Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 1

A- 02 ftNTKAI. II, IN 1 I I NEIGHBORHOODS LEISURE Illini recover $5 I in time to save pari Holiday Bowl hit "i I i -v v- I AP Cooperation eases tension in Longview Off-duty Decatur police and sheriffs deputies are building a closer relationship with residents of Long-view Place, and as cooperation increases, crime eases. Central EIsnoisBI Jo 1 I W77 With the Holiday Bowl on the line, Jason Verduzco passed for his 40th career touchdown to lead Illinois to a 14-10 Big Ten victory over Michigan State Saturday. SicryD1 MacArthur swimmer captures state tiites MacArthur's Anne Kampfe was a double winner in the IHSA state girls swimming meet at New Trier High School on Saturday, setting a state record in one event and approaching the record in the other. StaryD1 Environmental awareness is hdnina create a new vuletide tradition renlantina used Christmas And even tree buyers who prefer cut trees can do their! ANGER FLARES: French farmers stoked fires in protest over an international agreement with the United States to cut farm subsidies.

Premier Pierre Beregovoy called the agreement unacceptable. StoryA3 A NO BIO: The Cubs won't try for Cy Young winner Greg Maddux. StaryD7 pan to neip the MMIJWJI Will 0 OTODAY: Rainy and chilly. Hiqh of 49. 4 i 1 ujrm en TONIGHT: Cloudy.

i i. Ann Landers E4 Business Cl-7 Classified F4-10, G46 Lottery A2 Movies E5 Obituaries B2 Puzzle F4 Our120ihYear- Issue 327-Eight sections 1 Low of 34. TOMORROW: 4334. Details A2 i 4usrf? Tisi' SWfc.M i)" I 1992 Sunday, November 22, 1992 Decatur, Illinois $1.25 Home delivery: 1 dollar if 7- i pmil El A questionable 4th-quarter penalty wipes out Eisenhower's title dreams StoryDr Central fights its way to the Class 2A title game next Friday StoryD1 A 2-point conversion gamble fails as Du Quoin edges Robinson, 15-14 StoryD4 Beefed-up police force gains favor with council By REID MAGNEY Staff Writer Photo by J. Damon Cain A DEFENSE DOMINATES: Central John Gerhold gets a hold of Matt Winchester as held Columbia to 66 total yards and Winchester to 31 yards on 20 carries.

DECATUR Facing tough choices between deeper cuts and new taxes in the next budget, anxious city council members say they want to know what the public wants. In a study session Saturday, some council members said they want to hire more police officers and restore recent cuts in neighborhood inspections. But to do that they must reduce other programs or raise taxes because the city is already losing approximately $2 million next year in state, income taxsurcharge money. At City Manager Jim Bacon's request, council members identified 27 city programs they might be willing to cut. But the only area identified by a majority of the five members present Saturday was senior citizen services.

A study of the city's Office on Aging, and whether any services can be provided by other agencies, is already in progress. Having to say which programs to cut put a few council members on the spot. Shirley Moore and Steve John asked Bacon to come up with ways to get public input before Meeting woes If the city council wants public input on budget cuts, that's what it will get, City Manager Jim Bacon said Saturday. The problem is that any public meeting he can set on the budget in January will come too late to change the city's property tax levy. Story31 i Tvv fellif ---I- 4' decisions become final.

John said the kinds of public hearings and meetings the city usually holds don't usually give citizens the chance for "meaningful involvement" before the budget is adopted in late April each year. He asked for a "less structured" forum in which people can express opinions. Mayor Erik Brechnitz said the council will continue the practice started last year of having most of its budget discussions televised on the local cable access channel. But he doubted that holding hearings early would do much more than give special interest groups a chance to plead for pet projects. Moore said people might be willing to pay more taxes if the money was dedicated to hiring more police officers, but there's no way to know unless they get a chance to express themselves.

Councilman Bill Mitchell said he thinks people want less taxes and less services. ((rr tastier remains a IT" mystery to police Investigators try to pick up killer's trail 12 years after fact Photo by Dennis Magee A DOWN AND DIRTY: Eisenhower's Toby Hess (61) sinks into the mire as a score of Geneseo players celebrate their victory. Eisenhower missed a chance to play for the Class 4A state title next weekend by the slimmest of margins, losing 7-6 on Geneseo's home field Saturday afternoon. By DOREE ARMSTRONG For the Herald Review Agency plants more cash in PR than trees By JENNIFER DtXQM AP Farm Writer ntil her body was finally identified last week, Diane Marie Riordan Small kept investigators mystified for 12 years. Now one mystery remains: who killed her? Study: Women who choose 'Mommy Track' happier WASHINGTON Professional women who take time out to marry and have children are far more content than those who put career above all else, a new study shows.

'The woman who gives up marriage and chil dren in order to further her career is making a bad bargain," said Ethel Roskies, a University of Montreal psychologist. "We found that single childless women are significantly more depressed, report lower self-esteem and lower life satisfaction than married women with children." In a study presented Saturday, Roskies said the conclusions are based on a questionnaire that was answered by 1,123 Canadian women. brainchild of prominent Dallas developer Tram-mell Crow, has been slow in getting started and has disappointed community forestry groups. Trust documents obtained by The Associated Press show that the foundation has raised no money to date and made only a single cash grant $5,000 to finance a meeting of volunteer forestry groups in Houston. The trust also has given away about 290,000 seedings, worth about 20 cents apiece and donated by the timber industry and a nursery owned by a Crow company, as well as soil, pots, transportation and storage valued at $86,000.

Two-thirds of the young trees went to groups in Crow's home state of Texas, records show. The trust expects to receive 357,000 donated seedlings this year. WASHINGTON The National Tree Trust, launched two years ago with $20 million in tax- payer dollars, has planted more money with a public relations firm than in hardy saplings and volunteer forestry groups, its records show. The 1990 law that created the tree trust calls for raising funds and using them to help volunteers improve the urban landscape and countryside alike by planting millions of trees across America. But so far, the trust's biggest expense has been a $600,000 contract signed in September with the public relations and consulting firm of Hill and Knowlton, according to trust records.

Supporters acknowledge that the foundation, Investigators admit they have no clues. "We're just going to pool our resources together," said Detective Steven Coy of the Bradley Police Department. He said Bradley, Coles County and Illinois State Police investigators will review evidence and revisit the crime site on Monday. "We're going to go over the DNA stuff because MYSTERY Continued on A4 3.