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JJULllZOOV ST. LOUIS PDST-DISPATCH EUNESDAY-X, Jui.Vll 21)01 SECTION Bill McQeUan STUoday.conv'McClellan DmccieiiancgposHispatciiconi I ft 111 mi jl 1 FCC finds man morally unfit to run his radio stations He is appealing decision stand," said Rice. "There are volumes of psychiatric and medical information that is available now that explains why it happened and why it won't happen again. Not that that exonerates me, but it helps explain it." Rice owns KFMZ-FM in Columbia, KBMX-FM in Eldon, and three stations in Terre Haute, Ind. He also has construction permits for stations in Cuba, and Huntsville, Mo.

After a three-year investigation, the Commission moved to revoke Rice's licenses in 1998 because of his conviction. It also argued that Rice filed false reports with the FCC. Though the FCC typically sanctions owners for bad business (the FCC) are doing more than regulating. They are passing judgment on a soul," said DeBoice. "As a society, we ought to be concerned that a federal agency is reaching out to destroy a man who was mentally ill." Rice was convicted in 1994 of sodomizing five boys between the ages of 10 and 16.

He was sentenced to an eight-year term and was released from Farming-ton Correctional Center in 1999 after serving five years. Rice, 59, says he suffered from bi-polar disorder but that he is rehabilitated. "A guy makes a mistake and pays his price and tries to contribute to society, but they keep going on and on. I don't under Michael Rice that it would auction his licenses, including those for an alternative rock station in Columbia and an easy listening station near the Lake of the Ozarks. The decision marks the first time in many years that the FCC has revoked a license because it finds the owner morally unfit.

Though broadcasters applaud the FCC's decision, Rice's attorney, J. Brian DeBoice, says the ruling raises sticky questions about the agency's character policy. He maintains that the FCC abused its powers when it punished Rice for acts that are unrelated to his ability to run radio stations. "From my perspective, they practices, it may punish owners for poor character. It defines character as "the likelihood that an applicant will deal truthfully with the commission and comply with the Communications Act and our rules and policies." An appeals court agreed that Rice's crime cast doubt on his ability to follow those regulations.

"It is hardly irrational to conclude that if an individual is unwilling to obey the law with respect to such patently criminal behavior as sexual assault on children, he will be equally unwilling to obey FCC rules that require openness and honesty with the commission," wrote U.S. District Judge Merrick Garland. See Radio, B3 By Diane Toroian Of the Post-Dispatch A St. Charles man convicted of child molestation will lose his license to operate five Midwest radio stations within 90 days. The Federal Communications Commission has informed FESTUS LAYS MAYOR TO REST ipiin.u ji-i p.

if 0 Trooper's killer seeks mercy from governor Jerome Mallett was to die today for murder in 1986 He says shootingwas self-defense yniii.w 1 In days gone by city all-stars were uresourcefuF types As major league baseball takes its midseason All-Star break, let me take you back to a different time and a different all-star game. The year was 1946 and the St. Louis Muny League was having its first-ever all-star game at Fairground Park. Did I say it was a different time? What an understatement. Baseball was truly the national pastime.

People actually played baseball, and those who didn't play watched those who did. Small towns had teams, and companies had teams, and big cities had large, well-organized leagues. We were, 55 years ago, not so far removed from the days of Casey and the Mudville Nine. The Muny League was a very big deal. The St.

Louis Globe-Democrat published the box scores of the various games, and it was that newspaper that came up with the idea of an all-star game. The North against the South. Ballots were printed in the newspaper, and readers Were asked to pick the teams. Bob and Herman Doering were teen-agers 18 and 16, respectively who played for a team sponsored by Salem Lutheran Church in Affton. The team played its games at Sublette Park.

The brothers were excited about the idea of an all-star game, and they desperately wanted to be on the South squad. They were desperate to the point of being resourceful. In other words, they decided to stuff the ballot box. They went to the Globe-Democrat, hoping to get newspapers that had been returned. They could then cut the ballots out of the papers and vote for themselves.

They met Ed Evers, an assistant production manager. He was a big baseball fan himself. His brother was Walt "Hoot" Evers, who was then playing for the Detroit Tigers. Recognizing resourcefulness when he saw it, Evers gave the brothers several hundred returned newspapers. The boys took out their scissors and went to work.

They made the team. There is a chance, of course, that the Doering brothers would have made the team even had they not stuffed the ballot box. They were fine players. Bob was a very good outfielder, and Herman was an outstanding pitcher. In fact, he later signed a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers and spent three years in their farm system.

He went 12-3 in 1948 in the Class Wisconsin State League. On the other hand, there were a lot of very fine players in the Muny League. The catcher for the Salem Lutheran Church team was Vern Rapp, who years later was to manage the St. Louis Cardinals. He did not make the South squad for the Muny League All-Star Game.

The big game was played on a Sunday afternoon in August at Fairground Park. A crowd of about 2,500 was on hand. The North All-Stars won the game 7-5. The star for the North was Earl Weaver, who was later to manage the Baltimore Orioles. He had three hits and stole a base.

And how did the Doering brothers do? Herman pitched three scoreless innings and gave up two hits. Bob came up in the fifth inning with a man on first base. The South was trailing by two runs. Bob tied the game with a long home run. Herman told me the story, and his memory stood up well against the microfilm clips in our library.

The brothers performed very well in the big game. As far as I know, neither brother ever did another thing even remotely dishonest afterward. After leaving the Dodgers' farm system, Herman took over his father's bakery Doering's Bakery in the 7700 block of Virginia Avenue. He retired from the baking business when he turned 65. Bob graduated from college and became a high school baseball coach in Nevada and then California.

He, too, is now LARRY WILLIAMSPOST-DISPATCH Festus police and firefighters carry the body of Festus Mayor Cathy Jokerst on Tuesday into Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Crystal City for a funeral Mass. The mayor, 52, was killed Friday in an accident on Interstate 55 that also killed her husband, Martin Jokerst, 53, and her mother-in-law, Louise Jokerst, 88. Festus City Councilman Jack King, 53, was sworn in as mayor Monday night. Webster U. may take over i music school mer director.

"They're very different cultures." Ryerse, who left the school on March 1 after 18 years there in varying capacities, said that the combination seemed to work only at smaller orchestras like the Flint (Mich.) Symphony Orchestra, "where the musicians need positions as instructors to round out their incomes" when full-time employment is not otherwise available. The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra's musicians have full-time contracts as orchestral musicians. The music school's faculty consists of several dozen part-time teachers, including such local luminaries as the Symphony's concertmaster, See Symphony, B4 ordered to take photo off Wfeb action, in an attempt to end further Internet publication. The court order singles out Stephen Wetzel, an anti-abortion activist in Omaha, who operates an Internet site that has displayed two pages of the woman's hospital records, a grainy photograph of her in a wheelchair and a story recounting her abortion complications.

The material doesn't identify her by name. Wetzel has shifted the items to other sites when various Internet providers have ordered their removal. The judge also directs the order at Daniel and Angela Michael, a Highland couple active in the anti-abortion movement. Daniel Michael took the photograph, and his wife wrote See Abortion, B4 By Tim O'Neil Of the Post-Dispatch POTOSI, Mo. With a plea for the governor's mercy offering his last hope, Jerome Mallett faced execution at 12:01 a.m.

today for murdering a Highway Patrol trooper with the officer's own revolver 16 years ago. Mallett, 42, was to die by injection in the death chamber of the Potosi Correctional Center. On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Mallett's final appeal. As of Tuesday evening, Gov.

Bob Holden still was considering whether to reduce Mallett's sentence to life in prison, but Mallett said he believed Holden would turn him down. "When they give you a ticket, you got to ride," Mallett said in an interview at 6 p.m. Tuesday. He would be the 51st person put to death in Missouri since the state resumed carrying out capital punishment in 1989. Mallett, who grew up in St.

Louis, killed trooper James M. Froemsdorf on Interstate 55 near Perryville, on March 2, 1985, shortly after the trooper stopped him for speeding. At the time, Mallett, who already had six felony convictions, was a fugitive from Texas for an armed robbery in suburban Dallas. Because Mallett's right hand was deformed by a childhood injury, he was able to slip that hand out of Froemsdorf 's handcuffs, beat the trooper with the cuffs and grab Froemsdorf 's Magnum revolver. Mallett shot Froemsdorf three times and fled.

He was captured three days later near Desloge, Mo. Mallett was sentenced to death in 1986 after a two-week trial in Lancaster, near the Iowa line. Froemsdorf, 35, was married and the father of three girls. His widow, Sarah Froemsdorf, now 49 and a nurse in Cape Girardeau, said she planned to witness the execution along with her daughters and other relatives and friends. Also scheduled to be with her was John Ford, a retired Highway Patrol officer, who was Froemsdorf 's commander in 1985.

Mallett's sister, Sarah Murray of Houston, and a brother, Patrick Mallett of St. Louis, also planned to witness from another room. A wall separates the witness rooms for the two families. A prison spokesman said Rep. Kenneth Hulshof, R-Co-lumbia, who represented Mallett in 1986 as a public defender, was scheduled to witness with the regular state's witnesses.

They sit apart from the two families. Mallett's family on Monday sought to speak to the Froems-dorfs, but Sarah Froemsdorf reportedly declined. See Mallett, B3 Symphony's school in the fall of 1994, changing its name from the St. Louis Conservatory and Schools for the Arts. In the past 18 months, the Symphony has suffered from well-publicized financial difficulties, and the music school has been among the larger drains on the organization's finances.

It has been rumored for some time that the Symphony would seek another not-for-profit organization to operate it. It is highly unusual for a major symphony orchestra to run a music school. "It wouldn't matter where you were Boston, New York, San Francisco the educational world is very different from the performance world," said Sheila Ryerse, the music school's for Abortion foes are woman's records, Patient had complications at clinic in Granite City By Jo Mannies Post-Dispatch Political Correspondent A Madison County Circuit Court judge ordered late Tuesday that abortion opponents remove a woman's hospital records, "medical information and photograph" from the World Wide Web. Judge George Moran's order is to remain in effect until a hearing July 24. The lawyer for the woman and a Granite City abortion clinic had requested the judge's The school, the largest in the region, provides instrumental and voice' lessons to about 3,600 children and adults each year.

Victoria Silverman, the Symphony's vice president for external affairs, said that turning over the management "will serve the Symphony, Webster, the community and our students very well." She added, "Webster University has the administrative expertise that the school needs." The details of the partnership have yet to be finalized. Karen Luebbert, Webster University's vice president, said, "Nothing is completed at this point. We hope that we will have something more to announce within a month." The Symphony took over the for ever-bigger casinos' take from table games such as blackjack, craps and roulette. "The tables are really just there for show and the slot machines are the whole business," concluded Jim Oberkirsch, chief financial analyst for the Missouri Gaming Commission. Three of the area's casinos are in Missouri and two are in Illinois.

The share of revenue coming from slots has been climbing steadily for several years. For example, years ago, the three Missouri boats got 75 percent of their revenue from slots. Last year, the Missouri Legislature changed the law to allow cash to be converted to electronic credits when a gambler inserts money into a slot machine. See Gambling, B4 Program has been a large financial drain on the orchestra Plan is still in negotiating stage By Sarah Bryan Miller Post-Dispatch Classical Music Critic Officials of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and Webster University confirmed on Tuesday that they are negotiating a partnership that would transfer the administration of the St.

Louis Community Music School to the university. Slots account chunk of area Slots brought in 87 pet of June revenue; new law allows faster play By Virginia Young Post-Dispatch Jefferson City Bureau Reports released this week show that St. Louis-area river-boat casinos are drawing an increasing share of their revenue from slot machines. More than 87 percent of the five casinos' $63.8 million in receipts last month came from slots, according to the Missouri Gaming Commission and the Illinois Gaming Board. The rest of the money came a.