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By A. J. Sondstrom
Missomian staff writer
Relief may be on the way for
migraine sufferers.
It won't be as quick as reaching into
the medicine cabinet for a magic
elixir, but recent work by the
! University Medical Center's Dr.
James Dexter is beginning to shed
some light on the complex syndrome.
Dexter's work is in sleep- induce- d
migraine. About 30 percent of all
migraint is sleep- induce- d. Although
researchers knew that steep levels
affected migraines, until this work no
specific relationship couid be drawn
I between vhe to. Dezter's work
showed a consistent relationship
between his patients' stages of sleep
and their subsequent migraine
headaches.
SSeep is classified into five stages.
Light sleep consists of stages one and L
two, deep sleep is stages three and
four and dreaming usually occurs
during the fifth stage, called rapid eye
movement sleep ( REM).
What Dexter discovered was that
people who experience migraines
upon arousal from sleep also had
increases in the sums of their stage
three, four and REM sleep. When he
limited these stages of sleep with
drugs, the patients found their
migraine symptoms much relieved.
Although there is some work being
done on sleep- induc- ed migraine in
Sweden, only Dexter's vork is being
done in this country.
What causes migraine is still a
mystery. Even Dexter admits that his
research only goes as far as to
describe thesyndrome.
Typically hat occurs, explains
Dexter, is a dilation of the blood
vessels with a decrease- KfnearS-' rat- e
and excessive relaxation of the
gastro- intestin- al tract. This decreases
the amount of oxygen to the central
nervous system causing the migraine.
Since the brain doesn't feel pain, the
pain usually associated with migraine
comes from the the nerve endings to
the large blood vessels leading to the
brain and scalp which become
starved for oxygen.
Often a throbbing headache, severe
migraine is sometimes characterized
by nausea, vomiting and the desire to
avoid light.
Of the four people studied in Dex-ter's
work, three had suffered
headaches so severe that their social
functioning was impaired. After the
treatment involving sleep- depressi- ng
drugs that decreased total sleep time,
one was even able to return to his iob.
Dexter has been involved in studies
of the nocturnal migraine for 13 years,
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the medicai center's Clinical
Research Center served as the site for
much of the study. One room con-tained
the monitoring devices an
electroencephalograph to measure
brain activity, an electro- ooculograp- h
to measure eye activity and an
eleetromyograph to measure muscle
activity. The adjoining room was used
to accommodate the sleeping patient.
The treatment being developed
from this study is currently available
at the medical center on an ex-perimental
basis only. The problem
with offering it on a regular basis is
the cost involved, explained Dexter.
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But Dexter predicts that by next;; J
year a cheaper means will be found to
monitor patients than in a laboratory.
And with the development of the
appropriate technology, he expects
the -- treatment to be more com- - j
monplace in the next three years.
City told to act quickly on power
By David LaGcsse
Missourian staff writer
A consulting firm urged Columbia
officials Wednesday night to work with
neighboring utility companies in
meeting the city's future energy needs.
One alternative the firm suggested is
for Columbia to take the lead by
building large coal- fire- d power plants,
and sell its excess power to other area
utilities.
" Somebody in this area is going to
have to build a new generating plant in
the late 1980s," Dick Foltz told the
Columbia Water and light Advisory
Board.
" As discussions . with other utilities
progress," he explained, " it may turn
out that the best place for that plant
may be the Columbia area."
Foltz was presenting the final report
of the Burns and McDonnell consulting
firm of Kansas City, Mo. And the
essence of the report, he said, is that the
city act quickly.
Until the late 1980s, he said, the city's
contracts to purchase power from
Union Electric and the City of Sikeston
will cover energy needs. But. he said the
future of those contracts is in doabt,
and the city's most economical alter-native
is in participating in new,
municipally- finance- d power plants.
" We need to start planning now,"
Foltz said, because of the seven to nine
years a plant can take to construct
Water and Light Director Dick Malon
said he's taken the first step in for-mulating
those plans by writing to other
utilities.
" Wc have to come to understand how
power pools operate. It's obvious we'll
have to participate in some kind of a
municipal utility poll," Malon said.
In other business, the board
recommended passage of a city or-dinance
which would give the
Uiaversity a break en its utility bill.
When Union Electric more tiian
doubled the monthly charge for
kilowatt hours, Malon explained, the
city's charge for administrative and
facility- us- e charges also more than
doubled because they are based on a
percentage of the total kilowatt charge.
" It was unfair to increase their bill
that much," Malon said, " so, essen-tially
we've lowered the administrative
and facility- us- e charges."
He noted that although the Univer-sity's
bill is still going up, the change
would mean a $ 40,000 refund as the
ordinance is retroactive until Sept 1.
" They've just been paying too
much," Malon added.
Malon also announced staff changes
in the department Bud Estes, a 15- ye- ar
veteran line foreman, has been
promoted to line superintendent. Gary
Andersen, formerly a production
superintendent, is now in charge of the
power plant. And Bill Snyder is being
moved from the city finance depart-ment
to fill a newly- create- d " manager
of rates" position in the department
Inside today
Tigers lose
M. U.' s basketball Tigers lost their
Big Eight Conference opener 666 to
the Kansas Jaybawks in Lawrence.
Story on Page 6A.
Brown in China
Defense Secretary Harold Brown in-dicated
to Premier Hua Guofeng that
his trip to China is not directed by the
Soviet moves in Afghanistan, but wel-comed
U- S.- Chin-ese
military cooper-ation.
See Page 3A.
Im town today
r9 a-- m. Boone County Court meets,
County- Cit- y Building, fifth floor.
4 to 10 p. m. Central Missouri Boat,
Sports and Travel Show, Hearnes
Center. Admission: $ 2 adults, $ 1 M. U.
students, 75? children 6- 1- 2, free under 6.
7 p. m. Planning and Zoning
Commission, Council Chamber, City- Coun- ty
Building.
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' We have folks
come into our store
carrying scales . . .'
Rienzo Palmer
Columbians
now hoard,
melt silver
By Dean Nelson
Missourian staff writer
Silver mining is moving indoors in the Columbia
area as investors buy up silver antiques, coins and
jewelry at a rapid pace in response to escalating
silver prices.
Area antique, coin and jewelry dealers are finding
themselves in the middle of the transition, while
some investors are buying ' the silver pieces to keep
and some are buying to melt down the silver and sell
it as scrap.
The silver market has gone so high, so fast that
some dealers have aiiapJy taken their pieces off the
trading block.
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" We couldn't keep up with having to price things
on a day- to- d- ay basis, so we just quit selling silver
until the price gets more stable," said Sue Williams,
owner of Cornucopia Antiques, 24 miles ( 38.4
kilometers) northeast of Columbia. " It has gotten so
that I would have to read the Wall Street Journal
every day to find eat what my prices should &?. I
would rather wait."
The price of silver dosed on Wednesday at $ 33.40
per ounce, according to Waldock Investments Inc.
Six months ago sr. ounce of silver cost ap-proximately
$ 9.
Many Columbia antique and jewelry stores
reported high silver sales before Christmas, and low
stocks now. Two separate dealers said all they have
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left in stock are some silver spoons.
Melting down the silver for scrap sales is not
uncommon in Columbia, according to Rienzo
Palmer, a dealer at the Apple Cart and BDR
Associates Antiques, 816-- A E, Broadway.
" People come in and try to be sly about it, but it is
fairly obvious what they want," he said.
Other potential melters aren't so covert
" We have folks come into our store carrying
scales so they can estimate how much their pur-chase
will be worth on the scrap market," another
dealer said.
Palmer said melting silver is not a new idea.
" The same thing happened in the pre- Victori- an
( See DEALERS, Page 16A)
Carter; no quick
end to Iran crisis
From our wire services
WASHINGTON The Carter admin-istration,
frustrated by its inability to
negotiate the release of the American
hostages in Iran, has begun to prepare
the American public for a protracted
crisis that might last for weeks or
months more.
With the hostages now in their 68th
day of captivity, President Carter and
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance told 80
members of Congress Tuesday night
and two groups of distinguished Ameri-cans
Wednesday that no break was im-minent
or seemed likely in the Iran sit-uation,
even though every effort was
being made through various channels
to secure the hostages' safe release.
At the same time, the United States
and its major allies are prepared to
impose economic sanctions against
Iran on their own if the Soviets veto a
move for United Nations sanctions.
The Soviets, in a dispatch from the
news agency TASS, indicated they will
veto the sanctions.
The possibility of a naval blockade of
Iran has not been ruled out. the official
said.
A month ago, high ranking adminis-tration
officials were saying that if the
hostages were not released by now, an
American blockade seemed inevitable.
Several of the participants m the
Wednesday morning meeting said,
however, they had the distinct impres-sion
that military actions on behalf of
the hostages were more remote than
ever, even though Carter assured them
that the United States was taking steps
to augment its military forces in the
region.
When asked about this, one official,
who last month predicted a blockade
by mid- Januar- y m the absence of a so-lution,
said that signals had been alter-ed
in part because of the Soviet moves
in Afghanistan.
Carter has sought to cultivate Islam-ic
support against the Soviet interven-tion
in a Moslem state.
The administration now judges that
any American military actions against
Iran would turn Moslems against the
United States and dissipate anti- Sovi- et
sentiment.
Another factor was the analysis of
U. N. Secretary General Kurt Wald- hei- m
and others that the mihtans hold-ing
the embassy were not subiect to
the control of either Ayatollah Ruhol- la- h
Khomeini or the governing Revolu-tionary
Council.
" The most powerful single political
entity in Iran consists of the interna-tional
terrorists or the kidnappers who
are holding our hostages," Carter said,
adding that, they had always prevailed
m any showdown with either Khomeini
or the Revolutionary Council.
President makes bid
for stronger military
WASHINGTON ( UPI) Grimly
warning of protracted challenges in
l Iran and Afghanistan, President Car-- (.
ter said Wednesday the United States
must add even more muscle to its
beefed- u- p military presence in the re-gion.
1 - - -- Iriaflad tor bi- partis- an support during
the most troubled time of his presiden-- I
cy, Carter summoned the diplomatic
I and defense elite of every previous
American administration since the
days of Dwight D. Eisenhower.
" Carter pointed out that because of
the Iranian crisis, we already had sub-stantially
increased the U. S. military
presence in that region and that would
have to be maintained at a higher lev-- !
el," a White House official said.
Summing up the president's remarks
to the group over breakfast at the
White House, the official said, " He
does not see developments that would
lead to an early and successful conclu-sion
at this point."
In the first of four briefings for pri-vate
citizens on the twin crises facing
America, Carter did not go into the de-tails
of strengthening America's mili-tary
might in the region.
The administration already has sent
two carrier- le- d naval task forces into
the Indian Ocean and has revealed
plans to build up America's Indian
Ocean naval base on Diego Garcia is-land.
The official said Secretary of State
Cyrus Vance's comments to the break-fast
group offered a bleak picture of
the situations in both Iran and Afghani-stan.
The official said the breakfast group
expressed bipartisan support for " a
firm TesponsEv- oMftectsiRsi- y mriad to the Afghanistan and the Soviet inva-sion
in the short- term-.' '
George Ball, President Lyndon John- sonn- ' s
undersecretary of state, said
the breakfast indicated " a strong
sense of common feeling . . . that this
is one of the most dangerous situations
which has confronted us since World
WarO."
In ether developments,- mor- e Soviet
reinforcements are being sent into Af-ghanistan
and civilians have joined
armed rebels in resisting the invaders,
killing some with stones and meat
cleavers, Western diplomatic sources
said Wednesday.
With five divisions already in the
country, two more were believed to
have crossed from Soviet central Asia
into the country.
Meanwhile, the Security Council,
blocked by a Soviet veto on Monday,
put its demand for the withdrawal of
Soviet troops from Afghanistan before
an emergency session of the General
Assembly Wednesday nightThe vote
was 12 to 2, with one abstention.
Committee
meeting
to be closed
ByAndyMayknih
Missourian staff writer
A committee reviewing the city's la-bor
negotiation process will meet be-hind
closed doors Saturday after City
Counselor Scott Snyder decided the
meeting fell into a " gray area" of Co-lumbia's
open meeting law.
John Mikrut, chairman cf the Labor
Negotiation Review Committee, said
the meeting apparently is not subject
to the city's open meeting law becaase
the group was created by Mayor Clyde
Wilson, a more informal procedure
- than that of council- create- d commit-tees.
A city ordinance dictates that " all
boards and commissions" must hold
open meetings, with limited excep-tions.
Although the committee's deliber-ations
do not fall under the ordinance's
exceptions, Snyder said its relation to
the law is clouded because of its infor-mal
status.
When the committee voted unani-mously
in December to hold closed
meetings, Snyder said the committee's
relation to the city's " sunshine law"
was uncertain. But he said it would be
advisable to open the meeting to the
puhuc.
Mikrut said committee members,
most of whom were chosen from pri-vate
labor and management circles,
were hesitant to have their opinions on
the city's labor negotiation process
publicized.