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On Today's Editorial Page A Plan For Rural Growth: Editorial One Way Or Another: Editorial STL post-a SPAT FINAL In VOL. 92 ISO. 79 190, St. Louis Post-Dispatch SATURDAY, 3IAKC1I 21, 1970 18 PAGES 1 Horn Deltvery Price 1UC $3.50 a Month Cancels Juvenile Outlay ixon Warns Of U.S. it Strike Action Ma Carriers Here Businesses that depend on the mails lost millions of dollars.

Mail order houses were stopped cold and magazines were unable to circulate their issues. Postal units in Cleveland, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, San Francisco and four Los Angeles suburbs voted either to continue walkouts or start new ones. Shouts of "Strike, strike," greeted Chicago union leaders' attempts to relate yesterday's meetings with Secretary Shultz and Postmaster General Winton M. Blount. 5000 members of Chicago's Branch 11 of the National Association of Letter Carriers TURN TO PAGE 8, COL.

1 ton warned that if there was no settlement of the pay dispute within five days, beginning Monday, they would call for a shutdown of the mails throughout the country. Only Congress can authorize a pay increase. Postal pay legislation that includes a 5.4 per cent rise has been snagged for months. President Nixon has made the increase contingent on postal reform. The mailmen, who now make a starting salary of $6176 a year and $8442 after 21 years, are seeking a pay scale of $8500 a year to start and $11,700 after five years.

The economic effects of the strike cannot be estimated. i Saigon Force tg mm Maids Camp From Post-Dispatch Wire Service SAIGON, South Vietnam, March 21 (AP) South Vietnamese rangers raided an enemy camp about 1000 yards from the Cambodian border west of Saigon and killed 68 enemy troops, sources in the field said today. The Ranger battalion, backed by tanks and fighter-bombers, engaged the enemy at about noon Friday in the northern Plain of Reeds, 66 miles west of Saigon. They pushed forward about a' mile and reached the bunkers of the camp five hours later, llllilli'NBllplll By TED GEST Of the Post-Dispatcl Staff Reversing itself for the second time in a week, the Louis regions Law Enforcement Assistance Council yesterday took away funds from the next fiscal year's appropriation previously allocated for construction of a post-trial juvenile training facility. By an 8-to-7 vote, the council designated all but $5Qj09O of the $491,800 previously Earmarked for the juvenile facility to be used for projects that were cut back or eliminated last week.

These projects included operation of a regional police academy and and computerization of polictj records. The decision was, a victory for St. Louis County Supervisor Lawrence K. Roos, who put a higher priority on law enforcement programs and a defeat for St. Louis Mayor Alfonso J.

Cervantes, who had urged immediate action on the juvenile facility. Roos had urged that funding for construction of the juvenile center be put off for a year pending further study. He said after the meeting that the council's decision was "a fair settlement in the interest of the entire The one vote change necessary to reverse last week's council decision was made by Mrs. Bernice Holbert.the representative from St. Charles County.

She said she had decided that construction of the facility should not be rushed this year. Mrs. Holbert's vote switch came after proponents of the juvenile center had spent more than an hour discussing detailed plans for the facility. St. Louis Circuit Judge Theodore McMillian, who is a member of the State Law Enforcement Assistance Council, said in an impassioned speech that "running a juvenile training center may be a state function but we are doing tfie community a disservice if we just accept that and let nothing be done." St.

Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Gene McNary suggested to McMillian that "a training school is a complex operation shouldn't we take some more time to plan it?" McMillian replied that, "There has been too much planning and too many surveys of our needs. This is the time to take action." C. Larry Unland, preesident of the St. Louis Board of Public-Service, presented detailed plans for the proposed facility, which would be built on the grounds of the city's Missouri Hills juvenile center at 1330O Bellefontaine Road. He empha- TURN TO PAGE 7, COL.

1 Alderman Doris Bass Sixteenth Ward, conferring with Raymond D. Percich Twenty-seventh Ward, one of 16 aldermen who passed her anti-obscenity bill yesterday. (Post-Dispatch Photo) Bill Passed To Keep Out 'Hair WASHINGTON, March 21 (AP) President Richard M. Nixon told a press conference today that if postal workers continued wildcat strikes Monday, "I will meet my constitutional responsibility to see that the mails go through." Reporters were given the strong impression that Army or National Guard units would be mobilized to take over postal operations next week if members of postal unions repudiate a strike-ending agreement between their leaders and the Government. In a no-question-barred session with several dozen reporters in his oval office, Mr.

Nixon said he recognized that postal workers in many areas had legitimate grievances. But he said the Government never would negotiate with them so long as they were engaged in illegal walkouts. Before the President's statement, additional walkouts by mailcarriers were reported in scattered cities. The walkouts were in definance of back-to-work pleas by union leaders and despite the Administration's agreement to discuss wage demands. About 40 pickets appeared at the front entrance to the main post office in Chicago, the nation's largest, after the local union voted to strike.

The picketing began as the first shift of carriers was scheduled to re-p for work. At the same time, picketing was scheduled to begin in 72 of Chicago's postal substations. But James H. Rademacher, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, said, "I am confident that the people in Chicago will limit their walkout to one day I have promised that our members will be back by Monday morning." In New York, about 6000 city mailmen voted almost unanimously today to stay on strike, defying a back-to-work agreement reached by their union leaders and the Nixon Administration. "Only the President can intervene and bring about a settlement," said Gus Johnson, president of the Ney York Letter Carriers Union, after the mass meeting in a Manhattan armory.

"We have gone along a street of broken dreams for 19 months with nothing concrete in the proposals." The tentative agreement announced in Washington yesterday by Secretary of Labor George P. Shultz called for an immediate return to work with a promise of quick consideration of the postal workers' demands, especially Tor a wage increase. In Denver, workers voted not to report for work beginning with today's first shift. In Detroit, however, officers of the local union voted unanimously last night to return all employes to work as soon as possible. A wildcat strike had closed 22 of that city's 33 substations.

Postal authorities in Philadelphia said 15 carriers and about two dozen clerks reported for work tdy. Nrmlly, they said, 2300 carriers and 500 clerks would be working in the main post office and its 41 branches. A few hours after pickets began forming at the main post office in Pittsburgh, police estimated their number at about 500. Later some were sent to branch stations. The union leaders in Washing By SALLY BIXBY DEFTY Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Alderman Frank C.

Boland's paperback copy of "Hair" was stolen from his desk in the board's chambers yesterday. However, that did not stop the Seventeenth-Ward Democrat from delivering a vigorous opening salvo in the debate that preceded passage of an antiob-scenity bill. The vote was 16 to 11. "I'm not a prude," Boland said in ringing tones. "I love the theater, opera and pretty women." Then, spreading his arms wide, he pleaded, "We are polluting our streams, our oceans and lakes.

I beg you not to pollute the minds of innocent children." Quoting from a Reader's Digest article, Smut Smother the Boland continued, "People say you don't have to go see this play. I say you don't have to see a skunk to know one's around." It was the end of a long, hard day for the aldermen. Controversial bills had led to spirited debate as the current session drew to a close. Alderman Doris Bass Fifteenth Ward, had been a self contained island of calm throughout the day. Seldom lifting her eyes from her desk, she scribbled notes, read through material backing her anuobscenity bill and seemed totally except when a TURN TO COL.

1 Gen. Nguyen Chanh Thi Exiled Vietnamese officer Spy Ring Broken Up, Saigon Says SAIGON, South Vietnam, March 21 (AP) South Vietnamese police said today that they had broken a Communist spy cell in Saigon and seized 14 of its members. They still were seeking two Chinese-trained spies, one ef them a North Vietnamese major. The cell had operated in Saigon since 1963, they said, "mak-i and exploiting contacts" with important Vietnamese and American officials. Lt.

Col. Nguyen Mau, head of the special police, said that members of the ring "even sat with U.S. Senators and drank at the same table." In a report at a press conference Mau mentioned only one "important official" by name i former Gen. Nguyen Chanh Thi, a one-time airborne officer who. led an unsuccessful coup in 1960.

He now lives in exile in Washington, D. C. Mau said the espionage ring, TURN TO PAGE 7, COL. 4 Model City, HousinBills Are Killed By Aldermen Meet Monday St. Louis letter carriers have been called to a union meeting at 7:30 p.m.

Monday at Letter Carriers Hall, 2800 South Grand Boulevard. Gene C. Hacker, president of Branch 343, National Association of Letter Carriers, told Post-Dispatch he had called the meeting to discuss the possibility of a national work stoppage. Hacker attended a meeting in Washington yesterday of representa-t i of 300 branches from around the country. South Vietnam, that an American spotter plane and South Vietnamese artillery were called in by a Cambodian army commander Friday in a two- TURN TO PAGE 2, COL.

3 No Word On Captain Of Hijacked Ship PENH, Cambodia, March 21 (AP) The captain of American ammunition ship that was hijacked last week by two men was still being held incommunicado today by Cambodian authorities. Lloyd M. Rives, charge d'affaires of the American Embassy in Phnom Penh, said his attempts to see Capt. Donald O. Swann, master of the freighter Columbia Eagle, had been unsuccessful.

An embassy source indicated that one cause for the delay was the government's concern with its own problems since Prince Norodom Sihanouk was ousted this week. The two crew members ac-c of hijacking the ship, Clyde W. McKay and Alvin L. Glatkowski, have not been heard from since they were granted asylum. There still was no indication when the Columbia Eagle, which had been bound for Thailand with its cargo of ammunition, would be released.

with Moscow imposing a freeze on the number of strategic weapons possessed by each side. The freeze approach to a strategic arms limitation agreement was favored by the Johnson Administration. Officials in the Nixon Administration have expressed some reservations on this approach. the Administration is seeking some way to impose a limit on nuclear weapons on each side. The proposed resolution calls on the President tq propose to the Soviet Union "an immediate suspension by the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics of the further deployment of all offensive and defensive nuclear strategic weapons systems, subject to national verification or such other measures of observation and inspection as may be appropriate." Police Station 1909 North Kingshighway; St.

Adalbert's Parochial School, 5701 Amelia Avenue; the Missouri Division of Welfare, 627 North Euclid Avenue; and business firms at 1116 Locust Street and 1015 Washington Avenue. Three hundred students were evacuated from Providence High School, 2417 North Grand Boulevard, yesterday after discovery of three incendiary fires. The fires were in two washrooms and a classroom. Firs-men reported that a flammable liquid was found in the third-floor classroom. zoning and building codes was defeated 16 to 12, with one member excused.

The Model City bill was sent back to committee by a 13-to-16 vote and died there. Operation Breakthrough, a federal program intended to encourage factory-built housing, Spanish Pavilion Refinancing Plan Is Rejected; Staff To Lose Jobs met a solid wall of labor opposition. Some aldermen said that the Federal Government probably would proceed with the Breakthrough program -in St. Louis anyway. If has legal power to ignore local restrictions.

Cervantes had warned that Government would pick another city if it could not get co-operation here. Alderman Alfred J. Giuffrida Twenty fourth Ward, led union opposition to the bill. Giuffrida, who is a 1 said that soaring land and financing prices, rather than labor and materials, were causing the high cost of housing. Other opponents noted that the housing would be built in factories and other cities, eliminating jobs for construction workers in St.

Louis. Alderman John A. Joyce Twenty third Ward, and Alderman Henry S. Stolar Twenty fifth, backed the bill. Joyce cited predictions TURN TO PAGE 3, COL.

7 Senate Committee Approves Weakened Gall For Arms Curb field reports said. Government communiques said 20 tons of TNT were destroyed. One enemy soldier and several light and heavy weapons were reported captured. Reports said 22 government troops were killed and 16 were wounded in the action. U.S.

advisers were with the rangers, but not American casualties were reported. The area where the fighting took place has been the scene of several sharp battles involving the -North Vietnamese Eighty-eighth Regiment in the last four months. There was speculation that the Eighty-eighth might be making an attempt to slip out of sanctuary in Cambodia and move into the Mekong Delta. The 180-mile stretch of border from the Parrot's Beak west of Saigon to the Gulf of Siam has received special attention in recent days to determine whether North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops were showing any signs of complying with Cambodia's demand that they abandon their border strongholds. An official source in Saigon said that Cambodian troops had fought the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese since the fall of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, sometimes with the support of artillery in Vietnam.

The source said that such an action had occurred in Chau Doc Province, a Mekong Delta border province where only South Vietnamese troops are stationed. New, York Times News service reported from An Phu, race between the United States and Russia. The committee droppeda provision that would have requested President Richard M. Nixon to "urgently propose" to Moscow an immediate suspension, by both sides "of flight tests, of multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles" (MIRV). The committee changed it to read a suspension of further deployment "of all offensive and defensive nuclear strategic weapons systems." The sense-of-the-Senate resolution is designed to influence the Administration's position as it prepares for resumption next month of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks with the Soviet Union.

If adopted by the Senate, the resolution would have the effect of telling the President that he could count on Senate support for any agreement or treaty Bomb Threat At Bomb squad detectives searched police headquarters early, today after a telephoned bomb threat. The caller, a man, told a telephone operator, "I don't like cops, I have a bomb in your place." No bomb was found. Six false reports of bombs yesterday included a threat to the Assessor's office in City Hall. The report caused a 10-minute interruption of the Board of Aldermen meeting, and evacuation of the building. Other false reports were received at McBride High School, held liable to repay all the donors and creditors who supplied money for the pavilion construction.

Klamen said yesterday that Carondelet had not discussed any foreclosure possibilities to date. He said every effort has been made by the savings and loan association to save the Pavilion, and he doubted that it TURN TO PAGE 7, COL. a The Board of Aldermen yesterday defeated a proposal to allow construction of Operation Breakthrough i in St. Louis and killed the Model City reorganization bill. Both bills had the backing of Mayor Alfonso J.

Cervantes. The bill to exempt the prototype housing from the city's position as director, attributed the dismissal to a culmination of financial troubles which have plagued the pavilion since it's inception. "The foundation has been under financed from the beginning," Ortuno said. "It began without proper resources to carry the operations for the one year it needed to settle down." Board To Meet The 30-man board of directors of the foundation will meet March 30, Ortuno told the Post-Dispatch, to decide "whether to turn the operation of the pavilion over to Carondelet." He predicted that the board would relinquish control to Carondelet. Carondelet, which loaned the foundation $2,500,000 in 1967 for initial construction of the Spanish Pavilion, has recently tiled a mechanics lien suit in St.

Louis County Circuit Court against the foundation and the Civic Center Redevelopment Corp. Carondelet maintains that its loan was induced by the Civic Center's promise to negotiate an $850,000 loan to be made available to the foundation. The promissory note for $850,000 has been executed by the foundation, turned over to the Civic Center and is still in their hands, said Marvin Kla-men, attorney for Carondelet. The suit was filed because Civic Center is refusing to pay on the note. "The foundation board of directors should be interested in forcing Civic Center to pay up, but they don't seem to be," Klamen said.

The suit is requesting the court to require Civic Center to make the $850,000 available to the foundation. If this is not done, the suit asks, then the individual directors should be The 12-man staff of tlje Spanish International Paviliqn Foundation will be out of their jobs April 1, according to the Pavilion's executive director, Manuel Ortuno. The dismissal of the 12 employes, who were notified Thursday, followed the rejection of the latest refinancing proposal by the foundation's major creditor, Carondelet Savings and Loan Association, Ortuno said yesterday. The move, however," will not affect the operation of the pavilion's Sir John iFaktaff Theater, restaurants, visitors's center and exhibition Sails. Ortuno, who will Jose his Chance Of Rain Official forecast for St.

Louis and vicinity: Mostly cloudy tonight, with a chance of rain; low tonight in the 30s; decreasing cloudiness tomorrow, with the highs in the 50s. Long-range forecast: Fair to partly cloudy Monday and Tuesday, giving way to cloudiness sday, but with little or no precipitation. Temperatures MAIL DROP 1 a.m. 2 a.m. 3 a.m.

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9 a.m. 11 a.m. 12 noon 1 p.m. Unofficial POST-DISPATCH WEATHCRtIRD urn t. off Other Wrath" Information on I'age -A 32 39 fiM 4i asau '43 From Fost-Dtspatrh Wire Services WASHINGTON, March 21 The Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday approved a weakened version of Senator Edward W.

Brooke's resolution calling for a curb in the arms Illinois Railroad bridge that week. Roots is 10 miles north- Continuing Collapses On The Kaskaskia car dangling trom a Missouri had collapsed earlier in the The base of a crane rearing skyward seconds affer it was torn from the deck of a barge on the Kaskaskia River at Roots, yesterday. The crane had just dislodged a coal west of Chester, III. (UPI Telephoto) i Jl.