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Becator, Illinois, Monday, March 2, I9S3. THE DECATUR REVIEW EIGHTEEN PAGES TODAY. IN CONCERT MOTORISTS LEAVE AUTOS WHERE THEY FALL Audit Shows Adjustment in Rural Schools Are Closed By Snowfall City Account Mrs, Major Dies in Crash At Taylorville Mrs. Pearl S. Major, 63, wife of Elmer L.

Major, a vice president of the National Bank of Decatur, was yesterday afternoon in a car-truck collision near Taylorville. Major was seriously injured and Decatur schools opened today, but Lawrence W. formers city treasurer, corrected an error of over $2,000 of 6 years standing' schools of several surrounding, dis -SI- tricts either observed a snow-bound holiday or remained open only, to shortly, before he left ottice last October, according to the semiannual audit of city accounts by those children who could be reached by limited bus service. Earl E. Richardson.

Districts with no schools open In the customary, letter accom- were' Moweaqua, Mt. Zion, District 11 which includes Warrensburg, is a patient in St. Vincent's Hospital Taylorville. A son, Edwin of Litchfield, reported today that his father'was some improved this morning. He suffered six broken ribs and a severe fracture of the left leg at the partying the report tiled today oy the City Council, Richardson points out: Latham, Kenney, Austin, Boiling Springs and Sunnyside Schools; Assumption, Blue Mound, Mt.

Au There was a deposit in the amount of $2,004.76 made to the knee. burn, Findlay, Argenta, Lovington, 4 Maroa and Niantic-Hamstown. special assessment paving fund bank account on Sept. 18, 1952. This The Majors live at 1421 W.

Riv- A erview we. School districts remaining open Christian County Sheriff Leonard but maintaining bus service rang ing from none to nearly complete, rs orris said that the accident happened in a severe snowstorm about deposit was made by L. V. Cannon, former city treasurer, with the explanation that it was to correct errors made in 1945 and 1946 for: the overpayment of certain paving iund were atonington, llliopolis, Lake- Liuritz Melthier Melchior Sings Here April 5 4:30 p. m.

on Route 48, six miles view, Bement and Cerro Gordo. surveying the damage. The overturned car was in a field about one mile south of Decatur on Route 51. The other car was abandoned on the highway only a few yards farther north. Re ports on the wrecks had not been made to the sheriff's office at noon today.

(Herald and Review Photos) southwest of Taylorville. Drivers of these automobiles were among many Sunday' and Monday motorists who abandoned their stuck or wrecked cars after St. John's Lutheran and St. Thomas Catholic Schools opened, The sheriff said that the Major car and a cattle truck driven by Charles 6. Wade, Morrisonville, collided 1 TI 1-1.

but did not provide bus service. LOOK PA, NO TRACKS Seventeen Decatur public school Lauritz Melchior will give a concert at 8:15 p. m. Sunday, April 5 jicauon. me pavement bl bonds in Improvement 383.

"I find no evidence that the special assessment funds have ever been audited other than a test check of cash receipts and disbursements. A detailed audit of these accounts would be necessary to justify an opinion regarding the 'states of the teachers, visiting south of here for the time of the accident. in Kintner Gymnasium under spon- UIC WCCK C11U, 1VC1C Cll lUULt t' home and did not show up at classes of j1? S'n JU" ior Drum and Bugle Corps. Fred Whitten Pledges Aid to Demo Ticket Speaker Panel Named for Sewer Talk this morning. Suburban Transportation Com Tickets will go on sale at atau- Mr.

and Mrs. Major were returning to Decatur after visiting their son in Litchfield. An inquest into the death will be conducted by Earr J. Baker, Chris unpaid bonds and delinquent bers March 16, according to William Frazee, who is in charge ot The report and letter were filed tian County coroner. Mrs.

Maior was a life-Ions resi pany, which operates school bus service to Garfield and Oak Grove Schools, canceled its runs to those schools. Five Coasting Areas Melchior, a tenor, has starred in by the Council without comment and without reading. dent of Macon Countv. A panel of speakers for a public Finance Commissioner Don- r. many entertainment tieias, including opera, concert, radio, television By J.

Neely Martin Of The Review Staff Rumored factional strife in She was born in Oaklev on June meeting on the sewer problem at 29, 1889, a daughter of Edwin and 7:30 p. m. Tuesday in the YMCA Davis said after the meeting that the To Be Supervised the ap- overpayment was discovered and re local Democratic! organization Ida Nisewaner Smith. She was announced yesterday by Mrs. Starting today the Recreation De and movies.

He will be accompanied by other entertainers. including singers, dancers and instrumentalists. peared to be healed today. Ieal F. Doubleday, publicity chair ported by Cannon during the time he worked as treasurer after he had partment will supervise its five usual Fred M.

Whitten, Democratic man for the League of Women Voters. submitted his resignation. coasting areas, Supt. nussell roval announced after being assured that county chairman, pledged full sup Davis said Cannon said there was port ror the Democratic nominees in the street department will find time Each of five speakers is to give a 5-minute talk backgrounding the only one. overpayment involved.

It was paid to the Millikin National to cinder the toots ot the hills. Hours are and 7-9 sewer problem of the 'Decatur area. A vote also is to be taken at the Bank, which acts as collector for Parking Rule Change Asked Sixtv-three "patrons and friends' several bondholders. weekdays. If the snow lasts, the hills will be open 10 a.

and meeting to decide whether now is p. m. Saturday, and the time for a drive for new sewers. Speakers will be: the Decatur 1 ownship election April 7. "I believe we have a strong township ticket," he said.

is a ticket that deserves election and I support it wholeheartedly." This year, Whitten, for the first time in his 16 years as county chairman, took no active part in the assembling of a township ticket. The 4:30 p. m. Sundav. Alex Van Praag president of Regular coasting areas are: of the Decatur Day Nursery ask the Cannon presumably made up the overpayment out of his own pocket, Davis said.

The bondholder who benefited from the overpayment is not known, he said. Cannon was reported by neighbors to be out of the city." Davis said he will ask the Coun East Johns Avenue from Calhoun Warren Van Praag, consulting engineers who have drawn sew City Council for parking rule changes to Jasper. The tied car up most crossing. er plans for both the city and the in the 300 block IVorth tdwara Street' to decrease traffic hazards for job fell to William Holman, town children. ship chairman.

Clarence Schlesier, defeated can A petition was handed the Coun cil for an appropriation in the bud- Last Hickory Street from Woodford to Folk. West. Marietta Street from Dunham to Kyle. West Macon Street from Taylor to Dennis. Spring Street from Green to A casualty of today's 5Vi-inch snowfall was the Illinois Terminal's dooked East Peoria run which attained its goal of Forsyth on its second try-'today.

The first run, leaving Decatur' at 7:10 a. was derailed bv packed snow at the Route 48 beltline. didate for mavor of Decatur in 1951 highway trarhc unnl it was railed and brought back to Decatur in time for the 10:30 a. m. run.

Sheriff's Deputy William Holman stands in front' of the car. (f Ierald and Review Photo) Sanitary District; Walker Mills, attorney for the Decatur Sanitary District; Dr. W. D. Hatfield, Sanitary District superintendent; Mayor Robert E.

Willis; Dr. P. A. Steele, former citv and loser in a campaign to beat cil today by David White, 236 Stu-)get year starting May I for an extra art who said he got it up after jclerk for a "pre-audit survey" of seeing a child almost get struck by special assessment accounts. -a car recently.

I He said he will propose a survev married to Elmer L. Major in Oakley Oct. 8, 1910. her husband, she leaves two sons, Edwin Litchfield, and Elmer Chicago, and a sister, Miss Anna F. Smith, Decatur.

She also leaves two grandchildren. The body is in the Brintlinger Funeral Home. Arrangements are incomplete. Mrs. Strange Dies Of Crash Injuries Mrs.

Fleta Strange, 30, of 1735 N. Illinois died at 6:15 p.m. yesterday of injuries received four hours earlier in a car-truck crash two miles north of Kinmundy on Route 37. Her husband, C. W.

(Bill) a conductor with the Pennsylvania RailrAad here, is in critical condition at Salem Memorial Hospital. Also killed was Mrs. Loretta Hardiek, 30; of Effingham. State Patrolman Earl Jackson said that the Strange car skidded into the path of a trailer truck driven by Randall Lauy, New Orleans. Mrs.

Hardiek was dead on arrival at the Salem Hospital. Mrs. Strange leaves her husband; her mother, Mrs. Mary Lewis of Benton, and a sister, Hawthorne of Decatur. Mrs.

Hardiek leaves her husband, LeRoy, who is the owner of the Whitten for state central committee man in 1952, aided Holman in get It asks that parking be switched ting a township ticket. Dan Day health commissioner and present Snow Aids Lake Level township health superintendent. Yesterday's brisk winds whipped Mrs. Clifford Smith, president of hf a clerk under the supervision of the auditor before considering a full-scale audit because there is no assurance that an audit of. the old accounts would "tell us what We want to know" and Richardson is "very Scouts Review The Macon Countv Boy Scout district board of review will meet at 7:30 p.

m. today in the Salvation some water waves over Lake Decatur Dam after all else has failed Wabash Man Collapses, Dies Benjamin Robinson, 62, of 1909 the League of Women voters, said she and Mrs. H. W. Gibson, chairman of the local activities commit since- July.

Army buildrhg to examine 15 boys for second class rank and five for ton also helped. It was their activity that brought rumors of a Democratic split. The rumors were spiked by Whitten. "There is iroom in the local Democratic organization for all men and women who want party success," Whitten said. "I will do all in my power to win the township election on April 7." But the water today remained about four inches below' the dam.

first class. Jphn F. Regan, chairman of the board of review. tee, have received many inquiries and offers of "help from oudying areas. Response from residents of areas now served by sewers has been Gerald L.

Davis, waterworks N. Morgan collapsed at the from the west to the east side of the street so children will not have to cross it. It also asks 1 5-minute limit in the south half of the block to make space "for cars bringing children to the nursery or picking 'them up. Parking now is banned on the east side of the one-way street from East Eldorado to He was supported by the Rev. Alvin Mueller pastor of Paul's Lutheran Church, who was present to give an invocation at the start of the Council meeting.

The Rev. Mr. Mueller, who said he drives frequendy up Edward to Decatur- and Macon Countv Hos Wabash Car Shops shortly before 7 a. m. today and died a few minutes after he was admitted to Wabafsh superintendent, said he expected the first real flow of water will soon result from yesterday's 5V4-inch snowfall.

If the sun were to come poor, however. "People within the citv do not indefinite" about the cost. think very strongly that it would be good to have someone do some rechecking on it and if that is the commissioner's suggestion it is fine with me," Mayor Robert E. Willis said. he did not know about "that particular transaction" at the time of Cannon's resignation.

Cannon submitted his resignation suddenly at a Council meeting Aug. Sportsmen Call For Election seem to comprehend the importance out today, he said, the water prob SIGNAL DEPOT PLANS ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION The Decatur Signal Depot will or the interceptors, she said. Employes Hospital. Robinson had been a car repairer at the Wabash 31 years, coming here ably would reach dam-height tomor Leaders in trie move- tor new row. Rural Mail Goss Out from Clinton.

Ho lira. flr-t 7 1 RQfl -1 enn sewers generally agree that laving of large interceptor sewers around the city should be the first step in a pro A special meeting of the Macon join with other U. S. Army Signal Corps branches over the country in celebrating the 90th birthday of the A -XWnJCounty Sportsmen's Club has been All eight Decatur rural route mail pital, said he has been impressed by lU 7.3ft Motor Service in Effingham. Two sons, Robert and Ken carriers started on their routes today, iui p.

ill. i ucxidv Robinson. From the age of five he! gram ot "sewer improvement to safeguard the health of the city. the traUic hazards at the nursery. He suggested, however, that if.

the Robert Borchers, a director. neth, also survive. Robert is a stu Borchers said a new board of di change is made it be made the entire 14, following a half-hour conference with Willis in the mayor's office. Cannon said at the time, he resigned because he needed a rest He said the talk with Willis. related to special assessment bonds but was of a "personal nature." Mo ln1 rVitrie Knk miJ Signal Corps tomorrow, according to Capt.

Clarence McGowan, public information officer. A display of equipment from the Signal Depot will be exhibited in the glass case in the main lobby of the Decatur Library this week and rectors and slate officers will be was reared by Mr. and Mrs. S. L.

Taylor, Devvitt. He was married in Farmer City Jan. 20, 191 1 to Miss Ruth Turner. He was a member of the car re Ask to Bring Tavern in City in the window of the Illinois Power dent at Quincy College, Mrs. Strange's body is in the Linton Funeral Home, Kinmundy.

No arrangements have been made. Three in Hospital After Sunday Crashes Three persons are hospitalized today at Decatur and Macon County Hospital after suffering traffic injuries in yesterday's snowfall of five and one-half inches. Company, Captain McGowan said. nominated and elected. "Borchers said he was acting in pursuance with a by-law provision permitting three or mere directors to dewand and call a meeting! The meeting will be at the citv Recreation Building, 243 S.

Water rather than at the club building in Big Creek Park. Nellie's Tavern, 2717 N. Main but star route mail service in all directions was curtailed because of the weather, Postmaster Richard E. Ellison reported. The eastbound star route truck from Springfield was stuck in a ditch at Riverton all night and arrived here at 9 a.

m. 1 3 hours late. Night-time runs to Bloomington and Champaign were cancelled. Service resumed today. The parcel post run to St.

Louis also was postponed until tonight. Train mail arrived on time. 'Sno Day for Golf Yesterday the Decatur Park District's, two golf -courses officially A Signal Depot display also is scheduled for the outdoor library pairers brotherhood at the Wabash. He leaves his wife, two daugh-, ters, Miss Lois Robinson, May-wood, a teacher at Proviso. High School, and Myrtle Medock, Decatur; two 6ons, Benjamin Maywood, -and Lynn Chicago, and five grandchildren.

The body is at the Dawson Wi- will be brought into the city of Decatur, if an annexation petition approved today in County Court is cases during Armed Services Week later this spring. length of the one-way street irom Eldorado to Main. The petition also points 6ut that city buses continue to stop on the east side of the street, r- It was referred by the Council to the police department. MONEY MOVEMENT Bank Clearints Show Sliht Rise over Last Year Total bank clearings for February and the first two months of this year have increased only, slighdy over corresponding figures for 1952, a report from the Decatur Clearing House showed today. Total clearings for the month were $16,993,526.

For February, 1952, the figure was $16,454,192. The report also showed a total accepted by the City Council. Mayor Robert E. Willis said the Two others received emergency city ordinance governing tavern li koff Funeral Home. Arrangements Where's Washington's Letter? Document Disappeared After 1920 Exhibit treatment at and St.

Mary s. JVlost seriously injured was Richard W. Rozanski, 38, 2775 N. censes probably will be amended to are incomplete. Coroner Harold Brindinger will conduct an inquest into the death.

allow a city license tor the tavern, it the area is annexed. Main who with his wife 'was homestead was being cleaned the involved in a collision near the east Joe Vigneri, operator of the tav end of Nelson Park Bridge. The TEEN-AGE BRIDGE ern, said the proposed annexation may interfere with a petition to the hospital reported him fair" CLASSES TO START and suffering internal injuries. No county zoning board of appeals for Teen-age bridge classes, planned visitors are permitted. a remodeling permit.

opened, but nobody played golf. It was snowing, the same as it did the first day last year. Ralph Cripe, Scovill professional, said several golfers stopped in and talked golf. Adam Brohez, Nelson professional, said he had no One Runway Clear Ozark Airlines canceled all of its letter, with other documents which had at one time belonged to Mr. and Mrs.

James Millikin were found. "The letter was written in Cambridge, Nov. 5, 1775, by Washington's secretary, but was signed boldly 'G. It was written to Capt. Bartlett and contained directions for the transfers and sponsored by tks Youth Council of the Decatur Public Library, will His wife Eldora, 35, is satisfactory" after suffering abrasions Bv Tom Mahonev Of The Review Staff Perhaps it is too late this year to ask but where is George Washington's letter to Capt.

William Bart-lett? The letter was in Decatur back in 1920 but no one seems to know what happened to it after that brief exhibition. The clue to the existence of such a letter in Decatur was furnished bv Wilbur H. Duncan in last STAMP CLUB MEETS The Decatur Stamp Club start this week. of $34,991,443 for the first two months of 1953. Total for the period Jan.

1 to Feb. 28, 1952, was and bruises, and may have visitors. will The first class meeting will be In the same hospital is Miss Boyd the meet at 7:30 p. m. today in 583,845.

Blades. 23, St. Louis nurse, who Wednesday at 7i30 p. m. in the auditorium of library.

Young -V WVU M1U UM1 JJV rial assessment accounts' were not associated with the resignation. Willis and Byron M. Merris, corporation counsel, refused to discuss the matter Cannon delivered his resignation to the Council about 20 minutes after his talk with Willis. He stayed in the room while the vote unanimously accepting the resignation was taken, but he did not address the Council. r-Hevhad been a finance department employe 22 years, most of the time in charge of special tax and assessment accounts.

He had been appointed city treasurer on Davis' recommendation when Davis took office as commissioner in May, 1951. J. W. Loftus, wlio had been treasurer, succeeded Davis as city clerk. Cannon continued to keep special assessment accounts after he became treasurer, explaining that the work was light as there has not been a city project financed by special assessment since construction of the Southeast sewer in Cannon gave a month's notice when he resigned, but stayed 2 weeks longer to give Davis more time to find a successor.

Treasurer now is Walter E. Griffin, former manager of the South Side Country Club. Many property 7 owners became delinquent in special assessment taxes in the depression years of the early 1930's. Some of the assessments were erased by state law when the properties were sold because of delinquent taxes. As the city some "years ago ruled that only special assessment monev of some prisoners.

It had been suffered a scalp cut and shoulder in flights through Decatur this morn Association of Commerce rooms in the Decatur Club Building. About 20 covers of early "fumigated" mail will be shown. The people only will be welcome, ac-cording'to Miss Jean Fox, youth li jury when her car apparendy hit the Friends Creek Bridge on Route 48 Gives $500 Bond Robert-Harrington, 23, "of 1842 N. Van Dvke was released (month's issue of the Decatur Stamp Munior Stamp Club will meet at 7 near Argenta. She is reported "satisfactory" condition today.

under a $500 bond today pending p. m. in the YMCA. folded to form its own envelope. No one could be found late last week in a short but intensive search who knew anything about the letter.

Many local persons connected with the DAR were helpful in sug- Treated and released from St. trial on a charge of disorderly con duct. 7 Mary's Hospital yesterday was Robr Club news, rle ran across it while doing postal historv research. It seems that in October, 1920, the Stephen Decatur Chapter, Daughters. of the American Revolu tion, opened a display in the Art ert Young, 17, 30 bhore lJnve, whose car was involved in an acci brarian.

Teacher of the class will be Miss Kathryn Roosevelt Junior High School mathematics instructor who has been bridge teacher for the adult education program of the public schools. Tentative plans are to meet once a month, Miss Fox said. Definite and final arrangements will be up to the students who turn out for the first lesson, however, she said. Traffic Arrests Charles Lee Davidson, 1808 N. 25th St, yas fined $9 for driving without a driver's license.

ing, and said the weather outlook for the rest of the day was Unfavorable. The southeast runway at the Municipal airport was clear this morning, and park district snowplows were working on the northeast and west runways ot the triangle. The southeast runway was largely swept clear, by the wind, but drifts piled upjon the others. Good Robin Weather With the biggest snow of the year on the ground, there were more calls reporting "the first robin of the year" made to The Review today than in the previous two weeks. Center.

The DAR had a special but after contacting a dozen or so a luuiii hi tuc ill ciiicr ai uiai nine -members brought along theirir -J this the topic; reporter valuable pre-Civil War material dent at Fairview Park about noon, the hospital reported. Ronald Howerton, 21, 440 N. 35th was treated and released from after injuring his finger when trying to get his father's car out of a ditch. His finger was wedged in between a culvert and the bumper. It was partially tatsd.

The Oct 8, 1920, issue of the Decatur Herald and Vol. 13 of the Journal of the Illinois State Historical' Society both carried, the same gave up. One source offered a clue to the disappearance of the letter in that much, material was: "lifted" from the DAR exhibit room before it was closed some 1 5 years ago. The contents are not too important the prisoners were undoubtedly taken care of but a sig Oreana Man's Dental Work Causes Expensive Month The following story, -the product of the water shortage of a few weeks ago, has just leaked out of Oreana: Seems a fellow named Bill Acorn went out to look into his cistern to see how much water he had left. Somehow he dropped his up-; per plate "into the cistern and, since it was pretty new, he didn't want to leave it there.

Oreana's new fire pumper was called into service and the plate was recovered. Leaving his newly resurrected teeth in aisafe place, Acom again' checked his cistern. The fire engine had pumped all the water out so he was forced to come into town to buy water to refill it. Rent Board Delayed The Decatur Rent Advisory Roard, which ordinarily meets the first Tuesday of the month, is post Enterprising Trucker Of fers Cinders f. or 50 Cents a Shovel least one Enterprising fellow-was making a good thing out of the.

Central Illinois blizzard this He -had his pickup truck full of cinders parked near the underpass on Route 51 between Decatur and EI win and was distributing the cinders among unlucky motorists for 50 cents a shovelful. The drivers screamed, "Robber!" but they paid bis price, it is reported. nature of the first President is. If FEBRUARY RAINFALL GOES OVER NORMAL Precipitation in the month of February totaled 2.41 inches which is .44 of an inch above the. normal rainfall for this short month.

It is the first month to go above normal in precipitation since last November and only the second month to reach above since last July. Mean temperature last month was unofficially 36.4 degrees which is 5.9 degrees above the normal mean for -Decatur. could be used to pay of the bonds, it had beeh Lincoln's signature, 40 story, here quoted in. part: "A letter signed by George Washington and a bas-relief of Washington in his youth were among the interesting things which were put on exhibition by the Decatur Daughters of the American Revolution in the Art Institute, in Decatur.The letter is of more, than usual interest because no one in Decatur seemed to know of its existence until a few days ago. "When the attic of the Millikin dozen Macon County residents Studies Petition County Judge Gus T.

Greanias today' reserved a decision on a petition for admission to probate of the will of the late Mrs. Eva Kirkendoll of Decatur. Under the will, a bequest of $25 is made to a brother, Paul V. Stock-dale of Jacksonville and the remainder is left ta a sister, Mrs. Myrtle Peterson, Duluth, Minn.

poning its March meeting to 7:30 p. m. March 10, Mrs. Jeanne Lyda, rent office clerk, reported. The date-switch is blamed on the weather.

Meetings are at board Secretary Lyle the market value of the bonds has gone way down, although special assessment payments are still made once in awhile and the money is used by the city to buy back bonds. The bonds are negotiable and there is no record of the would be able to give complete information, including grade of ink used. 1 But, as was stated earlier, perhaps it is too late this year to ask. Campbell's office, 448 -N. Church St..

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