Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1984-11-09

              STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
HITT & LOSRT
COLUMBIA, MO. 65211
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City plan
irritates
stores
By Warren Sfrobol
Mksourton 8left writer
Carol and Gary Driller are piec-ing
together a new sign for their
store, the Merry- Go- Ronn- d
Stained Glass Center.
But it won't hang in front of the
building at 320 E. Broadway where,
they've done business for three
years. The Drillers say a city deci-sion
Oct 1 to eliminate parking in
front of the store is forcing them to
, literally pick up shop and move.
( Tsihgnes wberraned- nteh- ew last s" tNraow Pfoarrkainsegc"-
ond businessman who also is mov-ing,
while a third, locked into a
long- ter- m lease, fumes at a city
decision that he says will harm his
livelihood.
That decision prohibits parking
along Broadway between Fourth
Street and Providence Road. It
was initiated by Mayor John West- lun- d
and Fourth Ward Councilman
Pat Barnes
One reason for the change was
the danger posed by cars driving
over the curb and parking on the
wide sidewalk in front of business-es
housed in the old ice plant,
Wesfiund says. " There aren't
many places in town where you
can park on the sidewalks."
A new sidewalk will be built in
front of the building, WesSund
said. After a right- han- d turn lane
is installed on the northeast corner
of Providence Road and Broad-way,
a beautification program for
the area will follow, be says
But the Drillers say the lack of
parking, . nothing more, has
prompted them to mcv& " We
can't operate the way it is without
parking," Mrs. Driller says. " A
retail business that has a cfientefe
or people that stop by has to have
places to park."
9 It is not the city's plan for aide- wal- ks
and planters, though, that
upsets Mrs. Driller.
" It does need to have the im-provements,"
she says. " They felt
with the improvements, then we
couldn't have safe parking "
I But alternate parking hasn't
been forthcoming, she says " And
if there's no alternate plan, mat
puts us between a rock and a hard
place."
The " No Parking" signs have
had an almost immediate effect on
the Drillers' business. " We can
! ust notice that ( it) seems down a
Ittle," Mrs. Driller says. " Maybe
20 percent Maybe notquite that."
Alternate parking is available at
a 50- spa- ce parking lot on Fourth
Street and at nearby businesses,
Wesflund says, " I don't e? e how
their business could have changed,
because last night I saw cars
parkedon the sidewalk there."
" It surprises me that they would
quit because of no parking" when
parking is available, Westlund
says. " There's no reason why they
cant do good business there.'
Next door to the Drillers is The
Shop, a garage for foreign cars.
Owner Mute Smith al30 wul move
when the new year comes.
When parking spaces disap--
eared from in front of neighbor- i- g
E shops, the cars that bad parked
there lined his drive, he says. " It's
going to put me out of business,"
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Carol Driiiar in front of the store she has been forced to move from. J
Smith says. " That's the only park-ing
there is. I need that parking for
my business."
Smith, who already was eyeing a
move, says he has decided to take
his business elsewhere maybe
out of the city. " If I have my
choice about it, no, it will not be in
the dty," he says. " If I can't come
up with something, 111 go out of
business. That'll be so much mon-ey
the city won't be getting their
share of."
Smith end the Drillers are lucky
they can go elsewhere. The ga- -
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rage owner has no lease and the
Drillers' runs out Jan. 1.
Kim Scha& rmeyer is not so for-tunate.
The photographic chemist
set up shop in the building he
shares with the Drillers lust after
owner Mark Stevenson bought it
four years ago. His lease won't run
out for a longtime, he says.
" I've invested a lot of money in
this build& g, personal money,"
Schafermeyer says. " I'm stuck. I
came here believing in this old
buildhg."
Scha& rmeyer scoffs at the city's
plan to beautify the area where j
parking spaces used to be. " The j
city wants to do something cos-metic,
so they come down here and
destroy my economic premise,"
he says.
Ironically, the parking spaces
have helped, not hurt the photog-rapher's
business so far.
" All the work trucks arent out
here and my customers still park
there," he says. When the beautifi-cation
program begins, bis cus-tomers
might go elsewhere, he
says.
City F& Z OEs'zoffliiigg
for Boone Quarry tmct
By Warren Stroke!
Mlssour! an etef ( writer
The city Planning and Zoning
Commission, on Thursday night gave
its consent for the rezoning of tee
154- Ec- re Boone Quarry from agricul-tural
to industrial property as re-quested
byalocal developer.
The verdict, handed down after an
hour- lon- g hearing, hinged on a de-bate
over future use cf the huge tracfi
in northwest Columbia.
Charles Seheurieh, property man-ager
for developer Harold E. John-son,
told the commissien that ap-proving
the request will brighten the
outioflfe lor both the quarry and near-by
residents. Phasing out the quargy
and phasing in underground storego
will reduce the quarry's impact oa
its neighbors, Seheurieh said.
But residents from Roemer Lake
subdfrision, threusrters of a mile
nortbf the qosrhf, dtesgreed Re
scciteg th9 qttery lev indcstrfal use
devetopmenti Blloed onder
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the zoning ordinance, representa-tives
said.
In pressing for approval, Commis-sioner
Keith Schroder noted that the
quarry will be there, resoning or not.
" In this case, the worst poss'bje
tiling that could possibly be there is
already there," Schrader said. " We
ought to take a chance for some of
the better uses."
At the debate's outset, Seheurieh
outlined what may be in store for the
quarry. A rock- crushin- g plant, ce-ment
mixer and abandoned vehicles
nearby toil! be moved to the quarry
floor, Seheurieh said, When mining
goes as for as it can go horizontally,
in 70- fo- ot high quarry walls will be
straightened and underground stor-age
cOTpartments carved out, he
said
" AH uses inside the quarry will be
screened from view,',' Seheurieh
said, ' These moves, W9 feel, will re-duce
the1 air. noise and sight pollut-ion."
Opponents repeated again and
again that they have no guarantee
the site will remain a quarry, stor-age
area or anything else. " Once it
is ( industrial), it can also be used as
an electroplating plant or a Junk-yard,"
said Jim Ritzen, 1902 Cedar
Cliff Drive
To buttress the claim, Roemer
Lake Homeowners Association Pres-ident
Richard Baer, Route 11, pre-sented
the commission with a peti-tion
oppcsSngthe change.
Some residents ridiculed the idea
that crushing rock down in the quar-ry
would reduce dust titat floats into
the area. " It'll be terrible, unless
they pipe it to high heaven," said
Mary Nolks, who nas lived at 2703
Blackfoot Road since before the
quarry went into operation.
CojnraisslonerB considered the ar-guments
outlcud before they unani-mously
approved the request
The commission never addressed
the issue of placing restrictions on
Johnson's use of the land, Gall Car-son,
Route 11, complained after the
meeting
Carson said she and her noigbbora
will attend the City Council meeting
where the final decision will be
made. That decision probably will
come nest month.
But Carson isn't optimistic that
the decision will be reversed.'
MANAGUA, Nicaragua ( UPI) - Tw-enty-
thousand students were or-dered
into military service Thursday
by a Nicaraguan leader who told a
chanting crowd they must " defend
the fatherland" from a feared U S
invasion.
Jaime Wheebck, a member of the
Sandfriista nine- ma- n directorate,
told a crowd gathered to bid farewell
to some 20,000 students destined to
work in the nation's coffee farms
that they were being diverted to ac-tive
military service
" We prefer to see the coffee fall
rather than our national sovereign-ty,"
Wheebck said, adding the mobi-lization
" was immediate "
The call to arms came as a sus-pected
VS. spy plane broke the
sound barrier over five cities, send-ing
panicked residents into the
streets for fear of a UJS. strike to de-stroy
a Soviet cargo that possibly in-cluded
MG jets.
" It was a difficult decision, but it
is the pnee we must pay to be free,"
Wheebck told tliounds of people
gathered in Managua's Revolution
Square
The cheering mob, raised their
clenched fists m the air and shouted
" They will not get through. They will
not get through," in reference to
fears in Nicaragua the United States
would invadsthe country.
" In the following days, we will
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give to every youth, to every resi-dent
of Managua, a gun to defend the
fatherland," Wheelock said
" From here on, we are going to
give a rifle to every citizen and to ev-ery
student We are carrying an
olive branch in one hand but also in
the right hand we are carrying a ri-fle,"
Wheelock told the crowd
" We have arms such that Mana-gua
will be defended by dozens and
dozens and dozens of thousands of
fighters," Wheelock said
Moments after Wheelock spoke,
Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto
announced Nicaragua would call a
meeting of the U. N. Security Council
" in the face of the reiterated threats
against Nicaraguan people's self- determinati- on
and sovereignty "
D'Escoto called the diplomatic
corps and media reporters to the
Foreign Ministry to read a
statement from the Sandimsta three- ma- n
junta, " to make known this se-rious
situation which threatens the
security of a member state of the
United Nations "
The foreign minister said the mea-sure
was taken " to complement in-ternal
measures already taken to
guarantee the mobilization of our
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By Brad Gentry
FUUssourian staff writer
The Missouri Public Service Com-mission
has given the Missoun- Kan- jas- TexE- S
Railroad 30 days to cor-rect
26 problem areas on its railroad
line in Boone County and has told the
county it needs to improve the warning-
- sign system at crossings
These were the findings in a five- pa- ge
report released Thursday by
the Boone Coanty Court, which re-quested
an inquiry last month into
the railroad's operations after a
number of derailments in the coun-ty.
The commission's track inspector
and manager of railroad services in-spected
conditions at county public- grad- e
crossings on Oct 24.
The 16-- to 17- mi- le stretch of track,
the site of eight derailments since
1981, extends from Rocheport to
south of Hartsburg
Southern District Judge Kay Rob-erts,
who said she has received seve-ral
complaints about the railroad
from constituents, has taken an in-terest
in the investigation because
the tracks Evolved in the derail-ments
extend through her district
and run adjacent to the Missouri
River.
" Our concern has been that we are
experiencing a tremendous amount
of derailments in the county, more
than our fair share," Roberts said,
noting that there have been more de-railments
on the county MKT line
than any stretch in the state
" Our concern and fear is that we
will have a derailment of a toxic sub-stance
that will affect the water
quality of the Missouri River," she
said
" Each one of these minor inci-dents
that have occurred might have
been a serious incident," said Mike
Sanford, county health director San- for- d
said toxic materials have not
been involved in any of the derail-ments.
Most of MKT's deficiencies were
cited because of crossings that were
void of planking reinforcement on
each side of each rail or because
crossings were not sufficiently long
Cited for those reasons were cross-ings
at Easley, Smith Hatchery
Road; Easley, South Hatchery Road;
Easley, Cunningham Road; Harts-burg,
Club House Road, Hartsburg,
near Route M; Hartsburg, River
Road; Hartsburg, east of Mam
Street; and Hartsburg, Soft Pitt Hill
Road.
MKT needs to clear trees and
brush in several areas, as well, the
PSC report says.
The county needs to replace seve-ral
warning signs
Roberts said the county also will
be spot checking the speed of trains
traveling the MKT line. The limit is
25 mph in most parts of the county,
she said.
Richard T. Mooney, PSC railroad
services manager, said a follow- u- p
mspechon would be made the week
of Nov. 26.
Study urges program increases
By Richard Pollto
Mtesourian staff writer
A $ 50,000 study, which was pre-pared
by 41 independent educational
consultants to help administrators
evaluate duplicated programs in the
University system, has concluded
theprograms needmore funding.
The consultants evaluated 12 aca-demic
programs that are duplicated
by the various campuses and sug-gested
ways to improve cooperation
between mem. The study contends
that in most cases the weaknesses
are result of inadequate funding
something that's not new to adminis-trators.'
" The reports have borne out our
warnings over the last five years
that shortfalls in appropriations
would erode UMC's ability to main-tain
quality in meeting its mis-sions,"
said UMC Chancellor Barba-ra
UehHng in a prepared statement
earlier tha week.
" We have known all along that we
. have catching up to do," UehHng
said.'
The- stud- y Is part of s review proc--
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ess designed to aid chancellors of the
four University campuses to develop
program priorities.
The study concluded that nine of 12
subject areas need more funding,
equipment or staff on at least one
campus. Its recommendations will
be forwarded in January to Peter
Magrath, who becomes University
president
Magrath will decide on where to
make program cuts so funds could
be reauccated to needy areas. Those
areas are:
f Chemistry, engineering, geolo-gy,
law, mathematics, medicine,
physics andpsychology at UMC.
s Chemistry, engineering, math-ematics
and physics programs at the
UntversityofMissouri- RoUa- .
Chemistry, law, nursing and
pSyehoJogy at the University of Mis- soiri- Kansas- Clty
Cfceistetry. mathematics and
psychology at the UntvasSty tf Mis- BOuri- St. Lo- uis.
The three remaining subject arras
of business, education and social
work were not recommended for ad-ditional
funds.
William Bradshaw, dean of UMC's
School of Medicine, which was re-viewed
by the consultants, said the
study substantiated what his school
already knew, including problems in
administrative organization and ten-ure
policy.
" They hit points we were already
aware of, and we are already work-ing
on them," Bradshaw said. But he
felt the report will help reinforce the
University's position in asking the
state for more money.
Richard Wallace, University vice
resident for academic affairs, Eelped organize the study. He said
the study will be financed by the
president's contingency fund.
Wallace called the report " very
useful information that both the
chancellors and President Magrath
will use in arriving at priority deci-sions."
Wallace said the 41 consultants
who prepared the reports were high-ly
respected in their fields. Wallace
said the consultants included aca-demics
from other institutions,
members of professional organiza-tions
and business executives.
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