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PATCH FINAL 2:30 P.M. New York Stocks Pages' 1 9D and 200 VOL. 99 NO. Ill Hoggratrd HOME IIKIJVKRV I I MO a Miwlk Copyright 1977, Si. Laii Pou-DUpatcfc FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1977 15' Carter Promises Fight For Yearly Fuel Tax On Today's Editorial Page Back To The City Editorial 100 Days Of Gov.

Teasdale Editorial LOU WWWl irWl aooT a tTpnAiiTROUS -PLAHT. TUMORS of if Nflfl' it i I I tM ii 1 1 i i Carter said in reply to another question on Zaire that "our best information" was that the Katangan troops had been trained in neighboring Angola by Cuban military personnel. This was believed to be the first official U.S. confirmation that Cubans had trained the insurgents. The President said that the U.S.

had "no direct evidence" that there were any Cuban military personnel in Zaire itself, although he pointed out that the U.S. did See CARTER, Page 6 OTHER ENERGY articles on Pages 10A, 13A, 14A and IB A Senate subcommittee heard testimony yesterday that United States aid to Zaire, which the White House has repeatedly described as nonlethal, might include M-60 tanks and armored personnel carriers. The possibility came to light in questioning of Assistant Secretary ol State Lucy Benson, who is in charge ol security assistance. Amtrak Abandons Ewing Station Plan By JAMES DEAKIN A Washington Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch WASHINGTON, April 22 President Jimmy Carter said today that he would fight "to the last vote in Congress" for his proposal to increase gasoline taxes by 5 cent a year to 50 cents a gallon if the nation did not reduce its consumption of gasoline. Carter said the money collected by the Federal Government if the standby tax increases went into effect would be refunded to every American.

He said families that conserved gasoline would get back more money in refunds than they would pay out in increased taxes. Defending the proposal against strong, immediate opposition in Congress, the President told reporters: "I'm deeply committed to a standby gas tax as part of a comprehensive and well-balanced over-all (energy) program." Carter said also that he did not feel threatened by criticism from former President Gerald R. Ford. However, he appeared to rebuke Ford, saying that the President had promised him that he would express his criticism privately, not publicly. Historically, Carter said, "there have been substantial efforts by former Presidents to give (incumbent Chief Executives) support and counsel and advice" in public and to express criticism in private.

Vice President Walter F. Mondale and other Democratic leaders have assailed Ford for saying publicly that if he had won the election he would have achieved a nuclear arms agreement by this time, and for cirticizing Carter's anti-inflation program. Carter told reporters that it was "highly unlikely" that he would approve the sending of United States tanks to Zaire to help the African nation repel an invasion by Katangan insurgents. However, he said, no decision had been made on the matter. ON TO THE INTERNATIONAL: Kevin Clancy ning Science Fair exhibit.

They will attend the (left) of Parkway West High School, and Carl International Science and Engineering Fair in Werner of Vianney, in front of Clancy's win- May. (Post-Dispatch Photo by Wayne Crosslin) may local Top Award For Study Of Additive By LINDA LOCKHART JONES Of the Post-Dispatch Staff A food additive called ethelene diamine tetra acetic acid may be harmful to chicken embryos and mice, but it proved to be beneficial last night to Carl Werner, a senior at Vianney High School. Werner's two-year study of the drug, commonly known as EDTA, brought him the top award of the Greater St. Louis Monsanto Post-Dispatch Science Fair for 1977. Werner, who is the son of Mr.

and Mrs. Stephen A. Werner of Sappington, received a four-year renewable scholarship to the University of Missouri Medical School at Kansas City and $100 from the OVERTIME RUCKUS: The St. Louis County Police Board has been asked to investigate payment of overtime to some officers for attending a council meeting to support a program backed by the McNary Administration. Page IB IT'S BUSTING OUT ALL OVER: Energy conservation, that is.

School children are being told to keep doors closed in cold weather, Laclede Gas Co. is advising homeowners on insulation, and solar energy seems to be the No. 1 topic in many heating customers' minds. Page IB By ROBERT L. JOINER A Washington Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch WASHINGTON, April 22 In a reversal of a previous decision, the Amtrak board of directors voted today to abandon plans to build a new railroad station at a site west of Ewing Avenue in St.

Louis. The move means that Amtrak now will accept a proposal submitted by Wallace A. Wright a developer for Union Center Venture, and keep its passenger train service at a site near Union Station. The proposed site is the old Railway Express Agency building at Eighteenth street and Clark avenue. The board earlier rejected Wright's offer to renovate a building near Union Station.

Wright's plan was part of a multimillion-dollar hotel and entertainment complex. Senator Thomas F. Eagleton Missouri, and Representative Richard Gephardt St. Louis, commended Amtrak for reversing its decision. punched him several times in the station and had picked Boos up by his hair.

Mowry did not testify at the magistrate court trial, but erlier in an interview had denied hitting anyone' at the police station. He maintained the injuries sustained by Boos and Diederichsen were received in the tavern brawl. Hajek told the Post-Dispatch in February that Sorbello knocked him out of a chair, hit him with a pistol and pointed the gun at his head. "I'm tired of with you," Hajek said Sorbello remarked. "I'll just blow your brains out." A police report on the incident said Hajek fell from the chair.

Sorbello, responding to Hajek's allegations, said in February that be had never punched Hajek, never pointed a pistol at him and never hit with a gun. Maplewood Detective Is Charged With Assault In Tavern Arrests national BOOST FOR THE BENCH: The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved a bill to create 111 new district judgeships and 35 more appeals court posts to help federal courts handle a mounting backlog of cases. Texas and Louisiana would be split off to form a new appeals court circuit under the bill. Missouri and Illinois would each get three new judges. CUTTING LUGGAGE DOWN TO SIZE: International airline passengers will be charged for excess luggage according to the size not the weight of their bags starting June 1.

First-class passengers may carry two bags, each no larger than a total 62 inches (the sum of height, width and depth). Economy-class passengers may carry two bags with total dimensions of no more than 102 inches. world Peter A. Cannito, director of route and terminal planning for Amtrak, said he expected the passenger train company and Wright to sign a contract within 30 to 60 days. "The board has decided to substitute its plans to build at the Ewing Avenue site for the U.nion Station proposal," Cannito said.

"Because of this substitution, we will now go in with Wallace Wright and complete some discussions about engineering matters and sign a contract." Cannito said Wright's proposal would cost about $380,000 more than the Amtrak staion plan at Ewing Avenue. "But we don't feel that will make much difference now," Cannito said. "We feel we will be able to get that back. It's no longer an issue. Part of the reason has to do with the fact that the Wright proposal calls for completing the station work in 12 months, whereas Amtrak had a -16-month building sched- See AMTRAK, Page 6 Sorbello said he had to "subdue" Hajek in the police station and said he may have shoved him.

Pool was charged with killing Brown, larceny suspect, while questioning him on Jan. 8. Brown was shot in the head with a bullet from Pool's .45 caliber pistol. At the time of the shooting Pool told police his weapon had accidentally fired as he was unloading it. But Bobby Duncan, a companion of Brown, said that while questioning Brown Pool had pointed the weapon directly Brown and discharged.

Brown, 39, and Duncan, 23, both mentally retarded, were arrested and taken to the Maplewood police station foi booking on a charge of attempting tc cash a stolen money order, police said. to have a report on the matter from the Bureau of Internal Affairs later today, and would make no comment until then. The reported account by the priest conflicts with an account of the incident by Lee R. Elliott, 27 years old, a student of the University of Missouri at St. Louis.

Elliott had told the Bureau of Internal Affairs and the Post-Dispatch that he saw England being pistol-whipped, punched "and generally mulched" by four or more undercover police officers, including at least two from the St. Louis department. He said he saw the beating after he had pulled his car to the side of Interstate 70 to watch what would happen as a group of men chased another man across the highway, just west of the Bermuda Road overpass. "This report of the priest is difficult to accept," Elloitt said last night. "After I pulled over and saw what was going on I checked out the scene, just out of desperation.

I looked all around and saw no one." Elliott noted that his report of the See BEATING Page 13 thing is a compelling element." Fourth, continuation of the population explosion would result in such terrible socio-economic condition abroad that -revolutions would result. These revolu- LIFTING TURKISH EMBARGO: President Jimmy Carter has asked Congress to lift temporarily an arms embargo against Turkey to permit the shipment of 40 F-4 jet fighters. Turkey already has paid $134,000,000 toward purchase of the planes. Carter has asked that Congress lift the two-year embargo long enough to allow Turkey to pay the remaining $344,000,000 and receive the planes. Priest Said To Clear Police In 1-70 Beating Complaint sports List of winners on Page 4B St.

Louis Medical Society. He was named also winner of the Norman R. D. Jones Award for the outstanding exhibit of the fair, and will represent St. Louis next month at the International Science and Engineering Fair in Cleveland.

Jones, a national, leader in high school science circles, was a founder of the Science Fair and was its general chairman for 20 years. In addition to his other awards last night, Werner placed second in the scholarship division for his exhibit, "The Physiological Effects of the Food Preservative After the award ceremony in Washington University's Fieldhouse, Werner explained that the recent concern over various food additives had spurred his interest in his project. "I really like research and since I had been thinking about going into medicine I thought I would give it a try," he said. Although the work on his project began in his basement, Werner said the bulk of his research was carried out in the laboratories of the University of Missouri at St. Louis under the direction of biology Prof.

Albert Derby. "Dr. Derby gave me a lot of guidance I probably couldn't have done it without him," Werner said. EDTA is an agent commonly used in products such as salad dressing and some canned vegetables to prevent bacteria growth. Werner conducted his experiments by See FAIR, Page 6 Clocks Advance One Hour Sunday Daylight Saving Time begins officially at 2 a.m.

Sunday. Clocks will be moved forward an hour. Daylight time will be in effect until the last week of October when clocks are moved backward for Standard Time. RIVALRY RESUMES: The beer-drinking, shouting and insulting fans of the Chicago Cubs and the traveling gentlemen rooters of the Cardinals will go at it for the first time this season Monday when the Redbirds invade Wrigley Field. The rivalry, which splits southern Illinois cities, goes back a long way.

Page ID business By WILLIAM F. VOGLER Of the Post-Dispatch Staff The St. Louis County Circuit Court grand jury yesterday indicted Maple-wood Police Detective William L. Mow-ry, charging him with the malicious assault of two men arrested in a tavern brawl. The jury declined to indict another Maplewood policeman on an assault charge.

Cleared by the grand jury was Lt. Joseph D. Sorbello, who, like Mowry, had been accused of assault to do great bodily harm with malice. Mowry was the second Maplewood police officer to be indicted by the current grand jury. Former Detective Kenneth W.

Pool was indicted in February for manslaughter in the death of Thomas E. Brown, who was fatally shot at the Maplewood police station last Jan. 8. A spokesman for Prosecuting Attorney Courtney Goodman said the investigation of the Maplewood police department would continue. Mowry was accused of beating Robert Diederichsen, 26 years old, of Webster Groves, and Robert Boos, 26, of Mari-borough Village, on Jan.

17, 1976 in the Maplewood police station after a brawl at Cousin Hugo's tavern, 3233 Laclede Station Road, Maplewood. Boos and Diederichsen were convicted in St. Louis County Magistrate Court last week of assaulting Maplewood Sgt. Hugh K. Nisbet during the tavern brawl.

They are free on recognizance bonds pending sentencing June 1. Sorbello allegedly had beaten James A. Hajek, self-employed Maplewood tree trimmer, after Hajek's arrest for peace disturbance in August 1974. During the recent magistrate court trial Diederichsen said Mowry had told him in the police station that "he was going to kill me." Diederichsen testified he was knocked d6wn several times by Mowry and kicked in the face, back and chest. Diederichsen's brother, Gary, 20, also of Webster Groves, testified at the trial that he saw his brother lying on the floor of the police station.

"He wasn't moving I called his name and be didn't answer," Gary Diederichsen testified. Boos said at the trial that Mowry had train doctors in "advanced fertility management techniques," including sterilization, Dr. Ravenholt said. Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore also participates in the program, called P1EGO (Program for International Education in Gynecology and Obstetrics). Dr.

Ravenholt made his remarks during an interview at the Chase-Park Plaza Hotel. He was in St. Louis to attend the annual meeting of the Population Association of America. Dr. Ravenholt listed four reasons, including the protection of U.S.

economic interests, why the U.S. should lead world population control efforts. First, he said, a decline in the growth rate in poor countries will increase those nations' standard of living. "Resources WHAT EFFECT? President Jimmy Carter has predicted a small but generally positive impact on the economy because of his energy program. Is that an accurate assessment? Page 18D features HOW HOWE THINKS: An interview with Irving Howe, the writer, editor, historian, critic and teacher.

Page 2E STINGY IN CONSUMPTION: The moped, which is a cross between a motorcycle and a bicycle, can get up to 200 miles a gallon and may be one answer to the energy crisis. Page 3E By PAUL WAGMAN Of the Post-Dispatch Staff An account by a witness who says that undercover detectives did not use excessive violence in apprehending a drug suspect is reported to have been given to St. Louis County Police Superintendent G. H. Kleinknecht.

The reported witness's account conflicts with an earlier version by another witness. The new account is said to be that of a Catholic priest who witnessed the pursuit and arrest of the drug suspect, Timothy K. England, along the side of Interstate 70 in Normandy last Jan. 31. The priest's statement is reported to have been given to the county police Bureau of Internal Affairs, which was investigating the incident on the basis of complaints filed by England and another witness who claimed England was severely beaten.

In a telephone interview this morning, Kleinknecht refused to confirm or deny the existence of the second, exonerating, eyewitness account. He said he expected divided by population equals weil being," said Dr. Ravenholt. "We're trying to lower the denominator in that equation." Second, the U.S. has a "moral responsibility to take leadership" because it was largely American medical advances that created the population explosion by lowering the world's death rate.

"We will be in a reprehensible position unless we help these poor countries balance their births and deaths," he said. Third, population control is needed to maintain "the normal operation of U.S. commercial interests around the world." "Without our trying to help these countries with their economic and social development, the world would rebel against the strong U.S. commercial presence," he said. "The self-interest Cloudy US, Goal: Sterilize Millions Of World's Women inside oft I'ajjes Business 18-20D Classified Advertising 7-1 7D Editorials 2B Everyday 1-8E News Analysis 3B Obituaries 7D People 5A Religion 12A Review 4E St.

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Clear to partly cloudy and mild Sunday through Tuesday. Highs for the period will be near 70 and the lows around 50. post Dispatch weather bird ra err Other weother Information on Poo JA By PAUL WAGMAN Of the Post-Dispatch Staff The United States is seeking to provide the means by which one quarter of the fertile women in the world can be voluntarily sterilized, the director of the Federal Government's Office of Population said here yesterday. As many as 100,000,000 women around the world might be sterilized if these goals are met, Dr. R.

T. Ravenholt, the director, said. One of the programs that the U.S. is using in trying to reach this goal, Dr. Ravenholt said, is a federally financed training program for foreign doctors at Washington University Medical School.

The main purpose of the program is to about sterilizing one quarter of the world's fertile women in the following context. Where sterilization services are readily available, about one quarter of the fertile women who are living with men tend to take advantage of them. He cited the U.S. and India as countries where this pattern has been noted. If sterilization services were made See POPULATION, Page 6.