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nWi scoosuriL Thursday August 28, 1986 Madison, Wisconsin 35 cents iirnstfs By Doug Mell D-Sun Prairie, is a major proponent of the 151 project between Sun Prairie and Columbus. The project has an estimated cost of $26 million. The Legislature included the project in the current budget, but Earl vetoed it because it did not have commission backing. The governor said the project would be a high priority of his in the next budget. Rep.

Joseph Wineke, D-Verona, has been pushing for the Verona-to-Mount Horeb project, which has an estimated cost of $6 million. Wineke, a member of the commis sion, said he had not seen the transportation department's priority list but would not be surprised if the two Dane County projects were included. Wineke said he will push to have the commission include an 18-151 Verona bypass project on a "future priority list." The transportation department has been reluctant to build the Sun Prairie-Columbus project because it did not fare well on a list of objective standards, including traffic volumes, critical accident ratios and cost-benefit ratios. The department will present the Transportation Projects Commission with a list of seven or eight projects that should be approved, sources said. The Verona-Mount Horeb project will be near the top of the list; the Sun Prairie-Columbus project will be near the bottom.

Sources said Gov. Anthony Earl's office was working Wednesday to put together enough commission votes for approval of the department's recommended list. Construction of the projects, if approved by the Legislature, would not begin until 1990 or later. Earl appointed the commission to recommend to his administration and the Legislature what highway projects should be included in the biennial budget to remove political considerations from highway-construction decisions. Earl is chairman of the commission, and the Legislature historically accepts the recommendations.

EarL if re-elected, will present his next budget to the Legislature early next year. Assembly Speaker Thomas Loftus, However, many business and civic leaders told the transportation commission in late July that upgrading the road was important to the economic vitality of the 151 corridor from the Iowa border to the Fox River Valley. Transportation officials said they would consider such subjective standards in drafting a priority list. Wineke said that, with the impending approval of the two Highway 151 projects, the state was moving closer to a four-lane road system between Dodgeville and Columbus. fLofe y.s 1 i.UJll..llil i i i A tiT.r.tCT.n- I 0 r-.

I LLl'J -Esri- tx 1 wi, ri I 111 t. I lHJ US 1 1218 1920 21 22k iff i tV "i State government reporter The state Transportation Department has decided that two major Dane County highway projects should be in the department's 1987-89 budget, sources said Wednesday. They are: Adding two lanes to Highway 18-151 between Verona and Mount Horeb. Constructing a four-lane limited-access Highway 151 freeway between Sun Prairie and Columbus. Columbus Amtrak cut back By Ron Seely Regional reporter COLUMBUS On Oct.

1, residents here will wake up, and something will be different in their town. For the first time since 1906, the railroad station on North Lud-ington will be without a ticket agent. Agent Jerry Tracy won't unlock the door to the freight warehouse and roll out the baggage cart. Nor will he unlock the station office, hang up his coat and open the ticket window with a flourish, as is his custom. Amtrak announced this week that the Columbus station, along with five others around the country, will no longer be staffed with ticket agents as of the end of the business day on Sept.

30. Although two trains a day will still stop (one eastbound and one westbound), station hours will be cut drastically so the building will be open only shortly before a train arrives and shortly after it departs. Passengers will no longer be able to check their baggage. It is not an unusual move for Amtrak. Cliff Black, manager of public affairs for Amtrak, said more than 200 of the 500 Amtrak stations across America are unmanned.

Agents, he said, have been removed to save money. Removing the agent from the Columbus station will save $35,000, Black said. While the move may not be unusual for Amtrak, it might be unsettling for railroad passengers in south-central Wisconsin, including Madison. Since the Madison Amtrak station closed, residents customarily drive to Columbus to board the train. Aaron Bransky, president of ProRaiL the Madison chapter of the Wisconsin Association of Railroad Passengers, said the Columbus station serves a large area, stretching from Beaver Dam to the Fox Valley and down into Dane and Jefferson counties.

Amtrak plans to make Columbus ticket agent Jerry Tracy State i Sfi I It Lw II li? a short-timer. Journal photo by L. Roger Turner A taurants, for example. ProRail is also mounting a campaign to keep the station manned. ProRail argues that elimination of the agent will discourage ridership and hurt the local economy.

An early-morning freight rumbles through Columbus. N.Y. Times, AP Libya has acquired two Airbus jetliners, powered by American-made engines, despite a U.S. embargo of high technology exports to Libya, industry officials said. The delivery two weeks ago of two used European Airbus Industrie A310-200 jetliners apparently involved aviation companies and brokers in France, Switzerland, Hong Kong and Algeria, the officials said, confirming a report in the current edition of the French news magazine Le Point.

A special American envoy is expected to raise with Western European allies two new ideas for tightening trade curbs on Libya, Reagan administration officials said Wednesday. The officials said one of the ideas Ven down-benden pants down-fallen BERLIN (AP) When East German farmers bend down to work, their pants fall down. They've complained to the ruling Communist Party about the shoddy quality of the trousers. Informationsbuero West, a West Berlin agency that monitors the state-controlled East German news media, said Wednesday the story was carried in Unser Dorf (Our Village), an East Berlin-based newspaper on rural affairs. Unser Dorf quoted the chairman and party secretary of the Reinhold-shain agricultural cooperative near Dresden as saying the tops of the pants are too short, resting on the hips instead of the waist.

When workers stooped to tend their crops, their pants slid down so low "that their behinds peeked out," the newspaper said. "Even the slimmest person cannot avoid" the dropping pants, Unser Dorf quoted the two cooperative leaders as saying. The newspaper said the cooperative protested excessive "economizing in the use of fabrics" in making the pants. NOD's candy sales and raffles have proven no match for the $90-an-hour attorney's fees that will be needed to tie up the landfill plans in court, Bonner said. NOD has raised $5,500 of the more than $40,000 Bonner estimates will be needed.

At least $5,000 is needed by Dec. 1 or the group will be forced to "close the whole thing down, saying, 'Bring in the Bonner said. John DeBeck is seeking permission from the state Department of Natural Resources and the Waste Facility Siting Board to open the landfill at the intersection of Pflaum and Vondron roads. He also wants to open a second landfill on Libby Road in the town of Blooming Grove. Foul sights and smells, lowered property values, increased truck traffic, water pollution, dangerous gases and rats are among the problems that neighborhood residents expect if the landfill is approved.

Sensenbrenner rejected suggestions from the audience that the city boycott the landfill if it is opened. Some speakers said such a boycott could deprive DeBeck of the amount of business he would need to keep the landfill open. But Sensenbrenner said being considered by Washington would be to ban the import into the United States of all refined-oil products like gasoline made with oil from Libya. The other, they said, would be to ban activities of American affiliates overseas that have only token business in Europe and do most of their work with Libya. A trade embargo announced by President Reagan in January exempted overseas affiliates to avoid a rift with European governments, which have traditionally opposed American efforts to have subsidiaries obey American trade embargoes.

In discussing the mission next week of the special envoy, Vernon Walters, the officials also said the Turn to Page 2, Col. 1 Ekk I Showers Storms Snow Rain Source: Weather Central Today: Partly sunny and continued cool. High near 64 with northwest winds becoming west 10 to 20. Tonight Mostly clear and chilly. Low near 42.

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(DaneCounM RODEFELD DUMP US 12-18 the city needs a place for its garbage. "If it's available and fully licensed, the city would use whatever landfill is available," he said. Dane County Sup. Fred Arnold, 22nd District, said Delieck is negotiating in good faith with a committee of government officials over conditions for opening the ndfilL Arnold, who opposes the DeBeck proposal, is a member of the committee. DeBeck already operates a landfill on Highway 14 in the town of Middle-ton that has been repeatedly cited for violating DNR rules.

Arnold said DeBeck's record in the town of Middleton appears no worse than that of most landfill operators. Today's highs VVT (50s I rosary Mike McCoy, president-elect of ProRaiL said research by the organization shows 14,000 passengers a year get on and off the train at Columbus, 19 people a day year round. On the busiest days (holidays, for example), McCoy said as many as 70 people use the station. Revenue at the station from ticket sales and a small package express service exceeds $200,000 a year, and Tracy sold 1,800 tickets lastyear. But Black said removing agents and the services they provide is the only way Amtrak can survive the budget cuts the railroad has faced for several years.

He said Amtrak has been dealt a 43-percent cut in federal funding since 1981 when its budget was $896 million. This year it was $591 million. Black said passengers accustomed to purchasing tickets at the Columbus station will be able to reserve them by calling 1-800-USA-RAIL. He said reserved tickets can be paid for after the passenger boards the train in Columbus. Amtrak's plan will not, apparently, go unchallenged.

Al Abrams, Columbus city clerk, said the City Council will bill in Congress, who complained the FTC's draft regulations, if not changed, would undercut efforts by Congress to warn youngsters of the health risks of smokeless tobacco. "Clearly, it was not the intent of Congress for the smokeless-tobacco warning labels to be smaller, less noticeable and less readable than those currently on cigarettes," Sens. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Richard Lugar, said in their FTC protest. They complained that the FTC's draft regulations "violate the intent of Congress and of the letter of the law." Television and radio advertising of smokeless-tobacco products was ordered off the air six months after the bill's enactment, and President Reagan signed it into law Feb. 27.

The bill was enacted by Congress because of evidence that youngsters were turning to snuff and chewing tobacco as alternatives to cigarettes. Studies showed many took up smokeless tobacco in the mistaken belief that the lack of advertising restrictions and warning labels meant that snuff and chewing tobacco were not dangerous to health. A study of Florida schools shows 40 percent of males and 4 percent of females in grades eight through Smokeless-tobacco TV ads bite the dust Mayor says city will fight landfill consider a resolution at Tuesday's meeting opposing the plan to remove the ticket agent. He said loss of the agent and the attendant services is likely to mean a loss of business for many Columbus area merchants gas stations and res Charlie Daniels 10 used smokeless tobacco. A survey shows males who are moderate users of smokeless tobacco are at four times greater risk of developing oral cancer than those who do not.

The risk increases sevenfold among heavy users. Sales of smokeless tobacco increased by 11 percent a year since 1974. There were some 22 million users in the United States as of 1980. Besides banning broadcast advertising, the law requires print advertising, pouches, tins and other promotional material to carry one of three rotating warning labels, citing an increased risk of mouth cancer, gum disease and tooth loss. WASHINGTON (AP) Country music star Charlie Daniels, former Dallas Cowboys football star Walt Garrison and Chicago White Sox baseball idol Carlton Fisk joined the Marlboro Man in TV exile Wednesday.

Their celebrity endorsements for snuff and chewing tobacco and all other broadcast advertising for such products were ordered off the airwaves as of midnight as threats to public health. The action came as the Federal Trade Commission continued to work on regulations putting restrictions on containers, promotions and print advertising, including warning labels, that tout smokeless tobacco. The FTC originally planned to issue its regulations Wednesday but was forced to postpone the rule because of heavy public comment on its first draft, released in July. "We got a large number of comments on the last day of the comment period," FTC spokeswoman Dee Ellison said. "The staff is busily evaluating those comments now, and they'll be making a recommendation to the commission as soon as they can." Among the comments were protests from the House and Senate sponsors of the smokeless-tobacco By Joe Beck Of The State Journal Madison Mayor Joseph Sensen-brenner said Wednesday the city will do something to oppose a proposed landfill on the East Side, although he isn't sure what.

Sensenbrenner told a meeting of 110 neighborhood opponents of the landfill that the city is "ready to take the laboring oar" in the fight. "I've concluded after reviewing the facts that this is not an appropriate site for the dump," Sensenbrenner said. The city is limited in what it can do because state law allows a state agency, the Waste Facility Siting Board, to sanction landfill operations without local approval if the landfill meets certain standards. Sensenbrenner said he didn't know what kind of legal, financial or political support the city can bring to the cause. For now, neighborhood opponents will take money.

The organization leading the fight Neighbors Opposing the Dump will collapse by year's end without a big surge in donations, said NOD President David Bonner. 1..