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74th Year - No. 13 Good Morning! Ks Tuesday. September 29. 1981 2 Sections - 14 Pages 25 Cents U. S. market rallies; world losses heavy NEW YORK ( UPI) - U. S. stock prices staged their biggest advance in six months Monday as market guru Joseph Granville's forecast of a " blue Monday" on Wall Street back-fired into a major rally. Most world markets, however, buckled under tumultuous selling triggered by the prediction that Monday would be one of the gloo-miest days in U. S. financial history. Interest rate and recession fears also weighed heavily on foreign equi-ty markets. The London stock market closed with some of the heaviest losses in its history in frantic trading. The normally stable Tokyo stock ex-change, where 600 million shares are traded daily, sustained the biggest drop on record for a single session. Stocks also skidded in Paris, Hong Kong and Sydney. But a late- sessi- on buying spree on the Toronto ex-change swept away earlier losses and pushed stocks sharply higher. The Dow Jones industrial average, which represents 25 percent of the value of all stocks on the New York Stock Exchange, surged 18.55 to 842.56 at the close after plummeting almost 15 points in the first hour of trading. It was the Dow's largest gain since the blue chip indicator rose 19.09 points March 25. Turnover on the NYSE was the busiest in 216 months. Analysts said some of the buying surfaced on U. S. markets about noon, when 443 top- not- ch stocks were selling at their lowest levels this year. Gold dropped $ 23.50 an ounce ( 26 grams) in London in the face of ru-mors that interest rates would rise, but bounced back in New York. The U. S. dollar strengthened abroad but tumbled in New York. Last week Granville, who was on a European tour, issued a gloomy outlook for world stock markets and on Friday forecast the " blue Monday." Some panelists on the widely fol-lowed " Wall Street Week" television show said Granville's statements in Europe were " like hitting a person on crutches with a baseball bat." That was in reference to the fact the market already is on the skids. Prior to last week, the closely followed Dow average had fallen 170 points since mid- Jun- e. When asked about Granville's pre-diction. Budget Director David Stockman said on Monday's ABC's " Good Morning America": " One day doesn't make a trend and we're going to have to wait and see." The Financial Times index of 30 Industrials on the London exchange plummeted 29.4 points to stand at 445.3 by the afternoon. The decline was the worst in Lon-don since March 1, 1974, when the in-dex fell 32.8 points as the market opened and another 25.5 points with-in 30 minutes when it became appar-ent then Prime Minister Edward ( See ORDERS, Page 8A) Mew nsone Beginning today, county hospital is called Boone Hospital Center By Anne Voegtlin Missourian staff writer After 60 years, Boone County Hos-pital is changing its name and mak-ing Centralia the home for the hospi-tal's first outside clinic. Today, the hospital becomes Boone Hospital Center. The hospital Board of Trustees voted Monday to adopt the new name in recognition of the hospital's changing role. Patsy Moore, hospital director of community affairs, said the board may make the change since the state charter for the hospital does not stip-ulate the facility's name. " It's very heavy on a trustee to change tradition," board Chairman Jack Estes said. " But we feel this better identifies the hospital as a center of health care than just ' a county hospital.' " Hospital Administrator Max Poll said he thinks the time is right for the name change. " It recognizes the community education center we have become, the addition of the new facilities and certainly ( the hospital) as a referral center." The board also voted to buy a building in Centralia in which to es tablish a general medicine clinic. The clinic will be operated by the hospital and staffed by hospital per-sonnel. Poll said details have not been worked out, but tentative plans call for the clinic to be open seven days a week and staffed by one or two phy-sicians. " In the past six months, we have received a lot of conversation from the citizens of Centralia with con-cern about having physicians," Poll said. " The requests from the city have reached a crescendo." Centralia has been concerned about attracting and keeping physi-cians, Poll said. " We can help in the big area they have trouble with physician recruitment." The hospital administration said it hopes to open the clinic by the end of October. The board also approved a request from the hospital administration to obtain bids on a proposed 15,000- square- fo- ot ( 1,350- square- met- er) warehouse with 1,750 square feet ( 157.5 square meters) of attached of-fice and freezer space. The ware-house would be built on a site away from the hospital. Liability suits alarm municipal workers left ' unprotected9 By Gordon Lee Missourian staff writer Two years after leaving his job, Gary McConnell still pays for the privilege of being a Boone County employee. Periodically, McConnell, a third- ye- ar law student at the University, interrupts his studies and goes to federal district court in St. Louis. But McConnell's trips to court have nothing to do with his law studies. He and his attorney are there at the be-hest of the judge. McConnell, a former investigator in the Boone County prosecutor's of-fice, is a defendant in a personal lia-- Insight-- bility suit brought against him in 1977, when he was a county employ-ee. Melvin Leroy Tyler, now in the Missouri State Penitentiary for rape and armed robbery, charged that McConnell and several other law en-forcement officials violated his civil rights during the investigation that led to his conviction. Although this suit was filed several years ago, it is just now coining before the courts. Because the suit is against McCon-nell nprsnnallv. rather than against the city or county, neither Columbia, on whose cases McConnell worked, nor Boone County, has any responsi-bility for helping in his defense or paying court costs. While there are no definite statis-tics on the number of lawsuits filed against government employees na-tionwide, public officials express alarm at the rising number of law-suits aimed at them. " More and more actions against governments have appeared during the past five years," Columbia City J Counselor Scott Snyder says. " Whole ' new worlds of liability have opened up." Most cities are protected from f. suits that name the municipality as If- - a defendant, and many give protec- - to higher officials and adminis--- i. trative managers through personal liability insurance. Protection for ition k - other workers, however, is not so widespread. Police officers in many cities, for instance, are not protected against personal liability suits. Because the doctrine of " sover-eign immunity" protects govern-ments from many legal actions, law-suits aimed at individual employees have gained in popularity. Many cities, on moral and ethical grounds, shy away from providing blanket liability coverage for all em-ployees, Snyder says. " Personal lia-bility suits pose real ethical and rep-resentational problems for me. How can I represent both the city and the employee?" Snyder says employer and worker interests may diverge during liabili-ty cases. For example, in a lawsuit alleging racial discrimination, the city would not want to be known as a defender of discrimination, Snyder says. City policies stress non- discriminat- ory employee behavior, but if liability protection were provided, the city might find itself defending illegality. " We don't want to defend people for breaking the law," Snyder says. David Burch, a lecturer in politi-cal science at the University, is con-ducting a study of personal liability suits against Missouri government employees. He says some govern-ments whose employees are sued choose, as a matter of policy, to pay defense costs. Others decide on a case- by- ca- se basis. Some have a blanket policy of not becoming involved in any suits whatsoever. Columbia provides personal liabil-ity coverage for its employees as long as they are acting within the scope of their jobs, says Finance Di-rector Harold Boldt. But determin-ing the legal scope of certain jobs can be difficult. " There are lots of gray areas in terms of police procedures," Boldt says. Gary McConnell's predicament is similarly gray. As a former county employee involved in a liability suit, his out- of- poc- ket defense costs are mounting. Under current proce-dures, McConnell's former employer has no obligation to aid in his de-fense. liBIHBIBHtBH " i"'" '. 9u9Bi9SB6HBi9DBffiSlnD9flHSEBBHmf3B'S Listening to Katharine Gunnell, 217 Elliot Drive, address the Boone Coun- - ty Home Rule Charter Commission is commissioner Paul Sturgeon. Executive role in home rule is questioned ByCurtVosti Missourian staff writer The Boone County Home Rule Commission Monday heard praise at its first public hearing on the proposed home rule charter, but citizens also expressed concern about the role of the county executive in the plan. More than 50 people attended the meeting, the first of 11 around the county to elicit public reaction on the proposal to restructure county government. Next spring, county voters will have the final say on whether home rule is adopted. Under the proposal, the county executive is elected at- lar- ge and would not have a seat on the seven- memb- er county commission. The executive also would " nave no veto power over commission decisions. Jim Cook, 105 Westwood Ave., told the charter commis-sion that the executive should be brought into the county commission as an at- lar- ge member. " What you have done by taking the chief elective officer out of the legislative process is to create an elected city manager," he told the commission. The issue of county executive will be troublesome." Donald Scruggs, 1913 Vassar Drive, questioned the lack of executive veto power, telling the commission its propos-al will remove " traditional power" given such executives. Commission Chairwoman Rhonda Thomas said the veto power was withheld because the commission wanted to avoid giving a single official an inordinate amount of power. Bruce Gloria, Route 3, advised commission members that they had not gone far enough in modifying the existing structure of county government. " It seems to me what you're offering the voters is nei-ther fish nor fowl," he said. " There is too much of the pre-sent system and not enough home rule to giver the voters a choice." County Court Presiding Judge Bill Freeh affirmed his support of the home rule concept but repeated his conten-tion that the executive should be brought into the new com-mission. " The most important thing home rule can do for the county is to give the people the greatest amount of free-dom of choice in their government and provide a system that will challenge and attract people," Freeh said. The commission's next hearings will be at 7: 30 p. m. Thursday in Centralia, Hartsburg, Rocheport and at Blue Ridge Elementary School in Columbia. 4Quiet Monday' Columbia's brokerage houses had a quiet day Monday while their coun-terparts in New York and other cit-ies went wild. Trading activity here appeared to be about average as local brokers watched the ticker tapes record steep drops, only to rocket skyward later in the day. " The market was volatile, the most I've ever seen," observed Wil-liam Bayer, a broker for Newhard, Cook & Co., 10 N. Garth St. At Edward D. Jones Co., 907 E. Broadway, broker Tom Baumgardn- e- r was not surprised to see Ameri-can markets defy a predicted slump. " There are just too many bar-gains," Baumgardner said. " The market has been down for days and days. Now people are stepping in to buy up those good stocks." Baumgardner said he detected no fear, panic or excessive selling among his clients. " We had an inor-dinate number of calls, but they were mostly out of curiosity." EPA budget threatened by cuts New York Times WASHINGTON The Reagan ad-ministration is seeking to slash the staff size and operating budget of the Environmental Protection Agency by more than 30 percent over the next two fiscal years. The proposed move has led some civil servants in the agency to question its ability to carry out tasks mandated by Con-gress. The cuts in money and personnel would come at a time when the agen-cy's workload is increasing at a rap-id rate because of programs enacted by Congress, including the new Su- - perf und to clean up hazardous wast-es across the country and the broad effort to protect human health from their toxic chemicals, including the cleanup of drinking water. Byron Nelson, chief spokesman for the " environmental agency and now on a trip through the West with EPA administrator Anne M. Gorsuch, said of the proposed budget and per-sonnel cuts: " We must emphasize that all of the figures are very preliminary. The administrator has not signed off on some of them or even seen some of them. " We along with other units of gov ernment, except Defense, have been asked -- to examine alternatives for the next two fiscal years to help meet the president's goal of a bal-anced budget and we are requested to work within those percentage fig-ures. There is still waste within this agency that can be eliminated with-out impeding progress toward the nation's environmental goals." Morgan Kinghcm, EPA comptrol-ler, said the agency had received a notice from the Office of Manage-ment and Budget that it was to make the additional 12 percent budget cuts proposed by the president last week for the fiscal year starting Thurs-day. Kinghorn said he did not know how the cut would be applied. '-- We do not know what further cuts will occur beyond the proposed 12 percent," he said. Suzanne Weise, director of press service for the EPA, said the agency had not received any notice of a re-duction in its force of civil service employees. She said, however, that " a sizable number of cutbacks in personnel are anticipated in the ( See EPA, Page 8A) ln wia today 7 p. m. Workshop on college entryre- entr- y, sponsored by the University Career Plan-ning and Placement Center, 110 Noyes Building, free. 7: 30 p. m. County Court meets, court chambers, fifth floor, County- Cit- y Building. Index Business 7A Classified 5- 8- B Comics 6B Opinion 4A People 5A Sports 7- 9- A Weather 2A Gotelro Fulton farmer corners escapee By Michael Nahrstedt Missourian staff writer FULTON A 76- year-- old Fulton man Monday captured a convicted murderer who had climbed two bar-bed wire fences to escape from Ful-ton State Hospital's maximum secu-rity unit 14 hours earlier. Timothy Cason, 21, became the first patient to escape from the hos-pital in 14 years, said Mike Benzen, hospital assistant superintendent. Cason, whom Benzen described as " extremely dangerous," was re-turned to the maximum security unit Monday afternoon. Leo Chapman said he had been fishing near his farm when passers- b- y alerted him to Cason's escape. He said he grabbed his automatic rifle from his house and soon spotted a J man walking toward his barn. Chap man said that when Cason saw him, he ran into some bushes. Chapman fired three shots toward the bushes, which was enough to make the man return to the road. " I made him lie down in the road, spread- eagl- e, and held the gun on him," Chapman said. Within five minutes, about 30 cars carrying local law enforcement offi-cers arrived to take Cason to the Cal-laway County Sheriffs Department. Officials said Cason escaped about 1: 15 a. m. Monday and was captured about 3: 15 p. m. Benzen said Cason had to climb two 8- fo- ot ( 2.4- mete- r) chain link fences topped with barbed wire and wrapped with another razor- shar- p wire to escape the Biggs unit, where the hospital's most dangerous pa-tients are confined. " It's hard to believe that a man could've gotten through there," Ben-zen said. " Apparently we had Spi- derm- an incarcerated here." " Walkaways' patients with grounds passes who leave the hospi-tal are a frequent problem at the hospital, but " this is the first one in 14 years that can be termed an es-cape," he said. Cason had been transferred to the hospital about six weeks ago from the Missouri State Penitentiary, where he had been sentenced to serve life in prison for murder. Chapman said he has been trou-bled by walkaways from the hospital for years, including an incident in which an escapee shoved a rifle in his face and threatened to steal his wife. " It's getting to be a nuisance," he said.
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Item.Transcript | 74th Year - No. 13 Good Morning! Ks Tuesday. September 29. 1981 2 Sections - 14 Pages 25 Cents U. S. market rallies; world losses heavy NEW YORK ( UPI) - U. S. stock prices staged their biggest advance in six months Monday as market guru Joseph Granville's forecast of a " blue Monday" on Wall Street back-fired into a major rally. Most world markets, however, buckled under tumultuous selling triggered by the prediction that Monday would be one of the gloo-miest days in U. S. financial history. Interest rate and recession fears also weighed heavily on foreign equi-ty markets. The London stock market closed with some of the heaviest losses in its history in frantic trading. The normally stable Tokyo stock ex-change, where 600 million shares are traded daily, sustained the biggest drop on record for a single session. Stocks also skidded in Paris, Hong Kong and Sydney. But a late- sessi- on buying spree on the Toronto ex-change swept away earlier losses and pushed stocks sharply higher. The Dow Jones industrial average, which represents 25 percent of the value of all stocks on the New York Stock Exchange, surged 18.55 to 842.56 at the close after plummeting almost 15 points in the first hour of trading. It was the Dow's largest gain since the blue chip indicator rose 19.09 points March 25. Turnover on the NYSE was the busiest in 216 months. Analysts said some of the buying surfaced on U. S. markets about noon, when 443 top- not- ch stocks were selling at their lowest levels this year. Gold dropped $ 23.50 an ounce ( 26 grams) in London in the face of ru-mors that interest rates would rise, but bounced back in New York. The U. S. dollar strengthened abroad but tumbled in New York. Last week Granville, who was on a European tour, issued a gloomy outlook for world stock markets and on Friday forecast the " blue Monday." Some panelists on the widely fol-lowed " Wall Street Week" television show said Granville's statements in Europe were " like hitting a person on crutches with a baseball bat." That was in reference to the fact the market already is on the skids. Prior to last week, the closely followed Dow average had fallen 170 points since mid- Jun- e. When asked about Granville's pre-diction. Budget Director David Stockman said on Monday's ABC's " Good Morning America": " One day doesn't make a trend and we're going to have to wait and see." The Financial Times index of 30 Industrials on the London exchange plummeted 29.4 points to stand at 445.3 by the afternoon. The decline was the worst in Lon-don since March 1, 1974, when the in-dex fell 32.8 points as the market opened and another 25.5 points with-in 30 minutes when it became appar-ent then Prime Minister Edward ( See ORDERS, Page 8A) Mew nsone Beginning today, county hospital is called Boone Hospital Center By Anne Voegtlin Missourian staff writer After 60 years, Boone County Hos-pital is changing its name and mak-ing Centralia the home for the hospi-tal's first outside clinic. Today, the hospital becomes Boone Hospital Center. The hospital Board of Trustees voted Monday to adopt the new name in recognition of the hospital's changing role. Patsy Moore, hospital director of community affairs, said the board may make the change since the state charter for the hospital does not stip-ulate the facility's name. " It's very heavy on a trustee to change tradition," board Chairman Jack Estes said. " But we feel this better identifies the hospital as a center of health care than just ' a county hospital.' " Hospital Administrator Max Poll said he thinks the time is right for the name change. " It recognizes the community education center we have become, the addition of the new facilities and certainly ( the hospital) as a referral center." The board also voted to buy a building in Centralia in which to es tablish a general medicine clinic. The clinic will be operated by the hospital and staffed by hospital per-sonnel. Poll said details have not been worked out, but tentative plans call for the clinic to be open seven days a week and staffed by one or two phy-sicians. " In the past six months, we have received a lot of conversation from the citizens of Centralia with con-cern about having physicians," Poll said. " The requests from the city have reached a crescendo." Centralia has been concerned about attracting and keeping physi-cians, Poll said. " We can help in the big area they have trouble with physician recruitment." The hospital administration said it hopes to open the clinic by the end of October. The board also approved a request from the hospital administration to obtain bids on a proposed 15,000- square- fo- ot ( 1,350- square- met- er) warehouse with 1,750 square feet ( 157.5 square meters) of attached of-fice and freezer space. The ware-house would be built on a site away from the hospital. Liability suits alarm municipal workers left ' unprotected9 By Gordon Lee Missourian staff writer Two years after leaving his job, Gary McConnell still pays for the privilege of being a Boone County employee. Periodically, McConnell, a third- ye- ar law student at the University, interrupts his studies and goes to federal district court in St. Louis. But McConnell's trips to court have nothing to do with his law studies. He and his attorney are there at the be-hest of the judge. McConnell, a former investigator in the Boone County prosecutor's of-fice, is a defendant in a personal lia-- Insight-- bility suit brought against him in 1977, when he was a county employ-ee. Melvin Leroy Tyler, now in the Missouri State Penitentiary for rape and armed robbery, charged that McConnell and several other law en-forcement officials violated his civil rights during the investigation that led to his conviction. Although this suit was filed several years ago, it is just now coining before the courts. Because the suit is against McCon-nell nprsnnallv. rather than against the city or county, neither Columbia, on whose cases McConnell worked, nor Boone County, has any responsi-bility for helping in his defense or paying court costs. While there are no definite statis-tics on the number of lawsuits filed against government employees na-tionwide, public officials express alarm at the rising number of law-suits aimed at them. " More and more actions against governments have appeared during the past five years," Columbia City J Counselor Scott Snyder says. " Whole ' new worlds of liability have opened up." Most cities are protected from f. suits that name the municipality as If- - a defendant, and many give protec- - to higher officials and adminis--- i. trative managers through personal liability insurance. Protection for ition k - other workers, however, is not so widespread. Police officers in many cities, for instance, are not protected against personal liability suits. Because the doctrine of " sover-eign immunity" protects govern-ments from many legal actions, law-suits aimed at individual employees have gained in popularity. Many cities, on moral and ethical grounds, shy away from providing blanket liability coverage for all em-ployees, Snyder says. " Personal lia-bility suits pose real ethical and rep-resentational problems for me. How can I represent both the city and the employee?" Snyder says employer and worker interests may diverge during liabili-ty cases. For example, in a lawsuit alleging racial discrimination, the city would not want to be known as a defender of discrimination, Snyder says. City policies stress non- discriminat- ory employee behavior, but if liability protection were provided, the city might find itself defending illegality. " We don't want to defend people for breaking the law," Snyder says. David Burch, a lecturer in politi-cal science at the University, is con-ducting a study of personal liability suits against Missouri government employees. He says some govern-ments whose employees are sued choose, as a matter of policy, to pay defense costs. Others decide on a case- by- ca- se basis. Some have a blanket policy of not becoming involved in any suits whatsoever. Columbia provides personal liabil-ity coverage for its employees as long as they are acting within the scope of their jobs, says Finance Di-rector Harold Boldt. But determin-ing the legal scope of certain jobs can be difficult. " There are lots of gray areas in terms of police procedures," Boldt says. Gary McConnell's predicament is similarly gray. As a former county employee involved in a liability suit, his out- of- poc- ket defense costs are mounting. Under current proce-dures, McConnell's former employer has no obligation to aid in his de-fense. liBIHBIBHtBH " i"'" '. 9u9Bi9SB6HBi9DBffiSlnD9flHSEBBHmf3B'S Listening to Katharine Gunnell, 217 Elliot Drive, address the Boone Coun- - ty Home Rule Charter Commission is commissioner Paul Sturgeon. Executive role in home rule is questioned ByCurtVosti Missourian staff writer The Boone County Home Rule Commission Monday heard praise at its first public hearing on the proposed home rule charter, but citizens also expressed concern about the role of the county executive in the plan. More than 50 people attended the meeting, the first of 11 around the county to elicit public reaction on the proposal to restructure county government. Next spring, county voters will have the final say on whether home rule is adopted. Under the proposal, the county executive is elected at- lar- ge and would not have a seat on the seven- memb- er county commission. The executive also would " nave no veto power over commission decisions. Jim Cook, 105 Westwood Ave., told the charter commis-sion that the executive should be brought into the county commission as an at- lar- ge member. " What you have done by taking the chief elective officer out of the legislative process is to create an elected city manager," he told the commission. The issue of county executive will be troublesome." Donald Scruggs, 1913 Vassar Drive, questioned the lack of executive veto power, telling the commission its propos-al will remove " traditional power" given such executives. Commission Chairwoman Rhonda Thomas said the veto power was withheld because the commission wanted to avoid giving a single official an inordinate amount of power. Bruce Gloria, Route 3, advised commission members that they had not gone far enough in modifying the existing structure of county government. " It seems to me what you're offering the voters is nei-ther fish nor fowl," he said. " There is too much of the pre-sent system and not enough home rule to giver the voters a choice." County Court Presiding Judge Bill Freeh affirmed his support of the home rule concept but repeated his conten-tion that the executive should be brought into the new com-mission. " The most important thing home rule can do for the county is to give the people the greatest amount of free-dom of choice in their government and provide a system that will challenge and attract people," Freeh said. The commission's next hearings will be at 7: 30 p. m. Thursday in Centralia, Hartsburg, Rocheport and at Blue Ridge Elementary School in Columbia. 4Quiet Monday' Columbia's brokerage houses had a quiet day Monday while their coun-terparts in New York and other cit-ies went wild. Trading activity here appeared to be about average as local brokers watched the ticker tapes record steep drops, only to rocket skyward later in the day. " The market was volatile, the most I've ever seen," observed Wil-liam Bayer, a broker for Newhard, Cook & Co., 10 N. Garth St. At Edward D. Jones Co., 907 E. Broadway, broker Tom Baumgardn- e- r was not surprised to see Ameri-can markets defy a predicted slump. " There are just too many bar-gains," Baumgardner said. " The market has been down for days and days. Now people are stepping in to buy up those good stocks." Baumgardner said he detected no fear, panic or excessive selling among his clients. " We had an inor-dinate number of calls, but they were mostly out of curiosity." EPA budget threatened by cuts New York Times WASHINGTON The Reagan ad-ministration is seeking to slash the staff size and operating budget of the Environmental Protection Agency by more than 30 percent over the next two fiscal years. The proposed move has led some civil servants in the agency to question its ability to carry out tasks mandated by Con-gress. The cuts in money and personnel would come at a time when the agen-cy's workload is increasing at a rap-id rate because of programs enacted by Congress, including the new Su- - perf und to clean up hazardous wast-es across the country and the broad effort to protect human health from their toxic chemicals, including the cleanup of drinking water. Byron Nelson, chief spokesman for the " environmental agency and now on a trip through the West with EPA administrator Anne M. Gorsuch, said of the proposed budget and per-sonnel cuts: " We must emphasize that all of the figures are very preliminary. The administrator has not signed off on some of them or even seen some of them. " We along with other units of gov ernment, except Defense, have been asked -- to examine alternatives for the next two fiscal years to help meet the president's goal of a bal-anced budget and we are requested to work within those percentage fig-ures. There is still waste within this agency that can be eliminated with-out impeding progress toward the nation's environmental goals." Morgan Kinghcm, EPA comptrol-ler, said the agency had received a notice from the Office of Manage-ment and Budget that it was to make the additional 12 percent budget cuts proposed by the president last week for the fiscal year starting Thurs-day. Kinghorn said he did not know how the cut would be applied. '-- We do not know what further cuts will occur beyond the proposed 12 percent," he said. Suzanne Weise, director of press service for the EPA, said the agency had not received any notice of a re-duction in its force of civil service employees. She said, however, that " a sizable number of cutbacks in personnel are anticipated in the ( See EPA, Page 8A) ln wia today 7 p. m. Workshop on college entryre- entr- y, sponsored by the University Career Plan-ning and Placement Center, 110 Noyes Building, free. 7: 30 p. m. County Court meets, court chambers, fifth floor, County- Cit- y Building. Index Business 7A Classified 5- 8- B Comics 6B Opinion 4A People 5A Sports 7- 9- A Weather 2A Gotelro Fulton farmer corners escapee By Michael Nahrstedt Missourian staff writer FULTON A 76- year-- old Fulton man Monday captured a convicted murderer who had climbed two bar-bed wire fences to escape from Ful-ton State Hospital's maximum secu-rity unit 14 hours earlier. Timothy Cason, 21, became the first patient to escape from the hos-pital in 14 years, said Mike Benzen, hospital assistant superintendent. Cason, whom Benzen described as " extremely dangerous," was re-turned to the maximum security unit Monday afternoon. Leo Chapman said he had been fishing near his farm when passers- b- y alerted him to Cason's escape. He said he grabbed his automatic rifle from his house and soon spotted a J man walking toward his barn. Chap man said that when Cason saw him, he ran into some bushes. Chapman fired three shots toward the bushes, which was enough to make the man return to the road. " I made him lie down in the road, spread- eagl- e, and held the gun on him," Chapman said. Within five minutes, about 30 cars carrying local law enforcement offi-cers arrived to take Cason to the Cal-laway County Sheriffs Department. Officials said Cason escaped about 1: 15 a. m. Monday and was captured about 3: 15 p. m. Benzen said Cason had to climb two 8- fo- ot ( 2.4- mete- r) chain link fences topped with barbed wire and wrapped with another razor- shar- p wire to escape the Biggs unit, where the hospital's most dangerous pa-tients are confined. " It's hard to believe that a man could've gotten through there," Ben-zen said. " Apparently we had Spi- derm- an incarcerated here." " Walkaways' patients with grounds passes who leave the hospi-tal are a frequent problem at the hospital, but " this is the first one in 14 years that can be termed an es-cape," he said. Cason had been transferred to the hospital about six weeks ago from the Missouri State Penitentiary, where he had been sentenced to serve life in prison for murder. Chapman said he has been trou-bled by walkaways from the hospital for years, including an incident in which an escapee shoved a rifle in his face and threatened to steal his wife. " It's getting to be a nuisance," he said. |