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0 IU! in 3 JUN 1 4 1991 VOL. 113, NO. 165 Copyright 1991 FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1991 (1) 3-STAR 50 rrcigirav-i CLOSE UP 2965.12 3.13 Estimate Board Banks On Sales Tax Raises For Firefighters, Police Would Depend On Vote; 'I Don't Like Being Chief Says Report: Census Missed 5 Million No Decision Has Been Made On Whether New Or Corrected Figures Will Be Used 2B CENSUS NewYork 7,322,564. .7,552,000....3.0 Los Angeles 3,485,398. .3,671,000....5.1 Chicago 2,783,726.

.2.857.000....2.6 Houston 1,630,553. .1,716,000....5.0 Philadelphia 1,585,577. .1,606,000....1.3 San Diego 1,110,549. .1,156,000....3.9 Detroit 1,027,974. .1,065,000....3.5 Dsllss 1,006,877.

.1,058,000....4.8 Phoenix 983,403. ..1,014,000 3 ByTimO'Neil Of the Post-Dispatch Staff A divided. St. Louis Estimate Board proposed on Thursday linking a pay raise for police officers and firefighters to the fate of yet another bid for a higher sales tax. The board voted 2-1 to give police officers and firefighters a 3 percent pay raise from July 1 through Nov.

15. But they would continue getting it only if voters were to reinstate a 38-cent sales WASHINGTON (AP) Counters overlooked more than 5 million people during the 1990 census, most in the nation's biggest cities, according to proposed corrections announced Thursday by the Census Bureau. If the corrections are adopted putting the national population at 254 million states would have to redraw congressional and legislative boundaries based on the new totals, rather than those announced in December. tax that expired in March 1990. "I don't like being used, and that's what's happening here," said Police Chief Robert E.

Scheetz. "I'll be a huckster for the city if the cause is right. But I'm a policeman, not a politician, and I don't like seeing the department held for ransom." A bill to put the 38-cent tax on the Nov. 5 ballot Is before the Board of Aldermen. It wduld raise See BUDGET, Page 16 But the government has yet to decide If it will accept the revisions or the original census count of 248.7 million Americans.

Since the first census was taken In 1790, the government has chosen to use the original count rather than any later revision. Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher is under a federal court order to decide by July 15 whether to use the original count or Incorporate the proposed corrections. Tft Rep. William L. Clay, chairman of the House Post Office See CENSUS, Page 25 Golf Fans Struck Ik In Sherwood Forest: Kevin Costner as Robin Hood.

Costner On Making Of Film "Robin Hood: Prince of Kevin Costner's latest at the movies, will be a money-maker. But the star and maker of the acclaimed "Dances With Wolves" had some second thoughts about it. IF iUt. )tSJ .51. fit I 8 'i- A 'i is mmm ma wmr wr.

A-12 Problems Cited In 1988 Defense Department representatives cited problems with McDonnell Douglas' performance on the A-1 2 attack plane as far back as the summer of 1 988. IB if mm mmms A Cardinals Rout Bumbling Padres Ozzie Smith drives in four runs as the Cardinals benefit from errors by each San Diego starting infielder in a 12-1 rout of the Padres. ID 1 1 i Reuters A spectator being helped Thursday after he was injured when a bolt of lightning struck a tree and spectators during the first round of the U.S. Open golf championship in Chaska, Minn. Lightning Kills Spectator At U.S.

Open Don't Build The Space Station (EDITORIAL) A Compromise That Satisfies Everyone (EDITORIAL) 2C Yfe5ini Communist Party Suffers Defeat In Voting Results Compiled From News Services MOSCOW Russians spurned the Communist Party by electing Boris N. Yeltsin the first president of the Russian republic and by choosing to strip Vladimir Lenin's name from Leningrad, the nation's second most populous city. Also, the results Thursday from Wednesday's elections showed that two leading reformers, Gavriil Popov and Anatoly Sobchak, had won mayoral elections In Moscow and Leningrad, respectively. Each drew 65 percent of the vote. Gleb Yakunin, a leader of the anti-Communist Democratic Russia movement, said these were "great victories for our democratic forces." He said Yeltsin's first act as president would be to bar Communist Party cells from factories and government offices across Russia.

Russia is the largest of the 15 Soviet republics. It contains three-fourths of the territory of the Soviet Union and slightly more than half of the Soviet Union's 285 million people. The White House responded to the election results by inviting Yeltsin to meet next Thursday with President George Bush. White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said the election certified the Soviet commitment to "estab- See RUSSIA, Page 20 45,000 Flee Big Eruption In Philippines Compiled From News Services MANILA, Philippines More than 45,000 people fled to safety Thursday when Mount Pinatubo erupted for a second straight day. The explosion hurled lumps of pumice as big as tennis balls up to 25 miles.

The volcano blew a cloud of ash and pumice 80,000 feet In the air, coating tropical villages and mountainsides with a thick carpet of the snowlike debris. The early morning explosion was among the strongest of seven eruptions that have shaken the volcano since Wednesday. White ash 3 inches deep covered tropical areas as far away as Olongapo, 25 miles to the southwest. Geologists predicted more violent activity from the volcano, which had been silent for six centuries before beginning to spew on Sunday are still expecting it to reach a peak again," said Jesse Dallgdig of the Philippine Volca-nology and Seismology Institute. Because of advance warning, only two people have been killed since the volcano began erupting: a 3-year-old boy who suffocated from sulphur fumes; and a U.S.

sailor who was killed in a car crash on roads made treacherous by See VOLCANO, Page 21 Riverport To Open With Winwood, Traffic Jam Later By Virgil Tipton Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Perhaps it's appropriate that Steve Wlnwood, the rock singer who will open the Riverport Amphitheatre tonight, once worked with a band called Traffic. After concertgoers see Winwood tonight, they will get a close-up view of traffic. Actually, they'll probably be stuck In It, for at least an hour. "It's going to be a mess," said Don Miller, KMOX radio's traffic reporter. The Riverport Amphitheatre, In the Riverport development In Maryland Heights, debuts tonight with Winwood and an attendance expected to be 13,000.

Those 13,000 people will come in 4,000 cars, said Bill Parsons, operations director of the theater. And those cars have one way In and out of the theater: the Earth City Expressway. Also, this is the first show, with some problems as yet unsolved. Together these two factors will jam up traffic as drivers leave the theater parking lots, traffic experts say. "There's going to be congestion," said Norman C.

"Chuck" Schaefer, acting director of St. Louis County's Department of Highways and Traffic. "There's no doubt about It." Traffic before the show will flow adequately, Parsons said. Since much of the seating is on the lawn, concert-goers will try to show up early for the 8 p.m. show, probably See RIVERPORT, Page 28 By Dave Dorr Of the Post-Dispatch Staff CHASKA, Minn.

One spectator was killed and five others hurt Thursday at the U.S. Open Championship when lightning struck a tree where they had sought shelter at the Hazeltine National Golf Club. Play In the first round of the tournament was suspended at 12:49 p.m., about 10 minutes before lightning hit a willow tree near the 11th tee. When medical personnel reached the scene they found six men lying at the base of the tree. One of the Injured was Glenn Engstrom, 36.

"I just felt something and then my legs went entirely numb, and I went down," Engstrom said afterward. He was In stable WITH FIVE birdies, Billy Andratie Is on a roll Page 10 IT'S NOT the same old Hale Irwin at U.S. Open Page 3D condition at a hospital. "Then guys behind me started yelling for help, and I joined In and hollered for help," he said In a telephone Interview. Paramedics arrived "fairly quickly," he said.

Mark Polich, chairman of the tournament marshals, said that when he arrived, "It appeared lightning hit the tree and went down through the tree." According to David Fay, executive director of the. U.S, Golf Association, which administers the tournament, the spectator who died suffered cardiac arrest. His Identity was not Immediately released. A second spectator stopped breathing but was revived. He was taken to St.

Francis Hospital in Shakopee, where Dr. Kent Molde, co-chairman of the Tournament Medical Committee, said he had suffered burns on both legs. The victim was later moved to St. Paul-Ramsey Medical Center. The Associated Press identified him as John James Hanna-han, 42, of the St.

Paul area. He was listed in serious condition. Molde said the other four spectators suffered shock and were In satisfactory condition at Ridgeview Medical Center in Waco-nia, 15 miles from Chaska. See LIGHTNING, Page 25 Business 1-6B Classified 1-30E Commentary 3C Editorials 2C Everyday 1-12F Movie Timetable 10F NationWorld 18A News Analysis 1C Obituaries 4C Real Estate 1E Reviews 3F St. Louis 3A Sports 1-10D Television 9F BIRTHDAY GAME 10A iver 7 i IP OS 'I Chance Of Storm TheParxts Over.

Rescue Man Lifted To Safety After Fall From Bridge Into The Mississippi By Ann Scales Cobbs Of the Post-Dispatch Staff A helicopter, a tug boat and police worked together Thursday to rescue a man from the Mississippi River after he fell about 100 feet from the Poplar Street Bridge. At times, the rescue was touch and go. The man first slipped out of a police officer's grasp on the bridge and again when he dropped off the helicopter back Into the river. The Coast Guard identified the man as Bruce Barnes, 31, of the 900 block of Daniel Boone Drive. Barnes was eventually rescued by a traffic reporter for a local radio station who used his helicopter to pluck Barnes from the river.

He suffered a ruptured ear drum and a broken rib. He was admitted to St. Louis Regional Medical Center for observation, a hospital spokeswoman said. The incident began about 6 a.m. when Barnes parked his car In an eastbound lane of the bridqand threatened to jump Into the FORECAST: Today: Hot and humid with a chance for High 93; low 74.

Partly cloudy with scat- tered afternoon thunderstorms. High 92. Other weather, 2A Hill 4 POST-DISPATCH WEATHERBIRD HU I.AT. OFF. DougMinerAP KSD-FM radio traffic reporter Allen Barklage in the helicopter he used to rescue a man Thursday morning from the Mississippi River.

river. and the individual tried to jump. As he tried KSD-FM Radio heard the call on a police to jump, the police rushed him, and an officer radio scanner and dispatched traffic report- grabbed him by one arm." er Allen Barklage, who was flying out of Barnes hung on to the policeman by one Lambert Field to do his morning report. arm for about a minute before falling into the Barklage said he saw Barnes outside of a river, railing on the south side of the bridge. "it looked like he just slipped," Barklage "We circled overhead a couple of times See RESCUE, Page 5.