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Illinois Iowa i School ban on beepers aims at curtailing drug deals SPRINGFIELD, 111. (UPI) Enterprising young drug dealers and users would lose a communications link with their illicit business associates if the General Assembly approves legislation banning electronic paging devices from schools. School and law enforcement officials said the "beep beep" of a pager going off in a classroom often signals that a drug pusher or customer wants to do business. "There is a real problem with pagers in schools," said Rep. Robert LeFlore, D-Chicago, sponsor of one of the bills (H58).

"We have found pagers interrupt school operations and, in most cases, they are being used to communicate drug transactions and other gang trans-' actions during the school day." The paging devices have become popular with students and young adults in the past year-and-a-half, officials said. Companies that rent the paging services often cannot separate the legitimate users from those with illicit activities in mind. In many cases, adults sup ply the pagers. "They're cheap. For $25 a month, you can have a digital pager hanging on your belt so you can be reached 24 hours a day.

It's a good system and hard to beat if you work it right," said Arthur Avart of the Illinois State Police. Youths and adults who use pagers for illicit activities are crafty. Pagers that transfer a voice are shunned in favor of devices that provide a digital readout, often in code to confuse authorities or onlookers. "If it's a digital pager, you could work out a whole system of codes. A caller could punch in a one for Te careful there's somebody A two could mean 'the heat is on but there's nobody three could mean 'meet me at a certain and so on," Avart said.

LeFlore's bill would prohibit students from carrying pagers while on school property. The bill was introduced to ban the pocket pagers only in Chicago public schools, but LeFlore said he will amend it to ban the devices in public schools statewide. Each local school district would develop its own enforcement policies and penalties for students found carrying pagers. "Drugs is money and time is money for some of these young people," LeFlore said. "There are millions and millions of dollars to be made selling illicit drugs, but they (dealers) have to stay in touch with their buyers and suppliers." Part of package Gov.

James R. Thompson has proposed banning pagers in schools as part of his legislation package aimed at creating drug-free schools. Other portions of the governor's package include using dogs to search for drugs in schools, banning use of tobacco in schools and increasing anti-drug education programs. Michigan led the way for banning students from using pagers on school property by enacting a statewide ban on the devices beginning with the current school year, LeFlore said. The Illinois proposal is modeled on the Michigan law.

The problem of pagers being activated in the classroom came to the attention of Chicago school officials last year, and led Chicago School Superintendent Man-ford Byrd Jr. to issue a directive prohibiting students from carrying electronic signaling devices on school property during school hours. Education officials "strongly suspected" the devices were used to initiate drug deals, but "I can't say any student has ever been caught in the act," said Bob Saigh, spokesman for the Chicago public school district. "Some students who were carrying the beepers were disrupting classes," Saigh said. "Some information from police and community members indicated that they possibly were being used for illegal activities." Chubb begins paying claims from drought insurance suit Chief says police handled hostage crisis correctly and that the applications had not been accepted by the company.

Minnesota officials and their counterparts in nine other states took action against the company. Chubb then agreed to pay out a total of $48.1 million to about 8,000 farmers in the 10 states. SPRINGFIELD, 111. (UPI) -There is no need for an independent investigation into police actions during last weekend's hostage incident in which two people died and one was critically injured, Springfield Police Chief Mike Walton said Friday. "We've been very open.

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(UPD Hundreds of Minnesota farmers will get more than $9 million from a New Jersey insurance company that tried to get out of paying off on policies the farmers had taken out last year as a hedge against drought, state Commerce Commissioner Michael Hatch said Friday. Hatch said the payout in Minnesota includes $2.7 million in benefits previously paid on rain insurance policies issued to 228 farmers, and $1.4 million in good will payments. The commissioner said more than $5 million will be paid to 883 state farmers in the next 60 days. Hatch said payments averaging $250 will be sent to 348 farmers, with 535 others receiving greater amounts. He said there will be several payments in excess of $100,000.

A total of 1,111 farmers had taken out policies from the Chubb Insurance Group of Warren, N.J., through its Federal Insurance Co. only to have the company renege when the drought took hold last summer, drying up crops across much of the Midwest. Initially, Chubb said its agents had only accepted the farmers' applications A sincere and heartfelt Thank You to our family, friends, pastors Kretzmann and Bowlin, Salem's "Kitchen Lutheran Brotherhood 2, River Valley Branch 8406. The Friends Circle Club and officers, The Navarro Family, Los Mac-ombos, Modern Woodman Camp 38, Lincoln-Irving P.T.A. and Dad's Club, and local businesses for their prayers, cards, phone calls, visits, chauffeuring the kids, rides to Iowa City, donations and the benefits.

You have held us together by collectively wrapping your arms around us and supporting us with your love during Dave's illness. Sincerely, The David Hann Family Doug Thomas, 20, shot and killed his girlfriend, Karen Lambert, critically wounded her sister, Nicole Lambert, and then shot and killed himself, ending a 42-hour hostage ordeal on Springfield's southeast side on Sunday. Two children were released unharmed during the ordeal. Complete autopsy reports won't be available for two to three weeks, Walton said, but preliminary reports show Karen Lambert was dead before police threw tear gas into her home. The reports also show there was evidence of cocaine, marijuana and an anti-depressant in Thomas' blood.

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