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Illinois, Sunday, November 27, 1966 DECATUR SUNDAY HERALD AND REVIEW 3 New Staff Member Marvin Belford MU Band Director Favors Small I Schools Of the Herald and Review Millikin University's new director of bands, 33-year-old Marvin L. Belford, has a preference for small colleges. This is demonstrated in his choice of Millikin, with its enrollment of students, and in the work he is doing toward a doctor's degree. Part of that work may some day make it less troublesome for junior college music students to transfer to four-year colleges. Belford is devising a course of study coordinating the curriculums of junior colleges and four -year institutions.

Instead of the usual five years now required of transfer music students to finish their degrees, his plan would cut the time to four years the time it would take if they attended only one school. Joined in September Belford came to Millikin in September after seven years on the faculty at Fresno City College in California, a junior college. In Millikin he has a college which has both small size and an excellent reputation for its music istruction. "Millikin offers the opportunity to perform a great variety of musical literature because we have the talent here to do it," Belford says. A man of several titles at Millikin, he is acting chairman of the music education and church music department in addition to leading the marching and concert bands.

But his interests and enthusiasm lie in directing the bands. 'Offers Excitement' "It offers a lot of excitement -it's the over-all power of the organization," he explains. Belford, who is married and the father of two children, lives at 1742 Foster Ave. He received a bachelor's and master's degree in music from Iowa's Drake University, where he "grew up in the back yard of the school." Belford is completing his doctorate work at the University of Iowa. Taking issue with those who slight bands in favor of orchestras, Belford said that one becomes a band director because of "the definite belief that the band is a prestige organization." The relatively new repertoire and literature of bands has only reached maturity in the past 20 years, he said.

"The band grew up before the music was there to perform," said Belford. City Planning Budget Hearing By E. Carroll Arnold For the fourth year, the City Council will ask the public to suggest what it would like to see in next year's city budget. The council Monday is to schedule a public hearing on the budget for The city staff is now preparing the budget, which will be adopted in April and go into effect in May. Officials in the past have emphasized that the public hearing several months before the budget is completed is an attempt to get the public involved in the financial workings of the city.

So far, though, public response has been poor. Last year, for instance, only two persons appeared at the hearing. Staff photo by Dick Torgerson Millikin University's Marvin L. Belford leads a university band rehearsal. State Economy Check Planned A series of reports on economy in state government are expected to emanate from the Business Management Study Committee for Illinois late this year.

The committee, which is made up of leading Illinois industrialists including Decatur's A. E. Staley was appointed by Gov. Otto Kerner to study state administration and business practices. Similar studies in Wisconsin, Ohio and other states have reportedly led to savings of up to $30 million in state government expenditures.

Staley said last week that any comment on the committee's report is premature. The committee has recruited a staff of from 60 to 70 accountants under a fulltime director to study Illinois government operation, Staley said. Each committee member is expected to review and edit a portion Staley of said the reportias not received his section yet, but that the committee is aiming for publication at the end of the year. Although members of the committee are appointed by the governor, the funds for the committee come entirely from within industry, Staley said. Waldo Mauritz of the Peak, Marwick Mitchell Co.

is chairman of the committee. The Macon County Mental Health Association asks that persons or organizations wishing to donate Christmas gifts to patients at Lincoln State School or Jacksonville State Hospital take them to the Adolf Meyer Zone Center. Mrs. Kenneth Landreth, cochairman of the gift committee, said a committee member will be at the zone center from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Monday through Friday this week to receive the gifts. Gifts should be brought to a room in Unit on the west side of the zone center. The deadline for donating the gifts is Friday. Mrs. Landreth said anyone interested in helping the committee process the gifts for distribution is Persons or organizations who do not have transportation to the zone center may call 1 Mrs.

Myrtle Cline of 1155 N. Monroe and a committee member will pick up the gifts. EIU PROGRAM Charleston (Special) Gift Collection For Patients Is This Week A program of music for the viola will be presented by David Ulfeng, supervisor of strings at the Laboratory School, Eastern Illinois University, at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Fine Arts Theater. Decatur Catholics Families Like 'Fishless Friday' Ben Franklin of 1431 W.

est Ave. says there will be some Fridays when he'll eat meat and some when he'll prefer fish but added, "I like to catch fish better than I like to eat them. He and most of the other Decatur Roman Catholics questioned Saturday said they approved the dropping this month of the U.S. Catholic Church rule of abstinence from meat on Friday. But all said they would continue to eat fish occasionally, whether on Friday or not.

Franklin thinks lifting the ban was a good idea. "It was inconvenient at times, especially if you were a guest for Friday dinner in a non-Catholic's home." Franklin said he feels, however, that many older Catholics will follow the tradition of meatless Fridays. Mrs. Roger Snelson of 420 W. Decatur St.

said her family Postal Pile- Up Not Problem For Decatur Despite the avalanche of mail that is descending on the U.S. Post Office in Decatur, Postmaster Chan C. Glosser predicts that there will be no major backlog during the Christmas season. "We are never more than a few hours behind in our distribution, but at Christmas we may get behind from 10 to 15 hours," Glosser said. A backlog i is more likely in larger terminals than Decatur's according to Asst.

Postmaster Ralph G. Turner. In October a backlog of mail in the Chicago post office became critical when 113,000 sacks of third class mail, 5,600 sacks of parcel post and 9,600 sacks of second class mail were stalled. Mail coming into the Decatur main post office comes from seven substations in the city plus the mail receptacles stationed throughout the city. After sorting, the mail 1S shipped to Springfield, Effingham, Indianapolis and St.

Louis, where it is placed on the proper carrier for other points. The post office is diverting most transit mail away from Chicago, Turner said. To meet the demands of the increased Christmastide load, Glosser said that the regular mail personnel will work an average of three hours overtime a day. No part-time personnel will be hired in Decatur. Turner said that although this helps fatten the Christmas-season paychecks of employes, it is physically trying.

Decatur has not used parttime help for five years, Turner said. U.S. post offices began recruiting about 150,000 temporary employes in October for their battle against the mail. The Decatur post office is almost at its full staff of 272 employes, according to Glosser. PROBATION GRANTED Marilyn J.

Loman, 33, formerly of 1424 E. Grand has been granted two years probation by Judge Rodney A. Scott in Circuit Court on her previous plea of guilty to a grand theit charge. Employment Hard to Find Job Corps Training Aids Dropout Gary G. Walters of 1145 E.

Rogers Ave. has solved his own personal high school drop-out problem. He joined the Job Corps and is now back home with a job! as a laborer at Huss er and the promise of a position as a welder with the same company by next spring. Walters, 20, attended Eisenhower High School for three years, then dropped out. "I finally found -a job in a car wash," he said, "but it didn't pay very well." He was unable to find a better job and felt there was no hope of getting further education if he stayed in Decatur.

"I didn't do much of anything," Walters said, 66 just hung around the house mostly. "A woman at the employment office suggested, the Job Corps to me he said. sent my application in and got my acceptance from Washington within a few weeks." He left for the Job Corps training center at Fort Custer, Battle Creek, last March 10. His training period was for six months. 'Like the Army' "It's a lot like being in the Army," Walters said.

"I didn't take any clothes with me except one change of clean clothes. "When I arrived at the center, they gave me a big duffel bag with more than $200 worth of clothes in it, from under- wear, shoes and socks to a dress suit and work clothes." Walters said those who complete the training program may keep the clothes. He also received $80 a month in pay. The center saved $50 a month for him and allowed him the other $30 as spending money. Walters said the Job Corps center at Fort Custer is one of the largest in the United States.

"The center has made old barracks over into dormitories for the guys," he said. "There were 44 guys in each dorm." Young men in the Job Corps training program at Fort Custer ranged in age from 16 to 22. Walters took a course in welding plus three academic subjects communications skills, which is primarily an English More Than Piece of Paper Gary G. Walters of 1145 E. Walters took a six month Rogers Ave.

displays his dip- course this year at Battle loma from the Job Corps. Creek, Mich. course; mathematics; and cial understanding, which is the equivalent of a high school course in social studies. "Even if you finish your dustrial subject, you can't gradate until you've finished your academic subjects, too," Walters said. Weekend Trips He said, for the most part, he enjoyed his time at the training center.

"Most of the meals were real good," he said, "and we got to take weekend trips occasionally. Once we went to Chicago." "We got up at 6:30 a.m. and lights out was at 10:30 p.m. on weekdays. On weekends, we could stay up as late as we wanted," Walter said.

Parents May Be Apprehensive Sales of Weapon-Toys Down: No Wonder By Charlotte Huser Of the Herald and Review Although toy manufacturers have nearly outdone themselves in providing realism in war toys this Christmas, the managers of Decatur toy departments say the playthings are not selling as well as in past years. Perhaps one reason is that any parent who has seen his youngster cut a swath of destruction through the house with a length of string and an empty cardboard box would tremble at the consequences of putting into his little hands a full-blown "bazooka" complete with attachments. Of course, there is still the array of six-shooters of the Old West, ensconced in fancy holsters with ornate silver buckles. But these look as innocuous as a peashooter compared to the weaponry toy makers manufacture today. One, which obviously stems from the war in Viet Nam, is the "Guerrilla Booby Trap." It can be loaded with caps and the owner can either trigger it by hand, as a time bomb or an attack warning, or he can string it across the path of some unsuspecting parent, or tie it to a toy tank as a demolition blaster.

If a simple booby trap does not fill the bill, it can be bought in a set along with a machine gun. Both come in camouflage colors. "Johnny Eagle" guns can be bought either in the Old West style or in an Army sidearm. Both shoot plastic bullets and fire caps. The "Guerilla Fighter" is also a set of deadly-looking weapons.

A combat-style machine gun is surrounded by a 45 caliber pistol, binoculars that actually magnify, a water canteen with belt clip, and a bipod for steadying the machine gun. Two way combat telephones, which work on the same principle as walkie-talkies, and a "Combat Doctor Kit," which includes a stethoscope, play serum and play plasma, a hypodermic needle (plastic) and an instrument sterilizer are also obvious echoes of the real war. However, the war is not the only event upon which weapons are patterned for the young world. Television programs about spies and superspies have inspired some weapons that would give parents fears for windowpanes and wall plaster. "Johnny Seven," a fearsome looking machine gun can change in the twinkling of an eye into several other guns.

It is a grenade launch- EMAST 10 RIFLE 1 air He graduated from the training center Sept. 21 and returned home Sept. 22. That was the second time he had been home since he left in March. "After the first three months, you can have six days' leave to go home if you want to pay your own way," he explained.

"If you want to wait six months, you can have 12 days' leave. and they'll pay your way. But I decided to take the six days." Walters said Huss Schlieper had no openings for welders, but they hired him as a laborer. "They told me just a few days ago that they were pretty sure they'd have an opening for a I welder by next spring," he said. er, a repeating rifle, and an automatic pistol, and fires shells and antitank rockets.

All you have to do is attach one part or detach another. The "Sonic Mystery Gun" is almost sure to disappear mysteriously by 4 p.m. on Christmas Day. Its "sonic mystery" action allows it to shoot soap bubbles. It also has a built-in ricochet sound, which "you can control yourself," so it is advertised.

For the sophisticated junior crime fighter, there is the "Cane Shooter." One trigger causes the lion's-head grip to shoot bullets. Another fires rockets from the cane end. The rockets are bombs loaded with caps. "Silent Sam" and "MultiPistol" guns, flanked by silencers, barrel extenders and bipods, come in business-like briefcases. Bandages, anyone? Herald and Review Photo Charles Leeper, 6, son of the Corwin Leepers of rural Niantic, wears combat helmet as he gazes at a set of guns.

Herald and Review Photo Maroa's Oldest Resident Dies William O. Shaw, believed to be the oldest citizen of Maroa, and a member of a pioneer Central Illinois family, died Thursday at his winter home in St. Petersburg, Fla. Shaw, 98, a retired farmer, was a major landowner in the Maroa area. He inherited the land from his father, J.W.B.

Shaw, who bought some of the land with gold dust. Mr. Shaw was born Feb. 1, 1868, in Maroa, a son of J.W.B. and Mary Bowlby Shaw.

He was a member of the St. Petersburg Church of Christ. He married Alice Adams on Dec. 22, 1889. She died on June 25, 1914.

Mr. Shaw married Alice's sister, Eva, on Nov. 16, 1916. Mr. Shaw leaves his wife; a son, Glenn of Maroa; a daughter, Mrs.

Cecel Donegan of Largo, three grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in Ruble's, Maroa, with burial in Maroa Cemetery. Friends may call after 9 a.m. Tuesday.

City Planning Director Begins Duties Monday joys fish and will probably eat it often. "We've always had it on Friday, so it may be that we'll continue to eat it that day occasionally," she said. Mrs. Snelson said she approves of lifting the ban. "It makes penance a more personal thing," she said.

Snelson family includes six children, age 2 months to 6 years. "All the children like fish," Mrs. Snelson said, "except the baby, of course. He really hasn't formed an opinion yet." Mrs. James Duggan of 1924 Hawthorne Dr.

said her fivemember family has decided it will have an occasional meatless day for penance, but not necessarily Friday. "We like a certain amount of fish," Mrs. Duggan said. She said she feels that lifting the ban on Friday meat was good, "because it was inconvenient at times." Another member of the Roman Catholic church, who asked not to be identified, said she felt lifting the ban was a good idea, that "it goes along with the times." She'll Abstain Mrs. Darrell Beck of 1616 E.

William St. said she will probably continue to abstain from meat on Fridays, but she will fix it for her husband if he wants it. "Our family likes fish fairly well, so they won't mind eating it once in a while," she said. "As for me, I really wouldn't have minded continuing the abstinence." The Becks have seven children, ranging in age from 1 to 12. Another women, who asked not to be identified, said, "Frankly, I don't care about meatless Fridays one way or the other.

I wish we'd consider more important issues, like birth control." Carlton Charles Reed, the city's new Director of Community Development, will assume his duties Monday. Reed, 30, replaces Donald L. Irvin, who left in mid-July to take a similar post in Jackson, Miss. City Manager John E. Dever has announced that Reed will hold a press conference at 8:30 a.m.

Tuesday. The new director was chosen from a field of 14 applicants. He was formerly the chief of the comprehensive planning division of the National Capital Regional Planning Council in Washington, D. C. He also served as an urban planner for the organization.

BETHANY CONTEST Bethany (Special) Entrants will be judged between 7 and 9 p.m. Dec. 19 through 24 in the annual any Christmas lighting contest. The winner will have his power bill paid for December by the Village Electric Department. CHRISTMAS PARTY CHRISTMAS PARTY The United Commercial Travelers, Council 219, will hold its annual Christmas party at 6 p.m.

Saturday in the Disabled Veteran's Building. I.