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Decatur, Illinois, Saturday, September 1, 1962j THE DECATUR REVIEW Effective Sept. 30 Michl Resigning Abatement Post Millikin Remodeling Near Finish Remodeling and redecorating work on buildings at Millikin University is nearing completion. Several new faculty offices have TWELVE PAGES TODAY Hot to Cool, Wet to Dry August Story By Cynthia M. McCormick Of the Review Staff August was a nervous month. Temperatures skittered from a furnace-like 100 degrees to a teeth-chattering 51 degrees.

One day early in the month, nearly two inches of rain gushed over the city. Then the sky dried i 'Li An Ozark Convair visits Decatur. 1 1 240 in Decatur up for 11 days in the middle of the month until the bottom fell out of the clouds and launched another inch and a half of wet stuff. Then there was the pollen count. After a lonesome four grains per cubic yard was recorded Aug.

8, the count wandered unsteadily to 148 on the 24th. Then, with a big sneeze, the count flopped down the next day to 82, found things dull and zipped up to 136 a day later. The past few days, hayfever victims are watching warily over thpir handkerchiefs while the Leo Michl Jr. announced today is resigning as superintendent the Macon Mosquito Abatement District. Michl, who has served the dis trict without pay since it was es tablished June 29.

1961, said in his letter of resignation: "The scope of the work and the activities of the district have attained such a volume that they can no longer be handled on at part-time basis by me. I regret! to terminate my activities in this; area of major public concern." The resignation is effective Sept 30. Ray A. Carlson, presi dent of the district's board of trustees it would be accepted officially probably at the board's regular monthly meeting late in September. Michl, acting head of the city's health department, said this morn ing handling the mosquito control work is more than you can do on weekends, holidays and spare time.

You must be able to get out in the field whenever you're need ed. Carlson predicted it will be dif ficult to locate a man with both technical and administrative abilities. He said it will take some time to select a superintendent but one would be needed by next spring for the 1963 mosquito season. Will Need Two Men Eventually, the district will probably need two men to handle daily operations, Carlson added. One would be an entomologist to work as a technical adviser.

The other would act as business manager and administrator. The board, which received Michl's letter his morning, has not yet discussed 'finding a successor. Carlson said the trustees expect count jiggles between 70 and 90.lines which had used the plane on Air conditioners and fans cago Peoria Springfield- Ozark Air Lines Convair By Tom Mahoney Of the Review Staff Ozark Air Lines flew one of its newest planes, a Convair 240, into Decatur Thursday on a proving run for ground crews. The 40-passenger plane was recently leased from American Air- Ul. UUUU I UU.

Ozark took over that American run Aug. 13. The decision on when Ozark will be flying Convairs on routes through Decatur has not been an nounced as yet. The airline has purchased three Convair 240s and has leased two from American. So far one of the purchased planes and the two leased ones have been delivered.

All decked out in Ozark's col ors, the plane appeared brand new. But a plate on the door of the cockpit said it was built May 10, 1948. Convairs were the early succes sors to the DC3s on the major airlines after World War II. Many major airlines still fly them, though they are being re placed by turboprop and jet equip ment or the runs they are used on are being turned over to feeder airlines such as Ozark. The flight yesterday included Springfield and Joplin, and Decatur and Champaign.

The plane first stopped by at 2:52 p.m. and Ames Peterson, su pervisor of ground training for Ozark, showed the local Ozark staff how to handle the ship on the ground. After a half-hour training, the plane flew onto Champaign and returned at 5 p.m. That stop was to test how effective the half hour of teaching had been earlier and the plane was to be handled as if it were in actual passenger service. Federal Aviation Agency representatives were aboard to check on the ground crews.

Ozark Manager John Trovato and his helpers handled the de- if -u ed Michl's resignation since hisof Decatur on July 29 and ea inrouun a wuinuui e. when Illinois Power Co. carried an all-time record peak load of approximately 840,000 kilowatts; sometime between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. Cool Weather Follows Five days later, heating systems got in practice for the fall when the daytime temperature barely struggled up to a high of 72.

Only a daytime mark of 70 on Aug. 12. 1954, was lower for an August day in recent years. Total rainfall for the month was 4.74, generously swimming above the August normal of 2.87 inches. Of the total, 1.87 inches fell Aug.

5-6 and 1.36 Aug. 21. The total was the heaviest since 1956. Temperature-wise this August was about a degre below normal. The mean temperature was 74.63 compared to the normal of 75.8.

The average high temperature was 86.68 and the average low was 62.53. The lew temperature of 51 was recorded Aug. 15; the high of 100 was Aug. 20. This high was the hottest August day since Aug.

21, 1955. The biggest temperature differ ence in one day was Aug. 18 when the thermometer moved from 55 in the morning to 87 in the after noon. But the greatest change in temperature for a 24-hour period was the drop from 100 on the 20th to 65 on the morning of the 21st Thermometers bubbled at 90 degrees or higher 11 times during the month. Yes sir, August was jittery, MRS.

0UIDA AMIDON, DECATUR RESIDENT, DIES Mrs. Ouida M. Amidon, 66, of 1388 N. Gulick died at 7:35 a.m. today in Decatur and Macon County Hospital after an illness of five days.

A Decatur resident for most of i Staff photo by Bob Strongman tails of the return stop in six minutes and the plane flew on. Along on the flight for Ozark were: Richard Grand Kees, vice president of operations Ellwyn Boock, vice president of maintenance and engineering Robert Winger, superintendent of engineering Richard Hannon, director of customer services, planning and procedures Peterson. The fact that the buffing job on the plane to give it a shine did not remove all evidence of American markings did not detract from the admiration of the plane by terminal personnel and other onlookers. 'The interior of the plane had, reportedly, the "Electra look," the interior design job given American's Electra turboprops. The curtains on the windows had the familiar American Airlines eagles on them.

And on the nose of the plane, close inspection showed its American name, Flagship Casa Grande. Staff photo by Bob Strongman interior. Unit Opposed By Bureau Members of the Farm Bureau in Niantic and Harristown townships joined members in Decatur, Hickory Point and Maroa townships in voting to oppose establishment of a Macon County health department. The vote advocated opposition to the health unit until the lax burden is equalized. Arthur B.

Wilcox, assistant Decatur Township supervisor and a Farm Bureau member, explained the health unit proposal to be voted on Nov. 6. He said it could add $12 to $25 to tax bills on 200 acres of top-value farm land. Robert H. Muehling, secretary of organizations for the county bureau, said farmers should stress all owners of real estate, not just farmers, would bear an equal tax load.

Two other policy decisions made by Niantic and Harriistown groups last night were: 1. unanimous agreement that a downtown site would be best if the bureau office moves from the! Greenwood urban renewal area 2. resolution to back present arm ul'eau policy on national larm legislation. A county-wide bureau meeting Friday will conclude this week's township policy meetings. STALEY VIADUCT REPAIR WORK TO BEGIN TUESDAY Repair work on the Staley via duct is scheduled to start Tues day.

There will be one way traffic over parts of the viaduct for be tween three and four weeks while Dr. Steele Rites to Be Held Tuesday Funeral services for Dr. P. A. Steele, 404 W.

Macon will be 10 a.m. Tuesday in the Dawson Wikoff Funeral Home. Burial will be in Fairlawn Ce metery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Monday.

Dr. Steele was pronounced dead at 12:40 p.m. Friday in St. Mary's Hospital. Coroner Pliares G.

Thompson said he apparently shot himselfi in his West Macon Street apartment He had been in failing health. A Decatur resident for 38 years he spent 18 years in public service here. In 1943 he was elected to the first of his two four-year terms as commissioner of public health and safety. Between 1943 and 1951 he held the dual offices of health commis sioner and health superintendent. He was unsalaried during the eight-year period, using the mon ey to buy equipment for the health department.

Dr. Steele returned to private practice in 1951, but came back as health superintendent in 1955. He resigned that post Aug. 31, 1959, three months after the council-manager government was adopted and the civil service system had been voted. Pierre A.

Steele was born in Princeton, 111., Jan 6, 1890, a son of Dick and Laura L. Herron Steele. He was married to Isabella Ly man, who died in June, 1944. He was married to Mary J. Stathas, April 3, 1945, in Springfield.

Dr. Steele leaves his wife and a son, Dick, at home. He was a member of the Pres byterian Church and the South Side Country Club. Dr. Steele, a doctor of internal medicine and metabolism, was graduated from the Northwestern University Medical School in 1914.

He served in the medical corps in World War in a number of the major campaigns, as well as with the army of occupation. Dr. Steele was with Michael Reese and Mercy Hospitals. He ivas an instructor in physiological. pathological and clinical chem istry at Northwestern in 1921 and 1922.

Dr. Steele was a member of the American Medical Association and local and state public health and medical croups. He was a former president of the Macon County Medical Society and presi dent of the board of the Macon County Mental Health Clinic. Dr. Steele was a member of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

He held a number of high offices in the Illinois Department of the VFW and for a lime in 1941 was tne acting state commander. THEODORE PATTERSON, 49, PAINTER, DIES Theodore Earl Patterson, 49. of 626 S. Oakland died at 12:15 a.m. today in Decatur and Macon County Hospital.

Mr. Patterson, who moved here from Henton 45 years ago. was a decorator and painter for Buckley Sons of Warrensburg. He was a member of the First Methodist Church and Moose Lodge No. 84.

He was born a son of Bert and Florence Godwin Patterson in Henton, Aug. 23, 1913. Mr. Patterson married Anna M. Hinkle, Dec.

22. 1936. in Decatur. He leaves one daughter, Mrs. Walter (Annette) Johnson of Havana: one son, David B.

in the U. S. Navy: one sisters, Mrs. Irene Hardy of Le Marque, one brother, Russell A. of Decatur: stepmother, Mrs.

Matilda Patterson of Decatur; three grandchildren. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Monday at Dawson Wikoff Funeral Home, where friends may call after 3 p.m. Sunday. Burial will be in Henton Cemetery.

Henton. UNION FAVORED IN $5,974 JUDGMENT Decatur Typographical Union! 215 has been favored in a $5,974 judgment against Dee M. Warrick, 50, of Decatur." entered by Judge Rodney A. Scott in Circuit Court yesterday. Warrick, former treasurer of the union, is on probation for embezzling $9,384 from the organization.

That sum was sought by the I the probation order. he of Leo Michl Jr. Two Charged In Bank Job County authorities believe they have solved a recent series of burglaries, two armed robberies and the break-in of the Latham State Bank with the arrest of six Macon County youths. Two of the six, James W. Stov all, 22, of 245 N.

Plum and Robert Lee Brown, 20, of War- rensburg, were charged yesterday with the break-in of the bank. The charges came in complaints filed by the Federal Bureau of In vestigation with the U.S. Com missioner in Springfield. Stovall was sentenced yesterday to a two to 10-year prison term after probation given him on a burglary charge in 1960 was revoked on grounds he failed to report to his probation officer. Both youths are also charged with armed robbery of the Bolch Sprvicp Station nil ITS Sfi past Kiii-ctIqw rif ie TioAwnnA ant at Scovill Park on Aug.

2. The other four youths are: Lonnie Trimby, 17 of Route 8, charged with the Bolch robbery Gary D. Lynch, 18. of Route 8, charged with the Bolch robbery James A. Mathias, 19, of Nian tic, charged with the Bolch rob bery Robert W.

Earl, 16. of 255 Dipper Lane, charged with the Redwood burglary. Doyle said arrest of the youths resulted from a continuing inves tigation which started when a rash of burglaries and robberies broke out in July. Doyle said that in addition to the crimes with which they are charged Mathias. Trimby, Brown and Stovall are responsible for an armed robbery at the Decatur Drive-In Theater, 2500 N.

Jasper on July 28. Most of the 14 burglaries burglary attempts in which the six are implicated took place in the west, north and northwes-t part of the county. Doyle said. Statements from the six were taken by the state's attorney's office yesterday. MRS.

PAULINE MASH DIES AT 62 Mrs. Pauline Mash, 62. of 1148 E. Condit died at 6:10 a.m. Sept.

1, at St. Mary's Hospital. She moved to Decatur from Fi.ndIay 37 'ears aS- Mrs. Mash was a member the Methodist Church. She was born a daughter of George and Ella Greenwood Kelly in Findlay, Jan.

15, 1900. She married Fred Price in rincuay auring 1917. He died in! 1925. She married Meryl E. Mash.

June 17. 1933. in Decatur. to I been built as well as work done on classrooms. Four private offices in the business office area have been remodeled.

Two offices and a conference room for faculty have been added on the second floor of the Mueller Industrial Laboratory. A new office for the coaching staff was added in the men's lock er room area of the gymnasium. Classroom remodeling includes the relocation of the dance studio on the second floor of the School of Music building to the basement area. Drawing rooms for the engine ering department were moved from the basement of West Hall Mueller Industrial Laboratory. The old drawing classrooms were remodeled for use by other departments.

New equipment is being instal led in a listening room for language students. A new dial communications ser vice is being installed by the Illinois Bell Telephone Co. The all-purpose business com munications system will handle all incoming and outgoing calls. It will also permit direct dialing between university Two of the women's residence halls on Main Street, Essex and Mafair halls, have been completely redecorated. Classes start at Millikin Sept.

13. Stray Scraps Kills Ants and Wind A five-year old wonders why they haven't found some kind of tornado spray to kill the dreaded wind storm. Let the Bidder Beware A Clinton woman got into the spirit of a recent household goods auction and happily bid on a soup tureen. But when she got it home, she found it had only one handle. One minute and one blush later she realized the item belonged not in the china closet but to a com mode.

Labor Stay Weekend A Decatur youngster is happy that her mommy is going to be home for the neighbor day holiday. IRENE B. MILLER OF DECATUR DIES AT 64 Irene B. Miller, 64, of 18 Millstone Place, died at 2:40 a.m. today in St.

Mary's Hospital. A lifelong resident of Decatur. Mrs. Miller was a descendent of the pioneer Davis family who came to Long Creek in 1829. She was a member of the Millikin University Alumni the Stephen Decatur Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and -the professional Engineers Auxiliary.

She was a life-long member of the First Methodist Church and served as a Red Cross volunteer for seven years. She was born May 24, 1898 in Decatur." the daughter of Walter and Minnie Davis Hinds. She married Harold K. Miller May 10, 1920 in Decatur. He survives.

Besides her husband, she leaves ofsons Robert D. Miller. Deca- tur, and Jack A. Miller. Decatur; and a daughter, Martha Jeanne Miller, Rock Island.

She also leaves five grandchildren. One brother preceded her in death. Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Monday in the Dawson Wikoff tery. HENRY NEIBUHR DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS Henry E.

Neibuhr. 65. of 1540 jn and Macon iuum riusiJiuji. ne nia oern Ul several vears. Mr.

Neibuhr was a retired laborer and had been a life-long resident of Decatur. He was born a son of Fred and Nellie Sharack Neibuhr in Decatur township, Sept. 24, 1896. He leaves his mother, Mrs. Nellie Neibuhr of Decatur and one brother, Ivan R.

of Route 8, De catur. Funeral services will be at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in the J. J. Moran and Sons Chapel where friends may call after 10 a.m.

Monday, Burial will be in Salem Ceme jtery near Decatur. Stewardess Dorothy Wedick shows plane's Labor Day Monday Parade at 10 a.m. Offices to Be Closed Labor Day festivities start at. and post office windows will be vuiuiueereu service was on ail interim basis. However, they had no idea when he would resign.

Carlson emphasized Michl has done "a wonderful job, an outstanding job. "We've been very fortunate to have a man of his caliber inter ested in our work" Carlson added "He has done so much for so little and contributed so gener ously his personal time," Carlson said. Michl was one of the chief back ers tor establishing a mosquito control unit. He testified in court for petitions for the unit and worked with petition circulation for about a year until the issue was put to a vote in June. 19G1 and passed with a two-to-one ma jority.

Leader Union Accepts Pact Members of Allied Industrial Workers Local 845 voted Friday to accept a three-year contract offer from Leader Iron Works thus averting a strike threatened for midnight last night. ii is a paci wnicn wm give workers an additional 22 cents per hour, including fringe benefits, over the period until Aug. 31, 1965. The rnntrapf nrnvidps an im. mediate pay boost of six to eight! cents an hour and 24 per cent increases as of Aug.

31 in 1963 and 1964. Leader Iron also will pay fori additional insurance benefits for employes and dependents under terms of the new pact. The old company wage scale ran from $1.90 to $2.71 per hour. SERVICES TUESDAY FOR MRS. CARNAHAN Funeral services for Mrs.

Lena her life, she was born June 2,10 a.m. Monday with the annual Labor Day parade sponsored by the Trades and Labor Assembly. The parade starts at the 200 block of S. Water St. Dances will be held in the large and small pavilions of Nelson Park starting at 8 p.m.

Music will be provided by Fred Athey and Charles Morris, with square dance music by the Don Jackson band. Banks, public offices and stores will be closed. There will be no mail delivery MacArthur Suit Filed A Decatur firm and two other companies have been named in a suit askine damages for cracks in waIls of the MacArthur Hieh a School, Attorneys for the Decatur School District filed the suit Fri day in Circuit Court. Defendants are the Felmlev- Dickerson Bloomincton, the, She leaves her husband: one'Funeral Home where friends may son. Kelly Price of Decatur; onecau' after 4 m- Sunday, dauchter.

Normadean Piir nf! Burial will be in Garver Ceme- closed. City, county and federal offices will be closed, as will most busi nesses. There will be no classes in county schools which opened Thursday and Friday. Decatur public and parochial schools open Tuesday. The Herald and Review busi ness office will be closed, but classified advertisements will be taken by telephone from 4 p.m.

to 6 p.m. SALLY ANN MANI0N, 7, DIES AFTER SURGERY Sally Ann Manion, 7, daughter of E. W. and Juanita French Manion, 3177 Sandcreek Road, died at 10:45 p.m. Friday in St Lukes Hospital, Chicago, following open heart surgery.

The youngster was born with a heart condition and had a previ ous operation when she was a year old. She was born May 5, 1955 in Decatur. She attended McGaughev School, Mount Zion and the Third Evangelical United Brethren and Mr. and Mrs. Dewey F.

French. Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Monday in the Third Evangelical United Brethren Church with burial in Mount Gilead Cemetery. Friends may call at the Dawson Wikoff Funeral Home from 4 p.m. Sunday until 11 a.m.

Monday, then from noon until service time at the church. 1896 Assumption the daughter! of Joseph and Retta Morton. She was a member of the Methodist Church and of the Eagles Auxiliary. She married Francis Amidon Jan. 8.

1945 in Toledo, Ohio. Survivors include husband; a daughter. Mrs. William (Evelyn) Berkeley. Las Vegas.

sisters. Miss Ina Morton. Decatur. Mrs. Maude Turley.

Decatur. Mrs. Ray Stech. Pana. Mrs.

Art Allison. Ft. Myers, brother, Ray Morton. Assumption. Two brothers preceded her in death.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete at the J. J. Moran Sons Funeral Home. LOUVA MAYBERRY, 73, OF DECATUR DIES Louva Irene Mayberry, 73. 1912 N.

Van Dyke died of! a' 12:15 a.m. today in the Wakefield; curbing noiue. She had been ill for five years. A Decatur resident for 30 years, was born July 25, 1889 in Lane, 111., the daughter of Clinton and Cora McMann Warren. i She married Ben Mayberry in Decatur.

He survives. Besides her husband, she leaves a daughter, Mrs. Thomas (War-netta Wollen, Decatur: stepdaughter, Mrs. Olive Longbrake. Decatur: step-sons, Russell and Wayne Mavberry, Decatur; sis ters, Mrs.

Thelma Cotton, Deca tur, and Mrs. Jack (Erma) Ehr- mantraut, Chicago. Services will be 1 p.m. Tuesday In the J. J.

Moran Sons Funeral Home where friends may call after 4 p.m. Sunday. Burial will be in Graceland Cem etery. i Carnahan, 87. of 1232 E.

LoganjHugh of Decatur; one sister. Mrs. will be 2:30 p.m. Tuesday inUrthur 'Ursula Hartley of Deca- Los Angeles, one brother, tur. One child preceded her in death.

Arrangements are incomplete the Dawson o. "inim ruiierajir- 4.. ti- lj i general contractor of the build-j Church. tag; the Decatur Builders Supplyj Survivors include her parents which supplied the bricks toand three sisters. Suzanne, Shir-the contractor, and the Hydraulic! ley, and Sherry, alLathome.

Press Brick Veedersburg, She also leaves her which supplied the bricks tients, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Manion, the Dawson Wikoff Funeral; Home.

Burial will be in Fairlawn Cem etery- Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Monday. A Decatur resident since 1917, she was a member of First Presbyterian Church. She was born Feb. 26, 1875 in Yazoo City, the daughter of Henry and Anna Tietze Heine- man.

She married Frederick R. Car nahan Jan. 2. 1902 in Chicago. He died April 2.

1945. Mrs. Carnahan leaves a daugh- death. Home. CIRCUS TICKETS Tickets for the Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers Circus will be available at the Macon County Fairgrounds after noon Monday, Tickets are $1.90 for adults and $1 for children.

Performances start at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. With the Sick Rosa Dickinson, Mrs. 244 Cen- trai is recovering from sur- gery in St. Mary's Hospital.

She may have visitors. Decatur Builders Supply. At a meeting Tuesday, the Decatur Board of Education authorized its attorneys to seek damages of $50,000 for the deteriorating walls of the $2.3 million school built in 1957. The board had been told earlier by a consulting engineer that the cracks were caused by expanding bricks. the $14,000 repair work is done, junion in a suit filed in 1960, but ter.

Mabel, at home. The work involves removal and the amount was cut to $5,974 by Two daughters, two brothers, replacement of 15-16 expansion1 restitution payments made underiand a sister preceded her jn joints..