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On Today's Editorial Page The Scandal Of Secret Swiss Accounts: Editorial Victory For Rail Negotiation: Editorial LJ FINAL Stock Market Down Closing Prices Pages 6B and 7B VOL. 91 ISO. 328 1969, St. Louii Foot-Dlipatch FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1969 52 PAGES lft, Horn Delivery Price 1UC I2.S0 a Month Cervantes Presents $15,000,000 Plan To Combat Crime 5. 1 2- "that we will have sufficient funds in general revenue to pay for this renovation without using bond issue funds." The Mayor said that he and his staff had discussed the need for additional posttrial facilities for juveniles.

But he said he was convinced that posttrial detention of juveniles who had been sentenced to jail was an obligation of the State of Missouri and not the city. He said that he would meet with Gov. Warren E. Hearnes Dec. 16 and would discuss this problem with him.

In other action, the alder-manic Legislation Committee unanimously recommended passage of a bill stiffening fines for prostitution. The committee approved only one amendment, lowering the minimum fine for the first offense to $100, from $250. The bill, introduced by Alderman Henry Stolar Twenty-fifth Ward, will come up for debate in the Board of Aldermen next week. The bill prohibits a judge from granting probation or parole, or staying the fine for prostitution. It contains a graduated system of minimum fines, reaching $500 and 90 days in the TURN TO PAGE 7, COL.

2 I Mayor Asks For Study Of Riverfront Leases 1 An anticrime package a bond issue for $12,000,000 for street and alley lighting and another for $3,000,000 for pretrial detention facilities for juvenile delinquentswas presented to the Board of Aldermen today by Mayor Alfonso J. Cervantes. In an address to board members, the Mayor asked that the bond issues be placed on the March 3 ballot with the proposed 1 per cent city sales tax. The tax increase was needed, he said, to keep the city from going bankrupt. Modern street lighting is essential as a deterrent to crime, he said.

He recited surveys that showed that 12 times as many crimes were committed at night as in the daytime. After the city installed new street lights in the downtown area in 1967, the crime rate dropped more than 20 per cent, he said. In addition, a survey of 1300 police officers disclosed that 85 per cent of them reported a drop in the crime rate when lighting was improved and 42 per cent of them said the drop was as much as 50 per cent, the mayor noted. Concerning detention facilities for juveniles, Mayor Vervantes said experts in this field agreed that one of the city's more serious shortcomings was the lack of facilities to detain juveniles, who are responsible for a major share of the city's crime. The staff of the juvenile court has said it is so short of space at the dedention building on Vandeventer Avenue that almost every night some youngsters have to be transferred to police district holdovers.

The Mayor said his office had under discussion converting the old children's building adjacent to City Hall into a detention facility. It has been determined that this building can be renovated and put to use again for about $500,000. i iw1 Flares of burning natural gas roaring from offshore oil drilling platforms in Cook Inlet, about 70 miles southwest of Anchorage. The platforms cost from $13,000,000 to $24,000,000 each. They produce from 26,000 to 42,000 barrels of oil a day.

The west shore of Cook Inlet is in the background. Cook Inlet is Alaska's only oil-producing area at present. (Post-Dispatch Photo by Robert C. Holt Jr.) Uses Of Alaska's New Revenues "It is my hope," he said, Nixon To Discuss Hunger Problems what is going on in Alaska are not extremists, for the most part. They feel it is possible to make intelligent use of resources without ruining the land.

But they fear with justification from the nation's history and present plight that it will not be done that way. A case in point is the proposed trans-Alaska pipeline. The oil industry is eager to go ahead with a project that has staggering technical difficulties and potential for environmental damage even before solutions are in hand. "I don't think there is any way we can do it without mistakes," was the frank comment made to the Post-Dispatch by J. V.

Neeper, the man in charge of constructing the 800-mile-long, 48-inch-diameter conduit. Asked about chances of hav- TURN TO PAGE 4, COL. 1 By WILLIAM K. WYANT JR. AND AL DELUGACH Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch LAST OF A SERIES Yet North and ever North we pressed To the land of our Golden Dream.

Robert W. Service JUNEAU, Dec. 5 Alaska's receipt of $900,000,000 from the North Slope oil lease sale last September put the state in the enviable position of having more money on hand than it knows what to do with. Once the Cinderella of the i Alaska now wears the oil industry's glass slipper. When the Legislature meets here in January, one of its happy tasks will be to riffle through the new oil dollars and set new Washington to arrange a series of seminars to explore the subject.

These studies should help prevent a spending spree. "A I a a 's great mineral wealth is not to be merely preserved for some future distant time," Miller said in an address on the eve of the Sept. 10 oil lease sale. "We're going to use what God has given us to brighten the futures of our people. I will not tolerate any delay in getting our natural resources to market." Like many Alaskans, the Governor is confident it will be possible to go forward with industrial exploitation without despoiling the land's great natural beauty.

He draws a distinc-t i between conservationists, with whom he allies himself, and "preservationists" who would keep the state locked up in perpetuity. The conservationist critics of courses for a state that has been spending annually only about one fourth of the amount that it got from the oil industry in one giant dollop. While it is endowed with natural splendor, Alaska has plenty of the prosaic and grubby problems long familiar in the Lower 48. There is pollution. There is litter.

Considered graver by far, however, are the poverty of the rural native village, the dismal level of education among the poor and the highest unemployment rate in the United States. In considering how to use the new riches, A I a a 's leaders have been proceeding cautiously. Expert advice is being obtained. Gov. Keith H.

Miller, Republican, called in the Stanford Research Institute to assess the a 's needs and goals. The State Legislative Council hired the Brookings Institution of Paul H. Spelbrink Director of streets and wharves (4) Hand over control of anti-hunger problems to the poor at the local level. Mayer, Harvard nutrition expert who organized the three-day conference, told the delegates Mr. Nixon "has already instructed the Secretary of Agriculture to the food stamp program to all counties." Later Mayer told a press conference, "All counties will have a food stamp program by June 30, 1970." The White House confirmed the Administration was committed to establishing a food program by mid-1970 in each of the 306 counties that presently do not have one.

But Ronald L. Ziegler, press secretary, said that all the programs might not involve food stamps, which enable poor persons to buy food at reduced prices and can be introduced only after a county makes a specific request through the state. Department Agriculture sources estimated that 475,000 persons would be eligible for food stamps if the program was to the 306 counties where no assistance is Conferees Back Public Housing Rent Subsidies WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 (UPI) President Richard M. Nixon, after promising to try to put a food program in every county in the United States within seven months, agreed to discuss hunger problems today with leaders of the first White House Conference on Food, Nutrition and Health.

Announcement of the President's promise and the scheduled meeting was made yesterday by Jean Mayer, the Administration's top hunger spokesman, after the conference's 3000 delegates voted at their final session to recommend adoption of a five-point program to feed the poor. The delegates urged Mr. Nixon to declare a a i a 1 hunger emergency and to take any steps necessary "to feed all hungry Americans this winter." They asked him to: (1) Press for establishment of a $5500 guaranteed annual income for every family of four. (2) Set up adequate interim food programs until the guaranteed cash income was assured by law. (3) Institute a free breakfast and lunch program for all underprivileged grade-school and high-school students.

Mayor Alfonso J. Cervantes has asked the St. Louis chapter of the Missouri Society of Public Accountants to study all leases and rental rates in effect between the city and private industry along the St. Louis riverfront. He acted yesterday as Alder-manic President Joseph L.

Bad-aracco called for an audit of St. Louis Terminals Corp. books to determine whether the operator of the city's North Market Street wharf facility was paying a fair lease rate to St. Louis. Earlier yesterday the alder-manic Ways and Means Committee deferred action on a 25-year lease of 1700 feet of unimproved wharf to Federal Barge Lines, until committee members could tour the riverfront.

A boat will be provided by the Coast Guard for that trip next week. The Post-Dispatch this week in articles on the riverfront reported that the St. Louis Ter minals Corp. paid the city $37,500 annually for the facility that cost the city $3,000,000 to construct; that members of the city's Port Commission lease more than half the space on the improved and unimproved wharves, and that the riverfront is deteriorating, with corresponding low lease rates. At a press conference, Cervantes said that he called for a review of lease rates two months ago "with a view toward increasing the charges." The Mayor said that the review was prompted by a letter from Street Director Paul H.

Spelbrink, who reported in October that the city was receiving a poor return on the North Market Street facility. "I asked Spelbrink to turn the matter over to the Port Commission and to work with Comptroller (John Poelker in reviewing lease rates," Cervantes said. "We are trying to establish fair rates on the riverfront. We hope that the accountants can advise us on what the yield of the land should be, and then we will base our revisions on that. "We can't go in and audit a man's books.

And just because St. Louis Terminals is making money at the facility is no reason to increase rates. We should get a fair return, but you can't base return on what the man is making. If that were true, then the city also would be obliged to reduce lease rates if the man were not making a profit," he said. Cervantes said that he saw no real conflict of interest on the part of Port Commission members in leasing ground from the city at the same time TURN TO PAGE 16, COL.

1 Bans Barbecues On Balconies TOWSON, Md Dec. 5 (AP) Apartment house dwellers no longer will be able to cook outdoors in Baltimore County. The Fire Prevention Bureau will ban balcony barbecues next summer. Deputy Fire Chief Paul Reinicke said that open charcoal burners could be used only if they were 15 feet from a building. "We treat hibachis on an individual basis," he added.

"If the hibachi is covered, then it's not an open-fire burner." Netvs Index Page Editorials 2C Everyday Magazine MOD Financial 5-7B Obituaries 5C Sports 1-5B Want Ads 5-15C, 9B Beloiv Normal Next 5 Days Five-day forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: temperatures tomorrow through Wednesday will average three to six degrees below seasonal normals. Turning colder Sunday, but with moderating temperatures by the middle of the week. Normal highs are in the middle 40s and normal lows are in the middle 20s. Precipitation will be in the form of rain changing to snow, diminishing Sunday.

More snow is expected Wednesday. ally backed housing and urban renewal programs. However, several persons at the conference acknowledged that agreement had been reached on the rent subsidy section. A modified subsidy provision was written into the Senate-passed housing bill with the backing of Senator Edward W. Brooke Massachusetts.

The provision has become Comic's Wife '0 MnrP JnkPS Ahnilt HPT By TIMOTHY BLECK A Washington Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 A Senate-House conference agreed yesterday to a public housing rent subsidy program. This virtually assured passage of a law designed to maintain the fiscal stability of numerous big-city public housing programs, including the one in St. Louis. Conferees agreed yesterday to limit rents charged public housing tenants to 25 per cent of their income.

The effect of the law would be to the rents of about 215,000 of the 800,000 families living in public housing units. The provision authorizes expenditures of $75,000,000 annually for rental assistance payments to public housing agencies. The closed conference on the 1969 housing bill is not expected to conclude until Tuesday. It deals with funding for all feder Rain Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Rain to continue tonight and tomorrow; warmer tonight with lows 35 to 40; high tomorrow I.

Who cam known as the Brooke amendment. Proponents believe that few cities will feel its impact more than St. Louis. A fact sheet distributed to conferees noted that before the St. Louis rent strike, 86 per cent of its public housing tenants paid more than 25 per cent of their incomes for rent.

It said 29 per cent paid more than half their income for rent Fights Back: be married with a young family and not be able to cook properly." The comedian said, "The stories I told about my wife couldn't be further from the truth, as she is a wonderful missus." Post-Dispatch Sunday Price To Be 35 Cents The price of the Sunday Post-Dispatch will be 35 cents on and after next Sunday, Dec. 7, 1969. This Sunday price change has been deferred as long as possible. Greatly increased payroll and production costs make it imperative to make the change. Sunday newspapers in many of the cities have found it necessary to change their selling prices to 35 cents.

The price of the daily Post-Dispatch remains unchanged. At Jr and 8 per cent paid more than 75 per cent. The Brooke amendment is worded so that the Department of Housing and Urban Development may channel supplementary funds to local housing authorities that cannot meet oper-a i and maintenance costs without Increasing some rents above 25 per cent of tenant income. Representative Leonor K. Sullivan St.

Louis, one of the conferees, said she was satisfied with the amendment. port of any major public hous- ing rent subsidy program during House deliberations on the housing bill. The House Banking and Currency Committee had issued a report saying that additional federal assistance "is contingent on proper management of present projects." The House report assailed "lax management in many public housing projects." The conferees will say in their report that "the benefits of subsidized public housing, including those provided by this section, cannot be achieved without tenant responsibility, including responsibility for the protection and care of property. Irresponsible tenant behavior jeopardizes the future of thif program and cannot be tolerated." "Senator Brooke showed it to me and asked my approval," Mrs. Sullivan said of the section related to tenant responsibility.

"I think we are talking the same language. My record has shown I will do everything I can to help, but local management and tenant responsibility are necessary, otherwise this this thing will fall of its own weight." The final version of the Brooke amendment is a combination of the amendment origin- TURN TO PAGE 7, COL. 1 LONDON, Dec. 5 (UPI) -Everyone laughed his wife when comic Georgie Thompson told the night club audience, "Her cooking is so bad we've got the only garbage can in the street with ulcers." Only his wife kept a straight face when Thompson said, "I wouldn't say my wife is a bad cook, but the pygmies come to dip their poison darts in her soup." She was not amused, but the audience roared when Georgie said, "My wife is so thick she thinks bacteria is the rear entrance to a cafe." Today the reckoning came. Thompson announced that at his wife's insistence, a clause has been inserted into his contract with his manager.

It reads: "You as my manager will, whenever necessary, stipulate that I shall not under any circumstances use material during my performance which is in any sense derogatory to my Mrs. Thompson explained: "The 'rouble is some people actually do think I'm a bit of a horror after hearing Georgie's act. "Once after he had been on TV a woman came up to me and said it must be terrible to 1 1 in the 50s. Temperatures 1 a.m. 29 2 a.m.

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