Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1983-04-26

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75th Year -- No. 191 Good Morning! It's Tuesday, April 26, 1983 2 Sections 14 Pages 25 Cents
County residents
down in the dumps
over landfill sites
Pollution hazard a fear
By Michael Sawlckl and Leslie Werstein
Mlssourtan stall writers
The discussion by county residents who
live near the two proposed landfill sites had
the potential of becoming another cold war
East versus West.
But the 120 residents from both sides de-cided
not to square off with one another. In-stead,
they targeted their broadsides at City
Council members, who will choose the site,
and county officials, who will recommend
one.
Each side came armed with lists of rea-sons
why the new landfill shouldn't be in Its
neighborhood. These ranged from technical
talk involving water pollution to emotional
outcries against property devaluation.
The landfill the city has been using since
1971 located eight miles north of the city
between Calvert Hill and Peabody roads is
rapidly reaching capacity and the longer it is
used the less economical it becomes.
After a four- ye- ar search for a replacement
site where city and county trash can be
dumped for the next 25 years, the choices
have been narrowed to two: an east site
bounded by Route B, Hinkson Creek and
Rogers Road, and a west site located north
of Oakland Church Road, between Route B
on the west and U. S. 63 North on the east
Although the council officially is not ac-countable
to county residents, homeowners
from both areas hoped their arguments
would not fall on deaf ears.
East- sit- e residents cautioned that if a land-fill
is built in their neighborhood all the Co-lumbia
area could be affected by further pol-lution
of Hinkson Creek.
" The east site's proximity to Hinkson
Creek poses and creates a public health haz-ard,"
said toxicologist Paul Cary, who cited
textbooks and laws that say landfills should
not be built near rivers, streams or creeks.
" There is no room for error at the eastern
site because of the creek," he said. " These
ingredients suggest a recipe for disaster."
Similar views were expressed by those liv-ing
around the west site.
" If someone says that this waste ' soup'
won't penetrate into the ground," said Gene
Thieman, " he's out of his mind."
Thieman said no sensible individual would
want to live anywhere near a landfill.
" Things like this always have the potential
to be another Love Canal," he said
Cary said that if minerals and metals from
the landfill seep into Hinkson Creek, ut
dwellers downstream who use the creek for
recreation could be subject to disease-- such
as hepatitis.
Mayor John Westlund, who was particular-ly
concerned about Cary's claim that the
dump could become a health hazard, asked
for comment from Public Works Director
Ray Beck.
" We got the greatest heads together to . stu-dy
the issue," Beck said " We don't antic-ipate
any pollution to Hinkson Creek. "
Westlund seemed appeased.
But Cary wasn't satisfied by explanations
from Beck and engineers hired by the cit.
" They are not really addressing the is-sues,"
he charged.
Linda Graue set her infant in Cary ' s arms,
then voiced a similar concern.
" As a mother of small children." she said.
" I'm concerned with the health hazard of liv-ing
so close to a dump. "
Slowly, Ms. Graue recited the many areas
in the city that Hinkson Creek flows through,
including the Columbia Country Club and
Stephens Lake and golf course area.
Other residents expressed fears about
noise, odor, litter and decreasing property
value. Bobbie Robinson summarred the
feelings of many of her east- sit- e neighbors
" Anyone with property across from a
dump would object," shesaid, " and I do "
Armed with an arsenal including slides,
transparencies for overhead projection,
maps and a letter from Boone County Fue
Chief Steve Paulsell, David Sapp echoed thp
concerns of his counterparts from the east.
Following his visual barrage, the resident
of the west- sit- e area read aloud PaulseU's
letter, which noted that a new fire station i e- ce- ntly
was constructed in the area in antic-ipation
of residential development there.
A landfill at the west site, Paulsell said.
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County Court Judges Kay Roberts and Alex Gates com-pare
notes during Monday night's hearing on a landfill
could decentralize residential development
in the area. That would prevent growth near
Uie new fire station and direct it into areas
not currently served by the fire district.
Sapp broke momcntariK from the solid
fiont presented by the two sides and sug-gested
that if one of the two sites had to he
chosen, it should be the one in the east.
" Because the impact on the east is dra-matically
less than the impact on the west,"
he said, ' I propose the council choose the
eastern site."
For the most part, however, the coalition
was firmly united in opposition to selection
of either site.
' Some tiling seems wrong," Glenn Hof-fmann
told the council " I don't want to keep
vour trash in my back ard "
The entaie east site and part of the west
site have received tentatn e approval from
the state Department of Natural Resources.
It was noted that state approval will be nec-essary
before either can be used as a land-fill
site for Columbia. People living near the sites listen at-tentively
during the hearing.
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Licensing law
controversy
not over yet
By Bob Martin
Mlssourlan stall writer
The long drama of Columbia's licensing
law for rental housing continues to unfold.
As of Monday, opponents of the law had
not appealed last month's Circuit Court rul-ing
upholding the ordinance. But because of
a temporary injunction pending appeal the
ordinance is not in effect.
Former Circuit Court Judge John Cave
ruled March 25 against the group of city
landlords challenging the 5- year-
- old ordi-nance
requiring apartment inspections.
Cave ruled that the Columbia Municipal
Court can issue search warrants to enforce
the city's rental housing licensing law. Be-cause
Cave had presided over the case since
it was filed in September 1978, he had the
power to decide the case after his retire-ment
Cave retired last year.
The Judge ruled in favor of the city on all
counts and directed the plaintiffs to pay all
court costs.
It was the first ruling on the lawsuit that
has kept the city from inspecting about 2,000
apartments since then.
After the ruling, the plaintiff's attorney,
William Powell, asked the court to continue
a temporary injunction pending appeal. The
injunction keeps the city from inspecting
property owned by the plaintiffs until the suit
is resolved.
Although the injunction was awarded April
18, as cf Monday the group had not filed a no-tice
of appeal with the Circuit Court clerk.
Monday was the final day for the plaintiffs to
appeal according to David Evans, Colum--
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Have to be ill? Columbia is the place
By Mary Jane Gore
Mlssourian staft writer
With help from the Univerty Hospital,
Columbia has moved into fourth place na-tionwide
in physicians per 100,000 popula-tion.
That's according to a study based on
U. S. Census data.
That finding comes from a recently ie-- .
leased State Metro Area Data Bank report,
based on a survey of 305 metropolitan areas.
" What has affected the Boone County
numbers over this time period ( 197G to 1981)
is the presence of the University Hospital,"
explained Greg Brown, a health research
analyst at the center.
" There was a significant growth in the
medical school program during that time
more people were accepted. We counted in-dividuals
in training as full- tim- e physicians
for our study."
The highest ratio of active physicians to
population was in Rochester, Minn. Iowa
City, Iowa, came in No. 2, and Charlottes-ville,
Va , was just ahead of Columbia. The
city topped such cities as No 12 New York,
No. 32 Los Angeles and No 77 St Imis.
The 1981 national average was 19.4 active
physicians per 10,000 people, according to
the state Center for Health Statistics. While
Missouri's average of 1G. 3 pin sicians per 10,- 00- 0
fell below the national rate, Boone Coun-ty
had a whopping 53.1 physicians per 10,000
people almost three times the rest of the
country
The study also put Culumbia at seventh na-tionally
for hospital beds per 100,000 popula-tion
St Louis County trailed Boone C'cuntv with
a rate of 38 8 per 10,000. By comparison,
some Missouri counties Osage, Dekalb,
Dallas and Ozark, to name a few have no
doctors.
Ninety- tw- o percent of the state's physi-cians
are male; 88 percent are white, 11 per-cent
are Orientals and less than 2 percent
are black.
Boone County had the second highest
growth rate in the number of primary care
physicians those doctors in family prac-tice,
internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics
or gynecology of any county in the state
between 1976 and 1981.
The latest Center for Health Statistics re-port
noted that the number of Boone County
primary care physicians increased from 76
in 1976 to 142 two years ago.
Brown noted that Boone County physicians
have tended to establish their practices near
their school of graduation, a Common prac-tice
for many physicians.
Another factor that attracts physicians to
Boone County is the School of Medirne's re-search
facdities. Physicians also arc drawn
to cities such as Columbia that ah eady have
well- estabhshedmed-tcal
commuiiities.
The most recent survey by fne State Cen-ter
for Health Statistics shows that in 1982,
Boone County had 582 phjsicians ana os-teopaths
about 7 percent of the state's to-tal.
Adair County, which had the highest per
capita rate of phjsician influx in the state,
expanded its ranks from 13 to 34 doctors dur-ing
the five- ye- ar period.
Brown explained that the attraction there
was the Kirksvflle School of Osteopathic Sur-gery
and the University of Missouri- Kansa- s
City Medical School.
By contrast, DeKalb County recorded one
physician in 1976. By 1981, the county had no
doctor at all.
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Explorers safe inside cave
MOUNT VERNON, Ky. ( UPI) - Divers
found eight explorers safe Monday night on a
dry ledge 1,800 feet from the entrance of a
flooded cave they were trapped in three
days. Rescuers were waiting late Monday
night for the water level to drop so they
could walk the explores out.
" They are all fine," said Tom Staubitz,
chairman of the Greater Cincinnati Grotto
Club, in contact with the cavers by field tele-phone.
" They are a little cold but are fully
able to get out on their own power."
The water level in which the people should
be able to walk out of the cave should be
reached at midnight or after, said Tern Bar- net- t,
spokesman for the state Disaster and
Emergency Services.
Two divers were led to the ledge by a note
they found in the eastern Kentucky cave in a
previous search for the explorers, missing
since Saturday morning.
The note read: " Help. Eight cavers wait-ing
on dry ledge 1.800 feet upstream from
here. Leave diving tanks here. Only needed
for entrance. Been here since 11 a. m. Satur-day
4- 2- 3. Now Monday 4-- 25 12 noon, ( signed )
Gary Bush."
Bush is a member of the group from the
Greater Cincinnati Grotto, National Speleo-logical
Society.
The two divers from the National Cave
Rescue Association, flown in from Blooming- to- n,
Ind., entered the rain- swolle- n cave at
3: 35p. m. CDT on their second dive.
When they emerged about 5 p. m. with the
note, a crowd of about 75 to 100 rescue work-ers
and onlookers cheered.
The divers, Jeff Forbes and Steve Mager- - j
lien, said they found the note in what possi- - j
bly was the place where anothei diver ear-lier
in the day left provisions for the missing
explorers.
The two divers went into the cave on their j
third dive along with two others at about 6: 15 ,
p. m. CDT Two stayed with the cavers while i
the others went for more supplies and equip-- j
ment to rig a field telephone into the cave. I
Staubitz said a field telephone was in-- j
stalled to coordinate bringing the cavers out
one at a time. He said a group of tents near I
the entrance was set up to house the cavers I
u hen they emerge. '
Earlier, reconnaissance diver George '
Veni, not a member of the Bloomington ',
team, emerged from a six- ho- ur search and
reported no trace of the eight Cincinnati- are- a
amateur cave explorers, They were
trapped after heavy rain caused an under-ground
stream to flood the small cave en-trance.
Veni exited after searching 1 ,800 feet of the j
cave that contains many passages. He said '
he was not familiar with the cave, located
about 50 miles southeast of Ixmgton. Inside
the cave, he left food, drinking water, fuel
for lamps and heat blankets.
The eight spelioloists entered the cave
about noon Saturday on a routine under-ground
cave- mappin- g trip.
Even at times of low water, it is necessary
to get wet to the waist in entering the cave,
and most spelunkers carried extia clothing .
because of that. I
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