Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 3

TRRCR: Should be administrative assistant, and DePaul. DECATUR HERALD AND REVIEW Decatur, Illinois, Thursday, December 25, 1969 Decatur Scene Landholt Raps Procession Year's Eve City Ord mance an old golf cart provided the music as they carolled. I A Santa's sleigh made from Sisters filled a i.i- i A-I I I Candlelight Set on New A candlelight procession to Central Park on New Year's Eve is the way a group of college students is bringing the idea of peace from their campuses to their home community during this Christmas vacation. The end of 1969. The start of a new decade.

And a hope for peace for the new decade are behind the New Year's Eve peace march. The march will be "a new different way to celebrate a new year and a new decade with the hope for a new era of peace," said a spokesman for the group. The idea began when Randy Braccialarghe, a student at the University of Michigan, wrote to Randy Bates, a student at the University of Illinois, about about 20 nuns went carolling. on Wheels Sister Judith Gogol, an assistant director of nursing, guided the sleigh cart with the rest of the sisters helping with directions: "There goes another fender." "You're over the speed limit." And with one special sister joining the singing: Sister Margaret. She walked a little slower than the rest and used a cane.

Until Dec. 23, she had been a patient at the hospital for about five weeks. But she joined the sisters Christmas Eve and went carolling. To sing to the patients. And to the visitors as sounds of the songs blew gently down the halls.

And gently stirred up feelings of Christmas. As Christmas gently invaded the starch and crackle of the with Christmas cheer and a -decorated golf cart filled with sisters brightened hospital halls Christmas Eve. "a way to bring the idea of peace to the home community, to get people to think about war and peace." Participants will meet at 11:30 p.m. New Year's Eve in the parking lot of the First Lutheran Church and march to Central Park. The program at the park will be decided Friday at a 10 a.m.

meeting at the First Presbyterian Church. Another group of young people, the members of DOT (Do Our Thing), Wednesday were delivering 50 boxes of food to needy Decatur families. The deliveries ended work which began Nov. 29 when the 50 members started a door-to- door collection of canned goods. Cans of vegetables, fruit, meat and soup, loaves of bread, packages of sugar and flour and red net Christmas stockings of candy were placed in the box es.

Members of the Effective Community Force and other Decatur residents helped make the deliveries. Decatur Memorial Hospital has received a $12,500 gift from the James Millikin Estate Trustees, Millikin National Bank and Millikin Trust Co. The money will be added to the 1969-70 annual gift program fund and will help repay the $4.5 million building loan. Decatur Memorial Hospital and St. Mary's Hospital, as well as 12 other charitable organizations in Macon County, will eventually share in the estimated $1.6 million estate of George H.

Parr. Parr, former chairman of the board of directors of the Gerber State Bank in Argenta, died Dec. 11. His will provides that Mrs. Parr will receive 720 acres of land and a life interest in stock of the bank with the balance to be put in life trust for several relatives and friends.

As each beneficiary dies, his income will go to the 14 organizations. St Mary's Hospital has opened bids for a three-story and basement addition which are beine studied by tne architect, Berners, Schober Kilp of Green Bay, Wis. Contracts probably will be let after the first of the year. Paul Osborne Other city news includes the sale of the Decatur Tribune by publisher Dr. V.

W. Powell to the Osborne a printing and advertising agency owned by Paul V. Osborne. The sale is effective Jan. Osborne also is editor and Dublisher of the "Christian a religious maeazine.

He writes, produces and appears on the WDZ program "Thoughts for Today." The Osborne founded in 1964 as a job printing shop, is expanding into the weekly newspaper field. The format and the staff are to be retained, Osborne said. The Decatur Chamber of Commerce has sent a letter, expressing concern about pollution of Lake Decatur by fertilizer and other agricultural chemicals, to Gov. Richard B. Ogilvie.

The letter requests studies which would: Establish the desired level of agricultural productivity. Develop the most effective method of attaining the desired yield with the least damage to soil and water resources. Establish the effects of varying amounts of these fertilizers to humans and animals. Two-Car Crash Ends in Arrest Of Both Drivers A collision at Leafland Avenue and Main Street at 5:47 p.m. Wednesday resulted in the arrest of the drivers of both cars.

Junior Wayne Walters, 44, of 2270 E. Hickory was arrested for investigation of driving while intoxicated and driving too fast for conditions. The driver of the second car, Virgil Ray Eagan, 72, of 1460 N. Edward was ticketed for failure to yield the By Kay B. Geiger Of the Herald and Review The Decatur City Council this week received a preliminary plat for a subdivision which two members called "ingenious "but which the corporation counsel said probably couldn't meet the city's "ancient subdivision ordinance." The plat in question was designed by consulting engineer John Hagan for the Challans Addition between 27th Street and an undedicated portion of 28th Street.

Hagan envisioned interior drives from 27th and 28th streets toward two interior lots. Councilman Clarence Flint called the plat an "ingenious" bit of design, something I wish we had more of in the city." Corporation counsel Hilmer Landholt urged the council to direct the staff to draw up a revised subdivision ordinance. "We need a complete new draft something which should have begun five years ago," Landholt said. No Flexibility The existing ordinance has no flexibility except that the coun- Urban Renewal Design Plan Presented An urban design plan, showing how the Torrence Park urban renewal area might look when the project is completed, was presented Tuesday night to the area's citizens committee. Harland Bartholomew Associates, Inc.

is the chief planning consultant for the project. The design is in more detail than previous sketches which have shown general areas where residences, elderly housing, a shopping center and a park school church complex will be located. In the shopping area it shows where the stores and the parking would be. In the park -church school area it shows possible location of playgrounds. The design shows how a proposed industrial parking and office space area would be screened off from the rest of the project by blocking off a street, a wall and plantings.

The possible location of mobile homes, which may be used for temporary relocation purposes and later sold to a developer, is shown. The mobile home park was the idea of Frank E. Beaman, community programs organizer, said Arthur M. Stout, director of the Department of Community Development. The U.S.

Department of Housing and Urban Development is interested in the idea, Stout said, because it is the first time mobile homes have been suggested as a relocation resource. The urban design plan also shows how placing housing in an area bounded by Condit, North Jordan, East Marietta and North Folk streets around Orchard Street would make it more a part of the project. Partners Try Yule Game of One-Upmanship It's not certain who's going to be one up on whom after this story is written, but almost certainly the game is on. First it was Dean S. Roby of 831 Karen Dr.

who was one up on Phillip Jacobs, but that may have changed. Jacobs gave his business partner a suitably inscribed silver cup for Christmas. Roby kept saying he had no present for Jacobs. Not so. Christmas eve a sheriff's deputy appeared at Jacobs' door at 837 S.

19th not to issue a citation but to deliver a Christmas present. Right. The present, a plac-que also suitably inscribed, was from Roby. But now, Jacobs thinks he may have one up on Roby. He told the story to the newspaper.

And he wants to assure Roby that he's already thinking about next Christmas. cil can waive the requirements it wants to, Landholt said. For example, the council Monday night accepted the final plat for a subdivision in which the requirement of sidewalks has waived. An attorney said the developer wanted an atmosphere of country living in the subdivision. "There is nothing to allow the type of development Hagan en visions," said Landholt.

The present ordinance envisions a plat close to arterial streets, sewer lines and water mains, allowing proDaDiy only row housing. City Manager W. Robert Semple said that the developer probably couldn't meet frontage and setback requirements. Because the lots were not numbered and other information was not contained, the council tabled action on receiving the Challans Addition plat. Reviewed Procedure Landholt also reviewed for the council the procedure for plats: The plat committee of the City Plan Commission reviews the plat and forwards it to the City Plan Commission.

The commission makes a recommendation to the city council. The council receives a preliminary plat and then 14 days later approves or disapproves the final plat. Dividing of the land into lots, with easements for utilities and dedication of streets is the result. The confusion was caused when the council received a sketch plan for an area south of Hillshire Boulevard and west of South Franklin Street, an area which is outside the city limits. Sketch Usually Presented City Manager Semple said that a sketch is usually presented to get a reaction.

In this case, sewer service is the question. The area is contiguous to the city, Semple said. The sketch shows houses on less than half acre lots, normally requiring sewer service and not septic tanks. Semple suggested that the developer urge circulation of a petition to form a sewer district by residents in the area around the subdivision and then his people could annex to the district. The council also received a preliminary plat of the Hubbard Commercial Park, an area between Mound and Pershing roads.

Although it had no bearing on receiving the plat, the council also discussed a forthcoming petition for rezoning the north 150 feet of the industrial park. Area Rezoned After the area was annexed to the city, it was rezoned M-l (light industry) with the city council requiring that the north 150 feet be a buffer zone, councilman Frank Grossman said. If the buffer zone were rezoned to M-l, a building could come within 25 feet of the property to the north, some of which is residential development. "I couldn't support anything that would bring M-l building within 25 feet, "said councilman Elmer Walton. Councilman Robert Mallow noted that there is nothing to prevent the sale of the R-l buffer zone and development as R-1 which still could bring light industry within 25 feet of residential development.

It Has By Jerry Parsons Herald and Sunday Managing Editor Judy lived in a dilapidated house that sat back from the road. It had no paint. Judy, age 7, lived with her grandmother. Her father was frequently in jail and none of us knew her mother or where she was. During the winter Judy and her brother rode with me and my brother and sister when Dad took us the more than a mile to the country school.

Judy arrived each morning with her hair neatly combed into two pigtails tied with ribbons. She wore old but clean Staff trimmings, and the sisters, the Plan of Goal (DUATS) would be made. The study has not been completed, although preliminary findings have been presented. Another goal was that a comprehensive transportation plan should be adopted by the City Council. This was not accomplished because DUATS was not completed.

The accomplishments and goals listed in the program are not just those of the city but also those of other agencies and groups in the area of community improvement. The program does not list only generalities, said Frank E. Beaman, community programs organizer. Repeatedly the word "quantifiable" is used in the instructions. For example, in the area of housing inspections, codes and enforcement, the city cannot just say that it plans to follow a program, but must say how many inspections were made last year and how many it intends to make.

Will Lead Them Community Betterment Accomplishes One-Third Hi: MS-- -i ji jli i. 'yips ij' i II IfflillliilillillS One third of the goals listed in the city's last Workable Program for Community! Improvement was accomplished two thirds were not. The program, due for recertification next month, is being prepared by the Depart- i ment of Community Development. It will be presented Jan. 15 to the Citizens Advisory Com- Youth Injured Gordon Thorn, 16, of 1228 N.

University St. was admitted to Decatur Memorial Hospital Wednesday night after falling from a ladder outside the Lincoln theater, where he is employed. Thorn was changing the marquee. The extent of Thorn's injuries were not immediately determined, but were not considered serious. mittee and later to the City Council.

The program is necessary for the city to receive federal funds from the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. It tells what has accomplished in the past year and the goals for the next two years in these areas: Codes and enforcement Planning and programming Housing and relocation Citizen involvement. The program should be realistic, said Arthur M.

Stout, director of the Department of Community Development. The city's previous program listed 21 goals, seven of which were accomplished. The program must explain why each of these goals was not accomplished. For example, one of the city's goals was that a Decatur Urban Area Transportation Study A Little Child and square chin. Her eyes were bright, and yet they often appeared to reflect fear such as on the morning after the police had come to her house to arrest her father.

There also seemed to be a longing in Judy's eyes a longing for acceptance, for love. We often wondered if Judy and her brother had enough to eat, for they were among many rural Southern Illinois families who lived in extreme poverty. Christmas neared and Judy knew that those more fortunate than she exchanged gifts. The last day before Christmas vacation she showed up at our house with an unusual face eport With a merry, mobile mascot, Christmas By Karen T. Lobeck Of the Herald and Review In a Santa sleigh golf cart, they sang.

In short and long garb, iiigh, sweet voices, they caroll- fed the patients at St. Mary's Hospital Christmas Eve. With religious songs and with un songs, the sisters walked The red sleigh cart had two Mack runners and green and pold tinsel, a hand made horse land, in the back, pine boughs with a bright red and green cw. Two of the sisters played feuitars. Sister Gerald Bailey, Sfiistant ariministrntnn; at the hospital, and Sister Mary Ann Minor, who is a student at fc'ePauw? University.

unusually aglow. rnd wheeIed down an- She moved her arms fromisePtic corridors and into the behind her back: "Here, of Christmas, and Mrs. Parsons," she said, as I Wlth laugher, with much she handed gifts to my parents pappy, effervescing laughter, socks for Dad and hose forpe sisters drove the bulky Mom. Isleigh cart sharing the music Judv's face lit un even more lof frolic with the bedfast. Been Said Jerry Parsons clothes, and always long wool stockings.

She had a turned up nose and my parents fought back tears. Never were they more astonished or pleased with a gift. We knew that in Judy's gesture was something that few people find in a Christmas present, whether it be an item from a 50 cent gift exchange or a new fur coat or automobile. To us, it was a gift of love. hospital rooms..