The Winona Daily News from Winona, Minnesota • 3

fV A 1 I Mississippi mav reacn tioo i stage here In about a week' runr.w; t. i. -4- 1 1 111 1 4 rff tv os mr t- fx' I turt 5. i' Piiimmmmmmimmif 1 -1 a i The Trempealeau was at 8.8 feet Wednesday, compared with a 7-foot flood stage at Dodge, and the forecast calls for it to reach a crest of 8.5 feet Saturday. Crests 2 to 2V4 feet above flood stage were expected on the Root River at Houston today and at Hokah, Friday.

The Zumbro at Rochester was cresting at a half foot below flood stage Wednesday but was expected to reach a crest one-tenth of a foot over the 18-foot flood stage at Zumbro Falls Thursday and two feet above the 38-foot flood stage at Theilman tonight. COMMENTING on Chippewa, Strub said that while there was some floating ice in the river, no ice jams had been reported to his office. He said that substantial rises had been noted on the Chippewa but that the influx of cold weather should hold major factor in the rise of the Mississippi here. Strub observed that the stage at Winona this morning was 8.9, up eight-tenths of a foot from Wednesday morning. There are indications, he said, a stage of 9.2 feet can be expected Friday, the level will rise to 9.8 feet Saturday and pass the 10-foot mark at 10.6 feet by Sunday.

ALL OF HIS long-range forecasts on ultimate crests along the Mississippi are based on an assumption that there will be no abnormal precipitation during the period preceding the crest and that there is no extended period of unusually high temperatures that would precipitate rapid melt and runoff. The Weather Service, meanwhile, added the Trempealeau River at Dodge, to its list of rivers nearing flood stage. By C. GORDON IIOLTE Dally Newi Staff Writer The probability that th Mississippi River here may reach the 13-foot flood stage in about a week was posed today by the Minneapolis Weather Service's river, ex-pert Joseph H. Strub Jr.

Strub also said that no weather developments have occurred to revise his earlier forecast that Winona can expect a spring crest of 17.5 feet about April 20. "The river should rise steadily during the period prior to crest," Strub said, "and is following about the same pattern of other years of high water along the river." HE SAID that although some sharp rises have been noted here in the past few days, colder weather that is moving into the region should inhibit the melt and runoff in the Chippewa and St. Croix river basins, the flow of which represents a Workmen today began trouble spot there. The pond will hold water that boils under FLOOD PREPARATIONS back the rata of rise in the next few days. April's arrival, a n-while, brought an abrupt turnabout in the weather en-Joyed here Wednesday for March's lamb-like departure.

The mercury under mostly sunny skies soared to a season's high of 71 Wednesday afternoon but theji began to fall sharply as a new weather system moved in and this morning's overnight low was 35. THIS DROPPED to 25 at noon today with a heavy overcast, the early morning rain and drizzle turning into snow with a little more snow or rain plus strong winds expected to continue into tonight. Partial clearing will begin tonight with fair to partly cloudy skies forecast for Friday and it will continue to be unseasonably cool. i low will be around 22 and Friday's high won't be much above 38. As it edged toward its predicted spring crest, the Mississippi here was rising a little faster and earlier than in other years of high IN 1965, when an alltime record crest of 20.75 feet developed April 20, the river was running at only 5.39 feet.

It topped 10 feet on April 7 and went over flood stage four days later. In 1969, when there was an April 18 crest of 19.44 feet, the April 1 stage was 7.9 feet, the river had risen to 10.26 feet April 8 and a sharp rise April 12 pushed it beyond flood stage to 14.14 feet. The National Weather Service gave no immediate crest predictions for the Black River in Wisconsin, the dike, and it will then be pumped bacK into me river, wauy construction of a four-foot high dike in the Bay State Milling News photo) Co. area to create a pond to contain water in a traditional Dike construction under way City Council opposes plan for tax freeze Construction of additions to the city's system of temporary flood protection structures began today with closure of minor openings in the dikes at Latsch Island and near Bay State Milling Co. The closure at the municipal small boat harbor seals off the harbor administration building from flood waters that will overflow other harbr areas.

At Bay State the closure is for a conveyor loader. Other work in the mill area will include construction of a four-foot clay dike that walls off an area about 200 feet square between the mill and the dike. This is the location in which trouble appears in every flood season in the form of boils erupting on the landward side of the dike. PURPOSE OF the wall is to contain these eruptions without attempting to stop them. Subsoil composition is such if LA struction.

Other flood preparations are proceeding at a satisfactory pace, according to City Engineer Robert J. Bollant. Fourteen pumps have been placed at strategic locations, Bollant said, and two more will be installed at unspecified points. Those in place include a diesel-driven pump with 8,000 gallons per minute capacity and an electrically-powered pump with capacity, both of which are on the eastern outlet of Lake Winona at the Mankato Avenue-S'arnia Street intersection. All pump installations were made by city crews.

SANDBAGS ARE being laid along the face of a temporary dike that juts about 50 feet into the river at the head of Walnut Street, Bollant said. Their purpose is to protect erosion at this corner section of the levee. Sheets of polyethylene are being placed along the faces of sand dikes protecting Miller Waste Mills and Winona Industries. Under a joint work agreement, the city furnished filled sandbags and a job foreman, the corps of engineers furnishes polyethylene and the industries are providing the manual labor, Bollant said. that the area is highly vulnerawe to mniiration Deneam ana behind the dikes.

As the anticipated eruptions occur and the enclosure fills with water, pumps will keep the levels below the overflow point. The structure will protect against flood stages up to 19 feet, Bollant said. Winona Excavating Co. is the contractor for the Army Corps of Enginers which has overall charge of the con- Rep. Charles Miller to reach our own decisions" and that councilmen and other local officials are periodically accountable at the ballot box.

COUNCILMAN Dan Trainor observed that among the obligations with which cities had been saddled by the state is the Guidelines Act relating to firemen's and police pensions. This alone will obligate the city to as much as a 30-mill tax levy within 10 years, councilmen noted. Mayor Indall said he hopes to convey the council's reactions to the committee at tonight's hearing. Present were Mayor Indall, Councilmen Trainor, Laufenburger, Nelson, Hoveland and Gaylord Fox. Councilman Jerry Borzyskowskt was absent.

Rep. Charles and the St. Croix, Blue Earth, Le Sueur and Minne sota rivers in Minnesota but said they would continue xplain Anderson tax plan Miller dead; to rise slowly. The Minneso ta was between two and four feet over its banks between Jordan and Savage. heart attack Man injured MINNEAPOLIS tfl State semitrailer materials, he said.

The estimated increases required to provide some relief against Inflation for state employes is nearly $95 million of the remaining $241.2 million. Commodity, utility and fuel price inflation reduce budget flexibility still further, he con By KATHY KNUDTSON Daily News Staff, Writer Property tax reductions in the $3 billion budget proposed by Governor Wendell Anderson will offset its proposed income tax increases for the majority of Minnesota residents, Kenneth Rothschild told approximately 100 persons attending the tax forum at Kryzsko Commons skids into ditch Rep. Charles Miller, 52, Wabasha, Minn. died in University of Minnesota hospitals today, several hours after being admitted after apparently suffer Caledonia man Nicholas Thomas, De Land was treated and released ing a heart attack. from Community Memorial Hos tinued.

Of 4,717 new positions A City Council consensus in opposition tax-limitation bills now in the legislature was reached Wednesday night in an informal session. Six of the seven coun-cilmen were present. Mayor Norman E. Indall, who will attend a public hearing on proposed tax legislation tonight at St. Paul, asked councilmen to indicate their reactions to tax-freeze or limiting proposals now being considered by state House and Senate committees.

A joint meeting of Senate and House tax committees will be held tonight at 7:30 at the" St. Paul Armory. It Is expected to attract large numbers of individuals and organizations wishing to testify. COUNCILMEN agreed on a general statement that such tax freeze proposals would impose severe handicaps on local governments as they attempt to provide certain levels of services and, moreover, that local government policies ought not to be dictated by the legislature. One effect of a tax freeze at present levels, noted City Manager Carroll J.

Fry, would be to "penalize the governmental unit that has done a good job of close budgeting and reward the one that has gone hog Councilman Barry Nelson saw legislative tax-limiting proposals for local subdivisions as rather ironic. The state requires communities to improve sewage systems, provide solid waste disposal areas and upgrade other services but has offered little or no assistance- in the area of financing these public Improvements, he observed. Fry said he opposed legislative limitations because he doubted that the" legislature was either all wise or omnipotent. Councilman Earl Laufenburger concurred, noting that "we certainly are mature enough pital after a tractor-semitrailer Estimated impact Estimated impact of Anderson school financing plan on taxpayers and schools in Winona County. School District Maintenance cost per pupil unit i Actual Estimated Proposed 69-70 70-71, 71-72 72-73 Lewiston 519 605 653 708 St.

Charles 584 680 734 771 1 Winona 641 85 819 School maintenance tax on $18,000 home Present Proposed Savings Max. Lewiston 109 122 77 St. Charles 285 126 139 Winona 184 119 65 Foundation aid and sales tax payments from the state Wednesday requested in the agency budgets, bound over on swindle charge accident at 4:30 p.m. Wednes a DFLer, was first elected to the Minnesota House Rothschild. Mahtomedi, Uu.

onvprnnr hn rwnmmemded day on Highway 14, two miles recently appointed to the State rftmnar in 1962 and; has served since west ot Winona on Mocmon am. College Board, is a tax consult Thomas was a passenger in that time. CALEDONIA. Minn. An 469 new positions recommended in the budget for 1969-71, Roths Rep.

Miller was owner and the truck driven by John W. Blinn, De Land, and own- thony Bauer, 22, Caledonia Rt child said. operator of the 700-acre Idle The school financing plan pro- 3, was bound over to Houston ed by Alterman Transport imes, Miami. Hour Game Farm and the Idle Dosed by Gov. Anderson would ant to Gov.

Anderson. Figures show that a family of four, living in a typical home, must have a gross income of $16,000 before it pays more in income taxes than it realizes through lower property taxes, Rotschild said. County District Court this morn According to the Minnesota place limits on school district ing after he waived a preh'min- Hiehwav Patrol, the empty spending, Rothschild said. Local Hour restaurant at Wabasha. He was born in Kellogg, May 2, 1918, and was graduated from arv hearing on a charge of voter approval would be re semitrailer apparently went out of control on the curve, striking Proposed attempted theft by swindle.

quired for school budgets which Wabasha High School. He had No date for the trial was set. increase beyond the cost oi ROTHSCHILD said new totaling $762.1 million from Present 70-71 Lewiston 324,639 St. Charles 337,461 Winona 1,560,862 two guard rails as it skidded into the ditch and came to rest at a slanted position. 71-72 72-73 438,722 576,502 608,444 717,405 2,460,786 3,189,040 been president of the Wabasha County Sportsmen's Club and living.

The plan proposes no restraints on local government non-property sources is requir- Blinn was uninjured. Damage There were no appearances this morning in municipal court because of the decision on the preliminary hearing, related by the defendant's court-appointed ed. But since $461.9 million of units, Rothschild said, because to the truck was estimated at the Izaak Walton League of Wa basha. this will be returned to local levies of these units of government constitute a smaller $500. governments and school dist attorney, James Schultz, Hous portion of real estate taxes IN THE Legislature this term, ricts and $212.7 million will ton.

than those for school purposes, Winona Daily Ntvra 9 Winona, Minnesota THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1971 Rep. Miller was on House com come from reductions in federal income taxes, the addition Houston County Attorney Wil mittees for agriculture, financial THE ANDERSON program institutions, local government. liam Von Arx, Caledonia, the prosecuting attorney. evens out inequities of tax bur al cost to Minnesota taxpayers will be $87.5 million, an increase of 3 9 percent on the average, dens by shifting much of the The alleged offense stems natural resources and transpor tation. He served District B-2, com cost from local real estate tax from a letter, addressed to John he said sources to statewide non-prop The proposed budget is not prising all of Wabasha County and approximately the northern tax according to a spend budget, Rothschild 1 erty sources, Carlson, owner of the Caledonia Implement instructing him to deposit the sum of $5,000 in $10 and $2C bills by a road sign, School maintenance tax on a $50,000 farm-Present Proposed Savings Max.

Lewiston 639 350 289 St. Charles 888 365 523 Winona 584 338 246 Property tax mill rate for school maintenance Present Proposed Maximum Lewiston 169.8 104.3 St. Charles 226.2 107.7 Winona I57-3 101-5 School maintenance tax on a $100,000 business Present Proposed Savings Max. Lewiston 2,264 1,391 873 St. Charles 3,016 1,436 1,580 Winona 2,097 1,353 744 a mini half of 'Winona County outside the City of Winona and Good- mum local effort but does not stop a district from going be view.

Survivors include his wife and yond that effort if the voters the increases which have no effect on local property taxes, the increase is $241.3 million or 27 percent, he said. This one mile north of Caledonia. Bauer is free on his own recognizance. agree, he said. six children.

A state freeze on school dis compares with the $269.8 mil trict levies at current rates, Rothschild said, would not solve lion or 43 percent Increase in the problem, since real estate the 1969-70 budget. Much of the $241.2 million is in the form of City listed as passenger taxes are too nigh and must be Read it April 4 in Family Weekly What Makes An Accident Happen? A true-or-false quiz Illustrates that accidents Just don't hap pen by themselves. FOOD SECTION A pleasant change in the traditional Easier dinner is offered. Recipes for Roast Lamb with Sour Cream Sauce au Claret, Easter "Bonner Salad Buffet, Chicken In Lemon Aspic and Lettuce ''Saucer" Salads are featured. price increases for labor and reduced.

He called principa; reliance on the real estate tax for school financing unfair and stop on Railpax route inequitable. Redistribution of both the burdens and the bene fits of the primary and secon dary school system is needed, Trains to be discontinued in ne said. To the users of the private It had previously been known that the Railpax plan included routing of trains through Winona on the Milwaukee tracks, clude Milwaukee's daily consolidated train between Chicago and Omaha, Neb. train also is known as the City Winona is listed as one of nine" scheduled stops between Chicago and Minneapolis under the nation's new Railpax passenger train system scheduled and parochial schools, in addition to real estate tax relief they would receive under the but no official word on a stop of Denver, City of Los Angeles budget, it Is proposed to pro there was available until this City of San Francisco and City of Portland, defending on which vide $27 million of additional morning. No timetable has yet been established.

relief in the form of $100 per 'v. 11 III I fc destinations of its segments on pupil aid for children enroll the West coast. Rep. Quie's office said today ed in private and parochial that the Chicago Minneapolis Other trains to be discontin schools. Asked about proposed busi ued are the daily Hiawathas, in each direction, between Chicago portion of the Chicago-Seattle route will include one stop per day Cach way in each of the ness inventory taxes, Roths and Minneapolis-St.

Paul, the child said he did not agree with following cities: Minneapois, Fast Mail, operated daily, south the proposed 80 percent inven Red Wing and Winona in Min to take effect May 1, it was learned today from the office of Rep. Albert H. Quie. Under the Railpax system, Winona will have two passenger trains per day, one in each direction, operating here on Milwaukee Road facilities. The Railpax train will be Winona's only passenger train service after May 1, when both the Burlington Northern and the Milwaukee will discontinue all service here.

THE BN announced last week that they would discontinue all service hete, and the Milwaukee Road revealed Wednesday that they will stop the three tory tax but would accept it as nesota: La Crosse, Toman, Wis bound only, between Minneapolis-St. Paul and Chicago three other pairs of trains operated Star Profile Gene Barry is one of the "complete entertainers in show business. Gene attributes his happy marriage, of 26 years, to "having a tremendous desire to make It work on both our parts and not let our egos or individual thoughts take over." part of the budget package be consin Dells, Portage, Columbus and Milwaukee in Wisconsin. cause it fits in with the gover daily between Chicago and Mad nor philosophy in shifmg the and Glenview and Chicago in burden from real estate. ison, and the Sioux, operated daily, both directions be Rothschild said that he did not think restoring of the tax tween Chicago and Madison.

In addition, the Varsity, on inventories would mean bus: weekend train operated Friday ness would move out of the Illinois. THE MILWAUKEE Road's announcement Wednesday reported that they are eliminating most of their, entire passenger train network on May 1. The Milwaukee posted notices Wednesday in passenger termi Saturday and Sunday between state. "I may be Chicago and Madison, also will trains that presently serve Wi he said, "but the Minnesota environment will have an effect he is shown with Morris Bergsrud, chair nona. Current Milwaukee service in man of the county DFL committee, second be eliminated, as well as a bus between Columbus and Madison, that connects with the Hiawathas.

on this. I do not think people appreciate it enough." This and With Yonr Copy of Winona Sunday News from left, Kenneth Rothschild, tax consul the productivity of Minnesota tant to Gov. Wendell Anderson, and Sen. cludes the eastbound Morning Hiawatha at 9:54 a.m., the westbound Afternoon Hiawatha nals and trains announcing discontinuance of most of its passenger trains. It was anticipated REP.

MILLER AT TAX MEETING HERE Rep. Charles Miller, left, Wabasha, District 2B, who died this morning at a Minneapolis hospital from an apparent heart attack, attended a Winona County DFL-spon-sored tax forum at Kryzsko Commons, Winona State College, Wednesday evening. Here labor will offset the difference Roger Laufenburger, Lewiston. (Daily News The Milwaukee said it will continue operation of its once-a- at 4:30 p.m., and the east- photo) (Continued on page 17a) ANDERSON TAX day two-way train between Wat- bound "fast mail" Number 56 that Railpax would serve some of the cities where the Milwaukee plans to stop service. ertown and Milwaukee, wis.

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