The Pantagraph from Bloomington, Illinois • Page 3

Pntagrph A-J Bloomington. Normal, 111. April 39, I97J Firestone strike continues i jobs Thursday when a striking employe was slightly injured by a car driven by a plant supervisor. The strikers then said they would not return to work until the supervisor was fired. Gordon said, "We talked to the company this afternoon.

They hold the same position they won't discuss differences until they (strikers) return to work." The striking union members, he said, "want some kind of commitment" on the Thursday the final contract probably wilt bo modeled after an agreement reached Wednesday between the L'RW and Goodyear Tire Rubber Co. That pact provides an average increase of 80.8 cents an hour over th next three years. Meanwhile, union employes at the company's Decatur plant began return ing to work Friday after another unauthorized strike, a company spokesman said. firing of the supervisor. The vice president said, "We received a telegram from our president (local union president Ralph I).

Waldcnl urging all members to return to work. He Is in Cleveland working on master contract negotiations." Nationally the company and union have refused to discuss specifics of negotiations, the Associated Press reported. However, a Firestone spokesman said fkJU -7 A wildcat strike at the Twin City Firestone Tire Rubber Co. plant went into its third day with 225 employes re-- malning off the job through the 11 p.m. shift change Friday.

The strike by members of United Rubber Workers Local 787 began with the 11 p.m. shift change Wednesday. Charles Cordon, vice president of the local, said Friday night that his position was the same as it had been. "This is an illegal strike. It is not sanctioned by the International Union or by the local executive board." A special meeting of the membership has been called for Sunday, Gordon said, tentatively set for 1 p.m.

at the union hall, 40914 E. Front. Any change of time or place will be posted on the door, he said. The striking union members will again be urged to return to work, he said. Union members met Friday morning with officials of the union.

Union representatives met with company officials Friday afternoon. The strike occurred in the midst of contract negotiations between the national union and Firestone in Cleveland, Ohio. Union employes at Firestone plants throughout the nation are to continue working under a day-to-day extension of their old contract. Local union officials said they nearly had the workers ready to return to their Fire hits apartment Fire gutted one room and severely damaged three others in a second floor apartment at 613 E. Grove, about 11 p.m.

Saturday. The tenant, identified as Barbara VanDiver by the owner, A. J. Kieswet-ter, was gone at the time. The fire apparently started at the north end of the apartment, Asst.

Fire Chief James Orrick said. Kicswetter made no estimate of the total damage, nor did firemen. A neighbor Llewellyn Jones, 614 E. Grove, said he reported the fire after a young, unidentified man ran to his door to get help. Home economics club reschedules meeting GOODFIELD (PNS) Mrs.

Robert McGinnis, president of the Home Economics Club, has announced a change in time and place for the May meeting. Mrs. Clifford Hoyt of rural Deer Creek will host the group on May 12. The program will be "Famous Women." Escalation Arrest, CocA Maria Jones, left, and Barbara Towal got in a littlt practice Friday in pre. paration for tonight's big switch to Daylight Saving Time.

You move the clock ahead an hour tonight. Don't forget or you'll be late, the gals warn ed. (Pantagraph Photo) Lots of help Time to figure i i Nature cooperates rewarded with area wnicn rime it By James Keeran A teacher announced the song, "Oh beautiful for spacious skies," and a boy said, "Oh, boy," in a typically sixth-grade fashion. And at that moment the large raincloud that had been hiding the Arbor Day sun moved over and the schoolyard was bathed in the warm light. The children, faculty and friends of out is! promote business ties with neighboring Wisconsin communities.

Michigan is in the Eastern Time Zone and Wisconsin is in the Central Time Zone. BIoomington-Normal and Central Illinois residents long accustomed to the longer daylight hours from the last Sunday of April through the last Saturday of October will get an extra hour of sleep the night of Oct. 27 with the switch hitting the sack tonight. The Pantagraph will be delivered Sunday morning on standard time. The Sunday edition will be printed under existing time schedules and carriers will get their papers delivered on "slow time." That means your Pantagraph will be delivered between 7 and 8 a.m.

on "fast time" if you set your clock ahead before hitting the sack tonight. Keynote State Sen. Harber Hall, R. Bloomington, will keynote a Central Illinois area meeting of the Illinois College Republicans at 3 p.m. today in the third-floor lounge of the union at Illinois State University.

The public meeting will begin at 2:30 p.m. escape, recapture only bring more By Dave Haake If you hope to be in tunc with the times Sunday, you'll move your clocks up an hour before retiring tonight. Illinois and niost of the rest of the nation will lose an hour of sleep tonight. Daylight Savir.c,' Tine will go into effect at 2 a.m. Sunda.

Only two states, Hawaii and Arizona, and parts of two other states, Indiana and Michigan, will remain on "sun time" and not make the switch to "fast time." Hawaii and Arizona, the last holdouts, remained on "sun time" last year. Only 12 of Indiana's 92 counties will switch to Daylight Saving Time. Those 12 are in the state's northwest and southwest corners and in the Central Time Zone. Officially, the other 80 counties will remain on standard time. But seven counties, bordering Louisville, and Cincinnati, Ohio, will observe Daylight Saving Time unofficially to conform with the time in those neighboring cities.

Most of Michigan will switch to "fast time." But four counties adjoining Wisconsin will switch permanently to Central Time by order of the U.S. Department of Transportation and will not change their clocks. 1 Officials in those four counties want to AC I to By Dave McClelland With its mind to future planning for industrial growth in McLean County, the Association of Commerce and. Industry of McLean County voted Friday to Scouts of all kinds pitched in and pitched dirt around the Girl Scouts' ginko tree, planted Friday at Hoose School in Normal. Planting was in Colcne Hoose School were dedicating an "outdoor education-nature area" at the rear of their school.

Girl Scout Troop 232 had donated a $60 ginko tree and some other trees had been bought with funds from recycling ($125) and with donations in memory of the late Jan Collie Campbell, a first grade teacher at Hoose who died last October. charges on liquor and marijuana charges by Deputy Robert Boyd. As Boyd was taking the two into the county jail, Elder broke away from the deputy and ran east on Jefferson Street. The deputy said he put Adams inside the door of the jail. He chased Elder, but lost him.

Boyd and Sheriff King spotted the Normal youth about 10:30 p.m. on School Street north of College Avenue in Normal, according to police reports. When he was again taken into custody, Elder again attempted to escape, the report said. When caught, Elder fought with both Boyd and the sheriff and kicked both of them, Boyd said. Both men were in the county jail Friday night, Adams in lieu of $1050 bond.

Elder was being held pending a court appearance Monday. Panelist changed in abortion forum ELLSWORTH Dr. William P. Henderson and Mrs. Mary Lou Hicklin will be among the panelists at a forum on abortion at 7:15 p.m.

Sunday at the Ellsworth United Methodist Church. A potluck supper at 6 p.m. will precede the forum. An earlier account reported Dr. David Chow would be a panelist and Mrs.

Hicklin's name was inadvertently misspelled. Dr. Chow had been scheduled to participate in the forum but was unable. observance of Arbor Day and was part of a school project to create an "outdoor" education nature area in the schoolyard. (Pantagraph Photo) with kids; at Hoose Principal Robert Bcamer introduced two little girls, each to read a poem about trees, what Arbor Day is all about.

Then he introduced Mrs. Campbell's parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Collie, and Mrs. Campbell's daughter, Kclley, bora a short time before her death.

The children cheered at every opportunity. And when the short ceremony was finished, Beamer invited everyone back in 10 or 15 years to sec what the nature area looks like. He also told the children their muscles would be needed after school and on Saturday to continue the planting. Already a thousand tree and shrub seedlings from the Illinois Department of Forestry have been planted. Beamer said the children of Hoose have taken "great pride" in developing the area.

Meanwhile, the Scouts of both genders were making plans for today's observance of Keep America Beautiful Day. Dog missing; man faces shots A large gray dog that bit a 53-year-old Bloomington man on the leg Thursday afternoon had not been located late Friday. John Nelson, 827 W. Jackson, faces the series of rabies shots if the dog is not found. Nelson was doing repair work on a house at 504 E.

Jackson when the dog bit him on the right calf. An earlier story incorrectly gave the address as West Jackson. Mrs. Nelson said the dog ran away after it bit her husband. He did notice-that it was wearing a collar.

"It was a very large dog, short haired, and looked like one of those speckled gray hunting dogs," she said. "It was very thin." Mrs. Pflederer chairman of Tremont fund drive TR E.MONT (PNS) Mrs. Dale Pflederer is chairman of the St. Jude's-fund drive in Tremont.

She will be assisted in the drive by" high school students and four from the student body. The drive will take place Sunday, May 6. 31 acres Forms committee to consider planned nuclear power plant escape in addition to illegal possession of alcohol by a minor and illegal possession of marijuana. Kevin E. Adams, 450 Belview, Normal, was also charged with illegal possession of alcohol by a minor and illegal possession of marijuana.

The two were arrested at 8 p.m. on a road about 3 miles northeast of Danvers for the acqusition of industrial land and the remaining $13,250 will be obtained through the issuing of non-interest debentures. The ACI will hold the land five years and if it has not been developed at the end of that period, the land will be sold and the money returned to the debenture holders. In the meantime, the ACI will cash rent the property and use the money to pay the interest on the loan. The county board will be asked to re-zone the property from its present zoning of agricultural to industrial, according to Craig Hart, chairman of the ACI's economic development committee.

"This is the first concrete effort on the part of the ACI to promote economic development in the county," Hart said. Lexington youth, 18, pays driving fine David W. Lahr, 18, Lexington, was fined $25 and forfeited $100 bond Tuesday in associate division of circuit court after a plea bargaining agreement resulted in a reduction of the charges against him. A story in Wednesday's Pantagraph incorrectly reported that Lahr was charged with battery and disorderly conduct. The fine was imposed on a charge of driving the wrong way on a one-way street after a charge of drunken driving was dismissed.

Bond was forfeited on a charge of illegal possessin of liquor by a minor. One of two 17-year-old Normal youths, arrested for two misdemeanors Friday evening, wound up in county jail with four felony charges after he ran from a deputy and later fought with and kicked McLean County Sheriff John King. Todd H. Elder, 305 Orr Drive, Normal, was charged with two counts of aggravated battery, resisting arrest and Railroad on the north and county blacktops on the east and west. Half the purchase price will be obtained in the form of a loan from the State Bank of Gridley.

A total of $10,000 will come from an ACI fund designated Energy Commission by 1975 so construction can begin. Quick generally rebutted all the opposition's points against the plant and concluded that much of their points were merely "overplay." He told ACI members to learn more about the project and if they decide it is a worthwhile proposal "express opinion let the Illinois Commerce Commission and your legislators know your position." In other action, the board: Decided to continue with construction of the ACI quarters on a lot behind the McBarnes Memorial Building despite two suits filed against the ACI by the Louis E. Davis American Legion Post. The suits are designed to break the lease of the ACI. Announced that it is accepting bids for the sale of its present building at 212 E.

Washington. It was revealed that there are two parties interested in the building. purchase 31 acres of land near Gridley. The land, presently owned by the Philip Hayes estate, will be purchased for $46,000, $1,500 an acre. The acreage is bordered by U.S.

24 on the south, the Toledo, Peoria Western The company has announced it hopes to have the first of two 950,000 kilowatt units in operation by 1980 and the second by 1982 or 1983. Quick said originally those opposing the proposal were a loosely-knit group known as the Salt Creek Defenders. The group has since reorganized and changed it name to the Salt Creek Association, which is represented by Champaign attorney Rober Auler. Auler, Quick said, has donned a "Sir Gallahad hat" in opposing the power company's proposal. Auler has said he did not believe he could stop the plant, but he could delay its construction up to 10 years, according to Quick.

"If he can delay it 10 years, we're all going to be in trouble." The area manager said his company hopes to have the approval of the Illinois Commerce Commission, hearings before which are in progress, and the Atomic purchase ness forces stop at Twin City airport: The Association of Commerce and Industry of McLean County was hesitant Friday to immediately grant its official endorsement of the Illinois Power Company's proposed nuclear power plant and lake in De Witt County. Rather than taking immediate action, the board decided to form a committee to study the proposal and make a recommendation to the board at a letter day. The suggestion that the ACI give its endorsement 'came from Gerald Quick, area IPC manager, at the conclusion of a talk he gave on the proposal at a board of directors meeting. Quick told the board this area will experience an electric energy shortage as early as 1980 if the plant in De Witt County is delayed. The power company's proposed $300 million plant would border a 5.000-acre lake made" by impounding the waters of Salt Creek and its north fork east of Clinton.

James Hamilton, 73, of Pine Bluff, remained in critical condition at St. Joseph's Hospital Friday night following an apparent heart attack about noon Friday, the hospital said. Hamilton and his wife were aboard a private plane, en route to the Illinois Medical Research Center, Chicago, when Hamilton's condition forced a landing at BIoomington-Normal Airport, city fire- -men said. Firemen David V. Daugherty and! Norman Woellms rushed to the airport? where they found Hamilton breathless and pulseless.

En route to the hosplal they applied artificial heart massage and resuscitator, restoring vital signs before' reaching the hospital, Daugherty said..