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

A-6 Monday, Jun 20, 1983 Green Bay Prn-Gazette METROSTATE v1? ft ill I i City summer i schools draw lover 1,100 Summer school classes in Green Buy got under way today with more than 1,100 students enrolled in courses at four schools. The program is the first regular summer school pro- gram offered in the Green Bay School District since 1968. It is open to public and parochial students who live in the school district. Courses included remedial courses in basic skills areas, as well as enrichment courses for high-achieving students. About 355 students are enrolled in the elementary program at Elmore Elementary School 218 in reme- dial mathematics and reading and 137 in mathematics and writing enrichment courses.

At Sullivan Elementary School, 367 students are en- rolled. About 260 students are enrolled in remedial clas- ses at Sullivan, and 105 are enrolled in enrichment clas-'. ses. Programs at East High School have an enrollment of more than 200 students. Fifty-five are enrolled in personal typing, 34 in consumer education and 148 in basic skills classes.

At West High School, 93 students are enrolled in basic skills, 34 in personal typing and 34 in consumer education. The remedial classes in reading and mathematics are mainly for students who are short of credits in basic skills areas. The summer school program's staff includes a librar-" ian, two counselors and 40 teachers 20 elementary and 20 secondary teachers. Classes will run from today through July 21. rrrf nJ ip iMWii I ilHi iljl nia.1 imiTlnmililiH! Prs5-Gaitte Photo bv William J.

Llzdas While teacher Margaret Houlihan patrols in the background, Tina ing today's first day of Green Bay summer school. Tina is the daughter of Kobriger, 1 0, makes an entry into her daily journal at Elmore School dur- Mr. and Mrs. Mike Weitor, 842 Colonial Ave. Wicksfrom's tough talk echoes over a tranquil setting a liquor license to Min- 18 months in jail and a 914, townsfolk generally are reluctant to talk about the Posse, though several sent letters to state officials condemning the Posse's "recent surge of guntoting." The compound is on land donated by tavern owner Donald Minniecheske to the Life Science Church.

Wickstrom says 26 people live in mobile homes on the land. 000 fine after being convicted June 10 of impersonating a public official. He and Minniescheske, who faces similar charges later this summer, declared the Posse land "The Constitution Township of Tigerton and appointed themselves judge and mayor, respectively. Then they issued niecheyke's tavern after local officials had ordered it closed for selling liquor illegally. Wickstrom says he believes his conviction; will be overturned.

If it is not, will he go to jail, or will he go into the Posse underground as Kahl did? "I don't know," Wickstrom says. 1 in week-long sessions, are taught survival and guerilla tactics. Standing in ruts that he" claims were made by armored half-track vehicles now hidden in the forest, he indicates the Posse has plenty of firepower. "How would you say it?" he muses. "A lot of us like to refurbish antiques." Wickstrom says the Posse has chapters in all 50 states and uses three computers around the country to keep track of its 2.2 million members about 1,000 times the number law enforcement officials estimate.

"That's absurd," Bronson La Follette, Wisconsin's attorney general, says of Wick-strom's memberslu'p estimates. At the same time, La Follette concedes concci about the Posse's penchant for wearing sidearms on the streets of Tigerton. In Tigerton, population the word about the Posse and attracted tens of thousands of new members. He talks about how the group, whose name in Latin means "power of the county," believes its vigilantism is legal because almost everything the government does is unconstitutional. The only "law firm" he believes in is Smith Wesson.

Wickstrom is 40 years old, of medium height and sturdy build, with graying brown hair atop a bullet head. When he gets angry, as he does when explaining why he thinks the country has gone to hell in a handbasket, his face clouds up like a thunderhead. "Baastaaards!" he hallows above the rapids. Then, using a technique common to country preachers, his next words are barely audible: "Bastard, you know, is a word often used in the Bible." TIGERTON (AP) The militant right-wing group that calls itself Posse Comi-tatus espouses armed sur-vivalism, racism, anti-Semitism and anti-tax, anti-government philosophies. 'I But James Wickstrom, the Posse's national spokesman, smiles at the children splashing in the water.

"Does this look like terrorism?" he asks. The image is indeed a stark contrast to the bloodshed linked to the Posse after two U.S. marshals, a county sheriff and a Posse member, tax evader Gordon Kahl, died in a pair of shootout this year. Posse Comitatus is a group of unknown size and strength. Government officials put it on the nut fringe, group of crackpots.

Wickstrom, the Posse's "national director of counterinsurg-ency," says its members are America's future, and crack Wickstrom is the Tiger-ton pastor of the Life Science Church, founded 30 years ago in Minneapolis by a group opposed to paying taxes. He baptizes people in the Embarrass River and literally thumps a Bible during speeches for up to $500 plus expenses to survivalist and anti-tax groups. Once a salesman for a tool company and then its sales trainer, Wickstrom says tithes from church members now provide for his family. Standing near field markings for helicopter landings, he says Posse funds are donations from individuals and "small and large corporations in this country who are patriotic and support what we do." Walking away from the riverbank and across a rolling meadow, Wickstrom points out areas where he says thousands of men and women, up to 400 at a time shots. Wickstrom is giving a rare tour of a small comer of the 570-acre Posse stronghold.

Upstream, the south fork of the Embarrass River is rocky white rapids. But here at the compound it suddenly loses fury and smooths into a quiet green pool. A tranquil scene, but talking Posse with Wickstrom is no day at the beach. Congressmen are "gluttonous wine bibbers." The Internal Revenue Service and the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League are "the real terrorists in this country." President Reagan is "about as conservative as the man in the moon." Kahl, the tax protester and Posse member who died in the second of two gun battles with authorities, is "a real mar-tyr." Wickstrom claims that Kahl's last stand in Arkansas earlier this month spread Steckart's Ltd. Summer Savers Sale Save 20 On All Lamps, Pictures, Furniture and In-Stock and Special Order.

The large trailer that serves as the church is also the Christian Liberty Academy where 10 Posse children start each school day with a prayer. Minniescheske recently began serving a two-year prison sentence under Wisconsin's new "Posse Comitatus" law. It was enacted to stop Posse members from filing million -dollar liens to tie up the personal finances of government officials they opposed. Wickstrom is facing up to Report cites MHC improvement, existing problems A' authority, responsibility and delegation of tasks," Willis Telephone 336-9129 authority challenged at every turn," Willis said. To correct those and other problems which the state cited in its violation notices, Willis said she has been working with a nurses' committee.

It is addressing "necessary changes in the total Plan of Care and Nursing Care Plan," she said. She said the committee is concentrating on: "Better communication between all levels of nursing personnel regarding goals for patient care and guidelines for providing care. "Goal-directed nursing care with an attitude of working toward rehabilitation rather than just maintenance care. "Improvement in the early recognition of changes in the (patient's) condition and subsequent reporting and documentation of these changes. "Multidisciplinary focus of care planning and evaluation." Willis said the committee is to produce a work format that would promote those improvements "within the next few weeks." Willis "was very helpful, and I've got no problems with her report," William Daumueller, MHC program director, said today.

"The difficulties relating to working with the union which represents the (nursing assistants and licensed practical nurses) need a great deal of attention," she added, "Nurses are spending too much time dealing with threatened or minor grievances and having their 113-125 N. Wisconsin De Pere, Wl 54115 By MIKE SMOTHERS Of mi Pru-Gantt Nurses are improving their care at the Brown County Mental Health Center's nursing home, but "many problems still exist," a nursing evaluator has reported. .1 "I feel the facility is moving in a positive direction to correct the deficiencies in nursing service," Mary Jo Willis of Madison told MHC administrators in a letter they received late last week. Under state orders, the MHC hired her to evaluate the nursing care at the home and make recommendations to improve it after the state cited the home with 17 major health violations in February. Those violations involved the care in 1981 and 1982 of nine patients, seven of whom died.

Willis, a professional nursing evaluator, said the nurses are proceeding well in completing new instruction classes on assessing the physical conditions of the 185 chronically mentally and physically ill nursing home patients. "Many problems still exist that relate to communication, within nursing and with administration, lack of leadership and knowledge as to expectations of what constitutes quality care, job -C OPEN MONDAY AND FRIDAY i EVENINGS TILL 9:00 VISA CLOSED SATURDAYS Grdn Tractor iTT! ti 4 li 'Ruggtl Gr Jfj I MODEL 1600 i Your Trd in Could Worth Mot Oaptnding on Sli Bund and Condition! June 22-26 4 to 8 P.M. Weekdays FREE 48" MOWER ATTACHMENT AND AT LEAST A $700 TRADE-IN ALLOWANCE FOR YOUR RIDING TRACTOR OR RIDING MOWER REGARDLESS OF CONDITION! PUBLIC NOTICE The City of Green Bay hereby gives public notice that ALL ANIMALS ARE PROHIBITED IN CITY PARKS in accordance with 25.04 (8) of the code of Ordinances. The City Police Department will strictly enforce this ordinance, and failure to obey will be subject to a forfeiture of not less than $1.00, nor more than $500.00 for each offense. This ordinance applies to both leashed and unleashed DOGS.

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