The Pantagraph from Bloomington, Illinois • Page 3

THREE I THE PAXTAGRAPH. BLOOMIXGTON. ILLINOIS. THURSDAY. OCT.

S. 1JS3. Make Plant Sife Purchase Official Drane's Auto' Clash on Power Seized Taxis Run Again-Fines Paid Found in Chicago, Firm's Rate Hike Bid Police Learn Owners Protest Test's Accuracy, Use of Governors more work on the shoulders of the police, since they would have to check the speed of the cabs as well as other vehicles. Arbiter Needed After much discussion, city offi A car stolen in Bloomintfon ICC Continues Hearing of Case Until Oct. 20 Granite Cty Steel Crrp which it pays a dollars a year for rower; A.

E. StaWy Manulacturinj: Decatur, which buys a half in cctricity annually; Gned.eck Western Brewing LVIIcu: LacLr! Monday by three youthful escapees of a St. Louis. Mo. detention house was recovered in Chicago Wednesday, DIoomincton police learned Wednesday night.

Th antnmnhilo i Vv cials agreed to call in an impar Taxi service was back to normal tial authority" on governors to de cide whether or not the contention SPRINGFIELD. ILL. t.V 'Steel Alton, and National Lead City. of the taximen is correct. Tom Drane.

502 S. Gridley St. IB PoTr Company Thurs-, rn-, rv ri. Mrfv'day clearly was in for a fight Mr. Cross and Mr.

Yoder also In to fM rtmii jTtfti-4rf Brvl agreed that the present ordinances and amendments should be re-writ morning tnat tne veiucie naa oeen rir stolen Sunday, since it was mis. increases totaling Schools, City ten into one basic law covering taxis. They said they ask of his house when he started forj A developed Wednesday at the first, To Thrash Ouf work Monday. the assistance of the taxi owners in drawing up the new law. hearing on the utility's petition be-.

(ore the Illinois Commerce Com-' Youths Erape Monday Police officials said Thursday. However, city officials asserted mission. Some objectors termed Thursday after $10 fines for 15 impounded cabs were paid, in police magistrate court Wednesday afternoon. The fines were levied by Magistrate Walter Reiner the request of City Attorney Walter Yoder and came after a two hour session in City Manager Elmer Cross office. The maximum penalty could have been 5100 for each violation.

Practically all the city's cabs were impounded following police check Monday on governors, meter accuracy and drivers' pictures. Owners had posted bonds for the release of cabs. Attending the meeting besides Mr. Cross and Mr. Yoder were Police Chief Walter Lockenvitz, Traffic Sgt.

Bert Simpson, Earl Bach, attorney for the cab companies, and the four taxi owners, Tom however, that the car must have the raise "unjustified and "Survey Ideas throughout the discussion that the ordinance was not the issue at hand, and that the problem of the been stolen shortly before Cootum to Oct. TS sialic irli iiiw.k st. Ik. tk. wnnr a I violations of existing laws had to the youths escaped from the "TiT Educatkm pUnnir; sunejs iH be settled before the city would consider writing a new law.

lunr (uuim' uukaiim no inuvr 1 mcrrung. ably will not complete rrrscma- ct the Koomirton Board The boys saunaers. u.1,, VA.iri,ein at 122 p. m. Tis-xv- Admit Violations The cab owners admitted that and Thomas Hugh Casey.

16, both GENERAL ELECTRIC closes the deal on the purchase of land for GE' plant site from William W. Yates Thursday as M. E. Jenkins, representing GE, second from left, hands check for $50,000 to Mrs. Yates, second from right, who in turn hands Mr.

Jenkins the deed to the land. From left to right are Attorney Herb Livingston, Mr. Jenkins, Attorneys Tom Barter Jr. of Chicago, and William Camp. 16.

of St. Louis, made their petaway they had violated the law by not having pictures of drivers and their rates posted. However and Robert Dunn, Mrs. Yates and Mr. Yates.

end of December. aav. An Illinois Power spokesman told The meetlrj Is expected to re-the commission that higher rates ole the question which the board are needed to provide a return to has been considenrR for several investors sufficient for sound weeks whether to Join wvJi the financing. city in a general Urvey or to to H. G.

Meenen. assistant to the! -bead wjtn an independent plan-vice president, testified that in the, "2 program of its own in co-op- they again questioned how long Hill, Harold Hill, Fred Graning the city's mile is and doubted the after slugging a 61 year old guard and battering down a door. Arrested Tuesday They are said to have stolen a policeman's car in St. Louis, driv value of the governor ordinance and Charles Goben. Make Headway They finally agreed to pay 510 fines for each taxi.

Originally they four years ending in 122 imest- erauon wrn ine 1 Diversity i-- en it to Granite City and aban- While the operators admitted some violations of the existing city law. thev appeared to make some had posted 510 bond for each viola Question Boy About Armed Theft Case doned it to steal another auto ment in utility plant had riven 112 Lone City's Sales Tax Impractical-Cross tion. of Schools Georre N. which was found in the 400 block million dbllars-nearly doubled The city also agreed to allow headway in their perennial demand for revision of the ordi the cabs 25 feet either way on the of East Gridley Street, around the'tok? net operating revenues ad-corner from the Drane residence. 'vanced only $3,400,000.

The finding of the Granite City Serve 41 Communities 1" ua rv.t remrte1 trt' mev nance governing taxis. measured mile for the fare me The drivers disagreed with the ters using a 5,280 foot mile as Wells said that he has invited Cry Manacer Elmer R. Cross to attend the session. lie adied that he aked Mr. Cross to invite other city officials to be present so that the board could get the city's ideas on a proposed $30,000 plannlr.g Normal Police Chief Harold Syl- police department, however, on the determined by the city engineer.

leneth of the measured mue Jesse Willis Admitted vester and two Bloomington police noUce until i Monday when' 1 officers were in Unroln ThiiWrfav 1 nen 000 electric customers in 0 conv ouSimSn iwrn t2S residents said it had been and about 113.000 gas sub-questioning a suspect in the armed' ked there -r, ,.1.,,, Mr. Cross instructed the police department to make occasional checks of the taxis to make sure which the officers used to check the fare meters in their sudden To North Dakota Bar Comment Follows League's Call For i Cent Levy and ta Rinrtre xi rates by 3.9 millions and gas rates 1 and two Bloomington women Mon- Tnerfav afternoon in a Skokie i Ati'SIart raid Monday afternoon. they do not violate existing ordi regular meeting. Sept. Jesse R.

Willis, former Bloom The taximen claimed the stretch nances. He stated that the gover day night. uj -niiitxiu. Il fhtf. Mrii-A-in restaurant Vi .1 1.

Opposition to the rate rroposals on East Oakland Avenue which nors would be kept on until the The suspect is a 17 year old ington lawyer, has been admitted to the state bar of North Dakota. study had been completed. youth who escaped Monday from A municipal sales tax, to be had been used for test was more than one mile which four pe-lice vehicles had measured. They came from large industnal custom-; the clV couJd nsent ers. several cines.

nubhc hnusirg its'proposals. authorities, labor unions nad indi- viduals. Mr. Willis is a former McLean S(ate and Colo-! VArlfl I Pn Trt Hparl County states attorney and served nirkpd v' YVndien IU riCdU practical, must be collected in ev ery city in the state, Elmer Cross, stated that since, according to Veteran GrouD A group of 13 industrial electric) liriQ dTOliluCil Lexington Mother Victim Bloomington's city manager, said I rmu-op itcir uifri rAmKiww rvtr. The two robberies took place within a two hour period Monday.

practice law in Crosby. N. where he has lived since he moved from Bloomington last year. their calculations, the distance was more than 100 feet longer than a mile, their meters had kicked ever Wednesday. His comment followed a request Thomas Whalen of 617 S.

Gin- chases of 3' milhon dollars a year. After YoO lot? VMti to xviiss xvianna ionmann u. re-elected command-' put the -unjustified" label on the I spred relict frooi bcanbor from the Illinois Municipal League that a special session of the Illi 35 cents before the cabs reached! the end of their run. Ten of the; General Lawton Camp proposed increases Of Polio Would Atlert Competitioa TV c. i United Spanish War Veterans, at NOrmaIK Zn meeting Tuesday in the vP; Barnes Memorial Building.

In an intervening petition, the aotl indijrnuoo. WW Mrs. Bernie Blakney, 34, of Lex I group said that the higher charges Road Fund Gets $19,114 Tax Share ington, was admitted to St. Joseph's Hospital Wednesday suffering from lrf04M( polio. At the present time, her University StreeL Normal were re-elected and installed with' of industrial customers to corn- Mrs Lima straight.

506 S. Kv Commander Whalen by State in the sale of their respecUve oiTvi tiS Partrnent Inspector a i products." 615 E. Oakland Ave were robbed Archcbald. The protesting firms Included the at gunpoint about 10 p. m.

by a' polio case has been diagnosed as PANTAGRAP1 1 1HONES-4341 non-paralytic. No report of her McLean County added $19,114 to condition is available. its highway funds from state gas man who police said resembled Mrs. Blakney is the mother of six children. The children are all tax collections for September.

The one cf the formal thieves. nois Legislature be called by Gov.j William Stratton to consider the measure for relief of hard-up cities. I Ask Vi Cent Tax At its annual session Tuesday the Municipal League adopted a resolution calling for a half cent sales tax which could be put into effect by council action as an emergency move. Under existing state law, cities may collect a sales tax only after referendum approval. A sales tax initiated as an emergency measure, as proposed by the League, would be subject to ratification or rejection by voters at the next general election.

"I haven't arrived at any definite opinions on a city sales tax," receiving gamma globulin, according to officials at the McLean Coun 15 cabs impounded were said by arresting officers to have faulty meters. To Measure Mile After the city officials agreed to have an exact measurement taken by the city engineers, Mr. Bach got to the heart of the matter, so far as the taxi owners are concerned the ordinance which makes it mandatory for cabs to have speed governors set not higher than 35 miles an hour. (The City Engineer's department Thursday measured the disputed strip it was three feet short of being a mile, 5,277 feet, thereby collapsing the cab companies' declaration that their meters had been unfairly tested. City Engineer Stanley Wilhoit indicated his department had laid out a "perfect mile and a Vz mile test zone for future use) The taxi man claimed the gov money was received irom tne state Department of Finance, which announced the awarding of monthly gas tax shares Thursday.

Payments to counties totaled Of this amount 5189.870 ty Health Department. A nephew of the stricken woman is also re Plans Homecoming Carl Bickel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Bickel, 813 E. Grove is a member of the Homecoming committee at Lake Forest College.

The evant has been set for Oct. 24. vo ir MOW went to 14 Central Illinois Coun ceiving gamma globulin. 3 Persons Hurt In Traffic Mishap ties. Area county shares were as follows Champaign.

524.757; De Witt. Ford, Iroquois, Kankakee, LaSalle, Mr. Cross said, "but I don't think Three members of one family 527,418. Livingston, 511.491; Logan, were given emergency treatment at St. Joseph's Hospital Wednesday night following a two-car collision at the intersection of Mar it would be practical unless it were uniform throughout the state." He said a city that has the sales tax would lose business to' other cities which did not have 064; Macon, 526.653; Mason, 258; Piatt, 54.419; Tazewell, Woodford, 57,059.

ernors cause more trouble than ket and Dinsmore streets. They were: Mr. and Mrs. Paul it. Tax Rate Adjustment To help cities out of their finan anything else.

They said the regulators cause accidents because the vehicles can't move fast enough when they should, as when passing The American flag first was hoisted in Alaska at Sitka on Oct. 18, 1867. C. Ploense, both 46, and son, William, 15, of 402 N. Dinsmore St.

All were dismissed after examina cial dilemmas, Mr. Cross suggest tion. Mrs. Ploense was reported ed an adjustment of the maximum tax rates. it Must Be Sold at Once Will Sacrifice Beautiful 6 Room Brick and Frame House WeU located.

Tile bath, hardwood floors, automatic heat, long living room, fireplace. Look it over and make a bid. Call Owner at 9-7343 to have a bruised left knee. PILES Slole My Pep other vehicles. Mr.

Cross replied that if the governors were taken off it would put "The ideal solution to the prob Mr. Ploense said the driver of MAYS KIT Alt winter. lem is home rule, Mr. Cross said the car in which they were riding was Jim Brown, 403 N. Fifer St.

fJOTHlMG- "Let the cities evaluate their needs and then levy enough taxes to pay for the services desired." J4 PROTECTS FREEZING, -But How I'm 'HEPT DoctoM)vlopd, Clinic-rvd Ranted Brings Fait Rtlitf Herr guaranteed relief from misery of Piles. Thornton Minor's ointment oel-oped throurh experience of treating 71.00 patients for century at world leadinr Rectal hospital has helped millions. Relieves pain of piles promotes healinr helps rednc Discover wonder-xnl relief or money back I la tubes or cone at all drug stores. BOIUHG A Driver of the other vehicle was E. C.

Brewster, 501 S. McClun St. At the time of the accident the car driven by Brown was turning south on Dinsmore. Brewster was headed east on Market. The injured were taken to the hospital by police squad car.

BULLETIN BOARD BIRTHS Mr. nd Mrs. William Stone. 1402 W. Bowen a girl, born Wednesday in Mennonite Hospital.

Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Huston. 1601 S. Main a girl, bom Thursday at St.

Joseph's Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Austin. 910 E.

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JOHN HENRY BECKENHOLDT of El Segundo. formerly of Bloomington will be held from the Beck Memorial Home, 209 E. Grove Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Friends invited. Entombment Park Hill Mausoleum.

Friends may call at the Memorial Home Thursday alter 3 p. flATRtl. KflTirK SJB ay Funeral services for MR. BYRON G. FORBES.

1113Va West Olive Street, will be held from the Beck Memorial Home, 209 East Grove Street. Friday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock. Friends invited. Interment Park Hill Cemetery. Friends may call at tne memorial norae.

rrxnil. NOTirr. i by 5 Funeral services for MRS. DAISY McKINLEY. 916 Hovey Normal, will be held Friday.

October 9. 2 p. m. at Stubblefield and Son Memorial Home. Normal.

Friends invited. Interment Park Hill Cemetery. Friends may call at the Memorial Home. 4 FUNERAL NOTICE MR. RICHARD F.

ARNOLD Services In the Carmody Funeral Home, Friday afternoon at 2 p. m. Interment Chenoa Cemetery. Freinds may call at the Funeral Home irvnni. vnTira Friends are invited to attend funeral services for CAROL ANN RA1THEL, 1302 W.

Grove which will be held from the Murray-Stamper Memorial Home. 914 N. Main Friday afternoon at 2:00. Interment Park Hill Cemetery. Friends may call at the Memorial Home.

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Friends invited. Interment Hopewell Cemetery. Downs. 111. Friends may call at the Memorial Home.

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and A. Thursday evening at 7:30 p. m. Work in Entered Apprentice Degree. All Master Masons cordially invited.

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