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UUS PuSHEffiTCH VOL. 115. NO. 204 Copyrlght 1993 FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1 993 (1) 5-STAR Cfn 50 FDdl ft, 1 ,1 V. i 5 Volunteers Flooding; To Needy By Patricia Corrigan Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Neighbor came to the aid of neighbor after Hurricane Andrew, and the world watched in awe.

Could that happen here? It has. The spirit of giving and volunteer-ism that has taken hold here is unprecedented almost as unimaginable as the Mississippi and Missouri rivers relocating their confluence. From convenience stores to corporations, community groups to National Guardsmen, people of all ages and circumstances have come forward to do whatever needs doing, to help whoever needs help. Consider the Schmitt and LaPlant families in Lemay. Jan and Don Schmitt have teamed with Rhoda and Gerry LaPlant, along with their two sons, Treff LaPlant, 21, and Joseph LaPlant, 14, to establish a flood-relief agency called Lemay Helping Lemay.

First, they set up an account at Lemay Bank for flood victims. With the support of the Lemay Chamber of Commerce, they approached some businesses for cash donations. They organized a clothing drive, and they are collecting cleaning supplies and toiletries. With the help of the Lemay Fire Department and the Lemay Fire Explorer Scouts, the LaPlants and the Schmitts are setting up a distribution center for the people who need the clothing and the cleaning supplies. That's not all.

"Anything that the Salvation Army, the police or the sandbaggers in Lemay need ice, water, juice, food, paper cups, whatever we take it to them," said Treff LaPlant. Jan Schmitt said: "The good thing about a local organization is we can meet individual needs of families in See VOLUNTEERS, Page 14 River On Rise Again By Virgil Tipton Of the Post-Dispatch Staff The Mississippi River drubbed its valley again on Thursday, this time with a whirlpool and a wall of water that submerged Kaskaskia Island, with a levee collapse in Lincoln County and with unrelenting pressure on sandbags at the River Des Peres. And there was this blow: The National Weather Service predicted that the Mississippi would rise Wednesday to 47 feet near the record high of 47.05 it hit Tuesday. The Army Corps of Engineers said the flood could last until September. "I think we've got to tighten our belts and take a deep breath and hang in there," said Jim Brown, a spokesman for the corps.

"It's not going to get easier." At the Menard Correctional Center in Chester, 111., guards walked inmates to the prison yard so they could use portable toilets. Inside the prison, inmates used pieces of cardboard to contain the stench from toilets. Inmates had been unable to shower or to flush toilets since Wednesday, when the Mississippi strangled the prison's water supply. In St. Louis, police wrote tickets for trespassing to sightseers in the flooded River Des Peres area, and police officials sent more troops to patrol the neighborhoods of empty houses.

Meanwhile, in Washington, squabbles over how to pay for aid to flood victims delayed action until next week. Elsewhere: Des Moines, Iowa, got water flowing again to most of the city. But the water won't be drinkable for 30 days, and officials cautioned against using it to wash clothes. The water carries too much iron and chlorine. In West Quincy, local levee officials asked the Marion County sheriff to investigate their suspicions that someone had sabotaged a levee.

After the levee cracked open spectacularly July 16, floodwater closed access to a bridge, and a gas tank blew up. In Hardin, 111., Illinois National Guard helicopters flew supplies to stranded residents. The landing field was growing soggy and rutted, said deputy sheriff Karl Eickmeyer. "Before too much longer, we may have to look for a new landing zone." In Madison, search crews found the body of Anthony Gatewood, 22, of Venice. He had been fishing when he apparently fell into the Mississippi on Wednesday.

In St. Charles County, workers filled more sandbags but realized that whatever could be flooded probably already was. "There isn't much levee left," said Petra Haws, a spokeswoman for the county's Emergency Management Agency. In Bellefontaine Neighbors, emergency workers alternated See FLOOD, Page 14 AP an unidentified volunteer helped Sheriff Ben Picou (left) of Randolph County, holding up a retrieve other items from immaculate conception catholic Church mmmm A Special Section On The Hood Of '93 POST State Figures Preliminary Cost Estimate Tentative Price Tag Is Put Is $72 Million, Officials Say By Terry Ganey Post-Dispatch Jefferson City Bureau Chief JEFFERSON CITY The state of Missouri's price tag for the great flood of 1993 is $72.1 million. That very preliminary estimate, released Thursday, is about as solid as a water-soaked levee along River Des Peres.

"We won't really know for sure until the water recedes," said Jerry B. Uhlmann, director of the Emergency Management Agency. Uhlmann, Gov. Mel Carnahan and the heads of 16 state departments met with legislators Thursday to get a handle on what the flood will cost the state. Uhlmann provided the $72 million estimate.

It is the predicted state match for several federal disaster assistance programs. The total cost of flood damage to Missouri is estimated at $2.7 billion. "The most likely thing that's going to happen See COST, Page 12 House Delays Funding For Flood Relief Hang-up Centers On How Pay For Aid To Victims Charlotte Grimes Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau WASHINGTON In a victory that surprised even its engineers, Republicans and fiscally conservative Democrats on Thursday derailed speedy House passage of the $2.98 emergency aid package for flood victims Midwest. Congress still is expected to approve the aid before Tuesday. delay was made through a parliamentary that caught the House leadership off pinned the debate to how to pay for the covered the House floor in rhetorical "Member after member stood on the floor lauded the courage and the heroism of their in this flood and then stood up and a knife in their backs when it comes to aid," said Rep.

Richard Durbin, D-SeeGOP, Page 14 1 priest's vestments Thursday as on Kaskaskia Island. OS101 4 I J. Carol Moseley-Braun Emotional plea tout. I To By billion in the but not The maneuver guard, aid and blood. and constituents stuck emergency INDEX Business 8-1 6D Classified 2-28E Commentary 7B Everyday 1-12F Movie Timetable 11F NationWorld 3A News Analysis 5B Obituaries 4B People 2A Reviews 3-4F St.

Louis 1-4B Sports 1-7D 'Television 10F EDITORIAL PAGE No More Hearings For Walter Blair Judge Freeh, At Last 6B River Scams: State, federal authorities move to protect flood victims 8A 1 Witch's Brew: Contaminated floodwater poses no major health risk 9A 1 Protection Policy: Conservation group wants new flood policy. 9A 1 Flood Help: How to give flood aid or get it IOA 1 Mo Clothes: Relief agencies say they have enough, so don't send more IOA 1 Summer Camp: YMCA offers free camp to 600 child flood victims 12A 1 Kaskaskia Island: 150 flee as Mississippi River inundates island 14A i Sand Situation: Supply starts to dwindle. 8D Hatch Presses, Ginsburg Declines To Senators' Impatience Growing Moseley-Braun's Plea Moves Senate In Fight Over Symbol Of Confederacy With Court Nominee's Reluctance Air Views penalty, which she said she had not fully considered, and on a lesser question whether the Korean War was a war. "I think you ought to tell us where you really come down on this thing," sa'd Hatch, who pressed her on the death penalty to no avail. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was ridiculed in his confirmation hearings for similarly avoiding an answer on abortion, Hatch said.

"I have tried to be as forthcoming as I can while still preserving my full and independent judgment," Ginsburg said. From the death penalty, Hatch moved to abortion rights, which he See GINSBURG, Page 4 WEATHER Scattered Storms FORECAST Today Scattered storms today and tonight. High 92, with south winds at 5 to 10 mph. Low 75. Saturday Chance of storms.

High 95. Other Weather, 8B POST-DISPATCH WEATHEHBIRD nul pat opi'. 09189V11001 THE approval on an insignia she said is repugnant to black people. The issue, she said, is "whether or not Americans such as myself will have to suffer the indignity of being reminded time and time again that at one point in this country's history we were human chattel, we were property, we could be WASHINGTON (AP) Senators showed increasing impatience with Ruth Bader Ginsburg's reluctance to answer questions at her Supreme Court confirmation hearings Thursday, with one challenging her to "tell us where you really come down." The last of her three days of public testimony also was marked by a clash between Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Sen.

Carol Moseley-Braun, D-Ill. Through it all, Ginsburg's confirmation still seemed a foregone conclusion. Ginsburg reaffirmed positions she has taken in 13 years as a federal judge and in her writings. But she declined to weal her thinking on such difficult matters as the death By Kathleen Best Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau WASHINGTON The nation's first black woman senator transformed the Senate floor into a Civil War battleground Thursday in which even some of the victors suffered wounds. Sen.

Carol Moseley-Braun, forced the Senate to reverse itself after it voted 52-48 to revive efforts to restore the design patent on the insignia used by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The insignia incorporates the original Confederate flag of three red-and-white stripes and seven stars on a field of blue. Sen. Jesse Helms, said the patent extension was a courtesy to an honorable descendants' organization with a long history of service to veterans. But Moseley-Braun, with tears at times coursing down her cheekp, framed the debate in symbolic teims and begged her colleagues not to put the Senate's stamp of traded, bought and sold.

The emotional plea from the Senate's lone black member sent Democrats and Republicans scrambling for a new roll call and evoked effusive praise for what senators termed Moseley-Braun's courag'l, See SENATE, Page 4.