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76thYear No. 149 Good Morning! It's Tuesday, March 13, 1984 2 Sections 1 4 Pages 25 Cents " The good Lord was looking out for me," said Herb Bmsbacher after he escap-ed injury when his truck overturned on Interstate 70. Bmsbacher was traveling RobsctO MsEnm from Kansas City to St Louis when his truck went out of control He was able to bring it back into control; then he was hit by a truck Snow, sleet, rain cause havoc across the country United Pras International Spring- like- - gasgezstorms attacked south-east Texas Maeday, pe& rag Victoria with a foot of hall and Bowing cars olf the road. Snow and freezing ram covered mast of Missouri, where three deaths were blamed on the weath-er. Winter persisted in the Northeast, with sab- zer- o cold setting records from Minnesota to Maine. Eiecnon officials in Massachusetts said snow and freezing ram could have an impact an the primary election there today. Forecast-ers said the ram and snow could arrive as vot-ers left work to goto the pcBs. Sodden tituaderstorms hit Baton Rouge, La., forcing the governor's inauguration indoors and tearing a giant yellow ribbon from the Louisiana Capitol building. The Texas storms struck early Monday, dropping 8. to 12 inches of marble- size- d hail on Victoria, northeast of Corpus Chnsh. The pett-ing riafl clogged fee town dramage system and broke a gas mam, forcmg brief evacuation of about 50 residents. Winds gustmg to 50 mph blew a bam apart, sheared the roofs from three businesses and shattered windows throughout the coy. At the height of fee storm, several cars were blown off theroad The hail and mgh winds sheared the sup-ports from several carports and scrapped the vinyl tops off cars, said sheriffs dispatcher AbelArnazahi. Hie storm system sent snow through the Midwest, with northern and central Kansas hardest hit Osborne, Kan., measured 8 inches of snow, while Washington had 7 inches and Mankato Sinches. The storm, which brought i.- o- w and freezing rain to most of Missouri, was blamed for the deaths of three people in St Lotos. The storm also clogged rusbhour traffic in Kansas City and prompted the weather service to issue travelers advisories Three men were killed when a pickup truck and a tractor- traile- r collided on ice- shc- k Inter-state 270 in St Louis County, officials said. The pickup truck went airborne across the median after the driver lost control of his vehi-cle, said Highway Patrol trooper Herbert Loo- ne- y. The truck was struck on the passenger sideby the tractor- traile- r. The three men in the pickup were pro-nounced dead at the scene. Snow amounts Monday afternoon ranged from less than one inch over extreme eastern Missouri and into the three-- to sec- in- ch catego-ry over the central and northwest portions of ' the state. An accumulation of snow mixed with freez-ing ram in central and east Ozaris was ex-pected to range from one to three inches before ending Monday evening. Showers mixed with snow at tunes in south sections of the state Monday afternoon. Snowpiows were out in full force in Kansas City before the morning rush hour, but many of the city's arteries stOl were covered. i The Columbia Fire Department was called to the parking lot at Nowell's, 900 N Keene St , to put out a fire in Bill Heeney's car Firefighters were not able to save the car. In Kansas dry, a pohce spokesman Monday afternoon was unable to estimate file number of traffic accidents caused by the snow- covere- d streets but acknowledged mere was an above- averagenumb- er of accidents. Although many Kansas City area schools al-ready were closed for spring break, a number of other schools closed for the day because of the weather. The Kansas Gty Municipal Court declared a snow day. Those people scheduled to appear in court Monday would be granted a rescheduling if they were unable to appear because of weather. In St Louis, the storm did not begin drop-ping snow until around daybreak but continued to do somto the late afternoon. Erosion strips away fertile soli By Andrew J Sebel and ( Covin Kasoankj Mtetaurian staff antort , The Boone County landscape is snow as far as file eye can see. As the snow starts to melt, moisture collects on me surface, forming tony fingers of water." The fingers seek each other out, tackling into small puddles where water collects asm cuppedhands. As the paddles merge, the water jams hands. It begms to Bow off the landta sheets. Each band scrapes up soQ as it gathers momentum. Gulhes form, and the muddy wa-ter cascades into swirling black cauldrons of pore kmeuc energy, spurred only by gravity, and writing only the shortest routetothe sea. Boone County's ssH has come on- - der a deluge another soQ erosion victim a statistic. In November, Missouri voters can express their ideas on a possible so-- They will go to the polls to vote on Constitutional Amendment No. 2, which would increase the state's safes tax to further soQ conservation yffiwts. As most constitutional amendments do. No. 2 has become a poEtxcal issue. . Barely do many people have a chance to see soO erosion in a dra-matic light White smgfe, intense storms have produced sppyfrftnilar erooaoa effects, to most people, it seems like an invisible process. On the average, it takes 10 to 15 years to erode one inch of Missouri topsoiL It gives one the impression of the rain torturing the soil, drop by drop. Yet according to the Missouri De-partment of Natural Resources, at least 55 percent of the state's cro-pland is using sail faster ifam it is bong replaced by nature. Missouri already has lost half of its topsoiL and the half that remains is not near-ly as fertile as what washed away. Tennessee is the only state that has a higherrate of soQ lass eachyear. University scientists have devel-oped a model to show that crop pro-duction declines as certain sous are eroded. When the topsail is worn See SOIL, Pagel Temperatures are expected to bring relief By Josh ftappaporl and ban Horsef teld Mlssounan slall writers A snow storm that wouldnt quit when weather service personnel thought it would led to a flurry of traffic accidents school buses stuck in ditches and people stranded throughout Boone Count Monda afternoon The storm dumped as much as six inches of snow in some areas Jimm) Lloyd Sapp the countv's southern district road and bndge su pervisor, said the persistence of the storm foiled the county's efforts to clear roads. He said that at 5 p m Monday about three- fourth- s of all county roads remained uncleared Sapp said he hopes his crews, which are available for emergence duty and will start working formally at 5 am today, will have all ' he county's roads cleared by afternoon. In Columbia, snow and ice re mains on many of the streets Co-lumbia's Public Works Director Ray , Beck said Monday evening Beck said his crews, which toiled Mondav night to put down cinders, are on emergency call and will be working around the clock City snow removal units are work-ing on a priority basis. Beck said The first priority is roads around schools and hospitals The second priority is hilly areas where people tend to get stuck easily , a final prior-ity is subdiv isions Sapp said the county also does its snow removal by priority, concen-trating first on the main routes and paved routes, and afterward on the smaller, gravel roads. Weather forecasts for today called for temperatures that would melt much of the snow and ice, with highs inthermd- SQ- s Several county school systems shut down early Monday because of the snow The Hallsville, Harnsburg and Ashland school districts closed about 1 30 p m School superinten-dents for those districts said they plan to open school today and will announce on the radio if school is to be closed. Late Monday, Columbia officials soil were pondering whether to open or close public schools this morning The storm didn't end without caus-ing headaches for motorists In Boone County, authorities reported at least 78 traffic accidents begin rung at 7 45a m Monday Deputy Police Chief Ernest Bar- be- e reported 21 accidents in the city by nudaftemoon with no senous in-juries. University Police Maj Jack Watnng said his department han-dled two accidents with no senous See SOME. Page 8A " ' ' ' ' ' ' " Telephone fraud calls on N. Y. families WHITE PLAINS, N. Y. ( UPI) New Ycrk Telephone Co. said Monday two Westchester County families who received phone bOls for $ 10,504 and $ 6U8are the vic-tims of two of the largest telephone frauds ever. The telephone credit card num-bers of bom customers apparently were fraudutenSly used by more than cete person. The carters charged thousands of conversa-tions to and from Europe, Sooth America, Africa and the Par East The 27& page bill for $ 109,50! was sent by United Parcel Service to Jane Landenberger of Bedford. She first found oat about the bill while talking on the phone March 5 whena phone company supervisor broke in, saying she wanted to dis-cuss her buL Landenberger said the supervi-sor told her bill wasexcessive " I said, ' It was excessive last month, too. How excessiveis it7 " " Shesaid, Itis $ K, 5M.' " " I thought, ' Oh, my god. This is something eke,'" Landenberger said. Landenberger was given a new credit card number and credit for the balance;' A bill for $ 81480, which num-bered 505 pages, was sent to John and Connie Weinstock in Golden's Bridge, N. Y , Wednesday When the family saw rt, the reac-tion was " a combination of shock and amusement," said Lisa Weins-tock, 20 " On Feb. 19, the operator called and asked whether someone had permission to make a call to Peru. My father said, ' Absolutely not,' and canceled the credit card," Weinstock said. She said the card has not been missed. By Cindy Montaen and Tony Lemons MteMMrtangteMwMaro The Missouri branch of the American Med-ical ftfffftt- Safae- n is considering the adoption cf a freeze oa physsdans' salaries similar to one veceranended by the national group last If passed by the Missouri State Medical AsocMtoc at its March 2S- Ap- rfl 1 meeting, it wBS become non- feiwbn- g policy for the or- ganimrinn'fljSSC- qmctaBS. ftmw C& snbia doctors indicated they pkatocamprywimtheAMA'sreqnefitfora oooysfffreonpJrfins'fees. aKhough gnostcf tire ccmmuaMy's 690 doctors have not increased fees recently, said Robert Thomas, preskteatoff the Boone County Med ical Society. The state association's freeze proposal is essentially the same as the one made by the national organisation last month, said CC. Swarens, assistant executive secretary of Okstate association. In addffion to the one- ye- ar freeze in fees, Swarens said the association is considering reduced charges for the ekterjy, oneriyioyed and disadvantaged, H paaed by the 4Ataaember Boose of Del-egates, the proposal wfH beeome the pcJky of the state group. ParUcktaSioa vnH be vol antatyvhowever. Stnrezn said there is a good chance for passage. The state association's leadership baa not givenaccMshouldertotbe freeze, be said. " The leadership of the ( state) association was pleased with the AMA's decmoo," Swa- reosss- kL Swarens saed be has seen pos& ve support for the freeze across Missouri " Most of the press cjgaiaga I have seen have been very supportive of the freeze.. Several doctots in Commhia also have ex-pressed support for She freeac. 1 haven't raised my fees in a year and a hah becauseof the recession," ThcmassaldL Jama Roller, a Gohsobja dmnitotogfst, said be has no plans to raise bis fees. " I won't raise zny fees, as requested by the AHA," be said. BoBer d he onh; has increased This foes twteeiaSse last sue years. Although Glen Garrett, a Colombia ear, nose and throat doctor, has not increased his fees in more than two years, he said they eventually will go up with inflation. If the cost of Irving rises, TH be forced to goup," he sakL " Everyone has to uve." Garrett said he feels an obligation to help the economy, hot be does not believe the freeze wm mate much of a dent m the na-tion's financial problems. '' HosptiaEzahon, by far, has the greatest effect ( on costs); doctor's fees are only a small percentage," be said. ' It's better pub- I- k relations than anything else. 1 James ScheH, an internal roed trine spe- daTd- st, said, " The AMA is saying that infla- bo- n is low, so there is no need for fee in-creases. I agree." ScbeU said he has no plans to raise his fees this year. 1 The Boone County Medical Society proba-bly will make a recommendation to follow the freeze, ScheU said. Thamas said the freeze win be a topic at the society's April 3 meeting. AMA spokeswoman Jean Breicogel said the freeze is designed to help keep down health care costs. She sand individual com-pliance is preferable to government regula-tion ofphysicians' fees. National regulation of fees is not needed because doctors' fees account for only 19 per-cent of health care costs, she said. " The government is not asking for pnee control oa linen supply houses and pharma-ceutical suppliers," Breicogel said, " so why should theyask for control of doctors' fees?"
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Title | Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1984-03-13 |
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Item.Transcript | 76thYear No. 149 Good Morning! It's Tuesday, March 13, 1984 2 Sections 1 4 Pages 25 Cents " The good Lord was looking out for me," said Herb Bmsbacher after he escap-ed injury when his truck overturned on Interstate 70. Bmsbacher was traveling RobsctO MsEnm from Kansas City to St Louis when his truck went out of control He was able to bring it back into control; then he was hit by a truck Snow, sleet, rain cause havoc across the country United Pras International Spring- like- - gasgezstorms attacked south-east Texas Maeday, pe& rag Victoria with a foot of hall and Bowing cars olf the road. Snow and freezing ram covered mast of Missouri, where three deaths were blamed on the weath-er. Winter persisted in the Northeast, with sab- zer- o cold setting records from Minnesota to Maine. Eiecnon officials in Massachusetts said snow and freezing ram could have an impact an the primary election there today. Forecast-ers said the ram and snow could arrive as vot-ers left work to goto the pcBs. Sodden tituaderstorms hit Baton Rouge, La., forcing the governor's inauguration indoors and tearing a giant yellow ribbon from the Louisiana Capitol building. The Texas storms struck early Monday, dropping 8. to 12 inches of marble- size- d hail on Victoria, northeast of Corpus Chnsh. The pett-ing riafl clogged fee town dramage system and broke a gas mam, forcmg brief evacuation of about 50 residents. Winds gustmg to 50 mph blew a bam apart, sheared the roofs from three businesses and shattered windows throughout the coy. At the height of fee storm, several cars were blown off theroad The hail and mgh winds sheared the sup-ports from several carports and scrapped the vinyl tops off cars, said sheriffs dispatcher AbelArnazahi. Hie storm system sent snow through the Midwest, with northern and central Kansas hardest hit Osborne, Kan., measured 8 inches of snow, while Washington had 7 inches and Mankato Sinches. The storm, which brought i.- o- w and freezing rain to most of Missouri, was blamed for the deaths of three people in St Lotos. The storm also clogged rusbhour traffic in Kansas City and prompted the weather service to issue travelers advisories Three men were killed when a pickup truck and a tractor- traile- r collided on ice- shc- k Inter-state 270 in St Louis County, officials said. The pickup truck went airborne across the median after the driver lost control of his vehi-cle, said Highway Patrol trooper Herbert Loo- ne- y. The truck was struck on the passenger sideby the tractor- traile- r. The three men in the pickup were pro-nounced dead at the scene. Snow amounts Monday afternoon ranged from less than one inch over extreme eastern Missouri and into the three-- to sec- in- ch catego-ry over the central and northwest portions of ' the state. An accumulation of snow mixed with freez-ing ram in central and east Ozaris was ex-pected to range from one to three inches before ending Monday evening. Showers mixed with snow at tunes in south sections of the state Monday afternoon. Snowpiows were out in full force in Kansas City before the morning rush hour, but many of the city's arteries stOl were covered. i The Columbia Fire Department was called to the parking lot at Nowell's, 900 N Keene St , to put out a fire in Bill Heeney's car Firefighters were not able to save the car. In Kansas dry, a pohce spokesman Monday afternoon was unable to estimate file number of traffic accidents caused by the snow- covere- d streets but acknowledged mere was an above- averagenumb- er of accidents. Although many Kansas City area schools al-ready were closed for spring break, a number of other schools closed for the day because of the weather. The Kansas Gty Municipal Court declared a snow day. Those people scheduled to appear in court Monday would be granted a rescheduling if they were unable to appear because of weather. In St Louis, the storm did not begin drop-ping snow until around daybreak but continued to do somto the late afternoon. Erosion strips away fertile soli By Andrew J Sebel and ( Covin Kasoankj Mtetaurian staff antort , The Boone County landscape is snow as far as file eye can see. As the snow starts to melt, moisture collects on me surface, forming tony fingers of water." The fingers seek each other out, tackling into small puddles where water collects asm cuppedhands. As the paddles merge, the water jams hands. It begms to Bow off the landta sheets. Each band scrapes up soQ as it gathers momentum. Gulhes form, and the muddy wa-ter cascades into swirling black cauldrons of pore kmeuc energy, spurred only by gravity, and writing only the shortest routetothe sea. Boone County's ssH has come on- - der a deluge another soQ erosion victim a statistic. In November, Missouri voters can express their ideas on a possible so-- They will go to the polls to vote on Constitutional Amendment No. 2, which would increase the state's safes tax to further soQ conservation yffiwts. As most constitutional amendments do. No. 2 has become a poEtxcal issue. . Barely do many people have a chance to see soO erosion in a dra-matic light White smgfe, intense storms have produced sppyfrftnilar erooaoa effects, to most people, it seems like an invisible process. On the average, it takes 10 to 15 years to erode one inch of Missouri topsoiL It gives one the impression of the rain torturing the soil, drop by drop. Yet according to the Missouri De-partment of Natural Resources, at least 55 percent of the state's cro-pland is using sail faster ifam it is bong replaced by nature. Missouri already has lost half of its topsoiL and the half that remains is not near-ly as fertile as what washed away. Tennessee is the only state that has a higherrate of soQ lass eachyear. University scientists have devel-oped a model to show that crop pro-duction declines as certain sous are eroded. When the topsail is worn See SOIL, Pagel Temperatures are expected to bring relief By Josh ftappaporl and ban Horsef teld Mlssounan slall writers A snow storm that wouldnt quit when weather service personnel thought it would led to a flurry of traffic accidents school buses stuck in ditches and people stranded throughout Boone Count Monda afternoon The storm dumped as much as six inches of snow in some areas Jimm) Lloyd Sapp the countv's southern district road and bndge su pervisor, said the persistence of the storm foiled the county's efforts to clear roads. He said that at 5 p m Monday about three- fourth- s of all county roads remained uncleared Sapp said he hopes his crews, which are available for emergence duty and will start working formally at 5 am today, will have all ' he county's roads cleared by afternoon. In Columbia, snow and ice re mains on many of the streets Co-lumbia's Public Works Director Ray , Beck said Monday evening Beck said his crews, which toiled Mondav night to put down cinders, are on emergency call and will be working around the clock City snow removal units are work-ing on a priority basis. Beck said The first priority is roads around schools and hospitals The second priority is hilly areas where people tend to get stuck easily , a final prior-ity is subdiv isions Sapp said the county also does its snow removal by priority, concen-trating first on the main routes and paved routes, and afterward on the smaller, gravel roads. Weather forecasts for today called for temperatures that would melt much of the snow and ice, with highs inthermd- SQ- s Several county school systems shut down early Monday because of the snow The Hallsville, Harnsburg and Ashland school districts closed about 1 30 p m School superinten-dents for those districts said they plan to open school today and will announce on the radio if school is to be closed. Late Monday, Columbia officials soil were pondering whether to open or close public schools this morning The storm didn't end without caus-ing headaches for motorists In Boone County, authorities reported at least 78 traffic accidents begin rung at 7 45a m Monday Deputy Police Chief Ernest Bar- be- e reported 21 accidents in the city by nudaftemoon with no senous in-juries. University Police Maj Jack Watnng said his department han-dled two accidents with no senous See SOME. Page 8A " ' ' ' ' ' ' " Telephone fraud calls on N. Y. families WHITE PLAINS, N. Y. ( UPI) New Ycrk Telephone Co. said Monday two Westchester County families who received phone bOls for $ 10,504 and $ 6U8are the vic-tims of two of the largest telephone frauds ever. The telephone credit card num-bers of bom customers apparently were fraudutenSly used by more than cete person. The carters charged thousands of conversa-tions to and from Europe, Sooth America, Africa and the Par East The 27& page bill for $ 109,50! was sent by United Parcel Service to Jane Landenberger of Bedford. She first found oat about the bill while talking on the phone March 5 whena phone company supervisor broke in, saying she wanted to dis-cuss her buL Landenberger said the supervi-sor told her bill wasexcessive " I said, ' It was excessive last month, too. How excessiveis it7 " " Shesaid, Itis $ K, 5M.' " " I thought, ' Oh, my god. This is something eke,'" Landenberger said. Landenberger was given a new credit card number and credit for the balance;' A bill for $ 81480, which num-bered 505 pages, was sent to John and Connie Weinstock in Golden's Bridge, N. Y , Wednesday When the family saw rt, the reac-tion was " a combination of shock and amusement," said Lisa Weins-tock, 20 " On Feb. 19, the operator called and asked whether someone had permission to make a call to Peru. My father said, ' Absolutely not,' and canceled the credit card," Weinstock said. She said the card has not been missed. By Cindy Montaen and Tony Lemons MteMMrtangteMwMaro The Missouri branch of the American Med-ical ftfffftt- Safae- n is considering the adoption cf a freeze oa physsdans' salaries similar to one veceranended by the national group last If passed by the Missouri State Medical AsocMtoc at its March 2S- Ap- rfl 1 meeting, it wBS become non- feiwbn- g policy for the or- ganimrinn'fljSSC- qmctaBS. ftmw C& snbia doctors indicated they pkatocamprywimtheAMA'sreqnefitfora oooysfffreonpJrfins'fees. aKhough gnostcf tire ccmmuaMy's 690 doctors have not increased fees recently, said Robert Thomas, preskteatoff the Boone County Med ical Society. The state association's freeze proposal is essentially the same as the one made by the national organisation last month, said CC. Swarens, assistant executive secretary of Okstate association. In addffion to the one- ye- ar freeze in fees, Swarens said the association is considering reduced charges for the ekterjy, oneriyioyed and disadvantaged, H paaed by the 4Ataaember Boose of Del-egates, the proposal wfH beeome the pcJky of the state group. ParUcktaSioa vnH be vol antatyvhowever. Stnrezn said there is a good chance for passage. The state association's leadership baa not givenaccMshouldertotbe freeze, be said. " The leadership of the ( state) association was pleased with the AMA's decmoo," Swa- reosss- kL Swarens saed be has seen pos& ve support for the freeze across Missouri " Most of the press cjgaiaga I have seen have been very supportive of the freeze.. Several doctots in Commhia also have ex-pressed support for She freeac. 1 haven't raised my fees in a year and a hah becauseof the recession," ThcmassaldL Jama Roller, a Gohsobja dmnitotogfst, said be has no plans to raise bis fees. " I won't raise zny fees, as requested by the AHA," be said. BoBer d he onh; has increased This foes twteeiaSse last sue years. Although Glen Garrett, a Colombia ear, nose and throat doctor, has not increased his fees in more than two years, he said they eventually will go up with inflation. If the cost of Irving rises, TH be forced to goup," he sakL " Everyone has to uve." Garrett said he feels an obligation to help the economy, hot be does not believe the freeze wm mate much of a dent m the na-tion's financial problems. '' HosptiaEzahon, by far, has the greatest effect ( on costs); doctor's fees are only a small percentage," be said. ' It's better pub- I- k relations than anything else. 1 James ScheH, an internal roed trine spe- daTd- st, said, " The AMA is saying that infla- bo- n is low, so there is no need for fee in-creases. I agree." ScbeU said he has no plans to raise his fees this year. 1 The Boone County Medical Society proba-bly will make a recommendation to follow the freeze, ScheU said. Thamas said the freeze win be a topic at the society's April 3 meeting. AMA spokeswoman Jean Breicogel said the freeze is designed to help keep down health care costs. She sand individual com-pliance is preferable to government regula-tion ofphysicians' fees. National regulation of fees is not needed because doctors' fees account for only 19 per-cent of health care costs, she said. " The government is not asking for pnee control oa linen supply houses and pharma-ceutical suppliers," Breicogel said, " so why should theyask for control of doctors' fees?" |