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2-La Crosse Tribune, Friday, March 14, 1975 Common Council OKs 3 Room Tax In The Nation it AP Wirephoto Bomb Suspect Nabbed By NICK PINTOZZI Tribune Staff Writer The La Crosse Common Council last night adopted an ordinance establishing a 3 per cent tax on hotel and motel room rents. The tax is to be imposed April 1. The council also voted against establishing two ordinances banning the hiring of strikebreakers. In other action, the council approved a motion to spend $4,000 for an appraisal and soil borings on property north of City Hall for possible acquisition by the city, voted to proceed with plans for a municipal service building to be built at a higher construction cost than originally estimated, and voted to apply for more than $400,000 in state and federal funds for the development of the Lang Drive and La Crosse Street intersection. The council also approved a motion for the First National Bank of La Crosse to loan the city $800,000 for 18 months at a rate of 4.49 per cent interest.

The money will be used to pay for the citys 1975 capital improvement budget work. In 1976 the city will float a bond issue to repay the bank, Sherman Stell-pflug, city finance director, said today. The council voted 14 to 5 (two aldermen were absent) to adopt the room tax and, by an identical vote, to approve a resolution stating how the tax revenue will be used. For the remainder of this year, 10 per cent of the tax revenue will go to the city for administration expenses, an additional 45 per cent will go to a special fund for convention and tourist-related promotion to be done by the Greater La Crosse Convention and Visitors Bureau, and the remaining 45 per cent will go to the citys general fund. Starting next year, 10 per cent will go to the city for administration costs, 45 per cent will go the municipal general fund, and 45 per cent will go to the convention and visitors bureau provided that the 45 per cent doesn't exceed 80 pe cent of the bureau's budget as approved by the council.

Patricia Swinton, wanted since 1969 in connection with the bombing of several New York City buildings, leaves federal court in New York Thursday after pleading inno-' cent. With her are U.S. marshals. FBI agents arrested her in Vermont Wednesday. Judge Milton Pollack ordered her held in lieu of $200,000 bail for a pretrial conference April 3.

Viets May Hold Vital Areas WASHINGTON AP) Military analysts say the South Vietnamese army should be able to keep control of the most important sections of the country unless North Vietnam sends in more major combat units. This appraisal came as North Vietnamese forces pushed their offensive in a number of areas, forcing the South Vietnamese to draw heavily on their ammunition stocks. Atom Smasher Detects Cancer WASHINGTON (AP) Two atomic scientists say they have developed a new diagnostic method that could detect cancer earlier than possible now through rays. The method uses an atom smasher or nuclear particle accelerator to shoot beams of protons through an organ. More dense tissue, such as a tumor, slows down the protons that pass through.

These differences can be recorded electronically, allowing detection of the tumor. Ford Aides May Compromise WASHINGTON (AP) President Fords advisers will soften their opposition over the weekend to a suggested compromise on additional U.S. military aid to Cambodia. administration sources said. They said they did not know how far the compromise will go but said some congressmen would be contacted in an effort to win approval of some military aid by House and Senate committees.

The administrations renewed efforts comes after the Senate Democratic caucus voted Thursday against any more military aid to Cambodia and the House Foreign Affairs Committee rejected the compromise. Plant Must End Air Pollution ST. LOUIS (AP) Reserve Mining Co. will be allowed reasonable time to clean up water pollution at its Silver Bay, taconite plant but must cease air pollution at the plant immediately, the 8th U.S. Court of Appeals ruled today.

The court said plaintiffs seeking closure of the plant had not proved that the water pollution had harmed public health and the firm should be given reasonable time to shift waste disposal operations to an on-land site. Ex-Mitchell Aide Sentenced WASHINGTON (AP) Frederick C. LaRue, the first person to plead guilty in the Watergate coverup and the last to be sentenced, received a six-month jail term today from U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica.

LaRue had pleaded guilty to conspiring to obstruct justice more than 20 months ago. A former close aide to John N. Mitchell on the 1972 Nixon re-election committee, LaRue had admitted accepting more than $300,000 in Watergate hush money and helping plan the coverup. of such a building, but, he said, $2 million for a garage is too much." Bob Schroeder, director of the city's public works department, said the building was estimated to cost about $1.25 million about five years ago when he urged that the building be constructed. The current estimate is about $2.2 million.

Further delays are only going to increase the cost because of inflation," Schroeder said. The council voted to proceed with planning for the building on the condition that an estimated $275,000 unheated section be bid as an alternate. The construction of the unheated section then could be deleted, if the bids exceed current estimates. The 95,650 square-foot heated section of the building would provide shelter for the city's buses and other public vehicles. Certain additional public vehicles would be stored in the unheated section of the building.

Bids on the project are to be received in July. The Lang Drive and La Crosse Street intersection project would cost about $590,000. The council last night applied for state and federal funding for 70 per cent of that cost. Construction might not begin until 1977 because of federal red tape involving land acquisition for right-of-way. The council also authorized planning and bidding on the widening and repaving of West Avenue from State to Badger Streets.

The project will be in the land acquisition state by next year, city officials believe. In other business, the council authorized the Board of Public Works to undertake flood protection activities, approved a resolution for the appointment of a committee (most likely, the judiciary and administration committee) to review council rules and procedures, approved a motion to vacate the half-block alley north of Cass Street between 4th and 5th Streets, approved painting of crosswalks and additional signing on North 7th Street near the Western Wisconsin Technical Institute as requested by the school, and directed the Board of Public Works to make a spring traffic count on South Avenue and give the count to the council's highways and properties committee, which is considering petitions for the installation of a pedestrian crosswalk light on South Avenue at either 13th. 14th or 15th streets Group Backs Account For Special Prosecutors The aim of the resolution is to provide a minimum of $40,000 a year for the bureau's operation. The bureau is operating on a budget of less than $9,000, and. as a result, cannot compete with other cities' bureaus in the effort to attract conventions.

Voting against the room tax were Aldermen George Hickey (1st Ferdinand Sontag (4th Loren Wardwell (9th Donald Medinger (18th and Patrick Zielke (19th "I'm opposed to all municipal revenue-sharing schemes involving private enterprise, Ward-well said. But Alderman Harold Swanson (20th Dist.) argued that the tax will benefit the citys taxpayers. It does return revenue to the general fund to the benefit of the real estate taxpayers," he said. One of the proposed strikebreaker ordinances would have prohibited the employment of those who customarily seek work at a company whose employes are on strike. The other proposed ordinance would have prohibited the employment of someone whose legal residence is outside the La Crosse metropolitan area and who is brought to the area to work for the company whose workers are on strike.

The vote against the first proposed ordinance was 14 to 5, and it was 12 to 7 against the second. Voting in favor of both proposed ordinances were Aider-men Hickey, Dennis Kaufmann (3rd Richard Arneson (5th Thomas Roellich (12th and Medinger. Joining the five aldermen in voting in favor of the second proposed ordinance were Aldermen Joseph Addis (10th Dist.) and Frank Kaufmann (15th There was no discussion since the council, as a committee-of-the-whole, had arrived at about the same votes Tuesday night. Resolutions urging the adoption of the proposed ordinances were introduced last month while a strike was in progress at the La Crosse Telephone Corp. The strike ended Feb.

28, leaving most aldermen uninterested in pursuing legislation dealing with strikebreakers. The end of the strike also led aldermen last night to shelve two other proposed resolutions. One resolution had urged the council to condemn the phone company for deteriorating service, and the other resolution had called for an investigation of the possibility of the city purchasing the phone company. The council voted 12 to 7 to obtain appraisals and conduct soil borings on two properties in the area along 4th Street between La Crosse Street and the La Crosse River. Voting against the action were Aldermen John Schubert (2nd Sontag, James Shoger (6th John McConaughey (7th Lee Foley (8th Frank Kaufmann.

and Zielke. We should keep it in the private sector," said Sontag, noting that one estimate of the property's value is $431,000 excluding a railroad spur right-of-way. This city is hamstrung," said Alderman Curtis Storck (14th arguing that the property's purchase could enable the city to have a route for a north-south access road. Aldermen who voted in favor of the action noted that an appraisal and soil borings would protect the city inasmuch as the city then would know what it would be buying, if the city decides to use federal funds to acquire the nearly 15 acres of property. The council voted 15 to 4 to proceed with plans for the proposed municipal service building.

which is to be built on Isle la Plume. Voting against proceeding were Sontag. Wardwell. Addis and Storck. Wardwell made an unsuccess-.

ful effort to have the matter re-referred to committee for more study. He said he favors the idea prosecutor be named the court does so. The recommeded resolution stipulates that the judge approves the bills. Harman also said the special prosecutor would not be used in new cases and all involved cases should be processed by next year Supervisors Alphonse Hammes (26th Dist.) and Charles Pierce (31st Dist.) cast the two dissenting votes. The committee also recommending hiring an engineering aid to assist the county surveyor is placing corner stones as an aid to more accurate survey work.

He would be paid under the federal Comprehensive Education and Training Act (CETA). It also recommended hiring under the same program a developmental disability field worker and two additional male attendants for the in-patient unit at Lakeview Home. trial from March 24 through March 27, $113 as Frost's costs as court clerk at the trial and $170 costs for state witnesses. (Frost figures special prosecutor Burleigh Randolph will bill the county for about and court-appointed defense kwyer Richard Thompson will charge from $1,500 to Supervisor Wilbert Ipsen (15th Dist.) questioned why the two assistant district attorneys in Nixs office could not prosecute cases in which Nix asked to be disqualified and asked the court to name a special prosecutor. Supervisor Donald Harman (11th Dist.) said that Nix has to decide what standards he is going to use and that Nix could step down and ask his assistants to prosecute.

Harman said when a district attorney asks the court to disqualify him from prosecuting a case and asks that a special ties will have to double their capacity in the next 10 years. Speaking of Dairyland, he said, "We need a new addition to the generator plant at Alma. En- il Exploration Major Utility Expansion Forecast By PEARL PORATH Tribune Correspondent BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis. If forecasts hold true, electric utilities will have to build Woman Injured In 1-Car Accident LANSING, Mich. (AP) The Michigan Natural Resources Commission has refused to grant a Canadian firm permission to explore for oil and gas beneath Michigans Great Lakes waters.

At the same time the seven commissioners and the state Natural Resources director conceded they believe it is only a matter of time before oil companies start drilling under the Great Lakes. Renting Exploration Services Ltd. had asked for permission to conduct seismic studies to chart Michigan waters in Lakes Erie. Michigan and Huron. The firm, which is based in Calgary, said it would sell the information to oil companies for $1.25 million.

Proxmire Criticizes NSF WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. William Proxmire said today the National Science Foundation (NSF) has put more than $1.2 million into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Innovation Center to support students who make inventions for personal profit. MIT School of Engineering Dean Alfred H. Keil said in Cambridge, the Wisconsin Democrat did not understand the operation of the center. Proxmire said the center should be self-sustaining and be made ineligible for further NSF money.

Keil said the center is not a program of product development but of research and development in engineering teaching. Barred World Dakota The County Board's finance and personnel committee Thursday voted 5 to 2 to recommend the establishment of a special prosecutor account to pay for the cost of trials Dist. Atty. Edmund Nix is not prosecuting. The committee voted to recommend the transfer of $15,000 from the general fund to the new account.

The full County Board will next consider the recommendation. (Clerk of Courts Jack Frost reports he has already received a total of $2,141.54 in bills as a result of the recent Andrew Jewell trial in Eau Claire and estimates the total cost of that trial, when all bills are in, will be around $7,500. (The bills received to date in elude $1,215.60 for jurors and bailiffs. $642.94 for transporting Bernard Kutil, 21, Garden Grove, and Hope Olson, 18, also of Garden Grove, from California to testify in the Jewell enough new plants in the next 10 years to equal in capacity at least half of everything they have built in the past 75 years." James Sherwood, assistant to the gener- al manager of Dairyland Power Cooperative, said Thursday at the annual meeting of the Jack- son Electric Cooperative. Some experts, Sherwood said, conservative utili- 22, of in Circuit to March 21 administered Antabuse anti-alcohol drug after he spent VVednesday night in jail for allegedly beating several members of his family.

Copus pleaded innocent Monday in Circuit Court here to a charge of robbing 87-year-old Edward Stalder of 622 Winnebago St. in the elderly mans home last month. He allegedly robbed Stalder of about $200 before hitting and injuring him with the butt of a butcher knife. His previous $10,000 cash bond was reduced Monday to a $1,000 signature bond and he was freed pending his trial for robbery. A member of the family called police Wednesday night and reported Copus was beating members of his family and he was jailed to appear in court again Thursday.

Judge Peter G. Pappas sentenced him to jail Thursday and ordered that he take the drug. LaCrossc Cribuuc For misted papers call 7IM040 For Classified Ads call THE TRIBUNE is published afternoons and Sunday morning at 401 N. 3rd. La Crosse, 54601, where second class postage is paid City carrier price is $1.70 every two weeks.

Mail subscription rate, nciudmg the La Cresse Sunday Tribune, within 75 miles of La Cross, one year $35. Volume 70, Number 298 A county woman was injured at 3:58 p. m. Wednesday in a one-car accident on County Highway in the Town of Ona-laska. Patricia L.

Patterson. 49, R.2, mu in Onalaska. reported she had leg yP WllO Hit and side pains after her car skid- ded on ice and hit a utility pole -j5 R6l3tlV6S broadside before going over the bank and breaking through ice on a slough. She was taken to Lutheran Hospital by county traffic police and treated and released. believe that estimate is and predict electric William James Copus.

820 S. 8th Thursday Court here was sentenced the county jail until and ordered to take an Police Continued from Page 1 derground or in prison. I hope you are safe and alert. To my comrade Jack and my dearest sister Micki. I am with you.

Please try to understand the terrible pressure my family, friends and I have been under these past two weeks. Miss Hearst. daughter of Randolph A. Hearst. president and editor of the San Francisco Examiner.

assumed the name Tania after joining the SLA. the group which kidnaped her on Feb. 4. 1974. Teko and Yolanda are believed to be the assumed names of William and Emily Harris.

SLA members reported to be accompanying Miss Hearst. The other persons named by Weiner in his statement are apparently Jack Scott, former athletic director at Oberlin College where Weiner was enrolled from 1972 to 1974. and Micki McGee, described by Walton's attorney as Scott's wife. Friends of Walton said the couple lived with Walton, but the attorney said Walton had not seen either of them for about a month. The grand jury was called in Pennsylvania after reports that Miss Hearst and the Harrises may have hidden out in a farm house in South Canaan.

SATURDAY! CHEVROLET WE HAVE THE FIXIN HAM SANDWICHES, CAKE, COFFEE SOME REALLY GREAT CHEVY VALUES In The because we can control our destiny better than the others. Right now the other types of plants are in trouble. We can even raise our own rates and thats an advantage. he said. He declared that energy production is second in importance only to economics.

He said energy production and economics are so interrelated they have the same problems. Current stock prices are low and interest on bonds is high, he said. Financing is very expensive. He said the cost of the new plant at Genoa in 1969 was $50 million. Construction of a similar plant at Alma would now cost $175 million.

A record 583 persons attended the meeting. Finance Firm Receiver Sues Audit Company The court-appointed receiver in the Tri-County Finance (TCF). Inc. case Thursday filed a $4.1 million damage action against the La Crosse accounting firm which audited the finance company's records and statements. Lawyer John Bosshard of Bangor, receiver, for the firm which was declared insolvent Sept.

30. 1968. filed the suit against Richard G. Hawkins, James O. Ash and David D.

Baptie and the Firm of Hawkins, Ash, Baptie and Co. and its certified public accountant, Marvin Melby of 112 S. 29th St. The suit was filed with Clerk of Courts Jack Frost in Circuit Court here. Bosshard is asking $3.1 million in actual damages and $1 million in exemplary damages.

The 27-page complaint details the alleged instances of neglect by the accounting firm in auditing and reporting TCF activities. Bosshard claims, among other things, that the assets, net income and net losses were understated and various transactions, practices and policies of TCF were inadequately disclosed. Bosshard was named receiver June 1, 1970 to liquidate the assets of the finance corporation after the firm had gone into voluntary receivership. A number of officers of TCF have been convicted for fraud and a number of suits have been filed in connection with the TCF case since it was declared insolvent. gineers have designed the new plant and contracts have been awarded.

Active planning work has been done during the past three years. The plant is being delayed by environmental regulations calling for use of low sulfur fuel from Wyoming and North which means that rail cars would have to be used for transportation. But we need ground for unloading trains and we have been blocked by Department of Natural Resources regulations on use of ground in floodplains." He said electric cooperatives are better off than other utilities NF0 Will Conduct 2nd Hamburger Sale The National Farmers Organization (NFO) will conduct a second ground beef sale Saturday and Sunday, from 1 to 5 p.m., at the Plywood Minnesota parking lot on the Causeway, according to Mrs. Shirley Dummer, county publicity chairman for the NFO. The meat is whole beef and includes steak and roast cuts, she said.

No cheese will be sold this time. Portugal Nationalizes Banks LISBON, Portugal (AP) Portugall leftist military government nationalized the nations private banks today and former President Antonio de Spinola left Madrid in a Spanish airliner presumably for exile in Brazil. Hundreds of bank employees demonstrated in the streets of Lisbon in support of the bank takeover. A banner identified one group of demonstrators as The Cell of the Portuguese Communist Party of the Bank of Totta and Azores, one of the country's leading exchanges. Spinola, forced from office last September by leftist officers, flew to Spain from Portugal on Tuesday after the Portuguese government crushed what it called a right-wing revolt.

Israel Asked To Yield Land JERUSALEM (AP) Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger returned from Egypt today to urge the Israelis to enlarge the amount of Egyptian territory they are willing to A senior American official said Egypt had conveyed something additional. If there is to be a new Sinai agreement, there must be some input from Israel, the official said. U.S. officials acknowledged that Israel is faced with a crunch situation and must expand its initial proposal if an agreement is to be reached.

They said the Israelis must consider revising the territory in the Sinai desert that they are willing to give up. Israel originally offered to retreat up to 30 miles but wanted to hold on to the Gidi and Mitla passes as well as the Abu Rudeis oilfield. NOW IN PROGRESS March 14th. 15th. 17th only Sale Prices on any major appliance On 6th Across From The Cathedral Dial 784-3687 i..