Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1983-08-20

              75th Year No. 290 Good Morning! It's Saturday, August 20, 1983 2 Sections 1 2 Pages 25 Cents
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Firemen spray the smokey remains of a tractor trailer accident
Temperatures are hot enough,
but when tanker and truck
collide in flames, it's amazing
By John Lauerman
Missourian staft writer
Smoke rose high above the sun- scorch- ed
soybean fields of Boone
County in the aftermath of a collision
Friday between a gas truck and a
tractor- traile- r on Highway 22 near
Centralia.
The driver of the gas truck, Ever-ett
Fishburn, 55, of Mexico, Mo., suf-fered
second- degre- e burns and was
listed in stable condition Friday
night at Audrain Medical Center in
Mexico.
The collision occurred when the
driver of the tractor- traile- r, Ricky
Shively, 29, of Columbia, was driving
east on Highway 22, said Sgt. Wi-lliam
J. Prenger of the Missouri
State Highway Patrol. Shively was
making a left turn onto a gravel road
when he was hit from behind by
Fishburn, who was attempting to
pass the trailer, Prenger said.
Although the gas truck was empty,
the vehicles left the roadway and
burst into flames immediately, Pre-nger
said. Shively and Fishburn
managed to escape from their cabs.
Shively, an employee of Case Pow-er
and Equipment, said he was on
his way to deliver a rental bulldozer
to a Centralia farmer
By the" time Sturgeon and Central-ia
firefighters reached the scene,
Fishburn had been taken to the hos-pital
by a passing motorist, Boone
County Fire Department Deputy
Chief Bill Westhof f said.
The tractor- traile- r, severely dam-aged
by fire and impact, was worth
at least $ 45,000, according to Ken-neth
V. Unger, general manager of
Case Power and Equipment.
The oil transport was destroyed,
Prenger said. Firefighter David Thomas cools off
' "" pho10 Jennifer Joyce and her quintuplets
little missiles make
nuclear risks smaller
By Hedrick Smith
N. Y. Times News Service
WASHINGTON The Soviet
Union has told the Reagan adminis-tration
that it is moving to develop a
mobile intercontinental missile, a
trend that some officials believe
could help reduce the arms race,
U. S. officials said Friday. -
But these officials also assert that
Soviet testing of a new solid fuel mis-sile,
which could become a mobile
missile, may violate the 1979 strateg-ic
arms agreement and thus compli-cate
both the process of negotiating
a new arms agreement and even-tually
winning approval for it in the
Senate.
The administration has made an
issue of recent Soviet missile tests.
Last month, Secretary of State
George P. Shultz asked the Russians
to discuss these tests and Soviet con-struction
of a new radar station in
eastern Siberia at an urgent meeting
of a joint committee set up to mon-itor
compliance of arms agree-ments.
No meeting has yet taken
place.
U. S. officials concede the Reagan
administration is in the position of
wanting Moscow to halt tests that vi-olate
past arms agreements, but
hoping the Russians will, like the
Americans, develop a new smaller,
single- warhea- d, mobile missile and
gradually substitute it for the large,
multiwarhead, landbased missiles
that Washington finds most menac-ing.
Officials note that Soviet negotia-tors
in Geneva have told the chief
U. S. negotiator, Edward L. Rowny,
that Moscow realizes its landbased
missiles will be vulnerable to the
U. S. MX missile and new Trident 2
submarine missiles later this de-cade.
Soviet officials have said that
Moscow plans to meet this threat by
developing mobile missiles.
At a breakfast session with report- -
(
ers on Friday, Rowny declined to
discuss his private talks with Soviet
negotiators. He did say there was
" some evidence" that the Soviets
were already testing a new missile,
the PL-- 5, about which Washington
has made protests. Both its relative-ly
modest size and the fact it is pow-ered
by solid fuel make it a likely
mobile missile.
" My assessment is that this is the
prudent way for them to go," Rowny
said.
Following . a report last spring by
President Reagan's bipartisan Com-mission
on Strategic Forces, the ad-ministration
accepted the argument
of Democrats in Congress who back
arms control that developing a
small, single- warhe- ad mobile mis-sile
would reduce the risks of a sur-prise
attack from the heavy, multi- warhe- ad
missiles which Moscow has
long favored.
" To the extent that the Soviets do
move to smaller missiles, it's good
for us," Rowny said. " If they go this
way, they have to reduce their over-all
throw weight and their capability
because you can't move a huge mis-sile
around."
According to U. S. officials, mobile
missiles are less vulnerable to sur-prise
attack than missiles in fixed si-los.
Thus, having them reduces the
likelihood of surprise attack. Admin-istration
officials say the arms race
could be stabilized if both sides
agreed on lower overall numbers of
nuclear warheads on their land and
seabased missiles.
The Reagan administration has
proposed cutting back the inventory
of missile warheads on landbased
and seabased missiles from 7,500 at
present to 5,000 for each side. So far
Soviet negotiators have not com-mented
on the 5,000- warhe- ad limit.
Feds waiting for figures
while crops die in heat
JEFFERSON CITY. Mo. i UPI --
The federal government is not ex-pected
to act for several weeks on
the crop disaster declaration sought
by the governor, state agriculture of-ficials
said Friday
James B. Boillot. director of the
state Department of Agriculture,
said the request could not be formal-ly
initiated until local county emer-gency
boards submit individual crop
conditions to the state ASCS commit-tee.
Boillot said the state committee is
asking the county emergency boards
to submit the information no later
than Aug. 31.
On Thursday Gov. Christopher S.
Bond, citing the extreme heat and
drought conditions, asked the feder-al
government to declare Missouri's
major grain crops a disaster.
A disaster declaration holds down
the costs of the drought that will be
passed onto the consumer but eligi-ble
farmers would qualify for low in-terest
loans through the Farmers
Home Administration.
A spokesman for the ASCS com-mittee
said as it stands now nearly
100 counties could eventually qualify
for the disaster declaration.
A report issued by the Missouri
Crop and Livestock Reporting Serv-ice
earlier this week rated 77 percent
of the state's corn and 50 percent of
the soybean plants in poor condition.
Last year Missouri's average corn
ield wa. s 10- - bushel per acre This
ear the leld per acre is expected to
drop to around 75 bushels.
Agricultural experts sa while a
good rain could help the soybean
crop, it is too late to save corn. Don
Ba of the U S IXpartment of Agr-iculture
in Columbia said the critical
month for corn was July
While agriculture officials said it
ts too earl to put a price tag on the
damage caused by the drought. Dick
Rudel. an agnculture- econonu- c pro-fessor
at the Universitv of Missouri- Columbi- a
said the lower yields will
cause significant increases in meat,
poultrj and pork prices within four
to eight months
Farmers, on the other hand, have
mam people on their side working
for them now
Agriculture Secretary John Block
informed President Keagan of the
latest drought damage Fnda and
summoned 2( governors to a meet-ing
earh next month to discuss prob-lems
stemming from the hot. dr
weather.
After the Sept. 2 meeting in Chi-cago.
Block will report to Keagan on
a " full evaluation of the drought ef-fects"
the Agriculture Department
said.
As of Aug. 1. the drought, and the
largest acreage cutback m history,
had reduced the U. S. corn crop by 38
percent. The soybean crop was down
19 percent
Damaged corn contains
deadly nitrate, poison
COLUMBIA, Mo. ( UPI) - Agri-cultural
experts have sounded the
alarm to Missouri farmers: Drought- ridde- n
corn, sorghum- suda- n hybrids
and crosses and sudan grass could
contain deadly nitrate or prussic poi-son.
" We're seeing a repeat of 1980 in
some areas of the state," said Hom-er
Sewell, University of Missouri ex-tension
cattle feeding specialist.
He warned farmers to test ensiled
corn before feeding it to livestock.
" Immature corn that has been
damaged by high temperature has a
low ratio of energy to moisture in the
stalk. That means it won't ferment
and go through the silage process
properly, and toxic levels of nitrate
could result.
" Although heat and drought- damage- d
com may never produce an
ear, it's still best to wait three to
four weeks before harvesting.
" That gives time for additional en-ergy
or nutrients to accumulate in
the stalk, for overall moisture con-tent
and nitrate levels to decrease in
the plant and for palatibihty of the
silage to improve.
" Besides, conditions for proper si-lage
fermentation become more fa-vorable,
and proper silage fermenta-tion
can reduce dangerous nitrates
by 30 to 60 percent."
" If the nitrate levels are too high,
you can dilute the silage with other
feed, like ground corn or good- qualit- y,
low- nitra- te hay."
Sewell and Wheaton are telling
farmers to be especially careful of
silo gas.
They suggest waiting at least
three weeks after corn is put into a
silo before using the silage to allow
time for the silage process to occur
and dangerous nitrogen gases to es-cape.
' Sterile' woman gives birth to 5 miracles
NEPTUNE, N. J. ( UPI) Healthy
quintuplets, each weighing less than
3 pounds and born eight- wee- ks pre-mature,
were " doing very well" Fri-day
and their father said he would
have to take a crash course in chang-ing
diapers.
Jennifer Joyce, 27, who lives in the
oceanside community of Sea Girt,
gave birth to the three boys and wo
girls by Caesarean section shortly
after 9: 30 p. m. EDT Thursday in Jer-sey
Shore Medical Center.
Each of the children was listed in
critical but stable condition Friday.
" Considering that they were pre-mature,
everything is going very
good. The mother is doing very
well," said Dr. Enrique Aldrich, who
performed the operation.
" At first, it was kind of a shock
( when told about the fifth infant),"
Mrs. Joyce said. " But four or five
it's not much of a difference. "
The five babies were the first chil-dren
for the couple. Joyce, a high
school economics teacher, said the
infants were " small miracles. It's
wonderful bringing five souls into
the world."
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Mrs. Joyce said she had been try-ing
to get pregnant for about a year
and began the fertility drug, pergo-nal,
under Dr. Aldrich's supervision.
Belgium woman has sextuplets
BRUSSELS, Belgium ( UPI)
Belgium's first set of sextuplets and
their 24- year-- old mother, a nurse
who took fertility drugs, are all
healthy and doing well, the doctor
who delivered the babies said Fri-day.
Mrs. Ria Gadeyne gave birth to a
girl and five boys, weighing from 2.9
pounds to 3.3 pounds. She is the first
woman known to have sextuplets in
Belgium and only the 11th this cen-tury
in the world.
Atter a pregnancy of about 8.5
months, the six babies came into the
world at two- minu- te intervals
Wednesday.
" It was so quick and so smooth,
and everything went so well," said
Dr. Mark Faict, who performed the
delivery at the Princess Fabiola hos-pital
in the family's hometown of
Blanckenberge, a coastal resort 75
miles northwest of Brussels.
" We did a regular Caesarean sec-tion
under local anaesthetic and all
the babies were delivered in 12 min-utes.
The mother is doing very well
and her large offspring too," Faict
said.
The six babies were being kept in
special incubators, a hospital
spokesman said.