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STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY HITT & LOWrH ST. SbKV COLUMBIA, MO. 65201 71st Year No. 2JMI f, ow Morning! h'sSitinrflay. StiHrtnlnr I. I'PT'f 14 Pages 15 Cents 150 mph winds blast Caribbean island SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic ( UPI) Hurricane David hit the south coast of Haiti and the Dominican Republic with 150- mp- h ( 240- kph- ) winds and towering waves Friday, heaping rubble in the streets of the Dominican capital of Santo Domingo. " This is terrible," Rafael Herrera, publisher of the newspaper Listin Diario, said in a long-distance telephone call from Santo Domingo. " In all my life I've never seen anything like this." At 9 p. m., the eye of one of the mightiest storms the Caribbean has ever seen was located about 60 miles northwest of Santo Domingo, a city of 1 million. The storm was moving northwest, but forecasters said it wouid turn more to the west- northw- est as it neared the north coast of the island of Hispaniola, raking the entire island that contains the Dominican Republic and Haiti . Late Friday the weather service, in a special holiday report, said " David poses a threat to the Southeastern United States, but it said " at the earliest, David would not significantly influence south Florida before late Sunday. East Coast areas would not be affected before Tuesday. " There is evidence that steering currents are changing. If this occurs, David could turn towards or pass east of Florida. The future course of the hurricane should become more certain on Saturday." The wind diminished and rain turned to a drizzle in Santo Domingo late Friday, but an operator at the International Telephone and Teletype building said, " It is totally dark here. You cannot see anything." He said the streets were so jammed with uprooted trees, roofs and other debris that " even if you wanted to, you couldn't get around." There was no immediate report of casualties, but President Antonio Guzman appealed to the Organization of American States for aid and at 9 p. m., announced a curfew retroactive to 7 p. m. David's onrushing eye, which had been surrounded by waves 50 feet high before the storm came ashore, was 800 miles from Miami. The weather bureau said there was evidence that steering currents were changing and " if this occurs, David could turn towards or pass east of Florida." At least 25 people were known dead in its passage through the Lesser Antilles into the Caribbean, and hundreds were reported missing. Damage rose into untold millions of dollars. David virtually wiped out the little island of Dominica. In South Florida, workers were already sandbagging public buildings and lowering water levels in canals." The Hurricane Center said winds in Santo Domingo " were in excess of 100 mph before the wind equipment blew down" at 3 cm. EDT, when the storm made its sudden, deadly move to the north. All but one of Santo Domingo's radio stations went off the air around 3 p. m., when the eye was 50 miles south of the city, and the only one still transmitting, Radio Clarin, said civil defense workers would not go out into the streets to aid victims until after the winds die down. Herrera said the winds had been " high, but bearable" until about 3 p. m., when they sud-denly increased. " This must be the full force of the cyclone," he said. " I would say the winds must be way over ( See HURRICANE, Page 14) Strikimg seeite RntFetten This week's thunderstorm activity and nightly traffic on Wade School Road combined to create this unusual light pattern. The stormy weather continued Friday as Columbia received its largest rainfall of the summer. Why all the storms lately? See the explanation on Page 10. Cave denies request for new can- ba- n trial By Pat BHlmghansen Missourian staff writer The legal challenge to Columbia's " can- ban- " ordinance soon may move from Boone County Circuit Court to an appellate court. Circuit Judge John Cave Friday denied a request for a new trial made by the beverage distributors who challenged the beverage container deposit ordinance more than two years ago. Cave also reinstated his injunction against enforcing the ordinance pen-ding the filing of an appeal. After a lengthy trial and the filing of many briefs, Cave ruled May 25 that the city could enforce the can ban, which was approved by Coluipbia voters in April 1977. The ordinance requires collection of at least a 5- ce- nt deposit on all beverage containers bottles as well as cans purchased in the city: The next move is up to the distributors, City Counselor Scott Snyder said Friday. Under Missouri Supreme Court rules, the distributors must file notice within 10 days if they intend to appeal Cave's decision. Snyder said the appeal could be made to the state appellate court in Kansas City or, if constitutional violations are argued, directly to the Missouri Supreme Court. An attorney representing the distributors could not be reached for comment Friday evening. Citizens to comment on proposed budget By Erin Kelly Mbsourian stafi writer The City Council will hold public budget hearings at 7 p. ni. Tuesday, giving Columbia residents the op-portunity to make suggestions about how their tax dollars and service fees should - or should not - be spent With the proposed budget op about 10.7 percent over last year's, local residents are facing utility and service cost increases and a property tax rise of 2.2 percent. Councilwoman Diane Fariah predicted Friday her Third Ward constituents weald protest the tax in-crease. " I don't imagine they'll be too happy about it," she said. At Tuesday's meeting, the public will be able to voice opinions on proposed water rates, which are to rise 5 per-cent; city employees' salaries, which are to rise 7 percent, and trash collection services, to rise 20 percent. Parks and recreation fees also would rise to $ 5, a $ 2 increase over last year. Sixth Ward Councilman Lew Stoerker said senior citizens in his ward, who are often on fixed incomes, have com-plained to him about the increase. " There should be quite a turnout at the hearing," he said. Residents also will be able to offer suggestions in a public bearing on how the city should spend the estimated $ 1 million it will receive from federal revenue snaring. The council also win consider a proposal to charge fees for services the dry now performs free. M. U.: Looking ahead Foreign students may offset enrollment decline at University ByTom Wolf Missourian staff writer Room 307 opens onto a narrow hallway in the University's Gentry Hall. Inside, KazUemara sits behind an old wooden desk, preparing for another lab he teaches in introductory economics. In his second year as a graduate student in economics at the University, Uemara is one of a growing number of foreign students coming to the University in pursuit of knowledge they hope will benefit their countries as well as themselves. But while foreign students traditionally have been looked upon as providing an opportunity for cultural Insight exchange in this midwestern com-munity, their increasing number up to 1,008 last fall from 580 in 1973 is being looked upon by some as a way to offset declining enrollment. " I think foreign students could make up deficiencies in domestic enrollments," says Carl Leistner, assistant director for international studies. The campus currently receives 8,000 to 9,000 unsolicited inquiries from foreign students each year. Out of those, about one in 10 actually will apply, Leistner says. The advantage of increased foreign enrollment is clear to Paul Wallace, an associate professor of political science who works part time in the in-ternational studies office. More foreign students would assure the full use of classroom and dormitory space and, in the long run, benefit U. S. business and foreign relations. But most who advocate letting foreign student enrollment continue its natural rise admit their increasing numbers have posed problems. Although Leistner is convinced that foreign students, mostly from oil- ri- ch OPEC nations, will continue to apply in growing numbers, he believes a strain is being placed on the resources needed ( See IMPROVED, Page 14) BmMUcs Ernie Hays never has stroked a single or caught a fly ball for the St. Louis Cardinals, but he is an important part of the baseball team. Without Hays at the organ keeping the crowd and players in good spirits, a Cardinal gamejust wouldn't be the same. Read about the Buscb Memorial Stadium organist in Sunday's Vibrations magazine. Merchants back parking garage By Diana Dawson Missourian staff writer Seventy downtown Columbia mer-chants have signed a petition sup-porting a parking lot proposal, but interpretations over the petition's wording vary, the chairman of the Columbia Special Business District Board said Friday. James Greenspon, owner of Greenspon's, 900 E. Broadway, began circulating the petition Aug. 21. The purpose, he said, was to encourage the special tax district to endorse the parking lot proposal to the City Council. But the wording of the petition, " We, the undersigned, encourage the special tax district and the City Council of Columbia, Missouri to consider the much needed parking garage to., -- be placed behind the City County Building," has been questioned by Mark Landrum, . chairman the business district board. When Greenspon discussed the petition, he spoke only of Sixth Ward Councilman Lew Stoerker's plan which was opposed, 5-- 2, by the City Council on Aug. 20. Stoerker called for a two- stor- y garage, with one story below the proposed Guitar Square. " I suggest that many people who supported the petition did not interpret it this way," Landrum said. " Everyone mat I've talked to who has signed the petition has said nothing of Stoerker's plan." The councilman's plan was foremost, however, in Joe Hourigan's mind when he signed the petition. " WelL that's the plan I like the best," the owner of Barth Clothing Co., Inc., 827 E. Broadway, said. " It's a little closer, and people will use it more. If you put them far off, they just won't walk." Although the petition " really doesn't lay out any political significance" for John Kennedy of Best Tapes & Records, 25 S. Ninth St, he said he " asked for a brief description of the plan before signing the petition." " The purpose of the special tax district is to deal with problems in the downtown area," Greenspon said. " And parking is the main problem. If they build Guitar Square, they would reduce parking from 112 spaces to 77. However, if they accept Stoerker's plan, they'll increase the number to 250. " I'm opposed to the words ' restoration' and ' renovation.' We are not a dying area. If they want the downtown to remain healthy, they have to make long- tim- e expenditures." Both Stoerker and Greenspon said the proposed parking garage would be more expensive than other possible sites, but neither could estimate the cost The petition's purpose, Greenspon said, is to encourage the special tax district to endorse Stoerker's proposal to the council. But the council has not supported businessmen in the past, Greenspon said. " This is proof positive of how in-sensitive the City Council and Clyde Wilson have been to the real needs of downtown as evidenced by their voting down of the parking garage," he said. Landrum said the special tax district has accepted the petition and will consider it when they consider the six possible locations for the parking garage. Coming Sunday Editor's column premieres What's it like to have 140 reporters join your staff on the same day? That's what happened at the Columbia Missourian Monday, and in his new column which begins Sunday, Managing Editor Daryl Moen describes what it is like. In this and future columns, Moen will discuss the Missourian and the people who bring it to you. Imsi& e fstay University buildings doomed Although four University- owne- d buildings on the south end of Jesse Hall will be razed late nest summer, the occupants of only two of the buildings have been officially notified. Read about the confusion on page 10. Mil tWl & wffl. W 2 p. m. and 8: 15 pjn. " Saloon," a play by Terry Twyman about an 1871 town on the Chisbolm Trail. Lyceum Theater, Arrow Rock. Matinee tickets $ 4, evening tickets $ 5. BfevfelisttapaBPages 12,33
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Item.Transcript | STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY HITT & LOWrH ST. SbKV COLUMBIA, MO. 65201 71st Year No. 2JMI f, ow Morning! h'sSitinrflay. StiHrtnlnr I. I'PT'f 14 Pages 15 Cents 150 mph winds blast Caribbean island SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic ( UPI) Hurricane David hit the south coast of Haiti and the Dominican Republic with 150- mp- h ( 240- kph- ) winds and towering waves Friday, heaping rubble in the streets of the Dominican capital of Santo Domingo. " This is terrible," Rafael Herrera, publisher of the newspaper Listin Diario, said in a long-distance telephone call from Santo Domingo. " In all my life I've never seen anything like this." At 9 p. m., the eye of one of the mightiest storms the Caribbean has ever seen was located about 60 miles northwest of Santo Domingo, a city of 1 million. The storm was moving northwest, but forecasters said it wouid turn more to the west- northw- est as it neared the north coast of the island of Hispaniola, raking the entire island that contains the Dominican Republic and Haiti . Late Friday the weather service, in a special holiday report, said " David poses a threat to the Southeastern United States, but it said " at the earliest, David would not significantly influence south Florida before late Sunday. East Coast areas would not be affected before Tuesday. " There is evidence that steering currents are changing. If this occurs, David could turn towards or pass east of Florida. The future course of the hurricane should become more certain on Saturday." The wind diminished and rain turned to a drizzle in Santo Domingo late Friday, but an operator at the International Telephone and Teletype building said, " It is totally dark here. You cannot see anything." He said the streets were so jammed with uprooted trees, roofs and other debris that " even if you wanted to, you couldn't get around." There was no immediate report of casualties, but President Antonio Guzman appealed to the Organization of American States for aid and at 9 p. m., announced a curfew retroactive to 7 p. m. David's onrushing eye, which had been surrounded by waves 50 feet high before the storm came ashore, was 800 miles from Miami. The weather bureau said there was evidence that steering currents were changing and " if this occurs, David could turn towards or pass east of Florida." At least 25 people were known dead in its passage through the Lesser Antilles into the Caribbean, and hundreds were reported missing. Damage rose into untold millions of dollars. David virtually wiped out the little island of Dominica. In South Florida, workers were already sandbagging public buildings and lowering water levels in canals." The Hurricane Center said winds in Santo Domingo " were in excess of 100 mph before the wind equipment blew down" at 3 cm. EDT, when the storm made its sudden, deadly move to the north. All but one of Santo Domingo's radio stations went off the air around 3 p. m., when the eye was 50 miles south of the city, and the only one still transmitting, Radio Clarin, said civil defense workers would not go out into the streets to aid victims until after the winds die down. Herrera said the winds had been " high, but bearable" until about 3 p. m., when they sud-denly increased. " This must be the full force of the cyclone," he said. " I would say the winds must be way over ( See HURRICANE, Page 14) Strikimg seeite RntFetten This week's thunderstorm activity and nightly traffic on Wade School Road combined to create this unusual light pattern. The stormy weather continued Friday as Columbia received its largest rainfall of the summer. Why all the storms lately? See the explanation on Page 10. Cave denies request for new can- ba- n trial By Pat BHlmghansen Missourian staff writer The legal challenge to Columbia's " can- ban- " ordinance soon may move from Boone County Circuit Court to an appellate court. Circuit Judge John Cave Friday denied a request for a new trial made by the beverage distributors who challenged the beverage container deposit ordinance more than two years ago. Cave also reinstated his injunction against enforcing the ordinance pen-ding the filing of an appeal. After a lengthy trial and the filing of many briefs, Cave ruled May 25 that the city could enforce the can ban, which was approved by Coluipbia voters in April 1977. The ordinance requires collection of at least a 5- ce- nt deposit on all beverage containers bottles as well as cans purchased in the city: The next move is up to the distributors, City Counselor Scott Snyder said Friday. Under Missouri Supreme Court rules, the distributors must file notice within 10 days if they intend to appeal Cave's decision. Snyder said the appeal could be made to the state appellate court in Kansas City or, if constitutional violations are argued, directly to the Missouri Supreme Court. An attorney representing the distributors could not be reached for comment Friday evening. Citizens to comment on proposed budget By Erin Kelly Mbsourian stafi writer The City Council will hold public budget hearings at 7 p. ni. Tuesday, giving Columbia residents the op-portunity to make suggestions about how their tax dollars and service fees should - or should not - be spent With the proposed budget op about 10.7 percent over last year's, local residents are facing utility and service cost increases and a property tax rise of 2.2 percent. Councilwoman Diane Fariah predicted Friday her Third Ward constituents weald protest the tax in-crease. " I don't imagine they'll be too happy about it," she said. At Tuesday's meeting, the public will be able to voice opinions on proposed water rates, which are to rise 5 per-cent; city employees' salaries, which are to rise 7 percent, and trash collection services, to rise 20 percent. Parks and recreation fees also would rise to $ 5, a $ 2 increase over last year. Sixth Ward Councilman Lew Stoerker said senior citizens in his ward, who are often on fixed incomes, have com-plained to him about the increase. " There should be quite a turnout at the hearing," he said. Residents also will be able to offer suggestions in a public bearing on how the city should spend the estimated $ 1 million it will receive from federal revenue snaring. The council also win consider a proposal to charge fees for services the dry now performs free. M. U.: Looking ahead Foreign students may offset enrollment decline at University ByTom Wolf Missourian staff writer Room 307 opens onto a narrow hallway in the University's Gentry Hall. Inside, KazUemara sits behind an old wooden desk, preparing for another lab he teaches in introductory economics. In his second year as a graduate student in economics at the University, Uemara is one of a growing number of foreign students coming to the University in pursuit of knowledge they hope will benefit their countries as well as themselves. But while foreign students traditionally have been looked upon as providing an opportunity for cultural Insight exchange in this midwestern com-munity, their increasing number up to 1,008 last fall from 580 in 1973 is being looked upon by some as a way to offset declining enrollment. " I think foreign students could make up deficiencies in domestic enrollments," says Carl Leistner, assistant director for international studies. The campus currently receives 8,000 to 9,000 unsolicited inquiries from foreign students each year. Out of those, about one in 10 actually will apply, Leistner says. The advantage of increased foreign enrollment is clear to Paul Wallace, an associate professor of political science who works part time in the in-ternational studies office. More foreign students would assure the full use of classroom and dormitory space and, in the long run, benefit U. S. business and foreign relations. But most who advocate letting foreign student enrollment continue its natural rise admit their increasing numbers have posed problems. Although Leistner is convinced that foreign students, mostly from oil- ri- ch OPEC nations, will continue to apply in growing numbers, he believes a strain is being placed on the resources needed ( See IMPROVED, Page 14) BmMUcs Ernie Hays never has stroked a single or caught a fly ball for the St. Louis Cardinals, but he is an important part of the baseball team. Without Hays at the organ keeping the crowd and players in good spirits, a Cardinal gamejust wouldn't be the same. Read about the Buscb Memorial Stadium organist in Sunday's Vibrations magazine. Merchants back parking garage By Diana Dawson Missourian staff writer Seventy downtown Columbia mer-chants have signed a petition sup-porting a parking lot proposal, but interpretations over the petition's wording vary, the chairman of the Columbia Special Business District Board said Friday. James Greenspon, owner of Greenspon's, 900 E. Broadway, began circulating the petition Aug. 21. The purpose, he said, was to encourage the special tax district to endorse the parking lot proposal to the City Council. But the wording of the petition, " We, the undersigned, encourage the special tax district and the City Council of Columbia, Missouri to consider the much needed parking garage to., -- be placed behind the City County Building," has been questioned by Mark Landrum, . chairman the business district board. When Greenspon discussed the petition, he spoke only of Sixth Ward Councilman Lew Stoerker's plan which was opposed, 5-- 2, by the City Council on Aug. 20. Stoerker called for a two- stor- y garage, with one story below the proposed Guitar Square. " I suggest that many people who supported the petition did not interpret it this way," Landrum said. " Everyone mat I've talked to who has signed the petition has said nothing of Stoerker's plan." The councilman's plan was foremost, however, in Joe Hourigan's mind when he signed the petition. " WelL that's the plan I like the best," the owner of Barth Clothing Co., Inc., 827 E. Broadway, said. " It's a little closer, and people will use it more. If you put them far off, they just won't walk." Although the petition " really doesn't lay out any political significance" for John Kennedy of Best Tapes & Records, 25 S. Ninth St, he said he " asked for a brief description of the plan before signing the petition." " The purpose of the special tax district is to deal with problems in the downtown area," Greenspon said. " And parking is the main problem. If they build Guitar Square, they would reduce parking from 112 spaces to 77. However, if they accept Stoerker's plan, they'll increase the number to 250. " I'm opposed to the words ' restoration' and ' renovation.' We are not a dying area. If they want the downtown to remain healthy, they have to make long- tim- e expenditures." Both Stoerker and Greenspon said the proposed parking garage would be more expensive than other possible sites, but neither could estimate the cost The petition's purpose, Greenspon said, is to encourage the special tax district to endorse Stoerker's proposal to the council. But the council has not supported businessmen in the past, Greenspon said. " This is proof positive of how in-sensitive the City Council and Clyde Wilson have been to the real needs of downtown as evidenced by their voting down of the parking garage," he said. Landrum said the special tax district has accepted the petition and will consider it when they consider the six possible locations for the parking garage. Coming Sunday Editor's column premieres What's it like to have 140 reporters join your staff on the same day? That's what happened at the Columbia Missourian Monday, and in his new column which begins Sunday, Managing Editor Daryl Moen describes what it is like. In this and future columns, Moen will discuss the Missourian and the people who bring it to you. Imsi& e fstay University buildings doomed Although four University- owne- d buildings on the south end of Jesse Hall will be razed late nest summer, the occupants of only two of the buildings have been officially notified. Read about the confusion on page 10. Mil tWl & wffl. W 2 p. m. and 8: 15 pjn. " Saloon," a play by Terry Twyman about an 1871 town on the Chisbolm Trail. Lyceum Theater, Arrow Rock. Matinee tickets $ 4, evening tickets $ 5. BfevfelisttapaBPages 12,33 |