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-A2 THE PANTAGRAPH, TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1981 Boy saves friend from culvert 136th Year. 202njDay i JHE VEATHEU Mostly cloudy, cooler today, chance of showers or thunder-. storms. High in the upper 70s to lower 80s. Fair, cooler tonight.

Low in the upper 50s. Mostly sunny Wednesday. High in the upper 70s to lower 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent today. Complete weather on C4 1 Wfrn'Jfm'rTl'iiHiiin istT -L his legs was caught.

"I kept thinking I was going to break my leg," he said. But he finally got to his feet, and realized he hadn't sunk as far as the others. He figures he may have been standing on the submerged culvert. From there, he could reach his younger friend. "I stuck my arm up and he grabbed it," said Sutter.

"I probably would have gotten sucked under if Gary Webel hadn't been there." With Sutter again able to move, the five boys ran to the nearby Dairy Queen restaurant and called their parents. Webel was reserved about the incident. "Greg kept saying that I saved his life, but I didn't think anything about it," he said. He admitted, however, that "I was afraid that I couldn't pull him up." Sutter said that after the incident, which claimed a car but no lives or limbs: "We were all pretty shook up." But one of the mothers who was home when one of the calls came put it another way. "It just scared us to death," said Linda Webel, Gary's mom.

Heyworth, who was the front seat passenger. "We almost made it, but the current pulled us in." Water was rushing up around the car, which by then had slid off the ramp into a ditch. White and Webel tried to open the front doors but, perhaps because of water pressure, found they wouldn't budge. Webel said he also tried to roll down his window, but it wouldn't go. The back doors did open.

Reid Doner, 16, R.R. 6, and Steve Wall, 15, R.R. 6, made it out. So did White, by first climbing into the back seat. Webel watched as Sutter made it out, then went into the water, more than head deep in most places.

"He (Sutter) sank all the way down," said Webel. "He was bobbing up and down and the current was really strong. He was getting pulled underneath." "When I got out," said Sutter, "I held onto the door, but the car went to the culvert." The top of the culvert was under water, but Sutter reached down and grabbed it. He felt the rush of water going into the large pipe. "It was taking me down," he said.

Meanwhile, Webel had worked his way out of a back door, but one of TOP QF THE NSWS; Greg Sutter them, but its driver braved the water washing over most of the ramp and made it through. That's when Webel and friends tried to make it too. "We thought we had enough weight (in the car) that we could get through," said George White, 15, By BERNIE SCHOENBURG Pantograph staff It all happened quickly, in a matter of a minute or two, but five Heyworth High School students will have a keen recollection of Sunday night's downpour and the tragedy that almost occurred. For 14-year-old Greg Sutter, R.R. 6, there was a flash of fear that he would be sucked into a culvert that was carrying torrents of water under South Main Street at Veterans Parkway.

Only a helping hand pulled him to safety. For Gary Webel, 17, Heyworth, who provided that hand, there was the memory that a grade school friend of his from Carlyle drowned in an overturned car in a pond about a month ago. "That was the first thing I thought about what happened to him," Webel said Monday. But he didn't think about 'it long. Things were happening too fast.

It was about 10:45 p.m. in the midst of the fiercest downpour the Twin Cities has seen this year. Webel was driving a car with the four friends he had just played cards with in Normal. They were westbound on Veterans Parkway and took the exit ramp to South Main Street, part of U.S. 51 that goes to Heyworth.

But they stopped on the ramp because of water in front of them. Another car was stopped alongside Palos Park man to challenge Thompson CHICAGO (AP) A suburban physician says he will challenge Gov. James R. Thompson for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in 1982. Dr.

John Roche, 56, of suburban Palos Park, said Sunday he plans to run as a Republican because he believes an independent cannot win the governorship. He said he ran unsuccessfully for U.S. senator as an American Party candiate in 1974. A general practitioner with offices in suburban Bridgeview, Roche said if elected he would work to transfer all mass transit in Illinois to private ownership and would reduce taxes. Roche was born in Cuba, emigrated to the United States in 1954 and became an American citizen in I960.

Roanoke delays spending plan Postal Service unions continue talks Two major postal unions rejected a revised last-minute wage contract offer from the U.S. Postal Service last night and renewed their threats to call a nationwide strike. But union and management negotiators facing a midnight deadline decided to stop the clock and continue bargaining. A 1 U.S. delays jet shipments to Israel Citing the growing level of violence in the Middle East, the United States last night delayed shipment of 10 F-16 jet to Israel, saying the delivery would be inappropriate the situation is thoroughly reviewed.

A1 Reagan reassures leaders at summit President Reagan yesterday told leaders of the richest industrial nations that he hopes to see signs by year's end that U.S. inflation and high interest rates are abating. Al Reagan urges bipartisan S.S. effort In a letter released yesterday, President Reagan said Democratic moves to preserve the $122 minimum monthly Social Security benefit are "designed to play on the fears of many Americans," and asked for a bipartisan effort to save the retirement system. Al More state budget cuts announced For the fourth time this year, Gov.

James R. Thompson "Monday announced another round of state budget cuts, this time calling for $368 million in cuts from the $14.7 billion budget OK'd by lawmakers. Al Quarterly cattle report The number of cattle being fattened for slaughter in the 23 major beef states totaled 9.57 million head July 1, down 1 from a year ago. A4 Weibring returns to Twin Cities Former Illinois State University golfer D.A. Weibring, now a successful member of the Professional Golf Association tour, was in town yesterday for a clinic and exhibition at Crestwicke Country Club.

Bl bonovan urges continued talks Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan Monday persuaded negotiators for players and owners to continue talks in the baseball strike. The talks shifted from New York to Washing- under a news blackout. Bl Retiree looks back at inroads Agatha Poynter, who graduated from Eureka College 66 years ago, looks back on a full life of teaching school and politicking. CI eral expenditures, but Mayor Elmer Wehrli said he would like to have the funds used for capital expenditures. Wehrli advised the funds be used for "something that will be here and not your day-to-day expenditures." Wehrli suggested that board members take the matter under careful consideration and be ready to make a decision at the Aug.

3 meeting so the 1981 appropriations ordinance can be amended. Trustee John Weber reported he had spoken to Roanoke Fire District board member Bill Ladendorf about the possibility of putting a special ambulance service tax levy before fire district residents. If it were approved, the levy would allow the fire district to pay the village to provide ambulance service to fire district residents. Semmler said he will study the plan. Wehrli said the village needs the tax to keep the service in operation.

In other business, the board: Authorized Semmler to send a list of existing stop signs and lights to village engineer Fred Berry to determine if the locations are well-founded. Learned the village auditor, from Clifton, Gudnerson Peoria, will be present at the Aug. 3 meeting to discuss the village audit. Accepted a bid of $29,042.46 from George E. Hoffman Sons, Peoria, for seal-coating village streets.

Authorized Semmler to proceed with collection of delinquent ambulance service bills totaling $644. By JOYCE VON NORDHEIM Pantagraph Roanoke reporter ROANOKE The Roanoke Village Board Monday night postponed a decision on how to spend $74,000 in federal revenue sharing funds. Last November, the board refused a recommendation from trustee Jerry Hodel to use the funds for construction of a municipal building to serve as both a community and village hall. Last month, the board refused a second suggestion that funds be used to replace deteriorating water and sewer lines in the Bertschi Addition. Village Attorney Albert Semmler said Monday unless the money is spent, the village could lose future revenue sharing money.

Board members discussed the possibility of using the money for gen mm mm IF" MARKETS a 0 0 0 Iran president candidate shot NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) Two men shot and slightly wounded Habibollah Asgarowladi Musulman, one of the four pro-government Iranian presidential candidates, on Monday in Tehran, Iran's official news agency Pars reported. One gunmen was killed and the other committed suicide after capture, Pars said. In another development, Pars said the government-appointed education director in Iran's' secessionist Kurdistan province was shot and killed by "armed insurgents." It identified the man only as "Yousefi," and did not disclose either the place or date the killing occurred. Musulman, like the other three candidates, is a member of the ruling fundamentalist Islamic Republican Party. Pars said he was slightly wounded in the right hand when two gunmen opened fire on him as he was leaving his Tehran home.

Musulman's bodyguards returned fire, killing one of the assailants and wounding the other, the report said. The second man committed suicide. -Monday, July 20 NYSE index 76.84 down 1.12 Dow Jones industrials 940.54 down 18.36 Cash corn No. 2 3.08-3.14 Cash soybeans No. 1 7.01 7.05 Market roundups on A4 People have many important reasons for saving.

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The bear bit 11-year-old Scott Bur-relsman on July 7 when the boy reached Into Tommy's pen at feeding time despite a handler's warnings to keep clear. Keefe said the Fairview Heights boy became ill after receiving a rabies shot Friday. A second shot was scheduled for Monday. Johnson County Sheriff Elroy Faulkner, who pledges to abide by a final decision in the case, said the death sentence has aroused protest among youngsters at the camp, run by the Belleville Catholic Diocese. He said he was greeted by 500 children when he went to the camp to get the bear before the Johnson County court action Friday.

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