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Caught in Ozarlc strike keeping neutral mnee Pilots By ROSE ANN ROBERTSON JG Staff Writer A two-member team of Ozark Air Lines pilots met with interested citizens Monday at the Holiday Inn. Captain Joseph Barker and Captain O.D. Bales, both DC-9 pilots for Ozark, expressed their wish to have the mechanics strike over with as soon as possible. "We (the pilots) are being used as pawns in this strike by both sides. We have wanted to remain as neutral "as possible," said Barker, "but we are going to be forced to make a decision." According to' Barker, the pilots association has given no answer yet, but will "decide on a definite plan of action soon.

If the partial operation is begun, the Coles County Airport will riot be one of 'those served. According to Barker and Bales, only the most profitable runs will be made and the flights will be strictly passenger and not a freight operation. In order to resume full service to all communities, the pilots association is urging members of the affected communities to write letters to both sides in the strike and urge them to begin talks again. Inconvenience and loss of profits were of main concern those attending Monday's meeting. Max Coffey, owner of Coffey's Flower Shop in Charleston, said that because of the strike, the flowers he has beeiueceiving are usually dead by the time they get to Charleston.

He attributed this to the fact that the flowers had to be picked up and then driven to Charleston from St. Louis, rather than flown. .1 1 ft I A The purpose of the meeting was to ''find out how the strike is affecting the' community." Teams of Ozark pilots, members of the Air Line Pilots Association, are going, to cities throughout the state to find out what the strike is doing to the communities. Represented at the Mattoon meeting were several businessmen and other persons who use the airline service. The company has asked 20 of its 341 pilots to make up a "skeleton" schedule by June 14, said Barker.

MATTOON -ii Vl 'Ill 1 Sp 1 TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1973 PILOTS SPEAK Captain Joseph Barker (left) and Captain O. D. Bales, both DC-9 pilots for Ozark Air Lines, held a meeting Monday at the Holiday Inn in hopes of ending the mechanics strike as soon as possible. The two men told the Mattoon group the pilots were trying to remain as neutral as possible in the conflict, but would take a Marsha, Crest wood and Lovington Permanent basis Lake Land votes to annex three districts pick-up set By ROSE ANN ROBERTSON JG Staff Writer Three school districts were approved for annexation to the Lake Land College District Monday night by the Lake Land Board of Trustees. Resolutions approving Crestwood Marshall and Lovington school districts were passed by the board and will be sent to the Illinois Junior College Board.

The Lovington school board, which also met Monday night, approved annexation to Lake Land by a unanimous vote. Lovington voters recommended annexation to Lake Land over Decatur Com-m unity College in a referendum" Saturday, 215 to 51. Dr. W. L.

Podesta reported that St. Elmo was officially a part of the college district and that 19 out of 22 students from that school would be attending Lake Land. Podesta also told the board that the dental hygiene program had become fully House probers hear Johnson Ex-chairman testifies about firing Trash By HARRY REYNOLDS JG Staff Writer The Coles County Board went a long way Monday toward creating what Frank Annis once called a "monster." The board voted 9-2 to authorize its health and safety committee to advertise for bids for a permanent supplemental trash collection program. On Feb. 13, the county board authorized the sheriff to enter into a temporary contract with Kleenwel Disposal calling for the establishment of eight dumping sites in the county.

The 90-day contract cost the county $1,100. The purpose of the program, which was later extended another 90 days, is to discourage the illicit dumping of trash on farmland and roadsides. The board's action Monday would establish permanent county trash collection program. Annis has opposed the project since its inception. On Feb.

13, he told the board, "We might be creating a monster." He repeated the charge on May 8, the day the board voted to extend 'the program another 90 days. Mrs. Jacqueline Record, chairman of the health and safety committee, made the Dr. Edward Zinschlag, chairman of the Coles County Airport 'Authority, also ex- -pressed his concern 1 over the situation. He said he felt the community could not remain loyal to Ozark, if the airline was not trying to end the strike.

Zinschlag indicated that perhaps another airline should be sought to serve Coles County Airport. The pilots said that the -citizens of the community could help end the strike by letting the airline and union officials know how- the" strike is affecting them. Members of the Agriculture Department reported to the board on job placement and programs. According to the report, the employment rate of those in the department is very close to 100 per cent, with 70 per cent of those graduated employed within the district and 30 per cent employed outside. The report estimated that because of the training the young men in the department received, $25 to $50 per week is added to their paychecks.

Christopher W. Thiel Thiel gets high honor Christopher W. Thiel, son of Dr. and Mrs. Stanley W.

Thiel of 2700 Western, has been selected for Bronze Tablet at the University of Illinois. The award is the highest honor given by the university for academic" achievement to senior. students in each school at the university. The top three per cent of students in each school are chosen for the Bronze Tablet. Thiel received the award along with his bachelor of arts degree in Liberal 'Arts Sciences and has been accepted 'Vashington University Medical School in St.

Louis and will begin his studies there in the fall. Iowa college is bankrupt FAIRFIELD, Iowa (AP) -Ninety-eight-year-old Parsons College has been declared bankrupt. Officials of the private college filed for bankruptcy Monday before Judge Richard Stageman in Des Moines. Stageman had ruled the Fairfield school bankrupt after a consent to adjudication was made earlier Monday by attorneys for the school. The attorneys in effect conceded that Parsons wouldn't' resist the proceedings.

The school is about $16 million in debt. THE MATTOON JOURNAL GAZETTE 1711 Charleston Avenue, Mattoon, Illinois 6W8 Published daily except Sundays' and general legal holidays. Second class postage paid at Mattoon, Illinois. Home delivery rates Mattoon and Area Towns) 52 weeks, 26 weeks, 515.40; 13 weeks, 17 8fa ona week 60c Mail subscription Rates (no mall subscription accepted where news-paperboy or motor route service 's maintained). Illinois; One year $25, 6 months S14, Other states: One year (30, 6 months $18.

Third Page i fMitf '11! request Monday that the board advertise for bids to implement the program on a permanent basis. Annis stood up and told the board, "I told you you were creating a monster, I think you are." Annis said he didn't see why the board should establish a county trash program on a permanent basis "for disposing of something everybody should dispose of themselves. "I am opposed to the county charging the taxpayers for garbage disposal," he said. 1 Mrs. Record said she realized that Annis was correct in stating that people had been disposing of trash by themselves before the county trash collection program was initiated.

She added, however, "One way they have been disposing of it has been to dump it along the country "Anyway you look at it, it is going" to cost the county money to clean up the roadsides," she said. The board approved a second 90-day extension of the temporary program to give the board time to receive and consider bids for a permanent trash collection program. Board member James Pelton said he would go along with the 90-day extension, but said he was not in favof of 1961 at $2,300 a year. Ashmore Estates is a shelter care home for the aged. It was a psychiatric hospital from 1961 through 1965, when it became a shelter care home.

The home is located west of Ashmore along Illinois 16. The building is located on a seven-acre tract. Before 1961, the building was known as the Coles County Poor Farm. Until recent decades the farm housed poor people. After that it was made entirely i farm Johnson also charged that Shapiro has been issuing liquor licenses since his April discharge.

Thomas Murphy, commission executive director, said in a telephone interview Johnson's charges were "ridiculous. We know what's in the files." He said Mitchell an Shapiro were rehired as soon as "Michael Berz took over from Johnson as acting chairman. Murphy said Duncan is being trained as a special investigator. Johnson was the first witness before the subcommittee, which is investigating charges that Johnson was fired for vigorously pursuing an investigation of alleged $50,000 contribution to the Walker campaign fund by Chicago businessman Anthony Angelos. Such a contribution is in vio 'J' JpfF MM definite stand on the issue in a short time.

Both men were members, of the Ozark Airlines Pilots Association. (JG photo) putting the program Into effect on a permanent basis. Pelton recommended that the health and safety committee look into the possibility of establishing two fill areas, one on the west side of the county and the other on the east side, as dumping sites. Under the current pilot program, Kleenwel agreed to place 15 cubic yard containers at eight sites throughout the county and pick up the containers on a permanent basis. Lerna Mayor Rex Brown told the board that as far as he was concerned the trash collection program had been a success in his area.

"The general vicinity has cleaned up quite a bit," he said. "You don't see the refuse roads that you did. I honestly believe it is helping our end of the county. It has helped." Workshop cancelled; enrollment small CHARLESTON, 111. A workshop titled "The Counselor and Special Education," which was to begin Monday, June 11, at Eastern Illinois University, was cancelled due to small enrollment.

The workshop was designed for practicing counselors, prospective counselors, teachers and special education workers, according to Dr. Paul Ward, who was the course instructor. operation. Ashmore Estates has an option to buy four other tracts and has indicated informally that it intends to exercise that option this year, according to County Clerk Harry Grafton. In 1965, the two-story brick structure, Was remodeled New flooring was installed and the interior walls were redecorated.

Pelton told the board, "If you want my personal opinion, I think we are better off getting rid of the building." Poor Farm ILLINOIS accredited. Clem Phipps of the building committee told the board that "consistent progress" was being made on the new additions to the college. August 13 at 8 p.m. was the date set for a public hearing on the 1973-74 budget. A copy will be available on July 9 and will be on display for public inspection until the August 13 meeting.

The resignations of Leslie Stuart and Claudia Hale were accepted by the board. lation of state liquor laws if Angelos was a holder of a liquor license, as reports have charged. Johnson said he fired Shapiro and Mitchell because they "were not performing their jobs." Shapiro, he said, had a history of absenteeism and was spending too much time in the office rather than in the field. Johnson said he fired Mitchell because he was acting as an administrative assistant to Murphy but was not hired to do so. Murphy denied that Mitchell was an administrative assistant.

"He is a very valuable employe," Murphy said. "He has supervisory authority over the other agents and reports to me directly." However, the Chicago Tribune, quoting "sources at the commission," said Mitchell, ifjiiiitiKii I'll; Hb. committee is investigating the firing of Johnson as chairman of the state Liquor Control Commission. (AP photo) space station The space travelers "were in excellent health. Except for a few minor problems, their patched-up space station was perking along.

"We've got a happy home up here," Conrad reported. Whether space manufacturing becomes a reality depends a great deal on the tests to be conducted by Skylab 1 and to a greater extent on those by the Skylab 2 and 3 crews who are to inhabit the laboratory for 56 days each later this year. Mi Hii Ashmore Estates Employed by the board was Ed Grant as a custodian; and Gary Weber in data processing. Bud Overbeck of the Agriculture Department was granted the first sabbatical leave in the college's history Monday night. The board passed a resolution that will be submitted to the Illinois Junior Colle'ge Board regarding the movement of senior in-, stitutions to change 200 level courses to 300 level courses.

Shapiro and Duncan had, been looking through the files and added that there was doubt the three were officially on the state payroll. Murphy conceded that they had "hazy payroll because they had been hired, fired, and rehired again. Most of Johnson's testimony Monday was a reiteration of charges had made earlier. He maintained that Murphy in-terferred with and tried to limit his probe of the Angelos affair. Murphy categorically denied the charges.

"The worst villainy of all was when he made an end run May 30 and told a Senate subcommittee he knew nothing about the economies," Murphy added, repeating the Walker' administration's stand that Johnson was fired for failure to carry out economy measures. Ill professor heads probe for governor By H. F. WOLLENBERG IV Associated Press Writer SPRINGFIELD, 111. (AP) -George M.

Burditt, new head of the Illinois Liquor Control Commission, has named a law professor who served as a general counsel to the 1970 Illinois Constitutional Convention, to head the probe into the campaign contributions of Anthony Angel- os. Burditt, who was named Monday by Gov. Daniel Walker to head the commission, said later that Rubin Cohn, professor of law at the University of Illinois, had agreed to head the investigation. Burditt, 50, replaced Lawrence. Johnson, a Champaign attorney, who has claimed in testimony before a House subcommittee that he was fired because he aggressively pursued the Angelos case.

Cohn, 62, contacted at his Champaign home, said he expects no pay for his job and said he will merely "supervise the investigation which will be undertaken by lawyers from the Chicago law firm of Sidley and Austin. "If this required nib to take a leave of absence from the uni versity, I wouldn't have taken the job," Cohn said. He said that by the -time classes resume in mid-August or early September. "I would hope that this would be all behind me." Old Poor Farm sold i'MSBl'. mm mill The old Coles County Poor Farm building has been sold.

Ashmore Estates, has purchased the building and two tracts of land for $20,427. James Pelton, chairman of the Coles County Board's buildings and grounds committee, told members of the board Monday that Ashmore Estates was exercising an option to purchase the main building and the two tracts of land. Ashmore Estates has been leasing the county farm building from the county since in' i SPRINGFIELD, 111. (AP) -The recently ousted chairman of the Illinois Liquor Control Commission has charged that two commission agents he fired because of alleged incompetence" have been "systematically going through files" in the commission's Chicago office. However, the commission's executive director termed the charge Monday "ridiculous" and said the agents had been rehired.

The ousted chairman, Lawrence E. Johnson, testified Monday before' the Illinois House subcommittee that is investigating his firing, by Gov. Daniel Walker. Johnson said the two agents Alvin Shapiro and John Mitchell were going through the files with a third man William Duncan. 'ill: it iff PROBERS Rep." Phil Collins, R-Calumet City (left), head of the Illinois House Executive Subcommittee, listens to Astronauts set SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) Skylab's astronauts fire-up an electric furnace and an electron beam gun today to start a series of materials-processing tests that could lead to a space manufacturing business.

Experts believe the tests could spawn a multi-billion-dollar business late in this century with orbiting factories producing tiirfh nll'ilitv pWtmnic de- iiig 111511 vices, superstrong materials, nearly perfectly round ball bearings, precision optical 'rf? testimony along with Rep. John Matijevich, D-Chicago by attorney Lawrence Johnson (right) at Springfield Monday. The up workshop in lenses and pure vaccines. The pioneering materials tests begin as Charles Conrad Dr. Joseph P.

Kerwin and Paul J. Weitz whirl'through the 19th day of their 28-day space odyssey, Also on schedule today were continuingjnedical experiments and an earth resources study that will concentrate on urban water pollution and land use in the Chesapeake Bay area, including Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. 5 JtSl-A. Ashmore Estates former.