The La Crosse Tribune from La Crosse, Wisconsin • Page 15

Delivered RFD La Crosse Tribune, Tuesday, May 4, 1971-13 HONORED BY GIRL SCOUTS Mr. and Mrs. LaVerne Lewis (right) were among honorees at Monday annual meeting of Riverland Girl Scout Council, and Mrs. Ernest Retzlaff Jr. (left) was elected president.

Tribune Photo. Girl Scout Council Cites Leaders, Elects Officers badges, the highest award in adult Girl Scouting, were awarded to Mrs. LaVerne Lewis and Mrs. Warren Erler, by the Riverland Girl Scout Council at its annual meeting Monday evening in the Holiday Inn. Mrs.

Duane Moore, retiring council president, cited them for their efforts on troop, camp and council projects. Plaques of appreciation were given to LaVerne Lewis and Charles Kretschmer for their work in developing and maintaining Camp Ehawee, and to Dr. Ruth Dalton, retiring Senior Scout adviser. Mrs. Moore presented a special plaque to Thomas Runkle, La Crosse United Fund director, expressing the Girl thanks to UF for its aid.

Certificates of appreciation went to Mrs. Roger Brandstetter, Sparta; Mrs. Marlowe Nelson, Westby; and Mrs. William DeClute, Mrs. George Duncan and Mrs.

Charles Weisensel, all from La Crosse. They are retiring from the board of directors. Two of La Crosse Girl pioneer leaders, Mrs. C. I.

Anderson and Mrs. Milan Skundberg, received recognition for 45 years of service. Numeral guards also were presented to Mrs. Charles Loveland, 25 years; Bennie Erickson, Mrs. Carl Haase and Mrs.

Leif Haugen, 20 years; Mrs. Archie Garbis, Mary Matthusen and Mrs. Charles Vaslow, 15 years. In her first official act as council president, Mrs. Ernest Retzlaff presented graduation certificates to 31 Senior Girl Scouts.

Eight Cadette Scouts of Troop 9, Onalaska United Methodist Church, presented a program of folk dancing, and Senior Scout Christine Uber recounted her experiences last summer as a regional delegate to a Girl Scout national workshop. Council officers elected for the 1971-73 term are: Mrs. Retzlaff; Mrs. John Sherman, first vice president; Mrs. Chester Lachecki, La Crescent, treasurer.

Elected to the board of directors are: Mrs. R. S. Hulse, Onalaska; Mrs. Richard Pilgrim, Viroqua; Mrs.

Clayton Randorf, Tomah; Mrs. S. B. Ivers, Whitehall; Neal Gleason, Leonard Brown, Mrs. John Auby, Mrs.

Hollis Norskog, Mrs. John Ross, Mrs. George Schultz and Mrs. Seth Stoltz, all of La Crosse. Firm's Plat For $5 Million Residential Area Okayed After saying it was getting involved in a came first, the chicken or the argument, a development firm received a conditional approval of its preliminary plat Monday afternoon from the City Plan Commission.

James (Jake) Hoeschler, one owner of the firm. Acme Development said that Acme plans a $5 million residential development in the 164-lot Woodlawn Addition south of Hillview Golf Course. attorney and one of the owners, James Bannen, told the commission that City Planner Ronald G. Bracegirdle want to commit himself on the preliminary plat until questions of road access were resolved. And Acme want to commit itself on access until it knows if the preliminary plat is acceptable in all other aspects, he said.

The commission recommended approval of the preliminary plat if Acme provides access from Highway 14 south of the Highway 14 overhead and if Acme agrees to get an easement for land along Pammel Creek for extending 33rd Street to the south. Since part of Pammel Creek shoreland is for flood control, resulting in the easement probably taking part of Hillview Golf Course, the commission voted to recommend that the Common Council use city condemnation powers, if necessary. Acme would buy the right of way, however. Otherwise, Bannen said, the right-of-way might be too costly. Bracegirdle said he feel it was necessary for Acme to secure right of way, but that it should have a for the route.

The Woodlawn plat will be considered Tuesday night by the Common Council grounds and buildings committee. In other action, the commission voted to annex: Ex-County Demo Leader Undergoes Heart Surgery Walter Thoresen, Eau Claire, a former leader of the La Crosse County Democratic party and former member of the La Crosse State University faculty, is recovering from open heart surgery at La Crosse Lutheran Hospital. A hospital spokesman said Thoresen, 52, underwent the surgery April 29, with a team headed by Dr. A. Erik Gundersen performing the operation.

Thoresen, now on the Eau Claire State University faculty, had been in the intensive care unit of Lutheran Hospital, but had been transferred to a regular hospital room. He was described as service on the LCU faculty included chairmanship of the sociology department. He left LCU in 1966 to become director of the Economic Development Administration office in Duluth, Minn. He resigned that post in June 1969 to accept a professorship in the sociology department at Eau Claire State. Thoresen ran unsuccessfully for Congress against incumbent Vernon Thomson in the 3rd District in 1962, and in 1970, he ran, again unsuccessfully, against Alvin for the 10th District seat.

In 1960, he was elected cochairman of the La Crosse County Democratic party. Thoresen was a treasurer of the 3rd District Democratic party, a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, and a member of the state administrative committee. His wife formerly taught Spanish at Logan High School. $40,000 Asked To Keep City Bus Service Alive Mrs. C.

I. Anderson 45 Years Of Service Mrs. Milan Skundberg 45 Years Of Service site for a Ice Cream Store on former Woodlawn Cemetery property if Lee agrees, in writing, not to seek sanitary sewer service from the city. Such service would be expensive if not impossible to said Bracegirdle. and Joan unimproved lot at 3331 Cliffside Drive.

The Goedes plan to build a home there and want city utilities and services. By DONALD W. AFFOLTER (La Crosse Tribune Staff Writer) The La Crosse Transit Co. Monday night said it needs a subsidy of up to $40,000 for the fiscal year ending May 31, 1972, or else it will seek to abandon service here. go through the situation we did last Ray M.

Fey Eau Claire, company president, told the Common Council Finance Committee. He referred to the borrowing $46,000 last year to remain solvent. Fey said the is for $25,000 $6,250 in each of the four summer months, June, July, August and September, when bus riding is at its lowest. When finance committeemen proposed to refer the request to committee, Fey said he needed an answer on the subsidy by May 20, or he would petition to the Wisconsin Public Service Commission to abandon bus service. Committeemen, however, bound by a council rule that all legislation must first be introduced at a regular council meeting and referred to committee unless the rules are suspended, voted to refer the matter, saying there would be an answer by May 20.

They scheduled a meeting on the question for 7:30 p.m. Friday. When discussing the scheduling of a meeting, Alderman Ferdinand Sontag (4th Ward) said he is concerned that subsidies continue, grow and encourage the subsidized company find a way to get out of the frying Asked during the meeting what the company has done to promote bus usage, Fey said that the company had any money to advertise. you juggled asked Sontag. schedules are adjusted to take care of our riding Fey replied.

One committeeman privately complained that one run could be extended a block or two to serve Hillview Home without affecting the schedule. (the buses) just sit there and he said. Fey told the committee that the Greater La Crosse Chamber of Commerce had all kinds of when the bus company was tight financially late last year but seen any evidence of that He said that the chamber may have felt that the La Crosse Area Public School reinstating bus service for in-city students living more than two miles from school provided the answer. This has helped, but not enough, said Fey. Sontag asked school officials if they could award bus contracts now handled by private individuals to the bus company to help it out, but James Wais, school business manager, said contracts have a year to run.

They also are awarded after bidding, he said. In asking for a subsidy of up to $40,000 for the next fiscal year, Fey said the company seeks the difference between actual city line revenues and actual costs. The exact subsidy would be determined after an audit of the bus company records, he added. Subsidizing the bus company for the next 12 months would enable the city to decide what it wants to do: operate its own bus service as a public utility or buy capital equipment, including buses, with federal aid and lease the equipment either to the present company or to some other company, said Fey. In an estimate of operating costs and revenues for city service for the next 12 months, the firm estimates it will have a $54,334 loss.

But it is seeking a maximum subsidy of $40,000. are willing to absorb some $14,000 of the estimated losses to insure job protection of our 45 loyal employes with many years of said Fey. we sincerely believe La Crosse needs city bus service in order to continue to grow and As recommended last week at a meeting with city officials, the bus company has included advertising revenues in estimated city bus line revenues, and has excluded depreciation of school buses from city line costs, he said. The company since that meeting also negotiated a contract with its employes providing for a five-cent an hour increase retroactive to Dec. 29, another five cents retroactive to April 19, a five-cent increase June 20, a 10-cent increase Sept.

1, and a five-cent increase March 1, 1972. Coal To Natural Gas NSP To Convert Plant EARL L. BITTNER Mrs. Warren Erler Thanks Badge Recipient Two Plead Innocent In Theft Case Two of three men accused of burgling a La Crosse store pleaded innocent Monday in Circuit Court and had their cases set for trial. Judge Peter Pappas set trial June 17 for Robert D.

Elkinton, 20, of 2017 Main and June 18 for John R. Richmond, 22, White Hall, La Crosse State University. The third accused person, Roger K. Wehrenberg, 19, of 222 Rose stood mute when charged with participating in the April 19 burglary of South Avenue Beer Depot, 2016 South Ave. The judge entered an innocent plea for him, but did not schedule trial.

He set June 14 as the day juries will be chosen for the other two cases and May 24 as the date for hearings on the admissibility of statements taken from the two by police following their arrests. lawyer, Marvin Davis, and Roger Imes, indicated they will contest the admissibility of the statements. Patrick Doyle, lawyer, said statement will not be contested, but he filed a motion asking for dismissal of the charge because grounds to hold Wehrenberg for trial had not been established at his County Court preliminary examination. A plan by Northern States Power Co. to eliminate air pollution at its French Island generating plant (conversion from coal to natural gas) was announced Tuesday by W.

N. Marx, firm president. Marx said: have recently received approval of our plan by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. The French Island plant will be converted from coal to natural gas, with fuel oil as standby. This change in fuels will enable NSP to meet or exceed the new air pollution standards established by the state to be effective July 1, Marx said NSP is in the process of placing orders for the conversion equipment now and will begin construction to extend the gas main to the plant this summer.

Actual construction for the conversion is scheduled for the first quarter of 1972 and the target date for completion is May 1972. total cost of the conver- i will be approximately $532,000 and the increase in annual operating costs is estimated to be $300,000 due to higher fuel he stated. The increased annual operating cost will be offset in a small part by some savings in manpower requirements in coal handling, Marx added. NSP plans for the Edison plant also were spelled out by Marx. Edison will be continued on a standby basis and will be used only a few hours a year and only if a system emergency exists.

Marx said the plant is so small in generating capacity it is impractical to make all the changes necessary in order to make it conform to the new air pollution standards. After Oct. 1, 1973, the plant will be retired and dismantled, he said. He said the company has worked since 1966 to cut down air pollution caused by the plant and will continue to do so. In describing NSP efforts, he noted that since poor combustion problems are usually more prevalent during rapid load changes, early in 1967 NSP established normal operating rules that minimized the rate of such load changes.

In 1968, a steam injection system was installed as a means of minimizing the smoke whenever a combustion problem developed. Also in 1968 over fire air jets were installed to again minimize smoke emission, as well as experimentation with different types of coal. At the same time a special coal crusher was installed at the cost of $17,700 to further improve combustion efficiency. Effective in August 1968 and except for system emergencies, the maximum normal generation at the plant has been limited to 76 per cent of rated capac- iy in an effort to again minimize smoke. In 1970 smoke recorders were installed at a cost of $3,500 so the plant firemen could be alerted to a combustion problem as soon as it occurs.

Foley Heads Council Finance Unit La Crosse Alderman Lee B. Foley (8th Ward) was elected chairman of the Common Council finance committee Monday night by his fellow committeemen. The vote was 3-2 for Foley over Alderman Ferdinand Sontag (4th Ward). The vice chairman for the past two years, Alde a John Schubert (11th Ward), was not a candidate for the post. Foley succeeds former 13th Ward Alderman L.

Peter Groves (13th Ward), who left the council April 20 after eight years. In his bid for the chairmanship, Foley said the committee faces for the next two years, with continued high unemployment and low incomes, needed services, the Earl Bittner Heads United State Reserve Officers Fund Division Trane Plans To Buy N.J. Pollution Control Firm Trane Co. Monday announced the signing of a letter of intent for acquisition of Gourdine Environmental Systems, of Livingston, N.J. The subsidiary is owned by Gourdine Systems, and was formed to manufacture and market air pollution control devices developed by the parent company.

According to Thomas Hancock, president of Trane, the New Jersey firm recently began marketing precipitators for the control of incinerator pollution. Hancock said he believes a major market exists for these in apartment buildings. Terms of the transaction were not revealed. Directors of both companies must approve the action. Earl L.

Bittner, manager of Sears Roebuck and Co. here has been named head of the large commercial division of the 1971 United Fund drive, says Earl C. Ramsey, UF chairman. Bittner is a graduate of the University of Iowa with a degree in marketing. Before coming to La Crosse, he was assistant manager of Sears in Waterloo, Iowa, in Duluth, and in Rapid City, S.D.; zone merchandise manager in Minneapolis, and store manager in Watertown.

He has served as sustaining membership chairman of the Gateway Area Council of Boy Scouts and as council president. He is president of Our Lutheran council, vice president of the retail division of the Greater La Crosse Chamber of Commerce, president elect of the Rotary Club, is on the marketing advisory board of WWTI and is a member of the board of directors of the United Fund and the Salvation Army. He and his wife, Norma, have two children and reside at 850 E. Janice Court. Elect Local Lawyer Peter E.

Berg, a La Crosse lawyer, was elected president of the Reserve Officers Association of Wisconsin at the convention last week in Green Bay. Berg is a lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserve. In accepting the position, Berg said the association must be prepared to meet the challenge of at the political level and military opponents at the preparedness level. He said the group must be ready to meet political challenges at university and legislative hearings and stress need for defense to maintain world peace. He said among other goals is one involving implementing orders of Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird that reserve forces must be used to meet any future contingency and that such ability depends on readiness and training of reserve units.

Also at the convention, the 1,000 delegates presented a citizenship award to Madison Mayor William Dyke. The reserve officers passed a resolution supporting ROTC programs as a means of providing liberally educated officers broad backgrounds necessary to maintain the balance of the officer corps of this PETER E. BERG need for replacing equipment, and non improving fixed incomes. He said like to develop a tax plan on ability to pay. Other proposals by Foley were: Publish the names of those State Suing mart Here For Noncompliance The State of Wisconsin is suing the owners and operators of the mart Discount Store, 2425 State Road, for $22,100 in damages and is seeking a court order to close the store unless it complies with state requirements.

The suit, filed in Circuit Court, alleges that since April 23, 1970, the defendants, Second Madison Corp. and S. S. Kresge have failed to submit to the state for approval their heating and ventilation system plans and to install systems in compliance with approved plans. In the suit, Atty.

Gen. Robert Warren asks that the court award the state damages at the rate of $100 a day from April 23, 1970, to March 6,1971, and order the defendants to stop operating a business on the premises until they comply with the requirements of the State Department of Industry, Labor and Human Relations. Bloodmobile Short Of Quota The Red Cross bloodmobile fell short of its quota Monday by 33 pints of blood during its stay in First Lutheran Church, Onalaska. quota was 120. Donors will have a chance to make up the difference through Friday, however.

The bloodmobile will be set up in Mary E. Sawyer Auditorium from 1 to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday and from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday.

The quota each day will be 158 pints and for the week 752. department heads who through tight spending return large sums to the surplus fund. Assign committeemen areas of in which they specialize. Have a month by month analysis of department spending at the end of the year have a nice fat surplus to apply to next year's only pre-election comment was that he would be interested in the position. After electing Foley as chairman, the committee elected Sontag as vice chairman.

Alderman Harold (Deak) Swanson was named committee secretary. SR. BERNADETTE SR. LAURETTE Cathedral Principal Going To Guam; Successor Named Sister Bernadette Prochaska, principal of Cathedral School, 1319 Ferry has been named superintendent of schools for the Diocese of Agana, Guam. Sister Laurette Sprosty, cur- i I coordinator at the school, will be the new principal, effective next fall.

Sister Bernadette, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Frank Prochaska, Muscoda, is a graduate of Viterbo College, has attended the University of Guam and received her masters degree from the University of Notre Dame. Sister Bernadette has been principal of St. Joseph Ridge, St.

Wenceslaus and Cathedral Schools in La Crosse and has taught at Holy Cross and St. Schools. She has also taught in the Diocese of Madison at Dodgeville. From 1963 to 1968 Sister Bernadette taught at St. Jude Junior High School in Guam and was secretary of education for Guam Catholic schools.

Sister Laurette, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Sprosty, 711 S. 13th is a graduate of St. Rose Convent High School and received her bachelors degree from Viterbo College in 1961 and masters degree from Dayton University, Dayton, Ohio, in 1970.

Both degrees were in elementary education. She taught six years at St. Wenceslaus School and the last two Cathedral. Before coming to La Crosse she taught elementary grades for four years in Mosinee..