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Phillips Hospital. in jyui d(al MM -k PP Ul in With 120 policemen standing by, the remaining patients at Homer G. Phillips Hospital were transferred in vans to other city institutions today, completing one of the major remaining steps in the consolidation of city hospital services. The show of force apparently forestalled any major troubles with the approximately 100 protesters who milled around the hospital during the transfer. There was a brief episode of shoving and name-calling in the front entrance driveway as some demonstrators sat down and blocked a transfer van, but officers dispersed them and arrested two of them.

At least 17 persons were arrested during the operations on charges of failure to obey a police officer. They were issued summonses for appearance in police court at later dates. By early afternoon, most police had left the hospital, leaving behind a small guard detail. The transfer began when 120 officers equipped with riot helmets and night sticks arrived at the hospital about 8 a.m. An additional 30 officers had been assembled at the Deer Street Station as a reserve.

The transfer was completed about three hours ufter it started. The police deployed in near-military fashion about the hospital, taking up positions at the building's entrances, and stretching a "riot line" of about 40 officers along Kennerly Avenue, on the hospital's north side, facing a group of encamped protesters. Most of the approximately 60 patients remaining in the hospital this morning a Palentinian resolution, though Terzi said he had hoped to discuss more substantive matters. Terzi said President Jimmy Carter made a mistake when he accepted Young's resignation, adding: "I don't think Young should have offered his resignation in the first place. He was only performing his duties as he was supposed to." Terzi was interviewed on WABC-TV's See YOUNG, Page 8 But three times over the last 18 months, the Department of Community Health and Medical Care had failed to follow that procedure, McNary said.

All three incidents were the fault of a single employee, whom the supervisor did not identify, but whom Banton later identified as Robert M. Taylor, director of community health services management. On the first two occasions, a reprimand was issued by the supervisor's office, McNary continued. Then, last week, when it happened a third time, McNary told Banton that Taylor must be fired. "It amounted, in my judgment, to a clear showing of incompetence and not See BANTON, Page 4 Protect Wife outside.

"They probably saw the door open and went in," Bauman said. Police reported they had few leads. They said they doubted whether the shooting was related to Laman's work with former prison inmates at Magdala Foundation, 3937 West Pine Boulevard, a halfway house. A co-worker and neighbor described Laman as "very interested in people, a good neighbor and a good father." Another fellow worker said Laman was a deeply religious man. Laman started counseling work at Magadala only this year, friends said, and previously had worked with retarded children.

"Tragic isn't the word it's gruesome," the fellow worker said. 15 Horn Delivery UN a MmII Larry WilliamPost-Dispatch were taken to City Hospital, and a few were taken to Robert Koch Hospital and the Truman Restorative Center. About a dozen vans were used in the transfer. To prevent the demonstrators from concentrating their numbers, the patients were removed through all entrances of the hospital, said Lt. Col.

William Brown, chief of the bureau of field operations. Brown was in charge of the police protection. At one point, as patients were being placed in a van at the front entrance, about 50 persons moved into the driveway arid sat down. Officers asked them to move, and when they did not, walked into the group and picked up two of the demonstrators. As the two were being carried to a waiting police van, some demonstrators and policemen milled about them, and there was some shoving and name-calling, police said.

But the tension dissipated as the police van drove off, and the demonstrators dispersed. The hospital van with the patients also drove off. At another point, about 35 protesters suugm iu uiuck an amuuiaiite as emerged from the emergency room driveway at the rear of the hospital. Police about 60 strong quickly converged and formed two ranks to protect the ambulance as it drove through. Three persons were taken into custody.

Word about the intended transfer circulated this morning among about 40 See PHILLIPS, Page 4 Schools Braked By-Gas Costs By William C. Lhotka Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Because the federal government has given school transportation a top priority for fuel, area school districts are confident they can get the gasoline they need for the next school year. But the sharply increasing cost of fuel has school administrators worried. A Post-Dispatch survey of school districts on both sides of the Mississippi River shows that administrators are taking several steps to hold down transportation costs, including: Trimming or eliminating bus routes and the number of pickup points. Reducing the number of field trips or eliminating them altogether.

Increasing bus maintenance to get better mileage. Telling drivers that a maximum highway speed of 50 mph will get better mileage. The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has suggested that school districts consider converting their buses (at a cost of $700 a bus) to run on propane, a cheaper fuel. John E. Moore the department's assistant commissioner for administration, said several of Missouri's 554 school districts are making the conversion.

He cited Eldon and Lamar in mid-Missouri as examples. But of the 36 area school districts polled by the Post-Dispatch, none has converted to propane, and only a few say they are seriously considering it. Propane conversion in the Florissant-Ferguson district was rejected because of the cost of retooling the 84 buses "with no guarantee that there will not be See BUSES, Page 11 Upset Phillips protesters, upset over an arrest that had just taken place, berate a stoical police officer. Telling Israelis Of Talks A Mistake, Young Says interview on NBC defended the Israeli action. "If an Israeli ambassador is being told that an American official has done something which is contrary to the American policy, it's obviously our duty to protest to the United States." Yadin also said, "The real problem for us is whether the United States is going to talk, negotiate with the Palestine Liberation Organization or not." Zehdi Labib Terzi, the PLO envoy who met with Young, said today that Compiled From News Service WASHINGTON Andrew Young said today that he made a mistake by telling "the whole truth to the Israeli U.N.

ambassador" about Young's meeting with a Palestine Liberation Organization envoy. The meeting cost Young his jub as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Young, in an interview today on NBC-TV's "Today" show, added, "And I think the Israelis made a mistake by going public with their protest." features Robert C. Holt IllPost-Dispatch "matters of substance" were not discussed in the meeting last month.

Terzi, PLO observer to the U.N., said he had been invited to the townhouse of the Kuwaiti ambassador and was not surprised when "Andy Young showed up." "Substance is when we come and say, 'We have this resolution, we have that That is substance," said Terzi. "But those things were not discussed." He said that he and Young spoke only about postponing a pending U.N. vote on announcement of Banton's resignation at Thursday's regular session of the County Council, but offered no explanation. "What did he do?" one council member asked. "Talk to the PLO?" Later, McNary gave the following account of events that led to the resignation: Early last year the County Council learned that Banton's department was accepting and spending federal grant funds without formal authorization and appropriation by the council.

To prevent this, departments expecting grant funds were required to notify the supervisor's office 60 days in advance. The supervisor's office would then prepare a formal appropriation request to the council. County Health Head Balks, Quits fncky He said the Israelis did not understand "the domestic political implications of making a protest over my involvement with the (U.N.) observer for the PLO." Young resigned Wednesday after being criticized within the administration for an unauthorized meeting with the PLO envoy and for lying about it. As if in response to Young's statements, Yigal Yadin, deputy prime minister of Israel, today in a separate inside 52 l'agr Dr. William C.

Banton II, resigned Thursday as head of the St. Louis County Department of Community Health and Medical Care rather than obey an order by county Supervisor Gene McNary to fire an employee for failing to meet deadlines. It was the first forced resignation of a county department head since William J. Hennessey Jr. was relieved as head of the Welfare Department after being found guilty of shoplifting two years ago.

Although his refusal to fire the employee was the immediate cause, his resignation was actually the culmination of increasing "differences in professional viewpoints" between himself and the supervisor, Banton indicated. McNary made a terse HIRED HANDS: Once scorned, the farmhand has become a rarity. Page 2D OLD PRO: Donald O'Connor, who started in show business when 3 days old, looks back on his life on stage and in films. Dick mond. Page 3D sports CARDINALS BLUE: It took 15 innings this time, but the result was the same: the Cardinals dropped another game to the Dodgers and farther away from first place in the National League East.

The Dodgers recorded a 4-2 victory Thursday night and a sweep of the three-game series at Busch Stadium. Page IB Killed In Apparent Try To Chance of Rain Official fore cast for St. Louis and vicinity: Bus ROUT? Partly cloudy and warm tomgnt 3 with a slight chance of showers. Low In the upper 60s. Partly cloudy and warm Saturday with a chance of showers.

High in the tow Ms. Clear to partly cloudy Sunday. Partly cloudy with scat tered showers and thundershow- ers Monday and Tuesday. MPMtM lib Business B-8C Classified Advertising $-20 Editorials 2C Everyday 1-12D Metro Report 1 1 A News Analysis 3C Obituaries 6B People 10A Religion 4C Reviews St. Louis 1C Spectator 5D Sports 1-SB By Abby Cohn Of the Poet-Dispatch Staff A 26-year-old counselor at a halfway house was shot to death in his South Side residence Thursday night as he struggled with two intruders who apparently intended to sexually molest his wife, police said.

The victim was Thomas J. "Mike" Laman, of 4035A Shaw Boulevard. "He had just kissed his wife goodbye" and was on his way to work about 11:30 p.m. when the men entered through a front door left ajar, homicide detectives said. Laman's wife, Carol, overheard her husband ask, "What are you doing up here?" police reported.

One of the assailants, armed with a revolver, made Laman stand at the top of the stairs of the couple's second-floor flat, while his accomplice went to the rear bedroom and found Mrs. Laman, 36, hiding in a closet. The intruder attempted to make sexual advances, Detective Sgt. Robert Bauman was told. Laman, overhearing what was taking place, struggled with the gunman and was shot once in the chest, police said.

He was dead on arrival at City Hospital. Police said the couple's 3-month-oId son, Daniel, was asleep in a crib near the mother when the shooting took place. The intruders fled on foot, running west on Shaw, Bauman said. Police said Laman probably had left the front door ajar because it was warm i TV-Radio 10D.