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Thursday. May 8. 1980-27 State Community News Changes in drinking laws urged By ELLEN PORATH MADISON, Wis. (AP) The state Alcoholic Beverage Control Task Force issued 18 recommendations Wednesday that include prohibiting happy hours prices, raising Wisconsins drinking age to 19, and requiring uniform closing hours statewide for businesses that sell alcoholic beverages for off-premises consumption. Sen.

Gary Goyke, D-Oshkosh, who heads the study commission, said the groups report would go to the State Council on Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse for a June 6 hearing. The council will probably take formal action in August or September, asking that a version of the recommendations be introduced as a bill in Class A licenses, held by some convenience and grocery stores, allow the sale of beer for consumption off the premises. Class A licenses, held by liquor package stores, permit the sale of beer, wine and liquor for consump-. tion off the premises. The task force recommended eliminating the beer-only Class A license, while maintaining the more package-store category.

Grocery stores wanting to sell alcoholic beverages could apply for the other license, committee members said. The committee also adopted a recommendation that establishments such as gasoline stations and grocery stores which sell alcohol in combina the Legislature, Goyke said. There was no discussion on the 19-year-old drinking age recommendation. Goyke observed that the most controversial item appeared to be a plan to forbid bars and taverns from offering short-term price reductions. The proposal would abolish the tactic known as happy hours or double bubbles, during which the price of alcohol is reduced in hope of stimulating trade during hours when patronage is usually slack.

Goyke and other members of the committee contended the practice encourages alcohol abuse. You can have a happy hour," Goyke said. You can have food. You can have drinks, but you cant have tion with other items be required to provide a segregated area for the sale of alcoholic beverages. The cash register in that area would have to be attended by a person licensed to sell liquor, and the area would have to be closed off during legal closing hours.

The group said the state should establish statewide closing hours for the removal and sale of alcoholic beverages for off-premises consumption. Closing hours would be from 9 pm. to 8 a m. daily except Sunday, when sales would be allowed between noon and 9 p.m. The recommendation would apply to package stores, and to taverns that sell booze for consumption elsewhere.

The Legislature refused earlier this year to increase the states statutory drinking age from 18, although neighboring states have higher ages. Advocates of a drinking age of 19 or higher say Wisconsins younger age encourages teen-agers from adjoining states to drive to Wisconsin taverns, and places 18-year-old high school students under peer pressure to share their purchases with underage classmates. In other recommendations, Goy-kes commission said the state should prohibit persons from consuming alcoholic beverages while selhng or serving them. It said fences should be required around picnic beer areas, and that there should be a prohibition against contests involving die consumption of alcoholic beverage. them at a reduced price.

Goyke told the committee its suggestion to ban happy hours had gotten an enormous reaction. When a television station interviewed local happy hour participants, one suggested Goyke should be hanged for merely suggesting the idea, he said. The senator said the purpose of the 18 recommendations is to bring various state liquor laws into line. Wisconsin has never reformed the liquor laws, and has simply added new ones to fit new situations, he said. The result of that approach has been a system that includes Class A and Class A licenses, which differ in more than the placement of their quotation marks, he explained.

Neighborhood seeking a solution to flooding storage area, would even reply by then. The committee of the whole also voted to estabish a bikeway in the city and appropriate 811,000 for signs and barriers for it. The vote was 13-7. If the council confirms the decisions, bicyclists and motorists would be encouraged to use separate routes for safer riding, said Le Grand, who headed a special committee which recommended the bikeway. Bicyclists, however, would not be banned from other streets nor motorists banned from the bikeway.

Eight persons appeared before aldermen to support the plan. Aldermen also voted to buy Maxs Auto Wrecking Co. for 8586,000 and irremovable personal property for 845,000, and to pay the firm 8136,000 in relocation costs. Alderman Keith Ellison (6th Dist.) objected to buying the property, saying it was assessed at 8319,000 for tax purposes. The 8319,000, however, is based on 1977 sales as are all 1980 assessments and the 8586,000 offer is based on todays market, he said.

The city is buying the properties of two Chicago and North Western Railroad customers along tracks west of Lang Drive Maxs and La Crosse Waste Paper Products so it can avoid building a new railroad bridge across the La Crosse River when it reconstructs and widens Lang Drive. Aldermen also voted to: Accept a memorandum of understanding under which the city, if it accepts money from La Crosse Arena Inc. to upgrade a park shelter-ice rink on Green Island, would have no strings attached. The city Park Department, said Park Director Eugene B. Fry, would schedule activities, including ice hockey and figure skating at the ice rink, but would give the public first opportunity to use it.

La Crosse Arena says it can raise 8200,000 for ice-making equipment to have greater use of the shelter. Raise the fine for parking in a space designated for handicapped motorists from 81 to 810 and for parking in an alley or on a highway from 81 to 85. The legislation also provides that more than one ticket for each violation may be issued for parking violations. Notify the towns of Campbell and Shelby that the city of La Crosse will ask Circuit Court Branch 1 to order a referendum on annexation of parts of their town. The city proposes to annex Hiawatha Island and land east of Bainbridge Street from Campbell and a triangular piece of land between Diagonal Road, Ward Avenue and the Burlington Northern tracks from Shelby.

Campbell residents already have indicated they will petition against a referendum. Petitions with a majority of property owners or residents can block a vote. All Committee of the Whole actions go to the full council tonight. one getting the 20,000 fecal coliform count, he argued. A long-term solution is needed, he said.

Mullenbach said a holding system at 28th and Jackson Street would offer more help but would cost $500,000 and would destroy use of the park located there. Alderman Beverly Ruston (12th Dist.) said aldermen would be directing Mullen-bach and his staff to study a flood-control alternative which it already has studied. The area residents are not satisfied with short-term solutions but youre asking the engineer for the third time to study this alternative, she said. Alderman Roger LeGrand (21st who represents the area, said he did not feel the pros and cons of the holding system had been studied adequately. Directed to have the study done by June, Mullenbach said he doubted that he could.

He said he does not expect the Burlington Northern Railroad, which would be asked to allow the city to use part of its right of way for Hodgkin's treatment gives life to victims By DONALD AFFOLTER Of the Tribune Staff La Crosse aldermen tonight probably will debate a directive to the -city engineers office for further study of a possibility for preventing flooding at 28th Street and Blackhawk Place. Neighbors who say they are flooded each time more than half an inch of rain falls want a holding tank or pond to store rainwater until the storm sewers can take it. The Common Council meeting is at 7:30 p.m. A holding system of the type wanted by neighbors would cost 8100,000. Some aldermen, when considering the question Tuesday night at the councils Committee of the Whole meeting, said engineers have studied short-term solutions enough.

The vote for further study was 12-8. Nothing short of the multimillion dollar State Road-Ebner Coulee flood control project proposed by the Army Corps of Engineers would adequately ease flooding, a consultant, Davy Engineering has told the city. City Engineer Bernard A. Mullenbach agreed. He told aldermen Tuesday night the storm sewers are designed to prevent the type of flood which is statistically probable once every five years.

The holding system would protect for the seven or eight-year flood. So you can see there is little (added) flood protection, he said. We flood everytime it rains, said Arden L. Ras-. mussen, whose property at 1208 Heritage Court is in the area.

The storm sewer is undersized, so the excess water goes into our area. Rasmussen said he had opposed the La Crosse Floral Co.s residential development west of its greenhouses because of the added flooding that the development would create. Their water now lands in my yard, he said. He called the situation dangerous since floodwaters can force a manhole from the storm sewer to fly out and receding water has such a strong suction that it could pull someone down. The fecal coliform count once was 20,000, about 12 times as great as the count which would close a city beach in summer, he said.

A resident south of 28th and Blackhawk and served by the same storm sewer system, Robert Westerman, at 1509 S. 29th opposed the holding tank system, saying the flooding problems would be moved further south. If they get a drainage system there, then Ill be the 't 2 f'; -c -nr 1 Steve Wittenberg of the Tribune Rolling home from work Merv Parry of 1337 Vine lunch pail in hand, rolls down 14th Street Wednesday on his way home from work at La Crosse Garment Co. Parry said he can make the 21-block trip from home to work in about 15 minutes. Television station sought by group ease, he added.

The Cancer Institute study was limited to patients in the late stages of Hodgkins disease. Keimowitz said MOPP has been used as therapy for patients in the late stages of the disease while radiation is used to treat early stages when the disease has not spread through the body. He said the drug therapy is not yet routine therapy. Not all Hodgkins disease patients can take the drug therapy and those who do must be carefully re-evaluated, he said. "Mistakes have been made a number of times when a patient has been feeling better, treatment was stopped and the disease came back, Keimowitz said.

Kidd returns to see Keimowitz every six months. When Kidd returned to the clinic in February, Mrs. Kidd said Keimowitz did not even recognize her husband because he had gained some weight. When he was sick he was going downhill, she said. He lost some weight and had a poor appetite.

Now he looks better than ever, even better than when he was working. DeVita, acting director of By TERRY RINDFLEISCH Of the Tribune Staff Fifteen years ago Hodgkins disease would have most likely killed Arthur Kidd. But today Kidd, 62, of 3115 S. 28th has been cured or free from Hodgkins disease for more than three years. The timing was just right, thats all, said Kidd, a retired spray painter.

If I had the disease a few years ago I wouldnt be here. Im here because of the drugs and Im thankful for good medicine, he added. For almost IV2 years after his diagnosis in April 1975, Kidd had. received a multidrug treatment known as MOPP which has proved successful. Scientists now say 70 percent of those stricken with Hodgkins can be cured.

Dr. Vincent DeVita, a leader in the treatment, John Moxley and seven co-workers at the National Cancer Institute reported this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine on tho treatment of Hodgkins disease with MOPP. Hodgkins disease is a tumor of the lymph system. It strikes 7,100 people a year in the United States, half of them young adults. MOPP, a combination of the drugs mechlorethamine, vincristine, procarbazine and prednisone, induced complete remission or apparent absence of disease in 80 percent of 198 patients treated since 1964.

Sixty-eight percent remained free of Hodgkins disease 10 years later. Dr. Rudolph Keimowitz, Gundersen Clinic internist, said MOPP has produced similar results in the fewer than 100 patients the clinic has treated for Hodgkin's disease. Im a relatively young guy and ariy one of us talking about a cure for Hodgkins disease when I started in medicine, people would have thought we were crazy, Keimowitz said. Weve had a significant number of people responding to the treatment and now have no evidence of the dis the Cancer Institute, said that successes with drugs and radiation now mean about 70 percent of all Hodgkins disease can be cured.

But there are some problems still to be worked out with the drug therapy. Patients who take anticancer regimens like MOPP are more likely to get other forms of cancer later, even if the drugs cure their original tumor, just because the drugs are so toxic. This problem is worse in patients treated with both drugs and radiation. Patients treated with radiation and MOPP run a 4 percent risk of getting acute nonlympho-cytic leukemia in the nekt seven years, scientists claim. Also, virtually all men and many women subjected to six cycles or more of MOPP treatment become sterile.

Keimowitz said that MOPP research has been extremely valuable in the development of the multidrug approach in treating leukemia and solid tumors. "MOPP was a breakthrough in the treatment of cancer and its success has helped make Hodgkin's one of the most curable cancers today," he said. Juvenile arrested for billfold theft A 15-year-old rural West Salem boy has been apprehended for the April 28 theft of a billfold from the Esther Heath residence, 415 Rose St. The billfold contained 810. According to a report released today by La Crosse police, Mrs.

Heath had let the youth use the telephone. After he left, the billfold was gone, she said. The boy has admitted the theft, police said. He has been referred to the La Crosse County Department of Social Services for juvenile court processing. Terry Rochester A group of local investors has applied for permission to operate a third commercial television station in La Crosse.

Terry Rochester, president of Quarterview said the group wants to operate Chan-'' nel 25. The ultra-high frequency station was allocated to La Crosse in 1979, but no group ever applied for it, he said. We would concentrate on local news, local sports and entertainment, Rochester said. "All of our investors are from western Wisconsin. We have a commitment to western Wisconsin and eastern Minnesota, and especially to the La Crosse area.

The station, which would cost more than 81 million to develop, could be on the air in a year, Rochester said, depending upon on the re- sponse from the Federal Communications Commission, which assigns licenses. Persons have 60 days to object to the FCC about the proposal, Rochester said. A tower for the station would be near Hokah, Minn. Offices and a studio would be in La Crosse. Rochester said no commit- ship with the La Crosse Tribune.

Other officers of Quarter-view are H. John Naper, 1325 State owner of Skipper Buds of La Crosse, and Donald F. Burr, 1350 Main Onalaska, commercial manager for Gerrard Realty Corp. Rochester and Burr also are stockholders in Everybodys Mood a group that is seeking an FCC license for an PM radio station for West Salem. A second group.

Hilltop Radio, also is seeking that frequency. The two groups had been deadlocked for more than a year, but Rochester said the FCC last week proposed a second frequency for West Salem. Everybody's Mood has sought a dismissal of the Hilltop license application, which could be decided within the next week or two, Rochester said. The radio and television operations would be separate, Rochester said. If the television license is granted, Mark Weibel, R.2, La Crosse, would become president of Everybodys Mood, Rochester said.

I Scruffy McGuire scares sitter I ments for programming or network affiliation can be given until the license is awarded. The station will have 1.15 million watts, which he said is about 10 times the power of Channel 19, and more than three times the power of WKBT-Channel 8. Anyone able to pick up Channel 31 on the Wisconsin Educational Television Network should be able to receive Channel 25, Rochester said. Rochester, 35, of 2115 Victory St is a former reporter for WXOW and a former radio salesman for WLCX. He also has worked for various newspapers, which included a journalism intern Young McGuire and his wife were out, and Miss Van Beckum was looking after their 9-month-old son, Alfred Joseph.

"I guess I cant blame her, McGuire said of the incident. I do get pretty seedy looking this time of year. I dont get my hair cut until November, when I have to do it for TV." "My own grandson, and I cant even get in the house, he laughed. I felt sorry for the girl, though. Im sure she thought I was some sort of Helter-Skelter or Psycho or something." McGuire said he didn't even try to go to the door because it was obvious to him that the baby-sitter was frightened.

Allie McGuire saw it a bit differently, saying, He was just mad she didnt recognize his face." MILWAUKEE (AP) The baby-sitter was alarmed. She saw a scruffy, unshaven man with long hair, wearing old blue jeans and tennis shoes, pull up on a motorcycle and start walking toward the house. Martha Van Beckum, a high school sophomore, slammed the front door and locked it. She ran to lock the side door as well, then closed the curtains and was eveh thinking about calling the police. But after only, about 15 seconds, the man got back on his motorcycle and drove off.

A1 McGuire wasnt going to get a chance to see his grandson this time. McGuire, the former Marquette University basketball coach whos now a television sports commentator for NBC, had stopped by the home of his son, Allie, early last Wednesday evening. 4 ti i- 'w t-.