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jr --t i 40 pages, 4 sections Bloomington-Normal, Wednesday, Feb. 29, 1984 Twin Cities Final 25' IU IU self curt seir up Jackson's 0 Grammy Beit record Best album Pop mole vocalist Rock male vocalist RIB male vocalist Top record producer Best song Best recording for children Story on page B6 (All precincts in, though some are incomplete) Candidate Votes Hart 39,062 40 Mondale 27,710 39 Glenn 1X041 13 Jackson 3,280 McGovern 3,143 5 Hollings 3,383 4 Cranston 2,047 Askew 1,023 1 MANCHESTER. N.H. Sen. Gary Hart, yesterday scored a surprise victory in the New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary, seriously setting back Walter F.

Mondale 's prospects and turning the race for the 1984 nomination into what could be a prolonged and exhausting contest Hart gained strength daily since he claimed a surprise second-place finish in the Feb. 20 Iowa precinct caucuses and surged past Mondale on the final weekend before the voting in the first primary of the year, according to polls by The Washington Post and ABC News. With a daylong snowstorm holding down the voter turnout, Hart sent the longtime favorite for the nomination reeling, and drove all the other candidates except Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, down to single-digit figures that seemed to foreshadow an early exit from the race for most of them. With a third-place finish here after his fifth-place showing in Iowa, Glenn vowed to take his campaign into the Southern primaries on March 13 that loom as the next major test.

Jesse L. Jackson, whose skid apparently added votes to the Hart column, also is expected to compete in Alabama, Georgia and Florida on "Super Tuesday." But the four trailing candidates former Sen. George McGovern, Sens. Ernest F. Hollings, and Alan Cranston, and former Florida Gov.

Reubin Askew faced severe credibility problems. President Reagan was winning 97 percent of the votes in the Republican primary, and apparently received more write-in votes in the ft ri AP Democratic presidential contender Gary Hart last night celebrated his win in the New Hampshire primary at a restaurant in Manchester. Man freezes to death as storm's fury persists Food war claims victim By DAVE HAAKE Pantograph business writer College Hills Food Shop, 705 N. Towanda Normal, is the first independent grocery store to fold in Bloomington-Normal's highly competitive, 2-month-old price war. College Hills Bi-Rite the food shop's corporation, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy dissolution yesterday in Springfield.

It had employed up to 14 full-time and 45 part-time workers prior to cutbacks earlier this year. The store will close as soon as it can dispose of an estimted $250,000 inventory of produce, meat and grocery items, a court official said. Prices will be reduced during that sale. "We just couldn't compete any longer," Randy L. Peifer, president of the supermarket told The Pantagraph last night.

"We don't have the money to stay in business for a couple years and wait for things to get back to normal. "When Cub Foods (a non-advertising discount supermarket) opened Dec. 28, it really took our business. Big chains have the wherewithal to stay in business with them and lose money for awhile." Actually, Peifer said, the College Hills Food Shop made less money during the eight weeks prior to Cub's opening "because the chains started reducing their (profit) margins in anticipation, of Cub's opening. "There was no way to compete from our standpoint," he' said.

"Now we're going to liquidate our assets and pay our creditors as much as possible." A list of the shop's creditors and a statement of its assets will be filed with the bankruptcy court judge within 10 days, according to A. Clay Cox, Peifer's bankruptcy attorney. The bankruptcy petition did not surprise veteran Bloomington-Normal supermarket managers. It was "a case of too much Cub Foods and the price war," one chain spokesman said. "College Hills had competed strongly and Please see CLOSING, next page 148th Day.

THE WEATHER Democratic primary than Cranston or Askew got from those who turned out yesterday. The total vote on a day of blowing snow, sleet and freezing rain fell far below the expected turnout of 110,000 voters. Early estimates were that 51,000 voters went to the polls, down 52 percent from the 113,152 who voted in 1980. Yesterday's results added another chapter to the New Hampshire primary's history of upsets and broken-hearted favorites. Mondale aides long have been wary of New Hampshire's conservative and unpredictable voters, but it was only in the last two days that they saw disaster approaching.

The testing will resume Sunday in Maine, where Hart will pit the momentum of his New Hampshire win against the organization that gave Mondale a big victory in last autumn's Democratic state convention straw vote. Mondale is supported by the state's leading Democratic officeholders. Washington Post Schools close, sales taper; next page 25 degrees last night, with winds gusting to 35 mph. That combination produced a wind chill factor of about 12 degrees below zero. Ford County Coroner Robert Boyce said an inquest is pending.

Russell I. Ostertag, 69, of 200 W. Van Schoyck Bloomington, died last night at his home after being stricken while shoveling snow. The McLean County coroner's office is investigating. vessels having been destroyed or damaged at the island and U.S.

intelligence sources said there were signs on the island that the attack had occurred. INA said that by extending the war to include Kharg terminal, Iraq had "widened the scope of its deterrence to the Iranian regime." This was taken as a reference to new Iranian offensives on Iraqi territory. INA said 30,000 Iranian troops had been killed in the last three days in the Al-Hawizan marshes in southern Iraq. By PAM LEWIS Pantagraph staff A 72-year-old Piper City handyman was found frozen to death near his truck early yesterday during a vicious winter storm that officials said could have killed more had temperatures dipped below zero. Russell Anderson, was found in the yard of the Robert Wagner farm in rural Piper City, where he was staying, according to Ford County sheriff's police.

Wagner discovered the body at 8:56 a.m. Anderson had last been seen about 5:30 p.m. Monday. Temperatures dropped to about mm He attributed death to "apparent natural causes." The winter storm blasted The Pantagraph area from Monday morning to late yesterday afternoon, when winds died down enough for road crews to make progress against drifting snow. Up to 10 inches of snow fell in parts of Central Illinois but drifts several feet high were reported.

A state trooper at Germantown Hills reported that Interstate 74 was "a mess" with' icy surfaces causing six or seven trucks to jack-knife in the east and westbound lanes near Goodf ield. The driver of withdrawal of an Iranian frigate in accordance with the five-mile security zone that Washington has declared for its warships in the area, the sources said. Iran in recent months has threatened to blockade the strait at the mouth of the Persian Gulf if Iraq strikes at its oil installations in the area. Washington has repeatedly said that it would not tolerate a blockade of the vital oil supply route. Deutsche Presse-Agentur Pantagraph photoRICH SAAL 504 Morrissey early yesterday morning to contact authorities.

Police are hoping tavern patrons can help them learn the sequence of events that culminated in Sheppelman's death. Sheppelman had worked at the tavern about six months, according to police. Schenk could not be reached yesterday for comment A jubilant Sen. Gary Hart declared last night that "this campaign just began" with his surprising victory in New Hampshire's Democratic presidential primary. By contrast, former Vice President Walter F.

Mondale was somber in defeat, vowing to "go wherever there's a voter" to regain undisputed claim the front-runner's title that he lost in the Granite State primary. President Reagan said the New Hampshire results will "stir things up" but declined to get into which Democrat would make a tougher opponent for him in November. "I'm not going to run against anyone," Reagan said while mingling with guests at a White House dinner. "I'm going to run on what we have been doing all along." But Vice President George Bush said he was pleased with the New Hampshire surprise because "the more things keep churning around, the longer there is uncertainty on the other side, the better it is for us." Sen. John Glenn, who ran a distant third in New Hampshire, conceded the results were "not so hot for John Glenn." But he insisted they were good enough to keep his candidacy alive as he looks to the Southern primaries on March 13, when the Ohio senator sees a chance to beat Hart.

"I think it a whole new ball game from here," Glenn said in Nashua. "The inevitability (of Mondale's nomination) that was being pushed has evaporated." Glenn suggested Hart does not have the organization he does in the South to challenge Mondale two weeks hence, when nine state primaries or caucuses highlight Super Tuesday. Associated Press one semi-trailer truck was taken to St. Francis Medical Center, Peoria, by the Eureka rescue squad after his truck overturned in the westbound lane of 1-74 near the Good-field exit, blocking the road for several hours. No further information was available late last night about the accident, which occurred at 9:20 p.m.

State police throughout Central Illinois reported problems with icy roads, jackknifed trucks and cars slipping into ditches. State road crews will begin to clear Illinois 9 east and Illinois 165 Please see SNOW, next page Sex rights setback seen in ruling WASHINGTON In an important victory for the Reagan administration and a setback for women's rights groups, the Supreme Court yesterday adopted a narrow interpretation of Title IX, the civil rights law barring sex discrimination by schools and colleges that get federal aid. The justices accepted the administration's view that the mere acceptance by a private college of students who get federal tuition grants does not subject the entire institution to Title IX. So long as such a school receives no other federal funds, the court held, then Title IX applies only to the school's financial aid office. Feminist groups had contended that once a college gets federal funds, even indirectly through its students, the whole school is covered by the law against sex bias.

Until the Reagan administration took office, the U.S. Department of Education had agreed with this broader reading of Title IX. "We have found no persuasive evidence suggesting that Congress intended that the department's regulatory authority follow federally aided students from classroom to classroom, building to building or activity to activity," Justice Byron R. White wrote for the court. In dissent, Justices William J.

Brennan Jr. and Thurgood Marshall termed the decision an "absurdity." They suggested it would open the door for colleges to discriminate on the basis of sex in their admissions, athletics or academic programs while still accepting students who get financial aid from the federal government Los Angeles Times A 70-year-old Streator man died yesterday after his car became Stuck In a snow drift while he was driving to a Cornell physician. Louis H. Pennell 510 Powell and his daughter became stuck a half-mile northwest of Cornell about 4:45 p.m., according torbolfie. His daughter, Sally Pennell, left the car to seek help at a nearby farmhouse.

When she returned to the car at about 5:10 p.m., she found her father dead. Pennell had been ill, said Livingston County Coroner Keith Von Qualen. The car's ignition was turned off, but it was warm inside, Von Qualen said. Meanwhile, Iran's official news agency IRNA accused Iraq of using chemical weapons against its troops. More than 400 Iranian soldiers were suffering from skin burns and mental disorders caused by the weapons, IRNA said in a report from Tehran.

Government sources in Washington confirmed that the U.S. destroyer Lawrence had fired warning shots Sunday at an Iranian reconnaissance plane near the Strait of Hormuz. The destroyer also forced the Iraq 'ready to strike' key Iranian site BAGHDAD, Iraq Iraq issued a new warning yesterday to shippers using Iran's Kharg Island oil terminal, saying it is "ready to strike" at any tanker approaching the island, the Iraqi News Agency reported. INA reported late Monday that Iraqi warplanes had attacked tankers anchored at Kharg, but there has been no independent confirmation of the attack. Iran denied the claim yesterday, Lloyd's insurance company said in London that it had received no word of Man found slain in Bloomington tavern a i -m' rrJj XT-' imnin Knit --iattaEE: JiTl By SCOTT RICHARDSON Pantagraph staff A part-time bartender at Schenk's Tavern in Bloomington was found slain there early yesterday.

McLean County Coroner William Anderson identified the dead man as Gary Sheppelman, 37, of 403 E. Douglas Bloomington. He was taken to Metzler Memorial Home. Bloomington police said Sheppelman was found by Theodore Schenk when Schenk went to the tavern at 1504 Morrissey Drive about 6 a.m. yesterday.

Schenk is the owner and routinely goes there at that time each morning, police said. When Schenk arrived yesterday, the door was locked, leading police to tentatively conclude Sheppelman may have closed the tavern early yesterday morning before he was killed, sources said. There was no sign of forced entry, sources said. Sheppelman was lying behind the bar, his face and head badly battered, police said. Sources said there were no signs Mostly sunny and cold today but not as windy.

Highs upper 20s. Winds northwesterly 1 5 to 25 mph. Complete weather on D4 INDEX Abby C10 Classified D5 Comics B8 Deaths Entertainment B6 Dl Focus CI On the Record D4 Opinion A10 Sports Bl XOTTItY Daily: Pick 4: 361 9065 Civile CfmnrankallMis Inc. Gary Sheppelman was found slain yesterday at Schenk's Tavern, 1 Drive. could determine whether any money was missing from the tavern's cash register.

Sources told The Pantagraph it did not appear that Sheppelman was robbed because he had more than $300 in his pockets when he was found. Police are asking anyone who was at the tavern late Monday or of a struggle. An autopsy showed Sheppelman died of massive head Injuries, including severed arteries' and numerous slashes that may have been delivered by a heavy sharp object Authorities declined to say if a weapon was found at the scene. Police also declined to say If they 1 cl.