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--. 7 ATE KUVI .,&!- - ' vi'' HCIOTLTUHBlALtJR " r,' 5.21. 1 STATE HISTORICAL ; r, ClE7f HITT & LOIHY COLUMBIA, MO. 65211 ( Jflif flfoCitttibUi 78th Year No. 77 Good Morning! It's Thursday, December 13, 1984 2 Sections 14 Pages 25 Cents Improvements for jail, courthouse By tha MIourln ta f f Boone County Court Presiding Judge Norma Robb said she may propose this morning that the county establish a capital improvements fund to finance courthouse and jail Improvements. the money would come from the county's more than $ 3 million in re-serve funds. Between $ 1.5 million and $ 1.75 million could be allocated for capital projects, Robb said. After nearly three months of bi-weekly budget hearings, Robb put the final touches Wednesday on her preliminary $ 8.6 million budget A public hearing is scheduled for 10 a. m. today in the County Court chamber. At a time when some Missouri counties are pinching pennies, the Boone County Court has amassed a substantial nest egg. County officials estimate that $ 1.7 million will be left over in the gener-al operating fund at the end of the year. Another $ 2.1 million remains in the depreciation fund and nearly $ 700,000 is in the revenue- sharin- g ac-count " We're not paupers by anv stan-dards," said hood, who is the coun-ty s chief budget officer. The county owes its financial health largely to the half- cen- t sales tax approved by voters in November 1979. The tax is expected to produce $ 3.2 million this year, a 9- perc-ent in-crease compared to 1983. Robb, who freely admits that she prepares her budgets conservative-ly, underestimated sales tax pro-ceeds by $ 238,388. " Everybody knows you underestimate revenues and overestimate expenses," she said. Accumulating a surplus shows good financial planning, she insisted. What the federal government gives, it can take away, said Robb, noting that federal revenue- sharin- g monies finance many of the county's capital improvement proje cts. State statutes require the county to maintain an emergency fund total-ing 3 percent of the general fund. The emergency fund acts as a cush- - ion for items not budgeted. As a safety measure, the Boone County government also keeps $ 400,- 00- 0 in the general fund, the amount needed to run the county for one month. County funds are expected to gen-erate interest income of more than $ 300,000 when ledgers are closed Dec. 31. Robb's willingness to spend part of the leftover funds contrasts with the court's stance a year ago. In Novem-ber 1983, the judges asked county voters to approve a half- ce- nt sales tax to finance jail and courthouse improvements. Voters overwhelm-ingly rejected the plan. Ed Gaebler, who led the opposition to the tax, had argued that the coun-ty should use part of the surplus to fi-nance the improvements. Gaebler, the executive director of the Central Columbia Association, serves on the County Facilities Com-mission appointed by the court to ex-amine the county's building needs and financing alternatives. He said Wednesday that he has suggested commissioners recom-mend using the county's reserve fund to finance the projects. Another member, George Parker, said the commission is close to mak-ing a recommendation to the court. " There are definitely space needs that need to be addressed, but we haven't made a final recommenda-tion," he said. Parker said he hasn't had time to study Robb's capital improvement proposal. " I think she and the court have done a pretty sound job in their financial goals," he said. Few county officeholders are seek-ing new employees in next year's budget The County Clerk's office asked for one additional employee and the Sheriff's Department re-quested that a part- tim- e employee be put on full time. Prosecuting Attorney Joe Moseley is asking for two new employees for a victims assistance program. Three- fifth- s of the almost $ 50,000 needed for the program will be paid for by the state. Personnel budget increases vary. The greatest requested increase came from the Sheriff's Department at 21 percent I 1 Boone County Departmental Budget Requests 1984 Estimated 1985 Dept. Pet. Department Expenditures Request Inc. Sheriff $ 651,263 $ 785,625 21o Jail 425.631 494.595 16 Auditor ... . 74.607 84.557 13 I County Court 79.809 97.761 22 I CountyClerk 122.405 127.953 5 S Treasurer .... 55.356 63.202 14 Collector 166.906 202.123 21 1 Circuit Court 208.802 238.029 14 I Circuit Clerk 59.735 79.804 34 B Road & & idge Dept 1.767.997 2,082.983 18 1 Data Processing . . 116.935 117.625 1 Prosecuting Attorney .. . 374.308 445.915 19 Recorder of Deeds 143.170 154.644 8 I Building & Grounds 120,202 135.618 13 1 Surveyor 1.400 970 -- 31 j Improvements 550,000 Revenue Sharing 530.600 1.008.000 103 8 Under court guidelines, depart-ment heads will be allowed to give employees a 5 percent cost of living increase and 3 percent merit pay in-crease. Department heads may give a bigger merit raise to one person than another, as long as the total in- - Mlitouilan Ch't crease is not greater than 3 percent of the department's personnel bud-get This report was prepared by Mis- souri- an staff writers Brad Gentry, Kathryn Kranhold and Olivia Mayer. 11 ' l i ii a i I PmP vmm HVi wHI KMpBBBjPBKJHPBWWHifcWMflHBBW tfip ttvVfl mmt p jc m. f tatfCdftw S IHWwHH Wobbly window washing Joseph Colbert of Sedalia balances precariously on his lad-der as he washes the paint and debris off the University's Wendy Csrtton Swallow Hall Wednesday afternoon. The building's trim was painted this week. Fane! urges fats to be checked in toddlers WASHINGTON ( UPI) - A govern-ment advisory panel said Wednes-day all Americans as young as age 2 should follow a low- fa- t, low- cholester- ol diet to reduce their risk of coro-nary heart disease. The advisory committee said blood cholesterol levels of about 60 percent of the people in the United States are too high, but that everyone over age 2 could benefit by cutting fat con-sumption to 20 percent of food intake from its current average of 40 per-cent. " It has been established beyond a reasonable doubt that lowering defi-nitely elevated blood cholesterol lev-els ( specifically blood levels of lcm- - density lipoprotein cholesterol) will reduce the risk of heart attacks due to coronary heart disease," the com-mittee said. The committee cited an earlier study that found that for every 1- per-cent reduction in blood cholesterol, the risk of coronary heart disease could drop 2 percent. Coronary heart disease is a reduc-tion in heart efficiency caused by atherosclerosis, blockages in arte-ries that supply blood to the heart muscle. According to the National Institutes of Health, it is responsible for more deaths than all forms of cancer combined. Coronary heart disease affects at least 5.4 million U. S. citizens. The panel was one of those con-vened by the NIH to compile stan-dard guidelines for doctors and health workers on topical issues. It was the first statement on cholester-ol from such a committee. The panel, composed of doctors and two lawyers, said physicians should routinely test all patients' blood cholesterol. Children, except those with a risk of future heart dis-ease, would need to be tested once. Children under age 2 should be exempt from the diet recommenda-tions because they are in a period of extremely rapid growth and need the calories, the panel said. Suzanne Haines, chief of the medi-cal statistics branch at the National Center for Health Statistics, said quitting smoking could reduce deaths from coronary heart disease by 12 percent, while reducing choles-terol could cut the death rate by 10 percent. The panel's chairman, Daniel Steinberg, an atherosclerosis spe-cialist from the University of Cali-fornia at San Diego, said recom-mended fat reduction was set at 10 percent because it was considered comfortable and possible. Other or-ganizations have recommended a re-duction to 20 percent of total cal-ories. Weinberger agrees to defense spending cut WASHINGTON ( UPI) Defense Secretary Cas-par Weinberger agreed Wednesday to a cut of sev-eral billion dollars from his department's budget request of about $ 330 billion, administration off-icials said. The amount by which increases in the Pentagon budget would be cut has. been a matter of conten-tion in top White House circles for weeks, with Weinberger initially resisting. But after three days of budget meetings this week he agreed to the cuts, the officials said. After President Reagan told agencies to cut $ 34 billion from domestic programs to keep next year's budget at this year's $ 968 billion level, $ 8 billion remained to be cut from defense to achieve his goal of $ 42 billion fa spending reductions. The officials said Weinberger agreed to some cuts, but less than $ 8 billion worth, on Wednesday, ! i 7 and that the intramural negotiations would contin-ue. The officials, who asked not to be named, said one way of cutting Weinberger's requested figure is freezing an Oct i, 1985, pay raise for military and civilian personnel working for the Pentagon.' Military personnel are scheduled for a 7.1 per-cent increase next year and civilians for a 3.5 per-cent raise. About 2.1 million uniformed men and women would be affected, along with 1 million civilians. Although Weinberger had been fighting budget director David Stockman over the proposed cuts, he apparently was pressured from within the White House and from congressional Republicans to accept some reduction on grounds the domestic' cuts could not pass without a trimming of Penta- - i gon spending. Weinberger's decision was learned after anoth-er session of the White House budget advisers with Reagan. Weinberger was said to have pressed his case " in general terms" against large cuts in the Pen-tagon budget, White House spokesman Larry Speakessaid. Previous weeks of domestic budget cutting have left the administration about $ 8 billion short of its target for $ 42 billion in spending reductions next fiscal year. Another budget- cuttin- g idea surfaced Wednes-day with word from the Office of Personnel Man-agement that if Congress does not approve Rea-gan's proposed 5 percent across- the- boar- d pay cut for civil servants, the $ 3 billion savings could be made by firing 125,000 of them. Locksmiths petition police to end policy By Kevin McDonnell Mlssourian staff writer Columbia locksmiths, frustrated by Columbia police opening car doors for people locked out of their cars, will present a petition asking local police to stop the lockout serv-ice. Eight Columbia locksmiths signed a petition Monday and Tuesday that will be delivered today to Police Chief William E. Dye by their attor-ney. The petition asks that police " cease opening automobiles at no charge to anyone calling for the service." " Less than two years ago the peti-tion would not have been necessary, but the Columbia police have cre-ated a welfare mentality," said peti-tion author and locksmith George Thomas, 53, of 1401 Paris Road. " The police have increased the num-ber of lockouts they respond to by about 70 percentin the last year." If the petition does not change po-lice policy, several locksmiths said they will refuse to accept service calls referred by police. If neither the petition nor the serv-ice stoppage works, then the locks-miths will consider filing a class- actio- n lawsuit against City Council members responsible for perpetuat-ing the service, said Michael Moo- ne- y, group spokesman. Locksmiths will fay to recover the money they have lost due to the police lockout service if they have to go to court, he said. City Council members were un-aware of the locksmiths' petition un-til they were contacted for comment Wednesday by the Missourian. Three council members were in fa-vor of continuing police lockout serv-ices; two, against it; and one was hesitant to take a stand before the is-sue came to the council. Mayor John Westlund was unavailable for com-ment " Opening locked car doors is a good community service, and I don't think it is an incursion into the pri-vate sector," Fourth Ward Coun-cilman Pat Barnes said. Don Mosby of the Second Ward said, " I haven't heard one complaint from a locksmith, but I have heard a great deal of positive feedback from appreciative citizens." Barnes said, " The Police Depart-ment should not be looking for less things to do, and I don't like the city government looking for ways to de-crease services. Let's look for ways to increase service." Fifth Ward Councilwoman Barba-ra McDonald said unlocking car doors has nothing to do with police work. " The Police Department should not be involved in work that could be handled by the private sec-tor. We don't ask the private sector to handle our police work. " We have a fine Police Depart-ment with professional skills and I think their duties should be of the caliber of their professionalism, and that doesn't include opening car doors," McDonald said. Sixth Ward Councilman Matt Mc- Cormi- ck said, " I think that if there is a service that can be handled in the private sector, that is where the work should be done. Knowing the chief fairly well, I wouldn't be sur-prised to see him come into the next City Council meeting and say that the department will no longer open lockouts." Third Ward Councilman Rodney Smith said police should handle nightime calls, but locksmiths should get the daytime business. I Bush dedss, justice I as two bodies returned WASHINGTON ( UPI) The bodies of two Americans mur-dered by hijackers returned home Wednesday in flag- drape- d caskets to full military honors, with Vice President George Bush demanding that Iran bring their killers " swiftly and surely to jus-tice." " Wanton murder of the inno-cent is terrorism that no amount of incantation can disguise," Bush told survivors and friends of Charles Hegra and William Stan-ford gathered at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington. " So let us renew again our call I for all nations to uphold justice before mankind . . . and to de-mand that governments have the decency to bring to justice terror-ists, bring them swiftly and sure-ly to justice," Bush said. The brief ceremony, held just after dawn in near- freezi- ng tem-peratures, was attended by a doz-en family members and friends of the two men, whom Bush de-scribed as " husbands and fa-thers, good and decentmen." " We bring home to the firm soil of America two of her sons brutal-ly murdered as they served their country," Bush said after the matching steel gray caskets were ft carried amid full military hon-ors from an Air Force cargo plane that carried them from Rhein- Mai- n Air Base in West Germany. " On behalf of the president and all Americans, we mourn the loss of Chuck Hegna and Bill Stan-ford," Bush said. And he prom-ised, " We shall remember them with honor." Hegna and Stanford, auditors in the Agency for International De-velopment, were killed by Arab- speakin- g gunmen who hijacked a Kuwait Airlines plane with 155 passengers and 11 crew members and ordered it to Tehran last week. j The last of the hostages, includ-- j ing two Americans, were re-leased Sunday after a six- da- y or-deal. It ended with Iran claiming it had pulled off a daring rescue and with the White House com-plaining about Iran's earlier handling of the situation. The two released Americans, AID auditor Charles Kapar and New York businessman John Cos-ta, were being treated Wednes-day at a U. S. Army hospital in Frankfurt, West Germany. Iran has pledged to put the hi-jackers on trial. i
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Item.Transcript | --. 7 ATE KUVI .,&!- - ' vi'' HCIOTLTUHBlALtJR " r,' 5.21. 1 STATE HISTORICAL ; r, ClE7f HITT & LOIHY COLUMBIA, MO. 65211 ( Jflif flfoCitttibUi 78th Year No. 77 Good Morning! It's Thursday, December 13, 1984 2 Sections 14 Pages 25 Cents Improvements for jail, courthouse By tha MIourln ta f f Boone County Court Presiding Judge Norma Robb said she may propose this morning that the county establish a capital improvements fund to finance courthouse and jail Improvements. the money would come from the county's more than $ 3 million in re-serve funds. Between $ 1.5 million and $ 1.75 million could be allocated for capital projects, Robb said. After nearly three months of bi-weekly budget hearings, Robb put the final touches Wednesday on her preliminary $ 8.6 million budget A public hearing is scheduled for 10 a. m. today in the County Court chamber. At a time when some Missouri counties are pinching pennies, the Boone County Court has amassed a substantial nest egg. County officials estimate that $ 1.7 million will be left over in the gener-al operating fund at the end of the year. Another $ 2.1 million remains in the depreciation fund and nearly $ 700,000 is in the revenue- sharin- g ac-count " We're not paupers by anv stan-dards," said hood, who is the coun-ty s chief budget officer. The county owes its financial health largely to the half- cen- t sales tax approved by voters in November 1979. The tax is expected to produce $ 3.2 million this year, a 9- perc-ent in-crease compared to 1983. Robb, who freely admits that she prepares her budgets conservative-ly, underestimated sales tax pro-ceeds by $ 238,388. " Everybody knows you underestimate revenues and overestimate expenses," she said. Accumulating a surplus shows good financial planning, she insisted. What the federal government gives, it can take away, said Robb, noting that federal revenue- sharin- g monies finance many of the county's capital improvement proje cts. State statutes require the county to maintain an emergency fund total-ing 3 percent of the general fund. The emergency fund acts as a cush- - ion for items not budgeted. As a safety measure, the Boone County government also keeps $ 400,- 00- 0 in the general fund, the amount needed to run the county for one month. County funds are expected to gen-erate interest income of more than $ 300,000 when ledgers are closed Dec. 31. Robb's willingness to spend part of the leftover funds contrasts with the court's stance a year ago. In Novem-ber 1983, the judges asked county voters to approve a half- ce- nt sales tax to finance jail and courthouse improvements. Voters overwhelm-ingly rejected the plan. Ed Gaebler, who led the opposition to the tax, had argued that the coun-ty should use part of the surplus to fi-nance the improvements. Gaebler, the executive director of the Central Columbia Association, serves on the County Facilities Com-mission appointed by the court to ex-amine the county's building needs and financing alternatives. He said Wednesday that he has suggested commissioners recom-mend using the county's reserve fund to finance the projects. Another member, George Parker, said the commission is close to mak-ing a recommendation to the court. " There are definitely space needs that need to be addressed, but we haven't made a final recommenda-tion," he said. Parker said he hasn't had time to study Robb's capital improvement proposal. " I think she and the court have done a pretty sound job in their financial goals," he said. Few county officeholders are seek-ing new employees in next year's budget The County Clerk's office asked for one additional employee and the Sheriff's Department re-quested that a part- tim- e employee be put on full time. Prosecuting Attorney Joe Moseley is asking for two new employees for a victims assistance program. Three- fifth- s of the almost $ 50,000 needed for the program will be paid for by the state. Personnel budget increases vary. The greatest requested increase came from the Sheriff's Department at 21 percent I 1 Boone County Departmental Budget Requests 1984 Estimated 1985 Dept. Pet. Department Expenditures Request Inc. Sheriff $ 651,263 $ 785,625 21o Jail 425.631 494.595 16 Auditor ... . 74.607 84.557 13 I County Court 79.809 97.761 22 I CountyClerk 122.405 127.953 5 S Treasurer .... 55.356 63.202 14 Collector 166.906 202.123 21 1 Circuit Court 208.802 238.029 14 I Circuit Clerk 59.735 79.804 34 B Road & & idge Dept 1.767.997 2,082.983 18 1 Data Processing . . 116.935 117.625 1 Prosecuting Attorney .. . 374.308 445.915 19 Recorder of Deeds 143.170 154.644 8 I Building & Grounds 120,202 135.618 13 1 Surveyor 1.400 970 -- 31 j Improvements 550,000 Revenue Sharing 530.600 1.008.000 103 8 Under court guidelines, depart-ment heads will be allowed to give employees a 5 percent cost of living increase and 3 percent merit pay in-crease. Department heads may give a bigger merit raise to one person than another, as long as the total in- - Mlitouilan Ch't crease is not greater than 3 percent of the department's personnel bud-get This report was prepared by Mis- souri- an staff writers Brad Gentry, Kathryn Kranhold and Olivia Mayer. 11 ' l i ii a i I PmP vmm HVi wHI KMpBBBjPBKJHPBWWHifcWMflHBBW tfip ttvVfl mmt p jc m. f tatfCdftw S IHWwHH Wobbly window washing Joseph Colbert of Sedalia balances precariously on his lad-der as he washes the paint and debris off the University's Wendy Csrtton Swallow Hall Wednesday afternoon. The building's trim was painted this week. Fane! urges fats to be checked in toddlers WASHINGTON ( UPI) - A govern-ment advisory panel said Wednes-day all Americans as young as age 2 should follow a low- fa- t, low- cholester- ol diet to reduce their risk of coro-nary heart disease. The advisory committee said blood cholesterol levels of about 60 percent of the people in the United States are too high, but that everyone over age 2 could benefit by cutting fat con-sumption to 20 percent of food intake from its current average of 40 per-cent. " It has been established beyond a reasonable doubt that lowering defi-nitely elevated blood cholesterol lev-els ( specifically blood levels of lcm- - density lipoprotein cholesterol) will reduce the risk of heart attacks due to coronary heart disease," the com-mittee said. The committee cited an earlier study that found that for every 1- per-cent reduction in blood cholesterol, the risk of coronary heart disease could drop 2 percent. Coronary heart disease is a reduc-tion in heart efficiency caused by atherosclerosis, blockages in arte-ries that supply blood to the heart muscle. According to the National Institutes of Health, it is responsible for more deaths than all forms of cancer combined. Coronary heart disease affects at least 5.4 million U. S. citizens. The panel was one of those con-vened by the NIH to compile stan-dard guidelines for doctors and health workers on topical issues. It was the first statement on cholester-ol from such a committee. The panel, composed of doctors and two lawyers, said physicians should routinely test all patients' blood cholesterol. Children, except those with a risk of future heart dis-ease, would need to be tested once. Children under age 2 should be exempt from the diet recommenda-tions because they are in a period of extremely rapid growth and need the calories, the panel said. Suzanne Haines, chief of the medi-cal statistics branch at the National Center for Health Statistics, said quitting smoking could reduce deaths from coronary heart disease by 12 percent, while reducing choles-terol could cut the death rate by 10 percent. The panel's chairman, Daniel Steinberg, an atherosclerosis spe-cialist from the University of Cali-fornia at San Diego, said recom-mended fat reduction was set at 10 percent because it was considered comfortable and possible. Other or-ganizations have recommended a re-duction to 20 percent of total cal-ories. Weinberger agrees to defense spending cut WASHINGTON ( UPI) Defense Secretary Cas-par Weinberger agreed Wednesday to a cut of sev-eral billion dollars from his department's budget request of about $ 330 billion, administration off-icials said. The amount by which increases in the Pentagon budget would be cut has. been a matter of conten-tion in top White House circles for weeks, with Weinberger initially resisting. But after three days of budget meetings this week he agreed to the cuts, the officials said. After President Reagan told agencies to cut $ 34 billion from domestic programs to keep next year's budget at this year's $ 968 billion level, $ 8 billion remained to be cut from defense to achieve his goal of $ 42 billion fa spending reductions. The officials said Weinberger agreed to some cuts, but less than $ 8 billion worth, on Wednesday, ! i 7 and that the intramural negotiations would contin-ue. The officials, who asked not to be named, said one way of cutting Weinberger's requested figure is freezing an Oct i, 1985, pay raise for military and civilian personnel working for the Pentagon.' Military personnel are scheduled for a 7.1 per-cent increase next year and civilians for a 3.5 per-cent raise. About 2.1 million uniformed men and women would be affected, along with 1 million civilians. Although Weinberger had been fighting budget director David Stockman over the proposed cuts, he apparently was pressured from within the White House and from congressional Republicans to accept some reduction on grounds the domestic' cuts could not pass without a trimming of Penta- - i gon spending. Weinberger's decision was learned after anoth-er session of the White House budget advisers with Reagan. Weinberger was said to have pressed his case " in general terms" against large cuts in the Pen-tagon budget, White House spokesman Larry Speakessaid. Previous weeks of domestic budget cutting have left the administration about $ 8 billion short of its target for $ 42 billion in spending reductions next fiscal year. Another budget- cuttin- g idea surfaced Wednes-day with word from the Office of Personnel Man-agement that if Congress does not approve Rea-gan's proposed 5 percent across- the- boar- d pay cut for civil servants, the $ 3 billion savings could be made by firing 125,000 of them. Locksmiths petition police to end policy By Kevin McDonnell Mlssourian staff writer Columbia locksmiths, frustrated by Columbia police opening car doors for people locked out of their cars, will present a petition asking local police to stop the lockout serv-ice. Eight Columbia locksmiths signed a petition Monday and Tuesday that will be delivered today to Police Chief William E. Dye by their attor-ney. The petition asks that police " cease opening automobiles at no charge to anyone calling for the service." " Less than two years ago the peti-tion would not have been necessary, but the Columbia police have cre-ated a welfare mentality," said peti-tion author and locksmith George Thomas, 53, of 1401 Paris Road. " The police have increased the num-ber of lockouts they respond to by about 70 percentin the last year." If the petition does not change po-lice policy, several locksmiths said they will refuse to accept service calls referred by police. If neither the petition nor the serv-ice stoppage works, then the locks-miths will consider filing a class- actio- n lawsuit against City Council members responsible for perpetuat-ing the service, said Michael Moo- ne- y, group spokesman. Locksmiths will fay to recover the money they have lost due to the police lockout service if they have to go to court, he said. City Council members were un-aware of the locksmiths' petition un-til they were contacted for comment Wednesday by the Missourian. Three council members were in fa-vor of continuing police lockout serv-ices; two, against it; and one was hesitant to take a stand before the is-sue came to the council. Mayor John Westlund was unavailable for com-ment " Opening locked car doors is a good community service, and I don't think it is an incursion into the pri-vate sector," Fourth Ward Coun-cilman Pat Barnes said. Don Mosby of the Second Ward said, " I haven't heard one complaint from a locksmith, but I have heard a great deal of positive feedback from appreciative citizens." Barnes said, " The Police Depart-ment should not be looking for less things to do, and I don't like the city government looking for ways to de-crease services. Let's look for ways to increase service." Fifth Ward Councilwoman Barba-ra McDonald said unlocking car doors has nothing to do with police work. " The Police Department should not be involved in work that could be handled by the private sec-tor. We don't ask the private sector to handle our police work. " We have a fine Police Depart-ment with professional skills and I think their duties should be of the caliber of their professionalism, and that doesn't include opening car doors," McDonald said. Sixth Ward Councilman Matt Mc- Cormi- ck said, " I think that if there is a service that can be handled in the private sector, that is where the work should be done. Knowing the chief fairly well, I wouldn't be sur-prised to see him come into the next City Council meeting and say that the department will no longer open lockouts." Third Ward Councilman Rodney Smith said police should handle nightime calls, but locksmiths should get the daytime business. I Bush dedss, justice I as two bodies returned WASHINGTON ( UPI) The bodies of two Americans mur-dered by hijackers returned home Wednesday in flag- drape- d caskets to full military honors, with Vice President George Bush demanding that Iran bring their killers " swiftly and surely to jus-tice." " Wanton murder of the inno-cent is terrorism that no amount of incantation can disguise," Bush told survivors and friends of Charles Hegra and William Stan-ford gathered at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington. " So let us renew again our call I for all nations to uphold justice before mankind . . . and to de-mand that governments have the decency to bring to justice terror-ists, bring them swiftly and sure-ly to justice," Bush said. The brief ceremony, held just after dawn in near- freezi- ng tem-peratures, was attended by a doz-en family members and friends of the two men, whom Bush de-scribed as " husbands and fa-thers, good and decentmen." " We bring home to the firm soil of America two of her sons brutal-ly murdered as they served their country," Bush said after the matching steel gray caskets were ft carried amid full military hon-ors from an Air Force cargo plane that carried them from Rhein- Mai- n Air Base in West Germany. " On behalf of the president and all Americans, we mourn the loss of Chuck Hegna and Bill Stan-ford," Bush said. And he prom-ised, " We shall remember them with honor." Hegna and Stanford, auditors in the Agency for International De-velopment, were killed by Arab- speakin- g gunmen who hijacked a Kuwait Airlines plane with 155 passengers and 11 crew members and ordered it to Tehran last week. j The last of the hostages, includ-- j ing two Americans, were re-leased Sunday after a six- da- y or-deal. It ended with Iran claiming it had pulled off a daring rescue and with the White House com-plaining about Iran's earlier handling of the situation. The two released Americans, AID auditor Charles Kapar and New York businessman John Cos-ta, were being treated Wednes-day at a U. S. Army hospital in Frankfurt, West Germany. Iran has pledged to put the hi-jackers on trial. i |