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A-6 ILL Thursday. October 1, 1992 From Page One Perot fW- "RccMord giumi tayback a soctessf era Illinois city. "We have hafl'a real wave of violence, drive'by snoonngs, kiqs have been shotf Continued from Page A-1 investigators to check on campaign volunteers was authorized by Mark Blahnik, who was head of field operations for the Perot campaign. Blahnik, a former employee of the Perot Group, a Perot company, was criticized by some volunteers as attempting to impose the will of the Dallas headquarters on state operations. "There was use of intimidation and threats," said John Opincar, a former Perot volunteer in Austin, who said he had a number of run-ins with the field operations unit in the Dallas office.

"I received death threats. I slept with my gun next to my bed for about two months. I got involved in March because I wanted to help my country. If this is what politics is about, you can count me out." she said. The officers acceDtine 'Coalition for a Safer Community' program gets guns off the streets and nets more than 220 weapons before organizers run out of buyback funds ttfe guns took no identification frcfti Raise "There was one sawed-off shotgun that was adapted to fit on the handle bars of a bicycle or motorcycle," Confer said Wednesday.

"It was an automatic, so someone could be riding and just shooting away." He said the group accepted only guns in working order. "One of the criticisms we had was that we would not get guns out of the hands of criminals. Obviously we did," Confer said. "These are not high-grade, expensive weapons, but every one of them could kill you," Police Chief William Fitzpatrick said. "Some people turned the guns in for money; others, for personal considerations.

Whatever the motivations, those guns are now out of circulation," Fitzpatrick said. Confer said her group decided to sponsor the buyback because of recent violence in this north- the people turning in (he weapons and asked no The average age of the iip carriers was probably between 40 and 50, Confer said, and were men. I4. She said some people runfad their guns in even after tlje group ran out of money Tuesday. They said, "I don't care abeflt the money.

I just want to get fid of my gun," Confer said. About $3,000 of the mory raised by the coalition wenCKo pay for fund-raising, postagejja rental fee and salaries for the three police of ficers. Police said an effort willQe made to return stolen gunstto owners, and the remaining will be destroyed. i long guns and $50 for handguns. "The reason there was more for the handgun-type was that they are a concealable weapon," Confer said.

Three police officers paid by the coalition accepted 220 guns Tuesday, Confer said, and more were expected Wednesday afternoon. "We had a 10-year-old boy who came in with two handguns," Confer said. "We had everything from handguns to sawed-off shotguns to sawed-off rifles to a cannon-shaped device. ROCKFORD (AP) The city's first gun-buyback program was so successful that it went broke in three hours. But the program, which went through $10,000 on its first day, was back in business Wednesday at the city's National Guard Armory after another $6,000 was raised.

"It went much faster than anyone thought it would," said Jackie Confer, a leader with the Coalition for a Safer Community, the group that raised the money to get guns off the streets. The group is paying $25 for lit i '1- Clerk Continued from Page A-1 uate school credit would go to $55,618 from $51,988. The terms of the new contract, if approved, would be retroactive to Aug. 31 and would run through August 1995. The union represents 163 teachers and other school employees at both T.F.

North and Thornton Fractional South High School in Lansing. Most of the teachers, 138 of them, are longtime district employees with 19 years or more experience. On Wednesday, a sampling of American Federation of Teachers Local 683 members showed most are satisfied with the contract proposal. A few teachers said they could not comment on their position and others said they were pleased with parts of the agreement. "I think anything where a strike is averted is good for everyone," said T.F.

South teacher Sandy Gnipp. Gnipp, who walked the picket lines during the last strike in 1979, said she thinks the proposed settlement is a fair one. "I was pleased with the professional approach the negotiators took. I'm pleased that the educational system goes on," said T.F. South teacher James Kijewski, a tenured instructor with 34 years in the district.

Kijewski said he is pleased with the terms of the tentative contract. School board and district officials have declined to speak on specifics of the pact until after its ratification. The board expects to schedule a special meeting to give its approval to the new contract once it's ratified by the union. Local 683 President Lee Schmoekel said the union may have teachers ratify the contract by written ballots submitted at each of the high schools. Those plans, however, have not been finalized.

District and union representatives say the settlement includes compromises made by both sides. For instance, the teachers had asked for a one-year, rather than a multi-year contract. The union also, at one point, asked for a 12 percent pay raise, while the school board offered 2.3 percent. "Reasonable positions were accepted," said Schmoekel who is in his second year at the union's helm. "I think the board was fair.

I think they fairly addressed the. needs of the union and we fairly addressed the needs of the board. We both had to bend." A teacher at T.F. North, Schmoekel thinks talks would still be continuing had the union not threatened a strike and that he thinks the board, until recently, doubted the union's strength. With a tentative contract in place, he said he now looks to "establishing a positive relationship with the board." i i coaches and players schools where Anding may hve arranged sexual spokesman for the state's attorneys office declined to reveal whether m-terviews would be conducted at afy south suburban schools.

4 The state's attorney's office has said that Anding coaxed athletes to participate in sexual encounters by promising them better press coverage. He told police he tried to force the lot's gate open by pushing against it with his car and using a pry bar, reports said. The owner of Ken-Don told police that the coach Anding said he was visiting did not work at Ken-Doift. When questioned, Anding told police he might have gone to the wrong place, reports said. Prosecutors began interviewing ty State's Attorney's office, she said.

In the Markham incident, Anding told police he came to Ken-Don a medical supply company at 2222 W. 162nd to meet a baseball coach who was an employee there, reports said. After rinding no one on the site, Anding discovered his car had been locked into the building's rear lot, reports said. Continued from Page A-1 last spring. He is currently being held in Cook County Jail without bond and faces six to 30 years in prison if convicted.

Markham police have not contacted the boy in the Markham incident for questioning, Freeman said. A copy of the Markham report has been given to the Cook Coun- Dinosaur Song lyrics in question Teens "Barney and Friends" version: love you, you love me We're a happy family. With a great big hug And a kiss from me to you. Won 't you say you love me, too? Lee Bernstein's original: love you, you love me We're as happy as can be. Here's a great big kiss And a hug from me to you.

Won 't you say you love me, too? i it pervised free time." Dineen said it's possible that students would turn to gangs "out of their anger from being denied the opportunity to play sports." Chicago Schools Supt. Ted Kimbrough said Wednesday he hopes Chicago's professional sports organizations will pitch in $800,000 to help maintain high school sports and extracurricular programs. Chicago Board of Education spokeswoman Lauri Sanders said the school district does not have the money to pay any more toward the programs' costs. She said she thinks the additional funding will have to come from "an outside source." Continued from Page A-1 spring if no money can be found to compensate for S1.5 million in activities budget cuts made by the school board this year. Fall sports will be allowed to finish the season.

After Jan. 29, band members and honor society students will suffer, too; that's when nonathletic extracurricular activities are scheduled for elimination in the nation's third-largest school district. "It's a shame they have to look this way to balance the budget," said John Dineen, head of the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police. "This is going to give the entire school population more unsu Continued from Page A-1 display of "Rock with Barney" videotapes. She bought the tape and rushed home to listen.

It contained the familiar melody but no words. "Once again I thought this is just not using it," she said. Finally, out of the mouth of a babe came her answer. A short time later the 2-year-old granddaughter of an employee visited Bernstein's dry cleaning store in Schererville and the Barney show was mentioned. Bernstein asked the little girl about it and was told it was her favorite show.

When Bernstein asked if the girl knew the song "I Love You," she sang it for her. The girl said it was sung every day at the close of the show. "It was so strange," Bernstein recalled. "Then I was excited again because I found the song after all that time." The next day her children recorded the program, and when she heard it, "It was obvious it was mine," she said. She carefully watched the credits to see if anyone was named as the songwriter, but no one was.

Her husband told her to talk to a lawyer. Bernstein said she wasn't mad but only wanted credit for her Song. "It was fun hearing it on the air. It didn't bother me a bit," she said. In early July, Bernstein contacted Hammond lawyer Daniel Glavin.

She sheepishly told him that a purple dinosaur on television was singing her song. "She sounded completely sane, but her story didn't," Glavin said. Glavin called WYIN-Channel 56, the local public broadcast station. Station manager Richard Parker said "Barney and Friends" was a new series on PBS growing in popularity. Glavin said he also discovered there was a line of Barney dolls, tapes, books and clothing.

"It's quite a commercial venture. It made me look at it more seriously," he said. Bernstein had not copyrighted her song and her only payment was one copy of the 64-page Pig-gyBack songbook put out by Tot-line Press. But Glavin said she had a common-law copyright because she had created it. So he crafted a letter to a Texas company listed on the videotape and said Bernstein was surprised to hear her song being used.

Glavin asked that they contact him. "I was shocked when I heard a couple of weeks later from Mr. (Barry) Slotnick," he said. "To my astonishment, they were very cordial." Slotnick, a New York lawyer representing the Barney show, conceded Jhat it was Bernstein's song, Glavin said. He said Slotnick said the song was an important part; of the program and asked what could be done to keep it.

Glavinjsaid Bernstein wanted credit for, writing the song and compensation for past and future use. After less than a month of haggling, they settled on a com- ii i pensation package, including an option for Barney to renew the agreement for additional payment. Bernstein didn't want to say how much she received. "We can't retire on it, but it's a very nice sum considering it's a show funded by public broadcasting and for 30 words I wrote nine years ago," she said. The money will be put away into a college fund for daughters Elizabeth and Michelle, and to buy a computer for her writing and the family's two dry cleaning stores.

Bernstein, a personable woman with a quick smile and infectious laugh, said she had sold humorous prose to Hallmark cards and has a children's picture book under consideration by a major publisher. But Barney could be her breakthrough. "Hopefully now that I got some recognition for it, others will take (my writing) more she said. Although the money is nice, Bernstein said that wasn't her motivation. Glavin described her as the "least materialistic" client he ever had.

"It sounds very corny, but it's fun to know a simple song could have impact on so many children," she said. "It's about love, it's about caring, and that feels great. "Even if nothing came of it, they couldn't take that feeling away from me." After her experience, Bernstein understandably is a big Barney fan. "I still laugh about it. It's so crazy." 1 Our Own Home Grown Home Grown CARROTS cr ONIONS TOMATOES 0 $gw rp fc)bs.

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