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74th Year - No. 44 Good Morning! Its Wedneda. November 4. 1981 7 Section - 7 I las 25 Cents City retains its deposit law By Paul Keep, Gordon Lee and Jean Dubail , Missourian staff writers Columbia Tuesday became the first city in the country to pass a bev-erage container deposit law twice. On Jan. 5, Columbia will become the first city m the country to enforce de-posit law, assuming enforcement oc-curs as scheduled. An effort to repeal the law, first approved in 1977, fell short by 226 votes. Although the ordinance sur-vived the repeal attempt, its margin of approval declined. In 1977 it was approved 54 to 46 percent, while Tuesday 51 percent voted against re-peal and 49 percent opposed the law. A total of 5,731 supported the law, while 5,505 votes favored repealing it Turnout was greater than antic-ipated because " both campaigns were so enthusiastic," said Boone County Clerk Chris Kelly. Despite predictions of a 28 percent turnout, 38 percent of the city's registered voters cast ballots. David Thelen, who led the Colum-bians Against Throwaways, express-ed satisfaction with the outcome. " The law will work well. It will take a lot of cooperation on the part of all Columbians Our group is eager to help with the transition." Bill Woodward, owner and general manager of Devme Distributing Inc , expressed dissatisfaction with the election's close outcome. " I wish it had been a wider margin of victory one way or the other so that one side had a clear mandate. " Compliance is still two months away, so we still have some tune to prepare for implementation of the law," Woodward added. Dick Dolan, whose " firm, Dolan & Associates, handled repeal publicity, said no legal or political actions are contemplated to block implementa-tion of the container law. " I predicted a close contest, and our polls showed last weekend it was going to be very close," Dolan said. Analyzing the result, Thelen spec-ulated that Columbians resented campaign methods used by the bot-tling industry against the ordinance. " Our votes were a lot cheaper than their votes. " The attempts by the beverage in-dustry were unfair. A lot of voters were angry about them. Those who supported the law resented the mon-ey and the delays that the beverage interests brought onto the scene." Thelen added that the Columbia decision may make the city a " har-binger of a nationwide movement" toward container laws. Those favoring the ordinance in- creased their 1977 vote margins sig-nificantly m three precincts. Voters m precinct ID, who voted at West Boulevard School, and voters in pre-cinct 4E, who voted at St. Andrews Lutheran Church, increased their support for the ordinance by 7 per- cent Voters in precinct 4D, who voted at Community Methodist Church, increased their support 5 percent. In two other precincts the ordi-nance found increased support. Vot-ers in precinct 3D, who voted at Sal-vation Army Chapel, 602 N. Ann St., switched from 52 percent against the ordinance in 1977 to 49 percent against it Tuesday Voters in pre-cinct 4C, who voted at Russell Boule- - vard School, upped their margin from 54 for the law in 1977 to 57 per-( Se- e FEWER, Page A20) Tired of it all Addie Wright Sapp of 107 W. Broadway was strolling toward the polls on West Broadway Tuesday when she spotted a sign supporting the deposit ordinance. Obviously displeased, she I stopped, tore off the sign, and stomped on it before tossing it into some bushes. " I'm sick of the way things are going around here," she declared as she continued her walk to the polls. Tim Wright photo Clean Air Act issue polluted by politics By Philip Shabecoff i- - New York Times WASHINGTON - Until recently, clean air and clean water legislation tended to breeze through Capitol Hill in a climate of pristine bipartisanship. This year, however, the debate over the renewal of the Clean Air Act is becoming increasingly obscured by a smog of partisan politics. The act is scheduled for reauthori-- Insight zation this year, but with each new knot in the political web now being spun on Capitol Hill, it appears in-creasingly unlikely that Congress will be able to reach a decision in 1981. Such a turn of events would be em-inently satisfactory to many, if not most, congressional Democrats. They feel that environmental issues, particularly clean air and clean wa-ter, would work to their advantage in next year's election. It would also be pleasing to environmentalists, who believe that the closer it gets to election time, the tougher it would be for legislators to vote to weaken pollution law. But the Reagan administration and its allies in Congress, who want the law changed to lighten the eco-nomic and regulatory burdens they say it imposes on industry, say they want action this year. Moreover, Re-publicans and a few Democrats who want major changes in the law, would rather not face a re- electi- on campaign while, engaged in an emo-tionally inflammatory debate over clean air. Polls of public opinion have uni-formly shown that the great majori-ty of the American people want con-tinued strong protection of air and water. Poll- take- r Louis Harris told a congressional committee recently that any member of Congress who voted to weaken the Clean Air Act did so at the risk of losing his seat. President Reagan's own pollster, Richard Wirthlin, told a group of Re-publican Senate staff officials that his own findings emphatically con-firmed the Hams results. The political contamination of con-gressional debates over substantive legislation is a familiar story in Washington. But for many years now. Congress has been approaching ( See DEMOS, Page A20) In town today 6: 45 pjn. State Attorney General John Ashcroft will speak in Memorial Union Au-ditorium. 8 p. m. Gregg Smith Singers, a choral group, will perform in Jesse Auditorium. Tickets are available at Jesse Box Office from 10 ajh. to 4 pjn. and be-fore the show. General admis-sion is ( 9, students $ 7 and groups of 10 or more $ 7. For more information call 882- 378- 1. 5: 30 pjn. to 9: 30 pan. Colum-bia Board of Education Annual Workshop at Columbia Public Schools Administrative Of-fices, 1818 W. Worley St. The board will discuss policies, goals and priorities for the coming year. The session is open to the public. For a listing of club meet-ings Thursday through Sun-day, see today's Up and Com-ing column on Page 2B. t Index Business 19A Classified 15- 1- 6A Opinion.. . .4A People 1-- 4A Sports 12- 14- A Weather .2A Poll workers ask for ares to fill gap in state records Poll workers who asked some Co-lumbians to give their date of birth when voting Tuesday weren't just being nosy. State law requires them to ask the question. Boone County election official Wendy Noren says state law re-quires voters to give their Dirth date when registering to vote. This infor-mation is necessary because regis-- tration files are used for such things as making up lists for jury duty, from which people younger than 21 and older than 65 are exempt Noren says those voters who regis-tered between 1958 and 1972, and some who registered in other years, were asked to give only their age. Tuesday's inquiry was intended to plug that gap. Democrats win election in key city, state races United Press International Democratic Lt Gov. Charles Robb, son- in- la- w of Lyndon B. John-son, broke the GOP stranglehold on Virginia politics Tuesday night, de-feating conservative Attorney Gen-eral Marshall Coleman for governor. Robb survived a bitter mudsling- m- g campaign that saw his 11- poi- nt lead of a month ago all but disappear by election eve. President Reagan put his political prestige on the line with personal endorsements and the national Republican Party pumped money and technology into the race, but they were not enough to salvage Coleman's bid. I From the start Coleman used ad-- veitlstauents attacking Sribb as a carpetbagger who won lieutenant governor his only political office because of his ties to the Johnson family. In Virginia, with 70 perce- - of 1,- 9- 09 precincts reporting, Re b had 484,408 votes 54 percent, Cole-man's 414,609 46 percent. In the New Jersey gubernatorial race, with 83 percent of the vote counted, it was Republican Thomas Kean 936,332, Democratic Rep. James Flono 926,147. Overcoming charges he was an outsider who capitalized on his John-son family ties, Robb won by being equally conservative as his oppo-nent. He is the first Democrat to win the governorship of Virginia since 1S65. Coleman took the lead away from Robb after the early counting, but less than three hours after the polls closed Robb moved into the lead for good. Across the nation, the majority of incumbent mayors were being swept back mto office. Democrat Edward Koch easily beat six opponents to become the first mayor in New York City history elected on both the Republican and Democratic tickets. Coleman Young of Detroit easily ( See KOCH, PaeeA20) New plan saves Bailey's district Kansas Citv would lose district in realignment By Tanya Barrientos State capital bureau JEFFERSON CITY Boone County would remain in Republican Congressman Wendell Bailey's district un-der a redistnctuig proposal issued Tuesday by Missouri House Speaker Robert Griffin, D- Camer- on. Gov. Christopher Bond, a Republican, has called a spe-cial General Assembly session for Friday to redraw the state's congressional districts. Missouri must eliminate one of its 10 congressional districts because of the state's relatively slow population growth over the past decade. During the regular General Assembly session, Gnffin failed to gain sufficient support for a plan that would have eliminated Bailey's district and retained three existing St. Louis area congressional districts. Griffin's new proposal targets the district of 6th Dis-trict Congressman Tom Coleman, R- Kan- sas City, for ex-tinction. Griffin's plan would merge most of Coleman's predom-inantly rural, northwest Missouri district with that of Congressman Harold Volkmer, D- Hanni-bal. Coleman would inherit most of retiring Democratic Congressman Richard Boiling's heavily Democratic dis-trict m Kansas City and would retain only Platte County and his home county, Clay. Griffin's latest plan answers complaints from many Democrats who objected to another plan introduced dur-ing the regular legislative session. That " Democratic Unity plan" split Boone County between the proposed 5th and 6th Districts, neither of which would have been Bai-ley's. The proposal, which also would have split Pulaski -- 2 6th district Cooper f r 7VBoone n -- t 0. Callaway 5th districtJ - jr VKT's,' 2nd. 3rd . 4mtn- d- istrict - -- " -" T'iLdistorts . , I V I - -- jLj 8th district V" MK--. -- - nfci " 2 I " .' V ' r""" -- ' J 7thdtnctJ LZVth distort 23 County and eliminated a proposed separate district for the Bootheel, lost the support of eight Democratic sen-ators, enough to defeat it when coupled with Republican opposition. Although Columbia Senator Roger Wilson, a Demo-crat, had not seen Griffin's plan, he said Tuesday it sounds like one he might support. " I would prefer to have a Democratic congressman, but Wendell Bailey and I get along," he said. " I would say that this sounds like one of the most logical plans that has been forwarded. This is one plan I could possibly go along with." However, Gnffin's plan remains incomplete because the House leadership has not yet devised boundaries for ( See PLAN, Page A20)
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Item.Transcript | 74th Year - No. 44 Good Morning! Its Wedneda. November 4. 1981 7 Section - 7 I las 25 Cents City retains its deposit law By Paul Keep, Gordon Lee and Jean Dubail , Missourian staff writers Columbia Tuesday became the first city in the country to pass a bev-erage container deposit law twice. On Jan. 5, Columbia will become the first city m the country to enforce de-posit law, assuming enforcement oc-curs as scheduled. An effort to repeal the law, first approved in 1977, fell short by 226 votes. Although the ordinance sur-vived the repeal attempt, its margin of approval declined. In 1977 it was approved 54 to 46 percent, while Tuesday 51 percent voted against re-peal and 49 percent opposed the law. A total of 5,731 supported the law, while 5,505 votes favored repealing it Turnout was greater than antic-ipated because " both campaigns were so enthusiastic," said Boone County Clerk Chris Kelly. Despite predictions of a 28 percent turnout, 38 percent of the city's registered voters cast ballots. David Thelen, who led the Colum-bians Against Throwaways, express-ed satisfaction with the outcome. " The law will work well. It will take a lot of cooperation on the part of all Columbians Our group is eager to help with the transition." Bill Woodward, owner and general manager of Devme Distributing Inc , expressed dissatisfaction with the election's close outcome. " I wish it had been a wider margin of victory one way or the other so that one side had a clear mandate. " Compliance is still two months away, so we still have some tune to prepare for implementation of the law," Woodward added. Dick Dolan, whose " firm, Dolan & Associates, handled repeal publicity, said no legal or political actions are contemplated to block implementa-tion of the container law. " I predicted a close contest, and our polls showed last weekend it was going to be very close," Dolan said. Analyzing the result, Thelen spec-ulated that Columbians resented campaign methods used by the bot-tling industry against the ordinance. " Our votes were a lot cheaper than their votes. " The attempts by the beverage in-dustry were unfair. A lot of voters were angry about them. Those who supported the law resented the mon-ey and the delays that the beverage interests brought onto the scene." Thelen added that the Columbia decision may make the city a " har-binger of a nationwide movement" toward container laws. Those favoring the ordinance in- creased their 1977 vote margins sig-nificantly m three precincts. Voters m precinct ID, who voted at West Boulevard School, and voters in pre-cinct 4E, who voted at St. Andrews Lutheran Church, increased their support for the ordinance by 7 per- cent Voters in precinct 4D, who voted at Community Methodist Church, increased their support 5 percent. In two other precincts the ordi-nance found increased support. Vot-ers in precinct 3D, who voted at Sal-vation Army Chapel, 602 N. Ann St., switched from 52 percent against the ordinance in 1977 to 49 percent against it Tuesday Voters in pre-cinct 4C, who voted at Russell Boule- - vard School, upped their margin from 54 for the law in 1977 to 57 per-( Se- e FEWER, Page A20) Tired of it all Addie Wright Sapp of 107 W. Broadway was strolling toward the polls on West Broadway Tuesday when she spotted a sign supporting the deposit ordinance. Obviously displeased, she I stopped, tore off the sign, and stomped on it before tossing it into some bushes. " I'm sick of the way things are going around here," she declared as she continued her walk to the polls. Tim Wright photo Clean Air Act issue polluted by politics By Philip Shabecoff i- - New York Times WASHINGTON - Until recently, clean air and clean water legislation tended to breeze through Capitol Hill in a climate of pristine bipartisanship. This year, however, the debate over the renewal of the Clean Air Act is becoming increasingly obscured by a smog of partisan politics. The act is scheduled for reauthori-- Insight zation this year, but with each new knot in the political web now being spun on Capitol Hill, it appears in-creasingly unlikely that Congress will be able to reach a decision in 1981. Such a turn of events would be em-inently satisfactory to many, if not most, congressional Democrats. They feel that environmental issues, particularly clean air and clean wa-ter, would work to their advantage in next year's election. It would also be pleasing to environmentalists, who believe that the closer it gets to election time, the tougher it would be for legislators to vote to weaken pollution law. But the Reagan administration and its allies in Congress, who want the law changed to lighten the eco-nomic and regulatory burdens they say it imposes on industry, say they want action this year. Moreover, Re-publicans and a few Democrats who want major changes in the law, would rather not face a re- electi- on campaign while, engaged in an emo-tionally inflammatory debate over clean air. Polls of public opinion have uni-formly shown that the great majori-ty of the American people want con-tinued strong protection of air and water. Poll- take- r Louis Harris told a congressional committee recently that any member of Congress who voted to weaken the Clean Air Act did so at the risk of losing his seat. President Reagan's own pollster, Richard Wirthlin, told a group of Re-publican Senate staff officials that his own findings emphatically con-firmed the Hams results. The political contamination of con-gressional debates over substantive legislation is a familiar story in Washington. But for many years now. Congress has been approaching ( See DEMOS, Page A20) In town today 6: 45 pjn. State Attorney General John Ashcroft will speak in Memorial Union Au-ditorium. 8 p. m. Gregg Smith Singers, a choral group, will perform in Jesse Auditorium. Tickets are available at Jesse Box Office from 10 ajh. to 4 pjn. and be-fore the show. General admis-sion is ( 9, students $ 7 and groups of 10 or more $ 7. For more information call 882- 378- 1. 5: 30 pjn. to 9: 30 pan. Colum-bia Board of Education Annual Workshop at Columbia Public Schools Administrative Of-fices, 1818 W. Worley St. The board will discuss policies, goals and priorities for the coming year. The session is open to the public. For a listing of club meet-ings Thursday through Sun-day, see today's Up and Com-ing column on Page 2B. t Index Business 19A Classified 15- 1- 6A Opinion.. . .4A People 1-- 4A Sports 12- 14- A Weather .2A Poll workers ask for ares to fill gap in state records Poll workers who asked some Co-lumbians to give their date of birth when voting Tuesday weren't just being nosy. State law requires them to ask the question. Boone County election official Wendy Noren says state law re-quires voters to give their Dirth date when registering to vote. This infor-mation is necessary because regis-- tration files are used for such things as making up lists for jury duty, from which people younger than 21 and older than 65 are exempt Noren says those voters who regis-tered between 1958 and 1972, and some who registered in other years, were asked to give only their age. Tuesday's inquiry was intended to plug that gap. Democrats win election in key city, state races United Press International Democratic Lt Gov. Charles Robb, son- in- la- w of Lyndon B. John-son, broke the GOP stranglehold on Virginia politics Tuesday night, de-feating conservative Attorney Gen-eral Marshall Coleman for governor. Robb survived a bitter mudsling- m- g campaign that saw his 11- poi- nt lead of a month ago all but disappear by election eve. President Reagan put his political prestige on the line with personal endorsements and the national Republican Party pumped money and technology into the race, but they were not enough to salvage Coleman's bid. I From the start Coleman used ad-- veitlstauents attacking Sribb as a carpetbagger who won lieutenant governor his only political office because of his ties to the Johnson family. In Virginia, with 70 perce- - of 1,- 9- 09 precincts reporting, Re b had 484,408 votes 54 percent, Cole-man's 414,609 46 percent. In the New Jersey gubernatorial race, with 83 percent of the vote counted, it was Republican Thomas Kean 936,332, Democratic Rep. James Flono 926,147. Overcoming charges he was an outsider who capitalized on his John-son family ties, Robb won by being equally conservative as his oppo-nent. He is the first Democrat to win the governorship of Virginia since 1S65. Coleman took the lead away from Robb after the early counting, but less than three hours after the polls closed Robb moved into the lead for good. Across the nation, the majority of incumbent mayors were being swept back mto office. Democrat Edward Koch easily beat six opponents to become the first mayor in New York City history elected on both the Republican and Democratic tickets. Coleman Young of Detroit easily ( See KOCH, PaeeA20) New plan saves Bailey's district Kansas Citv would lose district in realignment By Tanya Barrientos State capital bureau JEFFERSON CITY Boone County would remain in Republican Congressman Wendell Bailey's district un-der a redistnctuig proposal issued Tuesday by Missouri House Speaker Robert Griffin, D- Camer- on. Gov. Christopher Bond, a Republican, has called a spe-cial General Assembly session for Friday to redraw the state's congressional districts. Missouri must eliminate one of its 10 congressional districts because of the state's relatively slow population growth over the past decade. During the regular General Assembly session, Gnffin failed to gain sufficient support for a plan that would have eliminated Bailey's district and retained three existing St. Louis area congressional districts. Griffin's new proposal targets the district of 6th Dis-trict Congressman Tom Coleman, R- Kan- sas City, for ex-tinction. Griffin's plan would merge most of Coleman's predom-inantly rural, northwest Missouri district with that of Congressman Harold Volkmer, D- Hanni-bal. Coleman would inherit most of retiring Democratic Congressman Richard Boiling's heavily Democratic dis-trict m Kansas City and would retain only Platte County and his home county, Clay. Griffin's latest plan answers complaints from many Democrats who objected to another plan introduced dur-ing the regular legislative session. That " Democratic Unity plan" split Boone County between the proposed 5th and 6th Districts, neither of which would have been Bai-ley's. The proposal, which also would have split Pulaski -- 2 6th district Cooper f r 7VBoone n -- t 0. Callaway 5th districtJ - jr VKT's,' 2nd. 3rd . 4mtn- d- istrict - -- " -" T'iLdistorts . , I V I - -- jLj 8th district V" MK--. -- - nfci " 2 I " .' V ' r""" -- ' J 7thdtnctJ LZVth distort 23 County and eliminated a proposed separate district for the Bootheel, lost the support of eight Democratic sen-ators, enough to defeat it when coupled with Republican opposition. Although Columbia Senator Roger Wilson, a Demo-crat, had not seen Griffin's plan, he said Tuesday it sounds like one he might support. " I would prefer to have a Democratic congressman, but Wendell Bailey and I get along," he said. " I would say that this sounds like one of the most logical plans that has been forwarded. This is one plan I could possibly go along with." However, Gnffin's plan remains incomplete because the House leadership has not yet devised boundaries for ( See PLAN, Page A20) |