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mm i i I I Wnat's Happenings A roundup of Seeing Stars: Chicago is hosting a Gardeners: Ann Acker of Godfrey and ISenin 3 I I I Metro East events 2 number of movie stars this summer 2 i others turn to horticulture 3 sjie" ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH IMofe Posit Tf SECTION THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1991 A f.l if Railroad Union Officer Is Fired After Accepting Fee From Lawyer By Charles Bosworth Jr. Sources said the investigators wanted to know if the payments were consultant fees or actually were paid to get union members' business for Tillery. Barton declined to comment on the Investigation last week, and Tillery said he was un- 1 ing some filed against Terminal. He said he was not paid for the one on trial then in Madison County Circuit Court; that case was settled out of court after three days of trial.

On'April 12, Tillery filed a petition to prevent the firing of Barton with Associate Judge Gordon who had heard the trial. Of the Post-Dispatch Staff 1991, St Louis Post-Dispatch A union officer was fired by the Terminal Railroad Association three days after he testified that he was paid $5,000 this year in consulting fees by a law- II jtllyt't yer representing workers against the railroad, the Post-Dispatch has learned. Those payments to Marty Barton, gener Barton testified on April 2 that he was paid $5,000 this year at $50 an hour by Tillery's firm as a consultant on "half a dozen" cases, including some filed against Terminal. Tillery's petition said the railroad had fired Barton on the ground that he violated two work rules prohibit Post-Dispatch File Photo The two tractor-trailer rigs that wedged together a few years ago trying to pass each other on the narrow Clark Bridge at Alton. al chairman of the United Transportation Union in Granite City, were reported to have been made by lawyer Stephen N.

Tillery of Belleville. The payments are being investigated by a federal grand jury in East St. Louis. Barton was fired April 5, before the investigation began. The investigation is led by Special Prosecutor Lee Satterfield from the organized-crime section of the U.S.

Department of Justice and investigators from the Office of Labor Racketeering of the Department of Labor. ing behavior not in the best interests of the company and requiring him to report to work on time. In the document Tillery charged that Ter-; minal was trying to destroy the credibility of the union and Barton by firing him. The court file shows that Maag decided April 12 to withhold a ruling until the railroad and union held a hearing on the firing on April 15. Maag told the lawyers that he had too little information to determine whether the rail See UNION, Page aware of it; They have not returned repeated telephone calls since then.

Barton had worked as a switchman for the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis for 23 years and had been a union officer for 12 years when he was fired. If his firing is upheld by the appeals procedure with the railroad and union, it could jeopardize his paid union job representing switchmen at Terminal. Barton testified on April 2 that he was paid $5,000 this year at $50 an hour by Tillery's firm as a consultant on "half a dozen" cases, includ PAT GAUEN Replacement Span At Alton Is Treat For Bridge Lover I already realized that I had bridge lover's disease. But it was underscored this week when Jim Easterly told me that the new Clark Bridge at Alton would have a "cable-stayed" design.

You see, I knew right away what he was talking about. Easterly is construction engineer for the Illinois Department of Transportation's district highway office at Collinsville. His agency is supervising erection of a badly-needed replacement span. If you don't know why it's badly needed, you've never been over the old one. It is narrow.

Really narrow. It is so narrow that two tractor-trailer rigs got struck a few years ago as they passed going opposite ways on the two-lane deck. It is so narrow that I had to stop in traffic in the middle of it one day and a companion who doesn't like bridges nearly as much as I do almost became catatonic. (I think he's still in therapy for it.) My fascination with bridges goes back further than I can really remember, owing perhaps to a one-time dream of being a civil engineer. I thought better of it when I realized that my math skills were so poor that, if I became a civil engineer, disasters probably would dog and shorten my career.

So when I had occasion to stand in the middle of the new eastbound span of the Jefferson Barracks Bridge last Dec. 3, 1 was serene in the knowledge that I had nothing whatsoever to do with the design or building of it I was happy to be there, nonetheless, because there isn't anywhere to just stand and enjoy on most bridges. And I was enjoying this one on a most improbable day. My job was to write about the grand opening ceremony, something we probably would not have covered had Dec. 3 not been smack in the middle of the period in which climatologist Iben Browning said there was a 50-50 chance of a major earthquake at New Madrid.

I had dreams of a headline like, "Brave Reporter, Others, Face Tremor Scare On New Bridge." Some of my editors probably dreamed of a headline like, "Coast Guard Searches for Brave Dignitaries, Others, In Bridge Collapse." Plenty of dignitaries did assemble there, including highway engineers who either See GAUEN, Page 2 Scholar's Slaying Raises Questions Of Intrigue riends and family suspect Odell Mitchell Jr.Post-Dispatch Trooper Smith Cardinals shortstop Ozzie Smith wearing a trooper's hat given him recently in a ceremony at Busch Stadium by Illinois State Police. He was named an honorary trooper because of his work against drug abuse. Part Of Grant To Set Up Hispanic Scholarship By Sharon Cohen Of The Associated Press CHICAGO It is a whodunit rife with rumors of revenge, political plots and international intrigue. And it all began with a single shot on a late spring day on the University of Chicago campus. One bullet killed loan Culianu, a religion professor and prolific scholar who churned out scores of academic tomes on topics such as near-death experiences, altered states and the supernatural and some biting attacks on the government of his native Romania.

loan Culianu was intrigued by mystery in life. In death, he has stirred up a mystery of his own: Who would kill a courtly, popular, respected professor? "We're just flabbergasted at all the circumstances surrounding this," said Detective Commander Fred Miller. "We are investigating as we normally do but this is really one for the books." Friends and family Suspect Culianu may have been killed to muzzle his harsh criticism of Romania. They said he had received threatening letters and changed his office locks. Four days before his death, they.said, he canceled a trip home this summer to see his mother because he feared for his safety.

"All I know was he was getting threats, and his life was in danger," said his sister, Therese Petrescu. Culianu may have been killed to muzzle his harsh criticism of Romania. They said he had received threatening letters. "He never said a name," she said "but it was clearly assumed" the Romanian secret police were involved. "I'm certain there is a connection, but I cannot accuse anyone directly," Petrescu said.

"We are convinced all my friends and family that it is a political crime." Police who are being assisted by a Romanian-speaking FBI agent will not comment on the political angle, although they say there is nothing to early rumors about the occult As the weeks pass, they are still searching for clues or tips. "Hopefully, we'll strike oil on one," Miller said. "We don't have the investigative leads we have in other cases." They have no eyewitnesses, no weapon, no known motive, Culianu, 41, was shot once in the back of the neck May 21 in a locked bathroom stall near his third-floor office in the Divinity School, See SLAYING, Page I CHICAGO (AP) Since Chicago community activist Paul Roldan won a $275,000 MacAr-thur Foundation "genius grant" three years ago, he's spent a lot of time contemplating what to do with it. Now, he says he'll return some of the money to the community by setting up a scholarship fund for fellow Hispanics. "We, as primarily poor, powerless people, live in neighborhoods built 60 to 70 years ago where there are vacancies, fires, loss of property and also, with that a multi-generational loss of hope," Roldan said recently.

Roldan, 47, then announced that he'd established a $100,000 college scholarship fund to help young Hispanics build careers in urban planning and real estate development. "Our image of success is a guy in an Eldorado dealing out of his car. We've got to show that there are ways in this society they youth can succeed," Roldan said. Roldan received his MacArthur award after spending two decades pioneering the development of affordable housing for Hispanics. He came up through the barrios of Brooklyn, studied real estate and social studies and was executive director of the Sunset Park Redevelopment Committee in Brooklyn.

As executive director of the Hispanic Housing Development Roldan has overseen the development of about 1,000 affordable town homes and apartments in Chicago. MacArthur officials said Roldan is the first MacArthur fellow to use his grant to create a scholarship. "It exemplifies in a very clear way the kind of ideas we had about the MacArthur Fellowship when we started it" said Ken Hope, director of the MacArthur Fellowship program. When asked why it took him three years to decide to establish the scholarship fund, Roldan said, "It's not easy to give away money." Roldan announced Elizabeth Reyes, 25, as the first recipient of the Teresa and Hipolito Roldan Community Development Scholarship Fund, named for Roldan's parents, who immigrated to New York from Puerto Rico during the Depression. I Retreat Carlyle Lake Offers Convenience, Beauty, Campsites Corps Project Became Popular Site For Residents From Area Jf By Robert Kelly Of the Post-Dispatch Staff CARLYLE, 111.

Carlyle Lake's appeal as a quick getaway for residents of the St Louis and Metro East areas was summed up in two i i i I i 1 -M I TRIPS 1 I JlsdoJHH IN MLLINUIS. miles east of St. Louis, say good camping sites usually can be obtained on short notice on weeknights. And with the lake only an hour's drive or so from most of the St. Louis area, it's an easy, relaxing day trip away from the big city.

Dunaway's and Taylor's families recently enjoyed a camping and fishing trip in their large camper at Eldon Hazlet State Park at Carlyle Lake. The park, about three miles north of Carlyle off Illinois Route 127, offers campsites for more than 300 trailers and campers and 36 more sites for tent camping. Dozens of other campsites are available nearby at the Dam West Recreation Area, just north of the city of Carlyle, and at South Shore State Park, off U.S. Highway 50 about four miles east of Carlyle. In all, more than 800 campsites in eight public campgrounds ring the man-made lake.

it is the largest lake within the boundaries of Illinois and stretches for a length of almost 18 miles and a maximum width of nearly five miles. A visitor can see nothing but water on the horizon when standing at Carlyle Dam and looking lengthwise over the lake. The lake was formed by the construction of. the dam on the Kaskaskia River, beginning late in 1958. The Corps of Engineers was authorized by Congress earlier that year to develop the lake, in response to area residents' demands for flood control, a better water supply and fish and wildlife conservation.

What was called the Carlyle Dam and Reservoir Project was completed in mld-1967 at a cost of nearly $41 million. The Corps of Engineers at first considered recreation to be a side benefit of forming the lake. But camping, fishing, swimming, hiking, boating and water skiing have become major attractions even overshadowing the original reasons for the project i "We don't go far away to camp anymore; we just come here," Hazel Lomax of Pontoon Beach said as she recently helped her hus- band, John, set up their large camper at the Illini Campground at Eldon Hazlet State Park. "You can drive for hours and hot find any place better to camp," she said. She noted that their camper has all the comforts of home but still enables them to enjoy the beauty of the countryside.

"It's not roughing it I'll admit that" she said. "We even have anicrowave here!" See LAKE, Page 4 fit Up vJfv short sentences by Ervin Dunaway of Collinsville. "It's usually a pretty nice place to camp," he said, as he packed after a recent weekend at the lake. "It's close, too." Dunaway's son-in-law, Gene Taylor of Collinsville, added, "But it's far away enough from the city that it doesn't get overcrowded." Truth be told, the campgrounds at Car lyle Lake do fill up rapidly on many weekends in the spring, summer and fall. But officials of the Army Corps of Engineers, who manage the lake about 50 Robert LaRouchePost-Dispatch Sailboats in one of the marinas at Carlyle Lake.

The lake is one of the most popular lakes for sailing in the Midwest.f.