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The Pantagraphi
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rantacrapb. Bloominjlon, 111., Monday, Tk-c. 29, 1958. oil Shows Dissatisfaction Woodford County Sheriff Gene Wolf, 3 Others Shot: 18 Year Old Charged Charge Motorist Failed to Yield fo Police Car With Tax Multiplier System Sheriff in Serious Condition; Howard Belsly of Eureka Jailed mmmvmosii, fv.mmvw fwiwww "-'J Ii hrl h--rH irA' 54 of Solons Responding Favor Change the governor and his administra- tralia offered a plan making it tion, particularly the department mandatory for the Department cf of revenue, and is not compatible Revm to equalize between with the democratic system." townships if tV local board of re-But Rep. Abner Mikva Chi- xiew.

faij t0 do cago). favored increasing the de- Fncich also suggested partmems power by jiwg it au- ita.e Wayne Powers. 56. of 407 S. Wil-lard Ave.

faces a charge of failure to grant right of way to an emergency vehicle following a Saturday night accident with a Normal police car at the intersection of Main and Front streets in Bloom-in gton. Powers posted a $14 bond Satur By TOXY HOLLOWAY EUREKA An 18 year old Eureka youth on leave from By ni ARI.ES WIIALEN lnon 10 aid if thev do no. collect mor th.n SPRINGFIELD Grovv- equalize assessments w.mm a a ta sonal inc dissatisfaction with the as tu as Detween coun- nmrvrtv tavoc day night for a Tuesday mornin apiwarance in liioomingion tax multiplier system as Court. The charge was signed by reflected today in a survey of IUi- ASKS KKFL Normal Police Officer Harold noU lpuiAtor As against this view. Rep.

Jdin AIIP r3nr -Ill I i Sheridan Boys School has been charged with assault with intent to commit murder in the shooting of Joseph Gene Wolf, 32, who became sheriff of Woodford County less than a month ago. Sheriff Wolf was shot and seriously wounded early Monday morning while investigating an attempted car theft northwest of Eureka. Howard Belsly, charged with the shooting by State's Atty. Samuel Harred, is in the county jail at Eureka follow- ing his capture at 7:30 a. m.

by state police and McLean, s-j a h. k. m. v.r,.. ct rarKhurst 01 I'eoria.

a r.emibucan. wiiiw Hines, driver of the squad car. uiiiuui iti mil jl oi ia- Officer Hires, according to a makers resDondinr to an Associ- caile1 Ior repeal 01 ine depan- Probation i im-ni auuioruy 10 asMn Normal police report, was 14 month old John Haithcr of 1102 thev favorpd changes in the law. mui'ipner. lie saia ine oeapn County sheriff deputies on Route 150 near the Hudson blacktop.

Sheriff Wolf is in Eureka Hos- i drove past the first road block at pital with about 73 .20 guage shot- 50 miles an hour. State Trooper N. Linden Normal, to St. Jo- some of them going so far as to mems Pwcr uia oe sirenstn- -y D.Tl.-.i.X seph's Hospital at the time of the demand outright repeal. en impose a township or dis- DOITnOTT accident.

The boy's mother. Mrs. Only 15 per cent reported either multiplier. John Gaidier, was riding in the they were content with the sys- Gordon Kerr IR. Garenc Boirnott Jr.

1 of 910 squad car. tern or were willing to wait andl described the existing ss- previously Officer Hinos reported that the see how revisions now in effect tem as most unfair and unequal pikhi. police car had its siren going and work out. and said it should be scrapped un-; Paded gudty to driving a vehicle red light flashing as it Another 31 percent said they less a remedy is found. without owner's through a red light for Main were undecided on the matter.

John Morris Chad- was placed on probation for a car Street traffic at the intersection. Some of those in this group com- w'cki. said he believes he has the Monday in County Court. The Powers car was headed east mented that the Illinois tax as- answer in a bill he will introduce piClhfrt i-nderH-ond re- on Front Street and pulled in front sessment machinery is compli-' whrn tho lawmakers open the of the squad car. acco.xi.ng to the rated it almost defies understand- 9 session Jan.

7. Moms' bill If0'01 officer's renort ing would a ceiling on him to pay his hare of t-r mmi. at their mpsent level restitution for vandalism on the Damage to the squad car was SSTLM CHANGED mems ai meir pieseni jevci gun pellets in the left side of his ie anu Mvuean uoun-head. He was shot from sherif investigator Alvin Reany Three other persons were wound- and Chief Deputy Harold Sylves-ed in the shooting foray, none under direction of Capt. lieved seriously.

They are: Dan Dan Lehmann of District 8 state Krumholz, who was struck in the Po lice, began a chase east on loO. head by richocheting bullets; hisThev nred seveial shots at thej son, William, 18, and Clarence fleeinS car- A Belsly raced past Mitzelfelt, 19, of Metamora, both the second block he was again of whom were shot in the legs. ired uPon -several bullets striking Mitzelfelt and Wolf are still in the I the car- Kme miles further east i vThi fe i- i estimated at about $100. The Under the system, property as- mrougn a provision ior equanz- -7 Isnuad car collide with tlie rear sessments are mack, locally and Pr cent ftiS casli yr, hospital. The other two were re-iKels'y control ana ran into a officials said Boitrcm's share of re- "eased.

fender of the Powers car. but was then each coun'v is given a mul- va'ue- 'll. 1 r- i WANTS FAIR TF.ST pairs would amount to less than ditch. He was arrested without a fight, although a loaded shotgun and a hunting jacket containing auie 10 toiiunuf iu uic ujuiai. iu oia j.fM-iiut: ty) IN LIVING ROOM Wolf and Krumholz were shot as several boxes of shells were in the one was injured.

partmcnt which boosts the. as- une 01 mose sucKing oy me Tho riirher hov w9 rrnnrte.1 in segments to a theoretical full Present sstem was Sen. George Franklin Claycomb. II. of 910 value.

Tax rates aoolied to as- Drach of Springfield, assistants. Bunn ho also pleaded Ml 2tu Illicit. I' tl Wfl Ivl 1 1 Hn iVirlJi Republican loader, who said the guilty to taking the Finirock car noon by hospital authoiities. he segments gie your tax oiu. a 1 n.

Inu-nchm mil tinhAP Trvi 1 -i i ill 'e IT ui i a cnance inis ear was ne- i w. car beside him. tarm home living room. Moments I later William and Clarence werej DEMANDED CAR KEYS shot as they got out of a car to i Wolf was called to the Krum-enter the house. They reported holz hjme at 1:30 a.

m. after that Belsly shot them from a Krumholz reported that Belsly had chicken house. demanded that hp eiw him his Eureka Howard Belsly, 18, is in Woodford County jail charged with assault with intent to commit murder in the shooting of four persons near Eureka early Monday morning. (Pantagraph Photos) the UU bv cedure should be piven a "fair and ser.tenced to 90 days at high fever. iuu mg uiai in inc various townships within a coun-i Sen- Dwight Friedrich Cen- Dec.

10. The Krumholz farm is located car keys. Krumholz told the a curve and ran into a field 1 and "Red" wore holding the shot- bv the county board of review. Order FIREPLACE WOOD How! three miles northwest of Eureka iff that he thought the youth had near the Louis Voorhees home, in Cruger Township. Belsly is a left the farm.

I Belsly then reportedly took the neighbor. While thev were talking in the Voorhees car, later found about gun when the other two were shot. He told officers that he drove to the Krumholz farm with "Rfxl" Heck Jailed On Resisting, Liquor Counts For six hours after the shoot living room the shotgun blast came four miles east of Morton. He then and that after the shooting they But it hasn't quieted the howls of taxpayers in many areas of the state. In Peoria, for example, announcement of a 32 per cent assessment hike in two townships sparked a thirat of an injunction suit.

In Lake County from outside the house through the took a car belonging to Dan Rich had an argument and split up window. Belsly then ran to the 01 -re ck. nis is ine car ne However, investigators said that was driving when apprehended. they have found no indications that Vl-rr-N .1. EiJ I DENIES SHOOTING anyone was with Belsly and that ings an intensive search for Belsly was conducted in the Deer Creek and Carlock areas.

Two roadbolcks were set up, one on Route 130 near Deer Creek, the Dther at the intersection of Routes 150 and 117 at Gocdfield. Belsly, despite a heavy fog. Well Seasoned HARDWOODS! Order A OH to Have on Hand for the Holidays! uvisi iHcumani nidi ciliuuifi uii.v miuw (Jinuuiic iiuiiuju I.tu (mm chicken house from where he allegedly fired cn Krumholz's son and Mitzelfelt. He then took the Krumholz car, but at intersection of Route 24 and the Cruger Township road over- vouth. whom he identified as -Red Brick." was sent to county jail -Monaay against increased as- D.inL." cV, tu i i- I 1A tr; ftnr nloaHin" niiltv to ElX)minr- OujCCllOns 1K.IV ailtri III ctllU IXlUIIi' i-t'iSiy I Hi UlLtiViS UK11 lit iiU holz, but admitted that both he not plan on "being taken alive ton pohce charges ci ai-unKen rtrivin-r and resistine arrest.

Th suney of legislators sen- conuicimg iaeas 1(1 KINDLING, Large Size Bag, only 75c m'h';" about solving the problem. Satuixiav at Locust and stieets bv Officers Joseph Lehman SEEKS TRANSFER Gunman, 18, On Leave and Charles iney saia Rpp Anthony Scariano Chi- they pursued mm atrer noting ropommrndod that an in- $1.49 PRESTO LOGS, f.r he was driving in a reckless man-, dopontipnt agency, instead of the For Holidays n'r- State Revenue Department, be According to tne oincers. ik-ik- frt mnltmiir li ELREIn Howard Belsly. 18 put up a scuffle in which one oijsakJ assessments should be ad- year oia outn who shot bhcnllithe otticers was scraunea. nas ministered "on a scientific basis uene uou ot woodlord County, I took a blotd test at in.

josepns vvjth enouh personnel to do tlie Monaay was on leave from the H-spital which showed an aicononc PI .1 i. yit i I 11.. oMciK dn o.ancn oi ai. unanes content oi usu.uiy Rep. Alan Dixon BelleviUe).

LUMBER COAL CO. 416 S. Kobinson St. Thone 4-3261 ai. coys, jsiderea tne minimum or urunKra- nt mcthod.

w- Naid it "places too much poer in home frr Christmas. Arrested with him and charged Hp was sent tn St niarlps: in r-rrtAiu-t -w U.ir. 4 VI U' 1 1. I or from Peoi ia County old Rotramel.27, of McLean. Ro- where he was a ward of the court, amel posted a bond for a1 On Dec.

6. "1975. he broke into Monday afternoon in the home of Mrs. Irene Gerken of BU omington Police Court. near ashington, took some shells, a watch, and miscellaneous items.

BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL DEATHS On Dec. 1955. Tazewell County turned him over to the youth com-i mission and he was sent to St. Charles. Ho was released on probation but broke probation and on March It A I I I Mrs.

Alice Jonnson Mrs. Alice Johnson. Rl. of 317 V. Mulberry St.

died at 10:05 a. m. Sunday at Brokaw Hospital. 21. 1957.

was sent (by the proba-. ''tion officer in Tazewell County) back to St. Charles. Ho then was sent to the Sheridan branch of the She 20' School for Boys. Her funeral will be at 10 a.

Tuesday at the Stubblefieid and Son Memorial Home. Dr. Harold I Martin will officiate, and burial will bo in Park Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be from 7 to 9 Hisle Freed On $1,000 Bond This bullet riddled car was driven by Howard Belsly through two roadblocks on 2' Route 150. Belsly lost control of the car after several bullets fired bv police and McLean County officials struck it on Route 150 near the Hudson blacktop.

Car is owned by Don Rich, Deer Creek. Leo Hisle. 4S. of Carlock vas re- o'clock tonight at the memorial leased on $1,000 bond after plead- home. ing not gui'tv Monday ia County Mrs.

Johnson was born at Buck-Court on a char-- of driving while ley Nov. 23. 1S77. a daughter of his operator license was revoked. Richard and Matilda Whitehead Hisle was charged by state po- Walsh.

She was married to Danifl lice after he was involved in a I Johnson June 11. 1907. at Worth-traffic accident near Carlock Dec. I in gton, Minn. He died in Ma, Plastic Laundry Basket When you do your laundry at Mary Ann! 14.

Authorities said his driver's license was revoked April 16 following a drunken driving; conviction. School Aid Plan On lEA's Aaenc'a 1934. Surviving are a son. Richard, 107 E. Poplar Normal; a daughter, Mrs.

Elinor Todd, Bar- rington; a sister, Mrs. Catherine Eversoio, Onarga; a brother. Edward, Fallon. New; three grand- chiltl "en. and two great-grandchildren.

Two sisters and four brothers Youth Shoots Self in Foot asf "rV J- leg and entered 'the foot of Jerry Preiod hor in d(ath or extra lunches, transportation curricular activities. She was a memler of the Con gregational Church of HERE'S HOW IT WORKS: Pick up a basket card next time you go to Mary Ann. The attendant will punch your card once for each washer load. When the card is completely punched out, THE BASKET IS YOURS Absolutely Free! Teachers' Group Also To Study Pensions, Hours Harmon, 21, of R. R.

4 Saturday, county authorities reported. The accidental shooting occurred when Harmon was taking the pistol from its holster. The bullet was removed at Brokaw Hospital. He was not v.sft... --rapi i Tn iffnMir 5 "i -I "Exurbanite," a newly coined word, means "a city worker who lives on a spacious place beyond the suburbs and in real country." WOULD UP BEN EFITS Resolutions presented at the morning session called for: 1.

Doubling of teachers death benefits, beginning at one-sixth of annual salary, to a full year at the end of six years' employment, up to a maximum salary. 2. Av change in retirement pen- CHICAGO (LTD Delegates to the Illinois Education Associa tion's 105th annual meeting opened if business sessions Monday and proposals Sion to conform with began consideration of THE CLOISTERS The serene beauty of indoor ond garoVt ctypls at a cost comparable to that of earth burial. We invite you to visit our newly completed add.rion. Over $100,000 Trust Fund for care and maintenance.

care and maintenance. on school aid, pensions and thethose aiready drawing a fixed hours of schooling. figure. The first session adjourned be-' 3. Increased state contribution to fore presentation of a resolution the reserve fund, now at an increase of the state 000 annually.

aid guarantee per pupil. The per-! raruta nllrtfmint nnui lc 9nA Qrirt Gene Wolf Estate Trustee Dies TOLEDO, OHIO C. Justus Wilcox, 79, managing trustee of I 1 park hill mausoleum vM) Mary Ann Selt-bervice Laundry acrost from Miller Parle S. Morris Phone 4-5365 office on grounds COIN-OPERATED COMPLETELY AUTOMATIC there have been forecasts that the1 of, the Libbey Estates which "A Cemetery for the Living" association might call for an in-' aaesooro, k. renrea ana administers the interests of the started promn? nine trp5 Savs crease to WZ.

I iatP THwarH Dnimmnnd T.ibliev But Gerald R. Brown of Paris, pine trees aae paying off bet 10 Dry Only 20" died Saturday. Wash Only ter than a bank. chairman of the Legislative Com mittee, said the resolution as prepared for presentation did not set any definite amount. EXPLAINS POSITION The association, he said, al Attendant on duty 7 a.

m. to 7 p. rn. PTo symbolize beautifuHy faith of eternal life, is cur dedi cated purpose in every service we In Respect to the Memory of Joseph David Deane Director of Engineering Manufacturing Portable Elevator Mfg. Co.

Will Be Closed Until Noon TUESDAY, DEC. 30 conduct. I METZLER Memorial Home Uunderers Dry Cleaners ready is on record as favoring the 5262 proposal, "but we don't want I our hands tied in enabling us to compromise up or down on this figure." Mr. Brown said he felt the $262 was a "conservative" figure, and recalled that the Illinois School Problems Commission considers $245 as an ample amount. As prepared for presentation, the resolution called for an increase in the state distribution fund "until the amount contributed by the state to local support shall fully guarantee a more adequate and realistic foundation program than now exists." Mr.

Brown pointed out this amount would not include school Washington State Sts. Phone 2-5420 Normal, III. 211 North Street Thcadore Mct'Aer August bletler 1.

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