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75th Yar --- No. 2 (; od Morning! Ii WilneclH. SirmlMr 15. I82 9 Sections 60 Page 25 Cent Lebanese president- elec- t assassinated BEIRUT, Lebanon ( UPI) Lebanese Presiden-t- elect Besbir Gemayel was assassinated Tuesday in a bomb explosion that demolished his Phalange Party headquarters and plunged Lebanon into a deep crisis. At least eight people, including other senior Phalange officials, were killed in the explo-sion, which carried a force equivalent to near-ly a quarter- to- n of TNT. No one has claimed responsibility for the blast. Government sources said the 34- year-- old Christian leader, scheduled to be sworn in as president Sept. 23, died about six hours after the blast outside the east Beirut building where he was meeting senior officials of his party. Gemayel's death left the country in a void at a moment when many believed the new gov-ernment was about to take control of the coun-try after almost eight years of anarchy. Government sources said outgoing President Elias Sariris had the option of calling new elec-tions before Sept. 23, when his term expires, or appointing a Presidential Council an emer-gency cabinet that would be headed by a Maro- nite. Catno- lic and rule until it decided elections could be held. An extension of Saritis' six- ye- ar term would require a change in the constitution. " This plunges half the country into despair and the other half into terror," one university professor in west Beirut said. The government sources said Gemayel's body was taken to the Hotel Dieu hospital in the Ashrafiyeh section of east Beirut, the same neighborhood where he died. For more than an hour after his body was dug from the debris, official Beirut Radio played funereal music without interruption. The Voice of Free Lebanon radio, operated by Gemayel's party, made no mention of his death but issued statements telling members of the Phalangist Lebanese Forces militia not to venture out in uniform or carry guns without specific orders. It was the first time in the history of Leb-anon, which gained independence from French mandate in 1943, that a president or a preside-nt- elect had been assassinated. A former commander of the Christian Pha-langist militia, Gemayel had been the target of two previous assassination attempts. In one at-tempt in 1980, his infant daughter and a body-guard died in a car bomb explosion intended for Gemayel. Gemayel was a fiercely controversial figure who was bitterly resented by Lebanese Mos-lems as well as other Christian groups for his cooperation with Israel and his ruthless mili-tary tactics. Israel and the United States had hoped his election as president would allow the Lebanese government to re- establi- sh control over the troubled country now that Palestinian guerril-las have been evacuated from Beirut. But the assassination rekindled fears that Lebanon would be plunged into bitter internal fighting akin to the 1975- 7- 6 civil war. Gemayel's aides originally said he narrowly survived the blast and was discovered only when his left hand beckoned to rescuers from a pile of rubble. Phalange sources quoted him as giving " thanks" to God for his survival. But the government sources said several witnesses saw Gemayel's body pulled out of the rubble of the offices just after 10 a. m. ( 2 p. m. CDT), more than six hours after the blast. His assassination came amid reports of omi-nous tank movements in eastern Lebanon fol-lowing punishing Israeli air strikes Monday against Syrian and Palestinian forces. The leftist As Safir newspaper said three Syrian ar-mored brigades moved into the Bekaa Valley from Syria, and Israel reportedly sent 55 tanks up to the front ' lines in what appeared to be a prelude to a major showdown. " Political observers are unanimous in re-garding the situation in the Bekaa as explosive and of the utmost seriousness," the indepen-dent newspaper An Nahar said. " The coming hours may bring some dramatic devel-opments." U. S. envoy Morris Draper arrived in Israel to start discussions with Foreign Minister Yitz-hak Shamir on securing an Israeli and Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon. But Chief of Staff Gen. Rafael Eitan told the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Com-mittee that Israeli troops in Lebanon esti-mated by U. S. intelligence at 75,000 were preparing to stay for the winter. In the only bright note in the region Tuesday, King Hussein of Jordan praised President Rea-gan's " courageous" proposals for peace in the Middle East, which call for full Palestinian au-tonomy in the occupied West Bank and Gaza under Jordanian supervision. " I believe it to be very constructive and a very positive move. I would certainly like to see it continue and evolve," Hussein said in an interview with British television. Washington welcomed the king's statement his first on the Reagan initiative but Is-rael dismissed it as nothing new. Beshir Gemayel Lebanese leader killed Princess Grace of Monaco dies MONTE CARLO, Monaco ( UPI) Princess Grace of Monaco, who abandoned the pinnacle of stardom in Hollywood for a real- lif- e marriage to a handsome prince, died Tuesday of injuries suffered in a fiery car crash, a palace spokesman said. She was 52. Former film star Grace Kelly of Philadelphia, wife of the ruler of Mo-naco, Prince Rainier m, died at 3: 30 pjn. CDT. The spokesman, George Tjikomski, said the princess died of a cerebral hemorrhage. The princess suffered a broken right thighbone, collarbone and ribs . Monday when the British- mad- e 3500 she was driving went out of control, plunged down a 45- fo- ot embankment at Cap D'Ail and burst into flames. Earlier Tuesday, she had been re-ported as " suffering greatly" from her injuries. Ijikomski read an official palace communique that said the princess' condition deteriorated beyond the point of medical remedy. Her youngest daughter, Stephanie, 17, is recovering from the shock and bruises she suffered in the accident. In Philadelphia, Princess Grace's brother, John B. Kelly Jr., said he learned of her death from his sister, Liz, who had been in touch with doc-tors and family members in Monaco. Kelly said news of his sister's death came as a shock. He had no details of funeral arrangements. Grace Patricia Kelly was born Nov. 12, 1929, in Philadelphia. Her father, John Brendan Kelly, son of an Irish immigrant, worked his way up from bricklayer to wealthy build-ing contractor and Democratic city chairman in Philadelphia, a rise helped by his fame as the winner of three Olympic rowing titles. Princess Grace attended the Ra- venh- ill Convent school and the Ste-vens School, both in Germantown, then studied for two years at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. She also worked as a photographer's modeL She made her professional acting debut in July 1949 at the Bucks Coun-ty Playhouse in New Hope, Pa., where she appeared in " The Torch Bearers," a comedy by her uncle, George Kelly,- - the Pulitzer Prize- winni- ng playwright. Her debut on Broadway came later that year in Strindberg's " The Father," starring Raymond Massey. She appeared frequently in tele-vision drama before going to Holly-wood in 1951. A year later she por-trayed Gary Cooper's Quaker wife in the film classic " High Noon." " Sexual elegance" was the phrase Alfred Hitchcock coined to describe her cool beauty. She starred in two Hitchcock movies " Dial M For Murder" and " Rear Window." She also starred in " Mogambo" with Clark Gable and won the New York Film Critics Award and an Academy Award as best actress in 1954 for " The Country GirL" It was while she was on the Rivie-ra in 1954, making the Hitchcock film " To Catch A Thief" with Cary Grant, that she first met Prince Rainier m, a member of the Gri- mald- is, Europe's oldest royal family. UPITelphoto Princess Grace of Monaco made a rare Hollywood appearance in March 1980 to pay tribute to actor Jimmy Stewart. The for-mer actress died Tuesday of injuries suffered in an auto wreck. Lifestyle top cause of cancer problem SEATTLE ( UPI) Saying you dont have to know the cause of cancer to prevent it, a noted re-searcher Tuesday urged Ameri-cans to change their lifestyles by quitting smoking, moderating drinking and eating low- fa- t, high- fib- er foods. Dr. Ernst Wynder also had some good news. The president of the American Health Foundation said his pop-ulation studies showed no reason to get worried about some reports issued recently on possible can-cer causes. He said, for example, that he found no correlation between such things as saccharin and hu-man cancer, coffee and pancreat-ic cancer, and hair dyes and breast cancer. Wynder said cancer does not have to be an inevitable conse-quence of aging and be said the American public and doctors need to be better educated about a safer lifestyle. He said most family doctors have been more concerned with healing than preventing, and " I think American medicine would see a better day if, in addition to being healers, we were also pre- venter- sof disease." Wynder is credited with pro-ducing the first studies linking cigarette smoking to lung cancer and be told the 13th International Cancer Congress that smoking re-mains a major problem. He pre-dicted that by 1985 lung cancer will overtake breast cancer as the leading cancer killer of women, as it already is for men. " Here we know the cause and as a society we haven't been able to stop it," be said. He said numerous studies have shown that alcohol, while proba-bly not a cause of cancer by itself , can promote its development in conjunction with some other agent, such as smoking. Alcohol' consumption ' is strongly asso-ciated with cancers of the mouth, larynx and esophagus. Numerous studies, including his own, have found an associa-tion between fat in the diet and cancers of the breast and colon. He said fat also appears to work as a promoter of tumors. Wynder recommended that the American diet be limited to no more than 25 percent of calories in the form of fat He said the av-erage fat intake now accounts for 40 percent of the total calories. " This means we ought to eat only lean meat, since 40 percent of our fat calories come from meat, and we ought to encourage the meat industry to produce leanermeats." Wynder said Americans, in-cluding children, should drink skim or low- f- at milk and not whole milk. He said the intake of food fiber should be increased, vegetable proteins should be increased and salt intake should be cut. " If the housewives of this coun-try and the restaurants begin to realize that you can cook lean and yet gourmet foods, I think we're going to be healthier people." Code's fee plan stirs up trouble By John Boudreau Missourian staff writer The Boone County Court was greeted with a flurry of opposition Tuesday after it adopted wording for the Nov. 2 ballot question about levying permit fees for a building code. The fee schedule calls for a charge of 6 cents per square foot of con-struction. Presiding Judge Bill Freeh did not allow public input on the permit is-sue because he said the County Court's vote on the matter was not a public hearing. But a debate ensued following the court's vote. Building Codes Commission Chair- man'B- ob Bassett vowed to fight the partial implementation of codes the court approved last Thursday. He also asked the court to hear a recom-mendation from his commission. The court, however, refused to listen to the commission's request at its regular meeting. But it did convene an informal meeting afterward to hear the commission's complaints. The court also received a mem--, orandum from Assistant Prosecut-ing Attorney Kandice Johnson, who said the ballot wording is legal. Southern District Judge Kay Rob-erts said Ms. Johnson, who was not at the meeting, told her that the court's action is legal " to the best of my knowledge." After the 2-- 1 court vote that ap-proved the ballot wording, Bassett requested that the court take a 10- min- ute recess so the codes commis sion could vote on whether to peu- tio- n the court to remove the fees from the Xov. 2 ballot. If the codes are not applied countywide, the com-mission's members don't want any codes, he said. " We had hoped to change your mind today and to put building codes in Boone County in its entirety," Bassett said. " I will fight it as it is now. If I were an average informed voter on this issue, I would vote against it." On a motion by Freeh, the court last Thursday voted 2-- 1 to adopt codes for the structural, plumbing, and electrical facets of new con-struction for the " urban service area" surrounding Columbia, major subdivisions, and all commercial, in-dustrial and recreational buildings. The vote Tuesday was again 2-- 1 to place permit fees on the ballot, with Freeh and Mrs. Roberts supporting it. Northern District Judge Dick Fanner opposed the measure be-cause he said the public might be-lieve it is for all- coun- ty codes in-stead of partial implementation. Besides, he said, there is no guar-antee the Planning and Zoning Com-mission will adopt the court's code recommendations. Urban service areas are those parts of the unincorporated county favorable for development. At pre-sent, the county has no building codes. The legal question focuses on plac-ing the fees on the November ballot before the codes have been legally ( See VOTERS, Page 14A) City still faces funding choices By Leslie Werstein Missourian staff writer Although the City Council has ap-proved next year's $ 64 million bud-get, not all the city's spending deci-sions have been made. On Sept 20, the council will decide which social service categories de-serve city funds, and then 20 social service agencies will compete for the available money. Although the city increased its budget for social service contracts by 43 percent from $ 352,000 to $ 502,000 money is still tight for the agencies because of reduced federal grants. The total amount the agencies have lost in federal grants is not yet known, according to Barbara McDo-nald, chairman of the Boone County Community Services Advisory Com-mission, but a committee has been appointed to gather that data. The council will meet with social Insight service agencies at 5 p-- m. Thursday in the County- Cit- y Building to ac-quaint council members with the op-erations of the agencies before fund-ing decisions are considered. While the social service decisions remain to be made, other facets of the 1983- 8- 4 budget were firmed up last week. The new budget which is 14 percent higher than last year's $ 56 million one will reduce prop-erty taxes, raise utility rates and give bigger paychecks to city em-ployees. The council actually has adopted several separate budgets, including an $ 18.7 million general fund budget, which finances city governmental programs such as the Police, Fire and Public Works departments. Of the remaining $ 47.4 million in the budget, $ 44.3 million goes to " en-terprise" expenses for various utili-ty services. The rest goes to internal service funds, which include rent on public buildings, printing costs and vehicle maintenance. Here are summaries of major pro-visions in next year's city budget, followed by some of the " spending proposals the council did not ap-prove. The property tax will drop by 52 percent, from 64 cents per $ 100 of as-sessed valuation to 31 cents, the first change since 1979, when the tax dropped 24 percent from 84 cents. The resulting $ 700,000 drop in reve-nue will be covered by the s- e- ent sales tax increase approved by vot-ers in April. Several utility bills are sched-uled to increase. Sewer bills will in-crease 10 percent to generate ap-proximately $ 178,000 for additional construction, as well as operating and staff costs, for the $ 57 million sewage treatment plant under con-struction. The plant is scheduled to begin operating Dec. 1. For the first time in eight years, residents also will see their " water bills increase. The 3 percent in-crease is necessary, according to the Water and Light Advisory Board, be-cause of decreased water sales and increased maintenance costs. Average sewer bills for a familv of four will climb from $ 4.77 a month to $ 5.25 a month, according to Citv Manager Dick Gray. Water bills will increase from an ayerage $ 9.35 per month to $ 9.63. " City employees will receive a 7.6 percent cost- of- livi- ng increase and a 0.4 percent increase in fringe benefits. The cost- of- livi- ng hike raised some controversy because in-flation was only 6.5 percent, but the ( See CITY, Page 14A) Cedar Creek expansion halted By Jeff Fox MiMourian staff writer Another budget cut has hit Boone and Callaway counties quietly. The National Forest Service is no longer buying land in the Cedar Creek area in eastern Boone- and- ' western Callaway counties. -- The federal government has owned much of the land since the 1940s, and in November 1972 the area was designated as a " purchase unit" a government term that means it will buy land within an established area as parcels become available. Of the the 90,000 acres in the Cedar Creek area, the government owns . about 15.000 acres today. In 1972, plans called for purchasing up to 35,- 0- 00 acres. As public property, hikers and campers can use the land the Dev-il's Backbone area is popular with overnight hikers as can cattle owners, who rent pasture lands there. The Reagan administration, how-ever, has virtually halted further land purchases. In February 1981 the administra-tion closed the Historic Conservation and Recreation Service, the agency that bought land in places like Cedar Creek. The agency's duties have been passed to the National Park Service, which has no funds for such purchases. Jim Turner, staff assistant at Mark Twain National Forest in Rolla, says there are only two wavs left to expand the Cedar Creek area". One would be to exchange land the Forest Service owns in the area for land it wants to own. The service is concentrating on acquiring areas surrounded by federal property, Turner says, which would allow con-solidation of land already under fed-eral ownership. The other way would be to' spend funds available from the sale of fed-eral timber. But that process is com-plicated and offers no real prospect of iponey for the Cedar Creek area. Turner says. In town today 7 p. m. " Support Group for Children of Alcoholics," Wom-en's Center, 1 Gentry Hall, University. Free and open to the public. Index Business 13A Classified .2- 4- D Comics 12A Opinion 4A People MB Sports 8-- 9A
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Item.Transcript | 75th Yar --- No. 2 (; od Morning! Ii WilneclH. SirmlMr 15. I82 9 Sections 60 Page 25 Cent Lebanese president- elec- t assassinated BEIRUT, Lebanon ( UPI) Lebanese Presiden-t- elect Besbir Gemayel was assassinated Tuesday in a bomb explosion that demolished his Phalange Party headquarters and plunged Lebanon into a deep crisis. At least eight people, including other senior Phalange officials, were killed in the explo-sion, which carried a force equivalent to near-ly a quarter- to- n of TNT. No one has claimed responsibility for the blast. Government sources said the 34- year-- old Christian leader, scheduled to be sworn in as president Sept. 23, died about six hours after the blast outside the east Beirut building where he was meeting senior officials of his party. Gemayel's death left the country in a void at a moment when many believed the new gov-ernment was about to take control of the coun-try after almost eight years of anarchy. Government sources said outgoing President Elias Sariris had the option of calling new elec-tions before Sept. 23, when his term expires, or appointing a Presidential Council an emer-gency cabinet that would be headed by a Maro- nite. Catno- lic and rule until it decided elections could be held. An extension of Saritis' six- ye- ar term would require a change in the constitution. " This plunges half the country into despair and the other half into terror," one university professor in west Beirut said. The government sources said Gemayel's body was taken to the Hotel Dieu hospital in the Ashrafiyeh section of east Beirut, the same neighborhood where he died. For more than an hour after his body was dug from the debris, official Beirut Radio played funereal music without interruption. The Voice of Free Lebanon radio, operated by Gemayel's party, made no mention of his death but issued statements telling members of the Phalangist Lebanese Forces militia not to venture out in uniform or carry guns without specific orders. It was the first time in the history of Leb-anon, which gained independence from French mandate in 1943, that a president or a preside-nt- elect had been assassinated. A former commander of the Christian Pha-langist militia, Gemayel had been the target of two previous assassination attempts. In one at-tempt in 1980, his infant daughter and a body-guard died in a car bomb explosion intended for Gemayel. Gemayel was a fiercely controversial figure who was bitterly resented by Lebanese Mos-lems as well as other Christian groups for his cooperation with Israel and his ruthless mili-tary tactics. Israel and the United States had hoped his election as president would allow the Lebanese government to re- establi- sh control over the troubled country now that Palestinian guerril-las have been evacuated from Beirut. But the assassination rekindled fears that Lebanon would be plunged into bitter internal fighting akin to the 1975- 7- 6 civil war. Gemayel's aides originally said he narrowly survived the blast and was discovered only when his left hand beckoned to rescuers from a pile of rubble. Phalange sources quoted him as giving " thanks" to God for his survival. But the government sources said several witnesses saw Gemayel's body pulled out of the rubble of the offices just after 10 a. m. ( 2 p. m. CDT), more than six hours after the blast. His assassination came amid reports of omi-nous tank movements in eastern Lebanon fol-lowing punishing Israeli air strikes Monday against Syrian and Palestinian forces. The leftist As Safir newspaper said three Syrian ar-mored brigades moved into the Bekaa Valley from Syria, and Israel reportedly sent 55 tanks up to the front ' lines in what appeared to be a prelude to a major showdown. " Political observers are unanimous in re-garding the situation in the Bekaa as explosive and of the utmost seriousness," the indepen-dent newspaper An Nahar said. " The coming hours may bring some dramatic devel-opments." U. S. envoy Morris Draper arrived in Israel to start discussions with Foreign Minister Yitz-hak Shamir on securing an Israeli and Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon. But Chief of Staff Gen. Rafael Eitan told the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Com-mittee that Israeli troops in Lebanon esti-mated by U. S. intelligence at 75,000 were preparing to stay for the winter. In the only bright note in the region Tuesday, King Hussein of Jordan praised President Rea-gan's " courageous" proposals for peace in the Middle East, which call for full Palestinian au-tonomy in the occupied West Bank and Gaza under Jordanian supervision. " I believe it to be very constructive and a very positive move. I would certainly like to see it continue and evolve," Hussein said in an interview with British television. Washington welcomed the king's statement his first on the Reagan initiative but Is-rael dismissed it as nothing new. Beshir Gemayel Lebanese leader killed Princess Grace of Monaco dies MONTE CARLO, Monaco ( UPI) Princess Grace of Monaco, who abandoned the pinnacle of stardom in Hollywood for a real- lif- e marriage to a handsome prince, died Tuesday of injuries suffered in a fiery car crash, a palace spokesman said. She was 52. Former film star Grace Kelly of Philadelphia, wife of the ruler of Mo-naco, Prince Rainier m, died at 3: 30 pjn. CDT. The spokesman, George Tjikomski, said the princess died of a cerebral hemorrhage. The princess suffered a broken right thighbone, collarbone and ribs . Monday when the British- mad- e 3500 she was driving went out of control, plunged down a 45- fo- ot embankment at Cap D'Ail and burst into flames. Earlier Tuesday, she had been re-ported as " suffering greatly" from her injuries. Ijikomski read an official palace communique that said the princess' condition deteriorated beyond the point of medical remedy. Her youngest daughter, Stephanie, 17, is recovering from the shock and bruises she suffered in the accident. In Philadelphia, Princess Grace's brother, John B. Kelly Jr., said he learned of her death from his sister, Liz, who had been in touch with doc-tors and family members in Monaco. Kelly said news of his sister's death came as a shock. He had no details of funeral arrangements. Grace Patricia Kelly was born Nov. 12, 1929, in Philadelphia. Her father, John Brendan Kelly, son of an Irish immigrant, worked his way up from bricklayer to wealthy build-ing contractor and Democratic city chairman in Philadelphia, a rise helped by his fame as the winner of three Olympic rowing titles. Princess Grace attended the Ra- venh- ill Convent school and the Ste-vens School, both in Germantown, then studied for two years at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. She also worked as a photographer's modeL She made her professional acting debut in July 1949 at the Bucks Coun-ty Playhouse in New Hope, Pa., where she appeared in " The Torch Bearers," a comedy by her uncle, George Kelly,- - the Pulitzer Prize- winni- ng playwright. Her debut on Broadway came later that year in Strindberg's " The Father," starring Raymond Massey. She appeared frequently in tele-vision drama before going to Holly-wood in 1951. A year later she por-trayed Gary Cooper's Quaker wife in the film classic " High Noon." " Sexual elegance" was the phrase Alfred Hitchcock coined to describe her cool beauty. She starred in two Hitchcock movies " Dial M For Murder" and " Rear Window." She also starred in " Mogambo" with Clark Gable and won the New York Film Critics Award and an Academy Award as best actress in 1954 for " The Country GirL" It was while she was on the Rivie-ra in 1954, making the Hitchcock film " To Catch A Thief" with Cary Grant, that she first met Prince Rainier m, a member of the Gri- mald- is, Europe's oldest royal family. UPITelphoto Princess Grace of Monaco made a rare Hollywood appearance in March 1980 to pay tribute to actor Jimmy Stewart. The for-mer actress died Tuesday of injuries suffered in an auto wreck. Lifestyle top cause of cancer problem SEATTLE ( UPI) Saying you dont have to know the cause of cancer to prevent it, a noted re-searcher Tuesday urged Ameri-cans to change their lifestyles by quitting smoking, moderating drinking and eating low- fa- t, high- fib- er foods. Dr. Ernst Wynder also had some good news. The president of the American Health Foundation said his pop-ulation studies showed no reason to get worried about some reports issued recently on possible can-cer causes. He said, for example, that he found no correlation between such things as saccharin and hu-man cancer, coffee and pancreat-ic cancer, and hair dyes and breast cancer. Wynder said cancer does not have to be an inevitable conse-quence of aging and be said the American public and doctors need to be better educated about a safer lifestyle. He said most family doctors have been more concerned with healing than preventing, and " I think American medicine would see a better day if, in addition to being healers, we were also pre- venter- sof disease." Wynder is credited with pro-ducing the first studies linking cigarette smoking to lung cancer and be told the 13th International Cancer Congress that smoking re-mains a major problem. He pre-dicted that by 1985 lung cancer will overtake breast cancer as the leading cancer killer of women, as it already is for men. " Here we know the cause and as a society we haven't been able to stop it," be said. He said numerous studies have shown that alcohol, while proba-bly not a cause of cancer by itself , can promote its development in conjunction with some other agent, such as smoking. Alcohol' consumption ' is strongly asso-ciated with cancers of the mouth, larynx and esophagus. Numerous studies, including his own, have found an associa-tion between fat in the diet and cancers of the breast and colon. He said fat also appears to work as a promoter of tumors. Wynder recommended that the American diet be limited to no more than 25 percent of calories in the form of fat He said the av-erage fat intake now accounts for 40 percent of the total calories. " This means we ought to eat only lean meat, since 40 percent of our fat calories come from meat, and we ought to encourage the meat industry to produce leanermeats." Wynder said Americans, in-cluding children, should drink skim or low- f- at milk and not whole milk. He said the intake of food fiber should be increased, vegetable proteins should be increased and salt intake should be cut. " If the housewives of this coun-try and the restaurants begin to realize that you can cook lean and yet gourmet foods, I think we're going to be healthier people." Code's fee plan stirs up trouble By John Boudreau Missourian staff writer The Boone County Court was greeted with a flurry of opposition Tuesday after it adopted wording for the Nov. 2 ballot question about levying permit fees for a building code. The fee schedule calls for a charge of 6 cents per square foot of con-struction. Presiding Judge Bill Freeh did not allow public input on the permit is-sue because he said the County Court's vote on the matter was not a public hearing. But a debate ensued following the court's vote. Building Codes Commission Chair- man'B- ob Bassett vowed to fight the partial implementation of codes the court approved last Thursday. He also asked the court to hear a recom-mendation from his commission. The court, however, refused to listen to the commission's request at its regular meeting. But it did convene an informal meeting afterward to hear the commission's complaints. The court also received a mem--, orandum from Assistant Prosecut-ing Attorney Kandice Johnson, who said the ballot wording is legal. Southern District Judge Kay Rob-erts said Ms. Johnson, who was not at the meeting, told her that the court's action is legal " to the best of my knowledge." After the 2-- 1 court vote that ap-proved the ballot wording, Bassett requested that the court take a 10- min- ute recess so the codes commis sion could vote on whether to peu- tio- n the court to remove the fees from the Xov. 2 ballot. If the codes are not applied countywide, the com-mission's members don't want any codes, he said. " We had hoped to change your mind today and to put building codes in Boone County in its entirety," Bassett said. " I will fight it as it is now. If I were an average informed voter on this issue, I would vote against it." On a motion by Freeh, the court last Thursday voted 2-- 1 to adopt codes for the structural, plumbing, and electrical facets of new con-struction for the " urban service area" surrounding Columbia, major subdivisions, and all commercial, in-dustrial and recreational buildings. The vote Tuesday was again 2-- 1 to place permit fees on the ballot, with Freeh and Mrs. Roberts supporting it. Northern District Judge Dick Fanner opposed the measure be-cause he said the public might be-lieve it is for all- coun- ty codes in-stead of partial implementation. Besides, he said, there is no guar-antee the Planning and Zoning Com-mission will adopt the court's code recommendations. Urban service areas are those parts of the unincorporated county favorable for development. At pre-sent, the county has no building codes. The legal question focuses on plac-ing the fees on the November ballot before the codes have been legally ( See VOTERS, Page 14A) City still faces funding choices By Leslie Werstein Missourian staff writer Although the City Council has ap-proved next year's $ 64 million bud-get, not all the city's spending deci-sions have been made. On Sept 20, the council will decide which social service categories de-serve city funds, and then 20 social service agencies will compete for the available money. Although the city increased its budget for social service contracts by 43 percent from $ 352,000 to $ 502,000 money is still tight for the agencies because of reduced federal grants. The total amount the agencies have lost in federal grants is not yet known, according to Barbara McDo-nald, chairman of the Boone County Community Services Advisory Com-mission, but a committee has been appointed to gather that data. The council will meet with social Insight service agencies at 5 p-- m. Thursday in the County- Cit- y Building to ac-quaint council members with the op-erations of the agencies before fund-ing decisions are considered. While the social service decisions remain to be made, other facets of the 1983- 8- 4 budget were firmed up last week. The new budget which is 14 percent higher than last year's $ 56 million one will reduce prop-erty taxes, raise utility rates and give bigger paychecks to city em-ployees. The council actually has adopted several separate budgets, including an $ 18.7 million general fund budget, which finances city governmental programs such as the Police, Fire and Public Works departments. Of the remaining $ 47.4 million in the budget, $ 44.3 million goes to " en-terprise" expenses for various utili-ty services. The rest goes to internal service funds, which include rent on public buildings, printing costs and vehicle maintenance. Here are summaries of major pro-visions in next year's city budget, followed by some of the " spending proposals the council did not ap-prove. The property tax will drop by 52 percent, from 64 cents per $ 100 of as-sessed valuation to 31 cents, the first change since 1979, when the tax dropped 24 percent from 84 cents. The resulting $ 700,000 drop in reve-nue will be covered by the s- e- ent sales tax increase approved by vot-ers in April. Several utility bills are sched-uled to increase. Sewer bills will in-crease 10 percent to generate ap-proximately $ 178,000 for additional construction, as well as operating and staff costs, for the $ 57 million sewage treatment plant under con-struction. The plant is scheduled to begin operating Dec. 1. For the first time in eight years, residents also will see their " water bills increase. The 3 percent in-crease is necessary, according to the Water and Light Advisory Board, be-cause of decreased water sales and increased maintenance costs. Average sewer bills for a familv of four will climb from $ 4.77 a month to $ 5.25 a month, according to Citv Manager Dick Gray. Water bills will increase from an ayerage $ 9.35 per month to $ 9.63. " City employees will receive a 7.6 percent cost- of- livi- ng increase and a 0.4 percent increase in fringe benefits. The cost- of- livi- ng hike raised some controversy because in-flation was only 6.5 percent, but the ( See CITY, Page 14A) Cedar Creek expansion halted By Jeff Fox MiMourian staff writer Another budget cut has hit Boone and Callaway counties quietly. The National Forest Service is no longer buying land in the Cedar Creek area in eastern Boone- and- ' western Callaway counties. -- The federal government has owned much of the land since the 1940s, and in November 1972 the area was designated as a " purchase unit" a government term that means it will buy land within an established area as parcels become available. Of the the 90,000 acres in the Cedar Creek area, the government owns . about 15.000 acres today. In 1972, plans called for purchasing up to 35,- 0- 00 acres. As public property, hikers and campers can use the land the Dev-il's Backbone area is popular with overnight hikers as can cattle owners, who rent pasture lands there. The Reagan administration, how-ever, has virtually halted further land purchases. In February 1981 the administra-tion closed the Historic Conservation and Recreation Service, the agency that bought land in places like Cedar Creek. The agency's duties have been passed to the National Park Service, which has no funds for such purchases. Jim Turner, staff assistant at Mark Twain National Forest in Rolla, says there are only two wavs left to expand the Cedar Creek area". One would be to exchange land the Forest Service owns in the area for land it wants to own. The service is concentrating on acquiring areas surrounded by federal property, Turner says, which would allow con-solidation of land already under fed-eral ownership. The other way would be to' spend funds available from the sale of fed-eral timber. But that process is com-plicated and offers no real prospect of iponey for the Cedar Creek area. Turner says. In town today 7 p. m. 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