The Belleville News-Democrat from Belleville, Illinois • 7

Belleville News-Democrat LOCAL Monday January 28 1991 use because of higher property values around the airport Enrollment could Increase at the college With more business money being pumped into the college tuition could decline The SOT million civilian airport would begin carrying passengers as early as 1995 Maher said St Clair County probably would begin buying the 800 acres of land needed for the buying the 800 i Both Joint-use and BAC officials agreed the airport would benefit the college educationally and financially The airport and surrounding businesses could spur the need for Additional aviation maintenance and technology courses at BAC Banking and data processing skills Secretarial training for new businesses Child-care training and centers Employees trained in food and hotel By ANDREA FOSTER News-Democrat GRAFTON The Belleville Area College board of trustees planned Sunday to endorse a proposed Joint-use civilian airport at Scott Air ForeeBase (hi the second day of a two-day retreat for BAG nffiriili anil bftWfd flf tnwWf nlaiwiffg for the Joint-use airport told the trustees that the project is moving forward quickly and would be an economic boon to BAC and the metre-east This would make Belleville Area College the center for technical training in the area and board Chairman Larry Reinneck to draft a resolution the Joint-use airport The trustees plan to vote on the resolution at their Feb 0 boardmeeting The resolution will include a warning to airport planners to minimise environmental damage and protect as much farmland as possible said Reinnick a farmer Planners also should show sensitivity toward families who live in the nearby subdivision Cardinal Creek and would have to move to make room for the airport he added The trustees also agreed that BAC should and to meet the needs of new businesses and in part by the airport the college master Mail brings questions Mill is always Interesting I get lettera HnHng me for writing a particular column (usually from the person I wrote about) letters asking me about particular problems and letters idling me what I am doing wrong I love them all even the ones Oat call me names or ask dumb airport in 1992 said Bob Coverdale St County director of transportation Joint use would bring about 000 new Jobs to Scott paying each an average of between 29 000 and 2000 per year Maher said An estimated 15000 Jobs would be created from busineses near the airport Coverdale said Planners are waiting for the results of a study detailing the environmental effects of the airport said Dan Maher county director of administration Trustees were told of other ways BAC could benefit such as: Businesses could enter into a partnership with BAC and provide the college with money to train workers The tax base would Increase future growth to Joint-use master plan Joint use was discussed for nearly two hours Sunday at the retreat at the Pere Marquette State Perk Lodge in Grafton After the Audie Wilson family faces two more trials he wanted ffil a blueprint for ude parts of the By JEANNE AUBUCHON News-Democrat BELLEVILLE With one trial ending in a murder conviction Andie Wilson's family members say they are relieved but now they must for two more trials can rest a little better but you can never count your chickens before said Rick Wilson Wilson's 21-year-old brother Andie Wilson of rural Belleville in April was beaten and stabbed before bring dumped in Silver Creek near Mascoutah A St Clair County Jury on Friday convicted 4-year-old Michael Woodrome of Euwood Pa of first- homicidal death in the slaying of Audie Wilson oo Aprils Wilson was beaten and stabbed In the garage of l-yearrid Luther Sturgill of rural Belleville then dumped in Silver Creek His body was recovered 10 days later Woodrome Is the first of the three men to go to trial in the killing Wayne Peach of 210 Fourth St in Belleville and William Schofield 25 of rural Red Bud are to stand trial within the next few months on the same charges Stuygill already has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and the concealment charge He has yet to be sentenced First-degree murder is punishable by 20 to 80 years in prison The concealment charge carries a prison State police promise thorough investigation FOr example here is something from a letter I received not too longago Whatl kind qf an idiot are you? a good question Lett The New World Dictionary defines idiot as a retarded person mentally equal or interior to a child 2 years okL That one fit me My handicaps are all self-inflicted Their second definition is a very foolish or stupid person I can accept that one I once bought land in the Oiarks Proof enough I am an idiot But what kind of an idiot am Am I an optimistic fori? Am I a daydream believer? Am I a hopeless lunatic? 1 know not a bloomin' idiot After all winter Nothing that has to go outside is blooming now Maybe in spring I wifi be a idiot Am I a bloody idiot? I be I'm not British Am I a damned idiot? As long as there is a benevolent loving God there is a chance I can be saved So I'm not damned yet Am I a government idiot? I can't be that I still believe that a billion dollars is a lot of money Amlablamed idiot? I do seem to get blamed a lot Butlstill think thatisit Bow about infernal idiot feeble idiot (censored) idiot country idiot or cross-eyed idiot? All have a grain of truth but quite describe it I think an optimistic idiot Despite whatever bad happens and the way things are going I still think things will turn out all right And right now it seems like it would take an idiot to believe that How high is up? How much is too much? However much been drinking of whatever been drinking is obriously tod much What does it take to gef a credit card? I keep getting turned down The thing that will get you a credit card faster than anything is to not want one or to have enough money to pay cash for anything youwant People often send them to me in the maiL Well not the actual card but the pre-approved applications However if they are preapproved then why do I ha veto fill out an application? Why they Just send me a card? And why do they always want to know how much money I make? If going to give me a credit card they trust me? And if they are going to put a credit limit on me why send me a card at all? But back to the question A friend at work said she was turned down for a credit card because of her Job working for a newspaper The person at the credit card company said the company apparently has been having some problems with the credit performance of Journalists who hold the card So sometimes you get a card because a lot of other people in your profession are a bunch of As to how to get a card? Write the company a letter saying yon take one of their cards if they waived their annual fee and charged no interest That should get their interest If not at least you got to tell them off Keep writing Deaths Pag4B Corbin Ahring Henry JBaunr Bethel A Chase Ruth Craft Michael FFoerstel Elizabeth OFoumie Dorothy Hicks Herman Hofbauer Robert Jackson Edward CNeukel Katherine Preiitz Robert Roark Sr AdeleSchwengol term of two to five years Second-degree murder is punishable by four to 15 years Rick Wilson said he believes now a term is not enough for prison woodrt wish he could get more I wish he could he said "A life is a life My brother was special to us and to many other It took the Jury of eight men pnd four women lVi hours to convict Woodrome on Friday Jurors said that although it was not proven who of the four men placed at the scene had dealt the death blow they believed Woodrome was they bei linl 1 IDTWVCU believe he did drag the guy into the the garage He did take partln Juror Amy Duncan said felt all all men that were placed at the crime scene were guilty We pin it on one Juror James Amann Jr agreed that Woodrome took part in the killing "We decided if he drug the man into the garage and he was in there with them and he went to take the body to the creek and he ran from the law he participated In our Amann said attorney Chief Assistant Public Defender Lloyd Cueto tried to convince the Jury that witnesses lied In their testimony to SeeWILSON5B The division is expected to look at whether IDOT followed proper procedures and whether there are any improprieties involved Unusual circumstances concerning the sale were cited in several Belleville News-Democrat articles An developer with an interest in the adjoining land Jack Butler of Eagle Development Corp has claimed Collinsville Holiday Inn owner Gary Fears used political Influence within IDOT and state government to help two St Louis businessmen gain control of the strip without the knowledge of local developers Butler claimed the result of the sale greatly Increased the value of the acre and drastically diminished the value of the acres Fean has said that he simply helped the two Missouri men Don Softer end Lawrence Schermer follow the transportation surplus land sale procedures Fean met with local IDOT officials at his hotel before the sale according toIDOT documents name was inserted by an unknown person in an Illinois House of Representatives bill1 replacing a developer of the acres who had gone bankrupt Top IDOT officials and state legislators previously have denied any knowledge of the sale although internal documents indicated that the officials had detailed knowledge of thesale Janie Bloomer believes man in research assistant said something about my story tugged at her heart and she would see if they would do A 21-year-old US Navy radio Firefighters douse the roof and Fire at post Mum OtmccratfTIwVlT Inside of the New Baden post office building with water Sunday office may delay mail By DAVID GOSNELL News-Democrat An Illinois State Police investigation of a 1907 land deal that critics say blocked development of once-valuable real estate nas begun and may be lengthy a state official said The state police are investigating' the sale of a strategic one-acre strip of land fronting US 50 at Its intersection with Interstate 4 in The narrow strip was sold by the Illinois Department of-Transportation to two 8t Louis men who had no interest in the adjoining property The sale was an apparent violation of IDOTh land sale rales The property was to have been the entrance way for a multimillioo-dollar development of adjoining are Just getting that off the ground in its first said Ed Traylor a spokesman for the state police division of internal investigation "Without a doubt it will be an active Traylor said some people connected with the sale have been interviewed by investigators but he would not Identity who has been interviewed He also was not sure when the investigation may end know where it's going to lead us at this Traylor said the fire did not rekindle he said The fire started in the central portion of the building but an exact location and cause of the fire have not yet been determined Ahner said An investigator from the Illinois State Fire Marshall's Office is scheduled to look at the building today A temporary post office has been established at 100 Hanover SL which housed the post office until 15 years ago when it was moved into the current building Postal officials expect some delays in mail delivery today "There will be some delay but It i will be running as smoothly as possible by Postmaster Kirk Graul said "It was a very difficult fire to fight because of the inner partitions and lots of false Ahner said By ANTHONY SMITH News-Democrat NEW BADEN Mail delivery will be delayed today after an early-morning fire on Sunday heavily damaged the New Baden post office and two other businesses housed in the building Twenty-two firefighters from New Baden and several others from Trenton Germantown Albers and Mascoutah responded to the 8:80 am blase as it engulfed the building at 107 and 109 Hanover St said New Baden Fire Chief Eldon Ahner No one was injured in the fire The fire raged until about noon and caused at least 150 0C0 in damage to the post office Brefeld Plumbing and Hair Affair a beauty shop in the building Just watching for hot spots Ahner said Watches were scheduled throughout the night to make to air case of missing Belleville man ship Everyone thought one was my she said The picture later was made into a war bond poster The Navy initially thought Frank Bloomer was one of the of the torpedoed ship but listed him as missingln action several days later Janie Bloomer said A year later Frank Joseph Bloomer was classified as killed in action Janie Bloomer convinced that the man in the picture was her uncle now can only speculate on why he come home after the ship sank She said he may have had amnesia could have been badly injured and bashful about coming home or may have been transferred to a Russian hospital ship and then not allowed toleave Russia According to published reports there are still 20000 prisoners of war from World War being held in the Soviet Union Janie Bloomer and her mother Jane Bloomer were interviewed for the show in November By ANTHONY SMITH News-Democrat BELLEVILLE The mystery of the missing relative of a prominent Belleville family will unfold Wednesday night "Unsolved Mysteries" the anthology series that traces interesting cases that have never been solved will feature a story on Frank Joseph Bloomer who was declared killed in action during World War The show is at 7 pm Wednesday on KSDK-Channel 5 Frank Bloomer was the toother of Harry Bloomer co-owner of Bloomer Amusement Co which once boasted 19 theaters and 1 1 video rental stores Janie Bloomer daughter of Harry Bloomer and niece of Frank Joseph Bloomer said producers of the television show became interested In the stay after she wrote to them and explained the circumstances snrronnding her disanoearance this has been a void for too many she said center of photograph left is her operator aboard the destroyer Rowan during the invasion of Salerno Italy in I94S Frank Joseph Bloomer is believed to have survived the unde Frank Bloomer right destruction of the ship Janie Bloomer said wire service photographer took a photo of three survivors on a rescue.