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THE DECATUR DAILY REVIEW PAGE TWENTY-SIX Decatur, Illinois, Wednesday, February 21, 1979 1 committee sites Richland seeks lease information on a site if the person making the proposal presented it tola closed session. 7 the southeast section. Joan Wolf, who is chairwoman of the committee, will assist in the southern quadrants. The committee members also compiled a list of information they want when someone offers land to them. It was noted that in the past persons making proposals often did not have enough information available.

The committee wants to know who owns the land, its size, the location, price, utilities available, if there are buildings on the property and how big they are, duration of the offer, and terms for financing. Forms for providing this information will be printed and available at the college. The committee also said it wants to know 24 hours in advance when someone is going to make an offer of land at a meeting. College trustee J. Thomas McNa-mara, who is not a member of the committee, asked that all trustees be kept up to date on the proposals received and sites being investigated.

He said in the past information on potential sites has been withheld from some trustees. He said he does not want that to happen again. Mrs. Wolf said she was not sure if the committee could comply. She said she did not know if the committee could re By Al Stamborski Richland Community College is taking a new, aggressive policy toward finding a permanent college campus site.

Previously, the college has waited for those with potential sites to propose Deutsch resigns 44 them to the college, according to Carl Brink, chairman of the board of trustees. But the new Ad Hoc Committee on Site Identification decided at its first meeting Tuesday night to be more aggressive. The committee, recently appointed by Brink, decided to not only accept proposals, but also look for potential sites. The college district was divided into four quadrants, using Main and Main streets in Decatur as the dividing lines. One or two committee members were assigned to each quadrant to identify potential sites.

Donald Gepford and John Kirk will look in the northwest quadrant Henry Brown and Richard Welsh will take care of the northeast section. Neil Pistorius was assigned the. southwest quadrant. Henry Nixt was given The citizens committee notes structural prod lems at Oak Grove School. Oak Grove repairs needed About the article The Citizens Committee to Study School Facilities submitted its final report and recommendations to the Decatur Board of Education on Feb.

5. The four months of work by the 34 citizens representing each school in the district included an inspection visit to each attendance center. The panel's Subcommittee on Facilities then prepared a summary report on each of the 34 schools. The Decatur Daily Review is presenting the Citizens Committee findings on each school as summarized in the final report, along with related information. Today's report is the eighth in a series that began on Feb.

12. With this story, the on-site inspection results from 13 of the district's elementary-attendance centers have been published. The committee's findings and recommendations for the middle schools, high schools and the School District as a whole will be published soon. "Toilet facilities throughout" the building are in need of structural and sanitary maintenance and repair." The need for more privacy is evident in a general space that has the principal's office, materials center, nurse's area, special reading teachers' area and the social worker's area. climb toughest len said this was his first attempt at a building.

"I was really more nervous on the way up, afraid that somebody would stop me," he said. More of a problem was the weather. "At first it was just a little foggy, kind of cold, but not bad," Allen said. "But later on it got warmer and ice and water started coming down on me from the tower." Mrs. Allen learned of her son's climb from a reporter and expressed immediate relief.

"Oh, thank God. I've been praying so hard for him," she said. While the climb had been planned for a month and Allen was in training during that period, the Greenpeace organization had kept a tight lid on the plans. Allen credited the climb's ease to the advance planning and work that went into the attempt Employed in the summers by the U.S. Forest Service, Allen holds a degree in zoology from Southern Illinois Univer-sity-Carbondale.

He hopes to find full-time employment in wildlife management He also plans to continue climbing but not on buildings. "That's it" he says. "I've done one." Consultants propose building new county jail A legal opinion from college attorney Richard Welsh, who is an ex officio member of the committee, will jbe sought before a decision on McNa-mara's request is made, Mrs. Wolf said. The committee also asked and received permission from the board of trustees to spend up to $500 to operate.

The money will be used in gathering information on such things as maps, -i- Welsh offered his services as an' attorney to the committee at no charge; The committee will next meet at noon March 13 in the college, 100 N. Water St In business at the subsequent board of trustees meeting, it was announced that tuition for next year may be increased either $1 or $1.50 per credit hour. Tuition was last raised about two years ago from $12 to $13.50 a credit hour. Murray Deutsch, president sairj the increase is needed. He said the cost of going to Richland still will remain competitive with other community colleges in the state if the increase is approved.

Student trustee Jauque Schuman said be talked to about 50 students about the proposed increase, and only one, "was dead set against it" John Kirk, dean of business services, said an increase to $15 would bring in an additional $45,000 a year. An increase to $15.50 would bring in $60,000 more, he said. A decision on the proposed increase is not expected for at least a month. its time for comfort, 3tstime to send flowers. For Sympathy flowers and plants, call your FTD Florist Your Eitra Touctt Florists" OFF DISPLAYS IN YOUR STORE! mm Allen: Planning By Bob Sampson The planning of an attempt to scale the Eiffel Tower was more of a challenge that the actual event, according to the 23-year-old Decatur man who Tuesday climbed 150 feet of the 984-foot monument in Paris, France.

"Physically, it wasn't that hard," said Douglas R. Allen in a trans-Atlantic telephone interview a few hours after his climb. He began it from tbe tower's second platform at 377 feet. Allen, the son of Richard D. and Katherine Allen of 326 N.

Glendale scaled the tower section on behalf of the Greenpeace organization. A banner reading "Save the Seals" in French was unfurled and placed on the tower by Allen. Greenpeace staged the event to publicize its campaign to eliminate the annual baby seal hunt in Newfoundland, Canada, which is scheduled to begin about March 10. Police led Allen to the bottom of the tower and took him away in a van after his three-hour stint on the tower. "They just took me in and asked where I was from.

They checked my papers and let me go. As far as I know, I'm not facing a fine," he reported. A mountain climber for 5Vfe years, Al VJKSi YOU Other comments about the facility and its educational program included: "All of the machinery used for ditto and other school services is located in the hallway. This creates a noisy and distracting situation" for nearby classrooms and "causes some hallway congestion and is, therefore, unsafe." The lounge area for 22 teachers is "cramped" and the room "assigned to a special Title Program is far too small to accommodate this service." "The all-purpose room used by the band and some teaching aides is adequate." "Flexibility of this school is limited, although property for expansion is Oak Grove School was built in 1951. There was an addition in 1957.

There are 15 classrooms. The current-year enrollment is 384 pupils compared to 492 in 1970-71. Information provided to the Citizens Committee by School District administrators included: Black enrollment is 105 this year compared with 46 in 1970-71. Expenditures on Oak Grove School in recent years have included $14,225 in 1971 to meet state Life Safety Code compliance requirements'; $700 for glass block in 1975-76; $100 for pipe insulation and $1,500 for carpet in 1977-78. ment administrative office with a new county jail built adjacent to it.

An estimated $5.3 million to build a new joint administrative office and jail behind the Macon County Building at 253 E. Wood and estimated $5.1 million to construct a jail and renovate the present headquarters of the police and sheriff to provide separate administrative space. The sheriff's office is in the County Building. Decatur police are located in the Municipal Center. With the construction of the Civic Center, the other city offices in the center will move to the new complex.

The Police Department is considering expanding in the Municipal Center. That decision must be made in about a year, Allen said, urging the joint committee to make its conclusions before then. Also urging progress was Police Chief Harold Lindsten, who noted a joint law enforcement facility has been discussed for 10 years. During the first seven of those years, he said, federal funding at a rate of 95. percent was available.

Today few such funds are available: Referring to law enforcement administrators, be said, "We can't make the decisions. That has to be the policy makers. That has been our stumbling block for all these years." Lindsten said he supports combining some services, yet each law enforcement agency should have "fixed responsibilities." Sheriff Stephen D. Fisher said he favors a new jail facility behind the County Building. He has previously said he opposed a joint law enforcement building at the Municipal Center.

an 18-year-old involved in a fight at the establishment Jan. 23. Police said the 'arrest came as the result of their investigation of the fight Owens station robbed The Owens gas station at 1251 N. Hill near the. intersection of Grand and Oakland avenues was robbed about 10:30 p.m.

Tuesday. The man who robbed the station said he had a gun, but did not display it, according to police. -Stereo equipment stolen Theft of more than $800 worth of stereo equipment in a burglary of the apartment of Anthony D. Harrison, 26, of 515 W. Prairie was reported to police Tuesday Company window broken Illinois Power Co.

officials at 134 E. Main St. complained to police that a woman customer, irate over being questioned about an unpaid bill, broke a double-strength plate glass window in a door by slamming it as she exited the premises about 10:15 a.m. Tuesday. Value of the glass was not stated.

charge i Oak Grove School at 2160 W. Center is only 25 years old, but "the lack of repairs has resulted in a structurally 'hazardous condition," according to the Citizens Committee to Study School Facilities. "The lack of office space for administrative and support personnel presents problems of privacy and security," the committee adds in its report summarizing observations from a visit to the school. "We recommend that prompt attention be given to the conditions." Following are additional findings noted in the "site appraisal" section of the report on this elementary attendance center that is in a residential area on the northwest side of the city. "Throughout this building the window casements and surrounding plaster vail are deteriorating due to moisture.

This damage represents a serious problem in most of the building, particularly in Rooms 4, 5 and 7. There is ceiling damage in the hall." "Tuckpointing appears necessary in the north wing of the building where the ceiling appears to be coming part The floor tiles in the hall of this wing need repair. Rooms 16 and 17 appear to have problems due to settling of the building." Playground areas "need resurfac-iig and are in poor condition." The service drive also needs resurfacing. Brian A. Lee Lee completes phase of test on basic training Pvt.

Brian A. Lee. recently completed the first phase of a test designed to determine if Army basic training can be reduced to 12 weeks from 16 and still be administered at two stations. The first phase was at Fort Knox, and the second phase -is to be at Fort Benning, Ga. Lee is a son of Mr.

and Mrs. Roy P. Lee Jr. of Blue Mound. FIRST MESSENGER BOYS In 1894, the first telegraph messenger boys were employed in Decatur.

WHEELMAN'S CLUB The Wheelman's Club was organized' in Decatur on Aug. 15, 1895. Pope faces Decatur Community Relations Director George R. Pope has now been charged with unlawful possession of marijuana, as well as shoplifting. Pope's attorney, Roger Ryan, has entered a plea of innocent to the possession charge on Pope's behalf, according Court, police report to the Sangamon County Circuit Clerk's Office.

A March 27 trial date has been set. Pope, on a leave of absence without pay from his position, is awaiting a March 6 trial on a charge he allegedly took a pair of men's boots Jan. 21 from tbe Springfield J.C. Penney Co. store.

The marijuana charge, filed in Sangamon County Circuit Court, stems from tbe Jan. 21 arrest At the time, police took a substance from Pope and sent it to the state crime lab for analysis. Byron Cudmore, assistant state's attorney in Sangamon County, said attempts will be made to have Pope tried an both charges at the same time. Possession of more than 2.5 grams and less than 10 grams of cannabis, with which Pope is charged, carries a penalty of up to a maximum $500 fine (gjnTBffloni By Judy Tatham Concluding that construction of a jail is the most economical means of correcting outdated county jail conditions, a consulting team has proposed a new facility be built. Three proposals for the jail and consolidation of some city and county law enforcement services were outlined Tuesday to a joint city-county The proposals range in estimated costs from $4.6 to $5.3 million.

Noting state and federal guidelines give urgency to the need for a new jail, Robert Hall said, "The inevitability of having to do something is facing the county square on." He is project manager for SUA a Los Angeles Consulting firm. The present jail is located on the Macon County Building's sixth floor! If it is renovated to meet federal guidelines, it could accommodate only 35 prisoners, the consultants said. The joint committee, composed of members of the Macon County Board and City Council, has authorized the consultant team headed by Dennis E. Roby Associates to, move into final planning. The city and county are paying $40,000 to the Roby firm for the study.

The Decatur firm has utilized the services of SUA and Folse-HDR Inc. of New Orleans. City Manager Leslie T. Alien asked the team to suggest means of securing financing during its final report. The three alternatives and project costs include: An estimated $4.69 million to renovate the Decatur Municipal Center at 707 E.

Wood St. into a joint law enforce marijuana andor six months in jail, Cudmore said. Man pleads guilty to battery A guilty plea to a charge of simple battery has been entered by Willie B. 18, of 973 E. North in Macon County Circuit Court.

The charge was reduced by the State's Attorney's Office from ah original charge of rape. By agreement with the State's Attorney's Office he was sentenced to a 60-day county jail term, given credit for time already spent in jail, and released. Charges were dropped against a co-defendant, Joe Lee Hayes, 22, of 472 S. Broadway. The two were accused of raping an 18-year-old woman in an apartment in northeast Decatur last Dec.

14. Man held for burglary Police are holding a 22-year-old man on charges that he burglarized My Sister's, 539 N. Water early Tuesday morning. Alcazar bartender arrested A bartender at the Alcazar, 1683 N. 22nd was arrested by police Tuesday and booked for selling liquor to EITV SDt C7 TrOSZ FCBUCTS Or, if your store doesn'fhave Special Refund Forms, write EATING AT- HOME PAYS OFF, P.

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