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Jill vom Saal, 7, of 3412 Valencia Drive, participates in the silent vigil at the Federal Building.
Don Choate, left, of 103 S. Walnut St., joined other protesters, right, in
Thursday's silent vigil protesting nuclear arms. The vigil came on the
anniversary of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima, Japan.
26 here protest
A- bo- mb deaths
ByBradBonhall
Missourian staff writer
The chants and shouts that usually mark anti- w- ar demon-strations
were absent as 28 protesters stood in quiet vigil at
noon Thursday in front of the Federal Building, 600 E. Cher-ry
St.
Members of the Fellowship o Reconciliation, the Colum-bia
chapter of the War Resisters League and the Crawdad
Alliance were assembled inmemory of those killed by atom- i- c
bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. The first of the
bomb3, which killed 70,000 people, was dropped on Hiroshi- m- a
36 years ago Thursday : Aug. 6, 1945. Nagasaki was hit
three days later.
The chance that nuclear bombs again might be used
against humans is " overwhelming," said protestor John
Schuder, a research biophysicist at the University.
" It's impossible to overstate the magnitude of the threat"
of nuclear war, he said. " The enemy is not the Soviet peo-ple,"
but rather " those in the Pentagon that strip the wealth
of citizens" to build weapons, be said.
Several protesters lamented the guns- over- butt- er policies
of the Reagan administration. " We have to redefine
strength," said Jim Windsor, who is unaffiliated with any
pacifist group. His sign claimed that despite being first in
defense, the United States is ninth in life expectancy, 13th in
iiifantmortality and 20th in its doctor- patie- nt ratio. " If the
people are not strong, the nation's not," he said.
Support services at M. U. hit hard by cuts
By Barbara Wogan, Yooyuan lia
and Yongxing Yang
Missourian staff writers
Although most of the attention has
been focused on the budget cuts be-ing
inflicted on the University's aca-demic
departments, the support
services are being hit equally hard.
And their cuts may mean reduced
maintenance, cuts in student pro-grams
and even some decline in
alumni giving.
The three vice chancellors who
oversee the nonacademic divisions
are cutting 3.5 percent from their
budgets, as is Provost Ron Bunn, to
whom the academic divisions report.
The only difference is that 3.5 per-cent
of the nonacademic budgets
adds up to only $ 700,000; the total cut
from the academic budgets totals
$ 2.5 million. Another $ 48,000 will be
cut from the offices of the chan-cellor,
equal opportunity, University
relations and institutional research
and planning.
Of the five divisions answering to
the chancellor, only the athletic de-partment,
which is largely self- supportin- g,
is escaping reductions. The
athletic department budget will in--
crease by 10 percent this year.
In all other divisions, virtually the
entire cut is coming from salaries
and wages. Chancellor Barbara S.
Uehling said Thursday that is inevi-table
because the University is a
" labor- intensiv- e industry." Expense
and equipment budgets, the other
major category besides salaries and
wages, have already been reduced
as much as possible, she said.
The chancellor also said there are
no jTTmwWatp plans to lay off people
from their jobs.
" But I can't guarantee there
wouldn't be cuts in personnel," she
warned.
Though nobody is yet slated to be
fired, the nonacademic divisions
Administrative Services, Student
Services, and Alumni Relations and
Development are trimming staff
numbers just as the academic divi-sions
must.
Ria Frijters, vice chancellor in
charge of Administrative Services,
said Thursday she has ordered each
unit under her to submit three im-pact
statements by Monday.
In those written evaluations, each
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Reagan's key advisers
tighten hold on power
By Fred Barnes
Baltimore San
WASHINGTON The other day
at the White House, the discussion
turned to the subject of where Presi-dent
Reagan should ceremonially
sign the tax cut.
Lyn Nofziger, the long- tim- e advis-er
and now ayMant for political af-fairs
to Reagan, suggested the Capi- to- l,
if only as a conciliatory gesture
toCongress.
" It was a pretty good suggestion,
wormy of being considered at least,"
an official who attended the meeting
said, " but nobody paid any atten-tion"
The signing ceremony will Wbe hWe. 1ldJ
at the White House or in California
during Reagan's vacation.
The incident pointed up the lesser
status to which a number of suppos-edly
influential aides have fallen in
the Reagan White House. This has
occurred officials said, as the trio of
senior presidential aides James
A. Baker EI, Michael A. Deaver and
Edwin Meese m have tightened
their bold oa the White House bu-reaucracy.
Iiasiglrt
" The loop has tightened," said an
official. " If you're not Baker, Meese
or Deaver, you don't have much in-fluence
around here."
Under most recent presidents, the
8 ajn. session of the senior staff was
a crucially important meeting. But
under Reagan, it is preceded by a
7: 30 breakfast daily attended
only by Baker, Deaver and Meese.
The breakfast is the significant
meeting.
There are other signs, too, of the
monopoly on influence which the
three have achieved at the expense
of other White House aides. For
years, the national security adviser
delivered a daily briefing to the
president on world events, but that is
presentedto Reagan by memo.
One of the trio had complained
that Richard Allen, the national se-curity
adviser, was " only reading"
the memo to Reagan and that the
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lit town
today
Boone County Fair activ-ities:
9: 38 ajn. Archery Contest.
19 am. Saddle Seat Medal
Class, Arena. I
IS sum. Tractor Rodeo. I
7: 38 p-- m. Horse Show, Are-na;
also Horseshoe Pitching.
8 pjn. Bluegras sMusic,
Merchants Tent; also Animal
Rodeo.
Spjn. Hound and Bird Dog
Show, Ball Diamond.
Other events:
7: 38 pan. " Sleeping Beau-ty,"
Maplewood Bam Commu-nity
Theater, Nifong Park.
Tickets $ 2 adults, $ 1 children,
senior citizens and students.
Business 7A
Opkfcn ......... . .... 4A
sports ..................... xjs
Weatocr .......................... 2A
Local air tower
should survive
cutback order
From staff and wire reports
WASHINGTON Transportation
Secretary Drew Lewis said Thurs-day
1,090 critical air traffic control-ler
posts will be eliminated by clos-ing
down all but about eight of 66
little- use- d control towers deemed ex-pendable
by a recent government re-port.
The move is an attempt to reduce
the impact of the walkout of about
12,000 air traffic controllers.
Columbia's tower was one of the 66
considered for closing, but it could
not be determined by late Thursday
night whether it is one of the eight or
so to be saved. However, Airport
Manager A. O. Cappadony, said, " We
haven't heard anything, but we
would be one of the last to be
closed."
He pointed out that Columbia's
tower was rated the most cost- effecti- ve
of the 66 considered for closing.
Cappadony said he expects defi-nite
word from Washington today.
Nationally, another 500 striking
controllers made the " gut- wrenchin- g"
decision to return to work
Thursday as the final deadline for
President Reagan's back- to- wor- k or-der
expired.
That left at least 12,000 who re-fused
to break ranks and give up in
the face of massive government
pressure on the fourth day of the ille-gal
strike.
Transportation Secretary Lewis
said dismissal notices had been sent
to 2,291 controllers who refused to
heed the presidential ultimatum.
The firings started Wednesday after
Reagan said the controllers had 48
hours to return to work or lose their
jobs.
Lewis said a total of l. GOO to 1,200
controllers have returned to work
since the strike started Monday. The
striking Professional Air Traffic
Controllers Organization assembled
similar figures.
PATCO president Robert Poli de-clared,
" We will not go back to
work."
Poli paid a visit on striker Steve
Wallaert, president of the Norfolk- Newpo- rt
News, Va., union local, at
the Fairfax County Jail. He gave
Wallaert, who became the first con-troller
jailed on Wednesday, a big
bear hug and said, " We are not los-ing,
we are winning.' '
Wallaert said he was " proud to be
a PATCO member" and showed no
signs of weakened resolve.
Lewis said non- strik- ers and super-visory
personnel were able to keep
79 percent of normally scheduled
commercial airline traffic flying
Thursday, despite the worst weather
since the strike began Monday
morning.
Lewis also said that flight activity
at 22 major airports including St.
Louis and Kansas City would be
kept at present levels at least for the
next month.
The Federal Aviation Administra-tion
reported investigations of two
incidents of violence. Six shots were
fired at an FAA facility in Oakland,
Calif., and a fire was set at a radar
building in Columbia, S. C., early
Tuesday.
Lewis complained of harassment
and possible sabotage, and said the
FBI was investigating. He said one
controller reported bang told, " The
next plane you control will be your
last."
Air service ' normal'
at Columbia airport
By Calvin Lawrence Jr.
Missourian staff writer
Although two of Columbia's seven
air traffic controllers continue to fol-low
the lead of striking union mem-bers
across the nation, there is no
need for travellers to say their pray-ers
as they enter air space at Colum-bia
Regional Airport.
The airport has been run safely in
the past with only two controllers on
duty at any one time, local union
president Gary Gardner said. Gard-ner
is one of the two local controllers
on strike.
" There's not that much out of Co-lumbia,"
he said.
The small amount of air traffic in
the Columbia area probably ac-counts
for Ozark Air lines' decision
to operate five of its six flights to-day.
Only the 3 p. m. flight to St
Louis and Chicago has been
canceled. Likewise, Air Midwest ex-pects
to provide full service to St
Louis and Kansas City, Mo., today,
as it has for the past two days.
Despite relatively light traffic at
Colurnbia Regional, Gardner noted
that controllers here, like their coun-terparts
at large airports, have tre-mendous
mental and physical pres-sures.
" All of us ( air traffic
controllers) are going through the
same thing," he said. " Your fatigue
level is reduced."
He believes the 40- ho- ur work
week, coupled with long- ter- m ten-sion
and pressure from the job, is the
prime source of fatigue. The nation-al
union, the Professional Air Traffic
Controllers Organization, has asked
the government for a four- da- y work
week.
Gardner also agrees with his
union's demands for earlier retire-ment
benefits; they're needed be-cause
of possible job- relate- d pres-sures
that sometimes force
controllers off the job before retire-ment
age, be said.
" For me, personally, retirement
benefits are the most important," be
said.
Air traffic controllers want the
right to retire after 15 years of serv-ice,
as opposed to the current 20
years.
Gardner expressed concern about
another issue paying controllers
extra for training new controllers
that takes on- mor- e significance as
the strike drags on. Gardner said ex-perienced
controllers should receive
some kind of compensation for that
on- the- j- ob teaching.
Speaking about the strike and the
impending loss of his job, Gardner
said, " There's been a lot of soul
searching, but something has got to
be done."
Development authority rejects
MFA's $ 375,000 bond request
By Karen Small aad Greg Jensen
Missourian staff writers
MFAInc. wanted a delay but got a
rejection Thursday night from the
Boone County Industrial Devel-opment
Authority on a $ 375,000 bond
request.
Alan Floyd, MFA controller, said
representatives of the cooperative
decided to ask the commission to de-lay
its final vote, and to continue a
public bearing on the tax- fre- e bond
request when it was discovered that
only six of nine IDA members would
be present at Thursday night's meet-ing.
It takes five votes to decide an
issue.
" We knew we had some opposition
corning in and we weren't sure about
the new members," Floyd said.
Consequently, MFA officials pre-sented
more detailed information
about the Centralia grain storage
project for which the bond proposal
was intended and asked the commis-sion
to reaffirm the tentative ap-proval
tantamount to delay
MFA received in May.
The commission, however, agreed
to vote on the May approval and
promptly rejected the MFA request.
Veteran commissioners Gene Cun-ningham,
Walter Johnson and Bill
Bayer, along with newcomer Ger- alde- an
" Jerry" Holiman, voted no.
In other action, the commission
reaffirmed its tentative approval of
a bond request from Columbia De-velopment
Group, and approved a
$ 3.6 million bond request from
Toastmaster Holding Co. to buy the
small appliance division of McGraw- Ediso- n,
1801 N. Stadium Blvd.
Floyd said he wasn't surprised by
the decision on MFA's request
" This body has given us continuous
trouble," he said. " I don't expect to
come before this board again. They
have a reputation in Jeff City of be-ing
one of the toughest bonding au-thorities."
Floyd said MFA officials will prob-ably
meet Friday to decide what to
do about the Centralia grain storage
project He said three likely options
were to ask Centralia to authorize its
own industrial bonding authority, to
seek conventional financing or to
eliminate the project altogether.
Centralia's former mayor, Paul
Sturgeon, has agreed to help MFA
pursue the Centralia industrial au-thority
option, Floyd said.
Commission members Bayer,
Johnson and Cunningham indicated
that the project's lack of new em-ployment
and the cooperative status
of MFA were important factors in
rejecting the project. .
" The taxpayers snhsidizp MFA al-ready,"
Cunningham said, referring
to MFA's tax- exem- pt status. MFA
pays no direct taxes on the profits its
members receive. He said be dndnt
like the idea of also giving the coop-erative
tax- fre- e bond financing.
Floyd pointed out that although
MFA doesn't pay taxes, the individu-al
members do.
" I saw very little in the line of tan-gible
benefits to Booae County,"
Johnson said. " I feel that tangible
benefits, including employment to
Boone County, is what these bond is--
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