Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 3

Illinois, Friday, March 20, 1953. DECATUR HERALD LOCAL 3 Millikin Host To State Group on Founders Day Millikin University will be host to the 1953 meeting of the Federation of Illinois Colleges. The meeting, scheduled for May 1 and 2, will be held conjunction with Millikin's anniversary Founder's Day program. Plans for the meeting were announced yesterday by Dr. J.

Walter Malone, Millikin president. The Federation of Illinois Colleges is composed of 45 church and independent colleges and universities. Officials of nearly all of the member colleges will attend the annual 1 meeting and participate in the Founder's Day observance, Dr. Malone said. The theme of the two-day meeting will be "Higher Education and the International Scene." Two speakers have been named for the opening session at 3:30 p.m.

May 1. They are: Royden Dangerfield, professor and director of the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois; Dr. Frank L. Eversull, instructor at Washington University in St. Louis and pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Belleville.

A speaker will be named later for an evening session May I which will be open to Millikin students and townspeople. A dinner for the, and university officials is planned for 6 p.m. May 1 in Aston Hall. The federation's annual meeting will close with a morning business session on May 2. SHRINE CIRCUS DRAWS CAPACITY ATTENDANCE Two capacity crowds attended the Shrine-Polack Bros.

Circus at the Decatur Armory yesterday, and several hundred persons were turned away from each performance. Among those unable to gain admittance to the matinee were many youngsters with coupons entitling children to a reduced rate to the school-day matinees. Shrine Club and circus officials said the report that people were turned away because they did not have reserved seats was erroneous. Only 240 seats were reserved for the school-day matinees, leaving nearly 90 per cent of the capacity for general admission seats on a firstcome-first-served basis. Four more performances of the circus remain, two today at 3:15 p.m.

and 8:15 p.m. and two Saturday at 2:15 and 8:15. CONSTRUCTION STARTS ON ROSZELL BUILDING Construction of a $100,000 storage building for the J. D. Roszell Company is scheduled to start here Monday.

Harry Meisenhelter, business agent for the Hod Carriers Common Laborers Union, said he received this information yesterday from Hal Opperman Sons of Pontiac, contractors for the job. About six laborers and other construction workers will be used on the job, Meisenhelter said. The new plant, to be used as Sealtest Ice Cream storage and distributing unit, will be built on East Olive Street near the intersection with North 22nd Street. The Roszell Company now distributes ice cream and other dairy products from a warehouse at 498 E. North St.

DECATUR HIGH NAMES 57 TO HONOR SOCIETY Fifty-seven Decatur High School seniors and second-semester juniors became members of the National Honor Society yesterday. They were chosen by the faculty for scholarship, leadership, character and service. Principal Lee D. Pigott gave out pins and certificates in the induction ceremony in the school auditorium. George Haikalis presided.

Edward Catton spoke on the significance of the society emblem, Carolyn Backus talked on scholarship, Allyn Kent on leadership, Keith Purviance on service and Shirley McCurdy on character. SISTER OF DECATUR WOMAN DIES IN OLNEY Mrs. Mary Steber, a sister of Mrs. Anna Bruder of 1040 S. Silas died Thursday in Olney Sanitarium.

Besides her immediate family in Olney, Mrs. Steber also leaves brother-in-law, A. E. Kapper of Forsyth. Scout Report Today Captains of the campaign to raise funds to develop Boy Scouts camps in the the Lincoln Trails Council will report on progress at a luncheon at noon today in the Dec Club.

The last report in the drive for $90,000 was about Bar Members Hear Dean 'Harno Visiting before last night's Ralph Ivens, retiring president of J. Harno of the University of Ilmeeting of the Decatur Bar As- the association; Walter F. Burger linis law school, principal speaksociation were, left to right, A. new secretary; Charles E. Lee, er at the meeting.

new president, and Dean Albert (Herald and Review Photo) Lawyers Elect Charles E. Lee Attorney Charles E. Lee last night was elected president of the Decatur Bar Association at the annual dinner meeting in the St. Nicholas Hotel. He succeeds A.

Ralph Ivens. Other officers are Orlando A. Kuhle, re vice president, and Walter F. Burger secretary. Burger succeeds Robert Borchers.

Lee has practiced law in Decatur for 31 years. In 1929, he was elected state senator and served until 1933. He was Decatur's mavor for seven years, from 1936 to 1943. Five new members were admitted to the association last night. They are David Jack, Thomas Hostetler, Bernard McKinley, J.

Rex Taylor and Burger. Dean Albert J. Harno of the University of Illinois law school spoke to the lawyers on "The Evolution of the American Lawyer." After tracing the history of the legal profession from the 1700's until today, he described lawyers as "the enlightened leaders in government and public affairs." Their leadership is necessary in any republic, he said. The association honored Miss Mildred Staley for her service as deputy county clerk in charge of probate records. She was given a scroll signed by all members of the association.

Last vear she was voted an honorary membership in the organization. Sanitary Board Considers Sewer Extension Plans Decatur Sanitary District trustees will meet today to discuss preliminary plans for extensions of the proposed interceptor sewers. The meeting will be at. 1:30 p.m. in the office of Attorney Walker Mills.

Detailed information on the extensions will be presented by Warren Van Praag, consulting engineers for the district. A of Public Health Group Backs Sewer Vote The Association of Commerce public health committee will ask for a vigorous program of education and action on a referendum for interceptor sewers. The committee has authorized its chairmen, Dr. John E. Madden, to put its request in a letter to the Sanitary District trustees.

It is the committee's opinion that the new sewers are the single most important public health project that can be undertaken. No St. Teresa Classes Today St. Teresa High School students will meet at 8:30. a.m.

today for mass and then classes will be dismissed for the state basketball tournament. Many of the students will go to Champaign for the St. Teresa-LaGrange game at 1:45 p.m. today. Regular classes were held yesterday at the high school although ketball team members were to lessons was better than we faculty members said.

TIRES SLASHED Feared Miss Mildred Staley, deputy county clerk in charge of probate records, was honored last night for her service to the Decatur Bar scroll bearing the names of association members from A. Ralph Ivens, the association's outgoing president. Association. Here she receives a (Kileen Photo) juvenile prisoners in. the County jail will be inspected by a citizens committee at 4:30 p.m.

today. The committee yesterday was authorized to recommend approval of the quarters if its members find them satisfactory in today's inspection. The authority was granted the citizens committee in a meeting of the Family and Child Welfare division of the Council of Social Agen- Citizens Committee Will Inspect Proposed Juvenile Detention Space Proposed detention quarters for cies in the YMCA yesterday after- Harry W. Dill, Printer, Dies Harry W. Dill, 75, of 248 E.

Orchard died at 12:25 p. m. yesterday in Decatur and Macon County Hospital. He had been a patient there for about six weeks. A printer, he came to Decatur i in 1897 and served his apprenticeship with the old Daily Republican newspaper.

He was employed by The Decatur Review for 15 years and for many years has been employed by the Taylorville Breeze-Courier. A son of William and Sarah Dill, he was born in Maroa Jan. 12, 1878. He married Kathryn Dickinson 20, 1913, in Albuquerque, N.Mi. He was a member of the First Christian Church, the Taylorville Typographical Union, No.

369 and Ben Hur Lodge No. 17. He leaves his wife, two daughters, Mrs. Margaret Collister of Chicago and Mrs. Ruth Runyan of Oshkosh, a foster son, J.

M. Dickinson of Eau Claire, and one brother Charles of Decatur. The body is at Monson Funeral Home where friends may call after 4 p.m. today. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m.

Saturday in First Christian Church with burial in Graceland Cemetery. The body will be at the church after noon Saturday. The family requests no flowers and suggests that friends make contributions to the cancer fund drive instead. Building Fund Voted The' Decatur Education Associavoted yesterday to give $100 to the Illinois Education Association building fund. The IEA is erecting a new headquarters building in Springfield.

Decatur teachers heard reports on legislation affecting them. Drunk Driving Charged B. E. Chapman, 1009 E. Eldorado Russell A.

Allen, 51, of 1070 St. reported to police last night W. Olive St. was jailed by police tires on their cars were slashed by a last night on a charge of driving knife while parked in the 1000 while intoxicated in the 400 block block East Eldorado Street. North Jasper Street.

Holmes Asks Septic Tank Restrictions Health Commissioner Cody R. Holmes yesterday introduced an ordinance to control the location and installation of septic tanks in the city. The ordinance, which provides fines of $10 to $100 for each violation, was given first reading by the City Council and filed for a week for public inspection. City officials agreed last fall that such an ordinance was needed when a controversy arose over a West side septic tank installation. In other areas of the city, installations have been found to be inadequate.

The ordinance, which would not be retroactive, would require a minimum 500 gallon capacity tank and an additional 75 gallons for each person over five persons using it. For buildings used for meeting purposes, the minimum size would be 1,500 gallons. Approval of the city plumbing inspector would be' required before installations are covered. A $5 fee is provided for his inspection. Specifications for tank- locations, disposal fields and for materials for the tank and drainage lines are specified in the ordinance.

Tanks and fields installed to specifications of the Illinois Public Health Department would qualify under the ordinance. Purse Snatcher Slugs Victim Mrs. Boyd Waits, 51, of 358 E. Stuart was seriously injured at 9 P. m.

yesterday when she was struck by a purse snatcher near her home. Donald Galka, 533 S. Haworth chased the purse snatcher who escaped on Warren Street. Galka said he got out of his car west of the scene, heard a woman scream and saw a man run. Mrs.

Watts was in semiconscious condition on the street. bher purse containing $18 was missing. Police. said Mrs. Watts had been to a store and remembered nothing about the attack.

She had been struck hard with a blunt instrument above the right ear. Relatives said she would be taken to a hospital for examination. GEN. CLARK ARRIVES FOR INDOCHINA VISIT Saigon, Indochina, March 19 (AP) Gen. Mark Clark, United States Far Eastern commander, flew here today for a first-hand look at the Indochinese war that has cost 000 French Union casualties over the last seven years.

While here he is expected to dig deeply into French methods of training and expanding Viet Nam's army, and how a half billion dollars worth of American equipment is being used in the war against Communist-led Vietminh rebels. MILLIKIN SHOWS Fraternities, Sororities Feature Variety Acts Millikin University students will present their annual variety shows at 8:15 p. m. today and tomorrow in Albert Taylor Hall. Tickets, priced at 50 cents each, will be available at the door for each performance.

The shows will feature acts by fraternity, sorority and independent groups. 30 PLAN TO ATTEND LEGISLATIVE PARLEY About 30 Decatur persons have made reservations for the Association of Commerce legislative dinner today in Lincoln. The third in a series, the dinner will start at 6:30 p. m. in the Elks Country Club.

State Sen. Elbert S. Smith and State Reps. Barrett F. Rogers, James L.

Atkins and Paul H. Ferguson will be guests. Legislative issues will I be discussed. Eight Tuberculosis Sanatorium Patients Enter Beauty Contest Eighty patients at the Macon County Tuberculosis Sanatorium had portraits made this week for entry in a state beauty contest. The Illinois Tuberculosis Association magazine is sponsoring its fourth annual beauty contest.

Three Macon County candidates will be chosen by a vote of the male sanatorium patients. The three winners will receive small cash prizes from the Macon County association and will be entered in the state contest. The state winner will receive $50 and her sanatorium will also get $50. There is a $10 second prize and three additional $5 prizes. All entries will 1 be judged on beauty alone.

Mrs. Lanna Jackson, occupa- Higher Water Rates Approved The City Council yesterday gave final passage to its new water rate ordinance and its raw water agreement with the A. E. Staley Mfg. Company.

Effective May 1, treated water rates will go up 50 per cent for the average residential consumer and 70 per cent for the average commercialindustrial customer. The ordinance must lay over 30 days before it is effective. It could be challenged by referendum petitions during that period. The pact with the Staley Company accepts a contribution of fourfifteenths of the cost of raising the Lake Decatur dam and sets forth the industry and city positions on the raw water issue. Both actions yesterday are tied in with a $5,240,000 program of water supply, treatment and distribution improvements and expansions during the next 10 years.

PAY HIKE OFFERED Decatur GE Union Considers Proposal April 13 An offer of a 1.79 per cent pay raise will be considered by union workers of the Decatur General Electric Company plant at their next meeting April 3. The offer was read yesterday to representatives of Local 955 of the United Auto Workers, AFL, by Raymond W. Frederick, employe relations supervisor for the Decatur plant. The proposal is in line with similar offers to 205,000 GE employes in 114 plants throughout the country. It is retroactive to March 16 if accepted by April 17.

EASTER PARTY FOR SHUT-INS PLANNED An Easter party for shut-ins will be at 7:30 p.m. on March 31 in the Masonic Temple. Arrangements for the party are being made by the Mooseheart Auxiliary, Mrs. Lynn Davis in charge. Transportation will be provided for invalids and persons who are confined to their homes.

The recreation department is sending invitations to all known shut on the list. Others are welcome to attend if they will notify the recreation office. OFFICERS INSTALLED BY TOOL ENGINEERS Robert Serr was installed last night as chairman of Decatur Chapter No. 58 of the American Society of Tool Engineers. Arnold Luther was installed as first vice-chairman; Richard Hauffe as second vice-chairman; Jack Flet: cher.

as secretary and Arthur Gatts as treasurer. Lou Slager, national membership chairman, conducted the installation in Cedar Knoll restaurant. Bateman Improved Lorenza A. Bateman, 74, of 1018 E. William St.

whe was seriously injured when struck by a car at Eldorado and Calhoun Streets Wednesday, was reported in improved condition in Decatur and Macon County Hospital last night. Soil Conservation Education Urged James C. Tippett Of The Herald Staff Soil conservation district directors should carry out an intensive and unified educational program to promote conservation. That point was made yesterday by Ernest D. Walker, University of Illinois extension soil conservationist.

Walker spoke to 40 Central Illinois soil district directors, farm planners and farm advisers attending an East Central Land Use Council training meeting in the Dewitt County Farm Bureau Building, Clinton. Logan County's soil conservation therapist at the sanatorium, is in charge of the local contest. Photos were made by Bill Sommer. This is the second year that Macon County patients have participated in the beauty contests. Last year, Miss Rachel Shelton, of Shelbyville, placed fourth in the state.

She has since left the sanatorium and is attending college in Michigan. The eight patients entered in Macon County's preliminary contest are: Mrs. Audrey Bahrns, Miss Carma Storm, Mrs. Jeannette Handley, Miss Betty Sanders, Miss Mary Brame, Miss Lorelle Elmore, Mrs. Leokadia King, Miss Lavonne Hopkins.

RITES SATURDAY John W. Meara John W. Meara, Druggist, Dies John W. Meara, 47, Decatur resident until 1945, died suddenly at his home in Springfield at 12:10 p.m. yesterday.

Operator of the Meara drug store in Springfield, he had been in ill health for the last four years. His death was attributed to a heart attack. A registered, pharmacist, he formerly operated the Economy drug store in Decatur and was employed in other drug stores here. A graduate of the University of Illinois School of Pharmacy he had spent most of his life in Decatur. Born in Marion 22, 1905, he was a son of John and Estella Meara, He married Miss Cecilia Muleady in Decatur Sept.

30, 1930. He was a member of the Cathedral of Immaculate Conception Springfield, the Knights of Columbus in Springfield, and the of I Alumni Association. Besides his wife and mother he leaves two children, Ann and James both at home. A son preceded him in death. He also leaves a sister, Mrs.

William H. Griffin, East Chicago, and three brothers, Rev. Fr. James F. Meara CSV, pastor of St.

Patrick Church in Kankakee, Rev. Fr. Joseph E. Meara CSV, assistant pastor at Kankakee, and Frank A. Meara, Decatur.

The body is at J. J. Moran Sons Funeral Home, where friends may call after 2 p.m. today. Members of the Knights of Columbus will recite the Rosary at the chapel at 8:30 p.m.

today. Services will be in St. Thomas Catholic Church at 9:30 a.m. Saturday. Burial will be in Calvary cemetery.

WIEBOLDT EXECUTIVE AT RETAILERS DINNER S. J. Fosdick, vice president of the. Wieboldt Stores, Chicago, will be the principal speaker at the annual dinner meeting of Decatur retailers April 9. The meeting will be at 6:30 p.m.

in the Decatur Club. J. R. Holt is charge of arrangements. Joe Meek, president of the Illinois Federation of Retail Associations, will be toastmaster.

Ed Harris Marks Birthday, Expects Another Another birthday will roll around today for Ed Harris of 865 S. Water St. By his reckoning it will be the 116th, by the newspaper files it will be the 115th and by the Illinois Public Aid Commission records it will be the 114th. Any way you reckon it, Harris has lived to a remarkable age. He said yesterday that he was feeling pretty good and expects to be around "a long time His observations on travel, old age, and his reputation as a good shot haven't changed much.

He did say that having to pay for water is silly. General Fund Taxes $28,000 Higher--Davis The city's general fund probably will get a net increase of about $28,000 in taxes from 1952 levies collected this year, Finance Commissioner Don F. Davis said. This takes into consideration a reduction in special street taxes of about $10,000 and other costs and losses in collections. The extension of the corporate levy is $324,257, about $40,000 above the 1951 levy.

But Davis figures about a per cent loss in collection costs and delinquent taxes. Two factors enter into the reduction of the street levy, which is set at $17,928 before collection costs. One is an anticipated larger city. share of the Decatur Township road and bridge levy. The other is a lower city street levy.

The 1952 street levy is $90,000, compared with $95,000 the year before. This includes both the city's share of the township road and bridge tax and the city street levy. The city street tax extension is based on the amount needed to' make up the difference between the city's share of the township tax and the total city levy. Howard Boughn, chief tax ex-' tension deputy for County Clerk Laurence Tangney, said the city's share of the 1952 township levy should be about $75,298. Extensions of other citv-related levies, which do not contribute to the general fund: Playground and recreation, 162 (up City Public Hospital $34,459 (up Public Library $101,831 (up Police pension $22,230 (up slightly); Firemens pension $34,959 (up.

Municipal band Illinois Municipal Retirement fund Civil defense $17,000 (first levy); Central Park Bond and interest $35,497 (down noon. T. E. Brinkoetter, chairman of the County building committee, met with the citizens committee and county officials and outlined tentative plans for juvenile quarters. Rev.

Robert R. Crothers, Westminster Presbyterian Church pastor and chairman of the citizens committee, and Brinkoetter outlined the plan in a separate meeting with the family and welfare group. Alternative plans previously discarded by the building committee and county officials were discussed by the citizens committee but deemed not feasible. Plans meeting with the building committee and county officials approval would use five cells of a block in the southwest corner of the jail for keeping boy prisoners and a room west of the turnkey's office, formerly planned for hospital room, as quarters for girls. The two groups yesterday stressed that if the facilities are approved it will be on a temporary basis until other means of taking care of juveniles can be worked out on either a local or state basis.

County Judge Gus Greanias and State's Attorney Kenneth E. Evans were county officials attending the meeting. Dr. Lee Frech, head of the Council of Social Agencies also attended. Miss Carol Goldstein, Chicago, field director of the Illinois Commission on Children and Youth told the groups that the state wants to establish regional homes where juvenile cases may be handled- without children being kept in jail.

TRAFFIC ARRESTS Richard I. Grady, Rural Route 8, posted a cash bond of $14 on a charge of speeding. $25,000 COLLECTED Red Cross Needs More Residential Workers Contributions to the 1953 Red Cross fund drive yesterday reached $25,680, Chairman Walter Morey said. Of this amount, $4,624 has been raised in the residential solicitations, he said. He issued an appeal for more volunteer workers to assist in the completion of the residential campaign.

Workers are needed for about 50 city blocks, he said. The 1953 goal for Macon County is $70,800. Morey said the following firms and organizations and their emploves have contributed at least $100 each to the drive: Marvel Schebler Division of Borg- Warner Lindsay Schaub Newspapers Hotel Orlando, J. J. Moran Sons Funeral Home, Home Mfg.

Company, Huston-Patterson Illinois Bell Telephone Company, National City Lines, Liquor Company, A. E. Staley Mfg. Company, Chambers-Bering-Quinlan Company, Walrus Mfg. Company, Wagner Malleable Iron Company, Illinois Power Company, Junior Welfare League.

RECREATION PROGRAM WINS NEW ACCLAIM "Decatur's recreation facilities are always cited as a show place and now I can see why," commented W. C. Sutherland, of the National Recreation Association, after a tour yesterday. Sutherland, director of personnel for the national association, visited local recreation centers with Supt. Russell Foval and talked with board members.

He commended especially nine lighted playgrounds and the balanced distribution of centers throughout the city. The adult recreation clubs in Decatur are both unique and significant, Sutherland said. No recreation program succeeds without adult participation and good members, he added. district was voted into council bership at the meeting. Jacob Lauer, Broadwell, is chairman of the Logan district, organized last year.

The council now is composed of soil conservation district directors of Macon, Piatt, Dewitt, Champaign, Ford, McLean, Moultrie and Logan Counties. "An intensive educational program, unified in all its phases, can result in more conservation work being carried out on the farm;" Walker said. District directors have many "tools" -to do the educational job, he said. Field days, farm tours, movies, I land conservation and land use judging contests are several tools. Enlisting the cooperation of schools, ministers, vocational agriculture teachers, 4-H leaders, county Home Bureau units and business firms dealing with farmers also should be helpful in emphasizing the need for more suil and water conservation.

The educational program should be designed to awaken interest in conservation, provide farmers and farm owners with the necessary "know-how" to do the conservation job, and stimulate action in getting more conservation done, Walker said. DRAFT EXAMS Macon County draft boards sent 45 men to St. Louis yesterday for physical examinations. Most of them were in the 19-year-old age group; Board 163 supplied 18 men and Board 162 sent 27..