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Chicago-based Illinois Central joined other railroads in providing free transportation of reliefview, Northfield and Deerfield are being asked for cash donations to distribute to the company’sletry products and other goods to send at least two tractor trailers full of the items to Florida.FIRST APPEARANCE—Murder suspect Joe W. Jordan,19, formerly of Golconda, was arraigned Wednesday before First Circuit Court Judge Arlie O Boswell, who appointed public defender Tim Fornes to represent Jordan. Boswell informed Jordan that he would be eligible for the death penalty or a term of life imprisonment if found guilty of first-degree murder of 54-year-old Ralph Thompson, who was shot three times and killed Aug. 11 at his Carrier Mills home. Jordan is scheduled for a preliminary hearing Sept. 17 at 1:30 p.m. Escorting Jordan out ofthe courtroom is corrections officer Gordon Smith. (Nick Mariano photo)In the Shawnee National Forest...Wildlife opening mowing to beginBy CURTIS WINSTON Staff WriterIt's OK for the U.S. Forest Service to mow the grass during the summers in the Shawnee National Forest.That’s the ruling by Floyd J. Marita, regional forester for the Forest Service’s eastern region.On Aug. 28, Marita affirmed the decision of Shawnee Forest Supervisor Rodney K. Sallee to maintain or restore 365 wildlife openings.Wildlife openings are open, grassy areas in the forest that provide habitat for both game and nongame animals.William Cronin, a Murphysboro-based biologist who is a member of the Regional Association of Concerned Environmentalists, had appealed the decisions to manage the wildlife openings. His appeal was denied by Sallee, so Cronin appealed the case to Marita, who oversees the eastern region of the Forest Service from his Milwaukeeoffice.Marita placed a stay on the man-[~J Late Forest Supervisor Kenneth Henderson remembered.□ Trail improvements begin at Garden ofthe Gods.agement activities June 26 until heappealEducation amendment won’t settle troublesomeissues, experts sayBy CHRISTOPHER WILLS Associated Press WriterSPRINGFIELD — The education amendment awaiting voters this fall would make school funding a top state priority, but won’t settle the issues that have blocked reform for years, experts warn.Lawmakers and the courts still would have to interpret the constitutional amendment and decide the best way to raise and spend education money, university professors said at a conference on the ballot question.The two sides of the amendment debate have painted wildly different pictures of the amendment’s impact. Almost any of those pictures could be correct, depending on how officials resolve the issues stalling edu-Cronin said his main concern cation reform, panelists said.was the timing of the activities, which were scheduled to begin inthe early summer. He said mowing at that time would harm nesting birds, including turkey and quail, the game birds that wildlife openings attract.Marita, in his ruling, decided that the management would have no “significant adverse effects on (bird) populations.”Cronin said this morning in a See MOWING, Page 4* *“They’re still just as complicated, still just as divisive, still just as difficult as ever,” J. Fred Giertz, a University of Illinois economics professor, said Wednesday. “The education amendment is, in a sense, a roll of thedice.The amendment, if adopted Nov. 3, would make quality education a “right” rather than a goal and gives the state “preponderant” rather than primary responsibility for school funding. It guarantees “equality ofeducational opportunity” for every citizen.Amendment drafters say it wouldforce the state to reverse a decline in support for education. The state’s share of school money has slipped from almost half in the 1970s to less than 34 percent, the State Board of Education says.Supporters argue it also would reduce the wide gap in education spending in different school districts. Some districts now spend 510,000 or more on each student, while others fall below $3,000.Supporters put the amendment’s cost at about 51.8 billion dollars and say the money might be raised without a lax increase. Critics contend the amendment would cost S3 billion and guarantee an income tax increase.And they argue the Chicago suburbs, where much of the state’s wealth is concentrated, would pay the most and get back the least because the area’s schools generally qualify for little slate aid.The University of Illinois Institute of Government and Public Affairs sponsored the conference on theamendment.Giertz said the amendment could cost billions if officials adopt a high standard for education funding andSee ISSUES, Page 4
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