TV' Pa 10 Fond du Lae (Wisconsin) Commonwealth Reporter, Tuesday, October 6, 1970 Wisconsin Politics Candidates Cite Positions, Defend Parties, Criticize Foes Walter F. Mondale of Minnesota The Milwaukee lawyer said farmers could get a better state spending can be held down by prudent, businesslike administration provided Republican leadership. "If the surplus from the first County assembly candidate, told Beaver Dam residents Monday that just three terms ago, Wisconsin had its first $1 billion budget and since that time we have seen a 200 per cent increase in the sales tax and property tax Increases of nearly general for Minnesota. He has been in the Senate since 1964. Dies in Vietnam WASHINGTON (AP) The Army said Monday that WOl James M.
Benicek, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jerome F. Benicek of Racine, has died of wounds In Vietnam. will be the guest speaker at a fund raising dinner for Patrick J.
Lucey, 'Democratic nominee for governor The event will be held In Milwaukee Oct. 17. U.S. Sen. William Proxmire of Wisconsin will be master of ceremonies.
Mondale is a former attorney many Wisconsin citizens unemployed as there are today was at the end of another Republican administration, in 1958, when 83,000 were out of work. Today 90,000 Wisconsin citizens are unemployed, an increase of 30,000 over, last year." Utech Statement SHEBOYGAN Frank Utech, Oshkosh, Democratic nominee for the 6th Congressional seat, said Monday that property owners are bearing an unfair share of the education tax load. In a prepared statement on education delivered to the 90 per cent Dinner for Lucey MADISON (AP) U.S. Sen. expand the share that is borne by the federal government." Elchstedt Talks WEST BEND Assembly candidate Lee Eichstedt today expressed concern for Washington County senior citizens, and described them as "the forgotten generation." Eichstedt said that while much attention is given to the problems and concerns of the younger people, It is those people who have reached retirement, that find themselves with troublesome burdens.
"Only by a change in state government this November, will these people find well-deserved relief In the form of expanded homestead relief laws and increased state and federal aids to education, together with equitable tax reforms." Hanson Speaks BEAVER DAM With Little secrete ef success break from state government if carrying charges and time-price differential service charges were placed under the protec tion of the state's 12 per cent usury law limits. "The state has a 12 per cent ceiling on interest rates," Jacobson said, but some mer chants, including "door to door salesmen hucksters," leave farmers paying up to 38 per cent interest. Some laws, including property tax rates, are putting the farm er "at a disadvantage," he said. Olson Comments MADISON Lt. Gov.
Jack Olson, Republican candidate for governor, said Monday the $20 million state surplus for the first year of the current biennium was "clear cut proof of the sucessful results of responsible management state expenditures and economic expansion" under the Knowles-Olson administration. Olson said the surplus for the fiscal year ending June 30 clearly demonstrates that (By Hit Auocl*ttd Prtii) The Democratic candidate for Wisconsin attorney general out lined a farm program Monday, saying "too many of our rural citizens are now left to the mercy of large corporate gyp- sters." Thomas M. Jacobson, who hopes to defeat Republican Atty, Gen. Robert Warren Nov. 3, said In a "position paper" that limitations must be enacted against corporate farming while the emphasis on pollution abatement must be shifted to wealthy industrialists.
"Tax advantages for profit- seeking conglomerates, who could care less, are moving into rural Wisconsin and taking over the farm economy," Jacobson said. Blamed for Pollution "In some quarters, the blame for pollution is being shifted to the farmers," he said, "In the last few years, farmers know, it was the small local cheese factory that enforcement of ficials cracked down on while the major industrial polluters were granted relative Im munity." 66 predictions, by Gov. Knowles that the state's next budget will reach $2 billion, Wisconsin taxpayers' will no doubt be asked to pay higher taxes in 1971. Tom Hanson, Dodge A -fl mil if A spet" year of the budget continues through the second year, as I am hopeful it will," said the lieutenant governor, "as governor I will apply the full amount to holding down state taxes next year." Views of Lucey LA CROSSE Patrick J. Lucey, Democratic candidate for governor, said Monday that as ions as the Republican federal and state economic policies are based on the non- involvement government, unemployment will Increase, prices will continue to spiral upward, and the property tax will continue to rise dramatically.
In a speech to the state convention of the AFL-CIO, Lucey, the labor-endorsed candidate for governor, said, "The Nixon economic priorities are swelling the ranks of the unemployed while continuing to generate inflation. "The last time there were as it, Sheboygan Education Associa tion, Utech stressed that the tax structure for supporting education is seriously out of balance. He said: "At the present time, about 53 per cent of the expenses of elementary and secondary schools are paid out of local taxes, about 41 per cent out of state taxes, and only 6 per cent out of federal taxes. The only realistic solution to the problem of financing American education is to swini Too many people make a token contribution to the United Way Campaign, and sit back and figure they've done all they should. They, haven't.
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