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PACE Columbia Daily Tribune Columbia Mo Tuesday July 6 1982 Anti abortion battle divides state's Democrats Groups throwing support to Arnold in all out effort to beat Woods ByMKESANTE of the staff The fight about legalized abortion is driv ing a wedge into Democratic Party as the August primary approaches Lining up on one side is Jefferson City banker Burleigh Arnold a US Senate can didate who has embraced the passage of a constitutional amendment to ban abortions Arnold has enlisted the but hardly the of right to life groups across the state Indeed those anti abortionists readily admit more dedicated to defeating Harriett Woods the front running Demo cratic Senate candidate than seeing Arnold beat Republican incumbent Jack Danforth this fall want it to appear in any way that we are working against Sen says Loretto Wagner of Ballwin and vice president of Missouri Citizens for Life are working against Harriett Missouri Citizens for life has opposed Woods a two term state senator from Uni versity City both times she has run for the Missouri General Assembly because she be lieves the abortion decision is intensely personal one between a woman her physi cian her family her minister Government does a terrible job of trying to legislate mo But if Arnold wins the primary and Dan a strong anti is reno minated for a second term Wagner and her organization are going to take a hike this fall John Danforth and Burleigh Arnold win we can sit back and Wagner said Adds Ann a former president of Missouri Citizens for Life and of its politi cal action committee: trying to reach every available pro life person I know and urge them to vote for Burleigh Arnold he wins just going to sit back and rest I would suspect our PAC will endorse John The result is a deepening bitterness be tween Arnold and Woods and a widening rift within the party understand why Burleigh Arnold is try ing to run a race on Woods said has no organization he has no volun teers only way he can get any is to become pro life knowing that he would at least pick up some organization as he did in St Louis when he (brought) Ann and other pro life officials into his Woods sees Arnold as a political opportun ist never a candidate bending to single issue pressure groups to create a cam paign got to distract from the fact that he has no record to run she says never stood for anything never voted on anything never shown an ability to get anything done in a legislative body I will not do is try to piece together a lot of special interest positions to piece to gether a winning Such allegations infuriate Arnold who maintains that he has a strong organization even without the help of right to life groups But he admits to never having been in volved financially or otherwise in the anti abortion movement I got into this campaign I studied the issues and staked out my Ar nold said have repeatedly said that abor tion is a matter of conscience and personal conviction or anyone to say otherwise is trying to distort my viewpoint for their pur Still anti abortion views come to the attention of Missouri Citizens for Life until he responded to a question naire the group sent to all Senate candidates this spring And who has been one of the most active and politically powerful anti abortionists in the state for several years says she never even met Arnold until about four weeks ago So while Wagner says they will be licking stamps stuffing envelopes and doing what ever they can to get Arnold the nomination next month the organized support is not likely to continue into the fall tell (our members) if he wants you to scrub floors and thinks going to help him do Wagner says our feel ing that John Danforth is the strongest can Columbia ends long voyage in good shape Related story on Page 3 rom Tribune wire services EDWARDS AIR ORCE BASE Calif Columbia came through its seven day voyage in space in good a space shut tle project official said yesterday with all the glow of a proud father after a first look at a new baby James Harrington ground operations manager for the Na tional Aeronautics and Space Ad ministration said after a prelimi nary examination that only of the heat protective tiles on the shuttle suffered some damage And for the first time Columbia returned to Earth with all of its 31000 tiles intact The tiles protect the orbiter from the furnace like heats of re entry into earth atmosphere The human heroes of the flight Thomas Mattingly and Henry Hartsfield were reported resting and in very good shape at their homes in Houston home of Johnson Space Center Harrington reported only one other mishap what he termed very very minor in a for ward thruster engine after land ing The engine lost less than a quart of its oxidizer fluid from the seep he said There was less damage to the underside of the DC 9 sized Co fuselage this time be cause of the landing on the con crete runway at Edwards Har rington said ormerly the under side has been pelted by pieces of gravel and clay when landing on the lakebed at Edwards or White Sands Air orce Base in New Mexico the two places the shuttle has previously landed All of this Harrington said me the inclination to bring it home next He was speaking of the concrete runway at Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral la The Co lumbia ended its roll 4160 feet from the end of the 15000 foot con crete runway the same length as Kennedy Space concrete runway Present plans are to place the Columbia on a 747 carrier plane at research center here at Edwards and then fly it piggyback Challenger second space shuttle travels atop a 747 jetliner from Air orce Base to Kennedy Space Center a aMiWi i on the giant transport on July 15 NASA officials are so confident of performance Har rington said they will disconnect its emergency ejection system at the Cape along with some experi mental test systems This will per mit carrying two additional pas sengers They will be astronauts who are mission specialists And Air orce Lt Gen James Abrahamson manager of the space shuttle program said Co lumbia could go as early as late October on its fifth mission if the two firms that have contracted to supply two satellites for its pay load are ready One satellite owned by Satellite Business Systems will be for digi tal industry and business com munications The other will be owned by Telesat Canada Ltd It will be for voice communication and TV coverage The payload doors of the shut tle which have caused problems on previous missions appeared to have fared well and should open up on command to launch the two satellites into an orbit at about 22500 miles above the Earth The that was done in orbit as Columbia gently rolled in a appeared to have benefited the tiles Hairing ton said The damage that was caused to about 400 of the tiles by the hailstorm the day before called worst hail damage at the Cape in 22 was cleared up by the heat of the solar rays during the procedure According to Aviation Week and Space Technology a respected trade publication the solid rocket boosters provided less thrust than planned The magazine emphasized that the less than planned perfor mance did not endanger the spacecraft or the crew but is of concern to engineers because Co lumbia and other space shuttles using the solid rockets will carry heavier payloads in the future The space shuttle is launched by the joint action of the solid rocket boosters and two main engines fueled by liquid propellants on the orbiter itself As the craft sped toward space Aviation Week said Mission Con trol engineers noticed that it was not traveling at the speed expect ed or gaining the altitude planned Orbit was achieved but only be cause the main engines were burned about two seconds longer than planned consuming an extra ton of fuel NEWS IN BRIE MA plans to close 40 exchanges plants After losing $114 million in the 1982 fiscal year MA Inc will begin 1983 by closing 40 retail exchanges and fertilizer plants by Aug 15 MA will shut down 15 company owned bulk fertilizer plants and 25 retail exchanges similar to the operation on Route said Vice President Michael Vangel Vangel is waiting to name the lo cations after MA delegates meet to discuss the closings He said the closings are not a bad omen for the financially slumping cooperative but simply stages of asset evaluation Missouri River water diversion approved OMAHA Neb (AP) A US Corps of Engineers official said yes terday that a permit and property easement for the builder of a contro versial coal slurry pipeline using Missouri River water would be signed today in Omaha A proposed 288 mile pipeline would transfer Missouri River water from Lake Oahe a dam north of Pierre in central South Dakota to Wyoming There it would be mixed with crushed coal and piped nearly 1400 miles to power plants in Arkan sas and Oklahoma Energy Transportation Systems Inc the San rancisco based build er of the pipleline would begin con structing tiie pipeline next year South Dakota would be paid $14 bil lion during 50 years for the water Lt Col Grant redricks the deputy district engineer in Omaha said the permit would allow ETSI to construct a pumping station that could remove 54300 acre feet of water annually from Lake Oahe An acre foot is equivalent to water spread one foot deep over one acre The easement would allow the pipeline to cross federal lands and also provide for the construction of a pumping station on federal land at Oahe redericks said On riday US Bureau of Recla mation officials in Billings Mont signed a water services contract with ETSI The contract permits the company to remove water from Lake Oahe Downstream states have opposed the pipeline saying the water sale could lead to future water sales that would adversely affect them But Col VD Stipo who recently retired as the Omaha district engineer said he approve the construction and pumping permit until his staff concluded the pump ing station would not harm Lake Oahe or downstream states of the interest of the congressional delegations I proba bly requested my staff to do a little bit more digging into the environ mental assessment than we normal ly Stipo said Stipo who retired in midJune said he approved the permit in early June He said the decision was de layed until Monday so US Army and US Army Corps officials in Washington could be notified of his decision an unusual action taken of the of the project Missouri Attorney General John Ashcroft had threatened to go to court to stop the pipeline but office spokesman Randy Sissel said that expected contract approvals come as no surprise a very good chance that some lawsuit will be filed against the federal government because it made its decision without due consi deration to downstream Sis sel said Monday Missouri officials said they had no comment on the effects of a US Su preme Court ruling riday that con cluded a state does not have unres tricted power to ban the shipment of water toother states The decision appeared to reaffirm Congress as the ultimate authority over ground water supplies Judge halts KOMUs ABC switch By MIKE REILLY of the staff A federal judge in Kansas City has issued a temporary restraining order that stalls KOMU plans to dump NBC for ABC July 12 The delay may last only two days or until Oct 1 US District Judge Scott Wright postponed the switch last week be cause current ABC affil iate KCBJ TV is embroiled in an ownership suit that has prevented it from changing to NBC Wright will conduct a hearing July 14 to decide whether to allow the switchover immediately or not until Oct 1 when contract with KCBJ expires Representatives from Wooster Re publican Printing Co which is suing current KCBJ owners for title to the station said the delay was needed because the station would lose money without a network affilia tion Richard Koenig a current KCBJ co owner said he foresees an even tual ownership transfer but many details must still be settled In the meantime he and Wooster repre sentatives have tried to win affilia tion with NBC leaving the network 'confused biggest problem is not being sure who to deal said Tony Cervini vice president of planning for NBC affiliate relations is more interested in getting this thing settled than NBC The ownership battle began in 1979 when the Wooster firm an Ohio based media chain agreed to buy KCBJ from Koenig and his partners for about $35 million Later that year Wooster filed a law suit alleging owners had broken a contract In June 1981 the station was or dered sold by a federal judge in Kansas City Koenig and his partners appealed In April Judge a former Columbian or dered Koenig to sign a ederal Com munications Commission form transferring control of the station to a third party Columbia attorney Daniel Simon The transfer has been delayed Simon said because progress is being made toward a settlement But until an agreement is reached or Wright rescinds his order the University of Missouri owned KOMU will lose money hard to make (advertising) sales when you know who be said Tom Gray Channel 8 station manager now selling for July August and September and we Jiave no choice but to sell KOMU is the most popular station serving Columbia May Arbitron ratings show KOMU has a 44 percent market share for its 6 pm new scast compared with a 31 percent for KRCG Channel 13 and a 13 per cent share for Tac shown at that time by KCBJ ABC representatives are eager to get their network on Channel 8 costing us money said Bob ountain an ABC vice presi dent has better technical facilities and is much more in tune with philosopy of news and public service programs first ready to get on with the switchover its just a matter of action has no direct correla tion to the state of the Vangel said everybody is look ing at assets to see which bring the highest Earlier this year MA sold seed processing plants to Ring Around Products of Montgomery Ala and its interest in St Louis Grain Corp to Growmark Inc of Bloomington ni MA posted a total loss of $114 million in the last fiscal year and de creases of $197 million in working capital and $27 million in net worth Vangel said the closing will not af fect stored grain because all con tracts will be honored is part of a whole plan been looking at for the last Vangel said Plant's fumes still a mystery butUMC pays By JE TRUESDELL of the staff The University of Missouri Columbia has paid more than $13000 in damages caused by emissions from its power plant and officials are still not 'sure they have corrected the problem Sporadic ash emissions last spring and fall settled on cars near the plant corroding paint To date 319 claims have been filed with the UMC Business Operations Office Gebe Ejigu director of property and risk management said the insur ance policy excludes damage caused by pollu tion The university has paid $13000 directly from its own accounts he said UMC officials are working with Gallagher Bassett Insurance Service of St Louis to re solve the claims So far the firm has inspect ed about 150 claims and settled 47 While claims are being settled though UMC physical plant officials remain puzzled about what caused the damaging emissions Even so begun work to prevent a re peat performance by the two new towering smokestacks Plant employees last month installed a $45000 collection hopper to prevent ash from being carried into the air But no guar antee the hopper which should be operating this week will solve the emission problem not sure that it has been determined that anything is said Gaetano Russo director of facilities for the Columbia campus Mark Langford director of UMC facilities management said equipment failure caused last emission But this release which prompted most of the claims is still a mystery One theory is ash lying in air ducts Another possibility: equipment could have failed again Officials recently completed a review of the operation to identify other possibili ties tell you what the causes of that are until I sit down with the this week Langford said.