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i ' 5 i r STATE iilST. aiC '. , CItIY ' HITT & LOWRY . T. COLUMBIA, UJ. b52' Ji 73rd Year No. 145 Good Morning! It's Thursday, March 5, 1981 14 Pages 25 Cents Budget ax to make final cut in poverty war WASHINGTON ( UPI) - President Reagan plans to finish the job left undone by Richard Nixon and dismantle what's left of the War on Poverty the Community Services Adminis-tration, a spokesman for the agency confirmed Wednesday. The spokesman said the Reagan administra-tion's budget proposals, to be announced Tues-day, will cut back sharply on the agency's cur-rent spending and reduce its 1982 fiscal year budget to zero. The agency distributed as much as $ 1.9 bil-lion a year to the poor during its heyday in the late 1960s when it was known as the Office of Economic Opportunity. It is one of the few federal agencies to be eliminated in the Reagan administration's drive to trim the growth in federal spending. The Carter administration had proposed to keep its budget next year the same as this year, at $ 541.5 million dollars. The attempt will be the second by a Republi-can administration to do away with the anti- pover- ty agency President Lyndon Johnson cre-ated in 1984. Early in his second term, Nixon also pro- - posed to " zero- budge- t" the Office of Economic Opportunity, but ran into fierce resistance on Capitol Hill and in the courts. In the end, a federal court ruled the disman-tling efforts of the Nixon- appoint- ed agency di-rector, Howard Phillips, were illegal partly because his name had never been submitted to the Senate for confirmation. But OEO veterans say it never fully recov-ered from the Nixon onslaught, which triggered an exodus of career professionals. Several of its most popular programs, like the Head Start pre- scho- ol project, were spun off to other agen cies. Many of the programs' most ardent de-fenders have either left Congress or have joined the minority in the Senate. The Community Services Administration pays for job training, placement programs and senior citizen service centers but to a lesser degree. It also retains a community devel-opment program to help businesses establish themselves in areas of high unemployment. The agency employs about 1,000 people, 550 of them scattered outside Washington in the 900 Community Action offices still maintained around the country. Other more basic social aid programs, mak-ing up what President Reagan calls the " social safety net," including food stamps and Social Security benefits, remain exempt from budget cutting. They account for about a third of pro-jected 1982 expenditures. The Reagan administration proposes to chan-nel other surviving social services through block grant programs, which allow state and municipal governments to decide how to spend the money. Forty grant programs would be combined into one under this proposal. M. U. anticipates enrollment gain By Gary Graff Missourlan staff writer Despite a decline in the number of graduating high school seniors, the University is following a national trend by reporting an increase in freshman applicants for the 1981- 6- 2 school year. Application statistics as of March 1 show 7,016 have applied for admission as new freshmen, opposed to 6,309 at the same time last year, an 11 percent increase. The University's current freshman class is the largest ever en-rolled. In addition to new freshman applica-tions, the University's statistics show an almost 29 percent increase in trans-fer applications. The figures indicate a total 13 percent increase in new stu-dent applications. A survey conducted by John Minter Associates for the Chronicle of Higher Education found the national average of freshman applicants up 13 percent from last year. The Minter organizaton found a 7 percent increase in private colleges, while rates for public colleges and universities rates increased by 16 percent. In addition to the application in-crease, Gary Smith, University direc- t- or of admissions and registrar, said there has been a 7 percent increase in applicants who have made a prepay-ment to reserve a spot in the 1981- 8- 2 freshman class. " We projected an increase, but a modest one," Smith said. " If that ( the application rate) continues as it is, it wm be more than we anticipated." Chancellor Barbara S. Uehling pre-dicted the application increase in her January press conference, though last year she predicted enrollment to drop over a five- ye- ar period. Smith said several factors are con-tributing to the increase in freshman applications. " The decrease in high school grad-uates has not started down, to a signifi-cant degree yet," he said. " I think we're seeing a swing back to where the 18-- to 25- year-- old population has an in-creased value in education." This increase may be partially caused by a decrease in jobs available to graduating high school seniors, Smith said. Not only are there fewer jobs available aftergraduation, but the quality of those jobs make them less attractive, according to the Minter re-port " There's always a correlation," Smith said. " When unemployment is up, you pick up some students." " One of the top criterion ( for choos-ing a university) students always list is the availability of the program and its reputation," be said. The March 1 totals of previous years show a steady application increase. In 1978, the March 1 figure had 5,529 ap-plicants and 3,522 new freshmen at-tending the University in the falL In 1979, the March 1 total was 5,805 with 4,034 new freshmen. - - V. -.- "- " - -- -- .-"- . "- KofeJftrBmrtt And they're off . . . Wednesday's fog and rain didn't keep prospective Rock Bridge runners trekked five miles ( 8 kilometers) along Providence High School track team members from getting a workout. The- - Road. University prospects for patent gold By Susan Darr Mbsourian staff writer Spending about $ 40,000 a year for a re-turn of only 16,000 in annual revenue ordi-narily doesn't seem like an economically sound venture. But, for one University de-partment, it's the investment you make when you're chasing the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. That's what the University's Office of Research Program Services is doing, said office Director Paul R. Keenan. The office promotes patents for inven-tors among the University students, fac- - Insight ulty and staff as one of its duties related to research performed on the four campuses. The 1880- 8- 1 budget for patents and copy-righting expenses is $ 33,678. Income from the 28 patents registered for the four cam-puses added up to a slim $ 6,874.89 during fiscal year 1979- 8- 0 a figure that Keenan said is comparable to what his office ex-pects to generate this year. While the University's current return is small, official point out a single success-ful patent, such as those registered by the University of Wisconsin and Iowa State University, can turn the balance sheet around in a hurry. The University of Wisconsin has had four patents which have earned more than $ 1 million apiece over their 17- ye- ar patent lives. Two of the patents were based on the chemical product, warfarin, which, in large doses, is a rat- kill- er and, in small doses, keeps some heart patients alive by thinning blood to prevent clotting. The rat- kOl- er is a basic product on America's farms while the blood- thinn- er received wide public attention in the 1950s when President Eisenhower disclosed be was taking the material in small amounts to prevent dotting following heart attacks suffered while in office. Iowa State's patent for diethylstubeste- ro- l, or DES, was an example of the good and the bad in the patent- registratio- n com-petition. In small doses, it was a growth stimulant used to fatten cattle quicker and, in large doses, was used to speed human maturity and stop growth for people who dont want to grow taller. While the patent earned over $ 4 million in . revenue for Iowa State University, it also earned the Big Eight school a lot of no-toriety in 1972 when the Food and Drug Ad- ministrat- ion banned its use in cattle feed ing. Research had indicated trace amounts of the cancer- causin- g substance present in the livers of animals slaughtered for mar-ket. The animals had been fed DES within 48 hours of slaughter, a violation of the product instructions. The ban was repealed in 1975, but the patent had expired in 1973. One University researcher believes lack of legal expertise is holding back the Uni-versity's dollar- reapin- g potential. Mostafa Fahim, University professor in the Obstet-rics and Gynecology department said, " The University is sitting on a gold mine of patents, but it's not their fault. The Univer-sity people are honest and trusting. But many of the companies are crooks." Fahim cited the problem the University has had with licensing his patent for a birth control method for men using ultrasound, high frequency sound waves that painles-sly kill sperm. Fahim said the licensee hasn't kept up with his payments and is threatening to file bankruptcy, which could tie up the patent in the legal system for the remainding 10 years its life. Keenan couldn't comment because liti-gation may result if the University can't resolve the problem with the licensee. " That's the risk we take in doing busi-ness," Keenan said. " Every business takes risks. Sometimes it pays off, sometimes it doesn't. We don't have a crystal balL We work in good faith and hope for the best." University faculty, students and employ-ees are obliged, under their contractual agreements, to have their inventions pat-ented in the name of the curators, unless the invention was created during the re-searcher's free time. The inventor gets one- thir- d of the income from royalties and licensing fees while the remainder is divided among the inventor's academic department, the inventor's cam-pus and the university as a whole for use in research or other scholarly activities, Kee-nan said. Keenan said parsistance in marketing eventually will pay off. Promoting patent-s' a little like being a traveling salesman. You know you're going to sell toone out 10 customers, but which one? That's why marketing is so important." Extensive marketing programs don't come cheap. Keenan's program begins with a six-- to 18- mon- th patent process, costing between $ 1,000 and $ 3,500 per patent. With six pat-ent applications in process, costing about $ 20,000, a patent and copyright consultant's retainer fee of $ 15,000, and$ 5,000 more for ( See UNIVERSITY, Page 14) For the birds . A University professor s invention might end unwanted pregnancies for pigeons, that is By Susan Darr Iffissoarian staff writer University professor William Elder says, with a chuckle and a bumble shake of his bead, he has no reason to believe the Vati-can has denounced his invention an oral contraceptive for birds. Elder's patent for Ornitrol may be the most in" gi of the 78 inventions by Uni-versity students, faculty and staff that the University Office of Research Program Services will promote at a worldwide in-ventors conference in Atlanta in mid- Marc- h. The Vatican, as well as public buildings and momi" yrt throughout Europe and the United States, bears graphic evidence of pigeon over- populatio- n. Elder says mar-keting research confirms what ordinary citizens know: that pigeons obstruct air traffic, contaminate food, water and grains meant for human consumption and spread diseases, as well as decorate statues and cars with droppings. The company that markets Elder's bird contraceptive says the product is sold in Italy, but said there is no way to know whether any of the product is used on pi-geons at the Vatican, which, of course, has firm views on human contraception. The contraceptive passes the non- violen- ce test of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, a zoolog-ical pro- lif- e group. Instead of poisoning the birds, Elder's creation inhibits ovulation in female birds and development of sperm in the male birds, limiting successive genera-tions. Elder, a University professor in forestry, fisheries and wildlife, said the contracep-tive is a chemical soaked into whole- kern- el com that sterilizes females for about six months and males for three months, when the birds are fed once a day for 10 days. Most songbirds cant swallow wnote- ker- n- d com bat, if they did, sterilization woubl be only temporary, Elder says. The effect on waterfowl and other wildlife is not known, he says. To restrict consumption of the product to pigeons, federal, state and municipal gov-ernment agencies, bird protection groups, pest control companies and universities are instructed to scatter the kernels on roof- top- s, bell towers, grain elevators and other traditional pigeon- feedin- g locations in the early spring and falL The product is the result of a decade of research, prompted by a request of Colum-bia officials for an answer to the local pi-geon problem. After five years of research to find the right dosage for an effective chemical that wasn't lethal, Elder set out on field tests in the hay lofts of High Hill and Moberly. He then moved on to possibly the ultimate proving ground Central Park in New York City. The ASPCA contacted him to test the product in Central Park because an old woman who fed the birds every day had in sisted the association look into the possibil-ity of using a contraceptive, to avoid use of poison. Elder is emphatic about wanting only to curb the bird population, not eliminate it. He says birds are important to city- dwelle- rs because " pigeons are the only living things some city people ever see." Paul R. Keenan, the University Office of Research Program Services director, at-tends conferences annually to interest commercial licensing companies, maehine manufacturers and chemical companies in various inventions by University employ-ees. University employees are required by their employment contracts to patent tbeir research results in the name of the cura-tors. In fiscal year 1979- 8- 0, Ornitrol reaped a grand total of $ 290.21 in royalties to be di-vided among Elder, his department and the four University of Missouri cam-puses a figure that shouldn't upset too many pigeon pro- lifer- s. Magistrate bans prison officials from using force By Michelle Ruess State capital bureau JEFFERSON CITY A federal magistrate has issued a pre-liminary injunction against Missouri State Penitentiary officials accused of using excessive force against an inmate. In a 22- pa- ge opinion issued Tuesday, U. S. Magistrate Richard H. Ralston prohibited Warden Donald Wyricfc and other officials from " taking measures involving threats or physical abuse" against inmate Ronald L. Parton. In February, Parton filed a lawsuit contending that Wyrick and four prison officers severely beat him when he was brought to the Jefferson City prison from the Moberly Correctional Center for Men last August. In his opinion, Ralston wrote that Parton had testified ' ' as to ex-cessive abuse by prison officials" and " offered evidence that pris-on authorities have made threats, at least of a veiled nature, to dissuade his pursuit of legal remedies." Ralston wrote that five witnesses testified during a Feb. 19 hear-ing in ' Jefferson City that Wyrick or other officers had beaten and kicked prisoners brought to the prison after a disturbance at the Moberly facility. Wyrick and other prison employees have denied the allegations. Parton is serving his sixth year of a 23- ye- ar rape and kidnap-ping sentence handed down in Columbia. He is seeking a perma-nent injunction against physical abuse by prison officials and is asking for $ 12,500 in damages. Raltson said Parton must remain in the Jefferson City prison until his complaint is heard in U. S. Dis-trict Court. In Columbia Tuesday, two of Parton's relatives expressed satis-faction at the injunction. " I'm hopeful this will kind of cut down on the threats and in-nuendo," said Kathy Parton, of High Hill Circle mobile home court '' This is more than he hoped for." Ms. Parton, who was married to Parton for six years, visits Par- to- n four times each month. Parton's brother, Gene Parton, Route 9, said the temporary in-junction was good news but not a '' permanent solution.'' Inside today Hickman to play Rock Bridge By virtue of semi- fin- al victories for Hickman and Rock Bridge Wednesday in the state 4A district basketball tourna-ment at Rock Bridge, the two teams wttl meet for the first time ever at 8 pjn. in Friday's final. See the story in the Sports section on page 7. Ira town today 9: tua. Meeting, Boone County Court, court cham- - fifth floor, County- Cit- y IbeBrui, lding. Index Bngjaesi u Classified 5- 1- 0 Comics 12 Theater 13 I Sports . 7-- 8 I Weather ..... .2
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Item.Transcript | i ' 5 i r STATE iilST. aiC '. , CItIY ' HITT & LOWRY . T. COLUMBIA, UJ. b52' Ji 73rd Year No. 145 Good Morning! It's Thursday, March 5, 1981 14 Pages 25 Cents Budget ax to make final cut in poverty war WASHINGTON ( UPI) - President Reagan plans to finish the job left undone by Richard Nixon and dismantle what's left of the War on Poverty the Community Services Adminis-tration, a spokesman for the agency confirmed Wednesday. The spokesman said the Reagan administra-tion's budget proposals, to be announced Tues-day, will cut back sharply on the agency's cur-rent spending and reduce its 1982 fiscal year budget to zero. The agency distributed as much as $ 1.9 bil-lion a year to the poor during its heyday in the late 1960s when it was known as the Office of Economic Opportunity. It is one of the few federal agencies to be eliminated in the Reagan administration's drive to trim the growth in federal spending. The Carter administration had proposed to keep its budget next year the same as this year, at $ 541.5 million dollars. The attempt will be the second by a Republi-can administration to do away with the anti- pover- ty agency President Lyndon Johnson cre-ated in 1984. Early in his second term, Nixon also pro- - posed to " zero- budge- t" the Office of Economic Opportunity, but ran into fierce resistance on Capitol Hill and in the courts. In the end, a federal court ruled the disman-tling efforts of the Nixon- appoint- ed agency di-rector, Howard Phillips, were illegal partly because his name had never been submitted to the Senate for confirmation. But OEO veterans say it never fully recov-ered from the Nixon onslaught, which triggered an exodus of career professionals. Several of its most popular programs, like the Head Start pre- scho- ol project, were spun off to other agen cies. Many of the programs' most ardent de-fenders have either left Congress or have joined the minority in the Senate. The Community Services Administration pays for job training, placement programs and senior citizen service centers but to a lesser degree. It also retains a community devel-opment program to help businesses establish themselves in areas of high unemployment. The agency employs about 1,000 people, 550 of them scattered outside Washington in the 900 Community Action offices still maintained around the country. Other more basic social aid programs, mak-ing up what President Reagan calls the " social safety net," including food stamps and Social Security benefits, remain exempt from budget cutting. They account for about a third of pro-jected 1982 expenditures. The Reagan administration proposes to chan-nel other surviving social services through block grant programs, which allow state and municipal governments to decide how to spend the money. Forty grant programs would be combined into one under this proposal. M. U. anticipates enrollment gain By Gary Graff Missourlan staff writer Despite a decline in the number of graduating high school seniors, the University is following a national trend by reporting an increase in freshman applicants for the 1981- 6- 2 school year. Application statistics as of March 1 show 7,016 have applied for admission as new freshmen, opposed to 6,309 at the same time last year, an 11 percent increase. The University's current freshman class is the largest ever en-rolled. In addition to new freshman applica-tions, the University's statistics show an almost 29 percent increase in trans-fer applications. The figures indicate a total 13 percent increase in new stu-dent applications. A survey conducted by John Minter Associates for the Chronicle of Higher Education found the national average of freshman applicants up 13 percent from last year. The Minter organizaton found a 7 percent increase in private colleges, while rates for public colleges and universities rates increased by 16 percent. In addition to the application in-crease, Gary Smith, University direc- t- or of admissions and registrar, said there has been a 7 percent increase in applicants who have made a prepay-ment to reserve a spot in the 1981- 8- 2 freshman class. " We projected an increase, but a modest one," Smith said. " If that ( the application rate) continues as it is, it wm be more than we anticipated." Chancellor Barbara S. Uehling pre-dicted the application increase in her January press conference, though last year she predicted enrollment to drop over a five- ye- ar period. Smith said several factors are con-tributing to the increase in freshman applications. " The decrease in high school grad-uates has not started down, to a signifi-cant degree yet," he said. " I think we're seeing a swing back to where the 18-- to 25- year-- old population has an in-creased value in education." This increase may be partially caused by a decrease in jobs available to graduating high school seniors, Smith said. Not only are there fewer jobs available aftergraduation, but the quality of those jobs make them less attractive, according to the Minter re-port " There's always a correlation," Smith said. " When unemployment is up, you pick up some students." " One of the top criterion ( for choos-ing a university) students always list is the availability of the program and its reputation," be said. The March 1 totals of previous years show a steady application increase. In 1978, the March 1 figure had 5,529 ap-plicants and 3,522 new freshmen at-tending the University in the falL In 1979, the March 1 total was 5,805 with 4,034 new freshmen. - - V. -.- "- " - -- -- .-"- . "- KofeJftrBmrtt And they're off . . . Wednesday's fog and rain didn't keep prospective Rock Bridge runners trekked five miles ( 8 kilometers) along Providence High School track team members from getting a workout. The- - Road. University prospects for patent gold By Susan Darr Mbsourian staff writer Spending about $ 40,000 a year for a re-turn of only 16,000 in annual revenue ordi-narily doesn't seem like an economically sound venture. But, for one University de-partment, it's the investment you make when you're chasing the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. That's what the University's Office of Research Program Services is doing, said office Director Paul R. Keenan. The office promotes patents for inven-tors among the University students, fac- - Insight ulty and staff as one of its duties related to research performed on the four campuses. The 1880- 8- 1 budget for patents and copy-righting expenses is $ 33,678. Income from the 28 patents registered for the four cam-puses added up to a slim $ 6,874.89 during fiscal year 1979- 8- 0 a figure that Keenan said is comparable to what his office ex-pects to generate this year. While the University's current return is small, official point out a single success-ful patent, such as those registered by the University of Wisconsin and Iowa State University, can turn the balance sheet around in a hurry. The University of Wisconsin has had four patents which have earned more than $ 1 million apiece over their 17- ye- ar patent lives. Two of the patents were based on the chemical product, warfarin, which, in large doses, is a rat- kill- er and, in small doses, keeps some heart patients alive by thinning blood to prevent clotting. The rat- kOl- er is a basic product on America's farms while the blood- thinn- er received wide public attention in the 1950s when President Eisenhower disclosed be was taking the material in small amounts to prevent dotting following heart attacks suffered while in office. Iowa State's patent for diethylstubeste- ro- l, or DES, was an example of the good and the bad in the patent- registratio- n com-petition. In small doses, it was a growth stimulant used to fatten cattle quicker and, in large doses, was used to speed human maturity and stop growth for people who dont want to grow taller. While the patent earned over $ 4 million in . revenue for Iowa State University, it also earned the Big Eight school a lot of no-toriety in 1972 when the Food and Drug Ad- ministrat- ion banned its use in cattle feed ing. Research had indicated trace amounts of the cancer- causin- g substance present in the livers of animals slaughtered for mar-ket. The animals had been fed DES within 48 hours of slaughter, a violation of the product instructions. The ban was repealed in 1975, but the patent had expired in 1973. One University researcher believes lack of legal expertise is holding back the Uni-versity's dollar- reapin- g potential. Mostafa Fahim, University professor in the Obstet-rics and Gynecology department said, " The University is sitting on a gold mine of patents, but it's not their fault. The Univer-sity people are honest and trusting. But many of the companies are crooks." Fahim cited the problem the University has had with licensing his patent for a birth control method for men using ultrasound, high frequency sound waves that painles-sly kill sperm. Fahim said the licensee hasn't kept up with his payments and is threatening to file bankruptcy, which could tie up the patent in the legal system for the remainding 10 years its life. Keenan couldn't comment because liti-gation may result if the University can't resolve the problem with the licensee. " That's the risk we take in doing busi-ness," Keenan said. " Every business takes risks. Sometimes it pays off, sometimes it doesn't. We don't have a crystal balL We work in good faith and hope for the best." University faculty, students and employ-ees are obliged, under their contractual agreements, to have their inventions pat-ented in the name of the curators, unless the invention was created during the re-searcher's free time. The inventor gets one- thir- d of the income from royalties and licensing fees while the remainder is divided among the inventor's academic department, the inventor's cam-pus and the university as a whole for use in research or other scholarly activities, Kee-nan said. Keenan said parsistance in marketing eventually will pay off. Promoting patent-s' a little like being a traveling salesman. You know you're going to sell toone out 10 customers, but which one? That's why marketing is so important." Extensive marketing programs don't come cheap. Keenan's program begins with a six-- to 18- mon- th patent process, costing between $ 1,000 and $ 3,500 per patent. With six pat-ent applications in process, costing about $ 20,000, a patent and copyright consultant's retainer fee of $ 15,000, and$ 5,000 more for ( See UNIVERSITY, Page 14) For the birds . A University professor s invention might end unwanted pregnancies for pigeons, that is By Susan Darr Iffissoarian staff writer University professor William Elder says, with a chuckle and a bumble shake of his bead, he has no reason to believe the Vati-can has denounced his invention an oral contraceptive for birds. Elder's patent for Ornitrol may be the most in" gi of the 78 inventions by Uni-versity students, faculty and staff that the University Office of Research Program Services will promote at a worldwide in-ventors conference in Atlanta in mid- Marc- h. The Vatican, as well as public buildings and momi" yrt throughout Europe and the United States, bears graphic evidence of pigeon over- populatio- n. Elder says mar-keting research confirms what ordinary citizens know: that pigeons obstruct air traffic, contaminate food, water and grains meant for human consumption and spread diseases, as well as decorate statues and cars with droppings. The company that markets Elder's bird contraceptive says the product is sold in Italy, but said there is no way to know whether any of the product is used on pi-geons at the Vatican, which, of course, has firm views on human contraception. The contraceptive passes the non- violen- ce test of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, a zoolog-ical pro- lif- e group. Instead of poisoning the birds, Elder's creation inhibits ovulation in female birds and development of sperm in the male birds, limiting successive genera-tions. Elder, a University professor in forestry, fisheries and wildlife, said the contracep-tive is a chemical soaked into whole- kern- el com that sterilizes females for about six months and males for three months, when the birds are fed once a day for 10 days. Most songbirds cant swallow wnote- ker- n- d com bat, if they did, sterilization woubl be only temporary, Elder says. The effect on waterfowl and other wildlife is not known, he says. To restrict consumption of the product to pigeons, federal, state and municipal gov-ernment agencies, bird protection groups, pest control companies and universities are instructed to scatter the kernels on roof- top- s, bell towers, grain elevators and other traditional pigeon- feedin- g locations in the early spring and falL The product is the result of a decade of research, prompted by a request of Colum-bia officials for an answer to the local pi-geon problem. After five years of research to find the right dosage for an effective chemical that wasn't lethal, Elder set out on field tests in the hay lofts of High Hill and Moberly. He then moved on to possibly the ultimate proving ground Central Park in New York City. The ASPCA contacted him to test the product in Central Park because an old woman who fed the birds every day had in sisted the association look into the possibil-ity of using a contraceptive, to avoid use of poison. Elder is emphatic about wanting only to curb the bird population, not eliminate it. He says birds are important to city- dwelle- rs because " pigeons are the only living things some city people ever see." Paul R. Keenan, the University Office of Research Program Services director, at-tends conferences annually to interest commercial licensing companies, maehine manufacturers and chemical companies in various inventions by University employ-ees. University employees are required by their employment contracts to patent tbeir research results in the name of the cura-tors. In fiscal year 1979- 8- 0, Ornitrol reaped a grand total of $ 290.21 in royalties to be di-vided among Elder, his department and the four University of Missouri cam-puses a figure that shouldn't upset too many pigeon pro- lifer- s. Magistrate bans prison officials from using force By Michelle Ruess State capital bureau JEFFERSON CITY A federal magistrate has issued a pre-liminary injunction against Missouri State Penitentiary officials accused of using excessive force against an inmate. In a 22- pa- ge opinion issued Tuesday, U. S. Magistrate Richard H. Ralston prohibited Warden Donald Wyricfc and other officials from " taking measures involving threats or physical abuse" against inmate Ronald L. Parton. In February, Parton filed a lawsuit contending that Wyrick and four prison officers severely beat him when he was brought to the Jefferson City prison from the Moberly Correctional Center for Men last August. In his opinion, Ralston wrote that Parton had testified ' ' as to ex-cessive abuse by prison officials" and " offered evidence that pris-on authorities have made threats, at least of a veiled nature, to dissuade his pursuit of legal remedies." Ralston wrote that five witnesses testified during a Feb. 19 hear-ing in ' Jefferson City that Wyrick or other officers had beaten and kicked prisoners brought to the prison after a disturbance at the Moberly facility. Wyrick and other prison employees have denied the allegations. Parton is serving his sixth year of a 23- ye- ar rape and kidnap-ping sentence handed down in Columbia. He is seeking a perma-nent injunction against physical abuse by prison officials and is asking for $ 12,500 in damages. Raltson said Parton must remain in the Jefferson City prison until his complaint is heard in U. S. Dis-trict Court. In Columbia Tuesday, two of Parton's relatives expressed satis-faction at the injunction. " I'm hopeful this will kind of cut down on the threats and in-nuendo," said Kathy Parton, of High Hill Circle mobile home court '' This is more than he hoped for." Ms. Parton, who was married to Parton for six years, visits Par- to- n four times each month. Parton's brother, Gene Parton, Route 9, said the temporary in-junction was good news but not a '' permanent solution.'' Inside today Hickman to play Rock Bridge By virtue of semi- fin- al victories for Hickman and Rock Bridge Wednesday in the state 4A district basketball tourna-ment at Rock Bridge, the two teams wttl meet for the first time ever at 8 pjn. in Friday's final. See the story in the Sports section on page 7. Ira town today 9: tua. Meeting, Boone County Court, court cham- - fifth floor, County- Cit- y IbeBrui, lding. Index Bngjaesi u Classified 5- 1- 0 Comics 12 Theater 13 I Sports . 7-- 8 I Weather ..... .2 |