St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 4

A MAY 14 1987 (H4A Region ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH May 14, 1987 City Agency Director Will Work For Villa County Hopes Horse Club Will Ride In Out Of West Regional Unit Admits elected officials In the city the mayor, aldermanic president and comptroller have deputies assigned to them for security. Coleman said Wednesday that the development agency job was "a tremendous professional opportunity." "Having grown up in a neighborhood on the South Side, in Fox Park I've always had a deep interest in helping to serve the community and provide a level of service to its rebuilding, particularly neighborhood preservation," be said. Coleman has been with Mercantile for 4 years. For seven years before that, he was executive director of the DeSales Community Housing a non-profit neighborhood corporation on the South Side.

Villa controls three patronage positions at the Board of Aldermen. Hiring Geisman means that be will have three aides but no secretary. Gels-man is in essence taking the secretarial position allotted to the board president The pay for each of Villa's three is expected to be around $35,000. Villa's two other aides are Gregory FX Daly and Dan Wahby, a former lobbyist for Schoemehl. Villa said that bis aides could answer the phones and that his other secretarial work could be done by secretaries assigned to the board as a whole.

The 28 aldermen share four secretaries. One official, who asked that his name be withheld, said that the board had no surplus of clerical help. The board's total staff is 14 people. Cbarlene Prost of the Post-Dispatch staff contributed Information to this story. ate about SO new jobs for the area and bring in millions of dollars each year from horse shows and hotel and restaurant business.

The Economic Council made up of residents appointed by County Executive Gene McNary and some members of McNary's voted unanimously for the package. Alan Rlchter, who works for the company that would move the club to St Louis at a reduced cost abstained from the vote. The Appaloosa Club is dedicated to promotion of the horse, which was originally bred by Nez Perce Indians and is characterized by distinctive patterns of spots. The club makes its home in Moscow, Idaho. The club also has a museum that displays the first Issues of the "Appaloosa News" magazine and some saddles and Indian artifacts.

Some directors say they want to move to save money and to be in a more central location. Joyner said thai six motels in the Fenton and Eureka area had made commitments to reimburse the Economic Council for its $34,000 outlay because they anticipated so much business from Appaloosa horse shows. The reimbursement would be $3 a night for each -oom, until the $34,000 was repaid. The initial outlay would be made by the county's Industria' Development Authority; the money would come from fees generated by bond issue sales. The club has contemplated a move before.

In 1983, the club's membership voted to move its headquarters to Oklahoma City. But that move was voided when allegations of fraud in the balloting and use of membership rosters resulted In a civil suit. By Margaret Gillerman Of tha Pott-Dispatch Staff The St Louis County Economic Council eager to lasso the Ap-paloosa Horse Club from the wide open spaces of the West agreed Wednesday to kick in $34,000 for moving expenses as part of an incentive package. The package also would Include a commitment from the state for a low-interest loan of about $1.25 million and another commitment from the county government for financial assistance for job training, said Dee Joyner, executive director of the County Economic Council. St Louis County is in the final rounds of a nationwide competition to be the new home for the club, which has about 20,000 members and a nationally distributed magazine with an annual budget of about $1 million.

Joyner said other cities in the running were Kansas City, Indianapolis and Oklahoma City. She said the horse club was considering sites around Eureka. That area is the future home of the Dog Museum of America, the Legends luxury hotel development and possibly the Gateway West Equestrian Center. The equestrian project If successful would be a major national horse show arena, Its promoters say. "I think we are very much In the running for this, but the competition Is stiff," Joyner said.

'The other communities are put-tlng together their best packages." Joyner presented St. Louts County's proposal for an incentive package at a meeting of the county's Economic Council on Wednesday. Economic development officials say they are wooing the club because It would gener Patients From County ST. LOUIS: Beginning Monday, patients from St Louis County will be admitted to St Louis Regional Medical Center's new obstetrics-gy-necology and nursery unit officials have announced. The center's $3.3 million unit opened March 30, when only patients from the city were admitted.

Hospitalization of county obstetrical patients will be the second phase in opening the unit of the hospital, at 5535 Delmar Boulevard. County patients are now being treated at Deaconess Hospital. Since Regional opening in July 1985, It has contracted with three other hospitals to deliver its patients' babies. The 300-bed hospital accepts city and county residents who cannot afford to pay for all or part of their care. In early July, mothers whose de liveries are considered "high risk" will be admitted to Reglonal's unit In the third and final start-up phase of opening the 118-bed obstetrical unit Until then, those cases will be treated at Barnes Hospital.

When fully operational, about 3,000 babies a year will be born in Reglonal's new unit. Its annual op erating costs will be about $5.5 million. Washington University To Give Alumni Awards ST. LOUIS: The Washington University Law School will hold Its an nual alumni dinner at 6:45 p.m. Fri day at the Adam's Mark Hotel downtown.

John H. Lasbly, a 1941 graduate of the law school, will be given a Distinguished Law Alumni Award. Lasbly is chairman of the law firm of Lasbly, Baer Hamel in St Louis. An alumni award also will be giv en to Abraham E. Margolin, a law school graduate In 1929.

Margolin Is the senior partner in the law firm of Margolin Kirwan In Kansas City. Tickets to the dinner are $30 and may be ordered through the school's Office of Alumni and Development Programs at 889-5246. MSD Trustees Approve $58.9 Million Budget ST. LOUIS: Trustees of the Metropolitan St Louis Sewer District approved Wednesday a budget of $58.9 million for district operations for the fiscal year that begins July -1- The budget includes a 3 percent raise for employees in the labor "and trades groups. Clyde Orr, direc-ioT of human resources, said about '600 employees fall Into that category.

Raises for other groups of employees are based at least partly on merit, Orr said. Four percent of the current salaries for employees not In the labor or trades groups has been set aside in the budget; this money would provide raises for those employees, Including directors, in the new fiscal year. The district has a total of about 900 employees, Orr said. District officials say the budget is based on current tax rates and user fees. But officials plan a tax or rate Increase election in the future; they have included $750,000 in the budget for election Expenses.

The typical residential user pays a total of $55 a year in fees and $25 a year in taxes. Purina Mills Donates 8100,000 To Aid Zoo ST. LOUIS: Purina Mills has contributed $100,000 to underwrite "Zoofari" and will be the corporate sponsor of the event, a fund-raiser to be held June 19 by the St Louis Zoo. Charlie Hoessle, the Zoo's director, said that the gift would allow the Zoo to use all the money raised at "Zoofari" for a "living stream" exhibit. The exhibit will be the showpiece of an ecological hall in the Zoo's new Education and Discovery Center.

Purina Mills, an animal-feed producer, was sold last year by Ralston Purina. It Is operating independently under the ownership of British Petroleum. A spokesman for the company said the gift marked "the beginning of our new corporate relationship with the community." Boxing Matches Raise By Karen Koman Of tha Poat-Ditpatch Staff Barbara A. Geisman resigned Wednesday after two years as director of the city's Community Development Agency. Geisman has accepted a job as one of three administrative assistants to the new aldermanic president, Thomas A.

Villa. Geisman earned $44,000 as director; she took a substantial, but undisclosed, pay cut to work for Villa. Geisman said Wednesday that her decision to leave the development agency was a personal one and that Mayor Vincent Schoemehl Jr. had asked her to stay. Dennis Coleman, vice president of community development for Mercantile Bank, was appointed Wednesday to replace Geisman.

Geisman was a coordinator for Villa in his recent campaign and is a longtime friend. She said she was taking the new job because it represented a "new challenge" in another area of city government. Geisman, an architect by training, was with the development agency for 10 years. In other personnel moves. Villa announced the appointment of a campaign worker, Larry Arnowitz, as bis bodyguard and security person.

Arnowitz is a construction worker; his last job was replacing the seats in Busch Stadium. Arnowitz Is married to the sister of David Leisure. Leisure was recently sentenced to death for his role In an underworld car bombing. Arnowitz, whose salary was undisclosed, is technically an employee of the sheriffs office. The three top Man, 21, Convicted Paul "Buck" Stepter faces a sentence of life plus 30 years in prison for bis conviction Wednesday in a double shooting last year.

A Jury in St. Louis Circuit Court deliberated one hour before convicting Stepter, 21, of first-degree murder and first-degree assault Judge Daniel T. Tillman assessed punishment at life without parole for the murder plus a consecutive term of 30 years for the assault. Formal sentencing will be later. turn The joys off a sunnnnnnieK CASEVS SPORTS We're celebrating Todd Worrell Day Saturday.

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While supply lasts. In Double Shooting Stepter was convicted of killing Beverly Payton, 25, and wounding William Jackson, 36, at their home in the 2300 block of University Street In north St. Louis. The shootings took place April 16, 1986, after a quarrel over Stepter's girlfriend, police said. At the time of the shooting, Stepter was on parole for armed robbery.

He was on the St. Louis Police Department's most-wanted list when he was captured July 21. Florissant crestwooo chesterfcld JkmwiIW CmhoodPtua QMrtWilM 741147 tt(233 S32 7997 taiOiiitii iSKln.iM VT An i una ill You can go. With the lowest fares in the sky. BALL GLOVE Thurs.

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Clinton, president and chairman of Grey Eagle Distributors. The event, sponsored by Grey Eagle, was called the St LouisMetro Budwelser Boxing Showdown. The city's team won, scoring victories In 15 of the 25 bouts. About 4,800 tickets were sold for the program. The event was held to benefit the St.

Louis Backstoppers, an organl-. zation that assists families of police officers and firefighters who lose their lives In the line of duty. Aldermen In Ballwin Back Annexation Plan BALLWIN: The city is seeking to annex about two square miles of unincorporated land in St. Louis County that would add 8,000 rest-dents to the community. If approved by voters, Ballwln would become one of the county's largest municipalities, with a popu- latlon of 21,500.

A public hearing on the proposal will be held at 7 p.m. June 29 at the Ballwln City Hall, at 300 City Hall Drive. On Monday, the Ballwln Board of Aldermen decided to seek voter ap-; proval of the proposal. The four parcels the city seeks to annex are north, west and south of the current city limits. Jury Rejects Claim Against Ex-Prosecutor A federal court Jury has rejected allegations by a woman from Pevely who said a former prosecutor for Jefferson County, Dennis Kehm, bad tried to Intimidate her into taking a He-detector test After deliberating only about 15 minutes Tuesday, the Jury found In Kehm'1 favor In a suit tiled In 1984 by PffUCy Ann Morfeld, former collector of Pevely.

Morfeld had sought $12 million In damages. She said Kehm, now a circuit court Judge, had telephoned her In November 1983 and threatened her so she would cooperate In an Investigation Into the disappearance of $23,000 from the Pevely Municipal Court According to transcripts of the conversation which Morfeld taped Kehm told her that he couldn't vouch with the press for her Innocence unless she took a lie-detector test Morfeld was never charged In the missing money case. Another woman was charged, but the charges were dismissed. Kehm said Tuesday that he was pleased by the verdict "I wanted it to go to a Jury," he said. "I wanted a heiring.

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