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1 250 to 300 petitions per day on Simonson recall By ROSEMARY KENDRICK Of The Capital Times Staff Petitions to recall County Judge Archie Simonson continue to be picked up at the rate of 250 to 300 a day, according to Janet Heisse, chairman of the committee handling the recall effort. "The demand for them is steady," she said this morning. "We now have more than enough being circulated out in the community. The problem will be getting them back. That's the really hard work." Last Thursday, only a few days after the recall effort began, it was announced that approximately 7,000 signatures had been collected one third of those required for a special recall election.

Heisse said the totals will be tabulated and the results announced on a weekly basis from now on; the next figure will be released Thursday. One problem that has arisen, she said, is with illegible signatures. They have to be readable in order to be counted. If a signature is not clear, it is suggested that the signer print his or her name next to the signature, said Heisse. An anti-Simonson rally is being scheduled for Thursday from 5 to 7 p.m.

in front of the City-County Building. It will feature songs and speeches, rather than the picketing of Bettye Latimer, Madison's affirmative action officer, has publicly blasted Simonson for perpetuating the "all too common myth" that women bring rape upon themselves. "No matter what their color or creed, women should in no way be subjected to a criminal assault or have their bodies exploited to satisfy a perverted sexual need," said Latimer. She called upon Simonson to "apologize to all of us, including the youngster involved in his decision." In related developments, the City-County Rape Committee, at a special meeting at noon today, passed a motion requesting the district attorney and county corporation counsel to review the release of the transcripts or any other information on the case "to assure the protection of the victim and other individuals involved" prior to any such release. "Nobody is protecting the interests of the victim," said former Aid.

Carol Wuennenberg, who made the motion. Committee Chairwoman Anne DeWitt, a county super- -visor from Mt. Horeb, called Judge Simonson "derelict" for apparently not familiarizing himself with the state's new law on sexual assault, which defines rape as a crime of violence. The committee officially reaffirmed its "enthusiastic support" of the new law and asked the city and county to the two previous demonstrations against the judge. Simonson is taking a quickly-arranged vacation this week.

Meanwhile, his attorney, Richard Cates, is working on the legalities of and procedures for releasing transcripts from the rape case that led to the present furor. Simonson brought on the criticism by suggesting that a 15-year-old youth had "reacted normally" to a sexually permissive community and "provocative" women's clothing when he raped a girl in a West High School stairwell. The boy was sentenced to a year at home under court supervision. Cates said late last week he was "optimistic" that the transcripts can be made public "to permit the judge to have his story told in a factual, solid way." The attorney, a former member of the Watergate prosecution staff, said he was "working awfully hard" on the matter but did not know when the transcripts would be ready. He is involved in an out-of-town jury trial until Wednesday.

"You dont want the same thing to happen as with the Nixon tapes," he said. "Whatever is released must be authentic; we have to make sure the process carries with it the element of believability." nse "all means available to educate the public" on its provisions. Specifically, the news media were requested to do in-depth news analyses of the law. The Rape Committee, an official group created by the City Council and County Board, had not met for several months until today. As the committee was meeting, about 10 black "concerned citizens" met with the press on the steps of the City-County Building to protest the imminent release of the transcripts.

Eloise Addison, Madison, noted that juveniles "are supposed to be protected by the right of privacy." She said release of the juvenile records in the case violates that right. "We are continuing to prosecute these kids. We should leave the kids alone and not open it all up again," Addison said. "Women's issues are overshadowing the issue of racism in this community." The media have generally refrained from identifying the three youths involved in the West High rape case as black. The Capital Times made no mention of race until last Thursday in a story about Louis Cooper, the director of the South Madison Neighborhood Center who has worked with the 15-year-old youth.

TH2 CAPITAL TIMES MADISON, Monday, June 6, 1977 25 Percy advises regents to sell stocks linked to South Africa "race, religion, color, creed or sex." Several South African laws written since the late 1940s to further that country's policy of apartheid (racial separatism) do discriminate against native black and "colored" workers. La Follette said, and corporations iotng business in South Africa must adhere to those laws. Other state agencies invest extra funds through the Wisconsin State Investment Board, which is not limited by such an anti-discrimination clause. The UW's stock portfolio is handled instead by the Endowment Management Research Corporation of Boston. "It is conceivable that (any) Invest ment counsel may not be able or willing to manage the I'W System portfolio given the new constraint on its options," Percy advised the Regents.

"The board may find it neccessary to consider utilization of the Wisconsin State Investment Board in the future." The 19 corporations with South African holdings in which the UW holds stocks include Abbott Labs, Bucyrus Erie, Exxon, Ford, General Electric, General Foods, General Motors, Getty Oil, Goodyear, Ingersoll-Rand, IBM, Johns-Manville, Mobil, Pepsico, Phillips Petroleum, RCA, Union Carbide, U.S. Steel and Xerox. O'Konski could lose license for WAEO-TV Braver photo farm and damaged trees and a hay wagon. The storm hit this Sauk County area about 1 a.m. Sunday.

Smith, an insurance adjuster, had planned on selling the property but the storm may have wiped out the sale, with the barn gone. A violent storm, believed to have been a tornado, destroyed this barn and uprooted many trees at the Arthur Smith residence just south of Lake Delton early Sunday morning. Here, Smith and his son, Russell, survey the damage. The storm also touched down on a neighboring Of Storms give state needed rain but tornadoes cause severe damage By JOHN WELTER Of The Capital Times Staff UW Senior Vice President Donald Percy has become the second major state official to urge the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents to sell stocks now owned in corporations with holdings in South Africa. Wisconsin Attorney General Bronson La Follette said May 19 that the UW cannot legally buy new stock in firms that practice racial discrimination, and he "strongly urged" that stock already held be sold.

The biggest item on the agenda when the regents meet Thursday and Friday will be a discussion of the $8.9 million worth of such stock owned by the UW. According to the Corporate Information Center of the National Council of Churches, 19 of the 40 corporations in which the UW holds stock have South African operations. The UW has a total holding of more than $19-million. "It seems clear," Percy told the Regents in agenda materials this week, that the board should "direct its investment counsel to make no new investment proposals for firms with South African operations," and should value its holdings and "undertake divestiture (of those stocks) in a prudent manner." State law requires that "judgment and care be exercised" in such a sale, to avoid losing money by a "precipitous" sale, Percy said. The Regents will all meet Thursday afternoon to discuss the recommendations, then take final action Friday morning.

A clause in the UW merger law restricts the UW, alone of all state agencies, from investing in a corporation that discriminates on the basis of Man suspected of child porn pictures here Investigation of a Madison man possibly involved in the photographing of kiddie porn pictures is being conducted by Madison police and the Dane County district attorney. The man, who is facing charges of possession of lewd materials, was arrested Friday by police who found pornographic photo negatives taken of a 22-months-old girl he babysat recently. The lewd pictures were brought to the attention of police by a Madison photo processor. The photos were found by police on the sun visor of the car where the man had hidden them. Waukesha County, including Brook-field, where a severe storm had.

caused $2 million in damage on April 2. The first storm front early Sunday morning dropped .7 of an inch of rain at the Truax Field National Weather Service recording station, but rainfall was heavier in other parts of the city and county. The early Sunday morning storm also produced heavy thunder and continuous lightning, which knocked out electricity in several parts of the city. Lightning struck the Pheasant By MIKE MILLER Of The Capital Times Staff A. pair of thunderstorms rushed through southern Wisconsin Sunday, dumping much needed rain on drought-stricken lands but also producing tornadoes which leveled several buildings.

Although Madison suffered some power outages during the early morning storm, the damaging winds of the storm fronts generally caused less damage in the Madison area than elsewhere. Heaviest damage was reported in The Federal Communications Commission has warned former congressman Alvin E. O'Konski that his license to operate television station WAEO (Channel 12) at Rhinelander is in danger. The FCC says it has information before it that raises "serious questions as to whether the applicant possesses the qualifications to be or remain licensee of WAEO-TV." The Commission also said it was delaying action on a request by O'Konski to sell the station to Northwoods Television Inc. until it has determined whether the station has violated FCC rules.

Commenting on the charges, O'Konski said "the problem is that my TV station is in one of the smallest markets In the nation. Due to that, I have 22 employes doing the work of 75 which would be necessary on comparable stations." He said understaffing is aggravated because "every employe we hire is a beginner they have to be trained." Due to the inexperienced staff, O'Konski said, "We have made mistakes, and I am glad to have the FCC call them to our attention." The FCC, in a press release from Washington, said it will hold a hearing on: The facts and circumstances surrounding WAEO-TV's preparation and issuance of network station reports. Whether and, if so, the extent to which the station violated the FCC's fraudulent billing rule. Whether the management, officials or employees of the station made misrepresentations to or were lacking Branch substation on Century Avenue in Middleton, leaving several thousand Madison Gas and Electric customers without power in the Middleton, Shorewood Hills and west Madison areas at 1:35 a.m. Sunday.

Scattered outages also occurred on the city's east and north sides, mostly the result of trees downed on power lines. Some 800 MGE customers were without power later Sunday due to a cable failure at a substation near the Hill Farms State Office Building. That outage came at 6:10 p.m., and officials said the failure may have been triggered by the earlier storm. The Sunday morning storm caused extensive damage east of Madison, however. Officials in Dodge County said a tornado struck the farm of Larry Smith, four miles north of Waterloo, ripping off a porch, the end of a barn and other buildings.

A Dodge County Sheriff's Deputy reported spotting a funnel cloud three miles southwest of Juneau at about the same time as the tornado hit the Smith farm. Alvin E. O'Konski in candor with the FCC regarding the operation of WAEO-TV and the preparation and issuance of the network station reports. The station is an NBC affiliate. Whether and, if so, the extent to which WAEO-TV violated FCC rules regarding the maintenance and retention of accurate and complete program logs.

Whether granting the renewal application would serve the public interest. The FCC said it will determine whether to deny the application for renewal and determine whether O'Kon-ski's station repreatedly or willfully violated FCC rules and should be fined. Maximum fine for the charges is $10,000. O'Konski founded the station in 1966, while still a congressman. His 30-year political career ended in 1972 when his and David Obey's congressional districts were merged and Obey was elected to represent the new district.

Vets Board blocked again from meeting to name chief Women's conference votes pro-abortion, ERA temational Women's Year meeting in Houston, in November. They include: State Reps. Marjorie (Midge) Miller and Mary Lou Munts, Norma Briggs, Constance Threinen, Ellen Saunders, Barbara Ulichny, Joann Craft, Mary Dodge, Donna Jones, Bea Kabler and Diana Philbrick, all of Madison; Juanita Renteria, Susan Luecke, Edith Jones, Francis Oshkenaniew, Yolanda Ayubi, Peggy Ken-ner and Vel Phillips, all of Milwaukee; Mary Turnquist, Wausau; Mandy Stellman, Glendale; Dolores Green, McFarland; Sarah Harder, Eau Claire; Florence Dickinson, Sturgeon Bay; Rose Mary Mueller, Marshfield; Ethel Him-mel, LaCrosse, Nancy Schooff, Belit, Joann Dramm, Manitowoc; and Marcia Schwartz, Meanwhile, earlier Sunday, feminist Caroline Bird told the conference that although the status of women "has improved," all it means is "a female Einstein can be an assistant professor" in the mathematics department of a prestigious university. Bird, author of Born Female and other books, said more women have been forced into the job market by the recent economic crunch, only to find themselves competing with other women for low-paying jobs. Women are last to be hired and the first to be fired, she said, because of discrimination and a general lack of job training.

Dane County Circuit Judge P. Charles Jones, was on a suit challenging the board membership of Thomas Kra-jewski of Madison. Jones has set a hearing for Monday, June 13, on whether that injunction will be made permanent, pending a hearing on, the Krajewski challenge. Both Goodwin and Krajewski had resigned from the board. But Attorney General Bronson La Follette, in an opinion issued last week, said neither resignation is effective until succes- sors are confirmed by the State Senate.

Krajewski was one of four members-of the seven-member board who signed the call for last Friday's board meeting. When Jones refused to lift the temporary injunction Saturday, blocking a rescheduled Saturday meeting after the temporary restraining order was issued Friday, Goodwin replaced Krajewski in signing a new call for a board meeting this evening. The board moved to name a new department chief after firing the former department secretary, John Moses, last month. That action drew a wave of criticism from Moses supporters and appointment of a special legisa-tive committee to investigate the firing. Among plaintiffs petitioning for the temporary restraining order today was State Sen.

Monroe Swan (D-Mil-waukee), co-chairman of the legislative investigation committee. Also signing today's petition were Albert Hanna of Milwaukee, Victor Hinze Jr. of Mlwaukee, Henry Renard of West Bend, and Universal Mortgage Corporation of Wisconsin, a Milwaukee lending institution. All were plantiffs on the petition for last Friday's order. By OWEN COYLE Of The Capital Times Staff The State Veterans Affairs Board was blocked again today in its attempt to hold a board meeting and name a new secretary for the State Veterans Affairs Department.

Dane County Circuit Judge William Sachtjen issued a temporary restraining order this morning, preventing the board from holding the meeting which had been set for this evening. Today's order was issued on a suit challenging the board membership of Thomas Goodwin of Racine. Sachtjen has scheduled a hearing for Friday on whether that injunction will be made permanent until the suit on Goodwin's board membership goes to trial. Another restraining order was filed against the board last Friday on a board meeting which had been set for Friday evening. That order, issued by Park Street repaying starts Park Street, between University Avenue and the Memorial Union, will be blocked except for one lane beginning today as repaving of the street gets underway.

Campus and State Street shuttle bus routes will not be affected, but motorists are advised to use other routes through the area. Besides the street resurfacing, the project includes widening of sidewalks and stairways, installation of ramps for the handicapped, and the rebuilding of the retaining wall at the foot of Bascomb Hill. General contractor for the joint City-University project is Orville E. Madsen and Son Inc. Expected floor fights over abortion and the Equal Rights Amendment failed to materialize here Sunday as the Wisconsin International Women's Year meeting approved resolutions on both subjects with little debate.

The conference approved resolutions supporting ratification of the ERA and the U.S. Supreme Court's decision allowing abortions. The pro-abortion resolution had been defeated in a workshop Saturday, and predictions were tha an all-out fight on the issue would be waged Sunday' when the issue cafhe to the floor of the conference attended by some 1,500 persons. The resolution, however, passed easily. Related resolutions calling for "all methods of family planning" to be made available to women who couldn't afford private medical facilities and opposing any attempts to interfere with a woman's right to control her reproduction" also passed.

The conference also went on record as favoring temporary disability payments for pregnant women and urged employers to "permit new parents of either sex to take reasonable leaves of absence for child-rearing purposes." A resolution saying the sex or sexual preference of parents should be irrelevant in deciding who gets custody of children in divorce cases was also passed. The conference elected 28 delegates to the In-i 4 Local IWY activities planned role in women's rights, City Director of Administration Andre Blum on the city's management grid program, and Walter Hunter of the Department of Administration on career ladders within city government. The Women's Issues Committee of the city's Affirmative Action Office is sponsoring a week of activities, starting today, to commemorate International Women's YeaTj inform women of their rights, and honor outstanding local contributors to the women's movement-Activities were scheduled to open with a noon ceremony featuring remarks by Mayor Paul Soglin and unveiling of displays in the City-County Building. Other planned events scheduled at the City-County Building: Tuesday, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m..

Room GR-27, open forum featuring Soglin on the ERA, City Council President Betty Smith on the legislator's Wednesday, noon to 1 p.m., GR-27, Michael Starr on "Contemporary Masculinity." Thursday, noon to 1 p.m., GR-27, credit counseling and employment counseling. Friday, noon to 1 p.m., lobby of City-County Building, awards ceremony. The week's theme is "For Want of a Little.