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Page 10 Columbla Dally Tribune Columbia Mo Saturday December 2 1989 Communists say invasion was mistake PRAGUE Czechoslovakia (AP) The Communist Party admitted yesterday the Soviet led invasion that crushed the Spring" reforms of 1968 was a mistake in effect apologizing for 2 1 years of repression "We arc of the opinion that the interven tion of five countries in 1 9G8 was not justi fied and the decision to do it was wrong" Politburo member Vasil Mohorit a said re ferring to a new "Action Program" the party has drafted' His statement opened the way for a reas sessment by the Kremlin and the four other participants in the invasion that ended the reforms possibly at a Warsaw Pact meeting next week in Moscow Of the invading countries Poland Hun gary and East Germany have said the inva sion was wrong The Soviet Union and Bul garia have not Mohorita made concessions to an oppo sition demand for dissolution of the Peo ple's Militia the party army but did not agree to abolish it School officials wary of proposed funding changes By HI DIKTLIR of the Tribune's staff Columbia Public Schools would reap $3 million in extra funding from a proposed change in (he way state school funds are di vided but officials are unsure whether the proposal is fair to the rapidly growing dis trict Deputy superintendent Hank isher said the State Board of Education is unrealisti cally expecting a Sill million increase in the public school budget Legislative budget leaders have said they are unlikely to ap prove such a large increase Before deciding to support the changes isher said district officia arc going to study the proposal with a smal er budget want to spend some time with it and de velop a better understanding why some dis tricts stand to lose and some to gain 20 per cent or 30 percent" isher said "We have a negative reaction if we were looking at it only from our own district's per spective" The state board is pushing lawmakers for an overhaul of the "foundation formula" the basic aid program for public schools to avert a lawsuit by districts that feel slighted by the current spending scheme In theory an equitable formula would pro vide the most state money to the poorest dis iritis Some educators who had threatened a lawsuit over the current formula are also questioning the proposed changes To guarantee the extra S3 million next year for Columbia schools lawmakers would have to approve the proposed changes and add Sill million to the $11 billion already spent through the formula each year The board gave tentative approval to the new formula last month The package was delivered to local districts this week for com ment and superintendents will be given their chance to respond at the next board meeting Dec 14 Among other Boone County districts the second largest funding boost would go to the Centralia VI schools The northeastern Boone County district would gamer an extra $3 11000 or 26 percent more than this year's stipend Centralia superintendent Tom Quinn could not be reached for comment yesterday but in an interview last month he said the biggest priority for his district is competing with Co lumbia for beginning teachers Eighty per cent of the funds a district receives through the formula are ear marked for teacher's sala ries Unequal funding in the past has hurt Cen SCHOOL UNDING PROPOSAL The state Board of Education Is pushing for an overhaul of the basic aid pro gram for public schools our Boone County school districts would benefit if the change is approved while two area districts would be better off with the status quo Proposed state aid Proposed state aid District under current plan with change Ashland $116 million $122 million Hallsville $15 million $14 million Sturgeon $516000 $510000 Contrails $143 million $163 million Harrisburg $743000 $762000 Columbia $13 million $1436 million Scarce Detriment jv Etenwitvy and SneonMry Education ability to pay competitive salaries Quinn said "In a market where com p'eting with Columbia enhancing salaries is very important And more money is extremely difficult to get on the local lev el" Dennis Burnett superintendent of South ern Boone County schools in Ashland said he intend to make any comments to the board about the funding mechanism Burnett runs the fastest growing district in the county lie advocates a simple flat rate per student for all districts In the state but feels sure that the biggest benefits from any change will go to urban areas that hold a ma jority in the General Assembly "Its not what's right for the kids of Missou ri it's right for their districts" Burnett said He takes comfort however in the realiza tion that the proposed changes can only help the district "Were in a situation where they can't do anything that is hurting worse than we're hurt now" CHKir 'll lx xv 1 1 1 4 gBtav I iMT Roy Smith right looks after his wlte lloGene who has disease Smith takes care of his wife until a volunteer such as rances Lackman left comes to help (LG Patterson photo) Hospice lends a helping hand By MELANIE BRUBAKER of the staff lloGene Smith sits in the sunlit room where gospel music pours from a cassette player She leans back into her chair her eyes vacant She has disease and her doctor expect her to live more than six more months lloGene Smith 76 requires 24 hour care but her husband does not want to place her in a nursing home To help care for his wife Roy Smith uses the Regional Hospice of Central Missouri Columbia Regional hos pice opened in September Since then the hospice has treated seven terminally ill patients Most have cancer and one has emphysema Smith is the hospice's only patient with Although workers visit patients at their homes hospice care is different from other home health care services because it treats both the patient and family said Kay ulwider the hospi director of hospice The program is certified by Medi care and might be covered by Medic aid and private insurance she said Hospice staff serve the patients' "social emotional and spiritual along with the medical she said The program gives patients the right to control their lives again she said "You can face death as an indi she said Hospice staff members include nurses physical therapists volun teers and social workers to help the patient's family deal with fatal ill nesses Workers also continue work ing with the family after the death for one year Other' services include medical care directed by the patient's physi cian nursing care equipment and medical supplies dietary and psy chological counseling hospital stays and continuous short term care Hospice also provides respite care for the families Insurance often pays for the pro gram because it shortens expensive hospital stays the director said ulwider an oncology nurse who has worked in local nursing homes and home health care services said the one on one treatment is "the kind of nursing you want to do" The hospice is the first in mid Mis souri that treats terminal patients ulwider said Similar hospice pro grams are in St Louis Kansas City Joplin and Springfield The concept has increased in pop ularity across the country with 1750 hospices serving patients in 50 states Columbia Regional is expanding the program to Randolph Macon Shelby Miller and Camden counties ulwider said A non profit organiza tion Hospice oundation of Mid Mis souri is also being established to help pay for indigent care Roy Smith said since he and his wife have been covered by hospice care have a much more complete sense of security a disciplined program they provide 365 days a year of care" Before Smith said he had to as catch can" with hired workers and volunteers after his wife started showing signs of about nine years ago Later she would leave the house and forget how to get home She been able to leave the house in a year A few days a week a hospice volunteer or friend takes care of her for about six hours Smith then visits other patients in hospitals and nursing homes "It's my relaxation" said the for mer YMCA director "I minister but I'm not in charge of them 24 hours a day When my work is done done" rances Lackman a new volunteer who works with lloGene Smith bathes her patient and changes her diaper during the visits along with helping Roy Smith with housework "Nobody is born alone" Lackman said "You shouldn't go out alone ei ther the biggest thing" An important part of volunteering is the ability to simply sit with a pa tient Smith said His wife needs someone who can read to her and hold her hand He bends over and kisses the woman he's been married to for 52 years "I want to take care of her" he said "I want to do Baby's mother in limbo Boone County prosecutor takes over case of dead infant By GEORGE MAZURAK of the staff Boone County prosecutor Joe Moseley will wait until Monday to decide whether to charge the 19 year old mother of an infant found dead Wednes day in a Stephens College dormitory Police and college officials have declined to identify the freshman honors student who was hospitalized for three days after her roommale discovered her bleeding severely and in pain The woman checked out of Boone Hospital Center yes terday Columbia police yesterday handed their investi gation over to Moseley who is awaiting laboratory tests of body tissue from the 38 week old male in fant After reading police reports Moseley said the two criminal charges potentially applicable to the case were homicide and endangering the welfare of a child Tests for the presence of toxic substances in body tissue and oxygen in lung tissue "could have an impact" on his decision to prosecute Moseley said Boone County medical examiner Eddie Adel stein has said the baby died because its lungs had not expanded The pathologist was uncertain whether the infant was a live birth or a still birth No marks were found on the body Adelstein said and there was no evidence of an in duced labor Police have obtained "a complete account" of the incident from the mother Moseley said The infant was born Tuesday night Moseley said but its body was not discovered for several hours after the mother had been taken by am bulance to a hospital emergency room The prosecutor refused to disclose other details of the investigation In January a newborn infant was found dead in a UMC Hospital and Clinics restroom The baby had been smothered Police have not located the mother In March 1988 a near full term Infant was found dead in a UMC dormitory toilet The baby had drowned Melissa Madewell the mother pleaded guilty to child endangerment and received a suspended six month jail sentence Stephens dean of students Guriana Wittstruck said pregnancy can be particularly difficult for young college students "because it doesn't fit into their life plans at Some students in such a predicament deny the reality of their pregnancies Wittstruck said "A mind is an amazing thing If we want to wish something away that's possible until something happens like the baby is born" Economy needs basic education consultant says By JENNY THELEN of the staff KANSAS CITY High tech re search parks offer fodder for publici ty but the best way colleges and uni versities can serve business is by pro viding good basic education said speakers at a statewide higher educa tion conference this week The possibility that "major new in dustrial development" will spin off from a university is false expecta tion and one you ought not to promise because I don't think you can deliver" Dennis Jones told uni versity administrators and governing board' members at Gov John Ash conference on exploiting the potential for higher education to aid economic interests Jones who is president of the Na tional Center for Higher Education Management Systems a research and consulting organization said re search parks such as North Caroli triangle" prospered because of specific isolated circum stances and only after a long gesta tion period "Economic development occurs primarily through helping existing businesses" Jones said and aw fully easy to aim too high and to be too sophisticated" in planning ways to woo industry support The University of Missouri and the state are building mult imillion dollar research parks in Kansas City and St Louis UMC which already has a re search park anchored by the re search reactor is debating whether to join forces with several economic development agencies and build a small business to hatch new high tech companies Jones said the most impor tant thing" higher education can do for business is to produce good grad uates Employers also look to univer sities for continuing education of older employees and as a source of new ideas and access to scarce equipment he said Managers frequently complain that universities are not teaching stu dents to be good critical thinkers communicators and members of a team Jones said David Lillard a partner in the Kan sas City based engineering firm Black and Veach said his company might employ 1000 more engineers in the next five years His chief wor ries include inadequate numbers of graduates who have been trained on outdated equipment and the flight of engineering faculty to better paying jobs in the private sector "Educational institutions are orga nized like the assembly lines chopped up into functions" said Bob Woolard of United Telecommunica tions Inc not thinking about how the whole thing fits" Jones said cooperation between business and educational institutions is hobbled by "a lack of understand ing of each ground and that such "cultural can only be overcome by close contact be tween people in the two sectors Higher education can take other steps to institutionalize business val ues from rewarding faculty who con tribute to economic ventures outside the university to forcing students to turn in papers on time Jones said time you forgive a require ment the work ethic drops a Jones also suggested internships that introduce students and faculty to business work environments of the problems with faculty is that none of them have ever worked in the where most of their students will be employed forbid" said John Koff man chairman of the coordinating board from the audience tear up the economy" New non cable TV station planned By ORREST ROSE of the staff Columbia television viewers are likely to have another non cable channel to choose from next spring when a lorida company plans to in stall a low power transmitter on the top of the old Tiger Hotel K02NQ Channel 2 might also be available as a cable channel an offi cial of TCI Cablevision said Ray Karpowicz a graduate of the UMC Schoo! of Journalism has al ready obtained CC licensing ap proval for the station Karpowicz currently general manager of station WEVU in ort Myers la was out of town and unavailable for comment until next week David McKelvey WEVU vice pres ident for engineering said Karpow icz is "going to try for some of the same programming that we do here We run mostly sports at night Last year we ran 160 baseball games and we run a lot of sports events from smaller He said the lorida station also airs "some old movies and some decent programming in ar eas like jazz music" McKelvey said low power televi sion transmission is relatively new concept over the air but as its name implies it's low power You'd have to be within five to 10 miles of the transmitter to pick it up "To be successful" he said "you've got to get on the cable sys tem and that means got to give people something that they want to sec" Rod Green of TCI said yesterday that Karpowicz met Tuesday with lo cal cable officials "We're receptive to the idea particularly if they get into a lot of local programming" Green said "It's got to go up our cor porate ladder but we are definitely entertaining the possibilities at this Although current lineup is full Green said "we're going through a rebuild that will open up some channel space" KOMU general manager Tom Gray said he has spoken with Kar powicz about "the possibility of re broadcasting our news" He said such arrangements "are happening ail over the United States where high powered stations are allowing low power stations to rebroadcast some programming It could be a good cross promotion for us" Gray said Karpowicz is one of sev eral people who have received CC approval for local low power sta tions "When they opened it up sev eral years ago people jumped in and got the licenses and do any thing with them 1 think Ray's going to open it up next "or Gray said Karpowicz ran St Louis station KSD now KSDK an NBC affiliate station He was president of the Missouri Broad casters Association in 1973 and 1974 "I think he's getting close to retire ment and wants to move back up here" Gray said.