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Chicago Tribune Thursday March 31. 1983 Section 2 Citysuburbs Job program over memories linger on A. 1 if fiit y.f i Al 122 By John C. White IT WAS NOT the kind of job most people think of making a career sweeping streets, picking up trash in alleys and shoveling snow. But for Charles Maiden, who was unemployed for almost a year, and others like him, it was work and a steady paycheck.

And for a little while, Maiden, 54, was able to pay his family's bills and regain the dignity that comes with doing a day's work for a day's pay. "When your wife is working and you aren't, it makes you feel less than a man," Maiden said Wednesday. Last January, Maiden was one of the lucky few to land a job under Mayor Jane Byrne's $10 million temporary jobs program. It was launched with much ballyhoo during the mayor's bid to win the Democratic nomination for re-election. IT ENDED LAST Friday with no mention from the mayor or any of her aides.

The workers were simply let go with the notice that their last check would be in the mail. Maiden said he was told that perhaps there would be another job program after the election, but for now everything was frozen. More than 33,000 persons applied for the 1,800 full-time and 1,000 part-time jobs. Perhaps the largest beneficiary of the program was the Laborers International Union. Although the short-time workers were assessed union dues at a reduced scale, their 10 weeks of employment was expected to produce $337,500 for union coffers.

The full-time workers were paid $8.52 an hour about $650 every two weeks and the part-timers received $3.50 an hour. MALDEN, A construction worker for 35 years, lost his job in 1982. Except for an occasional pickup job, he spent the rest of the year unemployed. "When I first got out of a job, I really wanted construction work 'cause that's good money," Maiden said. "But after I stayed out for a long time, I was glad to get anything to make me feel like a man again." During the long jobless days, Maiden, who fives with his wife and two sons at 9728 S.

Torrence said there were times when "I got real down." He generally filled his hours looking for work and tending his vegetable garden. The Maidens live in a modest bungalow with two teenage sons on a block of homeowners where, until recently, unemployment was rare. Maiden said his neighbors include police officers, bus drivers, factory workers and "a couple of preachers." He is glad that his wife works and is able to support the family but the fact that he is unemployed is a source of wounded pride. "When you ain't got nothing coming in and your wife is bringing money in and you get kind of behind in your bills and things," he said, "it's really rough." HE SAID THAT last winter was the first time since coming to Chicago from Alabama in 1949 that he experienced "no job and no snow." In the beginning, critics of the mayor called the jobs program a political ploy. In the end, Maiden and several other persons who participated in it said that while they hoped it would continue, they understood from the beginning that it would only last 10 weeks and they were resigned to that.

Many fruitless days of searching for work had taught them not to get their hopes too high and to take work where they could find it. City report CTA fare reduction studied PRELIMINARY RESULTS of a study on abolishing CTA transfers and charging passengers smaller fares each time they board a bus or will be presented to the CTA board's Finance Committee Friday. The fares would be 50 cents on a bus and 75 cents on the said Nick Ruggiero, committee chairman. Ruggiero said it would be two weeks to a month before the study is completed. The proposal could then be put before the full board, he said.

Eliminating transfers and lowering the basic fares could end the dollar-bill problem for the CTA, Ruggiero said. He said the agency is currently spending $8.5 million a year to fix bus fare boxes jammed with paper money and for counting the bills by hand. He also referred to earlier disclosures that jammed fare boxes created occasions for thievery at certain CTA garages. Ruggiero said a consultant's study had found that a fare of 50 cents on buses and trains would not bring in enough money but he said a 75-cent fare on the might be different. Caruso wins pension suit ANGELINE CARUSO, FORMER interim general superintendent of the Chicago Board of Education, Wednesday won a Circuit Court ruling forcing the board to pay her an annual pension of $57,478 instead of the $46,195 it wanted to pay her.

Caruso, a board employee since 1944, was making $70,000 annually as associate superintendent until Dec. 13, 1979, when she was named interim superintendent. In 1981, 15 months later, the board increased her salary to $100,000 a year, retroactive to the date of her interim appointment. Caruso retired on Feb. 5, 1982, at age 59 with 38 years of service.

Her suit claimed the board tried to eliminate part of her pension by citing a 1981 law which excluded a salary jump in any one year of more than 20 percent. Thus, her pension could be based only on a 20-percent jump. She charged that enacting the law after she joined the Eension system was unconstitutional. Judge Arthur unne agreed, saying the board could apply the 20-percent cap rule only to employees who joined the system after the law was enacted. New killing trial ordered THE MURDER CONVICTIONS of a Chicago policeman's daughter and her male companion, both found guilty of killing the leader of an obscure religious sect in 1978, were overturned Wednesday by the Illinois Appellate Court.

The court ordered new trials for Carol Lumpp, 27, and William Carr, 32. Lumpp, who had a previous conviction for prostitution, is serving a 25-year prison term for the killing. Carr, with a previous conviction for robbery, is serving a 40-year term. The court ruled that statements given to Chicago police by Lumpp and Carr after their arrests should not have been used in evidence because prosecutors did not prove that they were obtained voluntarily. Lumpp and Carr were convicted in 1980 of the 1978 murder of Richard Ber-noski, 37, self-styled archbishop of the Old Roman Catholic Church, which has no connection with the worldwide Roman Catholic Church.

Cop acquitted of punching teens CHICAGO POLICE OFFICER Wayne Straza, 37, on Wednesday was found innocent of charges that he roughed up two Steinmetz High School students on school grounds after their last class of the day. Criminal Court Judge James Bailey acquitted Straza of charges of battery and official misconduct after a bench trial. The same charges against Straza's partner, officer Roman Keating, 45, were dropped by prosecutors before the trial. The two students, both 17, testified during the trial that Straza hurled racial insults at them and punched and hit them on Jan. 20, 1982.

Bailey said he questioned the youths' testimony about the injuries they suffered, which he said was not backed up by medical evidence. Therefore, he ruled, their testimony was not believable enough to find Straza guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. -Both officers were assigned at the time of the incident to the Grand Central area youth division. Suburban report 2 suburb men tied to drug plot TWO SUBURBAN men face drug charges in Texas in connection with a scheme to smuggle 1,500" pounds of marijuana from Jamaica to Texas, authorities said Wednesday. The marijuana was found aboard a twin-engine aircraft that landed at a private airstrip near Caldwell, Monday night.

On Tuesday, Brian Dean Plassman, 30, of Calumet City, and Paul L. Spangler, 29, of South Holland, were among four persons arrested by the Texas Department of Public Safety in connection with the alleged smuggling. Officials of the department Tribune photo by OviB your wife is working and you aren't, it makes you 'feef less than a man," he says. assignment. Henderson, like most of the full-time VorJ' ers, was assigned to the Department of Streets antf Sanitation.

"It was a great help. It was good having a steaay check coming in for a while," he said. Henderson? former steel worker, has enrolled in an electronics school. SHOVELING SNOW AND cleaning alleys might not seem like enjoyable work, but Betty Martin, 38, -a unemployed nurse, said, "Everybody was happy on th job." And she "would be more than glad" to do it over. again.

laen In addition to monetary help, the jobs were good fpf the soul. "I felt better than I have in a long Martin said. "I lost some weight doing it and if I harTit to do over again, I would." Now that it is over, Maiden said, "I'm not worried. I'm just trying to get something else now." Charles Maiden washes dishes at home, his typical work now that his temporary city job is over. "When "No, I didn't feel mad" that the job was temporary, Maiden said.

"I just appreciated it, you know. I was one of the lucky ones because so many people stood in line so long and didn't even get a chance." MOREOVER, MALDEN SAID, "it really brought me back. I got my bills paid up. I ain't got too many habits. I don't drink or smoke.

Except for the gas bill, all the bills are now caught up." "There were no kind of ill feelings about it lending whatsoever," said Marion Wilson, who had been without full-time work since 1978. "I expected that, you know. It's just that the time went so fast. Oh, that time went fast Wilson, 34, a widower with two children, said he was picking up alumnimum cans to sell at the recyling center when he landed the city job. "Now it's just go on to something else.

Find something else," he said. Scott Henderson, 26, was the first of the successful applicants to appear at Navy Pier to receive his job Si il s-r- i-4 Cv 1 2-year-old killed; mail 0" is charged I 'v. II I I I Tribune photos by Chris Walker Don't bite, kitty Barrington dentist Ray Kotz works Wednesday on Duo, a 100-pound black jaguar at Brookfield Zoo, before rebuilding a worn canine that Duo was in danger of losing. The loss would have impaired her eating. At right, zookeepers swing the drugged beast into a van after her appointment.

1 in iiT-iiiwaf itJI Party lines divide Democrats in 46th Ward By Thomas Hardy and Philip Wattley AS MOST ANY 2-year-old would be inclined to do, Keith.FIuck es peered around his mother's legs to get a look at the gun-wielding man causing the commotion in his ly's Cabrini-Green apartment, Keith, who never had anythingoto say about it, was in the wrong place at the wrong time. According to witnesses, the' 'man leaned down and put the the .25 automatic pistol into the curious boy's mouth, and the gun discharged. Keith was pronounced deadat Children's Memorial Hospital', atd police charged a North Side man, whom they described as a former boyfriend of the child's mother, with murder. Police said they arrested Nicholas Walls, 20, 1856 N. Halsted and recovered the weapon nar the shooting scene.

KEITH'S MOTHER, Gloria Fiuok-es, 22, who has five other children, ages 1 through 6, stood in the kitchen of her fifth-floor Chicago HousWg Authority apartment Wednesday recounted how her son was She said Walls strode into, the apartment at 714 W. Division St. late Tuesday brandishing the gum. Travette Jordan, a friend of Fluckfcs' who also witnessed the shooting, tftd Walls purported to carry the gun. protection against a local 'etrtftt gang.

Jordan said Walls told them the gun was empty. Fluckes said she asked Walls: "What are doing here? You you come around, you start trouble." The woman said she placed heraalf between the boy and Walls as Ifre backed Into the kitchen. "I WAS frightened," she safd.I know how he likes to act crazy." Walls continued to wave the. gun about as he pressed closer, she said, and Keith leaned forward to peer (t Walls from beside his mother. Jordan, who was sitting in living room and watching the scent; unfold, said Walls then reached dowii and said to Keith, "You want to better?" He stuck the barrel of the weapon in Keith's mouth and it werjt off, Jordan said.

Walls and Fluckes recently hrtJJ broken off a six-month relationship and Walls was trying to get back together with her, said police Detective Scott Keenan of the Bel mailt Area. He said the couple had twi arguing about that and Walls Lwi been threatening everyone Jn JJtc apartment before the shooting bcor-ed. Fluckes, however, denied tJJJlt Walls had been her boyfriend, Regardless of what the sltuhQn was, said James Fluckes, uncle and one of a dozen mourners gathered in the apartment Wedim day afternoon, "the guy doesf JiSSe any business putting a guirirx-fl baby's face." XTZ declined Wednesday to discuss how Plassman and Spangler were involved. Plassman was charged with possession of more than 200 pounds of marijuana, while Spangler faces charges of engaging in a criminal activity to possess more than 200 pounds of marijuana. Both are state charges in Texas, said Travis Bryan, district attorney of Brazos County, Tex.

All four arrests were made in the area of Bryan, Tex. Drug agents for the Department of Public Safety also seized the twin-engine aircraft, two pickup trucks with camper tops and about $7,600 in cash. Channel 50 to trim programming MOST OF THE regularly scheduled programming on WCAE-TV (Channel 50), will go off the air Thursday after the half-hour airing at 10:30 p.m. of Indiana Lawmakers, a program about state legislation. The public service station was started in 1967 by the Lake Central School Board and has been operated in a building adjacent to Lake Central High School, St.

John. It is the only television station based in northwestern Indiana. The school board has decided to stop financing the station, which costs about $800,000 a year to operate, because of budget problems. Oak Lawn police approve pact OAK LAWN POLICE have approved a two-year contract that gives them an 11 percent salary increase. However, the village's firefighters still are negotiating.

Salary talks stalled earlier this year when the village board decided to hold back on any raises until first quarter sales tax revenues were in. Michael Arden. president of the Oak Lawn chapter of the Combined Counties Police Association, said "our vote was unbelievably close, it Ithe contract passed by only four votes." The 72 patrolmen, whose salaries now range from $1,650 to $1,950 monthly, will receive a 3 percent raise effective Friday, 3 percent Oct. 1 and 5 percent in April, 1984. John Butler, negotiator for the 93 firefighters, said, "We're basically talking about the same number of dollars las received by the police but we want a different distribution." Mayor Ernest Kolb said he hoped all negotiations would be "wrapped up" and ready for board ratification at the April IS board meeting.

Evanston man tells funds plan IT'S NOT MUCH more (hurt a sheaf of papers right now in fact, iff not even lax-exempt yet. But John Allen incorporated his dream last week, the Evanston Community Fund, and within a year he hopes to raise $100,000 in donations from city residents and businesses. By 1988, he expect the fund to top $3 million. The goal is to help the city pay for things it needs but can't afford. The fund will concentrate on capital projects rather than city programs, said Allen, an attorney and former Evanston alderman.

1 zK Orbach Newfeld 1 TI i lit; iciut; 46th ward. brt tor total of $2,450 in campaign contributions from landlords whose buildings have violations to be decided in Housing Court and from an attorney defending one of those landlords. "Sure I did," replied Orbach when asked if he accepted contributions from persons with matters pending in Housing Court. "But I see nothing wrong with it. I was not involved directly in any of those matters." Orbach said that in the last five years he has been assigned to prosecute only the most important Housing Court cases and maintained that none of his contributors is involved in that type of case.

Newfeld has distributed campaign literature in which she details Orbacn's contributions from real estate interests by donor, amount and address of the building with violations in Housing Court. ORBACH DISMISSES the campaign material as "a dirt piece." He disputes It by handing over a packet of letters from community leaders praising his work in Housing Court. Newfeld and Orbach say they are concerned about the quality of housing for residents of the ward. Both say they encourage rehabilitation of existing housing. Newfcld sayB she is not opposed to additional subsidized housing In the ward, whereas Orbach is against any increase.

Both candidates are against night games in Wrigley Field, and both sny top priorities if elected would be to spruce up the business districts in the ward and encourage more citizen participation in ward By Bonita Brodt DIVISIONS WITHIN the Democratic Party, wrought by the mayoral race, are being playen out on a smaller stage in a heated aldermanic race on the city's North Side. The scramble for the 46th Ward City Council seat is between a regular Democrat backed by Edward Vrdolyak, chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party, and an independent Democrat who has the support of the party's nominee for mayor, Harold Washington. The Vrdolyak forces have rallied behind Jerome Orbach, a city attorney who prosecutes cases in Housing Court. Vrdolyak recently put out word that party workers in the 46th Ward should support Orbach. Vrdolyak explained by saying that regardless of who wins the mayoral race, the regular Democrats will need every possible City Council seat.

Orbach is 36 and the father of two. HIS OPPONENT is Charlotte Newfcld. a designer and sculptor. She was among several Independent Democrats who recently endorsed Washington's candidacy for mayor. In turn, she received his nod of support.

A Newfeld victory would put another "lakefront liberal" in the council. She Is 52 and the mother of two. The 46th is a splintered and diverse ward. In It live the rich, the poor, the conservative, the liberal all from an assortment of ethnic backgrounds. Among its many neighborhoods are Lakeview, Uptown and Wrigley.

Both candidates say they believe they bim c.nunrA would be able to muster the support to pull all the people in the ward together and unite its communities. Throughout the 4fith Ward are pockets of burned-out buildings and substandard housing, and housing and real estate are involved in the hottest issue to emerge in this campaign. NEWFELD CHARGES that Orbach Is guilty of "questionable ethics" because he is a corporation counsel in charge of prosecuting housing violations, and at the same time, is on record as having accepted a ntmm..