The Pantagraph from Bloomington, Illinois • Page 17

Suits for $3,445,000 Pending in Accident By Roland White Filing of an insurance company's request to be exempted from liability in a train-truck collision at Loda Jan. 24 brought to light the fact that damages sought in three counties because of the collision total $3,445,000. U. S. Fidelity and Guaranty Co.

brought the suit for declaratory judgment against Farmers Oil Supply Colfax, and 10 other defendants. In the process it cited four previous lawsuits, all stemming from the collision of the City of New Orleans passenger train and a loaded bulk gasoline truck driven by Robert A. Newby. Killed in the collision were Mr. Newby and three Illinois Central employes.

The four damage suits in total so far were brought by the railroad and the estates of its three employes against multiple defendants. Suits Listed A suit filed in McLean County by the Illinois Central against Mr. Newby's estate and others asked for $240,000. One in Cook County filed by Mrs. Barbara J.

Brown as administratrix for Newell Brown, Chicago, assistant to the IC One in St. was Clair County filed president, for $2 million. by Mrs. Alice Zagorski, adI ministratrix for James A. Zagorski, East St.

Louis, IC engineer, was for $750,000. And a second Cook County suit, the newest filed, was by Mrs. Lauretta Clarke, executrix for Thomas F. Clarke Matteson, another IC engineer, asking for $505,000. U.S.

Fidelity and Guaranty, whose maximum responsibility in the last suit would be for the $250,000 sought from Farmers Oil Supply and from Shell Oil, contended in its suit here that neither of the insurance policies it had in force protecting Farmers Oil Supply covered the circumstances of the collision. Policies Defined One policy, it said, was for non-owned automobiles whose use was occasional and infrequent. The other policy excluded operation of motor vehicles, U.S. Fidelity said. It went on to say that Mr.

Newby was operating a gasoline tank wagon owned by him, the tank leased from Farmers Oil 10 lb. Dressed Thanksgiving TURKEY FREE with your purchase of $59.95 or more STERN'S 504-12 N. MAIN traded items excluded the bank County. The Pantagraph B-5 Bloomington-Normal, Ill. Nov.

24, 1970 Stunts The annual Chiddix Junior High School Stunt Show will be tonight, starting at 7:15 in the school gymnasium. The all-school program includes music and variety acts by individuals and groups of students. It is open to the public. Supply. It also said that the distributing company had other insurance in force for other liability in addition to the two U.S.

Fidelity policies. Potential liability goes beyond the scope of exsiting suits, U.S. Fidelity pointed out. It said it had been informed that Maggie Brandon, address not given, plans to sue for injuries received in the wreck. Another suit is anticipated from Central Illinois Public Service Springfield, the insurance company said, claiming damage to electrical facilities attributed to the wreck.

Teen Thrust Schedules Three-Day Convention Cow Country's Spacious Skies Most of America's 11 million tons of beef consumed to your dinner table. A four-part series of reports begins annually starts here on broad grazing lands under today, tracing the many facets of the industry. Beef is wide skies. It goes through many hands before it gets a food bargain. (Pantagraph Photo) Beef: American Story Editor's Note: So you putting meat on the table is a simple business buying cat.

tle, fattening them and selling for a profit? And someone is making huge profits? Wrong on both counts. The writer analyzes the very complex beef industry and provides insight into present meat costs in a series of four stories. By Robert Betts Copley News Service Americans are among the world's biggest beef eaters. Total world production of beef is around 33 million tons, and www First of Four Americans consume a third of it. The U.S.

beef industry will have to increase its output by an estimated 300 million pounds per year for the next five years to continue supplying meat to the population at present levels of consumption. Breeding and fattening techniques are constantly being improved. Beef makes up 15 per cent of the entire food bill of the average American family. Many customers feel they have to pay too much. They suspect that somehwere along the line between farm and butcher's counter someone is making a fat profit for himself.

Meat men have a ready answer. They point out that while the rising cost of living has sent over-all food prices up 31.6 per cent since 1951, retail beef prices have increased only 10.3 per cent. Better Bargain "Food prices have undeniably gone up, but wages have gone up, too far more than food costs," says Walter Rodman of the California Beef Council. In 1947, the average American consumer spent 33 per cent of his income for food. Today, he spends a smaller part than ever before about 17 per cent after taxes and this figure is ex- pected to shrink to 15 or 16 per cent by 1975.

"Food prices go up or down for many reasons, like weather, labor costs and selling practices," said Rodman. "Most consumer goods are produced indoors in factories where weather is no problem. Food comes from outdoors where weather is a major concern. A long dry spell, a sudden freeze, or a hailstorm can damage or destroy a whole crop. Feed Varies "Cattle won't dry up in a drought or wash away in the rain like fruit and vegetables.

But the grain and grasses they eat do. Every period of unseasonable weather too much rain in the winter, not enough rain in the spring affects the natural feed available to grazing cattle. So supplemental MR. SMALL BUSINESSMAN: TRUE or A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS IS A PRODUCT OF LUCK FALSE, of course. But a smallbudget Display Advertising campaign can help make successful beyond your fondest dreams.

Let us prove it! Call PANTAGRAPH DISPLAY ADVERTISING 829-9411 Ext. 261 feeding is necessary, and every time a rancher ships in a load of hay, it increases his cost of doing Out of every dollar spent for food, about 40 cents goes to the farmer for the raw material. Most of the remaining 60 cents goes for transportation, processing and distribution to retail outlets. Each move requires sorting, weighing, loading and unloading in addition to any special handling and packing. The beef story begins out on the range where the calves are born.

On a well-managed ranch, the cows in a herd will all calve within a month or so of each other. Heifers Saved Calves weigh 65 to 90 pounds at birth. At two or three months, when they weigh about 150 pounds, they are rounded up and brought in for branding. Then they are returned with the cows to the range until they are six or eight months old and ready for weaning. By this time they weigh 400 to 500 pounds.

Heifers are selected for brood cows and young steers (castrated males) are run separately. They are made steers because, as bulls, they would be liable to fight, bruise each other and upset the weight-gaining process which has been develloped 1 to produce beef as economically as possible. The rancher does not usually keep any of his own bull calves for breeding. The raising of breeding bulls is an industry all its own. $1,000 Per Cow A ranch these days represents brood every on the p.m.

range. There's no guarantee women's food demonstration. Moles and other skin abfrom one year to another that a Movies will be included in normalities should be discussed profit will be made. In addition the program. with a dermatologist.

Hairs to setbacks caused by weather, All interested persons may which appear in moles should animal sickness can mean attend. not be tweezed but shaved. heavy losses. Also feed prices can go up, beef prices can go down and the cattle rancher can get caught in the middle. About 10 acres of average ranch land is necessary to raise each head of cattle for a period of six months.

In the remaining six months the stock are hay, each head consuming about two tons. Average yearly cost of running one animal varies from $95 in Texas, largest cattle raising state, to $105 in California, the fifth largest. Much to Know Today's cattlemen may have the same rugged individualism and rough independence as their pioneer forebears, but Bloomington Luncheon Set for ADA The American Dairy Association of Illinois (ADA) will hold its annual district meeting Dec. 1 at the Sinorak Smorgasbord, 1720 S. Main, Bloomington.

Richard Moore of Quincy has been named manager. He will replace Milton C. Gunther who retired after 15 years' service. The ADA has completed its first year of operating Dairy Products Building at the State Fair. There are to be directors a state and seven district elected.

The meeting will start at 11 a.m. and will adjourn at 2:30 p.m. There is to be a dairy they also must keep up with fast-moving times. Not only must they be conversant with current prices, cattle grading and legislation, but they also must know about the newest methods of breeding, raising and feeding cattle, as well as the latest advances in agricultural science and engineering. Most men in the cattle business have worked in the saddle at one time or another.

Though they may head big business organizations today, they still are likely to be found, at least part of the time, on the back of a horse, working cows, tending to calves on the range, checking and mending fences, inspecting their stock or putting out salt at the licks on the ranges or in the mountains. (Next Story: Enter the computer.) Farmers Union Head Slams New Farm Bill WASHINGTON, D.C. Tony T. Dechant, national president of the Farmers Union, called the 48-35 vote in the Senate favoring the Agriculture Act of 1970 a sharp setback for farmers. He said the Nixon Administration farm program will cost the nation's farmers at least $1.2 billion over its threeyear period.

"This bill gives unprecedented power to the Secretary of Agriculture," Dechant said. "Any price protection or stability of supply will be provided wholly at his discretion." Skin Abnormalities a big investment. It figures out at about $1,000 in land, animals, equipment and improvements for cow Open your personal checking account at that originated free checking in McLean FREE floor, commercial loans, installment hours Monday through Friday 9:30 Drive-in windows and walk-up windows 9 'til 5:30, Fridays 9 til 6 and ATLANTAThe Atlanta Assembly Church will be the scene of the Thanksgiving Teen Thrust for the Nations convention on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Guest speakers will include the Rev. Eddie Cunningham, founder of Teen Thrust for the Nations and director of the organization, which is interested in reaching the youth of today; James Weaver, former dope pusher, gang leader and LSD user from Dallas, and Dr.

Kenneth Goff, ex-addict and exCommunist. Registration will begin at 4 p.m. Thursday with an opening rally at 7 p.m. Three services are scheduled for Friday and Saturday at 8:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m.

The services will include testimonies, panel discussions and teaching seminars. Mr. Weaver worked with the Federal Bureau of Narcotics in Dallas, helping to break open narcotics rings in the city. He will be the featured speaker at the opening rally at 7 p.m. Thursday.

Emerson Morales, an exaddict from Brooklyn, N.Y., will speak at the 7 p.m. Friday meeting. He will tell of stealing and robbing to support his $150 a day habit. Kenneth Goff is the antiCommunist crusader. He was a member of the Communist party from May 2, 1936, to Oct.

9, 1939. Since he left the party he has aided in the removal of more than 169 Communist agents from federal payrolls. He has written 26 books. He will speak at 10 a.m. Saturday.

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