Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1982-01-05

              74th Year - No. 94 Good Morning! It's Tuesday, January 5. 1982 2 Sections 14 Pages 25 Cents
Snow slows city
but can't stop it;
more in forecast
ByRobert Rogers and Holly Teeter
Missourian staff writers
The good news is that it could have been
worse.
Columbia got 4 inches ( 10 centimeters) of
snow Sunday night and early Monday morning,
but other parts of the state were hit much more
severely. Kansas City reported 11 inches ( 27.5
centimeters) and Kirksville was hit with 8 inch--.
es ( 20 centimeters).
The bad news is that more snow is expected
Wednesday and possibly " Thursday .
The snow and ice made driving hazardous,
but school officials decided to resume classes as
scheduled Monday after the holiday break.
Schools were closed in ' Jefferson City after a 2- in- ch
( 5- centime- ter) snowfall, and rural Boone
County schools were closed.
" If we feel that we can safely transport chil-dren
to school, we will," said Jim Ritter, assist-ant
superintendent of Columbia schools. He said
he did not understand why other area schools
were closed and did not believe opening Colum-bia
schools was a mistake.
' It was a difficult decision," he said.
A few school buses ran 35 to 45 minutes late,
but Pat Vanlandingham, manager of Rustman
Bus Co., which operates city school buses on
contract, called it a " pretty good morning."
Three of the company's buses slid into ditches
during morning runs, but there were no injuries.
No incidents were reported Monday afternoon,
but there were some delays because of driving
conditions.
Ms. Vanlandingham said problems were
caused not only by bad road conditions, but also
by slow- movin- g traffic. She added, however,
that ' ihe city did a really super job cleaning off
, the roads."
City street crews spread more than a ton of
calcium and 35 loads of cinders between 8 p. m.
Sunday and 8 ajn. Monday.
Ozark Air Lines canceled several flights to
and from Columbia Sunday night and Monday
( See SNOWFALLPage 8A)
Gar" crash --
.
kills student
Dawn Hene Soman, 24, of 801 N.
Ana St., Apt. 5, was lotted Monday
when her car went out of control on
snow- slickene- d pavement and struck
a vehicle drives by ESmberly Jami- sr- a,
25, o1700 Canig Circle.
Ms. Soman, a graduate student at
the University, apparently lost con-trol
of her westbound Mazda GLC on
Stadium Boulevard near College
Park Drive and collided with an
eastboupd Oldsmobile driven by Ms.
Jamison, a third- ye- ar medical stu-dent
at the University. The accident
occurred at about 4 p. m.
Both drivers were taken by ambu-lance
to University Hospital, where
Ms. Soman died at 8: 20 pjn. The
hospital would release no informal
tion on Ms. Jamison's condition.
Felice said no summons was is-sued.
Dawn dene Sloman was the driver of this car B" r4, tJ""
Poland eases some restrictions but rebuffs West
From our wire services
Claiming success for its back- to- wo- rk
campaign, the Polish military government
announced Monday it would lift some mar--
tial law restrictions in 10 provinces.
Meanwhile, in Brussels, Polish leader Geri.
. Wojciech JangelsW told the ambassadors of
10 European nations be is considering de-porting
to the West the principal leaders of
Solidarity, now in jail, and releasing other
prisoners only on condition they sign a
pledge to abstain from all further public ac-tivity.
Jaruzelski also pledged that Poland will
meet its debts to Western banks, but strongly
rebuffed the efforts of the West to encourage
an end to military rule. '
Warsaw radio reported factories had re-turned
to normal and work was resuming at
shipyards in Gdansk and Szczecin, Baltic
Coast ports where influence of the suspended
Solidarity trade union was especially strong.
The government- ru- n radio station reported
telephone and Telex communications in the
10 rural provinces " in which the state of
safety and public order, are. improving"
would be restored today. Martial law contin-ues
in the country's 39 other provinces, in-- '
eluding the capital
Travelers arriving in Vienna from Poland
said opposition to martial law remains
strong; but little hope remains that the situa-tion
will change. They said food shortages
have become very serious.
Jaruzelski's message to the ambassadors
in Brussels coincided with a special meeting --
there of the Council of the European Commu-nity
to consider the Polish situation. The ant-- ,
bassadors reported to the council, attended"
by the community's foreign ministers, that
Jaruzelski had told them he would accept po-litical
counsel only from other members of
the Socialist bloc. He told them, they report-ed,
he had no intention of submitting to the
kind of pressure. the United States was at-tempting
to organize against him.
WhOe neither joining nor endorsing the
American sanctions, the council promised to
consult with the United States on steps to be
taken, and to avoid any action that would di-lute
the measures pursued by the' United
States.
The ambassadors' message, which was
disclosed privately and in summary form by
council officials, was not made public. It cast
a somber note, nevertheless, over the final
press conference given Monday evening by
the council's president, Leo Tindemans, who
is Belgium's foreign minister.
Tindemans called it " in a sense, tragic."
He refused to disclose its contents, however,
apparently because it bad arrived too late to
be fully considered by the council, whose ses-sion
ended in midafternoon.
The ministers, whose countries have dif-fered
among themselves and with the United
States over the tone and actions to be
adopted toward Poland and the Soviet Union,
managed a fair degree of consensus Mon-day.
The final communique spoke in harsher
terms than previously of the Polish devel-- -
opments; it was relatively vague about spe-cific
actions to be token.
" The Ten utterly disapprove of the devel-opment
of the situation," the statement be-gan.
In deference to West Germany, which
has argued for caution, the word " condemn"
favored by France and Italy was
avoided. However, the statement went on to
note that despite Polish declarations prom-ising
to restore liberties, " what has taken
place has not been dialogue but repression
bringing with it violations of the most el-ementary
human and citizens' rights."
There was no support for following the
American lead in imposing sanctions on the
Soviet Union. However, the European situa-tion
has evolved on the question. Monday's
statement linked for the first time the devel-opments
in Poland with " the serious exter-nal
pressure and the campaign directed by
the USSR and other eastern European coun-tries
against the efforts for renewal."
According to officials in Brussels, any eco-nomic
steps would be more likely to consist
of cutting imports from the Soviet Union
than cutting exports to it. One possible area
would be the importation of machinery.
Town bully's ghost
haunts citizens' souls
ByLeoaDndel .
UPlHttoulrcporter
"" SFODMORE, Mo. ( UK) - Few
residents moornedjtbe death of Ken .
. Rez McElroy, a feared and despised
bully who was guaaed down in cold
blood, like a junkyard dog gone mad,
before a crowd on Main Street in
broad daylight test sammer. '?
To the strains of a funeral parlor --
organ playing ' 1 DM It My Way,"
spedauy requested by bis bereaved .- wi-dow,
McElroy's family' and '
friends gathered qukkty and quietly
- in a nearby town to dispatch bis soul
to wherever.
-
Imsig& t
That,, the relieved residents of
Skidmore fervently, hoped, would be
the end of it It was not
, The frontier- styl- e. execution
. brought ' reporters, -- photographers
and television crewmen swarming
into town to interview, photograph
and film any of the town's 440 resi- dent3th- ey
could collar. -.-
-. Even scholars from universities
sociologists, psychiatrists and politi- -,
( See WHO, Page 7A)
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Council delays
buying church
By Terry Stanton and Joe Edens
Missourian staff writers
Here's the church, here's the
steeple, close the doors and buy it for
the people.
The City Council didn't quite sing
that song Monday night, but it did
agree to listen to it one more time
before deciding whether to buy the
Columbia Baptist Temple for use as
a community center.
The city manager's office had rec-ommended
defeat of the proposal,
and the council seemed likely to fol-low
the advice until Fourth Ward
Councilman Pat Barnes moved to
put off the decision for five working
days to allow for further study of the
idea.
The council voted 4-- 2 to delay its
deefsion until a special meeting Jan.
11. Mayor John Westlund abstained
because his real estate company
might be involved in a transaction
involving the church.
When the doors closed on the
church at West Broadway and An-derson
Avenue last month, the city
staff came up with the idea of pur-chasing
the two buildings. The idea,
enhanced by the church's bargain
price of $ 149,500, excited the council
enough at its Dec. 21 meeting to con-sider
it.
But city officials, while lured by
the church's potential as a theater
and senior citizens center, did not
want to rush into a scheme so full of
unknown consequences for the city's
finances and the church's neighbor-hood.
" The offer came quite quickly; the
city moved slowly," said Fifth Ward
Councilman Dick Walls of the haste
that has blurred the debate over the
purchase.
Neighborhood and real estate rep-resentatives
Monday advised the
council to let the church fall into pri-vate
hands.
But Barnes asked the council to
wait until the city can " make a more
in- dep- th study of bow the Columbia
Baptist Temple might serve the
needs of the community."
Walls did not " see how five more
days is going to move this thing fur-ther
along," and no one else seemed
sure that it would. But the others, ex-cept
for Smith, agreed with Barnes
" to give the opportunity one more
chance."
So now community groups, which
had expected the motion to fail, will
have a formal chance to present
their enthusiastic designs to city offi-cials.
In other business, the council re--
( See CITY, Page 7A,
Allen resigns; Clark
to take adviser post
WASHINGTON ( UPI) - Richard
Allen, beset by questions about bis
ethics, resigned as White House na-tional
security adviser Monday and
President Reagan promptly named
Deputy Secretary of State William
P. Clark to the post
The president accepted Allen's
resignation " with deeg regret," aid
deputy press secretary Larry Spealt- e- s.
It was also announced Allen will
stay on the government payroll as a
consultant to Reagan.
Speakes disclosed that a White
House review of Allen's conduct in
office had " revealed no wrongdoing
on Mr. Allen's part." Nevertheless,
Allen tendered his resignation fol-lowing
a private meeting with the
president io the Oval Office Monday
afternoon.
Allen and the president " agreed
that in view of the controversy of re-cent
weeks, it would be better for all
concerned to seek a change in re-sponsibilities,"
Speakes said.
On several occasions recently, Al-len
has said he did nothing wrong
and had no intention of resigning.
Allen's departure prompted by
a controversy that pulled first lady
Nancy Reagan into the spotlight
opened the door for Reagan to name
Clark, a close personal friend, to fill
a national security post
Allen, 44, will stay on the govern-ment
payroll on a per diem basis
as Reagan's consultant for an in
definite period in the organization of
the President's Foreign Intelligence
Advisory Board, a panel of private
citizens Reagan recently recruited
to assess the work of America's spy
agencies.
Allen was smiling when he arrived
in the early afternoon at the White
House to confer with presidential
connMiT -- Sdwin Miecsc tscorc- - see-ing
the president But Allen had de-parted
by the time the announce-ment
was made.
Standing outside his home later,
Allen was asked if be believed his
White House colleagues had pushed
him out
" I'm not a believer in enemies,"
be said, but declared there was noth-ing
wrong with his work, or his con-duct
" It never was a question of compe-tence,
but a highly charged political
. atmosphere that I don't fully under-stand,"
Allen said of his ouster.
Clark, 50, served as chief of staff
during Reagan's second term as
governor of California. His arrival at
the White House signals an-- upgrad-ing
of the security adviser's post
Clark will assume a role consider-ably
broader than Allen's. He will,
according to Speakes, be responsible
for the development, coordination
and. implementation of national se-curity
policy as approved by the
( See CLARK, Page 8A)
Deposit law goes into effect;
beer, soda sellers adjust prices
By Terry Stanton
Mfestfiiian staff writer
Columbia beer drinkers who want
to keep quaffing after today might
check the kitchen drawer for a bottle
opener.
The brew crowd will find that for-gotten
implement necessary in the
vital transfer of beer from bottle to
gullet
And before that exchange can oc-cur,
six- pac- k buyers win have to
spend more to obtain the precious
Iipfromtheirmercbant. '
John Brown at Fechtel Beverage &
Sales said lie thinks the revival of the
bottle opener is " one kind of cute
thing" about today's implementation
of Columbia's first- m- tbe- nati- on mu-nicipal
deposit ordinance. Other- -
wise, retailers and- - distributors
scrambling Monday to prepare for
( SeeBOTTLE, Page 8A)
Where to find canned beverages
Here's where canned beer and
beverages can still be obtained with-in
Columbia city limits:
Canned Beer
905 liquors, Providence Road
and Broadway.
. Canned Soda
Vending machines throughout
thecity.
-- Southade liquors, 405 S.
Providence Rd.
Wyatt's Super Foods, 1217
Rogers St
All Columbia 7- Ete- ven stores.
All Columbia Colonial Market
stores.