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COLUMBIA, ",. 63 CI to oui header $ tom tfe sto and management o the Columbia UissouAian 75Jh Year No. 88 Good Morning! It's Friday, December 24, 1982 3 Sections 16 Pages 25 Cents , Iran, owner plays Santa for the last time with free meals for all By Adam Jahiel Mlssoufian staff writer CENTRALIA - This Christmas is the last tune that Ray Ballew will have a chance to play Santa Claus at his restau-rant, the Welcome Inn For the past seven years, Ballew has pro-vided a free Christmas dinner to anybody in Centralia who wanted one. But the holi-day tradition will end this year when Bal-lew sells the inn to Mr. and Mrs James Faulkner of Pleasant Hill, Mo. So 59- year-- old Ballew and his wife, Mar-garet, along with Welcome Inn employees and a small volunteer group, are planning a Christmas extravaganza Saturday Available to anyone who wants dinner will be a meal served from 100 pounds of ham, 100 pounds of turkey, dressing, veg-etables, candied yams, cranberries, pie, cake and ice cream For those who have no transportation to the Welcome Inn, Ballew has arranged for volunteers with cars to pick them up at their convenience " If they can't make it in on their own, we'll haul ' em up," says Ballew And those who don't want to venture out-side on Christmas Day can call the inn and Ballew will arrange to have meals deliv-ered to their homes. Ballew sas he plans to feed about 300 people this year. If it sounds like lots of tune and effort, that's just what it is The cooking will begin at 5 a m., and dinner will be served from 11 a. m to a bout 2pm Dons Kessler, who has been a waitress at the Welcome Inn for the past seven years, has worked at four holiday dinners since she has been there ' The Christmas din-ners are beautiful," she says. " People are grateful that we are open Otherwise, they would have a pretty lonely Christmas " The Christmas tradition at the Welcome Inn started in 1975 when Ballew and his friends joined together to serve up the first of the free holiday dinners. After that, friends shied off, but Ballew kept the occa-sion going It makes for a busy Christmas Day , but Ballew says he likes activity. When he's not tending bar, waiting on customers or an-swering the phone, he visits with custom- - ers, fixes things, and helps with the cooking and cleaning As for newcomers, he greets them as they step in the door with a thun-derous " Hi ! Welcome to Centralia " Mrs. Frances Bugg of Centralia, who wall attend her third Christmas dinner at the Welcome Inn on Saturday, says, " People look forward to it, and they talk about it weeks before it happens. There's no music and no singing, just a lovely dinner with lovely people " And she adds, " It's the nicest thing that ever happened to Centralia " Santa's helpers spread elfish cheer with food baskets By Judith V. Lelchook Missounan staff writer Like 200 other homebound Columbians, 87- year-- old Mary Mareau spent Wednesday morning looking forward to the delivery of a Christmas food basket. The basket was full of festive sup-plies her monthly $ 300 retirement check doesn't allow her to enjoy. Since the death of her 97- year-- old husband more than a year ago, mounting housing costs and pain-fully crippling arthritis have kept Mrs. Mareau marooned indoors. An appearance Wednesday by the Visiting Nurses Association offered Mrs. Mareau a chance to socialize and to receive the ingredients for a holiday pie and deumplmgs " just in case someone should drop by for a holiday meal." Lydia Coad, one of the original nurse organizers and director of the VNA, said Mary represents the average client she and her 50 employees serve ev-ery month disabled persons in their upper 70s to early 80s. By 5 p. m Wednesday, three roomfuls of Christmas goodies had been delivered to the homes of Columbia's other Mary Mareaus. But it was the amount of goods pouring into the VNA's North Providence Road office that amazed Mrs. Coad. " There's definitely a tremendous outpouring this year," she said " We're always receiving lots of goodies. But this year's quantities were so much greater." Columbians had earlier invaded the office, heft-ing armloads of cotton blouses, woolen mittens and comforters. They arranged mountains of canned goods, walls of bright yellow American cheese, piles of powdered Danish butter cookies and slabs of plastic- wrappe- d ham. Five groups contributed supplies this year, the systems and procedures department of Shelter In-surance Cos., the Trinity Lutheran Vesper Guild, Toastmasters Inc., the American Institute of Business Women and the Sunshine Girls Club of the Ellis Fischel Cancer Center. Mrs. Coad isn't sure why the companies chose the VNA as the object of their outpouring. " What we like to believe is that what we do ev-ery day impacts on the lives of all Columbians. We're touching a large range of life." Members of the Ellis Fischel Sunshine Girls Club also act as Santa's helpers. The club's three " do- its- " are Dons Nole, Delores West, and Mari-lyn Palmer. They arrived at the State Cancer Hos-pital laden with more than $ 100 worth of holiday goodies. The women's brand of mischief includes staving up to all hours and listening to their surgical ward clients' tales of woe and discouragement. Ms. Nole has worked as a nurse's aide for 18 years; Ms. West has been a licensed practical nurse for nine ; and Mrs. Palmer has been an aide for five. The Sunshine girls were only too wiHing to do everyone else's job on Wednesday. Between arri-vals of donations and sorting the provender, the ground floor office of the VNA looked like a com-petition for good deeds and better intentions Meals on Wheels Director Lorraine Kalen loads up with Christmas dinner parcels at the Salvation Army distribution center. Nick Duggan The bags of food are being distributed to needy families Several agencies are helping those in need this Christmas Senate passes gas. tax to aid U. S. highways Baltimore Sun WASHINGTON - The 97th Con-gress adjourned with the Senate's enactment of a gas- ta- x highway re-pair bill amid demands for institutio-nal reforms to prevent a recurrence of the delaying tactics that nearly doomed the " gas- ta- x legislation. A week of long dark nights of the Senate's soul, reflected in increas-ingly vituperative marathon ses-sions finally ended Thursday morn-ing when the Senate voted 81-- 5 to cut off a conservative filibuster against the gas tax- bi- ll Then the bill itself was approved on a 54- 3- 3 vote. Senate Majority Leader Howard H Baker Jr., R- Te- nn , had predicted passage of the bill, but he was taking no chances Thursday as several sen-ators were flown on Air Force jets back to Washington from their home states or vacation spots. The bill, sent Thursday to Presi-dent Reagan, who had strongly sup-ported it, will raise the federal tax on gasoline and diesel fuel by 5 cents a gallon, from the current 4- c- ent lew to 9 cents, beginning next April 1. The tax increase will finance a major overhaul of the nation's high-ways and bridges that the Reagan administration estimates will create 320,000 jobs The Senate was far less concerned Thursday with the details of the gas- ta- x bill than with the ordeal mem-bers had been through to pass the measure and the delay it caused in the start of their Christmas holiday s During the protracted gas tax de-bate, which began Dec 10, the Sen-ate was ' tyrannized and immobi-lized by a handful of men" and the chamber was turned into ' the laugh-ing stock of this nation," Sen Dennis DeConcim, D- An- z., said Thursday. While the Senate's rules permit-ting extended debate are designed to protect the rights of the minority, he said, " they do not give them license to dictate" to the majority. Procedural stalling tactics had de-layed until Thursday the vote on the gas- ta- x bill, and at one point stalled a vital omnibus spending bill needed to keep the federal government in operation Sen George Mitchell, D- V- t., had the last word before Thursday's final vote on the gastax bill, summing up the more than three- wee- k lame duck session and the impatience to ad-journ when he quoted Cromwell's admonition to the English Parlia-ment in 1653 " You have sat here too long for any good to have been done Depart, I say, and let us have done with you In the name of God, go." Mitchell added, " I say, in the name of God let us vote and go " Christmas forecast: rain By Kevin Virobik Adams Missounan staff writer Any hopes for a snowy Christmas in mid- Misso- uri probably will be washed away by dark gray thun- dershow- ers Saturday. The 1982 Christmas period, with its unseasonably warm weather, hasn't shown any sign of winter and won't, says a National Weather Service spokesman In fact, Thursday's high of 66 de-grees was only 4 degrees below the record set m 1893. And Wednesday's high of 64 degrees was 3 degrees short of the record high of 67 set m 1893 Most of mid- Misso- un has had above normal temperatures for De-cember. Dewey Jobe of the Weather Serv-ice says the warm temperatures may give way to cooler tempera-tures possibly in the upper 30s and showers on Christmas Day He says the rainstorm is a Christmas gift from a snowstorm centered in the Central Rockies and moving southeast " The storm track has been north of the central Missouri region and has permitted warmer weather," Jobe says. He says the chances of a white Christmas are " not too great." But a Christmas without snow is nothing new for Columbians. Only a dozen times since 1899 has the city had more than an inch of snow on the ground on Christmas Day. Ten inch-es in 1915 set the Christmas record and the six inches that fell in 1924 and 1981 tie for second Wintry weather may arrive early next week Water: How much will Columbia need in the future? By Dean Kahn Missouriart staff writer Ron Powell remembers well the scorching summer of 1980. The torrid heat produced a record- settin- g demand for water in Colum-bia, pushing the city's mam source of liquid relief the McBauie Water Plant to its limit. One day, for a handful of hours, the plant was pumping at the rate of 16 million gal-lons of water a day. Fortunately, the city's reservoirs kept Columbia residents from run-ning dry until demand eased off . " We were watching it closely for a while," says the senior engineer at the city's Water and Light Depart-ment. Ensuring that Columbia has I enough water requires computer analysis, long- ran- ge planning, fund-ing, and as Powell will attest a bit of good luck. At its meeting last Monday, the City Council took a ma-jor step to assure that long- rang- e planning has an even greater say than luck in the future. City officials recommended that Black St Veatch, a Kansas City, Mo., engineering firm, be hired to study Columbia's water needs through the year 2005. The $ 37,500 study . will be up for council approval at its Jan. 3 meeting. The city's most recent water study was a 1971 update of an earlier 1966 report. The 1971 study looked at the city's water needs through 1991. Both studies have directed the city's water- syste- m improvement decisions to date. But the city now views them as outdated guides for spending tomorrow's dollars. The council plans to authorize a revenue bond issue in 1984 to fund water system improvements. Thus, the new study. While emergency situations a blazing summer, a major fire, a bro-ken water main can momentarily threaten the city's steady supply of water, it is the long- ter- m changes in the area that produce the need for a new study, engineer Powell says. The city's population patterns afe changing, he says Population growth itself has declined from the t booming days of the 1960s. Enroll-ment at the University has slowed, and housing developments have been built in new locations. When city staff opted for Black & Veatch over two other companies, it chose a familiar face That firm pre-pared both the 1966 and 1971 city wa-ter studies. The 196b report turned the city away from reliance on nearby deep wells in favor of seven shallow wells sunk near the Missouri River at Mc- Bauie, 10 miles southwest of Colum-bia. Black & Veatch's 1971 update came in response to the rapid growth Columbia expenenced in the late 1960s. The city's population jumped 20 percent in five vears, from 48,900 in 1965 to 58.804 in 1970. Growth and annexation more than doubled the city's area, from 20 square miles to 41 5 square miles, during those same years. All those new Columbians meant the city needed more water. Aver-age daily use increased more than 50 percent, from 4 million gallons a day m 1965 to more than 6 milbon gallons a day in 1970. The current average daily use is 7.66 million gallons, down from the peak of 8.4 million gallons in 1980, the year of the severe heatwave The maximum daily aagc the amount of water pumped on the city's thirstiest day has kept pace. In 1965, maximum use was 6 95 mil-bon gallons a day. In 1982, it was 11.5 milbon gallons, down from 1980' s re-cord of 13 5 million gallons. No Missounan on Saturday There will be no Saturday is-sue of the Missounan because of the Christmas holiday. To-day's edition includes both Friday and Saturday comics and TV listings. Regular publi-cation resumes Sunday. Inside Business 3C Classified 3- 4- C Friday Comics .5B Saturday Comics 68 Opinion 4A Record . 7A Sports 1-- 3C 1 i
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Item.Transcript | COLUMBIA, ",. 63 CI to oui header $ tom tfe sto and management o the Columbia UissouAian 75Jh Year No. 88 Good Morning! It's Friday, December 24, 1982 3 Sections 16 Pages 25 Cents , Iran, owner plays Santa for the last time with free meals for all By Adam Jahiel Mlssoufian staff writer CENTRALIA - This Christmas is the last tune that Ray Ballew will have a chance to play Santa Claus at his restau-rant, the Welcome Inn For the past seven years, Ballew has pro-vided a free Christmas dinner to anybody in Centralia who wanted one. But the holi-day tradition will end this year when Bal-lew sells the inn to Mr. and Mrs James Faulkner of Pleasant Hill, Mo. So 59- year-- old Ballew and his wife, Mar-garet, along with Welcome Inn employees and a small volunteer group, are planning a Christmas extravaganza Saturday Available to anyone who wants dinner will be a meal served from 100 pounds of ham, 100 pounds of turkey, dressing, veg-etables, candied yams, cranberries, pie, cake and ice cream For those who have no transportation to the Welcome Inn, Ballew has arranged for volunteers with cars to pick them up at their convenience " If they can't make it in on their own, we'll haul ' em up," says Ballew And those who don't want to venture out-side on Christmas Day can call the inn and Ballew will arrange to have meals deliv-ered to their homes. Ballew sas he plans to feed about 300 people this year. If it sounds like lots of tune and effort, that's just what it is The cooking will begin at 5 a m., and dinner will be served from 11 a. m to a bout 2pm Dons Kessler, who has been a waitress at the Welcome Inn for the past seven years, has worked at four holiday dinners since she has been there ' The Christmas din-ners are beautiful," she says. " People are grateful that we are open Otherwise, they would have a pretty lonely Christmas " The Christmas tradition at the Welcome Inn started in 1975 when Ballew and his friends joined together to serve up the first of the free holiday dinners. After that, friends shied off, but Ballew kept the occa-sion going It makes for a busy Christmas Day , but Ballew says he likes activity. When he's not tending bar, waiting on customers or an-swering the phone, he visits with custom- - ers, fixes things, and helps with the cooking and cleaning As for newcomers, he greets them as they step in the door with a thun-derous " Hi ! Welcome to Centralia " Mrs. Frances Bugg of Centralia, who wall attend her third Christmas dinner at the Welcome Inn on Saturday, says, " People look forward to it, and they talk about it weeks before it happens. There's no music and no singing, just a lovely dinner with lovely people " And she adds, " It's the nicest thing that ever happened to Centralia " Santa's helpers spread elfish cheer with food baskets By Judith V. Lelchook Missounan staff writer Like 200 other homebound Columbians, 87- year-- old Mary Mareau spent Wednesday morning looking forward to the delivery of a Christmas food basket. The basket was full of festive sup-plies her monthly $ 300 retirement check doesn't allow her to enjoy. Since the death of her 97- year-- old husband more than a year ago, mounting housing costs and pain-fully crippling arthritis have kept Mrs. Mareau marooned indoors. An appearance Wednesday by the Visiting Nurses Association offered Mrs. Mareau a chance to socialize and to receive the ingredients for a holiday pie and deumplmgs " just in case someone should drop by for a holiday meal." Lydia Coad, one of the original nurse organizers and director of the VNA, said Mary represents the average client she and her 50 employees serve ev-ery month disabled persons in their upper 70s to early 80s. By 5 p. m Wednesday, three roomfuls of Christmas goodies had been delivered to the homes of Columbia's other Mary Mareaus. But it was the amount of goods pouring into the VNA's North Providence Road office that amazed Mrs. Coad. " There's definitely a tremendous outpouring this year," she said " We're always receiving lots of goodies. But this year's quantities were so much greater." Columbians had earlier invaded the office, heft-ing armloads of cotton blouses, woolen mittens and comforters. They arranged mountains of canned goods, walls of bright yellow American cheese, piles of powdered Danish butter cookies and slabs of plastic- wrappe- d ham. Five groups contributed supplies this year, the systems and procedures department of Shelter In-surance Cos., the Trinity Lutheran Vesper Guild, Toastmasters Inc., the American Institute of Business Women and the Sunshine Girls Club of the Ellis Fischel Cancer Center. Mrs. Coad isn't sure why the companies chose the VNA as the object of their outpouring. " What we like to believe is that what we do ev-ery day impacts on the lives of all Columbians. We're touching a large range of life." Members of the Ellis Fischel Sunshine Girls Club also act as Santa's helpers. The club's three " do- its- " are Dons Nole, Delores West, and Mari-lyn Palmer. They arrived at the State Cancer Hos-pital laden with more than $ 100 worth of holiday goodies. The women's brand of mischief includes staving up to all hours and listening to their surgical ward clients' tales of woe and discouragement. Ms. Nole has worked as a nurse's aide for 18 years; Ms. West has been a licensed practical nurse for nine ; and Mrs. Palmer has been an aide for five. The Sunshine girls were only too wiHing to do everyone else's job on Wednesday. Between arri-vals of donations and sorting the provender, the ground floor office of the VNA looked like a com-petition for good deeds and better intentions Meals on Wheels Director Lorraine Kalen loads up with Christmas dinner parcels at the Salvation Army distribution center. Nick Duggan The bags of food are being distributed to needy families Several agencies are helping those in need this Christmas Senate passes gas. tax to aid U. S. highways Baltimore Sun WASHINGTON - The 97th Con-gress adjourned with the Senate's enactment of a gas- ta- x highway re-pair bill amid demands for institutio-nal reforms to prevent a recurrence of the delaying tactics that nearly doomed the " gas- ta- x legislation. A week of long dark nights of the Senate's soul, reflected in increas-ingly vituperative marathon ses-sions finally ended Thursday morn-ing when the Senate voted 81-- 5 to cut off a conservative filibuster against the gas tax- bi- ll Then the bill itself was approved on a 54- 3- 3 vote. Senate Majority Leader Howard H Baker Jr., R- Te- nn , had predicted passage of the bill, but he was taking no chances Thursday as several sen-ators were flown on Air Force jets back to Washington from their home states or vacation spots. The bill, sent Thursday to Presi-dent Reagan, who had strongly sup-ported it, will raise the federal tax on gasoline and diesel fuel by 5 cents a gallon, from the current 4- c- ent lew to 9 cents, beginning next April 1. The tax increase will finance a major overhaul of the nation's high-ways and bridges that the Reagan administration estimates will create 320,000 jobs The Senate was far less concerned Thursday with the details of the gas- ta- x bill than with the ordeal mem-bers had been through to pass the measure and the delay it caused in the start of their Christmas holiday s During the protracted gas tax de-bate, which began Dec 10, the Sen-ate was ' tyrannized and immobi-lized by a handful of men" and the chamber was turned into ' the laugh-ing stock of this nation," Sen Dennis DeConcim, D- An- z., said Thursday. While the Senate's rules permit-ting extended debate are designed to protect the rights of the minority, he said, " they do not give them license to dictate" to the majority. Procedural stalling tactics had de-layed until Thursday the vote on the gas- ta- x bill, and at one point stalled a vital omnibus spending bill needed to keep the federal government in operation Sen George Mitchell, D- V- t., had the last word before Thursday's final vote on the gastax bill, summing up the more than three- wee- k lame duck session and the impatience to ad-journ when he quoted Cromwell's admonition to the English Parlia-ment in 1653 " You have sat here too long for any good to have been done Depart, I say, and let us have done with you In the name of God, go." Mitchell added, " I say, in the name of God let us vote and go " Christmas forecast: rain By Kevin Virobik Adams Missounan staff writer Any hopes for a snowy Christmas in mid- Misso- uri probably will be washed away by dark gray thun- dershow- ers Saturday. The 1982 Christmas period, with its unseasonably warm weather, hasn't shown any sign of winter and won't, says a National Weather Service spokesman In fact, Thursday's high of 66 de-grees was only 4 degrees below the record set m 1893. And Wednesday's high of 64 degrees was 3 degrees short of the record high of 67 set m 1893 Most of mid- Misso- un has had above normal temperatures for De-cember. Dewey Jobe of the Weather Serv-ice says the warm temperatures may give way to cooler tempera-tures possibly in the upper 30s and showers on Christmas Day He says the rainstorm is a Christmas gift from a snowstorm centered in the Central Rockies and moving southeast " The storm track has been north of the central Missouri region and has permitted warmer weather," Jobe says. He says the chances of a white Christmas are " not too great." But a Christmas without snow is nothing new for Columbians. Only a dozen times since 1899 has the city had more than an inch of snow on the ground on Christmas Day. Ten inch-es in 1915 set the Christmas record and the six inches that fell in 1924 and 1981 tie for second Wintry weather may arrive early next week Water: How much will Columbia need in the future? By Dean Kahn Missouriart staff writer Ron Powell remembers well the scorching summer of 1980. The torrid heat produced a record- settin- g demand for water in Colum-bia, pushing the city's mam source of liquid relief the McBauie Water Plant to its limit. One day, for a handful of hours, the plant was pumping at the rate of 16 million gal-lons of water a day. Fortunately, the city's reservoirs kept Columbia residents from run-ning dry until demand eased off . " We were watching it closely for a while," says the senior engineer at the city's Water and Light Depart-ment. Ensuring that Columbia has I enough water requires computer analysis, long- ran- ge planning, fund-ing, and as Powell will attest a bit of good luck. At its meeting last Monday, the City Council took a ma-jor step to assure that long- rang- e planning has an even greater say than luck in the future. City officials recommended that Black St Veatch, a Kansas City, Mo., engineering firm, be hired to study Columbia's water needs through the year 2005. The $ 37,500 study . will be up for council approval at its Jan. 3 meeting. The city's most recent water study was a 1971 update of an earlier 1966 report. The 1971 study looked at the city's water needs through 1991. Both studies have directed the city's water- syste- m improvement decisions to date. But the city now views them as outdated guides for spending tomorrow's dollars. The council plans to authorize a revenue bond issue in 1984 to fund water system improvements. Thus, the new study. While emergency situations a blazing summer, a major fire, a bro-ken water main can momentarily threaten the city's steady supply of water, it is the long- ter- m changes in the area that produce the need for a new study, engineer Powell says. The city's population patterns afe changing, he says Population growth itself has declined from the t booming days of the 1960s. Enroll-ment at the University has slowed, and housing developments have been built in new locations. When city staff opted for Black & Veatch over two other companies, it chose a familiar face That firm pre-pared both the 1966 and 1971 city wa-ter studies. The 196b report turned the city away from reliance on nearby deep wells in favor of seven shallow wells sunk near the Missouri River at Mc- Bauie, 10 miles southwest of Colum-bia. Black & Veatch's 1971 update came in response to the rapid growth Columbia expenenced in the late 1960s. The city's population jumped 20 percent in five vears, from 48,900 in 1965 to 58.804 in 1970. Growth and annexation more than doubled the city's area, from 20 square miles to 41 5 square miles, during those same years. All those new Columbians meant the city needed more water. Aver-age daily use increased more than 50 percent, from 4 million gallons a day m 1965 to more than 6 milbon gallons a day in 1970. The current average daily use is 7.66 million gallons, down from the peak of 8.4 million gallons in 1980, the year of the severe heatwave The maximum daily aagc the amount of water pumped on the city's thirstiest day has kept pace. In 1965, maximum use was 6 95 mil-bon gallons a day. In 1982, it was 11.5 milbon gallons, down from 1980' s re-cord of 13 5 million gallons. No Missounan on Saturday There will be no Saturday is-sue of the Missounan because of the Christmas holiday. To-day's edition includes both Friday and Saturday comics and TV listings. Regular publi-cation resumes Sunday. Inside Business 3C Classified 3- 4- C Friday Comics .5B Saturday Comics 68 Opinion 4A Record . 7A Sports 1-- 3C 1 i |