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a Kwr-vy-yyyyyywviyryvwTyyoy ryyrV yyyoyww vyyionnnrioryyywvTvyyf iryv r-y Basketball Marathon For Kiddies A group of LaFollette High School boys are planning to seek a world basketball record and donations to The Capital Times Kiddie Camp fund. The group has asked the Madison Board of Education to give it permission to stage a 300-hour basketball mara thon on LaFollette's outdoor courts. Dean Anderson, who wall be a LaFollette sophomore, said 70 to 80 boys have agreed to participate in the marathon. The boys will play for three-hour stretches, under current planning. The 12-day marathon would go around the clock.

Spectators would be asked to put contributions to the Kiddie Camp in barrels adjacent to the court, according to Anderson. Even rain wont stop the try for the world record, Anderson said. Lightning could force the boys to seek permis sion to use adjacent facilities' undercover, he indicated. If the school board approves" the use of the courts, Ander-, son said the boys hope to start the marathon on July 19. In a i i to Anderson', those helping organize the project are Andy Abplanalp.

-Thomas Strakeljahn, and Rick Stalheim. CAPITAL TIM MADISON, Thursday, July Ji, 1971 -25 Sachtjen Rules in Firing Dispute EmployeCantCriticize Boss, Even After Work said she had been discharged. The DILHS and the insurance firm contested awarding unemployment compensation. This court is of the opinion that the employes insubordinate remarks to her immediate superior outside of working hours which precipitated her discharge amounted to misconduct connected with her employ- of speech after working hours when the language is critical of his superiors. To hold otherwise would result inacomplete breakdown in the employer-employe relationship.

The Capital Times queried Judge Sachtjens secretary as to whether she agreed with the decision and she replied: No comment. ment, Sachtjen wrote in his decision. It is difficult to depict a more flagrant case of insubordination toward a supervisor than that which occurred in the instant case. To be called stupid by a subordinate in a public place is a demeaning insult justifying discharge and is clearly misconduct. An employe has no license to exercise any freedom Being Built Near The spirits of the owner of this powerboat no doubt were dampened today when he discovered that his craft had been swamped by the early morning rainstorm which hit Madison.

A Capital Times photographer spotted the boat tied up at a pier on Lake Monona near Lakeland and Miller Aves. early this morning. (Staff Photo by Robb Johnson) Re-Open Hearings On Electric Plant Taxpayers Are Neck-Deep In Legislative Payrolls Portage PSC to re-open hearings on the project, charged that the three companies had begun to build the plant before they had obtained approval from the Department of Natural Resources for their solid waste disposal and air pollution control plans, and for several waterway modifications. Hearings on the waterway permit applications were held last month, but a decision from the DNR is not ex pected until late this summer. Warren also contended the power companies had made the Senate Organizational Com' mittee to hire' one administrative aid apiece in addition to the secretaries they are already allowed.

The Senate Republicans began hiring early in the spring, building their staffs up to 15 administrative assistants and caucus functionaries, but the Democrats are fast catching up this summer, adding in the last few weeks, two more people to their previously small caucus staff of three; and five new individual administrative aides. By CHARLOTTE ROBINSON (Of The Capital Times Staff) Tourists wandering through the marble halls of the State Capitol may have to elbow their way through teeming crowds of legislative aides, secretaries and pages. At least that is the prospect suggested by a recent surge in the number of staff members employed by the two legislative houses occupying the building. The worst offenders in this regard are the senators who were this year given permission by By WHITNEY GOULD (Of The Capital Times Staff) The state Public Service Commission has agreed to take a second look at the controversial power plant under construction south of Portage. The PSC announced Wednesday it would re-open hearings on the project on Aug.

16 at 9 a.m. in Room 404 of the Hill Farms State Office Building. The action came on a request by Atty. Gen. Robert Warren, who charged that the three utilities building the plant were proceeding before they had secured all of the necessary state and federal permits.

Wisconsin Power and Light, Madison Gas and Electric and Wisconsin Public Service partners in the $131 million project, hopes to complete it by early 1975. tf. it The PSC in May of 1970 gave the utilities permission to build the plant, which has since come under fierce attack by environmentalists. Warren, in petitioning the Assembly Approves Taxon Mutual Insurance Firms Lutheran Church Plans New School changes in design of the project without the necessary approval of the PSC, and were proceeding without waterway permits which may be required from the Army Corps of Engineers. He feared that the utilities, in moving ahead with construction without the permits, were seeking to confront the regulatory agencies with a massive fait accompli in order to offset state and federal laws.

The PSC said it was prepared to continue the hearing into Aug. 17 and 18, if necessary. mated the measure would produce $6 million in revenue lor the state in two years. The measure had been included in Gov. Luceys proposed budget, but because of the confusion over what that will and will not be in the final budget it was acted on separately.

The bill passed on a vole of 68 to 26, and now goes to the Senate. den her feminine structure Mrs. Moersfelder laughed. "Im pretty hardy underneath. she smiled.

In view of the circumstances, the male members of Conrads staff were queried as to their willingness to help their new assistant heft the legal volumes. As before, all declined any comment on the newest staff; addition. Robert Knowles, New Richmond; James Devitt, Greenfield; Reuben LaFave, Oconto; and Raymond C. Heinzen, Marshfield. Republican senators who have part-time assistants are: Milo Knutson, LaCrosse; Jack Steinhilber, Oshkosh; Roger Murphy, Waukesha; Walter Chilsen, Wausau; Nile Soik, Whitefish Bay; Raymond Johnson, Eau Claire, and Myron Lotto, Green Bay.

In the Assembly, only the five leaders are allowed individual administrative assistants probably because it would be impossible to find space for 100 aides if all were allowed them. Each party in the Assembly has a central caucus staff, the Republican with four staff, the Democrats with six. The cost to the taxpayers for the 15 Assembly staff members is $117,800 per year. Assembly leaders with individual aides include Speaker Robert Huber, West Allis; Majority Leader Norman Ander son, Madison; Minority Leader Harold Froehlich, Appleton: and assistant minority leader John Shabaz, New Berlin; Assistant Majaority Leader Joseph Sweda, Lublin and Speaker pro tern Herbert Grover, Shawano, share an aide. There are 72 Assembly and Senate pages employed.

As one senator put it, The Legislature has pages like summer has flies. The cost to the state for the 43 Assembly pages totals $220,464 per year. For the 29 Senate pages the yearly cost is $86,820. There are 85 secretaries, 33 in the Senate and 52 in the Assembly. Each senator has his own secretary.

Assemblymen share secretaries. Democratic salaries including the recent additions, come to $75,300 annually, the Republican payroll totals $109,200. All salaries come out of the taxpayers pockets. Twelve of the 20 Republicans have been assigned administrative assistants some of them on a part-time basis. Five of the 13 Democratic senators have aides.

The other personnel are assigned to the partys central staffs. The staff build-up began earlier this year when the Senate Organizational Committee decided that all committee chairmen all Republicans would have administrative aides to help them with committee work. Before long, other senators yere clamoring for the extra help, claiming that their work loads were just as heavy. All we need now, is for the administrative assistants start asking for secretaries, said one senator. "Where will it all end? The party staffs have been in existence for a 1 years.

They study bills, do legislative research, help develop party strategy, and handle public relations. The individual aides assignments depend upon the wishes of their employers and include answering mail, studying bills, writing speeches and handling constituents problems. The following Democratic senators have full-time administrative assistants: Curt Frank, Mark Lipscomb, Ronald Parys all of Milwaukee; Carl Thompson, Stoughton; and Dale McKenna, Jefferson. Republican senators who have full-time assistants are: Majority Leader Ernest C. Keppler, Sheboygan; president pro-tem By IRVIN KREISMAN (Of The Capital Times Staff) An employe has no license to exercise any freedom of speech after working hours when the language is critical of his superiors, Dane County Circuit Judge William C.

Sachtjen held today. To hold otherwise would result in a complete breakdown in the employer-employe relationship, said Sachtjen in a written decision denying unemployment compensation benefits to a woman discharged for calling her boss stupid and pushing him at a cocktail lounge after working hours. The woman had appealed the decision of the State Department of Industry, Labor and Human Relations that she was not eligible for benefits because of misconduct. The woman appealed on the grounds her actions took place outside office hours. According to the facts cited in the decision, the woman, a secretary for the New Hampshire Insurance Co.

went to the cocktail lounge after work. There she met her boss whom she pushed and called stupid. That night she received a telephone call from him in which he Wife Seeks Divorce front Woodington A petition for a divorce against Neil Woodington, 44, former Madison attorney and businessman, was filed today in Dane County Circuit Court by his wife, the former Betty J. Nedlose, 36. In the complaint Mrs.

Woodington is described as a secretary residing at Route 4, West Clayton Madison, and her husband as a promoter now residing in Minneapolis and capable of earning $2,000 month. The couple, married in Miami April 8, 1963, have one daughter, aged seven. The case was assigned to Judge Michael B. Torphy, Jr. Grant to MATC Aids Renovation The federal Office of Education at Washington, D.C., has awarded a grant of to the a i Area Technical College for renovation of the college building for multi-purpose classroom use, U.S.

Sen Gaylord Nelson (D-Wis.) announced today. ris petition of objection on which he was the sole signer. Five property owners, consisting of a majority of those whose land adjoin the park site, signed a petition favoring location of the synagogue in the park. Meanwhile at 214 W. Washington where the synagogue is situated, workmen from the Belding Engineering Inc.

North Chicago, have elevated the structure about 18 inches preparatory to setting it on three dollies with 96 aircraft wheels, to be used in the mov ing operation. The deadline for removal of the building1 has been set for July 10. Belding officials had initially planned to have the sym agogue moved today. However, technical difficulties in jacking operations have delayed the removal. Belding representatives said they will move the building from the West Washington Avc nue site Saturday.

The State Assembly today passed a bill that would impose a premium tax on mutual fire and casualty insurance companies. The 2 per cent tax on premiums collected by the mutual companies would put them on an equal tax footing with stock insurance companies. Rep. Edward Nager (D-Madi-son), sponsor of the bill, esti study, her husband, Edward, is spending the summer painting, because theres more money in it, she said.) She welcomes her introduction to law practice in Conrads office, she Said, because, Im really learning whats its like out in the hard cruel world. Asked if the weight of heavy legal tones wouldnt unduly bur Conrads Office Has a New Look and Its a 'First Snarl Gates of Heaven Move Holy Cross Lutheran Church will open its own elementary school Aug.

30, the Rev. George M. 0 i said The church is at 2670 Milwaukee St. The kindergarten-through-fourth-grade program expects to enroll 50 children. Classes will be held in the new educational wing of the East Side church, according to Mr.

Orvick. The church decided to open its own school when the East Side Lutheran School was unable to take more of Holy Cross pupils, according to Mr. Orvick. He noted that Holy Cross, an Evangelical Lutheran Synod church, has been active in private education since 1927, participating in the Madison Lutheran School for more than two decades and in the East Side Lutheran School since it opened several years ago. Their (East Side) school is full now.

We couln't send any Harman A temporary halt in excavation for the new site of the Gates of Heaven Synagogue was apparently engineered this morning by former Second Ward Aid. Gordon Harman. Several high city officials confirmed to The Capital Times today that Speedway Sand and Gravel Co. had interrupted digging begun Wednesday after receiving a call from Harman, recently appointed to the Parks Commission by Mayor William i Dyke. Harman had advised Speed-' way of the unanimous Parks Commission decision Wednes- day night cancelling previous informal approval of the loca-; tion at the corner of Gorham and Butler Streets, city officials said.

Since all Speedway work is i being donated to the project, the firm suspended work on the synagogues new foundation. By contract, the foundation must be ready Saturday when the itructure is slated to be moved more of our children, he said in explaining the churchs decision to operate its own school. Silas Born, who was principal of St. Johns Lutheran School in Sparta for 12 years, will head the new school and will teach third and fourth grade, according to Mr. Orvick.

Other teachers will be Mrs. James Bosse for kindergarten and Mrs. Howard Hougan for first and second grades, he said. No tuition is being charged families in the Holy Cross congregation. Tuition for others will be $250 per pupil per year, according to Mr.

Orvick. Theres quite a bit of interest in private education, he said in a Capital Times inter view, in order to educate the whole child. Many parents feel there is a need to deal with the spiritual welfare of their children, he added. Moves to to its new location. Discovery of the excavation halt resulted in a series of emergency meetings this morning involving City Atty.

Edwin Conrad, Housing and Community Development Director Sol Levin, Director of Public Works Edwin Duszynski, Building Inspection Supt. Robert Friess, Asst. City Atty. Henry Gempler, and 11th Ward Aid. John Healy, who is also a member of the parks commission.

Levin said the parks boards rescinding the site approval would have no effect, in his opinion, on the citys application for federal aid in the project, but might jeopardize the citys interest in the contract for moving the building. City officials asked Speedway to resume digging pfter Conrad said that a May City Council resolution authorizing the Gorham Street site would override any parks opinion, since the By TOM FOLEY (Of The Capital Times Stall) For the first time in anyones memory, the rustle of a skirt is disturbing normally hushed inner sanctums of City Atty. Edwin Conrads office. Mrs. Karel Moersfelder, 22, a second year University of Wisconsin law student, has joined Conrads staff for the summer.

But though shes the first female ever to enliven Conrads hitherto all-male chauvenist, staff, her presence has caused nary a ripple among the. citys wave makers of the law. And maybe thats because she seems dead serious about her chosen profession, and willing to attack it with the extra dedication perhaps required of a female aspirant for membership in what used to be a strictly masculine profession. Women lawyers are, of course, no longer uncommon. Their numbers are growing, as witness Mrs.

Moersfelder recent prediction that more than 10 per cent of the freshman law school class next year will be distaff. For herself, she admits coming to the study of law by the back door even though its probably the result of a resolution I made 16 years ago which stuck. The diminutive distaff coun-scl-to-be graduated from the UW here with a B.S. in English and speech entitling her to teach those subjects at the secondary level. But she didn't.

Instead she joined her husband, a former high school instructor, in enrolling in law. (In the same year of The removal of the synagogue to the site conclude a drive begun by the Gates of Heaven Foundation to raise funds to save the building from destruction. Several weeks ago the City Council adjourned on the motion of 19th Ward Alderman George Forster before the council could complete an agenda which approval of the new site in the ark could be given by the aldermen. The site was approved by the Council at a special meeting called several days later. Forster in remarks concerning the synagogue 1 referred to the historic building as a pile of junk.

Last Friday, Atty. Don H. Morris in a last ditch effort sought to have the Zoning Board of Appeals block the new synagogue site, claiming that placing the building there would result in an eyesore. The board took notice of Mor Gordon Harman boards decision was only advisory to the council, and not binding on it. A one day postponement in the move, from its previously scheduled Friday date to Saturday, was expected to allow adequate time for site preparation.

Harmans action today was the latest of a number of moves made to obstruct the removal of the 108-ycar-old landmark house of worship to the James Madison Park site. Mrs. Karel Moersfelder is the first feminine member of his staff that City Atty. Edwin Conrad can recall since the 1930s. Although her presence may be disturbing, none of the lawyers in Conrads previously all-nvilc office will admit it.

In fact, they wont even talk about it. (Staff photo by Carmie Thompson) iV ii "i -c. 4ri i-1.