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- - I COLUMBIA, WO. a5C01 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-- ( See SOME, Page 16) 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 Business..... ... ...... ....... 11 Classified 12 Opinion ........ ............... .... 4 People 5 Sports & Stocks 11 Weather..-- .. .... ... ...... 13 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, Page 13.
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Item.Transcript | - - I COLUMBIA, WO. a5C01 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-- ( See SOME, Page 16) 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 Business..... ... ...... ....... 11 Classified 12 Opinion ........ ............... .... 4 People 5 Sports & Stocks 11 Weather..-- .. .... ... ...... 13 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, Page 13. |