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Section 2 (ThicagO (Tribune Wednesday, June 7, 1989 Chicagoland Gliit'rf newsprint hurts recyclin Vet suspension urged A board rules a veterinarian should be disciplined in the death of a dog who died from eating a tampon. Page 3. Salt Creek buyouts advance A state plan to help municipalities buy and demolish chronically flooded property along Salt Creek advances. Page 8. tions around the county.

Its Crystal Lake site, where newspapers are stacked outside, is closed this week, and next week its Woodstock location will be shut, according to director Jerry Paulson. The group has enough newsprint on hand to fill two or three semi-trailers, he said. "It comes at a bad time," said Kevin Greene of Citizens for a Better Environment. "A lot of municipalities are moving to start curbside collection programs. They are the most threatened by this because they're the most efficient collectors.

It's the old newspapers that people drop off, and at least one operation is temporarily closing two of its dropoff sites over the next two weeks. In Crystal Lake, about five tons of newspapers are piled on the ground outside a recycling operation because no paper mill or other recycling business will buy the material. Prices have fallen to only half of last year's levels, according to Larry Domark of FSC Paper of south suburban Alsip, the major newsprint recycling operation in the Midwest. A ton of old news- papers brings only $20 to $30 now. And that's if the company agrees to buy the papers.

It has cut back or eliminated purchases from suppliers in areas where the local newspapers do not use the company's recycled newsprint, "We're loaded with material," said Domark. "This week we lost our aisles in our warehouse." One group that can no longer sell all of its paper to FSC is the McHenry County Defenders, which runs five recycling opera frustrating." The newsprint glut has caused Dave Buckner of the Illinois Department of Energy and Natural Resources, which funds some 100 recycling programs around the state, to recommend that new programs nail down a buyer for their newsprint before they start collecting the material. If they can't find a buyer, the programs should consider collecting plastic bottles instead, he said. Besides newspapers, collection programs typically pick up See Recycling, pg. 6 By Stevenson Swanson Environment writer As recycling in the Chicago area starts to pick up momentum, the market for old newpapers is so glutted that recycling operations cannot find buyers for this commonly collected material and the state is warning new recycling programs to think hard before they include old newsprint among the items they pick up.

All of the city and suburban recycling centers contacted Tuesday have stopped paying for 'Baseless' litigation Robert Hoover, of the vacuum cleaner family, and his attorneys are ordered to pay $935,400 for pushing "unwarranted and baseless" litigation to overturn his father's will. Senate panel acts to make AIDS a crime 1 1 JJW witui -ii miimmtt I I 1 VY Hoover Page 3. Town drops computer plan Naperville votes to drop a controversial proposal to buy a $1.3 million computer, system for the city. Page 7. Time change for body shop The Wego Body Shop in West Chicago, known for eye-catching political posters in the window, may be closing soon.

Page 6. Board infighting assailed The Concerned Citizens of Elmhurst Party chairman is critical of the new council members his party helped elect. Page 8. i.M.,,,i im.inOTin-n r'-t u-' 1 rf r. By Daniel Egler and Jennifer Halperin Chicago Tribune SPRINGFIELD Despite fears that it might discourage people from being tested for AIDS, a Senate panel Tuesday approved legislation making the knowing transmission of the HIV virus a crime punishable by up to 7 years in prison.

In addition, the panel endorsed a bill allowing the victims of criminal sexual assault the right to seek a court order for the AIDS testing of their alleged assailants. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 6-4 in favor of the House-passed measure, although some opponents said the bill, as written, could be construed to make kissing between an HIV-positive person and another a criminal offense, though saliva has not been proven to be a means of transmitting the deadly disease. "We want to encourage people to take the test voluntarily," said Sen. William Marovitz Chicago). "If people are Thompson backs riverboat gambling, but not near Chicago.

Page 6. afraid they could be convicted of a new Time and sent to prisons, they'd be fraid of being tested at all." Supporters of the bill argued that the Illinois Department of Public Health does not have an adequate means of protecting the public from the transmission of the virus from AIDS-carrying sex offenders. The other AIDS measure, also sponsored by Sen. Frank Watson Greenville), would extend the same right to rape victims for court-ordered testing that is available to firefighters, paramedics and health care professionals. But opponents to the measure, approved 10-1, countered that it would allow any victim to allege having been assaulted, requiring the accused to be tested for AIDS.

In other judiciary bills, Marovitz resurrected his proposal to restrict semiautomatic weapons by outlawing ammunition clips capable of holding more than 10 rounds. Identical to a bill that failed in the Senate by one vote two weeks ago, the measure would make possession of an assault See AIDS, pg. 6 Tribune photo by Gerald Wesl from Los Angeles. The jet, carrying 243 people, was over Kansas when it lurched abruptly in turbulent weather. Ambulances surround a United Airlines DC-10 at O' Hare International Airport Tuesday night after a harrowing flight Jetliner turbulence injures at least 24 By Jerry Crimmins and Karen Dillon At least 24 people were injured Tuesday night when a crowded United Airlines DC-10 bound for Chicago plunged abruptly in turbulent weather over Kansas, hurling babies, adults and a heavy food cart into the air.

One of the babies was caught by another passenger across the aisle, a witness said. Another baby that flew out of its mother's arms was briefly lost afterward amid fallen luggage and confused passengers, witnesses said. Spokesmen for four area hospitals said no one was believed to have been critically injured in the incident. Two babies were treated at hospitals and released. Many victims were suffering from neck and back injuries, according to United Airlines and the hospitals.

A Chicago Fire Department spokesman said 44 people were injured and 34 were taken to the four hospitals. United said the total of injured was 24. The four hospitals could account for only 21. Passengers aboard United Flight 90, which originated in Los Angeles, said it was a miracle that more people were not hurt. One passenger, James Phillips, said the falling for several seconds "felt like death." Phillips, president of Phillips Equipment Co.

of Milwaukee, was returning from the turmoil in Beijing, as were several other passengers. The plane, carrying 232 passengers and 11 crew members, was 37,000 feet over Garden City, when, without warning, it suddenly dropped 100 to 200 feet, said spokesmen for the Federal Aviation Administration and United. The abrupt plunge, which passengers said felt like an elevator dropping; apparently was caused by "severe turbulence," said Mort Edelstein, the FAA spokesman. There were thunderstorms to the northwest and south of the plane when it dropped, but it was clear just outside the aircraft itself, Edelstein said. The pilot had turned on the scat-belt light and told the flight attendants to take See Turbulence, pg.

6 Taxes dip forWheaton subdivision By Patricia M. Szymczak The Du Page County Board of (tax) Review has agreed to issue a certificate of error that will significantly lower some 1988 tax bills in Wheaton's Danada Farms subdivision, board (Chairman Paul M. Bauer said. The decision came Monday, nearly a week after developer Joe Keim and his attorney met with the three-member Board of Review to settle a dispute with Milton Township sessor Robert Boyd. "We'd just like to see our said Danada North homeowner Michael Bianuc-ci, who wrote a check June 1 for $1,058 on a tax bill that was three times what he expected.

''I'd say 'Gosh, gee whiz this is if everyone would return all of our money that's outstanding. The homeowners were caught in the middle." At issue was whether an assessor revalues vacant land as residential when a building permit is issued, as Boyd contended, or when the occupancy permit is issued, as Keim argued. The $1,058 that Bianucci paid as his first tax installment was the result of Boyd's1 calculations. Keim's method would have put the bill closer to $300. And the Board of Review sided with Keim.

"They're reasonable," Keim said of the panel. "We were very pleased with the outcome. They did a fine job." Property owners who already paid the first installment on their real estate tax bills June 1 can expect the lower, corrected tax bills in the mail, possibly by the end of July. To meet that deadline however, the board would have to complete its paper work in the next two weeks, and a routine judicial review would have to proceed snag-free, Bauer said. "I expect the bills will come in time for people to contact their mortgage companies and work things out," Bauer said of tax payments that are made out of escrow accounts Deputy Du Page County Treasurer Jim Goetz said that when certificates of error are issued close to the date a tax installment is due, the payment period is extended 15 days.

"Du Page has nine different township as- 1 sessors, and they each interpret things differ- ently," Bauer said. "The important thing is that they do things uniformly throughout the township." And in this case, Bauer said the Du Page County state's attorney's office agreed with Keim's attorney that Illinois' subdivision law precludes property from being revalued at residential rates until an occupancy permit is issued. The matter is still subject to dispute, however, and the Illinois General Assembly has considered legislation to clarify some Bauer said. What happened between Keim and Boyd could happen again. Naperville Township for example, revalues land Boyd's way, while other townships, such as Lisle, follow Keim's approach.

And the Board of Review can act to address inconsistencies only when thing is brought to its attention. Keim had threatened to sue if the Board of Review had not ruled favorably, and Boyd had indicated he would welcome such a suit to clarify the differing interpretations of when the value of property would increase Tricounty state park studied fx is1 By Jan Crawford Du Page County officials agreed Tuesday to investigate creating a tricounty state park by acquiring all or part of a undeveloped tract of land in Bartlctt owned by Material Service Corp. The county's Forest Preserve Commission agreed to explore the idea of working with other governmental agencies, including soliciting state and national funding, to buy the land, which straddles Kane, Cook and Du Page Counties. The commission envisions creating a state park in the area that would blend the forest's marshlands and grasslands with wildlife present in the area before it was settled hundreds of years ago, according to H.C. "Chuck" Johnson, executive director of the county's Forest Preserve District.

To create a state park would require giving the land to the state, according to Carol Knowles, spokeswoman for the Illinois Department of Conservation. Knowles said the state was not familiar with plans for the park and declined comment on how much money it would be willing to contribute to the proposed project. "This is a show of interest in trying to get other governmental bodies interested in it," said Carolyn Kulic, chairwoman of the commission's Finance and Land Acquisition Committee. "It is my feeling that it should be, hopefully, a national park or state park." To that end, the commission passed a resolution Tuesday revealing its intent to contact other officials who might help the district with the project, including those from Cook and Kane Counties, Kulie said. The land targeted by the district is directly north of its Pratt's Wayne Woods Forest Preserve and has been annexed into the Village of Bartlett.

If only the land in Du Page were acquired, it would bring the total acreage of Pratt's Wayne Woods to about 3,600 acres, Johnson said. Last February, Material Service See Park, pg. 6 Berwyn wants 'Spindle' put on the spike Hometowns Eric Zorn Peter Felice began his fruitless attempt at cultural enlightenment in Berwyn by unfurling an artist's blueprint, toreador style, and shaking it at his audience. "If this were by Picasso or Van Gogh, you'd all be appreciating it," he said sternly. "Now, I'm not suggesting it is a Picasso or Van Gogh.

But I am sug-' gesting it is art." Art? A murmur swept through the crowd. A huge steel prong with nine used cars impaled upon it like so many marshmallows on the end of a stick? Art? "Art is in the eyes of the beholder," Felice went on. He was speaking to a gathering of 30 citizen critics who came to the city hall Monday night for a council committee meeting to discuss "Spindle," a sculpture proposed for the center of the parking lot at the Ccrmak Plaza Shopping Center. Felice, an attorney who represents the suburban New York City company that owns the shopping center, concluded his opening remarks by noting that, taste notwithstanding, "Spindle" meets all of Bcrwyn's building and zoning requirements and is protected by 1st Amendment guarantees of freedom of expression. Richard Boudnck, a retired mechanic with a pocketful of pencils and a clutch of keys dangling from his belt, did not wait to be recognized by the committee chairman.

"All that junk and all that garbage?" he roared, stepping into the central aisle of the gallery See Berwyn, pg. 6 Tribune photo by Amy Deputy during its development. "I want a clarification on this," Boyd said Dancing in the pLlZa two weeks ago, aaaing tnat Micnaci ucane, Du Page supervisor of assessors, "would like Keim to go to court." A sailor-garbed girl demonstrates Scottish dances Tuesday in a noontime performance at the Daley Center Plaza In the Loop..