Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1981-08-23

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73rd Year - No. 290 Good Morning! It's Sunday, August 23. 1981 4 Sections 48 Pages 50 Cents
Facing rising rents,
central city stores
forced to relocate
By Calvin Lawrence Jr.
and Linda Finders
Missourian staff writers
Susie Scott's Children's World sold
children's apparel at 710 E. Broad-way
for six years and in the down-town
area for 18, years. Since April
30, Susie Scott's has been looking un-successfully
for a new location.
" They put the rent up so high I
couldn't afford to renew the lease,"
says store President Glenn A. Bra- de- n.
Mike Atkinson, owner of the build-ing
that formerly housed Susie
Scott's, says that, because of rising
mortgage costs, owners must in-crease
rents in order " to break even
or to make a profit. "
Increased rents, decreased busi-ness
and competitive pressures are
combining to force an unusual num-ber
of downtown businesses to take
tlie same course as Susie Scott's. At
least 19 stores within a four- bloc- k ra-dius
of Ninth and Broadway have
changed or are changing occupants.
Many of those being dispossessed
are bitter, but the Central Columbia
Association sees the changes as
signs of economic vigor.
Jean Garrett, owner of The Clay
Hand, is being forced out.
After setting up shop at 908 E. Wal-nut
St. four years ago, Miss Garrett,
a potter, says she can no longer af-ford
to operate her specialized busi-ness.
But shrinking profits and soar-ing
interest rates, two factors that
usually hamper small businesses,
did not cause the shop's permanent
closing.
The going- out- of- busin- ess sign
reached the store's window after the
rent was significantly increased at
the end of her leasing period, she
says.
" I figured the landlord would raise
Insight
the rent but he increased it by 50 per-cent,"
Miss Garrett says. " There
was no way I could afford that. ' '
Paul Mashburn, the building own-er,
says Miss Garrett was paying a
rate per square foot lower than his
other tenants. The new rent is " right
up to par with the rest of the rents,"
Mashburn says.
He has not yet found another ten-ant.
As downtown retailers continue to
prosper, marginally profitable busi-nesses
such as The Clay Hand find it
increasingly difficult to compete.
Other businesses suffer from
growing competition for downtown
property. H. R. Mueller Florist, a 54- year-- old
shop, closed July 31 when
Ralph Maledy, owner and president,
was unable to negotiate a lease with
the building's owners.
Mark Foreman and Klifton Altis,
landlords for H. R. Mueller, 29 S.
Ninth St., and Bill Geel's Mens wear,
27 S. Ninth St., told the two men that
other plans had been made for the lo-cation
and neither store owner could
renew his lease, Geel says.
Geel is moving to 19 S. Eighth St.
at the beginning of September. " We
were not being forced out because of
the rent," Geel says. " The owners
told us after the first of the year that
they had other plans and indicated to
us to look for another place."
Part of the property is now being
advertised for rent as office space.
Maledy would not say whether he
will be relocating.
Braden, Maledy and Miss Garrett
of The Clay Hand are bitter and an-noyed
by the hefty rent increases.
( See FACE, Page 12A)
Mating 5em
Schools given better marks
than parents in raising kids
DAYTON, Ohio ( UPI) Public
schools got higher grades for edu-cating
students than parents did
for raising their children, accord-ing
to a survey of public school at-titudes
by the Gallup Poll.
Nine percent of those surveyed
gave the public schools an A rat-ing;
27 percent gave them a B; 34
percent gave them a C; 13 percent
gave them a D; 7 percent gave
them a failing grade; and 10 per-cent
said they didn't know.
For the first time in 13 years in
polling the public's attitudes on
education, respondents were
asked to grade parents in their
communities for the job they
were doing in raising their chil-dren
to be " self- disciplin- ed and
responsible young people."
Five percent gave parents a
grade of A; 24 percent gave them
a B; 36 percent gave then a C; 16
percent gave them a D; and 11
percent gave parents a failing
grade. Eight percent indicated
they did not know.
" The success of the public
schools Is due in no small part to
the kind of job parents do in rear-ing
their children in the home to
be responsible young people,"
George Gallup, head of the Gal-lup
Poll, said.
" It was thought, therefore, that
in rating the schools and teachers
it would be only fair to rate the
kind of job parents are doing."
The work of principals and
school administrators as a sepa-rate
group was also rated and
found to be higher then the rating
given parents. A total of 10 per-cent
gave principals an A rating
compared to the 5 percent for
parents; 26 percent rated princi-pals
B compared to the 24 percent
who gave parents a B.
The survey showed that young-er
people are more critical of the
public schools than are their eld-ers.
And respondents from small
towns have a higher opinion of
their public schools than persons
living in large cities in the United
States.
Discipline continued to be re-garded
as the main problem fac-ing
the local public schools. Other
problems listed in descending or-der
by the respondents. were use
of drugs, poor curriculum, lack of
proper financial report, difficulty
of getting good teachers and inte-grationbusing.
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A worker sandblasts an oil tank at Wi-lliams
Brothers Pipe Line Co. on U. S.
Highway 63, three miles south of Co-lumbia.
This is the first time the tank
has been cleaned since 1974.
Cancer detection
plan skips blacks
By Ken Weiss
Missourian staff writer
Like most other volunteer organizations in Co-lumbia,
the American Cancer Society chapter is
nearly all- whi- te and some Cancer Society officials
are worriexfcthat its white orientation may be deny-ing
some blacks information that could save their
lives.
Locally as well as nationally, Cancer Society offi-cials
stress early diagnosis as the key to cancer sur-vival.
The annual April Crusade, in which volun-teers
go door to door dispensing information and
soliciting contributions, is the society's most impor-tant
educational effort.
While no statistics are available on the actual
number of cancer detections par month, Jim Schell,
state director of public education for the society,
says " it's our general feeling" that the highest
number annually occur in April and May as a direct
result of the crusade .
The 1981 Columbia Crusade covered less than 20
percent of the city's black neighborhoods, accord-ing
to the local chapter's records.
Derrick Willard, a local field representative for
the Cancer Society, says this figure means that
many Columbia blacks are being deprived of impor-tant
information.
The need for early diagnosis may be even more
important for blacks than for whites because, pro-portionally,
more blacks die of the disease than do
whites.
Figures for 1980 show that just under 7 percent of
Boone County's population is black. During the de-cade
of the 1970s, 9.2 percent of the 1,033 people who
died from cancer in the county were black.
Nationally, according to Cancer Society esti-mates,
134,000 Americans with cancer who might
have been saved through earlier diagnosis and
treatment probably will die in 1981.
Currently, 31 percent of black women nationwide
seek early diagnosis and treatment for cancer com-pared
to 42 percent of white women. For males, the
breakdown is 28 percent for blacks and 37 percent
for whites.
With increased education about early detection,
Willard believes the survival rate could surpass 50
percent " tomorrow."
Willard says that, if the Cancer Society is to meet
its public education goals, it must enlist the aid of
black men and women to explain to the black com--
munity " what we have to offer."
This task is made tougher by the society's per-ceived
image as a " white and middle class" organi-zation,
he says. ' This has added to the difficulty
we've had in relating to minorities."'
Robert Rodgers, the society's northern Missouri
executive director, does not dispute the need for
more black involvement in the annual Crusade, but
he insists that the impetus must come from olacKs.
" This is a volunteer organization run ijv volun-teers,
and volunteers make the decisions. ITus orga-nization
has never refused an one . "
And, he says, the Cancer Societ is not tne only
one with the problem of getting minorities more in-volved.
Other health care organizations, such as the
Heart Association, have the same difficult .
Willard says that one reason for the Cancer Socie-ty's
undercoverage of black area in its April Cru-sade
has been the tendency to " go w here the money
is." " It's a real problem." be says, fcp. a r.' s been
too easy for us not to worry about it.
" We're trying to impress on the crusaders that
education at the doors is as significant as tne money
we collect.'
Rodgers disputes the notion that the crusade may
give priority to wealthier areas of the community
" The fact that the main purpose of our residential
program is to collect money is not true. Of course, it
takes money to run an organization such dS this.
" But it gets back to the number of people we need
to get things done. Black people haven't responded
to calls for volunteers to cover their community.
'" This is not an organization that rejects the black
community. Their welfare is as important as any-one
else's. If we had enough volunteers you could be
sure ever area of the city would be covered. "
Only a " handful" of blacks participated in the
April effort, according to Willard.
The general canvassing method used by the Can-cer
Society calls for residents to reach out to their
immediate neighbors. White volunteers are gener-ally
too uncomfortable to go door- to- do- or in black
neighborhoods, Willard says.
Much of the blame for the low black voiuiteer ef-fort
lies " right here in this office." he admits. " Part
of our job is to monitor the effort and influence vo-lunteers
to get out into those areas . ' '
One black who did volunteer for the Apnl Crusade
is Rosie Turner, a tumor registrar at Boone County
( See CANCER, Page 12A )
Report checks cancer rates
in black, white population
By Ken Weiss
Missourian staff writer
Medical researchers have known for years that
American blacks are more likely than whites to
contract certain forms of cancer and vice versa.
Now, a study in a medical journal compares just
how frequently the two races get the various can-cers
and speculates on which ones are genetic and
which ones environmentally caused.
According to an August article in the Journal of
the National Medical Association, a predominantly
black organization, blacks are almost 3 times as
likely as whites to suffer esophagus cancer. Ameri-can
blacks also are at least twice as likely as whites
to contract multiple myeloma and cancers of the
cervix uteri, penis and vagina. Blacks are also
more than 12 times as likely as whites to get pros-tate,
liver or stomach cancer.
The article, by four physicians associated with
Howard University in Washington, D. C., suggests
environmental causes for these types of cancer be-cause
their occurrence varies widely in different lo-cations
and under different conditions. It cites alco-hol
as a primary factor in esophagus and liver
cancer, poor genital hygiene in penis, cervix and
vagina cancer, and diet in stomach cancer.
By contrast, whites are more likely than blacks to
develop cancers that are traceable primarily to ge-netic
influences.
The physicians endorse a currently popular " two- step- "
hypothesis that explains cancer's devel-opment
in two stages.
The two- ste- p process requires a certain genetic
makeup before a carcinogen, or cancer- causin- g
agent, can take effect. The physicians . this hy-pothesis
in the journal to explain the s. h .-
- idence
of skin cancer in whites.
Whites are 100 times as likely as blacks t come
down with skin cancer. In this case, the genetic
makeup, the white skin, is required before the car-cinogen,
the ultraviolet B rays of the sun. can be ef-fective.
Whites are also between four and 10 tunes as like-ly
to suffer lip, melanoma of the skin and testis can-cer.
And they are lh to two times mere susceptible
to eye and orbit, thyroid, bladder, corpus uteri and
brain cancer.
The two- ste- p process involving ultraviolet rays
also is used to explain the high incidence of lip can-cer
and melanomas. Little is known about the
causes of testis cancer, but the physicians say it's a
" good candidate for having a genetic base "
Thyroid, bladder and utenne corpus cancer seem
to have no genetic basis. Environmental factors ap-pear
linked to all three types through radiation and
goiter for thyroid cancer, smoking anci aniline dyes
for bladder cancer and estrogen disturbances for
the utenne corpus form.
Genetic factors seem likely to explain the higher
incidence of brain cancer in unites, the phsicians
say.
Some common cancers that occur in relatively
equal incidence among American whites and blacks
include cancer of the pancreas, soft tissue, lung.
small intestine, larynx, vulva, bones. kidne . colon,
rectum, leukemia, breast, ovary and gallbladder.
Super sleuthing leads to spy's recapture
SEATTLE, Wash. ( UPI)
Christopher John Boyce, interna-tionally
sought spy whose love for
falcons, jogging and Vitamin E led
to his capture, was held Saturday
under tight security by U. S.
marshals 19 months after he staged
a cunning escape from prison.
A hearing before a U. S. Magis-trate
on escape charges was sched-uled
Monday morning.
Boyce, a 28- year-- old Southern Cali- forni- an
convicted of selling U. S. de-fense
secrets to the Soviet Union in
the 1970s, was arrested Friday night
by a swarm of federal agents.
He was seized while eating a
cheeseburger at a drive- i- n in Port
Angeles, a fishing port 60 miles
northwest of Seattle where he had
been living in a small apartment. He
was carrying no weapon and offered
no resistance.
In Washington, D. C., Howard Sa- fi- r,
assistant director of operations
for the U. S. Marshals Service, said I8 knowledge about Boyce's interests
provided clues that helped concen-trate
the manhunt.
" We focused on areas where peri- gri- ne
falcons still exist and this was
one of. them," Safif said. " We fo--
Christopher John Boyce
Internationally sought spy nabbed
cused on remote areas, since
Christopher Boyce was into camp-ing,
jogging general outdoor types
of pursuits.
" Over the last 19 months we have
looked into every falconry area, into
jogging stores, health foods, vitamin
stores anything that would give us
a lead, right down to the type of jog
ging shoes that he would utilize," Sa- f- ir
said. ( Boyce was wearing Nikes
when arrested; Safir said he pre-ferred
Etonics.)
" We had information that he was
using a specific Vitamin E and was
taking a great deal of it when he was
in prison. So we focused on the par-ticular
stores around the country
that stocked that particular vita-min."
Several weeks ago, a driver's li-cense
with Boyce's picture on it led
agents to believe he was somewhere
in the Northwest. Boyce was not pre-sent
at the address on the license,
but it was that of a family in Beaver,
40 miles from Port Angeles, with
whom Boyce had spent time.
Three cities were staked out by a
task force of 30 agents.
As a result of putting some of our
people into roles as waitresses, fish-ermen,
loggers, we were able to get
into the community and develop in-formation
relative to sightings of
Boyce," he said.
" He was going by the name of An-thony
Edward Lester, and he had
used several other aliases. We devel- -
oped information that he may have
been involved in the fishing busi-ness."
The county sheriff's department
said Saturday Boyce had recently
purchased and was operating a com-mercial
fishing trawler. It was not
known how much the boat coast or
where he got the money.
Boyce made no attempt to disguise
his appearance. When arrested, he
presented his customary short, curly
brown hair and clean- shave- n good
looks.
A Justice Department source said
his whereabouts were traced
" through talking to a lot of people,
one calls and stuff like that." He Kd lived in a trailer in Beaver until
a month ago, the source said.
" A restaurant, bar and house were
under constant surveillance by
marshals and FBI agents for three
weeks," the source said. " We knew
he would return to one of these
spots."
" He was our number one fugitive
because of the crime that he com-mitted.
Espionage is certainly a top
priority," Safir said.
The son of a former FBI agent,
Boyce grew up on the affluent Palos
Verdes Peninsula overlooking the
Pacific and worked as a $ 140- a- we- ek
clerk at TRW Inc., an aerospace
firm in suburban Redondo Beach un-der
contract to the CIA, where he
had access to the top secret " black
vault."
He was convicted in April 1977 of
espionage for smuggling secrets of
U. S. satellite technology out of the
TRW " black vault." The secrets
were sold to Soviet Union KGB
agents in Mexico City by Andrew
Daulton Lee, his boyhood friend, for
$ 70,000 over a period of several
months.
Lee, a convicted cocaine dealer, is
serving an espionage sentence at a
federal prison in Lompoc, Calif.,
from which Boyce made a bold es-cape
Jan. 21, 1980.
While on an outside work detail,
Boyce hid in a ditch and scaled two
12- fo- ot fences under cover of dark-ness.
Meanwhile, an accomplice
fooled guards by stuffing a papier- mach- e
dummy in Boyce's prison cell
bed.
In town
today
2 to 5 p. m. Tnjrs. Maple- woo- d
Farm histcne house.
conducted by members of
Boone County Historic! Socie-ty
and Lenoir Memorial
Home. Nifong Park, off Route
AC.
Inside
today
The religiou fanatic who
shot to death his four children,
his ex- wi- fe and his mother
stood before a judge and asked
to be put to death, t Story on
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