Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1978-02-14

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Crossing Tenth Street was no easy task Monday m- u-l
Snow provides relief
from daily routine
By Laura Kavesh, Valerie Glauser
and Bill Wirth
Missotzrian staff writers
Three Japanese girls stood in the snow along
Ninth Street looking like living porcelain dolls,
giggling and tossing back their heads to catch
the falling crystals in their mouths.
A friend kneeled in front of them, up to his
shoulders in drifts, snapping pictures from
every angle with his Nikon camera.
" I can't believe it. I've never seen anything
Bke this in my life," he laughed. " Can you
believe this is reajly happening?"
Most Columbians, however, found Monday's
storm a believable excuse to stay indoors,
venturing out only for an occasional errand or to
dig themselves out of their driveways for a day
when the " cancelled" sign is taken downfrom
the city.
It was a day to wonder what to do with' the kids
or to catch up on projects long overdue or long
put off. Orjust to sit and relax.
Judy Roper, 2216 Ridgefield Road, needed to
go to the supermarket, but couldn't because of
all of the you know what, so she stayed at home
with her children who like every other school
child in Columbia were not in classes.
- " They thought it was fantastic," she said.
Melanie Hedrick, Route 6, a University stu-dent,
took advantage of cancelled classes to
catch up on sleep, " since it was after a
weekend." Between snacks, she and her
roommates also spent some time trying to dig
out their cars.
For some Columbians, the snow meant little
more than a new color on the ground. " I have
not been doing much for the last couple of
months, and I'm not going to change my plans,"
said bricklayer Larry Smarr, Route 6. " I'm
going uptown to get a chainsaw sharpened and I
don't plan to have much trouble."
The storm opened doors fcr Bill Barnett,
owner of Barnett's Drugs, 3101 S. Providence
Road, but the wrong ones. A snowmobiler who
Tost control of the machine " came right in the
' out' doors" of the store. No glass was broken,
however, and Barnett thought he would be able
to lock the doors. That may not have mattered
as much as some nights, though, since Barnett
wasplanning to spend the night in the store.
The silence that the snow carried to Columbia
did not extend to the National Weather Service,
where the telephone rang incessantly with
would- b- e travelers and others inquiring about
the weather. " We've been a little more busy
than usual, but it hasn't bothered me a bit," said
Joe Zimmer, a weather service employee.
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By Mark Cowing
Missourian staff writer
Take a typical Monday morning, add 8 inches
( 20 centimeters) of snow, and what do you have?
A city standing still.
Classes at the University were cancelled for
the first time in memory. Columbia Regional
Airport ' was inoperable. Persons who weren't
stranded had nowhere to go. And the flakes kept
falling.
The weather service expected Columbia's
winter blanket to be as much as 12 inches ( 30
centimeters) thick when the statewide storm
finally moves out and into the Ohio Valley
sometime this morning.
Most public schools and businesses were
holding their breath and their decisions to
reopen until the fury subsided.
Columbia College also suspended classes, but
Stephens College remained open.
University Chancellor Herbert Schooling said
classes would be held today, but University
students discovered Monday they never can be
too sure. The 7: 30 a. m. cancellation announce-ment
came too late for those who left early to
trudge to their first classes at 7: 40 a. m.
Schooling delayed the decision until he was
stranded en route to the University and had to
walk the rest of the way to work. " That's the
first time in my life something like that hap-pened
to me," he said.
Despite the confusion, most students were
willing to ignore the inconvenience for an
unexpected holiday. Even after walking across
campus to discover a darkened classroom, five
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coeds celebrated the historic closing in the
vacant Francis Quadrangle with a refrain from
" The Impossible Dream."
Bob Kren, director of the University Office of
Public Information, could find no record of the
last time classes were cancelled, but several
professors who have been- a- t the University for
more than 20 years said they could not recall a
precedent.
The majority of University employees,
however, were not so lucky. All " essential
services," such as the hospital, physical plant
and residence hall food services, remained
open.
" We were trying to maintain all normal
services, but we weren't able to maintain them
in a very normal fashion," Schooling said.
" Some people just weren't able to get in."
The University library remained closed
because there were not enough employees to
provide adequate security, Schooling said.
The city has fared a bit better than the
University, but the ' round- the- cloc- k struggle
with the snow has been far from easy.
Snowplows hit the streets at 9 p. m. Sunday
and still are scraping and hauling to keep city
streets open. Public Works Director Ray Beck
threatened to tow cars still parked on Broadway
Monday night to expedite the clearing
operation.
City roads " are passable but slick in some
spots," said Capt. Earl Ludwigsen of the
Columbia Police Department Monday night.
" We're definitely discouraging traffic."
Buses ran about 15 to 20 minutes late but
maintained full strength throughout the mor-ning,
said Verdell Lewis, foreman of the
Columbia Area Transit System. " Our dif-ficulties
are in the stalled cars in front of us," he
said.
A. O. Cappadony, manager of Columbia
Regional Airport, said it probably would be late
tonight " before we can open up. The snow has
been drifting on us."
Heavy snow cripples activity throughout state
From our wire services
Activities ground to a halt across most of
Missouri Monday as the heaviest snow in years
swamped many areas.
If it wasn't the snow, it was freezing rain that
closed schools, businesses and factories and
made driving hazardous at best.
The band of heavy snow stretched from
Kansas City to St. Louis, where freezing rain
turned to snow by nu'd- mornin- g. The paralyzing
weather reached northeast as far as Kirksville.
Only the southeast corner of the state seemed to
be escaping the wrath of the winter storm.
Kansas City International Airport was open to
limited traffic as was Lambert Field in St.
Louis. Both facilities were using snow plows to
keep runways clear.
The Missouri General Assembly called off its
sessions and tentatively rescheduled them for 4
p. m. today. The Kansas Legislature met as
usual, though not all members were able to
reach Topeka.
The Universities of Nebraska, Kansas and
Missouri canceled classes. Businesses in
Kansas City shut down. Most federal govern- -
ment employees were asked to stay home for the
day. Schools closed in Kansas City, Omaha and
Lincoln, Neb., and scores of other cities and
towns.
Heavy snow warnings or travelers' advisories
covered the entire state. Many roads were
closed in the Kansas City area with the in-terstate
highways limited to one- la- ne traffic in
many locations. Roads and bridges were
covered with a base of ice under the snow, the
result of freezing rain that preceded the snow.
Macon reported 11 inches ( 27 centimeters) of
snow by 9 a. m., St Joseph and Kansas City had
10 ( 25 centimeters), Chillocothe 9 ( 22 cen-timeters),
Columbia 8 ( 20 centimeters),
Kirksville 7 ( 17 centimeters), Jefferson City 6
( 15 centimeters), and Springfield and Joplin 3 ( 7
centimeters).
Snow continued late in the day in most
locations, with Kansas City expecting at least 12
inches ( 30 centimeters) and 12 to 15 inches ( 30 to
37 centimeters) forecast for Columbia by
tonight. It marked the heaviest snowfall in
Kansas City since 14 inches ( 35 centimeters) fell
Jan. 18- 1- 9, 1962. St. Joseph's record of 13.9 in-ches
( 34 centimeters) also was in jeopardy.
The blustery storm swept across a vast belt of
the midlands from the Plains to the Ohio Valley
and Great Lakes. The latest in a long string of
winter storms swept eastward into Indiana,
Ohio and Kentucky, threatening to plaster an
additional 8 inches ( 20 centimeters) of snow
atop the hobbling remains of a January blizzard.
Heavy snow and new rains struck Southern
California. Some of California's worst storms in
history already had claimed 14 lives in the
southern part of the state and three more in the
northern Sierra.
China now reversing
; Mao's basic policies '
: By Charles R. Smith '
- united Press International
HONG KONG ( UPI) Sweeping
: changes taking place in China today
: are a repudiation of some of the
: most sacred policies laid down by
fee late Mao Tse- tun- g. ,
Lip service is being paid toffee
: former chairman of the Communist
Party while many of his most basic
- policies are being revised or
. reversed.
Every change is made in the name
of Mao. Somehow, a quotation or ra-tionalization
links Mao to the new
policy, even if it isa direct reversal
of what he advocated in the past
and more often, than not, that is the
case. f
Iiasight
In no field has the change of direc-tion
been so abrupt as in education.
The latest change was announced
Sunday by the Ministry of Education
in a directive on the period for
primary and secondary school
study.
The directive, broadcast by
Peking Radio, said the period would
be 10 years five for primary and
five for secondary studies under a
standardized system.
Originally, the system provided
. ( See CHINESE, Page 7)
Stephens College freshman Pam Rippey uses a cafeteria tray for a sled " hemUvex
Schooling gives ax to lab school
By Deborah Morton
Missourian staff writer
The fate of the University Laboratory
School was sealed Monday.
Chancellor Herbert W. Schooling
Monday afternoon told five parents that
he supported College of Education
Dean Bob Woods' decision to close the
. school permanently July 7.
" We are confronted wife some very
serious budget problems," Schooling
said Monday. " The deans were looking
at the least important programs in their
departments. When Dean Woods made
his decision, I just backed him up."
Woods said the closing was necessary
because of department budget cut-backs,
the need for more space and the
changing trend in teacher training
which places more emphasis on
training in the field, rather than in lab
schools.
Despite lab school parents' offers to
pay higher tuitions, Woods said last
week feat he would stand firm on his
position. The parents met with
Schooling to discuss fee situation.
" I think the closing was inevitable,"
conceded Dan Hamer, one of the
( See MANY, Page 7)
Dean of students at Columbia College fired
By Karen Wafleasafe
MfosooriaB staff writer ,
Allan Rodgers, dean of studxents att
j Columbia College, was locked out of his
office Monday an unmistakable indi-- I
cation that he had been fired.
I Rodgers said he was " not surprised"
when the locks on his office door were
I changed without his knowledge.
I- - . " That is tte way the administration
here deals with people who havent
done what they were- tol- d to do." he
WhaJ Rodgers said he was " told to
do" was resign from Ms position at the
college.
Bruce Kelly, president of the college,
could eot be readied for comment
Monday on any of Rodgers' statements.
Rodgers said Kelly, told him Jan. 23
that he was " too expensive. He told me
feat fee college could not afford my x
services and for financial reasons my
contract would not be renewed on June
30."
Kelly told Rodgers he would hire a
dean of students to replace him at a
tower salary, Rodgers said.
On Friday, however, Rodgers said
Kelly handed him a letter that fee
president had composed. " The letter
was addressed to himself, but was
typed as if I had written it," Rodgers
said. " It was a letter of resignation in
which I supposedly said that I wished to
be relieved of my duties so that I could
look for a job fun time."
Kelly asked him to sign fee letter,
Rodgers said, so " I could get a good
recommendation from himself and the
Board of Trustees."
The dean said 1 " told fee preside '
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