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1 4B Daily Times, St. Cloud, Minn. April 13, 1985 Localstate City teacher not among state space flight finalists In his application, Koser said he would like to "produce a detailed, artis-' tic" photographic demonstration of the trip as seen through the eyes of a high school teacher. The opportunity to "experience what few will ever know" prompted Brehmer to see if he could be selected, his appli- cation said. "The incredible power of liftoff, the freedom of weightlessness and the anxious moments of blackout during reentry have been part of my imagination since my second-grade friends helped me build a cardboard space capsule in my garage," Brehmer said.

"In short, I cannot tell you exactly why I want to fly on the shuttle, but, oh, how I do want to go- Koch-Laveen says she became interested in space while in sixth grade when she played a mock version of; "What's My Line." Her "line" was that she had the first ticket for a trip to the moon. "I have wanted to travel into space for personal, professional and patriotic! reasons most of my life," her applies-i tion said. "I still remember exactly i where I was when Neil Armstrong made the 'giant leap for I i would feel privileged to be a part of the continuation of that effort." Melaas said he felt a bit let down when he received the news, "but there are many, many mountains yet to climb." i There also was a sense of relief in knowing that the process that began in January when he was among 10,000 teachers nationwide whose applica- tions were accepted was over. Til be honest with you," Melaas said, "I haven't slept well the last few nights." Two other St. Cloud teachers, Dave Johnson, a science teacher at Technical High School, and Bill Kreul, a counselor at Tech, were among the 134 Minne- sota applicants.

Staff and wire reports St. Cloud's best shot at a space shot ended Friday. Roger Melaas, a fifth-grade teacher at Westwood Elementary School, received a telephone call at 8:15 a.m. Friday notifying him that he would not be one of Minnesota's two nominees to NASA's Teacher in Space Project. "We gave it our best shot," said Melaas, 40.

"I felt in my heart I gave it 100 percent." Melaas was one of 12 Minnesota teachers selected from 137 state applicants who were seeking to be the first teacher in space. NASA officials say a teacher likely will participate in a mission of the space shuttle Challenger in January. That list of 12 was pared down to three following interviews in St. Paul Wednesday and Thursday. State Education Commissioner Ruth Randall will trim the number of finalists to two Monday, said Richard Clark, who has been coordinating the screening of Minnesota's applicants.

Two of the finalists come from the Twin Cities area, while the third teaches in southeastern Minnesota. They are: Katherine Koch-Laveen, 37, who teaches chemistry at Apple Valley High School. John Koser, 43, a physics and astronomy teacher at Wayzata High School. Steve Brehmer, 33, a physics teacher at Wanamingo High School, in southeastern Minnesota. Koser said he "never dreamed'' that when watching early space launches of the Mercury and Gemini programs that he might have an opportunity to participate in the space program.

"When the first U.S. satellite was launched, two high school friends and I set up an observation post to visually spot the satellite and try to hear the beacon signal on my shortwave receiver," he said. few I -Y IS t)jl if" watches the billboard she Rapids Friday. Erin's winning poster was one of 1 75 designed for Big Wong Cafe in Sauk a contest sponsored by the Sauk Rapids-Rice school district. old's art makes the big time Area to receive job training funds Times photo by Mike Knaak Second-grader Erin Muir (lower right) designed being pasted up next to the Eight year By JEFF WOOD and DEBORAH HUDSON Times Staff Writers On Friday, Erin Muir was transformed from an 8-year-old who likes to draw into an artist whose work will be seen by hundreds of people every day.

A poster designed by Erin and converted into an advertisement by Blocher Outdoor Advertising Co. Inc. was placed on a billboard near the Big Wong Cafe in Sauk Rapids Friday morning. "We took the student's poster and basically blew it up," said Gary up a problems, her favorite subject. Erin said she used herself as the model for the student.

"I think this is pretty neat," she said, as she watched the workers paste up the big version of her crayon drawing." Erin is the daughter of Craig and Liz Muir, 806-13th St. Sauk Rapids. "It's real cute," said Karen Van Slyke, chair of the Year of the School Committee, which is leasing the billboard from Blocher at a reduced rate. Erin's artwork will remain on the billboard for about a month. place, and were attentive as Webber gave the students a short lesson on the history of advertising.

Erin's poster was selected from about 175 entries in a poster contest sponsored at Pleasantview and Rice elementary schools by the Sauk Rapids-Rice school district's Year of the School Committee. The billboard includes the slogan "Ah! Those Marvelous Sauk Rapids-Rice Schools," a variation on the slogan for Minnesota's observance of 1984-85 as Year of the School. Erin said the billboard shows a student in a classroom, seated at a desk, working on mathematics Bill on waste burial alternatives gains fn At the Capitol By BILL MCALLISTER Times Staff Writer Webber, sales manager for St. Cloud-based Blocher. "We brightened some of the colors, but basically it's duplication." Erin and her classmates in La June Lampher's second-grade class at Pleasantview Elementary School watched as two Blocher employees attached sections of the advertisement to the 12-foot-by-24-foot billboard along busy Benton Drive.

Students were chosen to help push bubbles out of the plastic sheets that were affixed one section at a time. Excitement ran high. The children clapped after the first section was in plan by the waste board and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, the commission would be prepared to decide what alternative to landfilling could be established in the area. Rep. Ralph Kiffmeyer, IR-Big Lake, won approval of the House Crime and Family Law Committee for a bill to increase police access to negatives of driver licenses and Minnesota identification cards.

Access to the negatives now is restricted to investigation or prosecution of felonies. Kiffineyer's bill would extend access to gross misdemeanors, "implied consent" violations, driving while intoxicated and hit-and-run accidents. Charitable organizations could escape sales tax if 100 percent of the proceeds from their events are given to charities, under a bill authored by Bertram and passed this week by the Senate Taxes and Tax Laws Committee. The bill, passed by both the House and Senate last year but then killed in conference committee, now goes to the Senate floor. Sherburne County Treasurer Lois Riecken, a Clear Lake resident, has been appointed by Gov.

Rudy Perpich to a four-year term on the Public Em- A Senate subcommittee approved a bill by Sen. James Pehler, DFL-St. Cloud, to expand the Minnesota Waste Management Board's program for alternatives to land burial of solid waste. The bill would remove the requirement from the program that projects be of a "demonstration" nature in order to be eligible for grant money from the waste board. That way, established technologies, such as garbage incinerators, could be considered, and projects would be permanent.

The bill also changes the program from grants and loans to just grants, and increases the bonding authority by $11.4 million. Of $8.8 million originally provided for the program, $3.6 million is now left, said waste board spokesman Tom Johnson. Projects involving two or more counties would be encouraged and given priority. Local units of government could receive grants up to 25 percent of the total project cost or $2 million, whichever was less. Mike Hanan, solid waste officer for Stearns County, who testified before the subcommittee, said the bill might help the Tri-County Solid Waste Commission, which consists of representatives from Stearns, Sherburne and Benton counties.

The commission is due to have a plan for solid waste management finished by the end of the year. After review of the ployees Retirement Association (PERA) board. The old PERA board was dissolved by legislative action this year after a scandal involving alleged mishandling of the pension organization's funds. PERA administers pension programs for local government employ- Pehler hit some unexpectedly tough resistance in Thursday's Senate floor session on his bills to allow the suspension of driver licenses for unpaid parking tickets and to allow the Minnesota Educational Computing Corp. (MECC) to create a wholly owned subsidiary.

"They just wanted to argue," Pehler said. He delayed a vote on final passage of the parking-ticket bill, at least until next week. The bill, recently killed in the House Transportation Committee, may be referred instead to the House Judiciary Committee if it gets out of the Senate, Pehler said. Some of Pehler's colleagues also took exception to his bill to allow MECC, a quasi-public entity, to establish a subsidiary to handle its profit-making sales of computer software for public schools. The corporation by law sells to the state of Minnesota at cost, prompting complaints of unfair competition from private companies.

Pehler said the bill actually would increase competition because it would make MECC's out-of-state, profit-making operation more readily identifiable by setting up the subsidiary. But some senators "just voted against MECC," he said later. adults and workers who have been dis-'. placed by plant and business closings or technological changes. Among the ser-; vices made available to these people are: remedial education, classroom in-; struction, vocational counseling, on-; the-job training, job upgrading, job search assistance and placement.

Services to employers include eva- luating trainees before referral for an interview; specific training to meet particular needs and financial incen-', lives such as wage subsidies or special tax credits for hiring workers. irs attack Perpich's Saturn plan ST. PAUL (AP) Two likely Independent-Republican candidates for governor state Auditor Arne Carlson and former state Sen. Mike Menning Friday criticized Gov. Rudy Perpich's $1.3 billion offer to lure the Saturn auto plant to Minnesota.

Menning said the DFL governor's proposal to give General Motors Corp. $804 million in corporate, sales and property tax concessions over 30 years is a "slap in the face to all working people" who must pay taxes. Both Menning, a former DFLer from Edgerton, and Carlson said they want GM to locate its $3.5 billion plant in Minnesota but questioned why the state had to make such a lucrative offer. "All the governor said today is, We have 130,000 people unemployed in Minnesota. Ask one of them if we're doing too said Gerry Nelson, Perpich's press secretary.

Nelson said it should be emphasized that, "We're not writing out a check of $1.3 billion to General Motors. It's all soft money. If the plant does not come here, then there's no subsidy." wtwap The Central Minnesota Federal Job Training Service Area will receive an estimated $2.6 million in federal funds to provide job training for youths and adults this year. Basic job training services in this area are provided to Central Minnesota's Private Industry Council 5, which is made up of Stearns, Benton, Mille Lacs, Kanabec, Isanti, Pine, Chisago, Sherburne, Wright, McCleod, Kandiyohi and Renville counties. The program targets groups such as economically disadvantaged youth, The bill passed the Senate 35-24.

The unusually contentious Senate floor session, which included a long fight over a proposed IR budget resolution, led Senate Majority Leader Roger Moe to ask, "Is there a full moon tonight?" Pehler had a breeze before the Judiciary Committee Friday, however, with unanimous approval of his bill to allow educational institutions to seek collection of delinquent student loans under $2,000 through the counties where the loans were granted. Two entries from the Legislative Lexicon of Convoluted Bureaucratese: "Rehabilitative alimony" and "permanent spousal maintenance." Those phrases are contained in a bill by Sen. Ember Reichgott, DFL-New Hope, that passed the Senate this week. The bill sets out standards forjudges to use in making decisions on alimony during divorce proceedings. The bill was clear enough for Bertram, who was one of 1 1 senators to vote against it and who said that it was "promoting divorce." "I don't want to make it comfortable for people out there not to stay married," Bertram said.

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