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Pantagraph A-3 Bloomington-Normal, III. Sept. 23, 1972 Police hope ticket output boost will bring reduction in accidents Richard Buchanan, left, 327 Hillside Court, and Louis Lukert, 1618 Bryan, Normal, wert honored Friday night by the Bloomington Optimist Club at an installation dinner. Buchanan was given the Optimist of the Year Award and Lukert was given a Special Presidents Award for outstanding service to the Optimist Club and Bloomington-Normal community. Honored But gradually, the graphs show, the accident rate begins to rise once again.

When traffic enforcement again is increased the accidents may continue to rise for a length of time, but after a while they once more begin to fall. Burwitz said it is hoped the new program will disclose whether there is a certain number of tickets which must be issued in order to decrease the accident rate or at least keep it dormant. The department hopes to be able to see a slight decrease in acidents by the end of October. "It probably won't be much, though," according to Burwitz. "I don't even expect to see a 10 per cent decrease." He said if the program affects a notable decrease it should be evident by December.

"We should have concrete details then." Factors which figure in the causing of an accident are many. There are more cars on the streets each year, more new intersections opening and, of course, the weather may vary from year to year. Figures compared In September of there were 219 accidents in Bloomington while 157 traffic tickets were made. In September of 1971 there were 224 accidents and 438 traffic citations issued. At the present rate of 7.8G accidents daily, police can expect about 241 accidents at the end of this month.

Burwitz, as did Ciiief Harold Bosshardt when he presented the program for the city council Sept. 11, made it clear that police are not harassing the public with the citations. "We simply arc enforcing traffic laws which had not been strictly enforced before." STE is only a possible, remedy, to the traffic accident problem which confronts Bloomington, according to Burwitz, "and should in no way be considered a panacea. "If It fails, I'll be the first to admit it. I'm not going to hide anything.

If this program doesn't work, we'll just have to try something else. "But," Burwitz said, "I really don't see how it can fail if everything goes as planned." Chief optimistic The chief was more emphatic. "It's going to work; it's bound to work," he said. "I'm going to back these guys all the way," Bosshardt said, referring to Burwitz and acting Lt, Michael Leary. According to the chief, it was Burwitz and Leary who discovered the traffic areas where immediate attention is needed by compiling data and feeding it into the computer.

But success of the program still depends on a number of big "ifs." The chief has told the city council that if they did not back him on the program, "It's going to fall flat on its face." Another flaw would occur if the patrolmen do not bear down on traffic offenders as hard as the program dictates. "But we've had no indication of this happening," said Burwitz, who has computer print-outs readily available showing each patrolman's daily activity. Shift changes With the new program came widespread reorganization of the department. Many officers had both their days off and their hours changed hi the shuffle. Many were forced to abandon lucrative part-time jobs.

But the reorganization was necessary, according to Burwitz, in order to cdver the heavy traffic accident areas with the present department manpower. Burwitz said studies have indicated 60 per cent of all the city's accidents occur between noon and 8 p.m. and 25 per cent of all accidents occur in the downtown area. Police refer to the downtown area as that bordered by Lee, McLean, Locust and Oakland. The reorganization made it possible to have more patrolman in the heavy accident area during the peak time.

Burwitz said that if the ticket total begins to drop off and the patrolmen are still running their patrols faithfully, an "artificial stimulus" will be employed. The patrolmen will be shifted to a new patrol area. "If the stimulus doesn't turn up a new crop of traffic violators, then we should see a reduction in accidents." said Burwitz. Part of loot refurned-maybe An apparent shortchange artist made a waitress' life a little more bearable by returning to cut her loss. Police said a waitress at Sally's Donut House, 701 S.

Main, told them a man deliberately confused her with $50, $20 and $1 bills about 7 p.m. Thursday. He returned an hour later and gave her $21, admitting that he had shortchanged her. She checked the cash short. Student hurt in city crash An Illinois Wesleyan student from Decatur was injured about 5:45 p.m.

Friday in a two-car collision at Prairie and Walnut streets. Donn P. Malley, 19, whose local address is 317 E. Chestnut, was reported in good condition late Friday at Brokaw Hospital. He was taken there by the city rescue squad.

Police said a car driven by James R. Riley, 20, of 614 E. Walnut, collided in the intersection with Malley's vehicle. Riley was charged with failure to yield right-of-way at a stop sign. He posted $25 cash for an Oct.

17 court hearing. Switch Bus drivers reject wage cut By Davt McCltlland Anyone who received a traffic ticket from Bloomington police between Sept. 15 and Thursday has the dubious distinction of being part of the department's crackdown on traffic accidents. Police under the new "Selective Tactical Enforcement" program Issued citations to 409 persons on moving violations during the seven-day period. That compares to 353 tickets issued during the first 15 days of this before the new program was implemented.

In September, prior to the beginning of the new program on the 15th police were issuing an average of 25.21 tickets per day. Between Sept. 15 and Thursday, patrolmen averaged 58.14 citations daily. The tickets figure into the program, though they are "just an incidental tiling," according to Patrolman Richard Burwitz, systems coordinator for the department. While the ticket may serve to educate the offender, the real education is directly towards the observing public, Burwitz said.

"If a guy sees someone stopped for a traffic violation," said Burwitz, "maybe he will realize he's done the same thing at one time or another and take steps to avoid doing it the next time." Seek ratio One goal of the new program, he said, is to determine the correlation between the number of citations issued and the number of accidents which occur. Studies have revealed what Burwitz refers to as the "lead-lag phenomenon." By using graphs police have learned that after the citation issuing pace is stepped up the number of accidents eventually begins to decline and continues to do so even after the traffic enforcement is cased. Braked SL ly ii- ii i.i ii i i 17 being sought for tax refunds lllil ill! I A HeUS; J' VUfi -r'i- Patrolman Garry Kindred waved a speeding suspect to curb while on radar duty on East Emerson Street An effort to resolve matters and forestall a Bloomington-Normal bus strike next Wednesday will be pushed Monday by city managers from both communities. Bloomington manager Richard Blodgctt and Normal manager David Anderson will meet at 10 a.m. Monday.

They hope to meet later Monday with officials of Bloomington-Normal City Lines Inc. Recommendations from the managers resulting from Monday's conferences are expected to go to both city councils Monday night. The private bus firm filed a 60-day termination of service notice Friday with the Illinois Commerce Commission after informing its drivers Thursday night that their wages will be reduced 6 1-to-84 cents an hour, beginning Wednesday. Theodore Schaiipp, president of the Rick A. Cantrell, 909 W.

Taylor; Luella Eddy, Bloomington; Nancy J. Harmon, Mobil-Land Mobile Home Court; Martha V. Kondy, 904 Arcadia; John T. Pycior, 1002 Oak; Maxine E. Williams, Mobil-Land Court.

John W. Connery, 1215 Orchard Road; Robert L. Folay, 817 E. Washington. Phillip E.

Katcher, 605 E. Front; Denise A. LaCroix, 614 N. Lee; Harvey Reynolds, 1104 N. Oak; Philip E.

Rog, Normal; Jean E. Dasard, IIOV2 Center; Daniel S. Gregerson, Bloomington; Mary Anne Katcher, 605 E. Front; Raymond W. Murrell, 1008 Hilltop, and Betty L.

Rusher, Le Roy. in Twin Cities between Stanford and Dan-vers. It will be the fall of 1974 before water from that field will flow into Normal through its 14-mile pipe line. The extension of the emergency water curtailment Friday stipulates these water bans: Sprinkling, watering or irrigation of shrubbery, trees, lawns, grass, ground covers, plants, vines, gardens, vegetables, flowers or any other vegetation. Washing of cars, trucks and mobile equipment.

Washing of sidewalks, driveways, filling station aprons and other outdoor surfaces. Washing and cleaning of any business or industrial equipment or machinery. Washing the inside or outside of SEPT. 24 1 9:30 A.M. CHURCH SCHOOL CLASS 10:30 A.M.

WORSHIP 7:30 P.M. EVALUATION firm's union employes, told the Pantagraph Friday night that "unless there's a $2.36 an hour guarantee for drivers by 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, there'll be no buses on Twin City streets Wednesday." Under the City Lines' decreased pay plan, drivers' present $2.36 an hour scale will be dropped to $1.75 on Wednesday morning. The two union mechanics, who now receive $2.85 an hour, will be reduced to $2.01 an hour and the firm's single service employe, who gets $2.11 an hour now, will get 2 an hour. Schaiipp said late Friday that B.

W. Franklin, president of the firm, evidently had the right to decrease salaries under a five-day clause for such action under the old contract with employes. That contract expired a week ago Friday. "The bus company really threw a ringer in this thing," Bloomington Mayor Walter Bittner commented Friday night in discussing the bus situation. Both cities had assured City Lines drivers that they would make eventual pay increases retroactive to Sept.

15 if the drivers continued to work after Sept. 15 without a contract so that both councils could negotiate an extension of its subsidy contract with the bus company. Efforts to work out a proposed two to four-month extension of the subsidy which had provided a 45-cent an hour increase to drivers in March; 1971, and paid for that increase since were interrupted this week whila both city managers attended a convention in Minneapolis, Minn. The amount of subsidy to be paid had been open to negotiations even though both city governments had indicated that it probably would be greater than the present $3,792 a month payment to the bus company. dwellings and office buildings.

Operation of ornamental fountains or structures making a similar use of water. Filling of swimming and. wading pools. Escape of water through defective plumbing. Use of airconditionining equipment except when approved by the city manager.

i Any wasteful use of water. Filling or flushing of new water-: mains, jetting of ditches or filling of sewers for test purposes. 5 BAPTIST CHURCH Sunday, September 24 9:30 Church School 10:30 Worship 12:00 All Church Picnic 5:00 Youth Choirs 6:00 BYF 401 E. JEFFERSON BIOOMINGTON PHONE 828 9971 Robert Howard. Poiior Normal curtailment extended Wafer Seventeen McLean County taxpayers are among the 6,000 the Illinois Department of Revenue is attempting to locate so that it may deliver their income tax refunds.

State Revenue Director George E. Mahin said the refunds, returned by the post office as undeliverable, will be credited to the taxpayers' accounts if the checks are not claimed. To claim a refund, a taxpayer should send his name, Social Security number and present address. The department said the following have refunds coming: ISU's golf course wells have taken from Normal's supply. It was suggested that ISU refrain from using those wells during the emergency.

The council was told that the water survey group will attempt to determine whether the town should drill deeper wells in Normal to procure additional water supply. If such a program offered a possibility of success, Mayor Reitan said, the town could add to its supply in a relatively short period of time. It will be June before Normal can construct a transmission line to a new 300,000 to 400,000 gallon a day well drilled and tested early last summer south of the Rowe gravel pits. The council hopes to award contracts next July for the initial development of an estimated 6 to 8 million gallon a day well field along Illinois 9 west of the Friday afternoon. Police beefed up traffic enforcement in accident reducing program.

(Pantagraph Photo) The town can supply only 2.5 million gallons a day and hold its water reservoir levels, water director Shirley Hippie told the council. That 2.5 million gallons includes the 300,000 to 320,000 gallons it can buy from Bloomington. Anderson said a preliminary report from the State Water Survey in Champaign Friday indicated two of the town's wells are in poor condition and that one of them should be scrapped. The state water experts proposed that a new well be drilled on the same location to provide a better supply potential. The survey report based on a study of Normal's well pumping records showed that Normal's water supply drop over the past two years had been caused by an extended 1971 drought, plus the pumping of water from the Rowe gravel pits west of U.S.

150, Anderson said. As much as 1 million gallons of water a day has been pumped from the Rowe pits into Sugar Creek over the past year or so, officials said. It is believed that water has come from Normal's water supply acquifer. The council requested Anderson to check with Illinois State University officials to determine how much water By Dave Haake Normal's 72-hour emergency water curtailment was extended indefinitely Friday afternoon by the Normal City Council. Councilmen said they would review the water situation Monday night during a special 7 p.m.

session. Some relaxation of the emergency measures may be possible then, they said. In extending the emergency, declared Wednesday, the council voted to prohibit "washing of automobiles, trucks, trailers, trailer houses, railroad cars or any other type of mobile equipment." That ban will apply to all commercial and industrial firms as well as individuals, City Manager David Anderson said. The council partially relaxed its ban on the use of airconditioning systems using water. It tacked on an exception to allow such uses "when necessary for the physical well being of individuals or groups of individuals," provided such used are approved first by the city manager.

The exception will make it possible for Mayor Carol Reitan and Normal City Manager David Anderson hope to meet Monday night with Bloomington's City Council to discuss Normal's request to buy additional Bloomington water. Normal councilmen, in a special water emergency session Friday, urged the two officials to try to get on the Bloomington council's agenda. Normal wants to get Bloomington's reaction to its request to buy up to 1.5 million gallons of water a day through October, 1974. has been estimated that it will take three to five months to make proper connections to get such a supply from Bloomington if Bloomington officials agree to sell it to Normal. day's 2,498,000 was sipificant, but added that it was too early to relax the emergency ban.

Friday's water usage was expected to hit over 2.1 million. LAY WITNESS MEETING Centennial Christian Church 1219 E. Grove St. Don't oraet the Downtown Normal hospitals, nursing homes ana clinics to aircondition their facilities where necessary for the health of sick people, the council said. Anderson told the council that Thursday's drop in water consumption to 2,155,000 million gallons from Wednes- Onitft Like Havina SEPT.

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