Volume 4, Number 11 (February 1976)

3 SECRET REPORTS; NARC PIX; ABORTION PROTEST; E.R.A.; BEICHS;
FREE FOOD; COUNTY BOARD; KING; V.D.; DAY CARE; AND MUCH MUCH MORE!

WE FEEL THAT

THE INFORMAT\ON lS OF
A NATURE OF W\-1\CH VJE MUST
ANALYZE lN .,.\-t\5 CASE. IN POlNT ·. •
IN PAR\\CULAR THE IMPACT ON

THE PU8l.IC OF TI-lE RELEA~E OF
c;,ucH DOCUMENI$ OF PUBLIC
NATURE TAKING JN\0 ACCOUNT
THE 201WT TO &E CO~S\t::>EREO
OF PRO~Pf.CiiVI! U ~!!:.: YOU

~HOULD GO CHECK 'WITW ••••

Toles from the Nal\ed Bureaucracy, p. 3

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and do one of the many different and . terial comes from the community. We en- office, and if you'd like to come, call us. The
exciting tasks necessary for the smooth number is: 828-7232. You can also reach folks
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one brilliant, dynamic, underpaid co- than a reader. We welcome all stories or
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Post-Amerikan has no editor or hierarch- Friday February 13...•......••.... 6:30PM
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Sun. February 22 (layout continues) 12:00 Noon DA's Liquors, Oakland and Main
Anybody who reads this paper can tell the Friday March 5....•..•..•..•...•. 6:30PM Medusa's Bookstore, 109 W. Front
type of stuff we print. All worthwhile ma- News Nook, 402t N. Main
terial is welcome. We try to choose art-
icles that are timely, relevant, informa- Book Hive, 103 w. Front
tive, and not available in other local media.
We will not print 3Jlything racist, sexist, Gaston's Barber Shop, 202-i_ N. Center
or ageist. Samba's, Washington and U.S. 66
De Vary's Marke:t, 1402 W. Market
NORMAL Harris's Market, 802 N. Morris
Hickory Pit, 920 W. Washington
University IJquors, 706 W. Beaufort Biasi's Drug Store, 217 N. Main
Discount Den, 207 N. Main
POST Welcome Inn (in front) SW corner, Morris and Washington
Madison St. Cafe, 317 S. Madison
Redbird IGA
Divinyl Madness Records, 115 North Street J&L Gas Co., 1402 S. Main
U-I Grocery, 918 W. Market
SELlERS Mother Murphy's, 111\ North Street U-I Grocery, 608 S. Lee
Ram, 101 Broadway Mall Kroger's, 1110 E. Oakland Ave.
Bus Depot, 523 N. East St•
Al's Pipe Shop, 101 Broadway Mall Park Store, 909 S. Allin
Nierstheimer's Drug Store, 1302 N. Main
Hendren's Grocery, 301 W. Willow Pantagraph Building (in front)'

OUTTA TOWN Co-op Bookstore (in front)

The Galery (in front)

Galesburg: Under the Sun, 188 W. Main The Lobby Shop, ISU Student Union

Peoria: Good Seed, 641 W. Main Bowling and Billiards Center, ISU Student Union

Co-op Tapes & Records, 637 W. Main Cage, ISU Student Union

Springfield: Spoon River Book Co-op, 407 E. Adams Midstate Truck Plaza, Rt'. 51 North

Lake Bloomington: Green Gables Hottle House, 1402 S. Main

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Rather than naming the countless people New Age Bookstore, Broadway Mall
who helped put this issue together, this Old Main Bookstore, 207 S. Main
paragraph will just serve to thank them Campus Records, 311 S. Main, Normal
all for their help. THANKYOU PEOPLE.

GOOD

NUMBERS

For the benefit of all, here is a list of TABLESCRAPS/cpf
numbers to call if you need some kind
of help. If you know of some number we ~ Js' N.t1olt\ bloomingf'on
left out, call us up at the Post-Amerikan
office, and let us know about it. 'Vve carry l\ec..e)sifleJ

Alcoholics Anonymous 828-5049 1T\inrf f Boqy~~~~~
American Red Cross 828-5065
ACLU 436-6709
Birthright 452-0041
Community for Social Action 452-4867
DayCare Centers (see yellow pages)
Director of Public Services 829-1488

Divinyl Madness Records 454-2.521
Dept. of-Health, Ed. & Welfare 829-9436
Dept. of Children and Family Serv. 829-5346
Food Stamps (see Public Aid)
Family Service of McLean Co. 828-4343
Gay People's Alliance 438-3411
Headstart Program 828-828-8413
Home Sweet Home Mission 828-7356
ISU Tenant Union 436-6661
ILL Lawyer Referral 800-242-8916
ISU Student Legal Services 438-3642
Kaleidescope 828-7346
Lighthouse 828-1371
ILL State Employment Serv. 827-6237
Men's Rap Group 829-8792
McLean Co. Mental Health Service 827-0073
McLean Co. Youth Service Agency 827-6241
McLean Co. Health Dept. 829-3363
National O~girtization of Women 452-4817
uccupationaluevelopment Center 828-7324
Project OZ 827-6714
Public Aid 829-7057
Post-Amerikan 828-7232
Planned Parenthood 827-8025

PATH 452-4422
Rape Crisis Line (call PATH)
Sugar Creek }3ook Co-op 454.:.2521
Salvation Army 829-9476
Senior Action Center 827-6201
Sunnyside Neigh. Center 829-9715
State's Attorney's Office 829-3328
UFW Boycott Support Comm. 452-;5046

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We Hold. These Truths...

"We hold these tiuths to b~ self- to get a copy of the rules from Sneed says that in the past the Post
evident.;.That to secure (the peo- McGuire. has been given information whichit
ple's unalienable) rights, Govern- did not use and which it distorted
ments are instituted among Men, Well, that's true, he says, but he when it did use it.
deriving their just powers from called McGuire again--after I left,
the consent of the governed." and that's when the game pla~ changed. Hmmm.

--The Declaration of Independence Hmmm. Sneed also says that not all public
documents are open to public scrutiny.
This is a story from the Naked Then we get to talking about the
Bureaucracy. Post's article on how the Normal Public documents?
police use dum-dum bullets.. (\'ihich
There are undoubtedly 10,000 other 1s the reason the Post wanted the I ask if maybe he doesn't really
stories, but this one starts when rules in the ~irst place.) mean public documents. Maybe he
I decide I want a copy of the Normal merely means that not all documents
Pollee Department's rules and regula- Sneed says the Post article wasn't produced by public agencies are open
tions. fair because it didn't tell why to the general public.
the Normal police use these project-
I know it won't be easy because iles. Yes, that's fair, he says, mentioning
Police Chief Richard McGuire has executive meetings and such.
already told a Post-Amerikan reporter Oops! Sneed's boss, Metromanager
that nobody, not even the mighty David Anderson, had already told the I wonder, though, if people ·oih0 think
Daily Pantagraph, can see those rules. Post that Normal doesn't use hollow the word public excludes the puulic--
point ammunition. in any circumstance--are familiar
Apparently, he used to be right. with the line about governments "de-
Oh, never mind! riving their just powers from the
Carol Rei tan, \"Jho has been mayor of consent of the governed."
Normal for almost four years,-later Could he just explain how the Post
admitted that she has never seen .a can print reasons when the chief of Take-home Questions:
copy of the rules._ police refuses to answer any quest-
ions about dum-dums? 1. Why did Sneed call McGuire after
But back to the search. I left his office for the police
station?
First, I talk to Carl Sneed, assistant
city mananger for Normal, at city hall. 2. Did Sneed merely forget to tell
me the best half of his either-or
He agrees that the rules are public, proposition when he called me?
and he thinks I can get a copy of
them from the chief. Just to make 3. Doesn '·t the metromanager know
sure, he calls the police station. about the dum-dums?

Sure enough, they do have copies of 4. What is the best way to find out
the rules at the police station.
Chief McGuire's reasons for using
So, off I go to see the chief. dum-dums when he won't talk to you
about them?
He tells me -- all the while playing
with a subpoena--.that although he's 5. Normal's attorney is revising
not ashamed of anything in the rules,
some of the material is privileged the rules to make sure they conform
and ought to be read only by police with other personnel regulations.
officers. Will the revised rules be as diffi-
cult to obtain as the present rules?
H9 says he'll give me a copy only Will any elected officials read the
if he is directly ordered to do so new rules?
by the city ma~ager. Baffled, I
leave quietly. Bonus. Would a copy of the rules
help your neighborhood 'burglar?
I wonder if I'm another victim of
those famous credibility gaps. Or (See adjoining story for some of the
maybe it's just that Sneed's phone answers.)
call doesn't count because he's only
an assistant city manager. D. LeSeure

Finally, I decide to try an elected Sneed Answers Questions
official. I call the mayor.

Reitan says she's aware of what's Although Carl Sneed maintains that Sneed explained his decision to rely
in the rules in a general way but the story above is not objective on the_ chief's judgment--after my
that she's never actually seen a journalism, he did agree to respond first talk with Sneed--basically as
copy. to some of the questions raised. a matter of not being sure exactly
what release of the rules would
She thinks that making the rules He said that administrative documents involve.
public might help some enterprising --such as Normal Police Department's
burglar find out the best times to rules and regulations or inter-office He later decided that the rules could
practice his or her trade .. memoranda and executive directives-- be released.
which are not submitted to uublic
Well. Really now. review and approval (through the city Sneed also reconfirmed that Normal
council or a similar body) may or police do use hollow point ammu-
She says she'll talk to Sneed. may not be released to the general nition.
public.
Then, lo and behold, Sneed calls me Similarly, he repeated his statement
the next day and says that he indeed Public officials determine whether to that, according to state statutes,
did leave it up to the chief to de- release such materials on the basis the Post·Amerikan is not a regular
cide whether to give me a copy of the of the prospective use and the impact newspaper.
rules. ·that the document might have, Sneed
' said. He feels that public officials, in
Hmmm. some cases at least, ought to consider
He said that it was on this basis the possibility of misuse of their
In any case, he now says that either that Chief Richard McGuire·first statements or of materials before
he will personally make a copy avail- refused to release copies of the commenting on offici8:i ·b:usine'ss or
able for me to read in his office. rules and regulations. before releasing official informa-
tion to Post reporters.
Wait a minute.

He said "either" and so far I've got T~I\'E' lHAT
only one choice. ~ ask about the \IlLii:
alternative. M ISC I?E"i!\NT/

Oh, yes, if I really want to I can
pay Normal to make a copy of my very
own.

S?, I visit Sneed again, and we deter-

m1ne that at 10 cents a page I should o-----__-__lf~~-'-\-~~-----'

pay Normal $3.80 for my copy--but
that's not·the end of the story.

I tell him that when I left his o£fice
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Dear Post-Amerikan, I

The Post-Amerikan more than welcomes letters Just thought I would drop you a few I
from its readers. Send them to PO Box 3452, lines about court systems throughout I
Illinois. People are always talking I
4 Bloomington, and don't worry about the word about how corrupt the court systems
limit most newspapers have. When a letter is are. Well, the court systems through- I
longer than the traditional letter-to-the-editor, out the prisons are just as corrupt
we often give it a headline and lay it out like a as the courts on the streets. I
"t'egular article. So write to us! I
In a prison, you are given a copy of I
HO~PITAL~ your misconduct report and then put I
in the hole (a segregated cell) until
I
your court date. The court system in I
prison has three members (usuallv a
• PATH HELP~ ARE .tiCK I
Warden and assistant Wardens) who I
I ·People: ~ook at the misconduct report. No I
I witnesses are needed. Just one offi- I
I A Public Letter to Path: Since writing the article about medi- cer can write anything on the report
cal care in McLean County, I found (which is usually done) and it will I
I would like to thank PATH and the man out that someone had misinformed me, stand ten times against an inmate'R I
at PATH who answered the phone when and I was not actually in intensive word.
care. However, the other parts of the I
I called. I needed someone to talk article are accurate. I was put on in- I
to and it was too late to. be calling
travenous for over 35 hours when there If found guilty in the court, you are I
on friends. I needed someone who given up to 25 days in the hole, good I
was no valid medical.reason for this time taken away, possible shipment to
could be warm and friendly, but at the (a few hours may have been justified a more maximum security prison, crim- I
if I had lost blood), a large part of inal prosecution, and your prison job I
same time, I needed someone I wouldn't my medical expense. Restrictions pay taken away. 98% of the inmates I
were placed on me concerning diet get found guilty. The 2% who get off I
have to face the next day. For that (bland), movement, and medication I
reason, I called PATH. I poured out which were medically unjustified, and ..are lucky.
which neither I nor the nurses had I
my heart to this man, and told him any voice in. In some Illinois prisons, an inmate I
while in the hole is only taken out I
everything that had been troubling me. St. Joseph's stated policy is that of his or her cell for three ~urposes: I
I was able to be entirely honest with they give the doctor free reign in one five-minute shower every two or .. I
having treatm~nte applied to patients, three weeks, one hour of recreation I
him; because there's no reason to lie and they have no responsibility for every two months, and for visits.
unnecessary treatment prescribed by I
I to a perfect stranger. I didn't have .doc tors. What this means, in essence,
to hide anything from him. I'm not is that patients are not advised by
saying it's bad to talk to friends the hospital of their right to refuse
treatment, nor are they given any ad-
about your problems, but sometimes vice on what is unnecessary treatment;
you need someone who doesn't know that nurses have no real input in pa-
tient treatment, although their exper-
you, just so.that by Yc;>urown hon~sty, ience may be substantial, and they
you can get 1n touch wlth yourself. will be fired for refusing to carry
out a treatment, no matter now un- In prison, you get 7t good days (days
After talking to this man for about necessary or costly; that the hos- · off your sentence) for every month you
pital automatically complies with the
half an hour, I had found out what doc,tor' s request for special tests, do. If you get a misconduct report,
and allows no patient or nurse input
was the matter with me, and how to in whether these tests are necessary. you lose those 7t good days. Sometimes
St. Joseph's, like other hospitals,
help myself get over it. A lot of conducts ehe'st X-rays routinely on they take up to 6 months (or more) of
incoming patients, even if these
times all we need is someone who patients have had chest X-rays re- good time·. ·
cently and do not need the tests.
will listen to us clear our heads
out. PATH is there for that reason, I'd like to ~ee hospitals where
patients and nurses have a say in Misconduct reports can range from
to listen. If you need someone, I treatment, where the costs of un- walking on the grass to fighting. I've
necessary medical treatment are had seven misconduct reports since May
highly recommend them. closely monitored, where every
citizen could have medical care of '75. On one of them (for receiving
A Person s/he can afford. I don't think
this is possible until our hospitals underground newspapers and being con-
P.S. I would also like to thank the become more democratic than they are sidered a radical), I received 25 days
Post-Amerikan for their Good Numbers -now. in the hole. But on another report
column because the tel-ephone book (for fighting), I only received 10
doesn't have PATH's telephone number. Sincerely, days. I even remember one guy that got
(name withheld) 10 days in the hole for walking on the.
I grass. I
I
I· If you get busted for drugs (which is
I an everyday thing), you would get I
transf~r~ed .to a more maximum pr~son, I
I and cr1m1nal prosecution. I was re- I
cently in a fight, and am now in the I
hole awaiting transfer to another hea- I
vy prison. So you see friends, not on-
HELMET REPL V ly court systems on the streets are
corrupt. I guess people are in too
This is a reply to the reply of the much of a hurry to get into the Poli-
helmet safety story. I wrote the tics role.
story in the December Post Amerikan.
Ethan Evans (a State Farm Corporate Mark D. Edwards
Attorney) wrote another view of the
story in th9 January issue. Box 38 #779

Sheridan, Ill.

60551

P.S. I would also appreciate any corre-
spondence from any comrades out there
Ethan Evans sent the Post Amerikan a MORE COUNTY JAIL concerning what's happening around
copy of the Insurance Institute's Bloomington.
study of helmet safety. This infor- MI~TREATMENT
mative packet has been misplaced, but LEBANON CON~LICT
I have seen other biased studies by I really wish there was something to
insurance trade associations and do about Sheriff King. Maybe the dem- Dear Post:
insurance companies. onstration last year wasn't too great
because the majority of voters-- par- There has been a lot in the news late-
The facts in my story were provided ents-- don't trust demonstrators. They ly about Lebanon, However, lit~le
by AB~TE, (A Brotherhood Against have a bad image, and others believe attention has bee,n given to the reasons
Totalitarian Enactments). This or- King must be good if people like us for this conflict. One concerns the
ganization is not made up of big busi- don't like him. pr.esent constitution of Lebanon.

I ness persons, but instead the members
I are motorcyclists.

I These facts by ABATE are,· of course, I was arrested for selling drugs four Under the present constitution, the
I biased facts researched by motorcy- years ago and spent time at McLean President of Lebanon must be a Chris-
I tian, and the prime minister, a mus-
I clists. County Jail. Being the only woman lim, must be appointed by him; The
there,most of the time wasn't easy,
I There can be two ways of looking at national legislature must have 55
but they made it worse.

I any one situation: 1. by the scien- I had previously had a major opera- Christians and 44 muslims, or be
I tist in the laboratory, or 2. by the tion, plus had ulcers. I asked for 55% Christian. This is despite the
I motorcyclist on the road. my medicine and/or at least milk, fact that currently Christians are
and never received either. I even only 40% of the population, whereas
I The case provided by my story is that begged for a doctor and then my law-
I the laws should be influenced by the Muslims are 60%. The conflict is one
between those who want majority rule
I motorcyclists' studies and results. yer. I've heard many stories from I
I They are the ones who have to wear a people I trust to be honest, and in Lebanon (allowing the Muslims more I
I helmet. there is too much going on there voice) and those who want to preserve
that's wrong. I
I I will try to obtain another copy of undemocratic. restrictions. Unless and I
I the facts Ethan Evans sent me and As a result I'm back at college, until the inequities in the current I
I study them. majoring in Criminal Justice. Surely I
people can do something to help pris- constitution are resolved, .there can I
oners. be no real end to the conflict in Le-
banon.

: More later? Sincerely yours, I
I1----------G-re-g -St-oe-we-r ----------------A-F-ri-en-d ~-----Da-ve-B-ur-de-tt-e -------------~I

Walker Dumps Crime Bos~

(Galesburg) nical adviser" until his sudden departure the Post story. Going downhill fast, Blythe
·Last month the Post-Amerikan detailed how turned IDAC around and endorsed Michael
Illinois Governor Dan Walker was weaving from the state payroll on Jan. 5, 1976. Howlett for Governor even though IDAC had
a tangled web of political alliance with been for Walker since its inception. Blythe
former Galesburg gambling czar Warren Apparently his state duties brought him to described Walker's supporters as, "worms,
"Boss" Blythe, 10 Circle Drive. Galesburg often, as he was on hand at -rip-off artists and political neophytes."
IDAC functions at least five times in the
We told of Boss Blythe's Dec. 2, 1974, ar- fall of 1975. On January 6th, his organization crumbling
rest for possession of a quarter of a mill- like a sand castle on the beach, Warren
ion dollars worth of gambling equipment. According to Blythe, IDACers were shook Blythe took to the tavern to drown out the
The December arrest was followed up by a down at meetings by McMahon, who carried sorrow. Sitting in the Whistle Stop Lounge
"deal" in May which allowed Blythe to plead patronage lists with him. At one meeting enjoying a quiet evening drink was Dave
guilty to an amended charge against his the small group chipped in $147 for Walker, a perfect model citizen, the Gales-
company, Galesburg Cigar Co., 79 S. Chambers "expenses." burg assistant City Manager, respected by
St., listing him only as an officer of the many. When the Boss barged in, Walker be-
corporation and fining him a paltry $300. Apparently the patronage lists were more gan teasing Blythe about his failing po-
temptation than the Boss could bear, so in litical enterprises until the remark,
Blythe's conviction could have earned him September he began maneuvering to get on "What does it feel like to be on the way
a J64·day stretch in Vandalia but instead the State payroll as a-field representative down?" so enraged the former gambling
didn't even tarnish his name. for the industrial division of the De- kingpin that he slugged Walker in the face,
partment of Business and Economic Develop- knocking him off the stool.
Like the legendary Phoenix, rising from ash- ment for a tidy $1,190 a month.
es of former self, Blythe, conveniently "I don't think a rational man would have
forgetting his brush with the law, formed During the time Blythe was jockeying around responded in that manner," said Dave
a new state political committee chartered job seeking, the Illinois Governor was Walker later when being interviewed about
to operate in Knox, Fulton, Warren, Peoria, warned twice that association with Blythe Blythe. Blythe pled not guilty and is
Henry, Stark, and McDonough Counties called would cost him votes in the upcoming currently on his fourth version of the
election. Unable to land himself a job, incident to authorities.
ztthe Independent Democratic Action Club Blythe was successful in getting several
people hired under IDAC sponsorship. Now that the Dan Walker-Warren Blythe
(IDAC). Just weeks after IDAC came alliance has ended, the question remains:
into legal existence Chairperson Blythe It was at the Dec. 9, 1975,Walker-IDAC if the Illinois governor is as committed
arranged for a fundraising "luncheon" at rally that Blythe began to realize the to honesty in government as he claims, then
a Galesburg lounge at which Dan Walker tide was going out for him. At evening's why did he have anything to do with Boss
was the drawing card. end McMahon made a grab for the $800 co- Blythe in the first place?
llected at the door, which would have
In October Ms. Walker spoke to an IDAC stuck IDAC paying for the food and liquor FOOTNOTE:
gathering in Wataga, Illinois, hosted by as well as rent. "They're a bunch of
Mr. ~d Ms. Jim Marshall, former owners of chiselers-they'll take every cent you've With Warren Blythe's small splinter group,
the notorious Knotty Pine Bar. got," fumed Blythe about the Walker organ- the Independent Democratic Action Club,
ization. all but dead following a Post•Amerikan
Almost a year to the day after Boss Blythe's expose, the Boss is attempting to stage a
gambling equipment arrest, the Illinois Apparently Santa wasn't as generous this comeback by infiltrating the regular Demo-
Governor put in yet another Galesburg ap- year as anticipated, and the irate Boss cratic organization. Running advertisements
pearance for Blythe at the opening of the is said to have written to Springfield plededng "GOOD GOVEhNMENT" is the Blythe
Dan Walker for Governor headquarters on Christmas Day demanding a job or he slate for precinct committeepeople. Besides
located at the then IDAC office (now va- would close the Walker re-election office Boss Blythe is the IDAC administrative
cant) on South Henderson Street. (See in Galesburg. The IDAC doors were locked assistant, Clarence "Rocky" Rockhold, former
last month's Post•Amerikan for details.) for the last time on December 31st and Knotty Pine tavern owner James Marshall,
then the Post·Amerikan hit the streets de- and a Cigar Store employee,Alfred Laswell.
Monitaring IDAC and Warren Blythe for tailing the Walker-Blythe connection.
Governor Walker was a mystery man,Dennis Mike Richardson
McMahon, who is a central Illinois Walker The Walker organization pulled the cord on Galesburg Correspondent
organizer. McMahon was a "shadow" employee Blythe when the mountain of public indig-
of the State Department of Transportation nation in Galesburg hit the fan following fctvtl~\1~ 113f()i'
pulling down $13,750 a year as a "tech-

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(Galesburg) Last month in an article titled went to the Whistle Stop Lounge in Galesburg that Boss Blythe was secreted across the
"D. A. Ignores Assault," we told how Knox to drown out the sorrow and rid himself of hallway in a private .office room with the
County assistant State's Attorney Ray Kim- remorse. Teasing him at the wrong time was State's Attorney himself, waiting for Walker
ble refused to prosecute Warren Blythe for personable Dave Walker, the assistant City to give his story and leave. · Before the
lying to police about Blythe bullyboy Scott Manager of Galesblrrg. Words turned to blows assistant City Manager got out of the Court-
Doubet's threatening of Mike Richardson, and Walker picked himself off the floor and house, Hulick had rushed his statement to the
Post reporter, at an IDAC ban~uet. We ques- called in police who charged the former gam- waiting Don Woolsey and Warren Blythe.
tioned his judgement in determining where bling boss with battery. No one claims to
and when to apply the la< . We have found have seen the fight so Blythe claimed inno- Says Dave Walker, "The Courthouse is be-
out that Mr. Kimble was merely carrying out cence and changed his story several times ginning to look like a depot to me as I
the probable wishe~ ~f his boss, Donald like a chameleon changing colors. get the feelj_ng I'm being railroaded."
Woolsey, the tall rugged State's Attorney
of Knox County. A recent example of Wool- On Jan. 14, 1976, Dave Walker was called to Once again, Illinois travellers beware!
sey's impartiality will illustrate this the Courthouse to make his statement to In- In the birthplace of Carl Sandburg, lies,
point. vestigator Don Hulick of the prosecutor's threats, intimidation and battery all go
office. What Dave Walker didn't know.was unpunished. Apparently Boss Blythe and
In the early morning hours of Jan. 7, 1976, his band have free reign.
Warren Blythe,, despondent over being dumped
by Dan Walker after a Post-Amerikan expose,

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On·Job Injury Cans Beich

he Beich Candy Co. fired an eight- Washington went to the Township Relief Employee
ar employee,.Herschel Washington, office, where a township relief worker
also tried to intervene on his behalf Ironically, Washington noted, "The
last June for being injured on the job. with Belch's. The township worker union kept sending me cards to pay my
While on the job, Washington at- called Johnson to ask about Washington's union dues while I didn't have a job."
tempted to lift a large container of release, and allegedly Johnson was But, Washington told the Post-Amerikan
candy off the floor so it would not. quite amused about the subject, finally he anticipates further action on his
be ruined. He was the only worker ~n insisting to the Township Relief worker dismissal in the near future.
that area of the plant at the time, that Washington's work record wasn't
and he couldn't get any help to lift very good. Washington claimed that ----Jeremy Timmens
it. Picking up the container was too such an accusation simply was not true.
much for Washington's backt thqugh, Washington said the Township Relief --
and he exper"ie~ced severe ..:pains. worker wasn't amused, either.
Washington told his superv~sor, Charles "Go home, I tell you! The recession
Washington feels he has been dis- is overt"
ller1 about the problem, but Miller criminated against because, as he
didn't think Washington had a serious put it, "Others have missed time from
problem and insisted that Washington work without furnishing a release to
go back to work. the company without being dismissed."
The next day, Washington's back pains He also told the Post-Amerikan that it
were worse. When he brought up the doesn't do any good to talk to super-
subject again to Miller, Miller angrily visors or plant management because they
told Washington that he could leave, are uninterested in workers' problems.
but that he would have to have a doc-
tor's statement to get back to work. Apparently, any worker from Belch's
Washington went to Dr. Parker for can be dismissed without real reasons.
treatment of what Parker diagnosed as Washington can press claims for back
a strained back. Parker gave him pay approaching $4000 as of this .
some medicine for the strain, and told writing. But no such action has been
him to stay off the job for about three initiated by the union in his behalf.
weeks. Before visiting the doctor,
Washington had received a medical re- How To 13real~ A Union Shop
lease form from Belch's. Following
the visit, personnel in the doctor's Last May three employes of the American will certainly give American Glass
office assured Washington that they'd some advantage over Bloomington Glass
send the form to Belch's. Glass Co. at )02 s. Lee didn't go back when it comes to cost estimates.
For some reason, Parker's office never
returned the form to Belch's. After to work when their contract ran out.' Funny, isn't it, how a union is some-
being off the job for about two weeks, Members of the Glaziers Union, with its times just a name, and depending on the
Belch's sent Washington a termination local and business agent in Peoria, the situation, it can be manipulated one
notice. Confused, Washington returned three picketed at the company for a way or another to reap benefits for a
to Parker's office to discover that the while. They haven't been rehired. shop owner?
form had not been returned to Belch's.
Washington retrieved the form and took It seems that Mr. Farina, the owner of -----Tom Pain
it to Belch's to correct the mistake. American Glass, decided last January
But Washington never anticipated the that he wouldn't sign a new contract
run-around he •d get from :a·e ich' s. He with the Glaziers because he wanted to
first approached Wendell Sutton, pres- completely eliminate commercial work.
ident of the Confectionary Workers He also probably wanted to avoid pay-
which represents candy factory workers. ing out increased wages to the union
According to Washington, ~The president employes.
said it wasn't right, and he talked it
over with the superintendant of the The Post-Amerikan talked with a work-
plant." After getting nowhere with er at American Glass and discoverad
the superintendant, Sutton approched that Mr. Farina and several other non-
Ralph. Johnson, Belch's personel man- union workers are now carrying on the
ager, who could offer no assistance to commercial work he said he'd eliminate
Washington. Sutton told the Post- union help to do. Bloomington Glas,s,
Amerikan that Belch's has a standing on the other hand, reportedly has
policy requiring sick or injured em- seven union employees. Of course,
ployees .to return the sick pass to Bloomington Glass is'a family business,
Belch's within five days of seeing a and six of the seven union workers are
doctor. Sutton also said that Johnson also related to the family that owns
agreed to "study" the problem, and the business.
nothing else happened.
In order to make ends meet until he An (unidentified) source told the Post-
could recive unemployment compensation, Amerikan that when Bloomington Glass
negotiated another union contract, "the
prices we.re just raised accordingly."
· American Glass and Bloomington Glass
are competitors in town, and having
non-union labor in commercial work

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warden of the Pontiac "Correctional
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most scott free after ending his pre-
Christmas celebration by running a
state car into Les' Westside Barbershop
in Pontiac Illinois.

Arriving at the scene the arresting Satter got personally involved in the . 1!· ~,I1I1
officer, J9ffrey Durham, Pontiac case "because I could see this was a
Police, wrote out four ticketsa reck- case that might be of public concern, Ill
less.driving, too fast for conditions, and I decided I'd better make the de-
improper lane usage, and driving while cision on what charges to file rather "/)r, yr;u e·:·er lwc.·e nne of rho.''' J,n·.-- ::·!?e11 t>:·en-
intoxicated. then leaving that responsibility with . rhinx seems Uti-Constitutirma/?"
one of my assistants." What kind of
With the speedy system of justice (only assistant state's attorney does Many people in Pontiac .have said that
18 hours) Fred Finkbeiner was charged Livingston county have that can't make the case is closed and to forget about
with only reckless driving. He pleaded decisions on cases of public concern? it. The Pontiac Daily Leader .has
guilty to the charge and was fined one helped people "try to forget" by not
hundred dollars and ordered to pay Question number three involves the printing any more letters to the editor
court costs. speediness of the warden's case. At unless something new develops in the
first Satter said that the state's at- case. This was the only way for the
One question that comes to mind im- torney's office entered the Fred people of Pontiac to publicly express
mediately is why the ticket for driving Finkbeiner case earlier than usual th!l:er opinions.
.while intoxicated was not filed by the partly because the office "was con-
states attorney, According to John G. tacted by the police sooner than in a The Finkbeiner case should not be for-
Satter, Jr., Livingston county state's normal case." After the Pontiac Police gotten. If we can't stop the double-
attorney, there was not enough evi- denied this, Satter then replied that standard of "who you are" at the local
dence. The ,,only evidence you need to he was misinformed on that point. "I level, there is surely no chance at
prove a ~erson is intoxicated is to had assumed all along that the Pontiac stopping it at the higher levels of
give the person a breathilizer test. Police had called a representative of government.
That would lead 'to question number two 1 our office, but they didn't," the
Was the warden asked to take a breath- state's attorney was quoted as saying, ----D. Semmens
ilizer test? According to Satter, Satter then said Finkbeiner's attorney
Finkbeiner refused it on the advice of called John Beyer (assistant state's
his attorney (Harold Frobish, Pontiac). attorney) about the case. Beyer then
Under the applied consent law of Ill., went to the police station and asked
Finkbeiner should have had his drivers the police to bring all four tickets
license revoked for a period of six to the state's attorney's office the
months. Unfortunatelyfor the citizens next morning. At nine o'clock the
of Pontiac, Finkbeiner still has his next morning, John Satter slashed away
drivers license. Why Finkbeiner still three of the tickets, leaving reckless
has his drivers .license an unanswered driving as a slap on the wrist for
question--a full month aft~r the ac- Finkbeiner.
cident happened.

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8 CONDEMN 1. The death sentences be dropped now!
SHAHS 2. The Iranian regime must allow Mr. Eiden to

fully carry out his investigation regarding
political prisoners.
3. Mr. Eiden must be allowed to participate in
all "Appeal Courts", reviewing the case of
those patriots awaiting death.

EXECUTION WE ASK YOU TO:

1) CALL THE IRANIAN CONSULATE IN CHICAGO
PHONE: 642-3376

ORDER OF 2) CALL THE IRANIAN EMBASSY IN WASHING-
TON, D.C.
PHONE: (202) 797-6500

3) TELEGRAM TO AMIR ABBAS HOVEYA

IRANIAN OFFICE OF PRIME MINISTER
TEHRAN, IRAN
PATRIOTS
4) SEND TELEGRAM TO: UNITED NATION
On Dec. 31, the decadent and fascist regime of the The Iranian Students Assoc. in the U.S. strongly HUMAN RIGHTS
Shah of Iran announced the execution order of 9 condemns the fascist act of the regime in con- COMMISSION
Iranian patriots and condemned another to 15 years demning the Iranian patriots to death. We demand UNITED NATION
solitary confinement. The revolutionaries to be that the execution orders be immediately revoked! PLAZA
executed are eight men and one woman. NEW YORK, N.Y.

5) SEND TELEGRAM TO: AMNESTY
INTERNATIONAL
lj5 THEOBALD'S RD.
LONDON
LClX SSP, ENGLAND

The execution orders were given by secret military Hungar Strikes Held Iranian Student Association, I.S. U.

tribunal in which neither the public, international To protest the execution orders, the Confederation POST NOTE: The nine revolutionaries discussed in
observers nor the press was allowed. Such "trials" of Iranian Students Association held world wide de- this article were executed by the Iranian government
are pre-arranged and the verdict handed out by the monstrations, 24 hour vigils, and unlimited hunger on Thursday, January 22 as this paper was being
secret police (SAVA K) long before the trials begin. strikes. The hunger strikes, that had been started Qut. The staff of the Post-Amerikan wishes to ex-
These verdicts are given under the direct orders since Jan. 3rd, ended after 9"'13 days. By these press its solidarity with these nine freedom fighters
of the Shah. world wide actions the Iranian Students Associ- and with the Iranian people who are continuing the
ation was able to attract world public opinion to struggle for liberation.
There are over 40, 000 political prisoners in Iran the current happenings in Iran and get their.
who are systematically tortured. Many are killed support. Following I.S.A. 's world wide actions
or permanently maimed as a result of the wounds in support of these patriots, Mr. Richard Eiden,
inflicted on them. Hundreds have been executed or a lawyer from Los Angeles, California went to
gunned down in the streets. Each year numerous Tehran, as an international observer representing
people are killed by the Shah's troops either in the National Lawyers Guild and Amnesty Inter-
demonstrations or workers' strikes, both of which national (Bay Area Chapter) investigating the
are outlawed. Three months ago, 16 workers were plight of Iranian political prisoners, and the case
killed at a strike in the Shahi Textile factory. Over of those patriots awaiting execution, in particular.
60, 000 paid secret agents roam the streets like the

Nazi SS, and to culminate this state of terror the We ask the support of all freedom loving and pro-
Shah has formed a single party , the National Res- gressive people. Please send telegrams of pro-
urre:::tion Party of Iran, which in actuality is an
open form of the SA VAK and has augmented the test to the Secretary General of the U.N., Weildheim
state of terror. For two years the U.N. Human and the Iranian Prime Minister, Amir Abbas
Rights Commission named Iran as one of 5 Hoveida, the Prime Minister's Office, Tehran,
countries to be investigated for systematic violation Iran. Also, please call the Iranian consulate in
of human rights.
Chicago and the Embassy in Washington, D. c.

The telephone numbers are: 642-3376 and (202)

U.S. Imperialism Evident 797-6500 respectively. IN OUR UNITY LIES OUR Recent demonstration against the Shah of Iran
VICTORY! by Iranian students in Rome. They are wear-
In 1953, the UoS., through the CIA instigated a ing masks to avoid identification by the SAVAK,
coup d'etat and overthrew the popular government In view of the foregoing we demand: the Iranian secret police.
of Dr. Mossadegh and brought the present fascist

regime of the Shah to power. The U.S. formed HELP WANTED
and trained the Iranian secret police (Iran's Gest-
apo), armed the Shah to the teeth, (over half of Two Positions Available

the U. So arms sales for 1974 and 1975 have been
to Iran!), and in Dec. 1973, ordered the Shah's

troops to attack llberation forces in Oman, a
country on the Persian Gulf. These troops are
led 1y the Popular Front for the Liberation of

Oman(PFLO). During this period, the large u.s.

corporations and monopolies have come to con-
trol Iran's economy and in effect have turned it
into a neo-colony and the Shah into a Gendarme

for their-interests in the Persian Gulf. To

secure their position, the U.S. has sent thou-

sands of military advisors, and appointed the 1) P~ospec!ive book marketers needed, Come anytime, during day
notorious former CIA director, Richard Helms, o. evenlng, to Sugar Creek Book Co-op, located within Divinyl
~a~ness Rec~rd Store! ~15 North Street, in downtown Normal.·
to direct the Uos. activities in Iran. Sk1ll~ requ1re~1 Ab1l1ty to wander down aisles, enjoy
pur~u~ng our w1de selectlon of books and fine literature.
It must be asked then: who is the real murderer, Pos1t1o~ can be.performed at any hour, according to your
if not the fascist regime of the Shah and its SAVAK. sche~ullng :equ1:ements. ~ll prospective marketers will
Who is the real terrorist, if not the U.S. govern- rece1ve an 1mmed1ate lOd, d1scount.

ment which napalmed ~d killed hundreds of thou-

sands of Vietnamese. Who are the real terrorists, 2) ~rospec!ive Books~ore Workers needed. Sugar Creek Book co-op
if not the CIA, FBI and Richard Helms who
blackmail, poison, and assassinate individuals and 1s a no"-for-proflt seller of books which offers a l0'1a
generally terrorize the American people. And who
are the thieves, if not the US corporations and discount on all merchandise, because all store labor is vol-
monopolies who with one hand rob the American
people and with the other plunder the Third World. u~teer . . Numerous bookselle: positions are available at any
In fact it can be said that the U.S. ruling class'
Ft1rmine~edurb1enngeftihtes day or even 1ng, e acbcoookrdipne~~ to your schedule
conception of "justice" and "freedom" are the include one f:e month, and most '
CIA, SAVAK, and the Shah of Iran.
books at cost, plus the experlence of working within an al-

ternative, co-operative economic experiment, good fellowship
and the opportunity to meet interesting people and be sur- '

rounded by fine literature.

The struggle of the Iranian people for freedom and Apply today at Sugar Creek Book Co-op, 115 North street, down-
independence is growing everyday, and the rev- town Normal, inside Divinyl Madness Records,
olutionaries that have been condemned to death are
among the flower of our movement for liberation
and independence. The struggle of the Iranian
people is just and must be supported by all freedom
loving people.

ietnamese Tackle Drug Problem, 9
Legacy Of Old' Regime By Unda Hiebert

(Editor's note: Linda Hiebert was part of a But following liberation and participation in a land which the center hopes to develop into a
Mennonite and Quaker delegation which visited re-education course, Dr. Son was asked to cooperative farm•
. liberated Saigon in December, 1975. The dele come to the center to use his unique skill.
gation toured the drug center mentioned in With other doctors he has since published his However, the center at present has no funds
this article. articles and findings in a book on the use of for seeds, agricultural tools or tractors to
acupuncture. help resettle the rehabilitated addicts. What-
During the war in Vietnam, the CIA collab-
orated with tribespeople in Northern Laos, In one and a half months Long will finish his in- ever his choice, Long will be guided for a
Thailand, and Burma in moving raw opium itial drug treatment and will be ready for the
into the international drug trade, where pro- second phase. Long has several options. He long time to insure the cure of his habit.
fits go into the hundreds of millions. can returnhometo his wife and five children
where his local Social Welfare Council will If this experimentafdrug center is successful,
Heroin was so ·easy to acquire in Saigon dur- help him find a job. Or he can take his family it will be expanded to treat the 100, 000 addicts
ing the war that estimates of addicts in the to a new ar.ea to farm. of all ages, women, children and men, in South
U.S. Army ranged up to 30 per cent. There Vietnam. The four young doctors and fifteen
were an estimated 150, 000 Vietnamese drug The new government has initiated this program nurses are enthusiastic and determined to tack-
addicts in Saigon alone at the end of the war) to help people return to the countryside by pro- le this social problem which remains as a trag-
viding land, agricultural tools, some house- ic product of the war.
HO CHI MINH CITY (LNS) -- Three years ago hold supplies, and rice for six months. The
under the old Saigon regime, Pharo Thanh Long drug center is also offering Long the opportun- But they see their role as only one part of com-
could get a drug deferment from Tbieu1s army. batting this social problem. As Dr. Son said,
As an addict he was brought before the Drug's !ty of s~yin~to work on the 500,000 acres of "We must and we will stop the drug traffic to
Deferment Council, sentenced to one month in complete the cure of drug addiction in our coun-
prison and then released with a military defer-
ment for several months. Chicago Red Squad

"At first working as a nurse it was easy to get Wants Files Back
drugs," Long said. "But when I lost my job,
my wife was forced to support my habit which Last July, an investigator from the Dorneker contended that the Red Squad
cost 1, 000 piasters ($1. 50) every day." Long intelligence division of the Chicago is unable to gather information on
wanted to give up his habit. He had already Police Department, Eugene Dorneker,, extremist or terrorist groups in
lost one arm from an infection caused by a testified before the Senate Internal Chicago as a result of not having
dirty needle. "But each time I felt I could do Security subcommittee, complaining access to the files. Dorneker,
it, my draft deferment ran out and I had to go that his department is hampered by ..P~IL~tt,perintendEmt Ja~s Rochford,
back on drugs." a "Communist front organization." and the Deputy Superintendant were
The "Communist front" is really the called to Washington, D.C., to
At first his wife objected stronglyto his use of Alliance to End Repression, a "discuss" the activities of the
drugs. Eventually, however, as she saw so community-based organization which Alliance to End Repression which
many of their friends and relatives killed or brought suit against the Chicago' have so severely hampered the Red
wounded in the army, she felt that there was Police's Red Squad out of concern Squad's functioning.
no choice. Either long would be an addict or about the violation of individual Last March, the AER won their suit,
he would be drafted. Long was more fortun- liberties by the Red Squad's use of which forbids the Red Squad to use
ate than some of his addict friends, who des- intelligence files. The files alleg- intelligence files on .members of
pite their addiction were drafted and then sent edly contained names of Chicago-area the Chicago community.
to the front without guns as servants for of- civil liberties activists, labor
ficers of the Saigon Army. activists, and persons working for
non-violent change.
·. With the liberation of South Vietnam in April,
Long and his friends became frightened. They Divinyl Madness
knew that their supply of drugs would eventual-
ly be cut, but beyond that they had no idea how 6. 98 list
the new government would deal with them • It price alliums
was rumored that addicts would be put in prison
to cure them of their habit. Long waited, biding always 4.48
in his house.

Some time after liberation, a neighbor who was
in Ho Chi Minh City's (formerly known as Sai-
gon) local administrative Council for Social Wel-
fare and Veteran's Affairs, came to Long's
house to talk with him about his drug problem.
He explained that the new government was es-
tablishing an experimental drug treatment
center for addicts which Long could particip-
ate in. At first Long was reluctant, but now
one month later he is one of eighty patients
benefitting from the program.

Long's treatment is in two phases: first, his
drug dependency will be broken; second, he
will be re-educated with a skill he can use to
support his family.

The first phase is a combination of psycholog-
ical treatment, drugs, diet, and acupuncture.
The psychological therapy includes singing,
movies and cultural events with both patients
and staff actively participating.

The addicts, ranging from 18 to 35 years, re-
ceive limited amounts of morphine and seconal
to help them through their withdrawal crisis.
The center also uses stricts diets for indivi-
dual problems of kidney and liver disease.
One of the doctors has found that certain foods
are helpful in the overall treatment of addic-
tion.

A significant aspect of the crisis treatment is
the use of acupuncture to relieve the addict's
withdrawal pain and anxiety. One of the cen-
ter's therapists, Dr. Son, an acupuncture
specialist who was formerly an officer in
Tbieu1s army in Pleiku, wrote an article under
the old government on the use of acupuncture
for the treatment of drug addiction, but was not
allowed to publish it.

10 ABORTION: Women's

January 22nd was the third anniversary of equal protection from the moment of The Moral Question
the legalization of abortion by the Supreme conception. No state could terminate
Court. On that date in Bloomington, that individual's life. Of course, this What if human life does begin at conce~­
about JO adults and 60 children of would also end capital punishment. tion or implantation, rather than viabil-
grade-school age and younger gathered on "The Buckley Amendment would begin ity (the time when a fetus can live with-
the courthouse steps to mourn the fetuses life when there is a biologically identifi- out the life-support system of the womb)
aborted during the past three years. The able human, which they place at the point or birth? Even if this were somehow
crowd was middle-class and exclusively of implantation, about a week after "proven," should abortion be illegal?
white, and the two speakers were men. fertilization. This amendment would give The moral question is still left open, and
The little boys, already rowdier than the the fetus 5th and 14th amendment rights of because the fetus is in fact part of the
little girls, were eager to have their due process, and would raise a number of woman's body, it should be the woman's
pictures taken by the Post photographer. legal questions regarding the fetus. decision, not the legislature's.
Their excitement was understandable, as If a pregnant mother was jailed, would Our society and our legal system permit and
it was a weekday and they must have that mean punishment without due process in fact encourage the taking of human life
felt joyful about getting sprung from for the fetus? Could a fetus sue in every ~ -- in certain situations. Wars,
school to hold posters which read, court, or could someone sue in behalf the death penalty, and self-defense are
"Respect Life" and "If It's Not Life, of it? Would abortive contraceptives instances of this. The difference between
Why Do They Have To Kill It?" It's safe (like the IUD) be considered murder? Would abortion (if the fetus is a human being)
to assume that abortion is a pretty a woman have to register her pregnancy? and war is who makes the choice. In abor-
sophisticated concept for these kids, And other questions." tions, the people most directly concerned
whose parents, heavily Catholic, have make the choice, In wars, the men in
probably been dutifully protecting them Shilgalis' reply to these questions is power make the choice -- for everyone else,
as much as possible from the ugly "That is a smokescreen. Those are matters Most U. S. Senators who have voted against
"facts of life" -- sex and all that. that can be properly taken up by the legis- abortion have also voted for capital
latures. They don't have anything to do punishment, according to a recent survey
Conspicuously absent from this "Right- with the right of one person to kill an- published in Majority Report. The same
to-Life" gathering were any signs of other." Senators have also voted against food
grief for the women who have died during stamps, disaster relief and medical care
unsafe, illegal abortions, the children Rather than acting as a smokescreen, reforms.
who have been born into families who those questions point out the huge diff-
did not want them and could not support erences between a fetus and the human Central Catholic students, apparently let out of
them emotionally, or financially, or both, life now legally protected. school to attend the demonstration, outnumbered
and the victims of child abuse. adults about 2 to 1 at this "memorial service. "
Right-to-Life supports the Buckley amend-
Right to Life ment, although some supporters say that RGlST~­
life would begin at conception under this
vs. Right to Choose bill, making abortive contraceptives like STORE_
IUO's and morning-after pills illegal.
A Post reporter interviewed Tom Shilgalis, The actual amendment is vague on this. astas
co-president of the local Right-to-Life The Post asked Shilgalis, "What is your Supply
committee, and Kay Wilson, president of the position in regard to abortive contracep-
local Right-to-Choose Coalition. In tives, such as IUD's, which abort the Y T!EE
that interview, Shilgalis states, fetus right after fertilization of the
"Scientific fact recognizes that life egg by preventing its implantation in the
begins at conception, and people who uterus wall?" He answered, "It is an un-
claim that it begins at some other time natural interuption of the process (of
are fooling themselves. The right to development) and it is no good in our view.
choose boils down to the right to kill." Outlawing IUD's would mean that women would
have to use bonafide contraceptives."
Kay Wilson, in response to the question
"Why do you feel abortion should be · As Wilson pointed out in her interview,
legal?" states, "There is a question about "There is no contraceptive that is 100%
exactly when human life begins. For effective. A 1% rate of failure would
some people, anything to prevent the mean that l/4 million women would
fertilization of the egg is considered still be pregnant who took the
murder. The individual should decide best contraceptives available."
based on their own beliefs when human
life begins. We (Right-to-Choose) And, of course, the "best" contraceptives
do feel it is important that a women should in terms of effectiveness-the pill and the
have counseling before she considers IUD-are also the most dangerous to the
abortion, and should be aware of all women using them.
the alternatives and ramifications."
of
There is, of course, a huge controversey
over when human life begins, which Tom THE
Shilgalis recognizes in his leaflet
"Some Thoughts on the Supreme Court
Abortion Decisions," although not in
his interview. Various people,
including courts and scientists, have at
various times set the beginning of human
life at implantation, conception,
viabillty, and birth. The Catholic
Church considers anything that would
interfere with the potential of human
life immoral.

In view of all this, pro-abortionists say
that since the fetus, whether human life
or not, is part of the woman's body,
it is her right to choose abortion or
continued pregnancy. Shilgalis has this
to say about that.

"Many women are saying, 'We have a right
to control our bodies and therefore we
ought to be able to have an aborti~n,'
but what they ignore is that they're not
c~ntrolling their own bodies when they
kill somebody else •.. it's no more part of
the body than a shoe is, really."

I wonder if Tom Shilgalis has ever had
to drive to Peoria and pay $175 to have
a shoe removed.

The Post asked Kay Wilson, "What efforts
have been made nationally to restrict
abortion?" She responded, "There are
thirty constitutional amendments presently
in the House of Representatives. There
are three main types. One type would
bar the federal government from regulating
abortion, so jurisdiction would revert to
the states, possibly bypassing the
supreme court decision in this way. The
second type, represented by Hogan's
amendment, would give due process and

Bodies "" ... ,. Women's Right I1

The third clause of' the Kelley bill re-
quires "informed consent" for abortions.
This clause provides that the doctor ex-
plain to the woman both the dangers of'
the proced~~ (which is reasonable and
not always done) ~ the "physical com-
petency of the fetus -- including its ab-
ility to move, swallow and otherwise
function ·'as~ a human being. "' This cruel
attempt to cause or reinforce guilt in a
woman receiving an abortion does not pre-
vent the abortion, It interferes with the
woman's right to life,

And that, in fact, seems to be the purpose
of anti-abortion laws.

Alice Wonder

apf.

Tom and Kay Shilgalis, head-honchos of Right to Life and Death Issues Confuse Reagans
were two of abGut 30 adults to attend protest.
Motive/cpf
The Kelley BiII
(CBS 60 Minutes/LNS)
The Post asked Tom Shilgalis, "Do you Nancy Reagan: " .•• (Ronald and I) do see things
support the Kelley bill? Do you think it
is constitutional? Shilgalis answered, pretty much alike. "
"I'm not qualified to comment, but, •• I CBS: "The death penalty?"
happen to think it's constitutional ••• Nancy Reagan: "I'm in favor of the death pen-
they may not agree. I support the bill."
alty."
The Kelley bill was passed in Illinois CBS: "Why ?"
over the veto of the Governor, but is temp- Nancy Reagan: "because I think it saves lives.
orarily suspended by a Supreme Court I think people are alive today because of the--
order. The first clause requires the
consent of a husband, parent or guard- because of the death penalty. "
ian for a woman to have an abortion, un- CBS: "Abortion?"
less a doctor judges her life to be in Nancy Reagan: "I--Ican't get over the point of
imminent danger; it being that you're killing somebody. I--I

can't get beyond that.'.'

NEWSPAPERS
~
I

MAGAZINES

Lone counter-picketer sneaks behind enemy lines. ...

The Kelley bill exposes its supporters -COIN {
for exactly what they are -- people
much more concerned about the rights of' ,STAMP
men to oppress women than the rights of SUPPLIES
fetuses. It upholds the idea that women
are the property of the husbands or fath- --
ers. It asserts the peculiar belief that 5AM-~PM
abortion is murder when women make the
choice and not murder when men give their MON-SAT 1
consent.
SAM· 1.1!30 PM
The second clause of the Kelley bill out- SVN.
laws the use of' "saline or other fluid"
in abortions. The saline method is the
most widely used, safest and least expen-
sive means of giving abortions during the

second trimester, from 4-7 months. Rather

than outlawing second trimester abortions
completely, it takes away a women's safest
method.~f·abortion during that time. The
hysterotomy, the second most common second
trimester method of abortion, has a matern-
al death rate of 271.2 per 100,000 abor-
tions, while the saline method has 19.5
deaths per 100,000.

I

I read a warning in High Times magazine Our national treasury is now suggesting This is what happened in Germany in the
that if you handle large amounts of that the government stop printing one 1920's. There was not enough gold to
cash you should te on the lookout for dollar bills and replace them with new back up all the money the government
counterfeit ~20 bills. two dollar bills. One needs a wheel- was printing, and people needed wheel-
barrow to carry enough "ones" to the barrows to carry their paper money.
It seems there is a large cover-up to grocery store for food. Soon we will
hide the fact that anyone can produce get to carry half as many bills in If you don't have enough capital to
paper money. Yes, anyone with four "twos". "print your own," there is still an-
or five hundred dollars capital can other way to cash in on the paper
produce un1imitej cash. I bought a A rock group called Montrose wrote an caper.
book last year with complete instruc- album called Paper Money. Here are the
tions on how to make money so well that words to the title song• A friend of mine cashed his paycheck,
it will even pass at banks. All. you getting it in fifty dollar bills. He
need is a lithograph copy machine, a I played a game of the rich boy. then went to a McDonald's restaurant
reasonable knowledge of photography and I buy everything I can. in the evening when the manager was
25% rag paper. Contrary tc what we are rv:y bankroll is a foot thick. not there. After ordering his supper
led to believe, this paper is sold at I'm a wealthy man. he pulled out his fifty dollar bill.
any paper company. A million dollar reserve note McDonalds can not accept bills larger
is right there in my hand, than twenties without the manager's
Counterfeiting is not that much dif- And I can't stand the thing. okay, so the customer got two Big Macs,
ferent from the government's printing Well, it's all that I got. fries and a shake for free.
of money. In both cases, there is no Take away all my silver,
gold to back up this new money. Take away all my gold, substances because they did not know
and hand me a stack of paper. what to believe. Educators then began
J>aper raoney, Paper money don't hold to realize that these scare tactics
~ou act as though you don't remember were not helping, so a new tactic
The way it all used to be came about1 "telling it like it is."
Now one man locks up the money
and another man holds the key.
Paper Money don't hold,

u.o. Druq l;duc.ation with green skin wh~ will "get you "Telling it like it is" is supposed
hooked." This so-called factual in- to present factual information con-
The first efforts to handle illicit formation was telling folks that pot cerning the use of illicit drugs.
drug use in this country were through leads to heroi:-1, LSD will make you It was assumed that with the correct
strict enforcement of harsh laws. By crazy, etc. Insurance companies, po- information, students would make the
the early to mid-sixties, as drug use lice, and community organizations "right" decision not to use drugs.
increasingly spread to the white began to print and distribute pamph- This method backfired in many cases
middle class, this country began to lets telling kids and parents about because some students became curious
realiz~, that these efforts were not the evils of drug abuse. and began to experiment with drugs,
effective.
This misinformation probably did more The switch from scare tactics to
Drug education was one new approach. harm than good. Kids were told in the "telling it like it is " caused much
!•lost of this early drug informations pamphlets that pot was addicting, but confusion and frustration for both
was very prejudiced, portraying "drug the kids had friends who smoked reg- teachers and students. This led to
abusers" as mentally dera d folks ularly and were not addicted, so they an even newer approach, called
quickly rejected all the information Values Clarification or Confluent
as false. This rejection led folks i':ducation.
to use some very potentially dangerous
Values clarification, if done correct-
·Pat's got two ly, seems to be a good approach, at
least in theory. In reality, it does
COMMi;RCIRL RIR J..IOCKi;V not work in the average school with
the average teacher trying it. The
games ready to go. teacher has usually been told to teach
drug education through values clarifi-
cation even if s/he does not want to
or does not have the skills to do it
well,

So drug education in the average school
is probably as bad as it always has
been, and will probably continue to
be poor for many years to come.

Also SERVAL pin ball machines Ri;r>UILDING Vli;TNRM
and of course
Paris (LNS) On Dec. 16 and 17, delegates from 90 organi-
POOL TABLES & accessories. zations in 15 countries came together in Paris for an Inter-

Financing available national Assembly for Healing the Wounds of War and for the
Master Charge welcome Reconstruction of Vietnam.

Repair Service / The Conference heard.reports of the current problems Vietnam
faces, such as the effects of biological warfare and ecological
Pat's also buys disruption, the problems of displaced persons, orphans, and
used game equipment food production.

A professor at the University of Paris, Ernest Boudare, point-
ed out that "the Vietnamese soil is still in a state of war:
bet ''een 150,000 and JOO, 000 tons of unexploded bombf.: are still
imbedded in it--in other words, half the total tonnage of
bombs dropped during the Korean war."

During the last decade the U.S. government spent, as a con-
servative estimate, $150 billion on the Indochina war. These
funds financed more than four million tons of bombs, 18 mil-
lion gallons of chemical defoliants, and nearly 400,000 tons
of napalm used against the Vietnamese and their land.

The effect on the country's productive base has been harsh.
The bombing of the coastal dikes in central Vietnam flooded
the rice fields with salt water. Restoring these areas to cul·
tivation will require flushing with fresh water for several years.
Agricultural land has been broken up by 21 million bomb craters.
Half of the water buffalo--the main energy source--were killed
between 1963 and 1973.

While reconstruction efforts are moving ahead in Vietnam and sup··
porters throughout the world are organizing to send aid, speakers
at the conference stressed the U.S. government's obligation to
contribute to the massive work of healing the wounds of war.

Tran Van Minh, a professor who has been teaching for many

years at the Paris University L<',W School (he was also a

minister in one of Diem's cabinets), presented an extremely

well-documented report on the legal aspects of the reparations

question. The report showed tha t the UnnoittedonSlytaatesm~raals the also
aggressor in th e Vietnam conflic t,· has but

a strict legal obligation to contribute to repairing the war

damage inflicted on the country.

THE UGLY FACTS ABOUT t3

KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL

(Note: "People Start Pollution, People On the one hand these industries were When accused of wasting energy and
Can Stop It"--it's a slogan we all see spending millions of dollars each year materials by producing billions of
daily on television, billboards, and advertising 'the convenience of their throwawqys each year, industry's re-
subways. On December 4, environment- products, promoting them as "throwaw- sponse is to encourage people to re-
alists gave the organization responsi- ays." cycle their cans and bottles on an
ble for that campaign--Keep America individual basis. In addition,
Beautiful (KAB)--a special award for At the same time, they formulated a their only contribution to recyC;ling
its efforts to cover up the environ- scheme that ranks among the most is corporate advertising campaigns
mental impact of throwaway beverage successful public relations campaigns to publicize the recyclability of
cans and bottles. in history--blaming the individual their products.
consumer for the environmental insult
Charging that the organization is an of littered cans and bottles. Meanwhile, the litter problem con-
"industry front" th·i.rty national and Why Throwaways? tinues unabated. Pioneering the
state environmental organizations hon- Throwaways are a .tremendous boon to "throwaway ethic," the contaiper
ored KAB with the "People Who Start the container, brewing, and solt drink industry now disclaims its respons-
Pollution Award" at a counter-awards industries. Under this system, they ibility for contributing to litter.
ceremony timed to coincide with KAB's no longer have to pay the costs of Composing ~0 to 80 percent of litter
annual meeting in Washington. refilling and reusing beverage con- by volume, the highly visible throw-
tainers which are higher than the cost aways litter highways, beaches, nation-
"For the past 22 years, KAB has made of producing throwaway ~ontainers. al parks, and city streets. The prob-
th~ fight against litter its number Every time consumers purchase throw- lem has reached such proportions that
one thrust," said Patricia Taylor, away soft drinks or beer, they also not even taxpayer-financed litter
spokesperson for the sponsoring groups. buy a can or bottle. And the price collection efforts are able to handle
"In reality, the founders and support- of this "convenient" throwaway is 'it,
ers of KAB--the U.S. Brewers Assoe higher than the cost of the ingredients
iation and the nation's glass and can for the beverage. Although KAB ostensibly takes no stand
manufacturing companies --are re spons·-- Under a throaway system, there is also on legislation, the organization's head,
ible for the problem." "convenience" for retailers. Empty Roger Powers, exposed the organization's
bottles don't have to be sorted and industry bias in testimony against bev-
The following article, provided by returned for refilling. Instead, con- erage container legislation before
Environmental Action Magazine in sumers simply dispose of them alqng the California state legislature. His
Washington, describes the ugly facts with other trash. Taxpayers then foot statement is reprinted in a brochure
behind Keep America Beautiful's the bill for their collection and dis- entitleQ., "Litter is a social problem,
activities.) posal. a People Problem... "

Keep America Beautiful (KAB) calls it- "We urge that you not take precipitous
self an "ecology organization," and action on this piecemeal legislation,"
aims its anti.!.litter "educational" Powers testified, "but that you exam-
programs at the private citizen. ine the total picture. lrlfe believe
Since its founding in 1953, KAB has that such an investigation will prove
received millions of dollars in free that the proposed 'bottle bill' is not
public service time, filling the the answer."
nation's media with its familiar
slogan "People Start Pollution, After months of controversy, Powers
People Can Stop It." tried to assert that he was not lobby-
ing for the tax-exempt KAB (tax exempt
In 1975 alone, KAB used oyer $1 mill- status prohibits lobbying) but was
ion in air time with its message car- testifying as an individual expert
ried on over 800 local TV stations, against California's proposed bever-
and 5,000 local radio stations, as age container bill. Finally, KAB
well as the national networks. issued a statement defending its
neutrality on beverage container
But the slogan and ad campaign have legislation.
a hollow ring when one realizes that
KAB's backers and directors are the In Oregon and Vermont, legislative
very industries that have brought us measures are keeping cans and bottles
the no-deposit, no-return throwaway off their highways.
cans and bottles which now litter the
countryside. (A 1972 law in Oregon banned flip-
top cans and discouraged use of
The founding of Keep America Beautiful throwaway bottles by placing a higher
coincided with the first production deposit on them than on refillables.
of throwaway cans and bottles in the Vermont's law has a similar deposit.
early 1950s. It is no coincidence system and a provision for banning
that the people hehind KAB repre- flip-top cans and throwaway glass
sented the glass, can, and brewing bottles by January l, 1977.--LNS ed.)
industries hoping to make the switch
from returnables to throwaways as These simple measures do not require
painless and swift as possible--among the time of millions of volunteer
them the American, Continental, and citizens for litter ptck-up patrols
National Can Companies, the Coca-Cola nor the massive publicity campaign of
and Pepsi-Cola Companies, and the US a Keep America Beautiful.
Brewers Association.
(Thanks to LNS.)

(LNS) A u.s. Appeals Court ruled Environmentalist Judge (PNS/LNS)--Yielding to junta demands!
on January 6th to remove Judge Miles- Chile's church hierarchy under Cardinal
Raul Silva has agreed to dissolve the
''Grossly Biased"Lord from a pollution case involving Committee for Cooperation for Peace in
the Reserve Mining Company in Chile.

Minnesota. Lord has issued several Word of the decision, coupled with Silva's
sudden departure for Rome, has left the
rulings in the last two years Chile's Junta Committee workers "in panic," according to
reliable sources.
attacking Reserve for polluting
Lake Superior with cancer-causing Twelve staff workers have been imprisoned
and four others have reportedly gone under-
asbestos fibers. Reserve, which Stops Church ground to avoid arrest, despite th&
daily dumps 67,000 tons of waste Cardinal's plea for clemency to those "whc
into the lake (Superior's only unselfishly tried to serve the high
interests of mercy."
industrial pollution) clears Program
$60,000 profit daily for its For the children of Santiago, the cost of the
Junta's anti-inflationary policies is
joint owners, Armco and Republic measured in hunger. ExRminations of some
1,500 out of an estimated 16,000 partic-
Steel, according to Northern ipants in church-sponsored lunch programs
in all areas of the city have revealed mal-
Environmental Council. The nutrition rates ranging from 45 to 80 per-
cent and even higher among one to two year
Appeals Court charged Lord with olds.

"gross bias" and "deliberate- The survey was sponsored by the Committee
for Cooperation for Peace in Chile, which
denial of due process," based in ran the emergency lunch program for the
past three years.
part on Lord's anti-Reserve state-

ments during hearings.

After he was dismissed from the case, "And with a little help from our friends ••• "

Lord said, "I have done my best to
provide for the maximum protection
of the public health consistent with
due process to all concerned." He
hopes the next judge "will be given
the power and support necessary to
protect the public health of the

people of Minnesota and the
environment in which we live."

14

:Sheriff King and his jail personnel have been let screaming in his cell. the day before he died. recessed pending the State Police investigation,
··;,off the hook again, this time involving the death reconvened and closed the matter. Burton died
However, the Pantagraph reported that one cell- of natural causes, the Coroner's jury ruled.
:·c~ jail prisoner Albert Burton last Nov. 30. mate told state police that Burton "had done a And that is all there will be to it.
lot of hollering and had asked for water repeatedly"
. }While questions surrounding BurtonIs death in the day before his death. . Rather than interpreting The State Police report said the investigation
the hollering as a plea for help, the cellmate just had been requested by John King himself. Appar-
r-'fthe j!lil still remain, "officia~" channels have thought it was one more symptom of Burton's ently, the investigators got to see exactly what
already. concluded their investigations and re- mental condition. (It was Burton's mental con- King wanted them to see_. Since King asked for
:ports. dition that had convinced the court to order Burton the investigation, it is really not surprlsing that
sent to the. Danville Veter'an's Hospital. ) the results turned out as they did-.
~A state police report, pending as the Post went
'The State Police investigation confirmed Sheriff No one will be allowed to see the report that State
:to press last issue, conclu'ded that there was King's earlier report that deputies had "simply Police submitted to State's Attorney Paul Welch.
~'"no int~ntional negligence" on the part of jail forgot" to take Burton to the Danville Hospital. Welch claimed it would be "illegal" to show the
:em='loyees. report to anyoneo
The Coroner's inquest, which had temporarily
>Officials 'reading the State Police report claimed

':that it put to. rest rumors that Burton had been

PORTER bOb UO!~O?OI m3U
U009 9n ~!9!A
PONDERS 4 =..
JO ~~~M puz .10 1s1 ~q1 puno.IV)
JAIL JIVE II, • p~1~1dmoa S! ~.IOlS ~.IlllllJ .IllO
UO UO!lall.IlSUOa {!1 Ull
· The death of Albert Burton, a prisoner ,in McLean ·
. County jail, is troubling in several ways. The 96 ·uuf tuo.IJ p~so1a ~q U!M ~A\
-. ~antagraph c!ouded the issue with its headline of
· December 31st, "No negligence found in death of Jt.l"d A81U!.L Ue!PUI
_~mate, " above a .story on the state police inves- pue s.aepee1 'uO!I=»unr
. tlgation of the· death. The story outlines how jail St'1&!8H
irersonnel received, filed, and forgot a court e~o~oec1 U! •'l=»edy JtU!'I.L
·order requiring that Burton be taken to the Dan- OSie . 'A.II&Mer

ville Vete~ns Hospital. This is clearly gross 58.101$ &u!Anq
' ~relessness on the part of the deputies who
. )Jandled the order and great slopplness in admini- (99 ~ u1oaur:I
. itrati()n by Sheriff John King. Can you imagine ·
• ybat might happen to yOU or. me if we forgot a Colirt JO uo!taunf)
~- ·· rder to do aometping?
-pn opB.IOPI3 606 lB
story says there was no intentional negligence ·
UO!lRaO{ M~U B 01 i1u•iAom SI•
-ha the handling of Burton. That's a lot different
AII,:IIMalr NYIGNI AJ.I,W1D
~ saying no negligence at all, which the Panta-
rQ:aph headline did. Certainly the story points to UOII)UR
e:,:treme carelessness by the jail staff, and that
. 8 ·,Dd
can be called negligence, even if unintentional.

Another problem is medical care for prisoners.
~on's death was unusual, but inadequate medical
·care in the McLean County jail is not. The current
Post-Amerikan reviews the public documentation on
tb.e subjoot over the last two years, including the

report of the Hlinois Department .of Corrections a

year ago, which found the jail in violation of The
~ois County Jail Standard requiring that "each

new pris~r shall be given a physical examination

8.1'.\d any unusual conditiqns must be brought immed-
iately to a doctor's attention." Also violated,
according to the report, was the standard that ,;All
jalls shall provide a competent medically trained
authority tQ ensure that prisoners receive proper
medical attention. " Besides the violations of state
regulations, the :post~Amerikan art~c'le discusses
several publicly known cases where prisoners were
denied medicin!') ~d ~mer_gency medical treatment.

Sh~riff King and the County Board have got to be
shaken by the Burton case and the other incidents
which have surfaced over the years. They must not
wait for the new jail i1i order to improve medical
care of prisoners. There are some indications that
improved medical screening and treatment will be
coming soon, and ibis is crucial.

Finally, there has to be a better way of dealing with
mentally disturbed people than throwing them in the
jail~ -The ment~l heahh people who suggested Burton
be jailed and those in the legal institutions whicl).
moved too slow to get him out bear some of.the re-
sponsibility for his death. Even since he died, th~re
have beEm reports of a so-called "self-destructive"
··prisoner locked up in an' isolated cell, though there
has apparently been no psychiatric determination that
he's self-destructive or that isolation is the proper
treatment. If he wasn't before, enough isolation might
well make him self-destructive.

The Burton case is dramatic and awful but not isolated.
Prompt improvement of administrative procedures
and medical care in the jail is vital.

Post-Amerikan February, 1976 s page 15

REPORT ''CLEARING'' MEG

TO REMAIN SECRET The Post-Amerikan wrote two months
ago that the IBI investigation could
An investigation report of MEG's impro- expose informants and "it would com- be a whitewash, since IBI-MEG ties are
per, unethical, and illegal conduct promise the position of many public close. (IBI was responsible for the
will remain secret, even though it su- officials who spoke to us freely on training of NlliG agentsJ But hiding the
pposedly shows that MEG did nothing the assumption that their names and investigation report sounds like a
wrong. comments would not be publicly dis- whitewash of a whitewash.
closed."
The investigation, conducted by the ILEC compromised at a meeting on Jan.
IBI, was a response to a widely publi- How those officials were assured of 23. The complete report will remain
cized American Ci~il Liberties Union privacy is still a mystery. Just
(ACLU) press conference last October. secret, but the IBI will write a
The ACLU asked that the I!linois Law last December, Chief Bosshardt told shorter, laundered version for pub-
Enforcement Commission (ILEC) and the the Pantagraph that the IBI report lic consumption.
12 government units funding W~G with- would be released publicly just as
hold their money due to the secret soon as the MEG board had a chance John Fahnestock, ILCC "police special-
police's violations of civil rights, to read it. (It had just been com- ist" who may have been the architect
perjury, entrapment, falsification of pleted.) of the state-wide MeG system, also
documents, solicitation of felonies, claimed at first that the IBI report
and blackmailing people to become Even the Pantagraph recognizep the cleared W£G. When pressed further,
informers. At the same time, ACLU absurdity of the secret report, and however, he admitted that the report
filed a $1 million lawsuit against editorialized for its release. The disclosed incidents where "an ama-
MEG on behalf of Sammy Neal, who had paper even hinted that local funding teur" might conclude that ff..EG had
been entrapped by MEG agents. bodies--city councils and county acted improperly. These incidents,
boards--should withhold money from Fahnestock claims, were turned over
Led by Bloomington Police Chief Boss- MEG until the report is released. ~o the local state's attorneys, who
hardt, the MEG board of directors declined to prosecute.
claimed that the IBI investigation
'cleared" MEG. On the basis of the ACLU DEMANDS
still-secret IBI report, the secret
police are denying "all the mater- MEG DISCLOSURE
ial allegations" made by ACLU, both
in their press release and in their POST-NOTE: Here's an ACLU press release, dated Jan. 24, 1976:
federal lawsuit.

MEG is basi~ally saying, "This re- The McLean-DeWitt-Livingston County Chapter of the ACLU announced
port is proof we did nothing wrong, today that it will invoke the federal Freedom of Information Act to gain ac-
but we won't let you see the proof." cess to the recent IBI report on local MEG activities.

Chief Bosshardt asked the Illinois Bloomington Police Chief Harold Bosshardt, who chairs the undercover
Law Enforcement Commission to keep drug unit's Board of Directors, has claimed that the Illinois Bureau of In-
the report secret, because it would vestigation study of MEG's activities clears them of ACLU charges of
wrongdoing. However, his Board has attempted to keep the actual content
WINTERIZE YOUR GUITAR of the report secret.

STOP iN AT AX-IN-HAND "Bosshardt's claim of MEG's exoneration parallels Nixon's repeated
statements that he was not a crook," stated Tom Eimermann, ACLU chair-
) And have your person. "In each case one is asked to blindly accept their own interpreta-
guitar checked for tion of the facts. The public has a right to evaluate the thoroughness and
• New Strings meaning of the report themselves. If the events of the last few years have
• Cracks and taught us. anything, it ought to be that we can't accept such self-serving dec-
other dryness larations at face value. "
•-...._ ......-~l!lll'l~.....oo.- problems
Check out the "The impartiality of the report has been open to question from the be-
Dampit Humidifier ginning," added Eimermann... "Since the IBI has been closely affiliated with
MEG from the beginning, having th m do the investigation was like assigning
105 Broadway • Normal John Dean to investigate the White Hous lumbers. An acknowledgement
of MEG wrongdoingwould also constitute an ac ledgement of IBI's
failure to have properly trained and monitored the unit."

"Legitimate concerns about preserving the identity of undercover agents
can be met by simply blocking out their actual names. Most of the names of
agents involved are a matter of public record anyway. "

"The continued, unjustified suppression of this report," continued Eimer-
mann, "just serves to emphasize our charge that MEG lacks public accounta-
bility."

"The ACLU deplores the fact that neither the Bloomington City Council nor
the McLean County Board have even discussed its request that they withdraw
their local funding from MEG. At the very least these bodies should also de-
mand to see the complete IBI report so that they can see how their money is
being spent. "

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*junque for full time employment. The training activities
includea (l) Classroom training--both pre-vocational
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Post-Amerikan February, 1976 Bloomington-Normal, Illinois· page 16 Crimi1

MEG ignores orders to repor·

quit making pot busts READ THIS

A firm directive that MEG units should the figures for the 6 months ending The Peoria-based Multi-county Enforce-
in Dec . ' 75 . ) ment Group (MEG), under Post-Amerikan
stop chasing after pot users and deal~ attack for a year now, has been under
ers emerged from the Illinois Law En- fire since even before its creation.
The Commission also emphasized its
forcement Commission (ILEC) meeting in intent that MEG units strive for This undercover narc unit, now opera-
Feb. 1974. · "vertical" drug enforcement--moving ting in a 6-county area in Central
up to catch :"wholesalers and dis- Illinois, was one of 5 downstate MEG
That meeting agreed to fund 5 downstate · tributors." squads created in early 1974 by the
MEG units, including the one operating Illinois Law Enforcement Commission
The Webster report said that "MEG is (ILEC).
in Bloomington-Normal. involved almost exclusively in trans-
actions with those using very small A day-long special ILEC meeting ap-
ILEC demanded that all MEG units shape amounts of drugs--which means that they proved funding for the downstate MEG
up in several ways if they wanted fund- arrest very few offenders above the units after heated debate on the
ing .. "Don't spend your time chasing user street level. MEG has not demon- merits of undercover secret police,
strated the capability of apprehending as well as the questionable perform-
mariJuana" was one of the ways. the wholesalers and distributors." ance of the already existing Cook
County MEG squad.
The eonditions attached to the MEG Though ILEC said that MEG units should
funding grants were ILEC's attempts to strive for the "moving up the ladder" An expert's study of the Cook County
de-fuse Dr. John Webster's explosive type of drug buying, MEG units are
criticism of the Cook County MEG in his still buying small quantities from MEG caused some of the uproar.

evaltiation report. whoever they can. ILEC asked for the expert study/evalu-
ation after they received requests for
Despite ILEC director Fogel's deleting Even tTBazoedwe,elilnCaouPnatyntaSgtraatpeh's Attorney downstate MEG units. ILEC's purpose
Bret interview was to determine how well the 2~-year­
and distoririg of sections of Wel)ster's old Cook County MEG was doing before
report, one of Webster's findings cou~d printed last Nov. 17, criticized MEG's deciding to create similar secret
not b.e obscured. Supposedly digging in police all over the state.
low-level target group.
the ~ard-core underground of Chicago In the report, U of I criminology
1 for 2·~ years, MEG basically unearthed professor John Webster blasted MEG so
· only .a bunch of teenagers smoking pot. - severely that ILEC executive director
David Fogel released only a censored
46% of all the laboratory reports for - "MEG is going after the small deals version.
MEG busts were mariJuana, Webster told between peers, when they should be
th€ Commission orally. · seeking bigger commercial pushers who Even the Co~issioners, who were
are making money," the Pantagraph
(That conclusion had been del~ted from I'"" .SOR~Y 1./C!U
Webster's report, However, the tables quoted Bode.
showing the breakdown by drug remained CAN'T Re:AD Tt41S
in the cut version.) Bode.said MEG latched onto "casual"
deals between friends who were trans- RePORT llN
At the Commission meeting, the Direc- ferring "minute and relatively innocu- f!CCUUN T OF . IT'S
tor of Cook County MEG spoke of how ous quantities of drugs." Such trans-
actions, Bode said, do not warrant TRUE/
. his men track down heroin dealers. labeling a 19-year-old a felon .

Dr. Webster rebutted, quoting from a Apparently forgetting ILEC instruc-
censo:red section of his report: tions, l1EG head Jerry LaGrow admitted

During its 2~ years of operation, MEG that MEG is not after the big dealer.
made only 47 heroin .cases. 2 of those Getting big dealers isn't effective,
LaGrow told the Pantagraph last Nov.
' case~ constituted 51% o£ the total
: weigl\t of all the heroin seized. 37 Even though it's "not effective,"
· ·of t~e 47 cases weighed less than one- LaGrow still likes to pretend it is,
- tenth of an ounce. In another cen- whenever his organization makes a bust.
One of the -criticisms of MEG leveled
sored section of his report, Webster by ACLU last Oct. is that the secret
points out that a heroin addict uses police make wildly inflated claims to
the press about the "big dealers" they
·_ betwe,:en ~ to one .oun_ce a day. There- just arrested. It is not at all un-
usual, no matter how petty a bust

turns out to be, to see a MEG spokes-
person claiming that the arrest "made
a real impact on the drug traffic."

., Much of the "evidence" for labelling
a dealer big (at the times when evi-
fore, .MEG seized mostly peop who did dence is presented) is the quantity
not even have a full qay' s supp~y of of drugs seized.
heroin. These are the big. herpiri
pushers Cook County MEG so bravely The original Webster report emphasized
tracked· down. the point (deleted in Fogel's version)
that MEG lab reports do not analyze the_
quality or purity of a substance.
The most telling example cited was that
a small bag of-marijuana dumped into a
bushel of leaves becomes a bushel of
~rij~a. (Don't you wish?) The

CONTINI)ED ON PAGE 19

The instructions to MEG units emerging Webster report hits MEG
from the Feb '74 ILEC meeting stated informer Use (TURN THE PAGE)
first that "the goal of any MEG unit
shall be to suppress hard drug traf- ~00~ ~[M~
fic."- Secondly, the instructions said
that "Enforcement of laws relating to
the ..use and petty trafficking of mari-
-juana shall remain the responsibility
of existing law enforcement agencies."
In· other words, ILEC was agreeing to
fund more MEG units only with the
understanding that MEG would go after
hard drugs and not marijuana.

ILEC voted these instructions in as
official resolutions. An amendment
to the section on enforcing marijuana
laws 'Stated that MEG could go after
marij~ana at times when it was neces-
sary in order to t.rack down hard drug
dealers.

MEG i~ violating these instructions.
The unit operating iri the 6 counties
which:include McLean County made 32
marijuana arrests out of a total of
103 arrests from Jan 1 to June 30,
197~ ,;:;according 1::6 the IBI·' s semi-

annual MEG evaluation. That's 31%
marijuana arrests~ (We don't have

February, 1976 Bloomington-Normal, Illinois page 17

1ologist's suppressed

t: end MEG

INTRO FIRST the Cover..up

gathered to decide on MEG grants, were Early in 1974, the head of the Illinois ster report. I personally asked
denied access to the full Webster re- Law Enforcement Commission (ILEC) chose Fogel about "the report on MEG done
port. News reporters present heard an to suppress, Watergate style, the Web-
angry John Webster berate the butcher- by a criminology professor." Fogel
ing of his report, but they did not ster report, a professional, researched agreed to allow me to examine the
get to see the unexpurgated version. evaluation of the Cook County MEG unit. report at the ILEC offices in Chica-
go. He gave me the censored version,
ILEC head David Fogel was only partly without even telling me that a fuller
successful in his attempt to cover up version ever existed.
the substance of Dr. Webster's evalu-
ation. Reporters attending the ILEC Besides cutting large sections of the
meeting heard Webster's oral descrip- original report, Fogel also rewrote
tion of what kind of information had Dr. Webster's conclusions and recom-
been cut and distorted. mendations. For example, the laun-
dered report reads, "MEG is a 2%
Webster called MEG "a total failure" year experiment that has yet to pay
for wasting taxpayers' money on ex- off in practice what its decided
pensive secret offices, automobiles hope was."
and fancy spy equipment while ar-
resting primarily minor teenage pot In contrast, the real report says MEG
dealers. Webster charged that MEG
used "improper and unethical methods," is a 2% year experiment that resulted
including "indiscriminate arrests in "a total failure."
without charges (and) forcing citi-
zens into bondange to the government In his phony reconstruction of the One of Webster's primary criticisms
as informers." Webster further criti- Webster study, David Fogel cut out 29 of MEG was its lack of accountabil-
cized MEG for being "secret police ... pages, changed some of the wording, ity to any civilian unit of govern-
not accountable to a specific politi- rewrote the conclusions, and passed ment. To emphasize this, Webster's
cal subdivision of government." off this mangled version as if it were organizational chart of the under-
the original. cover drug squad has a blank spot at
Even in its diluted, laundered form, the top. Fogel filled in this blank
the Webster report criticized the Fogel's excuse, when called on the spot with the word "grantee," reflec-
2% year old MEG operation heavily. carpet by Dr. Webster at an ILEC ting ILEC's contention that the unit
meeting, was that he didn't want the of government w~ich technically re-
In spite of the report, ILEC voted to scathing criticisms of MEG "going to ceives the grant money is ultimately
fund more MEG units. The Webster re- the newspapers." responsible for the narcs' shenani-
port did force them, though, to ap- gans. In practice, this is not true
prove supposedly strict guidelines for News reporters present at the ILEC at all. The Cook County Sheriff,
the secret police's expanded opera- meeting did report some of Webster's then, would have been the elected
tions. objections to MEG. But of all the official to whom MEG was accountable.
Chicago papers, only the Daily News Yet Webster said the sheriff had
Those guidelines, and how MEG has been reported (on page 74) that the origi- nothing to do with MEG. His name
breaking them, are a subject of these nal Webster report had been censored. was just down on paper.
articles. So is the contrast between
Dr. Webster's real report, and the Even now, two years later, Fogel is Another interesting ILEC deletion
"ridiculous facsimile" (as Webster still trying to bury the real Web- came after Webster's statement that
characterized it) that ILEC director MEG arested 952 people, but did not
Fogel released. even charge 26.4% of them with any
crime. Amputated is Webster's
\vebster has sent the Post-Amerikan an question, "Were those 251 people
uncensored copy of his original report. illegally arrested?"
Other sources for these articles are
the full text of the transcript of the
Feb. 1974 ILEC meetings, plus the set
of restrictions on secret police oper-
ations which came out of the contro-
versy two years ago.

MEG superspy antics waste public funds

The Webster report exposed the high tionin~ ar;1d "power all around." MEG to buy paper shredders. As rationale,·
cost of MEG's adolescent secret agent should u3e government-owned cars, the one MEG grant said the paper shredder
psychology. Webster report urged. was necessary "to help maintain the
undercover role of MEG as well as
Most government offices, Webster 1 l1EG's super-secrecy hang-up led the keep confidential information from
pointed out, locate in government- organization to a more humorous (es- leaking out."
owned office buildings, thus avoiding pecially in Watergate days) waste of
rent payments. Even "secret" opera- taxpayer's money: a $600 paper shred- A look at proposed budgets for the 5
tions like Army Intelligence, the der. The 5 proposed MEG units before downstate MEG units ILEC created in
Secret Service, and the FBI, work out ILEC for consideration at the time of Feb. '74 reveals plans to purchase a
of public buildings. the Webster report all asked ·for funds whole slew of fancy spy equipment.
These items are taken from grant
But MEG, both in Cook County and all IWS JOII\II HAS: 4 proposals from several separate
over the state, locates its offices in MIN IPr TVR E /ION! I NCr Illinois MEGs.
expensive private office buildings. VE"'II~E I 00\J~f'LOI-/SEVEN!
The MEG office is usually disguised A van for undercover surveillance,
as a business, to as to be "under- $3,000, plus $500 to equip it; a photo
cover." In Chicago, the 3 MEG developing service, $2400; a $2740
offices cost taxpayers $68,000 a year videotape camera; a report call-in
for space in plush high-rises, accord- system, $1000; one $200 microscope;
ing to a censored section of the Web- two Pentax automatic cameras, $1000;
ster report. 7 disguise radio antennas, $140;
6 scrambler systems to "maintain
In maintaining "secret" offices, MEG confidentiality of radio transmis-
gives up government discounts for sions," $6000; 5 mobile radio units
telephones, alarm systems, office for $6000; 8 audio surveillance de-
furniture, carpeting, etc. vices, $4800, plus 8 personal port-
able radios for $10,400. "The port-
The Chicago MEG Webster studied able units and audio surveillance are
leased 50 cars. They were new, expen- needed due to constant danger and
sive sports cars, all with air condi- need for inter-agent communication,"
says the Quad-City MEG unit grant
proposal.

Post-Amerikan Bloomington-Normal, Illinois February, 1976 page 18

Webster report blasts MEG's
secret police informer network

POST NOTE: You may want to check out the Just as HEG's victims are mostly young 089 Special employee picked up for
stuff on the preceding 2 pages first, especially
to find out what the Webster report is. people, so are the secret police's in- driving under the influence of drugs

Nine of the 66 pages in the original formers. They are spying on their own one month after being made a special
Webster report on the Cook County MEG
unit discuss the secret police's use peers. 90% of the informers were under employee. Drivers license was re-
and recruitment of "special employees,"
the nRrcs' euphemism for "informers." 25; 71% were under 21, and 54% were voked and letter was written by MEG

Almost all nine pages on informers were between 18 and 21. 70% of the inform- to the Secretary of State asking for
deleted in the laundered version of the
report released by the Illinois Law En- ers had police records. a probationary license. Two weeks
forcement Commission (ILEC).
Webster presented three pages of short later l1EG wrote a letter after some
In gathering data for his evaluation, summaries of the relationships between feedback from the Secretary of State
professor Webster examined 295 files MEG and several dozen "special em- office, withdrawing the request.
on HEG's "special employees."
ployees." Despite the fact that Web- 107 Made special employee 9/27/72
COERCED INTO INFORMING
ster 'copied the information directly after being arrested for driving under
"From these files, it was learned that
some people voluntarily become inform- from MEG files, ILEC director Fogel the influence of drugs. Letter was
ers, but most are coerced by MEG into
becoming informers," the Webster re- completely cut these pages from the written to court for him. Died April,
port said.
report. 1973, from overdose.
The above sentence cannot be found in
the cut version of the Webster report. Here's a sample of the information, 122 Individual arrested for driving
which is listed by "special employee under influence of drugs and driving
An interview with an official from number." with revoked drivers license. Made a
Gateway House, a drug rehabilitation special employee and letter was
center in Chicago, was also cut. The 003 Individual arrest for burglary by written to Sec. of State to give in-
official "expressed disdain for the local police, and to avoid charges dividual a restricted drivers license.
police practice of permitting an ad- said he would give information on
dict to remain on the street and con- narcotic cases. HEG was called by 126 Wants to become a special employee
tinue his habit under police protec- local police. because he was caught with a lid of
marijuana and pipe at Palatine High
tion as long as the addict served as 004 Female contacted local police School.
an informer to the police." department with information. Age 17.

When asked about that charge, the Web- 030 "No charges pressed pending co- Webster's report lists 23 more special
ster report said, a police official operation with MEG." Direct quote employees who became informers within
replied, "We don't make moral judg- from file. one or two days after being arrested
ments." by MEG.
054 Letter written for mother of a
That, too, is deleted from the laun- special employee to a judge because An additional 20 informers became MEG
dered version. she had a speeding ticket. employees within one to two weeks af-
ter MEG arrested them.
056 Telephone operator giving infor-
mation at the risk of her job. Several special employee files were
closed, meaning that MEG no longer used
057 Juvenile--age 14--has parents' the subjects as informers. Several of
permission to be special employee the listed reasons were "unreliabil··
ity." Other reasons listed were:
041 Arrested for possession and 040 Special employee involved in a
agreed to cooperate with MEG so as
not to be charged. murder.

MORE MEG INFORMERS REVEALED

Victor Michael Yeitz, who goes by was a fV'EG "Confidential Source," which timony by OCEG operative Dennis Garret,
is narc terminology for "informer." Garret was testifying in the prelimi-
"Vic," is an informer for the Multi- That testimony came out in the case of nary hearing for John Shelton, one of
County Enforcement group, according to People v. David ~ibbs, Yeitz denies the people nabbed in MEG's December
wurklng for MEG, raid, Jacobson introduced Garret to
court testimony from a MEG agent. Shelton, according to testimony,
REID JACOBSON
Yeitz, pictured here, lives at Jl4 E. Anyone with a photo of Jacobson should
Reid Jacobson is another MEG in- send it to the Post. If anyone has
Locsut, Apt, 6, in Ploomington, He former, Jacobson lives in the information about him, please call.
is originally from Chenoa, ·
Alpha Phi Omega house at 701 s.
Yeitz is responsible for several of the
Fell in Normal, according to the
~r, arrests in December's raid, Yeitz ISU Student Directory, Jacobson
was called an official MEG "Con-
performed a typical MEG informers's fidential Source" in sworn tes-

function--intr0ducing agents to people, CENTER: Agent Ford Conley covers
his face while leaving court in Jan.
He introduced MEG agent Ford Conley to RIGHT: Agent Ford Conley, drawn
during court testimony in Nov. He
many people in rural McLean County, has since shaved goatee and shortened
sideburns.
Yeitz, who was released from Menard in

May 1975, told friends that Ford Conley

had been in prison with him, '

''lhile testifying in the preliminary for

one of those December arrests, MEG
agent Ford Conley testified that Yeitz

BELOW: MEG informer Mic Yeitz

Post-Amerikan February, 1976 Bloomington-Normal, Illinois page 19

MEG's informer use criticized

(Continued from preeedin9 pa9e) hired personally by MEG head Jerry
LaGrow to become a full-time under-
068 Special employee involved in an well. Stillwell had been living with cover MEG agent.

armed robbery. Ford Conley for almost a year, not Another ILEC guideline reads:
"The Commission wishes to note its
107 Special employee died from an knowing that Conley was a MEG "special objection to those activities en-
tered into by a special employee
overdose. employee." (He later became a full- that are designed to secure a con-
viction which are illegal or which
time agent.) Stillwell was a pot have such high social costs as to
In MEG terminology, getting an arrested smoker, but not a dealer. At the urg- warrant their rejection by. law en-
person to "flip" is to get him or her forcement officials_._"___
ing of Conley, Stillwell agreed to
to become an informer. Besides threat- purchase a quarter-pound of marijuana A SHAM
ening an arrestee with criminal
(more than he personally wanted) in It's comforting to know that a law
charges, agents also use confiscated enforcement group finds unlawful ac-
order to get a cheaper price. Conley tivities objectionable. But with no
automobiles as bargaining tools. To procedure for enforcement, the ILEC
had a "friend" who would buy the extra. guideline is no more than a sham, a
get his seized car returned, a MEG front for public show.
The "friend," of course, was a MEG
arrestee must "flip." This informa- In order to appear concerned about pos-
agent. Stillwell sold the pot at the sible misconduct of informers, ILEC
tion, too, was deleted from ILEC's claims "MEG agents should promptly
and thoroughly investigate charge of
censored version of the Webster report. low price of $12. 50 an ounce. (Still- illegal or improper conduct on the
part of their special employees."
well won his case in court, but not
Nowhere do the 25-page guidelines say
When ILEC deleted sections of his re- because of MEG's violation of ILEC how anyone could file a complaint
port, Dr. 1-Jebster complained that "the guidelines. He won it because Conley with MEG. Their offices are secret,
had initiated the idea of Stillwell's for one thing. Second, since MEG
guts of the report is missing." special employees are undercover, how
would someone wanting to complain
buying the ~ pound in the first about their conduct know that MEG is
the agency to complain to? And how
Nevertheless, the Commission felt com- place, and had helped in the delivery. would someone wanting to complain of
a special employee selling drugs do
pelled to react even to this diluted That constituted entrapment.) so without self-incrimination?

version of the evaluation. ILEC is aware of the Stillwell case, Apparently in reaction to the Webster
report's listing large numbers of MEG
A 25-page set of guidelines, which because a Post reporter personally special employees informing on their
friends in order to escape prosecution
ILEC director Fogel characterized as told ILEC director Fogel about it. themselves, the ILEC guidelines sup-
The violation of ILEC guidelines did posedly impose restrictions on these
"strict," were formulated to govern police-defendant deals.
not seem to bother him.
operation of MEG units. "MEG agents should not make explicit
promises or predictions to special em-
Showing the power of Webster's reve- SO WHAT? ployees regarding the lik~ly disposi-
lations about MEG's use of informers, tion of any criminal proceedings that
all but 6 of the 25 pages of ILEC's A Post reporter also told Fogel about are pending against them."
guidelines concern use of informers. a violation of the law which Agent
Conley admitted in court. Conley tes- Last May, (Post-Arnerikan Vol IV #2) we
ORDERS: DON'T BUST FRIENDS tified that while a "special employee" printed an interview with an ex-MEG
of MEG, he gave Dale Stillwell a red informer. He had been specifically
The guidelines are mostly for show. capsule which he represented as -a promised that he need only set up 5
ILEC has no mechanism for insuring barbituate. He did this in order to ·friends for busts, and he would escape
that MEG agents follow them. In gain Stillwell's confidence in drug his own marijuana arrest without a
several instances, ILEC has ignored matters, Conley testified. "Delivery criminal record.
the public exposur_e of MEG informers of a substance purported to be a con-
and agents violating the guidelines. trolled substance" is a Class IV The supposedly "strict" ILEC guide-
lines are being violated so openly
For example, page 22 of the guidelines that McLean County Judge Wayne
reads: Townley had no qualms about com-
plaining publicly about the method
"The practice of having a special
employee rely on personal friendship of violating them. In a March 4 '75
in order to make a case should be
discouraged in those situations Pantagraph, Townley was quoted saying
where the special employee and the that "agreements between police and
those they arrest need to be made
person he informs upon are both at through the prosecutor's office."
a user level in the drug culture. Townley's complaints arose when he
The Commission believes that the was about to sentence a marijuana
destructive effects that such in- offender, and found out only at the
stances of betrayal have on both last minute that the defendant was
the _immediate participants and their a MEG informer who had a prior
friends is conside.rable, and more arrangement with MEG about his sen-
tence.
often than not outweigh the advan-
tages to law enforcement personnel of NOTRICKERY
engaging in such activity."
Meaningless enough as they already
First, almost the only people that MEG felony in I linois, and it is a charge are, the guidelines become absolutely
informers set up are personal MEG frequently files. When told of ludicrous when interpreted by the
"friends." The informer's primary this, ILEC director David Fogel simply head of the Peoria-based MEG unit
function is to introduce agents to his shrugge_d, as if to say "So what?" which operates locally. Quoted in the
or her "friends." Many of these Peoria Journal Star, 10/15/75, MEG
"friends" are at "the user level of Though the "strict" ILEC guidelines head Jerry LaGrow said MEG operates
the drug culture." call for firing a special employee under guidelines which require that
for entrapment and delivery of drugs, "all its informants must swear not to
BUSTED ROOMMATE special employee Ford Conley was not use trickery, deceit or other unethi-
fired. Nor was he prosecuted for his cal means."
One McLean County case in particular Class IV felony. Instead, he was
comes to mind: People v. Dale Still- What could possibly be undeceptive
about introducing an agent to someone,
MEG & POT BUSTS while pretending the agent is not a
policeman?
CONT. FROM PAGE 16 The 1975 IBI survey checked out 6
Illinois MEG units and concluded most In addition, LaGrow claimed in the
law reads "Delivery of a substance arrests "were for marijuana viola- Journal Star that MEG never,prosecutes
containing a controlled substance." a case in which an informant has made
So a pinch of LSD droppe~ ~n~o a_ pound_ tions or less and seldom resulted in a drug buy.
of powder becomes one pound of a sub- conviction," the Tribune said.'
stance containing LSD. However, several such cases have been
ILEC Director Fogel is quoted saying prosecuted in the Bloomington-Normal
Though ILEC instructed MEG units to that MEG agents must "no longer focus area alone: two cases where informant
quit chasing marijuana and to concen- on marijuana peddlers unless such ac- Randall Wyant made the buy; one case
trate their efforts on hard drug tion will lead to bigger things." where informant Jeff Sielaff bought
dealers in Feb. '74, the directive was Funds for the MEG programs could be marijuana; and several cases in which
apparently not even taken seriously by reduced sharply if "hard drug ped- Ford Conley made the buys while still
ILEC Director Fogel. He apparently dlers aren't caught more frequently," only a special employee.
waited more than a year to instruct the Tribune continued.
MEG units to alter their priorities.
In 1976, MEG still isn't going after
A Chicago Tribune story dated May 15 "bigger things." In the McLean County
'75 quotes Fogel at length, saying MEG raid last December, none of the
that MEG units all over the state must arrests were for hard drug violations.
switch their priorities from pot to
hard drugs. The Post-Amerikan has reports of MEG

According to this article, Fogel based agents abandoning all contact with a
his instructions, not on the Commission
decision of early '74, but on a 1975 suspect (until arrest) after a mari-
IBI survey which confirmed John Web- juana transaction is comr, ~0(1
ster's earlier findings.
Without even an attempt larger

quantities or harder d; '1--- I 8

hardly "moving up the L. .ribution
ladder."

Eating More Economical!y PRICE 20 t~~~~ ~ ~
COMPARISON
As food costs rise, more people be- Soy grits taste better than soybeans ~~ ts
come concerned about getting good (alone) and don't have to be boiled "~~ ~0',
food economically. Three considera~ as soybeans do. ·Wheat, rye, millet, ~ ~
tions are important: cost, flavor, and and barley berries can be used in ~"t,
nutrition. Protein is a vital part place of rice, wheat berries being G ~
of nutrition, Meat and cheese are the most nutritious and inexpensive. ~ ~-..;.
the least cost efficient (they supply Boiling time is about 45 minutes and ~
the least protein per dollar), esp- requires 3 1/2 cups of ~dters
ecially the higher cost meats. Fish '~
is somewhat better, instant milk is 112 cun wheat berries
still more so, and whole grains, 1/4 cup lentils or pinto beans 100 o Whole Wheat
beans, and flours are 3-8 times as 1/4 teaspoon curry powder
cost efficient as meat. When ham- 1/4 teaspoon chili powder Oatmeal
burger is rated ~1" in cost efficiency 1 onion (minced)
here is how other foods compare on Wheat Bul ar

the scales Wheat Germ
Wheat Bran
,46 Porterhouse steak Pinto Beans
l. 0 hamburger
1,0 cheese~(cheddar) Lentils
1. 0 chicken · S lit Peas
1.1 brown rice Whole Wheat Flour

l. 5 tuna So Flour

2,0 wheat bulgar It is usually more inexpensive to Popcorn
2.) mackeral buy fresh rather than canned vegetables Green Mate
2.4 eggs and fruits, especially when they are
2,6 wheat bran in season. This is true of such foods
J,2 wheat berries as ca~rots, onions, potatoes, etc.

3.5 popcorn Because canned foods are from 20-50%
3.8 lnstant milk powder water, dried beans and peas are also
more inexpensive, one pound of dried
4,6 split peas
4.9 wheat germ beans containing 2-2 1/2 times as many
5.7 soy grits beans as one pound of canned beans.
7. 7 soy flour
7,8 whole wheat flour Prepared white pastry goods, candies,

Plant protein is incomplete, and must and soft drinks are relatively ex-
be complet~d by eating it in combin-
ation with other proteins. Beans ahd pensive and lacking in nutrition.
grain, or soy flour and grain flour,
go well together. Milk, eggs, meat, Alternatives include homemade whole
and fish all complete plant proteins.
The foods with the highest concentra- wheat bread, whole grain pastries, tlAttVt:RIED ADt
tion of protein are (from highest to popcorn, and natural teas of all
lowest) soy grits and flour, wheat
germ, instant milk powder, cheese, kinds. Actually, more nutritious
fish, beans, whole grain products,
eggs, and hamburger. Generally, whole food (often less expensive) often has
grain products--wheat berries, whole
wheat flour, whole wheat pastries, a fuller and richer taste, one less Coin hobbyists: Build your collec-
and 100% whole wheat bread (store dependent on artificial flavors (and
"wheat" bread is not whole wheat) are colors)and sugar overload. It is tior.: Large Cents, 3¢ silver, 2¢
superior to bleached and whitened pieces. Trade, Sell, and Buy.
products--white four, white rice, white also good to keep in mind that the
bread, etc. Whole wheat flour·con- Intrinsic Silver Interest.
tains 18 basic nutri~nts that ate left more expensive product, with its often Call. 828-6327.
out of."enriched" wh1.te .flour ( en- fancier packaging and promotion, does * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
not necessarily mean a better product. The Friends of the Alternative
riched" means the manufacturing com- If you want a good boo·k on nutrition, Media will be showing film programs
panies replace three or four nutrients order the Complete Handbook of Nutri- every Sunday night at Fell Hall
out of 22 that are removed). tion, by Gary and Steve Null.
at ISU at 3:00. Admission will be

free and all will be welcome. The

!:!: \~!r~';,Y:~ne.!':~ieg~~k~i· schedule is as follows:

Feb. l: Two Black history films ( 1 t
inp for an employed worker with 3 h0 urS )
dependentsincreasedby9.3%,but • Feb 8: "Growing Up Female" (45 min.)
1at least 115 of all wage-earners • and panel dl.SCUSSl•.on

wereunemployedsometimeduring

t~e year. M:anwhile food prices Feb. 15: Environment and Wildlife films
climbed 11·3 ~·
Feb. 22: World religions (Buddhism,

Hinduism, Islam, Confucianism,

Taoism. native Mexican reli-

gion, 1 l/2 hours)
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'.'.'hole grains generally contain not

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ROCK, SOUL, SOUNOTRACKS, ALSO
parts, but significantly more vitamins
and minerals as well. Here are some

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1/2 cup soy grits
1/4 cup instant milk powder

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1/4 cup whole wheat flour
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21

Getting Over is a regular column by the
Bloomington-Normal Men's Group.

0 The Bloomington Normal Men's Group is a you get an unusual rash, whether you are So, these are the symptoms of syphilis. It
group of men concerned with sexism directed llsexually active or not, show it to a doctor. can be contracted by any one who is at all sex-
> at both men and women. What we are doing
is creating an environment to support each anually active. So it is a good idea to have
0 other in non-sexist behavior.
extensive VD check. every six months - a cul-
> If anyone is interested they can call either 1s a good idea to mention any other strange ture smear for gonorrhea, and a blood test for
Jack, 829-8792, or Chris, 828-6935; in on your body that may have come and syphilis. Also any unusual happening, i.e.
the evenings. rash or sore, in your genital area should be
- chancres, swellings. checked into by a doctor.
This is a contipuation of a group of articles
about VD. --All forms of secondary syphilis respond to But here's the problem for people in BlcJO:r:nin.gtcm-
same single dose of penicillin in nearly Normal. It is costly to see a doctor: $10. 00
Primary Syphilis to $15.00. And tests cost more. Women can go
every case. In a few a second dose is needed. to Planned Parenthood. The people there are.
helpful, and it's not expensive.-· .But men have
-.:..Lesions or blisters or sores at the site of --Oral (regular) penicfllin is not to hassle with McLean County Public Health.
sexual contact with the germ, occur in ten to for syphilis at this stage. Don't play doctor (that is if they are unemployed non-students).
for yourself or your friends. The people at MCPH are known to hassle
days. Average time is three weeks. people who aren't showing symptoms.· They
are more concerned with saving 'the taxpay-
--Lesions may appear on the penis near its ********** ************** ers" money than with stopping the spread of
head, on the penis shaft, the outside vulva, V.D. And tell me, who isn't a taxpayer?
Q.abia majora) and/or inside vulva, Q.abia TERTIARY SYPillLIS
minora), lips, tongue, skin outside of the What McLean Co\mty needs is a Free VD
rectum, inside the anus, inside the cheeks After the symptoms of second-stage syphilis Clinic.
and even on the tonsils. disappear, nothing noticeable happens for
years. More on Sexually Transmitted Diseases next
time.
--Chancres (again, blisters or sores) inside --The infection may be detected during this
the vagina are rare. time with a blood test. Jack

--Chancres also occur on fingers. --People are not infectious to anyone else in Corter-Artis Appeal
this latent stage, except for pregnant women,
--Chancres start as a dull, flat, red spot, less who may pass on a lethal dose to their fetus. (LNS) Lawyers for Rubin "Hurricane" Carter and
than the size of a dime in diameter. John Artis argued a motion for a new trial before

--Then the elevated and blistery surface erodes --Syphilis germs in this stage can cause New Jersey State Supreme Court on January 12th.
uanlcdebre. comes a smooth, round, clearly-defined psychosis and senility be affecting the The defense maintained that significant evidence was
"purposely withheld" during the 1966 triple murder
brain.
which ended with Carter and Artis receiving
--You might have swollen lymph glands in the --Given enough time, syphilis germs can life prison terms. In September, 1974, the only two
groin, on one or both sides. affect any part of the body.
ses against Carter and Artis admitted that
--In most cases these few symptoms are the * * * * * * * ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * they lied during the trial. The original trial judge,
however, refused to grant a new trial based on the
clues you have to go on. You can pass recantations, saying that they lacked the "ring of
1n...,.,'"... them and not know it. truth."

*************************

--If you have a blister or sore on your geni- t/NlVERsl1'l
tals, go to a doctor.
tJouoRS
--He or she will squeeze a few drops of fluid
from the lesion and examine these under a
dark-field microscope.

--Your blood test will usually have not turned
positive in this short period of time, if you go
to a doctor within a few weeks of developing the
chancre.

--If the dark-field exam is negative at first,
test should be___E_~peated.
--If you are treated for primary syphilis, the
disease will stop right there.

* * * * * * * * ** * * * * * * * * ~;{II< * *· *"* *

SYMPTOMS: Secondary Syphilis

--These may follow primary ones; if at all,
three to eight weeks later.

--The chancre will have disappeared, so there
appear to be no connection between these
sets of symptoms.

--There may be a rash which can take several
forms, among them pimple-like or heat rash,
around the genitals, the sight of primary chan-
cre, or anywhere on the body.

--Systemic symptoms may be headache, gen~
listlessness, lack of appetite, weight.
slight fever, sore throat, hoarsness.

--Swelling of lymphnodes niay spread to the
armpits, neck or trunk.

--Systemic symptoms are generally not sev-
ere and can be mistaken for the flu or a virus•

.-.-A visible secondary Symptom is the mucous
a painless ulcer on the delicate mem-

branes inside the mouth, cheek, tongue or vag-
ina, or around the penis.

.-2:-2-.--.--.---a--n--d---d--o--w---n--t-o--w---n------e--t-s---f--l-o--w--e--r--s------------------.------·!
One of the most obvio~s sources of
-- - grounds are strewn with debris which I
I
blight on Bloomington's west side may has gone untouched for years 1 and 1

be getting more attention in the · the buildings aren't even locked. 1
near _future. Durir;tg its J~nUa.ry ·13 Child~n who st~ay ~owards the site
I
meet1ng, the Bloom1ngt.on C1ty are r1sking the1r l1ves. The most

Council, by recommendation of profound risk is posedby_ caved-in
marble slabs which leave holes deep I
Councilperson Jesse Parker, directed and wide enough for a child to fall I

its staff to "study'' methods which I

could be employed to clean up the old into. 1

St. Joseph's hospital located on Urban Renewal Director Donald 1
_ JV!orris- Avenue between Oakland and
I Jackson. .- Tjaden expressed doubt about anything

being done about the property because

Parker, who described the site as of the prohibitive cost of either
"a real eyesore to the entire
community," finally .began followj,ng demolition or restoration. Never-
up on the communitY sel1:t~lnent und~i-.;:. ,
scored by Park Hi1'1 resi<iEmts "" · - '' · theless, pressure should be maintaine.d

during a _citizen's meeting concerning to force the city council to follow-
urban renewal in late-october.
up on their study of how to clean up

the old hospital. Few West Side

residents will forget how the city

council delayed urban renewal

projects and proceeded with downtown

beautification.

AGIF7

' '' ~-tNiONII.TTNA'lA"·I N•"~Aaa•.r~£-,.
tuPlO S~$ ~ eRINGr 'ft\/.S AI fOR "'-AR11o &tAT SAVINA
r.-~9~ ~-

NO CLOSER TO D,OWNTOWN

FOOD STAMP DISTRIBUTION

D stamp recipients for parking once the sons picking up food stamps,
distribution is conducted in the --Jeremy Timmens
"'he plight of Bloomington's west parking garage, Barnes hopes the City
side residents who receive food will issue free parking passes to per-
stamps remains unchanged,
~lOCAl REtTAURANTt lEND A~
Since last fall, when the People's
Bank discontinued issuing food HAND IN CORRUPTINC POliCE
stamps and distribution began at
the new postal facility on ~. ~m­
oire, west side residents were faced
with the choices of either going to
Bloomington's east side or crosstown
to Normal to get their food coupons.

'"wo ouest ions remain unresolved in If you've ever worked in a a first step leading to serious
the iocal problem of food stamp dis- restaurant you probably know that police corruption. The movie
tribution, First, why are the hours on-duty police can get their meals SerEico, the story of a man trying
of distribution limited until ):00 pm, from some restaurants for half- to be an honest cop in the midst of
Mondays through Fridays? Food stamps price. Although this is a petty corruption, illustrates this point.
were started to provide nutrition violation of the law it still The first symbol of his eventual
for low-income people, and those who constitutes a form of gDaft. downfall was his acceptance of a
work past )aOO are discriminated Wishing to see how widespread this free meal.
against, Second, why is it necessary practise is, I took a random
for the coupons to be distributed so sampling of some twin city fast :..-Jacqui T.
far away from the homes of the recip- food restaurants.
ients'? 1/
Here are the results of the
In the case of food stamp distribution surveya Burger King gives police FBI ADMITS TO 1984
hours, the hours were determined by half-price meals, Samba's gives
an agreement between the Illinois free coffee, Arby's gives half- (LNS)--During recent Senate hearings,
Department of Public Aid and the U.S. price, and Mel-0-Cream Donut the FBI distributed a written state-
Postal Service in Chicago, Bloom- gives free coffee with whatever police ment on "Informants in the Internal
ington Postmaster Buhrke claims that buy there. McDonald's (no surprise Security :F'ield," which explained 1
the only way the hours can be changed here) also provides half-price "An informant, according to the dic-
is if the Department of Public Aid meals. tionary, is 'one who gives infor-
decides to renegotiate an hours change mation.' In light of this defini-
with the Postal Service, When I worked at the Normal tion, it is clear that very few
McDonald's and didn't know of the persons, if any, have not at one
In the case of the location of food policy, I charged an office the time or another been informants. 1o
stamp distribution, more half an- regular price. This upset him, and give information is an inseparable
- swers to the preble~ have been given he retorted very huffily, "You part of life. To give accurate,
as opposed to real solutions, The in- can't do that! I get half-price!" sound, and helpful information for
equities of the distribution sites a worthy cause is to make one's life
available to Bloomington's west-siders Howard Johnson charges half-price, more useful and valuable to society."
are well-known by now, ~he Blooming- though most of their police
ton Panta~raph, the ~oc Observer, customers are state troopers.
and the Post-Amerikan have all taken Both Sandy's and Kentucky Fried
'stands that the location must be Chicken have nothing to do with
moved downtown soon. this and treat police as they

~he Postal Service had told ~win­ would other customers. to full
Cities residents that the distribution price. I received an interesting
site will remain unchanged until a reaction at Hardee's. When the
more secure location is built in the employee realized she had spilled
new downtown parking garage, Insuf- the information to a citizen, she
ficient secucity for the stamps was dropped her pencil and rushed to
the rationale provided when the Postal the back room in a panic.
Service was asked if food coupons Burger Chef restaurant answered my
couldn't be sold in the old facility inquiry with this noteworthy
on East St. ~he date for moving the reply• "I'm sorry, we're not at
downtown facility has been delayed liberty to give out that information."
due to a last-minute search via bids
for space, ~he City of Bloomington Studies have found that receiving
was the only bidder, Further compli- free or semi--free meals can be
cating the move was the wait for the
Occupational Development Center's loan DEL'S
to be approved for leasing the old USED
facility,
FUR
ODC is presently operating in the old
Post Office building, Postage stamp
sales and services are still available
downtown, But the security issue is
still unresolved. A letter to the
editor of the Pantagrpah spoke of how
only two windows are open at the east
side Postal location, Not only does
such a lack of personnel affect reg-
ular postal customers, but the lack
of personnel contributes to a real
lack of security for the valuable food
coupons at the east side location.
Additionally, there is no impruvement
in postal services on the east side as
compared with those available downtown--
two service windows are open downtown,
too.

It is totally unclear just when the ' ~.q~
new Postal Service sub~tation will be
completed in the Municipal Parking 1519 S. MAIN ~
Gara~e. Nancy Barnes, outreach worker
for the McLean County Economic Oppor- PH. 828·1881
tunity Corporation told the Post-
Amerikan that she heard it might be STOP AND $AVE
ready by April, but said that nobody
should count on that guess, "They
haven't even begun to build the new
substation," she said.

Barnes began a petition last fall to
have food stamp distribution hours
chan~ed and to have the distribution
site-moved back downtown. She says
she has about 250 na~es on the petition,
but is uncertain about what to do with
it now, She is concerned with the
possibility of the City chargin~ food

ALTERNATIVE ws

Activists Released Cancer Tastes Familiar

New York (LNS) Two women activists imprisoned New York (LNS} Chloroform, a ch:rmical contained
for nearly nine months for refusing to talk to in many cough medicines and some mou~hwashes and
a federal grand jury were released Dec. 19 toothpastes as ~ell as aerosol propellants, has
Ellen Grusse and Terri Turgeon, both of New been shown to cause cancer in mice and rats,
Haven, have been held in Niantic State Prison according to the Health Research Group .(HRG}, a
in Connecticut since last March when they re- Washington-based public interest group. The
fused to cooperate with a grand jury seeking HRG has written to the Food and Drug Administra-
information about anti-war fugitives Susan tion (FDA} asking that chloroform be banned from
Saxe and Katherine Powers. In Jan. 1975, the products under the agency's jurisdiction. Accord-
FBI descended on New Haven and Hartford, Conn, ing to a 1971 article in the Wisconsin Medical
and Lexington, Kentucky, questioning many peo- Journal, "Traditional expectorants (chemicals
ple in the gay and women's communities about that help you cough) sucrras ammonium salts,
Saxe and Powers, charged with robbery and terpin hydrate, chloroform, etc., are of l·ittle
murder in a 1970 Boston bank holdup in which a value. The use of' these drugs, though popular
guard was killed. The government maintains that with physicians and patients alike, has not been
they robbed the bank to finance anti-war activ- shown to be superior to the expectorant action
ities. In the course of their investigations of hot liquids, or any other bitter tasting con-
the FBI harassed many gay and women activists, coction." An executive of the Block Drug Co.,
threatening to inform family and employers of . which manufactures Romilar III and Romilar CF,
their activites. both non-prescription drugs which contain chlo-
roform, told LNS, "Chlorofrom has merit as an
Pollution Spread Around expectorant. It creates a sensation of warmth
which is soothing. We don't agree that it has
Ottawa (CUP/LNS} In 1972, a single giant smoke- no use." Other drug companies defend their
stack 1200 feet tall went into operation at the inclusion of chloroform in cough medicine by
International Nickel Co. smelter in Sudbury, re- saying, "people get used to tasting a certain
placing three smaller ones which had denuded the kind of thing," according to HRG researchers.
area of trees. The giant funnel was supposed
to alleviate local pollution, and in a few years,
shrubs, and even trees again, began to grow in
the area. But now government officials warn
that the problem of sulphuric acid pollution may
not be solved, just spread around better. Tor-
onto, Montrea~, and Ottawa ecologies may be
affected now, say the officials, but they deny
any present danger to humans.

Next Time: Nukes

New York (Canadian University Press/LNS) A u.s.
Army officer interviewed on the Jan. 6 NBC news
estimated that his mechanized strike force in
South Korea could achieve in nine days what
eluded the U.S. NBthCroruegphoortuetdththe aVt itehtneamu.ws.arg-o- mili- 'Rely' on Cancer, Nausea
tary victory. vern-
ment has already announced its readiness to use (CPF') The people who brought you Pringles po-
tato chips now bring you Rely, whose package
nuclear weapons "in the event of North Kore,an proclaims, "You've never felt more secure with
aggression." The nuclear weapons can be launched a tampon ••• or napkin." Women in Rochester,
from conventional artillery pieces already in New York, and writers for the RochesterPatriot
position. The Army officer said the reason for have asked the makers of this new wonder, Proc-
speeding up the process of war and using hardware tor and Gamble, questions about the product's
instead of troop is that "people are so safety. Rely is made from compressed poly-
important." · urethane plastic. The Patriot in a story title,d
"Testing Tampons in Rochester• Just what can
No Union 'Problems'· you Rely on?" said "polyurethane, used in
everything from sofa stuffings to insulation,
New York (Dollars and Sense/LNS) In the past has been shown in recent tests to"be a carci-
twenty years, large industrial companies have nogen or cancer-causing agent. Also, the
been shifting their investments to areas where building blocks from which polyurethane is
made have been shown to be t.umor-producers."
labor, raw materials, and taxes are cheap. The Reportedly, P and G would not answer these
questions raised by the story because "secret
low labor costs of North Africa, Southeast Asia information on the manufacture of Rely would
and uL.sa.tinanAd mEeurriocpa elaonokbupsainretiscsu. laUrlpyt at tracti v e be revealed if these questions relating to
to o now, product safety were answered." One woman told
this !'runaway shop" phenomenon has been assoc- the Patriot, "It felt like trying to remove
iated with particular industries that use a an opened up umbrella." Another said, "I thought
lot of labor and relatively little machinery,. I had lost my IUD." Ms. Barbara Seller com-
plained that the tampon fell apart inside her,
like textile and clothing companies. Most black causing pain and nausea. She talked to her phy-
and white TVs and practically all radio sets, sician, wno told her not to use Rely. P and G
has generally tended to dismiss complaints
tua.pse. recorders, and tape cassettes sold in the with a wave of statistics. One woman, who com-
are produced abroad, whether or not the plained to P and G that Rely was highly irri-
tating even several days after discontinuing
brand name indicates we're "buying American." usage, was contacted by a P and G representa-
The reason is easy to see. When l~lotorola, for tive who had "101 reasons why irritation could
example, moved an assembly plant 200 miles south occur other than from the use of Rely." In ad-
from Phoenix, Arizona, to Nogales, Mexico, in dition, women in Rochester did not know that
the midsixties, it was able to cut its annual the city was a test market for the product.
wage for assemblers from $4,JOO to $1,060. A "When I found that out, I really felt like a
recent letter from the Haitian Assembly Industry guinea pig," said one former user.
Association invites U.S· firms operating in
Insurance Fights ERA
Mexico to consider moving to Haiti, where they
don't have to "run the risk of production New York (D&S/LNS) "I can assure you that we have
a high batting average killing bills we don't
faltering because of strikes and work slowdowns." want and passing ones we do," warned William
The letter promises better conditions under the Perkins of Continental Insurance Corp. in the
Duvalier dictatorship in Ha..iti., ·It advertises fall of 1975. His targeta the Equal Rights
that the minimum daily wage is .only .$1.30 and Amendment. If passed by thirty-seven state
that "union problems· simply don't exist., .. legislatures, the constitutional amendment would,
among ~.ther things, outlaw the practice of
charging up to 50 percent'more for women's health
insurance premiums that for men's. A principal
anti-ERA lobbying group receiving insurance
company money is Pro-America, a conservative
women's organization. Many of Pro-America's
lobbyists are wives of executives of Mutual of

Omaha and its affiliates. w. Clement Stone,

chairman of the combined Insurance Co. of
'America, has been one of the big contributors
to Pro-America•s anti-ERA campaign.

SERVICE B FS 2S
Confidential Means Invisible
No Alert, No Pollution? (CPF) Just because there's no space for a

New York (LNS/ Weekly People) The r1s1ng fre- name and address doesn't mean that research•
quency of pollution alerts in Washington, D.C.
has alarmed members of the nearby Virginia air ers using "confidential questionnaires" don't
pollution control board. Board members are
worried that poeple will get the impression that record who you are, Dow Jones publications,
air pollution is a serious threat if the
alerts continue, so they have proposed abolish- surveying their readers for a variety of per-
ing the term "alert."
sonal information, have coded questionnaires
Woman Acquitted Again
with invisible u.inko.f An alert professor of
New York (LNS) Two black militants described optic s at the Wisconsin recently won-
by police as members of the Black Liberation
Army (BLS) were acquitted Dec. 20 on kidnap- dered why his questionnaire from the National
ping charges stemming from a Dec. 1972 Brooklyn
barroom robbery. For Assata Shakur (Joanne Observer asked so many questions. "For the
Chesimard), it was her third acquittal in two
years. Also acquitted was Ronald Meyers. heck of it," he took it to his lab and exposed
Between 1972 and 1974 almost every unsolved bank it to ultraviolet light--and there in the upper
robbery and attack of police officers in New York
City were laid to the BLA by police officials left corner, in otherwise invisible ink, was a
and the New York press. The six people named
by then police commissioner Patrick Murphy at four cipher identification number. Erdos and
a January 1973 press conference as "leaders" of Morgan, a reserach firm handling questionnaires
the BLA were all ex-members of the New York
Black Panther Party, including Assata Shakur. for Dow Jones, says that the invisible keying
"These people were politically significant is an accepted practice being used for all
people," said a spokesperson for the New York
Panthers after the 1973 press conference. publications.
"They worked in drug programs, breakfast pro-
grams, and housing and welfare programs." As- D.A. Harasses Eight
sata Shakur was accused of almost every alleged
crime in which a woman was believed to partici- New York (LNS) Eight New York City activists,
pate during this period. including two lawyers, await action by the Dis-
trict Attorney on their refusal to testify be-
Toxic Air at Mines fore a New York grand jury. The grand jury sub-
poenas stem from their alleged presence in a
New York (UMW/LNS) A recent federal Bureau of Manhattan courtroom where three members of the
Mines study of toxic substances in the air at Black Liberation Army were being sentenced on
surface mines and surface work areas of under~ May 12. After the sentencing, knives, explo-
ground mines has revealedhealth hazards at sives, and other contraband were reportedly
nearly one third of the mines surveyed. found on the BLA members. Although District
Attorney Robert Morganthau admitted to a
delegation of legal and church representatives
that he doesn't believe the subpoenees know any-
thing about the alleged incident, and that
nothing would be gained by their testimony, he
refuses to drop the case. One hundred and twen-
ty people have already testified that they saw
no weapons passed among anyone in the courtroom.

ACLU Raps Clemency Report

New York (WIN/LNS) The American Civil Liberties
Union ~ACLU) denounced the Ford Clemency Board's
final report on Jan, 6, The ACLU challenges in
particular the report's claim that only 113,337
people are eligible. ·According to former Attor-
ney General Ramsey Clark, the total number of
Americans who are in "legal jeopardy" for resis-
tance to the Vietnam War is close to t.wo million,
"This is a begrudging program and only one per-
son in 100 has applied for clemency, although
many have been convicted and served criminal
sentences," said Clark.

Filipino Protesters U.S. Aid To Hughes Spy vs. Counterspy
Arrested
(LNS) Billionaire Howard Hughes has been (LNS) Counterspy, a Washington publication
(LNS) Mark Schnall and James Sinnott, awarded at least $6 billion in U.S. government opposed to covert U.S. intelligence opera-
members of the Philippines Anti-Martial contracts, most of them from the Defense tions, says that it will continue to publish
Law Coalition, were arrested and charged Department, in the last ten years, reports the names of CIA agents around the world.
with criminal trespassing December 29th the Philadelphia Inquirer. The article states CIA director William Colby and other CIA
at the Philippine Consulate in New York that Hughes' firms also get many contracts supporters have charged that Counterspy
City as supporters demonstrated outside. from the CIA, which refuses to disclose bears responsibility for the assassination
They were trying to deliver a message which dollar amounts. The paper reports that of CIA station chief Richard A. Welch in
called for an end to martial law and for immed- "Hughes and his enterprises, as measured Greece on December 23rd because the
iate elections, as part of the Coalition's cam- by all the available evidence, received more magazine had identified Welch as a CIA
paign in the U.S. Philippine president Ferdi- American tax money, over $ll. 6 million a station chief in Peru in 1974. Represent-
nand Marcos, now entering his third year of week, every week, than is paid to any other ative Robert H. Michel, the House Re-
unconstitutional rule, declared martiaJ law privately controlled business in the world. " publican whip, says he will introduce
in 1972, with U.S. military support, and abolished legislation into Congress making it a fed-
tlw.freedoms of speech, press, assembly and the New Cambodian eral crime to publish the true identity of
right to strike. any U.S. intelligence agent working under
Constitution cover.
Rebozo Biography Stolen
(LNS) Cambodia adopted a new constitution on California Screws UFW
(Workers World/LNS) The entire, hand-written January 5th. Reflecting the goals of the revolution
manuscript of a biography of Bebe Rebozo, Nixon's that liberated Cambodia last April, it states, (WIN/LNS) In early December the United Farm
banker-gangster buddy, was stolen November 4th "Every worker is the proprietor of the factory; Workers of America received a letter from the
from author Thomas Kiernan's New York City every peasant proprietor of the fields." Since California Department of Benefit Payments
apartment, along with bank documents connecting liberation, Cambodia has concentrated on re- claiming the union owes the state $1 million for
Nixon to Rebozo, cassettes and tape recordings of building the devastated country, especially food alleged deficiencies in its unemployment insurance
interviews, and all other references for the book. production. account. The state apparently is basing its figure
The television, stereo, and 10-15 pieces of ex- on strike benefits paid to farm workers and bene-
pensive jewelry were ignored. Environmentalists Win fits given full time union volunteers over the years
by the UFW. However, neither striking farm
In Louisiana workers nor union volunteers are paid salaries.

(LNS) Federal JudgeR. Blake West has ordered
that 45 miles of proposed Interstate 410 in Louis-
iana be halted permanently and that another 13
mile segment be completed only after an adequate
environmental impact statement is prepared. The
new highway would have destroyed over 175 square
miles of swamp land, failed to solve local trans,.. ·
portation problems, and cost the taxpay-ers ovez:
$632 million.

Hall Evades Nigeria Blasts U.S. Sostre Gets

ERA In a letter to Brig. ~urtala Muhammed, Clemency
a conservative army office who be-
Supporters came Shief of State of Nigeria by (LNS) In response to a world-wide
seizing power there last year in a campaign on his behalf, Martin
Senator Harber Hall, of the forty-fourth district, military coup, President Ford
has repeatedly refused to support the Equal Rights Sostre, a 53 year-old black
Amendment on the grounds that none of his con- stated that the u.s. saw the
stituents have expressed support of it. ERA does activist imprisoned on a fabricated
have a substantial local backing, though Ball has Popular Movement for the Liberation
simply refused to recognize it. of Angola (!VlPLA) as "one of three drug charge in 1967, was granted
legitimate factions in Angola," but
In early November of last year, around forty people clemency by New York governor Hugh
from Bloomington-Normal represented the forty- that the "objective of u.s. policy Carey just before Christmas and
fourth district at an ERA support rally. An appoint- expects to be freed in early
ment had been made to meet with Hall after the in Angola has been to counter efforts February. The owner of an
rally was over and present him with petitions from by the Soviet Union to impose one Afro-Asian bookstore in a poor
Bloomington-Normal. Hall never met with the faction as the government of black community in Buffalo, New
local ERA support group and it was decided to Angola." In response, the Nigerian
present him with the petitions at a later date. head of state declared that the York, during the 1967 riots there,
Luellen Laurenti, ERA County Co-ordinator, Nigerian government, which recog-
made several later attempts to meet with Hall nizes the rv:PLA. as the government Sostre was singled out for arrest
but he remained unavailable to her until the end of Angola, "rejects completely t,his because of his activism. Although
of the legislative session. fatuous attempt by the Ford the only witness recanted his
administration to insult the testimony four years later,
There are plans for some kind of action again at intelligence of African nations." Sostre ha.s continued to serve a
the capitol in the spring, at which time Laurenti J0-40 year sentence.
hopefully will turn the petitions over to Hall. New
petitions urging the vote for ERA will be circu- IT'S SALE TIME AGAIN AT
lated later for those who did not get a chance to
sign in November. 'IAK-TA-Kt'f

Unless ERA proves to be a major issue in pri- AUTHENTIC INDIAN JEWELRY
maries, it seems doubtfuLthat any further action
will change Hall's mind. With Carol Reitan's .tTARTINC MONDAYI JANUARY 26 THRU
campaign to unseat Hall in the senate, local ERA .tATURDAY I=EB. 7, All MERtHANDI.tE Will ~
supporters are making the amendment a major .
issue. Reitan is running in favor of ERA and her BE .tOLD AT
supporters are using all their person power to
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On April 1, there will be a national ERA gather-
ing in Chicago. The emphasis there will be on Turquoise, the stone of Romance, has been
the passage of ERA in Illinois. Laurenti feels known and prized by people of many lands from
that statewide pressure must come down on the the earliest times of recorded history. Tur- ·
legislators for the support efforts to have any quoise is said to be of celestial aspect, and
real impact. Harber Hall ignored his consti- should be in the adornment of young people to
tuents' support of ERA. He, and other legi- inspire them with good and sincere thoughts.
slators with the same attitude, are going to be To dream of turquoise was thought to signify
ignored at the polls. This now seems to be the p r o s p e r it y. It was also said to be a potent
only way for the Equal Rights Am:endment to love charm.
be ratified in illinois.
Give your sweetheart a Love Charm on Valentines Day.
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In a further move to rob the people, the guaranteed to be hand-made by American Illinois.
monopolists at General Telephone Company
are trying for another rate increase. Indians--- NAVAJO, ZUNI, HOPI
and SANTO DOMINGO
Expecially outrageous proposals in this
increase are a doubling of pay phone AL~<>= NRVA~--t¢. ~u~s
prices and a 20¢ charge for calling direct-
l?¢.1'1'~R.Y
ory assistance. (You get J free calls to
CENTER & WASHINGTON HOURS: 11 am - 6 pm 828-1142
directory assistance each month.)

Gen Tel wastes thousands, maybe millions
of dollars every year for unnecessary ex-
ecutive salaries and phony "image" adver-
tising, while complain~g about the few
extra jobs they have to provide to hire
directory assistance operators.

The Directory assistance charge is a
direct move aimed at poor people, young
people and students--mostly tenants-- who
tend to move frequently. These people are
the ones who don't live in one place long
enough to get their names in the phone
book. Their friends and associates have
to call directory assistance to get their
numbers. How long has it been since Gen
Tel.execu~ives had a change of phone
number? And what about the Illinois Comm-
erce Ccmmission, those fat cat sell-outs
to utility interest-s? How long has it
been since they had their phone numbers
change?

Stop the rate increase! Stop monopolies
from advertising their "image"! Make the
executives take salary cuts!

'Bicentennia Bicentennial
Calendar 27

Feb. 1: Feb. 14:
l96o-Civil rights sit-ins begin in Greensboro, North
Carolina. Four black students refuse to leave Woolworth 1903-rWestern Federation of Miners begins 18 month strike for
lunch counter when denied service.
1975-Beginning of nationwide independent Trucker's strike the 8 hour day. .
to protest higher fuel costs and slower speed limit.
1937- Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America signs its first
Feb. 2:
1848-Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo signed, ending Mexican- national agreement with an association of men's clothing manu-
American War. United States steals one-third of Mexican
territory, but President Polk refuses to annex enti:re facturers.
country.
1919- 16,000 silk workers strike for shorter work week in 1968- Fort Jackson soldiers revolt. Black Gis refuse to do riot
Paterson, New Jers~y.
duty.
Feb. 3:
191~-32,000 Lawrence, Massachusetts mill workers strike for Feb. 15:
shorter work week and no pay cuts. 1864- First detachment of Union soldiers captured by Confederate
1931- First group of Chictulos forcibly "repatriated" from
Los Angeles and deported to Mexico. Such deportations were forces sent to Andersonville, Georgia. Conditions of overcrowd-
common during the Depression. ing, inadequate food, and insufficient water lead to the deaths
1936- National Guard massed to attack sit down workers on of one out of four prisoners kept here. In 13 months, 13,000
strike at Fisher Body Plant No. 2 in Flint, Michigan. At prisoners died here, of which about 1,000 were from Illinois.
the last moment,just before the military was to storm the At least seventeen bodies were left rotting in the camp for over
plant, General Motors agreed to negotiate with the United a week after they died. Later they were removed on long poles.
Auto Workers union. 1892- Susan B. Anthony born. She was an abolitionist and a
strong supporter of voting rights for women and blacks.
1969- 500 striking Third World students at San Francisco
1910- Waistmaker's strike ends. More than 300 firms accept In-
State University join striking oil workers on picket lines ternational Ladies Garment Workers Union,
in Richmond, California. 1913- Garment·workers strike in Rochester, New York. Ida Bray-
man shot to death by employer.
Feb, 4:
1869- Big Bill Haywood, leader of the Western Federation Feb, 16:
of Miners, and a founder and President of the Industrial Wor- 1885- Knights of Labor begin successful strike against Jay
kers of the World, was born in Salt Lake City, Utah.
1932-Unemployment deiiiDns ';rations take place in major cities. Gould's Wabash railroads.
193:5-1936- 37,000 West Coast maritime workers strike. 1926- Jewish, Black, and Greek furriers begin 17 week strike,
and become first union to win the 40 hour week.
Feb. 5:
1916- Dress pact wins 49-hour week, and piece-rate schedule Feb. 17:
for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. 1932- Florence Kelley dies. She was the translator of
Frederick Engels and stimulated much of the Illinois factory
Feb. 6: labor reform laws.
1919- Seattle General Strike begins. 6o,OOO shipyard workers 1936- 14,000 Goodyear rubber workers begin Akron, Ohio, sit-
and other workers walk off thier jobs and set up a General
Strike Committee which becomes the de-facto government for the down strike.
city until the end of the strike. 1968- ~ ~ for Peace created.
1972- Statue of Haymarket Policeman placed inside Chicago police
headquarters after being bombed repeatedly by workers who did Feb. 19:
not forget the ·events of May, 1886. 1919- First Pan African Congress held in Paris, organized by
W.E.B. DuBois. It set demands for the democratic treatment
Feb. 7:
1827- William Jessup, a founder of the National Labor Union, was of Blacks and emphasized solidarity of U.S. blacks with opp-
born in New York City. ressed colonial people.
1920- John L. Lewis becomes President of the United Mine
Workers of America. 1942- Executive Order 9066 issued. Put Japanese-Americans in
concentration camps without trial and confiscated their pro-
Feb. 8: perty.
1912- I.W.W. free speech fight in San Diego, California.
1932- New York dressmakers strike under leadership of a United 1968- Cesar Chavez begins fast.
Front committee.
Feb. 20:
Feb. 9:
1932- Harry Simms, National Miners Union organizer, shot and 1885- 2,500 carpet-weaving women workers at Alexander Smith's
killed by company thugs in Barboursville, ~entucli;y, Sons strike over firing of Knights of Labor members.
1955- Merger of the AF of L and CIO. This occurred after the 1895- Fredrick Douglass dies.
CIO "cleaned out" its communist orga.nlzers.
Feb. 21:
Feb 10: 1965- Malcolm X assassinated while addressing a rally in Harlem.
1974- Farah strikers in Texas and New Mexico win union recogni- 1969- 42,000 miners in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania
tion and a very small amount over the new minimum wage law. strike for legislation against and compensation for black lung
disease •.
Feb, ll:
1882- Formation of Central Labor Union of New York with the Feb, 22:
participation of 14 unions. 1868- Torchlight parade celebrates passage of 8 hour day law in
1913- 15,000 rubber workers in Akron, Ohio, strike, protesting California.
speed-up. 1872- Santiago Iglesias, militant labor organizer in Cuba and
19)7- General Motors recognizes United_Auto Workers after 44-day Puerto Rico, was born in La Coruna, Spain.
sit-down strike. 1974- West Virginia miners begin 20 day strike against gasoline
shortages, forcing governor to end restrictions on gas sales.
Feb. 12!
1809- Abe Lincoln born in Hardin County, Kentucky. He served, Feb. 23:
but probably did not fight in Black Hawk War in 1832. He also 1971- Findley brothers fined $50,000 for mine safety violations
was an early "double dipper" in state politics, serving as that killed 38 miners in Hyden, Kentucky. What is a life worth?·
postmaster and deputy county surveyor in New ~alem. As a
congressman in 1846 and 1847, he opposed the Mexican War. After Feb. 24:
one term, he gave up elective office to become a corporation 1912- 35 women and children beaten and arrested in Lawrence,
lawyer. In 1860,the Republican Party made Lincoln their Pres- Massachusetts textile strike.
idential nominee because William Seward liked catholics too 1965- Local 1199 becomes the first union to officially oppose
much and opposed slavery too strongly. Lincoln pledged to raise the war in Vietnam.
tariffs and build a transcontinental railroad. These things he
did, despite the Civil War. Ungrateful Republicans refused to Feb, 25:
renominate him in 1864. 1870- Hiram Revels, U.S. Senator from Mississippi took his seat
1817- Fredrick Douglass born. He was a bla~~ abolitionist who as the first l.•lack person elected to Congress.
thought William Lloyd Garrison was too soft on slavery.
1880- John L. Lewis was born in Lucas, Iowa. He was president 1881- William z. Foster, labor union leader, born in Taunton,
of the United Mine Workers union and President of the Congres~
of Industrial Organiwations. Massachusetts.
1909- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1913- 25,000 workers participate in National Unemployment In-
was founded. surance Day protest.
1968- 1,300 sanitation workers begin strike in Memphis, Tennessee. 1953- Actress Rosaura Revelutias arrested and deported from
This was the strike that Martin Luther King died supporting. Silver City, New Mexico, while filming the movie "Salt of the
Earth.,,- The movie was about striking miners and their wives.
Feb. 13:
1743- Thomas Jefferson born. Traitor to England, associat£d with Feb, 26:
French meddlers in American affairs and irreligious types.
1946- International Ladies Garment Workers Union raised $90
thousand for the support of strikers at General Motors.

Feb. 27:
1885- Shopmen on Wabash railroad strike over wage cuts spreads
and leads to general strike of all Southwestern railroad lines.

1939- u.s. Supreme Court declares the sit-down strike to be

illegal.
1973- Oglala Sioux Indians occupy Wounded Knee reservation to
protest U.S. government's treatment of Indians.

Feb. 28:
1860- Victor Berger, founder of Socialist Party in America, was
born in Nieder-Rehback, Austria.

Legal Negligence

~ost Note: ~o~etimes the ~ost-Ameri­ When the case Aas first presented
kan receives stories !'rom peDple that before Judge Knecht. it was dismissed
make the person{s) reporting tlte'n want for want of prosecution. The plain-
to stay home all day and sulk. A good tiffs had JO days in which to refile.
example is the oce that follows, rhe Within 23 days, Hartweg had refiled
reader will find hi~/herself immers~d the motion to grant transfer of
in the same morass of legalese and possession of the property, On the
houelessness that befell a victim of 29th of July 1975. Jennings·allowed
lef;al processes ~n ,J;c.:..ean '::- :.;'.i--:<~.. Lt~·­ the case reinstated. (Remember. the
-Wilburns didn't even know anything
cause of the complicated nature of about this. )
this case, only the victim's story
will be told at this time. ~ore fol- Lost in the Maze
low-up is pro~isec, but Lad weather
and too ticht a schedule preven~ed a
more full ru1alysis.

** ** ** ** ** ** ** *~ ** THE CONTESTED PROPERTY During the first week of September.
824 W. Jefferson St. Wilburn says he got his first notice
In June, 1.<':, Jonald 1\'ilburn, an in-
dependent contractor now residing in In October, 1974-, the family received to appear in court. An earlier ap-
Farmer City, met with rlobert ~lliott
to discuss the purchase of a house a letter from Hugh Henry indicating pearance date was scheduled. but it
Elliott owned at 824 ~. Jefferson. was postponed ~~til the 17th. Judge
The two men agreed to a financinE:; ac- that ~lliott•s lawyer had finally DeCardy was now presiding. and on the
rangement where Elliott would :->rovioe 17th. the Wilburns appeared. but
a contract for the house following a ·afted a contract and that the Wi 1- J(:!nnings did not, Hartweg. in con-
down payment of .:;)800 ·from ~ilburn. versation with wilburn, allegedly
Wilburn verbally agreed to pay off burns could see it in Henry•s office. claimed that Elliott would come up
the down payment w:ith installments with the contract if Wilburn would
of $100 a week, plus monthly payments >'ihen they came to see it. Henry sug- come up with the money he "owed"
of $100, Elliott. But what Wilburn didn't
gested that they not sign it because find out until much later was that
The Wilbur·ns moved into the house in the plaintiffs officially received
July, 1973. and made the required pay- p.yments would be made directly to their property back that day in court.
ments for eight weeks. by virtue of Additionally. Wilburn was responsible
their verbal agreement. Elliott was Elliott--Henry felt the payments for paying back "rent" equal to
responsible for providing the Wilburns $2000.
with a contract by September 1. But · should be handJ.ed through a savings
when dilburn contacted Elliott about In October, Wilburn was called into
the contract, Elliott said he was "too and loan inst' tution. r'ollowing his Jennings' office because Jennings
busy." promising that the contract wanted him to see the contract that
would be drafted by October 1. advice the Wilburns agreed to Henry's Hartweg had furnished. Wilburn
c lai.ned that it was the same contract
October 1 came and went without a con- proposal that the contract be sent that Elliott had sent to Henry. Wil-
tract. Likewise November. By Decem- burn said one of Jennings' associate~:-.
ber 1.. the •liJ burns were fed up. ,'{hen back to Elliott's lawyer. Darryl had warned him against signing the
contacted. Elliott offered the same contract. an.' again, Wilburn with-
excuse, However. he die have time Hartweg, for changes. As usual. held his signature.
to send the viiJ burns a letter demand-
ing $100 for rent and threatening e- Henry followed up with. "Wait "til Then Jennings offered Wilburn a deal.
viction if the rent payment wasn•t If Wilburn c~uld come up with $1000 0
you hear from me." · Jennings "was sure" he could come up
The Counterattack with a loan arrangement for ~1200 on
But the ','t'ilburns were tired of wait·~ a JC'-day note, What this meant was
Wilburn had taken enough of Elliott•s ing, Donald went to Harold Jennings and is unclear. but Jennings offered
horsing around, By verbal agreement. in November, 1974 to see what could the deal anyway because "two of my
Elliott had promised to provide a con- be done to get the contract. Jennings' associates are members of the board
tract for the purch~se of the home. advice. according to wilburn. was the of the Prairie State .bank," He assured
Wilburn met with Hugh Henry (candidate V/ilburn that the money would be a-
for State's Attorney) in January, same as Henry's 1 withhold your pay-- vailable by November 1.
1974. Henry suggested that Wilburn ments until the contract reappears.
withhold all payments until the con- Jennings allegedly said that he knew Ordinary citizens usually aren't
tract materialized, Henry also Hartweg (they were good friends) and well-versed on their rights--so
that he thought things could be they put their affairs in the hands
suggested the money be given to him to worked out. of lawyers.
be placed into a trust. but ~ilburn
optel nut to. wilburn told the 1-ost- The only thing that worked out next Totally confused. Wilburn did as he
Amerikan that he )',ad never been advis- was an eviction notice signed b~' was asked. But he could only come up
ed against not pl~~~nb the money in Elliott and delivered by the Sheriff"s with $600 of the ~1000 0 in the form
a trust 1 Henry merely sug{~ested that department. It gave the .Vilburns of a cashier's check. Apparently, the
Wilburn wait for further word on the five days to leave the house. Not to money Jennings had offered on loan
be intimidated. Wilburn took the not- never materialized. On November 10,
Nothing more was heard about a con- ice to Jennings. and the attorney said Wilburn said he got a writ of execu-
tract for four months, In April. Wil- he would contact Hartweg and get the ~ion giving hlm seven days to leave
burn received a letter from ~lliott matter straightened out. the house. The sheriff was to seize
demanding four months' oack payments. and hold all personal property to sat-
If payments weren't met. the letter Funny Business isfy the ~2000 judgment against Wil-
s':;;_o.ted, house f inane ing would have burn.
to be arranged through "c mventional Inspection of court records reveal
means." only one case pert~ining to the dis- Beaten. the Wilburns moved from the
pute between the Elliotts and the house to Farmer City. A few days la-
Angered, Wilburn took the lette·r to Wilburns. It is 75 lm. 149. initiat- ter. Wilburn went to Jennings' office
Henry and demanded action. His at- ed on May 20 0 1975, It names Donald and collected the $600 plus from
torney sent a letter to Elliott in- and Barbara Wilb'..lrn as defend::m.ts Jennings' secretary. At that time •
structing him to provide a contract and the Elliotts as plaintiffs. It Wilburn claims he had ~2400 with which
for the purchase of the home. before .was filed by Atty. Hartweg who acted to pay Elliott. That payment was
payments would be resumed. Addition- as counsel for the plaintiffs. Hal' never made.
ally. Henry assured ·'lilburn tnat if Jennings acted as counsel for the
Elliott filed suit for the back "rent." defendants. According to Wilburn.
a counter-suit would be filed in the Jennings didn't even notify them that
'tlilburns • oehalf, Then Wilburn was proceedings were begun by the El-
instructed to wait until more develop- liotts to retrieve their property,
ed.

The ''Contract"

It was six months before the Wil-
burns heard any more about the con-
tested property. In the meantime.
they had c~~pletely remodeled the up-
st?.irs • poured new front steps and
otherwise renovated 1the old neuse;
they had pu":; ..f;JC'OO ln materials and
labor in-:;o the imrir6vemen:ts,

Costs Family Home

Aftermath thing out. Thomson suggested that the peared. A contract (the same one)
writ of $2000 was a bill for back appeared twice, but Wilburn didn't
The settlement of property rights rent, and that Wilburn would have had sign it twice because of legal advice
didn't sit well with the Wilburns. the house if he'd paid up. he received, and he never had a c
After moving fcom Bloomington, Wilburn to dispute the contract as written.
went to see Chester Thomson. At For the last time, Wilburn went back By the time the contract re-emerged,
first, Thomson dd.dn't want to do·8.Qy- to Jennings. Jennings said, "It's Jennings already knew the case was
thing for Wilburn because he thought too late, Don. There's nothing we can lost. And if he didn't, neither
the writ was a proper judgment. But do." Then Wilburn was told that if Jennings nor Henry intervened in a
Wilburn insisted on telling his side the money was in Jennings' office manner which would have given Wilburn
o~ the story. Thomson listened. within 15 days of the writ's issuance, a chance to present his case before a
Jennings wot:.ld pay out the $2000 judge. Wilburn had never had a chanc
He told Wilburn he thought "you should himself. to tell his tale to either of the two
have had your day in court." As slow judges who heard it. And Elliott has
as justice goes, sometimes it goes But the judgment was made on September rented out the upstairs of the $14,00
too fast. Thomson said he'd call Jen- 17 that the property went back to house that Wilburn claims to have put
nings and told Wilburn to come back the Elliotts. And Wilburn had withheld over $4200 into. Wilburn is seeking
near the end of November. payments on his lawyers' advice. redress for the legal error at the
same time Elliott is seeking his
When they got back together again, Wilburn was kept in the dark about his back· payments.
Thomson supposedly told Wilburn to see rights. Two attroneys told him to
Jennings again to straighten every- withhold payments until a contract

Pittsburgh Teachers Strike Student Hunger Strike Commie Hunt

(LNS) Since November, about 93% of Pittsburgh's (LNS) Five hundred Iranian students in the U.S. and (LNS) Former deputy sheriff Jerome Ducote, an
4, 400 teachers and paraprofessionals have been on Europe began a 5-day hunger strike on January 7th
strike, despite an injunction against the union in to protest death sentences issued by a military tri- active Young Republican and John Bircher, recently
early January and union fines adding up to $2 million bunal to ten Iranians. The ten, along with a woman told law enforcement officials in California that he
for eve:ry week of the strike after January 12th. sentenced to fifteen years in solitary confinement, was paid by several growers to break into the
The fuhool Board has given out national test scores are charged with the deaths of two U.S. military
which are low in the city to indicate that the teachers advisors in Iran last May, and are among 50, 000- offices of the United Farm Workers during 196
areXL~t doing a good job, but the Board has closed 100, 000 political prisoners held in Iran for their and steal union documents. Other targets on the
reading clinics and stopped hiring reading special- opposition to the regime of Shah Mohammed Reza list of burglaries now linked to Ducote were: The
Pahlevi. Two hundred people have been executed People~s World Newspaper, Ramparts Magazine,
ists: The School Board also says it is short of by firing squad in the past four years, many have the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committe~.
funds, but pays its chief negotiator $70 an hour out been tortured and murdered in prison, and law- the American-Russian Institute;· SaulAlinsky,
of taxpayers' money. The same court that ordered yers defending them have also been imprisoned.
the injunction against the union appointed the School CIA spokespersons have cited the 1953 coup in Virginia and Fred Hirsch, and Grace McDonald,
Iran which re-instituted the Shah as one of their an 87-year-old trade union organizer and farmer-
Board. more successful efforts. consumer activist.

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CHILE: The Junta

Recently, Dr. and Natalie Warner, rep- nationalization, declared a boycott police are everywhere. Even a musical
resentatives of the American Friends on importing raw Chilean copper that instrument (the charango) is banned,
Service Committee, presented a program along with some songs, like those of
at ISU on Chile. They had visited put another strain on the econom;;. Victor Jara, a folksinger killed by
Chile by invitation of the Administra- Nationalization and land reform also the junta.
tion of Health under President Allen- caused transitional problems.
de, who allowed the American Friends
maximum freedom in working with local Allende's response to the shortage Resistance to the military junta has
personnel and formulating projec~s. was rationing, to allow products in grown recently, with an ever-increas-
they said. short supply to remain available to ing number of middle-of-the-read and
the whole population at a reasonable conservative leaders denouncing the
Allende, supported by the leftist UP price. However, rationing caused regime. According to Time, April 22,
coalition, was elected in 1970 with rising middle class discontent with 1974, "leaders of the Christian Demo-
36.2% of the vote, and was supported Allende since rationing affected the cratic Party, who initially welcomed
by 43% in 1973. In parliamentary e- middle class more than shortages did. the ouster of Allende, have protested
lections this support increased to In 1973, there was a doctors' strike. the regime's suppression of political
51%. The Christian Democrats, who One third of the doctors and the maj- rights."
supported such Allende-instituted ority of health workers refused to
programs as land reform and national- participate. The strike failed, but Many churches have become community
ization of the copper industry, got had some effect. centers, places to meet for those
27.8% of the vote in 1970, which means opposed to the junta. Breakfast
64% supported Allende's policies (as The coup on Sept. 11 of 1973 brought programs for poor children get
distinct from Allende himself). the military into power. Even Time people together. Recently, all the
reported on April 22, 1974, "In major parties and unions which were
There are several reasons why support the seven months since a coup by banned by the junta announced their
for the nationalization of the copper the Chilean armed forces ... a four opposition, demanding four basic
industry was so widespread u:J.der All- man military junta headed by Army things:l)Liberty for all political
ende. Chile was the recipient of General Augusto Pinochet Urgarte has prisoners, 2) Defense of human rights,
20% of Anaconda's investments in 3) Restoration of the right to join
Latin America, but supplied 80% ruthlessly eliminated leftists (real labor unions, and 4) Restoration of
of its profits. and suspect), suspended all political civil liberties. One of these
activity, and reversed many of the ... groups, MIR (Movement of the Revolu-
Land reform was also sorely needed· oy moves undertaken under Allende's pres- tionary Left), has led illegal res-
native Chileans. Ever since the con- idency ... The junta has prohibited istance to the junta through leaflets
quest by the Spanish, Chile had been strikes and ... abandoned all attempts and a paper called "The Rebel." The
dominated by large Spanish-owned land- at land reform ... people who talk too Patriotic Front of Antifascist Youth
holdings, at first called encomiendas much or ask too many questions simply also illegally puts out a paper. CUT,
and later called latifundias. Accord- disappear ... the junta leaders are de- a trade union federation, supports
ing to Dr. Warner, much of this land termined to root out all traces of ·sabotage by workers, work slowdowns
went untilled because the landholders opposition. Midnight arrests still and stoppages, and other resistance
did not need to cultivate all their take place, and torture is, by to Chile's military dictatorship.
land to receive an ample income for common consent, a tool of the govern-
themselves. In fact, latifundias ment's newly centralized intelligence Although the US has cut.off military
comprised 70% of the farmland in Chile, apparatus. Its most common for.,ls are aid to Chile, we still give economic
but only 41% of that land was in use, electic shock and beatings; with wom- aid. 85% of Food for Peace in Latin
leaving 41% of the total farmland un- en prisoners, multiple rape has been America goes to Chile, even though
cultivated while native Chileans were used to obtain confessions ... " Acc- there are greater food shortages
hungry. ording to the Economist, October 31, elsewhere. Also, the food distributed
1973, "Chile's new rulers have set in.Chile often does not go to those
Land reform, under Al~ende, only leg- up what is probably the most uniform- who need it most.
ally concerned farms over 210 acres, ly military government in the world."
although some nongovernmental groups The US also sells large amounts of
had earlier taken over smaller land- Several orgaizations have condemned armaments (n0t officially military
holdings. The government compensated the junta's brutality. The United aid) to Chile. Cutting off aid and
the landholders for property taken, Nations General Assembly, by a 90- military sales to Chile would weaken
and much uncultivated land came back 8 vote, condemned Chile's denial of the junta, forcing it to be more
into the poeple's use. Educational human rights, and appealed for the responsive to the rights of the Chil-
programs, housing construction (which release of political prisoners. The ean people.
helped eradicate slum housing preval- International Commission of Inquiry
ent before in many areas), medical into the Crimes of the Military Junta Presently before the Senate is the
programs, food buying clubs, acceler- in Chile and the Bertrand Russell McGovern-Abourzek bill, which would
ated educational programs for children Tribunal on Latin America thoroughly cut off aid to all countries whose
and adults, and other decentralized documented the junta's systematic use
community programs sprung up all of t~rture: electric shocks and governments, right or left, der_y
over Chile. cigarette burns to all parts of the citizens their basic civil liberties.
body, starvations diets, sexual abuse
The average Chilean's everday life of women, beheading of children, and Dave Burdette
improved under Allende. According to psychological torture.
Current History, February 1972, Allen-
de encouraged "extensive provision for A Bertrand Russell Tribunal Report U.S.- SUPPLIED
worker participation in the runnil1g states: "The military coup was not
of enterprises." Under Allende, unem- anti-constitutional and anti-demo- INVASION PARADOX
ployment fell from 8% to 4 1/2%. It cratic only in its origin. All its
had been almost 20% under the previous subsequent acts, beginning with the (LNS)--Only hours after Ger~ld Ford
president, Frei. first decree/law, were imbued with and Henry Kissinger left Indonesia
the same spirit," and goes on to on December 6, Indonesian paratroopers
Starvation was drastically reduced state in detail junta violations of and marines, transported by Ameri-
and; according to the same issue of the ·judicial process and the con- can made warships, planes, tanks, and
Current History, "The purchasing po- stitution. According to Dr. ·warner helicopters, invaded the People's Re-
wer of the poor sectors has increased of the Friends Committee, 30,000 puolic of Easf Timor, which had de-
dramatically, with real income for people were killed right after the clared its independence from Portu-
workers increasing 30%, and a price ·coup, and 40,000 political prison- gal on November 28. More than 2,000
freeze on basic goods. Food prices ers are currently in jail (there is Indonesian troops took part in the
have remained low." Enrollment in a constant turnover). An estimated initial invasion, in which 500 Ti-
universities rose 30%, and in high 80,000 have been killed so far by morese--mostly women and children--
schools 50%. Industrial output in- the Chilean military government. were reported to have been massacred.
creased more than 10%, and adult ed- Many doctors who did not support the Even conservative observers admit
ucation in factories and communities doctors' strike against Allende have that Indonesia intends to annex East
and training oiLmedical students been arrested, and some have been Timor and had been preparing the in-
were accelerateo. killed. Whole theatre and dance vasion for several months. During
troops were also executed. his stay in Indonesia, Henry Kissin-
The Allende regime was not without ger said he "understood Indonesia's
its problems. Allende inherited a Prices rose 500-lOOO% in the year after position in East Timor," and that the
governmental debt of almost 3 the coup, l/2 of all families in Chile U.S. under no circumstances would
billion dollars from earlier admin- are starving, and unemployment is over recognize the new government.
istrations. Rising consumption by 25%, according to Dr. Warner. 100,000
the lower classes, plus the cu~off workers have been fired for politically
of millions of dollars in credit and left viewpoints, and thousands of stu-
loans from many sources, including dents have been expelled.
the US, all helped cause shortages
of goods and parts. The US denied The universities and hospitals are
Allende credit routinely given to not funded by the government at all,
Chile under Frei, so that Chile could but must receive all their income from
not replace the parts for much US- fees. The result is that most people
made equipment. in Chile cannot afford to go to a uni-
versity, get decent medical care, or
The CIA funded 8 million dollars to have an adequate diet.
"destabilize" Allende's government,
2 million of which went to fund All political parties are currently
truckowners' strikes, which hurt trans- banned or "in recess." Freedom of
portation and helped accelerate shor- speech and press are almost non-
tages. The Kennecot Company, a major existent. Among banned books that
owner of copper mines in Chile before have been burned are Fiddler on the
Roof and Don Quixote. Plainclothes

STILL NO ANSWER FOR ACKLAND

County Board Excuses
Egg Scandal

FOst Note: The December Post-Amerikan Chicken slurry oozes from Eggs Unlimited Interestingly, John Maitland, presi-
featured a behind-the-scenes view of Slurry had built up over a period dent of the WcLean County Bureau and
the ~cLean County Health Board's bung- part owner of the Eggs Unlimited
ling of potential health hazards at · years before forcing its way out. operation, was featured on WJBC's
Eggs Pnlimited, Inc,, located at the Forum Dec, 26 denouncing efforts to
Robert Rengel farm nothwest of Bloom- create a new Consumer Protection Ag-
ington and just south of the Danvers ency which would have the a~thoritV
blacktop, ~he article charged res- to control environmental problem~ ~~
Ponsibility on the part of the owners, the farm, Although Maitland l?,rgely_
one of whom is the president of the argued against increasing federal
McLean County Farm Bureau, and includ- bureaucracy, he was clearly aware
ed an explanation of how the McLean that a new consumer protection ag-
County Board of Health ignored their ency would intervene directly in
responsibilities in the matter. operations like the one he p~rtly
owns,
After a bureaucratic struggle, a Normal
resident, Merritt Ackland, addressed ~aitland's self-interest speaks for
the McLean County Board of Health on itself, He knows exactly what he is
the issue of unsanitary conditions at talking about, and he is surely glad
the egg farm. he got away with no more than ·a
S700 fine for killing fish at King's
A letter from the superintendant of the Mill Creek, The hard-working farmers
Illinois Dept, of Agriculture asserts he refers to have nothin~ in common
that all responsibility for dealing with him, In fact, the ~ersons with
with the problem lies with the McLean things in common with Maitland happen
County Board of Health, to share his class standing, like
~ompkins and Frautschi.
4. 4.
--ERElV:Y TIM~:ENS

Merritt Ackland anpeared again before After a parliamentary mess, Ackland's
accusations once again ended up in the
the ~cLean County Board January 13 to hands of a confused Dr. Ebel of the
Health Services Committee.
ask for the removal of Health Board
president Carl Frautschi, He was armed Additional action is expected on the
proposal during the next County Board
with a petition signed by 75 Dry Grove meeting, which Ackland claimed he'd
attend,
'Jlownship residents who agreed,
~he Pantagraph reported that before
Ackland's sources, which included the Ackland presented his case before
Illinois Dept. of Agriculture, the the County Board, County Sanitation
Illinois Environment~! Protection Ag- officer Ben Boyd told the board that
ency, and the Illinois Dent. of Public there are no laws or regulations on
Health, claimed that the ~clean County the books to handle a future Eggs
Board of Health should have taken the Unlimited crisis. He added that the
initiative in eradication the poten- health board finds it "very difficult
tial health hazards at Eggs IJnlimited. to_regulate a facility without appro-
urlate laws to do so,"
Ackland showed the County Board photo-
granhs of the egg operation, and descri- Boyd said that federal and state envi-
bed how Frautschi had violated health ronmental protection authorities are
trying to get regulations which would
board policy in October by refusin~ allow them to control on-the-farm act-
to let him speak. At that meeting,- ivities involving animal waste dispo-
Frautschi's public rationale for not sal.
granting Ackland permission to speak
was that a Pantagraph story on Eggs
Unlimited had enlightened the health
board enou~h, and that Ackland would
have little or nothing new to add,

States Attornev Paul Welch advised the
Board of Health to allow Ackland to

speak at the Jan, 13 meeting.

TOMPKINS DEFENDS FAAUTSCHI-·

"BIRDS OF A FEATHER" -l~--NEW--H6URS T

At the close of Ackland's presenta- II A
tion, County Board member ~. W, Tomp-
Kins; local ruling class figure and : 6 am-1 am :
chairman of the board of State Farm
Insurance Co., wasted no time in def- L--------------------J
~nding Frautschi. Tompkins told the
rest of the board that Frautschi T. SUNRISE
might h·ave- committed a "sin of ommis-
sion or commission," that any error TOM & VODKA 75¢ p 1.,
Frautschi may have made "occurred be-
cause of the head, not of the heart," COLLINS
but ~ompkins never clearly stated
just how Frautschi bungl~d the Eggs W. SOUR PIZZA II
Unlimited affair. (Frautschi's negli- SANPDOWOICLHES
gence probably doesn't carry over I M-T -w ..
into raking in profits from Sorg's 25~ DRAFTS 5-8
jewelry.) I CALIFORNIA I
SOUR-DOUGH PIANO
Finished, Tompkins moved that the 1'.·
Countv~oard table further dis-
cussion of the matter. ~hen came I PRETZELS PINBALL I~-
pandemonium, The board split, with pABST
the motion carrying by only one Beat named machme .•.
vote, ~hen, after State's Attorney I ON DRAUGHT Get a free pitcher
'!felch advised Board Chairman Ringger
that the motion was out of order, FREE-PEANUTS!
Ringger ruled it so.
I LIVE ENTERTAINMENT NITELY •
TOMPKINS--Sin is okay as
long as one isn't thinking I J.W. Market & Morris Ave.
while sinning. Also, it's
important to remember
that white-collar sinning
is okay because high pub-
lic officials exonerate the

c.

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