Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 35

DECATUR HERALD COMICS CLASSIFIED Four Sections 44 Pages Decatur, Illinois, Wednesday, April 10, 1968 Pages 35 to 'A Illinois News in Brief Vandalia to Get New Industry operation will be shipped to Vandalia from California. One of the reasons the com Vandalia (Special) A California-based company, which designs and fabricates custom metal produces, will begin an assembly plant operation next week in a temporary location in Vandalia. Brenner-Nawman, based in Oakland, will locate in the building, formerly occupied by Davies Hatchery on South First Street, until its foot plant is com pleted. The firms' decision to "locale in Vandalia was announced Tuesday by Harold Hartwick, Vandalia Chamber of Commerce president, who said that ground will be broken next week for the new plant, lust west of the Van-Tran Electric plant. Hartwick said the comnanv Photo by Ruth Ricketts About 60 persons, most of them seminarians, line up outside St.

Joseph Seminary in Teutopolis before marching to Effingham Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 60 Join March From Teutopolis to Effingham expects to employ 25 to 35 per-j By a vote of 22 to 4, the Mar-sens. I ion County Board of Supei vis-George Croll of Trenton hasiors Tuesday approved holding been named superintendent of the county wide mental health salary schedule after four months negotiation with the Lin- coin Elementary Classroom Teachers Association, Augspur- ger said. He said the schedule will be sent to the teacher's association for consideration and approval before it is released for publication.

Reassignment of certain fifth and sixth grade students from overcrowded Northwest School to Central and Adams Schools next fall was also approved by the board. Watershed Investigation Scheduled Lincoln (SpeciaD A preliminary investigation to determine size, ooai and practicality of the Kickapoo Creek Watershed I'lojecl has been scheduled for sometime after Juiy, i968, ac.ordine to Arlen Hanson of the State Soil Conservation Service. The Kiekapoo Watershed project was started stvwal years ago. Hanson said the investigation will give residents of the area in opportunity to decide if they want the project to include flood control, recreation, irrigation water or a s-ipply of water. The U.S.

Department of Agriculture tvill pay the total cost of a flood contro1 program, and will evenly spW tht; erst of other features with the area, Hanson said. RICHLAND CHAIRMAN Olney (Special) Bill Borah, Olney Township assistant supervisor, was elected chairman of the Richland County Board of Supervisors Tuesday. Effingham (Special) Sixty persons marched about six miles from St. Joseph's Seminary in Teutopolis to the lEffingman County courthouse pany decided to locate in the: Midwest was to cut down on transportation costs, according to Hartwick. Products of Brenner-Nawman are sold in the U.S., Canada and some foreign countries.

Mental Health Referendum Set Salem (Special) Residents of Marion County will vote June 11 on a referendum which would authorize the county board of supervisors to levy up to 10 cents per $100 valuation for mental i assessed health programs. referendum. Marion County State's Attor ney William Hall of Cenrralia advised the board that if the referendum were approved, it should appoint a seven-member board to give advice on expendi tures made from mental health funds raised by the levy. The board of supervisors also re-elected Bassett of Alma as chairman. District Joins 3-County Unit Lincoln (Special) The Lincoln Board of Education for Grade School District 27 approved and signed contracts at its meeting Monday to become a member of the Tri-County Education Association which includes Logan, De- Witt and McLean counties.

Schools Supt. Harry F. Aug-spurger made the announcement Tuesday. The board also approved a new Holy Week Services Mattoon Holds Memorial seminary, Dr. Medard Buvola, who planned the program de scribed it as "a real show of peace.

The purpose of the march was a show of a desire for peace and prayer for Martin Luther King's program. "Should there be any heckling, do not respond," the rector said on preparation. The march proceeded without incident through the area which has virtually all white residents. About 200 persons attended the ceremony on the Effingham Courthouse lawn. It consisted of music, prayers and speeches.

"People working together in peace and harmony for Martin Luther King's ideal can know the God that Martin Luther King knew," Rev. William L. Bird, pastor of the Centenary Metho dist Church of Effingham, said. Seminarian Louis Spoonhour of Chicago said some Chicago- ans he thought would have been among the arsonists and looters are no longer in that group but are convinced of the Tightness of Martin Luther Kmg. "We must witness about Christianity, not as it is in the churches or the seminary, but as it is in you and me, seminarian Brian Szorady said.

Included in the program were several novices from Ste. Maire who spoke and said prayers. EIU Scholarship For King Urged Charleston (Special) The Eastern Illinois University chapter of the American Association of University Profes sors (AAUP) has passed a reso lution urging establishment of a scholarship in memory of Dr. Martin Luther Kmg Jr. The resolution says eligible students should be those "who support the ideals of Dr.

King" and have a financial need for the scholarship. Full tuition and room and board would be included in the proposed scholarship. EIU President Quincy Doudna sent a memorandum to all fac ulty members Monday announcing that Negro students were given permission to be absent classes Tuesday out of respect to the memory of Dr. KiDg." inarians, students from Teuto-j polls High school, and nuns from Sacred Heart School in Effingham. Rector and superior of the Tribute and courage be given to those in places of leadership." The minister said also that Mattoon High School held a memorial service for Dr.

King Tuesday morning and that students at Lake Land College in Mattoon observed a minute of silence upon the request of college President Virgil H. Judge. A memorial service was held Tuesday night at the Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church in Mattoon, sponsored by the church's youth, Dr. Brown pointed out. Mattoon has about 200 Negro residents.

The youth group of the Mat toon Jewish Community Center held memorial services Satur day for Dr. King. Photo by Ruth Ricketts on the courthouse lawn. Illinois Scene Mattoon (Special) The associate pastor of the First. Methodist Church in Mattoon said Tuesday that memorial tributes to Dr.

Martin Luther King are being held in conjunction with Holy Week observances in Mattoon. The Rev. George G. Russell, chairman of the special observances committee of the Mattoon Ministerial Association, said the services "have been well attended." His said his statement was a "progress report." It followed an article in Monday's Herald which quoted the pastor of the Mattoon Methodist Church as saying that the idea of a com-munitywide memorial service for Dr. King was rejected be Tom Vogel, seminarian from Man Dies at Wheel Tuesday afternoon.

Bethany Gro To BI Highway Plan Behtany (Special) Rep. Paul Stone, D-Sullivan, Bethany Mayor M. O. Wheeler and a committee of four Bethany businessmen will meet today with the chief engineer of the state highway department in Springfield. The group seeks information concerning the closing of Illinois 121 between Dalton City and Sullivan for 210 "working days" while a new bridge and culvert are constructed and curves are widened along the state route.

The village seeks to have the read project divie'ed into two parts so that Bethany is not "hemmed in" from other communities for nearly a year. State highway officials from the Paris office, who last week attended a special village board meeting in Bethany, told about 40 persons at the meeting that providing local detours around construction sites was too cost ly. They estimated the cost at $200,000. The Bethany delegation sought to meet with chief high way engineer Virden E. Staff early this week since bid let ting for the project is to begin Thursday.

Members of the committee are S. J. Scott, a banker; F. H. Bland, a former Bethany mayor and farm implement dealer; H.

O. "Steve" Dick, a truck transfer company owner; and Wally Beattie, a grain company manager. Pana May Get 75-Bed Nursing Home Pana (Special) The City Council has annex ed a 20-acre area which may be the site of a new nursing home. Clarence Bland, a Pana building contractor, told the council the plot is to be sold and used as the site of a 75-bed nursing home. The home would occupy six acres directly north of the First Christian Church, he said.

It would be built by Barry Nursing Homes, of Raymond, Bland said. The state Division of Highways turned down a City Council request to improve intersections along W. Second Street (Illinois 16 within the city) before it resurfaces the street this summer. Curbs of intersecting streets now are at right angles with the street. The council hoped to nave tnem rounded to make it easier to turn onto the highway.

ZUCCO ELECTED Taylorville (Special) Christian County Treasurer Donald Zucco was elected third vice president of the Illi nois County Treasurers Associ ation at the group's annual meet ing last week in Springfield. He was chairman of the convent ion. 'Grandad Went to Sleep' in Effingham Tuesday in honor of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The march, sponsored by the Franciscan friars, included sem cause it was "too controversial." Dr.

Clifford Brown, the pastor, made the statement in his sermon Sunday. Dr. Brown said Tuesday he made the remark in an effort to illustrate the role of the Christian. He said he did not single out the shortcomings of the community but also cited in his sermon the lack of positive action by the state legislation and Congress in dealing with open housing legislation and the problems of the ghettos. Rev.

Russell noted that in combined services for Mattoon service clubs today, "a period of special prayer for the piight of our cities will be given. It will ask that insight, wisdom St. Louis, prepares to lead songs -W the Vandalia plant, where the company's basic product, outdoor and indoor metal telephone booths, will be assembled. Parts needed in the assembly Clinton Dentist Dies in Crash Clinton (Special) Dr. Roy L.

Dixon, 41-year-old Clinton dentist, was killed about 11:40 a.m. Tuesday when his car went out of control and crashed into a concrete bridge abutment on U.S. 51 about three miles south of Maroa. State Trooper John Marquis of Niantic, who investigated the accident, said there were no witnesses. Two drivers, one northbound approaching tie Dixon car and another southbound behind it, reported they saw only "a cloud of dust," Marquis said.

No skid marks were seen on the highway, Marquis said, add ing that, "There is no indication of what happened." See Central Illinois deaths. Mattoon Gl esin Mattoon (Special) A Mattoon soldier, reported missing in action in Vietnam since- March 30, is dead, his parents were informed Monday. The victim was Pfc. Larry Manuel, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs.

George E. Manuel of Matttoon, formerly of Effingham. Manuel was last seen during a battle near the Cambodian border. He had been in Vietnam since Oct. 23.

He previously served one year in Korea. Manuel attended Effingham schools. The body will be taken to the Bauer Funeral Home in Effingham Owner Finds Store Door Already Open Yale (Special) R. I. Baker didn't have to open his hardware store in Yale for business Tuesday morning.

Burglars had pried open the front door sometime Monday night. Gone are chain saws, power tools and small kitchen appliances valued at $1,200, Baker told the Jasper County Sheriff's office. MARINE WOUNDED Salem (Special) Marine Pvt. l.C. Darwin E.

Howard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl J. Howard of Salem, is be ing treated for fragmenta'ion wounds on the face received March 30 in action near Quang Tri, Vietnam. death July 6, 1929, in the flood.

Judge John T. McCullough Monday approved final accounting in a partition suit of Warren Gallagher against Andrew T. Peters, involving the David Gallagher estate. McCullough ordered disbursement of to Gallagher's heirs and the payment of claims involving legal fees. pickup truck, in which grandson was riding.

The truck turned off his the road, bounced through a garden and stopped a few feet from the kitchen of the Homer Maxwell home. Randy knocked on the front door of the Maxwell and told Maxwell that "Granddad has went to sleep." Erwin was taken in an ambulance to Clay County Hospital in Flora, where he was pronounced dead on arrival at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. An inquest into Erwin's death is to be set by Clay County Coroner Gilbert "Dutch" Hale of Flora. See Central Illinois deaths.

Louisville (Special) A 60-year-old rural Louisville man was dead on arrival at Clay County Hospital in Flora Tuesday afternoon, shortly after his 7-year-old grandson knocked on a door and told a. man that "Granddad has went to sleep." Harold Erwin and i grandson Randy Abner were on their way to Randy's home, near Flora, where they were going to celebrate the lad's seventh birthday, when Erwin suffered an apparent heart attack. While driving a pickup truck down a country road east of Louisville, Erwin slumped over the wheel of his WITH A startfreshasadaisy n7 in VE- I CASH YOU MONTHLY NO. tECEIVE PAYMENT MO. 300 I 17.13 24 500 27.22 24 1000 42.32 30 1500 63.49 30 2500 92.35 36 3500 104.94 48 5000 129.09 60 iSSgft is Pay all those tired old bills with a debt consolidation loan and freshen up your credit.

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