. Chase Hawkins, Vista, and nine grandchildren. Fred W. Burkholtz Fred W.

Burkholtz of 611 N. Oak died at 6:30 p.m. Saturday in the Missouri-Pacific Hospital, St. Louis. The Beck Memorial Home is in charge of arrangements.

Meeting Postponed CULLOM (PNS) The October meeting of Cullom Community Club has been postponed from Oct. 1 to Oct. 8 because of the busy farm season. WASHINGTON (PNS) Voters in the Washington area Saturday, for the second time in five years, turned thumbs down on a proposal to increase the school's educational tax rate. In what was considered A light turnout, the measure which would have increased rate by 15 cents per $100 assessed valuation, was soundly defeated by a vote of 897 to 213.

Lopsided results were turned in in both voting precincts. At Sundoer Grade School, the margin was 203 to 40 and at the high school gymnasium, it was 694 to 173. The total turnout was far below the 2,000 who voted in the gymnasium bond issue referendum last year. There was no indication from school officials as to future plans. The board recently was forced to issue $35,000 in tax anticipation warrants to meet mounting expenses.

School board officials had said that the present tax rate is not producing enough revenue to meet increasing educational costs. NO PEDESTRIANS BICYCLES FUNERALS FARM IMPLEMENTS Bikes three abreast and slow-moving farm implements are often to be seen on the interstate expressway, declare the Pepper brothers. This sign recently posted at the beginning of an 18-mile finished portion warms against such risks. PHOTOS PANTAGRAPH Brothers To Lose Ringside Seat When Road's Finished ft DEER CREEK "So I saw fi this guy's car skidding through the field toward me, and I turned around and ran. A "And he stepped out of that 5 car, and stood there holding onto the door for a minute, and finally he said 'What am I donna "And I told him, 'Buddy, you might as well walk on up to town and get somebody to tow you out!" That's Harold Pepper talking, describing one of the 47 times of which he knows that cars th have missed the stub east end of Interstate 74 and sailed off into a corn field.

53 Harold and his brother Russell live less than 100 yards from the point where Route 74 20 stops short. They've had a ringpe side seat for the past 53 weeks while disregard 11 8 warning drivers, a flashing red go light and a pair of stop signs and drive right off the end of th the highway. the Being that close to the enterwl tainment hasn't been all fun for Br them. For one thing, the motorists who are foolish enough to on land themselves in the corn PI field (it's owned by Clifford Be Hoyt) almost invariably come er to the Pepper brothers' house for help. And for another, the roar of ea accelerating trucks from gO Interstate 74 on the south, from U.S.

150 on the north-creates do a tremendous amount of noise. kit Each of the Peppers has his favorite yarn about the corn gn field drag strip. For Russell 36 Pepper the tops was the night Ic a car traveling "at least 70 wit miles an hour" seemed to bounce up and down almost aft endlessly after shooting off the ers end of 74. the "When he finally got stopped. gri he didn't even get out to look bu -just put it in reverse and Mi backed up all the way across the field, then took off down boi Route 150.

I think he was drunk Mic or something and couldn't afPur Mia ford to have anybody checking on him up close!" In a couple of years the deadend situation will no longer exm ist. In fact, it is likely that next year the state will construct its U.S. 150 overpass over Interde state 74. (Deer Creek has SC sought unsuccessfully to get an interchange with Route 74). co It is because of the overpass that the Peppers will lose their Mark Twain Club's First Program Ticket Two In U.S.

66 Accidents PONTIAC (PNS) Four persons were treated and released following two nearly identical traffic accidents four miles south of Pontiac on U.S. 66 at 12:15 a.m. Saturday. Two of the drivers were ticketed by State police. The first mishap occurred, state police reported, when Fred Ginther, 24, Chicago, attempted to pass one semi-trailer truck, and then slowed down to allow one truck to get past another.

While in the passing lane, his car was struck in the rear by the auto of Donald Ross, 24, Chenoa. Wellington Thornton 30. Chicago, also heading south on Route 66, slowed for the accident, and his car was hit from the rear by the auto of Jose Cavazos, 54, Corpus Christi, Tex. Both Ross and Covazos were charged with failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident. Treated at St.

James Hospital were Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ginther, Cuono Arcivolo, a passenger in the Ginther car, and Ernestine Cowan, 19, of Chicao, who was riding in the Thornton car. Troopers Donald Wall and Charles Peck investigated. Class To Display Work at New Holland NEW HOLLAND-(PNS)-The class of four girls who completed the lessons on "The Buffalo and The Coin" at the Methodist Church will have their work on display Sunday at the close of Sunday school.

Mrs. Don Tibbs and Mrs. Paul Gambrel were the teachers and the girls attending were Nancy Bracey, Debbie Witlers, Karol Parr and Wendy Blaum. Sunday School To Install Officers RUTLAND -(PNS)- The newly elected officers of the Christian Church Sunday school will be installed Sunday. They are: Robert Kline, superintendent: H.

E. Salisbury, assistant: Miss Barbara Craig, pianist; Mrs. Mary Florence, assistant: Mrs. Blanche Medley, chorister: Mrs. Dorothy Cusac, assistant: Don Craig, secretary.

ROANOKE S. Sgt. and Mrs. Jack DeWilde and T. Sgt.

and Mrs. Gene DeWilde and their families returned to Offutt Air Force Base, Omaha, Monday after visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Guy M. Blue, during the weekend.

Mr. and Mrs. Russell Stoller and children left for Camp Pendleton, Thursday, after spending their vacation since Aug. 6 with Mrs. Stoller's mother, Mrs.

Helen Klein, and other relatives here and in Eureka. EL PASO-(PNS)-The first meeting of the El Paso Woman's Club program will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the Legion room. Mrs. J.

F. Carper will give a biography of Mark Twain. Mrs. David W. Yohn, president, and her executive committee will be hostesses at a tea to follow the program.

Sociologist's Topic on Love Dr. John Behling, assistant professor of sociology at Illinois State Normal University, will lecture on "Love and Alienation" at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the third floor lounge of the ISNU Union Building. The lecture, sponsored by the University Union Board, is open to the public. front-row seat.

The six-room home where they have lived for 25 years must go to make way for construction. Their new house, located a little further east, will still give them a close-up view of Interstate 74. But it will be dull after their year of watching road races through the corn field. Golf League Elects Officers WASHINGTON -(PNS)- The ladies golf league at Hillerest Golf course closed the season Tuesday when they were guests at a luncheon given by Mrs. James Putnam and Miss Eleanor Webster at Neptune Swim Club.

Following the luncheon a business meeting was held with Mrs. LeRoy Harris presiding. Officers for the coming season will be Mrs. Floyd Lyons, chairman; Mrs. Edward Graubner, membership; Mrs.

Lewis Junk. play day chairman; Mrs. Lloyd Lofgren, treasurer: Mrs. Shelby Smith, handicap chairman; Mrs. Herbert Wahrenburg, prize chairman: Mrs.

Russell Bahr, tournament chairman: Mrs. Francis Fasset, rules chairman; and Mrs. Ralph Risser, advisor. Court Notes McLEAN COUNTY BLOOMINGTON POLICE COURT Joseph L. Thompson, 23, of R.R.

paid $30 fine on drunkenness charge. Homer M. Thompson. no age or address. sent to county jail in lieu of $500 bond on charges of drunkenness and disorderly conduct.

Daniel L. Reiner, 56, of Jefferson, and Vernon Olson, 36, no address, both sent to county lail in default of $30 fines, each, on drunkenness charges. sent Carl to E. county Johnson, 34, in of 704 default N. Mason: lail fines on charges of disorderly conduct and drunkenness.

Complainant on drunkenness charge was his mother, Frances. arresting officer signed the disorderly complaint. Clyde Dye, 54, Le Roy, ticketed on charge of failure to yield right of way, resulting from two-car collision at 11:55 p.m. Friday on Locust at Mason. Other vehicle was driven by Burnell E.

Wills, 40, of 307 E. Mulberry. NORMAL POLICE COURT Harry D. Marquardt, 24, of 1107 N. Fell.

paid a $20 fine Saturday on a speeding charge. Louie V. Boward, 26, Middleton, paid a $15 fine Saturday on radar speed charge, Hudson W. Tiff, 51, Manito, $15 fine Saturday on a radar Paideed charge. Emory Tabor, 59, Morton, was ticketed Friday on a radar speed charge, with the hearing scheduled for Monday.

TAZEWELL COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT Divorces granted: Burnis Cochran from Anita May Cochran, Sharon Edwards from Larry Edwards. Hospitalize Emden Man After Crash show. The Tune Tippers ranked first with the Nationalities and the Decatur chorus mixing it up pretty well for second place. Bound For Oakland The Musicmates, a quartet from the Bloomington and Fairbury Sweet Adeline Choruses, rated high with the audience too. Appearing only briefly, Leona Meyers, Fern Steidinger, Betty Sullivan and Motie lans were more than well received.

The Royal Tones from Chicago, District 3 champs bound for next month's Sweet Adeline national contest in Oakland, will have to impress the judges more than they did their Bloomington audience Saturday night or they'll return home with a lump in their throats. The four District 3 champs can sing, but they lack the luster and the "bounce to the ounce" of the Nationalities. Could be this reviewer is one to go for clowning that makes Barbershop Shows fun, but such was the way the icing stacked up last night on the Scottish Rite applause meter. All in all, it was a good show, lots of fun and the forerunning for another repeat performance next fall. Adelines Keep 'em Sweet of Bloomington! 'Changing City' Discussion Topic STANFORD -(PNS)- "The Changing City challenges the Church--Alma Mater, City Style" will be the topic for discussion when the two circles of the Christian Women's Fellowship meet here Wednesday.

The afternoon circle will meet with Mrs. Truman Allman at 2 p.m. Mrs. Mabel Nafziger will lead the program and Mrs. Roy McReynolds the worship.

The evening circle will meet with Mrs. Carl Becker at 7:30 p.m. Mrs. Earl Kindred will lead the program and Mrs. Merville Hall the worship.

LINCOLN -(PNS)- Henry Kramer, Emden, was brought to Abraham Lincoln Memorial hospital late Friday afternoon for observation after his car was in a collision with a car driven by Franklyn Pekarek, of Cicero, on U.S. 136 in San Jose. Mr. Kramer was crossing the highway, police reported. Pekarek was able to stop in time to avoid a serious accident.

Policeman Clarence Haberland, investigated. The Pekarek car damaged an estimated $150 and the Kramer car had a bent Fender. Accident Verdict In Emden Death LINCOLN -(PNS) -Coroner John Barry conducted an inquest at Emden Friday night into the death of Reno (Larry) Eeten, rural Emden, who was killed in a truck car accident Sept. 6 on U.S. 136 at the Delavan road intersection.

A verdict of accidental death was returned by the jury. Witnesses included State Trooper Glen Nichols, Mrs. Helen Gilmore and Ernest B. Marshall, Manito, driver of the car involved in the accident. Marshall declined to testify.

Trash Catches Fire Bloomington firemen were called to a point north of Empire Street along the Illinois Central tracks at 7:45 p.m. Saturday to extinguish a trash fire. It requires close to an hour for firemen to put out the blaze, which had started in discarded cardboard and other debris. WAYNESVILLE Mrs. Hugh Furman and Mrs.

Charles Finger, accompanied by Mrs. Herbert Arnfelt of Dayton, Ohio, will leave Sunday on a 10 day trip along the East Coast. Mr. and Mrs. G.

W. Finfrock and Mrs. Harry Horn will attend the 89th annual session of the Order of Eastern Star of Illinois, to be held Tuesday and in Chicago..