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4A Region ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Feb. 26, 1986 Bank Loses iS: i i -5 i i 1 Automated Teller Case Special District Dubs Tax Issue 'Special K' ST. LOUIS COUNTY: The Sne-cial School Dis- f'-'tSZI trict of St. Louis County will be offering "Special for the election April 1.

The Special District is seeking a property tax increase of 28 cents for each $100 of 1A iv Vi 4 .4 i I if 1 1 1 Ai.k 19 Cited For Violating Smoke Alarm Mandate ST. LOUIS: Nineteen violations of the city's new ordinance on smoke alarms have been cited so far this week by inspectors and firemen answering calls, the fire marshal's office reported. The ordi-nance went into effect last Wednesday. Capt. Frank Schaper said warning letters had been sent to owners and occupants of the 15 apartments and four homes involved.

The letters will be followed up by repeat visits, and fines up to $500 may be issued for those who fail to itistall alarms, he said. In all, 16,000 smoke alarms have been given away or sold for $8 each under the city's Operation Safe-Street program, Schaper reported. Firm Now Following Hazardous Waste Laws ST. LOUIS: Sigma Chemical Co. is now in compliance with state and federal laws on hazardous waste, a spokesman for the Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday.

The EPA had issued Sigma a letter of warning on Jan. 27 saying the company had not complied with violations found in an inspection in February of last year. This was the second notice the company had got Jrom the EPA. At the time of the inspection last year, the company had been issued a notice of violation. But Marcus G.

Rivas, a spokesman for the EPA's regional office in Kansas City, termed the four violations minor record-keeping infractions and that they had been corrected. assessed valua- Scarnato tion. The district had sought to name the tax proposal "Proposition KIDS" on the ballot. But the St. Louis County Election Board rejected the title.

The Special District board voted unanimously Tuesday to call it Proposition instead. In other business, the board announced it would offer Superintendent Samuel Scarnato a new contract when his current one expires Dec. 31. The board is still discussing the terms of the new contract. $900 Is Left In Store At Chesterfield Mall CHESTERFIELD: When bookseller Carol Cohn of Waldenbooks in Chesterfield Mall found $900 Monday night in the store, "my mouth kind of dropped open," Cohn said Tuesday.

"There was just never any question of keeping it," she said. "I put it in a locked drawer and called mall security and they called the police." St. Louis County police are seeking the owner of the money, who left it in the store between 7:15 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Monday.

County Planning Study To Halt Water Leaks Because of continuing water leaks throughout the basement level of the St. Louis County Government Center in Clayton, the county Public Works Department wants to spend $5,400 for study by a consulting engineer. Jan H. Paynton, public works director, has recommended that the contract be given to Blank, Wesse-link, Cook and Associates. The company is already doing an engineering study of potential problems at the Administration Building, at 41 South Central Avenue in Clayton.

County Executive Gene McNary has asked the County Council to approve spending the money for the study on water leakage. Board OKs Building Of Apartment Complex CLAYTON: The Clayton Board of Aldermen has approved a second apartment dmplex as part of a $200 million development known as the Plaza in Clayton. The aldermen voted unanimously to modify the conditional-use permit of Clayton Land Co. to give the firm permission to build a luxury apartment complex on the northwest part of a 15-acre triangular site. The building would contain 100 to 125 apartments renting for $1,000 to $2,000 a month, company spokesman Richard Roloff said.

The developer wants to build a hotel, office, retail and entertainment complex on land bounded by Forsyth Boulevard, Forest Park Parkway and Han ley Road. A conditional-use permit issued to the firm grants permission for one apartment building on the northeast part of the tract. Washington University Meets Grant Condition ST. LOUIS: Washington University has raised enough money to qualify for all $45 million of a challenge grant from the Danforth Foundation. The university earned the grant by raising $135 million in private gifts and pledges.

The challerfge grant provided that the university raise $3 for each $1 from the Danforth Foundation by 1988. The $45 million grant is designated for the university's endowment. Both the gifts and the grant are part of the university's $300 million Alliance for Washington University's fund-raising campaign. George H. Capps, chairman of the campaign, said the campaign had raised $275.2 million.

By Thorn Gross Of the Post-Dispatch Staff The Missouri Court of Appeals at St. Louis broke ground Tuesday in the law concerning electronic bank tellers. The court affirmed a jury's verdict of actual damages to a couple who said they had been charged for withdrawals they never made. But the court reversed the jury's award of punitive damages. Because no evidence had shown that the bank had acted maliciously, the court said, punitive damages were improper.

The court noted that no Missouri statutes or court cases had dealt with unauthorized transfer of funds through an automated teller. The court referred to the federal Electronic Fund Transfer Act, but said it had no bearing 'on the case because the couple had not sued under it. The couple, Michael S. and Marilyn A. Gaffney of north St.

Louis County, testified in St. Louis County Circuit Court that they had never used the pass cards and personal identification numbers issued to them when they opened an account at Community Federal Savings and Loan Association. They said they had opened the account in November 1978 as a trust for Marilyn Gaffney's mother. But 13 withdrawals of $200 each were made from the account in nine days in April 1983, apparently from automatic tellers, court records show. The couple notified the bank of the apparent error.

The bank investigated, determined that no unauthorized withdrawal had been made and refused to recredit the Gaffneys', account. In October 1984, a jury in St. Louis Circuit Court awarded them $2,600 plus interest in actual damages and 1 0,000 in punitive damages. Community Federal appealed. State OKs Landfill Near Pelican Island The Missouri Depertment of Natu-' ral Resources has issued a permit allowing a trash hauler to operate a sanitary landfill near Pelican Island in north St.

Louis County. The permit was issued to Donald R. Zykan president of Halls Ferry Investment Inc. Zykan is also associated with Zykan Brothers Solid Waste Disposal Services of North County. The landfill would be on a 51-acre site at the north end of New Halls Ferry Road at Douglas Road.

A group called Citizens For Safe Waste Management has been fighting Zykan's proposal for nearly four years. They claim the landfill would endanger the nearby Pelican Island wilderness area and pollute the water supply of homeowners living near the site. James A. FinleyAP Capt. Charles Alphin of the St.

Louis Police Department showing reporters a photograph of the sweater a girl was wearing when her headless body was discovered almost three years ago in the baement of a vacant house at 5635 Clemens Avenue. She has not been identified. Anonymous Letter Stirs Hope In '83 Case Of Decapitated Girl Terms may change without notice REFINANCE TO FIXED COMFORT in strict privacy." Alphin's phone number is 444-5884. The headless body of a girl between the age of 8 and 12 was discovered Feb. 28, 1983, in the basement of a vacant house at 5635 Clemens Avenue.

The girl was wearing a yellow V-neck sweater and her hands had been tied behind her back with a red and white nylon rope. She had been raped. The girl's head was never found. Despite an intense investigation, detectives have never been able to learn the identity of either the girl or her killer. "We're cautiously optimistic that we may finally get somewhere on this case, but the letter writer must call us," Alphin said.

Homicide detectives are "cautiously optimistic" over their chances of finally getting a solid lead in the murder of an unidentified young girl whose decapitated body was found three years ago. An anonymous person mailed a letter containing some information about the murder to the Police Department on Feb. 14. Capt. Charles Alphin, commander of the homicide division, is appealing for the letter writer to call him.

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