Neenah-Menasha Northwestern (Newspaper) - November 18, 1974, Oshkosh, Wisconsin Edition of the Oshkosh Daily Northwestern Associated United International year Oshkosh Wis Monday November 18 1974 30 Pages 154 County has rejoined two-party system Democrats no longer have to be embarrassed about Winnebago County Even though 1974 may be an unusual political year the Democrats by ning three elected tions have brought the two-party system back to local politics western reporter John explores the phenomenon in a two-part series starting today By JOHN COMBELLICK Northwestern Staff Writer For as long as anyone can remember Winnebago County has been considered to be a classic example in Wisconsin of a Republican county But the results of the Nov 5 election when Democrats elected a state senator a state representative and a dis- attorney show that Winnebago County has now joined the ranks of counties with a two-party system The rise of the Democrats in the county can be ed to several factors including stronger candidates a much more vigorous party organization the legalization of voting by and the general increase of cratic Party strength in Wisconsin The reputation of Winnebago County as a stronghold of Republicanism reaches back to beyond the turn of the century when Sen Philetus Sawyer and the other Oshkosh lumber barons were bastions of the wart branch of the Republican Party in the battles for control of the state party with the La Follette sives The Democrats scored some successes during the De- pression era Democratic landslides in the But by 1938 Winnebago County had a 100 per cent Republican de- legation in the state Legislature again In 1950 William Draheim of Neenah running as a Democrat was elected to the State Senate However it turned out that Draheim wasn't really a Democrat after all Before the end of his first term he converted to Republican and subsequently won four more terms in the State Senate as a Republican The Republicans continued to maintain undisputed con- trol of the county's delegations in the Legislature during the and 60s The Democrats scored overwhelming victories nationally in 1958 and 1964 but the Republican candidates for the Legislature in Winnebago County con- to breeze to victory The beginnings of increased activism by the Democrats arrives coincided with the term of John Allen as county ic Party chairman from 1969 to 1973 Before Allen became chairman the post of county cratic chairman was basically a ceremonial office The tive Democrats in the county had to content themselves with the usual perquisites of minority party officials such as doling out a little patronage and getting their pictures taken with visiting party big wheels If they were favored they might get the prize political a postmastership But Allen an farmer took over the ship with the avowed purpose of making the Democrats contenders in elections in the county and he set out to build a grass-roots organization Still without some favorable circumstances the might not have made a dent in the Republican nation in the county to this day One of the most favorable circumstances was the Continued page 2 col 1 Ford in Japan amid heavy security TOKYO AP Some 400 helmeted radicals clashed with armored not police today as Ford arrived in Japan and about half of them were arrested Another demonstrators shouted anti- Ford slogans where Ford landed for the Palace in downtown Tokyo of welcomes and did not mar the ceremonies Ford then took a helicopter to downtown Tokyo for an over- night rest in a heavily ed palace Afler a flight from The outbursts took place Washington across the Inter- two miles from the airport national Date Line the first American President to visit Japan scheduled a respite to rest up before I 1 I ing on Emperor Hirohito niKe Dei DO Tuesday and opening talks with Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka To the chance of interference by radical leftists opposed to the President's it neither the emperor nor fox Protesters clash with police Helmeted radical students with landed for his visit to Japan long bamboo flagpoles scuffle About 200 protesters were ar- with police near the Tokyo airport rested as they failed to dent police today as President Gerald Ford's Wirephoto considered MADISON AP Inflation is forcing state budget ners to consider tax increases to meet next year's spending Tanaka went to the airport Israel hits Lebanon demands Patrick J Lucey's administration re- ports David W Adamany the state revenue tary said there may even be some problems meeting the costs of the current slate and the arrival ceremony there lasted only 11 minutes Busloads of carefully screened Japanese waved American and Japanese flags and applauded as Ford left Air Force One and shook hands with U.S Ambassador Leftist demonstrations against the President's visit have so far been largely non- violent But the government threw a massive security screen around the presidential visit with Tokyo police on full alert and another on standby orders in other parts of the country The threat of tions and the uncertain cal future of Prime Minister Tanaka who is accused of ing his official position to profit financially caused some questioning of the value of Ford's trip But at a off ceremony on the White House lawn the President said he was making his first trip overseas as President with full confidence that this timely undertaking is in the highest national interest of the United States Ford arrives in Tokyo budget despite pre-election Hodgson Takeshi forecasts of an 9 million tnc Japanese Associated Press shelled a I am deeply conscious of the need to continue the quest for Ford said I would rather travel thousands of miles for peace than take a the two guerrillas were and other crowded places briefed for their mission at The Lebanese government Palestinian refugee camp in the refugee camp said Israeli naval forces made Lebanon during the night and the target of Israeli two attacks during the night the Israel government mg 12 miles north on the camp The an terrorist the Israeli border on the Israeli military command said had been killed and a second southern edge of city of the target was a terrorist de- alter swam into TV re has a population of parture base south of Israeli waters with guns and 000 Palestinians explosives on floats The communique said Good hits were troops intercepted the guerrillas on the coast morning killed one in a gun battle and captured the other There were no alties the communique said Both were members of Al surplus to the United States Joe Nusbaum secretary of protocol slop toward war the Administration Howitzers fired a Making a refueling stop at lute required by protocol and Anchorage's Elmendorf Air the President waved to the Force Base Ford sought to crowd as he was escorted to a waiting helicopter for the minute trip to the Lt ien Mordechai GUI chief oi staff announced on the stale radio that Israeli forces would remain on alert until Svna to renew the mandate for the Nations disengagement force on the Golan Heights The mandate expires at the end of the month Gur said ber would continue to be a nervous time for the Middle East An Israeli communique said and the vessels returned said an Israeli man The Lebanese communique said there was no assessment of casualties yel Bui il claimed lhal fire from Fatah the guerrilla and Lebanese tanks tion headed by Yasir Arafat the chief of the Palestine forced the gunboats to retreat The Palestine guerrillas Organization the com- said there were two attacks said It said part of before and after midnight their mission was to plant explosives in market places Continued page 2 col 4 ment said public services may have to be reduced as an alternative to increasing taxes Nevertheless salary in- creases must be considered for state government es he said There is no question there is going to have to be tial salary improvements if we are going to offset in- Nusbaum said The two administrators ex- pressed their opinions day while appearing before the Wisconsin Association of School Boards Nusbaum said one of the areas in which the state may balance his desire for peace with his support for strong national defenses Marijuana report New questions few answers New Mideast war would put Hunter I c- r i r timber wolf U.S in same fix as before WASHINGTON AP A new government report today raised new questions but few answers about the have trouble fulfilling services health consequences of ing marijuana The report Mari- juana and was the fourth in a series produced for Congress by the Department of Health Education and fare over the last several years Continued page 2 col 3 WASHINGTON AP The United States will face the same gasoline shortages as last year if another war breaks and a new oil embargo is imposed says Rogers Morton We are in the same fix we were in he said Sunday on the CBS program Face the Nation Very frankly there is very little we can do in the very short term There is not a program under way to counter any em- bargo he said We are hopeful that over the next few years we will at least be able to delineate the problem Morton the head of the new federal Energy cil said the tration is considering op- tions to curb fuel con- sumption Meanwhile President Ford said he is ering a form of fuel cation if voluntary efforts to curb consumption fail The controls could in- clude reductions of oil im- ports and allocations of fuels Ford said in an in- with U.S News World Report Ford cited two possible actions It would mean for ex- ample assuming no oil embargo an arbitrary decision to reduce the 6 million barrels of oil im- ports per day by more than 1 million barrels per day depending on the he said Secondly it could mean the arbitrary allocation of what part goes to our industrial users and what part goes to the he added MENOMINEE Mich UPI A hunter in Michigan's Dr Robert L DuPont di- per Peninsula has shot and rector of HEW's National In- killed a timber wolf an on Drug Abuse said mal that is protected by state current information should law lead marijuana smokers or State officials said the potential smokers to question er Bernard Baker 51 whether it is worth the risk Mich on Saturday A definitive evaluation of shot and killed the wolf marijuana's harmfulness or said he mistook the safety for humans cannot be wolf an adult male weighing offered at this time on the 76 pounds for a coyote basis of scientific evidence It was the first native wolf DuPont said But killed in Upper Michigan in 10 there is cause for concern and years caution based on evidence Recently four wolves were from animal studies and some transplanted in Upper preliminary human studies igan by the state and two of summarized in this report them have been shot and a The report cited animal third killed by a car studies suggesting that mari- juana's primary ingredient may interfere wilh body's ability to fight diseases It emphasized however that implications are and that no human research has been reported which demonstrates that dis- ease resistance is impaired by marijuana use The noted also lhat studies have failed to link marijuana smoking to chromosome breakage or etic damage The report said that new and preliminary studies of suggest that it delays rejection of skin grafts in rats and inhibits the solid growth of tumors in mice Such findings if confirmed may hold new hope for organ transplant Congress faces unfinished business WASHINGTON AP Con- Leaders of both chambers gress is returning to business say they expect to dispose of with many lame ducks among the nomination before ad- its ranks a pile of unfinished some time in late De- business and more trials of cember strength with the executive branch Tnc House Ways and Means Both houses convene today Committee which has been and will shortly be taking a with tax revision recess for Thanksgiving during most of the present Six veto messages from two-year life goes President Ford await the to work on a House The Democratic of changes plans to attempt con- are skeptical gressional overrides on at about now many least the vetoes of can be pushed ments to the Freedom of In- to final enactment be- formation Act and of a fore Pending legislation broadening the vocational re- dics thls of Con- habilitation program gress The override votes The package is expected to lively have been set for include higher taxes on oil Wednesday companies some relief for The Senate Rules Com- low-income persons and which did not meet its haps inducements for saving goal of completing hearings in institutions that finance on the Rockefeller nomination mortgages last week resumes its The Senale takes up a high sions today The House priority money measure an ciary Committee begins its 6 billion hearings on Rockefeller on to finance Thursday tional and other programs Cloudy tonight Cloudy and mild tonight with overnight lows in the 30s Details on page 2 Inside Weather Page 2 6 12 17 Theaters Page 20 22 22 26 26 Want 26 U.S to answer charges of foot-dragging on food aid Rest of dinner more expensive Cheaper turkey one thing to be thankful for day celebrations into tight budgets have at least one thing to be thankful for Poultry producers said the reason for the decline this turkey is cheaper 48 cents j They're getting only about 28 berries went from 29 said Yvonne Porter of cents a pound cents a pound and if you get Detroit Mrs Porter and her The rest of the headache from all the husband are both out of work ing dinner is more expensive aspirin went from 59 she is on strike from her however cents P61 to 89 job at Detroit Optometric Most Americans said they'd ter and he has been laid off A suPer manage a traditional dinner from his post as a security ve been losing up to market advertisements in despite inflation but there guard j Carl Johnson Montgomery County Md for were exceptions The we would usu Thanksgiving has gone head of the Wisconsin Turkey November and Usually w have company ally To than it was in 1973 An Associated Press survey showed that while the cost of most of the ingredients of a complained they were losing money on their birds WASHINGTON AP Agriculture Secretary Earl L Bulz is preparing a counterattack against criticism at the World Food Conference in Rome that the Ford administration is dragging its feet on aid to hungry nations Butz who called a news conference today headed the U.S delegation to the Rome conference The ing ended early Sunday after the Ford administration turned down a request for an immediate boost of one million tons in U.S food aid this year The major achievement of the tion conference was the creation of a new United Nations agency the World Food Council It will coordinate inter- national policy on food production aid reserves nutrition programs and in- vestment drives to increase capital into needy nations An agreement also was reached on a program of world food security which will be established with a system of grain banks nationally held hut inter- nationally coordinated to insure an adequate supply of food in time of bad weather or natural disasters In refusing to supply an immediate increase of one million tons in U.S food aid this year Butz said the United States has been the main provider of world food aid over the past quarter century and that gram currently is being moved in substantial quantities to needy areas The additional commitment had been urged by Democratic congressional leaders at the conference The White House indicated that such a step would have been inflationary and costly to American consumers
