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mm 8X Dec. 11, 1969ST.LQUIS POST-DISPATCH Leaves Problem In Vinita It 4 h- 1 I W' 1 1 ti jh.JI 1 ppei pmS: uhfr' ill i i'i Mill -fllf i i 'Inn yl- I ii uM Am mm s. James R. Fair Jr. exhibiting a copy of his just published book, "The North Arkansas Line," at headquarters of the Monsanto Co.

in St. Louis County where he is director of a process engineering department. The fanily home is at 661 West Polo Drive, Clayton. Rail Fan Turns Hobby Into Book jected a proposal to move the temple facilities to a new site farther west. (Post-Dispatch Photo) Entrance to Shaare Emeth Temple, 560 Trinity Avenue, University City.

The congregation, in a vote Sunday, re Community Capsules i i including assignments with Monsanto in several cities and studies at three universities, an experience of childhood stayed fresh in his memory and Hampel retired five years ago. The couple has four children, Mrs. Gerry Sickles, Mrs. Rose Marie Meyer, Mrs. Mary Ann Schuette, and Robert Hampel, 12 grandchildren, three great grandchildren.

A big and expensive campaign designed to deal effectively with the problem of leaf disposal has left the community of Vinita Terrace with a big headache. Myri R. Hansen, cbairwan of the village Board of Trustees, said that despite a massive "educational campaign" and free distribution of polyethelene bags to residents for leaf collection, "we've been disappointed with the results so far." In early October, the village distributed the bags and leaflets describing the campaign to each of the 100 homes in the village. The campaign was started because of the county'wide ban on leaf burning. "We told them to collect the leaves from their yards and, in order to save some money, to clean them out of the gutters," Hansen reflected.

"It would have been marvelous if we had gotten 100 per cent co-operation. But there is always that 5 to 10 per cent who don't go along. The result is there are just enough leaves in the gutters to give our village a littered appearance." And because of the problem, Vinita Terrace is not living up to its reputation of being "clean as a whistle," Hansen added. Most of the complaints, the board chairman related, "were from persons who said they either were too sick or too old to do that kind of work. Then there were a few who protested that it was the city's job to clean the gutters." The village paid more than $1 a house to collect the leaves which were first collected on Nov.

19 by a hauling firm contracted for by the village. Because of the general disappointment, there was talk at Monday night's meeting of changing the system next year. "Next year we will have a private firm clean the gutters," Hansen said. "There is even the idea of having the residents pay for the bags." However, Vinita Terrace's 382 residents have the opportunity to redeem themselves. "We hope that everyone will take a look at the gutter and where there are leaves, clean them out," Henson said, before the last leaf collection is made, probably next week.

In other action at Monday's meeting, the board appointed David O. Fischer, 1461 North Hanley Road, University City, as its police judge to comply with the new state law requiring village police judges to be attorneys. Fischer replaces Hansen. The board approved a contract with Vinita Park for ice and snow removal. The contract provides for Vinita Park crews to clean Vinita Terrace's streets for $30 an hour after they have completed work in their own village.

Norway Sand Sent To Land of Desert OSLO (UPI)-Norway exports sand to the desert state of Libya. So far, three shipments of 100 tons each have gone to Africa and more are planned. The reason for this peculiar export to a country where there should be more than enough sand is that a Norwegian firm in Libya uses the sand to polish oil tanks before painting them The sand of Libya has a wrong consistency and cannot terial in the reference depart-m of the Post-Dispatch which King heads. Bernard W. Grosskettler, assistant vice president of St.

Louis Union Trust went out of his way to make available records in dead storage. Dr. John P. Roberts and his wife Mary of the National Museum of Transport provided materials as well as encouragement. The Rev.

Paul Wobus, who is retired from the ministry at Manchester, contributed to the book. Although the railroad was in northern Arkansas, it had strong ties with St. Louis, as Fair makes clear. The association started with the old Eureka Springs railroad that almost from its completion in 1883 carried a through sleeper out of St. Louis.

The sleeper ran on the Frisco railroad to Seiigman for the Eureka Springs connection. Because of his extensive research, Fair slips in interesting details that add spice to his account. A case in point is his noting that Powell Clayton, interested in the line from the outset, was a Republican governor of Arkansas in 1868-1871. St. Louisans John Scullin and David Francis, who was Ambassador to Russia, are discussed at length.

Mi I far 1 i By WAYNE LEEMAN Of the Post-Dispatch Staff In joining the ranks of authors of books on railroading with his just published "The iwm ArKarusas Line, james R. Fair Jr. of Clayton shows a tremendous diversity between writing as a hobby and his professional career. For the Monsanto he is director of the process engineering department with spacious offices in the firm's world headquarters in St. Louis County.

Working with holders of doctorate degrees he has one in chemical engineering the 49-year-old executive directs company-wide consulting services in chemical engineering, materials technology, control tech-n 1 and engineering standards. His 27 years of experience with Montanto he shares with students at Washington University where he teaches chemical engineering. Yet for all of his varied activ- Outlives Risk Table At 96, Receives $2000 John B. Brockland recently experienced the satisfaction of overcoming 20,000 to 1 odds by reaching his ninety-sixth birthday. Brockland, who lives at 9819 Tulamoor Drive, in the Moline area, has outlived the insurance mortality table and earned the right to become the beneficiary of his own life insurance policies.

He recently received a check for $2000 from Richard N. Mc-Kelvey, estate planning specialist of the St. Louis branch of fice of the Connecticut General Life Insurance who visited Brockland in his home. Brockland, who was born in St. Louis, bought the two $1000 policies in 1931 when he was 58.

At that time he was engaged in the family business, the August Brockland Livery and Under- taking which he and his brother Henry had taken over at the death of their father. John Brockland retired in 1956. Since 1960 he has lived with a daughter, Mrs. Aloys J. Wigge.

She is one of 10 children, six of whom are still living, all in the St. Louis area. Brockland has 14 grandchildren and four great-grandchiWren. MR. AND MRS.

S. (F d) Frederickson, 7338 Forsyth Boulevard, University City, recently celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary at a reception for family and friends at the home of a daughter, Mrs. A. J. Reb-stock, 3 Stonybrook Lane, La-due.

Another daughter, Mrs. Elmer Fooder, lives in Florissant. The couple has five grandchildren and two great-grandchil-d n. Frederickson was with Wagner 1 i Co. for 43 years before retiring in 1957.

MERLE WELSHANS, financial analyst for Union Electric recently presented the Morris J. Weinstein-Groothuis Lecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. shans, formerly on the finance faculty at Washington University, is engaged in floating security issues in the public utility field. MRS. Raymond G.

Weiss, president of the Webster College Alumni Association, was recently named to the Missouri Commission on Higher Education by Gov. Warren E. Hearnes. Mr. and Mrs.

Weiss and their five children live at 6210 Devonshire Avenue. THEODORE MANASSA, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Manas-sa 9035 Ladue Road, was recently awarded the Maroon and Gold fourragere for aca-d i excellence at Missouri Military Academy at Mexico, Mo. MISS Barbara Constable, daughter of the Rev.

and Mrs. John Constable, 7Seminary Terrace, has been elected a member of the Women's Disciplinary B8ard at Concordia College in Bronxville, N.Y. DR. Edward H. i 1 i president of St.

Anthony's Hospital medical staff, has been appointed to its board of directors. Wlrthlin has been associated with the hospital since 1950. MISS JILL ENGEL, a student in the Indiana University ballet department, will dance the roles of a Snowflake and a Toy Flute in "The Nutcracker a 1 1 which will be presented next month by the university School of Music. Miss Eneel. a gradu ate of Parkway Central Senior ultimately led to the book.

Traveling with his parents, who still live in Little Rock, he had gotten off a Missouri Pacific Lines train with them at Kensett, in 1930 to transfer to a northbound pas-s train of the Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad. The trouble-plagued "pike" then ran from Joplin, to Helena, 365 miles. That much mileage was to continue until 1949. The ride to Shirley, on the NA was uneventful, but the impressionable youngster, already a confirmed railroad fan, made a mental note to look further into the line that went through country north and west of Kensett. This he was able to do on trips with his father, a wheat flour and milling products salesman.

they were known as in those days," Fair says with a laugh.) When the and NA, by then the Missouri and Arkansas, shut down in 1946, Fair was no longer in the arta. "When most of the rails were taken up in 1949-52, I was remorseful for not having made some effort to save them," he said. "And finally," the author continues, "in 1961 when the last real vestige of the road, a short line called the Arkansas Ozarks, gave up the ghost, I re- solved to look into the history of this railroad that had come and gone almost unnoticed by the outside world." The resolution didn't result in immediate action. It was three years later in 1964 when Fair decided to go all out in meeting his own research standards for a book. What followed could be one of the most comprehensive determinations of historical fact in railroad annals.

Seated in his neat office, interrupted only occasionally by a secretary on the telephone, Fair emphasized that "finding time was a major challenge. I met it in a number of ways, such as adding a day of vaca- tion to business trips to Wash- ington and New York." "On one vacation trip with a stop at Helena, the family frolicked in the motel pool while I rummaged through files in the attic of the public library. Away from St. Louis, files of the New York Public Library, the Interstate Commerce Com- Roy T. King, finding useful ma- High School, is the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. William Engel, 1527 Pepperwood Drive, Creve Coeur. MR. AND MRS. Joseph Mc-Grath of Pagedale recently ob served their golden wedding anniversary at a reception given at the home of their daughter and son-in-law, Mayor and Mrs.

Louis M. Koprivica, Dellwood. McGrath is a retired business agent for the Hod Carriers and Labor Local 42. MISS Lucille 421 No. Price Road, and Miss Dorothy Brown, 212 Charmers Court, recently attended a special seminar held on the campus of Oral Roberts University, Tulsa.

The seminar was one of a series held on the campus during the year which are directed toward laymen, ministers and youth. MR. AND MRS. A P. Scharfenberger, 3449 Avondale, recently observed their fiftieth wedding anniversary with a mass at Ascension Church followed by a i reception.

The Scharfenbergers are the parents of two sons, the late Roy J. and Albert L. They also have two grandsons, Kurt and Paul. Before his retirement, Scharfenberger was employed at the General Motors Chevrolet Division. MR.

AND MRS. William James Geisner, 3929 Ohio Avenue, recently celebrated their golden anniversary with the renewal of their marriage vows and a mass at St. John the Baptist Church. A reception fol-lowed. The celebrant of the mass was Giesner's nephew, the Reverend a J.

Huelster, who had been the altar boy at the original ceremony in the same church. Miss Christina Huelster again served as brides maid. The Geisners have four children. MR. AND MRS.

Roy F. Ham-pel, 5061 Oleatha Avenue, re-c 1 1 observed their fiftieth wedding anniversary with Mass at Holy Innocents Catholic Church, followed by a dinner and reception. The couple was married at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church Nov. 26, 1919.

Temple Says No To Move The congregation of Temple Shaare Emeth, 560 Trinity Avenue, University City, has voted not to move its facilities for the present time, but both sides in the decision agreed that a move eventually would take place. Bert B. Rosen, president of the congregation, said that there were "many reasons" for the vote to remain. Rosen, who as president is lay leader of the congregation, cited two: "We have a beautiful sanctuary at our present location," and "At the present time the greatest percentage of our congregation lives in University City." The vote Sunday to stay at 560 Trinity Avenue was 221 to 117, with each vote representing one family unit of the membership of the Reform temple. The vote was taken oo a proposal to move the temple facilities to a site at Ladue and Bal-las roads.

The congregation owns the site. Rosen, who lives at 957 Briar-wood Lane, University City, assumed office at the Sunday meeting, succeeding Harris Frank. Rabbi Julius Nodel, senior rabbi of the temple, is a patient at Barnes Hospital and was unable to attend the meeting. Sisterhood To Honor Mrs. N.

A. Goldberg The Sisterhood of B'nai El Temple, 11411 i a 40, Frontenac, will honor Mrs. Norman A. Goldberg in a program at 8: 15 p.m. Dec.

19 on the occasion of her election to the board of the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods. Mrs. Goldberg, who lives at 630 Vasar Avenue, University City, is principal of the B'nai El Temple Religious School. She is a past president of the sisterhood and has been active in sisterhood and temple affairs for years. She was installed in the national board office at a conven tion held recently in Miami MO.

2252 FIRST CAPITAL DR. uku iur ine purpose. i i m'ss'on. ar)d the Association of i'lano, OCal KeCltal American Railroads were of great value. At Junior College "Microfilmed files at Jeffer- son City of the Missouri Public Forest Park Community Col- Service Commission gave a lege music students will give a complete account of a disas-piano and vocal recital Sunday trous wreck in 1914 involving an in the Performing Art5 Center, and NA motor coach in S600 Oakland Avenue.

The pro- which more than 45 persons lost gram will begin at 3 p.m., in their lives." Recital Hall T-204. The cub- In this area he worked with We have more than 100 varieties of cold-noses readytomaka yours a very warm Christmas. The love of a Lhasa Apso (like "Perky," above), a Poodle, Yorkshire, Collie, Schnauzer, or Norwegian Elkhound is waiting for you now at Pet Parade. Pick one out for a real lasting gift of Christmas love. Our prices start at a lovely $59.50.

Kittens, gerbils, fish, parrots, parakeets and canaries are, of course, much lower In price, but they're just as loveabla. 50 Village Square flazelwood 838-1300 Open Sun, Noon to 5:00 PM Mon. thru Sat 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM Bankmark, Shoppers Charge, Finance Plan No down payment, months to pay. SALES SERVICE 725-1885 TV SALES SERVICE with the manuscript complet- ed in only four months elapsed writing time, Fair cast about for a publisher. Because he also is an avid railroad book collector with more than 800 different titles, he knew of Howell-North Books at Berkeley, Calif.

Officers there after getting the manuscript asked for illustrations, which were supplied to bring on agreement to publish. The pictures are above the ordinary run found in railroad books and are arranged to provide visual support at the point the text refers to them. There are 304 pages and the price is $7.50. Fair, born Oct. 14, 1920, at Charleston, lived with his family at a number of places in the Midwest and East.

He was graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1942, obtained a master's degree from the University of Michigan in 1949, and his doctorate from the University of Texas in 1954. In an epilogue in his book, Fair writes, "The and NA, with its well-known epithet, 'May never never quite arrived as a corporation. But as part of the life of the citizens of the Ozarks country of Arkansas, it was always on time." Asked about the reaction of his wife to his railroad interests, Fair says with a smile, "Merle is most co-operative. But as a former stewardess for Braniff Airlines, she just can't bring herself to understand why anyone would want to ride a passenger train." The Fairs are parents of two sons and a daughter. The family home is at 681 West Polo Drive.

Equipment tor of Plymouth House, at 231 6677. Film making was their idea, the girls said. "They always do arts and crafts and games at Plymouth House," Miss Keller said. "Film making was something new and different, something the kids can be proud of. "We got them really excited about it last week.

We will go out and start taking still pictures this week with Goodwill cameras," she said. The group meets for two hours on Saturday mornings. After Christmas members will do animation work. Miss Keller said that if they did not have the proper equipment they would improvise movie film from slides and cellophane strips. She said that she and Miss Mack had received considerable help and encouragement from Robert Charles Smith, an Instructor in a freshman design class at the School of Fine Arts at Washington University, and from David H.

Jackoway, a science teacher at University City Senior High School, who has taught film making. SOWIfr1 Stfflf'fftf'fft 1970 JM CURTIS MATHES IfU IL COLOR COMBINATION 1 V. ..,.1.. II rTTX 5 1 rtTi ID 1 III JT' "i iniininiimiw ItOwT Tiro. ro 'uiiLikj)iwM-iiuM' iu'C Xi liner City Volunteers Seek lie is invited and there is no admission charge.

The piano students participating are Miss Beatrice Kedley, 5827 Enright Avenue; Miss Dorothy M. Helfrich, 3853 McDonald Avenue; Anthony Dolce, 5029A Thrush Avenue; Roger Shields 3112 Portis Avenue; Mrs. Joyce Killion, 3930A Jamieson Avenue; Jerome Bowser, 5749 St. Louis Avenue; and Miss Joan Carol DeMargel, 9017 Powell Avenue, Brentwood. They are under the direction of Mrs.

Jeanne Milder, chairman of the FPCC music department. Bowser, Miss DeMargel and Miss Ruby Edwards, 915 Gay Avenue, University City, will participate in the vocal portion of the recital. They are under the direction of Stephen Curtis, Instructor of music at FPCC. To Be Condemned The Rock Hill Board of Aldermen has instructed City Attorney Richard K. Nalley to notify the Missouri Pacific Railroad that Rock Hill intends to condemn an old station on its prop' erty.

Nalley said the station, erected years ago on the road's right of way on Manchester Avenue, was considered a nuisance. The station, at the east end of the city, is on the right of way of the old Creve Coeur branch line. Largest Screen in Color TV 295 Square Inch Picture) Lift-Lid Design with Balance-Spring Hinges ASK YOUR DEALER TO DEMONSTRATE Instant Entertainment 4 Big Speakers AMpM Rad;) Diamond Needle, I l-in. Turntable Fu bM YAy.Yird-' THE NEW 1970 MODELS WITH COMPLETE AUTOMATIC COLOR Film-Making Two women students at Washington University are seeking donations of film-making equipment for use in a class of youngsters they are 1 with at Plymouth House, a neighborhood center at 1521 Carr Drive. The students, Susan Keller and Mary Mack, and a 15-year-old girl who was assigned to the project by the St.

Louis Juvenile Court work with eight boys and girls 10 to 12 years old who live in the Carr Square Village housing project. Miss Keller, a sophomore from Boston, and Miss Mack, a junior from Kirk-w are volunteers in the Triad program of the Washington University YMCA branch. Triad is a three-way program among students, Juvenile Court referrals and Plymouth House children. The girls are looking for 8 mm. movie cameras, projectors and film editing equioment.

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