Alton Evening Telegraph from Alton, Illinois • Page 3

SATURDAY, MARCH 1, ALfOtt EVENING TELEGRAPH PAOTA4 Hotel II Be Sold, Owner Reveals By L. ALLEN KLOPE telegraph Staff Writer The 73-year-old Savoy Motel at Market and Front streets in Alton may have done its last official day of business Friday, as its present owner shut down the operation then, and will now sell the structure. Having been active in the management of the hotel for just over 60 years, Mrs. Nellie Angel, a patient at St. Joseph's Hospital, said she has decided to get out of the business.

With a twinkling eye, Mrs. Angel said, "I'm 85 years old and have broken my hip three times, so 1 think it's time to retire." "I broke my hip twice before, and was able to come A FEW YEARS photograph of the Savoy Hotel in Alton was taken sometime during the 1940s, how-, ever, the structure' hasn't changed much, but now the hotel will be sold, and it is not known what the new own-, ers will do with it. Four Women Hurt In Rte. 26 7 Crash Four Jerseyville women were injured early today when a southbound car went out of control and slammed into another automobile on ice-glazed Rte. 267, about 2 miles north of the Godfrey intersection with Rte.

67. Illinois State Trooper R. D. Whitmore said the accident involved cars driven by Mrs. Audrey I.

Platte, 42, of 801 N. Stimner Jerseyville; and Miss Nancy J. Wilson, 17, of 403' Baxter Jerseyville. Also injured In the crash were two passengers in Miss Wilson's car. They were identified as Miss Becky J.

Bowman, 18, of 315 E. Carpenter, Jerseyville; and Miss Debbie L. Parrott, 18, of Oakwood Jerseyville. 411 four women were taken to Alton Memorial Hospital where they were being treated for multiple cuts. The hospital said the women appeared to be in fair condition.

Whitmore said the car driven by Miss Wilson was southbound at about 7:25 a.m. today and went out of control on an icy grade. The Wilson car crossed the center line and crashed into a northbound car driven by Mrs. Platte, Whitmore said. Witnesses at the scene indicated that one of the cars may have careened onto a bank and struck a highway sign bur Whitmore said that he had been unable to talk at length with both of the drivers.

There apparently had been agpther accident at the same location late Friday. Area re- gidents that state salt trucks had been called but apparently had taken no action to alleviate the dangerous highway conditions. Meanwhile, Alton police were plagued with a rash of traffic accidents Friday night, caused mostly by icy road conditions. Virtually all of the mishaps were relatively minor and in volved only minor injuries. James Menzie, 21, of Russell Alton, suffered a cut on his knee Friday night when his machine went'out of control on 20th Street and struck a tree: COMPLETELY owl looked knowingly from his perch near Alton Memorial Hospital Friday as if to say he knew the snow was coming all along.

SWSDS-CafetorJa trays JJe Ford of fcoiig Wand, N.V., diseov- tot a workout on the snowy hllte at twil the trays were perfect fur llontMo College, wueji coeds Fi'ftu Olng. of Brooklyn, Leu- to work, but this time think I'll just take it easy," she said. Mrs. Aflgel fell two weeks ago and has been hospital' ized since, "so it gave me time to think things over and come to my decision, even though it wasn't an easy one," she said. A sharp businesswoman, Mrs.

Angel said she has a buyer for the building, but would not disclose who it is or if he will continue a hotel operation there. She also said she owns two other buildings just east of the Savoy, and these, too, will be sold. "I plan to recuperate at the home of my njece, Mrs. William P. Magee of St.

Louis, and then decide what I will do, but I can tell you one thing, it won't be traveling." Reflecting on the business, Mrs. Angel said she and her husband, Louis, purchased the hotel on Aug. 6, 1918, and started the restaurant portion in 1921, which they operated for 16 years. During the first few years, she said, vaudeville people made up the bulk of the guests. Mr.

Angel, who died 10 years ago, she said, was a born hotel greeter, and made the place sparkle. He had the ability, she said, to make the most weary traveler feel rested even before he got. to his'room. Of course Mrs. Angel's cakes, pies, and special sal- had something to do with the success of the business, but she doesn't want to take any of the credit.

As vaudeville faded, business slacked for short time, Mrs. Angel became booming again when construction began on the lock and dam. The hotel had 30 rooms, which were always filled during the construction period that lasted several years during the 1930s. The construction workers must have put, out a good word for the, hotel, Mrs! Angel said, because rivermen began using the hotel, and did so even through Thursday night. She said many of the bargeline workers would make a special effort to get to Alton to stay at the Savoy when they traveled up or down the Mississippi.

T-w i i uncomfortably in her bed, Mrs. Angel said there were some tough times, especially during the depression, we always managed to come out with a profit at the end of the year. Asked if she thought any of the roadside motels caused any decline in her business, Mrs. Angel said: "I don't think they did, because I have watched some come and go, while we were able to continue right on." If the hotel management provides clean, comfortable and pleasant surroundings in a hotel, she said, then he will be successful. "I could have sold the hotel many 'times during the past years," Mrs.

Angel said, "but I felt that since I was in good health I could go on with the business." However, she said, the last accident was the deciding factor in her decision to close the hotel. She said she is grateful to her niece, Mary, and her husband, who have helped in the preparation to close the hotel. The restaurant was closed last May, and was not reopened. Mrs, Angel said she doesn't know what the new owners of the building will do with the structure, but, with a chuckle, she commented: "It sure is well designed for being a hotel." Two Illinois Soldiers Killed WASHINGTON (AP) The Pentagon released Friday the names of two Illinois men who were killed in Viet nam fighting. They were: Marine Pfc.

John C. Dale, son of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon I. Odle, 912 N.

Jefferson Litchfteld; and Army Sgt. Rob- eit M. Lee, son of Eva Hit- telmeyer, 5355 N. Lynch Chicago, who previously was listed as missing. EDWARDSV1LLE ties of thought and social comment around the world are parent in "The International Jnderground" to be shown Thursday at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, in he Communications Building heater.

A presentation of the Fine Arts Series at SIU, the 90-mln- ute film program will be shown at 3:30 p.m. for students, fac- Ity and staff and at 8:15 p.m. or the general public. Admis- ion is one dollar at the door. There are nine films included in the program, many of which have won festival FUND RAISING -Southern Illinois University nursing students at Edwardsville helped raise money for a kidney transplant for Janet Mellenthin of Forest Homes by taking blood pressures and giving back rubs.

Cindy Lapicola of Brookfield takes Mike Genovese's blood pressure while Jim Sims waits for his turn, Genovese is from Granite City, Sims from Edwardsville. Wallace Party to Continue Working In Illinois Races By Telegraph Medffl Service WASHINGTON The national American Independent Party, which supported George Wallace for President in 1968, will work with American Independent Party in Illinois to maintain the party's position on the ballot and elect candidates to local, state and national office, William K. Shearer, chairman of the party's national committee said here. Shearer acknowledged that his party has had little support from, the deep South states that supported Wallace in the Presi dential election. is a different situation in such states as Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, where Wallace was supported throdgh the regular Democratic Party machinery," he said.

"We expect participation from the deep South will come, and within a year," he said. Wallace has not been in com munication with the national party since the election, Shearer said. The American Independent Party and other autonomous state parties will work to elinv inate government interference in the home and in the schools, Shearer said. "What is referred to as open housing is really forced housing." he said. "It is forced upon us by the government.

"The federal government has no right to interfere in the schools," said Rev. Beverly Me Dowell of Richmond, vice-chairman of the national commit- tee, and a candidate for governor of Virginia. "We resent the Health, Education and Welfare Department and all it stands for." Illinois was represented at the national committee meeting in Louisville last Saturday (February 22). People Hurt Slips Mrs. Dorothy Eyers of Brigh ton was walking to the post office Friday when she slipped on the snow and chipped a bone in her arm.

Mrs. Eyers was scheduled to undergo surgery this morning at Alton Memorial Hospital to repair the break in her arm. She lives with her family at 213 Center Brighton. Doing His Bit An assistant Scoutmaster was doing his Scouting duty by playing volleyball with his young Scouts Thursday night when he fell and broke his elbow. Louis Steward, Lindenwood, Rosewood Heights was enjoying a game of volleyball with the youngsters at the Salvation Army Citadel in Alton when the mishap occurred.

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