Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1984-04-13

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76th Year No. 176 Good Morning! It's Friday, April 13, 1984 4 Sections 28 Pages - 25 Cents
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Bus, train collide
Twenty- si- x children and their bus driver were injured Thurs- -
when the bus and a freight train collided near Carrs- - Iday
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ville, Va. The bus driver lost both of her legs as a result of
the accident For more details, see Page 3A. I
WASHINGTON ( UPI) - The
House, in the second denunciation of
President Reagan's Central Amen- c- a
policy in three days, joined the
Senate Thursday night in voting
against U. S.- back- ed mining of Nica- ragu- an
ports.
Following a sometimes bitter de-bate,
the House voted 231- 11- 1 for a
non- bind- mg resolution declaring no
funds should be used to plan, direct
or support the mining of Nicaraguan
waters.
The Senate approved identical lan-guage
Tuesday on a 84- 1- 2 vote
' The world is waiting for a sign
from this body as well that the peo-ple
of the United States wiil not toler--
ate the contempt shown by this ad- -'
ministration for our own principles
and the rule of law," said Rep. Da-vid
Bonior, D- Mi- ch.
" Our president has personally or-dered
acts of war against Nicara-gua,"
said Rep Bill Alexander, D- A- rk
, charging Reagan had violated
international law by authorizing the
CIA- sponsor- ed mining in support of
Nicaraguan rebels.
Republicans charged the resolu-tion
was a political attack, but they
failed in a preliminary vote, 239- 15- 3,
to block consideration of the mea
sure.
Reagan's defenders said Demo-crats
were ignoring the efforts of the
pro- Cub- an government of Nicaragua
to spread subversion in Central
America.
" Where is the language condemn-ing
Nicaragua's attacks on its neigh-bors?
Is Nicaraguan aggression ac-ceptable,"
asked Rep Robert
Lagomarsino, R- Ca- hf.
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Couple spurns the traditional,
settles for pigskin, moccasins
By Karen Coble
Mlssourian staff writer
Most bndes- to- b- e dream of white
lace gowns, grooms in tuxedos and
candle- li- t church ceremonies. Lau-rie
Bunudge has a different dream.
She's excited about her outdoor wed-ding,
where she will don a pigskin
dress, have her dog as nngbearer
and marry the man she loves.
On Saturday, at a park in Boon- vfll- e
that overlooks the Missouri Riv-er,
Bunudge, a cook at a day care
center, will wed psychologist Jim
Schlapper in a ceremony they de-scribe
as " what feels good."
She will wear the brown Indian- styl- e
dress they made from pigskin
The groom will wear a coordinating
shirt and moccasins. Their German
shepherd will carry their turquoise
rings on a collar made from her
dress scraps.
" Guests were told to wear what
they feel comfortable in," says the
blue jean- cla- d Bunudge. The
groomsmen may wear jeans; the fa-ther
of the bride probably will be in a
business suit.
" We will walk up to an ( Indian)
mound and say our vows, just he, I
and God," the bride says. " Then we
will come back down to the crowd
and be official."
" It's just the way we are. Jim and
I aren't tuxedos and long white
dresses. This is the way it should be.
We don't want the meaning to be lost
in all the little details."
Their ceremony and the vows they
wrote to each other are a reflection
of their lives " I follow my heart pre-tty
much," she says. " So far I'm
doing pretty good."
Her heart is what attracted her to
Schlapper, whom she met at a New
Year's Eve party. They share an ap-preciation
of nature, something that
has inspired much of their marriage
plans.
" I want to be able to try out our
dreams and make them come true
Like opening an outdoor family- onente- d
camp for children. Away
from the city, with TV telling you
that you have to have Cabbage
Patch dolls or you just aren't going
to be in," fhe bnde says
Burnidge, who is in her mid- 20- s,
works as a cook at Kinder- Car- e
Learning Center, where she also
makes crafts like collages from
wood and other natural products.
Their wedding will be as practical
as it is natural, she says. Her wed-ding
dress and the groom's shut cost
$ 50 each. " We opted for pigskin be-cause
it was cheaper than other
leathers," she says.
From her pigskin wedding dress,
she plans to make crafts from the
leather scraps. " I teased that I had
enough scraps left that I was going
to make Jim a breech cloth," she
muses. " But he wouldn't go mat
far."
Although many aspects of their
wedding are not traditional, they do
have postrmarnage plans that seem
familiar. A Florida honeymoon is
scheduled.
Skin sellers not in hog heaven
By Karon CoWe
Mtecourlan 8ta writer
Pigskin has an image problem.
" A lot of people do not recognize
the product," says Mike Simpson,
president of the Pigskin Council of
America. " You cant pick it up and
say, Bey this ispigskin.' "
So, the council and several organi-zations
are educating consumers
about pigskin's applications so they
can boost sales and bring home
more bacon.
Bedde Smith, who sells pigskin at
Tandy Leather Co., 701 Locust St.,
says it is more durable than cow--
v hide. " It is versatile enough to be
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used in place of any leather," she
says.
Pigskin is most commonly mar-keted
in clothes and shoes, but it's
being tested in other products. Gen-eral
Motors will offer two cars with
pigskin upholstery for an additional
5500, Simpson says.
At $ 1.99 a square foot, garment
weight pigskin is cheaper than many
similar man- mad- e materials
according to Smith. Pigskin is priced
by the square foot and sold by the
bide. The average hog produces 12 to
13 square feetof leather.
A hog's color makes no difference
because the tanning process remov-es
the natural color, Simpson says.
IdWood Jim Schlapper and Laurie Burnidge will wear pigskin Saturday to their wedding.
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DEIR EL BALAH. Israeli- occupie- d
Gaza Strip ( UPI) Israeli sol-diers
stormed a hijacked bus just be-fore
dawn today, freeing more than
30 hostages from terronsts armed
with grenades and molotov cock-tails
An Israeli army spokesman said
six hostages were wounded during
the eight- hou- r standoff, but there
were no reports on the fate of four
terronsts who commandeered the
bus shortly after sundown Earner
reports had said there were five ter-rorist
involved
A Syrian- base- d Palestinian group
claimed responsibility for the hijack-ing,
which ended just before dawn
when Israeli soldiers stormed the
bus, army and police sources said
" I heard bursts of automatic fire,"
a survivor told the armed forces ra-dio.
" I said to myself, ' here, they've
come to kill ( the terronsts), I hope
none of us will be hurt ' "
The assault on the bus, the most
recent in a rash of guerrilla attacks,
came 10 days after three terronsts
opened fire on a Jerusalem street,
wounding 43 people
The army spokesman said the hi-jacked
bus, carrying 35 passengers,
drove through two roadblocks before
Israeli troops shot out its tires some
six miles south of Gaza City
The spokesman said the Israeli
troops stormed the bus after negotia-tions
with the guerrillas held by De-fense
Minister Moshe Arens and
Army Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Moshe
Levy failed
The whole rescue operation took
less than two minutes Troops then
removed the wounded for treati
ment, the military command said
The hijackers, earning mc'oun
cocktails, knives, and grenade hid
den in bnefcaset.. boarded the EgH
ed Co bus as paying passengers en
route from Tel A iv to Ashktlon 30
miles to the south thin forced the
driver to continue bouth into the
Gaza strip
Israeli soldiers surrounded the bus
after shooting its tires, and eight
people, including the driver, escap-ed,
military sources said
Two pregnant women were re-leased
soon after the hijacking, the
sources said
Reports were sketchy because of
heavy military censorship
In Damascus, Syria, the Popular
Front for the Liberation of Palestine
said in a statement one of its groups
staged the attack
On March 8, three people were
killed and nine were wounded when
a grenade exploded under the seat of
a bus in Ashdod The Abu Nidal
guerrilla splinter claimed responsi
bihty
Ashdod and Ashkelon are 10 miles
apart along the MediHrranean
coast
Last December, six people were
killed and 40 were wounded when a
bomb exploded on a bus in the west- e- m
outskirts of Jerusalem Eight
days before the bombing in Ashdod,
a bombing on Jerusalem s mam
street injured 21 persons
Thirty- fou- r Israelis were killed
and 74 wounded in the attack
Man pays
for gravel
to wheel
Ms meals
By Karen R. Branch
Missourian staff writer
When 73- year-- old Clem Bruce
saved his money for two years to put
$ 500 worth of gravel on a narrow,
quarter- mil- e lane outside his dnve- wa- y,
he never realized it would
cause a sbr
But it caused enough of a stir that
it reached the Boone County Court
Thursday.
" He was concerned that someone
would get stuck bringing his meals
to him," Northern District Judge
Alex Gates told the other judges
" This man paid for the rock when he
couldn't afford it. That's touching "
Gates explained that the Hams- bur- g
man lives on a $ 300- a- mon- th in-come.
He suggested to the judges that the
county reimburse Bruce They
agreed to do so as long as the cost
wasn't " excessive "
When Bruce heard of the decision
Thursday evening, he seemed to be
surprised, though he had talked with
Gates Wednesday His eyes widened
behind his bifocals as he smiled a
toothless smile " Well if they want
to, they can," he said laughing
Sitting in a folding chair in his
cluttered one- roo- m house, Bruce
asked who had contacted Gates A
smile spread across his face when he
heard it was Karen McBnde, who
delivers a daily meal to him through
the Senior Citizen Nutntion Pro-gram.
" That's what I figured," he said.
" Now, what'd she go and do that
for?
" Them women come everyday
and bring me my dinner. They keep
pretty good check on me," he contin-ued
in a quiet voice, then added
slowly, " I'm glad they do too."
Bruce said he gets $ 314 each
month from Social Secunty Insur-ance.
His receipts from Boone Quar- ne- s
Inc. show a cost of $ 507 75 for
putting the gravel on the road and
his winding driveway.
Despite the drain on his small in-come,
Bruce said he never thought
about asking the county for help.
" Some people down there com-plain
about their roads," he said. " I
don't believe in that. Those fellows
( county Judges) have enough to do."