Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1978-06-21

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i Insight
I Sweepstakes
1 whizzes ask
I for a chance
By Nancy Mayer
r Mtssonrian staff writer
I Something more appetizing than caramel or chocolate lures
many people to bright wrappers at the candy counter
" Win a Polynesian dream vacation for two," shouts an
advertisement from a box of Junior Mints " Over 500 prizes in
all Grand prize expense- pai- d Polynesian vacation for two to
Tahiti, Morrea and Bora Bora"
Another advertisement, in McCall's magazine, offers 504
prizes Hunt- Wesson'- s " Making It Better for You" sweep-stakes
offers $ 50 a week grocery money until 2001
It's easy to enter, the directions say Just write your name
on a 3- - by 5- in- ch ( 7 5- - by 12 5-- centimeter) card and send it to
the company
But not in Missouri In Missouri, sweepstakes are
prohibited by law Instead of a chance to win a dream
vacation or grocery money, Missourians face the possibility
of paying a fine or going to Jail if they enter a sweepstakes
Void in Missouri and wherever prohibited by law is a
familiar caution on sweepstakes entry blanks
A disappointed Missounan wrote to St Louis Post- Dispatc- h
columnist Martha Carr, " I would like to know why, when
sweepstakes are advertised in a magazine, the rules normally
state, ' Void in Missouri and where prohibited by law ' I figure
that my time and a 13- ce- nt stamp are good odds against
winning a large sum of money Am I wasting my time and
stamp by sending to contests that are void in Missouri''' Ms.
Carr replied that she was
Sweepstakes fans say entering the contests is a hobby which
they pursue in the privacy of their homes, and it should not be
: ' construed as gambling.
v A group of proponents has formed the Sweepstakes
. Amendment Committee For years, members have been
1 writing letters to Missouri legislators to convince them to
change the state constitution which prohibits sweepstakes
As a result of their efforts, in April 1977, the Missouri Senate
passed Joint House Resolution No 8, which calls for a public
referendum of the sweepstakes issue to be held in August or
November 1978 Two- thir- ds of the state's voters must vote for
the amendment in order to change the constitution
The section of the state constitution the group wants to
amend prohibits all forms of lottery and sweepstakes
A lottery is any scheme which contains the elements of
chance, prize and consideration. Consideration means paying
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company or walking into, a store to participate in a sweep-stakes
This prohibits most contests, sweepstakes and games
of chance.
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Wet walk
An umbrella- totin- g pedestrian crosses a wet
crosswalk: on Hitt Street daring" Tuesday- mor- rung- ' s
rain. Although the area's precipitation for
the year to date is four inches ( 10 centimeters)
more than on this day last year, high tem-peratures
and steady winds have dried out mid--
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Missouri farmlands. Weather service officials
regflxdetl meairinflcentfnieter5) ISfrafn
between Monday afternoon and Tuesday mor-ning,
not quite enough to bring up corn or beans,
but more than enough to sprout umbrellas.
I U. S. to revive Mideast efforts
m By Bernard Gwcrtxmsn
IB N. Y. Times Service
WASHINGTON - Administration
officials said Tuesday that they were
determined to use American influence
to revive the stalled Middle East
negotiations despite the apparent
rebuff to the American peace efforts by
the government of Prime Minister
Menachem Begin of Israel
After studying Sunday's Israeli
cabinet decision for the past two days,
administrative officials said there was
no doubt that Israel's response to
American proposals had fallen short of
American hopes and also was
inadequate to persuade President
Anwar el- Sad- at of Egypt to resume
direct negotiations with Israel
But the sources said the ad-ministration
doesn't intend to launch
See related stories, Page 3A
another round of recriminations with
Begin, but rather to see what other
approaches could be found to resume
negotiations.
" There is no sense of crisis around
here," a State Department official
involved in Middle East diplomacy
said. " We're exploring various ap
proaches with Israel and Egypt and ma
week or so mayknow what to do next "
The obvious course of action, officials
said, is for Secretary of State Cyrus R
Vance and Alfed L. Atberton Jr , the
special Middle East envoy, to fly to the
area separately or together to consult
with top leaders on resuming
negotiations and about possible
American proposals to break the
diplomatic impasse
In advance of such travel, Vice
President Walter Mandate is going to
Israel on June 29 for a good will mission
and will hold talks with top Israeli
leaders.
The United States, over a penod of
months, has tried to persuade Begin to
change the plan for the occupied West
Bank and Gaza Strip that he enunciated
in December.
But the Israeli statement Sunday
made it clear that Begin was adamant
against altering his plan to offer self- rul- e
to Palestinians in the area but kept
military and police control and barred
the occupied regions from joining with
other Arab states or having their own
independent government
As a result, the Begin plan was
rejected by Sadat and other Arab
leaders.
Nazis may cancel Skokie march
N Y. Times Service
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CHICAGO In a move that could
lead to the cancellation of a widely
publicized Nazi march scheduled for
today in the predominantly Jewish
suburban village of Skokie, UJ.
District Court Judge ordered the
Chicago Park District Tuesday to allow
the right- win- g group to demonstrate in
Marquette Park onJuly 9.
Freak Coffin, leader of the small
National Socialist Party of America, ;
repeatedly husaid be would can off the
flkokJe march if tab group ware allowed
to bold a i to & fcuthwest Side
nark near the Nazi headquarters on
West 71st Street
After Tuesday's ruling by ILS
District Judge George N. Leighton,
Collin would not confirm immediately
that his requirements had been met for
canceling the Sunday march, which
Jewish groups here have pledged to
meet with a awnter- demonstrati- on of
up to 50,000 persons.
" I will bars to read the transcript of
the Judge's ruling and consult with
dtddfaw whether we wilfcS off the
BkoUe demmatratien," CoUa told
Thursday to announce U decision.
Earlier Tuesday, he had threatened
to expand his group's activities if the
judge upheld a 980,000- insuran- ce
requirement imposed by the Park
District for groups of 75 or more per-sons
holding rallies.
" It's only the beginning," said Collin,
who affects an across- tbe- forehe- ad
Hitler hair style. " If we don't get our
rights, they haven't seen anything yet"
He said he would take his Nazis not
only to Skokie, but to Buffalo Grove,
another suburb, which has a growing
Jewish population.
Both added that be would prefer to
march in Marquette Park " among
white people',' instead of being con-fronted
by ' " a mob of howling
creatures" in Skokie
At a news conference in Skokie
Tuesday, Bonnie Pechter, national
director of the Jewish Defense League,
declared that If the Coffin group did not
march in Skokie Sunday, " We will
march on the Nazi headquarters in
Chicago."
" It's time we step treating them on a
nice, polite, intellectual Jewish level,"
he ssld. " Nazis are afraid of one thing
landlnain the hospital We can't
expect people to respect us If we dont
stand up andfight"
Postal merger
increases costs,
study shows
ByEricMinton
Missourian staff writer
A study of mid- Missou- n's postal service by the General
Accounting Office shows the consolidation of Columbia and
Jefferson City mail sorting facilities has meant increased
costs without unproved mail service
GAO representatives observed the Columbia facility in
January as part of the study conducted from September 1977
through February 1978 In addition, GAO studied statistics for
the entire period.
The study covers the first six months of the consolidation,
Columbia Postmaster William Klaus said, but since then the
facility has " reached a point well above last year's level of
service"
The study, requested by Sen JohnC Danf orth, R- M- o , was
released Tuesday and details mail service from October to
February, although Columbia and Jefferson City combined
their mail processing facilities at the Columbia Regional
Airport in September
GAO reported that " any consolidation of mail processing
facihties is likely to have start- u- p problems," however, " the
problems in this consolidation seem greater than other
consolidations we have examined "
The report said that the two objectives of the consolidation
had not been realized reduced operating costs and unproved
service Although cost reductions ranging from $ 274,000 to
$ 356,000 annually were projected, the report said " as of
March 1978, no reductions had been achieved."
" We believe that the consolidation should in tune result in
savings of about $ 205,000 a year, mostly as a result of in-creased
productivity from using letter sorting machines," the
report said
The study showed that the quality of mail service
" deteriorated just after the consolidation," but it has im-proved
and " should continue to improve to the pre- consolida- tion
level "
Klaus said GAO studied the facility when only half of the
mail processing machine was operating sorting outgoing
mail The machine began full operation in January while GAO
was observing the operation
' If you would take the same survey now, you would find we
are six months along since that survey," he said " We haven't
at this time achieved our potential, that's true But we're
better than what we were last year "
Klaus said the facility has reached its potential in mail
service, but has not yet achieved its savings potential He said
most of the cost is created by overtime and part- tim- e workers
and that savingstbPginfter the facilityiafuBysiagaifc- t- -
" We arelrsfmng 20 new employees and training won't be
complete until July 5," Klaus said. " Then we are hiring 10
more after that
" Ultimately, we will reach the potential expected of this
building I'm positive that in three or four months we will be
pretty close to cost savings," he said
Flaws still plague joint communications center
By Sharon Benson
I Htsseurian staff writer
I After almost five months of
I operation, the dty- coun- ty joint com-- i
munication system for police and fire
departments apparently still has some
' bugs in it
II At a meeting of the Boone County ' Joint Communications Advisory Board
I Tuesday, Presiding Judge William
I Freeh said there must be " im-- !
provementsin the performance" of the
Joint communications operation
" I don't mean to be critical,'' be said,
" but there are shortcomings from all
sides and there will continue to be
shortcomings from all sides."
Freeh said the communications
center still has a problem of locating
the point of emergency, and emergency
personnel often get lost before reaching
their destination, especially when it is
outside the Columbia city limits
The emergency communication
system's dispatchers ask callers for
street address or county road names
and for directions to the caller's
location
" We need to improve citizens'
descriptions of where they are," Freeh
said. He suggested using the county's
grid system to help pinpoint locations
and putting stickers listing the
emergency number on citizens' phones
Freeh said his idea may take two
years to implement fully, but " you have
to start any place you can start I
think we need to go "
Communications system director
Jim Lundsted was assigned to study
Freeh's proposal.
The communications system also
drew criticism from Sheriff Charlie
Foster and one of his deputies, Maj Bill
Whitehead
" The dispatchers don't give the in-formation
the way it came in," said
Foster, who has been a critic of the
system since its inception " They're
just not paying enough attention "
Foster also said part of the problem is
that the dispatchers are civilians, not
police officers " They set different
priorities," he said
Whitehead said officers often are told
to " stand by" and sometimes are
forgotten.
" It's just laxity," he said
" Somebody's not doing their job Part
of it is that they just don't care "
In response to Foster and
Whitehead's criticism, Lundsted said,
" It's awfully easy to throw rocks after
the fact, but m back them ( the
dispatchers) up to the nickel that they
do care "
After the meeting, Lundsted
defended his employees again, saying
" They do the job as well as they can "
He said Freeh's proposal would
" enhance" the system, but he
preferred a remedy that was " already
in the works" the Boone County
Betterment Association's project to put
road signs in rural areas of the county
The gnd system was tried in 1968 by
tiie Boone County Ambulance District,
but failed, Lundsted said.
" The problem was with public ac-ceptance,"
be said " With public ac-ceptance,
we can make it work "
In other action, Lundstead presented
the system's 1978- 7- 9 budget More than
half 53 percent of the $ 285,070
proposed budget would be paid by the
Columbia Police Department The
Boone County Sheriffs Department
and the Columbia Fire Department
each would pay 21 percent Five per-cent
would be paid by the Boone County
Fire Protection District
The budget and the percentages first
must be approved by the advisory
committee and then accepted by the
Boone County Court, the Columbia City
Council and the Boone County Fire
Protection District
The 1978- 7- 9 proposed budget is $ 72,499
more than this year's
Lundsted said the proposed hiring of
two additional staff members and the
purchase of new recording equipment
caused most of the increase Lundsted
said the additional personnel would
allow him to give his employees
vacations, sick leave and time off
without major rescheduling
Columbia Police Chief David Walsh
suggested the board only approve one
of the staff additions in an effort to trim
expenses
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Tigers sign hurler
PaulSummers, a third baseman- pitche- r from St Louis, has signed a letter- of- inte- nt
with the Missouri baseball Tigers Summers had a 506 batting
average, scored 23 runs and drove in 27 runs. He broke school records for
batting average and doubles, and was recruited heavily. See sports, Page 6A.
Iii town today
Noon " Defining Sin in the Worid I pjn. " A Funny Thing Happened I
Today," June brown- ba- g lunch on the Way to the Forum," summer -- r series, Ecumenical Ministry, SIS dinner theater, Dulany Hall, ' v-- "..
Maryland Ave Columbia College. Dinner at 6: M J
1-- M pan. " You're a Good Man, p-- m, ?
v. Charlie Brown," play, Manlewood , f$
Barn Theater, Nifong Park. Mvfe betosses Page 1IA ' -.-.
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