Manitowoc Herald Times (Newspaper) - April 19, 1972, Manitowoc, Wisconsin THREE SECTIONS 40 Pages Plus Supplement Vol 223 Second Class postage paid at Manitowoc Wis MAN WIS WEDNESDAY APRIL 19 1972 iy I at m M id Holidays Manitowoc Wis RIDE FOR WOUNDED A South Vietnamese airborne sol- dier carries a wounded buddy on his shoulders after he was injured in a North Vietnamese attack while moving up Route 13 with troops about 45 miles north of Saigon AP to Fair Hills Fire Inquest Pinpoint Cause of Tragic Blaze Belated Story on Page 2 MANITOWOC A state fire expert morning sub- earlier reports that tne fatal fire at the Fair Hills in- the iR o s e c r a n s pril 4 was in all igea by the careless or negligent discarding of smoking materials The fire took the lives of 10 elderly residents ia home and seriously injured an cupant The testimony pinpointing the cause of the tragic blaze was of- at a inquest at the County Courthouse by liam D Rossiter Milwaukee director of the state fire shal bureau Rossiter and Henry C Fiege Wausau deputy state marshal conducted an intensive into the fire worst in Manitowoc County's history Rossiter said investigation has ruled out electrical wiring or the heating plant as a possible cause An Started in Chair evidence to the fact Rossiter said that the fire started in a large overstuffed chair and spread to the plastic drapes immediately next to it in the southwest corner of the living dining room on the first floor The chair was commonly known among the residents as chair The man re- ferred to was August Borchert 74 a victim in the fire He occupied the chair and was one of several cigarette smokers in the house However officials have not been able to definitely establish who was sitting in the chair on the night of the fire Rossiter said part of a burned zipper ket belonging to Borchert was found in the fire gutted chair Spread to Curtains Rossiter theorized that the fire spread to the plastic tains and then to the tiling which was composed of a lose or pressed p At this point it is believed that a window near the chair broke under the intense heat and the resulting draft carried smoke and deadly fumes into the upper level of the large two story brick dwelling The fire in the room reached such intensity Rossiter said that it partially melted an minum bowl type fixture n the ceiling He said it takes leat of degrees Fahrenheit Legislators Workload Is Expanded Items Added to Agenda for Special Session MADISON Wis AP Gov Patrick J Wisconsin legislators an ex- ded workload as they opened a special session on apportionment In the address for a joint sion Lucey expanded the sion call to include a women's equal rights amendment to the U.S Constitution repeal of the state's full crew law and modification of a usury law penalty The Democratic chief tive confidence the lawmakers would have a swift efficient and successful Price Fifteen Cents Soviets Principal in Vietnam Goldwater Some lawmakers were con- adjournment would come some time Friday Lucey warned the legislators m a lengthy address that was the most cial matter pending before them Courts Assume Many state legislatures have been unable to resolve the ny political question Lucey said and courts have had to sume the responsibility Let Wisconsin stand with those states legislatures have successfully reapportioned in conformance Take Photos of Craters SPACE CENTER Houston AP The Apollo 16 astro- firmly in the grip of nar gravity snapped pictures of watered target today and sped on toward an after- noon orbit of the moon The problems of flaking paint a locked guidance sys tern plumbing troubles a bal king dock latch and a faulty ra dio antenna were behind them and their spaceship was ning smoothly John W Young Charles M Duke Jr and Thomas K Mat tingly II awoke an hour early today to begin their own down for the thai would thrust them into orbit to start six days of scientific ad- venture in the vicinity of the themselves with the moon In midmorning miles from that Mattingly used equipped with special film and filters to take pictures of the about alien world a camera one-man standard rather than with those who have Lucey urged The governor said the tradition of Wisconsin and the ability of past tures to resolve matters makes the for enactment of successfu reapportionment during this session very promising The legislators were to at- tempt to resolve in three days what they couldn't do in months by redrawing districts 33 senators and 99 Control Split Republicans control the upper chamber 20-13 while crats hold a lopsided com- mand in the Assembly In urging adoption of the women's rights said the amendment continued de- melt aluminum No nerson can stand that Bulletin SAIGON AP North Vietnamese MIG fighters and shore patrol boats attacked U.S destroyers shelling the coast today and two of the boats were possibly sunk the U.S Command disclosed It said one of the MIGs was shot down and one U.S ship reportedly was damaged in the battle Four U.S sailors were listed as ed and of heat for more than a couple of he declared Rossiter said the home had a internal fire alarm system with four stations or pull boxes The system's main controls were lo- in the basement Examined 7 Bodies Rossiter said that none of the alarm boxes had been activated manually However the system was ringing when firemen ar- rived at the scene This meant he said that the fire started the system going Following the fire Rossiter ex- seven of the bodies at a temporary morgue set up in the Lincoln Park Fieldhouse in the City of Manitowoc He said they all appeared to have died from smoke inhalation and carbon monoxide poisoning Rossiter attributed the dy to a combination of The delayed discovery of the fire ineffectual efforts to guish the fire Joseph Turn to Page Col 2 nial of equal economic and gal status to women cannot be tolerable He noted a number of states already have ratified the posal The governor dwelled at on the subject of sin's full crew law a statute which has withstood repealed repeal attempts in past tures Immediate resolution of this matter is Lucey said or Wisconsin will face the potential of an imposition of a surcharge per railroad car loaded or unloaded in our state The railroads proposed the surcharge when the 1971 legis lature refused to change the law which requires a fifth Turn to Page Col 2 moon They were not ordinary ist snapshots but scientific photos to obtain information on the lunar atmosphere and ation emitted from the surface The moon took gravitational control of Apollo 16 at when the astronauts passed through a twilight zone in which the gravitational influence of the earth and moon is equal When Apollo 16 crossed this invisible line the moon won the gravitational tug-of-war and the spaceship's speed accelerated after slowing from to 600 miles an hour on the long outward journey from the earth The was to increase to about as the astro- Turn to Page Col 1 i BREAKS BARRIER Mrs Nancy Crowley was officially seated Tuesday night as the woman member in the history of the Manitowoc Common Council She was ea trom the left by Miss June Fetzer city clerk and Mrs Evelyn Martin deputy clerk Mrs Crowley was elected to the aldermanic post from the Fifth Ward to succeed her band Thomas who retired from the council Another new council member seated Tuesday Marvin Holschbach from the First Ward Photo by staff photographer Restricted News Coverage of Board Meetings Ordinance Repealed at Mishkot Economy Gains Inflation Surges WASHINGTON AP department said nation's economy recorded a The increase was about in Beer Bar Operators M Wis AP About 150 beer bar owners took over the Wisconsin Assembly chambers where Gov Patrick J Lucey was to address a joint legislative session this morning but left peacefully after ing the speech for more than one hour A spokesman said the nor would meet with the after his speech as they had asked The owners were protesting a new state law lowering to 18 MISHICOT The ordinance Danning tape recorders eras and broadcasting ment from Village Board i n g s was repealed Tuesday night The unanimous vote for the repeal followed a 10 minute ex- from which an audience of about 30 persons and members of the press wai barred Newly elected Henry Gray moved for the repeal and Clifford A seconded the motion Francis VanderLogt and Earl Flessert who voted for adoption of the ban Feb 1 asked for the executive session which was when ence members protested You'll have to leave for 10 said Village ident Howard Flentje Motion Withdrawn That's what you said the last said Mrs Joseph W Buda Her husband was fired as police officer allegedly for fil- ing a false application never produced as evidence against him during a closed board meeting Feb 17 Read the statute ing to closed executive two other members of the audience demanded After a hushed consultation at the board table amid discussion within the audience Village Clerk liam said that the tion for an executive session has been withdrawn until later Action leading to the repeal began when Gray reminded man to read a letter from chin Muchin the legal firm representing four of the five newsmen charged with violating the ban Atty V Alan Johnson wrote that if the ordinance were re- pealed and if the charges were dismissed the defendants would je willing not to pursue the matter As Public Service They are the defendants Martial H Ledvina I would like to see the thing Gray said A lot of time and a lot of village money has been spent pursuing this vina I'd like to go on record here and now saying I think we might as well test the of the ordinance From this point forward there will be no further ney's fees for the vina added He said that he would continue to press the case as a public service to the lage of Mishicot because I feel there is a need for this nance I can't see Mishicot's place in the universe as testing the said Gray I'd go along with that I have an ordinance here which would repeal Ullman Ledvina if the village board repealed the ban Gray asked if regular Urges Support of Retaliatory Raid Orders Asks Continued Bombing of Main N Viet Harbor WASHINGTON AP Re- publican senators blamed the Soviet Union today for the con- war in Vietnam and the new North Vietnamese sive The Soviet Union is the cipal culprit in this war said Sen Goldwater in calling for Senate of President Nixon's ordering re- air raids Sen Gordon Allott said the people responsible for delivering tanks and fuel to North Vietnam are the less rulers in the Kremlin Goldwater said he will in- a Senate resolution of support for the President He called for the continued bombing of Haiphong principal North Vietnamese harbor Debate Arranged The debate was arranged by Sen Alan Cranston who called for Nixon to get out of Vietnam or get out of office T w e n t senators were scheduled to speak While no specific legislation is involved hi the informal dis- cussion the Senate next week will consider an amendment to cut off funds supporting U.S combat forces in Indochina at yearend In the House Democrats scheduled a caucus to vote on what could be a deadline for ending the war The caucus planned to consider a to cut off funds for U.S war ations 30 days after enactment provided arrangements were made for release of prisoners of war Forced to Delete But there were indications hat the caucus might be forced to delete the deadline or prevent a vote rather than risk rejection that might be inter- as a show of Democratic support for Nixon war policies Sen Alan Cranston who organized today's Senate war debate said in prepared mentary procedure did not that Nixon Flentie sufficient power to call disruptive persons out of order without using the ordinance banning cameras recorders and broadcasting equipment Says Reasons Valid There is more to it than that Ledvina answered Congress has rules against cameras and certain types of re- cording devices I think the original intent of the resolution and ordinance was that it the presence of cameras and re- corders had a chilling effect on free discussion I think those reasons are still valid today Flessert then moved for an executive session and the con- ther get out of Vietnam or out of the race for re-election As a candidate for tion Cranston said Nixon must limit military escalation to avoid domestic upheavals take enough military action to pre- vent collapse of the South government and r i g h support and avoid triggering World War HI Today's debate was the first of the ation in Vietnam since the North Vietnamese crossed the DMZ in a conventional ground assault The Senate Relations Committee already has spent two days this week followed by the hearing administration ex- ensued At the end of the regular business session J checked the j Flentje rapped the gavel and I nance and said that it would called the executive session the ten He said he saw no A newsman asked Ledvina if don t know where they got reason why charges against the I the hoard would return to suing said Village Atty I newsmen would not be dropped I Turn to Page Col 3 of Nixon's decision to send more warplanes ward where last weekend bombed targets around Hanoi and Haiphong Huge Waste Destruction of Global Arms Race Nelson Proposes Items for Conference the legal for drinking hard liquor without giving them licenses They wanted assurance that legislation granting them liquor licenses even if local laws it would be up strong gain in the first three months of the year but the post freeze rate of inflation ged to a sharp 6.2 per cent the government said today The Commerce Department reported that Gross National Product market value of the services the ad- nation's goods and rose billion in January-March quarter at an annual rate of 11.8 per cent But well over half the in- crease was attributed to in- as prices soared ing the close of the wage-price freeze and the onset of dent Nixon's Phase 2 economic controls Broadest Measure GNP is the broadest measure of the economy The ad- ministration has projected that it will rise by 9.4 per cent for all of 1972 gain brought GNP to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of trillion line with administration tions although the rate of in- was sharply above the forecast According to administration projections about two-thirds of the expected 9.4 per cent growth is supposed to be a no- gain But the figures for the first quarter showed that the gain in that period with inflation dis- counted was 5.3 per cent Slower Gain This was slower than the 5.8 per cent recorded in the last three months of 1971 when the economy quickened after a slowdown GNP increased billion in the last three months of last year but the rate of inflation was only 1.7 per cent The 6.2 per cent figure on price i creases the first quarter was the highest since the 73 per cent recorded in the fourth quarter of 1970 Commerce said MANITOWOC Sen billion annually by 1980 it Nelson said Velson Wednesday the huge waste am of the global arms race be made a top item on the agenda for debate and action at the first world conference on the State Held in Clutches of Cold Air decade according to recent today In his letter to Herter Jr special assistant Manitowoc like most of the is whether the Nelson Argued that the of Wisconsin was held a with nit ai gucu uie fit he lay urged that could reach billion human race is going to destroy tions of the are already in the Hutches of and destruction ly and total trillion for the t o m o r r o w in order to live closer than we may realize to according to recent the of starving in Stockholm The proposal was the Wisconsin senator Urged to Leave Previously had SchooL v 1 V environment scheduled for the Secretary of State for of mass starvation and the what will there be left to in A ct J uv in been able to drink beer but not in parts of the state William Hopper president of the Wisconsin Malt Beverage Association urged the to leave We've here what we've wanted to he said from the podium If we stay here we're going to create more havoc th good He said the group could come back Officials had shifted the site of the speech to the much smaller Senate but later it was decided to wait un- til the Assembly chamber was cleared Assembly Speaker Norman Anderson had said forces were being assembled to remove the demonstrators but they were not used Reminder of 1969 The scene was remir icci it of an Assembly in Turn to Page Col 2 ence Nelson urged spending be made Failure to talk about the on the formal Affairs and of nuclear holocaust will by Howard Baker chairman of the make the nations realize that The consequences of the Durine the 24 hour Citizens Advisory we can no longer afford the bal rush toward ever more pS Jte hovered environment ury of war and massive defense s i ve defense establishments from the mark of that Nelson said i the was a specific i Near Tragic Status I Spiraling wasteful agenda of He said arms spending as a tion at a time when scientists d sive consumption and world environment major agenda item at the first are warning that mav run on the global defense race at ence the conference Ne would be like limiting ny at a crat argued Wisconsin got a brief meeting on the world out of resources supporting taste of almost Nelson also urged that the ment could be the modern civilization weather Tuesday the U.S delegation to the United world Nations sponsored conference starting June 6 in Sweden As a leading environmentalist son has been appointed by Congress to attend the ence as a member of the gation Spending Spirals Ironically amid warnings that mankind is pushing the limits on pollution population and resources world defense spending has spiraled to billion a Nelson told the students and faculty Ten years ago he said the world defense outlay was 1.6 million Temperatures had soared into resource supplies the i sources without any of oil a day during the the high 70s under sunny skies environment and man's thought to the limits of nature height of World War II but as the cold front entered the and the needs of men j barrels per day during the state climatic conditions were Korean War and 1.9 million brisk Real Question Nelson pointed out that in the last decade billion was spent worldwide on military equipment such as guns and The Weather Mostly cloudy chance of showers and continued cool ammunition tanks planes night Lows in the trucks and ships One would hour's fuel provide 2.5 food for a family of four The money for an aircraft carrier would provide housing for more than a quarter of a million ple he said Whether or not we have the courage to address it the real 30s Mostly cloudy and cool for a jet Thursday chance of actually months off and thunderstorms south Highs quality of 1.9 barrels per day during the The colder weather is here to nam War stay through the weekend and Tops Other Spending readings aren't expected to get Diversion of money and of the 50s for the next few sources away from what as tne that Heavy amounts of rain were 45 to 55 Manitowoc Temperatures 4 p.m Tuesday 42 8 p.m 36 midnight 35 4 day 32 8 33 noon 36 Two Rivers Temperatures 4 p.m Tuesday 45 8 p.m 38 question facing the June midnight 35 4 mg on the world day 38 8 38 noon 38 ture health education the environment the restoration of cities housing According to recent estimates Nelson said current world tary spending is running two and a half times that spent for health one and a hal Turn to Page Col 3 determine in the central portion man's of the state and one-half inch diameter hail was reported in a thunderstorm north of Madison in the Lodi area Marshfield which had better than an inch of rain also reported hail The highs ranged from 79 at Lone Rock to 39 at Superior The lowest reading the night at Ashland
