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pA-Th Daily Pantagraph, Jan. 15, 1981 OK'd Assembly frees Pay increases Chrysler funds (AP) Despite objections that it was trying to save a dinosaur, the outgoing Illinois General Assembly voted Wednesday to provide 'Ifa 'million for a state loan to the rfmahcially crippled Chrysler Corp. hours of the session," said Sen. Pre-scott Bloom, R-Peoria. Bloom was referring to the controversial 40 percent legislative pay raises in 1978 that provoked a flood of public outrage.

That outrage led directly to the legislative Cutback Amendment, which will eliminate a third of the House's 177 members by 1983. The referendum was approved overwhelmingly by voters Nov. 4. Thompson said legislative leaders approached him with the idea Tuesday. He said they told him they needed the extra leadership roles to ensure party unity and keep peace in the House.

sprung on legislators as "politics as usual." The bill gives a total of $32,000 a year in salary increases to six legislators. In the House, it adds two assistant leadership positions, each of which pays an additional $6,000 a year over the regular $28,000 annual legislator's salary. It also grants an additional $5,000 a year to each of four House and Senate members with previously unsalaried, minor leadership roles. "Apparently the Legislature wants to show we're slow learners. We invite the kind of retribution we receive, taking this kind of action in the waning SPRINGFIELD (AP) Acting only minutes before adjournment, the outgoing Illinois General Assembly approved a bill Wednesday that gives salary hikes to six legislators and transfers Gov.

James R. Thompson into a more lucrative pension program. Thompson said late Wednesday he would sign the hastily approved legislation, which he said was designed in part to prevent intra-party rifts in the Illinois House. Opponents of the bill said it was the type of quick, eleventh-hour action that invites taxpayer outrage and retribution. Sen.

Terry L. Bruce, D-Olney, criticized the bill and the way it was NOW leader says ERA's not dead SPRINGFIELD (AP) -The proposed Equal Rights Amendment, though not among the General Assembly's top priorities this session, is clearly not dead in Illinois, the state president of the National Organization for Women said Wednesday. "Reports of the ERA's demise are premature, and the issue may be brought up in this session," Sheila Stoll Clark said at a press conference as lawmakers gathered to convene a new session. The controversial proposed federal amendment outlawing sex discrimination has failed to pass in Illinois since 1972, despite Democratic domination. A generally anti-ERA Republican leadership was seated Wednesday in the House, which will be under GOP control this spring.

New House Speaker George Ryan, R-Kankakee, is an ERA foe. Illinois, the only major northern industrial state that hasn't ratified the ERA, was the prime ERA battleground last spring. Leadership race Rock avoids vote in Senate does business. "The hour has never been darker for Chyrsler than it is this morning," retiring Sen. John Knuppel, D-Havana, said Wednesday in bringing up the legislation.

"But I've always heard it's darkest just before dawn, and I think that's where we are now." Knuppel said approval of the loan money would send an important message to the federal government and other states that Illinois supports Chrysler and the free enterprise system. But Senate opponents argued that the, loan really would destroy the free' enterprise system by having the government interfere, with private industry. In the House, outgoing Rep. Calvin Skinner, R-Crystal Lake, said said the loan was "propping up a dinosaur." In order to obtain the Illinois loan, Chrysler must put up as collateral its modern assembly plant in Belvidere, which is near Rockford in northern Illinois. "Don't condemn half of northern Illinois to the unemployment offices," Rep.

Thomas Hanahan, D-McHenry, a labor supporter, said in support of the bill. Final action came as the House voted to send the loan measure to Gov. James R. Thompson, who supports it. But the House first had to suspend its scheduled noon adjournment of the old Legislature before the new General j'Assembly was sworn in.

The state Senate minutes earlier had voted 34-18 to approve the loan as raced against the noon (deadline. The outgoing 81st General Assembly already had authorized the state to the loan to the nation's No. 3 'automaker. J' 'jWeanwhile, Thompson said later Wednesday he would sign the measure, which actually frees the money from state lottery revenues. But Thompson cautioned that he and the state commerce director still must approve the before any money actually can be (forwarded to the nation's faltering No.

3 automaker. The Illinois loan is part of a $2 billion bail-out package Chrysler is putting (dgether from the federal government, t'ahacla, and cities and states where it er for the next, two years, winning all 91 of the House's GOP votes, two more than needed to be elected. Democrats hold 86 seats. Rep. Michael J.

Madigan, DChicago, was chosen minority leader. But in the Senate, where a third of the chamber's 30 Democrats are bucking Rock's re-election bid, senators adjourned within minutes after being sworn in. "It's obvious from the roll call that there aren't enough votes here to elect a leader," said Sen. David C. Shapiro, RAmboy, GOP leader, when three Democrats and one Republican were absent.

Senate Democrats hold a razor-thin 30-29 edge over Republicans. It takes 30 votes to elect a president. Senators were set to meet again Thursday, but some said it was unlikely the Democratic rift would be mended by then. Shapiro said Republicans tried to grab at least one Democrat's vote so that he, Shapiro, could be elected Senate president. The effort failed, he said, hinting that a prolonged Democratic feud might lead the GOP to try again to elect Shapiro.

Meanwhile, Sen. Dawn Clark Netsch, D-Chicago, a dissident leader, disputed Rock's statement that his re-election was being blocked by a dissident demand that she be appointed an assistant Senate leader. "That's an inaccurate statement as to what the stumbling block is," Mrs. Netsch said, declining to specify the obstacle. But Sen.

Terry L. Bruce, DOlney, another dissident, said the fight was "over Phil's failure in two years to exhibit leadership." SPRINGFIELD (AP) Illinois Senate President Philip J. Rock, aiming for re-election, avoided a public bloody nose when the newly seated Senate adjourned Wednesday without voting on his bid. The bid by Rock of Oak Park for a second term as Senate president is threatened by an internal Democratic feud, and squabbling senators said Wednesday little progress had been made in the dispute. The 81st General Assembly worked about two hours before adjourning into the history books as the new 82nd Assembly was sworn in.

Gov. James R. Thompson convened the new Senate, while Secretary of State Jim Edgar convened the new House, which is controlled by Republicans for the first time in six years. As expected, Rep. George H.

Ryan, R-Kankakee, was elected House speak- Veto pleases school officials iMARBEN'S of Bloomingtoni Hy Kathy McKinney Public school officials, as well as a spokesman for 70 private Christian (schools in the state, are pleased with Ithe governor's-veto of a bill that would have' provided state-paid bus service fot-most parochial and private school students. ''Gov. James Thompson vetoed the bill Tuesday, saying the plan is "unaf-fOrdable." The controversial bill would have 'required public schools to transport Tpa'rothial and private school students to schools within five miles of their feumes. ('''Although the bill said the state would for 100 percent of the cost to school districts, the concern of public school f'drhiriistrators was cost to the dis-ricts. "My concern," said Bloomington District 87 Superintendent George Stimeling, "was not with whether it was right or wrong for the state to fund busing of private school students.

But we have been informed that our regular transportation will receive only 83 percent funding of the claim. "I couldn't understand. If the state couldn't pay what already was on the books, how could it add more? Obviously, I'm pleased with the governor's action." Stimeling said it would have cost the district $50,000 to $80,000, "assuming the (Illinois State University) lab schools were included. If they weren't included, the expenditure would have been minimal, because we already transport parochial children." Metcalf grade and University high schools at ISU were changed by legisla- COMPLETE STORE FOR MEN'S BOYS' CLOTHING-SHOES Pre-lnventory Cut Down Sale. 20-30-40-50 Discounts IN SOLIDPATTERNS dress SLACKS tion this fall from laboratory schools to schools which receive state aid money.

Whether they would be considered public or private schools is unknown, Stimeling said. School districts which cover a wide geographical area were especially concerned about the proposed legislation, said Ronald Wepprecht, assistant superintendent of Olympia District 16, which includes Stanford, Armington, Atlanta, McLean, Danvers, Hopedale, and Minier. "We didn't project the amount it would cost," he said. "It was difficult, we thought, because we would suspect more people would have taken advantage of non-public schools if this had passed. "We're so spread out, it could have been a problem for us," Wepprecht said.

While the state Catholic Conference supported the bill, not all parochial school officials favored it. "I wrote to the governor and asked him to veto the bill," said the Rev. Arno Q. Weniger, whose Calvary Baptist Church runs Calvary Baptist Academy. "I wrote in behalf of the Illinois Association of Christian Schools, which has 70 members in Illinois." There is a good relationship between public and private schools, Weniger said, and the transportation bill could have damaged that relationship.

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