The Capital Times from Madison, Wisconsin • 1

Fishermen Hit DNR for Poisoning Of Carp By BRUCE SWAIN (Of The Capital Times Staff) Trout-fishing enthusiasts, the very people a Department of Natural Resources river-poisoning project is supposedly aimed at helping, have offered to join other groups in seeking court action to stop a carp-killing program along the Crystal, Waupaca, and Tomorrow Rivers. Trout Unlimited and the Wisconsin Trout Fishermen's ciation will cooperate with efforts of the Citizens' Natural Resoures Association of Wisconsin to obtain a legal remedy to the department's plans to continue the project without additional public hearings. The project, already in its initial stages, involves placing antimycin poison in the rivers to kill the carp, which compete with trout for available food. Since the first of the month, harmlessly stunning fish with DNR personnel have been engaged in "electric fishing" electricity then removing the game fish for safe-keeping while the poison is in the rivers. The fish, "stored" at hatcheries and rearing ponds are to be returned to the rivers after the poison is dissipated.

But, according to critics of the project, there won't be much of a home for the trout to return to once the poison is adI ministered. "They claim there the antimycin will kill just fish, not the vertebrates such as frogs or the invertebrate life," says Stevens Point State University biologist Dr. George Becker. "We're not convinced that they know this." Research, according to Dr. Becker, has shown that the poison attacks other life as well.

The professor appeared, uninvited, at a May hearing at Amon the proposed project and raised that question. "I felt, and still feel," he says, "that the DNR had no specific data as to the problems on the Waupaca River. How many carp? No answer. What poundage? No answer." "They're actually removing, every living fish in the stream SO as to allow absolutely no competition with the trout," he adds. "It's folly to destroy, something that is uncommon.

We can't just go ahead and destroy everything willy-nilly." According to Trout Unlimited's chairman, D.J. Stewart, the hearing Becker attended, like those at Waupaca and Weya was "fairly well stacked with lakeshore ownfishers." no time were scientific or conservation people contacted," he says. "When the department decides to alter a waterway itself, it doesn't necessarily have to notify anyone." Kent Klepinger, assistant to the administrator of the division of forestry, wildlife, and recreation in the department, counters that the hearings were "well- High Court Urged To Back Amish WASHINGTON (P- -The tional Committee for Amish Religious Freedom urged the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday to uphold the newly won privilege of Amish to ignore Wisconsin's compulsory school attendance statute. The Wisconsin Supreme has ruled Amish parents may withhold children from if they feel the schooling would harm the paschool rochial nature of their religious way of life.

Wisconsin's attorney general, Robert Warren, is appealing the ruling, and the U.S. court has to hear arguments during a term that begins Oct. 4. agreed In a brief filed Wednesday, the Amish committee contended reversal of the Wisconsin ruling, first of its kind in the nawould deprive Amish of religious freedom throughout the country. The historic case stems from truancy fines assessed against Amish families in Southern WisI consin several years ago.

Coin Loss Put at $12,000 BARAB0O-The coin tion stolen from the Gordon Cline Tuesday worth over $12,000 face and probably much after World War IL. home of He had planned turn the was collection over to "the Sauk, County Historical Society when more to he had completed it. collectors, it was reported today. The colection was stolen between noon and 9 p.m. Tuesday when thieves forced the back door of the Cline home open and ransacked the house while Cline was away.

Cline said he had been collecting coins since 1920, and had brought back valuable coins from France, England, and publicized, as well as I know." He points out that 54 of the 76 attenders of the Amherst hearing voted approval for the poisoning project. In the other two hearings the plan "passed" by a vote of 98-8, he says. Klepinger takes issue with Dr. Becker's opinion of the poison as well. It is, he says, "probably the least toxic of the legalized toxicants we can use on fish.

It is fairly safe, but not completely so, for other species of animal life." "We've used it quite a bit in the past," he adds, "and we've found no adverse effects on the environment to date." One of the major criticisms levelled against the project, ironically, is that the trout don't need a hand from the DNR. According to reports from the scene, "electric fishing" along 11 miles of the 42-mile stretch of river has already yielded so many trout that the department has already exhausted its storage facilities. Tom Boario, editor of the Waupaca Post, says that the wild trout population in parts of the rivers is "almost Boario quit his department post as trout research biologist because he could not reconcile his own views of ecology with department actions. "I'd say," he adds "that the four-mile stretch of river near Cobbtown is as good as any in the state." No local trout survey has been done by the Department since 1961, he says. "It's true that there is a good trout population in some parts of the river," Klepinger admits, "but the natural reproduction is not as good as it could be, because of the carp." Another criticism of the project is that, because the poisoning will begin next week, department workers will not have time to remove all the trout.

Therefore, large numbers of the fish will presumably be poisoned along with the carp. According to Boario, the trout population problem, such as it is, can be traced to extreme temperature changes along the rivers. "There is no simple answer to any of these things," he says. "They're trying to use the expediency of chemical treatment to accomplish almost Firemen are silhouetted against the wall of flames that was discovered that the yard's office had been burglarized. swept through the Marling Lumber Company yard at Three Janesville firemen were injured battling the blaze.

Janesville Wednesday causing more than a on dollar (AP Wirephoto) loss. State fire marshals are investigating the blaze after it Area Briefs Belleville Site of Swine Station BELLEVILLE Swine breeders from four states had already reserved nearly two-thirds of the pen space available at the new Wisconsin Swine testing Station, Belleville according to Don Mahle, test station supervisor. Reservations have come from Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota. The station will be operated by Midland Cooperatives in cooperation with the University of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Swine Producers organization. It is located on the Francis Fahey farm about two miles southeast of Belleville.

It will have 60 test pens, office space, a storage area and a sales arena. Most of the construction will be completed by late September, Mahle says. The station will be operated on a fee-for-service basis as a service to the swine industry, and production-tested boar sales will be held at the station at the close of each test period. Doctor Joins Oxford Clinic OXFORD Gualberto Mejia, M.D., a specialist in internal medicine, has begun practice in Marquette County. Dr.

Mejia has opened his office in the Oxford Medical Clinic where he has joined in partnership with Renato R. Baylon, M.D. Both Dr. Mejia and Dr. Baylon plan to join the medical staff of the Marquette County Rural Health Center when the Crossroads Health Center is completed.

The target date for opening of the facility, to be located the crossroads of Highways 51, 182, and 23, is the spring of 1972. Medical Open House Set at PDC PRAIRIE DU CHIEN A statewide invitation to an historic open house free admission next Sunday has been issued by the Fort Crawford Museum of Medical Progress in Prairie du Chien as part of the celebration of "Wonderful Wisconsin Week," Sept. 19-25. The open house at this national landmark is scheduled for Heritage Day, Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Fort Crawford Museum of Medical Progress is owned and operated by the State Medical Society of Wisconsin. The complex includes Stovall Hall of Health and the restored military hospital of Fort Crawford, which dates back to 1829, before Wisconsin became a state. Currently Stovall Hall of Health is featuring "Eco Expo," the only educational ecology exhibition in the country. Elect New Glarus 4-H Slate NEW GLARUS New Glarus president; Rick Reuter, secre4-H'ers recently elected a new tary; Dan Wyttenbach, treasslate of officers for the coming urer; Pam Ostby, club reporter. year.

The next meeting will be in Named were Robin Reuter, the elementary school Oct. 13 at president; Gif Hoesly, vice 18 p.m. Theme Set for Safety Session PLATTEVILLE Recommendations to help save lives in our society will be the year's theme for the Wis onsin Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association. The annual regional workshop of the association will be held Sept. 22 with the Safety Department at WSU-Platteville acting as host.

Lyle Wanless, project director of safety department's federal project on "New Methodology the" Teaching Traffic Safety," will feature a demonstration on university's seven-phase driver and traffic safety program. Start Prairie du Chien Hospital PRAIRIE DU CHIEN -la Ground breaking ceremonies for a $1 million addition to the Prairie du Chien Memorial Hospital were held this afternoon with Mayor A. D. Lacke as Master of Ceremonies. Lacke is also president of the hospital's board of directors.

The ceremony also included the burning of a $175,000 mortgage on the original 41 bed hospital which was built in 1957 at $500,000 Damage, In Marling Fire JANESVILLE-A fire of undetermined origin destroyed the Marling Lumber Co. yard here early Wednesday, and three firemen were injured fighting the blaze. Burned around the face and arms when an underground natural gas line ruptured and ignited were William Carwardine, Winston Weber, and Arthur Stearns Weber, and Arthur were reported in satisfactory condition in a Janesville hospital and Carwardine was treated and released. Fire Captain John Rabiola, who was among the first firefighters at the scee when the alarm was sounded at 3:14 a.m., said, "It was just a great big ball of fire when we got there." He said six buildings strung out in block and a half long row between South River St. and the Rock River were destroyed with just one end of an end building still standing.

Early estimates placed the loss at $500,000. All but $100, of inventories of lumber and other building materials was destroyed. Deputy State Fire Marshall Francis Roberts and Fire Chief James Burhans were called in to investigate the blaze. Roberts said he was meeting with city electricians this morning to investigate the possibility of faulty wiring. He added that the office had been broken into, but the ture of the break-in indicated that someone had possibly spotted the fire and had broken into the office to try to use the phone to call the fire department.

Dr. Donald Graham Heads Whitewater Faculty Senate WHITEWATER Dr. Graham, member of the Whitewater State University faculty since 1955, was elected chairman of the WSU Faculty Senate at its first meeting of the 1971-72 academic year. A professor of history and representative of the College of Letters and Sciences, Dr. Graham has served on the Faculty Senate almost continuously since its organization.

Dr. Robert Ulrich, associate vice president of supportive services, was elected secretary. In other organizational action the group elected the following representatives to the executive board: Dr. Dennis Rohrs, College of The Arts; Richard Farrell, College of Business and Economics; Dr. Alfred Kolmos, College of Education; Peter Berry, College of Letters and Sciences; Dr.

A. G. McGraw, others; and Dr. Everett White and James Trier, at-large. Dr.

John Rabe was chosen an associate member to the Student Faculty Disciplinary Hear- Woman Falls On Spike SPARTA-A Sparta woman was seriously injured Wednesday afternoon when she fell onto a metal spike while working at the Deconmet Division of Northern Engraving. Injured was Linda Hettrick. She was working in the coating department on a machine that dispensed metal sheets after been coated. According to reports she slipped and fell backwards onto a metal rod protruding from the floor that was used to catch the sheets. Platteville Dairy Fest to Run 2 Days By LEILA JOHANNS PLATTEVILLE The Silver Jubilee celebration of the Platteville Dairy Day will be extended to two days, Saturday and Sunday, Sept.

18 and 19. Dairy Day is sponsored by the Platteville Chamber of Commerce. The annual parade with 17 bands competing along with a Kiddie Costume contest will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. Rides for the children, tractor pulls, and parachute jumps will be featured both days, along with food stands on the grounds sponsored by the 4-H Clubs and -31 State and Community News Page THE CAPITAL TIMES MADISON, Thursday, Sept. 16, 1971.

State Wants Bar On Prosecuting Dr. Kennan Lifted State officials have petitioned U. S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall to lift an injunction against prosecution of Dr. Alfred L.

Kennan entered by a three-judge panel in Milwaukee in July and to halt proceedings before that panel until the state can appeal the case to the Supreme Court. The state's petition, signed by Atty. Gen. Robert Warren, Asst. Atty.

Gen LeRoy Dalton, Asst. Atty. Gen. John E. Armstrong, and Asst.

Atty. Gen. Robert D. Armstrong, asks Marshall to set a hearing early enough for him to make a decision before a pretrial conference in the Kennan case is held by the threejudge panel. The three-judge federal panel plans to hold the pretrial conference in Milwaukee on Sept.

28. Dr. Kennan's attorney, Richard Cates, today called the petition a "dilatory tactic" on the part of the state. He said he has 10 days to reply to the petition. The State has ben prevented from prosecuting Dr.

Kennan WHITEWATER--The city of Whitewater will hold a public ceremony for the opening of the steel box taken from the cornerstone in the city hall building when the 72-year-old structure was leveled last month, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. The contents will be noted and the box resealed for storage in the city's vault. Board Fights for Right to Pick State Ag Chief "spoils system," and drew up a letter to legislators voicing opposition. The gubernatorial appointment plan is contained in a bill by Rep.

Harout Sanasarian (D- Milwaukee). It would also let the governor appoint secretaries who would head the Department of Natural Resources and the Department of Health and So- Committee, and Richard Bailey and Dr. Helen Knierim were elected alternates. Dr. Brunhilde Sommers was elected associate member to the Student Faculty Board of Review with Dr.

Robert Underhill as alternate. All replace members whose terms expired. In the only other business of the meeting, the Senate received and ratified recommendations of President William L. Carter for chairmanships of two committees. Dr.

Don Voeller was named chairman of the Student Faculty Disciplinary Committee and Dr. John Battram was named chairman of the Student Faculty Board of Review. BURLINGTON The State Board of Agriculture Wednes day indicated strong opposition to a bill which would permit the governor to name the secretary who heads the Department of Agriculture. Currently the board names the department secretary. Board members are named by the governor and confirmed by the Senate.

The Board termed the plan a At Whitewater cial Services. tive to professionals who The departmental boards to avoid political jeopardy in would become advisory panels their employment. instead of policy makers. He also told the board that efficient dairy farmers may proAg board chairman Roger duce themselves out of business Biddick, Livingston, said the ex- unless the public can be inisting senatorial confirmation spired to resume buying dairy system is a "unique and supe- products. rior system," Wilkinson said per capita conAgriculture Department Sec sumption of dairy goods is deretary Donald E.

Wilkinson said creasing while production is inthe existing method is creasing. "Heading Home" could well be the title of this picture. the shallow Rock River in Dodge County. (Edgar Mueller Alfred Nickel finds no problem in herding his cattle across photo) under the Wisconsin abortion law since U. S.

District Judge James E. Doyle issued a temporary restraining order on April 27. Judge Doyle, maintaining that the rights of Dr. Kennan and other defendants in his case might suffer "irreparable harm" if prosecution were allowed to continue, halted prosecution in the case until the federal panel could convene to consider the constitutionality of the law. Dr.

Kennan, a former University of Wisconsin gynecologist, has been performing abortions in defiance of the law at a West Side clinic since last February. His clinic was raided by Madison police on April 19. On Aug. 3, a member of the three-judge panel. Myron Gordon of Milwauke, turned down a request from the state to lift Judge Doyle's injuntion.

Gordon told the state that a decision to lift the injunction should be made by the full panel after hearing arguments. "Our statistician reports that 40 per cent of the national milk production increase in the last seven months has been in Wisconsin," he said. "We must help sell this milk." Dairy farm production is bucking artificial spreads and other substitutes on the grocery shelf which are heavily and effectively advertised. cost of $455,500. Bids on the addition ran 25 per cent over initial estimates but negotiations with low bidders lowered the bid totals to $1,013,000.

Federal funding for construction is expected to total $386,000. Included in the addition are 42 long-term care beds, a second x- ray room, a four-bed intensive care unit, two emergency rooms and administrative offices. the Platteville Volunteer men. Stage presentations will be highlighted by the crowning of the 1971 Dairy Day Queen, a band concert at noon both days, introduction of the new Platteville City Manager, Larry Hunt; and square dance exhibitions. A Dairy Show will be featured all day Saturday and Beef Show on Sunday.

The 4-H1 exhibits will occupy the Art Center at Legion Field on Saturday and the Art and Craft Show and Sale will take over the space on Sunday. Farmers were asked this summer to fight back with a program of donating two cents per 100 pounds of milk sales for a promotional fund. But the referendum lost. Sponsors of the campaign blamed famer apathy. "Farmers are saying: 'If the rest won't help, why should I put my money on the William McKerrow, a board member, said.

The Horse Show with 80 per cent payback will begin at p.m. Saturday with 15 classes. The popular tractor pulls will be presented on Saturday and the $840 purse on Sunday. Both include 5,000, 7,000, 9,000, and 12,000 lb. classes.

Also on Saturday will be the Lawn and Garden Tractor Pull with 900, 1200 and 1400 lb. classes with trophies and cash prizes for all. Featured Saturday evening will be competition of Scout Indian Dance Teams and Drum and Bugle Corps around the Boy Scouts Campfire. Wilkinson said increased production could cause a dangerous decline in prices if per capita demand isn't stimulated to keep pace with the supply. "I still say we dairy farmers are extremely apathetic about what happens to our milk after it leaves the farm," Wilkinson said.

"Modern farmers feel respon sible. But, as shown by the referendum, they are in the minority," he added. The board directed the department to get together with the chief sponsor of the referendum, the Dairy Promotion Committee of the Wisconsin Dairy Federation. The board asked that the meeting point the way toward methods of financially protecting the state's dairy industry..