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STAR TRIBUNE ST. PAUL EDITION Appointments Profiles of the appointees a r. VVUUUHVV uwua vuv Star TribuneThursdayDecember 201990 51 Business rebuff makes recycling plan's sailing rough '-Visions of the ground-water protection law that he helped shape in -1989. His role placed him among six Minnesota legislators honored for en- vironmeniai protection mis year oy Center for Policy Alternatives in Washington, D.G Redalen said he wants to prod farm- Jiia vll II VUI1IVUUU1J OIIIV II11V9 jiith rarrnls rather than sticks! Mnst ft. are environmentalists ana probably don't know it.

We need to have education on the harmful tffects of overuse rather than to ban "chemicals that can be helpful." j)ne of his goals is to bring farmers -ana weuanas aavocaics muq agrec- aadnt miar a hill. But that will cost tens of millions of dollars. Another goal is to support Carlson in "trying to get the budget ''balanced for this biennium." vironmentally sound packaging. Perpich, who will forward the plan to Legislature before he leaves office, wanted the committee to resolve differences between business groups proponents of tough restrictions packaging. He appointed several committee members from the business community and environmental groups.

The committee debated the issue for a year and recently held its scheduled meetings. last week Sawyer and other business representatives refused to endorse the plan, largely because of the proposed fee on chemicals. The committee's chairman, Curtis Johnson, then attempted to reach a compromise with the business representatives and with officials of Minnesota companies, including 3M Co. and Ecolab, that produce such chemicals. Johnson said yesterday that he wasn't successful.

"We've submitted plan, but it does not pretend to settle the issue of the fee nor claim a committee consensus on that. What do claim is that most of the committee supports this plan." The plan recommends that the Legislature preempt local packaging ordinances in favor of the statewide program advocated by the committee. Six cities, including Minneapolis and St Paul, passed ordinances last year banning certain packaging that they found environmentally unsound. That prompted strong opposition from business groups, who persuaded the Legislature to prohibit local gov E.Peter Gillette Gillette is managing director with the investment firm of Piper, Jaffray Hopwood Inc. He was an executive for 26 years with Norwest serving as chief executive officer om 1980 to 1986.

He is one of the original members of the Metropoli-. tan Council. Gillette is well known in the state's community, largely for his at Norwest But Gillette left Norwest in 198S after he was passed over for chairman in favor of Lloyd -Johnson. During the next five years at Piper, Jaffray Hopwood, Gillette helped direct corporate financial decisions in the role of an investment banker. an extremely energetic and person," said Addison (Tad) Piper, chairman of the firm.

"He's been in this community so long serving a variety of constituencies that he get his arms around the state's needs." Piper also said that Gillette's long relationship with area companies will the state. "Most corporations here are looking for excuses to ex-. pand here. Peter, with his good relations with those companies, will work constructively to accomplish that." inhalant Continued from By Dean Rebuffoni Staff Writer Business groups have rejected efforts to persuade them to support a statewide recycling plan, virtually assuring that it will encounter tough opposition in the 1991 Legislature. The plan, drafted by a committee appointed by Gov.

Rudy Perpich, calls for programs to reduce by 25 percent the amount of paper and other packaging material that Minne-sotans discard annually. It also calls for reducing the amount of toxic chemicals present in certain packaging and packaged products. Business opposition will focus on one of the plan's key recommendations: a fee on various household products such as paint thinner, dyes, polishes and some clothing that contain toxic chemicals. The fee would help finance recycling efforts, and would cover the added cost of handling discarded products that contain chemicals and packaging tainted by such toxins. Business groups, including chemical manufacturers, charged Wednesday that the fee would force them to bear an unfair share of the recycling program's costs.

They want a state study to determine which chemicals might pose a health or environmental threat before a fee is required. "The chemical manufacturers agree that if there is a chemical that deserves special handling it should have a fee," said Larry Sawyer, a business lobbyist. "But that's differ ent from taxing a whole field of chemicals The plan, submitted to Perpich yesterday, was prepared by the Select Committee on Packaging and the Environment. The governor appointed the 29-member committee last year and charged it with developing a statewide strategy for promoting en Verdict Chernin guilty. Continued from page "Mr.

Chernin pleaded guilty, and no pressure was brought to bear to induce that plea. He testified under oath that his plea was unrelated to the charging of his wife. I have no reason to question the validity of his conviction," he said. Heffelfinger said he was flabbergasted by the jury's verdict. The courtroom battle between Cher nin and his former bosses set a record for the longest civil trial in Ramsey County, and possibly another record for the volume of technical business and financial records presented to a jury.

The trial before Judge Edward Wilson began Aug. 3 and continued with only minor interruptions until Monday. Attorneys brought more than 2,500 documents to court, although not all of them were received in evidence. Six jurors and two alternate jurors heard from more than 50 witnesses, including some whose depositions were read aloud or played back on videotape. Although the experience may have been enriching for Chernin, it was costly for at least two jurors.

Their employers quit paying the difference between their $15 a day pay for jury duty and their regular incomes during the last two months or so, according to Wilson. Chernin was hired as the Long Prairie, company's general manager in 1978 and was fired in 1982 when Long Prairie Packing filed a Rand Continued from page IB prostitution customers, conducting several undercover investigations, questioning a former prostitute, tapping Rand's telephone, searching her home in St. Paul and digging through her trash, police say Rand: Operates two massage parlors, the Cosmopolitan Club on Arcade St. in St. Paul and the Relax-a-Lounge on Cedar Av.

S. in Minneapolis. Hires prostitutes for the two clubs, using regular customers to "interview" women who have no prior sex-for-sale experience. The interview always involves sex, the affidavit said. Sets prices and collects $25 or more per customer.

She also makes out work schedules and fines women for being late to work. Pays employees' legal fees and medical bills and makes loans to them. Officials said Rand has spoken re-1 cently about prostitution to at least two college audiences, saying that it is a lucrative business. She told one audience that 100 men a day do business at her massage parlors, a witness said. Assistant County Attorney Charles Balck, who fs heading the case against Rand, refused to say how the and on last But the we poses, according to the Hennepin medical examiner's office.

Dr. Katherine Berg, an assistant v. -medical examiner, said the ethyl chloride interfered with electrical Iriechanisms that keep a heart beat- ing, causing Rule to die of heart Xailure. She said it was the first such known death in Hennepin County. 39-year-old Milwaukee man died in September after inhaling the same product in conjunction with sex, said I Michele Catellier, a pathologist in the medical examiner's office there.

Ethyl chloride is commonly end appropriately used as a pain kill- er by sports doctors to freeze skin, by the gas directly on an athlet-i'it injury. A similar compound was "lised as an anesthetic about 30 years but doctors quit using it because "of the dangers of heart failure. 'Even in the hands of very knowl- Jidgeable physicians it could be very -dangerous," said Dr. Alex Ratelle, a rehabilitation specialist at the Minne W9. A E.

Peter Gillette Age: 56 Hometown: Minneapolis Occupation: Managing director of Piper Jaffray Hopwood Inc. Education: BA, Princeton University; graduate, William Mitchell College of Law, Stonier Graduate School of Banking; Bush Foundation fellowship; advanced management program, Harvard Business School Family: Wife Scotty issue specialties: Corporate finance; development of existing Minnesota businesses "Either we have to make them work the way they were intended, or abolish them," he said. Anderson agreed. She said yesterday that she hopes to change recent practices of assigning special committees make decisions on metropolitan issues, such as the construction of the Metrotome. "I think the original intent of the Metropolitan Council was to be the decisionmaker for issues of metropolitan significance," she said.

Gov. Rudy Perpich has paid little attention to the agencies during his tenure, preferring to leave their direction and policy to the people he named to head them. Carlson said he looked to the suburbs for a person to head the Metropolitan Council. "Whatever reforms and restructuring or restoration that we make in the area of metropolitan Although the EthYl Gaz container warns against human consumption, it adds, "Avoid continuous inhalation. Do not breathe directly from container." Don Aird, a public affairs specialist with the FDA, said the agency began investigating this week after receiving a complaint from Tim Campbell, publisher of a Twin Cities newspaper for gays.

Campbell said he is upset because Rule was a friend and because others are using the product without knowing of its dangers. "With these two deaths (Milwaukee and Minneapolis) I expect our investigation could be pretty quick," Aird said. He said a similar product, butyl nitrate, was banned a few years ago by Congress. Aird also said the FDA has notified the Consumer Products Safety Commission. That agency would be a.sked Minnesota).

Fares would generate about $336 million a year, more than enough to cover operating costs. The third option, a proposed 300-mph "maglev" train, would operate via magnetic levitation and glide above a guide rail. Such systems are operating now only on test tracks. It would cost $5.6 billion to build and $124 million a year to operate. With 8.5 million passengers a year, 2.10 million of them from Minnesota, it would generate $410 million in fares annually, more than enough to cover operating costs.

Levine has insisted that a system can be built without public financing and said again yesterday that it should be built with private investment, just as trains were built in the 1 800s. The study shows that a private investment would yield varying returns, depending on the cost of the project. The feasibility study showed that a private investment in the 125-mph train would reap a respectable 11 percent return, assuming a 16 percent interest rate on the money borrowed to build the railroad. Using private funds for the 185-mph train would get a 3 percent return, assuming a 16 percent interest rate Tests rule out link Authorities determined Wednesday that a boy in Tulsa, is not Aaron Anderson, who was last seen nearly two years ago outside his home in rural Pine County, Minn. Pine County Sheriff John Kozisek said DNA tests eliminated the possibility that the Tulsa boy is Aaron, who disappeared when he was 22 months old.

Sheriffls investigators and a private detective said they believe that Aar- Age: of and in Mary E. Anderson 64 Hometown: Golden Valley Occupation: Mayor of Golden Valley Education: BA, Macalester College; studied at University of Colorado, University of Oslo; graduate work at University Minnesota Family: Husband Donald; two sons Issue light rail; housing; solid waste recycling government, it has to come from the suburban communities," he said. Upcoming major issues before the council include airport construction, the light-rail transit system, locations for future solid-waste facilities, efforts to improve recycling and the availability of low- and moderate-income housing, Anderson said. Anderson has been involved in city government in Golden Valley since 1969. She was on the Planning Commission and was elected to the City Council in 1973.

She has been mayor since 1984. She has held a number of positions with the Minnesota League of Cities, including president in 1984-85, and has served on a number of Met Council and governor's advisory committees. Staff writers David Phelps, Sharon Schmickle and Jill Hodges contributed to this report. to continue the investigation if the FDA determines it doesn't have jurisdiction over the product, Aird said. Catellier asked Wisconsin authorities this week to ban EthYL Gaz as a result of the Milwaukee man's death.

She said consumers may be unaware of how dangerous it is. Officials at the Minnesota Department of Health said yesterday that they had not heard of the product, but the Minneapolis Police Department also acting on a request from Campbell, is investigating whether it can block sales of it under existing law. Rule had been a financial planner for Lutheran Brotherhood in St. Paul the past three years. He previously was an associate pastor at Mount Olivet Lutheran Church in Minneapolis.

High-speed train Recommended route Current Amtrak route MINN. Twin Cities Rochester Star Tribune map on money borrowed for the project. And private investment in the expensive 300-mph train would show no profit on money borrowed at 16 percent. These rates of return assume no public assistance for the project. With some public financing in the form of donated right-of-way, for example, the picture for private investors in any of the proposed projects probably would brighten, Metcalf said.

missing-boy case on probably drowned in April 1989 in the Snake River behind his home. His mother, Paulette Anderson, last saw him playing outside. A bloodhound tracked his scent toward the river. The latest development came after a woman reported that her foster child resembled pictures of Aaron that she had seen on fliers. Pine County paid $2,100 for the pNA testing.

-vllCHIGAN I WISCONSIN iJi, Crosse J- I Ulhuanlr' I iW li im vhi.w -AJAv tie Madison 0 I Miles ChlcagoVy Elton it. Redalen Age: 64 Hometown: Fountain (Fillmore County in southeastern Minnesota) Occupation: Dairy farmer; state representative 1 4 years Education: Lanesboro High School; attended University of Minnesota and University of Miami (Ohio); U.S. Navy officer during World War II Family: Wife Joyce; seven children Issue specialties: Defending family farms and environment; tax policy Star Tribune graphic Carlson already has made it known that Gillette may be overseeing a department whose future budget will shrink and whose functions will be truncated. The governor-elect has said the department is a likely target during belt-tightening talks over the next budget Gillette and the governor agreed that the state should not pursue a policy of wooing new businesses from other states. Rather, they said, economic development policy should seek a level playing field for firms already here.

Mary Anderson Carlson apparently has handed Golden Valley Mayor Anderson a heavy role. Metropolitan agencies, including the Metropolitan Council as the chief planning and coordinating agency, must be restored to their original strength and vitality, Carlson said. page IB apolis Veterans Medical Center, who was the director of anesthesiology at Methodist Hospital in St. Louis Park for 25 years. "How it could be sold to the public and not controlled is a mystery to me." EthYl Gaz is made by Lamar Labs, a company in West Hollywood, that has no telephone listing and, according to Texas authorities, has a post office box for an address.

The product is labeled an "aroma spray," but Ken Davis, director of drug investigations for the Texas Department of Health, said it is sold exclusively as an intoxicant, usually in conjunction with sex. A clerk at the Fantasy House, a store in south Minneapolis where EthYl Gaz is sold over the counter, said customers spray it on cloth and then breathe through the cloth before or during sex. the study and is enthusiastic about high-speed train travel, recommended proceeding with more detailed study that would lead to an implementation plan. "I am very much encouraged by what the report indicates," said Levine, who will be replaced by a Carlson appointee. He said officials in Wisconsin and Illinois are equally enthused.

Levine suggested that high-speed rail offers an alternative to building a new international airport. Highspeed rail would, he said, in effect expand Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport by providing a 15-minute connection to the new Rochester airport, which has room to expand. Consultants found that upgrading the existing Amtrak corridor to handle speeds of 125 mph would be the least expensive of the options studied. Using the Amtrak corridor and improving the trains and rail bed to permit higher speeds would cost $960 million to build and about $95 million a year to operate, the study said.

But travel time would exceed 4 hours between the Twin Cities and Chicago and have the lowest ridership of the options. In the first year of operation, estimated to be 2000, the study says that 5.8 million passengers, including 1.03 million from Minnesota, would ride. Passenger fares on the upgraded Amtrak would generate about $230 million a year, more than enough to cover operating costs. A 185-mph train similar to the Paris-to-Lyon line in France would cost $3 billion to build and about $100 million a year to run. It would make travel time between the Twin Cities and Chicago roughly 3 hours and would attract 7.5 million passengers from alVthree states in its first year of operatiJn (1.64 million of them from i to ernments from adopting or enforcing such ordinances.

In its plan, the committee said its support of a renewal of that preemption is "predicated on the presumption that discarded packaging in Minnesota will achieve a 25 percent overall reduction" by the end of 1994. IB civil suit accusing him of "constant, outrageous plundering" of company assets. He was indicted in 1983 on charges that he diverted millions of dollars of company money to his own use through such devices as phony meat and cattle purchases. He and his wife also were charged with evading personal income taxes. Chernin pleaded guilty but counter-sued the packing firm, alleging that its owners, including Ludwig Rosen, encouraged him to join the firm as general manager by promising him half ownership of the company if he could make it profitable.

But after he accomplished that goal, Rosen, several relatives and company attorney William McCallum acted to breach the agreement and fire him, Chernin alleged. At the trial he admitted to receiving unorthodox forms of payment as general manager, but insisted he did so at the insistence of the packing company owners and and other company officials. Jurors deliberated about nine hours Tuesday and yesterday before returning their verdicts. They found that Chernin did not convert company funds to his own use and refused to award damages to the firm. The jury then found the company and several officials had breached their contract with Chernin and awarded him $6 million.

It also found that McCallum interfered with Chernin's contractual relations and awarded an additional $1.8 million in damages. much her alleged empire is worth. But the affidavit listed 10 accounts at seven banks; U.S. Treasury bonds worth stocks and a cash account in her daughter's name; property in Minneapolis, Dodge County and St. Paul, including her home; a 1990 Chevrolet, and a 1984 Honda motorcycle.

According to the investigation, employees have made as much as $765 a shift and can make $900 to $2,000 a week. Managers of the two clubs are paid $40,000 a year, or more if they have sex with customers. Investigators said Rand pays bonuses for good attendance. She was convicted of promoting prostitution in May 1982 and later was sent to the women's prison at Shakopee for violating probation. The disorderly-house conviction followed in May 1983.

She has been a vocal advocate for legalizing prostitution, and her court appearances have drawn large groups of supporters. In a 1982 interview with the Minneapolis Star, Rand said her career goal was "to make the world safe for sex. She also offered some advice to young women. "Prepare yourself to earn your opm money," she aid. "Don't ever live off anyone else." -Train Continued from page IB "The people of Minnesota have very strong feelings about how long it Makes them to get plugged into Chica-'o," said Alexander Metcalf, a Vir- ginia consultant who worked on the study.

"People want a better connec- Jion to the heartland of America." Transportation Management Sys- terns Inc. of Great Falls, and Alfred Benesch Co. of Chicago Jonducted the study, which was pre-; "Vented in St. Paul to the Super Speed Train Commission. Comparing trains that can reach speeds of 125, 185 and 300 mph, the -J'sjudy found that the faster the train runs, the more riders it would attract '1 and the more it would cost to build and operate.

As speeds increase, annual ridership rise from 5.8 million to 8.5 million and construction costs would qse from $960 million to $5.6 bil- Uon. 125-mph train could travel from ihe Twin Cities to Chicago in 4 hours minutes. The 185-mph ver- would take 3 hours and 15 min- and the 300 mph option would 2 hours and 1 5 minutes. 'tickets would cost 66 to 80 percent the cost of air travel to the various cities, Metcalf estimated. For in-- 'itance, it would be $120 for a single ticket to Chicago vs.

1 50 by air. 7he study recommended a southern NTOUte from the Twin Cities to Roch-'' ester to La Crosse, to Madison, Ortilwaukee and Chicago over a pro- Opposed northern route from the Twin Cities through Eau Claire, Wis. The study found that all cities along ihe route would benefit in terms of hew jobs, improved income and higher property values. Minnesota TransportatioruCommis- sioner "Leonard Levine, who initiated.