Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1978-07-30

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1 Primary elections, referendum near I He's a Yankee again H I I Chiefs ' win' scrimmage with Cards I
I Boone County voters won't have many decisions to make in 1
j a stunning announcement unprece- - iK The Kansas City Chiefs and St. Louis Cardinals got 1
I next week's primary elections for county offices, but state 1 dented in baseball history, the New York O S Aether in Columbia Saturday to give mid- Misso- uri fans and 1
1 races and proposed constitutional amendments make it an I Yankees Saturday rehired Billy Martin as m3 I acies Marv Levy and Bud Wilkinson a preview of what to
I interesting election nonetheless. For a review of what's at j manager for the 1980 season only days MlhMlImm 1 exPec m e coming season. Neither team is expected to be 1
1 stake in the Aug. 8 voting, see the Columbia Missourian's pre-- i afr ne was forced to resign. For the raPPgiOI I 1 an NFL contender but m s confrontation, the Chiefs came 1
1 primary wrapup on Pages 4A and 6A. I details, see Page 7A. PvitaiP& i& i 1 1 outontoP- For- a complete report, see Page 7A.
70th Year No. 268 (;( Hni Morningl It s Sunday July SO, 1978 5 Sections - 64 Pages 35 Cents
From oar wire services
WASHINGTON The Carter ad-ministration
Saturday unveiled the
broad outlines of a national health plan
that appears to place as much em-phasis
on curbing inflation ' and other
economic considerations as on assuring
health care for all citizens.
The guidelines drew criticism even
before they were made public.
In a directive to Secretary of Health,
Education and Welfare Joseph
Califano, the president said his goal is
" a universal, comprehensive national
health plan to contain skyrocketing
costs and to provide all Americans with
coverage for basic health services and
with protection from catastrophic
expenses."
" The American people will not ac-cept,
and I will not propose, any health
care plan which is inflationary," the
president said.
There were few details. The president
did not specify how medical care would
be parceled out, how much such the
massive program would cost or how it
would be financed.
Califano, explaining the outline of the
plan Saturday, said he had been
directed to develop a tentative program
by the end of this year. This draft would
be translated into a legislative proposal
in 1979, and if enacted, the plan would
be phased in over a period of years,
perhaps starting in 1983.
Califano would not estimate the cost
of the. program, but he did say that the
administration hoped to keep the price
within the bounds of current federal
health care programs. This would be
done by trimming costs and reducing
waste from the existing health care
system.
But health experts, including an
HEW official, said Saturday that any
broad national health insurance
program inevitably would make heavy
demands on the federal budget' Cost
projections of similar programs,
designed without consideration of
curbing inflatioiury trends, ranged
from $ 23 billion to $ 40 bilhon annually.
Carter had endorsed national health
insurance during his presidential cam- -
paign, as have Democratic presidents
since Harry Truman. But the cautious
timetable and one- step- at- a- ti- me ap-proach
for the plan sparked criticism
even before it was made public.
" The president's failure of leadership
on this issue now will make our effort
more difficult in the future," said Sen.
Edward Kennedy, D- Mas- s., a leading
proponent of federal comprehensive
health care insurance. Kennedy joined
AFL- CI- O President George Meany and
a coalition of labor and consumer
groups to challenge the Carter guide- -
lines as too vague and too cautious.
Kennedy said he believed that " built- i- n
self destruct buttons," triggered by
adverse economic conditions or other
factors, could abort the national health
program.
Carter's guidelines will lead to a
number of bills, Kennedy said, which he
said will make them vulnerable to the
well- financ- ed health care lobby. As an
alternative, he said his Senate health
subcommittee will submit a compre--
( See INFLATION, Page 12A)
Hoiicymooii
finished
for Begin
But he remains
in firm control
By William E. Farrell
N. Y. Times Service
JERUSALEM Thirteen months
ago, when Menachem Begin assumed
the post of prime minister, he urged his
colleagues in parliament as well as the
Israeli people to grant the new
government " moral credit at least For
the first year of its tenure."
Current events have provided
another strong indication, one of a
series lately, that the government's
grace period is over.
Last Monday, in a huff over the
budget, Begin's minister of commerce,
industry and tourism, Yigal Hurwitz,
resigned from the cabinet, an in-creasingly
acrimonious battlefield
where decorum has given way to
debacle. And in parliament, former
Foreign Minister Yigal Allon, an of-ficial
of the opposition Labor Party,
rose and called on Begin to resign.
Later, Begin, incensed at recent
allegations by Labor Party officials
that he was mentally and physically
Insight
unfit to lead the nation, unleashed a
scathing attack in parliament, setting
off a verbal furor that made that
deliberative body sound like a boxing
arena after the spectators discover that
the fight has been rigged.
While Begin was castigating his
critics in parliament, about 400
members of the " Peace Now"
movement picketed his house to protest
his refusal to countenance a territorial
compromise on the Israeli- occupie- d
West Bank and Gaza in return for peace
with the Arabs.
The day's events only added to the
problems that have beset Begin lately.
They include:
v Increasing international criticism
of his hard- lin- e stand in the sagging
exchanges with Egypt.
Picket lines that include those
agitating for peace, ultranationalists
who say his hard line on territory is too
soft and religious Jews seeking greater
sway in laws that govern secular and
religious Jews alike.
k-- An economic policy that is in-creasingly
under fire as inflation
continues unchecked.
- Condemnations by President
Anwar Sadat of Egypt that he is the
( See HEALTH, Page 12A)
AlanEorrcd
Plenty of drivers were on hand for the Boone County Fair's tractor pull despite excessive heat, noise and dust.
By Veita Jo Hampton
REssonrian staff writer
As the parade was forming to kick
off activities for the 1978 Boone
County Fair Saturday morning, Dog
Days shoppers and spectators lined
both sides of Broadway from Garth
Avenue to College Avenue waiting for
that first scream of the lead police car
siren.
A toddler wandered into the street
announcing, " Here comes; here
comes." He was jerked to the curb by
an irritable woman as the parade- leadin- g
police car cruised by.
Thirty- nin- e horses and nders,
followed by a gray dog and a street- washi- ng
machine, led the parade.
Ten floats sponsored by area 4-- H
clubs, conforming to a theme of " 4-- H
is for Everyone," were spaced out
among other vehicles along the route.
One old red firetruck and two bright
lemon- lim- e colored ladder trucks, six
silver Ford Granadas belonging to a
local realty company and several
convertibles carrying the 23 Boone
County Fair Queen candidates were
sprinkled among mini- carava- ns of
heavy farm vehicles and carloads of
politicians with their families and
friends.
Twenty men and women running for
elective offices in Columbia and
Boone County tossed candy and
balloons, distributed campaign flyers
or waved and spoke to potential voters
along the- parad-e
route.
The Shrine Clowns and one group of
young clowns seemed to find the high
temperature non- conduci- ve ' to
comfort in bulky costumes and thick
make- up-.
The largest vehicles in the parade
were technological masterpieces of
Allis Chalmers, Sperry- Ne- w Holland,
Ford, and Case. Backboes, plows, and
a giant- size- d gleaner gave spectators
a view of the world of agriculture as it
has come to in the name of comfort
and high- volu- me farming operations.
As the parade turned west on
Business Loop 70, a spectator told her
small daughter, " I don't know why
there wasn't a band. Sometimes
parades just don't have bands."
Down Clinkscales Avenue, activity
at the Boone County Fairgrounds
picked up and owners of small
tractors registered for competition in
the tractor and four- whe- el drive pull
contests which began at noon. The
mood changed from passive ob-servation
to active involvement as
men and -- machines lined up for final
check before entering the tractor
arena.
Tractors with racing stripes,
stripped- dow- n, souped- u- p and
weighed in for competition against
their strongest challenger the
' motion menace' a rusty, red
mechanical sled.
Randy Richards, 28, Sturgeon, in a
partnership deal on a mini- ro- d with
Garland Shern, 28, Route 7, Columbia,
said, " The farther you pull that sled,
( See TRACTOR, Page IDA)
N. Y. Times Service
NEW YORK The widespread
assumption among parents and others
that smaller classes lead to better
education is only partly valid, ac-cording
to a new study by Educational ' Research Service.
In an 84- pa- ge review of research on
- the controversial topic of class size, the
nonprofit educational organization
found that certain kinds of students
' , those in the lower grades, disadvantag- -
"-- ed children and those with lower
, academic abilities benefit from
small classes when teachers adjust
their methods to a more intimate
setting.
On the other hand, the study said,
decades of research on the issue " fail to
justify small overall reductions in class
size or pupil- teach- er ratio by a school
board as a matter of general policy."
The report represents the most com-prehensive
survey in recent years of an
issue whose financial and educational
consequences are debated regularly by
virtually every local school board in the
country.
The study suggested that school
boards should invest funds in smaller
classes only when they have in mind
" definite pupil- benef- it objectives for
specific groups of pupils."
Over the years most educators in this
country have assumed that classes of 28
to 30 are adequate at the elementary
and secondary level but that smaller
classes are more effective.
Class size has been raised as an issue
with increasing frequency in recent
years in teachers' contract negotia-tions,
and opinion polls consistently
show that voters will build new
buildings or start half- sessio- ns rather
than to depart from traditional norms.
Polls also show that class size is an
important factor in teacher morale.
Despite the unanimity of opinion
about the benefits of small classes,- researc- h
on the educational effects of
class size dating back to 1833 has
produced little confirmation of the
common wisdom or practical guidance
for school policy makers. Existing
evidence tends to be contradictory.
Last year, for example, Lynne
Johnson and associates at the South
Carolina Department of Education
conducted a $ 250,000 study of 50 first- grad- e
classes in 23 public schools and
found that smaller classes significantly
improved reading ability and overall
achievement A 1978 ctody, however, by
the Madison, Wis., Metropolitan School
District found that class size had little
effect on reading achievement among
first to third graders.
A study conducted for the Federal
Reserve Bank of Philadelphia in 1975 by
Anita A. Summers and Barbara L.
Wolfe found that being in classes of
fewer than 28 students had a positive
effect on low achievers in the sixth and
eighth grades but a negative effect on
high achievers.
The Educational Research Service,
which surveyed these and dozens of
( See OPTIMUM, Page 12A)
Carter sees
independent
Namibia
From our wire services
WASHINGTON President Carter
said in remarks made public Saturday
that he believes the creation of a new
black African state of Namibia out of
the territory of South- We- st Africa is
imminent
" We are now on the brink of suc-cess,"
Carter told visiting news editors
in an interview Friday.
The president also said he die not
oppose all reductions in capital gams
taxes apparently softening an earlier
threat to veto tax legislation emerging
from Congress.
But Carter, in the transcript of
Friday's interview, expressed con-tinued
opposition to dropping the
capital gams tax rate from 49 percent to
35 percent calling the move " unac-ceptable."
Basing his comments on Namibia on
a report from the United Natms by
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Carter
said he was convinced " a new nation
will be established, formerly South- We- st
Africa, now Namibia."
The U. N. Security Council endorsed a
Western plan Thursday for leading
South- We- st Africa, currently under
control of South Africa, to in-dependence.
As a result Carter said he
believed the outlook for resolving issues
concerning Rhodesia had improved.
Speaking of capital gams, Carter
said, " I am not opposed to . . . reduc-tions
as such. I am opposed to the . . .
approach where you eliminate the
application of minimum tax to people
that, through tax shelters and other
means, wouldn't pay any taxes at all.
" I think that is an unfair approach
and it is unacceptable to me," he said.
Legislation approved by the House
Ways and Means Committee Thursday
would provide a $ 16.2 billion tax cut to
citizens and businesses next year, as
well as sharp drops in the capital gains
tax rate.
Carter said he will accept a tax
package that reduces and simplifies
taxes and makes taxation more fair and
progressive.
" I am flexible enough," he added.
" But outside of those guidelines I would
be fairly inflexible."
Carter earlier had threatened to veto
the legislation taking shape m the
House tax writing panel, chiefly
because the measure's reductions in
capital gains taxes represented " huge
windfalls for the millionaires and two
bits for the average American."
-- Mil town
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1 pan. Kaleidoscope Festival,
readings, dance performance
and a play, " Langstai The
Talking Drum," Jesse Hall
Auditorium, University.
7 p . MFA Gardens Concert,
Columbia Barbershop Quartet
MFA Gardens, West Broadway,
free.
7: 89 p . " Once Upon A
Mattress." Msplewcod Barn
Theater, Mttong Park.
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