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Coming Tomorrow: FBI says the number of hate crimes committed in the United States dropped 15 percent in 1994 In NEWS Green Bay Press-Gazette a 4 Comments? Call Executive Metro Editor Barbara Uebelacker, 431-8341 Wednesday, November 15, 199! HIE Grn Bety council makes just 2 changes i Budget at a glance The 1996 budget, as passed by the City Council: Spending: $70.8 million. Tax levy: $29.8 million. Tax rate: $1 2.26 per $1 ,000 of assessed property value. Tax on a $70,000 home: $858.20, a 2.6 percent increase over last year's rate. Largest areas of spending: Public Works will spend $15.9 million; the police department will spend $1 5.6 and the fire depart- -ment $15.3 million.

The next largest amount, $11.1 million, will go for debt retirement. In the 1 12-hour budget hearing Tuesday a breeze compared with the 10-hour budget marathon the County Board went through Monday City Council members seemed almost like they'd let Jadin's budget pass unscathed. No one from the public spoke at the meeting, and debate among council members appeared to be cordial. They didn't tamper with changes the Finance Committee had made last week the reinstatement of $50,000 for holiday weekend garbage collection andjpr maintaining the service of unlimite4oUectidns of bulk refuse items, jsuch as furniture. They also didn't touch the committee's addition of to the police budget for two nonsworn officers to patrol parks.

Nor did they object to Jadin's adding of two new housing inspectors to the Public Works staff. Council Chairman Gary Vanden Busch tried to get $2,000 reinstated so that any interested council members could attend the national League of Cities meeting. The location has not been set. The council agreed 7-5 to go with the Finance Committee's recommendation to cut it. Aid.

Tim Hinkfuss similarly failed to get the council to cut $2,600 to send Municipal Court judge Mark Warpinski to the two-week National Judicial College. By Paul Srubas Press-Gazette1 A las.t-minute adjustment to Mayor Paul Jadin's proposed 1996 budget will mean an additional $150 for non-residents needing transportation in city ambulances. It'll mean $75,000 more in the city coffers, but another last-minute adjustment added $200,000 to Jadin's proposed $400,000 capital improvement reserve. The two changes constituted a $125,000 addition to the tax burden. That brings the 1995 city tax rate to of assessed Value, or $838.20 on a $70,000 home.

That's a 16 percent hike from the city tax rate of $11.95 per $1,000. 1 JL" Budget Mayor Paul Jadin And Aid. Terry Skarda lost in a bid to cut $100,000 froni Jadin's proposed $300,000 recommendation for the city's Workers Compensation fund Please see BudgetB-4 cuts may hit elderly food program 3 tmfJ 0 -fT itMmtoimMmmmBtotmtiBm Ashwaubenon looks at other scalping laws, ASHWAUBENON The Public Works and Protection Committee will study ticket scalping ordt nances in Madison, Milwaukee and Indianapolis before considering one for the village. The committee consider restricting scalping, rather than banning it. The cities it will study require scalpers to get permits and identification.

Also, scalpers are allowed to resell tickets only in eertain areas. "It's a problem, and we have some time to address it," said Steve Kubacki, director of administrative services. "We probably won't have anything in place this year, but by the time next (Packers) season rolls around, we'll have come up with an attempt to solve the problem." Kubacki said the committee also will look at possible restrictions only on Packers game day s. "We'll study these other cities and see what their experiences have been," he said. Kubacki said letters the village has received in support of a scalping ordinance have suggested the village regulate scalping, rather than ban it.

A status report on the issue will be presented at the committee's December meeting. The committee could recommend an ordinance to the Village Board in January. Inmate a suspect in 1975 slaying Blood samples have been taken from a Green Bay man suspected in a 1975 North Carolina murder. A search warrant issued this week for samples from Gregory A. Allen, 41, an inmate in the Brown County Jail, says he's suspected of strangling a 15-year-old Newport.

N.Cgirl. Allen is jailed in lieu of $25,000 bail on ffefcny charges of second-degree sexual assault while concealing his identity and burglary and misdemeanor charges of lewd bailjumping. Allen allegedly had unwanted sexual contact with a woman after entering her 14th Avenue home through a window on June 27. He also performed a sexual act in front of a woman's picture window Aug. 5, a criminal complaint says.

Allen also faces a second charge of lewd and lascivious behavior. The search warrant says: A woman Allen lived with told police Oct. 26 the day prosecutors filed the Brown County felony charges against him that he told her about five years ago that he had killed a kid and gotten away with it. Allen, who would have been 21 in 1975, was seen in front of the girl's house a day before she disappeared, and someone matching his description was seen watching her as she crossed a U.S. highway median after 8:30 p.m.

the day she disappeared. Her body was found the next afternoon in a drainage ditch. Blood was found on her pullover top, and Allen had scratches on his forearms. A hair found on a shirt of his could have been from the girl, a crime lab determined. Sentencing due in crack case A woman accused of being part of a crack cocaine ring operated by friends and some family members will be sentenced Wednesday, Dec.

13, on drug charges. Bulah Tiller, 47, formerly of 919 S. Maple pleaded no contest earlier this month to four charges of dealing or being party to cocaine dealing in 1995. Charges of conspiring to deliver a controlled substance and keeping a drug house and another charge of being party to delivering cocaine -were dropped. De Pere man's death accidental i SHAWANO The death of a De Pere man, whose body was found Monday in a small camping trailer in Shawano County, has been ruled an accident Daniel R.

Davister, 29, 1222 S. Sixth De Pere, died of carbon monoxide poisoning after a gas stove was left on overnight, Shawano County Coroner Roger Lenzner said. Davister apparently stayed in the trailer near Gresham during the week that he worked in Wausau, Lenzner Davister apparently arrived at the trailer about midnight Sunday: His b6dy was discovered at about 11:30 a Monday. Lenzner said Davister had been dead for seven or eight hours when his body was discovered. Staff reports Helping hand: ynn Boehm of De Pere, director of the older America program at Green Bay's Curative Workshop, 2900 Curry Lane, helps 79-year-old Saima Smith of Green Meal issues heating up It's time to think playoffs By Thomas Content Press-Gazette Many Green Bay Packers fan wagered wrong last year, bettih the Packers wouldn't host a hom playoff game.

They ended up missing th Packers' first playoff game, Lambeau Field in 12 years. The decision is once again in sei son ticketholders' hands. The have less than three weeks decide whether to order tickets f( two possible playoff games Lambeau Field. Invoices for the playoff tickei started arriving in fans' mailbox Tuesday. Ticketholder Tim Berken, wh didn't order playoff" tickets lai year, doesn't want to be sitting home if the fPackers host a playo game this seksdn.

"This year, I'll make sure I hi them. Last year I was a little upsi that they weren't winning," i said, referring to a three-game 16 ing streak that the Packers sa fered just after the Packers mailt out orders for playoff tickets. Berken and other fans will ha to ante up $3 more per ticket th; year for the chance to see a honi playoff game. "After the win Sunday, I'd hep people would be pretty excife about it," Packers ticket directc Mark Wagner said Tuesdaj "We're sitting here tied for th division lead." Fans are required to pay advance for two possible horn playoff games, plus a $3 nor refundable handling charge. This year's prices: First-round playoff game, De 30 or 31, or divisional playoff gam Jan.

6- 7: $45 for stadium seats, $5 for private box seats and $95 fo dub seats. i NFC championship game, Ja 14: $60 for stadium seats, $65 fd private box seats and $110 for clu seats. Ticket prices are set by th National Football League. Orders must be received at th Packers office on Lombard Avenue by Monday, Dec. 4.

Ord that are postmarked Dec. 4 aj arrive later won't be acceptec Wagner said. Any tickets that are unclaimed by Green Bay ticketholders will offered to Milwaukee fans. An tickets still unclaimed would! sold at Ticketmastc-r. 4 The Packers plan to revise distribution format for any ticket sold at Ticketmaster, Wagner sait That's in-fesponse to outcries froji local fans last year after fans frof around the country snarfed up tK lionfs share of the 26,000 seats fo th home playoff game againd Detroit.

-a If the Packers don't host a pla AIM1 -r "11 on game, the team win issii refunds, except for the $3 handlin charge, Wagner said. 'J The team won't delay in mailiil refunds to fans if a game isn't hei Wagner said, v.l To play at Lambeai How the Packers can hosti game: To host Dec. 30-31: Green Bay finishes the seasc as a wild-card team with the be record. Or Green Bay wins the NFC Centr Divisjon but its record is worse the the other "two divisional winners, a To host Jan. 6-7: Green Bay wins the NFC Certtt Division and its record is better thi a team that wins another Cleveland security tlghtA- Packer profileC-1 9- if Press-Gazette photo by John Roemer with their meals on Tuesday.

could force some area meals What's next The Bay Area Agency on Aging Board will consider closing or moving some meal sites in its 16-county region when it meets at 9:30 a.m. Monday, Nov. 27, at the agency, 308 N. Danz Ave. three people were being served, Berthold said.

Outagamie County has closed one site and Manitowoc County is considering one. Sunny Mason, director of the Brown County Commission on Aging, said no determinations on meal site changes will be made until the extent of federal budget cuts are known. Common sense plays a role in sites being considered for clo-. sure? Berthold said. requiring such a wait for a handgun purchase; Edward Huck, executive idirecr tor of the Wisconsin Alliance of Cities, said other cities might try- to follow Madison a lead to take advantage of the exemption.

Thompson, who was out of the city Tuesday, had said he could'not. sign the measure without the amendment exempting Milwaukee from the proposed state law. Aides have said Thompson felt the variety of local controls was confusing, and many of the local ordinances were outdated and unenforced. State law forbids carrying concealed weapons, carrying weapons in state and local government buildings, carrying or shooting a weapon while intoxicated, and possessing a gun while in a tavern. The state requires "a two-day waiting period for handgun purchases and also bars carrying uncased weapons in vehicles during hunting season.

a Transportation budgetB-3 More legislative actionB-6 $8 governor 'I Bay and Lloyd Daniels, 83, Likely federal budget cuts sites to close. tributed about $350,000 in a cash supplement for the program, said Dora Heikkinen, the agency's fiscal manager. In Washington, the House has approved a 5 percent cut for 1996 in the funding for congregate nutrition programs under which the agency falls. The cut would drop funding nationally to $357 million from $375 million, said Don Meyer, press secretary for U.S. Rep.

Toby Roth, R-Appleton. The Senate still hasn't voted to approve the cut. "The states have the ability to transfer up to 20 percent of funds between senior nutrition programs to use the money where they deem it necessary," Meyer said. A recent closure the Waupaca meal site where only permitr requires reporting of sales; prohibits window display of weapons. (An exemption in the bill- allows Milwaukee to retain through 1998 a seven-day waiting period before a handgun buyer takes possession of the gun.) Because the exemption would coyer seven-day waiting periods in existence before the bill was signed, the Madison City Council -suspended its rules and quickly passed an ordinance Tuesday night tors will consider site closings at its meeting Monday, Nov.

27. The Brown County Commission on Aging makes the recommendation for this county, and Bay Area Agency on Aging has final The agency serves the aging population in the Oneida, Menominee and tribes and in counties j.from Door to Sheboygan and as Vfar as Green Lake, Marquette nd Waushara. There are 127 meal sites operating in that regionvftix in Brqwn In 1994; the. agency served more than 649,000 meals at its meal site locations. Funding included $2.6 million of which 55 percent was federal money and 45 percent'4state money.

The USDA also con gun laws up to By Sean Schultz Press-Gazette Anticipated federal budget cuts are forcing the Bay Area Agency on Aging to consider closing or moving some meal sites in its 16-county region. Each county and the three American Indian tribes opera t- ing meal sites have been asked to submit requests for closures or changes as necessary, said Doris Berthold, agency nutrition pro-i gram consultant. Closings won't be random or without concern for those affectedT "They're not aing, without a meal," Berthold said. Options include transfeilring patrons to different meal site or offering home-delivered meals, she added. The agencyjs boEird of direc Fatepf MADISON (AP) Thf repeal of)' local gun-control ordinances in Wisconsin that are1 stricter than state Jaw has been approved by the Legislature land aeji to.

Tommy Thompson for signing. f-j opponents claiming backer ers were caving' in to the gun lobby, the Assembly on Tuesday passed, 74-21, the bill to repeal gun controls that exceed state restrict tions.i The Senate had approved it last weerK, despite arguments that local communities should have the right to set conv trols they desire on firearms within; their own boundaries. "Wyatt Earp had more control than Sheriff (Marvin) Arneson is going to have" in Douglas County, complained Rep. Frank Boyle, find that intolerable." i The cify tf Superior outlaws-loaded weapons in the city and should be allowed to continue to 'do so, he The bill could affect at least 20 tdcal gun control ordinances' throughout the state. A Under an exemption, the city of Some local gun pfdinances Here is a list, compiled, by the a weapons without a permit, state Justice Department, Madison: generally prohibits some locat gun-controi orditlarrying loaded or uncased nances that could be.

affected byi firearms, requires use of trigger the bill sent' to Gv Tommy Jocks, tans short-barrel hand-Thompson for signing, y' guns, barbed bullets and assault Eau forbids posSes. weapons, 'sion of guns in businesses open" Manitowoc: forbids carrying the public, -carrying loaded loaded, uncased guns; also for-gu'ns on streets and other city, bids them in vehicles, property. Milwaukee: prohibits sale of Green Bay; bans carrying of dangerous weapons without a firearms, bows' or crossbows, martial arts weapons, and use of those devices in threatening fashion. La Crosse: bans carrying or wearing of pistols, switchblades, dirks and other 'dangerous Milwaukee would be allowed to keep its seven-day waiting period on handgun sales through 1998, when a nationwide computer network will be able to provide background checks on handgun buyers..