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Section 2 (Ehicaijo (Tribune Tuesday, April 22, 1980 Takes dig at Byrne hailed farewell it: O'Malley in parks' By Mitchell Locin PATRICK L. O'Malley presided over his final meeting of the Chicago Park District Board Monday, reciting what he called a list of accomplishments during his eight-year tenure. O'Malley, who resigned under pressure from Mayor Byrne, got a standing ovation from a large crowd of district employes as he entered the board room at district headquarters, 425 McFetridge Dr. Dead boy's kin move to apartment By Joseph Sjostrom THE WALTER Alegre family, who lost a son and their home Friday, moved into temporary living quarters at 2811 W. Dickens Av.

Monday. The family had been put up over the weekend in a motel by the Red Cross. They will be able to stay in the apartment until the end of the month and will look for a permanent residence on the Northwest Side. After moving, the family went to the funeral chapel at 626 N. Western Av.

for visitation for Walter 13, who was killed early Friday when a motorist fleeing police crashed his, car into their apartment building. THE IMPACT of the vehicle on a first-floor store collapsed the second-floor -v. 11 111 O'Malley was praised by individual commissioners, including William A. Lee, labor leader, who had resigned earlier and bid farewell to the board at its April 8 meeing, but returned for Monday's meeting. Lee also was pressured by the mayor into resigning.

THE RESIGNATIONS of O'Malley and Lee will leave only one holdover commissioner, Sidney Marovitz, among those appointed by the late Mayor Richard J. Daley. Raymond Simon and Iola McGowan, the two Byrne appointees on the five-member board, also praised O'Malley. "A man who always had time to lend a hand to a good cause, said Simon, who probably will be elected board president when the new board is installed. At the meeting, Amie Matanky announced his resignation as director of public information for the district.

Matanky, publisher of the Near North Side News, a neighborhood newspaper, and head of a public relations firms, said he was leaving the $31,764 a year post "for economic reasons." ALSO AT Monday's meeting, the board agreed to pay $995,419 to the S. A. Healy a McCook construction firm, as an out-of-court settlement in a suit that stemmed from the collapse of the Monroe Street parking garage in October, 1976. Healy had sued the district for $1.9 million, contending the firm had incurred increased costs due to construction delays and the revised building plans caused by the collapse, for which it was not at fault. The district previously collected $3.9 Tribune Photo by Arthur Wilkar Alegre Family Fund P.O.

Box 5888 Chicago, 60680 Sandra Olivier holds a picture of her husband, Spiro, He rode his motorbike to and from work. In March, he who worked as a cook at a Prospect Heights restaurant, was the victim of a traffic accident. A 'survivor' has left our midst The only hint of criticism of the mayor came when O'Malley noted that the number of district employes during his reign had been reduced from 4,152 to 3,617 and that the percentage of them under civil service increased from 38 to 74 per cent. "Which doesn't leave much, room for all that patronage we hear about," he added. This was an apparent reference to Mrs.

Byrne's charges that the park district is a patronage haven for ber enemies. "IT'S BEEN a great experience," O'Malley told the commissioners and the audience, praising the workers "as some of the most dedicated employes you can find in public service." O'Malley, 69, said he would be pleased to be of help to future board members, saying, "I'm as close to you as the telephone." O'Malley, who is a member of the Regional Transportation Authority and 'chairman of the RTA Finance Committee, said he plans to continue his civic activities, noting that he has just become board chairman of St. Joseph Hospital. "I'm not going to go home and die. I'm going to remain active in this city," said O'Malley, chairman and chief executive officer of Canteen Corp.

LOOKING TO the future of the parks. i CIosg-ud i tfw-f witn wine rvseycui bedroom in which Walter and his two brothers, Sandro, 12, and Gustavo, 10, were sleeping. His brothers received only bruises and cuts, but Walter was crushed by falling debris. Hugh L. Piper, 20, of 4115 N.

Ridge-way driver of the car, was unhurt. Police said Piper's car had traveled at speeds up to 100 miles an hour when he was pursued by police after going through a red light. HE WAS charged with reckless homicide, speeding, disobeying traffic signals, leaving the scene of an accident, and drunken driving. Mass for young Walter will be said at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday In Holy Rosary Catholic Church, 618 N.

Western Av. The senior Alegre came to this country from Peru three years ago in search of work. His wife, Maria, and five -children joined him later. The Alegres also have two daughters, Maria, 18, and Janet, 17. Alegre is a $180-a-week shipping room supervisor.

In response to requests by the public, The Tribune has begun a fund to help the family. Contributions may be sent to The Alegre Family Fund, P.O. B6x 5888, on his finger and cut off the tip of it. But the threat of the gun chased off the officer and saved his sister. Spiro, like many after the war, made his way to the United States.

He fell in love and married, and he and Sandra started off with nothing. He still celebrated life, but he knew how to be a survivor, too. "HE STILL BELIEVED that America was what he had seen on films when he was a little boy in Greece," says Mrs. Olivier. "America to him was Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dancing that's how he looked at his life here." The two started off living in one rented room, the kind of room so small that in order to open the door, you had to walk on the bed.

From the rented room, they graduated to a basement apartment. And from the basement apartment, they bought their bungalow in Evanston. They called it their "stepping stone," says Mrs. Olivier, because "we were just beginning. We pinched our pennies, we saved our money, we worked hard.

Spiro worked two jobs so that we could Continued on page 3, Sec. 2 SPIRO OLIVIER was born in Greece during simpler times. He grew up, a child romping free. Bathing in the sea, chasing the birds, running through' the fields, darting through the lemon groves, wondering always at the dizzying blue of the Greek sky and the sweet scent of the flowers. Celebrating life, yet not realizing he was doing so.

The celebration ended on the day the Nazis came into his town. They came in stealthily while everyone was sleeping, slipping in with the darkness and announcing their presence only at dawn by calling everyone to the town square with bullhorns. Spiro, only 8 years old then, came out of his house rubbing his eyes innocently, not knowing that the world had changed overnight. He went to the square, where he saw people hanging from trees "like they were Christmas tree ornaments." They were people who had done nothing wrong. Just simple townspeople who happened to live there.

They had been chosen as examples. ONE OF THOSE Spiro spotted when his eyes fled upward to the tree branches, dead and with his tongue hanging. million from C.F. Murphy Associates, the architectural firm which designed the garage, in a settlement in which Murphy did not admit it had designed a faulty structure. Ewell appointed to Kentucky panel Maryo Ewell, community arts development director of the Illinois Arts Council, has been appointed as theonly out-of-state member of the Community Development Evaluation Panel of the Kentucky Arts Commission.

She will serve one year as a volunteer consultant to the Kentucky commission to review applications and make grant recommendations for community arts councils throughout Kentucky. out, was spiro's 9-year-old cousin. From then on, Spiro was a survivor. To eat, he rummaged through the garbage behind the Nazi officiers' mess. The officers chased him when he did.

One time, he and a hungry friend were spotted getting something to eat. The little friend ran into one abandoned building, Spiro into another. There Spiro hid and while he was there, crouching and shaking, he heard an explosion, as If a hand grenade had been lobbed into a nearby building. When he finally emerged, the abandoned building where his friend had hidden was demolished. And so was his friend.

Spiro caught a German officer attacking his older sister. Grabbing a gun, the youngster aimed it at the man and tried to pull the trigger. The trigger jammed O'Malley said they will have to be more available for public use as economic conditions create the need for more recreation. Along with Increased park use, "you must provide the kind of security so they citizens can walk through any park in the city," O'Malley said. Accomplishments cited by O'Malley included an increase in the number of parks from 529 to 580, the new music shell in Grant Park, rehabilitation of Lincoln Park, the building of the Monroe Street underground garage, acquisition of the former South Shore Country Club, the rehabilitation of many facilities, and the continued AA rating of park district bonds.

$2.2 billion 5-yeaY plan RTA plans to buy 1,810 new buses Something to celebrate After national observances of Earth Day and Food Day and Sun Day, it seems only natural that America should have a Growth Day, which By David Young Transportation editor THE REGIONAL Transportation Authority plans to buy more buses and railroad cars to cope with anticipated increases in ridership over the next five years, it was announced Monday Details of the proposal were made public in the agency's five-year plan. Nine public hearings will be held throughout the Chicago area, beginning May 12. was held last Thursday. The Idea, as put forward by its originators-a diverse group of educators and foundations united in a new National Coalition for Growth-is to pause and for Burlington Northern; 2.5 per cent for Rock Island; 0.7 per cent for Illinois Central Gulf; and 2.5 per cent for Norfolk Western. Daily ridership on the commuter railroads is expected to increase from 148,000 now to more than 201,000 by 1990.

Women's rights topic A workshop, "Women: Know Your Legal Rights," will be held April 26, from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m., at the Expo Center of the Apparel Mart, 350 N. Orleans St. The workshop, sponsored by the Chicago Bar Association, will be held in conjunction With the 1980 Woman's Career Convention. Six female attorneys will discuss wills, marital law, sexual harassment of working women, credit, discrimination, estate planning, and how to select an attorney. will be used to expand service.

The buses will cost an estimated $314.3 million. The $42.5 million purchase of 77 bilevel commuter railroad cars. The bulk of these cars, which will be purchased beginning in 1983, are to handle an estimated 3.2 per cent annual increase in commuter railroad rider-ship. The purchase of 300 rapid transit cars to replace old cars of the Chicago Transit Authority. The plan to purchase those cars, in addition to a program in progress to buy 300 cars, was announced earlier.

THE 77 COMMUTER railroad cars would give that agency an additional 12,160 Seats for its 7 commuter rail lines. According to RTA projections through 1990, the commuter railroads will continue to experience healthy ridership growth. The RTA projects an annual average growth of 3.3 per cent for the Chicago North Western; 5.8 per cent for Milwaukee Road; 2.9 per cent reflect on the need for growth, particularly eco-ndmic growth. And on the robust business activity needed to make growth possible. ine proposal caus ior spending ouuon over tne next live years to improve transpor- There are, of course, at least two ways of ooking at economic growth.

You can take the nrniaMc cunh na roVinhilitnUntf hue onraooc elitist position that America already has too railroad track maintenance, upgrading sta much of a good thing and needs to retrench, perhaps through a no-growth or even a shrink tions, and replacing old buses. 1 The plan includes: The purchase of 1,810 buses, of which 1,685 are to replace old vehicles. The others. ing economy. From our observation, most of those holding this position are neatly summed up in the phrase: "I ve got mine." Or you can take the contrary position that economic stagnation or retreat in the United States means cheating the nation's young and the disadvantaged out of their rightful chance at jobs, Action line growth, and affluence of their own.

We agree that in America growth rates its own celebration. For our country has been built Some record-and something to celebrate. Let's give some thought today to democracy itself-and how a free market economy that enshrines the ideas of liberty and personal choice not only grew into the largest and strongest economy in history, but also fostered the ideal of a limited government where individual freedom and opportunity are accorded the paramount value. Something to celebrate. Since we are all consumers, Growth Day is an apt occasion for reflection on a system that has made the customer the supreme arbiter in the marketplace-where the products you prefer can thrive, and those that do not please you eventually, and inevitably, disappear.

Something to celebrate. And what about the way business in this country actually grows opportunity? Where you choose your job-and your employer. Where you can choose where to put your money and can buy an ownership share in any company that looks good to you. Where it's still easy to start a business of your own-in an open economy where small business is thriving, and where the number of small businesses has more than doubled over the past 20 years. Something to celebrate.

Let's talk about the historical growth of safety in the workplace-and recall that today a worker faces less risk of death and injury off the Job than on the job. Let's toast a system of economic competition that has spurred 10,000 different firms to explore for and produce petroleum, 176 different companies to refine it, and more than 700 to produce coal. Let's remind ourselves that all this incredible diversity of businesses and firms and Jobs and opportunity has grown because of freedom, including the freedom of business to meet your changing needs and flourish or to perish by ignoring them. In this system of democratic capitalism, you make the choices and business makes the responses and the result has been growth-in goods, in Jobs, in Incomes, in businesses, in competition, in a better standard of living for every American. We think these are the true measure of the impact of business on society and the reason why all of us, on Growth Day, truly do have something to celebrate.

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We apologize for the inconvenience, but wish you to know that no one is sorrier than we, the Classic staff, at the passing of a magazine we were devoted to. Our thanks for your past support." While visiting recently with friends In California, I mentioned to a young architect that Chicago will have a new building erected on the site of the old Sherman House. I told him the magnificent structure would be a beehive type with an atrium to the top. I wasn't too sure of my facts, but told him I would look up the story when I returned and send It to him. I have tried to do so, but cannot find the story.

Can Action Line help? Claire Tierney, Elgin A Your description of the planned State of Illinois Center is fairly accurate. The 17-story structure will occupy the block bounded by Clark, Randolph, La Salle, and Lake Streets. Construction is expected to start this fall and the completion date is January, 1983. Credit for the striking design goes to Chicago architect Helmut Jahn of C. F.

Murphy Associates, Inc. The building's one million square M''ll, '1 1 Sound off chance, an opportunity. What they found was a system of doing business-we like to think of it as "democratic capitalism" that was unsurpassed as a means of creating and widely distributing goods and health and wealth and individual opportunity. Working within that system, they grew the unparalleled prosperity that came to be known as the American Dream. Something to celebrate.

And think about jobs-the means by which those who fled poverty and oppression worked their way but of destitution into a better life and, frequently, into affluence and successful enterprises of jheir own. For growing jobs, no better greenhouse than democratic capitalism has ever been devised. As the national population grew from 40 million in 1870 to over 220 million' last year, jobs increased from 10.6 million to 96.5 million. In fact, since 1975 business has been growing 2.5 million new jobs every year. HERMAN Model of planned State of Illinois Center.

feet of office space will house 4,200 state employes working in 54 agencies. There also will be 150,000 square feet of commercial space. Gov. Thompson unveiled the plans for the building Feb. 19, and there were several stories in The Tribune about that time.

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