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La Crosse ribune, Wednesday, March 5, 1975 Tribune Series Alerted Buyer To Check Lot Size By NICK PINTOZa Tribune Staff Writer The man who filed a complaint with the Wisconsin Real Estate Examining Board on the conduct of two La Crosse realtors in the sale of a parcel of land in a Town of Medary subdivision Tuesday said that reading the Tribunes highway senes led him to act. Loren (Larry) Dittman, 331 N. 14th On-alaska, said the publicity last summer and fall about County Highway Commissioner Orval (Red) Smith and Smith's Medary subdivision road brought it to my attention that there was something wrong about that subdivision." Dittman said that as a result of the publicity, he decided to check the dimensions of a parcel of Smith's subdivision land that he bought in 1972. On checking, the parcel actually was much smaller than what Smiths real estate representatives had claimed, Dittman said. He said he wrote a letter to the two realtors, explaining that an error had been made.

But the letter wasnt enough to get the situation corrected, he said. I think it was unfortunate that it had to go to the lengths it did, but I felt the state examining boards decision was a just one, Dittman said. The state board heard testimony Nov. 15, 1974, at the State Office Building in La Crosse, and took action Jan. 8 in Milwaukee against the two realtors.

The state board suspended the license of Harlan Hein, president and treasurer of Hein-Ei-lertson, 105 S. 7th and reprimanded David Eilertson, vice president and secretary of Hein-Eilertson, Inc. Heins license was suspended for 30 days effective Jan. 21 The state board took the actions against the two realtors after deciding that they made a substantial misrepresentation in a transaction injurious to the purchaser contrary to Wisconsin statutes. The state board said the two realtors contended the parcel that Dittman acquired in 1972 was six acres, more or less.

But Dittman later found (last fall) that the parcel actually was 4.89 acres, the board said. In Tuesdays edition of the Tribune, Hein and Eilertson said that they made an honest mistake. They stressed that they didn't intend to deceive anyone. Soon after the state boards decision was made, Dittman and Hein-Eilertson reached a settlement. Eilertson said his firm bought back the parcel from Dittman for $5,500 the price Dittman paid for the land.

Dittman said Hein-Eilertson also paid for all my legal (lawyer) fees and paid him an amount equal to the amount of interest Dittman would have earned had the $5,500 been deposited in a bank instead of using it to buy the parcel. Hein said his firm remains as the real estate representative for Highway Commissioner Smith, whose Medary subdivision and subdivision road Verde Valley Road were among the subjects of the Tribune series last year. The news reports triggered a John Doe investigation by the state attorney generals office, which stated that there isnt any basis for criminal action against Smith, who, as the Tribune reported, received from a major materials supplier to the county a bargain price on blacktopping his subdivisions road. La Crosse County Dist. Atty.

Edmund Nix has said he will review the John Doe testimony to determine whether there is any basis for civil action against Smith or anyone else involved in the activities reported by the Tribune in its highway series. Smith has been unavailable for comment about the state real estate examining boards action against the president and vice president of the real estate firm that has represented him. AP Wi rephoto Mother And Cub Polar bear Sophie and her cub of three months emerged from their den at the Denver Zoo Tuesday. Of 25 polar bear cubs born in the United States last year, only five survived more than a few days after birth in captivity. Denver zoo officials said this was the first public appearance of the mother and cub.

House Democrats Will Push For Job Money WASHINGTON (AP) House Democratic leaders will to push through Congress this month a special $5.9 School Head At Hillsboro Retires At 52 In The Nation Colby Outlines Files WASHINGTON (AP) CIA Director William E. Colby today outlined for Congress a long list of files that the agency keeps on U.S. citizens and acknowledged that some material in them may not be appropriate. Testifying before a House subcommittee, Colby described in detail for the first time files on Americans ranging from suspected foreign intelligence agents to workers in a plant performing work for the CIA. He provided no figures on the total number of files, but his 22-page statement left little doubt that the names of hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of Americans must appear in agency files.

In addition, Colby said CIA files contain information on several million foreign political, military, scientific, economic, technical, and cultural personalities. Space Shuttle, Plan Troubled WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. William Proxmire, said today the National Aeronautics and Space Administrations space shuttle program may be on the verge of a financial breakdown. The Wisconsin senator said the General Accounting Office has warned that the risk of cost overruns on the $16-billion program has increased. That warning should be heeded by Congress with a serious search for cheaper alternatives to the shuttle, he said in advance of budget hearings he will begin Monday as chairman of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on space and science activities.

The space shuttle, scheduled for its first manned orbital flight in mid-1979, is a reusable vehicle designed to operate in orbit up to 30 days at a time as a space laboratory and launching platform for satellites. Proxmire said the GAO identified many factors that could cause schedule slippages and cost overruns, U.S.-lran Trade Pact Signed WASHINGTON (AP) Oil-rich Iran will buy eight nuclear power plants from the United States over the next five years as part of a $15-billion trade agreement that was described as the largest ever. Iran's purchases from the United States will include materials for factories, apartment buildings and hospitals. The trade agreement signed Tuesday is the largest agreement of this kind that has been signed between any two countries, Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger told a news conference.

Kissinger said the nuclear reactors will be subject to "the safeguards that are appropriate under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which Iran has signed. The- trade agreement, which does not involve oil, is the most important in a series of moves by the Shah of Iran to use petrodollars to develop his country. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi has repeatedly said that he wants his country to produce nuclear energy before its oil reserves are exhausted. Iran is the No. 2 oil exporter in the world.

Jury Ponders Slayers Sentence HOUSTON, Tex. (AP) A jury of eight women and four men meets today to determine the punishment for David Owen Brooks, convicted of slaying one of the 27 victims in the Houston mass murders case. The jury deliberated only 90 minutes on Tuesday before finding the 20-year-old Brooks guilty of the murder of William R. Lawrence, 15, one of those killed by what police say was a homosexual torture-murder ring. Brooks was charged with four counts of murder, but he was tried only for the slaying of Lawrence.

Defense attorney Jim Skelton told newsmen he would appeal. He said District Court Judge William M. Hatten decided Brooks fate when he permitted the state to present evidence on all 27 slayings. In doing arguments. Asst.

Dist. Atty. Don Lambright described Brooks as the manipulator in the mass murders, which Lambright called "the most horrible crime in the history of modem man. Railroad Executives Meet CHICAGO (AP) Executives of the financially troubled Rock Island Lines meet in Washington today amid indications that the railroad's employes are not rallying behind a joint company and union plan to keep the line going. Railroad and union officials asked 10,000 hourly employes in 13 states to take a voluntary 10 per cent pay cut as a loan to the company.

The money would be repaid when the railroad is again financially sound. The program is mandatory for management employes. Railroad president John W. Ingram estimated that if every employe took part, the Rock Island would have ad: ditional financial resources of $1.5 million a month. But a spot check Tuesday of workers in the 13-state region shows that many employes of the company, the Chicago, Rock Island Pacific Railroad, are hesitant to pitch in.

try billion appropriation designed to create up to 2 million jobs. The money would pay for various government programs and purchases already authorized by Congress but never funded, newsmen were told at a news conference conducted jointly by House Speaker Carl Albert and House Appropriations Committee Chairman George H. Mahon, D-Tex. Albert estimated the release of the funds would directly create 900,000 new jobs and that indirect effects would double this number. Mahon said that all but a couple of hundred million dollars in the total represents additions to President Fords budget as it now stands.

But he added that some of the funds that would be made available probably would have been requested by Ford later in the ordinary course of events. The biggest single item in the proposed appropriation is $1,625 billion for public service jobs in state and local governments. The consolidated appropriation also would fund a number of construction programs and speed up purchase of automobiles for government agencies. $1.5 Million Estate Probated In Sparta HILLSBORO, Wis. Gordon I.

Shold, superintendent of schools for the Hillsboro School District for the past 18 years doesnt want to retire. I wish I didn't have to, the 52-year-old Shold said Tuesday. But his health forces it, he said. Shold had undergone open heart surgery in December 1972, and had a heart attack last December while he was vacationing in California. The school board will meet next Monday night to decide how to name a successor.

Sholds retirement is effective June 30, the end of the current school year. He works on a limited schedule now. It's been a challenge, Shold said of his 18 years here. I have had wonderful people to work with citizens, faculty, parents, students. His retirement plans are indefinite but he said he hopes to travel some.

I hope to find something worthwhile to do for the community I'm in with whatever energies I have left, he said. He was uncertain if that community would be Hillsboro, explaining that he may return to his native Madison. Shold also has been on the board of St. Joseph's Hospital here and on the Hillsboro Library Board. During his 18 years, he had seen the consolidation of rural schools into the Hillsboro district in 1961, the construction of a new high school both junior and senior high in 1965, and the construction of elementary schools at Hillsboro, Valley and Yuba, all within the district He is a past president of the Scenic Central Conference.

Before coming to Hillsboro, Shold was district administrator at Blanchardville for two years, and before that he taught and coached there for four years. ing replacement workers the same way the unions would oppose ordinances limiting picketing or secondary boycotts. After the close of the public hearmg on the two proposed ordinances, the committee adopted the motion of Alderman John Schubert (2nd Dist.) to file one of the proposals and of Sharon Imes (11th Dist.) to file the other, with George Hickey (1st Dist.) dissenting in each case. By a similar vote, the committee decided to re-ref er for another month a proposal to establish a three per cent tax on rentals of hotel and motel rooms in the cit-y. The ordinance had been referred from the preceding month's meeting.

Mrs. Imes, who moved for the further delay, said the idea of the first referral had been to get agreement with local hotel and motel operators on an ordinance, including how the funds raised should be spent. After listening to those appearing at the public hearing on the proposal and the commitee discussion, she argued, it was clear no agreement had yet been reached. i The original proposal had provided that part of the revenue would be devoted to financing an expansion of the convention and visitors bureau to prom ote more conventions in the city. The bureau itself proposed an amendment on exactly how the funds should be divided.

The bureau's amendment, as presented by Thomas Woulfe, operator of the Bluff View Motel. envisions establishing a commission to oversee expenditure of the room-tax proceeds. It would also open the program up to surrounding towns which chose to also impose a room tax. The commission, as proposed by the bureau, would consist of two members appointed by the mayor, one from the bureau and two from each participating town. Funds raised through the room tax would, under the amendment, be split three ways, not more than 10 per cent being retained by each local gov- Council Continued from Page 1 emment to cover administration costs, at least 75 per cent of the remainder going to the commission and the other 25 per cent of the remainder being devoted to capital improvements for park and recreation purposes in the communities in which the tax was imposed.

The commission would submit its budget to the city and each participating town for annual approval and would provide the funds needed to expand operations of the convention and visitors bureau. The bureau estimated a three per cent tax would raise some $69,000 a year, which would provide $6,900 to cover administration. $46,600 for the bureau and $15,500 for park and recreation purposes. The estimate was based on a 50 per cent occupancy rate for 970 rented rooms in the city at an average daily rental of $13. Woulfe told the committee there has already been an indication the Campbell Town Board would be petitioned to impose a similar tax and join in the promotional activity.

Woulfe said occupancy rates nationwide average 62 per cent. Were in a little trouble right now, he said, pointing to the La Crosse rate of 50 per cent. Thomas Sleik, lawyer for the bureau, added that Green Bay has used the room-tax method to fund a promotion group and. as a consequence, attracts four times as- many conventions as La Crosse. Motel operators were far from unanimous in their support of the room-tax proposal.

Robert Stadtler, owner of Herolds Motel, told the committee he had surveyed other motel operators along Highway 14 and ail but one of them, who spoke already" (evidently Woulfe), was opposed to the tax. Stadtler contended the tax would impose a hardship on salesmen who come every week and are the basis of our business." He said also that Green Bay has four times the attractions that La Crosse has for conventions. A salesman. Robert Sebastian, Stoughton, who called La Crosse my second home, told the committee has been visiting La Crosse every week for years. Salesmen he said keep coming to the city all winter long.

In order to finance convention promotions. he asked. Why should we SPARTA, Wis. The will of the late Frank G. Andres of To-mah to distribute an estate estimated at $1.5 million was probated before Judge James W.

Rice at Sparta Tuesday. The beneficiaries of the will are various Tomah residents, none related to the deceased, and organizations including the City of Tomah. Kenneth Jameson and Eugene Gerke. Tomah bank employes who witnessed the will, testified in the brief hearing. The will was dated Aug.

4, 1972 and Andres died late in 1974. Some protest was expected from relatives or their heirs. A sister-in-law, Mrs. Nellie Andres, and Mrs. Marjorie McKay, a niece, each were bequeathed $1, and a brother, Dr.

R. G. Andres, was designated to receive $5,000. All are from Spokane, Wash. Jay Carmichael, Tomah, is the attorney for the estate.

be penalized?" Another motel operator, Arthur Boldt, of Vicks Motel, also opposed the ordinance. He said his was a smaller motel catering to those who couldn't afford the rates at the luxury motels. In addition to salesmen, he said, these include construction workers, retired persons and out-of-town visitors who have relatives in a city hospital. Boldt asked that since conventions supposedly benefit many city businesses, not just motels, why not imposed a three per cent tax on restaurants and others? Committee members and other aldermen present argued at length the merits of vai.ous aspects of the original proposal and the convention bureaus amendment. Schubert and Alderman James Shoger (6th Dist.) questioned whether the tax should be three or four per cent, whether each participating town should have the same representation on the commission, as the city, whether the commission should be guaranteed a percentage of the lax revenue rather than have a council-approved budget for a set amount each year and whether the commission should get a smaller cut of the pie, with more going into the city general fund.

Alderman Thomas Roellich also challenged the bureaus figures, saying he has been given information indicating the annual revenue from a thre per cent tax would be much higher and that occupancy rates are higher than the bureau says. Company Continued from Page 1 the PSC requirements were arbitrary. unconstituConal or beyond requirements gereral-ly required of a telephone u' ility. Cudahy had said Tuesday that he considered the company evidence as insufficient, and the formal PSC order released today confirmed that point in a three-paragraph statement. Green also said that while an error in the Feb.

24 drafting of the order meant that La Crosse Telephone does not have to begin compliance until March 16 with some of the provisions, instead of March 3. some items have in fact a commitment for an earlier start than March 16. He said maintenance of equipment handling 782. 784, and 785 exchanges is one of those areas. Cudahy said he has been told that maintenance would be brought up to standard by March 27.

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London Transport officials said. Fifteen other bodies were removed from the train earlier Tuesday. The first three coaches of the train were telescoped when it ran past a station in the financial district last Friday and slammed into a stone wall. Eighty other passengers were injured, five of them seriously. Forensic experts began examining the body of 55-year-old Leslie Newson, who was driving the train packed with commuters.

One theory was that he suffered a heart at-: tack. But if he did, the train should have been stopped by the dead man's handle. which is mounted on a spring and snaps into the braking position if the driver takes his hand from it Transport officials said drivers could neutralize this spring action to avoid the strain of constantly holding the handle in position. But they said there was no evidence Newson did this. LOWEST FURNITURE PRICES ARE AT BUDGET FURNITURE "Pay Cash CORNER OF WEST AVE.

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