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Illini seek third in row over M. U.
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Kyou have heard that the Fighting Eliqi have a good
chance to beat Missouri today, don't chuckle. Because
for the Tigers, the 1: 30 pjn. battle at Faurot Field is
no laughing matter.
You see, last year after Illinois had upset M. U., a
story from the Champaign News- Gazett- e was posted
in the Missouri locker room. The story quoted a player
who said, " If we could play Missouri every week
we'ddoit"
A pretty arrogant statement wouldn't you say?
Well, it may have been. But the Fighting Iflini had
good reason to be a bit flippant After all, the loss
marked the second consecutive year that Illinois had
defeated the Tigers, despite being big underdogs. And
if not for a strong Missouri second- hal- f performance in
1975, when the Tigers won 30- 2- 0, the Dlini would be
looking for victory No. 4 today in as many years.
With more than 60,000 fans expected, the weather is
expected to be mostly sunny with temperatures at
game time about 62 degrees ( 17 C).
" Illinois has a good team and they'll come out and
beat your tail off if you're not ready," said Missouri
Coach Warren Powers, whose team goes into the game
a 15- poi- nt favorite. " But this team has lost to them two
years in a row and I have no doubts that they'll be
ready for them.
" You can always expect Illinois to do well," he said.
" Gary Moeller is a fine coach, and you can bet he'll
have is team ready." ' -
And although Moeller, who was a defensive coach at
Michigan for eight years, was in charge last year
when the Illini put it to the Tigers 11-- 7, he's not ex-pecting
an easy game this aftenoon.
" In order to win," he said, " we're going to have to
play a mistake- proo- f game. Missouri has proved iself
to be a much more consistent team this year, and it's
( See MISSOURI, Page 6A)
Toy causes teen- ager- 9s ' asthma'
ROELAND PARK, Kan. ( UFI)
For the past 10 years Aaron McKume
had accepted his wheezing, coughing
and general listlessness as the
inevitable effects of asthma.
But Wednesday ' doctors at Bethany
Medical Center in Kansas' City, Kan.,
" cured" the 18- year-- old of his " astb- - ,
matic condition" by removing a three--,
quarter- inc- h ( 1.9- centimet- er) plastic
building Mock from his long.
McKinzie, who said be was tormented
by playmates for the past decade for
being lazy and fat, said he couldn't
remember how the toygot there. '
" The last time I recall playing with
them ( the buQding blocks) was eight or
10 years ago," he said from Ins hospital
bed Friday. " I figure I must have
swallowed it"
McKinzie's physician, Dr. Frank
Bichlmeir, said the boy probably was
playing with the tiny plastic brick,
stuck it in " his mouth and inhaled. The
toy became stuck in the lung.
" It's almost inconceivable for me to
believe it's been in there all that time,"
the doctor said. " But I can't prove it
wasn't"
He said although inhaling a toy into a
lung was sort of unique, ' Tve seen all
sorts of tilings ( in chrfdrens' lungs)."
Bichlmeir said be was concerned flat
the toy might have destroyed half of
McKinzie's lung, but that would have to
be determined by additional testing. He
also said the McKinzie actually might
have asthma.
McKinzie,' however, was convinced
he was cured as soon as he found be
' could breathe easily again'It feels like
I got most ofmy lung back," he said.
It's been a long wait Classmates in
Goshen, Ind., where be lived the past
eight years, constantly told him he was
lazy, overweight and " didn't want to do
anything about it"
" I couldn't do anything. I wanted to
real bad but when you can't
breathe, you can't do much," McKinzie
said.
McKinzie, who returned to the
Kansas City area about six weeks ago
to live with his family, said the
aggravation prompted him to enter the
hospital.
But McKinzie was not optimistic. He
said years of X- ra- ys had shown nothing
more than an inflammation on the lung.
On Tuesday, however. Dr. Robert
Ferguson lowered a small flexible
bronchoscope through McKinzie's nose
and discovered the toy. Using a tool
with alligator- li- p forceps " lowered
through the bronchoscope, Bichlmeir
also removed the piece.
In town
today
1: 31 pjn. College football,
Missouri vs. Illinois, Faurot
RekL
7: M pan. " life With Father,"
Stephens College Warehouse
Theater.
7: pjn. " I Am Woman," by
Viveca Lindfors and Paul Austin,
presented by University Theater,
Fine Arts Bafldmg, University. -
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Job criteria
seem unclear By Cathy Raman
Missourian staff writer
At least one City Council member and
the head of the city manager search
committee have differing conceptions
of the criteria for the person who will
one day fill the city's top admistrative
job.
Ray Beck, acting city manager,
would fit the council criteria, said Bob
Smith, head of the City Manager
Selection Committee, if he had applied
in time. " He had experience in
supervising personnel under him rather
man being a staff member," be said.
Smith said many of the 120 can-didates
who applied for the position
were not citymanagers.
However, Sixth Ward Councilman
Clyde Wilson said Friday he thought the
position only was open to " top level"
administrators. Assistant city
managers and department heads were
not under consideration, he said.
Although Mayor Les Proctor said
Thursday that neither John Cottingham
of Coon Rapids, Minn., nor Gordon
Jaeger of Battle Creek, Mich., meets
the city's criteria for the job, no council
member has yet been willing to explain
Proctor's statement The proceedings
at Thursday's closed- sessio- n debate on
the selection process remain a secret.
" It's in the past; it's all over," First
Ward Councilman Pat Barnes said.
So it's back to the starting line.
Proctor said the criteria for judging
new applicants will be " virtually the
same" as those followed so far.
Wilson said, however, the council will
have to " go back to the drawing
board."
" We will have to cast our net a little
wider so can catch everybody," he said.
Wilson said the major criterion is that
the manager " should have been in a top
decision position." Both finalists
qualified, he said.
The search committee has not
received any direction on how to begin
the second round in the city manager
search, Smith said. There will not be a
nationwide advertising campaign this
time.
In their first search, the committee
had advertised in municipal league
magazines, a newsletter sent out by the
International City Managers
Association and other " appropriate
( See BECK'S, Page 8A)
Dog owner faces court
By Tim Kubatzky
Missosnan staff writer
It is said that every dog has his day in
court
But this time it is the pooch's master
who is going to court.
John Meeks, 32, of 403 West Blvd.,
who says he was trying to " set a
precedent" has been charged with
illegally taking his dog from the
Columbia Animal Control Center, 616
Big Bear Blvd.
On Aug. 29, Meeks went to the center
to look for Big Boy, his dog.
He found him.
According to Bill Herzberger,
president of the Humane Society,
Meeks then opened the dog's cage.
picked up Big Boy and ran otst the door.
Meeks's story is different " I went in
there & fi3Tafi79nployee) was spraying""
down my dog with a hose, and I told her
he didn't like it
" The gal let my dog out She opened
the cage. We walked out to the car, and
I told the guy ( Herzberger) to send me
a bilL He knows who I am."
Herzberger said when Herzberger
asked Meeks why he didn't pay the
costs, he said he was in a hurry.
He's requested a jury trial.
The case has been moved from
Municipal Court to Boone County
Circuit Court, since no jury cases will
be tried in the lower court after Jan. 1.
A preliminary hearing date has not
been set
Visitors may get
free caricature
About 40 visitors at the Columbia Missourian's open
bouse Sunday will have a chance to get a free caricature
drawn of them by staff artist Ken Crow.
Crow will be working in the Missourian lobby during the
open bouse from 1 to 5 p. m. About one of each 10 visitors
will have a caricature drawn. Tours of the Missourian,
prizes and free refreshments will be available.
Crow's work has appeared throughout the Missourian
since August A senior art major at the University, Crow
wants to be a Disney animator.
A Long Beach, Calif., native, Crow has freelanced
editorial cartoons for the Vandalia ( Mo.) Leader for five
years. He has done artwork for the Missouri Alumnus and
other publications.
The Missourian offices are located at the corner of Ninth
and E3m streets.
Carter uses public mood., GOP for victory
By Roberta Hsrnfg
- BdVernonA. GnidryJr.
Washington Star
WASHINGTON President Carter, accurately
reading election- seaso- n public sentiment on taxes
and inflation, has used his new adroitness en
Capitol Hill to win a double victory on spending.
Carter Thursday not. only managed to have bis
veto of the tf0.1- bffli- on energy and public works
bill sustained in the Hoase by a surprisingly large
margin over the strong and impassioned op-position
of congressional Democratic leaders, he
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also won on the issue that started the fight water
projects.
Vanquished congressmen apparently are willing
to grve him what be wants on the substance of the
fight without much further fuss.. Irritated mem-bers
of Congress had threatened before the vote to
approve only a continuing resolution that would '
not have provided for any of the new projects
Carter wanted. That changed afterthe vote.
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" I think the White House ought to be prepared
for us to give them everything they wanted, which
we weren't prepared to give mem before the
veto," said Sen. Bennett Johnston, D- L- a., whose
public works appropriations subcommittee will be
instrumental in putting together a new water
program more to Carter's liking.
Johnston said his subcommittee Friday began
work on a new public works bul that win delete six
so- caQ- ed hit- li- st projects opposed by the White
' Hoase. He said the subcommittee also is prepared
to fund all 26 projects requested by the White
House. Further, the subcommittee wfll fund
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Carter's Water Resources Council and delete 200
new employees Congress had mandated.
Johnston indicated that some of the 27 projects
Congress added to the administration's 26 projects
in the original bul wfll be in the new bin, but they
wfll not include projects the White House has in-dicated
it win not aaxpt Reportedly, an attempt
wfll be made to salvage 20 of the 27 new projects.
Carter repeatedly criticized the bul as a waste of
tax dollars which would also have the added
liability of contributing to inflation. These themes
( See HEAVY, Page 8A)
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