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Id MAR 7 1983 A f-gAR 7 1983Mon Mar- Region 1 STLOUIS POST-DISPATCH 5A Killing Of Girl Prompts Effort Fiscal Rewards Called Ineffective PoliceCourts In Promoting Hiring Of Elderly following incidents were among those reported to police departments in the St. Louis metropolitan area or involved action in one of the area's courts: To Rid Area Of Vacant Buildings if incentives "-were older workers available. Traffic Accidents St. Louis County LOS ANGELES (UPI) Financial incentives, such as tax breaks and government subsidies, are not likely to result in greater hiring of older workers, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University of Southern California. "Incentives, particularly tax-based incentives, may produce financial windfalls for many employers," they said, while having "relatively little impact on employment opportunities "for older persons." The study, carried out by the Andrus Gerontology Center at USC, was based on 145 questionnaire responses from Fortune 500 corporations and interviews with 40 company officials in southern California.

Sally Coberly, the principal investigator and a policy analyst with the university's National Policy Center, said the study's findings pose "a difficult dilemma." "On the one hand, many employers expressed interest in hiring incentives, and some indicated that they would hire The drivers of two automobiles were killed about 5 a.m. Sunday in a head-on collision on Interstate 270. about a half-mile south of Manchester Road in Des Peres. The Highway Patrol identified the victims as Daniel R. Holdegraver, 20, of 2656 Nahn Drive, Oakville.

and Maurice J. Mell, 28, of Dittmer. The patrol said Mell had been driving north in the southbound lanes when his car collided with Holdegraver's auto. Investigators did not know why Mell was driving in the wrong direction. "On the other hand," "many indicated that that would not change their hiring or recruiting practices to take advantage of hem.

Rather, they confidentially admitted that they would claim incentives' for workers they would have hired anyway." Among the incentives discussed in the study were subsidies for training older workers, a waiver of the employer's Social Security contribution for older workers, a tax credit fof the cost of older worker's health insurance, and a plan such as the federal Targeted Jobs Tax Credit Program. r' The latter rewards an employer with about $4,500 over a two-year period for each worker he employs in. certain "targeted" caegories. 1 The study suggested thai an incentive program to spur hiring of older workers should be undertaken "only if it is done in the manner of one cautious step at a time." By Jan Paul Of trwPott-Oitpatch Staff Groups in the northwest St. Louis neighborhood where a girl's headless body was found in a vacant building last week are marshaling their forces to get other buildings occupied, securely boarded or torn down.

A memorial service for the child, believed to be about 10 years old, attracted about 60 area residents to the New Mount Gideon West Baptist Church, 725 Goodfellow Boulevard, on Sunday afternoon. Others joined a protest Saturday afternoon by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) outside the abandoned apartment building at 5635 Clemens Avenue where the girl's body was found in the basement. The Skinker-Page-Union-Delriar (SPUD) community organization plans a meeting Wednesday to discuss the problem of vacant buildings that are accessible from the street. The meeting will start at 7:30 p.m. at the New Mount Gideon church.

"It is bringing the community together," said the Rev. Tommie Ringo, the minister who conducted the memorial service Sunday afternoon. "We hope that we can discourage this from happening again," he said. "Vacant buildings will be watched more carefully and we will try to see that they are boarded up properly." The young girl was found in the basement of a house that had not been boarded. She was clad only in a yellow sweater, and her hands were tied behind her back.

She had been sexually molested, an autopsy showed. Investigators speculate that she was decapitated elsewhere because of the lack of blood at the vacant house. A homicide detective said Sunday that there were no new leads in the case, but that all tips were being I checked. Myrtle Hartfield, of SPUD, said Sunday that the "memorial was very encouraging to those who have been working on this problem." She said the organization had been working for a year with the Land Reutilization Authority to get buildings boarded up. Those buildings that cannot be revitalized should be torn down, Ms.

Hartfield said. Grant Williams, a staff organizer for ACORN, said about 40 people met at 4 p.m. Saturday outside the building where the girl's body was found. The building has since been boarded on the first floor, but the second floor is accessible from the rear. Fires St.

Louis County Oliver Hensler, 62, of the 800 block of Parkfield Terrace in West County, suffered serious burns late Saturday in a fire at his home that police believe was deliberately set. Investigators said the fire apparently had started in the kitchen, which had been doused with lighter fluid. The county bomb and arson unit is investigating. Police said Hensler was home with his family at the time of the fire. Police were called after officials from the Manchester Fire Protection District had said they suspected arson.

SOME ITEMS NOT AVAILABLE AT ALL STORES. PRICES GOOD THRU MARCH 13, 1983. JIJRq JriGndUest Stores fj Burglaries St. Louis dk8mi asms laxesft ooo About $190 was taken in a burglary early Sunday at Hart Drug Co. store at 7415 South Broadway.

A police officer responding to a call nearby discovered the break-in after hearing a burglar alarm at the store about 2 a.m. The burglar entered by breaking the glass in the front door, police said. Clothing worth $870 was taken Sunday from, the car of a man visiting St. Louis from Gates, Ohio. Police said that a burglar had forced open a passenger window.

of a car belonging to Jack Loeser, 61 some time between 1 2:30 p.m. and 2 p.m. Loeser had parked his car at 101 North Memorial Drive. A burglar forced open a window in a residence in the 3700 block of Wyoming Street and stole items valued at $7,840. A television, guns, jewelry, $1 ,000 in cash and $1 ,000 in coins were reported taken from the home.

The incident occurred on Saturday or Sunday at the home of Larry Barton, 40, police said. Merchandise valued at $2,604 was taken from Richardson's Superette, in the 3300 block of Clara Avenue, Sunday. Police said someone had knocked out the rear wall of the store some time between 2 a.m. and 8 a.m. and stolen assorted liquors, candy and a portable radio.

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