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September 1971 fDWARDSVIUI INTILLIGENCf Page! Welfare Funds To Be Mailed Near Journey's End The Green Berets, retracing the their voyage by foot and rubber morial Airport at Bethalto, prior route of the Lewis and Clark boat Sunday at Astoria, Ore. to setting out on their journey expedition, are expected to end The men arrived at Civic Me- tracing the first expedition's route, early in May. They left the St. Louis riverfront May 10. Chicago Police Charge Two in Fatal Shooting Chicago (AP) Two men were charged today wt'n murder in "onnection with the fatal shooting Wednesday night of a pair of teenagers in a racially changing South Side neichboihood Police said Robe i Leonard, 13, and Hellene a a i i 14, wete at close range with a .22 c.ihber rifle after being approached by five blacks on a street miner The victims weie white A i i a i a a i 2t and Duff-.

Clark 21. wilii two tinuiK ot The shooting occuncil oti a street i is a 1 between i a a neighboi hoods Mtei the shooting about 100 wlu'es 1 nulled about on the stieet but police reinfoicements pi evented any incidents t.eon.ud died shortly after the and Miss a died in hospital about forr houis latin Historic Air Charter Planned Miami A Eastern Air Lines will 46 planes, including two jumbo 747s, during a 14 hour pel lod Fridav while transporting 13.000 conventioneers to Chicago in airline officials sav is the biggest charter operation in aviation b'story The conventioneers be attending the a a meeting of the Associated Milk Produccis. Inc and i be ferned i 20 cities from acioss the Midwest and as fai into the Southwest as Albuquerque. "We'll coordinate the operation from Miami," said EAL spokesman Jim Ashlock "It begin at a Fuday and continue until 2 Ashlock said the charier, which Eastern received on the basis of competitive bidding -with other commercial airlines, would involve 95 flights The 13,000 conventioneers will be part of the 40.000 attending the meeting Retiun flights will be made Saturday. Mitchell Raps Student Voting In College Town Saiatoga Springs.

A Atty Gen. John Mitchell sa.vs gi anting college students permission to vote in the towns wheie they go to school be discriminatory, particularly to servicemen. "To make students the subject of special federal legislation be to discriminate against the others not so favored, including the 800.000 servicemen who are also in this new age group and who arc located away from home." Mitchell said Wednesday night. The problem of where students should vote was raised in a number of states following appiovat of the 26th Amendment giving 18-year-olds the voting franchise. Measure of Power Horsepower as a unit of powei measurement was adopted by James Watts in experiments with strong dray horses, according to Encyclopaedia Britannica.

16 Artists Slated for Symphony Concerts Sixteen musical artists will appear as guest soloists and conductors in the 92nd season of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra's subscription concerts, it was announced today. The orchestra's programs will salute special anniversaries of six great composers and their works: the 200th anniversays of Haydn's "La Passione" Symphony; the 125th commemoration of Mendelssohn's death; the 65th birthday of Shostakovich; the deaths 75 years ago of Brahms and Bruckner and 50 years ago of Saint-Saens, and other events. Walter Susskind is returning for his fourth season as conductor and music of the oichcstra The oichestra's 1971-72 series of 2'l subscription concert pairs will begin Sept. 16 at Powell Symphony Hall, with the final subscription performance next May 20.

Susskind will open the season with a of the works of four Russian masters: Glinka's Overture to "Russian and Stiavinsky's "Dumbarton Prokofiev's Scy- thian Suite; and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4. He will conduct 17 of the concert pairs. Leonard Slatkin, associate conductor of the orchestra, will conduct three of the concert pairs; Georg Semkow, James Levinr and Okko Kaum will be guest conductors. Seven internationally known pianists will perform with the Orchestra: John Ogdon, Geza Anda, Lili Kraus, Robert Cas- ndcsus, Rudolf Firkusny John Browning and Malcolm Frager.

Four violinists, including Isaac Stern, Zino Fracescatti, Jo- sef Suk and Ruggiero Ricci, will play works by Sibelius, Mozart, Berg and Ginastera. Soprano Felicia Weathers will sing arias from Richard Strauss' opera, Salome. Cellist Zara Nel- sova will perform Dvorak's Cello Concerto. Several orchestra principals also will appear as soloists including Max Rabinovitsj, concertmaster; Roland Pandolfi, principal horn; and John Sant' Ambrogio, principal cellist. In addition to the subscription concerts, the orchestra will continue to present the popular Sunday Festival of Music, under the direction of Slatkin.

Five of the programs will feature guest artists: pianist Jan Drath, the Cannonball Adderley Quintet, folk singer Odetta, guitarist Oscar Ghiglia, pianist Donna Turner Smith and organist Virgil Fox. Other Sunday afternoon programs will emphasize familiar favorites, such as Viennese selections, music from the films, and Tchaikovsky's works. By popular request, the Baroque Orchestra series of three programs will return for its second year, under the direction of Alexander Schneider, conductor and violinist. Orchestral suites by Bach, cantatas by Bach and Scarlatti, and Haydn's The Seven Last Words of Christ will be featured in the series. Special Christmas concerts again have been scheduled with major choral works being performed by the Orchestra, the Bach Society of St.

Louis, and the Cosmopolitan Singers and Festival Chorus. Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker Ballet" wil be presented, featuring the St Louis Civic Ballet. Markets Corn Soybeans Wheat $1.02 $3.03 $127 Daw Janes Averages New York (AP) Dow Jones ncrn stock averages' 30 Indus. 899.53 up 0.51 20 Trans. 241.45 up 0.63 15 Utils.

118.58 up 0.06 65 Stocks 308.31 up 0.37 Eggi and Poultry St. Louis (AP) Eggs consumer grades: A 1st go 23-31, A medium 17-28, A small 12-1)1, large 17-26; wholesale grades: A large, standard, medium, unclassified. Hens; heavy 6 Ibs and over, medium 5-6 Ibs leghorns. Rcady-to-cook broilers and fryers 27.00-28.00, this week's delivery. East St.

Louis Livestock Estimated receipts Friday: Hogs cattle 200, calves 50, sheep50. Hogs barrows and gilts strong to 25 higher. 1-3 200-250 Ibs 18.25-18.50; 300 head 1-2 215235 Ibs 18.60-18.75: 3-4 200-240 Ibs 18.00; Sows steady to 25 higher; 1-3 300-400 Ibs 15.75-16.50; 2-3 400500 Ibs 500-600 Ibs Boars: 1 2 5 0 13.00. Cattle calves 50; receipts mainly for today's auction; cows; commercial 20.00-20.50; few yield grade 8 21.00 and few yield grade 4-5 16.00-18.00; utility 20.00-22.00; high-dressing Holsteins to 22.50; calves; choice vealers 36.0040.00, good 33.00-36.00. Berlin Pact's Signing Delayed Berlin (AP) A U.S.

spokesman announced today that signing of the four power agreement in Berlin has been postponed because of the i i i i of U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Rush. Rush was to sign for the United States. The spokesman told newsmen Rush had been ordered to bed by a doctor. He did not specify What Rush's illness was.

Man on the street reaction to the announcement was that i a "diplomatic." The stumbling block to formal signing of the treaty was failure to arrive at an acceptable German text of the agreement. West and East Germany apparently were hung up on certain wording, and apparently neither side would budge. Greatest Audience The greatest number of viewers for a television event was an estimated 350 million for the funeral of Sir Winston Churchill Sn London on Jan. 30,1965. Goldfishes had their origin ia China ia ancient times and the goldfish erase did not reach the Western world until the 18th century.

Louis XV, king of France, is said to nave obtained some of the first specimens from China for a special gift to Madame de Pompadour. Teachers Still Striking Three Areas in State By the Associated Press Teachers' strikes in three Illinois school districts remain in effect although day-long negotiations Wednesday resulted in several contract settlements. Still on strike are teachers in Decatur, Lake Zurich and Glenbrook. Agreement on new contract terms was announced in i Elgin and DeKalb. By a wide margin teachers in the Bloomington school system voted 206 to 125 Wednesday night against a strike.

The Elgin Education Association and the Elgin Board of Education announced tentative agreement late Wednesday on a new pact that calls for an $8,200 base salary for beginning teachers. The agreement will be submitted to the EEA's 1,200 members for ratification. It includes amnesty for those who participated in the strike, a class size clause and an agreement to submit to binding arbitration. In Lake Zurich, the Board of Education voted late Wednesday to cancel classes Thursday and Friday to give the board members "an opportunity to assess our position." Nixon Removes Mine Official (c) New York Times Washington The Nixon administration is removing another career official from the bureau of mines because, according to Interior Department officials, there has been little reduction in the high rate of death and injury in the nation's coal mines. Henry P.

Wheeler 52 yean old, the bureau's deputy director for health and safety, said today that he had been told that he would be replaced and assigned elsewhere ia the Interior Department. The end of Wheeler's supervision of the government's effort to extract a better safety record from the coal industry was disclosed as the Bureau of Mines reported that 21 miners died in accidents in August. The death toll in August, 1970, was a. Tuscola Workers Lose Positions Tuscola (AP) One hundred a a i employes of the U.S. Industrial Chemical Co.

have been dismissed for a i reasons, the company said today. The dismissals represent about one-tenth of the plant's total force. A company spokesman said general economic conditions required a reduction in the staff and that most of the dismissals were in the polymer service laboratory. RECALLS POSSIBLE Chicago (AP) Illinois Tollway officials, urging safe driving over the Labor Day weekend, made this observation today: "Remember, your car isn't the only thing that can be recalled by the Maker." Highland Bond Vote immediately Backed by Chamber Springfield (AP) Gov. Richard B.

Ogilvie announced today that the state's share of general assistance funds, which it distributes to counties for handing out to welfare recipients, will be mailed out immediately. At a news conference, Ogilvie refused to comment on why the welfare money has been held back by the Illinois Department of Public Aid for almost two weeks. "All I have to announce," Ogilvie said, "is that the funds for general assistance will be sent out today. I prefer not to comment until I can give you a more comprehensive statement." Ogilvie and his aides have been threatening for months to reduce the state's share of welfare. The governor is scheeduled to meet today with his top fiscal and public aid advisers in hope of making a final decision on where such cuts might be made.

Most counties pay their general assistance bill with local funds. Cook County, which is scheduled to mail out general assistance checks today, gets the bulk of state welfare cash. "Cook County already has been called," an Ogilvie aide said after the news conference. "Whatever further decisions will be made will be announced by Briggs and company." He referred to John Briggs, deputy director of the public aid department, who said last week that general assistance funds were being held back because they are a potential target for cuts. On other topics, Ogilvie said he is considering the possibility of making a major change in the legislation passed by the spring General Assembly session allocating state financial aid to private and a i a schools.

"The sponsors of the bill, Rep. Eugene Schlicknun R-Arlington Heights and Sen. Robert Cherry (D-Chicago) have approached me and suggested the possibility of my making some kind of amendatory veto," Ogitvie said. "I'm considering that now." Supreme Court decisions have inva.idated 1 a number of parochial aid programs in other states, prompting Illinois proponents to fear their legislation might run into the same trouble. Ogilvie was asked his reaction to a California Supreme Court decision under which the property tax was ruled an improper basis for financing local school districts because it tends to give an advance to pupils from districts with a rich tax base.

"It's going to create an enormous problem if it becomes the law of the land," Ogilvie said. "I do have a deep concern for the inequity between the various school districts. Some with a relatively poor tax base do have a very serious problem." But, he said, "I prefer to work within the existing system." On the Illinois personal property tax, which was abolished under the 1978 state -Constitution but restored by the Supreme Court, Ogilvie said: "I'm dedicated to getting rid of the personal property tax." The governor said he might consider a special measure in the fall General Assembly session to wipe out the tax if a pending suit brought by the state appears headed for failure. By Jim Broadway Of the Intelligencer Highland Members of the Highland Chamber of Commerce voted approval "Wednesday night of the Highland School District's bond issue proposal, to be voted on Sept. 25.

The bond issue is to provide funds for the construction of a new high school and for additions to the Grant Fork and New Douglas schools. The project cost is estimated at $4.4 million. District Supt. Olin W. Stratton explained the details of the bond issue and discussed the need for the project with chamber members.

There will be two questions on the ballot, Stratton said. First, the voters will be asked if the school system should issue $2 million in revenue bonds. Second, the school board will ask authorization to levy taxes to pay up to $150,000 annually to the Illinois School Building Commission, to pay back a maximum of $2.4 million in Interest- free loans. Stratton said the school dis- trict will have only one chance to get the interest-free loan from the state. A law which will go into effect on Oct.

1 will raise the bonding power of a school district from 5 per cent of its assessed valuation to 12 per cent. The state requires that a district use all its bonding power before it can receive loans at no interest. If the funding arrangements have to be made after Oct. 1, all the money would have to come from interest-bearing bonds. Stratton said the district will save $1.75 million to $2 million in interest charges if both parts of the referendum are approved.

The assessed valuation of the district is slightly more than $40 million. Stratton estimated the tax rate increase necessary to pay for the project would be 44 to 55 cents per $100 assessed valuation. The taxpayer whose house has an assessed valuation (about half its retail value) of $10,000 would pay about $46 more per year in taxes be- Names and Places Colgate in Contest David Colgate, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Colgate of 20 Rock Hill competed as a member of the Belleville Black Knights in national drum and bugle competition in the Houston, Astrodome Sunday night.

The area group placed fifth out of 78 groups to reach the elimination finals of the competition, sponsored by the American Legion. David plays lead soprano bugle in the group. The Black Knights will defend their state title at the Murpbysboro Apple Festival on Sept. 17, to end the season. James T.

Fitzgerald, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Keeler of Collinsville, is participating in Air Force ROTC field training encampment at Gunter AFB, Ala.

He is a of AFROTC at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Fitzgerald is a 1969 graduate of Collinsville High School, where he was a member of the National Honor Society. Highland Midshipman Thomas D. Wenzel, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Gerald Wenzel of Highland, has completed 10 weeks of indoctrination training at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. He will be commissioned as an officer in the Navy after four years at the academy. Wenzel is a 1971 graduate of Highland High School. Petty Officer S-C Michael A. Leonard, husband of the former Verla J.

Newman of Edwardsville, took part in a recent good will mission to help preserve literary works stored in a 900- year-old monastery on the Greek Island of Patmos. The documents, some 1,400 years old, were in danger of deterioration until helicopters of Leonard's ship, the USS San Diego, airlifted two air conditioning units to the monastery at the request of the U.S. Embassy. The units were donated by a Greek citizen. They were too heavy to be carried through the narrow winding streets of St.

John the Evangelist Monastery, cause of the project, he said. Stratton said the 1971 school tax collection in the Highland School District was at the lowest tax rate of 38 Metro-East districts. He said the proposed rate increase would move Highland from 38th place to between 30th and 32nd olace. Stratton said the need for new facilities in the district have come about because of population increases. There were only 297 high school students in the district 20 years ago.

One decade ago, there were 389 high school students. Today, 826 students are attending the high school in Highland, Stratton said. "The high school is bulging," he told the chamber members. "We start classes at 7:30 a.m. and run until almost 4 p.m.

We have to schedule four lunch hours during the day." He said the building is used to "110 per cent capacity, because some rooms are used which were never intended for use as classroom? for the students." He estimated that by the time the new high school could be ready for use, there will be more than 1,000 high school students in the district. The proposed facility would handle up to 1,300 students, he said. The present high school building was built in the 1930s. At that time it was used for all grades, 1 through 12. Stratton said that if the proposal is approved, the money from the state would not be received until after July, 1972.

By the time, all the plans will be ready. He estimated that it would be 1974 before the new high school would be opened. The Illinois School Building Commission would provide architectural assistance on the project, he said, and the co- mission would watch the project closely to make sure the costs are Kept in line. David Colgate about 500 feet above the island's port village. Hundreds of people watched as two navy "Sea Knight" helicopters picked up the 2,500 pound air conditioners and set them in position.

Girl Scouts from Edwardsville who returned this week from the River Bluffs Scout Council European caravan are Marina Ferrari, 7 St. Andrews Marcia Seybert, 443 Shady Carol Statier, Route 6, and Paula Wopat, 729 Payne St. The girls toured and camped in France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Holland and Belgium. Sgt. Willard F.

Sha shack, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Shas- hack, 1226 Lindenwood has been promoted to staff sergeant at Chanute Air Force Base. He is an instructor.

Shashack and his wife, the former Patricia Schrader, and their son, live at 336 S. Garrard Rantoul. Bethalto Cpt. Daniel L. Bruce, was promoted to his present rank while serving with the Second Marine Division at the Marine Corps Base at Camp Lejeune, N.C.

Brace is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Adrian D. Bruce of Bethalto. Cash Register, Change Stolen Edwardsville police are investigating the theft of a cash register and about $25 in change from Jouetts Standard Station on St.

Louis Road. The burglary was discovered by a patrolman at 4:10 p.m. today. Police report the station was entered by breaking a plate glass window after attempts failed to pry open the front door. Mrs.

Jean Peek of 512 N. Kansas St. reported the theft of two kerosene lanterns and wheels from her son's The theft took place sometime during the night of Aug. 30, she told police. The total value of the items stolen was estimated at about $10.

Police reported a minor accident on the parking lot of Cassens Insurance on HiUsboro Ave. Wednesday. Wilbur Barnard 38, of rural Edwardsville was driving a car south in the parking lot and Jeffrey C. Mitchell, 17, of 424 S. Buchanan was driving west in a crossover lane, police said.

The two cars collided. No charges were filed. Indian's exports during 1970 amounted to $2 million, an increase of 10.5 per cent over the previous year. EPA Concerned About East Alton Plant Illinois Power Denied Extension of Clean Air Deadline The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday at a hearing in Alton that Illinois Power Co. should not be granted a variance on clean air deadlines imposed by the state Pollution Control Board on its East Alton generating station.

The company was notified that on July 1 the East Alton Plant did not meet the pollution emission control standards and that three of the station's five units must be shut down. Illinois Power Co. should get a variance to install a filtering device on one of five boilers at its Wood River generating station, the Illinois Environmental Protection A said Wednesday. The EPA said the variance, until July 1972, would allow the company more time to install equipment to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions from boiler. Illinois Power, In the process of revamping the station to meet the standards, i i the board, asking that it be granted a delay until 1974 to complete the conversion.

Testifying for the company, Emerson Shultz, senior vice president, told the hearing that a shutdown of the three units could cause hardships on customers in the metropolitan area during peak use periods. Units 1, 2 and 3 constitute 7.5 per cent of the total generating capacity at the East Alton plant. He also said power throughout the Midwest could be affected, since Illinois Power is tied in with several co-op sharing plans. Shultz said that during the acute power shortage in New York City several years ago, Illinois Power sent part of its excess current to the east coast. The company has installed an electrostatic precipitator on the No.

5 unit and is in the process of installing one, plus a Cat-ox system, on the No. 4 unit. The project, scheduled to be completed next June, will bring that unit into compliance with the pollution standards. The board asked Shultz why the company chose elected to alter the No. 4 unit ahead of Numbers 1, 2 or 3, when they emit 13 times more pollutants than the law allows.

Shultz sais the No. 4 unit at East Alton was serving as a "guinea pig" for the Cat-ox system and that the company was working under the assumption that it would have a year-round source of natural gas to burn in units 1, 2 and 3. When the company burns natural gas in these units, they meet the pollution requirements. Shultz said it was not until late last year that the company found out that a year- round source of natural gas would not be available. By then, the Cat-ox project was under way.

The $7.3 million Oat-ox project is jointly being funded by the company and the federal government. Units 1, 2 and 8, which share a common stack, burned gas 27.5 per cent of the time last year. Shultz said more is available in the summer months, and the units were fired to capacity with gas whenever it was available. The remaining time, coal is used, and Shultz said it has a 13 per cent sulphur content and is burned just as it is received from the mine. The Environmental Protec- tection Agency EPA contends that Illinois Power could have begun alterations on units 1, 2 and 3 and therefore must refrain from using them until they comply with the pollution standards.

Shultz said the company does not have enough lay-down space at the site to have materials for both projects around. He added that starting the project to update units 1, 2 and 3 now would not bring about a completion date any sooner than asked for in the petition. Shultz said the company had three alternatives regarding the revamping of units 1, 2 and 3 and most likely will convert the burners to use No. 6 fule the burners to use No. 6 fuel oil However, nothing has been decided officially.

"I expect the decision to be made in the next few weeks. We already have done quite a bit of engineering study at the site, and materials for the conversion could arrive at the site within six to eight months after the decision is made," Shultz testified. The EPA contended that the shutdown of-the units would not affect power in the area, even at peak times, because of the company's affiliation with cooperative power systems in the Midwest. Under cross examination, Shultz conceded that the No. 1-2-3 units didn't comply when they burned coal, and that the company was in the process of rectifying the problem.

"We're just asking for additional time to get the job done," Shultz said. Anton M. Telford, an employe of the EPA, took the stand following Shultz and testified that the plant's emissions constitute 50 per cent of the emmissions in the entire Alton-Wood River area. He said the plant's sulphur dioxide emissions totaled 18 per cent of the Wood River-Alton emissions. Board action on the petition is expected in the next few weeks.

Illinois Power is involved in similar cases with three of its other generating stations in central and southeastern Illinois. Hearings on these cases are scheduled later this month..