Green Bay Press-Gazette from Green Bay, Wisconsin • Page 6

6 Tuesday, Sept. IS, 1981 Green Boy Pres-Goztt METROSTATE mult Tourism maybe his business, but it's not his pastime around town in his role as bureau president, Brault said, "If you're in the people business like I am, you can understand I just like to sit on my patio when I have time, not go to some entertainment somewhere." And, from his patio it' just a short leap to his backyard swimming pool, where Brault likes to swim as therapy for a back he's in the news 1 I William By JOANNE ZIPPERER CMttttPrrnvGaitttt The Brault residence at 720 Simonet St. in Allouez has probably the only "Zima shed" in town. "The more frustrated I get, the more I like to build something," said its architect, William Brault, president of the Green Bay Area Visitor Convention Bureau. Brault said he ordered lumber and built the shed after Supervisor Guy Zima launched an attack on the bureau nine months ago, charging that it was operating the Brown County Veterans Memorial Arena in a cloud of secrecy.

"It's funny but it helps me relax," Brault said of his penchant for building sheds. "I have four of them now and I'm running out of things to put in them." Brault, 54, considers himself a builder in his professional life as well, having brought the bureau from a two-man operation in the late 1960s to a major non-stock corporation today. But, his personal and professional interests are a study in contrasts. Involved in the food business since he was a youngster, Brault said, "I'm not a fussy food person. Occasionally, I like Chinese foods and I like homemade soups but that's about all that comes to mind." Assigned the professional mission of bringing visitors to Green Bay, Brault said, "I don't like to travel and I'm not a good traveler, particularly to the big cities." Required to know what's going on 16, a junior at St.

Joseph's Academy. "Our family is very close," Brault said, "and everything we've ever done has been done as a family." Mrs. Brault echoed her husband's words. "We do everything with the family," she said. That includes going to church, voting and vacationing at Minocqua each summer, where swimming and fishing head the activities list.

"He loves to fish and the girls fish with 'him," Mrs. Brault said. The family owns a 16-foot outboard which is occasionally launched in the Fox River near the De Pere dam. On one occasion, Brault and the children put the boat in the water without putting in the plug. It started to take on water and they had to do some quick work to pull it out before it sank.

Cross-country skiing used to be a winter attraction, Mrs. Brault said, "but the girls don't go much now that their dad can't go." The conflict over the operation of the arena has taken a toll on the family, Brault said. "I'm really measuring the effect of all this on them and on our relationship." Brault started his business career alongside his father, Arthur. He remembers going to as many as seven schools in one year while traveling with his father's band, Art Brault's Canadians, to Michigan, Texas and destinations in between. In 1939, the family moved to Green Brault enlisted in the Navy before graduation, attending Central Catholic's commencement exercise wearing his Navy uniform.

After his discharge, he attended St. Norbert College and the Milwaukee Business School, then rejoined his dad in Green Bay. When Brault's Restaurant closed in the 1950s, the Brault father-son team went into the catering business. Brault also became associated with the Visitor Convention Bureau after several Chamber of Commerce members asked him to give them a hand with the fledgling organization. In his role with the bureau and development of the Green Bay Packer Hall of Fame, Brault met a man who gave him some of his fondest memories the late Packer Coach Vince Lombardi.

He recalled a meeting with Lombardi to propose that a Packer Hall of Fame be started. Brault jabbed his finger in the air and said, "I'll never forget Lombardi pointing that finger at me." Lombardi told Brault to go ahead with the project "as long as you keep it at the arena and don't pester the ballplayers." After the Hall of Fame was built, its janitor received a call from an irate man demanding to be allowed into the museum even though it wasn't open at the time. The confused janitor learned that the man's name was Lombardi. "We let him in," Brault said. William Brault: he doesn't like to travel, but wants others to.

injury sustained in an automobile accident in 1977. When winter forces him indoors, Brault spends his spare time on woodworking projects and crossword puzzles. He said he has trouble concentrating on television and doesn't spend much time reading because his mind wanders to ideas and the visions he has for implementing them. "No matter what I'm doing," he said, "I have a pad of paper and a pencil nearby." He and his wife, Carol, have four children: Kathy, 29, a home interior decorator for Montgomery Ward; Patrick, 26, married and living in Appleton; Mary, 21, a student at St. Norbert College, and Sue, Bay, where Arthur opened Brault's Restaurant, across Main Street from the old Baum's Department Store.

Son Bill worked with him. After finishing his elementary education at Cathedral School, he combined high school classes at Central Catholic with summers helping his father at the School enrollment lower than expected Panel cool to call for smaller "It (declining enrollment) puts constant pressure on us to cut. Timothy Quinn By SCOTT HILDEBRAND Ot lt Prtss-Gottttt The enrollment in Green Bay public schools declined more than school officials expected this year. The public school enrollment Sept. 8 was 17,198, compared with an enrollment of 17,931 at the same time last year.

The loss of 733 students was 334 more than had been projected. The Green Bay School District's enrollment has declined 34.2 percent since its enrollment peak of 23,086 students in 1970. The enrollment decline was spread throughout the district and affected all but two secondary schools and' six elementary schools. enrollment decline in recent years. He also said parochial schools are continuing to draw some students away from public schools.

Fortunately for the school district, the change in expected enrollments will not affect state aids until the 1982-83 school year. The state aid formula is now based on enrollments from the preceding school year. Last year, the formula was based on projected enrollment for the upcoming year. If that formula would have been in effect this year, the district would have lost expected state aids, "We now have a year to deal with it (declining enrollment) and handle it from a High, 1,422 Franklin Junior High, 789 (839); Lombardi Junior High, 1,001 (996); Washington Junior High, 858 (937). Allouez, 372 (395); Baird, 453 (488); Beaumont, 315 (355); Chappell, 233 (229); Danz, 377 (406); Doty, 325 (315); Eisenhower, 338 (343); Elmore, 381 (384); Fort Howard, 362 (344); Howe Alternative, 209 (185); Howe, 221 (244); Jackson, 430(460); Keller, 372(364).

Kennedy, 482 (560); Langlade, 369 (390); Lincoln, 228 (247); MacArthur, 426 (374); Martin, 452 (444); Nicolet, 369 (401); Sullivan, 390 (426); Tank, 259 (269); Webster, 337 (364); We-quiock, 175(187). The enrollment drop in secondary schools is 458 students. Elementary school enrollment decreased by 275. Special education enrollment increased by 48 students. School Superintendent Timothy Quinn said he had "no explanation" for the inaccurate enrollment projections.

But he added that school officials were unaware at the time of their projections that any new parochial schools would be opening. The new parochial schools are Pilgrim Lutheran School, with grades K-3, and James Independent. School, with grades K-8. Quinn said there has been 1 no consistent pattern in the kindergartens A parent request for a commitment to smaller kindergarten classes in Green Bay public schools received a cool response Monday night from a School Board committee. Parents of kindergarten students at Wequiock School, Route 1, told the board's Education Committee that more attention at the kindergarten level will benefit children in the long run.

Committee members said they were satisfied with opportunities for kindergarten students in the school district, but asked for further study of the district's kindergarten policy. Doreen Krumenacker, spokesman for the parent group, said Green Bay had as many as 30 children in some kinder- gart en classes last year. staffing and budget standpoint," Quinn said. School officials expect little change in the enrollment figure by Friday, the official count day for state aids. State aids for the 1982-83 school year will be based on an average of the enrollment this Friday and the second Friday in January.

The Brown County Planning Commission will present some long-range attendance information to the School Board this fall. Quinn hopes that informa tion will give school officials a better idea of the future enrollment picture. Quinn said declining enrollments will continue to present budget problems for the school district. "It puts constant pressure on us to cut," he said. Preliminary enrollment figures by school, with last year's figures in parentheses, are: East High, 1,256 Preble High, 1,466 Southwest High, 1,183 West High, 935 (985); Edison Junior Mrs.

Krumenacker, Route 1, New Franken, said state Department of Public Instruction guidelines recommend class sizes of 20-25 children. Preliminary figures show an average of 24.2 students in the school district's 50 kindergarten sections this year. "We would like to see Green Bay go a little bit out on that limD, and say, Yes this can happen, Mrs. Krume- around Wisconsin There currently are 29 children enrolled in kindergar- -it irai oi wtxjuiui'K auiuui. ouiooi unlaws expect me number to drop to 27 within a few weeks.

Mrs. ivrumenacKer said more positive ettorts with stu- dents at an earlier age could prevent some problems faced I by students and schools when the students get older. School Superintendent Timothy Quinn said the only realistic means of reducing the size of Wequiock's kinder- garten busing some students to Baird School was rejected by Wequiock parents. He said parents in three other attendance areas cooperated with busing plans. Although four kindergarten sections were added in the district this year, Quinn said he does not consider adding sections an alternative at Wequiock School.

4 rQ Wltmnrnnrnm tL.I 1 1 iiuoi ivtuiucuaiivci saiu umi uespue ail a Uie 80- dition of staff, Green Bay's kindergarten class sizes remain higher than in surrounding school districts. She said a district-wide commitment to smaller classes is needed. "We're trying to right something with a Band-aid that 1 rr needs a cast," she said. Committee Chairman Bette McAnulty asked the administration to update the district's kindergarten policy. She said the policy should be more flexible than the present policy on the subject of class size.

ii i iiuo. iii.ruiuiijr ooiu Biiuuier cuu sizes woum oe appropriate. But she said budget restraints would make it difficult to make kindergarten classes snail enough to tfl A A Prtst-Gazettt photo by Ken Behrtnd Fire station construction "I don't feel we're shortchanging those children," she said. "We have provided, within our facilities. ODDortuni- Lacy Inquest jury racially mixed MILWAUKEE (AP) A jury was selected Monday for the troubled inquest into the death of Ernest R.

Lacy, who died in police custody July 9 without authorities having determined precisely why. Lacy's death has touched off street demonstrations, including continued picketing Monday of Milwaukee County Courthouse by the Coalition for Justice for Ernie Lacy. There have been demands that three police officers involved in the affair be at least suspended during an investigation. The inquest jury is evenly divided with three blacks and three whites at the insistence of Robert Cannon, retired judge enlisted as a deputy examiner to conduct the hearings. Lacy, 22, was unconscious when placed in a police van at a street intersection after witnesses said police knelt on him.

Listeners may have to pay MONROE (AP) James 0. Driver's plans for keeping his telephone company financially healthy include assessing a charge against persons who receive calls as well as against those who make them. He also says his company should be able to assess a customer from the instant a receiver is lifted off the hook, even if accidentally bumped from the cradle. Driver Said he would like to put his theory into practice next year if the government goes through with deregulation of telephone rates. Driver said his United Telequipment which has 10,000 subscribers in Lafayette and Green counties, may be the only telephone company in the nation capable of splitting the bill for a call equally between transmitter and receiver.

Election goes to Supreme Court MADISON (AP) Rep. John C. Shabaz, Republican minority leader in the Assembly, confirmed Monday he is asking the State Supreme Court to uphold a special election on behalf of his client, John Manske. A Circuit Court judge discarded results of the June 30 election in the 47th Assembly District last week, saying problems with a voting machine made it too difficult to determine a victor "with any degree of certainty." That would mean there will have to be a new election between Manske and Democrat Kathleen Soderbloom unless Shabaz, who is Manske's lawyer, can get the judge's ruling reversed. Manske appeared to have defeated Mrs.

Soderbloom by 17 votes, A recount narrowed his victory margin to two votes. ties for those kids. Excavation for a $480,000 fire station on Humboldt Road near Spartan Road on Green Bay's far Northeast Side began last week. Fire Chief Gerald Sellssen said the fire station is expected to be ready for use on Feb. 1.

The Kemnitz Construction Co. of De Pere is the general contractor. Eighteen additional firefighters will be hired in December and begin training prior to their assignment at the new station, Selissen said. County police rules disputed area report County board meeting OCONTO (PG) The Oconto County Board will con-' yene at 10 a.m. Thursday in the board room.

The agenda includes an oral report on the county fairgrounds, presen- 'i tation of equalized property values and action on the reap-' portionment plan. The board also will hear a request for soil borings to measure the depth of ground water and bedrock to deter- mine if any county-owned lands are suitable for a solid waste disposal site. Historical society OCONTO (PG) The summer meeting of the County Historical Society will be at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the G.E. Hall Annex on Park Avenue.

This will be a potluck supper. Participants are asked to bring a place settin and a dish to pass. Church fort OCONTO (PG) St. Peter's parish in Oconto will sponsor a chicken chowder and pie feat Oct 7 Serving will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

and 4:30 pjn. to 7 p.m. Children under 5 will be admitted free. Blke-a-thon FREEDOM (PG) The Freedom Education Associa- i Uon ii having its second annual bike-a-thon Saturday from pjn" A maimum of 24 miles will be permitted on the eight-mile course through the Freedom Area School District. Anyone wishing to participate must fill out a pledge sheet available at the Freedom Elementary School or high school.

Prizes, including a color TV, will be awarded to persons raising the most money. Procewla will go toward scholarships for students. By TERRY ANDERSON OftntPrra-Gamt A few of the 66 rules governing members of the Brown County Sheriff-Traffic Department have sparked controversy which could climax in a courtroom confrontation. Wednesday night when the county's Protection Committee meets in special session, Rule 18 will be in the spotlight It states that no member of the department while off duty shall own or work in a tavern, or possess a tavern license. On July 1, traffic officer Creg Haney purchased the Fairway Bar at 1731 Ft.

Hvsrd Ave. in De Pew from his great-aunt Victoria VanDreel. The purchase of the tavern has put the police officer's union at odds with Corporation Counsel Kenneth Bukowski, who has vowed to take the fight to the department, whether on or off duty, if found intoxicated, may be be immediately suspended and a charge of intoxication shall be leveled against them. Rule 8 Officers shall not use tobacco in any form while in uniform, during a direct contact with the public, when outside of the squad car or department building. When in the squad car, officers shall use discretion and make every effort to keep evidence of the use of tobacco visible to the public at a minimum.

Rule 15 The spirit of cooperation and harmony must prevail at all times amor.g mashers cf the department. No officer shall publicly or privately criticize the action of any officers, court, or law enforcement agency; nor shall he gossip about any other officer of the department, nor shall he criticize the orders or actions of his superiors. Citing Rule 6, Mohr said, "a guy in the privacy of his own home, who has one too many beers while watching the Packers on a Sunday afternoon, could be suspended, even though he didn't create a disturbance or break a law," "That's unfair, unjust and absurd," he said. Mohr said the union isn't opposed to rules, but he said there is a definite need for updating and negotiation of regulations. "We tell them every year that the law says they must negotiate, but so far they've put us off each year.

This time it's looks like it's going to be the court tlu.t UlU them." Several attempts to reach Bukowski for comment were unsuccessful. The Protection Committee meets at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Room 200 in the Courthouse Annex. the State Supreme Court if necessary. Union attorney Fred Mohr said today, "Rule 18 is unjust, but, it isn't just rule 18.

1 believe the controversy deals with the entire Set of rules. Some are outdated, some are discriminatory, some are just absurd." Mohr said the ultimate issue is that state law specifies conditions of employe-men must be negotiated. "When you tell a police officer what he can do in his off duty hours, that is a condition of employment," he said. Mohr said some rules are broken on a daily basis, and others are loosly written and subject to different interpretation. Still others are simply unfair, he said.

He said he feels a court test will show the entire set of rules invalid. Among those rules he cited: Rule 6 Members of v-- Other metro state stories include: A woman was expected to be arraigned today in a U.P. slaying. A-8. An analyst says Wisconsin should hzve sufficient fuel oil tor furnaces this winter.

B-7. The Ashwuabenon School Dis-trict's tax rate will decline. B-7. A state legislative committee is scheduled to begin work Wednesday on student competency tests. B-7,.