Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 18

18 DECATUR HERALD Decatur, Illinois, lhurday, -Mar 26, 1V7U Mental Health Budget Wears Passage $7.4 Million Larger Red Tape Hinders Trip Of Paraplegic Students cent salary increase, which other department employes also are getting. The students resumed the trip Wednesday and were expected to ct0D in Pinckvvil for a If- Pincknoyville (AP) Eight paraplegic students trundling wheelchairs from Carbondale to St. Louis to prove that the handicapped have the stamina to do any strenuous jobs are finding it easier to push their wheelchairs than to cut through official red tape. The Southern Illinois University (SIU) students were stoDDed twice TupsHav at th outset of their 100-mile trip, once Dy jacKson county sheruTs officers and once by the Pcrrv County sheriffs office. John Taschler.

a handicaDDd student who is president of the SIU Winged Wheels Club, said Jackson County authorities in formed the croup Illinois State Police had not cleared their plan. Taschler said he negotiated a compromise. The state police would not hinder the students. nor would they provide an escort. About nine miles south of Pinckneyville, Perry County authorities warned the paraplegics might run into trouble in the town because of an ordinance dealing with slow-moving vehicles.

More nppnfia. tion cleared that obstacle. ment was adapted unanimous-, iy. It will cost an extra $4.8 million over a salary increase previously submitted in the budget. Rep.

Paul Elward, D-Chicago, also won adoption of an amendment increasing the amount for community mental health centers by $1.6 million and that for day care centers by $1 million. Under criticism from mental health groups and Democratic legislators, Ogilvie several weeks ago agreed to a $16.2 million budget boost. In other action, the House overwhelmingly defeated an attempt by Rep. Anthony Scariano, D-Park Forest, to put the Illinois Crime Investigating Commission out of business by killing its $245,000 appropriation. Scariano charged the commission "has not lived up to its purpose of ferreting out links between crime and politics." House members defended the commission but adopted an amendment to change its makeup by removing the four public members appointed by the governor, leaving it composed of 12 legislators.

The House passed the record $865 million annual budget for the Illinois Public Aid Department and returned it to the Senate for concurrence in amendments. One of the changes made by the House removed a Senate provision limiting monthly payments to any one family to $560. The other amendment granted department employes a 6 per Springfield, 111. (AP) The Illinois House added $7.4 million to the state mental health budget Wednesday and then advanced it to passage stage. With the addition, the budget rose to $283.2 million for the fiscal year beginning July 1.

It up $23.6 million from the 'amount Gov. Richard B. Ogilvie originally proposed. With Ogilvie's approval, Rep. Thomas Houde, R-Kankakee, offered an amendment which increases mental health employe salaries 6 per cent, beginning The amend- Marijuana Patch Killed At Dieterich Dieterich (Special) Dieterich police officials ordered the spraying Wednesday of a patch of marijuana growing wild along the Illinois Central Railroad tracks near Effingham.

Marijuana is classified as a noxious weed, and state law requires that it be destroyed. The patch of marijuana was discovered by Arthur Schultz of -Dieterich who reported his find to Dieterich police. Dieterich Police Chief Max Meyer" contacted Effingham police authorities, who identified the weed. Meyer and a deputy pulled great quantities of the weed from the railroad siding and late in the afternoon Illinois Central sprayed the area. According to Meyer, the marijuana was growing in a 12 foot wide plot about a quarter of a mile long.

"I would estimate that there was 60 to 70 pounds of the weed growing along the tracks," Meyer said. KIRLIN'S mass 1 Z7 a rf lunch supplied by the local Veterans of Foreien Wars (VFW) post. The Murphysboro TW provided Tuesday's lunch. The group planned to spend the night in Coulterville. ia Randolph County 45 miles from the starting point.

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and Mrs. George P. Blickensderfer of Cerro Gordo and has been president of the student council, Spanish Club and intramural board. He is also treasurer of his class. He has been active in chorus, FTA.

Lettermen's Club and as a member of the school paper and yearbook staff. Blickensderfer plans to attend the University of Illinois to major in mathematics. Miss Henricks is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Firman E.

Henricks of Cerro Gordo. She was co editor of the schocl paper and the yearbook and is currently president of her class and vice president of the student counciL Miss Henricks has also been active in band, chorus, GAA, FTA and Spanish club. She is a member of the National Honor Society and was a member of the School Band of America on its European trip in 1969. Miss Henricks plans to attend the University of Illinois to study music. BLUE MAX RADIO Spec Ag Collector' Item 8 Regular $1.79 lb.

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Also present, according to Mayor John Biesemeier, were two representatives of Swift Co. Agricultural Chemicals Division, located in southern Mount Pulaski. Mayor Biesemeier said the company's representatives acknowledged the pollution problem and assured the council that the company was attempting to eliminate it. "The council took note of the opinions," Mayor Biesemeier saia, "ana agreed in a com mittee session later to send a letter to the Swift officials to advise them that they must clean up the problem before the next season." (Winter is the most active period for fertilizer production). Mount Pulaski does have a pollution ordinance, involving fines, on the books but the mayor said the city does not anticipate having to enforce it, because "we feel Swift is going to cooperate." The council also considered the possibility of obtaining a state and federal grant to provide a traffic safety patrol for Mount Pulaski during construction of a new overhead bridge on U.S.

54. Mayor Biesemeier said the route will probably be closed during construction of the bridge next fall or winter. of the Federation of Independent Illinois colleges and Universities and was a former member of the Illinois Board of Hiehe Education. Akers was a former director of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He is survived by his widow, Beulah, and a daughter.

Judith Ann, both of Evanston. A double funeral is being arranged for Akers and his sister in Jacksonville. Store Evacuated After Bomb Scare Lincoln (Special) A bomb scare shortly before closing Wednesday night caused evacuation of the Kroger store on Woodlawn Road in Lincoln. A clerk, Mrs. Mary Ad-derman, reported an anonymous phone warning at 8:50 p.m.

Manager Gary Naylor ordered the customers out of the store. He called authorities but they found no bomh. STATE SEN. Robert E. Cherry, D-Chicago, questions a witness during Senate subcommittee hearing on antipollution legislation in Springfield Wednesday.

At left is Sen. Daniel Dougherty, D-Cnicago, who is also a member of the subcommittee. Gunmen Rob State Bank Farmers ville (AP) Two gunmen held up the State Bank of Farmersville Wednesday and fled with an un determined amount of cash. H. K.

Warner, president of the bank, said the men came in and asked for change. When the teller complied, the men forced three bank employes to lie on the floor, grabbed some rash and fled. Fire Probe Provides No Clues Monticello (Special) Monticello fire officials have been unable to turn up anything in their investigation into a fire that damaged the Combes Recreation Parlor and an adjoining apartment in Monticello on Saturday. The interior of the pool hall was a total loss, and there was extensive damage to the upstairs apartment. m2 YOUR CHOICE ONIY M88 All Solid State Radios YOUR CONVENIENT ft 363 N.

Open Daily 9 to i liV 9 i Photo by Lorry Shroytr This crash claimed the life of educator Milburn P. Akers. WAREHOUSE CLEARANCE SALE! WIDE OVAL Appointive Move Fails In Con-Con By James Kroemer Lindsay-Schaub News Service Springfield Moves to eliminate the offices of secretary of state and attorney general as elective positions were soundly defeated W'ednesday morning by delegates to the Constitutional Convention. The defeat had been virtu all assured Tuesday when delegates votea 5o-50 to retain as elective the office of treasurer, con sidered by many to be the most vulnerable office. The votes on secretary of state and attorney general amendments were far more lopsided with the former defeated 74-20 and the latter 74- 6.

After the votes Atty. Gen. WTilliam Scott praised the con vention's decisions. "I'm very pleased with the convention's action," he said. After the defeat of the amendments, the convention voted 74-6 to send the first sec tion of the 33-article Executive Committee report to the Style and Drafting Committee, which will put the section into formal language.

The first article recommends the Constitution retain as elective the offices of governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, attorney general and treasurer. The article recommends only one office, that of superintendent of public instruction, be made appointive, and replaces the state auditor with a comptroller. After passage of the first article the convention moved immediately to the second article which recommends all state officials be elected in off-years, when no national elections are being held. The delegates voted 36-71 against a move to keep elections of most state officers in the same year as national elections. The article proposes the governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, secretary of state and comptroller be elected to 4-year terms in 1972 and to 2-year terms in 1976.

The state treasurer would be elected to a 4-year term in 1974. In 1978, the change would be made and off-year elections would begin. Except for the 2-year terms between 1976 and 1978, 4-year terms for all officials would be retained. BOY, 4, pROWNS Mokena (AP) Kevin Cumbee. 4.

son of Mr. and Mrs. John Cumbee, drowned Tuesday night in a small backyard swimming pool at his i home. He was pronounced dead 1 shortly after arrival at Silver i Cross Hospital, Joliet. Killed in Action Washington (AP) The Defense Department announced Wednesday that Army Pfc.

Russell D. Watts, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl J. Watts of Cottage Hills, has been killed in action in Vietnam.

his newspaper career as a reporter for the Illinois State Register in Springfield, later writing for the Peoria Transcript and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He once was a member of the Associated Press staff in Chicago, Springfield and Washington, D.C. and became press secretary to Gov. Henry Horner of Illinois in 1937.

In 1940 he became assistant to Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. Akers joined the new Chicago Sun with its founding by Marshall Field III in December 1941. In 1949 he was named managing editor of the Chicago Sun-Times and in 1950 was inamed executive editor. Akers was named editor nf tho Sun-Times in 1959.

Active in educational circles, Akers served as chairman of the board of trustees at McKendree College, Lebanon, his alma mater, and was a trustee of MacMurray College, Jacksonville and St. Xavier College Chicago. He was also executive director College Head Dies in Collision Of Automobile, Semitrailer mil ml lV I 4 WHEN YOU BUY FIRST THREE TIRES AT REGULAR TRADE-IN PRICES! ISP ANTIQUE CAR RADIO To Add To ACarBofPi TritTM 4th I T. I Tiltl Mft I 11m: Tlr; O. 4 Tim: I IrL LT.

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Akers, alone in his car, was -driving to Springfield from i Hopedale, where his sister died in a convalescent home Tuesday night. Akers had spent the night I in Hopedale, between Peoria Lincoln. The truck driver escaped unhurt. Akers visited Springfield frequently for legislative sessions in connection with measures proposing state aid to private colleges. Akers retired as editor of the Sun-Times in 1965.

He was elected the ninth president of Shimer, a liberal arts college for 500 students in Mount Carroll, in 1968. He was born in Chicago, the son of a clergyman, and began. KNIGHT'S HEAD RADIO In Shining Armor crvawAR CANNON RADIO Civil War Buff's DeliSnt All Tires Are Nw And Fully Goarantrrd! Full 4 Ply Nylon Free Tire Mounting Balancing! All Prices Plus Sales Tax And F.xrhange Tires! ASSUMPTION CO-OP FARM SERVICE South On Rouic 7l PH. 21 7-226-3321 ASSUMPTION, ILL, ZAE.ES jtwrtimf We're nothing without your love..