Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1976-11-30

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keep in touch
Dale Amide has some advice torSec
elect John Danforth.
"My advice to the new senator would
be to keep more of his staff in the
state," says Amick, the oca-ma- n staff
of Sen. Stuart Symington's Columbia
office.
Amick says there are certain things
better handled by a local office man by
0e one in Washington. A strong local
office keeps the senator closer to his
constituency.
"I believe you get faster service
through a local office," Amick says. "K
someone has a problem, he gets
individualized attention."
Danforth has had little time since the
election to think about where he will put
his state offices, but he says he will be
planning mat in the next few months.
He agrees with Amick mat being
close to his constituency is important
"You are the senator for everybody
to the state," Dwrftrth 'aay?fc
citixens are all your clients."
While he still does not know how
This report on a U. S, senator's
need for rapport with bis
constituents was written by Steve
Lord, Mike Reddm and Ed Fees of
toe Columbia MJssourtan's special
reporting team en government and
polities,
many people will staff his state offices,
he is taking the decision seriously.
"You are only as good as the people
who work for you," he says.
The Symington office will remain
open until January, Amick, who was
helped by another Soft-tim- e employe, is
left with only part-tim- e help.
"The cases started to fall off after the
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By Jeff ftabia andSteve Rosen
afissouriaa staff writers
Threewomen living in a two-bedroo- m
basement apartment at 11QS Hamilton
Way owned by James Estea have only
the&rgasstove to keep mem warm.'
Two bricks support rotted porch '
columns in the front of another Estes
property atMMWilkes Blvd.
A 67-ye-ar old tenant at 115 Hitt St, a
third Estes rental unit sleeps in an
overcoat because there is not enough v
heatinhis second Door bedroom.
These are three of several apparent
housing code violations found at the
property owned by James Estes.
Estes, president of Omnico, a proper-ty
management firm, purchased the
properties at 1105 Hamilton Way and
210 Hitt St last August The two proper-ties
at 1004 and 1002 Wilkes Blvd. are
among several purchased during the
lastlsmonths.
An inspection py the Columbia
Missourian revealed that four
properties owned by Estes are
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apparently in violation of the city
housing code. Six other Estes
properties on Alton Avenue, one block
south of Wilkes Boulevard, showed no
substantial housing code violations.
The houses owned by Estes were
among 36 rental properties inspected
during the last month by the
Missourian. It is the third housing
condition study in three years by this
newspaper.
Other articles this week will report
the results of a revisit to landlords cited
in previous Missourian visits, tell what
the city is doing in its housing
inspection program and look at an
ordinance in University City, Ma,
which is designed to prevent rental
areas from becoming slums.
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Columbia lawver Robert Head
pleaded guilty Monday to stealing
$41,000 from me estate of an elderly
Columbia woman.
Adair County Circuit Court Judge
Bruce Normile placed Read on
probation for five years provided he
repay the estate of Clara Perkins within
30 days.
The sentence was recommended by
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Seitx and was agreed toby Headand his
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Read also told the court he would
surrender his license to practice law by
Wednesday.
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(See SUIT, page UA)
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new M.U. law school dean
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Mtetariaa staff writer
ADenE.Smitb.aUw professor at the
University of Texas, will be the nest
dean of the University's law school
Chancellor Herbert Schooling Monday
night confirmed Smith's appointment
to replace Dean WQHam L. fes&hsttft,
who is retiring next summer.
Smith was one of four candidates
recommended to Schooling by a
student-faculty-alum- ni selection
committee earlier thfa month.
Schooling said he chose Smith over
the other candidates because "he's
coming from a very good few school at
toe University of Texas, he has a
background of successful experience in
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chairman of tin search committee,
said, 41 think ifs a vesy fine selection.
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Three women tenants say they use this gas stove,
above, in the basement apartment at 1105
Hamilton Way to provide heat. They say their
furnace has not worked since September. The
two shelves and the table on the right provide the
only storage areas for food and utensils. The
ceiling piping and fixture? are exposed, in
Since the first Missourian
investigation in 1974, the city has
rewritten its housing code and with the
help of federal funds has increased the
number of housing inspectors to three &&.,. , -- - .- -
Despite the additional inspectors,
city building regulations supervisor
Charles ScKeurich said the city has not
inspected the Estes properties because
no one has complained about conditions
in them. He said the city inspects
rooming hwises twice a year.
He could not explain why the city did
not include 1105 Hamilton Way in an
inspection of 41 rooming houses last
June.
The other three Estes properties with
apparent code violations, which are not
rooming houses, are not part of a
regular housing inspection.
As defined by the city housing code, a
rooming house is a dwelling consisting
of three or more rooming units leased
separately, none of which include
cooking facilities but which may
include a common kitchen to be shared
by three or more occupants.
apparent violation of the city housing code.
These columns, left, at 1004 Wilkes Blvd. are
supported only by bricks and need to be painted
again apparent violations of the housing code.
The houses are owned by James Estes, 1400
Porter St. (Missourian photos)
: violations unveiled
TheMssourian inspection two weeks
ago onhe house at 1105 Hamilton Way.
uncovered 10 apparent violations of the
housing code.
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Shirley Malloy, 31. and a third
roommate heated a two-bedroo-m
apartment by lighting their gas stove.
They complained to their manager,
Dave Johnson, 210 Hitt St.. in
September, but still have no heat, they
said Monday. Johnson quit as manager
last week.
The housing code says heating
equipment must be properly
maintained and capable of keeping all
rooms at least 68 degrees Fahrenheit
(20 degrees Celsius).
"Sure it gets cold," said Ms. Malloy.
"He (Johnson) said he would fix it, but
he never did." The three women pay
$100 rent per month which includes
their gas bills.
Two of the women are unemployed
and the other works at the Woodhaven
Learning Center. "We'd find a better
place to live if we could afford it," Ms.
Malloy said.
After being informed of the results of
the Missourian inspection Estes said
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the other properties be owns. Since he
purchased the building last August,
there has been no time to upgrade it, he
said.
Since talking with the Missourian two
weeks ago Estes said he and his wife
had been to the house three times.
There is more than enough heat in the
basement apartment without the gas
stove being lit, he said. "There's too
much heat. There is more than
necessary," he said.
Other apparent violations in the
basement apartment include:
A cracked and unusable light
socket
Cracked walls and peeling paint in
the living room.
A rusted and cracked shower floor
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Most bolldingg are vmA as shelters from the cold, but
Jesse IbU afforded no warmth Monday morning. The heat
had been turned off during the Thanksgiving holiday
causing many plants, including the one on Lola Carey's
desk, to freeze. (Missourian photo by Bob Dickerson)
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Secretaries bundle up
to tackle great indoors
Secretaries sat behind their
typewriters wearing coats and
gloves Monday morning in the
University's Jesse Hall as building
temperatures hovered in the 40s and
50s F (4 to 13 degrees C).
They were not the only chilled
Columbians. The National Weather
Service reported the temperature
was 7 degrees F (--14 C) at 8 a.m.
Monday. The afternoon high was 22
F (--6 C) at 3 p.m.
This probably will be the coldest
November reported for Columbia, a
spokesman for the weather service
said. The coldest November for
Columbia to date was in 1959 when
the average daily temperature was
37 F (3 C). The average daily
temperature through Nov. 28 this
year was 36 F (2 C).
It will be sunny and warmer today
with the high in the low 30s. Today
will be the start of a slow warming
trend lasting through the weekend,
the weather service said.
Rex Dillow, assistant
superintendent of the University's
physical plant, said neat is cut back
on weekends in buildings that will
not be used to conserve energy. This
has been University policy for three
years, be said.
"We try to have the buildings at
least 64 degrees (F, 18 C) by 8 am.
(See NUMB, page 14A )
Winter shows no mercy
as snow hits Northeast
From oar wire services
A storm that shackled in ice end-of-the-boli- day
travel in the South
went on Monday to dump snow and
freezing rain on the northeastern
quarter of the nation. It left
hundreds of schools closed and inter-state
highway systems temporarily
shut down across the South.
Bitter cold for so early in toe
season assailed most of the nation
east of the Rockies. Ice hampered
barge traffic on the upper Missis-sippi
River and a gas line rupture
left residents of three St Paul,
Minn., suburbs without natural gas
in sub-ser- o temperatures.
TheNational Weather Service was
pessimistic about chances for
improvement In its 20th storm
summary on the current outburst of
winter-lik-e weather, the weather
service said it "will be several days
before normal temperatures are
experienced once again."
Lusty squalls off toe Great Lakes
dumped from six inches (15 centi-meters)
to a foot (30 centimeters) of
snow on sections of northwest New
York and northern Ohio. Warnings
(See PLANE, page 14A)