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stlouisfriday October 3, 190 3A ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH-. Laclede 9s Landing Alive And Well On Its 5th Birthday Landing Boulevard will have been constructed on the landing's north boundary to provide a major east-west artery to downtown. But tonight the landing's friends 600 persons ranging from bankers and property owners to fire and police officials will celebrate the accomplishments of the last five years. The principal one is not all those restaurants, but the largest warehouses-to- offices development in the nation.

"In 1976 we had 1 million square feet of warehouse space, 95 percent of it vacant," Purcell said. "Today we have 600,000 square feet renovated or financed for renovation. "In 1976 there were 120 people employed in the landing; by the end of this year we will have 1,400 people working here, more than 1,000 of them in offices. By 1983 when we hope to have all the buildings renovated and rented there should be at least 2,500 people working in the landing. "Now I ask you, does that sound even remotely like Gaslight Square?" are expected to blossom in the 9-square-block area that slopes down to the levee between the Martin Luther King and Eads bridges.

"Next year, and from then on, the name of game will be retail," Purcell said. "People don't mind walking over a torn-up sidewalk or putting up with sandblasting to eat and drink, but they just won't do it for shopping; that's why we have waited for the retail component," Purcell said. "Next year we have about 50,000 square feet of retail coming on line, about 10,000 of it in the Witte Building (707 North Second Street) and 15,000 in the Bi-State building," he said. The renovated Christian Peper Building, 714 North Second Street, which will be Bi-State Development Agency's headquarters, will be one of the architectural stunners of the area when it opens in February or March, featuring a towering atrium and interior balconies. Typically for Laclede's Landing, the shift of emphasis to retail is being preceded by careful planning.

A study of the area's potential for retail sales was done by Team Four in August, with the findings now being presented to potential renters in a fat glossy booklet. The landing's only deviation from its initial plans is an index of its appeal to developers and investors, who have put $32 million into the area. Originally only 21 of the 19th-century buildings were scheduled for restoration; the end of five years 37 have been rehabilitated or are under contract for renovation. The landing's sixth year may see contraction begin on a major hotel on what is now a parking lot. Other developments are definite: Next month, paving of the landing's alleys will be completed, and 17 condominiums to be created out of four buildings with spectacular views of the Mississippi River will go on sale.

In January, Boatmen's National Bank will open a branch in a newly renovated building at 727 North First Street. By spring, four small parks will provide oases for lunchtime brown-baggers. By summer, Laclede's all dumpster containers for trash, be housed inside the buildings or otherwise hidden so as not to offend the eye. Those handsome cast-brass address plates on each renovated building? Planned from the start, and mandated by the "parcel development agreement" that goes with each title to a building sold in the landing. Violate any term of that agreement, and Laclede's Landing Redevelopment Corp.

can wield its ultimate power cancellation of the 25-year tax abatement boon it gives developers in the area. The spacious arcade-like lobbies that run through the larger buildings, connecting the streets the buildings front on? These promenades were not coincidental whims of the 18 architects who have worked on the landing. They, too, were planned five years ago and required of developers as a way of aiding pedestrian traffic in the landing and providing indoor malls for retail stores. "That is public space that from the start has been designed for retail," Purcell said. And starting next year, retail businesses By Sally Bilby Defty Of the Pott-Dispatch SUff To Tom Purcell, being called Gaslight Square crazy" is the ultimate epithet.

That phrase haunts the executive director of the Laclede's Landing Redevelopment a man clearly far more at home with good hard sales-per-square-foot figures than he ever would have been with the long-gone entertainment area in the Central West End. The fifth birthday party Laclede's Landing is throwing for about 600 of its best friends tonight is really a tribute to its key difference from Gaslight nothing about the riverfront area has been left to chance. That commodious brick planter full of shrubs and flowers on Clamorgan Alley? Hidden underneath it is a huge electric transformer. Obviously the electric needs of a warehouse area the city had left behind 75 years before are not the same as those of a bustling business area. Five years ago, the planners anticipated the necessity for transformers and ruled that all of them, and mniiyyiiiii i mwii ji i i n.mm"""'"" I I I it 5 If 4 Umbrella' Group jOpposed By PTA Members of the St.

Louis Council of parent Teacher Associations told Superintendent Robert E. Wentz Thursday night that a new parents organization structure being considered by school officials is not needed. The speakers said a new parents group would drain strength from existing organizations, which already are suffering from dwindling memberships. In addition, the speakers predicted that a new group may not liMwk J.B. ForbesPost-Dispatch The wreckage of the accident Thursday night that killed Police Sgt.

by the car at right and pinned against a light pole. The driver of the Richard B. Siebenman. His unmarked police car (at left) was struck other car was identified as Leo Ponder, 17, of Affton. Policeman Killed When Speeding Car Hits His attract enough parents to get it off the ground.

Only about 20 persons were at the PTA meeting Thursday an indication, some said, of the difficulty of getting parents involved. Wentz was at the meeting at the Heritage House, 2800 Olive Street, to give members an update on the progress of desegregation. He outlined some problems in transportation, overcrowding and racial tension. But after his remarks, the audience wanted to talk only about the proposed new parents organization. Under the proposal, a group called the Parent-Community Advisory Council would replace the citywide Parent Congress, which has operated since 1968.

Other existing parents groups, such as the PTA, parent advisory councils and mothers' clubs would continue to operate. The new organization would be composed of not only parents, but also of business, religious and community representatives who may not be parents. Each school would have a council, which would send representatives to an area council, which, in turn, would send representatives to a citywide council. The citywide council would meet monthly with School Board members and Wentz. School officials say a broad involvement of the community in the councils would help desegregation go more smoothly.

The council concept, however, was recommended by an education task force three years ago before the desegregation order. Roberta Smith, assistant vice president of the Scruggs School PTA, asked Wentz to hot tamper with parent groups. "Leave us with something. You have drained us dry," she said. She said she opposes including persons who are not parents on a parent council.

"Outsiders don't belong. They don't know what's going on in the schools," she said. Ruth Scheetz, president of the Missouri PTA and former member of the School Board, said parents are dismayed that they are told where their children must attend school and even what kind of parent group they may organize. Mrs. Smith agreed.

"I feel I'm being dictated to," she told Wentz. Wentz responded, "You're not being dictated to. If you feel that way, it's because you want to." Carol Edison, president of the citywide PTA, said the number of PTA units has dropped to 20 from 40 in the last 10 years. By Jan Paul 500 Show Up in South County Against Busing the second of four proposed St. Louis County groups forming to fight school busing for integration drew about 500 people to an organizational meeting Thursday night.

Organizers said the South County Association for Neighborhood Schools is affiliated with the National Association for Neighborhood Schools, which has members in 40 states. The national association supports proposed federal including a constitutional amendment, to stop court-ordered busing of schoolchildren. The South County group, like its forming in Affton and West and North County, aims to keep county schools from being drawn into the St. Louis public schools' busing plan. A federal judge has ordered a feasibility study that could recommend that the county schools be included in the city plan; Court-ordered busing began last month in the St.

Louis public schools, which are predominantly black. 4ome people stood at the doors of the Tesson Ferry Branch of the St. Louis County Library, 5676 South Lindbergh Boulevard, because of the overflow-size of the crowd, and others had to meet in another room. i A related group, the West County Association for Neighborhood Schools, Will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Sorrento Springs School, 390 Tumulty prive, Manchester, and not Monday as reported earlier.

A North County association has not scheduled a meeting. The Association of Concerned Citizens of Affton, which has affiliated with the national group also, attracted about 330 persons to a Meeting Wednesday night. y0t4 Wl 'J 1 headquarters during the day, he frequently patroled at night to inspect his subordinates, officers said. Siebenman, who lived on the South Side, joined the force in February 1958 as a patrolman in the Union Boulevard District. He also served in the Lynch Street District, the police chief's office, as an investigator in the circuit attorney's office and in the Intelligence Division.

In August 1974, he was promoted to the rank of sergeant and assigned to the Lynch Street District. Two years later, he was transferred to the correspondence investigation division. Bombing and arson squad Detective Stephen F. Sorocko, who worked for Siebenman for three years, said of him: "He was an honest, good-natured man who always had time for anyone and any problems they had. Personally, he was an excellent individual.

He was also an excellent policeman and supervisor." Surviving are his wife, Marilyn; a daughter, Georgiann, who works part-time in the department's budget and finance office; a son, Rich, of New Orleans; and a brother, Sgt. John M. Siebenman, assigned to the Hampton Avenue District detective bureau. Loughborough, was treated at City Hospital for minor injuries and transferred to the city holdover. He was booked suspected of possession of intoxicating beverages.

Police said that Siebenman was driving west on Loughborough on routine patrol at 8 p.m. when he was hit by the other car, which was northbound on Minnesota. Witnesses told police that the other car drove through two stop signs south of Loughborough before reaching Minnesota, where it again missed the stop sign. The witnesses estimate the car's speed at 70 to 90 mph, and police said that no skid marks were found in the intersection, indicating the driver made no attempt to stop. The speed limit on Minnesota, which has two lanes of traffic with parking on both sides of the street, is 25 mph.

Just before striking Siebenman's car, the other car sideswiped a car parked on the east side of Minnesota and knocked over two mailboxes, police said. Two empty beer cans were found in the suspects' car, police said. Blood samples were taken from both youths to determine alcoholic content. Although he normally worked at Of the Post-Dispatch Staff St. Louis Police Sgt.

Richard Barry Siebenman, 48, was killed Thursday night when the police car he was driving at Loughborough and Minnesota avenues was struck by a car that police said ran a stop sign while going over 70 mph. Fire Department personnel had to pry open the door of Siebenman's unmarked car, which was pinched in the middle between the other car and a light pole, to get Siebenman out. The 22-year Police Department veteran and deputy commander of the correspondence investigation division was dead on arrival at City Hospital, 1515 Lafayette Avenue, at 8:35 p.m. The driver of the other car, Identified as Leo Ponder, 17, of the 9800 block of Affton Place, Affton, was reported in satisfactory condition at City Hospital with a fractured skull. He was booked suspected of manslaughter, possession of intoxicating beverages, destruction of city property, driving while his license was suspended and numerous traffic offenses.

Warrants were being sought today. A passenger in his car, identified as as Arthur Becker, 17, of the 100 block of Richard B. Siebenman "An honest, good-natured County Clinic Swamped At Schools' Deadline local Center, 6150 Natural Bridge Road In Til ha onm rViA mr fnn msCtita vaccinations without appointments measles). They can be barred from school if they have not begun vaccinations one month after classes begin. At least one school district, Hazelwood, has already excluded students from several of its schools.

Most districts have sent several warnings to parents and have warned that they will exclude unimmunized children in the next few weeks. Spokesmen for several districts said that the state immunization office had granted them extensions. The city of St. Louis, for example, was not able to meet Wednesday's exclusion date because of record-keeping problems created by the desegregation program. But a district spokesman said unimmunized children would be barred starting October 15.

Aside from the law, Dr. Santos-Pardo said, the threat of measles is reason enough for parents to have their children immunized. In recent years, both the city and the county have had serious outbreaks of measles which can lead to pneumonia and inflammation of the brain, she said. "This week, we got the school year's first tentative diagnosis of measles in the county," the doctor said. She said the victim, a young boy who attends a Clayton-area school, is confined to his home.

Laboratory tests must be run to confirm the case, she said. The county will open a second walk-in immunization clinic next Thursday at its new North Central County Health By Roger Signor Of the Post-Dispatch Staff St. Louis County's only walk-in vaccination clinic was jammed Wednesday and Thursday with nearly 500 children who must begin their shots or be barred from school. "We are swamped!" said Dr. Lourdes Santos-Pardo, director of the county's child health program.

In a rush to comply with the state's immunization law, more than 700 children had already attended the free vaccine clinic this week at 801 South Brentwood Boulevard in Clayton, she said. The state law requires that children be immunized against measles, polio, diphtheria and rubella (German eauu iiiuisuay iiuiii i iui jj.iii. Free vaccinations are available daily in all of the city's municipal health centers, said Dr. Helen C. BruceJ city health commissioner.

Missouri school districts must submit immunization status reports ta the State Bureau of Immunizablg Diseases in Jefferson City by October 15. Until then, the state will not know how well school children are immunized, a bureau spokesman said. The October 1 exclusion date was spelled out for the first time in this year's regulations in an effort to aid the districts, he said. Reputed Drug Dealer Pulls Gun, Is Killed Black Officer Heads Bureau Of Services Lt. Col.

William H. Brown, the highest ranking black officer in the St. Louis Police Department, has been named head of the department's bureau of services. Brown, formerly assistant chief of detectives in the department's bureau of investigation, was promoted to lieutenant colonel from major on Wednesday. Also promoted were Capt.

James F. Reddick, also black, to major and Lt. Robert O. Boaz to captain. Reddick, formerly commandeer of the Deer Street District, will replace Brown as assistant "chief of detectives.

Boaz, formerly commander of the narcotics division, was named commander of the burglary and robbery division of the bureau of investigation. 8 Cable TV Firms Make Pitches Spokesmen foreight cable television companies made their pitches Thursdaylo the St. Louis County Council, which a week earlier had heard from three other firms that want to serve all or part of the unincorporated area of the county. Council Chairman George M. "Jerry" Corcoran D-St.

Ann, gave the firms until 2 p.m. Thursday to file rebuttals to other companies' bids, and said he hopes the council can narrow the choice down by early November. Corcoran identified three companies Warner Amex Cable Communications Continental Cablevision Inc. and Telcom Cablevision Inc. as front-runners, because they already have won municipal franchises that could mesh with the five areas into which the county has been divided for cable service.

$100,000 Grant For Streetcar Studies The East-West Gateway Coordinating Council has received a $100,000 federal grant to resume studies that could lead to a line in the St. Louis region. Matthew D. Melucci, the Gateway Council's executive director, said that the money would be used to update materials gathered in past studies and to study four possible streetcar routes. At the end of this phase, the council will select one or two routes for detailed analysis and planning, he said.

Wheelchair Helps Show To Go On The show must go on, and actor Van Johnson did Thursday night in 'a wheelchair. Johnson, appearing here -in "Tribute" at the American Theater North Ninth Street, suffered a broken bone in his foot when he stepped off a curb and fell while walking to his hotel after Wednesday night's performance. A spokesman for the show said that Thursday's performance had to be restaged because Johnson normally "does a lot of running around during the show." But Johnson, who was fitted with a cast that allows him to walk, will perform on his feet in tonight's performance and for the remainder of the show's run here through Oct. 12, the spokesman said. Stewart and the detective had concluded a drug sale, police said.

County police gave the following account: Narcotics Detective Kenneth McPortland, working undercover, had set up a meeting with Stewart at 6 p.m. Thursday to purchase 1,000 doses of LSD, worth about $1,500. After the exchange, McPortland identified himself as a policeman, drew his service revolver and told Stewart he was under arrest. Stewart backed away, pulled a revolver from his coat pocket and pointed it at McPortland, police said. The detective then fired his revolver three times.

The first shot struck Stewart in the left side of his chest, the second in the right side and the third in the back as he spun around, authorities said. Stewart was pronounced dead at the scene. A 20-year-old Calverton Park man, reputedly a minor drug dealer, was shot to death Thursday by a St. Louis County undercover narcotics detective after he allegedly pulled a revolver on the detective. Dead is Curtis Stewart of the 1400 block of North Elizabeth Avenue.

The shooting took place in the 1400 block of Charlotte Drive, Ferguson, after Lottery Number CHICAGO (UPI) The winning numbers drawn Thursday in the Illinois Lottery were: Pot of Gold 888852 (Estimated jackpot: $65,400) Bingo B-12, 1-28, and 0-67 The winning number drawn Thursday in the Daily Game was 594. Police said that Stewart's pistol was loaded. According to St. Louis County court records, Stewart got a suspended sentence and was placed on two years probation in August 1978 after pleading guilty of possessing marijuana. 1 But despite two subsequent convictions, for marijuana posesssion in December 1979 and for driving while intoxicated last February, the state Probation and Parole Board did not recommend revocation of his probation.

He successfully completed probation in August 1980. He was fined $200 court costs in the marijuana case and fined $125 in the traffic case. County Circuit Judge Robert G.J. Hoester placed Stewart on probation in 1980. Asked today why the probation had not been revoked, Hoester said, "I simply did what the professional probation officer recommended.".