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1012 LOffRY U! ic ' Jj- I- T-Y " sittb chooses Syridvoid Page 1 2A jKBfeMg recovery , jfeU- - Page 14A 75th Year No. 246 Good Morning! It's Wednesday, June 29, 1983 7 Sections 52 Pages 25 Cents ---'- '""- .-- -,-.- - . . . . . United PisTlptiMo The missing 100- fo- ot chunk of the bridge looks as if it were cut away by a giant pair of shears. Bridge collapses 3 killed, 3 injured on major artery in Connecticut GREENWICH, Conn. ( UPI) A 100- fo- ot sec-tion of a Connecticut Turnpike bridge collapsed in pre- daw- n darkness Tuesday killing three people and critically injuring three others in vehicles that plunged 70 feet into the Mianus River. State and federal investigations were on the scene of the 1: 28 a. m. partial collapse that trig-gered a massive traffic jam on Interstate 95 a major artery that carries 90,000 vehicles a day be-tween New York and Connecticut. National Guard helicopters helped reroute traf-fic onto U. S. 1 and the Merritt Parkway, but rush- ho- ur traffic to New York was backed up 15 miles. There was no immediate indication what caused the section of the Mianus Bridge to collapse, but investigators were checking a report one of the pins used in its construction apparently was sheared off. The 25- year-- old bridge was inspected less than a year ago with no major problems re-ported. Some residents in Greenwich an affluent bed-room community 20- 3- 0 miles from New York City had complained of strange sounds from the bridge and vibrations they could feel in their homes. State police said two vehicles were on the sec-tion of the three eastbound lanes when it plum-meted into the river, and two other vehicles ran off the bridge spanning the scenic Cos Cob yacht harbor. Twisted wreckage, chunks of concrete and as-phalt and live power lines were knocked into the water when the section dropped. The three west-bound lanes remained intact but the entire bridge was closed. Gov. William O'Neill, at the scene, said the State Transportation Department will inspect all bridges on the turnpike. He ordered state police to investigate the collapse as well as complaints of odd noises from the span. State Transportation Commissioner J. Williams Burns said the section that fell was wedged be-tween two expansion joints, and it was possible a support hanger pin was severed. The National Transportation Safety Board headed by Chairman James Burnett also an-nounced it would investigate. Gilman said he had complained to the state of noises emitting from the bridge and was told it was soon due for a major overhaul. He and other Buxton Landing residents suspected it may have been unsound because of vibrations they could feel in their homes, especially when heavy trucks crossed. " We always knew something like this would happen," said Augie Caravella, another area resi-dent. " People have been complaining here for years," said neighbor George Raymond. " You could hear the vibration in your living room." No extras for state highway patrol's new drug and crime squad By Nolan Clay Mlssourian staff writer JEFFERSON CITY The Missouri State Highway Patrol will get neither additional money nor manpower to begin its new drug and crime control unit demanded by Gov. Christopher Bond. Bond termed legislation creating the unit " the most important crime- fightin- g measure of the session," when he signed the bill June 15. The patrol's Division of Drug and Crime Control goes into operation Sept. 28, but much of its work will consist of criminal in-vestigation activities already performed by the patrol. Superintendent Howard Hoffman said the DraDraTr main advantage of the new unit is that it " adds some credibility and puts some em-phasis" on the patrol's existing criminal in-vestigative work. Money for the unit to expand that work will not be available in the 1984 fiscal year which begins Friday. Hoffman said the unit will be funded with a $ 2 million state allocation the patrol received for its present investigations. " That's what we'll have to depend on to start this year and get the program in gear," he said. Hoffman also foresees little chance of ad- - ditional funding for the unit in fiscal year 1985. " With the state of the economy, I don't see much or any increase coming in that direc-tion," he said. Bills establishing a state crime- fightin- g unit have been before the General Assembly for almost a dozen years. Passage of the bill came this year despite objections from legis-lators that the new unit would be too costly. Supporters of the measure promised costs would be kept to a minimum. The law establishing the unit authorizes it to help state law enforcement officials in criminal investigations if they request it. Re-quests for help can come from police chiefs, sheriffs, prosecuting attorneys, the state at- - torney general or tne Highway Patrol super-intendent. The new unit also will take over the pa-trol's use of undercover agents in drug inves-tigation and its work against auto- the- ft " chop shops," Hoffman said. The unit will be staffed with 40 to 50 em-ployees already working for the patrol. Most of the unit's planned staff already are in-volved in criminal investigation work, Hof-fman said. " If we do ( hire) at all, it will be very, very few," he said. The unit will be unable to hire outside spe-cialists, such as accountants or computer technicians, to help with investigations. The original version of the bill gave the unit that authority, but the General Assembly remov- -' ed that provision before final passage. Despite the budgetary constraints, Hof-fman thinks the unit is a step forward in crime fighting. He said the state needed a centralized agency with the authority to con-duct investigations across several jurisdic-tions. Federal agencies, such as the Drug Enforcement Administration, also ai e more willing to work with a central agency, he said. " We see it as a way to do the job a little better than we have," he said. Members of the unit will be located at each of the state's nine Highway Patrol troop headquarters. The administration's head-quarters will be in Jefferson City. Hoffman said that applications for the director of the new division have come from both inside and outside the patrol. Neighbors concerned, decry cross burning By Mark Bowes Mlssourian staff writer HALLSVILLE Residents of Sun Valley Estates, a rural subdivision 10 miles north of Columbia, are angry and concerned over recent events that have portrayed their community as racist and insensitive. Reaction in the subdivision follows crit-ical remarks made by Helen Jackmon fol-lowing the June 4 cross burning on the front lawn of her home. Mrs. Jackmon and her four children have been the subdivision's only black family for the past six months. According to other residents, including the neighborhood association president and one of several single black residents in Sun Valley, trouble- makin- g teenagers are to blame for the cross burning, not commu-nity racism. They say Mrs. Jackmon's repeated alle-gations that the community opposes her family are not true; residents say they sym-pathize with the Jackmons. They also f blame the press for sensationalizing the in-cident Jack Jones, president of the Sun Valley Neighborhood Association, says Mrs. Jack-mon's comments about the neighborhood are presumptuous. " I would have handled the interview dif-ferently. She blamed the whole community and I think she was rash about it. I don't think I would have been so bold before I knew exactly what was going on." Jones says he has made several efforts to communicate with Mrs. Jackmon, both be-fore and after the incident, but the family has been generally unreceptive. " I told Mrs. Jackmon that if she has a problem to let me know and we'll address it at the next ( neighborhood) meeting." Jones did say, however, that Mrs. Jack-mon seemed to appreciate his recent ef-- forts to reassure her that the neighborhood supports the family. The trouble in the neighborhood revolves around a number of ungovernable teen-agers, Jones says, and has nothing to do with racism. According to many residents, the community experienced frequent juvenile- - related disorders before the neighbor-hood association was formed three years ago. Most of the neighborhood trouble- make- rs have either moved away or reached the age where they now have jobs, Jones says. In the future, the association will confront the parents of adolescents who cause problems, he says. Jones also says he thinks Mary Ratliff, president of the local chapter of the Nation-al Association for the Advancement of Co-lored People, seems determined to make a racial incident out of it. " I know a lot of people that aren't pleased with Mary Rat-liff," he says. Kevin McDaniel, one of two single blacks living in Sun Valley, says he was surprised to hear about the cross burning. " I haven't experienced any overt hostility," he says. McDaniel says " an inability to commu-nicate" is the probable cause of the inci-dent, adding that teenage boredom proba-bly fuelc ' the conflict. McDaniel, who was raised in Chicago, says he has been in situations where " the novelty of confronting the black guy to see how he will respond" is a common predica-ment, and may offer some clue as to why neighborhood youths harass the Jackmons. In refnence to Mrs. Jackmon's critical See NEIGHBORS, Pofle 17A t City attorney defends session held in secret By Lee Dancy and Scott Anderson Missourian staff writers Four final candidates for the mu-nicipal judgeship were chosen and interviewed behind closed doors by three city councilmen Tuesday morning, but those interviews could be a violation of the Missouri open meetings law. A local First Amendment law ex-pert said Tuesday that because the interviews were not conducted by the governmental body that would hire the new judge, they could be a violation of the open meetings law. But Columbia's city attorney dis-puted that claim. One of the four final candidates in-terviewed Tuesday will replace Judge Nanette Laughery. They are : .-- Kandy Johnson, an assista. it Boone County prosecuting attorney. Ms. Johnson has worked in the coun-ty prosecutor's office since 1978, the year she graduated from the Univer-sity's Law School. Bob Bailey, lawyer and director of placement and academic counsel-ing at the University Law School. Bailey, 36, has worked four years at the University. v Jodie Asel, currently in private practice in Columbia. Asel, 33, also worked for the county prosecutor and as a public defender for the 13th Judicial Circuit serving Boone and Callaway counties. She is a 1975 graduate of the University Law School. v Phillip Hoskins, a lawyer work-ing for the Missouri Human Rights Commission in Jefferson City. Hos-kins, 33, worked in private practice for two years before joining the com-mission in 1978. The four candidates met in pre-viously unannounced interviews Tuesday with Mayor John Westlund, First Ward Councilman Al Tacker and Fifth Ward Councilman Dick Walls. Whether those interviews were legal was the subject of debate afterward. Dale Spencer, a lawyer and profes-sor at the University School of Jour-nalism, said Tuesday that since the councilmen interviewing the candi-dates were not the actual govern-mental body hiring the judge, they could not meet privately. City Attornej Dave Evans, how ev-er, said that since only three of the seven- memb- er council met. it as not a quorum and therefore not ,111 actual meeting. According to Missouri's state stat-utes: " All public governmental bodies proposing to hold a closed meeting, record, or vote shall give notice of the time, date and place of such meeting and the reason for holding the closed session .... " City Clerk Pat Scott confirmed that no notice of the councilmcn's in-terviews had been given because no final decisions were made and a quo-rum was not present. Evans said there was no correla-tion between the three councilmen's gathering Tuesday morning in the mayor's office and the state's onh open meetings case decided by the full Missouri Supreme Court Co-hen v. Poelker. The city attornc said the Cohen case dealt with closed meetings of the St. Ixuis Board of Estimate and Apportionment, which the court said could not hold closed meetings legally. " Unless it is a duly appointed sub-committee by the full ( city) council to accomplish a purpose," the state open meetings law does not apply to Tuesday's interviews, Evans said. " Any gathering of three councilmen is not a meeting." After the interviews. Tacker said that he " has no doubt" that they have the right to meet in private. Tacker also said the full council probably would meet privately be-fore its regular July 5 meeting to de-bate the qualifications of the four candidates. Although he left the Tuesday interviews early, he said the understanding among the three was that Westlund would post a no-tice of the meeting. Westlund, however, said Tuesday he did not think the council would meet before its regular meeting. Tacker said he and the other two councilmen narrowed the four candi-dates from the list of eight appli-cants by examining the quality of their resumes and talking to other people who knew the candidates. The two other known applicants who weren't chosen were local lawyers Dewey Crepeau and James Rutter.
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Item.Transcript | 1012 LOffRY U! ic ' Jj- I- T-Y " sittb chooses Syridvoid Page 1 2A jKBfeMg recovery , jfeU- - Page 14A 75th Year No. 246 Good Morning! It's Wednesday, June 29, 1983 7 Sections 52 Pages 25 Cents ---'- '""- .-- -,-.- - . . . . . United PisTlptiMo The missing 100- fo- ot chunk of the bridge looks as if it were cut away by a giant pair of shears. Bridge collapses 3 killed, 3 injured on major artery in Connecticut GREENWICH, Conn. ( UPI) A 100- fo- ot sec-tion of a Connecticut Turnpike bridge collapsed in pre- daw- n darkness Tuesday killing three people and critically injuring three others in vehicles that plunged 70 feet into the Mianus River. State and federal investigations were on the scene of the 1: 28 a. m. partial collapse that trig-gered a massive traffic jam on Interstate 95 a major artery that carries 90,000 vehicles a day be-tween New York and Connecticut. National Guard helicopters helped reroute traf-fic onto U. S. 1 and the Merritt Parkway, but rush- ho- ur traffic to New York was backed up 15 miles. There was no immediate indication what caused the section of the Mianus Bridge to collapse, but investigators were checking a report one of the pins used in its construction apparently was sheared off. The 25- year-- old bridge was inspected less than a year ago with no major problems re-ported. Some residents in Greenwich an affluent bed-room community 20- 3- 0 miles from New York City had complained of strange sounds from the bridge and vibrations they could feel in their homes. State police said two vehicles were on the sec-tion of the three eastbound lanes when it plum-meted into the river, and two other vehicles ran off the bridge spanning the scenic Cos Cob yacht harbor. Twisted wreckage, chunks of concrete and as-phalt and live power lines were knocked into the water when the section dropped. The three west-bound lanes remained intact but the entire bridge was closed. Gov. William O'Neill, at the scene, said the State Transportation Department will inspect all bridges on the turnpike. He ordered state police to investigate the collapse as well as complaints of odd noises from the span. State Transportation Commissioner J. Williams Burns said the section that fell was wedged be-tween two expansion joints, and it was possible a support hanger pin was severed. The National Transportation Safety Board headed by Chairman James Burnett also an-nounced it would investigate. Gilman said he had complained to the state of noises emitting from the bridge and was told it was soon due for a major overhaul. He and other Buxton Landing residents suspected it may have been unsound because of vibrations they could feel in their homes, especially when heavy trucks crossed. " We always knew something like this would happen," said Augie Caravella, another area resi-dent. " People have been complaining here for years," said neighbor George Raymond. " You could hear the vibration in your living room." No extras for state highway patrol's new drug and crime squad By Nolan Clay Mlssourian staff writer JEFFERSON CITY The Missouri State Highway Patrol will get neither additional money nor manpower to begin its new drug and crime control unit demanded by Gov. Christopher Bond. Bond termed legislation creating the unit " the most important crime- fightin- g measure of the session," when he signed the bill June 15. The patrol's Division of Drug and Crime Control goes into operation Sept. 28, but much of its work will consist of criminal in-vestigation activities already performed by the patrol. Superintendent Howard Hoffman said the DraDraTr main advantage of the new unit is that it " adds some credibility and puts some em-phasis" on the patrol's existing criminal in-vestigative work. Money for the unit to expand that work will not be available in the 1984 fiscal year which begins Friday. Hoffman said the unit will be funded with a $ 2 million state allocation the patrol received for its present investigations. " That's what we'll have to depend on to start this year and get the program in gear," he said. Hoffman also foresees little chance of ad- - ditional funding for the unit in fiscal year 1985. " With the state of the economy, I don't see much or any increase coming in that direc-tion," he said. Bills establishing a state crime- fightin- g unit have been before the General Assembly for almost a dozen years. Passage of the bill came this year despite objections from legis-lators that the new unit would be too costly. Supporters of the measure promised costs would be kept to a minimum. The law establishing the unit authorizes it to help state law enforcement officials in criminal investigations if they request it. Re-quests for help can come from police chiefs, sheriffs, prosecuting attorneys, the state at- - torney general or tne Highway Patrol super-intendent. The new unit also will take over the pa-trol's use of undercover agents in drug inves-tigation and its work against auto- the- ft " chop shops," Hoffman said. The unit will be staffed with 40 to 50 em-ployees already working for the patrol. Most of the unit's planned staff already are in-volved in criminal investigation work, Hof-fman said. " If we do ( hire) at all, it will be very, very few," he said. The unit will be unable to hire outside spe-cialists, such as accountants or computer technicians, to help with investigations. The original version of the bill gave the unit that authority, but the General Assembly remov- -' ed that provision before final passage. Despite the budgetary constraints, Hof-fman thinks the unit is a step forward in crime fighting. He said the state needed a centralized agency with the authority to con-duct investigations across several jurisdic-tions. Federal agencies, such as the Drug Enforcement Administration, also ai e more willing to work with a central agency, he said. " We see it as a way to do the job a little better than we have," he said. Members of the unit will be located at each of the state's nine Highway Patrol troop headquarters. The administration's head-quarters will be in Jefferson City. Hoffman said that applications for the director of the new division have come from both inside and outside the patrol. Neighbors concerned, decry cross burning By Mark Bowes Mlssourian staff writer HALLSVILLE Residents of Sun Valley Estates, a rural subdivision 10 miles north of Columbia, are angry and concerned over recent events that have portrayed their community as racist and insensitive. Reaction in the subdivision follows crit-ical remarks made by Helen Jackmon fol-lowing the June 4 cross burning on the front lawn of her home. Mrs. Jackmon and her four children have been the subdivision's only black family for the past six months. According to other residents, including the neighborhood association president and one of several single black residents in Sun Valley, trouble- makin- g teenagers are to blame for the cross burning, not commu-nity racism. They say Mrs. Jackmon's repeated alle-gations that the community opposes her family are not true; residents say they sym-pathize with the Jackmons. They also f blame the press for sensationalizing the in-cident Jack Jones, president of the Sun Valley Neighborhood Association, says Mrs. Jack-mon's comments about the neighborhood are presumptuous. " I would have handled the interview dif-ferently. She blamed the whole community and I think she was rash about it. I don't think I would have been so bold before I knew exactly what was going on." Jones says he has made several efforts to communicate with Mrs. Jackmon, both be-fore and after the incident, but the family has been generally unreceptive. " I told Mrs. Jackmon that if she has a problem to let me know and we'll address it at the next ( neighborhood) meeting." Jones did say, however, that Mrs. Jack-mon seemed to appreciate his recent ef-- forts to reassure her that the neighborhood supports the family. The trouble in the neighborhood revolves around a number of ungovernable teen-agers, Jones says, and has nothing to do with racism. According to many residents, the community experienced frequent juvenile- - related disorders before the neighbor-hood association was formed three years ago. Most of the neighborhood trouble- make- rs have either moved away or reached the age where they now have jobs, Jones says. In the future, the association will confront the parents of adolescents who cause problems, he says. Jones also says he thinks Mary Ratliff, president of the local chapter of the Nation-al Association for the Advancement of Co-lored People, seems determined to make a racial incident out of it. " I know a lot of people that aren't pleased with Mary Rat-liff," he says. Kevin McDaniel, one of two single blacks living in Sun Valley, says he was surprised to hear about the cross burning. " I haven't experienced any overt hostility," he says. McDaniel says " an inability to commu-nicate" is the probable cause of the inci-dent, adding that teenage boredom proba-bly fuelc ' the conflict. McDaniel, who was raised in Chicago, says he has been in situations where " the novelty of confronting the black guy to see how he will respond" is a common predica-ment, and may offer some clue as to why neighborhood youths harass the Jackmons. In refnence to Mrs. Jackmon's critical See NEIGHBORS, Pofle 17A t City attorney defends session held in secret By Lee Dancy and Scott Anderson Missourian staff writers Four final candidates for the mu-nicipal judgeship were chosen and interviewed behind closed doors by three city councilmen Tuesday morning, but those interviews could be a violation of the Missouri open meetings law. A local First Amendment law ex-pert said Tuesday that because the interviews were not conducted by the governmental body that would hire the new judge, they could be a violation of the open meetings law. But Columbia's city attorney dis-puted that claim. One of the four final candidates in-terviewed Tuesday will replace Judge Nanette Laughery. They are : .-- Kandy Johnson, an assista. it Boone County prosecuting attorney. Ms. Johnson has worked in the coun-ty prosecutor's office since 1978, the year she graduated from the Univer-sity's Law School. Bob Bailey, lawyer and director of placement and academic counsel-ing at the University Law School. Bailey, 36, has worked four years at the University. v Jodie Asel, currently in private practice in Columbia. Asel, 33, also worked for the county prosecutor and as a public defender for the 13th Judicial Circuit serving Boone and Callaway counties. She is a 1975 graduate of the University Law School. v Phillip Hoskins, a lawyer work-ing for the Missouri Human Rights Commission in Jefferson City. Hos-kins, 33, worked in private practice for two years before joining the com-mission in 1978. The four candidates met in pre-viously unannounced interviews Tuesday with Mayor John Westlund, First Ward Councilman Al Tacker and Fifth Ward Councilman Dick Walls. Whether those interviews were legal was the subject of debate afterward. Dale Spencer, a lawyer and profes-sor at the University School of Jour-nalism, said Tuesday that since the councilmen interviewing the candi-dates were not the actual govern-mental body hiring the judge, they could not meet privately. City Attornej Dave Evans, how ev-er, said that since only three of the seven- memb- er council met. it as not a quorum and therefore not ,111 actual meeting. According to Missouri's state stat-utes: " All public governmental bodies proposing to hold a closed meeting, record, or vote shall give notice of the time, date and place of such meeting and the reason for holding the closed session .... " City Clerk Pat Scott confirmed that no notice of the councilmcn's in-terviews had been given because no final decisions were made and a quo-rum was not present. Evans said there was no correla-tion between the three councilmen's gathering Tuesday morning in the mayor's office and the state's onh open meetings case decided by the full Missouri Supreme Court Co-hen v. Poelker. The city attornc said the Cohen case dealt with closed meetings of the St. Ixuis Board of Estimate and Apportionment, which the court said could not hold closed meetings legally. " Unless it is a duly appointed sub-committee by the full ( city) council to accomplish a purpose," the state open meetings law does not apply to Tuesday's interviews, Evans said. " Any gathering of three councilmen is not a meeting." After the interviews. Tacker said that he " has no doubt" that they have the right to meet in private. Tacker also said the full council probably would meet privately be-fore its regular July 5 meeting to de-bate the qualifications of the four candidates. Although he left the Tuesday interviews early, he said the understanding among the three was that Westlund would post a no-tice of the meeting. Westlund, however, said Tuesday he did not think the council would meet before its regular meeting. Tacker said he and the other two councilmen narrowed the four candi-dates from the list of eight appli-cants by examining the quality of their resumes and talking to other people who knew the candidates. The two other known applicants who weren't chosen were local lawyers Dewey Crepeau and James Rutter. |