Waukesha Daily Freeman from Waukesha, Wisconsin • Page 1

What to No Decision Yet on i if 1 i. I 'v SGbuntv Biidaet Rate Cuts Do on Dempsey Successor Thursday tftrnoon following a day long conference with state municipal auditor i A TENTATIVE 1970 budget to be A presented to the County Board Finance Committee incorpo. rates large cuts Including the $225,000 Naga Waukee Park golf clubhouse to achieve a new low tax rate of $3.68 per $1,000 of real valuation. Final figures on the tentative budget were released by the Finance Committee i gWlfflMHIMIHIIIMIIIIIIMIM over this year, a total valuation in $236 million increase in the county, accounts for the lower rate. The Finance Committee expressed satisfaction over the county's financial condition, which has kept the tax rate below $4 from 1952 to 1966.

The tax levy, meanwhile, has risen from $1.3 million to the proposed $6.9 million level. The proposed budget is broken down into the following broad categories: General government $1,750,442. Protection of person and property $1,378,366. Health $7,727,177. and Social Services Friday, October 24, 1969 r' 4: UEESHA FREEMAN No announcement has been made by the governor's office about calling a special election in the 33rd state senate district left vacant through the Oct.

4 death of Sen. Chester E. Dempsey, 73. There was speculation the governor will not call an election this year and, if he does next year, the date will coincide with the April spring election. Under the constitution, the special election cannot be held 55 days sooner, nor 70 days later than the date on which it was called.

The reason for this time provision is to enable candidates to campaign for the office. If those deadlines were to be observed, yV xi. A building The Articulate Voice 1 Single Copy 10c 110th Yeor No. 177 imtiiflmmHMHifflfflMnnHiim jj Ja Transportation $1,158,300. Education and recreation $2,762,443.

Conservation and development $32,044. Indebtedness $1,114,273. I Unclassified $277,000. General outlay $376,303. "Highway outlay $799,925.

Revenues of $9,497,514 are anticipated, and surplus funds of $893,000 will be used to help offset the balance of the expenditures. The budget will be considered at a public hearing before the County Board Nov. 10, at 7:30 p.m. in the courthouse. tW'rs Elks, Lodge it 1:., James Devitt of Greenfield.

LaFave and bwan had voted to kill the Tarr bill. A I fax rea Defeated Si property tex levy ,760, out of total expenditures for 1970 of $17,378,275. The balance will be made up with revenues, returned aid and accumulated surpluses, Last year's tax rate was $4 01, a decrease from the 1967 rate of $4.93. Although the proposed levy is up $322,000 of Waukesha County Horn Delivery 55c 18 Poget But they are staying out of Palestinian areas in order not to provoke trouble. The Lebanese government clamped the curfew on Lebanon's major cities and sought negotiations to restore peace between it and Arab guerrillas trying to use Lebanon as a base for raids against Israel.

Other cities including Beirut, were reported tense but quiet. A few of the Moslem faithful defied the curfew to go to mosques, but no incidents were reported. 4 The government ordered the curfew in Beirut, Tripoli, Sidon, Tyre and Baalbek after leftist leaders called a general strike to protest Lebanese army opera tions this week to curb the guerrillas 'ne government feared the strike would spawn riots and fighting, Troops and armored cars guarded strategic points in Beirut, and the city was quiet but tense. A helicopter hovered over the largely deserted streets which persons i with special paass were allowed. There were check points at main intersections.

Yemen Calls It Quits ADEN (AP) South Yemen broke off Fire on Tripoli Protesters Fighting Up in Lebanon i. BEIRUT, Lebanon wv Security forces in Lebanon's northern port of Trinoli fired on demonstrators con verging today on the city's main mos que, killing at least four persons and I wounding seven. Defying an indefinite curfew clamped on Lebanon's major cities following i bloody clashes between the army and 1 Palestinian guerrillas, the demonstrators i were reported to have battled with I troops and police in two areas of the One column of demonstrators, shouting pro guerrilla slogans, ran into a cordon of troops near the harbor. Another Workmen face the frosty morning as work continues on the new Waukesha Elks club lodge 400 on Springdale Rd. tThe Elks club house on Wisconsin Ave.

burned in 1967 while being rozed for, a parking lot. The original construction deadline is Dec. I. Proa clashed with security forces in the city shorOv before noon Moslem nate prayers Official Lebanese sources put out a different account of the clash. They claimed the mother of the local pohtical I leader complained at the mosque that her ton's house was surrounded I by Jt toollee.i jpiy.1 it would put the election right in the holiday season or in winter, when It it more difficult to campaign.

It would also create the expense of holding an extra election. An assistant to Governor Knowles, Richard Hanneman, explained today there would be no purpose in filling the vacancy immediately if the legislature adjourns, as it is expected to do, in mid November. The question still remains whether the governor will call the election to coin cide with the spring election or whether he will let the vacancy ride altogether, and have it be filled during the general election in November. Freeman Staff Phete tiimuwttMmiuiiMiwttwim'mmfflnwmiRHmfli Editorial: Legislature Lays Tarr Tax Bill to Rest la rr Darlington, who said the Tarr plan would have diverted too much' money to big cities. "All this bill would do is give Milwaukee more money to spend," Roseleip said.

Sen. 'I Gerald Lorge, Bear Creek, argued the bill would only "say to the Continued on Page 3 septic systems have never worked properly. They're afraid to speak about it They want to sell their homes." I Opposition to the proposed code was expressed by Carl Seitz, of Eagle, president of the Landowners Rights Citizens Committee, Inc. He attacked a provision that a health officer would have access to premises at "any reasonable time." The addition of Continued on Page 3 school needs financial help if it is to survive. Wisconsin has only one other major medical institution at the I University of Wisconsin.

Assembly opposition to the bill cen tered on the beer tax increase rather than on the issue of state aid for a private school. 4 Assemblyman Earl McEssy, a Fond du Lac Republican, has traditionally op posed beer tax increases, and called the Marquette bill just an attempt "to em barrass the brewers." "Put your crying towel back in your pocket," majority leader Paul Alfonsi replied. for Foes The Tarr program was a result of, in the Senate to endorse the Tarr pro an 18 month study, and reflected efforts gram. cinstA 1QK1 4 nmlAl tr sharing state tax revenue with municipalities. The Senate had debated the measure for three weeks.

But Sen. Martin Schreiber, Milwaukee, said debate had been cut off before all the facts were presented." fJ A lack of "complete debate," Schreiber said, "makes this the most ir responsible session in history." Only a few hours prior to the vote, relations with the United States today 1M and ordered all members of the U.S. The Tarr bill, which supporters had Embassy in Aden to leave the country predicted could benefit 70 per cent or within 24 hours. more of the state's taxpayers, was re An announcement made after the U.S. wied 18 13 charge d'affaires had been summoned to the Foreign Ministry, said the decision But 4 Sen.

LeLand McParland of to sever relations was taken because of Cudahy, the only Democrat to join ta defeg the Tsure the arming and supporting of Israel, and Mld ne Plans to roduce an alternate the continuous plotting against Arab pro proposal next week." gressive regimes." Republican Nile Soik of ram Gov. Warren Knowles had made another anneal to his fellow Reoublicans said after the "The tax islands will still exist, and the problems from unfair tax distribution remain." The cities' revenue problems, he ad ded, "won't just go away. The legislature cannot afford to do nothing about it." Much of the opposition to the Tarr 4 measure was represented by senators from rural districts. attitude was summed up by Sen. Gordon Roseleip, Environment Committee of the Wisconsin Federation of Women's Clubs.

"People don't want to talk about it," she atfded. Her husband, an eye, ear, nose and throat doctor, said he had seen so many cases of ear infection in children. 4 "Whatever we have' now is not adequate," said Harriet Steele, Waukesha, of the American Association of University Women. "I know of a subdivision where the bv Se rr 'i MAUibUM (AF) The Tarr Jtask force's sharecj tax program for financially pressed cities was de feated Thursday by the Senate in what a legislator called a low Doint of "the most irresponsible session in history. Whitefish Bay said he understood McParland's proposal would strive "to 1 i.

1 1 eiuiuiiaie tax oojecuons wiucn naa played a key role in the Tarr measure's AMth The GOP caucus, meanwhile, named three senators to a special committee to study formation of another alternative. They are Republicans Reuben LaFave of Oconto, James 4 Swan of Elkhorn and ji, Electric Drill Stolen Disappearance of an electri drill from haepmnt nf hie af ii Fairview between 5:20 p.m. Monday and 2 p.m. Tuesday was reported to police by Irwin Kessler. He valued the tool at $25.

Ta Cities Paint Putrid Pollution Portrait, While Others Fear Board of Health It'll Be Warmer i WISCONSIN Partly cloudy north, mostly cloudy, chance of a little ram at times south tonight, warmer with lows tonight 37 to 45. Saturday mostly cloudy, J00 totey rangmg from near 40 extreme north to Mean temperature: 34. Temperature range here yesterday: high, 46; low, 23. Temperature range here a year ago: high, 46; low, 38. Precipitation in 24 hours ending at noon: none v.

Local Hourly Temperature Hour 8 9 10 11 12 Temp 31 31 34 37 41 48 More than 100 of his armed followers clashed with police when they set off to i investigate. Tripoli is a hotbed of Arab nationalism I and two large Palestinian refugee camps are situated outside the town. y. The demonstrators, however, were mainly local Moslems. I Beirut and other cities were reported mainly quiet.

In Palestinian quarters of the capital the community's own private police were maintaining the curfew Security forces, backed by armored 1 cars, were on the alert at key points throughout the city. Apartments for Aged Still Await FHA Aid A news release Wednesday from state FHA director Lawrence S. Katz states that an application for FHA aid for a 33 unit anartment house for the elderlv in Waukesha is "in process but not com mitted David Moll, town "of Pewauk: and rr vTnan Ti Murntn rt George Egan Mukwonago Rt 1, ap supplement program in constructing an apartment house for the elderly at Arcadian Ave. and Pleasant St. i Under the rent supplement program, the FHA makes up the difference between what the tenant can pay and what rent the owner charges.

The FHA sets the eligibility rules for persons applying for rental units. The units would be reserved for persons 62 years or older. MMMHHIIHIIUIIIflMfflHMIMllUHM A.H. Of WSES Mbert H. Ludwig, 76, former manager 1 1 I i Albert H.

Ludwig, 76, former manager of the Wisconsin State Employment Service office in Waukesha, died suddenly Thursday night of a heart attack suffered at his home. 1 He lived at 119 Wright St. I Ludwig retired from the state civil service in December, 1962. i Surviving are his wife, the former Clara Stibbe; one son, Robert Ludwig, Waukesha; one step brother, Jack Brugan of Racine and a step sister, Mrs. Robert Fehn, Milwaukee.

i Funerar services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at the Randle Funeral home, with burial in Prairie Home cemetery. The body will lie In state from 4 p.m. to p.m. Sunday.

The Rudolph Funeral home is in charge of arrangements. The family suggests memorials to St. Luke's Lutheran church building fund. Ludwig was a World War I veteran, serving in the U.S. navy.

During World Luawig, Vote Beer Tax to Aid Ma rq uette Med Schools Former Manager By MIKE ZETTELER Freeman Staff BOUNTY residents and represen tatives of civic groups concerned about pollution painted a picture of children with chronic ear infections, sub i divisions with hushed up sanitary pro blems and an "irresponsible building in dustry." But otherslt a long time dairy farmer, an attorney, a representative of a Landowners Rights Association spoke of "duplication" in government, loss of local control, and unreasonable and arbitrary power being given to the County Board of Health. The occasion was the 'second public hearing on a county wide community health code proposed by the County Board of Health. About 70 persons at tended the meeting in the courthouse Thursday night. i The hearing centered on chapter two of the code, which would regulate septic tank sewage systems. It covers their installation and construction, and would be administered by permits issued by the County Health Officer or his designated local agent.

4 "Do you know what it's like to have I your family sick all year, and not really know what's wrong with asked Mrs. John Nelson, vice president of the Waukesha YWCA board. "Infections that travel from throat to ears and back. It never dawns on you that your water is polluted. And when you take all kinds of steps to purify it have you ever tasted it?" Mrs.

Nelson said she had observed water standing in open pits that drained from septic tanks. "Whatever: codes we have are not adequate. We urge passage of this code for the sake of "the many people who will be coming to live here in the next zO years." "The Fox River has become almost unbearable to look at, and wells in our area are polluted' said Mrs. L. McCormack, representing the Better ffice Here, Dies War II he served on the Veterans MADISON (AP) The Wisconsin Assembly has voted to increase the state's beer tax for the first time since the 1930's, and to spend the extra revenue on financially troubled Marquette Medical School Inc.

The special appropriation of $3.2 million for the Milwaukee institution was approved 84 15 Thursday. The bill, with its beer tax increase, was sent to the Senate where similar approval has been predicted. The funds would apply for the 1969 71 bienniuni. The tax boost would raise the beer levy from $1 a barrel to $2. Marquette had broken many of its ties with Roman Catholic 4 Marquette University in hope of avoiding statutes which prevent private institutions from getting state am.

The State Supreme Court recently upheld the arrangement and the legality of state aid saying the appointment of six of the medical school's 18 trustees by the governor should provide taxpayers with adequate protection against misuse of state aid. Sponsors of the appropriation said the Rehabilitation Committee. He was a past commander of Prescott Bayens Post No. 83, American Legion of Sheboygan, and a member of St. Luke's Lutheran church." Ludwig was born June 25, 1893 at Stevens Point.

1 He was with the State Employment Service for 28 years, starting as a placement clerk in 1934 the Sheboygan office, When the service was expanded in 1936 and came under civil service, Ludwig placed fourth in a statewide competitive exam. He opened the Wisconsin Rapids office as its first manager. in November ml Ludwig was transferred to Waukesha ta manage the district office which served Waukesha, Washington and Ozaukee counties. Ludwig and his wife, Clara, bad celebrated their golden wedding an niversary last Sept. 3.

The Minocqua Republican challenged arguments jthat the higher beer levy would be a "tax on the poor man's 4l t. 4 1 rt. a Tm not against lavern owner either," Alfonsi said. "But they can take care of themselves." The new tax, he said, "will be simple to absorb at all levels." A number of amendments to the bill Continued on Page 'V Albert H. Ludwig 1.