The Decatur Daily Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 20

Decatur, Illinois, Monday, February 7, 1955. THE DEC A TUR RE VI EW TWENTY PAGES TODAY. Vote Machine Costs to Be Second Series on Honeywell Cat Soon Out Board Top Til Mrs. Thelma Entler, occupational therapist at Decatur and Macon County Hospital, shows some patient handuraft work' 5-Day Week Agreed to By 44-hour week and cumulative sick pay for employes of the city street and water depart ments was agreed to today by City Council members. Mayor Robert Willis, told representatives of the employes union the Councilihen were not disposed to argue about sick leave and the five-day week He raised a question about set ting job standards, particularlyj physical examinations, tor ruture employes.

However discussion of this was postponed when' union spokesman C. Groeteke of Spring field said the union intends to make a future proposal for a civil service system for city employes, The sick pay provision will be made' retroactive to last -May' 1. The work week agreed to. today .1 1 1 win oe basically tour -nme-nour days -and one eight-hour' day per week. However die union agreed with Street Commissioner Lyle Kirby and Water.

-Commissioner Homer L. Chastain that schedules will have to be drawn to allow for round-the-clock duty by some em I he union spokesmen indicated that their next demand will be for a five-day 40-hour week with reduction in the present wi'ge level. City. State Sharts On 38 Work Apprirei A resolution setting forth the the terms of the city and state's shares of the, new Route 36 cut-off was approved today, by the City Council. The state wijl survey, make the plans, award contracts, supervise construction and pay alt nght-ot-wav costs.

The city will pay about half the estimated $900,000 cost, prohibit parking on- the new- street from 20th Street to the city limits arid pay for traffic signals, Annual Honor Carl R. Miller today was named chairman of a committee to choose the Community Chest's "honored member" for 1955. Charles L. Shaffer, Chest presi announced the appointment. Miller was also in charge of the committee which last year selected Mrs.

Cecil M. Jack as the tint woman to receive the award. -Othet members of Miller's com mittee are: Mrs. Victor Dewein Rev. Msgr.

George H. Powell R. C. M. Kraabel C.

Qouse This be the sixth year of the annual award, founded to rec ognize' a lifetime of sen-ice to the health and welfare of the community. The "honored member" will -be named at the' annual Chest -meeting, 16 in the YVVCA. Previous winners were: Frank E. James M. Allen, 1951 W.

M. Wood; 1952 Frank M. Lindsay, 1953 Mrs. Cecil M. Jack, 1954.

DiserdeHy Fiiies Ray Willis, 45, and his wife, Stella, of 710V4 Broadway, were fined $28)20" each for disorderly conduct; following- their arrest Saturday night. -They were arrested on complaint by Norman, 710 N. Broadway. Nam and its problems before various and school groups. She was scheduled to.

talk today. at the UTsuiine Academy in Springfield and will appear at St. Teresa High School tomorrow. The pro-Western and pro-Communist regimes which now split Viet Nam between them have agreed to -an election in 1956 under neutral supervision, said and expressed the belief that City mittee, is next to Mrs. Entler 'and 'John Donovan, presi dent of the League, is third from left in the front' row.

Herald and Review Photo) Mrs. Roppa Is iator Appointment of Mrs. Samuel Roppa, 1790 W. Packard as' a special investigator in juvenile mat ters, was announced today by State's Attorney Kenneth E. Evans.

The appointment is for a part- time position in which Mrs. Roppa will make investigations for the state's attorney office, preliminary Mrs. SamDel i. Roppi to the filing of dependency or de linquent petitions in County Court. Mrs.

Roppa, the former Mar-jorie Dejarnette, is a former presi dent of v'the Oak Grove Parent-Teacher Association and a-commit tee chairman in the Decatur Cir' Council of PTA. She also is active in Girl Scout worL Mr." and Roppa have two Miss Vondell Toyner, 901 Franklin St-, previously-' was-" appointed to a similar part-time position by Evans. 200 NEW MEMBERS SIGN FOR AMERICAN LEGION About 200 Decatur area veter ans have joined Castle Williams Post 105 of the American Legion in the current membership drive tor 300 members by the post. The' drive will close tonight with a public stag party at Dance- land, where the Legion members hbpe to the needed 100 new members to meet their goal. About 60 new members joined! at a party Friday nighty in the Legion Hall.

The others have been recruited by teams working throughout the city. -The 300-member loal was' set to bring the post's-membership-up to the "1954 average leveL of 1,665 --v Investis 3 Tighter Bean Grading Set For Hearing A nroDosal to tighten officii! sovbean grading standards will be given a public hearing by the U. S. department ot Agriculture Jjere next week. The hearing, set for 2 p.

m. Feb. 15 in the Hotel Orlando ballroom, is for area fanners, elevator operators and processors to give their views on the plan. Jason E. Ban, chief; of the USDA grain inspection department, will come from Washing ton, D.

C. to conduct the hearing. John. V. McDonald, area grain supervisor, said suggestions to tighten up soybean grades came mainly from the American Soybean Growers Association, which is interested in getting a bigger ex port market for American soy beans.

Foreign buyers used to hand- harvested beans from oriental countries have been critical of weed seed and fore nm materia content of American beans. McDonald said Illinois soybean growers probably wouldn't be af fected greatly by the higher grade requirements because their beans are better than average. Beans grown in theT southern part of the soybean belt are generally of lower quality and mostly exported because it more' profitable than shipping by rail to processors up north. K. J.

Maltas, manager of the A. E. Staley Mfg. Company grain department, said growers have been seeking' tighter grading requirements for some Their argument is that the farmer with soybeans having one per cent weed seed content and 12 per cent moisture is penalized bv looser grades permitting poorer quality beans to be mixed with- his and sold at the same price. iTighter grades would mean better pay for the better beans, less for the poorer beans, thev figure.

Country and terminal elevator operators generally oppose the tighter grading because it' would create a big grading job for them. Now they are able to classify beans by taking a look at them. There is more leeway. Maltas said processors are favor able to the change, although they don't have to buy by grades. They buy beans of the quality they want, testing and discounting prices for foreign moisture content or poorer quality.

Stricter grading they consider a step in the! right direction. Warren E. Myers, Macon County farm adviser, said all farmers don't agree on the plan. Many, he taken cleaners off of their combines because they can get by with a larger amount of foreign material in their soybeans. There isn't any incentive to produce cleaner beans unless there is promise of higher price.

Some farmers figure cleaner beans wouldn't bring a premium and they would lose on the weight of foreign material. The Farm Bureau doesn't plan to take a position in the hearing, although the state organization probably will. The Association of Commerce grain weighing and inspection committee won't participate in the hearing. Two proposals for grading standard changes have been made. One would cut the foreign matter limit in each grade one per cent, reduce moisture of No.

1 grade from 13 to 12 per cent, provide special limits on heat-damage in each grade, classify green-coated, yellow-centered beans as green, and count only otherwise undamaged beans as "splits." The other proposal would cut the moisture content only in the first three grades, one per cent in grades 1 and 3 and Vi per cent in grade 2. Next week's hearing is public. Any interested person can give cither an oral or written statement. It is one of two in Dlinois, the other one in. Chicago Thursday.

Several others are being held in other states. Agents Meet A four-county meeting of agents of the Pana-Hillsboro Cyclone Mutual Insurance Company will be held tomorrow in the Hotel St. Nicholas, beginning at 10:30 a.m. Morning and afternoon meetings, will be held to instruct the agents and acquaint them with new information about the- firm. The district president, H.

F. Hof-erkamp of Hillsborb, will speak at a noon luncheon in the hotel. About 35 to 40 agents are expected to attend from Macon, Piatt, Christian and Dewitt which told about DeeDee and her trip to the North Woods with, her master, David, and his family, was published Iasr.falL Mrs. Honeywell bases the stories on her own' The Honeywells have for many summers, visited, the. North and her farm series will be based on her own life as a child on a Kansas y- A hard-covered book containing a- song about DeeDee and the fust three stories is.

scheduled for publication this, spring also, Mrs. Honeywell reports. Mrs. Honeywell has oeerr mak ing numerous speaking appearances before church croups in Decatur and -other nearby towns to tell the DeeDee stories; Normin Gori Gore Named By Governor To Committee Norman J. Gore, assistant su perintendent Decatur has been named by William G.

Stratton to a. state committee to study educational problems! The 50-member committee will compile reports on problems in cluding building needs, teacher shortages and school financing throughout, the state and will submit, the' reports and recommendations at a White" House conference on education to be held later this year. AJIC LfCUllU buiuui man Will i yanix. Association I 'l for Supervision and Curriculum Development on the state commit tee. Core, who has been assistant superintendent has been" president of the IASCD for the past year.

He has been with the. Decatur schools' since l936, starting as sci-ehce teacher and assistant princi pal at Centennial Junior High School." He principal of Durfee School in 1941, and prin cipal, of Johns Hill Junior School in' there un til hrs appointment as assistant su perintendent. He also, has' been active in De catur affairs, serving on the Boy bcout. board, Jhe Public, Library bdard, the- Council of Social Agencies, the Family Service board and the. Council, on as well in various protessional organizations, Heading the state yrill' "be Vernon- L.

Fleafh, Robin- Sbri candy who'has active in "state 'Chamber 'of OMnmercei; educational and. is" prominent "nationally a lay speaker on educational prob- school man-; ap pointed A' Boza'rth of Tus-cplsj" Dbuglai; County superintend-' ent oi scnoois, of vsta. iCharleston. "will represent the state! teachers' colleges, on the commit the tee: -Kepresentiiig the Illinois School Problems Commission, which re caused much' furor among local and state-- school' peo ple with its recommendations for reduced state aid, Rep Uiarles wlabaugh. ot Champaign David Davis-of Blooro- ihgton.

Stratton, who' announced his appointees to the -state commit tee in. a press conference this will serye as. chairman ot the Illinois delegation to. Presi dent-Eisenhower's White House Vice-chairmen wilt be Vernon Nickell, state superintendent ot schools, and Dr. B.

Dodds, dean of the University of Illinois College, of Education. Breaks Lef- Adolph Busch, 940 Riverside suffered' leg fracture at 9:15 p. m. yesterday in a fall in the .1100 block East Cleveland Avenue. j1'' ll "Ml i Dee Dee the calico cat will- visit the farm soon, and, next spring children who went with her to the North Woods will be able to go along with her to the farm.

Mrs. Sylvia Honevwell, wife of the pastor of Decatur's Grace Methodist Church, reports that she has just sent- the-, manuscripts for her next series or lJeeDee books to the publisher! -The artist is scheduled to begin work on them immediate ly and. they will be published in the spring. Mrs. Honeywell has used her own cat, the spectacular-looking.

tricolored Dee Dee, as the heroine in the books, which seek to teach lessons of good character and con duct to youngsters. Jhe hrst series of. three books, The high pressure gas main run ning beneath the: alley in the 1500 block East Wood Street, which leaked gas causing an explosion Thursday, afternoon, is. repaired and back in service now, H. K.

Williams, area supervisor -of the Illinois Power Company, said to A braass gas main was installed Saturday morning to take pressure off the mam pipe, and repair crews went to work. Williams, said one leak was found, in the electrical welding of two sections of the steel pipe. The leak was repaired yesterday, the main put. back use, and crews are now removing the bypass main and "cleaning up, said. Williams estimatedithat the pipe had been leaking for no more than two days; -since the regular; patrol of the high pressure, mains by Illi nois Power employes had -covered the sound, only a few days before.

He said that the frozen ground had hampered the diffusion of the gas underground, and had possibly allowed the explosive concentra tion of gas to build up undetected. The explosion, apparently spark ed by static electricity, completely destroyed the garage ot Mike Jfap-pas of. l5Q2.E.vWoot! when Pappas entered the garage and opened the door of his car. Pappas received first and second degree burns on his face and hands. Williams noted that leaks in high pressure mams have been dis covered before, "perhaps- a half dozen over.

the state in my experi are usually caught be fore gas escapes, he added, because the. pressure in the main drops. Regular patrols of the mains are also maintained. Action Hit Another, -land owner today asked dismissal of la Circuit Court, condemnation suit, of the School Board on the ground that the Board filed the action in violation of regulations of the City The defendant is Emma Keck, owner of three-fifths interest in a 30 acre tract sought for school purposes. The school district owns the other two-fifths interest.

It. is contended that the land -is not necessary for the contemplated use-and that school authorities did not make a bonafide effort to acquire the property through; negotiation. i The alleeation of violation of the City Plan iV based on a claim that the School Boord should submit its building plans for approval Under the. City Plan. LAWYERS HEAR TALK ON JUDICIAL ARTICLE Rubin University of Illinois College of Law professor, was.

scheduled to speak at 3 p. m. today in a. meeting of Decatur lawyers! in -the. County.

Building. The meeting was arranged for discussion of the proposed new judicial, article of the state constitu tion. Prof; Cohn is secretary- of the; joint of- the Chi cago, and Illinois Bar. Associations supporting -revision of the Fined After Accident Joseph' H. Robinson', 46, of 253 E.

Keller Lane, "was fined $38.20 yesterday for leaving the scene of an accident in which his car hit a parked car in the 2100 block North v.Main Street. The warrant was issued on complaint by Downer Kinney, 612; S. 16th St. Robinson was arrested at .1 a yesterday in -a restaurant in the 1900 block North Main Street, after police received a telephoned report the accident from an unidentified persoru Is Rep 1 ic Maintenance, storage and trans portation costs, as well as initial purchase prices of voting machines appear to be of duet interest to members of the County Board of Supervisors. A committee, of the board, head ed by- Webber Botchers, is expect ed to have a report on voting machines ready for the March meeting.

In a recent visit to Rock Island, where machines are used. the Borchers committee was-told that maintenance costs for Rock Island County '-s 165 machines' amount' to from $50 to $100 a year. But, County Auditor Henry M. Novak, has a financial statement for Rock Island County, which shows $1,449.75 spent last year for maintenance of the machines. Storage costs the machines and other incidental costs, apparently including transportation, to and trom polling -places, cost $3,229 tor the year.

Each machine weighs approxi mately 1,000 pounds, Novak said. flanciles are provided for four persons to lift them. Use of machines eliminates the need of ballots for candidates in a general election, but ballots are required for "Blue Ballot" proposals, Novak said. The number of precinct election judges and clerks is the same under machine voting. Rock Island County bought ma chines in 1-941 at a cost of $1,200 each, using a bond issue for fi nancing.

Last year the cost of bond retirement and interest was $.13,750. JOHN BALAM0S HAS CHORAL WORK PUBLISHED John Balamos, Decatur musician, has had his third sacred choral work accepted for publication. Written especially for, and dedicated to, the Decatur High School choir, the work is a four-part Christmas number done in fairly traditional style. Titled "What Star Is it has a text taken from a Latin poem Balamos discovered translated in a poetry book. The -work, is currently being prepared for publication by the Kama Company of California, a Dublishino boiiv tnr cmA Morris Nolaiid, director of the DHS VA" chofr, in which Balamos once sang, has seen the number, Balamos reports, and plans to use it next Christmas season.

Balamos, who is the son of Mrs. P. J. 162 E. Grand studied at the Indiana University School of Music.

He is currently devoting most of his time to writing. NEW PRINTING FIRM GETS STATE CHARTFR The secretary of state Thursdav issued a charter to Imperial Print ing, Inc with 1,000 shares of no-par-value common stock author Officers are Ralph E. Grossman, president; Herman W. Dom. vice president; and John R.

White of BJoomington, secretary-treasurer. Dr. Dom said the firm is an in dependent subsidiary of Picture Craft Company, started in handling the special printing needs of the Decatur, firm, and is now branching out with Bloomingtou headquarters to serve other It is chartered for general adver tising, pnntmg, lithography, color work, and manufacture of advertising (CMT 1 1.MU rUK DRIVE IS TUESDAY ine second report meeting of the current YMCA membership drive will be held at a dinner at 6 m. tomorrow in the YMCA, with Dr. J.

Walter Malone, president' of. Millikin Universit', as principal speaker. So far, 83 new members have been recruited, with a total of in fees collected. The membership drive is beino em. duaed on a roundup then in "Big Boss" Ralph Coburn.

About 150 drive workers are expected to attend tomorrow's meeting, as ''bosses, foremen and Sift Is Held Sheriff C. Peebles mA. was holding a safe found yesterday in a ditch one mile north of El- win. Possibility was seen that it is sate, recently stolen from th. Drake Auto Auction sales room, 2904 N.

Oakland Ave. A representative of the auction company was expected to view the safe tn. day. The door of the safe is miss-. igue Makes Tour Twenty-four members of the League of Women Voters today were touring Decatur's family, dependency, and some of the health agencies.

I he tour was sponsored' by the Council of Social Agencies. Robert L. assistant executive secretary, escorted the part)'. I pis morning they visited the Illinois Public Aid Commission, Decatur and Macon County Hos pital and the Community Clinics, and -the Salvation Army I- At the salvation Armv, where the group stopped for lunch, representatives of Family Service and Catholic Charities explained their programs. This afternoon the group was to visit the Day Nursery and the Cvirls Welfare Home.

Later tours will be arranged for other Decatur agencies. Robert L. Staley, executive sec retary of the council, pointed out that the conducts a con tinuing study of the agencies' pro grams, and finances and coordinates activities. according to is the smallest tit; to- have' a Community Clinics; is the smallest city to have adequate Day. Nursery program, and that few cities of Decatur's size have either a boys home or girls home, while Decatur has both.

iroves Bond Ballot The City Council this" morning approved an ordinance which calls a referendum on a bond issue for financing a' on East Grand Avenue and an overpass on East Oartield Avenue, both across the Illinois Central railroad- The referendum will be March 15. The voters will be asked to empower the city to issue in bonds to finance the two projects. Backing the bonds will be the city's power to levy taxes to retire them. The City Council has promised, however, that the bond issue will be retired from- state gas tax money returned to the city. A resolution to that effect has' been adopted by the Council.

ORAS.H VICTIMS' BODIES, ARE SENT TO ALABAMA The bodies of three persons killed 'Saturday -morning -in an 'automobile crash, "near Macon; Iyer? taken, today from' the At" Memory lal Home, to; funeral home in Halewille, for serv ices and burial in neU f-. mm to members the League- tf Women -Voters, who toured various welfare and health agen cies -today. Ayrlie Morris, chairman of the welfare 'com- Two Little Words Make Big Difference In City Ordinance Among the business at today's' City Council meeting was a doc--ument described as amending the citv zoning ordinance. After City Clerk J. W.

Loftus droned his way through it several thousand words Corporation Counsel Byron M. Merris explained that two words had been added. These words were: "or The law allowed any city, county, state or federal agency could build a building in; residential zones with permission of the City Council. The now allows the same condition for any building "or structure." Merris' explained that the city is going to have to build an elevated watertank 1 somewhere in the northwest part of town and wants to be sure it fits in with the zoning law. Dimes Block To Continue Members of Oren L.

Davis Post 99, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and its auxiliary will continue la build their "Block of Dimes" on Decatur streets tonight for the Macon County March of Dimes fund. Saturday, $565 was raised by the veterans and their wives as they campaigned for funds in the 300 block North Water Street. The Post started the drive with 70, $1 bills taped end to end. Last year, the two-day Block of Dimes campaign raised $1,185. VFW chairman for the- campaign this yeas is Don Peterson.

MRS. AUTEN RITES TO BE IN CERR0 GORDO Funeral services for Mrs. Daisy May Auten, 85, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday' in the Freese Funeral Home, Cerro with burial in Cerro Gordo Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.

Auten died Saturday in Detroit, where she- had lived 20 years. She leaves eight children, -14 grandchildren and three sisters. FRED HALE TO FILE FOR SUPERVISOR POST Fred -H. Hale; Decatur Township 'justice of. the peace, said today he will file later this week as a candidate fori the Republican, nominafipti far Decatur Township supervisor.

'i The- deadline for-tfiling is Friday. The COP. Caucus is Feb. 19. Hale will oppose Supervisor R.

F. Johnson, who-is a candidate-for IW1 WIUfllAA I JON PROGRAM IS SCHEDULED Parents of pxe-school age- chil dren Mt. Zipn Community Unit School District wh wish to have their children iij the immunization program 'Should register the children at 'one of the dis-. trict grade schools by Feb. 9.

Immunizations ce 'given Feb. 17, March 17 and1 April 14 for diphtheria, 'whooping eddgh, tetanus and Fhere-' will be a small cost. -1 Linf Creek Caocos Loiig Creek Tovvnship; Demo- cratic caucus will be" from 2 to 5 p.m. Feb. 19 in the tpwn hall.

Candidates for road commissioner and cemetery trustee will be nominated. Candidates should inform committeemen by 6. p.m. Feb. 12.

Sought Roommate of Decaturian Visits Here utv' wiwii nwv fg-r Pomnwtign and re-elec- Miss Nguyen thi Ky-My; of the I'ndochiriese state of Viet Nam, spoke at services-' yesterday in St. Patrick Catholic Church and sought financial and -technical, aid for a "refugee center be organized in Saigon: Appearing, at St. Church with hef'-were, the Rev Truohg, priest and a iNorthxvestem Universitv student from' Viet Nam, and Miss Gloria WattS, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Watts :Sr.i- 279 Victoria AvieVV.

'r'- lliss and Ky-My have bn-rx)ominatesat the International. Catholic i' Auxiliaries training center twhicago: Mlss Watts is a registered nurse. "Ky-My will eturn to Viet Nam at the end of the month as head of a team or educational and social workers trained by the Inter national Catholic Auxiliaries. She is" speaking meanwhile on Viet Cummin'gs, 1, and Steve Martin, Five nthp Knrt r' are in St. Mary's Hospital They are Mrs.

Bertie, Gum: mmgs, 40, Kocktord, tyite: of James, in. fair condition; -I Irs. Clynda Cummings, Velma Martin, 23, fair and Low-elr Roberts, 2S, in good co'nditfon, all of jPfftckford; and Joseph Laurent)', "23, Inking, in -gofed condi tion. Laurentv- was tra'velirig'alone. All the others were in the same' car.

14 Drillinf Permits Fourteen drilling permits' were issued to Macon-Christian CbUntv prospectors in Januarj-, the state Division of Oil and Gas reports. Macon County permits were for three wildcat vells. Christian County permits were for seven pool and four wildcat wells. the Communists will be defeated. ''Communists are in the minority in Viet Nam," she said.

"They were the leaders of the fighting, but their forces made up mainly of non-Communists who believed were fighting for independence." The refugee center to be organized by Ky-My and her teanv'will accommodate about 300 young women students, "who have fled North Viet Nam. It will seek to let them complete their educations free from Communist controL.