Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1984-05-08

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At 10: 10 p. m. Monday a Special Tactics and Rescue team, right,
arrived at 1308 Paris Road, where a hostage was being held by
an armed man. Later during their vigil, the STAR team prepared
to enter the building where the woman was held captive.
Columbia man
holds hostage
By tha Mtssourian staff
i A Columbia mm held a woman
hostage reportedly fit gunpoint --- in
an apartment Dec fee thmntwp
area into fits earry monung hours to-day.
Bonce said tbey were were nego-tiating
with the man, identified by
neighbors and police as William Er-nest
Lyles, about 58.
Lyles is a former mental patient
who has been in and out of hospitals
since 1949, according to previous
newspaper reports.
The woman, who was sot identi-fied,
apparently was taken hostage
following a dispute in an apartment
basement at 1306 Peris Road, near
the intersection of Paris and Hink- so- n
Avenue about 9 pjn. Police said,
tbey believed the man was armed
with a .22- calib- er pistol
nagaJieH5 about 9: 05 psn.
when police evadbited the seven- apartme- nt
building. Lyles' apart-ment
is in the annex to the house and
is accessible only from a door facing
HInkson.
During the evacuation, one of the
residents said she ran into the base-ment
to get her cat and Lyles yelled
through a window to her.
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" He told me to call the police," she
said. " I told him to look out the win-dow
and he'd see there was no
need.'
The woman; who would not identi-fy
herself, said she has known Lyles
for about eight years and that he has
a history of becoming violent
Shortly after 10 pjn. Monday, po-lice
surrounded the house and
blocked all traffic at iSnkson. The
Columbia Police Department's Spe-cial
Tactics and Rescue team was
positioned in the apartment house
as well as on the roof and in bushes
around the house.
Earlier, police had moved a ladder
and spotlight to a baOdiag across the
street Tbey reportedly tried to talk
with Lyles by telephone and then at-tempted
to talk to him through the
walls of the house.
According to residents, a thin wall
separates one apartment and Lyles'
bedroom. It was through this wall
that negotiations were conducted
with drinking glasses borrowed from
neighbors.
Police brought Betty Adams, for-mer
director of the Voluntary Action
Center, to the house shortly after 11
pjn. to negotiate with Lyles. At 11: 56
pin., Adams left the bouse. She
sounded hoarse and declined to com-ment
to reporters. She was ushered
awaybypolicev
About 12: 25 this morning, police
cars, an ambulance and a fire truck
were cleared from the scene and
sharpshooters took positions. When
the Missourian went to press, the
siege continued.
This is not the first such incident
involving Lyles, who has been in and
out of mental institutions since 1949.
In Aprfl 1977, he was charged with
kidnapping a 17- year- - old woman and
displaying a deadly weapon. She was
held at knffepoint in Columbia for
nearly eight hours.
Lytes later was found innocent be-cause
of mental disease or defect
and was admitted to Fulton State
Hospital. He was hospitalized from
December 3977 to December 1978.
Circuit Judge Frank Cooky or- der- ed
Lyles released after receiving
a report from James Chapel, a Co-lumbia
psychiatrist who said Lyles
" hasno mental disease or defect"
In the world
85 million more people
WASHINGTON ( AP) The
world's population grew to nearly
4J& bflhon m the past year, adding
about aa many people as live in
Mexico and Austria combined.
The Popclation Reference Bu-reau,
a private Washington re-search
groop, gsffmafrd Hwnfay
that the worM includes 4,782jK,- 00- 0
people, an increase of nearly
05 million from the " fHfnrtf a
yearago.
By comparison, BSextoo, the
world's 10th most populous na- -
has 77.7 miBtoa people and
Austria has7j6 rcQHcn.
The new estimate was included
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populations.
world nations and aspects of8Wr
The 1984 total is double the
number of people on Earth at the
end of World War &, said Qui
Haub, a bureau demographer
who prepared the stefy w&&
If the world pcpalfition canfio--
to grow si its anneal rate of
1.7 percent tbey said, it wfil Iureesach 5 bfllion by 1S87 aod bil
lion bythe torn of the century.
The 8$ million new hwnynf on
Earth can anticipate living an av-erage
61 years, the study says,
dependkig on where they were
bom.
Icelanders topped the Bfe ex-pectancy
list New residents of
that tiny nation are expected to
live an average 77 years. By con-trast,
life expectancy is only 40
years for the typical newborn in
Ethiopia, Chad and Afghanistan, I
all torn by war and famine in re-- J
centyears.
Overall, developed nations
topped less- develop- ed areas in
life expectancy by 15 yean 73
years in developed areas com-pared
with S3 years in poorer re-gions.
The researchers said attitudes
toward population growth have
changed sharply since the 1991b.
Tbey said the governments of 62
Third World nations are snowing
concern about high birth rates
and the threat of excess popula-tion
on their countries' devel-opment
compared with otuy four
anch nations two decades ago.
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Development gets council nod By JuHa Wright and Janet Shadden
Mtosoortw staff writers
In a meeting that was conducted more through
public debate among audience members than
among those around the council table, the Colum-bia
City Council Monday unanimously approved a
pre& nmary ' planned unit development on West
Broadway.
Residents of the area surrounding the proposed
development at 1107 W. Broadway submitted pro-test
petitions a month ago that delayed the vote on
the project and required a supra- maknit- y of six
votes for the measure to pass. Developer Robert
Bryan and project planner Michael Bathke nego-tiated
with the' residents and allayed many of
their concerns, paving the way for the unanimous
vote.
John Litton of 18 Clinton Drive said he and his
neighbors were concerned about the density of the
development the number of parking spaces
planned and the prospect of people walking
through their yards to visit the development
Bryan agreed to trim the number of units
planned from 14 to 12, to plan a six- fo- ot wooden
privacy fence to border me north and east sides of
the development and to increase the number of
parking spaces allowed per unit.
Bryan was reluctant to commit to a certain
number of parking spaces, carports and garages pfoerraanspite; chifeicsnaiudmhbeerdiodf snpoatcwesanbtetfoorbeehoensraewcothrde
architectural plans for the development
The council will have to approve a final plan for
the development, and when it does, most of the
council members said they want to see changes in
Developer, neighbors resolve differences
the parking spaces.
First Ward Qjuncilman Al Tacker, who rep- resen- ts expectedthteherenseiidgehnbtsorsinanthdeBarryeaan, tsoairdeaScuhnadacyWhe cpworionthnsdeansraesw. usAthlwtehaopsuegtthithiaottnheomnreocsesitditeonwftsasthloeegniratlhlfyeeatcarosbuleldwetnhroeet soothed. ! 5 toe biggest concern is that we have input
tionetomteheetipnrgo. cess from now on," Litton said after
? neighborhood infighting on another zon- ing matter made its way into the council cham- pbreorcs, edfurrues. trating normal council parliamentarJy
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citTyhsetwcoounemcilplaolysoeebaesasrodciaptrieosnesntaatniodnlsocafrlsomabothuet their requests for wage and benefit increases. A
spokesman for Firefighters Local 1055 asked for a
" substantial" pay increase, and told the council that anything less would result in a morale prob- lem among the members of the local Specifics,
however, werenotdiscussed.
A representative of the Water and Light Em- ployees Association, Jerry Bryant said his group
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In other action, the council:
. Approved a plan by the Water and Light De- partment to flatten residential rates. ' HS1 a recommendation from McDonald mat the council review bus service in the Fifth
Ward.
" Accepted $ 784,000 in Corarnuniiy Devel- opment Block Grant funds from the Department
of Housing and Urban Development
By Tom Warhovw """-"- - .
ftastlesssceuurrtiaann staff writer nrnrn- nn- i . ' - Dam in order to rmniiniimiize ddoownnssttrreeaam rf. aanndd t( rraavnedl hba4crk thhrmou. ngih. th. e. Tr, uman .
The waters lap the awoaeo shores, wasS- to- g
over scores c dasd feees aad mocads of
fibrous moos that hide bam and emppfe be- cee- th
the water. Fishermen hat above,
equipped with fish finders, has heats and
other modem toys of the mJdfi& cIass person
looking for mat big has to top oB the vaca-tion.
At the base of fee S& saQe- ion- g Truman
Lake, the testers stop. The Harrys Truman
Dam towers over the late. B catamsntis the
waters to be quSet E Seta & s fiafesn& ea and
the bass continue theirjt To the east the waier races away from its
captor, Uffitily grabbing t& caygsa eharoed
by the rocks below. Truman Dam, In War- -
-- ' saw, Bo., b& ssetfi2$& s& f3t33tilitcQC
egain is halted st thsLalEBcf fee Osar& s. '
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Bat the water that boOs below the dam has
bubbled controversy all the way to tile goTer- por'- a
mansion and fee VS. Boast of Rep- resegtativ- es.
Almost since its conception,
Trumas Dam has let loose a flood of com-plaints
aid accusations. How, a team of
ecawrakto. fisheries expats, engineers and
biologists from UMC and tits Uaiversfcy of
Missouri- Rou- a have stepped to to filter oct
the muddled swirls rf formation and come
op with a aahzttoa to Che prvs& iezns caosed by
me dam's waterrelease system.
John CCocnor, chairman of UMCa ctr&
eagfcftsrfag dpsrtmQt aad a coordinator'
for the research team, said fee goal of the"
stody fa to reccmasead the beat epssating strategy fer the $ mer feefflty at Tracssn
ef-fects.
mTehye CfoorrpthseosftuEdnyg. inTeheers$ 44is0,0p0u0ttcinogntroapctthe
$ 229100 to each university requires a De-cember
completion date for the project
which began last year. A preliminary report
waspresentedinFe& ruary.
daSmomheaovfethbeemenosdt ovwoncisftereroaums. crOitiwcsnerosf thoef
property along the Lake of the Qaarks have
asserted that the dam's water release, by
dMtieaBy changing the water level, is qp- aetti- ng
the quiet stable waters in the nppa--
Naturalists also are worried about the
downstream effects. A uajque feature of Tro- SFP- fS b tt hM ability to change
the direction of the stream belosr. Kacsya as piggyback, tha system can force the water to tarn from its race to the Lake of the Oarta
Dam,
allowing the water to be recycled. The re- sult opponents say, is a downstream envi-ronment
devastated by the confused flow of the water.
Inj1882, the Corps of Engineers, winch built the dam, ran a test of Us pampbsck system.
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" Tbey were dismayed to see thet they ( the turbines) were chopping vm fish,'' O'Connor
psarMob. le" mTshaotf'sthwathsecnhtehmeerecaaimreealtiosaatbioeand. of the wli? ? a paasess authorized
the buOdiag of the dam in 1862 for flood coa- trs- L stagnahteyddroleolnegctrbicefopreow2esr 1aSnSd2 crcemcrpelaettiioena
The Corps c Engineers fought cS a 197&
attempt by ( he stole attorney general's of-fice
to halt tiie dam's completion; it limited
the number of turbines in operation under
1B83 orders by Gov. Christopher Bond; and
Sast year it was blasted as a '' rnoastrosiry"
by Sen. Jack Danforta, RrMo.
The Department of Natural Resources, the
Department of Conservation, Union Electric
the state attorney general's office, real es-tate
interests snddties surrocodtog the dam
have rushed down on the Corps cfEagineers,
vying gar a vaJce to controlling the operation
and a net to raise to then- interest- s.
Enter O'Connor's research team. " I think
that they ( toe interest groups) can agree
that the dam is there, and that overall there
is approval ef the dam hstog there," he said.
" wast we're stiaSying is the effect of tits power facility, not whether or net fee dmn