Daily Tribune, The (Newspaper) - August 20, 1975, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin City workers present demands ask for closed negotiations Borth offers by the press he said sewage and park department employes in the time and one half for Saturday no cost of living clause payment of all shots i By Vernon Borth Tribune Staff Writer The personnel committee of the Wisconsin Rapids Common Council wants to keep negotiations with Local 1075 American Federation of State County and Municipal Employes open Union negotiators do not At its last meeting the committee un- voted to push for open negotiating sessions committee members said Tuesday Malcolm Emerson district AFSCME representative Stevens Point said Tuesday We prefer them to be in closed session Einerson said open negotiating sessions could get out of hand with the two negotiating parties having little control over actions of members of the attending the meetings He said open sessions could break down the negotiating process Negotiating statements might be mistaken for concrete offers by the press he said If union negotiators are to even consider open negotiations Einerson said tape recorders would have to be banned from the negotiations and the personnel committee would have to agree to open for itself but not for union negotiators Both sides suggested that one person from each the committee and the union act as spokesman and joint press releases were suggested unless an impasse is reached The open meeting question was left open until the committee has time to contact the Wisconsin Attorney General's office and at- for the Wisconsin League of Municipalities Tuesday's meeting was to lay ground rules for negotiations and exchange initial proposals One of the ground rules is that street sewage and park department employes in the union and clerical worker members of the un- ion be negotiated for as separate groups Einerson presented Local 1075 proposals for street sewage arid park department workers Tuesday They an increase in hourly rates of per hour a cost of living adjustment for each quarter of one cent per hour for each 3 in- crease in Price Index an increase in longevity payment from Jl per month to per month for each month of service six weeks vacation after 20 years with all employes allowed to split one week of their vacation and a maximum of 10 employes on vacation at a time maximum sick leave increase from 90 to 120 days time and one half for Saturday birthday as a holiday increase of night shift differential from 10 cents to 20 cents for 4 p.m to midnight and from 15 cents to 30 cents for midnight to 8 mileage payment increase from 10 cents to 15 cents per mile summer hours for street department and city garage made one hour earlier in June July and August from 7 to p.m change of skating pond caretakers hours from split morning and evening shifts to 4 p.m to midnight payment by the city of the cost of Board of Health required shots The city bargainers responded an increase of 18 cents per hour Jan 1 1976 and an increase of 4 cents per hour July 1 1976 no cost of living clause retention of the per month longevity pay employes with at feast three weeks tion be allowed to split one week of their vacation in segments not less than a full day 90 days sick leave maximum retain time and one half for all work after 40 hours rather than any Saturday work as overtime no new holidays night shift differential increase of 2 cents per hour for 4 p.m to midnight and 3 cents per hour for midnight to 8 a mileage raise from 10 cents to 12 cents per mile willingness to discuss work hour changes for summer and skating pond caretakers payment of all shots required by it as a condition of continued employment or a prelude to disciplinary action The city also proposed changes in several departmental work policies and that a cian be retained by the city for occasional check of suspected sick leave abuses Patrick Costello city personnel director today to put a percentage value on the requested and offered pay increases He said methods of determining the percentages are points of negotiation that will remain un- available unless negotiations are opened to the public Meetings were scheduled for Sept 3 and 10 for negotiations of clerical and public works employes contracts respectively Richard Kenney Kenney to head United Way drive Richard Kenney 1631 Township Ave has been ed general chairman for this year's South Wood County United Way campaign Mrs Lou Hochmuth United Way president announced today Kenney is supervisor of financial and analysis at Consolidated Papers Inc The campaign starts October 1 svith a goal this year of 936 or 5 per cent more than collected during last year's campaign Officers vow to oust Goncalves LISBON Portugal AP Moderate military officers have given President Francisco da Costa Gomes one week to remove Premier Vasco Goncalves or they will seize power and force him out sources close to the of- reported today News briefs Claim insect rodent parts in baby food WASHINGTON AP Consumers Union says it has found insect parts and rodent hairs in about 25 per cent of commercial baby foods tested The organization also said Tuesday that some samples from among 39 different baby foods were contaminated by enamel paint chips from the undersides of jar lids It reported finding the problems with baby foods made by the three major manufacturers Gerber Heinz and Beech-Nut A spokesman for Baker Beech-Nut in Canajoharie said the company has just received a copy of the Consumer Union report and that it may have a statement later In Fremont Mich a Gerber's spokesman denied the charges and said the firm's quality standards are more strict than the federal government's and are being strictly enforced There was no immediate word from Heinz Obey to Mideast WASHINGTON AP Secretary of State Henry Kissinger will be followed on his trip to the Middle East but the Secret Service is not concerned The followers will be three congressmen including Rep David Obey all members of a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee The subcommittee handles all requests for foreign military and economic aid Obey said it wants to know what Kissinger's Mideast peace negotiations will cost Kissinger is buying a peace he said The reason that Kissinger is the messenger is that he is ing around promissory notes in his pocket Rain possible Wisconsin's forecast tonight and Thursday is for cloudy skies with a chance of showers and thunderstorms Low temperatures tonight will be in the 60s and highs Thursday will be in the low 70s to low 80s The extended outlook calls for partly cloudy skies and cool weather Friday slightly warmer weather Saturday and a chance of scattered showers Sunday Lows will be mostly in the 50s and highs mostly in the 70s to lower 80s Tuesday's high temperature in Wisconsin Rapids was 73 degrees and the low 54 It was 60 degrees at midnight THE DAILY TRIBUNE INFORMING THE SOUTH WOOD COUNTY AREA OF WISCONSIN Sixtieth 18254 Wisconsin Rapids Wisconsin 54494 Wednesday August 20 1975 Pages 2 Sections Plus Total personal income declines 150 WASHINGTON AP The government reported today that the total income of Americans dropped for the first time in eight months during July while the private sector of the economy showed continued but reduced growth Personal income represents total wages paid to workers rents paid to landlords checks mailed to government benefit recipients and all income received by citizens before deductions for taxes The trend in personal income is a clue to how much Americans can spend Thus it provides a foundation for the economy The Commerce Department's report on personal income was confused to some extent by special factors which obscured the un- signals on the economy's strength But the over-all picture sketched by these statistics was of steady but moderate growth in the economy The decline at an annual rate of billion to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 238.4 billion for personal income was at- solely to the fact that June's total accord seen on eve of Kissinger trip By The Associated Press Egypt and Israel have agreed on a new dis- engagement agreement for the Sinai Desert following a pledge from President Ford to work for a similar accord between Syria and Israel by the end of 1975 a pro-Egyptian Beirut newspaper reported today As Secretary of State Henry A Kissinger prepared to leave Washington tonight on another shuttle senior Israeli politician Yitzhak Navon said the United States had agreed to provide Israel about billion in aid to resume arms sales and to guarantee replacement of the oil supplies that Israel will lose by returning the Abu Rudeis and Balain oil fields to Egypt At the same time Israeli troops ed three Arab guerrillas in a wood near the border kibbutz of Hanita and killed them in a battle witnesses reported One Israeli soldier was reported wounded There was speculation the guerrillas were in- filtrating Israel with the intention of making trouble during Kissinger's visit Opposition to Kissinger's new mediation fort was also expressed by some Israelis and government security experts were mobilizing for demonstrations against the secretary of state A popular Israeli hero of the 1973 Mideast War Reserve Maj Assa returned the nation's highest military medal to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to protest the latest peace proposal one of only eight recipients of the Medal of Valor sent it back to Rabin with a letter criticizing the government's surrender to external tates 60 degrees at midnight Welcome but still wet Like a beer after a battering ball game a fresh clean bed after a strenuous day the welcome rain came this morning But just before noon it cleared off and we had received just under an inch 98 inch So far this month 1.75 inches of rain have fallen and with high hopes of more rain to come we stand a chance of meeting last rainfall of 2.82 Inches this year brought only 1.48 inches of rain the lowest since 1960 when we received 1.06 inches ing in Shopko parking lot above are Lisa Boger 9 left 1211 3rd St Port Edwards Pam Prusinski 16 Plainfield and Alice Linski 17 Hancock and Mrs Lorraine Rt 1 Nekoosa Tribune Photos had been boosted to a record increase by a one-time special payment to social security and other federal benefit recipients i he July total was buoyed by a special tor a cost of living adjustment which added billion at an annual rate to the regular monthly income of Social Security recipients But that boost wasn't enough to offset the absence of June's one-time payment of to help spur the economy out of the recession The payment registered in the personal in- come accounts as a annual rate in June Commerce said that leaving aside the effects of the Social Security increases in the last two months personal income has been increasing but at a steadily reduced rate The increase for May was 2 billion June billion and July billion Aside from the drop at an an- rate in Social Security and other transfer payments all other categories in the sonal income ledgers either held steady or advanced 126 killed in Syrian jet crash DAMASCUS Syria AP A Czechoslovak jetliner carrying 128 persons crashed into a dy knoll and exploded early day while trying to land at Damascus airport killing 126 persons authorities said Authorities said initially there were three survivors but that one had died It was the worst air disaster in Syrian history The 62 was coming in for a landing after a flight from Prague when at it dipped below the flight path and ripped into the hillock about 12 miles south of Damascus an official at the airport control tower said When it hit it the plane jumped up and the official continued The wreckage came crashing down Those who were not killed in the explosion were killed in the fire Fire trucks rushed to the open plain from the airport and doused the blaze within a short time officials reported Officials said there were 117 passengers and a crew of 11 aboard the plane which was on a flight from to Damascus Baghdad and Tehran Nixon planning tapes release WASHINGTON AP Former President Richard M Nixon says he will make his presidential tapes public as expeditiously as possible if he is awarded ownership but that he not the government will select the ones to release In a sworn session the first to be made public since Nixon resigned the former president said he would not be satisfied with duplicates of the 42 million documents and hours of tape whose ownership is being contested That misses the point of the whole Nixon said The point is not just access for me for purposes of writing my memoirs Rather he said the point of his objection Is also that any wholesale access to his materials even by government of- with the best intentions would violate the tiality of the presidency Nixon said only he and his family can make the delicate judgments with regard to what is private and what is sonal and what is political and what is embarrassing what is national security The sworn deposition was taken July 25 at a Coast Guard station which adjoins Nixon's home in San Clemente Calif The former president answered questions for more than six hours One of the nine lawyers at the session said it was like the old press conferences long answers to simple questions He said Nixon tried to make but that while he was sometimes sarcastic he was not com- Nixon is challenging the constitutionality of a law passed after his resignation a year ago that gives the government possession of the materials A court is hearing the case which is destined to go to the Supreme Court no matter what the decision The deposition was filed with the court today In a brief Tuesday Nixon's lawyers charged that Congress passed the law to inflict a very real punishment upon a specific individual whom many in Congress believed was guilty of criminal acts Impact study filed for Rudolph nuclear plant MILWAUKEE AP Four electric utilities have filed environmental impact statements concerning plant sites in Sheboygan and Wood counties but said the action does not necessarily foretell tion A spokesman said Tuesday the reports are simply to keep the government informed of planning Sol executive vice president of Wisconsin Electric Power Co said it isn't ab- certain that the utilities will ever want to build plants at the sites near Haven Sheboygan County and Rudolph Wood The reports filed with the U.S Nuclear Regulatory Commission contend that benefits of the power that would be ed at those plants would outweigh any negative impact on the environment from the construction and operation of the plants The Haven and Rudolph sites are among several which have been under study by utilities for construction of plants The units would be similar to those proposed for the Lake Koshkonong area in Jefferson County Construction applications would have to be filed with U.S agency and with the Wisconsin Commission The utilities at whose office copies of the environmental impact statement are to be available are Wisconsin Electric Wisconsin Power Light Co of Madison Wisconsin Public Service Corp of Green Bay and Madison Gas Electric Co Copies of the reports are also being furnished the PSC and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources The detailed studies comprising 15 volumes of environmental information were compiled on the assumption that two kilowatt nuclear generating units could be built at each site Construction plans for the two-unit Koshkonong plant are now being considered by the NRC and PSC The first unit is scheduled to begin producing electricity in 1983 and the second unit said one of two units that shut down at the Point Beach nuclear plant near Manitowoc because of a steam pipe leak should resume operation this week Restoration of equipment at the coal-fired Oak Creek Unit Number 7 near Milwaukee Is also returning to full production It was shut down July 23 after a furnace explosion During the shut downs the utility had been purchasing electricity from neighboring utilities to keep pace with consumer demand NEWSPAPER
