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STATS HISTORICAL SOCIETY HITT & LOWRY ST. COLUMBIA, MO. 65201 ST. 12- 5-- 74 - Story on Page 12A 70th Year - No. 272 Good Morning! It's Friday, August 4. 1978 2 Sections 18 Pages 15 Cents Keith Myen Raymond K. Gcfaman Pretty babies A contestant in the Boone County Fair's baby contest for girls ages 1 to 2, left, had trouble reaching the microphone so she could say a few words to the audience. At right, 2- year- - old Danette Woods appears confident as her mother Deanna gives her some words of en-couragement. The Woods are from Ashland. City budget calls for reductions in some services By Mike Robinson Missourian staff writer Columbians may be trading a cut-back in city services for lower property taxes and stable utility rates if the City Council adopts Acting City Manager Ray Beck's proposed budget for fiscal year 1979. At a press conference Thursday, Beck linked the predicted decline in some services to a need for the council to " take aleading role" in establish'ng long- ran- ge policy goals. Currently the city manager frequently must cut services or defer buying equipment to implement the council's recommenda-tions when drafting the annual budget. Beck said the city manager needs a priority list for services in case revenue falls short of expected income. " Even though the budget is balanced, we do not feel the procedures followed may be described as a long- ran- ge strategy for shaping our future," Beck said. " Our chief concern is our con-tinual spreading of total resources thinner and thinner, resulting in barely perceptible, but inexorable, decreases in service levels. These decreases are and will be occurring without established priorities." Although some services will be cut back and a few capital expenditures deferred, Beck said the city is not ex-periencing a financial crisis and has not reached " a total tax limit." In fact, the budget was prepared under council instruction for a one- yea- r, 20-- cent property tax cut, which said was the lowest in 17 years, IBeacndka 2- c- ent ongoing decrease in the city's general obligation bond debt. Beck said the tax cut amounted to about $ 300,000. The money could have been used for investment purposes or to offset a decline in service levels. But Beck said he opposed these measures because the city should not try " to be some kind of big banker with other people's money." Additional money will be placed in the contingency fund to prepare for emergency situations which might place a large strain on the general fund, Beck said. The city customarily changes tax rates to fit its annual revenue, Assistant City Manager Charles Hargrove said. Only about 12 percent of total revenue usually is kept in the general fund, and this year's tax cut would reduce it to about that level. Tax rate increases are necessary when the fund gets too low, Hargrove said. The budget was not prepared con-servatively, Beck said. Small changes in anticipated income could have significant impact on the city's budget, one reason that Beck said the city manager needs council- establishe- d priorites for reducing or eliminating services. While most utility rates will remain stable, the budget shows an unspecified increase in sewer rates. Beck said this increase is necessary to repay proposed sewer bonds which will help offset the land and construction cost of a for-thcoming $ 40 million sewage- treatme- nt plant that will phase out all existing municipal sewage- treatme- nt facilities. The city will pay about $ 4 million of the largely federally- - and state- fund- ed project MLIL curators OK 5 percent student fee increase ByJulie Black and Susi Trautmann Bflsscsaian staff writers KANSAS CITY, Mo. A normally staid University Board of Curators gave way to animated discussion Thursday over the pros and cons of a 5 percent student fee increase for the 1979- 8- 0 fiscal year. Despite arguments against the fee increase, the curators approved the proposal which was in-cluded in the $ 159 million state ap-propriations request for the 1979- 6- 0 fiscal year. The appropriations request, a 15.9 percent increase over the previous year, was approved by a 6-- 2 vote with curators Marion Oldham and Robert Dempster dissenting, reflecting their opposition to the student fee increase. For the. first time, student representatives were on hand at the meeting on the University's Kansas City campus to present their objections to the proposed fee increase. Students from graduate, medical and veterinary colleges expressed concern that financial aid made available to them was inadequate to meet the fee increase being asked. " Medical students today are not highly paid professionals," a medical student said, explaining that few medical students are able to work part- tim- e and that approximately 50 percent of these students must rely on student loans. He predicted that medical school may become a domain of the wealthy if student fees are raised. The strongest opponent of the student fee increase was Missouri Students Association President Doug Liljegren. But he said, students would accept a compromise increase of 3.6 percent President James Olson said it is preferable to increase student fees by 5 percent by the 1979- 8- 0 fiscal year, rather than to wait and have to increase fees by " 13 percent or so" in coming years. " Although our fees are not unduly high when compared to those charged by comparable institutions, we elected not to ask the students to carry the full cost of inflation," he said. He has asked the state to contribute 2 percent. Curator Oldham said administration assertions that adequate financial aid is available to students is a myth. " I hear from students on all four campuses that they're wined and dined and groomed and courted to come here, but the second year, if their grades aren't what someone thinks they should be, then they are back in St Louis." Her argument was countered by James Buchholz, University vice president for administrative affairs, who said there has been " a great in-- crease" in financial aid over a five- ye- ar period. Financial aid in the form of grant monies has jumped from $ 6 million in 1974- 7- 5 to $ 11.4 million in 1979- 8- 0. Grants equal 25 percent of student fees, he said. Loan policies totaling $ 4.5 million account for another 10 percent of this fee and local banks provide $ 4.5 million in loans for " approximately 50 percent of the charge." Many students are unaware of ( See INCREASES, Page 12A) American mediation, in trouble By Bernard Gwertzman N. Y. Times Service WASHINGTON The Carter ad-ministration's high- priori- ty efforts to bring about solutions in the Middle East and Rhodesia have run into such serious political and diplomatic problems that doubts are being raised increasingly in Washington over whether these long- standi- ng issues remain amenable to American mediation. Publicly, the State Department will insist that they are. But to assert other-wise would hasten the disasters the United States wants to avoid. The mood of officials these days is often that of InsfgM frustration. The enthusiasm of a year ago seems to have ended. Oh Rhodesia, for instance, high of-ficials talk of impending tragedy a major civil war among blacks if the Salisbury " internal settlement" group headed by Prime Minister Ian D. Smith does not negotiate on a new government soon with the Patriotic Front guerrillas whose military strength is increasing. Yet, the leverage the administration might have had on Smith and his black collaborators may have been dissipated by votes in the Senate last week and in the House Wednesday. Those votes promise the end to economic sanctions against Rhodesia if the Smith group carries out its controversial pledge for free ejections by the end of the year. Administration officials assert that such votes have the effect of en-couraging the Smith government along the course that will inevitably increase ( See FRUSTRATION, Page 12A) - Optimistic Wall Street sets new volume record NEW YORK ( UPI) Stock prices took a roller- coast- er ride up to new highs for the year and then back down on heavy volume through a record breaking day on Wall Street Thursday. The day's turnover was the heaviest in the 186- ye- ar history of die exchange. Big Board volume amounted to a record 65,500,000 shares. The previous high of 63,492,530 shares was set April 17. Hourly volume records were set through the first three hours of trading as institutions that had been holding aloof from the market and foreign investors poured money into common stocks. Brokers could not point to specific news that sparked the rally, a continuation of Wednesday's spurt, but said there was a widespread belief that interest rates had peaked and the Carter administration was showing a greater determination to combat inflation. The Dow Jones industrial average, which surged 22.78 points Wednesday to a 12- mo- nth high for its best gain in 3M years, rose 3.38 points to 886.87 at the close. The closely watched blue chip average, ahead more than 12 points in the first hour, pulled back on the news that Israeli warplanes had attacked guerrilla bases in Lebanon and then regained momentum briefly before giving up ground late in the trading day. Observers said profit- take- rs moved into the market in the early afternoon to cash in on recent profits. The Dow has rolled up a 26.16- poi- nt gain in the past two sessions. But some investors backed off when the ticker tape was running 22 minutes behind transactions on the grounds they could not tell what was happening in the market Agency requests delay in widening Broadway By Mike Robinson Missourian staff writer The Missouri Department of Natural- Resource- s has asked that the proposed widening of West Broadway be delayed until the city files an assessment of the cultural resources along the road, Acting City Manager Ray Beck said Thursday. Filing this survey could delay the project for " several months," Beck said. Beck said he received a letter Wednesday from the resources department informing him that the study was necessary to determine if construction would adversely affect any archaeological or architectural resources along West Broadway. The letter also rescinded a statement made by the department in early June, which said the study was unnecessary. At a press conference last week, Beck announced he had received an ad-- ditional letter from the same agency informing him that construction along the street posed no problem with historical resources. James Denny, a spokesman for the department said the decision to require the survey came after the Office of Historic Preservation's ad-visory council was unable to determine the historical significance of the area along West Broadway. His agency cannot determine the widening's im-pact until after examining " the data generated by the cultural resources survey," he said. This type of study " is a routine matter when federal funds are being used in the project," Denny said. The Federal Highway Administration will fund the project by an amount that varies with the road width. The original design called for a 50- fo- ot ( 15- mete- r) width between curbs and a federal grant of $ 1 million. The study will " more clearly identify the cultural resources that lie close enough to the roadway to be adversely ( See STUDY, Page 12A) Imside today Animal architecture For years, man has lauded himself for his efforts in con-struction of modem architecture. But the art of innovative building extends beyond the human domain. Wasps, spiders, birds, squirrels and beavers are just a few of the examples of backyard neighbors who are " natural builders." Find out about these amazing creatures by turning to the Weekend section, Page IB. In tiwis today 7: 30 p. m. " Dear Liar," Maplewood Barn Theater production, performed at Stephens College Warehouse. 8: 15 pjn. " Private Lives," Arrow Rock Lyceum Theater. Movie listings onPage 2B ii Columbians favor downtown conveniences x Qy Mary Aim King Missourian staff writer Columbians may not support beautification of the downtown area," but they would like to shop there with the convenience of public restrooms and places to sit arid park, according to a survey of public opinion conducted by the Columbia Community Development Commission. Projects such as the Flat Branch redevelopment plan and downtown beautification, including Guitar Square, received little support in the survey. But those polled asked for downtown conveniences such as public restrooms and parking areas. The future of downtown as a major shopping area may be affected by the fact that of those polled three- fourt- hs said they shopped at a shopping center once a week, while only 30 percent said they shopped downtown at least that often. That figure increases to 40 percent for once- a- mon- th shopping, but com-mission member Bob Gassaway said these figures could be misleading. More convenience shopping in supermarkets and discount stores likely is done in shopping centers, while major pur-chases may be the rote downtown, he said. Facilities for the handicapped received the greatest support of any project funded by community development funds in the past. Gassaway said the city has come a long way since 1972, when he and another citizen raised money for the first wheel-chair ramp in the city. " There was reluctance on the part of the city even to accept the money" at that tune, be said. The commission initiated the survey in an effort to get public feedback on ways to spend the $ 960,000 in com-munity development block grant funds allocated the dry by the U. S. Depart-ment of Housing and Urban Develop- - ment Commission members Carol Harl and Gassaway conducted the study and released the results at Wednesday night's commission meeting. The commission will get additional public feedback on ways to spend the money, targeted for low- - and moderate- incom- e groups, at public hearings to be held Aug. 14- 1- 7. Thehearings will be held at 7 : 30 pjn. on successive nights at the Columbia Public Library, Paquin Tower, Blind Boone Community Center and the Salvation Army Center. Gassaway said that because the survey was conducted during summer -- Intersession, University students were under- represent- ed in the sample. However, the median educational level of persons responding was 15.5 years, or the equivalent of a college senior. Women also were under- represent- ed because heads of households were designated as those to be interviewed. The random sample of 400 was drawn from a housing survey conducted in the city in April 1978. The survey had a margin of error of about 3 percent, which accounts for coding and other technical problems In the polling process. More than 99 percent of the perrons contacted
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Item.Transcript | STATS HISTORICAL SOCIETY HITT & LOWRY ST. COLUMBIA, MO. 65201 ST. 12- 5-- 74 - Story on Page 12A 70th Year - No. 272 Good Morning! It's Friday, August 4. 1978 2 Sections 18 Pages 15 Cents Keith Myen Raymond K. Gcfaman Pretty babies A contestant in the Boone County Fair's baby contest for girls ages 1 to 2, left, had trouble reaching the microphone so she could say a few words to the audience. At right, 2- year- - old Danette Woods appears confident as her mother Deanna gives her some words of en-couragement. The Woods are from Ashland. City budget calls for reductions in some services By Mike Robinson Missourian staff writer Columbians may be trading a cut-back in city services for lower property taxes and stable utility rates if the City Council adopts Acting City Manager Ray Beck's proposed budget for fiscal year 1979. At a press conference Thursday, Beck linked the predicted decline in some services to a need for the council to " take aleading role" in establish'ng long- ran- ge policy goals. Currently the city manager frequently must cut services or defer buying equipment to implement the council's recommenda-tions when drafting the annual budget. Beck said the city manager needs a priority list for services in case revenue falls short of expected income. " Even though the budget is balanced, we do not feel the procedures followed may be described as a long- ran- ge strategy for shaping our future," Beck said. " Our chief concern is our con-tinual spreading of total resources thinner and thinner, resulting in barely perceptible, but inexorable, decreases in service levels. These decreases are and will be occurring without established priorities." Although some services will be cut back and a few capital expenditures deferred, Beck said the city is not ex-periencing a financial crisis and has not reached " a total tax limit." In fact, the budget was prepared under council instruction for a one- yea- r, 20-- cent property tax cut, which said was the lowest in 17 years, IBeacndka 2- c- ent ongoing decrease in the city's general obligation bond debt. Beck said the tax cut amounted to about $ 300,000. The money could have been used for investment purposes or to offset a decline in service levels. But Beck said he opposed these measures because the city should not try " to be some kind of big banker with other people's money." Additional money will be placed in the contingency fund to prepare for emergency situations which might place a large strain on the general fund, Beck said. The city customarily changes tax rates to fit its annual revenue, Assistant City Manager Charles Hargrove said. Only about 12 percent of total revenue usually is kept in the general fund, and this year's tax cut would reduce it to about that level. Tax rate increases are necessary when the fund gets too low, Hargrove said. The budget was not prepared con-servatively, Beck said. Small changes in anticipated income could have significant impact on the city's budget, one reason that Beck said the city manager needs council- establishe- d priorites for reducing or eliminating services. While most utility rates will remain stable, the budget shows an unspecified increase in sewer rates. Beck said this increase is necessary to repay proposed sewer bonds which will help offset the land and construction cost of a for-thcoming $ 40 million sewage- treatme- nt plant that will phase out all existing municipal sewage- treatme- nt facilities. The city will pay about $ 4 million of the largely federally- - and state- fund- ed project MLIL curators OK 5 percent student fee increase ByJulie Black and Susi Trautmann Bflsscsaian staff writers KANSAS CITY, Mo. A normally staid University Board of Curators gave way to animated discussion Thursday over the pros and cons of a 5 percent student fee increase for the 1979- 8- 0 fiscal year. Despite arguments against the fee increase, the curators approved the proposal which was in-cluded in the $ 159 million state ap-propriations request for the 1979- 6- 0 fiscal year. The appropriations request, a 15.9 percent increase over the previous year, was approved by a 6-- 2 vote with curators Marion Oldham and Robert Dempster dissenting, reflecting their opposition to the student fee increase. For the. first time, student representatives were on hand at the meeting on the University's Kansas City campus to present their objections to the proposed fee increase. Students from graduate, medical and veterinary colleges expressed concern that financial aid made available to them was inadequate to meet the fee increase being asked. " Medical students today are not highly paid professionals," a medical student said, explaining that few medical students are able to work part- tim- e and that approximately 50 percent of these students must rely on student loans. He predicted that medical school may become a domain of the wealthy if student fees are raised. The strongest opponent of the student fee increase was Missouri Students Association President Doug Liljegren. But he said, students would accept a compromise increase of 3.6 percent President James Olson said it is preferable to increase student fees by 5 percent by the 1979- 8- 0 fiscal year, rather than to wait and have to increase fees by " 13 percent or so" in coming years. " Although our fees are not unduly high when compared to those charged by comparable institutions, we elected not to ask the students to carry the full cost of inflation," he said. He has asked the state to contribute 2 percent. Curator Oldham said administration assertions that adequate financial aid is available to students is a myth. " I hear from students on all four campuses that they're wined and dined and groomed and courted to come here, but the second year, if their grades aren't what someone thinks they should be, then they are back in St Louis." Her argument was countered by James Buchholz, University vice president for administrative affairs, who said there has been " a great in-- crease" in financial aid over a five- ye- ar period. Financial aid in the form of grant monies has jumped from $ 6 million in 1974- 7- 5 to $ 11.4 million in 1979- 8- 0. Grants equal 25 percent of student fees, he said. Loan policies totaling $ 4.5 million account for another 10 percent of this fee and local banks provide $ 4.5 million in loans for " approximately 50 percent of the charge." Many students are unaware of ( See INCREASES, Page 12A) American mediation, in trouble By Bernard Gwertzman N. Y. Times Service WASHINGTON The Carter ad-ministration's high- priori- ty efforts to bring about solutions in the Middle East and Rhodesia have run into such serious political and diplomatic problems that doubts are being raised increasingly in Washington over whether these long- standi- ng issues remain amenable to American mediation. Publicly, the State Department will insist that they are. But to assert other-wise would hasten the disasters the United States wants to avoid. The mood of officials these days is often that of InsfgM frustration. The enthusiasm of a year ago seems to have ended. Oh Rhodesia, for instance, high of-ficials talk of impending tragedy a major civil war among blacks if the Salisbury " internal settlement" group headed by Prime Minister Ian D. Smith does not negotiate on a new government soon with the Patriotic Front guerrillas whose military strength is increasing. Yet, the leverage the administration might have had on Smith and his black collaborators may have been dissipated by votes in the Senate last week and in the House Wednesday. Those votes promise the end to economic sanctions against Rhodesia if the Smith group carries out its controversial pledge for free ejections by the end of the year. Administration officials assert that such votes have the effect of en-couraging the Smith government along the course that will inevitably increase ( See FRUSTRATION, Page 12A) - Optimistic Wall Street sets new volume record NEW YORK ( UPI) Stock prices took a roller- coast- er ride up to new highs for the year and then back down on heavy volume through a record breaking day on Wall Street Thursday. The day's turnover was the heaviest in the 186- ye- ar history of die exchange. Big Board volume amounted to a record 65,500,000 shares. The previous high of 63,492,530 shares was set April 17. Hourly volume records were set through the first three hours of trading as institutions that had been holding aloof from the market and foreign investors poured money into common stocks. Brokers could not point to specific news that sparked the rally, a continuation of Wednesday's spurt, but said there was a widespread belief that interest rates had peaked and the Carter administration was showing a greater determination to combat inflation. The Dow Jones industrial average, which surged 22.78 points Wednesday to a 12- mo- nth high for its best gain in 3M years, rose 3.38 points to 886.87 at the close. The closely watched blue chip average, ahead more than 12 points in the first hour, pulled back on the news that Israeli warplanes had attacked guerrilla bases in Lebanon and then regained momentum briefly before giving up ground late in the trading day. Observers said profit- take- rs moved into the market in the early afternoon to cash in on recent profits. The Dow has rolled up a 26.16- poi- nt gain in the past two sessions. But some investors backed off when the ticker tape was running 22 minutes behind transactions on the grounds they could not tell what was happening in the market Agency requests delay in widening Broadway By Mike Robinson Missourian staff writer The Missouri Department of Natural- Resource- s has asked that the proposed widening of West Broadway be delayed until the city files an assessment of the cultural resources along the road, Acting City Manager Ray Beck said Thursday. Filing this survey could delay the project for " several months," Beck said. Beck said he received a letter Wednesday from the resources department informing him that the study was necessary to determine if construction would adversely affect any archaeological or architectural resources along West Broadway. The letter also rescinded a statement made by the department in early June, which said the study was unnecessary. At a press conference last week, Beck announced he had received an ad-- ditional letter from the same agency informing him that construction along the street posed no problem with historical resources. James Denny, a spokesman for the department said the decision to require the survey came after the Office of Historic Preservation's ad-visory council was unable to determine the historical significance of the area along West Broadway. His agency cannot determine the widening's im-pact until after examining " the data generated by the cultural resources survey," he said. This type of study " is a routine matter when federal funds are being used in the project," Denny said. The Federal Highway Administration will fund the project by an amount that varies with the road width. The original design called for a 50- fo- ot ( 15- mete- r) width between curbs and a federal grant of $ 1 million. The study will " more clearly identify the cultural resources that lie close enough to the roadway to be adversely ( See STUDY, Page 12A) Imside today Animal architecture For years, man has lauded himself for his efforts in con-struction of modem architecture. But the art of innovative building extends beyond the human domain. Wasps, spiders, birds, squirrels and beavers are just a few of the examples of backyard neighbors who are " natural builders." Find out about these amazing creatures by turning to the Weekend section, Page IB. In tiwis today 7: 30 p. m. " Dear Liar," Maplewood Barn Theater production, performed at Stephens College Warehouse. 8: 15 pjn. " Private Lives," Arrow Rock Lyceum Theater. Movie listings onPage 2B ii Columbians favor downtown conveniences x Qy Mary Aim King Missourian staff writer Columbians may not support beautification of the downtown area," but they would like to shop there with the convenience of public restrooms and places to sit arid park, according to a survey of public opinion conducted by the Columbia Community Development Commission. Projects such as the Flat Branch redevelopment plan and downtown beautification, including Guitar Square, received little support in the survey. But those polled asked for downtown conveniences such as public restrooms and parking areas. The future of downtown as a major shopping area may be affected by the fact that of those polled three- fourt- hs said they shopped at a shopping center once a week, while only 30 percent said they shopped downtown at least that often. That figure increases to 40 percent for once- a- mon- th shopping, but com-mission member Bob Gassaway said these figures could be misleading. More convenience shopping in supermarkets and discount stores likely is done in shopping centers, while major pur-chases may be the rote downtown, he said. Facilities for the handicapped received the greatest support of any project funded by community development funds in the past. Gassaway said the city has come a long way since 1972, when he and another citizen raised money for the first wheel-chair ramp in the city. " There was reluctance on the part of the city even to accept the money" at that tune, be said. The commission initiated the survey in an effort to get public feedback on ways to spend the $ 960,000 in com-munity development block grant funds allocated the dry by the U. S. Depart-ment of Housing and Urban Develop- - ment Commission members Carol Harl and Gassaway conducted the study and released the results at Wednesday night's commission meeting. The commission will get additional public feedback on ways to spend the money, targeted for low- - and moderate- incom- e groups, at public hearings to be held Aug. 14- 1- 7. Thehearings will be held at 7 : 30 pjn. on successive nights at the Columbia Public Library, Paquin Tower, Blind Boone Community Center and the Salvation Army Center. Gassaway said that because the survey was conducted during summer -- Intersession, University students were under- represent- ed in the sample. However, the median educational level of persons responding was 15.5 years, or the equivalent of a college senior. Women also were under- represent- ed because heads of households were designated as those to be interviewed. The random sample of 400 was drawn from a housing survey conducted in the city in April 1978. The survey had a margin of error of about 3 percent, which accounts for coding and other technical problems In the polling process. More than 99 percent of the perrons contacted |