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6A iw, fa, 12, 19T4ST.L0UIS POST-DISPATCH Refineries Here Shifting Fuels By JOHN M. McGUIRE Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Oil refineries here were already beginning to think about more gasoline production when the o'ficial word came from Washington. Over the weekend, Federal Energy Administrator William E. Simon said that a sufficient supply of home heating oil was Slate Seeks Curbs On Furnace Firm The state has filed a petition for an injunction in St. Louis Circuit Court against a St.

Louis heating and construction firm and one of its officers. The Custom Heating and Construction 4526 Gravois Avenue, and Earl P. Inman were named in the lawsuit, which was filed by Assistant Attorney General Michael Bauer. The company sells, and cleans furnaces. The lawsuit alleges that the defendants made false claims to customers to induce them to buy new furnaces.

The petition seeks an order requiring a refund of that money and a permanent injunction ordering the defendants to cease engaging in such acts. Hi J- AW f-jr. ft rt rh n) vr: SSiil Jtl X. iptipsi iisiiiipiIililii iaillIiililIB a itz war ---1 iMwieiiialii TROUBLE IN INDIA: Indian new eruption Sunday by rioting youths hurling stones in Ahmadabad in a city has been1 torn by civil disturbances for the past month. Forty-eight over food shortages and nigh prices.

The persons have jdied, most of them killed by police. (UPI Telephoto) State May Occupy Wainivright Building Association of St. Louis estimated that the building could be renovated1 for $3,000,000. The Sam Michelson Realty Co. has a controlling interest in the Wainwright Building.

It had announced last June that the building was unprofitable and probably would be torn down. Half of the structure's 90,003 square feet of office space was occupdied at the time. Wainwright was constructed, tall buildings were built in layers with stone masonry. "The Wainwright is the first architectural expression of the steel frame skyscraper," he said. "It is a revolutionary building, visually, architecturally and esthetically." In a Teport prepared late last year, the St.

Louis Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and the Landmarks a barrel of crude oil for gasoline and about 21 per cent for fuel oils. This is when the energy shortage is not dictating an all-out effort for fuel oil production. Recently, the American Oil operation has been using 48 per cent of a barrel of crude for gasoline and 30.5 per cent for heating oil. The remaining smaller percentages of crude go toward the production of propane and liquid propane, fuel gas and chemical feed stock for the manufacture of plastics. The Government had ordered production of less gasoline and more heating oil because it was worried that not enough heating oil would be available for the winter heating season.

This potential problem has apparently passed, the refinery managers said. Both Shell and Clark refineries in Wood River have traditionally been geared to producing gasoline. Refinery managers say that production output depends mostly on the design of the refinery. "It doesn't take a heck of a lot for us to gear up for gasoline production," said George Burkhart, Clark Oil's refinery manager. Clark Oil's Wood River facility is basically a gasoline producer; about 62 to 65 per cent of its production goes into gasoline.

During the expected heating oil crunch, Clark cut back its gasoline production to 57 to 59 per cent of its total. American Oil's Webb, who said that his refinery was about "half switched over from maximum distillate (fuel oil) production," explained that the shift to greater gasoline output would be a simple process. "The thing that's really going to make it tight on gasoline is the fact that we're running at about 76 per cent of capacity," he said. "That means that gasoline production should be off about 20 to 25 per cent from a year ago." American Oil's situation is not unusual. Because of the energy shortage, refineries have been forced by the Federal Government to sell any crude oil supplies that exceed 76 per cent of The American Oil refinery here was recently receiving enough crude oil to run its refinery at 82 per cent of capacity.

As a result, the refinery was told to sell 5,000,000 gallons of crude to oil companies that had been experiencing a shortage. Edward A. Ballman, manager of the Shell Oil refinery, said that gasoline production generally varied with the type of crude oil being used. Like the other refinery executives, Ballman said it was traditional to shift production in mid-February to meet the peak gasoline demand of the summer months. A Shell Oil spokesman in Houston said that no official word on the production change had yet been received from the Federal Energy Office.

Finds Sewer Company Has Not Been Taxed FROM PAGE ONE building be located near city and federal office buildings, which a location in the down-town area provides," Jerry Pratter, a partner in Team Four, said. Pratter said that, if the crime rate were to be considered as a factor, crime in downtown St. Louis is as low as it is in Clayton, another area under consideration as a site for the building. James confirmed that the Wainwright Building was in the running for the office building. But he said that no other sites, either downtown or in other areas of St.

Louis, were precluded. The first-phase report considered, in addition to a downtown site, the midtown area near St. Louis University, the central West End, Clayton and University City. The proximity of federal offices and convenience of transportation were factors in the downtown site's high rating by the consultants. The preliminary report made no specific recommendations for the site but rated five possible sites on a variety of factors.

The central business district, bounded by Sixteenth Street, Martin Luther King Drive, Sixth Street and Spruce Street, received high ratings in each category. It is highly accessible to users and employes and it has ample parking. A state office building would be a stimulus to the area. A state office building in the Midtown area would have a greater catalytic effect on averting deterioration there than downtown, the report noted. Parking, accessibility to other government facilities and employe convenience were graded slightly lower in Midtown than at a downtown site.

Ine Central West End was also rated highly except for parking facility and the impact of die building on the area, which the report said would be minisnal. The University City Loop received low grades for highway access and parking. Clayton was downgraded because of high land costs and the high costs to state employes who might work there. A state office building in Clayton would have little economic impact on the area because Clayton "already has an excellent economic position," the study said. Seventy per cent of the persons using the state office building will be persons with family income of less than $7000.

Most live north or south of the Lindell Boulevard corridor from downtown to Forest Park, the report said. The preliminary study says that a combination of renovation of an existing structure and new construction might be the most feasible approach to solving the state's need for office space in St. Louis. "Theoretically, it would satisfy both the desire for an efi ficient facility and utilization of existing but vacant office space," the report said. A new building with the price tag would be more costly than the combination plan or renovation of an existing building.

"It may be difficult to find a building with floor sizes and shapes which would provide an efficient working environment for the state offices," the report said concerning an existing structure. The $12,000,000 is not presently included in the state budget, nor is it recommended by the Governor in the proposed budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1. Consequently, no construction or renovation can occur on a St. Louis state office building until July 1, 1975. Sears 'f By E.

S. EVANS Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Assessor Frank J. Antonio of St. Louis County has found a small private sewer company that has never been taxed on its sewer lines, he said today. It is the Riverside Sewer which serves 218 homes in Fen-ton.

Last year, it should have paid $790 in personal property taxes on its 11,370 feet of pipeline, Antonio said. The assessor said he had never heard of the company before a reporter showed him a list of the county's 10 private sewer systems. He then obtained a copy of Riverside's last annual report to the Missouri Public Service Commission and found it had been organized since 1961. "I'll see this doesn't go on," Antonio said, "and will try to double their 1972 taxes for failure to file a personal property tax declaration." David W. Froesel, Riverside's business manager, said he had taken over the company last year and knew of no such tax assessment, although the firm had paid real property taxes on its sewage-treatment lagoon $159 last year.

"This is the first year the taxes would-be due from the new owners," Froesel told a reporter. "But I doubt whether the county can legally tax our lines as personal property." John W. Wolfner ofWolfner-Murphy Developments, said he had sold Riverside Sewer in December 1971 and had never heard of the tax in the 10 years he operated the business. The assessor began taxing private sewer companys in 1962. "I can't understand how the county can legally do it," Wolfner stated.

"That's an awful lot of money for an unprofitable company." Froesel estimated that the added tax would come to about 18 per cent of the company's gross income. available and that the nation's refineries should begin using more of their crude oil for gasoline production. Manager's at the St. -Louis area's three refineries the Shell, American and Clark oil companies all noted that mid-February was the traditional time to shift production to more gasoline output, energy shortage or no energy shortage. "In the last week or two, we began making less heating oil and more gasoline anyway," said Frank Webb, refinery manager for the American Oil Co.

facility at Wood River. "We're not in full gasoline production yet, but our allocation office has been encouraging this." All three refineries noted that sufficient inventories of home heating oil were on hand. For this reason, the local refineries have either begun a production shift or are planning to do so. Normally, American Oil's refinery here uses 51 per cent of Mary Ridge Hasn't Filed "Aid Reports By the Post-Dispatch Jefferson City Correspondent JEFFERSON CITY, Feb. 12 Village officials of Mary Ridge, where police court fines have accounted for one third of the Municipal budget, have 14 days in which to comply with federal revenue-sharing procedures or forfeit $2216.

Records in the Missouri Office of Administration show that Mary Ridge and Pine Lawn are the only St. Louis area communities that have not filed the necessary reports. In Pine Lawn's case, city officials have filed two of the three required reports to obtain $16,829 for the period from last July 1 through next June 30. The missing report was described by a state official as "a JO-minute effort." Mary Ridge, however, has filed none of the three reports required by the United States Office of Revenue Sharing. Mrs.

Anne E. Adams, a Mary Ridge trustee and the village clerk, said last night that the re-" ports had been filed. She said they had been delayed because village records had been in the hands of the St. Louis prosecuting attorney. Prosecutors had subpenaed the records of an investigation of Mary Ridge financial practices.

Investigators concluded last month that there had been no criminal violations by Trustee Donald Choate the focus of the inquiry. Mrs. Adams said she did not know when the reports had been sent to the state. She said Choate had told her the forms had been filed. Choate, the village treasurer, refused to comment.

Unless Mary Ridge and Pine Lawn file the reports by the deadline of Feb. 25, the federal funds due them will be disbursed to St. Louis County. i The $2216 amounts to nearly 10 per cent of Mary Ridge's annual budget. According to state records, Mary Ridge has not filed a plan-use report for July 1, 1973, to June 30, 1974; a plan-use report for Jan.

1, 1973, to June 30, 1974, and a report on how the federal funds were spent during the January-June 1973 period. Robert L. James, acting director of the Office of Administration, said yesterday that 73 governmental units throughout Missouri were delinquent in fil-i revenue-sharing reports. They were notified by certified mail Jan. 23 that they were delinquent, he said.

Air Force Releasing 425 Officers WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (AP) The Air Force said today it is releasing 42S officers and encouraging 3475 others to leave the service on their own. Most of the officers to be told they are no longer needed are captains and majors with less than five years in the Air Force. Most will leave June 28 with separation bonuses up to $15,000. Most of the 3475 others already have indicated they do not intend to make the Air Force a career and will be allowed out earlier than they originally planned.

The reductions will cut the Air Force's officer corps to 110,959. More cuts are expected, starting in July. Almost all those leaving in the reduction announced today were commissioned between 1963 and 1970. Those to be cut will be notified about March 1. A WINNING TEAM! AND fAinnmnrm 1972 LEAKY BASEMENT U.S.

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