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RACINE SUNDAY BULLETIN Sunday, Dtctmbcr 31, 1967 Comnmity KieuA City a4 Cemttif Stick to Your Job 1 4VS Counters Spot it fa- City Briefs Rare Birds City Treasurer Follows Advice of Her Father for 47 Years A surf scoter, a diving duck usually seen on the ocean off the east or west coasts, was among the rarest of the birds found in the Racine area Saturday during li I If -Tar the Hoy Bird Club's annual winter bird count. Edward Prins, who directed the single day census, said 19 persons counting in seven different groups within a 7 mile radious of Racine, reported see ing 48 different species and a total of 12,259 birds. 'MM Other rare birds counted Sat 'mt r- iu i i urday included a myrtle warbler near the 5 Mile Road, a snowy 1 1 FIRE caused an estimated $600 damage to a car owned by Gene Misenheimer, 4325 Olive but firemen averted further damage by dragging the burning vehicle from its garage before extinguishing the blaze inside the car. Firemen said the blaze started while Misenheimer was installing a citizens' band radio and had run a cable beneath the seat to the battery of the auto. CAR owned by Abel Castel-lano, 3214 Northwestern was found heavily damaged Saturday on a vacant tot east of the Chicago Northwestern Railway Station, according to police.

Police said all windows and lights-of the car had been smashed and the upholstery had been ripped from the vehicle. Police estimated damage to the 1962 auto at a minimum of $1,000. SISTER Dolores Enderle, O.P., graduate -student at Ball State University, Muncie, is among the 272 students who made the Registrar's Roll of Honor for the fall quarter. To be named to the roll, a student must attain A's in all classes. FALL from a second story window at her home resulted in fractures of both ankles for Lisa Mae Harris, 42, of 1440 Clark according to the Rescue owl off North Pier, two blue geese, one wood duck, a long eared owl and a horned owl.

The counters tallied 3,705 old squaw ducks, 1,300 golden eyed ducks and 2,000 gulls along the lakeshore, Prins said. Nine robins, a white-throated sparrow, a female hooded mer ganser, 17 blue jays, 18 cardinals By EMMERT DOSE Journal-Times Staff In 1921 the teen-age daughter of Racine's north side commissioner of public works took a job with the city. Her father had one piece of advice: Stick to your job and do a good one. Colette A. Blessinger followed her father's advice for the next 47 years.

And if it were not for a mandatory retirement policy adopted a couple of years ago by the City Council, she would probably stick to her job longer. Miss Blessinger, 66, city treasurer since 1946, retires today under the city's retirement program which this year affects all employes 65 or older. Last Woman Chief "I don't regret working for the city," she said. She has no definite plans for the future. Miss Blessinger's retirement brings to an end the last of the all-women departments in City Hall.

After this, the duties of the office will be supervised by men. At one time, when the late Miss Nellie Furre was comptroller, money collecting, handling and accounting was an all-women activity. Miss Blessinger Is known and respected throughout Wisconsin, especially in the League of Wisconsin Municipalities' clerks and finance officers association. She has often participated in panel discussions at annual conventions and last year was host to the organization when it met in Racine. Honored by Associations This past summer, when the association met in Oshkosh, it and 85 pheasants also were counted to the area which extended from the Kenosha County line to the Milwaukee County line and to a point just west of WmWmlx Interstate 94.

Last year the club members reported .52 species in a total of 10,279 birds spotted. Journal-Times Pnoto FIRST FACE-OFF Junior Hockey League activities of the Racine Park and Recreation Department, delayed three weeks by unseasonably warm weather, began Saturday at the Marquette and Kewaunee Sts. Ice rink. Instructor Allan H. Shephard, right foreground, held a class in hockey fundamentals preparatory to organizing teams.

Squad. She was taken to St. Luke's Hospital BirlL 2 State Youths Postal Rate Increases As Reported by St Luke's Hospital Die in Nebraska COZAD. Neb. (AP) Two OK Removal of Spur Track The State Public Service Commission has granted the Mil Mr.

and Mrs. James Kidwell, Kenosha, a daughter, Dec. 30 to Take Effect Jan. 7 Mr. and Mrs.

John Ambrose, young Madison, residents were killed Saturday in a two-car collision one-half mile south of Cozad at the intersection of 2600 Douglas a daughter, Dec. 30. Increased rates for all classes mail applies up to 7 ounces Nebraska 21 and the Interstate Mr. and Mrs. William Stein- waukee Road permission to remove 416 feet of track which served the former Kelly Lumber of mail except parcel post and 80 exit ramp.

COLETTE A. BLESSINGER Retiring City Treasurer The State Patrol identified the man, 2218 Geneva a daughter, Dec. 30. Mr. and Mrs.

William E. international mail go into effect Under the new rate structure all first-class mail over. 13 ounces and all air mail over 7 ounces will be merged into a single victims as Jane Wolman, 22, of a week from today, on Jan. 7, Co. at 1100 N.

Main St. The Kelly Lumber facilities presented Miss Blessinger with him and saying to my friends, Madison, and Richard A. Marsh, 3501 Republic a said Postmaster L. W. DeMark.

a certificate honoring her for. category 'I'd like to adopt that Meier, 20, also of Madison. have been torn down, the com New rates will be 6 cents for her 47 years of dedicated serv Miss Wolman was a daughter mission noted, and the new ice to Racine, paid her tribute These heavier pieces of first class and air mail subject to the first class mail and 10 cents for air mail. Post cards will be 5 of J. Martin Wolman, general Perhaps she is retiring at the right time.

Taxes levied by local units of government for 1968 have caused more complaints in the last two weeks than in any time she can recall. In her job, she has had much owner, the Eleven Hundred with a standing ovation and single rate schedule will be does not want the spur! After the show the bridge club went to a Milwaukee restaurant where coincidently some of the skaters- also went. Dwyer was among them. One of Miss Blessinger's friends told Dwyer about cents and air mail post cards 8 manager of Madison Newspapers, Inc. offered her a standing invitation track.

son, Dec. 30. Mr. and Mrs. Loren Schulz, Franksville, a son, Dec.

30. As Reported by St Mary's Hospital Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy L. Ward, 1040 Pearl a daughter, Dec.

30. Mr. and Mrs. John May, 3902 to attend all future conferences. cents.

delivered by the fastest available means of transportation. The new letter rate is up 20 contact with the public. On the whole, she found, people are per cent, compared to a 24 per A flat rate of 80 cents will be charged for all mail in this cate her earlier remark. He came! She has also attended several six-state regional invitational meetings of finance officers sponsored by the First National cent boost in the rates for mail over to meet her and now nice. ing newspapers' and magazines remembers her every year with "There are always some gory up to one pound.

For all mail weighing more than one pound, the present air parcel post rate will continue to apply, a card. Two years ago, at anoth and a 34 per cent increase for advertising circulars, "occu critics but I feel we have gone Bank of Chicago. This group also paid tribute to Racine's retiring treasurer. Miss Blessinger often er ice show, Dwyer learned that Ruby a son, Dec. 29.

It was incorrectly reported earlier that the May infant was a daughter. overboard to provide service pant" mail and other material Miss Blessinger. Was there sit Announcement With sincere regret, Dr. J. Holz must close his dental office at 614 6th Street indefinitely, due to ill health.

during tax collectidns," she, re except that the postage on mat in the third class category. ting near the rink. He skated up went to these sessions during her vacation; rather than taking marked, j' ter weighing, between one and Set Single Category live pounds will change at nan- time off the job to go. and gave her a bouquet of roses. Helped Civic Projects For City Hall employes, time is 8 a.m.

Miss Blessing As Reported By Burlington Memorial Hospital Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bedes- pound intervals rather than one The new rate of 6 cents per Educated by the Dominican pound intervals. er has been at work at 7 a.m Active in civic life, Miss Bless Sisters, Miss Blessinger attend' ounce for first-class mail applies up to 13 ounces and the new rate sem of 175 W. Jefferson inger is a member of the Busi every day for the past several ed St.

Joseph's Catholic grade DeMark said the new rate structure will mean a reduction Burlington, a son, Dec. 29. of 10 cents per ounce for air years. She said she has never school and took a two-year busi ness and Professional Women Assn. and recently concluded a ness course at St.

Catherine's been tardy through neglect of postage on some Increase Third Class three-year term on the lay advi when it was an all-girl school It was not a well-known fact sory board for the Dominican known as St. Catherine's Another rate change that will until it was brought out recently at her retirement party that at Motherhouse. For. 20 years she was a divi affect the general public is the Academy. Took Beautician Course Burglars Ransack Park High, Park Pool 2nd Time in Week one time she was an excellent increase from 4 to 6 cents for the first' two ounces of individual ice skater or that she rolled a 240 game on the City Hall Graduating at 15, she took a course in hair dressing at the sion chairman for Community Chest drives and kept in her office awards attesting to her pieces of third class mail.

Un women's bowling team. sealed greeting cards may be The second set of burglaries Vocational and Adult School But she never took up the trade. efficiency. Twice her division in tne is one or those rare OPEN HOUSE TONIGHT NEW YEAR'S EVE fl Jr No Cover Charge Danolnff! i Serving New Year's Day 11 A.M. to 1 A.M.

Reservations rrrn ircr 'L A Call Collect OOO-IUOO sent at this rate. cluded county and postal em She went to work instead in the in awe at Washington Park High School and the Washington "He emphasized that the new women who follow baseball fervently. She manages to get to ployes as well as city employes. advertising department of the J. rate on unsealed greeting cards Chicago's Comiskey Park at Park Pool Building were discov I.

Case Co. and did some part- She also headed a drive among city employes to raise funds for will not go into effect until Jan. least once each season to see ered Saturday, according to po and until then they can be time work in the city assessor's office. Then in 1921 she started High School. At the high school, the industrial arts drawing room was entered and several desks and cabinets were ransacked.

In another burglary reported to police, Barnabas Marton, 1432'2 State said that $1,000 in cash was taken from a suitcase in his apartment. A neighbor told police that he saw a strange couple leave Mar-ton's apartment about 1 a. m. lice. mailed at the old rate of 4 cents.

her beloved White Sox and plans to see all the White Sox games a St. Luke's Hospital expansion program. At her retirement party Miss Blessinger pointed proudly to Overnight Friday, police said DeMark also noted that effec working fulltime for the city, first for the assessor, then short scheduled in Milwaukee next tive Jan. 7 special handling will summer. Private Dining Rooms 2 to 300 be available on third class par ly after for the treasurer.

City Hall was then at the corner of someone used a fire axe to rip a coin telephone from the wall in the west lobby of the pool building. The telephone was Watching a White Sox or a cels weighing between 8 and 16 THEMVALLEY Supper Club Green Bay Packer game on her family's tradition of public service. Her father was the north side public works commissioner in bygone days when the ounces. Special handling has not television is for her an enjoyable been available on these parcels stolen and the axe was left behind, police said. 1528 Sheridan Road, Kenosha Saturday, shortly before Marton came home to discover the way to spend an evening or Sun city had a north side commis day afternoon.

Perhaps that's Police said the axe was ap since 1958, when packages weighing between eight and 16 ounces were transferred from sioner and a south side commis money was missing. Police said they discovered no what her co-workers had in mind sioner. Her brother, Josepn, parently taken in an overnight breakin at the Washington Park fourth to third class mail. sign of forcible entry. when they gave her a portable color television set at her retire after several years as a sheriff's deputy is the county sheriff.

A AOT SILASSGS WINTER TERM 1968 WUSTUM MUSEUM ment party. sister, Valerie, works for the She lists among her friends 3rd and Main Sts. She became deputy treasurer in 1938 and eight years later, when her boss, A. J. Eisenhut, retired, she ran for election to the top job and won by nearly 3,500 votes out of some 10,000 cast.

She was re-elected nine times, eight without opposition. Her last elective term expired in April, 1966, because the City Council took the position off the ballot, as it did the job of comptroller, when it created a new finance department under, an appointed director. Miss Blessinger retained her title until her retirement. Ice Follies skater Richard Unified School Board. Another brother, Louis, formerly worked Dwyer.

Gives Her Roses in the City Engineering Department. It all adds to 165 years of public service by the TEN MON. MORNING AFTERNOON EVENING i urst saw him when our WEEKS JAN. 8 MARCH 14 BASIC DRAWING ....930 to 11:30 CERAMICS 1:00 to 3K CERAMICS, Beg. or Adr.

7:15 to 9:15 BASIC DRAWING 7:15 to 9:15 LAPIPARY 7:15 to 9:15 BASIC DESIGN 7:15 to 9:15 bridge club attended a matinee Blessingers. "The slogan, 'We Like it of an ice show in Milwaukee," ANNOUNCEMENT WRJN is pleased to announce their affiliation with "INFORMATION RADIO NETWORK" A division of American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. Effective January 1, 1968 she recalls. "He was in the chorus then, I remember seeing fits the Blessingers," the retiring treasurer said. TUES.

MORNING EVENING Earned $2.8 Million PAINTING 9:00 to 11:00 SILVER JEWELRY 7:15 to 9:15 FIGURE' DRAWING 7:15 to 9:15 DESIGN WORKSHOP J. 7:15 to 9:15 I KMKKJ in the WED. EVENING During the time she has been treasurer, Miss Blessinger's investments 6t city funds have earned for the city $2.8 million in interest. This year alone, she said, investments earned $395,000. An indication of changing times is the increase in tax OIL PAINTING, Beg 7:15 to 9:15 WATER COLOR, Beg 7:15 to 9:15 CERAMIC SCULPTURE 7:15 to 9:15 WOODCUT PRINTS 7:15 to 9:15 levies by the local units of gov-j STITCHERY 1:00 to 3.00 ADVANCED PAINTING 7:15 to 9:15 CERAMICS, Beg.

or Adv. 7:15 to 9:15 THURS. AFTERNOON EVENING TUITION: Under the new affiliation WRJN will bring to its listeners more local, state, national and international news, sports, special features, good music and entertainment than ever before. News will be heard every hour, on the hour, throughout the day and night, and at other times as well, in order to keep you informed. Listeners will notice some changes in our program schedules, for example: "Party Line" with Helen Thomas, will come on the air at 8:10 a.m.

instead of 8 a.m. Don McNeill's Breakfast Club and Howard Cossell Sports will not be heard. Stay Tuned Figure Drawing $15, All Other Classes $12. Adraic enrollment only, la ptnm or by man. Fall Taltlsa la iduncc.

If ahtck. Bake pajabl to Uw Baela Art AaaooUtloa. SATURDAY ART CLASSES FOR CHILDREN TEN WEEKS JAN. 6-MARCH 9 CLASSES AT 9:00 AND 10:30 A.M. Children front 4 throurh It reari of are mar enroll In oltlier clauet.

The elaasei will he limited to apaee la the new addition. If ratliteriai ay mall fin ehllda aaaie, ate and tele, phono REGISTRATION FEE $4.00 ADVANCE REGISTRATION ONLY Our prayers go with yours, for i a New Year of peace and abundance. We wish you iuch happiness, and thank you sincerely. ernmnt providing services for a growing population. When Miss Blessinger took over as treasurer in 1946 the tax roll was $3 million.

Now it is $19 million. The first year of her term, 800 taxpayers used the seven-month installment plan to pay taxes. Now 7,000 use that system. More Complaints And while the workload increased, the size of her staff did not. In 1946 Miss Blessinger had a staff of four fulltime women and hired three additional women each December through February.

This year she has a staff of four fulltime women and three part-time women for the busy tax-collection season. i -AM. 1400 FM 100.7 RACINE ART ASSOCIATION WUSTUM MUSEUM 633-5161 2519 North wostorn Avomio Racine's First Radio Stations AND LOAN ASSOCIATION 1733 Douglas Aveno Journal-Times Want Ads Bring Results.