Madison Capital Times (Newspaper) - December 30, 1982, Madison, Wisconsin Weather Flurries low Cloudy high Details on Page 22 36 5 Sections 304 Runaways Kids who take flight See todays PM Badgers Hockey Basketball See Sports One City Edition THE Wisconsin December No place for a walk RICH Capital Times The fury and cold of winter has returned to Wisconsin after a brief Christmas And the side walk along Lake Mendota in James Madison Park was a place to avoid To avoid taxes Jobless go underground Where to find It By DIANA HENRY The Baltimore Sun BALTIMORE The handyman remembers feelings developing like snapshots after he was laid off from the federal General Services Admin carpentry workshop where he had toiled 2 there had been the layoff rumors and their grim The rumors hovered over the work shop like vultures after Ronald Rea gan became president seven months there were the days that died in long lines waiting for unemployment office it chipped away at him to drag his wife and three children to the De of Social Services for emer gency The bills had piled high and his unemployment check was three weeks They helped us out we received food stamps and he But you got to help So the 33yearold Vietnam veteran began to take odd repairing a door a window renovat ing a kitchen every now and The money was not as good as at where work had been steady while it But this money was different It went unreported and un With that the handyman Joined what economists call the un or what the In ternal Revenue Service calls the tax gap peopled by those who fail to report their As the number out of work grows and longterm unemployed are dropped from the unemployment more and more people are turning to can It was either that or go stick somebody said the softspoken carpenter like others inter asked not to be He reported none of his feeling he had nothing to spare for the likes Continued on Page Col 3 Sports Pages 1114 Local News Pages 2122 PM Section Pages 1520 Arts Births Classified ads Comics Death notices Editorial Pap 15 States warn drivers Dont drink By HOWARD KURTZ Washington Post News Service WASHINGTON From where tougher penalties have cut the number of car accidents by 41 per to where 30 fewer peo ple are dying each month on the high a nationwide campaign is mak ing unprecedented progress against drunken For the first time in many holiday the dominant news is not the usual increase in highway but increasingly successful new laws and enforcement efforts to keep drunken drivers off the In the most ag fewer people are dying in auto Legislatures in 18 states passed tougher laws this and similar bills are pending in 14 Maryland and New Jersey joined 23 other states in raising their drinking ages to 21 for most alcoholic reversing the trend of the early 1970s toward lower drinking Wisconsin has initiated major pro Managing editor Dave Zweifel explains why The Capital Times publishes the names of people arrested for drunken See Editorial grams to force drunken drivers off the A law providing more stringent penalties for drunken driv ing convictions went into effect May Since enforcement has in creased the number of drivers losing licenses has jumped 40 See details on Page The state appears headed for its lowest traffic death toll since and Dane County may have the low est in its Both state and local officials attribute some of the drop to tougher See story on Page Many states are resorting to mandatory jail stiffer Continued on Page I Relieved Madison sees home boom Phone Numbers Circulation Want ads 2526363 2526321 By CRISTA ZIVANOVIC Capital Times Staff Writer Lower interest de mand for housing and a high rate of personal savings are signaling an up swing in home buying that could make 1983 a boom year for Madison area real estate The rollercoaster housing market which saw a frenzy of home buying in the late 1970s followed by a painful slump in 1980 and 81 due to climbing interest rates seems to be screech ing to a halt and moving onto a new track of according to real estate agents and mortgage The home buying fever that swept through during which lower interest rates and skyrocketing infla tion made buying a home which could only appreciate in value a surefire likely wont come around said David Stark of Stark But the current balance of low inflation and low interest rates will have a stabilizing spurring people to buy homes for the same reasons they did 10 years ago as a place to for a tax break and for a good investment but not to make tons of money on ap Stark As far as I can 1982 was the worst year weve ever worse than 1980 The notion that nothing was mov ing in 1982 is certainly wrong we made but it was a slow year compared to the two before Stark Stark that housing sales were better in September and October of this year than he had ex mostly because of the declin ing interest rates that started a downturn in late Last year at this mortgage interest rates were above 17 Continued on Page 4 Oregon man is fifth Capital Cash winner Harold Wendt of Oregon is the latest person to cash in a Capital Cash dollar bringing the total given away so far to and left to find lucky Wendt who is retired and active in the larly the Oregon Fire Department came in Wednesday morning with the lucky with the serial D 33222949 and left with He thinks he may have picked up the by way of his grand daughter who was visiting over the Christmas The started out last Sunday at Bills Food Center in It might have been worth but since Tammy Sullivan of Lodi won the jackpot with a winning number on Wendts was worth Other winning bills started out Sunday at JoJos on University The Barren on Whitney and Super America on Monona a Capital Times reader for 45 becomes the fifth person in the last two weeks to collect in the which is giv ing away as part of The Capital Times 5th anniversary cele Sullivan won the two weeks ago Mildred Baker of Horeb won an and Julie Kreidermacher of Madison and Marilyn Stensaas of Stoughton have each collected Twentyfive bills that have been distributed around the county continue to be worth Those serial numbers are on Page 16 of todays Five more lucky dollars will be put in circulation this The numbers will be printed Monday with a jackpot that will grow by a week until someone wins RICH Capital Times Harold Wendt of Oregon is the latest Capital Cash George former CT dies George longtime city editor and executive editor of The Capital died today at the nursing home where he Death came at as the result of a who retired after 47 years at The Capital had been a with his at the Arbor View Health Care 1347 Fish Hatch ery since July of last Elliott editor of The Capital noted that Stephen sons death was the fourth to strike the ranks of the retired Capital Times staff members in He said George Stephensons death is the fourth tragic loss that has befallen The Capital Times family in the past following Harry Miles McMillin and John Steve was one of the people Evjue de pended upon to help steer The Capi tal Times on its progressive He had a zest for journalism that was He was a delightful and witty man with a heart as big as a Continued on Page 4 George Stephenson in his days as executive editor of The Capital
