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I In town I today f 8 a.m. Workshop on autism at I Woodhaven Learning Center, 1 Nifong Boulevard 9:41 a.m. First annual meeting of the Missouri Folklore Society I in rooms 208 and 210, Brady Commons, University 12:39 p.m. Teacher booth at I Parkade Plaza, sponsored by the I Columbia chapter, National Education Association 7:30 p.m. "King Lear," Stephens College Playhouse ' - See Sunday's Vibrations magazine for exhibit schedule Movie listings on page IS Insight Why was porno trial in Kansas? Publisher claims Nixon conspiracy By Hoeil Warren Associated Press Writer KANSAS CITY, Kan. "The next trial will be in Saudi Arabia," said Alvin Goldstein, the 41-year-- old, 285-pou- nd New Yorker who hit a pot of gold in publishing two erotic tabloids. It was the first shot in a renewal of the flamboyant propaganda campaign he has waged since Fall 1974 against the federal government's effort to send him to jail or at least fine him for sending obscene matter through the mails. He fired the shot a few minutes after nine jurors who wanted to acquit him gave up trying to win over three who insisted his Screw and Smutpapers are obscene. The resulting mistrial, after almost three days of jury deliberation, removed for the time being the possibility that Goldstein could be sentenced to as much as 60 years in jail and fined up to $65,000. Would the government again go after Goldstein, James L. Buckley, who is 33 and was Goldstein's partner in 1974, and their Milky Way Productions Inc. of New York? It won convictions against them at Wichita, Kan., on June 18, 1975. after a ' four-wee-k trialr-fe- ut Judge Frank G,-The- is overturned that verdict on grounds a prosecutor's final argument was inflammatory. Ben Burgess, the quiet young assistant U. S. Attorney who prosecuted the second trial, said the fact eight jurors were for acquittal almost from the start of deliberations was not particularly significant. - He will make a recommendation to his boss within two weeks or so and they will consult with the Department of Justice in Washington before deciding whether to proceed. : Burgess also alluded to the possibility of some plea bargaining. At one point, it was apparent Goldstein was willing to plead guilty and pay fines if no one had to go to prison. Goldstein's instant reaction that the government would go to a third trial fits into his contention that he is the target of a conspiracy which was hatched in theftixon White House. He was on the White House "enemies list" not for the pornographic pictures and lascivious language he published, he contends, but for the sprinkling among them of political criticism and an echoing of the plaint that the war in ! Vietnam was obscene. Defense lawyers were able to trace to ! ' Washington, but not to the White House, the decision to prosecute the publishers and to prosecute them in Kansas ! which Goldstein forthwith likened to Nazi Germany. Rayfield P. Lombardi, veteran postal inspector in New York, engineered the construction of the chain of evidence. He sent application forms, money orders and instructions to postal em-ployees at Salina, Lawrence, Hut-chinson and Pratt, Kan., having them subscribe to the two tabloids. Copies they received were returned unopened (See JUDGE'S, Page 11) OOCKH SIWE HISTORIC. tT & LOW ST. 65201 COLUMBIA, MO- - ST, 12-5-- 74 70th Year No. 56 Gmnl Morning! It's Saturday Nov. 19. 1 977 Sadat may ask Israel to withdraw By United Press International Egypt's ambassador to the United States said Friday Egyptian President Anwar Sadat will call for total Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories and the establishment of an Arab Palestinian state on the West Bank in his address to the Israeli parliament. Ambassador Ashraf Ghorbal spoke to reporters after a 30-minu- te talk with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance in which they discussed the Sadat trip. "The president has indicated that he'll explain to. the representatives of Israel that it is in the interest of Israel to have peace with justice in the area," Ghorbal said. He said Sadat would also tell the Knesset that "we all could live in peace with the Jewish state of Israel." Ghorbal said be and Vance "emphasized the positive" in their meeting and "we all share the same prayer for the success of this historic mission." Meanwhile, Egyptian flags fluttered over Israel Friday. Banks traded in Egyptian pounds and telephone calls to Cairo were completed. An ar-med force of 10,000 men stood on street corners, rooftops and highways to protect the man once regarded as Israel's greatest foe. Israel labored until the start of the Sabbath to give Egyptian President Anwar Sadat a hero's welcome. Tel Aviv's city hall was decked out with a "Welcome Sadat" sign written in Hebrew. A 60-m- an Egyptian delegation headed by Hassan Kamel, the director of Sadat's cabinet, was greeted by cheers on arriving Friday to make ftnal arrangements for Sadat's 36-ho-ur visit to the Holy City of Jerusalem starting Saturday and to be highlighted by an address to the Israeli parliament Sunday. A crowd of several hundred spectators, in-cluding Israeli El Al airline employees, stood on the observation deck of Lod airport terminal and burst into applause as the Boeing 737 jetliner, with the words "Arab Republic of Egypt" painted in black on its silver fuselage, drew to a stop. In the background, airport workers hammered on a hastily-bui- lt two-ti- er grandstand to hold 1,000 newsmen arriving for the visit. "Thank you, thank you," Kamel said to Israeli officials at his side. Eliahu Ben-Eliss- ar, top aide to Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin, led the greeting committee. Border police vans lined the runways upon the (See EGYPTIAN, Page 11) Arabs react with violence to Sadat trip From our wire services Angry Arab students stormed the Egyptian embassy in Athens Friday and a powerful ex-plosion tore apart Egypt's embassy in Beirut in ' mounting violence against President Anwar Sadat's trip to Jerusalem this weekend. One Egyptian diplomat was killed and at least 19 persons wounded in the two incidents. Saudi Arabia, a moderate Arab state and Egypt's most powerful ally in the Middle East, joined the criticism of Sadat's unprecedented and historic trip to Israel to appeal directly to the Israeli parliament for peace. In Beirut, a powerful blast ripped through the first floor of the heavily-guarde- d Egyptian em-bassy near a Palestinian refugee camp, killing one unidentified diplomat and wounding at least four soldiers, officials said. Conflicting reports said the blast was caused by either a bomb or a mortar fired from an un-determined location. In Athens, Arab students attacked the Egyptian embassy but were driven off by gunfire from in-side the building and tear gas fired by police, a police spokesman said. Police said 15 persons were injured, including two policemen and two bystanders, in the melee, which lasted nearly two hours. One of the injured students was reported to be in critical condition. The attackers used a garage entrance to get i inside the embassy grounds, where embassy ' staffers firing from the windows held them at bay with gunfire until police armed with tear gas were given permission to enter the grounds, a police ' spokesman said. Some 60 students, identified as "mostly Iraqis 1 and Jordanians," were arrested. A spokesman for the Arab League security force I in Beirut, which is composed of mostly Syrian officers and soldiers, said the embassy blast was caused by a "mortar fired from a long distance.' ' But witnesses disputed this, noting the embassy is situated on a narrow street and surrounded by taller buildings. "There was an enormous blast," said a resident rf the building directly opposite the embassy. 'There was shooting all over the place. It was like i war had broken out," said the resident, Roula Paris. There was no immediate indication who was See DIPLOMAT, Page 11) Sk iSQBE. m SJBmp ' iV BhMt fJHnffivlBs fll fl9Ea TSVB TjWK Hl B V uflr tt" ' LHt Jk Carryimg Uae toreh Bella Abzug, National. Women's Conference chairman, helps carry the International Women's Year torch to the Houston Convention Center on the last leg of a run that began in UPItcfcpbato Seneca, N.Y., site of the first women's rights convention in 1848. About 2,000 women carried the torch from Seneca. Story on Page 2. Fast-foo- d firm negotiating City may want land MlssooriEE staff writer . Mayor Les Proctor will introduce a council resolution Monday expressing the city's interest in land a fast-foo- d restaurant is negotiating to buy for a reported $300,000. Hardee's Hamburgers is negotiating to buy a lot on the southeast corner of .Providence Road and Locust Street to iByDbuaildnRaayrestaurant and an office building. The land belongs to the estate of the late Jimmie Proctor, a distant cousin of Mayor Proctor. :-- The property is in Fiat Branch, the area bounded by Providence Road, Stewart Road, Fifth Street and Broadway. The city is looking into trays to fund redevelopment in the r..w:Ptoctor,cal)sa "blighted part of town." A proposal being developed for the area by former Mayor Bob Pugh in-cludes a convention center, high-ris-e apartments, office space, shops, a multi-lev- el parking garage and a pedestrian parkway along the Missouri-Kansas-Tex- as railroad right-of-wa-y, which the dty is negotiating to buy. Money for the land, which would become, a part of' the total project, would come from the city's public improvement fund. Proctor said bis resolution, which rails for a public bearing on the proposed purchase by the dty, is. to indicate the dty's interest in the area, and "not to scare them (Hardee's) off. They have a perfect tight to purchase thatproperty. "It makes sense to let all parties know" --that the dty may want to pur-chase the property, he said. "Since it's still up in the air, we should indicate to their corporation that this property is being considered" for purchase. Proctor said he called Hardee's corporate headquarters to inform the company of the dty's interest in the property. If the council approves Proctor's resolution, a public hearing would be held on Jan. 16. . In related action Monday night, the council will appoint five members to the inactive iiand Clearance for , Redeveloproent Authority. This group would draw up a land-us- e plan for the ' Flat Branch .area add would have power? to acquire .land through pur-chase, vcondemnation or threat of condemnation. ''"--' ' UMKC's Russell attacks budget By Sara Thomasson and Jeff Gordon Missourian staff writers KANSAS CITY The economic crisis facing the University was once again the major subplot at the Board of Curators meeting Friday. However, this time a new character took the stage in the continuing drama of spiraling inflation and limited resources. In his first address to the curators, George Russell, recently appointed chancellor of the University of Missouri at Kansas City, said his campus's facilities are "totally inadequate" to meet its educational needs. The phrase "totally inadequate" was used often by both Russell and University President James Olson while discussing Universitywide physical facilities. Russell said the Kansas City campus facilities are insufficient for the size of the student body and "that does not lead to good morale or anything but problems. "Stress and morale of faculty are further exacerbated by low salaries. They are not competitive with the campus from where I came. It is a severe problem." Russell was appointed chancellor last month after serving as vice chancellor of research at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urban- a. He warned that lack of financial support will "produce negative results that will be felt for decades." Quoting an old Broadway tune about Kansas City, he said the University has "gone about as far as it can go" in com-promising its academic excellence. "It is a sham and insult to intelligent people to say tbay wiH get a 10 percent raise and then reduce the general budget by 2 or 3 percent." In the general operating budget for the next fiscal year, Olson has placed top priority on a 10 percent increase in the salary base for faculty and staff but will cut the general budget by $4.5 million. While faculty and staff will benefit from the salary increase, the overall budget cut will eliminate positions, said Russell. Russell was particularly upset about poor office space for the history department half of which is in old residential buildings. The problem is not unique to Kansas City. At last month's board meeting, Chancellor Herbert Schooling cited the poor facilities in residential structures (See PROJECTS, Page 14) Loop, sick from birth, buried; age 6 months The Downtown Loop died Friday after an illness that lasted its entire life. It would have been six months old next week. The Loop was conceived in 1974 by the Planning and Zoning Commission and consultants Hare and Hare as part of the Central Area Plan. During its short life, the Loop saw many changes. Parking places were removed, a parking lot was added. Signs and traffic signals were put up. Parts of some traffic islands were removed. Some say the Loop had hardly been given a chance to show its colors (mainly no-parki- ng yellow) before the changes were made. Survivors include four concrete islands and a traffic light timing system that thinks the Loop is still visible and mandatory. The Loop was preceded in death by the Wayland-We- ir plan, the Hank Waters Loop, the 9-- 5 loop, and the Elm Street Trafficway. Especially dear to the Loop were Loop de Loop shopping days and the Downtown Broadway BeelineBee. HHiaBKBIMteMBB BilMMlaM iBMMBiMMi , Lori Schranz, left, and Karin Gffliland are one of the premier - women's doubles foosball teams in the country . Foshall fanatics It was not all fun and games at the recent World Championship Foos Festival in St. Louis. Foosball aficionados fought fatigue, sweaty palms and aching musdes to win a share of the $250,000 in prize money. Vibrations celebrates Thanksgiving this week by talking turkey and showing how the domestic birds can be a peck of troubles for their owners. If you've been following the Rams, you probably know they signed on a I new player this fall. She's eight . years old and her goal was to play football for the Rams in Columbia's Mighty Mite football league. Read about her success In Sunday's . Vibrations magazine . in the . Columbia Missourian.
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Item.Transcript | I In town I today f 8 a.m. Workshop on autism at I Woodhaven Learning Center, 1 Nifong Boulevard 9:41 a.m. First annual meeting of the Missouri Folklore Society I in rooms 208 and 210, Brady Commons, University 12:39 p.m. Teacher booth at I Parkade Plaza, sponsored by the I Columbia chapter, National Education Association 7:30 p.m. "King Lear," Stephens College Playhouse ' - See Sunday's Vibrations magazine for exhibit schedule Movie listings on page IS Insight Why was porno trial in Kansas? Publisher claims Nixon conspiracy By Hoeil Warren Associated Press Writer KANSAS CITY, Kan. "The next trial will be in Saudi Arabia," said Alvin Goldstein, the 41-year-- old, 285-pou- nd New Yorker who hit a pot of gold in publishing two erotic tabloids. It was the first shot in a renewal of the flamboyant propaganda campaign he has waged since Fall 1974 against the federal government's effort to send him to jail or at least fine him for sending obscene matter through the mails. He fired the shot a few minutes after nine jurors who wanted to acquit him gave up trying to win over three who insisted his Screw and Smutpapers are obscene. The resulting mistrial, after almost three days of jury deliberation, removed for the time being the possibility that Goldstein could be sentenced to as much as 60 years in jail and fined up to $65,000. Would the government again go after Goldstein, James L. Buckley, who is 33 and was Goldstein's partner in 1974, and their Milky Way Productions Inc. of New York? It won convictions against them at Wichita, Kan., on June 18, 1975. after a ' four-wee-k trialr-fe- ut Judge Frank G,-The- is overturned that verdict on grounds a prosecutor's final argument was inflammatory. Ben Burgess, the quiet young assistant U. S. Attorney who prosecuted the second trial, said the fact eight jurors were for acquittal almost from the start of deliberations was not particularly significant. - He will make a recommendation to his boss within two weeks or so and they will consult with the Department of Justice in Washington before deciding whether to proceed. : Burgess also alluded to the possibility of some plea bargaining. At one point, it was apparent Goldstein was willing to plead guilty and pay fines if no one had to go to prison. Goldstein's instant reaction that the government would go to a third trial fits into his contention that he is the target of a conspiracy which was hatched in theftixon White House. He was on the White House "enemies list" not for the pornographic pictures and lascivious language he published, he contends, but for the sprinkling among them of political criticism and an echoing of the plaint that the war in ! Vietnam was obscene. Defense lawyers were able to trace to ! ' Washington, but not to the White House, the decision to prosecute the publishers and to prosecute them in Kansas ! which Goldstein forthwith likened to Nazi Germany. Rayfield P. Lombardi, veteran postal inspector in New York, engineered the construction of the chain of evidence. He sent application forms, money orders and instructions to postal em-ployees at Salina, Lawrence, Hut-chinson and Pratt, Kan., having them subscribe to the two tabloids. Copies they received were returned unopened (See JUDGE'S, Page 11) OOCKH SIWE HISTORIC. tT & LOW ST. 65201 COLUMBIA, MO- - ST, 12-5-- 74 70th Year No. 56 Gmnl Morning! It's Saturday Nov. 19. 1 977 Sadat may ask Israel to withdraw By United Press International Egypt's ambassador to the United States said Friday Egyptian President Anwar Sadat will call for total Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories and the establishment of an Arab Palestinian state on the West Bank in his address to the Israeli parliament. Ambassador Ashraf Ghorbal spoke to reporters after a 30-minu- te talk with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance in which they discussed the Sadat trip. "The president has indicated that he'll explain to. the representatives of Israel that it is in the interest of Israel to have peace with justice in the area," Ghorbal said. He said Sadat would also tell the Knesset that "we all could live in peace with the Jewish state of Israel." Ghorbal said be and Vance "emphasized the positive" in their meeting and "we all share the same prayer for the success of this historic mission." Meanwhile, Egyptian flags fluttered over Israel Friday. Banks traded in Egyptian pounds and telephone calls to Cairo were completed. An ar-med force of 10,000 men stood on street corners, rooftops and highways to protect the man once regarded as Israel's greatest foe. Israel labored until the start of the Sabbath to give Egyptian President Anwar Sadat a hero's welcome. Tel Aviv's city hall was decked out with a "Welcome Sadat" sign written in Hebrew. A 60-m- an Egyptian delegation headed by Hassan Kamel, the director of Sadat's cabinet, was greeted by cheers on arriving Friday to make ftnal arrangements for Sadat's 36-ho-ur visit to the Holy City of Jerusalem starting Saturday and to be highlighted by an address to the Israeli parliament Sunday. A crowd of several hundred spectators, in-cluding Israeli El Al airline employees, stood on the observation deck of Lod airport terminal and burst into applause as the Boeing 737 jetliner, with the words "Arab Republic of Egypt" painted in black on its silver fuselage, drew to a stop. In the background, airport workers hammered on a hastily-bui- lt two-ti- er grandstand to hold 1,000 newsmen arriving for the visit. "Thank you, thank you," Kamel said to Israeli officials at his side. Eliahu Ben-Eliss- ar, top aide to Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin, led the greeting committee. Border police vans lined the runways upon the (See EGYPTIAN, Page 11) Arabs react with violence to Sadat trip From our wire services Angry Arab students stormed the Egyptian embassy in Athens Friday and a powerful ex-plosion tore apart Egypt's embassy in Beirut in ' mounting violence against President Anwar Sadat's trip to Jerusalem this weekend. One Egyptian diplomat was killed and at least 19 persons wounded in the two incidents. Saudi Arabia, a moderate Arab state and Egypt's most powerful ally in the Middle East, joined the criticism of Sadat's unprecedented and historic trip to Israel to appeal directly to the Israeli parliament for peace. In Beirut, a powerful blast ripped through the first floor of the heavily-guarde- d Egyptian em-bassy near a Palestinian refugee camp, killing one unidentified diplomat and wounding at least four soldiers, officials said. Conflicting reports said the blast was caused by either a bomb or a mortar fired from an un-determined location. In Athens, Arab students attacked the Egyptian embassy but were driven off by gunfire from in-side the building and tear gas fired by police, a police spokesman said. Police said 15 persons were injured, including two policemen and two bystanders, in the melee, which lasted nearly two hours. One of the injured students was reported to be in critical condition. The attackers used a garage entrance to get i inside the embassy grounds, where embassy ' staffers firing from the windows held them at bay with gunfire until police armed with tear gas were given permission to enter the grounds, a police ' spokesman said. Some 60 students, identified as "mostly Iraqis 1 and Jordanians," were arrested. A spokesman for the Arab League security force I in Beirut, which is composed of mostly Syrian officers and soldiers, said the embassy blast was caused by a "mortar fired from a long distance.' ' But witnesses disputed this, noting the embassy is situated on a narrow street and surrounded by taller buildings. "There was an enormous blast," said a resident rf the building directly opposite the embassy. 'There was shooting all over the place. It was like i war had broken out," said the resident, Roula Paris. There was no immediate indication who was See DIPLOMAT, Page 11) Sk iSQBE. m SJBmp ' iV BhMt fJHnffivlBs fll fl9Ea TSVB TjWK Hl B V uflr tt" ' LHt Jk Carryimg Uae toreh Bella Abzug, National. Women's Conference chairman, helps carry the International Women's Year torch to the Houston Convention Center on the last leg of a run that began in UPItcfcpbato Seneca, N.Y., site of the first women's rights convention in 1848. About 2,000 women carried the torch from Seneca. Story on Page 2. Fast-foo- d firm negotiating City may want land MlssooriEE staff writer . Mayor Les Proctor will introduce a council resolution Monday expressing the city's interest in land a fast-foo- d restaurant is negotiating to buy for a reported $300,000. Hardee's Hamburgers is negotiating to buy a lot on the southeast corner of .Providence Road and Locust Street to iByDbuaildnRaayrestaurant and an office building. The land belongs to the estate of the late Jimmie Proctor, a distant cousin of Mayor Proctor. :-- The property is in Fiat Branch, the area bounded by Providence Road, Stewart Road, Fifth Street and Broadway. The city is looking into trays to fund redevelopment in the r..w:Ptoctor,cal)sa "blighted part of town." A proposal being developed for the area by former Mayor Bob Pugh in-cludes a convention center, high-ris-e apartments, office space, shops, a multi-lev- el parking garage and a pedestrian parkway along the Missouri-Kansas-Tex- as railroad right-of-wa-y, which the dty is negotiating to buy. Money for the land, which would become, a part of' the total project, would come from the city's public improvement fund. Proctor said bis resolution, which rails for a public bearing on the proposed purchase by the dty, is. to indicate the dty's interest in the area, and "not to scare them (Hardee's) off. They have a perfect tight to purchase thatproperty. "It makes sense to let all parties know" --that the dty may want to pur-chase the property, he said. "Since it's still up in the air, we should indicate to their corporation that this property is being considered" for purchase. Proctor said he called Hardee's corporate headquarters to inform the company of the dty's interest in the property. If the council approves Proctor's resolution, a public hearing would be held on Jan. 16. . In related action Monday night, the council will appoint five members to the inactive iiand Clearance for , Redeveloproent Authority. This group would draw up a land-us- e plan for the ' Flat Branch .area add would have power? to acquire .land through pur-chase, vcondemnation or threat of condemnation. ''"--' ' UMKC's Russell attacks budget By Sara Thomasson and Jeff Gordon Missourian staff writers KANSAS CITY The economic crisis facing the University was once again the major subplot at the Board of Curators meeting Friday. However, this time a new character took the stage in the continuing drama of spiraling inflation and limited resources. In his first address to the curators, George Russell, recently appointed chancellor of the University of Missouri at Kansas City, said his campus's facilities are "totally inadequate" to meet its educational needs. The phrase "totally inadequate" was used often by both Russell and University President James Olson while discussing Universitywide physical facilities. Russell said the Kansas City campus facilities are insufficient for the size of the student body and "that does not lead to good morale or anything but problems. "Stress and morale of faculty are further exacerbated by low salaries. They are not competitive with the campus from where I came. It is a severe problem." Russell was appointed chancellor last month after serving as vice chancellor of research at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urban- a. He warned that lack of financial support will "produce negative results that will be felt for decades." Quoting an old Broadway tune about Kansas City, he said the University has "gone about as far as it can go" in com-promising its academic excellence. "It is a sham and insult to intelligent people to say tbay wiH get a 10 percent raise and then reduce the general budget by 2 or 3 percent." In the general operating budget for the next fiscal year, Olson has placed top priority on a 10 percent increase in the salary base for faculty and staff but will cut the general budget by $4.5 million. While faculty and staff will benefit from the salary increase, the overall budget cut will eliminate positions, said Russell. Russell was particularly upset about poor office space for the history department half of which is in old residential buildings. The problem is not unique to Kansas City. At last month's board meeting, Chancellor Herbert Schooling cited the poor facilities in residential structures (See PROJECTS, Page 14) Loop, sick from birth, buried; age 6 months The Downtown Loop died Friday after an illness that lasted its entire life. It would have been six months old next week. The Loop was conceived in 1974 by the Planning and Zoning Commission and consultants Hare and Hare as part of the Central Area Plan. During its short life, the Loop saw many changes. Parking places were removed, a parking lot was added. Signs and traffic signals were put up. Parts of some traffic islands were removed. Some say the Loop had hardly been given a chance to show its colors (mainly no-parki- ng yellow) before the changes were made. Survivors include four concrete islands and a traffic light timing system that thinks the Loop is still visible and mandatory. The Loop was preceded in death by the Wayland-We- ir plan, the Hank Waters Loop, the 9-- 5 loop, and the Elm Street Trafficway. Especially dear to the Loop were Loop de Loop shopping days and the Downtown Broadway BeelineBee. HHiaBKBIMteMBB BilMMlaM iBMMBiMMi , Lori Schranz, left, and Karin Gffliland are one of the premier - women's doubles foosball teams in the country . Foshall fanatics It was not all fun and games at the recent World Championship Foos Festival in St. Louis. Foosball aficionados fought fatigue, sweaty palms and aching musdes to win a share of the $250,000 in prize money. Vibrations celebrates Thanksgiving this week by talking turkey and showing how the domestic birds can be a peck of troubles for their owners. If you've been following the Rams, you probably know they signed on a I new player this fall. She's eight . years old and her goal was to play football for the Rams in Columbia's Mighty Mite football league. Read about her success In Sunday's . Vibrations magazine . in the . Columbia Missourian. |