Wisconsin State Journal from Madison, Wisconsin • 2

PAGE 2, SECTION 1 WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL, SUNDAY, JUNE 1 2, 1977 White IXtodDse etfffortf keeps decoin, fo Dqiw sflvoinigj Exclusive report 'J 8 1 In another corner of the room, the president of the Chrysler John Riccardo, was talking to aides of several business-oriented senators trying to win votes. Only on extraordinary occasions are the heads of major unions and corporations seen lobbying personally. Sen. Charles Percy whom the administration thought was a swing vote, at one time left the chamber to have coffee with Woodcock and Fraser, according to one administration official. Shortly after he returned, he made a speech supporting the Detroit-favored amendment.

The strategy of the administration and other clean air supporters was to build up strength for an amendment introduced by Sen. Howard Baker Jr. the Senate Republican leader, as a substitute for the legislation backed by the auto industry. On Thursday morning, at a meet was Thursday, when amendments that would have weakened controls on automobile exhaust fumes and lessened protection of pure air over national parks were soundly defeated. "It is not often that you beat the power companies, the auto industry, the auto workers union and the Chamber of Commerce on the same day," said Charles Warren, legislative director of the Environmental Protection Agency, who played an important role in engineering the clean-air victory.

Joining with the administration in fighting for the stronger clean-air amendments were the National League of Cities, the Governors Conference, the National Assn. of Counties and the National Clean Air Coalition. But, in the face of an intensive lobbying effort by industry and particularly for weaker controls on automobile emissions, there was some doubt that the cleaner air proponents would prevail; By Philip Shabcoff N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON An effort by the White House, with a little lobbying help from Robert Redford, the actor, was instrumental in turning back a high-stakes drive by industry and labor to weaken the clean air law this weelc. With President Carter weighing in with several personal appeals and members of his administration deployed at strategic intervals, the Senate passed a series of amendments to the Clean Air Act of 1970 that was supported by environmentalists and others who back strong anti-pollution legislation.

The Senate vote contrasted with a recent action in the House of Representatives, where legislation" strenuously pushed by a labor-industry coalition prevailed. key day in the Senate battle On Wednesday, supporters of the stronger law released a forceful letter from President Carter urging that the industry amendments be turned back. But industry and its union allies pulled out all the stops in an effort to convince the Senate to vote for their amendments, according to administration officials. At one point, the recent and current presidents of the United Automobile Workers union, Leonard Woodcock and Douglas Fraser, huddled in one corner of the reception room outside the Senate chamber with Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.) and Harrison Williams two senators with close ties to labor, trying to persuade them to vote for the Detroit amendment. Both senators eventually voted the other way.

ing at the White House called for other reasons, President Carter asked the influential Senate majority leader, Robert Byrd of West Virginia, to lend his name and support to the Baker substitute. Byrd agreed and, while the final margin of victory was fairly wide, his support was considered to be a decisive factor. Meanwhile, influential administration aides, including Douglas Costle, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, were making telephone calls to key senators. White House lobbyists were talking to as many members of the upper house as they could reach. The support of the Wisconsin Democratic senators, Gaylord Nelson and William Proxmire, was obtained with a special amendment giving additional time to comply with the emission rules to the American Motors a major employer in Wisconsin with special values a family's home.

He also gives his wife, Elaine, much of the credit for what he considers his new perspective on his political role, saying that conversations he had with her after she attended Bible study classes helped shape his values. As for his own church attendance, Schreiber said, "I need it." "Church to me is a source of nourishment, a place where I can gain insights into the power and strength of God and come to realize that myself, am not the source of my strength." But then he repeated earlier promises that he won't force his religion on others. "I don't think I was elected to inject my religious beliefs into the workings of government," he said. "My faith is vital to me, but when you start thinking you've got a corner on the truth, that's when your troubles start." 1 Schreiber blends religious, political don't feel the Lord has anointed me to be governor," Schreiber said. "We're going to be making mistakes.

But you've got to work hard at your job and pray about your decisions. You've got to do the best you can." Schreiber said two pieces of literature which have most affected him in his attitude toward being governor are poet Carl Sandburg's writings about Abraham Lincoln and the New Testament letter to the Hebrews. When he spoke of Schreiber seemed to be alluding to slights he experienced as lieutenant governor. "I was impressed with his patience with seeming ingrates, with his ability to understand people and with his tolerance of people who are so eager to feather their own nests that they forget some courtesies," he said. "It helped me deal with some seemingly difficult situations during the past couple of years." Schreiber taught a Bible class on the Letter to Hebrews recently at St.

Stephen's Lutheran Church in Monona, where he and his family belong. "Hebrews talks about God's Today's late TV listings strength and an individual's weaknesses," he said. "I really believe there is no challenge that's going to be beyond my capacity for handling; God will give me the strength. But I have to keep reminding myself that it is not my own capacity or ability that will work; my basic strength comes from God." Much of Schreiber's religious faith seems family-oriented and more a product of a lifelong church membership than of theological scholarship or doctrinal position. When they moved to Monona, for example, the Schreiber's joined St.

Stephen's, a Lutheran Church in America (LCA) congregation, though they had been members of the Missouri Synod in Milwaukee. Much of the reason, he said, was that St. Stephen's is located close to his home and that it offers a program his children enjoy. "Any one of us who tried to get his children to go to church with him knows full-well the hesitancy of young people to embrace the church," he noted. He said he thinks a church ought to be "within bicycle-riding distance" of on subjects ranging from foreign policy to farm prices before adjourning about 5 p.m.

Delegates narrowly agreed, 217-174, to call for the removal of state-imposed property tax controls on local governments and school districts. Lucey pushed hard to get the limits adopted in 1975 and has insisted they stay in the state budget now in the Legislature. The closest vote of the day was on repealing the state's 4 percent sales tax. The party has long been on record as favoring repeal of the tax because it hits hardest at low-income people. Repeal is part of the state Democratic platform adopted last year.

Delegates voted to go on record as favoring repeal once more, but by a 93-89 margin after the crowd had thinned considerably. state Democrats Continued from Page 1 using your life as well. -f-If you do finally get to where you want to be, what good does it do you if on the way you've lost touch with your family and friends, the people who are dear to you?" he asked. He said he hopes his experiences as lieutenant governor, especially the frustrations involved in the relatively powerless post, will make him more sensitive than he otherwise might have been to the people he will work with as governor. "Sometimes you do get a sense of what it's like to be frustrated in a job, to experience boredom, monotony, a feeling that you lack impact," he said.

I can allow people to understand they can be part of the solution to problems in the state and if I can give, them a full opportunity to blossom with their talents, then I think we can have an exciting administration." Schreiber talked at length about his pofitical vocation and its relation to his religious faith. Though he didn't use the term, much of his conversation revolved around the Lutheran concept of the "priesthood of all believers." Meicher By William Christofferson Of The State Journal 'pSHKOSH Michael Bleicher, a Dane County Democratic activist who worked his way up through the ranks, was! elected chairman of the Wisconsin Democratic Party Saturday at the party's state convention. The two-day session at the University, of Wisconsin-Oshkosh ended without; action on a resolution criticizing recent remarks of Dane County Judge Arcjue Simonson when attendance fell below the 250 delegates required to do business. i.The delegates, who numbered more than 1,200 at the start of the long Saturday session, soundly rejected a plan to allow the party to endorse candidates before a primary and plodded through more than 70 resolutions on a wide range of topics. Bleicher, 41, a University of Wjsconsin-Madison mathematics professor, handily won a three-way race to replace Herbert Kohl, a Milwaukee businessman, who resigned.

The election of Bleicher marked a change in the party's direction and operation. Bleicher, a member of the party's liberal wing, is the first party chairman in the 1970s not hand-picked by Gov. Patrick Lucey. -He also will be the party's first full-time paid chairman. The chairman's job has been unpaid, but the party has Robert Redford problems.

The Detroit-favored amendment was defeated by the Baker compromise. Meanwhile, a coalition of electric utility companies had lobbied hard to weaken protection of pristine air over national parks and some other public lands now safeguarded by law. The existing rules restrict power-plant siting and the power companies had gotten some relief in the House a few weeks earlier. The utilities' strategy was to line up the support of Sen. Henry Jackson whose backing might have swung a substantial number of votes.

But the clean air coalition had a number of environmentalists from Seattle call Jackson to dissuade him from that course. Also calling up the Washington Democrat, according to an administration official, was Redford, who is an active and ardent environmental-, ist. In case Redford's urging was not enough to do the trick, the floor managers of the stronger bill also agreed to pass an amendment introduced by Jackson, giving possible "grandfather clause" exemptions to two big power projects in Montana. The projects will supply electricity to the State of Washington. Jackson did not give his support to the amendment that would have weakened protection of clean air for national parks.

Juanita Kreps, secretary of Commerce, will be the guest on VFace the Nation" at 10:30 a.m. today on Channel 3. "60 Minutes" features tonight at 6 on Channel 3 include Mike Wallace's report on electronic smog and its effect on our health and Dan Rather's look at life in a Mexican jail. "Who's Who" at 9 tonight on Channel 3 includes profiles on actor Robert Blake who defends violence on television, fashion designer Yves St. Laurent, author Clifford Irving and Col.

C. Cosby Kerney (Ret), a a ramrod-straight perfectionist who founded the United States Cavalry Reactivated, and who insists that the horse has a role in the military in the nuclear age. "Sunday with Joe Gazin" at 10:30 tonight on Channel 15 deals with the controversy sur-. rounding the recent decision by Judge Archie, Simonson. Our slinky will set off your best summer suit beautifully.

Soft pleated front. Poly jersey in black, cream white, brown: The Rex Mays 150 USAC championship race, originally scheduled for broadcast at 3 p.m. today on WISC Channel 3, has been blacked out in Madison and Milwaukee. The movie "Escort West," starring Victor Mature, p.m.; and Mr. Magoo, p.m., will be shown in place of the race.

The mayors, in Tucson attending the 45th annual meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors, will be Kenneth A. Gibson of Newark, N.J., conference president; George R. Moscone of San Francisco; Harvey I. Sloane of Louisville; Tom Moody of Columbus, and Lewis C. Murphy of Tucson.

Interviewing them will be Jonathan Wolman of the Associated Press, Lawrence and Carl Stokes of NBC News and Neal R. Pierce of the National Journal. Other television information received too late to meet TV Week deadlines includes: "For a while, I was really going through a dilemma of whether I should enter the ministry or go to law schooL" he said. "Finally, I came to the understanding that a person can serve his God in many, many ways and that it isn't necessary that he be a pastor. "I look at my responsibility to God as doing the best job I possibly can and in practicing my faith." Several times he referred to his responsibility to be a "model" and an "example," not so much in terms of succeeding in politics as in avoiding situations in which his actions might "turn people off to Christianity or cause them to lose faith in their government "It's tough enough maintaining one's faith without having some outside force having a negative impact on your beliefs.

I don't want to set myself up as some super Christian and then have people feel betrayed when I make a decision with which they disagree." He also said he worries that talking about his beliefs might lead people to think he wants to force his Christian principles upon them. to head Michael Bleicher paid a full-time executive director to run its day-to-day operations. Bleicher, who will take a leave from his teaching duties, will be paid the executive director's salary. Bleicher had 619 votes to 230 for Darryl Hanson, Milwaukee, former Milwaukee County party chairman, and 64 for June Loggin, an Assembly page from Stevens Point. Bleicher, 1930 Regent has been a member of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) for five years and of the party's state administrative committee for six.

He will serve the one year left in Kohl's two-year term. The proposal to lift the party's long-standing ban on primary election endorsements was defeated on an overwhelming voice vote. Lucey urged its defeat in a convention ap- Karyn Suzanne Nelson The pageant broadcast live on Channel 27. Miss Nelson will be a full-time employe of the state Dept. of Agriculture and will spend her year's reign traveling around the country promoting Wisconsin's farm products.

The 12 finalists picked as the friendliest contestant during the weekend for the Miss Winsome Award Susan Jane Blachowiak, 20, Beaver. The retiring Alice is Janice Find-lay, 25, Burlington. pearance Friday night. The party's candidates should be picked by the people, "not in smoke-filled back rooms," State Rep. Marjorie Miller (D-Madison) argued.

One reason Wisconsin has one of the country's least corrupt political systems is that there are no endorsements, she said. Helen Sigmund, Stevens Point, said endorsement would give the party more of a voice in picking its candidates. Now one or two potential candidates decide among themselves who will run, she said. "We ought to decide," she told delegates. "It is incredible we are considering a discredited policy while the Republicans are thinking about getting rid of it," said Gary Aamodt, 6609 Gettysburg Second Congressional District party chairman.

State Republicans have endorsed candidates for statewide office for years at their conventions, while Democrats have had a hands-off policy on contests within the party. The delegates had finished debate and action on 70-plus resolutions and were about to start on a list of more timely resolutions submitted at the last minute when the session adjourned because no quorum was present to take action. The convention did pass resolutions Wisconsin AState Journal 1901 Fish Hatchery Road Post Ottlce Box 8058 Madison, Wl 53708 BUSINESS PHONE NUMBERS Circulation 252-433 Want Adi 252-4321 Other Advertising 252-4234 GENERAL INFORMATION Business 252-4200 Editorial 252-4100 EDITORIAL PHONE NUMBERS City Desk 252-4120 State Desk 252-4130 Sports 152-4170 Look Section 252-4180 Photography 252-4150 MISS YOUR PAPER? We hope not, but if you did, please call your carrier. It your carrier cannot be reached, and you live in the City of Madison, call 252-4363 and our Circulation Department will help you get one. (Please call before 9 a.m.) Second class postage paid at Madison, Wisconsin.

Published daily and Sunday except New Year's Day, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day and Christmas by Modison Newspapers, owners and publishers. Editorial service by contract with the Wisconsin State Journal division of Lee Enterprises, Inc. Single copies daily 20 cents each; Sunday 50 cents each. CARRIER DELIVERY RATES In all delivery zones ond throughout Dane County: Daily Only 85 cents a week. Daily and Sunday $1.

J5 per week. MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES Daily by mail in Done County $44.20 a year. Daily and Sunday $70.20 per year. In Wisconsin, outside of Dane County, beyond carrier delivery zone: Daily Only $39.00 a veor. Daily and Sunday $65.00 per veor.

All other states of the continental United States: Daily Only $57.20 a year. Daily ond Sunday $85.80 per year. Barron girl named Alice in Dairyland Suzanne Nelson, 20, of Bar-ron was named Alice in Dairyland for Saturday night at the 30th annual pageant in Wausau. IMiss Nelson, daughter of Charles andlSharlot Nelson, is an elementary education student at UW-EauClaire. ilShe has been on the Dean's List throughout college and is a member of Karjpa Delta Phi Honors Club.

II Miss Nelson is a member of the FFA Alumni, Barron County Adult Leaiders United Methodist Women and her church choir. She was Barron County Farm Bureau Queen, Barron County 4-H Four Square Girl apdrrecipient of the 4-H Key Award. First runner-up was Debora Lee Follmer, 20, Elm Grove, a student at UWMilwaukee majoring in psychology: Pamela Jean Van Oudenhoven, 23, Nee-nah, was second runner-up. She is registered nurse attending graduate school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The new Alice was picked from 12 finalists at the end of four days of interviews, tours, dinners and a parade ii downtown Wausau.

HILLDflLE-ftSSENlCHS EAST TOWNE-WEST J..