St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 19

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Jan. 23, 1987 5B Homeless Have A Rural Shelter, Thanks To The New Life Center Region Now thru February 2, order a complete pair of prescription glasses and choose any frame from our entire selection including designer lines and we'll take 50 off the regular price. Quality, Service and Price have been our main concern for over 40 years. So come In and see for yourself, friendly professional service at a price you can afford.

No other discounts apply. Offer expires February 2, 1987. ill in St. Louis, Kansas City, Fulton and southern Missouri and staffing the shelters with psychiatrists and psychologists. Setting up an $11.5 million matching program for communities that help the homeless with emergency and long-term housing programs.

The money would come from the state's share of hotel and motel sales taxes, with part of it used for home-steading programs. Levying a special 5-cent-a-gallon tax on beer and 10 cents a gallon on wine, raising $8 million a year for the homeless. Setting up a $500,000 emergency fund that would dispense one-time grants of $500 to individuals and families who are about to be evicted or are facing foreclosure. Barring the juvenile court system from taking children from their parents on the ground that the parents are homeless or live in substandard housing. Rice said many homeless parents feared going to the state Division of Family Services for help lest their children be taken away and placed in foster care.

Barring landlords from refusing to rent to families with children. Developing school programs on domestic violence and on teen-age pregnancy, which Rice said can thrust young persons into a cycle of poverty and homelessness. By Victor Volland Of the Post-Dispatch Staff The St. Louis-based New Life Evangelistic Center has opened a six-bed shelter for homeless men and families in a former farmhouse in Callaway County. The Rev.

Larry Rice, New Life's director, said the shelter was in part a response to the death earlier this month of a mentally ill man who had nowhere to go. The man traveled from Michigan to the Fulton, area, where he caused several disturbances. Eventually, he was turned over to county sheriff's deputies, who drove him to the county line because Callaway County lacks a shelter. The man apparently curled up in a blanket along the road, where he was run over by a car. Sheriff Harry Lee attended the opening of the shelter Tuesday.

He said his department handled at least one homeless case a week and promised to refer such cases to the new mile south of New Bloomfieldv New Ltfe "also operates a shelter for the homeless in nearby Columbia and will shortly open one in Jefferson City, Rice said. Rice called homelessness a statewide problem and said Missouri's homeless population had grown to more than 50,000. He said he planned ST. LOUIS 5208 Oravols Avnu 3515141 DOWNTOWN CRESTWOOD Optical 9930 Watson Road 965-4165 The Rey. Larry Rice Offers package of bills to meet next week in Jefferson City with the St.

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Louis. "Some of the heaters you have been using are quite frightening," said the center's director, the Rev. Larry Rice. The fire Saturday was caused by a defective electric heater. Two of the victims were children.

The East St. Louis Aldermanic Council on Wednesday enacted an ordinance requiring smoke alarms to be installed in homes, public housing and public places. Rice said that the idea to distribute the smoke alarms preceded the council action but that the ordinance "makes it even more urgent" for people to have detectors. East St. Louis Fire Chief Bruce Hill hailed the free alarms as "a marvelous idea because it's an item everyone needs in their household." Hill said many people disregarded advice to obtain smoke detectors and the ordinance would "put a little more teeth in it." Rice said the center is giving away 350 heaters and 500 smoke alarms to needy people in East St.

Louis and a like number for all of Missouri at centers in St. Louis, Columbia and Jefferson City. The distributions will continue until all the heaters and alarms are gone. As he received his free heater and detector, William Johnson, 51, of the 1500 block of Cleveland Avenue, East St. Louis, said: "You always can use a little heat; it-gets pretty cold." Asked about the alarm, he said: "It might save my 1 To obtain a free electric heater a person musLbring in an old one.

The purpose of this, Rice explained, was to get old and defective electric heaters out of circulation. He said persons with older, less effective heaters, sometimes use too many heaters and overload electrical circuits. If a person does not have an electric heater to trade in, he must agree to attend safety classes sponsored by the center and have his home inspected by the center, Rice said. KSLH Operator Convicted Of Sexual Assault Michael C. Ermatinger, who operates the St.

Louis public schools' radio station in the evenings, has been convicted in St. Louis County Circuit Court of deviate sexual assault. The jury found Ermatinger, 44, guilty of one count and innocent of another. The verdict was reached Wednesday in St. Louis County Circuit Court; Judge Richard F.

Provaznik set no date for sentencing. The two incidents involved a boy, 16, and are said to have taken place on July 13, 1985, at Ermatinger's home on Hanley Downs in Richmond Heights. The boy testified that the assaults had happened as Ermatinger was showing him computer equipment. Ermatinger said the boy had made up the story but was unable to give a reason He remains free on $5,000 bail pending sentencing. Ermatinger testified that he made the radio bropdcasts on station KSLH from his home after school hours.

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