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- 0 t 75th Year No. 112 Good Morning! It's Sunday, January 23, 1983 5 Sections 42 Pages 50 Cents Farm life's uncertainties breed stress for women By Ted Griggs Mlssourian staff writer Just inside the barn door at 8: 30 on a freezing January morning, the chickens are cackling hysterically and strutting to the beat of the Beatle's classic rock ' n' roll tune " Ticket to Ride." The roosters out-side are crooning their best soprano, while Maggie the donkey offers an occasional bass note. Sometimes farm life simply isn't the way youmight imagine it. " The music is supposed to ward off predators," says the woman filling the water tank that will soon serve the farm's 70 sheep. " I get down here at two in the morning to deliver a lamb with the radio going and I'm dancing around," she says with a laugh. Then, suddenly serious, she adds: " I had dogs kill a number of sheep last year." Dancing is the smallest part of the job for Marjone Cunningham, 41, who has been raising sheep a mile outside Midway for five years. Con-cerns about dogs, unpredictable weather and farm prices combine with the rewards of country living to make life stressful, though reward-ing for her and her husband. Sandy Cunningham, 43, farms 400 acres of nulo, corn and soybeans in addition to being a builder. The past year has betfn a particularly hard one tor the couple. Lamb and wool prices are down, and the weather has been bad. But for women dealing with the special brand of stress that comes from the constant uncertainty of farm life weather, animal health, crop and fertilizer prices and tem-peramental tractors, to name a few there was a day of comaradene and advice last Saturday. Farmway Service Co- o- p pi, Columbia held a " stress seminar' that day for 35 farm women at the Flaming Pit res-taurant in Parkade Plaza. June Gooding, the women's pro-gram specialist for Farmland Indus-tries, spoke about women's increas-ing role on the farm and about ways to deal with the inevitable stress that accompanies those duties " Most people don't realize the stress farm women are under," Mrs. Gooding said. She listed the various jobs farm women often undertake: emotional hub of the family, record- keepe- r, marketing agent for buying and selling grains and animals, me-chanic, cook, community volunteer and more. The stress is often created by a basic premise of farm life : there is no leaving the job at the end of the day you live on the job, she said. " Rarely is there an opportunity for a two- we- ek vacation like most of Marjone Cunningham finds happiness and stress in raising sheep on the family farm in rural Midway. Day- to- da- y uncertain-ties of farm life came the stress, while tending to the daily needs of the sheep helps bring pleasure. At top, the 41- year- o- ld woman feeds some of the 70 sheep that roam the farm. Above, she hoists bales of hay down from the barn to the waiting sheep she has been tending much of the last eight years. us have," Mrs. Gooding said. A natu-ral tool that farm people use to cope with the inability to walk away from problems is to look at insoluble di-lemmas from a positive perspective. " They just redefine things on the farm all the time, whereas you or I would just change jobs." Even then, Mrs. Gooding said, parts of the farm woman's life are beyond any control. Mrs Cunningham confirmed those observations Tuesday as she dropped a 50- pou- nd hay bale out the barn loft window to the sheep below. She loves farm life, she says, but there is some unavoidable stress " Not being able to control the end result when all your efforts are for See FRUSTRATION, Page 8A Landowner sues city in Red Roof Inn controversy By Leslie Wersteln MI8QUrian staff writer It came as little surprise to most anyone in-volved in the Red Roof Inn controversy that prop-erty owner Harold Johnson has filed suit against the city. But Second Ward Councilman Duane Lammers says Johnson's suit, challenging a zoning- chang- e denial for a piece of land he wants to sell to the motel chain, doesn't have a leg to stand on. John-son's attorney, Gary Sprick, filed the suit late Fri-day afternoon with the Boone County Circuit Court. Johnson's case has four elements. One is that the two- fami- ly residential zoning of the undevel-oped land located at 207 E. Texas Ave. is un-reasonable. Other charges in the suit are: the pro-test against the change filed was invalid, Lammers should have been disqualified from the council vote because he was biased and the city's four- fifth- s vote requirement to reapprove a zoning change is too restrictive. The charge that the zoning change denial is un reasonable and arbitrary stems from earlier ar-guments that no one would want to build a house on land next to commercial structures. But Parkade residents claim they just don't want another budget motel abutting their neigh-borhood. , " He's tried to rezone the property twice, and twice the people said no, we don't want it," says Roger Fries, president of the Parkade Neighbor-hood Association. " The man has absolutely no re-gard for property owners.' ' Fries also contends that Dale Nicholls, owner of Nicholls Buick- Hond- a, had every right to protest the change. He says vandalism and thefts in-creased with the opening of another budget motel nearby, and he fears the same would happen again with a Red Roof Inn. " I'm a real estate ap-praiser," be says, " and increased vandalism and thefts will decrease his property value." Lammers disagrees with charges that his vote should have been disqualified because he says he doesn't have his own financial interest at stake. " If anyone of the councilmen is unbiased in prop- - erty matters," Fries says, " it's Duane because he doesn't own any property." Lammers says his vote was only a shared opin-ion his own and his constituents'. And Fries agrees. " If a councilman can't represent his constitu-ents, it's a pretty sad day," Lammers says. " I was elected to represent my ward, and if I can't do that, then there is something wrong with the city's system." It remains to be seen whether one existing el-ement of the city's system the six- councilm- an vote required to reapprove a zoning change vio-lates the state's three- fourt- hs requirement. The Planning and Zoning Commission Thursday night asked City Counselor Dave Evans to further in- vestigate the matter. But some resent Johnson's persistence in chal-lenging the council's action. " It's ridiculous that a guy that has that much money has such utter dis-regard for the law and the people," Fries says " I compare him to a five- year- o- ld child he always has to get what he wants.' ' RUTLY2T. I) TZTANIaXUW Sl, u7nt? mSttorat9 egP- m- i- es,"" EffwecotirvkeshoJopb, Room 110, Noye3 Building, Umver' Noon: Missouri men's basket- - sity campus, ball vs. Marquette at the Hearnes Noon to 11 p. m. Bluegrass festi- - jSrf val, Lela Raney Wood Student , A. BBS ) J, Center Ballroom, Stephens Col-- l S8 7: 30 p. m. Task force on low- in- - . fffiy" come housing, County Courtroom, - S- - County City Building. 9 p. m. Stephens College Trouba- - doura perform music and dance ItlSluO from " Grease," Lela Raney Wood i Student Center Business .. ............. 6B Classilfed .................... 4- 5- B . m. Boone County Court, EIl " 19 L9KinVCourtroom, County'Ci, ZZZZZZZZZZaSb 1 Moberly candidate fighting ' gag order' By Jon Harmon Mlssourian staff writer MOBERLY - At the beginning of each of the last two Moberly City Council meetings, Mayor Don Schaf- fe- r has read a prepared statement barring all council candidates from commenting on any subject during council meetings. The so- call- ed " gag order" has infuriated at least one candidate who says she is consid-ering a federal court suit charging violations of her civil rights Concern that candidates would use the council as a campaign forum moved Schaffer again on Jan 17 to prohibit them from speaking Four of the eight candidates will be elimi-nated in the Feb 8 primary; the gen-eral election for two at- lar- ge council seats is Apnl 5 " I cleared what I did beforehand with the council," Schaffer said " There was no objection from any-one We decided no candidate is going to come down to the council meeting and spout off Council meet-ings are not the place for someone to get publicity." Schaffer's statement reads " The Moberly City Council meets . . to conduct city business and not to lis-ten to candidates for the City Council praise or degrade the City Manager or the council Therefore no candi-date or their supporters will be per-mitted to make any comments at a councd meeting " Catherine Green, a council candi-date, believes the restriction in-fringes on her First Amendment rights " My lawyer is working on the constitutional aspects of fighting this gag order," she said " I plan on doing anything possible to stop them from doing this. I surely do plan to go to court." Mrs Green's attorney, N. E. Brown, sees the mayor's order as a clear First Amendment violation " They have to make the forum open to all citizens," Brown said. " If they don't have time and you aren't on the agenda, they may tell you that you have to come back at the next meeting and that they will put you on the agenda then But they can't tell you that you can't speak at all " " The extraordinary thing is that none of the other candidates seem to object to this," Mrs Green said. Of the five candidates the Mlssourian was able to contact, Mrs Green is the onlv one who opposes the order The vagueness in the statement's wording, including the phrase " and their supporters," would seem to al-low the extension of the prohibition against anyone with a preference for one of the candidates, she said It is also not clear how " any com-ments" is to be interpeted Dr Ir- r- y Noel, the only councilman run-ning for re- electi- on, said the order only pertains to campaigning Schaf-fer, whose term is up but who is not seeking re- electi- on, said the order applies to all candidates speaking on any subject " We had to say that to make it fair to everyone," he said " I don't think it is an important is-sue," Noel, who has continued to speak at the meetings, said " It is the mayor's right to recognize any-one at a City Council meeting I'm not worried about it. We have tried to run this city well," he said " I'm not going to put up with any ha-rassment" The charge of harassment, as well as the wording of the statement it-self, is clearly aimed at Mrs Green, who at the Dec. 20 councd meeting asked that City Manager Paul Walk-er be fired Schaffer said he then in-formed Mrs Green that personnel matters are not discussed in council meetings At the next meeting, Jan 3, Schaffer read the statement for the first time Mrs Green has refused at this time to say pubucally why she wants Walker fired. However, at the re-quest of the council, she has sub-mitted her reasons in writing to the council Under the state Sunshine Law, boards with power to hire and fire can choose to discuss personnel mat-ters in private. Lay citizens, howev-er, can express any opinion on any government employee in public Senate to hear testimony on cancer center funding By John Blanton Mlssourian staff writer Help may be on the way for Ellis Fischel State Cancer Center A Missouri Senate subcommittee will hear testimony the first week in February on the passage of a bill that could alleviate some of the fi-nancial woes now afflicting the hos-pital. The bill, and a similar version sub-mitted to the House, includes provi-sions that would help generate sorely- ne-eded revenue for the ailing hospital. The provisions would also give the hospital a better chance to become financially independent of the state by the July 1, 1985, dead-line. If passed, the bill would establish a state cancer center fund in which revenue generated by the hospital would be placed, giving it a private account earning valuable interest. The hospital's profits are current-ly pooled in the state treasury de-partment's general appropriations fund, but there is no guarantee that the money will be re- alloca- ted to the hospital. The proposed bill also contains a provision that would allow the hospi-tal to lease some of the land sur-rounding it. Another would deem the hospital exempt from using the state's bidding system for pur-chases. " Most of the hospital's problems are a issult of depending too heavily upon the state, and if this bill passes, it would be a step toward autonomy for the hospital," said Janice Gen-tile, director of governmental liaison and public affairs for the hospital. With the hospital running a $ 140,- 00- 0 deficit for the first half of fiscal 1983, ( and the possibility of that fig-ure rising to as high as $ 1 5 million by the year's end), measures must be taken immediately to save the hospital money, said Harry Johnson of the Missouri State Cancer Com-mission. The problem is more urgent be-cause the state constitution requires a balanced budget for all state agen-cies and institutions. The commission agreed to contin-ue its current hiring freeze. " Hiring can only be done if it will increase the number of paying patients in the hospital enough to offset the added expense," commission chairman Joe Holt said. The commission also plans to limit further capital expenditures to cover emergency situations only. Staff re-views will also be conducted in an ef-fort to cut back expenses, he said. " We are currently drawing up per-formance standards to increase the cost effectiveness of our staff," said Dr. Oscar Guerra, hospital chief of staff. The hospital administration re-quested an emergency appropriation of $ 1.5 million to supplement its cur-rent $ 8.5 million budget But even if the hospital receives the full amount, by state law it would have to earn it all back in revenues. Although passage of the bill would slightly improve the hospital's fi-nances, Walter Kenney, assistant administrator of the hospital, said increasing the hospital's patient cen-sus as low as 37 in recent months is still the most important determin-ant of financial security for the hos-pital. Curtain temporarily falls on UMSL theater debate By Tom Dixon State Capitol Bureau JEFFERSON CITY Senate Ap-propriations Committee Chairman Edwin DLxk, D- S- t. Louis County, Just didn't want to hear anymore. He and two other senators had ex-pressed outrage during their grilling of University of Missouri- S- t. Louis Chancellor Arnold Grobman about the scheduled production on his cam-pus of " Sister Mary Ignatious Ex-plains It All For You." " Sister Mary Ignatious," which takes a satirical look at parochial up-bringing, has stirred controversy in the St. Louis area during the last couple of weeks. " I think we've heard enough," Dirck said Thursday. " My mind is t DGapaTf made up." With a wave of his hand, Dirck abruptly ended the University's bud-get hearing, which had become a scolding session during a stormy session with University officials. The committee used only 45 minutes of the two hours it originally had sched-uled for the University's hearing. Committee members threatened that if Grobman, who sat serenely next to University President James Olson, allowed the " anti- Chnstia- n" play to be shown beginning Thurs-day, the University system's appro-priation could be slashed. Grobman, however, said the show must and will go on. He and Olson said the principle in-volved academic freedom and prior restriant is important Olson would not discuss, however, whether he thought the controversy would af-fect the University system's $ 197 million budget request, which is $ 30 million more than Gov. Christopher Bond's recommendation. Thursday's scene, performed with the state capital as the backdrop, was just another act in the long run-ning drama between the University and the committee both sides will tell you. The University has been threatened by the committee on nu-merous occasions. Some legislators were unable to tell if the committee was just play acting, but they were quick to point out the one time when the committee followed through on its threats to the University. In May 1973, the committee pan-ned a proposal to extend the Univer-sity's Extension Division services from rural to urban areas by ap-proving a $ 4 million cut in state aid The General Assembly eventually approved an appropriation of $ 104 7 million $ 2 million less than then- Go- v. Christopher Bond's recommen-dation. Although the committee did not cut as much as it wanted from the University appropriation, the paring indicated mat committee members meant business. In the 1973 controversy, then- U- m- Soe FIGHT, Page 8A
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Item.Transcript | - 0 t 75th Year No. 112 Good Morning! It's Sunday, January 23, 1983 5 Sections 42 Pages 50 Cents Farm life's uncertainties breed stress for women By Ted Griggs Mlssourian staff writer Just inside the barn door at 8: 30 on a freezing January morning, the chickens are cackling hysterically and strutting to the beat of the Beatle's classic rock ' n' roll tune " Ticket to Ride." The roosters out-side are crooning their best soprano, while Maggie the donkey offers an occasional bass note. Sometimes farm life simply isn't the way youmight imagine it. " The music is supposed to ward off predators," says the woman filling the water tank that will soon serve the farm's 70 sheep. " I get down here at two in the morning to deliver a lamb with the radio going and I'm dancing around," she says with a laugh. Then, suddenly serious, she adds: " I had dogs kill a number of sheep last year." Dancing is the smallest part of the job for Marjone Cunningham, 41, who has been raising sheep a mile outside Midway for five years. Con-cerns about dogs, unpredictable weather and farm prices combine with the rewards of country living to make life stressful, though reward-ing for her and her husband. Sandy Cunningham, 43, farms 400 acres of nulo, corn and soybeans in addition to being a builder. The past year has betfn a particularly hard one tor the couple. Lamb and wool prices are down, and the weather has been bad. But for women dealing with the special brand of stress that comes from the constant uncertainty of farm life weather, animal health, crop and fertilizer prices and tem-peramental tractors, to name a few there was a day of comaradene and advice last Saturday. Farmway Service Co- o- p pi, Columbia held a " stress seminar' that day for 35 farm women at the Flaming Pit res-taurant in Parkade Plaza. June Gooding, the women's pro-gram specialist for Farmland Indus-tries, spoke about women's increas-ing role on the farm and about ways to deal with the inevitable stress that accompanies those duties " Most people don't realize the stress farm women are under," Mrs. Gooding said. She listed the various jobs farm women often undertake: emotional hub of the family, record- keepe- r, marketing agent for buying and selling grains and animals, me-chanic, cook, community volunteer and more. The stress is often created by a basic premise of farm life : there is no leaving the job at the end of the day you live on the job, she said. " Rarely is there an opportunity for a two- we- ek vacation like most of Marjone Cunningham finds happiness and stress in raising sheep on the family farm in rural Midway. Day- to- da- y uncertain-ties of farm life came the stress, while tending to the daily needs of the sheep helps bring pleasure. At top, the 41- year- o- ld woman feeds some of the 70 sheep that roam the farm. Above, she hoists bales of hay down from the barn to the waiting sheep she has been tending much of the last eight years. us have," Mrs. Gooding said. A natu-ral tool that farm people use to cope with the inability to walk away from problems is to look at insoluble di-lemmas from a positive perspective. " They just redefine things on the farm all the time, whereas you or I would just change jobs." Even then, Mrs. Gooding said, parts of the farm woman's life are beyond any control. Mrs Cunningham confirmed those observations Tuesday as she dropped a 50- pou- nd hay bale out the barn loft window to the sheep below. She loves farm life, she says, but there is some unavoidable stress " Not being able to control the end result when all your efforts are for See FRUSTRATION, Page 8A Landowner sues city in Red Roof Inn controversy By Leslie Wersteln MI8QUrian staff writer It came as little surprise to most anyone in-volved in the Red Roof Inn controversy that prop-erty owner Harold Johnson has filed suit against the city. But Second Ward Councilman Duane Lammers says Johnson's suit, challenging a zoning- chang- e denial for a piece of land he wants to sell to the motel chain, doesn't have a leg to stand on. John-son's attorney, Gary Sprick, filed the suit late Fri-day afternoon with the Boone County Circuit Court. Johnson's case has four elements. One is that the two- fami- ly residential zoning of the undevel-oped land located at 207 E. Texas Ave. is un-reasonable. Other charges in the suit are: the pro-test against the change filed was invalid, Lammers should have been disqualified from the council vote because he was biased and the city's four- fifth- s vote requirement to reapprove a zoning change is too restrictive. The charge that the zoning change denial is un reasonable and arbitrary stems from earlier ar-guments that no one would want to build a house on land next to commercial structures. But Parkade residents claim they just don't want another budget motel abutting their neigh-borhood. , " He's tried to rezone the property twice, and twice the people said no, we don't want it," says Roger Fries, president of the Parkade Neighbor-hood Association. " The man has absolutely no re-gard for property owners.' ' Fries also contends that Dale Nicholls, owner of Nicholls Buick- Hond- a, had every right to protest the change. He says vandalism and thefts in-creased with the opening of another budget motel nearby, and he fears the same would happen again with a Red Roof Inn. " I'm a real estate ap-praiser," be says, " and increased vandalism and thefts will decrease his property value." Lammers disagrees with charges that his vote should have been disqualified because he says he doesn't have his own financial interest at stake. " If anyone of the councilmen is unbiased in prop- - erty matters," Fries says, " it's Duane because he doesn't own any property." Lammers says his vote was only a shared opin-ion his own and his constituents'. And Fries agrees. " If a councilman can't represent his constitu-ents, it's a pretty sad day," Lammers says. " I was elected to represent my ward, and if I can't do that, then there is something wrong with the city's system." It remains to be seen whether one existing el-ement of the city's system the six- councilm- an vote required to reapprove a zoning change vio-lates the state's three- fourt- hs requirement. The Planning and Zoning Commission Thursday night asked City Counselor Dave Evans to further in- vestigate the matter. But some resent Johnson's persistence in chal-lenging the council's action. " It's ridiculous that a guy that has that much money has such utter dis-regard for the law and the people," Fries says " I compare him to a five- year- o- ld child he always has to get what he wants.' ' RUTLY2T. I) TZTANIaXUW Sl, u7nt? mSttorat9 egP- m- i- es,"" EffwecotirvkeshoJopb, Room 110, Noye3 Building, Umver' Noon: Missouri men's basket- - sity campus, ball vs. Marquette at the Hearnes Noon to 11 p. m. Bluegrass festi- - jSrf val, Lela Raney Wood Student , A. BBS ) J, Center Ballroom, Stephens Col-- l S8 7: 30 p. m. Task force on low- in- - . fffiy" come housing, County Courtroom, - S- - County City Building. 9 p. m. Stephens College Trouba- - doura perform music and dance ItlSluO from " Grease," Lela Raney Wood i Student Center Business .. ............. 6B Classilfed .................... 4- 5- B . m. Boone County Court, EIl " 19 L9KinVCourtroom, County'Ci, ZZZZZZZZZZaSb 1 Moberly candidate fighting ' gag order' By Jon Harmon Mlssourian staff writer MOBERLY - At the beginning of each of the last two Moberly City Council meetings, Mayor Don Schaf- fe- r has read a prepared statement barring all council candidates from commenting on any subject during council meetings. The so- call- ed " gag order" has infuriated at least one candidate who says she is consid-ering a federal court suit charging violations of her civil rights Concern that candidates would use the council as a campaign forum moved Schaffer again on Jan 17 to prohibit them from speaking Four of the eight candidates will be elimi-nated in the Feb 8 primary; the gen-eral election for two at- lar- ge council seats is Apnl 5 " I cleared what I did beforehand with the council," Schaffer said " There was no objection from any-one We decided no candidate is going to come down to the council meeting and spout off Council meet-ings are not the place for someone to get publicity." Schaffer's statement reads " The Moberly City Council meets . . to conduct city business and not to lis-ten to candidates for the City Council praise or degrade the City Manager or the council Therefore no candi-date or their supporters will be per-mitted to make any comments at a councd meeting " Catherine Green, a council candi-date, believes the restriction in-fringes on her First Amendment rights " My lawyer is working on the constitutional aspects of fighting this gag order," she said " I plan on doing anything possible to stop them from doing this. I surely do plan to go to court." Mrs Green's attorney, N. E. Brown, sees the mayor's order as a clear First Amendment violation " They have to make the forum open to all citizens," Brown said. " If they don't have time and you aren't on the agenda, they may tell you that you have to come back at the next meeting and that they will put you on the agenda then But they can't tell you that you can't speak at all " " The extraordinary thing is that none of the other candidates seem to object to this," Mrs Green said. Of the five candidates the Mlssourian was able to contact, Mrs Green is the onlv one who opposes the order The vagueness in the statement's wording, including the phrase " and their supporters," would seem to al-low the extension of the prohibition against anyone with a preference for one of the candidates, she said It is also not clear how " any com-ments" is to be interpeted Dr Ir- r- y Noel, the only councilman run-ning for re- electi- on, said the order only pertains to campaigning Schaf-fer, whose term is up but who is not seeking re- electi- on, said the order applies to all candidates speaking on any subject " We had to say that to make it fair to everyone," he said " I don't think it is an important is-sue," Noel, who has continued to speak at the meetings, said " It is the mayor's right to recognize any-one at a City Council meeting I'm not worried about it. We have tried to run this city well," he said " I'm not going to put up with any ha-rassment" The charge of harassment, as well as the wording of the statement it-self, is clearly aimed at Mrs Green, who at the Dec. 20 councd meeting asked that City Manager Paul Walk-er be fired Schaffer said he then in-formed Mrs Green that personnel matters are not discussed in council meetings At the next meeting, Jan 3, Schaffer read the statement for the first time Mrs Green has refused at this time to say pubucally why she wants Walker fired. However, at the re-quest of the council, she has sub-mitted her reasons in writing to the council Under the state Sunshine Law, boards with power to hire and fire can choose to discuss personnel mat-ters in private. Lay citizens, howev-er, can express any opinion on any government employee in public Senate to hear testimony on cancer center funding By John Blanton Mlssourian staff writer Help may be on the way for Ellis Fischel State Cancer Center A Missouri Senate subcommittee will hear testimony the first week in February on the passage of a bill that could alleviate some of the fi-nancial woes now afflicting the hos-pital. The bill, and a similar version sub-mitted to the House, includes provi-sions that would help generate sorely- ne-eded revenue for the ailing hospital. The provisions would also give the hospital a better chance to become financially independent of the state by the July 1, 1985, dead-line. If passed, the bill would establish a state cancer center fund in which revenue generated by the hospital would be placed, giving it a private account earning valuable interest. The hospital's profits are current-ly pooled in the state treasury de-partment's general appropriations fund, but there is no guarantee that the money will be re- alloca- ted to the hospital. The proposed bill also contains a provision that would allow the hospi-tal to lease some of the land sur-rounding it. Another would deem the hospital exempt from using the state's bidding system for pur-chases. " Most of the hospital's problems are a issult of depending too heavily upon the state, and if this bill passes, it would be a step toward autonomy for the hospital," said Janice Gen-tile, director of governmental liaison and public affairs for the hospital. With the hospital running a $ 140,- 00- 0 deficit for the first half of fiscal 1983, ( and the possibility of that fig-ure rising to as high as $ 1 5 million by the year's end), measures must be taken immediately to save the hospital money, said Harry Johnson of the Missouri State Cancer Com-mission. The problem is more urgent be-cause the state constitution requires a balanced budget for all state agen-cies and institutions. The commission agreed to contin-ue its current hiring freeze. " Hiring can only be done if it will increase the number of paying patients in the hospital enough to offset the added expense," commission chairman Joe Holt said. The commission also plans to limit further capital expenditures to cover emergency situations only. Staff re-views will also be conducted in an ef-fort to cut back expenses, he said. " We are currently drawing up per-formance standards to increase the cost effectiveness of our staff," said Dr. Oscar Guerra, hospital chief of staff. The hospital administration re-quested an emergency appropriation of $ 1.5 million to supplement its cur-rent $ 8.5 million budget But even if the hospital receives the full amount, by state law it would have to earn it all back in revenues. Although passage of the bill would slightly improve the hospital's fi-nances, Walter Kenney, assistant administrator of the hospital, said increasing the hospital's patient cen-sus as low as 37 in recent months is still the most important determin-ant of financial security for the hos-pital. Curtain temporarily falls on UMSL theater debate By Tom Dixon State Capitol Bureau JEFFERSON CITY Senate Ap-propriations Committee Chairman Edwin DLxk, D- S- t. Louis County, Just didn't want to hear anymore. He and two other senators had ex-pressed outrage during their grilling of University of Missouri- S- t. Louis Chancellor Arnold Grobman about the scheduled production on his cam-pus of " Sister Mary Ignatious Ex-plains It All For You." " Sister Mary Ignatious," which takes a satirical look at parochial up-bringing, has stirred controversy in the St. Louis area during the last couple of weeks. " I think we've heard enough," Dirck said Thursday. " My mind is t DGapaTf made up." With a wave of his hand, Dirck abruptly ended the University's bud-get hearing, which had become a scolding session during a stormy session with University officials. The committee used only 45 minutes of the two hours it originally had sched-uled for the University's hearing. Committee members threatened that if Grobman, who sat serenely next to University President James Olson, allowed the " anti- Chnstia- n" play to be shown beginning Thurs-day, the University system's appro-priation could be slashed. Grobman, however, said the show must and will go on. He and Olson said the principle in-volved academic freedom and prior restriant is important Olson would not discuss, however, whether he thought the controversy would af-fect the University system's $ 197 million budget request, which is $ 30 million more than Gov. Christopher Bond's recommendation. Thursday's scene, performed with the state capital as the backdrop, was just another act in the long run-ning drama between the University and the committee both sides will tell you. The University has been threatened by the committee on nu-merous occasions. Some legislators were unable to tell if the committee was just play acting, but they were quick to point out the one time when the committee followed through on its threats to the University. In May 1973, the committee pan-ned a proposal to extend the Univer-sity's Extension Division services from rural to urban areas by ap-proving a $ 4 million cut in state aid The General Assembly eventually approved an appropriation of $ 104 7 million $ 2 million less than then- Go- v. Christopher Bond's recommen-dation. Although the committee did not cut as much as it wanted from the University appropriation, the paring indicated mat committee members meant business. In the 1973 controversy, then- U- m- Soe FIGHT, Page 8A |