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3A ST. LOUIS POST DISPATCH TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1971 Agents Reassigned In 1BI Shake-up Urges 80 Pet. Road-Transit Fund Share i mil. i mi niiimiii mrrir nni mma mff irf II I I V' lit" sAVV 7 if if 0 OP 0 Highways and rapid transit should each consume at least 40 per cent of state and federal spending for transportation improvements on the Missouri side of the St. Louis metropolitan area, it was recommended yesterday.

SPRINGFIELD, Aug. 17 (AP) Without announcing it, state law enforcement officials have carried out a major shake-up in the Illinois Bureau of Investigation, turning over all the regular duties of one of its biggest branches to the state police. The shake-up, which for practical purposes liquidates the bu-reau's general criminal division, is the first basic change in the agency since Richard Gliebe became acting superintendent Aug. 9. Herbert D.

Brown, director of law enforcement, acknowledged yesterday that all 35 i a 1 agents in the general criminal division were being reassigned to the organized crime and narcotics divisions. However, characterized the changeover as nothing major. Brown explained, "We feel we should broaden our investigations of organized crime and narcotics." Brown said agent David Phillips, who was head of the general criminal division, had been reassigned to a supervisory job in the narcotics division, working under division head Lowell Southern. Brown said the reassignment was not a demotion. Among major investigations undertaken in 1970 by the bureau's general criminal division were the bombing of the auto-moble of William Barr, former state representative and Joliet mayoral candidate, and the killing of Jack Fancil, Oblong police chief.

he recommendation was made to the East-West Gateway Co-ordinating Council by its executive advisory committee in answer to questions in a National Transportation Needs Study. The council staff compiled a list of $4,393,085,000 worth of improvements that should be done by 1990. This included 393,085,000 for highways; for mass and rapid transit, and $852,474,000 for aviation and terminals, including a second major airport in Missouri and a commuter rail line from down-" town St. Louis to Kirkwood. The United States Government study assumed that each state would get a certain amount of federal funding and would provide the necessary matching funds.

Missouri then would allocate part of these Police Chief Nominees In the Columbia-Waterloo area. (Post-Dis- AIRPORT PROS AND CONS: An attentive audience at the first in a series of public hearings on the proposed new airport for patch Photo) Boos, Cheers At Airport Hearing 290 Laid-Off Employes Recalled By Laclede Gas funds to the St. Louis area, slightly more than a third of the cost of the improvements. The study then listed four sets of circumstances and asked how the money would be divided. Gateway Council members had the option to list their area's priorities and percentages.

This was discussed yeter-day by the committee. The committee did not offi cially recommend any of the alternatives, saying only that "priority should be given to highways and public transit with each getting not less than 40 per cent of spending." This response was the result of a compromise between A. J. Wilson, administrative assistant to St. Louis Mayor Alfonso J.

Cervantes, who adamantly opposed any percentage response, and highway officials on the committee who warned that failure to respond would result in Jefferson City or Washington setting priorities for the region. Calling the study a game, Wil son said the council should only respond that the money suggested for transportation improvements was inadequate and that local officials should have more control over its spending. These points were included in the committee's recommendation to the council. On other matters, the committee recommended that the council endorse a proposal by the Illinois Division of Highways to build Interstate 255 through Frank Holten State Park in Centreville. A statement by the council's environmental task force strongly opposing the location and a staff recommendation of conditions for its approval will be sent to the Federal Highway Administration along with the council's position, The committee also recommended endorsement of a list of St.

Louis and St. Louis and St. Charles counties streets and highways proposed as part of the new federal aid urban system on the Missouri side of the metropolitan area. The new system would provide federal funds for improvements on streets that back up the interstate and arterial road systems. Under the new program, the Federal Government would pay 50 per cent of the total cost of an improvement, the state 25 per cent of construction costs and the local government 50 per cent of design and right-of-way costs and 25 per cent of construction costs.

The division reported 252 criminal investigations in 1970, 142 arrests and 31 convictions. The general criminal division has been less controversial than the narcotics division, which has placed hired informants on state campuses and made spectacular narcotics raids in university communities. The new move places additional manpower in the narcotics division. Gliebe, in his career with the bureau, has been a specialist on organized crime. He replaced Mitchell Ware, a former state narcotics officer and reporter, who resigned Aug.

5 to take part in the investigation of the Chicago Black Panther grand jury. A breach between the bureau and the state police over the gradually narrowing duties of state police detectives has been a recurrent theme in Springfield for more than a year. Two bills were introduced in the Legislature this session to place the bureau under the state police. One source close to law enforcement said the state police detectives had been languishing because of the bureau. Brown said state police detectives had expanded automobile-theft investigations because they did not have other jobs to do.

"I still think the two groups dovetail, though," Brown said. "There may have been some people in the IBI who thought there was a conflict, but not me." issues will be submitted to a three-member panel chosen by the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. The panel's decision will be sealed for 10 days. Meanwhile, the company and union would continue to negotiate. If there is no settlement within the 10 days, the panel's decision would be opened and would become binding on both parties.

The contract with the union expired July 31. Though it would be frozen under President Richard M. Nixon's economic curbs, a wage increase is the principal issue. Clerical workers are paid an average of $3.85 an hour; physical workers receive an average of $4.50 an hour. Local 5-6 represents about 1500 employes of Laclede.

DOWNTOWN WEST COUNTY The 290 employes of Laclede Gas Co. who were laid off Aug. 4 have been recalled to work, the company announced today. All of the employes, members of Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union Local 5-6, will return to work no later than tomorrow. They had been laid off because the company said it expected the union to strike.

However, it is now certain Local 5-6 will not strike. The company has accepted a union proposal for binding arbitration, and the 290 men have been recalled as part of the agreement. Under the agreement, the two sides will continue to bargain for a new work contract until Sept. 13. If no agreement is reached by then, the outstanding E.

St. Louis A citizens committee appointed to submit nominations for the of chief of police of East St. Louis announced today two nominees William E. Dye and James Leray LeGrande. Dye is director of planning and training for the Police De- partment, and LeGrande is an associate professor on the fac- ulty of the School of Criminal -Justice at Michigan State Univ- ersity.

Final selection will be made by Mayor James E. Williams Sr. The nine-member committee had been asked to submit three candidates for the position. However, in submitting only two the committee said it "feels it would have not only compromised itself but he Mayor and the (City) Coun-cjl-if it were to select a third VJaljie for the sake of submit-CWg three candidates." committee considered Vjnore than 30 applicants. Acting -Qhief J.

Cedell Mosley is among 3he applicants. Dye, 38 years old, has a bachelor's degree from South-1 ern Illinois University at Ed- wardsville, where he is enrolled in graduate school. He is a former state highway patrolman i and has held his present post financed by Model City Agen-i cy funds since 1969. i LeGrande, 34, has a bachelor's degree from Central State i (Okla.) University and a law I degree from the University of Oklahoma. Before joining Michigan State in 1963, he was a prosecuting attorney in Cot-! ton, and a member of the office of planning research of the St.

Louis Police Depart-! ment. "Monroe County is not the logical site for the proposed airport because there is less productive agricultural land available (elsewhere) (or an airport," he said. "With a projected U.S. population of 300,000,000 people in 30 years, we will have to give far greater use priorities to agricultural land." Kolmer, Farm Bureau secretary, suggested that the airport authority consider increasing the life of Lambert Field by curtailing the use of small private aircraft there, or possibly using Scott Air Force Base. One of those who spoke against the East Side airport was a Missourian, Darby Tally of St.

Charles. He is a member of the St. Charles County Court and a newspaper editor. "I asked a question why an airport in 1 1 1 i i said Tally. "I think we should talk more about people than airports.

The airport should be as close to the center of the flying public as possible, and the population trend (in the metropolitan area) is to the west." "Do not build the airport as a monument to solve economic problems of southern Illinois," he continued. "I think Mayor Cervantes got the Missouri Mule behind Governor Ogilvie's wagon." Tally favors a St. Charles County site. Waterloo School District Superintendent i 1 1 Moore warned that serious financial problems would beset the school district if the a i plans were approved. "A number of immigrants into the school district can be expected as a result of the airport," he said.

He predicted an increase in population of 50,000 800,030 DIRECT UCIES TO COMMUNITY FEDERAL CALL HA 7-7400 TO OPfN TOUR ACCOUNT semi annual OXD'8 wildlife, land and water supplies. William J. Tudor, director of Southern Illinois University's regional and urban development studies, noted that at one point in Illinois history the community of Cairo said that railroads were not needed, that river transportation would suffice. He said it cost Cairo a position as a major transportation renter. Tudor warned that the southern Illinois region had been experiencing an exodus of people, primarily due to a lack of jobs.

He asserted that an airport would start the area moving upward economically. Generally, spokesmen for the East Side airport were representatives of business and labor. Business agents from locals of the laborers', carpenters', and operating engineers' unions spoke in favor of the proposal, as did Robert Kettler of the Waterloo Chamber of Commerce and the head of the Monroe County Builders Association. Joel Raeber, a junior at SIU at Carbondale and a lifelong Waterloo resident, also argued for the airport, saying that the future of Monroe County was not very bright because of the lack of jobs. "The airport offers jobs and security," he said.

Then, in a reference to earlier pleas by opponents to save the agriculture land, Raeber said that hundreds of acres of the county were in the soil bank. He said using the land for an airport made "more sense than using it to grow weeds. We must seize this opportunity to progress with the rest of the country. Eugene G. Kolmer said that a questionnaire circulated by the Monroe County Farm Bureau showed that persons were opposed to the plan by a 3-to-l margin.

He said the Farm Bureau took a sampling of about 1600 persons. 'ffllZHlANY II HQ STORIS TO Jim YOU iNjow a A ALL'S Van Raalte Wear-Sheer Parity Hose, only $1.50 Panty hose at a price you can't afford to pass up! All nylon dem'-toe, nude heel in 2 sizes; A B. Safari encore, taupe haze or navy shades. CLAYTON NORTHLAND CftESTWOOD NORTHWEST Who Draivs The Who, That's Who to 70,000 and said the district would need 10 to 12 new sites for schools. Because of inflated land prices and high construction costs, Moore said, Waterloo school district taxpayers would have to finance about $28,200,000 to $36,400,000 in new schools and sites.

He called on the state to provide funds for the school system to meet the increased burden caused by the airport. Columbia's mayor also voiced reservations about the airport plan, arguing that area planning had not taken into account the problems caused by a major airport. Mayor Wilbert H. Kremmel said his city was uncertain if municipal government would be "able to continue to discharge municipal responsibility" in the face of the new airport. He called for financial assistance from the state and federal governments.

Arven H. Saunders, executive director of the airport authority, said arecently released Missouri airport study would have no effect on the East Side airport plans. "The best site is here," he said. The second of three hearings win De neio today at p.m. in the 1 1 -C 1 a i Exposition Building, Belleville.

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McGUIRE Of the Post-Dispatch Staff For four and a half hours last night the gymnasium of the Waterloo, 111., high school was filled with familiar sounds boos and cheers but the issue was airports, not basketball. More than 800 persons jammed into the school for the first public hearing by the St. Louis Metropolitan Area Airport Authority on proposal to build a second major airport in a rural triangular area bounded by 1 i Waterloo and Millstadt. The first faint boo occurred when Robert B. Lamkin, chairman of the airport authority, said planners for the East Side airport wanted to set an example for integrity in their dealings with landowners.

"My telephone number is in the book," he said, referring to his willingness to answer questions. There was loud applause and cheering when Emilio Bassey, a Columbia school teacher, said of a study by a citizens' group, "We find that we do not need an airport." Bassey is with an organization called Help Us Save the Land and Environ-ment. Bassey said that his group soon would make public the final draft of the anti-airport study, showing that a study made for the state by the planning firm of R. Dixon Speas Associates had been misleading in may areas. He cited passenger growth projections and employment figures as two examples.

In addition, he said an environmental impact study by Arthur D. Little, Inc. did not assess adequately the damage to tar; Roger Daltrey, lead singer; Keith Moon, drummer, and John Entwistle, bass guitarist. Their repertoire ranged from "Summertime Blues" from their "Live at Leeds" album to selections from their rock opera "Tommy" to hit singles from their career capped by an encore of their "Woodstock" number. Coming out of working-class London, The Who paralleled The Beatles in rock music but did not reach high acclaim until they performed lommy, in New York's Metropolitan Opera House in the summer of 1970.

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They are Kenneth P. Rose, 25 years old, Mrs. Wendy Holz-warth, 22, and a Negro man named only as John Doe in the murder charge. Capt. Robert Lowery of the St.

Louis area major case squad, which was investigating the case, said the car was found in Ewing, N.J., Saturday. Inside the automobile authorities found a sawed-ooff shotgun, some spent revolver shells, and a pair of trousers marked with the name Wendy. Man Robs Bank With Toy Pistol The Southern Illinois National Bank of East St. Louis, 320 North Tenth Street, was robbed of several thousand dollars at about 1:30 p.m. yesterday by a man who displayed what appeared to be a revolver partly covered by a newspaper.

Gladys Turner, a teller, complied with the robber's in- structions to place money in a paper bag he handed to her. Mrs. 'Turner had stuffed the bag with less-, than $5000, the bank reported. The robber knocked a customer down on his way out and fled on foot. By THOMAS B.

NEWSOM Who is The Who? To Pete Rudge, their manager, The Who is the "working class superstars" of rock music. To Mississippi River Festival promoters, worried about a deficit season, The Who is last-minute money at the gate. To about 34,000 rock music freaks, The Who is four British lads who laid down a pulsating wall of sound last evening at the finale of the 1971 festival. Armed with 10'2 tons of equipment that ranged from amplifiers to flashing red, yellow and blue lights, The Who performed at blast force for about one and a half hours last evening, danced around while lead guitarist Peters Town-shend broke his guitar to bits on stage then rushed off, leaving frenzied youths storming and shouting for "more more! The concert was a cultural happening for members of the counterculture in the St. Louis area.

The concert was also testament that old, gut hard rock music is not dead despite the moaning of such soft rockers as James Taylor and the aging prophet Bob Dylan Sadly, too, it should be noted that the four British rock music lads, playing with fortissimo, attracted in one night the equivalent of almost the total number of persons who turned out to listen to the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra through' out the entire 1971 season of the Mississippi River Festival. (To tal attendance for the symphony programs was reported at 35,410, compared with the esti mated one-night crowd of 34,000 for The Who.) Within the context of rock music, it must be fairly stated that The Who has delved the deepest into the rock essence. Despite rather tawdry showmanship, the members of The Who played with authority. Their songs were charged with sweating energy, performed with near flawless enesemble and fascinating solo work.

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