The Daily Journal from Flat River, Missouri • 1

Good evening! Friday, August 19, 1977 mm mm rVO UU Your Partner in Progress St. Francois County Mo. 177 Vol.47, No. 163 Singl Copy Pricf 20 1 j.u.'i.iji.i,."iijiui:uiiii.....ii...j.uiij Cni i'tl S- CI fcsj Assessor-elect alters set of tax appraisal guidelines property and keep the names current on other property. Under the new assessment guidelines, new homes will be assessed based on square feet plus other items.

A stone exterior home is assessed at $5 per square foot, while a brick home would be $4. Values on a partial brick home will be $3 while a wood siding or aluminum home will be assessed at $2.50. If there is a second floor it will be assessed at one-half of the'lower floor. Basements will be assessed at a 25 cents per square foot; if they are finished the rate doubles. A car port or an attached garage is $300 for a single and $450 for a double.

A fireplace will add $300 and an extra bath will be assessed at $50 each. A swimming pool will add $1,000 to the assessment and if it is heated, that doubles the rate. In the case of older homes only two square footage rules will apply. If a home is under 1,200 square feet it will be assessed at $1,000 if rough, $1,500 if average, and $2,000 if (See ASSESSMENT, page 3) Damon Black, county assessor-elect, announced today that the Board of Equalization has agreed on guidelines for assessments in St. Francois County.

Black, who has been filling the post of chief clerk at the assessor's office since July 1, also said that two persons will be hired on Sept. 1 to work out of the office in assessments. Black said he wants to make it clear that this is not a countywide reassessment. "These people will be working to bring new property that might now not be on the books into line. The guidelines have been developed to provide these people with workable ideas," Black said.

He explained that he had been meeting with the Board of Equalization, because of the illness of County Assessor C.A. Lalumondier, and plans to put all of the new items in effect when he officially assumes the assessor's office on Sept. 1. Black also said he had made arrangements with Union Electric to supply him with a list of hook-ups they made so the outside assessors can check on new (second from left) purchased Adonis from owner Kraig Sutherland. Dugal and wife, Betty (left), said they will donate the animal to 4-H for re-sale.

The bidding on Adonis topped out at $1.50 per pound, for a total price iof $1,855. Staff photo by Dan Ronning Senate tradition in path 'Winchester Man' here win's-PSC bid fedta feast Haynes will get it together at the Fair GRAND CHAMPION Adonis, a 50-inch tall steer weighing in at 1,237 pounds, won the title of Grand Champion Thursday night at the St. Francois County Fair. Bill Dugal personally favors Mrs. Slavin's confirmation.

Mrs. Slavin said she still is confident she lias the 18 votes to win confirmation but acknowledged the chances of the confirmation vote occurring have diminished. She said she and her supporters have "something else in mind, but I'm not at liberty to say what it is. "If I were a senator, I would have a great deal of difficulty living with senatorial courtesy," she said. Teasdale talked with the sponsoring senators prior to the committee meeting, but did not succeed in changing their minds.

"Since I am totally opposed to her philosophy, I cannot sponsor her," said Sen. Ralph Uthlaut, R-New Florence, who represents Jefferson City. Mrs. Slavin technically lives in Jefferson City because the five PSC members must be law reside in the state capital. Nor would Sen.

A. Clifford Jones, R-Brentwood who represents the district in which Mrs. Slavin really lives sponsor her. "I will do nothing to promulgate her confirmation," Jones told Teasdale in a telephone conversation. Teasdale later told reporters "This is just another case where an appointee is popular in the state, but can't get the confirmation of the senate because of tradition." By Joe Layden Daily Journal Managing Editor "It's a good show put on by professionals and one I plan to take out on the road with me," Michael Haynes, the Winchester Man, said as he spoke of the Michael Haynes Showcase that will be presented at the St.

Francois County Fair Saturday. The showcase will be two shows, one at 6 p.m. and the second at 8:15 p.m., and will feature singer Colleen Kay. Reserved seat tickets are now on sale at Wal-Mart in Desloge, Flat River Lumber and Discount in Flat River and Radio Station KTJJ in Farmington. The ticket price is $3 for reserved seats.

That also will be the general admission price for adults. Ticket prices for children age 6 to 12 will be $1. For those under 6, the admission is free. Haynes is the man that turned television commercials around. Before him it was always the boy-next-door type suggesting you buy the product.

Winchester and Haynes broke in on the television screen with a sex symbol that always gets the girl. "That's true. He always did get the girl but I think there is something important in the fact that he never Callers are not seeking specific choices, just anything by Presley. The store-owner added that record buyers had not forgotten Presley since the days when his work dazzled the industry. Presley has remained a good drawing card where records are sold, the merchant said.

"I imagine the record companies will make more in a hurry, so we can have them soon," he said. A large department store in Farmington said its 30 Presley albums and tapes were sold out by late Wednesday. More are ordered and expected soon, a spokesman said. In especially high demand were Presley's latest album "Moody Blues," and his gospel work. Add haste to case, Circuit Court Judge Gary Black Jr.

used a velvet hammer this morning when he warned attorneys that their cases will be pushed over to the next term day if they are -not ready when called. Black looked at the audience in the courtroom, made up mostly of clients of the attorneys, and said this would mean the clients would have their cases delayed. The judge was not so soft when he told the senate gubernatorial appointments committee, which approved more than a dozen other appointments. "I'd say the chances are slim or none," said senate president Pro Tern Norman Merrell after a hectic morning of behind-the-scenes negotiations between Gov. Joseph P.

Teasdale and the senators. Under the tradition of senatorial courtesy, the senator who represents the district in which the appointee resides can refuse to approved The only significant change made in the Senate was the addition of $2.5 million for a multipurpose building at the St. Louis State School and Hospital. The special legislative session, which began Aug. 10, was called specifically to appropriate money for new prison facilities.

The six month regular session this year was unable to reach agreement on the type and location of new facilities. Legislative leaders reached a compromise agreement with Gov. Joseph P. Teasdale in a closed door meeting a few weeks ago. It was decided to build a $25 million medium-security prison in St.

Louis, St. Louis County or Washington County. The remaining $11 million would be spent dotted happy children who tre bright eyed and alive with the founds and sights o( the fair. Then to home over mom dad'i arm with those bright to lawyers fold attorneys that he was not happy with the conduct of the group at the last Law Day. "We will wait five minutes, but last time many of you ran off to your offices and we had to wait 15 minutes or longer and sometimes had to send the sheriff off to get you.

We will not do that this time," Black said. He concluded by saying, "We are all professionals. We should act like it." act as sponsor and the appointee will not be considered for confirmation. Senators could break the tradition by securing 12 votes to force a floor vote on Mrs. Slavin.

Several senators said they may attempt such a tactic. If they do not succeed before the current special session ends next week, Mrs. Slavin loses her seat on the PSC and can never be reappointed. "I'm not going to break the tradition of senatorial courtesy," said Merrell, who in Senate for a 564 inmate maximum-security "prison within a prison" at the main penitentiary in Jefferson City. An attempt by Sen.

George Murray, R-Creve Coeur, to block any possibility of the medium-security prison being located in the Chesterfield-Gumbo sections of St. Louis County was unsuccessful. Murray lost on a vote of 21-4. Sen. Al Mueller, D-St.

Louis, also tried to add St. Charles County to the area in which the prison could be built. Mueller's amendment lost on a 26-5 vote. Sen. Phil Snowden, D-Gladstone, tried to remove $50,000 for glassed-in side galleries the Senate chambers.

He lost on a voice vote. eyes doted by sleep as they dream of the day they raced that boat or rode that borte at the county fan-, Staff photos by Dan Ronning Death prompts buying spree Elvis discs cleaned out JEFFERSON CITY (UPI)-Unless the Missouri senate breaks one of its oldest and most sacred traditions, self-avowed consumer advocate Alberta Slavin will not win confirmation for her appointment to the Public Service Commission. Mrs. Slavin 's chances for retaining her seat dwindled Thursday because the only two senators who could sponsor her nomination refused to do so. She was not even considered for confirmation by the Prison bill JEFFERSON CITY (UPI) The Missouri Sertate Thursday passed a $145 million appropriations bill, including $36 million for new prison facilities, setting the stage for the end of the special legislative session next week.

The bill was expected to go to conference when both houses of the legislature return 5 p.m. Monday. The Senate Appropriations Committee had sent to the floor a bill slightly lower than that passed by the House. The addition of $2.5 million on the Senate floor brought the total to about $2 million above the House figure. The measure being considered at the end of the last session amounted to $125 million.

AT AW tS SMILES-TV imllM on the beei of thest yoang iters tell the itory I tot 8t Francois Connty Falr'i mid- ay. Tat fair, which opened lor a tlx- day ma Monday, always hubeeaheea jrv. assumed he would win out. If you see the commercial, he always glances at the girl to make sure she was interested before he moved to talk with her. I would never play a person so assuming that's not the Winchester man," Haynes says.

It also is not Michael Haynes. "The Winchester man is only part of me. I am the whole of him because he is visual but that is only part of Michael Haynes." An actor, producer, director, songwriter, poet and a talent are all parts of Michael Haynes but he is a much deeper person than one gets from the plastic facade of the billboard, where he now appears larger than life as the Winchester man. One comes away feeling that he is shy but confident and is a professional. With Haynes will be Bob Duncan.

Duncan is the wirter of "Queen of the Starlight "Let Me Call You Baby" and seyeral other top hits. Duncan will be performing his and other songs as a special bonus at the show. Also featured on the show will be Steve Jones and the Winchester Bank, (See WINCHESTER, page 3) The store had 11 Presley gospel recordings. In Desloge, a spokesman for a large department store said 36 out of 40 Presley tapes and long-playing albums were gone by Thursday. A large shipment of new ones was due in today or Friday of next week, he said.

Customers were reportedly not selective, demanding anything by Presley. Presley's first major record, "Heartbreak Hotel" in 1956, satisfied a desire among young people for music with guts and sex appeal. It launched him into a singing career that eventually reached an estimated 400 million record sales worldwide. Along the way, Presley made more than 30 movies. ordering Kent State not to start construction until that appeal is heard.

The appeals court said it would hold a hearing at 9 a.m. Wednesday in the case, but gave no indication how long it may take for a decision to be reached. Those opposing the gym, led by activist attorney William Kunstler, say the construction would forever destroy the site, which they say should be preserved as a 1 national landmark. The Interior Department is conducting a study to determine if the federal government should declare the site a historical landmark, and in Washington Thursday, Sen. James Abourezk, said he would introduce legislation to ban construction until the study is completed.

Abourezk, chairman of the Senate Parks and Recreation subcommittee, said the legislation would be introduced when Congress returns from its August recess. Judge restrains work on gym at Kent State The demand for Elvis Presley records swept through St. Francois County along with the rest of the United States following the singer's death. Two stores that sell recorded music in volume were sold out of Presley stock by Thursday. A third had only four of the singer's tapes left on its shelves from a supply of 40 tapes and albums there when the rock and roll star died Tuesday.

A Flat River music-store merchant said his Presley inventory, about eight albums and a few single records, was snapped up almost immediately after the news arrived. "One woman called up and said she wanted some of his religious records," he said. "She bought much of what we had, and another lady purchased the rest." He said his store's phone has been ringing steadily since because of the demand. Outside HIGH (Yesterday) 88 IjOW (This morning) 56 RAIN: Chance of showers tonight and Saturday, taw tonight in the low to mid 60s. High Saturday in the lower 80s.

EXTENDED OUTLOOK (Sunday through Tuesday): A chance of thun-dcrshowers Sunday, but partly cloudy and still cool Monday and Tuesday. Inside Classified Pp. 11-15 Comics Pg. 8 Crossword Pg. 8 Dear Abby Pg.

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3 Polly's Pointers Pg. 10 Sports Pp. 6 47 Stocks Pg. 3 TV programs Pg. 8 si (UPI) Once again a judge has ordered Kent State University not to begin constructing a gym near the site of the 1970 Kent State shootings until legal action concerning use of the land has wound its way through the courts.

U.S. District Court Judge Thomas tambros Thursday issued a temporary restraining order staying construction of the controversial gym, which is planned for the site where four KSU students were killed by National Guardsmen during an antiwar demonstration. Just the day before, I-ambros had ruled that the school could go ahead with the $6 million gym complex. But when he officially filed his ruling Thursday, he noted that the May 4th Coalition, the group leading the protest against the gym, was appealing his ruling. Since the appeal already had been filed in the U.S.

6th Circuit Court of Appeals In Cincinnati Thursday, Lambros said, he was.