Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1977-06-12

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Farmland
giving way
to housing
City and county
merge as urban area
ByKarlPolzer
Missroriaa staff writer
Boone County is no longer 400.QGQ
acres (160,000 hectares) of farmland
with a university town somewhere in
the middle Land once devoted to
growing crops as rapidly being con-verted
to residential developments
"Boone Count) is an urban county
The majority of people are not farmers
as their primary source of income Has
has been true for o era decade Urban
sprawl is not new' says Sex Campbell,
University professor of rural sociology
Campbell says urban spread around
CoJuiuoa is similar to growth around
most major cities in toe United States,
including St Louis and Kansas City
Last yeex, $i8S for 5$ &9w&S?
hectares) of subdivision homes outside
the city limits were approved, John
Whiteside county planner,says
Boone County is similar to larger
metropolitan areas, Campbell says,
because more homes are being built in
the rural areas around &e city than in
the aty itself 'We are getting a low-densi- ty
population, urban county,"
Campbell says "The distinction bet-ween
Columbia and Boone County is
disappearing fast with regard to the
type of people Many native Boone
Countians don't like it They see a way
of life disappearing "
The Boone County Planning and
Zoning Commission resolved May 31 to
try to contain now-scatteri- ng urban
development to the immediate area of
the county's municipalities The
commission will meet Tuesday to
discuss the means of achieving this
goal, but many problems remain to be
solved
In a related move, Columbia Mayor
Les Proctor has proposed a joint city-coun-ty
commission to study the
problems of urban sprawl County
Court members have said they favor
the idea, and the commission could be
formed in about a month
"There is large incentive m the
county for land speculation," says
Henry Galetschky, University political
science lecturer Galetschky, who
works with the University Extension
Division, has worked in community
planning for more than 20 years He
says three types of persons are most
(See URBAN, page 12A)
iFdsiisaip raise Bob Edwards, 1907 Boyd Lane, drove bis Jeep
into the shallows of the rock quarry at Stadium
Boulevard and Rock Quarry Road to enjoy the
sun and watch girls Edwards beat Saturday's
heat by going for an occasional dip
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BBMoariag map
Check marks indicate statewide teaching, training or research
facilities of the University of Missouri. Stars represent the
University's four campuses.
Tit Umlwersifty m lmiwpffii
By Barry E.Kate
asd Brian Flinchpaugfe
Missouriao staff writers
The University received more than
$16 million in property income last
year, most of it as a by-produ- ct of
research m areas ranging from animal
husbandry to forestry
The University controls or leases the
rights to more than 33,257 acres, 29,697
of which are off-camp- us. Beyond state
boundaries, the University controls
1,433 acres of land In some cases, the
University owns the property outright;
in others, it owns just mineral rights
During Use fiscal year ending June 30,
1976, the University received income
generated by land tract holdings of
approximately $1,669,102, according to
a report prepared for the Columbia
Missourian by Kent Shelton, University
comptrollir.
About $1,314,140 of this income was
generated through the sale of
EgriraltJiral research by-produc- ts, ths
report said These sales included
livestock and poultry products, crops,
fruits and milk from dairy herds
The balance of approximately
$345,080 was received from rents,
leases, share-croppin-g contracts and
other sources, the report said
These figures represent a mixture of
gross and net income, says Shelton
Despite the size of the property
holdings, land management respon-sibilities
are scattered among various
departments of the University. In some
cases, financial information, such as
expenses related to specific income,
does not exist
"I don't really believe there is a way
to tell which expenses go to generate
each product," he says. "Our
management practices are not the
same in a nonprofit mission as in a
profit mission."
The University's primary missions
are Instruction and research, not
making money, he says
Tha University uses standard ac
counting procedures recommended by
the National Association of Colleges
and Universities These standard
procedures facilitate regular audits by
independent accounting firms, the
federal, and sometimes the state,
government, Shelton says
The University's nonprofit mission
also dictates who manages each land
tract Direct management respon-sibility
is diffused throughout the
University For example, much of the
property is under the auspices of the
Agricultural Experiment Station,
which manages four research centers
throughout the state
Homer L'Hote, assistant director of
the experiment station, also manages
the 7,923-Bcr- e Weldon Spring tract in
St Charles County Recent logging
operations and timber sales on the
property were criticized by several
legislators who said the transactions
were mishandled.
The department of agronomy
manages several properties, including
the 524-ac-re Bradford Farm in Boone
County The farm, a gift to the
University, is located in an ideal
climate for agricultural research. The
soil, too, is excellent for crop studies
Consequently, many research ac-tivities
take place on the farm, in-cluding
crop breeding, weed centre!
and soil fertility programs Farm
researchers also are engaged in several
entomology studies focusing on plant
damage from insects
The School of Forestry, Fisheries ard
Wildlife, with large forest tracts in
Ashland and southeast Missouri, also
manages several thousand acres
The nature and use of University
properties vary Agricultural research
predominates Feed, animal,
agronomy and horticulture studies are
some of the activities taking place m
farms managed by the Agricultural
Experiment Station
Other uses range from biomedical
(See GUT-OF'S-T ATE, page 7A)
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PETROS TEN - JanvsEariRav
convicted assassin of Or Martin Luther
King Jr remained at large Saturdav
night but the FBI said it was confident
Ra and four other com icts ere stul m
the East Tennesset mountains
possibh w ithin a few miles o the prison
from which thev escaped 24 hour,
earlier
A sixth member of the group Dav id
Lee Powell 27 gave upquieth shorth
after 2 pjn Saturdav when he was
spotted b a state police helicopter
Tw--o other men whom the authorities
believed to be escaped prisoners were
with Powell when he was sighted but
fled into nearbv a cods and escaped
The were not identified
A spokesman for the Department of
Public Safeh said the captured inmate
did not appear to ha e been part of the
original escape plot He saw the
(escape) ladder on the wall and ran for
it
It was not known whether others
amonc tht tscapers also acted en
unpuls
Meanwhile authorities said taet
belie t J tht w ere closing n on Ha
and tht otntrs
M Jit pnson officials offered the
nt w that the ingeniouslv executed bolt
our the wall of the 35-vear-- oid
masttnum secunt facLtv --was con-ctn- ed
and nrganirtd b Ra Tix
break was cameo out with almost
flaw less precision
Ra strung W ears as the con-fessed
killer of the Re Dr Mattm
Luther King Jr scrambled over a 14-fo- ot
prison wall along with five other '
inmates on a makeshift ladder about I
30 p m Fnda and made off into the
chill and rugged Smoki Mountains
behind the prison About 150 prison
guards state troopers sheriffs
deputies and local police combed the
woods with bloodhounds during the
(SeeESCIPE pagel2Ai
By Barry Katz
Misaoorien staff writer
Tbere's a new land of army m
Missouri gearing up to fight an age-ol- d
enemy energy waste
The war already has begun, and a few
bat&BS have been won, but tfce new
recrMits are in or iong, long fight.
The Missouri Energy Agency, a
teKirib of the State Depssr&oeat
- --Ns&v& Bemmaes, bos estabhsbe4
statewide network of 170 volunteers
from industries, utilities, schools and
otfeer public institutions to conduct
energ conservation audits of
nonresidential buildings
The volunteers, usuallv working in
three-perso- n teams sgjend about tmo
hours inspecting hospitals, schools,
public buildings and businesses taking
note of areas where more efficient use
of energy could be made At the end of
each inspection, a formal report is
made and recommendations for im-plementing
energy conservation
measures are issued to the building
owner
The energy audit program has been
in effect smce August says Chns
Hamilton an energv conservation
officer with the agencv Initial funding
for tiae program came from a $75,000
grant in January 1976 from the Ozark
Regional Planning Commission
' We estimate we ve done about ISS
buildings since December Hamilton
says The majority of the audits have
been in schools and city buildings "
MEA is responsible for coordinating
the aaes-g-y audit gpegesm, says WeatsSk-Fisher- ,
director of the Missouri Eoerg
Agency
We try to get those who have
knowledge in the area of enesgy con- -
sen auon together with those who do
not, faesavs
The energy audit service is provided
free toanj institution which requests it
Hamilton says
We've had some vsrv dramatic
energy jvnngs he savs Savings
have averaged about 15 to 20 per cent.
depending on the building "
Hit Missouri energy audit program
in the nation. Hamilton says Penc-syivm- m
has operated an assistance
program for m&j&ry only as nave
OhnoGs and Nebne&a A similar
program for schools is in operation in
the Minneapolis St Paul area he says
In March, Hamilton and four other
team members from the University
conaucted audits of the Daniel Boone
Countv-Ot- v Building the Polsoe and
Fire Building and the Howard Bmlding
mColumbia
We found that although there was a
potentiallv effective beating system, ux
operated in a fairly inefficient man-ner,
Hamilton says
The team concluded that theCowSy-(Se- e
STATE, page 2fiA
Cmmhodimn students
find UeS0 only home
By James Lang
Missounan staff writer
Three Cambodian refugees, who
received their master's degrees from
the University this spring, say they
can't find jobs and they can't go back to
their country because they probably
would be shot
Bun Eng Lao, Sauth Meak and Juo
Yanat Chhrth came to the University m
July 1974 for an on-the-j- ob training
program snonsored by the former
Cambodian government in conjunction
with the Asia Foundation in San
Francisco
The program required the students'
return to Cambodia after completion of
their studies But they knew they could
not go back to their Phnom pen homes
after Communists took over the
government after the fall of President
LonNolnl975
Lao went to Bangkok, Thailand, one
month before the Communist takeover
and arranged to bring the students'
families out of the "bamboo curtain "
Douglas Ensmunger a part time
member of the Universitv s agri-cultural
economics facultv initiated a
fund-raisin-g campaign for the families'
trip to the United States Ensmmgeris
now trving to help the Cambodians to
find jobs
We've got to get something started
here because we have no place else to
go, Lao said We sent out hundreds of
resumes and applications to various
companies and received no response
from am of them "
Lao, j602B University Village, is
probabh the fortunate one of the trio,
however He was awarded a research
assistantship in the agricultural
economics department this summer so
he can work toward a doctoral degree
But Lao said he really would like to
have a job because he has a wife and
two children to support
Chhith, 1G University Terrace and
his wife are doing some odd jobs m the
Holiday Inn in Columbia He works in
(See A LAST, page 12A)
Hsio Yanat CbMiSi, Saatii Meat asiS Eossg-E&- g Lso.
Unable to return to Cambodia, they seek local work.