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Title	Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1985-05-07
Creator	Treadway, R. M.; Albright, J. W.
Description	Vol. 76th YEAR, No. 199
Subject	Columbia (Mo.) -- Newspapers Boone County (Mo.) -- Newspapers
Coverage	United States -- Missouri -- St. Louis
Source	The Daily Evening Herald printed and published by Treadway & Albright, St. Louis, Missouri.
Language	English
Date.Search	1985-05-07
Type	Newspapers
Format	pdf
Collection Name	Columbia Missourian Newspaper Collection
Publisher.Digital	University of Missour Library Systems
Rights	These pages may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for distribution or publication.
Contributing Institution	State Historical Society of Missouri University of Missouri--Columbia. School of Journalism
Copy Request	Contact St. Louis Mercantile Library at: (314) 516-7240 or (314) 516 - 7247 See request form and fee information here: http://www.umsl.edu/mercantile/special_collections/image-service.html
County	Boone County (Mo.)

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Date.Search	1985-05-07
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Item.Transcript	STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY urn & loirt st. COLOMBIA 0. 65201 jfafr Columbia 76th Year No. 199 Good Morning! It's Tuesday, May 7, 1985 2 Sections 16 Pages 25 Cents Gray quits; Beck gets interim job By Oavfd Hertz Mlsaourtan staff writer Dick Gray agreed to end his 4i-ye- ar tenure as Columbia city manager and resign May 13 in return for a (40,184 check, the City Council announced Monday night. The council named Ray Beck, director of the Public Works Department, as 90-d- ay interim city manager after Gray resigns. The resignation throws the creation of the annual dry budget representing almost $100 million into the bands of an acting city manager, two new members of the city council and a freshman mayor. The council announced the terms of Gray's departure at the beginning of its Monday night meeting. A concerned-lookin- g Mayor Rodney Smith said, "It is the consensus of the council that it is not only the right thing to do, but it is the Christian thing to do." The council met for 97 minutes m a closed session where the final terms of Gray's resignation were solidified. The more than $40,000 the city agreed to pay Gray includes $3,451 m regular pay the city manager earned before May 13; $19,131 in vacation pay and three months severance pay amounting to $17,601. When Gray began working for Columbia Nov. 1, 1980, he received a $42,000 annual salary. In addition, the city agreed to pay $5,005 on Gray's behalf to the Social Security Administration and a state retirement system. Under the conditions of the resignation, Gray promised not to bring legal action against the city. Gray's resignation date corresponds to the day he was to return from a 30-d- ay paid leave he started 'April 12, the date John Westlund resigned as mayor. Westlund's resignation stemmed from a city audit ordered by Gray in March. The investigation questioned $10,830 in expenses Westlund charged to the city. Westlund was later cleared of any criminal wrongdoing by Boone County Prosecutor Joe Moseley. After Westlund's resignation, Gray's city expenses also were audited. The study showed $1,185 in questionable expenses. Gray repaid $59 last Thursday. After a closed council meeting last Monday, Gray announced he would resign his post no later than Oct. 31. First Ward Councilman Al Tacker said last week Gray requested to stay as city manager until his con-tract expired Nov. 1. Council members indicated before Monday's meeting that the issues surrounding Gray's job status would be decided during the closed session. Fifth Ward Councilwoman Bar-bara McDonald hinted that the length of Gray's employment with the city was the chief item to be decided at the session "The question is not if he should resign, but how soon" she said Another factor involved in the council's decision was the effect the loss of the city manager would have on the city's budgeting procedure, McDonald said. "My feeling is we're going into the budget process" she said, indicating that the city manager's role in establishing the budget should be carefully con-sidered. The budget-plannin- g process begins in April and culminates with the city manager presenting a budget proposal to the council Aug. 1. Dick Gray In the four-mon- th planning process, the city manager reviews the budget requests of each city department and then adjusts that amount so that it equals anticipated revenues. i I.,,., ,. M i. mi..1 -. in i. ,. --. ,.. i..,..i,... , , , HHHlflHHflHRfliiBsrBE&BHiSHB a!L wHinX $ mBHBKIHbHHhB BBBHfflfMliBBflpLHlBBBBiBBHfleHffeBrMBeBiWBBBBBBe i iT" i ihMjiQyi J aoBBHeMenOiBjMejBBBMMfB 'TrjHnJTfrmcdfe -. '."' TiLT' ii'J11 f I'fgHS -- lmi I'i'l '' '" " " niiiilllTMl' WWI UMCchemistry professor Ed Kaiser became the councilman Monday night by the luck of a draw. - Kaiser gets nod for 3rd Ward after drawing By Charisse L. Grant and David Volk Misaourian atari writers UMC chemistry professor Edwin Kaiser was the winner of the big drawing at the Columbia City Council meeting Monday night. His grand prize was the Third Ward council seat. After 15 minutes and seven tie votes, Second Ward Council member ' Mary Anne McCollum finally suggested the council try a lottery. From the outset, council manners lined up 3-- 3 in support of Kaiser and clothing store owner Dale Puckett. And each time City Clerk Pat Scott called off the roll, the vote was the same: First Ward Councilman Al Tacker, Fifth Ward Councilwoman Barbara McDonald, and Sixth Ward Councilwoman Sharon Lynch for Kaiser; McCollum, Fourth Ward Councilman Pat Barnes and Mayor Rodney Smith for Puckett. So the council tried lobbying. "Mr. Kaiser may have a broader base of experience to offer for the council" Lynch said. Barnes countered: "I've known Mr. Kaiser and have great respect for him. However, in my opinion, Mr. Puckett would make a better can-didate at this time." Barnes, who usually includes in his campaigns the suggestion that city government be run like a business, cited Puckett's greater name recognition and his understanding of business in light of the changes the Columbia Regional Mill could bring as reasons Puckett would be the better choice. Despite the debate, the vote remained the same. So the council invited the two finalists to make their own pitches. Kaiser said he would bring to the council 15 years of public service and a broad range of interests and in-teraction with people. Puckett boasted his business background as his strongest at-tribute. "The city of Columbia is not just a business, but it needs to be run on the basis of a business" he said "We face the same problems a.businessman faces in the operation of his business." Still the vote was deadlocked. City Counselor Dave Evans took care of the' legal questions about a lottery. "The vacancy in office must be filled by the council" he said. "But it (the city charter) doesn't say how you should fill it" After Puckett and Kaiser approved See WEST, Page 10A Shhhhhhh! No humming in library! ByJayHarshey IHsscurian staff writer like many students on a warm spring day just before finals, a tiny frightened creature found itself unexpectedly trapped Monday in a University library. Book-boun- d journalism students barely looked up as a confused hummingbird fluttered about the journalism library on Ninth Street Monday, scraping its wings against the plaster ceiling and occasionally resting on the plastic light fixtures. Tbe'bird, one student mused, may have been in pursuit of higher learning. ' Open windows wouldn't lure the tiny Mrd outside. A gathering crowd was wondering what to do when a librarian used the reference material at her fingertips to locate a team of trained experts equipped to handle Use job: Columbia's self styled "Birdbusters", orintbology professor Mike Ryan and Associate Professor of Forestry, Fisheries and Wildlife Erik FritzelL - The men arrived quickly, carrying a large, finely strung i'mist net" and several metal poles. t "We try not to make housecalls". Frtteell said. He does bis bird- -, removal consulting over the phone, when he can. he said. The hummingbird seemed to sense ttm crowd's growing excitement and raced faster and faster back and fortbacrosstfaeceQing. 'ffbete are no 'Cardinal' rules to thfa Bygg said climbing atop a ;woodea table. By means of metal noles, RyaarFrttzell and several attuientedd the 4Mopt net toitbe' ce and evataaDy the frittering ?4lWwMcaptured.- ;-' '-- - ", ' i retook the --Birdbusters'I several. nitttt0iintattgfc tand ,' , f '. - " Ronald Reagan QrMtad by demonstrations Reagan, Shultz meet with Spanish leaders MADRID (UPI) President Reagan ended an emotional and controversial visit to West Ger-many Monday and immediately held talks.with Spanish leaders on the future of U.S. military bases inSpain and his Central American policy. While Reagan met with Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez for 30 minutes, the potentially explosive issue of reducing the number of U.S. troops in Spain was raised in separate talks bet-ween Secretary of State George Shultz and Foreign MinisterFernando Moran. Moran has publicly called for UJS.-Spani- sh negotiations aimed at reducing the number of the 12,600 US. troops stationed at four American bases in Spain. "The Spaniards have merely reiterated what they've publicly said before, that under the existing (bases) agreement they can ask for such , a negotiation. No formal proposal has been made" a senior Reagan administration official said after the Shultz-Mora- n meeting. The official, who spoke on condition that he not be identified, said Shultz and Moran also discussed Reagan's trade embargo against Nicaragua, which Spain's socialist government opposes. "Spam and the United States are in agreement on aims in Central America, that is, the democratization of countries there and the end of conflicts. But there are differences in methods" the official said, i ILS. officials gave no details on Reagan's talks with Gonzalez, but a Spanish government spokesman said they dealt with Spain's pledge to hold a referendum next year on remaining in NATO and its desire to reduce the UJS. military presence in Spain. King Juan Curios I and Queen Sofia welcomed Reagan on his arrival aboard Air Force One at Madrid's Barajas airport and later hosted a private dinner for the Reagan's at the royal Zarzuela Palace. Reagan's arrival was preceded by major demonstrations by tens of thousands of Spaniards in 13 cities Sunday to protest the presence of U.S. troops in Spam and the country's continued membership in NATO. White House spokesman Larry Speakes said the protests were "fully expected." The mam items on Reagan's agenda in talks with Spanish leaders are the four American military bases; Spanish entry into the European Common Market in January; the country's continued membership in NATO; and U.S. policy in Latin America, particularly Nicaragua. Businesses may fund downtown shuttle service By Charisse ITQrant ' Mlssourian ataW writer Columbia's Special Business District may fund a shuttle service to help alleviate downtown parking problems created by construction of the $2.49 mflllen parking plaza. Ed Gaebter, executive director of the downtown business district said he supports Second Ward Council member Mary Anne McGoQum's idea that the district use some of its special tax revenues toward solving the downtown parking problem. Although various downtown businesses have voiced an interest in renting long- - term spaces in the plaza, McCollum said there are no firm commitments. As a gesture of good faith, she said, the district could donate 110,000 to finance shuttle bus service scheduled to run between downtown and a dry-leas-ed lot at Fifth and Ash streets. The city leased the tot to compensate for 98 , spaces lost during construction of the plaza, scheduled to be partially completed byNov. 25. "The city is making a long-ter- m com-mitment, therefore it would be a good com-mitment on the part of the business mer-chants" McCollum said. Gaebler agrees with ber. Not only is the proposal feasible, he said, but it helps a long-standing concern of the district's board: solving the downtown parking problem. "It's been our position all along that the downtown business district should help with parking,' Gaebler said, but with the turmoil in the city government "other plans (to help) have gone awry." McCollum said she is uneasy about diving into the $2.49 million project, which will total $3.1 million by the time renovation of the garage at Ninth ana Cherry streets is added. Her un-certainty stems from the absence of written commitments from buyers for the 291 proposed permit spaces renting for $50 a month u the plaza. The district, created under a 1979 city or-- See DOWNTOWN. Page 10A Senator urges $206 million for M.U. By POBOyL Davie State capnal bureau JEFFERSON CITY The chairman5 of the Senate Ap-- - propriations Committee recom-- mended' Monday about the same amount of money for the Urdvenity- - of Missouri tint the House approved :Sen.r Edwjn;DkckDBL 'touli County;- - recommended that.the' University's four-camp- us system; receive $W-milto- o' inVgentral operating funds.?- - ; - T". " ' ' J. A lfc.j -. I- "- ' 4 t- -.,' X I Included to the $206 million are $550,000 for the University's Food for the 21st Century research program, which is designed to put Missouri in the forefront of new technologies for ,t fcod production, and $1.1 nuuion for , the College of Veterinary Medicine onthe(umbtocampas. -- -' The ' House 'earlier approved $871,000 for the veterinary program. Tbe moneywould be used taMre new faculty members and upgrade the csDejrticlr received provisional accwditattonlastyear :. s- - ' to coe-tta-e appropriations for tbe It '- --. it vt ;J5,jCr ir V.a - ; r University of Missouri system, Dirck recommended $7 million to buy computer equipment and $5.9 million , for library acquisitions. The House approved equal amounts. Dirck also recommended the same amount of buiding as the House for the University Hospital and Clinics, $14.8' million; State Historical Society, $532,000; , renal disease rcsearch3.9 million; and Institute.of Psychiatry in St. Louis, ,$21 million. - ; - Dircksaid he' expects the, Ap-propriations Committee to vote on , -'- -'y t -- ' - - N ' the recommendations later this week and then send them to the full Senate next week for a vote. In other action Monday, a joint Senate-Hous- e conference committee reached another compromise on an education proposal designed to raise the minimum teachers7 salary and. establish a career ladder to provide incentives for performance-base- d teaching.' --"Jlep. Annette Morgan, D-Kan- sas City and House sponsor of the proposal, said, "Well try to go.back and pkad with our members' "" ' - ,- " i - Morgan said the House could debate the bill as soon as Wed-nesday. House members,' objecting to language that would make it easier for schools to raise- - property-ta- x ' rates, sent the package back to the. conference committee after it reached an agreement two weeks ago. v fi- - ,,-- During House debate, several ' ' membersoQJectedtolanguageJQtiie ' bill,that would have let not. only.; fi SoeTEACHER, Pefle 10f ' r f - (

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