Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1984-04-29

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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
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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
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