Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1976-08-24

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State Pair, Sedalla:
C and 9 pan. Tex Beaeke and
His Orchestra, Ray Eberle and
Paul Kelly and the Modernaires.
Exhibits
Coa taming; University Fine
Arts Gallery, University and
College Designers Association
displays publications, brochures,
posters and miscellaneous
printed materials, 9 a. m. to 3
pjn. EQis Library, Italian
Baroque Drawings and Textiles
Through Two Millenia, 2 to 5 pjn.
Colombia Public Library, Scenes
From Columbia, watercolors by
Lws Mikrut, and 20th Century
Doll Collection, loaned by Lois
Miller
Movie listings on Page ISA
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Insight
Communist
mayor rules
in Italy
Rome coalition
could be a model
on national level
N. Y. Times Service
ROME Rome's city hall is situated
on the Campidogho, a magnificent
public square designed by
Michelangelo. Across the Tiber River
stands the Vatican, home of the Sisbne
Chapel and other great works by the
same master.
" Some distance separates us," said
Prof. Giuho Carlo Argan, the city's new
mayor. " But the same genius should
link us together."
Argan was chosen this week as
Rome's first Communist- backe- d
mayor, and his comments indicate the
party's conciliatory approach. The
Communists want to maintain ties with
the Roman Catholic Church, in, part
because these two powerful forces
spring from the same soil and share the
same cultural heritage.
Before the city council elections last
June, the church strenuously
campaigned agfl& ut ( be GafiBapai& L ,
and warned that Rome under the Reds
would become " a city without God."
But the Communists led the balloting
with 5.5 per cent, while the Christian
Democrats, who have ruled the city
continuously since World War II,
trailed with 33 1 per cent
After weeks of negotiation, the
Socialists and Social Democrats agreed
to join the Communists in a ruling
coalition But since the three parties
held only 39 seats in the 80- mem- ber
counal, they needed a promise from
the three republican members to
abstain from voting.
Some analysts here believe this leftist
front could be a model for future
governments on the national level, but
the Communists didvnot press their
advantage. In a surprise move they
agreed to name Argan, who ran as an
independent on the Communist slate,
rather than one of their own party
stalwarts
The election meant that the
Communists now control every major
aty on the Italian mainland. In many
places they have won praise for
practical problem- solvin- g instead of
ideological crusades, and in an
interview this week Argan struck a
similar note.
As a professor of art history at the
University of Rome, the . mayor is
deeply conjerned with protecting the
priceless monuments in the historic
central aty. But this problem, he said,
cannot be separated from the very
modem maladies afflicting the aty
overcrowding, noise and pollution.
" Rome has spread like an oil slick,
mainly because of land speculation,"
be asserted. " The historic center is
crushed under the weight of the new
urban structures. They are the real
dangers hovering over Rome."
Yet with all the recent building, about
600,000 of Rome's 3 million people lack
adequate housing At the same time,
the city has accumulated an
astronomical debt of about $ 5 billion.
Argan offered no panaceas, but he did
offer an approach. " Sobriety,
correctness, seriousness and
application of the law perhaps will not
create much excitement at first, but we
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N. Korea calls Ford 6boss of war9
SEOUL, South Korea ( UPI) North
Korea called President Ford a " boss of
war" Monday for sending an aircraft
carrier into its waters and said it would
" annihilate the U. S. imperialists" if
fighting broke out.
The United States and South Korea
kept their forces on stepped- u- p alert
and put a news blackout on all military
maneuvers in the aftermath of last
Wednesday's ax slaying of two
American officers. A 7th fleet naval
task force steamed through the Japan
Sea toward Korea
In a broadcast monitored in Tokyo,
the. ( North) Korean Central News
Agency said
" Ford, boss of war, sent a UJ5. naval
task force with the nuclear- powere- d
aircraft carrier Midway carrying some
100 planes and guided missiles as the
axis into the waters of the northern half
of the republic and proclaimed an
emergency alert order in the whole
waters of Korea."
The Midway is powered by conven-tional
turbines, not nuclear reactors
Quoting the North Korean newspaper
Rodong Sinmun, the agency said
" 300,000 U. S. troops and South Korean
puppet army ( soldiers) in full combat
trim are deployed . at attacking posi
tions along the military demarcation
line"
In a separate dispatch, the agency
said " officers and common soldiers of
the ( North) Korean Peoples Army
stand ready to annihilate the U. S im-perialists
if they ignite a new war."
The bellicose remarks contrasted
sharply with a mildly worded message
North Korean President Kim n Sung
sent earlier to the U. N Command in
South Korea expressing regret over the
killings of the Americans in the truce
village of Panmunjom
Both the United States and South
Korea rejected Kim's note as unaccept
able and a spokesman for the American
military command in Seoul said the
42,000 US troops in South Korea and
the 600,000nan South Korean armed
forces were " on an increased alert
status"
Other than that, U. S. officials kept
secret all US military activities in and
around Korea. They declined to
disclose the specific location of a U S
7th Fleet task force consisting of the
Midway, one guided- missil- e cruiser
and four frigates.
Protest rallies continued in South
Korea against last week's incident m
which North Korean guards hacked the
two UJS officers to death in a dispute
over the trimming of a tree
Kim's unprecedented personal mess-age
the first he had ever sent to the
U. N command offered no apology
for the assault It simply said
". It is regretful that an incident
occurred in the joint security area at
Panmunjom this time An effort must
be made so that such incidents may not
recur in the future For this purpose
both sides should make efforts "
" We don't find this message to be
acceptable," said a State Department
spokesman in Washington " There's no
acknowledgment of responsibiliU by
the North Koreans"
68th Year - No. 283 GmmI Morning! Il's Tuesday 4us. 24, 1 976 4 Sections - 52 Page - 1 5 Cents
It wasn't all work on the first day of school for
Columbia youngsters. Novia McDaniel, 6, a first
grader at Two- Mi- le Prairie School, had a good
time jumping rope. She is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Alvin Plummer, 712 Easter Lane.
( Missourian photo by Lynn Israel)
9Tw& s a long trying day
By Ruth Augur
Missourian staff writer
" Mrs. Crego, this bug's leg is
broken."
" Poor bug Go put him over the fence
so no one will step on him and maybe
hell get well "
" Mrs. Crego, Mary got stung by a
sweat bee."
" Oh dear. Are you okay Mary Are
you allergic to bees? "
" Mrs. Crego, will you turn the jump
rope for us'"
RING . ." Okay children, everyone
line up to go inside. Recess is over."
Eventually all the children were in
orderly lines and filing into the building
and back to their classes.
" First graders, I need your ears.
That means everyone be very quiet,"
said Carol Crego, first grade teacher at
Two- Mil- e Praine Elementary School
" We're having a problem right now
Jimmy. What is it7 . That's nght
Everyone is being too noisy "
Monday was the start of the school
year, and Mrs Crego was trying to
maintain order amidst the confusion
caused by 36 excited and nervous first
( See TEACHER, Page HA)
Police to drop
some services
By Virginia Young and K C. Martin
Missourian staff writers
Columbia Police Chief David Walsh
Monday night received approval from
the City Council to begin curtailing non-essential
services police have been
performing
Walsh said the council had told him
manpower increases would be slight for
the fiscal year which begins Oct 1 " If
we can't get more manpower, we have
to eliminate some services," he said
People filing accident reports for in-surance
purposes three or four days
after an accident occurs will fill out
their own forms, eliminating the need
for a patrol officer
Other non- emergen- cy reports will be
taken over the phone, rather than
having an officer go to the location
These changes will be implemented
on an experimental basis immediately
The decision came during the
council's third budget work session
Requests from the city manager's
office, the municipal court, and the
personnel, public works and fire
departments also Were discussed
City Manager Terry Novak recom-mended
that the fife department's
rescue squad be closed permanently to
lessen the need for constant manning
funds
These funds allow the fire depart-ment
to recall off- du- ty firemen to keep
the companies up to full strength Fire
Chief Dean Holland had estimated that
about $ 50,000 would be needed for
constant manning for the coming fiscal
year.
Under Novak's plan, only $ 11,700
would be needed
The rescue squad, which has been
closed approximately one month this
summer because of a shortage of
money, supplements the engine and
ladder companies It also has special
equipment for auto extrication, cliff
rescues, drownings and machineiv
accidents
Holland said he agrees the squad
should be closed to accommodate
budget limitations However, he said
$ 12,000 would be needed to equip two
ladder companies with the rescue
equipment
The council also agreed to work on
ordinance changes which would fine
businesses for triggering a certain
number of false alarms per month to
the fire and police departments
" It's a very real problem to
policemen," Walsh said They
respond at high speeds as if it's a real
emergency where later there is found to
be no justification for the speeds '
Walsh said false alarms are often
triggered by employes when they open
businesses in the mornings ' Alarm
systems can be made to work properh
and employes can learn not to trip
them," Walsh said " The only way wc
can force businesses to do something is
with a penalty "
The council also decided to consider
ordinance changes concerning the city
jail and car trespassing on private
property
Municipal Court Judge Fred Dannov
asked the council for a process server
and a computer terminal in the new
municipal court location Both items
Asst City Manager Charles Hargrove
said, are not included in the proposed
1976- 7- 7 budget
Danov said a process sen er is neces-( Se- e
COMPUTER, Page 14A )
Second strong quake
jolts southern China
By United Press International
The second strong earthquake in two
days jolted Szechuan Province in south
central China Monday and the Philip-pine
Islands were hit by a major after-shock
of the Aug 17 quake that left 8,000
persons dead or missing.
No immediate reports of casualties or
damage from the quakes were
available, the latest in a series of
powerful upheavals this year that have
killed tens of thousands far more
than 50,000 lives if estimates of casual-ties
in China are included
Despite the heavy toll from earth-quakes
this year, scientists have been
unable to agree whether the calamities
are related
The Chinese tembior wasHhe third
strong quake in Szechuan in a Week and
the fourth in the country since the
strongest earthquake m 12 years
devastated a northern industrial area
July 28
Although Szechuan is China's most
populous province, with more than 66
million people, the three recent jolts
struck mountainous regions far from
large cities
Most seismological stations which
recorded the Chinese temblor, centered
about 900 miles ( 1,440 kilometers)
northwest of Hong Kong, said it
measured about 6 7 on the open- ende- d
Richter scale A monitoring station in
Strasbourg, France, recorded it at ai.
intensity of 7 25 to 7 5, slightly smaller
than the 8 0 quake that devastated the
southern Philippines last week
Szechuan's Sunday quake registered
about 6 8 Scientists said both temblors
apparently were aftershocks from the
area's Aug 16 quake, which measured
69
In the Philippines, the strongest
shock Monday was recorded at the
industrial town of Iligan, about 500
miles ( 800 kilometers) south of Manila
The Philippine News Agency said
residents panicked and drivers
abandoned their cars in the streets,
causing massive traffic jams, but
apparently there were no deaths or
serious damage
The sixth major aftershock from last
Tuesday's disaster was much weaker in
Zamboanga City, where 2,000 refugees
are housed
Phillipme officials said 175,000
persons were left homeless by the Aug
17 quake and subsequent tidal waves Tax increase needed if school bus service improved
ByNoraBoustany
MbsoorJan staff writer
Voters will have to pass a tax
increase if they want to change the
mileage requirements for free school
busing, Ray Lewis, president of the
Columbia Board of Education, said
Monday.
I Lewis said the school system cannot
afford to provide busing for Junior and
senior high school students living closer
I than the newly designated limits, as
requested by a group ofparents.
" We just do not have the funds,"
Lewis said.
Some Columbia parents, unhappy
with the board's decision to extend the
mileage limits for free transportation
to Columbia Public Schools, have
started a petition drive to compel the
school board to put the issue of the
busing limits on the ballot for a
districtwide vote.
Russell Thompson, interim
superintendent of schools, said the
board seriously will consider any
petition put before it
" The board is equally concerned as
the parents.' However, the state
. department of education has indicated
to us that it would be necessary to
submit a tax levy increase proposal
together with the parents' request to
put the issue on the ballot," Thompson
said.
Ed Bartolacci, 4310 Mexico Gravel .
Road, one of the organizers of the
petition drive, said Monday that the ' parents group already has 400 to 500
taxpayers' signatures. Ten signatures
are required to put the issue on the
ballot.
The petitions will be submitted to the
school board at its next meeting Sept
13.
Bartolacci, father of three, two of
whom are junior high school students
affected by the change in the mileage
limit, said, " We have found people from
every corner in town Seventeen to Is
groups have called us, representing
almost all outlying subdivisions," he
said.
He added that the petition might need
rewording to incorporate all the
sections of the school district
concerned. If that happens the petition
will be recirculated
Bartolacci said he was not aware that
a tax levy increase was required to
accompany the group's request
" I think it is a matter of
interpretation of the state statutes. We
will leave that up to our attorney, who is
now researching the situation,"
Bartolacci said.
Bartolacci said opponents of the bus
service limits will have a meeting at
7: 30 p m. Thursday in the community
center room of the Farm and Home
Savings Association, 725 E. Broadway.
" The purpose of the meeting is to pull
all those gronps together so they will
not splinter into factions," Bartolacci
said.
Bartolacci said in the beginning he
had sought help only in his own
neighborhood, but decided to join forces
with the Bear Creek Neighborhood
Association after he heard on television
that parents there were protesting
Missouri statute 167.231 requires only
that the board provide transportation
to and from school for all pupils living
3 miles ( 5 6 kilometers) or more from
school. The statute allows it to provide
transportation for all pupils living one
( See BUS, Page 11A)