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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1970 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 3 A Lease "5 Delays In Pruitt-Igoe Tenant Shift Ratification of the Housing Authority's lease for 22 apartments at 501 and 525 Clara Avenue, where a group of Pruitt-Igoe tenants are to be moved, was postponed today by the Authority's Board of Commissioners. The board was urged to reconsider the lease by Mayor Alfonso J. Cervantes, residents of the West End and a group of black militants at a stormy two-hour meeting. A crowd of about 50 persons overflowed the board room.

Mayor Cervantes asked the iv it -v r.fc board to delay the move until community groups, the City Plan Commission and the Board of Education could be consulted and their objections evaluated. He said he was not taking a position on merits of the arrangement. However, after listening to the discussion for an hour, Cervantes stood and angrily told board members: "Before anyone was heard mmmmMmmmm wmrnmmmmmmmmmMmmmmmi mmmmmmmmm DOWN, BUT NOT OUT OF THE VOTING yesterday was Orville Mash, watching election returns with Mrs. Mash from his Deaconess Hospital bed. (Post-Dispatch.

Photo AltfimW fWST 1 -sec vJM ill life SI 4u! 1 'J it ww "9 Pneumonia Couldn't Come Betiveen Steady Voter A nd Ballot here today, you decided to reaffirm your decision. This board is not going to handle this in this high-handed fashion, and I'm not going to permit it." He then left the meeting, refusing to stay to hear the board's reply. "See me in my office," the Mayor said as he walked out. Cervantes had earlier invited board members to attend a meeting in his office at 10:30 a.m. Friday with leaders of West End neighborhood groups "to see if we can find a way to accomplish what you want to do improve i for the Pruitt-Igoe families and disperse poor families the ciyt." He referred, in charging highhandedness, to a statement the board had prepared but had not made public.

In it, the board was to- reaffirm the decision and state its reasons for doing so. Immediately after the Mayor left, a motion was offered to postpone action on the contract already signed with owner of the two was passed by a 5-to-0 vote. The board scheduled a public hearing on the plan for 8 p.m. Friday at City Hall, replacing a private meeting that had been arranged by Alderman Henry S. Stolar Twenty-fifth Ward.

Persons wishing to be heard are to sign up by a half-hour before the hearing. Among the group representatives the board heard today were former Alderman Harold Elbert, a lawyer engaged yesterday by the Central West End Association and 13 other groups in the neighborhood, At a meeting yesterday, these groups endorsed a statement protesting against the move and threatened court action to stop it. Elbert, Stolar and others told the board there had been no consultation with community groups or concerned agencies, that the influx of 100 or more SMOKE POURING FROM THE WINDOWS of a vacant building in the 1100 block of North Vandeventer Avenue early today. A fireman atop a snorkel directs water against the blaze. (Post-Dispatch Photo by W.

Thomas Stewart) Fireman Collapses And Dies; Fire Damages Three Buildings Home Rule Is Approved El "ROM PAGE ONE "amendment if they adopt a charter. Jefferson County voters gave the amendment a 61 per cent majority, registering 10,014 votes in favor to 6475 against. In St. Charles County, the vote was 5483 to 3082 a 64 per cent majority. Nearly complete returns from other counties in the state showed that the amendment received a 54 per cent majority outside of St.

Louis and St. Louis and Jackson counties. St. Louis County Supervisor Lawrence K. Roos led a major campaign for home rule, admittedly devoting more time to the issue than to his own campaign for re-election as Supervisor.

Some municipal officials in St. Louis County came out against the amendment because they believed their power would be threatened by its passage. Now that the amendment has been approved, charter amendments in St. Louis County can be proposed by the County Council or by voter petition to alter services. Roos said last week he would propose uniform traffic regulation on the 's arterial roads, uniform building code enforcement and minimum police standards if home rule passed.

He has agreed to a suggestion by the St. Louis County Municipal League that an advisory commission made up of county and municipal officials be set up to screen charter amendment proposals. damage to the adjacent build and then the whole tfing went smoothly," recalled Arndt, who like Mash, lives in Webster Groves. At 6 o'clock last "night an election official brought a ballot to Mash. He filled it bill, sealed it in an envelope, gave it to the official and sat back ig his bed, satisfied.

His vote for Attorney General John C. Danforth for Senator was no more effectiye than his vote for Charles Evans Hughes in 1916, but the life-long Republican said this morning that it made no difference. "You've got to vote: That's what matters," he said Belleville Man Killed In Railroad Yards William A. years old, 1924 West A Street, Belleville, a railroad employe, was found dead in the yards' at East St. Louis last night.

Brown had been crushed, and police assumed thai he had been run over. By SALLY BIXBY DEFTY Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Orville Mash had voted in every national election since he first voted for Charles Evans Hughes for President in 1916. He was determined not to break his record. But at 4 p.m. Monday, the deadline for presenting an absentee ballot at the St.

Louis County Board of Election Commissioners' office, Mash was being told by his doctor that he had pneumonia. He was sent directly to Deaconess Hospital. Calls League Yesterday morning, sick but still civic-minded, Mash put in a call to the Webster Groves League of Women Voters to find out how he could vote. Fortunately for Mash, the telephone was answered by David Arndt, a student at Eden Theological Seminary. Arndt is a determined young man.

Four telephone calls to the Board of Election Commissioners elicited the same response: "Sorry, 4 p.m. Monday was the deadline. There is just no way for Mr. Mash to vote." The clerks said they received many applications for absentee ballots from pregnant women who did not want to find themselves unexpectedly hospitalized on election day but that the victim of a completely unforseen emergency was out of luck. Telephone calls to other branches of the League of Women Voters brought no solution.

Spokesmen for a Jewish, Missouri Baptist and St. John's Mercy hospitals said they never had before encountered the problem. Arndt, however, would not give up. A call to Godfrey Padberg, chairman of the County Board, gave the student the directive he wanted: Go to the commissioners' office, apply for a ballot and obtain a court order from Judge Drew W. Luten.

When he arrived at the commissioners' office, 8005 Forsyth, Clayton, he was again told that there was no provision for persons who had not obtained ab-' sentee ballots. Magic Name "But I mentioned Judge Lu-ten's name and he rescued me, Fireman Russell Shannon collapsed and died early today as he fought a three-alarm fire in the 6400 block of Wise Avenue. Arson was suspected in two other early morning fires. Shannon, 54 years old, who had been with the St. Louis Fire Department for more than 27 years, collapsed when helping other firemen unload hose.

Three buildings, at 6448, 6450 and 6452 Wise, were damaged. Firemen said residents of the house at 6448 Wise were forced to evacuate. Vacant Building The fire started about 5 a.m. in the vacant structure at 6450 Wise, a three story building, and spread quickly through that building. There was slight ings.

One policeman said that the center building recently had been occupied by a group of youths. Shannon was taken to Barnes Hospital after he collapsed and was pronounced dead there. The fireman, who was assigned to Engine Company 35, lived at 5.165 Dresden Avenue. Other Fires Arson was being investigated in fires today at 6318 West Florissant Avenue and at 1112 North Vandeventer Avenue. Firemen found a plastic container, which apparently had contained a flammable liquid, on a dance floor in the Doore School of Music in the fire at 6318 West Florissant.

That 3:15 a.m. fire was in a Bowel Files For Race V9, AM For Governor In children would overburden the already overcrowded schools, that the eight-story building was not suited for large families and that recreational facilities were lacking. two-story building that contained the music school, offices and other businesses. No injuries were reported. The fire at 1112 North Vandeventer began about 3:25 a.m.

in a vacant two-story building. No injuries were reported there. Firemen said they could smell fuel oil or kerosene. grams that will meet the vital needs of the state," Morris said. Carpenter served two terms in the Missouri House as a delegate from St, Louis, 1948-52.

In 1357, he was elected a member of the St. Louis Board of Education but resigned in 1962 when he moved to St. Louis County. Richard A. Gephardt, a lawyer and Democratic committeeman of the Fourteenth Ward, announced today that he had filed for nomination as alderman in the primary nekt March.

Gephardt said he believed that aldermen should "assert their leadership to emphasize the priorities of decent city living." U. 1919 Qualify 7t SAVE ON $4000.10 Phone Call! COMPARE! RENO, Nov. 4 (UPI) -Ben Maffi left $4000 on a shelf in atelephone booth of the Mapes Hotel after making a call. When he returned later, the money was gone. 5204 Gravois Ave.

38 Hampton Villaqe 52 Town Country IS Grandview Plata Fall r.cll.l.i 7 Tn 4 11 Upright rtm rocking poiWcn PilH Km Milan AMERICAN TRADITIONAL INTERIORS Edward L. Dowd, former president of the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners, today filed for the Democratic nomination for governor in the primary in August 1972. He was one of five persons waiting at the door of Secretary of State James C. Kirkpatrick in the Capitol in Jefferson City to file declarations of candidacy when the office opened at 8 a.m.

All were Democrats. Within an hour, Dowd had an opponent in the race. He is Lt. Gov. William E.

Morris, Kansas City, who defeated Dowd lor the Democratic nomination' for lieutenant governor in a bitter primary fight two years ago. First in line, of course, was Kirkpatrick, who filed for re-nomination for a third term as Secretary of State. He was elected in 1964 and re-elected in 1968. The other three candidates waiting to file are seeking nomination for state treasurer, the post now held by William E. Robinson.

Two Democrats filed for nomination for state representative later today. They are Ralph Jones, 9030 Link Drive, Overland, seeking nomination in the Thirty-fourth District, and Jack Hackley of Oak Grove, running in the Twenty-first District. Candidaes seeking the Democratic nomination for state treasurer are: Donald L. Carpenter, a former state representative from St. Louis, who now lives at 11211 Bellefontaine Road, Spanish Lake; L.

E. Morris of Jefferson City, who was an unsuccessful candidate for the nomination two years ago, and Hunter Phillips, former chairman of the State Tax Commission, Kansas City. Dowd, 52 years old, is a lawyer and served one term, 1952-56, as St. Louis circuit attorney. He was appointed president of the police board in 1965 by Gov.

Warren E. a and resigned in 1968 to seek the party's nomination for lieutenant governor. In a statement issued at the time he filed, Dowd said that Missouri residents in urban and rural areas were concerned with common problems. "They are disturbed about education, disrespect for laws, environ-mental pollution, crime, problems of senior i i and proper care or the mentally ill," he said. Dowd, who lives at 6236 Fau-q 1 Drive, said that crime was only one of the problems.

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