Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1979-10-18

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72nd Year No. 30 Good Morning! ir Thursday. October 18, 1979 3 Sections 30 Pages 15 Cents
Representatives of Smith and Donnelly halls already are in line to
buy season tickets to Mizzou basketball games. They'll have a bit
of a wait; student tickets don't go on sale until next Wednesday.
Students from the two dorms are taking turns at holding their
place in line. On this shift were, from left, Gim Leong, Leisa Cool,
Brian Ireland and Joe Blake. Their vigil is made more interest-ing
with the company of a stray cat, a horde of bugs, a TV, a ste-reo
and a refrigerator. ( Story on Page 6A) .
The solution
is ' udderly9
fantastic!
If you're worried about chap-ped
skin, take a tip from the boys
at the feed mill.
Udder Ointment, a cream that
prevents chapping on cow's ud-ders,
also worts " real well" on
human skin, says Norbert Free- bourn- e,
sales manager df Bourne
Feed and Supply Inc., 4011 1-- 70
Drive SE.
The cream is used by mill
workers and salesmen, Free- bour- ne
says. And, he says, it
works " quicker than all- get- out- ."
The cream's ingredients in-clude
eucalyptus oil and camp-hor.
Udder Ointment is available at
Bourne in 1- po-und
( 454- gram- )
packages for $ 3.45, and in 5- gal-- km
( 19- lite- r) cans for $ 46.50.
Bourne employees agree that
the cream is " udderly" effec-tive.
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" I don't know why I was hired and,
as Car as rm concerned, I don't partic-ularly
care," said Rennick, driHmas- t- er
for the Columbia Fire Department
and anine- ye- ar veteran.
Btst Jefferson City Mayor George
Harts& eki said he will refresh Ben- nick- ' s
memory of discussions sar- rotsos&- ng
bis appointment " when tfee
time draws near."
HasMleM said, " I'm sure Rennkfc is
awas cf the arguments thai the Job
aoeM have been given to scmeoEe lo-cally
Es ( ResEick) has had seve-ral
Jefferson City employees m Ms
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CKy farce because it " has bad very
weak leadership for many years."
In September 1978, then- Fir- e Chief
Vincent WiDmeno was fired by the City
Council after an audit of fire depart-ment
records revealed that 9,000 was
missing. WQlmeno had served as chief
for nine years.
The firefighter who replaced WQlme-no
as chief was Donald Thompson, a
21- y- ear veteran. But it became obvious
after eight or nine months, Hartsfield
said, that Thompson " had been moved
up through me ranks of the department
too fast It was obvious to me and the
council that he ( Thompson) was over
his head."
WartsfjpM said he believes Rennick
is " the type of individual who will keep
those discussions in mind and ap-proach
the new fire personnel slowly
and cautiously."
Earlier this month, council members
argued for about 15 minutes over de-moting
Thompson. Then, after the
council approved that demotion, one
council member said he had a " firm
conviction" that " the new fire chief
should come from the ranks of the Jef-ferson
City Department."
The argument had nothing to do with
Rennick personally nor the Columbia
Fire Department, HartsSeid said. Nor,
he added, did the council debate Ren- nick- ' s
$ 22, O0O- a- ye- ar salary.
Rennick announced earlier this
month be had been offered the position
of fire chief, and that he and Columbia
Fare Chief Girard Wren had been dis-cussing
the fTip since be applied for
the post in July cf this year.
Volcker believes
rate of inflation
soon could slow
WASHINGTON ( UPI) - Federal
Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volck-er
told Congress Wednesday inflation
could fall below double- dig- it levels in
coming months if the government's
new tight credit policy is successful
and imported oil prices remain stable.
" If there are no really important in-creases
in imported oil prices through
the end of this year, I think there is a
reasonable prospect that the current
inflation will not be built into the econ-omy,"
he said.
" The general level of inflation will
relax back to the kind of structural,
home- bre- d inflation we have of some-thing
under 10 percent," he predicted.
Consumer prices have soared at an
annual rate of more than 13 percent
during the first eight months of this
year, the largest dose of inflation since
the end of World War n.
In addition, if Federal Reserve
Board action succeeds in making loans
more expensive and harder to obtain,
" I look forward to a decline in the in-flation
rate of appreciable proportions
in not too many months," Volcker said.
Volcker and Treasury Secretary G.
William Miller appeared before Con-gress'
Joint Economic Committee to
discuss the effects of the Federal Re-serve's
Oct. 6 policy changes and to
discuss the overall economic situation.
In other economic developments
Wednesday:
Housing construction rose by 4.2
percent during September to an annual
rate of 1.88 million homes and apart-ments.
But that was before the Federal
Reserve's move to boost interest rates
and many industry officials are pre-dicting
hard times in the future for
housing.
Americans' personal income rose
by 0.6 percent last month, the same
gain as in August. The increase fell far
short of the average monthly rise in in-flation
of 1 percent this year.
The nation's factories operated at
85.1 percent of capacity during Sep-tember,
a small increase from the pre-vious
month but still the second lowest
level of 1979.
- The administration's new pay
board held its first session at the White
House under the direction of former
Labor Secretary John Dunlop.
Volcker said he was " very reluc-tant"
to estimate when interest rates
might decline. " I do firmly believe that
by acting forcibly now we'll bring the
day of lower interest rates and equita-ble
conditions in financial markets
sooner, not later," he said.
Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D- Tex- as, chair-man
of the congressional panel, sug-gested
a tax cut is needed to offset the
effects of the recession.
Volcker acknowledged " there is a
basic need for tax reduction and tax re-structuring
that will help deal with
longer- ter- m problems."
But, he said, " this is not the time"
because nobody knows which way the
economy will go in future months.
Hickman urges second look at downtown mall site
ByMazkEaocb
BfissneriaB staff writer
Cokanbia should look again at the
possibility of a downtown shopping
mall even if such a site might cost the
taxpayers more money than a perime-ter
mall site, according to Second
WardCouncilman Holme Hickman.
Hickman said Wednesday be opposes
the building of a mall on any site at the
edge of town, whether it is inside the
city limits or not.
" I do not support the Philips prop-erty
as a site on the southern edge of
Columbia, or any other perimeter site
as the location for a regional shopping
mall," be said.
Hickman added be has nothing
against the May Co. nor any other de-veloper
but is opposed to sites on the
edge of Columbia. The May Co. is in-terested
in developing a regional mall
on the 530- acr- e ( 212- hectar- e) Philips
land south of the city near U. S. 63. The
company holds an option to purchase
120 acres ( 48 hectares ), Hickman said.
Another proposed mall site on the
edge of Columbia, but within city lim-its,
is owned by Robert TuH and Ferry
Ewing. The land is near the intersec-tion
of Interstate 70 and Route PP. Leo
Eisenberg and Co. of Kansas City has
expressed interest in developing that
land.
A third proposed mall site is north of
Biscayne Mall along Stadium Boule-vard
in the northwest part of Colum-bia.
General Growth Corp. of Des
Moines, Iowa, has expressed interest
in developing a mall there.
A downtown shopping center, Hick-man
said, " would be far less devastat-ing
to the city than a regional mall lo-cated
a considerable distance from the
central part of the city . "
Avoidance of this economic devasta-tion
downtown is so important the city
should be willing to support a general
obligation bond issue to provide funds
necessary to make a downtown loca-tion
as attractive to a developer as the
suburban or perimeter sites, Hickman
said.
A general obligation bond issue prob-ably
would be used to finance construc-tion
of streets that would connect exist-ing
highways to the mall, he added.
Hickman said be includes the Flat
Branch area as part of downtown, and
he does not support any particular site
for a downtown mall.
The Philips site does not have the
lead over other proposed mall loca-tions,
Hickman contended. " There is
no way it has the lead," he said. " The
City Council can, if it wishes, control
the Philips site so nothing is built."
" The City Council can prevent- th- e
construction of a mall on the PMips
property if the council has courage and
does not panic," he added.
The key issue for the Philips site,
Hickman said, is not if the developer
has enough money to build a mall there
even if the city does not annex the
land, but whether it would be profita-ble
enough for the company to do so.
. County farmers find in- to- wn jobs
more profitable than agriculture
In the contemporary version of " Old
MacDonald," one can forget about the
chickens, pigs and cows. What's more
important to the survival of many of
today's small farms is a well- payi- ng
town job on the side.
According to a recent survey, more
man one- thi- rd of all Boone County
farmers earned substantial portions of
their incomes last year from occupa-tions
ether than farming.
A seasonal profession, farming is
even less time- consumi- ng today with
tractors and corobiiwa as comfortable
and easy to maneuver as luxury auto-mobiles.
Farmers find it profitable to-day
to get full-- or part- tim- e jobs, farm-ing
only after hours and on weekends.
Some, like Ralph D. Gates of Route 1,
have turned over the key to the family
combine to their wives.
" It's relaxing to drive the tractor,"
says Mary Ann Gates. She points out
that economic necessity and washing
npinM have taken more women cot
of me kitchen sod into the fields. But
for her, fanning is a matter cf choice.
" I quit my job teaching English at
ffitfman ( High School) and so far I
haven't been disappointed. There isn't
Insiggfet
This report on the states of farming
hi Boone Grouty was written by Chris
Laades and Sarah Fisher 1 the Cotam- fai- a
MEssosrlaa's special reporting
team SB business.
as much pressure and there's nothing
out here that can't be done tomorrow
or the next day."
Her husband began working at First
National Bank in Columbia in hopes of
earning enough money to be able to
farm full- tim- e someday. Now Gates
enjoys banking so much that, although
he has all the farmland he wants and
the financial security he once dreamed
of, he is reluctant to quit His wife,
however, assures him that she intends
to continue working the land as long as
profits remain high.
Mrs. Charles Foster also has opted
for me farm life. She stepped into her
husband's work boots last year when
he became Boone County sheriff. At
their farm on Route 6 she operates a
135 horsepower AUis- Chalme- rs tractor
from its air- conditio- ned cab. To fend
off a feeling of confinement, Mrs. Fos-ter
can listen to a stereo radio or a two- wa- y
set For now she says she'd rather
be farming than doing housework.
Most " part- time- " farmers have tak-en
jobs out of necessity. They would
rather be farming than doing anything
else, but a second job can make life
bearable during the lean years.
" A farm is an expensive operation,"
explains Mrs. Clayton Gray, Route 1.
She and her husband live primarily on
income from bogs they raise on their
60- ac- re ( 24- hectar- e) farm. The Grays
are not malting as much as they usual-ly
do because hogs are not selling for
much these days. So Gray decided to
work as a fireman in order to maintain
their standard of living.
" Hogs don't require much atten-tion,"
Mrs. Gray says. To feed the hogs
she simply pushes a button. This
leaves time for her to take care of her
children and babysit for others in her
home. If the farm chores were more
difficult, she would not do them. " If
my husband had wanted a hired hand,
( See SMALL, Page 12A)
Columbian to clefend
woman in rape case
By Laddie Hirsch
Missourian staff writer
Columbia lawyer Joseph Matteson
has been retained to defend a Moberiy
woman who is believed to be the first
woman accused of rape under Missou-ri's
new criminal code.
Debra Lee Timmons, 27, has been
charged with three counts of illicit sex
with juvenile boys. Police arrested
Miss Timmons last week after neigh-bors
reported that teen- ag- e and pre- tee- n
boys were entering and leaving
her home late at night
Miss Timmons, a divorced welder,
was charged with one count of statuto-ry
rape involving a 12- year-- old boy and
two counts of first- degr- ee sexual as-sault
involving intercourse with two
boys ages 14 and 15, authorities said.
Authorities are not sure who ini-tiated
the acts, but sex between adults
and juveniles is a crime even if the ju-veniles
are willing participants,
according to the new criminal code
which went into effect Jan. 2.
The new laws stipulate that sexual
relations with anyone younger than 14
is statutory rape, and sexual assault
occurs when an adult has sex with any-one
between the ages of 14 and 16.
If convicted. Miss Timmons could
face a maximum of 15 years in prison
for the rape charge and seven years on
each of the sexual assault charges.
Under the old criminal code, Miss
Timmons could have been charged
with contributing to the delinquency of
a minor, an offense punishable by a
maximum of six months in jail.
Under the old laws, rape required a
woman victim, according to attorney
Edward Hunvald, executive director of
the committee that drafted the new
criminal code. A woman involved in a
rape would have been charged with an-other
crime or named as an accessory
to rape, he said.
Miss Timmons was released Monday
after spending five days in Randolph
County Jail. A preliminary hearing on
the case is scheduled for Oct. 30.
A second rape charge against a
woman was filed in Wright County this
week. Connie Supanicic, 27, of Moun-tain
Grove was charged with rape and
second- degre- e sexual assault in con-nection
with incidents involving boys
aged 13 and 14.
Miislsi fitay
Pirates take series
The Pirates won the seventh
game of the World Series 4-- 1, be-coming
the fifth team in twball
history to win the series after hav-ing
trailed 3 games to 1. Story on
PageSA.
Nobel Peace Prize
Mother Teresa cf Calcutta, a Ro-man
Catholic mm who devoted her
fife to India's poor and sick, won the
1979 Nobel Peace Prize. Story on
PageSA.
MEW splits rap
President Carter signed a bin cre-ating
a new UJS. Department of Ed-ucation.
Story co Page 2A.
Marines land
More than 2,000 UJS. Marines
landed at Guantanaxoo Bay in a dis-play
of force meant to impress the
Soviets and Cubans. Story on Page
3A.
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