Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1979-09-01

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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)
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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.
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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.
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