Aide Resigns in Wake of Violation

An assistant basketball coach at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale resigned after admitting he knew about money paid to one of his players, school officials said.

Stafford Stephenson, 37, left after the university was notified of the payments to 6-11 center Ken Perry, said Dean Stuck, the school’s special assistant in charge of intercollegiate athletics.

During an investigation, Carbondale chiropractor Roy S. White told Stuck he had given money to Perry, a transfer student from the University of Evansville. White is not affiliated with the school.

Members of the San Antonio Gunslingers picked up their overdue paychecks, and the owner of the United States Football League club said he has no problem paying the team’s bills.

Checks bounced last week, according to owner Clinton Menges, because the Internal Revenue Service placed a lien on the Gunslingers’ payroll account, claiming it was owed $404,763 in back payroll taxes.

“Let me assure you I have no problem,” Manges said. “The team has no problem. I just paid $500,000 for assessments for all the other teams. We paid off that tax lien.”

A medical malpractice suit filed by world drag-racing champion Shirley Muldowney against a Southland plastic surgeon was “settled amicably” in Superior Court in Van Nuys, her attorney said.

Muldowney’s suit was filed April 1, 1980, against Dr. Joseph Nemetz and Valley Plastic Reconstructive Medical Group.

Muldowney, 44, claimed that an operation by Nemetz in 1979 to remove wrinkles from around her eyes had left her with a drooping lower left eyelid and extensive swelling around both eyes.

Terms of the settlement were not revealed.

Elio de Angelis of Italy set a track record for qualifying in the opening session of time trials for Sunday’s season-opening Brazilian Formula One Grand Prix.

De Angelis, in a turbocharged Lotus, was timed in 1:28.081 on the 3.12-mile Jacarepagua track, 40 miles south of Rio de Janeiro. De Angelis bettered the mark of 1:28.392 he set last year.

St. Louis Cardinals owner Bill Bidwill, encouraged by a proposal for a new $100-million domed stadium in the city, said the National Football League team will remain in St. Louis, ending months of speculation about a move to Phoenix.

The Seattle Mariners lost more than $6 million last season and have lost more than $21 million since real estate tycoon George Argyros purchased the team in 1981, a Mariner official said.

Brian Beggs, vice president for finance, said the club had revenues of $12.8 million in 1984, with expenses of $19 million.

Topps Chewing Gum, makers of the baseball cards, sued the Major League Baseball Players Assn. for trying to monopolize players’ publicity rights.

The suit claimed that the union, since 1982, has been pressuring players to grant them exclusive publicity rights, thus constituting a “threat to destroy Topps’ baseball card business,” the company said.

Names in the News

Carl Lewis and Chandra Cheeseborough are among the Olympians competing tonight in the sixth Sun Angel track and field meet at Tempe, Ariz.

Patrick Ewing and Cheryl Miller each received a Naismith Trophy as the nation’s outstanding men’s and women’s college basketball players.