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SI I On Today's Editorial Page A Sub-Supreme Court? Editorial Lesson At Southern U. Editorial POST-E HSPATCH FINAL Stock Market Up Closing Prices Pages 8B and 9B VOL. 91 JVO. 345 192, St. Louis Post-Dispatch FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1972 1 Home, Delivery 1UC Month Bond Plans Budget Of $887,000,000 By JERRY W.

VENTERS Jefferson City Correspondent share in federal revenue-sharing. He said that $40,000,000 has been set aside and earmarked to finance new programs that he will propose to the 1973 session of the General-Assembly. The state is expected to have general revenues of about next year, and will have about $44,000,000 left over in unspent money from this year's budget, he said. If this turns out to be an accurate forecast. Bond's proposed budget wouid leave $60,000,000 for the cash reserve and new programs.

Bond said that he planned to ask the Legislature in January for about $13,000,000 in emergency and supplemental appropriations for the present fiscal year. This would be spent primarily on programs already au thorized but not funded by the Legislature, he said. The emergency money bill, which would be the second this fiscal year, is expected to contain money for such things as the enforcement of the state's laws on nursing homes, boarding homes and homes for the mentally retarded. Attorney General John C. Danforth, Bond's closest political ally, announced earlier this week he would ask for money to enforce laws more vigorously.

He hinted that the money would be included in Bond's emergency money bill. Earlier this year, the Legisla-ture approved an $11,600,000 emergency appropriations bill at the request of Gov. Warren E. Hearnes. That brought state appropriations this year so far to about $815,700,000.

A review of state personnel systems, including the pay structure, will be a top priority for his administration, Bond indicated. In the meantime, however, the budget will include a 5 per cent pay increase for all employes. The budget will not provide for any general operating or inflationary increases. This year's budget had a built-in operating increase of 2.5 per cent. The $887,000,000 preliminary budget does not include any of the $70,000,000 or more that.

Missouri will receive through next fiscal year under the federal revenue sharing program. Bond said the federal money would be allocated to capital improvements, to other onetime, nonrecurring expenses TURN TO PAGE 7, COL. 1 of the Post-Dispatch JEFFERSON CITY, Dec. Christopher S. (Kit) Bond announced today that he would propose a preliminary slate budget of $887,000,000 for the 1973-74 fiscal year beginning next July 1.

This is an increase of about $66,500,000 over the budget approved for this fiscal year, a jump of 8.7 per cent. Bond did not reval details of his budget plans, except to say that he planned to re-establish a cash reserve of $20,000,000, and that he would propose a state building program of more than $30,000,000 from the state's Orders Hike In U.S. Pay WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 -President Richard M. Nixon ordered today a 5.14 per cent wage increase for 1,316,000 civilian snow fell before daybreak.

Floodlights illuminate the dome of the Old Courthouse in the background. THE CITY'S HOLIDAY LIGHTING DISPLAY in Kiener Park had a fairyland appearance this morning as heavy ITT Cover-up Is Reported By CURT MATTHEWS A Washington Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch WASHINGTON, Dec. 15-The Securities and Exchange Commission worked closely with top White House aids to keep politically sensitive documents relating to International Telephone Telegraph Corp. away from congressional investigators, a House subcommittee has been told. William J.

Casey, chairman of the SEC, testified yesterday before the House subcommittee on investigations that he conferred with White House counsel John W. Dean III the day before the SEC decided to turn over its entire ITT file to the Department of Justice. The transfer took place only a few days after the subcom "'-rip if! mittee on investigations, a branch of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com of criminal fraud arising from illegal stock transactions. However, some SEC staff members testified that staff personnel at the Justice Department were puzzled when the ITT documents enough to fill 34 boxes arrived on Oct. 6.

Casey said he dealt directly with Ralph E. Erickson, deputy merce, had asked to review the ITT documents collected in more than two years of investigation by the SEC. Casey insisted yesterday that the Justice Department had expressed interest in seeing the ITT files because some of their contents might contain evidence Patrolman Harold Warnecke Killed in holdup Policeman Is Killed In Robbery At Store Miller Claims Victory WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (AP)-Challenger Arnold R. Miller claimed victory today over W.

A. (Tony) Boyle, the incumbent, in the court-ordered election for the presidency of the United Mine Workers union. Miller, the Miners for Democracy candidate, said he would begin sweeping reforms in the trouble-torn union as soon as possible. "We have won the election by a comfortable margin," said Miller, 49 years old, a retired coal miner from Ohley, W. Va.

The latest official vote tally from the Department's of Labor's closely guarded counting room gave Mtiller 52,403 to for Boyle. The official count also showed Miller's running mates well ahead of Boyle's slate. Mike Titovich had 49,940 to 41,036 for Leonard Pnakovich for vice president. Harry Patrick had 51,076 to 39,918 for Wilbert Kil-lion for secretary-treasurer. The count continued Miller's solid 56 per cent margin, although the Labor Department has not announced him the winner.

The department said votes from 979 of the union's more than 1300 locals had been tallied. Miller began a victory press conference by asking for a moment of silence for the late Joseph A. (Jock) Yablonski, who was murdered along with his wife and daughter after unsuccessfully trying to oust Boyle in a 1969 election. A federal judge ordered the current election after finding widespread voting fraud in the 1969 contest. A Miller victory would end the 10-year reign of Boyle, who was the union heir of John L.

Lewis, the late chief of the nearly union. It would also be the first time in the 82-year history of the union that incumbents had been swept out. "I think this is one of the most historical events that ever occurred in the labor movement of this country," Miller said. He said he would move immediately after taking office to carry out campaign promises, including increasing miners' pensions to $200 a month, cutting the salaries of officers by 20 and moving the union's headquarters out of Washington TURN TO PAGE 18, COL. 1 SCHOOL DAYS come in many colors and temperatures; today was a white and cold one for this group of students waiting for a bus in the South Side, Other pictures and story on Page 9C.

(Post-Dispatch Photos by Renyold Ferguson) Cold Comfort For City: Winter Yet To Come government workers and a 6.69 per cent salary boost for all 2,400,000 members of the armed services. The increases will become effective the first pay period after Jan. 1, the White House said. The civilian pay hike had been scheduled for last Octo-' ber, but it was postponed as an antiinflation move and that action automatically delayed a similar military pay boost set fr the same time. The across-the-board increases were ordered by Mr.

Nixon on the basis of recommendations by Budget Director Caspar W. Weinberger and the chairman of the Civil Service Commission to promote comparability with private industry salary rates. The White House said that the increases will cost about two billion dollars. The President turned down at the same time a recommendation of an additional pay increase of 0.36 per cent to make up for the three-month delay in pay adjustments, holding that this "would be neither fair nor justifiable." He said that such an increase would result in paying federal employes higher salaries than the comparable workers in private enterprise are receiving. In a message to Congress, Mr.

Nixon said that "the American system of career civil service is based on the principle of rewarding merit." He added, "I am pledged to continue striving to make it an even more effective, responsive part of our government. One way of achieving this is to maintain a salary scale for civil servants that is just and comparable to that received by equivalent individuals in private sector." Mr. Nixon's chief economic spokesman, George P. Shultz, announced Monday a freeze during the 1973 calendar year on salaries of executive level federal employes, including members of Congress and the judiciary. This includes all Civil Service employes who earn $36,000 a year or more.

But Shultz made it clear at that time that the delayed federal pay hike for the lower categories would go forward. Meanwhile, the Pentagon said today that about 67,000 U.S. military men and women would be exempted from President TURN TO PAGE 7, COL. 6 ciuuuiey general, in discussing the transfer of ITT files to the Justice Department and that it was Erickson who requested custody of the files. Transfer of the files to the Justice Department effectively prevented Congress obtaining them since Congressional review of the documents might now interfere with Government prosecution of possible crimes.

In a long afternoon of testimony, Casey and several of his aids disclosed a strange sequence of events relating to the ITT documents collected by the SEC. For example, Charles S. Whitman, administrative assistant to the SEC chairman, told the House Panel that on Oct. 5 he personally overrode a request by Senator Edward M. (Ted) Kennedy to hold up -transfer of the documents to the Justice Department.

Kennedy wanted a chance to talk with Casey, who was out of town, before the SEC surrendered the fiies. Kennedy, a member of the Senate subcommittee on administrative practice and of the Ju-diciary Committee that spent two months investigating ITT's close ties with top government officials, has been trying to obtain some of the documents involved since last April. Although Whitman decided on his own not to oblige Senator Kennedy, Stanley Sporkin, head of the SEC's enforcement division, said that last spring he recommended that the Judiciary Committee be provided with copies of several highly sensitive documents. Sporkin testified that when police. One robber was described as being more than six feet tall, wearing a ski mask and a leather coat.

Seventeen men were viewed by three witnesses to the robbery in a showup at police headquarters. There were no identifications, and the men were released. Warnecke, driving alone in a cruising patrol car, turned through the Kroger parking lot about 8:15 a.m., making his first surveillance of the morning. Superiors said it had been the officer's custom to check business establishments after reporting for duty, because of numerous early holdups. Frank Carrone, manager of the store, had stepped outside at sight of the cruising patrol car.

He attracted Warnecke's attention by waving and pointing to two men hurrying across the icy pavement toward North Florissant Avenue. Warnecke drove toward the pair, stopped and got out. He was heard calling to one man, "Come back here." The second man stepped from behind the cruiser, revolver in hand. He shot Warnecke, who fell face down in the snow. The killer and his companion ran to Bissell Street, and disappeared.

Before fleeing, the killer had taken Warnecke's revolver from its holster. The of- A veteran St. Louis policeman was shot to death today by a robber fleeing from a holdup in a Kroger Store at 4312 North Grand Boulevard. Patrolman Harold Warnecke, 60 years old, was shot three times in the back by one of two men who had held up a checkout cashier in the store. A bullet apparently pierced his heart.

A roundup of known police characters living in the North' Side area and poolroom hangers-on was begun by squads of detectives and Penrose District Truman Kidney Log Continues KANSAS CITY, Dec. 15 (AP) Harry Truman's kidney function continued to fail today and the former President, 88 years old, remained in very serious condition. Research Hospital and Medical Center said Truman slept only in short intervals during the night and his kidney output continued to decrease in spite of medication. Truman was hospitalized 10 days ago for lung congestion and bronchitis but a weakened heart and failing of kidneys have become major obstacles in his fight to stay alive. woman said wearily.

"I've made myself appreciate how lovely all the trees looked, trimmed with ice. And forget that my yew bushes look as though a St. Bernard had been sleeping on them. "I told myself, as I stopped for the tenth time on the way to a department store one night last week to scrape ice off my windshield, that Christmas shopping had never been so pleasant. Just me and 12 other idiots in the whole store.

"I said this morning, 'Snow. Isn't that nice. A White She mentioned something about the difficulty of whistling in the dark through clenched teeth. There is one fringe benefit, however, to the season's misery, Standing at a holiday party with 500 of the host's other closest friends, one can always turn to the adjacent stranger and start talking weather. The aristocrats of the cocktail party conversationalists are those who were without electricity this week.

Life by candlelight is the name of the TURN TO PAGE 18, COL. 1 By SALLY BIXBY DEFTY Of the Post-Dispatch Staff I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive! What time, what circuit first, I ask not; but unless God send His hail or blinding fire-balls, sleet or stifling snow, "In some time, his good time, I shall arrive Perhaps some snow-stalled commuter had a pocket book of verse in his glove compartment this morning and could take chilly comfort from the confident words of Robert Browning. St. Louis has had a decade's quota of sleet so far this winter, the stifling snow arrived early today and blinding fire-balls are starting to look pretty appealing.

What tries the temper most, perhaps, is the knowledge that this is still supposed to be autumn. That doesn't help as one stands on a curb and gets an icy wake of slush in the shins from a passing automobile. One is prepared to bite the bullet and endure this sort of weather in January or February. That is winter. But winter is not supposed to begin until Thursday.

"Ive tried hard to think positively," one TURN TO PAGE 7, COL. 1 TURN TO PAGE 14, COL. 4 Fair, colder General Steel To Shut Down Two Divisions In Area Official weather forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Fair to Feminists Evicted PARIS, Dec. 15 (UPI)-About 10 women's liberationists disrupted a French National Assembly session considering a bill on birth control counseling yesterday.

They threw leaflets and shouted demands for free abortions. They were evicted. Enough! news index 60 Pages Editorials partly cloudy and colder tonight, low 8 to 13; fair to partly cloudy tomorrow, high in the low 30s. Extended out-look through Tuesday: Clear to partly cloudy and cold Sun-d a through Tuesday, highs in the 30s or low 40s; lows bring the company's total 1972 loss to about $36,000,000. "Every possible means of returning the two plants to profitable operation has been explored and all known alternatives evaluated," said W.

Ashley Gray president and chief executive of General Steel Industries. "While we deeply regret the need for closing these plants, there is no other way to free GSI of an impossible financial burden and allow the corporation to realize the benefits of its newer, healthier divisions," Gray said. Gray said that the estimated pretax income this year from the five continuing operations would be $3,500,000. Operations and i mployment at the two divisions will be reduced as work is completed, and the production closed down in phases. The end for both operations will come next year, Gray said.

The five divisions that will remain are the National Roll Division, producer of cast iron and cast steel rolls used in steel mills and mills for the reduction of nonferrous metals; the Flex-O-Lite division, producers of reflector materials for high way safety; Standard Pipepro-tection division, a maker of protective coatings and wrappings for steel and plastic pipes; Lud-low-Saylor Wire Cloth division, manufacturers of wire cloth and screen, and Simplicity Engineering a division that builds screening, crushing conveying equipment. With the closing of the two divisions, General Steel Industries will have 17 plants in this country and Canada. The corporation's headquarters, which are presently in the Gateway Tower building, One Memorial Drive, will be moved in January to available office space at the firm's Ludlow-Saylor division, 8400 Midland Boulevard, Vinita Park. The end of the two divisions had been expected since Oct. 25, when the company an-n the possibility of a shutdown of the financially-ailing operations.

The St. Louis Car Division, a firm that for years has spe- TURN TO PAGE 6, COL. 3 General Steel Industries has been trying to sell its old car plant on North Broadway for some time, so far without success, a spokesman for the company noted. Many firms have discussed acquisition with St. Louis Car.

Westinghouse Corp. is reported to have backed away from such a merger proposal more than a year ago, in part because of the possibility of an antitrust action. Both operations have been unprofitable and the prospects for a turnaround poor. The liquidation of the two divisions will mean an extraordinary, nonrecurring charge this year of about $31,000,000, which, combined with an estimated operating loss for this year, will By JOHN M. McGUIRE Of the Post-Dispatch Staff General Steel Industries, St.

Louis, will shut down its St. Louis Car Division, 8000 North Broadway, and the castings division at Granite City, putting about 1450 1 out of work. Discontinuation of the two operations, which had been expected, was approved yesterday by the board of General Steel Industries. The shutdown of the two divisions here is more bad economic news for the metropolitan area, which had seen 50,500 jobs eliminated in the last three years, with, the Missouri Division of Employment Security reported, the addition of 22,200 to the unemployment rolls. 2C 1-12D Everyday Magazine Financial Obituaries People 8-10B 9C 6A 11B" HB 10D 1-17C PUbl-DibPATCM WEAfHERBIRO ia eT orp Religion Sports TV-Radio Want Ads- In the upper teens and 20s.

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