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20 Pages LA CROSSE, WISCONSIN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1971 Final Edition 15c EXPLAINS Ziegler of West Bend (right), vice president of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, testifies Thursday before the Joint Finance Committee on a deferred salary plan offered UW President John Weaver. With him is Regent Frank Pelisek of Wire- photo. Solons Re Warn Regents By TIM WYNGAARD (La Crosse Tribune Madison Bureau) MADISON State lawmakers Thursday delivered a stern warning to UW regents of future legislative controls over the University of Wisconsin System and a sharp rebuke for Pres. John C. deferred lifetime salary agreement.

With liberal Democrats leading the attack, Regent Acting Pres. Bernard Ziegler, West Bend, was told that the guaranteed income move was and that in the future Legislature is going to insist on having the same sort of policy controls over the UW as exist over all other state agencies. legislature has deceived itself into believing that it has control over higher education in this said State Rep. Dennis Conta, D-Milwaukee. the future that is going to he told Ziegler, who had been summoned to a meeting of the Joint Committee on Finance to explain and defend the deferred income plan written for Weaver last June, after six months in the presidency of the old UW.

The plan, first revealed by The La Crosse Tribune Madison Bureau, guarantees Weaver an income for life if he quits, resigns or is fired after three years in the job. It provides unprecedented severance pay before that time. And the merged board was discussing making the plan effective immediately and increasing the payment rate when the plan was revealed by the news stories. Regent sources indicated at the close of the session with lawmakers Thursday that the plan, as written, is considered dead and that a different proposal will be brought to the full board by a three-man subcommittee working on the question of pay as head of the merged UW System. Ziegler, accompanied by Walter F.

Renk of Sun Prairie, F. J. Pelisek of Whitefish Bay, and David Carley of Madison all regents of the old UW defended the pay plan by saying that it was a good business practice, but he found little support from the influential finance committee. With Pelisek at his side, while Carley and Renk sat silently in the back of the crowded and television camera-filled ing room, Ziegler said that the plan was not insisted upon by Weaver as a condition of his hiring and was devised by the regents as a means of cutting taxes while protecting his retirement. Weaver was being paid $45,000 a year as head of the University of Missouri and was six months away from a substantial retirement program there when he was offered the UW job, said Ziegler.

The UW regents agreed to devise a plan giving him equal immediate pay and a similar retirement protection, he said. It would be that any industry would attempt to bring a 55 -year old executive to Wisconsin without offering some sort of similar deferred pay plan, said Pelisek. More important than tax considerations in giving a university president a guaranteed deferred pay plan, said Pelisek, is the nature of the term of office of a college president in a time of continued campus upheavals. Ziegler and Pelisek told the committee that the plan is no different than retirement pay granted former UW Presidents E. B.

Fred and Edward Birge when they became emeritus presidents in 1958 and 1925, respectively. That contention drew a sharp response from State Rep. Anthony Earl, D-Wausau, who said that there were significant differences. Both were expected to perform duties assigned them by their successors in return for the pay, said Earl and both were granted the pay on retirement, not as a condition of their initial employment. just not accurate to say that there is any precedent for what you have said Earl.

is a first-time Earl kicked off a string of complaints from committee members that no lawmakers had been told of the actions, and that the public and the legislators first learned of the action by reading the newspapers. would not think that it is the function of the board of regents to announce every detail of every action that they said Pelisek, pointing out that the minutes containing the agreement on page 46 of a 68- page document were distributed to the See REGENTS WARNED, Page 2 Parent Company Buys Motel Hoeschler Sells Holiday Inn James Hoeschler, he has sold the motel operation, than 3,500 buses; and Delta owner of the La Crosse Holiday'he will devote fulltime to his Steamship Lines. Inn, has sold the motel, the real estate activities, which en-j It also owns and operates the fourth largest in the chain, to tails selling and developing resi- Holiday Life Insurance the parent company, Holiday dential and commercial proper- Four States Realty, which oper- I International, ties in Wisconsin, Minnesota, ates in the acquisition of proper- the La Crosse Tribune Colorado and Florida. ty and construction of bus ten- learned Thursday afternoon. Holidays I International, minals and related facilities; The sale was made in ex-Hoeschler said, consists of sev-and Products Division, which change for stock in the parent eral divisions.

The Franchise eludes packaging and distribu- company, but no terms were Sales Division is responsible for tion of meats, bakery goods and disclosed. i franchises throughout the Unit- other related products used in Hoeschler said the sale will make him one of the largest independent stockholders in Holiday Inns International, reportedly the largest hotel motel chain in the world, grossing more than $650 million in sales ed States and overseas. the motel and restaurant opera- Holiday Inns are being opened tion. in Europe, Australia, Northern Trav-L-Pahks is a new divi- Africa, Latin America, the Far sion that the Holiday Inn will East, Tahiti, New Zealand, the develop for outdoor camping fa- Samoas, the Fifi Islands and cilities and will be known as Romania, he added. I Holiday Inn Travel Parks.

They The company has improved will be a franchise-approved and revenue, and consisting of more than 2,000 inns with Holidex reser- a featuring standardized rooms. vations system so that it is re- buildings in approved locations Hoeschler said that he decided COgnized as the only complete with grocery and gift shops, to sell to the parent company motel reservation system, Hoes- restrooms, laundries, recreation chler said, and Holiday Inns will swimming pools, reser- be able to make a reservation to and other facilities, foreign countries as it does now Another division is the International Mart of America, which represents institutional Hoeschler said that he attend- products of 250 manufacturers, because he felt it would and maintain the operation with the same management and service that has marked the I fa America, contribution of the La Crosse Holiday Inn to the ed a meeting recently in Mem- Hoeschler was one of the orig- phis, with franchise representa- Memphis. displayed in the IMA Building, inal developers of the La Crosse Holiday Inn 10 years ago, starting with 108 rooms. He later acquired sole control and contin- tivos from all over the world, and optimism that they displayed for the future of the A recent survey showed, Hoeschler said, that Holiday Inns International was five ued to develop and enlarge the was One company operation, which now consists of had 59 inns scheduled for Aus- 330 rooms, plus dining and ban-tralia alone for 1972-73. quet facilities to accommodate: Holiday Inns also operates up to 600.

Continental Trailways, bus and Hoeschler said that now that i coach company, which has more Holiday Inns in these countries times larger in room capacity than its closest competitor, Hilton Hotels followed by Sheraton Hotel Best Western Hotel Association, Master Host International, Quality Motels and Ramada Inns, Inc. HOLIDAY INN Hoeschler (standing) has sold the Holiday Inn here to Holiday Inns International, which is headed by President Kemmons Wilson (seated). Holdupman 'Give If To Me' And He Gets It ERIE, Pa. (AP) A gunman accosted 60 year old Cliff Brady Thursday while he was working in a service station and told him, it to Brady promptly belted the gunman in the mouth, knocking him down. When the assailant got up, Brady said, he knocked him down again.

This time the gunman crawled to his feet and fled. Police said all that was lost was a little skin from knuckles. Holiday Mailing Rush To Peak About Dec. 16 Postmaster Harold C. Ristow estimates that the peak mailing period at the La Crosse Post Office during the 1971 holiday season will be Thursday, Dec.

16. Based on trends during the past few years, estimated that more than 530,000 pieces of incoming and outgoing mail will be handled on that day. The estimate is 15,000 more than last year. Ristow again urged postal customers to mail as soon as possible. 2 Hijackers Of Pakistan Plane Arrested In Paris PARIS (AP) Hijackersjtalked for a moment with air traffic continued, -kept newsmen and curious seized a plane of Pakistan International Airlines today and threatened to destroy it and the passengers unless 20 tons of medicine for Pakistani refugees were delivered aboard at Orly Field.

French authorities started crating in the medicines, and stewardess. The men did notj The police said the 28 persons away, enter the aircraft. i aboard included 6 crew mem The Bangla Desh separatist Calling themselves represen- bers and 22 passengers. It was movement is seeking to sever tatives of 10 million known if the hijackers were East Pakistan from West Paki- refugees who have fled from included in the passenger total, jstan and form an independent East Pakistan to India, the hijackers warned police to stay away from the four-engine Boeing 720B jetliner and said Action Comes In Wake Of UW Controversy Unit Created To Study State Pay Plans (La Crosse Tribune Madison Bureau) MADISON State lawmakers Thursday moved to create a special committee to study all top-level state pay plans and pay raise procedures in the wake of the University of Wisconsin controversial pay boost in recent weeks and a bill proposing to hike salaries as well. At the urging of State Rep.

Anthony Earl, D-Wausau, the Joint Committee on Finance agreed to create a five-man subcommittee to look into all in the civil service, in the University of Wisconsin System, in the courts and among appointees. Included will be a review of I the salaries paid the legislature and constitutional officers, the source of continual complaints from office holders who see; their salaries far outstripped by state employes. The move came just before the finance committee recessed to await a confrontation with UW regents over Pres. John recently revealed deferred salary plan, and after some of the lawmakers saw for the first time a study showing that at least 509 state employes last year earned more than the $25,000 paid Gov. Patrick Lucey.

Earl said that there is no standardized plan for setting salaries in much of state service, and that those salaries that are being studied are Leing reviewed by fragmented groups that have little contact with each other. The judicial salary increase came from a state task force on judicial reform as its first recommendation. Fast action was Tefused by the assembly just before they recessed a month ago in part because lawmakers consider themselves at $8,900 paid and because they had passed what Democrats contended was an budget. The judicial pay hike would have raised the basic state pay of county and circuit judges well above $20,000, and most of those judges receive local salary supplements as well. State Rep.

Raymond Tobiasz, then detectives went aboard the any action that could like plane and arrested two men. A would lead to the group of about 50 plainclothes destruction. In a message from the im- state, mobilized Boeing 720B to the; There is considerable senti- Orly control tower, the hijacker ment in France favoring the said: plane is requisi- Bangla Desh. tioned by Bangla Desh for the The hijacker demanded that Bengali population. We want 20! the medicine be loaded into the tons of medicine for the relief plane through the rear baggage men rushed the plane.

From their voices, heard on the Bengali people. If we do hold, these sources said. One of the alleged air pirates control tower radio, and their not get satisfaction and if the Exceptional security meas- apparently was shot in an exchange of gunfire with police. Then the remaining had left earlier- got off the plane. After five hours of negotiations, two men wearing Red written style, police assumed the hijackers represented a segment of the French popu- 'ation which has given support to the Bangla Desh guerrilla rar, aimed at turning East Pakistan into an autonomous police look like intervening, the ures were being taken at Orly, plane will be destroyed and its where Chancellor Willy Brandt, passengers will of West Germany was due to The plane is flight PK 712, arrive for two days of talks London to Karachi, with stop- with resident Georges Pom- overs in Paris, Rome and Cai- pidou.

ro. Four transit passenger wait- Cross armbands began unload- state. Police closed off the terminating rooms near the air field ing cases of medicine from a About 200 riot troops formed! area around the aircraft and i were closed off as well as a a security cordon some distance from the plane, parked with its red cockpit light flashing 50 yards from the main terminal. All vehicles were Ex-UW President Now Paid $35,000 No State Funds (La Tribune Madison Bureau) University of Wisconsin President Fred Harrington is protected by a special salary arrangement that may obligate future legislatures, according to Bernard Ziegler, acting president of the UW System Board of Regents. Ziegler told state lawmakers Thursday that Harrington is being paid on a special arrangement which combines a special trust fund of the UW with an outside grant from the Ford Foundation.

No direct state money is now involved in the pay plan which earns Harrington $35,000 for a nine-month year, but if the Ford Foundation refuses to renew the grant in two more years, the state will have to find $25,000 a year for salary, according to Ziegler. Harrington, who quit in May 1970, after a series of clashes with his regents, was given a Vilas professorship at the UW which carries a $10,000 stipend from the Vilas Trust, held by the UW for outstanding researchers in the humanities and social sciences. Harrington is on leave this year, and is not drawing his salary. Ziegler said that as a tenured professor, Harrington will continue to be paid even if the Ford grant is not renewed, and that the UW will have to find the iponey to pay him. There are indications, however, that that situation may never be confronted by the regents.

According to informed reports, Harrington has seriously considered college presidencies elsewhere, including vacancies at Rutgers and Syracuse Universities. D-Milwaukee, attacked the plan, saying that if it ever reaches the floor he will attempt to pass an amendment dropping any salary hikes for Milwaukee County judges. They recently received a substantial boost by pressuring the county board there, he said. a matter of months they have gone in with both arms up to the armpits into that little barrel of charged Tobiasz. sick and tired of that county supplement coming off the property tax he told the committee.

The finance unit tabled the bill, awaiting the appointment of the special subcommittee and the completion of its study. The finance committee also turned thumbs down on a proposal of State Rep. Lloyd Barbee, D-Milwaukee, a black member of the assembly, that all Negroes and American Indians in Wisconsin be given a grant of $999 as for past social injustices and to give them an economic boost toward success. The bill would cost state taxpayers $150 million, said Sen. Nile Soik, R-Whitefish Bay.

Virtually all white people are descended from ancestors who lived in slave-like status at some time in England and Prussia and other countries, said Sen. James Swan, R-Elkhorn. please forget said Sen. Henry Dorman, D-Racine, a Jew. small pickup truck parked alongside the airliner and carrying them into the big jet at Orly Airport.

As they did, seven passengers, six adults and an infant left the aircraft. The French government had acceded in the face of the threats. Although there was no official announcement, a fleet of trucks bearing more than a ton of penicillin and ticholera vaccine were dispatched through heavy traffic to the airport. The London office said the hijackers first ordered the jet to Beirut, Lebanon. Orly police said 28 persons were aboard, but the airline in London reported 16 passengers and 6 crewmen.

The hijackers seized the plane in the name of Bangla Desh, Pakistani guerrilla movement. The Pasteur Institute, a national research and inoculation center in Paris, announced that it had sent a consignment of anticholera vaccine to Orly. Toward evening, five hours after the hijacking began, passengers began leaving the big jet. Negotiations apparently had taken place on the taxiway. Two men, both in civilian clothes and waving a flag with a Red Cross on it, bounded out of a small service truck on the taxiway and walked into view of the cockpit.

They apparently received a sign of recognition from inside the plane and went to its back door. It opened briefly and they cleared from the area, WEATHER Cloudy, mild tonight and Saturday. Lower 20s tonight; lower Saturday. observation terrace on the roof of the terminal building. Vehicles were being cleared from the area, but reasonably normal air traffic continued.

Inquest Finds No Criminal Liability In Woman's Death WHERE TO FIND IT Page Births .................................14 Bridge 20 Classified Ady 14-19 Comics, Movies TV 8 Crossword 9 Daily Records ..................14 Death Notices ..................14 Editorials 4 Local News 13 Markets 5 Sports 10, 11 and 12 Tri-State Deaths ...............14 Weather Map 3 News 6 By ROBIN THOMPSON (La Crosse Tribune Staff Writer) A jury deliberated for about a half hour Thursday afternoon before ruling that there was no criminal liability in the death Saturday of Mrs. Marcella Bye, 50, of 2010 S. 21st Terrace. Dr. Paul Dietz, the pathologist who performed the autopsy on Mrs.

Bye, testified at the inquest that the cause of death was a subdural hemorrhage. He also said the left side of her face was discolored and swollen and that the left side of her neck was also discolored. The doctor added that there were many pinpoint hemorrhages over much of the rest of her body. A microscopic examination revealed that Mrs. Bye had cancer in practically every organ of her body, including her heart, lungs and brain, he explained.

Dr. Dietz told the jury that this condition produced a tendency for Mrs. Bye to bleed easily because the blood failed to clot normally. Because of this, he said, he determine whether being struck had contributed to her death. The doctor testified that he preclude other possible causes, such as the woman bumping her head accidentally.

she had the bleeding tendency, she have been as he said. Dr. Dietz testified that there were no bone fractures and no hemorrhage in the brain itself. While Leland Bye, the husband, take the witness stand, a statement he made to police was read at the inquest. He reportedly said that he and his wife consumed almost a case of beer by 10 p.m.

Friday and that they got into an argument about midnight. Bye told police that both of them were intoxicated, and when his wife used profanity toward him, he lost his temper and hit her with a back hand on the left side of the face. Mrs. Bye then went to bed, he told police, and later came out and started the argument again. At that time, Bye reportedly said, he grabbed her arm and hit her with his right fist.

Police detectives testified that Bye said he heard his wife snoring after she went to bed in her bedroom. The 19-year-old son, William, also took the witness stand and told the jury that he heard his mother snoring about 6 a.m. Saturday; and his 13 year old brother, James, testified that he heard his mother crying shortly after that. Bye reportedly discovered his wife was dead about 9 a.m. Saturday and called police.

In his address to the jury, Asst. Dist. Atty. Michael Mulroy said the problem in the case was that Mrs. Bye a normal person.

He told the jury that the two charges they should consider were manslaughter and homicide by reckless conduct. However, he added, doubt if the state could prove beyond a reasonable doubt either one of District Attorney Burleigh Randolph told the jury that the principal reason for the inquest was that it appeared likely that Bye striking his wife started the chain of events that led to her death. Jurors sworn in by Coroner Robert Holmquist were: Kenneth L. Curran, 1127 Main Edward D. Campfield, 426 S.

15th Mrs. Janice Moore, 1621 S. 20th Mrs. Dorotha Reuter, 311 Rose Judd Bowman, 614 Gilster Onalaska; and Mrs. Marilyn Kennedy, 1118 S.

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