The Decatur Daily Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 22

TWENTY-TWO PAGES TODAY. THE DECATUR REVIEW Decatur, Illinois, Tuesday, March 9, 1954. iervisors U)or sup 9 SA To Bond Proposal On Roads, Bridges Letter Filed On Damages At Homewood A letter detailing alleged sewer construction damages to Homewood Fishing Club grounds was filed by the Sanitary District yesterday without discussion by Sanitary Board members; according to District Supt. W.D.Hatfield. Dr.

Hatfield said "All of the damage claims appear to he legitimate and the damages should be re i tx A A 'i 2 to i. Ai'A 1 1 i Starling Blamed With Sabotage of WTVFs Breakfast Club Show A' starling shut off station WTVP's transmitters early this morning and sabotaged the scheduled Breakfast Club television program. Chief Engineer Hubert Abfol-ter said a station watchman noticed some of the lights flicker out about 4 a. m. The trouble, was traced to "one A of President's Letter Read, Filed By County Board While County Clerk Laurence Tangney droned through the reading of a letter urging bond issue financing of county, road and bridge projects, County Board members today gave little attention.

At the close of reading the letter, written by Harold Pcgue, president of the Association of Commerce, a routine motion to receive and file the letter was adopted without discussion. Pogue expressed his concern over prospects that the County Board is about to change direction on its recendy announced bridge improvement program," including new spans for Rea's bridge and a modern Lost Bridge. Republican members met last night in caucus and, apparently agreed with the county highway committee recommendation that highway improvements be made with current revenues. Pogue said in his letter that the earlier proposal for a county road and bridge bond issue was "hailed by the public generally." He said he" believed the highway committee headed by T. A.

Brin-koetter was mistaken in the belief that voters would not approve a bond issue. Pogue pointed out the, wide margins by which school and Sanitary District bonds were ap-j proved. cai1 tW mrmosals were proved with knowledge the money would come from taxation, while A IV 4 thentic, however. Inside the hull is a motor and transformer so that the ship "sails" across the floor on wheels and 'its'guns light up, and rattle as' if they were firing. It's practically a stone's throw from the Damery wells.

The three are in sight of a new well btino drilled on the Albert Gemmer farm evnpctpd tn hp dnni UVS week. "I'm lUSt a roughneck out. here Tommy Jordan of Prmi mor nnico r( ta Vtin engines. The hit was labonng feet down, hard 1 lldiu 1. ime he Hinklp DrilHna Cnmnanv and! S.

D. Jarvis of Decatur were drilling the Gcmmer well, he said. Wlint nrAttA lil-o an rtT elixir in A. 1 water paired under terms of the agree ment with the interceptor sewer Sanitary District Attorney Wal ker H. Mills said the letter wasn't i available for a reporter to see today, Mills said the damage claims were within the normal easement provisions for restoring right of way after sewers are put in, and the whole thing had better be forgotten, "You're just stirring up trouble." Hatfield said the letter made no assessment of damages and didn't demand money for repairs.

He said the sewer contractors plan to make repairs in the area during clean up work that normally followsv construction, but this has been delayed temporarily to concentrate on sewer Lyle V.i DeWitt of the Sanitary Board said the letter "merely reiterates what is in the terms of the easement." Homewood residents objected when a ditch was cut at the end of the dam to drain the club's lake. The contractor promised to repair the and engineers are designing a water-tight structure to seal the cut. Ordinance Regulating Lateral Sewer Connections Being Drawn Decatur Sanitary" District trustees MODEL BATTLESHIP Tom Clark, left, and Charles Givens, pupils in Fpllis Paul's seventh grade English-social studies class at Woodrow Wilson Junior High School, turned Town Budget Holds Steady Little change from last is shown in the tentative $468,660) budget for Decatur Township for the fiscal year starting March 16. Appropriations of $375,000 for relief and $11,200 for employes re- nrem'ent are unchanged. ne appropnanon or ssz.tou 1 IUI gci.ciai uiu u.uAiiim- nnn 1 TU: ly higher than last year, this yiiiiijany uv an increase of salary rto $6,000 for As- sessor W.

F. Brannan. aiary Doosts eiven town- snio orricers last vear dul Drannan 1 1 1 '1 BUILT BY WOODROW STUDENTS up with this model battleship when told to do some sort of project as a climax to a unit on the War of 1812. It has a couple 'of features which aren't quite au Oil Interest High Near Blue Mound very dead starling" which had somehow tripped an overload cir cuit breaker atop a pole by the station. Abfelter figured the bird either flew into the circuit breaker or pecked at it.

When it broke the circuit, an electric arc killed the bird. By the time the trouble was located and an Illinois Power Company emergency crew had repaired the circuit breaker; the Breakfast Club program was over. Board Names: Macon Acres Macon Acres Nursing Home will be the new name for the County Home and Hospital, Russell Hirsch, chairman of the County Home com- said today. The -name change was approved last night -in a meeting of Republi- The change is being made to get laivav from ail amvarsnrpc trtat Kp rr- and hospital are institutions r. 7 TONS OF FISH TAKEN FROM LAKE IN JANUARY More than seven tons of rough fish were removed from the lower basin of Lake Decatur last month, according to a report to the city by Milburn Foster.

The haul included 8,801 pounds of buffalo, 4,500 pounds, of gizzard shad, 611 pounds of sheephead, 385 pounds of carp and 14 pounds of tiathead cattish a total or 14,311 pounds. rosters seining crews operate un is intended to improve risning in Lake Decatur by removing the un desirable fish. H0LL TO LOUISVILLE yesterday authorized the drafting of by his lawyer and that he an ordinance for lateral sewers and was suffering from a mental disturb-connections with the new intercept- anc "related to his World War or sewers. service, when he pleaded guilty to the highway and bridge bonds members or, the L-ounty Board would be retired ith money allot- of Supervisors, ted to the county from state gaso- Hirsch said State Attorney Ken-line taxes neth E. Evans has been asked to He said the state has planned an a resolution changing the Test Drilling Spree Underway in Area By John DeBoice Of The Review Staff -UUT? wells west ot blue Mound -m Macon and Christian COUntieS haVe a tt 6 and speculation 0j the 1 atkmiou mnn Hllino VPn.

7 .6 tures have brought nothing but dis-l appmntment. The CnuntTV. roafl; WPSf nf PlllP. than thpv nrH- I Board at its next meetin2 i .1 11 1 -i bj or me wen wasn on, joraan saia. gray, mucxy conung Cap, Button Identification Under Fire Trial of James Anthony Hayes, 40, continued in Circuit Court to day with the prosecution to link nim with the $10,000 hold up of tavern operator Mike Frank last Aug.

ZO. This morning's witnesses', which included a witness to the holdup and Decatur and St. Loujs police described die the' liscovery of a cap near the allegedly identified as Haves' and the arrest of Hayes in St. Louis. In cross Defense Attorney A.

Ivens sought to. break down the identification by showing that witnesses' identification of articles linked to Hayes was less than positive. Decatur police detective J. E. Smith told of finding a cap in the gutter "of the 1900 block North Clinton Street, about a block from the Garfield Tap 'tavern, scene of the holdup.

The cap bore a union button which was allegedly issued to Haves. Under cross examination it was brought out that about an hour and half elapsed between the holdup and discovery of the cap; An earlier Woodrow Redmon, Rural Route 5, testified that he followed the holdup man away from the tavern and saw him enter avcar. parked on Clinton Street. Redmon said he saw no ob ject tan trom the car as the man entered. Redmon said the car was similar to one shown to him several days later in St.

Louis and identified as the car Hayes was driving when arrested. Ross Laughmiller of Springfield, business agent for operators union 965, said Hayes was issued a button by the union similar to one on uie lap, could not swear under oath that that is the button," he testified. have been two issues of but-jtons." He said another button had jbeen issued bearing the same num-i ber as the one issued Hayes and he did not know the whereabouts of the other button. Capt. Lester Martin of the St.

Louis police department described the arrest of Hayes in St Louis and the discovery of $4,035 inside the" car. Martin said he asked, ''Is this your money, Hayes?" He said Hayes answered "I never saw it before I don't know how it got in there." Martin said Hayes told St. Louis police he rented his car to- a man in Springfield he knew as "Charlie." Hayes said he became acquainted with Charlie when they worked together in Decatur, Martin said. On the morning of the holdup Hayes said he encountered; Charlie in Springfield, according to -Martin's account. Charlie rented Hayes car for $20 at about 9 a.

m. He returned it at 1 1:30 a. m. After spending the day with relatives in Springfield, Hayes. said he returned to St.

Louis where he was arrested -by waiting police, Martin testified. Hayes' 2-year-old son was in the car at the time of the arrest. At the opening of the trial yester day afternoon, Assistant State's attorney Lloyd Latendresse said the state will not contend that Hayes committed the robbery. Instead, said afpridrpccp flip Tirncpifinr ollpopc i he was an accomplice of the bandit. Leonard Voss, 36-year-old ex-convict was acquitted last Dec 3 of being the holdup man.

SEEK STUDENT FUND DHS Council Asking $500 to Bring Exchange Pupil Here In an' assembly program tomor row morning, tne yuecatur nign School student council will seek to. raise funds for its share of the ex change siuuenr program next you. Student council members nave been speaking in home rooms, urg ing studnt support of the project which will, they hope, see a girl from Switzerland, France or Spain attending Decatur High next year. Robert Shade, member of a committee of interested townspeople who are cooperating with the Student council, is to be the guest speaker at the assembly program and TL. 1 enn i ne siuueiiis nope to mix juu their share of the expense of bringing the student here and, next summer, of sending a Decatur High boy or girl to Europe.

The committee of townspeople, headed by Mrs. E. L. Simmons, will endeavor to provide a home for the visiting' teen-ager and as well as the additional $600 needed to accomplish the exchange. With the Sick Mrs.

Wilma Hynds, 605 S. Broadway, is entering St. Mary's Hospital this afternoon where she will remain for a week. She may have visitors. i.

wuuju uc uub nine vcai. ty would do likewise and suggested .1 it is a crave mistake to let tne state down. Thp Rnard annroved lour nroiects i -rr i for its 1954 program, including one of the spans for Rea's bridge, and for that job adopted a resolution appropriating $96,000 of motor fuel tax revenue. DRILLING HALTED Test Well Work Stopped When Equipment Is Damaged Drilling of a test well in Aller-ton Park for the city was halted temporarily yesterday afternoon when the drilling rig struck a large TwiitlfW and The work was I teYSTdfa- TlTTlTu ThL WnTfund fidds. January, ine general runa nas a Farmers come and go to see how a starting balance of $10,500, Auditor driIin2 crew is main2 out on Sh3lC a 011 COm Hatfield said that Ln the past the out you can't see it and you can't.

Sanit District has Prized sme either. i -1 Another beinCT on FT? Mrs. Gary Crone, Peoria, state children's worker for the Disciples of Christ, will be dean of the Decatur Church Council's pre-Easter workshop for church school teachers and parents Thursday in First Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Crone has visited Decatur frequendy as a leader in Church Council conferences and workshops.

Putnam Asks For Release Fred H. Putnam, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus today in Circuit Court in a new ef fort to. gain release from the Joliet penitentiary, where he is serving a life sentence for the murder of Dal- ton Rice on Jan. 4, 1947. Rice was shot with a shotgun while Putnam was robbing a gam bling room in the Decatur Labor Temple.

In his petition today, Putnam repeats many allegations upon which he has failed to win release in pre vious etiorts. He alleges he was not advised the murder. in January, 133, uov. wiuiam C. Stratfnn dpnied Putnam's i Hon for executive clemency.

The conviction has been affirmed by the Illinois Supreme Court, which also has turned down Putnam's request for a post conviction hearing. WARRENSBURG-LATHAM PUPILS WIN AT CONTEST Five entries from Warrensburg-Latham High School won first division ratings at the solo and ensemble music contest at Bloomington Saturday. Arvin Potter, cornet, soloist, won a first rating and will advance to the state contest at Macomb in April. thers winning firsts w-ere cornet by Stanley Tutde, a brass quartet, a saxophone quartet and a bass clarinet sold by LeRoy Hoffman. Three entries won second divi- jSion ratings.

Robert Barstead, in- structor announced Mrs. F. Herr was accompanist tor soloists. WOMAN, 78, INJURED IN 4-VEHICLE CRASH Mrs. Mary Tacobs.

78,. Rural Mansfield, 50, of 528 N. Water St. The other cars were driven bv Gene Bendey, 18, of Bement and Robert Cortz, 25, of Macon. Fohce said the accident when the Bentl tit rear 0f Cortz car.

LICENSES REVOKED Revocation of the driving license of Glenn A. Montague, 648 S. Wise was announced today by F- Carpentier, secretary of state. The license of Clarence B. Dees, Taylcrville, also was revoked.

Both licenses were revoked as a result of convictions on charges of uuvuisj wmic uuuci uie umuuiu ot liquor. outstanding projects from elementary, junior and senior high schools all over the country. -Mrs. Armstrong received the invitation to write from Samuel Ever- a a as Frankhn Shilling said. The appropriation for relief is, other farmer's place the A.

B. Scott farm i The sta.eis- n.f,tatP l.YprAsued 13 permits for drillina wells; nlaced hioher than anticinated ex-L. 1 j- wiuiuc up aiiu "'e pcuuiiuic. iui ram u.c tax levy is expected to yield $82,000 and $170,000 will be availabl through anticipation warrants to resume as soon as repairs to a contract with the city which mS '-funty area last Over Christian CounK', Pros- pector H. Richardson reportedly Township 1 Uong said she didn't know how much the well nrodueed under A.

wc'l would reach 170 barrels a dav. i against the 1954 tax revenue. irieiJiame He-S out i00kino -for ofarm in Mosquito iT gravel roads. One belcjinos to O. G.

of aoverdale. Ind. He des-i cribes himself as an "independent partner he om r- on oueritors bid 1 for oii iWi rjohts up" has 520 an acre, he savs. gear in hmd shows an unexpended balance of $47,000. The" state will provide! $170,000 for relief, if The appropriation for deputy as- -11.

-v Tl Supt. W.D. Hatfield said the or i- ainance will set certain standards 114 riui uaaa oiuis. health codes. Although details of the ordinance n.w; .11 lohnlo i 00 i i JUV.

Lit UlClk Oil fessional engineers. The ordinance probably will be ready for formal action by the San- XnTfor A lP -n el5' ne 53 a- wl" Slve them, some definite rules and reg- uiati'ons to follow. ODD FELLOWS MEET Degrees to be Conferred at Johns 1 1 I run diuiudy Plans are now complete for the dvnimh; mpprino nf thp Odd FpI. lows in Decatur Saturday. The meet-j -11 1 "7 I 05, announced.

i tu. in; attend. Following the ceremonies, wives and guests will join the members l-rtw nn ant-art-fit nmonf nmrtr-'tm I r-i a for an entertainment program. The pTogram chairman is Pearl Emrick. INDUCTION CALL Macon County Selective Service Board 162, which takes its men Ap pact nf Rn.P Si tices for April 23.

Board 163. taking men from the! half of Macon County, will 'r "isena tnree men to ot. ujuis ior in- duttion Anril 3. I i sessors is piacea at i ne to pay members of die Town fioard of auditors is in-1 not 1UIte 1'yuu teet.deep. Jt.mg win De at p.

m. in tne jonns ivvas dlIed Feb. 7 to 13. It High'School, M. Acey Wick- pumping all the Mrs.

Long iser, head of Decatur Lodge last four mornings. creased by WW to cover an the, pump had been idle the luuul tn zc the meetlnS- basis of this layout to the west here! County ellsj surrounding counties are terd after cars and a tmck "Although the rent for township it looVs oood; He waves omS Calvert to attend the meeting which will involved in an accident at offices in the County Building arejward the farmsof Joe and Men-ille I Cf? topped drilling, begin with inihahon ceremonies and Hdorado Streets. She likely to be increased under a vvhere two Sun Oil Com- nn RalPh Mateer farm Tuesday; From 7 to 9 p. m. The initiatory de-was in car drfven by Edith j.

newal of lease, the appropriation for ells are re rted protiutino. ter hitting salt water below 1 ,900 gree, past grand master and grand 45 Rural Rou(e 7 rent is same as last vear.j CJ C. feet. Mateer said. Shirley.

Pettus ofjlodge degrees will be conferred atj ta jvm bv W. ouii uiiiicu ujc iuc iydiuriv- tt exd and a ago for $ljnois Grand Master, George an acre and an eighth interest. more of Bloomington, is expected to "v- 11. -T-i year ago. Then thr aso it was given a 1 1 r- treatment ov.aaiem cnemicai turn, 1 a VU' -Hr pea wiui rau.o commun.cations, is; months 1, 1 st hustlin around the country roads.

According to a ijowei representanve, tne joe warn- erv well flowed at a rate of 30 bar rels an hour after the treatment. tracturingand Sun Oil next drilled on the Mer- f. 1U1 CJ A- VV piyUUV-UlV IUU ill. Kuwait, ville Damery farm nearby, and oil as has happened ften invill send three men to St. Louis other producing well was reported.

for inductiori April 23. Six other A third was started on the J. K.j received 1 I equipment is completed. Mayor Robert E. Willis said he had been told that 130 feet of excellent water-bearing material had been found before the drill was damaged at a depth of 230 feet.

The city is drilling in Allerton Park under a temporary permit from the University of Illinois, owner of the park. University officials have said they are doubtful that the city can be permitted to construct a permanent well in the park. THADDEUS BANNISTER, 69, FORMER SALESMAN, DIES Thaddeus Oakes Bannister, 69, of 804 S. 21st died at 2 a. m.

today in St. Mary's Hospital. He had been ill several davs. Born June 15, 1885, in Odell, he was the son of the late Dr. T.

O. and Hannah Bannister. Mr. Bannister had lived in De- catur years and was a retired salesman for the DuFont Company. The only surviving relative is a niece, Mrs.

Edna Turner, of Odell The body will be taken from the J. J. Moran Sons IJuneral Home to the Watson Funeral Home in Odell. Burial will be in the Livingston County Memorial Park Cemetery. Other arrangements are incom plete.

Gas Main Approved The City Council yesterday ap proved an application from the Illinois Power Company for permission to instal 689 feet of 4-inch gas main to serve eight new customers near the South Wesdawn-West Sunset intersection. Four of the homes are at the northeast and northwest corners of the intersection and the rest are on the north side of Sunset, west of Wesdavvn. First Aid Meeting Some 50. first aid instructors in Macon County have been invited to a meeting next Tuesday to get new information on first-aid. Everett Riedel, director of safety services for the Macon County Red Cross chapter, said the meeting will be held at 7 p.

m. Tuesday in the chapter office. horeman Distillery hospitality dining room at Louisville, Ken- tucky. He will start March 15. work Monday, Jukebox License A jukebox license was issued by the City Council yesterday to Cleo Wilson and Erma Ruffner for Jor- don's Drive Inri, 2512 N.

Main St. February Building Thirty-six building permits and fees totaling $618.50 during Febru- ary were reported to the City Uoun cil yesterday, JUDGE OPENS NEW Macon County Judge Gus T. Greanias, right, to cut the ribbon optning the new National Food Store at- 437 N. Broadway this The grand opening ceremonies at the new store will last all week with prizes being given away daily. Henry Holl, iormer club man- ager of the Decatur Elks has named manager of the Brown I 1 .1 1 usmger piace across tne roaa.

ivirs. joe Jjamery saia tne weu on their place is being' pumped tivej or six' hours a dav because haulinw tne on out is a problem, its pro 11 1 lijvuci auuiupudiiuij ujdv uc iii.it.it in the annual town meeting next. lliuuui, 11 il luuuu utttsMiv, The relief appropriations include $245,000. for home relief, $64,000 er tt tor hospitalization tor stitutional care and $46,500 for ad- ntnictrotinn inplnrlinrr salaries of the relief off ice staff. 4 FOOD STORE Joe Caruso, left, a native of Clinton, is manager of the new supermarket.

A large crowd attended the opening at 9 a. Store houts are from 9 to 9 daily, except Sundays. (Herald and Review Photo) Richardson was reported tight no cat water" nn the E. H. Rrmvn Jace DrillinB oh the William Scott and N.

L. Tankeisley farms hadn't produced anything vet. 0i, roSTCCtors sav it-s too earv fn f-pll flip Qrtnn'hf in Mr-rtn Christian Counties will" dis-l cover a paying oil field or fade' out, A H0USIAUX IS ATTACHED TO RESEARCH GROUP John't. Housiaux, nousiaux, a consulting: i i 100 miles twice a month to attend I 1 1 Til vvniiams v-orp. in DioominPton, is also a member of the research com- pany.

Dental Assistants Meet The Decatur Dental Assistants Association will 'meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the office of Dir. W.W. Winter, 369 W. Prairie Ave.

Springfield dental assistants will be guests and Mildred Moore of the physio-therapy department of De- catur and Macon" County Hospital I uu.iii jj iu udiiuib in uie nvc, or six hours, she said." They leased to Naval Reserve Research to Sun for $2 an acre and a one- Company 9-2 at the University' of eighth interest, she said, "and have Illinois- received their first incomp frnm'thp Housiaux, a lieutenant, travels Project News Travel's Far Mrs. Armstrong; Asked to Write on Study- well i Merville Damerv said his well ise company's meetings. The com" flowing three or four hours a day Pny, is a non-pay unit now, isn't being pumped, and he: Lt. Lyle Waller, Clinton, doesnlt- know" what it's 'producing. who.

is associated with' the Eureka --A-C 4 i A- nf Ci'tv flnllede. New York, and Somehow she doesn't know just how-news of Mrs. Agnes Arm- class F0 on k. inth nWlA r-vIO I fri4 giiuc ies-English class at Johns carried out and culminated with two radio'- broadcasts and a television show, has reached New York University and she has been asked to write an 800-wprd description of it. The description is to be pub- lished bv the John Dewey Society in a volume titled "Teaching About World Affairs in American Schools." The book will be a collection of Hillft He said he leased to Sun.

for $5 an acre and a one-eighth share, hasn't received any income A trucker who hauls oil from the two Damery 'wells said both-had been shut down to about 50 barrels a day. Two storage tanks have been set up hv each. A pipeline runs to the road from one for loading. The derrick on the Usinger place has been taken down after drilling! 1,920 feet. 'All I know is it 2 Usinger said, dry hole, I guess.

C. O. Arndt, New York University, co-chairmen of the committee working on the book. What astonishes the Decatur teacher is that they, found out about the project so fast. It was completed only last and usually word of such study units doesn't circulate to such far away cities until a National 'Education Association publication mentions them or there is a convention.

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