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New 'Discipline' Move DefeatedSlap at City's Handlingof U. Avenue Also Fails0WisconsiniiState JournalBv ROBERT A. DAVIS%■(Of Tht State Journal Staff)MadisonMADISON, THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1967SuburbanSECTION 4DIAL 256-3111For the second time in less than a week, the Dane CountvwBoard Wednesday night killed a resolution that would have urged University of Wisconsin officials to “strictly discipline” students involved in the Feb. 21-23 demonstrations against the Dow Chemical Co.Last week, the board killed by 27-19, a resolution submitted bv Kenneth Jost. District-----------Moss Transit Called Only Answerunch Defends Traffic Plansthe February demonstrations25. Madison, asking Universityofficials to expel demonstra- and discipline participants, tors and to withdraw University recognition frompating organizations.Jost made no comment dur-pa1 tici- jng tjie new discussion. Theresolution was submitted b\as Questions Pour In at HimWednesday night, Ihe board EmM Burmeister |)js„,ct j agatn voted. 22 21). to table or MaJj wh0 sald lhp dom„„.kill a watered-down resolution which would have asked Uni-of county-wide, . . ... interest because he said 20versity offic.als to investigate departmentPolice Givedeputies were called uponaid in the disturbance.toNeither Nod/No to PaperThe majority of the board members however, disagreed, because, as Edwin Hick m a n. District 44. Middleton, said.“We’ve got more impor t a n t countv business to attend to.* *The first issue of “Connections,” a self-described “underground newspaper” on the University of Wisconsin campus, fell flat Wednesday in its editors’ advanced predictions that it would shake police protectorsof public morality.“It’s written in bad taste; part of it is disgusting; part of it juvenilely amusing, but there is no cause for police action concerning this issue,” Police Inspector Herman Thomas said.A resolution submitted by*Jost accusing Madison city officials of “slow-moving andlackadaisical activ i t i e s inhandling the University Ave.-W Johnson St. expressway projectand resulting problems wassent to the City-County Liaison Committee over Jost’s objectionsJohn Bunch, the citv traffic engineer, Wednesday night defended University Ave. and W Johnson St. traffic arrange-ments to a barrage of questioners on a television question and answer program.The eastbound bus lane facing the four w c s t-bound lanes onUniversity A v e.*w a s recognized even in the planning s t a g e s as “not the perfect plan. But it was the best use for the time being, Bunch said on W’HA-TV’s You Ask the Question.The bus lane has been theBUNCH’ *subject of a heated controversy because of a recent accident involving a University of Wisconsin co-ed, but Bunch said that accidents in the area had decreased over the past year.In comparison to a three-month period last year. Bunch said, there were 33 fewer accidents in the University Ave.* Johnson St. area and there were only 12 injuries in t h e present period as compared to 23 the vear beforeThere were however, five pedestrian accidents as comparedto onlv three the vear before.• *.Bunch called the total accident picture a “tremendous improvement.A recent petilion by University students requested that busesbe moved off University Ave.*onto W Johnson St., but Bunchsaid “that wouldn't be a case of good movement.”He said it would still leave an imbalance in the east-west traffic movement and would also cause a traffic problem because the buses would have tomove a cross all the moving traffic lanes on W, Johnson St. to get to the north side of thestreet.The conflicting desires ofthousands of driving commuters and shoppers were hinted at as questions flowed into Bunch asking for more stop lights, fewer restrictions, more restric-t i o n s. and different turningrules.Criticizes MayorThomas, h o w ever, suppliedcopies of the eight-paged tabloidissue to the district attorney'sJost. who represents a primarily University campus area, criticized Madison Mayor Otto Festge and Traffic Engineer John Bunch especially for “dragging their feet.”New City Ethics UnitBunch fielded most of them competently and remarked atone point “Whenever you have traffic, you’re in a conflict.” He said later that “we’re just about out of easy answers.Plans Public RecordsHe did predict thal a computerized traffic light system which is to be started this summer will case some of the imbalanced intersection problems.Bunch said he felt that massand city attorney’s offices for their appraisal.He got the extra copies from Mrs. Robert S. Gabriner, wife of the co-editor, who is a Uni-versity teaching assistant in history from New York City, ati their apartment newspaperi headquarters at 714 Conklin PI.His resolution asked that the board go on record as urging the city to take immediate action to remedy “the severely drastic” traffic situation in the campus area.Tho m a s. the chief police I checker of possible pornograph-a ic literature, said he made “a careful check of all citv busi-f ness places” and found none d selling the new “Connections.” He said lie bought his first y copy Tuesday afternoon at the Memorial Union, but when he e returned for extra copies I Wednesay, was told that the Memorial Union officials had . banned the sale.William Hall, District 3. Madison, said the board shouldnot mine too rapidly into acitv area when the citv is try-* * *ing to do something about it.”The board, after lengthy debate, adopted a board rule outlining methods for the removal of the board chairman, v i c e-ehairman, committee chair-men, or any board mem b e r from anv committeeThe city Ethics Review Committee Wednesday night agreed that cases which arc handled by it will be made public after a determination of action is recommended by the committee Agreement was informal and not final. The committee continued to arrange rules of pro- - *cedure for handling complaints ords being made public after of ethical misconduct by city determination. The public is en-employes and officials. titled to know thistransit was “about the only answer to the traffic problem.” Vs far as experimental units go he said, the best one for Madison would be a bus that could con* vert to rail traffic.* *One disgruntled pedestrian asked whv the walk lights werei Stuart R. Ewen, the other eo-t editor who is a student from- New Jersey, denied WednesdayV fcJj night that the sales booth at the- Union had been banned.“We have one arranged for • Saturday through the campus- Ad Hoc Committee for Think* t ing, to be set up with the Unioni bureaucrats’ approval,” lie said. Even said thev contracted for5,000 copies of the first biweek-; ly issue to be printed at the t Stoughton Courier Hub office. All of those were sold on cam-i pus since Monday except “less ■ than 100 that we want to keep ! for office records and promo-l tion purposes,” he saidThe campus newspaper, t h e i Daily Cardinal, editorially “wel-I corned” the new tabloid Wednes-- day and urged students to sup-‘ port it.The “Connections” star ted with attacks against Francis I Cardinal Spellman, Bob Hope,j the I niversity athletic department, Ann Emery hall co-eds.No Names MentionedThe resolution, which is a procedural rule and did n o t name any specific board member. stales that any of the board members, including officers, may be removed from their positions, hut not from the hoard, bv a two-thirds vote of the elected board membership.Reasons for the removal were listed as inefficiency, neglect of duty, or official misconduct.The board went on record as opposing proposed state legislation which would set up theposition of county assessor, to replace the present system of, local asse sor for each governmental unit.The board also went on rec-There have been no official complaints yet The only question of ethical conduct being mentioned at Citv Hall is that of the membership of William Straub, president of the Madison Bus Co., on the uty traffic commission. Committee members discussed that matter informally without taking any action.On the subject of disclosing ethics cases. Michael Torpiiy said, “The public probably will be better served bv these ree-NLRB Hearing SetWilliam Fields suggested that persons like Straub might be made official advisers of c om-mittees such as the traffic commission hut not have an official vote Robert Corcoran, administrative assistant to the mayor, com-►mented that it was desirable to have experts directly on ihe citv commissions, boards, and lt;om-mittees.He noted that in addition to Straub on the traffic commission. there are Robert llurlbut of the Milwaukee Road. William Marvin of the AAA. John Shaw, a State St. businessman, andnever on long enough. They are generally adequate for t h o s ewho are waiting at the curb to step off when the light goes on, Bunch saidBunch said that the city’s traffic problems will continue to grow as ihe city does The University Ave. project, which started in the planning stage in1957, is one of the answers to the problem of getting traffic into and out of the downtownarea he saidMansfield Emceeson Bus Union BidDinner for FestgeA National Labor Relations Board spokesman said Wednesday a hearing has been set Mar lfi in Madison on a petition of the Teamsters Union to represent Madison Bus Co. drivers.Teamsters Local 695 tiled a petition for the election last week, It contended it represents a majority of the 120-member unit of drivers and other operating employes.oid as opposing proposed state legislation which would callfor the “staggering” of County Board terms in the April, 1968. election.Currently, all 47 board members will be up for reelection to two-year terms in 1968 The proposed state legislat i o n would call for half of the board members to be elected for onlvEmployes are now represented by Local 456 of the Amalgamated Assn. of Street, ElectricRailway, and Motor Coach Em-*ployes The local has a contract with the bus firm running until June l, 1968Joseph Weyrough of Oscar Ma\-er and Co.. all of whom have vital interests in traffic problems in relation to their places of employmentTheir know ledge is h o l pful on the commission, he said, but thev have conflicts at times.wtoo just as Straub has.Thev should abstain from vot-ing at times, he said, and review their interests at times, too, but the city would not want them to resign from the commissionAmong the rules of procedure which the committee is in general agreement on is that complaints about ethics will have to be in writing with name and address of the complainantArthur (Dvnie) Mansfield chairman of the Citizens f o r Festge Committee, will be master of ceremonies for the Saturday night recognition dinner for Mayor Otto Festge. the committee announced Wednesday.The dinner will be held at 7 p.m. at the Park Motor I n n. Rep. Robert Kastcnmeicr lt;D-Watertown) will be main speakerTickets are $15 each or $25for two and may be obtained from Festge’s campaign headquarters, 11 W, Main St., telephone 235-0094Kastenmeier will speak on the growth of federal-city cooperation and its meaning to Madison.U.S. Viewed as Racist Nation»■.»■■■ ithe language that does not accept “sexual metaphors,” and society in general lor “making ( war. hunger, famine, and plague palatable.”It s “art” was a Page 1 nude wearing a gas mask and ion-, dlmg a plastic fern, and a tewcrude cartoon drawingsYou wouldn't know the nudeone - year terms to produce a “staggering effect in fut u r eExKinsReturns HereyearsSwastika Egg,to MobilizeWar StandChicken CalledVicious by D.A.By RAYMOND MOl (HA(Of Tht Slttt Journal SUM)That's a picture taken in 1920,” Ewen saidDisf Attx James C Boll wasincensed Wednesday vv hen helearned that someone enteredMed Student, Wifehis office late Tuesday night andThe Rev James Bevel returned to Madison Wednesday,this time to gather support for the anti - warmovementHe was in townfrom Mississippi, Bevel spoke Wednesday to about 170 persons in Great Hall of the MemorialGoing to Tanzaniaplaced on his de-vk a large whitetwo vears ago.A University of Wisconsin medical student and his wife■ will spend three months in Tan-; zania, East Africa, on a fellow* i ship awarded by Smith, Kline,■ and French Laboratories of PhiladelphiaRichard A Ellingstad, a jtui-ior from Hudson, and his wife. Maryellen, will work at t ti c Kionboi Lutheran Hospital, ho as a preceptor assisting doctors in general medical duties, andshe as a nurselive chicken and an egg paintedwith swastikasBoil said “pervertedwas tryingtrick ”someone with asense of humor to play a “viciousThe Eliingstads will receiveimrh*r th#» fpllmitthin Tht*“Too many people havefought and died to erad i c a t e Nazism from the face of the earth, Boll said 1 think this is a serious matter and do notconsider it a jke ”Boll said he learned of the incident Wednesday night when a City-County Building janitortold him he found them aboutthat time togather support for the civil rights movement.In that time span, his t i t leshave changed but he contends thathis basic c a u s e r e m a i n s theUnion He also held a press conference, and w ill speak againat 8 tonight at the First Congregational Church.world that men shouldn’t murder men to solve their problems.Bevel offered no suggestionsas to what should be done inVietnam, and he also refused to say what would be done aft-Bevel said that in a way lie was still in the rights movement. and in another wav he was not.“For one thing, I was nevera civil rights leader,” he said, although he was a chief organizer in last summer’s rightsprotests in Chicagosanio iToday he is na tional director of ***'■' kLthe Spring Mobilization Committee to End theWar in Vietnam.Two years ago he was field director nf (lie Southern Chris-lle said that he was objecting to Ihe war primarily as a concerned individual, but earlier commented that Vietnam was related to civil rights because 23 per cent of the American troops in Vietnam are Negroes and because the money beingspent on war could be used at home to better the lives of im-er Apr 15.He did say that Negroes are an untapped resource in the anti-war movementIn answer to a question about increased white backlash if Negroes become associated with the anti-war people, he said that this was a problem for the civil rights leaders to worry about.He denounced persons who attempt to associate civil r i g hts and anti-war movements withCommunism“I’m not a Communist. There are no Communists in the civil rights movement,” he saidBevel stated that he would not he stopped by charges of aCommunist eonsoiracv
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Madison Wisconsin State Journal
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Thu, Mar 09, 1967
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