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Sanitary Engineer Reports On Racine's Trailer Camps City Briefs RACINE JOURNAL TIMES 4 Tc4ar, October 5, 1948 Hevsmen Visit I Research Farm unsanitary conditions In the adjacent arcA. some consideration Bas been recently to the establishment of a city-county health department. Such an office would have alt: th powers and authority now vcted In local boards and would have authority to enforce such rules and regulations as rnay be deemed necessary to protect and intprove public health. III OWN, PERHAPS ST. LOUIS.

lU.fy An unsuccessful candidate; for committeeman the second ward has proof public health nuisance. This Is caused partially by the type of structure used for service buildings and carelessness oh the part 7 vj rl r'r- -I of the occupants." Krenzke said another meeting of the city and county officials wnq accompanied Stivarius on the inspection would be held soon. The group is expected to consider further action on Improving health conditions at the two camps. Because the South Side Trailer camp lies outside the city limits and the inspection also uncovered If Jooi-nmf Ptiet Mills( standing, left to right) were named new principals at Howell and Stephen Bull, respectively. Left to right, seated are former principals who received appointments to new schools this year.

They are Ben Lahr, Winslow and Janes: Thomas Lucareili. Jefferson and Garfield; and Harold Cripe, Fratt. ASSIGN ELEMENTARY PRINCIPALS Retirement of F. C. Meyer, former principal of the Winslow and Stephen Bull Schools, and R.

Winger, former principal of Fratt School has created two new appointments and changes ia the school assignments of three principals in the public schools. Oliver Olson and Harold Proposes to Put Comptroller Under Civil Service Law night's meeting, and a move will made to send the audit report to the committee of the whole, to i Aid to the old and blind and to be considered at the same meet- dependent children will be in-ing when the Council considers creased slightly by a new federal the ordinance to change the meth-J aid provision etfective s-inee Oct. od of selecting the according to Thomas Kennedy, Their Utile IFoetj Need Sturdy Official report of A F. Stivarius, state sanitary engineer who recently made, an inspection of Racine's two' government trailet projects, was sent today to Albert F. Muench, area director of the Public Housing Administration.

Stivarius Inspection was made at the request of Dist. Atty. Edward A. Krenxke following numerous complaints of health conditions in and around the two trailer camps. Several city and county officials accompanied Sivarius on the inspection.

Ten Recommendations. The official report contained 10 recommendations for improving conditions at me two camps. i.ocse cderation be given to the I construction of permanent type buildings to house toilet rooms and laundry. These buildings should comply with requirements adopted i by the Wisconsin Industrial Com- mission for public toilet rooms. 2.

Slop sinks with hot and cold running water be provided. i 3. Washing of garbage and! night containers at hydrants where drinking water Is obtained be pro- hibited. 4. Throwing and burning of garbage on the surface of the ground be discontinued.

5. Night containers, after washing, be stored either in the interior of the trailer or in fly-proof enclosures. 6. The pile of trash in the rear of the camps be 7. Bottles and tin cans be placed in conlSaers provided at trailers and not tlrfown about the grounds.

8. The practice of discharging waste water from individual trailers onto the surface of the ground beneath the trailers be discontinued. 9. Concrete platforms at water hydrants be repaired and hydrants protected against freezing. 10.

The trailer camp' be maintained in a clean and sanitary condition at all times. Called Health Nuisance. The report stated, "From this investigation it can be concluded that the trailer camps operated by the Housing and Home Financing Agency, Public Housing Administration! are being maintained in such a manner as to constitute a HOW DID YOUR ENJOY HIS BREAKFAST BRAN? Constipation due to lack of diet-balk may relieved by eating bran. Xabuca 100 Bran makes it a real breakfast treat 1 Better for you. too, became Kabiseo Bran ia "finer-milled' for mildtr action -naturally tarir on you.

Surprise your husband with finer-flarori Nabisco 100" Bran tomorrow! (See a doc- tor if constipation i not relieved.) Yfift 11 3 Write back mi of An ordinance to place the office of city comptroller on civil serv ice' will be proposed at tonight of the City Council. The office, now held by James C. Peterson, is on an elective basis for a two-year term. Aid. Richard P.

McGuire's proposed ardinance, to take effect on April 30, 1943, would allow Peterson to serve out his present elective term. To Be Appointed by Mayor. Under the plan proposed, by Mc-Guire, the city would take applications for the position of comptroller between Jan. 1 and 15 of next year. The applicants would be given an examination by the state Bureau of Personnel, and the bureau would notify the mayor of Racine of the names of the three applcants who scored highest on the examination.

The mayor, with the approval of a majority of the City Council, would then appoint a city comptroller. The Ordinance specifies that "The appointee shall take office on April 30, 1949, and shall hold office "until the office is vacated by retirement, death, removal or resignation. Qualifications set up in the proposed ordinance for comptroller state that "The applicant shall -be skilled in the knowledge of finance, accounting and bookkeeping, and shall qualify for all bonds required by law." There are no changes made in the the comptroller as now exercised by the elective officer. Under the proposed plan, a comptroller may be removed on charges" of- malfeasance, mis-conduct or inefficiency in office, after a hearing and by a two-thirds vote of the Council. Aid.

McGuire said today that he will move to have the ordinance referred to the Council's committee of the whole. To Report on Audit. At the same time, the finance committee will report out the 1947 audit of the city's books at to- Simplex An electric research farm has been established a mile out of Madison under joint sponsorship of the Wisconsin College of Agriculture and the Wisconsin Utilities i Utilities avtr -to ve iteps, s. he can association In an endea save time for the farmer If the farmer can sav according to the sponsors produce more and cut the high cost of living. A group of 35 state newsmen and utility Executives toured the farm Monday and later were dinner guests of the Utilities association at the Capitol Hotel.

There they were told by James Dunham, Racine, who served as toastmaster that the "research farm mearii nothing unless it can be carried to the farmers." That was cited as ifason for pilgrimages to the place which has been viewed by 2,500 persons since April 1 of this year, The farm comprising 144 actes on rolling land and with run-of the-mill buildings, is studded with til the latest electrically-operate ed utensils. These ln-elude1 a barn cleaner, mow hay finisher, mIo unloader. grain pror rising plant, electrical fences and water well system. The house-i wife hi not been neglected and her kitchen' is filled with time avirg devices. electric range, 1 i it her-sink.

refrigerator, family milk pattern izer, ventilating fan. home freeer, automatic lothes washer, deep freeze unit, electric (lo'hes dryer and ironer. Work Eaed. The group was taken through the barns, hen houes. pens and kitchens and from the i Agricultural college explained the ariouK pr'x esses and showed how work is bemg eased for the farmer.

Twenty heavy duty switches furnish power which is furnished Iree by the utilities. At the dinner meeting following the inspection, sponsors admitted that all- these labor- saving dei-vices the free power, the farm, started in 1915. cannot yet be said to be on a paying basis. Ratine Product at Work, Instead of the old fashioned cbw bell to call all hands to dinner, this farm is equipped with one of the latest communication systems made by the Webster Electric Racine. It has just been installed but already is proving its worth according to those in charge.

The system has connected the hoiifi with every building on the farm and a loud speaker attached to the barn can be used to call the help at any time. Outline Views Of Jack Harvey Support of the Marshall rlan reciprocal trade agreements and a liberalized displaced-persons law are the principal items! Jack Harvey's position on international affairs, three supporters pi the Democratic candidate for Congress said MondaV night in a panel diccussion over Station WRJNJ Participants in the discussion were Louise Li'ndmeyer, Grace Sficos and Don Ward. I They said that Harvey supports the Marshall Plan and the United Nations to "erect a bulwark against the spread of Communism in Western Europe," by helping Europeans to help themselves. Reciprocal trade agreements, favored by Harvey, would strengthen the export market for Racine products, they declared. BIRTHS Mr.

and Mrs. Anthony Berardi, 1755 Hill a son. Oct. 4. Alice Horlick Maternity Hospital, I Mr.

and Mrs. Clifford Wee, 1516 Blaine a daughter, OcU 5, Alice Horlick Maternity Hospital. Commander and Mrs. Wesley Carlson, Richmond. formerly of Racine, a daughter.

Oct. 3. Mr. and Mrs. George Mills, 1520 Korth Wisconsin a Oc.

5. St. Mary's Hospital. 1 Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Digginjs, E10, North Side Trailer Camp, daughter, Oct. 4, St. Mary's Hospital i Mr. and Mrs. James Kimmons, 1923 Clark a daughter.

Oct. 4, St. Mary's Hospital. Mr. and Mrs; Richard Mann, 1633 Milwaukee a son, Oct.

5, St. Mary's Hospital. Mr. ami Mrs. Duane Dorothy, Union Grove, a son, Oct.

4, St. Mary's Hospital. Marriage License Applications Famous for Quality, Fit anti Durability "Simplex Flexies" are made to last through all baby's most difficult steps. If the shoe those first steps give confidence! Every foot fitted under our four-step fitting plan. fa Keep Young Feet Young SHOTGUN PELLETS lodged in the lower portions of the bodies of three men late Monday afternoon when a 10 gauge double barreled shotgun accidentally discharged while it was being cleaned.

The injured men, Willard Christensen, 31, and Lester Christensen, 37, of 2515 Washington Ave, and Rueben Hall. 43, of 2353 Trior Ave, were taken to St. Luke's Hospital to have the pellets removed. William Noe, 31, of 1016 St. Patrick SL, was cleaning the gun at the Co-Op Filling Station, Twelfth St.

and Herrick Ave. at the time of the accident. The men were in the station drive- way. MANY MEMBERS of the Ra- cine Insurance Board are attend- in a the 52nd annual convention of the National Association of Insurance Agents being held in Chicago. Among the Racine agents who are members of committees of the board are accident prevention committee, Sidney E.

Nelson; aviation committee, John S. Rowland. Among the other persons attending the convention are Wil- liam S. Dooley. M.

Everett Nelson, Milo Griffith, Dewey Liegler, Alex Dorman, Roy Poulaen and Ray Eggert. SECURE JOBS for the phys- ically handicapped. Mayor Francis H. Weridt urged today, marking Employ the Physically Handicapped Week." The mayor pointed out that the Wisconsin State Employment Service and the Vocational Rehabilitation Service in Racine offer facilities for rehabilitation and training of handicapped persons, and he urged employers to hire them "in order that they might demonstrate their economic independence and at the same time be of greater service to their community." CITY COUNCIL, at its meeting tonight, will receive the Plan Commii sion's recommendation that the new zoning plan calling for a four-family residence dis- trict in place of the old two-family district be adopted. The Council will send the zoning plan to its committee of the whole for further hearings.

The commission also will recommend to the Council that an area west of the North Shore tracks and south of the Milwaukee Road tracks be rezoned to eliminate the light industry zone there. MR. AND MRS. W. BROOKS have returned to their home in Topeka, after spending the weekend with Mr.

and Mrs. Jo- seph H. Martin. 2625 Washington and other Racine friends. Mr.

Brooks was principal of the Racine High School for many years, leaving here 23 years ago to become principal of a high' school at Wichita, Kan. Four years ago he was named state superintendent of schools in Kansas, a post he still fills. A SWITCH ENGINE of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad and an auto tangled on the train crossing at Racine St. near Sixteenth SL Monday nichL No one wai injured.

Driver of the northboundtaron Racine St. was Iels Tanoup. 63, of Kansas-ville and the engineer was J. H. Kaiser, 233 oJnes Ave.

The engine was traveling at a slow speed at the time it struck the car on the right hand side. A MOTORBIKE RIDES, Gordon Akin. 17. of Rt. 3, Box 408.

sustained a collar bone injury Monday afternoon when his bike rammed into the rear of a car driven by Jerry Davis, 17, of 800 College Ave. Both vehicles were traveling west on Twelfth St. near the school when the Davis car slowed down to park. Akin was unable to stop before hitting the. auto.

BKS at Racine hc Hb7 Understandable Psy-, chiatry; -Gem Cutting:" -Ex-. tempore Speaking;" "Standard Book of Letter Writing; "General Evangeline Booth of the Salvation Army;" "Preparing for Federal Radio Operator Examinations;" Lenin, by Shub; "Stories for Talks to Boys;" and "Race Differences, by Klineberg. ANNUAL ARMISTICE BALL of the Racine branch of the Thir- I ty-second Division Association will be held at Memorial Hall ftn night of Nov. 12. according to action taken by the general com- mittee last night at Club American Legion.

Frank La Bra sea and R. L. Jerstad are co-chairmen of the committee in charge and will announce other details later, MONUMENT SQUARE improvements will start within a week to ten days after the City Council approves contracts for sidewalk work and new reflect- ing pools. Park Superintendent Floyd Carlson said this morning. Work on filling the square to bring it to street level has already begun.

ARRAIGNED BEFORE COURT Commissioner Eugene L. Haley this morning, Albert E. Grant, 830 Park was charged with operating a motor vehicle without the owner's consent. Grant waived preliminary hearing. If you're disgusted with a life of uncontrolled drinking and want to live free from alcohol write ALCOHOLICS ANO.vraocs P.

O. Box 232. Racine. WU. i that people don't appreciate fa vors.

Ifo the primary, ne cnaumricu 14. voters to the polling places. When the i ballots were counted, the candidate, Henry C. Mertz. had one voile, Flexies ml endorsement on the deposit, BY MAIL ENVfL- i ffi WISCONSIN i To 7 7 i in i Aid o-Needy Given Boost nacine otmiy pension a irecxor The lat congress passed trie bill which was signed by the President recently.

Federal aid is Increased $2.50 on all grant of $45 a month for the aged and approximately that same amount for the blind while aid to dependent children will average about $3 more per month. To Be Paid Soon. Kennedy said it will take his office staff several weeks to make out the new schedules but that the increases will be paid on the next month's checks. Old age checks in this county average $39.81 a month with an old maximum of $45 and a new of $50. Aid to the blind averages $40.32 a month with an old maximum of $50 and a new of $60.

Aid to dependent children averages $27 for the first child and $18 for each additional child. Candidate Quits Congress Race Bert Davis of Kenosha. People's Progressive candidate for Congress in the First District, was one of of his party's congressional candidates to withdraw from their respective district races. The party headquarters in Milwaukee said that the four congressional candidates were dropping their candidacies "to help attain the greatest measure of unity of liberals and progressives." Michael Essin executive director of the party who made the an- nouncement, said that the four had agreed to withdraw "so that the worst enemies of the common people will be defeated." Besides Davis, candidates who withdrew were Allex McCulloch, Second District: Roy Samb, Third District, and Harold Priebe, a write-in candidate in the Sixth. Candidates retained are Edmund V.

Bobrowicz. Fourth (Milwau- kee) District; Charles Polich, tenth; Emil Muelver. Seventh; Oliver J. Rasmusen. Eighth; and Linton Johr.

Ninth. The party did not nominate a candidate in the Fifth (Milwaukee) District but has called for the defeat by Rep. I Kersten. It also called upon the Democratic party to withdraw its candidate in the Tenth District. Daniel Hoan, former mayor of Milwaukee, and avoid a three cor- nered race which it said "en- hanced" tbe possibility of the re- nf Rn mVi "The People's Progressive party, said Essin, "is determined that the greatest degree of unity must' lt liHor --i onslaught of reaction and to drive it into retreat." i Essin said the party is formulating its policy in reference to withdrawal or retention of candidates for state legislative and county offices.

Best Sellers BEST SELLERS Fiction Toward the Momine, Hervey Allen: Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer; Cleft Rock, Alice Tis-dale. Hobart: This Very Earth. Er- skine Caldwell: Tomorrow Will Be Better, Betty Smith; Woman With a Sword, Holiister Noble; Flames of Time, Baynara Kendrick. Sky and the Forest. C.

S. Forester; Loved One, Evelyn Waugh; and Lace Curtain, Ellin Berlin. Non-Fiction How to Stop Worrying and Start Living. Carnegie; Roosevelt Myth, John T. Flynn; Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, Kinsey; Gathering Storm, Winston Churchill; Peace of Mind, Joshua Loth Lieb-man; Of Flight and Life, Charles Lindbergh; Family Circle, Cornelia Otis Skinner.

Guide to Confident Living. Norman Peale; Malabar Farm, Louis Bromfield; and Road to Survival, William Vogt. COMING WEATHER i i I Nominees of State's 4 Parties Meet to Draft Their Platforms In Our New Shoe Shop, Street Floor, Annex L2irdlllUu "For Deposit" over your signature each check to be mailed us for a Sf-i Mil a "jr Ly Comparisons of the 1947 audit. made by a firm of private account- ants, with the comptroller's records show differences in methods of handling various accounts, and differences for totals in expenditures, and the general fund balance. The comptroller's office and the auditor clashed last year on certain corrections in the city books recommended by the auditor, and the Council instructed the comptroller by resolution to make the changes.

Wax Employes Go to Institute Twenty-five employes of S. C. Johnson Son, Inc. will attend various sessions of the Industrial Management Institute this fall and winter at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. This is the second year that the company has sent members of their production division to school to learn more about human relations, personal techniques, wage administration, production planning and control, and job evaluation and merit rating.

Racine personnel who will attend the institute this year include: Charles Rogers, M. J. Bosz, C. F. Antle, C.

M. Madden, W. O. Willard, A L. Henningfield, J.

Schnetz. C. A Burkert, E. Mack. J.

Musiel, I. J. Kovera, Ray Johnson, C. G. Olsen, W.

G. Weiss, H. L. Ditlevson, F. S.

De-derich, A R. Wilson, J. H. Geshay, H. W.

Chapman, L. P. Majchro-witz, E. Despins, I. W.

Albright, S. L. Breitung, Frank Anderson and Lawrence Lietzen. of the party with Tehan winning a series of victories during recent months. Doyle Won't Ron.

Democratic leaders were caucusing in an attempt to settle on a candidate to oppose Greene. James Doyle, former assistant federal district attorney here who had been backed by some party leaders as a candidate, announced that he would not run becaues of the demands of his private law practice. Doyle was named co-chairman of the Democratic organizing committee. Doyle was selected because of his activity in the recent primary campaign when he ran the campaign cf Carl Thompson, the Democratic nominee for governor. The Democratic platform is expected to follow the general lines of the platform announced by Thompson at the beginning of the primary campaign.

The People's Progressive and Socialist parties probably will follow platforms drafted at their state conventions. Criticizes Bishop On Radio Dramas MILWAUKEE A delegate to the Milwaukee Episcopal Diocesan Council said he feared the presiding bishop of the church was taken for a ride by the Advertising boys and the hucksters." The delegate. P. Ritchie, was commenting on the $2,000,000 radio drama series inaugurated by the Protestant Episcopal Church last Friday. The first play was "Cyrano De Bergerac, starring Walter Hampden.

"There are hundreds and thousands of people crying to hear the gospel and we're talking about Cyrano De Bergerac, said Ritchie. Order Nursing Group To Drop Term 'Guild' WASHINGTON. CU.P) The Practical Nurses Guild, Sioux City, Iowa, was ordered by the federal trade committee to stop "false and misleading" advertisements of its $67.50 course in practical nursing. The commission also ordered the firm to stop using the word -Guild because it -is not an association or guild of practical nurses. It said hospitals do not recognize its diplomas and that training received through the correspondence course might be obtained eiscwLexa wimoui ciargc Mail checks in one of our special BANK I OPES.

Do not send passbook. MADISON Nominees of Wisconsin's four political parties met here to draft the platforms on which they will run in the November election. The platform conventions, required by state law, opened at noon with the Republicans, Democrat. Socialists and People's Progressives meeting separately at the Capitol. Convention delegates are the parties nominees for itate and legislative offices and hold-over state senators.

Keep Pledjea Rcnncbohm. Acting Gov. Oscar Rennebohm, the GOP candidate for governor, urged his party to adopt a "sound, vigorous, realistic platform for the future of Wisconsin. Rennebohm said the program must recognize and meet the state's needs and must contain "only pledges which we know we can keep:" He said the overwhelming GOP vote in the primary gave the party a tremendous responsibility." "When we begin our new terms next year and the legislature meets, we must make certain that our platforms, are carried out, he said. The governor predicted that the legislative council's work in the last year would make it possible for the next session to enact "the most constructive legislative program in the history of the state." Democrats Pick Fox.

Democrats, at a pre-convention caucus, picked Jerome Fox, Chilton, to be the party's new state chairman. The caucus vote must be approved on the convention floor, however. State Sen. Clement Zablocki. who is running for Congress ia the Fourth district, was named Democratic platform convention chairman.

Robert Pierce, Menomonie, was expected to be re-elected to the central committee chairmanship. The Republicans also expected little trouble in drawing up their platform. The -big fireworks are expected to come in the Democratic ranks because of the intra-party struggle between State Sen. Robert Tehan and party chairman Charles Greene. Greene, a candidate for re-election, has been at odds with tot aosM ussa ever control Checks may be mailed for either checking or" savings account.

which on deposit slip attached to envelope). AH deposits are acknowledged as soon as received. j- For your free supply of BANK-BY-MAIL Envelopes writ or phono Jackson 6420 A marriage license has been issued in VVaukegan to Roland J. Nystrom of North Chicago and Lorraine Becker of Racine. Ralph E.

Haas, 1206 St. Patrick and Mary E. Granger, J028 Grove Ave. Frank Weigus and Janet' M. Hansen, both of 1647 Douglas Ave.

Jerome J. PopUwski, 1814 Park and Faith Williams, 949 Washington Ave. Frank J. Callewaert and Ruth T. Welsh, both of SUrtevant.

John Athleen Avt, and Olga E. Frsgaard, 1729 Grange Ave. Thomaj Edward Baker, 2807 Wright and Anne Viola Slaasted. 1217 GooldSt Robert John Spinsky, 1714 Howe and Eleanor D.TLaMere, 1918 W. Prospect St, Dale F.

Kirk, 1635 College Ave, and Catherine Rose McKinley, 2205 How St. I' Albert F. Vander Schaegenj 719 Villa and Helen E. Robinson, ioi7 yij st. i EAQNtJMi 1918 OCT.

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