Neenah-Menasha Northwestern (Newspaper) - November 19, 1976, Oshkosh, Wisconsin Associated United Press International Daily Northwestern year Northwestern A VT AA Wis Friday November 19 1976 30 Pages 204 Bigger budget sought to face growth of prisons Press MADISON The agency that runs Wisconsin's prisons wants a 32 per cent increase in its budget because it expects a jump in prison populations and probation and parole cases Allyn Sielaff administrator of the Division of Corrections said he will ask for million an increase from million in the current biennial budget Sielaff said 1.060 new workers were needed in the division including prison guards probation officers and other staffers That would bring the sion's work force to The prison population is expected to rise by 27 per cent and the number of probationers and parolees will increase by by mid 1979 he said An mated new beds will be needed for the adult prisons Present capacity of the prisons is 3.288 But Sielaff said that much of the new space for the increased adult population is expected to be in the form of additional community correctional Admitting that such centers mav be accepted by many communities laff said people acknowledge that community-based treatment centers are good so long as they are not next door He said such centers would not be proposed for communities that op- pose them Sielaff said another major reason for the budget increase is the pending ex- of federal programs He said million would be needed to Inflation continues moderating trend WASHINGTON AP Consumer prices rose tenths of a per cent m Octo- ber the government said day It was the smallest in- crease in seven months as the nation's inflation rate continued its moderating trend The increase in the Con- sumer Price Index followed a rise of of a per cent in September and monthly advances of tenths of a per cent during the period The Labor Department said October's price increase was the smallest since a two- tenths of a per cent rise last March Over the past 12 months retail prices have risen 5.3 per cent marking the smallest increase since the period ending in April 1973 when they rose 5.1 per cent In a separate report the department said the ing power of the average worker's paycheck rose last month after declining in gust and Today's economic reports were brights spots in an bleak picture of high unemployment and slow eco- nomic growth Wholesale industrial prices which are influential in setting the over-all tion trend have been rising steadily since May However these higher wholesale prices have not yet shown at the re- tail level In October the consumer price index stood at 173.3 meaning that a market ket of goods and services costing in 1967 now costs The index is not ad- justed to discount seasonal influences as are the tage increases Alan Greenspan President Ford's chief economist ed to discount the wholesale price trend in a speech Thursday to the Rubber Manufacturers Association He said There is just no corroborating evidence to support the idea of a new outburst of inflation Greenspan said the term inflation rate is slowing down and in what appeared to be a warning to elect Jimmy Carter ed that the downward trend Destination unknown Hearst is moved SAN DIEGO AP cia Hearst was out of a federal prison here in the dead of night an official at the Metropolitan Correctional Center said today Her destination was un- known but with bond posted by her family to free her while awaiting trial in Southern California she needed only the approval of a San Francisco judge to be free for the first time in more than a year while she appeals her bank robbery conviction The official at the tional center who declined to have his name used said Miss Hearst was driven away by two federal marshals about CST Members of a television camera crew stationed at the prison said they saw a car speed away in the darkness U.S Court Judge William Orrick who in tember sentenced Miss Hearst to seven years in on was expected tn rule day on a request that the year-old newspaper heiress be released in her parents custody under a secret ity plan Orrick must decide er she is still a flight risk She had been ordered held without bail after her cap- ture in September 1975 The only other obstacle to Miss Hearst's freedom was removed on Thursday when her father and uncle signed a personal surety bond on pending Los Angeles charges of kidnap assault and Congressman visits U.S Rep William Steiger kosh center visited the Goodwill operation in Menasha Thursday both the resale portion and the rehabilitation training section Dennis Saim of Oshkosh left named Goodwill worker of the Goodwill operation year explains the working of the textiles area to congressman and Melvin E Jossi right a ber of the board of directors of Goodwill Industries Northwestern photo will continue if the ment reduces its budget cit by following sensible cal and monetary policies salvage job jeopardized SAN DIEGO UPI The leader of a salvage firm trying to recover a sunken Japanese freighter with a re- ported billion aboard in metals money and artifacts says a sudden burst of their negotiations with the Republic of China for salvage rights The -San Divgo Tribune reported in a righted story Wednesday the ship the Awa Maru was sunk by a U.S the Formosa Strait in April 1945 Burton of San Diego is the leader of the Hong firm of Salvage and Divine which also includes astronaut Scott Carpenter and Jon bergh son of the famed tor The Tribune said the ship posing as a hospital ship on a Red Cross mission with antee of safe passage by the United States was really loaded down with gold num diamonds money and artifacts The ship was so low in the water it looked like a destroyer on the radar screen of the U.S submarine Queenfish and was sunk The Queenfish skipper Cmdr Loughlin was martialed and was found guilty of negligence When the Awa Maru sunk only one crewman survived out of the 2.009 aboard Bunion said Thursday the estimated billion figure on the sunken treasure was the highest of several estimates from million up We're salvage experts not treasure hunters he said This is a serious business undertaking involving extremely delicate negotiations with the Republic of China Bunton said it is known that the value of tin sten lead and titanium aboard is worth about million He said the tons of gold and 12 tons of num and diamonds be worth million He said the salvage tion is predicated on ing a minimum of lion Bunton also said Or Pettus has been retained by the salvage firm to conduct negotiations with China The location of the Awa Maru determined ton said with the aid of and John E nett the navigator of thr submarine sank the ship Bennett a retired navy captain is a member of ton's group ue them Because of the increase expected the prison population Gov Patrick J Lucev exempted the division from his 5 per cent budget increase tion Sielaff said who took over as corrections administrator shortly after a 21 uprising at Waupun State Prison out- lined his agency's priorities They in- clude Placing more juveniles in coni- settings as an alterative to con- -n The plans i reduce he average lation to by fiscal 1979 placing in family foster group or child care institutions Providing employment ties for underwriting their fur up to lo at an hourly rate of Tile agency to lean up to parolees who find work finaiirial until their first paycheck ing v at the care at lew staffers Increasing wages for would go from 7 a ami pay from the current 5 and to IM and go to a in given gate to help make he tr back to the Next may be married but she won't be a man MADISON AP Alice IB the may be a chick bat a mere mature married It That is thr sides which the beUre re- thr right dispute with a series premises Alice may be married she will be a man inder the by the Department aid the Center Representation Kight the center filed a complaint against the department for limiting applicants for the job to single girls between IK and We wanted to get away from that young chick im- age said Louise of the center Originally the center wanted the civil service job open to members of both sexes It had suggested an Allen in Dairyland if the choice happened to be a man we decided that women are ed in the department and limiting it to women would further onr affirmative tion Mrs said Willard Reese who has helped direct the annual selection of Alice in Dairyland in recent years said the agreement result ed in a number of sions including the demand that women years and young be ble Reese said the ment tried to defend its selection of voung siagle girls over the past 36 on grounds that they pre- sented an important im- age of youth The current Alice is ice Findlay 24 of ton It requires push not pull It's like backing a To go right you vers a serpentine hookup toward the Seen push left explains Fred Davis 17 an experienced here with only carts says his cart jockey m Long Beach Calif as he sonal record is 65 Great Seal of the State of Wisconsin recovered MADISON tPl The Great Seal of the State of Wisconsin has been found Secretary of State La Follette said Thursday The brass disc engraved in Boston about a century ago bad been damaged and la office shipped it and a lead disc by United Parcel Service to Heights 111 firm for repairs The package however was damaged and the brass disc fell out ing to La Follette who re- a cali last week from the company La lette notified L PS and clerks started searching for the seal La said a clerk called him Tuesday I asked him to please convey it as expeditionsly as possible to the firm La Follette said The seal has vet to reach its destination He expressed relief but added he considered it no crisis in the first place I took the whole thing quite lightly to begin with be said It was no great crisis La Follette said it would have cost a few hundred dollars make a new seal La said the son who called him could not explain how the seal had been lost La Follette said he ex- the firm to return the seal within one to four weeks Someone from the firm is to return the seal personally and install it in the machine that stamps state documents with the image La Follette said his ice pressed the seal against enough gold stamps to put on official documents until the seal is repaired and re- turned Two men are charged in sale of bad meat to Markesan school iREEN LAKE Daniel Weinberger etor of Dan's Country Market in Markesan and George owner of Stockyards also in Markesan were scheduled to appear in Green Lake Bounty this afternoon to hear lony stemming from the alleged delivery and sale of diseased meat in Green County The are a result of an ed by the State Department of Agriculture and the Green Lake County district attorney's office Weinberger is charged with seven counts of meat from a dis- bovine animal dis- the animal and storing the meat at his ire and offering for sale the adulterated meat out having had it m- by a state certified meat inspector first two counts in the criminal complaint lege Weinberger accepted meat from a diseased n e a n i rn d u r i n g t h e February or March and on a Friday he allegedly bered and the meat at the store The complainant Jenkins a state meat inspector said he was informed by a former em- ploye of Weinberger's ing testimony at the Nov 9 John Doe hearing that he received two downed ine animals from feldt The employe further testified that he butchered the animals and the meat was sold at the store The third count that Weinberger offered for Continued page 2 col 1 Cold ana coid tows 20 on Page 2 Inside Immense marsh fire ouf of control An immense marsh fire which broke out today was burning out of control in the Junction area near the A Winnebago sheriff's deputy at the scene the fire would burn all day Another re- turned to the this and smoke the fire could be seen as far as Thr fire of ari and the Fremont were re to Highway Patrol traffic A of fighter k wo wher we rc e t- J HH K ir- route to the scene Cause of the fire been Tentative tax rate increase projected for Menasha A tentative 1977 net tax rate of for assessed valuation has been projected by Neenah director of finance It represents a per in- crease over the 1976 net figure of or a 6 per cent increase Although some component figures in the total computation are not firm at this time Bauer said in no way will this figure increase beyond the currently projected level Final action for example re- mains in the area of the school dis- budget which members of the fiscal control body indicated day they may seek a cut or a restoration to the 1976 level of The current proposal is per of assessed which represents a in- crease The school district increase is 70 per cent greater than the com- parable city budget increase nf 86 cents per of assessed tion Again Bauer asserted that the 86 cent increase in the city operational costs and debt service is the mum figure While the preliminary budget review by the board of mates has been completed the full Council has not as yet begun its ex- amination of both the document and an- movement will be ward The debt service costs will hold the line as promised prior to the City Hall referendum Bauer pointed out that based on the equalized valuation a the operational and debt service have in fact de- creased The 1977 equalized figure is per equalized valuation as compared to 73 in 1976 This drop of 77 cents constitutes a 7.2 per cent decrease On the level of assessed valuation however there will be an increase of cents with the 1976 figure listed at 20 per Added to the city operational and debt service costs are the joint school district levy the levy for the Tei Institute and the The levy shows a one cent decrease in 1977 wish the rent request at compared to in 1976 The county tax levy for 1977 will be per assessed tion as compared to for 1976 a 60 cent increase These items bring the gross 1977 tax levy to But to plied the state tax credit which Bauer is per t 10 in irop the the net figure of if i I1 a- ax rate 22 In the gross figure was 53 before the tax credit was plied bringing the net to A firm figure on the tax credit will not be available to municipal of- for another two weeks The net effect of the several com- is a slight increase in the equalled valuation from a 1976 rate nf 32 to a 1977 figure of
