The Pantagraph from Bloomington, Illinois • Page 14

ranlagraph, Blwmiingtnn, Friday, Nov. H. 1M3. 14 Township Road Worker Killed at Farmer City 2 Henry Harsha Victim-Truck, Train Collide 'X I PROF SAYS OLE MISS TO BLAME FOR RIOTS ASHVILLE, N.C. (AP) Dr.

James W. Silver, a University of Mississippi professor, charged Thursday night his home state is a "closed society" where the white man does not dare speak out and the search for truth "has become a casualty." Silver said the people of Mississippi were sold "a palpable and cynical hoax" that the federal government was responsible for the riot when James H. Meredith, a Negro, enrolled at the university. Silver blamed the university administration. "That cleverness in shifting the culpability for defiance of law from those creating the violence to those enforcing the law could only succeed among a people suffering from a touch of paranoia," he said.

Paranoia is a mental disorder marked by delusions of persecution and one's own greatness. 1 v- MH "a 1 FARMER CITY A 50-car freight train of the New York Central Railroad struck a highway maintenance truck on the John Street crossing in Farmer City Thursday afternoon, killing 71 the truck driver. Henry Ray Harsha, 59, of Farmer City, an employe of West Township, was dead when his truck came to a stop. It was pushed 1,460 feet by the freight tram. R.

C. Brown of Urbana, the Thursday on U.S. 66 just north of Kickapoo Creek bridge. the compact caromed off the truck and rolled more than 100 feet into the median. Armin Lanou, 49, of Manteno, driver of the truck, told State Trooper3 conductor, and E.

H. Hord of Champaign, the engineer, told De Witt County Coroner Clyde Helm they saw the truck drive onto the tracks in front of their train, but they were unable to Tailgate Crash Injures Driver LINCOLN (PNS) Jim-mie Lee Couts, 20, of South Bend, suffered severe cuts on the head and left hand when his compact convertible crashed into the rear of a truck, loaded with a bulldozer, at 12:20 p.m. iAAnrria Ab-orc A ITtana on1 stop. Traveling 50 The Peoria-bound train was George Garvey he did not sea the car until after the impact. Couts was admitted to Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital for emergency care.

Farmer City Struck squarely in the center by a locomotive, this West Township highway department truck carried Henry R. Harsha, 59, to his death Thursday. Arrowsmith, a son of James Ore. ton Consistory. He had been traveling about 50 miles per and Olive Reese Harsha.

He Three brothers preceded him married Mabel Stiger June 23, in death. 1928, at Saybrook. He was a member of the Ar- Railroad signal standard broken off by the dragging truck interrupted switching for two railroads. Pantagraph Photoj working for the commissioner of highways in West Township for three years, moving to Farmer City a year ago. He was proprietor of the Wilson Hotel in Farmer City.

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BLOOMINGTON. ILL. Fern Longmire, The Dalles. IftuuMiwrnutji 'mviUll ll I iiwiii I liui II1- Tr TitJTrTTgH' John Street, where the high school and elementary school are located. Mr.

Stensel said he wanted Plum Street kept open on account of the ambulance service. Representatives of the Farmer City Grain located at the Plum Street crossing, wanted it kept open for grain trucks, which otherwise would have to be routed three blocks farther. The Peoria Eastern Railroad was also represented. Inquest Monday The dragging truck struck and broke off a signal standard. Automatic switching for the New York Central and Illinois Central crossing in Farmer City was disrupted, and trains were to be flagged through manually until new equipment can be installed.

Mr. Helm swore in a coro- hour, the train crewmen said, and they estimated Harsha was driving 10 miles per hour. Although Harsha had lived in Farmer City since last winter, he was employed by West Township, in McLean County, as a driver and highway main-. tenance man. The truck cab was crushed around Harsha.

The truck, recently purchased, was a total loss. The speedometer showed 6,332 miles. Time of the accident was estimated at 12:18 p.m. Hearing In Progress The John Street crossing Is one of two involved in a controversy before the Illinois Commerce Commission. The New York Central had flasher signals installed at John Street this summer, and asked the ICC for permission to close the Plum Street crossing.

A hearing on the Plum Street closing was being held Thursday in Springfield. The Peoria and Eastern branch of the New York Central has six crossings in Farmer City, three protected with flasher lights and three without. Attending the a 1 In HIT SHIELD'S ARE OPEN FRIDAY NITE "TIL 9 i'tMfrm rrnrranrrvTTil KuuiiM It I I I 1 I I I I 1 I 1 VI I 1 BS I I I 1 1 I Bid I Henry Ray Harsha low and Ralph Daugherty, representing Farmer City Grain Ray Lamkin of Clinton, at jner's jury Thursday and sched uled an inquest for 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Stensel Funeral torney for Farmer City Grain Herman Savage, acting Home. The funeral for Mr.

Harsha will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Stensel Funeral Home, the Rev. Springfield Thursday were H. R. Hester, mayor; John Col Ed Armstrong officiating.

Bur lier, city clerk; 0. A. Peithman, ial will be in East Lawn Ceme postmaster, and Lott Howe, president of Farmer City State Bank. The latter two attended as interested citizens. Detrimental To Schools Superintendent Chancy said he did not want the Plum Street crossing closed because it would throw too much traffic on tery, Bloomington.

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