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Metropolitan Chicago Tribune, Thursday. October 1.1S31 Section .19 Agency starts 'new yeaf deep in red City returns, but not to hail TA rev RTA revenues and expenditures For fiscal year 1982, beginning Oct 1.1981 pevenues I CTA fares Miscellaneous 5303 'n Computer rail lares $10.6 million "T'T L1" mon MI Suburban bus fares $19 million Sales tax funds Federal $297 million million Chicago loan to CTA S70.S million Li TnDune prdo by Carl Wagnet -Miscellaneous $18.2 million vCT A costs" S53S 4 rolllion Administrative The Most Rev. Daniel L. Ryan greets a well-wisher outside the Cathedral of St. Raymond Nonnatus in Joliet Wednesday after his ordination to auxiliary bishop of the Joliet Diocese.

The 51 -year-old S14.S minion Loan, note. prelate, a native of Minnesota, first served in the Joliet region in 1956 and has been pastor of St. Michael's in Wheaton since 1979. $33.4 million $46 million costs $226.3 million Note: Revenue assumes Chicago makes total promised contribution and 10 cent fare hike takes effect April 1 Grim quits as city financial adviser AFTER ONLY 2Vj weeks on the job, By Mitchell Locin STATE LEGISLATORS are gathering in Springfield Thursday, but not to join in a New Year' Day celebration for the Regional Transportation Authority. The agency began its new fiscal year Thursday morning with a $100 million deficit hangover and little prospect of quick relief from Springfield.

As the lawmakers return to the state capital for the start of the fall veto session, visions of new state apportionment map rather than the RTA balance sheet will be dancing in their heads. That balance sheet shows that the RTA ended fiscal 1981 at midnight Wednesday approximately $100 million in the red. REAPPORTIONMENT of legislative districts, however, looms as the topic most on the minds of senators and representatives. Once that is completed by a commission of- lawmakers and public members, action on Gov. Thompson's vetoes of appropriations bills from the spring session is next on the agenda.

Only after the vetoes are handled may the legislature turn its attention to the problem of mass transit for northeastern Illinois. That is, if there is time and the inclination to take up the problem that took up so much time last spring that the only result was regional and party polarization. The lawmakers are scheduled to be in Springfield for only one day this week. After that, they are scheduled to be in session Oct. 14-16 and Oct.

28-30. LEGISLATIVE leaders have been concentrating on reapportionment and spending bills and not transit matters over the summer, according to their aides. "They're still trying to cut districts. They're still trying to cut deals," one Democratic assistant said. The drafting of new transit plans got under way only in recent weeks, but there is no guarantee they will be taken up this fall or even in the spring session that will get under way after the March primary election.

Thompson will meet with legislative leaders Thursday to discuss the progress of his staff's drafting of an RTA restructuring package. Meanwhile, a task force named by Sen. James "Pate" Philip Elmhurst), the new Senate Republican leader, continues to hash out a transit plan. SUBURBAN mayors will meet here Monday with aides to the governor, Mayor Byrne, and the legislative leaders to work on reaching a consensus on the transit problem. The legislative leaders are eager to get the problem disposed of as soon as possible, but are unsure at this stage whether they can deal with the subject this fall.

"We have to see this thing played out some more," said Judy Erwin, spokesman for Senate President Philip Rock Oak Park). Both the governor and the Senate Re- Daniel Grim, 31, resigned as Chicago's senior financial adviser Wednesday, 'Chicago Tribune Ofaphic: Souic: Regional Twuponauon Authority giving up a salary of $81,000 a year. Grim, who had been the city's com ptroller, got his new job from Mayor Byrne in i.iid-September. At the same time, he got a IS per cent pay raise from $70,257. However, he reportedly believed that he had been "kicked upstairs" and that his new job didn't carry as much responsibility as his old one.

Grim said he planned to take a job outside Chicago, but he did not say where. Mrs. Byrne, announcing the resignation, said she "deeply regrets having to accept it. been averaging 122 pasengers at any one time, while the Congressional mandate required a ridership of at least 150 passengers. The Blackhawk left the station on time for its last run at 5:45 p.m.

for Rockford, Galena, and Dubuque, Iowa, because of a cutoff of state funds that subsidized the The funds were not included in Gov. Thompson's spending plans, and he rejected a last-minute plea from supporters of the Blackhawk to reinstitute -funding. Amtrak officials hold out some hope for possible revival of the Cardinal, but not the Blackhawk. Dixon said the time slot for the Cardinal will be kept open for six months because of strong support among Congressmen along the route to change the federal criteria that required ending the City colleges gets TV franchise THE CITY Colleges of Chicago board voted Wednesday to take over operations of television Channel 20 and begin offering college courses for credit and other instructional programs on the station in the fall of 1982. City Colleges accepted an offer to have the franchise for the channel transferred from the Chicago Metropolitan Higher Education Council, a consortium of Chicago area colleges and universities subject to the approval of the FCC.

Channel 20 was briefly on the air in the early 1970s, but stopped operations in 1974 when its transmitter broke -down. City Colleges will spend $1.2 million for new transmission equip-' ment and an antenna atop Sears Tower. Oscar Shabat, City Colleges Court rules Kuta may get law license SPRINGFIELD Former Aid. publicans are aiming at presenting com-, pleted proposals by the time the General Assembly returns on Oct. 14.

The suburban mayors are not rejecting that timetable but are counting on no action until the spring. "IT WAS OUR guess that nothing can be terribly productive until after the primary," said Glencoe Village President Florence Boone, chairman of the Council of Mayors of the Chicago Area Transportation Study. She said that another factor working against legislative action this fall on the transit issue is the constitutional requirement in effect from July 1 through Dec. 31 for a three-fifths majority to pass bills that are effective immediately. Working against any action at all until the new legislature is elected in November, 1982, is the fear lawmakers have of committing themselves to any plan during an election season made even more unpredictable than usual because of the new districts that will arise from reapportionment, according to some observers.

ARTHUR QUERN, Thompson's top aide, said one reason the governor is calling for consideration of only a restructuring plan this fall is to remove the most politically explosive part of any transit plan new state funding through a tax increase. Sen. David Shapiro Amboy)' as Senate minority leader, acknowledged that the service cutbacks and fare hikes that have hit suburbanites especially hard have more phone calls and letters from his Du Page County constituents demanding a state bailout. At the same time, however, Mrs. Byrne's plan to subsidize the CTA with new city taxes has removed the threat of an imminent collapse of the transit system and, therefore, lessened the pressure for quick legislative action, he said.

"IT DOESN'T seem to be as serious a problem as it was at the end of the session," he said in an interview. He repeated his demand for reform of the RTA before approving a state subsidy. The newest contributor to the transit discussion is the group of suburban mayors, which has already met separately with Byrne and Thompson. Glencoe's Boone said the mayors had previously worked closely with the bipartisan congressional delegation and Byrne's and Thompson's offices to fight for road money last summer in Washington, D.C. "We found that we can work together very Boone said.

While Boone held out hope for progress at the Monday meeting of mayors and city and state officials, she cautioned, "This cannot be solved in one happy meeting." previously has disclosed one key element to his restructuring plan. He has called on the General Assembly to reapportion the RTA board this fall instead of waiting until the June. 30, 1983, deadline. That would immediately give the suburbs instead of Chicago majority control of the 13-member panel. The governor has been silent on what other elements will ultimately be included in his plan other than to say Wednesday it will Include a formula to "equitably" distribute RTA subsidies to the Chicago Transit Authority, commuter railroads, and suburban bus companies.

He also said he will not conclude the drafting of his plan until he has consulted with the legislative leaders and suburban mayors. THE GOVERNOR'S tough words for the practices of the current RTA board and its chairman, Lewis Hill, continued unabated, however, as he blasted the cuts in commuter rail service made by the RTA, saying they were not done to economize. "They were political cuts to try one more time by Mr. Hill and his cohorts in the majority of the RTA board to blackmail the governor and the legislature into giving them money for their bottomless pit," Thompson told the Wednesday news conference. "It didn't work." Philip, who recently replaced the late Frank J.

Kuta may have a new license to practice law, but only if he pays Chicago the $1,500 he was convicted of extorting in a zoning case, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. Kuta, 45, former 23d Ward alderman and Democratic committeeman, lost his license in 1975 after his federal conviction for extortion and income tax evasion. He served six months in prison. In a 6-0 decision, the high courtdisag-reed with an ethics board by ruling that Kuta "has, by clear and convincing evidence, established his rehabili tation." VM; v-: chancellor, said the new channel will VALUES open opportunities for college courses for credit, literacy courses, courses for high school credit, and community service progams. City Colleges began offering courses for credit in 1956 over Channel 11, and during the last 23 years has enrolled students for 100,000 Start the season with a new look and save! Shaping, shampoo, styling and Directives-Ampoule Treatment Reg.

$25, now 12.50. Our exclusive Directives Carefree Perm with shaping, shampoo and styling Reg. $50, now 830 with selected.stylists. Offer good through i' Teachers warned in school boycott A BLACK-WHITE boycott of two 11th Ward elementary schools con-' tinued Wednesday, with parents threatening to "put out" any teacher who does not instruct children attending their old schools in defiance of an integration plan. Parents of pupils who formerly attended all-black Hendricks School, 4316 S.

Princeton have refused to permit the busing of their children to predominantly white Graham School, 4436 S. Union and vice versa. Instead, they have sent their children to the schools they attended before the Chicago school board attempted the integration by changing boundary lines. credit hours. Currently, it offers several college courses over channels 26 and 44.

Doctors at County get $25,597 bill DOCTORS AT Cook County Hospital IP Oct. 31. mav have to Dass the hat to raise i $25,597 to pay a legal bill they ran up i i mi an unsuccessiiu euon. to lire i uu the hospital's chief of surgery. The doctors sent the bill to the county government for payment, but George Dunne, Cook County Board president, threw it right back' at them.

Dunne, supported by State's Atty. Richard M. Daley, said the county is not respons- ible for this debt. The 200 or so doctors, all salaried employes at the hopi- tal, are members of the Executive Medical Staff, which launched a campaign last year to have Dr. Olga Jonasson fired as chief of surgery.

During the campaign, the doctors hired attorney John Bowlus, who sub' mitted a bill for 25,597. The effort to remove Jonasson failed when the county board refused to act. 2 Chicago trains make last runs TWO AMTRAK routes originating in Chicago made their last runs Wednesday because of state and federal budget cutbacks. The final trip of the Cardinal, bound for Cincinnati and Washington, DC, left Union Station on time at 9:10 a.m., carrying 80 passengers. Pam Dixon, Amtrak spokesman, said the board of the federal passenger rail service ordered the route to end because ridership has Each way with round trip 1 purchase.

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Woodfield Center. Courts Auto glass dealer admits bilking city BERNARD YEDFR, 35, manager of a Southwest Side auto glass company, pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to charges that he bilked the City of Chicgo out of $160,000 by submitting phony repair bills for work on Police Department vehicles. Yeder, manager of the Roosevelt Auto Glass 1708 S. Ashland pleaded guilty to two counts of mail fraud in connection with the scheme, in which the city was billed the $160,000 for front and rear windows and seat tracks on police vehicles, though the work never was done. Yeder entered his plea before Judge Stanley J.

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