The Decatur Daily Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 3

Decatur, Illinois, Sunday, August 19, 1962. DECATUR SUNDAY HERALD AND REVIEW Man Fatally Shot; 2nd Held After Hour-Long Chase Ends in Capture iron block on Merchant Street -Traffic lights would traffic in the proposal made by; City Engineer, James F. estimated 55 parking spaces could be located in the southwest, northwest and southeast corners of the square and in an island extending from the flat- This sketch shows how Lincoln Square might look if the Transfer House were removed and parking spaces provided in the space made available. An New Traffic Pattern Transfer House Removal Gets Merchants' Approval pattern in the square is opposed: by businessmen in the area on grounds of inconveniences caused! persons wanting to shop in the; area. Nolan's plan includes using the southwest, southeast and north west corners of the square as parking areas set off by curbs from the regular traffic flow.

Traffic lights also would be in- stalled. The present traffic pattern, put into use in May as a test, routes southbound Main Street tlle 43 businesses interviewed 40 around the east and west sides ofsaid 11,31 business was definitely the 66-year-old building and al- dow! to the traffic pattern lows one-way only traffic west on! The other five id they didn't West Main and Past on East: know to what extent it had A 24-year-old man, arrested after an hour long chase through south Decatur yesterday, was held in city jail last night in connection with the fatal shooting of Henry Lee Tyler, 22, of 232 E. Marion St. Police Chief James H. May said John Willis Wright, of 234 E.

Marion signed a statement admitting firing three bullets at Tyler from a .22 caliber pistol. May said a warrant charging Wright with murder had been signed, and that Wright was to Annexations On Council's List Monday Six annexations, headed by one for Sylvan Shores Addition and another for Baker's Woods, which is owned by the Decatur Park District, are on the City Council agenda for Monday. The Sylvan Shores Addition is 23 acres. Plan Director Donald L. Irvin recommends that it be annexed.

Residents are seeking to come into the city mainly for water service Irvin's report indicates the area presents no health problems and the drainage and sewers are adequate. The street division foresees "long-range" repairs to streets, which are partially asphalted and partially seal coated. There are no street lights in the area. The tax revenue is estimated at $2,300 a year Gasoline tax income is estimated at $1,600. The Baker's Woods area consists of 30 acres southeast of 44th Street and Cantrell Street.

It presents some expense to the city, Irvin reports, and will produce no revenue. But he recommends annexation as necessary to permit "continual municipal growth to the south." An undeveloped tract northwest of Packard St. and Lin den owned by John L. and Lallie Johnson, is recommended for annexation A portion of 32nd Street and part of Maryland Street, at their lntersection, is recommended for annexation to allow future annexations. Two lots in the Airview Sub division, on Mount Zion Road, are recommended for annexation They are surrounded by land already in the city.

Each is less than half an acre Law on Signs Being Obeyed Substantial compliance with the city's advertising sign ordinance has been obtained, the City Council has been told. The city staff has made a report to the council about the enforce ment of the ordinance against gasoline station operators. The report noted that 24 ar rests have been made for sign violations among the city's 113 stations. Fifteen pleaded guilty. The cas es of 14 are pending.

The report said the ordinance. which was passed in 1960, is more liberal than the one on the books since 1940. be arraigned on the charge this morning. Two of the bullets struck Mr. Tyler in the midsection, police said.

Mr. Tyler died in the St. Mary's Hospital emergency room at 3:15 p.m. yesterday, about 45 minutes after the shooting which occurred in his home. More than 20 police officers participated in the manhunt through south Decatur which resulted in Wright's arrest shortly after 3:30 p.m.

The shooting, police said, resulted from an argument between the two men over what police described as a "family affair" involving Mr. Tyler's commonlaw wife. Both men have been in Decatur less than a month. Police said both apparently are from Tennessee and have been working in this area with a group of itinerant house and barn painters. Wright was captured on the second floor of a house at 639 S.

Main St. by Patrolman R. D. Whitten and Sheriffs Deputies George M. Hansen and Jay Downey.

During his flight, Wright disposed of his gun at an old abandoned coal mine between Water and Main streets near the Christy and Foltz Co. office, 740 S. Mam St. With Wright's assistance, police found the weapon about 6:45 p.m. A box of shells was discovered about 100 yards north of the aban doned gun.

During the argument between the two men, authorities said Wright suffered cuts on the head and neck. The injuries were treated at St. Mary's shortly before 5 p.m. and Wright was returned to city jail. There were indications the in juries may have been caused by a brick or some other heavy in strument, police said.

Chief May said Wright told de tectives of buying a pistol at a sporting goods store yesterday aft er an earlier argument with Mr Tyler. Police said Wright returned to the house, got into a fight with Mr. Tyler, and then pulled out the gun and shot him. Flight Begins After the shooting, Wright told police he fled through the rear door and ran north along an al ley, then west to Water Street and continued running north to the Illinois Central Railroad tracks where he abandoned the bullets and the gun. He then went to the house on Main Street where he said some friends resided.

Police meanwhile were in hot pursuit. They first had discovered Mr. Tyler's body on the front porch of the house and bad him taken to St. Mary's in an ambulance. A number of officers began fol lowing a trail left by Wright from the rear door while others started fanning out over the neighbor hood.

Police then received a tip that Wright had entered the Main Street house. The three officers who reached the house first said Wright sur rendered without a struggle. Authorities last night could not identify residents of the house. Mr. Tyler's body was taken to the J.

J. Moran Sons Funeral Home, where arrangements are incomplete. Deputy Coroner J. Earl Lynch said an autopsy will be performed today and that an inquest will be scheduled later. New School Planning in 'Idea Stage' Decatur school officials and local architects are now engaged in the "idea stage" of the proposed three new junior high schools to be voted on Oct.

9. Supt. Lester J. Grant said it Ls doubtful if any rough plans of the schools can be prepared before the $3,655,000 bond vote. Included with the bond issue will be a proposal to increase the maximum education fund tax rata 20 cents.

If the referendum passes, the estimated 7-cent bond levy for the junior highs will be included on the 1963 tax bill. The education fund tax hike would not be collected until July 1964. Grant and other school officials have been authorized by the Board of Education to confer with architects to discuss what, if any. cost cuts can be made. The board hopes to be able to hire an architect by Sept.

1. "Essential duplication" of the buildings would save the district about $65,000 in architectural fees, Grant said. The superintendent indicated that the most important design ing phase is now underway. This includes planning the buildings around their basic educational function, he said, or around the district's junior high school program. The junior high department re- resentatives and school adminis trators work with the architect in deciding such things as space re quirements.

These will definitely include a gymnasium auditorium combina tion, a cafeteria, art room, music room, library, industrial arts and home economics rooms and aca demic classrooms, he The main problem is in arriving at a plan which doesn't exceed the maximum price set by the bond issue. Grant said the costs of the build ings could vary, however, as long as the total averaged no more than $1,050,000 per building. He said it had not yet been de cided whether the schools will be one or two stories high. There have been no new junior high schools constructed in De-. catur since 1932 when Woodrow Wilson was built.

Delinquent Tax Penalty Start Delayed 5 Days Penalties will not be added to the second installment of current real estate taxes until Sept. 5, ac cording to County Treasurer Hen ry B. Curry Sr. The penalty normally begins Sept. 1 each year, but because that date is a Saturday this year, and because it begins the Labor Day holiday ending Sept 3, Curry said the deadline is being extend ed.

Bills can thus be paid without penalty at his office up to the close of business Sept. 4, he said. or by checks mailed with post marks not later than midnight Sept. 4. The initial penalty is one per cent.

It increases one per cent per month until the taxes are paid. NO PROGRESS REPORTED IN PROBE OF ROBBERIES Police yesterday reported no progress in their investigation of two Friday night armed robberies, one at the Dutch Tavern, 1381 E. Orchard St, the second at the Liquorette, 1322 E. Sangamon St, About $90 was taken in the two robberies committed by a man who disguised himself with an elastic bandage and sun glasses. Architect's sketch Merchants Say Traffic Pattern Hurts Business A decline in business reported in the Lincoln Square area has been blamed on the present traffic pattern around the Transfer House, Forty -five businesses in an area along North and South Main Street from Wood to WTilliam and East and West Main between Union and Jackson were surveyed last week by local businessmen.

Results of the survey are included in a letter to City Maa- ager John E. Dever from busi- nessmen of the south downtown area. William T. Flora, a leader of jthe group doing the survey, said changed their business. Decreases of 6.7 to 40 per cent in business were reported.

Flora said. Of those reporting a decline. he 21 of 531(3 busincss was off by more than 20 per cent because of the present traffic plan. Flora said six firms have already laid off employes and 26 of them indicated they would be forced to lay off additional employes if the traffic pattern in tha area is not changed. Thirty of the firms reported they would consider moving soon if the present pattern continues.

Flora said that all of the firms that own buildings indicated they would seek lower taxes because of the present situation. The survey was submitted in a letter to Dever Wednesday, Flora said, and has been acknowledged. The letter is to be forwarded with others to the City Council for its study. Flora said Dever indi cated. Data Process Group Elects New officers have been elected for the East Central Illinois Chapter of the Data Processing Management Association.

Formerly the National Machine Accountants Association, the organization changed its name in June at the annual board of directors meeting in New York City. The new officers of the local chapter are: Ralph H. Heicke, president, Champaign John C. Mahaffrey, vice president, Champaign Luther Landon HI, secretary, Decatur Fred Clark, treasurer, Champaign Charles P. Henderson, membership chairman, Decatur L.

D. Ater, national Decatur Charles Von Lanken, past president, Arthur.1 The chapter membership in cludes the cities of Arthur, Mat-toon, Decatur, Rantoul and Cham-paign-Urbana. Its 55 members represent 35 organizations including educational institutions, school systems, accounting firms, public utilities, manufacturing firms, computing firms, hospitals, telephone companies, insurance companies, public libraries, food companies and liquor companies. SIGN OF WINTER: CITY TO CONSIDER BUYING SNOW PLOWS, SALT The city is getting ready for winter. The City Council Monday will be asked to authorize bid-taking on two snow plows and 400 tons of treated rock salt If the two plows are purchased, they will double the size of the.

snow plow force. Two were put in use last year. The 400 tons of salt which Purchasing Agent Frank C. Lambrick is asking the council to approve represent the need for a normal winter. Speaking at the Maroa post office dedication is Sen.

Paul H. Douglas. Also on the speak- Post Offices Two U.S. Congressmen buried their politics in the mails yesterday and took part in the dedication of new post office build ings in Mount Zion and Maroa. At the same time, another legis lator, Sen.

Paul A. Douglas, said the Post Office Department was in trouble and urged a Rev. Walter F. Harris New Rector At St. Joseph The Rev.

Walter F. Harris S.J., has been installed as rector and director of retreats at St Joseph Hall, 2601 N. Union St. He succeeds the Rev. Leonard M.

Murray, S.J., who has been transferred to St Louis as an assistant pastor at St. Francis Xa- vier College. A native of Colorado, Father Harris for the past eight years has been assistant professor of theol ogy and history at Regis College, Denver, Colo. From August, 1948, to June, 1948, he was a student priest at St. Joseph Hall in Decatur.

From 1949 to 1954 he was superintendent of grounds and buildings at St. Stanislaus Seminary, Floris sant, Mo. Father Harris graduated in 1931 from Regis High School, Denver. He received his bachelor of arts degree in 1935 from St. Mary's College in California.

In 1935 he entered the Society of Jesus at St. Stanislaus Semi nary, Florissant, and was ordained into the priesthood in 1947 at St. Mary's College, St. Mary's, Kan. He has been active in retreats and parish missions and has done other pastoral work throughout the Midwest.

Herald and Review Photo 3 of is The latest plan for the future of! the Transfer House and the pro- posed new traffic plan through' Lincoln Square have been given' unanimous approval by the retail' division of the Downtown Decatur Council. As proposed by James F. Nolan, city engineer, and approv ed by the division, the plan encompasses the removal of the Transfer House from Lincoln! Square, the resumption of two-1 way trait ic on East ana west Main streets and the installation of facilities for parking 55 cars in Lincoln Square. The city Traffic and Parking Commission earlier recommended the plan and Tuesday, Association of Commerce executive secretary James F. Cannon in a talk to the Sertoma Club urged the City Council to adopt it.

The City Council is not expected to make a decision on the matter until September. The present temporary traffic Boys Home Staff House To Be Built A $41,000 contract has been awarded by the board of the Boy's Opportunity Home to con struct a new four-apartment struc ture on the grounds of the home at 1942 E. Cantrell St. Mrs. Robert H.

Mueller, presi dent of the board, said that build er Robert W. Kayhs has been awarded the contract for the 27 by 82-foot building designed by architect John F. Sweetnam. The facility, which is for staff housing, is to front on 19th Street, north of the home itself. The financing and costs will be paid out of several bequests in cluding those made in the estates of the late Kate Smith and Eliza beth Bowman.

Emanual Rosenberg, board sec retary, indicated that no part of the costs of construction of the quarters will come from oper ating funds received from the United Fund. Mrs. Mueller said there has been an urgent need for some time for better, living quarters for staff personnel at the home. She said the members of the board and the Illinois Department of Public Welfare have realized that better accommodations for some of the staff members were needed. Additional room in the home will be made available by the addition, she indicated, since space now used for staff quarters will be vacated when the new building is completed.

The board hopes that the build ing can be ready for occupancy jn November. of four-apartment facility at Boys Herald and Review Photo ers platform are, left. Bob Wilson, Maroa publisher, and Rep. William L. Springer.

Dedicated boost in second and third class mailing rates. The Mount Zion post office was dedicated at 1 p.m., and then the principals moved to Maroa for a p.m. dedication ceremony. Two-hour open houses then were held at each of the new buildings. U.S.

Rep. William L. Springer, Champaign Republican, said the two post offices were examples of bi-partisan efforts. Each of the buildings, he said, were built under a program inaugurated under a Republican postmaster general, a Democratic Congress and a Republican President. Douglas, speaking to about 200 persons in Maroa, said the Post Office Department is an "excellent illustration that government can do things extremely well." But, he added, the 1961 deficit the post office was $700 mil lion, and this year the losses would amount to $850 million.

"Taxpayers cannot be perma nently expected to pick up these costs each year," he said. Douglas urged that second and third class rates be increased. However, he rejected part of a House-passed bill that would raise about $450 million by boosting first class mail rates. "First class mail pays its own way," he said. The postal rate increases bill currently in the Senate Post Office Committee.

Bob Wilson, Maroa publisher who built the Maroa post office and who will oppose Springer in the Nov. 6 election, said, "In the ashes of the past we have attempted to build for the future." He pointed out that a black smith shop once stood on the site of the new post office building. Several hundred persons toured the post offices during ouen houses. Anthony J. Zucco is postmaster in Mount Zion, and C.

R. Hippard is the Maroa postmaster. Jaycees Ask More Deputies A request by the Decatur Jun ior Chamber ot Commerce ior more deputy sheriffs is receiving consideration. County Auditor Henry M. No vak said Circuit Judge Martin E.

Morthland had asked the fees and salaries committee of the Board of Supervisors to check the finances, with the thought in mind of in creasing the deputy force some-J what. A sheriff is not allowed to em ploy more deputies than author ized by the Circuit Court. Sheriff Emery M. Thornell is authorized to hire about 20 depu ties now. Frequently he has not used the maximum.

From time to time during his term he has placed his son-in- law, who is employed by the San Francisco Giants during the base ball season, on the payroll, in a deputy slot. He is Gene (Swed-Thompson. Novak reported the committee is studying the request from Morthland. Driver Ticketed Mac A. Shields, 19 of 1030 W.

Cerro Gordo was issued a summons for a stop light violation after a collision involving his car and one being driven by Odelia Bond, 1326 N. Railroad St, at 9:05 p.m. yesterday at Eldorado and Broadway, Main. The Transfer House was vacated April 27 by Decatur City Lines as a bus terminal and transfer point Since then it has been used only as a resting place, but, with U.S. 51 traffic flowing quickly by, its use for resting hasn't been great Several proposals for a location for the building have been voiced, but no formal action has been taken.

No Polio Cases Reported This Year or Last To date this year no cases of polio have been reported in De catur and Macon County. None was reported last year. Far from being satisfied with this record, health groups now are moving toward a mass inocu lation program designed to stamp out the crippling disease perman ently. The 13 cases reported in the city and county in 1960 pointed out to those concerned with the problem that the disease was not licked. Introduced in 1955, Salk shots were credited with an early suc cess in holding down the disease here which in 1952 and 1953 had stricken 45 and 57 persons re-J spectively.

The approval of Sabin oral vaccine for the three-types of polio has made mass inoculation pos sible. This month doctors of the Ma con County Medical Society an nounced that three mass clinics for oral vaccination against polio will be held in the county starting Oct 7. Dr. Robert V. Atz, in charge of the program for the medical so ciety, said plans are being devel oped for the clinics to be held on Sundays.

The doctors hope to attract 100, 000 persons at each of the clinics which probably will be held in! about a dozen locations. The mass clinics make the vac- cine generally available at a very small cost to cover incidental ex penses of the program. Opportunity Home Zmmm II Mk ft rnji it it I 1 1 House where fatal shooting took place.