Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 3

LOCAL Decatur, Illinois, Monday, June 22, 1953. DECATUR HERALD Out of Car, Killed Square Dancing Lessons Draw Big Attendance; Park Activities Listed Square dancing lessons at the cording to Mrs. Thelma Fem1, di- CltV plavgTOUnuS arc uiiwigjic.ii. iic iiapicjicu a Set High Goals, 400 at Union Services Told The Christian lives a triumphant expressing thanks to the Decatur Lions Club for milk furnished for the children's noon meal. Children from French, Dennis, and Monroe Parks will visit the Day Camp todav.

Groups from Hess and Jasper playgrounds will camp Tuesday. Baton twirlers at Garfield Park will have a lesson at 1:30 p. m. today. Miss Marilyn Lewis, baton instructor, will be at Johns Hill at 9 a.

m. Tuesday and at Galloway Park at 10:45 a. m. i of Oreana, hit an embankment and rolled over coming to rest on the opposite shoulder in this position. Driver, 19, Held After Accident fcldin G.

Berg, 19, of Rural Route 4, was arrested yesterday onthe y0 ppfe. Miss Elizabeth a charge of reckless driving follow- jEastnarn president of the Youth ing an accident at 499 S. Franklin ave the Bible reading and Free tennis lessons will be at Fairview and Lincoln Parks today. Duane Garver, tennis instructor, will be at Fairview at 9 a.m. and at Lincoln at 10:30 a.m.

Tuesday tennis lessons will be at Garfield and Hess courts. During the first week of the play ground schedule 32 teams were organized for the Little Decatur Baseball League. Eighteen teams have been organized for the Little Bigger League tor older boys. Play the newly organized Little Bigger League starts this week. The Wednesday night band con cert by the Decatur Municipal Band will be in Torrence Park this week.

FOUR HURT IN CRASH Dewitt County Teenagers Injured As Car Overturns Kenney, June 20 (Staff) Four teenagers were hurt, one seriously, about midnight Friday when their car overturned twice on a gravel road three miles west of kenney. All the injured were treated in John Warner Hospital, Clinton. The injured were: Floyd Harris, 17, Clinton, driver of the car, son of Mr. and Mrs. Orron Harris, broken right collar bone, cuts, bruises; Richard Ziegler, 17, Clinton, son of Mr.

and Mrs. William Ziegler, cuts, bruises, shock; Miss Norma Jean Burdine, 16, Kenney, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Burdine, skull fracture, cuts, bruises; Miss Betty Sutton, 16, Kenney, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Wayne Sutton, broken jawbone, cuts, bruises. Miss Burdine wis the most seriously injured. Fined as Disorderly Claude W. Stone, 21, of 252 S. Broadway, was fined $24.20 for disorderly conduct after his arrest by police.

Cenois 'Hams' Hold Test For Preparedness Members of the Cenois Amateur Radio Club of Decatur contacted stations in all parts of the nation heavy attendancet according to re creation leaders. Neil Ewing. square dance in structor, is visiting several playgrounds daily to organize the groups and start their practice periods. His schedule tor today is: 1 1 5 p.m. Eldorado School.

1:45 p.m. Excelsior South School. 2:30 p.m. Brush College No. 2.

3:15 p.m. Grant Park. A new movie bill opens at dark today in Hess Park. The feature film is "The Gladiator" and there are short subjects to complete a 90-minute show. The free movie continues through the week at other lighted parks.

Day campers this week will em phasize a "Thank You" theme, ac- With the Colors Hauck Starts Duty in Korea Cpl. Robert Hauck, whose wife, Rosettia, lives at 1627 E. Eldorado recently arrived in Korea. He has been assigned as a wire-man with the 45th Infantry Division's 45th signal company. Cpl.

Hauck entered the Army in Febru ary, 1952. A son of Arthur Hauck, 220 26th he attended Johns Hill Junior High School and formerly was employed by the Wabash Railroad. David L. Mayberry Sgt. lc David L.

Mayberry, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Noah D. Mayberry of Rural Route 3, has arrived in Korea for his second tour of duty in the Far East. Sgt.

Mayberry entered the Army in July, 1948, and already has four campaign stars on his Korean Service Ribbon. He is assigned with the 7th Infantry Division in a headquarters and service company of the 13th engineer combat battalion Charles A. McCulloueh Cpl. Charles A. McCullough, whose wife lives in Deland, recently graduated as an honor stu dent from the 8th Army Ordnance School in Korea.

A former employe of the Wil kinson Lumber Company in Be-ment, Cpl. McCullough entered the Army December, and arrived in Korea a year later. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Earn McCullough of Bement.

John W. Richardson Pvt. John W. Richardson, whose wife, Joyce, lives on Rural Route 7, -im has been trans- ferred to Camp 1 ton, for four weeks of individual combat training. He recently com training San Diego Mar ine Corps Recruit Depot, Calif.

Pvt. Richardson, a son of Mrs. L. C. Trueblood of 3815 E.

Cerro Gordo enlisted in the Marines in March. He attended Lakeview High School and was employed as a millwright in Joppa. Jesse L. Williams Airman 3c Jesse L. Williams, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Sam Williams, Rural Route 8, has entered the airplane and en gine mechanic school at Shep-pard Air Force Base, Tex. Airman Williams entered the Air Force on Feb. 23. leted basic at the life by lifting his vision to a high goal and rising above trivial details, according to the Rev.

Jay M. Logan. The Rev. Mr. Logan spoke to about 400 persons at union services in Fairview Park last night.

He cited the Pharisees of Jesus' time as an example of people who place tre mendous importance upon rnvia and lose sight of the really important things in life. Tesus was not a revolutionist but an evolutionist, he said. He didn't urge the breaking of laws but he asked his followers to exceed them. "Like the currently popular rec ord, the Pharisee had his book of le and he believed that if 'It's in the book' then nothing else mat ters." he said. "Jesus asked his fol lowers to covet trie book of law with a mantle of love." The Christian life is more than conforming to rules, according to the Rev.

Mr. Logan. It transforms the believer and asks him to exceed the limits of the laws in righteous living. TKp dM-nnd in the summer series was charge of Flovd Stradley ottered trie prayer. Robert Emery sang a special solo anthem and the Decatur Municipal Band plaved for congregational hvmns following its concert.

MRS. BERTHA SADOWSKI, I ILL THREE MONTHS, DIES Mrs. Bertha Augusta Sadowski, 83, a Decatur resident since 1941, died at 8:15 a. m. yesterday in the home of her daughter, Mrs.

Margaret Kupisch, 1235 E. Grand Ave. She had been in failing health for several years and seriously ill for three months. Mrs. Sadowski came to Decatur from Springfield in 1941.

She made her home with her daughter here. She was born in Friederichshafen, Germany, on Oct. 23, 1869, a daughter of the late Gottlieb and Henrietta Kunz. She was married to John Sadowski in Germany in 1894. He died in January, 1941.

Besides her daughter, she leaves a granddaughter, Judy Ann Kupisch, Decatur, and two nieces, Mrs. Bertha Eisenhoff, Springfield, and Mrs. Anna Schmidt, Niagara Falls, N. Y. The body is in the J.

Moran Sons Funeral Home where friends mav call between 2 and 10 p. m. today. The body will be taken to the Kunz Funeral Home in Springfield where funeral services will be held at 1:30 p. m.

Tuesday. Burial will be in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield. MRS. CAROLINE C. SIMS DIES IN LOS ANGELES Mrs.

Caroline Cothron Sims, 72, of Los Aneeles, formerly of De catur, died last week, according to information received by Decatur relatives last night. The body will be returned to the J. J. Moran Sons Funeral Home. Mrs.

Sims was born in Decatur, Sept. 21, 1880, a daughter of the late Henry and Caroline Cothron. She moved to California in 1917. She is survived by a sister, Mrs. Lillian Tohnston and two nephews, Harry and Ray Underwood, all of Decatur.

Three brothers and two sisters preceded her in death. Services will be at 10 a. m. Thursday in Morah's chapel. Bur ial will be in Greenwood Ceme tery.

Friends may call after 4 p. m. Wednesday. 'Hams' Operate Summer Starts; Cooler Weather Seen for Today Summer arrived officially yesterday with a breeze which brought some relief from Saturday's 105-de-gree heat. During tlie last three weeks of Spring there were 1 1 days with maximum readings of 90 degrees or more.

Yesterday's high temperature was 94. Decatur's honest dav in 1952 was a lua-degree reading on juiv The June maximum readings for 1952 show 17 days when the thermometer went over the 90-degree mark. There were 101 and 103 readings during the last week of June, 1952. Weather records show a hot June in 1936 with a top of 103 degrees late in the month. In 1934 there were 104-degree readings early in June and two 105-degret days.

Record books with complete data back as far as 1894 show only 12 years in the 60 that had June tem peratures over the 100-degree mark. Forecasts for today predict some what cooler weather in Central Illi nois with high temperatures in the middle 80s. YOUTH, 19, INJURED Motorcycle Throws Him Into Pit At Gas Station Bruce Ditzler, 19, of 512 E. King suffered a dislocated elbow and a leg cut yesterday when his motor cycle went out of control and threw him into a grease pit. The accident happened about 6 p.m.

at the Cities service station at North Main and King Streets where he works. Ditzler told his mother, Mrs. James Stockdale, 512.E. King, that he had been working on the machine near the pit, trying to get it to idle. The clutch slipped and the ma chine ran forward, throwing Ditzler into the pit.

The motorcycle fell in also but missed him, Mrs. Stockdale said. He was taken to Decatur and Ma con County llospital in a J. J. lloran fic sons ambulance.

MRS. DORA KELLEY, 84, DIES; RITES TUESDAY Mrs. Dora Kelley, 84, of 443 N. Morgan Sl, died at 6:45 a. mi yesterday in Decatur and Macon County Hospital.

She came to Decatur 30 years ago from Shelbyville and was a member of the Baptist Church. She was born in 1869, a daugh ter of the late Mr. and Mrs. foe Basil. She was married to Daniel Kelley.

He died in 1931. Surviving are two sons, Olan and William, and a daughter, Mrs. Beu-lah Smallwood, all of Decatur. One son, Orville Kelley, was killed when he was struck by a car at IVyckles Corner last Feb. 22.

The body is in the J. J. Moran Sons Funeral Home where friends may call after 5 p. m. today.

Funeral services will be at 10 a. m. luesday in the runeral home. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery. OFFICERS WIN CHASE AFTER SUSPECT FLEES John Russell Voiles, 25, of 872 S.

Jackson Sl, was jailed on a charge of disorderly conduct follow ing a disturbance Saturday night in the Fair Tavern, 121 E. Mam St. The complaint was made by O'- Dell Hatfield, tavern proprietor. He said Voiles disregarded orders to stay out of the tavern. The police were called.

As they were taking Voiles out of the tavern he pushed customers between himself and the officers and fled. The officers caught him at Water and Washington Streets. Prowler Reported A prowler was reported in the apartment at 414 W. North St. Saturday night.

Police were notified by M. J. Lowry, 412 W. North St. A screen had been removed from a window and the window lock broken.

Since the occupant of the apartment was out of town it could not be determined if anything was taken. 2 Arrested for Fighting Hile Jackson, 27, of 1128 S. Dorenda Sl; and John Everett Rhind, 33, of 359 E. Marion were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct early yesterday. They were taken into custody in the 400 block of South Franklin Street where police said they were fighting.

Rhind pleaded guilty and was fined $15.40. Parking Lot to Open Tuesday The city parking lot will be opened Tuesday morning, police said. It has been closed since last Monday for surfacing with asphalt. Mrs. Lane, 67, Killed in Crash Near Oreana Mrs.

Gertrude Lane. 67. of 1745 E. Eldorado vas killed about 10 a. m.

yesterday when the car in which she was riding left, the road and turned over north of Oreana. Her husband, Justin (Pug) Lane 67, who was driving, suffered shoulder injury, cuts and bruises, A Wabash Employes Hospital at tendant said Lane was resting comfortably last night. Lane has been Wabash conductor for 49 years. The Lanes were going south on Routes 47 and 48 about two miles north of Oreana. The car ran off the highway and travelled about 210 feet.

It hit a slight embank ment and veered back toward the pavement, sheriff's deputies said, The car turned over and either lolled or skidded about 120 feet back across the highway, coming to rest on the opposite. shoulder of the Mrs. Lane was thrown from the ear which probably turned over several times. Coroner Harold Brintlinger said she probably died of head injuries. Lane, in dazed condition, crawled through the broken wind shield.

He was met by C. W. Berry and Norman Rowe, both of Argent who were working in nearby fields and saw the car turn over. There were no other cars in sight, Berry said. Close friends of the couple said they were returning from a vist with Mrs.

Lane's sister, Mrs. Lula Hip-pensteel of near Peru, Ind. The body is in Brintlinger's Funeral Home. Burial arrangements are incomplete. There will be an inquest.

Mrs. Lane was bom in Mattoon on April 23, 1886, and was married to Lane on Dec. 18, 1905. She was a member of St. Paul's Methodist Church, the Order of Eastern Star, the White Shrine of Jerusalem, Leighton Court No.

1, Order of Amaranth and the Rebecca Lodge. She also was president of the auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Railway Conductors and a member of the Railway Firemen's Auxiliary. Her husband and sister are the only survivors. JAMES L. HARLEY, 50, ILL TWO YEARS, DIES James Lesley Harley, 50, of 537 E.

Marietta died at 7 a. m. vesterday in the Macon County Home Hospital. Formerly an employe of Stauber's Store, Mr. Harley had been in failing health for about two years.

He was a patient in St. Mary's Hospital until Saturday when he was moved to the Macon County Home Hospital. He was born in Lewisport, on Aug. 6, 1902, a son of the late Dee and Mattie Adams Harley. He was married to Pearl Jones.

She died in 1941. He is survived by a sister, Mrs, Coldie Creason, Warrensburg, and three brothers, Ewing, Decatur; Elmer, Springfield and Leroy, Litchfield. The bodv is in the T. T. Moran It Sons Funeral Home where friends may call after 3 p.

m. today. Funeral services will be at 3 cm Tuesday in the funeral home. Burial will be in Boiling Springs Ceme NEW METHODIST CHURCH HOLDS FIRST SERVICES Sixty-seven persons attended the first services held in the new Christ Methodist Church yesterday. The Rev.

Ralph E. Jasper's first sermon topic was "Honor and Responsibility." He anH Mrs. Jasper moved into the second floor of the old mansion Friday. The new church is the former Percy B. Sullivan home at 1600 Grand Ave.

Two new members joined the church yesterday and others who attended showed interest in the newly organized church. There were 19 charter members. SMITH RITES TUESDAY Funeral services for Mrs Vir ginia Smith, 26, who lived with Mrs. Nora Coleman, 1964 t. Pythian will be at 10 a.

m. Tuesday in Brintlinger's Funeral Home. Burial will be in Mt. Gilead Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p.

m. today. Mrs. Smith died Saturday afternoon in St. Mary's Hospital.

150 at St. James Breakfast About 150 men attended the Fathers', Day Communion breakfast after the 8 a. m. mass yesterday at St. Tames Catholic Church.

The Rev. Fr. Harry Eglesaer of St. Joseph's Hall was the main speaker. Charles O'Neil was toastmaster and John Byrne and Paul Bresnan.

were co-chairmen. Woman Thrown m. Mrs. Gertrude Lane, 67, of 1745 E. Eldorado was thrown out of this car yesterday and killed.

The car was driven by her husband, Justin (Pug) Lane, a Carr Places 8th in Road-e-o Melvin L. Carr, 18. of Rural Route 1, Macon, -yesterday placed eighth in a field of 31 drivers in the state Junior Chamber of Commerce driving road-e-o. The safe driving contest was held in Ml Vernon; Carr earned the rieht to compete for the state tide by winning a local contest on May 17. The state winner was the Berwyn entry.

Second place went to the Belleville entry and third to the Rock Island entry. The state winner will participate in a national contest in Washing ton, D.C., Aug. Carr was accompanied to Mt. Ver non by William Zeaman and Ambrose C. Moran Jr.

of the local Jaycee organization. FIRE AT PARKWAY INN CAUSES $200 DAMAGE A fire in the insulation of a wall of the Parkway Inn, East William Street Road, yesterday noon caused ZUU damage. A workman was cutting a hole in the side of the building with an acetylene torch in order to install an exhaust fan. The insulation caught tire rrom the torch. The fire "was reported at 12:06 p.

m. The Argenta Volunteer Fire De partment was called but the fire was out when its truck arrived. GAUSS RITES TODAY Funeral services will be held in Colorado Springs, today for Mrs. Anna A. Gauss, 74, formerly ot Decatur.

lvirs. oauss died in a nursing home in Colorado Springs, where she has lived ior about six years. one leaves two nieces Decatur, Mrs. Henry Natsch and Mrs. Eng land D.

Dague. Graveside, services for Mrs. Gauss will be at 3 p. m. Tuesday in Ottawa with the Oladfelter Funeral Home in charge.

Parked Car Sldeswlped A car parked in the 1700 block of North Clinton Street owned bv David E. Beneze was sideswiped by an unidentified car last night. There was an estimated $20 damage, Beneze lives at 1107 Sattley Ct. PEN PALS MEET AFTER Long-time pen pals, Attorney1' Richard T. Whidey, standing, and Dr.

Mofid Ragheb, got together last night in Attorney Whitley's Decatur home, 294 S. Westlawn Ave. Dr. Ragheb of Wabash railroad conductor, who suffered a shoulder injury, cuts and bruises. The car ran off Routes 47 and 48 two miles north TRAINS DISCONTINUED ITR Drops 2 Trips From Decatur To Springfield Two passenger trains between Decatur and Springfield were dis continued yesterday by the Illinois I erminal Railroad.

The trains were Nos. 89 and 96 which together made a round trip daily between Decatur and St. Louis, through Springfield. Train 89 left Decatur at 6 a.m. and arrived in St.

Louis at 10:15 a.m. No. 96 left St. Louis at 5:35 p.m. and arrived in Decatur at 9:40 p.m.

Both trains will continue to op erate between Springfield and St. Louis. The Illinois Commerce Commis sion granted the railroad permission to drop the trains on June 2. The railroad submitted evidence to show that the trains carried a small number of passengers and were steady money O.L.TERNEUS PLEADS INNOCENT TO CHARGES Orville Lavern Terneus, 45, of 1953 N. Clinton pleaded in nocent to two charges of disorderly conduct yesterday.

He was released on bonds totaling $800 pending a hearing before Justice Ernest Book- Terneus was arrested at 5:45 p. m. Saturday in the Alhambra Thea ter. The complaints were filed by Roy N. Cederstrand, 1721 N.

College and John F. Pedzek, as sistant manager of the theater. Terneus is accused of indecent exposure and of allegedly taking in decent liberties. Thieves Get Careless Cut Wire Setting Off Burglar Alarm Would-be burglars cut a wire at Vallev's Tavern, 2650 N. 9 Woodford Saturday night, setting off the burglar-alarm.

They were gone when the night watchman, Joe Smolinski, called police. Nothing was reported missing. As the watchman opened a door on the north side of the building to let the officers in, the door came off its' hinges. The pins had been removed by the burglars. The burglars cut the wire while they were making a hole in the top of the door.

The screen had been torn off the outer door. 17 YEARS Cairo, Egypt, is in the United States as a Ful bright scholar. He and the Decatur attorney started corresponding as pen pals l7 years ago. This is their first -P1 'est Cost during a 24-. hour field day which ended yester-lning i St.

Jerry Smith, 24, of 622 Long- view suffered a cut on the head and Frank Peter, 42. of 332 E. Sheridan a pedestrian, was knocked down and shaken up. Smith was sitting in a car parked at an angle in front of the A Tavern. Police said Berg's car came down South Franklin at 4:54 p.

n. and struck the parked car, knocking it around so that it was headed in the opposite direction. The front fender of the parked car hit Peters who was standing nearby. Berg's car failed to stop. Police overtook it at Sheridan and Franklin Streets.

Berg will be arraigned The driver of the parked car, 01-lie Kennedy, 26, of 826 N. Charles was not hurt. Schools Hiring 54 Teachers Forty new grade school teachers and 14 junior and senior high school teachers have been or will be hired by the public schools. Thirty-two of the 40 elementary vacancies to date have been filled and several applicants are being considered for the eight remaining iobs. Fifteen of the new teachers have been added to the staff to handle the larger enrollment this fall, said Miss Charlotte Meyer, director of elementary education.

The others are replacements. The shortage of elementary teach, ers is more severe this year than at any time since the war, school officials have said. Teachers colleges have not been able to supply the-demand brought on by growing enrollments. Norman Gore, assistant superintendent of schools, so far has eight fewer vacancies to fill this year than last year. He can draw on half a file drawer of applications.

rive replacements and two additional teachers will be hired for Centennial Junior Hish School. There will be two new teachers at Johns Hill and one additional teacher at Woodrow Wilsou. Four va cancies exist on the teaching staff ot Decatur High School. About half of these openings have been tilled. RESIDENT, OVERCOME BY SMOKE, IS REVIVED George Klaser, 324 New was overcome by smoke from a fire in his apartment yesterday morning.

The fire department first aid and rescue team gave him oxygen. The fire reported at 9:48 a.m. caused $15 damage. It started when Klaser threw a burning match into a waste basket. I N0LLSCH RITES SET.

Funeral services for Carl G. Nol lsch, 74, of Boodv, who died Satur day afternoon in his home, will be at p. m. luesday in Brintlinger's Funeral Home. Burial will be in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield.

Friends may call at the funeral home atter 4 p. m. today. Buys Waldorf Land Lewis W. Shade of Bennett Shade Saturday morning bought the Hattie Waldorf land, about 2Vi miles northwest of Decatur, at pub lic auction for $430 an acre, Auctioneer Hube Elliott reports.

The land, consisting of 160 acres, was sold at the courthouse and bidding was Elliott said. day. Bob West, a member of the club, said he and other amateur operators talked with stations as far away as Wyoming and the East Coast. Several contacts also were made with mobile stations in automobiles, he said. Members operated their emergency equipment during the 24 hours in a nation-wide test of communications preparedness.

Participating stations made a contest out of the field dav and awards will be given to the groups which contacted the largest number of stations. American Radio Relay League sponsored the event. emergency equipment is used to simulate the conditions the hams would work under in case of a dis aster. IL 4 it -JtdJt hi -i 1 I 1 ft, M' i Emergency Radio Equipment ft i Bob West, seated left, and Bar- during the Cenois Amateur Radio to right): Roy Cartier, Paul Mar-ney Wise, seated right, operate Club field day yesterday in Sco- eau, Bill Hussey, E. H.

Twiss their emergency radio equipment vill Gardens. Looking on are (left and Leo Mallas..