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Chicago Tribune, Friday, January 25, 1980 Section 1 3 I' First phase of Rock Island shutdown begins next week She stuffs herself to stay alive I ft i 1 'fit, Ml' t-t lift! 1 i ft last lines scheduled to be shut down are those running between Chicago and Kansas City, including the commuter lines, and from Kansas City to Minneapolis. THE SHUTDOWN wilt continue while' federal, state, and local officials conduct llth-hour negotiations in an attempt to save portions of the railroad. The Federal Railroad Administration may offer the Chicago North Western Transportation Co. $100 million in federal assistance to purchase the Rock Island line between Minneapolis and Kansas City. A complete shutdown of the railroad would put almost 7,000 employes out of work.

The ICC, which has paid Kansas City Terminal Co. $35 million to operate the Rock Island, is expected to issue final shutdown orders for the railroad Friday. The company asked the ICC on Jan. 18 for immediate instructions on how to close down the railroad because of time needed to notify freight shippers, stop equipment and fuel purchases, mothball locomotives, and clear the railroad. The plan for the Rock Island's shutdown calls for it to be done in eight phases, the first of which would begin next week.

The first phase includes halting service on some lines in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, and Missouri. The Thompson orders aides to act to end sexual harassment By David Young Transportation editor THE SHUTDOWN of the bankrupt Chicago, Rock Island Pacific Railroad will begin next week, although the railroad's commuter line in Chicago will survive at least until the end of February, railroad industry officials said Thursday. The shutdown will result in the first liquidation of a major railroad in United States history, they said. However, Bernard Ford, general manager of the Regional Transportation Authority, which subsidizes the Rock Island's commuter service, said RTA officials will attempt to keep the commuter line operating beyond February. "This is an essential service," Ford said, "and we don't intend to let it fold up.

We'll do what we have to keep it working." An estimated 14,000 persons each day ride the Rock Island's lines between La Salle Street station, Blue Island, and Joliet. The first stage of the Rock Island shutdown was scheduled to begin Thursday, but was delayed until next week by the Interstate Commerce Commission to await developments in U.S. District Court Friday. JUDGE FRANK McGARR is expected to hear further testimony at 2 p.m. on a reorganization plan by bankruptcy trustee William Gibbons to salvage 1,934 miles of the railroad.

The current plan of Kansas City Terminal the firm operating the Rock Island since Sept. 26 under an emergency service order by the ICC, is to halt all service on the Rock Island by 11:59 p.m. on Feb. 29. JACKSON, N.J.

API Amy Brown, '18, eats a dozen eggs for breakfast and two steaks for lunch to keep her weight up to 90 pounds. Doctors say there is little she can do about her metabolic disorder except keep eating. The teen-ager suffers from malabsorption, an unusual syndrome that requires her to eat almost hourly to replace lost potassium in her body. Her food bills take $170 of the $250 her father earns each week. Her mother, Lois Brown, 48, says only help from friends and civic groups keeps the family afloat.

"ASIDE FROM the food bills, we have to pay gas and electric," she said. "We have two refrigerators downstairs for Amy. We don't like accepting charity, but we never know what tomorrow may bring." A faulty valve in Miss Brown's kidney is releasing almost all the potassium in her system, and doctors, say there is little she can do except take potassium supplements and eat. HER MEALS equal those of four adults. For breakfast, she consumes a dozen eggs, fried potatoes, and often a whole can of Spam.

Lunch is the equivalent of two steaks, two vegetables, potatoes, and at least two glasses of Loda pop. The life she had as an energetic 13-year-old is no more. "I was healthy then," she said. "I did everything, playing tennis, wrestling, beating up the boys. I was a tomboy." The illness struck at 14, when one day she suddenly slumped over her i AP LawrpriotO Amy Brown wishes on a toy well for an end to the ailment forcing her to eat constantly.

"I'm not going to let this beat me," she says. Human Rights to provide a training pro- -gram for the Equal Employment Opportunity officers in each department, agency, board, and commission under the governor's jurisdiction. Each agency head to be responsible for disseminating to each employe appropriate information about the nature of sexual harassment, ways to prevent it, and organizations through which vie- tims may seek assistance. The governor defined sexual harassment as "unsolicited, deliberate, or repeated sexually explicit derogatory statements, gestures, or physical contacts which are objectionable to the recipient or which cause discomfort or humiliation." His order followed a number of com- plaints in various agencies. Chicago Trlbuni Press Servica SPRINGFIELD Gov.

Thompson Thursday ordered state agency heads under his jurisdiction to take steps to eliminate sexual harassment within their departments, and asked the other constitutional officers to take the same steps. "Sexual harassment is an offensive working condition which will not be tolerated by this administration," he said. "In all cases, sexual harassment undermines the integrity of the workplace, results in deleterious employment consequences to its victims, and must be eliminated." THOMPSON'S EXECUTIVE order re. quires: The director of the Department of eggs, and spices. Doctors predict Miss Brown's condition will change, for better or worse, as her body completes maturity in the next few years.

Brown says she's not going to give up. "I wanted to become a cop, but that's definitely out of the question. I may want to be a secretary or possibly a singer. I also want to have children. I'm not going to let this beat me." desk in school.

Her father, Albert Brown, 50, is a township public works employe. His salary is too high for him to qualify for food stamps, and welfare officials reject the claim that his daughter's food is a medical expense. WHEN MISS BROWN turned 18 last month, she became eligible for $63 a month in food stamps and $98 a month in welfare. Her family said that only pays for the soda pop she must drink, about a case a week, and for milk, Denies 'reining in9 campaign Kennedy sharply trims Illinois staff in shakeup 0 Chicagolancls Greatest Selection of Fine Furniture and Carpeting -all at dramatically low prices! Substantial savings on fine quality sofas, sofa beds, tables, lamps, dining and bedroom furniture, mattresses, draperies, rugs and carpeting. EnubHtfiKi DwraoMiaatnOik 74 It 1 If 11 By Aldo Beckman and F.

Richard Ciccone SEN. EDWARD M. Kennedy trimmed his Illinois campaign office to -the financial bone Thursday as part of a national shakeup to try to avoid defeat in New England at the hands of a southern President. Kennedy's Illinois office laid off 16 staffers, and now will depend on volunteers, many of whom are running as Kennedy delegates in Illinois' March 18 Democratic presidential primary. The trims came as Kennedy canceled a weekend campaign trip to New England, to work on a "major" speech attacking President Carter's conduct of foreign policy.

Kennedy will give that speech Monday in Washington, D.C. THE CUTBACKS and the cancellation of a trip to Kennedy's New England backyard fueled speculation that the Massachusetts Democrat was reining in his run for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination. That was denied. "He just ain't," Kennedy press secretary Tom Southwick said in Washington. After Carter's landslide 2-to-l victory over Kennedy in Iowa's caucuses Monday, Kennedy's national staff indicated that the senator's campaign would be streamlined.

Thursday, the other shoe fell. Illinois campaign director Gerard Do-herty, a Massachusetts resident, said he will remain in Illinois but will use volunteers instead of paid staffers, effective Friday. KENNEDY'S chances of wresting the nomination from Carter depend on how he rebounds in the Maine caucus Feb. 1 and the New Hampshire primary Feb. 26.

Doherty said the Illinois cutbacks were "consistent with a national campaign decision to concentrate all resources on Sen. Kennedy's efforts in Maine and New Hampshire." Terry Michael, Illinois press secretary, said he will remain as a volunteer. Doherty said he expected "to reconcen-trate our efforts in Illinois three to four weeks prior to the March 18 primary." The Illinois cuts were part of a national retrenching of Kennedy's campaign. The national staff was cut from 200 to 75 or fewer, Joe Crangle, Kennedy's national campaign director for party affairs, said in Washington. KENNEDY AGREES that If he doesn't change his tactics "there will be lots more Iowas," Crangle said, adding that the senator will deliver a harsh criticism Monday of Carter's foreign policy performance.

"Suddenly, the country is rewarding the man Carter because he has failed," Crangle said. "For the first time in 32 years, the Soviets have moved into a nonsatellite country. They didn't do it because they thought he Carter was strong. They did it because they thought he was weak." Crangle said decisions to cut staff and sharpen the attack against Carter were reached in post-Iowa strategy sessions called by Kennedy. In retrospect, he said, it was a mistake for Kennedy to conduct a national campaign now, with crucial New England votes so close.

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