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L1NDSAY-SCHAUB NEWSPAPERS I A I I P.O. BOX 789 A i I 62525 114th Year Intelligencer 237 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18,1976 EDWARDSVILLE, ILLINOIS 62025 5 Sectioi 15 Cents Civic Center 'Up for Grabs' By Paul Gale Of the Intelligencer Gov Daniel Walker's use of an amendatoiy veto to alter the Metro-East Civic Center bill has put the proposed location of the center "up-for- grabs," according to State Sen Sam Vadalabene, D-Edwardsville. Walker signed into a law bill which creates civic center authorities in five areas of the state, but altered a companion bill which would have placed this area's center in Madison County. Walker changed the bill to include St Clair County Vadalabene called Walker's action a retaliation against him because he supported Secretary of State Michael Howlett in March primary. Hewlett defeated Walker in the primary.

"If this is retaliation on the part of the governor, so be it At least I know he is not going to be around after the first of the year This justifies my support for Hewlett during the primary," Vadalabene said Vadalabene said he has never been able to understand Walker's actions during the past four years. "And I'm not going to try to understand now why a lame- duck governor says one thing, does another," Vadalabene said Walker has said he used his amendatory veto on the bill because he was responding to objections to St. Clair County legislators and a Metro-East Journal newspaper editorial which called the civic center bill a disguise for a basketball arena for Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Vadalabene, the bill's sponsor, said Walker just used his amendatory veto power "to step down from the executive branch to get into the legislative branch again." "The Senate and House passed the bills in their original forms We never heard a word from the St. Clair legislators until this bill got passed," he said "Walker's action to amend St.

Clair County into the bill signifies to me that he yielded to the pressures of the St. Clair County political leaders," Vadalabene said Vadalabene said he is going to muster forces together to override the amendatory veto when the legislature reconvenes next November He also lashed out at the former chairman of the Metro- East Civic Center Authority Bruce Cook for making "Was" statements on a radio station this morning about the bill Vadalabene said Cook called the SIU-E campus an illogical site for the center. "This indicates to me that Bruce Cook would now be ineligible to serve on the board. Here we have a governor who has amended the bill to include St. Clair County and we have Cook, who Walker appointed as chairman of the board, saying the Edwardsville site is jiot feasible Something is wrong in tnv opinion," Vadalabene said Relief Forces Rush to Philippines Earthquake Toll 5,300 President Gerald R.

Ford. (AP File Photo) Manila (AP) The official toll of dead and missing in the earthquakes and tidal waves in the southern Philippines soared to more than 5,300 today, with nearly 30,000 reported homeless. Relief officials said many bodies were floating in the waters off the stricken southern coast of Mindanao and that many of the missing, washed away by giant waves, would probably never be found. The National i a Coordinating Center said 3,103 deaths had been confirmed and there were at leat 2,282 missing, 688 injured and 28,716 homeless following Tuesday's catastrophes. Col.

Prudencio Ver, the center's deputy chief, said most of the dead and missing were caught by i a waves. A television station reported that 400 to 600 paratroopers training in the southern Philippines were among those swept away by the waves, but Victor In Test Vote Bigger Payrolls Push Personal Income Up Washington (AP) Americans' personal income jumped by the biggest margin in nearly a year during July thanks to a cost of living increase for Social Secuiity recipients and bigger payrolls for workers, the government reported today The Commerce Depaitment said personal income increased Police Doubt Slaying Linked To Victim's Job Edwardsville Police are continuing their investigation of the still-unsolved beating death of Norbert Schmitz on the assumption that his slaying was unrelated to his engineering work at McDonnell Douglas Aircraft in St. Louis. is no evidence at this time between the man's employment and his death according to Madison County Sheritf's Department Pete Baetz. Baetz has been lequested by the Edwardsville Poice Department to report intormation on the mysterious murder to the press.

Schmitz was employed at McDonnell-Douglas foi 10 years and was a senior engineer at the time of his death. Although his work involved engineering of the F-15 fighter plane project at McDonnell-Douglas, Baetz said that "almost everybody at the plant works on some aspect of the project." Baetz said the Federal Bureau of investigation has not been called in to handle investigation of the murder, but was requested by local officials only for what Baetz called "peri- heial" help in fingerprint information. "We do not absolutely discount the possibility that there Is a connection between his work and death, but the investigation is continuing on lines that are not related to his work," Baetz said. Police said today that an expensive watch owned by Schmitz has not been located, and neither has the dead man's wallet. His body was found in the trunk of his abandoned car on Sunday evening in the 400 block of East Vandalia St.

Baetz said investigators are investigating a "number of pos- ilble leads," none of which appear to be conclusive. at an annual rate of $13 9 billion in July, or 1 per cent, to an annual rate of $1,384 3 billion. That worked out to an annual rate of growth of 12.9 per cent and compared to a 17.5 billion inciease in June. It was the largest increase since a S15.5 billion rise last August The July lise brought personal income on a per capita basis to $6 439 in annual rate That compares to S6 374 in June and 35,864 a year earlier The department said a Social Security increase mandated by the past year's boost in consumer prices accounted foi S4.6 billion of the latest increase. That is a one-time tactor which does not necessarily reflect the underlying economic conditions at work Howevei, wage and salary payments mcieased more steeply, by $8.1 billion following a diop of $100 million in June.

By Don McLeod Kansas City, Mo. (AP) Now that President Ford has won the first big vote of the Republican convention and avoided a showdown on another, he has to assess how much it cost him. Already his supporters are divided over his decision to capitulate on a foreign policy addition to the platform pushed by his challengei, Ronald Reagan. And while he scored a victory in the only roll call Tuesday night, it was close for a mart who has been living in the White House for two yeai s. These are among the lingering problems Ford faces at the convention, though it now appears likely he will win the presidential nomination inside --It's Republican Dav at ths State Fair, page 3.

--Joe Meyer looks at the fledgling area bowling association; Cards win; scores, results, page 6. --Family news and features, page 5. --What's on t.v., page 10. --Obituaries, other news, page 2. Nice Again Sunny and warmer Thursday with the high in the middle to upper 80s.

Clear and cool tonight with the low 60 to 65. Winds light easteily tonight but calm on Thursday tonight The first Ford-Reagan Test to reach the convention floor ended in a 1,180 to 1,069 defeat of Reagan's effort to force Ford to name his choice for vice president today, hours before the vote on the presidential nominee. It was a 'dear tactical victory for Ford's side, and because it only takes 1,130 votes for the presidential nomination, a pretty good signal that the delegate polls showing him over the top are on target. The Associated Press poll shdws" him with 1,139. But for a major political party to come that close to defying its incumbent president is rare, a weakness which must have been apparent to many of the voters who watched it on television.

Later Ford decided to agree to the Reagan foreign policy 'statement without a fight. His floor managers said it done in the name of party harmony but conceded they decided to yield after compromise efforts failed. The Reagan addition contained thinly veiled slaps at Ford's policy of detente with the Soviet Union, implying he has given away too much in negotiations, and at his failure to meet with exiled Souet writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Vice President 1 on Rockefeller, who engineer the Ford agreement, defended it with the argument that demand for diplomatic toughness "is in fact the basis on which the Republican administration has conducted its foreign policy." But Rep. John Anderson, chairman of the House Republican Conference, complained that "it criticizes the foreign policy of the last four years there was no immediate confirmation of the report.

The casualties were concentrated in the towns and cities along Mindanao island's 500 miles of coastline around the More Gulf, on the northern side of the Celebes Sea. The Philippine Air Force was shuttling tons of medicine, food and other supplies to Cotabato, on the eastern shore of the gulf, and Zamboanga, across the gulf at the tip of the Zam- bolanga peninsula. They were among the heardest hit cities. Navy ships stationed in Zamboanga were ferrying relief goods to other strick areas along the cost. President Ford sent President Ferdinand Marcos a message expressing sorrow and offering S.

aid. The first quake struck shortly after midnight Monday, wihite the people of Mindanao were sleeping. It was centered in the Celebes Sea between Mindanao and Indonesia's Celebes island and sent 24-foot-high tidal waves crashing ashore, carrying away fishermen's stilt shacks as far as 100 yards inland. The first quake was followed by the usual aftershocks, and shortly after noon Tuesday another major tremor hit. But by then the survivors of the first quake had moved into the streets and other open spaces, and it was not likely that there were more casualties.

The National Goephysical Observatory said the first quake registered 7 8 on the Richter Scale while the US. earthquake center in Golden, got a reading of 8.0. The second quake registered 6.8 on U.S. i a in Honolulu. The Richter Scale is a measure of ground motion, and every increase of one whole r.i mber means the ground motion is 10 times greater.

A tremor registering 6 indicates severe damage; a reading of 7 is a major quake, capable of widespread heavy damage, and 8 is a "great" quake, capable of damage. The Saji Francisco earthquake of 1906 registered 83. Meanwhile, Hsinhua, the official Chinese news agency, reported that the major earthquake in the mountains of central China Monday night caused only slight damage because it had been predicted and officials had taken preeau- tons. It occurred about two hours before the first Philippine quake "about 700 miles south of Peking and registered 7.9 on the Richter Scale, Hsinhua said. North Koreans Kill Two U.

S. Officers Seoul, Korea (AP) About 30 North Korean guards armed with axes and metal pikes killed two U.S. Army officers and wounded four American enlisted men and five South Koreans during a clash in the demilitarized zone today, the United Nations Command Military sources said three North Koreans were also believed killed, but there was no confirmation of that The U.N Command said the two American officers were "brutally murdered in an unprovoked assault" -Nort Korea, however, said Its guards acted in self defense after "U.S. aggression troops" armed with lethal weapons beat them. The Pentagon in Washington said the identities of the slain men would be released after their families were notified.

A Pentagon spokesman said he could not predict when the names would be made public. A spike, generally used in pre-bayonet times, is a long wooden shaft with a metal head, sometimes with a pick on the side. The U.N. Command gave this account of the attack: The two American officers, a South Korean officer and several American enlisted men were escorting five Korean service corps workers who were trimming trees in Pan- munjom, the truce village in the center of the bufer zone between North and South Korea. The U.N.

Command called a meeting of the Military Armistice Commission Thursday to protest the attack, but it was not learned immediately if the North Koreans agreed. The two Americans were the first persons ever killed in the joint security area in which the joint armistice i between the U.N. Command and the North Koreans were held. The U.N. Command said the North Koreans also damaged tree U.N.

Command vehicles in the attack. It was the second violent incident in the demilitarized zone this month. Triad Teacher Contract Talks Stalemate After 8-Hour Session By Jim Orso Of the Intelligencer Contract talks between the Triad Education Association and Triad School District negotiators remained deadlocked after a marathon, eight-hour negotiation session that ended at 3 a.m. today. TEA negotiators put their seven-item request on the table at 7 p.m.

Tuesday. They walked away sleepy-eyed this morning after settling on two minor issues--faculty meetings on school time and a redefinition of "emergency leave." District negotiators went along with TEA, the teachers union, on both items, but stood firm on others, including TEA'S request for a school board-paid pension policy. District negotiators also blocked TEA'S request for federal mediation, a process which has never taken place in the district. With the start of school just nine days away, TEA chief negotiator Dave Deem says his gioup remains firm. "We are going to need a contract before we go to work," Deem said.

"This is what our policy is going to be." A meeting for the TEA membership (about 100 teachers) will be at 7 p.m. tonight in the American Legion Hall at St. Jacob. Deem said that a number of items will be discussed, including the no-contract-no-work $10,000 in Rock Eliminated Glen Park Project Bids High By Ann Ferguson Of the Intelligencer Bids nearly S10.000 higher than enginpeis' estimates weie bi ought before the Glen Carbon Village Board on Tupsday for the grading and excavation woik needed ior the village's Miner Park The board accepted the lowest of the bids after cutting off one of the items in the specifications lor the pio- ject After subtracting the nearly $10,000 cost for purchase of aggregate rock for a load base, the board accepted a low bid of $14,458 from the Keller Excavating Company ot Glen Carbon. The original bid from Keller was for $23,278.

Two othei companies -Knecht Excavating of Edwardsville and Viere Excavating of Glen Carbon--also submitted bids for project. There was abut a $1,600 variation in the amended high and low bids submitted for the excavation woik. Village officials and engineer Jim Sherbut had hoped that the cost of the aggregate lock base could be lumped with the cost of excavating the 17 acres of park land. Most of the money for the excavation will be provided by an $11,200 grant awarded to the village by the Madison County Community Development Fund. Purchase of the road base lock will have to be delayed until some future date.

Village board and park committee member Evelyn Wiechman said she does not know when and where additional funds may be found for purchase of the rock base, but she said she doesn't feel it will pose a pioblem for the park development. Mis Weichman told the board on Tuesday that the East-West Gateway Coordinating Council has approved village efforts to obtain a $20,000 grant Irom the Illinois Department of Conservation. The funds are sought on a matching basis, with the village agreeing to pay $10.000 of the total figure. The grant money is for restroom facilities in Miner Paik. A decision on whether the village will receive the grant may come by late fall.

In other action, the board approved a 5 to 1 vote an ordinance which grants a rezoning request made by the Holden Hospital Corporation of Mount Vernon. The rezoning will allow for multi-family dwellings on 17 acres of what is known as the Yates Farm, and will permit construction of a nursing home on that property. The ordinance was drafted after the board voted on August 5 to allow the Holden agency the rezoning request. Mrs. Weichman, chairman of the village's cemetery committee, said that installation of a wrought-iron fence and a chain-link fence around the new portion of the Glen Carbon Cemetery is expected to be completed this week.

The fence will enclose the entire eastern portion of the cemetery, and will match the existing fence work on the older portion of the cemetery grounds. The cost of both types of fence is $1,900 The fence has been purchased from the Sup- eiior Fence Co. of St. Louis. Board member Dave Hammond requested the appointment of Terry Sedlacek as a part-time patrolman for the village police department, which is once again understaffed following the Aug.

3 resignation of patrolman Ed Fitch. Fitch had been appointed just six weeks before his resignation. He cited personal reasons for the resignation. Hammond said village police captain Francis Miller has been assuming patrolman duties for the village until a replacement can be found for Fitch. Mayor Lester Munzert approved the appointment of Sedlacek as a part-time policeman at a salary of per month.

Sedlacek is also an employe of the village street department. policy and a salary request. Up to now, TEA has fought hard for the pension policy, asking for it in lieu of a salary increase. But, says Deem, "we've gotten to the point where we're willing to talk salary increase." Deem said district negotiators also had said "no" this morning to asuggested salary increase, a class-size policy and a written employe termination policy. The district seems to have "softened," he said, on TEA'S request for early dismissal in excessive heat.

TEA had previously voted down a district offer of a $300 across-the board raise, with $25 yearly increments. Deem said he "had a figure in mind" that he would bring to the membership tonight, but delineed to say what it is until after the meeting. TEA negotiators were at the Illinois Education Association regional headquarters in Edwardsville this morning, "trying to figure out what to do next," Deem said. He said another negotiation meeting has been set for Monday night. None of the three school district negotiators were available for comment this morning.

'Don't Sit Under the Apple Bob Hardy of Glen Carbon, relaxing with his guitar on the mall on the campus of South- ern Illinois University at Edwardsville, finds an appreciative audience in Donna Mc- Cown of Edwardsville. Bob is a junior biology major at SIU- E. Donna is a sophomore. (SIU-E Photo) Soviets Land Moon Vehicle Moscow (AP) Luna 24, an unmanned Soviet spacecraft, made a successful soft landing on the moon tojlay, the Soviet news agency Tass announced. Tass said all equipment aboard the lunar capsule was functioning normally.

Luna 24 was launched aug. 9 and was put into orbit around the moon five days later. The announcement said it landed in the southeastern part of the Sea of Crises at 9:36 a.m. (1:36 a.m. CDT).

The Soviets have not landed men on the moon, but at present two cosmonauts are orbiting the earth in the Salyut 5 space lab. Boris Volynov and Vitaly Zholobov rocketed into space July 6 in their Soyux 21 spacecraft and docked with the Salyut the following day. The space lab has been in orb since June 22. IN FW SPA PERI.