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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1992 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 7A Monsanto Adds $500,000 To Aid For Hurricane Victims By Linda Eardley Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Money, food, diapers, clothing and bottled water continue to come in from local corporations, churches, organizations and individuals to help the victims of Hurricane Andrew in Florida and Louisiana. On Monday, Monsanto Co. contributed $500,000 in cash and over the weekend, the Red Cross Bi-State Chapter collected $130,000. The Salvation Army has collected six trailer-loads of food and other goods.

Lori Fisher, Monsanto spokeswoman, said the company's cash donation, combined with shipments of medications and artificial sweeteners to medical schools and diabetes centers and food donated by employees could push the company's contribution to the $1 million mark. The $500,000 from Monsanto will be split between the American Red Cross and the Salvation Army, Fisher said. The employees' food donations will be sent to warehouses in northern Florida and distributed to southern Florida, which Andrew hit hardest. The Red Cross Bi-State Chapter said the $130,000 it collected Saturday and Sunday was a record for any two-day disaster relief effort conducted by the 75-year-old chapter. "We were overwhelmed by the response from everyone and their generosity for those in need in the wake of one of the most devastating storms in U.S.

history," said Deborah Patterson, Red Cross chapter executive. Volunteers from the Red Cross and television station KSDK (Channel 5) conducted the drive at three area shopping centers. In the last week, the Red Cross here has received more than $1.5 million for the hurricane victims. The largest single contribution has been $1 million and 30,000 cases of bottled water from Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc.

The Salvation Army has received $30,000 in the last week and collected six trailer-loads of non-perishable food, diapers, toiletries, linens and bottled water over the weekend. United Van Lines and several radio stations helped conduct the weekend drive. Most Catholic churches are encouraging members to contribute through Catholic Charities USA. But Mary Queen of the Universe parish in Lemay is making a personal connection with the Sacred Heart parish in Homestead, Fla. Mary Queen's pastor, the Rev.

John Siesle, said he had asked the Archdiocese of Miami to identify a needy church because some donors "like to have a more personal- type connection." Siesle said he learned from the pastor there that the church had survived the hurricane but was surrounded by devastation in a half-mile radius damage that left many parishioners in need. A collection on Sept. 13 at the parish in Lemay for the church in Florida will mark the beginning of an ongoing partnership with the church and school. Students here will send coins and letters of support, and "maybe in December or January, we'll see what we can do to help," Siesle said. St.

Matthew's Methodist Church in Belleville coordinated a collection Sunday and Monday that filled two of its coach buses with canned goods, baby food, diapers, bottled water and clothes. The buses took off Monday afternoon for the Hispanic Mission Project in Homestead. Joining St. Matthew's in the effort were 24 Methodist churches and some other denominations, said St. Matthew's pastor, the Rev.

Robert L. Souders. The Jewish Federation of St. Louis has begun an emergency fund for Hurricane Andrew victims. "The High Holidays are coming up," said Jan Pollack, communications director.

"That's a concern. There were synagogues leveled." On Monday, McDonald's restaurants began placing Red Cross envelopes on counters in restaurants in Missouri and Illinois. "Hopefully, through offering these envelopes in our 127 restaurants, our customers will have an easy' way to help during this disaster," said David Weinbaum, president of the McDonald's OwnerOperator Association of St. Louis fcMetro East. Florida Scott County Bondsman Surrenders His License WJJ ---X i 4 Mis 1 Vl iV-C I 1 limn, v.y gjp By Bill Smith Of the Post-Dispatch Staff A bail bondsman in southeastern Missouri who was facing state action to revoke his license has decided to voluntarily surrender the license and stop writing bonds in Missouri, a spokeswoman with the state Department of Insurance said Monday.

Records show that the bondsman, Dennis Carlisle, wrote more than $500,000 in bonds in Scott County between March 1991 and March 1992. More than half of that total $390,560 was written before he was licensed Oct. 22, said the spokeswom-. an, Valerie Gibson. "Dennis Carlisle bailed out of the bail bond business before we could begin proceedings to revoke his license," Gibson said.

Carlisle could not be reached for comment Monday. Carlisle's company, Carlisle Court Services, first came under state scrutiny last fall after insurance officials learned that he had written at least four bonds without a license. The insurance department fined him $50 and issued him a license. In July, the Post-Dispatch reported that Carlisle was involved in an unusual bonding arrangement with a friend, Associate Circuit Court Judge David C. Mann.

Under that arrangement, Mann had agreed to relieve Carlisle of liability for the full amount of bonds he posts for defendants in return for Carlisle's paying 5 percent of his fees to Scott County. At the time, bonding experts said the arrangement appeared to be the first of its kind in the state and seemed to defeat the purpose of the bail bond process. Bonds, in effect, are insurance policies held by courts to ensure that a defendant returns for court If the defendant fails to show up, the courts can push the bondsman for forfeiture of the bond. On Aug. 4, the Post-Dispatch reported that Carlisle had written at least 16 bonds before he was licensed r'not four, as the state originally had believed.

Gibson, of the insurance department, said an investigator with the department went to Sikeston oh Aug. 11 and met with Carlisle's bookkeeper. The bookkeeper produced records showing that Carlisle, in fact', had written at least 91 bonds totaling $390,560 before his license was approved. Records showed that Carlisle had received more than $37,000 in fees for writing those bonds. Based on that information, Gibson said, insurance officials told Carlisle that they were beginning proceedings to revoke his license.

Gibson said that decision was based, in part, on the department's belief that Carlisle had not been honest with insurance investigators whfen he failed to tell them of the additional bonds. Carlisle wrote on Aug. 13 that he was surrendering his license. j- Gibson said Carlisle's decision to surrender his license could not be made public until Monday because the case was still open and not public. Gibson said that although Carlisle legally can no longer write bonds, he remains responsible for those that already have been written.

In addition to the bonding arrangement between Carlisle and Mann, the two also entered into an arrangement whereby Carlisle oversees the probation of defendants sentenced in Mann's court. Under that arrangement, Carlisle receives $30 a month from those defendants who are able to pay. Mann and Carlisle steadfastly have defended the bail bond and probation arrangements. They have said the bonding arrangement provides extra income to the financially strapped AP Jorge Vega of Florida City, reading his Bible Monday as he the rubble of his home. Vega and his family were at home when 'Scrubber9 Project Is Illinois Coal Use Could Suffer From page one state of Florida will be totally busted." White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said that President George Bush was "quite sympathetic" to Chiles' plea but that a decision had yet to be made.

Meanwhile, Bush announced that he would return to Florida and Louisiana today to inspect relief efforts and to assure victims of the storm. After a series of meetings with top aides, building-trade officials and humanitarian leaders, Bush said he would be taking his wife, Barbara, and Defense Secretary Dick Cheney along on the trip. "This has got to be a long-term commitment," he said. "In many ways the hardest work is yet to come." He said he wanted the victims and state and local officials in Florida and Louisiana to know the government was in "for the long haul" and said all Americans should help in the relief effort. Bush also met with insurance industry executives to hear how they planned to handle the flood of claims from victims of the hurricane, the costliest in American history.

"The insurance industry obviously has never seen anything like this in the history of the country," Fitzwater said. The hurricane forced Florida to postpone today's state elections in Dade County, push back the Miami Dolphins' home opener and delay opening Dade schools, which had been originally set for Monday. U.S. District Court in Miami announced it would begin no new criminal trials for two weeks because of problems recruiting jury members during the cleanup. Some officials expressed confusion about who was in charge of the enormous relief effort.

An Army spokesman, Lt. Col. Bill Reynolds, said Transportation Secretary Andrew Card was in charge. But Chiles' chief of staff, Tom Hern-don, insisted that the state and federal agencies were leading their own programs. "There Is no single boss of all bosses," he said.

The confusion has led to spoilage of donated food left outside and to clothing being dumped in the trash after sitting in mud puddles. Some have urged unified radio frequencies for all relief agencies and a high-profile disaster czar, such as retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf. Uranium From page one home, this agreement will secure long-term supplies of less-expensive fuel for U.S.

nuclear power stations to the benefit of American consumers, with no adverse impact on American jobs." He added an election-year note: "This U.S.-Russian agreement illustrates how foreign policy accomplishments can promote our domestic economic well-being while making the world a safer place to live." U.S. purchase of weapons-grade Russian uranium had been under consideration within the administration for months, as part of an overall policy review of what to do with the surplus uranium and plutonium recovered from the reduced nuclear arsenals of both countries. Terms From page one "The voters won't be restricted to the current political elite." Rep. Richard A. Gephardt, D-St.

Louis County, said term limits were already in effect two years in the House and six in the Senate. He said the term-limit amendment should be defeated so "voters retain their right to determine whom they want to represent them." "The people run this country, and they make the choices whom they want," said Gephardt, who was first elected in 1976. "All term limits do is put the power in the hands of lobbyists and the bureaucrats. I don't know that that works in the people's interest." Rep. Joan Kelly Horn, D-Ladue, said she understood the level of frustration among some voters but that term limitation was not a solution.

"People in their own wisdom know their representatives the best, and every two years they can send them packing," said Horn, who was first elected two years ago. "What we really need is reform of the campaign finance system, to create a more equal playing field. We need to limit spending by special interest groups and how much of your own money can be spent." Rick Hardy, the Republican candi By Robert Goodrich and Robert Kelly Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Illinois Power Co. announced Monday that it had halted work on antipollution "scrubbers" for the smokestacks at its Baldwin power plant after sinking about $20 million into the $350 million project. Scrubbers would allow continued burning of high-sulfur Illinois coal without violating federal and state clean air laws.

Company officials said an Illinois Commerce Commission decision last month had led them to question whether they could recover the cost of the scrubbers. They said the commission had disallowed a request to charge customers for some of the expenses and taxes incurred in building the company's nuclear generating plant in Clinton. Larry D. Haab, Illinois Power Co. chief executive officer, said, "The current uncertainty of the regulatory and legal climate puts us in a position of having to review all of our plans for significant future investment." But Gerald Hawkins, legislative director for the United Mine Workers, sat with his two pet puppies in Hurricane Andrew hit.

water into the region had prevented outbreaks of typhoid or cholera. "Mosquito bites are getting badly infected, people are walking through water in streets and yards," said a nurse. "Most everything can grow in that water." Thunderstorms hit for a third straight day Monday, and steady, seasonal rain was forecast throughout this month. In Louisiana, where the storm caused an estimated $400 million in damage, the Federal Emergency Management Agency started handing out relief checks Monday. More than 50,000 Louisiana residents still had no power.

The Red Cross said 25,000 people there were homeless. The number of deaths blamed on Andrew in Florida, Louisiana and the Bahamas stood at 35. The U.S. Coast Guard said four bodies were found floating Monday in the Gulf of Mexico 60 miles south of Atchafalaya Bay. The unidentified bodies were taken to the Plaquemines Parish coroner to see if the deaths were hurricane-related.

riched Russian uranium for five years, and at least 30 tons a year after that. No price was given, but under current conditions, the market value for 10 tons would be about $45 million, minus the cost of diluting and transporting. Paul Leventhal, director of the Washington-based Nuclear Control Institute, a proliferation watchdog group, said that "overall the idea of blending down the bomb-grade uranium is good and should be encouraged." But he objected to a part of the agreement that stipulates that much of the Russian material would be transported to this country for processing. "Long distance transport of weapons-grade uranium should be avoided if at all possible," he said, because the material could fall into the hands of terrorists or rogue governments. Highly enriched uranium, he explained, is easy to make into nuclear explosive devices.

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Art Direction, Variety Or Music Program: "The Magic of David Copperfield XIV: Flying. the Dream," CBS. Lighting Direction, Drama Series, Variety Series, Miniseries Or Special: "The Magic of David Copperfield XIV: Flying Live the Dream," CBS. Governors Award: Ted Turner. more tents.

The Defense Department said that by the end of the day, southern Florida would have 11,510 federal troops, 4,600 portable toilets, 15,500 radios, 34 portable food kitchens, 638,600 ready-to-eat meals, 240,000 cans of insecticide and enough tents to hold 23,570 people. It was difficult to confirm how much of that had arrived, in part because traffic was heavy and telephone service had not been restored to all areas. About 525,000 people still lacked electricity. The half-dozen major hospitals in the disaster zone remain closed. Makeshift clinics have been set up at schools and community centers, but doctors and nurses have been so busy treating the injured that they have virtually no time to spend on preventive medicine.

Scores of people were suffering from badly infected mosquito bites, stomach disease and diarrhea, volunteers said. "There's a lot of dehydration and diarrhea," said Dr. Joe Greer, a volunteer. But he said efforts to get drinking made a preliminary finding that Russia is "dumping" uranium in the United States at unfairly low prices. That ruling did not apply to highly enriched, bomb-grade uranium, because no such material had been sold commercially.

But a final ruling, expected this autumn, could be amended to apply duties to the bomb-grade material if it is intended for commercial use, lawyers in the case said. Bush's assertion that importing more uranium would not result in any U.S. job losses is based on the fact that the Energy Department's uranium plants are extremely inefficient, money-losing electricity guzzlers. By obtaining Russia's highly enriched uranium, diluting it and then feeding it to U.S. power plants, the uranium plants would require less electricity and thus could actually save money.

Under the agreement announced Monday, the United States would buy at least 10 tons a year of highly en Drama Series: "Northern Exposure," CBS. Comedy Series: "Murphy Brown," CBS. Minisertes: "A Woman Named Jackie," NBC. Variety, Music Or Comedy Program: "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson," NBC. Made For Television Movie: ''Hallmark Hall of Fame: Miss Rose White," NBC.

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Writing, Comedy Series: "Seinfeld: The Fix Up, NBC. Writing, Miniseries Or Special: "I'll Fly Away," NBC(Pilot). Card said at a news conference Monday that the relief operation could work only with complete state and federal coordination, and he conceded that people were running into "a significant amount of red tape." Congress plans to start work on a bill providing billions of dollars in aid when lawmakers return next week from their August recess. The first tent city was erected on Homestead's Harris Field by 450 Marines who worked all night. Fourteen cots fit into each of the 108 tents.

Marines also set up a similar camp on parkland in nearby Florida City. And an Army unit began building a 40-tent camp in Homestead. The Marines said city authorities would decide when people could move in. The Sierra, a destroyer tender from Charleston, S.C., arrived Monday with 15 tons of tools and a crew of 1,000, followed by the Opportune, a salvage ship from Little Creek, Va. Five ships were expected by today.

Hundreds of Navy engineers, mechanics and carpenters were sent to Homestead and Florida City to erect Russian Atomic Energy Minister Viktor Mikhailov officially offered a deal along the lines of the one announced Monday when he visited the United States in July. Despite its apparent logic, the agreement could be controversial for reasons having to do with nuclear non-proliferation policy and the depressed state of the U.S. uranium industry. Longstanding U.S. policy has been to keep weapons-related uranium programs entirely separate from commercial nuclear power, thus limiting the opportunities for unauthorized access to bomb-grade material.

Blending weapons-grade uranium into commercial fuel would mean abandoning that policy. In addition, the U.S. uranium industry has shrunk to about a fifth of its 1980 peak output, in large part because of a surge in low-cost imports of commercial grade fuel from Russia and other former Soviet republics. The Commerce Department has date in Missouri's 9th District and a board member of the sponsoring group, says he supports term limits because "the system is rigged." "Incumbents have an army of staff working to keep them in Congress," Hardy said. "They have franking privileges.

They have special interest groups to help them." Hardy is a political science professor on unpaid leave from the University of Missouri at Columbia. He is challenging Rep. Harold Volkmer, D-Hannibal. Volkmer was unavailable for comment Monday. Missouri is one of 15 states that will have congressional term limitation on the ballot in November.

Sponsors said Monday that they hoped the movement would force Congress into proposing an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to limit terms on the national level. Hardy said he expected a court test of the validity of the amendment. He said he believed states had the power to limit terms in Congress, but he added that it was "one of the gray areas of the Constitution." "I guarantee there will be a court case somewhere," Hardy said. Blunt's office said 112,205 signatures of registered voters had been needed on the term-limitation initiative petitions.

He said 185,947 signatures had been collected in six of Missouri's congressional districts and 139,396, or approximately 75 percent, had been declared valid. Mother In Edwardsville Cheers Daughter's Emmy said cost recovery of the scrubbers was guaranteed. He said the decision on the Clinton nuclear plant was a separate issue. An Illinois law that was passed last year requires the scrubbers, Hawkins asserted. "We will urge the attorney general to seek an injunction to man- date that the company comply With1 the law." iK Craig Nesbit, an Illinois Power Co.

spokesman, said the scrubber, law conflicts with another state law that, requires utilities to choose the. least expensive option in such situations. The least costly option in this ease is. to switch from high-sulfur to medium-sulfur Illinois coal for the remainder, of this decade, he said. When the scrubber project started, the state's own experts were claiming that the supply of medium-sulfur coal was inadequate, which later proved false, Nesbit said.

He said Illinois Power remains committed to using Illinois coal at Baldwin but will switch from high-sulfur coal supplied by Peabody Coal Co. and Arch Coal Sales to medium-sulfur coal to be supplied by a Consol Inc. mine at Sesser, 111. later got a bachelor's degree in theater from Illinois State University in Normal. From there, she went to Chicago, where she was a co-founder of the Steppenwolf Theatre, an ensemble company with which she stillper-.

forms during breaks from, taping "Roseanne," her mother said. Laurie Metcalf has had the role of Roseanne's sister, Jackie, since the television series began in 1988. Her Emmy is the first one won by the "Roseanne" series. Her father, James F. Metcalf, was budget director for Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville when he died in 1984.

The student theater at SIUE is named after him, said, Greg Conroy, a university, spokesman. Libby Metcalf says she still believes her daughter does her best work in the theater. "It just comes all together on stage for her," Libby Metcalf said. "She's just won a Emmy. Now all we need is a Tony." The Tony awards are given for performances on the Broadway stage.

Libby Metcalf said her daughter returned to Edwardsville only ocqasion- ally. "She hates to fly, which is unusual in an actress, I know," Libby Metcalfid. By Robert Kelly Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Libby Metcalf of Edwardsville never had a doubt that her daughter Laurie would win an Emmy award for her role as Roseanne's sister in the popular ABC-TV series "Roseanne." "She really didn't think she was going to win it, but I did," Libby Metcalf said Monday in an interview. "I just know what a good actress she is." Laurie Metcalf, who grew up in Edwardsville, took home the Emmy for supporting actress in a comedy series at the nationally televised awards show Sunday night in Pasadena, Calif. Libby Metcalf paused briefly from her job Monday as a librarian at the Edwardsville Public Library to indulge in some bragging rights.

"I'm very thrilled and very proud," she said. "She looked beautiful at the ceremony." Libby Metcalf said she had watched the awards ceremony on television and cried a few tears of joy in a personal celebration afterward. Then she was right back at work at the library on Monday. She said she had left a congratulatory message for her daughter and expected to hear from her soon. Laurie Metcalf graduated from Edwardsville High School in 1972 and I.