Half-Man-Or SomethingSt. Louis (AP)-Reports of a monster, half-man and half-vomethlng spread through the ft. Louis area again today.Several children first reported seeing the thing at a housing project on ninth street about two *reks ago near downtown St. Louis.f They said it disappeared into an old aubway on 12thstreet.WThose r kids were sincere. They saw something •‘Patrolman I BUI Conreux of the St Louis Polics Department told the As-j socUted Press, iConreux said the chUdren told him the being was half-roan and .half-woman, 'with “a * i r a-» head and a haif-head of hair.“Supposedly, the policeman(said, “It scuffled with s man near the Patrick Henry School. But 1 couldn't find the man it was supposed to hate fought vtth.Sunday, CentervUle, 111. police ai received the first call on a mons- ft ter in that area just across the Mississippi River from St. Louts, o “We have received more than n 50 different calls since then, b “Centerville Police Dispatcher Earl Harris said. s“Police cars rush to the scene and find nothing. One man, James McKinney, said the monster was . in front of his house. He told me It was half-man and half-horse, Harris said.“But one woman told me she f wasn't sending her kids to school untU we caught whatever it is,1' I Harris said;Moat of the monster calls have been at night. Three calls were received in CentervUle on the thing today. . I t' Conreux thinks It might be a | naaa dressed up Uke a monster. ,