Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1979-05-15

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Ration plan
to be revised
United Pews Internattocal
California took steps Monday to re-quire
half its service stations in gasoline--
starved areas to open on Saturdays
and Sundays and the inadequacy of the
odd- eve- n rationing plan now in effect
was reflected by absenteeism at aty
county and state offices
State officials met with the oil in-dustry
s retailers and wholesalers to
draw up a plan to keep pumps going on
weekends possibly alternating bet
ween stations having odd or even
business registration numbers
Richard Maullin, chairman of the
state Energy Commission said m
answer to a reporter's question mat
Gov Edmund G Brown Jr was
prepared to use National Guard troops
to keep stations open on weekends
Nobody is looking for any more
trouble than we already have,' Maullin
said. In the extreme, and it would be
an incredible extreme the answer is
yes. But we expect cooperation from
operators
After a weekend in which less than
one station in 10 was open Sunday,
parking lots set aside for aty, county
and state employees in the Los Angeles
Civic Center had in some cases less
than half the ordinary number of cars
usually found on a Monday morning
Commercial lots also were thinned out
Kenneth Hahn chairman of the
county Board of Supervisors, said there
unquestionably was some absenteeism
by government workers.
Hahn said, however, it was more a
case of people coming in late because of
having to watt in lines, going out at noon
and leaving early to find fuel. He said
the overall situation in Southern
California was critical
If this isn t the worst crisis we ve
had it comes close to it because it af
fects everyone, he said. We have our
earthquakes and fires and other
disasters but they affect relatively few
people"
California also sought to alleviate the
crunch by filing suit in federal court in
Sacramento Monday to halt a planned
43 percent cutback in the Amtrak
passenger tram system Amtrak s
service m Southern Califorma particu-larly
the San Diego- Lo- s Angeles run
has boomed in recent weeks
While the gas drought was by far
worst m the nations most populous
state it was beginning to crop up in
more sections of the country from coast
to coast.
Glen T Lashley spokesman for the
American Automobile Association in
Washington, D C, said that about 90
percent of the stations in the capital
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The California gasoline shortage prompted a Los Angeles delivery service to resort to an old- fashion- ed solution
were closed Sunday
In the Washington area they
literally panicked last week, he said
Today we are back to fairly normal If
people will maintain their normal
shopping habits we can get through this
crisis all right
In the state of Washington, Bill
Victory of the 600- memb- er Evergreen
Service Station Association said
members will be asked to Q green
flags today if they are open, yellow for
emergency vehicles only and red for no
gas
The supply situation for the state of
Washington both eastern and western
is getting tight, Victory said That
position will remain for at least the next
two months
In Denver the Colorado Petroleum
Retailers Association decided not to
join a proposed May 17 20 shutdown by
service stations to protest the failure of
owners and attendants to get a fair
share of the increased pump prices
A hearing was set for Wednesday in
Superior Court in San Francisco for an
injunction to forbid California stations
to join the protest.
In Buffalo NY Noman Grapes ex
ecutrve director of the United Gas Re-tailers
of Western New York, insisted
that motorists are not really going to
feel the crunch if drivers and dealers
discipline themselves
I ma consumer too just like everv
body else The last four years I would
go fishing up in Canada but this year
fm staving home I bold no animosity
against tourists but Fm going to take
care of my regular customers first
They are the ones who give us our bread
onrt hiittor aii year around
Insight
U. S. imports
from China
to increase
By Robert Grabbe
United Press Iateraatfeaal
PEKING The United States
Monday stood on the threshold of an era
of greatly expanded imports of goods
from bom China and the Soviet Union.
In Canton, Secretary of Commerce
Juamta Kreps initialled a hastily
concluded general trade treaty with the
Chinese government that called for
China to receive most- favor- ed nation '
status in its commerce with the United
States. That grants China the same
inmiiTntm tariff rates Uncle Sam
charges Japan Western Europe and
other favored trading partners.
The same favor almost certainly will
be accorded the Soviet Union as a result
of the successful conclusion of the SALT
n talks on nuclear weapons control
As a result, the State Department will
achieve its long- standi- ng goal of
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assuring that China and the Soviet
Union get most- favore- d nation status at
the same time
Before Mrs. Kreps came to Peking,
diplomatic sources in the Chinese
capital doubted a trade treat between
China and the United States, which did
not fully nonnauze tbeir relations until
Jan. 1, could be wrapped up during ber
visit.
However, the SALT agreement,
which forecast moat- favore- d nation
status for the Sonets, gave the Chinese
an incentive to move quickly And Mrs.
Kreps wasted the political coup of
wrapping upthe treaty during her tour
Working- lev- el Chinese and American
economic diplomats negotiated non-stop
dunng ber visit to enable Mrs.
Kreps and Chinese Foreign Minister Li
Qumg to initial the pact before the end
of the commerce secretary's 10- d- ay
China tour
One acute question was how to pro-tect
American firms that supply
technical know- bo- w to China from
patent uifringeraent
Another complication was the ques-tion
of emigration from China and the
( See EMIGRATION, Page 14)
In town
today
I ajta. Boone County Court
meets, fifth floor, County- Cit- y
BuQding
7 pjn. " Decision Making,"
Single living Series, Ecumenical
Center, 813 Maryland Ave . free
1 pm. " Tartuffe," Stephens
College Playhouse, $ 3
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Teachers, students to carry message
School board plans for vote on tax levy
By Lynda Gorov and Nancy Heinberg
Mfeseerian staff writers
We are depending on teachers and
students to carry the message, Super
mtendent Russell Thompson told the
Columbia Board of Education Monday
Right
The message? Passage of a proposed
$ 3 5 million school bond issue slated
to go before the voters m a special
election June 5 definitely is needed
Thompson told the board at its
monthly meeting the bulk of the money
would be used to repair and modify
facilities and equipment He stressed
the issue would not increase the present
tax rate Residents would be required
to pay the current rate for an additional
three years
Election notices were posted Monday
in 21 places in the school district.
Also at the meeting the board
Approved Thomas J Huddleston
as the new director of business ser
vices Huddleston succeeds Ed Saun-ders
who reared this year Huddleston
has served since 1973 as superintendent
of schools for South Iron R 1 School
District in Annapolis Mo
Heard a presentation from Peter
Herborn a social science teacher at
West Junior High School, on a
reduction- in- forc- e proposal for the
board to adopt as a rule The proposal
outlines exactly how teacher layoffs
would be made as enrollment
decreases It treats all staff fairly
and it is necessary in case it happens
Herborn said.
Although Herborn is president of the
local chapter of the National Education
Association a teachers union not
recognized by the school board he did
not speak on behalf of the union
Heard a report from Assistant Su-perintendent
Harold Steere on an ad-ministration
plan to set up a committee
to search for gifted students at the ele-mentary
and secondary levels
He also discussed a program to
promote writing in all subject areas at
the secondar level The program will
use grant money from the state s
educaUon department beginning Jul 1
The grant provides $ 65 090 dunng the
first year and 25 oercen. reductions for
uie next two years
v Learned the name of the mystery
donor of 1 8 acres ( 72 hectares) of land
adjacent to Rock Bridge Elementary
School Richard Paxton, Route 4
donated the land after the school asked
to purchase it.
Recognized Agnus Ader 1209 Jean
Rae Drive for 16 years of secretarial
service at Ridgeway Elementarj
School. I am pleased to recognize an
outstanding member of our support
staff said Assistant Superintendent
Jim Ritter upon making the presen-tation.
Heard President Patsy Garner
report her impressions of the National
School Beards Association meeting in
Miami Fla At the meeting educators
discussed tee future of education. She
said most of ber previous ideas were
reinforced, but she realized school
board members will have to become
more active for control of schools to
remain at the local level
Man performs surgery
inside his own stomach
CHICAGO ( UPI) A 22- year-- old
man suffering from a history of mental
disorders performed surgery deep in
his own abdomen for eight hours in a
college dormitory room with a prea
sioo that astonished skilled surgeons
The man spent months preparing for
the operation to denervate his adrenal
glands ' by studying surgical texts and
acquiring the necessary instruments
and medication, said Dr NedH Kalui
of the University of Wisconsin Clinical
Services Center in Madison.
Kalin wrote about the surgery in an
article published in this week's edition
of the Journal of the American Medical
Association.
The amateur surgeon disinfected his
dormitory room, draped sterilized
sheets over his body and uk surround-ing
area, swallowed barbituates for
anesthesia and performed the
operation wearing sterile gloves and a
surgical mask He kept a canister of
vaporized adrenaline at his side in case
of a possible shock syndrome
" Lying supine and looking into
strategically placed mirrors to obtain
an optimum view, be began by
cleansing his abdomen with alcohol,
the article said
The incision was made with a
scalpel, exposure obtained by
retractors, and the dissection earned
oat with surgical instruments
After eight hours he had bad
minimal blood loss but was unable to
obtain adequate exposure to enter the
retroperitoneal space because of the
unexpected pain in retracting his liver
Exhausted, he bandaged his wound,
cleaned up his room, and called the
police for transport to the hospital
because of a " rupture"'
Astonished surgeons at the hospital
examined the man found his wounds to
be remarkably dean and free of in-fection,
discovered guaze bandages
packed in his abdominal cavity and
noted ligatures bed around major blood
vessels, the article said. The surgeons
closed the wound and the patient
recovered. ,
Kalin said the man had a history of
mental disorders relating to apparent
sexual disorientation and told doctors
he was attempting to relieve his
mental illness' by attempting to
denervate his adrenal glands
He demed he was a transexual or
wished to change his sex surgically but
took daily doses of female hormones to
supress his male sexual emotions
Four months prior to his operation,
he attempted an operation on his
scrotum, again working meticulously
for nearly eight hours before going to a
hospital, where he requested a urologist
to examine and dose las wounds
There is a tragic paradox in this
patient's dilemma, Kalin wrote He
has mastered the concepts and
techniques of medicines in an attempt
to cure himself, when, in reality, we
have little to offer him mat would result
m effective treatment"
Kalin recommended the patient
undergo extensive psychiatric coun-seling
' Unfortunately he does not see the
relevance of such a difficult and
laborious task and is much more com-fortable
spending hours in the medical
library preparing for his next ' curative
operation."
Legionnaire's Disease blamed
By Dave Para
Mftswriaa staff writer
Autopsy results confirmed Monday
that the February death of a Columbia
man at Truman Veterans Medical
Center was caused by Legionnaire's
Disease
The results, sent from the National
Coster for Disease Control in Atlanta,
G , and the Bethesda Naval Hospital
in Maryland, confirmed the first death
as a result of the disease in central
Missouri.
Hurst John, 87, bad returned home
Jan. 27 from a three- wee- k trip to
several conventions in California and
Arisen before being admitted to the
" He was feeling lousy," said Us
daughter, Martha Vdey, 2700 Green
Valley Drive
John was admitted on Feb. land died
on Feb. 3
John's son- io4a- w, radio reporter
Chris Edwards, reported the results
Monday in a newscast on station
KCMQFM.
Dale CampbelL a hospital spokes-man,
refused to comment on the details
of the ' case, according to a report by
United Press InteraattonaL The news
service said be cited a Freedom of In-formation
Act provision requiring
written permission from a relative of a
deceased person before medical infor-mation
can be released.
Campbell did confirm, however, that
a single case of Legwnneire's Disease
was diagnosed at the center " at some
point in time"
John's was the tenth case of the
pneumonia- lik- e disease in Missouri.
Previous cases include men from
Jefferson Ctty and St Charles, who
contracted it whQe attending a conven-tion
of the Veterans of Foreign Wars
last August in Dallas, Texas
John had been an architect in
Columbia for the past 33 years and
belonged to several professional
groups, inducing toe American Iasfr- tut- e
of Architects and the American
Registered Architects. He also helped
organized United Cerebal Palsy of
Missouri and served as its first
presKMsn.
Tight money supply
makes home loans
tough to come by
By Steve Upson
Mfsfoarian staff writer
Columbia contractor Cal Pfeiffer
recently asked his bank for money to
build two houses, but because money
is tight he didn't get it
When banks dont have enough
money for all the qualified people
who want to borrow it then money is
tight
Money has been tight in Columbia
for the last nine months and it keeps
getting tighter For people who
haven t done business with a bank
for several years and for people who
want loans that involve a lot of risk
( such as loans to start new busi-nesses)
the banks here have no
money to lend.
Pfeiffer is trying to find money to
borrow somewhere else but he says
he isn t optimistic Even if he can't
get a loan, be says, bell stay in the
construction business, waiting for
better tunes, just as long as he can
' put food on the table"
People who would help Pfeiffer
build a bouse sell him supplies and
even sell the house after it was built
will be affected if Pfeiffer can t get a
loan ' You've got concrete people,
electricians and plumbers who won't
have work dther," Pfeiffer says
Two things have made money
ught in Columbia, says Mark
Landrum, president of First
National Bank and Trust Co First,
demand for loans in Columbia has
been strong all year, in spite of
rising interest rates And second, the
Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System has restricted
growth cf the money supply
The board has tried to slow infla-tion
by slowing the growth of the
nation's money supply, which
pmhM Interest rates up As a result
C- ofamh-ia
bankers can't afford to
borrow money to meet the demand
stortsiocs
for loans The any money readily
available to basks in Colombia
money borrowed from other banks
would be one example costs more
than 10 percent But Missouri's
usury law allows bankers to charge
more than 10 percent only on certain
types of loans, such ss loans to cor-porations.
Colombia bankers say they have
enough money to take care of their
regular customers, but almost no
money to finance housing con-struction.
Bui Bates, president of Boone
County National Bank, says bis back
is making only a limited resBbercf? I
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