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2 DAILY CHRONICLE, DeKalb, Illinois Monday, Sept. 8, 1980 Strike averted for now- of Kaneland (-Community Without disclosing the terms of the proposed agreement, Radcliffe indicated the negotiators made "substantial progress" in coming to terms on the entire contract, including salaries, insurance, and other internal subjects. Figures released previously indicated the board had offered teachers an 11.6 percent salary increase during the present contract year while KEA members were asking for a 13.5 percent hike. The KEA plans to meet at 6:45 p.m. tonight to vote on ratification of the agreement.

Members will then attend the 8 p.m. school board meeting at Kaneland High School to hear the decision of the board. By Jack Rroughton Staff writer MAPLE PARK The possibility of teachers striking in the Kaneland School District diminished significantly Saturday when contract negotiators made considerable progress toward solving their differences, according to sources from both negotiating sides. Marty Donnelly, Kaneland Education Association negotiator, called the possibility of a strike "slim," after the Saturday negotiating session. "When considerable progress is made by both sides, there comes a point when a strike is not worth it," Donnelly said.

"At this point, the possibility of a strike is slim. Kaneland Superintendent Dr. David Radcliffe said the two negotiating bodies reached an agreement that is subject to the approval tonight of the KEA and the school board. He declined to give any specifics of the talks to avoid the risk of alienating KEA members during this sensitive time in the contract negotiations. KEA President Steve LeVrouw said, "We're going to bring the proposal before our members tonight.

I and the members of the negotiating team feel it's a good one, and I think it will pass, although I'm not sure of it." Radcliffe will also outline the agreement for school board members tonight at the regular meeting. He declined to speculate on the measure's passage by the board. LeVrouw said, "I assume since he offered it, he had the authorization to go the way he did." He added that if the proposal was not ratified by both groups, the KEA might reconsider its previous decision to call a strike. Last week, KEA members authorized their negotiators to call a teachers' strike, pending board action tonight. Year of optimism begins at Northern digest IBHE meets at NIU Officials are expected to announce the name of the new executive director of the Illinois Board of Higher Education at the board's meeting tomorrow at Northern Illinois University.

The board will meet at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow in the Regency Room of NIU's Holmes Student Center. 'Through Women's Eyes' "Through Women's Eyes" may open some eyes. 4 A series of community forums sponsored by the Illinois Humanities Council, "Through Women's Eyes" will begin Wednesday, Sept. 17 at 7:30 p.m.

in the Heritage Room of the Holmes Student Center at Northern Illinois University. The initial program is co-sponosred by NIU's College of Continuing Education, the NIU Office of University Resources for Women, and the NIU Organization or Academic Women's Equality. Speakers include Dorothy Bock, executive director of Womanspace; Barbara Bate, assistant professor in the NIU speech communication department, and Sherman Stanage, NIU professor of philosophy. The forum will concentrate on the changing roles of women and the effects on the arts, communication and ethics. The NIU forum is one of a number planned this fall on women's perspectives and is under the direction of Arlene Naher.

Radio guest The executive director of the Illinois Council on Economic Education will appear on Paul Liggitt's "The Community Speaks" at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 9, on WHBF radio. John L. Lewis will join Liggit and several other guests to discuss, "Is Our Economic System Failing?" An economist, Lewis coordinates statewide activities for the ICEE, which is based at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb.

Other guests on the hour-long program include Sisten Kathleen Eberdt from Marycrest College in Davenport, Iowa, and Ted Mueller, president and chief operating officer of the First National Bank of Rock Island. WHBF Transmits at 1270 on the AM dial. Architect engineer selected SPRINGFIELD Brown, Davis, Mullins Associates, has been selected by the Illinois Captial Development Board as the architectengineer for a boiler remodeling project at Northern Illinois University at DeKalb. The Champaign firm will design the project, which involves installing heat economizers in two boilers to increase the boiler plant's efficiency and conserve heating fuel. Savings in the first year are projected to total $115,800, and the project is expected to pay for itself in 1.5 years.

The design is scheduled for completion in March 1981, with construction targeted to begin in May 1981. The Capital Development Board selected the firm for its expertise in designing this type of project. "I think where dollars are tight and resources are stretched it is the responsibility of the university administration to put those dollars where they're most desperately needed and that is in the pocketbooks of the instructional faculty of the university." Meeting utility costs continues to be a vexing problem, Monat said. Of the $24 million in NIU's current appropriated budget a large part "pays bills for lights, heat and air conditioning and we continue to have problems anticipating what increased utility costs will be this year." The recent, rate increase requested by Commonwealth Edison, if approved, would mean that "overnight NIU would have accumulated an instantaneous $600,000 deficit. "This comes after the university budget has been and after the governor has signed the appropriations bill." fact "that Illinois has not recognized the erosion that has occurred over the past ten years in the purchasing power of faculty in all state universities in Illinois." Northern, he said has slipped in comparison to universities with which it is usually compared nationally.

"Ten years ago we were third among a peer group, today we are near the bottom. I know that at institutions in the Mid-American Conference in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan faculty and staff salary increments the past two years have exceeded by far those awarded by the state of Illinois." Of the 8 percent faculty increment available this year, Monat said that NIU was able to provide an average 8.4 percent increase for instructional faculty and 7.9 percent for administrative "I make no apologies to my administrative colleagues," Monat said. Northern Illinois University President William R. Monat welcomed faculty and staff on a note of optimism Wednesday as Northern began its 82nd year with one of the largest enrollments in its history. "I've never been quite as optimistic about an auspicious beginning of an academic year as I am this year," Monat said at the annual fall faculty meeting.

Based on preliminary estimates, he said that on-campus enrollment "is likely to be up between 760 to 800 students," despite a June 2 cutoff on freshman enrollment which limited the increase in that class to 136. Pointing out that freshman enrollments had reached a peak last year except for the all-time high in 1979, Monat said, "I think this year will be the peak year for freshman enrollments in the history of the university. "Total enrollment, both on and off campus is expected to be 'between and 26,000 If that occurs it will break all previous records," he said. All of which, Monat noted, was "good news and bad news. The good news is that we must be doing something right; the bad news is that I wish we had ihe resources to provide them the quality education I think they deserve." Touching on Northern's budgets and the salary situation, Monat expressed disappointment with the Chronicle THE DAILY Don't cut me down Despite the plea of a sympathetic spray painter, demise of the old Sycamore water tower was scheduled to begin today when contractors were supposed to move in with equipment to tear down the structure.

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Rich, presenting information on their state activities. "The kids seem to be very active in state organizations and I think that is quite a testimonial to the students and their advisers," Rich said. Assistant Superintendent Max Brantner is also scheduled to report to the board on the transportation situation in the school district. Rich said the report is basically a "positive" one. He added there have been a few minor problems, but nothing to disrupt the district's transportation.

Guidance director Don Clayberg will summarize the annual guidance department report for the board, and a report will be made on recent building inspections by the office of the Regional Superintendent of Schools. One of the few actions scheduled to be taken by the board will be a decision on how to repair a steeply slanting area of the Sycamore High School parking lot. Rich said estimates for different methods of repair are being obtained from Stahl Construction Co. to give the board information on how to handle the deteriorating surface. SYCAMORE The Sycamore School Board will do less talking and more listening than usual tonight at its regular 8 p.m.

board meeting which should be filled with reports to the board that require no board action. First on the agenda is a report from four Sycamore High School students who are involved on the state level in different student organizations. Students Jeff Cufaude, Holly Koch, Angie Tennison and Marion Strack will address the board, according to Superintendent Donald COUNTRYSIDE CERAMICS Thrift sale SYCAMORE Dustin Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star is hosting a thrift sale at the Masonic Temple, 240 E. Edward St. on Saturday, Sept.

13, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Items to be sold include winter clothes books, jewelry and many miscellaneous articles. Coffee and rolls will be available. R.R.

1 SYCAMORE JUDY MARSHALL 895-9998 CLASSES STARTING NOW! SPECIALS FOR STUDENTS ONLY: Darrel Good gives farm price outlook Committee accepts budget request from county highway department 10 OFF Greenware cost of all Christmas Trees or Nativities Now thru December, 1980. Bring in this ad and receive 4 free ditures, $300,000. Most of those expenditures are to help finance resurfacing on Malta and Plank roads. County Bridge Fund estimated revenue, estimated expenditures, $357,500. lessons.

(New or old students Offer good thru. Oct. 15. ($6.00 value.) transportation committee included: County highway estimated revenue, estimated expenditures, $618,350. Included is a expenditure for a large truck with a snowplow.

County engineering -estimated revenue, estimated expenditures, $96,685. Matching tax fund estimated revenue, estimated expen he would check to see if the revenue estimate was too high and that if it was he would make adjustments in the motor fuel tax budget request. Estimated expenditures in the county motor fuel tax budget request are $577,889, a large part of which is to help finance resurfacing on Malta Road. Other county highway department budget requests accepted by the Darrel Good, extension specialist in economics, issued a price analysis for Illinois farm products on Aug. 20.

The country's general economic climate with expected declines in the gross national product and losses in the real disposable income per capita will restrain consumer spending for food items, tending to keep prices lower than supplies seem to warrant. An unemployment rate at 9 percent and an inflation rate at 10 percent are particularly unfavorable to sales hence prices in the coming year. Good's expectations for product prices can be summarized as follows: PORK Prices of live hogs expected to be in the low $40 range during the last quarter of 1980, but with a return to the $50 level in 1981. BEEF Current prices in the $70 to $75 range are expected to hold during the first half of 1981 CORN A reduced crop with strong exports is expected to hold the price in the $2.90 to $3.10 range per bushel. SOYBEANS An average farm price of $7.75 to $8.00 per bushel is expected.

Good says these price analyses were agreed upon by outlook specialists from the 13 Land Grant Universities in a recent meeting. The DeKalb County Board Transportation Committee last week accepted county highway department 1981 budget requests with estimated expenditures totaling $1.95 million. Those -requests, along with 1981 budget requests from the county's other departments, will be reviewed at a budget overview meeting of the finance committee Wednesday. Some transportation committee members questioned whether the $555,000 estimated revenue for one of the county highway department budgets the county motor fuel tax budget was a little high. County highway Superintendent Cliff Adams said Death can split a closely held corporation wide open.

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