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Pagt2 BDWJfRDSVIUL Saturday, September Solvency of Social Security Employers would bear burden Washington (AP) The nation's would pick up a major part ot the tab for keeping Social Security solvent if the Senate Finance Committee has its way, but employes would pay more. loo. In a break with the 1 past, the committee voted Friday to require employers to pay higher Social Security taxes than their workers. Currently, employers and employe's each pay a Social Security tax of 5.85 per cent on the first $16,500 the worker earns. The maximum amount is $967.25 a year.

For workers, the committee to a formula that, would raise the i i gradually. By 1987, the employe would be taxed 7.035 per cent on the first $33,900 he earns. The maximum tax be $2,384.86 a year. In contrast, by 1 9 8 7 employers would be taxed 7.035 per cent on the first $100,000 each worker earns. The maximum tax would amount to more than $7,000 a year.

The committee also voted to let Social Security recipients earn up to $6,000 a year by 1979 and still receive full benefits. Now, recipients may earn $3,000 without losing benefits. Above that figure, recipients lose $1 in aid for each $2 they earn. Many complained they could not live on the $3,000 and their Social Security benefits. Four slayings Suspects questioned Camdcnton.

Mo. (AP) A 20-ycjr-old man and juvenile were being questioned about the deaths of four children who were shot at their rui nl home while the parents were away, a i i said, Camden County Sheriff Skipper Hedges said charges would be filed to- da. Hedges said two in.spects wen' taken into custody at the 1 juvenile's home less than two miles (rom the scene of the slayings. The children were killed Thursday night while their parents, Mr. and Mrs Swift, attended a bingo game, authorities said.

Coroner K. R. Porter said three of the children ere shot in the head with a caliber weapon and the fourth was shot in the neck. Chicago man Robbery suspect held o.i-gnn. Ill A A Chicago man is being held In the Ogle County Jail in Oicson aftei he allegedly ah- dinted a man following a holdup attempt in Polo.

Shenlf's police identified man as George F. Collins, 29 Collini was charged Friday i armed robbery, unlawful restraint, forced detention, aggravated assault and armed violence Authorities gave this account A masked bandit entered the oflice of realtor George Smith in Polo and demanded $10.080. Smith told him it was im- possible to come up with that kind of money, and agreed to try for $5.000. While the holdup a allegedly held an employe hostage, Smith went across the street and obtained the $5,000 from the Polo National Bank. Meanwhile, bank i i a notified police.

Smith returned with the money, and the suspect then allegedly bound him and the employe and attempted to leave by the back door, where police were waiting. The suspect went back into the office, took Smith hostage and tied in a van. Six children injured when overpass falls Lansing, Mich. (AP) Eleven-year-old Tim Damman was walking across a bridge on his way to school when he' heard a scraping noise. He took two steps backward, "then all I can remember is falling." Tim was one of six children dumped from the pedestrian overpass Friday onto the pavement 15 feet below when the bridge was rammed by a truck carrying a crane-line backhoe.

"I must have blacked out," Tim said, "because the next thing I remember was getting Into the ambulance." He was treated for hniises and released. The other five children, all boys ages 9 to 11, remain hospitalized with i i ranging from cuts and bruises to broken bones, two of them in serious condition. Officials said the backhoe was being carried on a flatbed truck when it failed to clear the overpass, snagged the 80- foot-long steel structure and pulled one side of it to the ground, across several lanes of traffic. deaths Schneider Esther O. Schneider, 81.

of Highland, died at 3:10 a.m. today, Sept. 17, 1977, in St. Joseph's Hospital in Highland. She was born on Oct.

30. 1915. in Marine, a daughter of Jacob and Othilda 1ms Schneider, Her mother died on March 4, 1954. Her father died on May 30.1971. Survivors include a brother, Eugene Schneider, and a sister, Mrs.

Orvillc (Gladys) Mor- staln. both of Highland, and aunt, Anna Schneider of Edwardsville. Miss Schneider was raised In Marine and moved to Highland in the early 1950s. She was formerly employed by the Heel Co. In Marine and later by the Marine Garment Co.

Police confirm death as suicide Edwardsville police said Friday that the August death of John William Knox, 71, of 67 Thomas Terrace, was found to have been a suicide. Police Chief Bennett W. Dick- a said that, as a result of crime laboratory reports and Investigation by his department, he is convinced the fatal wounds were self-inflicted. Knox, who was blind and a semi invalid, died Aug. 12 from gunshot wounds to his chest.

He was found wounded In his home and taken to Oliver Anderson Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Dickmann said It is the "unanimous conclusion of our investigative personnel that (Knox's death) was an apparent suicklc." A cornoner's Inquest will be held at a later date. The inquest was pending the result of laboratory tests which were just received by the police this week. Dickmann said that, as far his department is concerned, "the case is closed." She retired in the early 1960s from the latter film, due to ill health. A funeral service will be held at 1 p.m.

Monday in the Spengel-Boulanger Funeral Home in Highland, with the Rev. Victor Langhorst, pastor emeritus of the Evangelical United Church of Christ in Highland. Burial will be in Highland City Cemetery. Visitation will be in the funeral home on Sunday from 4:30 to 9 p.m. and on Monday from 8 a.m.

until the time of the service. Foehrkalb A funeral service for Omer C. "Ted" Foehrkalb was Friday in St. Boniface Catholic Church. Pallbearers were Jack Vieth, Carl Brucggeman, Wayne Grenzer, Walter Geers, Orville Prott and Larry Foehrkalb.

Burial was in Calvary Cemetery. Alton Cine Wwhtngton Aw. 462-1131 Four oufUu. mli ihr onlj, thing Ml lo NITELY 9:00 SUN. 1:00,4:15.7:20 Cl SUN.

2:35,5:45, ROY SCMtllM.R NITELY 7:00, 9:10 SUN, 1:00, 3:05,5:10, 7:15, 9:20 Swine flu program claims coming in Ready for hearings Frank M. Johnson right, the federal judge President Carter nominated as FBI director, said this week he will be ready to appear before the Se- nate for confirmation Hearings in about two-months. Dr. Michael DeBakey, left, noted heart surgeon, performed the surgery for an aneurysm of. the abdominal aorta and said Johnson was in good health.

now. He- was released from the hospital in Houston. (AP Photo) Commodities roundup Rains boost soybean futures 25 demonstrate at Kent State Kent, Ohio (AP) About 25 demonstrators heckled police but forced no confrontation as construction crews began transplanting trees early this morning to clear ground for a gymnasium annex at Kent State University. The demonstrators chanted "Move the gym" and taunted police. But they stayed outside the fenced-in compound where the $6 million structure is to be built.

By Cheryl Debes AP Business Writer Chicago Harvest-delaying rains lifted soybean futures about 10 cents a bushel this week and managed to minimize the bearish impact of government projections for a record corn harvest. Corn deliveries dipped only a couple of pennies from levels posted at the previous week's close, while wheat futures advanced about three cents a bushel. Oats were off three pennies. Price levels moved mostly higher on Monday as traders evened up their positions in anticipation of the Agriculture Department's monthly crop report, released after the session's close. The forecast for a 6,229 billion bushel corn harvest was markedly higher than traders had anticipated and was interpreted as quite bearish.

And although the predicted soybean yield of 1.644 billion bushels was not entirely a surprise, it was expected to weaken the futures market. Nevertheless, heavy rains in the Midwest halted harvesting 'Opera legend' Callas tributes paid Florida execution delayed by judge Tallahassee, Fla. (AP) A federal judge has spared John A. Spenkelink's life temporarily by ordering a delay in what was to be the first electric chair execution in the United States in 10 years. "God has answered our prayers," said Jenny Richard A a i a i Spenkelink's former wife, after the 1 judge's ruling Friday.

Spenkelink, 28, of Buena Prk, was scheduled to die at 8.30 a.m. Monday. He was convicted of murdering an Ohio parole violator in 1973. U.S. District Court Judge William Stafford granted the delay to allow lawyers to present arguments Wednesday that Florida's death penalty is irrational and discriminates, against those accused of murdering white peoplr Paris (AP) Critics, performers a culture officials paid tribute today to Maria Callas, the American-born soprano whose dramatic portrayals made her queen of the opera in her time.

"She was 'the' diva. Goddesses never die," said Paris Opera administrator Libermann after learning of Miss Callas' death of a heart attack in her Paris apartment Friday. The 53-year-old performer fell unconscious in bedroom and was dead when doctors amved, her artistic director Michael said. "Callas enters by right into the legend of opera," said Carlo Maria a i i superintendent of Milan's La Scala Opera House where the a a breakthrough in 1951 with a masterful "Aida" and went on to lead a revival of the 19th century bel canto operas. "A whole generation of sinrers followed her lead," wrote New York Times critic Harold Schonberg.

"In a way Joan Sutherland, Beverly Sills, Teresa Berganza, and Marilyn Home are children." Italian soprano Giulietta Si- mionato, recalling the battles with managers, conductors, and other performers that gained Miss Callas notoriety as "opera's bad girl," said: "She was a fragile woman despite her character that deserved her the titles of The Tiger, The Lioness, the selfish, ag- i a i Maria." the following, day and raised the possibility of crop damage. That, in turn, triggered shortcovering. and soybeans futures advanced several cents while corn contracts dipped only slightly. Skies cleared the next day, and the crop report's delayed impact resulted in firmly lower prices. But soybeans moved higher again on Thursday, especially in the spot September delivery, as rains returned to the Midwest and the harvest slowdown tended to aggravate an already tight supply situation.

A good amount of commercial buying interest appeared in grain pits during the week and the Agriculture Department announced some substantial corn sales to Russia and unknown destinations. Prices moved within a relatively narrow range during the final session, as weather considerations created a mood of uncertainty a traders. Soybean oil was modestly lower, while meal advanced about $2 a ton. At the end of the week, soybeans were IVi to cents a bushel higher than the preceding week's close, with the September contract at 5.23V4; wheat gained to 4M, September 2.35; corn was 1 to 2 lower, September 1.91%; oats dipped to 3H, September 1.12%; soybean oil was 25 IF YOU DO NOT RECEIVE YOUR PAPER BY 5:30 P.M. PLEASE CALL NO LATER THAN 6:00 656-4700 Publisher A.

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Live hog cattle futures were steady to moderately higher on the i a Mercantile Exchange, but pork bellies were mostly lower for the week. A relapse in shell egg futures resulted in new crop lows for all deliveries. Despite weakening in the cash product and irregularity in the dressed pork trade, live hogs worked up for net gains of 37 cents to $1.40 per hundredweight. Relatively cheap futures prices and optimism about the upcoming pig crop report encouraged buying. Live cattle were steady to 55 Cents- higher in light trade, reflecting improvement in the carcass market.

But pork bellies, unchanged to 40 points lower, reacted to increased hog slaughterings and lower cash prices. Egg futures dropped 50 to 320 points, the latter figure the equivalent of more than 3 cents a dozen. Washington (AP) More than 800 damage claims already have been filed and they continue to come in at the rate of- about 20 a day as a result of the defunct swine flu vaccination program last year, the Justice Department says. Neil Peterson, in charge of the swine lii claims at the department, told a House health subcommittee Friday that 2.500 claims ma'y eventually arise from the vaccinations. The.

program, announced, with fanfare -by then PresidPnt Ford last- year to head off a possible flu epidemic which nevep occurred, was canceled after some of those given the shots contacted Guillain-Barre Fence broken at restaurant A-section of an eight-foot high fence was-broken early today behind Rusty's Restaurant. 1201 N. Main St. City police said the damage was reported at 2:31 a.m. today.

Th" damage -was estimated at $Kfl. In other police reports, Art Neal, owner of the Site Service Station, told police that a customer left his station Thursday without paying for $5 worth ef gasoline. The man left the scene about 11 p.m. while Neal was busy with other matters, police said. Police charged the following drivers with traffic violations on Friday or early today: Bruno Gwardys of 308 S.

Main no valid city sticker; Hussell Umberger of Route 2, Edwardsville, speeding; Michael Bracken of E3 Village Circle, speeding: Randall L. Johnson of 825 Sherman speeding; Patrick S. Callender of 2101 Madison speeding and illegal transportation of alcohol; and Bryon Daggot of 431 Shady Lane, illegal possession of alcohol. causing Syndrome, an ilness temporary paralysis. The govei'nment agreed on a overnment-backed liability program after a i manufacturers found that they could not get full coverage independently.

The "overnment must defend any lawsuit arising from alleged injuries or deaths from the immunization program. The government could then seek recovery from the vae- cinp manufacturer or ether party if negligence 1 a found. Meanwhile, two congressmen who had been early critics of immunization program, said Friday that insurance companies stand to make large -profits as a result of the program. Eclipse A total solar eclipse occurs when the new moon comes completely between an Earthbound observer and the sun. The longest possible period such an eclipse can last is seven minutes, 58 seconds.

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