Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1978-09-09

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Fusion use
not likely
very soon
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Mtoeariaa staff writer
When nodearphyaacists at Princeton
University last month announced a
" majv breakthrough" in fusion energy
research, some Americans may have
decided their energy problems were
over.
But according to local authorities,
skepticism is in order. They say ftwt
fusion may be mnch farther away than
the 20 or 30 years that supporters
predict, or mat it never may be com-mercially
feasible.
Nuclear fusion is the process that
releases, in its uncontrolled form, the
awesome power of both me son and the
hydrogen bomb, ff it can be harnessed
safely controlled in the laboratory
and men in commercial operation it
will provide safe, efficient, and
mMess" energy, its backers en-thusiastically
say.
It would use isotopes of hydrogen
essay obtainable from sea water as its
Wreigfat
raw material, not dwindling tnanhsn
resources, and woekl not produce
radioactive wastes posing a potential
environmental hazard as do nuclear
" What they ( researchers) demon-strated
was that what needs to be
achieved wasnt impossible," said
Walter Meyer, dwimun of the
University's nuclear engineering
department. 3hafs a long way from
implementing tins on a wm mfri
level."
Recently, scientists at the Tokomak
Fusion Test Reactor in Princeton, HJ
safely contained a foston reaction in a
" magnetic botUe" for a fraction of a
second, which they say represents the
formula" for fusion.
But in Oilnmhia. Meyer and his
their colleagues atPrinceton.
" Announcements of this sort tend to
take place at4bs end of the fiscal year,"
said Meyer. The tDughest barriers to
the development of fasten as an energy
( SeeFUSION, Page 8A)
In town today
1 bjbu Actress Margene
Stolberg and actor BoSimnmns
mcharacter as Princess Leia and
Darth Vader of " Star Wars"
stroll downtown to promote Las
Vegas Night, an American
Cancer Society fond- raisin- g
eventscheduled forOct. 6.
1 pj- - to S bjbl Auction,
sponsored by Columbia Talent
ffiifrijijqip Association, flaming
Pit Restaurant. Preview at noon.
7-.- JI puso. " A Gown for Ins
JMuueas, pre newea oysicfjngm
College Playboase, Stephens
Warehouse Theater.
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Tigers angle
for upset
in opener
By RandyHalts
SOUTH BEND, Ind. The game
Missouri and Notre Dame will play this
afternoon under the shadow of the
golden dome here has more angles than
a geometry book.
To wit:
It's the first game of the season.
It's Warren Powers' debut as
Missouri coach.
It's Notre Dame coach Dan
Devine's first game against the Tigers
since he left Missouri in 1970.
Notre Dame is the defending
national champion.
Notre Dame is the most
prestigious, tradition- lade- n football
school in the universe.
Missouri has a habit of upsetting
prestigious, tradition- lade- n schools that
have much netter football teams.
And if that's not enough to send a
football fan into an hmripriiatp and
uncontrollable frenzy, consider this,
The Las Vegas men in the pin- strip- ed
suits say the Fighting Irish wiU win by
17 points.
How aboutthose odds, Mr. Powers?
" They're wrong as many times as
they're righV' the Missouri coach said.
When Powers was hired last
December, he jokingly said that he
would have passed np the job if he had
known Notre Dame and Alabama would
be his first two opponents
Thepast week, though, he hasnt been
joking much. The week before you play
Notre Tiam you tend to go around
looking worried a lot.
But Powers, thmngh that worried
expression, is saying some pretty
confident things.
" Sure, we have visions of an upset,"
he said. " We're going up there thinking
we can win. We shouldn't go up there if
we didn't"
ff it happens, considering all those
angles involved, it might be the
grandest Tiger upset of all. Grander
than Ohio State. Grander than Southern
CaL Grander than Alabama.
Put the opinions of two Tiger players
( See CALABRESE, Page 8A)
Tried to extend influence across state
Mob leader gets 4 life terms in slayings
By Mark Pickering
MfesMriaa staff writer
Sam Haley, a Kansas dry, Ma,
syndicate leader who two years ago
tried to extend his p y"" to
finhanbia, was sentenced Friday to
serve four cotwen dive life terms in
HMHiHtion with the 1977 slaying of a
Kansas City couple
Haley, 30, was convicted July 14 by a
Macon County jury of the robbery- sbooti- ng
of Walter N. Worrell, 30, and
Sheila Perry, 24, both of Kansas City.
The case had been transferred from
Jackson County to Macon County on a
change ofvenue.
Haley was convicted of robbing the
couple of fSGO, forcing them to lie face
down on a bed with pStows placed
against their heads and shcobng them
each twice in the back of the head.
The four consecutive life sentences is
the maximum allowed by law.
Jackson County Assistant Prosecutor
Fred BeDemere, who tried the case for
the state, said he expects Haley will
appeal his conviction. " I tmagfaiA he'll
tryto appeal. He has nothing to lose."
Boone County Prosecuting Attorney
Mut Harper, who attempted to
prosecute Haley in connection with his
attempts to estaMHh an organized
crime operation here, said Haley " got
what he deserved. People who execute
other people forfeit their right to live in
normal society."
Haley's connection with Cohnnhia
began in 1976, when he moved to
Columbia after reportedly failing to
control Kansas City's heroin traffic.
According to statements made to
Columbia law officials in 1978 by a
former associate of Haley's, he at-tempted
in vain to organize a drug- trafficki- ng,
gambling and prostitution
ring called " TheFamily."
The circumstances surrounding the
Kansas City shooting closely resembled
the Jan.. 24, 1977, murder of 16- year-- old
ColuiiitHan Breanda Hendren during a
drug- relate- d robbery on Christian
College Avenue. Two others also were
wounded seriously daring the shooting.
Haley's nephew, James Gant, has
been convicted of that crime. In ad-dition
to receiving fife innmsonment
for first- degr- ee murder. Gant was
sentenced in Boone County Circuit
Court to two 99- ye- ar terms for ay
with intent to loll and five years for
armed ci iiniiml action.
Deputy fired two warning shots at fleeing suspect
. county sheriff's deputy fired two
warnb soots Toesday night whue
puisuKig an escaped prisoner an the
Go& nmnu College campus, Maj. Bffl
WMftehead of the Boone Conaty
Sheriff's DeparmieBt saidFriday.
Whitehead WedBeadoy had denied
that any shots had been fired. He said
Friday he had inade the denial becasas
he dhfeit find est abort the shots anta
later.
The sbote were fired, aoaxdmg to
Whitehead, bscaawe at the time the
fleeing man " made a good suspect" in
meJaffingoflWlaMorlcckonSisaday
attheEverydayPeopfecri center.
The saspect, Russell Warren
Wflhams, 11, West Plains, Mo, no
longer u under -"- pr- ftm for Ms.
Morlock's oiarder. Wunams had
escaped earfier Tnesday whDe he was
being escorted to Boone County Jail
after bis arraignment on a berglary
dsarge in Boone County Magistrate
Coort. Wntiams was recaptured
Wednesday at CoicnialViaage Trailer
WhoeBead said three deputies con-frontedWmtscns
on a Colombia CoSege
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parking tot Tuesday night after a call to
the sheriffs office informed them the
escaped prisoner had been seen there.
Bob Bailey, one of the deputies, drew
his gun and told Williams he was under
arrest. According to Whitehead,
Wflhams replied, " Go ahead and
shoot, and then ran. Bailey then fired
two shots into the air.
Whitehead said that although he
Drought Bailey's actions were justified,
an irjvesugation had been made of the
incident He said an investigation is
made every timea deputy fires bis gan.
Whitehead said Bailey fired the shots
hoping Wunams would stop. " He did
what he saw fit to catch the guy," he
said
Whitehead said he hadn't known
Bailey bad gone to Colombia College to
look for Wflhams because Bafley was
off duty at the time. Bailey later told
him that he had been there and had
fired the shots.
Whitehead said under a department
regulation, an officer may shoot at a
fleeing felon if the felon is a threat to
the officer's fife, or if someone else's
fife may be endangered by letting him
Although Wflaams charges were
burglary and parole violation.
Whitehead said that at the time of the
escape he was suspected ofhavingbeen
involvedmtheMorlockkflnng.
Williams was known to have
frequented the Everyday People house
where the body was found, Whitehead
said, and the fact that he risked an
escape on a burglary charge furthered
the department's suspicions.
Whitehead said mat the deputies
draught Wflhams may have been able
to arm himself between the time of bis
escape and the fftrtJitiKfff st
CUomhia College.
WuBams later passed a polygraph
test and astbonbes confirmed that be
was not at Everyday People at the time
of the slaying.
Whitehead said several c''" m ChUege students were in the vicinity
when the shots were fired, bat they
were not in the pariang area where the
shots were fired. He said there were no
obstructions which wouM have cansed
thebtuletetoiicecbet.
Wflhams was not hart in the incident.
Alttoagb a stodeS said he believed one
of the shots had been fired at Wilfiams,
Wbtehead said that wasnt true. Bailey
was so dose to Wiffiams, Whitehead
said, " tf be had ben bbscsbbe at lam
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Who in Colombia is
fenridng about the 21st
ouutuy, andwhat are they
doing about helping
Cofamlaa reach the year
2TO with its qoaifty of life
intact and economy
series which begins
Sunday, the Cohnnbsa
Mpiwurian examines a
wide range oftssnes faring
ciSiiem of Boone County
between now and the year
C& miiig Sunday
Gladys Cory of Neosho hannuy pursued her career as a
sweepstakes fvofessional until a 1970 state Supreme Court
ruling that forbade participation in sweepstakes by
Ifiggoiiriaim. Thrnwgti itwM i smA iiimmi airy fgy -
her contesting cohorts have stayed a step ahead of the law. A
November referendum maywell change all that though. Read
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