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Foiled again iS In the past, fencing was a mat-- ElgyHBH ter of life and death. But & ranjgRrag fencers in Columbia today are nSraraPPiwfl less interested in settling feuds WB& J M fom than they are in perfecting a Ma IvRji 1 physical art form. For more on HSgjT lCT7iimra the romantic mysteries of the mffiS JrM ffidTOiBf foil, sabre and epee, see to- - gSjjffffiffl 1 5 karat Gold ifc3 Missouri's much- publiciz- ed BsJS- C3w- g quarterback duel between last . toS& iircaiflfl I year's starter Marlon Adler m1 IPjWti 8 and Warren Seitz ended in a Bra "" nHBflfr 1 draw at Saturday's Black and BffiZZZafflpfl I Gold game. Seitz had better Bow" ' wmr- rw- Bs' ' I statistics, but Adler led his jE' 1JWy 1 Gold team to a 19- 1- 2 victory. fate. 5jilMB& L FormoredetaflsseePagelB. BaffiBBraiillS 1 town. Turn to Missourian Sun-- ffiPjPMBffljm 3 day magazine for an article on BSffiwiPB I Krisco, one of Columbia's top raSgBBfflB& H 1 76th Year No. 189 Good Moin9JjtjS"" dayAprillgg1984 , S. fj? t, oris " 72 Pa9es "" 5ji, Ifs, MHMMnKanHMMaHBHMMaiBMMaHliMMMnHinMHMHRMaSM Chariot of fire Eric Ransdell of Phi Delta Theta fraternity pushed Adrian Verschueven to a winning finish in a wheelchair race held as part of the Special Olympics Saturday at the Rock Bridge Beth Llvormow High School track University fraternity and sorority mem bers served as " buddies" for the athletes and assisted with the event as part of Greek Week 1984, which began Friday. County's reports of child abuse escalate Editor's note: This is tfce first article Id a three- pa- rt series, which vfH ran in the Missourlaa over the next few days, on the growing problem of child abase in Boone County. By Matt Schwartz and Josh Rappaport Last year, reports of chUbTabuse and neglect in Boone County rose 22.4 percent That was nearly 37 times the statewide increase. But 1983 was not unusual It was just the continuation of a pattern that has established itself in Boone Ccunty in recentyears In the last five years, child abuse and neglect reports for the county have risen 138 percent, from 348 to 831. And the trend shows no signs of slowing down in 1984 Monthly report totals for January, February and March of this year were the highest those months evfcr experienced Bob Perry, " county director of court services, says he thinks the in-crease will continue. " I think we're still dealing with the tip of the ice-berg," he says. Troy Pogue, social services super-visor at the Division of Family Serv-ices, says the division receives re-ports from all over Boone County And he says that proportional to the population, the number of reports from the rural part of the county may be as high as they are in Colum-bia Case increase still called tip of iceberg Child abuse is defined by state law as " any physical injury, sexual abuse or emotional abuse inflicted on a child other than by accidental means by these responsible for his care, custody, and control, except that discipline, including spanking, administered in a reasonable man-ner, shall not be construed to be abuse" Neglect is defined as " failure to provide, by those responsible for the care, custody, and control of the child, the proper or necessary sup-port, education as required by law, or medical, surgical or any other care necessary for his well- being- ." Pogue credits growing public awareness about child abuse with the steady increase in reports Boone County's abundant media sources have helped bring attention to the problem of child abuse, Pogue says " The fact that people are bet-ter informed . . . that' 3 got to play a role." The law itself has been an educa-tor It requires professionals in child- relate- d fields, including doc-tors, nurses, teachers and counsel-ors, to report any suspicions they may hold that a child is being abused See MANY, Page 12A ByKJ. Kasowstcl Mlaaourlan atatf writer ST. LOUIS One hundred feet outside the large, bay windows of Rudy Husar's modem office at Washington University Is the anti-quated smokestack of the campus power- pla- nt For Husar, an expert on the subject of acid rain, the smokestack is a constant re-minder that the problem win not just go away. Husar's work concentrates on determining where the problem of acid rain originates Most other research to this point, such as that done at the National Fishery Laborato-ry outside Columbia, has been concerned with examining the effects of acid rain . Vet at a time when much of the Northeast is pointing an angry finger at the Midwest as the cause of the acid rai& problem, Husar's scientific work may be a critical factor in how the problem is resolved in political cir-cles. Thus far, his results indicate that he Mid-west, particularly Missouri, may be taking a bum rap for the acid rain problem in the Ad- ironda- cks and New England. Tracing the path of chemicals in the air is an incredibly complex problem, but one rule Chat Husar says emerges is that every source has the Study suggests Midwest mav not be cnlnrit greatest effect on itself. This means that relatively few sources in the Northeast can contribute at least as much, if not more, to the problem than can all of the powerplants and factories in the Midwest combined. Husar believes it would be a big mistake to put the burden of solving the problem on Midwestern states such as Missouri. For all of the economic hardship it would create, Husar says it would not Im-prove the situation in the Northeast at all. Acids are sent aloft into file atmosphere all the time, Husar says. As long as they remain in the form of gases, the distance they can travel is fairly short When storms come along, dust and other particulates pick up the acids and allow them to condense into a liquid. Prevailing winds then tend to carry the acids former than usual, and at some point, most are returned to earth as rain or snow. But Husar's work has revealed that even storm- bor- n acids originating hi Missouri do not, as a rule, travel farther than 609 miles This is far short of the lakes in the Adiron- dack- s, where the effects of acid rain have been most serious. Those effects include death of fish and other aquatic organisms. The pollution formed in Missouri is, of course, going somewhere, but the regions where it is most prevalent are not as sensi-tive to acid deposition as are the Adlron- dack- s. According to Husar, states south and west of Ohio, which burn dirty high- sulf- ur codl, account for over 50 percent of all the nation's emissions, but only 20 percent of those tra-ced in the Adirondacks. Meanwhile, for the Northeastern states, the figures are almost reversed. With only 19 percent of the total output of pollutants, they account for 52 per-cent of the problem h their area. All sorts of proposals are being bandied about as solutions to the acid rain problem, but if Husar is right about the small role mat Missouri contributes, none of mem are very favorable to the Show- M- e state In the U. S. Senate, there is a bill that would put most of the burden of paying for the cost of a cleanup on a texr Midwestern states and would leave it to each state's dis-cretion as to how the cleanup would be ac-complished States would pay their share of the cleanup based on the amount of sulfur they emit exceeding a certain level This would place about 9 percent of the overall cleanup effort on Missouri's shoulders. The implications of this bill are ominous for Missouri in another respect Besides hav-ing to pay for the cleanup, Missouri also would fikery suffer economic hardship, as utilities that now burn high- sulf- ur Missouri coal turn to Western sources of low- sulf- ur coal in order to comply with the law The UJS. House version of the acid rain bill spreads the cost of the cleanup nationwide by imposing a one- ten- th of 1 percent utility tax on all consumers. The proposal would single out the 50 largest utilities in terms of r contribution of sulfur emissions, and require them to install smokestack scrubbers Five of those plants are in Missouri There is some concern that Missouri would not receive its fair share of the proceeds of the utility tax State officials have said that it would cost $ 1 2 billion to comply with the terms of the cleanup Whatever the outcome, Husar's research seems to indicate that Missouri's representa-tives would be wise to remember the state's motto of " Show Me" before they accept more than their fair share of the blame for acid rain Reagan refuses active U. S. role PEKING ( UPI) - President Rea gan, twice rebuffed in attempts to speak directly to the Chinese people, capped three days of talks with Chinese leaders Saturday by ruling out any active U S role in resolving the Taiwan question Reagan said during a meeting with Deng Xiaoping, China's powerful leader, that the Chinese themselves must find a way to heal the 35- year-- old nft between the nationalists m Taipei and the communists in Pe-king, senior U S officials said Reagan, who hoped to be the first American president to speak direct-ly to the Chinese people, encountered government censors who deleted his tributes to capitalism, democracy and religion in an interview with state- controll- ed television taped for broadcast Saturday evening The White House earlier expressed " regret" at a decision by the Chinese to delete similar references, as well as a dose of harsh anti- Sovi- et rhetor-ic, in broadcasting Reagan's keynote speech Friday Although the White House officials tried to play down the incident as an " internal matter" for the Chinese, Chinese sources said the Peking gov-ernment was upset with Reagan for making ' inappropriate" and politi-cally insensitive remarks The session with the 79- year-- old Deng, China's most influential lead-er since Mao Tse- tun- g, climaxed a round of meetings marked by mu-tual praise for the progress in bilate-ral trade, but also with a display of Chinese sensitivity toward Reagan's capitalistic and anti- Sovie- t gospel Reagan, however, shrugged off the censorship incidents and sought to put the trip in the best possible light ' While respecting the differences between us, the Chinese leaders and I have agreed to focus on all mat unites us," Reagan said at an eve-ning reception for members of Pe-king's American community " When I leave this country on Tuesday, the US -- China partnership will be stronger than ever " Having completed his substantive meetings midway through his six- da- y visit, Reagan turned from statesmanship to tourism with a pil-grimage Saturday to the Great Wall and a trip Sunday to Xi'an, a cradle of Chinese civilization Senate passes penalties for not disclosing funds JEFFERSON CITY ( UPI) - Peo-ple who violate the state's campaign finance reporting law would be sub-ject to civil as well as criminal pe-nalties, under a measure approved Saturday bythe Missouri Senate The bill, which was intended to strengthen the state's campaign fi-nance disclosure law, was approved on a vote of 23-- 0 and sent back to the House for consideration of Senate changes Senate sponsor Mike Lybyer, D- Hugg- ms, said he thought the House would accept the changes Before approving the measure, several senators withdrew amend-ments that would have abolished the Campaign Finance Review Board, which is charged with overseeing campaign reporting in the state, and given the authority to the secretary of state in an effort to pass a bill that would be acceptable to the House Normally measures mat contain major differences are worked out in a House- Sena- te conference commit-tee However, supporters feared that there would not be enough time to compromise on such an amendment before the Legislature adjourns at midnight Monday. " Like taxes. I think maybe it's See related stories... Page12A something we have to deal with next year," said Sen John Schneider, D- Flonss-ant, a key supporter of trans-ferring the power to the secretary of state The current law, and especially the Campaign Finance Review Board, has drawn considerable crit-icism because no one has been pros-ecuted under the statute even though many political candidates have failed to file campaign reports on time Under current law, people who fail to file required reports regarding contributions or campaign expendi-tures are subject to criminal pros-ecution However, an amendment of-fered by Schneider would also make those people subject to civil pe-nalties of twice the amount of money not reported, or $ 5,000, whichever is less Schneider said the civil penalties would be easier to enforce than the criminal penalties The bill also increases the amount of contributions candidates would See SENATE. Page 12A Are you sure you know what the correct time is? Don't be alarmed, but it may be lat-er than you think. Of course, that's only if you forgot to turn your clock one hour ahead this morning Daylightrsavings time cfScially be-gan at 2 a m. today. The return to stan-dard time will begin at the end of Octo-ber 4
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Item.Transcript | Foiled again iS In the past, fencing was a mat-- ElgyHBH ter of life and death. But & ranjgRrag fencers in Columbia today are nSraraPPiwfl less interested in settling feuds WB& J M fom than they are in perfecting a Ma IvRji 1 physical art form. For more on HSgjT lCT7iimra the romantic mysteries of the mffiS JrM ffidTOiBf foil, sabre and epee, see to- - gSjjffffiffl 1 5 karat Gold ifc3 Missouri's much- publiciz- ed BsJS- C3w- g quarterback duel between last . toS& iircaiflfl I year's starter Marlon Adler m1 IPjWti 8 and Warren Seitz ended in a Bra "" nHBflfr 1 draw at Saturday's Black and BffiZZZafflpfl I Gold game. Seitz had better Bow" ' wmr- rw- Bs' ' I statistics, but Adler led his jE' 1JWy 1 Gold team to a 19- 1- 2 victory. fate. 5jilMB& L FormoredetaflsseePagelB. BaffiBBraiillS 1 town. Turn to Missourian Sun-- ffiPjPMBffljm 3 day magazine for an article on BSffiwiPB I Krisco, one of Columbia's top raSgBBfflB& H 1 76th Year No. 189 Good Moin9JjtjS"" dayAprillgg1984 , S. fj? t, oris " 72 Pa9es "" 5ji, Ifs, MHMMnKanHMMaHBHMMaiBMMaHliMMMnHinMHMHRMaSM Chariot of fire Eric Ransdell of Phi Delta Theta fraternity pushed Adrian Verschueven to a winning finish in a wheelchair race held as part of the Special Olympics Saturday at the Rock Bridge Beth Llvormow High School track University fraternity and sorority mem bers served as " buddies" for the athletes and assisted with the event as part of Greek Week 1984, which began Friday. County's reports of child abuse escalate Editor's note: This is tfce first article Id a three- pa- rt series, which vfH ran in the Missourlaa over the next few days, on the growing problem of child abase in Boone County. By Matt Schwartz and Josh Rappaport Last year, reports of chUbTabuse and neglect in Boone County rose 22.4 percent That was nearly 37 times the statewide increase. But 1983 was not unusual It was just the continuation of a pattern that has established itself in Boone Ccunty in recentyears In the last five years, child abuse and neglect reports for the county have risen 138 percent, from 348 to 831. And the trend shows no signs of slowing down in 1984 Monthly report totals for January, February and March of this year were the highest those months evfcr experienced Bob Perry, " county director of court services, says he thinks the in-crease will continue. " I think we're still dealing with the tip of the ice-berg," he says. Troy Pogue, social services super-visor at the Division of Family Serv-ices, says the division receives re-ports from all over Boone County And he says that proportional to the population, the number of reports from the rural part of the county may be as high as they are in Colum-bia Case increase still called tip of iceberg Child abuse is defined by state law as " any physical injury, sexual abuse or emotional abuse inflicted on a child other than by accidental means by these responsible for his care, custody, and control, except that discipline, including spanking, administered in a reasonable man-ner, shall not be construed to be abuse" Neglect is defined as " failure to provide, by those responsible for the care, custody, and control of the child, the proper or necessary sup-port, education as required by law, or medical, surgical or any other care necessary for his well- being- ." Pogue credits growing public awareness about child abuse with the steady increase in reports Boone County's abundant media sources have helped bring attention to the problem of child abuse, Pogue says " The fact that people are bet-ter informed . . . that' 3 got to play a role." The law itself has been an educa-tor It requires professionals in child- relate- d fields, including doc-tors, nurses, teachers and counsel-ors, to report any suspicions they may hold that a child is being abused See MANY, Page 12A ByKJ. Kasowstcl Mlaaourlan atatf writer ST. LOUIS One hundred feet outside the large, bay windows of Rudy Husar's modem office at Washington University Is the anti-quated smokestack of the campus power- pla- nt For Husar, an expert on the subject of acid rain, the smokestack is a constant re-minder that the problem win not just go away. Husar's work concentrates on determining where the problem of acid rain originates Most other research to this point, such as that done at the National Fishery Laborato-ry outside Columbia, has been concerned with examining the effects of acid rain . Vet at a time when much of the Northeast is pointing an angry finger at the Midwest as the cause of the acid rai& problem, Husar's scientific work may be a critical factor in how the problem is resolved in political cir-cles. Thus far, his results indicate that he Mid-west, particularly Missouri, may be taking a bum rap for the acid rain problem in the Ad- ironda- cks and New England. Tracing the path of chemicals in the air is an incredibly complex problem, but one rule Chat Husar says emerges is that every source has the Study suggests Midwest mav not be cnlnrit greatest effect on itself. This means that relatively few sources in the Northeast can contribute at least as much, if not more, to the problem than can all of the powerplants and factories in the Midwest combined. Husar believes it would be a big mistake to put the burden of solving the problem on Midwestern states such as Missouri. For all of the economic hardship it would create, Husar says it would not Im-prove the situation in the Northeast at all. Acids are sent aloft into file atmosphere all the time, Husar says. As long as they remain in the form of gases, the distance they can travel is fairly short When storms come along, dust and other particulates pick up the acids and allow them to condense into a liquid. Prevailing winds then tend to carry the acids former than usual, and at some point, most are returned to earth as rain or snow. But Husar's work has revealed that even storm- bor- n acids originating hi Missouri do not, as a rule, travel farther than 609 miles This is far short of the lakes in the Adiron- dack- s, where the effects of acid rain have been most serious. Those effects include death of fish and other aquatic organisms. The pollution formed in Missouri is, of course, going somewhere, but the regions where it is most prevalent are not as sensi-tive to acid deposition as are the Adlron- dack- s. According to Husar, states south and west of Ohio, which burn dirty high- sulf- ur codl, account for over 50 percent of all the nation's emissions, but only 20 percent of those tra-ced in the Adirondacks. Meanwhile, for the Northeastern states, the figures are almost reversed. With only 19 percent of the total output of pollutants, they account for 52 per-cent of the problem h their area. All sorts of proposals are being bandied about as solutions to the acid rain problem, but if Husar is right about the small role mat Missouri contributes, none of mem are very favorable to the Show- M- e state In the U. S. Senate, there is a bill that would put most of the burden of paying for the cost of a cleanup on a texr Midwestern states and would leave it to each state's dis-cretion as to how the cleanup would be ac-complished States would pay their share of the cleanup based on the amount of sulfur they emit exceeding a certain level This would place about 9 percent of the overall cleanup effort on Missouri's shoulders. The implications of this bill are ominous for Missouri in another respect Besides hav-ing to pay for the cleanup, Missouri also would fikery suffer economic hardship, as utilities that now burn high- sulf- ur Missouri coal turn to Western sources of low- sulf- ur coal in order to comply with the law The UJS. House version of the acid rain bill spreads the cost of the cleanup nationwide by imposing a one- ten- th of 1 percent utility tax on all consumers. The proposal would single out the 50 largest utilities in terms of r contribution of sulfur emissions, and require them to install smokestack scrubbers Five of those plants are in Missouri There is some concern that Missouri would not receive its fair share of the proceeds of the utility tax State officials have said that it would cost $ 1 2 billion to comply with the terms of the cleanup Whatever the outcome, Husar's research seems to indicate that Missouri's representa-tives would be wise to remember the state's motto of " Show Me" before they accept more than their fair share of the blame for acid rain Reagan refuses active U. S. role PEKING ( UPI) - President Rea gan, twice rebuffed in attempts to speak directly to the Chinese people, capped three days of talks with Chinese leaders Saturday by ruling out any active U S role in resolving the Taiwan question Reagan said during a meeting with Deng Xiaoping, China's powerful leader, that the Chinese themselves must find a way to heal the 35- year-- old nft between the nationalists m Taipei and the communists in Pe-king, senior U S officials said Reagan, who hoped to be the first American president to speak direct-ly to the Chinese people, encountered government censors who deleted his tributes to capitalism, democracy and religion in an interview with state- controll- ed television taped for broadcast Saturday evening The White House earlier expressed " regret" at a decision by the Chinese to delete similar references, as well as a dose of harsh anti- Sovi- et rhetor-ic, in broadcasting Reagan's keynote speech Friday Although the White House officials tried to play down the incident as an " internal matter" for the Chinese, Chinese sources said the Peking gov-ernment was upset with Reagan for making ' inappropriate" and politi-cally insensitive remarks The session with the 79- year-- old Deng, China's most influential lead-er since Mao Tse- tun- g, climaxed a round of meetings marked by mu-tual praise for the progress in bilate-ral trade, but also with a display of Chinese sensitivity toward Reagan's capitalistic and anti- Sovie- t gospel Reagan, however, shrugged off the censorship incidents and sought to put the trip in the best possible light ' While respecting the differences between us, the Chinese leaders and I have agreed to focus on all mat unites us," Reagan said at an eve-ning reception for members of Pe-king's American community " When I leave this country on Tuesday, the US -- China partnership will be stronger than ever " Having completed his substantive meetings midway through his six- da- y visit, Reagan turned from statesmanship to tourism with a pil-grimage Saturday to the Great Wall and a trip Sunday to Xi'an, a cradle of Chinese civilization Senate passes penalties for not disclosing funds JEFFERSON CITY ( UPI) - Peo-ple who violate the state's campaign finance reporting law would be sub-ject to civil as well as criminal pe-nalties, under a measure approved Saturday bythe Missouri Senate The bill, which was intended to strengthen the state's campaign fi-nance disclosure law, was approved on a vote of 23-- 0 and sent back to the House for consideration of Senate changes Senate sponsor Mike Lybyer, D- Hugg- ms, said he thought the House would accept the changes Before approving the measure, several senators withdrew amend-ments that would have abolished the Campaign Finance Review Board, which is charged with overseeing campaign reporting in the state, and given the authority to the secretary of state in an effort to pass a bill that would be acceptable to the House Normally measures mat contain major differences are worked out in a House- Sena- te conference commit-tee However, supporters feared that there would not be enough time to compromise on such an amendment before the Legislature adjourns at midnight Monday. " Like taxes. I think maybe it's See related stories... Page12A something we have to deal with next year," said Sen John Schneider, D- Flonss-ant, a key supporter of trans-ferring the power to the secretary of state The current law, and especially the Campaign Finance Review Board, has drawn considerable crit-icism because no one has been pros-ecuted under the statute even though many political candidates have failed to file campaign reports on time Under current law, people who fail to file required reports regarding contributions or campaign expendi-tures are subject to criminal pros-ecution However, an amendment of-fered by Schneider would also make those people subject to civil pe-nalties of twice the amount of money not reported, or $ 5,000, whichever is less Schneider said the civil penalties would be easier to enforce than the criminal penalties The bill also increases the amount of contributions candidates would See SENATE. Page 12A Are you sure you know what the correct time is? Don't be alarmed, but it may be lat-er than you think. Of course, that's only if you forgot to turn your clock one hour ahead this morning Daylightrsavings time cfScially be-gan at 2 a m. today. The return to stan-dard time will begin at the end of Octo-ber 4 |