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The Southern Illinoisan, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2001 Page 7 A From Page One Mail scanning worries Continued from Page One and fruit, to kill anthrax in mail. Phillips: A troubled young man By Steve Binder steve.binder southernillinoisan.com this will help the victims' families feel better, to know for sure." Carol Schumake, mother of 21-year-old SIUC student Susan -Schumake, said knowing whether Phillips killed her daughter is important to her. She told The Southern Illinoisan last year that she appreciated the police's desire to close out cases that remain officially open and unsolved. "It is important to me, because then I'll know. I've waited this long to find out, I can wait a little longer," said Schumake, a Chicago Heights resident.

John Schumake, Susan's brother, agreed. But he also noted that he believes Carbondale police were not as aggressive with its investigation of Phillips in the days after Susan Schumake was killed. "If exhuming his body means we can finally have closure, then great," he said. Paula Hendrickson described her brother as mischievous as a young boy, but never in any serious trouble. He began using drugs as a teen, never finished high school, was discharged after three months from the Marines, and returned to Carbondale when he was 17.

He worked primarily for his dad's company. "My dad made a superhuman effort to keep him on track. He did everytliing he could to help him, but Johnny just kept gett ing into trouble," she said. Hendrickson said she struggles with the accusation that her brother was a serial killer. She has mixed emotions about police planning to exhume his body to obtain DNA to compare against evidence in murder cases going back to 1975.

"A part of me would like to know whether he did this or not, because I still have my doubts," she said. "But if he did, I hope situation to be in." John Paul Plullips considered within law enforcement circles as a serial killer who sexually assaulted young women before he killed them grew up with Paula and their parents in Carbondale, she said. When the two kids were young, their mother Gladys Plullips had a nervous breakdown. She spent 13 years in a mental health institution before she died. When John Paul was 5, and before his parents separated and eventually divorced, his mother sexually abused him, he later told a psychiatrist.

It was something that stunned Paula Hendrickson and her father, the owner of a lathing company in Carbondale. "We had never heard that before, and to this day I don't really know whether it's true. I won't know for sure until I die and go to heaven," she said. MARION There was a moment in 1986 when Paul Phillips visited his son, John Paul, in the county jail. "Dad, why did I turn out like this? Why didn't I turn out like Paula?" John Paul Phillips asked his father.

When she recalled the exchange recently, Paula Hendrickson John Paul Phillips' older sister started to cry. "It's heartbreaking, it really is. There are victims on both sides of this," said Hendrickson, who lives with her husband in Marion. "All of this has been a horribly difficult situation to be in. You love your family member, and you don't know for sure whether your family member did what they (police) said," she continued.

It was a horrible Food Technology Service of Mulberry, utilizes a carrier system in its plant to transport products through a maze of six-foot-thick concrete walls where they are exposed to cobalt 60 to kill bacteria. A Belgian company that makes a beam sterilizer has been in discussions with the postal service, and other companies that make equipment to sterilize food and medical instruments are scrambling to adapt their products for corporate mailrooms. Many say cost will prove the biggest obstacle, especially for the financially strapped postal service. For example, MDS Nordion, a Canadian company that makes irradiation devices, said its largest units, of up to 6,000 square feet, would cost between $3 million and $5 million to build and install. The U.S.

Postal Service has received $175 million from the Bush administration for new safety equipment and security measures, and its governing board has released an additional $200 million. The Associated Press contributed to this story. WW II Dr. Raffi K. Krikarian, M.D., FACC more powerful than the one used for carry-on baggage, then it can be totally ruined.

"If they are planning on putting something like that in major post offices, then I would probably be reluctant to ship film," he said. "But really, right now, we just don't know and we won't know at least not for our business until the trade magazines come out with their recommendations." Herrin-based Harper's Feed Mill imports a wide variety of 'chicks, geese and ducks as part its regular inventory. It's a practice that company officials they may be forced to stop if the proposed irradiation systems Jare implemented. "Well, right now we just don't know," said Charles Harper, owner. "We may just quit shipping them until they get this iall straightened out.

Or we may have to stop carrying them altogether, maybe get a supplier that will ground ship. "We have a little bit of time before we have to make our orders," he said. "We'll just have wait and see." One proposed system would adapt industrial radiating equipment, similar to those currently used on animal parts t-. 6 Post office Continued from Page One say, hamburger patties. "The spores of bacillus 'anthracis are much heartier than E.

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