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1B HEIR MATC may get 'air doctors'4B Stock listings5-6B MONEYBack page8B Wisconsin State Journal Thursday, January 5, 1 989 City editor: Clifford C. Behnke, 252-6118 nil Prairie bucks county recycling five to seven years. His letter also suggested that recycling requirements be tied to market conditions so certain items would be permitted in the landfills if no market could be found. He questioned the county's authority to define the terms of local recycling programs, as long as Sun Prairie does not deposit any recyclable commodities into the county landfill "There appears to be no reason why the county's approval should be required for implementing a recycling program," the letter said. confusing to people because each year the requirements would change." County Executive Richard Phelps said recycling provides a viable way to reduce waste at a time when even getting clay for landfills is difficult due to neighborhood opposition.

He said mandatory recycling can reduce the amount of landfill waste by 40 percent. "My feeling is people throughout the county are supportive of recycling and it's really important that we do it," he said. "I think if we make it understandable to people there's going to be a tremendous level of compliance." By Marv Balousek County reporter Dane County should pull in the reins a little and slow its gallop toward mandatory recycling to a more leisurely trot, Sun Prairie officials say. A county ordinance proposed last fall to ban glass, plastic, aluminum and corrogated cardboard from county-owned landfills by Jan. 1, 1991, probably will reach the County Board floor for review within the next two months.

As of Sunday, county landfills no longer accept lawn and garden waste. Prairie Public Works Director Dave Kaul said these restrictions are too much, too soon. "Implementing all of this on a one-time basis is going to have not only negative financial effects but (negative effects) on public perceptions as well," he said, adding that he doubts Sun Prairie citizens will go along with such an ambitious program. A letter last month from Sun Prairie Mayor Paul Esser to the county Public Works Committee outlined the city's concerns about the proposed ordinance. Esser suggested the mandatory recycling son, said he is rewriting the county recycling ordinance for submission to the board this spring.

He said some waste haulers and apartment building owners were concerned that, in the original ordinance, they could be held responsible for recyclable materials thrown away by their customers or tenants. But Becker said Sun Prairie's concerns are unreasonable. "Sun Prairie is for recycling as long as they're not made to do it and as long as it doesn't cost them any money," he said. He said most people favor recycling, and gradually implementing a program "is more Sup. Jonathan Becker, 11th District, Madi program be implemented graauauy over Despite the benefits of recycling, Sun Equipment gone, Ch.

5 Cramped police at UW on move off the air By Ellssa Miller A. I If asrt Wisconsin State Journal Madison's newest television station, W5BDCh.5, went off the air this week after a disgruntled co-owner showed up, took his satellite dishes and went home. The station shut down Tuesday when Warren Cave, the station's co-owner from Sarasota, arrived in Madison to remove his equipment which included the two satellite dishes that transmitted the broadcasts, said Steve Olson, the station's manager. Olson said Cave took the equipment when negotiations between him and the station's other owner, Dan Dobrowolski, broke down. Olson said Dobrowolski planned to purchase the station from Cave.

"The station is inoperable without the equipment" Olson said. I III" I Residents who tuned into Ch. 5 Stae Journal photos JOSEPH W. JACKSON III enough space for about five of the old rooms to fit inside. On the design side, the new and larger dispatch area is adjacent to the records room so dispatchers can get files on past crimes quickly.

In the Mills Street building, dispatchers are in what was probably a living room on the first floor and the files are in a third-floor hallway. Additional features of the new building include an exercise room, break room and conference room. The building also contains a "soft" interview room with comfortable chairs where police can interview victims and families of those involved in crimes. Interviews at the old building had to be conducted at officers' desks. A special high-security holding room is located down the hall for keeping combative prisoners.

Such a room is lacking at the old building. Other security measures are in place, including video cameras near each outside door and special windows in the lobby where people can talk to officers without entering staff areas. With new equipment scheduled to be ninning by late January, dispatchers in the building will be on the receiving end of any emergency call made by dialing "911" on a campus phone. One aspect of the new building that hasn't been resolved is the construction of a garage in back. The foundation has been poured, but Hanson said the garage will not be built until spring.

Sgt David Williams, when asked if he thought people would miss certain things about the old building, said: "I By John Keefe Wisconsin State Journal Employees at UW-Madison's Police and Security Department are leaving their apartments. After 25 years in a converted three-flat building at the corner of Mills and Spring streets, the department is moving to a newly constructed police station at 1429 Monroe St, across the street from Camp Randall Stadium. Most of the furniture and equipment have yet to be put in place, but the majority of the nearly 100 staff members are expected to move in by Monday. "I'm packing up my desk," Chief Ralph Hanson said Wednesday in his old office, formerly an apartment kitchen. "And believe me, IH be glad to get over there." Cramped quarters and problems resulting from fitting officers and equipment into rooms designed for cooking and sleeping have plagued the department as it steadily outgrew its 3,355 square feet of apartment space.

"The building we have occupied here," Hanson said, "has been hopelessly inadequate." The crisp, new two-story building has about three times more space and was designed specifically for the needs of a police department. A telling example of the space difference is the size of the two women's changing rooms. In the old building, the "Women's Locker Room" sign would be more accurate if it read "Women's Walk-in Closet with Lockers." Female officers said changing became tricky with more than two or three people in the cramned "room." UW Police officers and General Communications personnel work in the new police station's dispatch area. Tuesday found a message that said the programming would return in a iii.oi.oi 16 1 1 4 a I POLICE g. jij SECURITY i ii Hill r' PERMIT REQUIRED week following transmitter maintenance.

But Olson said programming was set to end indefinitely Jan. 2, when Cave notified the station he would begin removing his equipment Tuesday. The satellite dishes were removed Wednesday. "When Warren said he would take the equipment Dobrowolski made the decision to start Channel 54," Olson said. The new station, WSSMCh.

54 will go on the air sometime in February Olson said. "Right now, there is no Channel 5," Olson said. "There is a license to operate the station, but not enough equipment" Ch. 5 began broadcasting in December 1987. A low-power station, W5BD broadcast within a 20-mile radius of its station and transmitting tower at 6115 Odana Road, and on cable Ch.

25. Marilyn Friday, the station's program director, said much of the pro II tf It lMf I METERS ONLY doubt it I doubt it very much." The new women looter room nas tesy of an explanation of what was Police still seek Write-in unlikely for Parks second suspect in break-in gramming on uoDrowoisKi new station, Ch. 54, will be the'same. The station plans to switch its current schedule, heavy on sports and movies, to Ch. 54.

This changeover had earlier been described bv management as MONONA Monona police con part of a planned maintenance pro tinued Wednesday to search for the accomplice of Shawn Murphy McGinnis, who was fatally shot Monday night during a break-in at the home of a Monona man. wrong with the nomination papers. Assistant City Attorney Larry O'Brien said Parks' nomination papers were given the same scrutiny as those of any other candidate, but that Parks probably is looking for "someone else to blame." Parks was the first announced candidate in the mayor's race, which since has drawn five challengers to Mayor Joseph Sensenbrenner. Another of those announced candidates, David Robb, also will not be on the ballot because he failed to collect enough signatures. Five candidates will run in the Feb.

21 primary and the two top vote-getters will compete in the general election April 4. Besides Sensenbrenner, the candidates are Richard Berg, Dennis DeNure, John Roussos and gram which put ine station on me air. The loss of equipment will not affect programming on the new Ch. 54, Parks said he believes at least three of the contested signatures are legal. He said his petitions were subjected to more scrutiny than those of other candidates as part of Mayor Joseph Sensenbrenner's effort to deny him a place on the ballot He also complained that Blum failed to notify him personally of problems with the petitions.

"I have submitted enough names to be on the ballot" he said. "They should have given me the opportunity to review each one of the names they have ruled ineligible before making their announcement I am the candidate and one would think the candi Blum said Parks submitted 220 signatures but 22 came from residents of areas outside the city and one signature was illegible. He said the nonresident signers listed addresses in the town of Madison, town of Burke, Fitchburg and Shorewood Hills. Blum said there is no official procedure to appeal the decision to strike Parks' name from the ballot "There's really nothing to appeal," Blum said. "If he thinks we didn't act properly, he can bring some kind of mandamus action." Unless there is a groundswell of public outrage over his treatment Parks said he doesn't plan a write-in Thomas Stoker.

5508 Tonyawatha By Marv Balousek Wisconsin State Journal Eugene Parks doesn't plan to run a write-in campaign if he is unable to regain a place on the Madison mayoral ballot City Clerk Andre Blum decided Wednesday morning to deny Parks a place on the mayoral ballot after a review of his nominating petitions revealed Parks was three signatures short of the required 200 signatures from city residents. Parks said he will ask Blum to put his name on the ballot and may take the issue to court He criticized Blum for failing to notify him personally of Friday saio. Trail, shot McGinnis with a deer rifle as McGinnis and another man broke Ch. 5 offered a DotDOurri of snorts events, including several UW-Madi- into Stoker's home shortly before son sports, the National Hockey League and the Greater Milwaukee midnight Monday. Police, summoned bv a neiehbor at Stoker's request Open, golf tournament after the two armed intruders cut phone lines leading into Stokers home, found McGinnis' body a short distance away.

Paul Soglin. date would receive at least the cour campaign. campaign. the problem with his petitions McGinnis. 23.

died of a single Jury: Woman's wound to the abdomen that severed his spine. Stoker told police he fired rights violated Woman jumps Plan aims to cut welfare migration the rifle after uie intruders brandished a handgun at him. Dane County District Attorney William Foust said Wednesday he A federal iurv determined from bridge; Wednesday that a Madison Police De partment employee's constitutional rights were violated three years ago when a police officer entered her was awaiUng results of an investigation into the shooting before deciding whether to charge Stoker or not apartment after she hadh appeared Foust refused comment on reDorts the intruders may have ior worn. listed serious A 29-year-old Madison woman was in serious condition early today after she jumped off the Fish Hatchery Road bridge onto the West Beltline at about 11:30 a.m. Wednesday.

No cars hit the woman but she hrnke several bones. tUce said, add The iurv also found that Sheila believed Stoker was connected with Sims, 35, who is black, did not suffer racial discrimination when she received a letter of reprimand for being gambling or other illegal activity. Stoker, 50, a data processor, reportedly runs a computer company called TRS Inc. He was previously involved with a computer-leasing firm called Business Data Systems that filed for bankruDtcv several years laie. ing what probably saved her life was landing in the on-ramp lane instead of the westbound traific lane.

Two witnesses saw the woman ago. He told police he had no idea why- economic blow. "It won't impose any new hardship on them," Strohl said. At the same time, it would discourage those poor people moving to Wisconsin solely for an increase in benefits. Currently, families moving to Wisconsin are immediately eligible for Wisconsin's higher benefits.

Thompson proposed a similar plan to the federal government in February 1987 but was rejected, said Health and Social Services spokesman Joe Scislowicz. He recently asked DHSS Secretary Patricia Goodrich for draft legislation that would begin a pilot program in some area of the state, Scislowicz said. Strohl said his proposal could become part of the new budget if it isn't adopted separately. He said those in favor of boosting benefits haven't greeted it with enthusiasm. "I don't anticipate they'll embrace it" Strohl said.

But he said it's a necessary first step to increasing bene fits. "That's not going to happen until we address this Issue," he said. iumo from the bridge, police said. study that found 29 percent of new welfare recipients were from out of state. And 27 percent of those were from Illinois, said the study by the Wisconsin Public Research Institute in Milwaukee.

Currently, a family of three in Wisconsin gets $517 per month in payments from the federal-state financed Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and $163 per month in food stamps, Strohl said. Illinois AFDC payments for a family of three are $342 per month while food stamp payments are $216 per month, he said. "It is time we Democrats admit that people really are moving here for our higher benefits, and begin to address it" Strohl said. The state Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) in effect has proposed a two-year freeze in AFDC payments starting in July. Strohl's proposal would have DHSS calculate another state's benefit level by factoring in all types of public assistance (such as food stamps), narrowing the gap and softening any burglars would choose nis nome.

By Jeff Mayers State government reporter Migration of new welfare recipients into Wisconsin could be cut by a requirement that benefits for new residents be kept at their home-state level for the first six months, Senate Majority leader Joseph Strohl said Wednesday. StrohL a Racine Democrat said his proposal would provide some middle ground in the controversy over what is a "humane" level of payment for the poor. "Politically, there is not a willingness to seriously discuss increasing welfare benefits" because of the migration problem, Strohl said. Welfare benefits were cut in the last budget and the administration of Republican Gov. Tommy Thompson is likely to propose no benefit increase in its upcoming spending plan for the next two years.

Strohl plans to introduce the legislation today and announce it at news conferences at the Rock County Airport, Milwaukee and (Ireen Bay. The proposal follows a recent The witnesses said no one was near the woman when she jumped. McGinnis. of Tierceville Road in the town of Sun Prairie, had recently returned from Florida and faced sev The woman is develoDmentally eral pending charges in Dane County Circuit Court. Sims had filed a claim against the city stating her apartment was entered illegally on June 8, 1985, when she was 40 minutes late to work.

Madison police said an officer was sent to check on Sims due to concern over her mental health, She also claimed that she was treated differently than while employees who had been late and asked that the letter of reprimand be rescinded and demanded a. letter of apology. Sims, who works as a parking monitor, sought more than $100,000 in damages. The jury will decide Friday on damages for the illegal entry. disabled and lives in a nearby nursing home.

Police said they are not sure if the jump was a suicide attempt. Monona Police Chief Paul Welch declined Wednesday to discuss the in vestitialion's nrocress. The woman was conscious before she was taken to St Mary's Hospital, police said. She suffered a severe Welch and Lt. William Diebold have assured Monona residents the break of her upper ngm leg ana possi hiv hir riirht hin.

a compound frac break-in was not a random burglary attempt but a deliberate robbery lure of her right arm and several facial cuts. aimed at Stoker..