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rirf'i rrj 1D Excommunication warning2D Who's running in 51st3D CLASSIFIED ADS3D City editor: Terry Shelton, 252-6118 Wisconsin State Journal Saturday, October 17, 1992 Klug knocks Deer over PAC letter State Journal photos by Carolyn Pflasterer A grandson of Harold Maass sits at his grandfather's town of Ixo- The house in the background is abandoned; Maass lives in a trailer nia farm Friday afternoon, keeping curious visitors off the property, behind it. et in hootin Tf i 1 A 1 I if r. I i i 'f V- ''m Motive sought for death of salesman in women's clothes By Ed Treleven Wisconsin State Journal Jefferson County authorities are still looking for a motive in the shooting death Wednesday of a Waukesha insurance salesman who was found dressed in women's clothing. Bail was set at $100,000 cash for Harold C. Maass 77, who is accused of fatally shooting Robert K.

Woelfel, 48, as Woelfel tried to run from Maass' rural Ixonia trailer after the two argued about 1 p.m. Wednesday. Though officials released no information on a motive, Maass reportedly told deputies he had a bizarre altercation with a man, not Woelfel, dressed as a woman at his home within the past two years. His attorney said he acted Wednesday in self-defense. A criminal complaint filed Friday charged Maass with first-degree murder.

Grizzled and worn in court Friday, Maass has so far refused to talk to investigators. If convicted, Maass faces life imprisonment plus five years for use of a dangerous weapon during the shooting. Woelfel was shot twice with a .410 gauge single-shot shotgun, said Michael Sullivan, Jefferson County chief deputy, first in the back, and again on the front of his the head and neck. Woelfel died shortly after a sheriff's deputy arrived at the junk-filled Rockvale Road address early Wednesday afternoon, Sullivan said. "He's not saying much," said Sullivan of Maass.

According to a criminal complaint, neighbor Lola Nelson heard one shot fired and went to investigate. She walked toward Please turn to Page 2D, Col. 1 edicaid Winter hits up north with snow Associated Press Forecasters predicted a cold weekend for Wisconsin, with a dusting of snow likely in the north where a snowstorm Friday already had left a few inches of snow. The National Weather Service said the northern half of the state could get light snow or flurries today and tonight. The cold snap was expected to send the mercury to lows from the teens in the north to the 20s and low 30s elsewhere tonight.

Highs today and Sunday were expected to reach the mid 30s to mid 40s throughout the state, and cloudiness was likely to give way Sunday to partly sunny skies. The extended outlook showed a slight warmup early next week, with temperatures up to the 50s Tuesday and into the low 60s Wednesday. Highs Friday were in the high 30s and 40s across Wisconsin, and some areas received light precipitation, while parts of the north had several inches of snow. The snowfall totals Friday included 3.5 inches at Rhinelander and 4 inches at Sarona in Washburn County. Heavier snows occurred in Upper Michigan, ranging up to 7 inches at Kenton and 6 inches at Marquette.

TB on the rise, but not here You have to be at least middle-aged to remember when "Lakeview" referred to a tuberculosis sanitorium and that tuberculosis was once a dread disease here. Lakeview, which once was home to more than 100 tuberculosis patients, closed in 1966. Advances in antibiotics dramatically decreased the number of people suffering from the lung disease and allowed those who were afflicted to live in the community. Fortunately, there is no need for a tuberculosis sanitorium in Madison. Officials of the state and of the American Lung Association of Wisconsin reported Friday that TB remains a relatively unknown disease here.

Nationally, however, WILLIAM WINEKE TB is not only returning as a health scourge, but is also becoming resistant to the antibiotics that once almost eliminated it from the American scene. Patients with HIV infection and those who treat them are particularly susceptible to TB, warns Dr. Mark Roberts, assistant professor of medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin. "The number one risk for a health care worker dealing with an AIDS patient is TB," Roberts told a conference sponsored Friday by the Lung Association. "I think when the statistics are in we'll find that risk to TB exposure is a greater risk than the exposure to hepatitis Dr.

John Bass, professor of medicine at the Alabama College of Medicine, said current TB rates are reversing a century-old trend that saw TB cases decreasing by an average of 6 percent a year. He said the nation now has 40,000 more people with TB than health officials had expected to see, based on the former trend. Reasons for the increase include AIDS (patients are less resistant to any disease) and increased immigration of people from countries where TB is prevalent, Bass explained. TB in white, "non-Hispanic" people seems to be continuing the 100-year-old downhill trend, Bass continued. TB in non-whites is increasing each year.

One ironic factor in the TB increase, however, is that people susceptible to TB are often crowded together in conditions that increase the chance the disease which is spread through the air will be transmitted. Just as Lakeview was used to keep TB patients apart from the rest of the community, AIDS shelters, prisons and homeless shelters now crowd together people who are most at risk of coming down with the disease. Wineke covers religion and medicine for the State Journal. Telephone: 252-6146. WISCONSIN Odds of matching all tlx numbers for 1 250,000: I In Pick Three: 2-9-2 Odds of matching all thru number far (500: I In 1,000 Powerball and Megabucks lottery numbers are drawn Wednesday and Saturday nights.

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LOTTONEIDA MINNESOTA Frl. Cash Three: X-X-X. Frl. Dallv Three: 9-7-0. By Phil McDade Wisconsin State Journal A women's organization has sent out a fund-raising letter on behalf of Democrat Ada Deer, drawing charges from opponent Scott Klug's campaign that she's getting help from a special-interest group.

The fund-raising letter was sent out by EMILY'S List, a Washington, D.C., organization that raises money for Democratic women running for Congress. EMILY'S List is a political action committee, according to Federal Election Commission records. The letter is entitled "EMILY's List recommends Ada Deer for the U.S. Congress," and urges supporters to send campaign donations for Deer to the group's headquarters in Washington. The letter says it was paid for by EMILY's List and authorized by Deer' campaign commitee, A Klug spokesman said the fund-raising letter breaks Deer's pledge that she would not accept support from political action committees.

Deer's campaign has centered on her refusal to take campaign contributions from PACs. She argues PACs have polluted Congress and has called for their elimination. "The Deer campaign has hired a PAC to raise money," said Brandon Scholz, Klug's chief of staff. "This just takes away all credibility in Ada Deer's argument that she does not have PAC support and that PACs are bad for the system." The Deer campaign went to great lengths to try to explain the EMILY's List letter. Campaign officials argued the letter came from the organization, not the PAC run by the organization.

"The letter you're referring to is not sent out by their PAC," said Lydia Bick-ford of the Deer campaign. "They did call us and said they endorsed us. (But) a lot of organizations have PACs and then do other activities." Bickford said EMILY's List officials offered to contribute $5,000 to Deer's campaign, but the campaign refused it. However, Deer did submit information about her candidacy to EMILY's List, Bickford said. "What EMILY's List sends us are individual contributions," she said.

"We're only taking money from individuals." The group's moniker stands for Early Money Is Like Yeast (it makes the dough rise); it is considered one of the country's major fund-raisers and donors for women candidates. Bickford said the Deer campaign paid for the mailing, which cost about $3,000. She said the letter's description of "paid for by EMILY's List" was inaccurate. Attempts to reach EMILY's List officials were unsuccessful. Scholz said the letter was clear evidence that Deer was working with a PAC.

"Ada Deer wants it both ways in this case and it's a slick fund-raising effort," he said. "That is one way to wash a dirty towel." Earlier this month, Deer ran jnto criticism from the Klug campaign when she said there were "good PACs and bad PACs," and suggested not all PACs should be eliminated. ened his client to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

"What happened last November is that frankly he went crazy for a couple of days," Giesen said. Giesen said his client had shown himself to be a dependable employee, devout Christian and a deacon in his church. "I'm at a loss to explain how this ties in with his conduct on those two days," Giesen said. "It was an aberration." Johnson, 40, apologized to his victims, including Armagost. "I know you have a difficult job, and I'm sorry I made it more difficult for you," Johnson told Armagost.

He blamed much of his trouble on an alcohol habit. But Assistant District Attorney Ann Sayles noted that he had also been convicted of battering two inmates in the jail when he had no access to alcohol or drugs. "Mr. Johnson is a man of enormous violence, a man of enormous dangerousness," Sayles told Aulik. Embezzler sentenced A Madison woman was sentenced to a year in the county jail and five years' probation Friday for embezzling $6,000 from the Capitol City Ski Team.

Karen Bremer, 45, of 5 Pueblo Court, wept face-down on the courtroom table as Circuit Judge Daniel Moeser imposed the sentence. She will be allowed to leave the jail for work and psychiatric treatment. Bremer stole money from the ski team while purchasing equipment for it and cashing checks from club members from April 27 to Dec. 12 1991. Harold Maass, 77, accused of fatally shooting a Waukesha insurance salesman who was dressed in women's clothing, appears in Jefferson County Circuit Court Friday.

Assault of six women draws 60-year sentence 12 state health spending hike seen bills soar sent to the Legislature early next year. Whitburns proposes increasing funds for child care, AIDS treatment, foster care programs, poor mothers and people with disabilities. Targeted for cost-saving measures were nursing homes and hospitals, which would face tighter rules for receiving reimbursements. Additional auditors would be hired to scrutinize bills submitted to the state. About half of the proposed savings in state money came' from bookkeeping changes that would shift responsibilities to federal taxpayers.

Those moves would involve Milwaukee County-owned hospitals that treat large numbers of poor people, and the Wisconsin Veterans Home at King. Also affected by cutbacks would be 96,300 elderly and disabled people receiving Supplemental Security Income. They would receive only $11 a month additional income, instead of the $14 they would otherwise have received when federal cost-of-living increases take effect. "There's going to be some pain with these, but they are necessary," Whitburn said. But Sen.

Rodney Moen, D-Whitehall, chairman of the Senate committee that oversees welfare programs, cautioned that Whitburn's proposal will face tough questions in the Legislature. "It seems to me that what the secretary is proposing is a lot of good concepts," Moen said. "But it really doesn't get to the heart of the problem. And that is: What are we going to do to control costs? Also, Moen said he was troubled by the proposal to limit cost-of-living increases. "It seems questionable to me when we're talking about those individuals who are the poorest of the poor," he said.

"And quite frankly, those individuals are in many cases very handicapped and i. need. By Andy Hall Wisconsin State Journal Mushrooming Medicaid bills overwhelm the cost-cutting ideas proposed in a two-year budget Friday by the state welfare chief. State spending would increase $402 million despite $27 million in cuts affecting poor people, hospitals and nursing homes, state Department of Health and Social Services Secretary Gerald Whitburn said at a press briefing. Those cuts are likely to generate controversy in the Legislature, a key legislator predicted.

The agency's spending would increase 12 percent over the period. The amount of state funding would increase only 10 percent; the remainder would come from a "provider tax" imposed on medical facilities. Gov. Tommy Thompson has asked state agencies to hold budget increases to 2.5 percent a year. Under the proposal for the 1993-95 bien-nium, annual state outlays for Medicaid would top $1 billion for the first time.

Including federal dollars, spending on Medicaid for Wisconsin residents would hit $2.6 billion in 1995. "This is the budget that Medicaid built," Whitburn said. Medicaid, the government medical program for poor people, consumes 72 cents of every dollar of additional money poured into the department's budget, Whitburn said. (The federal government pays 60 percent of Medicaid bills; the state pays the rest. About 481,700 residents receive Medicaid.) The proposed budget, nearly as thick as the Madison phone book, now will be used by the state Department of Administration to prepare a budget proposal for Gov.

Tommy Thompson. That budget win be By Joe Beck Courts reporter For two days last November, Joseph Johnson Jr. went on a rampage, beating and sexually assaulting six women, including a Madison police officer. On Friday, his violent frenzy brought him a prison term of 60 years from Dane County Circuit Judge Jack Aulik. Johnson listened calmly and without emotion as the years of his sentence piled up with the reading of each count 11 in all by Aulik.

The courtroom was packed with city police officers who came in support of officer Susan Armagost. She was left semiconscious on a rainswept sidewalk when she tried to arrest Johnson Nov. 29. Her injuries included a broken nose, bruised jaw and a gash on the back of her head. Of all the crimes Johnson committed, none drew more of Aulik's wrath than the attack on Armagost.

"I want to send a big message to our community: Leave our police officers alone," Aulik said. "They are not to be touched. They are not even to be verbally abused. They are the only thing between us and anarchy," Police Chief David Couper attended the hearing and praised Armagost for the character she showed in returning to regular patrol duties after recovering from injuries. "It has a traumatic effect on an organization when one of us comes that close to dying," Couper said.

Johnson's other victims included a former girlfriend, a 66-year-old woman walking by herself on East Washington Avenue, and a woman whom he attacked in her apartment a day before he was arrested, Defense attorney Charley Giesen lik.