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Carbondale-Herrln-Murphysboro-AAarion SOUTHERN ILLINOISAN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1980 Page Three 880) staot afteir ire traffic deaths dwami 0 Four persons killed on New Year's Day to pooir 1 occurred when a car driven by Imhoff went out of control and overturned off the Corinth Blacktop road. Police said the driver was alone, and apparently was killed outright. The Taylors were killed and two other men seriously injured in a second early-morning accident less than an hour later on Illinois 148 two miles northwest of Herrin. Police said a car driven by Gary Taylor, husband of Rose Taylor, went off the highway and down an embankment, where it smashed into several trees. Police said the Taylor car smashed along a row of trees, ripping off the right side of the car.

Mrs. Taylor was in the right front seat and her brother-in-law in the right rear seat, and both were thrown from the car, police said. Police said Gary Taylor and Timothy Hess of Carterville, another passenger in the car, were admitted to Herrin Hospital and were reported in guarded condition today. The day's fourth fatality occurred mhoff was graduated from Johnston City High School in 1973, and attended Eastern Illinois University two years. He was graduated from the Olney Central College of Nursing.

He was a member of the Johnston City First Baptist Church. Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Murman-Wilson Funeral Home in Johnston City. Burial will be in Lakeview Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m.

today. Funeral arrangements for Schuster are pending at the Lutz and Rendleman Funeral Home in Anna. Schuster was an iron worker. He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Anna. He was graduated from Anna-Jonesboro High School in 1977 and Shawnee College in Ullin in 1979.

Survivors include his parents, Myron and Imogene Schuster of Anna; sisters, Susan and Sandra Schuster, both of Jo-nesboro; a half-brother, Richard Cham-ness of Jonesboro, and his fiancee, Ja-nine Peterson of Anna. terville; paternal grandmother, Martha Taylor of Marion; maternal grandfather, Bertie Wemmer of Carterville; sisters, Phyllis Mitchell and Sally Smith, both of Carterville; and brothers Gary of Herrin, Cecil of Phoenix, Frank of Carterville and Russell of Indo, Calif. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Riggin-Pillatsch Funeral Home in Carterville. Burial will be in the Smith Cemetery south of Carterville.

Friends may call from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home. Imhoff was a registered nurse at Carbondale Memorial Hospital, and previously was employed at Marion Memorial Hospital. He was born Sept.

25, 1955, in California to Donald and Mary Dunn Imhoff. Survivors are his parents of Johnston City; a brother, David of Johnston City; a sister, Donna of Anna, and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Imhoff of Goreville and Mabel Dunn of Johnston City. Survivors include her husband; daughters, Veronica Lynn and Melinda Rose, both at home; a son, Jimmie Dean at home; her mother, Fredia Whitecotton of Herrin; her father, Estel Lee Powell of Marion; grandparents, Charles and Lucille Hammontree of Herrin; a sister, Pamela Sue Kulik of Route 1, Johnston City; and brothers, Donnie Dean Pickles of Route 1, Carterville, and Cletus Ray Pickles of Crainville.

Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Johnson Funeral Home in Herrin. Burial will be in the Herrin City Cemetery. Friends may call after 6 p.m. today at the funeral home.

John Taylor was born Oct. 9, 1956, in Herrin to Morris Taylor Jr. and Nola Wemmer Taylor. He was employed at Tuck Tape in Carbondale. He was graduated from Carterville High School and John A.

Logan College in Carterville. Survivors include his parents of Car By Tony Stevens Of The Southern IUinoisan Southern Illinois closed out 1979 highway statistics with a 25 percent reduction over 1978 deaths, but started the new year on a blue note with four highway deaths reported Tuesday. Fatal accidents reported on New Year's Day were: Stephen R. Imhoff, 24, Johnston City, killed at 2:15 a.m. in a one-car accident on the Corinth Blacktop road east of Illinois 37.

-Rose Taylor, 27, of 1000 W. 14th Herrin, and her brother-in-law, John Taylor, 23, Carterville, killed in a one-car accident at 3 a.m. on Illinois 148 near Herrin. -William Schuster, 20, of Anna, killed at 7:20 p.m. in a two-car collision on East Vienna Street in Anna.

The 16-county area of State Police District 13 went through the Christmas and New Year's Eve periods without a traffic fatality. State Police said the first 1980 fatality when cars driven by Schuster and Loy Casper, 28, also of Anna, collided. Sinister was pronounced dead on arrival at Union County Hospital in Anna. Casper was treated at Union County Hospital and was reported in good condition. Police said Casper was driving west on East Vienna Street when he apparently crossed into the eastbound lane and sideswiped the Schuster car.

Police said no tickets have been issued pending further investigation. District 13 ended 1979 with 103 deaths, a sharp decrease from the 128 deaths reported for 1978. Mrs. Taylor was born July 24, 1952, in Springfield, to Estel Lee and Fredia Hammontree Powell. taie prosecutors called In handle to erger mnurder cas z2tX 5 Ll MV-ViS X- rr.

Wfyf IK physboro filed a motion for a speedy trial on behalf of Mrs. Berger, which means that the trial must be held within 160 days of the date the motion was filed, or by the end of the third week in May. If the trial is not held by then, the charges must be dropped, unless the delay is caused by the defendant or her attorneys. A routine motion was filed by Hendricks, Watt and Grace, the law firm representing Mrs. Berger, asking that the case against her be dismissed because it failed to state an offense, in violation of her state and national constitutional rights.

Judge Oros denied the motion to dismiss the case in an order filed Nov. 14. Mrs. Berger, 37, has been charged with shooting and killing her former husband on Aug. 8, 1979, at Larry Dunn's home on Melody Lane north of Murphysboro.

Mrs. Berger was hospitalized immediately after the incident, and was arrested Aug. 10, 1079, when she was released from the hospital. She was released on $25,000 bond the same day she was arrested. She pleaded innocent in the case on Aug.

21. A Jackson County coroner's jury ruled the case a homicide on Aug. 30. Judge Richard E. Richman entered a gag order in the case in August, forbidding any court personnel, including attorneys for both sides and their staffs, from discussing or releasing any evidentiary information or opinion to the news media in connection with the case.

Continued publicity could deny Mrs. Berger the right to a fair trial, the order stated. Judge Richman excused himself in August from hearing anything further in the case. He explained that he had known both the defendant and the victim and did not feel he could bring the necessary objectivity to the case. By Ann Schottman Knol Of The Southern IUinoisan A special team from the Illinois At-orney General's Office has been called in to prosecute Joyce Berger, who has been charged with murder in the Aug.

8 death of her ex-husband, former Mur-physboro Police Chief Tobias Berger. Jackson County State's Attorney William Schwartz said he requested a special prosecutor in the case because his office had worked closely with Mr. Berger in the past, which would appear to cause a conflict of interest in prosecuting the case. Schwartz, who was just appointed state's attorney at the end of October and who has been short-staffed for the last month, said the lengthy preparation that must go into such a case also was a factor in his decision to turn prosecution over to the attorney general's office. Two attorneys and an investigator will be sent to handle the case.

The team chief will be Mark Rotert, who handled the prosecution of some of the defendants in the Interstate 57 murders of policemen, Schwartz said. Judge George Oros has set a trial date in the case for 10 a.m. Feb. 4. It is not known whether the attorney general's office will request a postponement of that date while the prosecuting team familiarizes itsef with the case.

On Dec. 14. 1979. attorney David Watt of Mur- Policeman's son charged with killing SIU-C coed t- Photo by JERRY LOWER One for each month Simon heads list of hopeful Kennedy primary delegates Shanna, a three-year-old German Shepherd owned by Bruce Anthe-nat of 616 N. 8th Murphysboro, gave birth to a dozen puppies between 6 p.m.

New Year's Eve and 2 p.m. New Year's Day. Charles Anthenat, a brother of the owner, holds one of the pups. Conflict forces change in Du Quoin election dates manslaughter, attempted aggravated battery, armed violence, unlawful use of a weapon and criminal damage to property, police report. Police made the arrest after a female motorist turned in Bartall's license number, saying he shot three slugs into her car trunk.

Bartall had honked at her Sunday for not responding quickly enough "to a green light and after she responded with an insulting gesture, Bartall fired on her. The proximity of that incident with Miss' Quinn's shooting, both in northwest Chicago, and the similarity of bullets tipped police off, Serafini said today. Serafini said Bartall had been driving down Milwaukee Avenue, shooting out windows. One shot struck Miss Quinn. "It was pretty obvious by the angle of the shot that "the bullet caught Miss Quinn just as Bartall's car passed," Serafini said.

He said Bartall probably was not aware he struck Miss Quinn. Bartall's father, Kurt Bartall has been on the Chicago police force more than 23 years, Serafini estimated. "We know it was not his father's gun," he said. Investigation is continuing to determine where Bartall got the gun, he said. By Jean Ness Of The Southern IUinoisan The 23-year-old son of a Chicago policeman was charged Monday with the shooting death of Southern Illinois Uni-versity-Carbondale student Betty Quinn, killed early Sunday in Chicago." Kurt Bartall 7123 N.

Octavia, who was charged with the crime, at first denied the shooting claiming he was in Wisconsin at the time, police said. But Sgt. John Serafini, a homicide detective with the Chicago Police Department, said Bartall later admitted the shooting after a girl friend who was with Bartall, told about it when she found out Miss Quinn had been killed. The shot that ended Miss Quinn's life was "strictly accidental, for want of a better word," Serafini said. "It was a stupid act, but Miss Quinn, studying animal husbandry and history "during her second year at SIU-C, lived at Malibu Village Mobile Home Park.

Her sister, Char-Iene Jacobson, lives in Murphysboro. Miss Quinn, at home in Chicago during the school semester break, was standing in a Jewel Food Store parking lot around 3 a.m. Sunday with friends when whe was shot in the back of the head and killed instantly, Serafini said. Bartall is charged with involuntary Benton. Kennedy's Illinois presidential campaign headquarters released on Tuesday the names of 59 men and 48 women who plan to file petitions for spots on the March 18 ballot in 12 suburban and downstate congressional districts.

A spokesman said the names of delegates from Chicago districts will be revealed later. Included among the 107 candidates for delegates and alternate delegates committed to Kennedy, are nine blacks, four 1976 delegates for President Carter, 21 officials of organized labor, five current or former state legislators, three Democratic state central committeemen and 15 city, county or township officers, said Terry Michael, spokesman for Kennedy's Illinois presidential committee. Chicago (AP) Campaign officials for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy have released a list of more than 100 persons who will seek spots on the Illinois primary ballot as 1980 Democratic National Convention delegates committed to Kennedy.

U.S. Rep. Paul Simon, D-Carbondale, will head a slate of candidates for delegate from the 24th Congressional District of Southern Illinois to promote the Senator Edward Kennedy for President campaign at the national convention. Simon's Carbondale office reported today a full slate of seven candidates is to be formed. The- list is to be announced later this week.

A seven-member delegate slate was named last week by the Carter-Mondale re-election committee, including names recommended by Democratic county chairmen who voted support for President Carter in a meeting Dec. 20 in 1974 to 1977, will try to regain the seat he lost in balloting three years ago. He had gained that seat in a special election, too. Fiorino was the nominee of Commissioners Robert Murray and Jerome Roznowski for appointment to replace Williams, but was blocked by Mayor Robert Armstrong and Commissioner alph Roach. Running with Armstrong's backing will be barber Wayne Bigham, who has not held or run for political office before.

Fiorino said he wants to see the city "progress," and Bigham said he would like to see it "move forward," but neither candidate had specific goals to announce. Fiorino said he did not want to make campaign promises because any specific plans might not get support from the rest of the council. Bigham said he likes the way the city has obtained grants under Armstrong's administration. The dates for the Du Quoin special city council election will be changed Monday, City Clerk Cecil Daily said today. The primary election had been set for March 18 and the general election for May 6 to replace Commissioner Burt Williams, who died in August, but the primary date is the same for the general state primary.

Perry County Clerk Winton Bigham said, "They can't have an election the same day our primary is going." Big-ham said the city generally uses the same booths and judges the county uses. Daily said the city could opt to consolidate with the county election but will not do so. He said bo'th Du Quoin dates will be changed, but he does not yet know what the new dates will be. Two persons already have confirmed they'll run for the city council seat. James Fiorino, an electrical repairman who served on the council from Almanac overlooked Southern lllinoisans in Byline V) Contracts awarded for 7 area highway projects By Ben Gelman Sunday News Editor Of The Southern IUinoisan SINCE most everyone else seems to be speculating about what's going to happen in 1980, the next decade and beyond, I thought I would check back, instead, on what was going on 100 years ago, in 1880.

The first place I looked was in the almanac you know, those pages that list memorable dates. You know what? There is no listing for 1880. In 1879, F.W. Woolworth opened his first 5-and-10-cent store. And in 1881, President James A.

Garfield was assassinated. In between nothing. I kept looking, elsewhere. Garfield was elected in 1880 by a sizable majority of electoral votes, 214 to 155 for the Democratic candidate, Win-field S. Hancock.

But Garfield almost had lost the Republican nomination to Ulysses S. Grant, the Union general who already had served two terms as president, from 1868 to 1875. erence to 1880 and a famous Southern IUinoisan. When this particular fellow got married, after a four-year engagement, he gave his bride, Marv Baird, a ring poetically inscribed, "Won 1880, one 1884." He was William Jennings Bryan, born in Salem, and destined to be a powerful figure in national Democratic politics. Also a lawyer, he became one of the nation's outstanding orators.

His "Cross of Gold" speech at the Democratic national convention of 1896 earned him his first nomination for president at age 36. He lost to William McKinley that year and in 1900 and to William H. Taft in 1903. But, although he never won the presidency, many of his proposals were later adopted the income tax, popular election of senators, woman suffrage, public knowledge of newspaper ownership and prohibition. Bryan was known as "the great commoner." He published a weekly newspaper, the Commoner, in Lincoln, Neb.

In 1925, he served as consultant for the prosecution of John T. Scopes in the famous "monkey trial," in which Clarence Darrow was consultant for the defense. Scopes was convicted, but later freed on a technicality and although the teaching of evolution continued to be banned in Tennessee, other states hesitated to enact such a law. Bryan died five days after the trial. Maybe I should write the publishers of the almanac about the year 1880.

Then again, how could they get this whole column into one paragraph? He served as U.S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue under the Hayes, Garfield and Arthur administrations and later as U.S. Commissioner of Pensions under President Benjamin Harrison. Raum lost his bid for the Senate to Shelby M. Collom, who was governor of Illinois in 1880.

Collom served as governor from 1877 to 1883, when he won his Senate seat. Ingersoll was a native of Marion. Like Logan and Raum, he was a lawyer, but he gained fame as an orator and notoriety as an agnostic. It was at a Fourth of July Sunday school picnic in Southern Illinois, filling in for an absent speaker, that he got his start as an orator and reputation as an agnostic, when he chose as his topic a memorial to the controversial Thomas Paine. Ingersoll practiced law in Shawnee-town, then opened a law practice in Peoria in 1857.

During the Civil War, he commanded the 11th Illinois Cavalry. Probably his best-remembered speech was his placing the name of James G. Blaine in nomination as GOP presidential candidate in 1876, in which he referred to Blaine as a "plumed knight." Blaine lost the nomination. Rutherford B. Hayes won the nomination and the famous election that had to be decided by the courts.

Well, anyway, the abortive 1880 attempt to get another nomination for Grant was the last time the "triumvirate" of Logan, Ingersoll and Raum worked together. Looking further, I found another ref tributary, one and a half miles east of Vergennes. Perry County Construction Co. of Herrin was awarded the $78,024 contract. In Union County, Illinois Contract Services Inc.

of Carlyle, was awarded a $31,239 contract to lay 1.79 miles of bituminous surface treatment on the shoulders along U.S. 51, beginning two miles north of the Anna city limits and moving south. In Randolph County, .89 of a mile of a bituminous mixture complete with earth shoulders will be laid on Federal Aid to Urban Road 9418 from the north city limits of Chester for .35 of a mile and for .54 of a mile on Federal Aid System Road 849 from tbe north urban of Murphysboro, commander of the 31st Illinois Infantry, later founder of the Grand Army of the Republic, inaugura-tor of Memorial Day, twice U.S. senator and, two years before his death in 1886, unsuccessful candidate for vice president. (James G.

Blaine was the unsuccessful candidate for president that year; Grover Cleveland won his first term as president). The other two Grant supporters were Gen. Green Berry Raum and Col. Robert Green Ingersoll. Raum was a native of Golconda and resident of Harrisburg who commanded the Second Brigade, Seventh Division, Seventh Army Corps during the Civil War.

Like Logan and Ingersoll, Raum had been a Stephen A. Douglas Democrat before the war, but like them, he became an Abraham Lincoln Republican during the war. He was considered "father of the Republican party" in Illinois and presided over the state GOP convention in 1866. The same year, he was elected to Congress, but after a single term, was never able to get re-elected. He also failed in an attempt at a Senate seat but remained powerful in Illinois politics for years.

i "Seven contracts for road work in Southern Illinois were among the 61 let statewide by the Illinois Department of Transportation last month. The 61 road improvement contracts total $35.7 million. In Williamson County, .23 of a mile of open-graded asphalt friction surface course will be laid on Illinois 13 (Jordan's Curve), 4 of a mile west of the Saline County line. The contract was awarded to Southern Illinois Asphalt Co. Inc.

of Mount Vernon. Another Williamson County project will involve the installation of a double box culvert on Vicksburg Street between Aikman and Central Streets in Marion. The $39,009 contract was awarded to Cannon Construction Co. of Marion. In Jackson County, Cannon Construction will install a double box culvert on County Highway 2 over a branch of Camp Creek, five and a half miles southwest of Vergennes.

The contract is valued at $84,401. Also in Jackson County, a bridge with steel piles and concrete caps will be built on a road over a Beaucoup Creek And three prominent politicans all limits of Chester. The $76,952 contract from Southern Illinois originally were was awarded to Maclair AsDhalt Co. in the thick of the fight supporting Grant. They lost and Garfield won on the issue of forcing the state delegations to vote as a bloc.

The split vote at the Republican National Convention won Garfield the nomination. The three Grant supporters had all served with him during the Civil War. One of them you probably know about Gen. John Alexander Logan, a native Inc. and Keene Construction Inc.

The transportation department also awarded a $36,313 contract for weed control spraying on 299 miles of various routes in Franklin, Williamson, Jackson, Saline, Perry, Union, Alexander, Johnson and Gallatin counties. The contract was awarded to Chemi-Trol Chemical Co. of Gibsonburg, Ohio. i.