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IMin MB wMf' Wisconsin Stat Journal, Thursday, Apr, 17, 1975, Sec. 4 MaddleiS'OEi Sets 0 1 fo i i i i i rMil'ni i iiiiinin. fcnim ii -in -i i imiiii i Mi r-nir mi w-irt It i i mk 10 ItH ILWtDIIAWS Of The Male Journal Staff Ml DDI The School Board has iinanimoiislv decided to ask for voter approval 2S to Imrrow money to build a new elementary si lni. Tlie Imard has not vet established a cost iiuure for the promised new school, but a preliminary estimate for a kindergarten through sixth grade school was atxtut $1 5-million The new school, which, if approved, would lie built on a 12-ucrc site on High ltd ad-lucent to the City of Mlddlclon water lower, would not be ready for cuiKincv until iiirii To alleviate the crowding problem next vejir, the board opted not to try to rent a Madison school, but instead to make room by curtailing some programs, renting four additional classrooms from St. Bernard's School, and increasing busing to "equalize class enrolment" throughout the school district According to a survey of Middleton schools, the overcrowding is primarily occurring at the kindergarten through sixth grade levels.

The new school would house about 'M students. Ai lingSupt Stanlev Angell explained that ll voters turn down the bond issue, suppose it'll he liack to the drawing boards Al a Tuesday citizen muling, Angell said tlx rc was strong supimrt for construction of a new school, rather than rental of Madison's Dudgeon School, 3'Jllll Monroe or the Sweeney Building in Middleton A Physical Facilities Committee had studied Middleton's overcrowding and had ru-oinniended const ruction of a new school. According to the committee, "based on the best evidence available, there is a conviction that even if the birthrate stabilizes or du'hnes further, in-migration (to Middle-Ion) will offset this birthrate phcnoiiieiioiu and lead to stability to the school population." "There was strong feeling," the committee continued, that short-term solutions to long-range problems would inevitably cost more and yield much less in educational gam." The committti' warned that a "do-noihing approach (would) U' the most expensive because all segments of the community would suffer when true nuils are not met." Angell said that details on the referendum as well as the changes for next year would be worked out in future Imard meetings. Sally Caughlan tells her story at Madison Story: Elate Gas and Electric rate incredse increase Sally's Hv JOHN kill I OfThrSutr Jaurmil Stall Sully CaiiKliliin nut in tlu uitni'ss stand WcdiHLiy mulit and Ink) him 17 cent incrtMM' in M.iilisn (ias and lilci tric n. (M(1K) fUvtric rates wuiild affut ht r.

Site is a student in wildlife at tlx I'nivcrMty of Wisconsin, and lives in the (inive's Wdiimd'k CiHip at lirj IC. (iorliain. She didn't want In live in a cn-op at first, she lultl thiise at the Public Service Coin-nussiun (INC) hearmu at the City Cuiincil ClianilxT hearing. It was a matter of cost: She paid $TjO a month to live with alxnit 211 other vunnen and children, compared to two or thrtt times that much if she iiad rented a private aiurtment. HaisinK cU-clrie rates probably would foriT tlM" tiHtp to raise its rents, she said.

It would he only a few dollars. Ms. auuhlan said, but for Iter and the other mcmlicrs of emocrat Gets a Roasting the co-op who live off marginal incomes, any increase would hurt, Her story differed in details, but reflected much of tlM same kind of opposition, to MdK's increase expressed by many of the witnesses who apH'ared both at the niht session at the council chainlicr which about Uil iiersons attended and earlier in the day The hoarinK on thr M(iK rulf incrrasr will conliiiuc at I p.m. today In Room 101 Hill I arm Stale (Kfice IUiildin, and aualn at 7 p.m. in the City ouncll Chambers, City-County HuildinK.

when the hearing beuan at I lilt Farm State Office Building. From the start of the hearing at 9 a.m. until it ended at 10 p.m., the feeling and opinions of Ms. CatiKhlan and other op-ixments of the increase stood in stark con inform each prosixi-tive client that "we're no longer in the massage business." Then they went on to describe their new services. Owners and employes at the clinics called the changeover a "blessing in disguise," although they often argued vehemently their civil lilx'rties had lxen denied bmiuse they could no longer oitcrate massage parlors.

"For me, it's a blessing in disguise financially," said Mathias, who co-owns Jan's. "We're making more money than ever." He accused the licv. Richard Prtichard of forcing the old parlors to take their newest tack. Iritchard was one of the city's main driving forces in getting the issue of whether massage parlors should be outlawed on the Ar. 1 election ballot as a referendum question.

Mathias conceded body painting "is going niaylx' a little too far, but this is what Jtev. Pritchard is forcing us into. This town is Massage Name, Games Change hearing. Statu Journal Photo by D. Pofnck Hurts (Originally, the company had asked lor an IS I per cent elitiric rate hike and an per cent natural gas raw, but a downward revision in expenses on Monday resulted in nulling the 17 ier ii'iit and per cent figures instead.

Brndeller said I Without the additional revenue from a rate hike, totaling almost MGF. would lie in financial trouble, Ik said MGF. would have trouble attracting investors "at a reasonable cost," its credit would U- jeopardized, and less cxix'iisue long-term financing would lie delayed by inability to meet necessary minimum interest coverage rtiiiirements. All that would add up to higher costs, llradcller said. The night hearing, one of the few held by tlx' I'SC.

was annul al giving consumers a chantr to apix-ar during non-working hours. The session, interrupted frequently by applause and caustic humor, resembled more of a college discussion group than a formal I'SC hearing. Wide-ranging testimony was permitted, and anyone in the audience could cross-examine witnesses. Although MCK officials were often criticized, they themselves did not make it to tlx- stand to rescind to questions since public testimony consumed the entire Hint hours of the evening session. No one apix'ared in supixirt of the utility's increase, but many cited the effects it would have on them.

Ms. Robert Paterson, 902 Jenifer representing the Near Kast Side Community Health Center, said the clinic paid alxiut $23 a month for electricity, and had to rely entirely on donations to continue to exist. It couldn't economize more without limiting some of the health services it provides, she said, and added: "We're a non-profit organization, and we'll suffer from providing more profit to you." Debbie Zack. 20S N. Patterson, representing the Madison Agenda for People, called for a study of public ownership of MCJE and "ending this private electric-gas monopoly," She warned MGK that it could raise rates, "but be prepared for a rate-payer rebellion." Democrats Oppose Hike Tlie Dime County Democratic Party, at its anniiid meeting Wednesday night on a voice vote opposed the Madison Gas and Electric Co.

rate increase. The increase would affect rents for apartment dwellers, and hurt low-income families, single persons, and the elderly, the resolution said. Leader vention in June for a year's term as state chairman. "Herb Kohl should know how strong we fu-l alxmt this issue." Daniel Eveland said in calling for passage of the resolution to sup-ixiit the United Farmworkers. "He joked it off a numlxT of times and he made me very mad when he joked it off.

We should let him know how strongly Dane County feels alxiut this issue." Many of the hNl ix'rsons present applauded Evoland's remarks. Kohl, who had invited questions on "women wearing pants, grajx-s and lettuce, or anything else." said he didn't mean to treat the subject lightly. "Running a business is not always as easy in some respects as ixoplc would like it to lx" Kohl said. "I do resput your opinion," he told Eveland, "and I would ask you also to respect mine." The United Farmworkers resolution was one of ID picked from a batch of 25 to be submitted to the Second Congressional District convention for action. The one receiving the most support calls for reix'iil of state and federal laws limiting participation of government workers in politics.

Others supported equal rights laws, stricter regulation on dairy imports, a tax break for farm lands, no-fault divorce, a halt to construction of the Kickapoo Dam, humanitarian aid to South Vietnamese citizens, and rejx'al of state laws regulating sexual conduct between consenting adults. Stamp Club Will Meet The Madison Stamp (Tub will sponsor a stamp auction at 7:30 tonight in the Methixtist Hospital Cafeteria, By WIIJJ.VM WIUSTOITFRSON Of The SLite Journal Stall State Democratic Chairman Herbert Kohl got his baptism of fire Wednesday night in an appearance before Dane County Democrats. After asking Kohl, president of a Milwaukee-based food and department store chain, to defend souk- of his business practices, the county iarty adopted a resolution asking Wisconsin stores to quit selling "scab lcttiu-e. grax-s, and wine." Kohl's stores in Madison have been the tiirget of pickelers protesting the sale of lettuce and griiix not picked by the United Farmworkers. Kohl aso was asked about the company's suggested dress code for women employes and tlie hiring of part-time workers on a ixrmanent basis.

The firm's suggestion that women wear skirts has no legal standing. Kohl said, and women cannot be forced to follow the rule. "We think the female people who represent us in our stores look a little nicer, a little more feminine in skirts," Kohl said in resxnse to a question about the dress code. "It's just an opinion that management holds," he said. Asked why the company was advertising for "permanent part-time" grocery checkers.

Kohl said full-time workers earn more and it was to the firm's advantage to hire more part-tinx' help. "Is there anything wrong with trying to run a business as profitably as you can?" he asked. Kohl, elected Saturday by the party's statu administrative committee to replace William Gerrard, said during his brief remarks that he will run at the state con Messerschmidt Plans to Contest Dismissal trast to the statistic-filled description of rising nists and needs to finance expansion. Ttie niH'ds of rate-payiiw consumers had run snuu into tin needs of the stockholders and investors. MfiK's lead-off witntss, Pirodeller, woiip vice-resident and sii n-tary, outluuil tlH' problems fiK'iiw tlie comKiny.

The utility necdtil the rate increase, the sii'ond souuht in less than a year, Ixrause of its rapid deterioration of earninus, he explained. It had not realized the 12 per cent rate of return authorized by the lH.li ht tent rate increase last August. FaruitiKs of $1M a share last year would tumble to a share this year without the 17 ier cent electric rate increase and the 8 kt cent hike in natural wis rates. UriKleller said. That wouldn't cover the dividend of $1.20 currently paid to common stockholders.

really going to get ri.ti.Khy." Mathias said if someone decides to take action against the city's ra-w sex clinics, "we have 12 other things we can go into, like bath houses. It'll take five years in the courts, and we have lots of money. That's no problem. We will go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court." Cheryl, an employe at the Rising Sun, said the ban on massage parlors was a discriminatory act, which deprives her of her living.

"Massages are an art!" she exclaimed heatedly, emphasizing the word art. "If they iire going to Ikiii them in Madison then they should ban the photo studio and these topless places, too." She said she and several former masseuses were considering a court suit in which they would allege the city has deprived them of their civil lilxrties. "More important than Lowell Messerschmidt. however, is the preservation of the institution of civil service and the security it provides'for my fellow city employes." Messerschmidt has been under fire from some quarters since January. 1974, so after the firing Tuesday effective Friday he said, "I'm not surprised." Messerschmidt declined to comment upon the six-cifics of the charges against him, and when asked if he thought he could win the apix'al, he said: "It's like a football game you go into it to win; you hope you will." Asked if he thought the firing was the result of political considerations, he replied, "FAerything in City Hall is political." When asked what he would do.

while his appeal was pending, he laughed, gestured toward the Welfare Dept. offices, and said: "To be facetious, I'll probably line up across the hall here. I'll be unemployed! "Nolxxly wants to lx put over the rack me or anyone else," he said. "The worst part of something like this is what your family gix-s through. "To have city officials, aldermen, use the niediu to attack a person.

I think that's unfair." Bus Rider Survey Will Be Taken The city Dept. of Transportation will conduct an on-board survey of all its bus riders today. Riders will be asked to fill out questionnaires before they get off the bus. Similar surveys on bus ridership and the changes have occurred in ridership patterns were conducted in 1955 and 19H5. Talk on Biblical City Excavation Planned Prof.

John Peterson. Seabury-W'estern Theological Seminary, Evanston, 111., will krture on the "Ancient Settlement Patterns at Tell el-IIesi" tonight' at 8 in Room 316 of the Wisconsin Center, Langdon and Lake St. Tell cl-Ik-si. an important city in Biblical times, is currently being excavated by Prof. Peterson and others.

ByJAMKSIJNN Of The State Journal Staff Sexual massages nuy no longer lie lejial in Madison, but that doesn't nuessarily mean the risinjj sun has set, or the manic finKors have ceaMil to ply their trade. A new city ordinance went into effect at nudniKht Monday which effectively did away with the Great Madison Massage Parlor Controversy of 1974-75. But in the process, the new law may have spawned the beginnings of a whole new episode here: The Great Semantics in Sex Spin-off of 1975-? At least four of the okl pardon the word "parlors" were back in business by Wednesday afternoon. Attendants at two others-said they hoped to be operating by the weekend. Now, though, they'll no longer massage parlors.

The new law has forced them into a metamorphosis. They call themselves sex clinics, sex consultation firms, anything that voids the term "massage." The services offered at the old parlors have changed, too. lYeviously, the parlors offered "body massages," which were a thinly disguised pretext by which the "masseuse" masturlwted a paying client. If anything, the services have grown more elalxirate now, but hardly more puritanical in terms of end results. The Rising Sun, 117 VV.

Main and Jan's Health Studio, 1320 S. Midvale have expanded their repertoire to include "psychological sexual consultation," "nude oriental wTestling," "body painting," and a variety of other activities. Depending on the service, it costs from $35 to W5 and lasts from 30 minutes to an hour. Wednesday afternoon at several of the parlors, business seemed as brisk as ever. Now, though, attendants made it a point to Daily Word List rye substance foul delicious cafeteria pickles Bullet Still Man Gets By PATRICIA SIMMS Of The State Journal Staff Paul Rogers, 23, who still carries a self-inflicted bullet in his head, was sentenced to 20 years at the Green Bay State Reformatory for the holdup of a Madison liquor store and the shooting of its owner.

The Milwaukee man Wednesday pleaded no contest to charges of attempted first degree murder and attempted robbery as part of a negotiated plea that carried a recommendation of 20 years imprisonment for the shooting charge and 12 years for the robbery, to be served simultaneously. Rogers, who was out on parole from an armed robbery conviction in Milwaukee when he robbed the Corner Liquor Mart Mar. 21, has refused medical treatment for the bullet wound directly behind his right ear. However, Legal Services Center Ally. Robert Burke said Wednesday Rogers would now allow authorities to remove the slug.

Burke said he expected Rogers would serve between five and six years of the 20-year sentence behind bars. By MICIIAFX SALMAN Of The State Journal Staff City Welfare Director Lowell Messer-sebmidt, saying "I do not feel there are grounds for my dismissal," Wednesday stated he would fight his firing by Mayor Paul Soglin. Messerschmidt's apiieal will go to the uy Personnel Board. When asked if he would carry' it further if necessary the next step would be to the City Council he responded, "Definitely." In a brief announcement to reporters at a press conference, Messerschmidt said: "I have decided to appeal the action taken by Mayor Soglin in dismissing me as city welfare director. "The easy way out for me and my family would be to resign even though I do not feel there are grounds for my dismissal.

in Head, 20 Years Burke said Rogers had completely lost his hearing in the wounded ear, and would probably be returned from Green Bay to medical personnel here to have the wound treated. Rogers was convicted of robbing the liquor store at 502 W. Main St. and shooting the' oierator, Richard Viviani, who has since been discharged from St. Mary's Hospital Medical Center after extensive treatment.

The sentence imposed by Circuit Judge William Sachtjen Wednesday includes the seven years remaining to be served on the Milwaukee armed robbery. Rogers, who shot himself in the head shortly after the holdup, had refused to allow University Hospitals doctors to remove the bullet. He was released after two weeks in the hospital and was returned to the Dane County jail. "Considering the age of the defendant and the seriousness of the crinKit is a fair plea bargain," Burke said. Rogers had faced a maximum 60 year-sentence on the two charges.

Reigning Cat and Dog April showers found a reigning cat and dog duo at the Dane County Humane Shelter. 22J0 Pennsylvania Ave. The six-week-eld black and white lahrador-tiTier mix and the three-month-old gray tiger both hope that May-be a better month if they can find permanent homes. Stop by the shelter to claim either of the animals. Last week's Wisconsin State Journal Dog of the Week went to Jen Paul McGettigan, (781 Dawn Windsor.

State Journal Photo by A. Craig Benson I.