The Edwardsville Intelligencer from Edwardsville, Illinois • Page 3

January 29,1975 EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER Collinsville Request.to Withdraw Page 3 Co-Op Appeal Is Planned By Cathie Bttrnes Of the Intelligencer Collinsville School District Unit 10 will appeal a decision denying withdrawal from the Region It, Special Education Cooperative, to tlie Third Judicial Circuit Court. The Administrative Review Act of the Illinois School Code says, that any petitioner or board of education may, within 35 days after a copy of the decision has been served, apply for a review- of the decision According to the School Code, "IID proceedings may be had until final dispositions of such review The Madison County Regional Board of School Trustees ruled 6-0 6 to deny the petition of Unit 10 to withdraw from the co-op. The decision was mailed to the parties in the case on Jan. 13, and Monday was the final day to apply for a rehearing of the cose. At a meeting of the Collinsville board of education Jan.

20. school board president William T. Jenkins termed the action of the trustees "obviously capricious and arbitrary." Trotting Group Pan tan I i -i In Track Suit A fourth party was granted permission to intervene in litigation involving the concessionaire at Cahokia Downs race track Tuesday by Third Circuit Judge John Gitchoff. The party, the Southern Illinois Trotting Association, requested permission to become party to litigation brought to determine If the Illinois State Board has the authority to determine the concessionaire at Cahokia. "For the protection of my Client, it is absolutely essential that my client be a part to this suit," Robert McGlyim, Belleville attorney representing the association, said.

McGlynn said the association, which has a contract to race at Cahokia. was placed in jeopardy by the Racing Board's revocation of the concessions license of Cahokia Sports Service Also present Tuesday were representatives of Cahokia Downs, the Racing Board and Sports System owner of the concessions at Cahokia. Cahokia Sports Service is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sports System of Buffalo. N.Y., which is in turn 4i descendant of the Emprise Corp. Emprise was convicted in a California case on charges of racketeering.

Whlfe the corporate structure has changed, parties on both sides of the suit agree, the corporation is still controlled by members of the a i of founder Louis M. Jacobs Rodney Joslm. of the Chicago law firm of Jenner and Block, representing Sportj Systems filed a brief yesterday questioning the authority of the racing board to "pierce the corporate veil." The brief argues that since the change In corporate structure was made prior to the conviction and since Louis M. Jacobs and Emprise were responsible for the actions in question, the commission does not have the authority to go beyond the surface of the restructuring in order to determine if Sports System Corp. is qualified to hold a concessions license.

Wayne Addison, director pupil personnel services for Unit 10, said the board of education felt that "either tha information presented was not the basis for the decision by the board or that the board was influenced by matters outside the record of the hearing." "All the evidence at the hearing supported separation," Addison said. "No objections were voiced during the course of the testimony given." Addison said that the board of education, as well as those in the superintendent's office, hud discussed several possible alternatives in dealing with the trustees' decision before deciding to go to court. "There was talk about asking for a rehearing of the case (by the trustees)," Addison said, "but after going over the record of tlje proceedings, approval of our petition was the only thing that should have been called for," Testimony was taken from five witnesses at the hearing, Addison, Dallas Harrell. acting superintendent of Collinsville Unit 10, Jenkins, W. Roy Schoolfield, assistant director of Region II, and Duane Weber, director of the special ed cooperative, Collinsville district representatives argued that Unit 10 could be more effective and efficient if it operated its own special education program, and presented testimony to that point, Addisou said Unit 10 needed to have its own special education director who knows the district and its 20 centers.

"Our special education program must be in harmony with the other programs we offer," Addison added. In a report issued at the time of the hearing, the CoJ- HnsvUle Unit said it found itself having to deal with salary ranges that weren't in harmony with the administrative and secretarial schedules of the district. Before a final vote was taken, Karl Monroe, chairman of the regional board of school trustees, said that the costs of special education were skyrocketing and that splitting the district did not seem 'a logical answer to the "A change should 'make tilings better than they are," Monroe said, "I don't see any demonstration of increased effectiveness by this move." A statement approved by tha Board of Education at the Jan. 20 meeting, says in part that "the action of the Regional Board of School Trustees under the circumstances appears obviously capricious and arbitrary. 'Either it was decided by the members of the board! Ihat they would ignore the evidence, or they failed to take into account or understand the evidence, wliich was' practically without dispute.

No reason for the action appeared from the evidence." If the Third Judicial Circuit Court would overturn the ruling, the costs of continuing the special education co-op would increase for the remaining five districts, in particular the Edwardsville district, which is the administrative district. Figures supplied by Weber, at the hearing indicated that Edwardsville would have to pay an additional $6,635 if the were granted. Other increases were $3,344 for Highland, $2,809 for Triad, $531 for Livingston and $370 for the Worden district. Betty Madden's book mentions Edwardsville as site of pottery Story of Illinois Creativity Refers to Edwardsville, Area By Dick Norrish Of the Intelligencer History is usually told in political terms. A new book by Betty I.

Madden attempts to present the history of Illinois in cultural terms, through the architecture, painting, pottery, furniture and other decorative aspects of the life of our forebears. "Art, Crafts and Architecture in Early Illinois," published by the University of Illinois Press (297 makes liberal use of drawings, and photographs in both black and white and color, plus a readable text, to tell the creative side of the story of early Illinois. The volume, published with the help of a grant from the Illinois Bicentennial Commission, deals mostly with the years before 1860, the author points out in a preface. She starts with arts and crafts of the prehistoric Americans of the state, including those who lived in this area, around the Names and Places Schieber a Hobert W. Schieber, 35 Washington associate professor of music at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, will be one oE six clinicians at a consortium Feb.

1 for Illinois junior and senior high school orchestras, to be held at the University of Illinois, Vrbana. The clinicians will work with 18 orchestras with 1,000 young musicians on ways to improve their playing. The consortium will be in the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, It will run from 8 a.m. to 5:15 p.m., and is open to the public. Ten Area Residents Honorud of Charleston Ten atea residents earned Academic honors at Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, during the fall semester.

Seven were Highland residents: Kathleen A. Gutzler, Jo GuUler (high honors), Luiinn Lefer (high honors). lEWSPAPERr Clmician Marsha M. Manwar'mg (high honors), Linda Rehberger, Lois J. Schmidt (high honors) and Ada J.

Wiegand (high honors). Also cited were Cindy A. Shaffer of Edwardsville, Mary M. Whidden of Troy and Denny E.HalbeofHamel. Ann Kornegay Piano Recital Set Feb.

i The senior recital of pianist Ann Kornegay will be presented at 8:15 p.m. Feb. 6 in the Lovejoy Library auditorium of Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Miss Kornegay will perform the Sonata in Major and the Sonata in Major, by Scarlatti; Rondo a capriccio. Opus 129, by Ludwig van Beethoven; Intermezzo in B-flat Major, Opus 76, No.

4, by Johannes Brahms; No. II of Sain- muel Barber's Excursions, Opus 20; and Polonaise, Opus 40, No. 1, by Frederic Chopin. REVIEW Cahokia site west of Collinsville. She begins--and ends the book with material on the Piasa Bird drawing spotted in 1673 by French Canadian explorer Father Jacques Marquette on the Mississippi River bluffs just above Alton.

She includes several drawings of the bird, based on descriptions and imagination, and recounts some of'the Piasa stories. Mrs. Madden ends her book with the Piasa Bird too, although she didn't plan it that way. The last plate in the volume is a painting from the Henry McAdams collection showing an Indian chief face to face with the bird on the bluffs above the river. "Illinois 'treasures' are constantly being found as citizens become aware of the state's heritage," the author remarks in a picture caption.

'Oua- toga and the Piasa painted by an unknown artist, was discovered by the author as this book was going to press. May it be one of many such 'treasures' to come to light in the future." Her book, she states, is not Intended as a definitive work, but as "a pioneering effort, presented with the hope that it will be a springboard for additional studies in a long- neglected, little-understood, but fascinating aspect of Illinois history." Belleville's Germans She tried to pick representative areas of the state, she said, to illustrate general cultural advances. Hence, Belleville and its German settlers, is heavily covered. Alton is also mentioned frequently. An entire chapter is devoted to Nauvoo, the Mormon settlement ou the Mississippi above Quincy.

Another chapter -is devoted to Bishop Hill, the Swed- ish town southeast of Moline. Edwardsville gets a couple passing mentions in the text, and is given in a list of sites of early potteries. A Robert Harrison produced what was believed to be "redware," a kind of pottery, at a site along Cahokia Creek near Edwardsville, from 1820 to 1825. But no further information is given. The handsome "Weir House," now the Madison County Historical Museum, at 715 N.

Main is illustrated in a chapter on various cultural influences on early architecture. Highland Artist Mrs. Madden tells of Peter Britt, a Swiss portrait painter who emigrated to the town of Helvetia (now Highland) ia 1845, and later set up a daguerreotype studio there. He spent six years in this area making pictures in the new photographic process. She mentions the settling Highland by Swiss in 1822, but she has the town placed in the southeastern section of St.

Clair, rather than Madison County. She describes the arrival here of Yankees, including the five Collins brothers Litchfield, who settled Collinsville in 1817, and the "72 easterners (who) settled the village of Madison, renamed Marine when five former shipmasters and their families arrived from the East in 1819." Betty Madden is curator of decorative arts "at the Illinois State Museum, Springfield. Her book contains fairly clear explanations of Federal architecture, versus Georgian, French influence, Greek revival, Gothic revival and Italianate. The "balloon frame" structure, forerunner of the modern frame house, was invented in Chicago, says Mrs. Madden, in response to the demand about 1833 for cheap new homes.

Mrs. Madden's book is au awkward shape--11 inches wide by 8Vii inches high--and sells at an price but it makes good reading, or just looking, and may contribute to better popular understanding of our artistic ancestors. It is available here from the Lewis and Clark Library System, through local public braries. St. Clair County Expo Authority List Submitted Lludsay-Schaub News Service East St.

Louis Names of six Republicans and six Democrats from St. Clair county were to be submitted to Gov. Dan Walker to, day as potential nominees for the Metro-East Exposition'and Performing Arts Authority Board. The 12 member authority, which will include six from. Madison County and six from St.

Clair County, and be equally divided along party lines, will have the power to select a site and build a $15 imillioii civic center. Names of Democrats t9 be submitted include: William Adrian Belleville, a business representative of Pipefitters and Plumbers Local 101; Roy R. Smith, O'Fallon, former mayor of O'Fallon; Charles Lacy, 5109 N. Illinois Belleville, who is associated with Custom House Builders; Herbert Roark, Fail-view Heights, general manager of- the Fairview Heights Chamber of Commerce; Katherine Dunham, East St. Louis, director of the Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville Performing Arts Training Center hi East St.

Louis; Philip Taylor, Belleville, the county's director of administration. Republican nominees include: Harold G. Baker, Belleville, a lawyer; Hilbert Fournie, Belleville, president of Fournie Construction Robert L. Gass, Belleville, president of Fetto Electric Company of St. Louis; Elmer Reifschneider, Belleville, a livestock and grain farmer who is on the board of Belleville National Savings Bank; Ronald Stein, O'Fallon, a real estate man and member of the school board in O'Fallon; Mrs.

Willard C. (Ruth) Scrivner, Belleville, former member of the governor's council on aging. The St. Clair County names are being submitted by a committee comprised of State Sen. Kenneth Hall, D-East St.

Louis state Reps. Celeste Stiehl, R- Belleville; Monroe Flinn, D-Cahokia, and Wyvetter Younge, D-East St. Louis; St. Clair County Democratic Central Committee Chairman C. "Barney" Metz, and Republican County Chairman Willard Barthel.

Flinn said that he believes Walker may announce the nominees for the 12 member board next week. The nominees will be subject to state Senate confirmation. St. Clair County liave been concerned about whether the $15 million building will be constructed in the best possible location. Sen.

Sam Vadalabene, D-Edwardsville, the prime sponsor of the bill providing for the center said it should be on the Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville campus in Madison Counts'. Vadalabene has already submitted a list of potential board 1 members to the governor. He lias submitted 40 names, including some of St. Clair County residents. 71 Prisoners In Jail With Capacity The Madison County Jail rosier today showed 71 prisoners in the 100-year-old facility.

The jail population is approximately 175 per cent of what the structure was meant to handle. The recommended maximum number of prisoners the facility should hold is 41, based on studies by the state Department of Corrections. Construction of a new jail, which will be located in Edwardsville, is expected to begin in September. The new jail is expected to be completed by September, 1977. Shoplifting Charge Filed A 17-year-old Edwardsville youth was charged with shoplifting Tuesday ia a complaint signed by Robert Schwartz, owner of Schwartz's Drug Store on North Main Street.

Craig Reynolds, Route 2, is accused of taking 13 candy bars from the store. The youth was arrested- at the Tri-City Grocery Store at 400 St. Louis St. after police received word that he had been apprehended in connection with incident by store manager Roger Reno, assistant 'manager Frank Chandler and butcher Jim Shoal. Kevin Byron argues in favor of guns for SIU-E Security (I Photo) Firearms on Campus Debated at SIU-E "Resolved! the SIU-E cam-pus security police should carry firearms." The question has been au emotional one on the Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville campus, but the atmosphere was dignified Tuesday as members of the SIU-E Forensic Union argued the question in an open, British-style debate.

Students participating in the program were Rick Light, Fran Calogero, Gregg Salsbury and Gerry Bigansky. Besides being a member of the debating team, Gerry Bigansky is also a university security police officer. When student disturbances were met with gunfire at Kent State and other universities in 1970, the SIU Board of Trustees elected to institute a policy under which guns were banned from the SIU-E campus and security police would carry weapons only at night. Security police have since protested that the action limits their ability to defend themselves in a life and death situation. Arguing against firearms for police officers yesterday, Miss Calogero said their use, "would do little more than to make this an armed camp--a military base." She argued that tightened security on campus was a better answer to the high incidence of thefts of office machines and Miss Calogero said the additional cost could probably be met from the tax money used to replace stolen equipment.

Miss Bigansky argued that the United States, "has physically outgrown the gun, but psychologically hasn't outgrown it." She cited the high crime statistics in Madison and St. Clair counties, the fact that SIU-E is an open campus and that statistics indicating that the majority of violent criminals are approximately the age of university students, making the campus a good place for them, to operate because they are less conspicuous. In the audience participation segment of the debate, Kevin Byron stated, "When criminals have guns and police don't have them, the criminals are supreme." Byron said that despite incidents in which unarmed SIU-E police had disarmed criminals, it was unfair to ask police to take that risk. Student Senator Bob Gill argued that safety rules prohibiting discharging firearms in crowded places would automatically cover the central campus. He questioned the practice of analogizing the campus to a small town, in that the population is concentrated within a few acres.

"I cannot conceive of anyone firing a weapon in the core campus for any reason," he said. The argument on the negative side carried the day. When a division of the house was called for, the majority of the approximately one hundred students present in the Goshen moved to the 'negative' side of the room. Vote Set Thursday oil Amoco Pact A tentative agreement on a new two year contract for about 750 workers at the Amoco Oil Co. refinery in Wood River was reached Tuesday by company representatives and representatives of Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union Local 7-776.

The agreement is subject to ratification by union membership and a ratification meeting has been set for 7:30 p.m. Thursday" in the Wood River VFW hall. According to OCAW international representative Lester T. Las bury, there is "no question" that the new pact will be ratified. The 11 local unions representing about 1,300 workers at the Shell Oil Co.

refinery in Wood River have all now ratified new two-year contracts, according to a company spokesman. Tentative agreements on the contracts were reached Jan. 17. Both the Shell and Amoco contracts call for a 75-cents- per-hour pay increase, retro- to Jan. 8, a 4 per cent increase on July 8, 1975, and an 8 per cent increase on Jan.

8, 1976. Both contracts, based on earlier settlements between OCAW and Gulf Oil also include a provision that wage talks will be re-opened if there is an increase of 5 per cent or more in the consumer price index in calendar 1976. Both the Shell and Amoco agreements also include improvements in hospitalization and pension benefits and an additional paid holiday. In the case of Amoco, it's Good Friday and, at Shell, it's Christmas Eve day. The previous contracts at both refineries had expired Jan.

7. East Alton Area Prisoner Escapes A prisoner at the Madison County Jail who escaped from the custody of a sheriff's deputy Tuesday afternoon in the East Alton area remained at large today. Dwight E. Kinser, 19, of Wood River, escaped from the deputy's custody after undergoing dental treatment in East Alton. According to information released this morning by the sheriff's department, the escorting deputy, Harlan Voutn- ard of Godfrey, was about to place handcuffs on Kinser when his attention was distracted.

Kinser then ran on foot out of the office and continued south from a point near Edwardsville Road and Grand Avenue. Voumard pursued but was unable to catch up with Kinser. While Voumard had received authorization to open fire on Kinser if necessary, he lid not do so because the eseapee.rau through a grade school playground. Voumard told authorities he did not think he could shoot without endangering the children in the immediate vio- inity. Kinser is five'foot 10 inches tall, weighs approximately 150 pounds, has dark blond hair and blue eyes.

He was last seen wearing a dark gray shirt with "Madison County Jail" stencilled on the back over a blue tee shirt and blue levis. He was not armed Still No City Council Races There are still no contests for City Council seats in either of Edwardsville's four wards in this year's city election. Nominating petitions must be filed by Feb. 10, and the election is on April 15. So far, there are no candidates in the city's Second Ward, although incumbent Alderman T.

Evans Reilly and Zoning Board of Appeals member Jefferson Ware both have picked up petitions. One candidate has filed in each of the other wards. Incumbent Alderman John J. "Arch" Merkel has filed in the First Ward, Plan Commission Chairman Carl Lossau has filed in the Third Ward and Zoning Board of Appeals member Joan Seamen has filed in the Fourth Ward. Third Ward resident Gregory Catana has picked up petition papers, but has not filed.

Ostebuhr Candidate For Village Clerk Williamson Dave Ostebuhr has filed as a candidate for village clerk of Williamson in the April 15 village election. Ostebuhr is seeking to serve the remaining two years of the term of incumbent Oscar Windisch, who plans to retire May 1. So far, Ostebuhr is the only candidate for clerk. Incumbent trustees Kenny Homer, Orville Soens and Herbert Goelich have filed for reelection. Williamson will elect three trustees and no one else has filed.

The last day for filing nominating petitions is Feb. 10. Dwight E. Kinser Brass Bearings Stolen From Boxcars Here Over. 1,200 pounds of brass bearings were taken from box cars belonging to the Norfolk and Western Railway Co.

of Granite City. The boxcars were located on the former Wabash railroad tracks at Old Alton Road. Edwards ville police were told by railroad police that the theft took place between Jan. 12 and Tuesday County to Get Funds for Jobs More than $1.7 million has been allocated for Madison County job programs by the U.S. Department of Labor and Manpower Administration, according to the office of U.S.

Congressman Melvin Price, D- East St. Louis. Price's office reported Tuesday that the county allocation is part of the final national funding of $787.5 million under a program of the federal Comprehensive Employment and Training Act. Dan Churovich, who administers federal employment programs for Madison- and Bond counties under a consortium agreement, said today his office has not been informed Of the latest allocation and could offer no details. Churovich contacted the Department of Labor office in Chicago, which also reported no information on the matter.

In addition to the Madison County allocation, Price's office said $1.1 million has been alloted to St. Clair County and that the city of East St. Louis- receive $795,000. SFAPERl.