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A-4 Tuesday, March 26, 1985 Green Bay Press-Gazette rojeds hold options School School board picks Earl's budget apart By Peg Schmeling Of the Press-Gazette Alternatives to the original plans will be included when construction bids are sought by the Green Bay School Board this spring for renovation projects at Preble and West high schools. The two projects are part of the $6.5 school renovation plan approved by voters in a Sept. ill referendum. The School Board decided Monday night to jsolicit bids which would include an alternate plan for Preble High School and a larger gymnasium addition for West High School. These alternatives could push the renovation project cost above the original $6.5 million approved in the referendum.

If that happens, the board will consider obtaining the additional money from its other resources or changing part the project, said Board President Henry Atkinson. The building plan Includes new classrooms 'and extensive remodeling at Preble and a new physical education facility and other improvements at West High. Work at both schools will begin this summer, and be finished in time for the 1986-87 school ing about $75,000 also be bid as an alternate, so elimination of that expense could be considered later. The remodeled areas will most likely be used for 40 or 50 years, so it's important to do an adequate job, Atkinson said. "If it is worth doing, it is worth doing properly," added board member Beverly Kasprzak.

For West High, Richard Griese, an architect with Somerville Associates, recommended making the gymnasium addition 28 feet longer than originally planned. A second alternative would also extend the gymnasium 28 feet next to the locker room to make the building square. The West High project is expected to cost about $1.4 million. That includes about $37,500 to raise the height of the gymnasium ceiling from the originally proposed 24 feet to 28 feet. In other business, the board approved administrative salary increases totaling 6.2 percent.

The increases are for the 1984-85 school year and will cost $146,552. They will go to 64 ministrators, excluding Quinn. The average increase per administrator will be 7.45 percent. However, the overall average increase is less because some retiring administrators have been replaced with employees lower on the salary scale. The board favored requiring an annual performance report to the public and standards for written curriculum.

However, School Superintendent Timothy Quinn said he would not want a state-mandated curriculum. The proposal does not call for that, he said. The board approved requiring written standards for grades K-12, but did not go along with the governor's proposal for foreign language instruction in grades 7 and 8. It also opposed standards re- latin to hours of instruction and requiring that all students stay in school until age 18 or graduation. Quinn and board member i Bette McAnulty will convey the -board's sentiments at a hearing sponsored by the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee at 10 a.m.

Thursday at the Brown County Library. "If it is worth doing, it is worth doing properly." Board member because the work at Preble will be more extensive, it's essential to start that project first so classes will be interrupted as little as possible. James Schlueter, an architect with Berners, Schober Associates, said the Preble sketches will be completed within a month. Bids could be opened in late May and construction begun in early summer, he said. The original plans for industrial education were not practical, he said.

New ones were made with the help of school staff, he said. Instead of major remodeling for a woodworking and building trades area, architects propose building a new addition which would accomodate plastics, woodworking and building trades. Schlueter also said science and classroom changes could cost close to $50,000 more than anticipated. The additional costs and the alternate plan could add about $198,000 to the originally proposed cost of about $1.8 million. However, the board also directed that a second elevator cost The Green Bay School Board Monday supported some portions of Gov.

Anthony Earl's proposed 1985-86 state budget bill and opposed others. The board favored increasing or maintaining the percentage of education costs which are paid through state aids rather than through local property taxes. And it opposed distributing those aids through local municipalities or in any way other than directly to the schools, as well as any restriction of decision-making on the. local level. It also opposed suggestions by supporters of the plan that the aid will provide statewide property tax relief.

In light of the educational standards and minimum beginning teacher salary included in the proposal, the property tax relief will have to be demonstrated, the board said in a position paper. year. School Superintendent Timothy Quinn said Jury convicts Phillips of sellinq marijuana 1981 shooting of David Moureau. Jy Peg Schmeling and Mike Smothers igpiigfii -w i V'-'" i '-MiiiiiiiiifiiiiifuMiiniri- -Mmnnin iiMiiitiiiMiirnMi'TwiiwiiiiiWMmiitri Those men are serving life prison sentences. A half-year later, Brown County Judge Alexander Grant imposed a five-year probation sentence on Ralph Phillips for a burglary conviction.

Public Defender John Brown told him Phillips' life would be in danger if he were sent to prison where revenge for testifying against his brother and Vertz could be sought. Grant recommended that Phillips leave the area while on probation and make a fresh start. A half year after that on July 23 and again on July 26 Phillips sold an undercover officer an ounce of what Phillips called "Jamaican gold" marijuana for $70 in Phillips' home at 509 S. Maple the Please see PhillipsA-5 Of the Press-Gazette It took a Brown County jury less than a half hour Monday to find Ralph Phillips guilty of selling marijuana to an undercover agent jn his home last July. Phillips, 28, who testified against his brother, Kenneth, in a 1983 murder trial, will be sentenced April 10 on two counts of delivering a non-narcotic controlled substance.

Phillips could be fined up to $15,000 and serve up to 11 years in prison on each of the charges. He Jias been held in the county jail on $5,000 bond since his arrest several days after the second drug sale. In 1983 Phillips' testimony helped convict his brother and Robert Vertz oh murder-related charges in connection with the Press-Gazette Photo by John A. Robt) Running: Under a cold gray sky, a jogger runs west across the Claude Allouez Bridge in De Pere on Monday. Sps) sis State is waking up to tourism Flynn Student hopes to launch new beer with shuttle tests I.

LA CROSSE (AP) A new chapter in the ancient art of brewing may soon be written by a 17-year-old high school student. Joel Fairbanks is trying to get his experiment for "Astro-brew" launched on a space shuttle mission. 1 "Astro-brew is not quite like anything brewed on Earth," he said. Fairbanks said he hopes the experiment will show that yeast used in beer-making remains active longer in space. If that happens, the beer's alcohol content may double, he said.

"You get more buzz for your buck," Fairbanks said. The formal name of his Astro-brew project is "The Effects of Zero or Microgravity Upon the Fairbanks, a senior at Central High School, is a national semi-finalist in the Space Shuttle Student Involvement program, a nationwide competition to encourage the study of science by developing actual experiments for future space flights. The concept boils down to a test of the effects of zero gravity on the brewing process. Fermentation Processes of an Aqueous Yeast Solution." The difference between Earth-bound brewing and outerspace brewing is that yeast tends to settle to the bottom of beer because of gravational pull. Fairbanks said he thought his experiment' had a better chance of Please see SpaceA-5 hind manufacturing in the econom- ic benefits it provides Wisconsinj residents, he said.

Flynn noted Wisconsin has anf, abundance of natural beauty with 15,000 lakes and 40 percent of its' land forested, with 58 state parks.t "Many times, those summer visitors will select Wisconsin for their, place for business because they like it here," he said. "We also have a number of met-, ropolitan areas that are really a-', said, noting that Brown County, for example, reported that tourism spending rose from million in 1982 to $68.4 million in: 1983. Flynn cited a study taken by the-tourism department last year of; 1983 visitors, which showed that" there has been a substantial in--, crease in both summer and winter; visitors, "but twice as prefer summer over winter." Although area states have sub-' stantially increased the level of their tourist promotion, Flynn said Wisconsin will strive to retain its share of the market. He said Wisconsin now attracted one-fourth of the vacationers uv Northern Illinois. By Harry Maier Of the Press-Gazette People in Wisconsin finally are beginning to realize that tourism is big business and that it has a significant economic impact on the state.

That was the message of Lt. Gov. James T. Flynn, who is also director of the state Department of Development which has reponsibility for tourism Flynn spoke Monday night "at the second annual "Spotlight on Tourism" sponsored by the Green Bay Area Visitor and Convention Bureau at the Green Bay Packer Hall of Fame. Flynn is leading a campaign to double the tourism budget to about $2 million, still far below that of Illinois which operates with a $14 million budget.

"Our funds will be channeled to specific markets in Northern Illinois, Chicago and the Twin Cities," Flynn said. In the past, he said, tourism efforts were more parochial, directed at such areas as Wisconsin Dells. "Now we're recognizing the importance of tourism to communities throughout the state," he said. The state ranks tourism just be Sheriff defends search for drowned boy MARINETTE Marinette County Sheriff Joseph Larson Monday afternoon defended the efforts of his department to recover the body of 4-year-old boy who drowned in Green bay March 1. "Among other things, we had divers explore more than 300 acres under the ice," Larson said of the search for Christopher Kregel of Marinette.

Larson said he "took three or four flights in a helicopter provided by the Enstrom people and went up several times with Civil Air Patrol personnel." Air searches "made more sense" because of unstable ice conditions and large patches of open water, Larson said. the Sheriffs Department. "As far as I am concerned, she is the only one I have to answer to," Larson said. Thin ice and bad weather hampered a continuous search, Larson said. "In fact, one person fell through the ice March 15 and they (the family) called it off," he said.

"You can bet someone would be suing the county if someone drowned while I was directing a search," Larson said. "I think we did all that we could do," he said. Services for Christopher, who would have been 5 years old on Monday, were held at 11 a.m. today at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Marinette.

The boy and his father, James Kregel, 35, drowned when their three-wheel vehicle fell through the ice off Peshtigo Point, Larson said. Larson's officers recovered James' body the next day. Relatives found Christopher's body in 6 feet of water over a reef last Saturday. James Kregel's brothers, Robert and John, have been critical of Larson's handling of the' rescue attempt. Larson said none of the Kregels mentioned any criticism to him personally when he and Coroner Ken Mattison met with the family at the funeral home Saturday.

Larson said he was in daily contact with Dianne Kregel, wife and mother of the victims, and she appeared satisfied with the efforts of State refuses to grant Grand Chute village status Donald Sm its gets Silver Knight Award By Tom Murphy DO YOU KNOW H0WT0 MANAGE YOUR MONEY? WOULD YOU LIKE TO CUT YOUR TAX BILL INCREASE YOUR SAVINGS PLAN FOR RETIREMENT? DO YOU WANT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE OPPORTUNITIES CREATED BY CHANGING TAX LAWS? WOULD YOU LIKE TO "MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR MONEY?" It could make all the difference in your future! You are invited to IRA "RETIREMENT IN THE SUN" SEMINAR Presentedby THIIRCnAV MADPU OB 10QC "The city of Appleton could better provide the full array of government services than the proposed village." State official Of the Press-Gazette The 18th annual St. Norbert College Silver Knight award was presented by long distance Monday night. Donald M. "Fling" Smits, 1709 Highview De Pere, accepted the community service honor by telephone from Lakeland, where he is vacationing with his wife, Phyllis. "He was totally surprised and extremely appreciative," said his oldest son, Michael, who represented Smits at the presentation dinner in Sensenbrenner Memorial Union.

Mrs. Smits was aware of the honor and managed to keep her husband near a motel telephone, Michael said today. By James Bartelt Press-Gazette Madison Bureau MADISON The town of Grand Chute's attempt to incorporate as a village was turned down Monday by the state Department of Development. The proposed village area, in Outagamie County adjacent to Apple-ton, is neither compact nor homogeneous, as required for incorporation, state hearing examiner Barry Wanner wrote. The town is the site of the new Fox River Mall.

Unless an appeal for rehearing is filed within 20 days, incorporation would be prevented for at least a year. The potential for urban development residential, commercial and industrial is not substantial within the next three years, Wanner determined. That is another incorporation criterium. Fire protection and public works could be provided at lower cost by the proposed village, the ruling said. But sanitary sewer service to the Oneida Park area could be better provided by Appleton.

Police protection, water service, land-use planning, and parks and recreation Smits Smits, 55, was honored tor his volunteer activities with young people including more 7:00 P.M. THE DOWNTOWNER 321 S. Washington St. CALL FOR RESERVATIONS 498-6120 Sponsored by could also be better provided by Appleton. "The city of Appleton could better provide the full array of government services than the proposed village," Wanner Grand Chute met two of the state criteria.

Potential tax revenues "are sufficient to defray the anticipated cost of government ser-. vices," Wanner said. Incorporation of the proposed village would have a neutral effect on the remainder of the town, he said, "and those standards would be met." Grand Chute's incorporation attempt began last May when residents overwhelmingly voted to pay legal expenses for the attempt. Petitions were approved that month and hearings took place last fall. than 40 years with the Boy Scouts of America.

He has served on the Green Bay Catholic Diocese Scout Committee since 1947 and received Scouting's highest honor, the Silver Beaver Award, in 1974. Smits helped organize the De Pere Little Ieague and was an American Legion Baseball manager. He also is a volunteer firefighter. In 1974, Smits was named the community's Outstanding Citizen by the De Pere Chamber of Commerce. He is a 10-year U.S.

Naval Reserve veteran. Smits is active in St. Mary's Catholic Church, De Pere, and has been a member of the Catholic Order of Foresters since 1947. Smits and his wife have nine children. He has been employed by Broadway Chevrolet-Oldsmobile since 1947 and currently is service director for the dealership.

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