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Stable Gasoline Prices Predicted for State Green Bay Press-Gazett Saturday, May 1, 1976 A-3 Driver Education Change Considered gas stations that are inde -1 (c) If! yiW' J-uj -'s rV 1 --7 a major factor In reduced demand and lower prices, will not be lessened, thus leading to higher prices," he added. Cicchetti attributed the more plentiful petroleum supplies that have led to gasoline price cuts to four factors: An abnormally mild winter; New refineries that oil companies areputting into service; Greater competition among service stations of the major brands'; And federal plans to end the gasoline allocation program. The mild winter in Wisconsin, Cicchetti estimated, resulted in the saving of nearly 15 million gallons of petroleum and 12 billion cubic feet of natural gas. Enforcement of federal fuel allocation rules in the state has reduced the average price of gasoline; but ending the allocation program would make it possible for major brand MADISON (AP) Gasoline prices should drop this spring, or at least not rise as some energy experts have forecast, state energy director Charles Cicchetti said Friday. Cicchetti predicted a temporary respite from petroleum price increases for Wisconsin and the rest of the nation, possibly accompanied by a return to give-away marketing devices by some gasoline retailers.

But Cicchetti said in a quarterly report to the governor and legislature that citizens who purchase gas guzzling autos based on current gasoline price trends are fooling themselves. "I hope no Wisconsinites are foolishly making long-term car purchase decisions based upon this current set of short-term market aberrations which have resulted in lower gasoline prices," hp said. "I also hope that voluntary conservation, which has been would be several times that. The state, as an employer, pays Into the Unemployment Compensation Fund, from which the benefits are drawn. Thomas King, president of the employes' union, endorsed the plan as a means of pressuring the state to halt the practice of hiring LTE's who are non-union employes.

King said revoking eligibility for unemployment compensation might prompt persons offered Jobs as LTE's "to tell the state to go jump In the river," and force the state to hire employes through the classified civil service. The commission was established as part of last year's labor agreement with the WSEU, as a means of inducing union workers to suggest efficiencies in state government business practices. Although the commission has received more than 60 suggestions since being formed last October, none have yet been put into practice. Once a proposal has been adopted and the savings are determined, a portion goes into the state employe payroll fund for periodic distribution in the form of raises. The commission voted to seek more information from the Department of Administration on a proposal for a a 1 n-Milwaukee mail shuttle, to save postage costs between offices of state agencies, and on another suggestion for reusing carbon paper now discarded after one use.

Commissioners rejected a proposal for using telephone company service consultants and eliminating two fulltime state telecommunications experts, at a claimed saving of $55,000 per year. The state specialists perform valuable work beyond the realm of the utility consultants, and letting the provider of the service recommend what services the state should use would be poor policy, commissioners agreed. Equal Say Urged By State Judges Anniversary Picture Monaco's royal family posed recently for this official in ho-nore of the 20th wedding anniversary of Princess Grace and Prince Rainier. From left are Princess Caroline, Prince Albert, Princess Stephanie, Princess Grace and Prince Rainier. (AP Wirephoto) Green Bay To Get $8,486 From State Investment Pool MADISON (AP) The Wisconsin Supreme Court was urged Friday by judges in the Milwaukee district to curb the rule-making powers of administrative court district chief judges and make the process more democratic.

Chief judges in the two other districts now operating said they felt the procedure was satisfactory. The high court held a hearing on the success of court operations in three administrative districts where new procedures for expediting court functions went into eflect Jan. 1. Most of the criticism was directed at Milwaukee County Judge Michael Sullivan, the chief judge in the Milwaukee administrative district, and his adoption of rules for the other 32 judges to follow. Circuit Judge George Burns Jr.

presented arguments for Sullivan, who could not attend the hearing, then criticized the judge's adoption of rules without prior consultation with the other county and circuit judges in the district. Burns, who said he spoke for 24 of the 32 judges, argued that most of the jurists believe they are entitled to eon-tribute and be consulted in the rule-making process. Edwin Wilkie, state court administrator, said the new system was working well and that chief judges need authority to adopt and enforce administrative rules. "At long last the court has done things (in Milwaukee County) to set up a district pendently owned to compete with the new self-service stations, and prices should fall further, Cicchetti said. Increases in gasoline and electricity sales in Wisconsin In the past year were due to economic" recovery rather than a slackening of conservation practices, Cicchetti said.

Developer Hurt In Car Crash WAUKESHA (AP) Real estate developer Robert W. Nanz, adjudged bankrupt in March, was hospitalized in critical condition Friday after his car crashed while traveling the wrong way along Interstate 94 near here, Wisconsin Highway Patrol officials said. Nanz, 45, of Waukesha, suffered multiple broken bones and internal injuries when his auto hit a guardrail along I-94, authorities said. He had been returning from Milwaukee's Federal Building where he met with creditors in his bankruptcy case, which involved real estate developments throughout the country. Nanz had reported assets of about $40 million and debts of about $70 million early in the proceedings.

The Highway Patrol said Nanz was driving west in the eastbound lanes of the freeway when the crash occurred. He Wants Maple At the Capitol MADISON (AP) The Wisconsin Capitol without a sugar maple, the state tree, on the statehouse grounds? Incredible but true, State Sen. Ernest Keppler lamant-ed. The Sheboygan Republican said he made the discovery "to my sad surprise" this past Arbor Day. He urged Rep.

Richard Pabst, chairman of the State Capitol and Executive Residence Board, to give the matter his immediate attention. "The sugar maple and its tasty maple syrup is as much a part of wonderful Wisconsin as thd dairy cow and its wholesome milk," Keppler said in a letter. Keppler recommended planting the tree on the south lawn in view of the governor's office and "my Senate office as well." Leaves Hospital NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Country music singer Bob Luman has been released from St. Thomas Hospital after two operations to correct a ruptured blood vessel in his esophagus.

affected an estimated 918,000 employes, and he said failure to pay one hour of overtime to each would mean about $1 million in lost wages. Attorney Earl Munson, representing the businesses challenging the rule, said the commission's rule differed from the one which was discussed during public hearings. That proposal had provided exemptions from some of the businesses in question and would have set a limit of 44 hours a week, until May 1, 1977, when the limit would have dropped to 40 hours. Samuelsen argued the hearings were aimed at developing a final proposal and that there was no requirement the fina rule be Identical to the one discussed during the hearings. Maloney said the next step in the dispute should be in the legislative arena.

"I can see no reason why this shouldn't await a proper legislative hearing," he said. were well above what local treasurers even in big cities could have earned, Landgraf explained. Most municipalities buy bank certificates of deposit, which run at fixed interest rates for set periods of 30, 60 or more days, during which other interest rates may change. The state system followed a rising interest trend daily. Landgraf said the rates of bank certificates during March, near the end of the first-quarter trial of the pool, were between 5.2 and 5.6 per cent.

The earnings being reported Monday will include both the interest earned on principal amounts placed in the pool, and interest earned on the interest since the end of March, while state officials were waiting to learn the average interest rate. Many of the municipalities have withdrawn the principal from the pool to pay current bills since March, waiting until now to learn what they earned. PRESS-GAZETTE MADISON BUREAU MADISON Notices will arrive in the offices of 25 municipal clerks on Monday telling them the size of their shares in $183,612 in interest earned by letting the state invest their surplus cash early this year. The sums range from $16.32 for one small town to $61,963 for the City of Madison. Seven Fox Valley area municipalities are on the list.

Green Bay will receive $8,486. The communities participated in the first trial of the new state investment pool, through which municipalities allowed the State Investment Board to invest funds in interest-bearing, short-term securities until the communities needed the cash. Earnings among other Northeastern Wisconsin cities include: Appleton, Fond du Lac, Manitowoc, Menasha, Nee-n a $4,150 and Oshkosh, $3,829. According to Tom Landgraf, director of financial operations in the State Department of Administration, the pool's earnings of 7.44 per cent interest were both higher than any participating municipality could have earned on its own and far above the department's expectations. "I think' this was extraordinary," he said.

Estimates by the department in persuading municipal treasurers to participate set likely earnings at 5.6 to 5.9 per cent. The experience of the first a i rrwTT PRESS-GAZETTE WAOISON BUREAU MADISON A state labor-management commission is considering money-saving proj posals to allow high school driver-education teachers to give behind-the-wheel driving tests for licenses, and to make temporary state employes ineligible for unemployment compensation benefits. The. proposals, by James Morgan, chairman of the Cost Savings Commission, could save hundreds of thousands of dollars, which would be divided between the state and its unionized employes. The commission, meeting Friday, agreed to send the proposals to the state agencies best able to determine whether they would be workable and how much they might save.

Morgan, president of the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance, is the neutral member of the seven-member panel of government administrators and Wisconsin State Employes Union representatives. estimated that permitting high school driver education teachers to administer the required road test for their pupils to receive licenses would save $334,600. That is, the cost of having 38 Division of Highways driver's license examiners give an estimated 113,900 tests per year to high school students. Under present regulations, the students must take their road tests with an examiner after completing the high school course. Morgan suggested that the schools be allowed to keep the $2 road test fee now paid to the highway agency.

The potential savings of Morgan's second proposal concerning unemployment benefits for limited-term employes (LTE's) is unknown, since there is no ready source of information on the number of such employes hired by the state. But, Morgan said, the Department of Revenue alone reported a cost of $113,000 in unemployment compensation benefits paid in 1974-75 to LTE's after their terms of employment expired. The total for- the state presumably FAMILIES BOUGHT OR SOLD PROPERTIES IN THE LAST 30 DAYS i THRU THE "SUCCESS TEAM" AT -COM NT FDIC Corporilton 25 municipalities is expected to attract widespread participation, now that others can see how the first group fared. The pool was initially established to help the state out of a cash-flow bind, in which last March 10 there would have been a cash shortage of nearly $100 million if the state had distributed scheduled shared-tax payments to local governments. Instead, many municipalities cooperated under a new law to let the state keep their shares until later, investing the portion the state did not need to meet immediate obligations, and paying interest.

The interest rate was calculated on the average of short-term investment earnings by the Investment Board, which also routinely invests a variety of state funds for long and short terms. The average was for the first quarter of the year. Because the surplus cash in the pool was about $35,000 per and because of the state board's sophisticated methods of investing daily to gain the top interest rates, the returns 92,000 Are Due PHILADELPHIA (AP) -r The housing bureau for the 41st International Eucharistic Congress here in August says 92,000 persons 35 per cent of them from foreign countries have booked reservations, but there is still more room. 'W MM Each Limit 5 16' Lb. CUT GREEN BEANS 16 oz.

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The Supreme Court might act on the criticism voiced against a chief judge's right to adopt rules for the entire district before July 1. County Judge Albert Twesme of Trempealeau County, chief judge in the 14th administrative district in west-central Wisconsin, said he changed his mind about the creation of administrative districts after initially opposing the concept. "I was opposed to the plan and I didn't think it would work," he told the justices. "I didn't like it. I was wrong." Twesme said his district has not dissension among judges over rules similar to that experienced in Milwaukee.

"We follow the Twesme rule," the judge said. "You do what I say when I'm chief judge, and I'll do what you say when you're chief judge." gasoline and automobile sales industries. They charged the rule was unreasonable, arbitrary and in restraint of trade. They also accused the commission of failing to follow proper procedures in adopting the regulations. The rule requires time and a half payment for overtime after 40 hours of work a week but sets no requirement for overtime on a dally basis.

It exempts workers covered by union contracts which set different overtime schedules. Assistant Atty. Gen. Gordon Samuelsen, who represented the commission, said the emergency rule remains on the books despite Maloney's order. Samuelsen said the judge's action prevents the commission from enforcing the rule, but it could be applied retroactively to May 1 if it is eventually upheld.

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