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Page 2 ERROR: Should be Zoning Board of Appeals EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER Tuesday, April 15, 1971 Re-Elecfed I. W. Davis was re-elected chairman of the Edwardsville Zoning Board of Appeals by acclamation of the board Monday. He will serve as chairman of the board during the coming fiscal year. Davis, 55, is completing his first term as chairman.

Prior to appointment to the Zoning Board, Davis served for a number of years on the city Plan Commission. Philip Corlew was of the(jommission7)- Irk Residents At Highland Highland Members of the Highland City Council were told Monday mghi that vibrations caused by heavy engines at the new Highland power plant have resulted in complaints by nearby residents. Construction of the new power facility began in September, 1970, and was recently completed at a cost of approximately $2 million. Eric Tabor, power plant superintendent, told the council that a representative of Nordberg Manufacturing Co the firm that built the power generators, was Inspecting the engines to determine the cause of the vibrations. Tabor said that efforts to eliminate the vibrations had been largely successful, but he admitted that the problem had not been entirely solved.

A petition in the name of Marie Crager to annex property on North Poplar Street was accepted, and a motion to initiate a petition to incorporate the approximately 20 remaining residences between North Poplar and old U.S. 40 was approved. It was announced that bids for painting and repair of the two municipal water tanks would be accepted. The retirement of Ray Stuck- vvisch as fire chief was announced Stuckwisch will retiie after 25 years' seivice for the city. Conference for Writers Slated May 12 and 13 Experts in non-fiction, juvenile writing and poetry will be among the faculty of the two- day McKendree Writers' Conference, May 12 and 13, on the campus of McKendree College, Lebanon.

The conference will begin with registraton at 6 p.m. on May 12 and will continue through May 13. The cost of the conference, including registration and meals, is $10. Arrangements to attend must be made in advance. Conference participants may submit manuscripts for criticism and may arrange for private conferences with faculty members.

Among the faculty members are: --Charles Paul May, New York author of 18 non-fiction books and an editor, lecturer and photographer; --Dan Jaffe, professor in the Department of English, University of Missouri-Kansas City, the author of several books and 8 contributor to Saturday Review, Mademoiselle and other magazines; --David Collins, Moline, author of the childrens' book "Kim Soo and His Tortoise" and the winner of the 1970 Writer of the Year Award from Writer's Studio. The McKendree Writers' Conference was founded in 1955 by Dr. Mildred Silver. Mrs. Marjorie Norris of Lebanon is the current secretary.

Three Russian Students Urge Coexistence Three students from the Soviet Union on an American discussion tour said Monday at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville that the principles of peaceful coexistence should guide the actions of both the Soviet and American governments. "We're aware our two systems are different and our coun- tires have had disagreements," said Levon G. Saakyan, first secretar of the Republic of Armenia Youth Political Organization. "But both countries have had many positive achievements, and with all our knowledge we can cooperate and live in peace as well as talk about war." Saakyan, Vladimir A. Kavtar- adze, a member of the Presidium of the Committee of Youth Organizations of the USSR, and Nicholai N.

Mukhin, secretary of the student organization of Moscow State University, visited several classes on the SIU-E campus and spoke informally before their Monday night public discussion with three SIU-E students on "How Might the U.S. and USSR Contribute to the Cause of Peace?" Kavtaradze said he hopes initiatives toward disarmament will result from President Richard Nixon's visit to the Soviet Union next month. If your President and our leaders could bring the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks forward, I think that would be very beneficial for everyone." Kavataradze said continued American involvement in Indochina will not aid relations between the superpowers. "The Vietnam War should be the problem of the Vietnamese people," he said. "The USSR has little to do with stopping the war.

The American government started it and the American government must take action to stop it." Pre-Emptipn Showdown Today; Vadalabene In Crucial Position By Richard H. Icen Lindsay-Schaub News Service Springfield 1 Downstate Democratic members of the Illinois Senate will provide the "balance of power" in Republican efforts to pass legislation giving the state exclusive power to license various professional groups. A vote on what has become known as the "pre-emption bill" is expected today in the Illinois Senate. The measure passed the House last year and could be on its way toward the governor's desk for his signature by night- fall if Republicans can hold their 29 members and obtain the vote of at least one Democrat. The bill, which has the strong backing of Gov.

Richard B. Ogilvie, would remove from, home rule units the authority to license for revenue a variety of occupations. Among the groups affected are doctors, lawyers, nurses, veterinarians, those dealing with real estate, beauticians, barbers and many others. Opposition to passage is being mounted by the Illinois Municipal League on the basis that li- Illinois Scene Staff Size Defended Springfield (AP) Aides to Gov. Richard B.

Ogilvie said Monday that the number of employes on the governor's payroll whose salaries come from federal funds has doubled since 1968 while the number of jobholders paid with state tax dollars has dropped. At a news conference, a state personnel director Alan A. Drazek claimed these figures showed that "aggressive pursuit of all available federal funds had shifted some of the personnel burden to the federal government and away from the Illinois taxpayer." Drazek unveiled a four-color, slick-paper brochure, printed by the personnel department at a cost of $2,300, describing changes in the number of state employes under "the governor's jurisdiction." The 16-page pamphlet, titled "(Manpower Trends in Illinois State Government," showed that the total number of employes "under the governor's jurisdiction" went from 57,823 in De- cember 1968 to 62,344 in December 1971. At the same time, the number of such workers paid with state tax dollars decreased from 51,345 to 49,393. Drazek said employes encompassed by the study were those in Ogilvie's office as well as in such personnel code departments as public aid and children and family services, Scott Pledges Suit To Halt Lake Pollution Chicago (AP) Illinois Attorney General William Scott said Monday he would move immediately into the U.

S. District Courts with his fight against pollution that he said the City of Milwaukee and automobile manufacturers are pouring into the environment. "Under no circumstances will we stop our efforts to protect the people of Illinois from the virus and bacteria that Milwaukee and certain other Wisconsin cities pour into'Lake Michigan," Scott said in a statement. censing pre-emption Is a violation of home provisions given local governments in the 1970 Constitution. Republicans contend preemption by the state is needed to avoid the kind of chaos that would come from slowing local governments this power.

Some would license lawyers, others doctors and many others would not use this authority, which, according to Republicans, would lead to such questions as whether a doctor from Wilmette could make a house call on a patient living in Lake Forest If that city adopted a licensing ordinance. During a lengthy floor session on the question last November, Republicans obtained the support of four Downstate Democrats to get the bill moved from committee to amendment stage on the floor. However, they could 1 not get enough votes for passage. The Democrats who voted for the procedural motions last fall were Terry Bruce of Olney, Gene Johns of Marion, Kenneth Hall of East St. Louis and Sam Vadalabene of Edwardsville.

Neither Johns nor Hall could be reached for comment on how they intend to vote if the bill is called for passage today. Bruce says he was "uncertain" about his vote. "I voted for getting it out of committee," Vadalabene said. "I just don't see any reason to change my position." Chicago Democrats put enormous pressure on Downstate Democrats to vote against moving the bill out of committee last year and are expected to "twist arms" again today. Meanwhile, officials of the municipal league hope to prepare a number of amendments to offer before the bill is moved to final passage stage.

"We think it's a real bad bill as it's written and we'll do what we can to give members good reasons for voting against passage," league executive director Steve Sargent said. State Aid for Sewage Plant Jobs Proposed Springfield (AP) A $200-million appropriation from the state's antipollution bond fund to help local governments resume construction of sewage-treatment plants has been offered in the Illinois House. Sponsored by Rep. Henry J. Hyde, R-Chkago, majority leader, the measure introduced Monday is aimed at supplying the local governments with funds only until promised federal money for sewage-treatment plant construction is available.

The appropriation would be the second from the $700-million antipollution bond issue approved by voters in a November 1970 referendum. Under the program, the federal government was supposed to furnish the bulk of grants for sewage-treatment plant construction. The state and local administrators were to pay lesser amounts. But the project became stalled In Congress after state and local money already had been spent. "Because of this delay," Hyde said, "construction of many sewage-treatment plants has come to a screeching halt." "This is an effort --by the governor really to prime the pump until the federal money is available," he added.

FRIENDS OF MUSIC MEETING SCHEDULED The Friends of Music of Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville will hold their last meeting of this academic year at 2:30 p.m. April 30 in Love joy Library auditorium. According to Mrs. David Simpson of Edwardsville, president of the SIU-E Friends of Music, 1972 award winners wiE be announced at the meeting. At 3:30 p.m.

a program of chamber music will be presented by members of the music faculty. Would Like Increase in Aid Bakalis Says State School Debt Situation Is Serious By H. Josef Hebert Of the Associated Press Farmer City, 111. The Farmer City High School would like to get a new curtain for its auditorium stage but it won't get it. Its home economics department wants to buy a radar oven to teach future housewives about a tool which some day they might all use in their kitchens -but it won't get it.

"We're in a financial squeeze," says School Supt. Richard C. Davis. "But so far we haven't had to cut back on any of the really essential items in the classrooms." Unit school district 17 which services about 1,100 students around this central Illinois farming community is moderately wealthy, with a per pupil assessed valuation of about $32.000, more than $10,000 above the median figure across the state for unit districts. The district has been able to prevent hard core cutbacks by doing something which in the business world would cause a few of the hardiest investors to go into cardiac arrest.

They have borrowed on next year's anticipated revenues to the extent of $240,000, and under present economic conditions anticipate to borrow at least similar amounts for a number of years to come. The practice is a common budgeting procedure in most of the state's 1,144 school districts. Because of a legal limit on borrowing from any one year, a few districts have, in fact, borrowed two years in advance. "The situation is a serious one," Michael Bakalis, state superintendent of public instruction said recently. "Districts throughout the state continue to tell us that they can't make it.

They get into more and more debt and find themselves i a irresponsible." Since Gov. Richard B. Ogilvie announced bis proposed budget for the fiscal year that starts in July, Bakalis' office has begun a low key campaign to publicize the financial problem of the schools. Bakalis wants about $1.34 billion, while Ogilvie has proposed $1.08 billion for next year. Staff members have been gathering and evaluating statistics in sample districts which are massing significant debts.

Some 39 sample districts range from the moderately wealthy secondary schools in suburban Chicago to rural unit districts such as Farmer City to the small, poor districts such as the elementary school in Tovey in Central Illinois, Christian County. The Tovey district will face a $14,000 deficit this year which they will overcome by borrowing at a maximum legal capacity from next year's anticipated revenues. School officials there refused to discuss their financial situation with a reporter. Downstate in Mount Carmel, the Wabash Community School District expects to have a deficit this year of $4,000. Four years ago it had a $32,450 surplus.

"If the financial picture does not improve we will have to enlarge our classroom size; not replace teachers who leave or retire and unfortunately there is a strong possibility of not renewing the contracts of some nontenured teachers," said Wabash Supt. Robert Bowen. In a wealthy and comparatively well educated society, why are the schools in such fiscal difficulties? School officials from the state level to some of the smallest IF YOU DO NOT RECEIVE YOUR PAPER BY 5:30 P.M. PLEASE CALL NO LATER THAN 6:00 656-4700 General Manager A. L.

KNOX Editor JOHN PALEN Published Daily Except Sunday 117 -119 North Second Street JEflwaidsvllle, Illinois 62025 by Edwardsville Intelligencer, Inc. Second Class Postage Paid at Edwardsvllle. Illinois SUBSCRIPTION RATES Edwardsville and Madison County By Carrier pajable weekly Btt iladison County yearly J17.00 By Man only wnen carrier not available Outside Madison County Yearly districts say it is because of in adequate sources of revenues. They say that the property tax can no longer serve the needs of education. Some say that schools for a long time have splurged on nonessential items and only now are being forced to economize.

About two-thirds of the cost of public schools is underwritten by local property taxes, a practice which has been constitutionally challenged In several states and is now before the U. S. Supreme Court. The rest comes from the state under a distribution formula. "The plain fact of the matter is that if a district is not now in trouble it will be soon unless we find a new mecuanism for financing education," declared Dave Ellsworth, a researcher for the state Office of Public Instruction.

In recent years with the passage of property tax exemptions, and a wide-ranging reluctance of citizens to increase education tax levie, school revenues have not kept up with costs, educators say. State aid has continued to rise, but over the last few years at a declining rate. State officials say that from 1966 to 1970 the number of education bond elections declined from 140 to 46 and those approved dropped from 54 to 32 per cent. They explain that Increased militancy among teachers and some disturbances over busing of school children to achieve racial balance, as well as a general dislike toward tax increases, contributed to the voter reluctance. The belief that teacher salary Increases has caused the financial turmoil is widely spread, state educators admit, but they discount the idea.

The percentage of costs going to teacher salaries has remained relatively constant, they say, and many districts which have accrued substantial debts have not given pay increases. The general assembly, the governor, Bakalis' office and others are seeking alternative ways of financing the schools. The House last week established a special committee to look into ways other than property taxes to fund public education and junior colleges. It is to submit a report by December. Bakalis says his budget proposal for fiscal year 1973 would be the beginning of a three-year plan to boost state support of schools to 50 per cent and he anticipates that one day the state portion will be at least 60 per cent.

The Bakalis budget Is expected to be fought for by Democrats in the legislature, but will get stiff opposition from Republicans many of whom favor the Ogilvie recommendations. In the meantime, a staff report prepared by Bakalis' office concludes, "as one looks around the state he sees a rather dismal educational picture (in regards to finances). Only a program which begins to solve the problems now and looks to the future can save local schools." HWY 66 I 1 1 1 Open 6:30 -LAST Man" "Dusty Sweets McGee" A I 0 1 0 I I Open Start 7:00 LAST NITI "Carry On Camping" "1000 Convicts ONE WOMAN" STARTS WED. AT BOTH DRIVE-INS "DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN" "HORROR OF BLOOD MONSTER" WORLD'S MOST (RECOMMENDED DR.

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John's United Methodist Church. --Spring Fashion Fstival, fashion show sponsored by Central Madison County Hospital Auxiliary, 8 p.m., Meridian Ballroom, University Center, SIU-E. --Military Airlift Command Band, Scott Air Force Base, performance at 8 p.m., Hatheway Hall, Lewis and Clark Community College, Godfrey. --Regional Industrial Development Career Fair for teenagers, Kiel Convention Hall, St. Louis, through Thursday.

Public Meetings --Lewis and Clark Library Board, 7.30p.m., library system headquarters, Goshen Road. WEDNESDAY Public Meetings --Madison County Courthouse Committee, 10 a.m., county courthouse. --Madison County Civil Defense Committee, 4 p.m., county courthouse. --Madison County Subdivision Control Committee, 4 p.m county courthouse. --Madison County Purchasing Study Committee, 4 p.m., county courthouse.

--St. Louis Metropolitan Area Airport Authority, 4 Holiday Inn, Edwardsville. THURSDAY Public Meetings --Madison County Tax Committee, 9 a.m., county courthouse. --Madison County Jail Committee, 9:30 a.m., county courthouse. --Madison County Rabies Control Committee, 10 a county courthouse.

--Madison County Investigation and License Committee, 7 p.m., 405 Center St. Community Events --Jeannie Montgomery, junior voice recital, 5 p.m., Lovejoy Library auditorium, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. SIU SCHEDULE Wednesday 8:30 p.m., Blue Cross Blue Shield UC Madison. 8:30 a.m., Mississippi River Festival Interviews, UC International. 9 a.m., Zeta Phi Eta Plege ake Sale, PB Lobby.

9:30 a.m., Secondary Educa- tion Spring UC Mississippi. 9:30 a.m., Black Student Association Information Table, UC N. Gallery. 11:30 a.m., Upward Bound Student Government SL 0055. 11:30 a.m., Daily Prayer, RO Torres.

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