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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH April 24, 1974 3X jake mc earthy Youth Charged InOfficer'sKilling a personal opinion i Mill- I 1 SHOOTING SUSPECT: Police Capt. Ernest L. Troupe standing beside Keith Scott after questioning him in connection with the fatal shooting of Patrolman Claude C. Smith last night.

Troupe is deputy commander of Area 3, in which the shooting took place. (Post-Dispatch Photo by Fred Sweets) lice said. Police reported that about 25 persons were probable witnesses to the shooting but that only one man was willing to make a statement. The man told police that Smith had identified himself as a policeman. Arnold Roberts, the sheriff's deputy whom Smith was assisting, was waiting in the street outside the apartment building when the shooting occurred.

Police said the shooting apparently was not related to the bond forfeiture case on which Smith and Roberts were working. No arrests were made in that case. Smith and Roberts, who was off duty also, were apparently trying to arrest a woman for professional bail bondsman Wallace Wicks, sources in the office of Sheriff Raymond T. Percich said. Police said that Wicks told them he had not sought Smith's help in the case, and had not paid him.

Percich himself said that he was investigating whether or not his deputy had accepted money for trying to arrest the woman. Percich had issued an order Monday forbidding deputies to work for professional bondsmen. Police said the suspect ran down a stairway after the shooting. Scott was arrested several hours later near the scene after several officers had conducted a search. Smith had been on the police force since June 1967.

Sgt. Kaelin said Smith, who was known as "C.C." to his fellow officers, had been active on overtime foot patrols for several years. Several officers who knew Smith praised him for having made numerous drug arrests both when on duty and on the foot patrols. "He was always calling in on drug arrests. He must have made three or four a day," said a cadet on the police news desk.

Surviving are Smith's wife, Pauline, and a son, Christopher, 6 months old. Also surviving is his stepfather, Detective Artis Lowe of the narcot Lead Poison Cost Is Put At $1,000,000 By ROBERT J. KELLY Of the Post-Dispatch Staff A North Side youth today was charged in a warrant with murder in the fatal shooting of an off-duty St. Louis policeman last night. Patrolman Claude C.

Smith, 28 years old, of the Lucas Avenue District, was shot once in the chest about 7:45 p.m.'in the eighth-floor breezway of a building in the Vaughn housing complex as he was assisting a sheriff's deputy in a bond forfeiture case. Keith Scott, 18, who lives in the building where Smith was killed, in the 1100 block of North Eighteenth Street, was arrested as a murder suspect. Homicide Sgt. Edwin Kaelin said that Scott was identified as the assailant by a witness. No weapon was recovered, Kaelin said.

Police said later that Scott admitted shooting Smith. Scott reportedly told police that there had been reports of a child molester in the area and that someone had identified Smith as the molester. Police said that Scott told them that he had seen two young brothers playing on the eighth floor of the Vaughn complex, where Smith was. Scott was said to have told officers that he went to his apartment on the sixth floor, obtained a pistol and went to the eighth floor. Smith and Scott apparently engaged in a brief exchange of words before the shooting, po- St.

Louis U. Dean Gets Gonzaga Post The Rev. Bernard J. Cough-lin, dean of the St. Louis University School of Social Service, has been appointed president of Gonzaga University at Spokane, Wash.

The Gonzaga Board of Trustees said Father Coughlin would assume his new post Oct. 15. The school is one of 27 Jesuit colleges and universities in the country. Father Coughlin has headed the social services school here since 1963. He was graduated from St.

Louis University in 1946 and received a master's degree in social work from the University of Southern California. He received a doctorate in philosophy from Brandeis Uni- Profile Of A Police Chief COLORFUL OLD WEBSTER GROVES is "a law and order city," says its police chief, Fred Zinn. But a few years ago its youngsters became hippies in hordes. Its teen-agers seemed to typify the restlessness, protest and drug subculture of our time. Quiet Webster Groves became controversial.

Fred Zinn is equally colorful and controversial. I revisited him the other day, a couple of years after we had debated each other before the Webster Groves Kiwanis Club. We looked at the world differently, but we discovered we could talk to each other. At 47, Fred Zinn has begun to take a long look at his years of police work. As outspoken and tough-talking as ever, he has become something of a philosopher through the hard years of dealing with the drug age.

"I started out ultra-conservative," he says. "I used to describe myself as a little to the left of Adolf Hitler. But as I've gotten older, I've become more moderate. I went through all the Dick Tracy stuff, but I found out it didn't work. Going by the book, using a club, if that stuff doesn't work, more of the same isn't going to work, either." So Chief Zinn hasn't carried a gun in three years, he says, and in a forward-looking experiment, five or six others of his 47-man force don't either.

"Come back and see me in five years and I'll tell you if it worked." He maintains that a supportive approach has dramatically reduced Webster Groves's problems with its teenagers. "SOME CHIEFS GO BY THE BOOK, but I've rewritten the juvenile code, and you can quote me. I never want to send another kid to BoorwiHe. They say if you make a bad search you can't get a conviction, but I don't want a conviction. I want to do something about the kid, about him and society." So ie has given some troubled teen-agers jobs was -a School dropout and now he's completed two years of "They know they can come in and drop off their dope and not get arrested.

Or tell me about a burglary and not get arrested. "I know that can cause me some static. The name of the game in police work is image, job security, peace at any price, lie if you have to. You can do anything you want with crime and arrest statistics. You have to understand that policemen get very paranoid.

"Sure, it doesn't make sense to make a drug bust over a nickle bag (of marijuana), but you react to pressure. If you get dead kids, you have to do something. It's harder to find the pushers. The FBI has enough money to pay off informants. We don't have the money.

It's that simple." Fred Zinn, for all his machismo, is a sensitive man and man enough to reveal it. "I voted for Nixon," he says. "But Watergate has brought this nation to its knees. These kids think, 'What about our He has other ideas about why young people turn off today. "There are two ways to run away.

Leave home or take dope. Why do they do it? Maybe the family demands an 'A' grade and the kid is a 'B' student. Maybe a daughter is being pushed by her social-climbing mother to get into a sorority. Maybe mama has been playing second fiddle to a man who got married to his job, so she tries to emasculate him. The kids hear what's going on behind those bedroom walls." FRED ZINN likes innovation, even if he takes his risks.

of the candidates for City Council campaigned on a platform to get rid of Zinn, but he He wants to hire a sociologist "who will deal with 9, 10, 11 year olds whose profiles indicate they will be in somebody's jail in six or seven years. If you modify behavior, you modify the environment, because they stop ripping off the neighborhood." His main goal right now is to develop a program he calls "House-a-Teen." "Just plain old people who will take a kid who refuses to go home, give him or her a place to cool things down for a couple of days. We don't need them running the streets of San Francisco, and detention doesn't do any good. We can't afford to lose our 13 and 14 year olds. They're the ones who have to pick up the pieces." times higher than the 1972 figure.

Gilbert Copley, administrative chief of the lead program, estimates that the number treat-e would increase to 600 this year. So far, 96 cases have been reported for the first 16 weeks of 1974, compared with 63 cases over the saime period last Copley attributed- the recent increases to better reporting on the part of local physicians and hospitals and additional screening by the Health Division. 1 Since September 1970, when; the lead program first began here, 835 children have been put in Health officials say that the' figure is probably low, primarily because of poor reporting by hospitals and physicians un-til last year and problems with laboratory equipment in 1972. By GEORGE E. CURRY Of the Post-Dispatch Staff The cost of hospitalizing children with lead poisoning will be at least $1,000,000 over the three-year period ending next December, city Health Division records show.

That figure does not include the cost of continuing treatment or other illnesses that could have been aggravated by the disorder. Health authorities estimate that children in the hospital for lead poisoning usually spend one week in the facility, costing an average of $1200 each stay. "The cost of lead poisoning is tremendous," said Dr. Helen L. Bruce, city health commissioner.

"We figure that if a child is menially retarded at would cost between $360,000 and $400,000 during a lifetime. You can't calculate the behavior and emotional costs." Mental retardation is one possible consequence of lead poisoning. Lead poisoning has been declared an epidemic in the city. Estimates in St. Louis of those afflicted generally range from 7500 to 10,000.

Nationwide, about 200,000 children 6 years old oi younger suffer from the disorder. Lead poisoning occurs in children who have eaten the sweet-tasting lead-based paint, which i usually found in buildings constructed before 1952. It can cause damage to the brain or internal organs and can trigger other disorders within the body. City records show that 450 children were treated for lead poisoning in 1973 almost five I Patrolman C. C.

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