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THURSDAY Pago Page Page Party Sports Events Waunetta Holden of Salem, who has undergone triple-bypass heart surgery, is holding a party for bypass patients. High school baseball is in high gear, with Sectional action in Class A and Regional action in Class AA. Metro East concerts, meetings and events, as well as births, school lunch menus, movies and deaths, are listed. TV. on SECTION mois roost I May 31, 1984 ST.

LOUIS POST-DISPATCH x- I Illinois Sausage Packer, Where Best Is As The Wurst operate its fledgling catering business. His daughter Shelley, 19, will take over promotion of that operation when she gets home from college in a few days. His son, Curt, 16, spends a couple of hours before school in the butcher shop, dividing up the fresh hog carcasses that arrive daily. Dawkins' sister, Jean Ann Poehler, works at the deli counter. His daughter, Nicole, 1 4, rolls out at 5 a.m.

to make donuts for the country store. His father, Herman Dawkins, manages the store. His mother, Lena, is the company bookkeeper. There's an old saying that law market furnishing meats to delicatessens and caterers. Shows, exhibits and festivals are nothing new to the firm.

"We have a sausage festival out here about once a month," Dawkins says. It's not unusual to sell 3,000 sandwiches on a Friday and Saturday. Community groups are usually involved. For example, Louisville's high school cheerleaders organized a sausage festival for Memorial Day weekend to help pay for a trip to cheerleading camp this summer. Dawkins Packing Co.

takes pride in being a family firm. Warren's wife, Arllis, helps and sausage have one thing in common it's best not to see either one while it is being made. Well, that may be true of the law. But Dawkins is not at all shy about showing how his plant makes sausage. "It's not easy," he cautions.

"The first job is getting the recipes." For example, he traded his championship summer sausage recipe to a Mascoutah man for a recipe for smoked beef sticks. "The old timers don't give you anything," he said. "You Just have to find something they want." Dawkins got his sausage recipe in See SAUSAGE, Page 4 forced most of them out of business. "We're all on a profit-sharing plan here," Dawkins said, "If the company makes money, we all make money. "You've got to be different, out here in the country, to survive." By the end of June, Dawkins says he will have qualified for federal as well as state inspections.

That will allow his firm to fill orders from outside Illinois. His company also will have a booth at the International Fancy Food Confection Show June 24-27 at Washington Convention Center in the nation's capital. He hopes that will open doors to the "fancy food" Store in this town of 350, about 100 miles east of St. Louis. Many of the company's 15 employees are in their 20s.

"Most of the people who compete in these food shows are second and third generation," says Warren Dawkins, 42, the company owner. "It's hard to break in." Asked how his workers can compete with seasoned veterans with generations of experience and win Dawkins smiles and says: "Necessity." Small meat packing companies are considered a dying breed, he explains. Competition with the big packing house conglomerates has By Robert Goodrich Of the Post-Dispatch Staff LOUISVILLE, 111. Sausage makers who have been in the business for generations were floored recently when a tiny Illinois company, in business for only 14 years, won first prize for the best summer sausage in North America. Thex were even more taken aback to learn that the sausage maker is only 23.

He is Kenny Hilderbrand of Dawkins Packing Co. in Louisville. A dozen other major awards for cured meat products cover part of the wall behind the deli counter at the rear of the Dawkins Country oeig Prison St. ealtTwo Setbacks -4. c1" I 1 i '-w.

LanChem a company neighboring the facility proposed. "They're trying to make a dumping area of East St. Louis," Lanson said. He said that planners of the prison did not take into account the welfare of the city. "Our front door is only 41 feet from the mini-prison building," Lanson wrote Gov.

Thompson earlier this month. He said that if the prison were created, LanChem's insurer would drop the company's coverage because of its proximity to the prison. He also said LanChem's parent company threatened to move the company out of East St. Louis if the prison were created. Mrs.

Younge's resolution says that recent evidence showed that a number of burglaries were committed by inmates in the existing Martin Luther King Drive work-release facility. It says that the East St. Louis police force is inadequate to control potential crime. Mrs. Younge's resolution also says that it was alleged that the Department of Corrections promised to pay $2 million over a two-year period for the new facility, formerly a research laboratory for Alcoa.

Lanson said that LanChem had paid $175,000 See PRISON, Page 3 Officer, who supports the prison for the jobs and revenue it would bring the city, charged that the local legislators were convinced to oppose the facility by East St. Louis Township Supervisor Clyde C. Jordan. Jordan lately has been a political opponent of Officer's, although he had supported the mayor for re-election last year. "I guess I'm not surprised by our legislators not standing firm on a proposal that was brought initially, quite frankly, by the legislator to us," Officer said late Wednesday in a telephone interview.

The mayor said Jordan's opposition to the prison "was the overwhelming factor. It was purely politics." Jordan also publishes the East St. Louis Monitor and has used that newspaper to editorially oppose the prison. Officer said he didn't know why Jordan was opposing the prison on safety grounds while a similar work-release facility has operated safely in another part of East St. Louis for ten years.

"My mother never raised me to think like a fool, so I don't know what fools think," Officer said of Jordan's opposition. Among those testifying in the Legislature Wednesday against the prison was Elliott W. Lanson of Post-Dispatch Springfield Bureau SPRINGFIELD, ILL A proposal for a minimum-security prison and work-release program in East St. Louis suffered two setbacks Wednesday as legislators attempted to scuttle the project. On a vote of 49-4, the Senate on Wednesday approved a routine appropriations bill of $380 million for the Department of Corrections a bill that included an amendment by Sen.

Kenneth Hall, D-East St. Louis, attempting to stop the prison proposal on Missouri Avenue. Hall's amendment would ban funding for any new prisons in Madison or St. Clair counties. In a related move, the House Executive Committee approved 15-1 a resolution sponsored by Rep.

Wyvetter Younge, D-East St. Louis, calling for an investigation of the possible impact of the prison on East St. Louis. Rep. Younge said the resolution, which now goes to the full House, was a result of community protest against the prison.

The appropriations bill, if accepted by the House and approved by Gov. James R. Thompson, would halt construction of the prison. East St. Louis Mayor Carl E.

-v V. I 1 yf I i Auto Emission Inspections Endorsed For Rural Areas Jerry Naunheim Jr.Post-Dispatch years of marriage. They met during World War II. Bill and Brenda Burke after 38 Wartime Tea Dance Was Departure Point For Bride's Journey could also stop development by prohibiting the building of any facility that emitted hydrocarbons into the air. It could cut off federal money for air pollution control about 60 percent of the money spent for that purpose in the state, she said.

Ms. Luly said the Legislature could authorize an automobile emission inspection program by attaching it to another bill. But if the Legislature does not act by June 30, the federal government would move to impose sanctions, she said. Under federal pressure, the Missouri Legislature authorized automobile emission inspections last year. Ms.

Luly's report received a sympathetic response from Missouri members of the Gateway Council. "The air is above all of us," said Crestwood Mayor Patricia Killoren, president of the St. Louis County Municipal League. "The entire United States should have inspections, not just central cities." By Phil Sutin Of the Post-Dispatch Staff If the federal government imposes inspections of automobile emissions on metropolitan areas, it should require them in all areas, says the East-West Gateway Coordinating Council. In a resolution, the council said Wednesday that universal inspection would be the fairest way to have inspections.

The council acted after hearing a warning that Illinois might lose $100 million in federal aid for highway projects because bills calling for automobile emission inspections in the Chicago area and Madison and St. Clair counties died in committees of both houses in the past week. The warning came from Carol B. Luly, a spokeswoman from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency's office in Collinsville. The federal government, she said, In other matters, the council recommended the federal government spend $94,720 to help four Metro East organizations buy vans to transport elderly and handicapped people.

The groups are the Brooklyn Senior Citizens Edwardsville Senior Citizens Services, the Lincoln Trail Association and the O'Fallon Rotary Club. The council backed a proposal for spending $745,500 in federal funds to help pay for widening 1.1 miles of Illinois Highway 111 from Conrail railroad tracks to Avon. Place in Washington Park. The state and Washington Park would provide the remaining money for the $1.4 million project. Endorsed also was a proposal for spending $132,480 in federal funds for the rebuilding of a two-lane bridge carrying Illinois Highway 156 over Fountain Creek.

The bridge is east of Vaymeyer. The state would provide the remaining money for the $184,000 project. Brenda Burke In 1945 photo Cable Channel May Cut $120 Monthly Tavern Fee accompanied there by an aunt. "He asked me to dance," she says. "The family joke is that he's been going around in circles ever since." They began writing to each other and he telephoned occasionally.

Romances between English girls and American GIs were not always met with approval in England, and at first she was afraid to tell her parents, Mrs. Burke remembered. But naturally they soon found out Both liked Bill personally, but were not enthusiastic about their teen-age daughter marrying someone from a foreign land thousands of miles away, she says. "Father wouldn't give permission," she recalled. "But we just fell in love and I had to make a choice." Burke got out of the Army late in 1945, returned home and got a job, completing the prerequisites for marriage that Brenda's father had listed.

"I came over In May 1946," she said. Crossing on a Liberty Ship, in the company of other war brides, was "a lark" because the food was abundant and delicious, Mrs. Burke remembered. Almost everything had been rationed In wartime England. But then she began the long train journey from New York City.

"I couldn't believe the distance," she said. "I thought I was going to the ends of the earth. All of England and Scotland and Wales would fit Into the state of Illinois." After two days she arrived at Union See BRIDE, Page 3 By Robert Goodrich Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Arriving in Waterloo, 38 years ago as an 18-year-old war bride from Manchester, England, was an experience not to be forgotten, says Brenda Burke. She and her husband, Bill, live in Belleville now. They recently celebrated their 38th wedding anniversary.

More than 60,000 war brides arrived from England after World War II, but Mrs. Burke is one of the 12 featured in a book, "Sentimental Journey," which was recently published in England. Two other war brides one who lives in Denver and another in Vienna, Va. are friends of hers. The author, Pamela Winfield, also was a war bride.

She returned to England after her husband was killed in an auto accident. The book is available only in England, but Mrs. Burke (who has a copy) says an American publisher is being sought Bill Burke was stationed in England during the war, a member of the U.S. Army Signal Corps. "I was with the Armed Forces Radio Network," he says.

His main duty was operation of transmitters. The 40th anniversary of the D-Day Invasion is next week, but Burke spent that period subject to regular German air raids. "I always say I fought the battle of Britain," he said, smiling. "I met Bill at a dance, actually," Mrs. Burke recalled.

Gatherings known as "tea dances" were held in large halls, and she was Guilty Plea In Killing One of five youths accused of murdering 85-year-old Charles H. Waldo last Feb. 15 as he tried to defend his home in East SL Louis has pleaded guilty. Anthony T. Barnes, 16, also of East SL Louis, entered his plea Wednesday before Circuit Judge John J.

Hoban. in Belleville. An accompanying charge of home invasion was dismissed. Sentencing is scheduled for July 2. The minimum sentence for murder is 20 years in prison.

I Still awaiting trial are Barnes' brother James "Eddy" Barnes, 18, John Johnson, 17 See Youths, Page 3 Sports Time, which features both home and out-of-town games of the baseball Cardinals, is a "premium" channel. When Sports Time was first offered to commercial establishments essentially taverns In the Metro East area last month, several tavern owners were up in arms about the subscription price. South-Western Cable TV Inc. had a $120 a month charge, while Telecommunications Inc. had a $125 a month charge.

Cable company officials had said that the monthly fees was justified since Sports Time would boost taverns' sales- The service is available to residential customers at $11.95 a month. By Safir Ahmed Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Metro East tavern owners who had objected to the $120-a-month fee for the new Sports Time cable television channel may be getting some relief. Sports Time is "responding to the situation," said Jerry Lovelace, a spokesman for Sports Time. A new policy would be announced early next week, which would "almost certainly include a reduced monthly rate," Lovelace said. "We're about 70 percent of our way through implementing a new arrangement," Lovelace said.

"We're going back to the cable companies and saying, 'Here's a promotional package' we're doing a sort of a miniature test market" Bill Burke In 1943photo.