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Green Bay Presi-Gazette Saturday, July 1978 A-3 Badger Briefs Twin Subs for Hero Wanted by Police 'No Special Prosecutor' on television Tuesday night and notified police. The bank official told police that Harris was suspected of cashing bad checks at the bank on the account of the basketball association. Investigators said Richard Taliaferro had been arrested for the check cashing case on June 22. But at his arraignment, Richard blamed his brother, whom police could not find. At this point police did not know the missing man was the subway hero.

That was learned after the banker contacted police. "That's life," said Koch after learning of the development. "Live and learn." attorney's office aay the brother often switched places. The "hero" had refused to allow media photographs of his face when his act of heroism was first reported, citing possible retaliation. Police say Harris is wanted for questioning in a case which Involves aa much as $150,000 taken from fund-raising efforts for the Little Pros Basketball Association, a youth group which Harris directs.

The manager of the Dollar Savings Bank branch at 2530 Grand Concourse, the Bronx, saw Harris getting his award to surrender. The bandit meekly complied. Police now say Harris is really Raymond Taliaferro of the Bronx, a forgery and bad check suspect who has disappeared and is being sought for questioning. Furthermore, the mayor's press aide, Maureen Connelly, reported that the man who appeared at City Hall to accept the heroism award Tuesday was not James Harris-Raymond Taliaferro at all, but Richard Taliaferro, the suspected forger's identical twin brother. Bronx investigators from the district NEW YORK (AP) "Sometimes things are not the way they seem," noted Mayor Edward Koch.

This is what his honor had to say Friday after police told him a man he had cited as a hero was wanted on forgery charges. Koch had presented James Harris with the Transit Authority's certificate of heroism and a five-year free pass for city subways and buses earlier this week. Harris, 30, a 5-foot-4 inch, ex-Marine, had won the admiration of all when he stood unarmed before a knife-wielding thug on a subway train and ordered him WASHINGTON (AP) The Justice Department says it doe not plan to name special prosecutor to investigate the possible misuse of $1 million in federal Upper Great Lakes Regional Commission funds. James Ulland, an Independent-Republican Minnesota state senator from Duluth, has proposed that a special prosecutor replace U.S. Attorney Andrew Danielson in the case because of Danielson 's long friendship with Sen.

Wendell Anderson, D-Minn. Ulland suggested that Danielson was delaying the investigation for fear the results might prove damaging to Anderson's race for election to a full Senate term in November. Danielson has denied the charge. Anderson was governor of Minnesota and a member of the regional commission at the time two economic development agencies in Duluth made questionable use of funds provided by the commission. The two projects were under the commission staff supervision of Mike Pin tar, an Anderson appointee and former campaign aide.

The investigation began last November at the request of William Bechtel, a Wisconsin Democrat who took over last July aa federal co-chairman of the commisson. Bechtel was prompted by a VS. Commerce Department audit. Mob-Style Killing in Milwaukee paid his rent. He said he often arrived at the tavern at 5 a.m.

to buy prc-j duce from local dealers, then organize deliveries to small 5. Regis Plant for Sale RHINELANDER (AP) they would continue working tauranta, grocery stores and nightclubs. He had no ware-- v. house, stacking the produce on the sidewalk until it was I I I t. The St.

Regis Paper Co. has started negotiations to sell its Rhinelander plant, the firm's president told union representatives and mill management Friday. United Paperworkera Inter He was also charged with unlawfully storing 93 sticks of dynamite in the basement of his tavern, then known as Richie's on Broadway and now called Palmy 'i Tavern. That charge was dismissed. According to city records, Palmisano had a one-third int-est in the firm which owned the tavern until June 1976, when he transferred ownership to his son, John 24.

Irving Goldman, an official of the firm which owns the building where the tavern is located, described Palmisano as a "nice fellow" who always August. Police found 20 sticks of dynamite beneath his car and said he escaped death because the bomb was not properly connected. Maniaci's brother, August, was shot and killed three years ago behind his home. His killer baa not been found. Palmisano was fined $1,000 in a 1963 conviction on a charge of gambling without buying a gambling tax stamp.

He pleaded guilty in 1975 to a charge of conducting a gambling business, and was fined $500 and placed on probation for two years. hood on the driver's side of Palmisano's car, 1977 Mercury. Palmisano, who operated a produce wholesale business from a tavern on Milwaukee's Commission Row, was burned almost beyond recognition and Milwaukee Police Lt. Thomas Perlewitz said his body was identified through fingerprints. "It almost severed the front of the car," said First Battalion Fire Chief Thomas Ko-nicke.

"It was a very, very forceful explosion." An attempt to bomb the car of Vincent J. Maniaci, a friend of Palmisano's, was made last "It certainly is gangland style, there's no question about that," said McCann. Twenty-one other cars were damaged by the force of the blast in an underground parking area at the Juneau Garden Village Apartment on the city's East Side, and an esti-. mated $1,500 damage was caused to the garage. "It was one heck of a bang," said Michael Thiel, 22, a resident of the apartment complex.

"The blast actually knocked pictures off the wall." Police said the bomb was apparently placed under the as discussions with the prospective purchaser proceeded. The plant, with an annual payroll of 19 million, is Rhinelan-der's largest employer. The union in May rejected a company proposal for a one-year national Union Locals 91 and luaueu uuo nis irucKS. vjh "He was good to bums, paupers, rich men and men," said one man who drove, truck for Palmisano. "He would take a bum off the street, and feed him.

There ain't one that could sav anything, bad about him." 330, who are strike July 10, scheduled to jwage freeze and a reduction in were asked if fringe benefits. Agency Halts Seabrook Work Oshkosh Truck Decision Still No WASHINGTON (AP) The State Department said Friday that it was sticking to its decision barring the Oshkosh Truck Corp. from selling trucks to Libya. The Commerce Department had approved the $56 million contract under which the Wisconsin firm was to sell 400 heavy duty trucks to Libya. But the State Department blocked the sale, saying it feared that the trucks might be used for military purposes such as carrying tanks.

Officials of Oshkosh Truck appealed. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance reconfirmed the ban Friday. Medicaid Deadline Extended Lv. fefiWA -wwriS Robert Durkin, head of the Division of Health, said he is extending Friday's original deadline for signing the agreements by one month, to July 31. New federal and state rules require that individual health care providers sign agreements.

MADISON (AP) The State Division of Health Friday warned that it will not forward reimbursements to Wisconsin doctors who refuse to sign government agreements regulating Medicaid payments. most crucial battle yet, but it's no time to stop. We've got to'--keep our guard up," she said. "I'd like to think this is th final blow against Seabrook, but the way things happen, the plant may live again." NRC officials also stressed that the decision does not mean the Seabrook site will be abandoned, but that it will reevaluated from an ecological standpoint. The commission voted 2-1 to halt the construction, saying it wanted the delay to protect its "freedom to decide on alter-'v natives to the Seabrook site." The $2.3 billion plant is de-' signed to use seawater to cool its nuclear reactor.

That method has been criticized as potentially hazardous to ocean'" life because it requires thai heated water be returned to' the ocean. MILWAUKEE (AP) Convicted gambler August S. Palmisano, 49, was killed Friday when a bomb exploded in his car. He had been notified recently by the FBI that he was one of nine persons whose telephones were wiretapped last month as part of a U.S. Organized Crime Strike Force investigation into Milwaukee area gambling activities.

County District Attorney E. Michael McCann. "We are always interested in mob-related activity," an FBI spokesman said. Tax Exempt Study Set by High Court MADISON (AP) An investigation into whether four Masonic lodges should lose their tax exempt status for alleged racial discrimination in their memberships was approved Friday among ruling of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. However, the court' said the state Revenue Department cannot revoke the tax exempt status of any Masonic lodge until administrative proceedings on the four have been completed.

The Public Service Commission was directed by the Supreme Court to determine who should be served with petitions for review of a 1976 PSC order granting rate increases to Madison Gas and Electric Co. The decision overturned a Dane County Circuit Court ruling dismissing on vironmental group's petition for review of the order. A new trial was ordered by the Supreme Court for Jerry McClelland, convicted of a 1975 armed robbery of $45 at a Rock County farmhouse because it said testimony on unrelated criminal activity by McClelland was allowed at the initial trial. The court ordered the dismissal of a case involving an illegitimate boy who sought damages in the death of the man alleged to have been his father. The Supreme Court affirmed the dismissal of the case by Barron County Court, but said the grounds should have been because paternal proof could not be provided.

The court upheld a ruling in favor of 14 retired Milwaukee Police Department Officers and employees seeking higher pensions. The case involved two pension systems. Lucey Content? Paper Says No MILWAUKEE (AP) Friends of Patrick Lucey say the former Wisconsin governor wants to leave his job as U.S. ambassador to Mexico by next year, The Milwaukee Journal reported today. The paper quoted Lucey friends as saying he would like some type of cabinet post with the Carter administration.

Lucey, reached in Mexico City by the Journal, said, "I'm very content here, and I like what I'm doing." Bad Check Passer Sought CONCORD, N.H. (AP) The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission's order for an indefinite halt to construction of the Seabrook nuclear power plant sparked celebrations up and down New Hampshire's short coastline. Supporters and stockholders of the privately-sponsored $2.5 billion plant were mostly quiet in reacting to the order, which the federal agency said it issued to enable it to study alternatives to the Seabrook site. Norman Cullerot, spokesman for the Public Service the plant's major stockholder, said the cost of suspending construction would be about $15 million a month. Gov.

Meldrim Thomson, one of the most vocal supporters of nuclear power and the Seabrook plant in particular, could not be reached for comment. 1,1 The decision, effective July 21i also touched off singing, cheering and dancing among an estimated 300 weary anti-nuclear protesters who had awaited the announcement Friday outside the commission's headquarters in Washington. "We've had so many disappointments in the past most of us didn't expect anything but the worst," said Kristie Conrad, an organizer of the Clamshell Alliance, which has coordinated the fight against the plant. Diane Gar and, a Clamshell leader who lives near the seaside plant site, shared the excitement, but with caution. "We may have won our 1 '-'4 man apparently has a check printer and presents checks from a non-existent business.

They said he also has a stolen driver's license issued to a Rubicon man. The man was described as blond, about 5-foot-11 and of medium build. MERRILL (AP) Authorities in Central Wisconsin are looking for a man reported to have cashed more than $12,000 in bad checks during the past week. Officials at the Lincoln County sheriffs office said the The Gingham Girls Household Liquidation Sfiecialvits If you are moving or reducing your household, try our pre-priced auction service, for greater return. RUTH GERGISCH 1 40 E.

Briar Um Onm Boy, Wis. 54301 336-7101 I i 11111 "Try AP LOMrpfWtO Wounded Police Officer 'Fair' EAU CLAIRE (AP) Patrolman Glenn Johan-sen, injured in a shooting incident here, was removed from intensive care at a local hospital Friday. Officials listed his condition as fair. Bond was set at $200,000 for Isidro Zamora, 31, the man charged with shooting Johansen and another officer, Craig West, when they went to his home on Tuesday. Zamora is charged with two counts of attempted first degree murder.

He remained hospitalized for treatment of hand cuts and a bullet wound to the arm, and his condition was listed as good. Disbarred DA Seeks License Space Ship? The Electric Light Orchestra, the British rock group, opened a U.S. tour in, Omaha Friday, arriving in a 60-foot "space ship" which opened up to provide its stage. The set is transported by eight tractor trailers and cost $300,000. County Cuts Legal Notices TO PLACE OR CANCEL YOUR WANT AD Us Our Fast, Easy Direct Dial Service 435-8361 DAILY ft TO SAT.

TO 12 NOON the Press-Gazette, Green Bay News-Chronicle, De Pere Journal, Ashwaubenon Howard-Suamico Press and Denmark Press. a committee of six lawyers and a political science professor to plead his case. McNamara was disbarred after being convicted of six misdemeanor charges stemming from auto and plane sales business operations in Wisconsin. FRIENDSHIP (AP) Daniel McNamara, the former Marquette County district attorney who was disbarred in 1975, is seeking return of his law license. McNamara, 56, went before Nelson Urges Variable Jobs I OF GREEN BAY Brown County Clerk Ronald De Lain announced this week that county board proceedings published in five local newspapers will be in an abbreviated form.

This will enable the county to cut its $13,000 annual publication cost in half. De Lain said the shortened legal notices will present summaries of resolutions, reports and communications. The shortened notice will continue to inform the public of the actions of the county board in full detail, said De Lain. Persons who want to receive complete information on the summary may call De Lain's office. There are five county newspapers which publish county board proceedings.

They, are UNiirACTuins ovrw sets a vomits clothinc Nuclear Waste Storage Opposed EAU CLAIRE (AP) A petition opposing the Dairyland Power Cooperative proposal for storing additional nuclear wastes at its nuclear power plant at Genoa has been filed with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Ellen Sabelko of Eau Claire said Friday. The petition was filed to halt production of all nuclear wastes at the Mississippi River plant near La Crosse until an adequate means is found for disposing of radioactive fuel elements already in use there. this snapshot won a trip to Hawaii. Sen. Gay lord Nelson has urged federal legislation to allow variable starting and quitting times for federal employees, and to provide more part-time jobs.

A number of private companies have found, Nelson said in a press release, that by instituting flexible working hours, employees are more motivated, satisfied and absenteeism and staff turnover were reduced. Letter Asks Strike Settlement In a letter strikers were quoted as requesting their work assignments and called their offer to return to work "unconditional." A total of five unions have been off their jobs since Oct. 1. MADISON (AP) Striking members of the Wisconsin State Journal Editorial Association reportedly have offered to end their nine-month walkout against Madison's morning daily newspaper. You SEMIANNUAL STARTS TOMORROW OPEN TOMORROW (SUNDAY) 10 A.M.

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MADISON (AP) Creation of a Judicial Administrative Committee to advise the state Supreme Court and a new director of state courts on the methods of operations of the courts and the volume and condition of business in the courts is proposed. The Wisconsin Judicial Council's Court Administration Committee also recommended that', the panel offer advice "on the expeditious handling of judicial matters in the future." FOR RESERVATIONS PHONE 499-0255 VICTORIAN HOUSE 710 HANSEN RD. ASHWAUBENON.