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iuu oun juue xytt aiujuia Huai-marAiiti Battered Kids Not Always Reported Because Hot Line Ignored, State Says He said, however, that his division had begun reporting all cases of suspected abuse by using the hot line, and that he was trying to spread the word to other police divisions. Relling said that the communications problem worked both ways. Too many child abuse cases were being handled by social agencies and hospitals without the knowledge of the police, he said. Relling said that he was shocked by recent statistics provided him by the Family Services Division, which, keeps track of child abuse cases throughout the state through use of the hot line. The division reported that it had investigated 2610 cases of possible child abuse or neglect in St.

Louis from Aug. 15, 1975, to Dec. 31, 1976. There are about 250 cases a month in St. Louis, the division says.

"We didn't know of a tenth of those cases," Relling said, "and we should have." Relling said police should be notified of all cases reported to the hot line. His statement was similar to that of St. Louis Circuit Attorney George Peach, who said last week that his office should be notified also of cases reported to the hot line. The law now allows hospitals and social agencies to handle cases without notifying police or prosecutors. Relling and Peach say that more abuse cases should be prosecuted.

But both emphasize also that criminal proceedings might be used as an avenue for prevention, through family therapy and protective measures for an abused child. Recognizing that the juvenile court will remove a child from its family under only the most extreme conditions, Relling said, it could be helpful for police to know about more families where child abuse had occurred or was suspected. "We could make periodic checks with the family, talk with neighbors and visit the school to see whether the kids seemed to be treated OK," Relling said. "We could be a back-up for the social worker in some of these cases." Relling said that communication in child abuse cases now appeared to be fragmented among various agencies and police. "I would like us all to sit down and get a clarification of our roles and try to decide how we can help each other more," he said.

"Right now I think there is probably a lot of suspicion and ignorance on "both sides of just what we are supposed to do and what the others are supposed to do." Social workers familiar with abuse cases say the problem with police arises when they do not report suspected abuse cases. -1 This occurs usually when police investigate a family for an incident unrelated to child abuse. During the investigation, however, police might find evidence of abuse. But because the case they are working on is not an abuse case, the police may overlook reporting their suspicion of abuse by the state hot line. "Police probably see some of these potential abuse cases before anyone," said one of the social workers.

"If we could find out about them at that point, we might be able to prevent some future incident of abuse." By DANA L. SPITZER Of the Post-Dispatch Staff A communications gap between police and social workers could be contributing to the problem of child abuse in St. Louis, representatives of each group said Saturday. Social workers with the state Division of Family Services complained to the Post-Dispatch that police were not using a state telephone hot line to report suspected cases of child abuse, as they are supposed to do under state law. By not reporting family conditions where child abuse is suspected, these social workers said, police are hampering the opportunity for social workers from the division to take preventive measures with the family.

Capt. William Relling, commander of the St. Louis Police Department's juvenile division, acknowledged that there could still be a problem with police officers, especially those outside his division, in not reporting suspected abuse cases by means of the state hot line. Cobbler, Snooker Champ Win Queen's Honors that name which cobbles for the royal family, was made a CVO. The letters stand for Commander of the Royal Victorian Order and Rayne now is entitled to put the CVO initials after his name.

The Rayne family business started with a shoe shop in South London's grimy Waterloo Road at the turn of the century. Rayne has said that Queen Mary, grandmother of Queen Elizabeth, bought her shoes from him five or six pairs at a time, and would spend more than half an hour deciding each shade. Another CVO is Hardy Amies, who designs the Queen's clothes and made her 1953 coronation dress, now on show for the Jubilee in a London museum. Comedian Dickie Henderson received the OBE, Order of the British Empire, for appearing at charity fund-raising shows. Henderson performed Friday in Milwaukee, Wis.

The OBE went also to Fred Davis, a champion at snooker, the British preference in pool. Several sportsmen figured in the list, headed by two new knights, Harry Llewellyn and Noel Murless both involved with horses, which are favorites of the Queen. Llewellyn is an Olympic equestrian whose son Roddy is a friend of Princess Margaret, the Queen's sister. Murless retired last season after training 1430 winners, including three Derby and five Oaks winners among 19 English classics. Richard Rodney Bennett, who composed the music for the film "Murder On the Orient Express," received the CBE, Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

Anthony Craxton, who masterminded the British Broadcasting Corp. television coverage of this week's Jubilee royal events, got the CVO. The decoration is an order of chivalry and is the sovereign's personal gift. Alfred Ernest Long, deputy" lead coachman at Buckingham Palace, who was head postillion on the gold coach in Tuesday's royal procession was awarded the Royal Victorian Medal in gold. LONDON, June 11 (AP) The royal shoemaker, dress designer, a comedian and a pool player were among a host of persons awarded titles and decorations Saturday in Britain's annual Birthday Honors List.

Heading honors for the arts was the great Shakespearean actor Sir John Gielgud, 73 years old, made a Companion of Honor for services to the theater. Peter Hall, director of the National Theater that opened last year, becomes a knight and thus Sir Peter Hall. The list marks the official birthday June 11 this year of Queen Elizabeth II and the Silver Jubilee of her 25 years on the throne. Some of the honors are her choice but most are conferred by the government for distinguished public service. The honors ranged from silver medals to life peerages giving recipients the nonhereditary title of lord or baroness and a seat for life in the House of Lords.

Edward Rayne, head of the Bond Street shoe firm of FIRST STEP TOWARD A PARK: Workmen preparing Satur- day for removal of unearthed vaults in Old St. Marcus Ceme- tery. The bodies are being moved to New St. Marcus Ceme- tery to make way for development of the old graveyard as a "passive" city park. (Post-Dispatch Photo by Larry Williams) Bodies Being Moved I'From Old Cemetery Elizabeth Doesn't Shrink From Spectacular marched in slow and quick time across the parade ground after the colors were carried through their ranks.

President Jimmy Carter's son Chip joined the heads of government from Commonwealth countries VIP group watching the spectacle from Prime Minister James Callaghan's special stand. The Queen headed a final march back along the mall to Buckingham Palace where she took the salute. The royal family then appeared on the balcony of the palace and 25 jets of the Royal Air Force one for every year of the Queen's reign thundered overhead at a height of JO00 feet. Cheering burst out as the planes trailed smoke in the national colors of red, white and blue and a smiling Queen, brushing aside further raindrops, answered the chant, "We want the Queen; we want the Queen!" with another balcony appearance. Holyrood House, the royal palace in Edinburgh, Scotland.

The Queen herself looked the horse over and told the Guards to buy him. He entered service in the Guards' band only after a blacksmith fashioned a special set of built-up horseshoes to raise Cicero by a half inch to the required 17 hands for the height of Guards' horses. The rain stopped as 300 musicians in the massed band of the Guards regiments blared out and the Queen glanced briefly at her rain-soaked arms and black skirt. The Trooping of the Color ceremony goes back to the earliest times of British regiments when serfs and yeoman were 1 paraded in front of the flag under which they would fight that so they could recognize it and rally to it in the heat of battle. Saturday was the turn of the Scots Guards, formed in 1650, to re-enact the ceremony and 584 officers and men TffJOHN J.

HYNES Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Removal of bodies from the Old St. Marcus Cemetery on Gravois Avenue south of Holly Hills Boulevard has begun. The land will eventually be a new city park. The project is the culmination of more than a decade of planning and legal squabbling over the 25-acre cemetery, which has been virtually in ruins for years, abandoned and vandalized. Two months ago, the City of St.

Louis purchased the acreage from its owners, the St. Marcus Evangelical and Reformed Church, 2111 McNair Avenue, with the intention of converting it into a park no athletic activities, but with benches, shade trees, flower beds and paths. However, between 1000 and 1500 bodies that were buried there under perpetual care agreements must be disinterred and moved to the New St. Marcus Cemetery, 7901 Gravois Road. Michael M.

Tarlitz, park project planner for the city Community Development Agency, which has taken on the park project, said the St. Marcus church was responsible for seeing that the perpeUial-care graves are transferred to the new cemetery within 18 months. The city paid $100,000 for the tract, he said, but $25,000 of the amount has been retained in escrow to cover any costs resulting from delays or noncompliance with the agreement. Although there are no precise records, there may be as many as 20,000 graves in the 125-year-old cemetery. With the exception of those in perpetual care, the graves willremain in place, but headstones will be removed and gathered into a single memorial or monument, Terlitz said.

The Community Development Agency has applied for $175,000 in federal Bureau of Outdoor Recreation funds to clean up and develop the area. Because it has been such a neighborhood eyesore for so long, there have been numerous plans to restore the cemetery or convert it. Many of the efforts in the past, however, have been stymied by legal action by cemetery lot lowners. Transfer of the perpetual-care graves to New St. Marcus is expected to take care of possible objections to the current park plan, officials said.

LONDON, June 11 (UPI) Queen Elizabeth II, defying showers, took the salute Saturday at the annual Trooping of the Color ceremony celebrating her official birthday, and tens of thousands turned out to cheer another Silver Jubilee spectacular. The Queen, side-saddle atop the Canadian mare Burmese that she has ridden at every Trooping of the Color since 1969, sat unmoved as rain broke over Horse Guards Parade when the ceremony began. The 51-year-old monarch, resplendent in her crimson jacket with green sash uniform of colonel-in-chief of the Scots Guards, sat still while umbrellas went up in the crowd and flower-hatted women and top-hatted men sprinted for cover. She rode to the parade ground to the cheers of the crowds up to 10 deep lining the half-mile route from Buckingham Palace up the mall to the parade ground. "Great going, Liz," one banner declared amid a sea of waving Union Jacks.

Before the ceremony the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret, and the Queen's youngest son, Prince Edward, arrived by carriage. Princess Anne and her husband, Capt. Mark Phillips, drove up in another carriage. All sported the Queen's new Silver Jubilee medals. Her husband, Prince Philip, and the heir to the throne, Prince Charles, rode with the Queen in the main procession dressed as Guards officers with tall black busbees.

Crowds along the route had a special cheer for Cicero, the piebald drum horse of the Guards' mounted band. Cicero, hero of a recent television documentary, was rescued from a drunken tinker to pull a milk cart past rt.i Carter Signs Bill To Speed Park Buying Velda Joy Rumfelt Seeking Anyone Who Saw Victim The St. Louis County Police Department has asked that anyone who might have seen Velda Joy Rumfelt last Sunday before she was killed, call the department's Crimes Against Persons Bureau, 889-2386. Police say that Miss Rumfelt, a 16-year-old Brentwood High School student, and her brother, Dewey, drove to Kansas City Thursday, June 2. She returned to St.

Louis early Sunday, June 5, with a friend. The friend said he spent the day with her and then drove her to see an acquaintance in the Clayton Road and Brentwood Boulevard area. She was not seen again. Her body was found Monday night in a field in west St. Louis County.

Strangulation was determined as cause of death. Miss Rumfelt lived with her stepmother at 2317 Patton Avenue. Funeral services were held Saturday. Waldheim: Youth plannins Event suing a land acquisition program that will substantially reduce the existing backlog of authorized but unacquired recreational lands. However, I do want to make clear that my approval of this legislation does not imply a commitment by my Administration to seek full funding of the increased authorizations for 1978 and 1979." of $300,000,000 in 1978 and $150,000,000 in 1979.

"These additional monies would be specifically available for reducing the current backlog of federal recreational areas already authorized for acquisition," Carter said. "I have already initiated and intend to continue pur WASHINGTON, July 11 (AP) President Jimmy Carter signed a bill Saturday that allows increases in funds for buying and developing national parks, forests and wildlife refuges to $900,000,000 in each of the next two years. He said he might not spend it all. The bill authorizes an increase in the Land and Water Conservation Fund Volunteers of the United I Changing Course Negro College Fund will sponsor a Pink Champagne Sip from 6 to 9 p.m., Sunday, June 19, at the Stix International House, 6470 Forsyth Boulevard. Tickets are $5.

Information can be obtained at 241-5958 or 652-9003. KENT, June 11 (AP) United Nations Secretary 2 General Kurt Waldheim said Saturday that young per- sons had turned from disillusion and protest to prag-2 matic idealism. He urged that they apply that idealism tosuppprtfortheUN. Waldheim was commencement speaker and recipient of an honorary doctor of laws degree at Kent State University, where on May 4, 1970, members of the Ohio National Guard shot to death four students in a crowd demonstrating against United States military interven- tion in Cambodia. In allusion to that, he said the university had its "un-happy reminder" of the best and worst in humanity but had successfully put it into the past.

Beginning in the early 1960s, Waldheim said, some of the idealism of youth was questioned by students in 5 many colleges and universities. "I think they felt idealism alone was insufficient to express their strong convictions about certain develop- ments in national and international life," he said. "Now, in these closing years of the '70s, this mood is again changing. Your generation, I believe, has learned to be skeptical and you are demanding hard answers to your questions from those responsible. "I sense, therefore, that the idealism coming to the fore contains strong elements of pragmatism that searches the ideal before any blind commitment to it is made.

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