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CBS Crew Films City for Show title Minneapolis tribune Morris Savers 19 pRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1 970. 17 Property Tax 'Outs' Assailed You might remember my scoops on. the Great Salad Fork Scandal and the Great Wallpaper Scandal. Now another: the Great Miss Minneapolis Scandal. It seems that the current title holder, Kathy Cox, 20, mi, I 1 "tit 1 -riff; tti'mym'tov" has; been more of a wallflower than a queen.

-And she's not very happy about it. 1 She; has been unreign-ing as Miss Minneapolis since last May 22 and claims she's had about as much attention as a Trap-pist monk in Siberia. "The "highlight of my year so far was a call from a guy who said he saw my picture over the Peanut Bar at Eddie Webster's," she told me. The villain in this neglect is the Minneapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce, that group of young hopefuls who normally delight in such promotions. Miss Cox, a University of Minnesota speech major, By IRV LETOFSKY Minneapolis Tribune Staff Writer A camera crew for CBS Minneapolis-based TV series, "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," was in our scenic city this week shpotlng for the" opening and closing credits.

Miss Moore, who won1 several Emmy awards for' her portrayal of Laura Petrie on "The Dick Van Dyke Show," was with the crew briefly and returned to California In the new half-hour sit-u a i comedy, Miss Moore plays a 30-year-old bachelor girl who works in the press room of a Minneapolis TV station. Although CBS affiliate WCCO-TV is not mentioned in the series, the camera crews were shoot- ing still photographs of its newsroom in order to reconstruct a newsroom set in Los Angeles. The crew was surveying the city for likely homes for Miss Moore's character. They were interested in some homes on W. Lake of the Isles Blvd.

and Mt. Curve Av. Len Ephriam, the associate producer of the show, also had film foot-. age taken of a house in 1: Hopkins that will serve as 'X II I 111! II III I iimJ.J KATHY COX By ROBERT FRANKLIN I Minneapolis Tribune 'i Staff Writer A woman with $10,000 as her only asset was forced to leave a church-f 'related nursing home when the money ran out because "they didn't want any more welfare pa- tients." A retirement home, Ma- i donna" Towers in Roches- ter, sought tax ex- emption as a "purely pub--, lie charity" although residents had to pay $9,900 to! $19,900 just to be admit- Tbe Chrysler Building In New York, N.Y., takes in $7 million a year in rents but "the city, teem- ing with its poor, gets not" one dime of tax revenue." These cases were cited by State Rep. Ernest Lind-strom, Richfield Conservative, Thursday as examples of abuses in exempting property from real estate taxes.

An exemption given to a religious or charitable organization is "the equiv- alent of an appropriation from the public treasury," Lindstrom told a Minneapolis meeting of nursing home officials, and 45 percent of all property is off tax rolls in cities like Newark, N.J., and Boston, he said. Lindstrom, who heads a House tax subcommittee studying tax exemptions, said it was "sheer folly" for some homes and the American Association of Homes for the Aging to support Madonna Towers' unsuccessful court suit for tax-exempt status. But Eugene T. Hackler, vice-president of the association, said some exemptions should be granted to homes for the aging because they can care for many elderly people far more cheaply than can nursing homes. Hackler, of Olathe, also challenged the idea that tax-exempt nurs-j ing homes should contribute to a city, in -lieu -of Nursing Continued on Page 19 Minneapolis Tribune Photo by Ben Kern "Mad Bear," the chalet run at Sugar Hills, was beefed up his snowmaking equipment and busy this winter.

The ski area's owner has plans to stay open for another week or two. Sugar Hills Expands, Improves BEN KERN YOUR WINTER WEEKEND a the confidence of his financial backers. When Skinner gave up his budding 'legal practice to assume the management of Sugar Hills ski area back in 1960 in was with the stipulation that he might buy it from the civic group after a trial period. Not only did he exercise his option to take over the ski area but went in twice as deep by signing to buy Otis Lodge, a fine old summer resort with golf course and airport on the northeast shore of Sissebakwet (now also known as "Sugar and connecting lands to the ski area two miles i southward. Some minds may have boggled at this bold f- Weekend Continued on Page 19 memo YJ GRAND RAPIDS, Minn.

In December 1960, an open winter, Charles Skinner, Grand Rapids attorney, led Sel Hannah, $125-a-day ski area planner from New England, into the woods south of Lake Sissebakwet. Hannah had been hired by a group of Grand Rapids civic leaders to look at a proposed ski area. It took the pair half the night with compass and flashlight and some kind of animal crunching along after them before they found their way out of the woods However, Hannah okayed the hills and laid out a ski area, with the help of many balls of Two years and about $140,000 later Sugar Hills That "was in 1962 four years after Min- nesota's first, ha 11 started Virginia, Minn. lpiiiiiiiliiiil-il Well, it's been 10 years since Skinner and Hannah tramped the woods. Virginia's Lookout Mountain to the north, also developed to improve the local economy, has gone through an SBA foreclosure and reopened in private hands, its snowmaking equipment having been sold off.

Sugar Hills, on the other is doubling the "Wheaties more bSgger pipes)' behind Its 'snowmaking and is rolling along-like "The Big Locomotve Thaf Did Sugar Hills "pinch doesn't want to be an ingrate but she would love to have someting to be grateful for. "I got calls occasionally saying they had a great deal for me, and then that would be the last I would hear of it," she said. Queen Got Dressed Up for Nothing I mean how many times can a girl get all dressed up and then have no place to go. Her first major disappointment was not being in last summer's Aquatennial "They didn't come up with the entrance fee," she said. She did go to some lesser festivals in the summer, but has virtually been dead since.

Kathy is not one to be catty or jealous, but she has noticed that Miss Downtown and the Aquatennial Queen have been having a ball all year. She is a St. Paulite, but doesn't think that such a thing has anything to do with her being shelved. The reason she got the title is that she was living near the university at the time. But lest anyone get up- tight about her residence, she points out that Miss St.

Paul is Cynthia Stillwell from Bloomington. If things continue that way, Miss Minnesota may be from Now I figure that queen contests are about as pertinent today as high button shoes. But if you're going to. crown a girl, you shouldn't then bury her. It's quite clear why this scandal occurred.

I got it from Ken Hanson, now chairman of the Jaycees special events committee. A Royal Mess "It was really a he admitted. -When Kathy was selected the special events com-, mittee hadf.i2 members, (two later, the commit- tee was do'wn to bne membeH-Hahsori'. the chairman' at' that time, quit coming to meetings" Hanson said. "So became chairman of a no- member' group." 'Also, the two' guys who were named Kathy's man-: agels for the year quit the Jaycees and didn't even tell anyone.

"'We sat in the dark for a long time," said Hanson. That seems clear. After Hanson was made chairman, the old chairman returned' and; complained. So they made him Kathy's manager. He tasted a month, then quit that job without telling I can't wait to follow the rest of his career.

In any case, a pretty, five foot six blonde has read a lot of books this year. She does get to be an entrant in the Miss Minnesota contest this June. The fact her reign ends more than a month before doesn't seem to bother anyone. Not even the Jaycees. I suggest that maybe this year the Jaycees have a Mr.

Minneapolis contest instead. They could give the title to the chairman of the special events committee. Then he could plan his own events. Seymour Comes Home Gloria, the young woman who lost her dog, Seymour, has found him. She wants to thank all those who helped to find him and those who offered her another dog.

Miss Moore Miss Moore's former home, supposedly in Roch- ester, Minn. The series will be shot tin JLos with, any necessary outdoor backgrounds pre-shot in Min- V' M9re Continued ort Page 18 Easter Lilies rw-" i ii mi in jr i' iin i i mil iiiijri IN SOUTH DALE IT'S pill Exceptionally beautiful lilies. 6 to 25 buds and blooms, tastefully decorated 't off Lookout by rising between it and the Twin Cities? To a degree, perhaps, but if so, the big Sugar is getting a chance to show its mettle under similar circumstances. Quadna, with one of the best hills in the state, is expanding 20 miles south (Twin Cities-ward) of Grand Rap- ids, on Hwy. 169.

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