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6A STLDUIS POST-DISPATCH TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 24. 1991 BRIEFS MISSOURI I T-" AP State Sen. Jay Nixon and his wife, Georganne, paddling down the Missouri River Monday after the senator announced his candidacy for attorney general. Running: Nixon In Attorney General Race Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Princeton, California Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Duke University, Dartmouth College, Columbia University and the University of Chicago.

ST. LOUIS Section Of Forest Park Blvd. To Close The St. Louis Department of Streets will temporarily close parts of Forest Park Boulevard between Union and Euclid avenues today through Thursday. Major maintenance will be done.

Traffic will be detoured. More Information Is available by calling the department at 647-3111. TERM LIMITATIONS Former KC Mayor Backs Petitions Former Kansas City Mayor Charles Wheeler has 1 hooked up with a group that wants to limit terms of Missouri's legislators and members of Congress. The group, called Missourians for Limited Terms, is circulating petitions to put two proposals on the ballot in November 1992. The group said in a statement Monday that Wheeler had joined its statewide advisory board.

Wheeler, a Democrat, was Kansas City mayor from. 1971-1979. He had been considering running against Sen. Christopher S. Bond, a Republican, next year.

One of the group's petitions calls for Missouri state representatives and senators to be limited to eight-year terms. The second petition would limit U.S. representatives from Missouri to four two-year terms and U.S. senators from Missouri to two six-year terms. FLORISSANT Mayor Calls For $580,400 In Cuts Florissant must cut $580,400 from its budget Mayor James J.

Eagan said Monday night Eagan said that because Florissant will probably lose $600,000 this year from the countywide sales tax, it must rely on reserves to meet its expenses of $9.7 million. In addition, he said, the city administration is considering five tax proposals to raise $1.1 million. To meet the shortfall, Eagan suggested: Closing Koch Pool and the Florissant Civic Center, next summer. Laying off three part-time summer street Ending street improvements. ALTON GAMBLING So Far, State's Cut Totals $208,647 Illinois collected $208,647 in taxes from the first 12 days of gambling on the Alton Belle, the Illinois Gaming Board reported Monday.

Operators of the state's first legalized gambling boat said they took in $861,676 in adjusted gross receipts in their first dozen days, results that the Gaming Board said were on track with projections of $21 million in receipts for the first year. Gamblers lost an average of $47 at the tables. In the -first 12 days, 18,156 people climbed aboard the casino. Post-Dispatch Springfield Bureau BISTATE AREA $60 Million Freed For Mass Transit The Metro Link light-rail project and the Bi-State bus system are being kept on track with the release of nearly $60 million in federal money, say Sens. John C.

Danforth and Christopher S. Bond. The U.S. Urban Mass Transportation Administration has awarded $55.7 million for Metro Link and $4,000,500 for new buses. With the new money, Metro Link so far has received $271.7 million in federal money, with $16 million more expected to come later.

The 18-mile track, extending from East St. Louis to Lambert Field with 20 stops along the way, is scheduled to open in July 1993. The federal money for buses will be added to $1,333,500 in local funds to buy 25 buses. "This is good news," said Denise Zerillo, Bi-State spokeswoman. Bi-State was competing with other transit programs for those funds, she said.

The new buses will replace some of the older buses in the fleet Nearly 200 buses are more than 11 years old. Bi-State has 646 buses; the average age of the fleet is 8.6 years, Zerillo said. JEFFERSON COUNTY New Director Of Jail Services Is Named Fred D. Treece, a lieutenant at the Potosi Correctional Center and a former St. Louis police officer, has been named director of jail services in Jefferson County.

Treece, 42, will head operations at the county's new $7.2 million jail. He will be paid $27,000 a year. Sgt. Robert C. Freiner, a road officer, will become the department's chief evidence officer.

He succeeds Bobby Skaggs, who resigned April 23 after being charged with felonies in connection with missing evidence. WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY School Ranks 18th In National Survey Washington University ranked 18th among the top 25 universities in the nation, according to U.S. News World Report's 1992 annual guide to America's best colleges to be published this week. The special issue hits the news stands this week. Harvard ranked at the top of the 204 national universities and Williams College was named the best of the 140 national liberal arts schools.

To determine a school's rank, the school's reputation was combined with data on the selectivity of student body, student satisfaction and the degree to which the school financially supports full-time faculty. W.U. Chancellor William C. Danforth said the university's rank was well-earned. The university ranked among the top 25 for the past two years.

"We have worked very hard," Danforth said. "We have a wonderful faculty an excellent student body and a very exciting intellectual climate." Danforth said the magazine ranking had helped spread the university's reputation abroad, particularly in Japan, Korea, Taiwan and other Asian countries. The top 10 universities in descending order were "When I first started in politics 5'2 years ago I listed some things that were important to me," Nixon said. "I thought we should be able to eat fish in every stream of Missouri. Right now, there are bans on the eating of fish in the Missouri River because of chlorinated poisoning.

I think it's a shame we can't eat out of our own stream, and I'm here to change that." Besides cleaning up Missouri's streams, Nixon said he would continue to focus on consumer issues, environmental areas and reducing crime if elected attorney general next year. Nixon, who lost a congressional bid to Sen. John C. Danforth in 1988, is the fifth Democrat to announce his candidacy. Others who will run include Vernon County Prosecutor Neal Quitno, 34; Mike Wolff, 46, a law professor at St.

Louis University who ran unsuccessfully for attorney general in 1988; Clay County Prosecutor Michael Reardon, 43; and former assistant Jackson County prosecutor Michael Shaffer, 35. The attorney general's office is held by William L. Webster, a Republican who is running for governor. KANSAS CITY (AP) State Sen. Jay Nixon announced his candidacy for Missouri attorney general Monday on the banks of the Missouri River, where he began a canoe trip across the state as part of his campaign.

Nixon, a Democrat from Hillsboro and two-term senator, said he was making the 387-mile river trek from Kansas City to St. Louis because "the stream is the history of our state "This trip reflects me as a person," Nixon said. "I'm prepared to go the long haul. We're prepared to work hard for this office." Nixon and his wife, Georganne, both dressed in warm clothing for the chill of the first day of fall, pushed off from Kansas City at 10:20 a.m. He said he expected the trip, which will include overnight campouts, to take 11 days.

Georganne Nixon was to be replaced today by Nixon's father after the first 15 miles of paddling. Friends, supporters and colleagues also will take turns helping Nixon paddle, he said. Nixon, 35, said he was an experienced canoeist and fly fisherman. The fish he expects to catch during his 11 -day trip will be chemically checked for pollution, he said. Black Officials Back Carnahan For Governor Knuckles also cited Schoemehl's feuds with Comptroller Virvus Jones, the highest-ranking black city official, and said Schoemehl had done little to revitalize the predominantly black neighborhoods in the city.

"We know what Mayor Schoemehl has done, so let's give Mel Carnahan a chance," Knuckles said. Schoemehl was out of town Monday night. Nancy Rice, an aide, said the mayor had learned of the endorsement over the weekend. Of the criticisms, Rice said: "As mayor, Vince has had to do 100,000 things and anyone can find four they don't like." Seven of the black leaders were on hand for the announcement Monday night. Officials declined to reveal how many members they had but said their membership represented all but one of the county's municipalities with black elected officials.

By Cynthia Todd Of the Post-Dispatch Staff A group of black elected officials from St. Louis County endorsed Lt. Gov. Mel Carnahan on Monday night for governor. Theodore Hoskins, president of the Black Elected County Officials and a city councilman in Berkeley, said the officials had chosen Carnahan over St.

Louis Mayor Vincent C. Schoemehl Jr. The two Democrats were the only announced candidates to respond to the group's request for interviews, Hoskins said. Matthew Knuckles, vice president of the group and an alderman in Rock Hill, criticized Schoemehl because he: Appointed James Metzler, a white, to the St. Louis School Board.

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