Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1976-01-11

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jobs, education

e blood felt like tears

blade of my bayonet,

uthful dreams lay dead

spent cartridges and broken

ig the earth

bat, there was no innocence;

lere was no future to believe

W D Ehrhart

ira A Long

rian staff writer

t years after this was written

mam, six million Vietnam- er- a

ns have come home to try to

i future for themselves,

million of them served in Viet

aid perhaps for them, the task

is hardest Widely publicized

psychological or drug related pro-blems

of a few sometimes have

damaged the readjustment of many

Returning during an economic

recession has caused the most serious

problem In Missouri, unemployment,

job- traini- ng and higher education are

j some of the veterans' chief concerns

; Of the 4 120 Vietnam- er- a veterans in

X Boone County 507 have applied to the

Columbia office of the state Division

o of Employment Security In the

penod from July 1 to Aug 31 1973,

there were 588 new applications, 57

? were Vietnam era veterans

Nationally the unemployment rate

for Vietnam- er- a veterans between the

ages of 20 and 24 was 18.3, for the

third quarter of 1975. The rate for

nonveterans of the same age wa3 14.1

In St. Louis the unemployment rate

for Vietnam- er- a veterans is usually

sue percentage points above or below

the national rate

Emmett Connors a research

analyst at the St Louis office of the

( See UNEMPLOYED, Page If)

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1. --- 1 -- 71 CATV chances look good

By Robert G. Ratdiff e

MbMorum staff writer

" This particular proposal is probably

the best chance Columbia will ever

have for getting the best deal possible

on cable television," said Columbia

CATV Commission Chairman George

Whitebouse

Whitehouse is urging dry voters to

approve Tuesday a CATV franchise

that could end Columbia's long struggle

to obtain cable television His support is

low key, though, and about the only

campaigning being done is a small

series of educational advertisements

run in local newspapers by the

proposed cable franchise company.

The City Council already has ap-proved

TC Industries ( TCI) ap-plication

for a cable franchise, but final

approval by a simple majority of city

voters is needed before the proposed

cable franchise can be submitted to the

Federal Communications Commission

( FCC) for permission to operate

If TCI, a subsidiary of Telcum

Engineering Inc of Chesterfield in St

Louis County, gets the go- ahea- d, it

plans to import several distant signals

and to establish several channels of its

own for local cable subscribers.

The company plans to import KTVI

( ABC) St Louis, KMOX- T- V ( CBS) St.

Louis, KSD- T- V ( NBC) St Louis, KPLR

( independent) St Louis, KETC

( educational) St Louis and KCPT

( educational) Kansas City The cable

also will carry the three local television

stations

By viewing imported signals, cable

subscribers will be able to see network

and non- netwo- rk programs not earned

by local stations The imported stations

will be blocked out, however, when they

are showing the same programs as the

local stations This is done to protect

the local stations' advertising income

There also will be channels for public,

municipal and educational access,

leasing, local origin, news, stock

market and weather Area FM radio

stations also will be carried over the

cable

If voters approve the franchise, TCI

hopes to have FCC approval by April 1,

Whitehouse said Once approval is

received, the company will begin

construction of the system

It tentatively plans to begin in the

northeast part of the city The first 10

per cent of the system probably would

be in operation by July, and the rest of

( See CATV, Page 12)

68th Year No. 92 Good Morning! It's Suntluy, January 11,1 976 4 Sections 32 Pages 35 Cents

; Senate, Ford try joint intelligence reform

N. Y. Times Service

WASHINGTON The Senate Select

Committee on Intelligence and the Ford

administration have agreed to work out

joint legislative proposals for the

reform of the U S. intelligence com--'

munity, according to Senate and White

j House officials.

1 The plan to write legislation

I satisfactory to both the Senate and

" President Ford emerged during private

meetings in December and early

t January between Sen Frank Church,

committee chairman, D- Ida- ho, Sen.

John Tower, vice chairman, D- Te- x.,

T m Cochran

Four ingenious youngsters seemed to combine three sports Satunlay by kicking around a deflated basketball while skating on Hulen Lake.

their key staff aides and senior White

House officials

The plan was announced at a White

House meeting on intelligence Satur-day

The dosed door session was at-tended

by the principals of the affected

agencies It is the first time the options

for reorganitabon of U S intelligence

were gathered in one briefing for the

top level officials and the President

Ford bad not been expected to make

final decisions on executive orders

Saturday A series of orders, some of

winch will remain secret, may follow

shortly, senior White House officials

said.

Joint sessions between executive

branch officials and congressional

committees to prepare legislation is

unique m major proposals In the past

they have been used mainly to deal with

technical details of legislation

The House Select Committee on

Intelligence refused to agree to the joint

sessions A. Searl Field, staff director,

said the Hou& e committee wanted to

prepare " its own proposals, in-dependently,

uncolored by influences of

the executive branch. ' Aaron Donner,

committee counsel, said chairman Otis

G Pike, D-- N Y , told White House of-ficials

" there was no way, never," that

his committee would want to enter into

such an agreement

Some staff level sources on both sides

of Congress were wary about the joint

sessions Sources said the White House

had attempted to ' divide and confuse"

the committees in the report- recommendati- on

stage of their work by

these manipulations

Church characterized the

arrangement as a ' feeling out of the

extent of common ground between the

committee and the administration as

one step down the road to reform

' We reserve for the committee the

right to propose reforms even though

the White House may take a different

view, ' be said. Senior White House

officials said that the Ford ad-ministration

also reserved its rights

to disagree with some of the com-mittee's

legislative proposals

The joint work sessions will take

place in February, according to

committee sources

Even jouit sessions may fail to solve

dilemmas in reorganizing and refor-ming

the intelligence community

In investigations of the intelligence

apparatus, two dear motives have

emerged At first the intelligence in-vestigations

were seen as an effort to

halt abuses such as CIA domestic

spying

Later the congressional committees

and many in the Ford administi ation

saw an opportunity to reshape the

entire intelligence role for the first tune

since the 1947 National Secuntv Act

was enacted They have updated

reorganization plans begun as early as

1971 by James R Schlesuiger Jr when

he was in the Office of Management and

Budget

Reformers complain that officials of

the CIA Defense Intelligence Agencj

1Doctor's bitch p'uts ( See AGENCY, Page 12)

Ford in doghouse

1 STERLING, Kan ( UPI)

F President Ford's popularity in this

f central Kansas town of 2,300

dropped considerably as the 1976

k election year began because be

H refused them a small favor.

R Ford declined to let Dr. Thomas

a Simpson out of his Navy com--

E xmtment so be could practice in

8 Sterling, wherethe only other doctor

cj wants to retire.

B " H we can spend money in New

R York and Angola, then the govern- -

B meat has tune for us m Sterling,"

B said Annie Wyatt, a 48- year-- old

R housewife who led the unsuccessful

H appeal.

B " I feel anger, disappointment and

m frustration. They want our money

M don't they' We're going to pay our

9 taxes and that money is going to go

K to New York, isn't if And they have

S doctors'"

H Simpson enlisted in the Navy in

m 1971 under the now defunct Berry

m Plan a program that allowed

ffi medical students to complete their n educations and residencies in re-al

turn for two years' service as Navy

doctors. The plan expired when the B draft ended in 1973 B Simpson finished bis residency at

H a Wicbita, Kan., hospital on Dec. 31

H and was ordered to report to a Navy

H shipyard eimtem Portsmouth, NJS.,

jB early this month.

Mrs. Wyatt was janstd in the B appeals by the town's Medical B Aspects Committee, Kansas Gov. B Robert Bennett, several

B congressmen and finally House

ffi Republican LeadeJabRbotto.

After rejections fcrUFeotioa and m the secretary ofthe Navy, Rhodes m vent to the White Boose and was

MB told the President declined to H overrule the Navy.

Sterling's physician, Jack Dysart,

63, who has practiced in the town for

34 years and has taken care of the

townspeople by himself since late

1972, said he cannot cope much

longer with the sole responsibility

for the community's health.

" The tension at times is pretty

severe. I just don't have the oM

drive," Dysart said. " Even gong to

Hutchinson ( 35 kilometers or 22

miles away) to see a movie and have

dinner with my wife is impossible "

Dysart was encouraged when

Simpson, 28, said he wanted to

practice in Sterling after his Wichita

residency

Simpson liked the town and was

positive the Navy did not need him

as much as Sterling, and especially

Dysart, did.

" I'm looking forward to a two- ye- ar

vacation," said Simpson before

be left for New Hampshire " I'm not

going to work very hard. I honestly

don't believe my services are

needed where I'm going tike they

are in Sterling."

Because of Simpson's departure,

the town may also lose its 21- b- ed

hospital. ,

Since September 1974, the area's

small hnaJnHWM and farmers have

contributed more than $ 115,000 to

keep the hospital naming. The town

kept contributing in hopes the Navy

would let Simpoon stay.

As to the town's disappointment

over losing Simpson, Wilson said

" People don't really understand

how New York can be guaranteed

several bunon dollars and we cant

even be guaranteed the attention of

the President and a doctor. I doubt if

President Ford was thinking about

Sterling, Kan., just before he went to

steep a night"

Kansas consolidation working

By Stephen Burgess

Bfitsoarlaa staff writer

Consolidating activities of the county

sheriffs department and the city police

an idea being discussed locally has

led to more effective law enforcement

but has failed to produce any savings in

a Kansas county with a consolidated

police force, officials there said this

" Basically, I think the plan is

working," Leslie Rieger, city manager

of Manhattan, Kan , saki But he adds

that their experience has not saved

them any money " The argument was

you consolidate record keeping,

communications and purchasing and

save I don't think that is true," Rieger

sakL

In January 1975, the Manhattan

police department consolidated with

the Ogden, Kan , police department and

the Riley County, Kan , sheriffs office

to form the Riley County Police

Department

A less extensive consolidation was

proposed for Boone County Monday by

Columbia First Ward Councilman Pat

Barnes Barnes proposed that the

county contract with the city for the

police department to assume the law

enforcement duties currently per-formed

by the sheriff's office

Barnes said he believed his proposal

would result in increased efficiency and

reduced costs through consolidation of

duplicate activities in the two law

enforcement agencies

All three Boone County Court judges

have said the proposal might be

feasible, but the legality and the cost of

such a contract have not been deter-mined.

W L. Penhollow, director of the Riley

County Police Department believes the

increased effectiveness of law en-forcement

in the county outweighs

concerns over cost He says reduction

in the site of ' top management," the

elimination of one jad and the creation

of a single investigative unit for Riley

County are some of the major benefits

of the consolidation.

" We have what I would call a true

consolidation," Penhollow said I don't

know of any other like it " He said other

county police departments exist but

they are m counties that are totally

incorporated Riley County has ex-tensive

areas that are not incorporated

as municipalities

Rieger agrees with Penhollow that

the new department is more effective

' Law enforcement is much better now,

both in the county and in the city of

Manhattan, he said

The authorization for a county police

department was established by special

legislation in 1972

' We had a local legislator who in

troduced the bill in the state

legislature,' Rieger said The con

sobdation then was approved by county

referendum in 1974

The county pohce department is

administered by an organization called

the Riley County Law Enforcement

Agency Board I have no junsdic

uon ' said Rieger The county police

department is under control of the

director and an assistant director who

( See POLICE, Page 10)

Court eliminates cars for sheriff

By Steve Davis

Mtesouriaa staff writer

A state statute apparently requiring

the county to supply six cars for the

sheriffs department or none at all

forced the Boone County Court into a

special meeting Saturday to make

revisions in the sheriffs budget

Under tins year's original budget

plan, deputies were to drive their own

cars on county business. The county

was to provide two cars for transferring

prisoners and serving legal papers.

Sheriff Jack Meyer Thursday told

County Court Presiding Judge Bob

Brown about the statute

Brown decided no vehicles would be

provided and transferred $ 4,000 set

aside in Meyer's budget for maintain-ing

the two cars into the milleage pay

ment fund to be used to reimburse

sheriffs deputies for driving their

own cars.

Southern District Judge Carolyn

Lathrop Friday questioned whether the

budget transfer could be made without

the approval of all County Court judges

Prosecutor Mity Harper Saturday

suggested the court meet in special

session so all the judges could approve

the transfer, which they did

The court originally had approved the

county's $ 2 1 million budget for 1976 on

Thursday

After the brief meeting Saturday,

Brown denied Meyer's charge that the

$ 44,380 now available for mileage

reimbursements is inadequate

" This ( the deputy- owne- d car system)

wont change law enforcement in this

county one single bit," Brown said

" We've given him ( Meyer) as much as

be needs and then some. Obviously, we

don't agree on what it takes for ef-fective

law enforcement "

County Auditor Don Caldwell has said

the $ 40,380 for mileage reimbursements

would permit deputies to travel about

425,600 kilometers ( 286,000 miles) in

1976 In 1975, deputies logged 552,000

kilometers ( 345,000 miles) Brown said

he bad not seen Caldwell's figures

If deputies travd more than 425,600

kilometers ( 266,000 miles) there will be

no way the county can reimburse them

except through emergency funds Also

in the last two months of the year,

transfers can be made from the budgets

of other county departments, but only

with tiie court's approval

Brown said Meyer had submitted

mileage figures for 1975 to the court and

those figures had been considered when

the court funded the reimbursement

program.

Brown said the sheriffs deputies

probably would not have enough money

to go " as far as they did last year," but

law enforcement effectiveness would

not be diminished.

The budget also limits monthly

mileage payments to the deputies to

one- twelf- th of the $ 44,380, or $ 3,698

Under the original $ 40,380 budget,

$ 3,665 had been available to the

department each month

Brown said he would not speculate on

what procedure would be followed if the

department ran out of money for

mileage reimbursements before the

end of the month, but did say the

department would be violating court

orders if it spent more than the monthly

sum.

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