St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 15

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH April 5, ito 15 a Dean Lost Job In Row Over St. Louis TV a FROM PAGE ONE Morgan firm before filing their the Civil Service Commission Greater St. Louis Television 19C6, and his wife bought hers own application. This was" nec- accusing the younger man of Corp.

when it was formed in the next day. essary because of the interest unethical conduct. Fellows, president of the cor January 1966. IT's always the poration, also bought his stock on Jan. 12, 1966.

Statements filed by the cor took place when both Dean and Fellows were employed by Welch Morgan. The source said he understood that when with the firm they prepared a number of work papers In connection with the proposed tele-Vision project. of the firm's senior lawyers in However, Welch's statement the channel 24 permit. to the Civil Service Commission The timing of both Stanley's actually was not made until a letter and of Welch's modifica- year and a half after Dean had tion of his position appears sig- left the law firm. The occasion nificant.

Both came shortly be- was an inquiry conducted by fore February 1969 when Dean the Civil Service Commission was associate deoutv attornov uhn nan imrW rnnclH. FCC records contain a financial statement filed by Dean and. his wife showing their net worth in 1966 to be in excess of $941,500. At the time Dean was earning only $7500 a year at the Welch Morgan firm. poration with the FCC showed that it had received an approval from the St.

Louis County National Bank to bor- However, he emphasized that DELUZE WINE row $750,000 to buy or construct ill Ttffinz I MS fifths station flnH hrnndrasHnp far-ili, m- i. I mere was I improper general of the Department of eration for appointment as as-about these actions. He pointed Justice. nrate Hircrtnr nf Hi National jne nei worm nguic ihliuucu jeJ urn mat iney uiu noi me an ac- The White House last night, in Commission on Reform of Fed- approximately jzja.uuu in siock Welch's firm, Summit Televi tual application until about a response to questions about An- eraI Criminal Laws. Dean was and real estate that Mrs.

Dean sion had received a con- niumii uer ine law derson's disclosures of Deans named to this Dost in 1967 and. vnprtH tn rBriiv from her struction Dermit for its station firm, nor had they made their loss nf his first law inh. made held it until 1969 when he vas Breat uncle1, estate which had issuecl by the FCC in 1965 for I named an associate deputy at- Channel 30. ATTENTION! plans publicly known when still available to reporters copies of employed by Welch Morgan. Stanley's letter upholding He expressed belief that the Dean's conduct as "extremely preliminary work had been honorable, conscientious, care- torney general.

rnn Later, however, Summit This estimate of value was con- Asked whether President asked the FCC to allow it to 151 CIGAR-SMOKERS change to Channel 24, for rea ful." Compare with any 1 54 cigar you I hov ever smoked. sons that are not spelled out in the FCC records. The request was granted on Dec. 17, REZAGOS 14 done on their own time. However, FQC records show that the Greater St.

Louis TV Corp. had actually been formed in January 1966, the month before Dean left the Welch Morgan firm. The records showed also that Dean and 1965. SEMKOV VODKA 299 FIFTH Gerald Warren, deputy White House press secretary, told the Post-Dispatch that both Stanley's letter and Welch's modification of position were written at Dean's specific request before he was named to servative, the statement said. Dean's wife was the daughter of Mrs.

Thomas C. Hennings the wife of the late Democratic Senator from Missouri. The young couple was divorced about three years ago, and Dean remarried last fall. Mrs. Hennings owned 10 per cent of the stock in the Greater St.

Louis television firm's venture, FCC records showed. Nixon was aware of the incident In Dean's career, Warren told the Post-Dispatch, "I don't know if the President ever knew anything about it." However, he added: "It is fair to say there was complete information in his file that, he had done nothing unethical or improper." Warren said that Dean came Thus when Dean purchased stock in Greater St. Louis Tele vision Channel 30 was available for licensing his first wife, the former Karla the high Justice (Department Hennings of St. Louis, bought in st His corporation was granted construction permit on June MARTIN MILLS Straight Whiskey to the attention of the White cent of the stock in the new nWafren 8a'd he thuBht firm rwr, Dean's request was made in 6, 1966. Work on the project the financial statement dis- House through his work on the tnat tne Deans had stock continued until April 1968, when u-iU thi, 5 tiuscu cIosed tary of the corporation at that -j-.

811 01 016 ")mmlsslon Ior Ke- holdings of their own worth Greater St. Louis Television time. Fellows was shown as an intermediary. An inter- forming Criminal Laws. Dean ahmlt MM 000.

alon with land Com. told the FCC it was sell- view with Warren by a Post is J4 years old. in Florida valued at $2000. ing all its stock to Thomas M. Dean and his wife were two Dean purchased his tock in Evans of New York City for OLD THOMPSON SCHENLEY GIN Dispatch reporter produced the following dialogue: Weller's CABIN STILL Greatest cigar value we ever had.

oi to original stockholders in the corporation on Jan. 12, $34,500, Q. Why did Dean ask Taptich to ask Welch to revise his state Bourbon ment? A. Because he (Dean) knew the charge was wrong president. Welch subsequently watered down his complaint that Dean's role in the television application constituted unethical conduct.

In a letter to the Civil Service Commission dated Oct. 29, 1968, the Washington lawyer said that "upon reflection and a further consideration of the cir-cumstances attending Mr. Dean's departure, I feel my Sept. 8, 1967, description may have been an overstatement. A more apt characterization of Mr.

Dean's departure would A. Did he want the charge 399 FIFTH amended because he was apply ing for a Government at that time? talk A. I don't know whether he was applying for a job at that time, but it's something you don't want on your record at anv time, especially if it be to describe it as having re suited from a basic disagree- wrong- USHER'S Q. Did the same intermediary ment over law firm policies re ask Stanley to write his letter VENDOME CANADIAN ANCIENT AGE KY. TAVERN 86 CANADIAN "8" RESERVE OLD CROW 86 YELLOWSTONE 86 also? A.

I believe so. Yes. garding the nature and scope of an associate's activities." Accounts of the circumstances surrounding Dean's de OLD STITZEL 6 year old Bourbon Warren said he believed that Dean and Taptich were at law parture from the law firm var- Oshsr's GrsQn Strips The original light Scotch since 1853. BEEFEATER London Distilled DRY GIN ied. One former associate said school together and that Tap- that Dean was told to leave and tich knew both Welch and was not even given time to col- Stanley.

lect his personal effects Q. So all this correcting was BENCHMARK BOURBON hf2Eru1 at Dean's request? A. Sure. Another associate said that although there was a dispute and bitterness "I'm not sure whether you would characterize John's leaving as a mutually agreeable resignation or an out Warren emphasized that all of the material concerning Dean's departure from Welch's firm was in his record prior to right dismissal. shnrtiu aftpr wlrh' (VtnW his joining the White House 1968 letter modifying his earlier staf' 1970 as counsel Blended SCOTCH WHISKEY 399 FIFTH fnmnlaint aoainst Dxan nnnlh.

me rresiaent. 'tJ -o Warren cited Stanley's letter! er letter defending Dean's con 1. scmi upholding Dean's conduct as 8-TRACK CAR CASSETTE JACK DANIELS GREEN OLD FITZGERALD 86 BOURBON COATE'S PLYMOUTH GIN evidence that the lawyer had PLAYING CARDS CAR PLAYER CONVERTER done nothing improper. He 1 duct appeared. Dated Jan.

10, 1969, it came from Stanley, the attorney for Dean's group in its successful application for a television license in St. Louis. called Stanley "an impartial DECK flf Ki independent, reputable commu ask ran TK LOW LIMIT 3 PLEASE nications lawyer." Warren did In a letter to Edward P. Tap- Olson pnica Save tich, another Washington law- not note that Stanley had, yer, Stanley said he had been effect, been Dean's lawyer in TAPE BONUS approached by Fellows and the television venture as coun am in net 3Tp! HARVEY'S SCOTCH Dean in connection with their sel for the Greater St. Louis 3 television plans.

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