Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1982-01-21

              74th Year No. 102 Good Morning! It's Thursday, January 21, 1982 2 Sections 16 Pages - 25 Cents
Tense moments
Missouri's No. 2 rated team gets a few words of advice from
Coach Norm Stewart during the closing minutes of Wednes-day's
41- 3- 5 victory over University of Kansas. The Tigers rais'ed
Stomtffrfn
their season record to 15-- 0 The team needs just two more vic-tories
to equal the record 17-- 0 start of the 1920 21 season See
story and pictures, Page 1B
Works Why
some simply
stop looking
By Ivers Petersen
New York limes
WYANDOTTE, Mich. - After
awhile, Randy Reagan said, there
hardly seems to be any point in
looking for a new job
" I've been to every down- nve- r piz-za
parlor and fast- foo- d place there
is," be said. " Nothing! I mean, after
you've stooped your pnde down to
where you're willing to put on a stu-pid
Taco Bell hat and wash1 floors,
Insight
and then even they don't want you,
you don't feel much like trying."
So Reagan toes to put the memory
of the job he lost last summer behind
him, and concentrates on taking
care of his children and working on
his house in this industrial suburb
down river from Detroit He has
joined a growing army of people
across the country who have given
up looking for work.
In the last quarter of 1981, Reagan
and 1.2 million other Americans
were classified by the Bureau of La-bor
Statistics as " discouraged work-ers"
those who had not looked for
work in the last four weeks. The 1.2
million figure is 10 percent higher
than that in the same period of 1980.
Generally, those who drop out of
the labor force for a while are wom-en
and members of minority groups,
especially younger members. But
there is evidence that three years of
severe recession and unemployment
in the industrial Middle West has be-gun
to push more and more middle- clas- s
workers, like Reagan, into the
discouraged category. ,
For example, the total labor force
of Michigan and Ohio, including both
employed workers and the unem-ployed
looking for work, has de-clined
in recent months. The Michi-gan
force has declined for the last
three months ma row.
What has become of the 87,000 men
and women who disappeared from
Michigan's labor force since October
is, accordingly, anyone's guess, as
are their strategies for staying alive.
Some have undoubtedly supped
into the underground economy,
where business is cash- onl- y " and the
only one who's keeping the books on
you is you," as George, one of its
practitioner, described it
George, who did not want bis last
name used, said that be worked
three years at Ford's Woodhaven
stamping plant until be was laid off
in June 1S80. In his late 20s, with a
wife working and no children to sup-port,
George dedded to leave the au- tomob- fle
industry for good.
' " I tried carpet cleaning, but no-body
had the money for that,' he
said. " Then I tried real estate, and
that'sworse than cleaning carpets.
" So now aU I do is this," be said,
( See MORE, Page ftA)
Divers recover Air Florida ' black boxes9
WASHINGTON ( UPI) - A Navy
diver recovered the two " black
boxes" from the wreckage of the Air
Florida jet on the bottom of Potomac
River Wednesday and investigators
started listening to these recording
devices for clues into what caused
the crash that killed 78 people.
Salvage teams also pulled 11 bod-ies
from the icy waters, leaving sev-en
still to be recovered one week af-ter
the twin- engin- e Boeing 737
crashed after takeoff from National
Airport during a heavy snowstorm.
Investigators said the " black
boxes" containing vital flight infor-mation
were in " excellent condi-tion,"
but refused to discuss the con-tents
Lt. Cmdr. Stephen Delaplane,
commander of the Navy diving and
salvage team, said about 75 percent
of the aircraft has been recovered
He estimated it would take another
week to finish the job, but said " we
are essentially over the hump at this
point"
In another development, National
Transportation Safety Board mem-ber
Francis McAdams, who is over-seeing
the investigation, said three
more witnesses have reported they
saw the doomed jetliner lift off the
6,869- fo- ot ( 2060.7- mete- r) runway less
than 1,700 ( 510 meters) feet from its
end an abnormally lone run in
those conditions.
Earlier, McAdams said normal
takeoff would be closer to 3,300 feet
( 1170 meters).
McAdams also told reporters
Wednesday night that investigators
have verified that the National con-trol
tower sounded the crash alarm
at 4 04 pjn Jan 13, less than six
minutes after the plane was cleared
for takeoff.
Police said among the 11 bodies re-covered
Wednesday were those of
co- pil- ot Roger Pettat, 31, of Miami
and month- ol- d Brian Piontek of
Tampa, Fla , whose mother Barbara
also died.
Wilson said efforts to recover the
other bodies would continue Thurs-day
' We expect we are looking for
seven more individuals," he said.
Police Inspector James Shugart
said the cold water preserved the
bodies so that they are " not much
different now than when they
crashed," but he said recovering
them is difficult because " it is such a
tangled mess It's like trying to pick
up spaghetti with a fork."
McAdams told reporters he has hs--
tened to the cockpit voice recorder
tape, which records one- hal- f hour's
worth of voices and other noises in
the cockpit
Both the cockpit voice recorder
tape and the flight deck recorder
tape " appear to be in excellent con-dition
and we are very hopeful we
will get a good readout," McAdams
said.
He refused to disclose what was on
the cockpit voice recorder, saving
release of the information now would
cause premature speculation about
the cause of the crash and " would al-most
be a disservice to the public,"
be said.
The recovery of the recorders in
good working condition brought a
sigh of relief from the 100 partici-pants
in the investigation McAdams
said investigators have " every ex--
pectation they will yield valuable in-formation
"
The flight data recorder will en-able
investigators to determine the
jet's speed on takeoff and in its brief
flight, its heading, whether it made
any turns, the degree of those turns
and information on its altitude
The cockpit voice recorder will
help investigators determine " who
was flying the aircraft at takeoff and
who was handling communications,
getting gear up, cleaning the aircraft
up," McAdams said
McAdams said the information
from both tapes will be plotted and
fed into a computer programmed to
coordinate the tuning This, he said,
will be " woven with an-- traffic con-trol
tape to provide a chronological
picture of what happened to the Air
Florida flight"
Offensive view costs
neighbor $ 12,500
By Terrell Dempsey
Missourian stall writer
Perennial city critic Paul Albert
was himself, taken to task Wednes-day
by a Circuit Court jury which de-livered
a $ 12,500 against turn in a civ-il
suit.
The jury awarded $ 4,000 in actual
damages and $ 8,500 in punitive dam-ages
to Stanley and Joyce Nes3 of
RR 4 in a suit arising over a partial-ly
burned trailer and other objects
left on Albert's RR 4 property about
seven miles ( 11 2 kilometers) south
of Columbia.
Albert resides at 2703 Parker
Place and keeps the RR 4 property
as a country retreat.
The Nesses maintained mat the
objects, which include a rusty oil
stove, old sinks and pieces of broken
concrete create an offensive view
from their house and reduces the
value of thar property. The suit by
the Nesses, who have been trying to
sell their house, was filed in Septem-ber
1980.
The jury deliberated three and a
half hours before delivering its ver-dict
to Circuit Judge John Cave.
" This whole thing stinks back-wards
and forwards," says Albert
" Inaturallyintend to fight "
Albert, who is well known for his
daily phone calls to a Columbia ra-dio
station and his attendance at
government -- meetings, admits to
having the items on his property, but
says they have not hampered the
Ness' efforts to sell their house.
Two fires burned and destroyed
the original house on his property,
Albert explained, and he bought a
partially burned trailer to use for his
country visits.
" Our system is still the best in the
Paul Albert
Intends to hght decision
country," he said when asked why
the jury decided agamst bun.
" There was a lot of perjury going on.
This thing isn't over yet There's still
the appeal process."
Fee increase criticized
By Bryan Bumngh
Missourian staff writer
t
A plan to raise fees for overly stu-dious
students at the University has
drawn sharp criticism from Donald
Duncan, director of the School of
Forestry, Fisheries and Wildlife.
A her Tuesday morning press con-ference,
Chancellor Barbara Uehling
said she is considering an " over-load"
charge for students wishing to '
take more than 16 hours in one se-mester.
The idea was first raised by
' Provost Ron Burni in October.
But Duncan says such a proposal
would be unfair to the students of his
." school. Forestry majors, who need
135 hours to graduate, must average
more than 16 hours per semester to
finish school in four years.
" I'm opposed to the whole busi
ness," Duncan said Wednesday. " To
tell a student that because his curric-ulum
takes more hours than other
colleges he must pay more is unrea-sonable.
You should not be charged
extra because of that"
More than half of the school's 475
undergraduates regularly graduate
within fouryears, Duncan said.
" We're left with two options," he
contained. " Pay more or cut the cur-riculum
to-- fit financial needs over
quality of the curriculum. Neither of
those is acceptable."
-- Duncan registered his protest in
an Oct 19 letter to Bonn.
" Our students have financial prob-lems
m very substantial numbers al-ready,"
Duncan complained in that
letter. " It seem? to us unreasonable '
to place them in the position of hav-ing
to. pay more for their education
than do must vL. . uui& iau- uates- ."
If the overload charge is approved,
Duncan said his school will be forced
to either require more than four
years for an undergraduate degree
or revise curriculum to avoid the ex-tra
charge.
Bunn's reply was encouraging,
Duncan said.
" Any decision on this question has
been deferred for awhile by the Uni-versity,
although it may reappear
within the next few months," the
provost said in a letter of reply last
fan.
It reappeared Tuesday.
Jane Dier- Russe- ll, Dr. Uehlmg's
executive staff assistant, called crit- iasmoftheproposalprem-ature.
" We are locking at all kinds of op-tions,"
Mrs. Dier- Rosse- D said. " No
policy has been set at all."
Defense urges
Reagan to buy
C-- 5 transports
New York Times
WASHINGTON - The Defense
Department has recommended to
President Reagan that 50 Lockheed
C-- 5 Galaxy cargo aircraft, once a
symbol of Pentagon cost overruns,
be bought to start a multibilhon- dol- Ia- r
program of acquiring aerial
transport for the Rapid Deployment
Force, congressional officials said
Wednesday.
At the same tune, the Air Force
signed contracts with Rockwell In-ternational
worth $ 2.2 billion to be-gin
building a fleet of the new B-- l
long- rang- e bombers, of which 100
were scheduled to be completed by
1989.
The Galaxy recommendation, long
awaited after a heated competition
and much political infighting, drew
an unusually testy comment from
the loser, McDonnell Douglas, which
said it was " dismayed" by a deci-sion
that made a " mockery" of the
competitive process
Although the Pentagon has made
no official announcement, staff
members of the Georgia and Missou-ri
congressional delegations dis-closed
details of the recommenda-tion
Wednesday The Lockheed
plane would be produced in Georgia,
McDonnell Douglas's headquarters
ism St Louis, Mo.
The congressional officials said
they considered the recommenda-tion
tantamount to a decision since
Reagan, who apparently intends to
mclude the program in the 1983 mili-tary
budget that goes to Congress
next month, has gone along with the
vast majority of recommendations
from Secretary of Defense Casper
W. Weinberger
The Lockheed order, the congres-sional
officials said, calls for con-tracts
worth $ 4 58 billion, with the
first plane to roll off the assembly
line in 1985 and the production run to
be completed by 1989
If Reagan approves the recom-mendation,
as expected, that would
mean reviving the production of a
highly controversial aircraft The
Lockheed C-- 5 cost about $ 2 billion
more than planned to build, plus $ 1 4
billion to replace wings too weak to
sustain long hours of flying
For the taxpayers, those contracts
would be the first installments in two
long- rang- e, expensive programs
Pentagon officials have estimated
that the total cost of the C- 5- s over the
life of the program would be $ 25 bil-lion,
while some congressional offi-cials
said their estimates run up to
$ 40 billion The cost of the Beet of B- - l
bombers has been set at $ 20.5 billion,
with some congressional estimates
running up to $ 30 billion Neither fig-ure
included inflation factors or op-erating
costs
The transport planes are intended
to carry tanks, helicopters, other ve-hicles,
ammunition and supplies for
the Rapid Deployment Force if it is
( See LOCKHEED, Page 8A I
Draft sign- u- p period
extended five weeks
WASHINGTON ( UPI) About
800,( 300 young men who faded to reg-ister
on time for the draft are getting
a new deadline of Feb. 28 to sign up
and avoid possible prosecution.
" With the removal of any linger-ing
doubts as to the future of the reg-istration
program, I am confident
that the young men of registration
age will comply with the law," Se-lective
Service Director Thomas
Turnage said Wednesday in an-nouncing
the grace period. President
Reagan announced Jan. 7 he had de-cided
to continue the registration
started by Jimmy Carter in the in-terests
of national defense But Rea-gan
said the action did not signal a
return to the draft As of last Sept
30, 6 6 million young men had regis-tered
when they reached 18, but 800,- 00- 0
had not
Draft resistance groups, however,
predicted the administration's latest
move would not attract many who
have not yet complied.
Shawn Perry, associate director of
the National uterrehgtous Service
Board for Conscientious Objectors,
said be does net beheve the adminis-tration's
announcement will attract
those who have problem.
Perry said he believes only actual
prosecutions would encourage great-er
compliance with the law, but also
could encourage " very visible resis- -
800,000 men
violated law
tance if they" proceed with indic-tments"
The Justice Department has re-ceived
150 names of men who have
not registered, but held up prosecu-tions
until the administration decid-ed
whether to continue draft regis-tration
A department spokesman said
prosecutions would be delayed until
the end of the grace period.
Failure to register is a felony pun-ishable
by up to five years in jail and
a $ 10,000 fine It is also against the
law to fad to notify the Selective
Service of a change of address
And Turnage said he was confi-dent
the majority of those young
men required to register will do so
when they become aware of he re-quirement
He blamed unawareness
of young men for the failure of the
800,000 to register on tune.
Selective Service now plans to
mail 12 million postcards to high
school students, and kick off public
service announcements to make
sure young men know they are re-quired
to register.
Ibb Iowbb today
9: 38 ajn. The Boone County Court meets, County- Cit- y Building.
7: 88 pjn. The Boone County Planning and Zoning Commission meets,
County- Cit- y Building.
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