The Edwardsville Intelligencer from Edwardsville, Illinois • Page 3

1970 EOWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER Page) Committee Representation Supervisors' Suit Delayed By Judy Ronzio Of the Intelligencer Plans for a lawsuit against the county by several Wood Eiver Township supervisors have temporarily bogged down, according to Assistant Supervisor Wayne Bridgewater. Bridgewater said today that the group of four supervisors is seeking a new attorney and that they have had problems coordinating their efforts because of summer vacations. The four supervisors--Bridgewater, Rodger Elble, James Greene and Robert Ford--decided last month to take legal action against the Madison County Board of Supervisors because of board chairman Harold Landolt's refusal to appoint tbe Wood River supervisors to what they consider a fair number of board committees. Each of the four was appointed to only one committee this year. Elble, Greene and Bridgewater are serving on the State Charities and Veterans' Assist- 5JATUS REPORT ance Committee.

Ford is a member of the legislative Committee. Bridgewater, Ford and Greene each served on two committees last year. Elble for the past two years received no committee appointments. As many as nine of the 49 members of the Board of Supervisors are serving on four committees this year. Many more serve on at least three committees.

The four Wood River Supervisors, who have come to grips with Landolt on many issues, maintain that the inequity of Landolt's committee appointments is depriving the voters of Wood River Township of adequate representation on county board. East Alton attorney Dave Swan was originally engaged by the board to handle the legal action against the county. Bridgevv-ater said, however, that Swan has withdrawn from the case because of a heavy load of other cases. "We certainly plan to go ahead with tbe suit, though," Bridgewater said, "because there is a definite constitutional question involved." The group is currently in the process of seeking a new attorney to represent it, Bridgewater said. Another Wood River Supervisor, S.

A. Griffin, has declined to participate in the lawsuit against the county, although he, too, has openly opposed Landolt's committee appointments and has, himself, been appointed to only one committee for this year. "I don't feel a lawsuit is the proper method," Griffin said. "I feel that if we really want to make changes we could do it among our fellow board members." "There are enough board members who are willing to make a change," he added, "and I think if we could get it down to a secret ballot we could do it." At the board's annual reorganization meeting last month, the supervisors voted down, on a roll call vote, a motion to compel the chairman to appoint each board member to at least two committees. Griffin also said he thinks ft suit against the county would be "a waste of time and money," since the board, by state law, must reorganize and cut its membership to a maximum of 29.

The sixth-Wood River supervisor, Orvil Rex Oglesby, was appointed to four committees for the current year. Senate Test Vote Reflects Setback Reaction Negative to Proposed Tax Hike Springfield (AP) Legislative reaction to Gov. Richard Ogilvie's proposed half cent tax increase during opening of a special session Monday appeared weighted well against the boost. The immediate reaction of most legislators, and even some in Cook County -where most of the tax revenue go to aid the Chicago Transit Authority was in the negative. In his opening remarks to the joint assembly, Ogilvie said some of the opposition is politically motivated, and some arising from narrow vision of the lobbyists for special interest." Some lawmakers said the governor's proposed tax increase to aid transit systems -basically publicly and private owned urban bus lines would not get out of the Senate where tbe legislation was introduced opening day.

Sponsor of the bill, Senate Majority Leader W. Russell Arrington, R-Evansfon, was one of the few legislators to endorse the governor's tax increase. Another was House Speaker Jack a Republican of Lansing. Arrington said "We must act, and act boldly, to save mass transit in Illinois." Walker said he would support his Ogilvie's program and "I predict that we'll have the necessary votes to pass it But in the Senate, a test vote of sorts on the administration proposal reflected a setback. Facing defeat, Sen.

Arrington postponed consideration of a motion to appeal a ruling by Senate President Lt. Gov. Paul Simon The ru'e opens the door for any transit subsidy bill Senators might want to introduce. Simon's ruling came on the introduction of a bill by Sen. John Lanigan, R-Chicago, which would appropriate $125 million for mass transit by cutting the fare of persons over 65 by half Lanigan told a newsman the money would come from general revenue, though it was not specified in the bill.

He said it would require no new taxes. Sen. Alan Dixon a Democrat of Belleville, assistant minority leader, said assistance for mass transit systems in the state was a "lost cause unless the governor amends his call "to allow for transit subsidies from Area Deaths Mrs. Yehling Dies Mrs. Elizabeth Yehling, 78, 410 Plum died Monday at her home.

She was a lifetime resident of Edwardsville, and was born here Aug. 29, 1891, the daughter of George and Barbara Gremer Fischer. She was married to Charles Yehling June 20, 1911. He died June 18,1957. Survivors are three sons, Milton Yehling of Edwardsville, Roy Yehlmg, Collinsville, and Robert Ye'hling, Carlsbad, three daughters, Mrs.

Ethel 01- sen, Reston, Va Mrs. Joseph (Bernice) Davison, Florissant, and Mrs. Marvin (Dar- lenej McKinney, EdwardsviEe; three sisters, Mrs. Walter (Till) Wille, Edwardsville, Mrs. Russell (Mame) Pyles, Zanesville, Ohio, and Mrs.

Edwin (Dora) Bracke, Edwardsville; 16 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. A daughter, one son, and three brothers preceded her in death. She was a member of Eden United Church of Christ. Friends may call at the Fletcher Funeral Home in Edwardsville after 2 p.m. Wednesday.

Services will be held there at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, with the Rev. Thomas Tupper officiating Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, Edwardsville. Rudolph Knippel Rudolph C. Knippel, 84, 221 West Lake died at 5:50 p.m.

Monday in St. Joseph's Hospital, Highland, where he ad been a patient the past month. He was a letter carrier in Saginaw, retiring in 1956. He had been a lifetime resident of Saginaw until moving to Edwardsville three years ago. He was born April 1, 1886, In Saginaw, a son of William and Matilda Braatz Knippel.

He was married to Edith M. Nagel of Saginaw on June 2, 1910; she preceded him in death Aug. 4,1963. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. William (Doris) Page of Edvardsville, eight grandchildren, five great grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs.

Walter (Gertrude) Knemer of Saginaw. A son, a brother and a sister preceded him in death. Mr. Knippel was a member and past president of the National Association of Letter Carriers Local 74 of Saginaw; a member of the National Association of Retired Civil Employes, Saginaw Chapter 376; member and past president of Pioneer Lodge 79, AF and AM, in Saginaw and a member of Grace Presbyterian Church, Saginaw. Friends may call at the Cedarberg Funeral Home in Saginaw after 2 Wednesday.

Services will be held there at 2 p.m Thursday. Burial will be la Roselawn Cemetery in Saginaw. Lesley Marks Funeral Home was in charge of local arrangements. Ida Hoskins Mrs. Ida Hoskins, 77, Brazil, died at 12:30 p.m Monday in Clay County Hospital there.

She was a sister of Louise H. Schmidt of Edwardsvalle. Other survivors are daughters, Mrs. Mildred Davis of Brazil and Mrs. Helen Short of Carbon, one son, Raymond Hoskins of Brazil; two other brothers, Albert G.

Schmidt of Wood River and William F. Schmidt of San Diego, and two grandchildren. Mrs. Hoskins was born in 1893 near Edwardsville She was married to J. C.

Hosbins. He died several years ago. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. (EOT) Wednesday in the Lawson Funeral Home, Brazil. Burial will be in Brazil.

Gary Cox Gary Cox, 20, Godfrey, died at Alton Memorial Hospital at 2:40 p.m. Monday. He had been a cardiac patient. A mechanics apprentice at Klinke Motors in Alton, Mr Cox had been bora Dec. 18, 1949.

Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cox of Godfrey; two brothers, Jay Cox at home and Sandy Lee Cox, of Elcajon, Calif. A brother, Ron, preceded him in death in 1988. Friends may call after 4 p.m.

Wednesday in the Gent Funeral Home, Alton. Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday in the funeral home, with the Rev. Joseph Fast officiating. Burial will be in Valhalla Cemetery, Godfrey.

funds other than motor fuel tax. Dixcn said downstate senators would not accept the tax increase and proposed that the subsidy be provided out of motor fuel tax for one year, and be paid back from general revenue later, in the event the governor does not amend his call. Sen. Thomas A. McGloon of Chicago, Democratic minority leader, said Ogilvie recognized the need to help mass transit not only in Chicago but in many downstate cities.

"If in his judgment he feels there should be a half cent increase, it's his decision. I hope he can convince his Republicans Sen. Merrill Ottwein, R- Edwa.dsville, expressed the view of many legislators who oppose use of tax funds from non-highway purposes. He added, "I don't trust the CTA administration." Sen. Merrill Ottwein Doesn't 'Trust CTA' Ruling Impact Hard to Predict: Mrs.

Daniels The effect on local Selective Service boards of Monday's ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court allowing conscientious objector status on non-religious grounds is hard to predict, according to Mrs. Ada Daniels, executive secretary for local boards 165, 166, and 167. The Supreme Court's ruling allows the granting of 1-0, or conscientious objector, status to men who have strong moral or ethical objections to military duty, even if these objections are based on other than religious considerations. Mrs.

Daniels said that, in the past, there have been few requests for conscientious objector classification to the boards headquartered in Edwardsville, considering their size. She said that at present there are 16 1-0 classifications in the three boards, five of these from board 166, which includes the Edwardsville area. Mrs Daniels said she did not know how many requests for the 1-0 classification had been denied. She said she didn't know if the new ruling would "cause a run" on conscientious objector classifications, but said she anticipated that there might be at least a few more applications for such classifications. Warren Brown, assistant dean of students at Southern Illinois University's Edwardsville campus who does some draft counsel- ling, said he felt there would be more requests for conscientious Objector status.

"The ruling will undoubtedly make the job of the draft boards more difficult," Brown said. He said he thought it would be some time before the full implication of the ruling could be measured. Fire Damage Was Extensive Damage resulting from a fire Sunday at the Earl Snyder home, Marine Road, is more extensive than estimated at first by firemen, Mrs. Snyder said this morning. The fire, which apparently started in the dining room of the house, also caused considerable damage to the kitchen, living room and a bedroom, she said.

Mrs. Snyder said that remodeling of the kitchen had just been completed before Sunday's fire. Appliances and cupboards were extensively damaged, she said. Furniture that wasn't damaged by fire was damaged by smoke and water, Mrs. Snyder said, and most of the family's clothing was damaged by smoke.

Mrs. Snyder said that fellow employes where she is employed are collecting clothing for her children and furniture and other household items. The Snyders and (heir four children were visiting her mother when the fire broke out Sunday. When they returned home, a fare truck was already at the scene. According to Mrs.

Snyder, firemen said the blaze might have been caused by faulty wiring. Two Join Alton State Hospital Staff Dr. Julio Coppo and Dr. Manuel Danganon have joimed the medical staff of Alton State Hospital and will be assigned to the Madison County and the St. Clair-Monroe Counties Units.

Dr. Coppo is a graduate of Lima Medical College, Peru, and served his internship at St. Mary's Hospital, East St. Louis, and a five-year residency at Missouri Pacific Hospital, St. Louis.

Dr. Danganon will work in the Alton State Hospital Madison County Unit. Dr. Coppo will be assigned to the St. CJair-Monroe Counties Unit.

Here's Program For Muny Band The second concert of the season of the Edwardsville Municipal Band will be at 8 p.m. Thursday in the city park. The program will begin with "Muny Band by Gail Meuk, and will be followed by L. Blamkentourg's "Fidelity" march, Richard Rogers' "Hello Young Lovers" and Paul Fau- chet's finale from "Symphony in "The Three by G. Agostini, will feature Jerry Castagnaro, Bruce Hoffman and Terry Moore.

Other numbers will include "Dublin Holiday" by Forrest L. Buchtel, "Turkish March" by "Hostrauser's March" by W. Paris Chambers, "Atlantis" by V. F. Safranek, "Margie" by Davis, Conrad and Robinson, "Swedish Rhapsody" by Percy Faith, "Raindrops Keep Faffin' on My Head" by Burt Bacharaeh and "His Excellency March" by Henry Fillmore.

The concession stand will be operated by the Brotherhood of AME Church. Change in Zone Law on Agenda By Terry Hillig Of the Intelligencer An amendment to the city's zoning ordinance which has been opposed by the City Plan Commission and the Zoning Board of Appeals is slated for action by the Edwardsville City Council at its meeting ait the City Hall at 7:30 p.m. today. The amendment would allow the waiving of minimum size requirements for areas to be rezoned if the rezoning amendment were initiated by the City Council. The zoning ordinance now requires that areas be of a certain minimum size, according to the proposed rezoning classification, before rezoning can be initiated, unless the area to be rezoned is adjacent to an area zoned (he same as the proposed rezoning.

Members of the Plan Cam- mission said that the amendment would destroy the intent of hie zoning ordinance and allow "spot zoning." The Zoning Board concurred in the Plan Commission's recommendation. John A. Crook, city corporation counsel, has said that the intent of the amendment is to allow the council to resolve inequities which cannot be resolved under the present ordinance. Since both the Plan Commission and the Zoning Board recommended rejection of the amendment, a two-thirds vote of the council will be required to pass it. Also under consideration by the council tonight will be the proposed new water rate schedule arrived at by the council's water committee after the last council meeting two weeks ago.

The proposed rates (with present rates in parentheses) are: first 1,000 gallons, $1 next 4,000 gallons, 80 cents (68.2 cents); nest 5,000 gallons, 70 cents (59.1 cents); next 15,000 gallons, 60 cents (50 cents); next 25,000 gallons, 50 cents (36.4 cents); next 50,000 gaEons, 45 cents (37.27 cents); next 150,000 gallons, 40 cents (23.64 cents); next 250,000 gallons, 35 cents (19.09 cents); next 500,000 gallons, 35 cents (18.182 cents); and next 1 million gallons, 35 cents (14.5 cents). The fixing of a fee for sale of the city's "Comprehensive Community Plan" booklet, prepared by the Southwestern Illinois Metropolitan Area Planning Commission, is also set for action tonight. Markets Corn Beans Wheat Shorts $1.26 $2.69 $1.24 $3.35 Eggs and Poultry St. Louis (AP) Eggs, consumer grades: A large 28-34, A medium 19-26, A small 10-16, large 27-31; wholesale grades: standard 2021, medium 17-18, unclassified 19-20. Hens: heavy light, over 5Yz Ibs under 5Y 2 ready to cook broilers and fryers 25.5026.00, this week's delivery.

Dow Jones Averages New York (AP) Dow Jones noon stock averages: 30 Industrials 703.79 up 16.43 20 Transport 138.70 up 1.38 15 Utilities 98.70 up 0.41 65 Stocks 225.35 up 3.76 East St. Louis Livestock Estimates for Wednesday: Hogs cattle calves 50; sheep 100. Hogs barrows and gilts 50 to 1.00 lower; 1-2 200-230 Ibs 25.75-26.00; 1-3 200-230 Ibs 25.0025.50; 2-4 220-250 Ibs 24.50-25.00; 3d4 260-2801bs 22.50-23.50; 1-2 170180 Ibs 23.50; sows 25 to 50 lower; 1-3 300-400 Ibs 18.50-19.25; boars 18.00-18.50. Cattle calves 100; steers steady to 25 lower; steers choice and prime 1,100 Ibs 30.50; choice Ibs 29.25-30.00; heifers prime 925 Ibs 29.50; choice and prime near 950 Ibs 29.00; choice 800-950 Ibs 28.50-29.00; cows commercial 21.50-22.50; few head 23.00; utility 21.50-23.00; few high dressing to 23.50; bulls 26.50-28.50; choice vealers 36.0039.00. NEGRO CHALLENGES NEWARK'S ADDONIZIO Newark, N.J.

(AP) Some 90,000 voters were expected to choose today between an incumbent on trial in federal court and a challenger seeking to become the first black mayor of a major northeastern city. Mayor Hugh J. Addonizio, 56, facing charges of extortion and income tax evasion, and Kenneth A. Gibson, 38, a black civil engineer, each predicted victory after a bitter campaign in which racism was the dominant issue. Veteran political observers rated the njnott election too close to calL Student Art Awards Four art students at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, have received awards for meritorious work in tbe annual Best- ofjthe-Year show.

Left to right are Sylvester Naliborski, Belleville; David Huntley, chairman of art faculty; Dimitrina Stam- boldjiev, Granite City; Michael Jantzen, Carlyle, and Ellen Meyers, Edwardsville. Cash gifts accompanied tbe awards. l-deas Shopping at the and By Jeannine R. Schaub For the Intelligencer No one at the supermarket has ever told me to take all the free groceries I wanted, but, if he did, I suspect I would feel like I did when told to help myself to books on the Lewis and Clark Library System shelves. For the past few months, the Edwardsville League of Women Voters has been asking individuals to go to Lewis and Clark to select books for the Edwardsville Public Library.

The library system then lends those books to the local library for a time, and we readers can cheek them out. The League asked me to be a book-picker because of my intellectual capabilities (I have a library card) and my civic mindedness (I once wrote a letter to the mayor). Besides that, I volunteered. Anyway, I showed up at Lewis and Clark last week and was given a cart to fill with all the books I thought might interest me or others who use the Edwardsville Public Library. Wishing that I had managed to remember the Dewey Decimal System I memorized in junior high school, I decided the only place to begin was at the end.

I pushed my cart the length of the room and found books there dealt with athletics. Not being a real sports buffi (I was a college sophomore when I realized they didn't play four quarters in college basketball, I decided I'd try to pick books others might enjoy. I know it's golf weather, so I selected "Arnie." Then something about family camping, soccer, canoeing and a collection of Jim Murray columns. I rejected a book about the Indianapolis 500 (I knew that was over) and one about the America's Cup (I didn't know it was coming). About then I began wishing I read the sports pages more often.

I spotted something like "Athletic Firsts by Negroes." I had decided before I left home I should try to consider minority groups and their tastes in reading, so it went onto my cart. Next I took a detour into juvenile books. I didn't immediately find A. A. Milne, but I did stumble onto a biography on Adlai Stevenson that looked worthy of my pile.

Out of juvenile, into music, I found a thick book on the life of Richard Wagner and a thin one on the history of rock music. I found a wonderfully big and expensive collection of librettos from great operas and felt extravagant when I took it. Then I made my fatal error: I wandered into the cook book section and almost never got out. I have never seen such a marvelous collection of beautiful cook books anywhere. The New York Times Menu Cook Book, the Gourmet cook books, Bouquet of France, a Beard, Fanny Farmer, Child-4hey're all there.

My concern for ethnic groups grew intense. I selected books on Italian cooking, French wines, a collection of recipes from Luchow's German Restaurant and even something on the food of Switzerland. I considered the lazy gourmet (The Night- Before Cook Book) and the practical homemaker (How to Freeze and Can Almost Everything). I reluctantly put back entire books on cooking cheeses, apples, lamb, breads and beans, but I gave in aad added a volume on fondue cooking. It was during my overstay in the cooking stacks that I bad a revelation: I was not qualified to select books for others.

How could a 32-year-oW housewife of Irish-German ancestry know what teen-agers or Negroes or men cared to read? From cook books I selected things I'd like to read myself and hoped someone else might like them too. I'm not sure if common sense or selfishness prompted the decision, but I felt better. I picked out a book listing good books for pre schoolers and added "SummerhiH: For and Against," I chose a book for women interested in the stock market and another for lady bridge playets. I found something about modern African writers and some poems by e.e. cummings.

Fiction was tough, because I had to read every title rather than skim subjects, (tough on the brain and tough on neck muscles twisted to read titles sideways.) I pulled out a few good mysteries (at least their titles were scary and weren't nude women on the covers) and a thing or two by John Steinbeck, John O'Hara and James Miehener. Encouraged by a fellow selector, I asked a kindly Lewis and Clark employe if we might pick out some records for the Edwardsville library. "That's why they're here," she replied, so we went upstairs to long rows of records. I fear I cannot disguise my musical taste (or lack of it) here. I pulled out Bellini's "Norma," Puccini's "Turandot" and Wagner's "Tanhaueser," along with several other operas.

I added ballet music, then things by Kurt Weffl, Pete Seeger, Jelly Roll Morton and Billie Holiday. My conscience made me take the Brandenburg Concerti and Goldberg Variations for my husband. I do hate being square, so at the last minute I snatched up a Berg work and a record of electronics music from the University of Illinois. Downstairs again, I asked the same kindly woman about taking framed prints. My overloaded cart betrayed my greed, so I felt I had nothing to lose by asking.

Again I got a positive response. Now, my artistic taste is only slightly more educated than my musical taste (I had one semester of art appreciation), so I was restrained. I piled on several new "mini prints" by various painters, a Van Gogh and a picture of an elephant. (Because I'm assuming no one will check, I'll say the elephant is a reproduction from a 12th century Persian tapestry. And, anyway, my three-year-old son is wild about elephants.) Fortunately for library users, I wasn't the only selector.

There were Mrs. G. William Crabb, a housewife who has worked for a library; Truman W. May, retired Madison County farm adviser; and Craig Leitner, a high school student. They all read more than I and showed their diverse interests (or similar greed) by piling their carts full too.

The joy of wandering through Lewis and Clark is the freedom --not only in selecting, but in the physical spase itself. The building is new, immaculate and beautifully lighted. Every book I touched was new, in a see- through plastic cover and in perfect condition. The place even smelted good. By the time I had to leave, I was sorry I had to leave all "my" books, records and prints behind.

As I understand it, the Bookmobile will take everything our group selected to the Edwardsville Public Library at 2 p.m. Wednesday. I plan to be there- at 3 p.m. to check out as many things as the librarian allows. Nine More Youths Charged At Shale Pit Nine persons wre charged by Edwardsville police with trespassing on the shale pit property at 2:45 p.m.

Monday, bringing to 18 the number of persons so charged since Saturday. The shale pit, an abandoned quarry located off Illinois 157 near the Steinmeyer Addition, is 40 to 80 feet deep, and is considered extremely dangerous for swimmers by both police and the owners, Town a Campus, Inc, The fine for trespassing on the property ranges from $3 to $50. Charged Monday were Larry D. Miller, 19, and William E. Dietz 18, both of East St.

Louis, and seven juveniles, including one girl. A small truck, driven by Robert E. Snyder, Route 6, Edwardsville, was struck by a bus driven by Morris D. Greer, Alton, at the intersection of Benton and Scnwarz streets at 4:41 p.m. Monday.

The bus was owned by Western Military Academy in Alton. Snyder said his truck was behind the bus and that the bus driver must have misjudged the turn, backed up and hit the truck. Beatty New Chief Judge Circuit Judge William L. Beatty will succeed Judge Joseph Barr as Chief Judge of the Third Judicial Circuit. Beatty was elected to his new position at a recent judges' meeting.

As Chief Judge, he is responsible for making assignments for the remaining circuit judges. The new assignments, announced last week, are: Judge James 0. Monroe, family court; Judge Michael Kinney, criminal division; Judge Harold R. Clark and Judge Joseph J. Barr, civil jury cases.

Monroe was formerly assigned to the criminal division, and Kinney handled the family court cases. Judicial assignments are frequently rotated, usually on a yearly basis, sometimes more often. The chief judge is elected by the judges for a one-year term and may be re-elected. This is the first term as chief judge for Beatty, a Granite City resident and the newest of the circuit judges. LUMBER FIRS The Edwardsville Fire Department doused a pile of smoldering scrap lumber at 210 Springer Ave.

at 9 m. Monday. The vacant home at the address is owned by Robert C. Stille. Relief Office Relieved of Equipment Weekend burglars in Granite City were thinking of their own welfare first when they relieved the Nameoki Township Relief Office of items valued at approximately $1,313.

The Madison County Sheriff's Office has been unable to determine the means by which the burglars gained entry to the relief office, but, once inside, the burglars headed first for the garage, where they took the tools they later used in an unsuccessful attempt to pry open the safe and filing cabinets in the office. Taken from the office were two adding machines, two typewriters, a radio, a photo-copier, a ditto machine, an electric pencil sharpener and four sweaters. Besides the tools, the burglars took a battery charger and a case of de-icer from the garage. The burglars also broke into a soda vending machine and took the machine's money changer..