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Pantagraph A-3 Bloomington-Normal, III. May 26, 197S Pool Ribbon cutting Friday to open Season passes for all facilities cost $10 for individuals (6 years and older) and $25 for families (husband, wife and children). Passes for Miller Park Beach will cost only $8 and $18 for the summer. Normal has daily admission fees of 50 cents (under 12), $1 (12 and older) and 10 cents (for the wading pool). Bloomington's fees at the swimming pools are 50 cents for swimmers 6 through 18 years and $1 for swimmers 19 or older.

There is no charge for children under 6 years. At Miller Park Beach, the fees are 35 and 50 cents for the same age groups. Bloomington-Normal's municipal swimming pools will open for the summer at 1 p.m. Friday. Traditionally, the outdoor pools have opened on Memorial Day.

But this year's opening of one pool is a historic event. At 1 p.m. Friday, city officials will dedicate Bloomington's first swimming pool built from scratch. It's the O'Neil Park pool complex, which cost about $500,000. O'Neil Pool is Bloomington's second, but the first Holiday was bought from McGregor Corp.

in April, 1970, for $127,500. As he did for the dedication of Holiday The summer hours at the four pools will be from 1 to 9 p.m. daily. The hours at Miller Park Beach will be from 1 to 8 p.m. There will be special hours at all four locations until public schools end in June.

On June 2, 3 and 4, Normal's pools will be open from 5 to 9 p.m. only. In Bloom ington, the swimming pools will be open from 4 to 9 p.m. June 2 through 6 and the beach will be open from 4 to 8 p.m. For the second coasecutive year, the Twin Cities' parks and recreation departments' will sell season passes that can be used at any of the Bloomington- Pool, Mayor Walter Bittner will cut the ribbon to open O'Neil Pool.

Assisting him will be Jesse Parker, the city's only west-side councilman. At the conclusion of the dedication ceremonies, which will include water safety demonstrations and a clown diving act, the pool will be opened for free swimming until 9 p.m. Not only is O'Neil Pool the city's first built from scratch, but also it is the first all-aluminum municipal pool in Central Illinois, according to the parks and recreation department. The main L-shaped pool is about 75-by-82 feet with a 40-by-40-foot diving well. There are two one-meter diving boards and one three-meter board.

The pool is heated to a constant 76 degrees. The pool also has underwater lighting and deck lights for night swimming. There is a large deck at the west end of the pool for sunbathers. A wading pool is located at the northwest corner of the complex. The pool is 7 to 15 inches deep and measures 20 by 40 feet.

In addition to O'Neil and Holiday pools, Miller Park Beach will also open at 1 p.m. In Normal, the pools opening will be at Ash and Fairview parks. They, too, will open at 1 p.m. Normal swimming facilities. Americans out in force this Memorial holiday i- By The Associated Press From the East Coast to the West, Americans appear to be returning to their old getaway habits during the first major good-weather holiday since the gasoline crisis abated.

"You'd never know there was anything like an energy crisis," said a dispatcher at the Virginia Beach, police department. Police said there were a lot more cars in the beach Bodies found in wreck CARPENTERSVILLE (AP) Five bodies were found Sunday night in the wreckage of a single-engine plane, officials said. The destination of the plane wasn't immediately known, said Neal Callahan, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration in Chicago. Callahan said the pilot of the craft radioed to an airport in Wausau, on Saturday night for weather information about the Chicago area. But the pilot filed no flight plan, he added.

None of those killed was identified immediately nor was it known where the plane began its flight, Callahan said. Thawville senice to be Friday THAWVILLE (PNS)-American Legion Post 700 will conduct the annual Memorial Day program at 9 a.m. Friday at Thawville Cemetery, weather community this year than last and the town, a major Eastern seaboard resort, was packed with tourists. An Associated Press sampling of resort areas indicated that' except where weather was a problem, travel was up from Memorial Day last year. There were no reports of gasoline shortages around the nation.

The National Safety Council noting that traffic deaths were up five per cent during the first three months of this year compared with 1974 gasoline-shortage levels predicted between 400 and 500 persons will die in holiday traffic accidents. Last year 392 died. Record crowds of 60,000 to 100,000 were reported at the Colorado River near Blythe, most coming from the Los Angeles area. Six persons drowned. Officials said between 350,000 to 500,000 people had turned out for the Indianapolis 500 despite a heat wave that had caused several cases of heat prostration.

They were unable to say how the crowds compared with last year because all estimates are just guesses. Overflow crowds at North Carolina's Outer Banks beaches, including Cape Hatteras National Seashore, forced some travelers to go 60 miles inland to Elizabeth City, and motels there were close to overflowing. More than 7,000 persons, some from as far away as Florida and Michigan, turned out for a three-day fair of campers at Watkins Glen, N.Y. In Key West, T.H. Latimer, manager of the Blue Marlin Motel, said, "We've been running about 95 per cent full since before Christmas.

It looks like it's going to be a real good summer this year." He added that last year ran about three-quarters full because of the gas shortage "and they couldn't get down to us." Max Madorsky, manager of the. Voyager Beach Motel in Daytona Beach, which is booked solid this week, said, "I think it is a little more than just, the gas shortage improvement. People are tired of staying home." In Wyoming, resort operators at Grand Teton National Park, said reservations are up 21 per cent from last year. But the weather kept it from being a busy Memorial Day weekend, according to park spokesman Toy Bevinetto. He said there's still several feet of snow at some hgher spots in the park.

Despite record snow levels at Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks, their campgrounds were reported near capacity. Heavy traffic was reported during the first two days of the holiday and in Connecticut and Massachusetts, police radar units were ordered out to enforce the 55-mile-per-hour speed limit. By Saturday night they had issued 350 speeding tickets in Connecticut. At Ocean Shores, a 150-mile drive from metropolitan Seattle, a resort spokeswoman said, "The story is it's a hell of a lot busier this year." Youths face weapons charge Two boys, one 16 and the other 14, were charged by Bloomington police with unlawful use of weapons after their car was stopped near Miller Park Sunday afternoon. Officer James Williamson saw the car speeding in Miller Park and followed it several blocks with his car lights and siren on before he stopped it.

Police saw the boys put something under the front seat before the car stopped, according to reports. Police round a loaded BB gun, a holster and a box of cartridges and one of BBs when they searched the car. The boys were released to their parents pending action by the youth officer. Most Pantograph offices to be closed today Most Pantagraph offices are closed today in observance of Memorial Day. However, the newsroom will maintain a reduced staff all day for emergency coverage, and the classified advertising department will be open from 3 to 5 p.m.

No afternoon edition of the newspaper will be published today. Friday, the day that some organizations are observing Memorial Day, the Pantagraph will be in regular weekday operation. Tampa, Fla. (AP) The shadow of the posures, made on one frame of film, I earth moves slowly across the face of were taken at 10-minute intervals as the CjffJQfS SQVy the moon early Sunday morning, as seen shadow descended across the moon's from Tampa, Fla. These multiple ex- surface.

Western lunar lookers get best view of eclipse Loud party complaint leads to charge "Honey, look at that!" Dallas reported the moon was a light orange. In Chicago, Boston and New York the eclipse was hidden behind clouds and fog, disappointing the lunar lookers. But for many it made little difference. In most cities checked, it was reported the streets were nearly deserted and those on the streets often did not know that the ecplise was ocurring. In a lunar eclipse, the earth passes between the sun and the moon with the planet's shadow passing from east to west across the lunar landscape.

However, even in a total eclipse the moon does not disappear entirely because it reflects some light from the sun that comes around the edge of the earth. do it every year." Another late night reveler in Atlanta observed, "It looks like orange sherbert. Maybe we ought to pith a tent and watch it all night." The West Coast also seemed to have gotten, a good view of the moon falling into the shadow. In Los Angeles, at the height of the eclipse all that could be seen was a crescent-shaped wisp, described by one person as "dirty mailbag" in color. Thin layers of clouds distorted the view of the ecplise from Kansas City, making the moon ashen.

It began with a smoky, topaz moon over Seattle's quiet streets. Less than an hour later the moon looked like a smoldering hole in the sky. One man leaving a restaurant with a woman said, By Associated Press The earth cast its shadow over the moon Saturday night and early Sunday turning the silver orb into an burning orange hole in the dark night for those who could see it Atlanta, and Seattle, were among the cities reporting excellent conditions for viewing the eclipse of the earth's satellite, but much of the northeastern quarter of the nation was blanked from the view by clouds, fog and rain. The eclipse began around midnight EDT and lasted until about 3:30 a.m. The period of total eclipse was from 1:03 a.m.

until 2:33 a.m. "I think it's neat," said Army Pfc. Carrie Hanks in Atlanta. "They ought to What first appeared to be a report of a loud party in Normal Saturday night turned out to be a case of criminal trespassing, according to Normal police. Police were sent to 610 N.

School on a neighbor's complaint of a loud party. While en route, they learned the house was supposed to be vacant, When they arrived, officers saw sever al young persons running away from the house. Police also found evidence of a party inside the house empty beer cans and a partly empty bottle of liquor on a kitchen counter, according to reports. Al Greiman, owner of the house, told police he was in the process of moving furniture out. Police said there apparently was no damage to the house.

Logan Courthouse artwork fading away first white settler in Logan County, built the home of Governor Oglesby and his a log cabin on the hill. father-in-law. John Dean Gillett, Cattle The hill, considered the finest exam- King of the World and owner of 16,000 pie of a moraine forest in the state, was acres at his death. By Miriam Engelhorn Gov. Richard J.

Oglesby and Stephen A. ttt i Douglas fade into the woodwork. LINCOLN Dr. John Logan ha a white eye. Abraham Lincoln peeling.

the gounty Courtnouse are due was the seat of Logan County from 1839 to 1848 and its courthouse was the oldest in which Lincoln practiced on the old Eighth Judicial Circuit. It was in this courthouse that Lincoln was given the nickname "Honest Abe" by Judge Treat after he walked away from a trial when he learned his client was dishonest. The original was purchased in 1929 by Henry Ford and crated off to Dearborn, Mich. It was replaced by a replica dedicated Sept. 3, 1953 during the Lincoln Centennial.

Another mural is of the Mount Pulaski Courthouse in 1848. Mount Pulaski was county seat from 1848 to 1856, when county government was moved to Lincoln. The mural on the west wall is of a courthouse in Lincoln in 1857. Three other buildings have served as courthouses since the county was founded Deskins Inn in Postville was used until the first courthouse could be completed. The first courthouse in Lincoln, on the site of the present structure, was finished in 1856, but burned in 1857.

Until a new building was completed, Lincoln Christian Church served as the seat of county government in 1857 and 1858. Lincoln once was presiding judge when court was held in the church, since demolished. The second courthouse in Lincoln was completed in 1858 and served the county until it became too small. It was replaced by the' present building. The fourth mural is of Elkhart Hill as it appeared in 1819 when James Latham, for a facelift.

So are the murals on the four walls beneath the glass interior dome. Paul Beaver county board member and Lincoln College museum curator, has been asked to oversee refurbishing the murals and portraits. Larry B. Shroyer, Lincoln-Logan County Civil Defense director and newsman for more than 50 years, has tentatively identified the portraits from his collection of historical material. Judge Lawrence B.

Stringer, considered the ultimate authority did not identify the portraits in his county history. He made mention of the eight paintings in the courthouse. Shroyer thinks the paintings were done about 1904. They have been hidden from view for several years by' a scaffold built to protect the public from plaster falling from the interior covering of the copper courthouse dome. The paintings came into view again in mid-April when extensive repairs to the courthouse dome and third floor were completed at the cost of more than $320,000.

The interior glass dome above the courthouse rotunda has been restored, leaving it shining above the faded paintings. Beavers said he will consult with local artists to see what can be done to restore the portraits and murals to their original state. The murals are of three of the seven courthouses in use in Logan County since it was founded in 1839. One scene is the Postville Courthouse, apparently completed in 1840. Postville i'fm0 "1 Lincoln A portrait, believed to be of Fvo ne(linri Dr John L9an' is due a new Paint L.

yx: pCCIIIiy job jncoin named the county for his friend. a i The faded mural of the Postville MUrQl TOOinO Courthouse, first in Logan County, will be restored (Pantagraph Photos) i.