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On Today's Editorial Page 'The Crime of Punishment': Editorial Polities Has Its Price: Editorial PD FINAL Closing Stock Market Prices Pages I4E and I5E VOL. 91 NO. 173 1969, St. tonla Poat-Dlspatrh MONDAY, JUNE 30, 1969 68 PAGES 10c Home Delivery 3.50 Month Pric Senate Beats Bill Keyed To Ending Tax Deadlock SILO 0 SPATC Corporate Levy Hike Defeated Brookins Seized in Shooting i'Hw ft Milton Brookins Jr. Miss Connie Rosenbaum A lone guard standing yesterday on the sunken hulk that was the Santa Maria, a reproduction of the ship that Columbus sailed across the Atlantic.

The Santa Maria, a riverfront attraction, sank in the Mississippi River Saturday night when a storm whipped through St. Louia. Post-Dispatch Photograph) Model City Unit Gets $5,183,071 Santa Maria's Fate Studid Robert E. Lee, a riverboat, would have been tied to the other. A towboat caught the barges in the river and took them to the foot of St.

George. Pierson said the Mississippi Belle, an excursion boat that usually ties to the Becky Thatcher, was on a cruise and rode out the storm with no damage. The Becky Thatcher is tied up today at the foot of St. George street on the St. Louis side of the Mississippi for repairs.

Divers were working in the river to salvage the gang planks. Pierson estimated that less than $10,000 damage occurred to the riverboat. It should be back and operating at its old mooring on the riverfront soon, possibly within seven days, he said. "Dishes were still stacked in place on the shelves after the TURN TO PAGE 12, COLUMN 1 The Mississippi River flowed tranquilly over the deck of the Santa Maria today while the tourist attraction's board of directors met to decide whether it should be salvaged. The Santa Maria, a $375,000 reproduction of the ship in wnicn coiumbus saiiea across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, sank Saturday night when a storm with high winds and heavy rain slammed through the St.

Louis area. "It made me sick to see it," said Anthony F. Sansone today. "We don't know the extent of the damage yet. It will come as a great financial loss to all of us." Sansone, vice president of the Santa Maria is one of 10 St.

Louis investors who brought the ship to the St. Louis Riverfront as a tourist attraction. After a two-hour meeting of the investors this morning, Sansone said that no decisions about the boat would be made until the group could get a report, probably tomorrow morning, from a team of surveyors hired to report on the feasibility of salvaging. Sansone said that the Santa Maria was sunk about 30 feet off the Illinois shore below the Monsanto dock about one-quarter of a mile. "It had been successful as an attraction," said Sansone.

"We kept a log aboard asking for comments from people and we were getting excellent response. Everyone liked it. It was educational, especially for children." The ship had been moored to the riverside of the Becky Thatcher, a riverboat that housed a restaurant and lounge. The restaurant had opened this year. The Thatcher was moored Milton Brookins Jr.

was held today in the shooting and attempted rape of a young St. Louis newspaperwoman in her apartment in the West End yesterday. Brookins is suspected of being the "phantom rapist" and is free on bond on two rape charges. He is a policeman but has been suspended. Miss Connie Rosenbaum, a reporter for the Post-Dispatch women's section, was struck on the head with a revolver and shot in the face when resisting a criminal attack.

Miss Rosenbaum was reported to be in satisfactory condition at a Hospital. She is 23 years old and is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Herbert E. Rosenbaum, 907 South Warson Rood, Ladue.

Miss Rosenbaum was enter-t a i i a friend, Miss Rene Flanders, 17, of 62 Chestnut Avenue, Webster Groves, at 4 p.m., when there was a knock on the door. Miss Rosenbaum said a man asked for her by name, then shoved his way in the apartment. Miss Rosen-baum's name is on her mailbox at the apartment, 4924 Buckingham Court. Clothing Slashed The intruder displayed a revolver and said he intended to rape both women. He drew a knife and slashed their clothing.

Cutting the cord from an electrical appliance, he started to tie Miss Rosenbaum's hands. The intended victim screamed and fought the assailant, who struck her on the head repeatedly with his revolver. He then shot her in the face at close range. The assailant fled after stealing $24 and a ring from Miss Rosenbaum's purse. Except for cutting her clothing, the assailant did not harm Miss Flanders.

The man, who wore leather gloves, was seen by Harry Glass, the apartment house maintenance man. Glass heard the shot and screams and described the assailant and the automobile in which he fled. Brookins, who was at liberty on $24,000 bond on an indictment charging him with two counts of rape, was arrested at his home, 2912 Red Maple Walk, LaClede Town. Warrants issued by the circuit attorney today charged Brookins with assault with intent to ravish, assault with intent to kill and armed robbery. Police reported that Miss Flanders and Glass identified the prisoner in a line-up.

Miss TURN TO PAGE 14, COLUMN 1 cert near the foot of Washington Monument. Mrs. Nixon remained calm and gave no outward sign of no- ticing. She remained at the out- door theater for more than an hour, seated at the side of the stage. The incident took place at the By WILLIAM F.

WOO A Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch WASHINGTON, June 30-The Department of Housing and Urban Development announced today a grant of $5,183,071 for the St. Louis Model City program. HUD Secretary George Rom-ney said that the remainder of the city's $9,485,000 allocation was being held in reserve by the Federal Government "pending further development of additional projects and activities planned by the city and their approval by HUD." Romney announced also a grant of $2,083,000 to the East St. Louis Model City Agency. This sum represents immediate full funding of the East St.

Louis program. "St. Louis has developed a comprehensive over-all plan and has carefully established priorities for the start of its first year activities," Romney said. "Our action today approves those projects which the city is ready to start on immediately." A spokesman for a member of the Missouri congressional delegation said that these projects included an employment program for young persons in Area Cleaning Up Debris After Storm Fatal to 2 5-Dav Outlook: Below Normal Extended forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Temperatures will average 2 to 5 degrees below seasonal normals for the five-day period tomorrow through Saturday.

Normal highs are near 90; normal lows in the mid 60s. It will be cooler about mid-week but will warm up again by weekend. Rainfall amounts will average around a quarter of an inch, occurring as showers during the latter part of the week. Argentine Unionist Killed By FRED W. LINDECKE State Political Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch JEFFERSON CITY, June 30 with less than 12 hours remaining in the 1969 session, one possible solution to the Missouri Legislature's tax increase problem failed today.

One other possibility remained, however-. The Senate defeated, 20 to 14, an attempt to pass a bill doubling the corporate franchise tax. This killed a tentative agreement that could have led to passage of major tax increases. The other possibility concerned a scheduled House vote on a bill to increase cigarette taxes by 5 cents a pack to raise $31,090,000 for state aid to schools. There was a chance that if this bill succeeded the Senate would be willing to pass accelerated tax collections bills which would produce $67,000,000 for the next fiscal year only.

Plan a Failure The Senate defeat of the corporate franchise tax increase killed a last-minute plan worked out this 'morning. If the Senate had passed the franchise tax bill, the House was to have voted on increases in liquor and wine taxes. Together these two bills would have raised about in new revenue. If both had passed, the House-Senate conferees had agreed to meet again to consider recommending passage of a major tax bill containing individual and corporate income tax increases. Senator Theodore D.

McNeal St. Louis, called passage of the franchise tax bill "the chance to break the tax deadlock." He urged the Senate to "keep its end of the bargain" so that the rest of the plan could go through. But numerous senators took the position that doubling of the franchise tax was unfair because it was levied on gross assets without consideration of whether a firm was making a profit. Senator Earl R. Blackwell TURN TO PAGE 10, COLUMN 1 Augusto Timoteo Vandor guns and dogs guarded both fa- cilities.

After a reception ceremony at the downtown airport, Rockefeller delivered an address stressing the need for unity in the hemisphere. "We must re-examine the common bonds that bind us together," he said. "It is also important that we recognize the fact that there are forces which would divide us in our common efforts to raise the standards of living of the 1 of the Americas and to a i respect for human dignity, social justice and individual freedom." Shortly before Rockefeller-landed, state-owned gasoline storage tanks in Bahia Blanca, 600 miles south of Buenos Aires, burst into flames. A bomb exploded in the capital and four went off in La Pla- ta, 30 miles to the south. AWs Index Pag Editorials 2C Everyday Magazine 1-10H Financial 14-16E Obituaries id Sports 1-4G Want Ads MOD, 4C rti fl If Mrs.

Nixon Booed at the Model City target area, which is on the near North Side and has a population of 70,000. Romney said that funding of operations of neighborhood corporations had been approved. Projects to be undertaken by these corporations need additional work, however, before the can be begun, he said. "Further work is also required to develop projects to make use of the more than of program funds still held in reserve for possible use in St. Louis ths year," the Secretary said.

"We will give prompt consideration to the remaining projects and activities when they are presented to us." HUD'S decision to withhold some funds from the St. Louis program had been expected. Federal model cities administrators have been in disagreement for some time about how to proceed with St. Louis's application. The application, originally submitted in August, 1968, called for nearly all of the operational aspects of the program to be controled by neighborhood residents.

Under Rtomney's leadership, BUD has been cautious about vesting this control in target TURN TO PAGE 14, COLUMN 1 gentina's most powerful labor union leader, who had refused to take part in a nationwide walkout protesting the visit of Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller. Vandor, head of the Metal Workers Union, was leader of the moderate wing of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) which includes all unions. He had come under criticism frnm rr.T f.

bv Raimundo Onearo for balking at plans to take part in the nationwide strike scheduled for tomorrow xhe strike is to test the president Juan Ongania on its thjrd anniv eand the visit he New York Governor on Nixon. Rockefeller, acting under extreme security precautions, met with Argentine leaders today and was asked to resist at- tempts in the United States Congress to limit meat imports and to work for more American investment here. Talks With Leaders Surrounded by the tight security precautions, Rockefeller began his fourth and last presidential fact-finding tour by talking to both government and private leaders. The foreign ministry was virtually sealed off from the rest of the, city for Rockefeller's talks with Economy Minister Jose Maria Dagnino Pastore and Foreign Minister Juan B. Martin.

The Governor was to meet later in the day with President Juan Carlos Ongania, the general who took control here three years ago a coup, At the heavily guarded Plaza Hotel, where Rockefeller and his aids were staying, security guards searched all visitors. Rockefeller arrived yesterday in a chartered jet at the inter national airport outside Buenos Aires, then flew to a downtown airport in a small United States Air Force plane because offi- cials did not want to risk a i to the violence-plagued capital. Troops with machine to the hull of the original Becky Thatcher, which sunk in 1965 when rising riverwater forced it aground on the levee. Saturday night the Be 's lines snapped and both the Becky and the Santa Maria headed into the river and downstream. About 100 diners in the riverboat's restaurant took the unscheduled trip.

There were no injuries. Frank C. PieTson, owner of the Becky Thatcher, reporred only superficial damage to his boat. Most of that was to the superstructure caused by the a i of the Santa Maria against the large riverboat, he said. Two barges south of the Gateway Arch on the river also broke from their moorings in the storm.

The Santa Maria eventually would have been tied to one of them and the view Memorial Gardens, Swansea. The Logan child was playing in the back yard of his home yesterday when he picked up a fallen wire. Children playing with him called Mrs. Logan, who got a shock when she tried to pull the boy from the wire. She managed to drag him back by his feet.

He was pronounced dead at City Hospital. A company spokesman said the power failure during the storm was the worst in the history of Union Electric. Saturday night, shortly after two funnel clouds were reported sighted in St. Charles County and one over Crestwood, electricity to the Weather Bureau at Lambert-St. Louis Field went out.

The bureau was without electricity for about one half an hour until it switched to auxiliary power. Many homes in the city and county were without power Saturday night. Customers of Union Electric bombarded the dispatchers with pleas that the meat in their freezers was spoiling and that they couldn't sleep in the heat without air conditioners. St. Charles House Damaged The north wall of the brick home of Mrs.

Inez Kruse, 903 South Third Street, St. Charles, was blown out. Mrs. Kruse, helped by neighbors, stored her furnjture' in the home of Mrs. William Hackman next door.

Mrs. Kruse and her daughter, Brenda, went to stay with relatives. Police said the five-room house was virtually destroyed. The only places on the East Side that were still without power this morning were in Centre-ville south of Fortieth Street and in the Parkside subdivision, north of Lake Drive. P'es on tne normwest side of the big tent.

The loose canvas flapped against the acoustical shell inside the tent and was punctured in five places. Rain poured into the opening. Mem- th audienpe srrripd TURN TO PAGE 12, COLUMN 4 WASHINGTON, June 30 (UPi) Mrs. Pat Nixon was booed yesterday by part of a large crowd. Some of those in the crowd raised clenched fists in a black power salute when the Star-Spangled Banner was played at an outdoor con- Cleanup operations from Saturday night's violent storm continued in the St.

Louis area to- i .1 f.n aay wun rne removal 01 ianen trees from streets and sidewalks and the a i i of downed power lines. The Union Electric Co. called out 400 extra linemen and dispatchers shortly after the storm struck. Many of them were still on the job this morning restoring service to homes. At one time or another 75,000 of Union Electric's 700,000 customers were without power.

The storm started at 9:20 p.m. and continued until 12:10 a.m. Sunday, Weather Bureau records show. During the storm 2.1 inches of rain fell, bringing the total for the year to 22.86 inches, or 4.15 inches i above normal. Winds at one point were 60 miles an hour.

Two persons were killed as a result of the storm, and the riverboat restaurant Becky Thatcher with the Santa Maria and the floating St. Louis Visitors Center tied to it broke from its moorings and drifted Inimraom in tViA ranM rnr- rent, smashing against a dock of the Monsanto Co. in Sauget. The Santa Maria bore the brunt of the crash. It broke frCm the Becky Thatcher and drifted about a half a mile farther downstream.

Cooler Tuesday Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Clear to partly cloudy, warm and humid with a chance of thunderstorms tonight and tomorrow; lows tonight in the 70s; considerable cloudiness and not quite so warm tomorrow with to 90. highs 85 SUNK: ONE SHIP, ONE lfcAM Storm Pattern Here 2 Weeks The series of violent thunderstorms and tornadic activity that swept across the metropolitan area and other parts of i i last week was channeled atmospheric wind conditions that set the path of storms, the Weather Bureau said today. George N. Brancato, chief meteorologist, said the wind patterns that made this region susceptible to severe storms had persisted over the area for about two weeks.

When the patterns change, the area will be removed from the storm paths, he said. Warning sirens here sounded twice June 22 in a period when two tornadoes struck near Farmington and Potosi. They were sounded once last Friday and twice Saturday. A support of the dock was broken and one empty pipe, which carries chemicals from the Monsanto plant to barges was broken. With the support broken, the dock dipped into the water at the middle.

A spokesman estimated damage at $300,000 and said it would take two months to repair, because a new support based in bedrock will have to be built, Those killed by coming in contact with fallen wires were Robert M. Holcomb, 54 years old, a Union Electric Co. lineman of 9130 Forest Drive, East St. Louis and Edward Logan, 2, son of Mrs. Alice Logan, 2255 Indiana Avenue.

Holcomb was sent early Sun day morning to Ninth Street and Picture on Page 2A From Post-Dispatch Wire Service BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, June 30 Terrorists armed with machine guns today killed Augusto Timoteo Vandor, Ar- Concert opeing night of a "Summer in the Park" program sponsored by the District of Columbia. Before she arrived at the am- phitheater, just of the Washington Monument, mention ui ner annoy uie nuttier ceremonies drew more boos than cheersfrora the crowd, mostly blacks. The same happened when she was mutjuuudu. mien uic na tional Anthem was played, at least 100 fists were raised, but Mrs. Nixon stared ahead, appearing not to notice.

The crowd, tightly packed on a warm evening, was somewhat restless and at times began to surge toward the stage. Fifty park police locked arms to keep order as worried Secret Service guards looked on. Singer Stevie Wonder appeared to calm the crowd somewhat. Mrs. Nixon greeted him with "Stevie, everybody's waiting for you.

We're so glad you're here." she hugged him after performance, saying, "You were marvelous." District Mayor Walter Washington, who sat next to Mrs. Nixon, said the crowd was "beautiful." "Everybody want to get closer," he said. "We expected 20,000 and we got 50,000. I look out at those beautiful faces there It shows the people really want some recreation." When he spoke to the crowd, Washington at one point at-t to counter the boos against Mrs. Nixon by saying, "Mrs.

Nixon wants you to have this kind of thing." The crowd was composed mostly of young persons. The various entertainers drew loud cheers and applause, Mrs. Nixon told reoorters that she thought the program was "marvelous just wonder- ful." She said she enjoyed tt "very much weren't those marvelous faces out there?" ft li Lake Avenue, East St. Louis, Although there was no power to repair a power line which shortage, the storm forced can-had been broken by the high cellation of the "Camelot" per-winds. He took his two sons, formance at the Municipal Op-Robert, 16, and Charles, 12, with era in Forest Park, him.

He was walking in a weed At the Mississippi River Fes-patch, which had been soaked tival on the campus of Southern by the rain, when he apparently Illinois University in Edwards-stepped on the live wire. ville, the wind broke nine sup- Temperatures 1 a.m. 84 2 a.m. 83 3 a.m. 81 4 a.m.

80 5 a.m. 80 6 a.m. 78 7 a.m. 79 8 a.m. 80 9 a.m.

85 10 a.m. 87 11 a.m. 86 12 noon 88 1 p.m. 82 2 p.m. 84 3 p.m.

85 Pnliri, ronorted that most of his clothing had been burned off his body. Funeral services will be at Kasslv undertaking establish- ment, 1101 North Ninth Street, East St. Louis, at 1 p.m. Wednesday, with burial in Lake- Mrs. Richard M.

Nixon hugging Stevie Wonder, a blind soul singer, after he performed on the grounds of the Washington Monument yesterday. Washington Mayor Walter Washington is behind them. (Associatsd Press Wirephoto) POST-DISPATCH WEATHERIIRD U. T. OFF.

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