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5i Vol. 8 -No. 27 One Section -18 Pages Manitowoc-Two Rivers, Monday, January 28, 1980 Home Delivered Price $1.25 Per Week Single Copy 25 Cents No tax cut included Carter proposes $616 Mffion budget telligence activities, one official said, but the amount, was not made known as outlays for intelligence purposes are secret. Carter did propose a new program to improve education and job skills for 500,000 unemployed youths, and he asked Congress to provide funds for an increase of 50,000 in the number of sub- requires that we continue to rebuild our defense forces," the president said in his budget message to Congress. "I cannot ignore the major increases in Soviet military spending that have taken place inexorably over the past 20 years." The budget also includes increased spending for in sidized housing units for low-income families.

But the bulk of that spending would be in future years, not in 1981. He proposed defense outlays of $142.7 billion, a 3.3 increase over 1980, which includes funds for a Rapid Deployment Force for emergency dispatch to crisis areas like the Persian Gulf, as rm: iiT.iTm.m' inkhm 4 WASHINGTON (AP) President Carter today sent Congress a 1981 budget totaling $616 billion that proposes major new spending for-the military while putting a partial lid on domestic spending, despite his own predictions of sluggish economic growth and high unemployment. The budget does not include any tax cuts, which Carter warned could worsen inflation, already projected at 10.4 percent this year. He declared the budget is "prudent and responsible" and "will prepare America for the new decade. It provides for a deficit of $16 billion, making it the 12th consecutive budget to show red ink.

Charles L. Schultze, the president's chief economic adviser, said the Carter budget foresees a mild recession in 1980, making it the first presidential budget ever "to forecast a recession." The recession is expected in the first half of the year, followed by a slow economic recovery continuing through 1981. Total spending in the budget is equal to $2,775 for each American, an increase of $235 in per capita spending over fiscal 1980, for which total outlays are estimated at $564 billion. Carter said virtually all of the increase is due to inflation. The 1981 budget represents a reordering of the administration's priorities, increasing defense outlays by $15.3 billion to counter a Soviet military buildup and other global turmoil, while proposing overall restraint on domestic expenditures to help control inflation.

"The uncertain and sometimes hostile world we live in if tonus from forecast is correct, the jobless rate will be slightly higher at the end of his fouryear term than-when he took office. It was 7.4 percent in January 1977. Reflecting growing tension with the Soviet Union, Carter hurriedly included $800 million in the budget to purchase grain that has been denied to the Soviets, in addition to $2 billion proposed for grain purchases in 1980. Officials said the budget also will be amended to include aid for Pakistan as soon as the amount is determined. Spending for human assistance programs in the Department of Health and Human Services total $219.3 billion, an increase of $25.5 billion, the most for any department in government.

But much of the increase is designed to offset inflation, so there is little, if any, real gain (Continued on page 2) Whtri if goes smmbbmbw well as increased spending for NATO forces, the new MX ballistic missile, the bomber-launched cruise missile and a new super-tank. There was also $20 million for the Selective Service system to begin registering young Americans for a possible military draft. Though combating inflation is a high priority, Carter abandoned his 1976 campaign pledge to balance the budget. With projected revenues of $600 billion falling short of outlays, there is a deficit of $16 billion. The 1980 deficit is projected at $40 billion.

Energy projects also got a big boost from the Carter budget. Outlays for the Department of Energy would increase $1 billion to $8.7 billion to expand use of coal, coal gasification and solar energy. The budget, for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, must be approved by Congress, which usually makes significant changes. While spending is up $52 billion over projected 1980 outlays, the administration said $37 billion of that is mandated by existing law, such as cost-of-living hikes in Social Security benefits.

The budget forecast that the mild recession will boost unemployment to 7.5 percent. At the same time, consumer prices are expected to rise 10.4 percent. It is the first time in memory that an administration has forecast so severe an inflation rate a year in advance. Consumer prices increased 13.3 percent last year, a 33-year high and nearly double the original Carter forecast of 7.4 percent. If Carter's 1980 unemployment The Budget Dollar I 43: Fiscal Year 1981 Estimate Othtr 4C I ticise Taies bC I Borrowing 3C Income Individual Income 45C social Insuranct Receipts National Oiltnse Oinct Benelit 24C Payments to I Individuals "1 I 43( v'VVNit Intirist I Other fideraTy Grants to StatesX Operations and localities Inf ant death and nuclear Defense spending aimed Ho contain Soviet aggression9 powerlinked THE BUDGET DOLLAR Graphs show the United States budget dollar sources and where it will be appropriated to, based on the 1981 fiscal budget that President Carter will send to Congress Monday.

AP Laserphoto Wages, prices Kennedy calls for freeze WASHINGTON (AP) President Carter said today the United States must spend a record $142.7 billion next year on strengthening its defenses "to contain Soviet aggression" and assure U.S. security in the face of growing Russian military power. Carter's budget message to Congress had the ring of the Cold War years, when U.S. policy was built around the concept of "containing" communism within its borders. The president told Congress he could not ignore "the implications of terrorism in Iran or Brown indicated the administration may come back to Congress later to ask for still higher military spending "in light of events that have occurred in the world after the fiscal 1981 budget was finalized in late December." At a briefing, Brown said "a clear picture of increasing Soviet pressure was there before Afghanistan." Brown said an adverse trend in relative U.S.

and Soviet military power has worried U.S. officials fnr a considerable time "as has the prospect of Soviet attempts to take advantage of that military buildup" either by exerting political pressure or by military action. "Those have now begun to happen in more visible ways," Brown added, referring to the (Continued on page 2)1 Soviet figiression in Afghanistan." Only last week, Carter asserted in his State of the Union address that the United States would consider a Soviet effort to gain control of the oil-rich Persian Gulf area as a threat to U.S. vital interests and that America would act to repel such an effort. "Our forces are adequate to protect us against today's threats, but Soviet military capability is growing," Carter told Congress in the message explaining his budget for fiscal 1981, which begins Oct.

1. "Our forces must be increased if they are to contain Soviet aggression and continue to assure our security in the future. This will require a sustained commitment over a period of years," he said. Defense Secretary Harold The 50 American hostages were seized by Iranian militants who occupied the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on Nov.

4, three days before Kennedy announced his candidacy for the White House. The captors demanded the return of the shah to Iran for Sister Bertell said that area did not show an increase in infant mortality, but that radiation monitoring seemed inconsistent concerning that area's Genoa plant. Government spokesmen and public utilities, have said that normal radiation from nuclear plants is low, compared with natural radiation and medical X-rays. They said plant radiation's influence on health cannot be measured reliably. Sister Bertell, formerly with the Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo, N.Y., has organized the International Task Force for the Ministry of Public Health.

She said she is trying to organize scientists to work on environmental health hazards. Her Wisconsin study has lead to a 40-page unpublished report at the request of a Stevens Point group, League Against Nuclear Dangers. The study partially influenced five Roman Catholic organ-ziations which submitted shareholder petitions in opposition to plans for a nuclear-fueled power plant in Sheboygan County. She is to speak Tuesday and Wednesday in Milwaukee at Al-verno College, Marquette University, Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Cardinal Stritch College. MILWAUKEE (AP) A cancer researcher intends to alert Wisconsin to what she calls a correlation between nuclear-fueled power plants and a rise in infant deaths near the plants.

Sister Rosalie Bertell said in a weekend interview she is to speak at four colleges as guest of an antinuclear group, Milwaukee Mobilization for Survival. She has already told the American Public Health Association that state radiation monitoring records show high levels of strontium 90 in milk from 1963-66, a period corresponding to nuclear weapons testing and -radioactive fallout. Strontium 90 levels then de-creased slightly until the 1970s. But they increased again while nuclear power plant usage was expanding, she said. She said she studied death rates of prematurely born children for the same periods, and detected a decline in the Madison, Rice Lake and La Crosse areas.

But there were increases in the Eau Claire east of two Minnesota nuclear plants, and in the Green Bay area near other nuclear plants, she said. The La Crosse area is also near a nuclear power plant. Nelson says Russ spur conservation Kennedy of 56 percent to 31 percent among New Hampshire's Democratic and independent voters. The speech marked the beginning of a new campaign burst by the senator, He spent $20,000 for 30 minutes of television time on five New England stations tonight. And he arranged to leave Washington Wednesday for a 15-day burst of campaigning, concentrated on the Northeast.

Addressing himself to last week's presidential State of the Union message, Kennedy declared: "Let me tell you what you did not hear. Inflation will continue. Unemployment will go up. Energy prices will rise to even higher Terming Carter's 16-month program of wage and price guidelines a failure, Kennedy said, "Inflation is out of control. "There is' only one resource: the president should impose an immediate six-month freeze on inflation followed by mandatory controls, as long as necessary, across the board." He said controls should be imposed not only on prices and wages; but also on profits, dividends, interest rates and rents.

Such a program would require legislation by Congress. Kennedy opposed the administration's call for economic sanctions against Iran, saying such a move "would only propel Iran toward the Soviet orbit. This will do nothing to free the hostages." Kennedy said the administration should support a U.N. commission to investigate grievances against the shah, but "it should begin its work only when every American hostage has come back safely to our shores." WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Edward M.

Kennedy, vowing to stay the course in his campaign for the Whit? House, called today for a six-month freeze on wages and prices to be followed by mandatory economic 1 He said a United Nations com-, mission should investigate Iran's grievances against the deposed shah. In a speech intended to rekindle his faltering challenge to President Carter, Kennedy also called for a mandatory program of gasoline rationing that he said would cut American oil use by 1.7 million barrels a day, or 24 percent of current imports. On foreign affairs, Kennedy said Carter's response to the discovery of Russian troops in Cuba last year "may have invited the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan." And while calling for strengthened American naval and air forces in the Persian Gulf region, Kennedy opposed the president's proposal for renewed draft registration as a "step across the threshhold of Cold War II." The speech was prepared for an audience at Georgetown University here. Kennedy had canceled four days of campaigning in New England to etch more clearly his differences with the Carter administration. The Massachusetts senator shifted his campaign plans after losing to Carter in their first test in the Iowa caucuses Jan.

21. Kennedy then said he must defeat the president in Maine's caucuses Feb. 10 and in the New Hampshire presidential primary Feb. 26. But a Boston Globe poll published over the weekend showed the president with a lead over Bolle, Maple Crest purchaser related conservation and alternative fuels development," Nelson said.

In the United States, he said goals for reducing energy consumption should be increased, methods for meeting the goals should be reassessed, incentives for conservation should be provided in public and private sectors and comprehensive research programs to improve technology for saving energy should be started. The nation has abundant resources to use for energy production, Nelson said, adding that he favors speedily "moving to increased use of coal, gasohol, solar, synthetic fuels, wood and renovated hydro-electric power dams." Nelson told an interviewer that he favors having the United States boycott the summer Olympics, scheduled for Moscow, as a way of responding to the Soviet Union's intervention in Afghanistan. He contended the Soviets would use the Olympics as propaganda for their nation, trying to give their regime more legitimacy in the eyes of their own people and other peoples of the world. MILWAUKEE (AP) The Soviet Union's intervention in Afghanistan makes it especially important for the United States to reduce its dependence on foreign oil supplies through, conservation and production of energy, U.S. Sen.

Gaylord Nelson, said during the weekend. "The proximity of Soviet troops to the vulnerable oil fields of the Middle East is a cause for great Nelson said. While no one can predict Soviet intentions in the region, "it can be said with certainty that a new era of energy preparedness is more important for America now than at any time in our history," Nelson said in a speech Saturday to members of Brewery Workers Local No. 9. He provided percentage figures showing oil imported from the Middle East totals 88 percent of the total consumption in Japan, 35 percent of total consumption in the United States and 84 percent of total consumption in Western Europe.

"The instability caused by the Soviet invasion has forced a reassessment of the speed with which Western nations move to increase programs of energy MANITOWOC Supervisor Dale J. Bolle, chairman of the County Board's Public Property Committee, has acknowledged that he and Peter Kocourek, successful bidder for the county's Maple Crest property, near Whitelaw, are related. Bolle sajd anyone having any questions concerning the procedures for the sale are invited to attend the Public Property Committee meeting in the County Courthouse at 6 p.m. County Board members Tuesday night voted to sell the 11.4 acre site known as Maple Crest skilled nursing home complex to former Rockwood area resident Kocourek, now of Kenosha, for $95,000. Jack Mrozinski and Leslie Behnke, Manitowoc, bid $96,000, but with certain stipulations.

The committee had decided there would be no stipulations, therefore Bolle moved that the board accept the 'next highest (Kocourek's) bid. Today in the Lakeshore Family violence is topic MANITOWOC Claudia Hoover, counselor-coordinator for Manitowoc County Domestic Violence Center, will meet with Manitowoc County Family Day Care Mothers 7 p.m. Tuesday at Catholic Social Services. Her topic will be "Education and ways in which domestic violence in all of its forms can be reduced and treated." She will use a film and lead a discussion to help illustrate what the Violence Center staff does. Anyone interested in the Family Day Care Program may contact Mary Brady, coordinator, phone 682-2117.

Harbor repair funds asked WASHINGTON The budget President Carter sent to Congress today asks for $379,000 for breakwater repair in the Manitowoc Harbor. The request is contained the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 1980. Inside The New Holstein School District is proceeding with a plan to implement a program for gifted and talented students.

The story, and other area news, is on page 12. The legal system is discussed in the Ann Landers column. Read it in today's Community Scene section. The forecast Partly cloudy with a few snow flurries north and increasing cloudiness with a chance for snow south today. Highs zero to 15.

Partly cloudy north and a good chance for snow south with continued cold tonight and Tuesday. Lows 5 above to 10 below. Highs zero to 15. Wednesday through Friday: Cold with a chance of snow Wednesday. Highs from zero to 10 north, 10 to 20 south.

Lows from 5 below to 15 below north, 10 below to 5 above. Manitowoc Temperatures Saturday noon 13; 4 p.m. 12, 8 p.m. midnight Sunday 4 a.m. -2; 8 a.m.

-2; 10 a.m. 1. High 14, low -2. Sunday noon 4 p.m. 8 p.m.

midnight -1; Monday 4 a.m. -3; 8 a.m. -1 10 a.m. 2. High 7, low -3.

Two Rivers Temperatures Saturday 4 p.m. 12; 8 p.m. midnight Sunday 4 a.m. -2; 8 a.m. 0,10 a.m.

2. High 19, low 2. Sunday 4 p.m. 8 p.m. midnight -1; Monday 4 a.m.

-2; 8 a.m. -1; 10 a.m. 6. Hieh 14. low 3.

Index and other features PAGE Are nw 12 Classified 14, IS, 16 Comics 13 Community scene 6 Editorial 4 Legal notices 17 Obituaries 3 Sports today 10,11 TV listing 17 Man critically injured in fire rogj nmmt mm mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I i J' ,..4 2-'hi I -v. tiii-iim" jtfr'iiii iii iimhw f't' miwf.imiirrniMi min ii i mt mrp iiitihii in that of Dolezal's in the two-story brick and frame building, said he noticed "lights flick and smelled something burning." When Brown checked the hall it was filling with smoke, the report continued. He went down the back stairs and his wife went out the front of the building. As Brown passed Dolezal's quarters he noticed the door partially open and Dolezal lying on the floor between the dresser and bed. The fire appeared to be over the bed, the report said.

Gary W. VanHemelryk said he helped Brown drag Dolezal out of the building where he first was attended by Fireman Augie Krieser, then taken to the hospital. Another report said Robert W. MANITOWOC A fire early today in the Capitol Hotel annex, 713 Jay critically burned one occupant and forced 19 others from the building. Chester J.

Dolezal, 50, whom authorities said sustained second degree burns over about 50 percent of his body, was removed to Holy Family Hospital by Manitowoc Ambulance Service, then transferred to St. Mary Burn Center, Milwaukee. Lyle L. Heide, executive director of the Manitowoc County Red Cross Chapter, said about 19 other hotel residents were provided with emergency housing at Hotel Howard through immediate chapter arrangements. "Most of the people got out with what they were wearing," Heide reported.

He said the chapter is following up with more permanent assistance today. Firemen, summoned at 12:43 a.m., battled the blaze in bitter cold weather, were on the scene for approximately two hours. According to the Police Department report, Johnny Brown, a tenant whose apartment was located almost directly above Penn, 1806 Emmett Two Rivers, listed by police as the hotel owner, was forced backward after managing to force the door of Dolezal's quarters open. The police report quoted a hotel source as saying Dolezal as having burned candles in his room in the past. Sections of the hotel were gutted by flames and there was considerable smoke damage in the building.

1 I Chester J. Dolezal, 50, sustained second degree burns over about 50 percent of his body, according to police. He was transfered to a Milwaukee hospital. CAPITOL HOTEL FIRE A fire early Monday critically burned one man and forced 19 others from the building. Firemen were summoned to the Capitol Hotel Annex, 713 Jay Manitowoc, at 12:43 a.m.

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