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4A ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1992 Downtown St. Patrick's Day Pcradte BRIEFS Washington MISSOURI St. Charles Olive CD i Pine Chestnut Market Locust 5 5 5 1Y 00 h- CD ol Reviewing if Stand 1 Buscft nStadiumJJ A A ill v-' )fj if Walnut Begins Here City Hall Clark III rv vJ rf 1 I I i Ted DarganPost-Dispatch Standing Room Only People waiting in line outside of the Busch Stadium ticket offices Monday morning, which was the first day that single-game tickets for Cardinals' baseball were available. The Cardinals' home opener is April 6.

MISSOURI CAPITOL Prison Plan Survives Test Vote By Terry Ganey Post-Dispatch Jefferson City Bureau Chief JEFFERSON CITY A plan to build a prison honor center on Mul-lanphy Street In St. Louis narrowly survived a test on the House floor Monday night when an alternative plan to use the vacant Malcolm Bliss Mental Health Center was defeated 61-68. The vote was taken as the House gave first-round approval to a package of budget bills. As it stands now, the House budget proposal Includes the first $1 million of the $7.7 million cost of the new honor center. It would be built on Mullanphy Street between First and Second streets to house 400 inmates beginning in the summer of 1994.

Rep. Charles "Quincy" Troupe, D-St Louis, tried to change the spending plan to use $1.5 million to open up Malcolm Bliss, 1420 Grattan Street as an honor center. The Corrections Department had offered that proposal last year, but it ran into stiff opposition from residents in the Lafayette Square neighborhood. Troupe said Malcolm Bliss was a solid structure that the state had invested in and that it would be fiscally irresponsible to build an entirely new honor center. "This is the closest thing to voodoo economics I have seen in my life," Troupe said.

"The decision to build the honor center Is strictly political." He was joined by Rep. Louis Ford, D-St. Louis, in whose district the new honor center would be built. "The Mullanphy Street site is a seven-minute walk from the downtown area," Ford said. "They are talking about building a 400-inmate jail near downtown.

I can deal with 20 inmates but not 400." Supporting construction of the new prison were Rep. O.L. Shelton, D-St. Louis, and House Budget Committee Chairman Chris Kelly, D-Columbia. think it is a workable agreement" Shelton said, discussing the negotiations between the city of St.

Louis and the state. Under It the city would give the eight-acre tract on Mullanphy Street for the prison site and in return the state would give to the city the Malcolm Bliss property. Shelton said Malcolm Bliss was old and would not adequately accommodate prison inmates. The House also defeated another amendment by Rep. Michael Reid, R-Hazelwood, to fund a separate unit in the prison system to segregate inmates who tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome).

The House version of the budget is hardly changed from the $9.5 billion spending package proposed by Gov. John Ashcroft in January. It includes about $4 billion of general revenue funds and is based on a projected 4.4 percent growth in state revenue. Bill Would License Kennels, Pet Shops Post-Dispatch Jefferson City Bureau JEFFERSON CITY The state would license kennels and pet shops under a bill given first-round approval in the Senate on Monday. Dealers and commercial breeders of dogs and cats ENVIRONMENT Cousteau To Receive Ecology Medal At UMSL Jacques-Yves Cousteau of underwater fame will surface at the University of Missouri at St.

Louis next week to receive the World Ecology Medal. The ceremony will begin at 11 a.m. on March 17 at the university's J.C. Penney Auditorium. The medal Is awarded annually by the university's International Center for Tropical Ecology.

Cousteau is known worldwide for his underwater exploration. At next week's ceremony, he will speak on saving the environment and will answer questions. The public Is Invited. No admission is charged. Those who want to attend are asked to call 553-5490 to make reservations.

MAYORAL CAMPAIGN Roberts Leading Rivals, Results Of Poll Indicate St. Louis mayoral candidate Steven C. Roberts released the results of a poll Monday that show him leading his rivals with one year to go. "It shows that the citizens are looking for more creative, energetic, viable leadership," Roberts said. Roberts is one of three declared candidates in the March 1993 Democratic mayoral primary.

The others are Aldermanic President Thomas A. Villa and state Rep. Anthony D. Ribaudo, D-St. Louis.

Considering a run is Circuit Clerk Freeman Bosley Jr. The poll shows Roberts the favorite of 42.7 percent, followed by Villa with 27.1 percent, Bosley, 15.6 percent and Ribaudo, 8.7 percent. The poll says Roberts is leading among whites, blacks, men, women and North Side and central corridor voters. Roberts is trailing among South Side voters. WASHINGTON Hispanic Group Honors Danforth For Support For brokering the landmark civil rights law with a reluctant White House last fall, Sen.

John C. Danforth, has been paired with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, for praise and an award from a leading Hispanic civil rights group. The group, the National Council of La Raza, chose Danforth and Kennedy as the outstanding supporters of Hispanic interests In Congress and in their constituencies last year.

KIDS RADIO Group In Illinois Gives $1,550 To Aid Station An Illinois group working to help piit Kids Radio back on the air has donated $1,550 to the station proceeds from a Sunday rally at Belleville Area College. Shirley Shumate, coordinator for Metro East Parents and Kids for the Imagination Station (Kids Radio), said additional promotions and other activities were being planned. "We won't be satisfied until we get the station back on the air," she said. Meanwhile, Melba Anthony, a spokeswoman for Kids Radio, said meetings continued with area corporations and others who want to help the station. "There have been no commitments," she said.

Spruce Wearin' Parades Downtown, In Dogtown To Mark St. Patrick's Day By Fred W. Lindecke Of the Post-Dispatch Staff As tradition has it in St. Louis, there will be two St. Patrick's Day parades again this year.

The downtown parade will be at noon Saturday, and the Dogtown parade will be at 12:30 p.m. on St. Patrick's Day, March 17. This year will mark the 23rd for the downtown parade, sponsored by the Notre Dame Club of St Louis, Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc.

and the St Patrick's Day Parade Committee. This year will be the ninth Dogtown parade, sponsored by the Ancient Order of Hibernians. Because of Metro Link construction, the route of the downtown parade has been altered. It will start at 14th and Olive streets, proceed east on Olive, south on Broadway, pass the reviewing stand at the Old Courthouse and end at Spruce Street. Michael J.

Woods, minister of the marine In the cabinet of Ireland, will be the official representative of Ireland at the parade. The honorary parade marshal will be Martin Duggan, host of the television talk show "Don-nybrook" on KETC (Channel 9). More than 140 units and 5,000 people are expected to be in the parade. The 14th annual Budweiser St. Patrick's Day Run will begin at 9:30 a.m.

Saturday. About 6,000 people participated In last year's 5-mile event by running, walking and using wheelchairs. Those who want to reserve a place in the parade can call 421-1867. Those who want to apply for the run should call 231-2598. She also said a parenting fair to help raise money for the station would be held this weekend at Northwest Plaza.

The fair Is free and open to the public; booths are $250 each. HEALTH CARE Retired Miners Lobby For Benefits Measure A group of retired coal miners gathered at Lambert Field Monday in St Louis while en route to Washington to lobby for passage of a bill to protect their health-care benefits. The Senate Is scheduled to vote Wednesday on the bill, which is sponsored by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, The miners at Lambert were part of 1,400 going to Washington to seek passage. The lifetime health benefits of more than 120,000 retired coal miners are threatened by a $100 million deficit in the health-care fund, a spokeswoman for the United Mine Workers said.

DELLWOOD Head Of Board Chosen To Serve Mayor's Term Dellwood Board President David M. Bardgett was appointed Monday to serve the unexpired term of Mayor William R. Dennis, 43, who resigned effective Monday night after 15 years in city government. Dennis plans to move to St. Charles.

Bardgett has served as Ward 3 alderman for two years. He will serve as mayor until April 1993. The board plans to appoint an alderman to fill Bardgett's seat. ST. LOUIS Election Board Criticized By Blunt On School Vote The St.

Louis Election Board should have acted more quickly to investigate allegations of vote fraud in last April's School Board election, Missouri Secretary of State Roy Blunt said Monday at a news conference announcing his new ethics plan for government. "I think this board failed to realize early on that there was a crisis of confidence," said Blunt, who is running for governor. "There was no reason to have let this go on for 1 1 months now." SPRINGFIELD, ILL Sverdrup Gets Contract To Begin Bridge Studies Sverdrup Corp. was given a $500,000 consulting contract Monday by Illinois and Missouri to begin plans for a bridge across the Mississippi River. Sverdrup's study will start in about three months and will determine the cost and time needed to build a span linking the Metro East area to St.

Louis. The site-selection process is expected to take about a year, Illinois Transportation Secretary Kirk Brown said. Once the site is picked for the bridge, Sverdrup will begin environmental-impact studies that could take three years. Officials don't know the cost of those studies. A new bridge will be funded by Illinois and Missouri.

Gay-Rights Group Seeks Place In Parades Ends Here Post-Dispatch Map Hibernians' Parade 5 Clayton Wise Victoria West Park Nashville Wade Villa Lloyd Brockschmldt Manchester 2.9- Ends Here Post-Dispatch map Kicking off the weekend events will be the Irish Cabaret at 8 p.m. Friday at the Adam's Mark Hotel. Entertainment will be by The Six Priests of Ireland. Tickets are $20; reservations can be made by calling 421-1867. In the Dogtown parade, Michael Brassil, a St.

Louis Irish-American musician, will be the grand marshal. About 50 floats and marching units are scheduled to participate. The parade will assemble in Forest Park at the parking lot on Wells Avenue, across from the St. Louis Zoo. It will proceed across the Tamm Avenue overpass, go south on Tamm and end at St James the Greater Catholic Church, Tamm and Wade avenues.

The Dogtown Business and Merchants Association will offer food and drink along the parade route, and a corned beef and cabbage dinner will be available at St. James Church. Dinkins had supported the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization's right to march two years ago, the protesters said they might ask Mayor Vincent C. Schoemehl Jr. to intervene on their behalf here.

"We've made no request of Schoemehl, but we may approach him," said Steve Gibson, a spokesman for Queer Nation. Ten members of Queer Nation formed a picket line near Clough's office during the lunch hour; no incidents were reported. "We don't want to provoke any arrests," Gibson said. "We just want to remind George Clough that we're here." The picketers didn't see or talk to Clough during the protest, Gibson added. "It's hard to believe that three different people would decide to shoot into three different buildings within an hour of one another," he added.

The earliest reported shooting occurred in June 1989, officials have said. Schnarr and Chief Richard Morris of Clayton said police had no suspects in any of the shootings. "This is really a bad situation," Schnarr said. "We've been worried about it for quite some time. "We were concerned that somebody was going to get hit and now someone has." Neighbors of the Clayton woman who was hit said they heard what sounded like a firecracker about 9:30 p.m.

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The Hibernians want to bar lesbian and gay groups from marching in the parade. The Hibernians order also sponsors the annual Dogtown parade on St. Patrick's Day here; the pickets said they bad been denied permission to march in that too. The parade Is scheduled for March 17. Noting that New York Mayor David Shootings From page one Inside the office, but several people were outside at the time and saw the glass break.

Shots were fired through the front window of an occupied residence in the 1 1600 block of Conway Road in the village of Westwood, which has about 300 residents. No one was Injured. Investigators said the shootings apparently were related. "That would be a reasonable suspicion," said Creve Coeur Police Chief Richard Schnarr. Police Investigating 2 Fatal Shootings St.

Louis police are investigating two fatal shootings that happened Monday night Fred Moore, 28, was shot and killed after leaving a drug store at 4501 Page Avenue near North Taylor Avenue. Police said that Moore was shot four to six times and was pronounced dead at the scene. He lived in the 4400 block of Kennerly Avenue. Sgt. Preston Moore of the homicide division said police were looking for two men in their early 20s.

Moore said that witnesses told police they saw the two men run away from the scene. An unidentified male was found fatally shot about 9 p.m. near the intersection of Bircher and Shirley avenues In the Penrose neighborhood. Police had no suspects dr leads. also would have to be licensed.

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