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PACE Columbia Daily Tribune Columbia Mo Tuesday October 16 1984 ischel Richter settle By CHRISTOPH SZECHENYI of the staff EllLs ischel State Cancer Center has settled the latest round of its seven year old battle with former medical physicist and radiation safety officer Clifford Richter Attorneys for Richter and the hos pital this morning asked a federal labor judge to dismiss the case Nei ther side however would publicly reveal details of the settlement The 119 bed hospital insisted on keeping details of the agreement se cret Richter who moved to the Kansas City area after his August dismissal is unlikely to return to Ellis ischel where he had worked since 1972 Richter had claimed the hospital discriminated against him when its governing body the State Cancer Commission eliminated its medical physics department and his $56000 a year post this summer In September a US Department of Labor investigator sided with Richter concluding that the hospital had no reason to fire him The offi cial ordered the hospital to rehire Richter pay his moving expenses restore his back salary and pay his legal fees The hospital appealed that deci sion however and Judge John Bradley heard two days of hearings on the case earlier this month Richter claimed the staff members had persecuted him since 1978 for reporting an error in a treatment But the hospi administrators said they cut his position as part of an effort to reduce Ellis expenses The move followed the layoff of 37 employees some of whom were rehired Hospital representatives earlier this month said they preferred not to settle with Richter because it would set a precedent for other employees who had lost their jobs The settlement announced yester day surprised Bradley who arrived in Columbia last night for more hearings The judge said he would consider the request for dismissal If the request is approved the case would be barred from being re filed thus ending battle with the hospital He was first dis missed in 1978 following his report to the US Nuclear Regulatory Com mission that doctors had left radio active particles inside a patient too long WSr vz ft Smiths plan to cash in on Reagan By MIKE REILLY of the staff The grandson of a Pullman railroad car worker Kevin Smith grew up amid the smoky iron mines of Nothem Michigan learn ing the value of hard work and self reliance Kim Smith grew up in loris sant learning values similar to her in the suburbs of Catholic school teachers and McDonnell Douglas businessmen Kim and Kevin started their 1979 marriage with the hand to mouth existence common to part time students doubling as full time laborers ive years two children and a president later fi nancial ends meet cast enthusiastic ballots for Ronald Reagan No reason to change course think the economy is what most of America is worried Kim says you feel good if employed if happy if able to give your kids a few extra things than it really matter who's presi The Smiths live at and manage Holiday House apartments Kim 28 handles the day to day chores while nurturing four year old Katie and toddler Robbie Kevin 31 is an accountant for Semco Manufacturing Co He stands six hours shy of a Columbia College business degree like forever worked and worked and were just scraping Kevin says that doing all right we start getting this huge tax bill I mind the bill getting a little The young support for Reagan stems from more than the promise of lower taxes always sided with Republican candidates Kevin speaks with the self made assurance of an arch conservative and his coming of voting age coincided with Richard second drive for president in 1972 vote for him again now if I Kevin says he did some things wrong But he had the people and other nations in the palm of his hand We can always use some of Reagan commands a similar genie Kevin believes a feel ing of momentum what plays on the stock market A good good No surprise Jimmy Carter never won the favor His popularity with the poor reminds Kevin of Adolf Hitler know a terrible thing to say but appeal to the have nots was the same He sort of came out of Kim cringes at the analogy But the vintage '80s superwoman she brings home the bacon and fries it up in a pan as the com mercial says stands behind Reagan no less rigidly She ap plies maternal instincts one of those people who just have an air about Kim says can tell he can While their beliefs flower in con sistent votes for Republicans the Smiths look back back to their ELECTION 1984 ive amilies This is the third story in a week ly series ending Election Day Nov 6 in which local families trill talk about this political campaign roots for the seed of their sturdy conservatism One of five children Kevin was transplanted from Ironwood Mich to armington Mo during high school His father climbed the mining ladder from clerk to accountant never borrowed any money and is proud of Kevin says Kim meanwhile watched her parents save every penny of salary from the hotel business Neither family was politically active hardly feeling the social fabric fray during the Vietnam Kim Kevin and Robbie Smith David Rees photo and Watergate eras a product of the values that I was taught" Kim says up in a Catholic neigh borhood alone is enough to make you conservative" Working through college the couple met in 1976 at Harpo's a local student bar brimming with designer clothes and $25 hair cuts After years of restaurant jobs they now have a comfortable in come which includes free rent and utilities Kevin says they earn enough $25000 to $30000 annually to have gained much from tax cuts But they welcome the rich getting big breaks as we are we're not going to turn the economy he says like tax cuts for people who have enough money to make a On foreign policy they acknowl edge one has to look hard to find any good done I think somebody to Kevin says Mondale is nobody to respect "Those people are different from us people brought up in the Soviet Union China or one of their satellites heard only one point of view They un derstand only one thing the use of force afraid of Reagan They ought to With their minds made up nei ther Smith pays much attention to media coverage of the election They watching the presi dential debates more of a fashion show than a Kevin says media is more concerned with how much make up and who than what issues were Kim a communications gradu ate at the University of Missouri Columbia has no interest in going into journalism She and her hus band mistrust the media biases forged by what they call after a fire at Holiday House two years ago is too much power in the hands of journalists" Kevin says Rather very opinonat ed Every day 18 to 20 million peo ple hear his opinon as fact know what my 4 year old said the other day? She said know Daddy I like Mondale bet ter than I know if got better commercials or what not the college educated people I worry about but the un Northup tones down rhetoric in conservative election bid By KAREN BALL of the staff In an effort to shed his image as a Missouri Senate candidate Bob Northup is waging a campaign short on radical views and long on conservative eco nomic proposals know been obnoxious in the says North up a former John Bircher Baptist missionary and door to door hearing aid salesman just want to get along Northup 43 has a lot of getting along to do if he wants to unseat Roger Wilson the popular Democratic incumbent in the 19th District He knows it probably got a very slim chance of making it this Northup concedes "Things work out the way I thought they would The Republicans have been very cordial to me but conservative people give conservative Indeed According to campaign finance reports re leased Sept 27 Northup had raised only $1282 and had spent all but $210 of it He figured he would have to col lect $10000 to dump Wilson who has more than $18000 in his campaign kitty Along with a frugal campaign Northup has to use his office at Hearing on Second Street as his cam paign headquarters Swarms of flies from the dump ster at the fried chicken franchise next door are just one of the problems he faces in this race But squat mustachioed Northup intends to keep plugging He thinks that even if Wilson trounces him the race will allow him to air his views and establish a conservative power base for a later run ideas akin to the patriotic tide sweeping the country ought to count for a few votes He believes in President Ronald Reagan the right to bear firearms and a strong defense He does not believe in the Equal Rights Amendment abortion lottery games pari mu tuel betting or pay raises Still sympathetic to Joe cause Northup used to tote in his briefcase an American flag bought at Ace Hardware A rabid home rule opponent he carted the flag to town halls where home rule was debated so he could always pledge his alle giance Home rule is a proposal that would give counties more independence from the state In 1981 Northup dubbed home rule a conspir and accused the members of the Home Rule Charter Commission of treason Now he plays down those comments as a ploy for media attention Northup would also just as soon forget his past af filiation with the John Birch Society which he tried to resurrect in Columbia in 1979 a skeleton as far as concerned broken all ties with Instead switched to the Republican camp and has learned how to toe the party line Like most politi cians of his party Northup promises to protect taxpay ers from government waste if elected throwing money away Cutting fat is an old cliche Ev erybody promises and nobody does other campaign promises include a plan to save Missouri farms and another to keep insurance revenue at home His farm scheme is short and sweet: Allow Missouri producers to stamp their products with the state seal and the words "Buy Missouri products keep the jobs at As for his insurance plan Northup has what he calls a proposal that would require out of state insurance companies to keep 60 percent of the money from insurance paynients in Mis souri banks The plan has been shot down by state in surance agents and Wilson who sat on the Senate In surance Committee are people that think it would Northup says noting critics who predict other states would retaliate against Missouri firms believe that even if they did have retaliatory laws that we would still by far benefit Something needs to be done to limit the hemorrhage of Wilson a former elementary school teacher has called education the most important issue of the cam paign Northup thinks Republican gubernatorial hope ful John support of competency testing and merit pay for teachers might help solve some problems in education got to regain the public confidence in public Northup says He hints at a plan for education intended to spark competition Jn" ji mh' WWfc I JI ELECTION 1 984 STATE SENATE between public religious and at home schooling but he refuses to reveal details until after the election Even if his political plans go unheard potential voters are sure to catch wind of moral stands A devout man Northup has for his church by organizing Baptist congregations in Centra lia and in Columbia He has considered pioneering in Jefferson City but he has a different mission there do anything without feeling that God leads our Northup says Bible says that the steps of a righteous man are led by the Lord Do I feel led? Yeah I feel like this is what he wanted me to Northup recently wrote a satirical six verse poem explaining his view on the lottery proposal: the hill a messiah appears a savior of hope to disrel all fears Bow down! be no mockery who can save us now but Lord Though the lottery issue is included in campaign literature he says not trying to use it against Wilson who supported the lottery proposal on the Senate floor last spring not my enemy Roger I think has done a lot both Dixiecrats a lot more con servative than he is but not a typical Republi Northup has however used $3000 a year pay raise approved last spring against Wilson not offended by the amount offended at the way it was done Snuck through the last day The law makers badgered like it was an auctioneer up Despite his disdain for the political wheeling and dealing common at the Capitol Northup says he could hack the job I get frustrated? They would be frustrated with me very If Northup ever ends up at the Capitol got big plans am an inventor in spirit" he says have not been the average type of fella in my input in our local affairs here And guarantee you I be the average type of fella in Jeff City if I ever get there ei KCBJ TV sold to Kansas firm By SCOTT ANDERSON of the staff Stauffer Communications Inc of Topeka Kan today announced an agreement to buy Columbia televi sion station KCBJ TV net work affiliate in Mid Missouri have been approached nu merous times by potential said KCBJ President Richard Koen ig who started the station in 1971 with his brother Robert seemed the most beneficial to the Terms of the sale which is subject to ederal Communications Com mission approval were not re leased The sale was the second involving a local television station this year In August KRCG TV the CBS affiliate that operates out of Jefferson City on Channel 13 was sold to Price Com munications Corp of New York City Stauffer owns television stations in Topeka and Santa Maria Calif four Midwest radio stations the Kansas City Royals Baseball Network the Kansas Agricultural Network and the Bulldog Network in Des Moines Iowa In addition to its broadcast hold ings the company owns 21 daily newspapers in eight states and five retail computer stores in Kansas Oklahoma and Missouri Stauffer executives were unavail able for comment In a statement re leased this morning company Presi dent Stanley Stauffer said are looking forward to serving another state capital Jefferson City and being located in Columbia with the University of Richard Koenig said are some tender due to part ing with the station but he is pleased it be taken over by a very re sponsible Koenig said he will pursue other business interests but declined to elaborate News of the sale was greeted warmly by employees an editor said initial reaction was said assignment editor Ron Widbin But think everyone over here is pleased with Widbin said the new owners more employee when announcing the sale to workers this morning A Stauffer spokesman mentioned Increased company ben efits and the possibility of enlarging the staff are very high on local news" said Widbin want to beef that Station Manager Tom Koenig son said the new owners hoped to be operating by Jan 1 1985 Negotiations regarding the sale he said first began two months ago He said he expects to remain in a simi lar role but warned it is too early to determine what personnel changes may occur In 1979 an Ohio media firm sought to buy KCBJ which at the time placed the purchase price at $35 million After three years of negotia tions and court battles the deal was ruled invalid The station switched its affiliation from ABC to NBC in August 1982 when KOMU TV became the innoi ABC station ELECTION 1984 ELECTION 1 984 STATE SENATE.