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SI Ml Editorial board Stan Schmidt Managing editor Julie Foegen Assistant news editor Lee Dean Jim Galewski News editor Chief photographer Bill Evenson Tim O'Brien Copy editor. Copy editor Signed editorials are solely the opinion of their authors. Us, i u3n Hirwy (rsraimsft lbs ctunrSaSlsdl Today's cdltcrcl Fire voSyiriiteairs cap do the ob From my point of view would find in full-time departments. Naturally, they don't train every day as a paid department can, but I believe Lindner would be much more at ease about volunteers if he looked further into the operation of any of the all-volunteer departments within twenty or thirty miles of Winona. They provide very good fire protection.

I doubt that Winona's level of fire protection would suffer a fatal blow if they went to a department made up of full-time firefighters, aided and abetted by volunteers. OWEN NELSON, Cochrane, Wis. The School District 861 board will discuss two nagging problems at its meeting tonight. The first is the budget shortfall, the second is maverick board direc-tor-at-large Evan Henry, who may receive his third censure in four months. In his defense, Henry says his concern is for due process.

That's a good priority, but it cannot be Henry's only one and it can't be selectively applied. Henry has earned the censures for violating board policy, first for interrupting an in-session high school class last September, then for interf erring in a teacher termination case in January and In the second instance, Superintendent Ron Mclntire acting for the district hired an impartial hearing officer and set two days of hearings for the teacher. Henry, citing statute law, claimed the full board only has the right to hear, judge and set such cases. The district cites case law in calling for the hearings and for the board to vote yea or nay based on the report. In this instance, case law, which acts as an evolution of statute law, clearly supports the administration.

And common school board practice designates many powers to the superintendent, including arranging for these sorts of hearings. In other words, the board followed due process. Henry's second censure resolution, passed Feb. 19, warned him not to contact the teacher or her attorney. But Henry didn't get the message.

He contacted the teacher in two letters dated Feb. 21 and 23, asking her to pass along questions and concerns about the case to her attorney. Henry's due process mindset hasn't stopped there. He sent a letter dated March 1 to the other board members asking that action on tonight's budget resolutions be tabled "pending implementation of the administration of more appropriate budgeting, accounting and reporting." Henry added that he' has been delayed from considering the budget problems "due to having been occupied with defending against the Board's 6-1 censure of me." This latest outburst demonstrates the flaw of preoccupation with due process failure to see the forest for the trees. Maybe it is because Henry was a certified public accountant, a process-oriented profession.

CPAs know that procedures are everything. If they are done right, the bottom line works out. But CPA thinking doesn't apply to all things, including how to approach education and building col-legiality with board members as an education-providing team. Henry's shenanigans have taken valuable time away from the board and the administration and have marred his record on the board. To restore his effectivenes, Henry needs to make suggestions, not hurl verbal bombs; work to change established policies, not defy them; and make his expressed top priority the education of children, not the advocacy of a quirky, personal view of due process.

The meeting is open to the public. It begins at 7 p.m. in the lower level of the Winona Senior High School library. Lee Dean, news editor. News analysis while the Federal Home Loan Bank Board was conducting its examination of Heating's now-failed Lincoln Savings and Loan of Irvine, Calif.

After long hearings and closed-door debate, the Ethics Committee issued a report Wednesday that said it found "substantial credible evidence" that Sen. Alan Cranston, committed major ethical violations. The panel thereby set the state for possible censure of Cranston, who recently underwent therapy for prostate cancer and already has announced he won't run again in 1992. The other four senators Dennis De-Concini, John McCain, John Glenn, D-Ohio, and Donald Riegle, D-Mich. escaped with little more than a slap or a tap on the wrist.

DeConcini and Riegle "gave the impression of being improper" in their dealings with bank regulators, said the Ethics panel. Glenn and McCain were chided for "poor judgment," but nothing more. Common Cause, the public interest lobbying group that filed the original complaints against the senators with the Ethics Committee, denounced its action as "a cop-out and a damning indictment of the committee." In his letter of Feb. 15, 1991, Robert Lindner Sr. says there would be threat of inadequate fire protection of homes and businesses if a volunteer program was started." I'd like to point out to Lindner and others that full-time, paid fire depart ments are the exception rather than the rule in this area.

Outside Winona, La Crosse, and Rochester, most of the area's fire protection is provided by volunteers. These volunteer departments provide very good protection. An indica-. tion of just how good that protection is Letters to the editor Saddam Hussein had to be stopped I wish to respond to a recent letter in this space written by Steven J. Sanfi-lippo of Alma, Wis'.

Sanfilippo pulled two of my words Armageddon) out of context and then, by indirection, went on to compare me to a "crazy man named Hussein" (which is utterly ridiculous) and then to "our president" (also utterly ridiculous though not defamatory like the first comparison). Mr. Sanfilippo, I am no more like Hussein than you to Hercules (to paraphrase a famous quote). In my letter, I opposed a massive ground attack at the time of the writing and suggested that the Coalition Forces increase the frequency of "air and missile strikes" to reduce those (Soddam's) military targets to rubble. Make it an "Allied Air Armegeddon." I made it abundantly clear that I was referring to military targets only, not civilian targets.

I am opposed to war per se even though I served in the U.S. Navy for four years during one. I am not at all sure there is such a thing as a "just war." You may well argue that all wars are "unjust" simply because so many people are killed in the prosecution of them. But I feel there is such a thing as a "necessary" war. The comparison between Sod dam Hussein and Adolph Hitler is a valid despite the fact that the time and the locale are very different.

Like Hitler, Saddam is both a madman and a megalomaniac interested in two things only, i.e., complete and unadulterated power and in endless conquest. The two obsessions go together hand in glove. Hitler almost achieved his goals before his war machine was smashed by an enormous coalition of allied armed forces, but not until hundreds of thousands of lives were lost on both sides. Saddam, had he not been contained, was in the process of pursuing the exact same goals, power and conquest and yes, repression, too. Saddam is surely no better than Hitler possibly even worse but on a much smaller scale.

He's surely not as adept at conquest as Hitler was but just as good at "man's inhumanity to man," including murder, torture, mutilation, and ecological destruction on a major scale. The point is that if Saddam had not been stopped now by somebody, he PONT STRAIN YOUR-SUF! HA, HA i I'M TRIP TR1PLSR, youzsueGeoN OPERAVON kite Will ethics report spies' end to money chase? can be gotten by comparing fire insurance rates in Winona to those in rural areas. The minor differences in rates indicate a minor difference in the level of protection. "Volunteer" should never be interpreted to mean "untrained" or "ineffective." In reality, volunteers train and practice on a regular basis, using equipment, drills and skills much like the ones you would necessarily have to be stopped later on but with a much greater loss of lives, again on both sides. No, Mr.

Sanfilippo, I'm not a war monger far from it and for good reason. As I said, I was in the service during World War II and many of my friends were killed in that war, including my college roommate. I still remember him, and them, brave young men who gave up their lives so that this nation might remain free. Rod Hurd, 703 Main Winona Upset over actions of peace protesters I got up on Thursday morning with a tremendous feeling of satisfaction for. what our courageous troups accomplished in defeating a half million Saddam Hussein's troops in just 100 hours.

My elation was changed to anger when I read your morning paper. For the past two days we have viewed pictures of our Voice of A-Peace-Ment (sunshine patriots) telling us how wrong our "Blood for Oil" conflict was, that was the easy way for them to express it. I see it as an effort to eliminate chemical, biological, and neutron bomb blackmail as well as contempt for rape, tourture, slaughter crimes against humanity and naked agression. Your cartoon showing the "New World Odor" currently mounted on the WTiite House was worthy of a retraction. The only oder I could detect was from your editorial page.

Lou Smader, 779 Bluff view Circle, Winona Peace protesters get too much publicity To the editor: The Daily News must be hard pressed for stories when they must feature a small group of peace protesters along with pictures on the front page when at the same time triple their number of Americans were killed and injured by a scud missile and rated only a single paragraph within another news article. It's ironic how these peace people cry foul when they claim people shout profanities toward them but see no harm in slandering the families of military personnel and accusing their loved ones of killing women and children by staging a mock funeral. A while back they were protesting the unequal percentage of blacks being sent into the front lines. Now that the TH3VCAUMB vxjsav rXfRBTHB MORALS HAWKEYZ 'CAUSeOFIM IM LP QUIPS OFFIC3R II 'HAWKEYS'! campaign is almost assured of success at this writing, will they give those blacks the credit for a quick settlement but will they also accuse them of killing their share of women and children? I'm sure it will be called Bush's War and all his fault. But they must also accuse General Powell of the same for this master minding of this military campaign.

Maybe they can get around that by calling the General and the other blacks "Bush's and the white man's After the dust is settled, will these professional protesters keep working for peace in different and behind the scene areas or will they go back into their shell and wait for the next major headline news making event. Dick Mod jeski, 676 E. King, Winona Praises Bush for end to war Dear President Bush, Once again this world finds the winds of simplicity sweeping the world's face to mold its fate for many years to come. The simplicity of courage, strength and compassion portrayed by Jesus Christ so many years ago is finding its way to a battlefield of justice to show the world once again what it takes to shape the world into a peaceful and loving place. These unique and special human traits are simple indeed and often taken for granted.

Unfortunately all too often the price paid to show compassion is staggering. Many lives are taken. I refer to our courageous grandfathers and fathers who fought and died for us in previous wars. Their lives are the foundation on which this country stands and to ignore tyranny throughout the world would be doing injustice to their great sacrifices of giving up their lives for a better world. Mr.

Bush, I salute you and our troops over in the Middle East for rekindling the fire in my heart and in the hearts of many Americans on what it truly means to be an American and for showing the world that God and justice will prevail. Please show compassion for the people of Iraq for I don't believe they should be judged on the actions of one individual or group of people. John B. OrzechowskL Box 106, Route 1, Minnesota City. Addresses Tommy G.

Thompson Governor Room 115 East State Capitol Madison, WI 53702 (608) 266-1212 Scott McCallum Lioutenant Governor State Capitol Madison, WI 53702 (608) 266-1880 i By Donald M. Rothberg AP political writer WASHINGTON Its immediate focus was upon the Keating Five, but the Senate Ethics Committee took at least passing aim at a broader problem: the political money chase that also puts pressure on the Other 95. The savings and loan scandal has effectively ended the career of one senator, and tarnished those of four others. It also has spurred calls for the broadest campaign finance reforms since Watergate. "The old way of doing business is no longer acceptable," said Tom Mann, director of the governmental studies program at Brookings Institution.

And the old way, for most incumbents, involves an unrelenting quest for money to finance re-election campaigns that cost millions. It comes down to this: a Senate term is about 2,190 days in length. For their 1990 campaigns, 17 senators raised more than $2.2 million. That averages out to raising money at a rate of more than $1,000 a day for six years. It was in that atmosphere that operator Charles H.

Keating Jr. used political contributions to develop ties to the senators who became known as the Keating Five. Keating and his associates donated $1.3 million to the campaigns and political causes of the five senators, most of it Thoughts I I mis Me your A HU MONGOLS MIGHT EvweeABie torbturn to lOUR UNIT AT THB FRONT HI, HO, SPORT! MORALS OFflCSR HERB ON (tt i i Wherever anyone is against his will that is to him a prison. Epictetus, Greek Stoic philosopher living in Rome (c. 50-120 AD.) There is nothing, nowhere, neither on earth nor heav-' ens, that can make the true untrue or the untrue true.

Bar-tolomeo VanzetU, Italian-American Fish peddler, anarchist (1888-executed 1927).