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75th Year No. 290 Good Morning! It's Saturday, August 20, 1983 2 Sections 1 2 Pages 25 Cents BmannBnaBBBaanBBBBanBaaMiBaBBii iimim i . . . R Penning photos 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." qduiaJipockeyrlcye. asanidd hweohualdd nheavveer chtoangleeadrna 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.
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Title | Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1983-08-20 |
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Item.Transcript | 75th Year No. 290 Good Morning! It's Saturday, August 20, 1983 2 Sections 1 2 Pages 25 Cents BmannBnaBBBaanBBBBanBaaMiBaBBii iimim i . . . R Penning photos 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." qduiaJipockeyrlcye. asanidd hweohualdd nheavveer chtoangleeadrna 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. |