Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 3

Decatur, Illinois, Wednesday, October 13, 1965. DECATUR HERALD 4-3 Vote Board Stands Fast On School Namina Summit Avenue and North Mac-Arthur Road sites have been laid and brick work is in Metromedia Sells Decatur Station WTVP Sale of Decatur television station WTVP by Metromedia Inc. to the LIN Broadcasting Co. Inc. of Nashville, was announced here Tuesday.

Russell Greer station manager, who announced the sale to employes Tuesday afternoon, said he was informed of it. about 2:30 p.m. by a Metromedia vice president in New York City. A brief announcement of the sale was carried by WTVP on its regular news broadcasts Tuesday night. The sale, at an undisclosed price, is subject to approval by the Federal Communications Commission, which said Tuesday afternoon that no petition seeking approval has yet been filed.

Greer said here that the date of filing of the petition has not been announced. Future operation of the station will apparently remain much the same as at present, but this could not be confirmed Tuesday. The station telecasts network programs of the American Broadcasting Co. Fred Gregg president of LIN, was reported by his Nashville office to be in New York City, and could not be reached. WTVP will be LIN's first venture into the telecasting al lil WAY 4 1 Staff photo by Dick Torgerson College Night College representatives talking at MacArthur High School College Night Tuesday are, from left, George H.

Wall- One Step at a Time Parking Plan Has Many Hurdles By Judith L. Schultz Of the Herald Amid fancy parliamentary footwork, the Decatur Board of Education voted four to three Tuesday night to stick with the six names they approved last month for the converted Mound School and five new ones. The action came after the board tabled a' motion two weeks ago to rename the Arthur J. Goldberg Junior High School and an -amendment to reconsider the names for five new buildings. Board member Dr.

George D. Flaxman referred to the board's by-laws which he said "states that the maker of a motion who then votes against it automatically withdraws it. He was referring to member Theodore W. Schroeder, who made the motion the Mound School to rename two weeks ago when a delegation of about i 100 Mound residents protested i the dropping of the Mound name for the remodeled junior high school there. Schroeder then voted for a motion to table his motion.

Flaxman's parliamen tary point opened the floor to a motion by Mrs. Mary Barnes that all the names to be retained. Mound Petitions Before the vote, another Mound delegation represented by a resident, Don Shelton, pre sented the board with three pe titions. One was signed by 1,564 Mound residents, one by 45 present and former Mound School students and one, a full page, by signers "64 years young, Shelton said. He told the board he had collected about 99 per cent of the signatures.

"I've never seen people so eager to grab the pen to sign, he said. He stressed that the Mound residents were not protesting the renaming as a racial issue, but simply that they wanted their school named Mound. "We would not agree to any name chosen (except Mound)," he said. The delegations have protested the change because of the historical significance of the name Mound. It has been on five schools in that area for about 100 years.

The present Mound School will become a junior high school in the fall of 1967. Letter from Goldberg After Shelton finished, the board heard a letter from a secretary of Goldberg's, U. S. ambassador to the United Na tions, thanking them for the selection of his name in Sep- Construction of additional parking facilities and develop ment of the Water Street modified mall are not in the immediate offing. David R.

Kirk, administrative assistant to the city manager, said several steps must be taken before either major improvement begins. The City Council must approve, modify or reject the parking recommendations be fore they are instituted, Kirki Photo by Neola Thompson The Engineering Service Cor poration also reported that work on the Baker Woods junior high school is progressing according to schedule. The roof deck will be poured in the north section next week. About 50 per cent of the structural steel has been erected. Work on concrete floor slabs and masonry is also progressing so that the building will be enclosed by December 15.

Sweetnam reported that work on the South Shores site began Sept. 27 and on the North Neeley Avenue site on Oct. 4. In other action, Tuesday the board Voted to refuse to pay tui- tion to another school district for the training of a mentally handicapped child which the Decatur School District had re antnA or. inrkll rviln (rr jucu ao lui ilo special education classrooms Approved the submission of the annual report and the application for recognition report to the state office of education Received the September truancy report stating that 16 children had been found truant from seven Decatur schools Awarded a $3,683.79 contract to the American Readers Service for magazines to be furnished to libraries in the next year.

Penney's Asks Okay on Plans Plans for expansion of the J. C. Penney Co. store at 410 N. Water St.

have been drafted and sent to company officials at the New York City headquar- trs for final approval or re jection. Rumors of Penney expansion plans had been common here for some time and were referred to in. a city parking system feasibility study released Monday. The study, prepared by Bar- ton-Aschman Associates of Chi cago, said that additional downtown parking will be needed in the future because, among other things, city parking lot No. 5 at Eldorado and Franklin streets "will be eliminated in the near future when the J.

C. Penney Co. undertakes its ex pansion program." Norman Menz of Chicago, Penney zone leasing manager, said in Waterloo, Iowa, Tues- trie store ana expects approval i Two-Way One Two signs at the corner of Water and Orchard streets give the driver a choice of which way to turn onto the said. He said architects Irm re 10 Transport Meeting Rail Merger Danger Cited by ADM Head By Tom McNamara the Herald Merger of some transportation companies is necessary for survival but is a dangerous trend since it will lessen com John H. Daniels, president of the Archer-Daniels-Midland said Tuesday.

"Mergers inevitably will re move some of the public's safe- field, so far as is known. The firm presently operates four radio stations as well as a number of community antenna television systems, several in Southern Illinois. Radio stations operated by the firm are WMAK, Nash ville, KAAY, Little Rock, KEEL, Shreve-port, and WAKY, Louis ville, Ky. The Decatur Prairie Televi sion a corporation controlled by William L. Shella- barger with a 68.75 per cent stock interest, originated WTVP in 1953, with regular programs beginning Aug.

16, 1953. In 1958 Shellabarger sold a controlling interest in the corporation to a Chicago group, which in 1960 sold control to Metropolitan Broadcasting Co. of New York. In 1961 Metropolitan changed its name to Metromedia and continued operation of WTVP as part of its Metropolitan Broad casting Television division. Patrick Photo Wins 2nd Place In AP Contest J.

D. Patrick's photograph of a gunman resisting arrest "i the Herald and Review news room last September won him a second place in the Illinois Associated Press Photo Contest Tuesday. The photo, "Gunman in the Newsroom," won second in the news category of the non-metropolitan division of the contest. Patrick won another second place with "Stevenson's Funeral" in the picture story category. Another Herald and Review photographer, L.

Roger Turner, won third places for "Amish Woman" in the feature category and "Snow Art" in the picture story category. guards against icy areas which "deserve care-he said in a speech at the an-jful consideration" by the trans- tember. The letter said that03 lnac lne, company nas, hnnoH tn ho at tho drawn plans for expansion of and Edwin A. Saye of Lin-denwood College. Parents and students from all four high schools attended.

Street south of Washington Street to Cleveland Avenue and Main Street to Bloomington Road (U.S. 51). Keneipp, in his report, recommends the two parking garages be completed by 1967. With the couple completed next spring, the city is given one year to meet the timetable established by the report. John L.

Burgess Stroke Probe Project Begun One of four pilot projects in the nation for research on strokes is being conducted in Decatur and Macon County. Coordinator of the program is John Burgess, 25, who says similar projects are in progress in Michigan, California and Georgia. The first step, said Burgess, is to discover the extent of the problem in the city and county. One per cent of the nation's population is estimated to be stroke afflicted, but no estimates are available for particular areas, he said. Then research will be conducted on facilities available to assist stroke victims and on factors which work against early diagnosis, adequate treatment and rehabilitation.

Burgess was in Decatur for a year in 1963 as health educator for the Macon County Tuberculosis Association. Formerly of the Chicago Tuberculosis Institute, he opened an office in Decatur on Oct. 1. He received a master's degree from Southern Illinois University last year. Goblin Parade Rule: Never On Sunday The annual Recreation Department's Halloween Parade has been canceled this year because the holiday falls on a Sunday.

The parade traditionally has given youngsters the chance to dream up costumes in hopes of winning prizes. Freda Combs, supervisor of the department, said she hopes church, family and neighborhood groups will supply the Halloween programs this year. The last time the parade was canceled was in 1954 for the same reason. That year the department broadcast a radio program for children at home. The department has printed a bulletin of Halloween party ideas which is available at the Recreation office, 610 E.

Riverside Ave. man of Luther College, Helen D. Reifel of Butler Gansel Bennet, head of Mac-Arthur's guidance department, Keneipp said the peak park ing hour daily is 2 p.m., when 3,897 parking spaces) are used. Of the total, 2,643 autosuse off-street parking facilities. Broadway is expected to handle a major share of the downtown north south traffic when U.S.

51 is routed to the couple, Kirk said. The street is being widened to four lanes from Lake Shore Drive to William Street. Already completed is a four-lane ersnmg Additional work on the couple remains to be done on Franklin Old Fashion Motif Marks Bargain Days "Old Fashion Bargain Days" Dec.atur st.arts, Thursday for tnree days ot sale values, costumes and an antique and classic auto show sponsored by the Downtown Decatur Council. Many downtown store employes will don Gay Nineties and Roaring Twenties costumes starting 10 a.m. Thursday.

On Thursday and Friday children 12 and under will be admitted free to the Avon Theatre to see 'Lil Abner" and color cartoons. The antique and classic auto show begins at 10 a.m. Saturday on East Prairie Street between North Main and North Water streets. Ten trophies for makes and models from 1902 to 1942 will be awarded at the judging at 1 p.m. The route of the parade will be blocked off from 9 a.m.

to 1 p.m. Saturday. Applications for entering the parade should be made to the Downtown Decatur Council, 300 Standard Building. The parade, which is scheduled to begin about 11 a.m., will also feature 1966 autos. Staff photo by Dick Torgerson Mrs.

Gluck is vice president of Cluck's Town House, and Kiley is a salesman at Pfile's Photo Shop. or rejection irom iew expected to matte it more at- Way one-way. The car going by in the background shows which sign is correct. serve to multiply inequities at the expense of today's established agricultural industries," he said. "The only feasible solution is to recognize the- public utility aspects of all modes of transportation and provide adequate, reasonable regulation of all transportation." Daniels cited three major pol- portation industry and by industries and communities serv ed by transportation.

The areas are: Equality of regulation of all modes of transportation Discrination a 2 a i areas an. commodities in the pricing 0i transportation ser- vices Merger trends as they affect the carriers' responsibilities to the public. Dependent on Rails Daniels cited Decatur as an example of a Midwestern community highly dependent on rail transportation. "We operate two soybean processing plants here because it is the center of a large soybean producing area and because excellent, competitive rail transportation enables meals and oils extracted from those soybeans to compete for distant markets," he said. "Non discriminatory rail rates assuring Decatur processors an equal opportunity to procure soybeans are vital to the survival of our industry in Decatur," he said.

"Under deregulation, a land locked community such as Decatur becomes dangerously vul nerable," he said. "Deregulation of the railroad industry would open the door to discrimination against process ing industries such as ours that are located in the heart of the producing areas," he said. Landlocked processors, he said would be at the mercy of a railroad structure which could easily force the relocation of the industry to heavily populated areas on the East and West coasts. There would be no controls to prevent a deliberate program of railroads to draw agricultural commodities from points of production to processing plants so located as to provide the maximum possible volume movement of raw materials for the railroad, he said. ZONING HEARINGS Hearings on requests for four zoning changes will be conducted by the Macon County Zoning Board of Appeals today.

Hearings will be on the sites of the property involved. he hired tn design the two nro-1 posed multilevel garages. Barton Aschman Associates of Chicago prepared the study to appraise present parking needs, future needs and how the expanded program could be financed. Land Needed Land must be acquired for 10 anracro fn rho wpci- sirlo of the garage on the west side of Water Street between Eldorado and North streets. Eleven businesses must be relocated before construction begins.

Other factors involved, according to Kirk, are: Completion of the U.S. 51 north-south couple. Completion of the Broadway project from Lake Shore Drive to William Street. Kirk said work on Water Stre- cannot begin until U.S. 51 1.

-ic is routed to the couple. The couple is expected to be completed sometime next spring, he said. Once the couple is finished, Water Street becomes a city street, ana tne moainea man tractive and convenient for shoppers. J. M.

Keneipp, representing Barton Aschman Associates, said additional shopping traffic will be created by the couple. He said the increase would be handled by the expanded parking program. sic auto, which belongs to 'Jack Tallman, are part of Decatur's "Old Fashion Bargain Days" starting Thursday. nual meeting of the Transpor tation Club at the Hotel Orlando. He said the only apparent remedy to excessive consolida-j tion of carriers is regulation to preserve'equaiity ot opportunity for industries and communities.

Daniels told the transportation executives he expects President Johnson to make a statement on regulation of transportation after Jan. 1. "Uniform regulation of public transportation is vital to the agricultural prosperity of the Midwest, rather than abandon ment of all rate and service rules," he said. Railroads Handicapped He said railroads are unfairly handicapped by governmental regulations in "their competition with unregulated truck and water carriers. "We are convinced, however, that 'deregulation', will only Herald and Review Photo of Mississippi Valley Structural Steel center, and City Manager John E.

Dever. 1 is HoHir.afir.ri foremnnioc During, their discussion board members reiterated the reasons why they voted for the schools' names last month. Flaxman, Mrs. Barnes, Franzy Eakin and Donald A. Jones again voted for the six names as they were originally chosen, while Schroeder, Joseph Katauski and President Richard W.

Huff voted against retention of the names. Huff abstained last month on grounds that two names were of living people. After the vote, Flaxman made a motion which had no second to create a committee to reexamine the by-laws. He said that by reviewing the mechanics of the meetings, board might be able to proceed in a more orderly fashion. Huff answered him by saying, "There will be no rules which cut down on board discussion.

Let's drop it." The names which the board has now approved twice include U.S. founding fathers and three modern American international statesmen. They are to repre sent a basic theme exemplifying American goals of democ racy. School Building Work Proceeds The Decatur Board of Education Tuesday night heard that construction at five new school sites was proceeding satisfactorily. The one setback in the schedules occurred last Thursday when high winds blew down a wall at the North Summit Avenue site.

The wall had not been tied down at the corners, according to the report submitted by John F. Sweetnam, architect. The construction crew had been preparing to insert expansion joints. The report said that an insurance claim had been made. Foundations for the North headquarters in a month to six weeks Until the program is ap proved, he said, discussion of details would be premature.

If and when the go-ahead is given, he said, the company will make its plans known to the public. Bargain Boosters Mrs. Adele Gluck looks perturbed at Ken Kiley's efforts to start this Rolls Royce. Their costumes and the clas Transportation Talk John H. Daniels, left, chats with Robert J.

Wood, vice President and plant manager 1.