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TWENTY PAGES TODAY. THE DECATUR REVIEW Tuesday, February 18, 1917. MUELLER GIFT AIDS OPENING OF J. M. U.

WELDING SHOP Dealers Push Bottle Drive, ft. I Hot Tamale Lover Cools Law's Wrath With a Hot Tamale A sober citizen stopped on his way home to buy what he thought would be enough hot ta males to sutlsfy his hunger before going to bed. Wh wife was out of town and he knew there was nothing In tho kitchen to eat. Driving out North Water street his hunger increased as tho odor of the tamalcs escaped the paper package. By the time he hnd reached the Junction of routes 48 and 51 he made a decision.

He was getting hungrier and the tnmalos were getting colder. He turned cost on route 48 ond stopped at the side- of tho road. He peeled a tamale rind started munching, content life, when a slote patrol car pulled alongside. "Whatcha think this is. a lovers' lane?" the officer asked, and quickly searched the car with his flashlight.

The man with the tnmalos. his peace shattered, saw thnt It was a situation. "Have one," he told the suspicious trooper. "They're good." The officer apologized with a tamale in his mouth. Consolidation Of Schools to Be Discussed The possibility (or consolidation ef some 18 schools In Macon and Christian counties, in an area around Blue Mound, will be discussed at a meeting at 7:30 p.m.

Thursday in Blue Mound grade school. County School Superintendent Robert B. Ernest said today. The meeting has been set up by the Macon county school survey committee, headed by P. Ash, with officials of the school districts which might be affected by contolidation move.

As yet no definite proposal for the consolidation has been' made. Thursday night's meeting is designed to outline the county committee's ideas, present facts on district operations and finances, find out the interests of the various district representatives in consolidation and if they would prefer join-, ing in a consolidation centering at Blue Mound or some other center, Mr. Ernest said. The discussion at Blue Mound will be like that currently being held with districts around Mt. Zion and Maroa.

0 fa Ei City Abandons Dump, Seeks New Location The city will not renew its Ico on the present city dump after tho ond of this fiscal year, when the dump contract expires, Dr. P. A. Steele, health commissioner, said today. Frequent subterranean fires in the dump and numerous complaints of southwest-city resident about odorous clouds of smokit from the dump have brought the decision to stop u.iing the site, Just south nf the city, off route 48, Dr.

Steele suld. Between now and termination of the dump contract. Dr. Steele auid, every effort will bo made to keep the fires under control. A fire department, stationary pumper has been set in the dump to pump water from the nearby Sangamon river to douse fires us noon as they start, the commissioner said.

But because of the nature of the fires, most of them from spontaneous combustion of oily rags some 10 to 15 feet below the surface of the dump, it is almost impossible to eliminate trouble, he said. Since the dump is a city dump, there can be no limitations put on what materials may be deposited there, he said. In the past, the fire department has fought the fires numerous times and Street Commissioner Lylc Kirby'g crews have hauleij many gallons of water to the dump to try to stop the smouldering blaze, he said, while explaining that this procedure is not a satisfactory answer to the problem. Because the smoke from the dump fans out over the city when the wind is from the south, which is the way it blows most often, the probable solution is to find aji-other dump farther from and in a different direction from main residential areas, or if that docs not work to use the army method of Rouging out dump holes with bull dozers and quickly re-covering the areas, the commissioner said. Investigation of sites and methods will be thorough, he said, and will be carried out within the next couple of months so that a change can be made when the new fiscal year begins.

recently cbnstructed with the assistance of a $15,000 grant from the Mueller Co. and will bo used primarily to -train teachers and supervisors in all phases of welding and forging. W. Rogers, associate pro- welding process to class mem-fessor of industry at Millikin bcrs in the new welding shop demonstrates a at the university. shop was Justice Mystifies Mits Railroad Tax Objections Baffle Taxpayer Supply Acute A enmpuign to get bottles out of basements and back into use to relieve the container shortage that threatens the dairy, beverage and beer business was officially opened this week with a proclamation from Mayor James A.

Hedrlck asking cooperation of all citizens. Representatives of dairies, beverage and beer distributors met last week to plan the campaign which is expected to return thousands of bottles to use. All dealers supporting tho drive have mado contrlbutlpns to finance publicity pointing out. the importance of maintaining a supply of bottles in the interests of the health and general welfare of the community. A series of newspaper advertisements is planned and spot announcements arc being carried on the radio daily urging Decatur residents to clean out basements, garages and other places where bottles may have been stored.

Bottle Orders Lag Local dairies said that it is almost impossible to replenish supplies of bottles from the manufacturers. Orders for milk bottles are as far as six to nine months behind on deliveries. The continuance of adequate milk supplies throughout the summer months will depend on the cooperation of consumers in keeping the available supply of bottles in circulation. It was pointed out. 1 In addition to newspaper and radio advertising tho dealers are placing placards in store window and on delivery trucks and wagons explaining the need of cooperation.

May Make Collection C. T. Duncan, representing the beverage distributors, said that if the return of bottles resulting from advertising was below expectations plans may be made for a city-wide collection of bottles operated in a manner similar to the paper collection drives. F. Cecil Bair, dairy representative on the joint campaign committee, felt confident that the response to requests to turn in all bottles not in use would be good.

He said that in the past notices of bottle shortages had stirred consumers into action and that he felt sure that the present need would be recognized and met. E. M. Crawford is heading the beer distributors group in the campaign. 1,346 Enrol At Millikin A total of 1,346 students arc en rolled in Millikin university for tho second semester, Denn C.

L. Miller has announced. This is 11 more than were enrolled the first semester. Registration closed Saturday and university officials attempted to keep enrollment to approximately the same number that attended school there the first semester. Twenty-four students finished work for their degrees during the first semester and have been given certificates.

They will receive diplomas at the regular graduation exercises in June. Those completing work were: Betty Allen, Litchfield. Ellis George Baker, Clinton. Frank Benson, Decatur. Walter Boyd, Decatur.

Grant Bramel, Decatur. Richard Brooks, Lovington. Glenn Burger, Marshall. Julian Clausen, Decatur. Earl Cline, Decatur.

Harry Crawford, Taylorville. Marian Eakin, Decatur. Ralph Foster, Decatur. Maria Hawkins, Decatur. H.

Wayne Hill, Decatur. Ralph Hubole, Decatur. William Jeschawitz, Decatur. Merle Kuhlman, Plainville. Bill Kush, Decatur.

Glenn Lauher, Edwardsville. Marjorie Moody. Tuscola. Russell Oettel, Glen Carbon. Phil Pearce, Epworth.

Marshall Pollock, Decatur. Robert O. Wilson, Danville. Temple Association Elects Six Trustees Six new trustees to serve two-year terms were elected at the annual meeting of the Masonic Temple association last night. New trustees are: T.

Ralph Dalbey M. D. Ream George L. Reese Samuel Carson Lewis W. Shade Fred R.

Cassell Trustees elected last year who will serve one more year are: G. Roy Eshelman John C. Deffenbaugh Fred Williams Wilbur Bil'oy Lloyd Stickle John W. Evans Trustees will elect officers at their annual meeting Friday night. Cerro Gordo Demos Plan Feb.

25 Caucus Democratic voters in Cerro Gordo township will hold a caucus at 10 a. m- Tuesday, Feb. 2J, in the Cerro Gordo town hall. Candidates will be nominated for supervisor. road commissioner, cemetery trustee, two members -for the library board and a constable Persons wishing to have their name printed on a primary for any of the offices should submit their desire in writing to John Boggs, precinct committeeman on or be fore Feb.

22. Representatives of the following; Macon county districts have' been invited to the Blue Mound meet ing: Blue Mound Rosedale Pleasant View South Old Blue Mound Washington Nevada Lincoln Madison Peru Cross Roads Boody Christian county districts includ ed are: Pleasant Valley Sycamore Randallville Ireland Sanders Meeting Scheduled For A us tin Town Hall The Macon county school survey committee has called a meeting in Austin town hall at 7:30 p- m. Sat urday to discuss with Austin con solidated school officials and dis trict residents the possible effect ef the committee's over-all school consolidation proposals. County School Superintendent Robert B. Ernest said today.

Letters have been sent out by Committee President H. P. Ash to persons in Austin district, which was formed only about a year ago but which may find further con solidations moves in the county im petus for changes in the present organization. Hearing in Lincoln On Illini District A hearing was being held in Lin coin this afternoon on a petition of residents in approximately two and one-half sections of land at the northwest corner of mini town ship, Macon county, for detachment from Warrensburg high school district and annexation to Latham high school district Latham is in Logan county, of which Lincoln is the county seat. Robert B.

Ernest, Macon county school superinten dent, was attending the hearing. Center Ridge School Petition Granted County School Superintendent Robert B. Ernest has granted the petition of Center Ridge school district to be annexed to community consolidated school district No- 8, centering at Warrensburg. The petition was granted following a pub lic hearing last week. Niantic School Area To Elect March 1 The election to name the seven-member board of education for the newly organized consolidated school district centering at Niantic will be held from noon to 7 p.

m. March 1, County School Superintendent Robert B. Ernest said today. Austin School Vote Set for Feb. 28 The proposal that two sections of land in Austin township be taken out of the Macon county non-high school district and made a part of Latham high school district will be voted on Feb.

28, from noon to 7 p. in Latham high school building, Robert B. Ernest, Macon county school superintendent, said today. Residents of the non-high school area seeking annexation to Latham, and residents of Latham who will vote whether or not to accept the territory. Both will vote in Latham high school, but on different ballots and with different judges and clerks presiding.

The area seeking the shift Is almost Identical with the area which recently was annexed to the Latham grade school district Seek Administration For G. R. Birks Estate Petition for letters of administration for the estate of the late George R. Birks of Fargo, N. was filed in county court today by his widow.

Mrs. Margie Follis Birks of Mount Pulaski. The estate is estimated to value $3,289.80 in personal property. Listed as heirs, in addition to Mrs. Birks.

are a daughter, Betty Ber-nice Birks of Glcncoe, and a son, Roland Miller Birks, address Firms Cited for Vet Aid Citations for service to veterans were presented by rhe American Legion to sevrral Decatur eon-cerns today at a stale-wide Legion job conference held today in the Legion Home. Presentation of the awards was made by A. B. Bailey, commander of the Castle Williams post. Concerns receiving the citations were: Linxweilcr Printing Co.

Gabriel Shoe Clinic A. L. Cook and Son H. O. Honicker Jimmie Dale Auto Body Shop A.

Staley Co. Grigolcit Co. Archer-Daniols-Midland Co, Jenkins Music Co. Wagner Malleable Iron Co Faries Manufacturing Co. Mueller Co.

Oakes Decatur division Wabash railroad Carpenters union No. 742 The job conference is being held today under the sponsorship of the Legion's employment commission, according to Clarence H. Cushman, employment chairman. Representatives of the Legion, local Industries, veterans' ogoncies, unions, employment agencies and the University of Illinois spent this afternoon and will continue tonight in a discussion concerning the occupational welfare of veterans. Mayor James A.

Hedrlck welcomed the delegates to tho conference and Harold Osgood, president of the Association of Commerce gave the opening address this afternoon. The conference will be concluded tonight by sound movie, "No Help Wanted," dealing with disabled veterans. A committee from the Legion commission, which covers the 17th, 18th, 19th and 21st Congressional districts, will make a trip to Washington, D. C. next week to take part in the Congressional discussion over the raising of pay ceilings of the G.

I. Bill of Rights, Mr. Cushman said today. Voters Meeting Is 8 Tonight Citizens of Decatur will get a chance to look at and question the men who seek election to city offices tonight. The opportunity will be presented at a public meeting sponsored by the League of Women Voters, to be held at 8 p.

m. today in the Decatur high school auditorium. Questions can be directed to the candidates either by standing up and voicing them or by writing them on space provided on the programs. Purity Baking Co. To Increase Stock The Purity Baking Co.

has been authorized to increase the number of shares of preferred stock from 2,000 to 3,500, it was announced tor day from the office of Secretary of State Edward J. Barrett in Springfield. Joseph Gaugcr, president of the company, said today that the company plans no expansion, but since no stock has been sold in several years, company officials sought authorization for more shares. Millikin Students See Alaskan Films Edgar C. Raine, traveler and lecturer, who lived in Alaska from 1897 until eight years ago, gave an illustrated talk at the assembly at Millikin university this morning.

Mr. Raine showed colored slides of Alaska and parts of Siberia over which he has traveled on dog sled. The speaker was for a time head of the treasury department in Alaska and has traveled more than 18,000 miles by dog sled in that country. DISORDERLY FINE William W. Cox, 19, of 328 East Marietta street pleaded guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct and was fined $18.40 today by Justice of the Peace E.

S. Parks. Complaint was made by Grace L. Cox. Garbage Truck Drivers Vote Discontinuance of garbage collection after Saturday is threatened by failure of operators and drivers to agree on wage and hour nego tiations that have been' going on since Dec.

.31 when the union's con tract expired, according to Mack Ray, business agent of the Team sters Sc Chauffeurs union. The approximately 25 drivers for the city's 18 garbage collection services voted last night to go on strike Saturday night if their de mands for a 15-cent-an-hour increase are not met, Mr. Ray said. The men era now being paid 90 cents an hour for a 40-hour week with time and one-half for all work over eight hours in one day. The union is asking for $1.05 un hour for drivers with a guarantee of a 48-hour work week, it was said.

Mr. Ray said that some of the operators are now paying the higher rate (ought by the union while others have agreed to pay the rate. A few have claimed that they are paying the higher rate but have refused to sign the contract, Mr. Ray said. One more meeting Is planned with tho operators In hopes of reaching a settlement be fore Saturday, it was said.

Difficulties in making collections in the business district have presented one of the problems in the negotiations, it was said. In some cases two men will work a half hour to get a large and heavy steel drum of refuse out of a basement and loaded on their truck, Mr. Ray said, pointing out that the. opera tors were not charging enough, for collections in the business district. The time and labor involved in get ting heavy, bulky loads out of downtown basements makes collections unprofitable, he said.

The drivers are asking that the new contract they seek be made retroactive to Jan. 1 when last year's contract expired- A number of the 18 operators are members of the union, most of them having started operating their own trucks and then retired to some other business while 'still maintaining their collection services, Mr. Ray- said. This fact has added to the difficulty of reaching an agreement satisfactory to both parties, it was' stated. City-Wide Dollar Day To Be Next Wednesday A city-wide dollar day will be held Wednesday, Feb.

26, Frank Serrani, chairman of the dollar day committee of the retail committee of the Association of Commerce, announced' today. The last, dollar day in Decatur was held on Feb. 5. but due to extremely bad weather, shoppers were unable to take-advantage of the sales, Mr. Serrani said.

Grant School Flag Flew Over Nation's Capitol Building A flag which was flown over the Capitol building in Washington, D. C. has been presented to the' Grant school by Rep. Rolla C. McMillen of Decatur.

The school had been without a flag for some time so Mrs. F-C. Ridlen of .2600 East Olive finance advisor of the Grant school P-T. wrote a letter to Cong. McMillen, requesting one.

Mr. McMillen bought a flag, had it flown over- the' Capitol, and then sent it to Ridlen. A letter accompanied the flag written by David Lynn, architect of the Capitol. The flag is a large' one, 8 by 5 feet, and Mrs. Ridlen intends to display it at the next P-T.

A. meeting on Feb. 27. The flag will eventually be placed in the proposed new Grant school, Mrs. Ridlen said.

Millikin Opens Welding Shop The Millikin university welding shop which has been constructed with the assistance of a $15,000 grant, from the Mueller Co. began opera lion yesterday. Thirty-nine students have enrolled in three sections the university's first course in the theory and practise of welding and forging under direction of R. W. Rogers, associate professor of industry.

Primary purpose of the classes is to train teachers and supervisors and after classes are organized it is intended that the shop be developed into an experimental lab oratory where the university can help solve industrial welding prob lems. The new shop has 13 individual stations for welding, a six-burner gas furnace, a 50-pound drop ham mer, two hand forges and other forging equipment. Cost of the equipment and elec trical installation has totaled $4,000, but most of tho work of preparing the laboratory has been done by students and teachers in the de partment of industry. Class students will divide (heir time between acetylene welding, electric welding and forging work. Bakers Asking New Contract Wage and hour adjustments in the contract between the Bakery Confectionery workers union and wholesale bakery operators will be sought by a union negotiating committee, according to George Zell- mann, business agent of the union.

The four-year contract, signed last year, will be open for adjustments in wages May 1 and the union hopes to reach an agreement with the operators before that date. A guaranteed work week of 39 hours, three of which will be dressing time, time and a half for work in excess of six and one-half hours in any one day and double time for Sunday work is being proposed by the union. A clause providing that no work be done on seven holidays which would be considered as work days for the purpose of computing the guaranteed work week and overtime, also will be asked by the union, Mr. Zellmann said. For purposes of wage rates, the downstate area is divided into two groups in the union proposal with minimum wages in one group ranging from 95 cents to $1.50 an hour, and five cents less in each classification in the other group.

An increase of from 10 to 20 cents 'an hour in the differential paid for night work will be asked, it was reported. The union also is asking that workers under contract be covered by life, accident and sickness insurance at no cost to the worker, Mr. Zellmann said- The contract covers 56 shops employing 1,200 persons. Local No. 316 includes seven shops, three of which are in Decatur.

Jack Brown to Give University Club Talk Dr. Jack Brown, who served with the army medical corps overseas during World War II, will speak at the meeting of the University club at 8 p.m. Thursday in the library of Millikin conservatory, David V. Felts, president, announced today. Dr.

Brown will discuss new de velopments in medicine with par ticular emphasis on methods and techniques devised by medical men in the armed services during World War II. At the March 6 meeting Emanual Rosenberg, Decatur at torney, will speak on "Labor, Victor or Vanquished." By C. ALBERT ALTWEGG Of The Review Staff T. C' Mits, the celebrated man in the street, wandered into county court, over in the county building, yesterday morning. Having an hour or so to kill T.

C. always his time, in preference to "spending" or "pass ing" it he settled down in one of the pews for spectators to see what was going on. Obviously something must be brewing. Mits could see better than half a dozen lawyers, some of whom he knew and all of whom he recognized by sight, milling around at the foot of the judge's bench, inside the enclosure. He noticed State's Attornev Ivan J.

Hutchcns, whom he also knew by sight, having voted for him back when ho was voting Demo cratic. And then in walked County Judg Gus Greanias. Thut made Mits feel pretty good like he could pick winners because he'd voted for Judge Greanias, too, having swung over to voting Republican in the last election. Now something was going to T. C.

figured. The lawyers kept up their conversations and their joking, but some of them pitched in and helped push desks around. Then most of them settled down. Stage is Set In the middle of the informal group sat the judge. Around one side sat five or six lawyers.

At the other side sat the state's at torney. On one corner sat girl ready to take everything down in shorthand. And at the opposite corner sat a young fellow with an electric calculator, all hooked up and ready to figure something. One of the lawyers T. C.

knew ambled back to where he was sitting and said, by way of greeting: "You better get out 'of here. This'll drive you to drink." "What's going on here?" C. asked him. "Tax objections by the rail roads," the lawyer said, and he ambled off again. So T.

C. Mits. who is a taxpayer himself, settled down in his seat a bit and waited happily for the objecting to start T. C. rather expected things to start out with something formal not a fanfare of trumpets, maybe, but something like the judge standing up and the lawyers standing up and everyone bowing to everyone else.

But, instead. State's Attorney Hutchens remarked that the others to all be like the Pennsyl- iia. railroad, which had decided to withdraw all of its objections as having no merit worth fighting for, and the' other lawyers made gags about that. Baffling Stipulations And then one of the lawyers started talking about "stipulations," and before T. C.

Mits had realized the trial if that's what you'd call it was in full Mits wasn quite sure what all the stipulating was about, but it seemed to be the stuff that both sides would agree to, without having to bring in witnesses and prove it. They stipulated such things as ordinances and levies and the like passed by the county board of supervisors, and they stipulated that the objections for one objector would hold for all parties to the case. They named the various fail-roads, and. organizations making objections, and Mits caught the names of the Illinois Central railroad and the B. and the Illinois Terminal and the Wabash and the Wabash Employes hospital and the Elks club and the Masonic temple and the Trades and Labor assembly and the United Automobile Workers.

Then, without the proper preliminaries so it seemed to T. they plunged right into the middle of the business and started listing ob jections in detail. was the matter of including coroner's fees in the budget. The objectors conceded that one because the Supreme court had decided a similar case against them since they Irad filed the objections. T.

C. Loses Out Then they took up the matter of support of dependent children and that was where they left T. C. behind. He was pleased when he noticed his lawyer-friend coming back toward him.

The lawyer plopped down in the pew beside him and slouched down till he was sitting on the small of his back, and then he grinned up at Mits. "Say, what is this all about?" T. asked, insistently. "Tax objections," said the law yer, innocently. "I know," said T.

"but what's the point? What are they doing? "Oh, the railroads always file objections. And it's a good thing they do. It keeps the public offic ials on their toes, in a way," the lawyer said. "Only thing, it's too bad they couldn't make these objections be fore the tax bills go out to you and me." Obviously, T. C.

needed "some fill ing in, so the lawyer supplied some details: The taxes being objected to were the taxes for 1945. The railroads paid three-quarters of their tax bills under protest. Then the state's attorney, acting for County Audi tor Ellis B. Wheeler, filed suit and the railroads and others filed their objections to the suit. It was those objections that Judge Greanias was now hearing.

Give and Take "Bui does it do them any good? Do they let them get away with any of these objections?" C. Mits wanted to know. "Oh, sure, they win some of them and lose some others. It's worth it for the railroads," the lawyer said. "A man told me just today that a lot of railroads pay all their legal expenses with the tax money saved them this way." "Like I said," the lawyer went on, "these objections keep the public officials on their toes.

Sometimes they make illegal levies. Sometimes the way they word thigs is bad. Sometimes they just things is Sometimes they just "The big trouble as- I was saying, when the railroads do prove that some part of a tax levy is bad, it doesn't do the little man any good. "Except, of course, the officials don't like to. levy taxes on the little fellow and make him pay it when the big outfits like the railroads going to have to pay "So, that way, it does help the little man." T.

C. looked up at the clock on the wall. It said eight-thirty. But it had said a quarter to eight when C. had come in, and it had been about eleven o'clock then.

So T. C. knew it must be getting close to noon. "Well, I could sure use some help, the way taxes are getting to be these days," said T. C.

Mits, the celebrated man in the street, as he got up to leave. Forsyth, Decatur Men Named to State Posts Robert N. Stout, Forsyth; a vet eran, has recently been employed as a guard- at the Joliet penitentiary, it was announced today from the of fice of the Illinois department of public safety in Springfield. Robert Arthur Williams, 1269 East Willard street, Decatur, also a veteran, has been employed with the division of highways, bureau of construction, it -was announced. V.

A. Lists Courses By Correspondence Correspondence courses for veterans are now being offered by the Industrial Training Institute and the American Savings and Loan Institute in Chicago, Forrest Trowbridge, local Veterans Administration contact officer, announced today. The courses are open to all veterans who are eligible for educational benefits under the G. Bill and the vocational rehabilitation act, Mr. Trowbridge said.

The Industrial Training Institute offers training in refrigeration, air conditioning, drafting and electronics. Courses at the American Savings and Loan Institute include accounting and management of savings and loans, real estate appraising and insurance and real estate law. Gilkcy Urges Opening Of Battle on Worms It's tanglefoot time. Or so Farm Adviser John R. Gilkey advises.

Tanglefoot is the best protection against cankerworms for your elm, apple, honey locust, oak or cherry trees. Mrs. Gilkey says, and the band of the sticky stuff should be put on the trees now because the female moths will start climbing with the first warm weather. They'll be heading for the tops of the trees to lay their eggs. The eggs will produce those dark brown caterpillars which this summer will eat the leaves.

The bands should be three inches-wide, placed four to five feet above the ground, and inspected daily to see that the climbing moths do not bridge them. County 4-H Clubs Seek 700 Members Seven hundred is the goal of Macon county 4-H club membership drive which will be the big item in National 4-H Club week. March 1 to 9, according to Donald Rocke, assistant farm adviser. "Working Together for a Better Home and World Community" is the theme for the special week, in which Illinois clubs will seek to sign up 50,000 members a 25 per cent increase over the last year. The local clubs will follow the week's campaign with the county-wide 4-H rally on March 11 in Johns Hill junior high school auditorium.

Mr. Rocke today announced the formation of a new club in the Boody area, members coming from Boody, Peru and Cherry Grove school districts. Decatur Township Caucuses Tomorrow Republicans and Democrats alike will hold their caucuses tomorrow to nominate candidates for the coming Decatur township election. The Republican causcus will be from 3 to 6 p. m.

in the Kintncr gymnasium. The Democratic caucus will be in the evening in the Venetian room of the Hotel Orlando. ASKS PROBATION Carl LeRoy Fleckenger, charged with reckless driving, pleaded guilty in county court today and asked for probation. He was released on $500 bond..