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5T.L0UIS POST-DISPATCH u. i 3A Psychiatrists Find No Criminal Cure By JEROME P. CURRY Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Current psychiatric treatment is of little use in treating criminal behavior, three psychiatrists at the Washington University School of Medicine have concluded. "The role of psychiaitry in criminality has been vastly overplayed," Dr. Robert A.

Woodruff said today. "Psychiatric disorders most often associated with felonies are not now treatable Bus Critics Urge Using Subway Plan By PHILIP SUTIN Of the Post-Dispatch Staff The St. Louis Metropolitan area should not "settle for a third-rate urban transportation system of buses running on the clogged freeways of the future," James B. Meanor said last night at a public hearing on a proposed regional transit system. Meanor Is manager of the transportation division of the St.

Louis Regional Commerce and Growth Association. He was one JjA Otf il lLm IIIMWntmiWjM day with the ending by most truckers of the national independent truck drivers' strike. (Post-Dispatch Photo) SLIGHT DISAPPROVAL: Members of the Independent Truckers Coalition signifying their dissatisfaction yester Truckers Return But Don Concede Defeat Todd said he and Phil Coleman, association vice president, would meet with Missouri Gov. Christopher S. Bond today for two hours to discuss the problems of the independent truckers.

The Missouri Highway Patrol and the Illinois State Police reported that truck traffic was almost back to normal as the 11-day truckers strike seemed virtually at an end. The independent drivers began their strike Feb. 1 to protest high fuel prices and reduced highway speed limits. A group of independent drivers met with federal officials and worked out an agreement late last week. The settlement called for a temporary freeze on diesel fuel prices, unlimited fuel for the truckers and a procedure to allow the drivers to obtain a 5 per cent surcharge to offset rising operating costs.

Many of the independent driv with any degree of success. Psychiatry is of far less use in treatment of the felon than many have thought." Woodruff, along with Dr. Samuel B. Guze, vice chancellor for medical affairs at Washington University, and Dr. Paula J.

Clayton, all of the school's department of psychiatry, conducted the study on which the conclusions were based. The study involved an investigation of 5000 patients. The results confirmed earlier reports that alcoholism, drug dependency and antisocial behavior were the principal psychiatric disorders associated with serious crimes. "In fact, except for sexually deviant behavior leading to arrest and conviction, other psychiatric disorders are infrequently associated with felonies," the three Washing-ton University psychiatrists said. Woodruff noted that the courts generally had not considered alcoholism, drug dependency or anti-social behavior to psychiatric illnesses, although the courts have held that some types of so-called sexually deviant behavior are illnesses.

The Washington University report was published yesterday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The three psychiatrists wrote: "To the that psychiatrists must be involved in the prevention or treatment of criminality, they must deal chiefly with sociopa-thy (antisocial behavior), alcoholism and drug dependence. These disorders are generally resistant to currently available treatment." Woodruff noted that in some there were ways to treat the three disorders. But he compared the available treatment of the three disorders with that available to treat some high-mortality types of cancer. The three psychiatrists said it was possible to identify those population groups most likely to produce persons who might manifest alcoholism, drug dependency or anitsocial behavior.

Because of this, they said that "hope for prevention (of crime) must depend on further research with children and adolescents" in groups most likely to produce criminals. ''Until more is known about prevention of these conditions until more effective treatments are developed, psychiatrists should be modest in their claims" about treatment of criminality, the Washington University doctors said. Their study report was expected to evoke some negative ireaction among psychiatrists and psychologists who have supported the view that criminality is a mental illness in itself. This view says that other disorders identified in criminals are merely symptoms of the criminality. In his analogy with cancer treatment and research, Woodruff emphasized that continued research on criminality is necessary.

More is known now about alcoholism and drug dependency, he said. But anti-social behavior is still largely an unknown factor in criminality, he said. 2 In Women's Garb Rob Man Of Car A Washington, man was robbed of about $100 and his automobile today by two female impersonators, Bridgeton police reported. Police said Lawrence Wilson, 31 years old, told them he had picked up what he thought were two women in downtown St. Louis about 1:45 a.m.

and had taken them to Collinsville for several drinks. Later, after taking them to his motel in Bridgeton, Wilson said, he discovered when the two took their coats off that they were not women. He then offered to drive them back downtown. At the intersection of Interstate 70 and Lindbergh Boulevard, Wilson said, one of the men displayed a knife, took his money and ordered him out of the car. president of St.

Louis Union Trust Co. The subway from East St. Louis to Clayton would make Forest Park's tourist attractions more accessible and would bring more business to the area, said Arthur E. Wright a spokesman for Downtown St. Louis, Inc.

Joseph C. Whitting-ton, assistant business manager of the St. Louis Zoo, concurred. St. Louis County Supervisor Lawrence K.

Roos, a long-time advocate of rapid transit, took a cautious view at last night's meeting. Roos, chairman of the East-West Gateway Cc-ordinat-ing Council, presided at the meeting. "This is a tremendously important proposal," he said. "Whether we have rapid transit or not and I don't know whether we should or we shouldn't will have a bearing on the region for generations." The 11-mile rapid transit line, expected to cost $381,000,000, has been proposed by the East-West staff as the initial step in an SS-mile rapid transit network for the region. Roos stressed that the board of directors had not acted on the proposal and that board members wanted a clear sense of public sentiment on the issue.

Judging by last night's hearing, the first of two to be held, the public sentiment may be difficult to discern. All but a few of approximately 60 who attended the hearing had prolessional or special interests in the subject. They were officials or employes of organizations that would help to plan, promote or oppose the transit system. 'The few private citizens who did speak mainly sought more information about the proposal. Two opposed it and one urged the prompt construction of the north-south distributor highway near downtown St.

Louis. The second hearing will be he'd Monday at the Southern Illinois University Campus at of independent drivers. He said this was the most important outcome of the strike. Ivan Foster of Granite City said, "They said we aren't organized but you come back in 90 days and we'll show you who's organized." The truckers have given the Nixon Administration 90 days to meet all of their demands. Otherwise, they say, the strike will resume.

Coleman said that he and Todd would begin meeting with leaders of other independent trucking groups this week to try to organize a national coalition. Coleman said also he thought the public would put more pressure on Government officials for a solution next time. "Now that everybody knows we carry 90 per cent of the meat and produce in this country, they'll listen to us," he said. Two incidents of violence occurred early yesterday, neither in the St. Louis area.

A sniper's bullet shattered the windshield of a truck in Beaumont, causing possibly permanent eye damage to driver John Coburn of Houston. Another trucker escaped injury near Troy, when someone dropped a brick from an overpass, breaking the truck's windshield. By TOMMY ROBERTSON Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Although most of the members of the Independent Truckers Coalition are back on the road today, they are warning that their strike will flare up again if all their demands are not met soon. Members voted yesterday to resume driving, and Jerry Todd, coalition president, and several independent drivers then met with reporters at the group's headquarters in South Roxana to emphasize that the truckers do not consider themselves beaten. The resumption of near-normal freight traffic prompted Illinois Gov.

Daniel Walker late yesterday to deactivate 1200 members of the National Guard he had ordered to service last Wednesday to help state troopers maintain safe passage for truckers wishing to operate. Produce and meat were being hauled to market places in large quantities today, and St. Louis area automobile assembly plants and other industries reported that deliveries were returning to normal. Todd refused to accept the agreement worked out between federal officials and trucking negotiators and indicated that the drivers would return to work only to give themselves time to organize more effectively. The coalition asserts that it represents 2000 to 3000 drivers.

"We feel we were sold out by the Federal Government and by other organized groups," he said. "If we expect to get what we have worked for, we'll have to work with Government officials and go back to work and organize." ers in the nation had wanted a 9 or 10 per cent surcharge, a6S mile-an-hour speed limit for trucks and a fuel price rollback to May 1973 levels. Todd said the agreement between federal and trucking negotiators was "the biggest sellout in the history of small business, and we have only ourselves to blame." He said that President Richard M. Nixon and William E. Simon, federal energy administrator, had praised the Teamsters Union and the oil companies for their co-operation in the strike, while laughing at the independents.

"Our first step is to organize and to not forget all of those who have tried to teach us a lesson by taking advantage of our lack of organization," he said. Jack Lindley, an independent driver from Granite City, said the strike had produced a foundation for a national coalition Man Burned Rub Ignites ond-and third-degree burns over 90 per cent of his body. Miss Sanders told police that her father's legs often swelled as a result of a heart ailment. gasoline on his legs. She was asleep when the fire hp harf told hr father to wake her when he wanted the gasoline rubbed off.

Miss Sanders said her father was a heavy smoker and could have lit a cigarette near the gasoline. to any 81-Year-Old As Gasoline An elderly man was seriously burned last night when gasoline he had rubbed on his legs to relieve swelling ignited. Robert Coleman, 81 years old, 5855 Roosevelt Place, was in his apartment when he was burned about 10 p.m. last night, police said. Miss Fannie Mae Sanders, a daughter, suffered first-and second-degree burns on her hands helping to put out the fire.

Coleman was listed in serious condition at Homer G. Phillips Hospital early today with sec- $700 Grocery Holdup About was taken 0 armed men last night from the Ma-Jik Market, 1620 Chambers Road, Dellwood, police reported. The men entered the store about 9:15 p.m., displayed revolvers and demanded money from a clerk. BOYD'S Billiken Hockey Reserved SeatTicket regularly scheduled St. Louis (J.

home game with $25 deposit the most outspoken propo nents of a 1.9-biilion-dollar rapid transit system for the area. Meanor and several other speakers at the hearing, held at St. Louis University, strongly favored a proposed 11-mile subway from Cast St. Louis to Clayton as the first phase of the system. But several academic speakers said that the system would a costly mistake and that prime attention should be given to buses, automobile pools and changed work hours.

Joseph P. McKenna, an urban transportation expert from the University of Missouri at St. Louis, said, "We may be heading for a vast traffic jam, but the proposed system will do nothing to unjam it." McKenna said that an expanded bus system could function as well as a rapid transit line and at a far lower cost. Alfred Kahn of Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville said that the rapid transit system was based on a false assumption that the region would grow rapidly in population. The region's population will grow by only 16.2 per cent by 1995, according to a recent estimate, Kahn said, although the transit proposal assumes a 92 per cent population growth.

The population will remain relatively stable, Kahn said, because of a lack of migration to the area and a lowered birth rate across the nation. "All the preliminary work on this proposal was based on the thinking of the 1930s," Kahn said. "It does not represent the realities of the 1970s." Several speakers contended that the system would generate jobs and business. A study made in 1971 estimat-e that construction of the transit system would generate S000 jobs directly and would indirectly create 30,000 more jobs, said Eugene Williams, Symphony Recording Vox Productions of New York and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra have 6igned a three-year recording contract, Ben H.

Wells president of the Symphony Society, announced today. The contract, which will provide up to eight recordings, was made possible by an unusual contract between the Symphony musicians and the society: In that contract, an extra pay increase of about $20 a week was provided each musician above the regular wage increase. That extra money meant that the Society did net have to pay additional funds to musicians involved in either recordings or broadcasts. The St. Louis Sypmhony becomes the sixth United States orchestra with a recording contract.

The orchestra's last previous recording was for Columbia in 1954. Andre Previn directed the orchestra for that recording. Wells said that recording sessions would start in May. St. Louis Symphony recordings of the works of Richard Strauss, Dvorak, Wagner and Gershwin are expected to be issued by the end of the year.

The contract with Vox was approved at a meeting of the Symphony Board of Directors at 3 Are Arrested On Drug Charges St. Louis police arrested three persons in the 1700 block of Euclid Avenue Monday afternoon on charges of possession of heroin. Charged with heroin possession are Michael Dorey, 21 years old, who gave an address in the 10000 block of St. Henry Lane in St. Ann; Michael Kui-rhe, 21, of the.

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