St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 31

region ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Jan. I ft, 1983 oH, rtfHcl9 WW or ronchKk. th th. MMS MlwS 30 1 conrmotfl i3 tk $5.5 Million City Seeks Funds For 3 Housing Complexes 0 S(M0HJS program in the "Major Goals" book of Mayor Vincent C.

Schoemehl Jr. In seeking a federal grant, the mayor is trying to find new sources of funds to promote housing in the city. The application for the money probably will be filed with the Department of Housing and Urban Development within the next few weeks. The application seeks funds available in the winter 1983 round of competition for such grants. The application would be the second request for federal urban development action-grant funds for housing.

The city's action grant for the St. Louis Centre mall project included funds to help develop the Columbus Square housing complex on the north side of Cole Street between Hadley and Seventh Streets. City officials said the three projects were selected for the application because they seemed most likely to win federal approval. St. Louis plans to apply for $5.5 million in federal money to help finance 520 units of housing hi three areas downtown, Near North Side and West End.

City officials say the money would be used for three housing complexes that would cost a total of $.14 million. The projects are: Conversion of a warehouse on Washington Avenue east of 14th Street into loft apartments. The apartments would overlook Lucas Park. Expansion of the O'Fallon Place apartment complex near Cass Avenue and 14th Street. The sixth phase of the Pershing-Waterman apartment development.

McCormack Baron Associates is doing the fifst two projects. Pantheon Corp. is developer of the third. Applying for the money is part of the housing TER 3 Development Agencies Plan To Merge Operations Dil7DlTDDCoD Ad effective thru Tuesday Night, loll 1 1 OI LJ l) January 18, 1983 in the City of fVnj fZdlJ JW St. Louis and the counties of St.

cJCV5 rwt2. Louis and Jefferson. yrfv 'Wftf 5-8 LB. SIZES GOLDEN PRAIRIE u' Boneless Ham 3-LBS. OR MORE Pin Renard said that he doubted whether he would' apply for the new position, but that he wanted to; continue working with the agencies.

"I have been! assured I will be retained in the program," he said. The agencies provide financing and assistance for new businesses and those that want to expand. The Planned Industrial Expansion Authority, with a staff of 27, is the most powerful. It can issue tax-exempt revenue bonds, handles applications for tax abatement, has power of eminent domain to acquire property and develop industrial parks and operates the Business Assistance Center. But it sometimes moves slowly because much of what it does requires approval by the Board of Aldermen.

The Industrial Development Authority can issue bonds more quickly but does not have extensive powers. It has one staff member and an attorney on a retainer. 1 The Local Development Co. mostly administers Small Business Administration program and puts together financing packages for the businesses. It uses the industrial expansion authority's staff but has its own directors.

Edwards said competition sometimes existed between the Industrial Expansion Authority and the Industrial Development Authority because both receive 1 percent fees on the bonds they issue. As a result, he said, the agencies sometimes compete for projects to assist. "That kind of competition is not necessary or healthy," Edwards said. "They should be doing what is best for the customer, not what is best for the agency. There have been cases where someone has actually gone through both processes (applying for bonds at both agencies), and that's just not efficient." The proposed merger, Edwards said, also would help eliminate confusion among businessmen who come to the city seeking help but are not familiar with what the different agencies have to offer.

If the proposal is approved, "there would only be one door for someone to go into," Edwards said. By Charlene Prost Of the Post-Dispatch Staff The administration of the three city agencies that assist business and industrial development would be merged under a proposal to be submitted this month to the agencies' commissioners for approval. The combined operation of the agencies would eliminate some competition that exists between two of them and make the agencies more efficient, said W. Lynn Edwards 111, director of development for Mayor Vincent C. Schoemehl Jr.

The agencies are the Planned Industrial Expansion Authority, by far the largest; the Local Development which is operated as part of the Industrial Expansion Authority; and the Industrial Development Authority. All have offices at 1300 Delmar Boulevard. Edwards emphasized that although the agencies would end up using the same staff and eventually having the same directors and commissioners, they would not be merged into one superagency. State law would not permit that, he said. "Our intent is not to change what they do, but to have them work more closely together," Edwards said.

The job of executive director of both the industrial expansion authority and the development company, held by Robert Renard, would be eliminated. But 1 Edwards said Renard could apply for a new position that would be established for overseeing the operation of the agencies. Edwards said, "Bob has done a good job, and we would hope something can be worked out so he can stay and contribute." Renard has been involved with the city's business and industrial development agencies off and on for the last 15 years. He helped establish the Industrial Expansion Authority in the late 1960s and has been its executive director since 1979. Renard said last week that he supported the merger proposal because "when there's a unified effort and the boards are of one mind, it becomes, a smoother operation." r.H I I iU sstit i nunirn i i Fresh Fryer SLICED BACON pk9H.

Leg Quarters HYGRADE ri BALL PARK 1 FRANKS (BEEF FRANKS, KNOCKWURST OR BRATWURST LB. SI .99) LB $1 69 KREY POLISH SAUSAGE ib. Faces 49 Counts In Teen-age Sex Ring QUANTITY RIGHTS RESERVED NONE SOLD TO DEALERS CALIFORNIA Head Lettuce stolen items, including jewelry and appliances. He said that in the search, officers had found sexual i devices and pornographic movies. The chief said several employees of Bradford had told police that a number of girls had accompanied Bradford and several friends to second-floor quarters at the auto agency for sexual purposes.

Pagano said information indicated that the sex ring had been in operation for about a year. When police found the 16-year-old girl, Pagano said, she gave them a statement on which the warrants were based. He said the girl had told officers that she and the others had been given liquor and drugs and then had been induced to have sexual relations with Bradford and his friends. The girl identified some of her friends who had accompanied her. They are being sought by police.

Pagano said about eight girls were involved. He said that several of the girls were of legal age and that no warrants could be issued on their statements. Prosecutor Kehm said the $1 million bond was the highest ever ordered in Jefferson County on a charge other than murder. Kehm said Bradford was charged with first- and second-degree sexual assault and first- and second-degree deviate sexual assault. Police said Bradford had been paroled in 1980 from Leavenworth Federal Prison in Kansas after serving a sentence for transporting a person across state lines for immoral purposes.

Festus police say they have broken a teen-age sex ring involving as many as eight young girls with the arrest of Roy M. Bradford of Herculaneum on 49 counts of sexual abuse. Bradford operates Hilltop Auto Sales in Herculaneum. He was named Friday in warrants issued by Jefferson County Prosecuting Attorney Dennis Kehm, charging him with 49 counts of sexual abuse of a girl who now is 16. She was 15 at the time police say the offenses began.

Festus Police Chief William Pagano said he expected several more arrests of friends of Bradford believed to have been involved in sexual activities with the girls. Pagano said the total number of counts might be as many as 150. Pagano said his officers and detectives from the St, Louis County Police Department were seeking three more girls. He said that the girls were 14 to 16 years old and that police knew only the first names of some of them. Bradford, 41, is being held in the Jefferson County Jail in lieu of $1 million bond, which was set Friday by Associate Circuit Judge Robert Kern.

Pagano said Bradford's arrest was the result of a police investigation of a fencing operation alleged to involve Bradford and several area burglars. The chief said his officers had obtained a search warrant Thursday for Bradford's business in an attempt to recover stolen property. Pagano said his officers had recovered a number of 4 (gDWiUJS SMILED INDIAN RIVER WHITE 8, $188 Bag JUICY SWEET FLORIDA ORANGES FLORIDA JUMBO TEMPLE ORANGES LARGE FLORIDA HONEY TANGERINES ring roH Kodoeotor Film fof Development and Printing and retanw Lb. Bag LI 2 color prints FOR THE PRICE OF ONE ONC TO KEEP ONC TO SHARE Tab, Sprite siesKSoDsi spotlight ESOC3U7D e(F Betty Crocker super Moist Layer (SGrtkT MDlXCBS. Maraarine Quarters 2 Liter Bag 19.5-oz.

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