The Decatur Daily Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 18

Decatur, Illinois, Monday, August 3, 1953. PAGES TODAY. THE DECATUR REVIEW Some Rents Boosted With End of Control Local officials who would be likely to feel pressures released by the end of rent control today reported only mild reactions since midnight Friday. Health Commissioner Cody Holmes, who once championed action to continue control and later recommended letting rent restrictions die with other price and wage regulations, said today his department has had only "a very few" complaints from tenants--and these were on other matters. The end of rent control, he said, also took away the only weapon which landlords could be forced to fix plumbing that wasn't working.

Holmes said his department can only advise a tenant who complains about faulty sanitary facilities to move. A toilet that is out of order, a leaky roof, an arrangement with only one bathroom for several tenants--all these are beyond health department authority, Holmes said, and matters for tenants and landlords to settle between themselves. His advice to, tenants with complaints about facilities provided: "You always have the of moving out if you're not satisfied." Clarence O. Seip, superintendent of the local Illinois Public Aid Commission office, said increased rents have hit about five per cent of the people on aid rolls. He estimated 50 or 60 had reported rent increases.

"It's going to make it hard on the people we have," Seip said. With a maximum monthly ance of $71, he explained, a $35 rent doesn't leave much for food and other needs. He said $5 to $10 rent boosts were reported by people who had been paying $25 to $30 a month rent. Mrs. Elizabeth Foran, assistant at the Decatur Township relief office, said no complaints about rent increases had been received there and none were expected.

"There's a limit on what we can pay," she explained, and landlords know that if they raise the rent the tenant will have to move. The problem of finding another place to live is the tenant's, she said, although ailing relief cases are placed in nursing homes by the of, fice. Because rent is paid directly to the landlord, she said, the landlord knows he is going to be paid and often prefers a relief case as a renter. Results of rent control's end in the great bulk of average and higher rental homes and apartments were obscure, but no public outcry about rent boosts was heard. There were reports of moderate rent increases on some units in large apartment buildings, which landlords said were made to equalize rents between similar apartments.

Rent gouging--if any--appeared to be the exception rather than the rule. EARL A. WOODRUFF, 57, HERE THREE YEARS, DIES Earl A. Woodruff, 57, of 1225 N. Hill died at 5:15 a.

m. today in the Decatur and Macon County Hospital. Mr. Woodruff came to Decatur three years ago from Flint, and was a stock foreman with the Marvel-Schebler Division of BorgWarner Company. He had been with the company 36 years at Indianapolis and Flint.

He was born in Gwynneville, Aug. 18, 1895, a son of William W. and Ida Holbrook Woodruff and was married Nov. 5. 1919 to Miss Bernice Anderson in Indianapolis.

He was a veteran of World War I. He leaves his wife, one daughter, Mrs. Barbara Mason, Flint, two brothers, Carl Port Huron, and George Indianapolis, and two sisters, Mrs. Eva L. Kuntz and Mrs.

Ruth M. Watkins, Indianapolis. A son, Jack, him in death. Funeral services will be at 10 a. m.

-Wednesday in the Dawson Wikoff Funeral Home after which the body will be taken to the E. L. Frazier Funeral Home, Morristown, where services will be at 2 p. m. Thursday.

Burial will be in Han over Cemetery, Morristown. Held in Jail Tom Giggetts, 36, of 449 S. Main was held in county jail today upon failure to pay a $48.20 fine for disorderly conduct. He was arrested on complaint by Sam Oldham. Police said Giggetts threw a brick at Oldham and Oldham fired a shot at Giggetts.

Batteries Stolen CROWD WATCHES NEW TV ANTENNA GO UP Crowds of cars loaded with people lined the sides of Southside Drive yesterday as Station WTVP's TV antenna was being raised to the top of its 550-foot tower. Open house at the was interrupted twice during installation. This aerial view the scene was taken about Delayed Antenna Goes Up Decatur Station Hopes To Go On Air This Week "On the air commercially late this week" was the hope expressed today by W. L. Shellabarger, president of Station The 52-foot antenna, long delayed by tests, was finally installed on top of the 550-foot tower on South Side Drive vesterday and installation of the coaxial cable was in progress today.

Jack Streamer, foreman of the crew installing the cable, said it would take 8 hours. After installation and receipt of Federal Communications Commission approval, WTVP can start its test pattern. Shellabarger said today he hopes the test pattern can start tomorrow. After a couple days of test pattern, the FCC again must approve before commercial telecasting can begin. Yesterday an estimated 10,000 persons were on hand for the antenna-raising and the open house at the station's building.

The open Payment Approved The City Council this morning approved payment of $6,866 to the Collins-Bruley Construction Co. for resurfacing North Water Street from Green Street to Kenwood Avenue. Total cost of the job was 751. The remainder of the amount was paid by the city in two previous installments. Schedule At Playgrounds Activities at Decatur playgrounds this week include: Tuesday, 10 a.m., Fairview Park -Junior Davis and Wightsman Cup tennis matches for ages up to 18.

Fairview against Lions, Lincoln versus Hess and Johns Hill against Garfield. Wednesday, 1:30 p.m., Johns Hill Park- Festival. Teams from each playground to play various games and sports. Wednesday, 7 p.m., Lions Park -ice cream social and band concert. Music by Decatur Municipal Band.

Proceeds to be used for playground equipment. Rain date Thursday with movie. Thursday, 7 p.m., Garfield Park -Square Dance Roundup for all playgrounds. Rope skipping exhibition at intermission. Gives $500 Bond Charles Howard Tilton, 54, of 266 Longview was released under a $500 bond today pending trial on a charge of disorderly conduct.

He was arrested on complaint by Vivian Barker, 225 Longview PI. Batteries Stolen Jacobs Estate Theft of 125 used batteries, val- An estate valued at $3,700 was ued at $150, from the Sears Roe- left by the late Edward Jacobs of buck Company farm store, 360 Decatur, according to a petition for N. Franklin was reported to administration filed today in County police today. Court. Ten cousins are heirs.

2 New Polio Cases End 3-Day Lull Two new Macon County polio cases were reported today, ending a three-day lull and pushing the polio count to 41 this year. Ronald Beaman, 4, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond W. Beaman, 570 W.

Virginia was admitted to City Public Hospital Saturday-15 days after he received gamma globulin July 17. The family home is west of Decatur, a short distance outside the city limits. Mrs. Donna J. Wallace, 25, of 1345 S.

Parkwood, was admitted to City Public Hospital with polio yesterday. Dr. A. C. Baxter, city health officer, said the Beaman child's illness was first noted July 24, but speculated he might have been exposed to polio before receiving the serum.

Health authorities have repeatedly cautioned against over-optimism, warning that, gamma globulin should not be expected to completely halt polio following the mass-inoculation of youngsters under 10. Hopes have been stirred, however, by brief lulls in polio incidence since the shots were given. The longest began last Wednesday, after an 18-year-old Decatur housewife, the 39th Macon County polio patient this year, was admitted to the hospital. No new cases were admitted from Macon County until Saturday. The Beaman child was the first since last Tuesday to be admitted after receiving gamma globulinending a four day lull in cases under 10.

Of the last seven polio cases reported, four did not receive the um because they were over the age limit. Printing Firm Move Starts Huston Patterson Corporation, printers and publishers, today began moving to its new location at 330 N. Church St. President J. W.

Patterson said a Chicago firm of professional print shop movers started the complex job of moving printing machinery this morning. Local movers will handle the rest of the job. Huston-Patterson shut down its operations in the Herald and Review Building Saturday and will re-open in the new location Aug. 17. The printing firm occupied the third floor of the Herald and Review Building, which will be used for newspaper production by Decatur Newspapers, Inc.

Most Huston-Patterson employes are on vacation until Aug. 17, but a few will remain on duty and make arrangements for any emergency printing needs of customers, Patterson said. $1,400 Theft Is Reported Theft of $1,400 in cash from a safe in the McClelland Hubble office in the Citizens Building was reported to police today. Lt. Jerry Sheehy said there was no evidence of a forced entrance to the office of the physicians and the safe was not damaged.

Bridge Carried Heavy Loads Structure Wasn't Posted for Load Limit More than 200 loads of material were hauled over a bridge near Mt. Zion within one week, before it collapsed last week, Alan N. Buck, county superintendent of highways, said today. Buck, who was out of his office most of the morning on other business, said at noon today he did not wish to discuss the bridge affair over the telephone, but would make a statement tomorrow. Clarence Bowman of the Bowman Welding Company, and Carl Deffenbaugh Is Promoted At Emersons George Kreker has resigned as sales manager of Emerson Piano House and Robert Deffenbaugh has George Kreker been appointed to replace him.

Announcement of the change was made today by W. Curtis Busher, president of the company. Deffenbaugh, the new sales manager, joined the staff at Emerson's Robert Deffenbaugh in 1946 soon after being released from the Navy with the rank of electrician's mate first class. He served in the Pacific area. He is a graduate of Decatur High School where he lettered on the basketball team.

His wife is the former Mary Greider and the couple has three sons, Robert 8, Scott Eldon, 5, and John Karl, 3. They live at 150 N. Woodlawn. Kreker, who lives at 1537 W. Wood said today that his future plans are indefinite.

He joined the Emerson staff in 1947 after being managing editor of the Decatur Advertiser two years. Prior to that he was sports editor of The Herald and Review 11 years. MILLIKIN BARRACKS UNITS ARE REMOVED Apartment units which housed Science Hall. Fourteen of the Wrecking Company. ConstrucMillikin University students and units just north of the Conservation of the science hall is expect- their families are being removed to make way for the new Millikin Packard Is Taken Over By Marquand Benge, an employe of the company were reported as injured, when the bridge collapsed while they were making repairs.

Buck said the bridge was damaged approximately two weeks ago by a truck. A few minutes before the bridge collapsed, he said, a county highway truck driven by Ralph Jones, passed over it carrying a gravel load of approximately 10,800 pounds. Buck said there was no posted sign of maximum load for the bridge. X-Ray Bus The community X-ray bus will be in Central Park until 5 p.m. today and again from 6 to 9 p.m.

todav. Tuesday, the bus will open at 10 a.m. at its location on the southwest corner of the park. Hours are 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

and 2 to 5 p.m. The chest X- rays are free. Also tomorrow, a second X-ray bus will begin the industrial part of the drive, being stationed at Marvel Schebler Products Division of Borg Warner Corporation. Meisenhelter Sees Ample Work Supply "As far as the construction business goes there will be ample work for the next two years," Harry Meisenhelter, business agent for the Decatur Building Trades Council, said today. Meisenhelter said the several major building projects scheduled to start this fall in the Decatur area will provide jobs for large numbers of men.

"Most of those he said, "will run for 18 months anyway." However, he added that, for the present, there are some 40 men in the common laborers union who need work. Meisenhelter said there will be an ample labor supply from which to draw to build the Caterpillar Tractor Co. plant. If enough local help is not available, he said, "weed can draw from Springfield, Bloomington and other towns within driving distance." He added, "The only trade I'm worried about is the He said a shortage in this trade might develop later in the year. Sewer Bid Opening Today No bids on the Decatur Sanitary District's $4,200,000 bond issue had been received at noon today, although Attorney Walker H.

Mills expected bidders to show up in person when the board started opening bids at 1:30 p. m. Mills said that bidders almost variably attend the opening in person on a bond issue of such size, and prefer not to mail certified checks securing their bids. The security requirement of bidders amounts to a certified check for some $75,000, Mills explained, "and they hang onto those." The Sanitary District attorney said he expected the bond issue would actually be sold this afternoon. Determining the low bidder is a simple matter of arithmetic, he explained, and can be done in a few minutes.

Identical bids from two or more bidders could stall the process, he said, although like bidders sometimes agreed to settle the tie between themselves in such cases. The bond issue will be sold to the bidder offering the lowest interest rate, and no bids will be accepted for over per cent. Bidders may specify up to three different rates on earlier and later maturing bonds, but the net total interest must not exceed the limit. Apart from the bond issue bidding, Mills said, no Sanitary Board business would be conducted in today's meeting. Approve Payment The City Council today approved payment of $1,556.47 to the Collins-Bruley Construction Company for resurfacing East Wood Street from Broadway to Maffit Street.

Today's payment was the final one, with $14,008.18 previously paid by the city. Swimming Fine Two Decatur youths, charged with swimming in a restricted area at the South Franklin Street Bridge, were fined $15.40 each. They are Billy Lee Lobb, 21, of 432 E. Waggoner and Clarence Lou Foster, 18, of 810 E. Rogers Ave.

Boyd C. Marquand, a used car dealer here for the past five years, has been named Packard dealer for Decatur, it was announced today. Marquand said he is negotiating house was interrupted twice during the raising as a safety measure. At least 7,000 persons toured the studios. Many others kept an almost day-long vigil- watching the ironworker crew installing the antenna.

It Took Seven Hours To Put Antenna Up It took approximately seven hours of work on the tower to instal Station WTVP's antenna, Jack Streamer, crew foreman, reported today. Streamer, who heads the crew from Electrical Tower Service, Peoria, said actual raising of the antenna from the ground to the top took about hours. Several other hours were needed to prepare for the raising and the time lost Saturday when the gin pole cracked as these antenna got about half-way up also be counted. There were six in the crew that raised the antenna vesterday. Today seven men were installing the coaxial cable on the tower.

The same company built the 550- foot tower for WTVP. In case anyone wonders how Reserve Units List Meetings Capt. Thomas R. McCabe, unit instructor of the Army reserves today announced the dates of meetings of reserve units: 329th Army Band, 7:30 p. m.

Wednesdays, with Capt. Harold O. Petty commanding; Co. 338th Infantry Regiment, 85th Infantry Division, 7:30 p. m.

second and fourth Wednesdays of each month, Capt. Kenneth M. Lanman, commanding officer; Headquarters and Headquarters company, 334 Engineer group, combat, 8 p. m. second and fourth Thursdays, Col.

Virgil L. Womeldorff, commanding; Headquarters and headquarters detachment, 312th Ordnance Battalion, second and fourth Thursdays of each month, Maj. Samuel L. Kohr, commanding; 358th Military Police Company, 7:30 p. m.

first and third Wednesdays of each month, Capt. Otto H. Roewart commanding; 5138th Post, camp or station complement, all-officer unit under command of Capt. Frank J. Gollings, 7:30 p.

m. first and third Thursdays of each month; Capt. McCabe said that there are some openings for both officers and enlisted men in all the units. All units meet at the Administration Building of the Decatur Signal Depot. Airman Held Sheriff David Peters today was holding a Chanute Air Force Base soldier, 18, in connection with the theft of a truck, reportedly taken from the Scruggs-Drake Equipment Company, North 22d Street.

The soldier suffered minor injuries when the truck overturned in a ditch at the junction of Routes 121, 48 and 147. station a.m. yesterday when the the used to help raise the of pound antenna was just 11:30 up the tower. (Pfile gin pole starting Up um it takes to climb a 550-foot tower, Streamer reports the elapsed time for an ironworker is 45 minutes. Increase Reported In Television Sales Decatur television set dealers today reported a "slight" increase in sales and conversions in the past few weeks, due, primarily, to the construction of Station WTVP.

One dealer said his firm has done more business in the last two weeks than in any other two-week period but the increase was not too great. Other dealers reported many conversions of sets to ultra high frequency to pick up WTVP's Channel 17 telecasting when it starts soon. Decatur TV owners may be hanging back a little, one dealer said, to see how reception is- before adding to their sets. All dealers contacted agreed the summer is definitely the "slack" season in TV sales and predicted a boost "as soon as people start stayhome." Guardianship Claim In a petition for guardianship of Patricia M. Rossiter, 6, of 1176.

E. Lincoln filed to today in County Court, it is shown that her estate consists of a claim not to exceed $1,000 against Lucy M. Carter of Springfield for injuries suffered when the child was hit by an automobile on July 16. Larceny Charge James Johnson, 48, of 1620 N. 22nd was held in county jail today charged with petit larceny.

He was accused by Robert Taylor of the theft of a beer cooler. Photo) Boyd C. Marquand a lease on a building to house the Packard agency and service department, and will be in full operation within 30 days. He took delivery on the first two Packards Saturday, and is presently arranging service through Kilborn's, former Packard dealer here, Marquand said he is "proud to be the Packard agent for Decatur. I will strive to maintain the wonderful reputation created by, Kilborn's during the past several years and give the same fine service Packard owners have come to M.

C. Berner, St. Louis zone manager, expressed confidence that "With Mr. Marquand's background in the automobile business and desire to serve the Packard owners in the Decatur area, his agency will be an asset to the community and the building to be leased will be a very suitable home for Packard sales and service." Marquand started in the automobile business as a salesman at the Chrisman, Ford agency in 1937. He was manager of the Tuscola Ford agency from 1940 to 1942, employed at the Illiopolis ordnance plant for two years, servin the Army until 1946, and was Bowes Sealfast distributor here from 1946 to 1948, when he opened a used car lot on East North St.

He moved his used car business to 323 N. Jackson St. a year ago. Plans of Tracy A. Evans, who has been associated with him in the used car operation, are indefinite.

Marquand said today he is hiring personnel for the new agency and will have a competent staff on duty when it opens. The new agency will be known as Marquand Motors. PARKING SPACE LINES PAINTED IN OFF HOURS Mayor Robert E. Willis today quizzed Chief of Police Glenn Kerwin about a report that police department personnel had painted parking space lines for private parking lots. Kerwin reported that the painting was done on the men's time off and at the expense of the firms involved.

The mayor said he was acting on an anonymous tip that the police department had done work for private persons. He said he was satisfied with Kerwin's explanation. The mayor said the firms reportedly for which the work was done were: J. J. Moran Sons Funeral Home, Kroger Grocery Company, 151 W.

Wood Decatur Country Club, A. P. Supermarket, 136 E. Packard Wells, 22nd and Cantrell. The mayor said paint left over from these jobs is donated to the city.

Hit By Car John Maurice Workman, 8, of 2120 E. Main received minor injuries yesterday when he was hit by a car near his home, police reported today. He was treated in St. Mary's Hospital. Police said the car was driven by Clarence T.

Bunch, 30, of 2140 E. Cleveland Ave. FIGHTING FINES Three men charged with fighting in Harry's Tavern, 654 E. Eldorado were fined $30.40 each last night. They are William Lloyd Spicer, 21, of 1004 E.

Garfield William Sylvester Ewing, 30, Rural Route 5, and Edgar Joseph Ewing, 29, Rural Route 5. Jacobs Estate Fined $30.40 Fined $30.40 Gustave A. Keller, 61, 245 E. Eldorado was accused Saturday of discharging a gun illegally. On a drunkenness charge, he was fined $30.40.

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