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On Today's Editorial Page Food Stamps Under Attack hiiilitrial Agression Accepted hililiirinl 1 10 (0 FINAL 3 P.M. New York Stocks Pages 5B and 6B VOL. 97 NO. 273 1I7S, Si. Uuis PtrW-thvpitrh MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1973 Sumtestrd HOME DH IVTRY tt.M Month Wffl 'X -f i United States District Court in St.

Louis. In ruling on the case last January, the District Court found only one provision of the Missouri statute to be unconstitutional, that which holds a physician liable for manslaughter and legal damages for failing to "sustain the life of a child," while performing or assisting in an abortion. In accepting the case, the Supreme Court has made Missouri a principal battleground in the abortion controversy. Already on the court's dockets is a case challenging a Missouri law that prohibits the use of state medicaid funds for abortions. The decisions pending in both the Missouri abortion cases before the Supreme Court have important national See ABORTION, Page 4 intended to restrict, discourage and prohibit abortions and, in fact, have nothing to do with the legitimate interests of the state in regulating medical practice.

The Planned Parenthood petition challenges also the constitutionality of a provision in the Missouri law that prohibits the use of saline abortions after 'e first three months of pregnancy. The organization's legal counsel pointed out that such a restriction severely limits the ability of physicians in Missouri to provide 'abortions, because it is estimated that 75 per cent of abortions administered after the first three months of pregnancy are done by the saline method. The case was taken to the Supreme Court on a direct appeal from the decision of a three-judge panel in the J1 y. By CURT MATTHEWS Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, Oct. fr-The Supreme Court agreed today to rule on the constitutionality of a Missouri statute that tightly regulates medical abortions.

The Supreme Court, which formally opened its new term today, agreed also to decide whether Union Electric Co. can claim economic hardship to justify in court the company's noncompliance with federal antipollution standards. The abortion case was taken to the Supreme Court by an organization known as Planned Parenthood of Central Missouri and two physicians, David Hall of Columbia, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Missouri, and Dr. Michael Freiman, a St. Louis obstetrician and gynecologist.

Planned Parenthood operates a clinic in Columbia and provides family paln-ning programs in seven rural counties in central Missouri. Attorney General John C. Danforth and Circuit Attorney J. Brendan Ryan of the City of St. Louis are named as respondents in the case.

The Missouri law being challenged was enacted by the General Assembly in April 1974, more than a year after the Supreme Court's historic ruling that state authorities could not interfere with a woman's decision to have an abortion within the first three months of pregnancy. The case before the Supreme Court challenges specifically the definition in the Missouri statue of a "viable fetus. The state law ways that a fetus is viable when it has reached "that stage of fetal development when the life of the unborn child may be continued indefinitely outside the womb by natural or artificial life-support systerns." The Missouri definition of viability is broader than that used by the Supreme Court. The definition is important because the applicablity of the state and federal laws turns on the question of when a fetus becomes "a person" under the law. Also challenged in the petition to the Supreme Court are sections of the Missouri law that require written consent of the patient for an abortion at all stages or pregnancy, written consent by the spouse of the patient, written consent of the parents of an unmarried woman under the age of 18 years and a provision that parents lose all rights relating to a newborn child if a live birth occurs after an attempted abortion.

The petition contends that such provisions in the state law are merely JIM OTIS, who had his first 100-yard game as calf also rushed for TOO yards as the Big Red a professional, gets five of them before being beat the Giants, 26-14. Details in Sports pulled down by a New York player. Terry Met- Section. (Post-Dispatch Photo by Jim Forbes) Youth Charged In Killing Of Policeman At Church By DAVID W. MARTIN Of the Post-Dispatch Staff A young Vietnam veteran with a history of mental illness has been charged in the fatal shooting of Patrolman Louis D.

Sebold on the steps of a church on the North Side yesterday. Sebold, 45 years old, was killed in front of St: Stanislaus Kostka Catholic Church, 1407 North Twentieth Street. Sebold had been stationed at the church for Sunday morning services, because of the recent rash of church holdups. He was shot as he talked to a young black man who had wandered into the church in the middle of a Mass. Lawrence Williams, 24, who had been a patient at Malcolm Bliss Mental Health Center recently, was seized in a sixth-floor apartment in the Vaughn housing project.

Williams, who lives in the 5000 block of Geraldine Avenue, was arrested after dozens of police officers Northrop 'Consultant Fees Are Challenged iremen Of Arson able about fires." In response, Joe McMahon, an international union vice president, said the mayor had "made a clown out of himself by accusing the fire fighters of arson and sabotage. This is a cheap shot being aimed at the fire fighters." Wheeler dismissed 59 striking firemen who refused to report for duty last night, calling the dismissals a test. He said he expected to take no further action before a Jackson County Circuit Court hearing Thursday on the city's request for an injunction against the strike. None of last night's fires was major, although several occurred in apartment buildings in older sections of the city and residents had to be evacuated. No serious injuries were reported, but a number of substitute fire fighters were treated for smoke inhalation.

Fire fighters from nearby Gladstone helped fight several blazes in Kansas City over the weekend and then received anonymous telephone calls threatening "to burn our town down, but so far there have been no overt acts," said Gladstone Fire Capt. Russ Mullenix. Police said that Missouri law allowed the use of firearms by police officers to prevent an act of arson or to apprehend an arsonist. And armed guards and police patrolled Kansas City streets last See ARSON, Page 5 Buseh Loses Tank Top Battle WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (UPI) Anheuser-Busch today lost its Supreme Court battle against its employes who report to work wearing tank-top shirts with the "Bud" emblem.

The company, which licenses its emblem for display on T-shirts, beach towels and other summer gear, sent home three employes at the Merrimack, N.H., brewery when they wore the sleeveless tank-tops to work in July 1974. The public is invited to tour the brewery, and Anheuser-Busch said "the impression created by employes in tank-top shirts was inconsistent with its carefully cultivated corporate image of quality and cleanliness." More employes began wearing tank-tops to work to show support for those who were disciplined. By Aug. 14, all but five of the 18 employes in the brewing department wore tank-tops. The next day, 30 employes in the maintenance department wore sleeveless shirts.

The brewery finally was shut down by a work stoppage, and Anheuser-Busch went to court, contending the tank-tops should be banned until the issue was submitted to arbitration under its contract with the Brewery and Soft Drink Workers Local of the Teamsters Union. A U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the district court, calling the issue a "tempest which has been brewed in a very small teapot." Inside 11 Paps U.S. OILMEN arrive in Sinai to take over complex there. Page 2A ROSEMARY KENNEDY found safe in Chicago's Loop district.

Page 2A ALAN DIXON enters race for governor of Illinois. Paee IB Striking Accused Compiled From News Services KANSAS CITY, Oct. 6 City officials believe striking fire fighters are responsible for some of the 217 blazes occurring since firemen walked off their jobs Friday in a pay dispute. Mayor Charles B. Wheeler Jr.

dismissed 59 of the strikers last night. Nearly 800 national guardsmen assisted hundreds of police officers, public works employes and volunteers in fighting about 50 fires yesterday, more than 10 times the number usually reported. A spokesman for Local 42 of the International Association of Firefighters said its 858 members voted "100 per cent" late yesterday to continue the strike. Fire Director Frank Spink said there were strong indications that arson was involved in six fires over the weekend. Police reported one fire-bombing last night.

Spink said the city had asked surrounding communities that have mutual aid agreements with Kansas City for fire-fighting assistance, but only, Gladstone firemen responded. Police Chief Joseph McNamara said many fires had been set deliberately, "not random acts, but well planned arson, committed by people knowledge- i 1 1 't 1 1 1 i If 1. conducted a floor-by-floor search of adjoining buildings at 1904 O'Fallon Street. Warrants have been issued charging Williams with murder, robbery and assault with intent to kill. He was struck by a Single shotgun pellet in an exchange of shots with a second policeman shortly before Williams went into the apartment building.

Williams was in satisfactory condition today at City Hospital. He had suffered a collapsed lung. Sebold died from two gunshot wounds in the upper left chest. He was the father of six children. The shooting occurred about half way through a special 9:30 a.m.

Mass at the church. About 250 persons were cele-hratine the seventieth anniversary of the St. Louis branch of the Polish Falcons, civic and athletic organization on the near North Side. one contractor, and possibly others, passed on millions of dollars in what appears to be clearly disallowable expenses and for which there are no vouchers or even descriptions in many cases and yet received automatic reimbursement from the Defense Department. The review of Northrop's expenses was initiated only after the Securities and Exchange Commission had ordered an independent investigation of Northrop.

That order followed a disclosure that the company and two of its top officers had been involved in an illegal scheme to route $150,000 in corporate funds to President Richard M. Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign. The Defense Department auditors called "questionable" $5,500,000 paid to See NORTHROP, Page 9 20 Missing, Said They Were Leaving Earth Complied From News Services PORTLAND, Oct. 6 A postcard saying, "I am leaving this earth and will not see you anymore," is the first clue in the case of 20 missing persons told to dispose of all their possessions, including children, so that a spaceship could take them to a better life, police said yesterday. At the same time, police said they were investigating an advertisement that appeared in a San Jose, newspaper yesterday saying that celestial beings are "here to help us." The ad, headlined "UFOs and Human Evolution," said: "The opportunity is here when we as humans can fully evolve into a higher being.

There is now on this planet two people from the higher level above human here to help us and many others with this transition. If you want to learn more, come to San Jose main public library, 180 W. San Carlos Wednesday, Oct. 8, 7:30 p.m., downstairs in the community room." The contents of the postcard from Oregon were telephoned to the sheriff's office in Lincoln County by an unidentified woman who said it came from her son, who is missing from the Newport, area. Ron Sutton, cheif criminal deputy for Lincoln County, said the woman called Saturday and that the postmark indicat- See SPACE, Page 11 1 Henry Witga, who was attending the Mass, said that a tall black man entered the church shortly before 10 a.m.

as the ushers began to take up the collection. The man was dressed casually. He wore gray-print pants, a black turtle-neck sweater, oxford-style blue tennis shoes and a wide-brimmed gray hat with a tall rounded crown. He was smoking a small cigar. Witga said that Joseph Snopek, the head usher, asked the man to remove his hat.

Snopek then noticed that the man was carrying a pistol, police said. "The man replied, 'I'm just going to stay a few Witga said. "Then he turned and walked out the door." Snopek and other ushers bolted the large wooden doors behind the man. Then they looked out the window. The man had sat down on the top step and Sec KILLING, Page 5 1 I 'jt l.

i 'i 1 I- i I Us IV) -1 i 4 it -Hr im 'air A v. a Lit iritis I 4' 1 By PETER GRUENSTEIN "Copllol Hills Newt Service WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 An internal Department of Defense auditing report has disclosed that the Government paid for $5,500,000 in "questionable" Northrop Corp. consultant costs over a four-year period. Much of it apparently was in clear violation of Pentagon regulations forbidding contractors from passing on lobbying, entertainment and expenses to the Defense Department, according to the report obtained by Capitol Hills News Service.

Northrop claimed and was routinely reimbursed for the "consultant" expenses without being subjected to normal auditing procedures, the document indicated, Les Daly, a Northrop vice president, criticized the draft report of the Defense Contract Auditing Agency. "We dispute the findings," he said. "Discussion have been carried on for some time and are continuing' No entertainment expenses were ever charged to the Government as far as we know." In some cases, the Pentagon auditors' records on the consultants' activities were destroyed. In other cases, such documentation did not exist, was missing, or was inadequate, the draft report says. The Aug.

6, 1975, report which informed sources have charged the Air Force has attempted to cover up stresses that it employed normal auditing procedures and not investigative techniques. Even so, the audit of the Los Angeles-based aerospace firm, covering 1971 to 1974, indicates that at least Clear, Mild BURNING ISSUE IN Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Clear tonight with the low in the low 50s. Sunny and mild tomorrow with the high near 80. Cloudy with a chance showers Wednesday and Thursday; clearing on Friday.

High Wednesday in the low 80s; cooler Thursday and Friday with highs in the 70s, lows in the 50s. KANSAS CITY Other Weather Information on Poge Editorials 2B Everyday 1-8D Financial 4-7B Leisure 5D 3B Obituaries 6C People 6A St. Louis IB Sjrorts 14C TV-Radio 6D Want Ads 6-1 1C intodav POST-DISPATCH south area news in section SHIP'S LADDER: Firemen raising a ladder to been operated for several years as a reach an upper deck of the Bayou Belle, a restaurant after being hauled to 12341 St. land-bound former river packet that was Charles Rock Road. Story on Page 3A.

destroyed by fire yesterday. The vessel had (Post-Dispatch Photo by Karen Elshout).