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Carbondale-Herrin-Murphysboro-Marion SOUTHERN ILLINOISAN, MONDAY, JULY 30, 1979 Pags Three mi pmirm By Staff Writers Of The Southern Ulinoisan As August approaches, Southern Illinois motorists may find the gasoline picture a bit brighter than it has been the last two months. While many area stations still are limiting the hours during which they will pump gas, fewer are having prob-. lems getting gas. Mary Serrett of the American Automobile Association's Carterville office cited a survey of 1,400 service stations in Illinois and eight other Midwest states compiled last week by the Missouri Auto Club St Louis office. It showed more station owners expecting to be open on Sunday than during the last week of June.

The survey indicated "fewer stations are limiting gasoline purchases and fewer are running out of at least one grade of fuel than a month ago." The improved supply situation could be due, in part, to fewer people taking long trips. Miss Serrett said noting "road travel is down 25 percent in this office." In Carbondale, Dave Ezell, manager of the Martin service station, 912 W. Main said he has "plenty of gas and have had no problem getting it." His gas is delivered from storage tanks in Cairo, and Ezell said, "They've got so much gas down there they don't know what to do with it" Referring to other gasoline suppliers, Ezell said he believes that is "true of all of them." Earlier this month, Martin Oil Co. was forced to buy gas on the open market when supplies dwindled. However, not all stations are reporting an improved supply picture.

At Thompson's Texaco, 601 S. Illinois Bob Thompson reported, "We stretched it out over the month and we are not getting any more than we have the last two months." In Murphysboro, stations generally are keeping up with demand. "We went through our July allotment a couple of days ago, and we're running now on borrowed gas against our Au gust allotment," Jack Lyerla, operator of Lyerla Texaco at 2040 Walnut said today. Bill Haury of Haury Standard at 411 E. Walnut St.

said the "end of July situ-atio is about the same as the end of bad." "Right now we're getting only enough to barely cover the demand, and we don't know what it will be for next month," Haury said. In Marion, some station managers say they will be eking out the last of their gasoline supplies through Tuesday, hoping the next delivery will be on time Wednesday. Some station owners say they'll be out of at least one type of gas by Tuesday. In Herrin, stations today reported end-of-the-month supplies are running low, but most stations were open. Edward Russell's Texaco station probably will close a half day Tuesday to get through the month, but will receive a gas shipment Wednesday.

Entrances to pumps at Jim's Service Station is Herrin were roped off today. Owner James Emery is on vacation and employees said although a shipment of gasoline just arrived, they do not know if the shipment was for the July or August allocation. In Franklin County, the gasoline supply seems to vary with the brand Pate's Standard Service in Benton reports "no trouble at all," and that it ex pects to have 6,000 to 7,000 gallons on hand going into August. Shelby's Marathon Service in West Frankfort reports much the same story. However, Noto's Phillips 66 Station in Zeigler says its gas supply has been gone since last week, worker Jim Inger-soll said, adding he had no idea when the station would get its next allocation.

Paul Howard, owner of Beatty Shell in West Frankfort, said his supply for July has lasted a "little better than June although he expects to run out of unleaded gas today. He attributes the improvement to the fact that his customers are driving less because the price of gas is getting too high for them. Aug mwf pmhmms at gasokn pumps class FedeiraD funding Buds aim tfirasfo training as power and Human Development. Wabash Valley offered it at five campuses, including John A. Logan, beginning in March 1978, for persons ruled eligible under the Comprehensive Employment Training Act (CETA).

Some students have graduated and found jobs, but roughly $100,000 has been invested in the Logan students who still do not have two-year degrees or a one-year certificates. Since its inception, the Wabash Valley STIP program was scheduled to expire June 30, 1979, but students and administrators have been confused this summer about whether the program was really dead. Terry Russell, Wabash Valley's STIP counselor at Logan, showed The Southern Illinoisan a memo he received in February from Wabash Valley confirming that stipends would end June 30. But Russell says he was told orally they might continue. By Evan M.

Davis Of The Southern Illinoisan More than 30 government-supported Southern Illinois coal mining students are trying to finish part of their educations this summer, even though the federal funds on which they depended are gone. The students were part of the Skills Training Improvement Program (STIP) run by Wabash Valley College's mining program on the John A. Logan College campus in Carterville. Until July 1 the students were receiving a minimum-wage stipend from STIP while they took full- or extra-credit course loads. Now they are trying to hang on until Aug.

15 and finish the current term without dropping out to find jobs. Wabash Valley's mining program was based on a $1.3 million grant funneled by the federal Department of Labor through the Governor's Office of Man How much are mining certificates worth? Instructor, students, mine officials wonder i-fCl. 4 A it sVW hi 1 1 1 1 1 ---ir'ti in i in i ii iff ramm Russell, in turn, told the students they might get more money. In mid-June, STIP did cover tuition and fees as 37 Logan students began the summer term, but at the end of the month Russell told them the stipends were finished. All but three or four of the students have stayed in class so far, according to instructor George Woods.

Meanwhile, a group of students and various college and government officials have been trying to find more funds. Student Larry Frailey of Murphysboro, who as a college graduate is ineligible for regular financial aid, wrote to U.S. Rep. Paul Simon, D-Carbondale. Two weeks ago, according to Logan President Robert Tarvin, Simon's office told Tarvin a computer error had been discovered in the manpower office and the Logan students would be receiving stipends.

"We simply certified people CETA eligible," she said. A chance still exists that some of the Logan students might be able to finish their degrees at Rend Lake College. Rend Lake will be offering a STIP II program this fall, but Logan students can't just run over and sign up, even assuming they live close enough. Miss Walsh said her office will need approval from the Manpower office first Then Logan would have to allow the students to transfer out of its district, an action that would require approval by its board of directors. Tarvin said it is against college policy to allow students to transfer to another district and pay the tuition of a district resident when Logan has the same courses available.

But a case where the students could take advantage of a program like STIP II might be different, he said. Finally, even if the students were allowed to transfer, whether they would be admitted would depend on how much space is available at Rend Lake. plea COS) Photo by ALAYNE BUCKLE students with certificates do not have the equivalent of experience. "They just have a bare bones background of what mining is about," he said. Still, Moroni said a certificate is "of some value," the same words used by Woods, though the instructor also observed, "There's a lot of difference be tween a certificate and a degree even the sound of it." Mike Mordan, a fiscal officer in the Governor's Office on Manpower, said his agency originally planned to emphasize degrees but switched to certificates.

He said the switch was made after a study found the certificates would be worthwhile, and was made with the approval of the federal Department of Labor. Rod Linder, who was dean of mining at Wabash Valley College last year, said CETA recruiters were supposed to tell the students they would be going for nine-month certificates. But Ruth Ann Walsh, director of the CETA office in Zeigler, said her office only knew about a mining "program." Christopher Jean Johnson at work at Herrin Dairy Queen Alcohol, drug seminar educated 'straight' teen Last week, though, Bill Sery, a unit chief in the manpower office, told both Tarvin and The Southern Illinoisan that the report from Simon's office was wrong. Sery said Wabash Valley STIP students will not receive summer stipends. Tarvin suggested someone in the manpower office might have confused the original question from Simon's office with the situation at one of the other Wabash Valley mining campuses.

Students at some other Wabash Valley sites are being switched to different kinds of CETA funding because their local CETA offices are direct agents for the federal Department of Labor, but most Logan students came from the Farmer's Union CETA office in Zeigler, which gets its money from Sery's office. Late last week, though, Mike Jordan, a fiscal officer in the Manpower office, said he still is working on the Logan case and has promised Tarvin he is taking "a personal interest." He said it still may be possible to use non-STIP CETA money to help the Logan students for part of this summer. Sery said Wabash Valley could not get stipend money to finish the summer term because it did not reapply for STIP. Rod Linder, former dean of mining for Wabash Valley, said he believes the college did not re-apply, partly because of "the general nature of the coal industry." Linder asked, "What do you do, take in students in large numbers when there is no hiring going on?" Linder's successor, Roy Dorsey, said one reason Wabash Valley did not reapply for STIP was the college's involvement with the Basic Employment Skills Training Program (BEST), a pilot program of the Department of Labor and the Department of Energy. BEST brought in students from around the country for mining training and eventual placement in mines outside Illinois.

The program is being phased out this year by the federal government John Gwaltney, president of Wabash Valley last year, declined to comment on why the re-application was not made, because he currently is on sabbatical. Group fights to keep area's TV channel 13 A Salem-based citizen's group is fighting to keep Channel 13, the last VHF television frequency in Southern Illinois, from becoming a satellite station. The group, Citizen's Committee for Independent Local Television in Southern Illinois, has filed an objection with the Federal Communications Commission over the granting of a license for Channel 13 to Evans Broadcasting Co. which owns Channel 30 in St. Louis.

Southern Illinois Broadcasting a sister corporation of Evans, was granted a permit for the station in June. Friday it was granted a week's extension to respond to the FCC appeal. U.S. Rep. Paul Simon, D-Carbondale, said he supports the effort and has filed an affidavit with the FCC stating that he is confident there is enough local interest and capital to develop the station.

Channel 13, assigned to Mount Vernon, was authorized by the FCC in 1969, but attracted little attention until 1977 when two groups, Evans, and the Pyramid Broadcasting Co. of Murphysboro, filed to obtain the station. The competing requests were on file until last December when Pyramid, in an FCC-approved agreement with Evans, withdrew its request. Beai said although he is not certain, he believes a homemade weapon was used to stab Blango. Contreras, of Roswell, N.

was transferred to Marion Aug. 17, 1977, and had been assigned to the control unit, Beia said. He said he does not know why Contreras was in the control, or segregation, unit, a section where inmates are allowed out of their cells one hour each day for exercise. Contreras is serving a 20-to 100-year sentence for roberry while armed and attempting to commit a felony. staiblbioigs Court studies alderman The $1.3 million Skills Training Improvement Program (STIP) program at John A.

Logan College was designed to pay tuition and a minimum wage stipend for coal mining students pursuing one-year certificates, and for a few students who would go on for two-year degrees. But it is not clear what the certificates are worth. George Woods, a mining instructor at Logan, said when the mining program began there three years ago it was planned to offer certificates, but, "We never issued a certificate down here before the STIP program. There was no demand for it." Woods said most STIP students do not want certificates either and have been working toward degrees instead. Students Larry Frailey and Rex Bridgeman, both of Murphysboro, said they will not be able to get jobs with certificates.

Eugene Moroni, senior vice president of Old Ben Coal which has been hiring in Southern Illinois this year, said Worker finds carnival ride packs wallop The "Swinger" ride at the Campbell Hill Homecoming this weekend prop-ably gave carnival worker I. T. Mofield a bigger jolt than it gave any of its riders. Mofield was packing up the ride at 4 a.m. today for transport, after the homecoming in the village park, and he forgot to unhook the electrical power line, Jackson County Sheriff's deputies said.

He hitched the ride to his truck, and then, as he grabbed the door handle of his truck, he got a shock. Deputies said a 220-volt line was powering the ride, but they do not believe Mofield got the full force of the voltage. "It took a matter of seconds before the victim separated from the truck and fell unconscious to the ground," the sheriff's department stated. The report continued, "The victim's pulse was momentarily stopped but regenerated by itself." Mofield reportedly was talking and coherent shortly afterwards. His injuries apparently were minor, deputies said.

St. Joseph Memorial Hospital in Murphysboro said Mofield was treated as an out-patient, after he refused to be admitted. Mofield could not be reached for comment. By Shirley E. Johnson Of The Southern Illinoisan Two Marion Federal Penitentiary inmates are hospitalized in Marion Memorial Hospital today following separate stabbing attacks.

A third inmate allegedly was stabbed Sunday, but no details had been released by prison officials as of this morning. The inmate in that stabbing was not seriously injured, police said. Another stabbing took place about 8 a.m. Saturday while inmate Je Anthony Contreras, 29, was out of his cell in the recreational activity area for the segre JmB hydt by ousted By Cathy Saxenmeyer Of The Southern Illinoisan A ruling on an attempt by ousted Christopher Alderman Bobby Furlow to regain his council seat is expected soon, according to attorneys for Furlow and the city. Circuit Court Judge Charles L.

Quindry of Benton took Furlow's request for an injunction against the city under advisement Friday after a hearing in the Franklin County Courthouse. Furlow is asking that the city be enjoined from preventing him from exercising his duties as an alderman. He has not been permitted to sit with the council since the Feb. 19 meeting, when acting Mayor Tony Pechenino told Furlow he no longer was a council member. Pechenino claimed at that time that a resignation Furlow had read into the council's minutes at a Feb.

2 meeting was legally binding. However, Furlow's attorney, Carroll By Shirley E. Johnson Of The Southern Illinoisan Jean Johnson admits she was not looking forward to a recent seminar on alcohol and drug abuse despite the fact she actively had applied for the leadership camp. Now, more than a week after her return (July 21) from that seminar with 205 others, a broad grin spreads across her face as she launches into an enthusiastic explanation about the seminar's benefits. "If you think you've got problems, you don't have near the problems of some people," Miss Johnson said.

Although Miss Johnson, 17, said she never has tried drugs or taken a sip of alcohol, she found herself with other youths who spoke openly about their problems with drug dependency, alco-hol addiction and unwanted pregnancies. "We'd get into small groups, about 15 people. First, there'd be silence," she said. "Then someone would start to talk. They'd spill their guts telling their stories.

They said if they could help only one other person, it is worth the pain of telling the story." The seminar brought together teenagers from schools around the state to listen to experts discuss scientific data about drugs and alcohol and their effect on health. After the experts quit talking, the teen-agers, ranging in age from 15 to 17, broke into smaller, more intimate groups to discuss what they thought, felt and, in some cases, how they coped with drugs and alcohol. Miss Johnson was selected earlier this year to attend the fifth annual Illinois Teenage Institute on Substance Abuse in Bloomington. During the four-day seminar she learned not only what drugs and alcohol can do to a person's body, she also learned how to listen when other speak. Miss Johnson said she learned never to tell another they "can't do it; they can't take drugs.

I learned you can't try to change them, just be understanding. They may have a reason why they need drugs or alcohol." A Freeman Spur resident, Miss Johnson is a senior in Herrin High School. She is described by her monther, Nancy, as "the perfect daughter." Mrs. Johnson also kiddingly calls Jean, "a part-time daughter, who is full time at everything else." Miss Johnson said seminar participants were more open with each other because no one had a position to maintain among their friends. She said most people were the only representatives from their schools.

"We didn't have to put on a front. We They said if they could help only one person, it is worth the pain of telling their story1 didn't have to be president of our class or the homecoming queen. We could be ourselves." Although Miss Johnson expected to find all other seminar members as "straight" as herself, she soon learned differently. She found there were three distinct groups of teen-agers present: straight teen-agers like herself; experimenters, and those that were "hooked on drugs or were alcoholics." However, neither drugs nor alcohol were allowed during the seminar, and all participants were warned that if any were found, they'd be sent home on the first bus available, she added. She said that to her knowledge no one had either drugs or alcohol with them during the session.

As she got to know participants who had used drugs and alcohol she learned why they got involved. She said she heard other teen-agers tell how they were beaten and abused by their parents and why some had abortions. "I've seen kids at school with their eyes bloodshot, stumbling, not seeing where they are going. Many of them come from broken homes. I'd like to try helping them," she said.

As the Williamson County representative at the seminar, Miss JohnsQn will spend part of her senior year in Herrin High School volunteering time with the Alcohol Counseling Services of Franklin and Williamson counties. She'll help with alcohol education, said Alcohol Counseling Service outreach worker Eileen Herzog, and try to set up community awareness groups. Mrs. Herzog said, "Peer groups can be very valuable in exerting positive peer pressure rather than negative in preventing problems. "There already is a lot of negative pressure in peer groups," Mrs.

Herzog said. Miss Johnson attended the seminar with a $100 scholarship given by the Mental Health Association of Williamson County. Owens of Benton, argued Friday that the resignation was not legal because it was not submitted as the statutes require to the officer charged with filling a vacancy caused by a resignation, the mayor. There was no mayor, because Mayor Ernest "Blackie" Moro had resigned angrily, reading his resignation into the the council minutes just moments before Furlow did Owens argued. After Pechenino was elected acting mayor by the remaining council members, Furlow took no action to submit a second resignation, Owens contended.

Representing the city of Christopher, City Attorney Jeff Troutt argued Friday that while the case law was not clear on the issue, Furlow's action was legally binding because it was made a part of the city's official minutes. Testifying in the hearing were former alderman Fayetta Kirkpatrick, former Mayor Moro, City Clerk Marguerite Matyi, former Alderman John Towers and Alderman Pechenino. D.C., was stabbed by another inmate and initially was taken to the prison's medical facility for treatment before being transferred to Marion Memorial Hospital. He is listed in fairly good condition, hospital officials said. Beai said both men are under guard.

He said authorities do not know if the two stabbings are related, but that the FBI is investigating. Blango was transferred to the Marion prison June 23, 1977, and is serving 22 years to life for murder, burglary while armed, assault with a dangerous weapon and carrying a dangerous weapon. Soil Maron gation unit Contreras is in fair condition, hospital authorities said. Police said he suffered multiple stab wounds in the head, neck, chest and arms. The third stabbing occurred more than a week ago.

Elbert Blango, 33, was stabbed several times in his lower rib cage about 5:30 p.m. July 22 while he was in the weightlifting section of the outside recreation area, prison spokesman Ron Beai said. Prison officials did not release any information on the Blango stabbing until today. Beai said Blango, of Washington,.