Alton Evening Telegraph from Alton, Illinois • Page 3

FRIDAY, JtJLY 7, 1967 ALTON EVENING TELEGRAPH PAGE EOC Center to Be Opened Monday at 1015 Belli By JIM KULP Telegraph Staff Writer People keep coming into James Murphy's garage at 1015 Belle St. to have their cars repaired. The sign advertising motor tuneups and valve grindings is still there, but James Murphy is no longer, in business and his garage has become instead the center of a sharp attack on Alton's poverty. The garage, once full of hydraulic lifts and other automotive equipment, has through paint, desks, and chairs become a Neighborhood Service Center of the Commission. It will be officially dedicated at 10:30 a.m.

Monday when Mayor Clyde Wiseman, accompanied by Maurice Harris, the county EOC director, and other social service officials, will cut a ribbon. Stockholders of Luer's Found Not Liable for Deficit, Victor Darnell, the center's supervisor, said the building will be the hub of all community action in Alton's anti-poverty program. The city's disadvantaged thus will have available under one roof the departments of legal aid. Neighborhood Youth Corps, One The Job Training, public health program, and the center's administrative staff, including an interviewer, receptionist, neighborhood workers, com- organizer and family case-worker. Ift addition, the Center will help coordinate such resource agencies as the Illinois State Employment Service, Illinois Department of Public Aid.

Visiting Nurse's Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and the Mental Health Assn. The purpose is to make these services more accessible to those who need them. Darnell says the center will be the area residents' own and they themselves will determine the "wants and needs" of the area. This will be done through an advisory commiUeo which will gather this information and advise the center's staff so a program can be developed to fulfill the needs. The Madison County Circuit Court this week has found that one group of former stockholders of the Luer Brothers Packing and Ice Co.

is not responsible for paying off notes held by another group of former stockholders. The action, in the court of Joseph J. Barr, climaxed a seven-year court case involving two sides of the Luer family, which once owned the packing firm that went into bankruptcy after closing in May, 1960. Trustee for the states of the late Herman F. Luer and Carl A.

Luer is Alton Banking Trust, which tried to recover a total of $102,600 ($51,300 each) owed the two estates in six notes by the Luer firm as a corporation. Herman and Carl Luer, in January, 1944, sold their interest in the firm to the corporation and each received $49,500 in cash, and each was to receive 17 notes, each valued at $8,500, one a year until 1964. However, only 11 of the notes were paid off. In 1957, the defendants in the case the estate of William Luer, deceased, Minnie Luer Dorothy L. Harms, G.

G. Mihill, and David L. Saylor II had sold their total stock amounting to $250,000, to the corporation. Court records showed that in 1957, the corporation had $287, 241.78 in earned surplus, and $472,041.78 in net assets. The trustee, Alton Banking Trust, filed suit against the de fendants in efforts to recover all or part of the $102,600 not paid the estates of Herman Lowest Everyday Price In Town! KODACOLOR PROCESSING DEVELOPING 12 Exposure Roll 4.38 VAL.

AT ALL FIVE STORES nd Carl Luer. However, the court said it finds that the defendants have all respect complied with le statute and have committed 0 fraud, actual or construc- ive, upon the plaintiffs." The court claimed since the orporation's earned surplus nd net assets, at the time of he sale of the stock by the de- andants, were higher than the mount paid for the stock, there vas no fraud and the plaintiff's omplaint was denied During the bankruptcy pro- eedings, it was found there 416 claims, amounting to 494,000, of. which $129,000 was in preference claims mployes' back pay, Severance pay, and preferred portions of vacation pay, for 140 employes. The remainder of the claimants received 49.433 per cent of heir actual claims of $364,551.15. People Explosion A 30-year-old Dorsey housewife suffered burns of her face Thursday when a glass jar exploded while she was canning beans on her kitchen stove.

Mrs. Victor Kroeger, of Rte. 1 had her canning jars heating in a kettle on the stove. When she started to take the load of jars off the burner, one exploded blowing the lid of the canning kettle partially off and causing hot water to hit her face. She was treated in the emergency room of Alton Memorial Hospital for one small laceration on her face in addition to the burns and was released.

Break Disclosed A 15-months-old Edwardsville boy fractured his right leg when he caught it under a swing glider while playing with his brothers and sisters Thursday. Timothy Slack, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clem Stack, 617 Hillsboro was playing on the swing set in his backyard when somehow his foot became lodged under a swinging glider which he was riding. Following the mishap, he took a nap and when he awoke it was determined he couldn't walk on the leg.

So he was taken to Alton Memorial Hospital where the fracture was discovered on X-rays. Already, the center in its formative stages has been productive for its has provided some work for five Neighborhood Youth Corp workers. The girls are Rita Dread and Mary Thompson, both 17, Theresa Everage, 18, Charlene Little, 16, and Lily Steele, 19. They have been painting and cleaning under the direction of their supervisor, Mrs. Mabel Mus- THIS WEEK'S KEY VALUE AN KLIIM WILSHIRET WOOD Village RIVER NORTH ALTON ALTON PLAZA SCRUBBING UP Mary Thompson climbs a stepladder steadied by Charlene Little, left, and Mrs.

Mabel Mils- grave, to clean a rafter of accumulated dust. The girls were in a group which washed and painted since Monday to get the garage into shape for what is expected to be a busy service center. They cleaned light fixtures, walls, doors and windows, and painted the large garage floor a shiny gray. Driver Takes Her Learning to drive has some Irawbacks. as Miss Karen Rives, Hi.

of Bethalto can at- est. since she had an accident Thursday and put her mother the hospital. Karen. 116 James was Irivirig in the 200 block of thatj Street when she killed the en- gine on the family car. When she got it started she 1 lost control of the vehicle, knocked over a garbage can, tore down a small tree, hit a larger tree bounced off.

and came to rest when it hit a utility pole. Karen and her mother were rushed to Alton Memorial Hospital where she was treated and released, but her mother was admitted for treatment of lacerations to her head. Another drawback is a ticket which is expected to receive from the Bethalto Police Depl. Two Women Find Their Clothes Gone More than $1,000 in clothing jewelry, and appliances was I stolen from the apartment ofj two Alton women, who were away from their home for more) than a week. Practically everything in the apartment of Miss Karen Shank Miss Monica BerteJs was taken, but there were no signs of forced entry.

grave, at A rate of $1.25 an hour. When the center opens, the girls will help neighborhood workers, spreading the news of the services offered at tha center in a door-to-door campaign. Darnell says the people in the area have been waiting since November for the center. 11 was supposed to be a Christinas present, he said, but it got hung up on red tape. Darnell said this center, a branch in Lincoln Gardens and a center in Madison have been funded for $53,000.

on which they will operate for six months. When the program is refunded by the end of this year, Darnell said, the coun- ly EOC wants to open two more centers, one in Middletown and another in Nameoki Township. When refunded. Darnell said it is hoped to gel $125.000 to operate all five centers for otie year. One project of the center now getting under way is the provision of recreational space in the area, and Darnell is seeking anyone who has a vacant lot they'd like to lend for use as a playground.

The EOC will pay for the cleanup, protective insurance and the recreational staff, though no money is available for recreation equipment. That, hope- fully. Darnell says, will be donated also. "We'll take any size of a lot," Darnell said, "whether it's a little size lot or large acreage. Anything to get the kids out of the In the meantime, he added, the center will try to install a limited playground in the rear of its building, "if we can get somebody to donate a swing or something." But Darnell says people shouldn't balk if they don't have a vacant lot or playground equipment to lend, for the center also will accept volunteers.

Whether they have one hour or 40 hours to give away, the center can use them, he says, "as long as they like to work with people." The center's hours will be from a.m. to 5:30 p.m. five clays a week, but Darnell says this is "flexible" and if the need of the people focuses on 1 p.m. to 9 p.m., for instance, that's the hours the center will adopt. The center, which even though not yet open, is exerting an exhilirating Infitt- ence on the surrounding neighborhood, may become even more influential in a practical way on the area's housing.

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