Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1976-04-27

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COLOMBIA, ISO. 65201
Phone company seeks new rate hike
By K C. Martin
Missoarian staff writer
General Telephone Co. officials an-nounced
Monday they will seek ap-proval
again for a rate increase, this
time totaling $ 2,152,000, including a 20- ce- nt
charge for some directory
assistance calls.
The request was Bled Monday with
the Missouri Public Service Com-mission
and applies to local service
rates in Missouri exchanges served by
the company, including Columbia, said
George N King, vice president- genera- l
manager.
The proposed increase would cost the
average residential customer with one- par- ty
service an additional five cents
daily or $ 18 25 per year, and the
average business customer with one- par- ty
service an additional 10 cents
daily or $ 36 50 per year.
General Telephone filed for a
proposed rate Increase of $ 1 8 million
on Aug 29, 1975, but withdrew the
request March 5 after the commission
refused to allow the company to include
additional financial data in the request.
Staff members of the PSC in
February had recommended
disallowing the $ 1 8 million request and
proposed cutting rates by as much as
$ 347,000 after an audit found areas of
disagreement with the company's
request for the increase
Besides the increases in local service
charges, the rate request also asks for
an increase in pay telephone calls to 20
cents from 10 cents
The directory assistance charge of 20
cents per call would be billed to the
customer after the person used an
allocation of three information calls per
month.
King said billing for directory
assistance calls in justified by
nationwide studies " Our studies in-dicate
that 20 per cent of the costomers
generate SO per cent of information
calls," he said " Nearly half of the
numbers requested are in the directory,
but people fail to look them up "
King said the extra charge for
directory assistance calls will be
limited to the 314 dialing area For
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instance, if a person uses Columbia
directory assistance, the person will be
using one of the three allocated calls
But if a person uses Kansas City
directory assistance, the call will not be
counted since it is outside the 314
dialing area
A nationwide survey, King said,
shows that 5 per cent of residential
customers and 9 per cent of business
customers pay a directory assistance
charge where tne system is already in
effect
" Charging for directory assistance Is
similar to what is being done by other
telephone companies," King said
" Southwestern Bell is considering it,
and it has been approved in other
states. So we are more or less con-forming
to the trend rather than
generating a new philosophy."
King said he expects a 60 per cent
" suppression" of directory assistance
calls if the request if approved. A
revenue increase of $ 30,000 Is expected
from the directory assistance charge,
and a $ 72,000 savings resulting from
( See OFFICIAL, Page 16)
Congress
examines
programs
' Sunset' legislation
could slow down
production line
By Martha Angle
Washington Star
WASHINGTON - Archie the
cockroach and Mehitable the cat are
alive and well on Capitol Hill
It figures, if you stop to think about
the Don Marquis characters
These days, the spirit of Archie
seems to have slipped into Sen Ed-mund
S Muskie, D- Mai- ne The free-wheeling
Mehitable, never one for
modesty, has reappeared m Congress
as a whole
Archie, some readers may recall,
was a free- vers- e poet returned to life as
a cockroach Mehitable, Cleopatra m
an earlier existence was a fun- lovi- ng
cat of easy virtue, perpetually
producing kittens that she promptly
forgot about
Archie, with some social conscience,
regularly inquired abrut the well- bei- ng
of Mehitable's offspring only to be
met by a glank stare and innocent
query, " What kittens, Archie?"
Ia& p Mehitable, Congress for 8
decade or so happily has been
p? 9ducing programs on health,
education, veterans' affair?, enaEgy.
the environment and transposition
I programs of every size, shape and cost
1 And like Mehitable, Congress never
I checked up on its progeny Each new
I program was sent out into the world to
fk fend for itself and grow willy- nill- y. Un-- a
til Muskie started asking a few months
H ago, no one bothered to inquire how all
II those programs were faring
M In the last dozen years, the number of
II federal domestic programs multiplied
H to nearly 1,000 from 50 The federal
H budget climbed from $ 158 2 billion in
H 1967 to an estimated $ 413 billion for
H fiscal 1977
HI But the good old days are over Viet--
II nam, inflation and recession have bent
H the federal budget out of shape There
H is no longer enough money to feed all
H those programs, let alone provide
H sustenance for a new generation
The American taxpayers are tired of I government profligacy Nothing seems
H to work right Benefits do not trickle
II down to the average citizen Promises
Hgo unfulfilled Taxes go up, and up, and
11 up, with no corresponding increase in
llresults People have had it with big
government, and the message is
llphikingin
HI ' Government has become out of
Efigouch and out of control," said Muskie,
ghairnian of the new Senate Budget
lpommittee, in a Feb 3 speech I " We in Congress have not paid
iough attention to how well the
programs we adopted were working
g& md now these years of inattention to
gffirformance are taking their toll as we jap a bumper crop of public disen- jraiantme- nt
with government "
. v'llPUnder Muskie's guidance, a Senate
Government Operations subcommittee
is preparing landmark legislation that
automatically would abolish almost all
federal programs every four years
unless Congress reauthorizes them
The only exemptions from the
quadrennial review would be interest
payments on the public debt and
( See PLAN, Page 13)
68th Year - No. 183 Komi Mornlngl if Tmnuiay April 27, 1 976 6 Pag68 - 15 Cents
i. ynu srtGScrey, -- swearei. vsad-- waswmus at ebb QugajTsilaCh.
Lounge, is a typical American, bhe is plagued by " red tape'
much ot which she never even thinks about. ( Missounan
photo by John Kossino)
Bureaucratic red tape
infiltrates simple life
ByRlckStoff
Mlssourlan staff writer
It all started innocently enough The
term red tape simply referred to the
material wound around English legal
documents Like a wet snowball rolling
down a hill, the term has picked up ad-ditional
implications, until today it
refers to the all- embrac- ing regulations,
excessive information gathering and
duplication of forms evident in ail
phases of American life
Nearly every bureaucratic reflex
starts an avalanche of paperwork that
often is more annoying than the
problem it was intended to solve Small
businessmen, corporations, individuals
and even other government agencies
are both beneficiaries and victims of
the regulators and the red tape Lynn
Godfrey, 22, a University graduate stu-dent
and a 40- ho- ur per week waitress
and barmaid, is no exception
From the time she awakens in the
morning until she retires in the
evening, almost every tacet of her life
is controlled by bureaucratic systems
and regulations
Godfrey shares her duplex at 2S91
Fair Haven Drive with three other
women They have signed a lease for it
and keep up their payments to the city
red J
tape
for the water and electricity they
receive from the municipally- owne- d
utilities
After showering and washing her hair
with Food and Drug Administration- approve- d
soap and shampoo, Godfrey
climbs into her 1972 Mustang She does
not use her federally- legislate- d seat
belts " They buzz and drive me nuts,"
she says However, she does turn on the
car radio to listen to stations regulated
by the Federal Communications Com-mission
As she drives her state- inspecte- d,
state- license- d, city- sucker- ed
automobile to work, she obeys the traf-fic
signs and signals because she does
not want to be caught breaking the law
by a member of the Columbi? Police
Depaitmsnt
She buys gasoline at the Sinclair
station on Rock Quarry Road, paying
51 9 cents per gallon for it The state
and federal tax charged on each gallon
will be used to maintain and construct
highways
She enters the Sugarshack at
Stadium Boulevard and Rock Quarry
Road and punches her card in the time
clock Before sne receives her biweekly
paycheck, state and federal income
taxes and Social Security will be deduc-ted
Her hourly rate is regulated by
minimum wage laws
If she is lucky, she may get some of
the tax money back next April when she
files hsr income tax forms
Before she could work at the loungp,
she was required to attend a training
session to obtain a food handler's card
( See NOTHING, Page 16)
N. Y. Times Service
WASHINGTON The Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence, in a report
on its 15- mo- nth investigation, has urged
Congress to adopt a new, omnibus law
covering foreign and military in-telligence
garnering The bill would
create charters for the major agencies
and sharply limit the use of covert ac-tion
as a tool of foreign policy
The new law is needed, the com-mittee
said, because, " Congress has
failed to provide the necessary
statutory guidelines to insure that in-telligence
agencies carry out their
missions in accord with constitutional
processes " It would, in effect, recast
the National Security Act of 1947, which
created the modern intelligence
system
The new law, the committee said,
should set " clearly defined prohibitions
or limitations" on intelligence- gatherin- g
techniques and operations,
define the roles of each intelligence
agency and " set forth the basic pur-poses
of national intelligence
activities
" This revision should be given the
highest priority by the Intelligence
Oversight Committees of Congress, ac-ting
in consultation with the executive
branch," the committee said
The proposal is the centerpiece of a
474- pa- ge report on foreign and military
intelligence that culminates an in-vestigation
begun in January 1975 The
committee is expected to make public a
report on its domestic intelligence fin-dings
later this week
Monday's report carried 87 recom-mendations
for statutory or ad-ministrative
change based upon " find-ings
of fact" in areas ranging from
drug tests on humans to covert
operations in Chile
At the request of the intelligence
agencies, the committee withheld three
chapters of its report, " Cover"
" Espionage" and " Budgetary Over-sight,"
from the public and deleted sec-tions
on covert action and intelligence
operations of the Department of State
A staff spokesman said this amounted
to some 200 pages However, this
material would be available to be read
by the 100 senators
The committee also voted 6 to 5 in a
closed meeting Monday to ask the full
Senate whether it could release the
total budget figure for U S in-telligence
It took this action after
President Ford and George Bush,
director of the CIA, urged that the
figure be omitted from the final report,
for national security reasons
Funds would increase by $ 33 million
By Debbie Buell
and Kamerlne Hershey
Mlssourlan staff writers
As the University awaits final word
on state appropriations for 1976- 7- 7,
University President C Brice Rat- chfor- d
will propose a $ 30 increase in
student fees and tuition
The increase, which would provide
$ 3 3 million of additional revenue for
the University, ia an effort to provide
some " financial flexibility," according
to Jack Hamilton, communications
assistant to Ratchford
Ratchford indicated his intention to
propose the increase in a letter Friday
to members of the University Board of
Curators and to presidents of the four
student bodies
Most of the increase $ 2 7 million
would go for " compensation ad-justments
of some kind," Ratchford
said. This, however, is contingent upon
state appropriations and local income,
Hamilton said
If the curators approve the increase,
an in- sta- te resident student now paying
$ 270 in fees per semester will pay $ 300
Out- of- sta- te tuition will increase from
$ 810 to $ 900 under the proposal.
Ratchford said that if the University
received the $ 58 million increase in
state appropriations recommended by
the governor, the student fee increase
UMSL faculty votes
See related story, Page 13
would leave about $ 27 million for
salary adjustments. If the General
Assembly's approved $ 7.8 million in-crease
is allowed to stand, there would
be about $ 4 5 million for salary ad- -
justonents, Ratchford said
At least $ 1 5 million is necessary in
order to increase SE-' ari-es
and wages by
one per cent
Hamilton said the fee increase
proposal at this time " could give Gov
Bond the idea of using the veto," on
the appropriation recommendation
" It's a question of lesser evils and
the lesser of evils was to keep faith
with the student leaders "
Hamilton said Ratchford had in-dicated
to student leaders that they
would be contacted before the end of the
( SeeM. U., Pagel6)
By Randy Smith
and Connie Pickett
Missoarian staff writers
When Harold Riback was a student at
the University, he drove a salvage
truck to St Louis at night for his
father's business. He always took his
books along so he could study when he
stopped along the road to rest.
" Even when he was young, he was
very ambitious," Pauline Yost,
secretary for ths Boone County
Democratic party which Rlback
headed, said while reminiscing about
Rlback's youth
" When he agreed to a project, you
didn't have just a name, you had a com-pletely
Involved person," said Veva
Spiers, Sixth Ward Democratic com- mitteewom- an
Mr. Riback, 68, Route 4, died Monday
morning at Boone County Hospital after
a long illness
Mr. Riback was president of Riback
Supply Co , Ins., 2412 Business Loop 70
E., and of Riback Industries, Inc , 4002
Waco Road. ,
He was known throughout the com
munity for his extensive Involvement In
community activities. In addition to the
Democratic party, he was Involved in
the American Legion, the Maplewood
Barn Theater, the Boy Scouts, Camp- fir- e
Girls, Missouri Mental Health
Association, B'nal B'rlth, Beth Shalom
Congregation, the Anti- Defamati- on
League, Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, the
Lion's Club, the United Fund, the
Chamber of Commerce, the Muleskin- ner- s
Club and the Museum Association
Mr. Riback once said, " I've always
had a strong community commitment
My dad used to say, ' Whenever you've
enjoyed the fruits of the harvest you
have to save a little bit of the seed for
next year's crop.' When you benefit
from the community, you have to give it
back. This philosophy has had a strong
bearing on my life"
Cy Steinberg, promotion director of
Riback Supply Co , said Mr Riback
was one of the most involved persons he
ever had known " He was interested in
anything that could better Columbia."
George Keepers, Mr Rlback's ac-countant,
said, " He gave tune to others
as well as his own business. And in his
own business, he was very good "
Mr. Rlback's involvement in the
Democratic party began in 1968, when
he was elected to a county committee
post Two years later, he became Four-th
Ward Democratic committeeman. In
April 1974, Mr. Riback was awarded the
third annual Peace and Freedom
Award from the Boone County
Democratic Coalition.
In August 1974, Mr. Riback was elec-ted
president of the Boone County
Democratic party. He said then he first
had run for office " not because I was
politically inspired but because of a
strong conviction that the individual
must take an active part net only in
voting, but in selecting the candidate."
He was appointed coordinator In
Columbia for the 1975 National
Democratic Telethon, and also
organized a banquet to honor retiring
U. S. Sen StuartSymington
" He just about did everything for the
Democratic party in Boone County,"
June Liddell, party vice chairman said
Chris Kelly, former party executive
director, said, " 1 never met a man so
positive in his thinking, his outlook and
everything he did concerning politics,
business, charities and even in his
speech, his manner and way of doing
things
" He was one of those very few in-dividuals
you are lucky to meet and to
( See RIBACK, Page 1$)
Harold Riback
Civic, political leader
Boh Brown
enters race
for Senate
By Bob Hacker
State capital bureau
JEFFERSON v, ITY boone County
Court Presiding Judge Bob Brown
made a surprise bid Monday for the
state Senate seat being vacated by
Larry Marshall A scramble for the
Senate post began Monday morning
when Marshall announced his decision
not to seek re- electi- on
Boone County Prosecuting Attorney
Milt Harper, a Republican, was
working late at his office Monday while
he considered entering the Senate race
Harper said he is not sure he would
want to give up his current job
Hallsville Republican Jim Lemon
was awaiting Harper's decision
Brown was the third Democrat to file
for the Senate post Columbia attorney
Warren Welliver, who earlier had
anounced his decision to run, filed for
the Democratic nomination just 18
minutes before Brown
In a letter to Marshall, Welliver said
he ' would be less than honest" if he
said he was not pleased at Marshall's
decision not to seek re- elect- ion
Welliver said he considered Marshall
his most formidable possible opponent
The final entry in the race for the
Democratic Senate nomination is Cab
Atkins of Centralis Atkins, who filed
for the race In September, Is a former
Boone County Democratic Central
Committee chairman and a distribution
manager for the A B Chance Co
Atkins said he does not care whether
Marshall or Harper gets the
Republican nomination. " I could beat
either one of them," he said.
Former State Sen A BaseyVanlan- dingha- m,
Route 3, a Democrat, said he
would be waiting outside the Missouri
secretary of state's office this afternoon
to see who had filed before making a
decision on whether he will run Can-didates
must file by 5 p m today
Lemon, a former state represen-tative,
was deciding on his political
( See HARPER, Page 16)