Alton Evening Telegraph from Alton, Illinois • Page 6

PAGE SIX ALTON EVENING TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 186S Tax Levy Made by Board At East Alton EAST ALTON The Village; Board Tuesday night apprnvrdr fend adopted an ordinance calling! for a total tax levy of for the fiscal year May 1. to April 30, 1959. A total of was levied for general corporate purposes and $100.469 for special tax purposes. The total appropriation for general corporate nnd special tax i was set at $237,650 in an approved by the Boardj on June 3. The total appropriation for the same period as provided by the annual appropriation ordinance was $365.600.

The difference of $127,950 will be provided through income other than that derived from the collection of taxes. tinder the amounts levied for general corporate purposes a breakdown shows- the following amounts levied; salaries of village officials, street and alley fund, police department, village sewer department, public buildings and grounds, fire department (fire fund 1) elections, $341.25. The amounts levied for items listed under special tax purposes are: garbage removal, playground and recreation, public benefit tax (to pay that portion of assessment assessed against the village for public benefits) street and bridge fund, civilian defense, community building fund, police pension fund, $2,500 and the firemen pension fund, $2,500. Wood River Auxiliary Delegates Report WOOD RIVER Clifford Davidson and Mrs. Everett Cox, at a Monday night meeting of American Legion Auxiliary gave a report on the 38th annual departmental convention which they attended in Chicago recently.

They told the group that the 22nd District, of which the Wood River Auxiliary is a member, received a citation the convention for child welfare work in this district. During the meeting the charter was draped for Mrs. Lee who recently died. Mrs. Winifred Ufert received 1000 credit hours for.

her. work a the Alton State Hospital. The budget for the 1958-59 fiscal yea was read and accepted by the group. The auxiliary made a cash donation to the post for the use of the legion hall for their meetings during the past year. Club Coromlttw WOOD RIVER The finance committee of the Wood River Senior Woman's Club met Monday night in the home of Mrs.

W. Hadfield, 2444 Norwood PI. Rosewood Heights, and preparec the club budget for the fisca year. Present were: Mrs. Don Napp, Mrs.

Lynn Husted, Mrs E. J. Gerner, Mrs. Emmett How ard and Mrs. Hadfield.

Boat Excursion WOOD RIVER The Junio Girls Unit to the Auxiliary of VFW Post 2859 will go on an cursion trip Thursday on the S.S. Admiral in St. Louis. Each member will take a sack lunch and report at the post building at 8 a.m. Automobiles will the post at 8:30 a.m.

The excursion itself will last from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The girls will be accompanied by their leaders and several mothers, Rotary WOOD RIVER Visiting Rotarians from neighboring communities and local members who plan to invite guests to this coming Monday's Rotary meeting are to contact Clinton Tucker, pro- 141 Sign To Give Blood At W. River WOOD RIVER. A total bf 41 persons had signed up nrough Tuesday to donate a pint blood when the American Red ross bloodmobile visits Post 2859 on Aug.

12 and 13, Jer-j Trattler, drive chairman, said oday. "The response has been en- ow-aging," Trattler said, "but many more names are heeded." le said that a minimum of 400 ignatures are needed to meet the of 300 pints. Persons wishing to donate their ilood may sign up at either of two places the First National Bank here or at Wood River 'ownship Hospital. At the bank uilding, representatives of the ilton-Wood River chapter of the led Cross are on duty and mem' ers of the hospital auxiliary are duty at the hospital. Trattler also said that 12 cap- ains and their teams of 10 volunteers will also work' through his coming Monday to sign up prospective donors.

After the names are taken by he volunteer workers, the donors tames are placed on an honor oil maintained in the bank lobby. EAST ALTON. Mr. and Mrs. A.

Edson and daughter, Mary Lynn, 816 Wllloway, returned to their home Tuesday afternoon after a year in Turkey. Smith, superintendent of the Wood River High School district, served in the capacity of consultant to the Turkish Ministry of Education for the Ford Foundation this past year. The Smiths were welcomed Any individual who hasn't been contacted by phone and would like to get his or her name on the jonor roll can do so by either registering at one of the two locations or by calling the Ret Cross office at 3-7704. Methodist Men To Meet at Hartford HARTFORD Jackson Gardner of Rosewood Heights wil show colored'films of his vacation trip throughout many of the states at a meeting of Methodis Men at the church Thursday at 7:30 p.m. Following the program the business meeting will be conductec by Guy Palmer and a social hour with refreshments will fol low the business meeting.

Plaa Shower of the Golden Link Class of the Meth odist Church will sponsor a shower for Mrs. Emmett Wass- raan at the church Monday, Aug. 11, at 7:30 p.m. Home From Hospital HARTTORD-Mrs. Lucy Wintjen of E.

Elm has returned wme after undergoing major surgery at Alton Memorial Hospital two weeks ago. South Roxana Dads Nominate Officers SOUTH ROXANA Officers were nominated at the Monday East Alton Annexes Land Adjacent To New School Mr. and Mrs. A. Edson Smith (standing left) and daughter, Mary Lynn (seated right) were reunited with Mrs HOME FROM TURKEY ternoon when the Smiths returned after a year in Turkey.

Smith id superintendent of Wood River High School District, Photo. Smith's mother, Mrs. Maggie Gilpin of Springfield (seated center) Tuesday af- Edson Smith Back From Year Spent in Turkey Police Escort BleedingChild To Hospital WOOD RIVER Five-year-old Nancy Hester, daughter of Mr. home by a contingent of and Hester friends, relatives and teachers Loujs R(J wgg ru8hw wjth Lambert Municipal Airport in St.I jce escopt to st Joseph Louis as they arrived by Trans- in AHon Tuesday af World Airlines. Another ternoon after stepping on a piece group of neighbors met them at their home on another surprise welcome.

Smith said that they left Istanbul on July 14 and with several stops in European cities had a "very pleasant tfrip home." He said that many Americans were in process of leaving the Near East countries and there was some confusiom in travel schedules but otherwise the return trip went smoothly. He said that while he and his family were in Rome and Athens they met several American families who had just been evacuated from Bierut in Lebanon. The entire trip from Istanbul was made by air. From JTurkey, the Smiths stopped at Rome, Athens, Copenhagen, London and Glasgow, Scotland. While in London, they visited for four days with Mr.

and Mrs. C. W. Geer, parents of William Geer, working on his doctorate degree at the University of Illinois, and who in January married the Smith's daughter. Sharon.

evening business meeting of the Dads' Club and will be announc- eu after the next meeting. Reports were also given by the var- homecoming committees and results will be announced when bills are in. Tonight at 7:30 trustees will meet at the clubhouse in the park. Arriving in New York City on Wednesday of last week, Smith completed his assignment with the Ford Foundation and completed purchase of school equipment for experimental schools in Turkey, for which he was consultant while there. Smith said that he also spent three days in New York in a consultant capacity reporting to he Ford Foundation on the situ- -tion in the Near East.

He and lis wife and daughter also visited Mr. and Mrs. Geer, both working for the International Business Machine Corporation his summer in Ossining, N. Y. and "his other daughter and her msband at Princeton, N.

J. of broken glass in her yard. Nancy was released after emergency treatment for the laceration to her 'right foot, which according to her mother, bled profusely. Five stitches were taken in the wound, Mrs. Hester said.

The child taken to the hospital in a Wood, River taxicab. East Alton police escorted the cab to broadway and Sering in Alton where Alton police then picked up the emergency mission and accompanied the girl and her mother on the second leg of the trip. Roxana Mission Union To Meet ROXANA The Women's Missonary Union of the First Baptist Church will have, an all day work meeting Thursday at the church at 10 a.m. Little League Games ROXANA In the junior division of Little League baseball play Tuesday evening on the park- diamond, the Red Sox beat the Yankees 10 to 6. Winning batteries were L.

Clark and Everett ncl for the losers Taulbee and Miss Brown To Be Wood River Concert Soloist WOOD RIVER. Miss Mar ann Brown will appear as voca soloist with the municipal ban in its weekly concert at 8 P.IT today in Central Park. Miss Brown will sing "In th Good Old Summertime," by E' ans, and selections from Wonderful," by Weiss. The band will play the folios ng numbers: -Charter Oak." walks and street guttering concert march, by Osterling; a scene from "Intermezzo," "In a Persian Market," by Keteberg; 'Triumphal March," by Rozsa; Fantasy on American Sailing Songs," by Grundman; "Hollywood Serenade," by Davis; "The Nutmeggers," by Osterling; of Unity," by Richards, and a popular selection, 'Bye Bye, Love," by Bryant. Chester Hughes, back from vacation, will conduct the concert.

Niagara elementary school on the west side of town on Niagara street. The board instructed Francis Manning, village attorney, to pre- EAST Members of ithe Village Board Tuesday night an ordinance annexing to ie village a piece of land adja- to the junior high school pon which the new Eastwood ementary school has been con- runted. The ordinance was approved as result of a petition filed by ipmbers of grade school district Board of Education requesting ie annexation. The ordinance annexes a piece land with an approximate 200 not frontage and approximately 00 feet deep directly east of the inior high school property. In other business the board ap- roved an ordinance establishing local civil defense organization, 'he ordinance stipulates that the rganization shall consist of a trector and additional members he selected by the director.

The director, the Rev. Kenneth Marshall of Wood River, who was ppointed to the post last fall by Mayor Charles Vanpreter with he consent of the village board, vill have direct responsibility for he organization, administration, and operation of the civil lefense organization. Functions of the local group, as in many other communities, be to perform such civil de- ense functions as shall be prescribed in and by the state civil defense plan and program prepared by the governor, and such orders, rules and regulations as may be promulgated by the gov-jl ernor and in addition shall perform such duties outside the corporate limits as may be ed." the ordinance states. Emory Walkington, a member)! of grade school district 13, was present and asked 1ne board toj consider the possibility of proving the construction of side- in Guker, Honored Masorn, 37 Years in Lodge Of flees WOOD During special front of the newly constructed ceremonies at Wootl River Ma- pare Ihe legal preparations for installing the sidewalks for the entire length of Niagara street from St. Loilis avenue to Smith street.

The board agreed to contact C. H. Sheppard, village gineer, in regard to discussing the proposed project of the sidewalks and to also ask his opinion of the type street guttering to be constructed. A copy of a petition drafted by Manning was read to the board The petition will be sent to the Illinois Commerce Commission requesting them to enforce the repair of the Main street railroac crossing by the New York Central Railroad. Bills totaling $22,282.66 were allowed.

sonic Lodge Monday night, George G. Guker, 820 Lorena past master of 1he lodge, was presented a 50-year membership jewel. The presentation was made by Harold R. Kopman, grand mast' er of Illinois. Guker was initiated as an en tered apprentice in the Red Bud Lodge, No.

427, In 1908. He was passed to the degree of fellow- craft June 27, 1908, and raised to the degree of Master Mason July 11, 1908. Guker was a member of the first class to receive the higher degree of the Scottish Rite in the Mississippi Valley Consistory during November, 1911. In 1912 lie was sovereign prince of the Cahokia Council of the Scottisl Rite. He was Worshipful Master the Red Bud Lodge from 1912 to 1917 and in 1921 look a leading part in the formation of liver Lodge.

Guker commfcstoned Srand Lecturer in 1930 and was appointed district deputy grand master of the 81st district (now he 96M from 1840 to 1944. On September 26, 1945, he wai n-owned with the 33nd Degree in recognition of his service to Freemasonry, Serving as master, warden, and secretary, Guker had been continuously an officer of Wood River Lodge for years, following his service at the Red Bud Lodge. WCtU ttonlc WOOD RIVER. Members of the Wood River Union of the men's Christian Temperance Un. ion will have a covered dish nic at 11 a.m.

Friday at Kendall Hill. World's greatest concentration of tarpon is in the Panuco Rivef at Tampico. LIVING ROOM GROUP Several Belgian trade fairs were canceled this year in deference to Brussels Exposition. gram chairman in advance so that reservations can be made for meals. Bob Burnes, St.

Louis Globe- Democrat sports editor, will be the guest speaker. Charlie Probes Chances for Housing at East Alton EAST ALTON Mayor Charles Vanpreter, Dute Braner, executive director of the Madison County Housing Authority, and Herman Meyer, vice president and cashier of the Illinois State Bank of East Alton, met Monday in Alton with representa of the Federal Housing and Home finance Agency and dig cussed the possibility of securing federal aid for the construction of new housing units locally In a bulletin issued by the HHFA and given to those attend ing the conference the statemen made that any locality desir ing assistance in the develop ment of a "workable program' may request it from the appro ConccrtThursday At Edwardsville EDWARDSVILLE The eighth concert of the Edwardsville Muni cipal Band will be held Thursday at 8 p.m., in the city park. Program will be: theme, "Muny Band followed by in remarks by Maurice Jones; "Peter Schmoll Overture" "Buglers i cornet trio featuring Dale S.peck man, Bill Shaw and Terry Moore The Navajo "Des ert "Thunder and Blazes' March; intermission; "America Veterans" March; "Dublin llol "Because You're You" an "You Are vocal duets Mr. and Mrs. Virgil priate HHFA regional office, The "Canadia cording to a federal housing act of 1954.

that made provisions for "New York Hippodrom furnishing an urban renewal serv-j ice to various localities. The HHFA is authorized to as- EDWARDSVILLE One are Kiat localities, at their request, PS 1 lt was admitled The representatives from thelin the preparation of a workable) 81 Jose llos llal agency's i a office werejprogram and to provide them John McCollum, regional adminis-jwith technical and professional trator and Ivan D. Carson, re-jassistance for planning and Burn to Mr Two patients were discharged. On was recorded. aild Elvi gional director ot Urban renewal for the HHFA.

Vanpreter described the meot- veloping local urban renewal programs, and for assembling, Lieiu'niann, 247 Adams, a son a 11:30 p.m., eight pounds fou analyzing, and reporting intor-i" "i Tlle mother is the Juinu ing as being quite informative mation pertaining lu such pro-'Josef but Mated that he got the im- grams. I Winie, 308 South Buchai presKkm that there would be a Vanpreter said today that thejan, was admitted. great deal of "red tape" to cut.present plan under discussion is: Discharged Mrs. Marilj through belore federal aid couldjthat though the project would be.Paul, Route 1. and Harris be wcured ior project.

in East Alton, it'Eilt'rs and daughter. Route 4. He went on to state that he it would be "open" to people "from, for funds 10 finance ol Wood RiveV Township. At the turn of the century, on an 'railey. The Athle-tics defeated the igers by 8 to 3.

Winning 1 bat- eries were R. Jamerson and tanton and for the losers Myrs and i s. The Senators eat the Indians by forfeit. Archery Tourney Completed The archery tour- ament of the Roxana Junior Club, sponsored by recreation' committee, has ieen completed and in the intermediate division Eddie Hamilton von first and Lloyd Allen was econd. In the junior division Bob Mill gan was first and Dick Dona econd and in the girls junipr livision Rhonda Grober and ly Uhles were winners.

Danny was instructor and udge. Trophies were awarded. Leave For Honolulu ROXANA- Mr. and Mrs. Russell Ewers of Pleasant Hill and ier mother, Mrs.

Etta M. Turn- 1 beaugh, of E. Fifth left Friday afternoon by plane for Honolulu, Hawaii for a months vaca- ion with Mr. and Mrs. E.V.Fao ney and daughter Terry.

Mrs. Farney is the former Miss Judy Ewers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ewers, former residents of Roxana for many years. 1'rpsbyterlan Aid ROXANA The Ladies A I Society of First Presbyterian Church will meet at 1:30 a.m.

Thursday at the church for a business and social meeting. Hostesses will be Mrs. Neal Groves and Mrs. A. W.

Habbe. Kilter ROXANA Four June grad- uatee of Hie Roxana High School have entered DeVry Technical InM'tute, an electrical school in Chicago. Leaving and beginning school Monday were is Huck, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwardsville To Make Map Study of Area study of various maps and aerial photos to become acquainted with the area extending beyond the city limits, in connection with the community development program, will be undertaken by the program's boundary and mapping committee, it was decided at a meeting of the group TUBS- day night.

Importance of the out-of-city area, which will be included as part of the community, was stressed. Chairman Charles A. Wentz outlined the purpose of the com' mittee in determining what phy sical or geographical area Ed wardsville includes as one of the first problems of the 17 study groups within the community development program. Another meeting, on Aug. 12 will be held to review maps am organize a study in each of the various district projects which were assigned to the eight mem bers of the committee.

In deter mining the scope and nature the Edwardsville area, the com mittee will study those districts served by the school district post office, telephone povve companies. Assigned to collect data on the districts for study were the fol lowing: Fred Hoffman, schoo district; Charles E. Bolun, tele phone company; C. A. McLaren power company; Mrs.

Josep Ubrecht, post office, and Willarc Flagg, city proper. Traffic Charge After Accident At Wood River WOOD East Alton II man was charged with careless riving Tuesday night when hisj) anel truck failed to stop, caus- ng a three-vehicle accident at Vood River avenue and Ed- 'ardsville Road. Richard R. Donohoo, 25, 173 S. 'ence, East Alton, is scheduled appear before Police Magis- rate J.

Thornton Lancaster Sun- ay to answer the charge. According to police, Donohoo vas traveling south on Wood! liver avenue behind a vehicle iperated bw Donald Meisenheimer, 25, 220 S. Central, Roxana. when Meisenneimer stopped to allow a machine driven by Roberta Hartman, 40, 831 Wood liver to turn left into a driveway. As Meisenheimer stopped, po- ice said, Donohoo crashed into the rear of his auto, causing another collision with the Hartman Philadelphia was the seconc largest city in the British Empir in 1776.

Shetley of 310 Lincoln Place East Alton. The latter are grac uates of the East Alton-W River Community High School. car. Meisenheimer's son, Robert, 4, was reported to have suffered a jruised mouth as a result of the crash. Minor damage was listed to botlj the Hartman and Donohoo vehicles and Meisenheimer's automobile was damaged to the right rear bumper, trunk and right front.

Home from West WOOD and Mrs. Paul Seed, Lincoln have returned from a two-week vacation to Phoenix and San Diego, where they visited their son Petty Officer Marvin Hankins and his family. Joint Meeting; WOOD RIVER-An invitation from the Odd Fellows inviting members of the Rabekabs to an open meeting at 8 p.m. Aug. ih the Odd Fellows Hall was read at the Monday night meeting of Rebekahs.

Guest speaker at the meeting will be Glendon Surbeck, a resident of the Odd Fellows Children's Home at Lincoln. The boy will tell the group of hie experiences in touring the United Nations Assembly recently. The next meeting of the Re- bekahs is scheduled for 8 p.m. Aug. 1 9at Odd Fellows Hall.

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