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I STATE HIITT.- RICA- L .-- ' j CI STY HITT & LO'AHY :. T. I .-..- ..; I Columbia, uq. v 652.1 1 741 h Year No. 270 Good Morning! It's Saturday. Jiih 31. 1982 2 Section. 12 IaM 2. Out 1 n r HE Pulling pounds Flag man Mike Bell watches closely as a truck strains to move Thirty- on- e trucks, some sporting 1,100 horsepower engines, a 42,000- poun- d sled Friday at the Boone County Fairgrounds, entered the Boone County Fair contest. Most of the contes- - Bell flags the truck when it cannot pull the sled any further, tants came from Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Kentucky. Reagan places ! PLO resolution I in Arab hands . J '-- The Baltimore Sun WASHINGTON - President Rea-gan has impressed on the Egyptian foreign minister the American view- tha- t Arab states now must take ma-jor responsibility for getting the Pal-estine Liberation Organization out of Lebanon and resettled in their coun-tries. The main emphasis in the presi-dent's 45- min- ute meeting Friday with Kamal Hassan Ali, authorita-tive sources said, was that the PLO is an Arab problem " and they must find a way for them ( the fighters i to leave and places for them to go." In this context, U. S. government spokesmen described as positive and encouraging an Arab League plan for withdrawal of both PLO and Is-raeli forces from Beirut. The gov-ernment fell short of an endorse-ment in detail, instead describing itself, in the words of State Depart-ment spokesman Alan Romberg, as " encouraged by the general thrust" and seeing " constructive elements" in the plan. This meant, authorities said, that the Arab League is becoming aware that the United States is not going much further certainly not to the point of recognizing the PLO and that the Arabs are conveying this to m the PLO. Consequently. American officials Eg now look for hard bargaining on de-- m tails of the P1X) evacuation of West g Beirut bargaining that, they say. g could take another week or 10 days. 1 In the Reagan- A- li meeting Friday. i a senior official said, it was agreed 1 that the Arab plan was a " positive step." I The president and the foreign min- - I ister disagreed, however, on the I question of when an effort must be 1 made to reach a general resolution of the Palestinian problem. I Ali gave Reagan the view of Egyp-- 1 tian President Hosni Mubarak that 1 there should be a package deal link-- 1 ing issues concerning Beirut. I- e-b- 1 anon and a Palestinian homeland. Mubarak is willing for Egypt to ac- - I cept some of the PI fighters when and if a deal is put together to evau- - 1 cate them from West Beirut. fThe 1 other destinations are said to be Syr- - ia. Iraq and Jordan, i But the Egyp- - tian leader wants the United States I to back the idea of finding the Pales-- tinians a permanent homeland. The Americans do not believe, however, that President Mubarak 1 will make that a condition for ac-cepting PLO members. Mayor pays late taxes; record shows more owed " ZESmaa. aE2XmmsSmwi& r --. 4UE5BBHNH nance number 22.210 reads: " No person John Westlund shall be entitled to hold any office or employ-- Says he simplyrtorgot to pay ment with the City who is in arrears for any city obligation." That ordinance specifically names taxes as an example of an obligation to the city. Though the $ 7,000 in overdue property taxes are collected by the county tax collec-tor's office, a portion of them are considered obligations to the city, Evans said. Boone County Tax Assessor Don Fenton and City Manager Dick Gray confirmed that fact. Of the $ 6.56 per $ 100 of assessed valuation Columbia homeowners pay to the county, 93 cents goes to the city. Westlund admitted he was overdue in pay-ment of sometaxes, saying he had forgotten about them. He said Friday's transaction " pays for everything I own. " Westlund claims he doesn't own several of the delinquent properties listed under his name at the collector's office. He said he transferred title to others, but did not trans-fer the deeds in order to protect those buying the property from having to refinance. " My name will probably be on the prop-erties for 20 years or until they're paid off," Westlund said. He declined to name the new owners. A city official violating the ordinance in question wouldn't automatically forfeit of-fice, said Evans. The violator probably would be given an opportunity to correct the situation. The city has no specific procedures for dealing with violators, Evans said. " These things come up so seldom there are no set regulations," he said. " It is assumed that most people, whether officials or employees, are law- abidin- g, tax- payi- ng citizens. And that's generally true." Evans said Missouri State Statute 106 puts the violation in the province of Boone County- Prosecutin-g Attorney Joe Moseley. But Moseley said a formal complaint would be required to trigger investigation of possible violations of the Columbia ordinance.. Mose-ley said investigation of such a complaint could have any of three outcomes : v If investigation revealed the alleged vio-lation did not fall under state statute 106, the prosecutor would take no action. v If the late paTnent was judged to put the individual in compliance with the ordi-nance, the prosecutor would take no action. If the late payment did not put the indi-vidual in compliance with the ordinance, Moseley said: " Whether or not there is a payment, the original omission ran afoul of the ordinance and procedures under 106 for removal could be intiated." Taxes on city and county properties listed in Westlund's name were due Dec. 31. 1981, according to records in the collector's office! The taxes became overdue Jan. 1, 1982. No other member of the City Council was listed as overdue on property taxes owed the city. Fifth Ward Councilman Dick Walls paid the second largest property tax bill among city councilmen after Westlund. Walls paid $ 2,958.11. Third Ward Councilman Rod-ney Smith paid $ 1,371.21 in property taxes for 1981, and records indicate Fourth Ward Councilman Pat Barnes paid $ 1,203.88. First Ward Councilman Al Tacker owns only one parcel of land ; he paid $ 275.52. Two councilmen. Duane Lammers of the Second Ward and Matt McCormick of the Sixth Ward, own no city or county property, according to county records. Lammers is a University student; McCormick was until re-cently. The overdue taxes still owed on land listed 1 in Westlund's name will increase 9 percent this month. According to officials at the col- - j lector's office, overdue taxes are charged 3 ! percent for the first month of delinquency j and 1 percent for each additional month. The collector's office issues warnings to people delinquent in tax payments but does i not begin foreclose proceedings until taxes are a year- and- a- h- alf overdue. g - The first foreclosure notice for delinquent ! 1980 taxes was published July 21. The 1980 1 taxes against some properties recorded in i Westlund's name were paid July 19, 1982. Tax amendments would change rates, assessments By Jeffrey R. Scott Missourian staff writer Missourians Tuesday will decide two ballot issues de-termining how future property taxes will be levied. One issue, Amendment 4, changes the way school taxes are determined. The state constitution says a two- thir- ds voter approval is needed to raise property tax rates for schools above $ 3.75 for each $ 100 of assessed VfllllS Amendment 4 allows voters to approve new property tax rates from $ 3.25 to $ 5.25 by a simple majority vote. The amendment applies only to normal school taxes, not special bond issues. At the beginning of the 1931- 19- 82 school year, voters in 302 school districts had given the required two- thir- ds i vote to raise the levy, according to Secretary of State I James Kirkpatrick's office. But in February and April of I ( See NO, Page 8A) 5 mimimamuammmmmtmmammmBmKammmamamaammnmaaaBmammmamKmaaamamaaa 1 5m town toslay 1 10 a. m. Australian dog show and fair parade, g Boone County Fair, Boone County Fairgrounds. H 2 p. m. 4-- H Dog show, Boone County H . Fairgrounds. H 5 pjn. Dog show, Boone County Fairgrounds. H 5 pjn. Tractor Pull, Boone County H Fairgrounds. I Indies H Business .2- 3- B H .. Classified .2- 3- B m Comics .......... . ... 4B J Opinion..........-."........- " 4A S Religion 5A $ Sports 1- 2- B I A Theater ..................... .. ......................... 6A 9 I IT- r. v- i ,- - I S Radiations By Greg Lopez Missourian staff writer A little radiation isnt such a dangerous thing, accord-ing to a University biochemistry professor. Thomas Luckey has concluded that hormesis, the the-ory that any potentially harmful agent given in sub- harmf- ul quantities can be expected to stimulate an orga-nism in sub- optimu- m conditions, applies to ionizing ra-diation. In plain English, that means radiation may in fact be good for you. For those who wouldn't know a rad if it zapped them, Luckeyexplains. " Arsenic used to be given in. small quantities for me-dicinal purposes, even though it is harmful in large doses," he says. " The same holds true with ionizing ra-diation from X- ray- s, cosmic rays, radioactive elements and the like. A very small amount can be beneficial in many cases." Luckey has data he believes prove it- - He collected and correlated studies by other researchers in his book " Hor-mesis with Ionizing Radiation" in 1980. And he will follow that up with " Physiological Benefits From Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation," which will appear ui Health Physics Journal in December. Pages of references at the end of each offer support for the theory Luckey says was long- overlooke- d. " Yes, if you get too much radiation, you're a dead duck," Luckey admits. " It's very easy to show that too much radiation can kill you or cause cancer. But a tenth of that dose isnt necessarily a tenth as bad that's just extrapolation, not science." Most people have been exposed only to normal radia-tion in the atmosphere, and since the radiation levels are normal so is the reaction there is none. But there is ev-idence that Japanese who received moderate doses dur-ing atomic bomb blasts there tend to live longer than those who either received none or too much, says Luck-ey. His theory may also help explain the Paradox of Kera-la. The people of Kerala have the least adequate diets in all of India, yet they are reported to have the highest lit-- Too much and you're a dead duck, but a little may help you live longer eracy rate and the best health status in the nation. " A partial explanation for this paradox is that radia-tion from the unusually high radioactive thorium in coastal and river rocks exposes many residents of Kera-la to 10 times more terrestrial radiation than the U. S. av-erage," says Luckey. " DNA, which carries the messages that govern life, has a kind of built- i- n repair mechanism that is activated by low- lev- el radiation." In fact, Luckey says, low- lev- el radiation may create a condition in the body that helps ward off many types of uifinnity. The earth was radioactive long before anyone realized E equals MC squared. The earliest life forms flourished in high levels of radiation eons ago. Recent experiments using 20 times normal radiation have resulted in plants that grow faster, produce more abundantly and are more tolerant to unfavorable condi-tions, silkworms that produce more silk, monkeys that learn faster and rodents and insects that proliferate at accelerated rates. It is possible for organisms to receive too little radia-tion, says Luckey. Paramecium he raised in a lead- wall- ed container were only about 10 percent as efficient at reproducing as their unprotected counterparts. It's a fascinating theory but not one that has electrified the scientific community. In fact, his book has been all but ignored. " It's against what the establishment likes to think," Luckey says. " These guys who've spent their lifetimes working with this, they don't want to read it.' ' Nevertheless, in the July- Augu- st edition of American Scientist John Hale, a University of Pennsylvania radiol-ogist reviewed the book favorably. " The argument is convincing," he says. " It ( the book) should be of interest to people who are interested in biological efects of low- lev- el radiation, to radiation workers, and to the general population." With its $ 70 price, the 222- pa- ge book is heavy with tables and charts. Luckey expects his magazine article to attract more attention. " It'll be right there for everybody to see," he says. " I expect there'll be a big hullabaloo." 1 . jj ' . i vSf - a SpSfSK f- - . TV rfr hi AdantJahM University professor Thomas Luckey says ex-periments show 20 times normal radiation ac-celerates life processes. His book on radia-tion's benefits has been reviewed favorably. ,
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Item.Transcript | I STATE HIITT.- RICA- L .-- ' j CI STY HITT & LO'AHY :. T. I .-..- ..; I Columbia, uq. v 652.1 1 741 h Year No. 270 Good Morning! It's Saturday. Jiih 31. 1982 2 Section. 12 IaM 2. Out 1 n r HE Pulling pounds Flag man Mike Bell watches closely as a truck strains to move Thirty- on- e trucks, some sporting 1,100 horsepower engines, a 42,000- poun- d sled Friday at the Boone County Fairgrounds, entered the Boone County Fair contest. Most of the contes- - Bell flags the truck when it cannot pull the sled any further, tants came from Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Kentucky. Reagan places ! PLO resolution I in Arab hands . J '-- The Baltimore Sun WASHINGTON - President Rea-gan has impressed on the Egyptian foreign minister the American view- tha- t Arab states now must take ma-jor responsibility for getting the Pal-estine Liberation Organization out of Lebanon and resettled in their coun-tries. The main emphasis in the presi-dent's 45- min- ute meeting Friday with Kamal Hassan Ali, authorita-tive sources said, was that the PLO is an Arab problem " and they must find a way for them ( the fighters i to leave and places for them to go." In this context, U. S. government spokesmen described as positive and encouraging an Arab League plan for withdrawal of both PLO and Is-raeli forces from Beirut. The gov-ernment fell short of an endorse-ment in detail, instead describing itself, in the words of State Depart-ment spokesman Alan Romberg, as " encouraged by the general thrust" and seeing " constructive elements" in the plan. This meant, authorities said, that the Arab League is becoming aware that the United States is not going much further certainly not to the point of recognizing the PLO and that the Arabs are conveying this to m the PLO. Consequently. American officials Eg now look for hard bargaining on de-- m tails of the P1X) evacuation of West g Beirut bargaining that, they say. g could take another week or 10 days. 1 In the Reagan- A- li meeting Friday. i a senior official said, it was agreed 1 that the Arab plan was a " positive step." I The president and the foreign min- - I ister disagreed, however, on the I question of when an effort must be 1 made to reach a general resolution of the Palestinian problem. I Ali gave Reagan the view of Egyp-- 1 tian President Hosni Mubarak that 1 there should be a package deal link-- 1 ing issues concerning Beirut. I- e-b- 1 anon and a Palestinian homeland. Mubarak is willing for Egypt to ac- - I cept some of the PI fighters when and if a deal is put together to evau- - 1 cate them from West Beirut. fThe 1 other destinations are said to be Syr- - ia. Iraq and Jordan, i But the Egyp- - tian leader wants the United States I to back the idea of finding the Pales-- tinians a permanent homeland. The Americans do not believe, however, that President Mubarak 1 will make that a condition for ac-cepting PLO members. Mayor pays late taxes; record shows more owed " ZESmaa. aE2XmmsSmwi& r --. 4UE5BBHNH nance number 22.210 reads: " No person John Westlund shall be entitled to hold any office or employ-- Says he simplyrtorgot to pay ment with the City who is in arrears for any city obligation." That ordinance specifically names taxes as an example of an obligation to the city. Though the $ 7,000 in overdue property taxes are collected by the county tax collec-tor's office, a portion of them are considered obligations to the city, Evans said. Boone County Tax Assessor Don Fenton and City Manager Dick Gray confirmed that fact. Of the $ 6.56 per $ 100 of assessed valuation Columbia homeowners pay to the county, 93 cents goes to the city. Westlund admitted he was overdue in pay-ment of sometaxes, saying he had forgotten about them. He said Friday's transaction " pays for everything I own. " Westlund claims he doesn't own several of the delinquent properties listed under his name at the collector's office. He said he transferred title to others, but did not trans-fer the deeds in order to protect those buying the property from having to refinance. " My name will probably be on the prop-erties for 20 years or until they're paid off," Westlund said. He declined to name the new owners. A city official violating the ordinance in question wouldn't automatically forfeit of-fice, said Evans. The violator probably would be given an opportunity to correct the situation. The city has no specific procedures for dealing with violators, Evans said. " These things come up so seldom there are no set regulations," he said. " It is assumed that most people, whether officials or employees, are law- abidin- g, tax- payi- ng citizens. And that's generally true." Evans said Missouri State Statute 106 puts the violation in the province of Boone County- Prosecutin-g Attorney Joe Moseley. But Moseley said a formal complaint would be required to trigger investigation of possible violations of the Columbia ordinance.. Mose-ley said investigation of such a complaint could have any of three outcomes : v If investigation revealed the alleged vio-lation did not fall under state statute 106, the prosecutor would take no action. v If the late paTnent was judged to put the individual in compliance with the ordi-nance, the prosecutor would take no action. If the late payment did not put the indi-vidual in compliance with the ordinance, Moseley said: " Whether or not there is a payment, the original omission ran afoul of the ordinance and procedures under 106 for removal could be intiated." Taxes on city and county properties listed in Westlund's name were due Dec. 31. 1981, according to records in the collector's office! The taxes became overdue Jan. 1, 1982. No other member of the City Council was listed as overdue on property taxes owed the city. Fifth Ward Councilman Dick Walls paid the second largest property tax bill among city councilmen after Westlund. Walls paid $ 2,958.11. Third Ward Councilman Rod-ney Smith paid $ 1,371.21 in property taxes for 1981, and records indicate Fourth Ward Councilman Pat Barnes paid $ 1,203.88. First Ward Councilman Al Tacker owns only one parcel of land ; he paid $ 275.52. Two councilmen. Duane Lammers of the Second Ward and Matt McCormick of the Sixth Ward, own no city or county property, according to county records. Lammers is a University student; McCormick was until re-cently. The overdue taxes still owed on land listed 1 in Westlund's name will increase 9 percent this month. According to officials at the col- - j lector's office, overdue taxes are charged 3 ! percent for the first month of delinquency j and 1 percent for each additional month. The collector's office issues warnings to people delinquent in tax payments but does i not begin foreclose proceedings until taxes are a year- and- a- h- alf overdue. g - The first foreclosure notice for delinquent ! 1980 taxes was published July 21. The 1980 1 taxes against some properties recorded in i Westlund's name were paid July 19, 1982. Tax amendments would change rates, assessments By Jeffrey R. Scott Missourian staff writer Missourians Tuesday will decide two ballot issues de-termining how future property taxes will be levied. One issue, Amendment 4, changes the way school taxes are determined. The state constitution says a two- thir- ds voter approval is needed to raise property tax rates for schools above $ 3.75 for each $ 100 of assessed VfllllS Amendment 4 allows voters to approve new property tax rates from $ 3.25 to $ 5.25 by a simple majority vote. The amendment applies only to normal school taxes, not special bond issues. At the beginning of the 1931- 19- 82 school year, voters in 302 school districts had given the required two- thir- ds i vote to raise the levy, according to Secretary of State I James Kirkpatrick's office. But in February and April of I ( See NO, Page 8A) 5 mimimamuammmmmtmmammmBmKammmamamaammnmaaaBmammmamKmaaamamaaa 1 5m town toslay 1 10 a. m. Australian dog show and fair parade, g Boone County Fair, Boone County Fairgrounds. H 2 p. m. 4-- H Dog show, Boone County H . Fairgrounds. H 5 pjn. Dog show, Boone County Fairgrounds. H 5 pjn. Tractor Pull, Boone County H Fairgrounds. I Indies H Business .2- 3- B H .. Classified .2- 3- B m Comics .......... . ... 4B J Opinion..........-."........- " 4A S Religion 5A $ Sports 1- 2- B I A Theater ..................... .. ......................... 6A 9 I IT- r. v- i ,- - I S Radiations By Greg Lopez Missourian staff writer A little radiation isnt such a dangerous thing, accord-ing to a University biochemistry professor. Thomas Luckey has concluded that hormesis, the the-ory that any potentially harmful agent given in sub- harmf- ul quantities can be expected to stimulate an orga-nism in sub- optimu- m conditions, applies to ionizing ra-diation. In plain English, that means radiation may in fact be good for you. For those who wouldn't know a rad if it zapped them, Luckeyexplains. " Arsenic used to be given in. small quantities for me-dicinal purposes, even though it is harmful in large doses," he says. " The same holds true with ionizing ra-diation from X- ray- s, cosmic rays, radioactive elements and the like. A very small amount can be beneficial in many cases." Luckey has data he believes prove it- - He collected and correlated studies by other researchers in his book " Hor-mesis with Ionizing Radiation" in 1980. And he will follow that up with " Physiological Benefits From Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation," which will appear ui Health Physics Journal in December. Pages of references at the end of each offer support for the theory Luckey says was long- overlooke- d. " Yes, if you get too much radiation, you're a dead duck," Luckey admits. " It's very easy to show that too much radiation can kill you or cause cancer. But a tenth of that dose isnt necessarily a tenth as bad that's just extrapolation, not science." Most people have been exposed only to normal radia-tion in the atmosphere, and since the radiation levels are normal so is the reaction there is none. But there is ev-idence that Japanese who received moderate doses dur-ing atomic bomb blasts there tend to live longer than those who either received none or too much, says Luck-ey. His theory may also help explain the Paradox of Kera-la. The people of Kerala have the least adequate diets in all of India, yet they are reported to have the highest lit-- Too much and you're a dead duck, but a little may help you live longer eracy rate and the best health status in the nation. " A partial explanation for this paradox is that radia-tion from the unusually high radioactive thorium in coastal and river rocks exposes many residents of Kera-la to 10 times more terrestrial radiation than the U. S. av-erage," says Luckey. " DNA, which carries the messages that govern life, has a kind of built- i- n repair mechanism that is activated by low- lev- el radiation." In fact, Luckey says, low- lev- el radiation may create a condition in the body that helps ward off many types of uifinnity. The earth was radioactive long before anyone realized E equals MC squared. The earliest life forms flourished in high levels of radiation eons ago. Recent experiments using 20 times normal radiation have resulted in plants that grow faster, produce more abundantly and are more tolerant to unfavorable condi-tions, silkworms that produce more silk, monkeys that learn faster and rodents and insects that proliferate at accelerated rates. It is possible for organisms to receive too little radia-tion, says Luckey. Paramecium he raised in a lead- wall- ed container were only about 10 percent as efficient at reproducing as their unprotected counterparts. It's a fascinating theory but not one that has electrified the scientific community. In fact, his book has been all but ignored. " It's against what the establishment likes to think," Luckey says. " These guys who've spent their lifetimes working with this, they don't want to read it.' ' Nevertheless, in the July- Augu- st edition of American Scientist John Hale, a University of Pennsylvania radiol-ogist reviewed the book favorably. " The argument is convincing," he says. " It ( the book) should be of interest to people who are interested in biological efects of low- lev- el radiation, to radiation workers, and to the general population." With its $ 70 price, the 222- pa- ge book is heavy with tables and charts. Luckey expects his magazine article to attract more attention. " It'll be right there for everybody to see," he says. " I expect there'll be a big hullabaloo." 1 . jj ' . i vSf - a SpSfSK f- - . TV rfr hi AdantJahM University professor Thomas Luckey says ex-periments show 20 times normal radiation ac-celerates life processes. His book on radia-tion's benefits has been reviewed favorably. , |