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The Journal Times from Racine, Wisconsin • 8

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TTednwday, Ort. 4, 1961 8 BACINX JOrmWAL TTMZS Happenings in the City Town's Sewers Criticized; Review of Hy; 20 Plans Told TAVERN IN WEST RACINE? i All Previous Tries Failed to Get i Liquor License for Kringleville point. And there are those who wanted to open a bar and restaurant. The response was im YOUNG BICYCLISTS were injured Tuesday in two separate accidents. 1 Susan Suchar-da, 9, 2058 Charles St.

was injured at the 1500 block of Erie St. when she turned left in front of a northbound car being driven by David Hart-man, 72, of 1220 Willmor St. She was treated at Luke's Hospital for a broken ankle and released Donald Berge-mann, 7, of 616 12th St. was struck in front of his home when he wheeled out of a driveway. Police said that a Darked car blocked the view learned it's operating at 125 per cent of capacity and shooting raw 'sewage into the lake." Discuss Highway 20 In other Floyd Bus-kirk, 3216 S.

Green Bay Road, reported results of a meeting of a five-man delegation with Goy. Gaylord Nelson and the State Highway Commission Tuesday in Madison. Buskirk said State Highway Commission Chairman Harvey Grasse had guaranteed that he would ask the District Highway Engineer, James Meier, to Eye 2 Plans for Operation, of Auto Ramp Two proposals for a non-metered operation of the Downtown Parking Ramp were to be discussed this afternoon at a City Parking Commission meeting. The Downtown Parking Committee was to bring in the two proposals received from private parking lot operators who wish to lease the parking facility. Details of the proposals were not available prior to the meeting.

The Parkins? Commission also mediate and explosive. For months, the City Council TWO REPRESENTATIVES of the Racine Public Library-Miss Frances Starr, head of tfie Adult Department, aid Miss Marjorie Perham, reference librarian, Tuesday attended a workshop at Lake Geneva for librarians from Racine, Kenosha and Walworth counties. The workshop groups discussed co-operation among libraries in the southeastern part of the state and explored the needs of library users and resources of the area in staff, materials and facilities. TOTAL of 413 children were registered Tuesday for preschool classes sponsored by the City Recreation Department. Douglas Park, with 178 registrations, is full, but addi The Mt.

Pleasant Citizens fori Better Government appointed a three-man committee Tuesday night to study residents' complaints about the town's sewer project. The meeting, attended by about 60 persons, also heard a report that the State Highway Commission chairman will request, for the commission's review, an alternative set of plans to rebuild Highway 20 west of Racine. The three-man committee to study sewer complaints is to report its finding at the next meeting Nov. 7. The move came after discussion in which members sug heard petitions and counter-petitions, along with petitions withdrawing from petitions.

lay that West Racine itself is more a state of mind than a place, and those practical observers of the growth of Racine who point out that the location of the prospective plush saloon on Perry Ave. is not really in "old" West Racine it is too far west. But the fact is that the City By James E. O'Brien When the long drouth broke In West Racine Tuesday night (or did it?) and the City Council voted a tavern license to a new motel and cocktail lounge at Washington and Perry there must have been some gray heads that nodded in wonder. That just couldn't have happened 20 years ago.

In fact, it The aldermen finally denied all of Higgins' several attempts to be licensed to operate in the area. He fought on in the courts, but the decisions went prepare alternate plans for re- of the driver, Donald Carbon neau, 17, of 1359 Deane Blvd. building Highway 20 west of Council, with only the protests of a few church people, probably couldn't have happened 10, years ago. Used "Remonstrance" actually granted license for a gested urging the Mt. PJeasant After the dust settled, West Racine residents vowed it would never happen again.

The Bergemann boy was taken to St. Mary's Hospital and released after treatment for contusions to his right thumb and hand. COUNTY ZONING permit has been granted to Grange Ave. Methodist Church, which Racine. Atty.

Gerald Flynn said Grasse promised to instruct Meier to prepare by Oct. 15 an alternate plan embracing an 84-foot area, which the commission would review. Seek 24-Foot Median is to hear a report form its Town Board t0 fire consulting Every previous attempt to bar in the" area of the license a tavern or bar in theiNorth Shore tracks, south of stout enclave called West Cemetery and north cine, or Kringleville, has been of the St. Paul tracks, which They invoked a seldom used Building Committee on how engineer nerDen jpnnson. nearly completed the ramp Johnson is a civil engineer met with the fierce resistance; has long been considered the privilege of property owners to take a remonstrance to the Citv will be by the Christmas rush and member of the firm of Jen of the residents, who mannedahara of the Belle City a ic Present plans are to build plans a new building at 5901 me barricades at tne North Rark in 1934 and this sen and jonnson or tlknorn.

His services are retained by the town on a per-project basis. Name Committee Shore tracks and said of the'could have caused a secession-prospective purveyors of hardest movement in the area.Early spirits, "I hey shall not in 1934, only a year after Pro- obscure legal device under City Traffic Engineer War-which the residents and prop- ren Brandt said last week he erty owners in a described area had talked with the contractor may petition to prevent thejand learned the final 7th and granting of liquor licenses ramps would not be com-that area, and dry up the area, pleted by the first of Decern- a divided four-lane highwayWashington Ave. Construction from Racine to a point near: 0f the 21,726 square foot edi-Emmertsen Road on a expected to top strip. Home owners are 00. Johnson and Henrickson objecting to the plan, arguing 0f Racine are the contractors, the proposed construction! "Voted Dry, Drank Wet Named to the committee were Theodore J.

Braun, 2706 Ole Davidson Road; Elliott Lewis, 1334 S. Green Bay Road, .1 1 a. A tional children can be accepted at Washington Park Pool Gym, if they are 4 years old by Dec. 1, and at Lakeview Community Center, if they were 3 years old by June 1 Of 1961. Registrations are being made at City HalL, Classes start Oct.

23. COUNTY PURCHASING Department is being moved today from its Courthouse seventh floor offices to the basement. The seventh floor facilities are expected to be used for offices which now occupy space on the third floor adjoining a hearing room. The hearing room will be converted into a courtroom and the adjoining rooms will be used for iudce's chambers and other of Of course, there are some who will say that West Racine dry and drank hibition died an unmourned death, William Higgins, who was to become a prominent Racine restaurateur, applied for a tavern license at 3114 ber. would take too much land, into perpetuity.

The remonstrances were fie said five ramps would be and there are liquor stores on ana rran nauer, Latnrop be t0Q costly and would be accident prone. Johnson and sewer line con- The plan's 24-foot median Washington Ave. to bolster thej Washington where he served on April 30, 1935, to be used then unless that drove the cork in West unseasonable weather delavs Police to Seek $30 Pay Raise contractors drawn the maior criticism. the contractor's present sched- struction Racine's bottle with this exception, which apparently occurred to no one at. the time: ule.

The sixth ramp would all received criticism from used for storing constructionlthe group, which claimed de- "Meier is a bureaucrat an appointed, not elected official and is not concerned with Expect 1st Guard Trains to Leave Wisconsin Oct. 24.. There were three liquor stores during the winter, jfective engineering and work-already licensed and operatingjhe saic The facjijty would bemansniP in laying the sewer Dublic feeline." said Flynn. Kacine policemen win asK lines. "Ho a rpf pH tn draw alter-for a $30 a month increase lh on Washington Ave, completed in the spring.

The town is currently putting'-to nianc wages and other benefits in Tor nearly 20 years, the is- isue of taverns in West Racine fices. MADISON MP) The first made available Tuesday as the troop trains carrying Wsicon-jd i i i headquarters an-on's 32d Division National nounced that a one-day train ffiiarrlsmpn to activp dntv at InaHina srhnnl cnnmnmH hv in sewer lines which will bej "jhe governor is an elected their contract for 1962. connected with the City of.officiaI and is conscious of the! Donald La Fave, secretary Racine. The first of three Flvnn said of the Racine Police Protective lay dormant, until the City Council decided, in 1953, to Ask Appraisal on Hy. 31 Land has been completed while the other two just getting un- Ft.

Lewis, are expected; the guard and the raiIroadslredlstnct the Cltv 15 wards-to leave the slate Oct. 24. (will be held Thursday at Camp1 Bv that tlme- a Peculiar trans" Transportation-details werei Williams in Monroe County. fer had been made in the minds said the requests had been made to the City Council's Finance Committee. The association asked for a meet- ASKS DELAY IN DECISION ON HEALTH DISTRICT Circuit Judge Elmer Good- denvay.

a naia-aozen men cnea cases COURSE in body building for males 16 and older will begin at 8:30 p.m. Oct. 9 at the Racine YMCA. It will be taught by Dominick Parise. who holds titles from bodybuilding contests around the state and was an instructor in physical conditioningin the armed the The division's 10,000 men 01 ine wesi Kaune reMaenii-land Tuesday assigned of water hackins un in newlvl The Mt.

Pleasant Citizens for with trip rnmmittep to he- Rr Wm.n rePort for active dutX 1 Condemnat ion Com- laid lines and of mains being Better Government unanimous-ojn negotiations on these de- i wimuii .1 and remain at thpir hnmp u-wwv. wiu determine corn-laid hieher than home base- ily adopted amotion Tuesday mancis: pensation for a half-acre ofland ments. jnight to ask the Town Board A wage increase of $30 a A I i I cases until they Doaro. trains v.v. tw ASSaUlted, KODbed taking them All of the that wnole ward was dry-A 22 vearold Racine woman are expocted to be in FtJ Actually, it was not under the Thp mursA runs onp 31 "mere nas oeen ueiay iui ycn uoiiuii; montnApatronnans pay to be used for Highway work done," said Marvin De io enier me lueiropuman presently is $447 a month.

hour each Monday evening for remonstrances of 1935, which right-of-way. was abducted bv two men. Lewis ucl 5633 nurand Road.itieaun uistnci. ine motion 0WJ uuvana it will t.wp 9lv( An described three areas: (1) be- A a. T- longevity- wage increases six weeks.

Avp VVpst JCUUU" lul group cha rnian. "Engineering aiso asKS mat me proposal oe reaching 3 per cent of base pay west nmAnt-to a Mr i i earlv Tuesday mornine; oolice'lf of them for personnel, to.tween Washington Y'Wpn Wishinotnn If of them for nersonne to tween Washington "a jbignmeni io me off base in niany cases ihf luZ 15 011 Dabe raanaiCS: r' tv, isth st. and Ouincvi; a.y 3 years-0 Per ceni auer ADVANCED to Star rank bov scout troob boards of urouD was on nv inp nrnnprrv waa 1 wu u.c iaia mey were 101a iuesaay- prove to us that this is ine motion was appruvCUjj0 vears an(j 9 per cent after units are scattered throughout! U) between Washington RaDh i Geraghty, oin t0 worj- before we use'after Burgess, one of the 5 vears. Policemen presently review in September were it i ri. Tr: night TVia' victim' mnthor state, trains will be staged, west ivmie and Mrs Marc Wollman and Walter UUI th.m th, th 1 at about 20 points, probably in and Blaine and (3) basements as seepage iown iwo representatives iu received 3 per cent after 10 (the 11-man area health study years of service.

Inc. fri-nH nff th Mnrth major cities. tween Washington West A. Duffy and Miss Edith W. Criticizes Engineering committee, urged the town to 3.

insurance paid up at the 15th St. and Blaine Ave. 1 The trooD trains, with 50 toiBlvd Geraghty. The owners said the. Cf suggesting that "it might! sl Ufht t.

t. of 55 years when Police- State. Last month the area study men lesallv mav retire. Pres- Anderson, both of Troop 31, sponsored by Progressive Dairy Co. Advanced to Life Seoul was Richard Koenings of Troojf 5, sponsored by St.

John Nepo-muk Holy Name Society. Issue Again in 1953 uc wise IU ICUUCSl IIIC JUWI1 u.a tn tc committee to recom-ientlv the policy is paid at the Former Aid. Ray O. Flans- Highway Commission had con ftJUUIC fJUL, IXiU IVC3L UIVU. 1 about 1:30 a.m.

and was men eacn- will move alone to turn around after telephon-jwltn the railroads assuring a lng for a. cab, when amanjclear track for the entire 50" came up behind her and carried ll0ur tr'P- .1 uuai -i uiluui uuiiii jwii. burg, who was then represent-idemned the property at High- DeSmidt asked: "Would it cost mend formatlon of a metro-; age of 60 years ing Jhe 12th Ward in the City ways 31 and 38. politan health service for stu- The Finance Committee two less to pay him off than to cor- her to the back seat of a car Council, was a bitter opponent Earlier this vear the owners rort hie prrnrc 1 Dome ui me aivision equipment may move as part of reg- dents of the Unified School months ago received wage in-District. But representatives of! crease demands of $40 a month driven by another man pf the redistricting plan, which sought to enjoin the Racine: Ako rritiriina inhnsnn PHYLLIS ELLISON, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Herbert Ellison, 144 Merrie Lane, has been named co-chairman of the Jularly scheduled freight trains, was tn snlit nff thp nart nf his rnntw 'nntlvinc munirinalitipQ nf th frrm tViA RrLn Firpfiffhtr abductor, a heavy mus i "i r- iutiiiwoY v-u ii in itc hor Knropcc wnn a vpar a on --r o-- equipment eu'Pm7l cular man over 6 feet tall with' ume ine ward south of Washington fr0m condemning the land, con-i" named to a committee tolseven in the Unified District, Local 32, plus demands-for aJ, a. short dark hair and wearing maM "Lreach Camp unUl the argument over the tending the property had been Crd andlobjected to a broader plan oftshorter work week end other lCff Phylli; i A I 1 i.u'i -ru oi mouhuim. Hark rlnthina mrfA in an UCl. ZJ.

is a junior at the college. Ilev south rf Washinf.tr.ni -State Insurance Commission i a iiaiisuuig uiuiJcu ojimpropeny appraised, juuge tg cnineer to discuss the'lur ncmiu uniemi. ine luiuhihicc ia ca-bombshell: Elmer Goodland dismissed the ijroject." department by extending thejpected to begin negotiations Thp sprved in rhamn lat mnnth i j-j of the Citv Health De-i toward the end of this month. Ave. and west of the North ier Charles Manson said Tues- inciirnnrp nopntc ini DUrgCSS CUriieilUCU llltJl IIIC, Shore tracks and later robbed rrZ llm reaIIy were not valid' hel The Highway Committee and group was told by Johnson thatPartment.

They said costs; her. police were told. "He JseJ ni" claimed, and dividing the 12th tw0 right-of-way agents for city's treatment plant wasjwould rise and local govern-, Shriver to Give Keynote the driver, a young man with! Ward would tend to divide the state Highway Commission'ooerating at 70 per cent of its'ments would no longer control- light hair, dropped the woman persons. to operate have appraised the parcel at'eapacity but "that before it hadir health services. jOr orare vem V.onciQVe off at 7th St.

and Wisconsin $635. "a cupful of our sewage we if we sit tight and enlarge) MADISON (JP) Patrick, sence. a mtie, we a get Dy cneaper, jLucey, chairman of the Demo- Burgess told the citizens jcratic party of Wisconsin, an- opposition to taverns in the area. The result was a wave of opposition to the redistricting plan in West Racine, but the Council over-rode it eventually and adopted the new wards. But the aldermen were also rarpful to thp Shotgun Blast Results in Arrest Review Requests in Negotiations Between Massey-Ferguson and Union group- nounced today that R.

Sargent "We aren't so far off in thej shriver, director of the U.S. county in many respects," Corps, will be the key-said after comparing city sDeaker at the state nartv her mother told police. Police said the woman was out of the city and could not be immediately questioned. Accident Injures Four Women A' shotgun charge Tuesday; residents of west. Racine that Company demands, Mearnsicounty health services in the'eonvention in Eau Claire.

said, include requests Shriver. brother-in-law of into a wan west oi iront door at 1404 Albert St. re- He added that, the Town President Kennedy, will ad-Board told him that "they! dress the meeting on the night might want to go it alone." I of Oct. 13. there was no intention of granting tavern licenses in their area.

A footnote on the 1953 controversy was a legal opinion BANKING PROBLEMS GREAT OR SMALL SEE US FIRST OF ALL Company and union officials concentrated on review of the requests of both sides as contract negotiations opened Tuesday between Massey-Ferguson, Inc. and UAW Local 244, according to W. R. Mearns, head of the three-member company bargaining unit. Four persons were injured in sulted in the arrest.

of Mrs. a two-car collision at 16th St. (Willie White, 35," of that ad-and Grange Ave. at 6:30 a.m.jdress. -today.

I Police reports said that Mrs. would improve the efficiency of its operation. Besides a general wage Increase for warehouse and office personnel, Local 244 seeks improved insurance, pension and unemployment benefit programs. The union has about -200 given later that year by City ronce saia an auto anven Dyrwiuie duiuiLifu snouting ai Atty. Thomas P.

Corbett. Cor- j-inian Dargan, ji, of M27jHoya scow. Ji, ot iu Kacine bett had been asked to take a st. sne was arraigned thisu iooa Qt Mearns said the company is of the old remonstrances. He Grange collided with one driven by Mrs.

Betty Peltier, 41. of 3255 Hickory Grove and her car skidded and morning before a court commissioner on a felony charge found that only two of them of conduct evincing a depraved withholding comment on wages; members at Massey-Fergu son's until the union requests North American Parts Opera-specific increase. Local 244 has! tion here. Heading the local's were valid, but that one was DON'T MISS the SPEED QUEEN Washer Deals at Both Stores During LATHROP'S GRAND OPENING flipped onto its left side mind endangering the safety of jjnvaid there were two Taken to St. Mary's Hospi- another bargaining team is its presi-; retail limiore store licenses inaia mus iar oniy mat it wisn- tal were Mrs.

Peltier, who had complained of chest pains, and three passengers, Mrs. Alma She told police that at the time they were es an increase comparable to came to her apartment and'granied and the Council had others granted in the auto and started beating her. When her'never done anvthint? ahnut agricultural implement indus- dent, Stephen Olsen. Negotiations are scheduled to continue Friday afternoon. The current three-year contract expires Oct.

31. Clauer, 57, of 1913 Dwight jhusband returned home, Scott them i tries, where bargaining is cur- who is reported in goodjwent outside to talk to him. it was apparent Corbett'rent and widespread. condition with side pains; Mrs. Ann Simon, 58, of 2920 flillpn in onrA rnnHitinn Scott and White said that as commented, that the action to they were talking, a taverns had never been blast surprised them, strikingijntended to prevent liauor with a possible rib fracture, the wall between them.

stores, but the remonstrances covered them, too. He also ruled that a third liquor, store and Mrs. Gladys Martinsen, 46, Scott, who said he used to of 2408 James who wasjlive with the Whites, said he released after complaining of returned to the apartment to BBS) Goldblatt's introduces another top quality brand name (which had then been in busi shoulder and back pains. pick up a sweater. ness 17 years then!) was actually operating illegally, because it was in a legal remon-strance'area and had not been granted a license before April 30, 1935.

The upshot of the 1953 dust-up over licenses in West Racine was exactly nothing. The ward lines were re-drawn, the liquor stores stayed in business and no tavern licenses were granted until Tuesday Pigeon Drop Attempt Fails with Racine Woman, 81 An attempted "pigeon to prove she was worthy failed in Racine Tuesday when to split the $45,000, Mrs. Kiko-an 81 -year-old woman told two sicki.told her she wanted no women that they should take part of it and it should be money they supposedly found, deposited in the bank, police to the bank and not share it said. fjUcii1 SEi fesX Ci-osfev Luxury Leathers with her. Mrs.

Emily Kikosicki, of 1836 Center St. said that after with- Perfect fitting Newest styles drawing some savings from a bank, she was approached in a dime store by a woman who to 11 uegan taming bdoui naving DON'T MISS the FRIGIDAIRE Deals at Both Stores During LATHROP'S GRAND OPENING You'd like to be In our shoes! You'd like it because our shoes are tfi famous Crosby Squaresl Crosby Squares for men are not. only good looking and long wearing, but they're the most comfortable shoes you've ever worn! Precision crafted for utmost, flexibility. See our selectionl You'll find ties, ilip-ons, black and browni in a wide range of sizes and widthj. Elmwood Plan Insurance money herself.

A third woman approached them and said she had just found a package containing $45,000 and would be willing to split the money with them if they showed they could live for 60 days on their own' savings. When the woman asked Mrs. Kikosicki lot "good 3701 Durnnd Road.

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