Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 14

14 DECATUR HERALD Decatur, Illinois, Saturday, July 3, 1976 Bill Goes to Walker Pana Carnival Off; Middle Forlc Stripped of Funding by Assembly Dovn-Home Picnic On The Senate had already voted bers to vote for the Middle Fork funding. He said the state had already committed itself to the project, and "you cannot take away the solemn word of the state of Illinois and have the honor of the state preserved." The Middle Fork project has been on the drawing boards for years, most of the required land purchased, and substantial funds: spent on planning and engineering. The $5.5 million requested for Herald. to cut the funds, so the division budget went to Gov. Daniel Walker without the funds for the proposed reservoir near Danville.

The House vote came as the General Assembly rushed toward adjournment, with weary legislators anxious to get their, work out of the way and go home. The House had previously voted fomtimesto keep the Middle Fork money in the budget. But the Senate voted as many times to take the money out. The final House vote came on a conference committee recommendation that Middle Fork be trimmed. Rep.

a 1 Bradley, D-Bloomington, who had sup-ported the project, said 4 1 1 be another day. There's nothing wrong with losing the battle, as long as we don't lose the war." But Roscoe Cunningham, R-Lawrenceville, urged mem VittWS r. I ypJ ij 1 5 fe I Ik 0 'f I i "'r' I 1 1 a 1 I "4 1 I -w i -11 v- I Illinois Scene amusement company could provide the needed insurance," Wiss said. The city required $500,000 liability insurance and $50,000 property damage insurance. The amusement company could only provide $5,000 insurance per ride, Wiss said.

But Wiss promised extra events and displays on Sunday to fill the gap left by the carnival. Festivities will begin at noon in Kitchell Park, where hot air balloon rides will be provided until dark. A chicken drumstick and lemonade dinner will be sold for 35 cents from 3 to 8 p.m. Several bands will provide entertainment throughout the day. Three-legged races, water balloon tosses, haystack money scrabble and other games will continue throughout the afternoon.

Ribbons will be provided for winners in all competitionsi Just before the fireworks dis- play at dusk a parachuter will jump from the hot air balloon. Revolutionary War Dead Remembered Bell Telephone Asks to Hike Rates; Big Users Are Target some charges for services and equipment would be much higher than 6 per cent. Long distance rates in Illinois also would go up under the proposed tariff. For example, the current daytime rate for a direct-dialed, five-minute call from Staff photo by Ron Ernst This picture of Hahn was taken last Saturday at Lovington's bicentennial parade. Today he's due in Findlay and Sunday he will be back home in Mount Pulaski greeting visitors at the town's Tomlinson Recreation Center.

Hearings End on Rate Request by General Tel ABE LINCOLN may not have been around for the nation's birth, but his look-alikes will certainly be around for its 200th birthday. Bicentennial celebrations and the Fourth of July are keeping Mount Pulaski's Honest Abe, Harry Hahn, busy. Mount Pulaski Plans Full Day for Fourth Pana Plans for a carnival in Kitch-ell Park today fell through but Panajpromises a day full of bicentennial festivities Sunday. "We're planning a down-home picnic," said Joe Wiss, chairman" of the Pana Bicentennial Commission. -'The American Amusement scheduled to provide a carnival Saturday and Sunday, could not provide the necessary insurance certificate needed to operate at Kitchell Park, Wiss said, --t "The 'city council approved the use of Kitchell Park if the Cerro Gordo Tractor Pull Kicks Off 4th Cerro Gordo Cerro Gordo bicentennial July 4th activities will begin with a minirod tractor pull at 6:301 p.m.

Saturday at the Piatt County fairgrounds in Cerro Gordo. Tickets for the weekend celebration's opening event will be $1 per person. Ringing bells and a rocket salute will mark the opening of the festivities Sunday, as Cerro Gordo residents join the nationwide bell ringing. Carnival rides and games are planned throughout the after- at the high school grounds. A chicken dinner will be served from 4 to 7 p.m.

Dinners will be $3 for adults, $2 for children under 12 and free for children under 3 who are accompanied by adults. A fireworks display is planned at dusk at the high school. 'The activities are sponsored by-the Cerro Gordo Jaycees. Clinton Band iPlays in Park Clinton The Clinton Municipal Band will present a concert at Wel-dofl Springs State Park, south of Clinton, at 8 p.m. Sunday.

"The First National Bank and Trust Co. of Clinton will sponsor a-' fireworks display after the concert. Taylorville Taylorville A new museum building and an oldJog cabin will be dedicated Sunday as Taylorville Youth Groups Ready for 4th In St. Elmo St. Elmo St.

Elmo's youth organizations have laid the groundwork for. that town's bicentennial Fourth of July celebration Sunday. The activities begin at 5 p.m. with games and food booths sponsored by St. Elmo's 4-H clubs, softball and baseball teams and Scout troops.

The city and park district are sponsoring the fireworks which begin at dusk. Windsor Sets Bicentennial Church Service Windsor An interdenominational community-wide worship service will begin at 7 a.m. Sunday in Windsor Park in observance of the nation's bicentennial. The Fourth of July service will -begin with a flag raising ceremony. Chuck Gaston, minister-; of Westervelt Christian Church, will deliver the Jf it rains, the service will be held in First United Methodist Church.

Springfield (AP): The controversial Middle Fork reservoir project, environmental issue of the spring legislative session, was stripped of funding Friday by the General Assembly. The Illinois House voted 116-19 to cut $5.5 million for the Middle Fork from this year's Division of Water Resources budget. First Fair Of Season Starts Tonight Marshall The Clark County Fair at Marshall begins tonight with the crowning of the 1976 Clark County Fair queen, but the real activity doesn't begin until Monday. The competition for the crown begins at 8 p.m. Monday night will be the first of four nights of harness racing, which begins at 6:30 p.m.

each night through Thursday. Open and junior class beef and swine will be judged, beginning at 8 a.m. Monday. Dairy judging begins at 9 a.m. A horse pull is scheduled for 1 p.m.

Monday. Domestic arts -and crafts will be judged, beginning at 9 a.m. Tuesday, and the horticulture exhibits will be judged at noon. Wednesday is "Senior Citizens Day" and arts and crafts by senior citizens will be judged. sheep judging is also scheduled for 7 a.m.

A western horse and pony show will be held at 1 p.m. both Wednesday and Friday, with a children's horse and pony show scheduled for 1 p.m. Thursday. A tractor pull is Friday night's main event. The pulling will start at 7 p.n A demolition derby at 8 p.m.

Saturday will be the final event oi the 1976 fair. EPA Warns: Save Water Two dozen Central Illinois towns which depend on shallow wells for their water have been warned by the Illinois Environ-mental Protection Agency (EPA) to conserve water. "Not all of these supplies have an immediate problem," the EPA spokesman said. "If dry weather continues for another month, however, they could have a problem in August and September." The EPA said it suspected Areola, Assumption, Fillmore and Windsor had "unusually low reserves." The EPA said the following communities were suspected of having low reserves: Casey, Cerro Gordo, Cisco, Dalton City, Edinburg, Findlay, Gays, Herrick, Hindsboro, Lerna, Longview, Martinsville, Monti-cello, Moweaqua, Nokomis, Redmon, Sigel and Toledo. Cycle Parade Leads Off Findlay's 4th Findlay Findlay's bicentennial activities begin today at 12:30 p.m.

with a parade of bicycles and antique baby buggies led by Harry Han, of Mount Pulaski, alias Abraham Lincoln. Downtown booths will open at 1 p.m. A baby show will be judged on the American Legion Hall stage at 7 p.m. At 11 a.m. Sunday a community church service will be held near the Findlay High SchooLA family basket dinner will be consumed at 12:30 p.m.

At 1p.m. Findlay residents will hear rifle salutes and bell ringing to commemorate the nation's birthday. Afterwards, a concert will be given by the alumni of Findlay High School. Persons of all ages may participate in games which begin at 2:30 p.m. and last until dusk.

There will be a fireworks display at dusk at Findlay this fiscal year, which began July 1, was to begin construction. But environmental groups launched a major lobbying effort to block the funding, arguing the project would destroy the scenic beauty of the area. Danville officials said they need the proposed dam and reservoir to assure enough water to attract industries. Studies have shown the greatest cost benefit of the project would be as a recreational area. Chicago to Springfield would increase from $1.31 to $1.40.

The nighttime and weekend rate would increase from 82 cents to 90 cents. Operator assistance calls at all times from Chicago to Springfield would increase from $1.74 to $1.89 for five minutes. Three free directory assistance calls would be permitted each month. He said the monthly charge for extension telephones would be cut from $1.20 to $1 for residential customers and from $1.75 to $1.25 for business; customers. General Telephone has 450,000 customers in about 1,000 communities in the state, including the Bloomington-Normal area, Marion, Carbon-dale, Lincoln, Macomb and towns near Decatur and Champaign.

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The events will officially begin at 10 a.m. with community church services on the Mount Pulaski Courthouse lawn. A flag raising ceremony will Cabin nated in the memory of Thelma Gardner. The Christian County Historical Museum, on Taylorville's east side, will open at 11 a.m., with lunch served until 1 p.m. An ice cream and cake social will continue throughout the afternoon, with Mrs.

Erma Wad-dington of Pana playing the organ from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Before the dedications, there will be a 1:30 flag-raising and concert of patriotic songs composed by Earl Oyler of Taylorville. Fireworks will begin at 9:15 p.m. at Lake Taylorville. Springfield (AP) Illinois Bell Telephone Co.

asked for rate hikes Friday ranging up to 39 per cent for moving or installing basic service. Most monthly residentials will go up less than 6 per cent, officials said. The increase in rates will hit hardest at businesses and big residential users, the company said, but any residential customer desiring installation will have to pay a minimum of $32 an increase of $9. That charge applies to persons moving from one residence to another who want to retain telephone service, even if no new wiring work is required. The company, which received approval for a rate hike in February, filed its new tariff request with the Illinois Commerce saying it needs to catch up with inflation.

The commission has up to 11 months to rule. The February increase raised company revenues 5 per cent. Now, Bell is asking for increases which will raise its revenues $110 million annually, or 6 per cent. If approved, the effect on Surgery Gives Railsback His Old Voice Rep. Tom Railsback, was awake and talking Friday after undergoing minor surgery to correct a voice problem at the University of California hospital in San Francisco.

Dr. Herbert Dedo, who per formed the operation, said Railsback's wife told him the congressman's voice "already sounds close to his old voice." Railsback injured his throat almost two years ago while playing paddle ball in the House of Representatives gym. The injury left him with a very hoarse, breathy voice. Mishap Leaves One 'Critical' A Springfield woman was critically injured and seven others, including four from Taylorville, were injured Fri day in a car-van accident east of Springfield. Rose E.

Volkaman, 49, was reported in critical condition in Springfield's St. John's Hospital following the 2:55 p.m. accident. State Police said her car hit a patch of rain on U.S. 36 four miles east of Springfield, and she veered into the path of a van driven by Donald Stenberg of Taylorville.

Stenberg was treated and released from Memorial Medical Center, Springfield, but his wife Janice, 28, was reported in satisfactory condition at St. John's. The Stenbergs' daughters, Donna, 7, and Tracy, 8, and three other van passengers, Dean and Lynn Lewisonand their 20-month-old son, of Springfield, were treated and released. The show is an electronic presentation changing in focus, color and intensity to recreate the story of Abraham Lincoln's relationship with the historic Old Capitol. The narration was recorded by actor Lee J.

Cobb and was his last professional performance before his death Feb. 11. Vandalia A memorial marker honoring 14 Revolutionary War veterans from Fayette County will be dedicated Sunday in Vandalia. The Fayette County Genealogical Society is sponsoring the dedication at 3 p.m. on the Fayette County Courthouse lawn.

The marker in "memory of soldiers of the War for Independence who lived in Fayette County" was paid for with donations. The soldiers, many of whom are buried within the county, are James Starrett Carson, James Cheshier, Thomas Craig John Diamond, Joseph Evans, Harry Ginger, Wooten Harris, Thomas Mahon, Isaac Martin, John Morrell, Michael Tedrick, Benjamin Todd, Henry Walker and James Virden. Squads from the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars posts will join the dedication. to Dedicate celebrates the bicentennial Fourth of July. The museum's new building, named for Miss Jean Woodall, a retired teacher, will be dedicated at 2 p.m.

Vance Kauffold, Christian County superintendent of schools, will deliver the dedication speech. The museum's new 150-year-old log house, donated by Mrs. Clarence Curry of Assumption, will also be dedicated at that time. Money to refinish the cabin was donated by schoolchildren, and the money to furnish the cabin in period furniture was do Vatch Closely, Paris Paris area residents may spend this weekend scanning network television in hopes of getting a glimpse of the Paris High School Band marching in bicentennial parades in Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia.

The 106-piece band, under the direction of Warren Sperry, will be the only Illinois band in the Grand Bicentennial Parade in Washington, D.C. Saturday. Sunday, the Paris band will be one of five Illinois bands participating in the Parade in Philadelphia. Although that parade begins at 11 a.m. Sunday, the Paris band will not begin marching until 2 p.m.

The other Illinois bands are from Alton, Stevenson, Munde-lein and Prairie View. NBC network affiliate sta- Daylight Savings Time). Residents across the country are being asked to ring whatever' bells they have at the same time. The ringing is timed exactly 200 years after the first reading of the Declaration of Independence and the legendary ringing of the Liberty Bell. The ringing of the bells is being urged by the United States Congress, American Revolution Bicentennial Administration and the Illinois Bicentennial Commission.

You May See Paris' Band Springfield (AP) Illinois Commerce Commission hearings were concluded Friday on the request by General Telephone Co. of Illinois for a 7.6 per cent rate increase. If the ICC approves the full request, the average monthly telephone bill for a residential customer would be boosted by an amount ranging from $1.20 to $2.35, according to the company. Average monthly business rates would be boosted by an amount ranging from $1.90 to $4.50, a company spokesman said. The spokesman said the re quest also includes a proposal that the charge, from coin operated telephones be boosted from 10 cents to 20 cents and that the company be permitted to charge 20 cents for some directory assistance calls.

Strike Ends At Kennedy's Taylorville Some 150 members of Teamsters Local 279 ratified a contract Friday, ending a 60-day strike at the S. F. Kennedy New. Products Co. in Taylorville.

The company mainly produces grain bins and grain drying equipment. The new contract provides for an hourly wage increase of $1.55 oyer a three-year period, officials said. The average straight hourly wage has been $3.91. 1 Workers are expected to return to their jobs Tuesday, The non-union Kennedy Industries plant at Shelbyville is unaffected by the contract agreement. Double Derby Chicago (AP) Here are the winning numbers and color drawn Friday in the' weekly Double Derby Game of the Illinois State Lot tery: 544 8534 64137 099136 Blue Vandalia Escape Vandalia The Vandalia Correctional Center Friday reported the escape of Robert Dennis, 31, of Terre Haute.

Authorities said Dennis, a trusty, apparently walked' away from the minimum security prison. He had served 7 months of a 16-to 48-month sentence for auto theft from Crawford County. Dennis is described as 5-feet-4, 130 pounds, with blue eyes, brown hair and the word "Lilly" tattooed on his upper right arm. follow at 11 a.m. by the American Legion color guard.

Mount Pulaski's own "Abe Lincoln," Harry Hahn, will greet visitors at the Tomlinson Recreation Center, one block north and two blocks east of the square. A flea market will be open at the recreation center from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Mount Pulaski Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 777 will sponsor a chicken fry from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The Junior Woman's Club Ice Cream Social is planned for 1 to 4 p.m. and the Junior High School Band will give a concert at2p.m. The Mount Pulaski Courthouse state shrine will be open for tours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Evening activities will shift to the city park, three blocks south of the high school, where the Athletic Association will sponsor a food concession stand, beginning at 6:30 p.m.

The Senior High School Band concert will begin at 7:45 p.m. and the fireworks display by the Phoenix Fire Department is scheduled for 9 p.m. town, Monticello, Mount Ver- non and Williamsburg. The trip is sponsored by band members and band parent groups. The band will return to Paris July 6.

Towanda Hosts 4th of July Flea Market Towanda Towanda will celebrate the Fourth of July with its eighth annual antique flea market. The flea market will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday in Towanda's North Park. Towanda is seven miles northeast of Bloomington on U.S.

66. Last year more than 80 dealers and hobbyists offered glassware, china, furniture, handicrafts and artwork for sale. The market is sponsored by the village and Fourth of July Committee. Capitol Sound Springfield The Fourth of July will mark the first public performance of the Sound and Light Show at the Old State Capitol in Springfield. Dedication ceremonies will begin at 8:30 p.m., with Gov.

Daniel Walker, representatives of the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration and tions will broadcast bicentennial events across the country from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. They will carry bits and pieces of the Philadelphia parade and Paris viewers may be lucky enough to see their band. ABC network affiliates will also carry bicenntennial events from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Sunday.

Two reporters from WTHI-TV (Channel 10) in Terre Haute, are travelling with the band. The date of broadcast for their program will be announced after their return. Paris band members will visit several historic sites during their week-long trip, including the nation's capitol, James- Balloon Rides, Fireworks Set In Effingham Effingham Balloon rides and fireworks will highlight the Fourth of July festivities In Effingham. Activities get under way about 7 p.m. in Hendelmeyer Park with Mayor Clyde Martin taking the first balloon ride dressed like Uncle Sam.

The rides will continue during the evening along with a program by the Community Singers of Effingham. A fireworks display will begin at dusk. The celebration is sponsored by the Effingham Ring Those Bells and Light Premieres Sunday I.Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month year. a new century begins, it is only we mortals ring bells and fire off pistols." Thomas Mann mortals will be ringing bells this Sunday to herald the third century of this nation's existence The Liberty Bell in Philadelphia will be tapped at precisely 2 p.m. (1 p.m.

Central Illinois Bicentennial Commission, the Illinois Historical Library and U.S. Rep. Paul Fin-dley, R-Pittsfield. Following the speeches, there will be a fireworks display and the Sound and Light Show. The show will be given each evening at 9 p.m.

until September and summer evenings in subsequent years..