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1012 LQa) RY VXC 75th Year No. 256 Good Morning! It's Tuesday, July 12, 1983 2 Sections 12 Pages 25 Cents Justice to aid House inquiry WASHINGTON ( UPI) - Presi-dent Reagan tokl the Justice Depart-ment Monday to permit congressio-nal investigators qualified access to any additional Carter White House papas found to have been obtained by ills 1980 campaign staff The directive, issued after Reagan consulted with a pair of his top ad-visers, fell short of meeting a re-quest by Rep. Donald Albosta, D- Mlc- h., that his subcommittee be given copies of any further material turned over to the Justice Depart-ment by Reagan aides. " The president feels confident that Justice will work out these proce-dures," presidential spokesman Lar-ry Speakes told reporters " It is the president's desire to allow the inves-tigation by see Justice Department, by the congressional committee, to proceed unimpeded." Albosta's subcommittee is investi-gating how Reagan aides obtained debate briefing papers and other in-ternal documents from the Carter White House during the 1980 cam-paign. In a June 29 letter, Albosta asked Reagan for copies of any additional papers located in the files of cam-paign aides cr the campaign ar-chives at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. The current White House order is that all such material be sent direct-ly to the Justice Department. White House legal counsel Fred Fielding assured Albosta in a letter approved by Reagan that the Justice Department would work out ar-rangements to give the subcommit-tee access to any Carter papers lo-cated in Reagan campaign files. However, the White House pledge carried the qualifier that such ar- rasgerc- ants still must assure " the integrity of the Justice Department invesdgatian " The White House sought to strike a conciliatory chord in the Fielding lefts?. But Speakes made it clear that the Albosta committee would not be al-lowed to bypass the Justice Depart-ment in seeking the Hoover Institu tion files. " The point is it's going to Justice and the Department of Justice will make it available,' ' he said " I think Justice will work out an accommodation," Speakes told re-porters. He said the president " was direct-ing Justice to promptly work out procedures" to allow the subcom-mittee access to the materials it seeks Justice Department spokesman Thomas DeCair said " I'm sure that well be able to work something out with Rep Albosta." Albosta said in a statement, " I ap-preciate the fact that the president has responded m the affirmative to my request for materials that have been turned over to the Justice De-partment I look forward to working out an arrangement for inspection and copying of those files for the sub-committee on human resources in the very near future " In regard to our access to the Hoover Institution Reagan collec-tion, we still do not have an affirma-tive answer, but we hope that re-quest will be granted m writing tomorrow " Albosta said in a telephone inter-view earlier Monday that he has asked the Hoover Institution to se-cure Reagan 1980 campaign files stored there and to permit his con-gressional subcommittee staff to pe-ruse them for material from the Car-ter White House. He said he made the request in a telegram to Molly Tuthill, curator of the Hoover Institution Library at Stanford University " I want to be sure that the original copies do not leave the files," he said. Some former Carter aides have privately expressed fears that Rea-gan's aides might tamper with the files at the Hoover Institution in an effort to hush the matter. - - Ms, Tuthill has been reviewing the 550 linear feet of files, and has sent attorney Fielding copies of some documents appearing to have come from the Carter White House. Alabama colleges biased against blacks, U. S. says NawYoricTimaa WASHINGTON The Reagan ad-ministration filed its first school de-segregation suit Monday, and in it asked a federal judge to dismantle what it said was a " dral system" of Eublic colleges for blacks and whites 1 Alabama. The lawsuit charged that Gov. George C Wallace, the Alabama state Board of Education and other state officials " by their policies and practices, have maintained and per-petuated the dual system of public higher education based on race " Moreover, it said, the " defendants have failed to take affirmative steps to remove the vestiges of the dual educational system resulting from their policy of racial segregation in education." The lawsuit comes after two years in which civil rights advocates have repeatedly criticized President Rea-gan's record on civil rights. In re-cent months, White House officials have expressed growing -- concern about the political damage that could result from such criticism, de- spi- le the president's efforts to rebut it. In his weekly radio address Satur-day, Reagan said he would send Con-gress proposals to put " real teeth" into the enforcement of fair housing laws. Justice Department officials de-nied that political considerations had figured in their decision to file suit against Alabama William Bradford Reynolds, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, said Monday's suit, filed in Federal District Court in Birming-ham, followed more than a year of negotiations with the state. The fed-eral Department of Education, " having determined that compli-ance could not be secured by volun-tary means," referred the case to the Justice Department in January 1582 Billy Joe Camp, press secretary to Wallace, quoted the governor as say-ing that Monday's lawsuit " did not come as a surprise" because the fed-eral government had been putting pressure on other states to desegre-gate public systems of higher educa-tion. Wallace defied a federal court order to admit blacks to the Univer-sity of Alabama in 1963, but stepped aside when confronted with National Guard troops, and in recent years he has said that he accepted desegrega-tion as the law of the land. Monday's lawsuit was the third ever Sled by the Justice Department to desegregate a state system of higher education. University Hospital Risk Manager Gary Kraus studies a patient's case history. s,,", lM' By EraIn Shratier Wlssourlan staff writer It's his own job description pro-tecting an insurance trust fund banked in Kansas City while being as humane as possible. Gary Kraus is University Hospital's risk . man-ager. The primary responsibility of the 47- year-- old lawyer, who also holds a master's degree in hospital adminis-tration, is to minimize errors and miilnRiihn at Hip 45fVhpd tAnrhinff hospital If he fails, he's faced with the task of limiting the legal and fi-nancial damage done to the institu-tion and the University's self- insuran- ce program, which usually means settling patients' claims before they get to court Operating from a first- floo- r office dominated by a computer, Kraus monitors mishaps and complaints relating to patient care. Failing to give proper medication to patients, falling out of bed incidents big and small are recorded and fed into the computer. The product, a report citing any untoward trends in hospi-tal practice, is sent to department heads every month. It's a question of whether you're making it easy for humans to make a mistake, Kraus says. " For exam-ple, in the case of medication mix- up- s, there may be kinks in the sys-tem," he says. " Where information is entered longhand, maybe we should require that it be typed " Kraus says the computerized in-formation system is one of the most advanced in the country and can be credited for keeping mishaps mini-mal . Tiist as lmnnrtant he savs is to in- - Still in doctors and nurses a " pre-ventative legal mentality " Kraus, who teaches a course in hospital law at the University, lectures all incom-ing nurses and resident physicians on the hospital's insurance program, national trends in malpractice suits, documenting treatment and report-ing problems, and, generally, how to protect against possible legal hassles. " It's unfortunate that you've got to do it " But, he says, it's necessary for one disruptive and costly reason A second malpractice crisis now grips the medical profession The first was in the early 1970s when the rising cost of health care, coupled with growing consumer awareness, forced patients to de-mand their money's worth, says Kraus In such a climate, medical treatment deemed unsatisfactory by patients led more readily to legal ac-tion Twenty years of television also contributed, Kraus says. " It is what we in the profession call the ' Marcus Welby' syndrome In all those pro-grams you have patients carried into a hospital on a stretcher," he says " 4nH aftsrfrpahripnt thov aro litor. ally dancing out the door " The American public, as a result, came to expect more from the medical community. And if treatment didn't cure, there was often resentment on the part of the patient At the same tune, medical care became much more complicated, es-pecially for some of the increasing number of foreign doctors practicing in the United States, he says " A lot of scientific data was flooding the educational arena, and many have been unable to absorb it all " To top it off, lawyers got in on the act. Law schools were turning out more and more graduates to make a living " As other markets dried up, they began to see malpractice suits as a business opportunity," Kraus says, with apologies to his legal brethren. The upshot of events was higher insurance premiums, which put the squeeze on hospitals and individual physicians, not to mention the pa-tients who end up footing the bill State legislatures, pressured by health care interest groups, rreated methods to screen potential mal-practice suits, Kraus says The strpam nf suits dwindled But now the legislative dam is crumbling, says Kraus, who serves as president of the Missouri Associa-tion of Hospital Risk Managers Many of the screening mechanisms have been ruled unconstitutional Malpractice suits are on the rise again, amounting to a second mal practice crisis in the medical com-munity, he says One response to costly court action and insurance premiums, says Kraus, has been self- insuran- ce In 1978, the University took that route " I wasn't here prior to that tune," says Kraus, who came to Columbia See RISK, Page 84 Patrol has new way to catch drunk drivers JEFFERSON CITY ( UPI) The crackdown on drunken driving is getting tougher in Missouri, and the Highway Patrol believes it has found a new way to catch more motorists who are intoxicated. State troopers are setting up road-blocks late at night, and the random check of motorists is producing re-sults The officers are catching drunken drivers and getting them off the highways before they cause traf-fic accidents Lt. Ralph Biele, a Highway Patrol spokesman, said Monday the use of roadblocks is a pilot program that is being evaluated for statewide use in the campaign against drunken driv ing Officers of Troop F in Jefferson City conducted a pilot program to test roadblocks in mid- Misso- un in late June and found it successful Lt John Ford of Troop F said road-blocks were set up in Miller, Cam-den, Cole and Boone counties June 15- June- 25. The checks for drunken drivers in Miller and Camden counties resulted in arrests of seven drivers Two in-toxicated drivers were caught in Cole County and two in Boone Coun-ty at a roadblock north of Columbia. " It looks like we're going to try it statewide, but we'll probably have one or two more pilot programs somewhere else in the state between now and the end of the summer," said Biele " We'll evaluate it to see what kind of results we're getting " Ford and Biele both said that mo-torists concerned about traffic safe-ty were not annoyed at being stopped, especially after learning the purpose of the roadblocks was to check for drunken drivers " We've gotten a lot of good re-sponse from the public," Ford said " Motorists didnt have any com-plaints because they were glad we were after the drinking drivers," Biele said. The roadblocks were operated from 10.30 pm. to 2.30 am in areas noted for having a high rate of acci-dents involving intoxicated drivers In the Jefferson City area, road-blocks were set up on a highway out-side a public park, where local league Softball games are heavily at-tended by spectators who bring alco-holic beverages The roadblocks are marked by flares and parked patrol cars with flashing lights A motorist is waved through if a trooper detects no sign of drinking " If there is any smell of alcohol, or a bottle or can is spotted, or if the motorist has difficulty talking, we ask him to get out of the car for fur-ther investigation," Biele said By Mlndy Matthews Hfltasourtan statt writer Last month, Columbia's Voluntary Action Center referred 278 hungry people to local service agencies for emergency food. In the best of times, hunger is an all but invisible problem, one that most of us preter not to dwell upon. But increasing unemployment has made it a problem that cannot be ig-nored. Nationwide, it is estimated that 31A million people are living on in-comes below the poverty level $ 5,- SC- O a year for a family of two. For these people, and others in financial straits, moat of the dollars that do corns in must be carefully reserved for the bare necessities of life. As a result, millions in the United States ore suffering because they can't af-- UMMJJMlljajLJUUIU. JIMMliJUJiiiii. iil( W, HtWM,, HUMGER: Close to Home DKDG3? ford to fulfill their Dasic nutritional needs. In contrast to such statistics are sobering figures on how much food the " land of plenty" wastes each year. According to a 1882 study by UJS ' Rep. Tony HalL D- Ghi- o, Americans feed their garbage cans approxi-mately 137 million tons of food a year, enough to feed almost 50 mil-lion people This waste, coupled with figures on malnutrition in America, has drawn the attention of federal lawmakers and private organiza-tions alike This spring an agriculture sub-committee chaired by Sen. Bob Dole, R- Ka- n., heard testimony on the magnitude of hunger in the Unit-ed States and on the efforts of some of the organizations designed to help alleviate it. Missouri's Sen. Jack Danforth, who has supported most of the Rea-gan administration's cuts in social programs, was among those who tes-tified at the hearing In March, he toured nutrition sites, food pantries, soup kitchens and other such agencies in Kansas City, St Louis, Springfield and St Joseph to get a first- han- d look at the problem m Missouri " Nutritional programs are stretched to the absolute limit," he said, " and economic recovery wont solve the problems Federal efforts in the area of nutrition must be ex-panded to meet these needs and shortages " The Dole subcommittee referred to a recently published survey of American food programs, compiled jointly by the Center on Budget Poli-cy Priorities of Washington, DC, and Second Harvest, a national food bank network. The report surveyed 181 emergen-cy programs, including many in Mis-souri, from February 1982 through February 1983. Tbe survey found that the number of people helped by emergency food agencies increased by 50 percent, and nearly one- fourt- h of the agencies were forced to turn people away. Recipients of emergency food in-cluded a significantly larger number of unemployed workers with chil-- dren, the report said. In his spring testimony, Danforth emphasized the magnitude of the hunger problem. " Recovery, no matter how quickly it arrives or how robust its nature, is not a full answer to the hunger problem. We will put some people back to work, but not everybody. " It is an ongoing problem, and the report's findings make it beyond ar-gument that more needs to be done," Danforth said. The Dole committee also discuss-ed the continued distribution of gover-nment- owned surplus food stored throughout the country. Congressio-nal legislation earmarking this food for public distribution expires Sept 30, the end of this fiscal year A bill authorizing continued distn-- Sea MAYOR, Page 0A Cards lose The St. Louis Cardinals lost a heartbreaker to the Los An-- 1 geles Dodgers Monday night ( Story on Page IB) 1 Qcasnsti Business . . . 4B Classlflsd . .. .2- 3- B Comics- - .. . 6A Opinion . . .. 4A Psopla . . 5A Sports . .. .. . .1- 2- 3
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Item.Transcript | 1012 LQa) RY VXC 75th Year No. 256 Good Morning! It's Tuesday, July 12, 1983 2 Sections 12 Pages 25 Cents Justice to aid House inquiry WASHINGTON ( UPI) - Presi-dent Reagan tokl the Justice Depart-ment Monday to permit congressio-nal investigators qualified access to any additional Carter White House papas found to have been obtained by ills 1980 campaign staff The directive, issued after Reagan consulted with a pair of his top ad-visers, fell short of meeting a re-quest by Rep. Donald Albosta, D- Mlc- h., that his subcommittee be given copies of any further material turned over to the Justice Depart-ment by Reagan aides. " The president feels confident that Justice will work out these proce-dures," presidential spokesman Lar-ry Speakes told reporters " It is the president's desire to allow the inves-tigation by see Justice Department, by the congressional committee, to proceed unimpeded." Albosta's subcommittee is investi-gating how Reagan aides obtained debate briefing papers and other in-ternal documents from the Carter White House during the 1980 cam-paign. In a June 29 letter, Albosta asked Reagan for copies of any additional papers located in the files of cam-paign aides cr the campaign ar-chives at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. The current White House order is that all such material be sent direct-ly to the Justice Department. White House legal counsel Fred Fielding assured Albosta in a letter approved by Reagan that the Justice Department would work out ar-rangements to give the subcommit-tee access to any Carter papers lo-cated in Reagan campaign files. However, the White House pledge carried the qualifier that such ar- rasgerc- ants still must assure " the integrity of the Justice Department invesdgatian " The White House sought to strike a conciliatory chord in the Fielding lefts?. But Speakes made it clear that the Albosta committee would not be al-lowed to bypass the Justice Depart-ment in seeking the Hoover Institu tion files. " The point is it's going to Justice and the Department of Justice will make it available,' ' he said " I think Justice will work out an accommodation," Speakes told re-porters. He said the president " was direct-ing Justice to promptly work out procedures" to allow the subcom-mittee access to the materials it seeks Justice Department spokesman Thomas DeCair said " I'm sure that well be able to work something out with Rep Albosta." Albosta said in a statement, " I ap-preciate the fact that the president has responded m the affirmative to my request for materials that have been turned over to the Justice De-partment I look forward to working out an arrangement for inspection and copying of those files for the sub-committee on human resources in the very near future " In regard to our access to the Hoover Institution Reagan collec-tion, we still do not have an affirma-tive answer, but we hope that re-quest will be granted m writing tomorrow " Albosta said in a telephone inter-view earlier Monday that he has asked the Hoover Institution to se-cure Reagan 1980 campaign files stored there and to permit his con-gressional subcommittee staff to pe-ruse them for material from the Car-ter White House. He said he made the request in a telegram to Molly Tuthill, curator of the Hoover Institution Library at Stanford University " I want to be sure that the original copies do not leave the files," he said. Some former Carter aides have privately expressed fears that Rea-gan's aides might tamper with the files at the Hoover Institution in an effort to hush the matter. - - Ms, Tuthill has been reviewing the 550 linear feet of files, and has sent attorney Fielding copies of some documents appearing to have come from the Carter White House. Alabama colleges biased against blacks, U. S. says NawYoricTimaa WASHINGTON The Reagan ad-ministration filed its first school de-segregation suit Monday, and in it asked a federal judge to dismantle what it said was a " dral system" of Eublic colleges for blacks and whites 1 Alabama. The lawsuit charged that Gov. George C Wallace, the Alabama state Board of Education and other state officials " by their policies and practices, have maintained and per-petuated the dual system of public higher education based on race " Moreover, it said, the " defendants have failed to take affirmative steps to remove the vestiges of the dual educational system resulting from their policy of racial segregation in education." The lawsuit comes after two years in which civil rights advocates have repeatedly criticized President Rea-gan's record on civil rights. In re-cent months, White House officials have expressed growing -- concern about the political damage that could result from such criticism, de- spi- le the president's efforts to rebut it. In his weekly radio address Satur-day, Reagan said he would send Con-gress proposals to put " real teeth" into the enforcement of fair housing laws. Justice Department officials de-nied that political considerations had figured in their decision to file suit against Alabama William Bradford Reynolds, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, said Monday's suit, filed in Federal District Court in Birming-ham, followed more than a year of negotiations with the state. The fed-eral Department of Education, " having determined that compli-ance could not be secured by volun-tary means," referred the case to the Justice Department in January 1582 Billy Joe Camp, press secretary to Wallace, quoted the governor as say-ing that Monday's lawsuit " did not come as a surprise" because the fed-eral government had been putting pressure on other states to desegre-gate public systems of higher educa-tion. Wallace defied a federal court order to admit blacks to the Univer-sity of Alabama in 1963, but stepped aside when confronted with National Guard troops, and in recent years he has said that he accepted desegrega-tion as the law of the land. Monday's lawsuit was the third ever Sled by the Justice Department to desegregate a state system of higher education. University Hospital Risk Manager Gary Kraus studies a patient's case history. s,,", lM' By EraIn Shratier Wlssourlan staff writer It's his own job description pro-tecting an insurance trust fund banked in Kansas City while being as humane as possible. Gary Kraus is University Hospital's risk . man-ager. The primary responsibility of the 47- year-- old lawyer, who also holds a master's degree in hospital adminis-tration, is to minimize errors and miilnRiihn at Hip 45fVhpd tAnrhinff hospital If he fails, he's faced with the task of limiting the legal and fi-nancial damage done to the institu-tion and the University's self- insuran- ce program, which usually means settling patients' claims before they get to court Operating from a first- floo- r office dominated by a computer, Kraus monitors mishaps and complaints relating to patient care. Failing to give proper medication to patients, falling out of bed incidents big and small are recorded and fed into the computer. The product, a report citing any untoward trends in hospi-tal practice, is sent to department heads every month. It's a question of whether you're making it easy for humans to make a mistake, Kraus says. " For exam-ple, in the case of medication mix- up- s, there may be kinks in the sys-tem," he says. " Where information is entered longhand, maybe we should require that it be typed " Kraus says the computerized in-formation system is one of the most advanced in the country and can be credited for keeping mishaps mini-mal . Tiist as lmnnrtant he savs is to in- - Still in doctors and nurses a " pre-ventative legal mentality " Kraus, who teaches a course in hospital law at the University, lectures all incom-ing nurses and resident physicians on the hospital's insurance program, national trends in malpractice suits, documenting treatment and report-ing problems, and, generally, how to protect against possible legal hassles. " It's unfortunate that you've got to do it " But, he says, it's necessary for one disruptive and costly reason A second malpractice crisis now grips the medical profession The first was in the early 1970s when the rising cost of health care, coupled with growing consumer awareness, forced patients to de-mand their money's worth, says Kraus In such a climate, medical treatment deemed unsatisfactory by patients led more readily to legal ac-tion Twenty years of television also contributed, Kraus says. " It is what we in the profession call the ' Marcus Welby' syndrome In all those pro-grams you have patients carried into a hospital on a stretcher," he says " 4nH aftsrfrpahripnt thov aro litor. ally dancing out the door " The American public, as a result, came to expect more from the medical community. And if treatment didn't cure, there was often resentment on the part of the patient At the same tune, medical care became much more complicated, es-pecially for some of the increasing number of foreign doctors practicing in the United States, he says " A lot of scientific data was flooding the educational arena, and many have been unable to absorb it all " To top it off, lawyers got in on the act. Law schools were turning out more and more graduates to make a living " As other markets dried up, they began to see malpractice suits as a business opportunity," Kraus says, with apologies to his legal brethren. The upshot of events was higher insurance premiums, which put the squeeze on hospitals and individual physicians, not to mention the pa-tients who end up footing the bill State legislatures, pressured by health care interest groups, rreated methods to screen potential mal-practice suits, Kraus says The strpam nf suits dwindled But now the legislative dam is crumbling, says Kraus, who serves as president of the Missouri Associa-tion of Hospital Risk Managers Many of the screening mechanisms have been ruled unconstitutional Malpractice suits are on the rise again, amounting to a second mal practice crisis in the medical com-munity, he says One response to costly court action and insurance premiums, says Kraus, has been self- insuran- ce In 1978, the University took that route " I wasn't here prior to that tune," says Kraus, who came to Columbia See RISK, Page 84 Patrol has new way to catch drunk drivers JEFFERSON CITY ( UPI) The crackdown on drunken driving is getting tougher in Missouri, and the Highway Patrol believes it has found a new way to catch more motorists who are intoxicated. State troopers are setting up road-blocks late at night, and the random check of motorists is producing re-sults The officers are catching drunken drivers and getting them off the highways before they cause traf-fic accidents Lt. Ralph Biele, a Highway Patrol spokesman, said Monday the use of roadblocks is a pilot program that is being evaluated for statewide use in the campaign against drunken driv ing Officers of Troop F in Jefferson City conducted a pilot program to test roadblocks in mid- Misso- un in late June and found it successful Lt John Ford of Troop F said road-blocks were set up in Miller, Cam-den, Cole and Boone counties June 15- June- 25. The checks for drunken drivers in Miller and Camden counties resulted in arrests of seven drivers Two in-toxicated drivers were caught in Cole County and two in Boone Coun-ty at a roadblock north of Columbia. " It looks like we're going to try it statewide, but we'll probably have one or two more pilot programs somewhere else in the state between now and the end of the summer," said Biele " We'll evaluate it to see what kind of results we're getting " Ford and Biele both said that mo-torists concerned about traffic safe-ty were not annoyed at being stopped, especially after learning the purpose of the roadblocks was to check for drunken drivers " We've gotten a lot of good re-sponse from the public," Ford said " Motorists didnt have any com-plaints because they were glad we were after the drinking drivers," Biele said. The roadblocks were operated from 10.30 pm. to 2.30 am in areas noted for having a high rate of acci-dents involving intoxicated drivers In the Jefferson City area, road-blocks were set up on a highway out-side a public park, where local league Softball games are heavily at-tended by spectators who bring alco-holic beverages The roadblocks are marked by flares and parked patrol cars with flashing lights A motorist is waved through if a trooper detects no sign of drinking " If there is any smell of alcohol, or a bottle or can is spotted, or if the motorist has difficulty talking, we ask him to get out of the car for fur-ther investigation," Biele said By Mlndy Matthews Hfltasourtan statt writer Last month, Columbia's Voluntary Action Center referred 278 hungry people to local service agencies for emergency food. In the best of times, hunger is an all but invisible problem, one that most of us preter not to dwell upon. But increasing unemployment has made it a problem that cannot be ig-nored. Nationwide, it is estimated that 31A million people are living on in-comes below the poverty level $ 5,- SC- O a year for a family of two. For these people, and others in financial straits, moat of the dollars that do corns in must be carefully reserved for the bare necessities of life. As a result, millions in the United States ore suffering because they can't af-- UMMJJMlljajLJUUIU. JIMMliJUJiiiii. iil( W, HtWM,, HUMGER: Close to Home DKDG3? ford to fulfill their Dasic nutritional needs. In contrast to such statistics are sobering figures on how much food the " land of plenty" wastes each year. According to a 1882 study by UJS ' Rep. Tony HalL D- Ghi- o, Americans feed their garbage cans approxi-mately 137 million tons of food a year, enough to feed almost 50 mil-lion people This waste, coupled with figures on malnutrition in America, has drawn the attention of federal lawmakers and private organiza-tions alike This spring an agriculture sub-committee chaired by Sen. Bob Dole, R- Ka- n., heard testimony on the magnitude of hunger in the Unit-ed States and on the efforts of some of the organizations designed to help alleviate it. Missouri's Sen. Jack Danforth, who has supported most of the Rea-gan administration's cuts in social programs, was among those who tes-tified at the hearing In March, he toured nutrition sites, food pantries, soup kitchens and other such agencies in Kansas City, St Louis, Springfield and St Joseph to get a first- han- d look at the problem m Missouri " Nutritional programs are stretched to the absolute limit," he said, " and economic recovery wont solve the problems Federal efforts in the area of nutrition must be ex-panded to meet these needs and shortages " The Dole subcommittee referred to a recently published survey of American food programs, compiled jointly by the Center on Budget Poli-cy Priorities of Washington, DC, and Second Harvest, a national food bank network. The report surveyed 181 emergen-cy programs, including many in Mis-souri, from February 1982 through February 1983. Tbe survey found that the number of people helped by emergency food agencies increased by 50 percent, and nearly one- fourt- h of the agencies were forced to turn people away. Recipients of emergency food in-cluded a significantly larger number of unemployed workers with chil-- dren, the report said. In his spring testimony, Danforth emphasized the magnitude of the hunger problem. " Recovery, no matter how quickly it arrives or how robust its nature, is not a full answer to the hunger problem. We will put some people back to work, but not everybody. " It is an ongoing problem, and the report's findings make it beyond ar-gument that more needs to be done," Danforth said. The Dole committee also discuss-ed the continued distribution of gover-nment- owned surplus food stored throughout the country. Congressio-nal legislation earmarking this food for public distribution expires Sept 30, the end of this fiscal year A bill authorizing continued distn-- Sea MAYOR, Page 0A Cards lose The St. Louis Cardinals lost a heartbreaker to the Los An-- 1 geles Dodgers Monday night ( Story on Page IB) 1 Qcasnsti Business . . . 4B Classlflsd . .. .2- 3- B Comics- - .. . 6A Opinion . . .. 4A Psopla . . 5A Sports . .. .. . .1- 2- 3 |