Waukesha Daily Freeman from Waukesha, Wisconsin • Page 6

1Automatic Expense Allowance May Come Under Fire By BARBARA DEWEY Freeman Staff CHOULD Waukesha dermen pocket a $25 expense allowance every month? If so, how should they claim it? For several years, 15 aldermen have debated the legality and ethics of the expense allowance. Two years ago they decided the allowance was legal and claimable through an itemized voucher. Now it appears the struggle has accomplished nothing. Last week, one alderman called the itemized statements sham of The alderman who preferred his name not be used, says he file for complete abolition of the expense City comptroller Erwin Siegrist says expense claims are exactly what you would call Siegrist cited as an exampie the voucher of a former alderman who claimed the full amount every month for velling 250 miles at 10 cents a mile. There was no account of where the alderman had gone or what he had gone for.

Another voucher claiming the fully amount simply said, and special Still another said and about the and another, expenses for months of March was improved with says the alderman who wants to abolish the allowance. He referred to the authorization two years ago to go from a flat allowance to the itemized voucher. Under the flat allowance only a sworn statement was required to claim the allowance. When itemization was being considered, the council asked for a legal opinion from then City Atty. George E.

Lawler who said: action in requiring itemized statements of expense Mfe t. -r MR A (Associated Press Photo) Cash Doesn't Go Far One of three men who held up the First State Bank of a sack of money token from the tellers' cages. This pic- Lansing, runs from the tear-gas-filled bank os ture was taken by Corbett Fowler of the Leavenworth police officers at left keep him covered. At his feet is Times. Surprising' New Evidence Of Mercury Found in River By ARTHUR L.

SRB ADISON (AP) Restricted consumption of fish taken from the 350- mile-long Wisconsin River was recommended Wednesday because of new evidence of mercury pollution. The warning came eight weeks after a 35-mile section i of the river was closed to fishing because of mercury pollution by the Wyandotte Chemical Corp. at its Port Edwards plant. State officials said tests with new equipment turned up evidence of new mercury pollution, some of it far removed from likely industrial pollution sites. Les Voigt, secretary of the Department of Natural Resources announced at a news conference officials recommended a limitation on Wisconsin River fish to one meal per week as a precautionary measure.

Recent tests conducted with the new equipment, Voigt said, turned up mercury levels in fish ranging from .1 of a part per million to 3 parts per million, which is high to constitute a potential public health hazard if eaten Voigt stressed the river was still safe for swimming, wading, water skiing and other water Oliver Williams, acting as- OIL BASE HOUSE PAINT Reg. $8.65 Gal. Far a limited time. White only sistant administrator to the Division of Environmental Protection, said testing of the Wisconsin, Mississippi and Fox Rivers, as well as Lake Michigan and other waters, has been going on since the mercury pollution discovery at Port Edwards. The Wisconsin River generally recorded the highest concentrations of mercury.

Williams said one of the revealed by the tests involved 20 fish taken from Boom Lake, a flowage created by a dam at Rhinelander. is, to the best of our knowledge, no source of industrial or municipal effluent discharge to this body of Williams said. the fish sampled ranged from .1 to .5 parts per million- levels until we have proof to the contrary, we must assume are natural background accumulations. Williams said fish taken from the mouth of the Fox River at Green Bay were generally within the FDA toler- ace level, we have ed that area for additional noted that sampling of sediment taken from the river revealed .1 parts per million, which was the same reading as from a sediment sample taken from the Wis- ensin River below Among the highest report in the testing program in recent weeks was a fish which contained 3 parts per million of mercury in the Wisconsin Dells area, Williams said. Below the Interstate-94 bridge, he said, mercury levels again declined.

Testing ended near Spring Green, but officials decided to extend the warning to the Mississippi River because of the ability of fish to move throughout the entire length. Williams said the Wyandotte Corp. has reduced its mercury pollution of the river by 100 per since the state crackdown in May. When asked if the plant would be required to eliminate the up to a of a pound of mercury which appears to be entering the river from the plant each day, Williams said, years ago we have told you it was there" because the mercury testing devices sophisticated enough. know whether an irreducible Williams added, not letting Wyandotte off the hook on that score.

Dr. H. Grant Skinner Of the Division of Health said the consumption of only one fish meal per week was recommended purely a precautionary He described .5 parts per million of mercury in water as saying a person could take 1 part per million per day and have any Problems do arise, he said, in the consumption of large meals of mercury contaminated fish over a prolonged period. He said Japan and Sweden have reported deaths from mercury. Skinner said Wisconsin has never recorded a death from mercury.

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Harold Hamilton (Seventh), who first requested itemized statements in May 1968, said recently he had intended breakdown of what an expense account would consist Yet Hamilton was not surprised on hearing the mileage allowance was not being itemized. would expect them to put down if what they Hamilton said. No special attention has been given to the expense allowance vouchers by the Finance Committee. The vouchers have been reviewed along with ail vouchers for dty expenditures. Finance Committee Chmn.

Paul Davies (Uth) says he feels the vouchers be more detailed but they do meet the requirements set by the Davies says he has not discussed more detailed itemization with the committee. The budgeted allowance for all aldermen at $25 a month is $4,500 a year. In 1969, vouchers submitted by six aldermen totaled 5.10. The surplus is ed to the general fund. Not all aldermen claim the allowance.

Some who do not send the $25 to their favorite charity. Many do not claim the full $25. But for all the talk, the expense account remains essentially the same since 1966 when the $25 was first voted into the 1967 budget. Even then some aldermen wanted the allowance cut completely. Now it appears the debate is about to begin again.

'Honor America Day' Plans Told By ASSOCIATED PRESS LAGS, fireworks and soul food are some of the ingredients that will go into Honor America Day activities designed to show love of country on this July 4. will be no banners, no signs, just says Robert E. Cole Honor America Day parade chairman in Waikiki. He described this parade as simply a march. Negro leaders in Milwaukee have planned three days of soul food picnics, gospel singing dances to honor blacks who have died in war.

The activities will end July 4 with a parade to honor Crispus Attucks, a black patriot killed in the Boston Massacre prior to the Revolutionary War. In Virginia, nearly 400 Boy Scouts are participating in a four-day marathon to carry an American flag mounted on a baton from Williamsburg to Washington, where they will arrive for tWe Honor America observances. July 4 marks the 194th anniversary of birth as a nation, celebrating that day in 1776 when the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. This year Honor America Day activities that are centered in the capital will be added to traditional Independence Day events. The demonstration designed to show love of country is led by evangelist Billy Graham and entertainer Bob Hope.

The Washington, D.C., project will feature memorial and patriotic services at the Lincoln Memorial and a stage show ending with a fireworks display. In Perry, Iowa, Indepen- City-county Building OK'd At Appleton APPLETON (AP) The Appleton City Council voted 11-2 Wednesday night to join Outagamie County in building a joint Public Safety Building. Aldermen also approved a recommendation of a joint building committee to locate the structure on the site of the existing courthouse in downtown Appleton. Police Chief Earl Wolff pub- publicly endorsed the project Wednesday for the first time. The structure will include a new police station.

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Actor Howard Keel will read from the Declaration of Independence in Independence Hall, the birthplace. Richard Cardinal Cushing of Boston has ordered the ringing of bells in Roman Catholic churches to coincide with the Washington activities. And in the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, wives and families of servicemen missing or captured in Vietnam will be honored prior to a fireworks display. In Atlanta, the Club is backing a up and be counted Those calling a special telephone number get an American flag decal and their names placed on a scroll taken to the Washington festivities. At the Island Statehouse July 4, the Southern New England Committee for a Victory in Vietnam plans a rally.

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