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ITa Gltibmt 36 Pages 1972, La Crosse Tribune LA CROSSE, WISCONSIN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26,1972 U.S. Troops To Leave Within 60 Days 'Peace Is At Kissinger Announces 15 WASHINGTON (AP) Presidential adviser Henry A. Kissinger said today is at in Vietnam. Kissinger told newsmen in an hour-long briefing that most major provisions of a settlement have been agreed to, but that one more negotiating session no more than three or four is necessary. believe that peace is at Kissinger said.

believe that an agreement is in is just to all In breaking American silence on the status of the peace efforts, Kissinger said the nine points outlined earlier today by North Vietnam are essentially correct. He also said: want to stress that what remains to be done is the smallest part of what has already been The presidential adviser said the remaining details are essentially linguistic and technical but need to be settled before the United States and South Vietnam can sign a pact. He listed what were or seven very concrete issues that with anything like the good will that has been shown can easily be cleared He included in his examples the need from the U.S. side to specify that no move will be made to grab additional territory between the time of the cease-fire and a political settlement. He also said there needs to be clarification on the timing of the Vietnamese settlement relative to the settlement of the conflicts in Laos and Cambodia.

Earlier, Herb Klein, the White House communications director, had said a North Vietnamese broadcast saying the United States had agreed to sign an agreement but backed off was false. At a Cleveland news conference, Klein TO CAMPAIGN HERE Edward F. Cox, a son-in-law of President Richard Nixon, will make a campaign stop in La Crosse Friday. Cox, married to the former Tricia Nixon, will be in the Crystal Room of the Hotel Stoddard about 3:30 p.m. Cox, 26, graduated from Princeton University in 1968 and received a degree from Harvard Law School in June.

also rejected claims the United States is stalling negotiations. Among other problems Kissinger said that need to be finally solved are whether Washington should sign the agreement on behalf of South Vietnam. He said this was not a serious difficulty but it is understandable that the South Vietnamese, who have suffered the most during the war and who must remain under the settlement, want to sign their own peace On the issue of South Vietnam, the presidential aide said there were both agreements and disagreements by Saigon with the draft agreement. But, South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu will accept a cease-fire, Kissinger said. He added that he believed the bitter expression of opposition from the Saigon leader earlier this week to a coalition government was addressed to previous plan, not this In the first Saigon reaction to the announcement by Hanoi, the official radio said: separate agreement between North Vietnam and the United States does not concern us in anv in South the broadcast continued, have the right of Kissinger said the Oct.

31 deadline for signing a final agreement was set by the North Vietnamese. While the United States had indicated it to draft a proposed pact by that date, it never committed itself to such a deadline, Kissinger stated. When asked what would happen if the Oct. 31 deadline passes without a signing, Kissinger indicated his belief that negotiations would continue. believe that when this progress has been made an arbitrary will break off the negotiations, he said.

It is up to the North Vietnamese, Kissinger said, to set the date of the concluding negotiating session. He did not say where that final session should be held, but Paris has been the site of the previous sessions. Kissinger went over the nine points already disclosed by the North Vietnamese, listing them in the main as a cease-fire to be observed in South Vietnam in place and a time mutually agreed U.S. forces would be pulled out within 60 days of the signing with a total prohibition against any infiltration of forces from North Vietnam either across the demilitarized zone or from Laos or Cambodia. Military supplies to forces in South Vietnam will be banned except for replacement on a one- to-one basis of worn-out or damaged equipment.

All prisoners, military and civilian, are to be returned parallel to the withdrawal of American forces and will be completed within 60 days of the signing. Kissinger said North Vietnam took it upon itself to account for all prisoners and missing in action in Laos and Cambodia as well as in Vietnam. And, he said, the return of American prisoners is not conditioned on the repatriation of Vietnamese captives. On the political side, Kissinger said the agreement guarantees the right to self- determination by South Vietnam through a future and democratic election under See PEACE P. 2 Dinner Marks Opening Of Bridgeview Plaza Officials of Shopko and Bridgeview Plaza introduced themselves to community leaders Wednesday evening at a dinner in the Hoffman House and lauded La Crosse for its part in bringing the shopping center to this area of Wisconsin.

Diners were given plaques to commemorate the official ribboncutting for Shopko which took place at the store site along Highway 53 Thursday morning. John Poellinger (left), president of the Greater La Crosse Chamber of Commerce, gave ihe official welcome to Bridgeview Plaza developers, Edelberg-Mayer of Minneapolis, and key personnel representing Shopko and Super-Valu. With Poellinger are, from left, Edwin Edelberg; William Tyrrell, president of Shopko; -and James Ditty, operations manager of Super- Valu. Michael Fields of Edelberg-Mayer said Super Valu would open its store in the mall in December and that leases had been signed for a restaurant, cocktail lounge, a financial office, two music stores, and a fabrics store, all to open sometime after Jan. 1.

Tribune Photo. the weather? Cloudy, little temperature change Thursday night, low 45. Cloudy and cooler with occasional rain Friday, high 55. Southwesterly winds 10 to 15 miles-an-hour Thursday becoming westerly up to 15 miles an hour Friday. Saturday cloudy and cool with chance of showers, low 32.

Aldermen See Federal Funds For Tax Relief Mindoro Area Man, Hurt In Crash, Dies Look Inside Gibson For Assembly The choice for the 95th District Assembly seat is Republican Lawrence Gibson. His civic experience and his on the issues are cited in the editorial endorsement. Page 4. David L. Edberg, 30, R.

1, Mindoro, who was injured in a car accident Aug. 26 near Holmen, died Wednesday, Oct. 25, in St. Francis Hospital. Edberg was hospitalized with head injuries after the accident, which occurred when a pickup truck and a car collided at Highway 53 and McHugh Road just north of Holmen.

Eight other persons were hurt in the accident. Edberg is the ninth traffic fatality of the year. Two of these fatalities have occurred in the city. He was a passenger in the car, driven by Floyd A. Johnson, 23, West Salem.

Edberg was born Sept. 3,1942, in La Crosse County to Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Edberg. Survivors include his widow, Sharon; five daughters, Sheryl, Daisy, Loretta, Tammy and Pamela; two sons, David and Christopher; his parents, Mrs.

Edberg of West Salem and Ervin Edberg of Louisville, a sister, Mrs. James (Sally) Davis of Clinton, two brothers, Jerry and Mike of Louisville; a half-brother and two half-sisters. Services will be Saturday at 2 p.m. in Jostad Funeral Home, West Salem. Rev.

Ivan Vallem will officiate and burial will be in Neshonoc Cemetery. There will be no visitation. Looking ahead to 1982, shoppers not only will buy groceries but also other chores, such as gassing up the car, banking at the same store, predicts a research team. Page 12. Campaign Humor Campaign humor, quips and boners, such as Sargent Shriver discussing the high price of bacon with a wife, are discussed by Don McLeod, AP political 5.

Where to find Deaths Ann 17-21 News 8-11 Stock Tri-State, Local 13 Comics ........14 Classified 23-27 TV Log, Section S1-S8 By DONALD W. AFFOLTER Tribune Staff Writer Good fiscal planning may call for using the windfall from federal revenue sharing to provide tax relief over several years. But mill-rate-conscious alderman in La Crosse see immediate tax relief for property owners. feel pretty bad if shove this thing off and not give the people tax says Alderman Lee Foley (8th Ward), Common Council finance committee chairman. year they got a huge jump from 58 mills to 73.7 mills, and like to see it go for the reverse and give some While City Finance Officer Sherman C.

Stellpflug says that use of the funds expected to exceed $1 million in 1973 is up to the council, he adds: get the most from it, the city should use it for long-range tax reduction or capital improvements. Using it for capital improvements would mean reduced borrowing and less While fellow committeemen have diverse opinions on how to use the funds, have to sit down and make recommendations to the council. The city by Nov. 1 will get a check from the U.S. Treasury for the first installment of a $533,000 payment for 1972.

The second installment will come in January. For 1973, the city expects about $600,000 with payments expected in April, July and October 1973, and in January 1974. This payment, however, may fluctuate. The League of Wisconsin Municipalities reports that the bill passed by Congress Oct. 13 and signed into law by President Richard M.

Nixon last week is based on a 1967 U.S. Treasury report. The money is labeled for property tax relief, but can be used for capital improvements. Of the finance committeemen, only Alderman Ferdinand Sontag (4th Ward) wants the entire amount used for tax relief. Alderman John Schubert (11th Ward) wants it used for capital improvements to reduce debt repayments and interest.

Aldermen Foley, though somewhat reluctantly, Harold Swanson (20th Ward) and Patrick Zielke (19th Ward) and Mayor W. Peter Gilbertson see a combination of both. Foley, Zielke and Swanson want most of the windfall maybe 75 per cent, says Swanson to go for property tax relief. Sontag explains his position: should be used for direct relief to the taxpayers either through a refund on their taxes or a credit on their next bills. To use it as a pork barrel to add new programs is not good Stellpflug says that using it for immediate tax relief can result in the tax rate jumping back up once the federal funds run out, while using it for capital improvements would provide tax relief over several years.

Asked about this, Sontag says, you get, you get. Maybe keep spending in line as far as future budgets are Mayor Gilbertson, noting that the city must establish a plan for using the 1973 federal sharing funds, says the funds both and could be used to stabilize the mill rate for three to five years. The fiscal planners tried once before to use a windfall for property tax relief over several years, when the city had $1.7 million available in 1969 from the sale of the city-owned Western Wisconsin Technical Institute to an enlarged school district. But the council that year dipped into what was to have been an escrow account for long- range tax relief, and gave additional funds to the schools, and reduced debt service costs. To prevent further dipping, the finance committee then headed by former Alderman L.

Peter Groves (13th Ward) voted to use what was left for capital improvements. Both Stellpflug and Mayor Gilbertson warn that even though Congress has authorized the program for five years, it can only fund one year at a time. like with the two-year Emergency Employment said Gilbertson, explaining that EEA funds used to hire city personnel will run out Nov. 15. Gilbertson and Foley see a possibility that the city will use some of the windfall for immediate tax relief and some for capital improvements but only for those projects that had been planned for the past several years.

use it to expand said Gilbertson, who can use his veto to back up his statement. Stellpflug also says that while giving immediate tax relief will lower the tax rate, the shared state taxes will go down as a result. Shared state taxes are based on a formula weighted to those communities with high tax rates, he explained. Under the law, the federal funds can be used for tax relief, capital improvements programs and for operation and maintenance in the following areas: Public safety, environmental protection, public transportation, health, recreation, aid for the poor and aged, financial administration and libraries. City officials expect a full explanation of the federal revenue sharing plan Friday at a League of Wisconsin Municipalities meeting.

USAF Rules Out Action Against Gen. Lavelle WASHINGTON (AP) The Air Force has ruled out further disciplinary action against Maj. Gen. John D. Lavelle, saying the firing as commander of the 7th Air Force was punishment enough for last unauthorized bombing of North Vietnam.

Court-martial charges lodged against Lavelle by a junior officer were dismissed Tuesday by Secretary of the Air Force Robert Charles Seamans Jr. The Air Force said Seamans acted thorough investigation and review of all facts and material in connection with the But the officer who brought the charges, 1st Lt. Delbert R. Terrill called the dismissal slap in the face to every soldier who has ever worn the American whole handling of this affair has been an indictment against the military said Terrill, an Air Force Academy graduate from Charlevoix, Mich. Explosive Letter letter, said to contain explosives, which was mailed to esident Nixon, is shown in a police photograph from 1 Aviv.

Similar letters were addressed to Secretary of fense Melvin Laird and Secretary of State William Rogers. The letters were found as they went through the sorting room of the post office in the Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona, near the Lebanese border. AP Wirephoto. Tot Thrives With Mom's Kidney MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (AP) A 2-year-old South Carolina tot who last summer became the smallest person ever to receive an adult kidney in a transplant has turned into a lively little boy.

John Lewis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Lewis of Charleston, S.C., weighed only 14 pounds last June 7 when the four-hour transplant operation was performed at University of Minnesota Hospitals. John and his mother, Patti, were back in Minneapolis Wednesday for the first routine checkup. Dr.

John Najarian, chief of surgery, said he passed with look runs and climbs so much now that I can hardly keep up with Mrs. Lewis said. Before John received his kidney, he been well a day in his life. His frail hands had to hold tight to something whenever he tried to stand on his matchstick-thin legs. been sick a day since the transplant, he just keeps Mrs.

Lewis said. Dr. Najarian said the youngster will continue to grow at a normal rate. He has grown an inch and a half and gained five pounds since the transplant. John did have one problem since the operation.

He wan running around so much on his second birthday, July 17, that he fell and broke his leg. only had to wear a cast for a few Mrs. Lewis said, I couldn't even keep up with him while itwason. First he just scooted around, but then they gave hirn a walking cast and he started running with 8Y AIRMAIL PAR AVION President Richard Nixon, Freaident Of A White House, Washington.