The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 4

A sW'tr Xwtf-Afc Thursday January 20 1972 4 THE KANSAS CITY STAR Taylor Tells 2 Promotions By William McCorkle A Mombtr of Tho Stor' Stoff Appointments to two major administrative positions at the City Hall were announced this afternoon by John Taylor city manager Walter Van Asselt 33 former city budget director was named intergovernmental relations director Frank Young 30 appointed by James Johnson city director of administration will serve as management specialist under Johnson Young is a native of Trenton NJ who grew up in New York state Van Asselt is a native of Michigan Van salary was increased to $20550 a year last Friday in the blanket 5 per cent pay raise for all city employees He will receive another pay increase to $21588 in his new job that has a top salary range of $24984 a year Young received $14801 a year under his Model Cities contract that had no fringe benefits but novy will receive IS 336 a year ina? job with a top salary range of $18636 a year Van Asselt who has been a favorite with city managers and council members has been a Van Asselt will continue work as the administrative assistant to the city legislative committee and will continue to co ordinate efforts out of the city office on the regional jail facility proposed removal of the Pa-1 seo Bridge tolls the annual arrangement for city programs under the Department of Hous-! ing and Urban Development the new General Hospital tract and the Emergency Employment Act Young will co-ordinate efforts of the office for the new convention center the air VAN ASSELT YOUNG mens wear ltd mSst HH mmm mm TIRED OF LOOKING AT LEFTOVERS? TH best way to select the double-knit you like is from the best '72 selection of double-knits Comparable to those selling for $1 50 in our market area dty employee since 1965 Carle- ton Sharpe former city man- prt completion nt nSenl in WTnd the municipal courts building Asett municipal hecame budget head in 1W9 nd riverfront development He also will aiu Under Arrest In custody after being arrested at the US Courthouse 811 Grand is a man identified by police as Lonnell Marshall Marshall had told a US Marine recruiter he wanted to tee a former recruiter in the office (Star photo by Michael A Mihalevich) Recently he has been working nut Of fh manor's nffino in the city has a connection with the Harry Truman Sports Complex exit of the office in the role to which Van Asselt officially was named today Mayor Ponders Impact Van Asselt has a 1963 law de- Appointment to the relations gree from the University of post was limited to city employ-Michigan and completed all the ees- Young's position was ad-work except the masters thesis vertised so that candidates out-for a degree in public adminis- side City Hall might apply (ration from the University of Kansas In addition the city manager soon is expected to name three Young 30 also has been assistant city managers as rec-working out of the ommended in the recent Harnil office although he technically Asel survery of the still is under contract to Vic office Model Cities Agency as an urban legal affairs adviser He Unlike the three assistants yel has a 1970 degree from the to be named Van Asselt and Slaying Concern me with some recommendations rests in the city manager and it not I would be most appreciative (the system) is Wheeler said Wheeler added By Andrew Miller A Merrvber of The Star' Staff Mayor Charles Wheeler Jr today expressed concern over what effect the fatal shooting yesterday of a 16-year-old youth by police would have on the minority communities of Kansas City Young will not be responsible for the line supervision of city departments and will not be assigned to be administrative links with the three major council committees South Texas College of Law in Houston and received a master of law degree last year from the University of Kansas City where he was the first John Gage fellow The mayor spoke for about half an hour before a group of employees and then took a short tour of the facility at 600 22nd Wheeler said he thought Kansas City had a good city council He added: believe in the next several months seven of those men (a majority) will agree to dismiss John Taylor and I will vote with them and then get a icjty manager who will work with In a talk at the Western Missouri Mental Health Center the mayor said it would be valuable if the center could study police techniques police and regulations for the use rules In other comments restated his feelings toward John Taylor the city manager Wheeler told the center employ-ofees that he and Taylor are not wh wneeier Equipment Pacts For Channel 19 firearms and police policy on: bickering but are use of weapons in other cally at different communities In a short questioning period Wheeler said the mental health profession could be important to an entire community by determining the mass psychology of the people Such a determination of mass psychology would help in understanding if people would approve of the use of tranquilizer dart guns by police instead of firearms the mayor said man has his cross to hear and mine happens to be a man named John Wheeler joked 6617 yes- offi- Community Service Broad- the educational broadcasting fa-tdsting of Mid-America Incj cilities Parenteau has reached agreements on saicl- (ease-purchase contracts total- Clyde Howe chief engineer mg $375000 for a tower antenna for channel 19 said the increase cers found him inside a house at and transmission equipment for in power would replace the poor 2401 67th Terrace KCPT channel 19 picture currently received by most Kansas City residents The new equipment will give channel 19 the capacity lo trans- A decision on the federal mit a good picture and in color grant application is expected in up to a 60-mile radius from February Wheeler said such a shooting creates a tremendous shock Wheeler said the Taylor is too secretive about city business the mayor said relating fhat he first learned Taylor had appointed John Burge as head of the city liquor control department while he (Wheeler) was being interviewed on a radio station In response to a question the mayor said the use of the dart guns was worthy of public discussion adding believe that police have been trained to power and authority shoot to a study by the staff of KCPT mental health center would be a week into the studi- i typical example of a contrib-Stark purchased by ution that Hospital Hill could make toward evaluating and understanding the mental health or mass psychology of Kansas City board at auction af 50 went bankrupt have remained in on the 11th floor of New Rehabilitation Started Most of moved this os at 2100 the CSB ter channel The engineers leased space the Kansas City Board of Education building Transmission will continue from there until the new equipment is installed Community Service Broadcasting took over the operation of channel 19 formerly known by the call letters KCSD from the Kansas City School District on Jan 1 SPORT Wheeler emphasized that Kansas City has a well paid good police department and a good chief of police but said the meantime a lot can be done to improve the relationship be-: The Western Missouri Mental tween police and the minority I Heatb Center 600 22nd re-communitv cently began a 3-week combined (alcohol and drug rehabilitation such a study were given to program that starts a new Program week COATS Solids and Patterns No LEAA Slur on City Kansas City Edward Matheny Jr president of the CSB board said it will take up to 100 days to build the new equipment and that it should be installed and in operation by summer He said a rfi0000 contract would be signed with the RCA Corporation with in a few days for the tower that formerly served channel 50 atj 2100 Stark Yesterday the board president signed a $315000 contract with the General Electric Company for a new channel 19 antenna and new transmission equipment The transmitter will increase the power of the station from 210000 watts to 1125000 watts This will give channel 19 the strongest wattage of any television station in the metropolitan area The contracts provide for rS a non-profit corporation I to lease the equipment until it has the cash to purchase it The corporation also expects to spend about $20000 lo install the new antenna and transmitter Community Service Broadcasting has applied to the educational broadcasting facilities program in the IJS Office of Education for a $499500 grant on a 3 to 1 matching basis for equipment purchase The proposal provides for the raising of in matching money locally In addition to the abovp purchases the funds also would be used for the purchase of studio equipment Bids for such equipment still must be taken from either Mayor Charles Wheeler Jr or Kelley the police chief that Kansas City Pty Howard Pankratz A Mombor of The Sler'l Staff The regional director of Law Enforcement Administration said he has received no Assistance here today complaints THE PANT To complete your '72 wardrobe DOUBLE-KNITS Comparable to those selling for $95 in this market area was not one of the cities granted high-impact funds to fight street crime William Smith regional director of LEAA said he does not feel the city has been excluded arbitrarily from consideration as charged yesterday by Sen Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn) Accident Is Fatal Just Say criteria They had to have populations hetween 250000 and 1 million be an urban area and have high figures for street crime especially robbery and burglary Both Kansas City and St Louis have high burglary and robbery figures Smith said but statistically St Louis has higher rates in both categories In the first nine months of 1971 St Louis had 13952 burglaries Kansas City 8455 St Louis had 3510 robberies Kansas City 1 7122 Smith said that each of the cities also apparently was picked because each is in a different luluitirm "Charge It Humphrey in a letter to Roger Moll 18 of Olathe LEAA said Kansas City and was fatally injured yesterday nine other major cities were left when he was working on a out despite an equal or greater school irrigation project at Ambassador College in Big Sandy Nationally known VALUES TO $30 group of eight participants each Monday The program has a 2-week residential phase and on of out-patient supervision If demand is great enough two more can take part in each 3-week program from 8 am to 9 pm daily Limited bed space requires that the extra patients leave the center at night The first two weeks of the program center on making the group a cohesive therapeutic community with members who can help each other overcome their chemical dependencies In the final week participants are given job counseling and aid in obtaining housing if needed Some are assigned to the center's evening addiction program for continuing support Participants in this new program must sign a personal commitment to follow and complete the three weeks of treatment Western Missouri also is offering business and industry aid in forming policies concerning employees found to be alcoholics or drug users Information may be obtained from Mrs Ursula Wil-hoit information and education specialist on chemical addiction at Western Missouri Mental Health Center Also new at the center is the assignment of counselors from the Alcohol and Drug" Unit to satellite clinics in the community from to 5 pm once a week Counselors are assigned to Mental Health Services 230 NE Evansdale Road Southeast Jackson County Counseling Center Unity Village US 50 and Colbom Road Paseo United Methodist Church 5540 Wayne and the old nurses residence at the Independence Hospital 1500 Truman Road Dial 221-5600 to place your Star Want Ads Save 5 cents a line each day by placing tb ads for 3 or more consecutive days Adv Tex THIS WEEK ONLY The Moll youth a freshman at the college was one of two De Soto High School youths who is opti- last summer reported a fish kill funding by industrial pollution near the Matheny said CSB mistic about receiving Smith said both Wheeler and Kelley had been fully appraised of the possibilities of Kansas City being chosen as a recipient I city and each fully understood that only eight cities would be picked Smith said the impact have the highest regard gram is designed to reduce for the people of Kansas City street crime and both the mayor and Smith said Two Arrested federal region As with most departments of the federal government LEAA has 10 regions one regional headquarter being located here St Louis is in the Kansas City region Army Ammunition MEN'S WEAR LTD NOW 3 CONVENIENT LOCATIONS Our downtown store will be closed for 2 to 3 weeks due to water damage all merchandise must be replaced -WE SELL ONLY FIRST QUALITY- from the federal government Sunflower because of the great need for Plant improving public television here Moll was electrocuted yesterday when his body came in contact with a 4000-volt power line while he was working on the college project the cities were basis of several the limited capacity now have and the size of market we are the No cant in the Zoel Parenteau station man- i i nL ager said that Kansas City is MetrO SqUad tO LeaVO PrOD6 the only remaining television market of the 25 major metro- After reducing its squad from 20 members to 12 the Metro potitan areas that does not have Squad today prepared to check the few remaining details before a public TV station transmitting turning the A Paul Crain murder case back to the Kansas City inolor and sending a clear pic- Kansas police department Unless circumstances change during the day Skipper This has been a concern of Hedges squad press officer said the squad probably would dis-tb? Public Broadcasting Service! band tonight Crain a Blue Springs man employed as a repre-(tne public television network) sentative of several locals of the United Steelworkers Union was for Public shot to death early Sunday In the parking lot of the Holiday Inn the offiee of Gardens 426 Minnesota On Drug Charges Two men 23 and 24 years old were arraigned in the court of Magistrate Louis Mazuch this morning on charges of possession of restricted drugs Danny Wayne Allen 23 who gave the address of 8613 Hammond Road and Loren Dement 24 Excelsior Springs were committed to the county jail after -failure to post $2000 bond each Preliminary hearing was set for Jan 25 We're very sorry for the inconvenience please visit one of our other stores near you 7040A West 76th St 0m block loit ond Mieitf bohmd Wtrn Auto SHopoinO Ctnitt OPEN Mon thru Fri 10 om-9 iot 10 run 'til 5:30 pm Sunday 1 2 to 5 pm 3610 NOLAND CT In )ndpndnet dtrosi )trl from licenu turou OPEN 9 East 10th St Acrasi from Comrrurct Trust OPEN Man thru Sat am 90.