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- .. 1 W X - k r 75th Year -- No. 223 Good Mornlngl it's Friday, June 3, 1983 2 Sections 14 Pages 25 Cents MHBMahMBaMBWfcWHMMBMiHMeHiMBDalaliiaMeWMBBMMBI V " u tom00' 00 Patsy H. Sampson, former liberal arts dean at Drake University, was chosen from six finalists. Patsy Sampson Stephens College names first woman president By Major Garrett Mlaaourian staff writer Stephens College's first mman president, Patsy Sampson, brings with ber from Drake University in Dca Moines a reputation as an administrative pioneer and communicator. " Through careful contingency planning, Patsy began two new acsdeniic programs with an essen-tially stagnant budget," said7 WQliam Klipec, as-sociate dean of Drake's Liberal Arts College. " She provided careful leadership that was well re-ceived by faculty." Ms. Sampson, SO, former liberal arts dean at Drake, was named Tharsdayto bead Stephens. KUpec said Ms. Sampson was Drake's only dean to address the need to plan for possible retrench-ment in light of decreasing enrollment at private colleges. " We havent cut or reduced any programs," he said. " But Patsy has showed us what works best for us." Faculty involvement in negotiations over which programs held the highest priority was a hall-mark of Ms. Sampson's three- ye- ar tenure at Drake, he said. " She quieted fears of the faculty by assuring mem they would have a say in any new program plans," he said. " The faculty always knew her plans were evolutionary instead of reactionary." Ms. Sampson enhanced communication within the college by bringing faculty scattered across campus under one roof. " Stephens College now has an excellent administrator and leader," he said. Reaction at Stephens was just as positive. " I'm wonderfully excited for Stephens' future," said Micheal Bowling, mathematics instructor and member of the presidential search commit-tee. " She's going to bring new direction the col-lege will be able to rally around." Jean Roeschlaub, chairman of Stephens' Board of Curators, said, " Dr. Sampson is uniquely qual-ified to provide the strong leadership the college needs." Ms. Sampson was selected by the curators from a field of six finalists, and will assume leadership of the predominantly women's college July 1. She replaces Arland Christ- Janne- r who announced his intention to resign last October. Christ- Jann- er has acted as president since the formal search for president began four months ago, and will stay until Ms. Sampson takes command. Chnst- Janner'- s eight years as president were marked by falling enrollment, budget deficits and faculty discord. The faculty's opposition to Christ- Jann- er came to a head in 1980 with a " no confidence" vote fol-lowing a series of faculty layoffs. Because of those layoffs, Ms. Sampson will in-herit a budget that's nearly balanced. Nonethe-less, she doesn't deny that Stephens has problems " We have to work to heal the wounds of this col-lege," she said. " We have to emphasize academic vitality and growth." Bolstering enrollment to stabilize the college's cash flow will be a top priority, she said Ms. Sampson said her first task will be to ac-quaint herself with the complexities of Stephens Only then, she said, can she plan for the future. " I have a strong feeling that Stephens holds great promise," she said. " We must unite to solve the present problems." Ms. Sampson said careful scrutiny of the col-lege's academic programs is essential. " We have to determine our strengths and weaknesses," she said. " And in that process we may find areas where reductions in favor of stronger programs will be necessary " But before any cuts are made, Ms. Sampson promised to consult and confer with the Stephens community. Faculty reaction to Ms. Sampson's appointment was markedly different than it was when Chnst- Janne- r, the 18th male president in the college's history, was appointed. Barnes said Chnst- Janne- r was given an icy reception by faculty. They re-quested that he reconsider accepting the presiden-cy since they had unanimously supported the oth-er candidate, Martha Church, president of Hood College The situation was different with Ms. Sampson. A reception with faculty and staff before the an-nouncement early Thursday was jubilant, Barnes said More than 300 faculty, staff, students and alumnae were present As Ms. Sampson entered she was greeted with a standing ovation. Panel endorses for University By Tom Dixon State capital bureau JEFFERSON CITY A day after a House- Senat- e Conference Commit-tee agreed only to disagree, the 10 legislative conferees made headway Thursday on settling differences on the state budget, particularly the University budget The committee tentatively ap-proved a proposal giving the Univer-sity system $ 1 million less than the current fiscal year for its general op-erating budget The committee now must give fi-nal approval to all other appropria-tion bills Each chamber then must ratify those recommendations University lobbyist Duana Luwille called the conference committee ac-tion a good compromise " I am very happy," she said. " It could have been worse Lord, we were way down there in the begin-ning" If the committee action holds, it means the University system would get $ 166 million for the fiscal year beginning July 1. The conferees tabled discussion of any increase to state public schools. Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Edwin Dirck, D-- St Ann, said the conference committee would not decide on increasing the current level of $ 699 million that the School Foundation Formula is re-ceiving this year until the governor acts on the schools' opening bill Waiting on Gov. Christopher Bond's desk is a bill designed to bolster state tourism by delaying school openings until after Labor Day " We want to put the governor's seat to the fire," he said ' fye'Uwait to decide on that until after we've considered all the bills " The Senate on Tuesday had fin-ished paring more than $ 100 million from the House's budget recommen-dation Dirck said he wants the state to have a $ 120- milho- n operating re-serve so Bond would not have to withhold any state appropriations The Senate's conference commit-tee chairman also argued that the state cannot afford the House's pro-posed $ 34 million increase for state aid to public schools and $ 16 million for higher education The Senate last week approved the appropriations committee recom-mendation that the University sys-tem receive $ 3 million less than this fiscal year But the House two months ago approved a proposed $ 2 million less than the $ 169 million that the General Assembly approved. The first few days have been typ-ical by conference committee stan-dards. As in the the early rounds of a boxing match, both sides were sizing each other up while not backing down Dirck fired the first shot when he refused to yield on any increases for public schools Still, Rep. Francis Barnes, R- Kirk- w-ocd, offered a proposal that would boost the School Foundation Formu-la and higher education budget $ 12 million and $ 6 million, respectively, above the Senate's figure But he said there would be an operating re-serve of $ 96 million. DC-- 9 bursts into flames, killing 23 of 46 aboard FLORENCE, Ky ( UPI) - An Air Canada DC-- 9 jet with 46 people aboard burst into flames in flight Thursday night and crash- lande- d at Greater Cincinnati Airport. At least 23 people were killed Witnesses said the flames burned numerous holes in the body of the plane, which came to a halt in the middle of the runway. The fire was extinguished quickly, officials said " There are 23 fatalities," airport spokeswoman Lynn Sutter said. " We do not know how many others are in-jured " The plane was en route from Dallas- Fo- rt Worth International Air-port to Toronto with 41 passengers and a crew of five Two people were admitted to Wi-lliam Booth Memorial Hospital for smoke inhalation and other minor in-juries, officials said. Three people were admitted to St Elizabeth South Hospital in Covington, Ky, across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. Crash photo Page 10A Thursday's disaster on Air Cana-da's Flight 797 was the third serious incident in less than a week involv-ing a DC-- 9 aircraft. A crash earlier Thursday in Jakar-ta, Indonesia, killed three people Last Saturday, a Republic Airlines DC-- 9 made an emergency landing 18 miles short of its Phoenix, Anz , des-tination because it had not been re-fueled before takeoff. Shortly before the crash, the plane s pdot radioed the regional air control center in Indianapolis that an engine was on fire, FAA officials said He was instructed to make an emergency landing at Cincinnati Airport Late Thursday, airport officials continued their search of the wreck-age to be sure they had removed all passengers and crew. Murray's lawyer questions liability and negligence of agencies ByTcmLacey Mteaourian staff writer tBae attorney who defended Robert Murray agwjst charges that he unjustifiably shot narajs& iiis adoptive but abusive father, is rata0tt3& that local social service agencies SeaipKg with the dead man were negligent in plac children in the Murray home. As evidence, attorney Timothy Harlan points to file suffering of many foster chil-dren all of whom were boys during their stay in the Darryl Murray household. Daring his three- da- y manslaughter trial last week, Robert Murray said his father was too strict with the adopted and foster children, mat he often beat them with belts and paddles. Robert, 24, also told of enemas that Darryl gave the boys and of the homo-sexual overtones mat often preoccupied fam-ily life inthe Murray home. Rarlan thinks the agencies that placed the boys in the home should bear some of the ha-- K) DK? bOity for the abuse they experienced. He says that if the state Division of Family Services had answered a complaint prompt-ly, the investigator would have found the home in an uproar. " Darryl Murray was gone three days a week," Harlan says, who contends Murray could not manage the other children without Robert's help. Spokesmen for the Division of Family Services say there is only so much they can do in investigating cases under their juris-diction. Prosecuting Attorney Joe Moseley says, " The case is complete as far as I know." He anticipates no further criminal actions against anyone with regard to the Murray case and dcesnt plan to pursue the case. Moseley says that incidents of alleged abuse in the Murray home remain unclear because of conflicting testimony He also says he does not know of any negligence by a state official that would involve criminal ac-tion. But imposing questions remain un-answered in the Darryl Murray case k-- Does liability for the alleged sexual and physical abuse of children extend beyond Darryl Murray as Harlan suggests? f How is it possible Murray could have obtained as many juveniles as it has been al-leged he did? Why were they all boys between the ages of Sand 12? v And how could Darryl Murray's alleged abuse have remained undetected for so long? In the placement of children in the Murray home, Harlan says that there is " no question that there is some negligence involved" Robert Murray's testimony in court indi-cated that some of the 30 to 40 juveniles sent to the Murray home for foster care over a 10- ye- ar period were physically and sexually abused at the hands of Darryl Murray after he became licensed as a foster parent According to court testimony, agencies be-sides the Division of Family Services were involved. Troy Pogue, social services supervisor at Family Services m Columbia, could not com-ment on the number of the juveniles sent to Murray that originated with Family Serv-ices He does say, however, that the 30 to 40 juveniles generally cited by the press is wholly in error. He says that there is no indi-cation other than newspaper accounts that anything like that number of boys were involved. Pogue says that it is not the nature of Family Services to be investigative as a po-lice agency might be It is the purpose of Family Services to evaluate applicants for foster care and adoptions and to investigate charges of abuse and neglect when they are made to the division office. But Harlan maintains that Family Serv-ices did not live up to its stated objective in investigating reports of this nature in the Murray case. Harlan points to an anony-mous report made to the agency office at 4: 50 pm on the day before Thanksgiving last year Harlan says the person who took the report testified in court that she was follow-ing office policy m not immediately respond-ing to a report until after the holiday period because it was vague and did not seem to be an emergency. Pogue says this is not true. He says it is the policy of the agency to attempt to follow up such reports within 24 hours If the social service worker can't respond, it's his or her responsibility to assign the problem to some-one who can Short of a police state or of electronic sur-veillance devices in the home, Pogue says See TRIAL, Page 1CA. Study shows industry bears brunt of electric bills By Donna Biddle Mteaourian staff writer m 1977, a study showed that residential users weren't paying their fair share of electric costs. The Water and Light Advi-sory Board and the City Council respond-ed with a 12 percent across- the- boar- d rate increase. A city study presented Wednesday night to the advisory board has concluded the same thing. Now the advisory board faces several cottons. It can recommend either that the rate structure be changed or that the elec-tric rate be increased. Or both. According to the city study, Columbia residents paid $ 10.5 million to the electric utility in fiscal year 1982. However, it cost the utility $ 11.8 million to provide them with electricity. Industrial and commer-cial customers subsidized residential us-ers and made up for the utility's losses. " There certainly will be a base rate in-crease," said David Wollersheim, chair-man of the advisory board. " How large of one, I have no idea." " But I don't think there's any way to have the residential class pay its own way all at once. It just wouldn't be good busi-ness," he raiiL Wollersheim said there are two reasons why residential users aren't paying as much in the long run. One is mat com-mercial customeis dont have to pay out of their own pocket, he said. It is easier for them to pass on the cost increases The other reason is a question cf politics, he said. Fewer voters are involved when you raise commercial rates. tWheo" lTlreehrsseihdreeeimntiaswlaicedlr. aes" sEvisneornyootnsreeuakrlpnlyorwipssaeytsihn, a" gt their fair share. But it's not typical of lust Columbia." " In 1975, Columbia residents paid the highest average electric bills among test cities. In a similar survey taken in 1980, Columbia customers had the third highest bills. Columbia ranked fifth highest among 10 cities surveyed last month. In-dustrial electric customers in Columbia now have the second highest bills among test cities. ; Although odds favor a rate increase, other options are being discussed And none of these options are exclusive, Wollersheim said More rate incentives will be offered, he said. " Now it's easier to generate differ-ent rates because of computers." Water and Light Director Dick Malon suggested looking at ways to give people breaks for energy efficiency, which helps to decrease the system's load during peak hours Lower rates could be offered during non- pea- k hours daily and seasonally, said Bill Schneider of the department's rates and fiscal planning division. He wrote the See UTILITY, Page 10A. Commercial Electric Bills 1 for 2,000 KWH May 1 983 ( Single Phase, Secondary Voltage 10KW) Board of Public Utilities, Kansas City, Kan .$ 200 67 1 Kansas City, Mo, Power & Light .$ 182.03 1 Missouri Public Service, Sedalia $ 176 72 St Joseph Light & Power $ 174 50 i Missouri Power & Light. Jefferson City $ 166 05 1 Empire District Electric, Joplin $ 132144 1 City of Independence $ 12479 City of Columbia $ 12154 8 Union Electric Company, St Louis $ 118 25 I Southwest Electric Cooperative, Oliver $ 11580 I Boone Electric Cooperative, Columbia . $ 114 70 Webster Electric Cooperative, Marshfield $ 108 75 J City Utilities, Springfield $ 108 59
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Item.Transcript | - .. 1 W X - k r 75th Year -- No. 223 Good Mornlngl it's Friday, June 3, 1983 2 Sections 14 Pages 25 Cents MHBMahMBaMBWfcWHMMBMiHMeHiMBDalaliiaMeWMBBMMBI V " u tom00' 00 Patsy H. Sampson, former liberal arts dean at Drake University, was chosen from six finalists. Patsy Sampson Stephens College names first woman president By Major Garrett Mlaaourian staff writer Stephens College's first mman president, Patsy Sampson, brings with ber from Drake University in Dca Moines a reputation as an administrative pioneer and communicator. " Through careful contingency planning, Patsy began two new acsdeniic programs with an essen-tially stagnant budget," said7 WQliam Klipec, as-sociate dean of Drake's Liberal Arts College. " She provided careful leadership that was well re-ceived by faculty." Ms. Sampson, SO, former liberal arts dean at Drake, was named Tharsdayto bead Stephens. KUpec said Ms. Sampson was Drake's only dean to address the need to plan for possible retrench-ment in light of decreasing enrollment at private colleges. " We havent cut or reduced any programs," he said. " But Patsy has showed us what works best for us." Faculty involvement in negotiations over which programs held the highest priority was a hall-mark of Ms. Sampson's three- ye- ar tenure at Drake, he said. " She quieted fears of the faculty by assuring mem they would have a say in any new program plans," he said. " The faculty always knew her plans were evolutionary instead of reactionary." Ms. Sampson enhanced communication within the college by bringing faculty scattered across campus under one roof. " Stephens College now has an excellent administrator and leader," he said. Reaction at Stephens was just as positive. " I'm wonderfully excited for Stephens' future," said Micheal Bowling, mathematics instructor and member of the presidential search commit-tee. " She's going to bring new direction the col-lege will be able to rally around." Jean Roeschlaub, chairman of Stephens' Board of Curators, said, " Dr. Sampson is uniquely qual-ified to provide the strong leadership the college needs." Ms. Sampson was selected by the curators from a field of six finalists, and will assume leadership of the predominantly women's college July 1. She replaces Arland Christ- Janne- r who announced his intention to resign last October. Christ- Jann- er has acted as president since the formal search for president began four months ago, and will stay until Ms. Sampson takes command. Chnst- Janner'- s eight years as president were marked by falling enrollment, budget deficits and faculty discord. The faculty's opposition to Christ- Jann- er came to a head in 1980 with a " no confidence" vote fol-lowing a series of faculty layoffs. Because of those layoffs, Ms. Sampson will in-herit a budget that's nearly balanced. Nonethe-less, she doesn't deny that Stephens has problems " We have to work to heal the wounds of this col-lege," she said. " We have to emphasize academic vitality and growth." Bolstering enrollment to stabilize the college's cash flow will be a top priority, she said Ms. Sampson said her first task will be to ac-quaint herself with the complexities of Stephens Only then, she said, can she plan for the future. " I have a strong feeling that Stephens holds great promise," she said. " We must unite to solve the present problems." Ms. Sampson said careful scrutiny of the col-lege's academic programs is essential. " We have to determine our strengths and weaknesses," she said. " And in that process we may find areas where reductions in favor of stronger programs will be necessary " But before any cuts are made, Ms. Sampson promised to consult and confer with the Stephens community. Faculty reaction to Ms. Sampson's appointment was markedly different than it was when Chnst- Janne- r, the 18th male president in the college's history, was appointed. Barnes said Chnst- Janne- r was given an icy reception by faculty. They re-quested that he reconsider accepting the presiden-cy since they had unanimously supported the oth-er candidate, Martha Church, president of Hood College The situation was different with Ms. Sampson. A reception with faculty and staff before the an-nouncement early Thursday was jubilant, Barnes said More than 300 faculty, staff, students and alumnae were present As Ms. Sampson entered she was greeted with a standing ovation. Panel endorses for University By Tom Dixon State capital bureau JEFFERSON CITY A day after a House- Senat- e Conference Commit-tee agreed only to disagree, the 10 legislative conferees made headway Thursday on settling differences on the state budget, particularly the University budget The committee tentatively ap-proved a proposal giving the Univer-sity system $ 1 million less than the current fiscal year for its general op-erating budget The committee now must give fi-nal approval to all other appropria-tion bills Each chamber then must ratify those recommendations University lobbyist Duana Luwille called the conference committee ac-tion a good compromise " I am very happy," she said. " It could have been worse Lord, we were way down there in the begin-ning" If the committee action holds, it means the University system would get $ 166 million for the fiscal year beginning July 1. The conferees tabled discussion of any increase to state public schools. Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Edwin Dirck, D-- St Ann, said the conference committee would not decide on increasing the current level of $ 699 million that the School Foundation Formula is re-ceiving this year until the governor acts on the schools' opening bill Waiting on Gov. Christopher Bond's desk is a bill designed to bolster state tourism by delaying school openings until after Labor Day " We want to put the governor's seat to the fire," he said ' fye'Uwait to decide on that until after we've considered all the bills " The Senate on Tuesday had fin-ished paring more than $ 100 million from the House's budget recommen-dation Dirck said he wants the state to have a $ 120- milho- n operating re-serve so Bond would not have to withhold any state appropriations The Senate's conference commit-tee chairman also argued that the state cannot afford the House's pro-posed $ 34 million increase for state aid to public schools and $ 16 million for higher education The Senate last week approved the appropriations committee recom-mendation that the University sys-tem receive $ 3 million less than this fiscal year But the House two months ago approved a proposed $ 2 million less than the $ 169 million that the General Assembly approved. The first few days have been typ-ical by conference committee stan-dards. As in the the early rounds of a boxing match, both sides were sizing each other up while not backing down Dirck fired the first shot when he refused to yield on any increases for public schools Still, Rep. Francis Barnes, R- Kirk- w-ocd, offered a proposal that would boost the School Foundation Formu-la and higher education budget $ 12 million and $ 6 million, respectively, above the Senate's figure But he said there would be an operating re-serve of $ 96 million. DC-- 9 bursts into flames, killing 23 of 46 aboard FLORENCE, Ky ( UPI) - An Air Canada DC-- 9 jet with 46 people aboard burst into flames in flight Thursday night and crash- lande- d at Greater Cincinnati Airport. At least 23 people were killed Witnesses said the flames burned numerous holes in the body of the plane, which came to a halt in the middle of the runway. The fire was extinguished quickly, officials said " There are 23 fatalities," airport spokeswoman Lynn Sutter said. " We do not know how many others are in-jured " The plane was en route from Dallas- Fo- rt Worth International Air-port to Toronto with 41 passengers and a crew of five Two people were admitted to Wi-lliam Booth Memorial Hospital for smoke inhalation and other minor in-juries, officials said. Three people were admitted to St Elizabeth South Hospital in Covington, Ky, across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. Crash photo Page 10A Thursday's disaster on Air Cana-da's Flight 797 was the third serious incident in less than a week involv-ing a DC-- 9 aircraft. A crash earlier Thursday in Jakar-ta, Indonesia, killed three people Last Saturday, a Republic Airlines DC-- 9 made an emergency landing 18 miles short of its Phoenix, Anz , des-tination because it had not been re-fueled before takeoff. Shortly before the crash, the plane s pdot radioed the regional air control center in Indianapolis that an engine was on fire, FAA officials said He was instructed to make an emergency landing at Cincinnati Airport Late Thursday, airport officials continued their search of the wreck-age to be sure they had removed all passengers and crew. Murray's lawyer questions liability and negligence of agencies ByTcmLacey Mteaourian staff writer tBae attorney who defended Robert Murray agwjst charges that he unjustifiably shot narajs& iiis adoptive but abusive father, is rata0tt3& that local social service agencies SeaipKg with the dead man were negligent in plac children in the Murray home. As evidence, attorney Timothy Harlan points to file suffering of many foster chil-dren all of whom were boys during their stay in the Darryl Murray household. Daring his three- da- y manslaughter trial last week, Robert Murray said his father was too strict with the adopted and foster children, mat he often beat them with belts and paddles. Robert, 24, also told of enemas that Darryl gave the boys and of the homo-sexual overtones mat often preoccupied fam-ily life inthe Murray home. Rarlan thinks the agencies that placed the boys in the home should bear some of the ha-- K) DK? bOity for the abuse they experienced. He says that if the state Division of Family Services had answered a complaint prompt-ly, the investigator would have found the home in an uproar. " Darryl Murray was gone three days a week," Harlan says, who contends Murray could not manage the other children without Robert's help. Spokesmen for the Division of Family Services say there is only so much they can do in investigating cases under their juris-diction. Prosecuting Attorney Joe Moseley says, " The case is complete as far as I know." He anticipates no further criminal actions against anyone with regard to the Murray case and dcesnt plan to pursue the case. Moseley says that incidents of alleged abuse in the Murray home remain unclear because of conflicting testimony He also says he does not know of any negligence by a state official that would involve criminal ac-tion. But imposing questions remain un-answered in the Darryl Murray case k-- Does liability for the alleged sexual and physical abuse of children extend beyond Darryl Murray as Harlan suggests? f How is it possible Murray could have obtained as many juveniles as it has been al-leged he did? Why were they all boys between the ages of Sand 12? v And how could Darryl Murray's alleged abuse have remained undetected for so long? In the placement of children in the Murray home, Harlan says that there is " no question that there is some negligence involved" Robert Murray's testimony in court indi-cated that some of the 30 to 40 juveniles sent to the Murray home for foster care over a 10- ye- ar period were physically and sexually abused at the hands of Darryl Murray after he became licensed as a foster parent According to court testimony, agencies be-sides the Division of Family Services were involved. Troy Pogue, social services supervisor at Family Services m Columbia, could not com-ment on the number of the juveniles sent to Murray that originated with Family Serv-ices He does say, however, that the 30 to 40 juveniles generally cited by the press is wholly in error. He says that there is no indi-cation other than newspaper accounts that anything like that number of boys were involved. Pogue says that it is not the nature of Family Services to be investigative as a po-lice agency might be It is the purpose of Family Services to evaluate applicants for foster care and adoptions and to investigate charges of abuse and neglect when they are made to the division office. But Harlan maintains that Family Serv-ices did not live up to its stated objective in investigating reports of this nature in the Murray case. Harlan points to an anony-mous report made to the agency office at 4: 50 pm on the day before Thanksgiving last year Harlan says the person who took the report testified in court that she was follow-ing office policy m not immediately respond-ing to a report until after the holiday period because it was vague and did not seem to be an emergency. Pogue says this is not true. He says it is the policy of the agency to attempt to follow up such reports within 24 hours If the social service worker can't respond, it's his or her responsibility to assign the problem to some-one who can Short of a police state or of electronic sur-veillance devices in the home, Pogue says See TRIAL, Page 1CA. Study shows industry bears brunt of electric bills By Donna Biddle Mteaourian staff writer m 1977, a study showed that residential users weren't paying their fair share of electric costs. The Water and Light Advi-sory Board and the City Council respond-ed with a 12 percent across- the- boar- d rate increase. A city study presented Wednesday night to the advisory board has concluded the same thing. Now the advisory board faces several cottons. It can recommend either that the rate structure be changed or that the elec-tric rate be increased. Or both. According to the city study, Columbia residents paid $ 10.5 million to the electric utility in fiscal year 1982. However, it cost the utility $ 11.8 million to provide them with electricity. Industrial and commer-cial customers subsidized residential us-ers and made up for the utility's losses. " There certainly will be a base rate in-crease," said David Wollersheim, chair-man of the advisory board. " How large of one, I have no idea." " But I don't think there's any way to have the residential class pay its own way all at once. It just wouldn't be good busi-ness," he raiiL Wollersheim said there are two reasons why residential users aren't paying as much in the long run. One is mat com-mercial customeis dont have to pay out of their own pocket, he said. It is easier for them to pass on the cost increases The other reason is a question cf politics, he said. Fewer voters are involved when you raise commercial rates. tWheo" lTlreehrsseihdreeeimntiaswlaicedlr. aes" sEvisneornyootnsreeuakrlpnlyorwipssaeytsihn, a" gt their fair share. But it's not typical of lust Columbia." " In 1975, Columbia residents paid the highest average electric bills among test cities. In a similar survey taken in 1980, Columbia customers had the third highest bills. Columbia ranked fifth highest among 10 cities surveyed last month. In-dustrial electric customers in Columbia now have the second highest bills among test cities. ; Although odds favor a rate increase, other options are being discussed And none of these options are exclusive, Wollersheim said More rate incentives will be offered, he said. " Now it's easier to generate differ-ent rates because of computers." Water and Light Director Dick Malon suggested looking at ways to give people breaks for energy efficiency, which helps to decrease the system's load during peak hours Lower rates could be offered during non- pea- k hours daily and seasonally, said Bill Schneider of the department's rates and fiscal planning division. He wrote the See UTILITY, Page 10A. Commercial Electric Bills 1 for 2,000 KWH May 1 983 ( Single Phase, Secondary Voltage 10KW) Board of Public Utilities, Kansas City, Kan .$ 200 67 1 Kansas City, Mo, Power & Light .$ 182.03 1 Missouri Public Service, Sedalia $ 176 72 St Joseph Light & Power $ 174 50 i Missouri Power & Light. Jefferson City $ 166 05 1 Empire District Electric, Joplin $ 132144 1 City of Independence $ 12479 City of Columbia $ 12154 8 Union Electric Company, St Louis $ 118 25 I Southwest Electric Cooperative, Oliver $ 11580 I Boone Electric Cooperative, Columbia . $ 114 70 Webster Electric Cooperative, Marshfield $ 108 75 J City Utilities, Springfield $ 108 59 |