Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1981-10-08

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74th Year No. 21 Good llorninp! It Thursday. October. I MP, I 2 Sections 16 Page 25 Cents
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Frances Payne surveys the cu4 hedge along her pasture fence aw
Woman ired;
county cutter
gobbles trees
ByCurtVosti
Missoorian staff writer
Mrs. Frances Payne took a customary drive
around her farm Tuesday and discovered an
odd scene: all three Boone County Court judges
watching a crew mow the tops from roadside ce-dar
and elm trees some of them hers.
The judges were watching a demonstration of
a new " brush hog," a tractor- typ- e machine that
makes quick work of brush and trees. The coun-ty
is considering buying the hog and had
brought it to the Akeman Bridge Road location
foratestrun.
Mrs. Payne was not amused. She confronted
Presidiag Judge Bill Freeh and obtained assur-ances
the mess would be cleaned up. Wednes-day,
county trucks were on the scene to haul
away the debris.
" I can see than cleaning out the right of way,
but I can see no reason for this vandalism of
chopping down tops pf trees," she said later as
she surveyed the one- eighth- m- ile ( one- fifth- kilo- me- ter)
stretch of devastated brush. " There is
no reason for them to take that violent nytrhtn
and do that in the name of neatness."
Bob Hagerty, county public works superinten-dent,
said the demonstration bad been aimed
only at trees in the public right- of- wa- y. But he
County highway department workers clean up after a day of cutting
added boundaries are sometimes indistinct
" Basically, what we were looking at is some-thing
that can do the job better than what we
have now," he said Hagerty explained that the
county's right of way stretches from fence to
fence, and often it is hard to distinguish prop-erty
lines when several trees are wrapped
around property fences.
Northern District Judge Dick Farmer said the
court may have erred by not contacting Mrs
Payne before the demonstration
" I admit that, as a matter oi course, Mrs
Payne should have been contacted he said
" But practicall speaking the county cannot
contact everyone who has property next to
brush we are cutting "
Does Mrs Payne intend o let the matter
rest' Probably so, but she muses I think I U
go to Freeh's farm and tell him Ie got some
machinery I d like to test out on rus property "
In search of medical industries
ByAdrfeaaReyngi
Missasrian staff writer
Assistant City Manager Robert Black's at-tempts
to attract medical industries to Columbia
may prove successful if the University can nego-tiate
the final details of a research contract with
an electro- medic- al company.
The contract, which could bring as much as $ 20
million ddlars to the city over the next several
years, would involve the University School of
Methane, the College of Engineering and the com-pany,
which Black has declined to name.
Black began recruiting medical industries to
Colombia in August when be mailed 6,500 letters
signed by University Chancellor Barbara Uehling
to nyd'ral industries nationwide. The letters were
the result of more than a year's work by Black in
cooperation with the University and area hospi-tals.
Black plans a second mailing of 10,000 letters
in November and a third mailing in August. He
said the first mailing indicates there is serious ln- -
Insiglit
terest by at least two medical companies in mov-ing
to Columbia.
The letter invites representatives of medical
companies to visit Columbia for a football week-end,
offering two free tickets to a University foot-ball
game and a chance to see what the medical
and engineering schools, the city's five hospitals
and Columbia have to offer medical companies
" The games are part of an advertising gimmick
to attract the companies. If the companies are se-riously
interested, we encourage them to come
back a second tune to talk business," Black said.
The tickets and the cost of the mailing have
been paid for by the city.
The letter states other resources Columbia has
to offer businesses. " Your product testing," it
states, " can be done in one of five accredited hos-pitals
totaling more than 1 .700 beds ' '
The letter mentions the city s central distribut-ing
location, its skilled worK force, state income
tax credits for capital lm estments and each em-ployee,
and one of the lowest corporate income
taxes in the nation
About 45 to 50 firms, or less than 1 percent of
those contacted have responded to the mailings,
Black said.
Three responding companies are larse medical
concerns, but most ha, e on sir - I s are most
medical companies B'ack -- a i
So far, five medica1 torroary representatives
have visited Columbia Two attended a brunch at
Dr Uehung's home Sept 12 Max Poll, adminis-trator
of the Boone Hospital Center, hosted the
representatives Tom Collins, associate vice pres-ident
at the University and June Dodd, executive
director of the Columbia Chamber of Commerce,
have also hosted represents t; -- s
Black said it could be three or four -- ears before
( See INSTITUTE, Page 8A
Civil war brewing in Fayette
as mayor9 council scpiare off
By Bcasa Carman
BSsHsariaB staff writer
FAYETTE Call it Fayettegate.
Aldermen here are considering
toppling the mayor's salary now
among the nation's highest for a
snail- tow- n public official and
stripping bim of binng and firing
prrvacges. The mayor says alder-men
are angry because his shoe
store recently went bankrupt- - He ac-cuses
them of meeting improperly
bdsnd closed doors to plot against
Aldermen deny his charges. Yet
msaite for the past five closed ses- S0- BS
are nussmg, says Mayor larry
arpWi. " Those meetings centered on
fijs salary of the mayor cf Fayette
fcbteno."
The isssss is coder icvesuganon oy
Police Cbigf Tcan McMillan.
At a Tteesslsy meeting. Alderman
JcsegsSi Turoar introduced an ordi- n& s- ce
that would cut Smith's annual
salary from $ 18,000 to $ 3,000 and re-duce
the position from full- tim- e to
part- tun- e. It also calls for the cre-ation
of a new position full- tun- e
city administrator to handle day- to- d- ay
administrative chores.
The ordinance would not become
effective until April 1382, at the con-clusion
of Smith's term, but he is
convinced the action is aimed at
turn. Smith, who denies the action
was due to malfeasance of office,
claims he has become a panah since
he and bis Fayette shoe store went
bankrupt last week
Smith filed for personal bankrupt-cy
in ILS. Bankruptcy Court at Kan-sas
City, Mo , Aug. 28, the last day
Fayette Shoe Store was open for
business. The bankruptcy was for-malized
Sept. 23- -
AMermcn tabled Turner's propos-al
until their nest meeting Oct. 20,
but endorsed the second round of ar-tillery
against the mayor. A proposal
by Alderman Robert Stewart that
the council review the mayor's deci-sions
involving hiring and firing of
city employees was unanimously ap-proved.
" I didn't have to shut down, but I
thought it was morally right," says
Smith of his decision to close bis
store on the date he filed for bank-ruptcy.
Smith could have kept the
store open until the bankruptcy was
formalized, but he says any income
the store generated in the interim
would not have been subject to con-fiscation
to pay the debts of the
store. The money would have been
his alone
"' I have 11 years of my life bed up
there, and it's like losing my own
kid," he says, adding that the store's
annual income dropped $ 40,000 since
he became mayor, making bank-ruptcy
inevitable
He blames the decline in revenue
on his duties as mayor. " People
( See FAYETTE, Page 8A)
lei town
today
9: 38 a m Giant' Court meets,
court chamoers, futn floor, County- C-ity
Building
7 p. m. US National Volleyball
team plavs Peru in an exhibition
game at Hearr. es Center Tickets
are $ 4 for the general oublic and $ 3
for UMC students
8 p. m. University Philharmonic
in Jesse Auditorium, program in-cludes
works by Rossini, Dvorak,
Bizet and Ravel, open to the public
and free
Mies
Business 6A
Classified 4-- SB
Opimcsa 4A
I Sports 1- 3- B
Weather 2A
Board to urge
Fischel, cancer
center merger
By Kevin O'Brien
Missourian staff writer
Ellis Fischel State Cancer Hosp-ital's
advisory board today will rec-ommend
that the hospital enter a
formal affiliation with its neighbor,
the non- prof- it Cancer Research Cen-ter,
to form a " cancer institute "
Board chairman Dr. Joseph Grana
said Wednesday the proposal would
transfer considerable authority from
the hospital to the nearby center, al-lowing
it to direct 1he hospital's re-search
operations
The board is expected to present
its recommendation to a blue- ribbo- n
task force which is in Columbia this
week to evaluate the hospital, trou-bled
by staff snortages and falling
patient numbers. Grana said the
proposal also will go to Gov Christo-pher
Bond.
" Elhs Fischel needs the research
center," Grana said " A cancer insti-tute
would be able to provide Colum-bia
with an extraordinary and more
elite type of treatment than other
communities can provide "
The board's plan contrasts with a
confidential study by the State Audi-tor's
Office recommending essen-tially
the opposite approach. Con-ducted
in 1975 when the state was m
better financial health, the auditor's
report recommended that the hospi-tal
become the dominant partner in
a joint relationship with the research
center.
The auditor's report recommend-ed
that the cancer hospital, not the
center, become the focus for state
cancer research. Under the arrange-ment,
the new entity could apply for
federal and pnvate money, as well
as state funds
The report also recommended a
cooperative effort among all parties
involved, with a final goal of dissolv-ing
the Cancer Research Center and
making the facility a part of Ellis
F ischel State Cancer Hospital '
The board proposal to be pre-sented
today gives the leadership
role to the renter but retains btate
funding for the hospital Federal and
pnvate money also would be sought
to support the new institute
The plan would emphasize ne?
cancer treatment and research tern- mqu- es
geared to making the insti-tute
a financially self- supporti- ng en-terprise
According to Ben
Papermaster, research center scien-tific
director and author of the plan
the proposal is geared to attract in-dustries
involved in the biological
sciences Through liaison with the
institute, the industries would locate
their operations on the hospital's 40- ac- re
campus
Under the proposal the cancer in-stitute
would be run by a governing
board, the head of which would be a
research center physician, Grana
said The institute would continue to
receive state funding, but as a non-profit
entity, the center also would
continue to qualify for grant money
and private donations
Control of the hospital would effec-tively
be removed from state hands
The proposed transfer would shift
administrative reponsibility from
the state Division of Health to the
board of directors, which would be
( See M. U., Page 8A)
Successor to Sadat
nominated; assassins
' Moslem fanatics'
CAIRO, Egypt ( UPI) The Egyp-tian
parliament nominated Vice
President Hosru Mubarak Wednes-day
to succeed President Anwar Sa-dat,
and Sadat's assassins were
identified as " Moslem fanatics" a
military officer and three civilians
There was no evidence of a foreign
plot, the government said.
" These traitors do not belong to
any organization within the armed
forces," Defense Minister Gen. Ab- d- el
Halim Abu Ghazala said in an in-terview
with the Egyptian newspa-per
AlAkhbar.
He said " the four ( assassins) in-clude
one lieutenant, named Khaled
The three others are civilians, two of
them former conscripts and the
third a discharged reservist offi- c- er
The killers, all wearing military
uniforms, jumped out of an army
truck and rushed Sadat, who was re-viewing
a parade to mark the Octo-ber,
1973 war against Israel It was
the first tune that an Egyptian offi-cial
identified any of the assassins as
civilians
In the same newspaper, Maj. Gen.
Mahmoud El- Mas- n, commander of
the Republican Guard charged with
protecting Sadat, said Khaled's
brother was arrested in the recent
incidents'" referring to Sadat's
September dampdown on govern-ment
opponents, including Moslem
fundamentalists
In Parliament, Abu- Ghaza- la said
the four assassins were Moslem fa-natics
acting without the support of
the Egyptian array or foreign coun-tries
Presidential photographer Mo-hammed
Rashwan died Wednesday,
raising to six the number of those
killed in addition to Sadat Thirty --
eight others were wounded
As parliament met to confirm Mu-barak
as Egypt's next president by a
vote of 330-- 0, official after official eu-logized
Sadat, weeping through their
speeches
Mubarak later sent a letter to par-liament
in which he accepted the
parliamentary nomination and in an
interview with reporters, and pledg-ed
to honor all of Sadat's internation-al
policies
" We will honor all international
commitments, the Camp David
framework, the peace treaty with Is-rael
and the normalization process,"
he said.
' We will continue normalization in
the same steps which President Sa-dat
had decided,'" Mubarak said
" There will be no return backward
There will be a plebiscite Tuesday
in which voters are expected to ap-prove
Mubarak overwhelmingly
Deputy Premier Fuad Mohieddin
( See SADAT, Page 8A )
Moving and shaking
The folks who annually bring
you a pancake breakfast are
bnngmg you newspapers today.
Columbia's Cosmopolitan clubs,
along with a number of prominent
area residents, are moving from
the skillets to the sidewalks to
hawk newspapers in the third an-nual
Movers and Shakers Day
Participants in the event, spon-sored
by the Columbia Missourian
each October, seek to raise money
for a project that will benefit the
community. The focus of this
year's drive is the clubs' proposed
national diabetes center, to be
built in conjunction with the Uni-versity
Health Sciences Center on
the University campus m 1S32.
Individuals who buy today's Mis-sourian
from a " mover and shak-er"
stationed on a downtown street
comer will receive an additional,
four- pag- e " wrap- around- " section
explaining the fund drive and
plans for the diabetes center.
Cosmopolitan International has
raised $ 250,080 nationwide for the
center. Mov ers and Shakers Day is
only one facet of the clubs' contin-uous
efforts to raise the $ 840,000
needed to build the center.
Friday, Stephens College Play-house
will present a special benefit
performance of the musical,
" Gypsy;" part of the proceeds
from the performance will go to
the diabetes center
The play will be at 7 30 p m at
Stephens Auditorium. Special ben-efit
tickets are available for $ 20,
with $ 16 of that tax- deducti- ble In-formation
and tickets are avail-able
from Mrs A. S Artlevat443- 716- 4.
Individuals with the special ben-- I
efit tickets are invited to a wine I
and cheese party at the home of 1
Stephens President and Mrs Ar- - i
land Cbnst- Jane- r after the per--
formance. B
Beginning Wednesday, the Cos-- 1
mopoiitan clubs also will hold I
Dingo games at 7 pjn. every
Wednesday at the Flaming Pit 1
Restaurant J