The Decatur Daily Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 22

Decatur, Illinois, Tuesday, September 19, 1961. THE DECATUR REVIEW rWENTY-TWO PAGES TODA n'Mi ill mini i -ww yfm'xnfr- s- 1 I I 1 I I I i 1 fc. ii.JmiI i'f -e Benefits of Oakley Dam Are Outlined The proposed Oakley Reservoir would provide the 'Decatur area another lake with 80 per cent of the volume of Lake Decatur at the 613 foot level. According to Dr. R.

E. Green Til- ill (yj-Qr Uh 'A 4 Lfi IfIf Petition for Transfer House Karen Hoyt, left, 2319 York- Ingham, 360 Glencoe col-shire Drive, signs a petition fa- lecting signers downtown, is one voring the preservation of the of a committee of about 12 plan-Transfer House. Mrs. John L. Herald and Review Photo i i David Russell, Durfee School, does a "chin" for schools' cabinet 'Can't Sit and Keep FW, Schools Say It Takes Work! Herald and Review Photo ning to obtain more than 10,000 signatures to submit to the City Council.

Fire Leaves 8 Homeless; Father Held A 54-year-old man, after two hours of questioning today, admitted he had set a fire that de stroyed a two-story farm house on the northwest edge of Decatur. Held in county jail on a warrant Hospital Site Fund Drive Stepped Up By Ralph W. Sanders Of the Review Staff With Decatur assured as the location for a $6 million mental health clinic, the task of collecting some $83,000 in pledges to provide a site has begun. More than 400 persons who promised money for the purchase of a site, are now being called and written letters, asking them to send the amount pledged to the Macon County Mental Health As sociation, 2300 N. Edward St.

Jack Powers, who headed the solicitation said today, response from firms previously uncommitted about donating money, has been tremendous since the hospi tal site was announced. He said all subscriptions are to be collected, and money in excess of the cost will be refunded on a percentage basis. Subscribers are to pay only for the site, with the city and the Sanitary District to work out the costs of water and sewer facilities. In its meeting yesterday, the Sanitary District board delayed the discussion of sewer service to the planned clinic, until engineer ing plans for the facility are com pleted. The City of Decatur has agreed to furnish water to the site and has included a $130,000 item in its budget for the work.

Clinic Planning Planning for the clinics is now underway, and according to Lowell Sachnoff, assistant to Dr. Francis J. Gerty, director of the State Department of Mental Health, the hiring of an architect is the next step in the planning. Sachnoff said Dr. Gerty is expected to visit the sites again.

On a previous visit here, Aug. 2, Dr. Gerty indicated that the 100-acre Macon Acres Nursing Home site, was ideally suited to the type of clinic his department has in mind. He said the rolling land on the large tract would allow separation of facilities in a sort of college campus type of development. James F.

Cannon, the city's industrial development consultant. yesterday was assured by Dr. Gerty, tliat the county property is the location his department has in mind for the clinic. Robert H. Sipes, in charge of real estate for the department, is out of his Springfield office for a two weeks vacation, it was learn ed today.

His assistant expressed the belief that no sites would be acquired until his return. As now envisioned by the department, the hospitals will be unique in the state in design and operation, with new concepts in treatment used. It is estimated that construction may get underway next spring, depending on time needed to complete necessary planning and final site acquisition. BLUE MOUND SIGNING Registration Is Tonight For Adult: Education Classes Registration for first semester adult education classes will be at 8 p. m.

today at the Blue Mound High School library. Five classes running for 10 weeks from Sept. 26 to Nov. 23 will be offered. They are: Beginning typing Cabinet work and upholstery Beginning sewing Social dancing Art Each -class must have a minimum of 10 enrollees.

Tuition is $5 per class with the exception of social dancing. Li -WVl I Steve Morgan, who lived in Senate Office Building. City Council Lost Bridge Approach Pact Given The City Council last night awarded a $167,968 contract for building the approaches to the new lost Bridge to Macon County Asphalt Co. In doing so, the council waived a technicality which could have allowed it to throw the firm's bid out because a member of the firm had an interest in another company which bid on the same project. Work on the approaches is set to becin in about a week, ac cording to City Manager John Dever.

Completion of the work depends on the weather, Dever added. Both the bridge, now under construction under a state con tract, and the city's approaches are due to be finished by Thanksgiving, weather permitting. C. E. Burgett Construction Co.

is building the bridge, the second general contractor on'the job. The total cost of the Lost Bridge improvement, including the con tract awarded last night, is $774,644. Opinion Due Friday On License Refusal The City Council last night directed Corporation Counsel Byron M. Merris to draw up an opinion on whether the city can refuse business licenses to firms which have not paid personal property taxes. The opinion is due Friday.

Councilman Walter T. Morey brought the matter up a few weeks ago and has pursued the matter single-handedly at each meeting since. He argues that to make pay- ment of the tax a requirement for certain licenses would not be too much of a burden on the city clerk's office. The county treasurer and state's attorney are enthusiastic about the idea, according to Morey. The treasurer is supposed to collect the taxes and the state's attorney is currently assisting; him with suits filed in the justice! of the peace courts.

Councilman Harold A. said he thought it was out of the council's province to collect taxes. Counsel Gets Petition On Annexing Bid A petition for a referendum to settle the Lakeview annexation proposition was referred by the City Council last night to- Corpor ation Counsel Byron M. Merris. Fourteen residents of the area asked the referendum after a petition for annexation was dis missed in County Court by Judge Harry Pate.

The council referred the matter to Merris without discussion. The last and possibly the only time a referendum was used in an annexation proceeding was in 1955. This concerned Larkdale, the residential development north of the Caterpillar Tractor Co. The circumstances were somewhat different in that case, however, since Larkdale was not developed at the time and the peti tion for annexation cleared the County Court. When the council then went ahead and annexed the 140 or so acres objectors iijea a petition for the referendum.

The annexation was approved by the voters 1,734 to 1,343. In the Lakeview case, it's the proponents, not the opponents. who want the vote. And there is considerable senti ment among the residents of the Lakeview area against such a move about equal, it appears, to the sentiment in favor of annexa tion. MRS.

LOYAL E. RAMSEY, HERE SINCE 1923, DIES Mrs. Dorothy M. Ramsey, 56 of 222 N.Illinois died at. 7.30 a.

m. today in St. Mary's Hospital. Mrs. Ramsev was born March 23, 1905, in Springfield, a daughter of Harry E.

and Mary Young Sayles. She came to Decatur in 1U23 when she was married to Loyal E. Ramsey. She was a member of the First Christian Church. Besides her husband, Mrs.

Ram sey leaves a son. Jack E. Ramsey, Tucson, daughter, Mrs. Maurice (Barbara Decatur; brother Edgar Sayles, De catur; half-brother. Earl Sayles.

Decatur: step-mother, Mrs. Pearl Sayles, Decatur; step brother, Robert Beard, Collinsville, and four grandchildren. The body is in the Dawson Wikoff Funeral Home. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. field, chairman of the Association of Commerce Water Committee, that is but one advantage of the proposed reservoir.

According to a notice mailed to members of the A of about the Friday morning coffee hour to bt held in conjunction with the pro posed project, these benefits will also result: 1. A greatly enlarged water sup ply to assure continued growth and development of the commu nity 2. New recreational facilities in the form of state parks and family camping sites 3. Additional fishing and boating facilities 4. Control of silting by the reser voir thus adding to the "life" of Lake Decatur 5.

Control of flood waters to pre vent flooding of Lake Decatur and excessive water over the present dam. The notice also gives a rundown on the cost and location of the reservoir and dam. A campaign to encourage letter writing in support of the project is under way by the A of Information Committee. It met Tuesday to make plans for the campaign. Written support is sought by the deadline of Oct.

9, 1961. Support letters in the project are to be written to: The Board of Engineers fo Rivers and Harbors, Washington 25, D. C. Hon. Everett M.

Dirksen, U. S. Senator, Senate Office Building, Washington, D. C. Hon.

Paul H. Douglas, U. S. Washington, D. C.

Hon. William L. Springer, Member of Congress, House Office Building, Washington, D. C. Of the estimated cost of $23 million, the City of Decatur will bo expected to pay $4,115,000 of the total cost for water supply.

The bulk of the cost is to be shouldered by the federal government. At Friday morning's coffee hour, scheduled for 10 a. m. in the Decatur Club Ballroom, William T. Lodge, director of the State Department of Conservation, will explain his visual plans for a recreation area at the reservoir.

Also expected to attend is Mon-ticello Mayor James F. Merriman and Decatur city officials. Rudow Bid In Objection Twenty-nine objectors today filed a petition to stop a parking lot jusi north of Rudow's Market, 2001 N. Water St. The petition, filed with City Clerk David R.

Kirk, goes to the City Council for action next Monday. The city Zoning Board of Appeals recommended a special permit for the lot at its Sept. 12 meeting, by a vote of 4 to 3. When a measure does not receive five votes, it may be appealed to the council, within 10 days. Rudow last June asked for com mercial rezoning for his store but withdrew the petition when it appeared the council was not in favor of it He then asked the special per mit for parking and consideratior of the request by the appeal: board included a trip to the site to inspect it The petition against the parkinj lot today said it would create i hazard.

POST OFFICE WORK AT BLUE MOUND BEGIN: Work on Blue Mound's new pes. office has begun with foundation construction underway this week. Postmaster Lawrence H. Car Jr. said today that Dec.

2 ha. been set as an expected date foi completion, The building, located at the coi ner of Niles and College Streets, is under contract to Mr. and Mrs Rhine S. Grable, Bethalto. They will lease the structure tf the post office department for years, with renewal options rui' ning up to 20 years.

The annua rent for the basic term will $4,397, according to Carr. j. As provided in the contract, th site contains 7,600 square feet aoe the building, itself will have ae interior floor space of 2,045 squai feet. Court Asks Arguments In Writing Written arguments were request- ed today in Circuit Court in two suits being heard that challenge two 1959 annexations accepted by the Decatur School District. Judge Martin t.

Morthland in structed attorneys that the argu ments should be written and pre sented the court so a decision on the matter could be made, Thomas H. Armstrong, attorney representing the challenging Ar- genta and Macon school districts, today argued the annexations by the Decatur School District of Caterpillar and Borg Warner Corp. property failed to follow standards of annexation provided by law. D. Smith McGaughey Decatur School District attorney, said it is the contention of the Deca tur district that special charter provisions prevail and they were followed in accepting the annexa tion that came from petitioners in the areas involved.

Only the law of the suits is in volved in the arguments. The facts have been agreed to by the at torneys involved and will be presented the court in stipulations. The legal arguments are com plicated and involved. They hinge around the two points being arguedthe annexation authority in the special charter was an unconstitutional delegation of power and the charter provisions prevail in accepting the annexations. Oral arguments are expected to be completed today and the written arguments given to Judgt Morthland for study.

MRS. WILLIAM CLONEY, ILL SHORT TIME, DIES Mrs. Margaret W. Cloney, 71, of 541 W. William died at a.

m. today in St. Mary's Hospital after a short illness. sue nad lived in Decatur six years, coming here from Boody, Mrs. Cloney was born June 22.

1891, in Willow Hill, a daughter ol Lawrence and Martha Nollsch. She was a member of the Boodv Baptist Church. She married William Cloney in Springfield, Oct. 27, 1928. He sur vives.

Mrs. Cloney also leaves two Bis Nollsch, Rapid City, S. and Albert Nollsch, Spring field, and sisters, Mrs. Louise Smith, Los Angeles, and Mrs. Anna Young, and Mrs.

Marie McGivern, Detroit, Mich. The body is in Brintlinger's Fun eral Home where arrangements are incomplete. TWO FOOD LICENSE CHARGES ARE DROPPED Charges that a Decatur restau rant and a grocery store were op erating without city food licenses were dropped by the city today. City Clerk David Kirk. said the charges against James T.

Nal-ly, Nally's Fin 'N Sirloin, 1701 N. Woodford and Jesse T. Peniwell, Cash Market, 401 S. Jas per were dropped when the two indicated they would comply with city regulations. Earlier similar charges against two other restaurants wre dismis- Jsed for the same reason.

By Eldon E. Libby Of the Review Staff "Can't sit and keep fit!" This was a key theme in a physical fitness program preview ed this morning by the Decatur Public Schools general cabinet. Neil Ewing, coordinator of physical education, asked the cabinet for its suggestions for the final shaping up of the presentation which will be given to the Board of Education Tuesday night. Essentially, comments delivered by Ewing and other faculty mem bers boiled down to: "Decatur schools are doing a good job in physical fitness, better than many schools, but improvements are needed." Strengthening of the program could come in various areas, mainly in elementary, such as: Better identification and follow through on poorly coordinated children More supervision of teachers in the elementary grades who are not trained in physical education RITES THURSDAY FOR MRS. ANNA MARTIN, 7E Funeral services for Mrs.

Anna Frances Matilda Martin, 76, will be 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the J. Moran Sons Funeral Home Burial will be in Graceland Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 1 p.m. Wednesday.

Mrs. Martin, of 1236 E. Hickory died at 1 p.m. yesterday in St. Mary's Hospital after an ill ness of more than a year.

Mrs. Martin was born March 1, 1883, in Shobonier, a daughter of Jacob and Katherine Schmitt. She lived in Decatur 45 years coming from Shobonier and was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church. Mrs.

Martin leaves a son. Earl of Phoenix: a daughter, Mrs. Fred (Irene) Powell of Decatur- two grandchildren, five great grandchildren and two brotheis. Charles Schmitt of Jacksonville and William of Shobonier. Mrs.

Martin was a member af St. John's Lutheran Church. erty, the city has paid $90,086 for right-of-way. improving Broadway tooK on new "Significance yesterday with the announcement that the 6 mil lion dollar menta. health clinic will be built on property near Macon Acres.

i Broadway would be a main thoroughfare to the site if it is ex tended trom Pershing north a mile to Mound Road. The extension of Monroe street to Pershing has been in the "rec ommended" status, for years. Dever said the county Board of Supervisors' highway committee has been asked to see if the proposed road could be included in a federal aid program. Decatur has no streets south from Pershing between Oakland Avenue and Water Street, an 11- block distance. Extending Monroe would cut this in half.

In some grades, more weekly time devoted to physical fitness Perhaps a lowering of the pupil-teacher ratio in some areas. Continually in the preview, the speakers stressed the interest taken in physical fitness by President Kennedy and former President Eisenhower. Ewing noted concern about fitness of our youth began a few years ago when European youngsters did much better on some physical education tests than children in the United States. He tempered this, though, with the comment that the U. S.

Army had proved recruits could achieve physical fitness in a relatively short time. Among the real merits of stronger school physical fitness programs, Ewing said, is the stimulation of interest and desire in Americans to continue to keep in shape throughout their lives. He stressed the importance of this by quoting from medical and health magazines on lower inci dence of bad health in persons who exercise, ranging from relief from backaches to lessening of bad heart conditions. Durfee School sixth grade pupils demonstrated physical fitness tests being given in the schools and representatives of elementary, junior high and high school levels described the value of the tests. Duane Carver, physical education instructor, noted the tests were used in a form of competition at Johns Hill Junior High School, resulting in increased interest in them.

Ewing described some values of the physical education program, besides physical fitness, as being the development of control of the body, confidence in physical en deavors and better personal rela tionships. i His talk included some advice for parents: See that children do some work around the house, such as washing windows, scrubbing floors. (He added, "Usually, you'll get more physically fit trying to get them to do these Have children walk when possible, such as to the nearby store Ride bicycles rather than in cars Get children to go out for sports! rather than working for money to buy cars Have family planned recreation where exercise is necessary. President Kennedy has stated physical vigor of citizens is one of this country's most important re sources, Ewing said. Without its development, the na tion cannot realize its full poten tial, Ewing said.

MAN ORDERED TO COURT ON BENCH WARRANT A bench warrant was ordered is sued in County Court yesterday aft er a Decatur man failed to appear as scheduled to answer a charge of possessing gambling! equipment. He is Watson Hill b6, of 449 S. Main who was arrested on the charge last March and has been free on $1,000 bond since shortly afterward, house with his wife and eight ehil dren. Two of the children are Morgan's and his wife and six of the other children are by previous marriages of Mrs. Morgan.

The two-story house was owned by Arthur B. Wilcox of 3196 W. Center St. and was located in the Wilcox Addition, The house burned yesterday afternoon. Chief Deputy Sheriff Ralph J.

(Red) Doyle gave the following account of a statement made by Morgan: "The family of 10 was to have moved from the Wilcox property yesterday and had secured other quarters. "Mrs. Morgan had made a deposit of $65 on the house to be occupied and was making arrangements to have the furniture moved. "Saturday, Morgan went to the new renter and told the landlord he and his wife were going to move to a farm in Tennessee. He asked for, and received, the $65 rent deposit made by his wife.

"After getting the $65 Morgan started out on a drinking spree that lasted through Monday. "Morgan went to the house shortly before 3 p. m. yesterday and started a fire in a second- floor closet." Doyle said that earlier in the week Mrs. Morgan had signed complaints against her husband charging him with disorderly con duct and assault and battery.

Sheriff's deputies had been searching for him and after several trips to the house found him there yesterday afternoon. Morgan was found just after he had started the fire and he failed to tell the deputies so while they were taking him to county jail on charges made by his wife. Elsie Mae Morgan, two months, was admitted to St. Mary's Hospi tal last night for treatment of smoke inhalation and shelter. The child was sitting in the yard where smoke swirled about her before she was taken to safety.

Mrs. Morgan and four other children were taken to the Salvation Army. Three of the children were cared for last night by friends. Firemen from the Harristown Fire Prevention District were called and Decatur firemen were summoned to assist when it appeared a butane gas tank might catch fire. Firemen were hampered in fighting the fire by lack of water.

Wilcox said the loss to the build ing would range from $4,000 to $5,000. Blue Mound Picnic The Blue Mound school board will entertain personnel of the school district at a chicken fry at Thomas K. Hostetler Kiwanis Club Lists Officers Thomas K. Hostetler, 419 S. Woodale an insurance broker with the Bennett Shade was today named president of the Kiwanis Club in a meeting at the Decatur Club.

Hostetler succeeds Edward M. Woare Jr. Officers who will assume duties Jan. 1 are: Thomas K. Hostetler, president Samuel L.

K.ohr, assistant ad ministrator of the Decatur Public Schools, vice president Jack R. Burnett, re-elected as treasurer Donald F. Davis, re-elected treasurer. New directors named for a two- year term are: Graham Bradley Robert B. King William S.

Stevens. Holdover directors are: Royce H. Huss Donald R. Robinson Theodore F. Miller Maurice E.

Tolly. Translator Station Set Television station WTVP plans Thursday morning to begin opera tion of its translator station in the Champaign Urbana area. Bob King, general manager and vice president of the station, said to day. The ultra high frequency (UHF translator recently completed, will rebroadcast programs of the sta tion's channel 17 in Decatur. Operating on assigned channel 70, the station will broadcast dur ing the same time periods as the Decatur station.

Barring any unexpected objec tions from the Federal Communi cations Commission (FCC), King said, the station should be on with a test pattern at 8 a. m. Thursday. A 300-foot "satellite antenna" for the station is located about three miles northwest of Cham-paign-Urbana. Store Entered An apparent break-in at the Dairy Lane Store at 2924 Oakland Ave.

was reported to police today. Police said a lock was broken from a cooler and the cooler en tered last night It is not known if anything was (taken. Broadway Plans Drawn City Ends Land Buying for Section Widening of Broadway from Garfield Avenue to Pershing Road and extending Monroe Street from McKinley Avenue to Pershing should be done in the next 10 years, the City Council was told last night. City Manager John E. Dever said preliminary plans have already been drawn for the Broadway widening.

The city just last night finished buying the right-of-way for widen ing Broadway from Garfield south to the Wabash Railroad. The council approved payment of $520 to Collie and Leotta Pedigo for part of 545 E. Grand Ave. needed in the project Thursday at 7:30 p. m.

the council and the Decatur School Board will meet with the right-of-way needed off the Ullrich School grounds as one of the topics Hot counting the school prop 6:30 p.m. Saturday at Wise Park..