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2 TW, July 29, 7ist LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Council-Aldermanic Talks Urged In The News Wildlife Official No Favorites Plays against excesses of the 1950s, when "development was God." He said he believed a sensible balance between conservation and development could be Some areas of common concern are air and water pollution, police and fire protection, traffic, transportation, business, tourism, health, hospitals and housing. The i tee eventually would identify the areas of common co-operation, study these areas and take any recommendations back to their respective governmental bodies for consideration. Roach said today that he would have preferred that the statement had been released on a joint basis between city and county leaders. "This leak to the press 't make it look very joint," he said. "It rather makes us look like the good guys in the city and the bad guys in the county that we are trying to meet with." Rimmel said that he had not received any official statement on the proposal.

"But I plan to move that the idea be referred to the committee of the whole for consideration when I do get an official statement," he said. "Probably we won't take any action on the idea until sometime in September. The proposal is something I've thought about for a long time and discussed with Gephardt. We work in the same office building. "We are not setting any particular goal for the committee.

The main thing is to open lines of communication between the city and the county." WILLIAM K.WYANT JR. A Washington Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch WASHINGTON, I 29 impressed me about Nat Reed was the fact that he didn't care who it was that was polluting and I think this is achieved. "The overwhelming strength of the American people," he said, "is common sense. We very significant if they were Ipll I '1 polluting, he took action against will come back to an equitable them. position where we carefully weigh each development against what the risks and loss es are.

When the risks and 1 have been assessed and the en vironmentalists have had their day, Reed said, "there is still a Conferees Back Nixon On Subversives Board political decision that has to be made. He said conservationists could work through Con A committee composed of city aldermen and St. Louis County councilmsn has been proposed to discuss problems common to both segments of the metropolitan area. Alderman Richard A. Gephardt Fourteenth Ward, said the draft of the proposal was made last weekend after he and County Councilman Gerald A.

Rimmel (Rep), Third District, discussed the necessity for opening communication lines between the city and the county. "It's unfortunate that the story has leaked to the newspapers," Gephardt said today, "because it was intended that a joint announcement of the committee would be made after we got for the proposal from a majority of the members of the Board of Aldermen and the County Council. "I hope the leak won't ruin the idea. The proposal isn't going to change the world, but at least it will get people talking about common problems." A statement outlining the proposal was completed with the help of Aldermen John Roach Twenty eighth Ward, and Milton Svetanics First Ward. The three said the statement was not meant to imply that "this is a propitious time for study of proposals for compre-h si county-city political amalgamation.

"Nor do we intend to stir speculation that this effort will necessarily result in any governmental arrangements of any kind whatsoever. "We simply believe that this appears to us to be an opportune time to open channels of communication on various specific issues with a view toward the long-range over-all solution to common metropolitan problems where such is possible, appropriate and beneficial." gress and the courts to bring vital issues before the Ameri-The victories by Reed in Florida indicate he has tough ness and resilience. He made a point in the interview of expressing high regard for Gover nors Kirk and Askew. He said each backed him to the hilt, This tribute was paid to Nathaniel Pryor Reed by Repre-sentatlve Paul G. Rogers Florida, at the Senate Interior Committee's confirmation hearing on Reed's nomination to be assistant secretary of the interior for fish and wildlife and parks.

Reed was approved easily and was sworn in May 13. He had the solid backing of conservationists because of the record he made as a Jl-a-year man on Florida's Pollution Control Commission and as first chairman of Florida's Department of Air and Water Pollution Control. The environmentalists hope that Reed, 38 years old, a wealthy blue-stocking who fought vigourously to protect Florida's natural resources, will be equally effective in Washington. "You don't expect miracles and you don't expect to change Government overnight," Reed said in an interview in his office. He looked happy and busy.

He was signing papers, issuing orders, and drinking a glass of milk. In the corner was a blue bicycle that he rides to work. Reed was born in New York once he was persuaded a prin ciple was involved, "They were of such tough ness; they were not flexible and did not bend under pressure," he said. Florida, he comment WASHINGTON, July 29 (UPI) Senate-House conferees went along yesterday with the President's decision to put new life in the Subversive Activities Control Board by expanding Its role in the field of domestic subversion. They rejected a Senate prevision that would have prevented any of the board's $450,000 appropriation from being used to investigate 25 organizations.

The conference committee refused to accept the a 's prohibition, which was in a 4-billion-dollar money bill for the Departments of State, Justice and Commerce in fiscal 1972. Senator Sam J. Ervin Jr. North Carolina, who authored the Senate prohibition, promised a floor fight against the entire bill. Few conference report have ever been defeated.

On July 2, President Richard M. Nixon issued an executive order transferring responsibility to the board for drawing up a new list of Communist or Communist-front organizations. In addition, he asked it to investigate 25 unidentified groups for possible addition to the list. The list, called the attorney general's list, was drawn up in 1954 and has never been changed. Since then a series of Supreme Court rulings have made the antisubversion board all but powerless.

Ervin's postion is that "the Justice Department has invent-e a so-called 'constitutional statutory power' to amend statutes" although only Congress has the right to do this. Beyond that, he belives that the attorney general's list and the board itself "are contrary to the constitutional right of free speech." The conference committee report goes first to the House and then the Senate for approval. ed, has not been known as a stronghold of righteousness. Reed had warm words also for former Secretary of the In BABY TRAPS: Edward M. Swartz, a Boston lawyer and author of a book titled "Toys That Don't Care," displaying toys he considers potentially dangerous before the Senate Commerce Committee in Washington.

He advocated a strong Independent consumer affairs agency. (AP Wirephoto) terior Walter J. Hickel, whom President i a M. Nixon dismissed last autumn, and for Final Concert Of Gateway Festival Hickel's successor, Morton. He said Hickel had been a good The final concert of the Gate friend of Florida at a time when the state "needed a friendl tions from Broadway musicals.

The concert is free and open to the public. The concert will be held in Graham Memorial Chapel on the university campus in the event of inclement weather. way Festival Orchestra summer desperately, and not i a season will be presented at 8: 30 versity quadrangle. William Schatzkamer will conduct a varied program ranging from Mendelssohn's symphony to selec friend, it needed a tough p.m. tomorrow in tne Beaumont Pavilion at the Washington Uni friend.

Morton was characterized by Reed as "a superb human being" and "one of the really nifty guys I have worked for." He said Morton was an equita ble and fair judge with superb instincts, in addition to which he is "smart as hell." "I came with the n- ment," Reed said, "because I felt that the Secretary was a strong, energetic man who had the strength politically to fight his battles in the White House and on Capitol Hill an enor mous advantage if you are trying to get something done. We don't win them all, but we are winning our share." Conservationists are still not sure how firm a foothold Reed has in dealing with Interior Department bureaucracies, but they are convinced his heart is in the right place. He has told the National Park Service to get moving on the allocation of park lands under the Wilder City and reared in Connecticut and Florida, where his family developed the exclusive Hobe Sound-Jupiter Island area on the east coast between Fort Pierce and West Palm Beach. His father bought the island, and the family company owns and operates the Jupiter Island Club. From the financial standpoint, Reed did not need a job with the Government, or any-body else.

His grandfather, the late Verner Z. Reed of Denver, made a great deal of money in mining, banking, oil and ranching. Verner Z. Reed was a student of American Indian myth and 1 1 and was among the first to make an automobile tour of the Sahara. Reed's maternal grandfather, the late Samuel F.

Pryor, was a banker in St. Louis before moving east to run the ton Arms Co. before World War I. "He was a passionate St. Louisan," Reed said of Pryor.

Reed's wife is the former Alita Davis Weaver of St. Louis and Greenwich, Conn. Reed's father, Joseph V. Reed, of Greenwich and Hobe Sound, is a financier, author and the producer of the American Shakespeare Theater in Greenwich, Conn. The a acquired Jupiter Island on a trip to Florida several decades ago, and from that time on Nathaniel Reed has been an enthusiastic Floridian.

The new assistant secretary of the interior was graduated from Trinity College in Connecticut, served overseas as an officer in the Air Force in the 1950s, and returned to the ly's Hobe Sound real estate business in 1960. As an avocation, he plunged into conservation work in Florida. Young Reed was cochairman of the Florida Board of Antiquities in 1962. He was instrumental in preserving for the state thousands of gold coins and antiquities found in Florida wa ness Act. Reed and his family donated beach lands near Hobe Sound in 1968 to set up the Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge.

More land is now being donated. The area will thus be a haven for sea turtles and birds as well as vM-xk- -5v-fc J'vWjSsw: PtCOH Blck 'mSM SAVE s2195 gjiBML Limited Time Only Your Choice )) Masterfully Crafted Door ferjI Pedestal Base Commode In o. i cm. i fT Exciting Array Of Styles Commodes In 3 Lovely Styles "EBSin K18 BI -i ill LI mm Th Tnhlsi hn rnmnndr for millionaires. A stretch of prime beach property will be saved from encroachment.

"It's kind of fun to design a town in the middle of a refuge," Reed said. New Area Director For Ecology Agency Special to th Post-Dtspiteh KANSAS CITY, July 29 Jerome H. Svore has been appointed regional administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for Missouri, Kansas, low and Nebraska. He replaces John M. Rademacher.

Svore, formerly Rademacher's deputy in charge of air pollution control and several other a conserva- programs, was recommended by ters. He prepared tion platform for tne guoer- Senator Robert M. Do fReoV natorial campaign of Claude K. Kansas, after complaints that Kirk Jr. and became Kirks Rademacher was too tough on III! v1i 1 Reg.

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Reubin Askew, Reed was asked vi to RU89ia new governor and as chairman Planned By Hearnes Jlj state's Air and Water Ul UIC Special to the Post-Dlipatch Pollution Control Department. JEFFERSON CITY, July 29 Gov. Warren E. Hearnes and five to seven other governors will tour Russia in October, the Governor's office said yester day. Hearnes has refused to comment on the trip except to Mediterranean say it is "a touchy situation." Soviet authorities have ac cepted the United States pro Styled Decorator Tables nniiffSflff" Cocktail Table, 11x60x1 $58 Sifiii posal to allow the delegation of six to eight governors to visit the Soviet Union for about 10 Lovely Tables with Light Pecan no-mar plastic finish.

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B. Morton for development, conservation and use of the entire nation's fish, wildlife and national park resources. He has direction and supervision at the secretarial level over the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and the National Park Service. One of his jobs is to review the I 1 Department's "environmental impact" statements made in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. Under the act, federal agencies proposing actions expected to have a significant effect on the environment must submit a statement weighing the impact and indicating alternatives and options.

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