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STATE Sir. T'iRIC- V- . .'-. CIS-TT 1" 3-;- ' HITT & L073Y T . '.' tilV COLU& 3IA. UC-- . 052';: 74th Year - No. 205 Good Morning! It's Saturday, May 15, 1982 3 Sections - 46 Pages - 25 Cents Going home There's no room at the inn as local businessmen reap cash from student exodus ByTom Dixon Misscorian staff writer ; Gradnatiaii at the University means as much to local businessmen as it does to the proud parents who fill the city's motels and restaurants waiting for the moment when their four- ye- ar investments in. the futures of their children pay their first dividends. It is as big a weekend as homecoming, said Columbia merchants whose wares in- dn- de food and shelter. The only difference is that everyone seems to be homegoing bat not before giving the local economy a healthy boost. Most of the city's 1,800 hotel rooms were reserved well hi advance of graduation cer-emonies today. " Yon can't find a room in Columbia this weekend, Susie Blakemore, office assist- - ( See other graduation stories, Page 8A) ant of the Convention & Visitors Bureau of Columbia, said Friday. A spot survey of the city's hotels supports that claim. Campus and Ramada inns were typical of the major motels. Campus Inn has 90 per-cent of its 97 rooms filled by people in town for graduation ceremonies, while Ramada Inn has 75 to 85 percent of its 205 rooms oc-cupied. Area restaurants also are reaping the benefits. " You have to waita while for a table,". said Dick Walls, owner'df The Heidelberg Restaurant, 410 S. Ninth St. " The increase in out- of- to- wn people makes ' for a super weekend." Chris Hahn, manager of Godfather's Piz-za, 7 N. Sixth St., is equally delighted. " We've had a phenomenal increase in business all week," he said. The fact that all good things must end, does not dampen the merchants' spirits not anymore. There was a time, they said, when the living was not so easy in the sum-mertime, after students had gone home for vacation. " It used to be where no money could be made," Walls said. " Now our business is steady in the summer, and we don't have the masses hit at one- tim- e orin peaks." Increasing numbers of students staying for summer sessions is one reason busi-nesses prosper during the long, hot sum-mers. But students are not the city's only salvation, said June Dodd, executive vice president of the Columbia Chamber of Commerce. Columbia has become a shopping center for central Missouri, she said." It is a re-gional marketplace," Ms. Dodd said. The city did $ 750 million in retail business and $ 54 million in food- restaura- nt sales last year, she said, adding that no single seg-ment of the city's population can take cred-it for that success. Yet student influence has grown as more and more stay through summer or take up permanent residence here. " The drastic exodus is no longer as visi-ble as it used to-- be," she said. " We are keeping students longer." I. Jean Zwoniter, coordinator of registra-tion at the University, said more than 7,700 students attended summer school at the University last year. She said 3,084 have pre- register- ed far this summer a drop of 300 from this tirafe a year ago. She declined tofestimate howfeany eventually will regis- terf- or summer sessions. " At least 15,000 will not they will spend their sun uthts elsewhere. But the effect of their absences will be scattered, Ms. Dodd said. Hahh said, --' We don't- xpect"- a bi& sum--- " - mertimelulL We maloseOO- 300- student- s a day which are duf late night or bar crowd. But we cater to families and don't expect to have any big problems when the students leave." The city's taverns, however, will miss the Friday and Saturday night crowds. " It's common sense when 16,000 students leave town you will experience some kind of slump," said Ken McClure, co- own- er of BuHwinkte's, 1107 E. Broadway. ' But we have a regular clientele. businessmen, people passing through Columbia; students who stay who will help us make it throughthesummer." nHHHHBHSSiiiLL RHHBuHHLa, r5BBIHBBMfefi KBIHWHBpwjwifiirowi in . - HIBHHmHHBflHHHBKu -- wlSHI IHHBHHHBBBHBBBBSBBm 3fflBBjBjBB8jBBB8""'- rHHBM8BH- P SfSHHHHHBBiMHHPSRgsilsNiSSn iBBBIHiHWBBBBillWWlw Pholo illustration by Jerome Delay Each year, college graduation festivities give an extra boost to Columbia's economy. Gray wants Columbians to help select new chief BySusan Atteberry Missourian staff writer City Manager Dick Gray is on the lookout for a replacement to fill the position left by Police Chief Dave Walsh's forced resignation from the Columbia Police Department If the City Council approves his plan Mon-day night, Gray will conduct the search and make his choice with the help of a professional scouting firm and a seven- memb- er citizens advi-sory panel- Gra- y will ask the council for $ 9,500 to hire the employment agency of KornFerry International of Los An-geles. The firm specializes in locat-ing qualified public officials to fill job openings. Gray was recruited through the firm two years ago for the Columbia city manager position. Before the search begins, compa-ny representatives will meet with members of the advisory panel to create a character sketch or " re-cruit profile" of the ideal police chief. KornFerry will then speed two months searching the United States and its files before suggesting three to five candidates. Candidates will interview with the firm, with Gray, with the advisory panel and with the public. Interviews will be open, although Missouri's Open Meetings Law does not require that meetings where personnel are hired or fired be open. The public interviews will be a " radical departure" from city prac-tice in hiring employees. But Gray says he has " learned through experi-ence" about closing such meetings to the public Last October, a closed engineering and economic evaluation selection committee meeting to select firms for a city energy study put Gray at odds with Harriet Darvish Sallach, the environment and energy com-mission's representative to the selec-tion panel. Mrs. Sallach argued that the meetings should be open to the public. Gray opened the interviews," and he says the process worked well. " Doing this in the open sunshine seems to work," he says. t Open interviews will also test a prospective candidate's ability to think on his or her feet, Gray says. " I feel our next chief must be at ease with the news media. What bet-ter way to test him in a situation than to see how he handles himself when the public's watching him?" Gray adds he is not " ruling out" the possibility of a female police chief. Public proceedings may dispel any doubts about Gray's integrity in hir-ing a new chief. Gray says the open-ing meetings win eliminate any " al-legations that I brought in an old crony or in some way it wasn't above board." Candidates who oppose the open sessions won't be invited to in-- tenaew, he says. In keeping with Equal Employ-ment Opportunity guidelines, Korn- Ferr- y representatives will ask the same set of questions in the same manner to each candidate. Panel members will then evaluate the can-didates. Panel members will be : One representative from the -- City Council to be appointed by May-or John Westlund. One representative of the Co-- ( See PANEL, Page 8A) County code revives familiar arguments ByCurtVostiandKristieBunton Missourian staff writers . As Boone County pieces its way to-ward implementing new county bqtldi" g codes, several familiar ob-jections have been raised to this lat-est attempt to supplement the coun-ty's legislative powers. The County Building Codes Com-mission and its supporters say the codes and -- inspections which would affect only new construction are necessary to ensure safe de-velopment. Critics of the codes, how-ever, have resurrected arguments from the home rule debate: the codes would be unnecessary regula-tion and could be biased against those rural residents who would be most affected. At public hearings this week in Ashland, Columbia and Centralia, the commission heard both sides out-line their positions as it sought opin-ions about modifying the codes to the particular needs of Boone County. Three or four additional hearings will be scheduled. The commission was appointed in May 1981 to devise codes and en-forcement measures to monitor the l building, electrical, plumbing and mechanical stages of all construe- - I Insiglet turn in unincorporated county areas. Currently, voluntary guidelines and inspections govern new construc-tion. To create a framework, the com-mission has relied heavily on the so- call- ed " BOCA" codes, a series of codes used nationwide that set mini-mumstandards for safety. Joe Gibbs of Rocneport and Bob Northup, Route 5, noted opponents of the home rule' charter, repeated the concerns they used to help defeat home rule. At tiie Centralia hearing, Gibbs " said the commission's proposed Board of Appeals has no representa-tives from unincorporated areas of the county. Incorporated areas, such as Ashland and Centralia, would have the option of adopting the regu-lations. County Court Presiding Judge Bill Freeh responded that it was highly unlikely that the County Court would exclude such representatives from the board " Fd rather have it in writing," ( See LEGALITY, Page 8A) lat towia today 10: 30 ajn. University com-mencement, Hearnes Center. 7: 30 pan. Maplewood Barn Theater 10th anniversary re-vue, Nifong Park off Old 63. Tickets are $ 2 for adults, $ 1 for children and senior citizens. e 875- 50- 50 STOPPERS OF COEATEB COUJMOA PO031S COUJMBU. K3 G92C Index Business Classified ..... . .3- 4- B Comics ....... ... SB Opinion . .. 4A People .......... ...- 5- A Religion ..... u...... ..... -- 6A Sports...........................- l2- B Theater .......................... SB State s long- truc- k journey ends as Gov. Bond puts up roadblock JEFFERSON CITY ( UPI) - Gov. Christopher S. Bond Friday vetoed a controversial bill permitting longer trucks to be driven on Missouri high-ways. He said the bill was an insult to voters who rejected the operation of oversize trucks at an election less than two months ago. " Legislative approval of longer trucks is inconsistent with the peo-ple's right to a meaningful referen-dum andmajoriry rule," Bond said. Missouri, Illinois and Arkansas re-main the only three states in the na-tion prohibiting large trucks. Lobby-ists for commercial freight haulers have protested that the three states constitute a mid- continen- tal barrier to low- pric- ed transportation of goods, especially farm produce. Bond -- did not notify Rep. Stan Thomas, D- Iibe- rty, House sponsor of the bill, that he had decided on a veto. " I never got a word on it," Thomas said " I've been in wholehearted support of longer trucks because the longer the rig is, the less wear and tearon the highways." On April 6, voters at a statewide referendum repealed the so- call- ed " big truck" law allowing the opera- - - tion of heavier and longer trucks in Cites voters' disapproval of bill the state. The law was passed in 1981 by the General Assembly and signed by the governor. Bond said he signed the 1981 mea-sure in . order to remove a potential barrier to economic development and to help bring new jobs-- . . Although the measure was ap-proved by voters in 93 counties, it was repealed 462,585 to 405,471 be-cause of heavy opposition from vot-ers in St. Louis and Kansas City. The repealed law would have per-mitted an increase in truck weight to 80,000 pounds ( 38 metric tons), com-pared to the present limit of 73,280 pounds ( 33 metric tons). An increase in length to 60 feet ( 18 meters) from 55 feet ( 16.5 meters) also would have been permitted. Lawmakers moved on April 29, the day before adjournment of the Gen-eral Assembly's 1982 regular ses-sion, to revive that portion of the measure on increased truck length. Action came first in the Senate, where an amendment sponsored by Sen. Ralph Uthlaut, R- N- ew Flor-ence, was introduced permitting the i operation of trucks 60 feet ( 18 me-ters) long. The amendment, defeat-ed 15- 1- 7, was brought back again af-ter intensive lobbying to switch votes and was approved 17-- 13 on a motion for reconsideration. Uthlaut said he did not think Mis- souria- ns understood what they were doing when they repealedthe law at the earlier election. The amendment was attached to Thomas' bill, which restored the size of special commercial zones in the ' St. Louis and Kansas City areas where trucks 85 feet ( 25.5 meters) in length and over 100,000 pounds ( 45. metric tons) are permitted to oper-ate - Commercial zones were created to allow the movement in urban areas of " piggyback" truck trailers brought in on flatbed railroad cars. House members approved Thom-as' bill with Uthlaut's amendment 96- 5- 8. Passage came after comments from some legislators who were fu-rious at the attempt to override neg-ative public opinion expressed at the -- referendum election.
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Item.Transcript | STATE Sir. T'iRIC- V- . .'-. CIS-TT 1" 3-;- ' HITT & L073Y T . '.' tilV COLU& 3IA. UC-- . 052';: 74th Year - No. 205 Good Morning! It's Saturday, May 15, 1982 3 Sections - 46 Pages - 25 Cents Going home There's no room at the inn as local businessmen reap cash from student exodus ByTom Dixon Misscorian staff writer ; Gradnatiaii at the University means as much to local businessmen as it does to the proud parents who fill the city's motels and restaurants waiting for the moment when their four- ye- ar investments in. the futures of their children pay their first dividends. It is as big a weekend as homecoming, said Columbia merchants whose wares in- dn- de food and shelter. The only difference is that everyone seems to be homegoing bat not before giving the local economy a healthy boost. Most of the city's 1,800 hotel rooms were reserved well hi advance of graduation cer-emonies today. " Yon can't find a room in Columbia this weekend, Susie Blakemore, office assist- - ( See other graduation stories, Page 8A) ant of the Convention & Visitors Bureau of Columbia, said Friday. A spot survey of the city's hotels supports that claim. Campus and Ramada inns were typical of the major motels. Campus Inn has 90 per-cent of its 97 rooms filled by people in town for graduation ceremonies, while Ramada Inn has 75 to 85 percent of its 205 rooms oc-cupied. Area restaurants also are reaping the benefits. " You have to waita while for a table,". said Dick Walls, owner'df The Heidelberg Restaurant, 410 S. Ninth St. " The increase in out- of- to- wn people makes ' for a super weekend." Chris Hahn, manager of Godfather's Piz-za, 7 N. Sixth St., is equally delighted. " We've had a phenomenal increase in business all week," he said. The fact that all good things must end, does not dampen the merchants' spirits not anymore. There was a time, they said, when the living was not so easy in the sum-mertime, after students had gone home for vacation. " It used to be where no money could be made," Walls said. " Now our business is steady in the summer, and we don't have the masses hit at one- tim- e orin peaks." Increasing numbers of students staying for summer sessions is one reason busi-nesses prosper during the long, hot sum-mers. But students are not the city's only salvation, said June Dodd, executive vice president of the Columbia Chamber of Commerce. Columbia has become a shopping center for central Missouri, she said." It is a re-gional marketplace," Ms. Dodd said. The city did $ 750 million in retail business and $ 54 million in food- restaura- nt sales last year, she said, adding that no single seg-ment of the city's population can take cred-it for that success. Yet student influence has grown as more and more stay through summer or take up permanent residence here. " The drastic exodus is no longer as visi-ble as it used to-- be," she said. " We are keeping students longer." I. Jean Zwoniter, coordinator of registra-tion at the University, said more than 7,700 students attended summer school at the University last year. She said 3,084 have pre- register- ed far this summer a drop of 300 from this tirafe a year ago. She declined tofestimate howfeany eventually will regis- terf- or summer sessions. " At least 15,000 will not they will spend their sun uthts elsewhere. But the effect of their absences will be scattered, Ms. Dodd said. Hahh said, --' We don't- xpect"- a bi& sum--- " - mertimelulL We maloseOO- 300- student- s a day which are duf late night or bar crowd. But we cater to families and don't expect to have any big problems when the students leave." The city's taverns, however, will miss the Friday and Saturday night crowds. " It's common sense when 16,000 students leave town you will experience some kind of slump," said Ken McClure, co- own- er of BuHwinkte's, 1107 E. Broadway. ' But we have a regular clientele. businessmen, people passing through Columbia; students who stay who will help us make it throughthesummer." nHHHHBHSSiiiLL RHHBuHHLa, r5BBIHBBMfefi KBIHWHBpwjwifiirowi in . - HIBHHmHHBflHHHBKu -- wlSHI IHHBHHHBBBHBBBBSBBm 3fflBBjBjBB8jBBB8""'- rHHBM8BH- P SfSHHHHHBBiMHHPSRgsilsNiSSn iBBBIHiHWBBBBillWWlw Pholo illustration by Jerome Delay Each year, college graduation festivities give an extra boost to Columbia's economy. Gray wants Columbians to help select new chief BySusan Atteberry Missourian staff writer City Manager Dick Gray is on the lookout for a replacement to fill the position left by Police Chief Dave Walsh's forced resignation from the Columbia Police Department If the City Council approves his plan Mon-day night, Gray will conduct the search and make his choice with the help of a professional scouting firm and a seven- memb- er citizens advi-sory panel- Gra- y will ask the council for $ 9,500 to hire the employment agency of KornFerry International of Los An-geles. The firm specializes in locat-ing qualified public officials to fill job openings. Gray was recruited through the firm two years ago for the Columbia city manager position. Before the search begins, compa-ny representatives will meet with members of the advisory panel to create a character sketch or " re-cruit profile" of the ideal police chief. KornFerry will then speed two months searching the United States and its files before suggesting three to five candidates. Candidates will interview with the firm, with Gray, with the advisory panel and with the public. Interviews will be open, although Missouri's Open Meetings Law does not require that meetings where personnel are hired or fired be open. The public interviews will be a " radical departure" from city prac-tice in hiring employees. But Gray says he has " learned through experi-ence" about closing such meetings to the public Last October, a closed engineering and economic evaluation selection committee meeting to select firms for a city energy study put Gray at odds with Harriet Darvish Sallach, the environment and energy com-mission's representative to the selec-tion panel. Mrs. Sallach argued that the meetings should be open to the public. Gray opened the interviews," and he says the process worked well. " Doing this in the open sunshine seems to work," he says. t Open interviews will also test a prospective candidate's ability to think on his or her feet, Gray says. " I feel our next chief must be at ease with the news media. What bet-ter way to test him in a situation than to see how he handles himself when the public's watching him?" Gray adds he is not " ruling out" the possibility of a female police chief. Public proceedings may dispel any doubts about Gray's integrity in hir-ing a new chief. Gray says the open-ing meetings win eliminate any " al-legations that I brought in an old crony or in some way it wasn't above board." Candidates who oppose the open sessions won't be invited to in-- tenaew, he says. In keeping with Equal Employ-ment Opportunity guidelines, Korn- Ferr- y representatives will ask the same set of questions in the same manner to each candidate. Panel members will then evaluate the can-didates. Panel members will be : One representative from the -- City Council to be appointed by May-or John Westlund. One representative of the Co-- ( See PANEL, Page 8A) County code revives familiar arguments ByCurtVostiandKristieBunton Missourian staff writers . As Boone County pieces its way to-ward implementing new county bqtldi" g codes, several familiar ob-jections have been raised to this lat-est attempt to supplement the coun-ty's legislative powers. The County Building Codes Com-mission and its supporters say the codes and -- inspections which would affect only new construction are necessary to ensure safe de-velopment. Critics of the codes, how-ever, have resurrected arguments from the home rule debate: the codes would be unnecessary regula-tion and could be biased against those rural residents who would be most affected. At public hearings this week in Ashland, Columbia and Centralia, the commission heard both sides out-line their positions as it sought opin-ions about modifying the codes to the particular needs of Boone County. Three or four additional hearings will be scheduled. The commission was appointed in May 1981 to devise codes and en-forcement measures to monitor the l building, electrical, plumbing and mechanical stages of all construe- - I Insiglet turn in unincorporated county areas. Currently, voluntary guidelines and inspections govern new construc-tion. To create a framework, the com-mission has relied heavily on the so- call- ed " BOCA" codes, a series of codes used nationwide that set mini-mumstandards for safety. Joe Gibbs of Rocneport and Bob Northup, Route 5, noted opponents of the home rule' charter, repeated the concerns they used to help defeat home rule. At tiie Centralia hearing, Gibbs " said the commission's proposed Board of Appeals has no representa-tives from unincorporated areas of the county. Incorporated areas, such as Ashland and Centralia, would have the option of adopting the regu-lations. County Court Presiding Judge Bill Freeh responded that it was highly unlikely that the County Court would exclude such representatives from the board " Fd rather have it in writing," ( See LEGALITY, Page 8A) lat towia today 10: 30 ajn. University com-mencement, Hearnes Center. 7: 30 pan. Maplewood Barn Theater 10th anniversary re-vue, Nifong Park off Old 63. Tickets are $ 2 for adults, $ 1 for children and senior citizens. e 875- 50- 50 STOPPERS OF COEATEB COUJMOA PO031S COUJMBU. K3 G92C Index Business Classified ..... . .3- 4- B Comics ....... ... SB Opinion . .. 4A People .......... ...- 5- A Religion ..... u...... ..... -- 6A Sports...........................- l2- B Theater .......................... SB State s long- truc- k journey ends as Gov. Bond puts up roadblock JEFFERSON CITY ( UPI) - Gov. Christopher S. Bond Friday vetoed a controversial bill permitting longer trucks to be driven on Missouri high-ways. He said the bill was an insult to voters who rejected the operation of oversize trucks at an election less than two months ago. " Legislative approval of longer trucks is inconsistent with the peo-ple's right to a meaningful referen-dum andmajoriry rule," Bond said. Missouri, Illinois and Arkansas re-main the only three states in the na-tion prohibiting large trucks. Lobby-ists for commercial freight haulers have protested that the three states constitute a mid- continen- tal barrier to low- pric- ed transportation of goods, especially farm produce. Bond -- did not notify Rep. Stan Thomas, D- Iibe- rty, House sponsor of the bill, that he had decided on a veto. " I never got a word on it," Thomas said " I've been in wholehearted support of longer trucks because the longer the rig is, the less wear and tearon the highways." On April 6, voters at a statewide referendum repealed the so- call- ed " big truck" law allowing the opera- - - tion of heavier and longer trucks in Cites voters' disapproval of bill the state. The law was passed in 1981 by the General Assembly and signed by the governor. Bond said he signed the 1981 mea-sure in . order to remove a potential barrier to economic development and to help bring new jobs-- . . Although the measure was ap-proved by voters in 93 counties, it was repealed 462,585 to 405,471 be-cause of heavy opposition from vot-ers in St. Louis and Kansas City. The repealed law would have per-mitted an increase in truck weight to 80,000 pounds ( 38 metric tons), com-pared to the present limit of 73,280 pounds ( 33 metric tons). An increase in length to 60 feet ( 18 meters) from 55 feet ( 16.5 meters) also would have been permitted. Lawmakers moved on April 29, the day before adjournment of the Gen-eral Assembly's 1982 regular ses-sion, to revive that portion of the measure on increased truck length. Action came first in the Senate, where an amendment sponsored by Sen. Ralph Uthlaut, R- N- ew Flor-ence, was introduced permitting the i operation of trucks 60 feet ( 18 me-ters) long. The amendment, defeat-ed 15- 1- 7, was brought back again af-ter intensive lobbying to switch votes and was approved 17-- 13 on a motion for reconsideration. Uthlaut said he did not think Mis- souria- ns understood what they were doing when they repealedthe law at the earlier election. The amendment was attached to Thomas' bill, which restored the size of special commercial zones in the ' St. Louis and Kansas City areas where trucks 85 feet ( 25.5 meters) in length and over 100,000 pounds ( 45. metric tons) are permitted to oper-ate - Commercial zones were created to allow the movement in urban areas of " piggyback" truck trailers brought in on flatbed railroad cars. House members approved Thom-as' bill with Uthlaut's amendment 96- 5- 8. Passage came after comments from some legislators who were fu-rious at the attempt to override neg-ative public opinion expressed at the -- referendum election. |