I remember Fairview and the park beside Decatur Lake Beach as a child. The parks were beautiful. We to them went often as a child. We swam in Decatur Lake until the polio scare when they closed the Decatur Lake Beach to swiming. The Lake was still beautiful in the 1950s. There was no air-conditioning there in the 1940s when I grew up there on 345 N. 25th St. I went to Roach gradeschool. We rode the buses for transportation then. Deatur was a very nice town in those days. I remember as a child the Staley building with the colored lights shining on the outside of top floors of it during World War II. I remember I loved the big old Sears store with the candy counter. Grandmother would take me there and buy me orange slices, coconut macaroons and that those buterscotch flavored pecan pieces by the pound. tow of my aunts worked there. Aunt Esther TRAYLOR was a seamstress there early and for many years. She died last year. Decatur was a nice place to grow up when I was a child in the 1940s. My MARSH, SHERMAN and FRAZEE and other ancestors came to that area early. Beverly (HIMES) BARGER now in Texas