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STATE MITIC'.-- . . CIETV liITT & Li', .';?.' .:' i . --- ;. 74th Year No. 163 Good Morning! It's Saturday. March 27, 1982 2 Sections 16 Pages 25 Cents HHnHlHBaiHIBHMI, IBHniHIHnHHHMIMIMHHiaBIBIKBaHHaHiaiMIIH Reagan ready to make budget changes .1 NewYorkTimes WASHINGTON Edwin Meese HI, the White House counselor, de-clared Friday that President Reagan was no longer committed to the bud-get he submitted last month and was prepared to negotiate basic changes to reduce the deGcit with Republi-cans and Democrats in Congress. In the most explicitly conciliatory statement on the budget from any-one in the Reagan administration, Meese also said the $ 91.5 billion defi-cit projected in early February had grown and required changes in the administration's budget posture. " Some changes are necessary be-cause during the time the budget has been up there, the potential deficit has grown," Meese told a session of the National Health Council at the Capital Hilton Hotel in downtown Washington. He added, " We are looking for areas of agreement" with Congress and that, right how, the administra-tion was engaged in a process of " trying to get all the various propos-als onthe table." At the White House, officials said Meese's comments did not necessar-ily signal that Reagan was ready to make concessions now, particularly on his insistence in sizable military spending increases and the preser-vation of the three- ye- ar personal tax cut enacted last year. . But one aide to Reagan said Meese. was merely making explicit what was implicit in the fact that James A. Baker HI, the White House chief of staff, had already begun private discussions with Democratic con-gressional leaders. " Meese is saying what we've been saying in code all week," a White House official said. Meese's comments came as aides Tm beginning to feel bipartisanship on both sides,' says Sen. Paul Laxalt, the Nevada Republican who is Reagan's closest friend. at the White House and some sen-ators and representatives expressed new optimism that a budget compro-mise can be hammered out some time between Easter and Memorial Day. " I'm beginning to feel a sense of bipartisanship- o- n both sides," said Sen. Paul Laxalt, the Nevada Repub-lican who is Reagan's closest friend in Congress. " It makes me feel that perhaps in the next few days the log-jam will be broken. I'd like to see things move toward a framework in which the details could be negotiated after the Easter recess." At the White House, Reagan's posi-tion on the budget is described offi-cially as unyielding. But starting a few weeks ago, presidential aides said they felt personally the presi-dent would eventually have to accept changes in his economic program, most obviously in trimming his mili-tary spending increases. When such talk of concessions first surfaced in newspaper reports, Rea-gan ordered it stopped. But White House officials continue to acknowl-edge that compromise is inevitable in virtually every area except one: They remain convinced the presi-- , dent will not have to give up in his fight to preserve the three- yea- r, 25- perc-ent personal tax cut enacted last year. These officials view Reagan's stubbornness as sincere enough, but also as a potentially useful negotiat-ing weapon aimed at getting the Democrats and other critics to make early concessions of their own. Had Reagan yielded sooner in December, for example, or even a few weeks ago his aides reason that he would now be under the same pressures to yield still more. It is not hard for White House aides to see the ingredients of a com-promise: military spending cuts; cuts in nonmilitary spending; tight-ening of benefit formulas in food stamps, welfare and other individual benefits, and some increases in taxes. Put together, these pieces could go far in reducing the deficit for the 1383 fiscal year below the $ 91.5 bil-lion projected by the administration, and certainly below the $ 120.6 billion projected by the Congressional Bud-get Office. The White House, which clearly fa-vors reducing benefit formulas in welfare and federal employee and veterans pensions, is not even pro-posing any specific means for doing so until the administration can be more sure of Democratic receptivi-ty. Democrats, in particular, are es-pecially gun- sh- y about negotiating with Reagan. House Speaker Thom-as P. O'Neill Jr., has complained re-peatedly that last year he entered negotiations with Reagan on tax cut and budget issues, and made signifi-cant concessions, only to find the president unwilling to make similar gestures of Ms own. Group tries to resurrect ERA vote ByDanBalaban Missourian staff writer Ironton, a town of 1,700 tucked away in the Missouri Ozarks, is not exactly a hotbed of political activity. But a group of University Equal Rights Amendment supporters wants tomake it one. Ironton is the home city of State Sen. Marvin Dinger, a Democrat and the only member of the Senate Con-stitutional Amendments Committee who did not cast a vote on the ERA when it came before the committee and was defeated Feb. 10. A small group of local ERA hold-outs has seized on this fact and in-tend to make his impoverished town a battleground in their last- ditc- h ef-fort to save the doomed amendment. -- Members of the University Asso-ciation for Women Students Task Force have made Dinger the target of a campaign to acMeve'- passag- e of " the amendment before the legis-lative session ends April 30. They think they can persuade the senator to ask for another committee vote by enli'ding the citizens of Iron- to- n to their cause. Dinger, who has twice voted against the amendment on the Sen1 ate floor, agreed at the urging of the pro- ER- A lobby to sit out the IssslgM Feb. 10 committee vote and give the amendment a chance to be debated on the floor. But the lobby's strategy failed when it could not persuade an-other anti- ER- A senator to abstain and swing the vote of the nine- memb- er committee in favor of sending it to the floor. Now task force members think Dinger's absence may have caused him political damage. Through his constituency, they think they can persuade him cot only to request an-other committee vote, but, once called, to vote for the amendment Two members of the task force, University students Scott Oppen- hei- m, an ERA activist, and Dana Yates, a native of Ironton, traveled to the town Feb. 17, but found that gaining support for the amendment would be harder than they had thought " The majority of the people we talked to did not even know what ERA meant," says Miss Yates. " They didnt even know it was going through the government and they didnt know that Marvin Dinger had anything to do with it" But the two students persisted. They relied on a cultural trait Miss Yates says is characteristic of the people: " Hillbillies cant stand some-one straddling the fence," she says. " I dont think the people care if he's for or against the amendment; they just want him to do something." The two, with the help of Miss Yates' cousins, canvassed the town. They requested the same thing wherever they went atstreetcom- er- s, taverns, supermarkets and the huge Brown Shoe Co. plant that em-ploys more than 1,000 people, more than half of whom are women. Just write a short letter to Dinger urging his support of the amendment, they . asked. At each location they patiently ex-plained the amendment's meaning to those who didnt understand it To those who couldnt read it, they re-cited the amendment And in one and a half days, they collected more than 100 letters. In a town in which only S50 residents voted in the 1SS0 presi-dential election, that's a significant accomplishment " After they understood it, many of them would say, ' Hey, that's a good ( See STATE, Page 8A) I Council lobbies clergy to promote safety ByDanBalaban Missourian staff writer To the best of his recollection, Jim Evans hasn't sat down to a church service in almost 20 years. Yet Evans has spent a good deal of time since his retirement seek-ing the help of local clergymen in his effort to reduce accidental deaths and injuries in the commu-nity. For seven years, Evans has do-nated 20 hours a week to the Colum-bia Safety Council. He answers the phone, types up announcements and refers the safety conscious to information on the subject. And during the last four years, he's made visits to churches of every denomination. " The church is the only form of adult education for many people," he says -- candidly. And what better way to get the message across about safer driving and work habits than in a church service? So Evans, periodically visits - ehurdsesinthe vicinity of the coun-cil's office at Ninth and Broadway. On such outings, he carries in one hand a copy of the National Safety Council's " Accident Facts," in the other, citations to Scriptures that relate to safety in daily life. Both, he suggests to the clergy, may be used in a sermon on safety. But his results, he says with equal candor, have not been en-couraging. " WelL ni be honest with you," he says. " A total flop." To his knowledge, in the four years that he and other members of the council have called on local clergy members, not one has talked about safety in all or part of a ser-mon. By his count, Evans says, there are more than 100 clergymen in the community, but the council has even had difficulty persuading churches to mention the subject at any length in their bulletins. He asks that the clergy forward to their congregations three safety tips to reduce automobile deaths and injuries, which currently ac-count for more than half of all acci-dent casualties: Keep the drunk driveroff the road; while riding in a vehicle, keep children under five in a safety seat in the back seat; and wear safety belts at all times. Evans made another round of visits to churches and a synagogue early in February to drum up sup-port for " Safety Sabbath," which was sponsored Feb. 12-- 14 by the National Safety Council. At that time, he carried with him copies of the Columbia council's newsletter, which be wrote himself, urging clergymen and leaders of religious organizations to " implore their congregations" to. follow the three precautions. In the newsletter he asked for help in energizing " one of the largest support groups, the reli--- giouscomflnfixSy." None of the local clergy respond-ed, Evans said. " 11 we even get one out of the 100 well feel like we've done a good job," he says. " K we even get one more item in a church announce-ment or just one mention in a serv-ice, well be happy." Many of the churches have gone only as far as putting notices in their bulletins announcing Safety Council events. " I just dont think it's appropri-ate," says the Rev. Thomas E. Frank of the United Missouri Meth-odist Church, 204 S. Ninth St.. " There are a lot of valid concerns in the community, but I dont think it's one we'd do frcerthe pulpit." The Rev. Sam S. Langley of the First Christian Church, 101 N. Tenth St, said he mentioned the subject in a service " years back." Others say that their programs were full during the Safety Sabbath Safety advocate Jim Evans is trying to get more church support ' this year, or that they never got word of the event. But Liz Schmidt, president of the Columbia Interfaith Council, said that at the prodding of the council she sent about 60 letters to local houses of worship announcing the Safety Sabbath. She said members of her organi-zation, a conference of local lay leaders and clergymen, also dis-cussed the event at their January meeting. She says she doesn't know if any church, synagogue or mos-que has acted en the Safety Coun-cil's suggestions. " They're flooded with informa-tion," says Mrs. Schmidt of the pos-sible reason many clergymen failed to learn of the event. " You just cant absorb everything that comes across your desk." Another Safety Sabbath is sched-uled for the Labor Day weekend, which is one of the deadliest week-ends for motorists. The Rev. Nor- - man Vincent Peale chairs the event nationally. On a four- pag- e program planning guide, he tells clergymen and leaders of religious groups how to observe the Sabbath. Evans said he took the guide to many of the churches he visited. The guide provides prayers for safety, safety quotes that can be in-serted into the church newsletter, and biblical citations and accident statistics on which to base a safety sermon. M. U. curators criticize med school cuts By BryanBurrough Missourian staff writer ST. LOUIS The University Board of Curators Friday tabled a proposal by Chancellor Barbara Uehling to decrease enrollment at the University School of Medicine beginning in 1383. Spiraling costs and deep cuts in federal funding at the medical school prompted the administration to urge a reduction in class size from 110 stu-dents to 100, a 9 percent decrease. Speaking before the board at the University of Missouri- S- L Louis, Dr. Uehling further supported the cut by citing figures that predict the num-ber of doctors nationwide will double by the year 2000. The medical school would save an estimated $ 120,000 un-- der the proposal, not nearly enough to compensate for the loss of federal funds. Dr. Uehling said. " We've reached a point where we have to stop and say, " We cant af-ford to do this for all these stu-dents,' " she said. " There comes a point when you just have to cut back." The medical school already is un-derstaffed and suffering from a se-vere space shortage, Dr. Uehling said. But two curators immediately crit-icized the chancellor's plan on the basis that cutting enrollment would inflict a deep wound on a state al-ready short on doctors in many rural areas. SSkeston, Mo., curator Robert Dempster, who termed the proposal " a serious, serious wrong," moved that the plan be defeated. . " If this board decreases the size of the medical school, they're doing this state a great disservice," Dempster said. St Louis curator William Cocos further admonished Dr. Uehling. " I would be totally opposed to cut-ting the enrollment of the medical school," Cocos said. " We've had this size for 10 years, and all of a sudden we dont have enough space, insuffi-cient faculty and quality is down. Have we been graduating inefficient doctors?" Without information on the sub-ject, the board was caught flat- foote- d. Aggravating the matter, Dr. Uehling was unable to tell the cura-tors where the savings accrued by the enrollment cut would be used. She said that faculty inevitably would be cut " You're asking us to reduce ( en-rollment) without a decision being ' made ( on where the savings will go )," Dempster said. That note struck a respondent chord with newly appointed curator Doug Russell of Lebanon, Mo., who was attending his first curator meet-ing. Russell asked for more informa-tion, and curator Marian Oldham then moved to table the administra-tion's proposal. Mrs. Oldham later successfully called for future administrative pro-posals, chiefly those dealing with program reductions and elimina- - uons, to be forwarded to curators for consideration at least 10 days prior to board meetings. University President James Olson said the amount of information given the board on the proposal was " about the same" as on other mat-ters, but the board's degree of inter-est was higher. " Obviously, we didnt do a partic-ularly good job of documenting our suggestion," be said. Olson said the enrollment cut en-dorsed by medical school adminis-trators, wouldn't affect the quality of Missouri health care. In other business, administrators revealed extensive cuts in the Uni-versity's cooperative extension serv-- ( See EXTENSION, Page 8A) Citizens want trustees to listen ByJoeLambe Missourian staff writer FAYETTE Another act opened Thursday in the drama surrounding Keller Memorial Hospital, as about 100 citizens crowded into the Howard County Courthouse to discuss how to communicate with the hospital Board of Trustees and make it more accountable to the public. They elected four representatives to meet as a group with the hospital beard. There is no assurance, how-ever, Shat the board will agree to the meeting. Eleven of the hospital's 14 regis--' tered nurses submitted their resig-nations on March 8 after the board refused to meet with them publicly to discuss nursing concerns about staff size and patient care. On March 13 the Columbia Mis-sourian reported that the hospital was violating state law by repeated-ly refusing to surrender control of $ 1.03 million in investment funds to - the county treasurer. The money came from excess funds the hospital received from the county each year, and the investment return on it The board also did not have a copy of its 1S80 financial report on file at the courthouse until March 10, more than a year after it was due. Sarah Morrow, who organized the meeting, said she wanted to look to-ward the future and stress positive goals for the hospitaL She wanted to give citizens a chance to commu-nicate with each other and with the board. Hospital board under fire Marilyn Linhart, who assisted Mrs. Morrow in arranging the meet-ing, said, " We want to open up posi-tive channels of communication so board members feel they can com-fortably talk to the community." Because the nurses have decided not to return to Keller, no discussion of their situation was allowed, and speakers were restricted to five min-utes each to comment on the hospi-tal's financial situation and the ques-tion of the board's access to the public. The board meetings have been closed, and some county residents said board members have refused to discuss the hospital's financial situa-tion with them. " It appears to me the board has been unreasonable by not agreeing to public meetings," said George Vaughan. " If we can just avoid per-sonalities and be reasonable, we can solve this problem." Others spoke out in favor of the board, and against the idea of town-ship representatives. " It's not fair just to set watchdogs over the men we elected," said Steve Sartain. " The board should just have an open meeting with the public ev- - ( See COUNTY, Page 8A) i lis tewm ttay 16: 39 am. 1962 U. S. Open TaeKwonDo Championships, Hickman High SchooL Black belt matches and demonstra-tions at 3 p- m- .. Tickets $ 4 in advance and at doer, $ 2 for children under 12. 8pja. Chestnut Brass, clas-sical music, Fine Aits Recital EaH at the University, free. Cbtssifkd 5-- TE Comics. . 5B I OjHidca .......... ... 4A ReUgfra - 6- - 1A Tteratpr. ,...., Wt fi wmm M III ff
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Item.Transcript | STATE MITIC'.-- . . CIETV liITT & Li', .';?.' .:' i . --- ;. 74th Year No. 163 Good Morning! It's Saturday. March 27, 1982 2 Sections 16 Pages 25 Cents HHnHlHBaiHIBHMI, IBHniHIHnHHHMIMIMHHiaBIBIKBaHHaHiaiMIIH Reagan ready to make budget changes .1 NewYorkTimes WASHINGTON Edwin Meese HI, the White House counselor, de-clared Friday that President Reagan was no longer committed to the bud-get he submitted last month and was prepared to negotiate basic changes to reduce the deGcit with Republi-cans and Democrats in Congress. In the most explicitly conciliatory statement on the budget from any-one in the Reagan administration, Meese also said the $ 91.5 billion defi-cit projected in early February had grown and required changes in the administration's budget posture. " Some changes are necessary be-cause during the time the budget has been up there, the potential deficit has grown," Meese told a session of the National Health Council at the Capital Hilton Hotel in downtown Washington. He added, " We are looking for areas of agreement" with Congress and that, right how, the administra-tion was engaged in a process of " trying to get all the various propos-als onthe table." At the White House, officials said Meese's comments did not necessar-ily signal that Reagan was ready to make concessions now, particularly on his insistence in sizable military spending increases and the preser-vation of the three- ye- ar personal tax cut enacted last year. . But one aide to Reagan said Meese. was merely making explicit what was implicit in the fact that James A. Baker HI, the White House chief of staff, had already begun private discussions with Democratic con-gressional leaders. " Meese is saying what we've been saying in code all week," a White House official said. Meese's comments came as aides Tm beginning to feel bipartisanship on both sides,' says Sen. Paul Laxalt, the Nevada Republican who is Reagan's closest friend. at the White House and some sen-ators and representatives expressed new optimism that a budget compro-mise can be hammered out some time between Easter and Memorial Day. " I'm beginning to feel a sense of bipartisanship- o- n both sides," said Sen. Paul Laxalt, the Nevada Repub-lican who is Reagan's closest friend in Congress. " It makes me feel that perhaps in the next few days the log-jam will be broken. I'd like to see things move toward a framework in which the details could be negotiated after the Easter recess." At the White House, Reagan's posi-tion on the budget is described offi-cially as unyielding. But starting a few weeks ago, presidential aides said they felt personally the presi-dent would eventually have to accept changes in his economic program, most obviously in trimming his mili-tary spending increases. When such talk of concessions first surfaced in newspaper reports, Rea-gan ordered it stopped. But White House officials continue to acknowl-edge that compromise is inevitable in virtually every area except one: They remain convinced the presi-- , dent will not have to give up in his fight to preserve the three- yea- r, 25- perc-ent personal tax cut enacted last year. These officials view Reagan's stubbornness as sincere enough, but also as a potentially useful negotiat-ing weapon aimed at getting the Democrats and other critics to make early concessions of their own. Had Reagan yielded sooner in December, for example, or even a few weeks ago his aides reason that he would now be under the same pressures to yield still more. It is not hard for White House aides to see the ingredients of a com-promise: military spending cuts; cuts in nonmilitary spending; tight-ening of benefit formulas in food stamps, welfare and other individual benefits, and some increases in taxes. Put together, these pieces could go far in reducing the deficit for the 1383 fiscal year below the $ 91.5 bil-lion projected by the administration, and certainly below the $ 120.6 billion projected by the Congressional Bud-get Office. The White House, which clearly fa-vors reducing benefit formulas in welfare and federal employee and veterans pensions, is not even pro-posing any specific means for doing so until the administration can be more sure of Democratic receptivi-ty. Democrats, in particular, are es-pecially gun- sh- y about negotiating with Reagan. House Speaker Thom-as P. O'Neill Jr., has complained re-peatedly that last year he entered negotiations with Reagan on tax cut and budget issues, and made signifi-cant concessions, only to find the president unwilling to make similar gestures of Ms own. Group tries to resurrect ERA vote ByDanBalaban Missourian staff writer Ironton, a town of 1,700 tucked away in the Missouri Ozarks, is not exactly a hotbed of political activity. But a group of University Equal Rights Amendment supporters wants tomake it one. Ironton is the home city of State Sen. Marvin Dinger, a Democrat and the only member of the Senate Con-stitutional Amendments Committee who did not cast a vote on the ERA when it came before the committee and was defeated Feb. 10. A small group of local ERA hold-outs has seized on this fact and in-tend to make his impoverished town a battleground in their last- ditc- h ef-fort to save the doomed amendment. -- Members of the University Asso-ciation for Women Students Task Force have made Dinger the target of a campaign to acMeve'- passag- e of " the amendment before the legis-lative session ends April 30. They think they can persuade the senator to ask for another committee vote by enli'ding the citizens of Iron- to- n to their cause. Dinger, who has twice voted against the amendment on the Sen1 ate floor, agreed at the urging of the pro- ER- A lobby to sit out the IssslgM Feb. 10 committee vote and give the amendment a chance to be debated on the floor. But the lobby's strategy failed when it could not persuade an-other anti- ER- A senator to abstain and swing the vote of the nine- memb- er committee in favor of sending it to the floor. Now task force members think Dinger's absence may have caused him political damage. Through his constituency, they think they can persuade him cot only to request an-other committee vote, but, once called, to vote for the amendment Two members of the task force, University students Scott Oppen- hei- m, an ERA activist, and Dana Yates, a native of Ironton, traveled to the town Feb. 17, but found that gaining support for the amendment would be harder than they had thought " The majority of the people we talked to did not even know what ERA meant," says Miss Yates. " They didnt even know it was going through the government and they didnt know that Marvin Dinger had anything to do with it" But the two students persisted. They relied on a cultural trait Miss Yates says is characteristic of the people: " Hillbillies cant stand some-one straddling the fence," she says. " I dont think the people care if he's for or against the amendment; they just want him to do something." The two, with the help of Miss Yates' cousins, canvassed the town. They requested the same thing wherever they went atstreetcom- er- s, taverns, supermarkets and the huge Brown Shoe Co. plant that em-ploys more than 1,000 people, more than half of whom are women. Just write a short letter to Dinger urging his support of the amendment, they . asked. At each location they patiently ex-plained the amendment's meaning to those who didnt understand it To those who couldnt read it, they re-cited the amendment And in one and a half days, they collected more than 100 letters. In a town in which only S50 residents voted in the 1SS0 presi-dential election, that's a significant accomplishment " After they understood it, many of them would say, ' Hey, that's a good ( See STATE, Page 8A) I Council lobbies clergy to promote safety ByDanBalaban Missourian staff writer To the best of his recollection, Jim Evans hasn't sat down to a church service in almost 20 years. Yet Evans has spent a good deal of time since his retirement seek-ing the help of local clergymen in his effort to reduce accidental deaths and injuries in the commu-nity. For seven years, Evans has do-nated 20 hours a week to the Colum-bia Safety Council. He answers the phone, types up announcements and refers the safety conscious to information on the subject. And during the last four years, he's made visits to churches of every denomination. " The church is the only form of adult education for many people," he says -- candidly. And what better way to get the message across about safer driving and work habits than in a church service? So Evans, periodically visits - ehurdsesinthe vicinity of the coun-cil's office at Ninth and Broadway. On such outings, he carries in one hand a copy of the National Safety Council's " Accident Facts," in the other, citations to Scriptures that relate to safety in daily life. Both, he suggests to the clergy, may be used in a sermon on safety. But his results, he says with equal candor, have not been en-couraging. " WelL ni be honest with you," he says. " A total flop." To his knowledge, in the four years that he and other members of the council have called on local clergy members, not one has talked about safety in all or part of a ser-mon. By his count, Evans says, there are more than 100 clergymen in the community, but the council has even had difficulty persuading churches to mention the subject at any length in their bulletins. He asks that the clergy forward to their congregations three safety tips to reduce automobile deaths and injuries, which currently ac-count for more than half of all acci-dent casualties: Keep the drunk driveroff the road; while riding in a vehicle, keep children under five in a safety seat in the back seat; and wear safety belts at all times. Evans made another round of visits to churches and a synagogue early in February to drum up sup-port for " Safety Sabbath," which was sponsored Feb. 12-- 14 by the National Safety Council. At that time, he carried with him copies of the Columbia council's newsletter, which be wrote himself, urging clergymen and leaders of religious organizations to " implore their congregations" to. follow the three precautions. In the newsletter he asked for help in energizing " one of the largest support groups, the reli--- giouscomflnfixSy." None of the local clergy respond-ed, Evans said. " 11 we even get one out of the 100 well feel like we've done a good job," he says. " K we even get one more item in a church announce-ment or just one mention in a serv-ice, well be happy." Many of the churches have gone only as far as putting notices in their bulletins announcing Safety Council events. " I just dont think it's appropri-ate," says the Rev. Thomas E. Frank of the United Missouri Meth-odist Church, 204 S. Ninth St.. " There are a lot of valid concerns in the community, but I dont think it's one we'd do frcerthe pulpit." The Rev. Sam S. Langley of the First Christian Church, 101 N. Tenth St, said he mentioned the subject in a service " years back." Others say that their programs were full during the Safety Sabbath Safety advocate Jim Evans is trying to get more church support ' this year, or that they never got word of the event. But Liz Schmidt, president of the Columbia Interfaith Council, said that at the prodding of the council she sent about 60 letters to local houses of worship announcing the Safety Sabbath. She said members of her organi-zation, a conference of local lay leaders and clergymen, also dis-cussed the event at their January meeting. She says she doesn't know if any church, synagogue or mos-que has acted en the Safety Coun-cil's suggestions. " They're flooded with informa-tion," says Mrs. Schmidt of the pos-sible reason many clergymen failed to learn of the event. " You just cant absorb everything that comes across your desk." Another Safety Sabbath is sched-uled for the Labor Day weekend, which is one of the deadliest week-ends for motorists. The Rev. Nor- - man Vincent Peale chairs the event nationally. On a four- pag- e program planning guide, he tells clergymen and leaders of religious groups how to observe the Sabbath. Evans said he took the guide to many of the churches he visited. The guide provides prayers for safety, safety quotes that can be in-serted into the church newsletter, and biblical citations and accident statistics on which to base a safety sermon. M. U. curators criticize med school cuts By BryanBurrough Missourian staff writer ST. LOUIS The University Board of Curators Friday tabled a proposal by Chancellor Barbara Uehling to decrease enrollment at the University School of Medicine beginning in 1383. Spiraling costs and deep cuts in federal funding at the medical school prompted the administration to urge a reduction in class size from 110 stu-dents to 100, a 9 percent decrease. Speaking before the board at the University of Missouri- S- L Louis, Dr. Uehling further supported the cut by citing figures that predict the num-ber of doctors nationwide will double by the year 2000. The medical school would save an estimated $ 120,000 un-- der the proposal, not nearly enough to compensate for the loss of federal funds. Dr. Uehling said. " We've reached a point where we have to stop and say, " We cant af-ford to do this for all these stu-dents,' " she said. " There comes a point when you just have to cut back." The medical school already is un-derstaffed and suffering from a se-vere space shortage, Dr. Uehling said. But two curators immediately crit-icized the chancellor's plan on the basis that cutting enrollment would inflict a deep wound on a state al-ready short on doctors in many rural areas. SSkeston, Mo., curator Robert Dempster, who termed the proposal " a serious, serious wrong," moved that the plan be defeated. . " If this board decreases the size of the medical school, they're doing this state a great disservice," Dempster said. St Louis curator William Cocos further admonished Dr. Uehling. " I would be totally opposed to cut-ting the enrollment of the medical school," Cocos said. " We've had this size for 10 years, and all of a sudden we dont have enough space, insuffi-cient faculty and quality is down. Have we been graduating inefficient doctors?" Without information on the sub-ject, the board was caught flat- foote- d. Aggravating the matter, Dr. Uehling was unable to tell the cura-tors where the savings accrued by the enrollment cut would be used. She said that faculty inevitably would be cut " You're asking us to reduce ( en-rollment) without a decision being ' made ( on where the savings will go )," Dempster said. That note struck a respondent chord with newly appointed curator Doug Russell of Lebanon, Mo., who was attending his first curator meet-ing. Russell asked for more informa-tion, and curator Marian Oldham then moved to table the administra-tion's proposal. Mrs. Oldham later successfully called for future administrative pro-posals, chiefly those dealing with program reductions and elimina- - uons, to be forwarded to curators for consideration at least 10 days prior to board meetings. University President James Olson said the amount of information given the board on the proposal was " about the same" as on other mat-ters, but the board's degree of inter-est was higher. " Obviously, we didnt do a partic-ularly good job of documenting our suggestion," be said. Olson said the enrollment cut en-dorsed by medical school adminis-trators, wouldn't affect the quality of Missouri health care. In other business, administrators revealed extensive cuts in the Uni-versity's cooperative extension serv-- ( See EXTENSION, Page 8A) Citizens want trustees to listen ByJoeLambe Missourian staff writer FAYETTE Another act opened Thursday in the drama surrounding Keller Memorial Hospital, as about 100 citizens crowded into the Howard County Courthouse to discuss how to communicate with the hospital Board of Trustees and make it more accountable to the public. They elected four representatives to meet as a group with the hospital beard. There is no assurance, how-ever, Shat the board will agree to the meeting. Eleven of the hospital's 14 regis--' tered nurses submitted their resig-nations on March 8 after the board refused to meet with them publicly to discuss nursing concerns about staff size and patient care. On March 13 the Columbia Mis-sourian reported that the hospital was violating state law by repeated-ly refusing to surrender control of $ 1.03 million in investment funds to - the county treasurer. The money came from excess funds the hospital received from the county each year, and the investment return on it The board also did not have a copy of its 1S80 financial report on file at the courthouse until March 10, more than a year after it was due. Sarah Morrow, who organized the meeting, said she wanted to look to-ward the future and stress positive goals for the hospitaL She wanted to give citizens a chance to commu-nicate with each other and with the board. Hospital board under fire Marilyn Linhart, who assisted Mrs. Morrow in arranging the meet-ing, said, " We want to open up posi-tive channels of communication so board members feel they can com-fortably talk to the community." Because the nurses have decided not to return to Keller, no discussion of their situation was allowed, and speakers were restricted to five min-utes each to comment on the hospi-tal's financial situation and the ques-tion of the board's access to the public. The board meetings have been closed, and some county residents said board members have refused to discuss the hospital's financial situa-tion with them. " It appears to me the board has been unreasonable by not agreeing to public meetings," said George Vaughan. " If we can just avoid per-sonalities and be reasonable, we can solve this problem." Others spoke out in favor of the board, and against the idea of town-ship representatives. " It's not fair just to set watchdogs over the men we elected," said Steve Sartain. " The board should just have an open meeting with the public ev- - ( See COUNTY, Page 8A) i lis tewm ttay 16: 39 am. 1962 U. S. 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