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Tin 7 wag Tuesday January 6, 1976 Madison, Wisconsin 36 pages 15 cents oudl dcsoy making any public comment. Employe Services Director Maurice Sullivan, after meeting with the board, declined to reveal, any of the topics under discussion. Among the options the board is known to be considering are: To seek some type of court action, hoping to force Madison teachers back to classrooms. City Atty. Henry Gem-peler and Assistant City Atty.

Gerald Kops met with the board to discuss this subject; To return to negotiations with teachers. The teacher union telegrammed the board Monday, requesting a resumption of bargaining under the auspices of the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission (WERC). The teacher union estimated 86 percent of Madison's 1,900 teachers went on to their schools until a 1976 contract agreement is reached. Negotiations between the board and teachers broke off Sunday with the WERC certifying the two sides were deadlocked. The board wants an impartial "factfinder" called into the dispute to make an assessment of each side's positions and recommendations on how a settlement can be reached.

The fact-finding process would take several weeks to complete. Teachers are opposed to fact-finding, saying it is a waste of time. Teachers set up picket lines around each of the Madison schools about 7 a.m. Monday. Police reported no incidents as some custodians, food service workers, school secretaries, teachers, teacher substitutes and teacher aides crossed the picket lines and reported for work.

Supt. Douglas Ritchie estimated 75 percent of the district's 31,000 students reported to school. By Richard Haws Of The State Journal The Madison teachers strike entered its second day today as the Madison School Board announced it will make a public statement on the strike at 10 a.m. today. The seven-member board met behind closed doors for two hours Monday night, but ended the meeting without Pupils at Leopold II saT in me nan, nmmmm 11 4 A iii X'M West closes in miimiujties Of fie I I Il Juf itjyw r.l.?,yj'.,WimWi','' B-mrtm 11 Si fc 1 I Li ww4ws-.

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rf rne Teacners siriKe. was Madison teachers predicted last week that schools couldn't remain open longer than "three seconds" if teachers went on strike. They struck Monday, but it took 11 minutes for West High School to be closed down. By 8:45 a.m. Monday, every one of Madison's 33 elementary, 10 middle and four high schools had been shut down by school officials because of a lack of teachers to staff the classrooms.

What happened at West, one of the city's two largest high schools; probably typifies the situation Madison students faced when they entered their school buildings Monday morning. Classes at West were scheduled to begin at 8:25 a.m., but long before 7 a.m. the first striking teachers were marching their picket line, attempting to persuade all West employes to refuse to cross the line. Many refused to cross, but others did, and the school soon had a number of custodians, food service workers, teachers, teacher aides, teacher substitutes and school secretaries. Also present were Principal Alfred Colucci and his four assistant principals.

By 8 a.m., it was apparent that Ix'tter than 90 percent of West's 140-member faculty would be absent, so attention fwused on the number of students who were reporting for school. If just a few students showed up, the reasoning went, then possibly the limited staff could carry through the day. But bus after bus continued to unload students, and the West hallways were soon filled with students with no place to go. piressyire More on strike: Page 4 and Sports In many instances, pupils simply arrived at their schools, were kept in the hallways in their winter clothes, and sent home within 15 minutes. The strike was called Sunday by the 15-member union leadership, but the schooboard said it was compelled to open schools Monday not only because of lack of information on how many teachers would strike, but also Ix'cause of concern teachers could charge they had been "locked out." Ritchie said the closing of the schools means that all school events including athletics are "stopped." Only adult recreation programs will continue, he said, as well as the usage of certain classrooms by non-public school groups.

According to the teacher union, the Turn to Page 2, Col. 5 At 8:15 a.m., Colucci announced over the school intercom all students should report to the cafeteria or any of the three libraries. The cafeteria was packed quickly. Some students lounged on the tile floor after the cafeteria Ix'nches were filled. Two firecrackers went off.

but caused little reaction among the students, who talked in small groups and waited. They were orderly, but the din from the hundreds of conversations drowned out the eventual announcement which came at 8:36 a.m. School was dismissed because of a lack of teachers, it said, and students were to leave school immediately. A loudspeaker finally got the message across to the students, and they quickly filed out leaving the school hardly J5 minutes after they entered. Rita Pullara, a West senior, probably summed up the feeling of many of her fellow students: "I thought it was a complete waste of time.

I wanted to stay home, but my mom wouldn't let me." West officials estimated more than 50 (XTcent of the school's 2.600-member student body showed up for classes Monday. The School Board said Sunday night it felt comix-llcd to ox'ii schools Monday not only to determine the number of teachers who were striking, but also to avoid charges that teachers had been "locked out." The Ixiard has no plans to reox'ii the schools until it is guaranteed an adequate number of teachers will be available to staff classrooms. by Richard Haws reduction of inflationary pressure. General Motors. Ford and hrysler all said mid-December sales were higher than a year earlier and tlieir stix ks were pacesetters in the rally.

Inside Badgers beat Ohio State Sports Today's weather: Chance of snow Increailng cloudineu and warmer with a good thorn of tnow fhi afternoon or tvenlng. Low tonight horn zero to I obov. For more weather Information, see Page 10. Section 1 Cdilorluls Id-cords 10 Heather 10 Death notices. 10 limrs 12 Section 2 Sports Section 3 (omh 2 radio Section 4 1.3 Mai krls 2 Hani ails I strike Monday, effectively closing the schools after only 30 minutes of operation.

School Board President Barbara Burkholder said the board "has no plans to reopen" Madison's 33 elementary, 10 middle and four high schools until assurances as sufficient number of i teachers would be available to staff the classrooms. The teachers have vowed not to return State Journal photo by Edwin Stein by olds tervening in Angola, "damage to our broader relations will be unavoidable." Moscow has declared that the Soviet and Cuban presence there is not interference but support for the "national liberation struggle of, peoples in general." Uganda President Idi Amin, chairman of tjhe Organization of African Unity (OAU), and Liberian President William Tolbert both urged withdrawal of foreign forces from Angola. They spoke separately in the I jbcrian capital of Monrovia, where Tolbert was inaugurated for an eight-year term. The 46-memlxT OAU meets in Addis Abala, Ethiopia, on Saturday to discuss the Angolan crisis. Amin expressed optimism that the organization would make headway in solving the dilemma, The Times of Zambia quoted Red Cross officials in Angola as saying more than persons have been killed in the civil war, and that there are less than 30 doctors remaining in Angola, a nation of 6 million people.

The report was not confirmed. Current reports place some 7,500 Cuban troops and a small number of Russian advisers helping the Soviet-backed Popular Movement (MPLA) and about, South African troops -aiding the MPLA's two Western-backed rivals. Angola1 was granted independence in Novenilxr after 500 years as a colony of Portugal. 97, dies family was known as the "skiing Bradleys." He arrived in Madison in as one of the first three faculty members of the new Medical School. He and his late wife, the former Josephine Crane, built as their first Madison home the Louis Sullivan House in University Heights, now the home of Sigma Phi fraternity.

The house, Madison's first landmark Itouse, was damaged several years ago by fire, Dr. Bradley will be buried in California and there will lie no services. The family suggests memorials be made to the Save the Redwoods league. 114 Nansome San Francisco. for the establishment of a memorial red-wxl grove.

reaay to go nome oecause or Karmona, destroying two "American military aircraft" and capturing tons of military equipment. Deputy White House press secretary John Carlson reported Ford's strongest yet that he expects the question of big power intervention in Angola to be resolved. He quoted the President as saying "the situation there today is Ix-tter than it was yesterday." Ford's remark was made at a closed-door session with 18 Midwestern news cut off Soviet grain By Associated Press Two African leaders Monday joined the growing appeal for ah end to superpower intervention in Angola and President Ford said he does not expect the Soviet Union to keep pouring money and supplies into the West African nation. On Jhe fighting front, the Soviet news agency Tass said Russian-backed troojKS of one Angolan faction had captured the important northern town of Ford won't By Robert C. Bjorklund Slate Journal Farm Edi (or ST: LOUIS President Ford made an election year commitment Monday to farmers that he would not halt grain shipments to the Soviet Union to force Russia out of Angola.

i He told more than 8,000 farmers and their wives attending the 57th annual meeting of the American Farm Burau Federation that it would be a serious mistake to assume that by linking ex-ixirts of grain to the Angolan situation some useful purxsc could served. Ford made his trip to the Farm Bureau in an apparent effort to recover his standing with furnVrs after the sharp farm ml icism of the halt in grain shipments to Russia he ordered for three months last summer. A spot check of farmers in the Heavy trading spurs big stock market gain paper editors in St. Louis. The President had called earlier fur an end to all outside intervention in Angola, an immediate ceasefire and a government of national unity between three black liberation movements to stop the civil war.

Moscow also has urged an end to outside interference, but both superpowers presumably aimed their declarations at each other. Ford said if the Soviets continue in- trained applause as he entered Kiel Auditorium, interrupted his speech with applause 14 times. Farmers showed tlieir greatest re-sHnse to tlie President's announce ment that he was offering a change in tax laws "to revise family estate taxes" to avoid liquidation of family farms in order to pay the taxes. Ford explained to cut off grain to Russia that already has been contracted for and sold would provide no immediate diplomatic leverage. "American grain, while imiortant to the USSR, is not vital to them," he said.

"The Soviet Union has survived for nearly W) years, including years of total Western economic mbargo, without American grain." 'There is not the slightest doubt that if we tried to use grain for leverage, the Soviets could get along without American grain and ignore our Bradley, He was active in community and university activities the entire 42 years he lived in Madison. He came to the UW after graduating from Yale in 1000 and returned to his native California after retiring in 1H8. He donated the Bradley Memorial Hospital, long the campus children's hospital, to the university. Dr. Bradley was one of the organizers of the Wisconsin Hoofers Club and founder of the Ulackhawk Ski Club.

He was famous as a mountain skier and was one of the organizers of alpine coiiiM'tition at Sun Valley. He gave up his active skiing days at llic age of 85. While, they lived in Madison, the audience after the speech showed they only accepted partsof his explanation of why he blocked grain shipments. Farmers said they were miffed with Ford because of the way he bowed to AFL-CIO IYesident George Meany, who had charged that Russian grain shipments would raise consumer prices. Ford said nothing alwut the Meany role in the grain episode.

Instead, he insisted that he took the embargo action to head off the danger of even more severe legislative restrictions on grain shipments by Congress. In what Ford called his first major speech of the Bicentennial year, he pledged to kvp fann income, up and told the farm audience that il could exect to share $25-)illion in farm income this year. The audience, which gave him res Harold C. Bradley I- 'J 'i Hoofers founder Dr. Another story, tables, Sec.

4, Page 2 NEW YORK (LTD The stock market scored its best gain in more than four months Monday in the heaviest trading since Novenilx-r on the New York Stock Exchange as investors went on a buying spree and raised Iioim-s for 1976. The Dow Jones industrial average, a 6.30-point winner Friday, soared 19.12 points to 877.83, the best gain since a 22.45-x)inl advance Aug. 28. It closed at its best level since a 1975 high of 881.81 July 15. Analysts noted that the Dow for I he past four mouths has had trouble moving the WM mark and said Monday's rally could spark a considerable outburst during January.

Hie turnover of 2I.9WI.000 shares was the heaviest since 25,070.000 were traded Nov. 13. It was up sharply from the 10.015.600 traded Friday, when many Investors took an extended New Year's holiday. Standard and Poor's 500-stoek index rose 1.68 to 92.58 and the average price of a New York exchange common share increased by 57 cents. Advances routed declines.

1,406 to 193. among the 1.897 issues crossing the tae. The market received some inietus from a bright news background relating to inflation, income taxes and car and retail store sales. The nation's purchasing agents retried they found prices for materials lower last month than in the previous two months, which translate into a Dr. Harold C.

Bradley. 97. former meinlHT of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School and co-founder of the Heifers outing club, died Sunday in Berkeley. Calif. 1 1 Dr.

Bradley was an emeritus professor of physiological chemistry and pioneer medical faculty member at the UW. a 197.1 inductee into the Madison Sxirts Hall of Fame and a member of (Ik National Ski Hall of Fame. He was elected honorary president of the Sierra Club. Dr. Bradley is survived in Madison by a son.

Joseph, a UW-Kxtension arts specialist, and Joseph's wife. Katharine, director of the UW-Madiwrn Arboretum..