St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 68

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH I iv I 1 1,1 -)! of in WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1966 a PAGES 1 8W rarlreTON CITY RECEIVES TRACT REZONED r. I a WK'J 6 I'- -J I mabfii in in wm mwwN I rno VI kl I1IWI ill II 1 I II Willi II I lm I lllkl IV I 1 I all I Ml CLAYTON 10 ii mi lMii ttKSEX 3 r5J4J -inc. JK Aerial view of the Oelmar station at Oelmar boulevard foreground) and Hodiamont avenue shortly before its completion in 1929. Oes Peres avenue was built later over the channel of the Oes Peres river shown to the left of the tracks.

Delmar Station, Last Branch Depot In City, to Stay Open, Railroad Says nil Richmond Heights Council Clears Way for Apartments. Office Project The Richmond Hcijjhls City Council has cleared the way for construction of the city's first 20-story building by rezoning two and onehalf-acre tract at 7910 Clayton road to a limited commercial apartment district. The ordinance received all three readings and was enacted Monday evening. Plans for the $4,500,000 structure call for offices on the first five floors and apartments of two- and three-bed room design on the other floors. An outdoor pool will be available for the building's residents, and most of the parking will be at surface level with access from a new street to be named West Linden avenue.

A Gulf Oil Co. office building will be razed for the new construction, but a service station at the corner of East Linden avenue and Clayton will remain. Favored By Commission The city's Planning and Zoning Commission had recommended approval of the rezoning request, and no opposition was voiced at a public hearing on Eggs in German Style Mrs. Robert Henry, 1052 1 Clarendon avenue, St. Ann, with a display of German Easter eggs she decorated at the Rock iRoad Branch of St.

Louis County Library, 10267 St. Charles Rock road, St. Ann. Mrs. Henry came here from Germany.

Old World Look Distinguishes Easter Egg Displays Here The opening of Olivette's new Stacy park, at Old Bonhomme road and Olive boulevard, is set for Monday morning, weather permitting. Mrs. Arnold Schrier, secretary of the Park Commission, said residents had been impatient to use the new park since the 23-acre site was made available to the city about one year ago. However, extensive grading and seeding work has postponed the opening. City Manager Vernon G.

Box-ell stood firm on keeping the area closed until the park could be used without endangering the city's work and expenditure in park landscaping. The park will include facilities for athletics, a playground and picnic area under plans developed by Robert Goetz, a landscape architect. A special feature will be the children's "moonscape" play area with lunar craters and geodesic shelters. Mrs. Schrier said that about $11,000 would be spent on the park's development in the 196S fiscal year.

However, she said that no large investment would be made in the park because the city was only allowed usj of the land and does not own it. Ownership is retained by the St. Louis Water Division, which operates a water reservoir on adjoining land. Mrs. Schrier requested that groups seeking us of the three ball fields apply at the City Hall, 9473 Olive boulevard.

Applications should include the group's name and how often the group would use one of the fields. She said the city planned to post a schedule that would prevent organized leagues from monopolizing the fields. CLAYTON YWCA SLIDE SHOW This month's armchair travelers slide show of the St. Louis County Branch YWCA, 140 North Brentwood boulevard, Clayton, will be at 7:45 p.m. Thursday, April 14.

The program will include slides of Israel and, after refreshments, a motion picture of the Middle East. University City officials have received apparent low bids of $16,685 for sidewalk and curb repairs in the Delmar Loop urban renewal area and of $9220 for demolition in the Cunningham Park area. The sidewalk and curb improvements bid submitted by Oliver T. Ahal, cement contractor, was the lowest of seven submitted. Others ranged up to $25,000.

City Manager Charles T. Henry said the cost of the work had been estimated at $18,250 by City Engineer Allen B. Dieck-graefe. The work will include repairing sidewalks and curbs along Clemens, Syracuse and Heman avenues in the multifamily area north of the Delmar Loop business district. The bids and the administration's recommendation will be submitted to the City Council at its next meeting April 18, Henry said.

The demolition bid was submitted to the city's Land Clear-ance for Redevelopment Authority by C. S. Ehlinger, a Kansas City contractor. It was one of five ranging up to The work calls for razing residential buildings in the Cunningham Park urban renewal area north of Olive boulevard and east of Sutter avenue. The cleared land will be sold to industries in the area for expansion and others that will build new plants.

R. Tinsley Parke, executive director of the authority, said that the bids would be considered by the authority board at its meeting Tuesday. LUNCHEON IN ELLIS VILLE The annual spring luncheon of the Ladies Aid Society of St. John's Lutheran Church, 1220 Manchester road, Ellisville, will be at noon, Thursday, April 21. There will be a bake sale, prires and musical comedy skit.

The luncheon is open to the public. Tickets are $1.25 at the door. the front wall. Gone are the bronze baggage rail that used to run along the front of the ticket windows, and the bronze grilles that formerly guarded cashiers. The divided oak benches are still present, as is the ornate bronze water fountain, backed by a dolphin's head set in green marble.

The old commuter trade has also been lost, mainly to the new expressways. However, Oliver K. Blackburn, station manager, says that he still sells tickets for the I5-minute trip between Delmar and Union stationto groups of school children so they can ride a train. Used By Head Start Project Head Start has made particular use of this service, Blackburn said. Blackburn, who has held his position for 25 years, says he misses most seeing baseball stars who used to arrive at Delmar for games here.

This is another source of passenger traffic that has been lost to the airplane. "Even If the station was closed," Blackburn said, "I don't see what else it could be used for. A few jokers have suggested that it could be of Kansas City, Delmar passengers can board what is perhaps the most famous train in American rail history Train No. 1, the Wabash Cannonball. In this diesel age, the Cannon-ball no longer has the "rumble, rattle and roar," of the old days, but the romance remains in the Norfolk and Western's refusal to delete "Wabash" from the timetables.

Business at Delmar is fairly brisk between 9:25 a.m., when the Cannonball leaves for Chicago, and 6:45 p.m. when No. 211 heads for Council Bluffs. Old-timers miss the bustle that used to begin around 9:30 p.m., when overnight travelers began to board sleepers for Kansas City and Chicago. The cars were later picked up by the now defunct midnight trains from Union station.

At one time, this was a healthy business, but a railway spokesman, explained that fares had substantially declined because of airline flights. "A businessman can fly out early in the morning end arrive on time for a day of appointments," he noted. The marble, bronze-ornamented interior of the station has hardly changed since 1929. The only new additions are an escalator, installed in 1947, and several vending machines against By HARPER BARNES Of the Post-Dispatch Staff The continuing decline in rail passenger traffic has brought about the demise of several outlying stations in the St. Louis area.

However, executives of the Norfolk and Western Railroad have assured passengers and railroad buffs that there are no plans to close the last branch station within the city limits Delmar station at Del-mar boulevard and Hodiamont avenue. Stations closed have been the Missouri Pacific and Frisco installations at Tower Grove and Vandeventer avenues, the Missouri Pacific's South Broadway station, and the Terminal's station on Washington avenue. Delmar station, a compact Ionic structure of granite, limestone and brick, was erected in 1929 and marked the end of one of the city's biggest grade crossings. In those days it was operated by the Wabash railroad, and despite that firm's 1964 merger into the Norfolk and Western, the words "Wabash Railway Company" are still inscribed over the entranceway. About 200 passengers who use the station daily board or get off 12 trains six inbound and six outbound.

Besides such frains as the Banner Blue, Blue Bird, City of St. Louis and City this country from Germany in 1950. Unlike Frohse's eggs, those of Mrs. Henry are not edible. She has decorated the eggs in various ways, using ribbons, seed pearls, braid, beads, shells, feathers and paper.

Several are mounted on ornate bases. One of the eggs, which won a prize in a St. Louis television show contest, is lacquered pink and studded with red brilliants and silver sequins. Some of the eggs are ceramic and are hollowed out to show interior scenes. Exhibits at both libraries will be on display at least through next week.

Library hours are 8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekdays and 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Easter egg displays ait the Tesson Ferry and Rock Road branches of St.

Louis County Library have an Old World look this year. They were fashioned by craftsmen from Russia and Germany. Eugene Frohse, a 93-year-old retired candy maker and bee keeper, learned his craft as a boy in Russia. The eggs on display at the Tesson Ferry branch, 9920 Lin-Ferry drive, Concord Village, are of a hardened marshmallow base ornately overlaid with several types of icing. The collection of hand-decorated eggs on exhibit at the Rock Road branch, 10267 St.

Charles Rock road, St. Ann, is owned by Mrs. Robert Henry, a St. Ann housewife who came to the project held March 21 when the Sachs Real Estate and Mortgage Co presented its development plans. Another ordinance enacted at the council meeting provided for new building height limitations of three stories or 35 feet in commercial districts, and three stories or 45 feet in commercial districts.

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