The Decatur Daily Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 40

FORTY PAGES TODAY THE DECATUR REVIEW Decatur, Illinois, Thursday, April 16, 1964. Maddox, 45 EXPECTED FOR SCOUT TRAINING CLASS About 45 persons are expect Curry Top 3-Day Firestone Event to Mark Plant Dedication Heavy Demo Vote in GOP Races Cited Democratic party leaders today claim that from 500 to members of their party voted in the Republican primary. Roy R. Anthohny, Macon County Democratic chairman POST OFFICE TO SELL USED TRUCKS APRIL 30 Decatur Post Office will sell 12 used trucks at 3 p. m.

April 30 in the post office garage at 421 E. Cerro Gordo Post master Chan C. Glosser, said today. The equipment consists of two -ton 1954 right-hand-drive Dodge trucks, five -ton 1955 right-hand-drive Dodge trucks, two -ton 1956 Chevrolets, two -ton 1956 right-hand-drive Dodges, and one -ton 1957 Chevrolet. The vehicles may be inspect ed between 8:30 a.

m. and 4 p. m. on April 28 and 29, and between 8:30 a. m.

and 3 p. m. on April 30 by notifying garage superintendent Hugh S. Peck. Drug Buy Effort Fails A Decatur man who authori ties had identified as an inform' ant regarding bogus home repairmen was allowed to leave the city Tuesday night after attempting to purchase narcotics at a downtown drug store.

He is George William Schaf- fer, 34, of 605 W. William St. Officers said Schaffer's moth er, Mrs. Mattie called a downtown drug store and or dered a quantity of drugs, representing that they were on prescription. Officers arrested Schaffer when he called for the drugs.

They escorted him to the bus depot, where he was allowed to board the bus with his mother. Schaffer was beaten on the outskirts of Decatur early Saturday morning by two men who he said attacked him in an argument over the division of proceeds from a church repair job near Bethany. James Weber, telegrapher-leverman at the Wabash-Illi-nois Central Railroad inter- Routed Past Tuscola IC Streamliners Visit Hospital Time Saver Machine Hurries Blood Counts ed to participate in the Boy Scout outdoor training course Friday through Sunday in Spit- ler Woods State Park. Registration will be at 6 p.m. Friday for the program which will end about 11 a.m.

Sunday. This course is for scoutmas ters and adult leaders of the scouts. WTVP to File Plans for Improvement One third of a million dollars in technical improvements are being planned to expand the power and coverage of televi sion station WTVP, Decatur. John H. Bone, vice president and general manager of Chan nel 17, WTVP, and of Channel 19, Peoria, confirmed the planned improvements today.

Channel 17 and 19 are licensees of Metromedia, Inc. Bone said the expansion will be accomplished by a greater utilization of the allocation of power already made to the sta tion rather than by any increased allocation from the Federal Communications Com mission. He said Channel 17 has not been operating at the power originally allotted it when it be gan operations in 1953. Plans for the technical im provements have been on the drawing boards for eight months and the next step will be to file them with the FCC. Bone said.

Bone said, "Both from a po litical and economic standpoint this expansion is important to Decatur." "It reflects the faith that John Kluge, chairman of the board of Metromedia has in the future and growth of the Central Illinois market." When Channel 17 first went into operation, its power stood at 17,000 watts. The power has been increased once since then from 17,000 to 210,000 watts in November, 1954. Bone declined at this time to say what the new power would be. He did say that the trans lator and transmitter used in Champaign-Urbana to rebroad-cast Channel 17 programs over Channel 70 there would no long er necessary. Bone said the expansion has absolutely no connection with paid television.

"We do not in any way support the idea of paid television," he stated. Metromedia Inc. operates five UHF stations and six radio stations across the country. Laborers in 3-Year Pact Building and Common Labor ers Union Local 159 and the Decatur Contractors Association signed a three-year contract yesterday which provides for a 37-cent hourly wage increase over the contract period. A contract between them ex pired earlier this month but union members continued to work during the negotiations.

Clyde Dial, chairman of the contractor's bargaining commit tee, said 12-cent hourly wage increases will be given today, and April, 1965 and April, 1966. There was no change in hir ing procedures, said Dial. The laborer's union became the second union to sign a con tract with the association in the past two days. The Bricklayers, Stonemasons, Tile Setters Union Local 13 signed a two-year contrart Tuesday. Meanwhile, a meeting has been scheduled for 3 p.m.

Saturday between Iron Workers Union Local 46 and the Central Illinois Builder's Association. The iron workers have been on strike since April 1. Christmas vacation, Dec. 23-Jan. 4 Decatur Teacher's Institute, Jan.

29 Lincoln's Day, Feb. 12 Easter vacation, April 15-16-19 High School students may dismissed at 2 p.m. Jan. 20-22, 1965 and June 2-4, 1965 to permit teachers time to grade semester examinations and complete reports. Teachers new to the Decatur system will hold orientation meetings on Sept.

2 and will begin their work on Sept. 8 when student registration Vote Getters By Glen R. Cooper Of the Review Staff Two incumbents, Circuit Clerk John T. Curry and Re corder William H. Maddox, led their parties in The Tuesday primary.

According to the unofficial count Maddox topped the Re publicans with ,10,987 votes Coroner Phares G. Thompson was second with 10,973. Curry led the Democrats with a total county vote of 8,128. John H. Bonn, candidate for re corder was second with 8,026 votes.

Official canvass of the Tues day primary started today in the office of County Clerk William M. Tangney Members of tne Doard are Tangney, Roy R. Anthony, Democratic county chairman and Lynn McConkey, Argenta, representing H. G. (Skinny) Taylor, county Republican chairman.

Results in Long Creek 1, Whitmore 1 and South Wheat land 2 were the first to be checked. The results of these precincts hadn't been reported in unofficial returns. Democrats, in the three pre cincts out-voted the Republi cans, 406 to 336. Breakdown This is a breakdown of the party vote in the three pre cincts: Long Creek 1, Republican, 101, Democrats, 113. Whitmore 1, Republican, 121, Democrats, 186 South Wheatland 2, Republi can, 114, Democrats, 107.

The voting followed the pat tern of the other precincts in the county. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge led the Republican write-in candidates for president. Ralph M. Colburn topped Dar- rell E. Khnk in the state sena tor race on the Republican side.

Sen. Robert W. McCarthy soundly defeated his Democrat ic opponent, Herman L. Dam- merman. machine, the blood is ejected into a bottle along with a given amount of the solution, according to James C.

Myers, hospital medical technologist in charge of hematology. With the precision instruments, the tests are more uniform. They have not deviated over one-half of one per cent, and a technician will get that much error with the manual test, according to Myers. In an hour, he said, they could do about 25 automatically, whereas manually it would take about one and one-half hours. Since there is a shortage of technologists, these time saving devices are very helpful.

With average daily blood counts running about 55 and some days as high as 100, short cuts in preparing bloods for counting mean much more time for other laboratory duties, Myers said. Myers is a 1962 graduate of Millikin University and has been working in St. Mary's lab oratory smce then. He is regis tered with the American Society of Clinical Pathologists. Staff photo by L.

Roger Turner lutor in preparing the blood for a count of either the white corpuscles or hemoglobin. By Larry Blankenship Of the Review Staff Decatur's Firestone Tire Rubber Co. plant will be officially dedicated May 12 during a special ribbon-cutting cere mony by the company's board of directors. Open houses will be held at the plant on May 13 and May 14. The nine directors of the board, who will hold their monthly meeting in the Deca tur plant after the dedication ceremonies, are: Harvey S.

Firestone chairman Raymond C. Firestone, presi dent James E. Trainer, Earl B. Hathaway, executive vicepresident Elton H. Schulenberg, execu tive vice president Leonard K.

Firestone, president, Firestone Tire Rubber Co. of California Roger S. Firestone, president, Firestone Plastics Co. and Fire stone Synthetic Fibers Co. George F.

Karch, president of the Cleveland Trust Co. John F. Floberg, secretary-general counsel for Firestone. 250 Expected Plant manager A. J.

DiMag- gio said today about 250 local, state and federal officials, and local civic industrial, and cler gy leaders will be invited to the dedication ceremonies, which will be held at the rear entrance of the plant. After the ceremonies which will begin at 10 a.m. the guests will be taken on a tour of the factory and will then be served lunch in the plant. Gov. Otto Kerner, Sen.

Ever ett M. Dirksen, Sen. Paul H. Douglas, and U. S.

Rep. William L. Springer have all been invited to attend the dedication Gov. Kerner, who has already accepted the invitation, has is- sied a proclamation declaring May 12 to be Firestone Day in Illinois. In the afternoon, the board of directors will hold a press conference and their monthly meet ing in the plant.

On May 13 an open house will be held for employes of the Decatur plant and their families. An open house for the public will be held on May 14. The two millionth tire to be produced at the Decatur plant since it began operations will be taken from the mold during the dedication ceremonies. Two Women HeldforTheft Two women are being held in county jail in lieu of bonds of $10,000 each and charges of theft. They are Mrs.

Naomi Princess Jackson, 28, and Mrs. June Wallace, 39, both of St. Louis. Mrs. Jackson also identified herself as Doris Davis of Springfield.

Mrs. Jackson was arrested late Tuesday after a woman was seen shoplifting in Bur-stein's store at 147 N. Water St. Mrs. Wallace and two men appeared yesterday afternoon at police headquarters and at tempted to free Mrs.

Jackson on bond. The men were released after questioning, but Mrs. Wallace was arrested whe she admitted being with Mrs. Jackson when the Burstein thefts took place. Police said Mrs.

Wallace told them she had been a profes sional thief for the past 20 years and she averages about $5,000 a year from those activities plus another $5,000 for prostitution. When the two women were taken to county jail to be photo graphed and fingerprinted it was disclosed they were wearing wigs. The jailer took their pictures with and without their wigs. One of the women had her hair cut in the style of a man's crew cut. MOTION DENIED A motion to quash an indict ment charging Wayne L.

Moore, 42, of 260 Michael with embezzling $10,000 from the General Plywood Co. was de nied Circuit Court yesterday. Trial was scheduled for May 4. PLAY TONIGHT The Town and Gown produc tion of "Green Pastures" will be given at 8:15 p.m. today, Friday and Saturday in Milli-kin University's Albert Taylor Hall.

Tickets are $1. staff photo by L. Roger Turner er. The train, going west, had to back up and head south on its way to Mattoon. sonville, to Chicago, 9:10 a.

m. Southbound trains were: No. 25 Southern Express, Chicago to New Orelans, 8 a. No. 1 -City of New Orleans, Chicago to New Orleans, about 61a.m.

No. 53 City of Miami, Chicago to Miami, about noon. Illinois Central officials in De catur late this morning said that these were the only passen ger trains scneduiea to pass tnrougn nere. Rotary Club To Get Flag Julia Bock Miller, who car ried Decatur's Rotary Club flag to Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, will present the Decatur organization a flag from the Kuala Lumpur Rotary during a dinner at 6 p. m.

today in tt. Patrick's Catholic Church. Mrs. Miller recently returned from a five-month trip around the world during which she delivered the Decatur flag and re ceived one to bring home. Several members of the Kuala Lumpur chapter are expected to call the Rotary Club members during the meeting about 6:30 p.m.

Edwin C. Straub, president of the Decatur Rotary, said that officers of this organization will speak with the corresponding persons from Kuala Lumpur. The meeting is sponsored by the Decatur Public Library and the Rotary Club. Members of the People-to-People group and foreign students in the Decatur area have been invited. Special guests include Frank C.

Feutz of Paris, district gov ernor of Rotary district 649 and Roy West of Shelbyville, nomi nee for district governor. Following the dinner the group will go to the Internation al Fair in the Armory. BILLS APPROVED Members of the Decatur Town Board of Auditors today approved bills of $4,695 for general assistance, $3,345 for the general town fund and $1,328 for the township road and bridge tuna. CROSS-WALKS PAINTED City employes were re-paint- lng cross-walk lanes in the downtown area today. chairman, said a check of poll ing places indicated a heavy cross-over occurred in most of the county.

Owen, committeeman in the 28th precinct, said a check of his precinct disclosed that approximately 30 previously staunch Democratic voters asked for Republican ballots. Owen said bis precinct would normally vote 7-1 Republican. The voting in the Tuesday primary showed a margin of ap proximately 9-1. A cross-section check of judges in other precincts of the county showed similar trends. Anthony and Owen cite four principal reasons for the cross over.

One was the "Mercy Mr. Percy" letter mailed out shortly before the election. This piece of literature made an attempt to smear Republican gubernatorial candidate Charles H. Percy with certain left-wing activities. Backers of State Treasurer William J.

Scott were credited with the plan. Disgusted Owen said several Democrats told hm they were going to vote for Percy as a means of showing their disgust with this kind of campaigning. Another reason was the campaign of Joseph L. Rosenberg, Decatur attorney, for delegate to the national convention. Several Democrats wanted to cast their votes for Rosenberg and crossed party lines to do so.

The Ralph M. Colburn-Dar-rell E. Khnk, state Republican senatorial race was cited as another reason. Intensive Republican precinct skirmishes also brought Democrats into the Republican one-shot-and-run venture. Democrats backed their favorite voluntarily or were talked into taking a part in the fight.

It isn't unusual for members of one party to cross over in elections but generally key situ ations must exist EUOPREAN TOUR Slides to Be Shown of Sights to Be Seen Art works and monuments which will be seen on the summer European tour sponsored by Millikin University will be shown on slides at an informa tion meeting Saturday. The meeting will be at 1 p. m. in Room 321 of the Liberal Arts Hall. An informal discussion will follow the slide portion to an swer questions pertaining to the tour.

Millikin will offer a course in art appreciation in conjunction with a 30 day tour to many of the major art monuments throughout Europe. The tour will be under the leadership of Marvin L. Haven, chairman of the art department. All graduating high school seniors, college students, teachers and adults are eligible for the tour and may earn two hours of college credit. $59,000 IN BACK TAXES COLLECTED County Treasurer Frank A.

Meara has received $59,000 in delinquent personal tax payments since Dec. 3. Meara said most of the pay ments came as a result of no tices that have been mailed out to persons who have failed to pay their personal taxes. Meara said he is now cooper ating with State's Attorney Ba sil G. Greanias to take court action against persons who ignore the warning notices sent out from the treasurer's office.

BLOODMOBILE ON 2-DAY STALEY VISIT The Red Cross Bloodmobile is at A. E. Staley Mfg. Co. today and Friday for its only visit to Decatur this month.

It is open through 5 p.m. to day and from 6:45 a.m. until noon Friday. Persons gomg to the plant to give blood should enter the main gate west of the administration building at 22nd Street and Eldorado Street. Transportation and appoint ments may be arranged at the Red Cross office.

STILL CRITICAL Mrs. Lillian E. Garren, 54, of 1205 S. Silas injured in a gas explosion at her home Wednesday, is still in critical condition in St. Mary's Hospital locker, watches the "City of New Orleans" Illinois Central passenger train pass his tow- the trains switched tracks.

Southbound trains were routed onto Wabash tracks at Tuscola, switched over to IC tracks here, and put back on their regular routes at Mattoon. Northbound trains reversed that procedure. Northbound trains that passed through here were: No. 4 The Louis ane, New Orleans to Chicago, 7:20 a. m.

No. 6 The Panama Limited, New Orleans to Chicago, 8:15 a. m. No. 10 The Seminole, Jack Music, Dances Highlights of Fair Tonight Decatur residents can go around the world in a few hours at today's fifth annual Interna tional Fair in the Armory.

The fair begins at 1 p.m. and ends at 10 p. m. Exhibits from 32 foreign coun tries are on display. Thirteen service organizations and 12 businesses and industries also have exhibits.

urv Granam will serve as master of ceremonies for a spe cial program of folk music and dances and a hootenanny at 8 p. m. Fathy Mprsy of Cairo, Egypt, will present an Arab song; Gay Damery, Indian dance; Fran- cesca Pietroforte Rice, Italian song; and Victoria Maria Kor- tez, a flamenco dance. Lance Hanson, Bob Kuhns and Wes Sedrel will present a hootenanny trio and 25 Latin students from Niantic-Harris- town High School will perform a Koman march. A similar program for children was a highlight of the aft ernoon.

It included Korean, Japanese, Dutch and Irish folk music. The fair is sponsored by the Decatur Public Library and the Rotary Club in connection with National Library Week. Exhibits at the fair include arts, crafts, travel posters, flaes. industrial items and language displays. Foreign students in the Decatur area are special guests.

Free kites and recipe book lets are being distributed at the fair. BRADLEY PIANIST TO GIVE RECITAL AT MU Harold Lewin, pianist from the faculty of Bradley University, will present a recital at 4 p. m. Sunday in Kaeuper HalL School of Music at Millikin University. The public is invited to attend.

His program will include two preludes and fugues by Bach, Beethoven's Sonata, Opus HI, Fantasia by Ben Weber, Ondine by Ravel and Chopin's Minor Sonata. This event is part of a faculty recital exchange inaugurated this year when Margaret Peterson of the Millikin piano faculty performed at Bradley on Feb. 16. Lewin, who joined the Bradley faculty in 1961, earned two degrees from Manhattan School of Music in New York City. He teaches piano and music theory.

The guest artist is a candidate for a Ph.D. degree from Indiana University. Liberal use of horns and bells were the first notice Decatur residents had that Illinois Central Railroad passenger trains' were being routed through here today. Six trams were detour ed through Decatur because of a wreck near Tucola. Today, as on past occasions when the trains came through the city in emergencies, their bright colors, sleekness and well-known names attracted Decatur persons to the tracks and to the Wabash station, where Paul L.

Doyle DOYLE ELECTED Sertoma Club Officers Start Terms in July Paul L. Doyle, 2373 E. Hen-drix Court, has been elected president of the Sertoma Club, He has been acting president for the past four months due to the resignation of the former president William E. Williams Doyle is a supervisor for Illi nois Power Co. New officers of the club, elected Tuesday, will begin then- terms July 1.

They are: Paul L. Doyle, president Robert W. Ohlson, first vice president James L. Laugharn, second vice president James D. Smith, third vice president Donald Diller, secretary Jesse Wieters, treasurer Raymond Downey ser- geant-at-arms Directors elected were Thomas Trueblood, Donald M.

Shields Jr. and J. D. Kerr for one-year terms and Gale Hed-rick, Edwin Martin and Gerald L. Menz for two-year terms.

Mueller Fills Foreign Order Mueller Co. recently was asked to manufacture $12,400 worth of equipment for export to Pakistan. A United States development loan to Pakistan provided financing for the equipment, the Agency of International Devle- opment reported today. The Decatur plant filled the order under a New York ex porter's contract from the Pak istan buyer. Purchase by a firm in Pakistan was financed under a for eign aid loan to enable the South Asian nation to import $70.5 million worth of essential commodities from the United States.

By Suzanne Michl Of the Review Staff Long, exacting work previous ly done to prepare blood for counts of white corpuscles and hemoglobin has been cut in half at St. Mary's. The hospital has purchased two Auto-Dilutors, which do what their name suggests auto matically dilute a measured amount of blood with a set quantity of solution. Formerly, a laboratory tech nician had to set up the solu tions by hand. He would draw blood up in a pipette and ad just the amount to a line on the pipette to get only enough need ed in the solution, which also had to be measured.

After measuring, blood and solution were put together in a vial. Adding to the length of the process, pipettes had to be cleaned after each use. Auto-Dilutors work through a vacuum process which draws blood up from a test tube into a tube-like spout on the machine. By pressing a lever on the Quicker Way James C. Myers, medical technologist at St.

Mary's, ejects a mixture of blood and solution from the Aito-Di- A jf tM 17 Days Off School Calendar for 1964-65 Set Decatur School District's Board of Education approved the 1964-65 calendar for public schools Tuesday night. Student enrollment will start at 10 a.m. on Sept. 8, and school will end on June 7, 1965. The school year contains 178 days of school, with eight days of vacation and nine days off for holidays and teacher institutes.

The 1964-65 holidays include: County Teacher Institute, Oct. 15-16 Veteran's Day, Nov. 11 Thanksgiving vacation Nov. 26-27.