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MAY "31 1979 Om Today's Editorial Poge Mor Dlay On Th Moll t. tdilorial After Th DC-10 Crash Editorial ST. 10 POST DISPATCH Illinois nwt Pag 3A, 8A Sport Pago 3E Vol. 101, No. 137 THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1979 NW 15 0F JUL n7nnn DGDn .71 By BECKY McREYNOLDS Of the Post-Dispatch Staff A Granite City man described by his family as "violent and dangerous" fatally shot a St.

Louis policeman and wounded a second Wednesday night before being shot to death himself by police in a north St. Louis cemetery. Sgt. William Campbell, 41, and Patrolman James Cox, 32, were shot in front of the Ruskin Avenue District police station about 9:45 p.m. Campbell, who was struck in the chest at close range with a blast from his own riot gun, was killed.

The Granite City man, Lloyd Mitchell, 36, who lived in the Kirkpatrick Homes public housing complex, was shot three times by two other policemen who chased him into Calvary Cemetery, which is across the street from the station. gun behind a police car parked across the street from the station. Dodson said he heard Patrolman Cox, who was also outside, yell that he was hit and then he saw Sgt. Campbell fall to the ground. Police gave this account of what followed: Mitchell turned and ran west on West Florissant Avenue, with Dodson in pursuit.

Dodson fired one shot at him, striking him in the elbow and knocking him to the ground. But Mitchell got up and kept running. Mitchell ran into West Florissant Avenue, toward the cemetery, and was struck by a patrol car driven by Patrolman Terry Jenkins. He was knocked over the hood of the auto and dropped the riot gun. But then he jumped up and continued running across the street and into the cemetery.

Patrolman Jenkins, still in the patrol while. About an hour later, when his brother showed up, Mitchell had apparently wandered off. About 9:45 p.m., authorities said, they began getting crank calls over the Ruskin Avenue and Deer Street police district radio frequencies, apparently from someone in a police car. Police later said the calls had apparently been made by Mitchell, who they said had climbed into Campbell's police car and wrenched the service shotgun out of its locked rack. A few minutes later, Sgts.

Dodson and Campbell walked down the front steps of the station. Campbell turned around to talk with someone behind him, while Dodson continued around the comer. Just then, Dodson said, he heard a shot. As he ducked, he heard two more shots and spotted Mitchell with the riot A woman sitting in an automobile across the street from the station was slightly wounded by flying glass when the car windows were shattered by a shotgun blast. Mitchell had been brought to the police station about 4:30 p.m.

after police answered a call from a horae for the elderly in the 4600 block of Halls Ferry Road. Mitchell, who was sitting in the doorway of the home, told police that his car had broken down and that he was trying to get out of the rain. He had no money to call for assistance, he told police. Sgt. Jerry Dodson, one of the officers who brought Mitchell to the Station, said that he helped Mitchell call his parents in Illinois and that Mitchell's mother told Dodson someone would be over to pick him up right away.

Mitchell sat in the station lobby for a car, chased Mitchell down Calvary Drive leading into the cemetery, hitting him a second time, but Mitchell got up again, jumped onto the hood of the police car and vaulted a 10-foot iron fence into the cemetery. Jenkins fired one shot at Mitchell, and Dodson, who had caught up, fired three. Mitchell was dead at the scene. He had been shot in the lower back, elbow and foot. Cox was hit by two shotgun pellets in the legs and was in satisfactory condition at Firmin Desloge Hospital.

Campbell was dead on arrival at the hospital. The woman in the car, Shirley Fellows, 40, of the 4500 block of Genevieve Avenue was treated at Deaconess Hospital for facial injuries. Granite City police said that Mitchell's wife, Karen, had reported See SHOOTING, Page 8 Sgt. William Campbell Killed in front of police station Carter Gives Details Of His Finances a TrTT? iT l7t, Nw York Tlnm Ntw Swvtat WASHINGTON In an apparent effort to retain Charles Kirbo as the trustee of his private financial affairs, President Jimmy Carter has lifted the lid of his blind trust in a financial disclosure statement. The statement, made public Wednesday by the Office of Government Ethics, disclosed previously unreported transactions involving the Carter warehouse, which is under investigation by the Justice Department to determine whether loans to the warehouse may have been illegally diverted into Carter's 1976 presidential campaign.

Faced with stringent new laws on the character and management of blind trusts, the president apparently chose not to test the qualificaions of Kirbo, a close friend and confidante. Under the new law, the trustee of a blind trust must be completely independent of the person whose business he is managing. Carter simply changed the nature of his trust, disclosing for the first time details about assets and liabilities. Carter reported property and assets totaling about $1.5 million, with I mi i "i i i i lunnni nil IT Li mmmmSmimmmmm A SNOOZE IN THE SUN: With a jolly sun beaming out from the billboard behind him, Dave Pedrotti of the Eller Outdoor Advertising Co. grabs a catnap while waiting for a Three Mile Island: Confusion And Slipshod Procedures liabilities totaling about $700,000, for a net worth of about $800,000.

Although his statement did not provide exact figures, Carter reported a net loss of $50,000 to $100,000 on the operation of the warehouse last year. For Carter's Farms he reported net income of $15,000 to $50,000. Part of the gross income from the farm came from interest from a previously undisclosed loan of more than $250,000 to Billy Carter. The president's brother previously had. acknowledged a loan of $148,000 he received in 1976 from the farm corporation.

Carter's Farms according to the statement, also made loans of more than $250,000 to the Carter These loans were reported as "unsecured," due on demand, at 9.25 percent interest. The disclosure statement reported modest income for the president from non-trust sources. These included interest payments of $7,000 to $20,000 from two savings accounts and less than $1,000 from the Internal Revenue Service, presumably a refund. He See CARTER, Page 8 happened two months ago, nobody knew how to cope with it. John G.

Kemeny, chairman of the President's Commission to Investigate the Three Mile Island Accident, told the top executive of the company that owns the power plant that he was shocked that the utility "does not employ the modern technology one is capable of in the age of computers." The control-room layout that he saw at Three Mile Island during a tour earlier this month, Kemeny said, "seemed to me about 20 years out of date." Kemeny is a world-renowned authority on computers and author of a book on the subject. He brushed aside protests by utility executives that better technology was primarily available "in the space program or military programs" by noting that the technology was presem features "in a simple university computing center that costs a very great deal less than $1 million." Kemeny is president of Dartmouth College, which lie put on a computer system after his arrival there in 1970. The Kemeny commission brought out the fact that the same condition that led to the Three Mile Island accident was reported at another reactor in 1977. However, the earlier accident had not prompted any action by either General Public Utilities a holding company, or its subsidiary, Metropolitan Edison the actual operator of the Three Mile Island plant. The commission also heard testimony from workers about a pair of valves that seemed to have been open two days before the accident but closed when the incident occurred.

None of eight witnesses was able to provide any explanation of how an open valve was subsequently shut, although it was clear that there were three ways that this could have been done by accident or design. When one employee testified that he knew the valves were in normal position because he had seen the red indication on the appropriate instrument, questioning disclosed that some instruments were color-coded with red for normal and some just the other way around. "It might help to have all the normal control positions the same color," Kemeny observed mildly. No one disagreed. Control room personnel testified that they were sent periodically to spend a week doing simulator runs at the Lynchburg, factory of Babcock Wilcox, maker of the disabled reactor and eight others like it.

But, questioning showed, few of the simulator runs 1V7tf Chicago Sun-Tim WASHINGTON Obsolete computers, irrationally designed instruments, operators inadequately trained for emergencies and slipshod management and operating procedures may have set the stage for the Three Mile Island nuclear accident last March 28, an investigating panel has learned. In questioning top management officials and control-room employees, the panel assembled a picture of confusion in a billion-dollar complex where computers ran an hour late and warning lights sometimes shone red and sometimes green. They heard operators even up to lower-management levels testifying that emergency rehearsals enacted on the reactor builder's big control-room simulator never set up more than one emergency at a time. As a result, when a multiple emergency actually fellow worker to arrive with a Cole Street and the entrance downtown. (Post-Dispatch Photo duplicated the multiple problems that occurred March 28.

A maintenance crew that had checked out the reactor's high-pressure pump system on March 26 and had left it with both valves open, according to the crew's sworn testimony was asked whether there were documented records of the details of the inspection. "No, sir, we threw them in the trash can (after the inspection was concluded)," technician Martin V. Cooper testified. Not only was the information provided by control room display panels confusing, witnesses said, but in some cases it was inadequate. A large color photograph of the bewildering control consoles of Three Mile Island Reactor No.

2, furnished by Metropolitan Edison, featured a schematic diagram of the plant's reactor core, purporting to show the condition of the various fuel news on the price front, four oil companies Shell, Gulf, Conoco and Texaco planned to reduce gasoline shipped in June to below May levels, despite driver demand being traditionally higher because the vacation season begins and weather warms. The worst cuts will be in the eastern United States, while some parts of the West may actually get more gasoline than in May. Energy Secretary James R. Schle- Carter Meets With Oil Executives As New Gas Cuts Are Announced pirstoy new sign. The billboard is near to the Martin Luther King Bridge by Jim Baird) elements.

This feature of the control room displays was added after the accident and did not exist on the morning of March 28, witnesses said. Nor was there any way short of going to a desk drawer and taking out a "steam table" showing critical pressures and temperatures for safe reactor operation to find out when the primary cooling system was getting dangerously hot. This triggered a question from Kemeny: Wouldn't a simple little computer, programmed to match critical temperatures and pressures, help in preventing runaway situations? Control room operators agreed that any quickly available information on developing emergencies would be helpful. Kemeny did not disguise his See CONFUSION, Page 7 singer said the reduced allocations were "not a favorable sip" and said the gasoline situation was being reviewed. That prognosis apparently conflicted with a statement by White House press secretary Jody Powell that May was the worst month for oil supplies and the situation should improve somewhat in June and July.

Schlesinger probably will join Carter See GASOLINE, PagelZ garden hose and a sprinkling can," said Capt. Edward Harper, District 1 captain. "When the officers drove up, they took off leaving the hose and can." One police officer speculated that many persons don't bother to report the theft of gasoline from their car- because they are uncertain it actually occurred, or because they have no clues to provide police about the identity of the thief. Auto parts suppliers suddenly See LOCKS, Page 12 EL MUCHOS FARCICAL: The Spanish is fractured and so are the audiences. The low-down on the Loretto-Hilton's latest innovation, in CALENDAR.

Page 2C MARY PICKFORD: With curly locks and an innocent look, she forged a career that brought her legendary success as an actress. And with astute business acumen, she developed an estate worth millions. Page 3F Gas Cap Lock 'Stampede' Joining Run On Gasoline WASHINGTON (AP) President Jimmy Carter was meeting with oil company executives amid new signs that gasoline will be even scarcer in June than it was in May. Carter summoned the executives to the White House one day after his anti-inflation agency said prices at the pump were "far larger than can be explained" by increases in crude oil prices alone. The Council on Wage and Price Stability Wednesday charged one oil company, the Amerada Hess with violating the administration's price guidelines during the last six months, and a council spokesman said other probable violators would be announced.

At the same time, an Energy Department lawyer charged that unnamed agency officials had covered up illegal transactions that drive up the price of oil for consumers. Joseph D. McNeff told two House subcommitees that most, if not all, of the major oil companies are involved in illegal practices and said the government's own files contain massive evidence of wrongdoing. His and other officials' testimony led Rep. Albert A.

Gore to assert that Congress may have stumbled on the "largest criminal conspiracy case In our history, involving billions of dollars, and it may be continuing to this day." He endorsed McNeff's recommendation that a special prosecutor be appointed to Investigate alleged oil company conspiracies. As official Washington issued bad SpOltS BOYER'S PERCENTAGES: Manager Ken Boyer's penchant for playing the percentages on pitchers and hitters paid off as pie Cardinals beat the New York Mets, 7-3. Page IE in today POST-DISPATCH northwest area news in sections A inside 60 Page Business MB Calendar 1-16C Classified Advertising HID Everyday 1-8F Missouri Capitol IA News Analysis 3B Obituaries ID People IA Region 8A Review 4F St. Louis IB Sports ME TV-Radio IF Vital Statistics 12D Weeders and Seeders SF High In The 70s Official fore cast for St. Louis and vicinity; Clear and cool Thursday night, low in the tipper Sis.

Increasing cloudiness Fri day, high In the 79s. Mostly dear and mild Saturday and Sunday with highs in the 7Ss and lows in the 53. Increasing cloudiness and warmer Monday with a chance of show Plugging GAS LEAKS POST-DISPATCH WKATHKNSMRO 111 MT, or ers. By WILLIAM C.LHOTKA Of the Post-Dispatch Staff The run on gasoline is being joined here by a run on gasoline cap locks. Auto parts companies and service stations in the St.

Louis area report what one owner called a "stampede" on the locks, which are now in short supply. But St. Louis and St. Louis County police say they have received no more than the few normal reports of illegal siphoning. "We had a couple of kids between 8 and 12 the night before last trying to siphon gas from a car at 5500 South Broadway with a 1.