The Decatur Daily Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 10

Decatur, Illinois, Saturday, July 1952. TEN PAGES TODAY. THE DECATUR REVIEW BIRDS OFF ON 600-MILE RACE TO CANADA Stray Scraps Jjp(V x- WW Cottage for Sale I- Gas Heating Permits Are Now Available President Of Leader Iron Works Dies Julius II. Peters, 63,, president 7 Arrested In Illegal Sale Of Fireworks Raids by sheriff's deputies and The Illinois Power Company is state police yesterday resulted in the sending notices to its entire list of of the Leader Iron Works, died sud-" denly at 3 a. m.

today in arrest of seven men on charges of more than 1,700 applicants for single-family gas heating, Ralph illegal possession of fireworks. More than $750 worth of sty Williams, area manager, said today. rockets, roman candles, firecrackers, It is believed that gas-heat permits can be issued to the entire list, he said. bombs, and torpedoes were confiscated. Henry Rautbort, Illiopolis, who was operating a fireworks stand in li Site E.

S. Might, assistant to the presi land, O. Peters, who lived at 1310 N. Lake Shore moved to Decatur two vears ago from Cleveland when he and his family bought a controlling interest in the 1 He was visiting in Cleveland at the time he was stricken. Before becoming president of Leader Iron Works, Peters was secretary and 'chief engineer of the the 1200-block North Twenty-sec ml.

ond Street, pleaded guilty to illegal Ikik ft dent, said the large number of new permits are possible because it has been found that a new pipeline of the Panhandle Eastern Company delivers more gas than the announced estimate. annul mPM Williams said it has not been de a The new YMCA isn't really for termined whether any new multi-family or business can be taken on this vear. 55 Colonial Iron Works in Cleveland. I le was ith that company for 28 years and at one time held 40 per cent of the stock in it. He was born 'in Cleveland Mar.

4, 1889, a son of Julius and sale. This sign appeared on the building early this morning apparently put there by a prankster. To The Rescue Miss Barbara Seitz, 1592 W. De Ss Hearing Is Set On Gas for Monticelfo Martha Peters. He attended Cleve- The Illinois Power Company pro catur spent part, of Wedncs-jj and schools and was graduated poses gas tor Monticello in an ap day evening in the sewer in rront of the Seitz house.

A baby blue jay, plication which is to be heard bv their destination by tonight, eraging 1,200 yards per minute. Others will be the victims of accidents and never arrive. Black the Illinois Commerce Commission burn, of Riverside, has been coming to Decatur for -20 years to start pigeon races. (Herald and Review Photo) birds at the Wabash station. birds are owned by members of the Southern Ontario Combine of Racing Pigeon Clubs.

Blackburn says some of the birds may reach They're off! 360 Tacing pig-, eons are released here at 5:30. a. m. today for a 600-mile race to Toronto, Ont. Jack Blackburn, center, and two helpers release terrified by firecrackers, flew down off his perch in a nearby tree and ended up in the sewer.

I Ieroi-cally Miss Seitz removed the lid and went down to rescue the frightened bird, who had been unable from the Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland. I le leaves his mother, his iff, -Henrietta, a son, E. Donald Peters, vice president of Leader and a daughter, Mrs. Ethel M. Warner, all of De atur.

Four grandchildren also survive. Peters was a 32d degree Mason and an active member of the Deca 1 1 a. in Springfield. Monticello, which docs not have gal, is to be served by a connection ith the Texas-Illinois Gas Transmission pipeline which now passes near the city. The new line was L.

G.HOPKINS RESIGNS COVERAGE UNDER SOCIAL' SECURITY NOW EXTENDED 1 lousehold and farm workers Production Credit Officer to Bank Pigeons Race for Home 360 Birds Released for Trip to Canada to get out. It was muddy down Job in Michigan there," sh commented. who've worked regularly since Jan. Lawrence G. Hopkins, 34, of 1, 1951 gained social security cov Step Saver 1155 West Leaf land has re the eon to make over of tur Shrine Club and Ansar Shrine, erage for the first time during the At 5:30 a.

m. today about 360 racing pigeons were turned loose at completed last winter. E. S. Hight, assistant to the president of Illinois Power, estimates the cost of the proposed Monticello system at $125,000.

He estimates roughly another $25,000 for the signed as secretary-treasurer of the PTir possession ot tire works and was fined $39.20. John Turner, Rural Route 8, who was operating a stand at Wyc.kles Corner, pleaded guilty to illegal possession and was fined $39.20. Bart Garrett, Rural Route 7, who was operating a stand at Long Creek, pleaded guilty and was fined $39.20 for illegal possession. J. T.

Damery, who was selling fireworks at his service station in Blue Mound, pleaded innocent to possession of illegal fireworks' and supplied $200 bond pending a hearing July 29. James Hilton, Blue Mound, pleaded guilty to illegal possession and was fined $23.20. Two other men were scheduled to appear before Justice Bert Weaver today to answer charges of illegal possession. They are Joe Ptomey of the Friendly Market, and Harry Hansen, 141 W.Packard St. At Blue Mound officers traced a sale to a private home where illegal fireworks were found but no arrests were made and the material was not seized because a search warrant would have been required.

"We did not return with a search warrant because the evidence would have been removed by the time we got back," Sheriff David M. Peters said. Decatur police yesterday afternoon checked stands in the city but reported they found no illegal fireworks. 4,350 See Fireworks, Games at Fans Field More than 100 boats were used yesterday at Nelson Park, according to Russell K. Shaffer, who operates the boat concession.

Picnic crowds jammed both Nel Springfield. Decatur Production Credit Associa the Wabash Railroad Station for. a Services will be at 2 p. m. lues.

yearly quarter just ended, L. Straub, manager of the Dccatur-area social securitv office, said. tion, President R. II. Lantermann race to Canada.

Jack Blackburn, season of racing. Blackburn, of Riverside, explained that the pigeon racing clubs have a series of races every vear with the 600-mile hop from day in the Stanley Johnson Fu convover and liberator of the birds neral I lome, Cleveland. connection with the pipeline. of Chatham announced yesterday. His resignation takes effect today for the Southern Ontario Combine The application of the Gas Later section was nearly full, hence the Farm and domestic workers and those in some, other categories first came under the Social Security Act a year ago last January.

Mr. Straub said these workers al Company, a subsidiary of Illinois of Racing Pigeon Clubs, said some of the birds ought to complete their need of gaining approval of the No successor has been named. Hopkins has accepted a position as manager of the Otsego, Mich. rower, tor permission to lay the Decatur the longest. Other starting points are in Danville, Peru, and Montpelier, O.

These places are used, he said, because they lie in a other which had one burial in it connection also is to be heard Mon 600-mile journey by late tonight. Blackburn, who has been coming already. Purpose of the committee's branch of the First National Bank have no assurance that they 11 get day. The connection also must be ap to Decatur for 20 years to start the approval and its subsequent record direct line with each other and theUf unfcs deductions and Company of Kalamazoo, ing is to prevent someone dig pigeon races, said most of them will Mich. I le will assume his i proved by the Federal Power Com trom th eir wages have been regu ging in the wrong plot.

fly to Toronto. Others are bound tor are almost exactly a hundred airline mission before construction starts, Hight said. miles apart duties Monday. A former employe of the Bloom-ington Production Credit Associa- larly made by their employers. Minimum social security requirements is that the newlv-covered employe Niagara Falls, Stratford, Meaford and Oshawa, all in Ontario.

The winners are determined by Monticello will be given gas this The birds released here today were "old birds" a year or older. Blackburn said a small number of must have earned at least $50 injtion, Hopkins was named secretary calculating the yards per minute that each of six calendar quarters. the birds can be expected to disap- the birds travel on their trip home treasurer ot the local agency in September, 1946. He is a University of Illinois graduate. Blackburn said 1,200 yards per pear during the race, the victims of minute is a good average for a pig-storms, hawks or people with guns.

year if possible, he said, but he added that in the past the FPC has taken six or eight months to approve such projects. Hearing on Electricity Sale Is Wednesday Applications to force sale of elec Hopkins is married and has two sons, Marshall, 10, and Randall, 6 WIN PAROLES Four Sentenced From Macon County Get Paroles Next Month Four men sentenced to penitentiary terms from Macon County are The Decatur PCA is a cooperative Wallace Daniels, Omar bakery SEABEES REGISTER FOR STATE MEETING TODAY Only 40 of the 150 Seabees ex routeman, transacts sales with Mrs, Joanna Temple, who lives in a sec group which makes short terra loans to farmers in Macon, Dewitt, Logan, Sangamon and Christian counties. The association has 1,300 state conven- t0 paroled in August and Sep pected to attend the ond floor apartment at 240 1'rai tember, the Illinois Parole and Par- tricity by the Illinois Power Company to three tow ns in Southwestern Illinois are scheduled for hearing by the Illinois Commerce Commission 9:30 a. m. Wednesday in Springfield.

.1 i son and Fairview Parks Mr. Shaffer and Clyde McKnight, Fairview custodian, said. The turnout was rie by using this basket. (Kileen Photo) TV Tale Continued A. F.

DEFOREST DIES Heart Attack Fatal to Former Resident in Pennsylvania A. Fulton DeForest of Williams-port, formerly of Decatur died suddenly Monday of a heart attack. DeForest, son of the late Mrs. M. A.

DeForest, a prominent social figure here, returned to Decatur for a short time in 1934 alter an absence of 12 years. Before his death, he was ith the Federal Cartridge Company in Wil- tion of the Seabee Veterans of America had registered by 11 a.m. today at the Hotel Orlando. A spokesman for the group said that better than last vear's when temper Phantom Smoke 'Imagine you're smoking cigars. Rotary Club President William P.

Shade told club members at their Monday meeting. Member Henry Bolz, a new grandfather, passed up the traditional cigars and donated the $10 they would have cost to the Rotary Club's YMCA building fund. Slight Delay Ground-breaking nies Monday for a new building at the Decatur Signal Depot were delayed several minutes while workmen hunted for shovels for high-ranking army officers to wielcL Long Memory Postmaster Richard E. Ellison Wednesday received a pencilled letter from Tennessee asking for the name of the personnel manager of the Biflex Products Company which once occupied the area where Hou-daille-Hershev Corporation is now and which lost its corporate identity by merger in 1929. Singers Too hile in Kansas City recently at don Board announced.

They are: Leo Shipman, 57, Peoria, who has been serving a term of one year to life for armed robbery of the Maurer Coal Company in Febru ature in the middle 60's and high lohn Disney 1159 E. Leaf winv one or mem, nowever, is DAVE BEGGS III NAMED Young Demos Appoint JMU Stu dent Chairman of State Group still a question as the power company has bought the distribution more were expected to come in la-1 ter today. The opening session was scheduled for 1 1 a. with the main session, during which officers were Dave Bcggs III of Decatur has, systems in the other two towns since ary, 14 inds cut down the number of picnickers and forced them into heavy coats and blankets. The mercury reached 88 yesterdav.

Only two organizations scheduled for picnics, however. They were the land this week picked up the following distant television stations; WTTZ, Philadelphia; WCBS, New York City; WNBT, New York. About a week ago he got KRTC, Houston, Texas; WPTV, Char- .1 1 in Mcrvil (Hop) Currv. sentenced been appointed state chairman of iiK: applications were rued, Allen 11 liamsport. Besides his wife, he leaves to a one to 10-year term for bur-! college organization for the Illinois Van Wyck, president of the company, said.

Smith oflto be elected, planned for I p. m. a sister, Adeu. Deforest glancs of a building in Gracelandj ioung Democratic organization, cemetery; The appointment was made bv The towns, Mt. Olive.

White lotte, N. C. Comdr. Joseph Decker of the Great Lakes Naval Training Sta New York City. DeForest was an expert marks Abbreviated Foursquare Church and the Church of God.

Fireworks and a double header baseball game at Fans Field attracted tion is guest speaker for the con- City and Staunton, bought energy from a small company which was a subsidiary of a coal-mining compa Alose G. Nickey, sentenced Alarj J. Dixon of Belleville, state to two years for grand larceny. president of the organization. Orville Cole, originally sentenced! is vice chairman of the Mil- man and combined his hobby with Small trucks and big firm names He was about 64 when vention.

Out-of-town officers for his bu provide problems, at least ny, he explained. The mininc com-! he died. Services and burial grouP- vvno arrived yesterday, tor a in De- lik 4,350 persons, University in 1931 for a holdup of a man and Yoyng Dc mo- -f l-1i t- in: i .1 iv.4Ji.v 1 li ill 1 1 vav. jvvii i i ninn -n were John Guminski, national pres club. woman in an automobile Thursday in Williamsport.

on door 1 1 1 1 11 11.. icatur this week. 1324 ident, from Chicago; uJard The old DeForest home, Co." ULI II VI 111 II lilt V. 1U J5 Ul (II 11.1 v-w-j viii I IW tut I IlllC M-jfl. I (j I electric company while it negotiates last 3 Adults, One Child Htrt By Fireworks Four fireworks accidents marred the Fourth of July celebration in Decatur yesterday.

pring. Far Beyond Duty motorcycle policeman motorcycle policeman for Purchase of the t-itv-nu-necT rliV Late Blossoms W. Eldorado sold recently to Temple B'nai Abraham, has been a landmark in Decatur for many years. tending a national convention of zius, national secretary, Chicago; Don Engels, department secretary, Danville; and Edward Eichclbcrgcr, department chaplain, Plainfield. tribution systems.

An apple tree planted in May Barbershop harmonv singers. Ever A this morning performed an act of courtesy that put the police department high on the good ill list of passers-bv in the 100 block East Prairie $55.40 Disorderly Fine Donald II. Hubbart, 30. of Mode, vesterdav pleaded guilty to Emergency treatment for all four It was built by DeForest mother in 1907. Mr.

and Mrs. Ralph Brow on ett stern 0f Decatur was greeted bv Boy Located 'a lot they own on Sunnyside Hoada Kansas City member. 'My name's Police said last night that relatives is mm' blooming. 1 he tree is about said the stranger. "The disorderly conduct and was fined! Entry Attempt Police said yesterday that an at Avenue.

A car. bearins? a disab ediS55.40 bv Justice Rudolph Lorrnz. had received word that Eugene Davi-i 1 i-heck. it is, said hverett. mv License Transferred The city liquor license for the Better Late tempt had been made to break into "I'm in the real volunteered the veterans license, was halted in the Police said State's Attorney Ken-json, 15, of 1162 W.

Decatur St. heavy traffic with a flat tire. A wo- neth E. Evans ordered Hubbart to was in San Francisco. On June 26 name's Stern estate business," The Macon Counts' board of su the Sebok grocery, 1211 N.

Clin- was given by St. Mary but none was required to be hospitalized. Only one of the injured was a child. He was seven-year-old Thomas- Sarver of 1028 E. Main St.

Others hurt were Bert Bovd, 380 S. 22nd Sam Jones, 1704 E. North and Harry Stollev, 1069 N. 34th St. "Glad to meet ton St.

during Thursday night. A man was driving and the passenger appear July 7 for examination byjhis father, Everett Davison, had re- pervisor's plats and abstracts com-jKansas City man. i it i i i Fair Tavern, 121 E. Main has been transferred from Ben I Iersh to Mrs. Ilersh.

Hersh, nov on vacation, is understood to be negotiat i. ii i. front door glass had been broken with a rock but a bolt at the top was a man unable to walk. lnea psychiatrist attcr he had admitted portea tnc boy missing out thought jmittee lhursday approved two ad-jyou, i in real eaie too, saia cop stopped his motorcycle and; actions towards youth who made he might be on a trip to the Westlditions to Friends Creek Cemetery' Everett, who is with Roby Roby, changed the tire for the couple. complaints to officers.

jcpast. near Argenta. One just-approved Decatur realtors. kept thieves from entering, ing for a distributorship. If'- II il I v-n fi i.

i. MwmtfVtr'f--' f'r- Hawkins. tor at Longview West, Wanda watching are: Jackie Hinds, Jane Music festival. Elmer Turner, Garfield Playground Burdicli, Charlene Haws and caller, has asked any 1 'i i ,1. at, interested snnarf- ilnnre insfrnrfnr.

I P.iKv Mnnr Adnlr cniiarr arlulr rlaniTK tn per a miare to- activities on all playgrounds, shows Carolyn Beyer of the Longview West playground how to execute a step while Chester Loguc and other children look on. Mrs. Merle Miller is instruc Dare, Susan Munsit, Mike Moore, Emily Johnson and Allen Kilpatrick. Jean Spangler is dance director at the playground. In the center picture, Neil Ewing, supervisor of the square dancing for a tour of other playgrounds, where they will try to get more youngsters interested in square dancing.

Clockwise around the square arc: Nancy Gray, Terry Dare, Pamela Newberry, Jerry pear in the Decatur Music Festival July 16. at Decatur High School athletic field. In the picture at the left a group of 10- vear-old children from French playground practise in costume Youngsters from the city's playgrounds, who learn how to square dance as a regular part of the recreation program, have been working to get an extra polish on their dancing so they can ap Carolyn Davern, left, and Judy dancers, many of them members gethrr and report to the Decatur I lull of the intermediate group. of the playground adult clubs, 'high athletic field on festival Other members of their square also will take part in the Decatur night..