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111 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 (1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Thin Hairy In McGraw-Fire Union Feud By ROSEMARY KENDRICK (Of The Capital Times Staff) Fire Chief Ralph McGraw and Firefighters Union Local 311 are hack at it again, this time battling over what type of coiffure a fireman should wear. The union has initiated a grievance procedure against McGraw, according to union president Charles Merkle, because of the chiefs recent order regarding hair, sideburns, mustaches, and beards. A lot of the men are pretty well perturbed! with this, Merkle said. He went overboard, as far as were concerned." Merkle said he, personally, had been told by McGraw to trim his locks. Asked if he intended to, he replied, At this point I havent decided.

Most of the men will abide by the order for now, Merkle added. The chiefs order states that the purpose is to set standards for safety and uniform personal appearance for all members of the Madison Fire Department." back shall be "trimmed and tapered and not protruding over shirt collar or the ears; Sideburns Shall be no lower than bottom of opening in the ear, shall be cut square at the bottom edge and: at the sides, and there shall be no flare at the base Mustaches Neatly trimmed, and shall not protrude over the upper lip or beyond the corners of the mouth; Face "Shall be clean shaven, with the possible ex-c i of a conforming mustache; Beards and goatees None acceptable and not allowed. McGraw could not be a for comment this morning on what penalty would be invoked on non-conformists. We don't expect him to back down," Merkle said, adding that the matter most likely would end up in arbitration. Hair, with all its subtle implications, has been an on-and-off issue in city officialdom for at least a couple of years now, since over-30 semi-establishment (and even establishment) types began 1 1 i the lead of the younger long-hairs.

In 1969, McGraw decreed that sideburns not extend lower than the ear lobe. After quite a flap, the issue quieted down. 9 Last December, both Madison police and Dane County sheriffs officers were ordered to tidy up their mustaches and trim their sideburns. For the firemen, this is only one of several controversies they have had with McGraw, in a continuing tug-of-war that began shortly after the three-day i strike of March, 1969. The two sides have been in and out of court over a number of issues, with thousands of dollars in lawyers fees being expended by the union and the city.

We don't want to spend more thousands of dollars on Ihis, Merkle said today of the hair question. The union spent quite a bit of money on the sideburn issue in 1969, he recalled. When McGraw issued that order, it was explained that the edict was in line with National Safety Council recommendations. Sideburns and hair that are too long, it was explained, impede the close fit of gas masks and inhalation equipment around a firemans face. It could not be learned by press time today whether McGraws more stringent recent orders were prompted by any change in national standards.

Chief McGraw Details of the document are as follows: Hair The top shall be neatly trimmed and the CAPITAL TIM MADISON, Saturday, May 8, Triangle Problem Into Council Once 'X 'S Four year-old John Mullen, son of Dr. and Mrs. D. L. Mullen, 821 Wheeler makes his way up a hill in a conservancy area across from his house.

The barren strips are the tracks of motorcycles and mini-bikes. And Johns mother is concerned that the vehicles are ruining the area. (Staff Photo by Bruce Fritz) By ROSEMARY KENDRICK JOf The Capital Times Staff) Madisons Triangle has, over the last 14 years, become shrouded in a mystique involving frustration, bitter controversy, and legal and financial tangles. With this formidable backdrop, the City Council will be faced Tuesday with the ever-recurring question, What do we do about the Triangle? The Triangle urban renewal area includes property bounded by Regent Street, South Park Street, and West Washington Avenue, as well as land to the west ending at Mills Street. At issue now is a proposal for four lots along Park Street and West Washington, a section originally slated for residential development and a shopping center.

A proposed new plan would utilize the land, which has been vacant since the early 1960s, for a $20 million development including medical and facilities. Ninth Ward Aid. Susan Kay Phillips is conducting a poll of ward residents this weekend and says that, while she personally opposes the new proposal, she will abide by the wishes of her constituents in her Council vote. Former Ninth Ward Aid. Leo Cooper, who had been ac- Bikers, Residents Wrestle Over 2 Recreation Areas Its better than an ordinary Sol Levin tive in Triangle affairs ever since the project was begun, calls the Triangle the worst thing that ever happened to Madison.

It was a bulldozer project, rather than a rehabilitation project, he says, expressing sadness at the fate of the families originally pushed out of the area to make room for urban renewal. The were low-income, ethnic-group families, many of whom worked for the railroad, he recalls. Italians, Irish, Jews, blacks they had spent their whole lives building up their little houses. They didnt fight the move too much because they thought it was for the good of the city, Cooper continued. But the land has been vacant ever since.

He said he is hoping that a compromise can be worked agogue can be moved before the construction date of the new building. Murdock declined to say whether the synagogue would be razed if it cannot be moved before start of construction. Madison Bank and Trust, which announced plans to build on the site a1 year ago, owns the land on which the complex will be built. The Murdock firm will lease the land from the bank, will own the building itself, and lease the ground floor and part of the second floor to the bank and five floors to Wisconsin Power and Light. About 80,000 square feet will be available for lease to other firms.

Murdock will purchase the present 10-story Wisconsin Power and Light Building across Fairchild Street from the proposed complex, renovate it and lease out office space. Collins Ferris, Madison Bank and Trust chairman, said he expects Murdock also to purchase the present bank building at 24 W. Main St. Susan Kay Phillips out to get more housing and a shopping center, in addition to medical facilities, on the site. Already-completed phases of the Triangle project include a public housing project for the elderly (the Gay Braxton apartments), the Madison Medical Center, the Davis-Duehr Eye Clinic, Madison General Hospital additions, and the Neighborhood House on Mills Street.

A moderate income housing project is now nearing completion under the sponsorship of the Bayview Foundation. To find out what is behind the whole controversy, The Capital Times interviewed Sol Levin, the citys director of housing and community development who has been close to the situation for over a decade. Levin recently recommended to the Madison Redevelopment Authority that the new proposal, made by Dane Development be accepted. The MRA went along unanimously. Some of the original goals of the Triangle project have been achieved, Levin notes, but adds, With the passage of time, and changing circumstances, it has become clear that other goals are no longer atainable, or they are only attainable at too high a price.

He reviewed the long and complex histroy of the Triangle, which entered its latest major phase a year ago, when proposals for about 500 apartments were dropped because of the developers belief that they would not be economically feasible. Tight money and an upward trend in constructions costs were blamed. In discussions with the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), we developed the concept of offering the land on a flexible basis. We decided to ask developers to submit alternative proposals, in addition to the housing and shopping idea, Levin said. One problem is that under federal and state law, a devel- Building Plan Casts Doubt On Old Synagogues Fate 1971 -li Comes More oper must pay the fair market value for the land.

Appraisals set this at $80,000 an acre. The four parcels being offered total about 14 acres. Six proposals came in last fall. One was rejected as unattractive esthetically; a n-other, for a student co-op, was not concrete enough. Two housing proposals offered considerably less for the land then its appraised value, Levin said.

A fifth involved a proposed hotel on one parcel only. The last, by Dane Development, involved a price offer above the market value. Levin denies complaints that the medically based complex would blight the neigh-borhead, saying that the existing facilities to the west are rather attractive and add something to the area. Housing needs of the low-income elderly are a desperate problem, Levin admits, but he says residential development on the Triangle cannot be built to meet those needs. A a government subsidy would be required, he said, and the money just is not there.

We can all sit around the table and say, This is what wed like to have, but someones got to ask, Can we get it? he said. Arguments for one side or the other have gone past the objective phase, he continued. The issue has become pretty emotional. It then becomes a matter of philosophy. You get into a different arena.

Tax revenues play a major role in the controversy, with proponents of the i a 1 complex arguing that it would get the property back on the tax rolls. Thousands of dollars are now being lost to the city, says County Board Supervisor John Fields, Madison District 9. He also says he opposes a too-heavy concentration low-income families in one area, warning that it would be turned into a ghetto. Miss Phillips, on the other hand, warns that the medical complex would lead to land speculation and higher property taxes in the neighborhood and would do nothing to help ease the tight housing market downtown. Sure, it would bring in more tax revenue than housing, she says.

But I think there are larger questions involved. In the long run, we may be contributing to the destruction of the central city as a residential area. Girl Raped; A 20-year-old Madison woman was abducted at around 1 a.m. today and later raped after a man drew a gun on her while she was walking along North Park Street and forced her into her car. Dane County Sheriffs deputies had in custody this morning a 29-year-old Madison man arrested in connection with the incident.

The woman notified police after she returned to her apartment around 2 a.m. According to this mornings reports, she was returning from Snoopys Bar, on the 100 block of North Park when a man walking the other way turned and started walking with her. She told police that the man asked her to go with him to his car and when she refused, he drew a gun on her. He then led A 10-story office building, whose principal tenants will be Madison Bank and Trust Co. and Wisconsin Power and Light will be built in the 200 block of West Washington Avenue by David Murdock Development Los Angeles, Calif.

Murdock said here Friday that construction on the $8 million complex should start in two months with completion due in the summer of 1972. The complex will cover the entire 'block bounded by West Washington Avenue, North Fairchild and Henry Streets, and West Mifflin Street, except for the Madison Public Library area. The 200 block of West Washington Avenue is now occupied by the old Gates of Heaven Synagogue, a service station and an old house. The city has made plans to move the historic synagogue to James Madison Park and has applied to the federal Department of i and Urban Development for funds and has asked for a speed-up in the financial aid so the syn park because its not hot in the summertime, says Mrs. D.

L. Mullen, 821 Wheeler and the kids are exposed to nature. They find beaver and raccoon and snakes; they have all the advantages of living in the country. About a half-dozen cycle trails are gouged out of a slope leading up to a flattened hilltop, which is overrun wii the tracks of hot-rods. The rusted wreck of an abandoned car lies in the woods on another side of the tract.

At present, city ordinances are inadequate to deal with the situation. Although motor vehicles are banned from public parks, the Wheeler Road site is not designated as a park; according to Mrs. Mullen, when neighbors call the police to complain about the noise, the vehicles are out of sight by the time the law officers arrive. But help may be in sight for those who seek to have the area (and others like it) preserved in a natural state. Aid.

Michael Birkley, in whose 18th Ward the wooded tract lies, has proposed an ordinance which would bar all unau-t i motorized vehicles (motorcycles, cars, snowmobiles, mini-bikes, all-terrain vehicles, dune buggies) from all public lands in the city; these include not only parks, but open space easements and green-wavs. school grounds and the like. Violators would face fines ranging from $10 to $50. The proposal will come before the City Council next Tuesday night. According to Birkley, the problem (of recreational vehicle use) is especially bad in outlying areas like mine, where there is a lot of undeveloped land.

And once its ruined, you have a heck of a time trying to bring it back. But complaints have also been directed against the incursion of the vehicles into the Madison School Forest, Vilas and Tenney Parks, and area beaches. Birkley suggests that before people invest in a vehicle of this area. The 1970 finance specially parks. At the Sverre $108,500 fund.

Close was seen But number Horeb the virtually fringe types, by the who import Vogel, machine, petitions asking the limited of the A object which, the most me this family Mounds David DNRs as a By WHITNEY GOULD (Of The Capital Times Staff) Motorcyclists are an unloved breed. Thanks to the activities of the Hells Angels and a spate of films with titles like Cycle Savages and Orgy on Wheels, the public image of the cyclist is one of a menacing figure in a black leather jacket, roaring into town on his machine to terrorize, rape and plunder. While some cyclists do their best to perpetuate the stereotype, many others are law-abiding, respectable types who like the feeling of speed and freedom that goes with the sport. But the bad public image of the cyclist, combined with growing concern about the environmental effects of off-the-road recreational vehicles, has fanned controversy over the machine in two related cases in the Madison area. Residents of the Cherokee Park area on Madisons Northeast Side are up in arms over well as mini-bikes and hot-rod cars) to a wooded tract off Wheeler Road which is owned by the city and designated a conservancy zone.

A storm of protest also swirls about the states recent acquisition of 145 attractive, hilly acres of land east of Blue Mounds State Park for use as a motorcycle park. In the first instance, neighbors complain that the machines are tearing up hills, disrupting wildlife, and endangering children who use the area for play and exploration. Suspect Held Madison General hospital and drove her somewhere outside of Madison, where he raped her. The man returned her to Madison and dropped her off at Fish Hatchery Road and the Beltline Highway. When he sped away, he was apparently involved in an accident damaging the rear of his car.

The girl told police, she had seen the identification card carried by her assailant. The girl said the man gave her his phone number but she was unable to remember it. her to his car, parked near SOUTH ROTARY machines, according to Jim Baxter, vice president of the Madison Motorcycle Club who serves as liaison between the DNR and the motorcycle advisory group. Baxter contends that since the park is the first of its kind in the country, there is no evidence it will pose problems. He says the park will have its own full-time manager to check on the activities of entrants.

He also disputes charges of potential damage to the land. There will be very little deterioration of the general area, he says, noting that a special trail system is planned. Just how one fulltime park manager can keep all the cyclists on the trails is not clear. But Baxter adds, This was not a wilderness area in the first place. There were stock car races here in the past; its not as if we were going to move in and ruin an area.

Some suggest that the Quisling property ought to be added to the state park system, and that the cyclists should find another site whose natural features are less vulnerable to, damage. But the suggestion irks the bikers. The motorcyclists liked this area because it was attractive, says Baxter. Why, just' because were motorcyclists, should we have to take junk? Why should we be relegated to gravel pits and landfill sites? Motorcyclists are tired of being stereotyped. We feel the twowheeled vehicle owner deserves his place in the sun.

Nor are all local residents opposed. Some, like Keith Hirsch, who runs a tavern in the Village of Blue Mounds, see the motorcycle park as a boost to community businesses. The future of the project is uncertain at the present time. According to the DNRs Weizenicker, although the state has purchased the property, no final decision has been made on what the ultimate use will be." Conceivably, the cyclists might be forced to find another site if the state decides against using the Blue Mounds tract for the recreational vehicles. The board of trustees in Mt.

Horeb is due to tackle the controversy Monday night. But whatever the outcome of. this battle, a number of ques- tions raised in both the Madison and Blue Mounds cases remain unanswered. is to be the role of the recreational vehicle as competition for diminishing open land intensifies? such as snowmobiles. project was the outgrowth of a directive by the Legislature, which authorized a $2 increase in the $5-a-year motorcycle license fee, to purchase of land for designated motorcycle the urging of the Motorcycle Recreational Advisory Council (also established by the 70 Legislature), the state bought site from Dr.

and Mrs. Quisling of Madison for from the license fee to Madison and adjacent to a state park, the land, it felt, would be easy to administer; the hilly terrain was as ideal for cyclists. then the storm broke. A of residents in the Mt. area were horrified at idea of a motorcycle park in their back yard.

Were bound to get the element, the outlaw who are not controllable police, says Lee Vogel, operates the Open House shop in Mt. Horeb. himself a former cyclist who has 86,000 miles on his has been circulating throughout the area, the DNR to prohibit the construction and development of motorcycle trails and hills in 145-acre tract. Objections to the park are not to the vision of a horde belligerent bikers invading community. number of the parks foes to the use of the wooded, unglaciated site by machines, it is feared, will ravage landscape.

This, says Vogel, is the reprehensible aspect to that the state assumed was the proper use of a natural resource. Others object that the machines will create noise pollution, and are incompatible with camping and picnicking activities in nearby Blue State Park. L. Weizenicker of the Bureau of Parks and Recreation, defends the project good way to channel cyclists energies into a restricted Wcre bringing snowmobilers! under control by telling them! they have to stay on marked trails and designated areas, he says. Conceivably, we could bring the same sort of control to motorcyclists.

Weizenicker notes that there is a buffer zone of trees between the two parks. Those who enter the motorcy cle area will be required to have adequate mufflers on their kind, they ought to find out first of all where they can ride it. One solution to that problem appeared imminent when the state Department of Natural Resources recently bought up 145 acres of land east of Blue Sue Tallard, Madison 1 a ls outstanding long jumper, sails through the air as she turns in a 16-9'i effort this morning at the City Girls Track meet at Mansfield Stadium. Competing in the meet were the girls teams from Memorial, the, defending champion, East, West and LaFollette. (Staff photo by Carmie A.

Thompson) Atty. Tom Bertz will speak on Mounds State Park off High-Law Day at the noon lunch- ways 18-151 beyond Mt. Horeb. eon meeting of the South Rotary The site was to be designated a Club at the Four Lakes Yacht park for cyclists and would be Club Monday. lopen to other recreational vehi- A A -t.

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