The Belleville News-Democrat from Belleville, Illinois • 9

Belleville News-Democrat METRO Saturday September 29 1 990 Page 3 Section rucano blocks Fischer pay order By DOUG MOORE News-Democrat COLLINSVILLE Commissioner Mike Fischer told the city treasurer Friday to stop Fischer told the city treasure not to pay because the by -him The officer to Fischer also told Kutzera Girolamo's salary position had not been approved salary Increase from juvenile is 25 cents per hour said he told Kutzera to stop paying Niebur because Fischer issued Niebur a 20-day suspension-without-pay notice on Tuesday A Judge Wednesday refused to issue an Injunction upholding the suspension Fischer said Friday that Niebur has been issued a suspension notice before and should be fired this time "I think I can fire him That's questionable But not saying I The man should have been fired a long time he Fischer sent five memos to Niebur on Friday telling him thate "Working hours and attire will be made by the police commissioner as deemed necessary" for Niebur Assistant Chief John Swindle and acting Assistant Chief Gerrit Gillespie requests for information from Police Department personnel by myself will be handled quickly and respectfully" If not employees are subject to disciplinary action Fischer said All press releases or announcements concerning department programs and procedures excluding daily logs must be forwarded to the police chief first Any change in job status or position within the department must go through the commissioner first The chief should have consulted with Fischer before appointing juvenile officer Joe Girolamo a temporary sergeant Girolamo will work in place of Gillespie who is filling the assistant police chief position while Assistant Police Chief John Swindle is out of town in training next week In a separate matter Fischer called the police station during a manhunt Thursday night by Collinsville Police Illinois State Police the St Clair County sheriff's department and the Madison County sheriff's department to ask what was happening When the dispatcher Spike Bryant briefed the commissioner and told him he could get a full report later Fischer threatened to discipline Bryant and his two immediate supervisors Gillespie and Swindle If a complete report was not issued immediately Fischer also threatened to suspend Sgt Ed Delmore on Thursday night if he did not deliver Police Department stationery to home so be could write the memos to Niebur The stationery was delivered order to city Treasurer Sandra Kutrera was denied after she called Finance Commissioner Trucano for advice The treasurer's office is under Trucano "I told her the only way to stop paying someone was through a council decision not an individual Trucano said paying Police Chief David Niebur but the action was blocked by another commissioner Ginger Trucano Fischer the commissioner in charge of the Police Department and a long-time opponent of Niebur also told Niebur to work a later shift so Fischer can ask him questions at night when he gets home from work David Niebur Those and other actions taken by Fisher sparked Mayor Gene Brombolich to call a special City Council meeting Monday night to discuss authority over the Police Department In a similar meeting April 20 the council voted to strip Fischer of Ms authority over the department only to be overruled later by a Judge an appeal of the decision is pending Niebur referred all comments to his attorney Mick GnavL Gnavi called Fischer's request to have Niebur work later hours unreasonable because Niebur needs to be on duty during regular business hours to handle phone calls and administrative duties SeeNIEBUR5B $30 million expansion proposed for park BRANSON Mo (AP) -Officials of the Silver Dollar City theme park Mid Wednesday they are considering a $30 million expansion featuring a 19th century-style showboat and a deluxe country music theater The proposed Grand Palace and White River Landing developments could bring an additional 1 million tourists to the Ozarts community which is expected to attract 4 million visitors in 1990 park officials The Grand Palace is envlsiooed as the "Carnegie Hall of country music said Peter Herscbend executive vice president of the theme park It would include a 4000-teat theater featuring the top names in country music entertainment plus recording and production facilities comparable to Nashville be said The Grand Palace would be built along Missouri 76 which is home to more than two dozen country music theaters The l000eatsbowboat would cruise Table Rock Lake and feature country music and jazs entertainment Experts study outbreak of whooping cough QUINCY(AP)-Health officials investigating a whooping cough outbreak said Wednesday that 56 cases have been reported since Sept 5 Seven people have been Indians to mark heritage By DOUG MOORE News-Democrat COLLINSVILLE Evelyne Voelker wiped her forehead took a deep breath of toss topa Vo deep breath of autumn air then tossed another willow tree branch on of the dance circle ifaelker a Comanche Indian and executive director of the American Indian Center of Mid-America was preparing the grounds at rahnfcis Mounds Historic Site on Friday for Heritage America a three-day celebration of Indian history that began Friday evening with dance and music Opening ceremonies are at 1 pm today North American tribes led by Voelker will proceed into the Falcon dance circle near the central plaza Dancing will continue until 11 pm adding to this plain little bit of earth" Voelker said as she and a half-dozen workers assembled the 1 20-foot-in-diameter dance circle Willow branches are used to construct the dance circle because its tree leaves are shaped like tears Voelker explained a baby is born and the cord falls off it is put in a pouch and hung in willow Voelker said of an Officials remove the body o' an unidentified woman found Friday morning in a vacant field along State Street in Madison body discovered in Madison willow leaves are like tears The trees cry for the fears and sadness When the baby grows up he is told what the trees have done for him and to take care of the trees his responsibility his first lesson in Prehistoric demonstrations including copper tooling netting fingerweaving and bow to make bone tools and bone and shell jewelry will be held from 2 pm to 6 pm today and from 11am to 4 pm Sunday Activities throughout the weekend include a chunky stone game spear throwing and making cattail leaf dolls Storytelling in the Plaza takes place today and Sunday afternoon Traditional intertribal dance and music will be held from 1 pm to 4 pm Sunday to cap the celebration Voelker said the public is invited to come and share the dances and music of 41 Indian tribes The celebration is free and open to the public Programs are available at the site's Interpretive Center For more information call 246-5160 with possible complications from walking pneumonia said Dr Susan Davis of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta Health officials expect the number of confirmed cases to climb even higher because there are 15 to 20 cases pending lab confirmation CDC officials have wrapped up three weeks of investigating the outbreak and planned to return to Atlanta to study their data Investigators interviewed members of 151 households in Adams County that have experienced the severe coughing symptoms associated with the disease Legislator's daughter pleads guilty to charge WAUKEGAN (AP) Gayle Rosten daughter of UK Rep Daniel Rostenkowski has pleaded guilty to a cocaine possession charge in Lake County As part of an agreement with prosecutors Rosten pleaded -guilty Thursday before Judge Hgrry Hartel who delayed sentencing for Oct 25 said Assistant State's Attorney Dan Kleinhubert "Her sentence is to include a rliul nf I mui iinumaui 99 einhubertsaid now being treated at Gateway an inpatient rehab center in Lake VUla" In May Illinois State Police said troopers found a plastic bag containing cocaine in her car after they had stopped her car for a traffic violation on the Tri-State Tollway near Gurnee north of Chicago Examiner Increase should be allowed SPRINGFIELD (AP) -Peoples Gas Light and Coke Co should be allowed to increase its rates S21 percent a state bearing examiner said Friday If accepted by the Illinois Commerce Commission examiner Ed recommendation would mean a $212 million yearly increase in revenues for the company Peoples Gas serves about 640000 customers in Chicago the commission said 1 residential customers fexpecta 44 percent increase in winter heating bills under Hurley's plan according to a commission release The customers would see a 201 percent increase during the ers and is three blocks away from the field where he was found The officer said the field Is not an area frequented by crack dealers A person living in the area discovered the body on the way to work shortly after 8:20 am when passing through the field local residents said The area is safe during the day but dangerous at night they said The residents said it is not uncommon to hear shots coming from the industrial park at night walk through the field at night This is a neighborhood where crack dealers hang out" Triff RnHIontt i MiHlgwi litoirf One Madison couple Clifford and Betty Collier said they went to the police station after hearing about the body because they feared it was a relative They said the relative has a drug problem and frequently goes to the field to buy crack at night Both he and his wife Mid that at night the field is a dividing line that most Madison residents By CECILIA DAMES News-Democrat MADISON Police are seeking information to help them identify a woman found dead early Friday morning in a vacant field in Madison an area residents say is frequented by crack dealers and prostitutes The woman died after being struck by a car Madison County Coroner Dallas Burke said Madison Police Detective Paul Bargiel is handling the investigation Police have not confirmed whether the death occurred where she was found She is described as a 5-foot-5 white female between the ages of 20 and 25 She had hazel eyes and straight long brown hair which may have been parted in the middle It appears that at one time she may have bore a child Ralph Baahlmann Madison County assistant coroner said Her body had been in the field no more than 24 hours he said Madison Police Chief Charles Bridick said he feels confident the woman's identity will be discovered soon sure she's from around here somewhere I feel comfortable in saying be identified within the next 24 or 48 Bridick Mid The field in which the woman was found is located between Second and Third streets in Fox Industrial Park which is on the line between Madison and Venice Bridick said girl was a white girl on the fringe of a black neighborhood We don't know if she was chased in there or what I know if we can say this is a drug-related crime It's hard to say if it was Bridick said Bridick denies that the area where the woman was found is an area known for crack distribution and prostitution a known crack area then going to have to talk to the Venice authorities No crack deals have been reported (to his Bridick said A Venice Police officer who declined to be named said Venice Police are investigating whether the woman was on Weaver Street when her death occurred Weaver Street is frequented by crack deal the only white girls that cross the track at night cross it for Clifford Collier said Wood River man convicted by jury of slashing 23 tires Prosecutors Hid Noel in May 1989 slashed 22 tires on six vehicles including a horse trailer belonging to the family of an Alton man former girlfriend had dated only By JAYNE MATTHEWS News-Democrat EDWARDS VILLE Four slashed tires last year cost Darren Noel one girlfriend Another 23 slashed tires and Noel's demand for a Jury trial on Friday cost Noel his freedom At the end of a prolonged combative 214-day trial a Madison County Jury on Friday took about an hour to convict Noel 22 of 221 Marquis St Wood River of felony criminal damage to property ex-girlfriend Nancy Cox 20 of East Alton met the new man while shopping for tires to replace a set that was slashed shortly after she left Noel Cox and Stephen Minner 28 of SeeSLASH5B ruck traffic is restricted across deteriorating bridge Judge rules paper violated labor law CHICAGO (AP)-Union officials say the Chicago Tribune may owe up to $10 million in back pay after a ruling that the newspaper violated federal labor law by not signing a new contract with 427 striking mailers Robert A Giannasl an administrative law judge with the National Labor Relations Board said the paper should pay the 1985 strikers for any loss of wages or benefits since July 27 1987 rmociwwvBusui Klohr Mid The restrictions do not affect passenger cars Klohr Mid The limits are only a precaution and the bridge iaufeheuld Tractor-trailers lighter than 20 tons are allowed which eliminates all but lightly loaded or empty trucks Klohr uid The legal limit is 40 tons Single vehicles such as dump trucks are limited to 15 tons The restriction will not greatly affect heavy industry such as Laclede Steel because drivers generally avoid the bridge because it is so narrow The Clark Bridge is being replaced by a new $80 million structure nearby News-Democrat ALTON Deteriorating steel beams have led the state to restrict truck traffic across the Clark Bridge in Alton to half the weight allowed before Thursday A recent inspection of the bridge showed steel floor beams had deteriorated and needed to be replaced Hid Dale Klohr Illinois Department of Transportation district engineer The cost is not yet known but be Mid replacing the beams likely will cost between $25 000 and $100000 are already moving forward with the necessary engineering work and other work to restore the bridge by mid-December to carry legal The eyes have it event which continues today is presented by Anderson Hospital in Maryville and SL Elizabeth Medical Center in Granite City and sponsored by various Collinsville banks and the Downtown Collinsville Business Association Dr Jeffrey Herberts left a Collinsville optometrist gives Donald Moury of East SL Louis a glaucoma test that measures the Intraocular pressure on the eye during a Health and Craft Fair in downtown CoHinsviHa on Friday The i.