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Eau Glaire sting yields federal charges DNR uses stuffed bird to sting" poachers (Details on Page 3A) third world nations courting disaster (Find out how on Page 8A) MADISON, Wis. (AP) Seven Eau Claire men and one each from Chetek and Knapp were indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday on firearms charges stemming from a Vsting" operation at Eau Claire. U.S. Attorney John R. Byrnes said the indictments were the result of an investigation by the U.S.

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and local law enforcement officials which included setting up a gun shop and receiving numerous stolen firearms. The following were charged with possession of firearms by a convicted felon. Each count carries a maximum penalty of two years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Bruin C. Knecht, Eau Claire, 12 counte; Leonard K.

Fredlund, 23, Eau Claire, six counts Nolan K. Spence, 43, Eau turn to STING Page 4A (USPS 106-080) fhinnoiA.si.'n'rlL health care chapel future in doubt 1 1 WIINDY AND COLD tonight. Flurries ending. Low of 18. Cloudy and windy Friday.

High 29. Volume 25' Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin November 15. 1984 county tax to percent 114 Number 267 3 Sections 22 Pages County supervisors today ap- proved a 1985 property tax levy of $3.02 million, up 42 percent from 1984. The mill rate increases 38 percent, from $1,984 to $2,739 per $1,000 of By TOM FISCHER Herald Telegram Staff Writer CHIPPEWA FALLS The future of a proposed chapel at the county Health Care Center is in doubt following County Board action today. Supervisors turned down a resolution authorizing borrowing $300,000 for the chapel.

Although supervisors had approved borrowing for the chapel in October, many balked at a section in a new resolution this month tying the borrowing to levying a "direct annual irrepealable tax sufficient to pay each installment and the Health Care Center Administrator Martin Metten told supervisors Tuesday that despite the resolution's wording, the chapel would be paid for through Center capital improvement funds and not county taxes. He said the latest resolution was a legal requirement for securing a $300,000 loan at 7.83 percent interest from American National Bank. METTEN SAID after today's action he is unsure what will happen with the chapel and will meet with the Health Care Committee to discuss the matter. "Without money there's no way we could build a chapel," he said. Health Care Center residents now have worship services in a basement room.

Metten said having a chapel would increase the Center's occupancy rate. The chapel vote was affected by deficit problems at the Health Care Center and discussions of an en ployee salary freeze there, he said. I The County Board today endorsed reopening negotiations with Health Care Center employees, with an eye on a possible wage freeze in 1985. Employee bargaining groups would have to agree to reopen negotiations on the already-settled contracts. Supervisor William Darby objected to that proposal, saying the county had already bargained in good aim with the employees.

assessed valuation. General fund spending increases 8 percent next year. It will go from 17.1 to 18.5 million. Highway spending increases from 4.03 to $4.1 million. County officials attribute the bulk of the property tax increase to lack of.

a general fund surplus that in By TOM FISCHER Herald Telegram Staff Writer CHIPPEWA FALLS Property taxes for Chippewa County gover- nment will increase nearly by half for 1985. leaping Lipizzan Chi Hi student stops van amuck running Bushland applies for Chippewa Falls television station By DALE BENEKE Herald Telegram Staff Writer CHIPPEWA FALLS Quick reaction and a touch of heroics on the part of a Chippewa Falls High School student possibly prevented some serious injuries this morning when an unoccupied van kicked into reverse. Terry Bucheger of Route 5t Chippewa Falls, said he just happened to be standing in the doorway of the high school building facing TerrillrStreet when he noticed an unoccupied van start moving backward. I The driver of the van was helping recent years had been used to lower the tax levy, In 1984, $750,000 from the general fund surplus went toward reducing the tax levy. The surplus, which had reached more than $4 million, runs out this year; and the 1985 tax levy increases by $900,000.

handicapped students out when the van jumped into gear about 8:42 a.m., according to the police department. Bucheger, who saw that no one was in the van, ran down the van jumped in and stopped it. Bucheger, 16, said he had to run fast to catch the van which was moving backwards in a circle. Before being stopped, the van a light pole and sideswiped two school buses. Although there some students in the vicinity, no one was hurt, police said.

As the two sides jockeyed for position Wednesday, there were these developments The White House said it won't agree to a Soviet demand for a halt to U.S. testing of an anti-satellite system as a condition for joint I turn to U.S. Page 4A J' i fK- 1 U.S. and Soviets By ROD STETZER Herald Telegram Staff Writer CHIPPEWA FALLS One of the owners of WCFW-FM in Chippewa Falls has applied with the Federal Communications Communications for a license to operate a full-power television station in the city. Patricia Bushland, Route 6, Chippewa Falls is the first applicant for the vacant channel 48, according to a spokesman for the Federal Communications Commission in Washington.

The transmitter for the 1000 kilowatt station would be located on an existing broadcasting tower in northeast Chippewa Falls at Well and North Streets. A legal notice published today said the antenna structure would be 266 feet above ground. renew interest in arms talks electors pass Tilden By BARRY SCHWEDD AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The United States and the Soviet Union are registering renewed interest in arms control talks, but a senior Soviet official here says the Kremlin needs more! details of President Reagan's proposal before going ahead. I A Lipizzan stallion of the Spanish Riding School of Vienna rehearses a capriole on the long rein Wednesday at the Rosemont Horizon in preparation for a weekend performance in Rosemont, a suburb of Chicago. (APLASERPHOTO) and Sampson Bushland was not available for immediate comment this morning.

The FCC spokesman said Bushland's application was tendered for filing November 1. No action has been taken on the application. If there is more than one applicant for the vacant channel, the FCC will hold a hearing. If that happens, it could take years before a decision on the license is made, the FCC spokesman said. Channel 48 is the only available television channel for Chippewa Falls, the FCC spokesman said.

Bushland Radio Specialities of Eau Claire is listed as WCFW's: owner, The application for the television station license is available for public inspection at WCFW at 1034V4 -Warren St. in Chippewa levies percent, from $38,099 in 1984 to $24,990 next year. Spending will be $157,321 in 1985 with revenues of $132,331. Tilden's levy increases 22 percent; from $44,000 in 1984 to. $53,851 next year.

Spending will be $163,287 in 1985 with revenues of $109,436. man. tudy governments CHIPPEWA FALLS The town levy will decrease sharply in 1985 for the town of Sampson, while it will increase in the town of Tilden. Electors in those towns approved 1985 budgets and town property tax levies Wednesday evening. i Sampson's levy drops 34 Billion? $2 biflion is about the amount spent annually for space shuttle development and the amount needed for each of four or five pressurized modules on a space station tries to explain value of $2 billion WASHINGTON (AP) A government that spent $845 billion or so in the last fiscal year rarely puts such staggering sums in terms with any semblance of meaning.

But a study on space stations and the U.S. future in space at least tries. The Office of Technology Assessment, in a study published Tuesday, used the sum of $2 billion for its illustration because that is approximately the amount spent annually for space shuttle development and the amount needed for each of four or five pressurized modules on a space station. The $2 billion would: Require a stack of new Jl bills extending 140 miles above Earth's surface. That would reach the shuttle when it's flying at low Earth-orbital altitude.

Allow each of 30,000 families to purchase a $70,000 house outright. Make a 10 percent dowir payment on 300,000 houses costing $70,000 each. Buy every man, woman and child in Alaska 4 $5,000 car. Weigh about 40 million pounds if it was in $1 billsj Represent $300 from each of seven million I of the country's lowest income taxpayers. Pay for the building of another complex like the World Trade Center in New York, which serves some 50,000 workers daily.

Represent the total income for the entire 15 million population of Nepal. Be more than the total income of each of nearly 20 countries with populations of more than one million, 3 men plead not guilty CHIPPEWA FALLS Not guilty pleas were entered Wednesday in Chippewa County Circuit Court for three defendants. Bruce M. Bergeron, 25, of Route 1, Z'xm Falls, is charged with drunken driving-third offense, operating a motor vehicle after revocation-second offense and two counts of misdemeanor theft. Michael J.

Marquardt, 22, of 712 W. Canal Chippewa Falls, is charged with drunken driving-third 'offense. Allen E. Hofacker, 26, of Eau Claire, is charged with retail theft. Signature bonds were set at $500 and pretrial hearings are $2 Billion Would: Make a stack of $1 bills 140 miles high OR: Purchase a $70,000 house for 30.000 families Buy every man.

woman and child in Alaska a $5,000 car Weigh about 40 miBion pounds in oils Pay for the building of another complex ike the World Trade Center in New York scheduled for Nov. 28 for each amends OAR charge CHIPPEWA FALLS A charge of operating a motor vehicle after driver's license revocation (OAR) against a Chippewa Falls' woman was amended Wednesday to a lesser charge. Julie A. Postl, 26, of 416 W. Cedar pleaded guilty in Chippewa' County Circuit Court to having no valid driver's license and was ordered to pay a forfeiture.

The' court dismissed a charge of OAR-fiecond offense against PcstL.