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STATE HISTORICAL -- x- -. HOT A LOIRI ST. COI. USSBIA. SO. 5OI 72nd Year No. 223 IUhh Morniri"! It's Wednesday. June 4, I JJO 3 Sections 36 Pages .15 Cents Carter wraps up Democratic nomination United Press International President Carter sealed up the 1980 Demo-cratic nomination Tuesday, but a fighting Sen. Edward Kennedy, bouyed by prospects of win-ning the most votes and delegates in the final eight primaries, rejected Carter's plea for party unity. In the finale of the 1S80 primary season, Kennedy won in three of the eight states New Jersey, South Dakota and Rhode Island and was running neck- and- ne- ck in the fourth and most important, California. Carter took the third big state at stake, Ohio, also won West Virginia, and led in New Mexico and Montana. Carter insisted the Democratic race was over and held out an olive branch to Kennedy who ignored the gesture and vowed to fight on against the president be insists is too weak-ened to defeat Ronald Reagan in the Novem-ber election. Out of Carter's defeat in New Jersey he sal-vaged 47 delegates far more than the 28 he needed Tuesday to go over the 1,666 needed to win the Democratic nomination. Reagan rolled up overwhelming victories and took nearly all the delegates in California, Ohio, New Jersey, Rhode Island, New Mexico, South Dakota, West Virginia, Montana and Mississippi on the final day of primaries. The victories were no surprise for the con-servative former governor of California who wrapped up the nomination two weeks ago when his last serious challenger, George Bush, dropped out of the race. At midnight CDT, the primaries looked like : New Jersey: With 88 percent of the precincts reporting, Kennedy 275,688 or 55 percent, 65 delegates; Carter 183,496 or 38 percent, 47 dele-gates. Ohio: With 72 percent reporting. Carter 429,- 7- 96 or 51 percent, 85 delegates; Kennedy 363,- 47- 0 or 44 percent, 76 delegates. The California Democratic vote at 12: 25 aon. CDT Wednesday with 34 percent of the state's precincts reporting: Carter, 96,931, or 41 per-cent; Kennedy, 95,567 os 41 percent. Kennedy won in Rhode Island with 69 per-cent and in South Dakota with 48 percent. Car-ter won in West Virginia with 62 percent and was leading with 44 percent in New Mexico and in Montana with 51 percent Kennedy's sweep of New Jersey and Rhode Island gave him a near perfect record in the northeast industrial states this year states Democrats traditionally must carry by big margins if they are to win nationwide. But Carter's win in Ohio, also a big industri-al state hard hit by the slumping economy, provided some good news for the administra-tion. At a raiiy in Washington, Carter said he now was intent on unifying the Democratic Party. He said he might call Kennedy personally, hoping to make peace where his emissaries to date have failed. " I'm now dedicated to bringing our Demo-cratic party back together after we have faced two formidable candidates who ran tremen-dous campaigns on their own," Carter said of Kennedy and California Gov. Edmund Brown But Kennedy said he was not quitting. ' Democrats from coast to coast were unwil-ling to cede the nomination to Jimmy Carter and neither am I," he said. " I am committed to continuing this campaign." The Kennedy camp dismissed Carter's dele-gate count even before the votes were tallied, saying that didn't mean he would win the nom-ination in August. Kennedy's strong finish and the delegates he does have will give him some clout at the New York convention, to help shape the party plat-form. The Carter campaign recognized this and began some weeks ago trying to make peace with Kennedy. SWiSBatiaMMBjBKMaKBflBBHBiflB MBl'wBflHHBBa" flMBHKMMBBlE IBIHBnfl ' .' " C,, . " Tamm A. Ixchnrr Colomi& H6iise Healthcare nursing borne, 1801 Xwne Drive -.--- , r -- :.--..- --..- -.- - - Nairslng home violations cited By Terry Home, Mike Maasur and Sue Wagner Missoarian staff writers At 78, Ivan Hume Morris, a former well driller, could still feed himself and walk, but he needed constant at-tention. Morris, suffering from em-physema, was often disoriented and frightened. When the task of caring for his father became too difficult for one of Morris' sons, the family gath-ered to talk about the problem. - " We didnt know what to do, but we I decided we had to pat him in a nurs-- I ing home,". one of the sons said. The family chose Columbia House Health-care, 1801 Towne '. Drive, because, they were told, it was the only Colum-bia home taking patients " who needed a lot of care." They also wanted to keep their father close to home. Who Cares f0WElderiy SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSmSSSSSSSSmSSa Pleased with the quality of care her father received during the first seve-ral years, Alice Murray, Route 3, lat-er told reporters the quality seemed to change drastically during Morris' final months in the nursing home, up to the time of his death March 26. Placed in a different wing of the home following a visit to a local hos-pital, Morris was the victim of re-peated neglect and abuse, she said. There Ms health deteriorated, she said. Almost from the beginning, Mrs. Murray said, her father's belongings disappeared money, a radio and clothing. " When we first went out mere, he knew his billfold was gone, and we got him another and put some money in it." But when his second and third ones disappeared, she said, " We didnt bother. I'd just put some change in his pocket" Mrs. -- Murray said staff ancLaides failed to keep her father clean. " I went out several times when his bed was wet, and Fm sure he was sleep-ing in it." Once, one of her brothers found their father strapped in a chair and sitting in urine. The only comment from the nurses was that it had just happened, the brother said. After she noticed her father was losing weight, Mrs. Murray said she was worried her father was not being fed enough. " I kind of felt like they let him I starve in the last two months," Mrs. i . Murray said. She believes these con-ditions contributed to his death. She asked the nurses about his lack of eating, but she said their only com-ment was that Morris " didnt eat much for breakfast." Twice, when she took her father to the hospital, he was dehydrated. Hos-pital nurses gave him water through an eyedropper to keep him from get-ting sick by gorging himself. Mrs. Murray never took the extra steps to lodge a complaint with the nursing home or the state, but her be-lief that her father was ill- treat- ed is a theme found repeatedly in state f3es containing allegations and violations of state and federal regulations. Columbia House's current adminis- - ( See INVESTIGATORS, Page ISA) Administrator: Time key to improvement The current administrator of Columbia House Healthcare, 1801 Towne Drive, acknowledges that the nursing home had problems in the past, but said Tuesday she has turned the bona around. " I'm sore you've found many problems, but I had two people here prior to me who sat in their office eight hours a day and never got out on the floor and really didnt know what was going on in this facili-ty. It's not my style of management. I know what's going cm in this facility," Mary Lou Pierce said. " Within the last three months, it was ' really evi-dent that things were really changing. It kind of all fell together," said Ms. Pierce. " I have to say we bad problems. I took over a problem. We've made great strides in nine months." Although the state again found problems in me home in its last inspection only three months ago,' Ms. Pierce, who became the administrator in Au-gust 1979, says, ' Tour months time is not enough tim to makt a big turn around in a facility . that needs a lot of work. But there's been a turnaround in this place that has been unbelievable." She said she also doesnt believe state surveys and inspections reflect the quality of care given at the home. " When the impertors come through, they have to find something. It's part of their job." Ms. Pierce said officers of Eiflhaven Inc., the owner of Columbia House, sent her to the home be-cause of her reputation for improving poor nursing homes. The main problem at me home when she ar-rived was that employees were trying to unionize, Ms. Pierce said. " We've been going through union organization. That's caused a tremendous upheaval. It's a very disruptive thing to go on in a nursiog hsne," she said. Ms. Pierce said she cant raise her wage scale un-til the new union and Hillhaven reach an agree-ment, which in turn contributes to a typical nursing home malady finding- goo- d staff. When she does get good staff, she says, there's a problem keeping " We're the higgest draw in the community for staff. The hospital steals my staff. The other nurs-ing homes steal my staff. They dont have to train them; we train them, and then they go off and wore some other place because they can make more money." After Ann Fagen was named nursing director in February, Ms. Pierce said, the home began to im-prove. Other improvements, Ms. Pierce says, have come from the corporation. " I've got to be real fair to Hillhaven," she said. " I mean, one of the reasons things were- no- t put in were the requests were not made. My predecessors didnt make a request. They wanted their bottom- lin- e figure to look real good." Ms. Pierce says Hillhaven has provided funds for a new lobby, carpet, floor tile, furniture, and cubi-cle curtains for the rooms since August. " I've not made a request that I have been turned down on," she said-" N- ot one." Still, there was a time, Ms. Pierce said, when she despaired about being able to improve the home be-cause she had trouble finding a qualified nursing di-rector. " As a matter of fact, I've gone through some real worrying over this place." " Thel980 JLJ Elections With Tuesday's voting the Democratic dele- - I gate totals looked like this: I Tutaday's Prrrk. ua Htm Oatagata Total Total Carter 322 1.638 1.959 Kennedy 320 850 1,170 Needed to Nominate: 1 ,666 The Republican totals: TuMday Pranoua New Datoeatas Total Total Reagan 385 1,071 1,456 Bush 3 267 270 Needed to Nominate: 998 Campbell plans more active role By Mandy Behbehani Missourian staff writer City Manager Stuart Campbell says he is going to change his style. On Tuesday Mayor Clyde Wilson, representing the City Council, told Campbell bis performances on initiat-ing policy and administering his staff organization are still unsatisfactory. Specifically, Wilson criticized Camp-bell's inqiiry into the police depart-ment's handling of the Sgt. Bobbi Ar-nold case. Asked Tuesday if be thought he could play the role of aggressive city man-ager the council wants, Campbell said, " I'm sure gonna try." He said he would begin bringing policy initiatives to the council for its consideration. . Campbell also said be is willing to become more active. " When you work for the council, you try and do their will." The manager seemed to think his chances of survival in his job depend on his acquiring a more activist philos-ophy. If he doesnt acquire this, he said, I may became among the ranks of the unemployed." The council conducted a li- ho- ur re- evaluat- ion of Campbell late Monday, at the end of a 90- da- y period it gave Campbell in February to improve his performance. In Campbell's favor, the council decided the manager had im-proved in responding to the body's re-quests for technical information. But a difference in philosophy be-tween the council and Campbell about initiating policy was one of the prob-lems cited in the Monday evaluation, just as it was in February. Campbell told the Columbia Missourian two weeks ago, " I don't feel I should ini-tiate policy." In a brief and general press release issued Tuesday by Wilson, the council said its consensus was, " the dry man-ager has responded well to the coun-cil's request for technical information needed to make policy derisions." It also said Campbell is " responsive to particular issues brought to his atten-tion by the council." But, it added, the council and the manager also " acknowledge there is a difference in their views on how policy issues are brought before the council for consideration." Regardless how ready Campbell is to change his style, the future of Colum-bia Police Chief David Walsh may be in doubt. The council was " apparently unani-mous" in its feeling that the city man-ager " did not deal adequately with ad-ministrative issues," in the Sgt Bobbi Arnold case, the release said. In response Campbell told the Mis-sourian be plans to meet with Walsh in the near future and " definitely" look into the Arnold case again. He said dis-missal of Walsh is " one of the options" open to him. The Arnold case concerns the police department's handling of an April hit- and- r- un accident involving Sgt. Ar-nold. Controversy had arisen over questions of whether Sgt. Arnold had received preferential treatment. City Counselor Scott Snyder, at Campbell's request, made an inquiry into the department's handling of the affair to see whether the case had been treated in a special manner because it involved a police officer. The inquiry statement issued by Carnpbell said that there was no major misconduct in ( See COUNCIL'S. Page ISA) Skydiving High- voltag- e shocks won't stop area man By Rod Perimntter Missourian staff writer MOBERLY Mark Wessel, like many skydivers, can talk with a re-markable sense of calm about falling hundreds of feet in only a few seconds. He thinks people sometimes make too much aboutthe risks of his sport. " I hate to see skydiving given the image mat it has," Wessel said. " When I tell people I skydive, I think they're impressed mostly because they think it's dangerous." " Impressed" might not be the word to describe those who have seen the third -- degree burns Wessel suffered from his last jump. Wessel struck the high- voltag- e utility lines near the Omar Bradley Airport in Moberly, and some think he's fortunate to bealive. On a routine jump May 17, Wessel in-tended to come down in the Mid- Misso- uri Parachute Center's target area. Instead, he landed on the standard dis-tribution conductors of the Macon Electric Cooperative, which carry a 7,200- vo- tt charge. Del England, the electric cooper-ative's general manager, said be couldn't say definitively how much voltage is required to kill a person. But under certain conditions someone could be killed from plugging a light, bulb into a faulty socket of only 110 volts. Wessel's exposure to the high- voltag- e wires, England said, was both re-markable and unique. " To my knowledge, there has been no similar incident of this type in the nine- coun- ty service area," of the coop-erative, England said. Wessel survived the accident, Rngland said, because he was " just lucky." Wessel, who just graduated with a ( See MAN, Page 14A) Gity weighs raising capital with bonds By Mike Brenoan Missoarian staff writer At the recent retreat for the Colum-bia City Council and staff held in rural Henry County, discussion of the dry's five- yea- r Capital Improvement Pro-gram raised the possibility of voters being faced with a bond issue in a fu-ture election. However, the merits of financing through bonded indebtedness rather than with current revenues alone raises arguments pro and con. To understand the arguments, it's necessary to understand the program. " The program theoretically rep-resents what we could do if we had all the cash necessary," says John Brown, administrative assistant in the city pfenning department. " When the pro-gram is put together each department comes in with a list of things to be done, a wish list, ifyouwilL" But the appropriation requests for improvements submitted by different departments conflict if the city doesn't have the money to fund them aS. For example, he said, if the Parks and Recreation Department wants to build a park, and the Public Works De-partment wants to build a street, but money exists for only one project, a priority must be established Brown says that the department Insight heads and Charles Hargrove, assistant to the city manager, go through the budget and, with the help of the plan-ning department, decide what should be eliminated. If Parks and Recreation makes a better case and can prove that enough people are using the parks to make an-other facility more important than con-struction of a street, the park request could get the edge. However, the city's several advisory boards also have con-siderable say in which project gets the money. After the planning department has considered a request, it goes to the city Planning and Zoning Commission for evaluation. The commission can change the priorities of projects, but it too must stay within the financial guidlines. Public hearings are then held on all the proposed expenditures before they go to the city council for evaluation and possible approval. The five- ye- ar capital improvements program is divided into two specific areas. One is enterprise- funde- d capital projects, such as construction of water and electric facilities, while the other is general- funde- d capital projects, or construction of streets, parks and re-lated improvements. The former pro-jects are primarily paid for through revenues generated by those who use the service, and the latter projects are paid for out of general, public im-provement and revenue sharing funds, as well as county road tares. Based on budget figures compiled last fall, the total cost for both kinds of projects is estimated at around $ 84 mil-lion, if the frveyear program is ap-proved by both the council and the vot-ers. More than half the issssy is expected to come from state and feder-- ( See GENERAL, Page 14A) Xii town today 7: 30 p. m. Maplewood Barn Theater presents " Fiddler on the Roof," Nifong Park. Admission for adults $ 2, all others $ 1 . 7: 30 pan. Baseball, Ban John-son vs. Columbia Legion, Legion Field. Classified 11A- 1S- A Opiittosi ...... , .. AA People SB- 2- 3 Speris .7A- 3- A gtOClIB. aaa aaaa, Ba3BA I -- iriiB- iihiiiw Minr
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Item.Transcript | STATE HISTORICAL -- x- -. HOT A LOIRI ST. COI. USSBIA. SO. 5OI 72nd Year No. 223 IUhh Morniri"! It's Wednesday. June 4, I JJO 3 Sections 36 Pages .15 Cents Carter wraps up Democratic nomination United Press International President Carter sealed up the 1980 Demo-cratic nomination Tuesday, but a fighting Sen. Edward Kennedy, bouyed by prospects of win-ning the most votes and delegates in the final eight primaries, rejected Carter's plea for party unity. In the finale of the 1S80 primary season, Kennedy won in three of the eight states New Jersey, South Dakota and Rhode Island and was running neck- and- ne- ck in the fourth and most important, California. Carter took the third big state at stake, Ohio, also won West Virginia, and led in New Mexico and Montana. Carter insisted the Democratic race was over and held out an olive branch to Kennedy who ignored the gesture and vowed to fight on against the president be insists is too weak-ened to defeat Ronald Reagan in the Novem-ber election. Out of Carter's defeat in New Jersey he sal-vaged 47 delegates far more than the 28 he needed Tuesday to go over the 1,666 needed to win the Democratic nomination. Reagan rolled up overwhelming victories and took nearly all the delegates in California, Ohio, New Jersey, Rhode Island, New Mexico, South Dakota, West Virginia, Montana and Mississippi on the final day of primaries. The victories were no surprise for the con-servative former governor of California who wrapped up the nomination two weeks ago when his last serious challenger, George Bush, dropped out of the race. At midnight CDT, the primaries looked like : New Jersey: With 88 percent of the precincts reporting, Kennedy 275,688 or 55 percent, 65 delegates; Carter 183,496 or 38 percent, 47 dele-gates. Ohio: With 72 percent reporting. Carter 429,- 7- 96 or 51 percent, 85 delegates; Kennedy 363,- 47- 0 or 44 percent, 76 delegates. The California Democratic vote at 12: 25 aon. CDT Wednesday with 34 percent of the state's precincts reporting: Carter, 96,931, or 41 per-cent; Kennedy, 95,567 os 41 percent. Kennedy won in Rhode Island with 69 per-cent and in South Dakota with 48 percent. Car-ter won in West Virginia with 62 percent and was leading with 44 percent in New Mexico and in Montana with 51 percent Kennedy's sweep of New Jersey and Rhode Island gave him a near perfect record in the northeast industrial states this year states Democrats traditionally must carry by big margins if they are to win nationwide. But Carter's win in Ohio, also a big industri-al state hard hit by the slumping economy, provided some good news for the administra-tion. At a raiiy in Washington, Carter said he now was intent on unifying the Democratic Party. He said he might call Kennedy personally, hoping to make peace where his emissaries to date have failed. " I'm now dedicated to bringing our Demo-cratic party back together after we have faced two formidable candidates who ran tremen-dous campaigns on their own," Carter said of Kennedy and California Gov. Edmund Brown But Kennedy said he was not quitting. ' Democrats from coast to coast were unwil-ling to cede the nomination to Jimmy Carter and neither am I," he said. " I am committed to continuing this campaign." The Kennedy camp dismissed Carter's dele-gate count even before the votes were tallied, saying that didn't mean he would win the nom-ination in August. Kennedy's strong finish and the delegates he does have will give him some clout at the New York convention, to help shape the party plat-form. The Carter campaign recognized this and began some weeks ago trying to make peace with Kennedy. SWiSBatiaMMBjBKMaKBflBBHBiflB MBl'wBflHHBBa" flMBHKMMBBlE IBIHBnfl ' .' " C,, . " Tamm A. Ixchnrr Colomi& H6iise Healthcare nursing borne, 1801 Xwne Drive -.--- , r -- :.--..- --..- -.- - - Nairslng home violations cited By Terry Home, Mike Maasur and Sue Wagner Missoarian staff writers At 78, Ivan Hume Morris, a former well driller, could still feed himself and walk, but he needed constant at-tention. Morris, suffering from em-physema, was often disoriented and frightened. When the task of caring for his father became too difficult for one of Morris' sons, the family gath-ered to talk about the problem. - " We didnt know what to do, but we I decided we had to pat him in a nurs-- I ing home,". one of the sons said. The family chose Columbia House Health-care, 1801 Towne '. Drive, because, they were told, it was the only Colum-bia home taking patients " who needed a lot of care." They also wanted to keep their father close to home. Who Cares f0WElderiy SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSmSSSSSSSSmSSa Pleased with the quality of care her father received during the first seve-ral years, Alice Murray, Route 3, lat-er told reporters the quality seemed to change drastically during Morris' final months in the nursing home, up to the time of his death March 26. Placed in a different wing of the home following a visit to a local hos-pital, Morris was the victim of re-peated neglect and abuse, she said. There Ms health deteriorated, she said. Almost from the beginning, Mrs. Murray said, her father's belongings disappeared money, a radio and clothing. " When we first went out mere, he knew his billfold was gone, and we got him another and put some money in it." But when his second and third ones disappeared, she said, " We didnt bother. I'd just put some change in his pocket" Mrs. -- Murray said staff ancLaides failed to keep her father clean. " I went out several times when his bed was wet, and Fm sure he was sleep-ing in it." Once, one of her brothers found their father strapped in a chair and sitting in urine. The only comment from the nurses was that it had just happened, the brother said. After she noticed her father was losing weight, Mrs. Murray said she was worried her father was not being fed enough. " I kind of felt like they let him I starve in the last two months," Mrs. i . Murray said. She believes these con-ditions contributed to his death. She asked the nurses about his lack of eating, but she said their only com-ment was that Morris " didnt eat much for breakfast." Twice, when she took her father to the hospital, he was dehydrated. Hos-pital nurses gave him water through an eyedropper to keep him from get-ting sick by gorging himself. Mrs. Murray never took the extra steps to lodge a complaint with the nursing home or the state, but her be-lief that her father was ill- treat- ed is a theme found repeatedly in state f3es containing allegations and violations of state and federal regulations. Columbia House's current adminis- - ( See INVESTIGATORS, Page ISA) Administrator: Time key to improvement The current administrator of Columbia House Healthcare, 1801 Towne Drive, acknowledges that the nursing home had problems in the past, but said Tuesday she has turned the bona around. " I'm sore you've found many problems, but I had two people here prior to me who sat in their office eight hours a day and never got out on the floor and really didnt know what was going on in this facili-ty. It's not my style of management. I know what's going cm in this facility," Mary Lou Pierce said. " Within the last three months, it was ' really evi-dent that things were really changing. It kind of all fell together," said Ms. Pierce. " I have to say we bad problems. I took over a problem. We've made great strides in nine months." Although the state again found problems in me home in its last inspection only three months ago,' Ms. Pierce, who became the administrator in Au-gust 1979, says, ' Tour months time is not enough tim to makt a big turn around in a facility . that needs a lot of work. But there's been a turnaround in this place that has been unbelievable." She said she also doesnt believe state surveys and inspections reflect the quality of care given at the home. " When the impertors come through, they have to find something. It's part of their job." Ms. Pierce said officers of Eiflhaven Inc., the owner of Columbia House, sent her to the home be-cause of her reputation for improving poor nursing homes. The main problem at me home when she ar-rived was that employees were trying to unionize, Ms. Pierce said. " We've been going through union organization. That's caused a tremendous upheaval. It's a very disruptive thing to go on in a nursiog hsne," she said. Ms. Pierce said she cant raise her wage scale un-til the new union and Hillhaven reach an agree-ment, which in turn contributes to a typical nursing home malady finding- goo- d staff. When she does get good staff, she says, there's a problem keeping " We're the higgest draw in the community for staff. The hospital steals my staff. The other nurs-ing homes steal my staff. They dont have to train them; we train them, and then they go off and wore some other place because they can make more money." After Ann Fagen was named nursing director in February, Ms. Pierce said, the home began to im-prove. Other improvements, Ms. Pierce says, have come from the corporation. " I've got to be real fair to Hillhaven," she said. " I mean, one of the reasons things were- no- t put in were the requests were not made. My predecessors didnt make a request. They wanted their bottom- lin- e figure to look real good." Ms. Pierce says Hillhaven has provided funds for a new lobby, carpet, floor tile, furniture, and cubi-cle curtains for the rooms since August. " I've not made a request that I have been turned down on," she said-" N- ot one." Still, there was a time, Ms. Pierce said, when she despaired about being able to improve the home be-cause she had trouble finding a qualified nursing di-rector. " As a matter of fact, I've gone through some real worrying over this place." " Thel980 JLJ Elections With Tuesday's voting the Democratic dele- - I gate totals looked like this: I Tutaday's Prrrk. ua Htm Oatagata Total Total Carter 322 1.638 1.959 Kennedy 320 850 1,170 Needed to Nominate: 1 ,666 The Republican totals: TuMday Pranoua New Datoeatas Total Total Reagan 385 1,071 1,456 Bush 3 267 270 Needed to Nominate: 998 Campbell plans more active role By Mandy Behbehani Missourian staff writer City Manager Stuart Campbell says he is going to change his style. On Tuesday Mayor Clyde Wilson, representing the City Council, told Campbell bis performances on initiat-ing policy and administering his staff organization are still unsatisfactory. Specifically, Wilson criticized Camp-bell's inqiiry into the police depart-ment's handling of the Sgt. Bobbi Ar-nold case. Asked Tuesday if be thought he could play the role of aggressive city man-ager the council wants, Campbell said, " I'm sure gonna try." He said he would begin bringing policy initiatives to the council for its consideration. . Campbell also said be is willing to become more active. " When you work for the council, you try and do their will." The manager seemed to think his chances of survival in his job depend on his acquiring a more activist philos-ophy. If he doesnt acquire this, he said, I may became among the ranks of the unemployed." The council conducted a li- ho- ur re- evaluat- ion of Campbell late Monday, at the end of a 90- da- y period it gave Campbell in February to improve his performance. In Campbell's favor, the council decided the manager had im-proved in responding to the body's re-quests for technical information. But a difference in philosophy be-tween the council and Campbell about initiating policy was one of the prob-lems cited in the Monday evaluation, just as it was in February. Campbell told the Columbia Missourian two weeks ago, " I don't feel I should ini-tiate policy." In a brief and general press release issued Tuesday by Wilson, the council said its consensus was, " the dry man-ager has responded well to the coun-cil's request for technical information needed to make policy derisions." It also said Campbell is " responsive to particular issues brought to his atten-tion by the council." But, it added, the council and the manager also " acknowledge there is a difference in their views on how policy issues are brought before the council for consideration." Regardless how ready Campbell is to change his style, the future of Colum-bia Police Chief David Walsh may be in doubt. The council was " apparently unani-mous" in its feeling that the city man-ager " did not deal adequately with ad-ministrative issues," in the Sgt Bobbi Arnold case, the release said. In response Campbell told the Mis-sourian be plans to meet with Walsh in the near future and " definitely" look into the Arnold case again. He said dis-missal of Walsh is " one of the options" open to him. The Arnold case concerns the police department's handling of an April hit- and- r- un accident involving Sgt. Ar-nold. Controversy had arisen over questions of whether Sgt. Arnold had received preferential treatment. City Counselor Scott Snyder, at Campbell's request, made an inquiry into the department's handling of the affair to see whether the case had been treated in a special manner because it involved a police officer. The inquiry statement issued by Carnpbell said that there was no major misconduct in ( See COUNCIL'S. Page ISA) Skydiving High- voltag- e shocks won't stop area man By Rod Perimntter Missourian staff writer MOBERLY Mark Wessel, like many skydivers, can talk with a re-markable sense of calm about falling hundreds of feet in only a few seconds. He thinks people sometimes make too much aboutthe risks of his sport. " I hate to see skydiving given the image mat it has," Wessel said. " When I tell people I skydive, I think they're impressed mostly because they think it's dangerous." " Impressed" might not be the word to describe those who have seen the third -- degree burns Wessel suffered from his last jump. Wessel struck the high- voltag- e utility lines near the Omar Bradley Airport in Moberly, and some think he's fortunate to bealive. On a routine jump May 17, Wessel in-tended to come down in the Mid- Misso- uri Parachute Center's target area. Instead, he landed on the standard dis-tribution conductors of the Macon Electric Cooperative, which carry a 7,200- vo- tt charge. Del England, the electric cooper-ative's general manager, said be couldn't say definitively how much voltage is required to kill a person. But under certain conditions someone could be killed from plugging a light, bulb into a faulty socket of only 110 volts. Wessel's exposure to the high- voltag- e wires, England said, was both re-markable and unique. " To my knowledge, there has been no similar incident of this type in the nine- coun- ty service area," of the coop-erative, England said. Wessel survived the accident, Rngland said, because he was " just lucky." Wessel, who just graduated with a ( See MAN, Page 14A) Gity weighs raising capital with bonds By Mike Brenoan Missoarian staff writer At the recent retreat for the Colum-bia City Council and staff held in rural Henry County, discussion of the dry's five- yea- r Capital Improvement Pro-gram raised the possibility of voters being faced with a bond issue in a fu-ture election. However, the merits of financing through bonded indebtedness rather than with current revenues alone raises arguments pro and con. To understand the arguments, it's necessary to understand the program. " The program theoretically rep-resents what we could do if we had all the cash necessary," says John Brown, administrative assistant in the city pfenning department. " When the pro-gram is put together each department comes in with a list of things to be done, a wish list, ifyouwilL" But the appropriation requests for improvements submitted by different departments conflict if the city doesn't have the money to fund them aS. For example, he said, if the Parks and Recreation Department wants to build a park, and the Public Works De-partment wants to build a street, but money exists for only one project, a priority must be established Brown says that the department Insight heads and Charles Hargrove, assistant to the city manager, go through the budget and, with the help of the plan-ning department, decide what should be eliminated. If Parks and Recreation makes a better case and can prove that enough people are using the parks to make an-other facility more important than con-struction of a street, the park request could get the edge. However, the city's several advisory boards also have con-siderable say in which project gets the money. After the planning department has considered a request, it goes to the city Planning and Zoning Commission for evaluation. The commission can change the priorities of projects, but it too must stay within the financial guidlines. Public hearings are then held on all the proposed expenditures before they go to the city council for evaluation and possible approval. The five- ye- ar capital improvements program is divided into two specific areas. One is enterprise- funde- d capital projects, such as construction of water and electric facilities, while the other is general- funde- d capital projects, or construction of streets, parks and re-lated improvements. The former pro-jects are primarily paid for through revenues generated by those who use the service, and the latter projects are paid for out of general, public im-provement and revenue sharing funds, as well as county road tares. Based on budget figures compiled last fall, the total cost for both kinds of projects is estimated at around $ 84 mil-lion, if the frveyear program is ap-proved by both the council and the vot-ers. More than half the issssy is expected to come from state and feder-- ( See GENERAL, Page 14A) Xii town today 7: 30 p. m. Maplewood Barn Theater presents " Fiddler on the Roof," Nifong Park. Admission for adults $ 2, all others $ 1 . 7: 30 pan. Baseball, Ban John-son vs. Columbia Legion, Legion Field. Classified 11A- 1S- A Opiittosi ...... , .. AA People SB- 2- 3 Speris .7A- 3- A gtOClIB. aaa aaaa, Ba3BA I -- iriiB- iihiiiw Minr |