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3 SfP 2 61994 bl.LUUIb PUSI-Ulbr'AllH MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1994 I 9 II 1 1 1 riYi7 17 County Fair Ends With Sunny Outlook anei nips rur iiuuauiig Furor Over Simpson Hearing Vr University, sponsored by the St. Louis Chapter of the Society of Prnfpssinnal Tnurnalists. the 25 hot-air balloons did not fly, because the air show just before that event had lasted longer than scheduled. The balloons were inflated much to the delight of the many onlookers but they remained tethered. Wright said the show, which is billed as an annual event, will go on next year.

Last year, it was canceled because the show grounds were under water. The major problems of the 1992 fair handling the volumes of traffic and parking were solved this year, Wright said. The major access road, Chesterfield Airport Road, was widened to five lanes from two. Also, the parking areas were upgraded. Even after the weekend rain, those areas remained firm and dry, Wright said.

He said he will know in about a month how much money the fair made. Two years ago, the fair netted $75,000, which was donated to Children's Miracle Network. By Marianna Riley Of the Post-Dispatch Staff i Despite the weekend drizzle, the St. Louis County I Fair and Air Show went off without a hitch, according to Art Wright, assistant general chairman. On Sunday afternoon, a somewhat relieved Wright said, "The sun is shining between the clouds.

I There's blue sky in the west." The second annual fair was held at Spirit of St. Louis Airport in Chesterfield. The top-billed Canadian Air Force Snowbirds were a major crowd-pleaser during the afternoon air shows. I "Any time you get nine planes flying wing-tip to wing-tip, it's pretty thrilling," Wright said. Wright estimated about 12,300 people visited the fair on Sunday, most of them staying for the closing fireworks show.

Officials estimated more than 18,000 visited the fair Saturday, but heavy rain Saturday night forced the cancellation of the fireworks. The only major schedule change Sunday was that By Louis J. Rose Of the Post-Dispatch Staff A four-member panel of two lawyers, a judge and an editor said Sunday that television has triggered much of the pre-trial frenzy in OJ. Simpson murder case. But they disagreed on whether to blame the defense or prosecution for repeated and seemingly prejudicial news "leaks." "There are so many unethical things being done," declared St.

Louis Circuit Judge Evelyn Baker, one of the panelists. "It has been a travesty. That's not what justice in this country is supposed to be about." She said she believed that both sides had leaked allegations. Baker said that as a judge, she would not only issue a gag order banning out-of-court comments by attorneys and police, but would also consider issuing contempt citations against reporters who published leaks and then refused to identify the source; About 50 people attended the panel at Washington Peter Hernon, a Post-Dispatch LangloiS editor for police and court beats, said gag orders don't work. The Simpson case, he said, is "driven by television." Print media have "been forced to follow television time and again.

We just can't keep up with television on this story." The chapter also presented its annual Con Lee Kelliher award for distinguished achievement to Suzanne Lang-lois, 26, a reporter with the Riverfront Times. The award goes to a local reporter under the age of 36 and honors Kelliher, who worked for the Post-Dispatch and the Globe-Democrat. He died in 1961. Langlois has been a reporter at the Riverfront Times since 1992. She covers local and state politics, the environment and real estate development.

Dredge To Be Down By The River's Shore Sifting Sand EFORE HIGHWAY workers can start pouring concrete for a new highway in St. Charles County, Rob To get the sand, the company's crews will pump 3 million cubic yards of it from the bottom of the Mississippi, using an electric dredge named the California. The dredge will troll up and down the river sucking sand towboats are hauling it up the Mississippi from New Orleans. It'll arrive next month, and work will start by the end of the month. When the pumping starts, anyone standing near the pipe will be able to hear pings and clings as gravel washes against the pipe, said Ted Nauman, the Highway Department's resident engineer in St.

Charles County. At the other end, you may see those rocks flow out. But you won't see fish because fish don't like the looks of the underwater pump, said Bill Meier, Great Lakes' office engineer. "Fish stay clear of that," he said. Send questions and comments about getting around to Drive Time, co Virgil Tipton; St.

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excess water will flow into creeks that will carry it back into the Mississippi after the water has had a chance to sit in a settling basin so that the sand won't go back where it came from. The dredge job will be one of the biggest in the Midwest in the past couple of decades, and the biggest ever in Missouri. The distance the company will pump the sand likewise sets a record. The cost reflects that. The state's contract with the company is worth $15.5 million for laying pipe, pumping and transporting sand.

At the peak, about 30,000 cubic yards of sand will flow through the pipes to the job site every day. To get that much material in the conventional way, dump trucks would have to unload enough sand to fill 2,000 semis a day. "That's a lot of trucks," Rupel said. The California is on its way here now; The dredge will pump a blend of sand and water through an underwater pipe up to a half-mile long. When the pipe reaches the bank, the mix will flow into 30-inch-wide steel pipes strung along the ground.

At its shortest, the steel pipe will have to stretch three miles to the field where highway workers, using bulldozers, will build the road. At its longest it will stretch seven miles. When it is finished, Highway 370 will run about eight miles from northern St. Charles to its intersection with Interstate 70 in St. 'Peters.

The dredge is electric, and a power hog. It needs so much energy that Great Lakes has had to string utility poles and power lines for 14 miles to the nearest substation. The company's electric bill will run about $250,000 a month, said Randy Hitt, senior inspector on the project for the Missouri Highway and Transportation Department When the material reaches the job site, from the river bed in the area around the Golden Eagle Ferry landing, a few miles downstream from the Lincoln County line. The dredge will start its job in a spot in the river where the bed is 30 feet underwater, Rupel said. But the company's permits allow it to dig holes up Rupel and his crew will have to do the groundwork seven miles away and 85 feet underwater.

The roadway Missouri Highway 370 must stand above the flood plain. For that to happen, highway crews need to build the road atop sand lots of sand, enough to fill two Union Stations from floor to ceiling. It'll be the job of Rupel and his co-workers to get the sand to the construction site. The I story of how they'll do it involves power lines, bulldozers, miles of steel pipe, a bunch of frightened fish and the bed of the Missis-; sippi River. Rupel is project engineer for Great Lakes Dredge Dock a company based in Oak Brook, 111.

Great Lakes employees have been here since July laying and welding pipe. They'll probably be here until next July before the work is finished. to 85 feet deep. The dredge won't have to move very far up or down the river to keep getting sand because the river itself will carry new supplies to it, Rupel said. police Link Proposed Empowerment Zone HDC Teen's Slaying WELLSTON Empowerment Zone ST.

LOUIS COUNTY the federal government's push to abolish poverty, HDC has grown to serve 50,000 people in St. Louis and Wellston with a budget of $18 million. HDC gets 80 percent of that mon- ey from the federal government, with the city government and business providing the rest. Smith's job has been to track that money. The agency uses most of it $15 million to teach preschoolers in Head Start.

The rest keeps young children healthy through the WIC food program and helps people pay utility bills and rent. Smith says her biggest priority is to raise more money to expand existing programs. She is particularly in- terested in at-, tacking teen 11. sr. LOUIS CITY From page one ing and fiscal mismanagement undercut its effectiveness.

In 1992, the agency lost nearly $1 million in grant money for mismanagement of its weatherization program. The agency also has been criticized for its operation of the Head Start program. "She knows the operation inside out," said Benjamin Bond, HDC board member, in a telephone interview from New Orleans. Bond was among HDC board members and staff in New Orleans attending the annual conference of NEIGHBORHOODS IN THE EMPOWERMENT ZONE 20 Kosciusko 22 Benton Parte 23 McKlnleyFox 24 Fox Park 29 Tiffany 30 Bnton Park West 31 The Oats District 32 Lafayette Square 33 Peabody, Darst, Webbe 34 LaSalkt Park 36 Downtown West 37 Mkttown 59 JefTVanderLou 60 St Louis Place 61 Carr Square 62 Columbus Square 63 OM North St Louis 64 Near North Riverfront 65 Hyde Park Covenant BluOrand Center Neighborhood numbers are designated by city government. pregnancy, which she says is among the root causes of poverty.

"Getting the National As-sociation of Community "When her current boss was not around, she ran the place," 3mith brings 26 years off experience to the director's office. She started with HDC as an accountant. I if A he said. Larry Hinton-Johnson, chairman of LANDMARKS St Louie University LaClede Town Herbert Hoover Boys' Club 8 A.G.Edwards Lafayette Park Union Electric Ralston Purina Company ToFistfight By Bill Bryan Of the Post-Dispatch Staff A fistfight between two youths last mbnth on a fast-food restaurant parking lot led to revenge and a fatal shooting Sunday afternoon in Walnut Park, police said. iNathaniel Phillips, 14, was shot in the back as he tried to run from a y0uth, 15, who confronted him 1 p.m.

in the 5500 block of Park Lane, near Riverview Boulevard and West Florissant Avenue. INathaniel was pronounced dead at Barnes Hospital. His mother, Frieda Phillips, was with him at the time. 'The suspect was arrested shortly after the snooting and turned over to StL Louis Juvenile Court authorities. Hfc was booked on suspicion of murder under the juvenile code; the juvenile court judge will decide later if he should be certified to face the charge as! an adult.

"The suspect and the victim had been involved in a fight this summer," said Homicide Sgt. Preston Moore. He did not know the reason for the fight last month, which occurred on the parking lot of the Church's Chicken restaurant at Thekla Avenue and Riverview. INathaniel Phillips lived in the 5900 block of Garesche Avenue, near the scne of the shooting. murder weapon was not recovered.

iMoore said the victim was walking down Park when the suspect approached him 'and pulled out a small caliber revolver. Nathaniel ran and two shots were fired. Nathaniel collapsed in the 5900 block of Lucille Avenue. 1 lEddie Simmons, a St. Louis police Officer who tives in the area of the shooting, said had seen Nathaniel a short time earlier Sunday.

seemed like a good kid," Sim-mbns said. "I never heard about him beuig involved with anything bad, like a lot of lads who live near him. uked 'my dogs and would ask me about them. He just saw my dogs today. hard to believe he's dead, now.

It's a shame." SOURCE: St. Louis Development Corp. pregnant as a teen-ager; they are usually already in a bad setting, and this makes it worse," she said by telephone from New Orleans. Smith wants to find a grant or private funding to expand counseling for teen-age parents in schools, and for teen-age girls to prevent them from becoming pregnant. She says she'll need 10 times the $10,000 she currently has to run the program if she is ever to make a dent in pregnancy rates.

In some area communities, the teen pregnancy rate is 80 percent. Historically, HDfi asfieen rocked by criticism ftyrr gations of financial mismanagement to complaints about its JjfandsjUd approach to helping the poqjf. Smith's plan is to run the agency effectively, efficiently and without new staff. Zone the 18-member HDC board, thinks that because Smith is a woman she can help the agency build a stronger bond with the area's poor. "There will be a different type of sensitivity," said Hinton-Johnson, who also was in New Orleans.

Women "can feel the pulse of teen-age pregnancy, of welfare reform, of motherhood," and can create a more realistic approach to problems. Smith brings 26 years of experience to the HDC director's office. She started with HDC as an accountant. In 1981, she became comptroller. She has a management certifi-'cate from the American Banking Institute and is working on a bachelor's degree in management at Mary-ville University.

Since opening in 1964 as part of Post-Dispatch Map federal grants to increase the total impact. Here's how: Some 370 local businesses plan to buy products from zone companies and to provide jobs or social services tg zone residents. Local businesses outside the zone plan to establish at least 1,500 new jobs for zone residents. The public and private sectors pledge more than $330 million in goods, services and funding for the zone. From page one credits and other incentives will be combined in an attempt to foster economic improvement.

For example, an entrepreneur interested in opening a retail business could receive a tax break for locating in the zone or for employing people who live in the zone. In an attempt to make the application more competitive, local leaders promise to combine resources with the Plan "Transportation eojefined" retains some of the tr atispbrtation projects that officials Jiavelalked about in recent a new bridge over the; sippi River downtown, an extension rf Page Avenue into St. Char)e(s County, improvements to Missouri Highway 21 in Jefferson County and MetroLink traffic onto highways and telecommuting. Financial limits. Agencies have to show they can afford what's on their lists, "in past plans, everybody submitted their transportation projects and they were put into the plan, even though there was no way we could pay for all of them," Forlaw said.

will have to compete with buses, with car pools and with MetroLink for project money. And new roads will carry some disadvantage because federal law restricts projects that will create more air pollution. More reliance on traffic management. To lower congestion, planners will consider such things as ride-sharing programs, tolls during rush hours, meters to control the flow of A bigger concentration on road maintenance. In Missouri today, 39 percent of state roads in the St.

Louis area are considered physically deficient. Delaying maintenance, as many agencies have done, only makes it more expensive, the plan says. A smaller chance for new roads. Because planners will look at different ways of doing things, new roads From page one projects more acceptable when it's time to build. Some of the changes from earlier plans include: rnt extensions.

Crash Kills Man, 20, In Franklin County jFjinS Camp Villa Ridge, also was taken to the A man from Pacific was thrown out hospital. The Highway Patrol said Dailey was rounding a curve about three-quarters of a mile north of Highway 100 when he lost control of his car. The vehicle went down an embankment and overturned. Neither occupant was wearing a seat belt. of his car and fatally injured in an accident about 4:15 a.m.

Sunday on Route MM in Franklin County, authorities. A passenger sustained minor injuries. The victim, Douglas J. Dailey, 20, was pronounced dead at St. John's Mercy Hospital in Washington.

The passenger, Wayne H. Calvin, 20, of how things are going. Sometimes, she said, they whisper "good luck." Still, the harassment is not over. "They lie low for a couple of weeks, then something new happens," she says. The local sheriffs department makes an attempt to investigate, but has never prosecuted.

Camp complaints are often listed as "unfounded." But Wilson feels good about her new life. "We get hundreds of letters of support, and occasional donations," she said. "The ironic twist is that we seem to have touched Americans' hearts." From page one desperate. Construction continues throughout the retreat; and a community center is almost complete. gunshots are less frequent.

Men holler obscenities from the surrounding woods less often. And five of the original 11 plaintiffs in! a suit against the retreat have dropped (Occasionally, townspeople approach her or her colleagues to ask But Ray and other fans said their "who-needs-it?" attitude toward the game had been softened somewhat from hours of watching the "Baseball" epic on PBS. "I remembered how much I love baseball," said Bob Axley, 26, of St. Charles, who took his son, Br-andon, 4, to the stadium. "The strike is pretty dishearteniijbujt Lig sure I'll comeback." Ray will too.

"It's a neat game," he said. A CJICKTVA "It's unfortunate this-'liarJib" happen, but I'll be bacft.Sfte&gayf us a free ticket." WW I 1AFI The Cardinals certainly won't take such positive statements forgranted. "Today, it looks ke 'they'll be back," Bartow said. will tell. Management, owners and ers everyone's going to to do a big image cleanup after this is all over.

We felt to start this now. bc-6 ttk "Why wait until the strike is over?" Police Still Seeking Truck Of Slain Man From page one Joe Torre worked the crowd on the field, 14 former Cardinals players gave playing tips and manned autograph booths, and Hall of Famers Stan Musial and Red Schoendienst made appearances at the museum. The team also gave out free tickets good for a game next season, autographed team baseballs to fans 15-and-under, and offered all concession stand items for $1. It apparently was too much to resist, even for fans disgruntled by the eighth and most serious work stoppage baseball has experienced in the last 22 years. "Baseball ought to give the fans some sort of World Series, some sort of finale, even if it's just one game," said Ray Shell, 13, of Godfrey, 111.

"I don't really like it at all. The owners and players just want money." St. Louis County Police are still looking for the truck of a homicide victim found stabbed in his home in south St. Louis County Saturday night. Police say Mark S.

Damhorst, 37, was killed in an apparent robbery at his home in the 9600 block of Sap-pington Road. His burgundy 1989 Ford Ranger truck was missing. The truck, with license plates 5BT-002, is registered to Finishing Touch Landscaping Co. Damhorst lived alone. St.

Louis County detectives said neighbors and relatives called police when they became concerned that they hadn't heard from him. Police entered the house Saturday afternoon and found the body and signs of a robbery. Police asked anyone who has seen the truck to call 889-2400. daily and Sunday home I 1 delivery of the I V' fl 111 Post-Dispatch today. vTV.i Call 314-340-8888 to subscribe.

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