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JULY 31, 1970 ST. LOUIS POST- DISPATCH 3.4 Nonpartisan Plan Removes Necessity Of Campaigning By J. RUSSELL DYE Of the Post-Dispatch Staff LAST OF A SERIES A St. Louis county judge often must spend more than $10,000 to campaign for re-election. A St.

Louis judge must spend six cents the cost of mailing a letter to Jefferson City declaring that he intends to run. St. Louis judges, who are chosen plandere the nonpartisan court barred from engaging in any kind of political activity. Judges in the county generally must conduct vigorous and exhausting campaigns under party banners to get reelected. St.

Louis County voters will ballot in next Tuesday's primaries on adoption of the nonpartisan plan. Probate Judge who is running for renomination next week, hopes the plan will be approved, ending the ordeal of political campaigning. Public Office "The or de a Judge Kohn said, "is similar to that of a candidate for public office. But it is in no way geared to select person who will make the best judge. "The first thing an attorney who hopes to run some day for office must do," Judge Kohn says, "is to join a party to establish his political credentials.

"He must toil in the vineyards of the party of his choice, helping with precinct work, making speeches and doing the myriad chores that a regular party worker must do. "After several years," Judge Kohn continued, "the aspirant may be seriously considered as a candidate for a judicial post. Then, on the fateful day, the party leaders may call him and say: 'You have been a good worker and we think you might make a good judge. Why don't you "A candidate," Judge Kohn said, "must be sure first of all that he has a very understandfamily, because campaigning will take him away from his home several hours on many evenings every week. "If our future judge has pri- Jimmy Conzelman Dies Related Story on Page IC Jimmy Conzelman, Washington University football coach during depression years and coach of the former Chicago Cardinals pro football team, died today at Missouri Baptist Hospital.

Mr. Conzelman, 72 years old, had been at the hospital for some time. He was widely known in St. Louis for the last 40 years, and was recognized as one of the greatest athletes the city ever produced. In addition to his football fame, Mr.

Conzelman was a baseball player, musician and entertainer. business, he was associated with the old St. Louis Browns, the baseball Cardinals, and was a vice president of D'Arcy Advertising Co. Mr. Conzelman coached the Washington University football team from 1932 to 1939, and was dismissed after his team won the 1939 Missouri Valley Conference championship.

He coached the pro football Chicago Cardinals to a world championship in 1947 and to a western division title in 1948. The 11-1 regular season record Mr. Conzelman was the only son of James G. Dunn Sr. and Margaret Ryan.

His father died when he was 11 months old, and he took the name of his stepfather, becoming James Dunn Conzelman. played guard on 1 the basketball McKinley High School team, and when he went into the Navy in World War he won the middleweight boxing championship in a tournament at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station. Mr. Conzelman started playing football at McKinley High School and continued at Washington University. He never was graduated.

He began playing pro football in 1920 with the Decatur Staleys. Before becoming Washington University football coach, he coached the Battery A Gunners of St. Louis in 1931. Mr. Conzelman lived at 6228 Pershing Avenue.

Surviving are his wife, Ann; a son, James D. Conzelman Jr. of Westport, a sister, Mrs. Arthur M. Donnelly of St.

Louis; and two brothers, John G. Conzelman of Fort Myers Beach, and Robert E. Conzelman of St. Louis. Union Leader Freed On Bond On Bond Dies shipping costs from eastern United States points, it was reported.

Hal E. Hunter prosecuting attorney for New Madrid County, told the Post-Dispatch he found that most of the troubles at the Noranda, plant had been of a jurisdictional nature between various unions. He confirmed reports of Michaels's early presence at the facility but said no evidence of wrongdoing had been obtained. The Straughan indictment alleges that the union leader on three separate occasions urged Sam Gibbs, a construction worker not to tell of his know. ledge of the tractor, The vehicle, with a retail value of about $16,000 was stolen from the Equipment a Bloomington distributor, between June 15 and 18, 1968, the McLean County, sheriff's office said.

It was recovered Feb. 27 this year at Flat River. Both Straughan and Gibbs live in Farmington. mary opposition he must attend every township meeting, every township picnic, every card party and every kind of party function to solicit support. If he has no opposition he still must make the endless rounds of meetings.

3-Minute Talk "Nomination or endorsement really turns out to be a question of deciding who is the best candidate onthe basis of the three-minute talk the candidate gave at the meeting, or the candidate's physical appearance, or how big a contribution he made to the township campaign fund. "St. Louis County has 18 townships and every one has at least one political club and some have as many as six," Judge Kohn said. "'The candidate must make as many as three or four speeches in one night if he is eager to win," he said. "When a candidate goes political meetings he usually finds himself just a lone individual in a large group of candidates for senator, governor, supervisor, prosecuting attor- ney, and magistrate.

Wave To Crowed "The major candidates are usually allotted 10 minutes for speech-making. Judicial candidates are given three minutes. Actually, if they are in luck they may be allowed to stand up and give a little wave to the crowd. "By staying till the end of the meeting, they will have an op-' portunity to mingle with the crowd and perhaps induce someone to take some cam-1 paign literature and bumper stickers. "The round of meetings, pic-: nics, card parties and coffees is the future judge's daily fare in the three months preceding the, primaries.

"In addition to meetings, there is the task of raising money to, advertise, print brochures, and put together some kind of a campaign organization, including precinct workers, on election day. "The general election campaign is a rerun of the primaries," Judge Kohn said. "The nominee will have to continue making speeches and raising money. "Victory looks so close that it seems a worthwhile investment to put another mortgage on the house to raise money for an extra bit of radio and television time. Brief Introduction "In general elections the judicial candidate is shunted even further into the background at political meetings.

The big guns of the campaign are getting all the attention now. The most an aspiring judge can hope for is a brief introduction prior to the main speech. "Such campaigning is not conducive to the selection of the best qualified persons as judges. The process certainly does not examine the qualities that are generally considered essential for the judge. There is no test of legal knowledge, no test of character, no test of industry.

"This is the reason that political parties have not always come up with the best qualified judicial candidates in St. Louis County. This is why we need the nonpartisan court plan." FRIGIDAIRE "Take Home" AIR CONDITIONER IS EASY TO INSTALL 6000 BTU South Side size for every need, FURNITURE APPLIANCE CO. 5000 te 32,000 BTU 3630 S. GRAND PR 6-3000 OPEN Fair Mercantile Co.

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1 JACK BLACK BLACK JACK INCORPORATE Black Jack FACED WITH ANNEXATION: Black Jack residents who pressing their wish at a meeting of the St. Louis County want the community incorporated displaying signs ex- Council yesterday. (Post-Dispatch Photo) Black Jack Incorporation Argued Jimmy Conzelman in 1948 earned for Mr. Conzelman the Coach of the Year award. Mr.

Conzelman was inducted into professional football's Hall of Fame in 1964 and nominated to the college Hall of Fame in 1967. He was an after-dinner speaker- sculptor and song writer. He appeared in the Municipal Opera productions of "Good News" in 1940 and "Damn Yankees" in 1957. vestigations by a special federal strike force. Straughan was charged with receipt and sale of a large tractor in the Farmington area.

The tractor had been stolen in June 1968 in Bloomington, Ill. He was charged also with obstructing justice by trying to convince a grand jury witness not to give correct testimony. Straughan is business agent of Operating Engineers Local 513. He posted a $5000 bond on the charges in Farmington late yesterday. Arraignment on the indictment is scheduled for Monday before United States District Judge John K.

Regan in St. Louis. The special strike force is investigating organized crime in Missouri, Kansas and eastern and southern The group is re-examining labor disputes in the Cape Girardeau area and in the large new industrial developments in the Missouri Bootheel, specifically at the Noranda Aluminum Corp. plant that is under construction at New Madrid at al cost of $180,000,000. Some firms are reported to have abandoned plans in recent months to build in the area because of the labor atmosphere.

Scott Paper Co. withdrew plans for a facility at Caruthersville. Its officers said that building costs in Missouri were too high. The company is building at Blytheville, instead. Bootheel activities of Louis Shoulders, a member of Laborers Local 42 here, and James F.

Michaels active in the Sheet Metal Workers Union, are being checked also, it was learned. The strike force is said to be looking into gambling reports and into the cost of removing from Mississippi River barges machinery, material and equipment earmarked for southeastern Missouri industrial plant construction. Cost of removing the items has skyrocketed to the extent that they exceed all the other Man Killed In Auto By Shotgun Blast Braxton Dillahunty, a worker in the city health department's rat control program, was shot to death today in his automobile as he was leaving for work. The car was parked just west of his home, 4555 North Market Street. Dillahunty, 41 yars old, was killed after he had seated himself in his car and started the engine.

Police said he was shot by a man armed with a sawedoff shotgun. The man approached on foot and fired before Dillahunty could drive away. The shooting occurred at 8:30 a.m. Police recovered the shotgun, which was dropped as the assailant fled on foot. Then engine of Dillahunty's automobile caught fire but the blaze was quickly extinguished by firemen.

Dillahunty had worked for the city since Jan. 12. Four persons in the Black Jack Improvement Association, and their attorney, Roy W. Bergmann, testified before the St. Louis County Council yesterday in favor of a plan to incorporate their area.

Council chambers were jammed with proponents of the plan. The proponents cited a variety of reasons for their positions, but none mentioned their opposition to a federally-subsidized housing project in the area for lower-and middle income persons. The incorporation proposal was opposed by mayors of two neighboring communities and an attorney for an interreligious group. The improvement association circulated incorporation petitions in the area after preliminary. federal approval of the housing project at Parker and Old Jamestown roads.

Dr. Ronald H. Pflueger, president of the association, has said the group would use legal action if necessary to block construction of the 108-unit townhouse apartment project. It is planned by St. Mark's United Methodist Church of Florissant.

Bergmann said that the residents of the area, just east of Florissant, appeared to qualify under existing incorporation statutes and deserved to be incorporated. He said the new community would be able to provide essential services and be a credit to the county. Others said that the area had been an identifiable community since before the turn of the century. Robert Schuchardt showed a Post Office map that he was dated 1883 and identified the town of Black Jack. Maurice L.

Stewart Seventh District, chairman of the council, said two important elements were sho wing that there was a pre-existing community in the unincorporated area and that a majority of taxable residents had signed petitions in favor of incorporation. He said that County Counselor Joseph B. Moore had informed the council that petitions submitted in favor of the proposal apparently contained sufficient signatures. Mayors James J. Eagan of Florissant and John G.

Brawley of Ferguson opposed the proposed incorporation. Eagan said he doubted the existence of a community in the area or whether a new municiplaity could provide essential services. Brawley, to the boos of many spectators, asserted that the incorporation drive was an effort BOD'S 794 dresses further reduced for clearance values now $1090 Yes! Only $10.90 for a great fashion look! But hurry, quantities are limited. Misses and junior dresses and sportsdresses in this fabulous group. Boyd's Suburban Stores Open Friday Night CLAYTON CRESTWOOD PLAZA DOWNTOWN NORTHLAND NORTHWEST PLAZA WEST COUNTY by the association to "use zoning laws to exclude classes or races of certain people." Samuel H.

Liberman, a lawyer who won the historic Jones VS. Mayer open housing case from St. Louis County before the United States Supreme Court, testified against the incorporation. He represented the Inter-religious Center for Urban Affairs. He pointed out that residents of the area "had never seen fit to govern themselves before the housing project was proposed." Stewart said the council would take the testimony under advisement and have a decision soon.

Lester Straughan, southeastern Missouri union leader, was freed on bond late yesterday after his arrest on a four-count indictment returned earlier by a federal grand jury in St. Louis. It was the first indictment to be returned as a result of in- McNary Will Study Firm Lucier Ran Reports of the Securities and Exchange Commission will be studied by the St. Louis County prosecuting attorney's office in its investigation of the bomb killing of Phillip J. a week ago, it was announced today.

Prosecuting Attorney Gene McNary said he and several assistants would study the corporate structure of the Continental Telephone of which Lucier was president. McNary had suggested earlier that "something in the corporate structure of the company may have led to the killing." Lucier was killed by a bomb placed under the seat of a company automobile on the parking lot at the Pierre Laclede Center in Clayton. The blasting powder bomb was detonated when Lucier turned on the car ignition. The study of the corporate structure of Continental is designed to supply a background for possible grand jury investigation of the murder, McNary said. Special Jury The May term grand jury session runs through August, with meetings scheduled on Wednesdays.

McNary indicated he would request a special jury, if such action was deemed necessary. The $25,000 reward offered by Continental for information leading to the arrest and conviction of responsible for Lucier's has been persons, increased to $50,000, a company spokesman announced late yesterday. Doubling the reward is designed to assist police in finding the killer, the spokesman said. The Major Case Squad, comprising officers from area law enforcement agencies, and Clayton police continued their interrogation of scores of persons. No specific clues have been reported.

A motorist whose composite picture had been circulated by police reported to Clayton poace last night. He said he was the driver of a late model Dodge car that a witness reported left the Pierre Laclede parking lot after the bombing. Clayton Police Lt. Herbert Johnston said the nothing significant He matter. said he was not aware of a bombing." There's a payment plan that makes it easy to buy furniture at ask us about it! DOWNTOWN CLAYTON NORTHSIDE ST.

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