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Wisconsin State Journal from Madison, Wisconsin • 5

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SECTION l.PAGE 5 Mother 'hopeful' after reprieve WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1975 L-'f a wi VT I I ff.4- II A UN THE MALL was 2 years old which resulted in brain damage. "It was a very serious illness," Mrs. Spencer said, adding that she didn't know just what it was but that she had sent her son's medical records to Nassau for the appeal. Cyril Stevenson, Bahamian government spokesman, said the appeals court is scheduled to meet in 30 days but might convene sooner. "This is a temporary respite," Stevenson said.

"In cases like this they usually try to hurry it up." Shobek, one of four children of Mrs. Spencer, a chairwoman for the Milwaukee school system, pleaded guilty to killing New York accountant Irwin Borstein, whose body was found on a remote beach. Shobek also confessed the slayings of Paul Howell of Mas-sillon, 0., and Katie Smith, 17, of Detroit. Several U.S. politicians, including Sen.

Gaylord Nelson and Rep. Henry Reuss, both Wisconsin Democrats, appealed to Bahamian officials to spare Shobek's life. After the reprieve, Borstein's wife, NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) "This gives me hope," Juanita Spencer said after her son was given an eleventh-hour reprieve from an execution by hanging scheduled Tuesday for slaying three American tourists. Mrs. Spencer, 50, said at her Milwaukee home she would try to visit Nassau to see her son, Michiah Shobek, 22, before a special appeals court is convened to reconsider his murder conviction.

"I feel great. I thank God," Mrs. Spencer said. "I thank all the people who helped me. The odds are against him, but I'll keep fighting until he's free." Lawyers hired by the United States State Dept.

persuaded Bahamain officials late Monday to delay the execution on grounds that evidence providing Shobek insane was withheld from his trial last year. Shobek said he was ordered to kill the three Americans by "my father, God," because "they were angels of Lucifer." The appeal argued that Shobek's lawyer withdrew evidence of insanity when the court in Nassau ruled it contained errors. The new evidence said Shobek had a virus infection when he "t- FIRE VENTI0N PRE i -I'M Ss -rr Tin li-ii1r'Jtir'iMiirikriwih Michiah Shobek is led away after his murder conviction. AP Wirephofo WEEK DISPLAYS Laura, said she didn't "feel anything about Shobek one way or another." "The whole thing was a nightmare," she said, "and I can't think of him as a person. I just think of him as someone absolutely mad." Fuel shippers dislike inspection fees Now Thru Sunday, Oct.

12 Fire Safety Poster Contest Antique Fire Engine And Modern Day Counterpart On Display Antique Fire Fighting Equipment Display All Courtesy of the Madison fire Department Upcomin' Event Wisconsin administration of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Act into districts based in Milwaukee and Applcton, saying the division would only complicate bureaucratic dealings with unions and employers. rates. A bureau official said his workers are paid at four different rates. They tentatively approved a reorganization of bureaucratic services for itinerant workers.

They opposed a federal plan to divide China called weaker than U.S., Russia Display of Antique Machines (Miniature Replicas) Steam Locomotives Steam Rollers Steam Powered Merry Go Round October 13 thru October 19 4 free for your extra added shopping enjoyment By Associated Press The fuel shipping industry has objected to having to pay the state for inspecting petroleum which Wisconsin imports. It is "impossible to pass the cost on to the consumer," Robert R. Felker, managing director of the Wisconsin Petroleum told the Industry, Labor and Human Relations Commission. Despite his plea, commissioners Virginia Hart and John Zinos voted to make permanent a 15 percent increase in the inspection fees. The action raises the fee to 2 cents per 50 inspected gallons and is expected to produce $100,000 in extra revenue annually.

Herbert Anderson of the safety and buildings division said oil inspection is necessary. "We are not a bureaucratic snowballing affair," he said. Anderson said inspectors rejected more than 10 million gallons of gasoline, kerosene and fuel oil last year, much of it because of "low flash" quality which would allow ignition at undesirably low temperatures. The commission said fees paid by the industry should be increased because revenue has not kept pace with the amount of petroleum being imported. "The oil inspection program is an anachrorysm of 'teakettle refineries' and has become outdated," Felker argued.

He said the fees have to be absorbed by the businessman, and that the state will charge almost $850,000 for inspecting 2.1 billion gallons of imported fuel. Wisconsin is one of only 17 states inspecting petroleum which already is checked at refineries, he said. "We would like to do a better job of oil inspection," Anderson said. The commissioners approved a revision of state ventilating and heating codes, designed to make administration simpler. They asked the Administration Dept.

to standardize mileage reimbursement Ample FREE and EASY Parking Lockers for Packages war of medium intensity on the level of the Middle East conflict of 1973. But the Soviet Union, expert opionion holds, is unlikely to fight that sort of war but rather would launch "surgical strikes" with nuclear and conventional missiles and bombs aimed at destroying China's nuclear capacity. Some Chinese strategic nuclear weapons would survive and China's missiles and bombers would be able to retaliate with wounding but not mortal attacks. This assessment of Chinese strength is based on interviews with United States government sources and Australian, Japanese and other Asian military authorities. The basic conclusion is that while China has the potential to rival the U.S.

and the Soviet Union as a military power in the future, she has not yet reached that level and is unlikely to do so for at least a decade. By DREW MIDDLETOX (c) N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK China could "tear an arm or a leg" off the Soviet Union in a brief nuclear exchange but lacks the technology and the supply facilities to fight a successful conventional war with her Communist rival, according to American and other military experts. Assessing Chinese strength after 10 years of tension with the Soviet Union, the experts believe that only a Soviet invasion could tip the balance in China's favor. Such an invasion, they say, would enable China to exploit her massive trained manpower, vast expanse of territory and the ingrained aptitude of her forces for using terrain in defense.

But, the assessment goes on, weaponry based on the technology of the 1950s, insufficient research and development, and strikes and slowdowns delaying industrial growth argue against Chiense success in an all-out war with the Soviet Union. China could, with difficulty, support a Television cop is guilty LOCATED ON EAST WASHINGTON AVE. NEAR I 90-94 in MADISON, WIS. Fairbairn, 28, was given the option of the fine or spending 12 days in jail and he chose to pay. He was arrested Sept.

9 in the West Iis Angeles area when police said they clocked his car at 75 miles an hour in a 25-mile-an-hour residential zone. Police also said he ran a red light. LOS ANGELES (UPI) Actor Bruce Fairbairn, who plays a policeman on the "Rookies" television series, paid a $250 fine Monday when he pleaded "no contest" to a drunken driving charge. Municipal Court Commissioner John D. Harris also placed the actor on summary probation for two years.

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