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PAGE Columbia Daily Tribune Columbia Mo Wednesday May 5 1982 ederal judge puts KCBJ in hands of third party By ORREST ROSE of the staff A federal judge in Kansas City has ruled that operating control of Co KCBJ TV must be trans ferred to a third party until a legal dispute involving ownership of tte television station can be resolved But station co owner Richard Koenig has charged US District Judge Scott Wright a former Co lumbian with a conflict of interest in the case getting a raw said Koenig who called the ruling mature and improper The judge is giving the plaintiffs everything they In 1979 the Wooster Republican Printing Co an Ohio based media chain contracted to buy the station from Koenig and his partners for about $35 million Later that year the Wooster firm filed a lawsuit al leging owners had broken the contract In June 1981 the sta tion was ordered sold by a federal judge in Kansas City Koenig and his partners appealed Last month Wright ordered Koen ig to sign a ederal Communications Commission form transferring con trol of the station to a receiver for the duration of the appeals process Named as receiver was Columbia attorney Daniel Simon Koenig said the form he was or dered to sign does not apply to the circumstances of the case urther more he claimed Wright has held a grudge against KCBJ since the sta origin in 1970 we opened up we used him as our initial legal contact in Colum said Koenig who added that KCBJ fired Wright because was seemingly disinterested in our proj ect is getting back at us because we did not use him as our attorney I have much respect for his tech Koenig said the form in question is meant only for cases involving bank ruptcy or the death of stockholders But an CC official in Kansas City said the form could be used in any case involving a transfer of control of a broadcast station without a sub stantial change in ownership Koen ig said a court ordered transfer dur ing a legal dispute is not such a case the Ohio firm and the judge say it is Said Koenig: il to use this false tactic doomed to failure but if the judge had his way things would be dif Tim Dix attorney for the Wooster firm said he sure what sort of impact the order will have Koenigs filed an he said they never posted appeal bond so hoping the district judgment may be executed judge has asked for interim management to operate the station while the appeal is going on but we really take control ourselves until all settled and the CC ap proves a license 'OTwflBKNH 'f 5' jfiv 'r VHgSwT v' 7 'A'J A Collision kills driver on Highway 63 Rescue workers struggled for about an hour yesterday afternoon to remove the body of a 27 year old Columbian killed in the collision of a tractor trailer truck and a cement mixer On Highway 63 North near Prathersville Killed was Lloyd David Calvert of Route 7 He died at the scene Injured in the accident was 33 year old Danny McCartney of Blossom Texas McCartney was driving the semi rig north directly behind the cement mixer driven by Calvert McCartney received head injuries and was treated at Boone Hospital Center and released last night Missouri Highway Patrol Trooper Les Bruning said today that he cited McCartney for following too closely Patrol Sgt Kenneth Campbell said the accident occurred as Calvert was making a right turn off the highway onto Wagon Trail Road at the Route intersection McCartney was unable to stop veered to the right shoulder and struck the mixer as it turned Campbell said The rig pushed vehicle through the intersection snapped off a stop sign and landed atop the mixer on a hill just north of the intersection Cranes pulled the truck off the mixer before rescue workers from the Boone County ire Protection District extricated body Keith McMillin photo NEWS IN BRIE Uehling: California job budget separate matters University of Missouri Columbia Chancellor Barbara Uehling this morning said her interest in the top position at California State Universi ty should be considered indepen dently of ongoing budget reduction controversy At a news conference Uehling said it was that crit ics claim her position as a finalist could damage her attempts to real locate $10 million to $12 million on campus regard them she said of her interest in the chan cellorship of Cal State and budget reduction plans Nonetheless the sup porters were dismayed yesterday at the timing of the disclosure that Uehling was a finalist at the 19 campus system Although Uehling said she had in the Cal State vacancy to talk with a search committee there last week her interest not the same thing as leaving the She is still about the of education at UMC and commitment Although Uehling said she is not actively pursuing the job she has not discouraged the search commit consideration which she rou tinely does when other universities contact her about vacancies UMC medical dean plans cuts of $570000 Charles Lobeck dean of the Uni versity of Missouri Columbia School of Medicine yesterday announnced specific cuts of about $570000 to meet a reduction ordered last fall Combined with the elimination of three departments in his School of Health Related an nounced as part of Provost Ronald i campus the reductions amount to nearly $900000 in the budget latest budget reductions I include: Halving the pathology depart i ment to save about $200000 I Cutting $100000 each from ex tension activities and academic and student support services Saving $160000 by leaving va cant teaching and staff positions un filled Lobeck has already announced $325000 in savings by eliminating the departments of medical diete tics radiologic technology and re spiratory therapy Hinckley jury sees tape shooting WASHINGTON (AP) Government prosecutors today showed jurors at the trial of John Hinckley a videotaped replay of the event that shook the nation 13 months ago: the shooting of President Ronald Reagan and three other men out side a Washington hotel As the videotape was shown first at regular speed and then in slow motion Hinckley charged with attempted assas sination of the President sat with hands folded on the defense table and stared in tently at the television monitor demeanor contrasted sharp ly with apparent disinterest yesterday when he never raised his head to look at two victims of the shooting incident who testified in court After showing the film the prosecution plans to rest its case today Then it will be the defense turn The government needed only two days to present its direct evidence The videotape shot by an NBC TV cam eraman showed Secret Service agents' and White House aides walking ahead of Reagan as they left the Washington Hilton Hotel that rainy day of March 30 1981 Nine witnesses were summoned yester day to trace nine month jour ney from a Lubbock Texas pawnshop where he bought ammunition to the hotel site where he acknowledges he shot Rea gan and three other men Two of the witnesses who testified yes terday were victims of bullets fired by Hinckley but the young defendant never raised his head to face them When the government finishes the focus of the trial will shift dramatically from what Hinckley did last year to what he was thinking at the time Psychiatrists hired by the defense will testify that he believed he was acting out the last scene in a love fantasy that he wanted to kill Reagan to impress Jodie oster the actress who had spumed his letters and telephoned advances The doctors will say he was insane at the time and thus should be absolved of legal responsibility for the crime That is the sole defense: that Hinckley was in sane and not responsible for what he did The government will then present its own rebuttal psychiatrists to testify that Hinckley was sane a procedure that may take up more time than the initial case outlined by the prosecution during the first two days of the trial Hinckley faces life imprisonment if con victed in the 13 count indictment that charges him with attempting to kill the President and assault with intent to kill while armed Hinckley wore a tan suit to court Mon day and at times smiled ever so slightly when talking to a defense lawyer Gre gory Craig But he closed his eyes or stared at the defense table while Secret Service Agent Timothy McCarthy and former Washing ton policeman Thomas Delahanty relived the shooting McCarthy took a bullet in the chest but is back on the job as a White House body guard Delahanty was shot in the back and retired on disability other victims Reagan and White House Press Secretary James Brady will not testify Prosecutors used news videotape to complement testimony to give jurors glimpses of drifting around the nation in the months before the shootings The prosecution yesterday painted Hinckley as both a calculating assassin who with a gun in his pocket waited to shoot the President waited to kill and as a lonely isolated man snared in an inner world of his own fan tasy are faced in this case with a single the mental state of Mr Hinckley on March 30 defense attorney Vin cent uller said in his opening state ment But prosecutor Roger Adelman said is not a random or thoughtless act ladies and gentlemen He planned thought out and calculated the choice of weapons and uller had no quarrel with argument There is no question he said mentally insane can calculate and plan the He said the defense would show Hinck behavior more erratic more after his wealthy family moved from Dallas to Denver in 1973 and Hinckley stayed behind to register at Texas Tech University in Lubbock uller said the evidence presented by the defense in the coming weeks will show that Hinckley ran into academic diffi culty moved off campus into an apart ment and began gradual withdrawal from other people into an existence known only to Gradually he built fantasies in his mind uller said and more he with drew from the real world the greater the fantasies became to fill the voidthe fan tasies became the basis of his judg Budget compromise search goes on WASHINGTON (AP) Efforts to find a bipartisan budget compromise are quiet ly emerging on Capitol Hill even though there is more disarray than consensus for the time being in the scramble to stitch to gether an election year spending plan ac ceptable to Democrats and Republicans folks are all over the lot the same as the said House Budget Committee Chairman James Jones Okla after the Democrats met privately yesterday Jones called budget director David Stockman before the committee today to lay out the Reagan posi tion on budget issues At the same time Secretary of the Treasury Donald Regan was to appear be fore the tax writing House Ways and Means Committee to give the administra views on various options for in creasing tax revenues The Senate Budget Committee mean while was continuing consideration today of a proposal by Sen Pete Domenici NM the committee chairman that in cludes skipping this Social Security cost of living increase and postponing the 10 percent individual tax cut scheduled for July 1983 to help trim deficits As that committee resumed work today the top Democrat Sen Ernest Rollings of South Carolina submitted a revised budget of his own including a call for $198 billion in higher taxes during three years and eliminating the Social Se curity cost of living increase scheduled for this July On taxes he called for reducing the 10 percent personal tax cut scheduled for this July to 5 percent and eliminating the 10 percent cut slated to take effect in July 1983 In all Hollings said his plan would produce a balanced budget in 1985 ederal Reserve Board Chainnan Paul Volcker meanwhile told a House sub committee today he doubted that a pro posed constitutional amendment for bal anced federal budgets would be work able All the activity notwithstanding Con gress is basically right back where it was five weeks ago when a drive was launched to reach a three way compromise involv ing Senate Republicans House Demo crats and the White House This time however the White House seems to be on the at least for the time being Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker Tenn and House Speaker Tip Mass spoke twice by telephone yester day about prospects for finding areas of bipartisan agreement on the budget said a Republican source who asked not to be identified further had told reporters earlier yes terday that he would propose that members of his staff begin talks with members of staff is a process of trying to mesh the the source said last night may not work but got to The first round of budget talks broke down last week when and Presi dent Ronald Reagan failed to resolve their differences in a three hour face to face bargaining session Midway Heights board backs annexation plan By MARY ANN GWINN of the staff The Midway Heights Board of Education last night ended its three month search for a strategy to keep its tiny school district independent voting to support an annexation proposal that will come be fore district voters June 8 By a 3 2 vote with one member abstaining the board abandoned its neutral stance on the annexa tion issue and fell into line with a group of pro an nexation residents attending last board meeting Since Midway Heights voters overwhelmingly de feated a proposed levy increase of $150 per $100 as sessed valuation in March the district has had only two fiscally feasible options: either bring the dis seventh and eighth graders back to Midway to save tuition payments to Columbia schools or gain voter approval of annexation to the Columbia district Delays in state payments skyrocketing tuition fees to Columbia for secondary students and a de clining property tax base have forced the AAA rated elementary school district into the red New board members Dave Nolke and Phil Mills Jr voted to endorse annexation supported by board veteran Lloyd Webb Jan Palmer and Gary Hughes opposed the motion and President Bob McConnell abstained An abstention in such a vote would be counted with the majority said Jack Roy director of school laws for the Missouri Department of Ele mentary and Secondary Education Mills said the quality of education from top to figured into his vote could bring the seventh and eighth graders back and offer them reasonably good Mills said just kidding ourselves if we think we can compete with in secondary programs But McConnell who ardently supported the tax hike said he abstained the best option al ready had been With annexation or a program offering only kindergarten and the first eight grades McConnell said will lose either The board heard a contingency plan that would bring 78 seventh and eighth graders back to Mid way if the annexation vote fails About $161000 could be saved with that option Superintendent Ca meron Pulliam said but five new teachers and at least two portable classrooms would have to be added Pulliam said the plan is one of although the district could maintain its AAA rating for one more year under the plan Midway Heights voters must approve annexation by a simple major ity and the Columbia Board of Education must agree to take the district into the Columbia school system Board member Palmer was miffed that the board took a stand on annexation before the vote felt strongly that the board should have kept its mouth closed and provided only she said District voters are unpredictable she added were surprised on the levy and we could be sur prised again The older folks out here voted against home ruleyou just never can tell.