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6A Region ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Sept. 15,1986 Tr Hiring H.I -J I en lan Is Killed, Another Hurt On South Side if iv if ih IN A 70-year-old man from south St. Louis was struck and killed and another man was injured by a hit-and-run driver Sunday night as the two talking with neighbors in the 3100 block of Nebraska Street. The 70-year-old man was pronounced dead on arrival Sunday night at The University Hospital.

The other victim, a 22-year-old man. was taken to St. Louis Regional Medical Center. Police refused to make public the identities of the men until relatives had been notified. Sgt.

Thomas Godfrey of the homicide division gave this account: The two victims were talking with several other people in front of a house on Nebraska about 7:30 p.m. Sunday when a car came racing up the street, heading north on Nebraska. Some members of the group were standing on the sidewalk, and others were standing in the street by the curb. The car struck the older man, dragging him about 80 feet along the street. The younger man also was knocked down.

Witnesses told police that the car had never tried to stop or slow down but had continued to speed north on Nebraska and across Gravois- Avenue until it was out of sight. The car had a black roof and a gold body and may have been a 1972 to 1974 Oldsmobile Cutlass, Godfrey said. The car's right headlight was broken by the impact. One or two men were in the car, he said. Police ask that people who have information about the car call the homicide division at 444-5371.

If i lit i i I I I I 'i 1 If? I a Alan Crider "Looks at qualifications" Schmisseur said that her appointment as principal of Webster had been based on her qualifications. "I supported them in the election because I felt they were good board members," Schmisseur said. "I am a good friend of Alan Crider, but he has enough integrity that he wouldn't hire me if he thought I was not qualified." But Bailey said that she felt and had been told by Redmond and others that she had not been hired because she lived in Webster Groves and she had no friends on the board. "I am not personally associated with any School Board member," Bailey said. "And I feel that it worked against me." Frank Kraus said he believed his daughter's appointment had nothing to do with his support of the four members' candidacies last year.

"That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard," Kraus said. "My daughter had top qualifications, and people can say anything about her, but not that she was not qualified. And yes, I supported the board members, but that is my right I'm a taxpayer like anyone else and I have a right to support anyone I want to." In hiring four secretaries in April, including Jane Kraus and Betty War-field, the board was presented with four names for each position that had been ranked by personnel director Terry Salem. The board rejected the rankings and without having interviewed any of the candidates appointed the four women, according to Redmond and other critics. The board also placed little importance on one factor often used in selecting secretaries: the amount of time a candidate for the job has served as a substitute secretary in the district.

Two candidates who were rejected had served as substitutes for 10 years, and a third had served for six Max E. Redmond "Patronage jobs" years. Betty Warfield ha(T never worked as a substitute. "Those positions were patronage positions," Redmond said in a recent interview from Sherrard, where he now serves as superintendent. "In Betty Warfield's case, she did not have any of the skills that most other candidates had." Betty Warfield declined to say whether she had supported any board member's campaigns.

She said that she and her husband had worked on several campaigns. "Mac and I work for quite a few people," she said. "I don't think it is anybody's business whose campaign I worked for. I applied like anybody else, and I got the job." Critics contend that the board's hiring practices are well-known and that most candidates realize they must either have helped board members in the last election or promise to do so next time. Mack Johnson, a parent who has been a vocal critic of the board and has urged a recall election, said that the patronage system had been around for so many years in the district that it had become an accepted practice.

"If you teach a kid to put the left shoe on his right foot, then that's what he'll always do he's not going to know any better," Johnson said. "This community has grown up with patronage jobs, and they've accepted it." Melton acknowledged that if he knew an applicant personally, that applicant stood a better chance of getting the job. "If I know someone and if I know the kind of person they are, I might go for that person rather than someone who I don't know," Melton said. "It's no different than any place else it happens in private industry all the time." I 4 From page one Melton said that he could not tell if political considerations were a factor in hi rings. "I'm not saying it happens, and I'm not saying it doesn't happen," Melton said.

"You can see people who have been hired who probably worked on board members' campaigns. The people who were hired were qualified. Whether they were hired because they worked on campaigns, I don't know. Speaking for myself, I don't go out and promise people jobs for working on campaigns." The critics said that most of the people appointed met the minimum qualifications, but that better-qualified candidates were available in each case. Board critics said that Redmond was a rare exception to the rule, one who got the job without political help.

Redmond characterized most district positions as "patronage jobs," handed out to board supporters. "I believe they know who is going to be hired before we even begin the process of hiring," Redmond said shortly before his resignation. Redmond and other board critics said that all board members, with the exception of member Jolene Terrell, let political considerations influence their votes on hiring employees. They pointed to recent examples of what they say are hirings based not entirely on qualifications. They said that in most cases, the employees had supported a slate of board members that included Alan Crider, Monroe Worthen and Gerald McKechan, who were elected last year.

McKechan resigned last month and was appointed as a physical education teacher in the district. The hirings from the past six months that critics have questioned include: Thomas Holloway as director of vocational education. Redmond had recommended Gary Morgan, but the board rejected him and hired Holloway, who had supported the slate. Helen Schmisseur as principal of Webster Elementary School. Redmond and a committee of four had recommended Dorothy Bailey, but the board rejected her and hired Schmisseur, who had supported Worthen and Crider.

Bailey said she had remained uninvolved in the election. Jane Kraus as attendance secretary at the high school. She is the daughter of former superintendent Frank Kraus, who supported Worthen and Crider. Redmond made no recommendations for secretarial positions. Betty Warfield as secretary.

She is the wife of Madison County Democratic Party chairman and Granite City Street Superintendent Mac Warfield. Crider termed the allegations "ludicrous" and declined to comment on specific allegations. "All I will say is that the board looks at qualifications when an appointment is made and appoints the best qualified person," Crider said. Worthen and McKechan could not be reached for comment. Holloway said that he had not actively worked for any board member, but said that he let his preference be known if someone asked him.

Schmisseur acknowledged that she was a "good friend" of Crider and had "strongly supported" Crider and Worthen in the last election. But Reflective Run wesPazpost-Dispatcn Ken Nettleton of Belleville enjoys an evening jog past the Arch recently as it reflects the last rays of the day. Mine Transplant Man's Body Found By Lake Michigan From page one whether the patient's immune system will reject the donated organs, medical sources said. They said doctors at the hospital were giving the patient a drug called cyclosporine, which suppresses the immune system. Transplanting a heart and lungs is a complicated, fairly new type of surgery.

The first three heart-lung transplants were done between 1968 and 1971, and the fourth was done in 1981 at Stanford University Medical Center in California. Fewer than 70 of the operations have been done since then, sources said, and those have been performed at about nine medical centers. The success rate for heart-lung transplants is lower than that for heart transplants, experts said Sunday. Statistics suggest that patients have about a 60 percent chance of living for a year after a heart-lung transplant. The success rate for transplanting hearts is about 80 percent at the one-year mark, the experts said.

The heart-lung transplant at The University Hospital started about 7 p.m. Saturday. It was performed by doctors working in two teams. On Sunday, hospital officials declined to give details of the operation or to say how long it lasted. But sources said that the donor's body had been taken to the hospital and that his heart and lungs had been removed for the transplant there.

One team extracted the organs while the other team prepared the recipient for the surgery. Then both teams did the transplant. Willman refused to identify the doctors who performed the transplant. He said only that the surgery had involved no complications and had taken a relatively short time. One reason heart-lung transplants are rare is that the tissue types of a donor's heart and lungs must match the tissue types of the recipient's, heart and lungs.

Both organs also, must be in good condition. One expert on surgery wrote in a medical publication recently that "the lung is a delicate organ compared to the heart and kidney. "'Ideal donor lungs are difficult to find. Unfortunately, most of those available for transplantation are already abnormal, often because the donor had spent days or weeks on an artificial respirator." Doctors were able to lessen the chance of any damage to the lungs in the operation Saturday by transplanting the organs directly from the donor to the woman. month, said "their daughter! Mary Helen Spooner of Santiago, Chile.

James Spooner, 69, a longtime resident of Bridgeton, retired seven years ago as construction supervisor at Washington University, said Mary Helen Spooner. A funeral Mass for James Spooner will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday at St. Lawrence the Martyr Catholic Church at 4335 DuPage Drive in Bridgeton. Also surviving are three other daughters, Susan Pokorney of Sharps-ville, Cynthia Andert of Florissant and Jane Spooner of Bridgeton; and a brother, Robert Spooner of Calvert City, Ky.

The body of James Alden Spooner' of Bridgeton washed ashore on Lake Michigan Sunday, nearly a week after he was swept from a pier when he apparently tried to go fishing, police said. Two boys found Spooner's body near Manistee, said Ed Sund-beck, of the Manistee police department. Manistee is about 100 miles north of Grand Rapids, Mich. Spooner was knocked into the water Sept. 8 by waves, Sundbeck said.

Divers failed to find the body. Spooner, an avid outdoorsman, had gone to Mighigan with his Helen, on a camping trip earlier this "Now Canon has two new ways to take care of number one." MSL JrS Reduce by 67 or 78. Enlarge by 120. The new PG24 gives you 8 copies a minute from originals as big as lCxR" Plus stack-sheet feeding for multiple copies from business card to legal size. From page one since the 1840s.

The old mine shaft where the boys went has long been a haunt for local residents and is nicknamed The Devil's Icebox because of its cool temperature year-around. One of its entrances was not closed entirely because the shaft is home to the Indiana bat, a rare species. Bennett said that he and Easter had used a 9-volt flashlight while they explored the mine's many shafts and high-ceilinged caverns for about two hours. They were on their way out when the accident occurred about 4 p.m. Saturday.

Bennett said that he had been leading in the climb around the boulder about 15 feet from the mine's entrance and had placed the flashlight atop the boulder when Easter slipped. "Dwayne slipped on something and the whole boulder started moving," Bennett said. "I fell back down past him, and the flashlight fell off somewhere. I started yelling, He was screaming, 'My legs, my Bennett said it had been totally dark until Easter could flick on his cigarette lighter, lending enough light for Bennett to find the flashlight. What Bennett saw was alarming.

"His legs were twisted under the boulder and he couldn't see it, and I didn't want to tell him how big it was," Bennett said. "I didn't know how we were going to get out. He was screaming and scared, and he didn't want me to leave. After a half hour when he calmed down, I dug myself out of there and ran down the mountain as fast as I could." Pilot Knob Fire Chief Don Wynn said that he and his crew had gone up the old mine road in four-wheel-drive vehicles and quickly discovered the job was bigger than they could handle. He said they had tried to make Easter comfortable while they called for help.

"The problem was, when we tried to lift that rock it would move. It was only on about a half inch more of ledge and it would shift," Wynn said. "We were afraid it'd shift and crush him." All told, Wynn said, about 200 rescue workers from as far away as the St. Louis area had helped out. Wynn said he's not sure how they all got there, but he's glad they did.

Wynn said Easter had been lucky because the boulder had rested atop another rock that formed a narrow cavity in which Easter's legs rested. He said rescue workers had slowly lifted the boulder with timber and steel beams, then placed a 100-ton jack under it, raising it about 4 inches before pulling the boy out; Don Riemann, one of two St. Louis firefighters who joined the rescue effort, said the youth's spirits had been good under the circumstances. "He was on a stretcher and the others worked him up to the entrance and handed him past to us. We would say, 'Count to three and everybody and the little boy there would be saying, 'One, two, Riemann said.

"He was in pretty good shape for the ordeal he went through." Pilot Knob's elevation is 1,540 feet above sea level. The mountain is part of the St. Francois range of the Ozarks and is situated about 90 miles south of St. Louis. Iron mining grew quickly around after the old Iron Mountain Railroad reached here from St.

Louis in 1858. Ogie Fellinger, who was Iron County sheriff from 1941 to 1976, said the old mine atop the mountain had been a tourist attraction popular with St. Louisans before World War II. He said St. Louis families would take the train to the Arcadia Valley and hike up the mountain to the old mine.

"The old mine was one of our main attractions back in the '30s," Fellinger said. The Pilot Knob Pellet Co. opened the most recent mining operation in 1964 and closed it in 1979. Jan Paul of the Post-Dispatch staff also contributed some information for this story. Just plop the paper in, take the copies out.

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