Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1976-04-14

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By our wilt services
WASHINGTON -Despite the talk of
"momentum" in presidential politics,
toe campaigns of nearly all file leading
candidates have been slowing since the
last federal matching funds were paid
out three weeks ago
Senate and House conferees agreed
Tuesday on extensive changes in the
law governing the 1976 campaign, but
the action came too late to permit
restoration before mid-Ma- y cf federal
subsidies for presidential candidates
The one campaign that appears to be
proceeding without severe money
problems is that of President Ford,
whose approval of new legislation is
required before his challengers again
can get funds from the Federal Election
Commission.
Ronald Reagan's campaign was $1 5
million in debt April 1, while Ford's had
a surplus of about $750,000, official
financial reports showed Tuesday.
Fund reports for Jimmy Carter and
George Wallace had not been received
Morris Udall showed a $250,000 deficit,
and Henry Jackson had a surplus of
$150,000.
"It's really incredible to think that
anyone who can come up with $150,000
now has a good shot at the nomination,"
said Harold Pearson of the New York
advertising agency that handles
Jackson's account
But, with the $1,000 limit on campaign
contributions by individuals still in for-ce,
it is necessary to find a minimum of
150 donors to raise that land of money
FEC reorganized
See story, Page 2
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Increasingly, the candidates are being
diverted from the campaign trail to
help with fund-raisi- ng Jackson's
schedule, for instance, calls for htm to
spend most of Thursday in a hotel room
in Philadelphia making appeals to
likely contributors
Jackson once said his financial
resources would enable him to pull
ahead of his rivals at this stage of the
campaign
Money problems also have con-tributed
to a second reorganization in
less than three months of Udall's cam-paign
Reagan's financially troubled cam-paign
was helped by his nationwide
television show, which cost him $100,000
but raised $750,000 Those funds were
not counted in the April 1 report
Most of his debts were for fund-raisin- g
and campaign expenses
The report also showed Ford had
pulled ahead of Reagan in fund-raisi- ng
for the first time in the campaign Ford
has raised $7 5 million and Reagan $7 3
million The totals include about $2
million in federal funds received by
Ford and $1 7 million by Reagan
Reagan's lone primary victory in
North Carolina was expensive, the
reports showed He spent $359,823 to
Ford's $195,804
Reagan outspent Ford heavily
$659,580 to $551,780 m the Florida
primary, which the President won The
former California governor also spent
more in unsuccessful primaries m New
Hampshire and Massachusetts
Ford outspent Reagan in Wisconsin
and Illinois, both of which he won
The reports showed the delegate-ric- h
California and Texas primaries now
are the main targets of the GOP con-tenders
Ford has spent $140,000 in
Texas and $178,000 in California
Reagan has spent $97,000 in Texas and
$96,000 in his home state
The Texas primary is May 1, with
California voting on June 8
Ford has asked the election com-mission
for another $701,000 in federal
money, while Reagan has asked for
$282,000 Among the Democrats, Udall
has asked for $128,000 and Carter for
$57,000
Students
may strike
in France
Unemployment,
possible reform
add fuel to fire
ByMfltFrendenheim
Chicago Daffy News
NANTEBRE, France In the same
dingy modem-slu- m buildings where the
May 1988 student revolt began, univer-sity
students again are agitating for
national strikes and street demon-strations.
Their strike action eight years ago
spread to barricades in the Paris Latin
Quarter and closed French industry
The final, delayed result was the
resignation of French President
Charles de Gaulle.
As activists cover the drab concrete
skyscraper campus with strike posters
and as marathon "assemblies" debate
ideology and strategy for hours, it all
has a "perfume of May," for many
Frenchmen.
The issues this tune center on the
unemployment waiting just offstage for
practically all young French university
graduates
The universities have become "fac-tories
turning out the unemployed" at
fee rate eSWifiHO a year. Of France's
nearly 1 million official jobless total, 47
per cent are under 25. Onehalfofthe
university graduates of 1970 found no
work in their field of study or went
straight onto unemployment rolls
The government has a reform plan to
cut back enrollment in liberal arts sub-jects
and to point the 800,000 students in
75 universities toward the needs of
French industry
"This reform is a scandal," said
Claude D., a 20-year-- old second-yea- r
law student active in a far-Le- ft
movement called MARC
"They are trying to make the univer-sity
run according to the laws of profit
Research or anything to study what's
wrong with our society would be discar-ded
as unprofitable "
He was standing outside the law
school auditorium where an assembly
was called to approve an "unlimited"
national strike starting Thursday. Thir-ty
universities already were striking.
Claude is the son of a business
executive who recently was out of work
for a year in France's worst recession
since the 1930s.
"We live in a middle-clas- s part of
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Citizen says
he will end
losing drive
against F&Z
By Brian Cooper
Missourian staff writer
Boone County voters twice have told
Oscar Roberts that they want county
planning and zoning.
Despite his belief that there is "no
chance" of abolishing planning and
zoning, Roberts said Tuesday he will
continue his petition drive to place the
issue on the ballot a third time.
Roberts said he has about 1,400 of the
1,572 signatures needed for a spot on the
November ballot
Roberts, who supported losing cam-paigns
to abolish planning and zoning in
April and November of 1975, said
student voters have helped retain coun-ty
planning and zoning
"If the students wouldn't vote we
could eliminate planning and zoning,"
Roberts said "The students don't have
a moral right to vote on P and Z "
Pointing out that without the three
local colleges and the University,
Columbia "would be a horse and buggy
town," Roberts doesn't resent students
living in Columbia only that they vote
on planning and zoning
The city's Fourth Ward, in southwest
Columbia, soundly defeated the drive to
abolish planning and zoning last
November by a 1,728-30- 2 margin
Roberts said planning and zoning never
will be abolished as long as there is a
Fourth Ward
He will not make the petition rounds a
fourth tune, he said
"I like to think that I have a little
sense and this is my last time (to cir-culate
petitions)," Roberts said "I
don't see how we can win ' '
If be can not live without planning
and zoning, Roberts apparently won't
live in Boone County He said that he
has all his property for sale and
probably will move with his wife to
Florida
68th Year No. 172 Good Morning! It's Wednesday, April 14, 1976 2 Sections - 28 Pages - 15 Cents
I Bc&rtG.Raidffle
Drunk
4I ain't got no place to land. I don't
know how I've survived, but time's run-ning
out. I'm drinking myself to death.'
By Robert G Rafcliffe
Missourian staff writer
Gene was born in Columbia 50 years ago today To
celebrate, he is going to get drunk
But his birthday is only today's excuse for drinking,
because Gene has been drunk for most of the past 30 years
Until recently, Gene had neither income nor home His
daily routine was to find some money to buy wine, get
drunk and go to the bus station to sleep
Gene would take one of the four chairs next to a station
entrance for his bed He would sit sideways in the chair,
and place his grey top coat across his lap His left arm
would be laid protectively across the coat
In stretching his right arm along the rail behind him he
would expose a large Bowie knife tatooed on his forearm
When the station closed, Gene would leave in search of a
drink or a place to stay the night
"I stay where I can get a place to lay down," he says "I
can lay horizontal on a piece of concrete, and depending on
your state of mind, I can think of it as a bed Hell, if you're
going to feel sorry for yourself, you're going to lay there
and die "
The homelessness was frightening Gene, though "I ain't
got no place to land I don't know how I've survived, but
time's running out
"I don't eat the average meal every day, but you can eat
yourself to death I'm drinking myself to death "
He says money is one of his biggest problems, but other
people's charity helps "A guy asked me one day if I had a
dollar I said, 'No,' and he gave me one "
Two weeks ago, Gene moved into a five-roo- m, white
frame house on Hickman Avenue The house belongs to his
friend, Ernest, who receives a government pension of
about $500 a month Ernest supports himself, Gene and a
man named Jim
With its well-ke- pt yard and neatly painted trim, the house
looks no different from any other on the street But the
inside is littered with empty wine bottles, garbage and
cigarette butts crushed out on the nardwood floor
The walls are bare The windows are covered with larps
or old pieces of cloth Ernest sleeps on a mattress on the
floor Gene sleeps on an old sofa Jim sleeps on a set of
naked bedsprings
Gene's life now is a long way from what he had as a child
One of seven children, he grew up on the west side of town
His father had a moderate income, and the family was
close
Two brothers, Don and Hank (not then- - real names), who
(See ALCOHOLIC, Page 16A)
By William Tarrant
State capital bureau
JEFFERSON CITY Even after a
committee hearing Tuesday night,
senators remained skeptical of a
University "State Relations Plan"
disclosed earlier in the day that some
senators think calls for a lobbying cam-paign
to get the University better fun-ding
Senators decided to delay the matter,
however, for further consideration af-ter
the session
Senate Appropriations Committee
Chairman Norman Merrell, D-Montic-ello,
said he was somewhat
satisfied with the University's presen
tation by President C Bnce Ratchford
and Jack Hamilton, assistant to the
president for communications
But Merrell said he wants to pursue
the matter to discover how much the
University spent on "self per-petutaio- n,"
as opposed to education
Sen Richard Webster, R-Carth- age,
suggested that Ratchford, members of
the committee and representatives
from the Cole County prosecuting at-torney's
office meet this summer to
determine what lobbying efforts should
be disclosed and reported under the
state's lobbying regulation law
The plan, published Tuesday in the
Maneater, a campus newspaper, calls
for using University employes, alumni
and the Extension Division in a
"legislative network" to "maintain
contact" with members of the General
Assembly and lobby on a number of
University-relate- d issues
The plan also states as a goal the
"commitment of governmental leader-ship
and candidates for office to review,
in 1977, the system's potential and ex-penditures
of state reveune " Senators
interpreted this to mean active lob-bying
for a tax increase
Ratchford told the committee the
memo was put together so University
administrators on the various cam-puses
could keep each other informed
about legislative developments
He said the original memo was
labeled 'confidential" because it was
meant for staff discussion only ' Had it
been finalized," he said, "we would
have been proud to release it "
Under questioning, Ratchford said
parts of the plan, aimed at a lobbying
effort during this session, already had
been implemented but that it was never
the intention of the University "to get
into endorsing candidates "
Ratchford did admit that the Univer-sity
has a lobbying effort underway to
promote a tax increase But he denied
the policy was a directive to the Ex-tension
Division to mobilize employes
Merrell told Ratchford, "You're
taking money to pay employes to devise
a plan on how to get more money
"Maybe it's not empire building, but
almost If you are using this for public
relations fine But if this is a direc-tive
from you and that's what this
memo says then that's wrong "
Earlier in the day, Columbia
Republican Sen Larry Marshall said,
"They are utilizing this plan to get a tax
increase, to get more money for the
University by using taxpayers' money
It is a subterfuge '
Many senators said they were not
supnsed at the University's memo
Webster reminded the committee
that last year it discovered a $20,000 letter--
writing campaign about University
appropriations that was not reported as
a lobbying expense
Teachers detail cuts to save raises
By Beverly Sims
MIsssorisa staff writer
"
Columbia Public School district
teachers will be considerisg a proposal
by some teachers that kindergarten be
eliminated as one of several means of
cutting costs to ensure teachers get
salary raises nestyear.
The Columbia Community Teachers
Association considered a resolution to
the Board of Education from West
Boulevard Elementary School teachers
Tuesday that demands a salary raise
even if same services and programs
"essential to a good education program
So? children may have to be reduced or
elfoinatsd."
About 79 members cf the largest
teachers' organization in Columbia met
at Hickman High School to consider
how to counteract the defeat by the
voters, twice, of a proposed 44-ce- nt ta--
crease in the school operating tax rate
The resolution contends, in part, that
"increased class sizes and reduction in
teacher planmng-conferen- ce time
should be the last areas affected by
economizing."
Increasing class size has been men-tioned
by school board members and
administrators as the solution to rising
costs and a static budget
The West Elementary teachers also
contended that, "Salaries of personnel
must be increased substantially for all
school related personnel and --a
minimum of seven per cent increases
overall would still be far below in-flation"
Adjunct to the resolution, the West
Elementary teachers listed several
areas for possible cuts by the school
district:
The elimination of kindergarten;
The elimination of busing to the
3Vfe-m- de (5 6-kilom-eter)
limit (thus cut-ting
down on service) ;
Significant spending decreases in
books, magazines, audio visual and
materials for the libraries and art sup-plies,
Substitution of state testing
materials for the district's purchased
materials, and
Changing elementary band
programs from semi-individu- al in-struction
to group instruction
The teachers will take the resolution
to their individual schools and consider
it along with their own proposals, and
report back to the teachers' assocation
executive committee next month
The teachers at the executive com-mittee
meeting Tuesday, expressing
their anger at the rejection of the 44-ce-nt
levy hike, spoke about tbeir
frustrations with the budget problems
and the prosepct of little or no salary in--
creases for next year
The teachers estimated that even if
all their proposals were followed and all
the cute were made, it only would total
about $400,000, which is not enough to
provide their raises They want,
though, they say, to impress on parents
and voters the necessity for raising
more money for the district
Superintendent of Schools Robert
Shaw told the teachers that he does not
know what direction the district will
take in dealing with the budget crunch
Elizabeth Hickman, acting CTA
president, said the failure of the levy to
get 67 per cent of the vote, although it
got 60 per cent, was caused partially by
toe teachers' low-ke- y campaign.
Many of the teachers saldthey would
like to submit the issue to the voters one
more time, although they are
discouraged that the law requires two-thir- ds
majority to pass.
Faculty critics
quiet at meeting
By Katherine Hershey
and Molly Moloney
Missourian staff writer
University President C Bnce Rat-chford
Tuesday presented a grim pic-ture
of the University budget in a
faculty meeting in Jesse Hall It was a
familiar litany to the faculty members
who did not take the opportunity of an
open forum to voice earlier criticism of
the president's budget policies
Speaking before approximately 165
faculty members, Ratchford said there
would be no wage or salary increase in
the coming year
"We've been in a tight situation for
the last three years and we'll be there
for at least one more," he said
A $127 million budget for the Univer-sity
has been approved by the joint con-ference
committee and awaits action
by the Missouri House and Senate Rat-chford
said the six per cent increase in
the proposed budget will cover only
mandatory operational increases
Faculty reaction to Ratchford's
statement was limited in comparison to
criticisms voiced by faculty members
earlier this year
Paul Blackwell, associate professor
of computer science and early critic of
the University's budget policies who
was not present at the meeting, said,
"The faculty is kind of numb at this
point and frustrated They really
don't think they will get real answers to
real questions They stop asking after a
while"
Three faculty members questioned
Ratchford on the University's support
of a movement to increase the state tax
base, a possible increase in student in-cidental
fees and the size of the Univer-sity's
administration
Ratchford said "Some people think
there are too many faculty members
There may be too many administrators
but if every cent that is allocated to the
administration were put toward faculty
salaries, it still wouldn't be what is
needed"
Ratchford said $1 5 million is needed
for each faculty salary increase of one
percent A six per cent salary Increase
to meet the rate of inflation would
necessitate an additional $9 million
Ratchford said
Robert Daniel, professor of
psychology and chairman of the
Faculty Council, said he had hoped for
more faculty reaction "People pretty
well knew the answers. It's an unhappy
situation It's becoming a way of Me.
We'll do the best we can "
Robert Rowland, professor of history
and a critic of the University's budget
priorities, said Ratchford's speech
repeated what most faculty members
already knew "It's a bleak picture."