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ST. 3 - " Story on Page 6 70lh Year No. 79 foW Morning! ii Sttiunfay B)vv. 1 7. 977 1 6 Imjn 151 Uni I In town-t- oday 7:pjn."ACSaistmaa Carol," Stephens College Storehouse Theater. Movie Ustiags eo Pages Mand 18. - Insight Red menace threatening agriculture Efforts to control fire ants hampered ByJamesP.Sterba N.Y. Times Service HOUSTON The forebears of solenopsis invicta, like some other American colonists, were stowaways. . The best guess is that they hid among nursery plants aboard riverboats out of Paraguay and lands! at Mobile, Ala., around 190. Leaving natural enemies in their old country behind, they flourished in the United States. Today, solenopsis in-victa better known as imported red fire ants infest 190,531,685 acres (76,212,694 hectares) of pasture, cropland, suburbs, parks and backyards in 10 Southern states. Their poisonous-Stin- g drives laborers and livestock from fields and children from playgrounds. Their colony mounds ruin farm machinery and lower land values. Their aerial breeding habits make them difficult to push back. They are moving west across Texas at a rate of SO miles (4S kilometers) a year. Last Thursday, production ceased on the one insecticide deemed most ef-fective by farmers and ranchers at controlling the ants. Called mirex, it is a relative of ftepebe, a cancer-causin- g order, must be expended by next June 30. After that, its use is banned. , Farmers are frantic; en-vironmentalists are pleased. And as a political battle takes shape over the ant and its antidote, scientists have stepped up efforts to develop'new methods of control. "It's the top pest menace in Texas right now," said Reagan V. Brown, the state's agriculture commissioner. "We have insecticides for cotton boll weevils, and biological control has done a wonderful job against screwworms in cattle. But unless we can use an in-secticide or find some biological control breakthrough against fire ants, they are going to knock a big hole in our ability to produce food." By adding other chemicals, scientists . have developed a new form of mirex that degrades, or breaks down - chemically, much faster in the soil than did previous formulations. But its widespread use requires a minimum of two years of successful animal feeding studies. The Environmental Protection Agency is under pressure from farm groups to allow its interim use and from environmental groups not to allow its use untU testing is completed. Brown, siding with Texas ranchers, says that controlled use of mirex bait in any form at one-dOO- th of a pound per acre is far less damaging to the (See FIRE, Page 16) "nnneSBMBHnBBBnBBnB Med school dean prods faculty ByMarkCstrSng MtesoBriaa staff writer uWe are far too concerned about form, and far too little concerned about substance," the dean of the University School of Medicine told his faculty. Friday. In his first formal assessment of the medical school's progress since becoming dean more than two years ago, Dr. Charles C. Lobeck delivered what he called a "critical overview" to about 150 of the 360 regular faculty members. Lobeck said the school's problems are "reflected in over-administrati- on, emphasis on how things operate, emphasis on how information is delivered, not its quality . . emphasis on ap-pearance, not the stuff of which we are made." A specific indication of "our quality problem," he sain, is the stagnation In money being received from grants, contracts and gifts. There has not been an appreciable increase since 1974, when the medical center received $5 million. This is "disturbing," especially in light of a 20 percent increase in applications for federal grants and a 90 percent rise in applications for non-federal grants, he said. "The easiest way to get a grant is to be so good mat the quality of your work demands it. One or two substantial pieces of work are worth more man an infinite number of unimportant pieces," he said. "We must become more competitive." He also complained that scholarly quality is low. Of the faculty's 567 papers written in the past three years, only 93 have been published in "major" professional journals, he said. This represents an "extraordinary" production rate of almost two papers per faculty member, but an acceptance rate of only 16 percent. He estimated that in an average institution 50 to 70 percent of professional papers are published. "It is my belief that our output of potboilers is far too high and our true scholarly output far too low," he said. "Faculty responsibility is at least as important as faculty freedom and is largely a question of self-disciplin- e," he said. "Faculty freedom is freedom to pursue one's own intellectual course; it does not include freedom to do nothing." Lobeck said there has been some progress since 1975, when, he said, he found a medical center that took "comfort in mediocrity without a stress on the content or quality of our work." Departmental studies and chairmanship search committees have been instituted, three new chairmen have been appointed, the dean's office staff has been reduced by more than half and a council system has been established to provide "faculty and student input into the decision-making process," he said. But more is needed, he said. He emphasized that the medical school should strengthen its recruiting efforts, improve the quality of faculty and student thought, aggressively seek funds from the public and examine all "educational and scholarly efforts in (See DEAN, Page 12) Christnms glw Christmas has come to downtown Philadelphia. The three 60-fo- ot (18.3-mete-r) trees of lights spanning Broad Street brighten UPItefepfeoU the city with 450 light bulbs each. The light trees lead to City Hall, r Curators vote to increase fees for dormitories By Sara Thomasson and Jeff Gordon Missourian staff writers ' The University Board of Curators voted 6 to 1 Friday to approve increases of housing fees at the Columbia, Kansas City and Roila campuses. Curator Robert Dempster strongly opposed the proposals because, he said, he is "fearful we will deny seme of our students the right to attend the University." Dempster said he particularly was concerned with minority students being unable to afford the 15 percent housing increase coupled with a 13 percent tuition hike both of which will go into effect next year. i"asImtuhcinhk awsethhaevyecsaonakbeed sthoeaksetudd,"enhtes said. "Somebody here has to stick up .fortbestadeofe." He said the University is becoming too expensive to serve its function as a land-gra- nt institution. Subsidizing the dormitories was one proposal discussed to keep dormitory - rates lower, but at a press conference after the meeting President James C. Olson emphasized that all housing should be self-supporti- ng. "All students should not be called upon to subsidize those who do live in the dormitories," Olson said. More than 6,000 students live in University housing on the Columbia campus. Dale Bowling, vice president for business management, said that, if the increases were not approved, the University would be operating under a SI million deficit on the Columbia campus alone next year. Utility rates have risen 30 percent in the last year and inflation rates are continuing to rise at 7 percent per year. Housing rates on the Columbia campus for the academic year will be increased to $1,400 from $1,220 for a double room and to $1,690 from $1,460 for a single room. Married student housing will be raised $6 per month for both one-bedroo- m and two-bedroo-m apartments. In better news, Olson announced that full accreditation has been granted to the College of Veterinary Medicine, which has been on probation since its first class graduated 27 years ago. The primary reason for not having accreditation until now has been poor facilities and funding, not instructional quality, Olson said. The Council on Education of the American Veterinary Medical Association gave the college ac-creditation because new buildings were completed last spring. Olson also reiterated his opposition to establishing a school of optometry on one of the four campuses until existing programs are improved. "It, seems to me that we must achieve a greater level of quality with existing programs before assuming massive new responsibilities such as those which would be entailed in a school of optometry," he said. Controversy over the possibility of creating a school uf optometry two years ago embroiled University o-ficiaJwia-- --di(in'r want-- . it, . and legislators who did. The Coordinating Board of Higher Education voted last Saturday to in-vestigate again the feasibilty of putting a regional optometry school on the Mariiiac portion of the University's St Louis campus. The proposed school would cost $1.5 million if the Mariiiac buildings were used, as opposed to $13 million if new buildings were con-structed. Up to 80 percent of the costs of the school would be paid by the federal government, and the remainder would be paid by states using the school. In other business, the curators received the first draft of a report from a 13-mem- ber University committee studying the uses of the Weldon Spring property. Proposed uses of the 8,088-acr- e (3,725-hectar- e) tract are: Ecological research center for the study of undisturbed shoreline in relationship to its woods and uplands. Youth recreational and educational center to expand existing facilities of a boys' camp located on the property and provide for leadership programs. y Animal behavior center to study indigenous animal life or breeding of endangered and exotic species in cooperation with the St Louis zoo. v Culture environmental center for developoment of extensive Indian and preindustrial archeological sites to educate students and public. U.S. leaders: Israel offers 'sacrifices for peace From our wire services WASHINGTON Prime Minister Menahem Begin Friday disclosed Israel's secret peace proposals to President Carter and to senators who called them "excellent" and said they in-volve "many sacrifices ... on me West Bank, the Gaza Strip, everywhere." Carter briefed Egypt's President Anwar Sadat by telephone immediately after a two-hou-r, dosed White House meeting in which Begin spelled out, with the aid of maps, his proposals for a peace settlement with Egypt and "a process for resolving the issue of Palestinian Arabs." Begin and Carter also scheduled a follow-u- p , meeting for tonight to keep the ball rolling while the preliminary Cairo peace talks .were in weekend adjournment ; ,. r After his White House conference, Begin lunched at Blair House, bis guestlodgings,' with a group of senators influential in congressional foreign policy matters and disclosed, his proposals to them as well on condition they ' tell no details. -- '".' "I think it is an excellent plan," said Sen. Henry Jackson, D-Was- h. "They are most im-pressive proposals, and when the world finds out about mem, they will see we are really on the toad to peace. '! think the moderate Arabs will buy it Ithink the moderate Palestinians will buy it. The radical Arabs and Palestinians will not buy anything anyway," Jackson said. Sen. Jacob Javits, R-N.-Y., a staunch friend of Israel, called the proposals "a credible basis for peace" and said Begin "is asking his country to make many sacrifices." . Asked what the sacrifices were, Javits said, "I think sacrifices in every area in which sacrifices are expected, respecting the position of the Israelis today and where they stand on the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, everywhere. "I think that the prime minister is deter-mined, if it can be humanly done, to bring peace now," he said. The Carter-Begi- n meeting took place against ' a background of speculation that Begin would offer limited autonomy to the West Bank Jor-danian territories where some Arabs want to build a Palestinian state and to withdraw from most of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula lands, v Neither would comment on the reports, some of which originated from what seemed to be officially inspired leaks in the Israeli press. Carter refused to answer reporters' questions as he ushered Begin to his car, and the Israeli, entering Blair House, would say only that "we discussed the most important problems con-cerning the peacemaking process." The White House issued a statement saying the two leaders "discussed underlying prin-ciples which could guide future negotiations" (See SADAT, Page 12) Sea life foiled faetgw ice shelf WASHINGTON (UPI) A television camera lowered down a quarter-mil- e (.4-kilome- ter) deep bote through Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf v has revealed a rich community of marine life neubottcmof the "toet sea" below, it was , The initial picture alio bowed tfcat.the.aM .. floor 0(0 feet (MM meters) beneath ttohWtom v of the great ice sheet was paved with small , iwgr stone cowed by a thin layer of. i On two occasions, a fish i&towjy swam across the view of toe camera and Hght after it was .. . lowered tatotb.fjiunj.fitoi1fcf,te.,; ,. firsttimetlnrBday. ' A message from John (Sough, scientific -- director at the scene of the international ex-ploratory project, said the television view . showed other signs of life in the forms of fracks, trails and burrowson the sea floor. ' " "Tt indicates a rich t bottom : dwelling comayniity of -- ecgtixfe&aV' aiid --Dowa-yne"..:- Andanon, chief adettiat for polar programs jot : the National Science foundation; which directs . ''V&ktodoflibtarctte.'-'-- ' -- .".':,. -'- ',: CVx$h!sald Qwatere,beoeath the fto Ice . SbeSf have been oorared for at least' 130,000 yswa. Thtre bjrf St efaioa iha4 acia ttsts would find a lifeless environment beneath the ice because of the absence of sunlight and because the area isso farfrom nutrient sources. "Th& is dearly not the carei" Anderson said. - "There evidently is sufficient .circulation to bring in adequate nutrients to sustain a relatively rich coouramityV' ; , The next step' in the effort to explore the dark - watersbeneamtbeicewillihcludethelcnralng . of baited lines and traps to:by to capture some ofthecreatures. "t? ' ' '- -v --'i. - Summer, is ajproeddnn Antarctica and Exotic hens !ff golden eggs Chickens rule the roost at the Marti Poultry Farm, the largest producer of rare and exotic chickens in the state. This week, Vibrations observes the varieties of fowl at the Windsor, Mo., farm and finds mat hens laying golden eggs an nothing to squawk si Children around the world are the subject of a Vibrations photo gallery this' week. ODurtyg an h trip to 26 coustrieVeur- - pbotographer discovered it's a snail world after an. Seventy-year-ol- d Ed Tttrbett has been fascinated with railroads aod trains for the last' 84 years. A former brakamaa and mechanic be spends most of hit tbfio today at the Jefferson Ctty train depot, watching the trains comeaod go. Rand rat end mew in Sundays Vlbrationi migatjnr, part rf the CblumbtoMlaaettrtajL " , ,
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Item.Transcript | ST. 3 - " Story on Page 6 70lh Year No. 79 foW Morning! ii Sttiunfay B)vv. 1 7. 977 1 6 Imjn 151 Uni I In town-t- oday 7:pjn."ACSaistmaa Carol," Stephens College Storehouse Theater. Movie Ustiags eo Pages Mand 18. - Insight Red menace threatening agriculture Efforts to control fire ants hampered ByJamesP.Sterba N.Y. Times Service HOUSTON The forebears of solenopsis invicta, like some other American colonists, were stowaways. . The best guess is that they hid among nursery plants aboard riverboats out of Paraguay and lands! at Mobile, Ala., around 190. Leaving natural enemies in their old country behind, they flourished in the United States. Today, solenopsis in-victa better known as imported red fire ants infest 190,531,685 acres (76,212,694 hectares) of pasture, cropland, suburbs, parks and backyards in 10 Southern states. Their poisonous-Stin- g drives laborers and livestock from fields and children from playgrounds. Their colony mounds ruin farm machinery and lower land values. Their aerial breeding habits make them difficult to push back. They are moving west across Texas at a rate of SO miles (4S kilometers) a year. Last Thursday, production ceased on the one insecticide deemed most ef-fective by farmers and ranchers at controlling the ants. Called mirex, it is a relative of ftepebe, a cancer-causin- g order, must be expended by next June 30. After that, its use is banned. , Farmers are frantic; en-vironmentalists are pleased. And as a political battle takes shape over the ant and its antidote, scientists have stepped up efforts to develop'new methods of control. "It's the top pest menace in Texas right now," said Reagan V. Brown, the state's agriculture commissioner. "We have insecticides for cotton boll weevils, and biological control has done a wonderful job against screwworms in cattle. But unless we can use an in-secticide or find some biological control breakthrough against fire ants, they are going to knock a big hole in our ability to produce food." By adding other chemicals, scientists . have developed a new form of mirex that degrades, or breaks down - chemically, much faster in the soil than did previous formulations. But its widespread use requires a minimum of two years of successful animal feeding studies. The Environmental Protection Agency is under pressure from farm groups to allow its interim use and from environmental groups not to allow its use untU testing is completed. Brown, siding with Texas ranchers, says that controlled use of mirex bait in any form at one-dOO- th of a pound per acre is far less damaging to the (See FIRE, Page 16) "nnneSBMBHnBBBnBBnB Med school dean prods faculty ByMarkCstrSng MtesoBriaa staff writer uWe are far too concerned about form, and far too little concerned about substance," the dean of the University School of Medicine told his faculty. Friday. In his first formal assessment of the medical school's progress since becoming dean more than two years ago, Dr. Charles C. Lobeck delivered what he called a "critical overview" to about 150 of the 360 regular faculty members. Lobeck said the school's problems are "reflected in over-administrati- on, emphasis on how things operate, emphasis on how information is delivered, not its quality . . emphasis on ap-pearance, not the stuff of which we are made." A specific indication of "our quality problem," he sain, is the stagnation In money being received from grants, contracts and gifts. There has not been an appreciable increase since 1974, when the medical center received $5 million. This is "disturbing," especially in light of a 20 percent increase in applications for federal grants and a 90 percent rise in applications for non-federal grants, he said. "The easiest way to get a grant is to be so good mat the quality of your work demands it. One or two substantial pieces of work are worth more man an infinite number of unimportant pieces," he said. "We must become more competitive." He also complained that scholarly quality is low. Of the faculty's 567 papers written in the past three years, only 93 have been published in "major" professional journals, he said. This represents an "extraordinary" production rate of almost two papers per faculty member, but an acceptance rate of only 16 percent. He estimated that in an average institution 50 to 70 percent of professional papers are published. "It is my belief that our output of potboilers is far too high and our true scholarly output far too low," he said. "Faculty responsibility is at least as important as faculty freedom and is largely a question of self-disciplin- e," he said. "Faculty freedom is freedom to pursue one's own intellectual course; it does not include freedom to do nothing." Lobeck said there has been some progress since 1975, when, he said, he found a medical center that took "comfort in mediocrity without a stress on the content or quality of our work." Departmental studies and chairmanship search committees have been instituted, three new chairmen have been appointed, the dean's office staff has been reduced by more than half and a council system has been established to provide "faculty and student input into the decision-making process," he said. But more is needed, he said. He emphasized that the medical school should strengthen its recruiting efforts, improve the quality of faculty and student thought, aggressively seek funds from the public and examine all "educational and scholarly efforts in (See DEAN, Page 12) Christnms glw Christmas has come to downtown Philadelphia. The three 60-fo- ot (18.3-mete-r) trees of lights spanning Broad Street brighten UPItefepfeoU the city with 450 light bulbs each. The light trees lead to City Hall, r Curators vote to increase fees for dormitories By Sara Thomasson and Jeff Gordon Missourian staff writers ' The University Board of Curators voted 6 to 1 Friday to approve increases of housing fees at the Columbia, Kansas City and Roila campuses. Curator Robert Dempster strongly opposed the proposals because, he said, he is "fearful we will deny seme of our students the right to attend the University." Dempster said he particularly was concerned with minority students being unable to afford the 15 percent housing increase coupled with a 13 percent tuition hike both of which will go into effect next year. i"asImtuhcinhk awsethhaevyecsaonakbeed sthoeaksetudd,"enhtes said. "Somebody here has to stick up .fortbestadeofe." He said the University is becoming too expensive to serve its function as a land-gra- nt institution. Subsidizing the dormitories was one proposal discussed to keep dormitory - rates lower, but at a press conference after the meeting President James C. Olson emphasized that all housing should be self-supporti- ng. "All students should not be called upon to subsidize those who do live in the dormitories," Olson said. More than 6,000 students live in University housing on the Columbia campus. Dale Bowling, vice president for business management, said that, if the increases were not approved, the University would be operating under a SI million deficit on the Columbia campus alone next year. Utility rates have risen 30 percent in the last year and inflation rates are continuing to rise at 7 percent per year. Housing rates on the Columbia campus for the academic year will be increased to $1,400 from $1,220 for a double room and to $1,690 from $1,460 for a single room. Married student housing will be raised $6 per month for both one-bedroo- m and two-bedroo-m apartments. In better news, Olson announced that full accreditation has been granted to the College of Veterinary Medicine, which has been on probation since its first class graduated 27 years ago. The primary reason for not having accreditation until now has been poor facilities and funding, not instructional quality, Olson said. The Council on Education of the American Veterinary Medical Association gave the college ac-creditation because new buildings were completed last spring. Olson also reiterated his opposition to establishing a school of optometry on one of the four campuses until existing programs are improved. "It, seems to me that we must achieve a greater level of quality with existing programs before assuming massive new responsibilities such as those which would be entailed in a school of optometry," he said. Controversy over the possibility of creating a school uf optometry two years ago embroiled University o-ficiaJwia-- --di(in'r want-- . it, . and legislators who did. The Coordinating Board of Higher Education voted last Saturday to in-vestigate again the feasibilty of putting a regional optometry school on the Mariiiac portion of the University's St Louis campus. The proposed school would cost $1.5 million if the Mariiiac buildings were used, as opposed to $13 million if new buildings were con-structed. Up to 80 percent of the costs of the school would be paid by the federal government, and the remainder would be paid by states using the school. In other business, the curators received the first draft of a report from a 13-mem- ber University committee studying the uses of the Weldon Spring property. Proposed uses of the 8,088-acr- e (3,725-hectar- e) tract are: Ecological research center for the study of undisturbed shoreline in relationship to its woods and uplands. Youth recreational and educational center to expand existing facilities of a boys' camp located on the property and provide for leadership programs. y Animal behavior center to study indigenous animal life or breeding of endangered and exotic species in cooperation with the St Louis zoo. v Culture environmental center for developoment of extensive Indian and preindustrial archeological sites to educate students and public. U.S. leaders: Israel offers 'sacrifices for peace From our wire services WASHINGTON Prime Minister Menahem Begin Friday disclosed Israel's secret peace proposals to President Carter and to senators who called them "excellent" and said they in-volve "many sacrifices ... on me West Bank, the Gaza Strip, everywhere." Carter briefed Egypt's President Anwar Sadat by telephone immediately after a two-hou-r, dosed White House meeting in which Begin spelled out, with the aid of maps, his proposals for a peace settlement with Egypt and "a process for resolving the issue of Palestinian Arabs." Begin and Carter also scheduled a follow-u- p , meeting for tonight to keep the ball rolling while the preliminary Cairo peace talks .were in weekend adjournment ; ,. r After his White House conference, Begin lunched at Blair House, bis guestlodgings,' with a group of senators influential in congressional foreign policy matters and disclosed, his proposals to them as well on condition they ' tell no details. -- '".' "I think it is an excellent plan," said Sen. Henry Jackson, D-Was- h. "They are most im-pressive proposals, and when the world finds out about mem, they will see we are really on the toad to peace. '! think the moderate Arabs will buy it Ithink the moderate Palestinians will buy it. The radical Arabs and Palestinians will not buy anything anyway," Jackson said. Sen. Jacob Javits, R-N.-Y., a staunch friend of Israel, called the proposals "a credible basis for peace" and said Begin "is asking his country to make many sacrifices." . Asked what the sacrifices were, Javits said, "I think sacrifices in every area in which sacrifices are expected, respecting the position of the Israelis today and where they stand on the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, everywhere. "I think that the prime minister is deter-mined, if it can be humanly done, to bring peace now," he said. The Carter-Begi- n meeting took place against ' a background of speculation that Begin would offer limited autonomy to the West Bank Jor-danian territories where some Arabs want to build a Palestinian state and to withdraw from most of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula lands, v Neither would comment on the reports, some of which originated from what seemed to be officially inspired leaks in the Israeli press. Carter refused to answer reporters' questions as he ushered Begin to his car, and the Israeli, entering Blair House, would say only that "we discussed the most important problems con-cerning the peacemaking process." The White House issued a statement saying the two leaders "discussed underlying prin-ciples which could guide future negotiations" (See SADAT, Page 12) Sea life foiled faetgw ice shelf WASHINGTON (UPI) A television camera lowered down a quarter-mil- e (.4-kilome- ter) deep bote through Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf v has revealed a rich community of marine life neubottcmof the "toet sea" below, it was , The initial picture alio bowed tfcat.the.aM .. floor 0(0 feet (MM meters) beneath ttohWtom v of the great ice sheet was paved with small , iwgr stone cowed by a thin layer of. i On two occasions, a fish i&towjy swam across the view of toe camera and Hght after it was .. . lowered tatotb.fjiunj.fitoi1fcf,te.,; ,. firsttimetlnrBday. ' A message from John (Sough, scientific -- director at the scene of the international ex-ploratory project, said the television view . showed other signs of life in the forms of fracks, trails and burrowson the sea floor. ' " "Tt indicates a rich t bottom : dwelling comayniity of -- ecgtixfe&aV' aiid --Dowa-yne"..:- Andanon, chief adettiat for polar programs jot : the National Science foundation; which directs . ''V&ktodoflibtarctte.'-'-- ' -- .".':,. -'- ',: CVx$h!sald Qwatere,beoeath the fto Ice . SbeSf have been oorared for at least' 130,000 yswa. Thtre bjrf St efaioa iha4 acia ttsts would find a lifeless environment beneath the ice because of the absence of sunlight and because the area isso farfrom nutrient sources. "Th& is dearly not the carei" Anderson said. - "There evidently is sufficient .circulation to bring in adequate nutrients to sustain a relatively rich coouramityV' ; , The next step' in the effort to explore the dark - watersbeneamtbeicewillihcludethelcnralng . of baited lines and traps to:by to capture some ofthecreatures. "t? ' ' '- -v --'i. - Summer, is ajproeddnn Antarctica and Exotic hens !ff golden eggs Chickens rule the roost at the Marti Poultry Farm, the largest producer of rare and exotic chickens in the state. This week, Vibrations observes the varieties of fowl at the Windsor, Mo., farm and finds mat hens laying golden eggs an nothing to squawk si Children around the world are the subject of a Vibrations photo gallery this' week. ODurtyg an h trip to 26 coustrieVeur- - pbotographer discovered it's a snail world after an. Seventy-year-ol- d Ed Tttrbett has been fascinated with railroads aod trains for the last' 84 years. A former brakamaa and mechanic be spends most of hit tbfio today at the Jefferson Ctty train depot, watching the trains comeaod go. Rand rat end mew in Sundays Vlbrationi migatjnr, part rf the CblumbtoMlaaettrtajL " , , |