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uecatur, Illinois, Saturday, Uctober 17, 1953. DECATUR HERALD Smashed Trains Leading County 4-H Members To Get Honors Macon County's top 4-H mem Solution Sought To Plant Traffic, Parking Issues Police, schooL and park officials are seeking the answer to complaints of heavy traffic on streets New Ruling On Wheat Support Raises Question A new U. S. Agriculture Department ruling on price support for next year's wheat crop may have many farmers wondering how it will affect their 1954 corn production plans. For the first time in federal farm program history, the price support program on one crop is being tied in with those on other crops.

In effect, the Agriculture department ruled that farmers who want price support on wheat next year will have to comply not only with acreage restrictions on wheat but with any 1954 acreage restrictions that have been or will be established for other "basic" commodities. According to law, the so-called basic commodities include corn. The others are wheat, cotton, rice, tobacco and peanuts. With corn production at a high level, it is touch-and-go whether or not the government will have to impose acreage restrictions on next year's corn crop. If corn acreage allotoients materialize, a farmer will have to comply with that control program as well as the control program for wheat in order to get price support on his 1954 wheat crop.

That point is made clear by the recent department announcement. But, if corn acreage restrictions are imposed, the big question in the "corn belt" will be, will a farmer be eligible for price support on 1954-crop corn if he complies with the corn control program but does when his dicsel engine (shown in front of wrecker) rammed into the caboose and also 'overturned. The wreckage was cleared bv bers will be honored at two meet ings early next month. Dates for two 4-H events were announced vesterdav bv George Vest and Mrs. Norma Needh; ham, county youth advisers.

On Nov. 5, the home economics and agricultural club members, named county outstanding and project honor members for 1953, will be announced at a dinner sponsored by the Macon County bankers. Men and women who have served more than five vears as 4-H club leaders will be awarded service pins at the dinner. The county's 4-H achievement program will be held at 7:30 p.m. Nov.

12 in Roosevelt Junior High School. Members selected by a state 4-H committee as state outstanding and state project honor members will be announced that night. Also to be announced are the county's outstanding 4-H clubs this year. Outstanding member awards are made on the basis of the member's leadership, project work and club and community activities. Details of both meetings will be announced later, Vest said.

Staley Dispute Parley Tuesday American Federation of Labor officers will meet in Washington Tuesday to discuss a jurisdictional dispute at the A. E. Staley Mfg. Companv. Harry Meisenhelter, business ag ent for the Decatur Building Trades Council, said he would leave for Washington this morning to attend the meeting.

Meisenhelter is protesting the use of AFL United Auto Workers on a remodeling job at the Staley plant, catur. The caboose was knocked off the tracks when struck by a westward bound freight. Enoi-neer J. Paul Bolin was killed SCHUMAN TO TALK IAA President Is Sunday Speaker For Local Church Charles B. Schuman, president of the Illinois Agricultural Association, will be speaker for the 10:30 a.m.

service Sundav at Cleveland Avenue Methodist Church. Schuman is lay chairman of the reserve ministers pension fund of the Illinois Conference, as well as one of the country's agricultural leaders. His subject for the worship service will be "Christ Calls Men." The service will be open to the public. SCHOOLS CITED BY COMMUNITY CHEST Two more certificates of merit have been awarded for Community Chest donations, Chest headquarters announced yesterday. The aw ards go to Oglesbv School, where 92 per cent of the teachers contributed, and to Ullrich School, where 91 per cent made donations.

NAACP Meeting Monday The regular meeting of the De catur branch of the National Asso- tion for the Advancement of Colored People will be held at 8 p.m. Monday in the Elks Hall, 251 t. Macon St. Damages Asked In 2 Crashes i Two suits seeking damages for personal injuries received in trail ic I accidents were on file yesterday in Macon bounty Circuit Court. Jesse E.

Clark, Decatur, asks a judgment of $25,000 against Sidney Bachrach, alleging he received permanent injuries when he was struck by the Bachrach car April 20 at West Main Street and Haworth Avenue. Dean O. Rodgers filed a complaint against Kelsy Birge because of injuries he claims he received in a traffic accident Nov. 15, 1952, on Route 51, five miles south of Rodgers claims in the complaint he was a passenger in the Birge car when Birge, driving in a fog, start-ed around another car and struck the car of Verlin C. Jones.

Rodgers seeks judgment of from Birge. WITH THE SICK Sophronia Price, 2625 N. gan is recovering in St. Mary's Hospital following an operation and mav have visitors. He claims the work comes under the '-ester t.

Leigh, Sparta, state raw jurisdiction of the construction chairman, said, trades unions. (Government price support and Scheduled to attend the meeting, "op control programs are adminis-he said, are AFL President Geore lted bv PMA, an Agriculture De- Wrecker Clears A wrecker rights the caboose of a Baltimore Ohio train which was struck from the rear Thursday night at Casner, east of De Bolin Services At 3 p.m. Today Funeral services for J. Paul Bolin, 49, who was killed in a train accident at Casner Thursday night, will be held in the Dawson Wikoff Funeral Home at 3 p.m. today.

Friends may call at -the chapel. Burial will be in Fairlawn Cemetery. Mr. Bolin, a Baltimore Ohio railroad, engineer, was killed instantly when his westbound freight crashed into a standing freight at 9:10 p.m. Thursday.

Two members J. Paul Bolin of his crew jumped to safety as he shouted a warning that he could not stop his train in time. The diesel engine operated bv Mr. Bolin overturned as it struck the ca boose of the standing freight. -An inquest into the death of Mr Bolin will be held at the Dawson Wikoff Funeral Home at 10 a.

todav, Coroner Harold Brintlinger said last night. At the scene of the accident Thurdav night Coroner Brintlinger said death apparently was caused by a fractured skull. An Illinois Central railroad wrecker was called to clear the wreckage Thursday night. The first tram used the tracks at 7 a. m.

yesterday. City Firm Asks Petition Change Lincoln Laboratories has filed an amended rezoning petition for property on South Side Drive where the pharmaceutical firm plans a ni plant. The petition, filed with City Clerk J. W. Lot'tus, sets up an commercial buffer zone 190 feet back from the center line of South Side Drive (Route 47).

It asks an commercial to light industrial rezoning for lot three of Video Place Addition, the actual plant site, except for the buffer zone. On lot four, mostly Sangamon River bottom land, a one-family to light industrial change is asked, as well as an buffer zone where the property fronts on South Side Drive. Lot three is between the site of television station WTVP and the Illinois Central Railroad. Lot 4 is (Sehind lot 3 and the television station property, except for a South Side Drive frontage west of the television station. Lincoln Laboratories asked that its original petition be tabled by the City Plan Commission last month to permit the amendment to be filed.

The original petition involved only lot three and asked an heavy industrial classification. The Plan Commission probably will act on the amended petition at its Nov. 5 meeting. Conference Set On Increasing Dump Problems Decatur Township authorities will confer with dump operators soon on disposal problems township dump, Town Clerk Ralph E. Brown said yesterday.

Inspections of dumps this week disclosed that such bulk items as paper, cartons and light wooden boxes are accumulating at four times their normal rate, Brown said. The Town Board of Health plans to visit several other cities, probably next week, to observe the operation of incinerator and land fill disposal methods, Brown said. Brown and Supervisor B. F. Johnson visited six of the 11 dumps still operating.

Four dumps have been closed this year because they are full, and others are filling rapid- Jy. A more rapid accumulation of trash is blamed on a decline in hog feeding at dumps. Hogs trampling on the dumps as they rooted for garbage tended to pack material. Brown said the township will ask dump operators if some emergency measure can be worked out to burn paper, boxes and wooden crates. If this could be done, the risk of dump fires would be decreased and more dumping space would be available, he pointed out.

Brown said only one dump operator is known to be cooking garbage for feeding hogs. A new state law requires" the cooking of such garbage in a move to control a hog disease. Most operators have said the. installation of cooking equipment is not economically feasible. Garbage is being mixed with trash in most dumps now, with some operators using bulldozers per iodically to cover garbage, Brown said.

At least two dumps are large enough for a land till operation, Brown estimated. In land fill disposal, garbage and h-ash is dumped in trench six feet deep. This material is compacted and covered bv two feet of dirt, which is also compacted. The process is then repeated. The only alternative to this method seems to be the use of incinerators, Brown said.

Preliminary studies have shown this to be more costly. MRS. LEILA THOMPSON, OHIO, DIES IN BEMENT Mrs. Leila E. Thompson, 77, died at 10:15 a.m.

yesterday in the home of a niece, Miss Ella Swenson of Bement. Mrs. Thompson, a resident of Ironton, Ohio, formerly lived in Bement. She had been visiting her nif-r-p cinre early September. She was born Sept.

23, 1886, in Champaign Countv, Ohio, a daughter of Mart and Ella Hess Ellars. She married Carmi A. Thompson in Bement. He preceded her in death. Mrs.

Thompson was a member of the Presbyterian Church. She leaves a daughter, Mrs. Gladys Holmes, Daytona Beach, a brother, Ralph, Ironton, Ohio; four grandchildren and six-great-grandchildren. Services will be at 11 a.m. today in the Dawson Wikoff Funeral Home and Monday at Ironton.

Burial will be there. OCT. 26 SET FOR BAKERY DRIVERS VOTE ON UNION Truck drivers at two local bakeries will vote Oct. 26 on a bid by the AFL' TeamsteTs Union Local 279 to represent them as bargaining agent. The National Labor Relations Board will supervise balloting from 2 to 3 p.

m. at the Purity Baking Company and from 4 to 5 p. m. at the Tavstee Baking Company. A simple majority is sufficient for acceptance by the drivers of the union.

Mack Rav, Teamsters business agent, said earlier his union had organized all but a few of the approximately 40 drivers employed by the two firms. ARDLE CARTER DEATH INQUEST TO BE TODAY An inquest into the cause of death of Ardle F. Carter Decatur barber, on Wednesday will be held at the Brintlinger Funeral Home at 3:30 p.m. today. Coroner Harold Brintlinger said Mr.

Carter was fatally injured in a traffic accident Oct. 4 at King and Edward Street. An autopsy was conducted. Man Hurl by Corn Picker Paul Reed, 31, Cerro Gordo, received a severely injured right hand early yesterday in a corn picker accident at the farm of a neighbor. He remained under treatment in St.

Mary's Hospital last night. Official Tells Publishers of Decentralization Spread of Industry Seen around the Houdaille-Hershey and Macon Arms plants. Residents of the area have complained to the Decatur Park Board that -a parking lot it owns at the Houdaille-Hershey plant is responsible for the conditions. The company is using the lot for parking under an agreement made with the Park Board. The public is also permitted to use the lot under the agreement which expires Dec.

31. The residents ask that the Park Board not renew the agreement. "If the parking lot should be abandoned, what would become of the cars used by plant employes to go to and from work?" Police Chief W. Glenn Kerwin asked. He said the employes would have to use the surrounding jtreets on which to park their cars.

1 hen there would be complaints about congested parking on those streets," the chief said. Meanwhile, the Park Board has asked Houdaille-Hershey what it thinks should be done to help eli minate the complaints. Board mem bers said that unless a solution can be reached the agreement might not be renewed. Police, school and Park Board officials will meet again next week to discuss the situation. Kerwin said he was studying the matter with the other officials, but a meeting early this week has led them to no conclusions.

The complaining residents say heavy traffic is a threat to children, and that dust from the Jot creates an unpleasant condition in the neighborhood. A count this week showed 128 cars used Kenwood Avenue between 3 and 4 p.m. A total of 56 cars used Pierson Avenue in the same hour while nine cars were seen on Kcllar Lane in the same period. Only two cases of recklessness were seen by officers who watched the locations. Two drivers who ran to their cars to get out of the parking lot before the heavy traffic started narrowly averted a collision with a heavy transport truck.

Chief Kerwin said diat dust conditions were not bad on the day he saw traffic moving from the parking lot. Some recommendations are ex; pected to come from next week's meeting, the date of which will be set later. Studying the situation with Kerwin are H. Wayne Gill, president of the park board; Park Superintendent Lacy Chandler, and Norman Gore, acting as safety director for Decatur schools. MEETING SCHEDULED County Officials Set Nov.

4-6 E. St. Louis Session The semi-annual meeting of dn Illinois Association of County Officials will be" Nov. 4, 5 and 6 at East St. Louis, President Don F.

Muirheid announced yesterday. Muirheid, Long Creek Township supervisor, said most of the joint and individual sessions will discuss effects of new legislation on county government. Organizations which are members of the association and which will conduct group sessions are associa tions of: Supervisors and county corhmis-sioncrs; County clerks; County treasurers; Circuit clerks and recorders; County auditors; Coroners; Justices, police magistrates and constables; County superintendents of high-wavs; Probate clerks; County and probate judges; County superintendents of schools. MAGAZINES STOLEN lames Maiors, 920 S. Jasper reDorted to nolice vesterdav the theft of bundles of new magazines from several business firms where they had been left.

Cafeteria Picketed Aipicket line has been established in front of the Greider cafeteria, 200 block North Main b)' the paint ers union. A spokesman for the union said his orouD was protesting Greidcrs 1 1 using their own employes as paint- $90 Camera Found Police reported that a movie camera found in a brown sack on Spring Street yesterday was valued at $90 by the Pfile Camera Shop. Ownership of the camera has not been determined. oat- an Illinois Central railroad wrecker so trains could use tracks at 7 a.m. (Photo by J.

D.Patrick) MRS. SALLY KN0TTS, ILL 3 YEARS, DIES Mrs. Sallv Ann Knotts, 58, of Rural Route 7, died at 2:45 p.m. vestcrdav in Decatur Macon County Hospital. I She had been ill for the past three years and in serious condition for the past four months.

I She was born in Long Creek, 111., on March 11. 1895, the daughter of William and Hannah Vest. In Clinton, on Feb. 2, 19 13-, she was married to John O. Knotts, who survives.

She also leaves her father, of Blue Mound; four daughters, Mrs. Bettv Barton, Xenia; Mrs. Lucille Fleming, Mrs. Helen Edwards and Mrs. Mary Ramseyer, all of Decatur; eight sons, Sgt.

Roy, Ft. Knox, Jesse, Casner; Wilbur, St. Louis; William, Hattiesburg, Paul, Decatur; Arthur, Robert and Thomas, at home; three brothers, I Iarrv Vest, Peoria, and Thomas and Samuel Vest, both of Decatur. Twcnth-three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren also sur-vive. The body of Mrs.

Knotts, a member of Constant Memorial Church of God, is at the J. J. Moran Sons Funeral Home. Arrangements are incomplete. 4 jaP -t the 88th annual fall meeting of the Illinois Press Association yesterday that newspaper advertising is the backbone of the chain's publicity program.

(Pfile Photo) information they put out is what thev want, when thev want it." I Seibert cited school boards as fre-Iquent offenders on the local level, pointing out meetings are often closed and sometimes held in the home of a member. He said school board meetings, by law, are open to the public. School districts, he emphasized, are one of the largest tax-spending agencies. Some communities, he added, also have had difficulty with their police department. Seibert advised the publishers not to attempt to "sew up" local news sources at the expense of nearby daily newspapers or competing weeklies.

"It leaves you in a weak position when you argue for freedom, of the press." Straightforward advertising, without misleading comparative prices, should be die goal of merchants, J. C. Penney, founder of the J. C. Penney Company, told more than 100 publishers yesterday noon.

Turn to Page 8 "Press" f-'rrrJ 'not comply with the acreage allot ments set up tor 19d4 wheat? Asked that question, a state Production Marketing Administration official in Springfield said yesterday that he does not know yet. "There has been no official release of information from Washing- ton with respect to that question," partment agency. Although compliance with allotments is voluntary, farmers who do not comply are not eligible for price support on the crop. Under a marketing quota program (in effect for 1954-crop wheat), the marketing of a crop is restricted to the production from the acreage allotment. Marketing of production from excess acre- age is subject to penalty, 5 HARRIST0WN CHEST WORKERS COLLECT $159 Five Harristown Township Community Chest workers have completed their solicitations, collecting SI 59.45, Mrs.

Jean Warnick, chair, man, said yesterday. Those who have completed their work, with the amounts collected, are: Mrs. Alma Rotz, Westfield School district, Misses Mildred and Zula Pasley, Harristown School, Mrs. C. A.

Miller, Harristown, $37; Mrs. Delphine Muirhead, Bend School, $10; Llovd Walters, Maple Grove district, $35. Other volunteer workers named by Mrs. Warnick are: Mrs. Laura Ash, East String-town; Mrs.

John Riggs, Hill School; Donald Ginder, Wyckles Corner; Miss Martha Ash, Harristown School; Mrs. Lucy Musser, Camp Wilson Addition. NEWMAN FULTZ HURT IN TRAIN-CAR CRASH Newman Fultz, 42, of 1019 N. Union St. received head cuts and a knee injury at 3:40 a.m.

yesterday in a train-auto accident. Police reported the car struck the i 'Til y-i .1. side ot an Illinois antral nam at the Jasper Street crossing. Ihe train was in charge ot en gineer Robert Van Camp, 629 Grand and Fireman Ed Pol lock, Clinton. Fultz remained under treatment last night in St.

Mary's Hospital. CR0SLEY UPSET F. E. Bascom, 806 W. Elm told police vesterdav that vandals turned over his Crosley car at his house Thursday night.

Infant Dies Word has been received here of the death in San Jose, of the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Pinto. Mrs. Pinto is the former Shirley A Ficker, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. William A. Ficker. 1053 W. Cerro Gordo St.

Traffic Arrest Bill Reed, 4001 E. Grand was fined $29 for leaving the keys in his car ignition. Meany, Lester Washburn, the UAW international president, and Joseph Kcenan, secretary of the AFL building trades department. Roy Rollins, Staley personnel di- rector, said he thought the work work could properly be done bv the UAW. Earl Heaton, the UAW's regional director, said last night he had just returned from Kansas City and knew nothing of the meeting.

He said he did not know whether he would attend. Chastain Asks Vater Use Cut Water Commissioner Homer L. Chastain asked Decatur residents yesterday to eliminate all non-essential uses of water. His first conservation request came as Lake Decatur fell 2.8 feet below the dam, on the heels of a summer-long drouth. Chastain said if no drop in pumpage is reflected by such measures as checking for plumping leaks, he will ask that certain specific uses car washing and lawn watering, for example be stopped.

Mayor Robert E. Willis, meanwhile, said he will call for a meeting of the water advisory committee next week to discuss the water problem, including the possible use of underground sources. In addition to two city locations, Fairview Park and the Van Dyke Eldorado Street intersection, there is believed to be a substantial source in the Mahomet River, an underground stream in DcWitt Countv. MRS. FERGUSON HURT GETTING INTO AUTO Mrs.

Mabel Ferguson, 63, of 259 S. Westlawn Ave. received a hip injury in an accident at Water Street and Prairie Avenue at 2:20 p. m. yesterday.

Police reported Mrs. Ferguson fell as she stepped from the curb while getting into a relative's car. She is in Decatur and Macon County Hospital. Youths Plead Guilty Jimmie L. English, 18, of 1034 N.

College and Mickey E. Yar-brough, 18, of 1221 N. Church charged by Eva Morton with disorderly conduct, pleaded guilty and were fined $23.20 each. Miss Morton said the youths made insulting remarks to her. Thief Steals Gasoline Theft of two five-gallon cans of gasoline from a Wabash Railroad truck parked in his back yard was reported to police yesterday by C.

Edmonston, 1561 E. Hickory St. Continued A General Electric Company ex ecutive told Illinois publishers last night that the nation industries, including his own, will continue the trend toward decentralization. Vice President of Engineering Clarence H. Lindcr of New York said "It is entirely impractical to continue our manufacture in a handful of key plans in as many cities." Linder said each small community must "elect itself" as an industrial site and added that a vigorous, responsible and civic-minded press "can play a tremendous part in the growth and formation of a community and its character." Linder addressed 250 members and guests at the banquet of the 88th fall meeting of the Illinois Press Association in Hotel Orlando.

Welcoming the publishers to De catur, Mayor Kobert fc. Willis urged them to recognize the obligations they have in a free country, and accept "the tremendous responsibility that falls on your shoulders daily." He said a venal press would be "one of the damndest catastrophes" which could fall upon a community and added the hope that IPA mem bers would not be "so rough" that honest, well-meaning citizens are discouraged from accepting public office. Linder pointed out General Electric has grown from two plants in Chicago prior to World War II to eight others elsewhere in the state, including Decatur and Mattoon. A 9th plant is under construction in Bloomington. This is no coincidence, Lindcr continued, "for confident in the belief that agriculture and manufacturing are the two basic activities of our economy, we believe that they should know each other better." The trend will continue, Linder said, either in establishing satellite plants close to existing factories or in moving an entire operation to a new area.

Linder listed these economic fac-! tors which an industry looks for in a community: Proximity to markets and sources of supply. An adequate supply of the right, kind of labor and a record of settled labor conditions. Prevailing wage rates high. enough to attract the of personnel required, but not so high as --4. J.

C. Penney, founder of a 1,632 store chain bearing his name, greets Mrs. Elizabeth Se-man, 1436 N. Woodford in the local store during an appearance here. Penney, now 78, told to be out of line with rates paid for comparable work by existing companies.

Tax rates providing the lowest tax burden consistent with services rendered. Necessary utilities electric power, gas, water and sewers. Transportation facilities. Social factors, Linder said, include adequate housing (or a willingness to supply increased demand), educational, hotel and banking facilities, medical and other community services. Finally, he said, there is the attitude of business and community leaders toward the new plant, whether the community appears progressive and the type of community leadership.

Association members were urged earlier yesterday to persuade public officials they are obligated to keep the public informed of their activi ties. F. S. Seibert. IPA legal counsel.

said an attitude has developed among officials, apparently filtered down from Washington, "that the.