St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 3

December 3, 1976 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Lafayette To wne jake mc earthy a personal opinion 1 ork Under Way lilflilSil mm GRAND 1 1 JjT The first phase of a proposed Lafayette Towne residential development on the near South Side got under way formally today with the signing of financial agreements in a ceremony at City Hall. The initial construction, consisting ot 100 apartment units for older adults and 62 town house family dwellings, will go forward under financing by nine local banks, six savings and loan associations, two unions, the Laclede Gas Co. and the Home Builders Association of Greater St. Louis.

Groundbreaking is set for early next year. The Lafayette Towne area covers 222 acres bounded roughly by Jefferson Avenue on the east, Interstate Highway 44 on the south, Compton and Virginia Avenues on the west and Chouteau Avenue and Lasalle Street on the north. The first construction work will be in two blocks along Jefferson between Rutger Street and Park Avenue. The project eventually will provide 2500 units of new housing, plus some rehabilitated dwellings. The first phase has been accepted for federal rental subsidies by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

However, only about 20 per cent of the entire project will be federally subsidized, with emphasis instead on encouraging private investment. The Home Builders Association conceived the Lafayette Towne plan several fy: SrVx S. jr Vv, fSSS I 1 1 Lawyer Pleads Guilty In Income Tax Case I'm an old steelworker, among other ancient adornments of my checkered past. We didn't have a Union in those old days at Scullin Steel, circa 1943, which was one of the reasons my take home pay was $27.20 a week. h.The other reason was the flunki-ness of my job as a 17-year-old, ranging about the furnace floor keeping track of what those burly, 'Sweating men shoveled into the raging hearths, taking the temperatures of ihe heats as they were poured into molds from the great vats of molten metal, drilling steel ingots so the chemical lab cbuld analyze the scraps.

It was hot and dirty work, but it paid my way through college for a year, working the 3 to 11 shift, and even now the dusty, acrid smell of the foundry behind O'Connell's Pub recalls to me my days as a kid when I of what I might become I grew up. I got to be a Teamster, mostly, for 16 of my middle years, and a union man of loyalty, and an observer if not a participant in the essential conservatism of the American labor movement, a man with the memory of steel labor as it was etched into a teen-ager's mind. So I have been watching a man named Ed Sadlows-ki. In a few months on Feb. 8 America's steelworkers will decide in a national referendum whether they want him to lead them.

The election in the United Steel-workers union has more than ordinary significance in the arena of union politics. At issue, it seems to me, is whether America's working class is ready to speak out loudly once again, or is content with its uneasy collaboration in a system that is grinding it down between the profit-taking of the rich and the taxation of the middle class. There's a provincial interest in the fteelworkers election, of course, because one of the candidates is St. Louisan Lloyd McBride, the veteran Jlistrict director for Missouri, Southern Illinois and three adjoining States who has been chosen by gupporters of retiring USW president I. W.

Abel to seek the post. McBride is said to be a decent, able man. I thought so, too, the only jtime I ever met him. In all those 16 years I spent in the union movement here and in Washington, in all the Joint efforts that were made by Another Company Of Creditors of another firm of the Molas-ky family of St. Louis County have filed suitseeking to force the firm into bankruptcy.

Trie suit was filed by three firms Wednesday against KC News Distributors Jnc, 3801 McKelvey Road. The same filed suit last month seeking to force Pierce News a Molasky enterprise, into bankruptcy. Trje Molaskys operate several compa- Lottery Winners CHICAGO, Dec. 3 Here are the results of the drawing yesterday in the "Ca't-A-Day Giveway" game of the Illinois Lottery: Numbers: 28 and 967. Color: Blue.

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mt MmI I rnURKlS UP, UP AND AWAY: A twin-engine private plane that landed on Old Highway 66 near the Crestwood shopping center Tuesday morning made the last leg today of the journey to its intended destination, Weiss Airport, via helicopter. The pilot, Michael Brewer, was flying in from Detroit when he ran out of fuel. Police ran an escort along the ground during the times the two craft were over populated areas. (Post-Dispatch Photo by Robert C. Holt III) luxurious CHRISTMAS FURS special pre-christmas savings! Shop JCPenney for darkroom Election In Steel unions in St.

Louis for what we saw to be community betterment, Lloyd McBride never made a wave. The difference is that this is not Ed Sadlowski's history. Two years ago he was elected the union's district director in the Chicago area, defeating entrenched leadership in an upset victory. Now, at age 38, he is going for the bundle leadership of one of the country's most strategic unions, largest remaining in the AFL-CIO. Well, a 38-year-old man in labor's hierarchy would make waves all by itself, and on top of it Sadlowski is committing the heresy of calling for "tough leadership." Jimmy Hoffa was 44 when he ousted the entrenched leadership of the Teamsters Union in 1957, with an unwitting assist from the late Bobby Kennedy who got Dave Beck first.

It so upset labor's respectable elders that they joined the lynch gang. Sadlowski is going through it already. Anti-Sadlowski literature is warning of a "radical take-over." It wouldn't take much to be considered a radical in the labor movement these days. It has accommodated itself to the self-interest of industrial power to such a degree that honor means a testimonial dinner from the bosses, or a cocktail party at the White House. That's a long way from the steel-workers I knew at Scullin, struggling to build a union, fearing that they'd be jobless on the street if a foreman heard them.

It's a long way, too, from the furnace floors of South Chicago and Gary and Youngstown. So far, Sadlowski has won the nominating votes from the two largest locals at Granite City Steel, among many around the country. McBride claims that he has wider support in the union, and the election is expected to be close. But the entrenched leadership of labor, including the aged leadership of the AFL-CIO Executive Council, hasn't heard a fresh and powerful new voice in two decades, and the dormant state of the labor movement shows it. It might be refreshing to hear a worker speak, for a change, in the highest councils where the decisions are made about labor's share of the American pie.

This kind of choice doesn't come along very often. Mokskys Sued nies that distribute books, magazines and other publications. The firms have been accused in several suits of falling behind in payment of their debts. In the most recent suit, the KC firm was accused of owing more than $700,000 to the three creditors. correction Most proponents of a St.

Louis police court reorganization bill testified Wednesday that they did not believe that current judges and personnel were unqualified or incompetent. The Post-Dispatch erroneously reported yesterday that proponents had said that judges and personnel were unqualified or incompetent. mmM ALL STOCK TOMATO JUICE IN STOCK I PAINT I Inn MOTft )PW. 46-Oz Can BRANl PERPLEXED ABOUT WHERE TO GO? See the Sunday Travel ond Resort pages for where to go and how to get there. ST.

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Louis, Mercantile-Commerce Trust Chippewa Trust South Side National Bank, Tower Grove Bank and Trust Southern Commercial Bank and Southwest Bank. The savings associations are Community Federal, Roosevelt Federal, Hamil-tonian Federal, United Postal Savings, Missouri Savings and Pulaski Savings Loan. The two unions are the Carpenters District Council of St. Louis and the Sheet Metal Workers International Association Local 36. as a trial lawyer is believed to be much higher.

-Bell represented himself In today's court appearance. United States District Judge H. Kenneth Wangelin asked him at one point, "Having tried many cases in this court, you understand your right to trial, don't you?" Bell answered yes. Bell is a graduate of the Lincoln University School of Law. He ran unsuc- cessfully in 1959 for the Democratic nomination for Twenty-sixth Ward alderman.

Seeking Firehouse The City of Fairview Heights has filed an application for a federal grant to construct a $500,000 fire station under the Public Works Employment Act of 1976. Fire Department officials say a new station is needed to house more and larger equipment near the St. Clair Square shopping district. 1 ST EL aid urer I it- JT, 17 0 1 i Complete Vivltar dirkroom accessory line tor Mack ind white or color processing ai well ai Kodak chemical! and photographic paper. Enloy a creative hobby with do-it-yourself developing and printing.

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Bell, 51 years old, of the 3000 block of Walton Place, frequently represents defendants in criminal cases in the city's circuit court. He practices in the firm of Bell, Fullwood, Wilson and Harris, 1023 North Grand Boulevard. Payments made to Bell by Representative William L. Clay St. Louis, for work by Bell in the early 1970s were to have been used to prove that Bell earned income in two years in question.

Bell had been indicted also on a charge of failing to file an income tax return for 1971, but that charge will be dropped. The indictment, returned by a grand jury in October, charged that Bell had earned at least $1700 in 1971 and at least $2050 in 1972 but had not filed a tax return for either year. His actual income We'll replace all your windows now. CALL I0W SAVE ON YOUR HEATING BILLS NU-VIEW 1511 Oftve St M. ersHy City, Me.

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