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-- TATS ttI3Tt'a :''"' 72n! Year ! V. ; hmI Morning! liVnatulu. Jaiajsr 10. MJttO 2STiion! 24 Pages 15 Cents migraines I """ " J Dr. James Dexter monitors a migraine patient "' So, rf5, rom 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, 10 dthose at the medical center. Two specially equipped rooms in MMWHMMaMIMtlianMniaNMHHaaMBIBM 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. ; 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. fradeis: Classified.- .- --... lOA Comics . . 14A Dear Abby IB Markets. 12A Opinion ...... ..-.- 4A People IB Television --. . MA Movie listiasg on Page ISA ' 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. BSHsB& ESfSBESfiffiSHBiflsflS'iMHsPv ' CHHHSV j sTj- mnf'f't- Bi' ' jigylWBKwgMHwflly " 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 Pluto Btaxtnttoa by Ctedy Kfflfan 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.
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Item.Transcript | -- TATS ttI3Tt'a :''"' 72n! Year ! V. ; hmI Morning! liVnatulu. Jaiajsr 10. MJttO 2STiion! 24 Pages 15 Cents migraines I """ " J Dr. James Dexter monitors a migraine patient "' So, rf5, rom 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, 10 dthose at the medical center. Two specially equipped rooms in MMWHMMaMIMtlianMniaNMHHaaMBIBM 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. ; 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. fradeis: Classified.- .- --... lOA Comics . . 14A Dear Abby IB Markets. 12A Opinion ...... ..-.- 4A People IB Television --. . MA Movie listiasg on Page ISA ' 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. BSHsB& ESfSBESfiffiSHBiflsflS'iMHsPv ' CHHHSV j sTj- mnf'f't- Bi' ' jigylWBKwgMHwflly " 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 Pluto Btaxtnttoa by Ctedy Kfflfan 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. |