Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 51

DECATUR SUNDAY HERALD AND REVIEW 51; Decatur, Illinois, Sunday, September 10, 1976 Community Backs Homestead Restoration Goodee Montgomery Became Stage Success The new Montgomery and Stone were females. Goodee Montgomery teamed up with Dorothy Stone to recreate the team once made famous by Goodee's uncle and Dorothy's father. Decatur Diary The Homestead is currently being used by a Richland Com-munity College class, a needlepoint shop is housed therein, and as work continues to progress will be available for meetings and other community use. Judging by participation in Sunday's Open House, it has been proven once again that the community is behind Junior Welfare Association in it's un- To the Editor: It was a day conceived to say thank you and come share our excitement. Thus, thz second a Millikin Homestead Open House, Sunday, Oct.

3. Junior Welfare opened the Mil- likin Homestead to the community to show the progress being "made on the restoration, which "is being achieved through generous support of our fund-rais- ing activities. Mailbag No Plot Against Her Sex Life In Full Color. Post Cards Brochurs Catalog Sheets Calendars Letterheads Business Cards HANSEN PHOTOGRAPHY commercialindustrial photography 112 S. MAIN 428-3996 We're Proud of Greanias to their surprise no one could point her out.

Her other film credits included "Charlie Chan Carries On," "Body and Soul" and "Wicked." In the early 1930's Montgomery and Stone were back in business, only this time it was a slightly different version. and then moved to sketches with small parts until she finally rated special lines and was described as a "hit" in many New York papers. New York became Goodee's home although she spent her free weekends and summers at the Fred Stone ranch near Amityville. Stone was her uncle's dancing partner. She played in "The Yankee Prince" and "Pep and Personality" in Chicago in 1926.

Following the production Goodee's mother visited Decatur and reported "Goodee dances several different dances and appeared in extremely clever costumes she was a hit." About this time she joined up with John Brooks and his orchestra, being the only female in a cast with 11 men. They traveled as "specialty acts" and one of their engagements was at the Kit Kat Klub in London, England. In 1930 she came back to Decatur to appear in a play called "Up the River," a prison satire, at the Lincoln Theatre. In 1931 she began her film career in with Will Rogers. Many Decatur residents rushed to the theatre, but Classified Ads Bring Buyers Fast By Paula Buck Virginia Lawhead was not a "typical child." Her father, Rex Lawhead, was manager of the Lincoln Square Theatre, who at the time booked shows much like those seen in Sullivan at the Little Theatre.

Her mother could have been called a "stage mother." And her famous uncle, Dave Montgomery, was a partner in a team known nationwide in vaudeville as "Montgomery and Stone." And then there was Virginia herself, whose talents set her apart from the "typical" classification. It was these talents that attracted the interest of Virginia's grade school principal, Miss Jane MacMillan, when Virginia was a student at Decatur's Gastman School. Miss MacMillan noted that Virginia was talented in art, particularly needlepoint, and foresaw a career in commercial art for her student. But Virginia, who had been taking dancing lessons from Miss Annette Van Dyke at the Decatur Musical College, had other ideas. She chose the stage and with it the name Goodee Montgomery.

Virginia's parents had separated when she was 15 and Montgomery was her mother's maiden name. Goodee was her favorite uncle's pet name for her. In the fall of 1922 Goodee and her mother set off for New York City where Goodee continued her dancing. In December of 1923 Goodee received a notice to appear in the spectacular "Ziegfeld Follies." She started out in the chorus we know of our tremendous increase in social problems such as venereal disease, abortion, illegitimacy and sex crimes indicate a corresponding increase in promiscuous sex as promoted and glorified by pornography in all 'ts forms. With this we like to remind our City Council members to aid our fighting prosecutors and provide this community with a strong civil nuisance ordinance aimed at porno outlets, and be reassured that this community itself has that right and exercises that right through enforcement of obscenity laws.

The recent Miller decision of the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed the constitutional right of communities to establish their own level of public morality, and Decatur, 111. certainly has two huge organizations with hundreds of its members WIN A CUTLASS! WIN THE USE OF A BRAND NEW 1977 OLDS CUTLASS FOR ONE YEAR OR 12,000 MILES WINNER MUST FURNISH INSURANCE FOR THE ONE YEAR PERIOD NO OBLIGA TION LICENSED DRIVERS ONL 3 DRAWINGS FOR 3 CARS FIRST DRAWING OCT. 30, 2:00 PM REGISTER AT WEIDENBACHER OLDS 340 N. BROADWAY "To the Editor We members dedicated in ant i-pornography campaigns always felt that the city gov- ernment has the sovereign to abate public nuisances.

Therefore we are extremely proud that our state's attorney's office has taken the initiative that will provide the most efficacious solution to the obscenity problem in our community. Such laws are intended to protect the public morality and safeguard the essential ele-' ment of society the family. Congratulations to our state's attorney Basil G. Greanias and Jerry Finney for the determination in fighting and pulling the trigger to the mechanism that can put our moral violators in the community out of business. Obscenity and lewd places its very existence contributes to a'decline in public morality of this community, and how well To the Editor: Congratulations to Ms.

Lorraine Lathrop. Her letter imagining that other people want to regulate her sex life was a masterpiece worthy of a political speechwriter. She threw up a beautiful snowjob. But it was obvious, even with her verbal sleight of hand, that she was trying to distract our attention from the central issue. The point she so gingerly sidestepped with her flimflam about "celibacy, marrying and burning and Russian roulette" is that the issue is not sex at all, it's human life.

Nobody is plotting against her sex life. Nobody much cares about her sex life. She must live with the results of it. It's only when her (or anyone's) sex life results in the in-ception of another human being's life that the antiabor-tion lobby speaks up for that person's rights to live life, to dream dreams and imagine things the way Ms. Lathrop does.

(Rev.) Richard T. Peradotto Stonington DECATUR CONVENTION VISITORS BUREAU IN COOPERATION WITH who demand the right as citi OZARK AIRLINES and THE DECATUR TRAVEL AGENTS Invite You To dertaking with) Millikin University to restore the Millikin Homestead for community use. We would like to take this opportunity to thank the community for its continued support and enthusiasm, those participating in the entertainment, our Junior Welfare members and their families for their cooperation and hard work, and our local news media for their contribution in making this a most successful day. Thank you. Mary Ward Jo Coleman Open House Chairmen Decatur Inconsistency By Carter To the Editor: I'm beginning to see what people mean when they say Carter is inconsistent if he finds it possible to forgive adultery, but finds it impossible to forgive prejudice.

(For surely one is as unconsciously ingrained in a personality as the other, and Butz' jab-bermouthy is no less nor more of a sin than lust). I'm beginning to worry that Carter's presidency might be marked by politics-of-the-mo-menit it feels right, do and I can see him ending up like the hero-president of the book "Come Ninevah, Come Tyre" who stands at the White House window as bombs rain down on New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and the coastlines saying, "I thought if I was good they would be good." It also proves to me how insulated the Washington crowd and media are from the feelings of average America when they can make so much out of the tattlings of John Dean and a magazine like Rolling Stone. To me John Dean will always be "the dirty little coward who shot Mr. and I can't help thinking it is less evil to do wrong and be called to account for it than to do wrong, tattle about it, and get paid for it. L.G.

Harvey Decatur We Need Statesmen To the Editor: As I see it, it makes little difference to the working class of people whether Ford or Carter is elected to the presidency in the upcoming election as long as the socialistic trend continues in government, destroying the incentive to work and earn by easily obtained unemploy-ment compensation, food stamps and welfare checks for those who are careful not to acquire any assets or resources. Most of this takes place, as we well know, at the expense of the workers who pay taxes and are self-supporting while hoping in vain for a break for themselves. A government half democratic and half socialist cannot be a success as it will in time destroy itself by its own indebtedness, which seems to be happening to us. We need more dedicated statesmen to vote for, not just mere politicians who seek votes at any cost. Henry W.

High Be ment DECATUR'S FLY CENTENNIAL AIRPORT DAY OCT. 16th. zens to articulate the fact that immoral places and material currently on the market are below our community standard. Adriana M. Lovelace Publicity Chairman Operation Curb and Citizens for Decency Decatur Single Issue For Bishops To the Editor; It's a crying shame that the Catholic bishops are staking all their moral influence on the single issue of abortion in this election campaign.

They're risking doing damage to the featuring Decatur Yesterdays 10 Years Ago The city and the Park Board "will act this month to make their boundaries contiguous. The melting tank at the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. Mount Zion plant, which was shut off Wednesday, has nearly cooled down completely. "District and local Democratic candidates will appear Thursday in a meeting of the county central committee. The Honor Choir and Mod-- ernaires of Stephen Decatur -High School will appear Saturday on the University of Illinois campus.

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The Board of Education -voted Tuesday to approve increases in the salaries of 35 teachers and three principals who took more academic Citizens National Bank Travel 250 N. Water 429 4166 Four Seasons Travel 125 N. Main 429 2525 Franklin Travel Agency 304 S. Franklin 423 6051 Harriet Perry Travel 230 S. Main 429-2454 Millikin Worldwide Travel 1 Millikin Court 423-7534 United Travel Agency 134 S.

Main 429-5358 In stock. What color, please? image of Catholicism by their myopic focus on this miserable issue. As Donald J. Thurman, publisher of the independent but influential National Catholic Reporter, has warned, "If Ford loses, the bishops lose. If he wins, the bishops will have a hollow victory, no amendment anyway, continued funding of federal abortion programs and the animosity of a sizable number of both Catholics and nonv Catholics." Joann Henderson Mattoon Thanks from Youth Hockey To the Editor: Decatur Youth Hockey would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who helped make our presentation of the Clyde Beatty Circus on Sept.

17, 1976 a success. Without the help of the super people and businesses of this area, the Decatur Youth Hockey program could not succeed. Don Gabrielson Pete Heimbold Decatur Athlete's The SOUTHTOWNE PLAZA 50 Years Ago Nelson Park golf course is to remain open during October. Up to Oct. 1, about 14,750 players had registered.

The Millikin English Club has made arrangements for a concert on the Clavilux color organ to be given at the university Jtov. 15. The first ducks of the fall have arrived on Lake Decatur near Nelson Park. House building is not yet over. Ten permits having beeni issued in the last week to bring the total for the year to 461.

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