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Marshfield News-Herald Page 3 News briefs Mil 1 ill Hearing to decide sergeant's fate Saturday. August 24. 1985 i fens STEVENS POINT The members of the Stevens Point Police and Fire Commission will act as judge and jury at an upcoming hearing on the suspension of a sergeant in the Stevens Point Police Department. fcjl ine punnc hearing concerning Sgt. Dennis Koehler is set to begin at 9 a.m.

Wednesday. Koehler, a 15-year veteran of the force and commander of the department's Emergency Services Squad, was suspended without pay Aug. 14 while an internal investigation is held into the segeant's alleged selling of two firearms from the department's property inventory. Koehler's pay was reinstated two days later after criticism from the Stevens Point Police Officers Organization. New look for Mid-State As part of its $100,000 remodeling E.

29th Street, this summer, the newly enclosed parts depart- fices. project, a new brick front (left) was Dave Lucht (above right at left) and ment. The former parts depart-put on the Mid-State Truck Service, Ken Fleisner worked the counter at ment area was converted into of- (News-Herald Photo) Departments want more personnel Mid-State Truck turns 20, keeps growing STEVENS POINT Both the Stevens Point Police and Fire departments are requesting additional personnel in their 1986 budget requests. Police Chief Joseph Fandre wants the creation of a drugcrime prevention officer position and the reclassification of rank officers in the department. The new position is estimated to cost and the reclassification Financial growth has brought a new look to Mid-State Truck Service Inc.

The dual-line truck firm recently completed $100,000 worth of remodeling at its E. 29th Street facility. 182. The fire department requested an assistant chief to help with adm I Him inistrative duties. ii I i 5, 1 1 1 ii i 1 1 ii i i Lit Husband of storm victim dies NEW LISBON (AP) A second person has died from injuries suffered when a tornado struck a mobile home park Aug.

12. were employees of Hughes prior to the purchase. In the first year, the firm had 13 employees and did $840,000 worth of business. Because of space limits at the E. Fourth Street location, Mid-State moved to E.

29th Street. In 1973, the first full year at the new building, the firm did $3.8 million worth of business, and by 1984 the number jumped to $15.8 million. Of the four original owners, Vandehey still remains active as president. Hilliker, Lau and Specht have all since retired. Mid-State sells and services a full line of General Motors and International Harvester trucks, from semi-tractors to '4-ton pickups.

The firm also sells and delivers truck parts in 16 surrounding counties and is a certified distributor of Wayne bus bodies in 60 Wisconsin counties. Mid-State also rents and leases trucks. Mid-State will celebrate its 20th anniversary Tuesday with an open house. Robert Dockerty 61, died of head and neck injuries Friday at the i University Hospital and Clinics in Madison, according to Juneau County Coroner Howard Fischer. 1 I "I Dockerty's wife, Dolly, 62, was pronounced dead at the scene.

The tornadoes injured 22 people. Robert Dockerty and two others were transferred to University Hospital. The other patients taken to Madison were Dorothea Kelz, who suffered head injuries and was in fair condition Friday, and Hazel Dockerty, the deceased couple's daughter, who was in satisfactory condition with spinal in juries. Needed offices added Because of the growth in the was constructed in 1972. An open number of employees, Mid-State house is scheduled at the facilities was forced to add new offices at its for next Tuesday.

E. 29th Street facility. The building (News-Herald Photo) The tornado ripped through Bader's Villa Estates mobile home park at about 8 p.m. Aug. 12, flipping and destroying about a dozen homes.

Emergency government officials estimated damage at more than $600,000 at the 34-lot court about a half mile northwest of downtown New Lisbon. 23 couldn't place own city EAU CLAIRE (AP) Twenty-three percent of the University of Lca Wisconsin-Eau Claire students quizzed by a newspaper reporter couldn't place the city where their school Was located on a map of the United States of America. Jeff Schurman, a reporter for the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, polled 52 students this summer at the university's cafeteria. He asked them to locate 10 cities and 10 states by writing numbers on a map of the United States. All correctly placed Eau Claire, a west-central Wisconsin city of about 000 people, in the proper state.

But, 12 placed the city too far south, east or Pedestrian safety observed north to be considered correct. Some of the responses were closest to Superior 130 miles to the north; Wausau 90 miles to the east; and La Crosse 70 miles to the south. In addition to Eau Claire, the students were asked to find Miami, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Houston, New Orleans, St. Louis and Detroit. They were also asked to locate Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota, Idaho, Alabama, Arkansas, Nebraska, Vermont, New Mexico and Wyoming.

Of the cities, the students had the most problem finding Houston and Detroit, with 85 percent inaccurately locating those cities. All placed the two cities in the correct states, but many put Detroit in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and some placed Houston in the Texas Although the entire floor plan of the building has been reorganized, the most notable change is the moving of the parts department to an enclosed area and the installation of new offices. Darwin Craft, vice president, said the remodeling was necessary because of the growth of the firm. He said when the building was constructed in 1972, the firm had 23 employees. Today, Mid-State employs 75 people.

Growth has been steady since the firm was founded 20 years ago by four Marshfield men. In 1965, Frank Vandehey, Ruben Hilliker, Fritz Lau and Ray Specht bought Hughes Brothers Service, located at 111 E. Fourth and formed Mid-State Truck Inc. The four Permit issued for $70,000 duplex unit Building Services Supervisor Roland Donath issued a building permit this week to Don Nikolai to construct a duplex with attached garage at 1807 and 1809 Emerald St. Estimated cost is Ivan Block Construction was issued a permit to install facia and soffit and aluminum windows on a house at 1511 Adler Road at the cdst a permit to install soffit and facia to a garage at 1219 E.

Sixth St. at the cost of $300; and a permit to install a patio door at 609 W. Ives Ave. Estimated cost is $1,000. Dan Schmitt Construction was issued a permit to replace a window and repair a utility shed at 1305 E.

29th St. Estimated cost is $1,000. Mark Hastreiter Construction was granted a permit to install office partitions at 1620 N. Central Ave. Estimated cost is $1,000.

A permit was issued to Ray Lawrence to do $7,000 worth of remodeling on a house at 914 W. Arnold St. A permit was issued to David Rademan Builders for second-floor alterations at 906 S. Central Ave. Projected cost is $21,000.

A permit was issue to the City of Marshfield to install a $25,000 truck scale with pit and platform at the city transfer station on Popple Avenue. Market Johnson Inc. was given a permit to add an auditorium at a building at 611 St. Joseph Ave. No cost estimate was listed.

Don Rhodes Construction was issued a permit to install a concrete driveway at 2011 S. Maple Ave. Estimated cost is $1,900. Leonard D. Kleinschmidt was granted a permit to add a deck and a detached garage at 711 N.

Willow Ave. Estimated cost is $5,500. A permit was issued to Ron Immer-fall to install a $600 concrete driveway at 1227 E. 14th St. Jeff Graves was issued a permit to install new windows and replace a door at 306 S.

Vine Ave. Estimated cost is $750. Trudeau Construction was issued a permit to build an $800 deck at 801 E. Fourth St. Franz Siding was issued a permit' to side and replace windows at 2706 Maywood Ave.

Estimated cost is $3,900. A permit was issued to George Pupp to install concrete driveways at 604 and 606 N. Wood Ave. Estimated cost is A permit was issued to House of Heating to install heating ventilation and air conditioning at 1501 N. Central Ave.

Estimated cost is $20,000. Doine Excavating was issued a permit to demolish a house at 1002 N. Walnut Ave. September is Pedestrian Safety Month in Marshfield. And with the opening of schools Sept.

3, Mayor Marilyn Hardacre askes drivers to be especially aware of pedestrians and bicycles. Pedestrians have the right to cross from one side of a street to the other safely as long as they are in an authorized legal crosswalk, the mayor said. State laws say that the operator of a vehicle shall yield the right of way to a pedestrian who has started to cross the street or highway on a green or walk signal. At uncontrolled intersections where there are no traffic lights, the operator of a vehicle shall yield the right of way to a pedestrian who is crossing within a marked or unmarked crosswalk. Hardacre urges parents to educate their children on the importance of only crossing streets in legal crosswalks.

Pedestrians who are not in a legal crosswalk do not have the right of way, and must yield to the oncoming vehicle. Hardacre said parents should also caution their children that they should still look for oncoming cars even when crossing a street in a crosswalk, for the driver may not always be aware of the pedestrian. During 1985, the city has intensified its efforts in promotion of pedestrian safety, Hardacre said. "In-service information and training programs have been conducted on pedestrian safely for all our employee groups and some of our larger employers," she said. "Secondly, our crosswalks have been repainted and now more recognizable.

Caution pedestrian flashing lights have been installed on N. Oak and St. Joseph avenues where we have a high concentration of pedestrian traffic." The mayor added that police on patrol have been monitoring more closely violations of the pedestrian traf fic code and several citations have been issued after a month of giving warnings only. In December the state Increased the fines for violation of the traffic code. A motorist who failes to yield to a pedestrian in an uncontrolled intersection now faces a fine of $96.25.

At controlled intersections the fine Is $44.50. Also, the state will assess four points against a driver's license for such violations. Any motorist who passes a stopped vehicle, which Is yielding the right-of-way to a pcdestrianm faces a fine of $182.50. "These are stiff fines, and our police department is not really anxious to issue these citations, but certainly will if necessary," Hardacre said. Police will be giving special emphasis to pedistrian and bicycle safety and enforcement of the Traffic Code the weeks of Aug.

26 and Sept. 2. School opening delay is sought By The Associated Press The Dodge County Nurses Association has asked county schools to delay opening day due to an epidemic of viral meningitis. "Even if they just stayed closed another few days it would help a lot," said Ruth Lindegard, assistant director of the association, said Friday. Of the 43 public and parochial schools contacted Friday, none was prepared to respond to the request immediately, she said.

Lindegard said the highly contagious virus had already afflicted at least 100 people in Horicon, Mayville, Beaver Dam and Oconomowoc, and the ex tent of the epidemic was thought to be much greater. .0. Ml 1, 1 4 a Man arrested for disordorly conduct Friday A 21-year-old Marshfield man was arrested for disorderly at 3:49 p.m. Friday. According to police, the man refused to leave a residence in the 800 block of North Street.

When attempts were made to escort him from the property, a fist fight broke out. No injuries were reported. Steven Heath, 1516 Adler Road, told police that at approximately 1 p.m. Friday his car was struck by tomatoes on N. Peach Avenue at Becker Road.

A police search of the area turned up negative. Heath's car was not damaged. Kay Phelps, 1004 E. Kalsched told police at 10:54 p.m. Friday that several shopping carts were lined up across N.

Peach Avenue blocking traffic. Police returned the carts to K-Mart Discount Department Store, where they were taken from. Valerie A. Bradfish, 616 S. Cherry told police that at 12:05 a.m.

Friday a ladder was placed outside her bathroom window and she heard deep breathing sounds. Her husband then observed a male, approximately age 14, wearing blue jeans and tennis shoes, walking near their house. Police are investigating the matter. A car owned by Mary M. O'Shea, 75, Ashland, received $500 damage when it was struck by a car owned by Judith A.

Berg, 34, 1601 S. Locust Ave. According to police, Berg was backing from a parking stall in a private parking lot in the 1600 block of S. Locust Avenue at 2:49 p.m. Friday when O'Shea's car was struck.

The Berg car was not damaged. 'ft i 1 Ambulance calls 10:05 p.m. Friday Alfred Ellie, Bethel Living Center, from residence to St. Joseph's Hospital. 2:10 p.m.

Friday Edward Wenzel, 915 S. Peach from residence to St. Joseph's Hospital. 11:30 a.m. Friday Infant boy Bandli, Tony, from St.

Mary's Hospital, Landysmith, to St. Joseph's Hospital. Divorce granted WISCONSIN RSPIDS A divorce was granted in Wood County Circuit Court Thursday to Michael Antill, 27, Nelsonville, and Judy Antill, 31, Marshfield. They were married April 12, 1984. Checking out the school Pedestrian safety Alicia Sheflin, 14, of 1014 State Vickie Jills, 14, of 913 S.

Central and Cherie Schmidt, 14, of 907 North St. walk down the steps at Marshfield Junior High School Friday. They were there to check their new lockers and find out where their classes will be. Friday was the last day for registration in the district and school will begin News of farming The complex business of farming is discussed each Thursday on the Marshfield News-Herald's Farm Page. Don't miss it.

Mayor Marilyn Hardacre walks sign on N. Oak Avenue near W. Ives across a newly painted crosswalk Street Friday. The new safety and Patrolman Jim Rusk stands by devices are part of the city's a new pedestrian warning light and pedestrian awareness campaign. (News-Herald Phoba) Sept.

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