The Pantagraph from Bloomington, Illinois • Page 3

wm Panfagraph A-3 Bloomington-Normal, III. June 4, 1971 Town awards contract for Beaufort underpass awarded contract for the underpass to West Construction Bloomington. A contract for relocation of water mains was awarded to Normoylc-Bcrg Associates Rock Island. Action followed word Monday from Illinois Stale University's Hoard of Regents that its members favored an agreement to reduce ISU land needed for the widening of Beaufort. The regents will dedicate the ISU land to the town June 15 in Normal.

The council Monday night adopted a resolution accepting details of the agreement with ISU and the regents. A formal contract will be drawn up Fell nnd Linden are too far apart for coupling and Fell doesn't go anywhere to the north, Councilman William Ilammitt commented. Schroeder contended the council had agreed earlier to complete the Hovey-Bcaufort-Vernon east-west route and do as much as possible to improve Linden even though it couldn't build a new underpass, at the I.C. "Now, you're looking for alternatives," Schroeder told the mayor. "It's time we make a decision and carry it through." Mayor Reitan said Linden traffic counts and 1990 traffic projections prompted her consideration of coupling Linden and Fell as a possible alternative to widening Linden.

State traffic counts on Linden this spring indicated 6,200 cars a day between Virginia and Maple Place, 7,100 between the railroad and Jersey Avenue and 6,400 between Irving Street and Stewart Place. The daily volume of traffic on Linden from Virginia to Maple Place will jump to 21,800 cars a day in 1990, the state projected. The area of Linden from the railroad to Jersey will carry 16,400 cars a day and the stretch from Irving to Stewart Place will handle 11,400 cars a day in 1990. alter the regents meet at ISU. New bids on street work connected with the Vernon-Beaufort hookup will be sought In early July, City Engineer Sam Wyiie said.

Earlier bids were rejected because they exceeded engineering esti-mats. It will take about a year to build the Vernon-Beaufort underpass. Some of the road work can be completed this year but that phase won't be finished until early next summer. The council at the insistence of Councilman Kenneth Schrocder voted to proceed with plans for Improving Linden Street from Parkinson Street south to Bloomington. Bids for the 44 foot-wide street are to be obtained no later than March 1973, so work can be started next spring on completion of Normal's major street program.

Wylic was instructed to negotiate with the Illinois Central Railroad to determine whether Linden Street can be lowered two feet under the I.C.'s overpass, which Is 24 feet wide and nine feet, JO inches high. The Linden Street decision followed a request from Mayor Carol Reitan for permission to have the Illinois Division of Highways use its computers to determine probable 1 980 traffic counts on Linden and Fell Avenue if the two were coupled as one-way streets. The projections are based on a recent traffic origin and destination study conducted by the state. Wylie said a 41 foot Linden would handle those traffic volumes without difficulty except at the underpass. Schroeder said it may be possible to get federal money to aid in building a fiew Linden underpass.

Rids on improvement of the Linden-Reaufort-Collcge intersection with federal funding will be opened Friday by the division of highways. Wylie said it would be possible to alter plans somewhat if Normal decides to go ahead with coupling of College Avenue and Mulberry Street from Linden cast to School Street. The council agreed to discuss that coupling project at a work session scheduled for July 10. fc C.iril off A go-cart was stolen from the garage of the Thomas Walters home in rural Holder, the McLean County sheriff's office was told late Monday. Walters said the vehicle was taken while he and his family were in Bloomington Sunday evening.

By Dave Haake Work on Normal's $102,7 in underpass to link Vernon Avenue and Beaufort lit the (lull, Mobile Oliio Rail-road should be under way within three weeks. Normal's City Council Monday night Rescue effort Rain, departure of ease Normal water mm vc Fumes suspected in death of man, 30, cleaning well Hudson McLean County Emergency Squad volunteers worked 45 minutes Monday afternoon to bring a rural Graymont man from a well on a farm would speculate on the cause of death. However, there was indication thai gas fumes were present in the well. None of the men cleaning the well, including Mr. Dunahee, was using oxygen equipment.

east of Hudson. Roger Dunahee died while being pulled from the well on a bucket. There was indication of fumes. (Pantagraph Photo) Volunteers worked 45 minutes to bring the victim to the surface. Coroner Jackson said he will schedule an inquest.

Mr. Dunahee was taken to Flinspach-Kurth Memorial Home, Bloomington. Epiphany must wait Delay OK on new enure students problems ornamental fountains, and use of water-cooling units for air-conditioning. Anderson prior to Monday night's rain had thought it would be necessary to declare an emergency Tuesday. Monday's water consumption amounted to 2.46 million gallons well under the year's high of 2.942 million gallons on Saturday and 2.56 million gallons on Sunday.

The 2.942 million figure is more than Normal could sustain with all of its wells operating, Water Director Shirley "Hip" Hippie said. Councilmen urged Normalites to refrain from watering lawns and using water unnecessarily even though Monday night's rain promised temporary relief. The town's reservoirs and overhead storage tanks were nearly filled Tuesday morning. If consumption drops below 2.3 million gallons a day and usual June rains hit the Twin Cities, Normal could squeak through its present situation, Hippie said. Former Mayor Baugh injured in 2-car crash Former Normal Mayor Charles Baugh suffered possible neck and back injuries in a two-car collision at College Avenue and the entrance to Bridge City Mobile Homes Monday afternoon.

Baugh, 45, of 1104 W. College, was reported in good condition at St. Joseph's Hospital Tuesday noon. Miss Jcanette Stunkel, 20, Magnolia, driver of the second car, was released after treatment at the hospital. Normal police said the westbound Baugh car collided with the southbound Stunkel car with such impact that two doors on the left side of the woman's car flew open.

Miss Stunkel was charged with failure to yield. She posted her license as bond for a June 28 court hearing. in fire Mr. and Mrs. Gary Lovell tested a pair of gift shorts on son, Michael, whosa first birthday is today, following fire that destroyed their apartment, with its clothes and furnishings, early Monday morning.

(Pantagraph Phota). By James Keeran HUDSON A 30-ycar-old rural Graymont man died Monday afternoon while cleaning out a well on a farm miles east of Hudson. Volunteers from the McLean County Emergency Squad removed Roger Dunahee from the 30-foot-deep well at 4:20 p.m. Mr. Dunahee and his business partner, Raymond Carstens, also of rural Graymont, had been cleaning out a well on the George A.

Dodson farm. Carstens and Dodson told McLean County sheriff's police the well had been pumped dry. Mr. Dunahee was returning to the surface after cleaning sludge from the bottom. The men said they were speaking with Mr.

Dunahee while pulling him to the surface when he fell silent. Mr. Dunahee was riding on a 15-gallon bucket, the men said. When the bucket was pulled to ground level, Mr. Dunahee was not on it.

The incident occurred at 3:05 p.m. The Dodson farm has a R.R. 1, Tow-anda, address. Neither McLean County Coroner William Jackson nor sheriff's police Gun charge puts youth behind bars Samuel P. Scott, 19, Elgin, was sent to the county jail in default of a $250 fine Monday after he pleaded guilty to a weapons charge in the associate division of McLean County Circuit Court.

Scott admitted having a pistol without having a registration card Sunday at Dunn-Barton Hall, Illinois Slate University. will consider its adoption at a special meeting next Monday. City Manager David Anderson was given authority May 19 to declare an emergency and curtail the non-essential use of water. His authority will extend until a broken-down well on East College Avenue is back in operation. Anderson said he hopes the well will be back in service this week.

Under the proposed ordinance, Anderson could prohibit the use of water for sprinkling; washing of mobile equipment and cars; washing of sidewalks, driveways and business or industrial equipment and buildings; operation of vv Swallows pills A l'i-y ear-old boy was taken to Mennonite Hospital Monday afternoon after he swallowed an undetermined number of pills he found on a table at his home. Bryan Graham, son of Mrs. Connie Graham, 1008 W. MacArthur, was transferred to St. Joseph's Hospital.

He was In good condiion Tuesday noon. Firemen, who took the child to the hospital at 1:38 p.m., said there were three types of pills on the table, among them some tranquilizers. I Crash kills Tolono man PESOTUM, 111. (AP) Glennon Beckemeyer, 27, of Tolono was killed Tuesday in a collision that overturned his tank truck loaded with road oil and pinned him inside the cab. The crash occurred on Interstate 57 south of Peso-turn.

fresh start Fifting time A half inch of rain Monday night and the departure Monday and Tuesday of many Illinois State University students have given Normal a break in its water problems. Thunder and heavy rain brought big smiles to the faces of Normal council-men Monday night as they discussed emergency water measures and a desire to meet later this month with Bloomington officials to discuss long-range water purchases. That meeting will be set for the fourth week of June if it is agreeable with Bloomington councilmen, Mayor Carol Reitan said. The council discussed but tabled consideration of proposed ordinances which would give the city manager blanket authority to declare without council approval a 72-hour water emergency and curtailment of water uses. Extension of such an emergency beyond three days would require action by the council under a proposal for redrafting of the ordinance.

The council hurch units would be combined into a two-bedroom unit, Building Commissioner Wayne Febus explained. Since that time, Normal has learned that a 30-foot deep strip along the west side of the 800 block of Franklin was deeded to the town in 1930. Consequently, Febus said, the Tobin lot is not large enough even for five units. Mayor Carol Reitan said the council was not the body to provide relief for a buyer who had made a financial mistake and that the Tobin request for parking requirement and lot-size waivers should be denied. City Attorney Robert Markowitz was instructed to look into the possibility of requiring Tobin to alter the structure so two units are combined bedroom apartment.

into a two- demand David Grant and L. D. Spiccker. Lovcll found shelter for his family at the home of a childhood friend, William T. Nelson, 1403 N.

Morris. Monday evening, Lovell assessed his situation. "I'm just about as low as you can go," he said. He did carpentry work in Arkansas. He is signed up as a construction laborer here so far ithout a call lor a job.

So he needs a job. He needs shelter. He needs household goods. And he needs clothes. "But I have one thing to be thankful for," he said, "and that is that we're all right." The Home Sweet Home Mission has offered to serve as a deposit point for items for the Lovell family.

Smaller items may be dropped off at the mission at 212 S. Main. People with furniture to offer should call the mission in advance and make arrangements for delivery to the warehouse at Grid ley and Oakland that is being remodeled to serve as the new mission quarters. Michael wears size 2 clothes and size 5 shoes. His father, 23, requires size 34-32 trousers 15-15'a shirts and size 10'a shoes.

Mrs. Lovell, 18, wears size 34 blouses, 10 to 12 slacks and dresses and size 8 shoes. Normal councilmen Monday night held up approval for a special use permit for construction of a Epiphany Catholic Church and turned down a request for a variation to permit full use of a six-unit apartment at 803 Franklin. Arrangement of entrances into Epiphany's expanded parking lot off East College Avenue at Grandview Drive bothered the council. The McLean County Regional Planning Commission proposed that an entrance into the lot just east 'of Grandview Drive be closed to aid traffic.

It suggested that the entrance further east be enlarged, but church spokesmen objected. The slope of the easternmost entrance is difficult to use in inclement weather, said Leo Heringer, chairman of the church building committee. The council considered extending Grandview Drive's T-interseclion at College to the north to provide an entrance into the lot at the signalized intersection. But Councilman Ralph Wrench doubted that traffic turning west off of Grandview could buck the church traffic. City Manager David Anderson was instructed to arrange a session among was set at $10,000.

Bloomington detectives said the ar- rests followed "information" received by the department. Detective Charles Crowe said Hoffman in his statement said he considered the burned-out Walsh building an eyesore that was a detriment to the west side. The hull of the building and a portion of the old St. Joseph's Hospital were targets of city council complaints to the same effect earlier in the spring. Bloomington police said they also linked the trio with the attempted arson at (lie former hospital building reported May 31.

However, no charges were filed in that case. The fires were investigated throughout the weekend by the police department and George Poehel, Inspector with the fire department. town, regional planning and church officials to resolve a solution prior to the council's June 19 meeting. Bids on the new church just west of Epiphany School are to be opened at 2 p.m. Thursday, June 15.

A 3-to-3 council vote on the variation request for the Franklin Avenue apartment house resulted in a denial of James Tobin's request to use a sixth unit in the authorized five-unit structure. Tobin recently purchased the apartment house. He did not learn until after he purchased it that only five units could be rented. Built in 1970, the structure's building permit called for only five units and a storage area. The builder added a sixth unit and omitted the storage area.

An occupancy permit was issued after it was agreed two of the six one-bedroom Bare facts By Dick Streckfuss Today is Michael Lovell's first birthday. He greets it in much the same condition as one year ago with no clothes and a fresh start. Michael is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gary Lovcll, who were burned out of their basement apartment at 709 W.

Mulberry Monday morning. Lovcll, who came up from Arkansas looking for work and still hasn't found it, awoke about 3 a.m. to the smell of smoke. He roused his wife, Georgia. "She grabbed the baby and I grabbed a basket of clothes," Lovcll said.

That's all that was saved from the fire in their apartment. They alerted the tenants in three other apartments, none of whom had families. A neighbor, hearing the commotion, called the fire department. Firemen fought the blaze for an hour. Damage was concentrated in the Lovcll apartment, though the other apartments had smoke damage and arc now uninhabitable because the electricity and gas has been shut off pending major repair.

Lovcll said he had just remodeled his own apartment and had done oilier carpentry work for the building owners, Tovi li as Ul Beautification cited as motive for arson A better looking west side. That was the motive for arson reportedly given Bloomington police in a statement involving the M. Walsh Sons Monument Co. fire last Thursday. Stanley Hoffman, 59, of 1109 W.

Jackson, arrested Saturday, appeared in Circuit Court Monday. He was sent to the county jail in lieu of $.1,000 bond pending another court appearance June 12. Two younger men, Robert Lee Gnither, 21, of 1004 Pancake, and William Thomas ISlankonship 17, of I SOU W. Miller, also were in jail Monday in lieu of bonds pending the June 12 hearing. Gailhcr faces two arson counts one fur Thursday's Walsh lire and the other for a fire in the Walsh building year ago.

His bond Is $20,000. Blankenship's bond kAAAAi i AA.