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7:. f r Y- a- r No. 21 4 Good Morning! It' Sunday, May 24. 1981 6 Sections 54 Pages - 50 Cents
Visiting Nurses
prepare to fight
new competition
By Wendy L. Kafoury
Missourian staff writer
This is the service that Lydia R
Coad helped build.
It is called the Columbia Visiting
Nurses Association, a not- for- pro- fit
agency that provides a variety of home
health care services to Boone Coun- tian- s
This is the situation that soon may
face the service Lydia R. Coad helped
build
It is called competition.
Or. in Mrs. Coad's words, it is called
" unnecessary duplication of services."
What Mrs. Coad fears most is not the
competition, however, but the source
of the competition.
For the first time in Missouri, begin-ning
July 1, proprietary agencies
businesses providing health care in a
patient's home for a profit will be-come
eligible to receive certification.
And this certification, which is han-dled
through the state Division of
Health, is more than just a piece of pa-per.
" Certification makes agencies eligi-ble
to provide home care for the Med-icare
and Medicaid programs," says
William E. Johnson, president of the
Missouri Association of Home Health
Agencies. " And in the area of home
health, that certification is very impor-tant."
The change in Missouri's certifica-tion
requirements originates with the
budget reconciliation bill signed by for-mer
President Jimmy Carter in De-cember
1980. Among the items covered
in the bill were changes in Medicare
and Medicaid, which included allowing
proprietary agencies to become certi-fied
as of July 1, 1981, in states such as
Missouri that do not have licensing
laws for home health care.
In Missouri, 58 agencies are certified
to provide home health care. All are
non- prof- it groups whose financial sup-port
comes mainly through reimburse-ments
from programs such as Medi-caid
and Medicare, federal programs
lEDsighi
that help pay te cost of health care for
the aged or indigent Most agencies
also receive funds from their commu- mt- it
The Columbia Visiting Nurses Asso-ciation,
the only certified agency in
Boone Counu . receives most of its lo-cal
funds &". United Way, the city of
Columbia ai -- he Boone County Court
" We're a community service organi-zation,
not a business or an industry,"
says Mrs. Coad, executive director of
the CVNA. " With proprietary agen-cies,
home health care becomes a busi-ness,
bringing out a totally different
concept to care.
" And many of these proprietary
agencies are conglomerates They'll
set up franchises in home health care
like a McDonalds or a Kentucky Fried
Chicken throughout the state of Mis-souri
"
The CVNA has grown from a small-time
volunteer effort in 1972 to an orga-nization
with 50 paia employees that
make an average of 1,000 home care
visits monthly.
The group's projected budget is
nearly $ 500,0u0, with about 80 percent
of that figure coming from federal and
state reimbursements in programs
such as Medicare, Mrs. Coad says. The
remaining 20 percent is raised locally.
Each year the CVNA has expanded
the types of services offered. In addi-tion
to direct home health care, the
group provides nursing, therapy, so-cial
work, teaching and homemaker
services. The most recent addition was
a hospice program, for the care of the
terminally ill
" We lave no problem at aQ covering
Boone County," Mrs. Coad says.
However, Jacklyn Adkison, director
of Columbia's Kelly Health Care a
proprietary agency offering nursing
services to hospitals and private m- -
( See NURSES, Page 8A)
Census data predicts continued graying of America
', New York Times
WASHINGTON In a report predicting a
much older population in the decades ahead,
the Census Bureau said Saturday that there are
25 5 million people over 65 years old now living
in the United States, 28 percent more than m
1970
Over the decade that ended in 1980, the medi-an
age m the nation rose from 23 to 30 years, as
the number of elderly people increased and the
number of children under 15 dropped to 51 mil-lion,
from 58 million. This median splits the
population into two equal groups, one group
younger and one older tnan the median.
The statistics released Saturday, along with
social and scientific trends, portend a sharply
rising median age over the next three decades,
census officials said. This could have important
implications for national policy, productivity
and the use of resources.
The changing age distribution will be a major
factor in the government's allocation of funds
It will affect, for example, the amount of mon-ey
needed in programs for the elderly, includ-ing
the already troubled Social Security Sys-tem,
and m programs for younger people,
including schools and day- car- e centers
The large increase in the over- 6- 5 population,
which exceeded by far the 11 percent growth
rate for the nation's population as a whole, was
caused in large measure by advances in medi-cal
science, nutrition and economic security.
Because of migration and varying living con-ditions,
however, the aging of America has not
been evenly spread among regions, races or
ethnic groups
Florida recorded the highest median age, 34.7
years, because of the large numbers of people
who retire there, but the northeastern states
were not far behind. New Jersey had the second
highest median age, at 32.2, followed by Penn-sylvania,
32.1; Connecticut, 32.0; New York,
31 9; Rhode Island, 31.8, and Massachusetts,
31.2.
Utah had the lowest median age of any state,
24 2, in part because of the relatively large
numbers of children in Mormon families,
according to the bureau.
This is not the first tune that the median age
passed 30. In 1950, it stood at 30 2, which re-sulted
from a decline in the birth rate in the
1930s, not a large increase in the elderly as the
1980 census showed. In 1960, the median age
dropped to 29 4, and in 1970 to 28
The figures released Saturday also showed
six million more females than males in the pop-ulation,
largely because women live longer.
The count, conducted in April 1980, showed 116,- 472,5- 39
women to 110,03295 men
The margin of females over males is a rela-tively
new phenomenon in the nation's history.
When the country was developing and immigra-tion
was at its height, the influx of single men
seeking their fortunes resulted in a predomina-tion
of males. In 1910, there were 106 males for
every 100 females. As late as 1940, men still
held a slight margin. But in 1950, there were
only 98 6 males for every 100 females and the
trend has continued In 1980 there were 94 4
males for every 100 females.
The figures also revealed a large spread be-tween
the median ages of whites and other
groups Whites had the highest median age,
31 3 For blacks, the median age was 24 9; for
American Indians. Eskimos and Aleutian Is-landers,
23, for Asians, 28 6, and for people who
listed themselves as of Spanish origin, vhich
was not a racial designation, 23.2.
For much of the nation's history, the age
groups have made almost a perfect pyramid,
with each succeeding year of age showing uni-formly
fewer people until there were onl a few
at the pinnacle. However, in recent years that
has changed.
In the Great Depression of the 1930s, the birth
rate dropped sharply The generation of that
period is now in its 40s, and its size is surpassed
b the number of people in their 50s
Yet a far greater distortion in age groups was
caused by the baby boom" after World War n,
when large families were in vogue In the 1970s
many members of that generation turned 30,
and when the 1980 count was made, there were
12.3 million more people 23 to 34 y ears old than
in 1970 37 1 million up from 24 9 million
In 1957, another decline in fertility began and
continued into the 1970s In I960, when the total
population was only 180 million, there were 20
million children under the age cf 5 By 1970,
that age group had dropped to 17 million, and
by 1980 to a little ov er 16 million
Since the baby boom generation, which far
outnumbers tne Depression generation ahead
of it, is approaching middle age and there is
little prospect of a sharp upturn in the birth
rate, the Census Bureau has projected a higher
national median age of 36 by the vear 2,000 and
38 4 by 2,010
Douglas Malian loved to fly.
Memorial Day heightens memories
of a son killed in the Vietnam War
The heartbreak lingers
By Regiua McEnery
Missourian staff writer
J B and Alliene Mahan have learned
to live with tragedy. What they cannot
live with is uncertainty.
Four years ago, their uncertainty
dissolved into finality when they
learned their son, Douglas, an Air
Force major reported missing in ac-ton
in 1970, had been killed in action. It
was a long seven years, said Mrs. Ma-han.
Even now, they cannot be sure.
" You just never know," she says
softly, fingering some newspaper clip-pings
about her son. " You just never
know."
Monday, the Mahans will attend the
annual Memorial Day service at the
courthouse and will visit their son's
grave, as they do every week, to leave
some flowers. Once again, memories
will be more vivid.
Doug, a graduate of Hickman High
School and the University, joined the
Air Force while in college. A member
of the 333rd Tactical Fighter Squadron,
he flew 285 combat missions, 83 of
them over North Vietnam. Although he
had planned a military career and bad
signed up for a third tour before he was
reported missing, he disliked the
bombing procedures. But the fighting
was net what drew Doug into the mili-tary;
it was the flying
" Ever since he was in the third
grade, he was crazy about flying," his
father remembers. " He was devoted to
flying. And he talked about becoming
an astronaut if he was good enough."
Although Doug did not come from a
fanuly of aviators his father was a
farmer his family never tried to
stifle his dreams.
" He used to tell me that xt was the
most beautiful sight ud there," Mrs.
Mahan says. " He'd say you would feel
so close to God."
Those dreams were not realized,
however On April 20, 1970, about the
tune the Mahans were expecting a let-ter
from their son, a telegram arrived
The notice, like other notices that in-vaded
hundreds of other homes, stated
Ms plane had been shot down.
" I remember the time distinctly,"
Mahan says softly, his eyes bnght. " It
was 4 pjn. As soon as I saw the Air
Force vehicle, I knew something was
wrong. And all they told us then was
Doug was missing in action."
Several days later, almost as a rude
afterthought, the Mahans received a
copy of Doug's grades in master's
courses he had completed before he
was shot down
Hope became tinged with uncertain-ty
and frustration as days went by with
nothing new to report
" We talked about it a lot," Mrs. Ma
han recalls. And we shed some tears
And not a week went by that we didn't
have a letter or a phone call from the
Air Force or families sympathetic to
Doug's plight But it was a strain just
the same."
The Mahans sent their son " care
packages" on the chance that he was
taken prisoner by the North Vietnam-ese
" We didn't know if he was being fed
right, or if he had enough clothes or
what condition he was in," Mrs Mahan
says.
When a group of American prisoners
of war was released, the Mahans wait-ed,
hoping their son might be among it
" I searched the faces of every one of
the POWs when they got off the plane,"
Mrs Mahan says.
Even when a 1976 congressional re-port
recommended that all Americans
missing in action in Vietnam should be
officially declared dead, the Mahans,
like other American families, refused
to give up.
" A parent will always have hope,"
Mahan says of that period.
Then, their dreams were dashed
when the government closed the lid on
seven years of uncertainty by sending
back Doug's remains, along with frag-ments
from his F- 1- 05 fighter bomber
( See PARENTS, Page 8A)
-- rar S&
- ! ? -
Jl '- -. 5,--"- .' . " I !
S- - g-- d MSn
Five- year- o- ld Tamar Edwards of Benton, 111., got her first taste of cotton candy
Saturday at a Biscayne Mall carnival. Tamar wound up with more blue candy on
her than in her, and her mother said she was glad the carnival came only once a
year. Part of the proceeds from the Evans United Show, with 26 rides and various
games and concessions, will go to the Lions Eye Research Foundation.
Westlund wants
city to resume
labor task force
Mayor says current talks
should be completed first
By John Gravois
Missourian staff writer
Columbia Mayor John Westlund wants the City
Council to reactivate a special task force on labor
relations as soon as city negotiations with its four
labor groups are complete.
Although some labor group leaders want the
task force reactivated immediately, Westlund and
at least one councilman believe reactivating the
task force would disrupt current negotiations.
Former Mayor Clyde Wilson established the
task force in 1979 to smooth out problems in the
city's negotiating process. Labor, management
and the private sector were represented on the
seven- ma- n panel, which met for several months.
As a result of its recommendations, the council
made several changes in the process, including
one to allow the groups to take their cases to the
council on occasion. Before then, the council was
not involved in the process until it was time to
make a final decision on wage and benefit re-quests.
Now, Westlund thinks the city's relations with
its labor groups could be smoother, but he won't
say how. " That's what the task force would deter-mine,"
he said.
Second Ward Councilman Duane Lammers said
reactivating the task force anytime soon would
imperil ongoing negotiations. Currently, police of-ficers,
firefighters and public service and water
and light workers are all negotiating pay raises.
" Right now, I'm totally against anything that
could disrupt those negotiations," Lammers said.
" And, it's certainly possible that the task force
could do that."
Friday, Westlund said he wanted the task force
reactivated within a month. Saturday, he said he
agreed with Lammers.
" It'll be better to held off until we're finished
with ongoing negotiations," he said. " That way
( See ARBITRATION, Page 8A)
In town
today
10: 30 a. m. to 2 p- m- .. Three
American folk tales performed
by second- - and third- gra- de pu-pils
of The Creative Place, Chap-ter
One Bookstore, 800 E. Broad-way.
3 pjn., Piano recital by Mary
Beth N'ck, Gershwin's " Rhapso-dy
in Blue," Recital Hall of Uni-versity
Fine Arts Building.
Memorial Dav
obsered Monday
Columbia organizations plan
these Memorial Day activities -
The Truman Veterans Hos-pital
will have a short presenta-tion
at 2 pjn. Monday called A
Time to Remember " It will be
held in the Nursing Home Care
Unit Day Room and is open to
the public
The American Legion, the
Veterans of Foreign Wars, the
Daughters of the American Rev-olution
and several other groups
will sponsor a service at 10 ajn.
Monday in front of the the Boone
County Courthouse
No paper Tuesday
The Columbia Missourian will
not publish Tuesday morning be-cause
of the Memorial Day
weekend
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| Item.Transcript | 7:. f r Y- a- r No. 21 4 Good Morning! It' Sunday, May 24. 1981 6 Sections 54 Pages - 50 Cents Visiting Nurses prepare to fight new competition By Wendy L. Kafoury Missourian staff writer This is the service that Lydia R Coad helped build. It is called the Columbia Visiting Nurses Association, a not- for- pro- fit agency that provides a variety of home health care services to Boone Coun- tian- s This is the situation that soon may face the service Lydia R. Coad helped build It is called competition. Or. in Mrs. Coad's words, it is called " unnecessary duplication of services." What Mrs. Coad fears most is not the competition, however, but the source of the competition. For the first time in Missouri, begin-ning July 1, proprietary agencies businesses providing health care in a patient's home for a profit will be-come eligible to receive certification. And this certification, which is han-dled through the state Division of Health, is more than just a piece of pa-per. " Certification makes agencies eligi-ble to provide home care for the Med-icare and Medicaid programs," says William E. Johnson, president of the Missouri Association of Home Health Agencies. " And in the area of home health, that certification is very impor-tant." The change in Missouri's certifica-tion requirements originates with the budget reconciliation bill signed by for-mer President Jimmy Carter in De-cember 1980. Among the items covered in the bill were changes in Medicare and Medicaid, which included allowing proprietary agencies to become certi-fied as of July 1, 1981, in states such as Missouri that do not have licensing laws for home health care. In Missouri, 58 agencies are certified to provide home health care. All are non- prof- it groups whose financial sup-port comes mainly through reimburse-ments from programs such as Medi-caid and Medicare, federal programs lEDsighi that help pay te cost of health care for the aged or indigent Most agencies also receive funds from their commu- mt- it The Columbia Visiting Nurses Asso-ciation, the only certified agency in Boone Counu . receives most of its lo-cal funds &". United Way, the city of Columbia ai -- he Boone County Court " We're a community service organi-zation, not a business or an industry," says Mrs. Coad, executive director of the CVNA. " With proprietary agen-cies, home health care becomes a busi-ness, bringing out a totally different concept to care. " And many of these proprietary agencies are conglomerates They'll set up franchises in home health care like a McDonalds or a Kentucky Fried Chicken throughout the state of Mis-souri " The CVNA has grown from a small-time volunteer effort in 1972 to an orga-nization with 50 paia employees that make an average of 1,000 home care visits monthly. The group's projected budget is nearly $ 500,0u0, with about 80 percent of that figure coming from federal and state reimbursements in programs such as Medicare, Mrs. Coad says. The remaining 20 percent is raised locally. Each year the CVNA has expanded the types of services offered. In addi-tion to direct home health care, the group provides nursing, therapy, so-cial work, teaching and homemaker services. The most recent addition was a hospice program, for the care of the terminally ill " We lave no problem at aQ covering Boone County," Mrs. Coad says. However, Jacklyn Adkison, director of Columbia's Kelly Health Care a proprietary agency offering nursing services to hospitals and private m- - ( See NURSES, Page 8A) Census data predicts continued graying of America ', New York Times WASHINGTON In a report predicting a much older population in the decades ahead, the Census Bureau said Saturday that there are 25 5 million people over 65 years old now living in the United States, 28 percent more than m 1970 Over the decade that ended in 1980, the medi-an age m the nation rose from 23 to 30 years, as the number of elderly people increased and the number of children under 15 dropped to 51 mil-lion, from 58 million. This median splits the population into two equal groups, one group younger and one older tnan the median. The statistics released Saturday, along with social and scientific trends, portend a sharply rising median age over the next three decades, census officials said. This could have important implications for national policy, productivity and the use of resources. The changing age distribution will be a major factor in the government's allocation of funds It will affect, for example, the amount of mon-ey needed in programs for the elderly, includ-ing the already troubled Social Security Sys-tem, and m programs for younger people, including schools and day- car- e centers The large increase in the over- 6- 5 population, which exceeded by far the 11 percent growth rate for the nation's population as a whole, was caused in large measure by advances in medi-cal science, nutrition and economic security. Because of migration and varying living con-ditions, however, the aging of America has not been evenly spread among regions, races or ethnic groups Florida recorded the highest median age, 34.7 years, because of the large numbers of people who retire there, but the northeastern states were not far behind. New Jersey had the second highest median age, at 32.2, followed by Penn-sylvania, 32.1; Connecticut, 32.0; New York, 31 9; Rhode Island, 31.8, and Massachusetts, 31.2. Utah had the lowest median age of any state, 24 2, in part because of the relatively large numbers of children in Mormon families, according to the bureau. This is not the first tune that the median age passed 30. In 1950, it stood at 30 2, which re-sulted from a decline in the birth rate in the 1930s, not a large increase in the elderly as the 1980 census showed. In 1960, the median age dropped to 29 4, and in 1970 to 28 The figures released Saturday also showed six million more females than males in the pop-ulation, largely because women live longer. The count, conducted in April 1980, showed 116,- 472,5- 39 women to 110,03295 men The margin of females over males is a rela-tively new phenomenon in the nation's history. When the country was developing and immigra-tion was at its height, the influx of single men seeking their fortunes resulted in a predomina-tion of males. In 1910, there were 106 males for every 100 females. As late as 1940, men still held a slight margin. But in 1950, there were only 98 6 males for every 100 females and the trend has continued In 1980 there were 94 4 males for every 100 females. The figures also revealed a large spread be-tween the median ages of whites and other groups Whites had the highest median age, 31 3 For blacks, the median age was 24 9; for American Indians. Eskimos and Aleutian Is-landers, 23, for Asians, 28 6, and for people who listed themselves as of Spanish origin, vhich was not a racial designation, 23.2. For much of the nation's history, the age groups have made almost a perfect pyramid, with each succeeding year of age showing uni-formly fewer people until there were onl a few at the pinnacle. However, in recent years that has changed. In the Great Depression of the 1930s, the birth rate dropped sharply The generation of that period is now in its 40s, and its size is surpassed b the number of people in their 50s Yet a far greater distortion in age groups was caused by the baby boom" after World War n, when large families were in vogue In the 1970s many members of that generation turned 30, and when the 1980 count was made, there were 12.3 million more people 23 to 34 y ears old than in 1970 37 1 million up from 24 9 million In 1957, another decline in fertility began and continued into the 1970s In I960, when the total population was only 180 million, there were 20 million children under the age cf 5 By 1970, that age group had dropped to 17 million, and by 1980 to a little ov er 16 million Since the baby boom generation, which far outnumbers tne Depression generation ahead of it, is approaching middle age and there is little prospect of a sharp upturn in the birth rate, the Census Bureau has projected a higher national median age of 36 by the vear 2,000 and 38 4 by 2,010 Douglas Malian loved to fly. Memorial Day heightens memories of a son killed in the Vietnam War The heartbreak lingers By Regiua McEnery Missourian staff writer J B and Alliene Mahan have learned to live with tragedy. What they cannot live with is uncertainty. Four years ago, their uncertainty dissolved into finality when they learned their son, Douglas, an Air Force major reported missing in ac-ton in 1970, had been killed in action. It was a long seven years, said Mrs. Ma-han. Even now, they cannot be sure. " You just never know," she says softly, fingering some newspaper clip-pings about her son. " You just never know." Monday, the Mahans will attend the annual Memorial Day service at the courthouse and will visit their son's grave, as they do every week, to leave some flowers. Once again, memories will be more vivid. Doug, a graduate of Hickman High School and the University, joined the Air Force while in college. A member of the 333rd Tactical Fighter Squadron, he flew 285 combat missions, 83 of them over North Vietnam. Although he had planned a military career and bad signed up for a third tour before he was reported missing, he disliked the bombing procedures. But the fighting was net what drew Doug into the mili-tary; it was the flying " Ever since he was in the third grade, he was crazy about flying," his father remembers. " He was devoted to flying. And he talked about becoming an astronaut if he was good enough." Although Doug did not come from a fanuly of aviators his father was a farmer his family never tried to stifle his dreams. " He used to tell me that xt was the most beautiful sight ud there," Mrs. Mahan says. " He'd say you would feel so close to God." Those dreams were not realized, however On April 20, 1970, about the tune the Mahans were expecting a let-ter from their son, a telegram arrived The notice, like other notices that in-vaded hundreds of other homes, stated Ms plane had been shot down. " I remember the time distinctly," Mahan says softly, his eyes bnght. " It was 4 pjn. As soon as I saw the Air Force vehicle, I knew something was wrong. And all they told us then was Doug was missing in action." Several days later, almost as a rude afterthought, the Mahans received a copy of Doug's grades in master's courses he had completed before he was shot down Hope became tinged with uncertain-ty and frustration as days went by with nothing new to report " We talked about it a lot," Mrs. Ma han recalls. And we shed some tears And not a week went by that we didn't have a letter or a phone call from the Air Force or families sympathetic to Doug's plight But it was a strain just the same." The Mahans sent their son " care packages" on the chance that he was taken prisoner by the North Vietnam-ese " We didn't know if he was being fed right, or if he had enough clothes or what condition he was in," Mrs Mahan says. When a group of American prisoners of war was released, the Mahans wait-ed, hoping their son might be among it " I searched the faces of every one of the POWs when they got off the plane," Mrs Mahan says. Even when a 1976 congressional re-port recommended that all Americans missing in action in Vietnam should be officially declared dead, the Mahans, like other American families, refused to give up. " A parent will always have hope," Mahan says of that period. Then, their dreams were dashed when the government closed the lid on seven years of uncertainty by sending back Doug's remains, along with frag-ments from his F- 1- 05 fighter bomber ( See PARENTS, Page 8A) -- rar S& - ! ? - Jl '- -. 5,--"- .' . " I ! S- - g-- d MSn Five- year- o- ld Tamar Edwards of Benton, 111., got her first taste of cotton candy Saturday at a Biscayne Mall carnival. Tamar wound up with more blue candy on her than in her, and her mother said she was glad the carnival came only once a year. Part of the proceeds from the Evans United Show, with 26 rides and various games and concessions, will go to the Lions Eye Research Foundation. Westlund wants city to resume labor task force Mayor says current talks should be completed first By John Gravois Missourian staff writer Columbia Mayor John Westlund wants the City Council to reactivate a special task force on labor relations as soon as city negotiations with its four labor groups are complete. Although some labor group leaders want the task force reactivated immediately, Westlund and at least one councilman believe reactivating the task force would disrupt current negotiations. Former Mayor Clyde Wilson established the task force in 1979 to smooth out problems in the city's negotiating process. Labor, management and the private sector were represented on the seven- ma- n panel, which met for several months. As a result of its recommendations, the council made several changes in the process, including one to allow the groups to take their cases to the council on occasion. Before then, the council was not involved in the process until it was time to make a final decision on wage and benefit re-quests. Now, Westlund thinks the city's relations with its labor groups could be smoother, but he won't say how. " That's what the task force would deter-mine," he said. Second Ward Councilman Duane Lammers said reactivating the task force anytime soon would imperil ongoing negotiations. Currently, police of-ficers, firefighters and public service and water and light workers are all negotiating pay raises. " Right now, I'm totally against anything that could disrupt those negotiations," Lammers said. " And, it's certainly possible that the task force could do that." Friday, Westlund said he wanted the task force reactivated within a month. Saturday, he said he agreed with Lammers. " It'll be better to held off until we're finished with ongoing negotiations," he said. " That way ( See ARBITRATION, Page 8A) In town today 10: 30 a. m. to 2 p- m- .. Three American folk tales performed by second- - and third- gra- de pu-pils of The Creative Place, Chap-ter One Bookstore, 800 E. Broad-way. 3 pjn., Piano recital by Mary Beth N'ck, Gershwin's " Rhapso-dy in Blue," Recital Hall of Uni-versity Fine Arts Building. Memorial Dav obsered Monday Columbia organizations plan these Memorial Day activities - The Truman Veterans Hos-pital will have a short presenta-tion at 2 pjn. Monday called A Time to Remember " It will be held in the Nursing Home Care Unit Day Room and is open to the public The American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Daughters of the American Rev-olution and several other groups will sponsor a service at 10 ajn. Monday in front of the the Boone County Courthouse No paper Tuesday The Columbia Missourian will not publish Tuesday morning be-cause of the Memorial Day weekend |
