Daily Tribune, The (Newspaper) - July 21, 1970, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin THE DAILY TRIBUNE Fifty-Sixth Yw No 16 I 95 INFORMING THE SOUTH WOOD COUNTY AREA OF WISCONSIN Rapids Wisconsin 54494 Tuesday July 21 1970 Single Copy 15 Cents At the suggestion of members of the Fiscal Board of Control the Wisconsin Rapids Board of Education decided Monday night to get another cost estimate on a proposed senior high school The action came at the conclusion of an informal meeting between members of the school board and a com- of the fiscal board comprised of Mayor Donald Penza four city aldermen Biron Village President Phil Nobles Grand Rapids Town Chairman Jess Eichhorn and Craig Corbett chairman of the town of Grant Portage County Although no official vote was To get additional cost estimate on proposed senior high school i taken on the action to seek an estimate from Fladd Associates a Madison ar- firm school board members Gerald Rosekrans Gerald Johnson and Claude H a m e 1 i n k joined Board Chairman Henry Bennett in favoring the proposal Ben Hanneman Donald Hall and Tom Teske opposed the move Mayor Donald Penza and Aldermen Russel Anunson and Donald Jensen were the chief supporters of obtaining a cost estimate other than the million worked up by the school current architect Childs Smith Chicago Anunson said he thought it would be advantageous to have the competitive element in the design of the high school which might help lower the cost Jensen said members of the fiscal board would be more receptive to the school request for building funds if they were sure they were getting their worth Jensen said it was hard for some aldermen and other municipal officials on the fiscal board to understand why the cost per student and cost per square foot were so much higher for the proposed school here than for schools recently built or now under construction at Stevens Point Marshfield and Wausau Data presented by Mayor Penza showed the cost per square foot for the Rapids school to be the Stevens Point school the Wausau school and the school Bennett said part of the reason for the lower cost of the Point and Marshfield facilities was due the open school concept of design That concept has been considered here but the school board now favors building a more traditional school with flexibility to use some aspects of the open school in the future Penza maintained that the fiscal board was now in a position in that the only way it could lower costs on the new school was by cutting back on the educational specifications for the new facility By getting a different ar- it might be possible to get the same results but at a lower cost without making deletions in specifications the mayor said Bennett originally had suggested getting another ar- estimate back in May but at that time the proposal did not receive much support Fladd was the alternate suggested then also because that firm originally was the second choice to design the new high school Bennett said at the conclusion of Monday's meeting he would contact Fladd today to begin work immediately on a cost estimate After it is completed the school board again wal meet with the fiscal board Bennett also suggested ths fiscal board committee taka part in the upcoming meetings with Fladd architects The Childs Smith estimate of million was based on educational specifications prepared by the Lincoln High staff for a facility A site near St and Airport Ave has been earmarked for the senior high Monday night's meeting was called as the result of letters and calls between Mayor Penza and Bennett Bennett said school board was anxious to proceed with the new high school but needed guidance from the fiscal board on how much money to spend Bennett said several times during the meeting if the fiscal board which controls the financial allocations for the district would tell the school board how much it should on a senior high the school board would work with the architect to design the best school possible within that limit School board member Gerald Rosekrans said he was pointed that the municipal of- had not acted on the request to build an school so that work could go ahead But Aldermen LeRoy Lovesee and Jensen and Phil Nobles Biron village president said the fiscal board was not willing to approve any new school until the school board could present a long-range building plan I don't think you're going to get a vote from this board 2 State drug distribution ring cracked arrest 20 A LOTTA HORSE A world thoroughbred auction record was set Monday night when this full brother to 1969 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Majestic Prince sold for Frank McMahon Vancouver British Columbia made the top bid He also bought Majestic Prince at the sale in 1967 for a Leslie Combs H was the seller both times AP Wirephoto Once-Over THE DAILY TRIBUNE Council endorses new site for fairgrounds Warming on way Warmer weather is on its way for at least a few days Forecasts call for fair conditions tonight with lows from 54 to 62 in the northwest and in the 50s in the southeast Wednesday will be partly sunny with highs expected m the 80s Thursday and Friday should be warm with a chance of showers The high in Wisconsin Rapids Monday was 76 the low 53 and at 6 today an unseasonable 44 BERRY'S WORLD MADISON AP The consin Exposition which has approved ing the State Fair at its ent cally Monday a plan to build a new fairgrounds in the waukee area It then approved a budget to keep the present State Fair Park in West Allis operating one more year The council ignored a by Herbert P er of West Allis a council ber who suggested that a study be made of leasing the present site to private enterprise for de- velopment of an building The approved tion calls for selling the present State Fair Park for around adding million each of the next three to finance the new site I'm not too sure the people or the legislature are going to be able to digest a million said Velser It is the proper time to move countered council member ry L Ahlgren of Madison the agricultural leadership is ready willing and able to help us Velser said other problems face the state including water pollution urban redevelopment highways crime and public health In his leasing proposal he suggested the state be allowed to operate the fair at the ent site 15 days each year When the council ed that the present site be closed it asked that the lature permit private ment of an exposition site That recommendation died in the Capitol Our responsibility is to this said Council man Werner Schaefer of waukee in response to Velser It is not this council's to make decisions on er needs Fair Administrator Vernon Wendland proposed a budget anticipating receipts of From Jan 1 1972 to June 1972 when the fair site is to be phased out he asked only for policing the grounds and minor repairs The budget was approved and now must go to the legislature Living costs continue rise WASHINGTON AP ing costs rose of one per cent in June in a slight easing of the nation's worst in- climb in 20 years the government said today But prices of food housing cal care and recreation still six per cent above a year ago said the Bureau of Labor Statistics And despite an increase of ifi pay to an average of per week for some 45 million rank and file workers their purchasing power was still below a year ago for the 15th straight month because of tion the bureau noted The June rise in prices brought the government's con- sumer price index to 135.2 meaning that it cost last month for every worth of typical family purchases in the period on which the in- dex is based The June rise of of one per cent was the same as the May increase representing a slowdown from the hike in April and increases of each in February and March The report followed ments by President Nixon and his top economic advisers that the nation has passed the worst of the inflationary surge The pattern since February has been one of increases of and rate that obtained before the first of the said Dr Joel assistant commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics In June food prices rose two- tenths of one per cent housing was up clothing rose transportation increased medical care was up and recreation costs also posted a rise Prices declined for meats eggs and some vegetables but rose for some fruits and other vegetables the report said Prices of household services rose of one per cent continuing a slowing down from increases of in April and in May MADISON AP A down by state and local resulted in the arrest of 20 persons today and smashed a widespread drug distribution Atty Gen Robert ren announced He told a news conference more arrests would follow The crackdown was the gest conducted at one time ever in Wisconsin for drug violations Warren said Most of those arrested are students or former students the attorney general said The ar- rests were made in Green Lake Fond du Lac and Monroe counties This drug distribution ring operation not only had obvious intercity and intercounty cations but also broad Warren said My department will be con- law enforcement cies hi other states as well as the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs because of certain international ing aspects brought to light in this he added We believe this investigation has provided the Department of Justice in Wisconsin with a substantial breakthrough in city narcotics and dangerous substance trafficking patterns through our state and Warren The narcotics and dangerous substances involved included heroin LSD MDA marijuana amphetamines and barbiturates Warren estimated the volume of business involved was be- tween and The investigation he said be- gan 10 months ago Warren said the following Oshkosh residents were ed in the crackdown and charged in Winnebago County Thomas J 21 David L Guetschow 25 Michael G Meidl 23 Nicholas D Christus 23 David H 22 James R Shields 21 Kathy Hillary 21 Linda Barden 20 Peter M Vuchich 19 Ronald Bullock 22 Stephen D Young 22 Mitchell A Robbins 22 Thomas G Schmidt and Mark Clayton Frank 22 Markesan was also arrested Warren said the last names and hometowns were able for several defendants He identified them Willie Dos Fond du Lac Martin D Steve Enckson and Les Cowell The attorney general said ery defendant arrested is a er Follow-through action here in Wisconsin in the other states involved and by federal ties will put an even more crimp in the plans of those who seek to make a living by destroying the minds and bodies of our citizens by supplying them with narcotics and Warren com- He praised local authorities for their assistance in the in- and arrests I want to commend the law enforcement officers from the cities and counties he said Winnebago County Dist Atty Thomas Fink of kosh was invaluable for his work throughout the tion and in case preparation Nixon reaffirms stand against coalition Vietnam government WASHINGTON AP dent Nixon says the future of South Vietnam must be selected through not imposed on the war-torn tion by negotiators in Paris His administration will not stand for an imposed coalition government the President said It must be a government by the people of South Vietnam In a wide-ranging news conference Monday the dent also said he would veto a setting mandatory quotas on any imports except textiles Such quotas he said are not in the national interest and might set off an international trade war We are an exporting nation rather than an importing Nixon said It would mean in the end while it would save us some jobs it would cost us more jobs in exports that would be denied us and ond even more important it is highly inflationary The House Ways and Means Committee has proposed quotas on shoe and textile imports Beyond Vietnam and imports Nixon ranged over a number of topics at the surprise news conference He said the United States has no idea of using armed forces to expel the Soviet Union from the Middle East promised no lante squad of Department of Justice agents will force school integration in the South pre- voters will turn against big spenders in Congress fore- cast an economic upturn for the last half of the year and said he sees little chance of a tax cut during the next two years The President announced plans for a major meeting on national defense and the defense budget at the Western White House July 27 followed by conferences on the domestic budget for fiscal 1972 In ruling out any imposed government in Saigon Nixon said he has no significant disagreement with South President Thieu in this regard But he said the United States still is willing to listen to any proposals made by Hanoi at the Paris peace talks The school desegregation questioning centered around criticism of administration cy by Sen Strom Thurmond in a Senate speech Friday Thurmond jumping on what he said were arbitrary and dis- criminatory actions by the ad- ministration cited threats to the tax exemption of private schools set up to perpetuate segregation and what he termed a proposed invasion of carpetbagging tice Department lawyers to sure forced integration of public schools in the South Nixon said Thurmond ed to an action that has not been taken and there is no intention of is of sending vigilante squads in effect from the Justice Department yers in to coerce the Southern school districts to integrate We have not done that we are not going to do he said Our policy in other words is cooperation rather than coercion But the President added that while there cannot be instant in- segregation must be ended because that is the law of the land Thurmond reacting to Nixon's Varied views at pesticide curb hearing Guess what? Today I joined the Women's Liberation Wanna Most of us yearn for garden furniture that you can get up out of EAU CLAIRE Critics of proposed Department of limits on pesticides told the first in a series of ings Monday the limits should be extended to cover other chemicals The proposed rules would clamp down severely on the use of nine DDT DDD Endrin Aldrin Dieldrin Lindane Benzene hexachloride and cury Herbicides and which have been widely used may cause birth defects and should be added to the list critics said Others defended including a University of consin entomologist Some uses have been canceled by the federal ment and only a few still are allowed said Hubert Halliday Agriculture Department He said research still is continuing on Joseph J Jickey University of Wisconsin said has virtually annihilated our wild flower heritage and blue grass and quack grass He said Texas plants wild flowers along its highways consin has used large amounts of the herbicides to control and kill roadside vegetation Since the advent of DDT we live longer have a lower death rate and have a lower rate of birth said Glenn Moore an entomologist from Corp a garden products and seed firm from Minneapolis He said the rules were too restrictive Ellsworth H Fisher UW entomologist questions the use of the phrase serious hazard in defining restricted use He said alternative in- may be more bees the restricted chemicals Another rule forbidding use of pesticides in any way that will damage a person other than the user prompted Fisher to This opens the door to op- who want to sue to establish a point The next hearing in the series will be at 10 Wednesday in the Brown County Courthouse remarks said I am pleased that the President has reversed the Justice Department on its plans to send ging lawyers and marshals into the South This action shows that President on understands the South far better than some of his aides it The give-and-take on Southern school problems followed a switch earlier to the Mideast A reporter asked for clarification of Nixon's approaches to lems of the area and Soviet movement there Nixon recalled having said in his July 1 television tion the U.S interest is peace and recognition of the and independence of ery state in the area He noted he had pointed out the importance of maintaining a military balance of power that would discourage anyone from launching an offensive or pre- emptive strike He said the power balance has not been upset but the ment of Soviet weapons and men to the Mideast to man the weapons causes this country concern because a continuation could tip the scales He said arms escalation the use of troops in the Mideast increases the risk of a confrontation neither side wants Then Nixon brought up a point he said he thought was worth use of the word expelled in a White House background discussion ing Soviet influence in the Mid- east The use of th word ex- was not with the of using armed force for that Nixon said but to 2
