St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 20

20A ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1991 County Gives Initial OK To Tough Ordinance On Incinerators POLICECOURTS By Virgil Tipton Of the Post-Dispatch Staff The St. Louis County Council gave tentative approval Thursday to a bill that would make the county's regulation of trash incinerators among the toughest in the nation so tough that officials say it could cause some burners to shut down. The bill was passed 4-3, with the four Democrats voting for the measure and the three Republicans opposing it. Councilwoman Gerl Rothman-Serot of Frontenac, D-3rd District, the measure's sponsor, said she hoped it would win final approval next week.

"I think we're on the cutting edge in the forefront of Incinerator legislation," Rothman-Serot said. But County Executive George R. "Buzz" Westfall, also a Democrat, said he had yet to decide whether to sign the measure if It is approved. The bill would: Tighten regulation of pollution emissions by requiring all incinerators in the county to meet the same standards. The new standards would be those that now apply only to the largest Incinerators.

Require operators to sort out certain amounts of recyclable trash before burning the remainder. Allow a one-time variance of 30 days for operators to bring their burners Into compliance. Incinerators would have to come into compliance by Jan. 1, 1994. Supporters and opponents say the measure could cause some incinerators to shut down because of the expense of upgrading to meet the codes.

Blaine Rhoades, the county's top air pollution official, has said that no Legislator In North St. Louis Seeks Inquiry Into Villa's Win The following Incidents were County Circuit Court to 20 years In among those that were reported to Prison fr robbery, attempted rob-police departments in the St. Louis ery and armed criminal action, metropolitan area or that involved Scott decided to plead guilty while action in one of the area's courts: ne was Dein9 tried the robbery. Using a sawed-off shotgun, Scott robbed Bijou Movie Rentals, 8131 FATAL ACCIDENT Delmar Boulevard in University City on Dec. 8, 1988.

He also admitted St. Louis County: David G. attempting to hold up a service sta- Martin, 30, of Eureka, died Wednes- tlon in University City on Dec. 13, day night after his motorcycle ran 1989. off Huntersford Road and struck some trees.

Martin was traveling ripr south in the 5700 block of Hunters- ford when the motorcycle left the St. Louis County: Lightning that road about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, struck a shopping center in the He was pronounced dead at St. 1 1800 block of West Florissant Ave- John's Mercy Medical Center, nue early Thursday started a fire that damaged the Butler Banquet SHOOTING Center, a club office of the Fraternal St. Louis: Paul Stepter, 25, was of Eagles, and a vacant store, found not guilty Thursday by a St.

More than 20 firefighters from eight Louis Circuit Court jury in the 1986 departments fought the blaze. No murder of Beverly Payton, 25, of the one was injured. 2300 block of University Street. The rrai Ar-rinij trial was the second for Stepter in Payton's death. Stepter was con- A tnird suit has been fied on be.

victed of first-degree murder and of peope claiming to have been assault in 1987 In Tier death but the ln JJ riot JuyM2 at a heavy Missouri Supreme Court over- rock concer't in Maryian5 turned the conviction. Heights The (atest suit was fi(ed ASSAULT Thursday on behalf of concertgoer Raymond Morris "and all ofher per- St. Louis: A man found beaten sons injured" at the concert by Tuesday morning in the Mark Twain Guns N' Roses at the Riverport Am- neighborhood has been identified phitheatre. The suit names as de- through fingerprints as Thelton fendants: Axl Rose, lead singer of Lawrence, 28, of the 2500 block of the group; Contemporary Produc- Rigsby Drive, St. Louis County.

He tions promoters of the concert; was in critical condition Thursday at and Sverdrup Building which an undisclosed hospital. designed and built the facility. "Ev- ery injured individual will have to ROBBERY prove the merits of his or her own injury claim on their own," said St. Louis County: Phillip W. Micnae Korte the attorney repre.

Scott 1 9, of the 7800 block of Bal- senting Morris, Kort9 said that as son Avenue University City, was many as 80 peope may have been sentenced Wednesday in St. Louis injured at the riot. nrxiM 1 B04 more than half a dozen of the county's 53 incinerators could comply Rothman-Serot said she expected that the bill would cause operators of smaller Incinerators to shut down-their burners. But she said the operi tors would then join with others to run-better-managed regional Incinerators. Councilman Kurt S.

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Professor Kenneth F. Warren called it "bordering on the impossible" for candidates from that slate to have received an average of 95.4 percent of the votes cast In the 11 black wards. Ford represents part of north St. Louis and is 5th Ward Democratic committeeman. On Wednesday, Comptroller Virvus Jones called the professors' observations "blatantly racist" Warren denied the accusation, saying he was concerned with "the integrity of the electoral process." Jones said he would seek to block the Election Board's request for a court order.

to term limitations or reducing the number of legislators, because historically, third parties have raised issues that the major parties have been unwilling to deal with." The governor also vetoed a bill that would have banned employment discrimination based on whether a person is a smoker. Ashcroft said Missouri should be going in the other direction: passing laws to restrict smoking in public places and restricting the sale of cigarettes to minors. Those bills died in the Legislature. Also vetoed Thursday were two bills pushed by county governments. One would have assessed the state for prisoners' medical costs in county jails; the other would have Included juvenile court personnel in the state worker compensation plan.

Those vetoes, combined with earlier vetoes of a county retirement bill and three appropriations for counties, wrecked the legislative package pushed by the Missouri Association of Counties. In a response to allegations of vote fraud in the St. Louis School Board election in April, a legislator has called for an investigation of Alder-manic President Thomas A. Villa's landslide victory in March. Rep.

Louis Ford, D-St. Louis, made the request Thursday in a letter to Gary Stoff, chairman of the city Election Board. Ford says Villa received "an extraordinary voter turnout" from wards In south St. Louis. Villa defeated state Rep.

Paula J. Carter, D-St. Louis, in the March primary. Carter, who is black, received as little as 3.6 percent of the vote in one South Side ward. Ford could not be reached Thursday, but Villa said he had spoken to him.

"He told me he was trying to make a point about the School Board race," Villa said. The Election Board Is expected to seek an order from the St. Louis Circuit Court today for authority to re lowed 1712-year-olds to register to vote if they would be 18 by Election Day and clarified that school boards and other local governments could spend taxpayer funds on dissemination of "factual information" in election campaigns for tax increases. State lawmakers will meet again in September to consider overriding Ashcroft's vetoes. But overrides rarely occur, because they need separate two-thirds majorities in the House and Senate.

The sponsor of the elections bill was Rep. Robert Quinn, D-Ferg-uson. Quinn said Thursday: "It's a shame we're losing the third-party and independent candidate part of the bill. That's a real reform, as opposed In his veto message, Ashcroft said this year's board election showed that the current system allows representation of diverse elements in the community. Veto From page one dren a chance to serve on the board.

"Everyone I've talked to in Kansas City is pleased with it, because there is representation across a broad section of the community," Clay said. "The point the governor seems to be missing is that 80 percent of the St. Louis School District is made up of black children," Clay said. "And no one on the School Board now has any children in the public schools." Clay, who has filed a federal lawsuit challenging citywide elections for School Board members, said he would now pursue his arguments in court. Currently, all 12 members of the St.

Louis School Board are elected city-wide. The bill would have reduced the board to seven members, each elected from a district. All would have served four-year terms instead of six. In his veto message, Ashcroft said this year's board election showed that the current system allows representation of diverse elements in the community. A slate of two blacks and two whites, representing various areas of the city, prevailed over an all-white slate from the South Side.

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