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I STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY HITT & LOWHY ST. --.tRV COLUMBIA, MO. 65201 73rd Year - Io. 26:5 Good Morning! It's Thursday. July 23, 1981 u Pa 25 Cent " mmmmmmmmmm""ammiammmm''mm'm'mmm' David Fox of the Columbia Public Works Department makes good on the city's promise to cart-of- f debris from Monday s storm Any limbs or tree trunks cut into sections shorter Keith Myers Without power since Monday's storm. Wilbur Haseman, 806 Greenwood Court, keeps his deep freezer working by running an extension cord to a neighbor's house Leon J C Hsiao than 6 feet (1 8 meters) long and left by the curb will be picked up For tips on how to save damaged trees see story on Page 14 Powerless Residents rough it after storm By Susan James and Louis Trager Missourian staff writers Wilber Haseman has found an easy outlet for solving a common problem many Columbians face this week: salvaging food from refrigera-tors and freezers left powerless following Mon-day's storm. Using a 100-fo- ot (30-mete- r) extension cord, Haffrwn, SOS Greenwood Court, plugged his 'freezer into an outlet at next-doo- r neighbor Gene Hensley's home. For several hundred residents, Wednesday was Day 3 of a mini-energ- y crisis. Most are cop-ing in true pioneer fashion. Margaret Johns, 822 Greenwood Court, threw away the contents of her ref ngerator Tuesday. Otherwise, the family is" coping Kerosene lamps and flashlignts provide light, and Ms. Johns said she consults her car radio several times daily "so I don't feel like I'm real-ly isolated." Ms Johns said this experience has made her and her daughter realize how depend-ent they are on electricity . I said it's really hot washing dishes and my daughter said, 'I'll go buy you a fan.' " Bedtime is earlier these das for the Johns family. "This is just like 'The Waltons,' " Ms Johns said. City electric utility officials Wednesday night couldn't provide hard estimates of the number of homes still without power more than two days after the storm "We're using numbers like 200, relatively small numbers in the low hundreds," said Dick Malon, city, water and light department direc-tor. At 9 pa, houses on Westport Drive, Lee Street, Bouchelle Avenue and Ross Street lacked power, said Cliff Robertson, distribution superintendent for the city's electric utility. "We'll be working again all night long," Ma-lon said "We're seeing the light at the end of the tunnel." Officials hoped, but did not promise, to have the job done before Friday. As some homes lit up, others fell dark. Often it was because of tree limbs "deciding finally to fall down," Jwo days or more after the storm, Malon said. Even with help from other city employees, private contractors and workers from as far (See RESIDENTS, Page 14) Insigtti Can ban on cans survive? By Paul M. Keep Missourian staff writer Despite the state Supreme Court's approval of the can-ba- n ordinance, and despite the City Council's agree-ment to put it into effect Oct. 5, do not be misled. The fight over the can ban is not finished The opposing sides in the four-ye- ar struggle remain the same. So does the fact that neither side has much solid evidence for support. The difference is that the next round will be fought over an amend-ment to the ordinance, backed by lo-cal beverage bottlers, distributors and retailers, which would exempt aluminum cans from the require-ment of a 5-ce- nt deposit. City Counselor Scott Snyder, who wrote the initial draft of the ordi-nance in 1977, says the amendment would cause aluminum cans to domi-nate the local beveraee container (See CAN, Page 13) ii . I In town today 9:30 a.m.County court meet-ing in court chambers, fifth floor, County-Cit- y building 7:30 p.m."The Fantastiks," Maplewood Bam Community Theater, Nifong Paik Tickets $2 adults, $1 for children, sen-ior citizens and students. 8:15 p.m. 'The Rainmaker," Summer Repertory Theatre, University Theatre. Tickets $4 general public, free for Uni-versity summer students i Recession brews as GNP drops in 2nd quarter New York Tunes WASHINGTON Although infla-tion abated in the second quarter of 1981, American economic activity re-acted to the tight money supply with an unexpected decline that raised the spectre of a new recession The Commerce Department's pre-liminary report of the Gross Nation-al Product released on Wednesday showed an annual decline of i 9 per-cent in April, May and June, a sharp reversal of the strong 8 6 percent growth the economy experienced m the first three months of the y ear Weaknesses showed up in housing, autos, exports, investment and just about every other major economic sector combined with an unusual-ly sharp accumulation of invento-ries. The higher stocks could signal a further decline in output in the third quarter, some economists said, as companies trim production sched-ules to sell more from their ware-houses 'Business is going to be in lor a rough time for the rest of this y ear," commented Commerce Secretarv Malcolm Baldrige He told a news briefing that he saw no significant pickup in economic activity until late in the y ear or early 1982. As in the case of the strength of the first quarter, the weakness of the second quarter had been largely un-expected Earlier indications from Commerce had pointed to a flat or zero growth rate. The report also showed a marked abatement in the rate of inflation The so-call-ed Gross National Prod-uct Deflator, measuring prices that businesses and consumers pay for all goods and services, rose by an annual 6.0 percent during the quar-ter. It was the smallest rate of gain since tbe second quarter of 1978 when prices went up by 5 8 percent The Deflator is a broader measure of inflation than the Consumer Price Index, recording only what the con-sumer pays, which rose by an an-nual rate of 8J2 percent through May. Although the latest numbers are subject to revision, they heighten the possibility that the country could be headed into another recession technically defined as two succes-sive quarters of declining overall ac-tivity . One administration economist, who asked not to be identified, pre- - J (See FED, Page 14) Chrysler Corp. climbs back into the black WASHINGTON iUPL - Declar-ing we re on our way back, Chrys-ler Corp Chairman Lee Iacocca announced Wednesday tne automak-er earned $12 million in the second quarter of this year its first profit in more than two years Since its last profit in tne fourth quarter of 1978 Chrysler lost more than $3 billion and was forced to ac-cept $1 2 billion in federal loan guar-antees to av oid bankruptcy In the second quarter, Chrysler earned a net profit, after taxes, of $12 million " Iacocca told a National Press Club lunch gathering Our pre-ta- x profit w as $21 million We e got our act together, and we're on our way back ' In the same three-mont- n period last year, Chrysler lost $535 million In the first Quarter of this year, losses amounted to $298 million And analysts epect it to slip back into the red in the third quarter Iacocca dismissed speculation the profit was a fluke or was the result of Chry sler juggling its books " He said the profit was achieved by reducing expenses by $2 billion a year through better management and by producing the best product line for the best pnee " He said the industry needs to get nd of unnecessary regulations, such as air bags, bumpers that absorb a 5 mph impact and stricter emission standards; achieve a stable US. monetary policy with lower interest rates; and reduce labor costs. Asked if Chrysler intends to call back its 40 000 laid-o- ff employees soon, Iacocca said, I think we'll have a big '82 and '83 and, if we do, we'll call back a lot of those workers If we don't hae big years, we won't be able to call them back " He also called for a national gover-nment- business policy to offset un-fair foreign competition in the Unit-ed States He said a Toy ota that sells for $8,000 in Japan sells for onh S7,-6- 00 in the United States because of an export incentive tax break pro- - ided by the Japanese go ernment Trade-of-f wipes out county property tax By David Bender Missourian staff writer The Reagan Administration isn't the only tax-cutti- ng government around. Your Boone County officials are happy to announce that the coun-ty government is abolishing its gen-eral property tax for this year. Of course, as is true with Washing-ton's tax cuts, there are some trade-offs. The reason you won't have to pay so much in property tax is that you have paid a lot in sales tax The county only intended to levy a general revenue property tax of 6 cents per $100 in assessed valuation. For the owner of a house assessed at $10,000, the saving comes to a grand total of $6 State law requires counties to re-duce the amount of money they col-lect through property tax by an amount equal to half of what they collect through a sales tax. Last year, the first year Boone County charged a sales tax, the tax rate dropped from its legal maxi-mum erf 50 cents to 33 cents. For this year, the County Court had intended to lower the rate from 33 to 6 cents. But during the first half of this year, the county collected $1 4 mil-lion in sales tax equal to what it collected for the entire year in 1980 and nearly three times what it col-lected for the same period last y ear. In addition, county officials under-estimated sales tax revenue in the second half of 1980 by $300,000. Half of that amount must be applied to rollbacks, too The total is more than enough to offset the property tax, said County Clerk Chris Kelly. County officials predicted such changes when they urged residents to approve a sales tax in 1979, Kelly said. In fact, more than the general rev-enue property tax could be affected With current" estimates, the rollback could be enough to knock four cents off the 35-ce- nt road and bridge tax charged to county property owners for each $100 of assessed "property value, he said Although state law says that the road and bridge tax must be rolled back if credit remains after elimi-nating property tax, the Boone Coun-ty Court is wary of making such a change The judges fear that resi-dents of the Centraha Special Road District would be indirectly pe-nalized by the tax rollback. The road district pays for its street maintenance with a special 35-ce- nt tax along with reimbursements from the county for road tax paid by dis-trict residents. If the road and badge tax is lowered because of sales tax rollbacks, less money would be reimbursed to the Central-l- a district. At their meeting Tuesday, the County Court judges decided "to ask their legal counselor to look into the matter U.S. critical of Israeli aggression in Lebanon s. New York Times WASHINGTON - Two high-rankin- g Reagan administration officials criticized Prime Minister Menac-he- m Begin of Israel Wednesday, suggesting his recent actions had set back promising U S. diplomatic ini-tiatives in the Middle East and had made it difficult to resume sus-pended deliveries of F-1- 6 fighter-bombe- rs to Israel. The White House pointedly an-nounced that Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger's critical re-marks on an early morning tele-vision program reflected White House views. Deputy Secretary of State Wdham P. Clark told a group of reporters that Begin had caused "disappoint-ment and maybe some embarrass-ment" in ordering last Friday's heavy air striices on Beirut "on the heels" of a visit to Israel by State Department Counselor Robert C. McFarlane McFarlane had im-plored Begin to recognize the United States' broad strategic interests in the Middle East Israeli officials were, in turn, crit ical of U S policies Ambassador Ephraim Evron said, after a meet-ing with Secretary of State Alexan-der M Haig Jr , that he had express-ed "our deep disappointment" about a deferral of delivery of 10 F-1- 6 jet fighters, saying, "we think it is a de-cision that will destabilize the area." A number of developments Wednesday made it clear that Israel was demanding more than an "im-mediate cease-fire,- " as proposed by the administration, and wished to achieve an arrangement providing safeguards against a resupply and redeployment of artillery and rocket emplacements and other positions of the Palestine Liberation Organiza-tion forces near the northern Israeli border. One high-rankin- g official who de-clined the use of his name said that Israel had emphasized to the US that Israel was deeply concerned that tne PLO armed forces were in recent months beginning to attain the arms and character of a "regu-lar" army and wished to see these forces withdraw from present posi-tions within artillery and rocket range of Israel J To 'die as an American' NEW YORK (AP) A 99-year-- old Russian immi-grant previously denied U S citizenship because he cannot speak English was granted his dream Wednes-day after telling a judge he wants to "die as an Amer-ican." After U S. District Judge Henry Bramwell ordered Gabnel Isahar Isaharov sworn m as a citizen, the old man turned and waved to a cheering courtroom "Thank you very much God Bless America," he said Howard Baum of the Immigration and Naturaliza-tion Service had told the court the INS did not consid-er "a general inability to read, write and speak the English language as a result of the aging process" reason enough to be excused from a requirement that new citizens know English. "While we are personally sympathetic to his desire to become a citizen, we must enforce the law as writ-ten," he said. In response, Isaharov, a short, dignified man with a gray goatee and moustache, said through his inter-preter he was very old "and it's very hard for me to speak English. I want to die as a citizen of America " Bramwell, presiding in federal court in Brooklyn, said he believed age was a disability, and accepted Isaharov's citizenship application Isaharov raised his right hand, listened to the oath of citizenship read m a language he does not under-stand, and said "I do." "I am not a dog on the street eating out of some-body's hands," Isaharov said through an interpreter before the hearing. "I want to live like a human be-ing, with pride." Gabriel isahar Isaharov up..,,,
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Item.Transcript | I STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY HITT & LOWHY ST. --.tRV COLUMBIA, MO. 65201 73rd Year - Io. 26:5 Good Morning! It's Thursday. July 23, 1981 u Pa 25 Cent " mmmmmmmmmm""ammiammmm''mm'm'mmm' David Fox of the Columbia Public Works Department makes good on the city's promise to cart-of- f debris from Monday s storm Any limbs or tree trunks cut into sections shorter Keith Myers Without power since Monday's storm. Wilbur Haseman, 806 Greenwood Court, keeps his deep freezer working by running an extension cord to a neighbor's house Leon J C Hsiao than 6 feet (1 8 meters) long and left by the curb will be picked up For tips on how to save damaged trees see story on Page 14 Powerless Residents rough it after storm By Susan James and Louis Trager Missourian staff writers Wilber Haseman has found an easy outlet for solving a common problem many Columbians face this week: salvaging food from refrigera-tors and freezers left powerless following Mon-day's storm. Using a 100-fo- ot (30-mete- r) extension cord, Haffrwn, SOS Greenwood Court, plugged his 'freezer into an outlet at next-doo- r neighbor Gene Hensley's home. For several hundred residents, Wednesday was Day 3 of a mini-energ- y crisis. Most are cop-ing in true pioneer fashion. Margaret Johns, 822 Greenwood Court, threw away the contents of her ref ngerator Tuesday. Otherwise, the family is" coping Kerosene lamps and flashlignts provide light, and Ms. Johns said she consults her car radio several times daily "so I don't feel like I'm real-ly isolated." Ms Johns said this experience has made her and her daughter realize how depend-ent they are on electricity . I said it's really hot washing dishes and my daughter said, 'I'll go buy you a fan.' " Bedtime is earlier these das for the Johns family. "This is just like 'The Waltons,' " Ms Johns said. City electric utility officials Wednesday night couldn't provide hard estimates of the number of homes still without power more than two days after the storm "We're using numbers like 200, relatively small numbers in the low hundreds," said Dick Malon, city, water and light department direc-tor. At 9 pa, houses on Westport Drive, Lee Street, Bouchelle Avenue and Ross Street lacked power, said Cliff Robertson, distribution superintendent for the city's electric utility. "We'll be working again all night long," Ma-lon said "We're seeing the light at the end of the tunnel." Officials hoped, but did not promise, to have the job done before Friday. As some homes lit up, others fell dark. Often it was because of tree limbs "deciding finally to fall down," Jwo days or more after the storm, Malon said. Even with help from other city employees, private contractors and workers from as far (See RESIDENTS, Page 14) Insigtti Can ban on cans survive? By Paul M. Keep Missourian staff writer Despite the state Supreme Court's approval of the can-ba- n ordinance, and despite the City Council's agree-ment to put it into effect Oct. 5, do not be misled. The fight over the can ban is not finished The opposing sides in the four-ye- ar struggle remain the same. So does the fact that neither side has much solid evidence for support. The difference is that the next round will be fought over an amend-ment to the ordinance, backed by lo-cal beverage bottlers, distributors and retailers, which would exempt aluminum cans from the require-ment of a 5-ce- nt deposit. City Counselor Scott Snyder, who wrote the initial draft of the ordi-nance in 1977, says the amendment would cause aluminum cans to domi-nate the local beveraee container (See CAN, Page 13) ii . I In town today 9:30 a.m.County court meet-ing in court chambers, fifth floor, County-Cit- y building 7:30 p.m."The Fantastiks," Maplewood Bam Community Theater, Nifong Paik Tickets $2 adults, $1 for children, sen-ior citizens and students. 8:15 p.m. 'The Rainmaker," Summer Repertory Theatre, University Theatre. Tickets $4 general public, free for Uni-versity summer students i Recession brews as GNP drops in 2nd quarter New York Tunes WASHINGTON Although infla-tion abated in the second quarter of 1981, American economic activity re-acted to the tight money supply with an unexpected decline that raised the spectre of a new recession The Commerce Department's pre-liminary report of the Gross Nation-al Product released on Wednesday showed an annual decline of i 9 per-cent in April, May and June, a sharp reversal of the strong 8 6 percent growth the economy experienced m the first three months of the y ear Weaknesses showed up in housing, autos, exports, investment and just about every other major economic sector combined with an unusual-ly sharp accumulation of invento-ries. The higher stocks could signal a further decline in output in the third quarter, some economists said, as companies trim production sched-ules to sell more from their ware-houses 'Business is going to be in lor a rough time for the rest of this y ear," commented Commerce Secretarv Malcolm Baldrige He told a news briefing that he saw no significant pickup in economic activity until late in the y ear or early 1982. As in the case of the strength of the first quarter, the weakness of the second quarter had been largely un-expected Earlier indications from Commerce had pointed to a flat or zero growth rate. The report also showed a marked abatement in the rate of inflation The so-call-ed Gross National Prod-uct Deflator, measuring prices that businesses and consumers pay for all goods and services, rose by an annual 6.0 percent during the quar-ter. It was the smallest rate of gain since tbe second quarter of 1978 when prices went up by 5 8 percent The Deflator is a broader measure of inflation than the Consumer Price Index, recording only what the con-sumer pays, which rose by an an-nual rate of 8J2 percent through May. Although the latest numbers are subject to revision, they heighten the possibility that the country could be headed into another recession technically defined as two succes-sive quarters of declining overall ac-tivity . One administration economist, who asked not to be identified, pre- - J (See FED, Page 14) Chrysler Corp. climbs back into the black WASHINGTON iUPL - Declar-ing we re on our way back, Chrys-ler Corp Chairman Lee Iacocca announced Wednesday tne automak-er earned $12 million in the second quarter of this year its first profit in more than two years Since its last profit in tne fourth quarter of 1978 Chrysler lost more than $3 billion and was forced to ac-cept $1 2 billion in federal loan guar-antees to av oid bankruptcy In the second quarter, Chrysler earned a net profit, after taxes, of $12 million " Iacocca told a National Press Club lunch gathering Our pre-ta- x profit w as $21 million We e got our act together, and we're on our way back ' In the same three-mont- n period last year, Chrysler lost $535 million In the first Quarter of this year, losses amounted to $298 million And analysts epect it to slip back into the red in the third quarter Iacocca dismissed speculation the profit was a fluke or was the result of Chry sler juggling its books " He said the profit was achieved by reducing expenses by $2 billion a year through better management and by producing the best product line for the best pnee " He said the industry needs to get nd of unnecessary regulations, such as air bags, bumpers that absorb a 5 mph impact and stricter emission standards; achieve a stable US. monetary policy with lower interest rates; and reduce labor costs. Asked if Chrysler intends to call back its 40 000 laid-o- ff employees soon, Iacocca said, I think we'll have a big '82 and '83 and, if we do, we'll call back a lot of those workers If we don't hae big years, we won't be able to call them back " He also called for a national gover-nment- business policy to offset un-fair foreign competition in the Unit-ed States He said a Toy ota that sells for $8,000 in Japan sells for onh S7,-6- 00 in the United States because of an export incentive tax break pro- - ided by the Japanese go ernment Trade-of-f wipes out county property tax By David Bender Missourian staff writer The Reagan Administration isn't the only tax-cutti- ng government around. Your Boone County officials are happy to announce that the coun-ty government is abolishing its gen-eral property tax for this year. Of course, as is true with Washing-ton's tax cuts, there are some trade-offs. The reason you won't have to pay so much in property tax is that you have paid a lot in sales tax The county only intended to levy a general revenue property tax of 6 cents per $100 in assessed valuation. For the owner of a house assessed at $10,000, the saving comes to a grand total of $6 State law requires counties to re-duce the amount of money they col-lect through property tax by an amount equal to half of what they collect through a sales tax. Last year, the first year Boone County charged a sales tax, the tax rate dropped from its legal maxi-mum erf 50 cents to 33 cents. For this year, the County Court had intended to lower the rate from 33 to 6 cents. But during the first half of this year, the county collected $1 4 mil-lion in sales tax equal to what it collected for the entire year in 1980 and nearly three times what it col-lected for the same period last y ear. In addition, county officials under-estimated sales tax revenue in the second half of 1980 by $300,000. Half of that amount must be applied to rollbacks, too The total is more than enough to offset the property tax, said County Clerk Chris Kelly. County officials predicted such changes when they urged residents to approve a sales tax in 1979, Kelly said. In fact, more than the general rev-enue property tax could be affected With current" estimates, the rollback could be enough to knock four cents off the 35-ce- nt road and bridge tax charged to county property owners for each $100 of assessed "property value, he said Although state law says that the road and bridge tax must be rolled back if credit remains after elimi-nating property tax, the Boone Coun-ty Court is wary of making such a change The judges fear that resi-dents of the Centraha Special Road District would be indirectly pe-nalized by the tax rollback. The road district pays for its street maintenance with a special 35-ce- nt tax along with reimbursements from the county for road tax paid by dis-trict residents. If the road and badge tax is lowered because of sales tax rollbacks, less money would be reimbursed to the Central-l- a district. At their meeting Tuesday, the County Court judges decided "to ask their legal counselor to look into the matter U.S. critical of Israeli aggression in Lebanon s. New York Times WASHINGTON - Two high-rankin- g Reagan administration officials criticized Prime Minister Menac-he- m Begin of Israel Wednesday, suggesting his recent actions had set back promising U S. diplomatic ini-tiatives in the Middle East and had made it difficult to resume sus-pended deliveries of F-1- 6 fighter-bombe- rs to Israel. The White House pointedly an-nounced that Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger's critical re-marks on an early morning tele-vision program reflected White House views. Deputy Secretary of State Wdham P. Clark told a group of reporters that Begin had caused "disappoint-ment and maybe some embarrass-ment" in ordering last Friday's heavy air striices on Beirut "on the heels" of a visit to Israel by State Department Counselor Robert C. McFarlane McFarlane had im-plored Begin to recognize the United States' broad strategic interests in the Middle East Israeli officials were, in turn, crit ical of U S policies Ambassador Ephraim Evron said, after a meet-ing with Secretary of State Alexan-der M Haig Jr , that he had express-ed "our deep disappointment" about a deferral of delivery of 10 F-1- 6 jet fighters, saying, "we think it is a de-cision that will destabilize the area." A number of developments Wednesday made it clear that Israel was demanding more than an "im-mediate cease-fire,- " as proposed by the administration, and wished to achieve an arrangement providing safeguards against a resupply and redeployment of artillery and rocket emplacements and other positions of the Palestine Liberation Organiza-tion forces near the northern Israeli border. One high-rankin- g official who de-clined the use of his name said that Israel had emphasized to the US that Israel was deeply concerned that tne PLO armed forces were in recent months beginning to attain the arms and character of a "regu-lar" army and wished to see these forces withdraw from present posi-tions within artillery and rocket range of Israel J To 'die as an American' NEW YORK (AP) A 99-year-- old Russian immi-grant previously denied U S citizenship because he cannot speak English was granted his dream Wednes-day after telling a judge he wants to "die as an Amer-ican." After U S. District Judge Henry Bramwell ordered Gabnel Isahar Isaharov sworn m as a citizen, the old man turned and waved to a cheering courtroom "Thank you very much God Bless America," he said Howard Baum of the Immigration and Naturaliza-tion Service had told the court the INS did not consid-er "a general inability to read, write and speak the English language as a result of the aging process" reason enough to be excused from a requirement that new citizens know English. "While we are personally sympathetic to his desire to become a citizen, we must enforce the law as writ-ten," he said. In response, Isaharov, a short, dignified man with a gray goatee and moustache, said through his inter-preter he was very old "and it's very hard for me to speak English. I want to die as a citizen of America " Bramwell, presiding in federal court in Brooklyn, said he believed age was a disability, and accepted Isaharov's citizenship application Isaharov raised his right hand, listened to the oath of citizenship read m a language he does not under-stand, and said "I do." "I am not a dog on the street eating out of some-body's hands," Isaharov said through an interpreter before the hearing. "I want to live like a human be-ing, with pride." Gabriel isahar Isaharov up..,,, |