Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1976-09-05

              TVTE hi 7, RICL 3CIETY 19334
HITT & LOWRY oT.
COLUMBIA, MQ. 65201 I
' ST. 3- 14- - 74 Council to hear more on budget
HjT SteveaRseeSI
MtencteiitBtt writer
Pnpond mcreaaa in Columbia's
ewer and trash collection charges are
among items to be discussed Tuesday
night at theOtyOwndTssecond public
baarfng on the dty administratkn'a
lS7- 7- 7 budget propoaato,
oatur major Items on the agenda for
taa meeting at 7 pan. In the Municipal
BufkHng Include:
A report on the program of
negotiations with two city employe
anient and consideration of pay and
ah leave- emergen- cy leave
emmancee.
A vote on an ordinance to set the
city's property tax rate.
A resolution expressing' the
council's support of a general property
reassessment for tax purposes
An ordinance restricting parking
in Grasslands subdivision, west of tbe
University campus.
The proposed budget includes a 20 per
cent increase in the sewer service
charge to provide sufficient funds for
payment of principal and interest on a
$ 2 million bond issue The city now
charges a minimum sewer service fee
of $ 1.32 per 100 cubic feet ( 3 cubic
meters) of water based on average
monthly water use
The budget proposal also includes an
increased the monthly trash collection
charge to $ 3 75 from $ 3 10 to help meet
rising costs.
The administration has proposed a
$ 9 4 million general fund budget and a
$ 23 3 million enterprise budget The
enterprise budget is for city
departments that make direct charges
for services, such as tbe water and light
department
Other budget areas to be discussed
Tuesday are protective inspection,
general revenue sharing, capital
projects, debt service, revolving funds,
parking utility, golf course, airport, bus
system, planning department,
community services offices,
community development and city
contributions to non- cit- y programs
The council also is expected to vote on
whether to increase some recreational
fees for city faculties Greens fees at
the Municipal Golf Course and
admission fees for the Hickman and
Albert- Oaklan- d swimming pools could
be hiked.
At last week's lengthy budget
hearing, the council did not cut the
proposed budget instead, it added
$ 28,260 to the total
Amidst vocal opposition from two
employe unions, the council also will
attempt to draw the line on its city
employe pay scale formula
Public Service Employes Union
Local 45 and the International
Association of Fire Fighters Local 1055
have attacked Novak's proposal for a 6
per cent raise for most city employes
and a 6 1 per cent raise for police and
fire department supervisors
Local 45, which represents about 110
aty employes, turned down Novak's
pay raise proposal at a meeting last
week The union wants a 35- ce- nt per
hour across- the- boa- rd increase for all
aty employes
The city and the fire fighters union
have reached an impasse on several
administration proposals The fire
fighters want a 4 45 per cent cost- of- livi- ng
adjustment on top of a pay raise,
for a total increase of about 11 percent
Another proposal to consolidate sick
and emergency leave time for city
employes and cut the total from 24 days
a year to 18 also has been criticized.
Leave tune for members of the fire
department would be cut to 240 hours a
year from 576 hours
The fire fighters have indicated they
will consider accepting the leave time
reduction only if their salary request is
granted
The union also demands that the
( See COUNCIL, Page 14A)
In town s
today
trpjn " Shaft" movie, free for
University students, Jesse
Auditorium.
Sbamwttal
Ceatiaalag: Columbia Art
League, works of Ariand Christ- Jane- r,
Russell Green, Donald
Bartlett and Greg Scheiszer, S to
5 p. m. Davis Art Gallery,
Stephens College, lithographs,
paintings and drawings by the
late Albert Christ- Janer- , 1-- 90 to S pa Ellis Library, Italian
Baroque Drawings and Textiles
Through Two IffiDenia, 2 to 5 pjn
FafaHe library, pbotograghs by
Jeff Mints, l to 5pjn.
Monday
2 pjn. First Senior Citizens
Organization, Oak Towers
Exhibits
Conthwitag; University Fine
Arts Gallery, Professional
Design Exposition, 9 son to 3
pjn. Columbia Art League,
works of Ariand Christ- Jane- r,
Russell Green, Donald Bartlett
and Greg Scheiszer, 10 30a m. to
3 15 pjn. Colombia Gallery of
Phctegraphy, photographs by
Peter Miner and JinfBll, 9 a. m.
to 4 pjn. Davis Art Gallery,
Stephens College, Ifthographe,
paintings and drawings by the
late Albert Christ- Jane- r, 8 ajn. to
5p. m.
1: 39 a. m. Boone County Court,
County- Cit- y Building
Nooa Lunchbag Seminar
Taking Our Bodies Back,
University Women's Center
Exhibits
Ostinamg: Ellis Library,
Italian Baroque Drawings and
Textiles Through Two Millenfa, 2
to 5 pm Public Library,
photographs by Jeff Miniz, 9 aan.
to 9 pjn. Other exhibits same as
Monday
See Page ISA for movie listings.
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Insight
Disclosure
veto likely
to be upheld
Chances of House
overriding Bond's
veto seen as slim
ByMarkDrasda
State fapttal bwrrau
JEFFERSON CITY - The Misaourf
General Assembly will meet
Wednesday in a special veto session to
reconsider a bDl designed to loosen the
requirements of the 1974 campaign
disclosure law, but some legislators do
not expect success
Legislators think the Senate may
override the veto but do not bold much
hope far passage in the House.
When me veto session meets. Sen. A.
If. SpradUng Jr., D- Cs- pe Girardeau,
who authored the hfil, will make his
final motion on the Senate floor.
SpradUng, who is retiring after 25
years In the Senate, will lead tbe
attempt to override Gov. Christophers
BofxTsveto.
There has been onJyone successful
veto override in tbe Missouri General
Assembly hi the last 137 yearaThat
override, of the nursing practices act in
January, also was initiated by
The campaign finance fctft was
passedin the closing minutes oaths last
day of the regular session,, and vetoed
by Bond raJiaa.' ltJw3m! have
exempted all candfttdSs for public
office in Missouri w& mttl teas than
Jaw) en meir ramnaignjpm making
financial disclosures.
Tbe bill further would have
ammnatod tbe necessity for caadkfcftt
to report gifts, salaries and
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I Farmers adjusting
I after long drought
ByRJckStoff
and Bruce Van Voorhis
Missourian staff writers
Turner Vemer has spent most of his
47 years working his farm on Route 2,
and he says he can remember only one
summer when the area's crops were in
I worse condition than they are this year
That was 1954, the year he returned
from four years in the Air Force
" There wasn't a grain of corn in
Boone County, but that wasn't my
I loss," Vemer says " I didn't plant any
I ofit"
f This summer, however, Vemer is
I among the " roughly 800" Boone County
I farmers who Don Emery, head of the
9 county Agricultural Stabilization and
!- - Conservation Service, expects will
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I Vemer has 200 acres COO hectares)
planteffa corn and expects his yield at
I harvestwill be only one- thir- d of what it
would have been in a normal year
I In a good year, Vemer would expect
his fields to yield about 100 bushels of
corn an acre This year, be expects only
j 30 to 40 bushels anacre
" We haven't been blessed with any
moisture, that's for sure," says Bill
White of Ashland He has 15 acres ( 6
hectares) planted in corn and expects
to harvest " about half a crop " He says
his fields should have yielded about 85
bushels an acre based on the amount of
fertilizer he used, but probably will
yield only 35 or 40
Bill Lipscomb of Sturgeon has 60
acres ( 24 hectares) planted in corn and
says his production probably will be 40
per cent below normal, reducing his
yield from 100 bushels an acre to about
65
The problems of area farmers,
Vemer says, have been worsened by the
fact that me drought has largely been a
local condition. " If everybody had a
drought, corn prices would go up,
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are not experiencing such harsh
conditions, prices will not go up, Vemer
says He expects to get about $ 2 a
bushel for his crop, giving him a gross
return of approximately $ 80 an acre
" It's nothing for someone to spend $ 60
an acre on a corn crop just counting
seed, fertilizer, and chemicals," he
says " You might say I'm breaking
even "
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Mid- Missou- ri's drought has taken its biggest ton on corn.
These ears from the University's Sanborn Fields are, left,
from irrigated plots and from nonirrigated plots. The
drought also is responsible for the dry lake on the farm of
Turner Vemer, Route 2. Before the drought, Vemer's cattle
drank from the lake. ( Missounan photos by Doug Atkins and
David Elkinson )
We're lucky to break even," says
Jimime Davis of Centralis Davis says
his costs continue to go up, but the
prices farmers get for their crops
remain steady He says a tractor part
that cost him $ 13 three years ago now
costs 40
The drought also has made it more
difficult for farmers to care for their
cattle Vemer says he already has
begun feeding his winter hay to his 150
cattle to make up for the pasturage that
has been depleted
" You have to keep them fed to keep
them out of somebody else's corn," he
says If they say the corn your cattle
ate was going to make 80 bushels an
acre when you know it was only going to
make 30 or 40, you're still liable for 80 '
Lipscomb says he knows of many
hay to their cattle now because their
pastures have dried up, even though
they usually do not have to start until
November He says this may cause a .
hay shortage this winter (
" You really have to watch the water
supply, too," says Vemer Because the
ponds from which his cattle normally
drink have dried up, he has had to begin
( See LIVESTOCK, Page 14A)
Losses up
as drought -"--
continues
By United Press International
Drought has tightened its crop- stunti- ng
grip and farmers' losses are
! mounting daily in a wide belt of the
I upper Midwest
A survey of the drought situation in
I the Midwest showes
The drought is worsening in South
Dakota, particularly in the
northeastern part of the state, where
I rainfall is 12 inches ( 30 centimeters)
below normal, and crop and livestock
I loses are estimated at more than $ 1
! billion
Minnesota Agriculture
Commissioner Jon Wefald predicated
i the state's farmers would bank only
about one- ha- lf as much this year as
they would have with normal weather
Wisconsin Gov Patrick Lucey has
asked disaster aid for 45 counties
Farmers are estimated to have lost
more than $ 500,000
Fire fighters Saturday reported
progress in then- batt- le to contain forest
and range blazes in some drought- stneke- n
areas
A federal Forest Service spokesman
in Nebraska said a rangeland fire that
bad burned more than 2,800 acres ( 1,120
hectares) of national forest and private
land might be brought under control by
today
Non- votin- g American is no joke
By Christopher Lydon
N. Y. Times Service
NEW YORK - O- riginally it was the
Joke . " Don't vote it only encourages
em." But an unnrecedenuy large
group of Americans will act on mat
principle, seriously and consciously, by
avoiding the polls this faJL
Non- voter- s, who are approaching
majority status in the adult population,
seem to know better man ever just why
they want nothing to do withwlittca.
Two4birdfl of mem, in a new national
sampling made public this weekend,
agree on the theme, '' Candidates say
one ming and then do another," as
reason enough to stand off from tbe
presidential election
Almost as many explain non- voti- ng
with the view that, " It doesn't make
any difference who is elected because
things never seem to work right" One- ha- if
tbe non- vote- rs say simply " I just
don't bother with politics."
Roughly 70 million qualified, voting- ag- e
Americans almost certainly a
record total are expected to choose
not to vote Nov 2. As tbe non- vote- rs
described themselves in extended
Interviews, they Include a terg
complement of younger, poorer;
relatively unschooled citizens who
never saw much to share or care about
in political activities But those
traditional non- votin- g ranks axe being
swelled, it appears, by a large group of
new drop- out- s middle- clas- s onetime
voters who are breaking the habit with
a purpose
Among those who do not plan to
choose thisyear between Jimmy Carter
and President Ford, one out of every
eight non- vote- rs cared enough to vote in
1 1971 That ratio implies a four- ye- ar
growth of nearly 10 million non- vote- rs.
Polling of 1,486 non- vote- rs lately
" the target of bom political and
academic inquiry was conducted in
late July by Peter D Hart Research
Associates, Inc , of Washington, D C ,
for non- partisa- n, labor, business and
foundationupported study of the
shrinking American electorate These
were some of the preliminary findings
of the on- goi- ng investigation
Post card registration and other
simplifications of the voting process
cannot hope to expand participation
sharply because It is primarily active
attitudes, not outside obstacles, that
keep people from the polls.
Non- voti- ng inclinations remain
notably high in the post- Wor- ld War n
" baby boom" generation that came of
age in an era of protest and seemed to
have accepted non- participati- on in j
( See SOME, Page 14A)
No paper Tuesday
Because of the Monday Labor
Day holiday, there will not be an
issue of tbe Columbia Missourian ;
on Tuesday , Sept. 6.
Missourian publication will '. I
resume Sept. 7. 1 I
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