Thursday, April 22,1971

EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER
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Gaylord Nelson Speaks on Earth Day
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By Judy Ronzio
Of the Intelligencer
Borrowing a line from John
Donne, the seventeenth century
poet, Sen.Gaylord Nelson, D-
Wis., summed up the problems
of the environment with the
phrase: "Do not seek to know
for whom the bell tolls. It tolls
for thee."
Nelson spoke to a less-than-ea-
pacity crowd Thursday at Sou-
thern Illinois University's Com-
muncations Building theater.
His speech had been schedul-
ed as part of "Earth Day" ob-
servances.
The senator said he ranked
the environment as the most
important long-range issue in
America today, even more
pressing than poverty and
crime.
"It is a question of how we
will survive," he said.
He said he believed that
America for the first time is on
its way towards 'doing some-
thing about its environmental
poblems largely because the
issue recently has become "part
of the political dialogue of the
country."
Nelson pointed out that none
of the three major presidential
candidates made the environ-
ment an issue in their 1968 cam-
paigns. Less than 15 months la-
ter, he observed, President
Hichard M. Nixon issued a
statement calling the environ-
ment "the issue of the seven-
ties."
The suddenness awareness of
the problem, he theorized, is the
result of a "massive grassroots
movement," evidenced by the
unexpectedly large turnout of
concerned citizens at Earth Day
aitivities throughout the nation
last year.
HS Tops for March of Dimes
A r e a V o c a ti o n a l Thermal Pollution
S c h o o l Is T o p ic _ , . ,
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Hearing to Be Held
Bernie Caulk. Aleana Hiles and
Missy Mclntyre, representing
the students of Edwardsville
High School, recently received
an award f or having collected
more money for the March of
Dimes this year than any other
school in the county. The
school's March of Dimes Com-
mittee, assisted by Bill Nunes,
assistant to the principal, coor-
dinated activities in which about
$2,300 was raised. D .Dean Brid-
well, county chairman of the
March of Dimes, presented the
first-place trophy.
Reregistration of
State Voters Asked
Police
Springf ield
Twenty-one Illinois counties
have more registered voters
than persons eligible to vote ac-
cordi ng to a study prepared by
House Democrati c P a r t y
Minority Leader Clyde Choate of
Anna.
Ci t i ng t hi s d i s c r e p a n c y
bet ween the registration rolls
and po t en t i al voters, Choate has
f iled legislation t hat would re-
qui re rei egistration f or all
Illinois voters prior to the
presi dent i al elections next
year.
Using much the same
eudencc. Choate f i led a si mi lar
bill i n 1969 It was approved by
the House Electi ons Commi ttee
but as beat en on the f loor.
Most of the counties wi t h more
reg.^tered t han eligible voters
are in r' lral .ireas in cent ral and
Southern Illinois. The greatest
di screpancy 13 in Hard n Coun-
ty, located along the Ohio River
near the southern tip of the
state.
It had 4.163 registered voters
last year. The population of
peis-ms over 21 years old
numbered 3.253. Nei ghbori ng
Pope Count y had 2,854
registered voters and 2,494
eligible voters, according to he
1870 census.
The ratio of registered to
eligible voters is 90 per cent in
51 of the state's 102 counties.
The lov.-est ratios are in Jackson
and Champai gn counties, sites
Of Southern Illinois Uni versi ty
and the Uni versi ty of Illinois,
respecti vely,
In Jackson County there are
20.124 registered voters and
32.195 over 21. The correspon-
ding f i gures f or Champai gn
County are 57 .27 0 and 92,200.
Choatc's bill provides f or
reregi strati on on three days
Ki n d e r ga r te n
Re gi s tr a ti o n
S h o ws De c r e a s e
Ki ndergart en registration Jor
the 1971-72 school year in the
Edwardsvi l l e School District is
down f rom last year, accordi ng
to the admi ni strati on.
A t ot al of 259 pupils were en-
rolled at the seven elementary
schools of the district Tuesday.
Last }ear. 292 Kindergarten
pupils enrolled.
The enrol i ment at each school
was: LeClai re, 81; Lincoln, 14;
Columbus. 47 ; N. 0. Nelson,
53; Glen Carbsn, 26; Hamel, 20;
and Mi dway. 18.
Parents wi ll be notif ied laler
as to whi ch center their children
will attend, according to Assist-
ant Supt.Joe Lucco.
early next year. It would be
supervised by the county clerks,
who would put deputy registrars
in each precinct
The discrepancies between
registered and eligible voters, it
is believed, results f rom a
f ai lure to remove f rom the
registration rolls the names of
those who die or leave the
county.
The si tuati on is ripe for "ghost
voting" and other types of voter
f raud. "It seems possible,"
Choate said, "that the counties
wi t h i rregular registration pro-
cedures also have irregular
voti ng procedures."
"It has been more than 30
years since there has been
general voter reregistration in
Illinois and-I t hi n k it is time t hat
statewi de registration and
vot i ng procedures are cleaned
up."
Tank Stolen
A "wheel horse" valued at
$350 and a diesel tank and stand
were stolen f rom Harold Hosto,
rural Troy, according to the
Madison County Sheriff's De-
partment.
The thef t was reported to the
Sheriff's Department on Wed-
nesday. The time of the thef t
was unknown.
Hosto lives on Staunton Road,
three miles north of Troy.
Motorist Charged
By City Police
Gordon I. Schwab, 27 , 1402
Eberhart Ave., was charged by
Edwardsville Police with dis-
obeying a traf f i c control device
at the intersection of Main and
Vandalia streets at 6:46
Wednesday.
Livingston
The Livingston School District
will hold a special public meet-
ing Monday to inform residents
about the Area Vocational
School in Collinsville, according
to Supt. Marion A. Verton.
Verton said about half the jun-
ior and senior classes of Livings-
ton High School will attend the
Collinsville school for half -day
sessions during the 1971-72
school year.
Participation in the vocational
education program in Collins-
ville wiU cause some "facility
and curriculum changes at the
high school," Verton said. The
changes will be explained at
the meeting.
Representatives f rom the Of-
fie of the State Superintendent
of Public Instruction and the
Collinsville Area Vocational
School will be at the meeting
to answer questions, Verton
said.
The meeting will be in the
high school gym, starting at
7 :30 p.m.Monday.
Public hearings on proposed
thermal standards f or effluents
discharged .into the Mississippi
River will be held by the Illi-
nois Pollution Control Board
starting at 10 a.m. Friday in
the City Hall Council Chambers
in Alton.
The proposed standards, de-
veloped by a citizen's group for
the Quad-Cities Nuclear Power
Plant at Cordova, are as fol-
lows:
1.) No heated effluent shall
exceed the naturally occurring
temperature of the river at any
time or place by more than f ive
degrees Fahrenheit.
2.) No heated effluent shall
exceed the naturally occurring
monthly high or maximum tem-
perature of the receiving wa-
ters.
While much of the thermal
pollution controversy centers on
nuclear power plants, conven-
tional power plants, industries
and municipal sewage treat-
ment plants would be af f ected
by the proposed standards, ac-
cording to hearing of f icer Wal-
ter Romanek.
Because of the volume of
their discharges, power plants,
especially nuclear power plants,
cause the greatest problem in
terms of thermal pollution, Ro-
manek said.
Some industries and some
municipal treatment plants
might experience some difficul-
ty in meeting the proposed stan-
dards, he said.
Among those expected to of-
fer testimony at Friday's hear-
ings are Shell Oil Co., 0 1 i n
Corp. Illinois Power Co., the Il-
linois Department of Conserva-
tion and the U.S. Environmen-
ta Protection Agency, accord-
ing to Romanek.
P a r a d e P la n n e d
F o r W illia m s
Names and Places
Nelson cited a tough air pollu-
tion law, the Environmental
Protection Act and the rejection
of the SST as examples of legis-
lative efforts to combat the en-
vironmental problems of the na-
tion.
Personnally, he said, he be-
lieves the federal government
should give top priority to ex-
panding f amily planning servic-
es, making such services
available to more people and
expanding research into me-
thods of birth control.
Along other lines, he said he
believes the government should
begin making far more money
available for local sewage treat-
ment plants and should take a
closer look at land use planning,
possibilities of recycling waste
on a national level and methods
of curbing solid waste dumping
in the oceans.
Implications
One question Americans
should start considering, accord-
ing to Nelson, involves the "so-
cial, economic and moral impli-
cations of being forced to share
a vanishing resource base,
while the demand for natural
resources is increasing."
Noting that a "substantial
portion" of the world's natural
resources are within the juris-
diction of developing nations,
Nelson cited the recent success-
ful attempt of Libya to raise oil
prices an an example of the
type of situation which could
begin cropping up with increas-
ing frequency.
During a question-and-answer
period after his address, Nelson
was asked whether he believed
public interest in the environ-
ment issue would eventually
die. "I don't think so," he re-
sponded. "We live with the en-
vironment. The quality of living
is deteriorating and we feel its
ef f ects every day. This issue
won't go away."
Scholarship Is Won
p.m.
P r o x y F igh t a t
O z a r k S to p p e d
Lindsay-Schaub Ness Service
An agreement to expand to 17
the size of the board of directors
has apparent ly ended the threat
of a proxy f ight for control of
O zark Air Lines.
O zark which is the only
ai rl i ne to serve most of central
and southern Illinois, agreed to
expand ils 12-member board in a
proposal to be submitted Mav 21
to stockholders.
Dissident shareholders had
threatened a proxy f i ght to oust
O zark s management team
Ozark lost last week a bid to
obtai n a court injunction blodc-
mg the ef f ort.
A corporate statement ex-
plained that both sides agreed
t hat a proxy battle would have
been expensive. Some estimated
the expense at $200,000.
The rebel f action had attacked
tne corporation's management
because of losses suf f ered in the
last three years.
Two members of the current
board, Lester L. Cox and
Clarence Tabor, headed the op-
position. They will seek re-elf c-
tion, Five other dissidents are
expected to seek the new board
seats.
Candidates for
Boys State Are
Sought by Post
Ameri can Legion Post 199 is
seeking boys who want to at t e id
Boys State June 20 through 26
at Springfield, according to Earl
Wilhold, Boys State chairman.
A boy must have passed his
15th bi rthday to qualif y, must
be under 18 and in his junior
or senior year at high school.
He must be vaccinated and have
no physical disability.
"The annual event is held to
develop in the yout h of today
constructive attitudes toward
the American f orm of eovprn-
ment," Wilhold said, "and' by
so doing to endeavor to transmit
to posterity the principles of
justice, f reedom and democra-

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East St. Louis (AP)
Supporters of the city's f irst
black mayor are planning what
they bill as the city's first in-
augural parade and ball.
The two - section parade for
James E. Williams Sr., who
takes of f ice May 5, will be held
on May 7 and the ban May
8.
Hermon Betts, Williams'
campaign manager, said it is
hoped the parade Will be the
largest in the history of East
St. Louis.
One section of the parade will
start at Lincoln Park in the
southwest part of the city and
the other will originate at the
Loisel Village shopping center
in the northeast portion.
Both sections will get under
way at noon and are scheduled
to reach Lincoln Senior High
School at 2 p.m.
The ball will be held in the
National Guard Armory.
Williams, who won public of-
f ice in his first attempt, defeat-
ed career politician Virgil Cul-
vert in an election earlier this
month.
Markets
Jef f rey Rider, a junior at Ed-
wardsville High School, has
been awarded a scholarship
from the Telluride Association
Summer Program. He is one
of 40 winners throughout the
nation. He will take part in
a seminar this summer at Cor-
nell University campus on "The
Experience of the Writer."
Among honor students who
will be recognized at the 47 th
annual convocation April 30 at
the University of Illinois is Nel-
son Balke, Route 3, Edwards-
ville. Students must have a cum-
ulative grade point average of
4.5 or better for all work taken
at the university. Their names
are inscribed on a bronze tablet
and mounted permanently in the
south corridor of the university
library.
Steven Louis Thomas, 20 Tho-
mas Terrace, is among students
named to the winter quarter
honor roll at Ohio State Univers-
ity. Students listed must attain
a 3.5 average on the 4.0 grading
system.
Taking part in the annual
spring tour of the Illinois State
University Varsity Band April
29 will be Ruth Ann Shreffler,
409 Bollman Ave. The band will
play at three high schools. Miss
Shreffler plays trumpet and cor-
net. She is a sophomore major-
ing in sociology-anthropology.
Dennis W. Eller of Bethalto
was commissioned a second
lieutenant in the Air Force at
graduation recently from officer
candidate school at Lackland
AFB, Tex. A 1966 graduate of
Civic Memorial High School, El-
ler received an A.B. degree in
political science at the Univers-
ity of Missouri. He is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Eller Jr
of Bethalto.
Nancy Wait, 428 Tower Lake
Apts., is a member of the Uni-
versity of Illinois Madrigal Sing-
ers who will present "The Play
of Daniel" at 8 p.m. Saturday
and Sunday in the University
Place Christian Church in
Champaign. The play was writ-
ten in 13th Century France by
students in the Cathedral of
Beauvais.
Pentateuch Is the name for
the first f ive books of the Old
Testament of the Bible.
De a n ' s List at
SIU-C Includes
5 Local People
Patricia A. Harper of Route
5, Park Drive, Edwardsville,
achieved a perfect, 5.0 grade
average for the winter quarter
at Southern Illinois University
at Carbondale, the university
announced.
Four other Edwardsville resi-
dents were named to the dean's
list with averages of 4.25 or
better: Richard L. Gusewelle,
7 09 Sherman Ave.; Patricia L.
Harrell, Route 4; Mary E. Jack-
son, 923 W. Grand Ave., and
Gary W. Pingolt, Route 2.
Three other area students
maintained perfect grade aver-
ages for the winter quarter:
Stan W. Gif f horn of Highland,
and two Beth?lto students, Caro-
lyn S. Spence and Patricia D.
Wilson.
Other area students named to
the dean's list are Donald O.
Mersmger, Troy; Deborah S.
Rogers, Moro; Ann Irene De-
horn and Patrick Louis Kuhl
both of Highland; James R.
Gay, Staunton; Janice Carlee
Lorenz and Nancy Jean Scrog-
gins, both of Bunker Hill, and
Dorothy L. Broadway, Charles
A. Prange and Kathy A. Woody,
all of Bethalto.
Staunton
The Staunton School District
Board of Education will hold
a special meeting at 8:15 p.m.
Friday to discuss actions taken
by the Staunton Educators' As-
sociation in ef f orts to get ne-
gotiations with the board tliis
year.
The board has ref used to con-
duct negotiations with the SDA
this year because the request
for negotiations was received
18 hours after the deadline
agreed to in last year's negotia-
tions.
According to the 1970 agree-
ment between the board and
the SEA, the SEA would have
had to request negotiations this
year before Jan. 8. The request
was received on the afternoon
of Jan. 8.
At its last meeting, the board
denied a grievance submitted
by two teachers, in which they
requested that the negotiations
be opened.
Teachers at the meeting im-
pressed concern that, withcoit
negotiations, salaries for this
year are frozen at last year's
schedule.
The SEA has sent a letter
to the board threatening to pre-
sent the grievance to "binding
arbitration unless the board
agrees to negotiate salaries and
an insurance dollar amount per
teacher," the administraton
said.
Fred Stein, president of the
school board, said the meeting
Friday was called to discuss
the letter.
Celia Lamb, chief negotiator
for the SEA, said today that
the letter was submitted to the
board "as a compromise."
If the board does not agree
by Friday to hold negotiations
this year on the salary and
insurance matters, the SEA will
request a list of arbitrators
from the American Arbitration
Association.
The board and the SEA will
choose one person from the list,
and he will investigate the situa-
tion and come to a decision.
Both the board and the SEA
would be bound to accept the
decision reached by the AAA
representative, Miss Lamb said
District Supt. J. Harold Die!
said today he is "not sure"
of the exact procedures involved
in bringing in the AAA.
"But that sounds about right "
he said, referring to Miss
Lamb's description of the ac-
tion.
"It is binding arbitration," he
said.
She said the board's refusal
to allow negotiations on the bas-
is of late submittal of the re-
quest was "nitpicking. . .a tech-
nicality."
According to last year's agr'e-
ment, she said, if the request
had been submitted a day ear-
lier, the board would have been
obligated to honor it.
Miss Lamb said there will
be a teachers' meeting Friday
afternoon. She said the SEA has
been expecting a reply from
the board by that time.
Only a narrow strip of land
between Bhutan and East Pak-
istan connects Assam to the
main body of India.
F i r e P r o te c ti o n
T o B e Co n ti n u e d
Maryville
The Maryville village board
voted WednescJay night to con-
tinue providing f ire protection
for the Maryville Fire Protec-
tion District f or the f iscal year
beginning May 1.
The board also voted to con-
duct a special census of the vil-
lage,
Village Clerk Frank Vallino
sad that Maryville is dissatis-
f ied with the official census
count of the village, as are
many communities.
The population count deter-
mines the amount of revenue
the village receives f rom motor
f uel and income tax f unds.
The board canvassed the re-
sults of the Tuesday elections
and f ound them to be as report-
ed by the election judges, Val-
lino said.
Ma rin e to H a lt
A b a n d o n e d Ca r s
Marine
.The Marine village board de-
cided Wednesday night to st art
enf orcing the village ordinance
on abandoned cars.
"We have been getting more
and more abandoned cars late-
ly, said vitllage clerk Joe
Szatkowski.
In other action, the board
Heard from a representative of
a fogging company on new
i qui pment available f or control-
ling mosquitos.
Board members tabled action
on the purchase of chemicals
for mosquito control.
Police Commissioner William
Haywood told the other board
members of a break-in at St
Elizabeth's Church rectory and
of an automobile on the rectory
grounds.
The break-in occurred
night before Easter.
Ju r y to P r o b e
4 S u s p e n s i o n s
Belleville (AP)
A special session of the !St
Clair County grand jury was
called today to investigate the
suspension of f our East St. Louis
policemen, State's Attorney lio-
bert Rice said.
The f our of f icers were given
30-day suspensions for their al-
leged involvement in a burglary
last Wednesday at a clothing
store.
Police Capt. William Johnson
said the suspensions came Fri-
day af ter evidence was re-
ceived indicating clothes f rom
the store were placed in a ci ty
police car.
He said the patrolmen, L. G.
Adams, August Manso, Alvin
Tolden and Leon Hughes, had
been dispatched to Maggi Fash-
ions, Inc., to investigate the
burglary.
the
The f light musculature of the
tiny hummi ngbi rd is the strong-
est of any birdone-third of
its weight.
A l to n O f f i c i a l ' s
A u to Is B o m b e d
Alton (AP)
A dynamite bomb heavldy
damaged an automobile parked
in a garage at the home of Alton
Building Inspector Joseph
Schulz Wednesday.
Schulz said he and his wif e
were asleep when the boinb
detonated about midnight.
He said he often has differ-
ences of opinion with people in
the course of his job and has
received threatening telephone
calls complaining of too strict
enforcement of the building
code.
But, he said, he kows of no
reason why anyone would bomb
his car.
East St Louis Livestock
Estimated Friday receipts:
Hogs 4,000, cattle 200, calves 25,
sheep 50
Hogs 8,500; barrows and gilts
mostly 50 lower, instances 7 5
lower. 1-2 200-230 Ibs 16.50-16.75;
1-3 200-240 Ibs 16.00-16.50; 2-3 240-
260 Ibs 15.7 5-16.00; 2-4 250-27 0 Ibs
15.00-15.75; 27 0-330 Ibs 14.25-
15.00. Sows 50 lower. 1-3 300-400
Ibs 14.00-14.50; 400-600 Ibs 13.75-
14.00; few 500-650 Ibs 13.50
Boars: 1100-1200.
Cattle 1,400; calves 50;
receipts mostly f eeders con-
signed to today's auction,
terminal supply largely cows
and f ew lots slaughter steers.
Represented classes steady
Slaughter steers; part load good
and choice near 1,050 Ibs yield
grade 2-4 31.0. Few good 29 00-
30.00. Cows: Commercial 19 00-
22.00, utility 19.00-22 50 few 22.7 5.
Cutter 18.00-21.00, canner 15.50-
18.50. Calves: choice vealers
38.00-42.00 individual high choice
4400. Good 33.00-38.00
Eggs and Poultry
St. Louis (AP)
Eggs and poultry:
Eggs, consumer grades: A
large 27 -35, A medium 25-32,
A small 12-20, B large 25-31.
Eggs, wholesale grades: A
large 22-24, standard 20-21, me-
dium 18-19, unclassified 16-17,
pullet 12-13, pewees 9.
Hens: heavy 6 Ibs and ovei'
10, medium 5-6 Ibs 7 , leghorns
2.
Ready to cook broilers and
f ryers 27 .00-27 .7 5 for this week's
delivery.
Dow Jon* Average!
New York (AP)
Dow Jones noon stock aver-
ages:
30 Indus. 940.42 off 0 91
20 Trans. 221.98 up 3,14
15 Utils. 122.86 off 0 22
65 Stocks 312.52 up 1,05
Ti-Grace Atkinson Calls Movement a Farce
Feminist Criticizes Non-Committed Women
By Jody Stone
Of the Intelligencer
For nearly an hour Wednes-
day, f eminist theoretician Ti-
Grace Atkinson told a group
of approximately 200 people that
the Women's Lib movement was
not working.
Miss Atkinson spoke to a
groupmostly young and mostly
womenin Meridian Hall at
Southern Illinois University. A
group of Roman Catholic lay
and clergymen actively opposed
her philosophy, but most of the
audience greeted her comments
with applause and an occasional
"Right On!"
She concluded her speech by
saying, "The women's move-
ment is a f arce. At least one
woman has said it, and that's
the best I can do."
Miss Atkinson said that when
she began in the movement,
she thought the enemy was men.
However, the scope of her oppo-
sition is broader than that now,
she confided.
She commented, "The cancer
is in us. Women not only betray,
women, but the women's move-
ment betrays the women's
movement,"
She said that there was wide-
spread defection w i t h i n
the movement. "I've got a list
(of defectors), but it covers
a whole wall in my apartmenl,"
she said.
Miss Atkinson discussed at
length, a recent incident at Ca-
tholic University in Washington,
D.C. While giving a lecture, she
was struck by a woman. The
woman turned out to be.Mrs.
Brent Bozelle, the sister of con-
servatives William and James
Ti-Grace Atkinson
Buckley.
She criticized Catholic Univer-
sity's alleged role in the inci-
dent. She added that she was
going to brwg conspiracy charg-
es against the school.
Mrs. Bozelle struck her be-
cause of comments she made
about the Roman Catholic
Church and the Virgin Mary,
according to Miss Atkinson.
Before giving her lecture at
Catholic University, she had re-
ceived 25 death threats, Miss
Atkinson told the SIU audience.
She said that the lecture hall
was a "death trap." There
were 15 "Sons of Thunder," an
ultraconservartive group, wait-
ing for her when she arrived,
she added.
When she saw that there were
few young people in the aud-
ience, she sensed something was
wrong, she said. She called the
Washington Post and asked if
any photographers could be
sent, she said. The women's de-
partment sent six, she added.
Speaking of the Bozelle inci-
dent, Miss Atkinson said that
she saw this blur coming at
her. "I saw this f ace twisted
with hate." Later, a photograph-
er "jumped" a man with a gun,
Miss Atkinson added.
"They didn't want SOME-
BODY to get out alive," she
commented.
Miss Atkinson said that slie
was stunned mostly by the f act
that a woman had been the
person to strike her.
She said that she only wantud
women who would commit
themselves completely to the
movement. "A woman who is
married can't be against mar-
riage," she explained.
She commented on women un-
suitable for the movement, "I
can't deal with morons or trul-
tors."
Miss Atkinson said, "People
do hate us (feminists), If we
take our humanity. Time is run-
ning out. . ." She then paused
and looked upset. A television
newscaster was interviewing a
priest who was wearing a button
inscribed, "Abortion Kills-
Choose Life." The priest was
Rev. Casimir Gierut of Bunker
Hill.
She asked that the Interview
be conducted outside the audi-
torium. She then turned to the
local women's liberation mem-
bers and remarked, "Why didn't
you kick him out!"
"He's clean, he even weatrs
a suit. It's the women I have
to worry about," she said, not-
ing the lax mood of the local
women's lib.
She added, "I'm tired of tak-
ing the nervous strain myself "
After her lecture, she answer-
ed questions for almost an hour
Abortion and Catholicism prov-
ed to be the most popular topic s.
One man commented that he
was against abortion.
One young woman replied,
You don't get pregnant, baby."
One anti-abortion group w,s
composed of several Roman Ca-
tholic lay people f rom the Ef-
flngham ara. About 25 or 30
had come to hear the pro-abor-
tion Atkinson, a spokesman for
tne group said.
The group represented the Ca-
tholic Daughters of America, the
Diocesan Council of Catholic
"
Third
Anton Munch, a retired rail-
roadman, objected to abortion
^fln
and legal
Bounds.
said that abortion on demand
He also said a f etus is a
potential human being and has
.right to live. "If I started
Duuomg a house, suppose some-
one burned it down on grounds
It was not a complete house "
he commented.
He stated the anti - abortion
tand as follows: "The right
to life is the keystone of lift-."
Miss Atkinson spoke as part
of the Artist-Lecture Series of
SIU. She was a founding mem-
ber of The Feminists and one
of the five founding directors
of Human Rights for Women,
Inc.