Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1981-06-25

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73rd Year - No. 240 Good Morning! It's Thursday, June 25, 1981 2 Sections - 14 Pages - 25 Cents
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Center reaches out to cure those addicted
By Diane Young
Missourian staff writer
BOONVILLE Mother and daughter sat be-side
each other; both appeared calm The
daughter lit a cigarette, her long black hair
framing candid blue eyes.
" I can't tell you what it means to have my
daughter back again. I feel like a miracle has
happened in our lives," said Judy, the mother.
She has lived one week at Valley Hope Alco-holic
Treatment Center in Boonville; her 16- year-- old
daughter Trina has lived there for
three weeks. The two agreed to an interview
with the Columbia Missourian. They requested
only first- na- me identification.
" Trina was like an animal; she hated every-thing
and everybody. She turned to drugs for se-curity
and acceptance. Drugs soothed all the
hurt, covered it up."
Judy said the hardest thing she ever did was
bring her clinging, pleading daughter to Valley
Hope and leave her for 30 days in a desperate at-tempt
to change the daughter's behavior.
" It was horrible, but I thank God I had the
strength to do it It meant literally peeling her
fingers from my body while she's crying and
screaming and saying she didn't have a prob-lem
and wouldn't take any more drugs. I had to
say, ' I love you, but Fm going to leave you
here.' Valley Hope calls it ' tough love ' "
" For two weeks I fought Valley Hope," Tnna
said " I had been seeing counselors for two
years and had convinced them all that I was
normal and had no drug problem. I was the best
con artist there ever was
" You can't fool these people here, though.
Most of the staff are recovered alcoholics, and
they know you before you get here."
" I'm convinced ( the Valley Hope staff) could
break anybody," Judy said. " I don't care how
tough you think you are; they are going to get to
you"
Valley Hope does break people; it is done with
love, said William Leipold, president of the Val-ley
Hope Association.
In his book " Walk Through the Valley," Lei-pold
writes," At Valley Hope love is defined as
the giving of oneself without expectation of a re-ward,
the reaching out for others simply be-cause
we want to, not because we have to."
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After being in the " hot seat" for an
hour, Jene is congratulated by other pa-tients
for dealing with her problems
successfully
For Tnna, the risk lay in admitting she was
addicted to drugs. For her, Valley Hope pro-vided
unconditional acceptance
" You've never seen so much love in all your
life until you come to place like this," she said.
" Everbody shows they care about each other,
and nobody ever puts you down "
Her mother agreed " I knew Valley Hope had
finally gotten through to her when I received a
call last week She was still angry at me, which
was fine, but what she yelled was, ' You never
taught me to love myself, and Valley Hope is
doing that,' and that's all I needed to hear."
By demonstrating acceptance sad love, Val-ley
Hope staff and patients try to teach that ev-ery
individual is worthy of a happy, healthy life,
and to " go the extra mile" in an effort toward
sobriety.
" Each of you is a masterpiece," said Leipold
in a morning lecture to 24 patients. " Look at
each other; there will never be another person
like you."
" Thank God for that," volunteered a patient
" Who said that?" asked Leipold, focusing on
the individual before he continued to discuss the
importance of self- wort- h.
Leipold lectured that morning, but he was not
to stay in Boonville for long Other Valley Hope
treatment facilities he visits are in Norton,
Kan., Atchison, Kan., Cushing, Okla , and O'N- adLNe- b.
Boonvflle' 3 clinical director, Lane Armstrong,
came from the Oklahoma center, where he had
been assistant program director for three
years.
All the counselors at Valley Hope have re-ceived
years of training at other centers But it
is net the staff alone that gives Valley Hope a
treatment success rate of more than 60 percent,
Armstrong said The patients are given com-plete
responsibility for their future They are
free to come and go as thev wish, as long as they
meet lecture and counseling appointments,
which take up most of the day
Counseling includes the entire family, be-cause
when the family goes into treatment, the
success rate is significantly higher, Armstrong
" Love, acceptance and understanding, that's
what gets people well," Judy said " That's what
my brother and sister- in- la- w kept telling us
about Valley Hope, how good it was and what it
had done for them "
But no matter what she heard about Valley
Hope, Judy, who recently was fired from her job
because of her family problems, knew she could
not afford treatment for herself and Tnna She
was told treatment costs are near $ 3,000
" I told Valley Hope that, but they said they'd
find a way. So now I'm going to do it in pay-ments
whenever I can make them, beginning
when I get my income tax rebate "
She said the non- prof- it organization would not
be able to keep its doors open if it did that for
everyone, but that she would pay Valley Hope if
she had to " go out and scrub people's floors
" Valley Hope is a place where you see mira-cles
happen, right here on earth," she said
" And I feci like a miracle has happened in our
lives."
Wise investing earns school district $ 900,000
By Adrienae Rivers
Missourian staff writer
By renegotiating its banking contract
when interest rates soared, the Columbia
School District earned nearly $ 900,000 in ex-tra
income from unspent funds during fiscal
106041.
Also, with a new variable- rat- e investment
contract, the district could earn as much as
$ 100,000 more than this year during fiscal
1961- 8- 2 if its invested fund levels do not drop
and interest rates do not fall significantly.
During the fiscal year ending June 30, the
district earned approximately $ 800,000 in in-terest
on its investment in certificates of de-posit
and nearly $ 93,000 on its savings ac-count
balance
By comparison, the nearly $ 900,000 in in-vestment
income earned by the school dis-trict
is close to the total amount netted by
the Boone County government when it added
the one- ha- lf cent sales tax last year. The
half- cen- t sales tax for the county raises ap-proximately
$ 2 2 million annually. But, un-der
state law, one- ha- lf of that had to be re-bated
in the form of local property tax relief,
leaving $ 1.1 million
All three major governmental units, the
county and city governments and the school
district recently have negotiated variable-
- rate investment contracts with local
banks m an effort to take advantage of cur-rent
high interest rates. These investment
efforts spotlight the increasing importance
of non- ta- x income in governmental opera-tions.
John R. Hickey, the school district's staff
accountant, said that if in the next fiscal
year the interest rates on three- mont- h trea-sury
bills and the district's balance remain
the same, the district can earn nearly $ 1 mil
lion in investment income.
However, Hickey and the former director
of business services, Thomas J. Huddleston,
pointed out that the district anticipates at
least a $ 1.5 million decrease in its balance,
and it generally is predicted that interest
rates wdl fall.
School officials, mindful of the volatility of
interest rates, have budgeted investment in-come
of only $ 575,000 in determining a bal-anced
budget for the 1931- 8- 2 school year. If
the investments do better, the school district
would have substantial additional revenue
with which to operate
The Board of Education recently signed a
new contract with First National Bank that
will tie the board's investment income to the
fluctuating interest rates of federal treasury
securities The banks competing for the
school board's money agreed to compute in-terest
based on a percentage of the weekly
auction price of T- bi- lls
David A West, a University finance pro-fessor
and the board's treasurer, said using
the auction rate of T- bi- lls from the previous
week helps minimize the uncertainty for the
( See FIRST, Page 8A)
Prejudice prevails for cancer patients
WASHINGTON ( UPI) The rising percentage
of cancer patients being cured is creating a prob-lem.
Survivors find it slippery climbing the career
ladder because of the widespread belief that they
remain under a death sentence.
This year, experts say, more than 41 percent of
the 835,000 people getting cancer will be cured,
compared to 25 percent in the 1940s and less man
20 percent in the 1920s.
But as the patients emerge from the rigors of
chemotherapy, radiation and surgery, they find
the business world treats them with hostility they
never knew before their illness.
" This matter of will they ( former patients) be
deprived of earning a livelihood becomes more
Insight
important as survival rates increase," says Dr.
Frances L Feldman, a faculty member at the
University of Southern California School of Social
Work.
She has done studies of former cancer patients
who are able to return to the job and found most
meet some type of discrimination, with blue collar
workers having more problems than white collar
employees
" I received a death sentence twice, once when
my doctor told me I have cancer, then when my
boss asked me to quit because the cancer would
upset my fellow- worker- s. Except for my wife, that
lob was my whole world," says Jon, a 42- year-- old
bookkeeper quoted in one of her studies.
Job discrimination because someone has had
cancer is illegal, but such suits are costly to pur-sue,
and the allegations difficult to prove.
" Many former patients and an amazing number
of employers are not aware it is illegal," she said
in a recent interview
Dr. Giuho J D'Angio of Philadelphia's Chi-ldren's
Hospital says employers operate under the
mistaken assumption that cured cancer patients
( See DISCRIMINATION, Page 8A)
Panel chooses
3 ward plans
for City Council
By Mitch Boretz
Missourian staff writer
Despite this week's attempt by the
NAACP to stall a final decision on
ward redistncting, the Columbia
Commission on Ward Realignment
chose three plans Wednesday to send
to the Citv Council.
Mary Ratliff, president of the Co-lumbia
chapter of the National Asso-ciation
for the Advancement of Col-ored
People, remained silent as 17
commission members reviewed pro-posals
for setting new ward bounda-ries
The chapter voted Monday to
try to stall a decision
" I didn't feel they were ready and
I stall don't feel they are ready," Ms
Ratliff said " It was obvious every-one
had not studied the plans in
depth "
Ratliff said earlier that the
NAACP opposed a decision Wednes-day
because there had not been
enough public review of the 13 pro-posals
commissioners had designed
over the last four weeks
Commissioners, however, appar-ently
thought there had been enough
time for the public and themselves
to examine the plans
" I think the commission has made
substantial effort to get the public in-terested,"
commission Chairman
David Leuthold said before calling
for a vote on the plans He said
added delay could cause commis-sioners
to lose interest and step at-tending
meetings
Plan G, an attempt to maintain as
many ward lines as possible while
still balancing ward populations and
emphasizing black voting power,
was the commission's first choice A
front- runn- er throughout the month- lon- g
drive to set up new boundaries,
slight modifications smoothing map
lines and reducing population varia-tions,
were reasons for the support
' This is what I have been want-ing,"
said Sarah Belle Jackson, a
Second Ward commissioner who has
been pushing for emphasis on a
strong black- vot- er bloc in one ward
' It couldn't have been any better "
Plan G keeps almost 90 percent of
Columbians in their present wards
while moving enough blacks from
the First Ward to the Second to cre-ate
a strong voting bloc Blacks will
make up 26 percent of the Second
( See PLAN, Page 8A)
Utility workers, city
ratify two- ye- ar pact
ByJohnGravois
Missourian staff writer
A little risk is worth saving a lot of
hassle to Columbia labor negotia-tors.
The city's 125 Water and Light De-partment
workers Wednesday rati-fied
a two- yea- r, four- stag- e pay raise
agreement with the city after hag-gling
four weeks over a one- ye- ar
pact
The stages will be spaced six
months apart beginning Sept 26
Each is a 4 percent pcross- the- boar- d
raise plus a lump sum $ 12 50 boost in
each worker's monthly salary That
means an average total monthly pay
raise of more than 9 percent over the
next two years
The city proposed negotiating a
contract for two years mainly " to
get out of the hassle of negotiations
for a year," said chief negotiator
Mike Sanford
With the city having to deal with
four groups of workers at once, San- for- d
said, " you can imagine all the
hassles all sides have to go
through"
Water and Light worker spokes-man
Dennis McMahan agreed We,
too, are certainly glad we won't have
to negotiate next year," he said
" There's a lot of time and effort in-volved,
and all on my spare tune "
Sanford and McMahan also agreed
there is nsk in the agreement for
both sides
" It's pretty much up to inflation as
to who, if anybody, gets the better
deal," Sanford said " If inflation
slows down to a very slow rate over
the next year, then we might have
paid more than we had to If it stays
the same or declines slowly, we'd
come out on too "
If inflation does speed up and the
workers decide they want to renego-tiate
the contract, " they'd have to
lump it," Sanford said " We'd have
to lump it if it went the other way "
McMahan said it is a nsk worth
taking. " We feel the raise will come
pretty close to what we'd want next
year," he said " It may not be a
whole lot all at once, but we're really
glad to be getting a raise every six
months"
Wednesday's action ratified a ten-tative
agreement reached Monday in
a private meeting
McMahan said the agreement was
approved " by a majority, but not by
an overwhelming majority " He
would not disclose the vote
The contract also calls for com-pensation
for meals eaten at the
work ate under the city's new 30- min- ute
lunch period and increases in
employee health plans
The compensation will be $ 2 be-tween
now and the beginning of fis-cal
year 1983, which begins Oct 1,
1982 Then, it will rise to $ 2 25
Blue Cross- Blu- e Shield insurance
payments to workers will increase $ 5
on Sept 26 and another $ 5 on Oct 1,
1982
Water and Light workers are the
second group this summer to reach
an agreement with the aty. Public
service workers last week ratified a
contract giving them a raise of more
than 9 percent over the next year
Police officers and firefighters
have yet to sign a contract for fiscal
year 1982
Police officers were scheduled to
meet privately with aty officials to-day
Firefighters say they won't re-turn
to the bargaining table until
they go before the City Council July
6
Inside today
Ram arrived at Wimbledon
Wednesday, but not before Born
Borg and Chris Evert Lloyd
reached the thud round of singles
with easy victories and John Mc-
Enroe was well received on Cen-ter
Court See story Page IB.
Business reporters and editors
from across the country are in
Columbia for some in- dep- th
schooling on the intricacies of
business and the day- to- da- y reali-ties
of the American economy
See story Page 3B.
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8: 15 p. m. Concert, Manuel Bar- ruec- o,
guitarist, Missouri Sym-phony
Society, University Fine
Arts Recital Hall Tickets are $ 5
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