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Decatur, Illinois, Wednesday, June 9, 1976 THE DECATUR REVIEW PACE THREE By Barbara Bedford Shea House Okays Illinois Scene WomenTs Talent Ethics The Rcdford Files Public Service Column ank Formed James Furman persuasive case i conformity, including placement of support posts, what is and what is not a main door, whether a doorlcoks like an exit, what, constitutes a barricade. Mr. Turner has done a rech-eck and finds that "with a stretch of the imagination, the main exit is now barely in compliance with the regulations." No further public service could be accomplished' by detailing exactly whan and where changes were made in this doorway. Since the safety of the public is the concern here, let's hepe other requirements now under discussion between Mr. Turner and Mr.

Owen will also be met and resolved. Springfield (AP) After more than a month of delays and studied consideration, the Illinois House has voted to investigate allegations of unethical conduct by House Democratic leader Gerald Shea. The House voted Tuesday to set up a special six-member committee to conduct the investigation, after tabling an initial resolution in which the allegations first were raised. Speaker William Redmond said he would announce appointments to the committee by week's end. The House voted 114 to 45 to table the initial resolution despite a warning by Rep.

Eugene Schlickman, the sponsor, that such a vote would be a "tremendous step backward in the state cf Illinois." "I plead for a public hearing on the merits of this resolution," said Schlickman, R-Arl-ington Heights. charges a trial would be held either before another committee or the full House. The House authorized the committee to conduct its investigation in secret, an approach that drew more criticism from Schlickman. "The element of publicity is what keeps people honest," told his colleagues. "It's the element of secrecy which gives grounds for the conclusion of a whitewash and sweeping it under a rug." But Rep.

Arthur D. Berman, D-Chicago, said Shea probably would request that the committee's hearings be conducted publicly. He said, however, that it was important to set a precedent that the investigation could be held in secret, to protect legislators who might similarly be accused in the future. "For any one of us down the line, we should have the option of confidentiality," said Berman. The House Executive Committee had said that the resolution, the first legislative attempt to discipline an Illinois lawmaker since 1905, should be tabled because it violates Robert's Rules of Order.

Robert's says an initial disciplinary resolution should not contain specific charges such as Schlickman's resolution contains. Schlickman's resolution charged Shea with introducing medical malpractice legislation in 1975 on behalf of the Illinois State Medical Society, when he had been retained by ISMS the same year to help organize an insurance plan and get it approved by the state Department of Insurance. The House vcted 142 to 13 to establish the special committee to investigate allegations against Shea and report its findings by June 21. The bipartisan committee would function in the manner of a grand jury. If it prefers Support Surprises Furman QUESTION: I am a senior in college and over the years I have accumulated at least -50 paperback books and several textbooks I no longer need.

They are all in excellent condition. Is there some place in Decatur that buys used books? A.W., Decatur ANSWER. I have found only one place that currently is buying used paperbacks and no buyers in Decatur for your textbooks. The Book House, 2176 E. North buys some paperbacks.

The Book Nook, 12G8 N. Edward, is not buying now and when it dees it is interested only in science fiction and westerns. The Haines and Essick Campus Bookstore at Millikin University does purchase seme used textbooks, but at very limited times during the year near the end of each semester. If you know some friends who are" planning a garage sale, perhaps they would display and sell your books. If you decide you want to give your assets away, the directors of volunteers at both the Decatur Mental Health Center, 2300 N.Edward, and the Adolf Meyer Center, E.

Mound would like to hear from you. a store at Roseville in Warren County. They said the woman escaped and the chase began. McDonough County Sheriff John Bliven and a Macomb city policeman shot out Mrs. Petcrs's front and rear tires.

The car pulled off the highway and authorities said she put her husband Anthony's service revolver to her head and fired. Puerto Rican Group Suspected in Bombings Chicago (AP) Police say they suspect a Puerto Rican nationalist group which claimed responsibility for several 1975 bombings in downtown Chicago may have been responsible for the city's latest explosions. Four blasts occurred within 13 minutes Monday night, injuring five persons, two of them seriously. The bombs exploded near two banks, the John Hancock Center and outside olice headquarters. Although authorities said that they had received no calls claiming responsibility for the blasts, a police spokesman said Tuesday that the remains of the bombs were similar to three devices which exploded outside Loop buildings last October.

A Puerto Rican nationalist group, known as the FALN, Spanish for the Armed Forces of National Liberation, claimed responsibility for those Chicago (AP) University of Illinois. Trustee "lr.a Shepherd has urged qualified women interested in working in the state government during the next administration to present their qualifications to a special talent bank. Mrs. Shepherd, head of a recently formed women's committee, said Tuesday her group will present the credentials it collects to the winner of the November gubernatorial election. She said she discussed the formation of her committee with Democratic candida'e Michael Howlett, who favored the idea.

Howlett's Republican, opponent, former U.S. Atty. James Thompson, has said he will, if elected, examine the list of women. Thompson added, though, "I will still make my own appointments. No women will be excluded from my administration." Mrs.

Shepherd said the current scarity of women in appointive government positions represents more "a lack of consciousness" than a deliberate attempt to exclude women. Other members of the committee are Carole Kamin Bellows, president-elect of the Illinois Bar Association; Virginia Fiester, state president of the American Association cf University Women; Evonne Hirsch, state president of Business and Professional "Women; Gwcn Martin, Illinois director of the Communications Workers of America, and Donna Schiller, president of the Illinois chapter cf the League cf Women Voters. Women interested in state government careers were urged to submit resumes to Nina Shepherd, 256 Scott Lane, By Paul Ingrassia Lindsay-Schaub News Service Springfield It was like Gerald Ford endorsing Ronald Reagan, or like Cub fans rooting for the Cardinals. That, "at least, was how Board of Higher Education Executive Director James Furman reacted to the Illinois State Chamber of Commerce's support for his budget Parliamentary Maze i Tangled Jl JO QUESTION. I don't know how to contact them, so will you please, inform the youngsters who are going to raft down the Mississippi that they must go to St.

Louis, Federal Building, and get the requirements of the U.S. Coast Guard who have control and jurisdiction over all craft on navigable waters of the U.S. They have quite stringent regulations. I know, I tried it. The Mississippi is a very dangerous place for unskilled boatmen.

I don't want to see them drowned. WRP, Assumption ANSWER. David Ebbert of Taylorville, who is head of the flatboat project, indicated he is familiar with the Coast Guard regulations and he is fairly certain the plans will meet with approval. Arrangements have been made with the Army Corps of Engineers for using the Alton Lccks. The Corps is responsible for maintenance of the rivers, while the Coast Guard handle: enforcement procedures.

The bicentennial project has met with a number cf setbacks Speaker William Redmond, D-Bensenville, finally ruled the question could be divided, which is where Flinn, who seldom speaks on the floor, entered the picture. "I respect the speaker's rulings most of the tim2 but I want to appeal this one," Flinn said from his seat near the rear of the chamber. And he made the motion. Perhaps because he didn't hear Flinn clearly. Rep.

John Lauer, R-Lincoln, chief sponsor of the resolution, whose seat is Then it was Flinn's turn to back off and finally the House got back to the original motion, which was demolished by a vote of 101-42, which, in turn, put the House on the track the majority wanted. Virtually all central and Southern Illinois legislators went along this tortuous path with the majority from the other regions of the state. "We might as well reconcile ourselves to the fact that this thing is not going to dry up and blow away," Rep. Clyde Choate, D-Anna, said. Choate voted for both resolutions, defending the secrecy provision of the one The State Chamber said Monday that the higher education- beard's fiscal year 1977 budget recommendations were "more than reasonable." "I've always seen state chambers cf commerce as tough taskmasters on proposed spending of public funds," said Furman.

"Apparently we've made a persuasive case to an organization skeptical on such matters." "However," Furman added, "I don't know that this will have any immediate payoff in terms of dollars for higher education." A question from S.B. about fire safety and whether several locations in Decatur met regulations has provoked a controversy. The question and the answer which was provided by Bill Turner of the Decatur fire department appeared in the May 21 issue of the Redford Files. Ralph Owen, owner of the Franklin Mall, one of the locations cited, has expressed his feelings in a letter to the. editor.

Although he did not answer the letter mentioned by Mr.Turner In the or iginal column, he believes the entrance to Franklin Mall is in conformity. A number of factors come Into consideration in determin- National Scene but work continues and Ebbert still hopes to make the trip down the Sangamon, Illinois and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans. By Richard H. Icen Lindsay-Schaub News Service Springfield Entangled at one point in parliamentary spaghetti, the Illinois House had to wind its way back through Rep'. Monroe Flinn, D-Cahokia, in order to get to a point where it could create a special investigatory committee.

The committee is to probe allegations of misdoings by House majority leader Gerald Shea. The entanglement occurred just after the House demolished Rep. Eugene Schlickman's resolution charging Shea with conflict of interest because it specified the charges. By this time some members had realized the resolution setting up the special committee authorized executive (secret) sessions. Those who don't like secret meetings would have a hard time voting against the resolution because it provided the only vehicle left for resolving the charges against Shea.

A vote against could be construed as a vote to whitewash Shea. So an abortive move was begun to divide the question to allow separate votes on the questions of authorizing the probe and allowing executive Rep. Donald Deuster, R-Mundelein, moved to divide the vote, which was quickly protested by Reps. Arthur Berman, D-Chicago, chairman of a subcommittee which drew up the rules of procedure, and Rep. John Matijevich.

chairman of the House Executive Committee, which neatly flipped the censure resolution back on to the House floor. Chicago Placed On Ozone Alert Springfield (AP) More than half of Chicago has been placed under an ozone alert by the Illinois ironmental Protection Agency. An EPA spokesman said a "yellow alert" was issued at 4 p.m. Tuesday when the ozone concentrations exceeded .186 parts per million in the part cf the city south of Chicago Avenue. The EPA said a "yellow alert" continued in effect for the second day for a portion of Madison County north cf Interstate TO and west of Interstate 55 including Edwardsville, Wood River and Alton.

An ozone concentration of .171 parts per million was measured at a water treatment plant in Wood River. Newlywed Bride Kills Self After Chase Macomb (AP) A newlywed woman took her life with her policeman husband's service revolver after leading police on a 20-mile high speed chase, authorities say. According to police, Sylvia Denise Wingfield Peters, 13, of Quincy. who was married only last Sunday, drove at speeds cf up to 100 miles an hour, averting several roadblocks until a truck blocked the highway on Illinois 67 just north of Macomb." Authorities first responded to i call of a woman with a gun in setting up the committee by pointing to the Judicial Inquiry Board, which conducts behind closed doors investigations of judges accused of improprieties. Six legislators voted against both resolutions, either because they were bothered by the secrecy provision or disturbed by the move to take control of Schlickman's resolution.

This group included Reps. Bennett Bradley, R-Decatur, Harold Byers. D-Highland, Roscoe Cunningham, R-Lawrenceville, John Dunn, D-Dccatur, John Hirschfeld, R-Champaign, and Everett Steele, R-Glen Carbon. Joining Choate in voting for HP Viewer irn at the front cf the chamber, said, "I move that motion lie cn the table." This left everyone stunned since Lauer had been arguing the "all or nothing" theme and his motion would have killed Flinn's bid to overturn Redmond's ruling on Deuster'st motion. And so Redmond had' to take everyone through the parliamentary maze to overturn his own ruling.

Laucr withdrew his motion. Intersection Now Ooen M. Monticello The construction of the intersection of Illinois 47 and Mon-ticello's Bridge Street was ccmpleted-and opened to traffic last week. A detour has routed traffic entering Monticello over 111. 105 since the construction began last summer.

Three-way stop signs control traffic at the new intersection. Eventually Bridge Street will extend beyond 111. 47 and connect with Interstate 72, under construction northwest of Off Viol Labeling Required House Gets Materials Bill Lindsay-Schaub News Service Sprincfield Furman. who outlined the funding cutlock to the board Tuesday, might find that out today. A House Appropriations Committee is scheduled to act on the higher education appropriations bills.

The state Senate has approved a compromise funding package cf $323.8 million some $20 million more than Gov. Daniel Walker proposed but about $23 million less than Furman and the board want. "The cutting edge in the House probably will occur tomorrow," Furman said. "It's a Catch 22 situation. Some (representatives! are supporting the Senate's compromise, and ethers oppose it as too much." Whichever position prevails, he said, the beard is not likely to get all it asked for.

"I need net tell you this is a very difficult legislative session in terms of getting anything like adequate resources." Furman told the board. Furman also reported that the Senate Appropriations Committee reduced higher education capital spending to some $29.5 million bclcw the board's proposed $38 million and below Walker's $39 million. "The committee reduced remodeling and eliminated planning for new buildings," Furman said. In other action, the board approved 10 so-called community education projects for joint state-federal funding. Among the 10 "were community health care information projects at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville and at the University of Illinois at Urbana.

and a "Women's Opportunity Center," at Richland Community College in Decatur. Lincoln Woman Dies Washington (AP) The president of the nation's largest advertising agency says many television viewers are turning off violent TV programs and may also be rejecting the products advertised on those programs. Don Johnston, president of the J. Walter Thompson said a poll conducted in March shows that 10 per cent of viewers apparently consider not buying products because they are advertised on programs they consider excessively-violent. Eight per cent reported "consciously not buying a product," he tcld the annual convention of the American Advertising Federation here Tuesday.

He said that even if subsequent polls show only 4 per cent of viewers reject products because they are advertised in connection with violence, "I cannot imagine any advertiser who would want to risk negative sales of these propor Construction Contracts Tend to Be Moderate Washington (AP) Labor contracts in the construction industry are being negotiated without the strikes and inflationary wage settlements that former Labor Secretary John Dunlop warned cf six months ago. Federal officials say the moderation is mainly due to high unemployment and competition from non-union labor. With two-thirds of the 2,800 construction union contracts up for negotiation this year already settled, industry strike activity is at its lowest level in five years. Officials say the wage trend in contracts has been toward wage moderation. First-year wage settlements are averaging about 7 per cent, less than the 8.1 per cent average for 1975.

Viet Vets Protest Less of G.I. Eenefits Senate Okays Measure to Pay State's Amtrak Bill the resolutions were Reps. Vincent Birchler. D-Chester, Ken Boyle, D-Carlinville, Gerald Bradley. D-Bloom-ington, Don Brummet.

D-Van-dalia, Sam Wolf, D-Granite City. Charles Campbell, R-Dan-ville, Robert Craig. D-In-dianola, Gilbert L. Deavers, R-Normal. Ralph Dunn, R-DuQuoin, Dwight Friedrich, R-Centralia.

Flinn, Richard O. Hart, D-Benton, Douglas Kane, D-Springfield, Charles Keller, D-Effingham. Lauer, James Londrigan, D-Springfield, Joe Lucco, Edwardsville, William O'Daniel. D-Wayne City, Bruce Richmond, D-Murphysboro, George Ryan, R-Kanakee, Helen Satterthwaite, D-Urbana, Celeste Stiehl, R-. Belleville, Paul Stone, D-Sullivan.

Rolland Tipsword, D-Taylorville, James Washburn, R-Morris, Robert Winchester, R-Rosiclare, and Wyvetter Younge, D-East St. Louis. Absentees included Reps. Jack Beaupre. D-Bourbonnais, Max Coffey, R-Charleston, J.

David Jones, R-Springfield, who is recovering from surgery, Thomas C. Rose, R-Jackson-ville and John F. Sharp, D- Transportation and the Illinois Commerce Commission. Dunn and others in the House believe these agencies should be used to apply federal regulations for the intrastate shipment of hazardous materials by truck and railroad. Two bills directing the Illinois Commerce Commission and the Department of Transportation to study the problems they might encounter in applying to Illinois federal regulations dealing with truck and rail shipment were approved Tuesday by the House Transportation" Committee and sent to the floor.

The bills direct the two agencies to report back to the legislature no later than Dec. 31 with recommendations. Dunn wants the ICC to regulate trucks and the Department of Transportation rail transit. Under Partee's plan the Hazardous Materials Advisory Board would advise the director of the Emergency Sen ices and Disaster Agency about placarding and accident reporting programs, coordinate various state agencies to respond to emergencies, and approve exemptions of substances from placarding re Island trains run from Chicago to Peoria and Chicago to Rock Island. The Rock Island Lines, currently under court-supervised financial reorganization, has requested approval to discontinue the two Illinois routes, saying it is losing nearly $2 million a year by running nearly empty trains.

In other legislative action Tuesday: The Senate Finance and Credit Regulation Committee amended and approved a bill to Labeling of hazardous materials would be required if a bill approved Tuesday by the Senate and sent to the House becomes law. "In Centreville last week we had an accident and some hazardous materials poured out." Sen. Kenneth Hall, D-St. Louis, said in support of the bill sponsored by Senate President Cecil D-Chicago. "The whole community had to be evacuated." Partee's bill cleared the Senate 43-0 but may run into problems in the House where members have been grappling with hazardous material regulations for more than a year in the wake of an explosion of a tank car containing propane at the Norfolk and Western rail yards in Decatur in July of 1974." "It's helpful," said Rep.

John Dunn, D-Dccatur. who has been trying to push the state into regulatory programs involving bcth trucks and trains. "Knowing what is in the container is helpful. But I think more important is to provide for the transportation of hazardous materials in as careful a manner as possible." Dunn also expressed reservations about Partee's plan to set up a new agency called the Emergency Services and Disaster Agency. He thinks it might become "just another bureaucracy." The agency would be re Springfield (AP) Although once nearly derailed, legislation designed to thwart a threatened cutoff of seme passenger rail service in Illinois has steamed out of the Illinois Senate bound for the House.

Sponsors say the measure, anproved on a 37 to 2 vote Tuesday, will clear the way for payment of money owed by the state to Amtrak and the Rock Island Lines for passenger rail service in Illinois. The railroads have warned that they will discontinue service unless the state forks over more than $1.6 million in overdue payments for the state's share of operating deficits. Comptroller George Lindberg has refused to make the payments because he said his effice lacks legal authority to do so. The measure first was called for a vote Monday and failed when it received only 27 of the 30 votes needed to pass. But that action was reconsidered immediately and the bill remained alive.

State transportation officials said that under the agreement with the railroads, the state pays for two-thirds of the operating deficits of four Amtrak lines and two Rock In Accident New York (AP) A small band of Vietnam veterans seized the Statue of Liberty to protest the loss of education benefits under the GI Bill. About 15 members of the Vietnam Veterans against the War refused to leave the statue at closing time Tuesday. Instead, they ordered about 10 employes out and barricaded themselves inside. No hostages were taken and Luis Garcia, the National Park Service's manager of the statue, called the occupation peaceful. Before midnight Tuesday, U.S.

Dist. Judge Milton Pollack signed an order temporarily restraining the veterans from continuing the ccci'pcticn. There was no immediate response to the crder from the veterans. U.S. Park Police, New York City Police and the FBI were kept informed cf the situation but said no plans were being made to remove the protesters.

Livingston. Fencing Approved Additional fencing around The Hartford, 1006 W. Decatur was approved Tuesday by the Decatur Housing Authority Board of Commissioners in an attempt to make the property more secure. Residents cf the high-rise project for the elderly had complained to the board in April that neighborhood youths were vandalizing cars and frightening residents by chasing them. The board accepted the recommendation of Executive Director Fred W.

Krows to construct a six foot high chain link fence extending from the east end of the building to a fence allow Illinois banks to open up a drive-in or walkup facility nearly two miles away from the main bank. Currently such facilities may not be more than 1,500 feet from the bank's main building. The House Revenue Committee approved a bill to legalize and tax policy games, privately run illegal lotteries played largely in poor urban areas. Supporters say the state could collect an additional $6 million to $8 million in revenue each year if the games were legalized. Efforts to water down a no-fault divorce bill were turned back in the Illinois House.

The sponsor said he expects a close vote when the measure is called for final passage within the next few weeks. A resolution supporting a controversial Army Corps of tions." Johnston said the survey, although preliminary, coorborates other indications "that the public hostility to violent TV programming is growing More Grain Sales Seen By USDA Analysts Washington (AP) The Soviet Union may suffer another short grain crop this year, and U.S. experts say it could mean the Soviets will turn to American farmers for more grain than previously expected. But the Department of Agriculture officials were reluctant to make flat predictions of the Soviet export needs. Last year's Soviet output of 139.9 million metric tens was the smallest in a decade and forced Russia to buy hugs quantities of grain on the world market.

David Schoonover, a specialist in USDA's Economic Research Service, said spring-planted crops are not likely to make up the losses of Russian winter grain. Thus, total grain output probably will be down from the 1976 goal. A Lincoln woman was killed shortly after midnight this morning in a car-truck accident at the intersection of U.S. C6 and Union Street in Lincoln. According to state police in Springfield, Hilda J.

Scctt. 47, of Lincoln was southbound on Union Street when she pulled across U.S. 63 into the path of a semi-trailer driven by William R. -Mann, 51, of Waco," Tex. The truck struck the Scott car in the right side, pushing it into a utility pole, and she was pinned in the vehicle.

Mann was not injured. FIRE DAMAGE Fire cf undetermined origin. quirements. Partee resisted efforts by Sen. James Bell.

R-Joliet. to include industry spokesmen on the board. All of the public members were in some way affiliated with industries dealing with hazardous materials," Partee said. "This amendment would have given control to the industry. Impasse rather than decisive action to protect the public would have resulted." GIRL ACCEPTED AS CONTESTANT Terry Lynn Moody of Route 8 has been accepted as a contestant in the Miss Illinois Teen Queen contest.

The contest will July 2 and 3 in Peoria. She is a daughter cf Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Moody.

quired to adopt U.S. Department of Transportation regulations on hazardous material, adopt a system for the labeling and storage of such materials, establish a system for reporting accidents, inspect storage facilities and help local agencies during emergencies. It also creates a Hazardous Materials Advisory Board, Island routes The Amtra'k trains are the in the basement. starting Engineers proposal to replace Alton Lock and Dam No. 2G on the Mississippi River was scrapped when sponsors said they didn't think the House Executive Committee would pass it.

SHSEV SMALLEST The Etruscan Shrew, only three inches in length, is the smallest adult mammal in on the property line. He also received authorization to contact the city about getting an alley north of The Hartford vacated, so it can be sealed off from through traffic. Illinois Zephr from Chicago to Quincy, the Illini from Chicago to Champaign, the State House from Chicago to St. Louis and the Blackhawk from Chicago to Dubuque, Iowa, The Rock caused an estimated $4,000 damage about 1 p.m. Tuesday to the Thomas Beasley home at 1165 E.

Clay St. consisting of the directors of a number of state agencies, among them the Department cf.