Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 3

DECATUR SUNDAY HERALD AND REVIEW Decatur, Illinois, Sunday, May 12, 1974 School Board to Get Study on Class Size Shopping Center Plan On City Council Agenda of the incorporated area. Bids up for board action include benches for industrial arts, audio visual equipment, window shades, roofing materials, auditory training system, library and art suj-plies. The board will meet 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in tne Keil Administration Building, 101 Cerro Gordo St." Staff photo by Bob Strongman Honor 9 Graduates Day Dinner Saturday Two other rezoning requests are on the agenda. These are for the property at 2615 E.

William ju on petition ot William and Ronald Badorek and for property at 2002 E-. Olive St. on petition of Olive-Locust y'y The council will consider ap-prpval of the final plat and subdivision improvement bond for the Robert Logan First Addition. Two items concerning the Torrence Park Urban Renewal Area will be discussed. There will be an authorization for filing an application with the U.S.

Department of Housing and Urban Development for grant. Also included will be the filing of an amendatory application for the project. The council is expected to authorize bids for the improve ment of Prairie Avenue between Franklin and Broadway. These payments will be sub mitted for payment: $4,569 to Homer L. Chastain and Associates for engineering services on Pershing Road intersection improvements at Broadway and Vicki Drive $11,484 to A.

F. Krall Construction Co. for general and site work on the new fire sta tion $1,896 to Goodmar, for North Court sanitary sewer. Three Youths Hospitalized After Crash Three Decatur teen-agers were in fair to serious condition Saturday night after an auto accident Friday that took the life of a 19-year-old woman and caused minor injuries to two others. Killed about 11:10 p.m.

Friday was the driver of the auto, Don na R. Stukins of 1611 E. Main St. Hospitalized in St. Mary's Hospital were Michael Eckart, 15 and Donna L.

Eckart, 17, both of 1213 E. Leafland Ave. and Carol S. Crutchfield, 18, of 133 N. Church St.

Treated and released from the hospital were two other passengers in the auto, Jack D. Eckart, 21, of 1020 S. 20th St. and Robert C. Nail, 15, of 1473 E.

Hickory St. The accident occurred on an unmarked county road near Mount Zion, two miles east of County Highway 49 and two miles south of County Highway 30. The auto reportedly was traveling about 75 miles an hour when the driver attempted to brake before coming to a crossing. The car skidded 104 feet and rammed into an embankment. Obituary on Page 24 Concert Tuesday The 58-piece band of Rich East High School, Park Forest, will present a concert 7 p.m.

Tuesday in Fairview Park. The band will appear earlier in the day at Millikin University. All persons may attend the free concert, but a special in vitation is extended to senior citizens. Lincoln Manor Shelter Care is coordinating local arrangements and will serve refreshments to the high school group after the concert. A study on class size in Decatur public schools will be presented Tuesday night to the Board of Associate Supt.

Robert G. Turner headed the committee which completed the study. Committee members included administrators and teachers. The report is expected to set new staff ratios the number of teachers for each 1,000 pupils in District 61 and present a plan for coping with irregularities caused by unexpected large enrollments. Although the committee's report has not been presented to the board, administrators were proceeding last week to staff schools for the 1974-75 term subject to revision by board action.

Based on the administration's projected enrollment for next year, District 61 is expected to lose between 300 and 500 pupils from its current enrollment of 19,462. Staffing of each school is proceeding on an estimated enrollment for that building with a number of teachers at different levels being declared surplus. These teachers are being reassigned as quickly as vacan cies occur because of resigna tions. Additional educational pro grams which the administration will propose through the 1974-75 fiscal year budget will mean District 61 will have about the same number of teachers next year as this year despite the enrollment decline. In other action Supt.

Robert Oakes will discuss with the board what its wishes might be concerning disposition of properties, the district will vacate upon completion of the building program. Included in these properties are the old Stephen Decatur High School and Gastman, Eldorado and Excelsior South elementaries, all of which will be replaced by new struc tures. A new principal for Brush College School for 1974-75 is to be named. Current principal Robert Patterson has been named principal of the new Baum School under construe tion. The proposed joint special education agreement creating the Macon-Piatt Special Educa tion District will be presented for action.

District 61 would be administrative district for the special education unit. A request from Western Illinois University to rent auditorium facilities will be acted upon. Renewal of the four high schools' memberships in the Illinois High School Association will be acted upon. Reports on attendance, transportation and summer mini-workshops for staff will be presented. Sertoma Club Cites Myers H.

Ray Myers has been chosen by the Noon Sertoma Club of Decatur as the recipient of its 1974 Service to Mankind Award. The award will be presented at the club's annual awards and installation banquet May 17 at the Blue Mill Restaurant. In bestowing the award, the club noted Myers' lifetime of concern for the betterment of educational and recreational facilities in Decatur. It cited his instrumental role in gifts from the Guy M. Scovill estate to both the Decatur Park District and Millikin University in excess of $1 million.

Myers has received the Outstanding Young Man award from the Decatur Jaycees for developing playground and recreation programs and the Duke of Edinburgh award for service in supporting national and international recreation. Retiring Teacher To Be Honored A retiring Mount Zion grade school teacher will be honored at a potluck supper Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at Salem Grade School. Mrs. Ellen Camic is retiring after 22 years of teaching.

She taught at Salem for seven years, and was previously a substitute teacher in the Mount' Zion, Bethany and Argenta-Oreana districts. All former pupils and their parents are A hearing on a pre-annexation agreement for the development of a major shopping center by Copaken, White Blitt, Kansas City, will be an item on the Monday night City Council agenda. The site of the proposed center is in the northwest quadrant of the new 1-72 and U.S. 51 The pre-annexation agreement is a set of guidelines which will govern the proposed construc tion of the shopping facility. A portion of the 130-acre tract is to be rezoned to a B-l classification and city officials believe this classification isn't restrictive enough to give proper control over construction.

City Manager Leslie T. Allen said the staff and representatives of the developers are in agreement with the pre-annexation agreement The village of Forsyth has filed objections to the proposed annexation, however. Village officials claim the site of the center is a mile from the village limits and the additional traffic would cause a nuisance and hazardous traffic conditions. There is also a fear the annexation will result in the sale of alcoholic beverages in Hickory Point Township which is dry. Forsyth is in this township.

Village officials also claim the center would hinder the growth Completion Schedule Presented Revised completion dates for the 12 projects in the Decatur public schools' $13.5 million building program were presented Saturday to the Board of Education. The board received the completion schedule along with revised cost data on the building program during a tour of construction sites. Dates indicated are those when buildings will hopefully be ready for occupancy although all work might not have been completed, according to Tom Bean, representing district architects, Caudill Rowlett Scott of Houston, Tex. The schedule should be met if steel for eight additions, the new Baum elementary and new center for the trainable mentally handicapped is deliverd on time, he said. Estimated completion dates by project are Garfield, Ullrich Brush College, and Dennis Dec.

30; Enterprise and TMH center Oct. French Feb. 15, 1975; Johns Hill and Spencer Oct. 21; Baum Nov. 25; Lakeview Sept.

1 and the new Stephen Decatur High School Dec. 15. Cost per square foot figures for each project were also given Saturday. Previous figures had been computed with equipment costs and site development c6sts included in the total, cost figure used to compute square footage cost. Bean said these costs have been removed and only the actual cost of each structure included when square footage cost was figured.

Disaster Equipment On Display Disaster equipment available to residents of the area will be on display today at Decatur Memorial Hospital to open National Hospital Week. Displays of equipment will be from 2 to 4 p.m. A National Guard helicopter will be located near the hospital's heliport with equipment for handling emergency victims. The helicopter crew will be on hand to explain the operation of the craft. An intensive care mobile unit also will be on display as will a rescue unit and a fire truck from the Decatur fire department.

The hospital staff will supply and show a pre-World War I vintage hospital room and operating room. Iir'comparison there will be a modern patient room and modern hospital equipment. The theme of this year's Hospital Week is "Get to Know Us Before You Need Us." iliikin to At Alumni Eight Millikin University alumni will be recognized for their achievements and loyalty to the University during the Alumni Day dinner Saturday the University ttenter- One other personwhose name will be kept secret' until announced at the 6:15 p.m. dinner, will receive special recognition as "Alumnus of the Year." The eight alumni whose names have been announced Haldon B. Ayars, Class of 1918, president of Ayars State Bank of Moweaqua.

Dr. Gerald 1962 graduate, physician -radiologist in Atlanta, Robert E. Linn, a 1936 graduate, retired partner of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell Co. of Decatur. Walter W.

Murfin, Class of 1941, Decatur physician and surgeon. Alex L. Sarran, a 1951 graduate, co-owner of George Wright, a California food brokerage firm. Clifford F. Stiegemeier, a 1928 graduate, vice president of Security Savings Loan Association and retired 41 year veteran teacher in Decatur schools.

Mae Ross Taylor, Class of 1929, recently retired after 30 years in various United Presbyterian Church positions. Corwin D. Querrey a 1918 graduate, senior partner in the Chicago law firm of Querrey, Harrow, Gulanick and Kennedy. During the 23rd annual alumni awards dinner, Linn and Sarran will be honored with alumni merit loyalty-' awards for achievement in their respective fields and "outstanding service to the University." Dr. Murfin, Miss Taylor and Querrey will receive awards for "worthy achievement reflecting credit upon Millikin and its alumni." Ayars and Stiegemeier will be presented awards for "outstanding service to the University, its objectives and ideals." Dr.

Domescik will receive the Young Alumnus of the Year award. Ayars entered the banking business after being graduated in 1918. He has been with the Had a Friend' 2 Fox, Rotz, Resign Posts Two Decatur public school principals have resigned effective the end of the current school year. Marion F. Fox resigned as principal of Lakeview High School, a job he was to assume July 1.

He is presently assistant principal at Stephen High School, a post he has held-? since 1966. -4 William L. Rotz Jr. is resignjj ing as principal of Ullrichj School, a post he has held since-1971. VJ Both resignations will be actecfc; upon Tuesday night by the Board of Education.

Fox said Saturday he isjj resigning for personal reasons-and has asked to be reassigned- in District 61 as a teacher. -Z Coming to Stephen Decatur inr 1957, Fox taught social studies and driver education there untife 1961 when he was named dean of He said he wants to return to the social studies! area. Rotz said Saturday he would rather not discuss his for resigning now but would -fee-willing to do so later. His future plans are indefiqjja. although he wishes to remain itiZ District 61, he said.

The situa-j; tion may be clarified by -the end ofMay. Rotz was alumni relations director for Millikin University from 1968-71." Prior to that was a teacher in the War-? rensburg-Latham District from-1961-68. Some Pupils To Be Shiffedl Some Decatur public school pupils will be shifted from their; regular attendance centers Ito-other schools next fall to completion of the District 61 building program. Supt. Robert Oakes announces! plans to make the moves Saturday during a tour of construe- tion sites by the Board TJti Education.

Determination of how many-children and where they will be moved is being worked out Oakes said. Plans should be completed by May 17. In most cases moves will be temporary, pending completion? of needed additional space iat several schools. ra least one boundary shift is bdrig contemplated to relieve overcrowded conditions. -Z Pupils now attending French School will be moved tdj Gastman School next fall.

Special education classroom: at Gastman will be moved Durfee, Roach or Southeast schools so it may accommodate extra pupils. French is to be extensively, renovated and an addition ofj seven classrooms and a mufr. purpose room is under con" struction. Scheduled completion date is Feb. 15, 1975.

Once the French project ii completed, the French and Gastman enrollments will ba combined with Gastman being phased out as an attendance center. Two or three classrooms wilf be moved from Dennis School t( another building pending com pletion of an addition which wilt house three first grade classes. Scheduled completion date fo the addition is Dec. 30. Dennis had 70 more pupil than projected enrollment; would have indicated for th current school year Overcrowding has resulted.

More young families wit, children are moving into olde homes in the Dennis district causing the influx of pupils Oakes said. A third school where change isr expected is Oglesby where enrollment has climbed from 288 in 1972-73 to 319 this vear. One class may be shifted frgm Oglesby to another school, possibly Harris, or a boundary change may be made to disburse pupils to other schools and relieve Oglesby overcrowded situation. Ayars State Bank, which his father organized in 1900. Ayars has been a member of the University's Trustee Committee on Deferred Giving since 1967.

The committee corresponds with alumni to inform them of ways to make deferred gifts to the University. -Dr. Domescik received a medical degree from Vanderbilt University. He then served as resident in radiology at Emory University, Atlanta, where he also serves two hospitals. In addition Dr.

Domescik is a clinical associate professor at Emory University Affiliated Hospital and is director of the Department of Nuclear Medicine at West Paces Hospital. He has published numerous papers. "While at Millikin, Dr. Domescik was a three sport athlete and led the Big Blue football team in scoring three straight years. He was top small college scorer with 120 points in 1961, was named NAIA All -American halfback and was inducted into the Millikin Athletic Hall of Fame in 1970 as a charter member.

Linn was a public accountant until 1973, when he was appointed director of the Springfield office of the Illinois Society of Certified Public Accountants. He is working with members of the Society to raise the profession's profile with the General Assembly and state agencies and departments to which CPAs report. Since leaving the University, Linn has remained active in various alumni programs, including the Alumni Foundation Board of Directors, on which he served in the late 1950s. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Decatur Chamber of Commerce and Lions Club of Dr. Murfin was graduated in 1944 from the Washington University School of Medicine.

While a Decatur physician, Dr. Murfin has been president of the Macon County Medical Society and an Advisory' Board member at St. Mary's Hospital. He was a medical officer in the U.S. Army in 1947 and 1953.

Dr. Murfin is associated in practice with his Dr. Maurice D. Murfin, a 1935 COVERED BY PLASTIC trash containers, these 12 youngsters were part of about 700 who marched through the rain Saturday from Nelson Park to Fairview Park and back again as part of the annual March of Dimes walkathon. lend a Foot' Walkathon Wet Success Rain didn't stop the "Lend a Foot" walkathon Saturday.

About 700 of the 911 registered to trek the 15-mile route through Decatur finished the course, according to Mrs. Sylvia Carlton, executive secretary of the Mid Illinois Chapter of Na tional March of Dimes. Mrs. Carlton said $23,000 was pledged for the marchers, but not all of this sum will be collected because of dropouts and incomplete returns. Participants were to have checked in at several points on the route and have a card she said, but rain soaked the cards and washed out some check points.

Walkers will be given new envelopes in which to return pledges, she said. The envelopes may be dropped off at public schools. Johns Hill Middle School won the Battered Foot trophy for most miles walked, with 185 participants. Roosevelt Middle School was a close second. Last year more than $16,000 was raised.

Strike Continues About half the 52 employes of Dante's Restaurant, 745 E. Cer-ro Gordo remained on strike Saturday. The employes are striking to seek recognition of Bartenders, Hotel Restaurant Employes Local 573 at the restaurant. The walkout began about 4 p.m. Thursday.

A spokesman for the strikers said no settlement talks had been scheduled. help back. "In a major disaster when you lose your home, you lose everything whether you are affluent or not." She adds in a terribly British imperative, "And I think outside help should have been given." So she gave, sending the check for five pounds (about $12) and a letter to the editor of The Decatur Herald. The check will be forwarded to the Macon County Chapter of the American Red Cross. "Oh, dear," Min says, "I can't do much, but I did feel at the time I should have done something.

It's only a little thing." Min's earliest impressions of Millikin graduate and recipient of a 1961 Alumni Award. Before forming George Wright, and becoming its vice president and secretary four years ago, Sarran was a general partner in the Kelley Clarke Co. of San Francisco, Calif. Sarran is a member of the Institute of Food Technologists, California Dairy Institute Association and the Northern California Food Brokers Association. While at Millikin, Sarran was center on the Big Blue basket ball team that won conference championships in 1950.

and 1951 and went on to the NAIA playoffs. He has been active in organizing alumni activities in the San Francisco area and is area vice president of the Alumni Association. stiegemeier- was a public school teacher and educator in Decatur for 41 years before retiring in 1969, when he joined Security Savings Loan Association. He taught at Mount Olive and Staunton for nine years following his graduation from Millikin before coming to Decatur. Stiegemeier is a class agent for the Class of 1928, a member of the Hall of Fame Selection Committee and was a director for four years of the Alumni Association.

He is active in the Noon Lions Club, Chamber of Commerce and First United Methodist Church. Miss Taylor retired in 1973 as associate general director of the Vocation Agency, United Presbyterian Church in the USA. She was responsible for agency design and staffing and forming personnel policies for a General Assembly Mission Council agencies of the Church. Miss Taylor, who lives in Los Gatos, plans to remain an active volunteer in her church despite her retirement. Querrey.

has become one of the nation's top specialists in personal injury cases. He has worked mainly defending casualty" claims and related personal injury Attorney Querrey has written numerous publications and articles. Bob Gray President Of Jaycees Bob Gray of Dundee was Saturday elected president of the Illinois Jaycees. About 1,200 Jaycees from 300 chapters were attending the state group's annual convention at the Holiday Inn. Gray, formerly of Springfield, is coordinator of occupational education for Dundee Schools.

He defeated Duffy Lowrance of Taylorville for the post. Lowrance and Gray were two of four men cited by Illinois Jaycee president Bob Sturgeon for a "Key Man" award. Other winners were Gary Kaufman and Ed Springer. The three-day convention concludes today, with more awards for outstanding com munity projects. Think It's About Time America Londoner Sends Check to Aid Tornado Victims United States for the first time two years ago.

"This is good this Min sas of America. And she says, if you think she's sold on America, you should hear Pat. "She goes mad if you run anything down." Min especially remembers a letter from' Pat after the tornado. Pat's family, didn't sustain any tornado damage. But a few people Min had met Pat wrote, "I have yet to hear of any country in the world who has offered any help, yet when disasters happen anywhere else the U.S.A.

is the first to help." Min adds her own postscript: "Very true and very sad." Americans go back to World War II and a little thing. A soldier named Eddy from Colorado who dated her older sister and sometimes' brought candy. How they loved that candy. Min was a young teen-ager then. -V; Years later she watched! her youngest, sister, Patsy, the only one of 10 children to leave London, go to the United States.

"When she went "to America we all thought she.was very brave and we were all very Patsy is now Mrs. David Butterfield of Harristown. "Anyone would be jolly proud to be an American," says Min, who visited the By Karen T. Lobeck "Five pounds only," the blue check from Barclays Bank of England read. the hope it will help in some little way, for I am very sad indeed.

the accompanying letter said. Min Page, address: 5 Kingswear Road, London," England, was upset about Macon County's April tornado and decided to help. Why? Min Page said matter-of-factly: "I think its about time America had a friend." How's that? The mother of four says from her London apartment, Do you know that about Americans? I thought they were always helping other people and they deserve.