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THE PAXTACRAPn. BLOOMIXfiTOV. ILLINOIS. TUESDAY, MAT T9. 19VL mm New Rainstorm Floods Parts of Pekin Logan Watches Central Illinois Deaths Firemen Rescue Woman, 90, In Menaced Home 'Salt Creek; Flood Feared 1 Crash In Storm At Tremont Kills Decatur Man i PEKIN A man te-JVivr'y fc--tifisl as John W.

Caru-r. 23. r.f Decatur, was killed in a head-- collision abut a rr.L wt-vt cf Tremont on Route 9 at 6: 15 p. m. Henry J.

Wernsman FAIRBURY (PNS)- Henry J. Wernsman. of La Salle, formerly of Fairbury and Weston, died at 12:30 p. m. Monday at his home of a heart attack.

His funeral will be at 10:30 a. m. Thursday at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in La Salle. irial will be in the Catholic Cemetery at La Salle.

ihad arrived at the office. preparatory to entering a i He was taken to the Mrmon.il H-vme and will be taken to Chicago Tuesday for 'funeral and I He was born Jan. 5. In Lithuania, the son of Ignatius and 1 Marion Dauksaa Paulauskis. He never married.

I Surviving are a brother. Vincent. Europe: a sister, Mrs. Stella Zit-kus. Chicago; a half sister, Mrs.

W- Flood waters receded in central Illinois Monday, leaving the health hazard of Dolluted wells and hpaw LINCOLN (PNS) With the flood of Sugar and Kickapoo Crocks to the north and cast receding from a Sunday midnight high a record flood since damage to hundreds of hard hit July 6. 1929 the lowlands in the! west side of Logan County along these two streams were getting! the brunt Monday afternoon as: iarms, tne Associated Press reported in a roundup story in the wake of week end downpours. While many communities mopped up from the deluge, a new onslaught struck both Pekin and Peoria and neighboring communi ill i 1 -I -a' I i ti Monday during a heavy ra.n-storm. The car Carter wis driving hit head-on with a nJk tank truck driven by Ben jam Clark. 31.

cf Pefcn. Clark suffered orJy minor cuts. Clark said that the car wns fv ing east on the high a ay d--wn th? center of the pavement. After the collision the truck stru. a bridge and jackmfed across the highway.

Logan county authorities kept tab on the movement of the water. Section crews of the Illinois Central Railroad were watching railroad bridges over the Kickapoo just west of Lincoln and the Pool Hill bridge east of New Holland, and both along Route 121. Roads Blocked At midafternoon the water at the Kickapoo creek bridge was above the lower iron bridgework and drifts were threatening to take out the Pool Hill bridge. Roads east and west of Atlanta i 1 1 ties iate Monday afternoon. Pekin reported about five inches of rain at 6 p.

m. Monday. Severe hail and extensive crop damage accompanied the rain. Pekin firemen rescued a 90 year old woman when flood waters surrounded her home. Pekin Industry Flooded The industrial area was reported to be under four feet of water.

Water in the Tazewell County courthouse basement measured 30 inches. Power in about a third of the city was out, and more than half the telephone lines were knocked out. All police radios were out of use. He was born March 3. 1SSS.

at Woton. the son of Fred and Anna Wernsman. He married Nellie Eh-man at Amboy. Mr. Ernsman ran a music store in La Salle.

Surviving are his wile; three daughters. Mrs. Louis Kerns, Mrs. Theresa Whitmer. Mendota; Mrs.

Rita Buck. La Salle; a brother, Joseph. Fairmont. six sisters, Mrs. Gertrude Everett, Santa Ana.

Mrs. Esther Tice. Los Angeles, Mrs. Ames Signor, Mrs. Rena James, Mrs.

Frances Bowers, Chicago; Mrs. Freda Ambrose. Fairbury; and seven grandchildren. His parents and a son preceded him in death. He was a member of St.

Joseph's Catholic Church. B. E. Herington CLINTON PNS The funeral of Byron E. Herington, 76.

of Wapella will be at the Herington Funeral Home at 2:30 p. m. Tuesday, a half hour later than originally scheduled. Mr. Herington died Sunday at John Warner Hospital.

Casmir Paulauskis MINONK (PNS Casmir Paulauskis, 67. a retired coal miner, died at 7 p. m. Sunday at a Minonk physician's office. He i ana iawnaaie were blocked at Helen Narsutis, Chicago.

Donald Rinehart CHENOA Donald Rinehart, 50. a former Chenoa resident, died Sunday in Chicago. Funeral services are to be held Wednesday at Taylorville. Mr. Rinehart was the son of the late Mr.

and Mrs. John Rinehart of Marion. Ohio. He had lived in Chicago for the past 20 years. Survivors are hi wife; two brothers.

Kerwin and William, both of Marion. Ohio, and two sisters, Mrs. Thomas Higgins of Chenoa and a second sister who lives in Marion, Ohio. John Balrd ODELL (P.NS The funeral of John Baird, St. will be at 2 p.

m. Tuesday at the Watson Funeral Home. The Rev. John E. Muir will officiate, and burial will be in Odell Cemetery.

Mr. Baird died at St. James Hospital in Pontiac Sunday night. He was a Methodist and a member of the Ode'J Masonic Lodge. Mrs.

Theo FeHr MORTON (PNS) Mrs. Theo R. Fehr died at 1 p. m. at St.

Luke's Hospital in Chicago. She was undergoing an operation for brain tumor. She will be brought to Ludwig Mortuary on Tuesday. Arrange- Five Youths Held Following Crash LINCOLN (PNS C.ty rvT'ce arrested five youths rsrly Monday titer the car in which they were riding crashed into tc car rf Mirk Lyons parked in fmnt of rus home on Mundy St. at 4.30 a.

m. Don Siekman. 20. cf Lincoln, driver of the car. charged with reckless operating a without a driver's license and leaving the scene of an accident.

Siekman only last week tjs released from the county jail after serving 10 days on a vagrancy charge. LE ROY (PXS) Flood water was receding Monday from Sunday's flood. While Le Roy's water was going down, Pekin received an unofficial four to five inches of rain Monday after-noon. Stewart Photo times by the flood water and Sugar creek nearly went over Route 136 near Armington. Flood waters began pouring over the Fifth Street road five miles west of Lincoln at noon and by midafternoon had also poured over the road west of the Rocky-ford bridge near the quarry.

1913 Flood Recalled A 3.65 inch rainfall from Saturday morning through Sunday night spilled water into basements in New Holland Girllf?" nuns LincoiniTe Fire Destroys Barn at Emden EMDEN (PNS) A barn on the Harmon Hildebrand farm east of town was destroyed by fire after being struck by lightning about 10 p. m. Saturdav durin? a spuprp Drowns in Creek LINCOLN (PNS) Alhrt tne residential and business areas. There were numerous -Jfe 1 idiku xivc All era vill the south side of Pekin. One fire was thought to be extensive.

No estimate of damage could be made. A Commonwealth Edison Company official at Pekin said that the rain gauge at the plant recorded 2.81 inches. Morton reported heavy rain, but by 7:30 p. m. it had slackened considerably.

Minonk reported heavy rain with lightning. Fairbury experienced heavy black clouds but no rain early Monday evening. A little rain fell early Monday. It was reported that flooded conditions west of Peoria prevented some Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad trains from entering that city. blocked by water in low spots.

Horn, 62, sustained back injuries in a 15 foot fall when a ladder rung broke and plunged him and his tenant, A. Meredith, to the ground. The two men were at work nn After Misstep Quality rhoto Finishing 8 HOUR SERVICE (la by 9, Out br 5) I electrical storm. The contents, including snn baW riood wise observers were anticipating a major flood of Salt Creek to hit the Logan county area by midnight Monday or early Tuesday. In 1929 only Kickapoo LINCOLN-(PNS)-Patricia Ann page, but this time heavy rainfall to the east in the Salt basin has started a head of water that may top the 1942 flood which forced Lincoln Lakes residents out of of hay, 150 bushels of oats, ground the ladder repairing the roof of Horn's tenant house when the accident occurred.

ana sugar creeks went on a ram their homes. 103 W. FKOXT ST. jiit-nis are incomplete wins are incomplete. I I Up to Nine Inches ieed and some hay, were also lost.

The loss was covered by insurance. No estimate of the loss was made. The local volunteer fire department remained at the farm until 3 a. m. Sunday because sparks carried by shifting winds endangered nearby buildings.

Hospital Notes The fertile agricultural region was hit Saturday and Sunday by Rankin, 14, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Offie A. Rankin of New Holland, was drowned at 7:30 p. m.

Monday in flood waters in the old channel of Salt Creek near Pole Cat Hill, 15 miles southwest of Lincoln. The body was recovered at 10:35 p. m. by Deputy Sheriff Charles Wagner, Mount Pulaski; State policeman Dwight Pitman, Lincoln; Sheriff Charles Peggies, Macon County; and Deputy Sheriff Wayne Brown, Macon County. The girl, with three older brothers, Harold, 23, Elmer.

17, and Bobby, 15, were at the old channel looking for fish to spear when thp torrential rams which flooded newly seeded corn and soybean fields Is your car here? jn six counties, and trapped live stock. Now-release all the power under your hoocLget more miles per gallon, too! Cloudbursts spilled up to nine inches of rain in a fpw hmm knocking out highway bridges, un 954 Htgk-Coapmuoa Can mJ Mobdgos Special to lop Power lap Economy. dermining railroad tracks, and choking the Sangamon River and its tributaries, Salt and Kickapoo creeks into mile-wide lakes. The John Warner CLINTON -(PNS)- Admitted: Russell Miller, La Salle; Mrs. Lori Cunningham, Waynesville; Mrs.

Lucy Taylo, Clinton; Michael Gash, Decatur; Bernard West-brook, Wapella. Dismissed: Patricia Ann TTar. two older boys left the girl and Bobby to go to the new channel, a quarter mile away. The girl and her brother waded across the water on a levee road recently gently rolling farmland was nit into gullies one to 20 feet wide by gouging runoff rapids. Kickapoo Creek, which overran BUKX rold, Mrs.

Grace Reed, Mrs. Or-ville Willis and son, Clinton. Fairbury a bridge on Route 51 at Heyworth Sunday, receded rapidly Monday, OU1IC. Waded Across Creek Apparently after they had waded across, the current from the swollen stream washed out a hole in the road, and as they returned they stepped in it and fell in tho FAIRBURY (U.P.) Admit ted: John Lyons, Clifford Ziegen pounng lis muddy water into the Sangamon which crested at 21 feet late in the morning at Mahomet Salt Creek subsided more slowly horn, Fairburv: Fred Rnirkpr CADIUAC uropsey; James Emberton, Forrest: La van Clark. Pinpr ntv- over most oi its length.

creek. Neither could swim, but Bobby managed to Dull hi Mrs. Lola Rhoda. Chpnoar out. His shouts broutrht his hmth.

Read, Danforth. ers back to the scene. Dismissed: Mrs. Charles Strait Attempts were mad hv Twt and son. Mrs.

Helen TVlwarHc Geiser, Roy Quisenberrv and Dan Grain Bias Burst The number of sheep lost In the flood was expected to reach more than 100 in the Farmer City area. Government-owned grain stored in bins at Weedman, nearby, soaked up flood water from Salt Creek and expanded, bursting the containers. Roger Edwards, Forrest; Jeffery Grace, Mrs. Delores McGuire. Tibbs Jr.

of New Holland to re John Lyons, Mrs. George Porter cover the body by diving, but failed. ana son, Uairbury; Mrs. Verna Larmer, Kokomo, Ind. Search Party Organized Sheriff William A.

Kpvs me One lane traffic was restored im Abraham Lincoln Memorial LINCOLN (PNS) Arlmittprf. notified shortly after 8 p. m. and he and Coroner Donald A. HollanH Route 51 at Heyworth, and motorists usina Route 13G were rontpH Mrs.

Aileen Bradwav. Mrc An. with Deputy Sheriff Joe Scanlon thur Begolka, Atlanta; Mrs. Fran around a bridge washout east of organized a search party. Deputy ces Gallagher.

Carolvn Vf At. fisher. Two bndges on county roads were wrecked. thur Davis. Herbert Hahn.

Linrnln- CHEVROttT -8i CHRYSLER ICONTINENTAI SOTO FORD V-fi's Mrs. Cora Hawk, Easton; Mrs. Weedman and another seven miles east of WaDella. Several Edna Bratcher. Clinton: Mrs.

War. roads were reported impassable ren Kious, Armington; Mrs. John Rholfs, Emden; John P. Read. Elkhart.

cue to standing water and erosion. The flood area, emhraeincr narts of Champaign, McLean, Ford, Logan. De Witt and Piatt rnnntioc escaped additional heavy rains nagner, who had been standing by with a motor and boat in case of emergency, was called, and Sheriff Pebbles was asked to bring the grappling hooks. They arrived about 10 p. m.

and the body was recovered within 30 minutes. The girl was brought to the Holland and Barry Funeral Home. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. An inquest will be slated. She is survived by her parents; seven brothers, Harold, Kenneth, Richard, John, Bobby, Elmer, Offie and four sisters, Mai-garet, Esther, Mary, and Frances.

Assistant Fire Chief Hob Rose took the Lincoln Civil Defense portable power plant to the scene to light the search area. jvionoay. However, other Dinois localities caught heavy showers. New Super-Compression Dismissed: Mrs. Raymond Gee, Elmer Schaffenacker, Mount Pulaski; Herman Seefeldt, Shelley Ann Harris, James Lansford, Eugene Partlow, Lincoln; Mrs.

Fred Miller, Atlanta; Mrs. Gerald Rabbe, Mason City; Mrs. Stella Langenwalter, Lebanon; August Tackman, Mason City; Mrs. Everett Stoll, Chestnut; Mrs. Charles Agnew, Diana Henrickson, W.

E. Kennett, Harold Griffin. At Mount Pulaski a locally severe thunderstorm knocked down power and telephone lines anrl snapped tree limbs. Violent wind and hail accompanied the rain wmcn pelted the town and adja cent area for a half hour. Arntzen, Mrs.

Anton Stigl, Lincoln. HUDSON V-8'i St. Clara's LINCOLN (PNS) Admits- GvDo)oO(ojcm Rodeo Rider Breaks Ankle Bertel LaMar, Mrs. Clarence Frye, Ernest fuis. Mrs.

C. C. Apple-gate, Mrs. Samuel Yeazle, Debra Kay Muchow, Claude Armour. Mucnow, Claude Armour, CLINTON fPNn MmSTrf liPSallrSiSl" Barbara Leslie, RIrs.

I eaa' "ncoin; Kosanne Hutchi- ankle when he was thrown fmm ankle when he was th UNCOIN a son, Broadwell, Henry Altes, wild bronco at Henson's Rodeo Sunday. Report Jesse Jones In Critical Condition HOUSTON, TEX. -JV Jesse H. Jones, Houston financier and former secretary of commerce and head of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. was reported in a critical condition Monday in a Houston hospital.

Jones, 82, entered St. Luke's Hospital about two weeks ago. Jones, publisher of the Houston Chronicle, owns 35 multistory Houston buildings. He built 33 of them, including three large downtown hotels and the Ifrviefrm tuoommgton. Dismissed: Stephan Loveall, Tod Courtwright, Cynthia Scroggins, Mrs.

Helen Staples. Mrs. Hazel Denning, Jasper King. Lincoln; Lawrence Pyles, Lawndale; Mrs. Milton French.

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