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On Today's Editorial Page Still Tied To Thieu: Editorial A Chance for Evaluation: Editorial LI FINAL Stock Market Down Closing Prices Pages 7B and 8B VOL. 95 NO. 91 1913, SI. Louli Post Dlnpateli THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1973 10c Horn PHIvery $4.80 Month POST SPATCH ood.Outloo Bo ri -1 gnter Wi Crestin Ms Jy )7 Sv, aaaw a I I "i 1 mEEDSXB jf'- -r rTrr' Total flood damage in Missouri from both the flooding Missouri and Mississippi will total about $34,091,000 with 1,160,800 acres under water in the state. Damage prevented by new Hood walls and levees built since the 1951 flood totals about $221,700,000, according to Corps of Engineers computer.

About $150,400,000 of that figure is in the urban areas of St. Louis and East St. Louis. ''If the flood walls and levees weren't there, the Hall Street Truck terminals would be plenty wet today," said an employe of the Corps of Engineers. Flood fighters in the St.

Loui TURN TO PAGE 5. COL. 1 souri River, which is in the Kansas City District. Flood damage in eastern Missouri and western Illinois will total about $41,000,000 compared with $31,200,000 damage to property and crops in the 1947 flood and $23,000,600 damage in the 1951 flood. More than 1,000,000 acres of the two states are under water.

The Corps said Illinois damage from the flooding Mississippi would be about $13,300,000 with 664,000 acres inundated. Missouri water damage will be about $27,000,000 with 544,000 acres under water. Along the Missouri River, the Kansas City district said that 616,780 acres were inundated. Expected Missouri River damage will be $6,391,000. when it comes out.

It looks better than it has in a long time." Workers who had toiled for the last several days in driving and then chilly misting rain relaxed today as they waited for the Mississippi to crest at an expected 40.3 feet tomorrow at St. Louis. For the first time in several days, no serious problems with levees were reported. The St. Louis District of the Corps of Engineers i a new computer prediction of flood damage based on the expected 40.3 Mississippi River crest at St.

Louis. The district runs from south of Hannibal to Cairo, and includes the tributaries except for the Mis Flood waters from the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers rolled today under sunny skies that could if there is no more rain herald the beginning of the end for the flood of 1973. The Mississippi fell 1.5 feet at Quincy, 111., Hannibal, and Louisiana, in the 24-hour period ending at 8 a.m. today. The Missouri began a long flat crest at Hermann.

A flat crest means no sudden water rise or fall. "We'll have fair weather through the weekend at least," said Albert Bertram of the St. Louis river district of the National Weather Service. "There still is very high water but its amazing what the sun will do iMMagl Further Rise In Price Index WASHINGTON, April 5 (AP) Wholesale prices soared 2.2 per cent in March, posting for the second consecutive month the sharpest climb in 22 years, the Government reported today. The surge in prices, led by a 4.6 per cent jump in the wholesale costs of farm products and processed foods, offered no letup in consumer prices at the retail level for at least the next several months.

It also forecast further troubles for President Richard M. Nixon's efforts to curb inflation. Industrial commodities shot up 1.2 per cent last month, the steepest rate since January 1951. Wholesale prices of finished manufactured goods jumped 2.1 per cent, a rate HIGH RISE WARNING: The St. Louis Police Department recently received six new patrol cars with flashing red lights and directional signals mounted on roof-anchored scissors jacks.

The cars are used for traffic control and are most in evidence at accident scenes when the flashing lights are elevated to their full 15-foot height. (Post-Dispatch Photo by Ken J. MacSwan) i s.J i it.vay ii it jv ft3, 1 v- 1 Law Firm Fired Dean In 1 966 In Dispute Over TV Station Here position ith the Wash-aw firm of Welch from a irgton I By THOMAS W. OTTENAD A Washington Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch WASHINGTON, April 5 President Richard M. Nixon's chief legal counsel lost his first job as a lawyer in a dispute involving a St.

Louis television station that led to an accusation of "unethical conduct" against him. Presidential attorney John W. Dean III lost his job with a Washington law firm, whose senior members held a permit for constructing a St. Louis television station, when it became known that Dean and others planned to seek a license for a competing station in the city. The White House came to Dean's defense today, asserting he had done "nothing unethical or improper" and blaming the incident on a disagreement between Dean and his former employer in which there appeared tu be mitigating circumstances on Dean's behalf.

This is the third time in less than two weeks that the White House has come to the support of Dean, who has been linked to the Watergate bugging scandal. Ten days ago Mr. Nixon personally defended Dean, denying allegations that his legal counsel had prior knowledge of the bugging and expressing "absolute and total confidence" in Dean. The loss of Dean's first job as an attorney in February 1966 is disclosed in confidential files of the Civil Service Commission. A form dated Aug.

30, 1967, which was disclosed first today by colli i Jack Anderson, giv es details of Dean's departure unmatched since August 1951, the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor statistics said. Nearly everything in the government's wholesale price index was' up, with processed foods rising 4.6 per cent on a seasonally adjusted basis, the highest rate on record. Big increases were posted for livestock, poultry, eggs, petroleum products, lumber and various textile products. The continued rise in prices seems virtually certain to bring further pressure on the Administration to clamp tighter controls on the economy. Mr.

Nixon last week put a ceiling on meat prices but organized labor and Democrats in Congress are pressing for even further controls. The House Banking Committee has approved a bill to roll back prices, interest rates and rents to the levels of Jan. 10, the day before Phase 2 economic controls ended. The bureau's gloomy report came on the fifth day of a nationwide consumer boycott against meat, but the figures did not reflect the effects of the drive. The 2.2 per cent jump in the wholesale price index for March works out to an annual rate of 26.4 per cent.

The index for farm products and processed foods moved up at an annual rate of 53.1 per cent from December 1972 to March, after rising at a rate of 30.1 per cent in the previous three months and at rates of 17.4 and 4.8 per cent in the quarters that ended in September and June respectively, the government said. For consumer finished goods, the annual rate of increase in the December-to-March period was 21.7 per cent compared with a 5.9 per cent for the previous three months. The wholesale price index, when adjusted for normal seasonal fluctuations, also moved up 2.2 per cent in March, the highest climb since January 1951. On that same basis, farm products and processed foods were up 4.7 per cent in March, the highest since the 5.2 per cent jump last December, while TURN TO PAGE 5, COL. 2 St.

Louis. Records filed with the FCC' show that Dean was secretary and a 10 per cent stockholder in the corporation. A license for this channel previously had been held by Continental Summit headed by Welch. Under a realignment of television channels, Welch's firm was shifted to channel 24. Ii held this permit at the time Dean's group filed for Channel 3G.

Welch, whose firm never did put a station on the air in St. Louis, refused to discuss Dean's dismissal. A former employe of the Welch firm and a i of Dean told the Post-Dispatch that Dean and Boyd Fellows, of St. Louis, also associated with the Welch firm, had with each other and with Washington attorney Earl R. Stanley about plans for seeking a television license in St.

Louis. The source told the Post-Dispatch that the conversations TURN TO PAGE 15, COL. 1 Wounded Knee BY THE WATER'S EDGE: Paul Spelbrink, city director of streets (center), gesturing toward the water in the 3800 block of Tesson Court. Between the boy (left) and Spelbrink are Mayor Alfonso J. Cervantes and Gov.

Christopher S. Bond. (Post-Dispatch Photo) Flood Insurance Lacking: Cilv Failed To Act On U.S. Program Morgan. The form, signed by Vincent B.

Welch, senior partner in the firm, answered "yes" to the question, "to your knowledge has (Dean) ever been discharged or has he resigned from any employment after being told his conduct or work was not satisfactory." As "reason for discharge or resignatio Welch gave "unethical conduct." To a question requesting details, Welch wrote: "While employed by this firm, applicant undertook work, unbeknownst to us at the time, in direct conflict with the interests of the firm and a client thereof." According to the Civil Service Commission records, Dean left the law firm on Feb. 4, 1966, after having worked there for six months as a junior associate. On Jan. 12, 1966 while still employed by Welch Morgan Dean participated in the founding of a new corporation that intended to build a television station in St. Louis that would compete with one being planned by his employers.

At the time Dean joined this venture, his employers had been trying for two years to get their St. Louis project off the ground; Dean's new Greater' Stj Louis 1. Television filed an applicatiqn with the Federal. Comrnumcatians Bond Names 2 More To Bi-State Board tion had been discussed but no action take.i. ''We most certainly will apply now," Dutle said.

The plight of those such as the Harry 'Scatizzi Jr. family clearly illustrates the netd for the city's action. Mrs. Scatizzi said that she and her husband could not begin to estimate the damage to their nine-year-old home at 3830 tion to apply for flood insurance eligibility for its citizens who live in unincorporated areas. But St.

Louis, almost five years after the flood insurance program was established, has still not applied. Mayor Alfonso J. Cervantes, when questioned yesterday, did not appear to be familiar with the program. An aid, Robert Duffe, said later that applica TURN TO PAGE 13, COL. 1 By SALLY BIXBY DEFTY Of the Post-Dispatch Staff About 100 St.

Louis home owners will have to pay for re-pairing flood damage out of their own pockets because the city neglected to take the action that would have made them eligible for federally subsidized flood insurance. Under the 1968 National Flood Insurance Act, residents of any municipality or county that has applied to the Federal Insurance Administrator and demonstrated that it has instituted a positive program for flood con-. trol can obtain flood insurance at a low rate. In addition to St. Louis, many other flood stricken cities in Missouri and Illinois failed to take advantage of the federal insurance program.

St. Louis County was one of the first public bodies in the na Coast Guard Reserves Called League and Mrs. Phillips is active in the Women's Crusade Against Crime. Douthit has teen executive director of the Urban League since 1964 and' served also in that post from 1954 to 1959. He is on the board of the YMCA and-a board member of the St.

Louis Black Council. has a master's degree from the University of Illinois. Mrs. Phillips is a member of Agreement WOUNDED KNEE, S.D., April 5 (AP) A government negotiator said today that an agreement had been reached with militant Indians who took over Wounded Knee 37 days ago. Assistant United States Attorney General Kent Frizzell said the agreement would be sidnpH Iflfpr in th rtav with William E.

Douthit, a St. Louis Urban League officer, and Mrs. Jackie Phillips, a South Side neighborhood leader, were appointed today by Gov. Christopher' S. Bond to the Bi-State Development Agency Board of Commissioners.

The- action came in the face of protests from five Missouri members of the board dismissed by Bond, who contend that the Governor has no legal power to remove them. Douthit, a black, is executive director of the St. Louis Urban Fair, Cool Official weather forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Gener patrol the rivers and assist in reserve and sandbapging operations. A Coast Guard spokesman here said about 55 men at a time would be kept in the field.

The men probably will be needed for about 10 days, he said, though that may vary with conditions. President Richard M. Nixon today authorized the first peacetime a 1 1 -u of Coast Guard reserves to relieve and supplement men already in the field on flood duty. About 143 men one unit stationed at Peoria, 111., and two units from St. Louis are to report for duty at St.

Louis by 6 a.m. Saturday to Compton Heights' N.eignborv Commission on March 18,. 1966, a month arter Dean. Had' lett leaders of the armed American Welch The appKca- Indian Movement forces who tion sought a license; to operate have occupied the village a television station on -ultra- sjnce the night of Feb. 27.

high frequency channel 30 in New Printing Process At Post-Dispatch Second Emergency SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (AP) A motorist protesting a citation rushed into Judge Tom Dandurand's traffic court recently and asked that his case be heard immediately. "I'm double-parked right outside the Hall of Justice," he pleaded. ally fair and cool tonight, I Rivera I low 40; sunny tomorrow, high in nooa Association 'art! ws. a leader in the unsuccessful r-am-paign about a year ago 'to block construction of a highway overpass on Compton Avenue at Interstate 44.

Her husband, William, is a lawyer. Although Bond previously announced the dismissal of the five Missouri members last week and the appointment of three new members prior to today, the five have stood firm against leaving the posts. "We have agreed to stay and see what happens," one of the five said yesterday. "We are not accepting i (Bond's) demand." In a joint statement, the deposed commissioners said they "unanimously declare that it is their responsibility" and their decision to continue to serve." Citing the United States and Missouri constitutions and the interstate compact creating Bi-State, the five "A legal duty was imposed upon them to serve to the best of their ability for the terms fixed by the Legislature and, further un- TURN -TO PAGERS, COL. 1 the mid to up news index per 60s.

Ex tended outlook through n-day: Cold Sat 52 Pars Editorials Everyday Dunlap Industrial Boulevard, Maryland Heights. Four offset presses have been installed at that plant and are being merged into the company's newspaper production. The plant's location will facilitate quicker newspaper delivery to customers in St. Louis and St. Charles counties and outlying areas.

The most mod-e application of computer technology makes the plant one-of-a-kind in the newspaper publishing business. Ernest L. Caplinger, production manager for the Pulitzer Publishing said today that the switch to new processes would be in two stages. Later this month, the company starts using its offset presses Customers may have experienced variations in the delivery times of their newspapers another result of installing the new processes, he said. "The Post-Dispatch is the largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States to convert from letterpress printing to offset and from a combination of hot metal and cold type to cold type alone," Caplinger said.

"A completely smooth operation of the press conversion will take at least a month to achieve." The Globe-Democra1: also will be printed at the new plant. Caplinger noted that the Washington Star-News converted to cold type earlier this week and the resulting new process problems forced cancellation of the paper's first edition. At a future date, he said, the company will discontinue the combined use of hot metal and cold type in producing newspapers. In the transition period, Post-Dispatch Everyday Section is being produced only by cold-type process. Because the various new processes involve many technical changes and additional worker skills, Caplinger said, unavoidable production problems have resulted.

Some typographical errors are being made. Other problems involve achieving satisfactory reproduction of both pictures and print on a newspaper page. In order to make the print as legible as possible, the clarity of photographs sometimes must be sacrificed, Caplinger said. The Post-Dispatch is switching to radically new production and delivery methods to provide a product greatly improved in legibility and to provide for much quicker delivery. The- new printing processes involve use of cold type and offset 'presses' in combi-natibru oI ce superior reproduction of pictures and more exact duplication- of type faces for earier reading.

The so-called cold type uses photographic processes rather hot metaJ. In a photographic process is to send electri- cal. i I s.e from the main plant at 900 North Twelfth Boulevard to make newspaper page plates at afnewspfast at 11700 urday and Sun-aay, lows 28 to Financial MOD 6-SB sc 4A Obituaries 35, highs near 50; warmer with, chance for rain1 by People Sports SD 5D Monday, lows 33 to 45, high in the 50s. othir Weather Information on I'np i Weeders and Seeders.