Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 232, Decatur, Adams County, 2 October 1956 — Page 2

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Operation Bootstrap Aid To Communities

CARBONDALE. Hl. (UP) — A big area of 31 counties south and east of St, Louis has beeu suffering tor years front a chronic depression in the midst of national prosperity. It was marked by severe layoffs in the coal mines, dropping farm income. industries moving away and no new onaa comiughn. slump population, deterioration of shopping areas, schools and homes. Then three y&ars ago Southern Illinois University came right out and told civic leaders that no one was going to end their troubles but themselves. It offered them an economic blueprint which it called “Operation Bootstrap." It proved so effective it. is now jhe basis for Intensive do-it-your-self programs in 12 communities, ranging from the grimy railroad and industrial city of East St Louis to Elisabethtown, an Ohio River settlement of 600. Eldorado, population 4,300, was the first Illinois town to seek the university’s aid. It has come a long way since 1953. Here is what happened: Citisens banded together and agreed how to approach their problems. Hundreds of volunteer workers themselves rebuilt the city hall, tore down unsightly buildings and turned a week lot into a park. Merchants remodeled store fronts on the main street. Committees brought pressure which got funds for a-new bridge.' a new’ high school and new factory

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sites. Two new industries were started by local men and several outside firms now have Hldorado under consideration for plants. Other towns have made similar progress. Citizens of Mounds financed a factory building which enabled a garment manufacturer to triple his working force. Du Quoin, depressed by mine layoffs, brought in one uew industry expected to absorb almoat all the unemployed. The •■Bootstrap" program is di reeled bv Richard W. Poston, head of the university’s department of community development The program is aimed at reviving towns physically and spiritually to make' them better places to live and work. . "Any community can have these things if people want to get off their tails and work,” Poston saidt “We are helping people recognize their problems and face them real'istically." The development program starts with an effort to recruit as many people as possible. A door-to-door census is taken by volunteers to get basle information about the town. Committees are formed to make studies of conditions in every phase of oommunity life. Thia “self-analysis" usually takes about six months. By that time, a list of “action” projects will already have been completed, and plans can be laid for longer rangh projects. "A town starting on a program of this kind usually has a single objective in mind, a new factory,” says Poston. “But as soon as the people learn what they can do by working as a team, the prospect of improving their town from the ground up begins to make sense to them." It yoff have sometmng to sen 01 -ooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Au- it Orings reaalta —

Conference Is Held By Lutheran Laymen Annual Conference, Held At St. Louis D. Hoyt Callow of 30.3 X. Hithet., has returned from the annual threeday conference of district presidents. membership secretaries, Lu theran Hour chairmen. g.msJastoral advisers of the Lutheran laymen's league. The sessions were held in the Hotel Statler in downtwoirSt; Louis from Sept. 2ft to 30. Callow is Lutheran Hour director in the northern Indiana district.; New impetus was _gjv£p to every phase of league operations as the 200 league leaders were briefed on the latest development in the organization's broad program of Christian service. Dr. Arnold H. Grumm, recently elected first vice president of The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, opened the convention with a keynote address on Friday morning. This was followed by a message from LLL President A. W. Herrmann of New Orleans. The Rev. C. Thomas Spit*. Jr., director of Pan American Operations for the League, was adviser to the District Lutheran Hour chairmen. “The Cost of Discipleship" was the subject of Dr. Oswald Hofftnann’a talk at tb.e fellowship dinner Friday eveiung. D> Hoffmann is speaker on theJtyjrmational Lu theran Hour, the OiM3ii|fftion’s major project. Immediate Past President Louis A. Menking served as toastmaster. The conference closed on Sunday afternoon with a devotion by the Rev. George Wittmer, pastoral adviser of the League and pastor of Messiah Lutheran Church in St Louis. Trade Id a Good Town — De.. «

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Juday Is Appointed Justice Os Peace The appointtuent-.ot.Mm-kLJu-. day of Wabash township to the post of justice of peace for that township was approved by the vounty commissioners in their regular ipeeting Monday afternoon. Juday succeeds Karl DaWald* of ( Geneva, who resigned because of j hta teaching duties at the Mon- ■ mouth school, which make it neces-1 sary for him to l>e away from the ; township during most of the day. The appointment is effective immediately. If you have sometuing 10 sell 01' rooms tor rent, try a Democrat Want Ad. It bring* results.

In The Throat SAULT STE MARIE, Mich. — (UP) — Surgery' vias required to remove part of a broom handle from the throat of Harrison O’Connor. A makeshift bench on which he was leaning against the handle of his push-broom. The handle penetrated his throat and came out through his mouth. On The Button THE DALLES, Ore. —(UP) — Construction on the big The Dalles dam project came to an abrupt halt recently when a guide was showing some visitors how the dam’s push-button features work. The guide inadvertently touched a button that sounded an evacuation siren.

Sees Big Boost In Farmer Production 40 Per Cent Boost Necessary By 1957 HUNTLEY. 111. (UP) -.A leading agricultural educator said today a 40 percent increase in farm production will be needed to feed the population of the United States by 1975. Prof. Roy Bainer, chairman of the department of agricultural engineering at the University of California. spoke at the opening of the Thor research center for better farm living here. He said '‘the key” to the problem of feeding an increased population lies in the heightened efficiency of mechanized farming. Bainer said expanding urban areas and the development of superhighways will keep available croplands at a constantly dwindling level. He said to combat the crowd-ing-out trend, farmers must turn to mechanisation. The California professor was one of seven speakers scheduled to address .the seminar on power farming marking the ppening of the Thor research center. Dedication of the center was planned for Wednesday when agriculture secretary Ezra T. Benson will speak before farmers from Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana. Indianapolis Man Killed In Brawl INDIANAPOLIS (UP) - Wills Burks, 35, Indianapolis, was shot fatally today in what police said was a street corner brawl. Burks' slayer disappeared. Witnesses said an automobile occupied by two men and a woman stalled at a street intersection. They said the men got out and started fighting. One of them ran and the other drew a gun and began firing.

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Compassion Shown 1 For Broken Man Tried Bank Holdup With Lemon Squeezer NEW YORK (UP) — Justice smiled compassionately Monday on a broken man who tried to rob a bank with a lemon squeezer. A young assistant district attorney pleaded that charges be dropped against Edward J. Monkenmeyer. 63. who feebly tried to hold up a bank of 1.000 last Aug. 31 after he was fired from his job and evicted from his apartment. Monkenmeyer. once a prosperous attorney who had been unable to recover from the depression, “had just a little more than his share” of heartache, the prosecutor said. TTre half —■ straved man. whose wife and children left him. had just been IliOWi his job--, as an elevator operator when he decided to rob the bank. He held a lemon squeezer in his pocket, indicating he had a gun, and told a teller to give him the money. The teller refused and Monkenmeyer waited patiently for the police to come. He surrendered al-most-thankfully. Asst. Dist. attorney Burt Kohler told- Magistrate Thomas Fitzpa-t---‘rlck that the people of the etate of New York did not want to press charges., “A man can endure just so much pain and frustration in a lifetime, it seemed to us that Ed Monkenmeyer had just a little more than his share,” Kohlkr said. Kohler said Monkenmeyer is suffering from bleeding ulcers, his spirit is gone and his mind has faded. He staged the robbery as much to get a bed and food sh jail as to get mopey. Kohler said. Monkenmeyer. who has been assigned to a state hospital, said he was happy now “because I will be fed regularly for the rest of iny life.” Many persons who never saw the pitful little man contributed several hundred dollars for |him. Monkenmeyer said the one letter he has been looking for in the mail has never arrived—a letter from hiso'ife or children.

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