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BloomingtonNormal, III. Dec. 29, 1975 Pantagraph A3 Ice-slick streets send car tires spinning to investigate a three-car collision. Almost $300 damage was done to the police squad car Spiecker was driving it slid into a parked car owned by John Kane, 1709 Lawndale. The collision occurred in the 200 block of East Monroe police Lt.

Sam Thoman Monday morning, and some paid the price in fender-bender accidents. Police, had to be out. and it fell Patrolman Richard K. Spiecker's lot to have an accident as he was on the way By Sandy Spencer "It's slicker than a gut wagon. Don't go out unless you have to." Despite the icy roads, many persons didn't heed the words of Bloomington Street, only several yards from the three-car accident Spiecker was to investigate.

In his report of Uie three-car collision. Spiecker wrote, "Street was so slick you couldn't stand up on it." The collision Spiecker investigated involved a wcsthmuul vehicle that slid into a parked car and pushed the parked car into another parked car. It was similar to most of the other accidents reported to Bloomington po- lice Monday morning. Four other accidents involved parked cars that were hit by moving cars that slid into them. One.

accident, in the MOO block of Fast drove Street, occurred after a driver stopH'd to avoid hitting two pedestrians. His car was struck in the rear by a car that couldn't stop on the slick street. Another accident apparently resulted from caution on tin' part of the driver who saw the crash: One driver slowed down near the intersection of Vale and drove streets, and his car was hit in the rear by another car that didn't slow down enough At 1.) am. Normal police were iX f7 completely tied up with accidents," answered A idents They ytf according to the ollicer who answ fell 'J the telephone Hall adoen accii I'l I 1 11', "ported to Normal police. I n' included a car-telephone lxMith col! i'" 'Y a car tralTie-liKlit collision at lit i-S irI 'JK Ayr lege Avenue and KB.

Hision Col- 1. w.iTYV I yU J.L.-1 4r 17 it TV yym few Y' so smooth it was rough. Three women were hospitalized after falls. Forecast calls for more freezing drizzle during the next 24 hours. There were no injuries in accidents in either city.

"All the salt and sand trucks are out," reported Deanc liecr, foreman of Bloomington 's Public Service iVpart-ment. Beer said the crews will bo out all day if the freezing drizzle continued. Brick streets, he said, "are worse than paved and blacktoped streets." In Normal, Donald Danielson, director of the Public Works Department, said two salt trucks and one sand truck were out Monday morning. His full staff, 16 men, was out alxmt a.m. lie said they would continue to work until all was cleared There were no salt or sand trucks for the sidewalks, however, and at least three elderly women fell Monday morning: Mrs.

Inez Mason. 110, of 40!) K. Jackson and Mrs, MalH Bays, 75, of 316 (ilenn, Normal, were in fair condition at Mciinomtc Hospital. Mrs. Lillian Hayes, 75.

of 90(i' -t N. Fast St. was being treated Monday noon nt Brokaw Hospital. The forecast boded no In-tter in the coming 24 hours. Travel will be hazardous, Pantagraph wire services advised, with a high exHited in the lower 30s.

State police in Pontine reported more than 15 minor accidents through noon Monday. At times, xjlice said, U.S. 66 traffic was slowed to a crawl about 25 miles per hour, an officer estimated. Heavy snow was reported in Chicago. Overnight low in the Twin Cities, recorded at the Illinois Stale University greenhouse, was 25 degrees.

At noon, the temperature was 31 degrees. Precipitation measured of an inch since 3 p.m. Sunday. 'eeeeeaeaeeeeeeeee Bookless day The Withers Public Library Bookmobile was frozen out Monday by the weather. Freezing drizzle made both streets and sidewalks too hazardous for the vehicle and its customers.

If weather permit, the library staff said, the bookmobile will resume its rounds Tuesday. reported to Bloomington police, and half a dozen to Normal police. Pedestrians, such as Robert Karstedt, 802 E. Chestnut, right picture, found the going Linden Street Road, left picture, was typical of the glazed streets that greeted Central Illinois motorists Monday morning. About a dozen car accidents were Smoofi sliding for motorists Autopsy report shows coed not sexually attacked 1.

I Phone Aw cfe1 Normal Police Sgt. Dan Sadler, the detective heading the investigation, said Normal police are continuing to interview persons who might have information regarding circumstances of the beating. He estimated that to ihtsoiis have been questioned. Sadler said lie has not received a copy of the autopsy rcMrt, adding that he will not rule out. a sexual motive for the attack despite its findings.

A spokeswoman for Buzbee's office said regarding the examination for rape, "There is nothing in the statement that I have regarding She added that tests had been conducted for signs of sexual abuse. Buzbee's office has yet to schedule an inquest into the death. Miss Rofstad was taken to the Peoria hospital becau.se it contains a neurological center, where brain surgeries are performed. A physician's examination of the body of Carol Ann Rofstad showed that she had not been raped or sexually molested. Peoxla County Coroner Herbert Buzbee Monday received the autopsy report on the death of the 21-year-old Illinois State University student from Elk Grove Village.

The report confirmed that the cause of death was a brain hemmorhage, and showed that her skull had been fractured. Miss Rofstad died Wednesday at St. Francis Hospital Medical Center, Peoria. She had undergone brain surgery Tuesday night for head injuries incurred in a beating with a blunt instrument. Her body was discovered Tuesday in the yard of the Delta Zeta sorority house, 602 S.

Fell. An era career ending Scott. University High School and two Mcl.vin County residents, Newell Henderson, rural Stanford; and Kmery Tipsord. rural Saybrook. Paul Fish, Waynesville, represents DeWitt County on the present board and William J.

Tullis, hmg Point, represents Livingston County. Records from the office in Blooming-' ton will be taken to the Champaign office Tuesday, Mrs. McElvaney said, and the telephone at Bloomington's office, 211 Prospect Road, will be disconnected Wednesday. "Wish you were here, having a wonderful time" message from a a draftee serving in Korea during that conflict. The DeWitt County board was consolidated with the Bloomington Selective Service office in the fall of 1972.

The Livingston County hoard was added in June, 197.1 There were 20 board members from the three counties, but that number has dwindled to six. Board members still active include Jack Horenborgcr, Illinois Wesleyan University athletic director; James Frank Claeys III f' it Ir if fY1 I lK?" of An office that has served thousands since it opened its doors 35 years ago will close Friday, with little public mourning. The Selective Service System office in Bloomington serving McLean, DeWitt and Livingston counties since 1973 will be consolidated into a regional system. Registration of 18-year-olds, the office's main purpose, ended April 1, but the office has remained open since then, pending a final decision on whether to dismantle machinery here. Twenty-two other Selective Service centers in the state will consolidate into five centers: Champaign, Rockford, Peoria, Chicago and Belleville.

With the closing of the office will come the retirement of Mrs. Theo N. McElvaney, 903 N. Allin, who has worked in the Bloomington office since 1950 and has served as its executive secretary in recent years. Her career closely parallels the history of the office itself because she began work just 10 years after its opening, Oct.

19, 1940. The system was established then to build up the nation's armed forces prior to its entry into World War II. Thousands of McLean County servicemen were registered at the Bloomington office. After World War II, the office had surges of activity during the Korean and Vietnam wars. Things have slowed in recent years, Mrs.

McElvaney said Monday. Married to now-retired Bloomington Police Chief Bernard G. McElvaney in 1946, the Selective Service executive worked for the Decatur Signal Depot for a year in 1946-47. Between 1956 and 1959, Mrs. McElvaney stayed at home with the couple's infant daughter, then returned to the Selective Service office as its chief clerk and executive secretary.

In recent years, Mrs. McElvaney has registered sons of many of the men she registered during the 1950s. Selective Service Board members have come and gone during the years. Mrs. McElvaney will retire with many memories.

Those memories include early morning trips to the Bloomington train station to see men leave for the Chicago induction center. Other memories include cards she received from men drafted into the service. One of those cards included a Booth battered A car driven by James Branaman, 29, Heyworth, demolished a telephone booth Monday morning at Fell and Beaufort streets. Normal, above. Many cars, as the one below, ended up in ditches.

(Pantagraph photos) Airman visiting parents during holiday leave Airman l.C. Frank M. Claeys III is on holiday leave visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank M.

Claeys 1506 W. Chestnut. He will return Wednesday to Holloman Air Force Base, Almagordo, N.M., where he is an aircraft maintenance specialist. He is a 1974 graduate of Bloomington High School. Ellsworth man faces driving charge William Boolman, 41, Ellsworth, was in McLean County Jail Monday noon in lieu of $500 bond pending a Jan.

21 hearing on a drunk-driving charge. Boolman was arrested by sheriff's police about 11:30 p.m. Saturday after the truck he was driving went out of control, went into a ditch, hit a culvert, knocked down a mailbox and tipped over on its side, according to police reports. Boolman refused medical aid, police said. The accident occurred on the To wan da-Barnes blacktop 2Vi miles east of Oakland Avenue, reports said.

Young man treated Mark Ryburn, 19, of 337 E. Baker was treated and released at St. Joseph's Hospital Medical Center at 11:40 p.m. Saturday after he ran his hand through the glass of a door at 1906 E. Cloud, according to a fire department rescue squad report.

si I '7Vf wYTX1 Zmm3t Y. -Y Mrs. McElvaney closing the door Pantagraph Photo.