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i i i i I 3 I EIGHT-TIME WINNER ABGUi I 1 edition CCD NATIONAL COLOR PRINTING AWARD Rock Island, 111., Tuesday, February 14, 1978 Page 12 'fi'' Mwsfflrr.vw.i" Teachers to pick union tomorrow to represent them in pact talks Sias said the saying there isnt of Rock Island. state group put out a letter an AFT local within 100 miles i Theres two in Moline, one in Galesburg and one in Princeton," Sias pointed out. She added that she will be addressing the school board at tonights regular meeting on the problem of low teacher morale. One of the associations strong points, said Ms. Swayne, is its 11 years of experience working with contracts, making them a better bargaining unit for the teachers in the district.

Contract negotiations used to be a very nonmilitant constituency, explained Ms. Swayne, but now weve gotten into a position of power and can go before the administration and the board. Tomorrow Rock Island teachers will vote to decide which of two unions, the Rock Island Education Association (RIEA) or the Rock Island Federation of Teachers (RIFT), will represent them and negotiate the next contract The election has bitterly divided teachers in the past nine years but the presidents of both organizations indicate that this years campaign has had much less mudslinging and namecalling. The two groups have had their differences over election issues during this year's campaign. 'X The mam issue for the RIFT is probably salary, said Sias.

The cost of living increase expires at the end of the present contract and we want to maintain that cost of living, he said. He added that the RIEA runs surveys of the teachers concerning package negotiations but these shouldnt be confused with opening packages up to the teachers before they go before the board. CHECK PRESENTED The Rock Island Kiwanis Club presented a check of $200 to the Rock Island Fire Department at a luncheon yesterday at the Sheraton-Rock Island. Fire Marshal Dale Carlson, center, accepts the donation from John Bromley, right, and Bill Lizdas. The moiiey will be used to help remodel the fire departments public information trailer.

Story on Page 9. (Argus Photo) IN THE last year said Ms. Swayne, everything in the contract has been attributed to the RIEA. This includes a binding arbitration policy which is very rare in other contracts in the state, she said. Unions say they will prohibit layoffs but the unions cant stop the layoffs they have at places bke John Deere or Harvester, Ms.

Swayne noted. In a RIFT newsletter the federation listed salary and benefit ideas that would be considered if the group is elected tomorrow. A base salary increase of at least 10 percent to allow a "catch-up with the cost of living and a quarterly cost of living adjustment were two of the main salary and benefit ideas the RIFT will consider if selected by the teachers. The newsletter listed ideas such as allowing teachers to have a voice in determining the final bargaining package before its presented to the bargaining table, provisions in the contract regarding transfers, and some non-money contract ideas to improve morale. THE RIEA, with a membership of 270 of the districts 494 teachers, is taking the stand that negotiations should not be used as a campaign issue during the election.

The association now represents all teachers with the school board for contract talks. The present three-year contract expires June 30. We are not wishing to tip our hand before we get to the board, said RIEA president Nancy Swayne. The teachers know what most of the negotiations items will be. Ms.

Swayne said the RIEA of course wants to improve benefits and tighten up the contract language but believes the problem of low teacher morale and poor communication between staff and administration is one of the campaigns main contentions. We met with Dr. Hopson and discussed the areas we can improve, the RIEA president said. The only way to improve teacher morale is for the administration to seek teacher input and ask teachers what they think. All avenues of communication are open, we have an elected representative to sit on the curriculum committee and we have access to speak to the school board.

The resources are open, all the administration has to do is listen. Calendars differ for East Jlloline schools SIAS ALSO blamed the RIEA for partially causing the lack of teacher unity. They mention seniority in the contract for all teachers and then they break into a little group and decide the meaning of seniority, said Sias of the RIEA. They never have meetings where all teachers can get together. This is harmful to good teacher morale and makes the teackers weak, he added.

Teacher morale is low and a lot of it stems from not being treated like human beings, he said. Transfer is another big issue. They can practically yank you around anywhere they want to and its not only to the teachers but to the kids. Some of the non-money ideas are aimed at alleviating low morale, such as teacher awareness of student problems, teacher voice on developing issues, assignment of disruptive students, academic freedom and negotiation of the school calendar. The election tomorrow will be from 3:15 to 6 p.m.

or until all eligible staff have voted. The polling places will be: Hawhome-Irving, for teachers of Hawthome-Irving, Grant and West Campus; East Campus, for East Campus, Lincoln, Longfellow, Head Start, Rainbow and Kiddie Rare; Washington, for Washington, Audubon, Denkmann, Eugene Field, and Horace Mann; Edison, Edison, Frances Willard, and Earl Hanson; Jefferson for Jefferson, Ridgewood and W. L. Eddy, and Rock Island High School for teachers of the high school. THE FACT that the RIEA isnt offering any contract negotiation ideas has become a campaign issue in itself, said Dick Sias, president of RIFT.

The federation represents 140 of the teachers in the district and is an affiliate of the Illinois and American Federation of Teachers and the AFL-CIO. Sias said the RIEA wanted a blank check with the negotiations process. Weve maintained our honesty throughout the campaign but the Illinois Education Association (of which the RIEA is an affiliate) has put out some lies. Weve tried to counter some of MORALE IS better now than a couple years ago, she added, but said the teachers feel that the administration appreciate what they are doing and doesnt back them up, especially in discipline matters. The problems of low teacher morale and poor communications were two! of the main concerns in a report compiled by a visiting team from the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.

EAST MOLINE East Moline will have two different school calendars next year one for high school and one for grade school students unless an agreement is reached. The East Moline Grade School board of education last night voted in favor of the same schedule approved by Rock Island and Moline. Earlier the United Township High School board had broken with tradition and adopted an independent schedule. THE GRADE school calendar calls for school to begin Aug. 30, recess Dec.

14 for Christmas vacation; resume Jan. close April 9 for spring vacation; resume April 16 and recess for the summer June 6. The UTHS calendar cqlls for the same opening date and spring break, but scheduled Christmas vacation between Dec. 20 and Jan. 3 and recess for the summer June 1, five days earlier than the grade schools.

Hope is still seen for public television network Grand jury to probe South filoline election MOLINE Backers of a public television network for western Illinois are optimistic the system will be operating by mid-1979 despite ca veto of state funds Friday by Gov. James Thompson. George Hall, president of Convocom Spring-field, said development of WQFT-Moline is progressing smoothly. The veto of $500,000 in state nioney was expected, he added, since the federal government eliminated a matching grant last month. The station will offer educational, cultural and public affairs programming at public television stations in Peoria, Macomb and Mo- Man fined $350 sum on two charges Federico C.

Campos, 22, of 910 8th Rock Island, was fined a total of $350 in Rock Island Division of Circuit Court today on two charges. He was fined $250 on a charge that was amended from driving while intoxicated to reckless driving and $100 for illegal discharge of firearms. Campos was apprehended last Aug. 17 in Rock Island. He was found guilty of firing a 38-caliber pistol.

Three other counts' were dismissed. They were ignoring a red traffic light, leaving the scene of an accident, and failing to have a firearm owners identification card. ALAN MATYKIEWICZ, 22, of Route 2, Coal Valley, was given a six-month conditional discharge and fined $200 for unlawful possession of marijuana on June 17, 1976. He was given until May 15 to pay the fine. Anthony Golden, 18, of 1127 8th Rock Island, was fined $90 for battery and $40 for criminal trespass to land.

He was found guilty of trespassing on property of Metals, 300 24th Rock Island, and hitting Ray Lind, an employee of the firm, in the shoulder and thigh with two rocks on Sept. 14. The youth was found innocent of a related charge, assault. A driving while intoxicated charge against Steven K. Livesay, 31, of Andover was dismissed.

Associate Circuit Judge; John B. Cunningham ruling that there was no probable! cause for the complaint. Livesay was ticketed last; May 6. CHARGES OF reckless; conduct and battery against Albert Ware, 35, of 1633 2nd Davenport, were dismissed when the complainant failed to ap-; pear in court for the scheduled hearing. 1 Ware had been accused of striking Paul Swemlinej Green Rock, with a truck on Dec.

16 and grabbing him about the throat and wrestling him to the ground on the same date. Old penny only loot in entry at apartment A U.S. penny, dated 1812, Camferdam is one of the candidates who would be a likely subject of the grand jury probe. Others include Loween Geyer, the former town clerk who was in charge of running the election; Larry Bums, who ran a successful campaip for township supervisor, and Jack Dye, who was a cap-didate for auditor. -All four were named in a stipulation entered into by attorneys for Mrs.

Camferdam which verified that the candidates did take blank absentee ballots, did deliver them to voters, did wait while they voted and then did carry the ballots back to the township office. Egypt, Saudi Arabia will get U.S. planes Office hours announced by acting mayor Acting Mayor James R. Davis today announced he will keep office hours in the mayors office in the city hall from 4 to about 5:30 p.m. starting tomorrow.

Davis has been acting mayor since the death of 36-year-old Mayor Alan A. Campbell last Thursday. The acting mayor commended the citys street crews for the speed in which they cleared thoroughfares of snow. Most of the streets are passable 24 hours after the heavy snowfall, he declared. Shower set NEW WINDSOR A community bridal shower for Miss Kim Hainline will begin at 7 p.m.

tomorrow inm the Calvary Lutheran Church, New Windsor. In hospital NEW WINDSOR -Hubert Diz Nimrick is a patient in Moline Public Hospital and C. W. Anderson in St. Marys Hospital, Galesburg.

The decisioii by UTHS officials to adopt a separate calendar had sparked a controversy in East Moline. Supt. Dr. Arvid Nelson condemned the action as ridiculous, and said it had left his board in a very awkward position. Nelson, who had expected board members would feel compelled to accept the UTHS schedule, said he was surprised at their decision to reject it.

UTHS ADOPTED the separate calendar which allows an earlier closure than in past years so that students would have more time to hunt 'for summer jobs and teachers attending graduate school could get there on time, Parker said. He said the UTHS board also wanted to align the schools calendar more closely with those at 14 feeder districts other than East Moline that send students to the Area Vocational Center at UTHS. the more costly models that are being denied. SAUDI ARABIA, the sources said, will be provided with F15s. An announcement of the proposed sales including the precise numbers involved was expected later when the White House formally submits the plan to Congress, which can veto the sales.

The F-15 is the U.S. Air Forces prime fighter plane. It is claimed to be the best fighter plane in the world' and is manufacturered by McDonnell-Douglas Corp. The F-16, built by General Dynamics is a light weight, fighter that is cheaper than the F-15 and is to complement it. The F-16 is already being sold to four NATO countries, Norway, Denmark, Belgium and Holland.

Iran also is interested in buying this plane. THE F-5, which is built by the Northrop is a much-less sophisticated fighter designed for foreign sale. About 25 countries have acquired the plane, which is not used by U.S. forces. Gen.

George Brown, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, has said, I dont think any one in their right mind would try and fly an F-5 against either the F-15 or the F-16. Church meeting set SHERRARD The Church Council, First Lutheran Church, Sherrard, will hold their February meeting immediately after Jhe 7:30 p.m. mid-week Lenten worship service Thursday evening at the church. line. Bradley Universitys Community Col-WTVP would be joined' by lege, Galesburg; and John struction of transmitters in Peoria and Jacksonville.

Halls original target date for beginning the network was late 1978. The public telvision network would be the first in the nation. Instead of one central studio, Convocom. will have three, available to colleges and universities for transmitting locally produced show? and televised college courses. Participating schools besides Bradley and Western are Black' Hawk College, Moline; Southern Illinois University Medical School, Springfield; Sangamon State University, Spring-field; Spbon River Community College, Canton; Carl Wood College, Quincy.

Feted on birthday NEW WINDSOR A family dinner was served recently to honor the 84th birthday of George Roquet, New Windsor, in the home of his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Mario Forseth, New Windsor. I States Attorney Ed Keefe said today he will ask a county grand jury to begin next Tuesday an investigation into possible criminal violations committed during an election last April in South Moline Township. Keefe said the investiga-tion will center on Republican candidates who personally delivered absentee ballots to voters in the township.

The investigation apparently stems from a civil base argued over the last few months in circuit court over the results of the assessors rape in that election. DEMOCRAT Glen Frese, who initially was named winner of. the election for assessor until an official canvass revealed voting errors which gave the election to his opponent, Republican Jean Camfer-dam, sued to have the results of the election reversed. Judge L. E.

Ellison last month ruled in favor of Frese, invalidating 20 absentee ballots delivered by candidates. The judge also invalidated votes because the voters were not properly registered and because there were violations of polling practices. Gets IVz years for forgery A Rock Island man who pleaded guilty to a forgery charge today was sentenced to prison for 2 Vi years under the terms of recently enacted changes in Illinois criminal code. Larry Bowdry, 23, of 1028 4th St, Rock Island, forging the name Russell Herring on a $312.25 U.S. Treasury check inadvertently delivered to the wrong address.

Asst. States Attorney John Welling, in recommending the prison sentence, pointed out to the court that Bowdry was three times before convicted of felony offenses theft, possession of heroin and armed robbery. WASHINGTON (AP) -President Carter has decided on a Middle East warplane package that will give Egypt and Saudi Arabia some of the jets they Seek, but deny Egypt the most sophisticated planes on its shopping list. Carters plan. was disclosed today by administration officials who said Israel will receive both F-15 and F-16 fighters to augment earlier deliveries.

Egypt, which also had sought these sophisticated aircraft, will receive only F-5E fighters. Egypt had asked for up to 150 of these craft in addition to some of a 4 i I 4 4 i microwave network with stations at Western Illinois University, Macomb, and WQPT. Hall said Convocom is operating with $1 million in state andfederal grants awarded in 1976, and with private contributions. The money has been used for engineering design and con- 1 IN THE original petition filed on behalf of Freese, Attorney Franklin Wallace alleged the procedures used in the absentee voting were fraught with mistakes and indicate fraud. He said the procedures violated provisions of the Illinois Election Code.

The final totals calculated after deductions by Judge Ellison showed Frese the winner by a 16-vote margin. Keefe has stated that most of the candidates in the election were incumbents and should have known better than to handcarry blank ballots. Keefe said he will request subpoenas to secure whatever evidence is available from the civil proceeding. He said he also will be asking for depositions from those involved. The states attorney, however, would not specify what type of criminal charges might be brought against the subjects of the probe.

Travel and adventure series set in Aledo ALEDO The fourth of this years series in Travel Adventure presentations of the Aledo Exchange Club will be at 7:30 p.m. in the Aledo High School auditorium. Howard and Barbara Pollard will show their slides on Isles of the Mediterranean was the only thing reported taken in a burglary last night at the apartment of i Kenneth D. Fittro, 935 19th Rock Island. The old coin was taken from a bedroom, which was ransacked, according to the police report.

Police also are investigating a break-in at the Milton F. Flagel home. 1911 8th Rock Island, where a total of $575, including $110 worth opcen-tennial quarters and half dollars, were reported stolen. Patricia Jennings, was completely gutted by the blaze. No one was home at the time of the fire and the cause is still under investigation.

(Argus Photo)' TRAILER BURNS Blackhawk, fire district firemen were called to the scene of a trailer fire in the High Cliff Estates Mobile Home Park, 1701 E. 2nd Milan, shortly before 11 this morning. The home, owned by 1 -S 1 iJ.