Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 3

DECATUR HERALD Wrecks Hurt At Least 13; Rain Blamed Pecatur, Illinois, Tuesday, October 2, 1962. City Takes 1st Step For Supplying Water To Mental Hospital It) 'i Counc7 in Brief First step taken toward supplying water to state mental hospital Contract with county on extending Garfield Avenue agreed upon Contract awarded for demolition in urban renewal area Herald and Retiuw Phuiu transfer. The purchase included the next group of buildings, up to Jack Burstein's clothing store. Building at the left was already owned by Shellabarger and McFadden's Stationery Store was not included in the This view of the 400 Block N. Water looking north, shows most of the property purchased yesterday by William L.

Shellabarger. The Empress g- 1 Herald and Review Photo Remodeling Planned Buildings on Water Street Sold Ducy inspects his wares. Collector's Paradise New Store Specializes In Stamps, U.S. Coins By Sandra Sulenski I States coins, costing anywhere Of the Herald Staff I from 10 cents to $75. Daniel Ducy, president of the! Condition of the stamp or coin Hie city took the initial move last night toward meeting its com mitment to provide water service to the state mental health hospital which is to be built on Mound Road.

On the suggestion of City Man ager John E. Dever, the engine-ering division was instructed by the City Council to draw plans and specifications for a water main to serve the hospital. Dever said the main can be built in early 1963, if the council desires. He urged that it be completed before hospital construction begins. Speculation is that construction can start a year from now.

The eity will pay for installing the main, using water department funds. The hospital, as well as any other customers along the route who wants to tap on, will be Steps Taken Toward Dam, Riprap Funds The Oakley dam and reservoir project took three more congressional steps yesterday as it grinds; toward authorization before Congress adjourns. In the House an omnibus public works bill for some 200 projects including the proposal for a multipurpose dam and reservoir near Oakley was reported out of the Public Works Committee and sent to the powerful Rules Committee. In the Senate a public works money bill of $5.2 billion, including $125,000 for preliminary work on the $29.6 million Oakley project, was approved by a 63 to 8 vote. This Senate bill will go to a conference because the bill ap proved by the House called for $597 million less.

The appropriations bill also in- cludes $500 million for emergency public works projects in areas of high unemployment. At least 13 persons were hurt yesterday in Decatur auto acci dents, many of which were blamed on streets made slick by rain which fell throughout the day. In the accidents reported to au thorities, only one person was hospitalized. The rest either were attended by private physicians or treated and released at hospitals. Ray Crotser, 39.

of 2429 E. Wil liam was reported in fair con dition at Decatur and Macon County Hospital after a two-car acci-; dent at Water St. and Marietta St Scott A. Corrington, Vk years old, of 3443 Oakwood suffered a face injury when his moth er, Mrs. Geraldine Corrington, 38,1 pulled her car to the side of the road in the 3000 Block Fulton Road to miss an oncoming car.

Her car went off the edge of the road an down an embankment, po-' lice said. Linda F. McCullcy, 25, and Christina Traxler. 18. both of La-Place, were injured about 8:05 a.m.

when their car was hit in the rear by one driven by Donald G. Jackson, 38, of Mattoon. Jackson told police he could not stop his vehicle to avoid the accident at the intersection of Prairie Ave, and Jasper St. 2 Cars Collide Jay T. Maddox, 30, of 23 Ridge-crest Drive, and Clarence K.

Sef-ton, 48. of Brownstown, were injured when their cars collided about 11:50 a.m. at Pershing Road and Water police said. Sefton was fined $20 for making an Improper left turn, police said.J Lynes Sinclair, 39, of 2102 Clear-; mont was injured while driving a car from parking lot of MacArthur High School. The car was struck by one driven by Don Wood, 2248 Yorkshire Drive.

I police said. I Robert L. Hunter. 42, of 26 Homewood Fishing Club Road. was mjurea nen his car was hit by a truck driven by Everett Smith.

42, of Argenta. Smith was ticketed for running; a red light. The accident happened at Prairie Ave. and Jasper police said. Luther Lawler, 46, of 39 Second South Shores received minor injuries about 7:50 a.m.

when his car was hit by one driven by John Nalefski, 52, 1527 N. Main who also was injured. James Garren, 43, of 1538 W. Grand received minor injuries when his car was involved in a four-car accident about 6:50 a.m. Betty Renfrow, Route 2, suffered minor injuries in the same accident, which happened on Illinois 121 in front of the General Electric Co.

plant. Martin P. Spitznass. 45, Bioomington. receivea lace cuts wnen nis car went out oi control and hit a utility pole about 7:45 a.m.

on S. 51, three miles south of Maroa, the sheriff's office said. FIRE STATON OPEN The No. 5 fire station was opened for operation about 6 p.m. yesterday.

Fire Chief Byrd L. Davis Jr. said. The station at U. S.

51 and Cliris-tine Drive is using a pumper prev- iously located at No. 3 fire sta- William L. Shellabarger yester day completed the purchase of a large block of buildings in the 400 Block N. Water for future de velopment. The purchase of the buildings from the J.

Bering Burrows heirs was handled by Gebhart, Livesay Gebhart, consultants for Shella barger, through the National Bank of Decatur, trustees for the Bur rows estate. The purchase, for an undisclos ed sum, gives Shellabarger own ership of most of the block. It previously announced Soybean Bud Blight Found Several cases of soybean bud blight, a virus disease, have been reported by farmers in southern and south-central Illinois, accord ing to University of Illinois plant pathologist Malcolm Shurtleff. The symptoms of the disease vary with the state of develop ment, Shurtleff said. Often the tip bud of young young plants turns brown and bends sharply downward, forming a crook.

Such buds become dry and brittle. The leaf just below the Decatur has made applicationignation, meaning that half of the for approval of federal money to! cost would be eligible for federal pay for riprapping all of the shorejfunds. The other half would come tip bud may be bronzed andiDeDartment Store in 1934. and. in charged the normal tapping fee and water rates.

Dever prefaced his request to the council by saying that the city and its citizens had made a num ber of commitments to the state Department of Mental Health. He listed them as water service, sewer service and an improved Mound Road. As a result of a bond issue ap proved in 1960, six mental health hospitals are to be built in Ilinois. Ahead of Schedule The architectural plans for the Decatur hospital are just a bit ahead of schedule and should be ready for approval in the early part of next year. The estimated cost of the water mam is $30,000, Dever said.

It will originate near the Larkdale area. The sewer question las never been resolved. The Decatur Sanitary District did not accept a responsibility to provide service, Supt. Charles E. Hughes Jr.

said last night. The site is quite a distance from the district's boundary, and the dis trict does not have installation funds, he pointed out. The district did have a study made of providing sewer service. No additional action was taken. Councilman Leland H.

Hender son asked if anything could be done to expedite the improvement of Mound Road. Dever noted the City Plan Com mission has asked the state to authorize the improvement as soon as possible. The Department of Mental Health has urced the state De- jpartment of Public Works and Buildings to improve the road, The road has a federal aid des- from the city or county. October Off To Wet Start In Decatur October slogged off to ai dreary start yesterday, with al- most a third as much rain fall-j ing in the first day as during the entire month of September. The official measurement, from 7 p.m.

Sunday to 7 p.m. Monday, was .65 of an inch, compared to a total of 2.02 inches for September. The rain continued to dribble down after the end of the offi cial recordine period, and the forecast was for another dim day today. Episcopal Bishop The Rev. Albert Arthur Chambers, shortly after he was consecrated yesterday as seventh bishop of the Springfield Episco mML that the Empress and Moran buildings, comprising about half of the block's Water Street frontage, would be torn down and replaced by a parking lot.

Lynn H. Gebhart said yesterday that Shellabarger plans to remodel and lease the properties, counting on the proposed parking lot to act as an added inducement to new occupants. The property involved in the transaction suns from 433 through 449 N. Water and also includes 135, 145 and 153 E. Eldorado St Total frontage on Water Street is 127 feet, with 64 feet on Eldorado Street Present Tenants Present tenants include the Van Zetti Bakery, Ben Miller Jewelry, Illinois Cafe and Carl's Barber Shop.

Only three stores fronting on Water Street in this block are not owned by Shellabarger. Mr. Burrows, a former director of the National Bank, died in 1937. only eight months after he had purchased the last building in the group sold yesterday. The earliest record of these buildings shows the A.

J. Rosen- thai Clothing Store at 447 N. Water St. from 1912 to 1923. The store continued as a clothing store under a succession of owners until it became Gately's 1959, Gately's Credit Clothing Co.

In 1954 Gately expanded into the 449 N. Water St. address, a building which began as Irving's Shoe store in 1924. Other occupants here included; the Kroner Grocery and Baking Registration For Library Course Open Registration will be open through Thursday for a University of Illinois Extension Division course on the role of libraries in adult education. Dr.

Harold Goldstein of the of instructor, said eight more en rollments are needed by the next class meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Public Library, if the course is to be taught The graduate-level course deals with the history, growth and scope of adult education and types of library education programs. Tuition is $36 for the course. for which hours will be arrang ed. Enrollees do not need library science degrees.

Public Speaking Course to Start A non-credit University of Illinois Extension Division course in public speaking begins tonight at the Decatur Public Library. Instructor of the course to be offered from 7 p.m to 9 p.m. on Tuesday for eight sessions, is Dr. Chester C. Long.

Tuition is $12. PAYMENTS MADE Farmers Collect for Diverting Crop Lands Final feed grain payments are about two-thirds completed, How ard R. Culp, manager of the Ma con County Agricultural Stabiliza tion and Conservation Service (ASCS) office said yesterday. The payments are the sec ond half of the amount owned to farmers for diverting portions of their crop land to non-productive uses. The first nail was paid in the spring.

Culp said most of the payments would be finished this week. I Co. from 1928 to 1930, a music store and a home appliance store. M. A.

Van Zetti bought the 433 N. Water St. building from George and William Calfas. The building had housed the National Bakery since 1920. In 1959.

Van Zetti's. under the ownership of Thurman McDavid. expanded to include a drive-in service at the 135 E. Eldorado St address, the site of Homer Bate- man Furniture until the building was damaged by fire in 1956 and razed in 1957. Contract Given For Demolition The contract for demolition work in the Greenwood urban renewal area was awarded last night to the Hayden Lumber and Wrecking Co.

of St. Louis. The firm last week presented the lowest bid of a dozen opened. The bid was $79,694. The contract will lie over for a week and then come up for final approval.

The council handled a variety of items in addition to the urban renewal contract in a meeting that lasted less than an hour. Other actions included: Annexation of two so-called Lakeview area tracts; one was the 10.5-acre Lake Grove Club; the other an adjacent 7-acre tract Agreed to sell the city's fire station at Jasper and Locust Streets. Bids will be opened Nov. 14 on the old station which is be ing abandoned. The council made two fire sta tion construction payments.

One was for $20,192 to the L. E. De- Vore Co. for general contracting work. The other was $537 to the Krigbaum Electric Co.

The council authorized condem nation proceedings against three properties in the Greenwood urban renewal area, to clear questionable titles. One is for a vacant lot on New Street, another is for property at 509 S. Church St. and the third is for property at 510 S. Church St.

Ozark Convairs Rainy weather here failed to cancel this flight of an Ozark Air Lines Convair 240 passenger Decatur Stamp Club, has found a collector's paradise, It's called Collectors Corner and is located in the Northland Shopping Center. And Ducy, who has been collecting stamps for past 33 years, is manager. According to the veteran stamp collector, there is no other corner of its kind closer than St. Louis inr rhiVDon 6-- stamps, ranging in price from half a cent to $50, and United Garfield Ave. Pact Okayed, The City Council last night agreed to a contract with the county for financing the extension of Garfield Avenue from Woodford Avenue to 27th Street The city regards the contract agreement as a means to enable right of way purchasing to start.

William O. Kinsel, county superintendent of highways, said the plans for the road are in the hands f.of the state and no purchasing can start until they are returned approved. He had no idea when that would be. Under the agreement, the city agrees to pay 40 per cent of right of way, engineering and construction costs. The county will pay the rest.

Garfield Avenue now stops at Woodford. The extension has been called necessary to help move the heavy traffic generated by the industrial Herald and Review Pboti lines Convair preparing to leave Decatur Municipal Airport. makes a ditference in price, as well as its rarity, Ducy said. Albums to contain the collections can be bought for a dollar to $50. As Ducy says, collecting can be as "expensive as you want it to be, or as inexpensive as you want it to be." laUklnS 10 lne wen-versea jsUmP dealer reveals Ulat coUect" rt 11 il.

11 "ig emails more wan jusi utKins pasting. In the first place, Ducy says, a collector must be the studious type. That is, he must be a person who likes to do a great deal of research and has the fortitude to seek what he wants. "Both historical and geographical knowledge are gained by collecting stamps, as well as the language of the people," he says. Issues of some stamps take the collector back more than 100 years, he said.

Persons specializing in United States' postage can obtain adhesive stamps dated as far back as 1847. Those who don't mind spending up to $8,000 for a stamp can specialize in Postmaster provisionals, which were stamped or pasted on U.S. mail between 1845 and 1847. Great Britain has the prestige ol issuing the first adhesive stamp in 1840, Ducy said. Topical stamp collectors, Ducy says, keep only those stamps which are of some particular topic as stamps depicting different sports, fish, animals, trains, bridges, cathedrals and so on.

General collectors merely hoard any stamps they can find which are different from those they presently possess. And the whole thing is no easy task. Ducy says there is no known complete collection out of the approximaately 15 million stamp collectors in the world. Hours of the store, which sells everything from glue to mag nifying glasses, are noon to 8:30 jp.m. daily and 9:30 a.m.

to 5:30 Ip.m. on Saturdays. Sunday hours iban be arranged by appointment WOMAN DENIES DRIVING UNDER DRUG INFLUENCE A 40-year-old Oakley woman was released from county jail yesterday after pleading innocent to a charge of driving under the influence of narcotic drugs. Police Chief James H. May said the woman.

Leota H. Burkhead of Route 1. Oaklev. influence of barbiturates, which had been medically prescribed. The woman was arrested about 12:55 a.m.

yesterday in the 1700 Block E. Pershing Road. She posted $500 bond pending a hearing Oct 17 before Police Magistrate Maurice Leonard. Civil Defense Meeting Today Auxiliary police of the Macon County civil defense agency will meet at 7 p.m. today in the grand jury room.

Rolland Koontz Jr. wQl speak. He recently completed a one-week course for fallout shelter managers. tion. The latter station is using northeast.

one of the fire department's new-j The road plans call for building est trucks. Delivery of an- a four-lane artery with an over-other new truck is expected soon. pass at 22nd Street. line of Lake Decatur. Also in the Senate yesterday, the Public Works Committee reported to the floor a public works authorization bill including Oakley.

Thus, in an unusual situation, the Senate has voted money for projects which it has not yet authorized. U. S. Rep. William L.

Springer, Champaign Republican, said he would talk to Rules Committee members in an attempt to get the House bill to the floor as soon as possible. Meanwhile, the office of Sen Everett M. Dirksen reported, through City Manager John E. Dever, that the outlook for passage of the Oakley project this session is favorable. VICTIMS OF ACCIDENT BROUGHT TO ST.

MARY'S Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Cribbs of 14 File Drive and their daugh-j ter, Ellen, 8. all injured in an auto: accident Sunday night, were; transferred yesterday to St.

Mary's Hospital. They had been at Mattoon Memorial Hospital after the accident which happened about 9 p.m. Sunday, three miles east of Sullivan on Illinois 121. Mr. and Mrs.

Cribbs were re-: ported in fair condition and their' daughter in fair to good condition. Their son. Kenneth, 11, and his; half sister, Kay Davidson. 20, both; injured in the same accident, were reported in fair to serious condition at St. Mary s.

A total of 11 persons were injured in the three-vehicle accident. ABSENTEE SCHOOL VOTE STARTS; 13 BALLOTS IN Absentee voting for the Deca tur public schools Oct. 9 building referendum got underway yesterday with a total of 13 persons voting. Persons may continue to cast absentee ballots from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

through Friday at the schools office, 101 W. Cerro Gordo St. Persons who desire to vote absentee by mail must request an application by Thursday. Mailed ballots must arrive at the post office by election day. rust-flecked Soybeans infected at flowering time remain dwarfed and produce few or no pods.

If nods are pro duced they are small, poorly filled and purple blotched, and may drop prematurely, Infected plants usually remain green until frosted, so that they show up noticeably at harvest time. None of the Illinois soybean varieties are resistant to the blight, Shurtleff said, and about the only control is planting virus free seed. Therefore, if diseased plants were harvested for seed, farmers should look for disease-free seed rather than risk yield decreases next year. Consecrated k.41MI. Associated Press Wirephot pal Church diocese, appears at the entrance of St.

Paul's cathedral and blesses the city of Springfield. 3 (1 in in Service plane. Ozark began scheduling Convair flights here yesterday. This is a leased American Air 'tj-f I.