Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1980-12-11

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73rd Year No. 75 Good Morning! It's Thursday. December 1 1. 1980 16 Page 25 Cents.
Soviets warn U. S. to stay out of Poland
MOSCOW ( UPI) Soviet Defense Minister
Dmitry Ustinov said Wednesday that the threat
of war has increased because of U S. and West-ern
protests about Poland.
In a speech to party conference of the Mos-cow
military district, Unstinov was the first Po-litburo
member publicly to link the Soviet mili-tary
with Poland.
He said the United States and its NATO part-ners
have been fighting to undermine detente.
" As a result of this, the international situa-tion
has worsened and the threat of war has in-creased,"
Ustinov said.
He warned the United States to stay out of Po-land
and said the Soviets are building up de-fenses.
" The combat might and preparedness of the
army and navy have been brought to a qualita
tively new level" since 1976, he said
In a move that could sharply increase the ten-sion
between Polish workers and the govern-ment,
the nation's independent union lead-ership
Wednesday called for the release of
political prisoners and accused authorities of
" continuing acts of oppression."
But at the same time, leaders of the 10 million--
member labor coalition Solidarity declared
their " full readiness to cooperate in the alliance
of wisdom, sense and national responsibility"
and urged calm m the nation "
The Solidarity statement was issued just
hours after the official newspaper of the Polish
army warned the unions to confine themselves
to labor matters and not associate with " anti- sociali- st
forces," the government's euphemism
for political dissenters.
In Brussels, Belgium, NATO defense min-isters
met to draft economic and political sanc-tions
that could be imposed on the Soviet Union
should it decide to send its troops into Poland
Secretary of State Edmund Muskie sought to
persuade America's NATO allies Wednesday
that they must react swiftly and with unity to
punish the Soviet Union if it invades Poland
However, it was learned that some of the al-lies
gathering for a NATO foreign ministers
conference opening today were skeptical of
Washington's interpretation of its military in-telligence
on Poland. It was learned several
NATO members have told U S officials they
suspect Washington may be exaggerating the
urgency of the crisis.
Officials in the secretary ' s party said under
the U S plan, the reaction would come in two
stages The first, which would include the sym-bolic
act of a mass walkout at the current Ma-drid
Security Conference, would take place as
soon as Russian troops crossed the border into
Poland
The second phase of the Western reaction,
which might include more severe economic and
political sanctions, would be imposed after an-other
NATO meeting that would convene in the
event of an invasion, the sources said
En route to Brussels, Muskie told reporters
aboard his plane that the Soviet troops massed
near Poland's borders were in such a high state
of military readiness they could move into Po-land
' almost without notice "
" Poland is 200 miles from NATO territory
NATO is created to defend the territory and
there is the possibility of the use of force NATO
cannot be insensitive to the use of military
force NATO cannot prudently ignore the use of
force, ' Muskie said, stressing the point
Secretary' of Defense Harold Brown warned
that a Soviet invasion of Poland also would spur
the arms race He was addressing NATO de-fense
ministers wno ended their two- da- y meet-ing
by stepping up the watch on Poland
The precautionary measures they adopted in-cluded
deployment of four U S Airborne Warn-ing
and Control aircraft along the East- We- st
frontier to eavesdrop on Soviet troop
movements
Diplomats said that as things stand now, the
Soviets are not apt to want to rush into con-frontation
with the broad- base- d working class
resistance that would arise if Soviet troops
inarched into Poland
Air male
17- year- o- ld takes hobby
sky- hig- h with family plane
By Steve Glynn
Missonrian staff writer
When school gets out in the afternoon at Centralia High School,
most of Dean Cook's friends go out and play football or go to work
at a part- tim- e job or go home and watch television.
Dean goes flymg.
Dean got his pilot's license Oct. 3 when he turned 17, the Federal
Aviation Administration's minumum age requirement to get a li-cense.
But he has been flying with his parents and learning about
planes and how to fly them for several years. And now that he has
his license, he goes up several times a week in his family's Cessna
172 Sky Hawk.
Why does a guy who has grown up on a small farm outside Cen-tralia
like to Qy so much9
" It's something not a lot of people do," Dean says. " It's got pre-stige.
When you fly into an airport everybody watches as you
come in. You're special because you can fly the plane ' '
But that's not the only reason he flies. He also thinks it's a lot of
fun
Dean got his interest in flying from his parents. His father Earl
Cook says he had always wanted to fly, and in 1974 he finally got
the time and money.
When Cook got his license in 1976, the whole family started to get
involved. Dean's mother Jackie decided to learn bow to assist the
plane on the ground to help her husband. But it was not long before
she got her license, as did Dean's two older brothers, Darnel, 21,
and David, 30. It was only natural that when he became old
enough Dean also joined the family of pilots.
To get his pilot's license, Dean had to have 40 hours flying expe- -
Km- ro- y Kooc& i
Dean Cook, 17, and his family's Cessna 172 Sky Hawk.
nence, pass a written test and fly a check nde with a federal flight
examiner The 40 hours of experience had to include at least 20
hours of dual instruction with a certified flight instructor and 20
hours of solo flying. One of the solo flights had to be a 300- mi- le
three- le- g trip.
One obstacle to flying is the cost, but Dean says the cost of flying
is not as much as most people think In fact, it costs about the
same a mile to fly a plane as it does to operate a car. An hour of
flying costs about $ 20, but that hour in a plane covers more miles
than the same amount of time m a car
And the cost of a plane is not much more than a high- pric- ed car.
When the Cooks teamed with another family to buy their plane
three years ago, they paid half of the $ 14,000 price Soon afterward
they put an additional $ 4,000 worth of radio equipment in the
plane Today the plane is worth about $ 15,000
While many people think flying is dangerous and risky, Dean
says there are not many chances involved with flying, and he nev-er
worries about crashing. He says flymg is much safer than driv-ing
a car, and just as safe as nding a bicycle. Last year, about the
same numoer of people were killed on bikes as were killed in all
general aviation accidents, he says
" If a pilot is conscientious, knows his airplane, knows his routes
and doesn't just keep ploughing off into the sunset if he gets lost,
he won t ever have to worrj about crashing,' Dean say s Most im-portantly,
" a good pilot knows his own limits "
Dean, a junior at Centralia High School, wants to go to the Flor-ida
Institute of Technology when he graduates There he can get
the education he needs for the career he is planning flying a com-muter
airline or working for a large company flying executives
around the country
Until he gets out of high school, Dean is getting all the experi-ence
he can by working weekends at Cotton Woods Memorial Air-port
in Columbia, where he washes planes and helps the mechan-ics.
He also is studying for his instrument ratings test.
But when he is not in school or working at the airport, Dean can
be found somewhere overhead taking friends up and " showing
them their house," taking a trip to Jacksonville, 111 , to visit his
grandmother, or just looking around Whichever it is, he is having
fun.
Insight
Local stores
supporting
check plan
By Tammy Wool
Missonrian staff writer
The majority of Columbia merchants
are expressing support for the new
check- cashin- g policy announced last
month by Boone County Prosecutor
JoeMoseley.
Mcseley said on Nov. 19 he no longer
would file charges in bad- che- ck cases
unless local merchants can provide
positive identification of those accused
of passing bad checks.
" We've been keeping track of the
amount of bad checks we receive,"
Moseley said. " The average is roughly
$ 1,500 each day. We won't know the re-sults
of our stricter check- cashin- g poli-cy
for about a month until the checks
are returned under the new policy.' '
Many stores are changing their
check- cashin- g policies in light of the
new policy.
Carol Edwards, manager of Dean's
Town and Country, 904 E. Broadway,
said the new checking policy will ulti-mately
help the merchant.
" We will have a stamp which sup-plies
the person's home, address,
phone and other information essential
to identify the check writer. I think this
new policy will take the burden off the
merchant because, after you originally
identify the check writer with suffi-cient
information at the time of the
sale, independent recollection of the in-dividual
won't be necessary in the tri--
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State may be late in Richter case
By Carol Severin
Missonrian staff writer
The state has decided to appeal Dr.
Clifford Richter's reinstatement at El-lis
Fischel State Cancer Hospital, but
its application may not have reached
the U. S. Supreme Court by the Wednes-day
deadline.
However, an assistant attorney gen-eral
Wednesday said his office ex-pected
the the state's appeal to be de-livered
on time.
Richter was dismissed in December
1978 after telling federal authorities
that a patient was released from the
hospital with radioactive material in-side
her. Though the hospital contends
the incident had nothing to do with the
firing, Richter has argued he would
still be working there if he had not re-ported
the mistake.
The Missouri Department of Social
Services is seeking to appeal a lower
court decision reinstating Richter as
chief of medical physics and radiation
safety at the hospital. But its request to
the Supreme Court had not been filed
by the end of the working day Wednes-day,
the final day for appealing the rul-ing
A Supreme Court clerk's office offi-cial
m Washington said Wednesday af-ternoon
that the request had not been
formally logged by the end of the busi-ness
day. He indicated that the papers
may have arrived Wednesday even if
they hadn't been logged, in which case
the appeal would proceed normally
Larry Marshall, a Missouri assistant
attorney general, said Wednesday that
the state had sent the appeal applica-tion
in behalf of the hospital and that
he expected it to be delivered on time.
Marshall said the state is asking the
Supreme Court to review a Sept 11 de-cision
by the 8th U S Court of Appeals
m St Louis giving Richter his job back
The court's ruling upheld an August
1979 decision by U S Secretary of La-bor
Ray Marshall that Richter's firing
had been illegal. Richter had appealed
his case to an administrative court in
Washington, D. C., bypassing local and
state courts.
According to the hospital, Richter
was released from his job during a re- orgamzati- onal
effort. However, Rich-ter
contends he was dismissed for re-porting
to the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission m March 1978 that a
Kirksville, Mo. woman had been re-leased
from Ellis Fischel with four ra-dioactive
seeds mistakenly left inside
her after an operation.
The labor secretary agreed with
Richter s position, ordering that he be
reinstated and paid lost salary.
Mrs Martha McClaskey, in whose
body the radioactive seeds were left,
later died of cancer Her husband Wil-liam
filed a malpractice suit that is
still pending against five doctors at the
hospital
Richter, 513 Woodridge Drive, has
been receiving a state paycheck since
fall 1979, even though he has not re-sumed
his position He says he has
been-- paid more than $ 100,000 since he
was dismissed"
' This is certainly not unexpected,"
Richter said of the Supreme Court ap-peal
" This lias been a stalling maneu-ver
all the tune I feel that the bu-reaucrats
responsible for the problem
are now using the system to defend
their actions all of this at the ex-pense
of the taxpayers. "
Prime rate reaches 20 NEW YORK ( UPI) - Caught be-tween
the Federal Reserve's crunch on
funds and panicky business borrowers,
the nation's banks Wednesday raised
the prime lending rate to 20 percent,
matching the record high reached last
spring.
Chase Manhattan Bank, third largest
in the industry, made the move to 20
percent from 19 percent and virtually
all major banks swung into line imme-diately
Analysts anticipated that the
prune rate would go even higher very
soon.
" There's nothing magic about 20 per-cent,"
David M. Jones, economist for
Aubrey G. Lanston & Co., said. " As im-possible
as it would have sounded a
month ago, we could see the prune
notch up to 22 percent before the Fed
makes believers out of everyone."
The " everyone" is banks, which in a
sense must contend with the Fed's vise
on money as well as bank loan growth
and " increasingly panicky business
customers who are caught in a cash
squeeze trying to finance inventories,"
Jones said.
Even the 20 percent prune rate level
will have a " devastating impact on the
economy," Jones said.
" Every notch up in the prime means
a deeper and more prolonged slow-down
in business activity. Virtually ev-eryone
from the home buyer to the
largest corporate borrower will find
the current high rates painful."
The harsh impact on small and medi-um
size business has been especially
evident in the automobile industry,
where dealers are caught between a
slowdown in sales and impossibly high
interest rates on money they borrow to
buy cars.
Short- ter- m business credit demands
rose a phenomenal $ 5.8 billion in No-vember,
said William E. Sullivan, sen-ior
vice president at Bank of New
York, with $ 5.4 billion of the increase
at banks. This borrowing shows up m
the money supply in checking account
balances.
Sullivan said the future of rates
would depend on bank willingness to
extend credit at increasingly higher
rates. " Rates could continue to rise un-til
some constraint is put on credit," he
said.
Sullivan, however, felt the Fed " at
long last has made some impact on in-flationary
psychology, at least in some
sectors."
In town
today
9 ajn. Boone County Court meets,
fifth floor, County- Cit- y Building
7 pjn. Panel discussion on the
arts as taught in Columbia public
schools, 2nd floor meeting room,
Darnel Boone Regional Library, 100
W. Broadway.
7: 30 pjn. Voice and piano recital,
Launer Auditorium, Columbia Col-lege.,
free.
7: 30 p. m. " A Miss in Her Teens,"
Gentry Studio Theatre, University.
Tickets : 50 cents at the door.
7: 30 pjn. " A Christmas Carol,"
Warehouse Theater, Stephens Col-lege.
8: 15p. m. Brass Ensemble, Fine
Arts Recital Hall, University.
Index
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People 5
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Stephens
will lease
dormitory
By Tom Baranauskas
Missounan staff writer
Stephens College's newest and larg-est
dormitory Hillcrest Hall will
be closed next spring as part of tne
school's continuing effort to reduce op-erating
expenses. Stephens officials
announced Wednesday
Hillcrest, which can accommodate
343 students, currently houses 250
Those students will be reassigned to
other dormitories for the 1981- 8- 2 school
year, according to a statement issued
by Susan R Bowling, dean of student
life, and Jane Ellen Ashley, associate
dean of student life
Closing Hillcrest will mean a savings
of at least $ 74,000 in operating ex-penses,
and leasing it could earn mon-ey
for the school
Officials said it was the most appro-priate"
dorm to try to lease since " it
has the largest income producing po-tential
"
Ms Bowling said that the University
may lease the Stephens dorm to help
alleviate its own housing shortage
Three other dorms Deanng, Smith
and Fielding Smith halls may also
be leased to the University No agree
ment is expected until January at the
earliest, but negotiations are continu-ing
Don Graham, University associate
director of residential life, said the
University probably will lease some
dormitory space from Stephens next
year Because of this year's housing
shortage, the University leased Smith
and Fielding Smith halls
Ms Bowling said that, if negotiations
with the University fall through. Ste-phens
will consider leasing the dorms
to other tenants
Some Hillcrest residents were an-noyed
because they weren t told about
plans to close the aorm until Tuesday
But Ms Bowling said students were ill
informed because there was " nothing
definite yet'" to report about how the
building will be used next year
Wednesday's statement noted that
" there is an excess of almost 600
spaces in the halls . For nine years,
we have gradually incremented the
use of extra space for singles, lounges
and special purpose facilities in the
halls " The college, which can accom-modate
about 2,000 students, currently
has an enrollment of 1.300.
Besides leasing Hillcrest and the
three other dorms, college officials are
discussing
- Leasing the now- vaca- nt Missouri
Arts and Crafts building on Broadway
Selling houses which are now oc-cupied
by faculty, staff and students
Leasing open land south of East
Broadway and west of U S. 63
- Developing a 40- ac- re tract, part of
which includes Lions- Stephe- ns Park
Ms. Bowling and Ms Ashley indi-cated
in their statement that a combi-nation
of budget- cuttin- g measures and
new sources of income " will move the
college towards a balanced budget and
strengthen the overall program of the
college."
Reagan may face
economic crisis
Two Republican Congressmen
urge President- ele- ct Reagan to fol-low
an emergency economic pro-gram.
They say an unchecked econ-omy
could damage party unity and
threaten public confidence. Story,
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