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December 21, 1976 Opponents Of Airport Call For Injunction, Cite Evidence' ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH' ill I ij -4 I -H ir A I i'V A s4 Tf -J fey i AUDIENCE WITH THE GOVERNOR-ELECT: Gov. -elect Joseph P. Teasdale (center) presiding at a budget appeals hearing in Jefferson City yesterday. In the background are representatives of Lincoln University.

(AP Wirephoto) Marwick, Mitchell and Co. The firm was a principal consultant to Coleman on the airport question. Griswold, former dean of the Harvard University Law School, set forth in general terms the Missouri side of the controversy. And he repeated a denied by Judge Robinson last month, that the Missourians be allowed the legal process called "discovery" in order to get at the facts. Griswold said that the Missouri group was confident that the facts would show that Lambert Field "is now, and in all likelihood will remain, one of the least congested major airports in the United States." The Missouri plaintiffs told the court that Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Co.

served as adviser to the Secretary of Transportation, and that the Ralph M. Parsons Co. performed a Lambert master plan study under supervision of the Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration. "Their reports were intended to, and did, provide the basic source materials for the Secretary's decision," the plaintiffs said. "Yet, both consultants were required over the protest of Missourians to conduct their studies under a number of severe restrictions, most of which were imposed before the current Secretary took office." Among other restrictions, it was said, both consultants were required to confine their studies of Lambert to the present boundaries, even though respected planners had seen the feasibility of obtaining additional land for runway expansion or a noise buffer.

Meanwhile, Senator Thomas F. Eagle-ton Missouri, and Coleman are at odds over whether the St. Louis Metropolitan Area Airport Authority must show it can legally guarantee bonds to finance improvement at Lapi-bert. Eagleton charged that the Illinois group was unable to guarantee the bonds and asked Coleman to require the Illinois group to show how it planned to fulfill this condition. In reply, Coleman said it was not necessary at this time.

The bond guarantee was one of nine stipulations that Coleman required in approving the Illinois group's application for the new airport. In a recent letter to Eagleton, Coleman said that it was not necessary for the Illinois group to show how it planned to meet most of the conditions, since "development (of the new airport) is years away and contractors have not even been selected." Eagleton said that Coleman's reply was disappointing. "Nowhere does Mr. Coleman address the crucial issue of whether Illinois could legally guarantee bonds needed to finance improvements at Lambert," Eagleton said. Teasdale To Decide On Merger For Parks JEFFERSON CITY, 21 Joseph P.

Teasdale says he will decide in the next three weeks whether the state Division of Parks and the state Conservation Department should be merged. "It. seems to fit from both an economic and management point of view," said Teasdale in statutory budget appeal hearings yesterday. In an interview, Teasdale said a recommendation for a merger of the two agencies would be one of the decisions he will make before he delivers his legislative and budget messages to the General Assembly after he is inaugurated Jan. 10.

Approval by the voters Nov. 2 of a constitutional amendment authorizing a one-eighth of a cent sales tax for the Conservation Department has prompted the impetus for a merger. The state Division of Parks and Recreation is an agency under the Department of Natural Resources, and is financed by the state's general revenues. The Conservation Department is a constitutionally estab lished independent agency financed by fishing and hunting licenses. Beginning next July It will also receive the proceeds of the special sales tax.

Teasdale said he thought that many persons voted for the conservation sales tax because they thought It would provide money for Preliminary budget recommendations by TeascUle's staff call for park financing from the conservation tax. But outgoing Director of Natural Resources James L. Wilson warned Teasdale yesterday that any attempt to merge the two agencies without another vote of the people would likely bring about a lawsuit. "The Conservation Federation would fight it If any attempt was made legislatively," Wilson said. The Conservation Federation Is a consortium of sportsmen's clubs and outdoor groups that led the petition drive to put the sales tax on the ballot.

Any decision to challenge a legislative merger of the two agencies would be up to the federation's board of directors, said Ed Stegner, its executive director. But Stegner predicted that someone would file a lawsuit challenging a legislative merger and that the federation would Join in the suit. Stegner said the purpose of the constitutional amend- mcnt approved by the voters was clearly to provide funds for the Conservation Department's program. The gules tax was not intended for stale parks, he said, i Wilson urged Teasdale to appoint a study commission to consider the merger and to continue park financing -next year from the state's general revenues. Teasdulo agreed with Wilson that the legal question of whether a merger by legislation Is possible or whether a constitutional amendment Is necessary must be studied.

Supporting a legislative merger is Senator Norman L. Merrell Montlcello, who has been chosen Senate President pro tern. Merrell has said that state parks could be financed by the sales tax, and general revenues formerly used for state parks freed for other needed 1 programs. By WILLIAM K. WYANT JR.

A Washington Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch Staff WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 Missouri plaintiffs in the St. Louis airport controversy yesterday offered evidence that they said would justify a federal court injunction against granting of federal funds for the proposed Columbia-Waterloo site in Illinois. The action was the latest step in an effort by the State of Missouri and others to delay or block a decision Sept. 1 by Secretary of Transportation William T.

Coleman approving the Illinois site. On Nov. 19 United States District Judge Aubrey E. Robinson Jr. rejected the plea of the Missouri group for a preliminary injunction but allowed 30 days for submission of further evidence.

The Missouri group accordingly filed with the court additional affidavits and exhibits, arguing that time and authority should be given for development of the Missouri side of the case. The Missouri plaintiffs said that an injunction "will prevent irreparable harm to important public interests." The Missouri group said that there was substantial and new evidence in the material filed yesterday, largely in affidavits by Erwin N. Griswold, counsel for the Missouri parties, and Dan G. Haney, St. Louis project manager for Peat', Man Without Funds Is Shot In Holdup Gordon Kagley, 33 years old, of the 4100 block of West Pine Boulevard, was shot in the chest and wounded seriously last night after he told a holdup man that he did not have any money, police said.

Kagley was sitting with two companions in the Steak and Egg Restaurant, 3852 Lindell Boulevard, about 10 p.m. when a fourth man entered the establishment and sat by them at the counter, police said. The man drew a 38-cal. revolver and demanded money from Sterling Roberts, 34, of Arnold and Ray Bassimer of the 4100 block of West Pine, police said. Roberts gave the- man $53 and Bassimer handed over about $65.

Kagley told the man that he did not have any, police said. The man shot Kagley in the upper right side of the chest, picked up the money that was on the counter and fled, police said. Kagley was taken to City Hospital. Overland Grocery Is Robbed Of $300 A National Food Store at 9430 Midland Boulevard, Overland, was robbed of $300 last night by two men wearing ski masks. The robbers were armed with a shotgun and a pistol.

After taking the money, the robbers fled north on Pasteur Avenue. In another incident, a Fina Service Station in St. Clair in Franklin County was robbed of $200 early today by two men wearing stocking masks and carrying a sawed-off shotgun and a pistol. After obtaining the money, the men ran toward Interstate Highway 44. Fire Damages Wickes Showroom Fire damaged furniture stored in a Wickes Furniture Showroom warehouse at 2332 Millpark Drive, Maryland Heights, early today.

Firemen said the blaze broke out in the single-story, metal and masonry structure about 12:45 a.m., and fire fighters from the Maryland Heights, West Overland and Creve Coeur departments answered the call. The cause of the blaze was undetermined. Much of the damage was caused by water and smoke, firemen said. No one was injured. U.S.

Attorney Denies Conspiracy Against Conley Former state Representative John Conley Jr. has used a "very vivid imagination" to make a charge that federal officials conspired to win a conviction against him on charges of selling heroin, the United States Attorney's office here says. The Government says also that Conley is apparently "attempting to say or allege anything possible in order to get his conviction overturned." The comments by the prosecutor's office were filed yesterday in United States District Court in response to a civil suit filed earlier this month by Conley seeking to overturn his conviction and 15-year prison term. Conley charged that his attorney, James A. Bell, did not represent him properly.

And he accused prosecutors of conspiring with Bell and Judge James H. Meredith to deny him a fair trial. The U.S. Attorney's office said that "Mr. Bell did an exceptional job for (Conley)." On the conspiracy charge, the U.S.

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