Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1983-07-13

              75hYear No. 257 Good Morning! It's Wednesday, July 13, 1983 8 Sections 60 Pages 25 Cents
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Randy Rogers is frustrated as a food
stamp official can't tell him when to ex-pect
stamps, top. Above, a clerk explains
By Mindy Matthews
Missourtan staff writer
Randy and Sheila cant afford to
wait bat waiting is all they can do.
They wait for a phone call about a
job opening or at least a job inter-view.
They wait for word of an affor-dable
apartuoent without a prohib-itive
security deposit.
Randy Rogers and Sheila ( who
asked that her last name not be
used), both are m their late teens
and unemployed. Since meeting m
February, they have been from one
social service agency to another,
searching for food and shelter on a
day- to- d- ay basis.
For a month earlier this year,
Randy worked at the Taco Via res-taurant
on Business Loop 70. But
when the eatery moved to the Bis- cay- ne
Mall in March, be was let go
On June 20, after being out of work
for three months, be landed a tempo- -
he can buy only four of Randy's 150 used &, rL, -- 3- 4. "
albums for a mere $ 2. At right, Randy fills f" m lE& Z . t cut his fifth job application of the day. & J& r3& . .4a.
nesutate twosome seeks jobs, food, home
HUNGER:
Close to Home
DGaDKro'
rary job collecting signatures on an
ana- nucle- ar power petition. For
three weeks, Randy earned petitions
door to door, to shopping malls and
on downtown street corners. He was
paid 15 cents for each signature
He earned a total of $ 15.
Beginning in March, the couple
lived on the $ 110- a- we- ek salary Shei-la
earned from a secretarial job sub-sidized
by the Division of Vocational
Rehabilitation.
That job, too, ended last week.
While Sheila was earning a steady
income, they paid $ 85 a week to live
at the Master Host Inn, 900 Vandiver
Drive. An apartment would have
bees less expensive, they say, but
they couldnt scrape together enough
to put down a deposit
. Now, they live at Everyday Peo-ple,
a residential center that pro-vides
free emergency housing. Ran-dy
says they will be allowed to stay
there a week.
The couple can no longer afford
bus transportation.
Their food budget consists of $ 24 a
week in food stamps.
During the spring, while Randy
and Sheila awaited the arrival of
food stamps, they were referred to
the Komonia House, a church- sponsore- d
organization that provides
one- time- on- ly emergency food
boxes, and to the Central Missouri
Food Bank, where they received gro-ceries
tifeee a month.
" We might not always have gotten
exactly what we would have
wanted," Randy says of the help
from the food bank, ' but we never
went hungry "
To bring in additional income just
before her job was scheduled to end,
Sheila decided to sell most of her re-cord
albums Randy took almost 150
to a used record store to strike a
deal.
The store's employee was inter-ested
in only four of the albums
Randy made $ 2
The frustration is wearing on Ran-dy
and Sheila. But Sheila says she
tries her best to help Randy through
periodic bouts of anger and feelings
of inadequacy over his inability to
earn a living
" It's making me mad," Randy
said, " and I can't take it much long-er
" There ain't no work out there
There ain't nothin' "
Thursday: a foodbauk for central
Missouri.
Was he fisttfit9 r not?
THAT is the question
By Eliz& hath Krssnoff
tfegssowten staff writer
The asQstant prosecuting attor-ney
mced as a 62- year- o- ld Co-lombia
man tried to enter his plea
of not guilty to a misdemeanor
fisfcing violation. He looked belp- lcssJjmtt- fce
judge.
" 1 do not have a fishmg li-cense,"
confessed Walt
Crenshaw, 312 Bourn Ave., " but
what is fishing7"
Crenshaw is net ignorant of the
outdoor sport Be is an experi-enced
fisherman. Crenshaw said
the incident began July 1 when he
took his 22- year- o- ld nephew, Da-vid
George, of the same address,
to Finger Lakes State Park to
teach him to cast a fishing line
While they were by the lake,
! two conservation officers saw
what appeared to them to be two
I men fishing. One of the officers
approached Crenshaw and his
8 nephew to see if they had a B-- 8
censetofish.
I When the officer found they did
i cot, be gave mem each a sum-- I
mans, citing them for figfang
without a license. Crenshaw does
net dispute that
" Yes, we were casting fishing
lines, but we had no nooks," be
said. " So all I want to know is,
Crenshaw said his nephew paid
the $ 52 fine earlier because he
wanted to put an end to the whole
matter. Crenshaw refused to pay
the fine Tuesday and said be will
take the case to court
" I wasn't doing anything
wrong," Crenshaw said. " That's
why I have to fight If yon don't
fight the system wiH eat you up" 9
To the best of his knowledge I
there was nothing ircgji about I
what he was doing, be said. " It's j
a free country, I can go out and j I
cast plugs wherever I want "
The maiamnm punishment for
the violation is a $ 1309 fine and
up to a year in jaO, said Rusty
AnteS, assistant prosecuting at-torney.
A trial probably will be
set forAugust
The principle involved Is what
ccQcems Crenshaw. " If I were I
casting in an open field would I be Ii
arrested for fishing''' Would that g
becaHedfishmg?" I
attorney claims
LOS ANGELES ( UPI) - Police
served a subpoena Tuesday on an at-torney
who told the White House and
local prosecutors three videotapes
allegedly showing government offi-cials
at 4 sex parties" had been sto-len
from his office
The subpoena requires attomev
Robert K Steinberg to produce the
tapes in court on Julv 25, police
Cmdr William Booth said
Booth said the district attorne
subpoenaed Steinberg because he
claims the tapes exist and ma be
relevant to the investigation of the
murder of Vicki Morgan, mistress of
department heir Alfred Blooming- dal- e
Bloomingdale, who died last
summer at the age of 66, was a
member of Reagan's kitchen cab-inet"
Chief Deput District Attomev
Jim Bascue said Steinberg had in-formed
his office Tuesdav morning
of the alleged theft after prosecutors
requested he turn over the tapes
Steinberg told investigators the
three tapes had been in a gym bag in
the library of his law office, Bascue
said
Steinberg told reporters he called
the White House and discussed the
tapes with presidential counsel Fred
Fielding
Deputy press secretary Larrv
Speakes confirmed the conversation
took place ' Robert Steinberg called
at 2 20 p. m and said just before he
made the phone call he discovered
that the tapes, which he had placed
in his racquet ball bag, were not
there"
A spokesman for F. ekung in Wash-ington
sd the counselor advised
Steinberg not to destroy the tapes if
they turned up Steinberg said Field--
ing asked him rot to destrov the
tapes so it could be dett. rni. ned if
anv criminal conduct had occurred
Mr Fielding said that nht now
the proper partv to look it the tapi s
was the district attomev of L v
geles. Steinberg said
Asked whv if it wa. a matt - --
local prosecutors I- uldi- nt. loui
seled Steinberg not to destrov tht
tapes Speakes said Question
have been raised about the involve-ment
of federal appointees and offi
cials in this thing and we ma askid
for reaction on it And the reaction is
we don't want anv of it destrov ed If
it was a justice of the peace or traf
ftc court, we wouldn t want ev idence
destrov ed
Steinberg said Mondav he was
given the videotapes bv an undenu
fied woman after he as asked to
provide legal counsel to Marv in Pan
coast 33 who confused to beating
Miss Morgan to death with a base-ball
bat last Thursdav
He said the tapes showed Bloo-mingdale
and five friends involved
in sadomasochistic sex acts with
Miss Morgan and claimed thev
posed a high ns to the national se-curity
of the countrv if released He
said the friends were a businessman
three government appointees and an
elected official
Steinberg said he would destrov
the tapes because thev were not rele-vant
to Pancoast s defense but Liter
said he would offer them to the pesi
dent because of his close involve-ment
with the participants
Steinberg claimed he viewd tht
tapes Saturdav with an attomev and
someone from the Department oi
Justice.' both of whom he refused to
name
Moberiy inmate killed
in afternoon stabbing
By Nolan Ctsy
State capital bureau
MOBERLY An inmate at the
Missouri Training Center for Men
was killed Tuesday after he was
stabbed m the chest during an af-ternoon
recreation period, a prison
spokesman said.
The inmate was identified as
James Edward Bausley, 22, of St
Louis He began serving a 10- ye- ar
sentence for second- degre- e murder
at the Moberiy prison in March 1980
His death was the latest in a series
of disturbances at the overcrowded
medmm- secun- tj institution. One
guard was stabbed to death and five
others injured July 3 Guards staged
a walkout four days later
Prison spokesman Dan Henry said
a teacher in the center's academic
school went for help after he saw
Bausley and another inmate scuf-fling
in front of the prison's gymna-sium
about 2 40p m. Tuesday
Inmates already were carrying
the wounded Bausley toward tne
prison's infirmary when prison em-ployees
arrived, Henry said. The
employees took Bausley the rest of
the way on a stretcher, but he died
shortlv after arriving at the infirma
ry, Henrv said Bauslev had been
stabbed once in the chest, he said
Guards were in the prison vard at
the time, Henry said, but none was
in the immediate vicmitv of the in-cident
The stabbing was under mveshga
tion Tuesdav night but Henrv de-clined
to sav whether a suspect had
been identified
After the stabbing prison officials
recovered a 13- me- n. homemade steel
knife tapered to a point. It had a
tape- and- clo- th handle and was three- fourth- s
of an inch wide
The stabbing occurred despite a
thorough search of the prison, which
followed last week's death. We're a
very large facility, " Henrv said
' We could have missed it ( the knife)
or it could have been manufactured
since then."
Prison officials last week doubled
the guard by implementing two 12- ho- ur
shifts and gave guards on cat
walks in the prison's housing units
access to shotguns Officials remov-ed
the shotguns Monday after Super-intendent
Carl White consulted with
guards, Henry said " Thev were re-moved
with the concurrence of the
officers," he said
& f jLouis firm one step closer
By fcJtehaaJ J. Bailey
Mtesourtan staff writef
A St Lotus insecticide and home
deodorant company is one step clos-er
to relocating to the Columbia
area.
Boone County Court met Tuesday
with Puro Corp officials at a public
hearing in the court's continuing at-tempt
to secure a $ 258,000 Missouri
block grant The grant would pave
the way for Puro to move here.
The money would be used to repair
Route Z and extend natural gas lines
from Sunrise Estates to Puro's pro-posed
plant site at Route Z, one mile
south of the Cemraha exit on Inter-state
70.
The corporation, a subsidiary of
Conhco International, would spend
an additional ? L2mfllion on reloca-tion
costs and a new braiding.
The relocation could be contingent
on the avaflshUfty of the grant said
Stan Shawver, ccsaty planning di-rector.
He ts optimistic however,
that the state will approve the grant
after about a four- wee- k review pen--
od, the next and final step in the
grant request process.
The move would generate 55 local
jobs, said Stanley Altepeter, Puro
plant manager About five exec-utives
and engineers would be trans-ferred
from their outdated St Louis
plant he said.
Altepeter also assured the court
that Puro would bring a clean pollut-ion
record with it to Boone County
" We comply with all the EPA reg-ulations.
We've had pollution tests
by ( St Louis city) and they have al-ways
been favorable," Altepeter
said. Puro, housed in St Louis since
1946, would recycle the granular
waste and there would be no liquid
by- produ- cts or chemical emission
into the sewers, he said
Discussion centered on the fumes
of the chemical peradichloralben- zen- e,
used to make the company's
moth prevention products The com-pound
vaporizes as the products are
made.
Breathing the fumes does not pre-sent
a health risk, according to Oc-cupational
Safety and Health Admin-istration
studies, Altepeter assured
the court Southern District Judge
Kay Roberts said independent re-search
she conducted with the Uni-versity's
trace- substan- ce division
substantiates this.
This didn't prevent the judge from
firing a series of questions concern
ing the environmental impact of the
compound. " Now is the tune to ask
these questions. When the public
smells this strange smell in the air,
there will be answers on public re-cord,"
she said.
The judges were satisfied with Al- tepet-er's
answers There was no op-position
from the public at the meet-ing
and Shawver said he has
received no negative phone faiu
The proposed 6.5- ac- re tract is in
an industrial zone and not near any
residential communities The plant
would specialize in toilet- bow- l de-odorants
and the only insecbde pro-duced
would be mothballs, said Pre-siding
Judge Norma Robb
In other acuon
" County Treasurer Kay Murray
told the court the state reported an
increase m uncollected sales taxes
from area merchants The state has
asked Boone County to help collect
the taxes. Judge Robb suggested
sending notices from the county
prosecuting attorney's office to de-linquent
merchants
,-- The court authorized $ 45,970 for
the construction of a new parking lot 9
west of the Boone County Court- - J
house The repairs will begin imme-- 9
diately and be finished in 60 days.
City, union agree
on new contract
Negotiators for the city and
Local 45 of the Public Service
Employees Union agreea
Tuesday on a tentative con--
tract that calls for an increase
in worker benefits The city
would assume worker pay--
ments to a pension fund. For
details, see Page 14A.
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