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1 " - :.-- . Q J c. L'jasi'., a,. 65201 73rd Year No. 58 Good Morning! It's Thursday, November 20, 1980 16 Pages 15 Cents Officer works to walk again after shooting By JUl Miller Missoarian staff writer A man en crutches, silhouetted by morning light from the physical therapy room behind him, moves slowly down the hall. Columbia Police Det. Bob Muse, shot during Tony Crews' escape from a police car Oct. 6, has just finished 1 hours of therapy for his senou3 leg wound. He greets a staff member and continues the journey to the elevator. He winces. Muse, 42, was released Monday after three weeks in Rusk Rehabilitation Center. Before his admission to the center, he spent more than three weeks at the University Hospital, where he underwent a five- ho- ur operation to repair muscles and the femoral artery in his upper right leg. " The doctor said it was just like my leg had been torn in half. And they had to put it together again," Muse said last week. Muse has left his wheelchair and is learning to walk again. " Fm doing muck better because, when they brought me over ( from the hospital), they brought me in a wheelchair." be said. Now Muse reports to therapy as an outpatient Monday, Wednesday and Friday monuogs. Before his release from the center, Muse left his fifth- flo- or room at 8: 30 am each week day and reported to the physical therapy room on the second floor, where he went through about an hour of exercises. After lunch Muse returned to therapy at 2: 30 pan. He could leave at 4 pjn., but often opted to stay. Muse said be had no time to be bored. But there are diffi-cult aspects of his treatment, like the abdominal shots he gives himself three times daily to prevent blood dots from forming. While in the center, he gave himself the shot3 because he had to give himself injections when he went home on the weekends. " I cant get used to it Each time I do it, it's like the first time,' ' Muse said. ' ' I find it more difficult than therapy.' ' Muse, who has dropped from ISO to 160 pounds since the shooting, said, " My whole body has had to readjust. I was an avid jogger. Td get up at four or five o'clock every morn-ing and run five or six miles ( 8 to 9 kilometers) In fact I did that on the day I was shot." Muse has worked with the Columbia Police Department for 15 years. He does not know when he will return to work. Though Muse said he has his " ups and downs,' ' the shoot-ing has not changed his attitude toward his work. " I believe that the majority of the people are good people, even though a few of them will go astray of the law You've always got a few," he said. " I don't know where they're coming from, and they dent either. Like the guy who shot me. He didnt know where he was coming from " It's one of those things," he said. " I've been shot at be-fore. It happens You know the threat's there So you learn to live with it" Columbia Police Det. Bob Muse under-goes therapy at Rusk Rehabilitation Center to strengthen his wounded leg. Muse was injured in a shooting during Tony Crews' escape from police custo-dy. See related story, Page 13. Chicago Son- Tim- es SAN FRANCISCO A proposed new tax- exem- pt savings certificate could help fund an 11 percent mortgage for first- tim- e home buyers by late 1981, according to a top government official. The '' progressive" new certificate proposed by Jay Jams, chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, would aid young home buyers at the expense of elder, used- hous- e sellers. Under the plan, savings and loan as-sociations and banks would be author-ized to issue the special tax- exem- pt savings certificates, paying an esti-mated 9 percent interest to savers The certificates would run from 3 to 5 years. Insight See related story. Page ISA Jams estimated that the tax- exem- pt certificates would generate $ 23 billion in savings m- Co- ws that could be used for mortgages. Money from these accounts would be " earmarked" for below- market- ra- te housing loans to moderate- - and middle- i-ncome families. Income limita-tions would be set for borrowers of the tax- exem- pt money. " These mortgages could be made at rates as low as 11 percent," Jams said during a press conference Tuesday at the United States League of Savings Association's convention here. Although Jams admitted the tax- exem- pt certificate is " obviously a sub-sidy from the federal government," his program also provides for a tax " re-capture" plan Up to 80 percent of the estimated $ 500 million in annual tax revenues lost by the Treasury through use of the plan would be offset, Jams said, by si-phoning off some of the appreciation on the sale of used houses. He said the money to repay the tax loss would come from those who have received benefits of the subsidy pro-gramboth savers and home sellers At the present tune, the capital gain on the sale of a home is deferred if the funds are reinvested in another princi pal residence within 18 months Jams' tax " recapture" plan calls for only GO percent of the capital gam to be deferred and requires home sellers to pay taxes on the remaining 20 percent of their profits on the sale Under the plan, a home seller in the 35- perce- nt tax bracket would have to pay $ 1,400 in capital gains taxes on a $ 50,000 profit on the sale of his house " This amounts to taking money from the parents and giving it to the chil-dren, which is progressive tax policy," Jams said. " If a plan like this passed Congress by late spring, certificates could be is-sued as soon as July or August and the first housing starts could be made by September or October," Jams said. Hospital bears task of inspecting animals By Tammy Wool Missoarian staff writer Boone County Hospital's X- r- ay room had some unusual " patients" Wednes-day a group of stuffed teddy bears and a stuffed gorilla. The hospital X- ray- ed 98 stuffed ani-mals from Roth's Department Store to determine whether wire and metal particles were present in the animals' stuffing, which could pose a threat to children if the metal worked its way to the surface. Of the 98 animals checked, 63 were found to have improper metal objects in the stuffing, hospital offi-cials said. Roth's asked for help in determining the presence of the metal after the Consumer Product Safety Commission had urged a voluntary recall of 3.5 mil-lion teddy bears marketed by Hudson Brands ofNew York City. " Pot Belly Bears, manufactured m Korea, have been found to have frag-ments of wire in the bear's stuffing," said Buffy Atkins, manager of Roth's in the Forum Shopping Center. " Mag-nets in Korea were used to remove the improper metal objects, but werent strong enough and left wires in the am- -, mals, which could be harmful to 0101-- drcn." In addition to X- rayi- ng the animals in Roth's stock, Boone County Hospital radiologists have offered to examine free of charge any of the Pot Belly Bears that had been purchased by Mid- Misso- uri residents in the past three years. " UntQ Dec. 19, Pot Belly Bears may be brought to the Boone County Hosp-ital information desk by noon Friday of each week. The owner may then pick the bear up at the information desk on the following Monday," said Patsy Moore, the hospital's director of com-munity affairs. In October Hudson Brands voluntari-ly recalled their entire stock of stuffed bears manufactured since December 1977. The company reported selling 3 5 million bears in 1979 and expects to sell an additional 4.5 million in 1S80. Although all the animals X- ray- ed Wednesday came from Roth's, five were returned by customers respond-ing to the recall notice. Dr. Ken Rail, radiologist; Dr. Donald Cochran, head of the radiology depart-ment; and Gene Shippee, director of radiology services, performed the tests. Ms. Atkins said, " Each Pot Belly Bear X- ray- ed by Boone County Hospi-tal that was found to be free of the met-al objects can be sold." According to Hudson Brands, if the bears are faulty, the consumer can ei-ther keep the bear, return it to the store where purchased for a full refund or exchange the faulty bear for a metal- f-ree one. The recall process began when Hud-son Brands was contacted by a custom-er of an Atlanta, Ga. f store who found wire fragments in one cf the bears, Ms. Atkins said. " Hudson is taking precautions. Ev-ery bear manufactured as of Nov. 1, 1980, has been X- raye- d," Ms. Atkins said. U. S. downplays reported accord on Iran demands ALGIERS, Algeria ( UPI) The speaker of Iran's parliament said Wednesday the United States agreed in principle to Iran's four conditions for freeing the 52 American hostages, but U S officials played down the agrufi- canc- e of the statement " The Americans have agreed to our conditions but they have to be imple-mented, and as soon as they are, then the hostages will be freed," Hojjatoles- la- m Hashemi Rafsanjam told a news conference m Algiers " If the conditions would be carried out tonight, then the hostages would be released tomorrow, but if the United States stalls on the implementation, then the release will be slow, very slow" However, U. S officials have said in the past that they will not fulfill their part m any agreement with Iran until the hostages have been released In Washington, Secretary of State Edmund Muskie said, " We have had no response of any kind . . and we un-derstand the Iranians are still holding hearings and meetings and still sched-uling meetings with the Algerians who are the intermediaries " Commenting on Rafsanjani's statement, Muskie said, " We have no reason to believe that this is an official response " Until we have some indication that there is an official response, it is not particularly useful to try to comment or interpret this kind of statement," Muskie said Rafsanjam disclosed that the hos-tages, held for 382 days, would be re-- , leased in Tehran and not in any other aty when the tune came " They will be released to the Algeri-ans in Tehran, and then the Algerians will decide what will be dons with them," the parliament leader said. Rafsanjam said the Algerian ambas-sadors to the United States and Iran currently are in Tehran " going over the American response" to Iran's four conditions for the freeing of the hos-tages Iran's four conditions for release of the American hostages are return of the late shah's wealth, unfreezing of more than $ 8 billion of Iranian assets in American banks, a US pledge not to interfere m Iranian affairs and a U. S promise not to make any claims against Iran as a result of the hostage issue The American response has not been made public, but officials said that it was " positive" and that it said some of the conditions such as the pledge of non- interfere- nce would be no prob-lem, but a literal interpretation of the others would probably be impossible, for legal and consitutional reasons Stricter check policy urged for merchants By Scott Biehle and Tammy Wool Missoarian staff writers Columbia merchants were urged Wednesday to adopt stricter policies in order to stop the sharp increase in bad checks being passed in local stores Boone County Prosecuting Attorney Joe Moseley said he was having trou-ble obtaining convictions in bad check cases brought to court because the cur-rent check- cashin- g policies at local stores were too lenient. Moseley said he no longer will file charges in bad check cases unless the merchants can provide witnesses who can make a positive identification in court of the alleged bad check passer He outlined a model check- cashin- g procedure to 75 local business people at a seminar in fraud prevention at First Presbyterian Church, 16 Hitt St Al Mur& n, executive secretary of the Columbia Chamber of Commerce, said after the seminar, ' In order to reduce losses incurred by local businesses from uncollectible checks, stricter check- cashin- g policies need to be es-tablished in Columbia stores " He said, " The consumer is the ulti-mate benefactor from this tightening of policies " He said customers who pay their bills are the ones who finally make up for business losses when mer-chants are forced to charge more for products to offset badrcheck losses. Murfin said the problem for the mer-chant is that a loss of even $ 500 in bad checks can translate into significant losses m operating profits For in-stance, for a merchant operating on a 5 percent profit margin, failure to col-lect $ 500 from a customer means the merchant would have to generate $ 10,- 00- 0 m additional retail sales just to re-place that lost money in terms of new profit Moseley said Boone County mer-chants have had a steady increase in bad check losses He said his office re-ceived bad checks with a face value cf $ 175,000 last year, and already has col-lected checks totaling $ 186,000 in the first 10 months of this year He expects the 1980 total to be more than $ 200,000. Moseley said the lack of positive identification has resulted in low pros-ecution success in the past. The pros-ecutor said this damages the credibili-ty of the county's efforts against bad checks and encourages people to con-tinue writing them. From now on, he said charges will be filed only when merchants verify positive ldentifica-- ( See CARE, Page 16) Radiologists Dr. Ken Rail, left, and Dr. Donald Cochran use a fluoroscope at Boone County Hos-pital to inspect teddy bears for possible metal fragments imbedded in the stuffing. The frag-ments could be dangerous to infants if they work themselves to the surface of the stuffed animals. Inside today Missouri lands 7 on All- Bi- g Eight Missouri quarterback Phil Bradley and six teammates have been named to the 1S30 Associated Press All- Bi- g Eight Football Team Story, Page 9 Young ' fireman' conies to rescue Twelve- year- o- ld Kevin Stephen spotted a fire at a neighbor's house and, with the help of a friend and a gar-den hose, were dousing the flames when firefighters arrived His quick thinking helped prevent extensive damage and may have saved the life of a cat caught inside. See story, Page 16 Ira twm today 7: 30 pjn. " Andorra," Warehouse Theater, Stephens College Tickets: general public, $ 3; students, $ 1.75. 8 pjn. Poetry reading, poet Greg Pape, Windsor Lounge, Stephens Col-lege, free. 8: 15 pan. The UMC Philharmonic, Jesse Auditorium, University, free. Index Business T , ija Classified 11- 12- A OpMoQ .................................. 1& ywippig - ..- - .. ..... T T J.. riml sports i MIA
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Item.Transcript | 1 " - :.-- . Q J c. L'jasi'., a,. 65201 73rd Year No. 58 Good Morning! It's Thursday, November 20, 1980 16 Pages 15 Cents Officer works to walk again after shooting By JUl Miller Missoarian staff writer A man en crutches, silhouetted by morning light from the physical therapy room behind him, moves slowly down the hall. Columbia Police Det. Bob Muse, shot during Tony Crews' escape from a police car Oct. 6, has just finished 1 hours of therapy for his senou3 leg wound. He greets a staff member and continues the journey to the elevator. He winces. Muse, 42, was released Monday after three weeks in Rusk Rehabilitation Center. Before his admission to the center, he spent more than three weeks at the University Hospital, where he underwent a five- ho- ur operation to repair muscles and the femoral artery in his upper right leg. " The doctor said it was just like my leg had been torn in half. And they had to put it together again," Muse said last week. Muse has left his wheelchair and is learning to walk again. " Fm doing muck better because, when they brought me over ( from the hospital), they brought me in a wheelchair." be said. Now Muse reports to therapy as an outpatient Monday, Wednesday and Friday monuogs. Before his release from the center, Muse left his fifth- flo- or room at 8: 30 am each week day and reported to the physical therapy room on the second floor, where he went through about an hour of exercises. After lunch Muse returned to therapy at 2: 30 pan. He could leave at 4 pjn., but often opted to stay. Muse said be had no time to be bored. But there are diffi-cult aspects of his treatment, like the abdominal shots he gives himself three times daily to prevent blood dots from forming. While in the center, he gave himself the shot3 because he had to give himself injections when he went home on the weekends. " I cant get used to it Each time I do it, it's like the first time,' ' Muse said. ' ' I find it more difficult than therapy.' ' Muse, who has dropped from ISO to 160 pounds since the shooting, said, " My whole body has had to readjust. I was an avid jogger. Td get up at four or five o'clock every morn-ing and run five or six miles ( 8 to 9 kilometers) In fact I did that on the day I was shot." Muse has worked with the Columbia Police Department for 15 years. He does not know when he will return to work. Though Muse said he has his " ups and downs,' ' the shoot-ing has not changed his attitude toward his work. " I believe that the majority of the people are good people, even though a few of them will go astray of the law You've always got a few," he said. " I don't know where they're coming from, and they dent either. Like the guy who shot me. He didnt know where he was coming from " It's one of those things," he said. " I've been shot at be-fore. It happens You know the threat's there So you learn to live with it" Columbia Police Det. Bob Muse under-goes therapy at Rusk Rehabilitation Center to strengthen his wounded leg. Muse was injured in a shooting during Tony Crews' escape from police custo-dy. See related story, Page 13. Chicago Son- Tim- es SAN FRANCISCO A proposed new tax- exem- pt savings certificate could help fund an 11 percent mortgage for first- tim- e home buyers by late 1981, according to a top government official. The '' progressive" new certificate proposed by Jay Jams, chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, would aid young home buyers at the expense of elder, used- hous- e sellers. Under the plan, savings and loan as-sociations and banks would be author-ized to issue the special tax- exem- pt savings certificates, paying an esti-mated 9 percent interest to savers The certificates would run from 3 to 5 years. Insight See related story. Page ISA Jams estimated that the tax- exem- pt certificates would generate $ 23 billion in savings m- Co- ws that could be used for mortgages. Money from these accounts would be " earmarked" for below- market- ra- te housing loans to moderate- - and middle- i-ncome families. Income limita-tions would be set for borrowers of the tax- exem- pt money. " These mortgages could be made at rates as low as 11 percent," Jams said during a press conference Tuesday at the United States League of Savings Association's convention here. Although Jams admitted the tax- exem- pt certificate is " obviously a sub-sidy from the federal government," his program also provides for a tax " re-capture" plan Up to 80 percent of the estimated $ 500 million in annual tax revenues lost by the Treasury through use of the plan would be offset, Jams said, by si-phoning off some of the appreciation on the sale of used houses. He said the money to repay the tax loss would come from those who have received benefits of the subsidy pro-gramboth savers and home sellers At the present tune, the capital gain on the sale of a home is deferred if the funds are reinvested in another princi pal residence within 18 months Jams' tax " recapture" plan calls for only GO percent of the capital gam to be deferred and requires home sellers to pay taxes on the remaining 20 percent of their profits on the sale Under the plan, a home seller in the 35- perce- nt tax bracket would have to pay $ 1,400 in capital gains taxes on a $ 50,000 profit on the sale of his house " This amounts to taking money from the parents and giving it to the chil-dren, which is progressive tax policy," Jams said. " If a plan like this passed Congress by late spring, certificates could be is-sued as soon as July or August and the first housing starts could be made by September or October," Jams said. Hospital bears task of inspecting animals By Tammy Wool Missoarian staff writer Boone County Hospital's X- r- ay room had some unusual " patients" Wednes-day a group of stuffed teddy bears and a stuffed gorilla. The hospital X- ray- ed 98 stuffed ani-mals from Roth's Department Store to determine whether wire and metal particles were present in the animals' stuffing, which could pose a threat to children if the metal worked its way to the surface. Of the 98 animals checked, 63 were found to have improper metal objects in the stuffing, hospital offi-cials said. Roth's asked for help in determining the presence of the metal after the Consumer Product Safety Commission had urged a voluntary recall of 3.5 mil-lion teddy bears marketed by Hudson Brands ofNew York City. " Pot Belly Bears, manufactured m Korea, have been found to have frag-ments of wire in the bear's stuffing," said Buffy Atkins, manager of Roth's in the Forum Shopping Center. " Mag-nets in Korea were used to remove the improper metal objects, but werent strong enough and left wires in the am- -, mals, which could be harmful to 0101-- drcn." In addition to X- rayi- ng the animals in Roth's stock, Boone County Hospital radiologists have offered to examine free of charge any of the Pot Belly Bears that had been purchased by Mid- Misso- uri residents in the past three years. " UntQ Dec. 19, Pot Belly Bears may be brought to the Boone County Hosp-ital information desk by noon Friday of each week. The owner may then pick the bear up at the information desk on the following Monday," said Patsy Moore, the hospital's director of com-munity affairs. In October Hudson Brands voluntari-ly recalled their entire stock of stuffed bears manufactured since December 1977. The company reported selling 3 5 million bears in 1979 and expects to sell an additional 4.5 million in 1S80. Although all the animals X- ray- ed Wednesday came from Roth's, five were returned by customers respond-ing to the recall notice. Dr. Ken Rail, radiologist; Dr. Donald Cochran, head of the radiology depart-ment; and Gene Shippee, director of radiology services, performed the tests. Ms. Atkins said, " Each Pot Belly Bear X- ray- ed by Boone County Hospi-tal that was found to be free of the met-al objects can be sold." According to Hudson Brands, if the bears are faulty, the consumer can ei-ther keep the bear, return it to the store where purchased for a full refund or exchange the faulty bear for a metal- f-ree one. The recall process began when Hud-son Brands was contacted by a custom-er of an Atlanta, Ga. f store who found wire fragments in one cf the bears, Ms. Atkins said. " Hudson is taking precautions. Ev-ery bear manufactured as of Nov. 1, 1980, has been X- raye- d," Ms. Atkins said. U. S. downplays reported accord on Iran demands ALGIERS, Algeria ( UPI) The speaker of Iran's parliament said Wednesday the United States agreed in principle to Iran's four conditions for freeing the 52 American hostages, but U S officials played down the agrufi- canc- e of the statement " The Americans have agreed to our conditions but they have to be imple-mented, and as soon as they are, then the hostages will be freed," Hojjatoles- la- m Hashemi Rafsanjam told a news conference m Algiers " If the conditions would be carried out tonight, then the hostages would be released tomorrow, but if the United States stalls on the implementation, then the release will be slow, very slow" However, U. S officials have said in the past that they will not fulfill their part m any agreement with Iran until the hostages have been released In Washington, Secretary of State Edmund Muskie said, " We have had no response of any kind . . and we un-derstand the Iranians are still holding hearings and meetings and still sched-uling meetings with the Algerians who are the intermediaries " Commenting on Rafsanjani's statement, Muskie said, " We have no reason to believe that this is an official response " Until we have some indication that there is an official response, it is not particularly useful to try to comment or interpret this kind of statement," Muskie said Rafsanjam disclosed that the hos-tages, held for 382 days, would be re-- , leased in Tehran and not in any other aty when the tune came " They will be released to the Algeri-ans in Tehran, and then the Algerians will decide what will be dons with them," the parliament leader said. Rafsanjam said the Algerian ambas-sadors to the United States and Iran currently are in Tehran " going over the American response" to Iran's four conditions for the freeing of the hos-tages Iran's four conditions for release of the American hostages are return of the late shah's wealth, unfreezing of more than $ 8 billion of Iranian assets in American banks, a US pledge not to interfere m Iranian affairs and a U. S promise not to make any claims against Iran as a result of the hostage issue The American response has not been made public, but officials said that it was " positive" and that it said some of the conditions such as the pledge of non- interfere- nce would be no prob-lem, but a literal interpretation of the others would probably be impossible, for legal and consitutional reasons Stricter check policy urged for merchants By Scott Biehle and Tammy Wool Missoarian staff writers Columbia merchants were urged Wednesday to adopt stricter policies in order to stop the sharp increase in bad checks being passed in local stores Boone County Prosecuting Attorney Joe Moseley said he was having trou-ble obtaining convictions in bad check cases brought to court because the cur-rent check- cashin- g policies at local stores were too lenient. Moseley said he no longer will file charges in bad check cases unless the merchants can provide witnesses who can make a positive identification in court of the alleged bad check passer He outlined a model check- cashin- g procedure to 75 local business people at a seminar in fraud prevention at First Presbyterian Church, 16 Hitt St Al Mur& n, executive secretary of the Columbia Chamber of Commerce, said after the seminar, ' In order to reduce losses incurred by local businesses from uncollectible checks, stricter check- cashin- g policies need to be es-tablished in Columbia stores " He said, " The consumer is the ulti-mate benefactor from this tightening of policies " He said customers who pay their bills are the ones who finally make up for business losses when mer-chants are forced to charge more for products to offset badrcheck losses. Murfin said the problem for the mer-chant is that a loss of even $ 500 in bad checks can translate into significant losses m operating profits For in-stance, for a merchant operating on a 5 percent profit margin, failure to col-lect $ 500 from a customer means the merchant would have to generate $ 10,- 00- 0 m additional retail sales just to re-place that lost money in terms of new profit Moseley said Boone County mer-chants have had a steady increase in bad check losses He said his office re-ceived bad checks with a face value cf $ 175,000 last year, and already has col-lected checks totaling $ 186,000 in the first 10 months of this year He expects the 1980 total to be more than $ 200,000. Moseley said the lack of positive identification has resulted in low pros-ecution success in the past. The pros-ecutor said this damages the credibili-ty of the county's efforts against bad checks and encourages people to con-tinue writing them. From now on, he said charges will be filed only when merchants verify positive ldentifica-- ( See CARE, Page 16) Radiologists Dr. Ken Rail, left, and Dr. Donald Cochran use a fluoroscope at Boone County Hos-pital to inspect teddy bears for possible metal fragments imbedded in the stuffing. The frag-ments could be dangerous to infants if they work themselves to the surface of the stuffed animals. Inside today Missouri lands 7 on All- Bi- g Eight Missouri quarterback Phil Bradley and six teammates have been named to the 1S30 Associated Press All- Bi- g Eight Football Team Story, Page 9 Young ' fireman' conies to rescue Twelve- year- o- ld Kevin Stephen spotted a fire at a neighbor's house and, with the help of a friend and a gar-den hose, were dousing the flames when firefighters arrived His quick thinking helped prevent extensive damage and may have saved the life of a cat caught inside. See story, Page 16 Ira twm today 7: 30 pjn. " Andorra," Warehouse Theater, Stephens College Tickets: general public, $ 3; students, $ 1.75. 8 pjn. Poetry reading, poet Greg Pape, Windsor Lounge, Stephens Col-lege, free. 8: 15 pan. The UMC Philharmonic, Jesse Auditorium, University, free. Index Business T , ija Classified 11- 12- A OpMoQ .................................. 1& ywippig - ..- - .. ..... T T J.. riml sports i MIA |