St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 81

'('('H'' i 'rvv i ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH North Area One of Two Sections THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1969 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY i i TV Vv 1 JP 1V: i ll Xta mum0P nmtm. imm mm mm mmthmm Jmim mJL Jdm aJL fHml PAGES 11 2Nt 1 r- 'i. Planners Have a Rough Night At Hearing on Apartments 0 Inner Belt May Move 243 Homes The proposed location of the Inner Belt Expressway between Page boulevard and Natural Bridge road will be the topic of a public hearing at 10 a.m. May "I'm not going to interpret the result.

I'll let you draw your own conclusions." Patton had sent 750 letters of invitation to residents of four and interest-rate conditions and the results of a comprehensive study made two years ago to the district. Slides and a 13-minute movie si -it' i i'V I subdivisions in the school dis- had been planned as part of the trict and near the proposed presentation. apartment site, which is a 65- was clearly not what the acre tract to be developed by crowd hid come to see. Marvin Deutsch. D.

vji i Wnen Robert Hilgenberg, sub-Subdivisions Named division administrator of the weIe Planing Department, attempt- residents of the Oak Tree, Wild- i to exiai that th Second grade pupils from Frostfield School, Berkeley, stand in a grove of evergreen trees as Ed Glauert tells about growing trees from seeds. Glauert stands in their midst with his hand on a small sapling. Progress Closing Nature 'SchooP By RONALD D. POWERS Of the Pott-Dispatch Staff i Residents angered over the prospect of an apartment development at Clayton and Woods Mill roads gave vent to their feelings last week at a hearing conducted by St. Louis County Planning' Department officials and commissioners.

A 250 persons attended the meeting at Henry school in Manchester. They listened with growing impatience as Planning, Director Ray Patton and other officials tried to present zoning statistics and to explain the mechanics of zoning legislation. Demands to "halt this talk and get down to the bare facts" were frequent, and residents repeatedly interrupted speakers to demand a question-answer session. Points at Issue The following concerns were most often expressed in the session: i That the development would throw too many children into an already overcrowded Parkway School District. That traffic at Clayton and Woods Mill, which already is bottlenecked at rush hours, would be further congested.

That the Planning Commission and County Council were insensitive to the wishes of single-family property owners and were determined to proceed with multiple family rezonings in the west county regardless of neighborhood needs. "The whole format was a test; a pilot," said a perspiring Patton after the three-hour session had ended. "We wanted to see whether the people want to have an interchange of ideas. souri hawthorn, river birch, hard maple, papaya, Canadian hemlock, tamarack (or larch), devil's walking cane, butternut, shellbark hickory, American den, papershell pecan, white dogwood, bald cypress and the white, red and Ponderosa pine. wood, Country Hill and Country Hilltop subdivisions.

There were IS county officials and employes present. They included 12 staff members from the Planning Department, five members of the Planning Commission and County Councilman Maurice L. Stewart Seventh district. Richard D. Dunlop, a former Planning Commissioner and a resident of the area, acted as chairman.

The Planning Commission recently had recommended that development of the 802-tinit project at Clayton and Woods Mill be authorized Immediately, but that occupancy be delayed until next year. The tract is across Clayton road from a proposed Western Electric plant. Format Ignored The meeting was to have followed a format in which the various staff members would explain in detail such topics as the mechanics of how zoning measures are passed, the history of zoning on the Parkway district, the meaning of the "planned environment i statistics relating to the "migration" of families to apart-ments and townhouses, loan 6 at the First Baptist Church, 8665 St. Charles Rock road, St. John.

The State Highway a which is holding the bearing, said relocation advisory assistance for persons displaced by the expressway will be dis- cussed at the meeting. Detailed maps of the proposed route are available for public inspection at the city halls of Berkeley, Bel-Ridge, St. Overland, Charlack, Sycamore Hills and at the office of the District Highway Engineer, 329 South 1 road, Kirk-wood. Alternate Routes The State Highway a t-ment has prepared two alternate routes for the i a y. The recommended route runs north from the 8800 block of Page, just west of Mid-America i It curves eastwardly a 1 1 i wauon man tnmuon in a nraetarn a An a r.

-6 of the Wood Meadow subdivi- sion. The proposed route in- eludes an interchange just west of where Midland boulevard and Lackland road intersect. It proceeds northeastwardly paralleling the Terminal Railroad Association right of way, crossing St. Charles Rock road at Endi- cott road, then runs north to exchanges at Natural Bridge and the Mark Twain Expressway west of Springdale avenue. The alternate route is essen-t i a 1 1 the same north of the Midland-Lackland interchange.

South of that it would cut directly through the Greenwood Estates subdivision, a neighbor-' hood with several expensive homes and a small lake. The cost of acquiring this property is one reason it is not recommended, highway department officials said. Business Relocations Relocation required the two proposed routes differs primarily in the number of businesses that would be effected. The recommended route would require relocation for 14 commercial operations compared to 22 in the alternate. The recommended route would require the relocation of families in 243 homes, four du-p 1 and 63 house trailers.

The alternate route would re- TURN TO PAGE 4, COLUMN 3 Grown From Seeds Some, including English wal- nut, hickory, sweet gum and riv- er bircn, ne Has grown irom TURN TO PAGE 5, COLUMN 1 in a retaining waljan the Ed Donn Finkenkeller 11 installation By DeMolay Donn Finkenkeller will be hv; 1 stalled as master councilor Ferguson a Order DeMolay at 8 p.m., Saturday May 3, in a public ceremony itV the Ferguson Masonic 25 South Clark Avenue. Other elected officers to. be installed are: David a senior councilor, and Michael Priest, junior councilor. Finken keller, a senior at Berkeley High bchool, is tne son oijwr.j and Mrs. Arthur H.

Finkenkell' er, 8803 Airport Circle, lev. Berfce Installing officers at the MH sonic youth group ceremony will be: Marvin Darrough, mas--ter councilor; Ray Wl 1 a nd senior councilor; Steve Wifc; land, ju 1 councilor; Tonj.j Finkenkeller, marshal; David1 Campbell, chaplain, and Richard Paul, senior deacon. Paul is the retiring master councilor of the chapter. -j Appointed officers are: Don-aid Butler, senior deacon; Curtis Fulbright, junior deacon; Michael Bone, chaplain; Bruce Mitchell, senior steward; Bruce Campbell, junior steward; Mi chael Frock, marshal; John Zdvorak, standard bearer; Paul1! Mellies, almoner; John Baker, sentinel; Richard Lee, orator; I Gary Tyler, scribe, and Edwarj Carpenter, assistant scribe. Preceptors will be: Raleigh, David Tranter, Douglas Ormbee, Robert Sheets, Mi-, chaet Griffith, Donald Denney and Gary Baker.

To Have Carnival The annual Lindenwood College Carnival will be held on the campus from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. The public is invited. Everything RIGHT FOR DAD day.

On one recent tour, Glauert explained to Frostfield School-second-graders who were looking up at a great burr oak that this species once was used to build bridge spans before the days of concrete viaducts. When the Glauerts bought their land 23 years ago there wasn't a tree on the property. Now there are black and English walnut, hickory, wild Mis- 4 rin-" i Shown is a concrete plaque 6lauert property. Mounting $25 i Each stone $5 A graceful and elegant i symbol of pride: in a i f4kt gold, Florentine finish. Bankmark Ed 1 a a journeyman bricklayer for 43 year has managed to lead in a metropolis a life style described 115 years ago by Henry David Tho-reau when he wrote, in "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." Glauert's homesite a miniature nature study of trees, shrubs and flowers is due to become a part of the Inner Belt Highway.

Glauert lives at 8739 Nyflot Lane, Hazelwood, with his wife of 45 years. His land, which he has made available to children of the Berkeley School District for field trips and informative discussions, lies along a 3.7-mile stretch between Interstate 70 and 270. The section is in the five-year-plan of the Missouri Highway Department for extension of the Inner Belt. Samples for Every Pupil For several years Glauert has provided youngsters with quant- ities of nature study specimens grown on his property. This last year, Glauert and his wife gathered enough pine cones, pussy willows, chestnuts and gumballs to give each child in the district a sample.

Glauert delivers these sam- the Berkeley Board of Education building for distribution to the six 1 a ry schools, Field trips conducted by the Glauerts often reveal features of rural life that the suburban child seldom is exposed to to FOR HER THIS a ring with each child's or grandchild's birthstone quality jetDttr for a. third of century category had been created Dart- ly "to reserve land for future use," and to present statistics supporting the thesis, a man shouted, "I can't make out what you're talkin' about." Grumbles, Laughter Grumbles and derisive laughter arose when Miss Ginger Blake of the department discussed results of a study concerning occupancy and migration patterns of families to multiple dwellings. "We found that apartment and townhouse residents are just like single-family people," said Miss Blake. "They should not be considered second-class citizens." "I don't like your presentation, young lady," said a complaining male voice from the crowd. When a staff member warned that "studies show that if development stops in this area, developers will go to St.

Charles and Jefferson counties," there were hoots, applause and cries of "Good, lefer go!" Patton told the crowd, "We have called for an updating of the comprehensive zoning plan. According to the 1962 master plan we are in a situation we didn't expect to reach until 1975." "Desperate Need" Dunlop, in responding to questions about the 1 a and Woods Mill traffic problems, said, "There is adesperate need in the west county area to make ourselves heard and get our roads improved. But we do not control these two roads they are under the jurisdiction of the state." Dunlop said that the Western Electric Co. had offered a significant plan for widening both roads in its vicinity. Edward D.

Golterman, Planning Commission chairman, drew applause when he said, "With the good incomes that most of them receive, these young apartment-dwellers and their children will eventually move back to single-family residences. They're like you and me they grew up in single-family and they will go back to single- fa mil v. "They need some place to live at first." A man in the audience seemed to sum up widespread sentiment when he asked, "With all the traffic problems we now have at 1 a and Woods Mill, why don't we wait and see what the traffic situation at Western Electric will be before we go in with high-density developments?" The residents took strong ex ception to a statement made by Patton that apartments would generate less traffic than sin gle-family homes. Patton said that an apartment unit would create an average oi 6.7 automobile trips a day, com. pared to 8.5 trips for a home, A resident said, "Even a school child could carry these figures out better than that.

If there are 12 apartments to an acre, that would be 80 trips a day. Three homes to an acre would be 25 trips a Another resident, an engineer, demanded to know what provi sions had been made in the area for "health, safety and waste disposal?" He said that he had doubts about the adequacy of sewers, which are installed and serviced by private companies. and an old Jewish woman. The film, produced in 1966, is the fifth in the 1968-69 film series at the college. It will be shown at 2 p.m.

in Lecture Hall B-112 and at 7 p.m. in Lecture Hall B-110. Members of the community are invited to attend at no charge. i I For the Home That Has EXCEPT a Comfortable Chair IT ROCKS IT RECLINES ITS JUST (Mom Uses It Too) La-Z-Boy Recliner-Rocker One of Carafiol's many thousands of ideas, in Home Planning Regular 149.00 Carafiol's Sale Price 90 Photograph showing progress on ifhe transmission tower for Channel 30, an ultra-nigh frequency television station scheduled to begin broadcasting June I. The tower is on the grounds of Kenrick Seminary, fronting on Highway 66 west of Mackenzie road.

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"fihon nn Main Street," will be shown on Tuesday at Forest Park Community College, 5600 Oakland Avenue. The Czechoslovakian film is the story of the turmoil in that country in the days immediately prior to World War II and the UYJ OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY LEMAY FERRY RD. STORE ONLY Just for Browsing I P.M. to 5 P.M. QUE UHF TV Tower Being Erected In Shrewsbury The transmission tower that has recently appeared on the Shrewsbury skyline on the Kenrick Seminary property fronting on Highway 66 west of Mackenzie road is the prop-.

erty of Channel 30, an ultra-high frequency television station that plans to begin transmitting June 1. The tower will be 1100 feet when completed. Channel 30 is owned by the Evans Broadcast whose home offices are in New York. The company has franchises I in Dallas, Hartford, and Pittsburgh. The station's main offices are in the building formerly used by KMOX, at 1 and Cole 8 s.

Jack Petrik, general manager, said that the station would concentrate on local pro- a 1 and would have no network affiliation. will have a grade 'A' 1 broadcast radius of 45 miles," he said, "and a grade 'B' radius of 61 miles." 1 Petrik said that persons who Own television sets manufac- FOR ALL OCCASIONS Limit 2 Per Customer Now Only FERGUSON coiosutt cms Iht Charm of Yesterday It thi Sejrta Today" "Whm NORTH 11444 ST. CHARLES RD. 1 12 Block Wost of Lindb.rgh PE. 9-1750 SOUTH 3177 LEMAY FERRY RD.

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