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inuricr sUcuiswednesday 3A Feb. 29, 1834 SI LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Re p. Young Will Lead Forum Here On Hazardous Waste City's Death Rate From Flu On Record Pace VS. Rep. Robert A.

Young. D-Maryland neigno. wm oe ine cnairman of the 1984 Midwest Conference on Hazardous Waste, which win be held Monday at the Henry VIII Inn In Bridseton. Young said the conference was being held to stimulate discussion oetween industry representatives and government officials and to help fashion a framework for solving the nation's nazaraous-waste prooiems. Speakers will include Lee M.

Thomas, assistant administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Joel S. Hirschhorn. senior associate with th fomi Office of Technology Assessment; and Monte Throdahl senior vice president of Monsanto Co. The conference is sponsored by Monsanto, By Roger Signor Of ttw Post-Oispatch Stift The death rate here so far this year from influenza and pneumonia has increased by nearly 30 percent over last year's rate.

City health officials say that if the current death rate for these illnesses continues, this year will set a grim record. From Jan. 1 through Friday, 64 people in St Louis had died from Influenza or its frequent and deadly complication, pneumonia. Forty-nine people had died over the same period lastear. In St Louis County.

120 deaths from the two illnesses had occurred through Monday. But that number could increase after recent death certificates are tabulated, health officials say. For the same period last year, 147 people had succumbed to pneumonia and Influenza in the county. "In the last two years, the (flu) deaths have been sigificantly higher than in previous years," said Mildred Kaufman, recorded in 1980 and 1979. respectively.

In St Louis, 44 of the 64 deaths occurred among people 65 or older, said William B. Hope Jr, the city's health commissioner. The 64 deaths are three more than the fatalities from Influenza and pneumonia for the same period in 1981. when St Louis suffered one of its most severe winters. Prolonged cold and Influenza virus frequently pair up to cause high death rates among the elderly, Hope said.

Earlier this month, a flulike illness singled out teen-agers adults in many St Louis County schools, a Post-Dispatch survey showed. The illness was the cause of absentee rates as high as 25 percent In some schools, officials said. On Monday, the state's laboratory had confirmed five Influenza infections from cultures taken from St Louis area patients. Four were city residents and one was from St Louis County. At this point in 1983, 33 people in the over- 65 age group had died from influenza' or pneumonia, Hope said.

Deaths among those 65 and older from influenza and pneumonia have risen steadily since 1 979, he said. For all of 1979, 183 people died; 171 to 1980; 256 in 1981; 249 in 1982; and 242 last year, Hope said. If this year's deaths continue at their current rate, this year will see a record number of fatalities. Unfortunately, it's too late for people to get shots of influenza vaccine, he said. i "Laboratory tests already have confirmed the presence of two separate strains of Influenza circulating in the community" Hope said.

"So the flu is firmly established here but it takes several weeks after a flu shot for people getting it to build up sufficient Immunity to prevent the illness," he said. "If elderly or chronically ill people do get the flu, they need to take special care, such, as bed rest and good nutrition," he said. "If they have fever, they should see a doctor." St.Louis City Deaths From Influenza And Pneumonia ALL AGE 65 DEATHS AND OVER 197S 258 183 1980 233 177 1981 347 2511 1983 331 249 1983 332 242 1984 64 44 (Jnl- FP24) director of county Health Department's health data center. For example, 108 and 91 deaths were Mamncsroai ine, Technology. Union tieeinc uj.

ana Mcuonneu Douglas Corp. Public Meeting Set For Saturday On Master Plan For Forest Park A public meeting to discuss a master plan proposed for Forest Park will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday at 5050 Oakland Avenue. The forum is being planned by Alderman Daniel J. McGuire, D-28th Ward, who represents the area, the Board of Aldermen and the city's Community Development Agency.

Details of the master plan will be presented, and McGuire and Treasurer: Vendors Lag On Taxes others will be available to answer questions. A slide show about the history of parks in St Louis also will be given. Meanwhile, a meeting on a plan to establish a working farm in the park adjacent to the St Louis Zoo was canceled Tuesday by Alderman Albert "Red" Villa. D-l Ith Ward and chairman of the aldermanic Legislation Committee. Villa has rescheduled the meeting for next Tuesday at 10 a.m.

The bill being considered by the committee would cede about 13 acres of the park for the educational farm. The Zoo occupies about 83 of Is the park's 1,293 acres. Ralston Purina Co. would donate $2 million to establish the exhibition farm, which would be stocked with cows, sheep, pigs, horses and poultry. i US i.

Tmmm0l 7 Vv- By Gregory B. Freeman Of th Pott-Dispatch SUff City Treasurer Larry Williams was to testify today that many of the vendors who sell wares around Busch Memorial Stadium have not paid city earnings taxes. Williams said he would tell members of the aldermanic Legislation Committee this morning that the vendors had paid "only a nebulous amount" of their earnings taxes. Theodore Schwartz, an attorney for the vendors, said his clients had paid all of their taxes. The Legislation Committee is to discuss a proposal by Civic Center Redevelopment Corp.

for a $1 million tree-lined plaza and entertainment area around the stadium. Civic Center, a subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch Cos. owns the stadium. The proposal hinges on the banning of individual vendors from around the stadium. The city bars vendors lm many parts of the downtown area, but allows them on the sidewalks around the stadium.

The corporation has offered to hire the vendors as part of Sportservice which now runs concessions inside the stadium. Under the proposal, Sportservice also would provide services on the outside, using roving carts. Daniel M. Goodyear, president of Sportservice, based In Buffalo, N.Y., said that because some vendors probably had bought some goods for the 1984 baseball season, Sportservice would buy all licensed merchandise from such vendors "at prices which Sportservice would ordinarily pay for such items." He said novelty vendors average $50 to 60 for each event, which translates to hourly earnings of $10 to $12. Williams said Tuesday that he had been asked by representatives of Civic Center to testify before the committee about the taxes paid by the vendors.

Although he was uncertain Tuesday about the exact amount Williams said that "only a nebulous amount of taxes had been received from the vendors." Schwartz said the vendors were paying their share of taxes. Organizers Expect 1,000 Doctors At Diabetes Session Here April 1 1 About 1,000 doctors are expected to attend an American Diabetes Association symposium on diabetes treatment April 1 1 at Kiel Auditorium. The project is part or a nationwide, $4 million educational project for doctors who treat people with so-called "non-Insulin dependent" diabetes. About 100,000 St Louis area residents suffer from this form of diabetes, the most common, association officials say. Non-insulin dependent diabetes usually strikes overweight adults.

It has symptoms less severe than "juvenile diabetes," which requires treatment with insulin. But non-insulin diabetics also can develop heart problems and stroke. Often, their disease can be controlled by weight reduction and diet To keep doctors up to date on the treatment and detection for this form of diabetes, the association's educational program will be started in 25 cities, involving a total of 25,000 doctors. Dr. Thomas F.

Frawley, professor emeritus of medicine at St Louis University Medical School and president of the association's St Louis affiliate, will head the faculty for the St Louis symposium. -r Robert C. Holt Jr.Post-Dispatch Rush: Human Blood A team from the 867th Medical Detachment of the National Guard in Jefferson City unloading a shipment of blood platelets for SL Louis University Hospitals Tuesday. The team had brought in the supply by helicopter from the University of Missouri at Columbia. Officials in the St.

Louis area have issued an appeal for blood donations, which have fallen off because of the snowstorm. Give Firms Credit: No Surcharges Planned Here companies "a cost of doing business and accepting cards a service to our customers." Herb Balaban, owner of Balaban's, said his customers "would climb all over me if 1 1 tried something like that." Snowbank Is Beginning Of Troubles For Driver Tuesday morning was a tough time to have your car slide into a snowbank, especially if the car Is a 1984 Cadillac. And especially if the Cadillac was stolen the night before. But that's the situation an 18-year-old St. Loulsan found himself in at 4:30 a.m.

In the 5000 block of Wabada Avenue The man onv Dr. Paul Manske Is Appointed To New Surgical Professorship Dr. Paul R. Manske, chief of orthopedic surgery at Washington University School of Medicine, has been appointed the first Fred Reynolds Professor of Orthopedic Surgery. The professorship honors Dr.

Reynolds, who was a longtime team physician for the St Louis football Cardinals and is now professor emeritus of orthopedic surgery at Washington University. Donors to set up the professorship included the Cardinals, the Anheuser-Busch Charitable Trust, the National Football League Charities, Inc. and friends and former patients of Dr. Reynolds. Dr.

Manske also is chief orthopedic surgeon at Barnes Hospital and a staff physician at St Louis Children's Hospital and Jewish Hospital. He Is also director of hand surgery at Shriners Hospital. his name as Maurice E. Graham of the 5700 block of Cates Avenue. Officer Jeffrv Kowalski of the Deer strict By Sally Bixby Defty Of the Poit-Dispatch Staff Relax, all you St Louisans who dine out on credit cards, use them to get silver replated, rent costumes, hire a plumber and buy jewelry, eyeglasses, autos and mattresses.

An informal survey of businesses indicates that credit card users here will not be penalized by the expiration Monday of a federal law. The law forbade retail stores from charging consumers a fee for credit card use a fee that would compensate the business for the charge it must pay to the credit card company. Businesses contacted here this week said they didn't intend to add the surcharge. Businesses that take MasterCard and VISA pay the companies fees that range from 2.25 percent to 3.5 percent of the purchase price based on the business's volume and the average price per sale. American Express charges businesses 4 percent of the price of each purchase for which its card is used.

Dave Munganast a Honda dealer, said he had sold both motorcycles and automobiles on all three credit cards. Credit card charges account for between 15 percent and 20 percent of his service and parts business. "But we're not going to put on a surcharge," he said. "It's like Famous-Barr and Eagle Stamps you do it as a convenience to your customers." Proponents of reinstating the federal ban, like Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, say that working people are dependent on their credit cards and that nationwide imposition of a surcharge of 5 percent would cost consumers 1 0 billion a year.

Those who favor surcharges include the Consumer Federation of America and Sen. William Proxmire.D-Wis. Proxmire says: "There isn't any question that when you use a credit card there is an additional cost to the merchant and he passes that cost along so that all consumers have to pay more." He said it was only fair that those who use the credit cards should pay for the cost of processing them. Restaurateurs here were for the most part horrified at the idea of a surcharge. Bob Conway, manager of the Pelican, said he would not impose a surcharge even if other restaurants did.

Robert Maret of the House of Maret said his business considered the payments to credit card District stODDed to helD Graham nut nf the snowbank and discovered the car had been stolen. William Ponder, president of HMI, which operates the Sheraton hotels here, is president of the St. Louis Hotel Association. He said no surcharge would be imposed at the Sheratons, and he knew of no other hotels considering it." Ellen Morrill, manager of Hamilton Jewelers, said a business just starting out might be tempted to impose a surcharge. "It's tough when someone makes a $5 credit card purchase," she said.

"But we will have been In business for 50 years next year; we won't make any change." J.D. Mandelker, president of Streetside Records, said that although a fourth of the business at his chain was done with credit cards, he would not impose a surcharge. "Every kind of payment has a cost to it," he said. "Credit cards do. But so do checks if you use the Telecheck system, which keeps track of all bad check writers and collects a check if it bounces.

And cash gets stolen. So it all evens out." The car was taken hpfwppn ft and inin P.m. Mondav from the RrerkpnririoA Concourse Hotel, 9801 Natural Bridge Road, uerKeiey. ine owner is Hugh Whalum of St Louis. Graham was chareed Tupslav with first.

degree tampering with a vehicle. Berkeley detectives nlan to ouestinn him In rnnnprtlnn with the theft of the vehicle, said Detective Sgt Robert Stewart of the Berkeley police. He said oollce believed that Graham wnc sometimes known as W.T. Armstrong. Police Hope List Yields Clue About Decapitated Girl By Usha Gayle Evangelical Protestants Open Center To Help Pregnant Women Protestant opponents of abortion have opened a center in Clayton to help women with unwanted pregnancies.

The new Crisis Pregnancy Center at 6744 Clayton Road is sponsored by the Christian Action Council, an organization of evangelical Protestants. The center is one of 57 in the country established by the council since 1980. Mary Nelson, director of the council's St Louis chapter, said functions of the center were similar to those of the Birthright centers in the metropolitan area. The centers are aimed at helping women find options to abortion and offer such services as pregnancy testing, counseling and temporary housing. Miss Nelson said about 60 volunteers were working with the center.

"We plan to marshal all the resources of the evangelical community," she said. "We believe It is wrong to oppose abortion unless we plan to help people with unwanted pregnancies." Of thtPoit-Diipatch Staff The St Louis Police Department on Tuesday released a list of 22 girls' names in hopes of finding a clue to the Identity of a girl whose decapitated body was found a year ago. The body was discovered a year ago Tuesday in a vacant apartment building at 5635 Clemens Avenue. The bands were bound behind her back with a red and white nylon rope. The girl had been sexually assaulted.

been the victim of foul play. The lack of Information about their whereabouts may be a result of a bureaucratic foul-up. Adkins appealed to the public to call him with any information on the whereabouts of the girls on the list By finding out that they are enrolled In other schools, police can rule them out as possible victims. The phone number for the Homicide Division is 444-5371. The search for the girl's identity has "become almost an obsession with us," Adkins said.

"It's bothering us." The girl was black and was believed to be between the ages of 8 and 10. Police believe she was between 5 feet and 5 feet 4 inches tall. She was wearing red fingernail polish and a yellow V-neck sweater with long sleeves at the time of her death. Homicide Detectives Joseph Burgoon and George Bender have spent hundreds of hours on the case, Adkins said. "I'm certain that once we Identify her, we'll know who the killer Is," Adkins said.

"It's highly likely that she knew her assailant" because no one has comeorward to identify the body, he said. Following Is the list of girls, their ages, last known addresses, and, in some cases, the last school attended: Normandy School District: Chrystal Anthony, 12, of 3912 North Hanley Road, in an unincorporated area of north St Louis County, who last attended Bel-Nor School. Laura Falls, 8, of 4212 Brandywine Court, Pine Lawn, Bel-Nor School. Tanasha Fayne, no age given, of 6913 Woodrow Avenue, Velda Village, McKinley School. Traundes Gilliam, no age given, of 3108 Maywood Avenue, Velda Village, McKinley School.

Charlotte Lewis. 11, of 3100 Maybelle Drive, Bel Ridge, Bel-Nor School. Shirley Webster, 13, of 8437 Fresno Court, Cool Valley, Bel-Nor School. St Louis schools: Shernlta Adams, 9, of 4518 Newberry Terrace. Nicole Edmond, 11, of 4043A Finney Avenue.

Sherita Hall, 8, of 3920 Lexington Avenue. Latresha Isbell, 9, of 2526 Marcus Avenue. i Jallta S. Johnson, no age given, of 1375 Semple Avenue. Johnson, 10, of 4157 Fairfax Avenue.

Tiffonie Kelley, no age given, of 5356 Ridge Avenue. Latonla Massey, 8, of 4244 Pleasant Street Natasha McGee, 9, of 4452A Lexington Avenue. Kathryn Moody, 12, of 5876 Terry Avenue. Kare Rounds, 11, of 5373 Ruskin Avenue. Sharon Smith, 1 1, of 3702 Cook Avenue.

Civella Stozier, 12, of 2519 North Newstead Avenue. Jacqueline 11, of 4518 Newberry Terrace. Dianne Michelle Williams, no age given, of 4 1 1 4 Grove Street Rosemary Woods, 9, of 5356 Ridge Avenue. 4 The 22 names being publicized by police are those of girls who were withdrawn in the 1982-83 school year from schools In St Louis or the Normandy School District in St Louis County. The districts have no records showing the girls transferred to other schools, said Capt.

Leroy Adkins, commander of the Homicide Division. Lottery Number Police already have traced almost 1,000 other girls who had been withdrawn from schools in the city and county. The winning number drawn Tuesday in the Illinois Lottery Daily Game is 361. The winning numbers In the Illinois Lottery PictyFour game are 9055. Police emphasized that they have no reason to believe that any of the girr.

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