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UITT ft WW "Vol cUlABU' ' , : Story in Weekend, Page IB HP 70th Year - No. 43 Hood Morning! It's Friday. Nor. 4. 1977 2 Sections - 22 Pages - 15 Cents Insight Fear makes housewives homebonnd Phobia considered 'most common' in U.S., Europe By Louise Cook Associated Press NEW YORK Imagine being afraid to leave your home. So afraid, in fact, that you can't mail a letter, go to work, or attend your child's graduation. So afraid, that you remain housebound for years on end, virtually paralyzed at the nought of going outside. Hundreds of thousands of people, most of them women, suffer exactly this kind of fear. They are victims of a sickness known as agoraphobia which takes its name from the Greek word for market and means fear of public places. Dr. Clair Weekes, an author and specialist in the field, says that the number of agoraphobics in the United States alone has been estimated at IV4 million. Fraser Kent, author of a recent book on phobias, said agoraphobia is con-sidered the most common phobia in North America and Europe today. He said up to two-thir- ds of all phonics seeking treatment suffer from agoraphobia to some extent. Dr. Weekes, 75, practiced medicine in her native Australia for 38 years. Since retiring a little more than a decade ago, she has traveled widely in the United States and Great Britain, lecturing on the subject of agoraphobia and treating patients by what she calls "remote direction" through the use of her books and cassette tape recordings. Her ' books have been translated into eight languages. in "a roceni interview, Dr.WMK said agoraphobia called "homebound housewives' syndrome" in England "is one of the most in-capacitating of nervous illnesses." She said one woman went for 10 years without setting foot outside her house. Other agoraphobics are afraid to take a bath; afraid they will have a spasm of fear while undressed, and will become vulnerable. They lie to their friends, making excuses for not leaving home. Often, their marriages and families break up before they seek help. Eighty percent of the victims are women, Dr. Weekes said. "Men have got to go to work," she added, but said many men who suffer from agoraphobia will not travel from city to ' city and insist on remaining in familiar surroundings. Agoraphobia can be brought on by a variety of problems. Victims become "sensitized," Dr. Weekes said, and feel the symptoms of fear much more strongly than the ordinary person. "Anything that is a shock to the nervous (See FEAR, Page 14A) - 1 1 'jiTWie'w!'", Mfce Brier Car hops : It may not be the latest craze to hit the disco scene, but this rooftop dancing seems to suit these two children from Shady Lakes Trailer Court just fine. Interestingly enough, they seem content to leave their dance a sock-ho- p. Ma wn today . 7 pan. Astronomy film, "The Crab Nebula," 114 Physics Building, University. 7:30 p.m. Thorton Wilder's "The Matchmaker," Launer Auditorium, Columbia College. 7:30 p.m. Rodgers and Ham-merstei- n's "Oklahoma" at the Hickman High School auditorium. 7:30 pan. University Opera -- Theater presents "H.M.S. Pinafore," Hall Theater. See Sunday's Vibrations magazine for exhibitschedules. Movie listings on Page 2B. Child in 'space suit9 is able to conquer immunity deficiency HOUSTON (UPI) Doctors Thursday unveiled a "space suit" that has enabled six-year-- old David, an immunity-deficie- nt child, to hug his mother and walk outside his protective bubble for the first time. The child, whose lastname has been withheld, lacks the natural organisms that protect most people from minor infections and has never touched skin other than his own. NASA and Texas Children's Hospital developed the $20,000 rubber, plastic and nylon suit with a bubble helmet It was financed by taxpayers under the agency's "spinoff" development program. Before the suit was designed, David had never been outside protective cells constructed for him to his home, fee hospital anda van. "His eyes were huge" the first time he tried the suit last July, nurse Brynn Holcombe said. "He didn't say anything. It was his expression. He keptlooldngattbegloves." "He was looking around, hugging Us family, because he bad never -- really gotten to do that, and be said, 'Let's go take a walk.'" NASA's Dr. Loo Bergman said the suit is like quarrantlne clothes worn by astronauts after return from space more than actual space, suits. It is II 1 ' : 1 v '. attached to a portable filter system on a cart which David can ride when he gets tired and has multiple layers to protect against puncture, he said. David's physician, Dr. Buford Nichols, said the suit was developed in order to facilitate David's continued development despite his handicap. He said it is unknown whether the boy will ever escape bis protected en-vironment "He's an intelligent child, but he doesn't have the cultural experience that we like him to have," Nichols said. "We can allow him to develop physical skills be can't develop in the present isolator. You saw how clumsy he was." Nichols showed a film of David climbing into and trying the suit at the hospital. He has to climbthrough a tube leading from his bubble. - He smiled, shouted, "I like it," played with toys and reached out for his family and associates. David has been limited In his movements and '.exploration of the outside world. But now there is talk of taking him to the zoo. Officials' said logistics and the requirement of support personnel make it unlikely the suit will be used more than cnce a week In the' near future. m$ AMi!aHRBflNHnlMBKBJS6ii993HBIHHHlw. HJHBnBfl8HIHH9iHaHHiD9H9flHv Reaching out to touch others is a new ex-perience for S-year- -old David, who suffers from severe combined immunity deficiency and has , spent his life in a plastic bubble to isolate him from the germs his body has no protection against. A space suit-lik- e mobile filter system designed by NASA lets David's mother hold him in her arms. 1 t Foster to request raises for deputies By Max Baker Missourian staff writer Boone County Sheriff Charlie Poster wants to increase the salaries of his deputies to keep them from being lured away by higher paying jobs elsewhere. Foster will ask the Boone County Court to approve a 12 to IS percent increase in the sheriffs department budget for 1S78. His budget request, to be submitted formally later this month, will ask that $231,640 of the $330,945 proposal be alloted for increased wages and salaries. Foster got $50 per month pay in-creases for the deputies in February and July of this year. His proposed budget asks for two more $50 raises in January and July. The budget proposal also includes allocations for two new patrol cars and false-arre- st insurance. The sheriffs department has a larger budget than any other county depart-ment. In 1976 Foster asked for a total budget of $273,240 and was awarded $263,870. But by the end of the year, Foster said he expects to spend $285,815. The sheriffs department spent $204,280 for wages this year, and Foster said he hopes to bring his deputies' salaries even with Columbia police officers within one year. A Columbia city policeman may start as high as $799 a month while Boone County deputies' starting pay is $650 a month. "I've lost two or three good guys, good officers who liked their job, because of the money. Some places pay $300 more a month. Why that's enough to pay the rent and utilities," Foster said. Foster said he did not plan to increase the size of his staff; that he would rather keep the deputies he has instead of hiring new ones. "I'd rather keep a man who is trained and knows the county than hire another man," Foster said. "It is much better to have a few good men and salaries good enough to keep them." In a telephone survey of neighboring counties, the Missourian found that Cole, Calloway and Cooper Counties have a higher starting pay for deputies, while Randolph and Audrain Counties pay less. In Moniteau County, a judge decides on each deputy's pay. The starting wages in the adjacent counties are: Randolph, $625; Calloway, $750; Cooper, $700; Cole, $730; and Audrain, $450; Ted Salmon, sheriff of Calloway County, said his deputies' salaries were "entirely too low." According to Foster, morale at the Boone County Sheriffs office is better today than when he took office. "I think the better working facilities in the court house, the radar gun, and the improved salaries have helped a lot," Foster said. "Now I can't take all the credit for that (increased morale) but I think increased'wages again next year will do the same." Korea OKs interview of Park, reports say N.Y. Times Service SEOUL, South Korea The South Korean government has agreed to let American officials question Tongsun Park at the U.S. embassy here, reliable diplomatic sources said Thursday. The sources said the United States, through Ambassador Richard L. Sneider, had accepted the proposal in principle. Sneider had a 40-minu- te talk with Korean Foreign Minister Tong Jin Park Thursday morning, presumably to consider the protocol of when and how to question the Korean businessman. Thursday's development appeared to be a modest breakthrough in the current impasse allegedly caused by the Korean government's refusal to cooperate in the U.S. Justice Depart-ment's probe of a so-call-ed Korean influence buying scheme on Washington's Capitol Hill. Seoul had earlier rejected the idea of having the "Korean rice dealer in-terrogated inside the U.S. embassy, on grounds it would compromise South Korea's judicial sovereignty. Meanwhile, Park offered no com-ment on progress of these talks. Tongsun Parlt wra!) To be questioned Conflict of interest discussed Coal gas firm's ties a surprise By John Schneller and Jim Stern Missourian staff writers Energy officials were caught by surprise Thursday by the news that a consulting firm deeply involved in a publicly funded study of a proposed coal gasification complex has business ties to the major coal supplier in Missouri. Fluor Corporation, a multinational energy development firm, earlier this year bought a 10 percent interest in Peabody Holding Co., the largest coal company in the state, while its sub-sidiary, Fluor Engineers and Con-structors Inc., was employed as a major subcontractor in a study ad-vocating construction of a coal gasification plant in mid-Missou- ri. Energy officials contacted Thursday agreed that Fluor, a leader in the coal gasification industry, and Peabody, the nation's largest coal company, both stand to benefit from the construction of any coal gasification complexes. But the officials were unwilling to say whether they consider .the firms' business ties of little significance or a substantial conflict of interest The technical expertise supplied by Fluor Engineers and Constructors played a pivotal role in a study which declared the proposed complexes to be economically and technically sound. Harrison Lesh, a Peabody vice president, Wednesday termed Fluor's involvement in the proposed gasification centers "small peanuts." Peabody itself, however, has expressed an interest in supplying the more than one million tons of coal required each year to run one center. Jim Newman, regional director for the US. Department of Energy, said he never suspected that Fluor and Peabody share financial interests. He refused, however, to say if he considers the relationship a conflict of interest. likewise, City Manager Terry Novak was noncommittal. "I don't know if it should be excused ornot," he said. "I have no expertise in the area of engineering ethics or anti-tru- st regulations." Two leading critics of the Phase II report found by members of a City Council-appointe- d task force to be biased and misleading in favor of gasification Thursday said they don't think news of the Fluor-Peabo- dy connection will amount to much. "The whole thing is one more relatively small item that casts further doubt on the whole report," said William Wiecek, co-chairm-an of (See PROFESSOR, Page 14A) Housing plan not doomed, officials say By Betty Connor Missourian staff writer City Council opposition to a proposed subsidized housing project on East Walnut Street doesn't necessarily doom the project, say federal and state of-ficials who will make the crucial decisions. Federal officials say they expect some community objection to this type of low-inco- me housing project. State officials say Columbia's Housing Assistance Plan, on which the council based its strongest case against the project, may be too ambiguous to support the city's objection. Instead, federal officials will be looking at the developer's financial position and whether Columbia needs new subsidized housing. The future of the project "will not be decided on the basis of political pressure," said Donald Flint, area counsel for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development He said problems such as thoae advanced by the East Walnut Neighborhood Association in opposing the project potential overloading en schools and utilities are expected and "usually worked out by amending project rather than dumping a protect ' Ken Flood, of FfcW (Flood k Wife) Construction, has asked HUD to insure a mortage of about 04 million for a 8fc (See PROJECT, Page 1IA)
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Item.Transcript | UITT ft WW "Vol cUlABU' ' , : Story in Weekend, Page IB HP 70th Year - No. 43 Hood Morning! It's Friday. Nor. 4. 1977 2 Sections - 22 Pages - 15 Cents Insight Fear makes housewives homebonnd Phobia considered 'most common' in U.S., Europe By Louise Cook Associated Press NEW YORK Imagine being afraid to leave your home. So afraid, in fact, that you can't mail a letter, go to work, or attend your child's graduation. So afraid, that you remain housebound for years on end, virtually paralyzed at the nought of going outside. Hundreds of thousands of people, most of them women, suffer exactly this kind of fear. They are victims of a sickness known as agoraphobia which takes its name from the Greek word for market and means fear of public places. Dr. Clair Weekes, an author and specialist in the field, says that the number of agoraphobics in the United States alone has been estimated at IV4 million. Fraser Kent, author of a recent book on phobias, said agoraphobia is con-sidered the most common phobia in North America and Europe today. He said up to two-thir- ds of all phonics seeking treatment suffer from agoraphobia to some extent. Dr. Weekes, 75, practiced medicine in her native Australia for 38 years. Since retiring a little more than a decade ago, she has traveled widely in the United States and Great Britain, lecturing on the subject of agoraphobia and treating patients by what she calls "remote direction" through the use of her books and cassette tape recordings. Her ' books have been translated into eight languages. in "a roceni interview, Dr.WMK said agoraphobia called "homebound housewives' syndrome" in England "is one of the most in-capacitating of nervous illnesses." She said one woman went for 10 years without setting foot outside her house. Other agoraphobics are afraid to take a bath; afraid they will have a spasm of fear while undressed, and will become vulnerable. They lie to their friends, making excuses for not leaving home. Often, their marriages and families break up before they seek help. Eighty percent of the victims are women, Dr. Weekes said. "Men have got to go to work," she added, but said many men who suffer from agoraphobia will not travel from city to ' city and insist on remaining in familiar surroundings. Agoraphobia can be brought on by a variety of problems. Victims become "sensitized," Dr. Weekes said, and feel the symptoms of fear much more strongly than the ordinary person. "Anything that is a shock to the nervous (See FEAR, Page 14A) - 1 1 'jiTWie'w!'", Mfce Brier Car hops : It may not be the latest craze to hit the disco scene, but this rooftop dancing seems to suit these two children from Shady Lakes Trailer Court just fine. Interestingly enough, they seem content to leave their dance a sock-ho- p. Ma wn today . 7 pan. Astronomy film, "The Crab Nebula," 114 Physics Building, University. 7:30 p.m. Thorton Wilder's "The Matchmaker," Launer Auditorium, Columbia College. 7:30 p.m. Rodgers and Ham-merstei- n's "Oklahoma" at the Hickman High School auditorium. 7:30 pan. University Opera -- Theater presents "H.M.S. Pinafore," Hall Theater. See Sunday's Vibrations magazine for exhibitschedules. Movie listings on Page 2B. Child in 'space suit9 is able to conquer immunity deficiency HOUSTON (UPI) Doctors Thursday unveiled a "space suit" that has enabled six-year-- old David, an immunity-deficie- nt child, to hug his mother and walk outside his protective bubble for the first time. The child, whose lastname has been withheld, lacks the natural organisms that protect most people from minor infections and has never touched skin other than his own. NASA and Texas Children's Hospital developed the $20,000 rubber, plastic and nylon suit with a bubble helmet It was financed by taxpayers under the agency's "spinoff" development program. Before the suit was designed, David had never been outside protective cells constructed for him to his home, fee hospital anda van. "His eyes were huge" the first time he tried the suit last July, nurse Brynn Holcombe said. "He didn't say anything. It was his expression. He keptlooldngattbegloves." "He was looking around, hugging Us family, because he bad never -- really gotten to do that, and be said, 'Let's go take a walk.'" NASA's Dr. Loo Bergman said the suit is like quarrantlne clothes worn by astronauts after return from space more than actual space, suits. It is II 1 ' : 1 v '. attached to a portable filter system on a cart which David can ride when he gets tired and has multiple layers to protect against puncture, he said. David's physician, Dr. Buford Nichols, said the suit was developed in order to facilitate David's continued development despite his handicap. He said it is unknown whether the boy will ever escape bis protected en-vironment "He's an intelligent child, but he doesn't have the cultural experience that we like him to have," Nichols said. "We can allow him to develop physical skills be can't develop in the present isolator. You saw how clumsy he was." Nichols showed a film of David climbing into and trying the suit at the hospital. He has to climbthrough a tube leading from his bubble. - He smiled, shouted, "I like it," played with toys and reached out for his family and associates. David has been limited In his movements and '.exploration of the outside world. But now there is talk of taking him to the zoo. Officials' said logistics and the requirement of support personnel make it unlikely the suit will be used more than cnce a week In the' near future. m$ AMi!aHRBflNHnlMBKBJS6ii993HBIHHHlw. HJHBnBfl8HIHH9iHaHHiD9H9flHv Reaching out to touch others is a new ex-perience for S-year- -old David, who suffers from severe combined immunity deficiency and has , spent his life in a plastic bubble to isolate him from the germs his body has no protection against. A space suit-lik- e mobile filter system designed by NASA lets David's mother hold him in her arms. 1 t Foster to request raises for deputies By Max Baker Missourian staff writer Boone County Sheriff Charlie Poster wants to increase the salaries of his deputies to keep them from being lured away by higher paying jobs elsewhere. Foster will ask the Boone County Court to approve a 12 to IS percent increase in the sheriffs department budget for 1S78. His budget request, to be submitted formally later this month, will ask that $231,640 of the $330,945 proposal be alloted for increased wages and salaries. Foster got $50 per month pay in-creases for the deputies in February and July of this year. His proposed budget asks for two more $50 raises in January and July. The budget proposal also includes allocations for two new patrol cars and false-arre- st insurance. The sheriffs department has a larger budget than any other county depart-ment. In 1976 Foster asked for a total budget of $273,240 and was awarded $263,870. But by the end of the year, Foster said he expects to spend $285,815. The sheriffs department spent $204,280 for wages this year, and Foster said he hopes to bring his deputies' salaries even with Columbia police officers within one year. A Columbia city policeman may start as high as $799 a month while Boone County deputies' starting pay is $650 a month. "I've lost two or three good guys, good officers who liked their job, because of the money. Some places pay $300 more a month. Why that's enough to pay the rent and utilities," Foster said. Foster said he did not plan to increase the size of his staff; that he would rather keep the deputies he has instead of hiring new ones. "I'd rather keep a man who is trained and knows the county than hire another man," Foster said. "It is much better to have a few good men and salaries good enough to keep them." In a telephone survey of neighboring counties, the Missourian found that Cole, Calloway and Cooper Counties have a higher starting pay for deputies, while Randolph and Audrain Counties pay less. In Moniteau County, a judge decides on each deputy's pay. The starting wages in the adjacent counties are: Randolph, $625; Calloway, $750; Cooper, $700; Cole, $730; and Audrain, $450; Ted Salmon, sheriff of Calloway County, said his deputies' salaries were "entirely too low." According to Foster, morale at the Boone County Sheriffs office is better today than when he took office. "I think the better working facilities in the court house, the radar gun, and the improved salaries have helped a lot," Foster said. "Now I can't take all the credit for that (increased morale) but I think increased'wages again next year will do the same." Korea OKs interview of Park, reports say N.Y. Times Service SEOUL, South Korea The South Korean government has agreed to let American officials question Tongsun Park at the U.S. embassy here, reliable diplomatic sources said Thursday. The sources said the United States, through Ambassador Richard L. Sneider, had accepted the proposal in principle. Sneider had a 40-minu- te talk with Korean Foreign Minister Tong Jin Park Thursday morning, presumably to consider the protocol of when and how to question the Korean businessman. Thursday's development appeared to be a modest breakthrough in the current impasse allegedly caused by the Korean government's refusal to cooperate in the U.S. Justice Depart-ment's probe of a so-call-ed Korean influence buying scheme on Washington's Capitol Hill. Seoul had earlier rejected the idea of having the "Korean rice dealer in-terrogated inside the U.S. embassy, on grounds it would compromise South Korea's judicial sovereignty. Meanwhile, Park offered no com-ment on progress of these talks. Tongsun Parlt wra!) To be questioned Conflict of interest discussed Coal gas firm's ties a surprise By John Schneller and Jim Stern Missourian staff writers Energy officials were caught by surprise Thursday by the news that a consulting firm deeply involved in a publicly funded study of a proposed coal gasification complex has business ties to the major coal supplier in Missouri. Fluor Corporation, a multinational energy development firm, earlier this year bought a 10 percent interest in Peabody Holding Co., the largest coal company in the state, while its sub-sidiary, Fluor Engineers and Con-structors Inc., was employed as a major subcontractor in a study ad-vocating construction of a coal gasification plant in mid-Missou- ri. Energy officials contacted Thursday agreed that Fluor, a leader in the coal gasification industry, and Peabody, the nation's largest coal company, both stand to benefit from the construction of any coal gasification complexes. But the officials were unwilling to say whether they consider .the firms' business ties of little significance or a substantial conflict of interest The technical expertise supplied by Fluor Engineers and Constructors played a pivotal role in a study which declared the proposed complexes to be economically and technically sound. Harrison Lesh, a Peabody vice president, Wednesday termed Fluor's involvement in the proposed gasification centers "small peanuts." Peabody itself, however, has expressed an interest in supplying the more than one million tons of coal required each year to run one center. Jim Newman, regional director for the US. Department of Energy, said he never suspected that Fluor and Peabody share financial interests. He refused, however, to say if he considers the relationship a conflict of interest. likewise, City Manager Terry Novak was noncommittal. "I don't know if it should be excused ornot," he said. "I have no expertise in the area of engineering ethics or anti-tru- st regulations." Two leading critics of the Phase II report found by members of a City Council-appointe- d task force to be biased and misleading in favor of gasification Thursday said they don't think news of the Fluor-Peabo- dy connection will amount to much. "The whole thing is one more relatively small item that casts further doubt on the whole report," said William Wiecek, co-chairm-an of (See PROFESSOR, Page 14A) Housing plan not doomed, officials say By Betty Connor Missourian staff writer City Council opposition to a proposed subsidized housing project on East Walnut Street doesn't necessarily doom the project, say federal and state of-ficials who will make the crucial decisions. Federal officials say they expect some community objection to this type of low-inco- me housing project. State officials say Columbia's Housing Assistance Plan, on which the council based its strongest case against the project, may be too ambiguous to support the city's objection. Instead, federal officials will be looking at the developer's financial position and whether Columbia needs new subsidized housing. The future of the project "will not be decided on the basis of political pressure," said Donald Flint, area counsel for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development He said problems such as thoae advanced by the East Walnut Neighborhood Association in opposing the project potential overloading en schools and utilities are expected and "usually worked out by amending project rather than dumping a protect ' Ken Flood, of FfcW (Flood k Wife) Construction, has asked HUD to insure a mortage of about 04 million for a 8fc (See PROJECT, Page 1IA) |