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SUNNY 1 Pre-meeting meetings by Newman, Rbbbins head All-Area cage unit city council should end Mostly sunny today. High around 60. North winds 10 to 15 mph. Fair and cold tonight. Low In the middle or upper 30s.

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Tentative pad: to deairo AM reached snte i ft By KIRBY PRINGLE MARY CHIPMAN Staff Writers the Southern District of Illinois at East St. Louis. Cleanup responsibilities of the companies will be spelled out under the terms of the preliminary court order, Gillogly explained. After it Is Issued, the alleged waste generators and public will be able to comment on the terms. The order becomes finalized after the period for comment ends if all the parties still agree to the terms.

Gillogly said he was told by Justice Department officials it will likely take -two months or more for the final court order to be issued. He did nqt have further details of the agreement or with which companies the settlement was reached. However, in a United Press International story, Crane was quoted as saying that four of the six alleged waste generators' had agreed to the settlement. His office could not disclose the names of the four The Justice Department filed a lawsuit In federal court against six alleged waste generators in 1980. The litigation was set for trial Monday, but postponned until Jan.

7 because of the complex nature of the discovery motions being filed In the suit. Named in the lawsuit are Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA), Northern Petrochemical, McDonnell Douglas Cam-Or Inc. and Petrolite Corp. A sixth defendant, A-M International, has reorganized under the Chapter 11 bankruptcy laws but was named in the original suit. Officials with ALCOA and Northern (Continued on Page A3) GREENUP A tentative settlement has been reached in the cleanup of the A Materials hazardous waste site at Greenup.

An announcement concerning the agreement with the companies that allegedly generated the waste was made Thursday evening at a meeting of the local environmental group, Citizens for Toxic Cleanup. Members of the group were contacted by aides working for Senators Alan Dixon, and Charles Percy, along with U.S. Rep. Dan Crane, R-Danville. However, only legislative assitant Kevin Gillogly with Dixon's office in Washington could be reached for confirmation.

"We got a call about 5:30 p.m. (4:30 p.m. CST) from the Department of Justice," Gillogly salff. "The Justice Department, acting for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, was able to get some sort of agreement with the waste generators who said, 'Okay, we'll be able to pay for the cleanup of the waste we The preliminary agreement is in two parts, Gillogly said.

The companies are responsible as of Wednesday for the cost of any emergency cleanups at the site and will also be responsible for the surface cleanup of the site. The next step in the process, according to Gillogly, will be a preliminary court order, probably to be issued by Federal Judge James Foreman of U.S. District Court for 1', i Photo by Jol Oixttr Antique enthusiasts come In all sizes and all ages, Including senior citizens who Just might have been around when today's antiques were the newest products. This antique show and sale at the Cross County Mall will continue during Mall hours through Sunday. Link to the past Webb to leave Sarah Bush Board By KIRBY PRINGLE SUtt Writer State rests its case in local murder trial MATTOON Campaigning activities have caused Robert Webb not to seek renomlnatlon to the Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center Board of Directors.

in- 1 1 I Webb, president of 1 By TERRY McCULLOUGH Staff Writer from the 106th District. He announced his resignation as Lake Land College president in November in order to pursue a political career. "My term expires in June and I asked not to be renominated for another term," Webb said. "I made the decision based on the fact I'm still president of Lake Land College and trying to run a campaign as well, so I think some of my community efforts will have to be curtailed." Webb mailed a letter concerning his decision to Fred Miller of Oakland. Miller is chairman of the nominating committee and also chairman of the hospital's board of directors.

The board will have to fill two vacancies at Its annual meeting in June. Miller recently moved to Texas to take a position with a grain milling firm. He has been shuttling back and forth between Texas and Coles County to tie up loose ends. He will also Lake Land College, said Thursday he made the decision last week and In-formed the chairman of the hospital board nominating committee he will not seek renomlnatlon. The Mattoon resident is the Democratic candidate for state representative Webb resign at the annual meeting.

Webb, 55, was nominated to the hospital board in 1975 and has served on it the past nine years. He recalled his first few years on the board as the most challenging. "When I came on the board, I think it was a low period in terms of morale, the financial situation and the delay in the construction of the hospital. I'm not taking personal credit, but I think the leadership of the board and management tried to turn the situation around and did in fact do that," Webb said. Sarah Bush Lincoln was completed in May 1977.

The hospital has come far in the past seven years, according to Webb. "I feel that we have a really outstanding hospital. It is well-equipped, we have a well-respected and highly qualified medical staff and the hospital is in sound financial (Continued on Page A3) Board may make Adkins decision later this month By KIRBY PRINGLE Staff Writer MATTOON It will likely be April 19 when Dr. Lewis Adkins of Charleston finds out his fate at Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center. The long-time family physician was placed 'on summary suspension at the hospital in December.

He can no longer deliver babies or perform surgery at the hospital, He appealed the suspension Feb. 17 at a hearing before the executive committee of the medical staff. The committee has made its recommendation to the hospital's board of directors. The board has the final decision on reinstating Adkins. Adkins said he hopes to learn the board's decision when it meets April 19.

"I haven't heard anything Adkins said. "Just rumors and you can't pay any attention to those. The decision has Just been a little run-around and delayed. I think ifs i (Continued on Page A3) Top Yq1110 Toon Pierce's body at the Berkley Funeral Home in Greenup, also testified the entrance wound In the chest was above the exit wound in the back. Leming, who directed the investigation after being called Into the case by Cumberland County State's Attorney Dan Arbogast, also read to the jury a voluntary statement he took from Jones 4 several hours after the shooting.

Jones told Leming that Pierce came to her home about 4 p.m. Nov. 29 and forced his way Into the house past her son, Loren Lindsay, while she was hiding on the back porch. She said that after Pierce came into the kitchen area and yelled for her, she got a revolver from a holster, pointed the gun at him and told him to get out of the house. Jones stated Pierce told her as she backed him to the front door at gunpoint that he wanted the fiddle.

She also said that when Pierce was part-way out the door, he turned, "started to come toward me" and said, "Go ahead and shoot me." Jones told Leming she then fired, Pierce clutched his chest and stumbled out of the house Into the street. 1 Dan Haga, a prosectution witness who. said he saw the shooting, testified Wednesday Pierce was standing near the sidewalk that runs In front of Jones' home when he was shot and then staggered into the street where he collapsed and died. Leming said that during later questioning Jones told htm that while. she and Pierce lived together for nine or 10 months, he had never threatened or beat her and although he had come home drunk many times "she knew how to hold him off." But Jones said when he confronted her on Nov.

29, "he had a mean look in his eye." Leming said Jones told him during questioning she did not think her life was In Imminent danger. detective testified that during a visit to Jones' home on Nov. 30 she voluntarily helped re-enact her version of (Continued on Page A3) CHARLESTON The prosecution rested its case in the murder trial of Mildred Jones In mid-afternoon Thursday without hearing from one of its expert witnesses. Special prosecutor Keith Jensen had planned to call Dr. Harry Parks of Collinsvllle to the stand, but he is ill in a hospital.

Parks is the pathologist who performed the autopsy on the body of Gary Pierce, the 39-year-old Olney man Jones is accused of shooting last Nov. 29 at her home in Jewett during an argument over the ownership of a fiddle. Parks was expected to testify about the trajectory of the bullet Jones has admitted firing as it passed through Pierce's body. Jones has said she shot Pierce at fairly close range in self-defense after he threatened her. The prosecution has contended the shooting occurred while Jones was standing on the front porch of her house and Pierce was in the yard about 25 feet away.

Chief Circuit Judge Ralph Pearman, who is presiding at the trial before a Cumberland County jury, ruled a deposition by Parks may be introduced by the prosecution later. Gary Leming, a state police detective who attended the autopsy performed at St. Anthony Memorial Hospital in Effingham, testified Wednesday that during the procedure Parks showed him how the bullet entered Pierce's upper left chest, followed a downward path through his heart, struck his sixth rib and exited from the midsection of his back. Leming also testified that Jones, who is five feet, four Inches tall, had told him she was holding the gun slightly above her waist when she shot Pierce, who stood six feet, four inches'. Deputy Cumberland County Coroner Wayne McMorris, who examined REACHING OUT WITH THE HOOK 1 BALTIMORE Communications has fired a veteran telephone operator, apparently because she spent too much time trying to help customers.

"When you're pulling onto a freeway It seems like after you pass the 'merge' sign cars can emerge out of nowhere awfully fast." Garrett. 40. of Baltimore, on i Ida Tuesday drew sharp criticism from the Communications Workers of America, which represents 650,000 telephone company employees cross the country. CWAtpokesman Jeffrey Miller said Garrett, who had held the Job for 16 years, Is believed to be the first operator to be fired for not handling phone calls In an "average work time" of 28 to 30 seconds each. About People A2 Classifieds B6-11 Entertainment A11-13 Extra B4 A8 Markets Obituaries B5 Opinions.

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