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TWENTY-TWO PAGES TODAY. THE DECATUR REVIEW Wednesday, February 2, 1949. URBANA Raise In Tenant Income Limits At Longview Sought 1 White Sales in 1910 Offered 5-Cent Pillow Stips, Sheets for 38 Bradley Bros, of Decatur was offering 500 ready-to-use pillow slips for five cents each. The store also had 200 large-sized bedspreads at 75 cents each, 350 sheets at 38 cents apiece and 100 dozen heavy turkish bath towels at nine cents each. Cotton blankets were 39 cents each and wool blankets were $1.50.

But Bradley Bros, closed Sept. 19. 1910. The prices were advertised in a handbill distributed shortly before the closing. Mr.

and Mrs. John J. Huhne, 754 East Cantrell street, discovered the old advertisement while remodeling their home. The dry goods and millinery store was opened here in 1834. It closed 26 years later and the stock and fixtures were sold Oct.

12, 1910, at auction for $41,550. Boy, 5, Finds Palmer Taylor Dead in Drive The body of Palmer Taylor. 40, of 936 South Water street was found at 10 a.m. today in a driveway near the home of his sister, Mrs. Frances Hawkins, 245 East Macon street.

Cause of death has not been determined. Coroner Harold Brint-linger said an autopsy had been ordered. Discovery of the body was made by Terry Hawkins. 5. who was playing in the yard.

He ran to a neighbor's house where he said, "a man is out in the drive." POLICE SAID the body was found stretched in the cinder drive a few feet from a three-foot retaining wall. An attending physician said the man was dead whan he was found. According to police there were deep scratch marks on the hands and arms of the dead man and there appeared to be several bruises on the head. According to Mrs. Hawkins she had not seen her brother since about 8 p.m.

yesterday when he Housing Group Drops 'Extra Taxf Payment Local taxing agencies no longer will get those annual "extra" payments from the Decatur Housing authority. The authority's Longview place housing project has been put back on a full low-income family basis and voluntary payments in excess of the original contractural amount paid in lieu of taxes will not be continued. THE EXTRA payments were started during the war when Long-view, at federal government demand, was tufned into a war workers' housing center. The war workers made incomes much larger than Longview's original low-income tenants were allowed to make. The higher paid workers paid the authority what was called "economic" or full rent.

Thus the authority during that period from 1943 to 1947 paid the original contractural amount (2.75 per cent of shelter rent) plus an amount making the total payment 10 per cent of shelter rent, or approximately what full taxes would have been. New Banking Course Planned at Millikin Registration for the second semester of the American Institute of Banking school at Millikin university will be tomorrow. Twenty local bank employes completed an evening course in commercial law last week. The new course, which will start Feb. 10.

will be on negotiable instruments. The courses are taught by Fletcher Ransom. Citizens Nation- TAKEN IN it N. ABRAHAM 1' Macon County Oil Test Wells Are Abandoned Operators abandoned drilling on two new oil wells northwest of Decatur yesterday after tests on the two holes proved unsatisfactory. The wells are plugged and rigs were preparing to move on to other territory today, Herman Herring, one of the operators, said this morning.

Drilling on the wells started eight days, ago. Mr. Herring said that a core test on the well on the A. R. farm south of Boiling Springs showed oil, but three geologists who conducted tests there advised that production would not have been sufficient to be profitable.

He said production might have reached three to five barrels a day. Tests showed, he said, that acid had no affect on limestone formations there. THE WELL on the Parish farm was down to 2.070 feet when the tests were made. Mr. Herring said the rig which drilled that well was awaiting definite arrangements to move to another job.

The rig used in drilling the Wil-sondale well was moving to Assumption this morning, he said. The latter well, on the M. D. Pollock farm, was plugged after a drill stem test showed nothing, he said. A level of feet had been reached there, he reported.

MR. HERRING said he had no plans for further drilling activities in this area. "This winds me up on this one," he said. He forecast that failure of the two tests would slow up activity here for the present, but expressed confidence there will be more drilling at some later date. ai bank trust officer.

They are sponsored by the Macon-Dewitt County Bankers federation, ilLaborers Halt Signing of New ib -I ww ine money was paiu tu luuh In 1T1 nH0 ri01iTty tax collector and distributed to lllClUUCl IlClCiall the local taxing agencies on The money was paid to coun Lincoln Original Found Ambrotype Similar to One Taken in Decatur The original of a rarely-reproduced photograph of Abraham Lincoln is now in possession of the Ur-bana Free library as a part of the Judge J. O. Cunningham collectioa The photograph was re-discovered when librarians, began canvassing and recording the collection of more than 1,000 books, letters, personal papers and documents bequeathed to the library in 1917 by Judge Cunningham, intimate friend of Lincoln. The ambrotype taken in May, 1858, by a Mr. Alschuler of Ur- 1 LINCOLN coln put his on.

which was done and the picture wis taken." Miss Tarbell's date for the sitting is corrected in a signed note by Judge Cunningham written beneath the picture in the book: "I was present and saw the exchange of coats and this sitting of Mr. Lincoln for the above picture. It was taken in May, Judge Cunningham was a pioneer resident of Urbana and he and Lincoln were contemporary members of the ChamDoign county bar. Many of the papers left by Judge Statue in Magazine A large photograph of the head and outstretched hand of the statue of Abraham Lincoln which stands in front of the Macon County building appears on the final page of this week's "Look" magazine dated Feb. 15.

The magazine calls the statue "the newest sculpture of Lincoln" and two Lincoln quotations on democracy are written below the pic- iture. Bryant Payne Freed Of Two Charges by Jury A circuit jury has freed- Bryant T. Payne, 41, of burglary and grand larceny charges. The jury returned its verdict in less than two hours yesterday. Payne was arrested by police Dec.

26 on charges of theft of clothing, glasses and a wallet from Belle Knisley and Ada Rcdmon in the Russell hotel Dec. 24. Countv Draft Hoards JL TT lO Urbana Meeting Macon county selective service boards have been called to a meeting at Urbana Feb. 10 to discuss proposed regulations relative to the draft status of fanners and factory workers. The meeting, originally scheduled for last week, was postponed because of bad road conditions.

It will be in Gregory Hall at 8 p. m. NOTRE DAME GRADUATES Robert J. Ott of Decatur and Richard Joseph O'Connor of Mat r. bana is remarkably similar to one Cunningham are on the early his-taken in May.

1860, in Decatur by tory of Urbana. E. A. Barnwell, and given one year I ago to the Decatur Public library Picture of Lincoln The Wilsondale well was drilled near the site of a well drilled in 1921 and re-opened in 1937. It failed to produce in paying quantity.

Oil operators have said oil bearing sand under Macon county lies in the Devonian and Silurian strata at between 2,100 and 2,300 feet. loners Delay Action On Oil Drilling The county zoning board of ap peals has taken no action on the proposal to regulate oil well drilling in Macon county, Linley Hurtt, chairman, said today. Mr. Hurtt said the next meet ing of the board is scheduled for Feb. 25, but he did not know if any action would be taken on the matter at that time.

A St. Louis planning firm which set up the 1943 county zoning ordi- i nance said last week in a written opinion to the board that drilling operations could best be controlled by special permits issued by the board of appeals. Shift in Oil Tests Seen for Macon County Failure on the Wilsondale and Boiling Springs wells northwest of Decatur probably will cause future drilling activities to be shifted from the area immediately adjacent to the city of Decatur, an oil broker predicted this morning. He said said plugging of the two holes would not deter activity of oil companies and independent producers in Macon county as a whole, however. Approximately 20 brokers were reported to be working here this week obtaining leases for oil companies.

Lee Kimmons Is Named To Pilgrimage Group R. Lee Kimmons, 1095 West Macon street, has been appointed to a commHtee of arrangements for the annual pilgrimage of Veterans TT Wfft! tn tVia tnmh nf Survey Indicates Low-Paid Group Tops Entrance Limits Br RICHARD M. WEICKER Of The Review Stuff Another increase in income eligibility limits for entrance to Long-view place housing project is to be sought by the Decatur Housing authority. The authority board last night authorized Director F. Paul Small- wood.

to apply to tne Fuonc Housing agency for approval of the increase in limits, based on a sur- vey of wages paid in Decatur. The survey to determine what the lowest paid male workers the community are getting- nearing completion and already in- dicates that wage boosts in recent months have put the low-paid group generally above the Longview entrance income limits set after a similar study made last year, the board showed. THE AUTHORITY will seek to boost the limits to maximums of $2,100. $2,200 and $2,400 in the three family-size classifications. The three classifications are families without minor dependents, families with one or two minor dependents, and families with three or more minor dependents.

At present the maximums in these classifications are $1,770, $1,855 and $2,055. With the boost in entrance limitations, the authority also will seek a boost in incomes allowed for "continued occupancy" in the project. Generally those limits are set at 25 per cent above the entrance limits. A corresponding boost in this group would put the top figure for the large family at about $3,000. THE CHANGE is desired to permit he project to continue to function at capacity in filling its purpose of providing hard-pressed, low-income families in the city with standard housing accomodations at rents they can afford.

Rents, which may be slightly adjusted if income limits are revised, are based on income and family size. The authority board last night discussed the economic trend in Decatur and other evidence supporting its contention that the limits should be raised. A survey ot industrial plants showed that at 16 of 19 plants reporting the lowest paid male workers were receiving more than $2,000 a year. It showed that at only five of the reporting plants were the lowest paid men getting less than- the $2,055 present Long-view income entrance limit for large families. THE RANGE in the industrial low-pay survey report was from $1,873 to $2,631.20.

The board pointed out that the survey did not show the number of employes receiving the various wages at the 19 plants, that probably the number of persons eligible for entrance to Longview on the basis of the incomes shown is even smaller than the report would indicate. A similar study of other businesses stores, laundries, offices showed an income range of $1,248 to $2,288, with four of 10 groups reported being over $2,000. THE BOARD supported Its claim of a need for higher limits by showing that there are only eight approved applications from "whole families" now in the rent application pool. The turnover in vacancies in the 434-unit project now is about 10 per month. There are, however, enough applications on hand that have not yet been acted on by the board to provide sufficient eligible families to fill vacancies expected in the next month.

Director Small-wood said. One of the main reasons for the lack of eligible families, Mr. Small-wood said, is recent boosts in wages here, putting many of the lowest-paid group above present entrance limits. In addition, a few more than 100 families now in the project are falling into the ineligible class for continued occupancy under present limits because of recent income boosts. More than half of them would be able to stay where they are if the limits were boosted to the levels desired.

The eight whole families, however, do not constitute the authorities waiting list The authority separates applications into three major groups those of whole families. those of persons living on "public grants." and those of fatherless families. THERE IS a waiting list of nearly 130 applications from the last two groups, but the units available to them (32 for public grant families and 100 for fatherless families) have been filled for some time. The authority sets up the allocation system in its effort to provide housing for what it considers a proper cross section of all low-income families. Without the limitations, and because of wages paid male workers nowadays, the project "would be filled with pensioners and widows and divorcees," it was said.

Forbes Renamed Alva R. Forbes was re-elected chairman of the Decatur Housing, oy miss orace Barnwell, Lincoln, daughter of the photographer. The Urbana photograph is reproduced and described in one of the Ida Tarbell volumes on "Life of Lincoln." In the book Miss Tarbell writes. "In the fall of 1857 Lincoln was in Urbana and went into the photograph gallery of Mr. Alschuler to have an ambrotype made.

He wore a linen coat. The artist suggested that a black coat would give a bet ter result and suggested that Lin D.H.S. House Open Friday The fourth house to be completed by Decatur high school vocational building trades classes will be shown at a public open house this week end, K. B. Wilson, supervisor of industrial education, announced Open house for the newly com- pleted house at 942 North Hill! street will be held from 7 to 9 p.m.

Friday; 2 to 5 p.m. Satur-j day: 2 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m Sunday. THE FOUR-ROOM, white frame house of modern design was built by vocational building trades classes under the direction of D. L.

Young. Kitchen cabinets and built-in features were made by the vocational cabinet-making class under W. K. Davis. Vocational drafting class stu Vocational drafting class stii.l rfents unw a Mm.r dents under H.

A. Meinert submit- t.i i i Li, ah wc.e useu for the HUI street house. Wirins of thP installa.1 tinn of ertrirai fivinre. rfnnn cii-iunai I New Regulation Delays Sale of WarPlantSite A new government regulation is holding up the sale of 3.800 acres of land at the former Sangamon Ordnance plant site until early in March. The land, last of the agricultural tracts, was scheduled to be advertised for sale about Jan.

20. A new regulation requiring that government agencies, which have first priority on the land, be notified of the sale 20 working days previous to the advertising of the land was put into effect. TENTATIVE date for advertising the land is now set for March 2. James Stewart, project manager said. Following federal, state and local governments, former owners have priority to buy the land at original cost to government plus improvements or less damages.

THEN THE LAND is offered to former tenants on the land. Veterans or World War II, persons who plan 'to live on the land and farm it, charitable or non-profit institutions and then to the general public. Mr. Stewart, employed by the Federal Land bank which is turn engaged by the Federal Farm Mortgage Corp. to handle such sales, said that his office at the site probably will close about the first of June.

All agricultural land will be dis posed of by that time, the project manager said. D. W. Robinson Named in Suit Mrs. D.

W. Robinson has filed a complaint in Macon county circuit court, asking for separate maintenance from her husband. In the complaint Mrs. Robinson seeks an accounting of The Decatur Weekly Advertiser business to protect her interests. She alleges a half-ownership in the publication.

According to the complaint, "David William Robinson, wholly disregarded his duties to the plaintiff and without just provocation, on or about Sept. 8. 1948. abandoned and absented himself from the plaintiff and from their home, and since said date has lived separate and apart from the plaintiff, wholly without fault on her part MRS. ROBINSON also charges her husband with "keeping company with one Mary Doe, whose identity can be disclosed at any time, and became infatuated with ing years or I "'Said MarJ lorma in August.

ito. ouose- queniiy. me acienaani oegan to oe seen with one. whose identity also can be divulged upon request, and has seen her at various times under circumstances of a clandestine nature." The wife of th weekly newspaper publisher also charges her husband has been guilty of "extreme and repeated cruelty toward the plaintiff." Specific instances of cruelty were recited' in the complaint as occurring Sept 4, 1948. She alleges the "defendant struck the plaintiff with his open hand, knocking off her glasses." I She cited other instances of vio lence in the complaint MRS.

ROBINSON said at the time of her marriage to Mr. Robinson she was induced to liquidate certain holdings which she claims she later invested in a weekly shopping newspaper here. According to the complaint the "parties formed a co-partnership which was then known as "The Decatur Advertiser" and is now known as "The Decatur" Weekly Advertiser." a weekly paper both gave their time to the business and the plaintiff worked every, day from the time of the partnership until four years ago, when( defendant's infatuation for Mary Doe drove her out." Mrs. Robinson claims "she has no means of knowing whether or not she is defrauded, whether or not her interests are being depressed but due to many overt acts on the part of the defendant, plaintiff fears he will attempt to deprive plaintiff of her rightful share in and to the profits of said business." the the basis of their individual tax rates. NOW THE authority is going back to paying only the contrac tural amount.

The change has been voted by the authority board in conformity with a Public Housing administra tion directive of last year saying that all excess payments were to be discontinued after October of 1948. The Decatur authority operates under the federal financial aid program, part of which provides that a federal subsidy is available for use here if needed. So far the De catur project has not had to use the subsidy provision, but in order not to jeopardize the chance of using it in case of necessity in the future, the local board has voted to follow the non-excess-payment rule of P.H.A., Authority Director F. Paul Smallwood said. PAYMENTS MADE bx the authority to local taxing agencies have been: 1941.

payment of full and delinquent taxes on property acquired for the project, $6,395.75. 1942. first year of partial operation as a low-income project, $778.31. 1943. "full operation, including war workers.

$3,322.72 on contract and $18,401.97 extra. 1944. $3,646.39 and $16,555.71 1945. $3,793.52 and $10,001.10 1946. $3,632.48 and $9,576.55 1947.

$3,978.19 and $10,487.86. THE 1948 payment has not yet been made, but it will be a contractural payment only. The $10,137.45 intended to be paid as an extra will not be turned over to the taxing agencies. The so-called war-worker housing program continued after the war's Lnd since tne federal government did nQt order the $tart of removal excess income families from nrftiu llnti, in 1947. Te Deura Talk To Be Feb.

8 The Te Deum forum lecture by Rev. Fr. Hugh M. Calkins, Chicago, originally scheduled for Feb. 15 here, has been moved up to Feb.

8, Dr. Thomas J. Campbell, president of the Decatur Te Deum International, announced. Father Calkins will speak in Decatur high school auditoium at 8 p. m.

His subject will be "How to Tt i aln annmmrpd that Rev. tta i rsv -4 c-i i ci aiuaies, nicago. speak at the Te Deum Interna- mHn. th, samP night, will be unable to appear. EM, will Ok uiiauie lo apyctfi.

inc international meeting naa I been designated ladies night, and will be at 6:30 p. m. at St. Pat rick's church hall. Sensible Groundhogs Lie Low: Meteorologist This is the big day for Mr.

Groundhog, but a meteorologist, who shall remain nameless, would spoil it for him. debunking the old legend about the groundhog forecasting future weather by his 'actions today. "Most groundhogs stay at home and sleep," he scoffs. "All sensible ones do, unless they are flooded out by an early thaw, which indi-1 cates a warm day and a south wind nothing more. "Besides, if a groundhog is observed looking at his shadow and jumping into his hole, it has nothing to do with the weather.

He's merely frightened and it's easier to dive into the burrow than to look over his shoulder. Suppose you had the billowing build of a groundhog. Think how hard it would be to look over your shoulder." The meteorologist wouldn't make a weather forecast. He'll leave that to some stupid groundhog, he said. A.B.C.

MEETING A business meeting will be con deft to visit "Little George's place 'on South Franklin street." I A BROTHER-IN-LAW, John 'Hawkins, said he and Taylor visited the tavern last night but they separated after having a "few drinks." The attending pnysician saia there did not appear to be any marks of violence on the dead man. Police said the body apparently had been lying in the drive just a short time before it was found I oy we youin. PALMER TAYLOR was born Rent. 6 1909 in Brownsville. Tenn a son of Robert and Ella Taylor.

He came to Decatur 26 years ago from Wagner, and had been employed at the Wagner Malleable Iron Co. He leaves a daughter, Mrs. Justine Taylor; a granddaughter, Sharon Lee Taylor and his mother and step-father, Mr. and Mrs. George L.

Jones, all of Decatur; two sisters, Ruth Jones of Saginaw. and Mrs. Frances Hawkins. Decatur, and a brother, George L. Jones.

Decatur. The body is at the Checks funeral home. Arrangements are incomplete. March of Dimes Total Passes $5,000 Today The March of Dimes total has reached $5,328.42 with contents of 149 letters received today still uncounted, O. F.

Kur.y, drive treasurer announced. Of this amount $670.99 has been turned in by city schools from dimes containers passed out last week to students $50 is from the Chambers Bering Quinlan Co. Lewis V. Hogan, diive chairman, reported today that answers had been received from only 971 of the 22,000 letters mailed last week to residents of Macon county. A goal of $15,000 has been set with the drive to end Feb.

7. Lutherans to Honor Missionary League The Lutheran Women's Missionary league which raised approximately one-third of the cost of the new Redeemer Lutheran chapel on Brush College road will be honored at special services at the chapel at 7:30 p.m. today. Rev. Herbert Zimmermann of Effingham will give the sermon and Mrs.

Mabel Faster of Lincoln will speak as a representative of the league. The men of the church will be acknowledged in services at tht chapel at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow. Local Dairymen See No Milk Price Change No change in the price of mille in Decatur is seen by local dairymen. Recent price cuts in Peoria and Springfield simply brought prices in those cities down to the Decatur level, 20 cents a quart, they pointed out.

The present price in Decatur has held since a year ago yesterday. In that time milk went to 21 cents a quart in Springfield, 23 cents in Rockford and 24' cents in St. Louis. Old Part of Day House Is Being Torn Down The old part of the Day House, hotel in the 100 block West Main street, is being torn down. Work began last week.

Jack Loeb. who purchased the building last April, said. Mr. Loeb said at the time of purchase that he intended to build a six-story building on the lot "in the future." The property wag bought as an investment and further plans for the site have not been made, he said today. Josie K.

Day owned and operated the hotel for 38 years before it was sold. Dr. E. S. Boyer Opens Rural Youth Series Opening a series of discussions on "Love and Marriage" for the Macon County Rural Youth association.

Dr. E. S. Boyer, Millikin university sociology professor, will address a meeting of the group at 7:30 p. m.

Thursday, at the farm bureau building. A discussion and recreation period will follow the talk. Otlier speakers on the series will be announced later. A halt has been called in signing new members in the Decatur Common Laborers union for the first time since the group was chartered in 1935. The action was taken following a meeting of the board of directors of the union which decided to take the action for the protection of old members.

Harry Meisenhelter, business agent for the union, explained the plan was adopted because of a drop in demand for common laborers. He said bad weather and the regular winter drop in construction has caused a surplus of common laborers and as a result there was no need for new members. "The board of directors believes that union membership should pay dividends to its members. If the men can't get jobs they shouldn't be encouraged to pay dues until there is an adequate demand for their services." -Mr. Meisenhelter said.

The business agent explained that in recent years the construction trade has been carried on through the winter months and there has been a heavier demand for laborers than could be supplied. Parking Group Elects Burns W. W. Burns, president of Bill Burns Chevrolet, was elected president of the city traffic-parking commission yesterday. He succeeds J.

R. HdH, president of Linn Scruggs Co. Michael Paczac, an A. E. Staley Mfg.

Co. foreman, was elected vice president, succeeding Mr. Burns. and Police Lieut. William Kitch was re-elected secretary.

me commission yesterday also voted to recommend at least a trial on its proposal for elimination of parking on congested Twenty-second street, between East Clay and East Eldorado streets. The commission reiterated its stand after a group ofusiness op erators on Twenty-second street had filed a protest petition with the city council, which must make the parking change effective by ordinance. And the traffic-parking group gave Police Chief W. Glenn Ker- win and Lieutenant Kitch the go-ahead signal on extending the downtown bus stop experiment wherever the police department feels it would be advisable. The commission took that action after Chief Kerwin had reported favorably on the results of changing downtown bus stops to the far sides of intersections, and of eliminating some stops on some routes downtown.

authority board for 1949 in the board's meeting last night. W. S. Threlfall was re-elected vice chairman and F. Paul Smallwood was re-elected secretary-treasurer.

Housing Authority Rejects Tree Planting The Decatur Housing authority board last night voted against spending approximately $1,000 to set in some evergreen group plant ings at various locations in Long- view place housing project. Board members, while saying they recognized the desirability of brighteriing up" the project in winter time, based their opposi tion to the proposal on their belief that evergreens are too hard to keep alive in the industrial area of Decatur, where the project is located. Cleaning of Pipes At Project Discussed Experiments in cleaning out limed-filled pipes in water heating units at Longview place housing project should be carried out before a program of replacing much of the galvanized iron pipe with copper tubing is icontinued. the Decatur Housing authority board decided last night. The decision was made after discussion with the maintenance staff of the failure of water units in an increasingly large number of the 434 apartments in the project be- cause of lime deposits in the pipes.

T. for four or five years (follow Abraham Lincoln in Springfield. mn 'min the 1940 1941) toon are two men in this areaiState Commander Henry L. 4. Notre at commencement exercises Sunday.

Mr. Ott mceiv- degree. tiAiutt-9 was umic, i i i a bachelor of arts degree and 'Sardine Concept' Barrier Interferes With School Building, Says Mcintosh The "sardine concept" is the fac- tor that sometimes interferes with the builditjg of additional school buildings in a school district, Supt. of Schools W. Mcintosh has told members of the Exchange club.

Mr. Mcintosh presented new figures on anticipated school population here to the Exchange club, which was prominent in supporting a bond issue referendum, for new schools here two years ago. IN PRESENTING the figures to Feb. 12. was named by Mr.

Kimmons ar- r.0 (hi vr will be led by National Commander-in- Chief Lyall T. Begs of Madison, tr nr i Wis. Members of V. F. W.

plan all- 'in Springfield on Feb. 12. nexed areas which brought with them classrooms to house them, he said. In September 1949, elementary schools expect to enrol 208 addi- tional children and will need to open 10 more classrooms. The additional rooms for 1949 will be secured by transforming a house to "very inadequately" house two kindergartens, by opening the last and least desirable basement roOms in present school buildings he said.

IN SEPTEMBER 1950. elementary schools expect 209 children in addition to the previous years' increases "with no possible place to put them," he said. The three years following this, enrollments will jump 222 in 1951. 523 in 1952 and 265 in 1953, the superintendent said. Currently the public schools are transporting 300 children to schools outside their home, districts, he said.

In some instances the chil- jdren are driven past their own buildings to schools in the next nearest district, he said. vj uvauuuai cici-tiiiai tid: under M. B. Corey. MRS.

RUTH MU.NSIE'E home planning class selected furniture to be used for the public showing and planned the decoration of the house. Furnishings for the open house have been provided by Linn Scruggs, Emerson Piano House, Gebhart-Gushard Co. and Miller-O'Neill. houses have been Three othe completed by vocational classes at the high school since; the program was inaugurated three years ago. Fort Monmouth Officer Visits Signal Depot Here Col.

Harrod G. Miller, commandant of the oignal school at Fort Monmouth, N. visited the Decatur signal depot Monday. Colonel Miller was commanding officer of the Chicago signal depot at the time the former Victory Ordnance plant was selected for the Deactur signal depot. He was accompanied here by Lt Col.

George E. Kilpatrick. BANEY ESTATE Catherine C. Baney, Decatur, who died last November, left an estate of $2,500, according to a peti- William Eugene Baney, minor chil- Idren. the club, he emphasized the need to 1 and by taking over playrooms to keep the pupil-teacher ratio at 30 make classrooms, thereby curtail-to 1.

ling the physical education program, He described a businessman in ai.other city who opposed new school buildings for that city simply because "the walls didn't bulge when the children got inside." His was the "sardine concept Mr. Mcintosh said, instead of that of providing an adequate educational program for the children. In September 1947, Decatur elementary schools enrolled 284 more children than in September, 1946. the superintendent said. IN SEPTEMBER 1948, a total of 572 more children were enrolled over the previous year.

Approxi-1 amately 250 of these were from an-j ducted at the American Business ition for letters of administration club's weekly luncheon meeting filed in county court today. Heirs Thursday noon in the Hotel Or-iwere listed as Delbert Lewis Baney. lando. There will be no speaker for! husband; Wanda May Baney and the meeting. Plans for 1949 will be 'advanced..