Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1983-09-15

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76th Year No. 2 Good Morning! It's Thursday, September 15, 1983 2 Sections 14 Pages 25 Cents HB
Bond won't name type, size of tax plan
Ry Karen Ball
State capital bureau
JEFFERSON CITY Despite criticism
from legislative budget leaders aw offering no
concrete taz increase proposals, Gov. Christo-pher
Bond Wednesday remained uncommitted
to the type or sire of increase he will support
During a press conference, Bond would say
only that tbe proposal be will unveil when the
Legislature meets in special session beginning
Oct 19 win generate less than the $ 152 minion
he estimates the state can collect and still re-main
under the state's revenue and taxation
lid, commonly known as the Hancock Amend-- me- nt
Bond turned the blame for his inability to
come up with specific taz proposals on legis-lators.
' Tve received inconsistent and totally con-tradictory
reports on what types of taxes
would be accepted," Bond said.
A consensus among legislative budget lead-ers
will have to be reached before he makes a
proposal, be said.
Of his three options -- for generating revenue'
raising corporate, sales or income taxes
Bond . said raising income taxes was the least
likely because of its widespread unpopularity
with taxpayers.
However, a Senate taxation committee can-vassing
the state for reaction to corporate or
sales tax increases has received equal opposi-tion
from the state's business community.
Bond announced Tuesday that be would sup-port
a tax increase. That move reversed his
long- standi- ng opposition to raising taxes.
Many legislators criticized him for attempting
to push through a tax package during a special
session, leaving little time for planning or de-bate.
" I know selling this will be hard to sell to the
public," Bond said. " We must assure taxpay-ers
that any increase in revenues will not be
merely thrown into the general operation of
state government but will be targeted toward
programs most critical
Bond warned that unless taxes are raised,
the state wfll face a $ 32 million deficit by the
end of fiscal 1985. The effect this year, he said,
would be a drop in the state's cash reserve to
$ 5 million from $ 50 million. Economists have
predicted that at least $ 100 million is needed to
keep the state's roughly $ 2 billion budget in
line.
" What was at best a bare minimum operat-ing
reserve win be nearly wiped out," Bond
said. " To maintain even that small reserve
and keep the budget in balance, I am urging
department directors to keep spending down
and continue to eliminate waste.!'
Bond said the state's budget problems stem
from a recent US. District Court order that re
quires the state to pay for the desegregation of
St. Louis schools. Educators have estimated
the plan will cost the state as much as $ 100 mil-lion
this year and about $ 500 million over the
next five years.
Bond called the court order " budget- breaking- "
and said the state will continue its efforts
to challenge the ruling.
Earlier this week, a U. S. District Court of
Appeals denied Attorney General John Ash- crof- t's
request for a delayed implementation
of the order.
Before Wednesday's press conference. Bond
met with department directors and asked
them to " hold the line on spending one more
time."
Anticipating budget cuts for the third con-secutive
year if a tax increase is not approved.
Bond asked budget leaders to curtail spending
by leaving vacant positions open and not pur-chasing
equipment or supplies.
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94- year-- old
fatally stabs
68- year-- old
By J. Hairy Jones
MIssourian staff writer
A resident of a local nursing home
was stabbed fatally Wednesday
morning by a 94- year-- old man.
The male victim, whose name is
being withheld until relatives are no-tified,
was 68.
Both the victim and the assailant
were residents of the Mesa Balls
Adult Care Center, 300 Portland St
The name of the suspect has not
been released pending the filing of
CTfUMnnl tarpR, if any, poh'rv said.
According . to a police statement '
officers were dispatched to the nurs-ing
home about 9 ajn. Wednesday to
investigate an assault One patient
had stabbed the other with a knife,
police said.
The victim was taken io Boone
Tfygpifal ffrnter for treatment
Shortly before noon the police
were notified that the victim- ha- d
died.
David Gatewood, administrator of
Mesa Bins since March, refused to
comment onthe case.
He did say, however, that the vic-tim
did not have close family ties
i and that an all- da- y attempt to con--
tacttbemhedbeenfutfle.
" Obviously there was some sort of
argument" Gatewood said of the in-cident
but he wooki not elaborate.
Mesa HQls is a 120- be- d facility
near Columbia Regional EcspitaL It
opened in 1380 and is owned by An- ge- fl
Group lac., a firm based in
Winston- Sale- m, N. C.
m its t& ree years, Mesa Hflls has
hadatrcanfedhistory. ,
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released a 22iage report re-vealing
at least two dozen deficien-cies,
including inadequate"
supervision ofpatients.
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Landowners win Oakland Gravel appeal 1
By Troy Comfort
fiUssourian staff writer
The Missouri Court of Appeals Tuesday
ruled that landowners along Oakland Gravel
Bead whl not have to pay the city approxi-mately
$ 177JJ00for 1975 road improvements.
The decision, handed down in Kansas City,
came after an eight- yea- r debate between prop-erty
owners andthe city of Columbia.
" I dont like it," City Counselor Dave Evans
said. " We ( the city) did everything properly in
billing them for the improvements. Well just
haveto see what happens when it's appealed."
The ruling is automatically appealed. Mis-souri's
Supreme Court new must decide wheth-er
to hear the case or dismiss it If the. court
hears the case, its decision probably would
come within one year, Evans said.
If the motion to hear the case is denied, how-ever,
the Court of Appeals ruling wfll become
final 30daysfrom the denial date.
The road at issue is Oakland Gravel Road in
northeast Columbia. Formerly a 24- - to 28- fo- ot
blacktop road, it was widened to a 38- fo- ot " col- lecte- r"
street with a curb constructed on its
east side inl975.
The'cny claimed that residents along the
road benefited substantially from these im-provements.
Area property owners disagreed,
saying the public benefited more than they.
Consequently, they filed suit against the dry to
avoid payingthe assessment costs.
Unaer a procedure set down in 1952, the city
hOledabutting landowners for improvements.
The bflhng rate ranged from $ 10.93 to $ 18.23
per frontage foot The city paid 54 percent of
the $ 394,144 project and planned to bin prop-erty
owners fortherernainmg$ 177I371.
A temporary restraining order, issued when
41 property owners filed suit against the city in
1975, kept the city from assessing the plain-tiffs.
Almost three years after their case went to
trial, Boone County Circuit Judge Frank Con- le- y
ruled that who benefits from the road im-provements
and not necessarily who lives
along them should determine who bears the
cost
The judge cited increased traffic volume and
speeds, more noise and pouution and greater
( Acuity gaining access to the road as reasons
why the area's property owners were not bene-fiting
from die improvements.
The dry, maintaining that the landowners
benefited from the increased values the road
would bring to their land, appealed the ruling Bm
to the Missouri Court of Appeals in March 1978. BS
Five years later, the appeals court decision flg
has relieved landowners along Oakland Gravel Bfl
Road. Wm
" I'm absolutely delighted about the decision. Hb
The fight was weU worth it," said Harvey Mc-- SB
Caleb, who would have owed $ 25,000 if the fij
court had ruled in the dry's favor. 98
" We ( the land owners) paid $ 33,000 in legal KB
fees, but we feel vindicated. It was worth ev- - HH
ery dime," McCaleb said. MB
Another local landowner said Wednesday's H
decision was clearly correct g
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improvements much more than we did," said 89 Carl Burpo. " This decision is just great after SB
all these years." BH
New out- of- sta- te audit bureaus
may reap millions for Missouri
By Katharine George
State capital bureau
JEFFERSON CITY Missouri
may increase its tax revenue by up
to $ 10 million this fiscal year be-cause
of the recent opening of state
audit bureaus in New York, Los An-geles
and Chicago, according to De-partment
tf Revenoe Director Rich-ardKing.
. The additional revenue expected
from the bureau's efforts win result
from year- roun- d enforcement of the
state income tax on corporations
basedoutsideMissouri.
The state needs that revenue to
help pay its tails on time, said Rep.
Marvin Proffer, D- Jackso- n, chair-man
of the Bouse Budget Commit-tee.
" At this time the big thing we need
is to increase the general operating
fund so we don't have to wait to pay '
bflls," Proffersaid.
. He added that it is important to let
corporations know Missouri is get- fjn- g
serious about tax collection.
" There's so much money out
there. We just havent begun to cot
lecttt"
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auditors on specific missions to indi-vidual
corporations in those cities,
where they remained an average of
three to four weeks. But those mis-sions
were kept to a minimum be-cause
of the high cost of temporary
living expenses, such as hotels and
rental cars, and because auditors
disliked leavrng their families.
" Our auditors resisted it and we
didn't do it as much as we should
have," said King.
Two ton- tim- e auditors at each bu-reau
audit corporations that owe
taxes to Missouri but are based out-side
the state. King predicted that
eventually collections resulting from
those audits may account for more
than half of the state's total audit
collections this year.
. State auditors in Chicago already
have collected $ 78,000 since the bu-reau
opened Aug. 1. Audit bureaus
began this month in New York and
Los Angeles.
While the bureaus represent a
" vast improvement' in state collec-tion
efforts, the department stfll
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must send auditors on temporary
missions to other areas, said King.
The bureaus were funded in appro-priations
approved by the General
Assembly listyear.
The, state currently employs 165
auditors, trace as many as in fiscal
year 1982. AU auditors may be sent
out of Missouri on occasion, ex
plained King.
Their efforts already have sent
state revenue totals soaring. Since
the fiscal year began in July, collec-tions
from out- of- sta- te corporations
have totalled $ 10 million, more than
five times the amount collected a
year ago. The state collected only
$ 13 inflnon during all of fiscal year
1982, tiie department reported.
Those soaring revenues are evi-dence
of a variety of efforts to shape .
up the department begun by. King in
1961. Since that time, starting sala-ries
for auditors have risen from
$ 1200 to $ 14,000 a year. Also, the de-partment
now requires auditors to
have at least a bachelor's degree in
accounting. '
King nopes to ggqhih more out- of- st- ate
bureaus to bring the depart-ment
" into the 1980s."
Toasfmaster H
to be bought H
by Magic Chef H
By Jennifer Bundy u3B
Missourian staff writer bBhI
The Toastmaster Holding Co., HH
based in Columbia, announced BH
Wednesday that it will be purchased HJBj
by Magic Chef Inc. of Cleveland, BH
Tenn. Neither company would dis-- MB
dose the amount of the sale. BH
Before the transaction can take BJH
place, Toastmaster's stockholders HH
must approve it and the company BBa
must file documents in compliance HH
with a federal antitrust law. HB
Toastmaster employs 1,800 people HH
in five manufacturing plants in Mis- - HjHj
souri and one in North Carolina. Bf
Magic Chef employs 7,406, according Hj
to its last annual report. BH
Although a spokesman for Toast-- HHJ
master declined to specify how fin manv people are employed at its Co-- BJH
lumbia plant 1801 N. Stadium Blvd., ffiHj
figures released last May showed MB
about 180 working here. HH
Al Rob3ugh, vice president of fi-- BBJ
nance for Magic Chef, said his HB
Toastmaster will continue to operate HB
as it does now. But, he said, " We WjHj
don't buv companies to make them HH
standstill.' BH
Robaugh said Toastmaster and H
Magic Chef share customers, and it 9pJ
is hoped that Magic Chef will be able a&
to help Toastmaster grow. He esti- - Hjj
mates that Magic Chefs sales for Bag
fiscal 1984, including this acquisi- - BHj
tion. wfll approach $ 1 billion. H
S. B. Rymer Jr., chairman of Mag- - BBS
ic Chef, said. " This acquisition will HH
establish Magic Chef as a major fac-- Hjj
tor in small kitchen and portable HB
electric appliances. This consumer BSB
product line enhances Magic Chefs HBj
existing major kitchen- applianc- e HB
business and continues Magic Chefs BH
growth." HBJ
Toastmaster manufactures small Hj
kitchen appliances, fans, heaters, HH
humidifiers, clocks and timers, HH
while Magic Chef makes and distri- - HB
botes major home appliances, heat-- JHj
ing and air- condition- ing equipment " HH
and soft- drin- k vending machines. mSn
Magic Chef reported sales of $ 754 flH,
million and a net income of $ 25 mil-- HH
lion for the year ending July 2. In HJ
comparison, Toastmaster had sales jpfl
in excess of $ 100 million and a net in-- BH
come of $ 4 million. HH
Toastmaster was owned by MB
McGraw Edison until 1980, when BH
McGraw divested itself of several di- - jSjj
visions. Seven McGraw executives HH
employed by Toastmaster bought KB
the company. SH
Reaching out I
Black professionals help families H
LOS ANGELES ( UPI) A
group of black professionals
Wednesday announced a model
program to provide financial sup-port
and free services to poor
black families for a year in an at-tempt
to " break the cycle of pov-erty."
The Adopt- A- Fami- ly Endow-ment
is the brainchild of Dr.
James Mays, a cardiologist who
said he believes the program is
the first of its kind in the nation.
He said he hopes it wfll motivate
other black professionals to be-come
involved in similar pro-grams.
" This is not a welfare pro-gram,''
Mays said at a news con-ference.
" This program is spetif- ieaB- y
targeted at youngsters in
hopes that it win get them started
in the right direction so that they
may become the future Jesse
Jacksons and Ralph Bunches,
and not find themselves pointing
a gun at somebody in front of a
restaurant"
The news conference was held
in the front yard of the first recip-ient
family James and . Esse
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McNeese, their 10" children and BB
two grandchildren, aged 3 to 19. BM
Under terms of the program, BH
Mays and other black profession- - 9h
als, including a physician, a den- - Be
tist a pharmacist tutors and the Hj
owner of a meat market wfll be HJ
role models for the children and BB
provide the famfly with free serv-- 88
ices and $ 200 a month for a year. Bjj
The famfly, which rents a H
three- bedroo- m home in South Los HJ Angeles for $ 650 a month, has HJ
been entirely supported by feder-- ' fi al, state and county welfare fi funds. Mays said an attorney for fi his program wfll make sure the fi endowment win not jeopardize fi those funds. BB
McNeese is particularly con-- fi cerned about the education pf his Bj
two eldest daughters, Willie Jean, , SE
19, and Tammie, IS. Both are . BJ
unwed mothers who dropped out H
of high school but returned this Hj
year to graduate with honors. BJ
" This progsm wfll allow them Bjj
to go to conege, something I could H not have provided," McNeese Bj
said. Hi