St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 4

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1989 4A Homeless Shelter Proposed At Riverport r- Vv Riverport in Maryland Heights, then use the money from the sale to build a homeless shelter on the remaining land. The county bought the land for $1 million in 1985 and made about $6 million worth of improvements with the intention of having a domed stadium built there. The idea died after the football Cardinals left town. Increase property taxes by 3 cents for each $100 of assessed valuation to pay for services for homeless people.

The county is rolling back Its rate by that amount this yean if voters approved a 3-cent tax, the rate could remain the same, Debker said. Ask for more money from the federal government for homeless assistance. Town Joins In Search For Girl, 13 By Daniel R. Browning Of thcPost-DUpatch Staff FREDERICKTOWN, Mo. Cindy Box jumped anxiously each time her telephone rang Monday evening, hoping that someone had spotted her little girl.

No one had. Not since 10:30 p.m. Saturday, when the 13-year-old, Gina Dawn Brooks, disappeared just six blocks from her modest clapboard home. The callers Monday were neighbors and friends in the town of 4,000, asking what they could do. Some brought food; some combed the caves and dense woods in the area; some distributed posters of Gina.

The posters show a blond girl with a bright smile and green eyes. She is 5 feet tall and weighs 108 pounds. She is supposed to enter the eighth grade next month at Fredericktown Middle School. Box said her family had gone Saturday evening to watch her son, Chris Moore, 12, play a baseball game. It was a doubleheader, and the games were finished about 10 p.m.

When the family got home, Box climbed into the bathtub to relax. Gina told Chris that she was going to borrow a neighbor's 10-speed bicycle and make a quick visit with a neighbor boy, about six blocks away. She would be back before her mother got out of the tub. A few minutes later, about five blocks away, Rollin Bacon was getting to bed when he heard a scream, investigators told Box. Bacon reportedly said he did not think much about it until about 30 minutes later, when someone stopped to ask why he had left a bicycle in the middle of the street.

Box said Bacon did not own a bicycle; he put two and two together and called police. The neighbor boy Gina had been going to visit Saturday night said he had heard a girl scream "Help!" about the time Gina disappeared. He spotted a dark-colored station wagon with one or more dogs inside slow down in the area where Gina's bike was found, Box said. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking for such a car, but the boy did not get a description of the driver, Box said. Box said police and FBI officials told her Monday that they had lots of tips but no solid leads.

Gina's father, who lives in Potosi, and another ex-husband have been checked out and cleared of suspicion, Box said. David Box, Gina's stepfather, was out Monday night with several friends By Virgil Tipton Of the Post-Dispatch Staff St Louis County should build a shelter for homeless people on land it owns at Riverport where a domed stadium was once envisioned, the Missouri Coalition for the Homeless has proposed. In addition, the group says, the county should raise property taxes to help homeless people and should set up a program with school districts to identify the educational needs of homeless children. The suggestions were made in a 10-page proposal given to county officials on Monday. They were drafted by David O.

Depker, the coalition's lobbyist. More Public By Leticia Harrison Of the Post-Dispatch Staff St Louis Mayor Vincent C. Schoe-mehl Jr. and Sen. Christopher S.

Bond on Monday called for programs to improve the city's public housing. "This is'an issue that is very important to the future of St. Louis and the future of public housing," said Schoe-. mehl at a press conference in front of the vacant Vaughn apartment buildings, at 1 9th and Carr streets. The mayor said he supported a proposal from the tenant management at Carr Square Village to convert the complex to private ownership.

The St. Illinois Boy Dies; Shaking Suspected Justin Weber, 2, of the Alton area, has died of injuries suffered when he apparently was shaken severely last week, police reported Monday. The boy died late Sunday night at Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital "in St. Louis, where he had been in a coma since being taken there late Thursday night. No arrests had been made in the case by late Monday.

Alton police said the boy apparently had been shaken at a home in Alton, but they declined to say where or to give other details about the incident Police also declined to specify where Justin had lived or to identify his parents. An autopsy performed Monday by the St. Louis medical examiner's office indicated that the boy had suffered swelling of the brain and other internal injuries commonly found in babies who are shaken severely, police said. Depker and two other advocates for homeless people met Monday with William A. Skaggs, chief of staff to County Executive Gene McNary.

Depker said after the meeting that the officials seemed willing to listen. But, he said, the county has denied the homeless problem and has failed to act on it in the past "I don't see anything that's going to change that right now," he said. Skaggs said a task force appointed by McNary was expected to make public in the middle of next month a report on the homeless problem in St. Louis County. The coalition recommended that the county: Sell most of its 102-acre site at Housing Aid Louis Housing Authority owns the complex.

"We want to see a policy program that encourages tenant responsibility, management and ownership," Schoe-mehl said. Bond, who is a member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, said he would work with the city and include the proposals in an amendment to the Basic Housing Act of 1986. He said he would submit the amendment this fall. If Carr Square Village becomes tenant-owned, Bond and Schoemehl said the city would have to provide an equal number of public housing re IN Subdivision Is Rezoned For Galleria Expansion RICHMOND HEIGHTS: The city council voted unanimously Monday to rezone the former Clay North subdivision from a residential clas-sification to a commercial classification. The action allows the Saint Louis Galleria Redevelopment Corp.

to proceed with the expansion of the Saint Louis Galleria shopping mall. Executives of the Galleria Redevelopment Corp. had said they could not continue with their plans unless the city yielded control of the streets in the former Clay North subdivision and rezoned the area. The council gave up control of the streets three weeks ago. Galleria Redevelopment has proposed adding about 100 specialty shops and at least two major department stores as part of an expansion that will extend the mall south.

JAMESTOWN SOUTH Set up a telephone line for homeless people to call for information about assistance. Conduct a study of the extent of homelessness in the county. Establish a task force to produce further recommendations on dealing with homelessness. As the homeless grow in number, "they will force a public outcry as they move to county parks and church parking lots," the report says. "St Louis County has for years both denied the existence of massive homelessness within its boundaries and claimed there was insufficient data to do comprehensive planning to address it" the proposal says.

"This is no longer tolerable." Officials Say two, two-family flats in the 4000 block of Enright a resident said he doubted the success of renovation in that area due to the crime and drug trafficking there. Paul McNeal, 35, who owns and lives in a four-family building in the block, said the neighborhood needed more police protection. "All my money went into that building," he said. "They put drug addicts in there who tore it up," McNeal said. After watching Bond and Schoemehl assess the vacant unit across the street McNeal said, "I thought they'd forgot about us." St.

Louisan Guilty; Filmed Teen-agers A man who operated a photography studio in Cahokia pleaded guilty Monday of photographing two girls "in a pose involving a lewd exhibition of the genitals" when he knew they were under 18. Carl Bibbs, 46, of the 4800 block of Hammett Place in St. Louis, entered the plea before Circuit Judge Lloyd A. Karmeier in circuit court in Belleville. Karmeier ordered Bibbs to spend 142 days in jail, part of which he served when arrested earlier this year, before he was freed on bond.

He also must pay a $5,000 fine, provide 100 hours of community service work and spend four years on probation. Bibbs was charged with photographing one girl, 16, on Sept. 15 and the other, 17, on Jan. 1. Authorities said Bibbs operated an otherwise legitimate studio.

They said he had recruited the girls through such things as classified ads and. booths at county fairs. CRESTWOOD MID RIVERS $28 Is Needed, placement units. Instead of rehabilitating the vacant Vaughn high-rise buildings, Schoemehl said he would "consider" having the abandoned high-rises torn down and replaced with 250 new town houses. "It's clear that we've had problems with high-rise housing," Schoemehl said.

To gain additional replacement units, Schoemehl said he supported two new rental-assistance programs in the city that allow the renovation of vacant two-family buildings in some of the city's blighted neighborhoods. Minutes later, as the group toured BRIEF Chesterfield Rejects Shopping Center Plan CHESTERFIELD: The city council rejected Monday night a commercial rezoning proposal that would have allowed construction of a shopping center on Olive Boulevard between East and West drives. The council members voted 5-3 against a rezoning request by the Sullivan Hayes Co. of Denver. Six "no" votes were required to overturn a favorable recommendation by the city's planning commission, but City Attorney Douglas Beach said three "yes" votes were not enough to enact the rezoning.

The company proposed to build a shopping center of 157,000 square feet on 23 acres. The council also voted to shelve a companion proposal to build single-family housing on part of the tract. COUNTY ST. CLAIR Gina Dawn Brooks Disappeared Saturday Post Dispatch Map combing the area for any signs or clues that might lead to Gina. Cindy Box said a psychic had come to the house with some suggestions.

She said the FBI did not "appreciate" the tips from the psychic. "But when you get to where we're at, you're grasping for straws," she said. "You'll go anywhere." Susan Weems, David Box's sister, said news of the apparent kidnapping had made everyone in town skittish. "Nobody's letting their kids out of their sight," she said. People with information on the abduction are asked to call the Madison County sheriff's department at 783-6140 or the Fredericktown Police Department at 783-2285.

Cindy Box worries that some people will wonder why she let her daughter out so late. "I have preached to high heaven about being out after dark," she said. "Gina said, 'Mom, you're old-fashioned. Mom, chill out. Mom, I know everyone in "Well, you don't know everyone in Fredericktown." SAINT LOUIS The Casual A 1 COUNTY J) 1 St.

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