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Agency with increased power, But Some Cities Continue to Of fend RACINE SUNDAY BULLETIN Sunday, December 31, 1967 Lolcesf States iWiiig Action 1 6 Fight Pollution By KENT D. ZIMMERMAN near Rochester, N.Y., and-Riverl the plants are in the pulp and paper, mining and food processing fields. Associated Press Writer I' States bordering the five Great Lakes are striving to puncture predictions'', that the water will soon be too polluted for use by humans, but, some cities continue to disease the lakes with poorly treated sewage. Ontario and states edging Lakes Erie, Michigan, Ontario, Superior and Huron have taken steps to regulate and reduce the flow of waste materials; government and industry are spending millions to combat the problem. trol of water flow In streams emptying irit6 Lake The program includes stream monitoring stations for constant pollution surveillance.

Milwaukee Plan In Wisconsin, Milwaukee officials are studying the possibllk. ry of constructing storage tanks' to hold storm and sewage overflow until the polluted water can be treated after high runoff periods. In two years since a get' tough antipollution law was en- acted In Ontario, 14 industries have been convicted or pleaded guilty for violations. Several industries near the lakes have started their own antipollution programs voluntarily. The Michigan Water Resources Commission said that" some large industries notably Dow Chemical Co.

of Midland and Consumers Power Co. of Jackson started their own programs early. But the commission said others wouldn't move until they were pushed. Inland Steel Co. and Youngs-town Sheet Tube Co.

agreed in October to allow dredgings from the Indiana Harbor Canal to be deposited in uncompleted landfill projects at their East Chicago, steel plants for the remainder of the year. staff and funds. Ia New York, comprehen sive sewage treatment studies are under way In 17 counties along the Great Lakes to devel op immediate and long-range plans for treatment facilities. In addition, there are 104 construction grant projects In various stages of planning or develop ment Industrial waste treatment fa cilities In New York are being reviewed at 36 plants. In an at tempt to combat oil pollution, the State Health Department is working with the Corps of Engi neers and major oil companies to keep spillage of oil at a minimum.

In Pennsylvania, Erie and the Hammermlll Paper Co. are collaborating on a joint project to determine if their excess wastes can be treated jointly. Action in Ohio The Ohio Water Pollution Control Board has set 1970 as the target date for all municipalities in the Lake Erie basin to install sewage plants for at least secondary treatment and for Industry to step up waste controls. The Natural Resources De partment Is moving on another front to build reservoirs for con-l The New York Department of Health said recently that the Increase in the transport of oil on the Great Lakes and the St Lawrence River has resulted in several cases of oil pollution. Adverse Effect The department reported that oil pollution has had an adverse effect on recreational use of the waters and on fish and wildlife.

These problems have spurred the states to halt pollution. Lake Michigan pollution is being tackled by a regional conference which will meet in Chicago Jan. 31. The states scheduled to take part in the conference are Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin. Here is what some of the Great Lakes states have done to combat water pollution: The Illinois Legislature adopted a law in October banning dumping in Lake Michigan AM 'A I out some cities continue to dump inadequately treat ed sewage into the Great Lakes and even the federal government has admitted it is a prime offender.

Harbor Dredgings A U.S. Army Corps of Engineer official admitted at a House subcommittee hearing In Washington in October that the agency was polluting Lake Michigan with harbor dredgings. He cited Insufficient funds as the problem-and testified that pollution from the Jredging was small in comparison to other pollutants. Rep. Roman Puclnskl, replied that the amount of pollution caused by the corps is not the point "The problem," he said, "is that you really can't crack down on private industry when you have a federal agency doing ady kind or polluting." But the government, too, has recognized the dangers ofcon- tinued pollution of the lakes and has taken steps to alleviate the problem.

Pilot Program In April the Corps of Engineers started a pilot program pf Racine Industry and Business Had Ups and Downs During 197 ss kit i vii 1 I By DAVE PFANKUCHEN Journal-Times Staff For the manufacturers of metropolitan Racine, 1967 was a year in which sales generally continued at peak levels while profits showed a tendency to taper off from the boom proportions of 1966. The area's industrial employment, though remaining high, declined steadily from year-earlier totals beginning in August. In November, the total was 24,004, down when the building becomes opeMsnare of the city's business news ftp-' 1 Vr. :y.V-7'7 alternate disposal methods In eight areas on the lakes. In December the corps completed two dikes in Cleveland, Ohio on Lake Erie to controll- pollution from sediment and to keep river channels navigable The dikes form the walls of two cribs where dredgings from the Cuyahoga River can be dumped.

The two dikes are part of an experimental program at eight Great Lakes ports. Other ports are at Green Bay, Calumet River, Chicago; Buffalo, N.Y.; Toledo, Ohio; Sodus Bay, ton, Mo. Young Radiator Co. started a major addition to its Mattoon, 111., plant. Mergers Made News Headlines Mergers and acquisitions Involving Racine corporations con tinued to capture a prominent fceadlines during 1967.

Of particular note was the acquisition of Kenj County Land Co. of San Francisco by Houston-based Tenneco, Inc. lne transaction, involving an exchange of stock, gave Tenne co majority stock control of the J. I. Case Co.

and control of Walker Manufacturing, a Kern subsidiary. Kern entered acquisition talks with Tenneco after it looked like another West Coast company, Occidental Petroleum, would be successful In a bid, opposed by Kern management, to gain con trol of Kern through a tender offer ior Kern shares. Racine Hydraulics, Inc. fig ured in the acquisition news early in the year when it was able to stave off an attempt by Bucyrus-Erle Co. of South Milwaukee to gain control via the tender-offer route.

Racine Hydraulics' manage ment fought The Bucyrus-Erie bid, and so did a committee of other Racine Industrialists organized to help beat off the takeover try. Two other acqusitions were consummated peacefully. Kear ney Trecker Corp. of West Allis bought Gorton Machine of Racine, which thus became a subsidiary, and Standard Foundry Co. was sold to another West Allis firm, The Motor Cast ing Co.

New Executives at Some Firms And the year, was sprinkled liberally with top level management including new executives in high places at Case, Western Publishing, S. Johnson Son, and In-Sink- Erator Manufacturing Co. The Case changes were made early this month, with James L. Gov. Warren P.

Knowles, center, was flanked by N. W. Freeman, left and Frank Palermo, a J. I. Case Co.

vice president, during a tour of the new 388,000 square foot Case transmission plant on Highway 11 conducted when the plant was dedicated Oct. 26. Freeman Is president of Houston-based Tenneco, Inc. He became Case board chairman early this month. Expansion plans call for a plant of one million Square feet.

-Journl-Timet Photoi 7C without a state permit and ap proved in July a referendum on a sl-billlon bond issue to fight water and air pollution. The ref erendum will be held in 1968. Suit Filed The Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago filed suit in Circuit Court against one Chicago steel plant and 12 plants In Indiana asking that they be enjoined from polluting Lake Michigan. Indiana and Illinois officials set Dec. 31 1968, as the deadline for completion of industrial and municipal waste treatment fa cilities where needed near the south end of Lake Michigan.

The Michigan Water Resources Commission set Nov. 1, 1968, as the deadline for approval of pollution abatement plans. Facilities under the program must be in operation by Nov. 1, 1970. Minnesota Move The Minnesota Legislature created a Pollution Control portion of the city's business front in 1967.

Strides were made, for instance, in the 30-month-old effort to rebuild Hotel Racine, which is now scheduled to re-open as the Racine Motor Inn on Feb. 1, although many earlier open ing dates were announced at one time or another along the way. Since the hotel closed for re building in July of 1965, the city has had to limp along with only the Clayton House Motel as a place suitable for holding business meetings and conventions of any size. Roland Cook, the motor Inn's manager, promises to nave in of the facility's 191 lodging rooms available for use Feb. 1, as well as the convention- banquet facilities, restaurant and bar.

After numerous delays in 1965 and 1966 in getting the construction project off the ground, it was even touch and go for awhile in 1967. Construction was shut down all of April while financing was re-examined. When work resumed in May, a Milwaukee savings and loan association had taken over the buildl- from DAR Building Corp. Twin Theaters Convention Boon Also promising to make Ra cine more attracuve as a con vention city are the new twin indoor theaters, Cinema I and II, going up in the 5000 block cf Washington Ave. next to the Clayton House.

Work on the sin gle building that will house ihe two theaters started in July Thev are scheduled to open in February or March. Another 1967 development out on Washington Ave. was start of construction in August on a compact office and shopping center on the north side of the street In the 5200 block. The center will be called Washington Square and is a development of LaPour Land Co. The second floor of the first of two 24,000 square-foot sections of the cen ter is scheduled to be ready for( occupancy by Wisconsin ieie phone Co.

in February. New Presidents at Three Banks On the financial scene, the Ra cine area's eighth bank. Securi ty National Bank at 5220 1' 1 11 lll-ft 1-1 mill iWirll Mllllllltt II A Till II ft 1 i Rouge in Detroit Each region bordering the lakes has Its individual pollution problems. Michigan Action Michigan was stirred to action in 1962 when Sterling State Park, near Monroe, was posted as unsafe for swimming. A study noted that the pollution was interfering with water supplies, fishing, swimming, boat ing and other recreation.

The city of Erie, discharges excess from its sewage treatment facilities into the lake during storm emergencies because the sanitary and storm sewers are combined and become overloaded in heavy rain storms. In Ontario, Canada, the Water Resources Commission reported that about 300 plants nearly half discharging wastes Into lake watersheds are providing inadequate controls. The commission says most of Ketelsen replacing Charles A. Anderson as president Morris W. Reid moving into the vacant executive vice presidency, and N.

W. Freeman becoming board chairman to succeed Merrltt D. Hill, who remains a director. Hill has been preparing to retire for some time. The changes came just three months after Tenneco Inc.

gained control of Case through its acquisition of Kern County Land Co. Freeman, the new Case chairman, is president of Tenneco, whose own board chairman, Gardiner Symonds, was named a Case director along with Freeman. Western Publishing directors elected Vice Pres. William C. Kidd president and general manager in April.

He succeeded Herman E. Johnson, who became chairman of the board and chief executive officer. In September, S. C. Johnson Son's president, Samuel C.

Johnson, took on the additional post of board chairman, succeeding former Pres. Howard M. Pack ard. Packard was re-elected to the board of directors and named chairman of the compa ny's finance committee. Id April, George E.

Shoup, a vice president, was named president and chairman of the executive committee of In-Sink- Erator Manufacturing. As presi dent he succeeded Ever Hammes, who continues as board chairman and was named chief executive officer. At the same time, In-Sink-Erator elect ed two executive vice presidents and five vice presidents. William J. Fath was named president of Koehring Hartmann Hydraulic Division in Racine, succeeding Philip Hartmann, founder of Hartmann Manufacturing acquired by Koehring in 1966.

Hartmann was named the division's research and development vice president. Fath moved into the Racine post from Koehring's HPM Divi sion at Mt. Gilead, Ohio, where he was manufacturing vice president. Early this month, Henry M. Crossen announced he was starting his own management consulting firm here and would leave Greene Manufacturing Co.

at the end of February, resign- IB .4 1 ft A. S. A A if I i' I'M 7Jt rrom the previous from the November, when the all time high was recorded, 25, 034. The pace of industrial construction also was down from the record 1965-66 levels. But there still was healthy amount of activity, particularly in the industrial area developing In the Town of ML Pleasant along Highway ll between Racine and Sturtevant.

The J. I. Case Co; dedicated Its new Highway 11 transmission plant a 388,000 square-foot structure, In October. Metal- Lab, a heat-treating firm, moved into its nearby plant of about 10,000 feet a few weeks ago. And construction of Gorton Machine Corp.

's new plant started In July, was on schedule at year end. The plant Js scheduled to open in April. Lack of Water Building Factor There might have been more Industrial construction along Highway 11 but for the dispute between the Cityjpf Racine and Town of Mt. Pleasant which 'has caused uncertainty about water service to the new plants. Case, which started its trans-mission facility in 1966, reached greement before construction began on tapping into an exist-ig water main to the area from (he city, and in the process pought the main's remaining capacity.

But plants begun since then Jre without municipal water service because of the City-Jown dispute. Metal-Lab drilled Its own well. Gorton Machine is drawing the water it needs for Construction from an abandoned rell discovered on its plant site, ut will need a better source i After prolonged delays, the got underway in earnest this scheduled to reopen, as the fefSS'f Washington, opened in February and American Bank Trust Co. completed in the summer a sweeping two-year expansion and remodeling of its main of fices Downtown. A number of banks made top-level executive changes during the year.

W. G. Aschenbrener became chairman of the board of American Bank Trust with Harold C. Weiss, previously executive vice president, suc ceeding him as president. At Bank, Jerome C.

Wiechers became board chairman, with Benton T. Wiechers, previously executive vice president, succeeding him as president. Roy F. Ruland retired as president of North Side Bank, with Senior Vice Pres. T.

J. Losinski suc ceeding him as president Brills Housing Empire Falls One of the biggest upheavals on the city commercial iront in many a year was the collapse of the Lawrence Brill Agency's rental housing empire. Once the largest manager of rental housing in Racine, controlling as many as 1,900 units, the Brill agency went out of business in April and into bankruptcy in May, listing unsecured liabilities of about $1 million, contingent liabilities of $9 million, and assets of $344,000. A couple of months before the collapse became final, owners of about 350 Brill-managed buildings, people to whom the agency was heavily in debt, took management of the properties out of the agency's hands. When the agency folded, management of most remaining properties was transferred to Scenic Realty Co.

Other owners afid managers of Racine apartment buildings, ational in April There were efforts at year-end toward reaching at least temporary agreement on the water question, which is bound up in a larger dispute over annexation. Several Firms Built New Plants In other 1966 new-plant developments, Racine Packaging a new company, built and opened a 30,000 square-foot plant at 1800 South Dremel Manufacturing Co. occupied a new 65,000 square-foot plant west of Ohio St. and south of 21st selling its plant att 2420 18th St to Howard Industries; Drewco Corp. moved into a new 12,500 square-foot plant at 3745 Nicholson Road in the Town of Caledonlaf Petersen Machine Co.

moved into a new 12,500 square-foot plant at 1917 East Industrial Drive; And Frederick Manufacturing began to occupy a pair of former B. D. Eisendrath Tan ning Co. buildings south of the 6th St bridge in Racine. Another former Eisendrath building, at 1230 6th was remodeled by Western Publishing Co.

for use as a corporate data processing center. Printing Developments, bought a 14-acre site on Ohio St, at the city's southwest edge, for future expansion of its Racine plate and chemical division facilities. Several Racine-based manu facturers expanded out of town plants or started or opened new ones in other states, including Modine Manufacturing which opened its ninth plant, at Clinton, and announced plans to build Its tenth, at Tren Hotel Racine rebuilding project year and the building to now Racine Motor Inn, on Feb. 1. I 1 a -A particularly newer structures, also found tougher sledding in 1967, mainly because of a two-, year surge in apartment construction which left the area heavily overbuilt in higher-rent units.

The vacancy rate in the newer units was high, and as a result some building owners found mortgage payments hard to meet. Many properties changed hands. The housing construction field, plagued by money problems, continued as one of the lowest years in a decade. Terry's Replaced by 'Community Also changing hands, In, February, was Terry's Discount, Department Store at 4101 Du-' rand purchased by Chicago-based Community Dis count Centers, Inc. Unusual was the closing, late in the year, of two newer stores in the Crossroads Shopping Center on Washington Ave.

at High way ji nay Koaa). Closing were a Red Cross Drug -store opened late in 1965 and the Hess F-ods supermarket, opened in 1966. Officials of both said the ventures had proven unprof itable. The closings left the big Sears operation as the center's only store. ARMCO Steel Buildings -for Commerce and Industry METAL STRUCTURES, INC.

106 N. MAIN ST. Oconotoowoe, WIhodiIb M7-MM MOwnkM rkn 7M-4XM help for them at T.l.phon. 634-5889 1 ing as Greene's executive vice president and from the company's board of directors. Industry Made Housing Law Plea Corporate executives figured, too, in the campaign for a city fair housing ordinance.

A group of top industrial brass went be fore the City Council in October to push for an ordinance. "High productivity, low turn over and a satisfied labor force are byproducts of good housing Until workers have good housing, they are unable to do a good job," the council was told bv Merritt D. Hill, then Case chairman. AMC Sales Up as Year Ends Although the year was another one of crisis and retrenching for American Motors whose assembly plants are Kenosha's largest source of industrial employment, the firm ended the year with more optimism than it began in 1967. AMC officials expected Its Decerflber quarter should be the best sales quarter since 1965.

In addition, a special law was passed to allow American Motors to recover quickly more than $20 million in taxes. It allows AMC to carry back losses for tax purposes five years instead of three. Introduction of the Javelin sports car and air conditioning in the Ambassador line were two factors which AMC said have helped stjmulate sales. For Its fiscal year ended Sept. 30, AMC had a record loss ol $75.8 million, this following a $12.6 million annual deficit In 1966.

AMC said the size of the 1967 loss was due largely to corrective steps taken to place the automaker In position to meet its planned objectives for 1968 and beyond. Executives said business and administrative costs were trimmed in 1967 by $20 million a year, reducing the break-even point from sales of about 300,000 cars a year to about 280,000. Motor Inn Eyes Feb. 1 Opening There were lots of highlights, too, on the commercial-retail ni trt mtt i mil wA III rf Ut 1 1 1 -1 Ana May All of Your Troubles Be Electric Motor Troubles It's so easy to get Jlakedtone Slcchic Company, 9ttc Where Quality Workmanship is a Habit Photo shows the hotel's south and east sides, Including the new wing with open space beneath for parking. The Hotel Racine has been closed for rebuilding in July of 1963.

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