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W2 A State omnm WEATHER: Partly Cloudy, Cold. High Near 10. Low 10 to 15 Below. 30 Pages, Three Sections 10' GOOD MORNING MADISON, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 5, 1971 Vol. 215, No.

36 131st Year MORNING FINAL IT 4 Jr 1971 'Good Year 1972 Very Good' if No Boost in Taxation This Year From Wire Services WASHINGTON Presi MWllMMl.ltliiliLjfotM Patrick J. Lucey takes oath as governor from Chief Justice E. H. Hallows. Mate journal fnoto oy tawin Meui dent Nixon promised Monday night to bring the na-tion out of its economic woes.into a "very good year" in 1972 and said he will avoid asking Congress New Governor Warns of Sacrifice for any new taxes this year.

to Bridge Nixon said he would pur sue an activjst policy, designed Hop-Troubled to control inflation while ex Waters teste panding the economy -and reducing unemployment, and predicted: "1971, in essence, will be a good year, and 1972 will be a very good year." Editorial Talk Oune PubIic officials to prepare for a caitonai, i aiKuozes mood 0 sacrifice He warned By JAMES D. SELK Of The State Journal Staff Patrick J. Lucey was sworn In an hour-long "conversa on rage or upmion again of a tax increase, governmental austerity, the elimina- tion" with four network television reporters from the White SEC. 1, PAGE 6 in as Wisconsin's 39th governor ion of n6n-essential government Monday, vowing to build a services and a general belt House library, the President also: bridge over the troubled waters tightening. of the 1970s.

time to resolve problems," he said. "Now, 10 short years Said he does not intend to The ceremony opened with a Lucey, the state's ninth Dem resume wholesale bombing' of Firemen check wreckage of East Side home destroyed by blast Monday night. State Journal Photo by J. D. Patrick later, we have been forced to strategic targets in North Viet ocratic governor, took the oath of office during a 45-minute cer trumpet fanfare and ended with a benediction by the new governor's brother, the Rev.

Gregory the reality that time has run out in facing the needs of our so nam and will confine retaliatory Neighbors Pull Her From Flames emony in the State Capitol ro air strikes to military targets. ciety." tunda which attracted several Snow-Buried Lucey, president of Campion Jesuit High School, Prairie du Warned the Soviet Union it would precipitate a crisis in the LUCEY NOTED crises in en hundred well wishers despite a Chien. foot of new snow. last Wrecks House; vironmental decay, medical personnel and facilities, urban City Faces LUCEYTra wealthy Madi ghettos, transportation, race re lations and the economy. son realtor who beat Republican 10-Belpw Air A' Caribbean if Russian nuclear submarines areserviced or from Cuba, but added he did not think such actions would occur.

Declared his greatest achievement after two years as President has been to start the Olaftr. (C IL. Lt. Gov. Jack B.

Olson last No He called on the public and Gravely Klurt IT INCLUDED, appropriately, a rendition of the Simon and Garfunkel song, "Bridge Over Troubled Waters," by the University of Wisconsin Singers, i David Carley, Madison indus an Madison's temperature, which vember to succeed retiring Re publican Gov. Warren valiantly clung on above the Knowles, painted a gloomy pic by firemen as Richard Langs- Firemen said Mrs. Olson had called her gas compa'ny, Skel- Zero mark Monday, may plunge I trialist and former rival -of ture for the citizens of the Badger State. By ALAN J. BORSUK Of The State Journal Staff A Madison woman was criti dorf, 2737 Moland Oscar Waller, 2738 Moland Robert 10 iv 10 id degrees Deiow zero Lucey for the governorship, was gas of Madison, two hours be campus violence among his tonight.

Baun, 613 Pawling and Tim "We begin the 1970s aware master of ceremonies and quipped: "I've always wanted eatest disappointments. i 's statement that he cally burned Monday night Powers, 2738 Dahle St. fore the explosion and said she had a gas leak. Asst. Chief Henry Anderson Monday's high of 36 degrees to attend one of these ceremo would not seek new taxes in when a propane gas explosion destroyed her East Side home Langsdorf said he was read that the timetable for public action has shortened dramatically and that we are painfully pressed to find the resources nies but I'm not sure in this ca and even its low of 3 above zero should seem like tropi 1971 was perhaps the biggest ing to his two young daughters pacity." at 614 Lawn Ave.

about 7:30 surprise of the program. in his home around the corner cal conditions to Madisonians said at the scene, "We do know it was a gas explosion, but we don't know what caused it." The blast apparently originated in that such action require p.m. from Mrs. Olson when the THE ONLY other spark of ex- still digging out from Sunday's THERE HAS been widespread King for a Day The Administration of Gov. Patrick J.

Lucey got off to an inauspicious beginning Monday. The first telephone call to the Executive Office was a wrong number, according to Lucey's press secretary, Blake Kellogg. When told of the error the caller said: "Well, anyway, wish him well for me on his coronation." Lucey was inaugurated in the State Capitol Rotunda at noon Monday. Lucey said. Mrs.

Ida Olson, believed to be plosion snowstorm "At the beginning of the past 64, was listed in critical condi speculation recently that he would ask Congress for a value-added tax in effect, a na the kitchen toward the rear of the house. HE SAID HE ran out of the TODAY'S HIGH was forecast decade, the rhetoric of public tion Monday night at University house and to the front of Mrs at 10 above, with northwest affairs was often addressed to Hospital, where she was being tional sales tax through which humor was when Chief Justice E. Harold Hallows administered the oath of office to Republican Secretary of State Robert C. Zimmerman, who survived; a challenge from Wallace Democrat Robert A. Zimmermann-in the November election.

Olson's house, while his wife the happiness of generations yet treated for burns on 60 per cent levies are imposed on an article unborn to concern for the called the fire dispatcher. He saw Mrs. Olson trying to get out of her body. -She was pulled in flames from condition of the life we would COMPANY spokesmen said Monday night that a repairman was on his way to the scene when the house exploded. The repairman told firemen that he the front door but the winds at 10 to 20 miles per hour.

Drifting Snow Cripples State Story, Sec. 2, Page 3 pass on to our children," he said. wouldn't open, he said. Robert C. Zimmerman.

"She was pushing against the her one-story home by four neighbors. The house was left with two walls and a part of the roof blown out and damage was "We seemed to have plenty of had been delayed by a flat tire. at each stage of its manufacture from raw material to finished product. "Looking to the future, we may very well move into that direction;" the President said. "But I do not think it is realistic this year to propose a new tax." He said he would propose an with one droned Justice Hallows as he led the jovial Re- door and I had to reach through the broken glass and push her The four neighbors who rescued Mrs.

Olson were identified estimated at $9,500. Second Big Cache Is Found in Illinois publican through his eighth back," he said. He broke the oath. I There is a 10 per cent chance of door out as other neighbors arrived. lor of Southern Illinois Universi Others installed were Atty.

Illegal Primer Found in Death Mine precipitation today and tonight unbalanced budget this year Gen. Robert W. Warren, the "Dick was tearing down the ty's Edwardsville campus and the executor of Powell's estate, said last Wednesday that he had only other Republican constitu door when I got there," Waller cord normally is used for blast he called it an "expansionary budget" and said the Federal The mercury may drop as low as 8 below zero in the early hours of the morning before it said. "We did what we could." tional office seeker to survive ing in outside jobs in strip found $800,000 in cash stuffed in the Democratic sweep, Lt. Gov.

ueserve would toiiow an "expansionary monetary policy" to begins climbing again today. Martin J. Schreiber. who eave a shoe box, brief cases, and strong boxes in Powell's Spring BAUN SAID he lives directly behind Mrs. Olson and ran there as soon as he realized where the mining or in road building.

He declined comment on whether the primer, cord might have been used in blasting inside the The National Weather Serv try to perk up the economy. Nixon said unemployment av field apartment. Powell, 68, died of a heart at ice's five-day forecast shows continued cold weather through explosion had come from. Pow up a State Senate seat to become Lucey's top deputy, and Charles P. Smith, who turned Turn to Page 2, Col 5 'J mine.

eraged about 4.9 per cent last year and although that was "too HYDEN, Ky. (UPI) Federal officials said Monday night illegal primer cords used to detonate explosives were found inside the Finley Coal Co. mine where 38 men died in an explosion last week. James Westfield, assistant director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines, said primer cords are forbidden in underground mines by the federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969.

Westfield said the primer ers, who lives a block and a half Sunday, with highs from 10 to 15 SPRINGFIELD, 11L (UPI) -A second, cache of $700,000 belonging to the late Illinois Secretary of State Paul Powell has been uncovered, State Atty. Gen. William J. Scott announced Monday. The find boosted the recently discovered hoard of the powerful politician to more than $1.5 million.

Scott said the newly-uncovered fortune was in negotiable Treasury bills, certificates of deposit, and cash. He said it was found in the Edwardsville area in southern Illinois but de-lined to say where or when. John S. Rendleman, chancel The miners were- killed last tack Oct. 10 at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

A widower, still lower than away, ran there as fast as he and lows just above zero, butlhigh," it was Wednesday in a sudden explo he was one cf Illinois' most could. little if any new snow. most "peacetime years" of the sion about 1,600 feet inside the last two decades. deep hillside mine powerful Democrats. Scott said Gov.

Richard THE BATTLE to beat the Powers and Waller said they thought Mrs. Olson was asleep in the bedroom of, the small I Turn to Page 2, Col. 8 The explosives set off a chain reaction dust explosion, officials said. Ogilvie had given permission for the Illinois Bureau of Inves- HE PREDICTED the jobless rate would begin to decline sometime later this year and snow was fought all day Monday on different fronts with surprising success, as the city bur- Today's Chuckle The trouble with reducing is that your diet calls for less food while your appetite calls for more. ligation to conduct a "full rowed out from under the 11.6lsaid inflation is being brought blown" investigation of the inches of new snow.

Powell hoards. Turn to Page 2, Col 3 Schools here were open with attendance close to normal and movement by car, bus, and plane resumed in one form or Community Action on Drugs Urged Huge Storm Paralyzes Midwest; Nebraska, Iowa Get Worst Blow another. Many travelers, especially enforcement problem. However, hearing will be held starting at he and UW Police Chief Ralph 10 a.m. in the i -C Hanson stressed the problem isiBuilding for any' interested citi- University of Wisconsin stu By GEORGE MITCHELL Of The State Journal Staff The city's drug problems 12 in Illinois, seven in Wiscon dents scheduled to come back sin, six in Nebraska, two in more than legal, zen to speak on the topic.

Sunday, found themselves arriv- cial, saying "it's not funny any more," urged motorists trying to travel from central Iowa to Minnesota to get off the roads. He reported more than 500 per Kansas, and one each in Minnesota and New Mexico. Tum to Page 2, Col 7 United Press International A huge killer storm Monday left thousands of holiday travelers stranded, virtually paralyzed entire states, and spread winter miseries along a thousand-mile belt from the southern Rockies to the upper Great Lakes. IN THE WAKE of the storm, "Enforcement has its limitations," Hansen said. "This is a massive social problem calling for education long before students get to the i i level." On the Inside sons holed up in a truck stop at Williams, la.

described as the worst in nearly have changed in five years from modest use of marijuana to major activity in heroin, other opium derivatives, and the whole range of so-called psy-c 1 1 drugs, Police Chief Wilbur Emery said Monday night. In addition, Aid. Michael Ward, the committee chairman, said a confidential hearing, will be held at which testimony will be taken from drug users or those who know intimately of the problem 30 years in Iowa, a bitter cold The Nebraska State Patrol wave speared southward across asked the Kansas Highway Pa the midlands. "I don't think anybody knows The raging storm, which trol to close all roads leading into Nebraska because of "a se how to educate whom and aboutlbut do not want to speak in pub- The mercury was expected to The situation has increased reached blizzard intensity in tenfold in magnitude, the chief rious backup of traffic and se CinEF EMERY fall to zero as far south as west-central Illinois and into the 20s as far south as the Gulf the isconsin Couucu on ynmi- many areas, dumped knee-deep snows and stacked drifts 10 to nal Justice, a committee mem said, to a point "where the community must wake up andlSivelv in University of Wis- vere weather and road conditions." Drifts of up to 25 feet were reported in parts of the HE STRESSED that citizens throughout the county are asked to take oart. The nurnose nf the ber.

12 feet high on a rampage from Coast of Louisiana and Texas take positive steps." consm area. New Mexico to Minnesota, Wis by this morning. EMERY AND other law en state. MONDAY NIGHT'S meeting committee is to father infnrma. consin, and Upper Michigan.

Today, he said, geography, Severe Winter Grips Europe Story on Page 3 Bridge Sec. 2, Page 14 Comics Sec. 2, Page 14 Crossword Sec. 2, Page 14 Day by Day Sec. 1, Page 4 Editorials 1, Page 6 Markets Sec.

2, Page 7 Movie Times Sec. 1, Page 4 Obituaries Sec. 2, Page 2 Records Sec. 1, Page 10 TV-Radio Sec. 2, Page 15 Weather Table Sec.

1, Page 2 Women Sec. 1, Pages 8, 9 Cold weather also spread The toll of deaths attributed essentially amounted to a justi- tion and develoD a program to age, and Income are no longer fication for the committee's ex at least in part to the weather forcement officials spoke Monday night to the first public meeting of the Mayor's Com across the Southwest. Temperatures hit 31 below zero at Haw- combat drug abuse in Madison IOWA AND Nebraska were the hardest hit. Even after the limiting factors. In addition, istence.

Subsequent meetings and Dane fount Madison has become a major rose sharply as persons succumbed to heart attacks while ley Lake, 27 below at this month will hear from Grand Canyon. and 22 judges, doctors, and other oflR rdri naay "'is meeu shoveling snow or trying to free center of activity for the distribution of drugs in the county, state, and beyond. below at Flagstaff, Ariz. mittee on Drug Abuse. "We couldn't find a case of heroin five years ago," said Emery, describing the city's drug traffic then as consisting brunt of the storm passed, strong winds whipped and drifted the deep snow and highway officials sounded fresh warnings to motorists.

An Iowa Highway Patrol offi cars from drifts. A United Press International count showed at least 44 storm-connected deaths 15 in Iowa, cials dealing daily with drugi'Vf problems both in the city andifder ma en-c0unty forcement officials did not want On Jan. 16 an open public rum to Page 2, Col 8 The temperature at Tucson, fell to 18 just 2 degrees Turn to Page 2, Col 4 TOE CHIEF said lack of 'of marijuana, almost exclu- manpower was his greatest law.

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