St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 7

3 HAY 2 2 1986 StlDUlS POST-DISPATCH nmra. May 22, tut Line Will Be In Place For Only 15 Minutes -sr. "tr-if I 4. Hands Across America Song Here are (be words to the Hands Across America Song, which organizers hope ill be sung Sunday by 6 million Americans joining hands from coast to coast This sky so serene has felt the kiss of countless dreams. And this earth that smells so sweet cradles us all in its great heartbeat So we must learn to love each other.

See that man over there, he 's my brother. And when he laughs, I laugh. And when he cries, 1 cry. And when he needs me I'll be right there by his side. Hands across America.

Hands across this land I love. Divided we fall, united we stand. Hands across America. Mothers and fathers, daughters and sons. We should be living together as one.

And I can help thinking, again and again. The heart of a stranger beats the same as a friend. So we must learn to love each other. See those people over there, they 're my sister and brother. And when they laugh, I laugh.

And when they cry, I cry. And when they need me I'll be right there by their side. (Repeat chorus) We are the river of hope that runs through the valley of fear. And there's a lady whose smile shines upon us. Sayin'all are welcome here.

So we must learn to love each other. See that man over there, he 's my brother. And when he laughs, I laugh. And when he cries, I cry. And when he needs me I'll be right there by his side.

(Repeat chorus to end) By Bill Smith Of tfw Post-Oitpatdi Staff The line Is expected to form for only 15 minutes just long enough for 6 million people to link bands and sing three songs but Sunday's Hands Across America event will mark the end of three months of detailed, painstaking planning. Dozens of obstacles everything from coming up with multimillion-dollar liability insurance package to arranging for portable toilets had to be overcome. "The closest thing you could compare this to is probably a military maneuver, trying to coordinate enormous numbers of people over great distances," said James Gladwin, director of logistics and operations for the Missouri section of the human chain that planners hope will stretch from New York to Long Beach, Calif. "It has a lot of the features of a parade, but tt certainly Isn't a parade." said Gladwin. "It's not a concert or a festival.

There is not a very large margin of error." Gladwin is no stranger to organizational challenges. He directed the Mark Twain Sesquicentennial celebration and has helped coordinated the annual VP Fair on the St Louis riverfront Still, planning a human chain over city streets and across two-lane highways in rural areas has offered unique challenges. Two months ago, organizers began contacting police departments and sheriffs offices in eastern Missouri and in Southern Illinois, trying to come up with the best route through the state. Once the route was established, workers had to be sent out along the roadways to determine where cars could be parked, whether local service stations could cope with a crush of drivers needing gasoline, and even whether stores along the route would have sufficient supplies of cold drinks. "I bet I've been over that route a dozen times in the past two months, in a car or in the air," said Eric M.

Henkels, who has helped plan the route. Henkels said traveling the route by air was particularly helpful in finding hidden parking spaces. "You'd go by tn a car and see maybe a dozen parking spaces in front of a church, but you wouldn't know there was another SO spaces behind the church." Gladwin said that in order to better manage the line, the Missouri route was broken into 167 segments, each between a half-mile and 1.3 miles in length. Each person who registers for the route will be assigned to a specific segment The borders of some of the segments are marked simply by roads, such as Segment J-1048 along Lemay Ferry Road in St Louis County which runs for .9 mile from Buckley Road to Victory Drive. Others, largely in the more rural areas, are marked by businesses, churches or schools.

Segment J-1082 on U. S. Highway 61 in southern Jefferson County starts at Jefferson R-7 Middle School and ends at Scbultz Food Mart, a mile away. Each segment Gladwin said, will have a registration area equipped with a ham radio operator and a first-aid station. "Actually it's two card tables pushed together," said Gladwin.

"Kind of a glorified Kool-Aid stand." The ham radio operator will allow organizers to get in touch with one of 12 command posts along the route in case of an emergency. Each will be supplied with bandages, ice, shade, a splint and other basic first-aid items. "Someone's going to turn an ankle, get an insect bite or something," said Gladwin. Each segment either has been assigned or will be assigned an off-duty police officer, medical personnel and at least 10 segment monitors trained to watch for problems in the line. Gladwin said once a participant arrives at his segment he will be directed to a parking space and then told where to join the line.

Gladwin urged that participants bring portable radios. Last-minute instructions and weather conditions will be broadcast through area radio stations, he said. In addition, a national broadcast will be aired simultaneously by about a dozenadio stations in Missouri in the minutes immediately preceding and during the linking of the chain. A. Sam LeonePost-Dispatch Jim Gladwin, a staff member of the Missouri office of Hands Across America, at the University City field office on Wednesday.

Gladwin is responsible for logistics and planning for the route through Missouri and Southern Illinois. Hands "Weather is important," said Gladwin, "but there's not a lot we can do about that. We hope if the weather is bad, it won't limit participation. Standing in the rain for 30 or 40 minutes is not as uncomfortable as living on the street without a home." He said that participants, particularly in more rural areas, should realize that "there may not be a McDonald's on every corner" and restroom facilities may be hard to come by. Alcohol is being strongly discouraged.

"There are still people who think this is a pretty hare-brained idea," said Gladwin. "But I think the skepticism is beginning to wane. "Sometimes I even question whether this thing will happen. We're counting on a quarter-million Missou-rians to share the faith. "No matter hw hard we've planned, I have to realize that at 2 p.m.

on Sunday, there's not a lot I can do. There are no second chances." Wrecks had "asked the rental guy if there was any problem making the overpasses. The guy says 'No, you can make Willenbrink should have said you can make them all but one." Authorities said the Woods Mill bridge had been hit several times in the past by oversized loads. "These guys are barely making it now," said Willenbrink, pointing to 18-wheelers hurtling by on the stretch. "The driver was really shook up," said William G.

Moritz, one of the witnesses at the scene. "He thinks he's going to lose his job." In the accident in St. Louis, traffic was backed up for two hours, although only a small amount of oil was spilled. "Traffic was all messed up," said Mill was reopened shortly after 5 p.m. Highway Patrol trooper Mike Hermann said authorities were considering several charges including hauling a load that was too high, too heavy and too wide.

Boemer, the driver, said he had no state "overdimension" permit, which designates what routes can accommodate large loads. He refused to comment further. Hermann said such permits were intended to prevent such accidents. "You get people who aren't used to operating here," he said. "They don't know what's involved, so they just load it up and take off." Town and Country police officer Mark Willenbrink said that when the driver picked up the equipment he city police officer Robert Hurster, who had to reroute traffic on east-bound 1-70 and Memorial Drive.

"The problem when you have something like this on an interstate is that when interstate drivers have to get off the highway, they get lost." Police said that shortly before 8 a.m., a tanker had become disengaged from the tractor of a rig driven by Edward Brower, 62, of Free-burg. The rig is owned by the Kiesel Oil 1717 Park Avenue. The tanker fell and ruptured, causing a small leak of No. 6 furnace oil onto the pavement, firefighters, state Highway Department workers and Kiesel employees cleaned up the spill. Most of the load was saved, and was pumped into another tanker, Hurster said.

number that had been used to register participants now refers inquiries to state offices because there is too little time to mail out line assignments. McDonough emphasized that people interested in joining the chain in Missouri and Illinois can participate in the line up to 2 p.m. Sunday the time the line will form. But he urged that participants not wait until then. Participants can register by visiting a Ticketmaster outlet, including Fa-mous-Barr and Dillard's stores, where they will be given a line assignment after making a donation of at least $10.

The Missouri headquarters can be reached at 436-3000. At the Missouri headquarters, a participant will be asked whether he or she is willing to join the line in a rural area, or if that caller wants to join the line nearest his home. If the caller wants to join near his or her home, a volunteer will match his or her ZIP code with the section of the line nearest the caller's home. Line assignments will be mailed out through today, Missouri officials said, but after today participants will be told where to join the line. Donations will be accepted at registration tables all along the route.

"We know there are going to be people who wake up Sunday morning and decide right then that they want to get involved. We're telling them to pack a picnic lunch, drive out into one of the rural areas and make a day of it," McDonough said. He said workers also are encouraging people to drive to a section of Route 3 between Cape Girardeau and Cairo, to help fill gaps in the line. Also Wednesday, the Missouri office of Hands Across America said no decision had been made on whether participants would be barred from the Mississippi River bridges at Alton and at Cape Girardeau. Jeanne Bradner, Illinois coordinator of the event, said ribbons would link the human chains on each side of the river at the two locations because state officials had determined it would be unsafe for pedestrians on the bridges.

But Mink said the situation had yet to be resolved. From page one blizzard of phone calls." The heightened interest in the project has required some volunteers to answer telephones until midnight each night this week. Southwestern tiell Corp. added 10 more telephone lines at the office Wednesday. That doubles the number of available lines, and officials hope those lines will ease callers' problems of trying to reach office workers.

The suite of offices on the ninth floor of the Marquette Building on North Broadway which had seemed relatively quiet last week had taken on the appearance of an 11th hour political campaign Wednesday. Half-eaten containers of yogurt and opened packages of potato chips littered some of the desks as workers scrambled between rooms. Volunteers sat hunched over maps or leaned over tables with telephone receivers squeezed between their ears and shoulders. "I'm starting to feel like I live here," said Judi Ray of Clayton, a volunteer who became involved in the project in February. "Yesterday, it was 10 a.m.

to midnight, home for seven hours of sleep and back again. "But it's worth it," she said. And the pace also was quickening in Illinois and other areas of Missouri. In Cape Girardeau, Vickie Holy-field, southeast Missouri field representative, worked in a cramped hotel room that has served as a field office since the regular office was flooded last Thursday. "It's zoo city down here," she said.

"It's crazy. I've had about five hours of sleep since Sunday." Bill Connell, a volunteer with the Alton office, said telephone calls to that office had doubled between Tuesday and Wednesday. "We've had people call from Chicago because they can't get through on the lines there," he said. Organizers of the event hope to raise more than $50 million for the poor and homeless in America. McDonough said much of the increased interest can be attributed to a national media campaign, which has included a large-scale advertising push this week.

A national, toll-free telephone Vandals From page one Town and Country police and the state Highway Department worked throughout the day and into the evening to shore up the bridge and direct traffic around the accident. Inspectors were still assessing damage to the bridge Wednesday. "I don't think it will fall down but he dented it up pretty good," said Walls. Westbound traffic on U.S. 40 was backed up to Interstate 270.

The right lane of U.S. 40 was closed around the area of the bridge. Westbound traffic on Clayton Road, which was being used by many as an alternate route, was jammed for miles. Traffic on Woods Mill also was heavy. Woods Kathleen Turner Joins 'Hands' Here Kathleen Turner, star of films including "Body Heat," "Romancing the Stone" and "Prizzi's Honor," will join the Hands Across America fund-raising event Sunday beneath the Gateway Arch.

She will be joined on the Arch grounds by actor Eric Douglas, son of Kirk Douglas, and performer Stephanie Williams, a native St. Louisan. Turner will travel to St Louis with her husband, Jay Weiss, a real estate developer, after a visit with her family in Springfield, Mo. The three will join area personalities, including Miss Missouri, Barbara Webster and elected officials at 2 p.m. Sunday.

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A third student, 16, was taken into custody by juvenile authorities. The school is at 4900 South Lindbergh Boulevard in South County. Police arrested all three students May 8 at the school. They were released and are scheduled to be taken into custody again, police said. The students told police they had vandalized the classroom on April 20 because the teacher who worked there was a strict disciplinarian "and they weren't prepared for that," said Det.

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