Daily Tribune, The (Newspaper) - September 10, 1969, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin THE DAILY TRIBUNE INFORMING THE SOUTH WOOD COUNTY AREA OF WISCONSIN Wisconsin Rapids Wisconsin 54494 Wednesday September 10 1968 Single Copy 10 Cents Once-Over THE DAILY TRIBUNE Tower taken LONDON AP Two small boys breached the Tower of London Tuesday while the yeomen of the guard were at lunch As the Beefeaters were passing around their roast beef sandwiches the boys climbed the walls of the century White Tower and hauled down the flag the traditional sign that the tower had been taken Then they fled leaving no clue to their identity They left the flag hanging over the said office worker Trevor Tingling who watched the escapade from his window A spokesman said there was scaffolding on the er and the boys used it to climb up Special delivery COLUMBUS Ohio AP State Liquor Director Donald D Cook has reverted to a pony express to make sure his employes get their paychecks on time Cook said he initiated his own direct messenger ice after the Post Office in Cleveland was repeatedly late frequently five days or more in delivering checks to liquor department workers He said disgruntled employes were threatening to strike over the problem Now a Liquor Department messenger drives to Cleveland once every two weeks to deliver the checks Cook said Smoke screen HAGERSTOWN Md AP Gov Marvin Mandel has pleaded guilty to frequently throwing up a smoke screen when confronted by inquiring reporters Mandel told the Lions Club Tuesday that his habit of lighting up and puffing on one of the more than 225 pipes in his collection when dealing with newsmen has a hidden purpose I've been in public office since 1952 and I learned very early in the game that when you're besieged by reporters who have to have time to he said So every time they ask me a question I put the pipe in my mouth take out a match and light the pipe By the time I puff on it a couple of times I have the answer Prisoners unparked Prisoners in the Wood County jail are going to be deprived of a fringe benefit The County Public Property Committee re- cently issued an Space in the Courthouse ing lot is too valuable prisoners serving time will no longer be allowed to park their cars there Cit C p im gains 17 to 3 A redevelopment program for Wisconsin Rapids calling for nearly million of work during the first year of activity was given final local approval day night by the Common cil on a vote An estimated 200 persons med the second-floor County Board room at the Courthouse and the adjoining hallway to ob- serve the council meeting The resolution adopted by the aldermen approves the first-year plan proposed by the ment Authority and authorizes the Authority to present the plan to the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development for final approval and funding The application to be filed un- der the Neighborhood ment Program will seek million in federal monies three-fourths of the cost of the first-year activity with the city responsible for the remaining cost The Authority proposes the city's share of approximately be paid in the form of non-cash credits representing municipal improvements com- during the past three years Authority members and Quinn redevelopment director are hopeful the application will gain federal acceptance and be funded before the end of the year Aldermen voting against the NDP plan were Carlton Kuehl Donald Jensen and William Van De Loop Three aldermen who in the past had indicated they opposed the program Leroy Lovesee Donald Engel and ry George stated Tuesday night they had changed their minds and now back the plan Engel said some legitimate ob- have been raised but he believed the program tually would help the local tax situation by broadening the city's tax base Lovesee noted that he had op- posed the original voted by the council in January to finance the Authority's tions which led to the tion But he added he believes now that the money has been spent the city should attempt to reap some benefits from these expenditures Alderman George who also voted against the original 000 appropriation said he still believed NDP had been over- sold in Wisconsin Rapids He added however he believed the Authority deserves to have the chance to prove what they can do for the city I think one redeeming factor is that this council a year from now can take a look at the first year of activity and decide what has been George said Other aldermen offering brief statements in support of the gram were Russel Anunson Clinton Falkosky and Richard Vreeland The large turnout of tors Tuesday night was tive of the interest created in recent months by the NDP posal Controversy had fied during the past three weeks and the lines of battle appeared to be more clearly drawn when opponents of the program last week announced a campaign to circulate petitions seeking the recall of Mayor Penza Debate by members of the audience at Tuesday night's sion was limited by Penza to 10 minutes for each side Dane Dahl former alderman and for mayor in 1968 spoke against the program and liam Barrett chairman of the Citizens Advisory Committee and a campaign organizer for Penza argued in its behalf Dahl told the group he sented the same citizens who had sought to have a dum vote on the NDP plan Dahl said the group wanted to raise points of doubt about the gram He cited an article in a tional news magazine which ed that 45 cities had lost lions of dollars in non-cash dits because of delays by the federal government in acting on their NDP applications Dahl also cited newspaper icles which described faction of property owners with prices offered for their ties in urban renewal and one which alleged conflict of interest among members of the Gary Ind Redevelopment Commission Barrett said he spoke in be- half of hundreds of persons in the city in favor of community improvement He contended that opposition to the NDP loped from misunderstanding of the program in its early stages Some who were opposed have now taken an active part in supporting the rett said Noting that there had been a sense of urgency in the development of the program Barrett said this was necessary for two reasons to make best use of available non-cash credits and to put the city in the best competitive position possible with other cities seeking NDP funds The city's application nates three NDP areas in the city Centralia and Sand activity will be focused on purchase of 74 parcels near the Consolidated Papers Inc kraft mill and the area adjacent to the West Side downtown business district Re- habilitation of about 30 tures in the area also is proposed Only planning will be carried out in the Sand Hill area during the first year Radar failed to show Gerda skips i U.S hits small plane in crash Council crowd Many of the spectators at day night's Common Council meeting were to watch and listen from doorways because the County Board room at the Courthouse was not large enough to accommodate the crowd Citizens were on hand for the local decision on the proposed Neighborhood Development Program for the city which the council approved Tribune Photo Ad- story and photos on page 5 State GOP worried by angry Not quite so cold voters submits new tax plan if i n v Wisconsin weather is expected to be partly cloudy with lows mostly in the 40s tonight Thursday should be partly sunny with highs in the 70s The cranberry weather will be increasingly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the northern bogs but fair in the southern bogs tonight It should be not quite so cold and with light west to southwesterly winds The lowest bog temperatures will be 31 to 35 with patches of frost in the soutli 40 to 44 in the north The outlook Thursday is fair and cool with bog of 28 to 34 Wisconsin Rapids had a high of 66 Tuesday and a low of 40 BERRY'S WORLD Gee I didn't know YOUR generation went MADISON Republican leaders admitted Tuesday the state's new sales tax package has angered the voters and sub- mitted an alternate plan which looks more like the tax program proposed by Gov Warren P Knowles eight months ago State legislators have been getting a lot of static from their constituents Sen Walter Hollander said as he and 10 er GOP lawmakers filed a new tax proposal The would replace the re- cently enacted four per cent sales tax with a general three per cent levy It would provide the state's income taxpayers with a small kickback cally representing a year's ments of sales taxes for ceries and prescription drugs No Democrat voted for the budget which Knowles signed Aug 27 and which raised the retail sales tax levy to four per cent from three per cent The tax package which went into effect Sept 1 was ed to include an estimated 80 per cent of items which the Wisconsin consumer might buy It also applies to many services Knowles had asked originally for a three per cent tax on virtually everything but with taxpayers getting credit for taxes paid on food and drugs The GOP plan submitted day similarly calls for a three per cent level on almost thing It would allow an credit refund to every member of the family representing a year's food and drug taxes The credit could then be applied to a taxpayer's annual income tax report in the form of a tion The proposal was assigned to a hearing Sept 26 before the Joint Finance Committee whose budget proposal earlier this year was one of four debated by the legislature before cans settled on the four per cent sales tax levy to meet a record spending level Knowles has asked legislators to reconvene Sept 29 to con- sider more tax increases to dle items which he said should have been included in the budget His latest tax increase gestions involve income taxes beer and liquor excises taxes and corporation taxes which Democrats had insisted the Re- publican majority consider in- stead of sales taxes Hollander of Rosendale said the three per cent sales tax posal submitted Tuesday should win swift approval in the ate He said complaints from voters and merchants about the new list of taxable items should encourage legislators to act quickly The complaints led to ing of Knowles by irate chants in Sheboygan last week and Knowles office had pre- GOP leaders would call for an overhaul of the four per cent tax plan The state's Department of Revenue said it has been barded with questions from con- even as to what items are taxes and which are exempt under the new list At the grocery shelf ers are finding a variety of parent conflicts In on instance potato chips are exempt but marshmallows are not A statewide supermarket chain is issuing leaflets to patrons trying to explain why there is a new tax on cranberry juice but not on pineapple juice The leaflet also notes there is a tax on ice cream in paper cups but not on ice cream in larger containers The Assembly speaker Re- publican Harold Froehlich of agreed with Hollander that pressure from angry payers is the chief motivation for the GOP decision to offer an alternate tax plan I think it is the result of heat against the four per cent sales tax coming from those who feel it is taxing the Froehlich said But he said the new plan may only increase the shopping burden for persons with come for whom an credit rebate each year will fall short of the sum tually paid for sales taxes on food drugs and gasoline If you reduce the four per cent to three per cent on lacs and Continentals and take one per cent and put it on food and prescription drugs and give them a credit you will be ing more money from the he said Froehlich said he might not vote for the new plan and its chances of success in the legislature The new tax proposal wouldn't go into effect before Nov 1 taxpayers would be eligible for only a portion of this year's refund when they begin adding up their 1969 state income tax tab Officials predicted a three per cent general sales tax would produce more revenue for the state treasury than the current four per cent levy will produce Hollander said adding line to the sales fax list could produce million alone The three per cent general tax should get approval in the Assembly as well as the ate said Paul Alfonsi of qua the Assembly's majority leader Alfonsi forecast bipartisan support for the new package Republicans outnumber crats in the Assembly by a row margin Alfonsi said the new proposal was reviewed twice in recent days with Knowles The lican governor's press secretary Stephen Boyle said its tion came as a however Besides Hollander can senators sponsoring the ternate proposal James Swan of Elkhorn est Keppler of Sheboygan Alex Meunier of Sturgeon Bay don Roseleip of Darlington and Chester Dempsey of Hartland Assembly sponsors are David Martin of Neenah Byron ett of Watertown Kenneth J Merkel of Brookfield Clarence Wilger of Elkhorn and Tommy Thompson of chuckle Marriage is like the army everyone complains but you'd be surprised at how many re-enlist INDIANAPOLIS Ind AP An air traffic controller said day a small plane that sheared off the tail of an Allegheny lines jetliner Tuesday plunging persons to their deaths was invisible to the dar at Weir Cook Municipal port where the big aircraft was preparing to land The big plane showed on the screen but not the small said Jack H Frets lic affairs officer for the apolis Air Route Control Center This is not uncommon when a plane does not have a trans- ponder or beacon a device which reflects the radar Frets said He added however that the radar reflectivity of aircraft also is affected by such things as weather altitude and the at- of highly streamlined planes Visibility was about five miles in party cloudy skies Both planes tumbled to earth after the collision the col- lection of of bodies and debris from a soybean field continued today Eyewitnesses said the engined Piper Cherokee piloted by Robert W Carey of Indianapolis on a solo cross country flight knifed into a senger plane's tail section where its two jet engines are located All 78 passengers and the crew of four on the jetliner as well as Carey an Indianapolis plumber and father of six were killed The jetliner which began its flight at Boston had touched down at Baltimore and nati and was scheduled to stop at the Indianapolis airport be- fore going on to St Louis It was near perfect said John Shaffer one of a team of 16 investigators from the Federal Aviation tration It's almost able that the two planes were at the same spot at the same time The aerial collision occurred near London a community of 300 about 10 miles southeast of Indianapolis Most of the wreckage of the DCS airliner landed in a bean field 100 yards from a bile home park where many of the 150 residents watched with terror as the severed fuselage of the jet whistled toward them Bodies wreckage and luggage fell from the sky Airport controllers said the jet disappeared from a radar screen as it dropped 6.000 feet to feet in its landing approach Carey had taken off from nearby McCordsville on a mile training flight to bus Ind His wife sobbing as she spoke to newsmen He loved flying He had been doing it for years just for his own pleasure This past year he was working to get his license He didn't plan to buy a plane right away but maybe sometime The family moved to apolis from Manchester a year ago The crew members who ished with 78 were identified by Allegheny as Capt James M 47 Plainfield Ind First Officer William E Heckendorn 26 Pittsburgh and two stewardesses Patricia ry of Lynn Mass and Barbara of Boston Searchers found bodies in a wide area some among trailer homes and others hidden in the four-foot soybean stalks Norman W Bennett 23 said he looked up when he heard the collision The back end fell off the passenger plane and it turned over and dropped to the ground in Canada HALIFAX AP ricane Gerda moved inland over Quebec province today after lashing the Canadian Maritime provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia with rain and winds of up to 80 miles an hour and causing damage that so far appeared to be minor As she barreled up the tic coast Tuesday Gerda brushed New England with 50 winds before moving over Grand Manan Island off the southwest coast of New Brunswick Four inches of rain fell in Portland Maine and two inches at Eastport But the ter of the storm did not hit the U.S coast Nova Scotia's south shore bore the brunt of the storm which tore down telephone and power lines uprooted trees and disrupted shipping and airline schedules The International Tuna Cup competition for fishing vessels was suspended until the sea calmed The ferry Bluenose between Bar Harbor Maine and Yarmouth was kept in port Power failures put wide tions of Nova in ness It was not known ately how the province's lion apple crop fared Israeli jets again hit Egyptians along Suez TEL AVIV jets pounded Egyptian army vehicles at Ras Abu and Ras Za in Egypt today at the same points across the Gulf of Suez hit by Israeli armored col- the day before the army announced The terse announcement said Israel planes hit Egyptian army vehicles at both points along the gulf 39 and 55 miles south of Port Suez which is at the ern end of the Suez Canal The jets struck in the morning and all returned safely to the spokesman said A military communique from Cairo said one Israeli plane was downed by antiaircraft fire ing the attack Tuesday's raid by Israeli ar- mored forces backed by jets and naval vessels was the est amphibious operation into Egypt since the six-day war of 1967 Israel said tians were killed The operation the first by Israeli armored units in Egypt was described by Minister Moshe Dayan as a demonstration of operational ability almost unprecedented in military history He warned of even heavier strikes across the Gulf in the wake of alleged Egyptian violations of the cease-fire
