The Decatur Daily Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 47

Decatur, Illinois, Sunday, July 9, 1972 DECATUR SUNDAY HERALD AND REVIEW 47 He Likes America, Anyway Decatur Diary Murder Case Is Recalled Decatur Yesterdays 10 Years Ago building at the sound of the alcohol on the City Council or make him chairman of a welfare committee. We laugh at the account of thousands of Chinese removing snow by hand during President Nixon's visit, while we have a few do it here with power equipment. But while these few receive good pay, the unemployed live on welfare. We lament about unemployment but demand such high pay that business is forced to seek ways of getting along with less By Sylvia Thompson George Runyan, a Maroa night policeman was shot and killed March 22, 1935, while attempting to stop two men from robbing Morgan Tavern. Runyan stoppec the robbers outside the tavern after they had removed two slot machines.

The men ordered Runyan to "throw up his hands" but he answered by striking one of the robbers with his nightstick. The other robber then fired, the bullet striking Runyan's hand as he reached under his coat for nis gun. Four more shots followed. As Runyan fell to the ground the robbers left the scene in a car going north. Witnesses said they thought there was a woman at the wheel and another one in the back seat.

Curtis Morgan, son of the tavern owner, ran out of the AJSrP mm Not George, Not Hubert, Not Teddy: It's Bobby! JfJJ To the Editor: We Americans are peculiar people. The child longs to be older so he can have the privileges of the more advanced years. Then when he reaches maturity he begins to lament the fact that he is relentlessly growing older. We want to eat anything and everything and then lament about being overweight. We want the best in food and packaging and then complain about the price.

We complain about the cost of groceries and! we come out of the grocery store with office supplies, magazines, cosmetics, etc. We fertilize and water our lawns and lament about the work of keeping them mowed. We plant trees and complain about the leaves that fall. In cities now we are not allowed to burn anything because of smoke nuisance, except tobacco. It can be burned almost anywhere, in side or out.

We ban advertising of tobacco, in the form of cigarettes, because of danger to health but we allow advertising of beer, etc. which has to bej much more harmful and besides brings disaster to so many innocent victims. We build faster and more powerful cars and then have to limit their use. We build new playthings in the way of snowmobiles and untold kinds of cycles and then bemoan their potential dangers. We elect officials to serve us and thereafter criticize them for the duration of their term.

We hire umpires and referees for our games and then berate them for their lousy decisions. We demand law enforcement and at the same time try to evade the law in our driving and other actions. We arrest the supplier of drugs and put the supplier of Cost of operating the Hickory Point Township government for the 1961-62 fiscal year wasj $291,836 according to the pub-; lished report of Supervisor Floyd W. Grise. Demolition of the former; Wooden Shoe tavern, under way today, is expected to be completed in about a week.

Macon County's Mental Health Association has set up a Com-' mittee on Volunteers to act similarly to a hospital's aux- iliary. Both administrative and standing committees have been appointed. 25 Years Ago i A novel selling method which may prove a boon to busy De-; catur housewives will shortlv be: It is the "Dortodor Rollin' Store" a grocery store on wheels which will visit local residential areas. Appointment of Neil Ewing as coach and physical education instructor at Woodrow Wilson Junior High School was approved by the Decatur Board of Education. Nearing completion is the steelwork of the new $80,000 dairy building being constructed in the 700 Block E.

Prairie Ave. by Taylor-Harder Ridglydale Co. SO Years Ago The McMahon Construction Co. of Rochester Ind. expects to be pouring concrete on the Blo-omington road job the last week of July.

Anton Schuermann who has been employed by the Mueller Manufacturing company for almost 40 years, has left for new York from where he will sail within a few days for Europe on a three-month trip. BARGAINS GALORE -Shop Our Summer labor. We complain about competi tion of foreign imports but make the cost of manufacturing here so high that in some cases the raw material can be sent to Japan and the product brought back here cheaper than if manufactured here. The unemployed look for work while the employed complain because they must work. We stress the wonders of a college education for assuring a good income, and many graduates find no job waiting.

Also in the field of skilled workers there are those who with far less time spent on training, can make more money and with less full time responsibility. We speak of the value of education in preparing us to meet and to speak with people and still the average person speaks poorly. Observe all the "ah -ah" flattering speech of the average person interviewed on radio or TV. We demand the right to vote but comparatively few use it. It seems that not so many of the newly franchised 18-year-old voted in the various primaries that have been held.

However, while we say one thing and act another, we still can stay here in this country and I am still planning on taking my chances here. Alfred Gruen, Pana were also not speaking to each otner, ana on ucs, waiter 0n June 23, 1935 Charles L. Cronkite wasn't talking to Crawford, 31, was arrested in himself. Muncie, and said to have It was obvious to everyone in confessed his part in the rob-and out of the convention halljbery. that a compromise candidate It was said by Muncie police had to be found one who had that he named Harrison as the riT Ulil (lecalur's oldest furriers 253 north main Washington Everyone has his own scenario for this week's Democratic National Convention.

The way things have been going with the party, one scenario has as much validity as the next. This is the one that I have written and if it comes true, remember, you read it here. It is the fourth day of the convention and the Democrats have been unable to decide on a presidential candidate. The fight to seat delegations has taken up three days and those people who were ruled ineligible have refused to give up their seats to those who were officially designated as delegates to the convention. Almost every state delegation has two people sitting in every chair.

No one dares leave the floor for fear that someone will grab his seat. When someone tries to speak he is hooted down by the opposition faction. Larry O'Brien, the chairman of the party, has the podium ringed with the National Guard so no one can grab the microphone. The nomination speeches have not been heard, but the candidates have been nominated McGovern, Humphrey, Wallace, Chisholm, Jackson and Muskie. There have been demonstrations for the candidates in the hall because everyone is afraid if he gets up and marches they won't let him back in his section again.

On the first ballot McGovern picked up 1,234 votes, well shy of the 1,509 he needed. The rest were split between the other candidates with the uncommitted refusing to vote for anyone. The second and third ballot found no one budging. By the tenth ballot of Wednesday's all -night session, the convention was hopelessly deadlocked. The state delegations caucus ed right on the floor, trying to get people to change their minds.

But it was impossible. On NBC, John Chancellor and David Brinkley became short tempered and refused to talk to each other. Howard K. Smith and Harry Reasoner on ABC NORTHGATE MALL ONLY! PHONE 877-1702 iiiywiiDivuPBiiywu SUNDAY ONLY 10 A.M. to 6 P.M.

us now for fur work "off season" rates are lower si JL, shots. He attempted to stop the robbers but failed when he found out Runyan's gun had jammed. An ambulance was called for Runyan but he died en route to Decatur and Macon County Hospital. Investigations were held by assistant State's Attorney Ralph Ivens, acting Chief of Police L.L. Gibbons and Deputy Sheriff Ed Doyle.

On March 26, a statewide search began for 28-year-old Russell Harrison, as a suspect in the slaying. While tracing numerous leads to small towns for Harrison, two women were taken into custody and held for questioning about the murder. They were later charged with vagrancy and operation of disorderly houses. Neither was charged in connection with the holdup. It was later found that Harrison was under sentence of from one year to life for robbing a Decatur man in 1933.

He appealed the sentence and was' free on $5. MM) bond at the time of shooting. man who fired the shots that killed Runyan. Crawford told the police that Harrison had escaped to Mexico. Russell Harrison was arrested in Springfield Oct.

25, 1935 for Runyan's shooting. On Dec. 2, 1935, Harrison pleaded guilty to the Maroa robbery and shooting. He was convicted and sentenced to 199 years in the Illinois penitentiary by Circuit Judge Miller. Cooperation To the Editor: Fun Fair is a tribute to the spirit of cooperation.

The two hospital auxiliaries work together to plan and execute the fair. Individuals and groups come together in many ways to help make the fair a success. Our donors give money, time, skills, and equipment, and of course our patrons come out to have a good time. In 1972, St Mary's Hospital will use its share of Fun Fair proceeds to purchase equipment consistent with advanced techniques of patient care and diagnosis. Decatur Memorial Hospital will use its share as a start toward the auxiliary's $200,000 pledge to provide a post acute cardiac area.

Your contribution to Fun Fair was one of importance to the fair. Thank you for your help and cooperation. The General Chairmen Mrs. Robert E. Hartley Kenneth F.

Frankenstein Mrs. I. Dwight Engle Mrs. William T. Couter Mrs.

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