Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1982-01-12

              ' ' i STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY

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74th Year - No. 1,00 Good Morning! It's Tuesday, January 12, 1982 2 Sections - 1 4 Pages - 25 Cents

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By Robert J. Gretas Jr.

end Bnaee ESingsca

Mteourfan staff writers -

It'sso cold thai:

fVt was wanner Sunday at the South

Pole, where the thermometer only got to

minus 7 degreesF ( minus 22 C). i

Kerosene for portable heaters is almost

impassible to find throughout toe area.

." Homeowners and businesses throughout

Columbia are still cleaning up the mess cre-ated

when hundreds of water pipes hurst

Columbia public schools were closed

Monday when officials decided it was just

too cold to expect the city's children to wait

ootdoors for bases.

H was Columbia's coldest Jan. 10.

According to Delbert Porter at the

Weather Service, Sunday's record low of

minus 19 F ( minus 28 C) equaled the fifth

lowest temperature on record for Colombia,

a scant seven degrees above the all- tim- e low

ofminus25F( miims32C) setFeb. l2,1899.

v And the future doesnt look bright. The

forecast for this afternoon and evening cans

for heavy snowfall, with temperatures

climbing only as high as the mid- 2- 0s before

dropping to from 10 to 15 F ( minus 12 to min- ns9- C)

tonight.

. " We've had numerous calls about space

heaters," said Gina Urani at Westlake's Ace

Hardware, 1910 W. Woriey St Kerosene for

portable heaters was in short supply.

Furnaces were working overtime in most

Colombia homes, and the Columbia Water

and light Department knew it

" We do have a very high load," said city

Water and light Director Dick Maloo. He re-mained

confident the city's power needs

were being met bat admitted that the ex-treme

cold was causing headaches for all uti-lities.

" We know we're going to have same prob-lems,"

said Jim Beckett, acting director of

University Physical Plant The University's

holiday break offered some respite since

classes arent in session, the physical plant

could expect less demand than usual on its

system.

" ffs an obvious- - saving," said Beckett.

" But itcosts a bundle anyway."

Things seemed " to begoing: smcothjy at the --

University until power went cot at the

Hearnes Center early Monday morning. The

exact cause of the faflnre was tmknown, a

spokesman at the hooding said, but work

crews hoped to have power restored by this

morning.

fa Centralis, cold was blamed for two pow-( S- se

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A frozen fire sprinkler line burst at Fire department crews were sum- Lonzell- a's

Fine Fabrics, 1020 E. moned to help clean up the mess. It

Broadway, around 1: 30 p. m. Monday. . was one of several calls answered.

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A Columbia fireman helps bail out fire sprinkler line in the Broadway

Lonzella's Fine Fabrics after a frozen store burst.

India and

Pakistan

talk peace

Armies on maneuvers,

but war talk is down

NEW DELHI, India ( UPI) The

war donas over India and Pakistan

are evdAgiling, a few months after

a dffiamat pessimistically rated the

odds on a fourth conflict between the

two natkms at " better than 50- 50-."

filiate winter the harvests are in

and the armies of India and. Paki-stan

are rolling across the wheat- fieJ- ds

of the Poajab the " bread-basket

of the subcontinent" on

aanoal maneuvers.

Bat an Indian diplomat, who re-cently

charged that the Pakistanis

were hpgmg op their forces alsng

fie border wflh India now cabs the

troop movements " normal for this

time of year" and doesat speak of

war.

Evsn India's ambassador to Paki- -

stan, -- Ktsnrar Natwar Singh, is

sounding cpbeat after months of de- fiveri- ng

renenstratsons to the gov- ensn- ent

in Islamabad. -

Singh told a group of Pakistani

bsscstsam m Lahore, 20 nrifes ( 32

kflamders) west of Pakistan's bor-der

with lama, that events are mov-ing

m a " positive direction" and

New DeSa hopes for " positive re- saS- s"

from the Paktstsm foreign

Taaastefs visit to India sometime

- eacrvtntneyear.

The remarks by Singh, who had

jast retamed from a week of chats

Vjgi ftine Sfioister Indira Gandni

acd ether top Indian officials, rep- resentelaroBbackmthe-wartaas

ofreceatnxnms.

to September a Western diplomat

nab long experience in India and

Pakistan said bene was a " beSter

flam SHi chance of another war

wb3bq a year between Mcsten Pab- stanaadBSmtirmt- fia.

.

Tbe two nations last dashed m

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Those frozen household pipes

By Brace QKngson

Sfissoarian staff writer

The reason pipes were popping all over Co-lombia

Sunday morning is that water is a liq-uid

that expands when it freezes as well as

when it is heated.

That's why frozen pipes bulge before they

burst Bulging pipes are a definite danger

signal. Unfortunately, most pipes are in

hard- to- se- e locations and no one notices till

it's too late.

" Air flow is what really causes a lot of it,"

Don Tallmage Jr. of Tallmage Plumbing

says of the freezing problem. " As socn as it

gets to freezing outside you need to be aware

that piping can freeze." It happens every

year, be says.

But there's no reason to panic, he adds. " If

you've never had trouble, don't do anything

don't worry about it"

For those who think their pipes could be in

danger and are afraid the thermometer

might plummet again, wrapping the pipes in

heat tape and insulating them should help.

Also caulk the cracks around foundations

and seal any areas where cold air might

blow across water pipes. Those precautions

are particularly important for trailer resi-dents,

says Tallmage.

It is difficult to protect trailer plumbing

because the homes are off the ground. " Ask

any plumber what's the worst thing he hates

about winter," Tallmage said. " Hell tell you

it's working on rental trailers. No one lies

working until your clothes freeze to you

generally the piping is outside."

While most people either repair their own

leaks or call plumbers, some look for salva-tion

from the Ore department. This weekend

fire fighters responded to more than a dozen

calls to flooded residences.

" About all we can do is find the outside wa--

ter cutoff," says Battalion Chief J. W. Fox.

--" Usually when they call us, water is spurting

over everything. We're public servants' and

we help as much as we can."

If your pipes are frozen, but haven't burst,

warm them by " using anything that'll put

out heat but ( that) is safe," Fox says, adding

that a blowtorch must not be used.

" The first thing you know yon've got a

house on fire," Fox says of the blowtorch ap-proach

to melting ke blocks, " and your wa-ter

pipes are still frozen."

nHiflBmnflHnsniHHSHHHBiBKinnnflQnusBB Reagan denies fighter planes to Taiwan

WASHINGTON ( UPI) The administra-tion,

in a move that could improve ties be-tween

Washington and Peking, announced

Monday the United States will not sell ad-vanced

fighter planes to Taiwan.

The decision by President Reagan to reject

Taipei's request for the planes was announced

at the State Department. -

Department spokesman Alan Romberg de-nied

the decision was connected with an expec-tation

mat China might join the United States

in condemning the Soviet role in the crisis in

Poland.

Romberg said the administration coaemded

" that no sale of advanced fighter aircraft to

Taiwan is required because no military need

forsnefa aircraft exists."

" Taiwan's defense needs can be met as they

arise, and for the foreseeable future, by re-placing

aging aircraft now in the Taiwan in-ventory

with comparable aircraft and by an

extension of the F- S- E co- product- ion line in Tai-wan,"

Romberg said ina statement

Pentagon officials said Taiwan asked for

" more than 100" advanced fighters from the

United States.

Romberg told reporters Reagan made his

decision Sunday afternoon while at Camp Da-vid

and that Assistant Secretary of State John

Holdridge, now in Peking, informed the

Chinese government

He also said Taiwan was informed of the de-cision

Sunday night through its office in Wash-ington.

The United States downgraded its rela-tions

with Taiwan to '" unofficial" ties after

establishing formal relations with China.

Romberg said congressional leaders were

consulted on the decision over the past few- day- s

and the move was based " on a broad con-sensus"

within America's foreign and defense

policy establishment

He did not make dear how long the decision

against selling advanced fighters to Taiwan

might remain in effect Other officials steered

reporters away from speculation that tins was

a short- ter- m position.

Romberg made dear mat despite the deci-sion,

the administration will stand by the US.

commitment to continue providing " such de-fense

articles as may be necessary to enable

Taiwan to maintain a sufficient self- defen- se

capability."

Romberg noted the administration already

has taken steps to sell Taiwan some items that

fit into this category. " We anticipate further

steps of this sort,' he said.

Pentagon officials supported the assessment

that there was not a military need for the fight-ers

by Taiwan. They described the Northrop F- 5- E,

of which Taiwan has about 200, as '- go-od

or

better than anything the PRC ( China) has.

They ( the Taiwanese) have a qualitative edge

over the PRC."

The prospect of having the United States

supply Taiwan with advanced fighters had an-gered

the Chinese, already suspicious of the

administration because of the statements Rea-gan

made, on China policy daring the cam-paign.

The cffidaLXmhoa news agency said prob-lems

in US.- Sin- o relations under Reagan could

be traced directly to " Washington's obstinate

stand on arms sales to Taiwan, one of China's

provinces."

Romberg denied reports Reagan would

block the jet sale to Taiwan to help persuade

China to join Washington in condemning the

Polish martial law crackdown. To date, the

Chinese have remained uncommitted to such a --

stand.

Even if Holdridge succeeds in defusing the

Taiwan dispute, there were mounting signs

that China supports the declaration of martial

law in Poland and does not agree with the US.

call for sanctions.

Peking diplomats say the Chinese Commu-nist

Party fears the emergence of more ag-gressive

unions in China and for that reason is

opposed to taking a stand supporting Poland's

Solidarity union.

The Japanese news agency Kyodo reported

from Peking that China is supplying economic

support to the Warsaw government and has

criticized intervention by ' international impe-rialists"

in the crisis.

Council vetoes church purchase

ByTerry SEsata

ISsMSfn staff writer

The dry Council voted unanimcasly Monday

not to purchase the Colombia Baptist Temple af-ter

the co manager's office issued a second unfa- voca- bie

report onthe proposed acquisition.

The ccundhnen agreed mat the three weeks

available to them and the dry staff was too little

tone to gather enough information for an ad--

Hot that the city didn't fry. Monday's special

noon meeimg took place after the cocncfl avoided

a rejection of the parehase at its Jan. 4 meeting.

Before mat meeting, CHy Manager Dick Gray and

staff had recommended against baying the prop-erty

at West Broadway and Anderson Avenoe.

Bather than follow oat advice, the council re- qpea- ted

another report detaifag the consequences

that city ownership wooM have on the church's

raigfflKirhnodanif atyfinances.

The delay of the vote gave groups such as the

ehhanfta BtotainmenC Company, interested in

tfcesanctoary3 potential as a theater extra time

to inform the dry just what its designs would en- ta- u.

Treaty's financial and technical staffs tried to

namwr down the possible public ess of the prop-erty

and explored the extent and cost of renova- turaiequir- ed

forsocb uses.

Last week, the conmamfly grams interested in

using the property united to sepport its conversion

jntoaeesterfarseaurdtizensageccies.

Baptist Temple goes on auction block today

Bat the dry manager's office, in a memo issued

just before Monday's meeting, found several fin-gering

complications. Despite the property's at-tractive

$ 149,900 price, financial considerations

formed themain doabts.

First, the report speculated that remodeling

costs for offices in the church building coold run

ashjghas$ 250,000.

The memo noted the " tenuous budget stna- tton- s"

off the agencies seeking the office space and

concluded, " H would appear impractical for the

" dry to expect rents to cover . more than 35- 5- 0 per-cent

of the capital costs involved."

Finally, the report found the property lacked

space for expansion as " a fame senior citizens'

tariffing: that being an activity center for a wide

variety of programs and services."

The council took the staffs findings seriously

ecooj& toiejedtheparchase- -

So after a three- wee- k flurry of deliberations to

change the liaiAgupt'cfuiirh's fate, the scheduled

anction sale ofthe property will occur, today.

And for the Boone County Cbnncfl on Aging,

which bad hoped to'ese the church for its par- pose- s,

was it , something ventured, nothing

gained?

Leaders of the group arent so dismayed. In-stead,

they are happy to have attained conslder- abf- e

pabfic attention for thdr dream of estafabsh- -

inga uxnipovat. mruicciueri;.

" We've lost the battle, but we've laid the foun-dation

for winning the war," the Rev. David Wal- tba- ll

of the Council on Aging said after the vote.

" There's been no pressure until now," said

chairman Tony Lampe of the group's plans to enl-ist

coy help in acquiring a central headquarters

for seniorcitizens services.

Walthall said his council was eyeing other prop-erties

for its oses, though he declined to specify

them.

He ruled out a proposal to use the vacant Safe-way

store on East Broadway. Safeway wants too

mods for rent

After the vote, Fifth Ward Cbuncflman Dick

Walls echoed the council's regrets about passing

up the property. The scarce time available to the

city blurred the facts of the parehase, said Walls,

who had no cnmjMnts about the dry staffs at-tempts

to digest in three weeks the array of ques-tions

before it " Government just cannot and

should notmove that qnJckh," WaIls said.

Al Taeker, whose First Ward indndes the

dnach property, said be s& H believed dry own-ership

of the church wooM be preferable to the

consequences ofprivate purchase.

" U was not possible to go against the city's rec- camnendati- on,"

Taeker said, adding ras pleasure

over the ptumJjwice given by the issue to the

needs ofthe elderly and arts groups in Columbia.

I

Number, please

Telephone users in Columbia

and surrounding communities

will begin using a regular, seven--

digit number to contact lo-cal

directory assistance start-ing

next Tuesday.

The new number, 874- 795- 3,

will replace the abbreviated

" 113" fir all directory assist-ance

calls made to General

; Tdephcnes's Columbia cen-tral

office.

Use of the new number is ex-pected

to reduce the cost and

the volume of directory assist-ance

calls, which have been in-creasing

by 10 percent a year

and will help avoid increases

in the information charge.

General Telephone uses the

seven- dig- it number in several

qmaHT communities- -

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