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1. 1 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL mi ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 3A STATE TO START immy Durante Visiting MERGING COUNTY MAN LOSES LIFE. mm aa rais io ran reach amy AS BOAT UPSETS 's' W' One Swims to Shore, Another Rescued New Cruiser Was Being Tested.

One man drowned and two: thf rs were were spilled i the Mississippi river yesterday when an 18-foot cabin cruiser capsized in rough water near Mosenthein island. The Coast Guard recovered the body of the dead man from the cabin of the boat at 7:30 p.m.,! about two hours after the acri-; dent. Tapers in his possession indicated he was Bobby Dean Smith, 26 years old, of 300.1 Allen avenue. Dismas House "bobber snatches $112 I FROM PENSIONER'S POCKET Robert J. Trice, a pensioner, reported to police he was robbed of $112 yesterday at Nineteenth 11 I -V 1 The men who got ashore safe- i to Florida went display at the ly were Melvin Reckert, 32.

of St. Uui, 700 yesterday: They 3415A North Nineteenth street, were in a shipment obtained bv and John Holloman. 47, of 6621 i Z.k Director (wge P. V.or". Paradise drive, Northwxls.

heller ami llenrv Sanders, cura- Swam to Shore. 'tor of birds. ii. Bv Post jinnitrli Phi)(nsrl'hfr. JIMMY DURANTE, comedian, jokes with THE REV.

CHARLES DISMAS CLARK at entrance of Halfway House before taking tour of the premises yesterday. From left: SONNY KIKG, orchestra leader; Durante; HAROLD GIBBONS, international vice president of the Teamsters Union; Father Clark, and MORRIS A. SHENKER, St. Louis attorney. SEMINARIAN FLOGGED FOR 11 Student From Concordia in St.

Louis Tells of Beating at Tusca-loosa, Ala. Jamos David Mackler, a min-istenal student at Concordia Seminary, reported to the Federal Rureau of Investigation yesterday that he was flogged by several men following an inter, racial group meeting at a church in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Tackier. 24 years old, was student-minister at fie Alabama church when the incident occurred March Ifi. Following the Kim ,0 Pt out of i h'm "'Kht ih UT.ch' nlmdfolded him tmk him to a secluded area where he was ordered to lie on he went on.

they accused him of ng.ng nuigera town am a him across his lowrr back and buttocks, he said. "I really got a good swelling nut of it," he asserted. "I was stiff, and black and blue." After the beating, the men walked him to some railroad tracks, told him to count to 100, lake off the mask and follow tho tracks to town, he said. A complaint has been filed with Ihe Tuscaloosa county grand jury by the district organization of the Lutheran Church -Missouri Synod. Circuit Solicitor Fred Nichol of Tuscaloosa said his investigators were working on tha case.

Dean of Students L. C. Wurff. of Concordia said he had heard of the incident in a telephonn conversation with church officials in New Orleans. The seminary will stand behind Fackler, he asserted.

"He compiled a very excellent record during his two years as a student here, lie Is no fanatic and no crusader," Wurffel said. He was assured, he added, that I ackler was doing nothing to stir up racial tensions. The student, whose wife Is rx- pwting. their tirsl baby, wrk "innc-d for internship to the Uni- versity of Alabama. He is sched- uled to return to the St.

Louis campus in September for his fnayMr of stemmed from a human relations seminar he moderated at the University Lutheran Church at Tuscaloosa Feh. 5. Ihe Kev. Joseph a while minister from Birming- ham, attended the meeting with three Negro members of his church. There were about 12 students at the session.

RACIA 1G AH States Should Have Refuses ror Lx-Lunvicis, Durante days street and Franklin avenue by I Kaufman said he could not es-a man who ran up, grabbed the how many municipalities IrIl simi mi Venice and Holloman was res rnH htr mn nnnlnntilinH mart mail Holloman suffered from exposure: and were taken to separate hos-! i Reckert, a dork worker, gave this account of the mishap: The three men put the boat in the water at the foot of Chouteau avenue about 3 p.m. He then drove to the 10200 block of Riverview drive, while Smith and Holloman took the boat up-river to that area. The three then took the boat into the river to tune the mwor. The boat had been purchased earlier in the day by Reckert's brothor, Don. Gears Failed.

The forward gears unaccountably failed to operate properly so the vessel would not move forward. They turned the boat around and tried to move upriver in reverse. After a few moments, the boat was swamped and turned over. Reckert and Holloman were thrown into the water, but Smith, who had gone into the cabin, was trapped inside. Reckert climbed atop the underside of the boat, which was floating tip- side down, and Holloman clung i to the side.

When the boat neared Merchant's Bridge, offshore from Venice, Reckert jumped and swam toward the bank. He made his way toward a home near the shore. Venice police saw him coming from the river and came to meet him. Taken to Hospital. Reckert told what had happened and asked to he taken home.

Venice police notified the Coast Guard, then drove Reckert to the St. Louis police department. He wa taken from there City Hospital. Meanwhile, Holloman, a meal- i is now "operating in i black" for the first time. the About $220,000 has been spent in purchasing, refurnishing and redecorating the building since the program was undertaken in November 1959, and annual operating costs are about $50,000 a year, he said.

In answer to a question by Durante, the priest said that 622 ex-convicts have been housed an average of six weeks at Halfway-House sice it opened. In addition, 500 more have been helped through finding jobs, he said. At present, there are 57 residents. Father Clark said that results of the program have been "Very encouraging to the present time." Of the more than 1100 men referred to the house, only four have gone back to prison because of felony convictions, he said. About 300 business firms have offered to consider Dismas House men for jobs, indicating wide community participation in the project.

Father Clark noted. He said that many firms are now requesting men with special skills instead of men for common, unskilled laboring jobs. BOOK FAIR HALTS COLLECTION, HAS 275,000 VOLUMES Workers for the 1961 Grcaater St. Louis Book Fair had to call a halt to book collections yesterday. They have more books now than the fair can handle.

Mrs. Charles Peltason, chairman of the drive, said more than 275,000 volumes have been contributed to the event which will be held April 19-22 at the West-roads Shopping Center. "Many of the books offered to us will be picked up after our shelves have been emptied by this year's fair," she said. "We have more volumes on hand than ever before." Proceeds of the fair are given to the Nursery Foundation of St. Louis.

Last year 260,000 books were collected. Mistakes Acid for Whisky, Dies. BEAVER DAM, April 1 if at ''V i Victim ti 1 JAMES D. FACKLKR NEW MONKEYS, BIRDS, SNAKES ON DISPLAY AT ZOO Mnkevs. birds and snakes ac- quired recently on a buying trip An unusua leature ne mon- keys called uak.ri monkevs.

is! tUnt h.1. Uini Mini llll IIIV1-S U1II1 IM 1(11 Two eels, complete with Mf geniraied electric current, were A 6 foot lizard, two giant river oilers, two tortoises weighing more than 50 pounds each and seven types of snakes, some poisonous, are among the other new 7.00 residents. Birds in the shipment include a black-billed mountain toucan, a macaw, four magpie tanagers, two yellow-rumped caciques and a curlew. 'A baby kinkajou, five squirrel monkeys, a tree porcupine and a jaguarumli, a rhinoceros iguana and six lizards round out the list of new acquisitions. 1 96 1 EASTER SEAL APPEAL EXTENDED FOR TWO WEEKS The 1961 Easter Seal Appeal has been extended through the next two weeks to provide further cpjiortunities for collection of funds needed by the St.

Liruis Society of Crippled Children, it was announced yesterday. Donat ions totaling $70,140 were received by the society as of Friday. This figure represents less than one half the yearly bmiRrt of JU.1,000 needed by the society to care for about 600 dis- abled children. cutler was picked up by the oc in. The man took him to the Venice shore.

Holloman was given emergency treatment at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Granite City and taken to Firmin Desloge Hospital. The Coasl Guard found Smith's body after calling a towirpg firm to turn the boat righlside up. Smilh was a clerk for the Motor Cargo Transport Co. 1 i i i I and Thursday Thursday evenings! IE City Mayor Says This Would Obviate1 Granting More Pow-; ers to Council.

Consolidation of St. Louis county's 98 municipalities into a 'few large cities of nm. jviding necessary municipal serv- 1 urs was luvncaiea yesterday by I Nathan Kaufman, mayor of I University City. As a corollary, Kaufman told a reporter, it then would be unnecessary to give additional powers to th St. Louis County Council.

Council leaoVrs are seeking authority to supply some municipal services throuhout the county. "If we continue to attempt to survive under the present framework of 98 municipalities, in the near future we will encourage additional state legislation to give the county government power to perform area-wide functions," Kaufman predicted. His city is the largest municipality in the county. "If we had self-sufficient municipal units, we could take the position that it would be unnecessary to transfer additional functions to the county government," he said. "The area-wide problems would fade to an irreducible minimum.

Control over major traffic arteries and disposal of rubbish and garbage are examples of the few area-wide functions that would remain for the I county government to handle sn0lll(1 De 'ormea under Jiis pro- posal. "1 would say that the determining factor should be simply whether a given area can pro vide all the needed services," he stated. "Certainly the cities with 0nly 750 are nnt doinR ii. r.ven many inai are considerably larger are not doing It either. There are only about five municipalities in the county that are providing all municipal services today." Kaufman expressed the view that consolidation or a cedinR of powers to the county govern ment are the Inevitable alternatives facing county residents.

He pointed out that there Is strong opposition to the latter action, one of the principal ob-pections being that the "town-hall" type of democracy would be lost in a big governmental unit and another being that such a government would, by virtue of its size, be inefficient nd t0 "j'y controlled by self- lsn P'i'cai iniere.M.v A bill to facilitate consolida tions of municipalities is pending in the Missouri Legislature, he pointed out. Under terms of the bill, in the form of a proposed constitutional amendment, the County Council could initiate consolidations, which would become effective if approved by voters in each of the affected corporate areas. It was introduced by Representative F. Neil Aschemeyer of Olivette. Pedestrians Go Underground.

VIENNA, April 1 Wi. Under-ground passageways have been made for pedestrians at busy Schotten crossing in famous Ring avenue. Vienna and wrilr for your htr ropirj to: Soiilhwetern Hearing, Room 329, Olive K' Louis 1, Mia-onri. (Due lo the great demand, r. hid to repuri'lia lhre.

I'lrae, only ihone tho are hard of hearing, inquire. Supply limited.) moss W- BIG CITIES URGED! T5 VY VI' i I to money from a coat pocket and fled. Trice, who is 67 years old and lives at the Liberty Hotel, 733 North Twentieth street, said he had just cashed a check and was on his way to pay a bill Byron, tele-1 Miss Grace phone operator, 3fi00 North Spring avenue, reported to police her purse containing $26 was snatched from her at Eleventh and Olive streets yesterday bv two youths. Police said her empty wallet was found later in Carr Square Park. ENGINEERING EDUCATION UNIT MEETING HERE SATURDAY The annual meeting of the Missouri-Arkansas Section of the American Society for Engineering Education will take place Saturday at St.

Louis University. Speakers will be R. A. Damm- Lrwhlnt accictanf loan rf iYa Washington University School of I Eniiineerine: M. R.

Lohmann of Oklahoma State University, and Sanford N. McDonnell, vice president of project management at McDonnell Aircraft Corp. Engineering educators from St. Louis University, Washington University, University of Missouri, Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy and the University of Arkansas will attend. Horsehair for Israel Seized.

PORT SAID, Egypt, April 1 (AP) A five-ton shipment of horsehair destined for Israel was seized by United Arab Republic customs men today from the British freighter Socotra. The horsehair was for making I hrushes. DIRECTLY Will End Long Practice of Putting Receipts Temporarily in Unaudited Accounts in Banks. By a Special Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, April 1-A new system of depositing tax collections directly into the state treasury is about to be put into effect, Gov.

John M. Dalton announced today. Director of Revenue M. E. Morris will end a long-standing practice of temporarily depositing collections in checking accounts which were unaudited end on which no interest was obtained, the Governor said.

This Missouri Public Expenditure Survey, a privately supported government research organization, found that in the 1958-1959 fiscal year an average balance of $1000,000 in these "temporary" accounts was maintained at Central Missouri Trust Co. in Jefferson City. survey did not include other amounts collected by branch revenue department offices at St. Louis and Kansas City and "deposited in banks in those Called Bad Practice. In.

a report issued in October the research organization said-the temporary depotit system was a bad practice because it violated state laws, had no auditing safeguards and made it impossible to budget state funds accurately. Edward Staples, executive director' of the Missouri Public Expenditure Survey, said his organization found that the temporary depositing of collections by the' Revenue Department violated' all principles of accounting as well as the law. At various times in the past, he said, state officials were mistakenly under the impression their departments were short of money because the temporary ac-: counts had not been entered in the records. State Treasurer Milton Carpenter, who served as revenue director until last January, defended the practice when ques-tioried about it last year. He coMended temporary deposits were necessary to allow checks, money orders and drafts to clear thf originating banks before the proceeds could be turned over to the state.

Pledged by Candidate. board of trustees of the Tublic Expenditure Survey met at St. Louis last spring and adopted a resolution calling on the gubernatorial candidates to adopt "the direct deposit system. Bpth' candidates issued statements saying they would do so. "Governor Dalton reiterated his stand in his Jan.

9 inaugural address and on the same day directed Revenue Director Mor-rife to change the system. Morris said action to do so is delayed because he had gome technical problems to overcome in making the change. The bonds of the treasurer and revenue director had to be aKered, he said, and depositories also had to be changed. WOMAN DEFIES ARMED ROBBER, HE RUNS AWAY An armed robber fled from r.annie's Market, fiROO Crest ave-nne, University City, yesterday after the wife of the owner refused his demand for money, iMrs. Manuel Goldstein told po-life she was talking on the telephone at the checkout counter when the man entered carrying a -shotgun.

He demanded money, but she told him there was none afid he fled from the store. who was behind the meat counter, told police the man drove north in Crsst. Missouri-Illinois Forecasts (except) northwest): Cjenerally fair today; low this rworning in mid 20s in northeast a)id 25 to 35 elsewhere; high in afternoon in upper 40s in northeast to about 60 in southwest; increasing cloudiness tonight. Southern Illinois: Mostly sunny and a little warmer today; low this morning in low 30s in extreme south and in 20s elsewhere; high in afternoon in 50s in extreme south and 45 to 52 elsewhere; partly cloudy and not quite so cool tonight. Weather in Other Cities (fllnerr.itlnm fur hlsh p.m..

for previous 24 hour; low for previmni 12 Mich. 4o US 3 7 4K 4S sn 4:1 72 R7 7 SI nn ti 41 6S Atlanta Bi.mrck, P. Bnflton Brownsville, Tx ChlOURT) Cincinnati Co iimlna. Mn. Denver fietmlt Ft.

worth Citv AnltPlM Viaml N.w QrlPin FUND INTO TREASERY 39 .01 i 7fi .07 fc. ir. 40 34 I Jew York -Oklahoma City 1 open Monday eveningtt open Monday, and Friday A VKRTI.SKM F.N'T Jimmy Durante, television and night-club comedian, took a few hours away from his job of entertaining yesterday to visit the Rev. Charles Dismas Clark's Halfway House at Ninth and Cole streets. Accompanied by Sonny King, an orchestra leader, Durante chatted and joked with residents, looked into out-of-the-way corners, and concluded that "Father Clark has a wonderful program; there ought to be one in every state." Halfway House is also known as Dismas House; named after the Good Thief who died with Christ.

"Words simply fail to describe my impression of this operation," the comedian said. He had heard a great deal about Dismas House and became interested in seeing it for himself, he said. Durante and King were escorted on their tour by Father Clark, Morris A. attorney and a principal backer of the project, and Harold J. Gibbons, in ternational vice president of the Teamsters Union.

Father Clark told the group that the Halfway House program BOONE ROUTE COMPLETION, GASOLINE TAX HIKE URGED Construction of the final downtown leg of the Daniel Boone Expressway and passage of the proposed 2-cent increase in state gasoline taxes are vital elements in furthering progress in downtown St. Louis redevelopment projects, St. Louis area representatives to the Missouri Legislature wer told yesterday. About 30 Representatives and Senators attended a meeting of business and civic leaders at the Chase Hoted sponsored by Civic Progress Downtown in St. Louis Ire, and the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan St.

Louis. G. Wood Smith, chairman of the Chamber's highway committee, said he and several other speakers pointed out the importance of completing the Daniel Boone Expressway to provide a major east-west traffic artery for the downtown area. The gasoline increase bill would provide additional funds for highway construction, be said. Together, the two would speed development of the stadium project, the Mill Creek redevelopment project, and the Mansion House apartment project, Smith said.

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