The Decatur Daily Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 3

Decatur, Illinois, Sunday, March 18, 1979 DECATUR SUNDAY HERALD AND REVIEW 3 Screening begins for preschoolers Week of March 19 March 20, Dalton City Grade School, 874-2431. March 20, Salem Elementary School in 'Mount Zion, afternoon session, 864-2615. March 21, Presbyterian Church in Mount Zion, 864-3631. March 22, McGaughey Grade School, 864-2711. Week of March 26 March 26, Methodist Church in Macon, 764-3996.

March 27, Blue Mound Grade School, 692-2535. March 28, Harristown Christian Church, 963 2621. March 29, Methodist Church in Warrens-burg, 672 3612 or 428-6106. Week of April 2 April 2, Maroa Grade School, 794-3882. April 3, Forsyth Methodist Church, 877-2023 (mornings only).

April 4, Oreana Grade School, 468-2412. April 5, Old Argenta Grade School, 468-2412. Week of April 9 April 9, Cisco Grade School, 669-2323. April 10, Lincoln Grade School in Mon-ticello, 762 4776. April 11, Washington Grade School in Mon-ticello, 762-4561.

April 12, White Heath Grade School, 762-4156. Week of April 16 April 19, DeLand Weldon Grade School in Weldon, 736-2401 or 664-3411. Week of April 23 April 24, Methodist Church in Bement, 678-4341. April 25, United Church of Atwood, 578 2229. April 26, First United Methodist Church in Cerro Gordo, 763 8441 or 763-2551 (extension 30).

Children in Macon and Piatt counties can receive free developmental screenings this month and next. The program is for all children to age 5 who will be attending school in Macon County, according to Donald Hanks, assistant director of special education for the Macon-Piatt Special Education District. The reason for the screening is to locate and identify any child who may have significant developmental lags which may cause difficulties in school. The half-hour test will measure vision, hearing and development. Results will be shared with parents.

No screenings will be in Decatur. Decatur parents can contact the Decatur School District diagnostic clinic for preschool screenings by calling Harris School at 424-3178. Appointments for county screenings can be made by calling the telephone numbers listed below for each site between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. weekdays.

Following is the screening schedule. Each session, unless otherwise noted, begins at 8:30 a.m. The Most Rev. Joseph A. McNicholas and Mayor Elmer Walton, at far right, lead the joyous Irish in the second Bit o' drizzle doesn't dampen annual St.

Patrick's Day parade spirit Arts, crafts classes start for children Irish music, Arts and crafts classes in Decatur public schools for youngsters in grades four to six have been announced by the Decatur Park District Recreation Department. A textiles class, where students will learn burlap weaving and decorative stitchery for wall hangings, will be taught at Oak Grove School, 2160 W. Center on Mondays, March 19, 26, April 2, 9 and 23, from 3:15 to 4:30 p.m. An $8 fee will be charged for the class, which is limited to 12 students. Students will get materials as part of the fee.

Batik, the ancient textile art of wax-resist dyeing which will be used to create a muslin wall hanging, will be taught Wednesdays, March 21, 28, April And then the celebratin' "The contagion spreads," he said of St. Patrick's Day. "It represents a lot of joy and fun." The damp, gray weather certainly wouldn't dampen the spirit of a true Irishman, he said. "You have to have a little rain or there is no connection to Ireland," he said. "They call it holy water over there.

They have rain all the time." Some persons had more than St. Patrick's Day to cheer about Saturday. Handing out cigars and sporting a banner saying "It's a boy," Patrick Nolan of 62 Eastmoreland Drive was celebrating the birth of a son Saturday. Nolan and his wife Louise named their new son Patrick Joseph. A 1954 green MG, complete with trail Release center petition drive gets no reaction continued in Circa 1880 with ing beer cans, transported Mr.

and Mrs. David Condon, who were married Saturday. Condon owns the Circa 1880 tavern, where the idea for a St. Patrick's Day parade found its roots last year. "We thought this would be a real lucky day," Condon said.

"And we wanted to be in the parade." Bill Penny, who made his debut in last year's parade as the World's Largest Leprechaun, repeated his role Saturday. But after sitting in shorts in driving snow last year on top of a truck, Penny switched to long, green pants this year. Music for the parade was provided by the U.S. Air Force Drum and Bugle Corps from Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, the Morton Highlanders bagpi some zoming and development matters and authorize bids for a second stairway at Fire Station No. 1 at Wood Staff photo by Herb Slodounik singing and a cup o' brew.

pers and the Ansar Temple Shrine Club. Numerous other civic and social organizations, as well as anyone who wanted to fall in the ranks, marched in the hour-long parade. There was a fleet of Macon County Highway Department trucks as well as a fleet of beer trucks provided by local beer distributors. "I liked the little Irish doggie the best," said nine-year-old Loretta Wilkinson, watching the parade with her mother and two sisters. The "Irish doggie," it turns out, was a French poodle dressed in a green sweater and hat.

But with a name like "McNamara's Irish Riley" and a birthday on March 16, who was going to argue? and Franklin streets. The council will meet at 7:30 p.m. council chambers, 355 E. Wood St. in The board also is expected to discuss salary adjustments for college staff for next year and the possibility of establishing a college foundation.

There will be a report from a committee investigating locations for a permanent college campus. The meeting will be in the third floor board room at the college's headquarters at 100 N. Main St. Council to consider Johns Hill center RCC to discuss president search By Jan Gilarski 'Twas a day for the Irish, the politicians, the children and anyone who professed to have a tenuous link with the Emerald Isle. And in Decatur's second annual St.

Patrick's Day parade Saturday, those who weren't Irish pretended they were. Maybe it was the thought of post-parade revelry which kept marchers and spectators smiling, dancing and singing despite the chilling drizzle. Or maybe the parade represented a chance, the first chance, to get outside after another long winter. Whatever it was, participants in the parade through downtown Decatur claimed a bigger and better show than the premier event last year. "This is the best thing that's been done here for a long, long time," commented Margaret Ryan.

and her husband Patrick had stepped out of the parade line to watch what followed behind. The Ryans, of 335 Wooddale trace their ancestry to County Tippe-rary, Ireland, a spot they have visited several times. They break the conversation to shout a loud hello to State Rep. John F. Dunn, D-Decatur, as he marches along Main Street.

"He's Irish, you know," they say. "The streets are nice to walk on here." Mrs. Ryan said. "Even the bishop walked and he has bad feet." The Most Rev. Joseph A.

McNicholas, bishop of the Springfield Diocese, laughingly denied the charge of bad feet, but added, "I am a broken-down athlete." There was no official estimate on the number of spectators. While persons stood several deep at intersections, the crowd thinned out slightly toward the end of the route. McNicholas said the number of spectators "amazed" him. Briefly Speaking In DecaturMacon County Park Board candidates state their views Four candidates are running for two seats on the Decatur Park District board of commissioners in the April 3 election. Biographies and positions of the candidates can be found on Page 4 of today's Herald and Review.

Associated Truck Lines to vote on union An election will be conducted March 28 by the National Relations Board for the employees of Associated Truck Lines Inc. in Decatur to decide their collective bargaining agent. Four clerical employees of the firm at 2160 N. 40th St. will be eligible to vote in the election.

They will be asked if they want to be represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen Helpers of America Local 279. The election will be from 1:30 to 2 p.m. at the employer's office. Aircraft group to hear National Guard presentation A presentation on the Illinois National Guard unit which flies the F-4 Phantom fighter bomber will highlight Tuesday's meeting of the Decatur chapter of the Experimental Aircraft Association. Major James Overholt of the 183rd Tactical Fighter Group based in Springfield will deliver the talk, scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m.

in the conference room of the Decatur Airport terminal. Area pilots and others interested are invited to attend the free presentation. Overholt will talk about his unit's upcoming Red Flag training exercise. He said the exercise, which begins this weekend and lasts until mid-April at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, is as close to a realistic wartime situation as possible without the firing of weapons. Overholt said he also will be showing movies and answering questions for those who attend.

Many of the 900 men who serve in his unit live in the Decatur area, he said. 4, 11 and 25, from 3:15 to 4:30 p.m. in South Shores School, 2500 S. Franklin St. A fee of $6 for materials will be charged each member of the 12-student class.

At Stevenson School, 3900 N. Neely students can learn the basic methods and experimental techniques of painting with transparent watercolors. The class will meet Thursdays, March 22, 29, April 5, 12 and 19, from 3:15 to 4:30 p.m. Each member of the 12-student class will be charged an $8 materials fee. Registration for the classes has begun at the Recreation Department, 610 E.

Riverside Ave. For more information, call the department at 422-8535. last week to the Decatur City Council, Corrections Department Director Gayle Franzen and the owners of the property, Kay and Ray Eldridge. "We'll wait until Monday or Tuesday to hear from them and if we don't then we'll respond with some other things we have in mind," Smith said. NAACP official will speak at banquet A national official with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Lewis J.

Carter III, will be the speaker at the NAACP's Freedom Fund Banquet May 5 in the Masonic Temple. Tickets for the banquet are $10 for adults and $5 for youths. They may be purchased at the NAACP office, Suite 615, 104 N. Water St. Staff photo by Ron Ernst Patrick F.

Vaughan. career in police work The couple which led a petition drive against plans to locate a work-release correctional center in the old Motel Parkview, 2900 N. 22nd still has not gotten a reaction to their petitions from authorities. "I don't think they will respond," Mrs. Donald Smith, of 2808 N.

22nd said Saturday night. Mrs. Smith and her husband led the petition drive which collected the signatures of 213 residents and workers in the area opposed to locating the center at the old motel. The Illinois Corrections Department wants to house a work release center at the motel for felons within 120 days of release from prison and for persons convicted of petty crimes. The Smiths said residents in the Virginia, Larkdale and Greenwitch Garden subdivisions signed the petitions in addition to 34 workers and business owners in the area.

Copies of the petitions were delivered ill Assistant Police Chief Award, of a contract to P.R. Duke Construction Co. to build a senior citizens center at Johns Hill Park will be considered Monday night by the Decatur City Council. Although Duke's original bid was $169,000, city staff members have negotiated the figure down to $153,000. The original estimate on the project was $136,000.

The current park pavilion at Johns Hill Park will be enclosed and renovated to house the center. The council also is scheduled to act on Vaughan By John Harpster Decatur's new assistant police chief found what he was looking for when he joined the police force in 1970. "I was looking for a career," said Patrick F. Vaughan, who was at the time working in the then Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. warehouse at Mount Zion.

Behind the news "It seemed to me at the time that people who got on the police department stayed it seemed to be a career with security and attractive pension benefits." It's proving to be that for Vaughan, and he isn't a bit disappointed about his decision. "I've found it very satisfactory a very challenging career." Vaughan said he would do it all over again, had he the choice to make again, but he also has a warning for young men or women contemplating a police career. "Anyone who gets in this business has to realize the sacrifices and hardships which will be required." Unlike civilian jobs, he said, police officers are expected to work nights, weekends and holidays, something which in many cases isn't conducive to a satisfactory family life. Vaughan himself, with his new job, will have week ends off on a regular basis for the first time in 19 years. And it was only in October, 1975, that he received a day duty, assignment.

"Having week ends off will be a nice family thing," Vaughan says. "But over the years my family has adapted (to his The search for a new college president will be discussed when the Richland Community College Board of Trustees meets at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Procedures to be used for conducting the search are expected to be discussed. The college's current president, Murray Deutsch, is quitting at the end of August.

finds his working nights and weekends) arid we camped and fished a lot and had other outdoor activities as a family." Making up the family are wife Mary Louise, son Timothy, 18, a freshman at Millikin University; daughter Teresa, 17, a senior at St. Teresa High School, and daughter Kelly Ann, 7, in the first grade at St. James School. "They're pretty happy about it," Vaughan said of his children's reaction to his new job. "But I've been a police officer during all of their life spans, so it's not all that new to them." Besides family activities in the outdoors, Vaughan plays "a little" golf and 'jogs about three times a week, averaging three miles an outing.

"That's what you call a gontleman jogger nothing fanatical." Vaughan didn't really expect ever to become an assistant chief when he joined the police department, though he was ambitious to advance. "Maybe in my mind's eye I might have seen something like this, but as a practical reality I don't think I did," he says. "In my mind's eye I wanted to go as far as possible, but I felt I had to be realistic as far as specific accomplishments went." The department is not a large one, he said, and because of that the number of promotional opportunities are limited. Police officers may retire after 20 years service though they may not draw pensions until they are 50 and Vaughan at one time considered quitting after 20 years and beginning a new career, possibly as a teacher. He holds a bachelor's degree in social justice from Sangamon State University and has taught sociology at Richland Community College for the past three years.

"I've enjoyed it," he says of his teaching, "and teaching was an option had I decided to leave the police department. Maybe I will do it part-time when I do retire." Teaching was only an option, however, when another option that of becoming assistant chief to succeed the retired Horace R. Hoff presented itself. "Life is a time of weighing options, and the assistant chief option wasn't available then. But this is my career and when this (the assistant chief) option became available I accepted it enthusiastically." "It's a he says of his new.

job. And while it will largely involve administrative work Vaughan says he will still be a police officer. "My job, in addition to administration, will still involve functional supervision over shifts and divisions, and participation in major cases. "I've had a lot of exposure to actual police work (he has been a patrolman, detective and command officer in his 19 years) and I can see that my new job will fill a need that needs to be attended to. "And you're never completely divorced from actual police work as long as you carry a gun and badge.

"I appreciate the confidence that has been placed in me. I think we have a fine police department and that we can maintain and improve that image. "I've heard a lot of nice things coming back (being said to and about him) in the last few days and it makes you feel good. "I'll try to meet the expectations.".