Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1977-07-21

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Noon "Fad Diets," Women's
Center, 1 Gentry Hall.
7 pjru "Collegium Musicum
Winds," Quad Concert Series,
Francis Quadrangle, University,
free.
7:39 p.m. "Dial 'NT for Mur-der,"
Nifong Park. $1 adults, 50
cents children.
8 pan. "A Midsummer Night's
Dream," University Theatre,
$2.50.
8 p.m."Nosferatu," Ellis
Library Auditorium, free.
8:15 jxm. "Light Up the Sky,"
Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre,
Arrow Rock, $3.50 adults, $2.25
children.
Exhibits:
See Sunday's Vibrations
magniine for continuing exhibit
I schedules.
Movie listings on page 7B.
Cigarette ads
should stress
health warning,
report states
WASHINGTON (UPI) Half of
all cigarette smokers still are not ,
really convinced smoking is
dangerous to their health, according
to a report released by the Federal
Trade Commission.
The agency, in its annual report to
Congress on smoking, repeated the
recommendation it has made in past
years to toughen the warning label
carried on cigarette packs and in
print advertising. The agency said it
remains concerned that cigarette
ads still portray smokers as strong,
vigorous, healthy, outdoor types,
thus encouraging "consumers to
ignore the grave health con-- !
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sequences of smoking."
The FTC also released a study
claiming "the American public is
not- - well informed" about the
hazards of smoking even though all
cigarette packs have carried
warning labels since 1970 and radio
and television ads for cigarettes
have been banned since January,
1971.
The FTC said it believes the
warning label should be
strengthened, perhaps to say
"cigarette smoking is a major
health hazard and may result in
your death" or to mention specific
diseases such as emphysema.
STATE IIIJTCIUCAl 3?CISTY
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Jaworski will head Korean iiicpiiry
N.Y. Times Service
WASHINGTON The House Ethics
Committee Wednesday chose former
Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon
Jaworski to take charge of its investiga-tions
of Korean influence-buyin- g and to
revive public confidence in the inquiry.
The Houston attorney agreed to take
the post, without compensation, in a
telephone conversation with committee
Chairman John J. Flynt Jr., D-G-a.
In a news conference in Houston,
Jaworski said he made his decision
after appeals from Speaker Thomas P.
O'Neill Jr. and Majority Leader Jim
Wright. He also said O'Neill hoped that
the committee's investigation could be
conducted within three months, a
deadline that appeared optimistic. "I
agreed to do whatever I can do to ferret
out the facts," he said.
Jaworski's selection appeared to
calm the political storm that erupted
last week when Philip A. Lacovara quit
as special counsel, complaining of con-flicts
and lack of trust between turn and
Flynt.
The choice wes immediately hailed
by Rep. John J. Rhodes, D-Ari- z., the
House minority leader, who called
Jaworski "one of the most
distinguished members of the
American bar."
Initial reaction from younger
Democrats, who had pressed O'Neill
for quick action, was also favorable.
The only complaint came from some
Republicans who saw O'Neill's in-fluence
as too heavy and said a
Republican, not a Democrat like
Jaworksi, should have been picked.
There was also some criticism of the
choice from groups that had lobbied op-posite
Jaworski on the Consumer Pro-tection
Agency legislation. Commm
Cause officials were critical, and con-sumer
advocate Ralph Nader saw ,t
potential for intimidation in Jaworski's-investigatin- g
legislators who still had to
vote on that bill, which he opposed.
Flynt told reporters he was grateful
that Jaworski had accepted
City, fire fighters near
contract agreement
By Peter de Seldtng
Missourian staff writer
City officials and the fire fighters'
union Local 1055, after their initial
rounds of sometimes bitter
disagreements, now are inching
toward each other from opposite poles.
Angered by what it called annual
"begging sessions" in contract disputes
with the city, the union had set about
amending their relationship with the
city to include binding arbitration.
Now, the union has modified its posi-tion,
and apparently is ready to discuss
other options.
The city, after vehement rejection of
the fire fighters' proposed amendment,
also seems willing to rethink its labor
posture. Last Monday, City Manager
Terry Novak held the first of what is to
be several meetings with the city's four
main employe groups to seek proposals
on how to improve their relations.
"It's one of those things, live and
learn," fire union secretary Mel Tipton
said. "You've got to get along to sur-vive.
There are some workable
solutions in between the extremes."
Friday's Columbia Missourian will
report on the Public Service Employes'
Local 45. Saturday's and Sunday's
Insight
paper will report on the Water and
Light Employes Association and the
Columbia Police Officers' Association,
respectively.
The city is scheduled to begin con-tract
negotiations with the fire fighters
July 27. The sessions recently were
opened to the public, and if th recent
past is any guide, they should be quite a
show.
"They're gonna have a hell of a
surprise," Tipton says.
The backdrop for this year's sessions
dates from 1974. In November of that
year, a union representative from the
Kansas City office was invited to
Columbia to advise Local 1055 on how to
handle its difficulties with the city.
Negotiations had been stalled on a 17--
point fringe benefit package the union
was requesting.
Soon after arriving, the official an-nounced
he had never seen such
dissention within the fire department.
He said it was due to the union's "basic
mistrust" of the city administration.
Columbia itself was unaccustomed to
the kind of municipal labor feistiness
which that year saw the fire fighters
come close to an unprecedented work
slowdown.
In the last three years, sparks have
flown over a number of different issues,
but little has changed in the underlying
nature of their relationship. Basic
suspicion still pervades the atmosphere
of the upcoming sessions.
Since 1974 the fire fighters' union has
become more sophisticated in its role
as Columbia's most vocal labor group.
The city staff, for its part, has learned
to play hardball each summer at the
negotiating table.
Union accusations of bad faith
negotiations and an autocratic, "take it
or leave it" attitude by the city ad-ministration
have become almost a
fixture of the annual negotiations. And
each year, the 'city answers, union
leaders make unrealistic demands to
improve their own standing with the
rank-and-fi-le members.
It was in 1975 that the acrimony
between the two sides reached its most
(See UNION, page 7A)
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This unidentified family lost all they owned, swept through the Johnstown, Pa., area Tuesday
except what they are carrying, when a flood night.
23 die in EasteFn flood
From our Hire services
A brief respite from recent hot
weather is in sight as a result of a cold
front moving in today from the nor-thwest.
In another part of the country, a
flood hit Johnstown, Pa. causing at
least 23 deaths.
The National Weather Service says
temperatures are expected to be a few
degrees cooler today and Friday, which
is about normal for this time of year.
The normal high is 88 degrees F (31 C).
By Saturday, temperatures are
expected to rise again, as the front
moves in a southeasterly direction
away from central Missouri.
The front will bring with it a 40 per
cent chance of thundershowers.
Meanwhile, tragedy struck in
Johnstown, Pa. when an awesome
thunderstorm built a 10-fo- ot (3 meter)
wall of water that cascaded without
warning through a mountain valley
Wednesday, sweeping away roads,
cars, homes and families in an area
that signifies flood tragedy in American
history.
Johnstown has had major floods in
1889 when 2,209 died and in 1936 when 25
were killed.
State police said at least 23 persons
were killed in Wednesday's flood. All
but one were known to have drowned.
Four other persons died of natural
causes at a Johnstown hospital that lost
its power in the flood.
The death count was expected to go
much higher.
Officials said $100 million in property
was lost in the worst Allegheny
Mountain flood in 41 years.
"We have just reached a point here
we don't know how many are going to
be dead," said William Dickson, a Civil
Defense spokesman.
James Mock, police chief in Richland
Township. said."We are going after the
living first and the dead will come
(See DISASTER, page 8A )
Rate increase possible
By Jim Drinkard
and John Kennedy
Missourian staff writers
Columbians may face higher electric
rates this fall if the city adopts a new
method of pricing electricity that was
recommended Wednesday night.
A report by the consulting firm of
Touche Ross & Co. recommends what is
called a "cost of service" appproach to
rate making. Under this approach,
costs of producing' electric power are
charged to the customers who create
those costs through their demands for
electricity.
Fred Moriarty of Touche Ross' St.
Louis office gave an oral report on the
firm's recommendations Wednesday
night to the city Water and Light Ad-visory.
The report recommends breaking
down electric rates into three com-ponents:
customer, energy and demand
charges.
It would also establish a "summer-wint- er
differential" a 50-per-c- ent
higher charge for electricity in the
summer than in the winter.
If adopted, the new rates could go into
Here's how a residential customer
without electric heat who uses 500
kilowatt-hour- s per month would be af-fected
by the new rate structure, ac-cording
to Touche Ross:
Current monthly charges: $18.90
With the recommended rate structure :
1978 1979 1980
summer .... 19.42 22.40 24.00
winter 26.43 30.47 32.56
The dollar increase would be
significantly higher as electricity use
increases.
effect as early as the beginning of the
city's fiscal year on Oct. 1.
Rising costs for all elements of
electricity production fuel, labor and
equipment have eaten away at the
return on investment that the city
receives from the utility, Mpriarty said.
The suggested rate structure is in-tended
to allow the city to maintain the
utility's sound financial base while
more fairly allocating costs to different
classes of customers.
A preliminary study released in May
by the consulting firm showed that
residential customers pay less than
their share of those costs. Touche Ross
recommended a rate hike which would
be phased in over three years so that it
would be more politically palatable.
Customer charges would cover the
relatively fixed costs of maintaining
. distribution lines, metering and billing
which are close to the sametor each
customer, regardless of the amount of
power used.
Energy charges would pay for the
amount of electricity used each month.
A demand charge is --based on the
customer's cycle of electricity use
the fluctuation in use and the peak
amount used in a given time period.
Only large industrial users currently
pay demand charges. For residential
customers the demand charge would be
included in the energy charge, since the
metering equipment required to
measure peak demand is at present too
expensive to be feasible.
The different winter and summer
rates proposed are intended to help
ease the crunch of high summer power
demands when air conditioners across
(See CITY, page 7A)
Meramec
funds killed
in Congress
By Martha Jacobsen
Missourian staff writer
and the Associated Press
A Senate-Hous- e conference com-mittee
agreed Wednesday in
Washington to end funding for the
proposed Meramec Dam, immediately
leading to suggestions that the area be
turned into a natural recreation area or
be sold back to area residents for
private use.
The action was part of ending funding
of nine of 18 controversial water
projects President Carter wanted to
eliminate.
The Senate-Hous- e conference
committee met to consider a com-promise
which the President offered
earlier this week: nine of the 18 water
projects considered by him to be
"wasteful, unsafe or economically
unsound." would be approved by him if
the Clinch River breeder reactor near
Gak Ridge, Tenn., would be dropped.
The agreement was "firm." said Sen.
John Stennis, D-Mi- ss., chairman of the
Conference Committee, awaiting only a
final vote once other differences in the
$10.4 billion public works ap-propriations
bill were reached.
The Meramec Dam project, ap-proved
by Congress in 1966. was to
include construction of five dams on the
lower Meramec River near Sullivan.
Controversy over the project has
flared ever since the idea of the dam
came about. Supporters of the project
said that the dams would reduce
flooding of homes and farms along the
lake and thai the lake could be used as a
flat-wat- er recreation area which would
attract tourists.
Opponents, organized into the St.
Louis Coalition for the Environment,
believed that the river should be
maintained and mass recreation put
elsewhere. The group was concerned
about the effects that the dams would
have on fish and wildlife.
In reaction to the ending of the fund-ing
for the water project. Rep.
(See ICHORD, page 7A)
Auditor's findings spark
dispute with Glascock
ByT.CMurov
and Frank Phillips
Missourian staff writers
The expected release today of an
auditor's report concluding that 56,678
is missing from Boone County Clerk
Murry Glascock's 1972-7-3 accounts has
sparked a dispute between the clerk
and Auditor Don Caldwell.
Investigations by Caldwell and Boone
County Prosecutor Milt Harper have
determined that the money is missing
from the clerk's liquor license ac-counts,
they said.
Caldwell is to present the final report
of the audit to the Boone County Court
this morning.
In light of a 1976 spot check of the
clerk's office, which showed some
irregularities in the liquor license
accounts, Caldwell conducted a full-sca- le
audit of the clerk's office, the
auditor said.
Caldwell said he will tell the court
mat his office has obtained 1972-7- 3
liquor license applications, which
previously were missing. He said
Brenda Nichols, deputy auditor, found
these applications in a vault in the
clerk's office.
These applications enabled Caldwell
to compute the exact amount of the
missing funds, which is more than $500
more than his last estimate in June, he
said.
Harper said he considers Caldwell's
report to be "definitive" evidence that
the $6,678 is missing. But he also said,
"absolutely no evidence" of criminal
conduct has come to his attention.
Without such evidence, criminal
prosecution to recover the money is
impossible, Harper said.
"Unless someone comes forward who
is willing to testify that they saw theft
or can prove it, I can't bring criminal
charges," Harper said.
There is a three-yea- r .statute of
limitations for civil recovery of missing
funds from public officials. Harper
said. The limitations period for
Glascock's 1973 funds expired Jan. 1,
1977. Thus, without evidence of
criminal activity, no recovery is
possible. Harper said.
Primary responsibility for the in-vestigation
of Glascock's accounts
rests with Caldwell, Harper said. He
said he became involved in the in-vestigation
because the circumstances
surrounding the shortage of funds in the
county clerk's office indicated to him
that improper activity may have been
involved.
The significance of the auditor's new
findings is that the exact amount of the
shortage has been calculated, said
Harper. "I think a good job has been
done with the records available,"
Harper said.
Glascock said he had no knowledge of
what they were investigating. He said,
"I welcome the investigation. It'll clear
me. I haven't done anything wrong, so
why should I worry?"
The clerk said Caldwell is
"responsible for the licenses as much
as I am." Caldwell should have had all
the liquor licenses, Glascock said.
Glascock said it has been hard to
keep up with all his records because he
has moved his office four times. "I'm
still finding old records," he said. He
also said it was difficult because his
offices are separated in the .county-cit- y
building.
Caldwell said his office did not
maintain records of liquor licenses. He
said the clerk issued the licenses, and
the auditor's office merely coun-tersigned
the applications.
"The significant point is whether
money is missing, not whether par-ticular
records are available or not,"
said Caldwell.
The clerk said, "It's funny all of a
sudden, that he's doing his job."
Caldwell has resigned effective July 31
to devote fulltime to his accounting
practice.
Glascock said the "statutes also say
he should conduct an annual audit." He
said the last time the clerk's office was
audited before Caldwell's recent
examination, was in 1968-6- 9, by the
state auditor's office.
"When you get right down to it, there
might be several wrongs," Glascock
said. "But two wrongs don't make a
right."
The only wrong the clerk named was
that his office hadn't been audited since
1968-6- 9. He said the auditor's office
might be "covering up for themselves."
Harper said Glascock's accounts
have been found short in seven out of
the 10 years he has been clerk. "You
can't blame the auditor for all those
shortages," Harper said.
Caldwell said, "I may have be remiss
in my responsibility. However, I
thought that the amount of money in-volved
in liquor license fees was in-significant
compared to the amount of
money involved in other offices, such as
the treasurer and collector."
"But officeholders are in the first line
of responsibility and Glascock was the
one who received the money," the
(See CALDWELL, page 7A)