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The Pantagraph from Bloomington, Illinois • Page 6

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The Pantagraphi
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THE PANT AG Aril, BLOOMINGTOX. ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 11. IX. SL Looks Inviting, Doesn't It? Wapella Names Committee For Soap Box Derby Mackinaw City Swimming Site's Popularity Grows MACKINAW Attendance at Brock Lake, the Mackinaw city swimming beach west of town, is averaging more than 200 swimmers a day, according to beach manager Gib Baechler. Baechler said Monday that cool weather had reduced the size of ht -v Jr WAPELLA (PNS) Jarvis Swaner was named by Lewis Armstrong, chairman of the 1936 Wa pella Corn and Bean Festival, to head a committee to look into the possibilities of having a soap box derby in connection with this years iestival.

Others named to the committee were Rollin Hartman and Bob Lcg- the Independence Day crowd, but that the previous Sunday more than 2.000 persons had paid to gett. They will report to the general committee when they meet at the Wapella High School Monday night. swim at the beach. Beach Improved v. A' The Individual paid admissions The festival, which will be on at 25 cents per person are in Aug.

22 and 23, will feature free addition to season passes held by cornbread and beans for everyone on Aug. 23. Last year about 3.500 Mackinaw residents. Local swimmers are charged only 51 per persons took advantage of the free supper. year for season tickets.

The heavy attendance has been John LaMoth, Lincoln organist, will play during the feeding of the free meal. A minstral show will be credited in part to improvements made to the beach this spring. presented at the high school on both nights and plans also call for a small street carnival. The Corn and Bean Festival Is an outgrowth of the 1954 Wapella Centennial which was attended by more than 20.000 Deoole. Funds Sand taken from another section of the park was spread over the beach, and picnic tables were added.

Two lifeguards are now on duty daily, and four or more are used on week ends and holidays, Baechler said. Swim Classes In Progress In addition to the regular swimming crowds, 50 to 60 Mackinaw youngsters are attending the daily swimming classes taught by Miss Jane Pierron of Illinois State Normal University. Baechler also credits the lack from the festival are used to benefit the Wapella Volunteer Fire department with about one fourth of the funds remaining in the association to sponsor the following years festival. PLENTY OF FENDER ROOM now in the 100 through 400 blocks of East Washington Street. View looks east down the street which was recently resurfaced and widened.

Street was to r.lANT MAP of the Middle Eait, part of the background la SjrUa Ambmdor Farid Zrined. dint's recent talk at Illinois State Normal I'nlvenlty, will loom on Capra's fttage again ThurwUy night when the Israeli ambaador, Abba Ebaa, makes an addres. ISNU tudeoU are gather. Ing first hand information about the tene Middle F.at in the Conference on Public Iio. Gathered around the map are Jantrs Began and Richard Metcalfe, aocial acieare majors, and Marcia Yogrl, a social science student.

be opened to traffic at 4 p. m. today of adequate swimming facilities in Castle Vetoes Drive-in Sale other communities with boosting the size of crowds at the lake. Delavan, North Pekin and Pekin Talk, Question Session, Reception on Eban's Agenda have the only other pools or Faces Drunk Driving Charge Clarence Hafley. 53.

of McLean was fined S34 on an illegal transportation of liquor charge and bound over to the circuit court on a drunk driving charge Wednesday morning by Justice of Peace Al Grabs. Hafley was released under SjOO Wesleyan Adds Louis C. Levine To English Staff 1939 attorney general opinion, is aimed at "the unadvised and unwise union" of alcohol and the operation of a vehicle, Castle said. Castle told Madison County State's Atty. Fred P.

Schuman he took exception to the 1939 rule holding that lawmakers intended only to prevent a person from having alcoholic liquor immediately available for consumption w-hile beaches in Tazewell County. Of Li iquor QEAniHG GLASSES Abba Eban, ambassador of Israel to the United States, will make three appearances Thursday on the campus of Illinois State Normal University. SPRINGFIELD J) Atty. Gen. Latham Castle held Tuesday it is attack of Ambassador Farid Zein-eddine, according to an Israeli spokesman.

Instead the Jewish diplomat ti3 limit his remarks to the subject of. "Peace or War." Principal program of the day will be his talk at 7:43 p. m. in softened and soothed illegal to serve intoxicating liquor to "drive-in" patrons for consump- His Normal visit is the delayed with medicated, fast-acting linn i mifAmnllaP half of a June 26 program in flkl CONTAINS uuu auiuiiiuuuco. KLbl NOL -LAN ohm His decision, which reverses a ISNU's 'Conference on Public Is bond set by Mr on the latter charge after paving the $54 fine.

Complaint against Hafley was signed by State Police Officer Joseph Griffin, who arrested the McLean man at 3:40 p. m. Tuesday on Route 66 near Funks Grove. sues. Mr.

Loan, who was to Capen Auditorium. A question I- I 'l speaK on nis country aunuae aa5wer period wi'J be Middle East: Peace In Cann 3:20 nd a r. Normal Man's Condition Good William Henninger, 43, of 502 E. Poplar injured in an auto accident Friday near Armington, was reported to be in good condi War," was recalled to Israel by a governmental crisis. The Syrian ambassador fpoke as scheduled and attacked Zionist activity as the cause of much of that region's present unrest.

Mr. Eban will not answer the Bidwill Sends Check for Fine tion Wednesday at Abraham Lin ception for the ambassador has been arranged to follow the formal evening program. All the events axe open to the public. There is no charge. The Conference on Public Issues is an annual event sponsored by the ISNU Social Science coln Memorial Hospital in The Normal man, who suffered State Sen.

Arthur J. Bidwill of' River Forest paid his state speed-' lmtirorJ ng fine Tuesday. Bloomington jVyCII 5T lnUreU Police Magistrate Walter Reiner! I II A hide deafness as ruttr Ixjore Jot men and vomen A nf. IWMTiat al rr fctart.f aid rmf said Senator Bidwill sent him a 111 VOIIIblOil face and head cuts and chest and head injuries, had been listed as critical immediately following the accident. Hospital authorities said Wednesday that he had spent a good night Tuesday night.

Three Beards town residents were also injured in the collision, which occurred on Route 136, west of Armington. GREETING CARDS for all cetuvonj FRIED'S CARD CAMERA 8R0P 1M W. Front 513 check to cover the fine and costs. The senator was arrested June 13 by state police on Route 66 near Lexington. Using radar, the officers clocked him at 54 miles per hour in a 45 mph zone.

Louis C. Levine LooU art. Pewnlnrt a No cord bsstana thovv to lb CSJK. The case had been twice Louis Carl Levine has been David King. 9 year old son of Mr.

and Mrs. Robert E. King. 31 Harbord was injured at 1 p. m.

when his bicycle and a car collided at Route 150 and Lafayette Street. He was taken to Mennonite Hospital by the Fire Department Rescue Squad. Rescue Squad members said he had a bruised left arm and complained of pains in the right leg. Identification of the driver of the car was not immediately a vail poned before the Tuesday ment. Harley Armstrong Dies at Home CLINTON (PNS) Harley AUTO AIR CONDITIONERS HIGH CAPACITY REFRIGERATED UNDER DASH MODEL 375.00 Installed DELUXE TRUNK- MODEL 425.00 Installed Transferable to Next Car You Buy EARL MERRIS GARAGE 407 N.Morris Ave Bloomington Phone 2-6078 COLOR FILM PROCESSING hired as assistant professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan University for next year.

Mr. Levine is a graduate of the City College of New York and Armstrong, 43, died unexpectedly 3 Injured Show Improvement at 2:13 a. m. Wednesday at his holds a master's decree in Eng home following a heart attack. He SIf US rOI lish from the University of Chi 1 able.

cago. At present, Mr. Levine is Cooksville couple, Mr. and ftni thing, too. A Mrs, Belfone Hsaring Service directing a summer work camp George Swinehart.

injured in Li iL project for the American Friends 1 July 4 accident east of Bloom-1 rormer naTSWorin, a J. F. Nr biker, DiL ington shows much improvement Dwiqht Pastor at Brokaw Hospital. 1M W. 3Ionro Dean had had a heart disorder for several years.

He was taken to the Pullen and Boos Funeral Chapel. His funeral will be at 2 p. m. Friday at the I Clinton Christian Church with the Rev. B.

E. Junkins officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will begin after 10 a. m.

Thursday at the chapel. He was bom April 29, 1913, In Clinton, a son of Harley L. and Martin of Fiartonville. CHATSWORTH (PNS) The HAWKINS 214 W. W.skiftftoA STUDIO I CAMERA SHOP Rev.

Martin Gronewald of Ben- Gone Fishiii1 PANTAGRAP1I PHONES 4-3011 Service Committee in Wautoma, Wis. Some 20 students from different colleges and universities are working under Mr. Levine's direction in constructing a recreation center in Wautoma for the hundreds of migrant workers who come there during the late summer to pick cucumbers for local pickling plants. sonville. retired minister of the Evangelical United Brethren UI j) driver of the second car involved in the crash, was reported in good condition Wednesday.

Mrs. Agnes Campbell of Indianapolis, hurt in an accident July 4 near Carlock on 150. remains in serious condition at Brokaw. Church, died Tuesday while visit ing a daughter in Montana. urns omi Funeral services will be at 2 0 f93.

p. m. Saturday in the Evangelical For a number of years his graduation from college, United Brethren Church at Wood- Closed For Vacation Open Monday Leah Armstrong. He married El-nor Kathryn Bell April 10, 1937, in Clinton. Surviving are his wife; two Mil dale.

Mr. Levine was president of the He spent 4S years In the Illinois Carl Levine and Company, plas Conference and served in Chats- sons, Thomas Edward and Jerry Loren, both at home; three broth tics manufacturers. For two worth from 1906 to 1911 and again July 16 years he was overseas with the in 1916 to 1919. He also served ers, Russell, Ernest and Harold, all of Clinton; two sisters. Mrs.

To Hear Shoplifting Charge July 24 A Bloomington Police Court hearing into a shoplifting charge against a Le Roy woman was continued Tuesday to July 24. The woman. Mrs. Carol Bishop, 25, was charged with taking items valued at $12.42 from the Osco Drug Store Monday night. American Friends Service Committee as director of their Stock Thelma O'Connell, Decatur; Mrs.

noim otiice ana later was in Barbara Vance, Clinton. charge of the D.P. orientation pro churches in Dwight and Grand Prairie. Mrs. Gronewald preceded him In death three years ago.

One child also preceded him in death. Surviving are seven children. gram lor prospective Americans 1S3C? He was a member of the Clinton Christian and the Roque Club. He was an employee of the Holtz Chevrolet Co. at the Bremen emigration center AUTOMATIC-GAS WATER HEATERS Installed In BloomLngton or Normal Germany.

in trus latter position, he con ducted the orientation series in American culture as well as Dring Your COLOR FILMS Court Notes McLEAN COUNTY classes in advanced English for to the those refugees who already had a fair command of the language. From 1952 to 1954 Mr. Levine was UNITED PHOTO SHOP 30 Gallon Size Gas WATER HEATER associate director of the Jewish Mala and Market Sts. fbone 4-2ISS agency in charge of orientation CIRCUIT COURT Robert G. Smith vs.

Louise Haines: Suit filed to collect $875 claimed due real estate broker's commission. PROBATE COURT Estate of ilia Meyers: Will admitted to probate. Peoples Bank appointed executor. Value of estate esti work in Tel Aviv, IsraeL Earlier, I he organized for the American Friends Society, the "Music for Professional Pharmacists $8995 Installed For Only Israel" program. Mr.

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Phone 2-5395 1102 Sooth ILsia St. Fbone 2-22 Mr. Levine is married and plans to move to Bloomington in late August. Jury Rules Drowning In Strinqfield Death 20 Gallon Size Estate of Charlotte Fiterald: final report approved. Administrator dis- cnarKea.

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12, died of accidental causes, suffocation due to drowning- The boy drowned in Lake Bloomington July 4 after riding his bicycle off a bridge. The inquest was led by McLean County Coroner Joseph Hallett, at the Froelich Memorial Home in Gridley. The boy'g parents. Mr. and Mrs.

Carl Stringfield, live near the lake. forfeited $29 bond on disorderly conduct charge. Edward Kominoski. 23. of 333 I.

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