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J Insight New dhih starts out on bad skis Student founder runs into trouble with his business ByMikeGtadkessi Missourian staff writer Mail $ 5 to 374A Smith Hall at the University and you can become a " lifetime charter" member of the Mid-west Sri Club. As a member, you'll reap numerous benefits, according to an advertisement that has appeared in campus newspapers the past two weeks. For instance, as a club member, you could take a trip to Winter Park, Colo., during spring break for only $ 155 exactly. $ 5 less than it costs non- membe- rs. ( Non- membe- rs must pay a one- tim- e $ 5 membership fee. ) Other opportunities will arise for you. The club offers " private trips planned for members at no cost, personalized ski trips organized every semester break, Coors beer parties planned for large groups of club members" and a " subscription to the Midwest Skier magazine. First issue to come out in June." Along with your lifetime mem-bership, you also will be affiliated with a club whose originator apparently is operating out of a dormitory against University rules, who has been operating without a Columbia business license, whose planned Coors parties cannot be held legally in Columbia and whose business tactics have left per-sons in Winter Park upset. Larry Feagles occupies Room 374 in Smith Hall, and he is the founder of the Midwest Ski Club. In a conversation with a prospective club member, Feagles said, " I've been working on the club for seven months. Next semester I will be covering 25 colleges in three states. The club has been going a little over a month, and there are 2,100 mem-bers." Feagles said the Winter Park trip was the fifth he bad organized and he offers his members " a hell of a service. My trips are personalized, and I'll do anything humanly possible." He said he makes ail the trip arrangements himself. " I am rapidly becoming a travel agent I alwautod ' for the Student Ski Association for two years, and I was the best represen-tative in its seven- yea- r history." According to advertisements for the trip, vacationers can choose from " five top- quali- ty lodges." While talking with the prospective customer, Feagles said, " I've had to cancel a couple of lodges but you can choose from two. " He later told the Columbia Missourian that he misinterpreted the response to the ski trip. " The ski trip is not going as well as I thought it would. I planned for 135 - I'll be lucky to fill half that." Feagles' cancellations have cost the lodges and a reservation service time and money, said Liddie Mason, who is in the central reservations department of the Winter Park Resort Association. She said the association does central booking for the area's resorts. No fee is charged for the service, she said, because a 2 per cent tax is levied in Winter Park. " Originally, Mr. Feagles booked 163 spaces at five lodges. At this point, he's cancelled all but 28. This not only costs us directly in time but the lodges are hurt. They reserved Use spaces and now they won't be filled," she said. She said she is not familiar with the Midwest Ski Club or Feagles. " To my knowledge, and I've worked here four winters, and we never have worked with him. I can tell you we won't again." Feagles said he originally reserved 135 spaces, not 163 as the association said. " It did cost them their time," Feagles said Thursday, " but the lodges aren't hurt" He said he made calls to the lodges and they told him they had filled the spaces he cancelled. " And Use lodges are going to charge me a handling charge so they're not hurt," he said. He added that the association could not have previously heard about the Mid-west Ski Club because it is new. While Feagles' club has been operating for a month, it has been doing so without a city business license. Chub Phillips, Columbia business license manager, had not heard of the club until Feb. 24 when he was presen-ted a copy of fee club's ad. At that time, Phillips said, " Anyone doing anything for a profit must have a license to operate in Columbia, and it looks like he is." The club's directors, he said, " would have to come in and fill out an ap-plication ... and they have not" He added, " I'm going to check this out and get in touch with him to see if he's doing anything. A lot of people run ads and don't do any business." Failure to have a business license, he said, could constitute a misdemeanor. Feagles said, however, tint he talked to a window clerk at the business licen-se office early in February about ap-plying for a license. " I was waiting for my sales tax number to come In from the IRS and to find out if it was legal to ( See RAD, Page 18) ..-- - 7 1 THFBI fe Ifll hh ATLANTA ( UPI) The nation is bat-tling its worst onslaught of influenza- sinc- e the great Hong Kong epidemic eight years ago caused 1,207 deaths and the toll still is climbing, the national Center for Disease Control said Friday. The center said a survey of state health departments showed 24 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have epidemic levels of the disease, 15 states have regional out-breaks and 10 record isolated cases. Graphs used by the center to depict the number of pneumonia- influenz- a deaths in 121 major VS. cities registered a sharp upsurge during February and officials said the current epidemic still appeared to be gaining momentum. The current epidemic of A- Vict- oria flu started later in the year than usual, during the first week of February. Deaths attributed to the epidemic jumped from 97 in the first week of February to 178 the second week, 339 the third week and 656 last week, ac cording to the center. Don Barreth, center information of-ficer, said, however, that while " there has been a lot of flu activity this year, it still does not compare with the Hong Kong outbreak in 1968- 6- 9, neither in the number of cases nor the number of deaths" In the 196849 outbreak, the center estimated there were 30 million cases of the disease. At the peak of the epidemic, 1,100 persons died in a week. The final death toll was set at 12,700. In the current outbreak, the center said the New England and Middle Atlantic regions were continuing to report the most flu activity, although the illness appeared to have peaked in the Northeast. The Pacific and mountain states and the South Atlantic area showed sharp rises. Twenty- si- x residents of a nursing home in St Petersburg, Fla., died in the past two weeks of causes believed to be flu- relat- ed. Health authorities ordered tests to learn more about the fatal illnesses. The center said data from 532 repor ting institutions in the United States " indicated increased absenteeism in 3 per cent of the schools and 29 per cent of the industries, and increased emergen-cy room visits in 43 per cent of the hospitals." Outbreaks of influenza, most of it similar to the A- Vict- oria strain, also oc-curred in Canada, Denmark, France, French Guiana, Hungary, Jamaica, Korea, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland, according to a report to the center from the World Health Organization. 68th Year No. 139 Good Morning! It's Saturday, March 6, 1976 16 Pages - 15 Cents Stoffel enjoys a friend's company after his 30- mim- ute lunch rush at his tavern near Fulton. Stoffel says he expects to make money from the venture once Union Electric's nuclear power plant is under construction. Text by Fran liberatore Photos by Debi Savin I Even at 73, George Stoffel could not pass an opportunity to make money. Stoffel owns the Green Acres tavern, located about 16 kilometers ( 10 miles) south of Fulton. He says he decided to build the tavern when he heard about the construction of Union Electric's nuclear power plant near Fulton. " There's good money in that." Before coming to the Fulton area, Stoffel worked in a tire re- cappi- ng shop in East St Louis. While living there, he bought land around Lost Canyon Lake and the site where the tavern is now. The power plant site is located about 1.6 kilometers ( 1 mile) south of the tavern and is expected to em-ploy about 2,400 workers when full- sca- le construction begins. Stoffel says he expects it will take one or two years for this to begin, " but it could be this summer." Area businessmen are preparing for the influx of workers, he says. " There are some trailer pads being put up now to accommodate mobile homes," Stoffel says. Now there are only a few workers at the construction site, Stoffel says, and in the course of the week he sees most of them at least twice. Right now he says he has no com-petition nearby, and most of the con-struction workers who do not come into Green Acres bring their lunch to work, rather than drive off the con-struction site. Most of Staffers business comes from the workers during the lunch hour; after that an occasional friend comes in to drink a beer. " Business is pretty slow now, but it'll pick up just as soon as they start building that power plant" Stoffel' s business has tripled since he opened the tavern last April, and he says he expects it to go way over that once the workers begin moving to the area. " No one lives here now, but this area is going to be a city when the plant gets going." Tigers seek cage crown at home on TV The Missouri Tigers will make a bid for the Big Eight basketball championship at 2: 05 this afternoon at the Hearnes Center when they meet Colorado. A victory today will guarantee the Tigers their first undisputed conference crown since 1930. A victory today also would assure the Tigers of a berth in the National Collegiate Athletic Association playof-fs. They likely would meet the Univer-sity of Washington Huskies in sub- region- al play on March 13 in Lawrence, Kan. The contest can be seen on local television ( KOMU- T- V, Channel 8) starting at 2 p. m. It was selected by the National Broadcasting Co. as the Big Eight's " wild card" television game this week after Missouri's stunning 81- 7- 2 victory Wednesday night over Kansas State. Missouri, which is 23-- 4 on the year and 11-- 2 in conference play, will be led today by guard Willie Smith, whose 38 points Wednesday paced the Tigers' victory over Kansas State. Colorado is tied for sixth in the league race with a 44 record. For further details, see John McGrath's story on Page 12. 4 ByJimVogel Missourian staff writer The major fruit crops in mid- Misso- uri can withstand several more nights of cold weather as long as the temperatures rise above -- 6 degrees Celsius ( 20 F) during the day, Aubrey Hibbard, a horticulture professor at the University, said Friday. The high today will be about 4 C ( 40 F) with the low tonight about -- 4 C ( 25 F), said David Horner, meteorologist in charge of the National Weather Service office at Columbia Regional Airport. Apple and peach trees in the area are in the " tight bud" stage and are resistant to plunges in temperatures, Hibbard said. But if temperatures were tofaUtobetween- 9C( 15F) and- 7C( 2- 0 F) for more than 24 hours, even those buds could suffer damage from " radiation frost," he said. Radiation frost occurs when a plant's heat radiates into space during extended periods of cold weather. The high temperatures in February warmed the ground and helped plants retain heat, Hibbard said. Flowers that opened in response to the abnormally high temperatures, however, probably will not produce much fruit, he said. This includes apricots, forsythias and magnolias. Also, the cold weather will prevent plants from producing any more flowering buds this year, Hibbard said. Because of high temperatures in February, most plants in Columbia are about a month ahead of their usual schedules, making them susceptible to damage when normally cold weather returns, Hibbard said. The damage caused by weather fluc-tuations can be measured accurately about two days after normal weather has returned, he said. Columbia should experience the return of winter conditions this week as lows of about 0 C ( 32 F) are forecast for Monday and Tuesday, Horner said. This will be a departure from the ex-tremes in the weather mid- Missou- ri has experienced recently. Highs of about 24 C ( 75 F) for the first part of the week were balanced by lows of near -- 4 C ( 25 F ) Thursday and Friday nights. Between the temperature changes, strong winds brought a deluge Thur-sday as 2.2 centimeters ( 1.88 inches) of rain fell, most of it between 4 and 5 p. m. The heavy rains caused flooding in low- lyin- g areas of Columbia, leaving about 15 centimeters ( 6 inches) of water on many city streets. Route E was impassible under SO centimeters ( 3 feet) of water. The Columbia Fire Department responded to six calls to help pump water out of flooded houses and basements. Columbia was not alone in having weather problems this week. A severe ice storm swept through the East and Midwest Wednesday, causing power failures affecting 500,000 Michigan homes. House speaker shirts issue JEFFERSON CITY ( UPI) - An ex-tended warm spell and an extensive breakdown in the air conditioning system prompted speaker Richard J. Rabbitt to allow state representatives to work in shirt sleeves Tuesday. The temperature in the muggy cham-ber was well above 27 C. ( 80 degrees F ) when Majority Leader Kenneth Roth- ma- n announced he had checked and found that the air condition system was broken and was not expected to be repaired for another month. It was 28 C. ( 82 degrees F) in the other chamber, but senators didi't acknowledge the heat and worked in their required coats and ties. Bond still refuses to free funds By Scott Bowles State capital bureau ' JEFFERSON CITY Gov. Christopher S. Bond said Friday that although the state's latest revenue figures are encouraging, he does not yet know whether he will be able to release money withheld from state agencies. " At this point, I'm very hopeful we can release all or part of the funds," Bond said at his press conference Friday. " As soon as I have a definite in-dication of whether I can or cannot release some or all of the funds, I will announce it" James Spainhower, state treasurer, requested release of the funds because his figure show that as of Feb. 29 the state's income for fiscal 1976 has in-creased 11.57 per cent over the same period last year. In addition, the Columbia Missourian reported Friday that almost half of the $ 28 million now being withheld could be released. Those figures were drawn up by the University State and Regional Fiscal Affairs Unit Last fall, Bond asked state agencies to pare their general revenue ex-penditures by 3 per cent so there would be enough money for emergency ap-propriations and tax refunds. This money will be returned to the agencies in May in whole or part if there is a sur-plus at that time. Since Bond originally had estimated an increase of 8.5 per cent in state revenues for the year, the current 11.57 per cent figure released by Spainhower would seem to allow the release of the 3 per cent to the agencies. However, Bond now says a revenue increase of 12.34 per cent is needed to compensate for income tax refunds and emergency appropriations before the 3 per cent can be released. " The February figures are very en-couraging," Bond said. " The question is whether the February figures are in-dicative of a trend and whether we'll be able to pay the 3 per cent in May." Bond also said he couldn't say yet whether he would be able to release the $ 12.7 million withheld from the school foundation program which Sens. William J. Cason, D- Clint- on, and Nor-man L. Merrell, D- Montic-ello, had requested. Inventor plugs low- ener- gy bulb WASHINGTON ( UPI) - Federal energy officials announced plans Friday for commercial development of a revolutionary light bulb that uses 70 per cent less electricity and may last up to 10 years. The inventor, Donald D. Hollister of Placentia, Calif., predicted his " Litek" bulbs will initially sell for $ 7 to 510 apiece and should be on the market within two years. Although the Litek bulb looks like an ordinary incandescent bulb and will screw into a regular lamp socket, it is actually a small flourescent light It gives off a white glow similar to that from a flourescent tube and emits little heat The new bulb has no filament to get hot and burn out Instead a coil of wire about the size of a small lipstick tube becomes a cool electromagnet when the power is switched on, making mercury gas in the bulb give off ultraviolet light that triggers a glow from a phosphorous coating. The bulb should bum from 12,000 to 24,000 hours, which equals five to 10 years of normal use, Hollister said. He said it will burn out eventually when a transistorized control circuit fails. Hollister said he got the first idea for his long- lif- e, low -- energy bulb about eight years ago, but ' ' it went over like a lead balloon" at that time and remained " a solution looking for a problem," he said. Then came the energy crisis. Sitting in a long gas line in 1973, Hollister retur-ned to the idea, founded his Lighting Technology Corp. in 1974 and turned to the Energy Research and Development Administration for help in putting the bulb on the market Hollister said he has made about 100 of the new bulbs by hand. Some of them have been tested by ERDA and the National Bureau of Standards. ERDA Assistant Administrator Austin Heller said ERDA will provide Hollister with $ 310,000 under a one- ye- ar contract to work out final technical problems with the new bulb, conduct market studies and develop plans for commercial production. He said' Hollister is providing $ 34,000 in mat-ching funds. Hollister and ERDA officials said 25- w- att Litek bulbs put out about ti same light as a 50- w- att incandescent bulb and can cause radioa to sputter with static if the power line voltage dips. Heller said the government's in-vestment in Hollister's idea carries with it a guarantee that no big company will buy up the patent and keep the litek bulb off the market
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Item.Transcript | J Insight New dhih starts out on bad skis Student founder runs into trouble with his business ByMikeGtadkessi Missourian staff writer Mail $ 5 to 374A Smith Hall at the University and you can become a " lifetime charter" member of the Mid-west Sri Club. As a member, you'll reap numerous benefits, according to an advertisement that has appeared in campus newspapers the past two weeks. For instance, as a club member, you could take a trip to Winter Park, Colo., during spring break for only $ 155 exactly. $ 5 less than it costs non- membe- rs. ( Non- membe- rs must pay a one- tim- e $ 5 membership fee. ) Other opportunities will arise for you. The club offers " private trips planned for members at no cost, personalized ski trips organized every semester break, Coors beer parties planned for large groups of club members" and a " subscription to the Midwest Skier magazine. First issue to come out in June." Along with your lifetime mem-bership, you also will be affiliated with a club whose originator apparently is operating out of a dormitory against University rules, who has been operating without a Columbia business license, whose planned Coors parties cannot be held legally in Columbia and whose business tactics have left per-sons in Winter Park upset. Larry Feagles occupies Room 374 in Smith Hall, and he is the founder of the Midwest Ski Club. In a conversation with a prospective club member, Feagles said, " I've been working on the club for seven months. Next semester I will be covering 25 colleges in three states. The club has been going a little over a month, and there are 2,100 mem-bers." Feagles said the Winter Park trip was the fifth he bad organized and he offers his members " a hell of a service. My trips are personalized, and I'll do anything humanly possible." He said he makes ail the trip arrangements himself. " I am rapidly becoming a travel agent I alwautod ' for the Student Ski Association for two years, and I was the best represen-tative in its seven- yea- r history." According to advertisements for the trip, vacationers can choose from " five top- quali- ty lodges." While talking with the prospective customer, Feagles said, " I've had to cancel a couple of lodges but you can choose from two. " He later told the Columbia Missourian that he misinterpreted the response to the ski trip. " The ski trip is not going as well as I thought it would. I planned for 135 - I'll be lucky to fill half that." Feagles' cancellations have cost the lodges and a reservation service time and money, said Liddie Mason, who is in the central reservations department of the Winter Park Resort Association. She said the association does central booking for the area's resorts. No fee is charged for the service, she said, because a 2 per cent tax is levied in Winter Park. " Originally, Mr. Feagles booked 163 spaces at five lodges. At this point, he's cancelled all but 28. This not only costs us directly in time but the lodges are hurt. They reserved Use spaces and now they won't be filled," she said. She said she is not familiar with the Midwest Ski Club or Feagles. " To my knowledge, and I've worked here four winters, and we never have worked with him. I can tell you we won't again." Feagles said he originally reserved 135 spaces, not 163 as the association said. " It did cost them their time," Feagles said Thursday, " but the lodges aren't hurt" He said he made calls to the lodges and they told him they had filled the spaces he cancelled. " And Use lodges are going to charge me a handling charge so they're not hurt," he said. He added that the association could not have previously heard about the Mid-west Ski Club because it is new. While Feagles' club has been operating for a month, it has been doing so without a city business license. Chub Phillips, Columbia business license manager, had not heard of the club until Feb. 24 when he was presen-ted a copy of fee club's ad. At that time, Phillips said, " Anyone doing anything for a profit must have a license to operate in Columbia, and it looks like he is." The club's directors, he said, " would have to come in and fill out an ap-plication ... and they have not" He added, " I'm going to check this out and get in touch with him to see if he's doing anything. A lot of people run ads and don't do any business." Failure to have a business license, he said, could constitute a misdemeanor. Feagles said, however, tint he talked to a window clerk at the business licen-se office early in February about ap-plying for a license. " I was waiting for my sales tax number to come In from the IRS and to find out if it was legal to ( See RAD, Page 18) ..-- - 7 1 THFBI fe Ifll hh ATLANTA ( UPI) The nation is bat-tling its worst onslaught of influenza- sinc- e the great Hong Kong epidemic eight years ago caused 1,207 deaths and the toll still is climbing, the national Center for Disease Control said Friday. The center said a survey of state health departments showed 24 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have epidemic levels of the disease, 15 states have regional out-breaks and 10 record isolated cases. Graphs used by the center to depict the number of pneumonia- influenz- a deaths in 121 major VS. cities registered a sharp upsurge during February and officials said the current epidemic still appeared to be gaining momentum. The current epidemic of A- Vict- oria flu started later in the year than usual, during the first week of February. Deaths attributed to the epidemic jumped from 97 in the first week of February to 178 the second week, 339 the third week and 656 last week, ac cording to the center. Don Barreth, center information of-ficer, said, however, that while " there has been a lot of flu activity this year, it still does not compare with the Hong Kong outbreak in 1968- 6- 9, neither in the number of cases nor the number of deaths" In the 196849 outbreak, the center estimated there were 30 million cases of the disease. At the peak of the epidemic, 1,100 persons died in a week. The final death toll was set at 12,700. In the current outbreak, the center said the New England and Middle Atlantic regions were continuing to report the most flu activity, although the illness appeared to have peaked in the Northeast. The Pacific and mountain states and the South Atlantic area showed sharp rises. Twenty- si- x residents of a nursing home in St Petersburg, Fla., died in the past two weeks of causes believed to be flu- relat- ed. Health authorities ordered tests to learn more about the fatal illnesses. The center said data from 532 repor ting institutions in the United States " indicated increased absenteeism in 3 per cent of the schools and 29 per cent of the industries, and increased emergen-cy room visits in 43 per cent of the hospitals." Outbreaks of influenza, most of it similar to the A- Vict- oria strain, also oc-curred in Canada, Denmark, France, French Guiana, Hungary, Jamaica, Korea, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland, according to a report to the center from the World Health Organization. 68th Year No. 139 Good Morning! It's Saturday, March 6, 1976 16 Pages - 15 Cents Stoffel enjoys a friend's company after his 30- mim- ute lunch rush at his tavern near Fulton. Stoffel says he expects to make money from the venture once Union Electric's nuclear power plant is under construction. Text by Fran liberatore Photos by Debi Savin I Even at 73, George Stoffel could not pass an opportunity to make money. Stoffel owns the Green Acres tavern, located about 16 kilometers ( 10 miles) south of Fulton. He says he decided to build the tavern when he heard about the construction of Union Electric's nuclear power plant near Fulton. " There's good money in that." Before coming to the Fulton area, Stoffel worked in a tire re- cappi- ng shop in East St Louis. While living there, he bought land around Lost Canyon Lake and the site where the tavern is now. The power plant site is located about 1.6 kilometers ( 1 mile) south of the tavern and is expected to em-ploy about 2,400 workers when full- sca- le construction begins. Stoffel says he expects it will take one or two years for this to begin, " but it could be this summer." Area businessmen are preparing for the influx of workers, he says. " There are some trailer pads being put up now to accommodate mobile homes," Stoffel says. Now there are only a few workers at the construction site, Stoffel says, and in the course of the week he sees most of them at least twice. Right now he says he has no com-petition nearby, and most of the con-struction workers who do not come into Green Acres bring their lunch to work, rather than drive off the con-struction site. Most of Staffers business comes from the workers during the lunch hour; after that an occasional friend comes in to drink a beer. " Business is pretty slow now, but it'll pick up just as soon as they start building that power plant" Stoffel' s business has tripled since he opened the tavern last April, and he says he expects it to go way over that once the workers begin moving to the area. " No one lives here now, but this area is going to be a city when the plant gets going." Tigers seek cage crown at home on TV The Missouri Tigers will make a bid for the Big Eight basketball championship at 2: 05 this afternoon at the Hearnes Center when they meet Colorado. A victory today will guarantee the Tigers their first undisputed conference crown since 1930. A victory today also would assure the Tigers of a berth in the National Collegiate Athletic Association playof-fs. They likely would meet the Univer-sity of Washington Huskies in sub- region- al play on March 13 in Lawrence, Kan. The contest can be seen on local television ( KOMU- T- V, Channel 8) starting at 2 p. m. It was selected by the National Broadcasting Co. as the Big Eight's " wild card" television game this week after Missouri's stunning 81- 7- 2 victory Wednesday night over Kansas State. Missouri, which is 23-- 4 on the year and 11-- 2 in conference play, will be led today by guard Willie Smith, whose 38 points Wednesday paced the Tigers' victory over Kansas State. Colorado is tied for sixth in the league race with a 44 record. For further details, see John McGrath's story on Page 12. 4 ByJimVogel Missourian staff writer The major fruit crops in mid- Misso- uri can withstand several more nights of cold weather as long as the temperatures rise above -- 6 degrees Celsius ( 20 F) during the day, Aubrey Hibbard, a horticulture professor at the University, said Friday. The high today will be about 4 C ( 40 F) with the low tonight about -- 4 C ( 25 F), said David Horner, meteorologist in charge of the National Weather Service office at Columbia Regional Airport. Apple and peach trees in the area are in the " tight bud" stage and are resistant to plunges in temperatures, Hibbard said. But if temperatures were tofaUtobetween- 9C( 15F) and- 7C( 2- 0 F) for more than 24 hours, even those buds could suffer damage from " radiation frost," he said. Radiation frost occurs when a plant's heat radiates into space during extended periods of cold weather. The high temperatures in February warmed the ground and helped plants retain heat, Hibbard said. Flowers that opened in response to the abnormally high temperatures, however, probably will not produce much fruit, he said. This includes apricots, forsythias and magnolias. Also, the cold weather will prevent plants from producing any more flowering buds this year, Hibbard said. Because of high temperatures in February, most plants in Columbia are about a month ahead of their usual schedules, making them susceptible to damage when normally cold weather returns, Hibbard said. The damage caused by weather fluc-tuations can be measured accurately about two days after normal weather has returned, he said. Columbia should experience the return of winter conditions this week as lows of about 0 C ( 32 F) are forecast for Monday and Tuesday, Horner said. This will be a departure from the ex-tremes in the weather mid- Missou- ri has experienced recently. Highs of about 24 C ( 75 F) for the first part of the week were balanced by lows of near -- 4 C ( 25 F ) Thursday and Friday nights. Between the temperature changes, strong winds brought a deluge Thur-sday as 2.2 centimeters ( 1.88 inches) of rain fell, most of it between 4 and 5 p. m. The heavy rains caused flooding in low- lyin- g areas of Columbia, leaving about 15 centimeters ( 6 inches) of water on many city streets. Route E was impassible under SO centimeters ( 3 feet) of water. The Columbia Fire Department responded to six calls to help pump water out of flooded houses and basements. Columbia was not alone in having weather problems this week. A severe ice storm swept through the East and Midwest Wednesday, causing power failures affecting 500,000 Michigan homes. House speaker shirts issue JEFFERSON CITY ( UPI) - An ex-tended warm spell and an extensive breakdown in the air conditioning system prompted speaker Richard J. Rabbitt to allow state representatives to work in shirt sleeves Tuesday. The temperature in the muggy cham-ber was well above 27 C. ( 80 degrees F ) when Majority Leader Kenneth Roth- ma- n announced he had checked and found that the air condition system was broken and was not expected to be repaired for another month. It was 28 C. ( 82 degrees F) in the other chamber, but senators didi't acknowledge the heat and worked in their required coats and ties. Bond still refuses to free funds By Scott Bowles State capital bureau ' JEFFERSON CITY Gov. Christopher S. Bond said Friday that although the state's latest revenue figures are encouraging, he does not yet know whether he will be able to release money withheld from state agencies. " At this point, I'm very hopeful we can release all or part of the funds," Bond said at his press conference Friday. " As soon as I have a definite in-dication of whether I can or cannot release some or all of the funds, I will announce it" James Spainhower, state treasurer, requested release of the funds because his figure show that as of Feb. 29 the state's income for fiscal 1976 has in-creased 11.57 per cent over the same period last year. In addition, the Columbia Missourian reported Friday that almost half of the $ 28 million now being withheld could be released. Those figures were drawn up by the University State and Regional Fiscal Affairs Unit Last fall, Bond asked state agencies to pare their general revenue ex-penditures by 3 per cent so there would be enough money for emergency ap-propriations and tax refunds. This money will be returned to the agencies in May in whole or part if there is a sur-plus at that time. Since Bond originally had estimated an increase of 8.5 per cent in state revenues for the year, the current 11.57 per cent figure released by Spainhower would seem to allow the release of the 3 per cent to the agencies. However, Bond now says a revenue increase of 12.34 per cent is needed to compensate for income tax refunds and emergency appropriations before the 3 per cent can be released. " The February figures are very en-couraging," Bond said. " The question is whether the February figures are in-dicative of a trend and whether we'll be able to pay the 3 per cent in May." Bond also said he couldn't say yet whether he would be able to release the $ 12.7 million withheld from the school foundation program which Sens. William J. Cason, D- Clint- on, and Nor-man L. Merrell, D- Montic-ello, had requested. Inventor plugs low- ener- gy bulb WASHINGTON ( UPI) - Federal energy officials announced plans Friday for commercial development of a revolutionary light bulb that uses 70 per cent less electricity and may last up to 10 years. The inventor, Donald D. Hollister of Placentia, Calif., predicted his " Litek" bulbs will initially sell for $ 7 to 510 apiece and should be on the market within two years. Although the Litek bulb looks like an ordinary incandescent bulb and will screw into a regular lamp socket, it is actually a small flourescent light It gives off a white glow similar to that from a flourescent tube and emits little heat The new bulb has no filament to get hot and burn out Instead a coil of wire about the size of a small lipstick tube becomes a cool electromagnet when the power is switched on, making mercury gas in the bulb give off ultraviolet light that triggers a glow from a phosphorous coating. The bulb should bum from 12,000 to 24,000 hours, which equals five to 10 years of normal use, Hollister said. He said it will burn out eventually when a transistorized control circuit fails. Hollister said he got the first idea for his long- lif- e, low -- energy bulb about eight years ago, but ' ' it went over like a lead balloon" at that time and remained " a solution looking for a problem," he said. Then came the energy crisis. Sitting in a long gas line in 1973, Hollister retur-ned to the idea, founded his Lighting Technology Corp. in 1974 and turned to the Energy Research and Development Administration for help in putting the bulb on the market Hollister said he has made about 100 of the new bulbs by hand. Some of them have been tested by ERDA and the National Bureau of Standards. ERDA Assistant Administrator Austin Heller said ERDA will provide Hollister with $ 310,000 under a one- ye- ar contract to work out final technical problems with the new bulb, conduct market studies and develop plans for commercial production. He said' Hollister is providing $ 34,000 in mat-ching funds. Hollister and ERDA officials said 25- w- att Litek bulbs put out about ti same light as a 50- w- att incandescent bulb and can cause radioa to sputter with static if the power line voltage dips. Heller said the government's in-vestment in Hollister's idea carries with it a guarantee that no big company will buy up the patent and keep the litek bulb off the market |