The Decatur Daily Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 44

PAGE FORTY-FOUR Decatur, Illinois, Friday, May 4, 1979 Decatur Daily Review. 7 r'AryZ j' f- Local Report Pupils experiments on display a fair Staff photo by Ron Ernst From left, Forsyth Village President Billy Hardy, Glaser, LIston and Miss Illinois, Debra Carlson. Bergner's has opening Co-defendant brought here The second man sought in connection with a shooting Dec. 23 at 817 N. Broadway has been brought to Macon County for prosecution on charges of attempted murder, armed violence and armed robbery.

Zachary Jackson, 25, of St Louis has pleaded innocent to the charges. His preliminary hearing was continued until At a glance Thursday after he requested time to secure a private attorney. Jackson was brought to Decatur by Madison County authorities after he was sentenced to a two-year prison term for an offense in that county. He and his co-defendant, Frederick Johnson, 26, of St. Louis, allegedly fired shots into a crowd at the building on Broadway.

Four men were injured, with three requiring hospitalization. Johnson is in Macon County Jail. Accident injures man Carl C. Fulford, 36, of Shelbyville was listed in satisfactory condition in St. Mary's Hospital after his pickup left County Highway 21 about two miles north of Harristown early today.

Fulford said he apparently fell asleep, according to a preliminary report by the Macon County Sheriffs Office. Woman struck by car Edna S. Carter, 73, of 217 E. Division St was treated at St Mary's Hospital, after sustaining minor injuries when struck by a vehicle p.m. Thursday at Water and Division streets.

Driver of the car, Bert H. Sturgis, 38, of 1814 E. Gay told police the woman ran into the path of his vehicle. No ticket was issued. Battery of boy charged Robert Spates, 43, of 981 W.

Green St has been charged in Macon County Circuit Court with the battery of his 13-year-old son after allegedly striking him on Monday with a belt, causing severe welts and bruises. The incident was reported to authorities by public school administrators, according to police reports. The youth temporarily has been placed in the custody of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. Mount Zion bike rodeo set A bicycle rodeo is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday by the Mount Zion Kid Corps 4-H Club, with help from the Modern Woodmen of America. Bikes can be registered against loss or theft and there will be safety checks. The event will be on Sunset Court in Mount Zion, next to the Hagerman Accounting firm By Marc Meltzer Wind kept Bergner's hot air balloon from getting off the ground Friday, but it couldn't have been as high as the spirit of company officials anyway. Approximately 200 people gathered at the east entrance of the new Bergner's Bergner's sells group tickets Page 35 department store to witness the fibbon-cutting ceremony for the Hickory Point Mall's third major retailer. "We had a difficult birth," Hrbert O.

Glaser, president of Bergner's told the crowd about the new store. "It was hard getting there, but we welcome you to agreat adventure inside." Glaser said earlier he had to cancel Thursday's dry run operation of the store because of last-minute construction and cleanup of the store's interior. Part of the store's women's sportswear department still won't be finished for about 10 days. Bergner's second floor-restaurant overlooking the inside of the mall won't be finished for about another month. During a champaign breakfast attended by about 115 Decatur area business and civic leaders and Bergner's store Hickory Point site was called Bergner's most important new store in several yeas because of its location in the "core of Central Illinois." Thomas P.

Listen, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the parent P.A. Bergner said the new store will return money to the Decatur area economy that had been taken away as area residents traveled to Champaign or Springfield to shop. Listen also announced the formation of a Decatur hospital fund which the company hopes will raise about $12,000 to be divided between St Mary's and Decatur Memorial hospitals. Ron Andreoni, a Bergner's spokesman, said contractors hired to build the new store and merchandise suppliers have been asked by the company to contribute to the fund in lieu of con Mental Health. In November, a task force team of specialists reviewed the- Adolf Meyer Mental Health Center and its role in the regional mental health system.

That review is the basis for the an Mental health announcements expected Dunn: Hold hearings on grain dust safety his marigold "notebook" and a blue ribbon pinned to his shirt. Simple as the "experiment" may sound, Snack said it is important to introduce science to children at an early age. "In my days, at this age we were involved in 'Dick and he said. "The way I feel, if you're a scientist you're one from the very beginning. I was not exposed to science until I was in the ninth grade." Science for a child "could develop into a hobby or it could develop into a profession," he said.

Second grader Christie Baker collected rocks under the bridge in her grandmother's yard for her exhibit. Gail Musick, Christie's teacher, said the rock collecting has prompted Christie to seek out the names and origins of the rocks in books. Charity Bailey's exhibit brought a lot of interest because of its timeliness. "Nuclear power plant" was carefully written next to a foil-covered dish on which sat clay replicas of by-now familiar reactor towers. Staff photo by Ron Ernst judge Grant School fr exhibits.

of workshop against drug and alcohol abuse, he explained. Fred Leeds, director of the Illinois Institute for Teen-agers on Substance Abuse, opened the workshop Thursday night by telling the youths, "You're going to experience something here probably like you never did before. I hope you learn something you can take back to your communities and I hope you have your heads on straighter about how you feel about drug abuse." The staff for Operation Snowball includes professionals from various social and governmental agencies concerned with youth, alcohol and other drug problems. Participants pay only $5 for the program, which is underwritten by a number of local groups, including the Early Bird and Noon Kiwanis clubs, Rotary Club, Caterpillar Tractor Warren E. Hagen Consulting Engineer, Mueller A.E.

Staley Mfg. Co. and Archer Daniels Midland Co. in China Sister Marie Chang By Jan Gilarski Gene Snack was sitting on the floor in the Grant School hallway, tin can held to his ear. Separated from Snack by 10 feet of string, 5-year-old Jamie Hawkins rested his chin on his half of the "telephone." "Say something to me, Jamie," said Snack, science consultant for the Decatur public schools.

"I'm thinking," Jamie replied emphatically. Snack was at Grant School this morning, joined by retired Oak Grove School Principal Mary Morris, to judge science fair exhibits by kindergarteners through third graders. Rows of marigold seedlings in milk carton "pots" marked the majority of entries from the kindergarten class. "I'm going to take it home for Mother's Day and give it to my mom," kindergartener Jennifer Cox told a judge. Steve Peters had other ideas.

"I'm just going to keep it," he said. After answering that the plant would need "lots of soil and sun and water" to grow, Steve had a blue ribbon stapled to Mary Morris and Gene Snack Drugs topic By Lynn Bronikowski Nearly 100 teen-agers from central Illinois are getting "high" at the Decatur Holiday Inn this weekend. There are no drugs or alcohol involved in fact, they're forbidden. The four-day workshop, called Central Illinois Operation Snowball, is designed to fight alcoholism and other drug dependencies. Operation Snowball is sponsored by the Decatur Mental Health Center and Sangamon-Menard Alcoholism-Drugs Council.

According to Richard Dechert, outreach worker for alcoholism services at the Decarur Mental Health Center, the program provides students with a better knowledge and understanding of the use and abuse of drugs, not only by themselves, but by their peers. Students are expected to take what they learn back to their communities to conduct their own low-key campaigns "My brother wrote and said to thank President Carter for that." Family members also wrote with some good news about life in China. "They say it is better now than before (the communists came to power)," says Sister Marie. "Before we had beggars in the street. Now they say there are no more beggars.

Everyone has a house, everyone has a job and everyone has food to eat "Everyone is considered equal." On May 14, Sister Marie and Sister Mary will have the opportunity to see for themselves when they arrive in China, by way of Switzerland. They plan to stay six weeks, which may not leave much time for sightseeing. "I think it will take us that long," says Sister Marie, "just to talk about everything that has happened in 31 years." gratulations to the company regarding its new store. He said contributions so far are ahead of the pace set in Quincy, where $10,000 was raised for local hospitals there when a new Bergner's store opened last winter. Listen said the hospital fund win be typical of Bergner's effort to help the community.

Included among the new store's 175 employees are 25 from the former Myers Bros, store in downtown Decatur. Bergner's, which owns the Myers Bros, chain, closed the downtown store last month. 'There's no comparison," saleswoman Ann Lust said about the difference between the new Bergner's and the old Myers Bros. She had worked in the downtown store. "There's more variety and more space here," she said.

"Decatur people will find what they're looking for in this store." The two-story, building will be open 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. nouncement concerning personnel within the department that is to come, de-Vito said today.

The specialists consulted with local mental health administrators and interested citizens. done (for grain elevator safety) is being done." Dunn said he does not want the state to duplicate federal grain safety programs, but added: "But I don't want to sit by and do nothing and then wake up some morn-nig and see a fire or explosion and (know) there was possibly something I could have done about it." A special program on grain elevators is planned at 1:30 p.m. May 11 as part of a workshop on occupational safety and health to be held next week by Region 8 of the Allied Industrial Workers of America. The AIW represents employees at A.E. Staley Mfg.

Co. and Archer Daniels Midland Co. west and north plants. Specifically scheduled for discussion at the program will be issues involved in inspections of ADM facilities by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The workshop, which begins Thursday, will be at the Decatur Holiday Inn.

Local Report Federal legislation and a lack of interest locally could prevent the establishment of a second low-interest mortgage bond program 31 Other local stories. 27, 30, 34 Almost immediately plans began for a reunion. "We learned that my mother had died in 1962 and our older sister last year," says Sister Marie. "But my father is still alive at 90 and so are my brothers and a The, father, once manager of a railroad station, is now retired. One brother, who was a salesman before the communists came to power, is now a supervisor in a factory.

"His daughter is a doctor," added Sister Marie. For a time, she says, the family suffered because of the sisters who had fled to America. "One of my nieces wrote that before, if you had a member of your family living in America you were treated badly but after Jan- 1, everything turned around. "Now it is considered a big honor. By Bruce J.

Gill and Jan Gilarski State Rep. John Dunn, D-Decatur, says the state should hold hearings on grain elevator hazards, and he may call for a state-level review of the problem. "We ought to have hearings under the auspices of whatever authority is appro-priate," Dunn said Thursday in Springfield. "I'm giving serious consideration to calling for a state review of the entire matter with a goal of recommending positive steps to take to implement safety without hamstringing the grain producing and processing industry." The 51st District lawmaker said he sees the state review of such problems as fires and explosions in grain elevators possibly taking any of three forms: an independent commission, a legislative commission or a commission appointed by the Governor's Office. Dunn said he first became interested in the subject a year ago when he was approached by union leaders from Archer Daniels Midland Co.

in Decatur. In February, the Decatur Daily Review published a five-part "Facing the Danger" series on grain elevator problems in Decatur's grain industries. The series detailed problems throughout the industry as well as at ADM and the A.E. Staley Mfg. Co.

in Decatur. It related how workers at ADM feared for their safety because of what they felt were lax company attitudes toward safety. Since that series, Dunn has stepped up his inquiries. He said he has talked with Decatur Fire Marshal William Turner, the state Fire Marshal's Office, the state Department of Agriculture, the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC). U.S.

Rep. A series of announcements concerning the area's state mental health services and its administrative personnel will be forthcoming within the month, according to Dr. Robert de Vito, director of the Illinois Department of Edward Madigan's office, and ADM officials. "Turner said essentially that there is a problem, but that he feels ADM is working on that problem but a lot needs to be done," Dunn said. "ADM said they felt there were technical things that ought, to be explored'" through a special fund set up by the National Grain and Feed Association, he fldcled.

"ADM told me they felt OSHA (the Occupational Safety and Health Administration) has the jurisdiction on the Off The Beat Bob Sampson improved relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China. "I never thought things would change this says Sister Marie, still numbed by the good news that began arriving on Feb. 3. It began-in late January when Sister Mary Chang decided attempt to locate the parents, two sisters and three brothers they had left in China. Facing Reaction federal level and they thought OSHA was doing a tough job of inspecting," Dunn said.

"They said when a worker has a complaint OSHA will come in." The state fire marshal, the Agriculture Department and the Illinois Commerce Commission have jurisdictional problems, Dunn said he was told by these agencies. Last year, U.S. Rep. Edward Madi-gan, R-Lincoln, asked the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, to study the problem of grain dust explosions. But when the report was released last month, it was not what Madigan had hoped it would be.

am in the process of contacting (Gov. James Thompson's) administration at the state level for any thoughts they may have," Dunn said Thursday. "There is no point in initiating a program with possibly considerable expense without first contacting the governor. "I feel that because of the tremendous agri-business in Illinois, including not only grain producers but the transportation and processing of grain, we have a vital stake in this whole area of the nation's economy. "We should do everything we can to see that safety is at the highest possible level and we ought to have hearings under the auspices of whatever authority is appropriate to decide what Illinois ought to do.

"We ought to review the existing federal situation to see if we are adequately protected at the federal level and to see if we should get into this area in Illinois or whether we should use all the power of state government to make sure that everything that needs to be "She addressed a letter to our old bouse," relates Sister Marie. "Someone told her that even though the addresses had changed that the Chinese would try to find them." It turned out that the family was still in the same home, though over the years the street's name and the home's number had changed. "We found out that the letter arrived on Jan. 28, which is the Chinese New Year's," says Sister Marie. "Everyone was home when the letter arrived.

My brother wrote us that it was the happiest New Year's they'd ever had." They learned of that reaction in their brother's return letter, which reached Sister Mary on Feb. 3. "She telephoned me with the news and we both cried with joy," says Sister After 31 years, two sisters will renew their family ties On May 12, 1948, Marie and Mary Chang, both then postulants in the pital Sisters of the Third Order of St Francis, fled their native Peking, China, in the face of advancing communist armies. Since then they have lived in the United States, Sister Marie at St. Mary's Hospital, Sister Mary in Highland.

Neither had any reliable knowledge of their family. "We beard some things over the jean, but it was always from other people and you never knew what to believe and what not to believe," says Sis- ter Marie. bad given up. I thought we'd, never tee our family again." But on May 12, exactly 31 years to the day they left, the Chang sisters will leave for Peking, beneficiaries of the.