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STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 19334 HITT 4 LOWRY ST. 5ERV COLUMBIA, MO. 65201 71 si Year No. 225 ( ootl Worm'".' It's 7' w. sfriv. June o. 1979 14 I'ajjes 15 Onts Roof of Kemper Arena collapses KANSAS CITY, Mo. ( UPI) The roof on the Kemper arena, weighed under by a torrential storm that dumped up to 4 inches ( 10 centimeters) of rain in parts of the area, -- collapsed Monday night. No injuries were reported. A policeman at the scene said the rain storm and possibly a small tornado were responsible forjhe collapse. The center part of the roof gave in, sending piles of metal and debris throughout the entire area. The National Weather Service said mere were no reports of a tomadic activity in the area. Police said a few security officers were inside the building at the time of the disaster, " but all of them have been accounted for," the officer said. Charles Gray, news director for WOAF, was at the scene. He said " a huge section of the center ceiling has fallen. There are piles of debris all over. " The scoreboard is on the floor. There are mountains of debris in the center. Kemper arena is literally a mess. There is water several inches deep on the floor, and debris is piled up into the seats." An officer at the scene said he had never seen a sight like it before. The arena serves as the home of the Kansas City Kings of the National Basketball Association. It was also the site of the Republican National Con-vention in 1976. Sgt. Bob Kinser, the first officer on scene, said, " When I got here the whole ceiling had already collapsed." He said the only persons in the building were some maintenance and security people. The Kemper arena, constructed in Pupils at Two- Mil- e Prairie Schi gymnasium and cafeteria. Passa; Columbia Public Library, Columbia Fifth Ward. Precinct C. Paquin Tower, Columbia Sixth Ward, Precinct B. v Columbia Fire Station No. 5, Route PP, Columbia Precinct No. 2. the early 1970s, was a controversial structure from the beginning because of its roof design. All support girders and beams of the structure are on the outside rather than the conventional arena design of inside beams. Kinser said, " They told me that they heard a creaking noise in the roof and then the lights and the scoreboard started coming down first. Then the ceiling started to fall. The roof is now down on the floor and in the seats. There's no roof at all. It all came down except around the edges." Kinser said he was unsure of the ool use this room as a library, ge of the school bond issue would West Junior High School, Georgetown precinct. Ashland High School, Englewood and Hartsburg precincts. y' Midway Heights' C-- 7 Elementary School, Rocheport and Woodlandville precinct',. exact cause of the collapse. " I don't know, there was a hell of a lot of snow on it last winter and it didn't fall. I wouldn't expect the rain to be on there long enough to make it collapse," he said. Police have cordoned off the building, and officials will come in Tuesday to have a better look at it. The building is located in the historical stockyard area on the Kansas City west bottoms. Mayor Richard Berkley said he had no idea why the roof collapsed. " We're mean a new gymnasium as well s and cafeteria. Two- Mi- le Prairie Elementary School, New Haven and Harg precincts. Hallsville Community Center. Brown Station Precinct. Centralia City Hall, all Centralia precincts. going to try to get that information as quickly as we can tomorrow," he said. " Shortly after it opened we had one set of doors that developed kind of a wind swirl around them," Berkley said. " But I think they got that taken care of. It tended to pull them ( the doors) off." He said that when the inspectors arrive Tuesday the city will ask that the structure be thoroughly inspected for possible structural flaws and to try to determine whether a structural flaw contributed to the roof collapse. " It's a tragic situation." Berkley said. is separate rooms for the library Sturgeon City Hall. Harrisburg voters. v The althletic club on Route E. New Providence precinct. Golden International Inc., U. S. 63 N.. Prathersville precinct. Voters to decide on bond issue for local schools ByLisaGoller Missourian staff writer The financing of a 53.5 million school bond for Columbia public schools will be decided in an election today. Also to be voted on are directors of the Boone County water supply sub- distric- ts, the Centralia Special Road District tax levy, and the school tax levy increase for Sturgeon and the Midway Heights school districts. If passed, the Columbia school bond would not increase the present tax rate of 69 cents per $ 100 of assessed valuation, but it would extend that rate for three years. An estimated $ 2.1 million of the revenue raised is slated for main-tenance. Repairand -- repl-acement of instructional equipment, such as typewriters and film projectors, would cost about $ 150,000. In addition, at least 15 district schools need some type of roof repair. Part of the maintenance fund covers the remodeling of buildings to provide access for the handicapped. The schools involved are Blue Ridge Elementary, Oakland Junior High School, Rock Bridge High School and either Parkade or Fairview Elemen-tary School. West Junior High School will be partly remodeled for the han-dicapped, and Hickman High School will be almost completely remodeled. Because federal regulations require mis remodeling, " the options are no longer there," James Ritter, the district's administrative assistant, said. " We must do it" If the bond issue fails, the repairs would have to be budgeted in the regular operation's account This could affect funds for classroom instruction, Ritter said. Several multipurpose rooms these are usually combination gymnasium- auditorium- cafeteri- as also would be funded by the bond. Receiving these rooms would be Two- Mil- e Prairie Elementary, Rock Bridge Elementary and Shepard Boulevard schools. The bond also would finance a new office for the Board of Education at a cost of about $ 365,000. Ritter said the board would either purchase and renovate the building or construct a new facility. In addition, the road tax levy for Centralia will be decided. This levy will assess an additional 35- cents- per-$- 100 tax rate for one year. In an effort to save election costs, county officials have changed many polling places. New locations: Parkade Elementary School, Columbia First Ward, Precinct B. Field Elementary School, Columbia Second Ward, Precinct D. Oakland Junior High School, Columbia Third Ward, Precincts A and B. Benton Elementary School, Columbia Third Ward, Precinct D. Fairview Elementary School. Columbia Fourth Ward, Precinct B. Russell Boulevard School, Columbia Fourth Ward, Precincts D andE. Ifi& sigM Blue laws confusing? unenforced By Barri Marsh Missourian staff writer When the leaders of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies prohibited Sunday sales in 17th- centur- y America, little did they know that it would become one of the most con-fusing and unenforced laws on record. They couldn't know that 33 states eventually would repeal it, or that Missouri would become so embroiled in the Sunday sales ban that efforts to repeal it would repeatedly fail. Missouri's present version of the Sunday Sales Act, commonly known as the blue law, was passed in Missouri in 1963 to prohibit Sunday sales of 17 categories of goods, including cars, clothes, furniture, hardware and toys. The law has been upheld twice by the Missouri Supreme Court. In the 1979 Missouri legislative session, several, bills to repeal the blue law in counties including Boone wMch are not now exempt have been introduced in the House and Senate. The House approved a bill earlier this session which would give these counties an opportunity to repeal the law locally. A similar bill has been introduced in the Senate and will probably be voted on thisweek. . The Missouri Legislature previously approved measures allowing five northwest Missouri counties to repeal blue laws. , In May 1977, the Senate approved a WD allowing residents in Jackson, Clay and Platte counties, including metropolitan Kansas City, to vote on a repeal of the law. Supporters of the repeal argued that the area was taring nates- ta- x revenue on Sundays to ( See FACTIONS, Page 11) Vorster, mired in scandal, resigns CAPE TOWN, South Africa ( UPI) John Vorster resigned the presidency in shame Monday, his long political career shattered by government charges that he played a major role in covering up a multimillion dollar scandal in his administration. Prime Minister Pieter Botha, who succeeded Vorster 10 months ago, announced the resignation in Parliament at the same time the devastating report of the Erasmus Commission was released, destroying Vorster's image of honesty and in-tegrity. The report charged that the 63- ye- ar-old president who led South Africa as prime minister for 13 years had known about illegal operations within the defunct Information Department but failed to tell his Cabinet or the public. Vorster repeatedly said he did not know the full details of the scandal. The commission found that by not revealing what he knew, Vorster " was not only doing the members of his Cabinet an injustice but was par-ticipating in action which in itself was a serious irregularity the covering- u- p of gross irregularities." The scandal involved the illegal payment of more than $ 70 million dollars in South Africa and abroad for projects to improve the racially divided country's image. As details of the scandal were slowly revealed by local newspapers over the past year. Information Minister Connie Mulder and Eschel Rhoodie, secretary of the department, were forced from their posts in disgrace. Rhoodie remains in hiding somewhere overseas. The revelations have so shaken the Pretoria government that a law is expected to be ratified within a week making it an offense for newspapers to make disclosures of government in-competence or abuse, without first obtaining permission from an advo-cate- general to publish their stories. Botha told the Parliament that Vorster had wanted to step down as prime minister in 1977 but was per-suaded to stay on, later taking up the largely ceremonial office of state president. Vorster's resignation does not affect the day- to- d- ay running of the govern-ment. Senate President Marais Viljoen was sworn in as acting president until an electoral congress could be con-- ( SEE OPPONENT, Page 11) One million greet John Paul in joyous holy city celebration CZESTOCHOWA, Poland ( UPI) -- An ecstatic throng of a million Poles gave Pope John Paul II a welcome Monday that made him weep. At times the scenes in Poland's holiest city resembled an American presidential convention, and he tried to hush the crowd by softly calling, " I am here, I am here." The pope was clearly moved and wept during his mass. But he was stern, too, and indirectly chided the communist regime for refusing to allow Pope Paul VI once a Vatican diplomat in Warsaw to visit Poland before he died. " We all know how much Pope Paul VI wanted to come here . . . he was so closely connected with Poland ... be was the pops that did so much for the ncrmalizacs! tl fte Kfe of the church in Poland," the pcaSff thundered. " He was the pope of our millen-nium." John Paul, who met Communist Party chief Edward Gierek in Warsaw in a coolly formal exchange, has been slowly building up the force of his criticisms of communist repression of religion. However, he has limited most blasts to nations other than Poland and has criticized Gierek's regime by innuendo only. Czestochowa gave the Polish pope his most delightful reception since he arrived Saturday in the country on a nine- da- y visit It was also the biggest single crowd to honor him, although a total of 2 million persons turned out for all the events that took place in Warsaw on the first day. A brass band composed of white- robe- d monks from the turreted, castle- lik- e monastery of Jasna Gora played Polish airs as pilgrims from rural areas spread to the horizon on the slopes around the monastery known as the " Hill of light" Jasna Gora is the shrine of the hauntingly beautiful icon known as the " Black Madonna," considered the " queen" of Poland by its 32 million Roman Catholics. The pope will stay there for three days to show his special devotion to it. When the 59- year-- old pontiff arrived in his white helicopter from Gniezno, thousands threw themselves prostrate on the ground. Mothers held babies aloft and beseeched the pope for a blessing. Flowers rained on the pope's gold and scarlet podium. The pope lost his smile when he took Poland's rulers to task for refusing the late Pope Paul VI per-mission to visit during the 1,000th anniversary celebrations in 1966 of the adoption of Roman Catholicism in Poland. But John Paul was soon grinning again and began the ad- libbi- ng that has irritated government officials. Wherever the pope has gone, he has used humor to pull bis fellow Poles doserlohim. En town today 6 a. m.-- " p. m. School bond election. 9 a. m. Human Rights Commis-sion, Council Chamber, County- Cit- y Building . 9 a. m. Boone County Court, fifth floor, County- Cit- y Building. 7 p. m. Housing Standards & Ap-peals Board, fourth floor, County- Cit- y Building. 8 p. m. Peter Haynes, " Working for Peace on the Peace Caravan,' Community Room, Farm and Home Savings building., Broadway at Guitar Street, free. shortage slows business, local station owners say By Chuck Cantor Missourian staff writer Shrinking gasoline allocations and fewer operating hours aren't the only problems affecting service stations because of the nationwide gasoline crisis. Many local service station operators are reporting adverse effects in their automobile maintenance and repair business, also. Ray Bennett, owner of Ray's Stan-dard Service, 1704 N. Providence Road, and 1-- 70 Standard, Interstate 70 and North Providence Road, said the gas shortage has cut into his service business. " Sure, it's affected the service side of it," he said. " People that figured on taking long vacations the price of gas goes up or gas gets scarce . . . they decide maybe they don't need that set of tires or that tune- u- p. . . ." Bennett said the cutbacks have af-fected his employees as well. " I've bad to lay off acme people, which cuts down my hours, and the boys are getting cats in their salary." Harold Lake, owner of Harold Lake Standard service, soi fc.. tsroaaway, said his service business is also being affected. " I would say inside work is ail down." He said one reason for the decrease in business is that fewer vacationers are traveling outside the state. " We reduced our operating hours by 37 hours ( per week). I had to cut out one part- tim- e man and one full- tim- e man altogether," he said. The gasoline shortage seems to be causing a ' vicious circle' effect The reduced availability of gas is causing dealers to shorten their tours, end shorter hours mean less business. " We used to do work an Saturdays. Now we aren't even open Saturdays," Lake saia. " The gasoline shortage is 88 percent of it. We're not available anymore. After we dose, everybody's gone till the next day." Richard Henmng, manager of Foraas DX, 1330 West Blvd. S., said he taaaf detected a drop in repair boagacga." 2 cant notice any decline ia rejsJj work," he said, adsSng, " K sny2& B&: ( See REPAIRMEN, Page 14) '?. '
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Item.Transcript | STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 19334 HITT 4 LOWRY ST. 5ERV COLUMBIA, MO. 65201 71 si Year No. 225 ( ootl Worm'".' It's 7' w. sfriv. June o. 1979 14 I'ajjes 15 Onts Roof of Kemper Arena collapses KANSAS CITY, Mo. ( UPI) The roof on the Kemper arena, weighed under by a torrential storm that dumped up to 4 inches ( 10 centimeters) of rain in parts of the area, -- collapsed Monday night. No injuries were reported. A policeman at the scene said the rain storm and possibly a small tornado were responsible forjhe collapse. The center part of the roof gave in, sending piles of metal and debris throughout the entire area. The National Weather Service said mere were no reports of a tomadic activity in the area. Police said a few security officers were inside the building at the time of the disaster, " but all of them have been accounted for," the officer said. Charles Gray, news director for WOAF, was at the scene. He said " a huge section of the center ceiling has fallen. There are piles of debris all over. " The scoreboard is on the floor. There are mountains of debris in the center. Kemper arena is literally a mess. There is water several inches deep on the floor, and debris is piled up into the seats." An officer at the scene said he had never seen a sight like it before. The arena serves as the home of the Kansas City Kings of the National Basketball Association. It was also the site of the Republican National Con-vention in 1976. Sgt. Bob Kinser, the first officer on scene, said, " When I got here the whole ceiling had already collapsed." He said the only persons in the building were some maintenance and security people. The Kemper arena, constructed in Pupils at Two- Mil- e Prairie Schi gymnasium and cafeteria. Passa; Columbia Public Library, Columbia Fifth Ward. Precinct C. Paquin Tower, Columbia Sixth Ward, Precinct B. v Columbia Fire Station No. 5, Route PP, Columbia Precinct No. 2. the early 1970s, was a controversial structure from the beginning because of its roof design. All support girders and beams of the structure are on the outside rather than the conventional arena design of inside beams. Kinser said, " They told me that they heard a creaking noise in the roof and then the lights and the scoreboard started coming down first. Then the ceiling started to fall. The roof is now down on the floor and in the seats. There's no roof at all. It all came down except around the edges." Kinser said he was unsure of the ool use this room as a library, ge of the school bond issue would West Junior High School, Georgetown precinct. Ashland High School, Englewood and Hartsburg precincts. y' Midway Heights' C-- 7 Elementary School, Rocheport and Woodlandville precinct',. exact cause of the collapse. " I don't know, there was a hell of a lot of snow on it last winter and it didn't fall. I wouldn't expect the rain to be on there long enough to make it collapse," he said. Police have cordoned off the building, and officials will come in Tuesday to have a better look at it. The building is located in the historical stockyard area on the Kansas City west bottoms. Mayor Richard Berkley said he had no idea why the roof collapsed. " We're mean a new gymnasium as well s and cafeteria. Two- Mi- le Prairie Elementary School, New Haven and Harg precincts. Hallsville Community Center. Brown Station Precinct. Centralia City Hall, all Centralia precincts. going to try to get that information as quickly as we can tomorrow," he said. " Shortly after it opened we had one set of doors that developed kind of a wind swirl around them," Berkley said. " But I think they got that taken care of. It tended to pull them ( the doors) off." He said that when the inspectors arrive Tuesday the city will ask that the structure be thoroughly inspected for possible structural flaws and to try to determine whether a structural flaw contributed to the roof collapse. " It's a tragic situation." Berkley said. is separate rooms for the library Sturgeon City Hall. Harrisburg voters. v The althletic club on Route E. New Providence precinct. Golden International Inc., U. S. 63 N.. Prathersville precinct. Voters to decide on bond issue for local schools ByLisaGoller Missourian staff writer The financing of a 53.5 million school bond for Columbia public schools will be decided in an election today. Also to be voted on are directors of the Boone County water supply sub- distric- ts, the Centralia Special Road District tax levy, and the school tax levy increase for Sturgeon and the Midway Heights school districts. If passed, the Columbia school bond would not increase the present tax rate of 69 cents per $ 100 of assessed valuation, but it would extend that rate for three years. An estimated $ 2.1 million of the revenue raised is slated for main-tenance. Repairand -- repl-acement of instructional equipment, such as typewriters and film projectors, would cost about $ 150,000. In addition, at least 15 district schools need some type of roof repair. Part of the maintenance fund covers the remodeling of buildings to provide access for the handicapped. The schools involved are Blue Ridge Elementary, Oakland Junior High School, Rock Bridge High School and either Parkade or Fairview Elemen-tary School. West Junior High School will be partly remodeled for the han-dicapped, and Hickman High School will be almost completely remodeled. Because federal regulations require mis remodeling, " the options are no longer there," James Ritter, the district's administrative assistant, said. " We must do it" If the bond issue fails, the repairs would have to be budgeted in the regular operation's account This could affect funds for classroom instruction, Ritter said. Several multipurpose rooms these are usually combination gymnasium- auditorium- cafeteri- as also would be funded by the bond. Receiving these rooms would be Two- Mil- e Prairie Elementary, Rock Bridge Elementary and Shepard Boulevard schools. The bond also would finance a new office for the Board of Education at a cost of about $ 365,000. Ritter said the board would either purchase and renovate the building or construct a new facility. In addition, the road tax levy for Centralia will be decided. This levy will assess an additional 35- cents- per-$- 100 tax rate for one year. In an effort to save election costs, county officials have changed many polling places. New locations: Parkade Elementary School, Columbia First Ward, Precinct B. Field Elementary School, Columbia Second Ward, Precinct D. Oakland Junior High School, Columbia Third Ward, Precincts A and B. Benton Elementary School, Columbia Third Ward, Precinct D. Fairview Elementary School. Columbia Fourth Ward, Precinct B. Russell Boulevard School, Columbia Fourth Ward, Precincts D andE. Ifi& sigM Blue laws confusing? unenforced By Barri Marsh Missourian staff writer When the leaders of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies prohibited Sunday sales in 17th- centur- y America, little did they know that it would become one of the most con-fusing and unenforced laws on record. They couldn't know that 33 states eventually would repeal it, or that Missouri would become so embroiled in the Sunday sales ban that efforts to repeal it would repeatedly fail. Missouri's present version of the Sunday Sales Act, commonly known as the blue law, was passed in Missouri in 1963 to prohibit Sunday sales of 17 categories of goods, including cars, clothes, furniture, hardware and toys. The law has been upheld twice by the Missouri Supreme Court. In the 1979 Missouri legislative session, several, bills to repeal the blue law in counties including Boone wMch are not now exempt have been introduced in the House and Senate. The House approved a bill earlier this session which would give these counties an opportunity to repeal the law locally. A similar bill has been introduced in the Senate and will probably be voted on thisweek. . The Missouri Legislature previously approved measures allowing five northwest Missouri counties to repeal blue laws. , In May 1977, the Senate approved a WD allowing residents in Jackson, Clay and Platte counties, including metropolitan Kansas City, to vote on a repeal of the law. Supporters of the repeal argued that the area was taring nates- ta- x revenue on Sundays to ( See FACTIONS, Page 11) Vorster, mired in scandal, resigns CAPE TOWN, South Africa ( UPI) John Vorster resigned the presidency in shame Monday, his long political career shattered by government charges that he played a major role in covering up a multimillion dollar scandal in his administration. Prime Minister Pieter Botha, who succeeded Vorster 10 months ago, announced the resignation in Parliament at the same time the devastating report of the Erasmus Commission was released, destroying Vorster's image of honesty and in-tegrity. The report charged that the 63- ye- ar-old president who led South Africa as prime minister for 13 years had known about illegal operations within the defunct Information Department but failed to tell his Cabinet or the public. Vorster repeatedly said he did not know the full details of the scandal. The commission found that by not revealing what he knew, Vorster " was not only doing the members of his Cabinet an injustice but was par-ticipating in action which in itself was a serious irregularity the covering- u- p of gross irregularities." The scandal involved the illegal payment of more than $ 70 million dollars in South Africa and abroad for projects to improve the racially divided country's image. As details of the scandal were slowly revealed by local newspapers over the past year. Information Minister Connie Mulder and Eschel Rhoodie, secretary of the department, were forced from their posts in disgrace. Rhoodie remains in hiding somewhere overseas. The revelations have so shaken the Pretoria government that a law is expected to be ratified within a week making it an offense for newspapers to make disclosures of government in-competence or abuse, without first obtaining permission from an advo-cate- general to publish their stories. Botha told the Parliament that Vorster had wanted to step down as prime minister in 1977 but was per-suaded to stay on, later taking up the largely ceremonial office of state president. Vorster's resignation does not affect the day- to- d- ay running of the govern-ment. Senate President Marais Viljoen was sworn in as acting president until an electoral congress could be con-- ( SEE OPPONENT, Page 11) One million greet John Paul in joyous holy city celebration CZESTOCHOWA, Poland ( UPI) -- An ecstatic throng of a million Poles gave Pope John Paul II a welcome Monday that made him weep. At times the scenes in Poland's holiest city resembled an American presidential convention, and he tried to hush the crowd by softly calling, " I am here, I am here." The pope was clearly moved and wept during his mass. But he was stern, too, and indirectly chided the communist regime for refusing to allow Pope Paul VI once a Vatican diplomat in Warsaw to visit Poland before he died. " We all know how much Pope Paul VI wanted to come here . . . he was so closely connected with Poland ... be was the pops that did so much for the ncrmalizacs! tl fte Kfe of the church in Poland," the pcaSff thundered. " He was the pope of our millen-nium." John Paul, who met Communist Party chief Edward Gierek in Warsaw in a coolly formal exchange, has been slowly building up the force of his criticisms of communist repression of religion. However, he has limited most blasts to nations other than Poland and has criticized Gierek's regime by innuendo only. Czestochowa gave the Polish pope his most delightful reception since he arrived Saturday in the country on a nine- da- y visit It was also the biggest single crowd to honor him, although a total of 2 million persons turned out for all the events that took place in Warsaw on the first day. A brass band composed of white- robe- d monks from the turreted, castle- lik- e monastery of Jasna Gora played Polish airs as pilgrims from rural areas spread to the horizon on the slopes around the monastery known as the " Hill of light" Jasna Gora is the shrine of the hauntingly beautiful icon known as the " Black Madonna," considered the " queen" of Poland by its 32 million Roman Catholics. The pope will stay there for three days to show his special devotion to it. When the 59- year-- old pontiff arrived in his white helicopter from Gniezno, thousands threw themselves prostrate on the ground. Mothers held babies aloft and beseeched the pope for a blessing. Flowers rained on the pope's gold and scarlet podium. The pope lost his smile when he took Poland's rulers to task for refusing the late Pope Paul VI per-mission to visit during the 1,000th anniversary celebrations in 1966 of the adoption of Roman Catholicism in Poland. But John Paul was soon grinning again and began the ad- libbi- ng that has irritated government officials. Wherever the pope has gone, he has used humor to pull bis fellow Poles doserlohim. En town today 6 a. m.-- " p. m. School bond election. 9 a. m. Human Rights Commis-sion, Council Chamber, County- Cit- y Building . 9 a. m. Boone County Court, fifth floor, County- Cit- y Building. 7 p. m. Housing Standards & Ap-peals Board, fourth floor, County- Cit- y Building. 8 p. m. Peter Haynes, " Working for Peace on the Peace Caravan,' Community Room, Farm and Home Savings building., Broadway at Guitar Street, free. shortage slows business, local station owners say By Chuck Cantor Missourian staff writer Shrinking gasoline allocations and fewer operating hours aren't the only problems affecting service stations because of the nationwide gasoline crisis. Many local service station operators are reporting adverse effects in their automobile maintenance and repair business, also. Ray Bennett, owner of Ray's Stan-dard Service, 1704 N. Providence Road, and 1-- 70 Standard, Interstate 70 and North Providence Road, said the gas shortage has cut into his service business. " Sure, it's affected the service side of it," he said. " People that figured on taking long vacations the price of gas goes up or gas gets scarce . . . they decide maybe they don't need that set of tires or that tune- u- p. . . ." Bennett said the cutbacks have af-fected his employees as well. " I've bad to lay off acme people, which cuts down my hours, and the boys are getting cats in their salary." Harold Lake, owner of Harold Lake Standard service, soi fc.. tsroaaway, said his service business is also being affected. " I would say inside work is ail down." He said one reason for the decrease in business is that fewer vacationers are traveling outside the state. " We reduced our operating hours by 37 hours ( per week). I had to cut out one part- tim- e man and one full- tim- e man altogether," he said. The gasoline shortage seems to be causing a ' vicious circle' effect The reduced availability of gas is causing dealers to shorten their tours, end shorter hours mean less business. " We used to do work an Saturdays. Now we aren't even open Saturdays," Lake saia. " The gasoline shortage is 88 percent of it. We're not available anymore. After we dose, everybody's gone till the next day." Richard Henmng, manager of Foraas DX, 1330 West Blvd. S., said he taaaf detected a drop in repair boagacga." 2 cant notice any decline ia rejsJj work," he said, adsSng, " K sny2& B&: ( See REPAIRMEN, Page 14) '?. ' |