Daily Herald (Newspaper) - October 31, 1990, Chicago, Illinois 3 Torborg earns top manager honors in AL refle en politico of negativism ADDOCK nts E EATHER Sunny day A nother breezy and p autumn day with a h igh around 70 South to east winds expected around 10 fair with a low a round 50 I MEWS Tank touch-up A touch-up on the interior paint of a gallon water storage tank in Rolling Meadows has turned into a major face lift Page Accelerated plan Elk Grove Township ry District 59 may speed up a program to renovate its 13 schools to keep the buildings as equal as possible Page 3 Abortion discussion The Supreme Court began scrutinizing a ban on abortion counseling at federally family planning clinics Tuesday Page 3 probe The DEA said it is looking into the possibility that one of Us undercover couriers carried the bomb that blew up Pan Am Plight 103 Page 7 Tunneling through Britain and France were linked beneath the English Channel as workers used a two- probe to connect the under- sea rail tunnel Page 7 i Mo tricks or treat from a pretentious title that screams King's Graveyard SI amounts to little more than a conventional monster movie with a gooey ster and irritating human film critic Dann Gire Page 5 F earful of future Owners of small businesses are IT ore and more pessimistic the prospects for their companies and the economy th an they have been since the recession of ing to a national survey re- leased Tuesday Section 4 i C Show Dr LIVING Favorite haunts The Chicago area is filled with ghost stories and allegedly ghosts Ghosts have been known to hang out in old houses and at plane crash sites Turn to Section 2 for some of the spooky details about local haunts Happy It ween Third party jumbles election picture artee campaigns get boost BY MADELEINE DOUBEK Daily Herald Political Cook County Sheriff James E O'Grady and State's Attorney cil Partee are fighting for their political lives in increasingly acrimonious but old Washington Party cies may actually help a new Daily 7 Poll finds Results of the first poll taken after the U.S Supreme Court re- turned the Washington Party to the ballot last week showed O'Grady losing three percentage points while Democrat Michael F Sheahan lost six percentage points That was enough to move the Republican sheriff from a losing position into a 39 percent to 38 percent lead over with another 10 percent supporting Washington Party candidate Tommy according to the poll In a poll taken immediately prior to the Supreme Court's with Brewer presumably off the Sheahan had led 44 percent to 42 percent At the same remained even more pre- carious The incumbent Third party lures black voters from Richard Page 6 Top Cook County candidates profiled Section Page 4 shows sheriff attorney crat was trailin g in the state's at- race by 5 percentage points to Republican John M according to the and the addition of the Washington Party slate helped him only marginally O'Malley lost 5 percentage points with third-party candidate Janice Robinson while the county's most nent black office lost 4 percentage points That left O'Malley with 4 2 percent and Partee with 37 as the campaign headed into its final week In both key the trade-off actually only slightly benefit the but the edge could turn out to be enough to make the Washington Party the key spoiler in such close larly with such a significant pool of undecided vo ters remaining In the sheriff's 13 percent of the voters were still With Washington Party O'Grady James O'Grady Undecided Tommy Brewer Washington candidate Sheahan With Washington Party O'Malley Janice Robir cand Jack Malley Undecided Without Washington Party O'Grady Democrat Michael Sheahan Undecided Sheahan son date lee Without Washington Party O'Malley Democrat Cecil Partee Undecided tee S T- in- 1 -i -is r I t V f r b J n I 1 1 according to the weekend poll In the state's attorney's 14 percent were In both races are now statistical since the poll of 450 county voters has a margin of error of plus or minus 5 cent going to be a close O'Grady spokesman Larry Daily Herald Horist said Sheahan aide Marty sh said he expected the third See POLL Page 6 Rep Henry Hyde of blasts new federal regulations that prohibit local officials from limiting jet around airports like Suburban leaders met in DuPage County Tuesday and vowed to organize a drive to overturn the policy Daily Meraid Suburbs vow to fight noise Irate leaders announce plans for coalition BY DAN ROZEK Daily Herald Staff Writer Suburban leaders vowed day to work with towns across the country to re- verse a new federal tion policy they say strips local communities of their ability to regulate jet noise While promising to modify or repeal the National Aviation Noise Policy passed last suburban officials bitterly lashed out at the airline go Mayor Richard Daley and U.S Transportation Secretary Samuel K Skinner and some members of Congress for their roles in passing the are dealing with people who have no co no sense of decency and no interest in anything but compounding O'Hare's problems for their own said chairman of the Suburban O'Hare which resents most of the towns around O'Hare International Airport A key part oi the would low Chicago to levy a tax on airline allowing it to raise about million annually to help pay for a third airport on the city's South Side The most offensive suburban leaders said at a press conference in would establish national guidelines for jet noise and would forbid state or local officials from setting stricter standards believe the is an un- constitutional attempt to over- ride the power of the said Joe general See NOISE on Page 4 Bush tries to e fears in that war is near Associated Press WASHINGTON President Bush discussed the possibility of war in the Persian Gulf with leaders of Con- gress Tuesday and was urged not to let impatience lead to combat with Iraq concern on Capitol Hill that this is somehow a prelude to immediate military said George the Senate cratic leader But the White House tried to dampen fears that fighting was imminent The attitude was it down be said presidential press secretary Marlin Fitzwater would say that it's pretty much steady as she Saddam Hussein said Tuesday that Iraq was making final preparations for war and expected an attack in the next few days by the United States and its allies In the Persian eight can sailors died when a steam pipe ruptured in the boiler room of the USS Iwo Jima And in Saudi a Marine was killed in an accident while driving in the desert Hussein summoned commanders to a meeting dad to complete urban warfare and sures to be taken in thn combat in the I Agency reported must be prepared that God has given us of p thwar perfidious United States and its allies an attack in the next few report quoted Hussein as The agency did not ex Hussein believed an attar minent There was some Hussein's warning may ganda ploy by Iraq to driv between the United States of its allies who seek to av ties Bush promised to suiting with lawmakers bi ly must all n that any such co must given the able and dynamic this military in for ary event of News with all to is by the to launch the ying why was im- ition that a 3 a wedge and those con- t of Economic growth fails 1 o relieve fears of a Associated Press r Arlington goes to quarterly parking system BY JANET HALLMAN Daily Herald Staff Writer Commuter permits for Arlington Heights two parking garages will go on sale in early December under a new quarterly system The which will be sold starting Dec 3 at the municipal will be issued on a first-served basis and will be valid only for the months of January through March The cost is per month for a or for the quarter Until commuters who park at the north garage at Miner and streets or at the south rage near Dunton Tower could chase permits for between one month to a yesr The new system still allows residents to buy permits on a monthly if spaces are up to three months main reason we're going to the quarter is hat at least every it gives other people an op- to gain access to ing these Assistant Village Manager Gregory F Ford said Residents also can order a permit by mailing a to the village finance although in requests should indicate a and for a garage Any requests postmarked before the Dec 3 sale date will be placed in a lottery for remaining parking officials said Only Arlington Heights residents may purchase north garage but anyone may buy a permit for the south garage Permits will go on sale the first business day of the month prior to the start of a ing the permits for the April through June quarter will be sold hi March At the south 99 permit parking spaces are available for while 85 permit spaces are available at the north garage Two hundred daily fee which cost per also are open to commuters at each Ford said Daily parking permit fees ize parking for any period between 5 and 2 Permits for 24-hour parking are f 30 per month for either garage WASHINGTON The U.S my grew at a pec ted 1.8 percent rate in the third the government said but the report failed to dissuade many analysts who believe the economy is entering a recession The Commerce Department re- port on the gross national product showed that consumers buying cars and other items had continued to drive the longest peacetime ic expansion in U.S history through September Whether the expansion reaches its eighth anniversary in No- was a matter of debate release contradicts those who believe we are in a recession or are about to enter Commerce Undersecretary Michael R Darby told reporters expect the omy to continue to expand at a modest pace for the remainder of the year and in believe we're in a said economist Bruce Steinberg of Merrill Lynch Capital Markets in New York think that most of the things showing strength in the third quarter will be weak in particularly consumer spe Robert G mist for the Northern Ti also believes is declining this quarter ed that much of the GN concentrated early i ter It is by no means cer was growing 1.8 when t Michael Boskin of Bush's Council of Eco this news about the third quar concerned about a quarter and the early part He added that he with the action Monday in key short-term interest rs that might be expected to nomic growth Consumer spending of the nation's economic 3.6 percent in the ter compared to a pert the second Much of the at due to a 4 billion mobile chich hei billion from April thr he ief ust Co in economy y strength i the ain that it le quarter chairman lomic Ad- 3 pleasant we are ish fourth of certainly g down a a move boost eco- two-thirds ent gain in se in auto- 1 declined Ugh June I Li f I I I iK I I
