Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1980-06-04

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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.
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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.
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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- -
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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."
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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
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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
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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--
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today
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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.
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