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Evening Telegraph Legislature, in trading mood, may produce more this session Mrs. Eva McDonald, standing, chair- available to grant the teachers a raise, man of the Allon Education Associa- A large crowd or teachers attended the lion's salary committee, complained to meeting of the board declined to the board Monday night that tnke action on the salary hike request, teachers were misled about the funds Teachers complain No action taken on teachers' pay The board of education of Alton School District II Monday night declined to take action on a request for an immediate per cent salary raise lor teachers In the district because of "lack of funds." Many teachers who crowded the board meeting at Horace Mann School left in a dejected manner after board chairman Dr. David Bear declared that a review of the district's budget revealed that no funds are available for the pay hike. "I am every disappointed at the school board," Mrs. Eva McDonald, chairman of the Alton Education Monticello Chapel may become history museum The Monlicello chapel in Godfrey, an historical landmark itself for more than a century, fay become Alton's first permanent historical museum.

The Lewis Clark Community College board Monday night went on record as "expressing Interest" In the proposal by the Alton Museum of History and Art to use the chapel for a museum, and it authorized Robert Birkhlmer to work out specific proposals 'yriththe museum group. The chapel Is currently leased to a church for Sunday use. "There are a great deal of artifacts and history in this area that are disappearing. We would like to keep t'nese things in one place before it's too late," said Mrs. Norma Miller, executive secretary of the museum group.

The museum would house and exhibit artifacts and documents of history for a 35- mile radius from the downtown Alton post office, Mrs. Miller said. Mrs. Miller said there were many valuable collections in homes in the Alton area which might be sold away from this area after the death Of the collectors unless "people know there Is a place to deposit and keep these things." She said some of the area Collections Include one man who has 300 Civil War guns, tnd another man who has a of every type of 11 yon (ail to receive your Telegraph by 5:80 p.m. phone 466-6641 before 6 p.m.

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She also suggested museum exhibits could deal with the underground railroad in the area and the abolitionist activity just before the Civil War, the Civil War Prison, and the Wood River Massacre. She said few area residents know that the first railroad Pullman car and the first auto, 45 years ahead of Henry Ford, were built in this area. Mrs. Margaret Davis Weber, president of the museum group, and a well- known artist of local history, said arrangements have already been made with other museums to get back Alton historical artifacts, if a permanent museum should open here. A dream of the group, Mrs.

Miller said, is to eventually acquire an old riverboat and moor it on the Alton riverfront as a "Visitors Center." Birkhimer, who is himself a paid member of the museum group, suggested to the junior college board Monday night that they make the chapel available permanently for a museum at "little or no cost." Two of the junior college board members, Paul Odell and Paul Connolly have also already become involved in the museum group's efforts. College business manager Eugene Snyders is also a member of the museum group. The museum organizers would be responsible for paying for and guaranteeing the maintenance of the chapel. Mrs. Miller said the group had already contacted Lloyd's of London about special insurance to cover the museum collection.

In other business at Monday night's meeting, Academic Dean J. D. Schweitzer reported that five courses will bo offered at the Middletown Neighborhood Center in Alton this semester as an attempt to bring the junior college to tho black community. Student Personnel Services Dean Tom Jtiravich said four veterans at the school will be paid by the governor's Office of lluman Resources to contact other' returned veterans about continuing their education. Vocational Technical Kduc-atlon Dean Ed Fitzgibbon reported that a moratorium on new program approvals, In effect for the lust seven months, had been lifted by the Illinois Board of Higher Education, and he would have some new vocational programs for board approval next month.

Association's salary committee, told the Telegraph. "The morale of the teachers is very low because we were promised something (raise) and didn't get it." In a special meeting last May, the school board granted a 4.11 per cent increase to the teachers which raised the starting salary of a teacher, with a 'degree, from 57,300 to $7,600 a year. The raise in salary, however, has been frozen under the national wage restrictions. Representatives of the AEA last month appealed to the school board, however, to honor a "gentlemans agreement" in which the board stated that if additional funds were available, the school board would then reevaluate the salary schedule (to allow additional raises). The AEA asked the board to take action on the "gentleman's agreement" and grant a per cent pay raise at the meeting Monday night.

"The board didn't grant the raise Monday night, and so they didn't keep their word," Mrs. McDonald declared. "We are really disgusted." School District Administrative Assistant Charles Hayborn explained that a delay in tax collections and the constant uncertainty from the legislature in state aid to the district complicated the preparation of the district's budget which does not permit any new Increases In salary. Dr. Bear told the teachers that the AEA could examine the district's budget which shows that monies are not there to grant the request for an increase.

The chairman suggested that the AEA "should work close" with the administrative staff of the district in helping to establish priorities in next year's budget. By BILL I.IIOTKA Telegraph's Capital Bureau SPRINGFIELD The Illinois General Assembly, with major compromises In the wind, may accomplish more In three days this week than It did during the tortuous, deadlocked five-week fall session. When the assembly convenes Wednesday passage of an ethics bill and an emergency measure exomp- ting individual personal properly taxes could be accomplished before state senators and representatives leave here Friday or Saturday. The General Assembly, mandated by the constitution to begin its annual session every Jan. 12, will hear Gov.

Richard B. Ogllvie's "state of the state" address at noon. In a series of moves last week, Republican and Democratic party leaders stripped controversial elements from an ethics bill, and laid the groundwork for a compromise on personal property tax exemptions. A House-Senate conference conunittee reported out a compromise ethics bill that eliminates the controversial "double dipper" prohibition on the one hand, and disclosure of campaign contributions on the other. Under the so-called "double dipper" provisions, a legislator could not hold any other elective office a situation that is common in Democratic Chicago.

0 the other hand, Republicans have had second thoughts as the election approaches about disclosure of campaign contributions, the Telegraph has learned. In its present form, the compromise ethics bill would require: the disclosure of the name and ownership of any business in Illinois in which the official owned more than $10,000 or from which he receives an income of more than The source of capital gains when more than $5,000 is realized from any single source; The name of any professional organization in which the official Is an officer if he earns more than $1,000 through the organization; The disclosure by local officials of the name of any business with which ho Is associated If that firm does business with the local government. Efforts exempt all Individual personal property from taxation failed In tho fall session, but Senate Democrats, tho Telegraph disclosed Saturday, will amend their own bill to give farmers a $10,000 equipment exemption. The move was seen as an effort to salvage the personal property exemption. If the measure falls to pass before Friday, It will be too late to prevent tho mailing of personal property tax bills In April.

Willie quick action Is possible on ethics and taxes, other bills hold over from tho fall session face a three- month wait before they are tackled In earnest. Little or no action is expected on: the funding of the Judicial Inquiry Hoard, a seven-member board climbed by Ihe new constitution With acting as a watchdog of the judiciary. Democrats have blocked the funds contending that Gov. Ogllvlo appointed one too many Republicans to the panel, whoso membership Include Dr. Gordon Mooro of Alton.

a bill filling vacancies' in Ihe General Assembly. Tho measure failed to pass on the last day of Uie (all session, snd means that Uio senatorial district of the Sen. William Lyons, D- Olllosple, will go unfilled again. While tho or falling to act on ethics and personal property tax, It will have to share Uie spotlight with the governor, who is expected to outline his plans and fiscal policies for 1072 In his message Wednesday, Novelist says Hughes didn 't speak NEW YORK (AP) The controversy surrounding the forthcoming "autobiography" of Howard Hughes has thickened with the Insistence of the 111 a named as Hie collaborator that seven reporters who believed thoy had spoken with the billionaire recluse were duped. "That was not Howard Hughes," asserted Clifford Irving, the -11-year-old novelist who publisher McGraw-Hill says spent close to 100 taping sessions with Hughes in preparing the memoirs, set for publication March 27.

The seven reporters who spent hours on Friday night speaking with a voice' emanating from a small box in a Los Angeles banquet room all agreed the voice was indeed that of Hughes, who has not been seen publicly since 1957. Two voice print experts concurred. The voice told the seven men that the book now being printed by McGraw-Hill is a fraud, that he never met with Irving and that he had never even heard of him "until a matter of days ago." Publisher Harold McGraw head of the firm that has paid money in six figures for the rights to what it insists is a legitimate autobiography, appears willing to accept that the man who spoke on the telephone is Hughes. "My only thought is that he spoke too openly," in the autobiography, McGraw told newsmen Monday. "Some of advisers must have advised him on the damaging aspects of the information as far as his business and per- sonal life Is concerned." McGraw said the publisher had "full confidence" in Irving and that the publishing company remained "absolutely convinced of the authenticity of this book and that the documentation we have contains the signature of Howard Hughes." Irving told three reporters In a wide-ranging Interview Monday in the offices of McGraw-Hill that the voice he heard In excerpts of last week's news conference, aired on television Sunday night, "was an excellent forgery of what Mr.

Hughes must have sounded like some four years ago." Heminded that the two independent voice experts had said tapes of the voice on the telephone matched older recordings known to have been made by Hughes, Irving asked: "How valid could they be if they were compared with a recording 25 years old?" He did not elaborate on what might have altered Hughes voice In recent years. Irving displayed photostatic copies of the endorsements on two checks, lioth were signed II. K. Hughes and carried the notation that the originals were deposited In the Swiss Credit Bank in Zurich. The check backs bore the words "Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A.—Endorsement Guaranteed." He also showed the three newsmen a photostatic copy of what he said was the first letter sent to him by Hughes in December 1970.

The letter was signed "11. H. Hughes." Some later con'espondence was signed "Howard Hughes." Irving said all the handwritten evidence, Including a nine- page handwritten letter to McGraw attesting to the authenticity of tho book as well as comments and alterations penned in Ihe margins of the ODD-pagc manuscript, had been authenticated by handwriting experts. On the matter of the telephoned Interview with seven reporters in Los Angeles, Irving said the voice seemed prepared to expound at some length on specific subjects but appeared at a loss on a number of questions designed to check his identity. In fact, the man on the telephone was presented with 10 such questions, lie answered three, which were a matter of public, if obscure, record.

He failed to answer one which was a matter of public record. He could not answer i which would have required more intimate knowledge. U.S. withholding transit planning fluids in area Missouri bids for airport By DENNIS McMUURAY Telegraph Staff Writer A committee of the Missouri House Monday night unanimously approved creation of Missouri St. Louis Airport Authority, which if endorsed by the entire legislature, would be in open competition with the Illinois-created authority that is seeking a Waterloo jetport.

The creation of the new Missouri authority is being pushed for by Missouri Gov. Warren Hearnes and St. Louis County and other Missouri suburban county officials. It would have no Illinois members and would likely endorse a jetport site either at Smartt Field or near Dardenne, both in St. Charles County.

Testimony before the Missouri House committee Monday indicated the agreement between Illinois and St. Louis Mayor A. J. Cervantes to put the jetport in Illinois, is bitterly opposed by outstate Missouri officials. Robert M.

White II, editor- publisher of the Mexico, Mo. Ledger charged that Cervantes had overlooked out- state Missouri in promoting the Illinois site. In a related development Monday, the Missouri house also passed a resolution criticizing Cervantes for his agreement with Illinois and calling on him and the St. Louis Board of Aldermen to hold a referendum on Ihe jetport site. Cervantes, the only, witness testifying in favor of the Waterloo site, refused to call such a referendum, (the House resolution has no legal force), on the grounds that the site selection was a technical problem, and technical studies had already shown the Waterloo site was superior to the ones in St.

Charles County. Since Missouri officials began threatening to create their own jetport authority months ago, Illinois officials have been unconcerned and apparently are confident the Waterloo site will get final endorsement. An aide to the executive director of the Illinois-created St. Louis Metropolitan Area Airport Authority, told the Telegraph today that a Missouri authority would have a "long way to go." The Illinois-created authority has functioned for more than years already, with a first year appropriation of million It has conducted several public hearings on the Waterloo sile in both Illinois and Mis- Judge orders unique merger RICHMOND, Va. A federal judge has ordered the merger of the mostly black schools of Richmond with the predominantly white schools in two adjacent counties, holding that "if (here is to be public education it must, under the Constitution, be afforded to all on an equal basis." The 325-page decision issued Monday by U.S.

District Court Judge Robert R. Merhiiie Jr. was Ihe first Involving crn- solidation of schools of separate jurisdictions to accomplish school desegregation. I rullng-to become effective next creates a W.OflO- pupil metropolitan school division, Including Richnvnd and two adjacent comities, llcnrlco to the north and Chesterfield to the south. It also calls for busing the new district to achieve racial balance in schools.

An appeal is considered certain by the two counlies, whose attorneys argued before Merhige last August that they were complying with constitutional requirements and were being called on to bail out Richm from its urban problems. Mcrhlge held there was nothing inviolate about the jurisdlctiqnal lines, since the cities and counties yre creatures of the state snd could have their lines altered or even be abolished by the state. Man charged A Hartford man was charged with driving while intoxicated and Improper lane usage Monday following a three-car smashup on Ferguson Avenue In Wood River. Police said Russell Pryor, 50, of 418 N. Dclmar, slammed into a parked car owned by George Cooper of 5111 Bowman East Alton, which struck another parked car owned by Virgil Hyde of 174 Neunaber, Cottage Hills.

souri. Most importantly, it has received the endorsement of the East West Gateway Coordinating Council, which is recognized by the federal government as the official planning voice of the metropolitan region. The endorsement of the Waterloo final site application by Gateway also carried a specific rejection of all Missouri jetport sites. In contrast, the new Missouri authority, if actually put into existence, would still require funding, and several months to complete necessary studies and public hearings. By then, the Illinois-created authority expects the issue will be resolved by federal endorsement and funding for the Illinois site.

In another jetport related development Monday, chairman of tho committee representing airlines operating out of St. Louis, said they would need a new jetport by 1982. He scoffed at studies by McDonnell-Douglas and two university researchers contending that Lambert airport could be utilized up to 1990 and beyond. The committee chairman, R. L.

Citarcll, said, though, that tho committee probably would agree to go ahead with a $23 million expansion of Lambort. Those expansion plans are supposed lo be announced on an airline flight near Ihe end of this month. The federal government is withholding release of $900,000 in rapid transit planning funds for the St. Louis metropolitan region, until the recently completed rapid transit study is updated and area agencies show support for the present bus system. The executive director of the St.

Louis Area Rapid Transit Authority told the Telegraph today that it had pledged its support for an improvement program for the existing bus system in November, but Bl-state Development Agency has not formally accepted that support. The rapid transit authority, which was created by the East-West Gateway Coordinating Council, on Nov. 1C, pledged its support of Bi-State "early action program" to acquire more modern busses, special bus lanes, and passenger shelters. It also pledged support of Bi-State's efforts to get subsidies from the Missouri and Illinois legislatures and support of the proposed transportation bond issue in Missouri, which would provide potential aid to Bi-State. The Urban Mass Transit Administration, in announcing sportation 1 must be demonstrated.

The Missouri legislature has never provided any subsidies for the bus system. In con- 'trast, the Illinois legislature has provided several subsidies and Gov. Richard Ogllvie recently announced a new grant for new busses and passenger shelters for Bi- State's Illinois routes. The federal officials also said they wanted the rapid transit plan that proposes an 86-mile route updated. An official of Sverdrup and Parcel, the leading engineering firm that did the study, said this was not possible, until the final site for a new regional jetport was settled, and regional highway plans had also been updated.

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