St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 3

RID AY, MAY 13, 1966 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 3A COUNTY COUNCI ADOPTS PLAN 'SO St. Louis Winner Shows Up At Science Fair as a Sponsor Michigan Teacher, Formerly of Belleville, With Entrant at Dallas COUNCIL URGES AS PROSECUTOR OF HNS ON I ass MERIT SYSTEM l-i fit- I Cites His Refusal to A Questions About Presidential The St. Louis County Council censured Prosecuting Attorney Daniel O'Brien yesterday and called on him to resign. A resolution adopted by the council's four-man Republican majority called attention to a county grand jury finding that the Democratic prosecutor "stultified himself in the performance of his in his relations with the Presidential Investment Co.

It was noted also that his refusal to answer questions presented by the council showed "a complete disreeard for his I obligations to the people of St. Councilman Brainerd W. La-Louis county and to this council Tourette Fifth district, In Line at SIU Campus Dedication An academic procession moving across the Edwards-ville campus of Southern Illinois University today from one of the new classroom buildings there. The proces-sion was part of the three-day campus dedication. junior at Central Lake (Mich.) High School, who was a winner in the Northwestern Michigan Science Faiir at Traverse City, Mich.

His exhibit is called "The Extraction of RNA from the Planaria." "There is no comparison between the first and the seventeenth science fairs," Richards said. "The difference is not only quantity we had 30 finalists at the first national Science Fair. but in quality. "This business of moving science education lower and lower in the schools has really gotten results." money for Presidential business. Mrs.

Stith said O'Brien had not asked her to write the letters, nor had she told him of her intention to write them. One of the figures in the PresU dential scandal, Henry F. Harrison, former secretary-treasurer, was arraigned at Clayton today on an indictment charging theft of $20,000 from the firm. Circuit Judge George W. Cloyd set the case for trial Sept.

19 after Harrison pleaded not guilty. The prosecuting attorney's office was not represented at the arraignment and Judge Cloyd said he would take up selection of a special prosecutor with the circuit court en banc later today. O'Brien, then counsel for Presidential, conferred with Harrison at a police station last August after Harrison was arrested on a child molestation charge. GETS FIVE-YEAR TERM ON ROBBERY GUILTY PLEA Michael Raymond Mitchell, 20 years old, 3200 block of Brown road, St. John, was sentenced today to five years in the penitentiary by Circuit Judge George W.

Cloyd at Clayton after he pleaded guilty a first-degree robbery. Mitchdl was one of three youths charged with stealing, about $100 in the holdup of a general store at Manchester and Mencken roads, in westSt. Louis county, last November. The other youths are awaiting trial. MEYER Z-52' ZOYSIA 10 SF? $3.95 GRASS Sq.

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1-ft00 aiPTTIF'C Flower Garden Pl I It 3801 S. Grand ot Chippewa Open 1-5 Man. thru Sot. Clostd Sun. Spclal to the Post-Dispatch DALLAS; May 13 A former uirnnw of the Greater Tiiir Science Fair is here for the International Science Fair, but this time he is not a contestant.

He is the fceachersponsor of an entrant. Donald Richards was a winner of the Science Fair in St. Louis in 1950, when he was a junior at Belleville Township High School. He went on to the first National Science Fair, held at Philadelphia, with his winning exhibit, ''Beta and Gamma Ray Analysis," Now a science teacher, Richards is here with Rick Guild, a Presidential matter)," Osborne said. Martin asked the Republicans: "What are you trying to prove, other than to have some more publicity?" asserted that the county charter "puts on the council the burden to see that the county government is carried out properly." Sco(t asked: "Can he be impeached?" The grand jury reported that O'Brien, although violating no law, received $33,680 in fees as counsel for Presidential.

The firm has been accused of trying to bribe public olhcials and lor- mer officers of the firm have been indicted and sued for al-. ledge misuse of public funds. Praised in Letters Meanwhile, O'Brien, who seeks renomination at the Aug. 2 primary election, received high praise in letters sent to council members and Supervisor Lawrence iK. Roos by Mrs.

Richard T. Stith president of the county Grand Jurors' Association. She said O'Brien had cooperated fully with the association on several matters, especially in obtaining legislation allowing the county to build a jail outside the county seat at Clayton. Stith was chair- iman of a citizens' committee that worked for a $2,000,000 jail bond issue proposal, approved by voters Jan. 14.

O'Brien made the jail matter a part of his own legislative pro-grain as prosecutor and went to Jefferson City on its behalf, Mrs. Stith wrote. In the light of this his expenditures from his contingency fund do not seem excessive, she said. The counicl has considered suing O'Brien for $2200 he withdrew from his contingency fund for Jefferson City trips, on the ground of possible use of the I FfRt DEPARTMENT PROMOTES 13 MEN By a Poet-Dispatch Photographer tan street; Raymond D. Hans, 6650 Mitchell avenue, and Daniel S.

Austin, 5037 Cabanne avenue, LEO DUROCHER'S FORMER WIFE ROBBED OF $300 Mrs. Grace D. Duroeher, former wife of Leo Duroeher, Chicago Cubs manager, was robbed of $300 yesterday at Eighteenth street and Washington avenue. as the elected representatives of the people of St. Louis county." In the balloting on the resolution Democratic members Maurice W.

Osborne, Second district, and Boris M. Martin, Sixth district, voted no and John O'Hara, First district, There was no discussion of the resolution at the council meet- ing, but members had their say about it' at an executive session of the council as a committee of the whole, before the regular meeting. Reporters were permitted to 'attend this session. GOP members agreed that the council had no choice but to act, in the light of O'Brien's defiance of the council. The Democrats' half-hearted opposition to the resolution was exemplified by O'Hara's comment that the resolution was "rather futile we might do better by concurring with the grand jury findings." PArtjiKlipan PnnnrMl fKairmnn lution did exactly that.

O'Hara remarked that the council had no power under the county charter to impose any punishment against an erring public official, GOP member Hugh Scott Fourth district, agreed but he said, "We can't just push this under the table." Democrat Osborne charged, You re lust maKins this a Mrs. Duroeher left the offices Maurice L. Stewart, Seventh Grace Dozter Duroeher, trict, pointed out that the reso- Thirteen ommotirms and the addition of 34 men to the Fire Department were announced today by Fire Chief Joseph C. Findlay. The additional men bring the Fire Department almost up to authorized strength.

Oapt. Elmer F. Hampe, 5940 Alpha avenue, was promoted to chief has been in the department since 1943 and has beeh a captain since 1952. Twelve privates were promoted to captain. They are: Eugene A.

Bogacki, 6908 Ban-croft avenue; James Blattel, 551S Partridge avenue; Howard H. Sutton, 3656 Marceline terrace; Robert V. Gallagher, 6003 Wanda avenue; William F. Schmidt, 5742 Milentz e. venae; LeRoy Huff, 6166 Garesche avenue.

Harry J. 2egiarski, 5434 Thrush avenue; John S. Crawford, 4094 Concordia avenue; Nick J. Alt-imeyer, 6949 Sutherland avenue; John J. McDermott, 1237 Grat- clothing firm at 1635 Washington, and walked to a parking lot.

She was accompanied by Miss Margarette. Faber, New York City. At the lot the women were accosted by a man who held a hand in his jacket pocket and said he wanted money, Mrs. Duroeher opened her purse. The robber reached in, took the money and fled.

Miss Faber was not robbed. ERSf Universities should not be Gov Otto Kerner said at the dedication of the Edwards- ville campus of Southern Illinois University. In a speech prepared for the dedication, the Governor said, "Universities should aid young sters from the lower classes to move upward to be acquainted -lI- with conditions of the middle class." Gov. Kerner's speech was read by John Rendleman, vice president for business affairs at Southern Illinois University. The Governor was unable to attend the ceremony because of a sore throat.

The $35,000,000 Edwardsville campus was opened last Sep 'Z' a. i. ZL l'Zr. brary on he campus. "In a sophisticated industrial society sweh as ours, discoveries in one area must be communicated to specialists in other areas," Governor Kerner said.

"This is a responsibility of the university." Delyte W. Morris, president of Southern Illinois University, said he hoped that the Edwardsville campus would make an important contribution to the economy of southwest Illinois. "Southwest Illinois can become a significant metropolitan area but it has a long way to go," he said, PAD TDIin( COLLISION KILLS uml 1 "uun BUNKER HILL, MAN Amendment Issue to Be on November Ballot Park Bonds Vote in August Members of the St. Louis County Council resolved their differences yesterday over extension of the merit system for county employes and voted unanimously for a proposal offered by a bipartisan citizens' committee. Under this plan a proposed county charter amendment extending the merit system to virtually all county employes, with a "grandfather clause" permitting retention of patronage employes on the payroll, will be submitted to voters at the Nov.

8 general election. In other action the Council voted to submit a $25,000,000 bond issue proposal for parks at the Aug. 2 primary election. After last week's council meeting voters faced the prospect of having three merit system amendments on the November ballot. One of them, introduced by' Councilman Gerald A.

Rimmel Third district, also would extend the merit system to all employes, but without the grandfather clause. Employes already on the payroll would have to take competitive examinations to keep their jobs. Rimmel and his fellow Republicans agreed yesterday to go along with the citizens committee proposa which is favored also by the three Democratic members. Court's Proposal Still complicating the situation was the third merit system proposal, ordered put on the November ballot by the Missouri Supreme Court last month. Under this proposed amendment the merit system would be extended only to employes in the highway, planning and data processing offices.

The Council would be able to extend the system to other offices by ordinance, but it could not then be withdrawn from any office except by charter amendment. Also, patronage employes would have to take examinations. County Counselor. Moore has ruled that the Council had no authority, under the Supreme Court finding, td' modify or repeal the ordinance involved in the court ruling. Suggests Rescinding Councilman John O'Hara First distriot, suggested yesterday that the court might be asked to rescind its order.

Moore pointed out, however, that the court had held that under the law no charter proposal could be withdrawn once the council ordered it submitted to voters. Rimmel, in a substitute bill yesterday sought to solve the problem by including a pro- vision that the new merit sys- tern amendment, if approved by voters, would "supersede or con- trol over any other amendment on the same subject that may be approved at the same time." Council members agreed to meet in a few days to act finally, on the citizens' committee proposal, which the Democratic members offered yesterday in the form of a bill. Further efforts will be made to solve the dilemma posed by the court order. Reaffirms Opposition Meanwhile, Councilman Maurice W. Osborne Second district, let it be known again that he actually was against merit system extension and was going along with the pending ha jivntvlJ ered it the lesser of two evils.

The action on the park bond Issue proposal was by the Council sitting as a committee of the whole. Submission to voters was called for in petitions circulated by the Open Space Council of Greater St. Louis. Council Chairman Maurice L. Stewart Seventh district, was.

expected to order preparation of necessary legislation by the county counselor's office. A resolution was adopted by the council, authorizing the supervisor to apply for an ad-! vance from the hederal Government to defray the cost of studies and plans for a new county courthouse. Public Works Director Donald E. Mueller said it was planned to request $25,000. The money would toe paid back to the Government if a courthouse were built later.

32, at I iDurocher and the former political football -sure Danny Vernon W. Dozier, a dress de- made a mistake, but he might signer, were married here in have been trying to straighten September 1934 when Duroeher them (the Presidential corn-was playing shortstop for the pany) out." Cardinals. They were divorced "If he had been smart he In 1943. wouldn't have handled it (the II Business or Personal I jf AUTO CHASE ENDS IN WRECK; YOUTH FACES 12 CHARGES Harold Pope, 17 years old, was booked on 12 charges after a chase early today in which he wrecked his father's automobile and a street light standard. The youth, who lives in the 2300 block of South Thirteenth street, is to appear in police court June 13.

Patrolman John Nieman re ported that fope car spun around on the wet pavement at Twelfth and Barton streets at -in Mininia ii7a Aiacr in 2:30 a.m. Pope drove east in Barton, with Nieman in pursuit. The chase led through Eleventh street, Shenandoah avenue, through a service station, back to Twelfth and then to the Third Street Expressway. After the oar struck the light standard on the expressway, near Geyer avenue, Pope jumped out, vaulted a fence and fled on foot. Patrolman Nieman on 1 slre wnere ne J0SC or rne youtn.

Later, Pope was found hiding under a parked car in the 1800 block of South Tenth. He said he had been urged to flee from police by a companion, who did not want to be arrested. He said the' companion, whose name he did not know, left the car before the crash. WMRY-FM GOES ON AIR A new radio station, WMRY-FM, went into operation on the FM band beginning at 6 a.m. today.

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